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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51254	Breach upon breach, or, An acknowledgement of judiciall breaches made upon us, procured by sinfull breaches found amongst us with instruction, admonition, and encouragement yet to turn to him that smites us : as the sum of it was delivered at the funerall of Mr. Jeremiah Colman, late preacher of the Gospell at Hetherset in Norfolk, February 18, 1658/9 / by Tho. Moore, Junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.	1659 (1659)	Wing M2598; ESTC R9514	106,307	114

in the Ark the first Testament which made nothing perfect but pointed to a better hope in Christ and so were Ministers of the letter and had a ministration of death to nurture and lead to life and peace in him that was to come Now the service of the holy Priesthood is to be exercised in the Heavenly things themselves That which is committed to their charge is the revelation of Grace and Truth as now come forth in and by Jesus Christ delivered for our offences and raised again for our justification The dispensation of the fulness of times in which al things are gathered together in one and so in which is the revelation of the truth and body of all those figures tipes and shadowes in the law even in Christ that excellent ministry in which God hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings whereas that committed to them was but Gods speaking in divers parts In this speaking by his Son last of all is given unto us the full and clear revelation of the name of the Father in the manif●station of the truth of all his former Oracles and promises to the Fathers and so of his infinite grace and glory therein and that in the face of Christ in the discovery of which his name The name of the Son is also revealed in which he is manifested as before witnessed in Oracles Tipes and Prophesies and as the fulfilling and body of them all in what he hath already done and by means thereof doth and will do The Son of God the Saviour of the World The Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the World the perfect sacrifice and offering for sin That is the onely and compleat ransome and price of redemption for all The Mediatour between God and men the High-Priest over the house of God yea the onely He in whom it hath pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell even the fulness of the God-head bodily and in whose blood the whole New Testament of precious promises both for this life and that to come is sealed that also the performance of them may be given forth in due time with him And this revelation of the Son and so of the Father in him is given us in the full evidence and demonstration of the Spirit with plainness and power in which also the name of the Holy Spirit the Spirit of Truth is revealed in his full and glorious testimony of Christ and so of the Father in him immediately given and in his powerful presence and working with it unto all things pertaining to life and godliness to the end of the World as was before prophesied of that powring forth of him from on high And so they are Ministers of the New Testament not of the letter but of the Spirit being in this dispensation blessed with all Spiritual Blessings and that not in earthly or tipical but in Heavenly things even in Christ in whom all Spiritual blessings the truth and body of all figures and tipes are treasured up for us and in the rveelation of him brought to us and in this Ministry committed to the Holy Priesthood That they should offer up spiritual Sacrifices of prayer and praise to God continually and confession of his name by Jesus Christ as comed in the flesh and so that they should Minister in the Heavenly things themselves and not in Tipes Figures or Patterns as the Levitical Priesthood but in and about the true Sanctuary Mercy-Seat Altar Sacrifice c. as the truth and body of all is met and found in him So then the bearing and keeping the charge of the Vessels of the Lord that is now the work or service of the Holy Priesthood under the Gospel and was resembled by the Priests and Levites bearing and keeping the charge of the Ark of the Sanctuary and of all the Vessels of the Ministry may be thus expressed 1. Their great business and the sum of all is to keep and to bear even to bear upon them and hold forth The truth of God as it is now come forth and manifested in the personal body of Jesus Christ which the Father prepared for him in our nature that he might do his will for us and in which he bore our sins on the Tree and in which being raised from the dead he is entred into his glory for us which is such as in which it hath pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell in him even the fulness of the God-head bodily That by him our faith and hope might be in God They are to hold fast and hold forth to others this acknowledgement or profession of their faith in which those things which the Prophets said should come to pass That Christ should suffer and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead and should shew light to the People and to the Gentiles is declared to be even so fulfilled and come forth in that one offering of his personal body once for all And so in him the truth and body of all the tipes and shadowes of the law Whence the house of God which is the Church of the living God as now it is since the appearing of Christ the Church of the man Christ raised from the dead who was dead but is alive for evermore and standeth in the name and majesty of God his Father to feed and rule I say his spiritual house his holy Priesthood is according to the general acception of that 1 Timothy 3. 15. said to be The Pillar and ground of truth even of the manifestation of the truth and righteousness of God in all his former Oracles and promises given to the Fathers and in all the grace and good things tipified and witnessed in the law and Prophets as now come forth in Christ raised from the Dead and treasured up in his personal body for us And though that Scripture may have another acception such as in which that clause the pillar and ground of truth is attributed to the living God that stands before it and indeed He even God in Christ and so the man Christ Jesus in the name and majesty of God he is not onely the truth but in the most full and absolute sense the pillar and ground of it yet that understanding though taken in here destroyes not the sence fore-mentioned in which also His Church from him and as in conjunction with him the Head is signified to be in a subordinate sense the pillar and ground of truth And happily the words may be so left that we may take in the sense of both acceptions together We shall briefly speak to it in the sence we have mentioned according to the usual acceptation as that also may stand and agree with the other The truth of which in any sence The Church of the living God is the Pillar and Ground is as before hinted Jesus Christ himself as raised from the Dead in that Body in which he was delivered for our offences And so the

received in and through him and in the receiving of him even in the believing on his name unto which also his Gospel is his arm or power sent forth 1 John 5. 11 12. Col 1. 14 15 19. and 2. 2 9. with John 17. 4 5. 1 Peter 1. ●1 Hebrews 1. 3. and 9. 24. 1 Joh. 1. 1 2. Hebr. 7. 23. 25. c. 2 Cor. 5. 21. Joh. 14. 3. Rom. 8. 17 18. Phil 3. 3. 9 10. 21. In him is manifested the righteousness of God in that promise and Oath unto David That of the fruit of his Loynes according to the Flesh God would raise up Christ to sit on his Thrrne In that God hath made that Jesus of the seed of David after the Flesh both Lord and Christ and set him on his Holy Hill on his Right Hand in that Glory of his Father in which also he shall gloriously appear in due time to take to him his great power and reign till all enemies be subdued and then deliver up the Kingdome to God his Father He is already raised and entered into his glooy and shall no more return to corruption And as so raised and exalted with the Right Hand of Power is called the sure mercies of David in whom God hath manifested his truth to David and that he will not lye unto David or fail him of a man to sit on his Throne for ever Acts 2. 25 36. and 13. 32. 37. compared with 2 Sam. 7. 12. 16. 1 Kings 2. 4. and 8. 25. with 2 Sam. 23. 5. Psal 89. 19. 37. and 132. 11. Isa 55. 3 4. 6. In him likewise is the body and truth of those manifold figures tipes and shadowes under the law as to instance in some few He in that body raised from the Dead is the true Temple and Sanctuary which the Lord hath pitched and not Man John 2. 19. 22. Hebrews 9. 11. 2 Cor. 5. 1. In whom the fulness of the God-head dwells bodily that so of his fulness we may receive Col. 2. 9. John 1. 16. As also the Great Apostle and High-Priest of our Profession and so the Minister of the holy things of that true Tabernacle of his own body Heb. 1. 2. And in comming into him others are made of the Spiritual House and holy Priesthood as before is shewed He is the body and truth of all signified in those tipical offerings of the Lord made by fire yea of all those Sacrifices Atonements and Offerings for sin in that offering of his own body once for all in which the Father hath smelt a savour of rest for ever and which he ever lives to present and now to appear in in the presence of God for us He is the true Ark and treasury of all Grace and Truth for the Law came by Moses discovering sin witnessing and leading to the better hope in Christ and this whole Testament was kept in the Ark with divers other things But g●●c● and truth in the forgiveness of sins charged by the Law and the fulfilling all the Tipes and shadowes of it came by Jesus Christ and is now manifested as kept and treasured up in him in whom are hid all the Treasures of Wisdome and Knowledge that with him they may be given and opened to us and so he is the true mercy seat answering to the tipical one which covered the Ark of the Testament that charged with sin and concluded under curse and whence also the oracle came forth He is the propitiation or covering the atonement and reconciliation for our sins and not for our sins onely but also for the sins of the whole World He is our peace and being so is also the way by and through which God is gracious and speaks graciously to men yea the Oracle by whom he hath spoken and through which he speaketh to us in these last dayes Yea in him the Oyl for anointing to service and light for directing in all our worship even in the man Christ Jesus and so brought to us in the revelation of him in the Doctrine of God our Saviour in which dispensation of the fulness of times God hath gathered together all things in one even in Christ and so given us the manifestation of the truth of all those former Oracles Prophesies Tipes and Shadowes in the testimony of Jesus of the seed of David after the flesh delivered for our offences and raised again for our justification Of this truth of all former witnesses and shadowes and so of the righteousness of God in them as now come forth in Christ the Church may be said to be the Pillar and ground not so as to uphold or support the truth in a proper sense To be put to that charge and hard service is proper to the makers and worshippers Idols the imagined Deities and Rocks of mens chusing which indeed are no Gods but vanity and lyes and therefore cannot bear up support or save them that look to the nor can they stand by themselves but must be born up and maintained by them that make and worship them And prove so heavy a burthen to the weary beast that they are not able to support maintain defend and save them Isa 46. 1 2. 5. 7. Jer. 10. 5. c. But the portion of Israel is not like them for he is the former of all things The truth of God in Christ as now raised from the dead i● the begetter maintainer and upholder of his Chruch Isa 46. 3 4. Jeremiah 10. 10. c. with James 1. 18. 1 Timothy 4. 10. In the Lord they have righteousness and strength Isaiah 45. 20. 25. But their work to which also they are begotten and strengthned of him is so to keep retain and bear upon them the writing of this manifestation of the truth of God in the tidings and patterns of it so fair and without spot that others may see and read it in their word and conversation and so instrumentally also through him that worketh in them mightily to maintain and defend it in the World To watch in all things to keep the commandement delivered to them without spot unrebukable c. That the truth of the Gospel may continue with others So Paul was a chosen Vessel to Christ to bear his name before the Gentiles and Kings and the children of Israel to keep the Faith and that the truth of the Gospel might continue with others Acts 9. 15. 2 Timothy 4 7. Gal. 2. 5. And so he instructs Timothy to watch in all things to the keeping this charge 1 Tim. 6. 12 13 14. and 2 Tim 4. 5. And all believers so to shine as lights in the World as a City set on a Hill as a Candle on a Candle-stick holding forth the word of life in word and conversation That it may be seen and read of all men Matthew 5. 14 15 16. Philippians 2. 15 16. And as in old time a pillar was used for a witness remembrance of Gods gracious appearances Gen. 28. 11. 18. 22. and 35.

infinite fountain and treasury of grace and truth in him as so considered answering to all the former Oracles prophesies and tipes as that is manifested or brought to light by the Gospell as now spoken forth by Jesus Christ in those last dayes which Gospel of our Salvation as so come forth is therefore eminently and as distinguished from former dispensations even from Gods speaking in the Law and by the Prophets called the truth The word of Truth Ephesians 1. 13. James 1. 18. 2 Corinthians 4. 1. 4. with chap. 3. Not because this speaking of God by Jesuus Christ is more true then any of his former speakings in the Law or by the Prophets that cannot be for as his righteousness is everlasting so his whole Law or Doctrine is the truth The righteousness of his testimonies is everlasting his word true from the beginning and every one of his righteous judgements for ever They are all infinite in truth and faithfulness like himselfe so that no one of them can be more true Psalm 119. 140. 142. 144. 160. with Psalm 12. 6 7. and Proverbs 22. 20 21. Eccles 12. 10. Psalm 19. 7 8 9. But because in this speaking of God by his Son in these last dayes The truth of all those former speakings is manife●ted the infinite truth faithfulness and rigteousness of God in every one of those Oracl●s Prophesies and Typical witnesses of things to come is in this dispensation manifested revealed and brought to light God did give us his purpose and grace in Christ for saving and calling with an holy calling even from the beginning of the World in those oracles and witnesses of Christ in the Law and Prophets but he hath now manifested his righteousness in it by the appearing of Jesus Chri●t who hath abolished death and brought life and immortalty to light through the Gospel See 2 Tim. 1. 9 10. 11. with Tit. 1. 1. 3. Rom. 1. 16 17. and 3. 21. 2 Cor. 4. 1. 3. In Jesus Christ as thus manifested and so in this speaking of God by him is revealed the truth and righteousness of God in that first Oracle The Seed of the Woman shall bruise the Head of the Serpent For for this purpose was that Son of God manifested that he might destroy the Works of the Devil And therefore forasmuch as the children of men are partakers of flesh and blood weakness and mortallity as the fruit of sin that brought death he likewise took part of the same in that one body which the Father prepared for him made of a Woman made under the Law in which he was made subject to all our infirmities that came on us by sin and so in the fimilitude of sinful flesh yet without sin and had all our iniquities that the Law charged upon u● ●● we fell under it through the first departure of our nature from God even the guilt of that offence of one and of all our natural filthiness as thence naturally and necessarily derived to us imputed to him and caused to meet together upon him that through death he might in the vertue of his suffering the judgement of this World and in the power of his resurrection destroy him that had the power of death that is the Devil and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life-time subject to bondage c. And he hath made Peace and Atonement for our sins by his blood and so by himself purged them away from before the Father and is set down on his Right Hand with his stripes we were healed Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law under which we must have been utterly banished and cast out from God and so necessarily left under the power of Satan he hath obtained a release and discharge of those transgressions and so of that judgement of this World unto himself by his bearing that judgement in being made a curse for us And so that all judgement is committed unto him over man-kinde that through him they might be saved and therein the Prince of this World is judged and cast out of his principallity over man the power of death taken from him and all men delivered over into the Kingdome power and government of God by Christ that in and through him the grace of God might bring salvation to them 1 John 3. 8. Hebr. 2. 14 15. Gall. 4. 4. 2 Cor. 5. 19. with Isa 53. 6. Gal. 3. 13. John 12. 31 32. and 5. 22. 27. Acts 5. 31. John 3. 17. In him as thus manifested God hath performed and brought forth his truth and rigteousness in that great promise made to the Fathers That in Abrahams seed speaking not of his seeds as of many but of his seed as of one which seed is Chri●t Gen. 22. 18. Gal. 3. 16. Al the nations of the earth should be blessed In him the great blessing of life from the Dead eternal life the restoring of our nature into the image and glory of God and therein into glorious capacity and liberty to the immediate knowledg of and fellowship with God far exceeding the glory in unto which we were at first created in the first publick person and which we lost by sin This being that glory which the onely Begotten Son of God had with the Father before the World was which he hath now through sufferings obtained to be glorified with and to possess for ever in that body prepared for him in our Nature in which he was crucified for us That he might now appear in the presence of God in Heaven it selfe for us while we cannot appear for our selves or in our own persons that through him the grace of God may bring salvation to us and that we comming in his drawings by him may be made accepted and made the righteousness of God in him and in due time actually made partakers of that glory he now posseth for us together with him And herein all blessings pertaining to life and godliness as the forgiveness of all our sins the healing of all our diseases while it is to day vertue force or effecacy with the Father and so power in the name of the Father for the daily taking away those sins of the world that are now imputed to the people which make lyable to condemnation on a new account deserve the wrath to come and this by meanes of that death which was for the redemption of the transgressions under the first Testament and so all gifts for men even for the rebellious also that the Lord God might dwell among them as the fruit of the travel of his soul are prepared and treasured up in Christ for them all in that God hath raised him from the dead and given him glory that our faith and hope might be in God And so all these things given with him brought to light in the testimony of Christ raised from the dead in whose name repentance and remission of sins is preached unto and among all Nations that it might be