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A84069	The great earthquake, Revel. 16. 18. or, Fall of all the churches. Discovering the apostasie of purest churches, not yet sensible of their spiritual whoredoms, EZek. 43.9, 10. Or, The great whore made bare and naked before she be judged, and her flesh burnt with fire, Rev. 27. 16. Proving, that none indeed deny the ordinances of Christ, but present churches not being in a Gospel-order. By William Erbery.	Erbery, William, 1604-1654.; J. W.	1654 (1654)	Wing E3227; Thomason E806_7; ESTC R207174	48,514	64

is Deus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 John 6.70 Mat. 16.23 holy Fathers moderne Divines and Ministers are those Devils as the Worships which great and good Men have set up in the Churches are called the worship of Devils Revel 9.10 Let not this seem strange for not only Ju das was called a Devil but Peter was Satan indeed when he savoured the things of Men more then of God therefore let not our Ministers be moved if hereafter they hear their services called Sorceries as 't is there Rev 9 21 and themselves the Sorcerers of Egypt deceiving the Nation in nothing more then in their Forms of prayer For their preaching begins to appear more powerless flat dead having no discovery of God above the Common Form of Knowledge yea they know less and their preaching is more legal then once it was by the judgment of their wisest Hearers Yea as there are not the prayers of the Church this day as it was neither in power not Form so there is scarce a Christian prayer in private among them though they are full and flow with words at duty-times yet God and their own Conscience can tell how little they pray in their Closets how loose their petitions are in private how seldom they retire into their own spirits yea scarce ever doe they thus seek the Lord as the Prophet speaks that is Jer. 10.21 they seek not any nearer sight of the Lord nor any new discovery of God in them Alass New-lights are laugh'd at by these men though God indeed be the Father of Lights there being more Lights then one begotten and brought forth daily by our God and Father who will shine in us more and more to perfect day till we have a full discovery of himself as he is James 1.17 that is have the Fathers name on our Fore-heads Rev. 14.1 And as the Churches erre in their Formes of publique prayer so they fail in their Forms of private Prayers c. For they pray not to the Father nor secondly in the name of Christ nor thirdly can they pray in the Spirit First They do not pray to the Father but to the first Person in Trinity whom Christ never knew nor acknowledged for had there been a second Person or subsistence in the Godhead coessentiall and coequall with the Father surely Christ should and would have worshipped him but Christ never payed to any Person but to the Father and no Christian ever prayed to the Spirit till the spirit of Antichrist Veni Spiritus Sancte came into the world Not that I deny the holy Trinity according to Scriptures Col. 2.2 8 compared But disclaiming all the Traditions of our Fore-fathers and teachings of men I beleeve that God is Father Son and Spirit and that the Son of God Mat. 28.19 Rom 9.5 1 Cor. 8.6 Ephes 4.6 Isa 96. 1 Tim. 3.16 Luk. 24.49 Act. 1 4 1 Cor. 12.6 7. the Man Christ Jesus is God blessed for ever yet both in a Mystery which no man can manifest or reveal but the spirit Matth. 11.25 Ephes 1.17 The Father being none else but the one onely true God of himself and in himself inhabiting eternity The Son being the same God and Father manifest in Flesh and dwelling among men That one mighty God and Father powerfully going forth and exerting himself or appearing in manifold gifts and operations in flesh is the holy Spirit Which things are not to be carnally understood according to the letter as if God sent his Son 1 Cor. 2.13 John 14 9. Heb. 9.14 1 Cor. 15.45 and the Son sent the Spirit but comparing spirituall things with spirituall we shall perceive that the Son is the Father and the eternall Spirit is both Father and Son so the Father is said to send the Son where he himself appears in flesh from the beginning in the fulnesse of time or this day Heb. 13.8 for Christ is the same to day yesterday and for ever And Christ speaking in the dayes of his flesh that he would send the Spirit is nothing else but that he who dwelt with them should be in them that is when God even the Father who dwelt in his flesh should be manifest in theirs Joh. 14.17 18 19 20. Thus also I confesse that Jesus is the Son of God 1 Joh. 4.15 Joh. 14.7 10 20 verses Phil. 2.6 and that the Man Christ is God blessed for ever God even the Father dwelling in him and doing all in him being all in all in him His flesh being the form of God an image in whom the Godhead appeared to men The Son of God being nothing in himself Joh. 5.19 30. John 8 28. Gal. 4.19 but the Manifestation of the Father and could do nothing of himself but as the Father dwlling in him did all his works and words Again I conceive the Man Jesus Christ the Man-God being in us to be all in all to us Ephes 3.19 John 17.23 God dwelling in us as in him our flesh annointed and filled with the Godhead as his and we perfect in one with the Father as he This is the true Faith and Confession of the Son of God if once revealed in us Gal. 1.16 and 2.20 else how could the Son thus confess'd bring us to God God dwelling in us and we in him thereby 1 John 4.2 3 15. compared I shall not now declare at large how the present Churches deny all the Doctrine of God and of Christ c. which if God will we shall do in his due time onely we are now discovering all their forms of Worship to be false though some may worship the Father in spirit and truth yet in form of words they worship not nor pray to the Father at all Secondly They do not pray in the name of Christ but as saints of the Old Testament knew God in Covenant with them not God in Christ one with them that 's the Father So the Churches apprehend God at a distance standing a far off below in the Temple Heb. 10.19 not able to enter into the Holy of holiest into the Godhead himself but call upon his Name as great and terrible Deut. 28.58 Gal. 4.6 glorious and fearfull for so the Law presented God to Men they have not the spirit of the Son to cry Abba Father the Son being not revealed in them how can the spirit of the Son be sent forth at all I beleeve the Son is in them and the Spirit is there though hid in their flesh but they conceiving Christ at a distance Christ without them as long ago in flesh on earth and now afar off in heaven from them not nigh them and in them They do not pray in his Name Rom. 10.8 Joh. 16.23 They go not as the Son to the Father with that neernesse and confidence as Christ did to God but as strangers and forraigners or as far off from God being very low in the flesh They beg the Father still for Christ Jesus

Ordinances which our Author acknowledged he was not against or above but under and below as not perceiving the power of those primitive institutions exerting themselves in the performances of Christians now a daies which may seem to have more of truth in it if we consider how fruitless as to the true fruits of the Gospel which are self-denial self-resignation renovation of the corrupted state of man c. outward performances as managed by us are All professions though never so different and contrary one to another have their zealots some more devoutly affected then others as to the strictness of their outward rights and ceremonies What doe ye more then these said Christ to his Disciples where is the signal and characteristical difference betwixt your exactness and theirs Are you strict so are they are you often in your performances so are they in theirs What renovation of spirit what self-denial appears more in you then them If none then certainly you are not baptized into the true Gospel-spirit you have not the power of Gospel-Ordinances The humblest and the knowingest Christian such as this Author is most sensible of his own darkness pride is the daughter of ignorance because we say we see therefore our sinne remaineth 6. Yet in this darkness he had rather sit down and wait in silence then be beholding to the pretended light and direction of deceivable guides upon which account The Doctrine of the Trinity as explained by the Schools in personalities subsistences c. was not perfectly owned by him One Faith one Lord one Baptism were the Three great Articles of his belief neither did the Lord contain himself within himself but was made manifest in the flesh of Christ according to that God was in Christ reconciling c. and doth continually work in the hearts of his people by his spirit Neither could he see how the Doctrine of these distinct personalities and subsistences could accommodate their designe who first broached them in order to the clearing as is supposed the Doctrine of Christs satisfaction to the Father in that sense as they define it For if God were in Christ that God was the Father for God is one it is not one divine nature in Christ satisfying another in the Father satisfied but the Father in the Son And if the essence be the same how can the personality make a difference 8. And indeed the opinion of our Author as to the satisfaction of Christs death was accounted none of his lightest errors There is a threefold difference concerning the death of Christ 1 Some affirming it to be sufficient for all but intentionally only for some 2. Others intentionally as well as sufficiently for all but actually to some only 3. Others intentionally sufficiently and also actually for all of which opinion Origen was the chief viz. That the whole creation should be redeemed from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God that as the whole creation came forth from God so at last after the rebellious part of it had been punished for a season for its misdeeds it should be released and taken up into the same glory that the Saints or obedient part had entred into before so that everlasting fire everlasting perdition were expounded by him not for a perpetuity but a long duration of years The first of these opinions opposes the second the second the third Our Author had not discovered much of his mind in this latter opinion which if it be not true yet is in it self desireable in regard a good the larger it is the better and Plato could say That God being a supreme good there was no envy in him to any of his creatures but rather a desire that all should be made like him These were the reputed crimes and heresies charged upon this Author If any object he discovered lightness and vanity of spirit in some phrases and expressions in some of his discourses I shall answer 1. It is not good to set up ones own spirit as a rule for the spirits of all other men considering the various outgoings of one and the same spirit in different Saints 2. No doubt the Prophets themselves in some of their expressions did not in all things comply with the gravity of the common dialect then in use amongst the people 3. He acknowledged himself to be in Babylon as well as other Saints no marvel then if there were some spots in his Moon yea let us consider rather how much he wrote well as what we conceive he wrote amiss J. W. On Mr. William Erbery deceased THe Choycest still There 's wisdom in the Mower To skip the Grass and Sithe down onely Flower Hadst thou been low and creeping thou hadst stood 'T is Fatal to be Eminently Good But why do we complain Art guides the hand Who would not choose the Best when All do stand ' Mongst Kish's sons the Prophet cals out Saul Death shakes the Tree none but the Ripest fall How are our hopes post pon'd we spy'd the Ray Of Gospel Sunshine breaking in thy day Shrunk in thy fall of which thy Life may be Not what we thought the dawne but Prophecy When Future age in thy discoveries skill'd Shall Live Thee over again Thou 'lt be fulfill'd And yet we hardly can conceive the Fate That single Saints should live up to thy Rate Pattern for Ages and Administrations Hee 'll that Example Thee had need be Nations Thou 'lt bankrupt single ears by thy rich growth When the whole Harvest comes 't will speak thee forth Mean time live Pattern great write Type and Rule Thy Spirit next to Christs is Christians School Such sweetness meekness such humility Transcending mortals speaks thy race on high If Supream good define it self by Love How near to that High Orbe did rhy soul move Who didst embrace the Christian One in all Both Presbyterian Congregational And at same time thou didst the Saintship sever From the Opinion This fails That shall never Chymist of Truth and Gospel Thus the Sun Extracts from Rose and Thistle both his own And that refines concocts and then lets down In dewy blessings on the parched ground Such was thy Spirit exhaling Influence Return'd farr richer then it went from hence Full ought thou borrowedst Oare and Embryon wild Thou paidst it Gold and a well fashioned child For why Thy larger soul took the dimension Of every several sect and apprehension Hammering refining purging out the dross Till Saint was sav'd in the Opinions loss This work was Thine he 'l that the errors mend Of every Form must all Forms comprehend His equal judgement is most like t' abide Whose interest Proselytes to neither side Great was their guilt who to embase thy worth ' Mongst rank of high offenders set thee forth Thy pardon they no sooner sought then found Truth through thy sides receiv'd the greatest wound Dear Truth requires such scandals of each kind Should answered be no foe like zeal that 's blind