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A94749	A synopsis, or, Short view of essential Christianity in part, in which the first fruits unto God, (or saints) in the Apostles dayes lived. : According to the doctrine of Christ ... : With some explications or enlargements thereupon. : Tending to the edification, comfort, and refreshing of all sorts of people ... / By William Tomlinson ...	Tomlinson, William.	1684 (1684)	Wing T1853; ESTC R185375	44,494	110

tremble at his word your Brethren that hated you that cast you out for my names sake said let the Lord be glorifyed but he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed This is encouragement to those humble ones whose Hearts stand in awe before the Lord not willing to be lead of any against the leadings of the Lord or to subject themselves to that which is contrary to the teachings of the Lord in them though they be therefore despised and cast out by their Brethren And it may also be a caution unto others to teach them to take heed how they hate and cast out of their esteem the poor and humble in Spirit upon the account of any outward formality For what hast thou to doe to judge thy Brother or to set at nought thy Brother for any outward observation or formality Whereas thou canst not tell whether Christ our Lord doth lay it upon him or not Behold we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ One man keeps a day to the Lord another keeps not a day two contrary things Canst thou believe that these two contrary things may both be done in obedience to the Lord at his requirings Surely they may or else I judge that Paul would no● have defended them both against eac● other and have judged nothing but their judging of one another in such case Therefore Men and Brethren whosoever loveth our Lord Jesus Christ and his Government lay aside all emulation and wrath and disesteem of one another for such things and learn to love one another though you be not of the same stature one with another even as Christ hath loved us and doth love us and feed us in several pastures And learn what this means in my Fathers House are many mansions or dwellings that so you may not despise one another An Appendix concerning Faith BEcause Faith is so Essential to a Christian and comprehends as I may say the very substance of the Gospel in so much that all Christianity is sometimes expressed under that very word of Faith as Gal. 1.23 Rom. 1.5 c. Therefore it is here a little further insisted upon partly by way of recapitulation holding forth 1. The foundation of Faith layd out of us in the love and mercy and Truth of God and in the sufferings and resurrection of Christ 2. The Work and Fruits of it in us by the Spirit First The foundation and ground of Faith that must of necessity be something not out of us which is to be believed Therefore that thing is the material thing to be published or preached among men for the begetting of Faith For the understanding must be opened to understand it before one can believe it Therefore Philip opened the understanding of the Eunuch in the Scriptures concerning Christ and then he believed And Christ he opened the understandings of the two Disciples that were going to Emaus when their Faith was shaken concerning him that they might understand the Scriptures And so the Apostles when they preached the Gospel of Salvation still they opened the things to be believed by the Scriptures that so those whose Heart God was pleased to open might see what a sure ground there was layd in God and in Christ for men to believe on him For our Salvation or our life is hide with Christ in God The foundation of all is in God in his kindness in his love in his mercy And therefore all glory redounding from thence ascends unto God This is that which makes us truely to glorify God in our Hearts and Spirits when we see him the foundation of all the beginner and finisher of all That takes a man off his Pharisaical exaltation in himself arising from his own righteousness Oh how humbly did the Apostles of our Lord give all glory and honour unto the kindness and mercies and love of God manifested to us in Christ Jesus In all their Epistles to the Saints raising up their mindes to the great love of God in christ Jesus For he was the Vessel filled with the love of God to convey it to us And this was the glory which his Disciples beheld in him We beheld his glory full of grace and truth Joh. 1. Grace is good will kindness love mercy this is Gospel this is the glad tydings which came by Jesus Christ The Law came by Moses but grace and Truth by Jesus Christ This love of God revealed in us by his Spirit is the Rock of ages and while we live and walk in that we live in God for God is love This was Israels Rock while they continued in his love and he lead him and instructed him and kept him as the Apple of his Eye until he waxed fat and kicked and lightly esteemed the Rock of his Salvation as Moses sets forth in his Song Deut. 32. And Hannah in her Song 1 Sam. 2. And David in his Song 2 Sam. 2. likewise Psal 62. saith he truely my Soul waiteth upon God from him cometh my Salvation He only is my Rock and my Salvation several times doth he repeat those words in that short Psalm and then saith ver 8. Trust in him at all times ye People pour out your Heart before him God is a refuge for us Selah Surely men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are a lye so neither of them are to be trusted to though a man be exalted as high as Heaven above all called Gods or above all Earthly powers yet he is but a lye and not to be trusted to Therefore to be built upon a man is but to be built upon a lye But to be built upon the Revelation of the love of God in Christ Jesus there 's the Rock That was the Rock that Christ would build his Church upon Vpon this Rock will I build my Church saith he to Peter What was that upon Peter No he was Petrus so named from the Fathers revealing of his Son to him which was Petra the Rock upon which Peter himself was built and the Church in all ages Matt. 16.16 17 18 19. And in that Revelation of the Son of God by the Father and in his power and presence there stands the power of binding and loosing which also was given to any two or three of the Church as well as to Peter Mat. 18.18 19 20. by vertue of the presence of him with them who is truth and is no lye For that 's given as the reason both of that power of binding and loosing transgressions and also of that power and prevalency of the prayers of two or three concurring with one accord to ask any thing of God Why For saith he where two or three are gathered together eis to onoma emon into my name there am I in the midst of them ver 20. Here is the infallible Rock and foundation not Peter as a man and therefore lest any should take him to be the infallible foundation the Lord suffered him to slide sometimes

of men but God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son A● the Sun in the Firmament shine● upon all good and bad and as th● raine falls upon all both just and unjust so the love of God reaches t● all in sending his Son Therefor● the Angel that brought the glad tydings of the birth of Christ to th● Sheepherds said to them Fea● not for behold I bring you good tydings of great joy which shall be to a● People Luk. 2.10 And likewise tha● multitude of the Heavenly Host which appeared suddenly with th● Angel praised God saying Glor● to God in the highest and on Ear● peace good will towards men ver 1 〈◊〉 towards men or towards ma● kinde in the general and not onl● towards this Sect or that Sect o● this form or that form but toward● all men namely that creatur● which was made in his own imag● to bear a representation of him i● the Creation To this creature 〈◊〉 the love of God thus signified fo● his restoration to that purity Majesty and dignity in which he was created and to an eternal felicity in that station with God So then This is the condemnation that light is come into the World and men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evill Joh. 3.19 What light is this that 's come into the World that was not in the World before Verely the light of the love of God or of Salvation freely by grace which hath a glory in it that discovers and destroyes evill works and therefore where men love their evil works they love to cleave to the darkness in which they may enjoy their evil deeds and continue therein This is the condemnation not because they have done evil but because they chuse to continue therein For the love of God hath manifested it self unto all in sending his Son as a Sacrifice for all a Lamb without blemish to take away the Sin of the World Joh. 1. ver 29. 2. As the Father hath manifested his love to man so the Son likewise who is the only begotten Son of God the first born of every creature and the expresse image of the Father he hath shined forth in the glory of the same love We beheld his glory saith the Apostle wherein Even in this that he was full of grace and full of truth Grace is free gift bounty good will and this is glorious this we beheld in the Son of God saith the Apostle What love like this Or what favour like this To lay down ones life for another This our Lord hath done for us 1 Tim. 2.6 He gave himself 〈◊〉 ransome for all saith the Apostle and this is to be a Testimony i● due time for so the words signify 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He offered up himself a Sacrifice for us according to the will of God that h● might put away our sin by the Sacrifice of himself Heb. 9.26 and tha● was the will of God who layed o● him the iniquity of us all And this h● willingly underwent for us fo● when burnt offerings and Sacrifices of the Law for sin could not purge the conscience so as to make the commers thereunto perfect as pertaining to the conscience and therefore God took no pleasure in them then said the Son Loe I come to doe thy will O God Heb. 10. That so a way might be made for reconciling our Hearts to God by laying a ground for faith in us He bare our sins in his own body on the Tree 1 Pet. 2.24 Here 's the ground for faith and a foundation layd for mans returning towards the Lord in Love for we cannot love him till we be made sensible of his love to us and understand that he loveth us And when this understanding and beliefe arises in our Hearts it drawes our Hearts to him in love again We love him because he first loved us saith the beloved Disciple 1 Joh. 4.19 He loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood Rev. 1.5 His love goes before our washing He loved us and washed us I said unto the when thou wast in thy blood live Ezek. 16.6 He that hath his Heart opene● to believe this Testimony of th● Love of God in Christ Jesus ou● Lord he shall finde the incomes o● the Spirit of Christ in some measure as they did who believe● these joyfull tydings at the foundin● forth of our Salvation by the bloo● of Christ in the primitive time when the Gospel was first preached to them And this now is faith even to receive the Testimony of the So● of God concerning the love of God and to believe in him for Salvation Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the Earth Isa 45.22 As Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness so the Son of man was lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life For God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Joh. 3.14 15 16. The words are doubled to confirm the certainty thereof And therefore seeing we have Salvation in him and by him and by no other he is called The Lord our Righteousness Jer. 23.6 For he is made of God unto us Wisdome and Righteousness and Sanctification and redemption that according as it is written he that gloryeth let him glory in the Lord 1 Cor. 1.30 31. Let him glory in the Lord not in his own works for all glorying therein is cast out Therefore shall men say in the Lord have I righteousness and strength Isa 45.24 He that believeth this love of God in Christ therewith receiveth Christ and with him power to become a Son of God Joh. 1.12 As many as received him to them gave he power to become the Sons of God even to them that believe on his name To believe on his name is to receive him and to receive him is to believe on his name So that by fai●● Christ is received And by faith a● the Spirit of Christ is received Gal. ● 2 and 5. This only would I learn 〈◊〉 you received ye the Spirit by t● works of the Law or by the hearing 〈◊〉 faith that is of Salvation by fait● ver 5. He therefore that ministre● to you the Spirit doth he it the works of the Law or by the heari● of faith The Scripture many tim● layes that down by way of questio● which is undenyable as it do● here as much as to say I'ts by fai● that the Spirit is received for he● by the hearing of faith we mu● understand such a hearing as is a r●ceiving or obeying the Gospel a●● in this the Spirit is received And so by faith also we receive r●mission of sins To him give all the Pr●phets witnesse that through his nam● whosoever believeth in him shall recei●● remission of sinns Act. 10.43 A●● this was the Doctrine that Peter w●● preaching to Cornelius and the