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A93931	A second champion, or, Companion to truth: Wherein is shewed these particulars, or tenets. 1 Of miracles. 2 The reasons wherefore so few imbrace the gospell. 3 Of the first covenant, and the second covenant. 4 Of the father and the son. 5 Of Heaven. 6 Of Hell. 7 Of Glory. 8 Of faith. 9 Of the resurrection, and the eternall judgement. 10 Of visible worship. 11 A postscript. By Richard Stookes preacher of the Gospell	Stooks, Richard, fl. 1651-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing S5740cA; ESTC R231910	98,234	235

great ones and the eyes of the priests and people lest they should obey the glorious Gospel of Christ 2 Cor. 4. 4. and for this cause there is so few that imbrace the Gospell because men love the praise of men more then the praise of God 4 Reason Is because there is so few of the great ones believe the Gospell and this was the plea of the Scribes and Pharisees against Christ Have any of the rulers believed on him John 7. 48. The Pharisees knowing this that the multitude would follow the great ones whether right or wrong whether their way were true or false and this is as true in our dayes for if the great ones would believe and follow the Gospell then would the inferiour ones and if the Priests would imbrace the Gospell then would the people and so as Christ saith The blind lead the blind and so they both fall into the ditch for as the Apostle saith ye see your calling brethren how that not many mighty not many noble not many learned but the poore receive the Gospell 1 Cor. 1. the contemptible ones of the wor●● the great ones ●allowing in their fleshly felicity and worldly glory and therefore it ●● that so few imbrace the Gospel of Christ 5 Reason Is the high esteem of the persons of some and the dis-esteem of the persons of others and thus did the Scribes and Pharisees vilifie the Person of Christ in their saying Is not this the Carpenters son Marke 6. 3. 4. being offended at him and declaring against him saying Art thou greater then our father Abraham and the Prophets John 8. 53. and thus they undervalued the Person of Christ to make his doctrine contemptible in abasing his Person that thereby they might set up themselves saying We are Abrahams children John 8. 39. but for this fellow we know not whence he is John 9. 29. and thus did the proud Scribes and Pharisees of those times contemne Christ and his Apostles as if they were the basest men in the world and thus they do in these dayes highly esteem of the persons of so me if he be an University man and have learned the spirit as they conceive at the University with the knowledge of the humane tongues and have received his humane degrees then they admire his Person and esteem him some great man or divine person having bought the spirit at the University as the people conceive and that which he hath bought at the Schools he sels it for spirit though indeed it be nothing but a Tract of Fathers and Authors which he hath got by art compacting a Sermon out of Fathers and Authours and the like and preaches but the judgements of other men and those mens persons are esteemed as the only men in the world and all other men rejected though never so able and godly because they come not in by the doore of humane inventions their persons are despised as contemptible and so their doctrine is despised being never so holy and true because their persons are contemptible which is a main cause and reason wherefore so few imbrace the Gospell of Christ 6 Reason Wherefore so few imbrace the Gospell is this because the Lord hath been pleased in all Ages to reveale his truth to a company of contemptible ones in the worlds eye as you may see both under the Law and Gospell as under the Law the Lord called Moses a shepheard to feed his flock who was feeding the sheep of his father Exod. 3. And the Lord called him to feed his people Israel and also David a shepheard who was tending of his fathers flock And the Lord called him 〈◊〉 the ewes and made him a shepheard in Is 〈…〉 and then there was Elisha a plow-man and Amos a heards-man Amos 1. And thus you see under the Law how the Lord did reveale his truth and under the Gospell you have Christ and his Disciples who were poor contemptible men in the world and as Matthew a Publican and Peter James and John fisher-men with Paul a Tent-maker And thus you see that the Lord did reveale his truth by a company of trades-men which the Apostle Paul doth so gloriously confirm 1 Cor. 1. against the proud Rabbies of those times and justifies his poor brethren in the Ministry saying you see your calling brethren how that not many wise mighty or noble are called to the Ministry but God hath called the foolish to confound the wise and the weake to confound the mighty and things that are not in the worlds ●ye as any thing hath God chosen to bring to ●aught things that are esteemed in the world And this the Lord doth that no flesh should boast or glory in his presence and therefore the Apostle saith Where is the wise where is the Scribe and disputer of this world for the Lord hath made foolish the wisdome of this world 1 Cor. 1. 20. And therefore behold saith the Lord I will do a work in your dayes saith the Lord that you will not believe though 〈◊〉 declared unto you for the wisdome of your wise men shall perish and I will make the deviners mad Esa 29. 14. Act. 23. Oh behold and wonder ye Ministers of England and ye Rabbies and Doctors ye have been exalted up to Heaven but you shall be brought down for you have sought your selves more then Jesus Christ and your own honour more then his you have sought to set up your selves and to abace Christ and have been ashamed to tonfess his Gospel before men for fear of losing your earthly honours and preferments and have denied the holy one of Israel in perverting his wayes and changing his Ordinances and have been time-servers and served your selves and not Christ and therefore the Lord hath a quarrel against you and wil confound your wisdom and make you to be despised before the people and will shake off your fleshly glorying that you may glory in the Lord and this the Lord will do by raysing up men to preach the Gospel and you shall be cast out as a contemptible thing because you have been a hinderance and not a furtherance to the Gospel of Christ for the Idolizing of your persons is a reason wherefore so few believe and obey the Gospel of Christ 7. Reason Wherefore so few imbrace and obey the Gospel is because the wayes of the Gospel are persecuted wayes for no sooner Christ the great Minister of God came to preach the Gospel to the People but the high Priest and Doctors sought to destroy him Mat 2. and how was he persecuted of the Learned Rabbies and was forst to flee from one place to another and was persecuted wheresoever he came and had not where to hide his head while the great Doctors were slourishing in their earthly glory and pompe rejoycing at the troubles of the Sonne of God and like Foxes lay lurking in their holes to watch for his ruin and nothing would serve them but his death crying his blood be upon us

Grave but the smiles of God will bring me to Heaven and therefore it is better to dye in the favour of the Lord then in the favour of men for were I a lover of the World I were an enemy to God I desire to leave the honours riches and pleasures of this world for a better I am willing to leave the glory of this life for I looke for a better for I desire to undergoe all the fury of Hell to have a Heaven My time is but short I desire to bid adiew to the world for what is the world but vanit● all the honours are but dishonours and all the riches i● but poverty all the joy is but sorrow and all the pleasure is but displeasure and had I no better comfort then what is in this life I were in a sad condition for I live in hope of a better resurrection and so I hope dost thou which if thou dost thou wilt like my workes the better and so farewell Richard Stookes A Second CHAMPION to the TRVTH CHAPTER 1. Of working of Miracles ANd first I shall begin to speak of Miracles which so many dote upon in these dayes waiting for visible signes and some great Revelation and to them I shall say as Christ said unto the Scribes and Pharisees that the Kingdom of God cometh not with observation for they looked that Christ should come with abundance of earthly pompe and glory but Christ tells them they were deceived for the Kingdom of God consisted not of outward glory and excellency for saith he the Kingdom of God is within you it is more of substance then of shew more glorious within then without and the Miracles more inward then outward Miracles of a more spiritual nature to appear in the inward man to the beating down of every strong hold and therefore those outward miracles are swallowed up of inward miracles of a more glorious nature the one being a type of the other as the outward man was a type of the inward man and therefore my work shall be in this Chapter to shew you my reasons why I conceive that Miracles in a visible way a●e to cease in that age So that this is my meaning that the Miracles of Christ and his Apostles in a visible way were to cease in that age 1. Because Miracles were to testifie of Christs coming in the flesh and therefore when Christ came he came with signes and wonders as his casting out of Devils Mat. 12. 22. and Luke 11. 17. Of his healing the sick and curing them of their Diseases as you may see Mat. 15. 30. In giving sight to the blind and hearing to the death and speech to the d●●● making the lame to go as raising up the d●●● and all this he was to do to manifest himself to the World that he was the Christ Is●i●● 35. 5. 6. chap. 61. 1. Mat. 11. 5. And thus 〈◊〉 came to be known of John Baptist as you 〈◊〉 see Mat. 11. 4. 5. Together with the 〈◊〉 of the Holy Ghost descending upon him in the likeness of a Dove Luke 3. 22. John 1. 33. And thus he was manifest to John as to all the World doing such works as never man did whereby he might appear to be the Christ to leave all men without excuse as John 15. 24. in doing such works as were never done from the beginning in opening the eyes of the blind John 9. 32. and in shewing such signes wonders which were not before recorded least the world should take up to much time in the searching thereof and in doteing more upon his acts then upon the end of his coming John 20 30. 21. 25. As also further the Apostles were gifted for the same end to manifest Christ to be come in the flesh working miracles both before and after his ascensio● that thereby they might manifest to the World that he was the Christ and for that and they were promised by Christ to receive the gifts of the Holy Ghost Luke 24. 49. which was performed in Acts 2. 1. 2. The gifts of the spirit being powred upon them insomuch that they were able to speak infallibly to work Miracles and to speak with new Tongues and to understand all Languages under Heaven 〈◊〉 2. 6. Even for this very end that they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he was the Christ both at 〈◊〉 and to the 〈◊〉 pa●ts of the Earth Act. 1. 8. And thus the Lord granted signes and wonders to be done by the hands of the Apostles to give Testimony to the word of his grace Act 14. ● who did manifest to the world that all the wonders that they wrought were in the name and power of Jesus Acts 4. 10. shewing in their preaching that this was the end for which Miracles were on foote even to testifie of Christ Acts 2. 22. And this was one end for which Miracles were given to hold forth the coming of Christ 2. Miracles were to confirm the Covenant of grace which was to be established as firm as the first for when the first Covenant was given out it was ratified with signes and wonders for all the Mountaine was on fire and there were thunderings and lightnings and voices and so terrible was the sight that it made Moses the man of God tremble So terrible were the signes Heb. 12. 18. 19. 22. And thus you see the first Covenant was ratified with Miracles and so also was the second which is a better Covenant estableished upon better promises Heb. 8. 6. And also more glorious Miracles of a more spiritual nature for the Miracles of the first Covenant were more outward and terrible But the Miracles of the 2. Covenant are more inwardly 〈◊〉 comfortable which did accompany the Appostles in their Ministry confirming the truth by signes and wonders Mark 16. the last Act. 19. 10. 11. And thus did the Lord Jesus Christ himself also confirm the Doctrine of the Gospel with more Miracles then ever any word was before from the beginning of the World so that you may see that the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles wanted not Miracles to confirm it God the Father also bearing witness with signes and wonders and divers gifts of the Holy Ghost Heb. 2. 4. That it might appear the Covenant was the more glorious and more excellent firm and sure being so wonderfully ratified and confirmed with Miracles And thus you see a second Reason wherefore Miracles were on foot even to confirm the truth of the Gospell Now a third reason wherefore Miracles were on foot was this even to confirm the calling and Ministry of the Apostles who were to lay the Foundation both for Doctrine and practise which the World was to follow in after Ages to the end of the World For we are built upon the Foundation of the Prophets Apostles Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone Eph. 2 20. In being the Authour both of their Doctrine and Practise and therefore you see it was requisite that Miracles should

man as we are and that this man Christ should be so gloriously exalted by God the Father to be the chiefe in his Councell to declare his mind to the world and that thereby the world might be reconciled to God by the man Christ in preaching mercy to us by a man as we are and in making a man to be a Mediatour between him and us to raise him gloriously from the dead and to give all power into his hands and to make him Lord of heaven and earth to set him at his right hand in glory and to center all mercy and judgement in the Son what greater favour could the Father of mercies shew us which is a sure testimony of our rising from the dead and of our glorification with him at the last day And in the next place I shall endeavour to reconcile some Scriptures that seem to contradict the truth of this Doctrine and the first is in Ge● 1. 26. Let us make man to the which I reply That there the Father speaks of his Word or Spirit by which he made all things For the Spirit of God moved upon the waters the witnesse of two is true as Deut. 17. 6. John 8. 17. And so the Spirit of God in the Scripture is distinct from God as in many places he might speak of the Angels as being familiar with him whereby they might shew their acceptance of that work being the great Counsell of heaven for he could not speak of the Son as in being at that time neither could he really be before he had a being or else the Father might speak in a two-fold relation when he spake of man to wit of the work of creation and redemption and so he might speak of the Son but any otherwise he could not Another Scripture is in John 1. 1. 2. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and God was that word To the which I reply That in the beginning implies a tearm of time but God was before all time and that word was with God and so it was before it came from him for the word is the mind of God and came from the heart of God and was the power of God for by his word he made all things 〈◊〉 that sense it might be called God for 〈◊〉 a common name in Scripture as Idols are called Gods and men are called Gods as being of note and fame and the word being of that power might be called God though it come from the Father who is the God of all Gods And another Scripture is before Abraham was I am And to that I reply that Christ was before Abraham First he was before him in the promise And secondly he was before him in Gods account for God did account of his Son before Abraham and therefore Christ might well say before Abraham was I am being the Son of God himself And another Scripture is I and my Father are one which is true indeed that the Father and the Son are one both in mind and Doctrine the Son delivering the mind of the Father as I have shewed before but else the Son saith the Father is greater then I and I came to do the work of him that sent me Now another Scripture is this that he being in the form of God thought it no robbery to be equall with God and the express Image of the Fathers person and this is true indeed that the Son is said to be the form or likeness Picture or Image of the Fathers Person but you will not say that the Image or Picture of a man is the man for the express Image or Picture of a man is but his form and so Christ is the Image of his Fathers Person that is God by Office but not the Father himself and so the Son is the Image and the Father is the substance from whom all things do proceed being the essence of all things and the originall of all being And thus in a word as time would permit me I have endeavoured to give unto the Father that which is his and also to the Son that which is his the Son being the chief in the Court of the Fathers Majesty I shal desire to honour the Son who is so highly honoured of the Father for it became the Father of whom are all things by whom are al things to make the Captain of our salvation perfect through sufferings Heb. 2. 8. 10. Thou hast put all things under his feete in subjection for in that he put all things under him he hath left nothing that is not put under him but now we see not as yet all things put under him Heb. 2. 8. 10. CHAP. V. Of Heaven NOw I shall endeavour to speak of Heaven for that will be the glorious Heaven to arive at at the last day Now the Kingdom of Heaven is called another world when Christ saith neither in this World nor in the World to come and so it is another World for that is a heavenly World and this a earthly that World injoyes the presence of God and this the back parts that World injoyes the substance and this injoyes the shadow that is a World of spirit and this a World of flesh that a World of goodness this a World of wickedness that is a continuing World and this a fading World that is a World and Kingdom not made with hands but eternall in the Heavens And now I shall speak as plainly as I can a word or two of Heaven and first what Heaven is 1. Heaven is a place of glory where the face and presence of God is and where those glorious Angels are and all the heavenly Host above all created Heavens where God the Father was from all eternity and for the probation of this you shal have Dan. 7. 9. 10. Where the Father is called the ancient of dayes being indeed before all time and his Throne prescribed with that glorious heavenly Host that doth attend him for he is the high and lofty one that Inhabits eternity and dwelleth in the highest Heavens for thus saith the wise Solomon If Israel pray heare thou in Heaven thy dwelling-place 1 Kings 8. 39. 43. and Heaven is my Throne and the Earth is my Foot-stooll and Christ saith that in Heaven the Angells do alwayes behold the face and presence of his Father which is in Heaven Mat. 18. 10. and also the Sonne is entred into the very Heaven of glory it self Heb. 9. 24. there to remain till he come at the last day And now I shall shew you reasons that there is a Heaven 1. Reason Is from Gods eternal Being before all time he must be somewhere and his glory must be somewhere even in Heaven a place not made with hands 2 Cor. 5 2. a place of glory before all time and before these visible Heavens and Earth were created he was in glory whereby it doth appear there is a Heaven 2. Reason When he came to create the visible

Heavens and Earth that appeare to us from whence came he but from Heaven and where was he but in a place of glory before these visible Heavens and Earth were made which shewes he was somewhere before in a place of glory that cannot be beheld with mortall eyes and which cannot be comprehended by a finall Creature and therefore it doth appear that there is a Heaven 3. Reason Is because we enjoy but the back parts of God for we can hardly behold his back-parts and how then should we behold his fore-parts how then should we behold him in his glory Again when Israel beheld the back-parts of God in the Mount his glory made them and Moses tremble and if his back-parts made them tremble how then should they behold his fore-parts and where do you think the face and presence of God is with that innumerable Company of Angels and heavenly Host would not the presence of one Angel make you tremble what then would his Host and what would God himself do for no man shall see his face and live Where is his presence his face and fore-parts and that Company of Angels that are allwayes in his presence but in Heaven a place of glory which shewes there is a Heaven 4 Reason When God hath appeared at any time to his People his appearance hath been more glorious then all the glory in the earth they have bin ashamed confounded in themselves as not being able to behold the glory of their maker either in himself or in his Angels whose appearance would darken all the glory of the Earth whereby it doth appear that the presence of God and his Angells must be somewhere the Earth not being able to bear their glory and where should they be but in Heaven a place of glory 5. Reason When the Lord hath spoken at any time to the People his word hath come down from Heaven as when he spake with Noah and with Abraham Isaac and Jacob he spake from Heaven and when he spake with Moses in the 3. of Exod. he spake from Heaven and when the Law was given in the Mount he came from Heaven as also when he spake unto the Prophets he spake from Heaven and also at the Birth of Christ from whence came that glorious Company of Angels but from Heaven and when there came a voice from Heaven saying this is my beloved Sonne and when the Heavens were opened and the Holy Ghost came upon the Apostles as also in the vision of Paul a light and a voice came from Heaven and much more might be spoken on at large if time would permit to shew that there is a Heaven where God is more glorious then he is in Earth 6. Reason That there is a Heaven doth appear from the desire of the people of God who looked upon all things below as nothing with their desires to seek after Heaven and desiring to leave this World and confessed that here they were strangers and had no abiding place but sought for a place in another World with desires to be desolved and to be absent from the body desiring to be clothed upon with their House which is from Heaven with their weariness of this World and desiring to leave it for a better doth make it appear that there is a Heaven 7. Reas The prayers of the Saints doth make it appear that there is a Heaven as in their prayers lifting up their thoughts their eyes and hands and all to Heaven from whence they look for comfort and might I not be very large in this in the practice of all the Saints but a word to the wise is enough 8. Reason The holy walkings of the Saints doth declare there is a Heaven by framing all their thoughts words and deedes in such a heavenly way that so they might be fitting themselves for such a Kingdom 9. Reason The Prophets do declare there is a Heaven in all their writings of which I shall speak a word or two of some as Deut. 3. 24. where Moses saith that there is no God in Heaven or Earth can do such glorious works as the God of Heaven and Solomon saith Lord heare in Heaven thy dwelling-place 2 Kings 8. 31. 34. and thy People pray and supplicate unto thee Lord heare in Heaven thy dwelling-place 2 Chron. 6. 30. and David saith The Lord looked down from Heaven upon the Children of men Psal 13. 2. and the Lord looketh down from Heaven and beholdeth all the Sonnes of men Psal 33. 13. and thy mercy O Lord is in the Heavens Psalm 36. 5. and God looked down from Heaven Psal 53. 2. but our God is in the Heavens Psal 115. 3. and his glory is above the Heavens Psal 113. 4. Thus saith the Lord the Heaven is my Throne Isaiah 65. 2. and thus saith the Lord can Heaven above be measured Jer. 31. 34. and there is a God in Heaven that revealeth secrets Dan. 2. 28. and he it is that buildeth his ascensions in the Heavens Amos 9. 6. for behold the Lord cometh down out of his place Mich. 1. 3. and thus you see the testimony of the Prophets that there is a Heaven 10. Reason Christ and his Apostles do declare that there is a Heaven when Christ taught them to say Our Father which art in Heaven Mat. 6. 9. and that you may be the Children of your Father which is in Heaven Mat. 5. 45. and how much more shall your Father which is in Heaven give them that aske him Mat. 7. 11. and flesh and blood hath not revealed this to you but my Father which is in Heaven Mat. 16. 17. for the Angels do alwayes behold the face of my Father which is in heaven Mat. 18. 10. And thus you see the Son doth affirm that there is a Heaven in these and many places more that might be brought And now I shall go to the Apostles in saying your Master also is in heaven Ephes 6. 1. and the Throne of Majesty in the heavens Heb. 1. i. and the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven ● Pet. 11. 12. and the voices that came from heaven we heard when we were with him in the holy Mount 2 Pet. 1. 18. And thus you see the truth of this that there is a Heaven ●● Reason Christs Ascension doth make it appear that there is a Heaven for where is Christ gone but into Heaven to rest in glory with the Father when he saith I go to my Father and I go to prepare a place for you John 14. 2. 12 and he ascended up into heaven Acts 1. 10. in the appearance of the Beholders whom the heavens must contain Acts 3. 21. being ascended farre above all heavens Ephes 4. 10. and so we look for the Son of God from heaven 1 Thes 1. 10. which at last shall shew himself from heaven 2 Thes 1. 7. even that Jesus that is passed into heaven Heb. 4. 14. and is such a high Priest who is set on the right hand of the Throne