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A85544	A cure of deadly doctrine; which is death in the pot: or Mr. Royles light proved to be darknesse. By J.G. a lover and a member of the holy army of God, although the most unworthy.	Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.	1649 (1649)	Wing G1590; Thomason E566_26; ESTC R206221	6,748	8

which otherwise were plaine in the holy Scriptures comparing Scripture with Scripture for there is a Baptisme of Water in the Element and a Baptisme of Water in the Mystery and John the Baptist and St Paul with all the Apostles and servants of God were more conversant in this last signification of Water then in the first and this last hath differing meanings also as sometimes repentance sometimes remission of sinnes and sometimes the gifts of the Holy Ghost as I have elsewhere proved largely therefore well saith he that is Worthy It is the definition not the names of things by which they are rightly knowne and you being not skilfull to define to distinguish and divide between things that differ make as false constructions in the second part of your Paper as in the first for although therein you have a seeming pretence of a Christians spirituall death and resurrection which rightly understood is a truth yet the thing you ayme and drive at to reveale under these specious pretences is to deny the resurrection of the naturall body for these are your own words I deny that to be a truth speaking of the resurrection of the naturall body page the ninth To which error of the Sadduces and Familists I say thus much that the Scriptures affirme plainly that the naturall body is sowne that is buried in the earth which naturall body at the resurrection shall be raised a spirituall body 1 Cor. 15. 44. And if there be no resurrection of the dead saith the Apostle then is Christ not risen that is his body is not risen and if Christ be not risen saith he then is our preaching vaine and your faith also vaine Vers 13 14. Now to wave your Allegory of Christs Sepulchre as also of his death and resurrection making it a phansie for although there be a spirituall death and resurrection in the regenerate daily to dye to and arise from sinne and live to righteousnesse yet there was no such thing in Jesus Christ which was and is the King of life and righteousnesse the Author and giver of life the brightnesse and glory the expresse image of the Father from all eternity and to all eternity And notwithstanding the Saints spirituall death and resurrection which is in by and through Christ Col. 2. 12. yet this doth not nullifie and take away their naturall death nor bodily resurrection to life and perfection at the last day for as the first is by the power and voyce of God spirituall in our regeneration through the operation of God so the resurrection of our bodies out of the graves is by the same power and voyce to incorruption life and salvation Joh. 5. 25 26. and vers 28 29. This your allegoriz●ng Doctrine doth not onely destroy the Faith of some in particular but it overthrows the whole Doctrine of faith it selfe which was once delivered unto the Saints and turns the true and faithfull witnesse who once was dead but now is alive and liveth for evermore into a lye a phansie or conceit imagining another meaning then what is reall and substantiall of his conception birth child-hood full age temptations fastings preaching miracles his being accused and apprehended by the Jews his being adjudged and condemned by Pilate his crucifixion his death and buriall his lying three dayes in the grave his resurrection and ascension and now his sitting at the right hand of the Father to deny the literall sense and substance of all these things and to turne them to allegories and other meanings as they shall severally imagine or phansie is to deny the Lord that bought them whatsoever glosses and faire pretences soever they make I proceed now to the third part of your Paper the day of Judgement as you call it what it is and when it shall be and here you say you will lay open such a mystery as hath been hid from many ages but hath shewed it selfe to you within these few dayes which is as false as the former I condemned for these depths of Satan are not of yesterdayes birth and manifestation but are ancient and of long continuance and their Books are extant although those of your delusion have endeavoured to buy up all they could me●… withall heretofore that they might have the more credit to affirme a lye in calling these visions of their own hearts new Lights as if never heard of nor knowne before And therefore you much mistooke to speake of your selfe as the onely man to be acquainted with this Revelation for what thinke you of Doctor Everit D. G. Master Dell Master Saltmarsh Master P●rdig Master Randall Master Denne and Master Galtorne and many more preachers tha● maintaine the same delusion and mistake with your selfe besides Lords and Ladies and many thousands amongst the common people But to your present matter you boldly affirme to your friends as you call them that the coming and day of Christ is spirituall And for proofe hereof you say that Eliah the Prophet spoken of by Malachi Chap. 3. 1. is that spirituall Appearance of Christ in us and that Eliah is he that shall suddenly come to his Temple even the Messenger of the Covenant his coming being now in the Spirit as he saith and the Spirits presence is the dreadfull day of the Lord consuming and burning up all fleshly excellency in us destroying the sonne of the bond-woman which he expounds to be creature-wisdome and darknesse in us Here 's his relation of the Scripture and his exposition also Now how contrary he is to the truth of the Text let all that heare judge for he makes Eliah and the Messenger of the Govenant to be one and the same whereas the Spirit of God shews the contrary prooving thereby that Mr Royles spirit is a spirit of contradiction to Gods holy Spirit for thus saith the Lord of truth himselfe If you will receive it this is Elias that was to com● Matth. 1● Prooving it was John the Baptist of whom the Prophet Malachi spake both of Person and Office to prepare the way of the Lord which Lord is called the Messenger of the Covenant for although there be many Messengers yet there is but one that can be said to be the Messenger who indeed is the onely Au●hor and bringer of light and salvation Now for this Impostor to turne the Offices and Persons of our Lord and his forerunner John the Baptist that great Prophet whom none before him amongst all the holy Prophets of God since the world began exceeded in spirituall power and efficacy I say to turne this Almightie God and this great and extraordinary servant into spirituall appearances of a fancied conceit is to crosse ruinate and destroy both the body and spirit the letter and meaning of the Text of Scriptures and what a cursed thing it is the Records of God declare But as a man d●stracted doth no sooner passe one danger but presently ●uns into another so this blind Leader proceeds to farther error for he falsifies the

seventh Verse of the 114. Psalm in making that an allegoricall myst●ry that is a plaine literall history by bringing Israel out of Egypt through Gods wonderfull and almightie power in dividing the great Sea and the swelling River Jord●n that the hi●l● and mountaines removed melted and fled away the massi● and huge Earth trembled a● the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob. And further he sh●mes not to affirme contrary to the consent of Scriptures that before this earthly Tabernacle be put off which wee beare ab●ut u● when Christ saith he comes in the Spirit to reigne within u● then all his enemies are made his footstoole which notwithstanding his fancy it shall not be truly so as faith the Prophet and Apostle till the end of this world when Christs Mediatorship shall be finished not ●i●l the Lords returne in the Clouds of Heaven with ten thousands of his Sa●n●● for the Lord himselfe shall descend from Heaven with the voyce of the Archangel and with the Trump of God and then and not before shall the dead in Christ arise ●u● of the E●rth then shall the Lord execu●e judgement upon all ungodly sinners of all their h●rd speeches wherewith they have spoken against him And Mr Roylie I sp●ake seririously to you and desire you would let my words take place in your heart except you repent of this writing which you seeme to glory in you wi●l be found an enemy to Christ and guiltie of hard false and evill speeches against him to turne all the holy history of him his person office reigne and kingdome with the reality of all of them into a deceitfull mystery And those reall truths of his incarnation death resurrection ascension and intercession to turne these a●so into saigned allegories of your own devifing even imagining all things past and to come to be present and to be ●u●●i●d in our bodies before o●r dissolution all things that are written from the beginning of the world unto the end and that wee that is the first Adam becom● Abel and Enoch and ●●a● and Abraham and Moses And so Christ the second Adam and all things of him and them in us fulfild from his conception to his ascension to be s●t at the right hand of the Father N●y which is more that his coming againe in the Clouds the generall resurrection and great day of Judgement and the world to come also that all these things should be in this life here and fulfild in u● i● a blasphemy beyond comparison for in setting up your Idoll-phansie of wicked invented Allegories never heard of nor taught by the Word of God for these inventions of you and your generation as it doth deny the Messiah in the true understanding of him and also it doth obscure and exclude all the heavenly benefit● by him as the cleare Doctrine of the Gospel of repentance and remission of sinnes with the hope of salvation purchased by his own bloud and to be preached in his Name and also you shew your selfe to be wholly ignorant of the estate of a true Christian in his spirituall birth and heire-ship and of the hope of glory in him to be entred into and possessed at the Resurrection called in Scriptures the inheritance the purchased possession and salvation The more you give credit to these delusions the more impossible is it for you to come to see the truth the straight way of the Lord for your wo●d of light and truth as you call it is grosse blasphemy against God blaspheming his Name and his Tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven Wherefore never write nor speake any more for it and finally remember what is written Add● tho● not to Gods Word lest he reprove thee and thou be found a lyer Pro. 30. 6. And as Gods Word binds me ●o d●sswade you from your error so it doth likewise command mee to perswade all my Christian friends to take heed and beware of the great deceit of this dangerous doctrine of which there is no● the like in the world for in tearms it grants unto you all the substantiall truths that are as God and man Nature and grace the new man and the old thi● lif● and that to come the spirituall resurrection and that of the body mortification and vivifica●ion repentance and remission of sinnes the present time and that hereafter suffering and triumphing which in the tryall will prove but a dreame as it is indeed That man is cheated with ● shadow for the substance that dreames he hath rich and costly food when it is nothing but a phansie and when he awakes he feels it to be so by his hunger Now there is no chea●e to the chea●e of the understanding for a man to be cheated of his meate he may get more for his money if of his horse he may goe a●oo●e or buy one if of his money he may labour for more but that man that is cheated of his understanding is wholly left without all manner of remedy so is he that is cheated of the true knowledge of the way of life and mystery of salvation By John Graunt London Printed by M. S. for John Handcock in Popes-head-alley 1649.