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A80146 The marrow of Christianity: or, A spirituall discoverie of some principles of truth, meet to be known of all the saints; represented in ten sections. / By T. Collier, minister of the gospel. Whereunto is added an epistle, written by M. Saltmarsh. Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.; Towne, Robert, 1592 or 3-1663. Assertion of grace. 1647 (1647) Wing C5291; Wing T1978; Thomason E1157_1; Thomason E1157_2; ESTC R208677 55,702 142

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that is First of all Antichrists spiritual delusions by which he hath deceived soules 2 And all Antichrists deluding formes and ordinances by which the common sort of people are generally deluded the worke of Christ is to powre downe Vials of wrath upon the head of the Man of sinne both in the spirit and in the letter Looke about you therefore all you whose spiritual life consists in nothing but spiritual and Antichristian delusions with invented and Antichristian formes and ordinances A Vial of Wrath is coming on you which wil shatter to pieces al your confidence and then if mercy prevent not you may stand looking on and crying alas alas in one houre is so great riches come to nought and then when this is fulfilled there shal be no more warre in Heaven or spiritual delusion under the name of Christ A glorious word for those that dwel in Heaven and that which wil cause joy to the Saints For first they shal bee without and above all danger of delusions in the spirit or in the letter And secondly they shal from the same ground be for ever freed from fellowship with Hypocrites and literal Christians for their communion shal bee more in the spirit and lesse in the letter and there shal in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abhomination that is lives earthly carnal and prophane or maketh a lye that is Hypocriticall that seemes to be what he is not But they which are written in the Lambs book of life and there shal be no more a Cananite in the house of the Lord for ever This is the great work Christ hath to do in these latter dayes the consummation of the Kingdome of Antichrist who hath a long time sate in his seate with the exaltation of his owne Kingdome in the spirit SECT V. Quest When he shall be ruined Answ FIrst in the mystery and spirits of the Saints as Jesus Christ comes in and shiues gloriously in the spirit so shal Antichrist bee discovered and destroyed and so hee hath received a great blow already in this Nation through the shinings in of Jesus Christ in the spirit amongst many of his Saints so that this is the time of Antichrists ruine when Jesus Christ comes in and takes place in the spirit of his people as the Kingdome of Christ increaseth so the Kingdome of Antichrist decayeth and consumeth Secondly Antichrist shal bee destroyed when the everlasting Gospel shal be preached that is when the Angel flyeth through the middest of Heaven preaching the everlasting Gospel that is when the Ministers of the Gospel shal come forth with their ful and heavenly discoveries of God in the spirit being permitted to preach the Gospel by the Earthly power in all places with liberty For much hath beene done already by the witnesses professing in sackcloth that is almost always in danger of a civil persecution and much ignorance of the mystery of the Gospel which hath caused them to prophesie in sack-cloth yet they have had power to cause fire to come from Heaven as oft as they please burning up all Antichristian formes and invented delusions And then what wil be done think you when the Ministers of the Gospel shal come forth in the full and bright discoveries of the Gospel with liberties here below for the publishing of it Thirdly Antichrist shal bee destroyed when the witnesses have beene slaine and laine dead three dayes that is a short space then a tenth part of the City shal fal and the rest shal have their time prolonged but for a time and a season The first woe is almost past behold a second and third woe cometh quickly waite and it wil come apace Thus have I from the Light of Truth with as much brevity as may be in some measure hinted at this Man of sinne this Mystery of Iniquitie with his reign ruine with the meanes and time FINIS Errata PAge 4. line 5. for ministry read mystery p. 5. l. 29. for in peece r. in a peece p. 11. l. 1. for manifesteth 2. The cause of mans falling his Justice c. r. manifesteth his Justice the second cause of mans falling is the temptation of Satan p. 12. l. 7. for he delivers r. h. deludes p. 18 l. 13. for all mankind him r. in him p. 22. l. 3. for and eternal r. and internal p. 28. l. 2. for John 24. r. Iohn 14.6 p. 28. l. 25. f. or r. for p. 29. l. 24. f. of r. a p 30. l. 10. for blanch r. branch p. 31. l. 12. for as r. is p. 30. l. 13. for desiring r. discovering p. 37. l. 4. f. or r ours p. 51. l. 9. for enter r. eate p. 66. l. 11. f. beleeve r. below it p. 66. l. 11. f. ever of r. the present enjoyment of p. 78. l. 20. f. learning r. bearing p. 85. l. 8. for eternal r. external p. 93. l. 7. f. stall r. shall
THE MARROW OF CHRISTIANITY OR A spirituall Discoverie of some Principles of Truth meet to be known of all the Saints represented in ten Sections By T. Collier Minister of the Gospel Whereunto is added an Epistle Written by M. SALTMARSH Isaiah 32 20. Blessed are ye that sow besides all waters c. Isay 33.16 He shall dwel on high his place of defence shal be the munitions of Rocks bread shal be given him his waters shal be sure vers 17. and thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty c. London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black spread Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1647. To the Reader Christian Reader FOr to thee alone do I commend this small Treatise who alone art able to judge of spirituall things for the spiritual man judgeth all things I have here in this Treatise presented unto publike view some principles of Truth Although I suppose that some particulars herein may seem somewhat strange at the first sight yet I question not but the same Spirit of Truth which is given forth from the Father through the Son to the Saints wil by degrees so gather Vs up into the mysterie of Truth that we shall all speak the same thing from our walking in the same light and acting in the same power I have in this place only three words to mind thee of as a preparative to what thou shalt reade in this ensuing Treatise First that the discovery of the first man Adam to be but a humane man a man indued with humane perfections is not a strange but a glorious truth and meet to be known for the knowledge of this one particular leades us to the knowledge of the Creatures nothingnesse the wisdome power righteousnesse c. of the Creature it is all but of the Earth and that it is the proper work of Christ the second man to ruine and destroy in thee all that is of the first Adam even those reliques that remain that wisdome is turned into folly that strength into weaknesse that righteousnesse holinesse into meer filthinesse and pollution so that Christ doth not where he comes in mercy restore man to his first condition as it was in Adam but destroyes those principles as we are Christians and so creates a new man in us which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Ephes 4.24 and he that is in Christ is a new creature 2 Cor. 5.17 All old things are done away behold all things are become new and as is the earthly such are they who are earthly as is the heavenly that is Christ such are they who are heavenly 1 Cor. 15.48 Secondly that the glory of a Christians life is in the knowledge of Christ living in him so the Apostle Gal. 2.20 I am crucified with Christ Neverthelesse I live yet n●t I but Christ liveth in me and Christ in you the hope of glory is the great mystery of the Gospel for the Saints to know Col. 1.27 that is not to live wholly on the eying of what Christ hath d●ne without us for us but likewise to be able to experience the life of that Christ in us being made partaker of the same spirit of the same Annointings c. Thirdly that the knowledge of Antichrist is the knowledge of a mystery I mean a mystery of Iniqui●● which none can know but those enlightned from ●bove that as the mystery of the Gospel is bid so likewise is the mysterie of Iniquitie hid from them that perish Lastly and in a word My desire is that what truth thou findest here written thy spirit may bee made one in and with the same truth that so both thou and I may have communion fellowship with the Spirit in the same truth and what information or consolation thy spirit findeth from what is truth letting any Creature-weaknesse thou findest passe let God have the glory and so thy poore friend in the unity of truth and fellowship of the Gospel hath his utmost end THO COLLIER A Table of the principall things contained in this Treatise SECTION 1. OF Adams condition before his fall pag. 1. Adams in a condition of humane perfection pag. 1. 2. The Image of God what in Adam pag. 2. 3 5. Mans best wisdome but the remainder of the first Adam in it many too much glory pag. 3. 4. What the Image of Adam is not pag. 8. SECTION 2. The cause or ground of mans fall pag. 8. First the mutability of his condition pag. 8. God not the cause of sin pag. 10. The second cause of mans fall pag. 11. Satans Temptation pag. 12. Why Satan called a Serpent pag. 12. The cause of mans fall disobedience pag. 13. The Tree of Knowledge of good and evill why so called pag. 13. SECTION 3. Mans misery by reason of his fall pag. 14. 15. Mans misery considered under 3. heads pag. 16. SECTION 4. What is the meanes God hath appointed for the recovery of man out of this condition that is iesus Christ pag. 27. The sin and fault is laid upon Christ pag. 17. 18. Christ bare the sins of all all are saved and how not saved and the reason why pag. 19. 20. 21. Christ not the efficient cause of love but rather an effect of love pag. 22. 23. 25. How Christ delivers from wrath pag. 23. 24. SECTION 5. How persons come to have benefit by this meanes that God hath appointed as the way of life which is by Faith pag. 26. What Faith is pag. 26. 27. How faith is obtained pag. 28. Faith not a condition of the Covenant pag. 29. Faith a branch of the Covenant pag. 30. Faith an evidence of the Covenant pag. 30. The meanes by which Faith is wrought pag. 31. The properties and effects of Faith pag. 32. How faith justifieth pag. 32. 33. Faith produceth peace with God pag. 33. Faith puts the soule into the possession of love it fills the soule with joy pag. 34. SECTION 6. Wherein the condition of persons restored by Christ and their union with God is discovered which is first a freedome from sin pag. 35. Second in being one with and in Christ pag. 36. Christ and the Christians relations one first Christ a Son so the Saints pag. 36. Secondly relation of spirituall union pag. 37. In the Spirit power wisdome righteousnesse love and glory pag. 38. to the 49. Saints Communion with the Father Son and each other pag. 50. 51. 52. SECTION 7. Wherein is declared what the Law is and what the Gospel with the difference between them both in the Letter and in the Spirit pag. 55. First what the Law is in the Letter pag. 55. 56. 57. Secondly what the Law is in the Spirit pag. 56. What the Gospel in the Letter is pag. 61 62. What the Gospel in the Spirit is pag. 64. The Mystery of the Gospel what pag. 65. The life of Faith in the most spirituall pag. 67. 68. The difference between the Law and the Gospel pag. 70. 71. The
Thessalonians were them so delivers it in the present tense when he might haue said rather to speake after the manner of men then they which shal be alive at his coming c. as in Revel the word might have run thus and so questionlesse it is to be understood then they that were beheaded for the witnesse of Jesus were raised or lived reigned with Christ as the sence of the former then they that shall bee alive at the comming of the Lord shal not prevent them which are asleep so that the spirit of God might as wel deliver a truth which is in the Present tense in the Preterpluperfect tense as a truth in the Present tense which was in the Future and yet is all to exercise the mind of him that readeth and to let us know there is mystery in the Gospel Secondly very few Saints have been beheaded in the litteral sence those that have dyed for Christ have dyed other deaths not beheaded therefore we cannot understand it in the letter but in the spirit The fourth particular propounded was what was meant in that the rest of the dead were not raised until the 1000. yeares were finished that is none that had beene bodily dead Saints or wicked good or bad were raised till after the 1000 years were finished and then you shall see the resurrection of all which is called the second resurrection The first is called a resurrection and the first resurrection because it shall be a resurrection from shame disgrace in the world And secondly it shal be a glorious resurrection in the spirit this first all the Saints have in some measure been partakers of it Thus it appeares that Christ shall have a Kingdome a glorious a spiritual One Quest But when shal this Kingdom be Answ 1. It is already begun in the spirits of Saints the Kingdome of Heaven is within you 2 I beleeve that the time of the 1000 years which is a more glorious estate in the spirit is not yet begun but the beginning of that time shal be when the 7 seales are fully opened and the 7 trumpets fully founded and the 7 vials powred forth they being but effects of each other the opening of the seales occasions the sound of the trumpets the sound of the trumpets occasion the vials the opening of the seales the unfolding of the mysteries of the Gospel which have been hid Rev. 5.1 2. As light breakes forth the trumpets sound the servants of Jesus preach forth the mystery of the Gospel the preaching of the mysteries of the Gospel in the power and puritie of it occasions the vials of wrath to fal upon the Antichristian estate both in the spirit and in the letter which work is now a doing Wait the Lords time and it wil come on apace But first we are yet like to be given into the hands of the little horn who changes times lawes the two witnesses are yet like to be slain to sydead 3 dayes a half and the woman cloathed with the Sun to be driven into the wildernesse for a little space a time times halfe a time the Beast with two hornes like a Lambe hath yet a little time to make use of his power perswading them that dwel in the Earth to make an Image to the first Beast and that none but those who own it shal buy or sel with them the Saints beheaded under the Altar to wait a little time before they be raised up to live with Christ 1000. years but it is not long the vision is for an appointed time in the end it wil speak and not ly it wil come and not tarry The first 1000. is almost past the second and third are coming on apace all the Nations and Kingdomes in the world wil come apace to be the Kingdoms of the Lord of his Christ and he shall reign for ever their lives shal be prolonged for a season a time and other Scriptures are alledged for the personal reign of Christ as the stone cut out of the Mountain without hands Dan. 2. that is the glorious power of Christ by weak meanes subduing all Antichristian enemies without his Saints all Antichristian things by his spirit within them So that in Dan. 7.10 the glorious company of Saints attending on Christ in the spirit which shal be fulfilled at the raising of the two witnesses up into heaven in the sight of their enemies Rev. 5.10 11. This is the first glorious work of the Lord Jesus in and amongst the Saints the Lord reigneth let the Saints rejoyce the Lord reigneth let the world tremble See Zach. 14.5 The Lord our God wil come and all the Saints with him that is Christ will come in the spirit and all the Saints shall appear gloriously in him A word of Application First if this bee truth that the Kingdome of Christ is a spiritual kingdome not of this world this may inform us how far besides the Gospel in the spirit and truth of it those men are who make the Kingdome of Christ to bee meerly political and a state Kingdom who turne the world by a humane power into the Church and Kingdome of Christ as they say Christ must have a worldly carnal Kingdome no better than the Kings of the earth enjoy or else he shal have none at all it savors exceedingly of the earth ere long thither it must return Secondly this should incourage the Saints to presse forward after the knowledge of God in the spirit that as the kingdome of Christ is spiritual and not of this world so may the Saints Kingdom likewise be in the spirit and so all their enjoyments may be spiritual enjoyments this is that will make the soule fat and wel-liking in the Lord fill the soule with joy peace which the world is not acquainted with their eyes never saw it nor their hearts conceived it neither are they like to see it unlesse the Lord make them spiritual SECT X. Of Death Resurrection Judgement and the state of the Saints after judgment eternally with God FIrst of death It is appointed for all men once to dye Dust we are and to dust we must return and therefore it behoves us to expect it All the dayes of mine appointed time wil I waite till my change come Death is certain although the time be uncertain it is that none are in a common and ordinary way exempted from unlesse those Saints who are alive at the last coming of Christ they shal be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye 1 Cor. 15.51 52. and so shall bee caught up in the spirit to meet the Lord in the Ayre 1 Thes 4.17 Secondly of the resurrection That there shal be a resurrection of the body at the last day is evident Iohn 5 28 29. Iohn 11.24 with 1 Cor. 15. throughout Rev. 20.12 13. although this truth is by some denyed and by others too carnally looked upon some thinking that our