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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41575	An antidote against the common plague of the world, or, An answer to a small treatise (as in water, face answereth to face) intituled Saltmarsh returned from the dead and by transplacing the letters of his name, this is Smartlash : ascend into the throne of equity, for the arraignment of false interpretours of the word of God : summoned out of all ages to appear, under the penalty of death, challenging the consent, or forbidding to gainsay the common approved priesthood of this age.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1305; ESTC R24349	253,337	351

never a true account of Stewardship brought in by any imployd about the things of God Thus much through infinite favour and grace God hath revealed unto us that wheresoever that spirit resides not which first framed the mind of the Son of God according to the eternal wisdom to judge of all things as God judgeth the love of God was never shed abroad in that heart for the spirit of faith works by love and where the love of God is not there is the love of this world which is of that wicked ones and the love of the world is enmity with God and the spirit of envy never makes good construction of the expressions of him it doth repugn therefore where the Spirit of Christ resides not there can never be good construction given of the words of Christ for he hath a name given him that none can read but himself and he is called the word of God therefore all other readers are false interpreters and that is the only in let and progress of sin and death in the world unto this day There be many who arogate a Call to interpret the word of God Some holding themselves set a part from the common affairs of this life in such sort as they are not to intermeddle with any temporary occasions but to have all things brought in unto them that concerns this present life by the labours of and means of others who stand not in that relation neither to God nor men which themselves do being men whose Calling is spiritual and therefore not to be imployed about any carnal things assuming Scripture for that purpose not only from the equity of that Law given concerning Levy but also as the Stand in the room of Christ who is of greater deserts to be maintained then Levy was There is one Scripture looks earnestly upon me concerning this Point which such men make great use of to prove their Apostolical Authority to require Tythes Stipends and Contributions together with the honour of the upermost Seats where they come with respect unto the dignity of their Calling and Office above others of the Saints of God in which regard say they all others are become debtors unto them to contribute both wealth and honour for which they aledge as one special ground for such supply as having divine Authority on their side 1 Cor. Cap. 9. Which form of words they deal with as they do with all other expressions in the word of God using it to mans ends and intents and not according to the mind and intent of the Son of God For that which they go about to prove their Calling by to be spiritual and heavenly is a direct Declaration given out by the Spirit of God to prove their Ministry to be carnal and earthly give me leave therefore as briefly as I can to declare from that Scripture what God seems as by his eye to direct and guide unto Our Apostle in the former Chapter sheweth the difference between Knowledge and Knowledge the one in way of the fall of man from God the other in the way of Resurrection and Ascension to God the one puffeth up as an empty blader filled only with wind above others the other is filled with love to edification which ever prostrates it self to the party known where or in whatsoever he appeareth the one sitting at meat or communicating in the Idols Temple the other refusing to eat carnally so long as the world stands rather then to offend the Brother-hood And having concluded that an Idol or an Idolathite for there is a generation of them is nothing in the world and that there is but one God in truth and verity though many do assume the names and titles of that one God yet an Idolathite is nothing in the world though they so assume and arogate the tearms because the Son of God who is the Maker of all things never contributed any thing unto the form thereof no more then it can be said that the holy Son of God did ever give out any thing to the being of the uncleanness of that unclean spirit namely the Devil which an Idol is concluded to be by the Spirit of God for whatsoever the Son of God gives being unto is a work of Creation but an Idol the Devils is that Abaddon and Apollion that is destruction which is nothing of the work of God in Heaven or in earth and so is nothing in the world Therefore but one God or power of Creation of all things for an Idol is the ruin and destruction of Gods proper creating vertue where it is erected which erection of an Idol is to terminate the scope true and proper intent of any part of Gods word in any thing whatsoever besides Jesus Christ and him crucified besides which our Apostle acknowledgeth he desires to know nothing For all other knowledge besides that or without that is thus explained by our Apostle viz. If any man or any thing see thee that hast knowledge or see thee knowledge or thee that art knowledge for such as mans wisdom or knowledge is such is the man for as it gives man his being above all other creatures so it gives distinctions of men among themselves Sit at meat in the Idols Temple that is continue and abide communicating in the word and worship of God as terminating any part of or thing in the Temple or Pallace in any carnal and fading matter or thing Shall not the conscience or shall not that knowing together in thee for there is a unity in Idols worship as certainly as there is in the worship of the true God in spirit and truth Of the weak that is of such as are sick or dead being without and destitute of that healthful Spirit of grace and life in Christ Be imboldned to eat things sacrificed to Idols that is what ever is in thee or belonging unto that assembly of evil doers shall be encouraged to yeild up it self to the Rule of such knowledge for all things in man are governed by wisdom and a spirit of teaching therefore all things concerning the sons of men make their addresses to the light set up in the mind of man of what nature or mind soever it be to take their form receive commission as also instruction for their progress in execution therefore thou Idolatrous knowledg set up in the Idols Temple art become the Authour of destruction for there was never any destroyed since the world was but by this thy knowledge which puffs up with pride as an empty bladder filled with nothing but with the wind of Satannical delusion where the substantiality of the Son of God never was nor never will be Therefore he saith Through thy Knowledge or through this knowledge for the party and property to know are never separated for man is not man but by ability to know and that with respect to a God to be communicated with and worshipped Shall thy weak brother perish for whom Christ dyed that is thou

the wealth priviledge and state of the Son of God that he can withhold or keep back from him by whom he is taught in any thing according to the nature truth and verity of the Kingdom of God but freely yields all unto him that teacheth which himself hath learned and is blessed withall because he cannot part those goods wherewith he himself is inriched And shall we think that a Christian which cannot withhold any of those blessed priviledges proper to the Son of God from his brother but freely communicates them all with him Shall that heart so a price of any private interest as to withhold it from his brother in the season thereof shall he freely communicate in the greater and not in the less shall he communicate in thy crown and not in thy grinding at the mill verily that base ignorance of your Sonship unto God through a carnali ministry is the proper ground of all such suspition as also the onely cause of such hugging of private interests and preserving them as such treasures uuto our selves Again we see that the law of God is said here to be the law of Moses so that God honours his people as being the Authors of his law through that unity that is between God and man in the faith of Christ as though man were the proper contriver of the law of God and the giver out and Original of the word of eternity therefore our Apostle is bo●d with respect to the rest of the Apostles and holy men of God to call it our gospel where it is said if our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost and again our gospel came not unto you in word onely but in power and in the holy ghost and in much assurance And again in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel and again now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the mistery which was kept secret since the world began and again Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised up from the dead according to my gospel and again our word toward you was not yea and nay and again if any man obey not our word by this epistle note that man and have no company with him that he may be ashamed Yea it is indifferently expressed in Scripture through this unity of faith to be the law of the Lord or of his servant Moses and from this ground it is said the people feared the Lord and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses for so the words are truly rendred We conclude then that Gods Saints are honoured as being Authour of that namely his word or law which is the framer maker and conservatour of all things it is written or recorded in Moses law and here the record is an inlet unto a further argument to declare the truth of a spiritual and saving ministry the record is this Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn By treading out the corn we are to understand both the manuring of the ground in the fitting of it for the sowing of the seed and the casting of the seed into the earth and also the treading of the corn out by the feet of the ox or turning the wheel upon it to manifest the increase as the words following do declare In the sowing of the seed he is not to have his mouth tied up or any means used to terrifie him or any way to prevent him from eating of the same seed that is sown and therefore it is contrary to the law to feed him with any other grain or kinds of meat in the time of his labour onely that which sown by his labour is the proper and only food appointed for him by the law to eat For as he subdues the ground so as it brings not forth its natural ornaments so he is to feed on the seed sown which is to take root downwards therein and bring forth fruit upwards of another kind then otherwise it would naturally have brought forth Now the gospel of the Kingdom or ministry of the word of God doth not plow up the fallow ground of the heart to subdue mens outward estates but only the weeds of corruption which spring up from that law of sin and death neither is their outward things its refreshment in so doing no more then the ox is to feed of any other food but that which is sown in his labour even so the word of life and immortality the same word which we distribute and cause to fall as Manna among Israels tents that is the same which a true labourer in Gods husbandry ever feeds upon and it is his proper livelyhood to be exercised therein and shall a man be hired to feed himself it is natural and delightful for all other creatures so to do and shall the man of God become so mercinary as to be hired to do it what a shame is this Judas Iscariot-like spirit unto the gospel of God those sluggards of the world that refuse to put their hand to their mouth to feed on that which they would have the world to believe is their only food and livelyhood but as others lift it up by outward estates and giving them honour together therewith But there is no doctrine which the man of God teacheth to any man of what place office rank or degree soever he is but himself is concerned in it so as he feeds upon it either as it is the breaking of the head of Leviathan which became meat for the people in the wildernesse and so he feeds on his deliverance therefrom or else he is invested into the same thing which he teacheth and so it becomes his food and one real substance with him and to fall short of this is to carnally the seed of life the word of the Kingdom bounding it to persons places and times which is to have the word of God in respect of persons but the man of God finds sufficient food in whatsoever he soweth or laboureth in and cannot himself live without it in the distribution thereof for multiplication and increase and a good husband man needs no hire to sow his own field Vers 10. Doth God take care for oxen or saith he it for our sakes only for our sakes no doubt In these words is a two fold interrogation and an effectuall answer the first part of the interrogation hath in it a strong negation in these words doth God take care for oxen that is to say it is not oxen whom this care doth concern or the speech intends The second part contains a forceable affirmation or saith he it for our sakes onely that is the ministers of Christ are they which it only intendeth and the answer takes away all scruples or question either in the negation or affirmation in these words for our sakes no