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A96143	The judgement set, and the bookes opened. Religion tried whether it be of God or of men. The Lord cometh to visit his own, for the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God. To separate the sheep from the goats. and the precious from the vile. And to discover the blasphemy of those that say, they are apostles, teachers, alive, rich, Jewes, but are found lyars. Deceivers. Dead. Poore, blind, naked. The synagogue of Satan. In severall sermons at Alhallows Lumbard-street, by John Webster, a servant of Christ and his church.	Webster, John, 1610-1682.	1654 (1654)	Wing W1210; Thomason E805_13; ESTC R207390	257,953	337

written Rejoye thou barren that bearest not and cry thou that travellest not for the desolate hath many more children then she that hath an busband Now we brethren saith he as Isaac was are the children of the promise But as then he that was borne after the flesh persecuted him that was borne after the spirit even so it is now Neverthelesse saith the Scripture Cast out the Bond-woman and her son for the son of the Bond-woman shall not be Heire with the son of the Free-woman And then he concludes in the last verse So then Brethren we are not children of the Bond-woman but of the Free We that is those who believe are not now tyed unto Ceremonies nor live in the forme and shaddow of the Heavenly things or in bondage to external and worldly rudiments resting in them Rom. 2.28 29. as the outward Jew did for he is not a Jew that is one outwardly neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew which is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart and of the spirit and not that of the Letter And this kinde of doctrine the Iew and he that Idolizeth his outward formes could not endure but as then so now this divine teaching and the Teachers thereof could never be endured but have been persecuted in all ages and most of all by these who have pretended most strictly to worship God according to the rule of his word these ever had and ever will have a contrariety thereunto the children of the Bond-woman are alwayes at enmity and have a continual hatred against the children of the Free-woman And these are Hagar as the Apostle there saith in verse 25. Gal. 4.25 For this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to Ierusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children if men go no farther but here stick in shaddowes and formes and the outward worship of that at Ierusalem though it be never so glittering and glorious yet all this is but mount Sinai and gendreth to Bondage But saith our Saviour John 4.21 The houre commeth and now is that enither in Ierusalem nor in this m●untaine shall men worship the Father but the true worshippers shall worship him in spirit and truth These two mountaines alwayes stand in opposition one to another because the one is to bring men into Bondage and the other is still labouring to set men free The one kinde of worshippers are altogether busied and exercised and are very zealous for worldly Ordinances and external worships duties and formes an conclude that those who submit and take them up zealously and constantly are the true worshippers and exclude all other Now the other worshippers who worship the Father in spirit and truth they see and bear witnesse against these outward formes as rested in as generally all the other worshippers do whatever they say and their great Zeal for them is because they derive suck and draw life from the exercise of them But the other know there is no power no life no excellency in them neither could they any longer live or depend upon them but they see that their life power righteousnesse freedome is in those things which are from heaven heavenly in the spirit 1 Cor. 15.48 not in the letter they receive their nourishment and influence from the Heavenly Ierusalem not from the outward and external not from carnal Ordinances as the Apostle calls them but they suck the brest of the true mother whose milk is spirit and life And here they live and here they feast and here they dwell and have not their life nor content nor their abode with the Bond-woman which in them is cast out with her children for she can never inherit the blessing nor the life nor the power nor the liberty but is with all her children alwayes in Bondage And the Apostle appeales to all Believers their own experience Gal. 3.2 Did ye ever receive the promise by the workes of the Law that is by whatever man as man could do with all his learning power strivings acquirings c. but only by the hearing of Fath So that you may see from thesr and many other arguments the Apostles drawes this exhortation by way of conclusion in the verse now read Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free and be not intangled againe with the yoake of Bondage Some of the Galathians had seen and felt this true liberty which he had cleared out to them and they had lived in it and enjoyed it But some false Apostles crept in after his departure and told them they must still hold the formes of the Law Heb. 9.10 and they must be circumcized and observe outward and carnal Ordinances Now the Apostle very earnestly presseth them to stand fast in their liberty received and not to suffer themselves to be intangled with those yoakes of bondage for Christ is their liberty and Christ alone is their life and their freedome their peace their joy their salvation and herein to stand against all those who would set up any thing with him and upon that account the Apostle calls them carnal Ordinances though appointed by the Lord himselfe And 't is a wonder the men of the Letter which stand so much for outward formes do not cry out BLASPHEMY and HERESY All those other things being included in naming Circumcision because that was the most high absolute and unquestionable Ordinance ordained by God himselfe to Abraham and which none could remove or abolish but the Son himselfe the Heire himselfe who being come to Age must inherit and take possession of his own of his Inheritance Kingdom and Glory And shall any servant resist and keep out THE LORD Heb. 1.12 Matth. 3.3 The Heire of all things and all these things say Prepare ye the way of the Lord for whom all things were made and created and all other excellencies and glories whatsoever are but to Vsher in this great and mighty King and shall any Harbinger or servant say he will not or he must not remove or be so impudent to say that the inheritance is his No sayes the Apostle I testifie to every man and I Paul say unto you if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing and ye are under the Law Gal. 5.3 4 and under bondage and he is a debtor to do the whole Law and Christ is become of none offect and ye are fallen from grace This is that which so much moved the Apostle that they being once set free had tasted of the liberty which came by Jesus Christ that they should be againe intangled with the yoake of bondage That they who had received the new teaching and Christ to be the Teacher should now hearken to false teachers Ibid. 3.3 and having begun in the spirit should once think to be made perfect by the flesh as if Christ were not enough but they must joyne with

to all these devilish deceits that your soules might come to live in him who is Truth it selfe And then you would not onely be professors but possessors of that Eternal love which would lead you into the truth and goodnesse in sincerity But because this friend of truth will not nor cannot own your outside worship he having by Gods power found the deceit thereof he is therefore by you cast out as a Heretick and so are all those that in truth and uprightnesse of heart are led and acted forth by God to work his own works for Wisdom is justified of her Children The second thing that is breathed forth in this book is this that as Christ is the Foundation so he alone it is that doth build upon this Foundation that building that will stand when all other shall and must fall and not only so but he likewise begins the work of his own power in every particular soule and carries on the same with his own hand in despight of all opposition causing flesh and all the power thereof to fall down before his face into death misery judgment and condemnation where all the glory of the first creation is seald down under the covenant of death never to rise again in its own strength power wisdom nor righteousnesse but if ever it rise again it may rise in the power wisdom and righteousnesse of Jesus the Eternal Son of the living God And thus God exercises his people under the administration of his power by bringing life out of death mercy out of misery fulnesse out of emptinesse strength out of weaknesse sufficiency out of insufficiency joy out of sorrow peace out of war and doth not break the bruised reed nor quench the smoaking flax until he hath brought forth judgment into victory and as he begineth and carrieth on his own work so also he it is and none but he that perfects it as saith the Apostle he that hath begun a good work will perfect it For it was the Eternal love of the Lord which by his Son planted the righteous seed in every soule of his and it is the same power and love that causeth it to grow in the spirit of man above all carnal power strength or policy for the pure seed shal reign till all its enemies be subdued and the spirits of those in whom it is perfectly redeemed from the Shrines and Vizzards of mortality Oh how it doth chear my heart to see our near and dear IMMANVEL springing forth unto the blind world in and through earthen vessels to the praise of the glory of Gods great grace who hath made us accepted in his beloved Therefore Reader if thou findest any of these workings in thy own soul then mayst thou know that they are no fictions but the real operations of Gods great power but if thou look not on them in the light of truth there will be no unity between thee and the party through whom they were uttered for he lives in the life of that which here is declared by words and if thou live in the same life and look upon them in the same light then will they be matter of rejoycing to thy soul but if thou look upon them any other way they will be nothing to thee but Parables and Riddles Thus hoping and knowing that God will make this work and every other work together for good to them that love him I commend thee to God and to the work of his grace Resting thy Brother and Companion in tribulation in the Kingdom and Patience of Jesus Christ THO. SOMERTON THE TITLES CONTENTS And TEXTS contained in this Book 1. THe Vail of the Covering spred over All Nations What it is and How removed with a Discovery of that Mountain of Fat things full of Marrow and Wine on the Lees well refined Delivered on a Publick Day of Thanksgiving the 23. of June 1653. at Alhallowes Lumbard street Upon ESA. 25.6 7. In this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto All people a Feast of Fat things A Feast of Wines on the Lees c. In one Sermon 2. THe Builders of Babel confounded in their Language Being an Exposition by Mr. Webster at the end of a Disputation at Alhallows Lumbard street He being requested to dismisse the multitude with some profitable exhortation which was from Gen. 11. the nine first verses And the whole Earth was of one Language and of one Speech and it came to pass as they journyed from the East they found a Plain in the land of Shinar and they dwelt there and they said one to another Go too let us make brick and burn them throughly c. 3. THe Power of Divine Attraction or The Fathers great love in drawing poor Sinners unto his Son Delivered at White-hall On JOH 6.44 No man can come unto me except the Father which hath sent me draw him and I will raise him up at the last day In one Sermon 4. THe Cloud taken off the Tabernacle that the Israel of God may journey At Alhallows Lumbard street In two Sermons EXOD. 40.36 37 38. And when the Cloud was taken up from over the Tabernacle then the Children of Israel went onward in all their journeys But if the Cloud were not taken up they journyed not until the day it was taken up c. 5. THe secret Southsayer or Hidden Sorcerer discovered At Alhallows Lumbard street In two Sermons MICAH 5.10 11 12 13. And I will cut off the Cities of thy land and throw down all thy strong holds I will out off Witchcrafts out of thine hand and thou shalt have no more Southsayers Thy graven Images also will I cut of and thy standing Images out of the midst of thee c. 6. THe rooting up of every plant not planted by the Heavenly Father Delivered at Alhallows Lumbard street In two Sermons MATTH 15.13 14. Jesus answered and said Every plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up Let them alone they bee blind leaders of the blind and if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch 7. THe Saints perfect freedom or Liberty in Christ asserted in opposition to all yoaks of bondage At Alhallows Lumbard street In two Sermons GALA 5.1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us Free and be not entangled again with the yoak of bondage 8. IN the second of these last Sermons Mr. Webster was freely drawn forth to give that Testimony to Dr. Everards Sermons lately printed which is placed at the end of the Book and are all the Sermons can be expected of his there being not any more preserved Which are sould by R. Harford at the Bible and States-Arms in Little Brittain 9. LAstly hereunto is added A Responsion by Mr. Jo. Webster to certain pretended Arguments against his Book call'd The Saints Guide Reader THere are some few faults escaped at the Press some litteral others in some owrds mistaken but being only such as an

and ORDAINE Ministers and they speak of giving the Holy Ghost but alasse I say all these are but resemblances and shadows they are not the true Ordinances of Christ and notwithstanding mens using of these things with so much appearance of strictnesse and exactuesse yet they have them not For they are in bondage still they were never yet delivered set free indeed nor never Baptized with the Baptisme of Christ never yet fetcht off their own bottoms never taken into Vnion with Christ who will undertake to give the Spirit and the Holy Ghost and yet never had it themselves and therefore all those things that these men use are nothing but shadows Outsides Shels and Carkasses of the true Ordinances of Christ You know many came to Johns Baptisme even of the Pharisees and yet they wre but a Generation of Vipers their consciences told them that John was a true Prophet Mat. 3.7 and they began to smite them and they thought it was a duty they were bound to that thereby they should prevent the wrath to come and they presently take it up as having power of their own to do any thing in Religion and here they thought themselves secure and that they had really prevented the wrath to come But the true Baptisme and the true Ordinanes and the true Worship are things of a farre higher nature There is a HEAVENLY Baptisme and a Heavenly Worship and an Heavenly Ord inance I saith John Baptize with Water but there is one that commeth after me Ver. 11 12. who is preferred before me He shall Baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire I must decrease but HE must increase My Baptisme is nothing I must stand by when he comes I baptize but unto repentance but He gives repentance and the Holy Spirit The Heavenly things are of a far higher nature These are but the pictures and the shadows the shells and the outsides the other the Life and the Power the Holy Ghost and the Fire it self Now they that receive these things are indeed the Children of the Free-Woman and are the true seed of Abraham All other are the Children of the Bond-Woman and are HAGAR who is in bondage with her Children to this very day For as it was with Hagar so is it now and hath been alwayes in all ages and generations The children of the Bond-woman do alwayes exalt themselves and are very sawcy and peremptory toward the children of the Free-woman why because they are Circumcised and submit to Ordinances and think themselves of the seed of Abraham therefore they grow proud lofty and censorious and usurp too much over the Children of the Free-woman even as their mother before the Hagar she despised her Mistress and lifted up her selfe more then was fit for her Therefore this is determined concerning her Cast out the Bond-woman and her Son for the Son of the Bond-woman shall not be heir with the Son of the Free-woman Gal. 4.25 When once the Handmaid who is in the house but by sufferance will exalt her selfe above THE MISTRESSE and her SON born after the flesh begin to persecute him that is born after the spirit then away with her cast out both her and her Sons too And farther know this that when the appearance of the power of Christ comes into the soul that is when the Bond-woman and her son is cast out then the soul doth not as some imagine and teach work out its own liberty nor is it made free by its own power Ibid 5.1 but Christ brings in this liberty with him and from this liberty the soule acts and works The children of the Free-woman do not work to be set free but because they are set free therefore they work freely and cannot but so work And herein lies a broad difference between the children of the Bond-woman and the children of the Free-woman When the sons of the Bondwoman hear of any thing that man is required to do presently they think to work themselves to it by their care watchfulnesse resolution c. But now it is quite contrary with the sons of the Free-woman they having a Principle of Freedom act and work from this the one worships God from an internal Principle in the power of the spirit the other from an outward compulsory cause and not from the power of love So likewise the one doth all his actions out of love to men doing good to all men in the world being willing to serve all out of love Pittying all Counselling all willing to help all so far as lies in them Imitating their Heavenly Father who doth good to all to the good and evil just and unjust Mat. 5.45 and meerly from a Heavenly Principle of mercy pitty and loving kindnesse and bowels of mercy But the other His Religion consists in outward forms in washings and dippings and conformity to Fellowships and whatever they do it is not from the power of love or from the nature of their heavenly fater in them but from some external cause from something without them from fear or hope either to prevent some danger or to procure something which they conceive in a general notion to be good for them to make them happy and the like because Hell they hear is a terrible place and full of Horrour and Destruction and Heaven is a place of peace joy and rest and there they shall live for ever in pleasure which shall never end upon these two grounds most men act and take up the strictest forms of Worship and hereupon they may be very constant and very zealous and sincere as they conceive when alas all these things are nothing at all so nor so for the truth is Hell they love and live in and yet know not that they are in it and that which is true heaven to the soule they hate and run away from as being the place of misery death and torments to them Therefore ye may see what a miserable delusion and cursed vaile is generally upon the Hearts of most men which call themselves Men fearing God and that which they call the Worship of God is no other but inventions of their own as they practice them and WILL-WORSHIP And though they keep a great deal of stirre about Ordinances and breaking of bread yet alas how far they are from the Ordinances of Christ let the effects of their practice and lives declare how little do they feed on Christ as they pretend to do He that feeds on Christ partakes of his nature and Christ in them turns the stock into his own Nature as Peter speaks Luk. 11.28 Ibid. 22.19 and they hear the word and keep it and these truly feed on Christ and do it in remembrance of him But these pretenders to Ordinances and outward duties they in stead of feeding on Christ or being fed by him they are fed indeed but by whom even by Satan himselfe for he makes them live and rest upon these shadows and

Pharisees hearing of this they knew he spake of them and being very much offended that he so much reproached them and so much laid them open and took away their glory estimation and high esteem with the people hereupon I say they became greatly bitterly and maliciously offended with him and the Disciples hearing and observing of it they being somewhat troubled in themselves as not seeing so much into them as he did they come to him and tell him Master knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying Vers 12 Now our Saviour presently makes them this answer Every plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up As if he should say t is true generally all men take the Scribes and Pharisees and it may be you your selves have taken them to be men of great holiness and purity and to be very strict in their lives and indeed they seem to be men of great learning and to be very consciencious and zealous Teachers of the Truth But I would not have you so deceived true Religion stands not in outsides in observing of rites and cerementes in washing of cups and platters and observing outward Ordinances But know these men are no other but Hypocrits and Dissemblers and well did Esaiah Prophesie of them Esa 29.14 saying This people draw nigh unto me with their mouthes and honour me with their lips but their heart is removed far from me Therefore though they be offended at my speech yet be not you offended let them alone they be blind leaders of the blind And if the blinde lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch And for all their great learning and great shews of zeale and knowledge in the Letter yet Christ saw their inside how there was nothing but impurity blackness and ignorance And indeed men may have and attaine to much strictnesse therein and yet have no saving knowledge of God in the spirit nor of the truth as it is in Jesus Now saith Christ Let them alone Eph 4.21 I know they have a high opinion of themselves and they would by no means lose their glory in the esteem of others but be you not troubled Let them alone they are blind though they will not see it and both the leaders and the led shall both fall together Now upon this account Christ using such cutting cauterizing words can any wonder that they should be offended I and deeply offended Hereupon it is that the Children of the Letter and of the Bond-woman alwayes hate and persecute the Children of the Mystery and the Free-woman Gal. 4.29 As the Children of the New Jerusalem are Heavenly Divine and Spiritual like their Mother for they are born of the Second Adam which is the Lord from Heaven and they bear the very Image of the Heavenly And as is the Heavenly such are they that are Heavenly And as is the Earthy such are they that are Earthy 1 Cor. 15.47 c. They are still carried out very zealously to outward observations and carnall things And if any shall in the least touch them in them they are presently offended raging and mad for ye touch their Absolom their very lives The flesh alwayes lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh Gal. 5.17 for these are directly contrary the one unto the other these two Principles are so directly opposite and contrary one to an other that they can never agree but ever were and shall be at enmity never to be reconciled These Pharisees are alwayes very much offended with the neglect ofo smal matters and of things indifferent which either the doing or leaving undone is no sign of sincerity or insincerity but they can neglect the weighty matters of the Law themselves and suffer others to do so and never be offended As here in the second verse of this chapter the Scribes and Pharisees which were of Jerusalem that is they were the chief Preachers of the Nation because they were Preachers at the Chief and Metropolitan City JERVSALEM Yet these Great and Learned and Sage DIVINES as they were esteemed come to Christ And what was the great businesse they had to offer to him Why do thy Disciples transgresse the tradition of the Elders Mat. 15.2 for they wash not their hands when they eat bread Jesus Christ answers them very pertinen tly Why do you transgresse the Commandement of God by your traditions They were more strict in observing the traditions of their Church and of Men then of the Commandements of God and the weighty matters of the Law they were careful in observing washings and constant in outward forms of worship and times of prayer and the like but never minded what was in their hearts as Evil thoughts Murders Adulteries Fornications Vers 19 Thefts Lyes Malice Falsewitnesse Blasphemies verse 19. These things they neglected and passed by as smal matters they could hate the truth and bely the truth and persecute the true Professours thereof even to the death But they could not endure any should speak a word against their formal and outward worships they could neglect releiving their Father and Mother Vers 5 and shewing love to others and with them this was nothing so they did but bring a small gift to the Temple and call it CORBAN this should excuse them and cut off all other Charity or whatever others might be profitted by them Now Christ throughly discovering their Hypocrisie in their shewing great care of the outside and of that which was obvious and apparent to the sight of men but they had litle or none of their heart and inside upon which the Allseeing eye of God was fixed therefore he applyes to them the words of the Prophet Esay and tells them that they were the men He spake of when he said These people draw nigh to me with their mouthes Esa 29.14 and honour me with their lips but their hearts are far from me For these are not the things God looks at or regards and therefore all their worships and all their washings and all their prayings and all their conformity to these things were all in vain and this was no Religion at all nor was no more accepted then the offering up of swines blood or the cutting of a dogs neck Esa 66.3 and he that sacrificed as if he were a murtherer and he that offered incense as if he blessed an Idol They were with him no better then Murtherers and Idolaters for all their fine forms although they were never so curious and exact about them neatified carved or contrived with never so much wisdome yet if they were done meerly by the art wisdom power industry of man and not by the wisdom and hand of Jesus Christ in them all was nothing and they were in all their prayers and duties no other but as sounding Brass and as tinkling Cymbal That which defiles man is not any thing without him but that evil and sinne which is

figure there is alwayes something resembled or shadowed out to us besides and beyond the Allegory or Metaphor Therefore by the Plant here mentioned is mean the New Creation or the New Man created in Jesus Christ Eph. 4 24. And there is nothing can thrive or flourish but onely this which is onely planted by God himself every other plant must be rooted up this new man is of God spiritualized like himself of his own nature and it knows and understands the things of God let there be a thousand Religions in the world yet onely that which the Father hath planted and is from Heaven that alone shall stand I would for testimony to this truth refer you to two or three places of Scripture to consider of I will not name nor multiply many for I will not weary you with tumbling over the Letter as the manner of some is neither is it of much use or of any proof or convincement to any but those who have the things themselves made good in them Take that in John 15.1 2. Joh. 15.1 2. There is the same similitude used as is here I am the true Vine and my Father is the Husbandman Every branch in me which beareth not fruit he taketh away and every branch which beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit So that this shews that Jesus Christ is the onely vine and his father onely minds and husbands this Vine and every branch in it for the root and branches are all but ONE Vine and the Father he alone hath planted it and he dresseth it and waters it and prunes it Jesus Christ in himselfe and members he is the true root of Jesse whom the Lord will establish upon the Throne for ever And t is onely the root of David that hath prevailed Rom. 15.12 Esa 11.10 and no other All other Vines are as a wilde Olive and bear no fruit in him and therefore must be taken away and cut off for except they abide in him they cannot bring forth fruit Without me you can do nothing Joh. 15.4 5. That which is a wild vine or a wild Olive it bears no good fruit therefore men reject it and root it up as good for nothing but to cast into the fire to burn and so doth the Heavenly Husband man reject whatever is wilde and not planted by himself Out of him all the fruit they bring withers and dyes nay they are fruitlesse without they be graffed into him and that they have his spirit and his divine nature that they are members of his body flesh of his flesh bone of his bone Eph. 5.30 So that by this place you may see that the Heavenly Father is the true Husbandman and the onely true plant is Jesus Christ and every one which beareth true fruit they are branches proceeding and growing in and from this root Again look on that place Rom. 6.5 Rom. 6.5 if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection So that still the Scripture carries it along in the person of Christ and not to own any thing or any fruit brought forth by any of the sons of men but as they are rooted and bring forth fruit in him He is the choise and tender VINE which brings forth fruit acceptable to the Heavenly Father He is the tree of life in the City of God spoken of in Revel 21.2 planted by the River bearing twelve manner of fruits Rev. 12.2 and yielding her fruit every moneth and the leaves of this tree are for the healing of the Nations And HEE is the tree spoken of Psal 1.3 He shall be planted by the Rivers of Waters that bringeth forth fruit in his due season whose leaf shall not wither Ps 1 3. and whatsoever he doth shall prosper Every beleever is a mameber of Jesus Christ A plant planted by the Lord in him and none can possibly cause any branch in him to wither all else out of him cannot but wither and dye Ps 92.13.14 So also take notice of that place Psal 92.13 14. The righteous shall flourish like the Palm Tree and shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the Courts of our God They shall bring forth fruit in their old age they shall be fat and flourishing Jesus Christ is also that spirituall house which the Heavenly Father hath builded not made with hands but eternal in the Heavens and every Saint is a Spiritual Stone in this spiritual house and these are all beautiful stones being placed in this house These are fruitful Trees being planted there and shall bring forth fruit and shall flourish when they are old and bring forth fruit to eternity One place more shall suffice that in Jer. 17.7 8. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord Jer. 17.7 8. and whose hope the Lord is For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters and that spreadeth out her roots by the River and shall not see when beat commeth but her leaf shall be green and shall not be careful in the year of drought neither shall cease from yeilding fruit These places are sufficient I need not farther enlarge for they give testimony and witness as far as the Letter can But what is the Letter to that man who hath no Testimony nor Witnesse of the truth thereof in his own heart he can never set his seal to the truth thereof and it can do him no good except it be a word of evidence and he hath a witnesse within it being true in his heart But the mon of the Letter if they hold forth any truth then they heap up Scriptures as they conceive to prove it and think they have done such an act when as if there be not a convincement and a witness thereof within the Letter will never convince men but when the same thing is written in the heart then man closes with it and answers to it and then the Word is as David saith sweeter then the Honey and the Honey-comb Ps 19.10 and more to hbe desired then Gold yea then much fine Gold else t is no other but a dead Letter and then is fulfilled that promise of the New Covenant Jer. 31.33 Heb. 8.10 Jer. 31.33 Not according to the Covenant I made with their Fathers which Covenant they brake But I will put my Law into their inward parts and write it in their hearts and they shall no more teach every one his neighbour and his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest c. And thus I hope there are many here find this truth made good in themselves and will set to their seal that all other plants which the Father hath not planted must be rooted up And if this be so Vse 1 as most certainly it is then