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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

garment and so making the rent worse Mat. 9.16 though it be done never so curiously with never so much Art and drawn in as if it were of the same peices whosoever he be that brings in any thing of man as having a power or being a cause of any good in man that makes any thing wise but Christ any thing faire but him any thing beautiful but him the same is no other but a Thiefe and a Robber John 10.1 A wizzard and a Southsayer and inticeth to Idolatry and saith Let us go serve other gods Deu. 13.6 even the gods of the Nations that are round about us for this is held forth by those Scriptures when we withdraw our hearts from the Lord and set up any thing in his stead we go a whoring and serve other gods Hos 1.2 although we have never so faire and fine pretences and excuses For when we exalt any thing in man or give any thing to man we at the same time pull down something in Jesus Christ and take away something which is due to him and there is alwayes a magnifying thereof and a resting in it and trusting to it whatever men say to the contrary But Oh blessed is that soul that puts his trust onely in the Lord if any think he has any power or that Christ hath given any sufficiency to man out of himself and he having grace given him he is to work and doth not see that he lives and depends solely on him and that he thinks he can be upheld one moment without the fountain or without drawing and sucking sap from the root they are meerly deluded and live out of the Vine and are cut off from the root that should feed and nourish them Rom. 11.17 and every such branch is dead and fit for nothing but wrath and fire Oh 't is a sad case for men to think to live upon their own stock thinking thus Christ he is in heaven and I have cast Anchor there and he hath given me a stock and a Talent and now I must bestir me and shew my selfe a good husband and a wise man I must now improve these graces and these habits and get something together that I may live and depend upon hereafter and if I do so I shall grow a rich and thriving Christian and finde rest for my soul I confesse most men are led out this way and they are hard at work for they are working for life and to prevent death but the sadnesse and the blindnesse and the blacknesse of these mens condition is exceedingly to be lamented For herein they shall never finde nor enter into the Lords Rest And so for many others they take much delight in reasoning and talking and discoursing about Religion and may be heap together many fine high and curious notions and hence they suck sap and life for a time but alasse this fruit it all withers and comes to nothing For there was never any rest peace or satisfaction in any thing below Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 3.18 Mat. 19.14 And therefore there is no way for these men but to lose all and sell all and to become poore And for these wise men to become fooles and to become as Innocents and children and little in their own sight and to lose their very lives for Christ which all their life time they have been a providing for scraping and patching and piecing up together something to live upon another day Oh! how hardly do such men lose all sell all for in their own esteem they are very rich and must needs go away heavy and sorrowful Beloved this selling all and esteeming and making Jesus Christ the onely riches Mat. 13.46 the onely Pearle is such a thing as man cannot abide to heare it named to lose all the opinion of their own goodnesse to think basely of themselves to be content to let others who had them in high esteem think so of them And to come to rejoyce in this to be nothing for Christ And in him to lose his Religion his wisdome his righteousnesse Jud. 16.7 and to become as weak as another man and to be glad that Christ hath done this for him this is to make Christ All in All. And this is to rejoyce in his infirmities and in distresses for Christs sake though Christ never called thee to outward afflictions for when thou art weakest then art thou strongest And his strength is made perfect in weaknesse 2 Cor. 12.9 10. But when men think that holinesse consists in their own working and doing and observing rules and comming under outward fellowships and in dipping in a little cold water or breaking and eating a little bit of bread and herein think they have done some great matter alasse what poor empty dry Christians for the most part are these keeping such a stir about exactnesse to the shaddow and patterne and never once know the truth never yet tasted how sweet Christ is nor eaten of the HIDDEN Manna or the bread of God or of the living water eate or drank of Christs Body and Blood John 6.51 being meat indeed and drink indeed which was given for the life of the world And yet these men think they have done so well and they have brought forth much fruit and think to receive a great reward and mean to knock boldly at Heaven Gate and who must enter and enjoy the Kingdom but they Now for these men to be deluded and to be served as the five foolish virgins were Mat. 25.12 and to have the Gate shut before they come thinking they had oyle when they had none and good works and good fruit and then it shall be said unto them Luke 13.27 Depart from me I know you not ye are workers of iniquity Truly this will be a sad sentence what will become then of all their confidence of all their Religion Oh happy had it been for them had they hearkned sooner and sold all sooner But no man could ever make them believe but they had true holinesse and true wisdom and now it is laid open in the sight of Men and Angels And they can receive no other for they have kindled a fire and compassed themselves about with sparks and have walked in the light of their fire and in the sparks that they have kindled Esay 50.11 yet t is but their own sparks and the fire of their own kindling and therefore This ye shall receive at my hand ye shall lie down in sorrow Then thou wilt wish thou hadst given eare to the counsell of the Lord and to have learned what this meant Their strength is to fit still but this they could not endure to heare of Ibid. 30.7 15. and he was a false and a lying Prophet that told them so no they would up and be doing and they would seek out and stir up their strength and goe out valiantly and goe down to Egypt to seek help and

is that true Crucifying that every beleever experienceth in himself for else how suffered he in Sodom and Egypt When Christ appeareth thus in man then he appeareth as the great and true MESSIAH then he comes into his own Temple and takes his own Throne then he casts out the Prince of darkness who hath all this while usurped his Throne in man who is his Temple here he makes a whip of many cords and whips out the buyers and sellers and the money-mongers Mark 11.17 who trade for themselves and aime at their private ends seek their own glory and not his glory who is Lord of the Temple and when he does this in man then and never before can it be call'd the House of Prayer then is Jesus Christ Mediatour and Intercessour then hath the Father made him King Priest and Prophet over his Church then all that he did in the flesh is made good acted and fulfilled in thee then thou hast experience that Jesus Christ is he who was dead Rev. 2.8 and is alive then hast thou experience of those two Eternal and Immutable Witnesses then hast thou those two Olive trees in thee and the two Candlesticks which continually run one into another and continually feed one the other and this light is the light of God which cannot be put out but stands for ever before God here are the true discoveries of life and death these are the great changes and mutations of which all the changes and mutations all the lives and deaths in the world are but Types Shadows and Symboles Here now is Jesus Christ indeed whom the Father sends Mark 24.23 Mark 13.21 Luke 17.23 But if man say Loe here is Christ or loe there or he is in the wilderness or he is in the secret chambers beleeve them not go not after them If they say Loe he is in this form or that mode in this rule or that discipline and this mans Church is modelled after the purest form and the neatest cut here thou shalt find rest and satisfaction here is He whom thou seekest here is thy Beloved Know all things of this nature are but lyes and delusions except thou finde Jesus Christ comming thus in thee and seest that thy heart is become an habitation of Devils and the hold of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hatefull Bird. Christ manifests in thee where death and life is really and he discovereth Death and Hell and Darkness and Sin and the Bottomlesse pit and Sathan and Antichrist and the Dragon and the like mentioned througout all the Scriptures to be all in the soules of men and that these are the things that are to be destroyed and consumed and that here Babylon is fallen within man and is that great WHORE whom the Lord will Judge Rev. 18.2 Vers 11. Ibid. Ch. 19.6 Then shall the Merchants of the earth weep and mourn because they can Merchandise no more and stand afar off and bewail her downfall and here it is that the Saints sing Allelujahs to him that sitteth upon the Throne because he hath taken unto him his great power and will raigne for ever and ever If Jesus be not thus manifesting himself in thee doing over again all those things spoken of in Scripture under several and divers Allegories and Metaphors then is the Prince of Darknesse still raigning and sitting in full power upon his Throne in thy soule and there he sits and there he raignes Luk. 11.21 22. Ch. 10.18 the strong man yet keeps possession Lucifer is not yet thrown down nor Satan fallen from Heaven like Lightning Rev. 17.1 Antichrist and the great WHORE are still sitting upon the seven Hills and many Waters arrayed in Purple and Scarlet and decked with Gold and precious Stones yet full of filthiness and fornications and thou art not yet come out of her That great Word COME OVT OF HER MY PEOPLE Ch. 18.4 is not yet spoken by Jesus Christ in thy heart though thou hast been many years a Worshipper of Christ and pretended to him yet if these things be not effected in thee whatever duties forms or fellowships thou hast taken up or any exact observances Jesus Christ is not in thee since he is not in this mans way nor in that mans Church as men blaspemously speak for hath any one a Church but only Jesus Christ will any man dare to assume to himself any part of the Immaculate Church or of any one member of Jesus Christ and say this or these are my Churches and my people and my Congregation Oh Blaspemy in the highest degree And though these talk of Heresies and Schismes and charge them upon others yet judge ye who are those that make rents and utter blasphemies against the honour and glory of Jesus Christ Heb. 13.20 that one eternal Saviour and that great Shepherd of the Sheep And who is Paul and Apollo and others but Ministers and Servants by whom ye beleeved are they any thing or is there any glory due to them But if Jesus Christ come into thy soul discovering himself by casting out the strong man and Antichrist and letting thee see death and hell and all evil to be in thee and hath quite slain man in all his excellencies and glory then he will arise in thee and appear to be life alone glory alone power alone and till then men meerly delude themselves under all forms pretending strictness conformity and obedience to Christ when indeed though they have preacht and prophesied Mat. 7.22.23 and in his name done so many great works which shall amaze the people of the world and the general sort of professours yet Christ who searches the heart shall professe unto them I never knew you depart from me ye workers of iniquity though men may admire them and esteem them the highest the wisest the holiest the meekest the gravest the strictest of all the sons of men yet he sees them to be the worst the wickedest the profanest the greatest workers of iniquity the purest Hypocrits for that which is highly esteemed among men Luk. 16.15 is in the sight of the Lord abominable For man hath nothing of good in him but all his imaginations are evil and onely evil and continually evil and Jesus Christ is good all good and continually good and nothing else but good and he that gives other testimony either in word or deed is a lyar and the truth is not in him Rev. 11.8 And those two Eternall Witnesses are in him slain and lie dead in the streets of the great City that is in the whole nature of Mankind which two Witnesses can never be raised and stand up upon their feet till Jesus Chirst himselfe come and revive them and cause them to live HERE IS WISDOME Ibid. 13.8 and let him that readeth understand and he that hath read these things in himself he alone can understand these things And when the Lord is thus

Catechisms and prescribing of Rules in mending this way and the other form and are still in mending and altering and making their ways and forms better and more reformed as they think when alas all this is nothing but man taking upon himself to cut pare and mend the worship of God This man he thinks to cut out a neater way then his neighbour-gathered-church and a another he thinks to mend and make his way more handsome then he and another then both Every one hath a Doctrin a Psalm hath a Tongue 1 Cor. 14.26 hath a Revelation hath an Interpretation none done to the edifying of the body of Christ For all this is but to rend and tear the Seamlesse coat of Christ in that man would fain be something do something by his own wisdom and power and his righteousnesse must not be sleighted nor vilified nor all his glory must not be laid in the dust all these Worshippers and pretenders to Christ they live on the shadow and rely on the shape and form of Christianity but not on the life and power How have men beat their wits and layd their counsels together to form and model Religion to make it passe for currant in the world that they may be accounted Artists and Pastors and Doctors and according to that fine invented word ORTHODOX and some adding that blasphemous title DIVINE and they will prescribe Rules and make Articles of faith for all men to beleeve and receive and conform to and still they are new-modelling to cut it and square it as like the Letter of the Word as may be and then they are pleased and others applaud them as wise Master Builders And yet we may say of them as the Apostle Peter saith 2 Pet. 2.17 c. 2 Pet. 2.17 18 19. They are those which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam who loved the wayes of unrighteousness These are Wells without water clouds carried with a tempest to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever For when they speak great swelling words of vanity they allure through the lusts of the flesh those who were clean escaped from them who live in error And while they promise them libertie they themselves are the servants of corruption for of whom a man is overcome of the same is he brought in bondage They are alwaies learning and teaching others to do this and do that and yet they themselves are the servants of lust and corruption Therefore be not deceived but if they cry loe here or loe there Go after such a Man and such a Man Luk. 17.23 joyn with this Church or that Fellowship and ye find Christ but go not after them believe them not for they do but deceive they cannot deliver nor redeem themselves And therefore this point is clear that none but Jesus Christ could ever free the soul or deliver it from bondage and this is a truth against which the Gates of Hell shall never prevail Mat. 16.18 Therefore we may conclude that whatever spirit goes out any other way or to any other thing to find Rest or Liberty or Redemption by but only by Jesus Christ he is deceived for t is only in Immanuel God with us there is no Redeemer no Deliverer no Saviour but only He All the Saints who have all experience therof in themselvs know this to be true and give out their witnesse that in vain did they run out to any thing else and these only are the true Wayters for the Kingdom of God and the consolation of Israel Mar. 15.43 here was the true Wayting and the true using of Ordinances Oh that men did but know what this waiting upon the Father was that they knew that there was no life but in Christ no power but in him that they had no wisdom nor goodness nor that they could never be delivered but by and in the power light and life of Christ Oh that men knew in experience as they pretend in words and notions Joh. 5.22 that all judgment is committed to the Son And that in him alone was the power of life and death and that he alone had the keys to unlock the Mysteries of Salvation then whether if they were perswaded of this could the heart of man go for relief If it saw its own utter emptiness nothingness and that all Creatures and all Ordinances and forms were broken Cisterns Jer. 2.13 how could they depend and wait on them If then Jesus Christ be the only fulness the only power the only riches the only joy the only treasure then would they sell all to buy this Pearl Mens running out to this thing and to that is because they are unsatisfied Luk. 11.24 and are in want of peace and rest and this makes them go out and walk through dry places to find rest but can find none this want makes them heap to themselves so many varieties of things to give them peace their souls fly to and again from florwe to flowre but cannot rest any where they fly to this duty and tother form but they are all emptie they are no other but dry places Oh wonderful to see how Satan hath deluded the sons of men and all is because they cannot be content to sit down in their own poverty to see themselves naked and miserable and then to wait upon Him who would certainly come in in due time with true Peace Riches Rest Power Righteousnesse Satisfaction Fulnesse and whatever is good But because men are not able to stand in the sight of their own nothingness how doth Satan continually carry them out they cannot endure to stay within to see themselves but either they are carried out to Lust or Luxury or Wantonnesse or Drinking or Company and the like and if that will not hide and cover the pit so that the mouth of conscience will not be stopt then it runs out to Duties and Forms and wayes of Worship and thinks that will do it when alas they are meer delusions and things which the soul hath invented to play withal to get peace and liberty by to make it forget its Misery Poverty and Emptinesse but the end of this peace is death and misery and the end of this liberty is confusion Rom. 6.21 And what fruit have ye of those things whereof ye are now ashamed But oh happy is that soul that can say from experience and not onely in words but really Job 16.2 That they are all miserable comforters and that all below and besides Christ Esa 28.20 all gender to death and bondage and that he hath found the Bed too broad and the Covering too narrow so that he could not wrap himself therein and that he is resolved never to run out to any thing to relieve or stay his spirit but only to the Riches Power and Fulnesse of Christ not to the grosse lusts of men nor to the riches of the world to

away their captivity Oh! that men were but to come to this condition to be sensible of their misery that they did but really see they were in Babylon in Captivity Oh then what mourning what hanging their Harps upon the Willows Psal 137.1 c. sitting down by the Rivers of Babylon weeping and crying out Oh how shall we sing the Lords song in a strange Land And wishing and saying Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones Will the Ox lowgh when he hath fodder Job 6.5 saith Job Till they have deliverance they cannot but mourn Rev. 5.5 and none can deliver them but the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah to such a soul only is Iesus Christ precious others may talk of him and make a great profession of Iesus Christ in the Letter and talk of Iesus Christ his dying at Jerusalem and of beleeving and Salvation by him but they cannot love him till Iesus Christ be IMMANVEL a Saviour in them Mat. 1.23 then and never before can these Elders throw down their Crowns before the Lamb saying Thou only art worthy to receive honour and glory and power Rev. 4.10 11. for thou only hast redeemed us by thy Blood Thou seest thou canst not so much as move hand or foot to help thy self All thy tears thy prayers are nothing but as Iesus Christ prayes and cryes in thee by his spirit with groans unutterable which cannot be exprest Rom. 8.26 This take as the first difference and examination between those that are wounded and sick and condemned the one he is so and he can go to no other but only to Iesus Christ to be healed and saved The others when they are so they can finde help and rest in men in means in ordinances in fellowships in reformations and better ordering of their lives by their own power The other finde there is no resting no sitting still in any thing below Christ but they hunger and thirst and wait the good pleasure of Iesus Christ and when the spirit which bloweth where it listeth will blow upon their Hearts John 3.8 They are like a hungry man whose stomack doth so gnaw he cannot rest without food and like a thirsty man who cannot be satisfied without drink It is not husks nor shadows nor pictures nor Idols will serve his turn but he must have real food he must have Christs body which is meat indeed Ibid. 6.55 and Christs blood which is drink indeed He must have the Eternal God help him or all he can do is nothing to him Beloved were men but come to this to be really miserable and truly in bonds which men so much talk of and so little feel ye need not direct them this way and that way ye need not bid them cry or pray or run to hear or the like their very misery would constrain them whereas otherwise men take up these things for form and for custom and complement and to be thought religious and to quiet their consciences and the like But they would be like the blind man which notwithstanding they hindred him and reproved him and bid him not pray nor cry yet the sense of his blindness made him cry out after Jesus Christ Jesus thou son of David have mercy on me Luke 18.39 If men did but find see and feele the burning within them and the sting of the fiery Serpent they need not be bid to look up to the Brazen Serpent John 3.14 Secondly If thou beest a true seeker of deliverance a true waiter thou wilt abominate and scorn all other Deliverers but only this Only Deliverer Jesus Christ all other thou lookest upon them as Physitians of no value Job 13 4. Thou seest there is but one Teacher but one Counsellour but one Saviour They will not go after them that say Loe here is Christ and loe there Mat 24.23 in this way and in that form saying joyn to us we are in the best way here ye shall find rest and satisfaction but they see really and are fully convinced that there is nothing else but the Eternal Father making out himselfe through his son 1 Tim. 3.16 c. even Christ manifested in the flesh justified in the spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles beleeved on in the world and received up into Glory And sayes the Apostle Gal. 4.3 4. Even so we when we were Children were in bondage under the Elements of the world but when the fulnesse of Time was come God sent forth his Son made of a Woman made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law that we might receive the Adoption of Sons And because ye are Sons God hath sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father So that it is clear that soul that truly seeks deliverance it sees Jesus Christ only to be able to deliver that there is nothing lesse then Him nothing besides Him But herein lies the misery of all the Sons of men they pretend to seek Iesus Christ and think they have found him because they have heard of a Iesus Christ who died at Ierusalem and though they have no union with him yet if they can externally beleeve in him that 's enough though they never receive any vertue from him nor he was never formed in them And herein generally most men professing Christ sit down and rest and blesse themselves and never yet saw truly their own misery how they are departed from the fountain of living waters Jer. 2.13 and how they dig to themselves broken Cisterns which are empty and dry and can hold no water And in their extremity hither they come to their own Cisterns thinking to refresh themselves and quench their thirst but they are empty and dry and so many men who are great professors of Religion dig wells for themselves but they are not the Wells of Salvation Oh my dear friends Esa 12.3 my heart bleeds to think how these men delude themselves with golden dreams And they pretend great love to Christ and say he is their hope and their help and they will wait upon him and cast their soules upon him when as they do but as it is Ps 78.34 35. they returned and inquired early after God Ps 78.34 35. and remembred that God was their rock and the high God their Redeemer Neverthelesse they did but flatter him with their mouths and they lyed unto him with their tongues for their heart was not right with him neither were they faithful in his covenant How do these men keep a great stir and make a great noise for their Religion and who seem more zealous then they or more eager for worship who more flattering and smooth in their expressions and say thy Servants thy Servants and who seem to be more affected with dishonour to Christ and are very much offended at errors and heresies and blasphemies but I fear and