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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85461	Saltmarsh returned from the dead, in Amico Philalethe. Or, The resurrection of James the apostle, out of the grave of carnall glosses, for the correction of the universall apostacy, which cruelly buryed him who yet liveth. Appearing in the comely ornaments of his fifth chapter, in an exercise, June 4. 1654. Having laid by his grave clothes, in a despised village remote from England, but wishing well, and heartily desiring the true prosperity thereof.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1307; Thomason E836_1; ESTC R207426	178,733	220

unto thee arise take up thy bed and go thy way into thine house So that to preach the Gospel to the restauration of the soule from the policy that is from the fear terrors and tremblings of the law as at Mount Sinai to bring it unto Zion giving strength to take up that and carry it unto its proper place as that man carried his bed into the proper place which is his house which before had carried him extravagantly and diseasedly abroad wheresoever the Gospel exerciseth its power to raise up any to walk in the way of God before others in prayer or prophesie or any appointment of God according to the nature and season of it as that man is said to walk before them all to their admiration wheresoever the Gosplel is ministred to that effect there is also in that ministration power to forgive sin for the one is of like case and of like difficulty as the other is yea they are both in one act for he that can preach the Gospel to carry sin into its proper place which must be done or else the Gospel is not truly preached he must of necessity remove it from the chosen of God which is the true remitting and passing of it over unto another He that hath power therefore to preach the Gospel to the healing of the Conscience of the palsie sicknesse or tremblings of the law in the dead works thereof or works of death that man hath power to forgive sins on earth for they are inseperable and Christ in that place alluded unto makes them one for first he saith son thy sins be forgiven thee and in the rehearsall of it he saith his speech was arise take up thy bed and walk go thy way into thy house And we know that Christ saith to his Disciples whose sins ye remit they are remitted and whose sins ye retaine they are retained And again what ye binde on earth is bound in heaven and what ye loose on earth is loosed in heaven to walk and work therefore in the things of God according to the power intended by the word of God are of greater concernment then they would think for to preach the Gospel in the revelation of the minde and will of God as to an onely Son or to present our supplications to God as a father from the minde and disposition of an onely son are of no lesse authority and power then to to give sins for to pray with the spirit and to pray with the understanding also that is to pray according to the mystery of Christs meditation and yet with that wisdome and skill of expression as to unfold and explaine it in the minds of others that they may ascend up unto God together therewith as Manoa's Angel in the flame of the sacrifices this and to pardon sin are of like power skill and authority and a like weight lies upon both to whomsoever communicates in them For to pardon sin is not to change or alter the minde of God toward that party but to explaine and interpret the minde of God concerning that party which minde and will of God is the same in that one faith of the Son of God to all the chosen of God and wheresoever it is rightly unfolded and made manifest in the proclamation of peace and reconciliation of God and man in one if the Son of peace be there he accepteth and receivet the same as the right of his inheritance If the Elders pray or prophecy unto health therefore they pray or prophesie to the remission of sins in whomsoeve commucates in the same his sins are forgiven him To conclude this point it concerns us then to know what sin is that we may rightly conceive of it as it is pardonable and also as it not pardonable for there is a sin saith the Apostle John which is not unto death or which is not in death that is it is not in that way of death and there is a sin that is in death I do not say that you shall pray for it that is you shall not pray for the pardon of it because it is not to be pardoned for where Christ is once crucified in the spirit he never is to live in that heart according to the spirit no more then where he is once crucified in the flesh he never lives in that heart according to the flesh Therefore in the next place he exhorts us unto the confession of our faults in the true acknowledgement of them one to another Vers 16. Confesse your faults one unto another and pray one for another that ye may be healed the effectuall fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much In these observe 1. An exhortation consisting of two parts 1. To confesse faults one to another 2. To pray one for another 2. The end wherefore That ye may be healed 3. A reason ground or cause drawn from the nature of prayer which is two-fold 1. It is effectuall 2. It is fervent 4. The qualitie of the person praying that is A righteous man 5. The issue or event of such prayer It avayleth much 1. ANd first for confession of faults sins or oberations from a law For where no law is there is no transgression for sinne is the transgression of a law or as the word is the withoutnesse of a rule Now there is the law of the flesh or carnall commandement which is the law of sinne and death and there is the law of the spirit or power of faith which is the perfect rule of righteousnesse or law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus Now the carnall commandement or perfunctory and fading ordinances may be broken yea abrogated and nayled to the crosse as that which is against us and yet forgiven for every breach or piercing through of the sonne of man that is mans institutions and appoyntments composed by that carnall law shall be forgiven or are forgiven for the disannulling of mans wisdome and in that respect to become a foole is the establishment of Gods wisdome in the removall of all guilt and condemnation from the soule And there is the law of the spirit or of that holy Ghost which if a man speake a word against intentionally or blaspheme and pierce through that is abrogate or make a nullity of it It shall never be forgiven neither in this world nor in the world to come that is neither in the present mind and conscience of him that so doth nor in that holy mind and judgment of Christ from passing sentence against it being so remote and at such a distance from it and contrary unto it for the abrogation of the law of the spirit is no lesse then to disannull that wisdome of God in Christ by which device only the sin and guilt of the sons of men is taken away and no other way for else-where the redemption of the soule ceaseth for ever Confession of sins then one to another This phrase one to another is of like nature as

the word by transforming it into the similitude of a creature and not into the glory of the Creator so that the imaginations and dictates of his own heart give a temporary forme unto an eternall word which is that carnall law of sin and death in himselfe subjecting himselfe thereunto so that whatsoever the letter saith which kils it saith it in him who is litterall and hath the power of engagement and binding that party over to the onely acknowledgement and practice thereof and so the word of God becomes a tormentor unto man for it being held or imprisoned in this unrighteousnesse or narrow and strait confines of humane principles and capacity and yet in it selfe infinite and eternal cannot possible move therein but must have respect unto its own nature which is infinite incomprehensible and eternall whereby the soule of the creature is set upon the rack hanged on the gibbet laid under an intolerable presse cast into the flames overwhelmed with the flouds being extended and intangled with that which is infinitely above as also below and beneath and in all respects beyond the reach of all humane abilities and so continually deviseth and frameth out more ways of torture and torment unto it selfe then ever mans heart in any tyrant could invent for the shame and horrour of the body In which respect that compleat condition ceaseth to be the state and condition or to be led by the proper principles of a meer creature or workmanship of God and becomes Shedim as the Caldean phrase is that is the destroyer of mankinde in humane and satanicall So that the dictates of such a heart are the proper suggestions of Satan and its operations the proper works of darknesse and the onely path wherein the wrath of the Almighty treads for ever Note also that there is in them who are under the law of the spirit a direct Antithesis unto this expressed of the wicked For the spirit of man being taken into unity with the word and so gathered up into the wisdome and power of God works nor moves not but by principles proper unto God which are of an eternall and incomprehensible nature and yet the spirit of the creature cannot move but with respect to the precincts of time in which it is but it goeth forth in and by eternall principles so that there is in the Son of God distinct operations yet every one of an eternal nature and race The one giving delight to the work through variety change of action and the other gives liberty ease and freedome unto the soule therein having so large roome and so spacious a sphear to walke and exercise it in the bounds whereof can never be troden out like the Sun in the firmament whose progresse none can hinder nor stop or prevent the health under its wings from the exercise of it self nor can any take out of order those fixed stars of the morning that fight from such an eminent and noble distance in their courses for the destruction of this wicked Sisera even those bright morning stars that sing together sons of God shouting for joy in those Nobles of Israel in laying of the first foundation of the earth so as it shall never be removed who are as far above the power and dominion of Satan as the heavens are above the earth out of the gun-shot of being insisted with any corrupt doctrine or of being hurt by any of the tyrannical practices of this present world Such is the state and condition of that mysticall body of our Lord Jesus the dictates of whose heart are the motions of that spirit of holinesse and power and his operations works of the Son of God And of such nature is the law of the spirit which is in Christ Jesus and of all such as are under command and in the authority thereof The Saints then or brethren of our Apostle know the patience of Job not at a distance but in the nearest conjunction so as being made one with it it being an entire and undivided crosse and suffering and is brought in the next sentence viz. And have seen the end of the Lord. Under the word seene is comprehended the exercise of all the sences which is usuall in Scripture as being filled in them all by the Crosse and sufferings of Christ as if he should say yee have seen ye have heard ye have tasted relished and felt the sufferings of Christ for his name is an oyntment poured out the sweet savour and scent whereof fills the whole house so that your hands have handled the word of life in this point as really as Thomas handled the humane body of Christ when he put his finger into the print of the nayles which fastned him to his Crosse for the confirmation of his faith of such reality is the Crosse of Christ as to make us to see touch and tast for our satisfaction the power and vertue of the Lord otherwise we can never handle the word of life to minister and serve in the same as Ministers of the Sanctuary and as able Ministers of the Gospel not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kills but the spirit gives life So that our hearing or knowing of the patience of Job namely our being one with Christ in his Crosse alike as we are one with him in any other grace or vertue is that which opens unto us the scope of the Scriptures so that we see Gods end and aym in blasting unto us all carnall things is the same that appeared in Job to give double in that which never failes for we never read of any more losse unto Job but as though he were enriched for ever We see therefore Gods intent and end in the Crosse so as to make it our joy and consolation so that we rejoyce in persecution in tribulation and reproach knowing that Gods end herein is only to make his power manifest in us for in all these things we are more then conquerours knowing that our victory stands both in being the Rescuer and the rescued so that the glory and joy of them both is made one in us which no earthly Conquerour can attaine So that our laughter is that spiritull Isaac the joy of the whole earth for howsoever we know our selves in mans nature simply considered to be like Sarah barren of all the fruits of righteousnesse and destitute of that immortall seed of God and also our Lord simply considered to be past age for being brought forth and made manifest in time in one that is but of yesterdays continuance who in himselfe is that Ancient of dayes Yet the end and intent of the Lord in the conjunction of these by visiting of us in that way of the promise is the bringing forth of Isaac according to that time of life proper to the Son of God who is the joy and laughter of all that heare it so as to approve of it and give credit thereunto according to that unwavering faith