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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

us read it in the woman and the serpent from the beginning Again if we say it is we as we are men that must be made better by our endeavours and use of means and not the son of God then we divide our selves from Christ making his condition one and our own another which is to divide Christ and hath ever been from the beginning that main bar of infidelity that shuts men out from entring into that rest of God Heb. 4. 1. 2. 7. which is to interpose some good thing yet to be attained by doing or suffering that is not yet in its perfection in the state of a Saint of God this is to reckon and account of our selves according to the proportion and measure of a Creature and not according to the dimensions of the son of God which is and ever was that great contest between the Angel of God and the Devil about the body of Moses or incorporated state according to law whether it is to be measured according to the periods and limitations of the Creature or according to the illimited and immense condition and incomprehensible state of the son of God Zach. 3. 1. 2. Iude 9. Again if we interpose a thing that is evil between God and the perfection of his Son or Saints as sin Devil fall of man terrours of the law spots and breaches in our sanctification stains of conscieuce and the like then we either adde unto the death of Christ who is a lamb s●ain from the beginning Revel 13. 8. who was made sin for us or in our nature in them that perish proportionable unto that righteousnesse of God which we that beleeve are made in him or in that nature divine which is infinite and therefore neither sin nor righteousnesse can admit of increase or diminution 2 Cor. 5. 21. 2 Pet. 1. 4. Christ then having perfectly suffered the just for the unjust nothing is to be added thereunto under the pain of making his death ineffectuall 1 Pet. 3. 18. which it is in every one who makes it not perfect infinite and all sufficient And if the evils we bring in be such as concern us and not the son of God then we take them up upon our selves as we being the saviours and deliverers of our selves being out of that proper state and condition of the son of God and so deny the death of the son of God to be that which it is namely to comprehend and comprize a●l evill whatsoever as his life comprehends all good and so take upon us to bear our own burthen in that state of death and of the damned for ever And thus false Interpreters bring in a Tree of the knowledg of good and evill to be communicated with in the perfecting of the word and work of God which is the way of the Serpent in his seed at this day which ever kils and murders the true Prophet in not suffering the life and Spirit of the word of God to come forth and appear which life is ever taken away by them to raise up advance and maintain the life of the flesh in all the lusts pride glory power and abominations thereof according to their present state as they can stand with the rank and station wherein they are set or serve in way of further preferment Therefore saith Christ Behold that is look up and wonder to your astonishment and overthrow for ever for so much the word Behold imports in this place I send unto you saith he Prophets c. the persons to whom he speaks here are false Interpreters who judge falsely of the word and work of God whether in themselves teaching and declaring it to others or approving it from others it matters not it is alike detestable in all the Serpent divulging and the woman approving is all one in this point and to parties of this rank and quality the son of God utters these words Behold I send unto yon Prophets Wise men and Scribes which are all taken in a good sense as good and holy men in this place sent from the Lord our righteousnesse from whence this question may be moved namely how the word of God by good men yea by the Son of God himselfe may be said to be sent to wicked men yea to false Interpreters thereof which spirit of falshood is never found but in the Devil himselfe 1 This point narrowly scanned may breed some commotion in the mind of man for if God send his word unto the wicked which hath salvation in it then if he deal plainly with them whose nature it is so to do his intent is to do them good therby and to save them and if so then salvation depends upon the will of the Creature in the approving or disallowing in its reception or rejection thereof 2 Again if God do not intend their salvation that is of these wicked Scribes and Pharisees unto whom he sends it then he may seem to pretend one thing in sending it unto them and to intend an other which is deceit and therefore he being a God of truth which cannot lie or feign a thing to be which is not it may seem that he sends his word only unto the elect of God which is contrary unto this expression of Christ but the son of God being one is at unity in all his enterprises 3 Furthermore the waters may seem to be troubled in this point in regard that the word of God was never sincerely expressed as the word of God sent from him but by one who is of the faith of Iesus made one with God by vert●e of that covenant of grace in Christ for in other way the Lord never sent nor uttered himself in his own language and upon his own proper terms for otherwayes it is not the word of God but the word of man which is naught and brings to naught Therefore if the word of God be sent by a Prophet a Wise man or Scribe men that are godly and holy as the word is holy being one with it for the word of Christ never appeared nor uttered it self but in and by the spirit of man for if it come not from him in whom God and man consist in one it is not the word of Christ how then can it be sent to all wicked men seeing as many men live and dye and a godly man never cometh nigh unto them yea it may be as is like people and nations if we look but upon the Moores Indians and Barbarians in these our dayes doubtlesse it is and hath been the case of many thousand men in the world never to hear a Prophet and holy man of God speak although Scribes and Pharisees may speak plentifully for their own advantage as also many Infants dying before they have the use of reason a godly man therefore can never be sent or expesse himselfe unto them 4 Add further the voice of Satan never uttered it self but as man was really considered therein so it was in Cain in whom

man as in twaine or as in a multitude For superiority is not worthy that name bur in the sence which the Apostle speakes when he saith There are that be called gods for there are gods many and lords many unlesse it be such a superiority that hath power over the Angel so as to prevail as a Prince with God when as the Angel or Elohim wept and made supplicacion which is to be applied to the Angell when he peticioned our father Jacob to let him go Gen. 32. 24. 28. Hosea 12. 4. Such authority as hath power with God is that which the Word of God intends and in that sence the Apostle saith that the spirit of the Prophets is subject to the Prophets 1 Cor. 14. 32. that is when the Spirit of God in any of the servants of Christ do rightly interpret and unfold the Wisdom of God in Christ in the glory and power of it the same Spirit of God in all true interpreters of the Word of God yeeld submission and are obedient unto that wisdom appearing in its power and glory for this authority hath rule in such a spirit of obedience as hath Eternity in it which is onely found in the Son of God otherwise it is not worthy the name of superiority in the Language of Gods Kingdome as it is said of the mercies of the wicked that they are cruell Pro. 12 10. So Rule Destitute of this is Cruelty Neither is the way of submission worthy to be called obedience unlesse it yeeld it self over unto that superiority peculiar to the Son God in whom alone there is an everlas ing Dominion for his Kingdom is without end Daniel 7. 13 14. Out of which kingdom there is no obedience but arising from fear which hath painfulnesse either fear of Correction or of falling short of Favour to attain private and base ends or else the losse of favour when it is or seemes to be obtained But perfect love onely which it not found but in Christ casts out seat 1 Iohn 4. 18. and there is a reciprocall love on both sides of the Covenant in what termes of relation soever expressed springing from the Spirit of God as in that state o● the Faith of Christ and the compleat Covenant is to be struck and in exercise perpetually in every individuall heart or else Christ it not formed therein which is the onely message and end of the Gospel Gal. 4. 19. Upon these two pillars of Rule and Subjection or Command and Obedience do false Interpreters set the Tombes of the Prophets falsifying the spirit of the Scriptures in stating them between man and man 3 The thrid pillar is equality lodging the Word of God in this point in men of like honour in the world of like riches of like age of like office trade ocupation art learning and the like which is but a dumb shew and lifelesse karkase of the Prophet his spirit is departed and gone it is not in such ministration For they know not how to equalize things in Christ the true end of the Law and so of all Relations take this one instance for all to shew their ignorance in this point of equality they knew not how to make the state of Christ as in the wombe of the Virgin to be of like power and glory as set upon the Throne at the right hand of the power Mat. 26. 64. for they know not what is taught unto us in that the Holy Ghost over shadowed the Virgin namely to shield the Conception of Christ that no Rey or Glimse of the Wisdom Will Power or any sufficiency arising from the creature should contribute in the least to the being or form of the Son of God in that holy and God like Consistence of God and Man in one undivided state which is the Son of God Luk 1. 35. And in this Act the glory of the Son of God is made manifest in that he is shadowed and shielded from all staine or guilt of sin from all power and subtilty of Satan which are never separated yea from any evill or discommodious thing touching Him which is as glorious a thing and full of power in point of freedome and release as his sitting on the right hand of God in the exercise of all glory grace vertue which twain never were nor shall be separated from the state of Christ And thus might we equalize all things in Christ which seem to be unequall unto carnall mindes according to the Letter and Histories of the Scriptures which equality in Christ is that which the Scripture properly intends in all things and when it speakes of equality in point of friendship or brotherhood it intends not a brotherhood compassed within any term or time but an eternall off-spring equall in all points with respect to the right of the first born and not as any one son being preferred before another for there is but one intire son-ship of God for wee are born of God 1 Iohn 5. 1. 18. as being conceived by the Holy-ghost Luke 1. 35. we also are begotten of God for of his own will begat he us by the word of truth Iames 1. 18. so that we are not only begotten of God but also born of God nothing but the wisdom of God in that work of Christ is in conjunction in the uttering and conceiving in the forming of him and bringing of him forth as the first begotten the first born to be the first fruits of the Creacion without which nothing is clean unto us And this twofould parentage as father and mother uttered in the Commandement are they or that which we honour as being the only off-spring of both made one in Christ and hereby our dayes are prolonged in the Land which God hath given us for herein consists the length of dayes even eternall Life and are under the first Commandement with promise for there was never Law before that Ephes 6. 1. 2. For God made the promise of Eternall Life before the world began Titus 1. 2. so that the Saints are equall in being first born of immortall seed equall in possessing the first Land or inheritance even the Land of Emanuel that is God with us Mat. 1. 23. equall in being under the first Law even the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Iesus Rom. 8. 2. and equall in having the first promise annexed for it was made unto us before the world began Titus 1. 2. The true Equality then intended in the word of God is to make all the Saints of God Kings and Priests of the same Honour Holinesse Power and Authority which is only of God therefore a royall kingdom of Priests and priest-hood kingly a chosen generacion not one more choyce than another a peculiar people one not having lesse or more intrest in God than another a purchased possession the same price payd for and worth set upon one that is upon and for another Exodus 19. 6. 1 Pet. 2. 9 1 Cor. 6. 20. 1 Pet. 1.

carnal Christ 2 Cor. 5. 16. then is his life and spirit taken away for not to give it to him is to take it away and so the true Prophet is slain and crucified for deny a Plant its residency in the earth and ye kill the Plant deny a Fish her being in the water and you kill the Fish deny the spirit of God its reall residency and aboad throughout the whole Confines and Circumference of Christ his mystical and spirituall body and you kill the spirit of Christ and have murthered the true Prophet in your selves Count therefore and reckon if you can how many killers and murtherers of the Prophets there is extant at this day who would be counted men that maintain their lives and say if we had been in the dayes of Saul Ahab Iezabel and Herod we would not have done as they did or in the dayes of the Scribes Pharisees Elders Lawyers and High Priests we would not have done as they did the proper plea of all such persons as these were is to kill the spirit of the word build up the tomb of the letter 2 They do not kill but crucifie those that are sent unto them that is they nail or fasten them to the crosse or to the Gibbet as the word Crosse signifies or Gallows which is the shamefulest Engines that man wisdom can devise to erect to take away the lives of such as are Enemies unto or Troublers of a state a death fitter for a dog than a man made in the image of God a sensible and intelligible man cannot but be ashamed of his own kind as he is a man to see a man bearing his form and visage to hang upon the gallows it is the shame of man and therefore Christ is said to be made a curse in that he was hanged on a tree Deut. 21. 23. Gal. 3. 13. Now the crucifying or nailing of the man of God unto the Crosse or hanging him on a tree is the greatest shame can be done to the Son of God which is by false interpretation of the word of God placing the glory of God a consisting in his humane offices and institutions which is indeed the proper shame of the Son of God to account or esteem of him according to any momentany or transient thing whose Kingdome is eternall Dan. 4. 3. 34. Heb. 1. 8. and therefore not of this world Iohn 18. 36. for it affords nothing whereof a Kingdome of that nature can be composed or ordered but is the very inlet of the curse and the proper maintainer thereof in the world being that whereunto the spirit of the word is fastened unto the giving up of the ghost of all those proper vertues livelihood appertaining unto the same in all those who are proper actors in tying the spirit and intent of the word of God unto the outward form of words Grammatical and Logical construction of the Scriptures who teach that the curse consists in being void and destitute of temporary Ordinances power and glory had and maintained by such institutions and that they are cursed who seek to blast and cause to wither such manner of glory in whomsoever it is promoted as chief to bear sway which is no more but to follow the Lords direction in giving Caesar his due in that which belongs unto him Matthew 22. verse 20. where Christ brings in Caesar in opposition unto God and if all manner of good be due unto God and belong unto him we must give him the glory and right of it all and then none belongs to any other therefore the due of Caesar must be all evill according to the nature of that spirit which thus comes to insnare Christ therefore nothing but p I de and cruelly subtle and mischievous devises and enterprises is to be expected or looked for from the world wherever the glory of it bears sway and the image and superscription of the Son of God is not found who is the brightnesse of the glory of the father which no man ever saw at any time neither can a carnall eye behold it and live Heb. 1. 3. Iohn 1. 18. 1 Iohn 4. 12. Exod. 33. 20. And therefore it is that the glory of the world which is obvious unto man doth vomit the spirit of the word of God out of their proper state and condition as an accursed and pernicious thing as an enemy to Caesar a Sectary Schisma●ick-babler broacher of new Opinions a fellow of no learning or else too much learning hath made him mad an Allegorizer of the Scriptures or spiritual Leveller though he meddle not with temporary privileges and carnall interests therefore it was that they hanged Christ upon a Tree between Heaven and Earth as cast out of their jurisdiction as being no part of their Kingdom and glory neither in point of subjection nor rule and command and as the Revolution of the Heavens serve to putrifie and corrupt a dead body hanged upon a Tree so is it with the revolutions of all wicked states in the world who corrupt and falsifie the word of God in all their motions they corrupt and putrifie that mysticall body of Christ unto themselves and become as guilty as those wicked Iews in putting the innocent unto a cruel and shameful death because his doctrine exalts the glory of God which is eternall wherein the life of Christ consists and abaseth the glory of the world which is temporary in which glory the life of Antichrist doth consist yet it is not denyed but a Servant of Christ may use the glory of the world in the outward ●orm thereof as though he used it not 1 Cor. 7. 31. taking it up only as a vanishing vapour even as a limb of Antichrist may use the name of God when he makes small account thereof but his heart is after the workes and power of Satan Ezekiel 33. 30 -33 Mat. 27. 22. 23. And because of this nailing of Christ unto the Crosse fastning his glory upon temporary and carnal things he complains against such wicked and carnall Iewes saying they pierced my hands and my feet Psalm 22. 16 that is as the feet are the instruments of motion and the hands of skilfull operation and curious works which being nailed unto a Tree there is a cessation of both so this fastning of the Spirit and glory of the word of God upon humane and carnall things as though that were the Law of the spirit of Life this takes away all that proper motion and skilfull operation which the Lord Iesus hath exercised in his Saints from the foundation of the world making a nullity of them all Therefore contrary unto this Christ nails this Law of the carnal Commandement standing in the Ordinances of men that handwriting which is against us unto that his Crosse where he is crucified in point of all spirituall life and exercise which is that accursed thing Col. 2. 14. Gal. 3. 13. even that glory of the world preverted before the glory of the Son

actions do properly spring and grow which spirit works effectually hath done and shall in all the Saints of God who have been are and shall be upon the Earth and accordingly is every Saint of God to reckon and account of himself and his operations and that the manner of his Sonship is such as whereby he inherits all things for thus saith the Lord He that overcometh shall inheri● all things and I will be his God and he shall be my Son Rev. 21. 7. And he that takes away this prerogative and royalty from any Saint of God he takes it away from the Son of God himself who never took any account of himselfe in any particular whatsoever but as in his Saints yea in that compleat mysticall body therefore doth every man receive according to that which is done in his body 2 Cor. 5. 10. that is to say according to whatsoever is done in the body mysticall whether it be the body of Christ or that body of sin and death whether done according to the mystery of God o● that mystery of iniquity woe therefore unto false Interpreters of the word of God in all ages yea if that bounteous sull and plentifull word of God which is not to be limited or infringed in any of i●s operations and excellencies of glory but as all being in one in the account of unity and that one compleatly in all in the account of multiplication Cant. 1. 7. Iohn 17. for the word of God knows how to terminate all its own operation excellency and glory in one Saint as well as it knows how to make it self full in one word which is only love Rom. 13. 8. James 2. 8. So also it knows how to terminate the curse in all the mystery and shame thereof in all and every particular that pertaineth thereunto And hence it is that Christ turns his complaint against Ierusalem as the proper Mother who brought forth these false Interpreters which was founded and constituted so long before as being one and the same together with themselves conversant together with them and alike guilty in the same act of that bloodshed which he layes unto the charge of these Scribes and Pharises saying in verse 37. Oh Ierusalem Ierusalem which killest the Prophets and stonest them that are sent to thee how often would I have gathered thy Children together as the Hen gathereth her Chickens under her wings and ye would not Wherein observe for the orderly handling of the words this Method 1 First a vehement acclamation or outery in these words Oh Ierusalem Ierusalem 2 A serious and just charge thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee 3 A patheticall interrogation in these words How often would I have gathered thy Children together 4 A metaphoricall Description of the manner how that is as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her wings 5 An unnaturall denyall in them and ye would not 1 For the first of these namely his vehement Acclamation in these words Oh Ierusalem Ierusalem wherein observe two things first an Ingemination and doubling of the phrase which notes the certainty of that unalterable state and condition of the City in order to them as it is their mother and originall from whence they spring 2 Secondly it notes the unalterable nature and disposition of these false Interpreters as they are her naturall Children proper off-spring And for the opening of this point we are to consider how Ierusalem is to be understood in this place for as there is a Daughter of Zion who is truly said to be a Virgin Isai 37. 22. in regard she never knew man that is never acknowledged that way of the flesh and carnall commandement as our Apostle speaks henceforth know we no man after the flesh 2 Cor. 5. 16. therefore it is said a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and thou shalt call his name Immanuel Isa 7. 14. In this respect Ierusalem is called Virgin daughter of Zion and is truly said to be a daughter of Ierusalem in like sense as Christ is said to be the son of the Virgin who is also the Author and maker of her In like manner there is a daughter and virgin of Babylon and Egypt that is one that never knew man or acknowledged that way of spirit and life which is in Christ Jesus that law of the spirit exercised in the holy Temple that mysticall body of Christ which he speaks of Iohn 2. 19. which Babylon could never indure but puts the Vessels thereof to profane use and so destroyes it unto themselves Isa 47. 1. in like respect is Israel after the flesh called Virgin daughter of Egypt also who never acknowledged that holy message and ministry of Moses in that great deliverance but set up a Calf in the wildernesse and worshipped the beast Ier. 46. 11. Psalm 106. 19. or the moulten Image Even so there is Ierusalem that is above who is the true Mother of all the free born sons of God that is who is above or more excellent and glorious than all the orders and constitutions of Hagar that is of the bond-woman or law of the flesh whatsoever Gal. 4. 26. and in this respect the City is called Jerusalem which is a word compounded of Iireth Gen. 22. 14. and Salem Gen. 14. 18. that is seeing in peace for the Lord in the offering of Isaac through his escape by the death of the Ram intangled in the brambles and thickets of this world sees that mount in a state of peace and laughter in Isaac for ever Gen. 22. 14. which is truly said to be Ierusalem or Sara Gal. 4. 22. 26. So likewise there is Ierusalem that now is that is which is earthly below and not heavenly and spirituall therefore he saith it answereth unto or reacheth unto Sina as the word will bear alluding to the mountains of Arabia Pet●ea unto Cadis Bernea of Iury declaring that this earthly Ierusalem signified in Agar is the same with Sina the works of the law and carnall ordinances which only ingendreth unto bondage and intangleth all her Children even as the Ram was caught by the Horns or in the prime of his strength in the arm of flesh to the deliverance of Isaac and his own death and destruction and this Ierusalem is named of Iebus and is so called Iudges 19. 10. 1 Chron. 11. 4. after Iebus the son of Canaan the accursed Gen. 10. 15. 16. Gen. 9. 25. and therefore is said to be under the spirit of bondage in her children and ingendreth only thereunto contrary to Sarah the free woman being only in the place of Mount Sinai and in the state of Agar Ierusalem then brought in in this place according to Christs account is the Mother of these Children namely false Interpreters of the word of God being considered as in her first originall being built ordered and possessed in the reall state of the curse by Iebus the son of Canaan the son of Cham the accursed or