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The spirituall verses and prose of James Hunt concerning the advancment of Christ his glorious and triumphing church : which by degrees shall flourish over the face of the whole world, which will be to the overthrow of the Divill, and the false church.
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Hunt, James, 17th cent.
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us to fight the battell Now by the help of God I will shew you in brief what are the spirituall weapons that the souldiers of Christ must take up to fight against all false doctrine and false power that belongeth to the divel It is written in Eph. 6. Stand fast having your loynes girt about with truth for the Law was given by Moses but grace and truth came by Iesus Christ Ioh. 1. Wherefore if any Divine shal tel you that the old Law is to be joyned to the glorious body of Christ you may answer him plainly he speaks not the truth Again put on the brest-plate of righteousnes not the righteousnes which is of the Law which S. Paul calleth his own righteousnes For if righteousnes come by the Law Christ died in vain Gal. 2.21 For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that believeth Rom. 10.4 God hath made him to be sin for us which knew no sin that we should be made the righteousnsse of God in him 2 Cor. 5.21 Thus I have proved in briefe the brest-plate of righteousnesse signifieth Christ and his Word which is revealed in his Gospel Againe Having your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace Christ saith In him we shall find peace that is al those that wil be reconciled to Christ and the obedience of his Word Christ wil speak peace to their soules For all the promises of God are in him yea and Amen to the praise and glory of his grace For Christ who is the perfect God he saith plainly Ioh. 5.24 Verily verily I say unto you hee that heareth my Word and beleeveth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death to life that is from the death and bondage of sin and Satan by the vertue and divine power of the Word of God in the doctrine of the new Testament which is the life of glory and grace Againe take the shield of faith whereby ye shal be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked It is written Gal. 3.11 The just shall live by faith and the Law is not of faith I say not of the lively and justifying faith for S. Paul saith plainly and so say I Gal. 5.16 By the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified for Christ was delivered for our offences and was raised againe for our justification Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through Jesus Christ our Lord which is by the divine power of his Word which signifieth the shield of faith Againe take the helmet of salvation for now I praise God I plainly understand that saying wil be brought to passe that is written Luke 3. All flesh shall see the salvation of our God for now a glorious God wil shew and set forth by the divine power of his Word Christ and the true Church from the divel and the false Church that al people by degrees shal discerne the one from the other with the eyes of their understanding as plainly as they may discerne the Sun from the Moone with their bodily eyes so all people shal be forced to see the salvation of our God whether they wil or no. For God by the divine power of his word will open the eyes of the people so cleare that they shall plainly see and understand that there is no salvation to be attained but by Christ and by the divine power of his word which is the helmet of our salvation so all those people that will be reconciled unto it they shall see it to their everlasting joy and glory But on the other side all those people that shall wilfully fight against it they shall see it to their eternall death and damnation if they do not repent and yeeld obedience unto it Again take the sword of the spirit which is the word of God the sword I understand and prove that it signifieth Christ and his word for in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God Christ is the word and Christ was with God and Christ is God for the word of God is quick and powerfull and sharper then any two edged sword Heb. 4. First it is quick in apprehention for to cut and devide betwixt the Law and the Gospel Secondly it is powerfull to draw the people from the bondage of sinne and corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God Thus I have shewed you in briefe what are the Weapons that the souldiers of Christ must take up to fight against al false doctrine and false power that belongeth to the divil and his Kingdom of darknes But if the trumpet give an uncertaine sound who shal prepare himselfe to the battel wherefore I praise God I have proved the Bishops and al their Clergy to be false preachers which give a false and contrary sound for they are ministers of the Letter which are instruments of the devil for in Gods sight they are no better For the more powerfully vpon that instrument they do sound the more they help the divil beare up his Crowne I have proved the letter signifieth the old Law and the Apostle saith plainly and so say I 1 Cor. 15. The strength of sinne is the Law and the devil and al his carnal ministers they are yet the strengh of sinne for by that authority that is given unto them they keep the people under unbeleife for I say once again Christ is the end of the Law to every one that beleeveth wherefore I Iames Hunt humbly beseech al good Christian people In the city and in countrey round For to observe the trumpet sound Which kindly doth you all intreate To put on all your spirituall armory complete That you Christs souldiers may be found To help me get the Bishops Clergies kingdome downe So when we have won the victory Christ will give the crowne of glory to you and me To triumph in glory here for a time and in the world to come world without end It is written 1 Cor. 6.2 Know you not that the Saints shall judge the world I have already proved that the Saints are al those people that shal be reconciled to Christ through belief and obedience of the truth Wherefore I plainly and boldly say that the Saints of God by the divine power of his Word shal proclaime a doome and judgment of everlasting death and damnation against al those people that shal wilfully rise up in battel to fight against God and us if they doe not repent and be reconciled unto God and us so I make no doubt when we shal declare our proclamation which we shal receive from the divine power of God and his Word it wil be a greater feare and astonishment unto al those people that shal rise up against us then if there were thousands of thousands of men in arms rising up against them to destroy them for the death of the
evident truth therefore I shall prove their doctrine is pure in shew but little in substance For God doth not tye himselfe to the Art of schollership which the Clergy have bin taught in the University for he saith expresly by the divine power of his Word 1 Cor. 1. God chooseth the foolish things of this world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weake things of the world to confound the things that are mighty Wherefore I say plainly God hath raised me up to shew his power in weaknes to confound the Bishops and all their Clergy both in their doctrine and their judgment as concerning true and sound Religion It is written in Reve. 20.8 concerning Gog and Magog I understand this Gog and Magog signifieth the divill and all his carnall ministers which are alwaies raising up warr and battle against Christ and his elect children it is said in the 9. verse They Went upon the breadth of the earth and camped the Saints about I understand and can prove the Pope and all his Clergy and the Bishops here in England and all their Clergy upon both sides they have blinded and deceived all those people that are as yet held under their power Again for the Turke the divill hath his carnall ministers amongst them whereby he hath deceived all those that belong to his Kingdome Againe for the Heathens the divill hath his heathen Philosophers wherby he hath deceived all those that belong to his dommion Thus the divill and his carnall ministers have spread themselves over the whole world but it is said fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them I understand and shall prove the fire that commeth downe from God out of heaven signifieth the divine power of the word of God in the Gospel of Christ which shall shine so cleare and powerfully that it will burne and consume all false doctrine which belongeth to the divill For Iohn Baptist was a burning and a flaming light Againe it is said of our glorious God Heb. 1 Who maketh his ministers a flaming fire For as a temporall fire will burne temporall buildings down to the ground even so the Word of God in the Gospell will bee a spirituall fire to burne down all false doctrine and false worship by degrees from the face of the whole world and Christ and his glorious Church shall flourish Wherefore I say with S. Paul 1 Cor. 3. 12. If any man shall build on this foundation I mean upon the bodily Temple of Christ which is the glorious Church if he shall build gould silver precious stones every mans worke shall be made manifest for the day declare it that is the light of Gods word shall prove his doctrine whether it be sound or false if any mans worke abide he shall receive a reward that is a reward of eternall glory but if any mans worke shall be burnt he shall suffer losse but he himselfe shall be saved so as by fire I understand if any man have gathered to himselfe any doctrine which is contrary to the word and will of God he must count that labour to bee as lost but when hee shall bee reconciled to Christ and to the obedience of his Word hee shall bee saved by the divine power thereof which signifieth the Holy Ghost and fire Now I say plainely if there bee any Divine or any other man that can finde any one place of Scripture in the new Testament for to prove the ministration of the old Testament is to be joyned to the glorious Church of Christ which is his body if I cannot finde 3 other plaine truths to burne up his judgement I will be content to be burned under the judgment of the high Court of Parliament whom God I hope hath gathered together for the tryall of the spirits wherefore we receive a Kingdome that cannot be moved that is such a Iesus and such a Gospell as shall abide and remaine for ever let us have grace to serve God with reverence and fear For our God is a consuming fire Heb. 12. Now I will shew you how God is a consuming fire two wayes First he is the fire of love to burn and consume all false doctrine and false worship out of the hearts and minds of the people as for to cause them to hate and forsake it For Christ so loved his Church and gave himselfe for it that he might present it to himselfe a glorious Church not having spot or wrinckle Ephes 5. This place of Scripture doth signifie that Christ would have his people to be so chast unto himselfe and to his Gospell that it should be free from all false doctrine and false worship which belongeth to the divell For God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him herein is our love made perfect that wee may have bouldnes in the day of judgment because as he is so are we in this world and so I praise God am I in this world for the spirit of God drawes but one way that is to Christ and to the obedience of his glorious Gospel But on the other side God will be found to be the fire of Wrath to destroy all those carnall ministers or any other false powers whatsoever it be with everlasting plagues and torments of hell fire that shall wilfully fight against Christ and against the divine power of his word if they do not repent and yeeld obedience unto it as I prove plainly in 2. Thes 1. 7. When the Lord Iesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the glorious Gospell of the Lord Iesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power Thus I have shewed you in breife how our God is a consuming fire two waies For God hath commanded me to sing a joyfull and a mournfull song To shew and prove by the divine power of his word his mercies and his judgments they are both exceeding strong His mercies towards all those that shall love and him obey But his fiery wrath judgments towards those that shall refuse and still say nay It is written Eph. 5. 13. All things that are reproved are made manifest by the light Now by that glorious light God hath given me I will shew you in breife what abominable hipocrites the Bishops and all their Clergy are in the sight of our glorious God for they are alwaies teaching and preaching that the people may love God and obey his commandements but I shall prove that they are the men that are enemies against God and will not obey his Commandements for the first point I shall prove that all those divines that do deny the divine power of the word of God they are enemies against God now the Bishops and their Clergy say that there is no perfection for the people so long as they are here