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 sâ—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 aâ—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 vertâ—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
fulnesse of all subtilty and all mischief the child of the Devill and enemy of all righteousnesse which ceaseth not to pervert the straight wayes of the Lord Acts 13. 10. And without an emptinesse of man in both these respects from the first act of his ordination or creation the full and compleat death of Christ is never known nor doth it appear in the world unto salvation which sets man at an utter distance from God in Cain with respect unto Abel as also it sets man in unity with God in Seth with respect to the same Abel he being set in his stead and the father of Christ Luke 3. 23 -38 And from this twofold vanity the death of the Son of God is forever perfected for in that way of Cain he is dead to al heavenly and spiritual vertue as he is the Son of God and yet God in the exercise of wrath and displeasure is really there and in Seth he is dead to all earthly and carnall things as he is the Son of Sons man and yet man in exercise of goodnesse and love is really there and without respect to these twain the death of Christ is not revealed for it is not part of Christ that suffers for the salvation of man as only in his manhood as the blind Pharisees of the world hold and teach but it is Christ compleat who consists of God and man and in the same respect he is said to dye he never lives therefore it is said that he is dead and is alive as the words may be truly read Rev. 1. 18. Rev. 2. 8. And from this death of the Son of God in this twofold respect there flows a twofold righteousnesse or justice namely of absolution and of condemnation Mat. 25. 34. 41. Psalm 6. 8. And if it were not for this death of Christ thus considered there were no place for the righteousnesse of Faith in the exercise of mercy nor for that of the Scribes and Pharises in that exercise of Gods severity Rom. 11. 22. Rom. 9. 22. 23. but Gods glory were extinct in both respects and therefore he is righteous Abel For if a wicked man could content himself simply with the Creature in his relation to it as the bruit beasts do then were there no severity of God to be exercised in way of the curse for there were no ground nor footing for it But man hath a spirit as it appears in Gain that will inherit acceptation with God as well as his brother though in that way of an earthly and carnall sacrifice whereby it cometh to passe that he kils his brother causelesly nay he kils him because his own works are evill and his brothers good even as all wicked men quench and kill the spirit and life of Christ Iesus in their own hearts by their earthly and carnall thoughts and imagination of that good word and work of God in point of salsalvation 1 Iohn 3. 12. which is the kindling of wrath in our soules for as it was in Cain so it is in all such as wander in the way of Caein Iude 11. For according to the worth and dignity of the person whose life is extinct and taken away which is the spirit and life of the Son of God of such wce and weight is the nature and guilt of his sin for so doing which can never be recovered nor healed and accordingly the weight of justice and Gods severity must of necessity go forth in the exercises of self in his just condemnation and execution thereof And as the spirit of man naturally being made one with God inclineth and seeketh after God whereby to honour and dignifie it selfe with his titles and excellencies without which he cannot make himself Lord of all Gen. 1. 28. which carnally enterprised works such effect So also there is naturally in the Son of God an aptitude and propensity unto man for the revelation and manifestation of himself in all his vertues according to the fulnesse thereof which cannot be but by the crucifying of the flesh in all the affections and lusts thereof Gal. 5. 24. which is a work of no lesse weight than the overcoming of Satan himself which none but the Son of God himself can do Heb. 2. 14. which conquest and vâ—câ—um of the flesh is a work of no lesse worth nor holinesse inferiour unto that which is peculier to the spirit of God and therefore the righteousnesse of absolution and acceptation with God in the bountifuâ—l expression of mercy and goodnesse is ever annexed thereunto and thus is there a righteous Abel or righteous vanity spread throughout the Earth overall mankind there ore the Psalmist saith every man is vanity or as the word is all Aâ—am is vanity taking Adam there as the root of all mankind which are either empty of the things of God as the wicked universally are or else of the lusts of men as the elect of God in that mysticall body of Christ are Gal 5. 24. And it is a certain and undeniable truth as Christ the Son of God is set forth and taught herein that he who is the Creator and Maker of all things emptyeth himself and becomes vain in all things both of flesh and spirit that he thereby may manifest himself to have the glory of all things not only of life but also of death for in that he dies to the things of the Spirit in the wicked he thereby riseth in wrath through the wisdom of the flesh and in that he dies unto the flesh in the Saints he riseth in mercy and peace in the exercises of the spirit whereby he hath the glory of all things which otherwise could never be For as man in Christ hath the righteousnesse and glory of God and yet nothing can be attributed to the things naturall proper to man in that wonderfull work of Gods Creation even so God in Antichrist hath the sin and shame of Satan and yet nothing of that condition can be attributed to any thing naturally proper to God in that wonderfull destruction of the Devill And with respect unto vanity thus distributed it is called the bloods of thy brother in the form plurall Gen. 4. 10. And it speaks guilt and terrour from the ground or earthly heart of Cain that so drinks it in Gen. 4. 11. and it also speaks as a witnesse of acceptation with God by faith in that way of Seth who is that set one unto this day of whom is Christ who yet speaketh Heb. 11. 4 for though Abel be cut off from all succession of mercy in that way of carnall sacrifices in Cain yet hath he a succession of terrour in Cains heart Gen. 4. 13. 14. so also though he have no succession according to the flesh in that acceptable Sacrifice of the firstling of the flock being dead in that respect in the way of Seth yet hath he his succession and language in the witnesse and acceptation of faith unto this day Heb. 11. 4. And according to this
it is common to carnal Israel in all ages to stand upon and imploy themselves in types shadows bodily exercises and temporary institutions that perish in their use Col. 2. 20 21 22. In this point of their doctrine let all men judge have these men that so teach more opprobation from God of the acceptation of their sacrifices in any of their offerings than Abel had Heb. 11. 4. Do men now walk nearer to God than Enock did who tasted not of any thing that savoured of death Gen. 5. 24. Heb. 11. 5. Have men attained to more skill in these dayes than Noah had who could make a house to contain all creatures according to their kind both clean and unclean Gen. 7. 7 8 9. and yet it is of no lesse difficulty to make one field to contain both Wheat and Tares Mat. 13. 25 26 27. Was ever man more in favour with God than Abraham with whom the Lord is said to eat drink to walk with him towards Sodom and converse with him about Sodom so as he will hide nothing from Abraham Gen. 18 who is therefore called Gods friend or familiar Iames 2. 23. Did ever man in these dayes stand nearer to God or attain a clearer vision and aspect of God than Moses who talked with him face to face as a man speaks to his friend Exod. 33. 11. had ever man more power with God in these dayes than Jacob had who as a Prince prevailed with God and with men and had power Gen. 32. 28. Can any man in these dayes in the finishing of his ministry attain to a more honourable Funerall than Eliah did or give a more effectual and honourable Legacie than he did in his departure 2 King 2. 9. â—15 It may seeme strange considering the voice of Scripture and the nature of the Son of God who is yesterday and to day and the same for ever Heb 13. 8. that men should beleeve such doctrine as proclames Christ to be nearer and more effectual and glorious in the Saints in one age of the world than in another but by this means we see they glorifie themselves and say we are not in so low and mean wayes of dispensation as our Fathers were and by this means hide the Devil in their doctrine by telling men from this ground that how ever so pure and glorious estate appear not now in the Saints nor those operations of the Spirit so plentifully powred out as the Scriptures foretell and make mention of nor that reall presence of Christ in his ordinances yet a time is coming wherein a more glorious Dispensation shall appear for the fulfilment and making good of all such Prophesieâ— and Promises as are recorded in the word of God Acts 2. 18. Mark â—6 17 18. and thus men have been deluded and the word of God falsified from the heginning of the World unto this day by mens vayn Tradicions with respect to time past conjecturall and meer imaginary hopes for time to come never yeelding unto Christ the reality and compleat blessing of his presence upon the Earth Exod 3â— 14. 15. but slanderously intreat and cruelly persecute him when or in whomsoever he appeareth Mat. 5. 11. Iohn 15. 20. Acts 7. 52. 3 Hence ariseth a third point in what they teach that is They falsly translate the matter to justify themselves in their present wickednesse as though they themselves were of that spirit which loves maintayns and justifies the Cause of the Prophets and impute the persecution and murdering of the Prophets only to their fathers to be an act done in their fathers dayes as though their time afforded no such thing And in like manner impute the spirit of wickednesse unto Christ and translate their own practice unto him to justify themselves thereby to be the holy ones of God whilst they are seeking the life of the Son of God to entrap and ensnare him as an evill doer a friend of Publicans and Sinners a gluttonous person a wine bibber a Samaritan and one that hath a Devil and works by the power of Belzebub the chief of Devils Mat. 11. 19 Iohn 8. 48. Mat. 12. 24. Thus they translate the state of the Son of God into the condicion of the Devil as being a practicioner of Devilism and the state of the Devill as the state and condicion of Christ a lover and maintayner of the Prophets which is the very way of all false interpreters of the Word of God who to varnish and colour over their deceitfull and cruell spirit and practices cry out against Hereticks Scismaticks Blasphemers and enemies of Church and State as themselves being innocent friends to Religion and upholders of State and all good Order and are no such persons as their forefathers have been out of whose loyns they are come and upon whose proper principles they do proceed these are men of close conveyance by sleight of hand in their Ministry the juglers of the Time the witches of the world in all the ages thereof according to the tru intent of the word of God concerning witchcraft for the Hebrew word Cashaph signifying a changing or turning intending properly false Teachers as our Apostle witneseth Gal. 4. 1. such as Iannes and Iambres were who withstood Moses alluding to the Sorcerers in Egypt which the Apostle met with in his dayes 2 Tim. 3. 8. such as change the things of God into things humane the Eternall Ordinances and Offices of Christ into such as are transitory Institucions of men Col. 2. 20 21 22. who delude men by proposing a false object and corrupting the ayer or medium of doctrin in the conveyance of the ey to the object For as the word of Blessing in all its expressions terminates it selfe as its proper scope in the playn and saving liberty of the Spirit in the Son of God so also the word of the Curse in all the manifestacions thereof terminates it selfe in that guilefull destructive enthraling spirit of entanglement of that son of perdicion which is the Reall Communion of the Woman with the Serpent whereby the off-spring of the Devill is brought forth as the other is the real fellowship of the Bride and Bridegroom whereby the Son of God that off-spring of Heaven is brought to light in his tru Office and Exercise and as these Ministers place the highest excellency of Christ now in exercise and being on the Earth in point of Regall Authority and Priestly Vertu in Officers made and appointed by men so also they place the basest degree of Satans Subtilty in simple women loaden with iniquity whom they can easily snare in the words uttered for their own defence with the help of som envious witnesse prejudic'd against them whilst they themselves do not only passe away in the croud as innocent finding out and revealing of the iniquity of the Times but also sit as judges of them and as gods over them for execution The third generall point noted in the Text is what these Interpreters are in point
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 Schismaâ—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 â—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
them as others inferior to him These assume a life spirit and righteousnesse of Christ but confesse that the reality of their proper aboad is in another namely in Christ himselfe these have let out the life and spirit of Christ into another condition distinct from himselfe and therefore he is another than they upon whom these things are imputed and powred out And hence it is that as blood shed on the Earth loseth its proper spirit and life and the ground converting it strengthens it selfe thereby even so this doctrine drawes out the blood of Christ so as it loseth its naturall and proper vertue and is no more the life and spirit of the Lamb of God the Saviour of the World but is become the life and spirit of a Woulf ravening and devouring to his utmost power the flock of God whereunto he comes it is no more the life and Spirit of Christ but of Antichrist no more the Spirit of God but is the spirit of that evill one 3 The third point noted is the time that is from what time it is shed that is very ancient namely from the foundation of the World that is this spirit of false interpretation is the originall ground and cause of all bloodshed and murther that ever was in the World as it was in that wicked Cain who slew his brother in the beginning 1 Iohn 3. 12. by false interpreting of the Sacrifices of God to consist in earthly things therefore is said to offer the fruits of the ground Gen. 4. 3. unto the Lord which is his evill work which the Apostle notes to be the cause of the murther saying And wherefore slew he him but because his own work was evill and his brothers good 1 Iohn 3. 12. Even so it is unto this day false interpretation in carnallizing the word of God falsifying that acceptable Sacrifice which is the firstling of the Flock that Abel brings this is the cause of all murther and bloody persecution unto this day for it only upholds the way of Cain and wages of Balam in the World Jude 11. which spirit of Cain kept alive in ceremoniall and traditionall Jews Christ tels them they are of their father the Devill who is a Murderer from the beginning alluding to that act of Cain Iohn 8. 44. 4 The fourth point is to what time this act of murther reacheth and comes that is unto this present generation for as false Interpretation is the originall of murther and killing of the spirit of all the Prophets so also it is that off-spring present appearance and actor thereof in all ages for as the wisdom of God taking the Son of man or Adam earth into unity with it selfe there is blessednesse and conservation of eternall liâ—e in all that off-spring wherein this wisdom is pleased to propagate it selfe in the true construction given of that wisdom and word of God So also the wisdom of the Serpent taking into its counsel or unity with it self the Son of God or heavenly condition which hath Lordship over all by false construction of the word and work of God doth thereby become guilty and accursed in all the off spring and generation thereof where and in whomsoever the spirit of the Serpent in false interpretation appeareth the one of these is the seed of the woman the other the seed of the Serpent which in all ages and in all things are at enmity and in opposition the one to victory to be set upon the Throne of David perpetuated as the Sun before the Lord Psal 89. 35. 36. â—7 and the other in way of the Fall is cast down unto the Earth where he makes war with the remnant of the seed of the woman yea is thrust down into the bottomlesse pit and place of destruction for ever Rev. 12. Rev. 20. 1. 2. 3. and at so wide a difference doth the true and false interpretation of the word of God begin proceed and end in 5 The fifth point is that of them it is required that is the blood of all the Prophets of God shed from the foundation of the world is required of the present generation inquisition for blood being made it is required at their hands and God will inquire after exactly exquisitely or perfectly as the Greek word aâ—riboas translated inquire signifies Act. 23. 20. for the Lord will inquire or the word of God will seek and find out bloods in the form plural Psalm 9 12. that is such as corrupt both the life and the death of the Son of God both being included in the word bloods he will inquire that is execute vengeance exactly to the uttermost therefore where Moses saith God will inquire or require of him that hearkens not unto the words of the Prophets Deut. 18. 19. the Apostle Peter alleging the words of Moses saith that he that will not hearken to the words of the Prophet God shall destroy him from among the People Acts 3. 23. In which inquisition after blood or requiring of it exactly note these two things I. First Consider the incomprehensible nature of the Fact in takingaway and disanulling the life and spirit of the word of God for it is called the blood of God Act. 20. 28. and if it be of that infinite and incomprehensible nature what shall be found of a valuable consideration to satisfie and make payment to the uttermost farthing which is exactly required to be done or else imprisonment for ever Mat. 5. 25. 26. II. Consider that if this blood guiltinesse have not only in it the originall of all murther but also is in a continued act there of successively crucifying the Lord afresh unto himselfe and puts him to open shame Heb. 6. 6. When can a just and exact punishment cease if the cruell act of the murther be still in operation for the cause of this complaint They have pierced my hands and my fe t is never out of act in any wicked man whatsoever Psalm 22. 16. no more than the conservation of the life of the spirit of God is out of act in the Lord Iesus Christ whereit ever liveth to make intercession in the Saints Heb. 7. 25. Rom. 8. 25. 26. 34. 6 The sixth point is that it shall come upon them according to Matthew that is the blood guiltinesse together with the exact punishment and plague for taking away the life and spirit of the word of God in carnallizing and making a dead carkasse of the same And it is said to come upon them in like sense in way of opposition as the Spirit of God is said to come upon the Saints of God so as to cloath them with might and power to do great workes or to performe mighty and miraculous workes in and by them so it is said the spirit of God came upon Othniel Gideon and Sampson to do mighty works unresistably Iudg. 3. 10. Iudg. 6. â—4 Iudg. 14. 5. 6. Even so the spirit of guilt and destruction comes upon false Interpreters to their utter