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A41577	An incorruptible key composed of the CX Psalme wherewith you may open the rest of the Holy Scriptures ... / by Samuel Gorton, Gent. ...	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1306; ESTC R17721	247,348	274

5. 10. 11. and put our seale unto it that he is come and to communicate in the work of God or eat of the Tree in the midst of the Garden as it is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evill or acknowledgment of pleasing and displeasing as the word signifies is to communicate in it according to the will of the flesh or the wisdome and reasonings of a Creature seene in the minde of the woman and spirit of the Serpent which is to turre the glory of God into shime q Psal 4. 2. Psal 106. 20. the truth of God into a lye r Rom. 1. 25. Concluding that wee are not so yet as God hath said we are in regard of our life in him But if we eate in a pleasing or good way we shall be such as he hath said and also that we are not so bad in respect of death or in being base and vile in our selves as hee hath said But if we eate exercise or communicate in displeasing or bad wayes we shall be s Gen. 3. 3. the one of these hath beere the way of unbeliefe a lye and falling away from God in Christ from the beginning even untill now and the other is the way of faith truth and life uniting us unto God in that way of Jesus Christ even untill now The world hath still something to eate to please or displease God before it enjoy or be possessed either with life or death according to the word and speech of God that is it hath still some Fast to keepe some Sabbath to sanctifie some Sermon to preach or here some Battell to fight some Church to constitute some Officers to raise up or Orders to reforme and re-edifie before it can take God upon his word that we are compleate in Christ t Col. 2. 10. Ephes 5. 27. And if it will eate of none of these yet it must comunicate with time that is yet some more time and reformation will be made yet some more time and the state will alter yet some more time and Jewes and Gentiles will be called yet some more time and Antichrist will be overthrown yet some more time and then Christ will come to raigne upon the Earth for a thousand yeares yet some time must be eaten up either in way of pleasing or displeasing of God and then naturall death will either put us into life or death eternall this hath been the way of the fall and drawing backe of the soule from God unto pardition u Heb. 10. 39. from the beginning to this day in all those in whom God takes no pleasure w Heb. 10. 38. even as the other is the way of Faith comming unto God and being made one with him in all those in whom his soule delighteth x 4 Esa 2. 1. as in his Elect or choice Ones the one hath life and death in it In such sort as they are both considered in the Son of God And therefore the glory of them both is given to him alone z Rom. 8. 33. 34. and in that death is swallowed up in victory a 1 Cor. 15. 54. so as nothing but life and peace appeares b 1 Cor. 15. 57. 1 Iohn 5. 4 5. the other hath life and death in it as considered in the sonne of perdition who will needes have them in himself and therefore must needs expect them in a humane or conjectured way where there is no life nor spirit of God at all but only a living unto the flesh which is nothing else at all but only death c Rom. 8. 13 and as these two trees declare unto us one estate that man is made in and yet issues out into such differing and distant operations So this state of God and Man being made one declares also our first Parents what they are in respect of spirituall and mysticall operations in the world even as the Man and the Woman who were one at the first d Gen. 2. 20 21 22. are the originall and fountaine of all naturall Birthes and Posterities in the world For out of this condition of Man being made in the Image of God judged of embraced and acknowledged according to the spirit and wisdome of God proceeds the Generation and Off-spring of the Sonne of God e Gen. 3. 15. Acts 17. 28. Esa 53. 10. who is God over all blessed for ever Amen * Rom. 9. 5 or so be it as the word imports or so it shall be having the vertue of this oath of interposission in it that ever concludes vpon tearmes of certainty and present being For according to the judgment or wisdome of God it cannot be otherwise in him So also out of the same composition or condition judged of looked upon and acknowledged according to the wisedome reasoning and conjectures of a Creature which is found also in this composition * Gen. 2. 7. as truly as is the Image and wisdome of God Out of this doth also arise that Man of sinne and Sonne of perdition that Antichrist whom God destroyes with the breath of his mouth and abolisheth with the brightnesse of his comming * 2 Thes 2. 3. 8. and as surely as that wicked Caine and righteous Abel came of the Man and the Woman who were at the first made good yea vehemently good f Gen. 1. 31. So also doe these contrary though both mysticall and spirituall Generations spring out of that composition and wonderful workmanship of God And if we understand not our first Parents according to the bringing forth of these severall and contrary Seedes of Posterities namely the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent * Gen. 3. 15 3. Iude 10 as well as we understand them namely the Man and the Woman to be the first originall of our naturall being wee understand and them to 〈◊〉 fruit nor profit at all but rather like bruit beasts made to be taken and destroyed for ever g 2. Pet. 2. 12. For there is a being under the Oath of the Curse of that Man of sinne h 2 Thes 2. 3. Psal 119. 21. Dewt. 27. 15. as well as a being in or under the Oath of the blessing of that Melchi●adeck i Gen. 14. 18 19 20 Heb. 7. 21. under which the resurrection and death are the same act or thing And so it is in the way of sinne and the curse the resurrection or lifting up of the flesh k 2 Pet. 2. 10. Rom. 8 13. Col. 2. 18. is the death of the Spirit the operation and raising of wrath is the cessation and disanulling of peace for ever And this great distance and contrariety comes to passe by that differing light which one and the same thing is beheld and looked upon withall the one sees by the light and revelation of the Spirit * according to that wisdome that is in the Son of God And therefore reasons or argues not nor concludeth upon any thing

as the oracle or word of God in the Courts of the Lords house r Heb. 7. 1. Heb. 13. 10. but onely such as give evidence and beare witnesse in matters that concerne the right ordering Government therof for the honour of their Lord but under the power and upon the certainty of this oath for that which was from the begining which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes which we have looked upon our hands have handled of the word of life s 1 Pet. 4. 11 Psal 116. 18. 19. Psal 135. 1 2 3. such things and upon grounds of no lesse certainty are the witnesses of Jesus Christ to speake in the audience of such as waite and attend in the house of the Lord or at the gates of wisdome t 1 Iohn 1. 1 2 3. for no Scripture is of any private interpretation but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost u Psal 123. 1. 2. Psal 130. 5 6 7. Prov. 5. 1. Prov. 7. 24. Prov. 8. 33. 34. so that by the same spirit and therefore upon like certainty that the word was spoken from the begining it is also to be interpreted and opened for ever for prophesies of old or prophesies at any time as the word will beare and may be read came not by the will of man for the will of man is a private spirit yea if all the men in the world should consent and agree in one thing it were a private spirit in case they spoke not by the Spirit of God for the spirit of man and so by the Law of nature corrupted the spirit of all men ever aimes at it selfe w 2 Pet. 1. 20. 21. in all its Councells and actions x Phil. 2. 21 Psal 4. 6. and therefore a private spirit though trained up in the greatest schoole the world affords or furnished with the greatest consent of library but the spirit of God ever aimes at and propounds another in all its Councels and consultations therefore it is a publike spirit though in one holy man of God else had the Sonne of God never appeared in our nature if he had not propounded the good of another y Iohn 17. 19. Iohn 10. 1 Rom. 5. 6 to 10. nor could we ever give glory to God in all things if the spirit it selfe helped not our infirmities z Rom. 8. 26. Ephes 5. 18. 19. 20. who onely inables us thereunto and by vertue of that we propound the honour of our Lord and not our selves in all our Councells and wayes a 1 Cor. 10. 31. Col. 3. 17. 1 Cor. 10. 24 and therein have a publick spirit and all other spirits are private self-seekers and not interpreters of the word of God at all b Iohn 2. 16 2 Pet. 2. 3. 2 Cor. 11. 13 2 Cor. 4. 2. Mat. 23. 13 14 15. 2 Cor. 2. 17. But we see upon what termes of certainty the Apostle affirmes this that in the true way of the Gospel life is a continued act of death in that authority and Lordship we have in Christ we dye unto that basenesse and subjection that naturally is in every man whether it appeare in tirannicall rule or dejected slavery all is but the same spirit namely a living unto the lusts of the flesh for there is the same spirit in that which the woman saith in the beginning we must not eate least we dye that there is in that which the Serpent saith if ye eate ye shall be as Gods they both use the word of truth but in a false sence and so turne it into alye unto themselves the one in way of false feare the other in way of false courage and confidence c Gen. 3. 3 4 5. even as Sathan used the words of Truth in tempting of Christ but in a false sence d Mat. 4. 6. as our Saviour well perceived although it consist not in the altering of some phrases in the places alleiged as the world vainly thinks for there is no Scripture uttered that is brought in againe by the spirit of God upon any occasion that is alledged precisely in the same termes phrases or circumstances that it was before But Sathans falsity stands in this that he takes these words ye shall be like unto God in a wrong sence e Gen. 3. 5. or this word to live and the womans falsity stands in this that she takes dying in a wrong sense and so the one and the other become evill and are expressions which are included in the way of the falle and the way of the falle in them for Sathan is a lyer from the beginning and the Father thereof f Ioh. 8. 44. For it is possible to eat of or communicate in that Tree in the midst of the garden and live for ever g Gen. 3. 22. 23. and also to eat of and communicate in that Tree in the midst of the Garden and dye for ever h Gen. 2. 17. yea death and life are in the one and in the other yet in the one life onely appeares and no death at all for they are both said to be in the midst of the Garden i Revel 22. 2 3 4. which must be made good precisely according to the Truth of that unerring rule of Gods circumference and senter not to faile so much as in a tittle in the one or in the other and therefore must teach us one and the same thing which is the true state of mankind represented unto us therein according to that glorious device of Gods workmanship who is the very midst hart spirit or life of all his workes who was made as a Tree of righteousnesse k Gen. 2 9. consisting of roote and branch even as that Sonne of David doth l Psal 1. 3. Esa 61. 3. whom he taught and represented unto us a roote as he is the Image of God m Revel 22 16. Gen. 1. 27. who is the Fountaine of all things and so gives being unto the man as the roote gives being unto the Tree he is also a branch as he is made of the dust of the earth n Gen. 2. 7. and so springs up into the glory of God o 2 Cor. 3. 18. to communicate therefore in this worke or to eat of this Tree according to the mind and wisdome of God is to be dead unto the flesh but alive unto God which is life indeed and abides for ever in them that eat of that Tree of life in the midst of the Paradice of God * Revel 2. 7. that is to conclude the one and the other to be as really present as they are to come and to be in present being and use as they shall for ever be as a living Fountaine still to spring up in us and to us p Iohn 4. 14. which is nothing else but to believe the record that God hath given unto us of his Sonne q 1 Iohn