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A60227	The life and death of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., or, A short narrative of the main passages of his earthly pilgrimage together with a true account of his purely Christian, peaceable, spiritual, gospel-principles, doctrine, life and way of worshipping God, for which he suffered contradiction and reproach from all sorts of sinners, and at last, a violent death, June 14. Anno, 1662 : to which is added, his last exhortation to his children, the day before his death.	Sikes, George.	1662 (1662)	Wing S3780; ESTC R19959	148,120	164

toyes The Devil then that 's called the God of this world together with his fallen angels knows exactly what this world amounts to knows all inferiour nature humane amongst the rest through and through He can tell where to have man and fit him at every turn He thorowly knows all the things he is to tempt him with and he thorowly him that he sets himself to tempt and so is compleatly accomodated for his seducing work in all points And this will be his course till he be sealed up in the bottomless pit which will be Synchronal with Christ's coming forth to reign Rev. 20. But if once man become a new creature by receiving either the single or double portion of the spirit he passes out of the devils hands This manchild is quite out of his reach Revel 12. The spiritual believer that is partaker of the divine nature in the ●ence above expressed is partaker of the wisdom holiness and righteousness of God Then he is wiser than the Devil if the wisdom of God be superiour to the wisdom of that Serpent This is a thing one did once spitefully tax this Sufferer with as boasting that he was wiser than the Devil because on some occasion that was offered he replied He was glad he lived in a spirit the Devil was so little acquainted with Sure he that lives in the spirit of God lives in a spirit that is superiour to the devil and that he is little acquainted with The lowest degree of wisdom light life and glory in the new creation is above the highest excellencies and glory of any nature or creature in the old He that has but the single portion of the spirit and that but in seed will be too hard for that roaring and devouring Lion will resist him effectually and finally in the stedfast faith of God's elect 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. Even babes and suckling in the Life of grace shall be able to still that enemy and avenger with all his shews and flourishes in Natures ● excellencies first-creation power or things Psal. 8. 2. 16. 'T is observable from the sentence passed upon the Serpent that the devil and his angels are yet alive He with Adam and Eve are summoned to appear before Christs Tribunal to answer what each of them had done in that business of the fall His sentence runs thus Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattel and above every beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy Life Angels and men the highest ranks of Creatures in the first world are comparatively with the new-creature state of men and angels in the second world reckoned but as cattel the choicer sort of the beasts of the field Satan with his retinue of fallen angels does yet live His diet is dust As God of this world he has all sorts of beings and excellencies of the first creation before him This is the dust he feeds on and feeds others with This diet he offered to Christ himself when he was hungry His trade of seducing mankind managable by these things he has been at well towards six thousand years 'T is a Rabbinical observation that these six thousand years of the worlds labour under this seducing work of the devil as plunged in that wicked one were resembled by the six dayes works in the creation of it a thousand years being with the Lord as one day The seaventh thousand the Iewish doctors held to be typified by the Sabbath day in which the world should rest from this bondage under the God of this world They observed also that the Sabbath is not described as the other six dayes by an evening and morning as having no darkness at all in it that so it might more fitly represent to us the perpetual joyes and light of the New-Ierusalem or World to come During the six thousand years of the Worlds miserable thral dom and labour under the Satanical yoke righteous men are perpetually oppressed from Abel downwards and there is no judgement for them to be had in this world But in the seventh thousand year the seventh day of the world they will be in their proper Sabbatical state and nothing shall hurt in all the holy Mountain or kingdom of Christ. The light glory and wisdom of the first creation when men or angels are deteined and held by them from entring into the more excellent glory of the second are but as chains of darkness upon them When Satans time is come to be sealed up in the bottomless pit at Christs coming forth to reign this yet does not absolutely and finally strip him of his first-creation flourish but onely suspends his exercise of it as to his former deceiving of the nations thereby till the thousand years be fulfilled and then he comes forth again for a little season to deceive the nations and engage his whole party of angels and men in order to the giving his final utmost assault to the New-Ierusalem camp of Christ and all his Saints the beloved City So far he will ●e permitted to proceed herein as to besiege it with a kind of seeming hopefulness to outvie it in a flourish of spirituality and in the state of the resurrection in order yet to carry the Kingdom and dominion from Christ and all his saints Then fire comes down from God out of Heaven upon him and his on the New-Ierusalem's ascending into their utmost glory of the resurrection and full vision of God for evermore and then nothing but torment wil be their portion for ever and ever when perfectly stripped of all first-creation glory enjoyments and fixed in the second death however he cozen men with conceits even to this day that those torments shall have a period and all shall be saved In Rev. 20. we have an account of these particulars 17. What are the Old and New Testament as written Books representing the mind of God in a sound or sight of words but Letter Shadow or significant Figure of natural and spiritual-creature perfection in Christ and men in men as natural and spiritual properly distinguish old and new creation Life in them Men of a first-Covenant old Testament old Adam natural or legal spirit are all one thing So are men of a new Covenant new Testament second Adam new Creature or truly evangelical Spirit the same In the former is the Life of the Law or the ruling activity of rectified humane first-creation Principles In the latter the Life of the Gospel or the ruling activity of the new-creature Spirit and principles One is the Legal professor the other the Spiritual believer One is under the Law of Nature or the first Covenant the other under Grace the Law of Faith spiritual Life or the new and everlasting Covenant 18. The Law of Nature and of the first Covenant are the same thing in man but as to the perfection of them in or upon man this difference is observable Man

are hot about the outward circumstances of worship time place and the like Christ reproves them in his answer to the woman of Samaria at Iacobs Well Neither in this Mountain nor at Ierusalem shall ye worship the Father but in spirit and truth Joh. 4. 23. Neither in this Form nor that but excluded out of all Synagogues has the true Church and Spouse of Christ been worshipping God this twelve hundred Years and upwards in her mourning persecuted wilderness-condition out of which she is shortly to appear and speak for her self By this Sufferers reckoning the time times and half a time or three years and a half are very near expired those forty two moneths and one thousand two hundred and sixty days prophetical for years all which do character and point out the same Epocha in Daniel and the Revelation for the Churches abode in the Wilderness from the time of her flight mentioned Rev. 12. 6. She will very shortly be called up out of the wilderness by the name of Shulamite which comes from the same word that Solomon and Salem do signifying Peace This true peaceable Pilgrim and Spouse of Christ that in her Life and Testimony hath been so disgustful to this world out of which she is chosen as to be reputed by all the Inhabitants of the earth a wrangling Heretick a Blasphemer and one that turns the World upside down will shortly come up out af her political grave or exclusion from all authority or allowance in Church and State into the exercise of true Christian Polity in both in association with the holy Angels who with the risen Witnesses will make up the two hosts before whom no opposite power of contradicting man wil be able to bear up See for this Cant. 6. 13. Return return O Shulamite return return that we may look upon thee What will ye see in the Shulamite as it were the company or dance of two Armies Mahanaim relating to Iacobs two hosts of Angels and Men when he was to meet Esau Gen. 32. 1 2. and importing the victory these two obtain over all their enemies as also their dance or triumphant rejoycing after the victory And all this yet amounts but to the preparatory work for the second coming of Christ by plucking up every thing that offends so as at last there may be nothing to hurt in all the holy mountain Mat. 13. 41. Esay 11. 9. But how shall the risen Witnesses handle their enemies when spirited and set upon their feet as a Nation born at once and in one day Esay 66. 8. Rev. 11. 11. 'T is answered fire shall proceed out of their mouth to devour any that would hurt them and in this manner must they be killed that is at the desire of the believing risen witnesses angels that are a flaming fire Psal. 104. 4. will destroy any men that oppose them Fire goes out of the saints mouth that is by prayer to God on which the angels are commissioned to do execution immediately and irresistibly without more ado Thus fire went out of Elias his mouth to devour the two Captains and their fifties Angels were the executioners 2 King 1. 9 12. Those acts of Elias were but Types and shadows of what will be done in the end of the world at the winding up of all dispensations towards the highest even the personal coming forth of Christ with all his New-Ierusalem Armies following him Rev. 19. 14. As to what will be performed by the risen Witnesses relation is had to Elias and to Moses Rev. 11. 6. Where 't is said They shall have power as Elias had to shut heaven that it rain not and to smite the earth with Plagues as often as they will as Moses did in Egypt It may appear what work one Angel can make with whole Armies of men a hundred fourescore and five thousand Assyrians were slain by an angel in one night in the Leagure before Ierusalem 2 King 19. 35. But to return from this Contempla●ion of the true New-Ierusalem spirited Church and Spouse of Christ and what she will do when she comes out of the Wilderness consider we a little the general posture of all visible Churches even at this day as this Sufferer hath left it represented to us in writing There are many Churches in the World that make a profession of the Name of Christ under several Forms and Denominations according to the variety of Judgements and Interests of the Rulers Members thereof There is a Church called Catholick or Universal headed by the Pope who pretends to be Christs Vicar There are also National Churches he●ded either by a Civil Magistrate as the Church of England or by general Assemblies as the Church of Scotland hath been with other Reformed Churches There are also particular Independant Congregational Churches distinguishing themselves into variety of Sects and diversity of Judgements and Opinions as well about the way and order of the word of matters of worship and the service of God as in what they hold Fundamental in matters of Faith These all make up one Body as to the owning and upholding a Church in some outward visible Form who notwithstanding all their differences and protestings against one another do generally agree together in one mind as to the preferring of the Church in Name Shew and outward Order before what it is in Spirit and Truth as it is the real and living Body of Christ. Hence it is that the true Church indeed the very living real spiritual members of Christ's Body have been for many hundred years a dispersed captivated people under all worldly powers civil or Ecclesiastical and never been suffered to use or enjoy a freedom in their Communion together and the purity of God's Service and Worship but are upon one pretence or other restrained by Humane Lawes and suppressed as Hereticks Schismaticks Fanaticks and such as turn the World upside down while those that have the repute and credit to be the Church or Churches of Christ under some one of the Formes and outward Orders b●fore mentioned have the Powers of the World on their side and are contending one with another who shall be uppermost and give the Rule of Conformity in Doctrine Worship and Church Order to all the rest by Compulsion and Persecution But the dayes are now h●stening apace wherein the living Members of Christ's Body shall be made manifest in distinction from all those that have the Name to live but are dead Thus in brief you see his Judgement concerning the Church Concerning BAPTISM he writes thus THere are several Baptismes spoken of in the New Testament and the Doctrine concerning them hath been so dark and mysterious that there is little yet extant in the Writings of men concerning the same that carries with it satisfaction There are two general tearms under which all Baptismes mentioned in the New Testament seem to be comprehended that is to say Of Water and of the holy Ghost and Fire Water Baptism is twofold and

The natural man perceiveth not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned Spiritual things are not at all the suitable intelligible objects to the natural understanding But will self-confident man ever suffer this to becom the Question Whether the fault lye in him that he perceives not what is said by the spiritual watchman By no meanes specially if this natural man be renewed cleansed enlightened adorned with excellent gifts and the tongue of men and angels so that he is in one kind wise and strong and honourable in Christ a Prince at working righteousness reigning as a King 1 Cor. 4. 8. You may sooner remove a mountain then get this man so accomplished and qualified once to suffer his understanding and reception of things to be scrupled or questioned as insufficient for these things Then there 's no remedy but if the spiritual believers Testimony be not received the fault must be laid at his door That he daringly asserts many things but clears nothing proves nothing Thus the Pharisees serv'd Christ. Are we blind also Do you think that if you talk'd any thing that has Sence Reason or Scripture in it for its evidence we could not see what 't is you drive at John 9. 40. Let 's consider whether these learned self-confidents with the rest of the Iewish Rabbies were blind or no as to the true reach and significancy of those very Oracles they were generally reputed the onely Interpreters of in Moses and the Prophets Paul being set down in the Iewish Synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia upon intimation from the Rulers thereof to speak a word of exhortation a thing not admitted in our Synagogues insists upon this very point They saies he that dwell at Ierusalem and their Rulers because they knew not Christ nor yet the voices of the Prophets which were read every Sabbath day they have fulfilled them in condemning him And though they found no cause of death in him yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain Act. 13. 27 28. They are said therefore to have done it ignorantly The Princes of this World that is the Iewish Priests Scribes Pharisees c. that were Princes in understanding and at working the righteousness of the Law they yet knew not Christ for had they known him they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory 1 Cor. 2.8 'T was well for them their murdering of him was capable of such an interpretation for this keeps the door yet open for salvation through Christ crucified to be preach'd even to them that crucified him Men and brethren children of the stock of Abraham to you is the word of this salvation sent Act. 13. 26. What a marvellous thing may it seem that the very learned Rulers and onely reputed expounders of the Law and the Prophets should crucifie Christ and in all the circumstances of their proceedings with him fulfil all that was foretold of him in Moses and the Prophets and yet not know all along what they were doing They thought and so our Rabbies think they understand the Scriptures but did they or do we What though men have been reputed famous expounders of the letter of Gospel thirty or forty years together may not they yet be ignorant of Christ in spirit or the Spiritual man and all his concerns and so with great confidence cry him down for a Blasphemer and persecute him No doubt Is not Christ in Spirit and in the approaches of his second coming as like to be decried blasphemed and persecuted by the onely reputed expounders of the Gospel as Christ in the flesh was by the onely reputed expounders of the Law His second coming both in his Saints the true spiritual believer and in his own person is as fairly foretold in the New Testament in reference to his reign as his first coming in the flesh was foretold in the old Testament in reference to his Sufferings And of the two men will be more short of guessing right at the predictions that concern his second coming then those that concerned his first It lies more remote by far in all the circumstances and things of it from humane understanding then the first did Christ makes this dealing of God with men the ground and matter of a solemn thanksgiving to his Father I thank thee O Father Lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes Mat. 11.25 And 1 Cor. 1. 26. Not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called See the self-confident reasonings of the Iewes against the reception of Christ or his Doctrine The Officers that went to apprehend Christ are astonished at his doctrine and durst not lay hands on him What say the Priests and Pharisees that sent them have ye not brought him Oh say they never man spake like this man Then answered the Pharisees are ye also deceived Have any of the Rulers or Pharisees believed on him But this people that knoweth not the Law are cursed He onely deludes a company of poor fishermen and the silly credulous multitude that know nothing Here is their Verdict of Christ. Why should his true followers expect other from the learned Rabbies and onely reputed expositours of Scripture in any succeeding generation amongst whom their lot is cast This is the way of man God's way and his reasonings are quite contrary The poor onely those that are emptied of all their Laodicean riches and self-confidences they are the fitly disposed persons to receive the gospel in God's esteem These are they he puts value on That passage in Acts 13. about the Iews crucifying Christ and not being aware what was the matter though the very Scriptures which they were reckoned the only interpreters of that the world had in it foretold and charactered the birth progress and death of him in all the circumstances thereof I say the serious weighing of this one would think should encline men amidst all the repute they have and please themselves with as to the interpreting of the Scriptures to reflect upon and call themselves in question whether they do yet know any thing at all of them as they ought to know If not then all the question they put to the spiritual believer is still How do you prove it how do you make out this from Scripture They 'l not admit the least scruple but that they can discern it if it be proved They will not suffer it to be questioned whether they have the hearing ear and seeing eye to discern what the spiritual man sayes to the Churches Men that have not this eye and ear and yet reckon they have and will not be beaten out of it the true believer were almost as good speak to stones as them These old foolish kings at knowledge and righteousness in first-covenant principles they will not endure to be admonished or told any thing of new-covenant light and righteousness Eccles. 4. 13. Let a skilful Mathematician