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A65195	Two treatises ... both written by Sir Henry Vane, Knight in the time of his imprisonment.	Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.; Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662. Epistle general, to the mystical body of Christ on earth.; Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662. Face of the times.	1662 (1662)	Wing V80_PARTIAL; Wing V67_PARTIAL; ESTC R7026	96,369	132

the other sort of these Witnesses is because that is wanting to them which should fix them and make them unchangeable in well-doing and cause them to be Pillars in the House of God that never go out more That they are partakers of righteous Principles and are qualified with Power to work Righteousness and this from present annointing and impression of the true and right Spirit is not nor ought not to be denied them They may be Virgins and have Lamps well trimed with Oyl fresh and full and yet not able to keep this Oyl from spending and going out nor prevent their own being to seek for want of it when they should have the greatest use of it And indeed the first sort do confess as much and own their Righteousness to be mutable and they no longer to have certainty in it than they can stand in the Obedience and that their standing or falling may be or may not be as they give their free assent or dissent to the Good and Evil that presents it self to them But with many under the second sort of Witnesses it is not so for they fasten upon the Righteousness of Christ that is wrought in his Person as that which is unchangeable in it self which it is if they do but rightly apply it and hold it upon the Texnure of the absolute and better Promises which are by the new Covenant whereof they make no doubt but they do And as to their Sanctification they have the Law for their Rule which in it self is Moral and Perpetual and so they believe all real and true Conformity to it wrought in their hearts must also be although their hearts be not yet made that good soyl that where it hath received the Word and retained it for a season are not prepared to keep it for ever and to bring forth fruit with that patience as will lose all other things rather than ever be prevailed with to let it go From both these sorts of Witnesses Christ is Preached and Righteousness made known and Propagated in the World and a Testimony kept up against open Looseness and Prophanness Atheism and Idolatry and by these Spiritual Traders and Merchants in the Traffick of Christ's Goods and Talents of the Common Gifts and Graces of his Spirit there is by some a right good use and approvement made so as they are at last perswaded to put them to the Exchangers for their Lord's Advantage and their own benefit being willing to purchase the one Pearl of great price which is obtained through saving Faith and Regeneration for many of these small Pearls that in the Day of Proof and Tryal will not endure And those that do eat and drink unworthily of this Table of the Lord notwithstanding the many wonderful things they do in his Name he will profess he knows them not but let them see they have eat and drunk their own damnation and left themselves wholly without all excuse And therefore both these degrees and growths up into Christ Jesus as branches in the Vine that after real union must either by better husbandry applied to them come to receive a fastening in and with the Root that cannot be shaken nor dissolved or else prove withered branches at last that upon tryal are only fit for the fire Their great care and business should be to make their Calling and Election sure and from evidence which cannot fail nor deceive experience that the Root bears them and not they the Root And thus we come to the Consideration of the other two sorts of Witnesses that are the standing Plants and Olive Trees in the House of God which are planted by the Fathers right hand and none whatsoever can pluck up In the former I have spoke to Christ dwells as in his Tents and mutable habitations who in that respect are called Temples of the Holy Ghost that may so be defiled that God may destroy and cast them out of his sight for ever but these we now come to describe do Constitute that Mount Zion that cannot be moved that Heavenly Jerusalem which is made a quiet habitation a place of everlasting Rest a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down as the first must in order to be new built in the Regeneration not one of the Stakes thereof shall ever be removed neither shall any of the Cords thereof be broken but there the Lord will be for ever a place of broad Rivers and Streams that shall spring up into life eternal and that from the lowest Ebbs at first no higher than the Anckles become still ascending not only to the heighth and stature of man in his fullest perfection but also above it till it come to be a River to swim in a River pure and clear as Cristal that proceeds from the Throne of God and of the Lamb the Son of man glorified in the midst of the street and on either side whereof is the Tree of Life or those who live and feed upon that incorruptible Fruit. The work which is wrought by Christ in and upon the two first sort of Professors of his Name is that which seals them and binds them fast up in the bundle of life unto the Redemption that is eternal and makes them to give witness to what Christ is and doth in his second Ministry as he sends the holy Ghost the Spirit of Truth which abides in them that are made Receivers of him under an Obligation never to depart from them nor suffer them to depart from him that is he that stablisheth us in Christ pouring out that Anointing which sealeth us with the Seal of the living God as with the Name of our Father in our forehead the effectual calling of whose Name upon us by working in us and making us fit Vessels to receive it and bear it is our Adoption and that manner of admitting us unto the right and dignity of Sons which makes us heirs according to the Promise And this is done by Christ not as Creator and the Giver of the Law and Life of pure Nature upon its first Principles but by Christ as he ministers that Spirit of Truth which is the Inspiration before-described that proceeds from the Father and the Son by the operation of the holy Ghost or third Person in the Trinity whose work is Perfection and consummative of what is already in being by the Creation and Operation of the Son or Eternal Word and yet causeth so great an Alteration in the natural being of man taken at his best from what it was before and that so much for the better with respect to abundance and immutability of that which Nature it self calls good and righteous that it justly deserves to be call'd a new Creation or Regeneration that gives a new Creature Being and Life far excelling the first and much differing in glory from it To evidence this Let us consider Man in the righteousness of his Natural being wherein he hath a right understanding of God's mind in what is required

TWO TREATISES VIZ. 1. An Epistle General TO THE Mystical Body of Christ on Earth the Church Universal in BABYLON II. THE Face of the Times Wherein is discovered The RICE PROGRESSE and ISSUE of the ENMITY and CONTEST between the SEED of the WOMAN and the SEED of the SERPENT c. The Design of it being To awaken up the present Generation of God's People to a more diligent and curious Observation of the present Signs of the near Approach of the Day of the Lord. Both written By Sir HENRY VANE Knight in the time of his Imprisonment Printed in the Year 1662. AN Epistle General TO THE MYSTICAL BODY OF Christ on Earth THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL IN BABYLON Who are Pilgrims and Strangers on the Earth desiring and seeking after the Heavenly Country Written by Sir HENRY VANE Knight in the time of his Imprisonment Printed in the Year 1662. THE Epistle to the Reader READER IT might be thought justly due to this Worthy Piece especially being Posthumous that by the Care of some or other it should not come into the World without the attendance of some Preface or Epistle to the Reader But there being so apposit a Letter written on the sight of it by a Person that well knew the Author all labour is spared the Publisher save only the transcribing thereof and commending it to thee which follows in these words My choice Friend THe view I had of that General Epistle written by that Worthy Faithful Dearly Beloved and Honoured Friend of ours I cannot passe without some acknowledgment to his Memory whose Name lives like a Box of precious Oyntment in the House of God Who in and through the rich Mercies of the Lord offered up himself a living Sacrifice holy and acceptable in the day of Power from the Lord and that willingly and chearfully like a Lamb whose great love and burning desires were after the Flock the Sheep and Lambs of the Lord. Who that they might be fed and taught spared not himself in life and death by water and blood to minister unto them yea how did the care of all the Churches fall on him the whole Flock the scattered and wandring Sheep on the Mountains and Hills solitary in the Fields dispersed in the Woods driven into the Wilderness How did his heart in this Epistle long and look after them and call them together under the wing of that one Shepherd What a blessed Example of Patience Faith and Courage hath he left them And though many Brethren knew not him yet he knew them and owned them If he was rejected by many till now by his Death many of those Vails are rent And they mourn over him whom they pierced before Now they see he was a Son and Heir of the Kingdom of whom this Nation was no longer worthy How had God filled him with the Spirit of Wisdom Vnderstanding and Knowledg in all the Works Workmanship of Gods house through the spiritual view God had given him of the heavenly and eternal things themselves having taken him up into the Holy Mount with Himself where he saw what he is made to testifie that which was from the beginning the Word of Life which he had seen and looked on his hands handled his heart possessed of that Eternal Love Truth and Righteousness with the Father which was made manifest unto him So he believed and bears his Record in Truth having received Power and Wisdom to understand all Mysteries Bezaleel-like made able to know and search out the heights and depths and all the several growths in God's House to shew forth and to discover the cunning Works of all sorts the curious workings in Gold and Silver and in Brasse As appears in his Natural Legal and Evangelical Conscience Very skilful also are his Carvings and Cuttings of Stones to set them in Gold knowing the value of every of the Precious Stones of Zion their Qualities and rare Vertues each most costly and to set them every one in their Order in their Ranks Rows and Places fitted for each Tribe and People the right Stone for each Tribe how to fix them in the Breastplate of Judgment each in his socket of Gold with their true and right Engravings like a Signet how to call and write upon each its true Name and Work according to its Nature each Work of the Spirit after its kind For the Gifts the Operations the Administrations of the Spirit are various and manifold to set forth the manifold Wisdom of God As in the Natural Creation there are bodies Celestial and Terrestial The Glory of the Celestial is one and the Terrestial another Nay in the Terrestial there are varieties When all the Creatures were made they were all brought to Adam he gave them Names according as they were to every Creature his own Name to the Fishes in the Sea to the Creeping-things and Beasts in the Earth and to the Fowls in the open Firmament of Heaven each in their proper places and Elements The Earth brought forth her variety of Herbs Plants Fruits and Trees every one after his kind all which are but the shadows of the Kingdom above the things of higher and better natures As in the Paradise and Garden of the Lord there were varieties of Fruits and Trees both for delight and shade with the River to refresh them yea the very River divided it self into four heads to water every quarter unbowelling it self to them in equal shares to feed and make them fruitful Such is the Universal Love the Spring and Fountain of Life in whom all live move and have their being to gather together all things in one whether visible or invisible as into their head That as all Mankind are made of one Blood so all Souls of one Spirit who breathed at first the Breath of Life into them that he that was the first may be the last the beginning and the ending He that was and is and is to come What distance and difference soever there may seem to be here yet all the same to day yesterday and for ever the same God the same Father of all the same Jesus and Saviour the same Spirit and Comforter yet the Appearances Manifestations Workings and Revelations manifold and various And all to shew forth the Glory yea the Riches of the Glory of Him that hath called us and worketh all these in us and for us Yea were not the works of the Tabernacle so and yet each beautiful in its place each work and workmanship some works of Wood some of Stone others of Brass some of Silver and over-laid with Gold the choicest of beaten Gold and the more holy and inward the purer the inmost the purest of all each room and place as it came nearest to the living Oracle the Mercy-Seat the narrower the finer the holier and the more and the farther any thing or place was distant from thence the larger and courser the more outward the less holy So were the Offerings of the Lord all pleasant

by the Law which he consents and agrees to as that which is righteous and holy and spiritual and good and a will to put it in execution as that which in the doing thereof he doth but his duty and which he is obliged to by GOD and his own voluntary Engagement and to continue therein under the danger of the Curse upon failer Here the Command is a Lamp and the Law is Light to instruct man in his Duty and the Spirit and Mind of man keeping to this Light and walking up to it and faithfully in it is in a good and perfect state by God approved and justified so that there be but a continuance in it And this Christ seems to acknowledge to him that put him the Question Luke 10. 25. What shall I do to inherit Eternal life In the Answer he gives bidding him do that which is written in the Law which sayes Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soul with all thy strength and with all thy mind do this and thou shalt live Where then lies the difficulty what is it that is yet wanting The difficulty lies in man's part whereof he is not enough sensible and the want is that of a Guide and Surety to set and to keep man's spirit right in the doing of that which the Law requires in the manner God prizes and most esteems For there is a way that is right in man's eyes even in yeelding obedience to the Law of God wherein man glories and is puffed up in himself but hath no praise from God and this is from that spring and principle of activity which is seated in the freedom of Will which is natural to man in his first righteous Nature and was found in him before his Fall and is capable of Restitution since nay is actually restored through the benefit of his Death more or less in every man by that common Light and Grace which Christ doth no more withhold from any man than he doth his Rain from raining upon the Just and Unjust but in way of further bounty doth confer in large proportions where he pleaseth a distribution of his Goods and Spiritual Gifts in which he causeth the Receivers thereof to differ one from another according to the use he intends them unto By which enriching of man's nature upon this his restored natural bottom of a free active righteous spirit according to the Law whilst the primitive mutability is still continuing with him he is so far from being made a New Creature and truly regenerate as is but too generally conceived that nothing but passing under the new Creation-work translating man out of his primitive natural freedom and activity into an activity and Freedom of another kind is capable to hinder this first freedom from engendring to bondage and the righteousness accompanying it from failing and ending in the death of Hypocrisie and final Apostacy which made Christ in Joh. 8. 31. to deal so plainly with the Jews that in this wavering spirit were for the present such as passed currant for Believers and were so called by the Evangelists but Christ knew they were not of continuance and so told them ver 31. together with the Remedy which he had by him for the cure of it For they stood in need to be made free by the knowledge of the Truth or rather to be known of him that is True the Son that abides in the house for ever who is able to bring them into that state of freedom that shall make them free indeed with an impossibility ever to be imbondaged more or to serve sin as their lord and master This mutable state wherein man did at first receive God's Image by Creation and doth in the way of Restoration again partake of it by vertue of the Ministry of Christ's first anointing and comforting Presence in which he takes up his habitation in the soul as a so journer and passenger although there be given that knowledge of God's Will and Mind to man which is true and as perfect and full as the Vessel that takes it can bear yet the weakness of the Vessel is such that it is like the wave of the Sea tossed with every wind when temptation arises and is either of it self apt to mistake and misunderstand the Rule given him to walk by or to close and fall in with a false deceitful spirit transforming himself into the Image of Righteousness and imbrace him for the True one for whatever Image of God that which is a meer Creature and no more is found in the old Serpent knows how to imitate and personate the same in the very likeness wherein it shines forth in Christ's own Person and with the same to seat himself in the hearts of his followers as in the Temple of God and to shew himself as far as that will go for proof and demonstration that he is God to the imbondaging and carrying captive by this deceit all that receive not the Truth in the love of it Whereas the Image and knowledge of God and of his Will which is given by the Truth or by his coming into the Soul who is the true One doth anoint and impress the Soul with that Name of God which doth exclude by the very Nature of its evidence all possibility of falshood deceit or uncertainty as doth the Dayes-spring of Light to the natural eye which by its self-evidence assures it It is that Light wherein is no darkness at all but is able to distinguish it self as that which is separate from the darkness of every counterfeit and false representation This comes only by the Law of Faith and true Regeneration that Gift of the Holy Ghost as he is the Second and better Comforter the Spirit of Truth which the World neither doth nor can receive Christ therefore calls himself the Truth as he is the receiver and giver of this Anointing as these Rivers of Living Waters flow from him that fail not but are a well-spring unto Life Eternal as it is written Joh. 7. This spake he of the Spirit for the Holy Ghost was not yet given that is in this Ministry and by the means of Christ's Manhead because Jesus was not yet Glorified Jesus was a man and the most perfect righteous natural man which ever was the form of which is made in him Incorruptible having its first mutability fixed by being subjected and made a Servant though the elder unto a New-spring of Light and Divine Birth that was added to him as he became the engrafted Word and wherein he and the Father are One and not he but the Father doth the work Therefore he sayes in Rev. 1. 18. I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore and have the Keyes of Hell and of Death According to this pattern of man's Natural Perfection made in Christ incorruptible and brought forth in perfect subjection and subservency unto and agreement with a more excellent birth

this 17th Chapter but by this Key deserves our very serious consideration according to the usual understanding of the Papacy to be meant by this Whore which is not denied to be a part of Babylon and a chief part and to be also a Whore and Mother of Fornications but she is so openly and avowedly not secretly and under the shew of Reformation and there is not any mystery or secret in it to find her out as there is in the other case We come then in the last place as the Conclusion of the whole to shew what Word and part of his Counsels contained in the Promises and Prophecies not yet accomplished the Lord is now fulfilling in these present dispensations of our day and this by the comparing Scriptures with Scriptures and observing what gradually hath been fulfilled since the time of Christ's Ascention to this day and what signs he hath before given of the times wherein we now are There is nothing more positive and express in the Scripture as may appear by what hath been already mentioned and for which many particular Texts might further be alledged than this That there is a Kingdom of the Everlasting Gospel which neither can nor shall be shaken that must be brought upon the stage here in this World which shall stand firm as a Rock against all opposition and come forth as a stone cut out of the Mountain without hands that must break down the visible heads which the Serpent hath kept up in and over the whole Earth for these many thousand years together by the means whereof the true Children and Heirs have been kept out of their Possession and have been necessitated to a Witnessing and Prophesying condition in a way of Sufferings and of utmost cruel dealings and oppressions from their implacable Enemies to whom it hath been given to make and continue War with them till the course of Sufferings be finished Of this bitter Cup the Captain of our Salvation drank the deepest draught and had the greatest share And lest we should think he had put an end to the Sufferings of his Members by one Death on the Cross he dealt plainly with his Disciples in this point both before his Death and also during the forty dayes he spent upon Earth after his Resurrection for when the two sons of Zebedee had hopes to have seen him in his own Person speedily in his Kingdom before his Sufferings and were desirous the one to sit at his right hand and the other at his left in that day of his Glory and Power he intimates to them immediately that there is a Preparation requisit to be wrought in all that shall be thought worthy of that dignity which is to drink of the same Cup and to be baptized with the same Baptism that he was baptized with according to that true and faithful saying If we die with him we shall live with him if we suffer with him we shall reign with him And so when all the Disciples together a little before his Ascention Act. 1. 6 8. asked him saying Wilt thou at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel his Answer is in effect this to them That until Israel's witnessing-work be over and finished that must prepare them to Rule and ripen their Enemies for the Judgment and Destruction appointed unto all ungodly men that must first precede the reigning-work which they too much looked for and thirsted after would not come nor the dayes of it begin Now this witnessing-work which is to be finished by the true Israel of God as the needful and requifit Preparation of you to Reign is What is to be wrought in them upon their own hearts and what is to be wrought by you as a Testimony born and given to the World on God's behalf And the latter of these is usually made use of by God to accomplish the former since all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shewing forth the Vertues of Him that hath called them in a holy and good Conversation shining as Lights in the World must suffer Persecution and are sure to be hated and oppressed by the World and Powers of it by all wayes and means that may prove their Faith and Patience And these Tryals which thus give proof of their Faith do cause Patience to have its perfect work in them till which they are not those meet vessels fitted for their Master's use as that he will dignifie them to appear seated as on his Throne in their hearts and thereby qualifie them with a Power of Rule so as at their word and by their prayers all things shall become possible to them What they bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and what they loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven For greater works than Christ himself did when he was in the flesh they shall do because he is gone to his Father Secondly The witnessing-witnessing-work is not only to be wrought in them to prepare them in mind and body to be meet vessels for the use of their Head by them to shew forth his Wisdom and Power to the glorifying of God in their spirits and in their bodies which are his but the Light of it must be given out and born in the sight and for the profit and good of others if the fault be not in themselves that should benefit by it unto whom the savour of the knowledge of Christ ministred by his faithful Witnesses in their several places and callings will prove in the issue either a savour of life unto life or of death unto death according as either it is received and valued or rejected and expelled No man saith Christ when he hath lighted a Candle putteth it in a secret place neither under a Bushel but on a Candlestick that they that come in may see the light which Scripture is interpreted 1 Cor. 14. 24 25. where the instance is given in meeting of the whole Church together in one place that is as many visible Saints and Believers as could well hear one another in the place they assembled in for their common Edification In which Church-meeting they were as a Golden Candlestick that did in such manner hold forth the shining Light of Christ's Truth and Holiness to those that came in and were lookers on and were not of the Society that by the Spirit of Prophecy which in and among them of that particular Church was exercised it so fell out that whoever came in desirous to learn and be instructed he was convinced of all he was judged of all and the secrets of his heart were so manifest that falling down on his face he worshipped God and went out and reported that God was in them of a truth This is then the second sort of Witnessing-work which by Christ was intrusted to his Disciples and Followers to be exercised and imployed in according to their several places and callings till his return in the day wherein he is to come and judge the World in Righteousness that is