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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
order_n	aaron_n	abraham_n	family_n	20	3	7.5940	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85461	Saltmarsh returned from the dead, in Amico Philalethe. Or, The resurrection of James the apostle, out of the grave of carnall glosses, for the correction of the universall apostacy, which cruelly buryed him who yet liveth. Appearing in the comely ornaments of his fifth chapter, in an exercise, June 4. 1654. Having laid by his grave clothes, in a despised village remote from England, but wishing well, and heartily desiring the true prosperity thereof.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1307; Thomason E836_1; ESTC R207426	178,733	220

all ages with those ancient orders extant in Abrahams family as also with all the ornaments exercised amongst those Princely Tribes or Scepters of Israel as under the conduct of Moses and Aaron Caleb and Joshuah Deborah and Barak David and Samuel Christ and the Disciples the Apostles and all Nations Yea and as under the conduct and ministery of that Angelical constitution and order set forth unto them in that book of the Revelations that all shall harmonize and agree as one joyfull and triumphant song and shout of deliverance righteousnesse and salvation And when the Sun of righteousnesse lends his irradian beames through any of these bright clouds of witnesse commending it selfe unto us in any of those particular wayes of administration wherein the Saints of God have been exhaled and gathered up into unity and intimacy with the Lord Yea when any of the Saints do Evangelize out of any of the fore-named Administrations they can effectually and assumptively express that significant word Selab which in a way of asseveration as also of elevation of the same thing affirms it to have a present being and reall appearance abiding without any end or cessation thereof of which nature the things proper to the Son of God exist And of such nature is the word of God in all its wayes of administration being rightly interpreted and such as manifest and declare it otherwise they may indeed assume the riches and glory of a Church and boast of it as these do but it is a corrupted a vanishing and vaporous one Therefore he saith That their garments are motheaten that is all their honourable Ornaments wherein the Minister for the encrease and deifying of their corrupted treasure are inervated and voyd of vertue for the very substance pith and marrow of them is consumed and wasted so that when shee put them on to appeare glorious then their nakednesse appears to all men so as they glory in their shame through minding earthly things It is a gorgeous garment the world puts on in that point of its Ministry consisting of an imputed Righteousnesse resident in another but not in him that confesseth it this garment hath lyen so long in that Arke of Tradition that it is moth-eaten the strength and vertue of it is taken away and it was brought out of the treasury of a carnal Christ who is sometimes present with and sometimes remote from his Church So that in his absence they are forced to form unto themselves an imaginary righteousnesse for it is a meer Emedullatus the pith and marrow of righteousnesse is taken away For that righteousnesse which is professed out of or at a distance from the spirit of Christianity when or in whomsoever that spirit appears is not the rigteousnesse of him who is really present with or in his Saints to the end of the world that is to the ending and vanishing of all such worldly and carnall conceptions in the publication of the Gospel For if we give another form to the righteousnesse of Christ differing in the nature efficacy or dignity in the professor from that which it is in the professed it is not the righteousnesse which is by the faith of the sonne of God For as faith is alike reall and resident in all that come unto God even so is righteousnesse and He that comes unto God must beleeve that God is that is that he is that to him or in him that he comes unto him for what ever it is which is that glorious reward or end given or accomplished in all the diligent seekers of him never did any come to God but by faith for it is the hypostasis or being of God and man in one and the same condition for it is said of our spiritual David He believed and therefore he spake we also believe and we also speake Faith never differed in nature form and vertue in any for then it were not of God but of the Creature no more doth righteousnesse for where the righteousnesse of God admits of distinction in the same relation and respect as in point of justification if the man Christ or Jesus stand righteous before God by a righteousnesse in himselfe that is in that individuall and the Saints of God stand righteous by that which is in another and not in that individuall justified that is not the righteousnesse of Christ it is not the simplicity of him but is made a compound Christ is made voyd to such Christ differs not in any of his excellencies whereever they are in use nor did he ever come to deny the inheritance between brethren but to state the whole Kingdome entirely as upon one only sonne in whom soever possesseth any part thereof even as the first-born of God but if the world should not go upon mans principles to make one man as a Monarch in heaven it would harldly maintaine the Monarchies upon the earth But as it is in the kingdome of God so it is in all the things of God and his kingdome is an everlasting kingdome and so is his righteousnesse but the Doctors of the world have no use of their imputed righteousnesse when once their inherent sanctity is perfected they may as well put an end to the Kingdome of God and become companions of the bruit beasts as to put an end to the use of any thing that appertayns and belongs to the Sonne of God in his Saints We conclude therefore that imputed righteousnesse in the worlds acceptation is a moth-eaten garment a meer phylosophicall distinction of Antichrist to delude the world Of like worth is the garment of their sanctification wherein they so confidently enwrap themselves for they hold it to be a holinesse subject to increase and diminution and then it must be a creature-like holinesse and not a God-like which is holinesse of truth or the truth of holinesse which is not found but in the Son of God which cannot admit of abatements for that is proper to a creature from whose strength proceeds all their power of performances Againe the holinesse professed by the world that is by carnall men may have the vertue and office of Prayer in it but not of prophesie also and it may have the vertue office of prophesie in it but not the vertue of healing also this is a moth-eaten holinesse the vertue and power of the Son of God is eaten out of it Christ is crucified in such according to the spirit For take away one of the vertues of Christ and they all vanish for he is that bundle of life bound up without parting or any separation His vesture is seamelesse and goes all one way by lot and inheritance whether it be the robe of mercy in his or the garment of vengeance in them that so crucifie him it may not be divided So that he who denies a Christian to have power and authority from God to publish and preach unto the world the mystery of salvation contained in the Gospel may as well deny him power

the authority and power of God which comprehends not onely speech but action also that is those signes and wonders and mighty works which accompany the preaching of the Gospel in the confirmation of it testifying the presence of God accompanying the word making it good by act and deed according to the expressions thereof For the word of God is never truly uttered without the appearance of a signe and wonder and a great work no lesse then such as holds proportion with God for the confirmation of the same Now we know a wonder is a monster in nature such as no nature in its proper instinct brings forth it goes beyond the bounds abilities and precincts of any naturall confines whatsoever and without such works signes or wonders the Gospel is never truly preached for if it should Christs promise would faile but heaven and earth shall faile before that one jot or tittle of the word of God come to corruption So that there is no speech or doctrine of the Gospel but in its expression it frames constitutes and brings forth a work of such nature as no simple nature whatsoever can bring forth therefore a wonder and a signe to be admired yea truly miraculous for no nature can reach thereunto in the utmost extent thereof For as it is true that there is no operation of the spirit of God in the way of Christ but it is above and goes beyond the nature of the creature having the power and glory of the Creator in it nor is it attainable by any or by all creatures So it is true also that there is not any work or operation of the Gospel which the divine nature simply and abstractively considered can be sayd to be in any capacity or possibility to attaine thereunto but the possibility of God to do all things stands in his making himself to be such a one otherwise it is unattaniable in the nature divine simply and singly considered because there is no work of the Gospel without man considered in it no more then there is a Christ without mans nature who is the subject matter of the Gospel And as Christ is not without mans nature no more is any work of the Gospel for as the divine nature cannot of it selfe simply and solely considered dye nor ascend neither descend being incomprehensible No more can the humane nature considered simply in it selfe have in it eternal life comprehend all things or be omnipotent but in that unity of the Gospel the Sonne of God they are all brought to passe and all in act and being in that one Christ nothing in him therefore whatsoever but being set forth and brought to light there appear a wonder a miracle is wrought a signe set up for the confirmation of the Gospel such as no nature simply considered can attaine unto or bring forth so that if the true word of the Prophet or of interpretation be spoken this true and miraculous work must enevitably appear transcending all nature in the utmost capacity thereof And therefore that saying holds firme that we have a Meditor made higher then the heavens a work and wonder above all nature simply and solely considered and therefore Christ is that new creature yea the beginning or head of the creation of God for God is one in the work not onely in making but as one made in Christ And thus the Prophets are invested with power and authority to speak in the name of the Lord not onely in word but in work also a signe and wonder accompanying the word at all times which makes them most noble and God-like to the cutting off of the spirit of Princes becoming terrible to the Kings of the earth 2. Whence he brings in the second description of a true Prophet as the means whereby this power and authority is attained and that is through suffering affliction and long patience By suffering affliction in this place we are to understand a being cut off from being supported by any earthly power carnall policy or any temporall glory whatsoever with respect to friends or alies or any earthly relations which fade and vanish away which human spirits seek unto and rely upon for the promoting of themselves For onely in the losse and laying aside all these things a true Prophet comes to be invested into the power wisdome and excellency of the Son of God in whom is found all friendship all offices and all relations whatsoever not onely compleated but also eternized to abide for ever in whose power and authority by this means they go forth By this means it was that Moses became so great a deliverer for he refusing to be called the Son of Pharaohs daughter choosing rather to suffer adversity with the people of God in the losse of all such kinde of glory as Pharaohs Court afforded became an effectuall instrument to manifest that power and glory throughout all the land of Aegypt in the deliverance of Gods chosen and overthrow of his enemies Again take Eliah for an instance in this point comprehending all the Prophets as he did in his appearance with Christ in the transfiguration and you shall finde him complaining that he is left alone as cut off from all relations from carnall apostatized Israel and his life sought after to be taken away also by the policy and power of the whole kingdome of Israel under the Government of that wicked Ahab For a true Prophet is to endure hardnesse as a good souldier of Jesus Christ and no man that warreth intangleth himselfe with the affaires of this life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a souldier For no superiority dignity or advance no place of office or atendance no conjunction or relation of this life but must suffer wrack and ruine in the true prosecution of the authority and spirit of a Prophet otherwise the name of God is not called upon as Christ witnesseth saying For whosoever of you he be that forsakes not all that he hath he cannot be my Disciple The bond of family with respect to wife and children must give way to this the bond of trade and imployment must give way to this the bond of office and place to uphold this tottering temporary order amongst men must give way to this the bond and tye to particular congregations of tittuler Pastor Teacher or in any other way hireling ministry which are much alike to family cares relations and employments to maintain a temporary credit and lively-hood in this life the power and spirit of Eliah breaks them to peeces if the spirit of God breath it snaps them all like Sampsons bands which were but as flax when it smels the fire though the world in the losse of the lock by its Dla's who hath bewitched them to stand ingaged unto it contrary to the expresse word of Christ which sayth If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life