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A87593	Hosannah to the Son of David: or A testimony to the Lord's Christ. Offering it self, indifferently, to all persons; though more especially intended for the people, who pass under the name of Quakers. Wherein not so much the detecting of their persons, as the reclaiming the tender-hearted among them from the error of their way, is modestly endevoured, by a sober and moderate discourse, touching the Light and law in every man; referring to what is held forth by them in their several books and papers, herein examined and discussed. By a lover of truth and peace	Jackson, John, fl. 1651-1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing J78; Thomason E927_5; ESTC R202615	156,564	177

shineth in the dark heart of every man is the Vnction of the holy one given of the Father whereby we need not teach one another c. I say how doth it appeare that this is spoken of that little light as being that Vnction when there is not so much as one word mentioning that little light at all in this entire passage of Scripture nor any other that I doe know of If there be any I wish it were produced nor can it satisfie to say its meant so for meanings have received their sentence already in the former branch Nay the contrary is evident that the Apostle is so farre from speaking of the Light in every man and calling it the Vnction of the holy one given of the Father c. That he speakes of that holy Anoynting which they to whom he there writes viz. the little children the young men and the fathers were made partakers of viz whose sins were forgiven for his names sake and who had knowne the Father and overcome the wicked one 1 John 2.12 13. Such as in whom the darknesse was past and the true light now shined vers 8. These were they who had received the Vnction from the holy one and did know all things the anoynting which they having received abideth in them according to that which was promised John 14.16 Even the Spirit of truth who was to abide for ever with them to whom he should be given vers 27. who being come should teach them all things vers 26. To the persons who through beleeving were borne againe not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God who as little children had obtained Remission of sinnes for his names sake as young men had overcome the wicked one as fathers had knowne him from the beginning I say to such as these are and of such as these are this Scripture gives Testimony that they had received the Vnction of the holy one i. e. the Spirit of truth which should lead them into all truth and teach them all things and abide with them for ever according to the promise of Christ John 14.16 17 26. John 16.13 14 15. Which Vnction of the holy one i. e. the Spirit of truth is not a light in every one shining in the darke heart and teaching them all things but is so in such only as doe beleeve for to as many as received him to them he gave the priviledge of Sonneship And because they were Sonnes he sent forth the Spirit of his Sonne into their hearts crying Abba Father Gal. 4.6 Which is not the state or case of every one as is evident for all men have not the faith 2 Thes 3.2 Without which men cannot be the Children of God Gal. 3.7 26 28. nor receive the Vnction of the holy one so as not to need any one to teach them but as the anoynting teacheth them Object The words by thee first repeated as taken out of the booke called Mans returne mention not these words viz. Every one but only the little light which shineth in the darke heart Where the words Every one doe not follow notwithstanding thou doest often mention them as if they were there expressed Answ 1. To speake roundly and plainly to the Principle That which is said of the little light which shines in the dark heart as being the powerfull word of faith or as being the Vnction of the holy one c. is true of it as it is in every one or is not true of it at all in any one according to this Principle which saith The Light is but one in all 2 That Christ is the light which hath enlightned every one that comes into the world Thou that hatest this light thou hast it to this the current of these writings give testimony and in particular this very Author of mans returne hath these words viz. Fox way to the Kingdome Pages 1.6 All you enslaved Captives of Babylon hearken diligently to Jesus Christ the light which lets you see the evill of your hearts to be guided by it c. Mans Returne Page 26. Every one minde your conditions see what guides your mindes for the Kingdome of Christ is within you and that is the light which lets you see the evill of your hearts Page 27. O thou enslaved soule under the power of Babylon in thee come forth minde the light in thee which is the sure word of Prophecy whereunto ye do well to take heed 2 Pet. 1.19 By which severall passages it is evident that the light which enlightneth every one is the little light which shines in the dark heart of every one and is so intended even by this Author as by others and accordingly so applyed and spoken to Object Doth not the Scripture say 1 Cor. 12.7 The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withall How then dost thou restraine it to some men as thou hast done Answ It is evident that all have not the Spirit of Christ Rom. 8.9 If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his and Jude doth testifie of some persons that they are sensuall haveing not the Spirit vers 19. Therefore the Apostle speaking of the manifestation of the Spirit which was given forth in the Church of Corinth in the diversity of its gifts the differences of administration and the diversity of operations To one was given a word of Wisedome to another a word of Knowledge to another faith to another the gifts of healing to another the working of miracles to another Prophecy to another discerning of Spirits to another kindes of tongues to another interpretations of tongues Now all these were divers manifestations of the Spirit in that Church of Corinth diversly distributed and divided to every man severally vers 11. Now all these worketh that one and the selfe same spirit divideing to everyman severally as he will as appeares vers 28 29 30. Now God hath set some in the Church c. Are all Apostles are all Prophets are all Teachers are all Workers of miracles have all Gifts of healing doe all speake with tongues doe all interpret By which it doth appear that the manifestation of the Spirit as it was different so it was differently distributed and is restrained to some Persons v. 30. have all doe all are all c. And the word every man in the 7. verse is explained by the same words every Man in the 11. vers And the end of this distribution of the Spirit or manifestation of the Spirit is given to no man for himselfe but it is to every man to profit withall to edify and build up and doe service in the body as an hand foot or eye or some other member of the body according to the similitude of a body used in that Scripture not that the Spirit or the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man i. e. to every individuall Person Forasmuch as some men are

before hath been declared Psal 95.6 Psal 100.2 3. Making and serving being correlatives his making and our serving being necessary dependents as the Apostle argues the same case in the point of redemption saying Ye are bought with a price c. therefore glorifie God with your bodies and spirits for they are his 1 Cor. 6.20 but of this anon in its place this I take to be the summe of the first Table of the Law and is written on the heart of the naturall man The other Branch or Table of the Law comprehended in these words Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self or whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you do ye likewise unto them This also is written on the table of the heart of every man notwithstanding it be not written in Characters i. e. letters and syllables and become a positive law to them yet it s there and men doing as the Apostle phraseth it by nature the things contained in the law though they be in comparison of others without law are a law to themselves and hereby they shew the work of the law written in their hearts Rom. 2.14 15. which is a cleere demonstration of the truth hereof It is witnessed by our blessed Lord Jesus Mat. 22.37 38 39 40. that to love the Lord with all the heart with all the soul and with all the mind and to love ones neighbour as ones self on those two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets it is evident that this in its measure is effected by them who are said by nature to do the things contained in the law whence else springs all those stumblings upon a Deity and groping and feeling after a worship and religion suitable to what is apprehended of God and herein though the candle burn so dimme that the poor soul feels after this as they for the door of Lots house yet in the other part or table of the law they have much more cleerness of discovery of the things of a man accounted the morall virtues they declare with a broad day-light as it were that these are written there The whole amounting to this that those who live without the law i. e. the law as it was committed to writing and delivered by the hand of Moses according to the appointment of God yet in these God hath not left himself without witness but hath written on their hearts the same law for substance which he afterwards enlarged by the hand and administration of Moses and added this to the former because of transgression either to reduce the transgressor or to aggravate the transgression that sinne might be made exceeding sinfull And therefore God may justly proceed in judgement against the transgressions which are committed against him and his law as the Apostle argues he having left all men without excuse by giving them a light or candle in their heart by which they might see to read the things contained therein But if those who have onely the law of nature and do not by nature the things contained in the law be punishable and Gods proceedings therein justifiable as indeed it is as hath been often minded before of how much sorer punishment think we shall they be thought worthy who transgress under this additional declaration of the Will and Law of God committed to writing with those large annotations and marginal notes as it were this must needs be a great aggravation this new edition of the law must needs bring a further addition of guilt to the transgressours thereof Man or the children of men thus differenced and thus enlightned by the candle of the Lord in them are the subjects of the law in the first sense as it is called the law of works Rom. 3.27 or the old covenant In which consideration God hath concluded all under sin Rom. 3.9 and stopped every mouth and rendred all the world guilty before him by the sentence of the law considered as afore Rom. 3.19 forasmuch as the tenour of the law being this viz. Do and live and Cursed be every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the law to do them finds no man able to perform it in all things for that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God Rom. 3.23 the Spirit of God testifying that the law though in it self holy righteous and good yet was weak through the flesh Rom. 7.12 Rom. 8.23 So that what could not by it be effected was accomplished by the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.2 opposed to the law of sinne and death as the law of faith is to the law of works Rom. 3.27 Touching which Law as being the next branch in the distinction and the light accompanying it it will be necessary to speak The law of faith which is the second branch in the distinction is a law founded in God as in the fountain and as the former that is the law of works or of the first covenant proceeded from the Wisdom and Justice of God as being a just and equall thing that he should be served by those whom he made to serve him so this law of faith ownes it self to the mercifulness and goodness of the same God towards such as had forfeited all into the hand of justice for it had been a righteous thing with God to have taken vengeance upon the forfeiture The foundation of which law of Faith or second Covenant was laid in that word of Grace or rather on Christ in the promise that is the seed of the woman shall break the head of the Serpent Gen. 3.15 and is of as large extent as the former of works if we consider 1. The Object thereof 2. The Subject of it The Object is the Lord Jesus who is propounded in the promise as the repairer of the breach and the restorer of the paths to dwell in according to that testimony Psal 75.3 The earth and all the inhabitants of the earth are dissolved I beare up the pillars of it And thus by him all things consist Col. 1.17 holding forth a ground of return to God from whom man by the transgression was turned aside and through fear had hid himself Gen. 3.10 The Subject was the first man and in him all man-kind who were not onely privileged by this promise by being put into a possibility and capacity of being renewed again by repentance which condition the first covenant had in it for that left no roome for repentance but they were also hereby obliged to believe in him who was promised to break the Serpents head to destroy the destroyer and to lead captivity captive How farre the Law of faith may be said to be written on every mans heart as the former law of works is not given unto me to understand only this glimpse I have of it that it appears to have had an influence on the heart of man from the proposing of the promise aforesaid by those sacrifices which were offered

was the sin found out and the sinner driven out by the first measure of light viz. the law But the Saviour of the sinner from sin and death was not revealed by this first measure of light The sinne was discovered but the sinner was not thereby recovered Till the Lord holds forth the Scepter of grace in the promised seed of the woman Gen. 3.15 who was to be received as the way to the father the door by which entrance was to be made the gift in whom was exhibited eternal life Redemption from sin and wrath a proper object of faith while yet he was but in promise so was he received and so beleeved on by all the children of faith under the first Covenant Heb. 11.13 39. and the contrary with those who mingled not the Gospel with faith and so fell short of the rest and could not enter because of unbeleef Heb. 3.19 Heb. 4.2 notwithstanding the measure of light which discovers sinne and iniquity So then the first measure and degree of light which discovers sin and iniquity is the Law of God written in every mans heart but it is not Christ the light the door the way the gift for Christ is not the law but the Law-giver Christ is the end of the law not only in the commonly received sense the end of all figures types and shadows the substance in which they all center But he is so the end of the Law that he finishes and perfects what the Law could not finish nor perfect He takes up the work where the Law leaves it The Law may say O my God! I have shewed them thy wayes I have been a light and a lanthorn unto them I have kept back nothing that thou gavest me in command to shew unto them and to require of them But they like men have transgressed and have started aside like a broken bow and are become guilty and filthy Woe unto them Woe unto them they are polluted my Commission is to curse them from mount Ebal and they shall be cursed Cursed be Every one that abides not in Every thing written in the law to do it in some thing or other every one hath transgressed every mouth is stopped and every one become guilty before God God hath concluded all under sin saying there is none righteous no not one Rom. 3.10 19. they are all transgressors I cannot redeem them I cannot bring them to God But Christ takes up the matter where the law leaves it and becomes the end of the law for righteousness to every one beleeving saying to this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world to bear witness unto the truth giving the Valley of Achor for a door of hope perfecting and finishing the work which the law had been labouring to effect but could not For that which the Law could not do he did being not ashamed to call them Brethren whom the law had left under the sentence of the curse and that he might bring many sonns unto glory himself the captain of their salvation was made perfect through sufferings delivering them from the fear of death who all their life time were subject unto bondage standing upon Gerizim the mount of blessing in opposition to that mount Ebal where the law had left them making triumph and open shew in behalf of the seed saying Behold I and the children God hath given me all that the father hath given me shall come unto me They are blessed and they shall be blessed though righteousness could not come by the law for if it could then had my death been in vain yet to the beleeving to every one that beleeveth I am the end of the law for righteousness being made so of God to and for them that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in them and they be made the righteousness of God in me Though the first measure of light viz. the law written on the heart of the natural man be not Christ the way the door the gift the light yet it is such a measure and degree of light common to all men as to the direction whereof they are to give obedience and in the doing whereof they enjoy much peace and many persons in many things done in obedience thereto have whereof to glory but not before God for their peace is seated in their understanding while they think they do God good service but Gods thoughts are not as mans neither is their peace the peace of God which passeth all understanding which guards the heart and mind through Christ Jesus Nevertheless it is a good thing and hath a measure of blessing annexed to it for a person to be obedient to the law in the measure of the knowledg whereof he hath attained according to that testimony Happy is that man whose conscience condemns not himself in that thing which he allowes but doth exercise himself to keep a good conscience toward God and toward man But when he hath done all he can there is this one thing lacking to sell all he hath to resign up all to Christ Jesus and leave it at his foot that when he hath done all he reckon himself an unprofitable servant and to have done nothing in all that 's done to sel it all and give it all up in sacrifice to God this is more than whole burnt offerings and more than is attainable under the dispensation of the first measure of light and obedience thereunto for if so then righteousness were attainable by obedience to the law contrary to that testimony If there had been a law given which could have given life verily righteousness should have come by the law and if righteousness could have come by the law then had Christ died in vain But God hath concluded all under sin that he might have mercy on them that beleeve to cut off boasting and glorying in the flesh that he which gloryeth might glory in the Lord who hath said It is not in him that willeth nor in him that runneth but in God that sheweth mercy who testifieth That not by workes of righteousness which we have done but of his mercy he saveth his saved ones Leaving no room for glorying or boasting to him that worketh nor colour of confidence to him that is in the disobedience to the first measure of light for even he which despised Moses law died without mercy such will be the portion of every one who is willingly ignorant and disobedient to what is made known to him by the law that 's in him Yet to call this which discovers sin in man Christ the light the gift the door the way is to take the Gardener for Christ as Mary did mistake Christ for the Gardener The good way then is not to confound the several dispensations of God not to advance the son of the bond woman into the room and place of the son of the free woman not to preferre the servant into the place of the Heir but to consider every

though with all possible brevity Reply That the Gospel is the power of God to salvation may not be denyed Rom. 1.16 for it is so to every one that beleeveth and let him be accursed that preacheth any other gospel than that which is so Gal. 1.9 But where the gospel which is the power of God to salvation is preached if it be not mixt with faith in them which hear it it is not the power of God to salvation to such according to the testimony of that Scripture Heb. 4.2 For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them but the word preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them that heard So that the gospel is not the power of God to salvation to any but to such as beleeve it and by faith receive the glad tidings and message thereof and become obedient thereunto Rom. 1.17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written The just shal live by faith The gospel which in it self is the power of God to salvation so named already may be prerched not only in word but also in power and in the holy spirit as twice to the Thessalonians 1 Thes 1.5 in demonstration of the spirit and power as to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 2.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it may be powerfully ratified and confirmed by signs and wonders and mighty deeds yet not powerfull to salvation except received by faith in them that hear it Such a gospel was it to the Thessalonians 1 Thes 1.5 It was brought to them in mighty power and received by them in much assurance as the very word of God to which they yeilded the obedience of faith 1 Thes 2.13 14. As the Romans also did Chap. 15.18 19. Wheresoever the Gospel is preached in Evidence and demonstration of the spirit and received by faith in them that hear it it is the arm and power of God to salvation to such and doth powerfully incline them to yeild obedience in word and deed to whatsoever is therein revealed unto them He that receives the light and is obedient to it receivs the gift of God and shall receive the power the light rejected no power received Reply It hath been said before by this friend to whom I now reply That Christ is the light and That Christ is the gift of God To which may be added that which is testified 1 Cor. 1.18 That Christ is the power of God as it is expressed by the Apostle Now let it be considered what is spoken by the friend in this parcel of words above recited and whether it amount not to a repetition and Tautology of words He that receives the light and is obedient to it receives Christ for Christ is the light receives the gift of God that is Christ for Christ is the gift of God and shall receive the power that is Christ for Christ is the power of God and such as receive Christ and obey him reject not the light nor can be without the power forasmuch as he whom they have received and obeyed is both the light and the power and the gift and is no more than if it had been thus express'd He that receives Christ obeys him receives Christ and shall receive Christ Christ rejected no Christ received Your heart shall fail and your eyes wax dim that look for another way or another Gospel than that which redeems out of sin Reply It hath been said before that Christ is the way Let their heart fail and their eyes wax dim that expect salvation by any other way than by him who is the Way the Truth and the Life Forasmuch as there is no other name given under heaven whereby we can be saved and that Gospel which tenders salvation by Christ to sinners without redemption from sin let it indeed be Anathema from the Lord. For it is witnessed of the true and only Lord Jesus that his name should be called Jesus that is Saviour for that he should redeem his people from their sins Mat. 1.21 and save them to the utmost that come unto God by him everliving to make intercession for them Heb. 7.25 even for them who by him do beleeve in God purifying their souls in obeying the truth through the spirit being born again c. 1 Pet. 1.21 22 23. Which testimony is born up in the hearts of the children of the regeneration who are made the sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus having received the adoption of sons they cry unto him in spirit incessantly night and day that this redemption from the body of sin and death may be compleated in them saying how long Lord holy and true fighting the good fight of faith keeping up the watch and warre of the Lord as knowing that the God of peace will shortly tread Sathan under their feet I say their feet as really within them as he hath troden him under his own feet for them without them And further knowing that they shall assuredly reap in due time if they faint not this being their victory even their faith by which with patience they possess their soul being confident of this one thing that he is faithful who hath called them who will also do it and having begun a good work in them will also perfect it perform or finish it untill the day of Christ having this hope they purify themselves in the power of him who of God is made to them righteousness and sanctification as well as wisdome and redemption The name of Christ is pleasant in the outward sound in as much as thereby men think to have their sins taken away but the Gospel is the power of God that redeems out of sin Reply Who ever names the name of Christ is to depart from iniquity and he who naming the name of Christ how pleasant soever he count that name yet if such an one depart not from iniquity but rowl his sinne under his tongue as a sweet morsel and bless himself in his heart saying I shall have peace though I walk in the Imagination or stubborness of my heart to adde drunkenness to thirst the Lord will not spare him but the anger of the Lord and his jealousie will smoak against that man there 's no such use of the name of Christ as to make it a Cloak for sin for the wrath of God is revealed against all unrighteousness in men Whatsoever and in whomsoever it be and he that regards iniquity in his heart hath a root of gall and wormwood that will eat out all the pleasantness that may seem to be in the name of Christ in the outward sound Deut. 29.18 19 20. Yet for asmuch as there may be some snare and temptation lie upon some souls touching those words before minded and repeated viz. the Gospel is the power of God that redeems out of sin Whence some persons do conclude that they are redeemed out of sin and that the body of sin is destroyed in

of thy visitation forasmuch as in all thy out-goings thou still kept'st on the form of Godliness though all thy former zeale and quicknesse life and power in thy profession were reduced to a bare empty forme at most especially thy secret and personall comunion how ever with others thou assembled'st wept'st and covered'st the Altar with teares yet when thou wert alone thou either durst not make bold with God as formerly or cared'st not for so doing thy promotions and preferments thy Silver and thy Gold thine honours and possessions some one or more if these make such a ratling noise in thy soul that thou can'st not listen nor lend an eare to these silent gailes and heavenly whispers of the divine breathings of the Spirit of truth which thou once pretended'st to be instructed guided and led by Oh consider this you that forget God least he teare you in peices and there be none to deliver To the awakened and sensible back-slider I have this word Why cryest thou for thine affliction thy wound is incureable for the multitude of thine iniquity thy sins were increased and now the most high hath visited them upon thee Hast thou not heard that the everlasting God fainteth not neither is weary and that because he changeth not therefore the sons of Jacob are not consumed nor that the foundation of God standeth sure haveing this seale the Lord knowes who are his I know these words of truth are with thee but what influence have they upon thee thou art sensible of thy backslidings and thou art cut to the very heart and pained beyond expression and that which wounds thee is thy unkindnesse to thy Lord and husband to whom thou art betrothed and espoused yet canst not behold him who to reprove and correct thy backesliding hath withdrawne his presence from thee which once was deare to thee and however thou hast been in a deep sleep in a farre Country among the hoggs and swine of the earth feeding with them and wallowing in the mire with them during which time thou wast unsensible of thy losse yet being alarm'd from on high with that voice What meanest thou O sleeper arise now thy heart is troubled and the thoughts of thy fathers house comes to thy remembrance and now thou would'st faine return to thy first husband But Oh the many feares and doubts which are created in thy troubled spirit thy sorrowes are multiplyed because thy transgression is aggravated Now thou findest what that word means It had been better never to have known the way of righteousnesse then after the knowledge thereof to turn from the holy Commandement like a dog to his vomit or a washed sow to her wallowing in the mire thou canst now say what hath pride profited me mine honours my promotions my preferments my Silver and my Gold my musicks and dancings what can these availe me in this houre of my sorrow the God of this world hath by these bewitched and poison'd mee under the specious pretence of liberty and freedome and glorying God in and by these till a dart is struck through my liver and now woe unto me woe unto me I will take up a lamentation and say look away from me I will weep bitterly labour not to comfort me for it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of perplexity by the Lord God of Hosts In this state of perplexity and hour of visitation thou findest an emptinesse in all those imaginary delights wherewith thou hast contented thy selfe these cannot satisfie nor quiet thy restlesse minde Nay they are so far from doing it that they are as so many pricks in thine eyes and thorns in thy sides thou art wearied in the beholding them and that word is come upon thee in part and in measure already that thou art ready to cast thy Gods of Silver and Gold to the moles and to the batts wishing a thousand times in secret that thy heart had never been let loose to goe out after these and if parting from them would give thee peace and recover thy communion with God thou would'st let all goe but thou knowest if thou shouldest give all thy goods to the poore and thy body to be burned this would be too short and too narrow to procure communion with God therefore by prayer and Supplication thou applyest unto God as at other times but thou perceivest him not to answer neither by dream nor by vision but is as one who hath hid himselfe from thee in displeasure Hath hedged thee about and made thy chain heavy when thou cryest and shoutest he shuts out thy prayer he hath covered himselfe with a cloud that thy prayer should not passe through and hath caused the Arrow of his quiver to enter into thy reines filled thee with bitternesse and made thee drunk with wormwood testifiing against thee that all this is come upon thee because thou hast been unsteadfast with him in Covenant forsaken thy first love and embraced other lovers other contents and delights thy heart hath been divided between God and some creaturely excellency with which thou hast been enamoured and by which thou hast been beguiled and deluded And now thine eyes begin a little to be opened and thou beginnest to say where am I what have I done But like a silly bird thou art snared and taken thy Dalilahs in whose lap thou hast been sleeping have cut of thy locks and betrayed thee into the hands of him that hunts for the precious life Neverthelesse though thou art ashamed as a Theife when he is found yet thou art not left to say there 's no hope no or the case is desperate nor I have loved strangers and after them will I goe But thou findest a secret power bearing up thy Spirit and causeing thee to looke towards the Lord and to seeke his face thou canst not give it over but must come unto him though the iniquity of thy heeles doe compasse thee about and thou art full of secret feares least thy locks should never grow againe nor thy former strength return to thee againe When thou remembredst God thou art troubled yet that which most troubles thee is thy own unkindnesse and ungratefulnesse toward him whose love and goodnesse hath been so wonderfull toward thee thou remembred'st what he hath been to thee and done for thee in the times of thy greatest sorrowes streights tryalls and temptations which thou wert under and from which none but the eternall arm could rescue or deliver thee and now thou callest to minde what vowes what promises what resolutions thou then madest to live to him who had given life to thee but compareing things together thou art confounded and ashamed in thy selfe and yet art strangely and secretly born up thou knowest not how still to looke toward God against whom thou hast sinned notwithstanding thy sensiblenesse of thy departings from him The foundation of God standing sure and being sealed the Lord having once known thee and owned thee for his Oh how it