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A85310	Fire from heaven, falling upon the present army and the churches: or, Two words from the Lord to both· Held forth to the understanding of those, that make not flesh their arm, and whose hope the Lord is, that cease from man (a piece of earth) whose breath is in his nostrils. As also to the terror and astonishment of all those, who lean upon the broken staff of Egypt, and trust in horses, and strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and joy in the shadow of men; and cry to themselves, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord. / By a man of their councel.	Man of their councel.	1649 (1649)	Wing F954; Thomason E572_12; ESTC R202075	23,108	31

you cannot get off it O it is a command of God and you dare not omit it To which I reply First That when God had an outward Tabernacle and Temple Church and Ministery as under the Law he was very exact with the people in the observation thereof a Pin must not be left out nor a Naile out of its place but Looke that thou make them after the patterne which was shewed thee in the mount Exod. 25.40 And this day shall you observe for ever in your generations Exod. 12.14 And this the tenth day of the first month vers 3. And the seventh year should be a Sabbath to them and the fiftieth year a year of Jubile Levit. 25.4 11. There must be no swerving from the observation of these Secondly When the Lord leaves this house and will build another Cloathed with greater glory he tyes not his people to the outward observation of things he is not now as formerly exact in them Doth not command them to be baptized with water but into the Spirit Christ tells them They shall be baptized with the holy Ghost and with fire commands that they be baptized into the Name of Father Son and Spirit viz into the power and glory of these three and yet one into a clear knowledg and understanding of these And for the Supper doth not enjoyn them to the strict and absolute observation of it nor when as under the law such a day shall you observe the Passeover but now As oft as you do it do it in remembrance of me not telling them how oft they should do it But how long must this eating bread and drinking wine last during your continuance in the dark until the Lord comes and be a feast of fat things in the spirit and life to you until he be revealed from Heaven consuming this dross and earthly knowledg within you and then shall you drink no more of this fruit of the Vine but drink it new in the Kingdom You used signs and tokens of his death c. had many letters representing him but now he is come what need these he is come himself even his sweet self nay further as the Lord did not then binde his people to outwards so were they used by the Apostles as in them they might become all to all stoop to them and speak them in their own language and as children to deal with them 3. Those Churches with their glory ministry and all were to dye and wither away apostatize and fall back and this for time times and half a time as the Scripture plentifully witnesseth and the holy City under foot and when Christ cometh shall he finde faith on the earth And this should be until the Kingdoms of this world become the Lords his Christs and God take to him his great reign yea till the Tabernacle of God shall be with men and a new Heaven and Earth appear and God make all things new and this is the Church and the Ministry which the Scripture tells you shall be set up after the Apostatizing days Therefore dear hearts binde not your selves where God hath not bound you be free in what the Lord hath made you free 2. A second Reason why the judgment of the Lord shall from Heaven fall upon you is because you by reason of your narrow thoughts and apprehensions keep the Lord Jesus prisoner will not permit him to go any where or dwell in any save your selves You are offended if the Lord break forth in a further manifestation of Glory to others not of your rank and order Lord saith the Presbyter here thou must abide this is thy dwelling place never remove from hence And here saith the Independent And here saith the Anabaptist c. Do you think that he that hath the key of David that openeth and no man shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth will become your prisoner No no his glory he will not give to another The Lord if he rend the vail of this fleshly Temple and pass through it into the highest Heavens you will serpent-like wait for this man-childe brought forth by the woman viz. weakness that you may devour it and therefore you cry out Lo here is Christ and lo there and question people saying Are you a member of a visible Church of what society and so lessen that comfort and peace or at least endeavor it that poor souls have in God by reason they are not joyned to your societies But in all their afflictions he is afflicted the Lord in this weak brother or sister is afflicted and beareth all he beareth and thus you imprison and afflict the Lord himself 3. Because it is your shame to live upon a naked God to have the Kingdom of God onely within you you are unwilling to leave outward bread and wine for God the bread and water of life and he that is ashamed of God of him shall God himself be ashamed What say you shall we by men be accounted no more praying fasting men hearing and preaching men no more to weep and mourn but all tears to be wiped from our eyes to observe no Sabbath but the Lord God and to call him holy a delight honorable not to think our own thoughts nor speak our own words O this is your shame namely to leave the water in the cisterns and that run in the channels for that great river and fountain whose streams make glad the City of God It is to you a greater shame to be at your fathers house with the fatted calf then in the Country to feed swine and to eat their husks therefore he that helpeth shall fall and he that is holpen shall fall down and they shall all fail together II. A second word and that of advice and counsel First That you would assemble your selves to the Supper of the great God and this saith the Angel the Messenger of God that stands and abides in the glory of God Rev. 19.17 And I saw an Angel standing in the Sun and cryed with a loud voyce saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven Come and gather your selves together unto the Supper of the great God The Lord invites you the great and mighty God woos you by his Messenger by another appearance of his My advice is That you would go tarry not and that you may understand the Supper what it is 1. The flesh and blood of the mighty men of the earth the power and authority of the rulers of the world which are bound in chains Rev. 19.18 That ye may eat the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Captains c. Ezek. 39.18 19. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the Princes of the earth of Rams of Lambs c. And ye shall eat fat until ye be full and drink blood until ye be drunken of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you You shall fill and satisfie your selves with the judgment of the Lord upon the

first pull that down and make it a desolation and then lay a sure foundation for a more glorious one Thus doth God Your house saith he shall be left unto you desolate The people boasted in the Temple God had a Temple to build Well saith God I will first destroy yours desolation shall first attend your worldly earthly Temple God hath now a pure glorious House to build a pure Government to which the Nations must all bow and bring their glory to Now the Saints that are under dark and cloudy dispensations say Come let us govern and rule and we will rule for the Lord but they alas by reason of their darkness patch and peece up a Government made up of the Laws and Statutes that our forefathers in their days not partakers of our light or rather the Lords in us formed and made and their Reformation is a retreating back to prestine purity but not a going forward pressing after that purity and glory which eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor entred into the heart of man to conceive For further testimony see Isai 24. the whole Chapter especially 20 21 22 23 verses Chap. 26.20 21. Chap. 65.15 16 23. Zeph. 3.8 9. where you may plainly read that when the Lord will do his great work when all shall confess to him and every knee bow when his glory shall be lifted up and peace and love shall dwell in the hearts of men and women and no hurting in Gods holy mountain That destruction shall go before and the high and lofty ones shall be brought low a consumption will the Lord bring and make a short work in all the earth Object But it may be said and that by honest hearts That Anarchy and Confusion is that aspersion which the world casts upon the Saints by reason of the changes the Lord makes in the Government of the Nation and the people of God conceive themselves wronged in it and will you own that which they disclaim Answ I am against Anarchy utterly as that which hath no Order and Government and the dissolver of all Order but yet as it leads to the setting up of a pure righteous and everlasting Government I quietly and contentedly submit to it and behold the strange and marvellous actings of the Lord in it and there feasting my self with those dainties that are secretly involved in those black and dark dispensations and in this confusion finde a sweet and blessed Order begun in me and behold the Lord bringing it forth to the view of the world that every eye may see him and all shut their mouths at him 2. That you would remain naked and sensless before the Lord and men to be as helpless creatures You could be content many of you peradventure to be naked before the Lord but not before men O then say you will the world trample upon us and we shall be destroyed and that without remedy and make our selves a reproach and contempt to all Nations when we shall thus freely and voluntarily resign up our selves Wives Children City Country and Nation into the Fathers hands and so to have no Wife Child Servant or Habitation yea no Husband Parent or Master but what is in the Fathers resignment To have no Keeper of the Vineyard but the Lord no Watchman but the Watchman of Israel to have no bulwarks and no walls but Salvation Freedom and Liberty from on high to have a strong City and yet without Gates To be presented to the Lord and men as creatures undone broken in their estates glory and repute having nothing to live upon but what the Ravens by the Word of the Lord bring morning and evening to them beholding all the vessels of the earth broken to pieces and not a potsheard left to take up coals withal You must lose all part with all have nothing be nothing to God to the world Have nothing but what the barrel of meal and cruse of oyl affordeth a famine being in the Land upon the Prophet Teacher mighty men and men of war upon the Captains and men of strength and no bread but in the Lord nor water but in this living fountain 2. My counsel is That you would come forth clothed with pure and white linnen with the man God or the God-man in your arms dressed with divine attire clothed with embrodered garments yea of needle-work of all curious workmanship and this work is not yours but the Lords in which you are onely to wait until the Lord bring forth his name in you in which day you shall go forth bearing to men the meekness quietness peace love and goodness of God as you did once administer to your brethren destruction misery wrath and judgment and as you soar up into God so shall you in the majesty of this God heal and cure the Nations even by the leaves that this tree of life shall yeeld and thus shall ye become men of another garb men of another dress and you shall be named by a new name which the Lord our God shall name new Jerusalem shall be written upon you and there shall be no goings out not a thought of man not a word of man that name shall be mentioned no more unless as an abhorring to all the Israel of God The earth shall cease to yeeld her fruit man shall give forth no longer he shall be emptiness unto the Lord vanity shall be written upon every thing that remains and all things shall sound forth God a trumpet shall not blow that cannot eccho forth the Lord and this shall be the great conquest and the great reward That we our selves are conquered and brought in subjection to the Lord That whereas after all our victories and successes there still remained Creature and God now there remaineth after this success and victory God and nothing of Creature And whereas you were the fear of men when you were gift with a sword so now you are swordless and manless you are the love and good will of the people and what you are you are to the Lord and for the Lord not to nor for your selves Object But you may object and say This is a happy time were it in our days were it to be fulfilled upon us but the time is not yet Answ All that dye shall live and all that live shall dye They that now have neither house land credit profit repute glory wife childe brother and sister but having had all do now part with all shall find all these in God And they that have these as you have in abundance shall lose all and be without all You that cease from your own honor shall enjoy far more in God and cease as to your offices among men shall obtain greater in God and from a common Soldier shall become a Captain and from a Captain a General and from a General to be One with the great God of Heaven and Earth who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords And for the time behold it is

day of the Lord wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved c. Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness Peter though an Apostle and Minister of the Churches and to the world yet he expected a more glorious Church and Ministry for you must not understand by heavens and elements is here meant those visible to us as if they should be burnt up or heavens and earth to be that which you behold and live in but Churches and Ministry Doctrines and teachings of and by men Yea John will lead you to the knowledge of this Rev. 21.3 22 23. Behold the tabernacle of God is with men and God himself shall be with them c. And I saw no temple therein for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it He is a weake man and a weak Christian that is under the Ministry of the Apostles that hath any man to teach him or is under any teaching of God by men And my dear friends and brethren let me tell you without offence that you are not under the second Covenant but under a Covenant of the outward man under the Compact of the Letter untill you cease teaching one another and preaching one to the other but are taught of God onely So runs the terms of that Covenant observe it Hebr. 8.10 11. In that Covenant when persons are under it they shall not say one to another brother know the Lord this is the voice of the Lord that is not This the Lord saith that man saith this is truth that is error No in this Covenant you shall know God perfectly fully and clearly O strange doctrine and horrid blasphemy will some of you my brothren say but I will bear with the fruits of your darkness And now I am to deliver to you First a word of terror and judgment and secondly of counsel and advice First Terror and Judgement I am to tell you the Lord hath cursed the Figtree he hath caused your gifts to wither you tree yeelds no more fruit your root is without sap your teachings without life your ministrations affording no peace either I say none at all but dejection and casting down or else peace temporary because of the uncertainty of your doctrine peace mixed with enmity and breakings out and a love with feare when perfect love casts out fear for fear hath torment A Saint and yet a sinner when he that is horn of God sinneth not You shall call in this old Church-way and not be heard cry and the Lord will turn from you you shall sly at the rebuke of one though you are a thousand at the rebuke of five shall ye slye untill you be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain and as an Ensigne on a hill The Sun shall go down over the Prophets and the day shall be dark over them Emptiness and a shadow shall be written upon all that you 〈◊〉 This Sun and Moon of yours shall be ashamed when the Lord shall reign in mount Zion The Lord is sending leanness among you and a famine not of bread and a thirst not of water but of hearing the Word of the Lord and you shall wander from Sea to Sea from Church to Church from Society to Society from Preacher to Preacher from man to man from brother to brother from doctrine to doctrine and shall not finde the Lord you your selves shall shortly see this fulfilled upon you you shal burn your books and writings you shal see this mountain of yours forsaken and thus judgement shall follow you and a fire shall be kindled among you and burn you up And the Lord to make out tokens of his indignation against you how he hath left you as you have left him and his glory hath in these our daies visibly discovered it by a giving you up to the weakness and folly of your own hearts which hath produced and effected in you the betraying and shedding innocent blood even the blood of those whom you formerly honoured strengthning the hands of their oppressors adding affliction to affliction which the spirit of God calleth cruelty In the day that the strangers carried away captive his even Jacobs forces and foreigners entred into his even the righteous gates and casts lots upon them even thou wast as one of them thou stood'st in the cross-waies to cut off those that did escape But the day of the Lord is near as thou hast done shall it be done to thee the reward shall return upon thine owne head this innocent blood have you shed even you or most of you that call your selves the Churches of God As I do not own their boasting in or gathering to themselves an arm of flesh and by a warlike way to endeavour to free themselves and establish righteousness in the Land So I cannot but testifie against the bloody unchristian-like thoughts and actions that hath been manifested in you to them And who should have thought that no sooner could liberty be given you which once were so enslaved and captived in and for the practise of your Religion that for so doing you daily suffered or in continual leopardy I say that you should seek to enslave and embondage others whom you professedly honour as righteous some to God and others of them to men save in this action But sweet and good is the hand of the Lord in this that he might thereby make a discovery of you to the World Now I shall shew you a few Reasons of the judgements of the Lord thus falling upon you 1. Because the Temple of the Lord not the Lord is your glory Every thing that God welleth in you fall down to and so fall down to Angels Saints Men Ordinances Ministers and Officers when these at the best are but Gods habitation garments of the earth and decaying vestures wherewith God cloathes himself You are satisfied that you are a Church member that you are of such and such a Congregation that you have such a Pastor that you have submitted to such an Ordinance or Ordinances O this doth tickle you I know it when I walked among you Nay it further appeares by those mean and low thoughts you have of those that are not of your Order some of you can hardly pray with them others not own them as brethren and the rest charging them with disobedience in not walking up to those withered dead and decayed things that you seek to keep alive Now as long as you remain under these dispensations the Lord in and under these should only be your glory 1 Cor. 1.31 He that glorieth let him glory in the Lord. Object But some of you will say Though indeed we are under all these administrations yet we glory not in them if we may be said to know our own hearts we are commanded so to do by God and we dare not sleight any injunction from the Lord. Answ I know it is here you stick

great and high-looked men of the earth You shall see the Day of the Lord upon all flesh upon all might and power you shall see all the pride of the earth stained and defaced and this shall be your joy and rejoycing And it shall then be said Behold the man the woman that gave not the glory to God Behold end see every thing that is not pure God defaced hath lost its life its blood runs to the Rocks and Mountains there to hide themselves O blessed Feast O sweet Supper nothing remaining but the Holy One Iniquity hath here an end and the terrible one is here brought low 2. This Feast is the flesh of the Whore an eating of her and a burning her with fire You know in the burnt-offerings under the Law the flesh and the fat and all was to be burnt and nothing to remain so nothing is to remain in this burnt-offering but the Lord For by Whore I understand to be any thing or person whatever that you love and delight in and go to bed to save the pure and individeble God any of those Lovers that give us our bread and our water our wool and our flax our drink and our oy● whatever it be that refreshes us inwardly or outwardly save God Do you joy and delight in Forms in outward Dispensations and Administrations Nay do you delight in Christ as after the flesh Do you feast your selves with the fleshly presence of Christ This shall be burnt up with fire And do you eat it up and let not ought remain There is a Strumpet within you your wisdom which is your snare your knowledg reason and will which will cause you to fall O let all be burnt up yea this will of yours let it not remain until the morning and it shall be a sweet swelling sacrifice unto the Lord let your will be terminated in God let your reason be the Lords reason and your judgment his let this affect you and the zeal of the Lords house even eat you up Secondly Let me advise that you go and return to your first husband you were first espoused to the Lord well have but one husband stray not from this man of knowledge any longer be not a stranger at home though you have played the harlot yet will your husband receive you Seek the Lord and David your King and fear the Lord and his goodness now in these latter daies Hos 3.5 This is the first thing you must do when you are come out of bondage and out of the Land of Aegypt when delivered out of the strange land ask for the Lord seek him out never leave untill you have found him even him whom your soule loveth You must seek the Lord God and then Zion If you know God perfectly you will know men as they are but this is the reason men and Saints are so much deceived because they first seek the Church and then Lord men and then God But were you fully and prefectly acquainted with God you would know men and things distinctly O you would easily learn to distinguish between the light of God and the darkness of men between the emptiness and vanity of men and things and fulness that is in God God is that blessed key that opens the door to every creature giving a perfect and distinct knowledge of them creatures shall be no more then creatures to you Did you know the Lord by these espousals of his were this the mariage day to you it would work out all strangenes that is in your souls to this God Hos 2.17 For I will take the names of Balaam out of her mouth and they shall no more be remembred by their names They shall no more call God my Lord but my husband vers 16. There is not such a discovery such an intimate understanding of secrets between the master and servant as between the husband and wife The servant knows nothing but as it relates to his dutie and obedience as it relates to the servitude he is under Well saith the Lord I will free you of this bondage you and I will not be strangers but familiar friends It shall be no more I and you but you and I one we will have one table one house one heart one minde and by the effecting this work I will doe it First I will first bring you into the wilderness I will have you alone your lovers shal no more remain before me you shall be where there is no path no way no Church no Temple no company O then saith God you will be glad of company then society with me will be your delight will in that day step in and shew my self and then shall you freely come in worshipping and serving of me Secondly The Lord will in this day reveale and discover himself in a full and glorious manner Your vailes shall then be rent and your coverings removed then shall ye say Lo this is our God we have waited for him This is the invisible One whom no man have seen nor can see whom flesh and blood hath not revealed this consuming fire is he this everlasting burning is our husband O then shall you loath your selves for all your abominations you shall then cease crying up that fleshly knowledge wisdom understanding teaching and hearing which you now so much strive after that it shall be an abhorring to you Isai 66.23 24. And it shall come to pass that from one new Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the Lord. And they shall go forth and look upon carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me for their worm shall not dye neither shall their fire be quenched and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh You shall go forth out of this holy City and you shall look for the Praying Fasting Preaching and Reading men and women for all the carnall worshippers and you shall see nothing but the carcasses of these men remaining and they shall stink in your nostrils and be an abhorring to you For Behold the Lord creates new heavens and a new earth and the former shall be remembred no more THE POST-SCRIPT Reader in the Flesh and Disciple in the Spirit I Was encouraged thus to write to the Army and Churches because Michael the great Prince is standing up and it is a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation and yet at this time a people are delivered and they are found written in the Book Would you know them who they are Look among the writings of the Spirit and that book will discover them This Book that I have in weakness written tells you of a time of war desolations and forsakings of hoasts of men of an Army of brave spirited-men zealous professing men an Army that hardly any Army can write after them lifted up to Heaven and yet brought down to Hell Of Churches forsaken and made a desolation yet reformed Churches Candlesticks that hold out more then their Fathers did Yet you hear of a people standing upon the same earth and sea clothed with the Sun and the Moon under their feet that are at rest that are entred into Canaan and passed through the river Jordan dry-shod I have written to you because it is the time that men are running to and fro and knowledg is increased That you the Nations and kindreds of the earth fleshly societies may see the Son of man coming in the Clouds and weep and wail because of him That you that seek great things for your selves glorious structures and buildings of men a City made by hands may know the Son of man the Emmanuel God with and in us hath not in all these where to lay his head As you hear in this a house fallen because built up on the sands of a City whose inhabitants are sick weak dying men that are flesh and not spirit So if the Spirit will permit me to write again you shall hear of a house that like Mount Zion shall never be removed and that because it is founded on a Rock a City the inhabitant whereof shall not say I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity they shall weep no more God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes There shall be no more thence an infant of days nor an old man that hath not filled his days the childe shall dye a hundred years old the full age of a man or more They shall be all from the least to the greatest perfect in knowledg come unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ But the Sinner being an hundred years old the old professor the man that hath known Christ after the flesh for a whole age and more that hath trotted up and down all his life after Eli the old man the man Adam the flesh that is corrupt shall be accursed shall like the barren tree wither and be cut down FINIS

at hand Summer is neer even at the door for the Fig tree putteth forth her green figs and the Vines with the tender Grapes give a good smell every creature hath a sweet smell of God in it God is written in lively characters upon every creature in heaven and earth There is in all these more or less a giving and resigning up to the sweet and gracious dispose of the Lord As the Lord passes before them so are they ashamed and confounded in themselves for when he appeareth who can ●…an●… By which you may know the Day of the Lord draws neer therefore say not it is afar off for it is neer and shall overtake you even ere you are aware and your souls shall be made like the charets of Aminadah A Second WORD TO THE CHURCHES YOu have a name that you live you have the image and representation of God amongst you you assume to your selves the name of the Churches of God Churches of the Gospel of clear light and yet live in the darkness and cloudiness of your own spirits You have made flesh and forms your habitation you have offered upon every mountain and sacrificed under every green tree and bowed to graven images You have in truth so hug'd and embraced the outmost and lowermost dispensations of God as you will not nor durst not leave them for the enjoyment of a pure and naked God You have known Christ after the flesh and have eat and drunk with him in this fleshly way you have seen the miracles that he hath wrought and the wonders he hath done among men and you by him have repented and turned from your own works of righteousness to the righteousness of God as thus held forth unto you And you have had much sweetness and comfort under all these for the Lord hath lived in them Now saith the Lord unto you Behold I go to my Father I withdraw from the creature and ascend into my own glory into my pure self I leave the earth I will abide no more in the Temple I will forsake my dwelling place Note the word God doth sometimes leave his dwelling place I have made my abode and dwelt in Water Bread and Wine in the observation of days in praying fasting reading writing preaching hearing I will now leave them all O then sorrow fills your hearts and you begin to weep and lament seeing the flesh of Christ crucified before you hung between two theeves but his Holy One cannot dye nor see corruption but his flesh is abased shamed disgraced the Lord gives up those garments and vestures wherewith he was clothed to the moth to devour to the enemy to make a prey of and the worldly Christian parts his garments and casts lots for them and rejoyces in the spoil and embalms the body of the Lord with sweet spices though the soul and life is departed from it yea though it be but a meer carcass the spirit of Christ leaving it yet this poor man loves it as much as ever delights and pleases himself in it and Christ being dead and buried you go to his Sepulchre wherein he is layd seeking for him and Mary-like ask the Angels where your Lord is they answer He is not here he is risen why seek ye the living among the dead You go to fasting and prayer and enquire saying Did you see the Lord No say they He is not here He was here for three days but he is risen and gone Then you go from one Church to another from society to society and enquire but he is not here say they he is risen Then you go to the rudiments of the world to elementary things and they give you the same answer saying He was here but he is risen behold the linnen clothes and the napkin in which he lay you may see his grave-clothes his outward garments his several and sundry appearances but he is gone he hath left them all Then you begin to be afraid you know not what to do now you have lost your Lord and there is nothing now remaining to take pleasure in and to enjoy but a few grave-clothes some old cast-off garments no place now to live in but a desolate and forsaken house a habitation for Dragons and a Court for Owls a place which the wilde beasts of the field have made their rest Object But you may object and say We are a Church formed according to the pattern in the Mount according to the Scriptures prescribed by Christ and the Apostles and in obedience to these we walk and abide Answ You are much below even all the visible Churches on earth that pure and primitive order in the Apostles days you have not that pure infallible doctrine to deliver as they had nor that clearness of the Spirit poured down upon you the Holy Ghost not falling upon you in cloven tongues as upon them nor that oneness of minde as to sell all and lay it down at the Apostles or Churches feet you have not so learned Christ you cannot do greater works then ever Christ himself did when he was upon earth and that because Christ is ascended Yours at the best is but an earthly weak erring imperfect Ministry a worldly Sanctuary a Baptism of Water not of the Spirit that which as John said decreases not increases a doctrine which because of the weakness of it cannot go beyond Repentance Faith Hope Baptisms Resurrection of the dead and eternal Judgment with laying on of hands All which are but milk for babes yet you are always contenting and satisfying your selves with such a baby-condition not going in your selves nor suffering without offence those that would nay you will not move a step beyond these but asperse as erroneous and blasphemous all such that pass through hope and faith to sight and enjoyment through the Flesh into the Spirit and it is unseemly to name the word perfection as attainable among you But further were you as perfect and compleat in all things as the Apostles were yet must you with such a Ministry and Church cease and give in for behold a greater then the Apostles and Prophets is here here is one standing among you whom you know and see not as yet that will not own Paul Peter and John in this Apostleship there being no manner of co-parnership in it and that it may appear that the Apostolical Ministry and Doctrine was but to continue its time and age doth Christ himself when upon earth manifest as much to us Matth. 28.20 Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you and behold I am with you alway or every day even to the consumption of this age So the Greek reads it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the singular number not in the plural number as in other places where it is used for ever the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Peter bears witness hereto 2 Pet. 3.12 13. Looking for and hastening unto the coming of the