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B04886	No power but of God, and yet a power in every creature, or, A word in season, to all men not void of grace, or deprived of reason wherein is held forth that the Almighty God is not wanting to us in impowering of us, but we are wanting to him, in not improving our talent for him ... / by Robert Purnel.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1651 (1651)	Wing P4238A; ESTC R187132	119,586	280

are past away Rev. 21. 1. 2 Pet. 3. 13. 3. Then there be a third sort of sober Christians that do look for and expect these glorious times and yet they do deny that Christ shall reign personally he shall reign it is true say they but how Christ will come in the spirit and have a glorious Kingdome in the spirits of his people and they shall by the power of Christ in them reign over the world and this is the new heaven and the new earth And for my part I do affirm that this is the glorious state that is now comming Isa 66. 22. 2 Pet. 3. 13. Rev. 21. 1. And these are the times of restitution so frequently spoken unto in the Scripture Rom. 8. 19 20 21 22 23. Act. 3. 20 21 22 23. Oh what a glorious time will this be when Magistracie shall be restored to its primitive institution to countenance those that do well and punish evill doers Rom. 13. 3. Dan. 7. 27. Isa 2. 3. Isa 1. 26. O what a joyful time shall this be when Ministery shall be restored to its primitive Institution Jer. 3. 18. Jer. 24. 4. O what a blessed time will this be when our God shall undeceive the people that have been deceived by the Priests the Dragon shall be cast out of heaven and his Chaplains out of the Church God will take away the nature of wicked men that ●…lthough they remain wolves lions and ●…ruits still yet they shall not hurt nor de●●roy in all this holy mountain For the ●●arth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea Hab. 2. 14. Wherefore most noble overcoming Saints ●…ook for great alterations and mighty ●…hanges see what dissolutions God is making in the earth and look for the Lord ●…o be rev●…aled from heaven who will be mighty in his dispensation and glorious ●…n revelation and strong and powerful in operation and he will bring to passe his determination which will be to the confounding of all things that are in opposition against him Oh then taste and see that the Lord is gracious it 's life to know him it is heaven to behold him it is melody to hear him it is endlesse happinesse to enjoy him And as you like the end that the Almighty aims at so approve of the way which he acts in and wait with patience for the accomplishment thereof There be glorious Deliverances for the Saints as hath been said but the Saints are too sudden in expecting these deliverances WHen our first Parents were fallen there was a promise made to them of a recovery by the second Adam in these words The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpents head And as soon as Eve had conceived and brought forth a son Gen. 4. 1. saith she I have got a man from the Lord for so some of our Translations render it And seeing this was not he when she brought forth her second sonne she calls him Abel which signifies vanity Seeing she was deceived in the first she calls the second vanity Now our mother was just as we are too sudden in our expectation of deliverances So if we look into that of Moses Exo. 5. ult Neither hast thou delivered thy people at all saith precious Moses Why Moses thou art a little too quick Have not these people prayed and hath not the Lord heard the cry and sent thee to bring them out of Egypt and am not I now upon delivering them and yet are they not delivered at all ●…oses thou art a little too sudden in ex●…ecting deliverances So it was with the Apostles Act. 1. 6. ●…ord said they wilt thou at this time restore ●…e kingdome to Israel The Apostles were too ●…dden this was not to be done till many ●…undred years afterwards Methinks I see ●…he people of England yea many of the Lords ●…wn Lambs some of them in Egypt under ●…haraohs hard task-masters murmuring and ●…omplaining at other Saints as they did at Moses and Aaron And I see some others ●…rought to the Red-sea but in great fears before and behind as they were and some ●…re got over the sea and seen all their ene●…ies drowned as they were pursuing them ●…nd so begin to sing and many be marched ●…nto the midst of the wildernesse where they see great miracles waters flow out of ●…he Rocks and raining Manna from heaven and yet notwithstanding the people begin to murmure and desire to go back again to Egypt Oh here is the state of the English Nation they say it is better to go back again to Egypt to King Pharaoh or if he be dead to his young Sonne that he may reign over us where we may enjoy our old Discipline and eat our wonted food the onions and the garlicks and the leeks But some are of a more choise spiri●… and have sent unto Canaan to spie out th●… land Well there were twelve men se●● ten of them bring up a false report of th●… land onely two of them were of anothe●… spirit and speak the truth the greate●● part say it is a barren land the lesser pa●● say it is a fruitful land The people wer●… divided and some fall to murmuring an●… so are destroyed in the wildernesse Well a few are gotten to Canaan the enemy flie●… before them they possesse their habitations and having all things at the full they soon forget their God Is not this all along our state at this day Some are travelling from Egypt to Canaan and some are journeying from Canaan to Babylon and some are walking from Babylon to Sion Q. Methinks I hear many saying If there be such glorious times at hand and that God doth intend good to us why is it thus and thus with us A. It is true there be many external and internal burdens lying upon us that we would be glad to have removed But consider a little first the fountain from whence these come Gods love secondly the end of them for thy good this will cause the ●●ule to rejoyce in tribulation for to you is given not onely to believe but to suffer ●●r his sake must Job the justest man that 〈◊〉 alive be fought against with the terrours ●…f the Lord Job 6. 4. Must David a man after ●●ds own heart have no rest in his bones ●…ecause of his sins and be so wasted with ●●e grief of his heart that his moisture is ●●rned to the drought of Summer Psal 32. ●●rs 3 4. Must Heze●…iah who walked before the ●…ord in truth and with a perfect heart ●…ave the anger of the Almighty break his ●…ones like a Lion Isai 38. 13. Nay must the Sonne of God himself lie ●…leeding upon the crosse and cry out in ●…he bitternesse of his soule My God my God ●…hy hast thou for saken me and shall we think ●…o be altogether free from chastisement was ●…ot Abel murthered by his brother Noah ●…ocked by his son Job scoffed by his wife ●…lie slain by his sons See

a child because tho●… dost speak as a man must he see by thy eyes o●… else wilt thou say he doth not see at all Tho●… that dost think thou standest take heed lest thou dost fall Think not of thy self above what thou art Ro. 12. 3. Remember thy sister-Church Rev. 3. 17. Because thou sayest I am rich and increased with heavenly enjoyments gracious discoveries and unspeakable manifestations and art perfect and compleat and come to the fulnesse of Christ and hast need of nothing neither Ordinance or Administration helps nor governments Dost thou think thus of thy selfe why so did that Church of Laodiceans Rev. 3. 17. which was the most barren and unfruitful of all the seven Churches of Asia Reason thus with thy self Was that Church so exceedingly deceived then why not I 7. Consider that in the last age of the Church and in the most glorious times of that age when both Jewes and Gentiles shall have one Shepheard and one sheepfold when knowledge shall cover the earth as the waters the sea when the Law shall be written in our hearts and Babylon fallen and the mountain of the Lords house established upon the top of the mountaines Even in these most glorious dayes of light and knowledge freedome and liberty shall the Saints wait upon God in the use of Ordinances and call one upon another so to do Isa 2. 2. 3. Mic. 4. 1 2. Again if there shall be Ordinances in th●… most glorious times that are to come whe●… there shall be a full pouring out of the Sp●…rit of God upon the children of men the●… certainly they are to remain now And you look upon the last of Isa Jer 3. Zac. 1●… or upon other Scriptures where mentio●… is made of the most glorious times that an●… yet to come ye shall find that there is me●…tion also made of Ordinances in tho●… times Let us look into Rev. 11. 15. T●● seventh Angel sounded and there were gre●● voices in Heaven saying The kingdomes of th●… world are become the kingdomes of our Lord an●… of his Christs and he shall reign for ever and eve●… Here are plainly the glorious times spoke●… of that are yet to come Well shall there b●… any Ordinances then Yes for v. 19. An●… the temple of the Lord was opened in heaven an●… there was seen in his ●…emple the Ark of his Test●…ment What is this but Ordinances Th●… Ark the visible signe of the presence of Go●… in way of Ordinances and the Temple opened though it was shut before 8. Consider if the ministration of th●… Gospel be still to continue then surel●… the Ordinances of Christ are still to abid●… 2 Cor. 3. 11. For if that which is done away w●… glorious much more that which remains is gloriou●… The Apostle here makes this difference be 〈◊〉 ●…he ministration of the Gospel and 〈◊〉 ●…he Law that the one is to be done 〈…〉 d the other to remain Now if the 〈◊〉 were not to continue what 〈…〉 rence would there be as concerning ●…his matter between the ministration of Moses and the ministration of the Gospel ●…ut the Apo 〈…〉 here plainly speaks that ●…his is the ●●erence The ministration of ●…he one is to be done away the ministration ●…f the other doth still continue Therefore ●…he Ordinances of the Gospel doe still re●…naine 9. Consider if that the word of the new ●…estament as commanding to believe and ●…romising to give the Spirit I say if this Word do continue then the Ordinances of Christ are still to continue if the Ordinances of Christ be not still to continue ●…hen the Word of the New Testament as ●…he commandment of believing and the promise of giving the Spirit doe not continue There is the same reason for the one ●…s for the other You say you are bound to believe How prove you that Why Christ hath commanded me say you But 〈◊〉 answer you with your own answer You ●…ue to wait upon God in the use of Ordinances How prove you that I answ●● Christ hath commanded you If Sathan 〈◊〉 get us to lay down but one Ordinance 〈◊〉 the Gospel he will never leave tugging an pulling till he hath brought us out of lo●● with all Ordinances and then he w●● teach us to deny the Scriptures and then 〈◊〉 deny God and last of all we shall be denie●… of God and so fitted for destruction The Commonwealth of England doth 〈◊〉 bound of two sorts of men and women and both in extremes The first will have no Ordinances at al●… The second doe rest upon Ordinance●… or idolize them The first will have no Ordinances at al●… call the Ordinances of Christ dead form beggerly and those that wait upon God in them Legalists Heaven-drivers Formalists and Duty-mongers And fo●… themselves they are taught of God we have n●… need of the teachings of men we be rich and f●… and want nothing not knowing they be poo●… blind miserable and naked Secondly there be another party that d●… rest upon Ordinances and they be not a few●… you shall know them by their fruits D●… not you hear them crying and pleading i●… City and Country Give us Ordinances or e●● 〈◊〉 die And this they plead for unto and ●…ongst a Congregation of people which 〈◊〉 not capable of it but for one Ordinance ●●d that is to stand under the droppings of the ●●spel and the powerful preachings thereof the ●●eanes appointed by Christ to work faith 〈◊〉 their soules Rom. 10. 17. For untill this ●…ord doth come to them in power they 〈◊〉 not fitted for Fellowships and Commu●…ons they must see their union with God ●●fore they can have true communion with ●●s people The Ordinances or at least ●…any of them be Childrens bread and must ●●t be given to Swine Those Ordinances ●●at be ordained for Conversion and Re●●neration are to be held forth to all to the ●●d as many as be ordained to eternal life may ●●lieve All other Ordinances belong to ●…hildren and they have right to them as ●●ible members of that body whereof Christ ●●the head He who was the Son of God came the Son of man that we who be the these things were well considered me●●inks it should abate the practice both of ●●inister and People in City and Country ●●ho for many of them yet being in the ●●d man and having spent their dayes in the ●●vice of Sathan yet forsooth they would known by the name of Christians or least Apostle-imitators though they cann●● bu know they want the power yet th●● will cry up the form of godlinesse Now whe●… the Ministers of our times or at least so●… of them have gathered a parcel of th●… Rabble-rout together I do not stile th●… so because they be the poorest no no s●… they be such a people as David speaks 〈◊〉 they flourish as the green bay-tree their eyes st●● out with fatnesse they go cloathed in the choice array and be the most honorable men in th●… Parish and they want

will be the next thing that I shall 〈…〉 deavour to lay before thee Thy fall in 〈…〉 e first and the manner there of and thy 〈…〉 stauration by the second Adam and the 〈…〉 ory there of And do desire that some 〈…〉 e or other that hath a greater discovery 〈◊〉 the mind of God in these things con●●rning The power of God and the power of the ●…eature concerning the power Natural and ●●e power Spiritual I should intreat them to ●●ld it forth to publique view for I am ●…re there is great necessity of it that man ●…ight know his own strength For I am consident that I my self and ●…any others have left undone many things ●…at we ought and might have done for ●…ot knowing our own strength where with ●…od even the God of power had strength●●ed us Wherefore I do in the presence of 〈…〉 y Maker declare unto the whole world ●…hat I was not straightened in him but in ●…ine own bowels That he hath not been ●…anting to me first not only to give me ●●ength but secondly to supply me in re●●wing that strength day by day Where●●re let God be true and I and all neglecters if 〈…〉 e charge God with not enabling us lyars Rom. 3. 4. Let God be true and every man a lya●● Oh then let not the righteous God 〈◊〉 charged with your unrighteousnesse an●… let not the most holy God be charged wi●● your unholinesse But stirre up the talent th●… is in thee as in 2 Pet. 1. 13. Do as Jacob did wrestle with God l●● him not go till he blesse thee give him n●● rest till he make Jerusalem the praise of t●● whole earth Isa 52. 1. Awake put on t●● strength O Sion put on thy beautiful garment●… O Jerusalem thou holy City open to hi●… for he now knocks flie to this City of r●…fuge and thou shalt be safe For the name 〈◊〉 the Lord is a strong tower the righteous run to 〈◊〉 and are safe If thou didst but see him tho●… wouldest admire him and count all thing●… vanity in comparison of him if thou did●… but know him thou wouldst be so ravishe●… with the love of him that many waters co 〈…〉 not quench it If thou didst but taste hi●… thou wouldst hunger and thirst after hi●… more then doth the Hart after the water●… brooks Oh taste and see that God is gracious It's life to know him it 's heaven to behol●… him it 's melody to hear him it 's endless●… happinesse to enjoy him Let it be our ca●… to obey him and improve all our strengt●… for him let us not spend our money for th●● which is not bread and our pains for that which ●●l not profit Let us run the wayes of his com●●ndments for he hath enlarged our heart and ●●d that he that doth these things shall never ●●moved Improve thy power for him part ●●th thine estate for him give and it shall be ●●en thee again Luk. 6. 38. Good measure pressed ●●n and shaken together and running over Me thinks I hear the voice of thy Saviour 〈…〉 ing to thee O thou obedient sonne come ●●e thou hast been faithful in a little I will ●…e thee more come enter into thy Masters joy 〈◊〉 thine obedience to me did arise from thine in●…est in me manifested to thee by me NOw I shall speak to our Fall in the first Adam and of the subtlety of Sathan ●…erein There be two things of absolute necessity ●●r a Christian to be well acquainted with ●●z 1. Our fall in the first Adam 2. Our restauration by the second A●…am Upon these two points doe the two ●…estaments frequently treat insomuch ●…hat thou canst hardly read one Chapter ●…ut more or lesse thou shalt find the Pro●…het or Apostle speaking to one or both states or something conducing thereunt●… and some Chapters speaking and treati●● wholly of that two fold state as Rom. 5. ●… Nay I have observed that when I ha●● heard a Gospel-Sermon wherein were m●…ny particulars or when J have heard go●● ly men in a long debate about the prin●●ples of religion I have J say observ●● that the summe and substance of their d●● course or teaching hath for the most pa●● been to shew what men were in the first 〈◊〉 dam and the misery of all in that state 〈◊〉 else what they be in the second Adam a●● the glory of that state And when my m●…mory hath been too weak to comprehe●… the abundance of particulars that J ha●… heard J referre all that J have heard 〈◊〉 these two particulars and found singul●● benefit thereby viz. What do J know mo●● now by all that J have heard this day th●… J did before of the state J was in a●● of the state J am now in First then of the first Adam the Scriptu●● speak of him in a two fold state 1. The first is the state of innocencie b●…fore he fell 2. And secondly of his state of mise●● after he was fallen Of the first of these states J shall say n●… thing it being well known to most men ●●d of the second of these states I shall speak ●●r write but a very few words Adam and Eve being in Paradise and ●●oking upon themselves as indeed they ●…ere the most excellent peeces of all the ●…reation bearing the Image of their Crea●…or the Lord left them a Law and left them ●…o the freedome of their own will if they ●…id obey to live if they did disobey to dye ●…ut through the temptation of Sathan ●…hey both soon cast off their Makers pre●…epts and through the temptation of Sa●…han they transgressed the commandement ●…f God in eating the forbidden fruit and ●…hereby fell from the state of innocency ●…herein they were created and so brought ●…pon them and all their seed the losse of ●…ommunion with God and his displeasure ●…nd obtained a curse so as we are by nature ●…he children of wrath bondslaves to Sa●…han and justly liable to all punishments ●…n this world and that which is to ●…ome O thou Adam what hast thou done for ●…hough it was thou that sinned thou art ●…ot fallen alone but we all that came of ●…hee O the infectiousnesse of Sinne ten ●…housand times more infections then the Plague and Pestilence for many have live●… in the City when the noysome Pestilen●… hath been and yet have been free but b●… hold this original transgression hath sprea●… it self into all the corners of the earth 〈◊〉 that no man woman or childe that eve●… was now is or hereafter shall be is fr●● from that infection and that original sin●● as the root bringeth forth actual transgre●…sion as the branches sins of omission o●… commission as the fruit Oh thou Adam what hast thou done 〈◊〉 though it was thou that hast sinned tho●… art not fallen alone but we all that came 〈◊〉 thee as being then in thee are infected b●… thee O miserable men that we are who shall 〈◊〉 liver us from this body of death

the hardships that ●…acob a man chosen of God went through ●…e is threatened by his brother banished ●●om his Father abused by his Uncle ●…efrauded of his Wife in the day he is ●…corched with heat in the night troubled ●…ith frost as you may see at large Gen. 31. ●…ers 40. Then see the divisions between his tw●… Wives two Sisters baulling for one Husban●… after this they both went from their Fathe●… and now see a fresh pursuit behinde hi●… Laban follows Jacob with a Hue and Cry before him Esau is marching up to him wi●● four hundred men so to go forward were intollerable to go backward un●…vailable Well after the Almighty had d●…livered him and he marched into his ow●… Country his Wife Rachel dieth his daughter Dinah is ravished his Son Reuben lie with his Concubines then his most beloved Son Joseph they report is dead the●… soon after this arose a Famine and another of his Sons in prison and nothing can redeem him but his onely Benjamine here is the losse of son after son Gen. 42. 36 And Jacob said unto them Me have ye bereave●… of my children Joseph is not and Simeon 〈◊〉 not and you will take Benjamin away 〈◊〉 these things be against me But there was 〈◊〉 time then drawing neer that Jacob should b●… delivered from his troubles and enjoy the company of all his Sons again The way to true happinesse is through many difficulties you must suffer a while before you shall be established strengthened and setled God is unstripping thee of thy riches and righteousnesse as he did Job that he may give thee twice as much and ten times better in its room the Vision is yet for an appointed time Hab. 2. 3. and at the end it will come wait for it nay it will surely come it will not tarry It may be thou and I have heard That the mountain of the Lords house shal be established upon the top of the mountains well it shall come to passe but the Vision is for an appointed time Hath the Lord promised that knowledge shall cover the Earth as the waters the Sea and that we shall all know him from the least to the greatest Wel God is faithful it shall come to passe but the Vision is for an appointed time Doest thou not read in Dan. 2. that there was a stone cut out without hands and became a great mountain and filled the whole Earth well the Vision is for an appointed time wait for it for it will surely come it will not tarry Hath the Lord indeed promised to take away thy filthy garments as once he did from Joshua Josh 3. 3 4. the Vision is for an appointed time it will speak and not tarry Hath he promised indeed that sorrow and sighing shall fly away and that all tears shall be wiped from thine eyes and thou shall have no more pain and sorrow why h●●s faithful that hath promised onely the Vision is for an appointed time it will speedily speak it will not tarry Do the Scriptures speak of the calling of the Jews and of the bringing in of the fulnesse of the Gentiles and of the restauration of all things the Vision is for an appointed time it will speak and not tarry Hath the Lord indeed promised that the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shal be seven-fold the Vision is for an appointed time it will speak it will not tarry Hath he said by his servant Isaiah c. 25. 7. And he will destroy the face of the covering cast over all people and rend the vaile that is spread over all nations He is faithfull so that one tittle shall not passe till all be fulfilled onely it shall be done in its appointed time How shall hope and patience be exercised if he should not make us wait and how shall we say as in Isai 24. 9. This is our God we have waited for him and he will save us this is the Lord we have waited for him we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation say not with Moses Neither hast thou delivered us at all Exod. 5. last vers but say with Paul 2 Cor. 1. 10. Who hath delivered us who doth deliver us in whom we trust he will yet still deliver us ●…e thankfull then for what is already done and believe and wait for what is ●…ow a doing I see the Saints saying with Abraham Gen. 15. 2. Lord what wilt thou give ●…e c. But methinks you should rather be saying with David Psal 116. 12. What shall I give thee for all thy benesits to me Again we read in the book of the Revelation of seven Seals and seven Vials and seven Trumpets If we compare these Seales Vials and Trumpets together I suppose we shall finde them hold forth one and the same thing And then if we consider what Seale is now opening what Trumpet is now sounding what Vial is now pouring forth thou wilt see what state the Church of Christ s now under and what the Almighty ●…s now doing for her deliverance Is not ●…he seventh Seal now opening is not the ●…eventh Vial now pouring forth Is not ●…he seventh Trumpet now sounding and ●…ome of the Saints begining to lift up their voices Rev. 11. 15. And the seventh Angel sounded and there were great voices in heaven saying The kingdomes of this world are become the kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and ●…e shall reign for evermore Rejoice O Sion ●…hy day is dawning Howle O Babylon thy plagues are comming he is gathering his wheat into the barn but he will burn the chaffe with an unquenchable fire It i●… true the Saints may be shaken once more as in Heb. 12. 26 27. that those things that may be shaken may be taken away and those and only those that cannot be shaken may remain But Babylon shall be shaken down to the earth and ground to powder and cast into the bottomlesse pit there to continue for ever Oh then lift up your hearts w th your hands unto our God in the heavens Oh lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees Take the two wings the one of Faith the other of Love and flie into the aire of Comfort where thy treasure is saying Come Lord Jesus come quickly take possession of that which is thine own I had many things more in my heart and mind to present unto thy consideration whosoever thou art that readest these words I will here but name them unto thee but in another Treatise shortly present them before thee which being done I shall apply those words of Solomon Eccles 12. 12 13. 1. Beware of extremes Men be very apt in this age either to cry up all Clergy-men or cry down all Clergy-men whereas we should endeavour the plucking up and rooting out all false pretended Ministers for they be the worst of men the Scripture calls them Dogs and Wolves and Cheaters and Deceivers