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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96143	The judgement set, and the bookes opened. Religion tried whether it be of God or of men. The Lord cometh to visit his own, for the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God. To separate the sheep from the goats. and the precious from the vile. And to discover the blasphemy of those that say, they are apostles, teachers, alive, rich, Jewes, but are found lyars. Deceivers. Dead. Poore, blind, naked. The synagogue of Satan. In severall sermons at Alhallows Lumbard-street, by John Webster, a servant of Christ and his church.	Webster, John, 1610-1682.	1654 (1654)	Wing W1210; Thomason E805_13; ESTC R207390	257,953	337

the corner it is rejected and laid by even by those that account themselves Master builders and this is the Lords doing and it s marvailous in our eyes Again another ground why the souls of men come not to Christ Reas 3 is because the appearing of Christ in the spirit makes all the hidden things of mans heart lie open even that which man himselfe never saw nor never thought was in him and this man hates and will not abide to see nor behold that depth of pride that selfe-glorying hypocrisie c. and taht bottomlesse pit of misery mans eye never looked into himself into his own heart but in the day of the appearance of Jesus Christ all this is discovered and laid open therefore man would by no means come to Christ because the appearing of Christ discovers his sin and condemnation man loves his own life skin for skin and all that a man hath will be give for his life but he that loseth his life shall find it Job 2.4 Mat. 10.39 John 3.19 therefore our Saviour tells us plainly that this is the c●ndemnation that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evil for he that doth evil hateth the light neither comes to the light lest his deeds should be made manifest that they are evil So here the ground is rendred why the Gospel is Condemnation to the sons of men the Gospel brings light but men resist it hate it Certain it is that the light of Christ is in every creature for he is the true light that enlightens every one that come into the world Joh. 1.9 Mat. 6.23 And if this light that is in us be darkness how great is that darkness Here is the condemnation of all the sons of men that they dare not stand in the light of Christ not being able to behold hell in their own hearts but labour by all means to cover it for the light of Christ would shew them that there is no thought action or duty or performance that ever they did that had any thing of purity in it but it was all sin Now man not daring to see his own misery therefore he runs from this light and gets himselfe behinde any tree He runs from the appearance of him that sits upon the Throne and so resolves he will not see his own misery death and condemnation Rev. 6.16 neither will he believe it though he be told it by an Angel from Heaven he will not come to the light lest thereby he may know or be convinced that his deeds are onely evil Againe this is the work of the Father to draw men unto Christ because no lesse then infinitness and Eternity is able to bring God and man together the separation between God and man is so vast and they are at such an infinite distance since his fall that nothing but Infinitness can bring these two infinite ends together for the soul of man in one sin sins against an infinite God in any one sin it goes out and turns away from the infinitnesse of all blessednesse good joy glory and peace and so goes down into the infinitness of nothing for nothing is a kinde of infinitness and he is indeed gone into a far Country Luk. 15. 13. as the Prodigal was now therefore nothing but the infinite powers and infinite wisedome and strength that is in the Lord is able to bring life out of death something out of nothing therefore there is nothing to bring the heart of man out of that far country wherein to it is gone and out of that bottomless pit into which is is fallen nothing can do it but infinitness and eternity 2 Cor. 4.14 nothing but the same spirit that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead can quicken our mortal bodies there is nothing I say able to do it but the same spirit to bring a poor soul from hell and condemnation and make it one in unity with the spirit And therefore the Apostle witnesses Eph. 2.13 you that were aliens hath he made nigh by the blood of Christ Eph. 2.13 and you that were sometimes afar off hath he made near by the blood of Christ So now I hope this appears a truth to you and I hope the Lord will make it so in you by experience till then it is not a savour of life unto life for except you have the Scriptures made good in the power thereof in your own hearts what are the Scriptures to you And I have alledged them for that very end that you may finde and say These things are all fulfilled not only among the Jewes and at Jerusalem but really and truely in my selfe So then I hope some of you see it is the alone power of the Father that draws the soules of men unto Christ otherwise no man can come unto him But give me leave yet a little farther for the clearing it and explaining it by the way What this power of the Father is or how the Father doth draw or bring the soules of men unto Christ God is said to be a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth Joh. 4.23 God is nothing but life glory and power spirit and immortality and whatsoever thing we could have a notion or similitude of that is able to set out strength and life and glory and wisdom yet all these come infinitly short of setting out the strength and power of the Lord of Hosts the great Jehovah who is Psal 121.5 he that keeps Israel Psal 121.5 he that keepes Israel neither slumbreth nor sleepeth so that is is to be cleared what power it is that brings the spirits of men unto Jesus Christ Certainly there is nothing but the same eternal spirit that was in Jesus Christ it is the same immortal and immediate hand and power of God that doth ever raise up the soule of man and bring it unto Christ and nothing but that spirit only and therefore from hence is that of the Apostle that no man can so much as say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost 1 Cor. 12.3 Joh. 3.5 and except a man be born of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God for t is all one and t is wrought by one and the same Almighty Spirit to say that Jesus is the Lord by the spirit and to be born of the spirit for man to say confess so ten thousand times if he do not feel him to be the Lord and the Almighty in him all his confessions in words are nothing And by one spirit saith the Text ye are all baptized into one body even the whole body and they all testifie one and the same thing that there is but one spirit 1 Cor. 12.13 Eph. 4.4 one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all Eph. 4.4 and they have all been made to drink into

it is set in its due place as it was in the Apostle Paul who did not preach in the enticing words of mans wisdome 1 Cor. 2.4 but only used in its due place to speak to divers people in those tongues that they understood this was not to use it to understand the mystery by nor of it self to be advantageous to the Gospel and so comes not within the Verge of the Question And besides the knowledg of tongues was in Paul as a special gift as in the rest for he was not behind the rest of the Apostles not as it was an acquisition and therefore he might lawfully Praise God for it and so this is altogether improper and impertinent to this Argument or Question And for what he urgeth of Apollos it is as improper for he did it not by the force and efficacy of humane Learning Act. 18.25 28. but through the power of the spirit of God for the Text saith he was instructed in the way of the Lord and that was A teaching above humane Learning and it was in the strength of Divine Wisdome and not humane that he mightily convinced them and it was out of the storehouse of the Scriptures opened unto him by the Holy Ghost that he spake and not from the muddy puddle of mans broken Cisterns that can hold no water Jer. 2.13 Act. 6.10 but as Stephen who spoke with such a spirit that the adversaries were not able to resist so it was in Paul and the rest not in the words of mans wisdom but in the demonstration of the spirit and power He proceeds in his scurrilous language with fool and knave it may be such are his companions as most fitting for him and in the 125. pag. he saith I keep a coile about nothing for the very Objecton as I have put it asserts the good to flow from the sanctification of Learning so that I make it an Handmaid Let any one read the Objection and my Solution and they shall easily perceive how he either mistakes or wilfully falsifies my words for I say this that if by being sanctified they mean that the providential wisdom of God doth order it or make use of it for the good of his people I oppose it not so that it be understood that that good flowes not from the nature of acquired Learning it self but from the wisedome and goodnesse of the spirit of God who maketh all things work together for the benefit of those that love him who are the called according to his purpose Then which nothing can be more clear for that a blind man could hardly have mistaken it Then he goes on saying Behold how he cheats you mistaking the Question for it is not whether by the help of humane learning a man may attain a saving knowledge to himselfe whether he can save his own soul but whether he may not attain to such a knowledge as may enable him to hold out the way of salvation unto others and so proceeds in the proving of this unto the beginning of the 119. pag. The poor creature is still accusing others of that which he is guilty of himself for alas he cheats himselfe like a blind man shooting he knows not at what mark for this Question was not moved nor denied by me but in my second Solution granted that humane learning may conduce to the gaining of Litteral and Historical knowledge and is there shewed to be an Objection not ad idem because it profitteth not and therefore the man is here arguing nothing against he neither knows whom nor what but thinks it sufficient confutation of any thing if he do but babble forth wind and words enough though they be altogether beside the Question and to no purpose I will once again tell him what he should have proved to wit That man had reason before the Fall and that humane learning is not the fruit and effect of the forbidden tree but not a word of this It is a morsel too hard for his digesting And that men by reason and humane learning may get a litteral knowledg of the Scriptures and preach that unto others is witnessed by himself others of the like principle who have but a carnal and litteral knowledge of the things of Christ Mat. 15 13. and yet dare take upon them to inform and teach others and so the blind lead the blind and they fall both into the ditch and so many thousands preach that which will neither save themselves nor those that hear them and so the Scripture is fulfilled in them 1 Pet. 3.16 who being undiscipled or untaught of God Jude 19. wrest both the writings of Paul and other Scriptures to their own destruction These be they who separate themselves sensual having not the spirit But I must tell him that he absolutely wrests and falsifieth that Scripture in 1 Cor. 9.27 1 Cor. 9.27 For knoweth he what body the Apostle meaneth and in what sense doth he understand that Paul may be a Cast-away For if he means that Paul might be Eternally Cast away or a Reprobate if he preached to others and kept not his own body in subjection them I utterly deny it as false and unsound for he was A Chosen Vessel and was perswaded by the truth of the spirit of God that neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities Rom. 8.38.39 nor Powers nor things present nor things to come nor Height nor Depth nor any other creature should be able to separate the Saints of which he was one from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus their Lord. For the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will not bear A cast-away but one disapproved or disallowed of now if the Young man would but have looked a little farther he might have found the Apostle expounding himself not that he might be disallowed of God Eternally but disapproved of men and therefore he saith But I trust ye shall know that we are not reprobates 2 Cor. 13.6.7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil not that we should appear 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 approved but that ye should do that which is honest though we be as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reprobates So that I make him not speak an impossibility but I am sure he makes the Text speak an untruth in holding that Paul might be Eternally Reprobate or disallowed of God And I wish him to examine his own breast and he will finde the Judas there and himselfe to have but a form of godlinesse having denyed the power thereof 2 Tim 3.5 and that he hath but taken that word into his mouth in a carnal and fleshly comprehension which the holy spirit never planted nor taught there and therefore must be rooted out because not planted by the Heavenly Father Mat. 15.13 He concludes saying it is cleare therefore that learning and parts per se ex propriâ naturâ can understand and so apprehend the mystery the Gospel