And creatures of distinguish'd forms, A hurtful fnake 3, a harmless Lamb; 4 A dove to mourn 11, a lark to chant; 12 An ugly toad 13, an angel fair. 14 SECT. X. The Mystery of the Saint's Old and New Man further defcribed; and the Means of their spiritual Life. TEM EMPTATIONS breed me much annoy, 15 my high places. Prov. v. 19. Let her (viz. the wife of thy youth) be as the loving hind, and pleasant roe, let her breafts fatisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always always with her love. 1 Ifa. xl. 31-They shall mount up with wings as eagles. 2 Pfalm xxii. 6. But I am a worm, and no mau. Ifa. xli. 14. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Ifrael, &c. 3 Pfalm lviii. 4. Their poifon is like the poifon of a ferpent; they are like the deaf adder, that floppeth her ear. 4 John xxi. 15. So when they had dined, Jefus faith to Simon Peter, Simon fon of Jonas, loveft thou me more than these? He faith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He faith unto him, Feed my lambs. 5 Job xi. 12. Vain man would be wife, though man be born like a wild affe's colt. 6 Prov. vi. 5. Deliver thy self (my fon) as a roe from the hand of the hunter. 7 Prov. xxviii. 1. The righteous are bold as a lion. 8 Ifa ii. 19. And they fhall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majetty, when he arifeth to thake terribly the earth. 9 Palm cii. 6. I am like an owl of the defart. 10 Prov. vi. 6. Go to the ant, thou fluggard, confider her ways and be wife, &c. 11 Ifa. xxxviii. 14. Like a crane or afwallow, fo did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppieffed, undertake for me. Ezek. vii. 16 But they that escape of them (viz. Itrael) fhall elcape, and thall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. 12 Song ii. 12. The time of the finging of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. 13 Rom. iii. 13.—The poison of afps is under their lips. Job xl. 4. Behold," I am vile, what inall I antwer thee? I will say mine hand upon my mouth. 14 Acts vi. 15. And all that fat in the council, looking stedtaltly on him (viz. Stephen) faw his face as it had been the face of an angel. 2 Cor. i. 18. But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are On earth I fee confufions reel, I Yet wisdom ord'ring all things well. 2 changed into the fame image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 15 Heb. xii. 11. Now no chaftening for the prefent feemeth to be joyous, but grievous, &c. 1 Pet. i. 6. Wherein we greatly rejoice, though now for a feafon (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations. 16 James i. 2. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. 1 Pfalm lxxxii. 5. They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 2 Pfalm xxix. 10. The Lord fitteth upon the flood: yea, the Lord fitteth King for ever. And lxxxix. 9. Thou ruleft the raging of the fea: when the waves thereof arife, thou ftilleft them. Rom. viii. 28. And we know that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 3 Song v. 2. I fleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, faying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. 4 Ifa. xlii. 18, 19. Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may fee. Who is blind, but my fervant? or deaf, as my meffenger that I fent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's fervant? And xxxv. 5. Then the eyes of the blind fhall be opened, and the ears of the deaf fhall be unftopped. 5 Ifa. xxxv. 6. Then fhall-the tongue of the dumb fing: for in the wil. derness fhall waters break out, and ftreams in the defart. Rom. viii. 15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 6 John iii. 3-6. Jefus answered and faid unto him (viz. Nicodemus), Verily, verily, I fay unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot fee the kingdom of God. Nicodemus faith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the fecond time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jefus answered, Verily, verily, I fay unto thee, Except a man be born of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of fleth, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is fpirit. 7 Lam. v. 17. For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim. Ifa. xxxii. 3. And the eyes of them that fee, fhall not be dim, &c. 8 Zech. xiv. 7. But it thall be one day, which fhall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening-time it fhall be light. 9 Mal. ii. 3. Behold, I will corrupt your feed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your folemn feasts, and one shall take you away with it. Phil. iii. 8. Yea, doubtlefs, and I count all things but lofs, for the excelJency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus my Lord: for whom I have fuffered Down like a ftone I fink and dive, I the lofs of all things, and do count them but dung that I may win Christ. Ia Ixii. 3. Thou shalt alfo be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Ifa. i. 25. And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy drofs, and take away all thy tin. Job xxiii. 10. God knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I fhall come forth as gold. 10 Pfalm xxxix. 3. My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned. Luke xxiv. 32. And they faid one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the fcriptures! Mat. xxiv 12. And becaufe iniquity fhall abound, the love of many fhall wax cold. Rev. ii. 4. Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou haft left thy first love. 1 Pfalm xlii. 6, 7. O my God, my foul is caft down within me :. therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. Deep calleth unto deep, at the noise of the water-fpouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 2 Pfalm xlii. 8, 9. Yet the Lord will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night his fong fhall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. I will fay unto God my rock, Why haft thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppreffion of the enemy? Verfe 11. Why art thou caft down, O my foul? and why art thou dilquieted within me? hope thou in God, for I fhall yet praife him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. 3 Col. iii. 1, 2. If ye then be rifen with Chrift, feek thofe things which are above, where Chrift fitteth on the right-hand of God. Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth. Plalm xliv. 23. Our foul is bowed down to the duft; our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 4 Hofea xiv. 5. I will be as the dew unto Ifrael: he fhall grow as the lily, and caft forth his roots as Lebanon. Verse 7. They that dwell under his shadow fhall return; they fhall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the fcent thereof fhall be as the wine of Lebanon. Phil. iii. 12,-14. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Chrift Jesus.— Brethren, I count not myfelf to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto thofe things which are before, I prefs toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Chrift Jefus. Rom. vii. 23, 24. But I fee another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who inall deliver me from the body of this death? 5 John xiv. 2, 3. In my Father's house are many manfions; if it were not fo, I would have told you: I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that 2 Pet. i. 10. Wherefore the rather, bre where I am, there ye may be also. thren, give diligence to make your calling and election fure. Heb. iv. 1. Let us therefore fear, left a promife being left us of entering into his rett, any of you should feem to come thort of it. Pfalm i 3. But thou, O Lord, art a field for me: my glory, and the My life's expos'd to open view, I Yet closely hid, and known to few. z I live in earth, which is not odd; Yet live I not on bread alone; Bare words, yet not on empty wind. 6 Though fed with human flesh and blood: My food's all fpirit, all divine. 7 lifter up of mine head. Ifa. Ix. 19. The fun fhall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightnefs fhall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord fhall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 7 Ifa. xlvi. 13. I will place falvation in Zion for Ifrael my glory. 2 Cor. viii. 23. Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner, and fellow helper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ. 1 Pfalm xlix. 13. Thou makeit us a reproach to our neighbours, a fcorn and derifion to them that are round about us. 2 Col. ii. 3. Your life is hid with Chrift in God. 3 John iii. 9, 10. Nicodemus anfwered and faid unto him, How can these things be Jefus answered and faid unto him, Art thoù a master of Ifrael, and knoweft not these things? Prov. xiv. 10. The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. 1 Johu iv. 16. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him. 4 Gal. ii. 10. I am crucified with Chrift: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Chrift liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the fleth, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himfelf for me. 5 John iv. 24. God is a Spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in fpirit and in truth. And vi. 53, 54, 55. Then Jefus faid unto them (viz. the Jews) Verily, verily I fay unto you Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his hlood, ye have no life in you. Wholo eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my fleth is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 6 Mat. iv. 4. But Jefus anfwered and faid (unto the tempter.) It is written, Man fhall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Jer. xv. 16. Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy, and rejoicing of mine heart, for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hofts. 7 John vi. 57, 58. As the living Father hath fent me, and I live by the Father: fo he that eateth me, even he fhall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread, fhall live for ever. Ver. 63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing: the Words that I fpeak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life. I feast on fulness night and day; I While fome men who on earth are gods, 9 Ifa. xxv. 6. And in this mountain fhall the Lord of hofts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. Pfalm i. 2. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 2 Ifa. xli. 17. When the poor and needy feek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Ifrael will not forfake them. Pfalm xl. 17. But I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer, make no tarrying, O my God. 3 Ifa. xxv. 16. From the uttermoft part of the earth have we heard fongs, even glory to the righteous; but I said, My leanness, my leanness, wo unto me: the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. 4 Pfalm xcii. 13, 14. Thofe that be planted in the house of the Lord, fhall flourish in the courts of our God. They fhall ftill bring forth fruit in old age: they fhall be fat and flourishing. And civ. 16. The trees of the Lord are full of fap: the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted. 5 Pfalm xcvi. 9. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. And Ixix. 1, 2. Saye me, O God, for the waters are come in unto my foul. I fink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. And lxxxviii. 17. Thy terrors came round about me daily like water, they compaffed me about together. 6 Rom. vii. 21. I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is prefent with me. 7 John vi. 70. Jesus answered them, Have I not chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? And viii. 44. Ye are of your Father the devil, and the lufts of your father ye will do. James iii. 15. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, fenfual, devilish. 8 2 Cor. vi. 11. And fuch were fome of you: but ye are washed, but ye are fanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jefus, and by the Spirit of our God. 9 Pfalm lxxxii. 6. I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High. 10 Pfalm lxxxii. 1, 2. God ftandeth in the congregation of the mighty: he judgeth among the gods. How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the perlons of the wicked? Selah. Verie 5. They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 11 Mat. xv. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adul teries, fornications, thefts, falfe witness, blafphemies. Luke iii. 30. And Jefus afked him, faying, What is thy name? And he faid, Legion: because many devils were entered into him. 12 Eph. vi. 12. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against prin |