THE 
 
 HARMONY 
 
 OP THE 
 
 OR, 
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST: 
 
 Wherein is infallibly declared that all Prophets in the 
 Time of the Law, or under the first Commission, and 
 all Apostles and Ministers in the Time of the Gospel, 
 do each of them unanimously agree in their Doctrine / 
 concerning GOD. 
 
 And that according- to the Doctrine of the third Com- 
 mission, which Doctrine was in thertwo first Commis- 
 sions, and is more fuller in this, befog" the Commissions 
 of the Spirit; namely, that there is None but CHRIST, 
 None but CHRIST : no other GOD but our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, now in Heaven glorified. 
 
 THE FRIST RECORD EVIDENCED. 
 
 Unto us a Child is born: unto us a Son is given: He 
 shall be called the mighty God and the everlasting 
 Father. Isa; ix. 6. 
 
 THE SECOND RECORD EVIDENCED. 
 
 Great is the Mystery of Godliness ; GOD manifested in 
 Flesh. There are three that bear Record in Heaven. 
 Sj-c. I. John v. 
 
 THE THIRD RECORD EVIDENCED. 
 
 In the Days of the Voice of the seventh Angel, when 
 he shall begin to sound, the Mystery of GOD shall be 
 Jinished. 
 
 BY THOMAS TOMKINSON 
 
 First written in the Year of our LORD GOD 1692; revised and abridged 
 by the AUTHOR, and Printed in the Year 1757. 
 
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 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 
 Shewing- how that Moses, his Faith and 
 Doctrine was pitched upon GOD'S be- 
 coming- Flesh and so a Saviour. 
 
 SECT. I. 
 
 T\TO sooner was man fallen and life lost, Mouft 
 
 but Moses tells us of a gracious promise te lony 
 in these words ; the seed of the woman shall Gen. m. is. 
 break the serpent's head. 
 
 Now, from my faith, who have learned 
 under the commission of the spirit, it is as 
 much as if God the creator should say, 
 " Hath the serpent angel that I cast out * 3. 
 of Heaven for his rebellion, undone thee ; X xn. is. 
 now my mercy is such, as that it shall oc- XFiii 18 
 casion thy greater glory through patience 
 in suffering, and belief in my words, for I 
 will become seed ; yea very man, that I 
 may die for thy ransom : but he, that hath 
 4 2 undone
 
 rr _- NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 undone thee shall be undone, for I will 
 break his head with an eternal blow. Thou 
 shalt die but one death, but he shall die 
 not only a first death, but a second death 
 also : thy death is but the braising of the 
 heel; therefore have patience for these thy 
 sufferings, and have faith as to thy re- 
 demption from the same*." 
 
 Here now is the true God made manifest 
 by JWoses to become seed of Adam's seed, 
 and flesh of his flesh ; so that Adam being 
 the seed or nature of God, God would take 
 upon him his own seed of the light of life 
 eternal that he might raise the seed of Adam 
 to a distinct glory like unto himself. 
 3 Therefore, from hence I infer, they that 
 will have a God disunited from the seed 
 and nature of Adam, will never find a saving 
 God, but the seed of Adam as they were 
 first taught by Moses, and ever after by 
 true prophets and apostles ever more to 
 worship God as hidden in man, or as be- 
 coming man. 
 
 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, whom Moses 
 makes the father of the faithful, worshipped 
 
 God 
 
 * See the confirmation of this doctrine aforesaid by references to 
 other prophets and apostles writings. Rev. xii. 12. Rom. ix. 18. Acts 
 xiii. 23. Rom. i. 3. Heb. ii. 14, 16. Isa. liii. 8,9,.10. Jude vji. Mat*. 
 xxv. 46.
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST, 
 
 God as becoming man, and so a Jesus or 
 Saviour : therefore, when God told Abra- 
 ham : That in his seed all the nations of 
 the world should be blessed, gave Abraham 
 to understand; that he would become seed. 
 Therefore said that seed, when he was 
 come, " Abraham saw my day and was 
 glad," the covenant that God made to 
 
 Vx"u 
 
 Abraham was as a glass, in which he be- xxli - 18 - 
 held his Redeemer in a body of flesh, every 
 time that God blessed Abraham; Abraham 
 in that blessing saw Christ, God, Man in 
 a body of flesh and bone, of his seed blessed 
 for ever ; and beheld him as the one only 
 and alone true God, not minding any God 
 or Father distinct from him. 
 
 When Abraham was offering up his son, 
 as soon as God bad him stay his hand, he 
 looked and saw a ram in a bush, then did 
 his faith see God ready to suffer when he 
 saw that ram die, and the blood run out; 
 then from that type he saw the antitype, 
 even the blood of that immaculate lamb 
 run out as a river to wash away the sins of 
 all his spiritual seed. 
 
 Moreover, where his son Isaac was of- 
 fered intentionally, there was the God of 
 heaven offered really; hence it is that 
 
 Abraham
 
 6 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 tettferan Abraham gives that place the name of Je- 
 hovath Iruth, which signifies, " in the 
 mount of the Lord it shall be seen." 
 
 This mount of the Lord was all Abra- 
 hams spiritual seed ; this was the house of 
 that Jehovah, or Jesus, and it is they only 
 that see what is wrought there upon that 
 hill or mount $ion ; none others knew the 
 nature oi that work of redemption ; for in 
 this mount oi' the Lord is salvation wrought 
 by this Jehovah becoming Jesus, and no 
 where else. 
 
 SECT. II. 
 Again JWoses declares Isaacs God to be 
 
 Gen.xxTiii. 
 
 M- the same with Abraham's having the same 
 
 blessings; it runs all upon this; in thee 
 and in thy seed shall all the nations (or elect 
 in all nations) be saved; and so also with 
 Jacob; in all which was the fountain or lite 
 orsalvation but by God's becoming flesh. 
 
 After Jacob had seen the vision and re- 
 ceived the blessing, then was he strongly 
 confirmed in the faith of his (rod's becom- 
 
 viii.i7. ing flesh to save him and his seed; this is 
 the house of God (saith Jacob] this is the 
 gate of heaven ; here Jacob saw that God 
 
 was
 
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST, 
 
 was to come down from heaven to take seed ^^ 
 of him (whose house he and his seed was) rer w. 
 and he saw the ladder reared, and all the 
 three commissions were as three staves to 
 the ladder. In that place did Jacob set 
 up a stone that lay under his head for his 
 pillow, and hallowed it, calling it by the 
 name of Bethel, the house of God ; that 
 stone was the pillar the house stood on ; 
 for the stone that was under his head was 
 him that David called, the lifter up of his 
 head, Psal. iii. 3. 
 
 It was not a material stone, though that 
 was made the sign of it ; but it was a stone 
 cut out of the mountain of Bethlem Judath 
 for Christ came of Judath, so Judath be- 
 came the praise of God and the head of 
 Israel; for the headstone was hewn out 
 there. See and compare Dan. ii. 34. Mica. 
 v. 2. Matt ii. 6. 
 
 The stone that was Jacob's pillow was 
 Jacob's God and Jacob's guide and Israel's 
 shepherd ; Therefore, said Jacob, when he 
 blessed Joseph upon his death-bed, that the 
 arms of Joseph were made strong by the 
 hands of the mighty God of Jacob : from r ^ n 
 
 *s & t/ / / UCU. . 
 
 which is the shepherd, the stone of Israel. 24 ' 
 Who now was this shepherd and stone of 
 
 .Israel)
 
 8 tfONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Simon Israel, but Jesus Christ the Lord? and 
 who was this Christ ? but the mighty God 
 of Jacob ; none but the true Israel knows 
 the voice of this shepherd, nor hath his 
 head lift up by any other stone but by this 
 living stone. See and compare Matt. xxi. 
 42. Luke Ti\\. 17. Psal. xlv. 3. Esa. ix 
 6. Psal. in. 3. I. Pet. ii. 4. Zech. iii. 9; 
 
 SECT. III. 
 
 HI e JWoses, having given us a description of 
 the God of our fathers, goes farther, shew- 
 ing more abundantly in his other books of 
 God's becoming flesh, or man, to die for 
 man ; and therefore he tells us, that God 
 in his commission to him did proclaim 
 himself the God of Abraham, the God of 
 *w. 14. Isaac, and the God of Jacob ; and that he 
 called himself to him by the name of 7 am. 
 - Now Jesus thai was born of a virgin two 
 thousand years after, declared himself to 
 be that I am. Now this I am first, and I 
 am last, Alpha and Omega, excludes all 
 co-partners ; for none is to share with the 
 Holy One of Israel. See and compare Isa. 
 xliv. 6. John viii. 58. Rev. i. 17. Isa, 
 xlii. 8. 
 
 Now
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 9 
 
 Now this / am, was the Lord that Moses f/Slmony. 
 said should reign for ever and ever. See Exod " xr * 
 Duet. vi. 14. and xviii. 15. and that he 
 should become a prophet himself like unto 
 him. Now Closes was a great prophet, 
 but most of his works was in giving forth 
 a fiery law unto the rational nature of that 
 nation of the Jews, and an external and 
 visible worship also, which was to serve for 
 the seed of reason. 
 
 For there was written the law in the 
 seed and nature of reason, which is the 
 angels nature. Now Moses acted as a 
 God in the person of the angel, or tree of 
 knowledge of good and evil, and so his 
 giving forth that outward letter of the law 
 to that seed, was to shew that law more 
 plain that was written within, and to en- 
 lighten reason in its way to do as he is done 24. 
 unto, but not as he would be done unto, 
 that only reaches faith's nature. Matt. v. 
 38. 39. and vii. 12. 
 
 xxi. 
 
 Now this law of retaliation reason counts 
 just, but then it comes to be pinched in 
 this, in that the law doth condemn reason 
 for not doing that as the letter of the law 
 doth say thou shalt do or not do : now this 
 law working a fear of eternal death, puts 
 
 reason
 
 10 
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 reason on to fast and pray, and to offer 
 Gen. iv. 3. sacr jfi ce anc i to work for life. Isa. i, 11, 
 and Iviii. 3. 
 
 Therefore when Moses had given reason 
 a law, he gave him an outward visible ta- 
 bernacle, as also he gave them several out- 
 ward legal ceremonies, which was to signify 
 the true tabernacle itself, and that true spi- 
 ritual worship that did belong to it, being 
 as a pattern to set forth those spiritual and 
 heavenly things that were to be acted in 
 the commission of Jesus; but reason being 
 blind, it could never see into the substance, 
 but rested in the shadow. See Heb. viii. 5. 
 Acts vii. 53. Heb. ix. 5, 9, and x. 1. 
 
 Now the elect seed of Abraham, they 
 had not this law given unto them; for 
 ?f. grace came not by Moses but by Jesus- 
 
 Gen.iii. John i. 17, yet did they worship in that 
 i*. 13. visible temple ; but then they by faith saw 
 the substance which now I am coming to 
 set forth, only this, by the way, that we 
 may see what the substance of the law is, 
 and in what nature it was written, and how 
 by it is kept in awe, which proves beneficial 
 to the innocent seeds of faith, the seeds of 
 the Lord's own body. 
 
 SECT.
 
 BUT CHRIST. 11 
 
 Bfoses^t 
 testimony. 
 
 SECT. IV. 
 
 All the ceremonial worship, with the 
 manner and nature of it, did all prefigure 
 the coining of God in flesh, behold some 
 instances when Israel passed through the 
 Red-sea, the elect Israel received a spi- 
 ritual baptism from the penetrating waters 
 of the clouds. The rock that JMoses smote Numb. **, 
 was the faith of God's becoming flesh ; for 
 Paul said after that, that rock was Christ, 
 1 Cor. x. 1 . Observe, it is said, that that 
 rock followed them; which rock was Christ. 
 Now this Christ was called by JMoses the 
 angel of God : now although Paul's Christ 
 was called by Closes the angel of the Lord, Exod. sir 
 yet is this angel no other but God himself, 
 as you may see Ej'odus iii. where it is thus 
 written, And the angel of the Lord ap- 
 peared unto Moses in a flame of fire, and 
 the Lord God called unto Closes out of 
 the bush, and said, I am the God of thy 
 fathers, fyc. 
 
 Here faith sees clearly; that that angel Gen Mii 
 was Christ, and that Christ was the God n 
 of Abraham. It is further written, that 
 when A braham stretched out his hand to
 
 12 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 <"stinon nave slain his son Isaac, that the angel of 
 the Lord called to him out of heaven. Now 
 was this angel of the Lord any other but 
 Christ himself in his spiritual body? This 
 
 i6. n ' '' is he that is the redeeming angel, accord- 
 ing as Israel said, the angel that redeemed 
 me bless the lads, meaning Ephraim and 
 Manasseh. 
 
 Wherefore then, as the angel of the 
 Lord is the Lord himself, even so Christ 
 the son of God is God himself: for why 
 may not the title, Son of God, be as truly 
 God, as angel of God is truly God ; yet 
 not all angels of God are God, .o not all 
 that are called sons of God are God ; for 
 there is but one angel of God which is God, 
 and but one son of God which is God, and 
 this angel of God was Christ, and this 
 
 Exod. xlv. 
 
 24. and X v. Christ was the Lord God Almighty, that 
 looked through the clouds upon the Egyp- 
 tians, and became there a man of war, and 
 caused the sea to overwhelm them. 
 
 This is Israel's God and rock, that Paul 
 .. said they drank of; this was Moses and 
 
 Duet. XXXH. * 
 
 xxxiiiTo David's and Peter's rock, in which they 
 drank water of life with honey and oil, 
 All the seed of Israel have but one rock, 
 out of which they suck water and oil, and 
 
 honey 
 
 Numb. xx. 
 8.
 
 NOJNK BUT CHRIST. 13 
 
 honey which is converted into peace of con- 
 science, joy in the spirit, and assurance of 
 eternal life. The water begets the peace, 
 the oil brings joy, and the honey turns 
 into the assurance of eternal life. See and 
 compare Pml. Ixxviii, 35. John iv. 14. 
 jfra. Ixvi. II. Pml. viii. 2. 
 
 SECT. V. 
 The manna that the children of Israel E . xod xvi - 
 
 XD 
 
 were fed withal in the wilduerness, did P eu |: viii : 3 , 
 
 Exod. xvi. 4 
 
 typify another kind of bread, the elect seed 
 did see into the mystery, and were satisfied 
 with a spiritual food ; for, from these words 
 which God said, / will ram bread from 
 heaven for you, all the true seed looked 
 then for the coming of their Messiah. Jsa. 
 xxxiii. 16. Isa. xlvi. 1. 
 
 The ignorant and carnal Jews called it 
 manna, which signifies what is this, or 
 what new thing is this, being hidden to 
 them, Revel, ii. 17. so when the true bread 
 came down from heaven, their posterity iv. 6. 
 said, as their fathers, What is this? Whof* od *** 
 is this ? What new doctrine is this > How 
 can this man give us himself to eat ? John 
 vi. 11, 
 
 The
 
 14 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 t^mony. This was the consecrated bread, that the 
 Kumb.iv.7. tme p r i ests did k] esSj t j, e hallowed and 
 
 pure shew-bread continually upon the pure 
 table of gold; this is the holy bread, and 
 only offered by a holy priest that hath no 
 imperfection. Take and eat this bread 
 from the high priest of God, being festival 
 and appointed for every sabbath-day, being 
 for such as are entered into their rest. 
 
 What was the ground of the priests and 
 holy men of old, at their feasts, to take up 
 
 24. J 
 
 a loaf or shiver of bread in his hand, look- 
 ing up to heaven, and blessing God before 
 they eat, was not there the true bread 
 pointed at, and when Christ came, then 
 the true bread was come, and shewed his 
 disciples it was to be broken for them. 
 
 The Scribes and Pharisees that sat in 
 JHoses's chair, they observed the outward 
 letter and ceremony in the blessing of the 
 bread, but it wrought no further then, than 
 the bread that perisheth, and every professor 
 now as well as then, if he is for having 
 his righteousness seen when he eats, then 
 straight off with his hat, and his eyes to- 
 wards heaven, but it is but to bless God for 
 that perishing bread that feeds the body ; 
 it is not for the bread he hath eaten to 
 
 ftteroal
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 15 
 
 eternal life, for of that bread lie bath none, 
 and so is always hungering and thirsting, 
 notwithstanding his eating and drinking. 
 
 For he neither looks for, nor lacks no 
 God from heaven, that brake his body for 
 him, or shed his blood for him; for his 
 God cannot die, or had any blood to shed, 
 it is the earthly bread, that is his blessing 
 by the law and birth-right, which he claims 
 as his right by his obedience to the letter 
 of the law, Matt. vi. 5, 16. 
 
 But the true Israel is the true Christian; 
 for to him Christ's body is meat indeed, 
 and his blood that was spilt is drink in- 
 deed ; and he that hath eaten and drunken 
 once by faith in his person, it is enough, 
 do but once eat and drink (not in an out- 
 ward sacramental ceremonial ways, but of 
 the thing signified) and it is enough, eat 
 once, drink once, and live for ever. John 
 vi. 58. 
 
 This converts prayers into praises, and 
 spiritual meats begets spiritual worship of 
 internal praise, which is invisible proceed* 
 ing from the virtue of this invisible life, 
 quickened by that invisible bread that came 
 down from heaven. John vi. 41. 
 
 So that all outward worship now it is 
 
 left
 
 16 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Stn kft * ^ :ie hypocrite, who loves to make & 
 fair shew, and for this their long prayers 
 they have their reward in the fruit of the 
 vine, and in this manna or perishing bread 
 which is given them. 
 
 SECT. VI. 
 
 Again, the blood that was tor the atone- 
 . ment of sin, was the blood of the immacu- 
 late lamb; all the blood that was offered by 
 the law, was all as a type or figure of the 
 blood of the Lord God, the promised seed 
 to redeem Israel. 
 
 This blood was a covenant when JWosex 
 lield it up, and said this is the blood of the 
 new covenant, when the blood was sprink- 
 led upon the people, then were they sanc- 
 tified in the virtue of that blood, not in that 
 blood of bulls or goats, but the blood of a 
 lamb ; not in the blood of that lamb that 
 was to be killed at the door of the taber- 
 nacle that was made by J\Ioses, but in the 
 blood of that lamb of God, or the lamb 
 which was God, and was the true taber- 
 nacle; a tabernacle from which the preci- 
 ous blood did issue out; it came out of that 
 house out of that heart, and out of that 
 
 door,
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. It 
 
 door, that was made by the spear in the 
 side of Jesus; there it was that the blood 
 came running out, and it was a door for 
 the faith of his elect to enter in, and be 
 cleansed; to apply that blood to itself, and 
 be saved. This was that cleft of a rock in 
 which they fled for refuge. Isaiah iv. 6. 
 Psal xciv. 22. 
 
 When an atonement was to be made by 
 
 6. 
 
 blood, the offering was to be killed by the 
 side of the altar, and the blood wrung out 
 there by the door of the tabernacle, then 
 was part of that blood sprinkled round 
 about upon the altar, and Moses was to 
 take of the blood that was upon the altar, 
 and to sprinkle it with the anointing oil 
 upon Aaron, his sons, and upon their gar- 
 ments, and they should be hallowed. 
 
 The sanctification was from the blood 
 as it .first came, and was sanctified from the 
 altar, and the oil had its virtue as from the 
 altar; the altar was first sanctified, and 
 then all from the life of it was sanctified, 
 and reconciliation wrought thereby. 
 
 Now as to the spiritual sense, Christ was 
 afterwards made plain to be both the offer- 
 ing and the altar; for when he was come, 
 he sanctified himself, that all might be 
 
 sanctiiied
 
 18 NONE BUT CHRIST; 
 
 sanctified in him. Hcb. xiii. 10. John xviL 
 In a word, Christ is the true temple, the 
 altar, the priest, he to whom it was offered, 
 and he that was offered. 
 
 The priests of the ceremonies were all 
 for shadows of good things to come: all 
 the offerings they were of no esteem by the 
 Lord, when there was not an eye that could 
 pierce through the ceremony, and see into 
 the substance, and walk by that, and that 
 it was a lamb without spot that was capa- 
 ble to make an atonement ibr sin, even 
 God himself, by the shedding of his pre~ 
 cious blood. 
 
 This was the faith of Abraham, Isaac, 
 and Jacob, and it was the iaith of Enoch 
 first, and of all the twelve patriarchs, as is 
 seen by their blessings to their spiritual 
 children, and it was the faith of JWoses, the 
 first writer of holy writ, and God's first 
 witness, as abundantly further might be 
 shewed, but this may be enough to satisfy 
 the elect. So that by the testimony of 
 JMoses, 
 
 There is none but Christ, none but Christ, 
 no other God but the man Christ Jesus 
 our Lord, now in glory, in a body of flesh 
 and bone blessed for ever. Amen. 
 
 CHAP.
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 19 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 Shewing- hoiv David's Faith and Doctrine 
 was pitched upon GOD as becoming- man, 
 and for a Saviour and Redeemer, and so 
 made himself capable to suffer the pains 
 of death for the redemption of him and 
 all his elect seed. 
 
 SECT. I. 
 Psalm the first, David brings in the 
 
 *~ testimony. 
 
 man as blest that delight in the law of Psal - !i 12 
 
 and ix. 10. 
 
 the Lord, and in Psalm cxix. he counteth and xix - 8 
 
 and cxix. 171. 
 
 him an undefiled, or a perfect man that 
 doth so. Now this Lord is Jehovah be- 
 coming Jesus, and this law was to keep 
 his statutes ; which statutes was to believe 
 in him, and trust in him with that aftiance 
 that he would become flesh. 
 
 So that he that had this law of faith ^ xix 7 
 
 and csix. 1. 
 
 given him, he would worship the law-giver, r 7 142 
 which is no other but Jesus. See Isa. ii. 
 3. viii. 16. li. 4, 7. John i. 17. 
 
 Now such a godly man is to have thepMiiuia. 9 ?. 
 blessing of beiug directed, of keeping ail 
 c the
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST 
 
 p rece pts, and to be fruitful in the know- 
 testimony 
 
 ledge and love of his redeeming Lord, and 
 to stand in the judgment, and to be justified 
 in the same. 
 
 f^ 4 6 Therefore it is said, that the Lord know- 
 eih the way of the righteous; that is, he ap- 
 proveth of it, and justifieth their faith; but 
 as for the other side, that set themselves 
 against the true God, and his spiritual 
 worshippers, they shall not stand in judg- 
 ment, but shall be dashed in pieces by him 
 whom they esteemed not to be God. Isa 
 xix. 3. Luke xix. 27. Jer. xx. 11. Isa. 
 viii. 10. 
 
 In Psalm the second, David shews the 
 decree how that God would become man> 
 and humble himself into the name of a son, 
 
 ver. 2. 
 
 and this should become a stumbling block 
 to kings and rulers ; so that they should 
 take counsel against this son, and so against 
 God, saying, the kings of the earth set 
 themselves against the Lord, and against 
 his Christ. 
 
 This doth not mean that the Lord and 
 Christ are two distinct persons ; and though 
 ^er. 6. it is said, Let [us] break their bands, and 
 again, I will set my king upon my holy hill 
 of Sion, and agaiu, t/iou art my son, ask 
 of me, &c No\v
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Now these plurality of words, do not 2Jjy. 
 make plurality of persons, but of titles J sa 
 only, which is occasioned from the two 
 natures of diety and humanity united in 
 one person ; for observe, when it comes to 
 the work, it centres again in one person, 
 as ver. 6. it is said, then shall [he] speak 
 unto them in [his] wrath, and vex them in 
 [his] sore displeasure. Now this [he'] in 
 the single person is no other but. Christ, 
 that son that should pour out his wrath 
 upon his enemies, as is plain by the last 
 verse, saying, Kiss the son lest he be angry, 
 and you perish through his anger. 
 
 That is, submit yourself, and worship the Psal xlv l 
 son with a divine adoration, for he is God, 
 and will rule over all rebels with a rod of 
 iron. Isa. xlix. 7. Zeph.ii. 11. 
 
 That Christ is the one only and alone 
 true God, it is evident by David in this 
 place ; for first, he is set upon Sions hil! 5 
 to be Sion's king and God, and to govern 
 it by laws spiritual. 
 
 Secondly, He hath attained to have all 
 
 Psal. ii 8 
 
 the elect for his inheritance, and his extent 
 is to the uttermost parts of the earth, where 
 then should there be any other God ; for if 
 he have all in possession, then all other 
 Gods are excluded from government.
 
 22 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Thirdly, This son is said to be of that 
 pMLoc.*. Pwer, as to dash all his, and his saints 
 enemies to powder, who shall make laws 
 to subject and hinder Sion from worship- 
 ping their king that is set upon their hill, 
 and therefore, upon pain of damnation, are 
 required to be so wise as to submit to him 
 either feignedly or unieignedly. Isa. xl. 
 10. Rev. xii. 5. 
 
 Psai. i. 11. Fourthly, Who should this son of God 
 be, but God himself, seeing all divine wor- 
 ship is to be performed to him. 
 
 Lastly, This Christ must needs be father 
 
 ver 12. * 
 
 Psai.xi.4. as well as son, seeing that all such are pro- 
 nounced cursed that reject him for their 
 governor, and all those pronounced blessed 
 that put their trust in him. 
 
 All these sayings of waiting, hoping 
 and trusting in God, have all a dependence 
 of the promise of God's becoming flesh, 
 and so a son to redeem, and may be alj 
 applied hither. 
 
 SECT. II. 
 
 David, in the third Psalm, finding great 
 opposition betwi *t his, and his Lord's ene- 
 mies, because he pitched his faith upon a 
 
 God
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 23 
 
 God in the form of a man, the reviling this 
 God, as in Psalm ii. do now set themselves Psai. ixxi. 
 against all that put their trust upon this 
 son of God, and therefore they tell David, 
 and all that are of his faith, that their God 
 is a weak God, and there is no help for 
 them in him, and so conclude with a Selath, 
 as a note of their great rejoicing. 
 
 It is as if they should say, his God is 
 not our God, our God is a paternal fire or 
 spirit, God without any body ; that is, so 
 vastly infinite as to be every where at one, 
 and the same time, and is amongst us, and 
 lives in us, but he looks upon his God to 
 be a substance, and in heaven at a distance, 
 and looketh, and expecteth, and waiteth for 
 his coming down to this earth, and to con- 
 quer for him here in a body or person like 
 himself, and that he shall suffer death. 
 This is a God like to help him indeed ! 
 Let him fly like a bird to this God, and psalxil 
 see what he can do for him, but there will cxim. 9. 
 be no help for him in this his mortal and 
 dying God : we will not wait for such a 
 God, for such a God cannot help him. Ha, 
 ha ! we shall see it, Selath. 
 
 David, seeing how the enemy reproached m. 3. 
 him, he the more trusted in his God, say- 
 
 ing;
 
 24 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 m > *h u Lo>d, art a shield for me, my 
 2. gi or y a j i( l the lifter up of my head. 
 
 As if the prophet should say, still my 
 faith and trust shall support me ; for that 
 which they count my shame, I know to be 
 my glory; for this son of God is a son and 
 a shield about me : for first, he is a sun to 
 11 enlighten me to walk in his way, and se- 
 condly, he is a shield to defend my head and 
 to guard my heart, and also he is the lifter 
 i* s. up of my head, in that he is the resurrec- 
 tion and the life ; for though my enemy 
 should so far prevail, as to send me down 
 to the grave, yet will I not be dismayed ; 
 for they will prevail so far against my lord, 
 but in a moment his God-head-spirit shall 
 lift up his head, and then will he have at- 
 tained to that power as to raise up my 
 rn. is. head; and I shall sing praise to his name, 
 for salvation belongeth unto all his people. 
 Selath. 
 
 Again, the pro.phet longed hard for the 
 accomplishment of the promise ; and he, 
 seeing it certain by faith , therefore he brings 
 in the faithful to welcome God to judg- 
 ment. In this Psalm is a song to the praise 
 of Christ, as the most high God ; and the 
 song is continued in the next Psalm, and 
 
 in
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 25 
 
 in the second verse his power is described, 
 saying; that out of the mouths of sucklings 
 he had ordained truth. 
 
 David in the 5th verse, speaketh a little 
 intricately, as thus; first saith he, speaking ve 
 of Christ's humiliation, that he was made a 
 little lower than the angels; but the next 
 words exalts him again, saying, thou hast 
 crowned him with glory and honour; which 
 was in these things ; first, in that he had 
 the sole dominion over all things; and se- 
 condly, in that all things are said to be put 
 under his feet. 
 
 Again, David brings in Christ's man- 
 hood, speaking to his godhead, saying, 
 thou hast delivered me from the strivings 
 of the people, and thou hast made me the Psalm ix * 
 head of the heathen. A people shall serve 
 me, hear me, and obey me, fyc. How full 
 are these words ? what God can there then 
 be besides ? 
 
 The twenty-second Psalm is a prophecy 
 or a rehearsal of all those great sufferings 
 of Jesus in the days of his flesh, and a 
 foretelling of his crying unto God in that 
 time of his passion. 
 
 So that when Jesus cried ; " my God, my 
 f< God, why hast tiiou forsaken me;" it was 
 
 to
 
 20 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 to fulfil this prophecy; for the Creator being 
 become a creature, was to learn obedience ; 
 a wonderful example of humility. 
 
 SECT. III. 
 
 David calls the Lord his shepherd, now 
 Israel hath but one shepherd, as I shewed 
 before, now the pasture of these sheep is 
 said to be by the rivers of waters ; now 
 there is no living waters or spiritual pas- 
 ii. Sam. tures but in a personal God, Man, Christ 
 xxiu.15. Jesus; this was that water as David so 
 longed for out of the well of Bet/ilem. 
 
 This was faith in those days, and the 
 substance of David's prayers and praises; 
 was in pursuit of those gifts and graces 
 promised to God's true prophets for the 
 Psai. ixxii. comfort of elect sons and daughters ofSion; 
 so that I shall abridge my discourse to the 
 Ixxiind Psalm, and to the first verse of the 
 Ixxvith Psalm, and then draw to a con- 
 clusion of this testimony, otherwise my vo- 
 lume will be too large. 
 
 In Psa. Ixxii. there is a desire or prayer, 
 that the Messiah, the king of Israel may 
 prepare himself for the work of redemp- 
 tion, as verse the first, 
 
 Secondly,
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 27 
 
 Secondly, in the second verse a promise 
 is made to faith, that he shall come and be 
 judge. The nature of his judgment is two- 
 fold ; first in righteousness, secondly in 
 judgment. The persons to be judged by 
 him are set down in the fourth verse : first 
 he shall judge the poor of the people, se- 
 condly, he shall judge the wicked men and 
 oppressor. 
 
 Thirdly, the Nature of the judgment is 
 further described ; as thus ; first, he shall 
 judge the poor of the people, that is, he 
 shall find faith in them, and so shall justify 
 them, and give them the seal of the assu- 
 rance of everlasting life. 
 
 Secondly, he will also meet with the 
 wicked; and then he shall condemn him 
 and break him in pieces in the peace of his 
 mind as in the second Psalm. 
 
 Again, the 6th and 7th verses are a de- 
 scription of the fruits and effects of that 
 judgment ; first, from this seal of redemp- 
 tion true worship takes place in these words; 
 they shall fear thce, that is, they shall wor- 
 ship thee as long as the sun and moon 
 endures. 
 
 Secondly, this doctrine of salvation com- 
 ing from heaven, doth so water the earth, 
 
 D or
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 or Iieart ot> lliatl > as tliat >* becomes fruitful 
 in every good work as joy, love, peace, &c. 
 
 Thirdly, the extent of this peace is said 
 to be till there be no moon ; so long as 
 there is men on this earth and faith in these 
 men, so long there will be peace. 
 
 Peace shall never cease springing up ; 
 but, as the influence of the moon causes 
 the fruits of this natural earth to grow and 
 increase, even so will the influence of the 
 son of righteousness make peace to run as 
 a river, making the water of life to run in 
 the vein of faith. 
 
 Again, the seventh verse is a donation of 
 all unto Christ, declaring him to have do- 
 minion from sea to sea, and so lord of the 
 whole creation; it is further said, that all 
 that live in the wilderness shall bow before 
 him, and kings shall bring presents and 
 fall down before him, and that all nations 
 should serve him. 
 
 All kings are his vicegerents, for they 
 are in the place of Christ, as he is Creator, 
 and so they judge as Gods. Therefore 
 obedience was ever wild to authority ; for 
 all kings do either feignedly or unfeignedly 
 worship God by words and laws, though 
 they know him not. But the kings that 
 
 worship
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 29 
 
 David's 
 testimony. 
 
 worship Christ, as Christ truly, are such as David ' s 
 
 are spiritually anointed by him; for every 
 Christian is a king, but every king is not a 
 Christian : 
 
 For although all men acknowledged a 
 God, that are truly rational, yet the Pro-p sa uxxvu. 
 phetsaith, that God is only known mJudah, ]x 7 
 and that his name is great no where so 
 
 civ. 2. 
 
 much as in Israel, now how comes it that 
 God is more known in Judah than else- 
 where ? is it not because it was the way of 
 God from heaven ? for the promise of God's 
 becoming flesh is founded there; salvation 
 begins there; it takes root there; even from 
 Judah, from Jess, and so from David; 
 here is the spring of life, and the God of life, 
 and salvation is known here, being a branch 
 from thence. Isa. Ixv. 9. 
 
 Doth not that saying of David sound to Ixviii u 
 this sense ? and is it not as if he should say, ixzviu. es 
 my dependence is of Israel, and so of 
 Judah, that out of her the Saviour of the 
 world shall come ; for God shall be incar- 
 
 Psal. Ixxiii 
 
 nate, and proceed from princely Judah,**- 
 and shall be a God of substance, and of cxl ... ix 
 man's substance he shall partake, and be 
 both God and man in one blessed and sin- 
 gle person, not an airy God, void of sub- 
 stance.
 
 30 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Snfo'ny. StanCC ' * ^ kfl * H P^il. ii. 7- 
 
 i. 3. Ephesians ii. 2. as the workers of 
 iniquity affirm; for say they, we will break 
 their cords asunder, which are twisted to- 
 gether of God and man ; for we will not 
 have any God that comes out of Judtih- 
 Bethlehem; we will not have a God that 
 p.ai.ii.3. h^h man ' s nature in him, we will break 
 xxii. e. those cords and bands of being drawn with 
 a man or a God like a man that is visible, 
 and may be seen. See and compare Hos. 
 xi. 4. Isa. vii. 6, 17. viii. 6. ver. 6, 9, 10, 
 ancTixtv.' 14. Our God springs not out of Judah ; 
 cxini.9. f or out tf Judah comes a substance ; but 
 dc 3 xv 3. God is not a substance that can be seen, 
 felt, or understood; this is to make God 
 subscribed to one place at one time, who is 
 omnipresent in all places at once, therefore 
 let the people fly to this their God like a 
 man, and of man's seed, and see whether 
 he can help them. See JWicah. vii. Isa. 
 vii. 6, and 8. ix. 10, 12 : 
 
 This was the faith (and language of the 
 enemies of Sion, and Sion's God in the 
 days of old, not only in the heathens that 
 were without the written law of Moses, 
 but of all the carnal seed that made an out- 
 ward profession and pretended obedience to 
 
 that
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 31 
 
 that law. It is confessed that reason the Sf *, 
 angel's nature fallen can do no less than to 
 acknowledge, there is a God, and that he 
 must be just and holy, and that obedience 
 is due to him ; but the highest, and most 
 piercing reason that is, can never be able 
 to know him truly what he is in his form 
 and nature ; neither doth the written law 
 oi'JUoses; nor the law in nature reveal him 
 any other way, but as their creator and 
 preserver, with a tye of obedience to his 
 revealed law of nature, but not the revealed 
 law of faith, that's not for them. 
 
 Therefore it is that the God of truth 
 ever avails his blessed person to reason, and Psa i. TXXV j. 
 reveals himself to faith; because he will XC vm X xcix. 
 save that seed ; and his way to save the xwa. utt. 
 house of this true Israel is to become seed 
 of that seed, and in this seed he is only to 
 be known, and his name is to be great 
 here, after he hath wrought their redemp- 
 tion by his death and resurrection ; the pro- 
 phet David saw this, and left it upon Re- 
 cord for a comfort to all the elect seed, he x i v ii. i. 6 
 by faith saw the manner of his triumph over 
 sin, death, hell and the grave, in his glori- 
 ous ascension ; and therefore with admira- 
 tion cries out, saying; God is gone up with 
 
 a
 
 32 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 a s h u t > s i tl g praises. This was Jesus 
 Christ, and this was David's God, that was 
 
 Psal. xxii6. , -i 
 
 despised by the world, but was great in 
 Judah, and known only to Israel. So that 
 by the testimony of David, there is none 
 but Christ! none but Christ! no other 
 God but the man Christ Jesus our Lord, 
 though man and all the seed of the fallen 
 angels should gainsay it. 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 Shewing- how that the prophet Isaiah 's faith 
 and doctrine was wholly fixed upon God's 
 becoming- flesh; and he had no other 
 worshipped, nor taught, expected, ivaited, 
 or looked for any other saving God but 
 Christ the Lord only. 
 
 SECT. I. 
 
 ALTHOUGH the prophet Isaiah lived 
 ttimony. severa i hundred of years before the 
 
 Incarnation of God ; yet was all faith fixed 
 upon him in a body of flesh and bone ; for 
 the prophet shewed that his birth in a vir- 
 gin's seed was Sions birth, salvation and 
 assurance ; for as soon as he took our na- 
 
 r 
 
 ture
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 ture and Godhead united with manhood, 
 as soon as he had brought himself the first 
 begotten of God, then came man actually 
 to be entered into the salvation : therefore 
 said the prophet, that out of Sion shall go s^Yi^is, 
 forth the word, and that word should judge ai 
 among the nations. JWicah iv. 2. Psal. ex. 6. 
 
 These things will be in their time said XXX i. i, 2. 
 the prophet, and he then intimates that the lviiL2 ,3 
 saints oppressors, that made us fly to our 
 rock, they should then fly to their light of 
 reason, which is their rock ; but saith he, 
 their rock shall not save them, though 
 their reason which is their rock, tells them 
 that their bow and their shield shall save 
 
 , ,! , in Chap. ii. 19. 
 
 them, and their strong horses shall save 
 them, which are their formalties in their 
 rationality, Psal. xxxiii. 14. Matt.vi. 16. 
 but they that fight against Israel's God, 
 shall be tumbled down into the dust by that 
 God-Man that comes out of Sion, though ver . 21. 
 they be the great men of the earth, called 
 tall cedars, but they be brought into the 
 dust by a first death ; yet this our God- 
 Man that is to judge amongst the nations 
 shall raise them again out of their holes, 
 then will the sight of him be terrible, 
 which will make them desire they might 
 
 go
 
 34 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 d wn m to their holes again for fear of 
 his majesty, even Jesus Christ, Sion's God 
 and king. 
 
 It is good to mind what the prophet 
 saith concerning God, because he did see 
 the person of God. Some of the Jewish 
 Rabbies say, that Isaiah was put to death, 
 because he held that God was corpereal ; 
 Whether this was so or no, it matters not, 
 but certain it is, that Isaiah did behold 
 the similitude of God as well as JMoses, 
 
 tsa. vl. 5. 
 
 therefore mind well that prophet's doctrine 
 that hath seen God; he will speak won- 
 derful things of God ; that prophet's doc- 
 trine will run all of God hidden in man, 
 or becoming man. And now to the pro- 
 phet's doctrine, he upon the description of 
 the vision of God, cries out, saying, Woe 
 is me, lam a man undone, I am of unclean 
 lips, and yet mine eyes have seen the hing, 
 the Lord of Hosts. 
 
 Now this kinaf and Lord of Host, was no 
 
 1S5*. Xl. Av* * 
 
 13 - other but the apostle's Jesus, whom they 
 
 worshipped under that title of Son or Savi- 
 our. See J\Iatt. xiii. 14. John xii. 40, 41. 
 
 I* 1 chap. vii. there is said to be a conspi- 
 12. rac j against Judah, but said the prophet 
 Judah shall stand, and he gives Ahaz the 
 
 king
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 85 
 
 king a sign of it, and the sign was the thing JjJ y< 
 signified, saying in this manner, A virgin 
 shall conceive and bear a son, and call his 
 name Emanuel, or God with us. JMatt. i. 
 This sign is given to a king, and yet a 
 sign that should every where be iought 
 against by kings and rulers. Therelore 
 the prophet, in this chapter and the next, 
 speaking of the enemies of truth that fight 
 against the true God, under the name of 
 Rezen king of Syria, and Pekath, who 
 took evil counsel against Judah, refusing 
 the waters of Shiloh that go softly, with- ^ a viil 12 
 out noise, which waters was the doctrine 
 of the JHessias. 
 
 Therefore, say they, Let us go up against 
 Judah, and vex her ; and his enemy was 
 king Rezen and Reason, the king that xx , <83t 
 Tophet was prepared lor. It is the seed of 
 the fallen angel, and the piercing wisdom 
 of that seed, that do as the prophet saith, 
 band themselves as one man to fight against 
 spiritual Judah. 
 
 Now, their going up against Judah, was vi 5>0 . 
 to go against the God of Judah, but the JJS; l"\\ 2 ' 
 world was then as it is now, not to worship via. n'. 1 ' 
 a God that should take seed of Judah, but, 
 said the prophet, though there be a con- 
 E federacy
 
 36 yoNte BUT emus'! 
 
 Isaiah's 
 testimony 
 
 " " f* 
 
 nmon federacy and consultation against the ser- 
 
 vants of the true God, yet no counsel against 
 that Lord should stand, though all opinions 
 in religions stand against the faith and 
 worship due to this son born of a virgin, 
 though he be God with us, yet will he prove 
 to be God against them. 
 
 Therefore said the prophet, fear them 
 not, for though of your own family, your 
 tribe and kindred conspire against you, 
 because of your faith in the Lord of Hosts 
 coming ofJudah, yet fear not their power. 
 Let it be in what age it will, but let him 
 be your God, and he will be your sanc- 
 tuary, and a hiding place for you. 
 
 But unto your kindred, the carnal seed 
 isa.ixv 9. i n both houses, he shall be a stone of 
 
 viii. 13, 14, 
 
 is, to 21. stumbling, and a rock of offence, and so 
 shall all his servants his apostles; tor the law 
 is sealed amongst them. Jer. xix. 7. Matt, 
 xii. 14. and xxvi. 59. /. Pet. ii, 8. 
 
 ix. 1,2,0. Again, in chap. ix. the birth of Christ 
 is described to be wonderful, both in rela- 
 tion to his ministry, person, name, office, 
 and authority. First, he brings him in as a 
 son ; but, secondly, he shews, that though 
 he hath but the denomination of a son, yet 
 nevertheless; he should in time be called 
 
 by
 
 NONE BUT CHRI8T. 
 
 by the name of mighty God, and everiast- 
 
 ins: Father. Now this being so, how can isa. x. 20, 21. 
 
 xxvi. 3, an4 
 
 there be anv other God ; for there can be i. io, and 
 
 J ' xlviii. 2. 
 
 but one Almighty God. The prophet, in 
 another place, speaking of the restitution 
 of the elect Israel, saith, that they shall 
 return to the mighty God ; who then is lie 
 but the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 The prophet hath no comfort for the 
 elect, jbut by telling them almost at the end 
 of every sentence, that their salvation lay xi nj vet 
 in their God's becoming seed of Abraham's l * 2>9> * 
 seed. 
 
 And the prophet further sheweth, the 
 peaceable effects of Christ's kingdom, in- 
 somuch as that he saith, nothing shall be 
 hurtful in all tfiqt holt/ mountain, but that 
 the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the 
 leopard shall lie down with the hid and calf t 
 and the young child shall lead them. 
 
 The wolf, the lion, the calf, the cow >X i. 6,7. 
 and the leopard; all the unruly passions 
 of the spirit of reason, the angel's nature- 
 fallen, shall all be subdued and conquered 
 by belief in the true Saviour, and that little 
 child of faith shall lead them and keep 
 them in awe : also the lion shall eat straw 
 with the ox ; that is, that strong spirit of 
 
 reason
 
 NONB BUT CHRIST. 
 
 reason which was king and master of the 
 house, shall now submit itself to suffering, 
 or be content with a mean estate, diet, or a 
 dinner of herbs ; whatever faith the man 
 child commands, it obeys ; and this is the 
 peaceable kingdom of Christ, that most 
 high and mighty God. Romans, viii. 13. 
 Col. iii. 5. 
 
 . 10, 11. Again, so glorious shall this rest be, as 
 that it shall (saith the prophet) destroy the 
 tongue of the Egyptian sea, and all the 
 seven streams thereof shall be smitten. 
 
 This shall be accomplished (said the 
 prophet) when the Lord shall set his hand 
 the second time to recover the remnant of 
 his people. 
 
 Tfye first time that God shall put his 
 hand to recover his people was at that time 
 as that child was born, and Son given, who 
 is said to be the root of Jesse, the promise 
 given was a seal of the performance thereof. 
 
 The second time that God shall put his 
 hand to the spiritual recovering of his peo- 
 ple, is to be at that time, as this Son is to 
 be called the mighty God, and everlasting 
 Father, and this second time calls the Jews, 
 and makes them know, that this Jesus 
 Christ, their Lord, is that high and mighty 
 
 i$k
 
 Btnp 
 
 God, and that everlasting Father. Rom. 
 xi. 25, 26. 
 
 Now at this time, the prophet saith, that 
 the adorers of Jesus with weapons spiritual 
 
 v JT 
 
 shall fight against the tongue of the Egyp- 
 tian sea, and the seven streams thereof be- 
 ing the seven anti-churches of Europe. 
 
 For these undoubtedly are the isles in 
 which great London is fixed, being called 
 the ends of the earth, that at this day are 
 afraid of the stroke from his last witness, 
 that this Jesus Christ is that high and 
 mighty God, and everlasting Father, to ver - e - 
 fulfil the prophecy of Isaiah, the declaration 
 of which moved the isles, so they drew near 
 and came, but Israel chosen out of the isles 
 was assisted to bear witness, and encouraged 
 in this manner. 
 
 Fear not I am with thee, thou art my ver 10 - 
 servant, and I am thy God, the first and 
 the last ; all that are incensed against thee 
 shall perish, and thou shalt set forth my 
 praise in the islands, now this second time 
 to recover the remnant of my people. chap.xia.i2. 
 
 This makes the sinners in, Sion afraid, xxxiii w 
 who profess the name of the Son,, but deny 
 him to be the high and mighty God, and 
 everlasting Father. 
 
 SECT.
 
 40 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 IsaiaKs 
 testimony. 
 
 SECT. II. 
 
 Again, the prophet saith, that the Lord 
 nil. 21, 23, that proceeds from Judah shall have the 
 
 ppd 24. 
 
 government in his hand, and shall be a fa- 
 ther to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and 
 to the house of Judah, and shall have the 
 l^ey of David to open and none shall shut, 
 and shut and none shall open, is not this 
 the Lord Jesus t and is not this Jesus that 
 Father aforesaid. Rev. iii. 7. Matt. xvi. 27* 
 and xix. $8. Rev. v. 5, and xxii. 16. 
 
 And though the following verse doth 
 say, they shall hang upon him all the glory 
 of his Father's house, yet there must be no 
 Father but him; for if all the Father's 
 glory be upon him, then is h the Father 
 himself. 
 chap. xxiv. Now he may well be the glory of a Fa- 
 
 qj oo 03 
 
 flier's house; for the prophet brings him in 
 afterwards as a God of such power as to 
 raise the dead, and give reward to all, and 
 that he would swallow up death in victory. 
 See Matt. xi. 5, and xvi. 27. I. Cor. xv. 
 
 All the redeemed shall own this God to 
 be their God. Isaiah neither owned nor 
 taught the elect any other God ; so that 
 
 this 
 
 ;
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 41 
 
 this is the prophet's doctrine, and the Ian- 
 guage of Canaan > the redeemed of the 
 Lord, and all the church's hopes; therefore 
 when he was coming, then was the church 
 in a readiness to receive him, having their 
 faith grounded upon the prophet's spiritual 
 declarations ; for then they should cry out 
 
 , , 1 T J.1 * ^-1 J 
 
 in that day, saying, Lo, this is our God, 12. 
 we have waited for him, and he shall save 
 us. This is the Lord, and we have waited 
 for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his 
 salvation. 
 
 The substance of this prophet Isaiah's 
 doctrine runs all upon this God manifested 
 in flesh. Let us trace him a little in his 
 words, for our consolation in truth's con- 
 firmation, and we shall find how the stream 
 of his doctrine runs, which is in this 
 manner. 
 
 O ye house of Judah, and chosen of xlii 4jandlii 
 God, wait for your Lord, for his promise is w. d 3 lx 9) aud 
 sure, and he hath insured me, that he will 
 come, and by revelation I know it, and 
 am to report the same to his redeemed ones, 
 for he will descend from heaven the throne 
 of his glory, into the lowest part of the 
 earth, a virgin's womb, and will be incar- 
 nate ofJudah's seed, and born of a virgin, 
 
 and
 
 42 A ONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Sim^ &"** aM power, wisdom, and glory shall be 
 
 hung upon him: by faith I see these things 
 
 as already accomplished, because it is sure, 
 
 I see him by faith to sit upon the throne of 
 
 David, in the spirit of wisdom, judging tJUe 
 
 work, and with the rod of his mouth slay- 
 
 i. 14. ni the wicked : when he comes, his people 
 
 Jj; 9 i an4 shall know that he is their God by his law 
 
 *!!ii 4 io. 11. written in their hearts, and they shall hear 
 
 him say, Behold, it is I, who was the first 
 
 and am the last, and besides me there is 
 
 no Saviour, look upon me and be saved; 
 
 for my glory I will not give to another; I 
 
 am your God, ye are my witnesses that I 
 
 am God. 
 
 Again, as this Son or Saviour of Israel 
 is the true God, and so received by the 
 fiilfV 7 elect, yet by faith I see him despised by all 
 others, and rejected, who set themselves 
 against this Lord, as an imperfect God, 
 because of his sufferings; so that there was 
 no beauty nor comeliness in his person, as 
 to please the principality of the world : 
 therefore they shall despise him and reject 
 him, because he will become a man of sor- 
 rows, and making his bed with the wicked. 
 Yet notwithstanding this, this our Lord 
 
 19. . 
 
 is our resurrection, a sure stone, a precious 
 
 corner
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 corner stone, and we build upon him for 
 eternal life. This our Lord is wonderful S. .'. 
 in his appearance, and as it were hideth 
 himself in man's nature, yet shall every 
 knee bow unto him. 
 
 Yet though we wait and trust in this 
 Lord, who is the hope of Israel) yet who 
 will believe this report, that God shall have 
 his glory wrapt up in flesh, and to have 
 his visage so marr'd, that used to shine as 
 the sun : yet he is our God, though by 
 faith I see him coming from Edom with 
 dyed garments, treading the wine-press lr 
 alonej yet mighty to save, giving life by 
 death, who finding none that could do it, 
 neither in heaven nor earth but himself; 
 therefore it was his own arm that brought 
 salvation. This is the loving kindness of UK. IB and 
 the Lord to ransom us, by laying down his 
 life for us. Lo, this is Israel's God, and in 
 this God we glory. 
 
 Thus by the testimony of this evangelical 
 prophet Isaiah, it is infallibly proved against 
 all gainsayers under heaven, that 
 
 There is none but Clirist, none but Christ ; , 
 no other God or Saviour but the man Christ 
 Jesus in glory, 
 
 & CHAP
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST 
 
 HRK 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 Shewing hotv the prophet Jeremiah's doc- 
 trine and faith was pitched upon God's 
 becoming flesh, and the just lived by 
 faith in that doctrine. 
 
 SECT. I. 
 
 HFHE prophet Jeremiah's doctrine is one 
 and the same with the other before, as 
 to the knowledge and worship of the true 
 God ; namely, that the Creator of Israel 
 is the redeemer of Israel, and the way of 
 this redemption is by God's becoming flesh . 
 All prophets harp on this string, and the 
 apostles play melodiously upon it, and the 
 witnesses of the spirit do finish the mystery. 
 See the references that leads to the mystery. 
 A great part of this prophet's doctrine 
 ch iii e * s ft bout the Jews being carried to Babylon, 
 but the doctrine of their restoration is by him 
 made a type of the deliverance from sin, by 
 the coming of God in a way of a lineal 
 descent, which mysterious sayings puzzled 
 the carnal Jew, but the elect saw into the 
 
 substance,
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 45 
 
 substance, and could distinguish words jjjjjj^f 
 privative from positive, and temporal from 
 spiritual. 
 
 But to come to the matter, the prophet 
 shews, chap. iii. what a great apostacy was 
 amongst the Jews, yet saith the prophet a 
 few of them shall be recalled. There is an 
 election, as one of a city, and two of a tribe, 
 that shall be brought to Sion. 
 
 Now here the prophet contends with the 
 outward Jew; and, in his contention, whis- 
 pers in words of peace and comfort to the 
 elect. So there is an intermixture of judg- 
 ments and mercies, according to the nature 
 of the seeds it is spoken to. Hence it is 
 worth the minding to know when the spirit 
 of revelation speaks to reason, and when to 
 faith, for instance, 
 
 In verse 12th, the prophet hath these 
 
 i .,. -r -, , Chap. in. 12. 
 
 words, Jtieturn tnou backsliding Israel, ana 
 I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you, 
 &c. These words I conceive were spoken 
 to the seed and nature of reason, the angels 
 nature-fallen, who had the law moral writ- 
 ten in the seed, telling them, that all 
 obedience was due to God, and upon this 
 obedience earthly blessings are given as a 
 
 reward of well-doing 
 
 But
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 But in the 14th verse i* is said > 
 
 backsliding children, for I am married 
 unto you, and will take you one of a city 
 and two of a tribe, &c. These words are 
 spoken to the seed and nature of faith, 
 which was the seed of God, and was fallen 
 in Adam. 
 
 And this nature being fallen, God I ath 
 mercy qn it, and turns it, by giving iliem 
 the knowledge of himself, the other must 
 turn themselves to justice and legal righte- 
 ousness, but faith turneth, or rather is turm-d 
 to embrace the true God, saying, if thou 
 
 vi - 2 - return, return unto me. This God is God 
 manifested, or to be manifested in flesh, as 
 the next verse proves. 
 
 But to give a further distinction of the 
 original, from whence truth and falsehood 
 doth arise, as in reference to God, and the 
 worship that pleases him, and to Baal, and 
 
 f..i6. the worship that pleases him, behold their 
 
 Ver 26. 
 
 xvii. 9, 10. play on both sides. First, as to the seed 
 of the fallen angel, it is contrary in its 
 priestly teachings to the seed of fallen Adam, 
 aiter recalled and renewed by the second 
 Adam; for the original of their teaching is 
 not from revelation of faith, but from the 
 dictates and imagination of reason, which
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 4ff 
 
 is a deceit of their own heart ; and so they, 
 from their study in reason that is natural? 
 teaph a lye, and a false God in the name 
 of the true. 
 
 Therefore it errs, and the more it searches 
 into spiritual things the more it errs; for it 
 may search after morality by the candle of 
 the law, and from thence may speak a high 
 language, to the admiration of its own seed 
 that are of a lower capacity, if it be sober 
 and learned ; but it but gropes in the dark, 
 if it apply its study to the finding out spi- 
 ritual secrets, for that is lock'd up from that 
 seed, therefore they have nothing of sub- 
 stance, but only a form of goodly words. 
 
 Now the prophet Jeremiah shews the 
 fallacy by their practice, and discovers then} 
 clearly to a discerning eye. His words are 
 to this purpose following, both to priest 
 and people. 
 
 Behold you trust in lying words, when 
 you come into my temple to worship, saying, 
 no evil shall befal you, if you but make a 
 shew of holiness there, crying the temple 
 of the Lord; whilst you thus boast of the 
 temple (yet that temple is but a den of 
 robbers). What are you else but robbers and 
 thieves ? Do you not steal my word every 
 
 man
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 man n>om his neighour, who are my pro- 
 i4. phets, and take iVom here a little, and there 
 *". si. a little, that will serve your turn, and then 
 father it upon God, and say; thus saith 
 the Lord. And then you add your own 
 devices and formalities to it, the deceit of 
 your own heart; thus like vagabonds you 
 wander from scripture to scripture, and it 
 must speak what your reason doth imagine. 
 See and compare John x. 8. Isa. xii. 0. 
 Acts xix. 13. Rev. xxii. 18. Jude xiii. 
 2 Cor. ii. 17. Mai. ii. 8. 
 
 Again, what are you but murderers ? you 
 are all unto me as Sodom, ever resisting the 
 hope of Israel. What shall men call you 
 
 iv 31. 
 
 and vi. so. but reprobate silver ? Seeing the Lord 
 M. hath rejected you, depart therefore from 
 
 Mill. 14. J * 
 
 xxiv. 15. him, and be written in the earth, and not 
 in the writings of the house of the true 
 Israel. 
 
 O Lord, thou knowest all their councils 
 against me and against thee to slay us, though 
 they boast of their priests office, as that the 
 
 wii 1 S 1 ft 
 
 scriptures belongeth to them ; yet do they 
 scoff at thy word of promise. O let me see 
 thy vengeance on them, and let them be 
 ver.7. confonnded that persecute me, thy true 
 prophet, &c. But then as for thy chosen 
 
 ones
 
 NONE BUT CHRI8T. 49 
 
 ones and ministers of the true sanctuary, SJSSr* 
 they trust not in themselves, but in the 
 hope of Israel. Now observe the doctrine 
 evangelical, to the elect seed. 
 
 SECT. II. 
 
 The day is come, saith the prophet, that Chap xxiii 6 
 the Lord will raise unto David a righteous xxxm.Ts 1 
 branch, and he shall build the temple; this 
 is the temple that was to be built without 
 noise or tumult. Again, a king shall reign 
 and prosper; in his days Judah shall be 
 saved, and his name is the Lord our righte- 
 ousness, now Israel hath but one king, and 
 that king is Christ, and but one saving God, 
 and Christ is that God. 
 
 All Israel's righteousness of justification, 
 
 . . ii.23, and 
 
 sanctincation, wisdom, or what other arlo- *** 27, and 
 
 li. 10. 
 
 nous qualification soever flows or ariseth 
 from that fountain of faith in the person of 
 Christ, giving the whole glory of their sal- 
 vation to him; whether before he became 
 flesh or after, all is one, and all centre in 
 one, for the promise was sure. 
 
 Therefore the prophet is absolute in his 
 declarations to the fall power of speaking 
 forth his divine revelations in this wise as 
 
 aforesaid,
 
 50 NONE BUT CHRIST 
 
 aforesaid, an( l as hereafter follows, saying* 
 I wno am a prophet ordained and chose by 
 voice of words from the God of truth, had 
 his word put into my mouth, whereby I 
 was impowered to throw down all false 
 Gods and false worships, and to build and 
 plant the chosen ofJudah into the faith of 
 that good thing promised the righteous 
 branch of David, which is no other thing 
 but the Lord our righteousness, in which I, 
 and all true prophets, pronounce salvation 
 by. 
 
 So that salvation is not from the great 
 
 Xiii. 10. m . 
 
 in. 23. mountains and hills of lofty imaginations 
 
 *vii. 13. ? 
 
 ]: 6 from the arms of flesh, but it is in that 
 
 U. 25. 
 
 mxj. 32. Lord and God coining of the seed of David, 
 
 iii* *J. ** 
 
 who is to be born of a woman. This is the 
 doctrine of righteousness and the evidence 
 of heaven. O you seed and children of the 
 promise, believe, hope, trust, wait for the 
 coming or growing up of this branch of 
 this man of this king, which is your king, 
 and be blessed. Isa. ii. 2. Obadidh i. 6, 
 8, 21. In the latter days you shall consi* 
 der all this, fyc. 
 
 32. Again, in Chap. 31, the prophet poufeth 
 forth life in these words, saying; the Lord 
 hath created a new thing upon the earth. 
 
 A
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 51 
 
 A woman shall compass a man : here doth 
 the prophet declare that God would become 
 man ; for this man was God the Father, 
 and this woman was the virgin wile, JWary : 
 the true seed of Israel did in the prdphef s 
 days believe this was true, and would come 
 to pass in due time, and the tnie seed of 
 Israel at this time, being the latter days 
 in which they were to consider of it; doth 
 certainly now know, and with confidence 
 and boldness, yet with all humility and 
 soberness, do affirm against all gamsayers 
 under heaven, that the man Christ Jesus, 
 so exalted through the scriptures of truth, 
 Was and is, and is to come, the mot togh 
 and mighty God and everlasting Father, 
 being, in one single body or per on o; fle?h 
 and bone, now in heaven gloniied, blessed 
 for ever. Amen. 
 
 Now the prophet calls this a new thinsr, 
 but the prophet Isaiah saith, that this new 
 thing is a hidden thing: and that it cannot 
 be known by the carnal seed. And there- 
 fore saith the prophet Jeremiah, this new 
 thing that is created, doth create a new 
 creature, and in it a new covenant, whereby 
 they shall know that new thing, that new 
 
 Jerusalem, 
 G
 
 62 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 t Jerusalem, that came down from heaven t$ 
 be made that new and living -way. 
 
 This new created thing created every 
 thing new and old ; but none knows him 
 aright but such as have the new creation ; 
 therefore said Habak. chap. i. 5. Wonder 
 marvelously ; for I will work a work in 
 your days, which you shall not believe 
 tJiough it be told you. 
 
 But it is the elect that do find out the 
 path of God, and do trace the footsteps of 
 the spirit in every commission, whereby 
 they are given to know variety of new and 
 wonderful things; as now to know that this 
 new-created thing that had uncreated itself, 
 created every thing, and as to his saints he 
 created a new heart, a new covenant, a 
 new name, and a new song of praise in that 
 name to this God-Man, compassed about 
 with a woman. 
 
 What then shall we say of a Woman; 
 no ill, for though a woman was the inlet 
 to sin, yet a woman was the outlet of sin, 
 and the inlet of salvation ; so that let a wo- 
 man, but especially this woman, be, by all 
 the elect in all ages, counted blessed, who 
 bore the blessed babe, and God of all life. 
 
 And though the first woman compassed 
 
 a main
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 58 
 
 a man of death, hell and damnation; 
 let not her after-seed by Adam speak ill of 
 her: because they and her were blessed by 
 a gracious promise of an after redemption, 
 which was and is by this new created man 
 compassed by a woman. 
 
 A woman shall compass a man. 
 
 God is a man, and was in the form of i| 
 man before he was compassed about with a 
 woman ; for man was created in his image 
 both as to form and nature : and Moses 
 calls God a man of war, and this new 
 thing, in his state of mortality said, that 
 no man was perfectly good, but one, which 
 was God, and so the first man Adam ways 
 from the earth, the second man Adam was 
 the Lord from heaven. 
 
 A woman shall compasss a man. 
 
 The true God of Israel hath been com- 
 passed about five several ways. First, he 
 hath been compassed about by his angels 
 in heaven. Secondly, he hath been com- 
 passed about by a woman on earth. Thirdly, 
 he hath been compassed about by Our in* 
 firmities. Fourthly, he hath been com- 
 passed about by bulls of Bashan. And 
 
 lastly.
 
 54 NONE Bt T T CHRIST. 
 
 joeviavs ] as tly he hath been compassed about with 
 
 'G'jijirioii v* v 
 
 death, hell and the grave. Psal. Ixviii. 17. 
 JLuke i. 1. Hcb. v. 2. Psalm, xxii. 12. 
 xviii. 4, 5. 
 
 But now in these latter days this God- 
 ch. in. 21. Man hath enlarged his glory; now shall 
 none hereafter compass him about; but his 
 saints and angels round about his throne, 
 the bulls oi Baskan shall no more compass 
 him about, nor the red dragon and his 
 bloody priests that caused such mourning 
 in Mama, in slaying the young children to 
 siay him, 
 
 But as the Lord by his spirit of faith, 
 love, joy, and peace doth compass his saints 
 al-out; even so do the saints by their new 
 songs of praise compass their redeemer 
 about, giving him thanks for that his won- 
 derful work of his vouchsafing to conde- 
 scend so low, as to become man of the 
 seed of David, as aforesaid, to save his 
 elect. 
 
 Let this suffice from the prophet Jere- 
 miah; and to the elect it is enough; it is 
 clear as the light; it is evident; it is cer- 
 tain ; it is sure without doubt, and without 
 scruple to him whose name is written in the 
 book of life, thai, 
 
 There
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 55 
 
 . There is none but Christ : none but 
 Christ no other God, but the man Christ 
 Jesus, now in glory above the stars, 
 
 CHAP. V. 
 
 Shewing the prophet EzekieFs testimony to 
 our Ijord Jesus Christ, to be his God, and 
 the God of all the true seed of Israel. 
 
 P] IE prophet in his first chjapter shews 
 hjs commission from heaven, as all true 
 prophets are able to do ; for it is the ever 
 living word spoken out of the mouth of 
 God that makes a man a commissioner, but 
 Baal's priests, cannot pretend to this; for 
 their God is speechless, having no tongue 
 to speak at all; but I pass them by and 
 come to learn of a true prophet. 
 
 The most part of the prophecy by Ezekiel 
 is a foretelling and threatening the Jews of 
 great judgments to be inflicted upon them 
 under their captivity, as a reward for their 
 injustice, oppression, idolatry, and cruelty; 
 and persuading them to repentance, that 
 
 they
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST, 
 
 not be destroyed; saying to 
 them in this wise, 
 
 Turn you, turn you from your evil ways ; 
 or w fty w m y ^' l ^ y e j wuse o j* Israel, as 
 
 I live saith the Lord, I have no pleasure 
 in the death of the wicked, &c. 
 
 Now, what death is this that the prophet 
 meaneth? that the Lord hath no pleasure 
 in ? In answer hereto, that the ways of the 
 a 25 I^ or d, concerning this it is written. I call 
 aad xxxiii. ] ieaven anc i earth to record (saith JMoses) 
 that I have set before you line and death, 
 blessing and cursing; chuse the one and 
 live ; chuse the other and die : now hath 
 not that carnal line their desire ? you have a 
 law which, if you keep, you shall live by u% 
 but, if you break it, you shall be destroyed ; 
 for if you be witting and obedient, you 
 shall eat the good of the land; but, if you 
 refuse and rebel, you shall die; that is, you 
 shall be destroyed by sword, plague, famine, 
 or the like. See Deut. iv. 13, 40. chap, 
 v. 4. 6. 
 
 Now, as touching this death, the Lord 
 hath no pleasure ; and therefore, that they 
 might not die but live if possible, he caused 
 the law to be daily read, and to exhort them 
 again and again, that they might not forget, 
 
 but
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 57 
 
 but might be obedient thereunto. Deut. ggjj* . 
 vii. 6, 9. chap. xvii. 19, 20. chap. xxxi. 
 11, 12. Josh, xxxviii. 34, 35. 
 
 Now, his saying he had no pleasure in 
 the death of the wicked was no more but 
 this, that the fig-tree should not blossom, 
 tieither should fruit be in the vines; the 
 labour of the olive shall fail ; and the fieldvS 
 shall yield no meat; the flocks should be 
 cut off from the field; their goods shall 
 become a booty, and their houses a deso- 
 lation; this is the death and destruction 
 that Christ hath no pleasure in ; nor had, 
 when he wept over Jerusalem. Habakkuk 
 iii. 17. 
 
 All such places threaten an external 
 
 1^11 / Ch. xxxi. 1*5 
 
 death, for the laws curse goes no farther i?> and xxxu. 
 
 21, 22, 24. 
 
 than the penetrating >down into the grave. * xxxva. 
 Psalm xxxi. 17. Jsa. xiv. 11. 
 
 But the wonderful mystery of God's be- 
 coming flesh, and suffering death in that 
 flesh ; and, after rising again through God- 
 head power, brings that rebellious seed into 
 a capacity of a resurrection to a second 
 death, which is a living death and a dying 
 life. Isa. ii. 19, 21, and 26, 29. John v, 
 58. Het>. ii. 14. 
 
 For if God had not come to die, the 
 
 saints
 
 58 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 been no better than the repro- 
 bate; for all would have gone to the grave, 
 and the law could not raise them again. 
 1 Cor. xv. 
 
 So no more of this subject here, this I 
 thought convenient, to put the free-willers 
 rub out of the way : who would have eter- 
 nal salvation offered unto all : and that 
 there is but one seed or generation of man- 
 kind; and so may all be saved, if they 
 will : but this their principle destroys God's 
 prerogative power, and 'makes him inferior 
 to the kings of the earth; and besides, it is 
 absolute nonsense; for if all men proceed 
 from one seed or root, then, being all of 
 one nature, they must either all be saved 
 or all damned. Isa. xliii. 13. 
 
 But the scriptures are clear to prove two 
 
 seeds, and that there is an election in Israel, 
 
 . and the Lord by his prophets doth mark 
 
 them out, and call that people who are but 
 
 .a remnant out of a multitude of pro essors, 
 
 to the faith and worship of Christ in spirit 
 
 and truth. Isa. xix. and xi. 11, 16. These 
 
 saith the prophet are the chosen, let us set 
 
 a mark on them. 
 
 is. 4, God will save this little remnant, calling 
 
 \xxiv 2*? 
 
 ver. 31. them his flock; and in order . thereto, he 
 
 will,
 
 ; ^ NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 will, saith the prophet, set up one shepherd 
 over them, and this shepherd is God the 
 Lord Jesus, and all the elect Israel are his 
 sheep or flock; and as he is called their 
 shepherd, so is he called also their alone 
 king ; that only king* was to rule that one 
 only nation, and that king that was that 
 nation's God, was to proceed from David 
 which is none but Christ, and this shep- 
 herd, this king, this prince of Israel, should 
 bless them with showers of blessings. Here 
 we see that this chosen flock hath but one 
 shepherd over them, one prince and king 
 over them, and that prince, king, and shep- 
 herd, is no other but Christ Jesus their Lord 
 God and Saviour 
 
 This king, prince and shepherd, makes xxxiv. 
 a covenant with his people, and the cove- 
 nant is, (saith the prophet) that he will be 
 their God, and they shall be his people ; 
 atid behold those privileges, the graces and 
 gifts are so plentiful, that they are said to 
 overflow as a river, in peace, love, joy, 
 wisdom, and all other graces; and all flows 
 from this shepherd bringing his sheep to 
 such fountains as riseth higher and higher; 
 first to the ankles, then to the knees, then 
 to the loins. Every dispensation or com- 
 
 H mission
 
 60 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 testimony. m i ss i n r i ses higher and higher in its wis- 
 dom and revelation, in this mystery of its 
 God's becoming flesh. So that now in 
 these latter days, this refreshing stream is 
 risen up to the loins, and so up to a river 
 to swim and bathe themselves in, to their 
 everlasting consolation , A mystery so deep, 
 that the tongue of men nor angels cannot 
 reach in words to unfold it in its fulness. 
 It is enough that we are made worthy to 
 know that our God did become flesh, and 
 that we know the nature of that wonderful 
 humility and condescension of our God in 
 love. According to our measures in this 
 our state of mortality, it is here, through 
 grace, given us as an earnest penny or seal 
 of what wisdom and glory he will bestow 
 upon all his flock hereafter, each, one ac- 
 cording to his faith and wisdom, he had in 
 that commission or prophecy he was under, 
 shall have glory according at the next ap- 
 pearing of this king and shepherd of Israel, 
 according to the scriptures of truth. 
 
 And, in the mean time, they shall feed 
 in goodly pastures; therefore saith the pro- 
 phet, they shall feed upon the banks and 
 borders of this sanctuary waters, for there 
 grows trees of meat there, whose leaf will 
 
 not
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 61 
 
 EzekieVs 
 testimony. 
 
 not fade, nor fruit consume, but shall bring Ezekier * 
 
 forth new fruit that shall be for meat, and 
 the leaf thereof for medicine, (even the doc- 
 trine of this Messiah) and Joseph shall have 
 two portions, a blessed reward to believing ve 
 Ephraim. Gen. xlviii. 20. 
 
 Thus by the testimony of Ezekiel, and 
 abundantly more by him than what is here 
 expressed, it is clear and evident, that 
 
 There is none but Christ: none but 
 Christ : no other God, but the man Christ 
 Jesus, his Lord, and ours blessed for ever. 
 Amen. 
 
 CHAP. VI, 
 
 Shewing hoiv Daniel's faith was pitched 
 upon God's becoming flesh, and that 
 eternal happiness depended tJiereupon. 
 
 JfrANIEL begins to describe Christ's DanieVs 
 
 kingdom as to his incarnation, from 
 great Nebuchadnezzar's dream, that under 
 the fourth monarchy it should take its be- 
 ginning, and then it should destroy all such 
 as should oppose that kingdom with a seal 
 
 of
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 of eternal death ; for till then, sin, death, 
 devil and hell reigned without controul. 
 
 Bnt after the entering in of the fourth 
 monarchy, though it was as iron, yet not- 
 withstanding all this, the God of heaven 
 ver.20,23. said Daniel shall set up his kingdom. 
 Now this God of heaven was the God of 
 Abraham, which was no other than Christ. 
 For in this king's dream, he saw a stone 
 cut out without hands, and become a great 
 mountain, insomuch that it rilleci the whole 
 e^rth. Now this stone was the stone of 
 Israel prophesied of before, as hath been 
 shewed, as Gen. xlix. 24. Psal. cxviii. 2:2. 
 This stone was seen in the king's dream to 
 become a great mountain . Now this king 
 was a mountain himself, and a very great 
 mountain, but this visional mountain of his 
 put him in great fear, as if his mountain 
 should be smitten down by it, though he 
 could not tell by whom it should be, or 
 what it should be, neither could the astro-* 
 logers, the philosophers, or any of the wise 
 men in all Chaldea, his kingdom, when 
 they were summoned together, tell the king 
 what this stone was, for their knowledge 
 and faith was quite contrary to Daniel's. 
 Therefore they tell the king, that none 
 
 can
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 63 
 
 can tell this dream, no not one man upon 
 
 the earth (say they), except the gods whose Ch " n 
 dwelling is not in flesh, there was not one 
 among all the seed of the fallen angel that 
 ever did prophecy, or could believe that 
 God would become flesh of Adam's flesh, 
 and bone of his bone ; they can sooner 
 believe that man's spirit will become God, 
 than God to become man, and it was ever 
 the principle of reason to believe so, when 
 clothed in flesh ; for, say they, reason is 
 God's nature, and God is nature without 
 form. 
 
 And Plato, that great heathen philoso- 
 pher and ancient, who lived in those days 
 ot the prophet Daniel, and was one of 
 t'.ose wise sages, hath wrote thus, that 
 tUere is no way to happiness but by the 
 footsteps of reason, calling it the nature of 
 God ; also the Platonists say that the devils 
 are reason, but yet spirits without bodies, 
 as their gods was ^ so that those wise hea- 
 thens in Daniel's time, did make God's 
 nature, and devil's nature to be all alike 
 reason, and like spirit. But in my treatise 
 of Truth's Triumph, I have shewed, that 
 if God's nature, and the devil's nature be 
 reason, then nothing could hinder but that 
 
 the
 
 04 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 devils might be holy, as well as the 
 gods ; and the reason is because nature dis- 
 tributing itself into several beings, makes 
 all these beings correspondent with itself, 
 and in harmony one with another. 
 
 Therefore it is evident, that the true God 
 was never known by any but by true pro- 
 phets of the Lord's own sending, and by 
 such as have faith to understand, and faith 
 to believe their report : and for God to be- 
 come flesh, was ever too mysterious for any 
 to know, understand, and believe, but the 
 seed of his own body only. 
 
 Again, this stone cut of the mountain of 
 Bethlehem-Judah, or kingdom, comes of 
 itself; no man had a hand in it, it was 
 God-head power. Therefore Jet builders 
 and false priests refuse this stone, yet will 
 it become the chief corner-stone, that shall 
 hold up the house, church, and kingdom, 
 against that iron monarchy, with its ten 
 horns, and that one peeping horn that pro- 
 ceeded from the ten horns, with that spi- 
 ritual whore that sat upon them all, even 
 mystery Babylon; the mother of harlots 
 who sits upon all those great mountains. 
 Daniel saith, that this stone arising out of 
 Judah should be too hard for them all; for 
 
 let
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 65 
 
 let kings and emperors refuse this stone, 8 a t ^ y 
 and raise war against it, although they be 
 of gold, of brass, and of iron, shall they be 
 all broke as clay, as Isa. xlv. 9, and xli. 25. 
 Mind one thing here, that the greatest 
 power is ever attributed unto God, after he 
 hath transmuted his divine God-head into 
 flesh ; for then doth he war against man 
 in man, and then is the God of heaven 
 captain over his elect seed, to fight and 
 make war with the devil clothed in flesh. 
 See Hosea xiii. 14. /. Cor. xv. 55, and the 
 ground of this was, because the devil was 
 Lord of hell and death, until that the Lord 
 Christ had suffered death, and rose again, 
 by which means he gained power over 
 death, devil, hell, and the grave. Heb. ii. 
 14. Rev. i. 18, and so he finished the 
 transgression, and ended sin in the seed of 
 Adam, by making reconciliation for it in 
 the body of his flesh, and so brought in 
 everlasting righteousness according to the 
 prophet Daniel. 
 
 And by this glorious work of God's v m. 2 s. 
 clothing his God-head spirit with pure hu- X i.Wvu. 9. 
 man flesh, he created power in his saints 
 as kings and judges under him to execute 
 his wrath against all those mighty princes, 
 
 that
 
 66 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 ^ ia ^ se * themselves against Michael their 
 captain, with the seals of eternal death. 
 
 The prophet by vision did behold Christ, 
 and in his appearance he was like unto the 
 Son of man, and further saith, that he 
 came to the Antient of Days, and received 
 of him dominion, glory, and a kingdom. 
 Now, who was that which was invested 
 with power, glory, dominion, and an ever- 
 lasting kingdom, but the Antient of Days 
 himself; for as the prophet Isaiah said, 
 that God would not give his glory to an- 
 other, and Daniel saith here, that this An- 
 tient of Days had given him that was like 
 the Son of man, all people and nations to 
 worship and serve him ; what then could 
 this Son of man be, but the Ancient of 
 Days himself, and in that he became man, 
 appeared under a twofold condition, Son of 
 man as from his incarnation, and Ancient 
 of Days as before his assumption of human 
 nature, yet one and the same God, though 
 under a twofold condition ; for Christ was 
 the / am that chose Moses, and when he 
 was in the state of mortality, he told the 
 unbelieving Jews, that he was before Abra- 
 ham, and that Abraham believed in him 
 and was blessed, and all his spiritual seed 
 
 in
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 67 
 
 K 1 - 
 
 HI that belief of his becoming flesh, was 
 blessed m that blessing from this Messias, 
 which was that Antient Of Days ; for Daniel 
 owned but one God of a single person. So- 
 for further proof, JWicah v. 2. 
 
 Daniel beheld wonderful things, as in 
 reference to this mystery of his God's bring- 
 ing in everlasting righteousness ; he was so 
 ravished with the delight thereof, and se- 
 veral others with there running too and 
 fro in those revelations and visions to in-* 1 
 crease knowledge, and would fain have seen 
 further into it, but what was revealed to 
 Daniel was suiiicient at that time, both for 
 him and for the select; for further know- 
 ledge of it was to be sealed up till the time 
 was accomplished ; for this being but un- 
 der the first commission, or first testament, 
 ,so this mystery was to be declared but in 
 ! part, being the first witness or first record; 
 but the -ollowing witnesses will finish the 
 mystery of God, according as it is written : 
 at the mouth o two or three witnesses every 
 tiling should be established; so upon the 
 corning of the last witness then the revela- 
 tion ot the mystery of God shall be accom- 
 plished and finished; and this son of man, 
 that hath all power, glory and dominion 
 i put
 
 68 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 P u * mto h* s hands* an d that shall everlast- 
 ingly reign king over all people and na- 
 tions according to Daniel and all true pro- 
 phets, then shall he be known to be the 
 mighty God and everlasting Father. Thus 
 by testimony of Daniel, 
 
 There is none but Christ : none but 
 Christ : no other God, but the man Christ 
 Jesus in glory. 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 Shewing how that the prophet Hosea's faith 
 and doctrine was pitched upon God's be- 
 coming flesh, and all the saints hope and 
 happiness depended thereon. 
 
 I come to read the doctrine of all 
 testimony. |] je twelve small prophets, and they 
 will be found to be the comforters of Sion, 
 and all harp upon the same string as the 
 other prophets did before them. 
 ^i. 7. This prophet hath judgments and mercies 
 mixt, according to the operation of the. two 
 seeds, but the house of Judah were to have 
 the everlasting blessings. The seed of 
 
 Reason
 
 NONE BUT CHRfST. 
 
 Reason had their blessing according to their 
 obedience; but then it was but by their Chap * 
 bow and sword there corn, wine and oil. 
 But their casting away, is, saith the pro- 
 phet, an utter rejection, that rejected the { V . u 
 Lord from heaven, and would not have a 
 God clothed in flesh to rule over thenl. 
 
 It is said, I will save the house of Judah ? 
 by the Lord their God, and when Israel 
 was a child, then I loved him; now this 
 child was the seed of Isaac, and this Lord 
 God of Judah proceeded from that child 
 Israel, and was prophesied of, to be a child 
 himself, and to be called out of Egypt ^^ 
 according to this prophet ; out of Egypt 
 have I called my son ; so that Israel's sav- 
 ing God was no other but Jesus Christ, 
 born of a virgin, persecuted into Egypt by 
 a red dragon devil, honoured and called 
 forth again when that dragon was dead. 
 
 Now this prophet whispers inwards into i. 10,11. 
 the hearts of the elect, telling them that 
 the Lord is coming to make the Gentiles 
 his people; and he brings in the elect Jews 
 also, and orders them to chuse to them- 
 selves this seed of Israel, this child that was 
 to be called out of Egypt, to be that one 
 head or shepherd to rule pver them; for he 
 
 was
 
 70 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 was * come > an< l tnen ne should be the 
 hi. 4. on i an( i ki ni r i u the latter days. 
 
 / 
 
 . Again in chap. X. the prophet adviseth 
 the elect to wait for their God, unt'l he 
 
 x . 12< come, for his going forth will be in the 
 morning, and shall be as the ra : n; now *t 
 is, as if the prophet should say, wait lor him. 
 for he will come, as sure as the morning 
 will come, and when he comes, then comes 
 grace in abundance, which will be to the 
 soul as showers of rain is to the earth. 
 
 Therefore seek till he come, he never 
 seeketh in vain, thai is first sought of the 
 Lord; for his mercy is such, as that he is 
 
 n'ii 2. found of them that sought him not, he will 
 call the Gentiles that never sought for him, 
 and he will reject that carnal Jew th.;t 
 shall seek him, but shall not find liiai; but 
 let elect Israel seek, and when he appears 
 they shall *ay, my God, we know thee by 
 virtue of the dew or rain that is fallen 
 upon inc. 
 
 And as the prophet advised the elect to 
 
 xiii. 4. seek the Lord, so likeways he admonished 
 
 them to hear how graciously the Lord 
 
 speaks unto them, and that in this manner. 
 
 I am the Lord thy God, and thou shalt 
 
 know no God but me ; for there is no savi- 
 
 our
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 71 
 
 our besides me, I am thy help and the king JfjJJ^J, 
 of Israel, thy king, all other kings shall j^^ 
 utterly be destroyed. 
 
 I draw you with the cords of a man be^- 
 coming a man like you ; I give you myself 
 to eat: I will be your king, and be death's 
 death to save you. 
 
 The Lord, by his prophet, having thus 
 spoken to the elect, now his chosen ones 
 answer unto him again, saying; we know 
 thee to be our God, and will keep close to 
 thee; Assur shall, not save us; we will not 
 ride upon their horses; for all is flesh and 
 not spirit. Their prophets are fools, their 
 spiritual men are mad, and have a multi- 
 tude of iniquities ; and one is their great 
 hatred to the watchers of Ephraim in the 
 house of God, and will have no king but 
 Ccesar, or what Ccesar shall command ; but 
 our king is the Lord our God, who will 
 ransom us from the power of the grave, 
 and will be death's death, and the grave's X1 
 destruction. 
 
 And now being enlightened by true pro- 
 phesy, we will say, what have we any* 
 more to do with idols, we have heard of 
 him, and we shall see him, and taste of the 
 fruit of the tree of life; yea, and have 
 
 tasted
 
 72 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 . ta * ted bv faitn - Whether then shall 
 go 3 We will not leave this Lord, we will 
 not be for another man, but for this man, 
 this God-man, that we have chosen for our 
 king and head. 
 
 Temporal kings are the supreme head of 
 a carnal church, but we have no such head 
 but the Lord our righteousness is our head, 
 and from him we will not go. 
 
 Thus by the testimony of the prophet 
 Hosea.) and the true church in his days, it 
 is evident, that 
 
 There is none but Christ; none but 
 Christ ; no other God but the man Christ 
 Jesus, now in glory. 
 
 CHAP. VIII. 
 
 Shelving that the prophet Joel's God is the 
 saint's Jesus. 
 
 testimony 
 
 TPHE prophet Joel, after he had denounced 
 great judgments to the wicked seed of 
 captrrity, famine, and of God's forsaking 
 them, and withholding from them their 
 meat-offerings, and drink-offerings, count- 
 mg the very prayers of their priests at his 
 altar but as the howling of a dog. 
 
 After
 
 BUT CHRIST. 73 
 
 After these things he brings in the Lord ^u^y. 
 as gracious and merciful to his own select 
 people, speaking to them in the manner 
 following : 
 
 My people that doth wait for me, shall ii26 27 
 never be ashamed in putting their trust in 
 me; for I will come and be in the midst of 
 Israel; for where two or three are gathered 
 together in my name, they are my church, 
 and they shall know me to be their God, vc 
 and shall not be ashamed, and make haste 
 from me : for it shall come to pass after- 
 wards, that I will pour out my spirit upon 
 the seed of faith that waited for me, and 
 they shall prophecy and preach my name, 
 and I will shew the wonders in heaven and 
 earth ; for the sun shall be turned into dark- 
 ness, and the moon into blood. 
 
 For the Redeemer of Israel shall suffer 
 death: this is the wonder in heaven. ver.si. 
 
 And the moon shall be turned into blood : 
 this shall be a wonder in earth. 
 
 For the law shall be turned into blood; 
 that is, into persecution, because righteous- 
 ness is denied to be had by it. 
 
 But it shall come to pass, that notwith- 
 standing that persecution, that whosoever 
 called upon God, the sun of righteousness 
 
 and
 
 74 NONE BUT CHRI8T. 
 
 Simony. an ^ gl or y> tnat was darkened as their God, 
 shall be saved; for in mount Sion is deli- 
 verance, and you shall know that I am the 
 Lord your God that dwell there. 
 
 But the sun must be turned into dark- 
 nesSj for Egypt and Edom must be plat 
 withal, for the Lord will be cmciiied there, 
 2,i9? 5 Therefore in the valley of Jehosaphal they 
 shall be met withal, because they have 
 shed innocent blood there, out of Judith, 
 but life shall be regained, and Judah shall 
 abide for* ever, and be made glorious by 
 that new Jerusalem that will come from 
 heaven, and shall be blessed and live for 
 ever; for because he lives, his saints shall 
 live also. 
 
 This is the doctrine of Joel. Who then 
 must this Judah be ? this Jerusalem be t 
 this darkened sun be ? this innocent blood 
 of Judah be ? this king and judge of the 
 world be ? this God and Saviour of Israel 
 be ? but the Lord Jesus Christ blessed for 
 ever. Amen. 
 
 So that by this testimony of Joel, all 
 those true saints in this age of the world, 
 may understand by the gilt of the spirit of 
 faith, now stirred up by prophecy, that 
 there is none but Christ, none but Christ ; 
 
 no
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 75 
 
 no other God but the man Christ Jesus 
 in glory, though millions of men should 
 gainsay ik 
 
 r 
 
 CHAP. IX 
 
 Shewing that the prophet kmwfsfaim and 
 doctrine was in God*s becoming jfesh. 
 
 ^HE prophet Amos was sent to pro i -nee 
 judgments again -t Syria, the PhWs- 
 tines, Tyrus, Edom, Am on, and .Woa-b, 
 their several transgressions afterwards ttie 
 prophet comes to reprove all the twelve 
 tribes of Israel for their several transgres- 
 sions, which was in iorsakmg his law, arid 
 despising his commandments. ]Sow all 
 other nation^, they being not in covenant, 
 are not said to break his law, because no 
 outward law was given to them, but the 
 law that was written in their consciences, 
 but Israel had an outward law to shew 
 them what was written within, and the 
 prophet finding them guilty of all the great 
 transgressions, and much more greater than 
 the heathen, therefore called by three trans- 
 K gressions>
 
 i? 4 
 " 
 
 76 :NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 gressions, and by four; but the prophet 
 gives a catalogue of many more in number, 
 though all may be comprised in them, as, 
 First, They are said to walk in lies. 
 2ndly, They sell the righteous for silver. 
 
 v . 7. 3rdly, They covet their neighbour's goods, 
 and pant after the dust of the earth, and 
 commit adultery, &c. 4thly, They drink 
 the wine of the condemned in the house of 
 God, and would not let true prophets pro- 
 phesy, or once to speak, but stir up violence 
 and robbery, turning judgments to worm- 
 wood. 5thly, They resist the just, and 
 rejoice in their persecuting priests, which 
 
 JJ r i!i3. the prophet calls a thing of nought. Lastly, 
 They long that the sabbath were over, that 
 they may buy the poor for silver; and this 
 is none of the least transgressions. 
 
 Wherefore the prophet seeing thejr great 
 wickedness and apostacy from their law, 
 cries out, saying, O Lord God, forgive, I 
 beseech thee, by whom shall Jacob arise, 
 for he is small. Now the prophet brings 
 in the Lord as answering to the two seeds 
 saying, that he will repent him, and have 
 mercy and forgiveness of the one seed, but 
 the other he will judge for their cruelty and 
 
 wrath, and for their selling: the righteous 
 
 ^ 
 
 for silver, 
 

 
 _-, 
 N<ONE BUT CHRIST, 77 
 
 ' Being as if the Lord should say, shall I *Ji, 
 forgive this wicked people that offer a sa- iv 5 
 crifice of thanksgiving with leven, and 
 come to Bethel and transgress, I hate and 
 despise your offerings ; and though you 
 pretend you look for my appearing, be- 
 cause all my prophets prophesy of it, what 
 good shall my coming do you ; for that v. is. 
 day will be darkness and not light unto 
 you : tor you shall be as blind men, and 
 vsliall not know me, for the sun shall go 
 down at noon-day. When I am coming, 
 I shall suffer, and the sun shall suffer like- 
 wise for a time, but you shall suffer forever, 
 that buy the righteous for silver, and sell 
 him for a pair of shoes; is this to desire 
 my coming, and my day, and then to sell 
 me for silver? I have swoni by the excel- 
 lency of Jacojb, surely I will never forget 
 any of their works (now how should such 
 a people be saved) that swore thy God, O 
 Dan, liveth. 
 
 Now the prophet seeing the wickedness 
 of this seed, and God's just wrath against 
 it, cries out again, the second time, saying, 
 O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, by whom 
 shall Jacob arise, for he is small. This 
 Jacob that the prophet meant, was the elect 
 
 Israel;
 
 78 NONE BUT OUUST. 
 
 teSnwwy, Iwael; for as he saw the destruction of the 
 one seed, so he would see the restoration 
 of the other ; for he knew that God had a 
 j^tople, though they were not visible at 
 that time, error and idolatry ruling and 
 bearing sway over all: for the righteous 
 then must not speak a word, but were com- 
 
 v. 10, 13. ., 
 
 manued silence. 
 
 But the prophet knowing that the pro- 
 mise was sure, therefore it was answered 
 * 4. him by revelation from the Lord, saying, 
 the days come, J will raise up the taber- 
 nacle of David that is fallen. I will let 
 these wicked Jews go, and will bring in a 
 number of the Gentiles in their room, to 
 gloriry my name ; they shall seek after me, 
 and turn to God, and worship in the beauty 
 of holiness; ior the mountains shall drop 
 sweet wine in this new raised tabernacle 
 of Davit/, which shall refresh the heart 
 with peace and joy, and assurance of ever- 
 lasting life. This is the sweet wine of that 
 glorious tabernacle that shall dwell with 
 men, in which the saints shall perform true 
 worship. Thus by the testimony of Amos. 
 There is none but Christ; none but 
 Christ ; no other God or Saviour but the 
 man Christ Jesys in glory. 
 
 CHAP
 
 NONp BUT CHRIS^, 7$ 
 
 ObadiaNs 
 
 CHAP. X 
 
 Shewing? that the prophet Obadiah's faith 
 and doctrine was pitched upon God's be~ 
 
 IE prophet having denounced judg- 
 ments upon Edom for their pride and 
 w^/kedness against Jacob, shewing the 
 .manner and nature of the actions of Esau s 
 posterity against Judah, their wickedness, 
 hatred and pride, running in its cursed line, 
 God's judgments pursuing it from generar 
 to on to generation. Now after the former 
 part of his prophesy against Edotn, and his 
 lojty wisdom, which wa^s his mount, he 
 turneth tlie residue of his prophesy to Jacob 
 aud Judahj the seed of Abraham according 
 to the promise, and his declarations are 
 short but sweet, saying in this wise. 
 
 Upon mount Sion shall be deliverance, ch. i 17, 
 for saviours shall come up there to judge 
 the mount of Esau, and there shall be ho- 
 liness there, because the holy Lord God, 
 that rules in Sion shall be born there. 
 Destruction shall come upon JUdqmj a fire 
 
 out
 
 80 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 itbati-avt Oll j. o f Jacob shall devour her, and burn her 
 
 fr>*umouy. 
 
 in ghty men, and destroy her wise; for by 
 fire and by the sword (not a sword of steel, 
 but the sword of the spirit) will the Lord 
 plead with her, and S ion shall possess Esaus 
 possessions in the sale or his birthright: so 
 that the spiritual Canaan belongs to Jacob 
 and his spiritual seed; that is, the land of 
 uprightness, and the holy land. Isa, xxvi. 
 10, and Ixii. 12. Gen. xxv, 32, and xxii. 
 17. Psal. cxliii. 10. 
 
 It is not the earth we tread on the up- 
 right land, that Israel is to possess, if it- 
 were, then where must the called Gentiles 
 be; but it is the regenerated or new heart 
 in the faith, knowledge, and belief of your 
 God's coming; that is, the land of Israel 
 that flows with milk and honey: and this 
 is the land to be tilled and sown, and the 
 fruits of that ground shall be blessed, and 
 the seed shall prosper and be peaceable. 
 See and compare Isa. Ixvi. 11, 16, and Iv 
 1. Ezek. xxxvii. 14, 22. Hos. x. 12. 
 
 And this is the land the Lord inherits, 
 and is their portion, and they are his, which 
 makes Esau very angry in the loss of this 
 birth-right, and so much the more, by how 
 much the more the people of Jacob shall 
 
 prevail
 
 NONE RUT CHRIST. 
 
 prevail against them ; for they have power 
 and authority from that God which Esau 
 rejected, to judge the mount and very pin- 
 nacle of the temple of Esau; for they shall 
 trample upon the world's wisdom, power, 
 and glory, and break the head of aspiring 
 reason, the proud cherub's nature, and the 
 kingdom shall be the Lord Christ's. 
 
 Thus by the testimony of Obadi&h's, 
 there is none but Christ; none but Christ; 
 no other God but the man Christ Jesus in 
 glory, whom we adore and worship. 
 
 CHAP XI. 
 
 Sheweth that the prophet Jonah's faitli and 
 doctrine was in God's becoming- Jlesh. 
 
 HPHE prophet Jonah being sent to JVwi 
 
 veh, to denounce the sentence of de- Sip 7 y 
 struction upon it for its wickedness, he 
 disobeyed the Lord, and fled from his pre- 
 sence, being unwilling to be a. messenger of 
 such sad tidings, and I am apt to believe 
 that all true prophets are unwilling at first 
 hand (as Jonah was) to go forth upon mes- 
 sages, of the Lord, because life and death 
 
 is
 
 BUT CHRIST, 
 
 j s delivered into their liands. This made 
 one prophet cry out, saying, (at the time 
 of his being chosen), Woe is me, I am a 
 man undone, another to say, / am of wn- 
 circumcised lips, send by whom thou wilt 
 send. 
 
 But false prophets, upon the least ap- 
 pearance from a mere dream or vision 
 within or without, or from the hopes of 
 gaining riches or honour, are ever forward 
 to run into the ministry, and the ground of 
 all is this ; namely, the spirit of faith is ever 
 willing to sit still and be quiet under his 
 vine, and under his fig-tree, but the spirit 
 of reason would ever be in church or state, 
 and so heaves himself on for preferment, 
 and for a name, who loves to be called 
 master, and to sit with princes. But Jonah's 
 t 1S . disobedience brought but a temporal curse 
 upon him, .as being cast into the whaled 
 belly. Now Jonah being cast into the 
 whale's belly was made a type of Christ, 
 the eternal God, being in the grave ; for as 
 Jonah was three days and three nights in 
 the whale's belly, so was the God of Jonah 
 three days and three nights in the heart of 
 the earth. Matt. xii. 40 
 
 And when the prophet prayed there, 
 
 Baying,
 
 NO&E BUT CHRIST. 
 
 saying, T will sacrifice unto thee with the 
 voice of thanksgiving, I will pay that 
 which I have promised, salvation belongeth 
 unto the Lord ; thert did the prophet see 
 redemption by Jesus, which was his God, 
 becoming nV r h, or man to die for man, and 
 to lie in the grave for a moment. 
 
 Again, where he saith, I will pay that 
 which I have vowed; those words relate 
 likewise to God himself, as well as the 
 prophet; for he by faith beheld God making 
 a vow to himself to purchase redemption 
 by death. 
 
 Again, when the prophet said, thou hast 
 brought my soul from corruption, then did 
 he intimate and preach to the discerning 
 seed, that his Redeemer's soul should not 
 be left in hell or the grave. Acts ii. 27. 
 
 Jonah preached Christ more in the 
 whale's belly, and saw more than when he 
 was forth; when he was in the greatest 
 darkness as to the outward man, then was 
 he in the greatest light as to the inner man; 
 for the internal eye could look towards the 
 holy temple of God, not to the temple 
 made with hands, as of wood and stone, 
 but to a temple of flesh and bone, even to 
 the body of Christ, which was to be, and 
 
 L wag
 
 NONE BUT 
 
 faith's account voluntarily offered 
 Up. Jfeb. ^. 10. Tliis was {he sacrifice, 
 the living sacrifice, that caused thanks- 
 giving. So that by the testimony oi tiit 
 prophet Jonah, 
 
 'JTiere is none but Christ: none but 
 Christ : no other God, but the man Christ 
 Jesus in glory. 
 
 CHAP. XII. 
 
 
 
 '' 
 
 Sheweth that the prophet Micah's faith, 
 life, and doctrine was pitched wholly upon 
 God's becoming man to save man. 
 
 ^HE prophet J^ficah sheweth the wrath 
 cb. i. ii. iii. of God upon the wicked seed of the 
 house of Jacob, and contends with their 
 rulers for their oppression and pride, and 
 with their priests and prophets that preach- 
 ed for hire, and walk in lies, and tells them 
 that God was coming to punish them, and 
 to, trample upon their high places of wor- 
 slyp, and their high priests too. 
 
 TJhe Lord by the prophet further told 
 them, that their worship and offering were 
 all contemptible; for all that the I^ord re- 
 quired
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Attired was but thiese three thirigs; First, 
 To do justice; Secondly, To love mercy ; ch {i 
 and, Thirdly, To walk humbly with God. 
 But these two latter things are proper 
 for the elect, for to show mercy and to walk 
 humbly, is also to do justice; that is, doing 
 the two first, then to walk humbly, that is 
 to hold themselves to the prerogative power- 
 ed God, to do with them as he pleases. 
 
 Now to these that could receive no mercv " 2> 3 and 
 
 30, andTii.4. 
 
 from their oppressors, to these tile Lord 
 promiseth mercy, by becoming iesh to re- 
 deem them; for, said the prophet, they are 
 so merciless, that the best of them is but as 
 a brier, and the most upright amoing them 
 is sharper than a thorn hedge; for they will 
 give no conscience liberty. 
 
 But to leave that seed to their liaW, and 
 the wrath of Gocl in that law for them to 
 struggle withal, and come to the prophet's 
 spiritual declarations to the seed of faith, 
 whom he is minded to honour. 
 
 The prophet, when he had said that the 
 
 \ i. 3, is. 
 
 Lord will come down from heaven, after- 
 wards altereth the word a little, saying, 1 
 will bring an heir unto thee, and this heir 
 that he was to bring, is called the glory of 
 Israel. This is Isaacs heir, arid tfoe heir 
 of heirs, even God himself.
 
 86 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Snony. And w ^en the heir of heirs shall come, 
 then, saith the prophet, the wicked shall 
 lay siege against him, and when they see 
 him., they will say, not knowing what they 
 say, This is tJie heir, come let m kill him, 
 that the inheritance may be ours by law. 
 
 But this heir conquering by death, will 
 say, those mine enemies that would not have 
 me to rule over them, when I come in my 
 great power, they shall move out of their 
 
 vii. 17. holes like worms ; they shall be afraid of 
 me, the Lord God whom they scoffed at, 
 saying, where is the Lord God, behold 
 tiow shall they be trodden down, bring' them 
 
 ver-40. * < 
 
 before me that I may slay them, 
 
 But as for them that received me in 
 Bethlehem, I will have compassion ; for 
 
 ** who is a God like thee, gajth the prophet. 
 
 As if the prophet should say, is there 
 
 any God like unto our God, that will be-?- 
 
 come a child, be born, and made heir of 
 
 earth as well as heaven, and also will make 
 
 vii. 15,17. us all heirs with him of that purchased 
 kingdom of heaven. In a short time after 
 he comes, his power will be known and 
 felt to all people, good and bad; for who 
 is a God like him that comes out of Sion, 
 jus to his birth, and after out of Egypt as 
 
 to
 
 N($NE BUT CHRIST. 87 
 
 to his conquest. These ways of his coming ^* 
 forth are marvellous things; his works 
 wonderful, and his counsels admirable. 
 
 As to the wicked, when he comes, he 
 will blind their eyes, they shall not know 
 him, but shall have him in derision, and 
 though he is the judge of Israel, yet they 
 shall smite him with a rod upon the cheek, 
 and when they have put him to death, they 
 will then say, now where is your God, but 
 they shall afterwards see to their shame, 
 and be confounded, when our God ariseth 
 to make his power known, then shall they 
 be afraid of this child, of theis heir, of this 
 judge, of this man, of this king, that came 
 down from heaven, and by the way of <S?*o, 
 and is Sion's God, Lord, and Christ. There- 
 fore wait for him about Bethlehem, though 
 a place of small account amongst the thou- 
 sands of a blinded Israel; yet from thence 
 look for him, for from thence he shall come 
 forth, that is to be the ruler of Israel, whose 
 goings forth have (been as well) from of 
 old, from everlasting as in time. This is 
 the Lord our God, and Sion will behold it 
 in the latter days. 
 
 And then will Sion make her return of 
 thankfulness, joy, and praise, in this man- 
 ner
 
 88 Nfctffe feuf fctfftrt*. 
 
 S^ot ner fNwing, Come and let us g& \i tintb 
 
 iv 2 - the moutain of the Lord, hie Will teach tffe 
 
 his way; he hath called Us tthto him, and 
 
 we will walk in his paths, Which are paths 
 
 of peace, and a law of lov : our kittgdom 
 
 is a kingdom of concord, therefore we shall 
 
 beat our swords into ploughshares, and not 
 
 learn war any more, as with a sword of 
 
 steel, Ibut with the sword of the spirit only, 
 
 *. 4, 12. an( j w - tn t j^ t we s ] ia |j thresh, beat, and 
 
 cut in pieces many people, and we shall 
 sit every one under his viile, ndnfc shall 
 make us afraid ; for who is a Gfod like our 
 God, who will gather us as sheafs into his 
 floor. 
 
 Thus by the clear testimony of the pro- 
 phet Micah. 
 
 There is none but Christ; none but 
 Christ ; no other God but the man Christ 
 Jesw in glofy only. 

 
 Nahwaft 
 
 testimony. 
 
 CHAP, XIII. 
 
 Shewing that th$ gyopfaet Nahum's faith, 
 and doctrine was pitched wholly it pott. 
 God's becoming flesh. 
 
 : . ' 
 
 'T^HE prophet Nakum had a vision of the 
 
 judgment of Nineveh, wherein all ^4,14. 
 wicked people are included, therefore said 
 the prophet, woe to the bloody city; this 
 city is every where where wickedness is; 
 this city is called a well favoured harlot, 
 and the outward beauty, or outward pomp, 
 whether as to religion or state policy, doth 
 bewitch the nations; for the subtility of 
 reason is a witch, and the highest reason 
 captivates the lowest, and becomes a mis- 
 tress. These are the women ; this is the 
 whore, this is the harlot, whether Nineveh 
 or Babylon that selleth nations. 
 
 But after the prophet had delivered his 
 vision of judgments upon the wicked city, i. 7 . 
 he turns himself to the holy city, the seed of 
 faith, th$ true church, to comfort her, say- 
 ing-
 
 00 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 * n > m ^is w i se > the I^ or d is good, a strong 
 hold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth, 
 and owneth them that trust in him. 
 
 This strong hold is manifested in flesh, 
 and faith in this God is a stronger hold 
 than the well-favoured harlot hath or can 
 have, though their reasons and outward 
 shews their bulwarks, and their formless 
 God their strong hold. 
 
 But this will not save them in the day of 
 trouble, but the Lord that comes of Judah 
 will be Judah' s hold and sanctuary, when 
 persecution comes from reason's mount in 
 this seeming beautiful city. 
 
 Now the prophet shews, that all the elect 
 were waiting for his coming, and in chap, 
 i. he presents him to them in a note of ad- 
 miration, saying, Behold upon the moun- 
 tains the feet of him that bringeth good 
 tidings, and publisheth peace* as if the 
 prophet should further say, 
 
 Behold by faith I see him that is the 
 saver of Israel coming, leaping and skip- 
 i.i6. ping upon the mountains; skipping first 
 from heaven to earth ; 2dly, From the earth 
 to the cradle; 3dly, From the cradle to the 
 cross; and lastly, From the cross to the 
 crown again. This will make Judah keep 
 
 the 
 

 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 the solemn feasts, seeing she is to be freed 
 and deliveied from the wicked city. 
 
 Thus by the testimony of this prophet 
 Nahum. 
 
 There is none but Christ; none but 
 Christ ; no other God at all but the man 
 Christ Jesus only. 
 
 CHAP. XIV. 
 
 Shewing the prophet Habakkuk's^aifA and, 
 doctrine was founded on God's becoming 
 flesh, or man. 
 
 prophet in his spiritual declarations ir abakkuk - s 
 to the elect, begins his prophesy, say- ST 7 ' 
 ing, how long shall I cry, O Lord, and 
 thou wilt not hear : for he saw that almost 
 all were grown incredulous, not looking 
 after the accomplishment of the promise, 
 or believing there ever would be such a 
 thing, and hence at the very time, when 
 the Lord from heaven should come by his 
 commission of blood, the prophet did see 
 
 1 r iii. 14. 
 
 by faith, that most men would look upon xvi - 17 - 
 him, wonder, and perish through their re- 
 jecting of him. 
 
 M But
 
 92 NONE Bl)T CHRIS 1 
 
 But saith the prophet, I will stand upon 
 my watch, I will wait that I may be an- 
 swered by vision, and the vision was that 
 
 / 
 
 the Lord God would come ; for said he, *it 
 is certain, and the just shall live by faith in 
 the person of him,, who was their Lord, and 
 would become man ; therefore saith the 
 
 i. 12. prophet, wait Ibrahim, wait with me, tor 
 the vision is for ail appointed time, but at 
 the end it shall speak, and not lie; wait ior 
 it, for it will assuredly come : ibr it is by 
 faith that the just do live, and iaith gives 
 assurance tliit the Lord, the promise, the 
 king of Israel^ the Holy One, the mighty 
 
 iii. 13,18. (^od, the Rock, the Lord of Host, the glo- 
 rious Lord, and Lord in his holy temple, 
 that was from everlasting, and made the 
 mountains to tremble. I say, wait for this 
 God, for he will come and bring forth sal- 
 vation for his people. 
 
 i 5 Let the heathen, and all that will not be- 
 
 lieve this, wonder and perish ; for behold 
 it will be such a work, that the multitude 
 can in no wise believe, no not those that 
 seem the most devout, and most zealous, 
 and the most honourable. These shall all 
 wonder at the work, and perish through 
 unbelief; for it is the just that live (not by 
 reason) but by faith.
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Therefore let such as have faith wait with !*'* 
 me, and if I can see but little of this faith 
 in any, yet I will not he dismayed, though 
 the tig-tree do not blossom, &c. yet I know 
 he will come ; therefore will I rejoice, by 
 this my faith, in the God of my salvation ; 
 for this vision gives wisdom in the know- 
 ledge hereof, as the waters cover the sea. u. 14. 
 
 Thus by the testimony of the prophet 
 Habakkuk. 
 
 There is none but Christ: none but 
 Christ : no other but our God-man, Christ 
 Jesus, blessed for ever. 
 
 CHAP. XV. 
 
 Shewing how that the prophet Zephaniah's 
 doctrine was founded on God's becoming 
 flesh. 
 
 TTHE prophet (as all other prophets) 
 having to do with two sorts of people 
 in his doctrine to the elect, brings in God 
 to them as preparing a sacrifice, yet upon 
 the declaration thereof, there is a short in- 
 terruption, saying, Hold thy peace, as if he 
 should say, I see into the mystery of our 
 
 God's
 
 NONE BUT CHRI8T. 
 
 I's incarnation ; but to the end that those 
 may remain blind, that enquire not alter the 
 Lord, nor have not sought the Lord, but 
 sware by JMilchom, putting God and Belial 
 together, I am to hold my peace from being 
 too plain as let them understand. 
 
 But as ibr the elect, my poor afflicted 
 "/' people, they may perceive who it is that 
 prepares the sacrifice, and bid the guests, 
 for the Lord God of heaven will come, and 
 make a feast, and Judah shall feed there, 
 and be at rest. But such must have the 
 garment of the house, the king's livery, 
 made up of the righteousness of faith in the 
 person of a redeemer who is to come ; wait 
 for him in that garment of belief. But 
 such as come to the sacrifice shall be punish- 
 ed that are clothed with strange apparel. 
 Matt. xxii. 11. 
 
 Our God is coming, prepare for joy, and 
 when he comes, he shall famish JWilchom, 
 Belial, and all the gods of the earth, who 
 refuse our Lord and Saviour; they shall 
 have no satisfaction or comfort, but shall 
 suffer hunger in the midst of plenty; for 
 they shall have a famine of peace. 
 
 But all those that faith hath meekened, 
 he will give them not only a new robe, but 
 
 a new
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 95 
 
 a new language also; this will teach them 2Sy* '* 
 to call upon the name of the Lord in truth ; 
 when this language speaks, all other lan- 
 guages are but babble. 
 
 Now this Lord that gives this lip and UJ 
 language, is no other butChrist, arid though 
 these be his poor afflicted ones, yet they 
 are required by the prophet to sing and 
 rejoice for the coming of Christ, their king, 
 as thus, 
 
 Sing, O daughter ofSion, shout O Israel, 
 be glad and rejoice, O Jerusalem, the king 
 of Israel, even the Lord is in the midst of 
 thee; he will save, he will rejoice overthee 
 with joy, as over the lost sheep of the house 
 of Israel. 
 
 Now cloth not the prophet here exclude 
 all other Gods; therefore by the testimony 
 of this prophet Zephaniah, it is clear, it is 
 plain, it is to us certain and sure, that 
 
 There is none but Christ; none but 
 Christ ; no other God but the man Christ 
 Jesus in glory. 
 
 CHAJP
 
 w > NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 CHAP. xvr. 
 
 Shewing how that the prophet Haggai's 
 faith was founded on God's becoming 
 Jie&h. 
 
 f lPHIS prophet gives the same evidence 
 with the rest of the prophets, when 
 he comes to preach to the select seed of 
 Adam, and under the type of the first 
 temple he brings in the second, making it 
 more glorious than the first, and Zerubabel 
 was the figure of him that was to come to 
 build the house, and to lay peace in the 
 foundation in that his second temple, and 
 then would he shake the heaven of men's 
 hearts, that for sought justification by the 
 law in the worship of the first temple, as if 
 the prophet should say, those that look for 
 
 I -7- Christ, the kingdom of God, they cannot 
 be shaken, because their faith and confi- 
 dence is fixed upon him that will stand fast 
 for ever; for that kingdom cannot be 
 moved. 
 
 ve r. s. The heart of him that is strong in be- 
 
 lieving in him, shall be tilled with joy, love, 
 
 an4
 
 NONE BUT CHRlSt. 7 
 
 and peace, and this is the silver and the Sn*. 
 gold most precious, 
 
 Be strong, O Zerubabel, and Joshua, and 
 all the people of the land, that you may 
 make this temple glorious for a while, to 
 please the zealots of the law, who love a 
 glittering outward shew : but this temple 
 shall not stand for ever, though now new, 
 yet a newer will come, that is not made 
 with hands, it shall stand for ever, and be 
 filled with glory, arid when you lay the 
 head corner stone, then shout for joy, all 
 you people that see the signification of it, 
 and cry grace, grace, it is grace to the first 
 house, but grace, grace, to the second. The 
 first house, whilst building, holds a sword 
 of steel in one hand to resist the enemy 
 with, but the second house holds the sword 
 of the spirit, and this is the sword that shall 
 cut through all flesh, and shake both the 
 heavens and earth, as aforesaid. 
 
 Thus by this prophet it is as clear as the 
 light, that 
 
 There is none but CHRIST ; none but 
 CHRIST; no other God but the man CHRIST 
 JESUS our Lord. 
 
 CHAP
 
 testimony. 
 
 CHAP. XVII. 
 
 Shewing how that the prophet Zechariah's 
 faith and doctrine was pitched wholly 
 upon God's becoming flesh. 
 
 THE prophet Zachariah living at the 
 , r . * 
 
 same time as the prophet Haggai, was 
 sent with the like message concerning the 
 restoration of Jerusalem; the substance of 
 it, as to the elect, is as follows. 
 
 Be silent before all flesh (saith the pro- 
 phet) before the Lord, for he is risen up 
 out of his holy temple, being now to be 
 sent (or to come of his own free good will) 
 unto thee, O Jerusalem. Here the prophet, 
 by faith, seeing him coming, preacheth him 
 out in the manner following. 
 
 Behold the Lord, even the man whose 
 name is the branch, and he shall build the 
 temple. Therefore shew forth your joy, 
 you virgin daughter of Sion, to whom 
 knowledge and belief is given, and peace 
 is planted; for he will dwell among you, 
 and be with you ; he will build the temple, 
 and is the head-stone of it, and the stone 
 
 with
 
 BUT CHRIST. 99 
 
 with seven eyes upon it. Seven several 
 portions, divers gifts and graces, all flows J"^ 
 from this stone, Rev. xiv. 31, from this 
 rock, from this Lord that is a coining to save 
 his people, and he shall bear the glory, and 
 sit and rule upon his throne ; for there is 
 no co-partner with him, and his dominion 
 shall be from sea to sea, for that there is 
 
 V' 13 
 
 none that shareth with him. 
 
 Sing therefore, and rejoice, for the thing 
 is done, and the headstone is brought forth 9, 10 
 
 viii. 22. 
 
 with shouting, crying, grace, grace, to it, 
 Johni. 17. Rejoice, there ore, you that are 
 not yet his people by covenant. /. Pet. i. 
 2, 3, 4, when he comes he shall call the 
 Gentiles, and speak peace unto them, being 
 a priest upon his throne. 
 
 Rejoice, therefore greatly, O daughter of 
 /Siow, for behold thou hast but one king, 
 and he cometh, he cometh from amongst 
 thee as a man to save man. Luke xix. 38. 
 he is just, having salvation, lowly, and 
 riding upon an ass. Matt. xi. 28, be you 
 humble and receive him, and hold to him, 
 for he is the covenant of life, the fountain, 
 set open, and the Lord your God. 
 
 This is he that saves the house of Joseph, x 6 
 and loves Mphraim, because Ephraim has 
 
 N no
 
 100 NONE BUT CHRIST 
 
 f s a t i * a "* fe * no other God, and so makes his heart to 
 rejoice, and will cause their children to see 
 and know, that this king that comes riding 
 in such great humility to Jerusalem, is that 
 Lord God from heaven, that is coming to 
 build up Jerusalem. 
 
 Behold him, behold him, O Sion, for he 
 comes unto thee with redeeming grace ; 
 hearken, and you may hear him speak to 
 you in this wise, saying, - 
 
 I will come, and save my people, and 
 will make myself known to them, and will 
 rejoice over them, and love them freely; 
 for my love is such, as that I will lay down 
 my life for them ; for by the blood of the 
 covenant I have sent forth the prisoners, 
 even the prisoners of hope that waited 
 for me. 
 
 They hoped for me, and my promise was 
 to redeem them; they beheld my promise, 
 and now I have sealed the covenant with my 
 blood, and they are redeemed thereby. 
 
 I am valued by the wicked but at a low 
 si, 12. rate, I bade them, if they think good, give 
 me my price, and if not forbear; so they 
 weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver, 
 a goodly price was I praised at. Matt. 
 xxvii. 9. 
 
 But
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 But I being the shepherd of Israel? they 
 shall smite me, and the sheep shall be scat- 
 tered; they shall look upon me whom they xii J0 
 have pierced, and shall quake and tremble, 
 lament and howl, when after all this they 
 see me come with power and glory to give 
 reward, when I stand on mount Olivet, xiv>4 
 .Matt. xxvi. 30. There will they appre- 
 hend ; me, and there will I shew myself unto 
 them at the last day, with all my saints and 
 angels about me. . From thence shall I 
 ascend, and to that place shall I descend, 
 then will I smite all people that fight against xiT 12 
 Jerusalem. And the elect seed for whom I 
 shall die, they shall look upon me also, at 
 that day, whom their sins have pierced, 
 and shall mourn for me. 
 
 At that time will there be silence in hea- 
 ven for half an hour, Rev. viii. 1. namely, 
 for three days and a half, nothing will re- 
 joice but sin and satan, the grave and hell ; 
 but though the sheep then be scattered, 
 and the elect families do mourn, yet as soon 
 as the king of Israel is revived* they shall 
 revive. 
 
 Thus the prophet's doctrine is clear, that 
 there is no other God but he that came 
 from heaven, and took our nature upon him, 
 
 and
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 anc * so * a ^ Gown his whole life for our ran- 
 som; so that there is to be no more kings, 
 but this one Lord, and whosoever, saith 
 the prophet, worshippeth any other God, 
 shall be destroyed. 
 
 Also, saith the prophet, all the elect in 
 all nations, and families shall come, and 
 worship this king as the Lord of host, and 
 keep the feast of tabernacles yearly, and it 
 shall rain righteousness upon all that come, 
 and they shall be separated from others; 
 for no cursed Canaanites shall be amongst 
 them, all idol shepherds shall be cut off 
 that own not the shepherd, the stone of 
 Israel, to be the true God, and there is no 
 other. 
 
 This is the substance of the doctrine of 
 the kingdom of God, the king of Israel, by 
 this evangelical prophet: so that it is as 
 clear as the sun at noon-day, to any that 
 have but the least measure of true faith, 
 that by the testimony <?f the prophet Za- 
 chariah, that 
 
 There is none but Christ; none but 
 Christ ; no other God but the Lord Jesus 
 Christ, now in glory. 
 
 CHAP,
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 103 
 
 CHAP. XVIII. 
 
 Slieweth that the prophet Malachi's faith 
 and doctrine to the elect, was wholly fixed 
 upon God's becoming flesh, and so a 
 Saviour. 
 
 THE prophet Malaclii. the beginning of jwwoew* 
 testimony, 
 
 his prophesy grounds upon two seeds? 
 with rejection to the one, and election to 
 the other, most of his two first chapters 
 treats upon Esau's nature, though in carnal 
 Isaael's seed, and shews that that nature, 
 whether in Gentile or Jew, will never please 
 God, let it act forth itself in religion, or 
 any other way. 
 
 But the prophet in the other two chap- 
 ters directs his speech to the elect seed: for** UI 
 that seed being under the blessing (though 
 in captivity, darkness, and ignorance, of the 
 mind) it must have words to quicken that 
 seed as lay dead, that so it might be ca- 
 pable
 
 104 NONE BUT CHJWSf . 
 
 f it 8 blessings, which are spiritual 
 
 and eternal. 
 
 And the other seed of Israel, according 
 to its obedience or disobedience, it is met 
 withal by the prophet ; for in its obeying 
 
 sn. 10. * ne ^ aw ' ^ w ^l have the blessing of the 
 law, and if disobey the law it will have the 
 
 ji. 2, 9. 
 
 curse. 
 
 Wherefore then doth not the 'prophet 
 speak unto both seeds in the manner fol- 
 lowing; you that boast of your worship, 
 your offerings and sacrifices signify nothing, 
 your oblations are nothing; if you behold 
 
 1 * 8 - not me coming down from heaven, all your 
 
 i 11 13. building which you have set up, shall be 
 thrown down by me. 
 
 You have no offering that answers my 
 offering; you offer the blind and the lame, 
 I offer myself pure, and in all perfection. 
 See the laws of purification. Levit. xxi. 
 17,18. 
 
 " a But to return to my own people with a 
 
 spiritual covenant; for that is with you, 
 even you of the spiritual Levi, and my 
 word and command is there, which makes 
 them to give glory to my name ; for my 
 
 IT. 5. covenant is life and peace. I am he, and 
 will send my messenger before me to pre- 
 
 pare
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 105 
 
 pare my way; he shall be the messenger of J^JJ'* 
 my covenant, which is myself; you are ver<6 
 seeking for me, wait for I shall suddenly 
 come. I have hearkened and heard, how 
 that you my persecuted flock, have privately 
 met together to meditate upon my name, 
 and now when I come, I will remember 
 you : for you are in my book of remem- 
 brance, and are the jewels of me the Son of 
 righteousness, who is coming with healing 
 in his wings. Behold my messenger is at 
 hand, and he shall bear the name of Elias; 
 this Elias must come to prepare the way, 
 not in person, but in spirit, in the spirit 
 and power of Elias. I shall come before 
 him, and yet I shall send him by Elias; 
 then shall those that receive him turn to 
 me their Lord, and be blessed for evermore. 
 Amen. 
 
 This is the substance of the prophet 
 Malachi's doctrine of the one only true 
 God. 
 
 Thus we see that all the prophets of the 
 first commission do unanimously agree to- 
 gether in their doctrine of one personal God ; 
 so that by the evidence of them all as a 
 perfect witness, it is as clear as the light to 
 
 all
 
 106 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 a ^ ^ iat are appointed to eternal life by 
 Jesus Christ our Lord, that 
 
 There is none but Christ: none but 
 Christ : no other God before or besides, or 
 distinct from the Lord Jesus Christ, though 
 millions of men should gainsay it.
 
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 PART 
 
 CHA?. I. 
 
 Shewing- that all the apostles of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ do give evidence, tliat the 
 foundation of all happiness, according to 
 the prophets, lay in God's becoming flesh, 
 and that their Lord Jesus Christ was 
 that God now becoming flesli* 
 
 THE four Evangelists writings is that 
 " testimony. 
 
 spiritual sepulchre of Jesus wherein Matt - xvi - 21 - 
 lieth buried that incomprehensible mystery 
 of God's cloathing himself with flesh and 
 bone, that he might make himself capable 
 to suffer death, knowing within himself 
 that he had power to quicken again into 
 life. 
 
 o But
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 o come to their evidence, let us 
 
 testimony. 
 
 begin with Matthew, and see whether he 
 doth own any other God, but the Lord 
 Jesus only. 
 
 In his first chapter he laying down the 
 genealogy and birth of Jesus, brings it to 
 this, that Mary the virgin was round with 
 child of the Holy Ghost. And Luke saith, 
 that the virgin wife Mary was over sha- 
 dowed by the Holy Ghost, which Holy 
 Ghost was the Holy God, and from hence 
 Matthew gives him his name from the angel, 
 answerable to his nature, Jesus a Saviour 
 of his people; so that this child Jesus had 
 a people of his own, of whom he was their 
 Saviour, and lest it should be thought from 
 that his mean appearance, that he was not 
 of capacity sufficiently to save, therefore, 
 said the apostle, he is God as well as man, 
 and his name shall be called Immanuel, 
 vcr. 23. w hich by interpretation is, God with us. 
 
 Now seeing it is so, that Christ Jesus is 
 God with us, and not only so, but God with 
 us, his own people, then w r e need not fear, 
 neither need his saints seek help from any 
 other God. 
 
 Neither did the apostles believe, worship^ 
 or serve any other God or Lord at all, not- 
 withstanding
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST, 109 
 
 withstanding those several titles of Father, J2J2j 
 Son, or Holy Ghost. 
 
 But then it may be demanded how we u 12 
 are to understand those sayings of Matthew, 
 of God's forewarning the wise men in a 
 dream, and of the Father of Christ so often 
 mentioned by the apostles, as if it should 
 imply another God, or Father besides Christ. 
 Now the answer to this may serve for all 
 other places of the like nature, therefore 
 take it as follows. 
 
 Before that God became man, he per- 
 fectly foresaw all things that should be 
 done. 
 
 Therefore he spake the decree, and left 
 the virtue of his word in the hands of 
 trustees in the heavens above, the virtue of 
 which word may be called God, for there xxiv. 35. 
 is spirit and life in the word of God. John 
 vi. 63. 
 
 And because that God-head power can- 
 
 r iv. 6. 
 
 not be acted but in a personal being, there- compared 
 
 r with Psalm 
 
 fore did the Lord of heaven make Moses xci " 
 and Elias his representatives, through his 
 committing unto them his everliving word 
 before spoken unto them; which everliving 
 word before spoken was the God that 
 warned the wise men as abovesaid, and" 
 raised from the dead.
 
 110 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Sony. And that Moses and Elias had this 
 *" ^ power and authority given them, is evident, 
 and the apostle proves it from his Lord's 
 own words, chapter xxi. In that parable 
 Christ saith, that the Son of Man (meaning 
 himself) is as a man taking a far journey, 
 who left his house, and gave authority to 
 his servants. See for one of them, Rev. 
 xix, 10k 
 
 Now this Son of Man was no other but 
 God himself, who came into this far country, 
 and gave authority to his servants Moses 
 and Elias, to watch over their Lord, and 
 all other things (they being taken up 'to 
 heaven for that end and purpose) until such 
 time as their Lord was asended again. 
 ^34. This opens all those places of mention 
 
 andvi. qbejjjg made of the Father; for all such 
 ^places do either relate to the God-head 
 spirit of Christ within his blessed body, or 
 4o his own representative power, committed 
 into the hands of his deputies Moses and 
 Elias. 
 
 Observe, for further proof, when Christ 
 
 xvii. 2. 3. 
 
 was transfigured on the mount, was not 
 Moses and Elias the instruments thereof, 
 again, was it not one of them that comforted 
 him in his passion when he was to drink 
 that dreadful cup.
 
 NONE BUT CHRlSl. 
 
 Again Ellas and Moses were them two 
 
 ~ c> testimony. 
 
 angels that attended Christ's sepulchre, and " viii 3 
 rolled away the stone from thence, and 
 were instrumental to his resurrection. 
 
 Had there been any other God ftvould 
 he riot have appeared, did God appear to 
 Abraham, to Jsaac, to Jacob, to Moses, 
 and the prophets, and would he neglect 
 his son; O no, Q no! ior this Son, was 
 himself, and tjiat voice that came out of 
 the clouds, saying, This is my beloved Son, 
 proceeded either from .Moses or Ettas. 
 This minis that scripture, He shall call me 
 Father, and I will say he is my Son. Pasl. 
 Ixxxix. 26. 
 
 Moreover, where it is prophesied of that 
 Ettas should come, Christ declares by his xvii. w. 
 apostle, that John Baptist was that Elias, 
 and the faith of the scripture is, that John 
 had his commission from Elias, and so 
 came in the spirit and power of Elias. Mai. 
 iv. 5. 
 
 Furthermore, Moses and Elias, were the 
 watchers of Israel, they watched over Christ 
 in his birth, in his transfiguration, in his 
 passion, in his grave, in his resurrection, 
 and in his ascension, saying to the specta- 
 tors that saw him ascend, this -same Jesus 
 
 that
 
 112 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 *r. 
 
 that you see to ascend, you shall in like 
 
 testimony. / ' > 
 
 manner see him descend. Acts i. 11. 
 
 Much more might be said, but it is suf- 
 ficient to the seed of faith,. Now to go on 
 observe the doctrine of Jesus Christ, God 
 blessed for ever. 
 
 vii 2. 13. Come unto me, all ye that are heavy 
 laden with your sins, and under the bands 
 of a legal administration, and I will ease 
 you, and give you rest. The yoke I shall 
 lay upon you, is but to believe in me, which 
 belief is the true baptism ; that is, to receive 
 me as the Lord and Saviour; for to that 
 end I came, even to seek and to save the 
 lost sheep of the house of Israel, whose 
 righteousness is not in the law, but in 
 belief of me. 
 
 Therefore, whoever doth so far believe 
 me, as to forsake all for my sake, and cleave 
 to me as their Lord and Saviour, he shall 
 have everlasting life ; for I came to give 
 my life a ransom for my elect. I am the 
 king of Israel, and now the kingdom of 
 God is amongst you. I am the stone that 
 was prophesied of to be rejected, but shall 
 bruise them to pieces that do reject me. 
 
 But he that receives me is blessed, and 
 he that suffers for me is blessed, and he that 
 
 hungers
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. H3 
 
 hungers and thirsts after my righteousness ** 
 is blessed; I am he in whom the Gentiles \% an<l 
 
 xvi. 27. 
 
 are to trust. xia. . 
 
 The Scribes and Pharisees glory in their 31.' 
 temple : I am greater than their temple, xfJai. 
 for I am the Lord of the temple, nor their 
 sabbath is not so great as me, for I am 
 Lord of the sabbath also; yea, I am the 
 Lord of Hosts, for all the angels of heaven 
 are mine, and are to do my will when I 
 come in a Father's glory, which I had from 
 all eternity : then it will be known who I 
 am, and that the scriptures did bear witness 
 of me, and that I am he in whom the 
 Gentiles trust. 
 
 But before this day of my exaltation I xxvi. . 
 
 -,. ,, i /* xxvii. 63. 
 
 shall be betrayed into the hands 01 sinners, 
 and shall be condemned to death, but shall 
 rise again to a Father's glory, and shall 
 manifest the same, by becoming the judge 
 of quick and dead, and to give reward to 
 small and great; by this you may know 
 
 who I am. Xxi v.i4,n 
 
 And you my disciples shall bear witness 
 to me, and my name shall be preached 
 through the world, and false prophets, and 
 false preachers shall arise, and shall preach 
 my name, but it shall be but for lucre's 
 
 sake,
 
 114 NONB BUT CHHIS1. 
 
 , and honour; for my name shall be 
 M. 16, 22. common j^ m y nature and person shall 
 
 not be known amongst them. But when 
 I come to put an end to this wicked world, 
 then will I plead with them, and bid them, 
 Depart from me as workers of iniquity ; 
 and to the sheep that are at my right-hand, 
 they shall hear me say, Come ye blessed of 
 my Father (of my God-head spirit, which 
 is the everlasting Father) mheiit the king- 
 dom prepared for you before tlw foundation 
 of tlie world. 
 
 CHAP. II 
 
 Skewing that the gospel by Mark, is the 
 same with Matthew; namely, that Christ 
 Jesus is the one only and alone true Crod. 
 
 HPHE apostle begins his history with these 
 R?wkii y .' words, Tlie beginning of the gospel of 
 Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 
 
 Now this Son of God was no other but 
 God himself becoming a Son, and the 
 apostle cites Malachi the prophet to prove 
 it, saying, Behold I send my messenger to 
 prepare thy way. Now whose way was it 
 
 that
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 115 
 
 that John was sent to prepare, but the t ^ a t ^ ny 
 Lord God of heaven himself, and therefore 
 the apostle brings in John, saying, Prepare 
 the way of the Lord, who is become flesh, 
 and so a Son, and in that Son an actual 
 Redeemer, and so may be called the begin:- 
 ning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, or as 
 John calls it, the beginning of the word, 
 which word was made flesh, and was God, 
 and the Christians never had more than one 
 God, not a divided God into several persons, 
 but one personal Jesus only. 
 
 And here the gospel centres, and to 
 know Jesus is to know the gospel, and the 
 coining of him in the flesh is the beginning 
 of the gospel ; the knowledge and belief of 
 which, is eternal salvation : and there is 
 no knowing of God savingly, but in Jesus 
 Christ; for peace and salvation is spoke to 
 us only in the name of Jesus. 
 
 The apostle in his history of his gospel, 
 brings in his messenger, John Baptist, 
 preparing the way of the Lord, and he 
 makes his doctrine with the other apostles 
 to this effect following. 
 
 Now is coming the day of salvation, the chap ' 7 
 kingdom of God (which is Christ) is at 
 hand, which is the coming in of life and 
 p salvation,
 
 BUT CHRIST. 
 
 salvation, being glad tidings of gospel love, 
 I come before to give notice hereof, and 
 to prepare the way of the Lord God. 
 
 T baptize you with a preparative baptism 
 of water. I have but the shadow, he hath 
 the substance, even the water of the life 
 eternal, which gives peace; this is his 
 baptism that cleanseth from sin, and giveth 
 life. John i. 29. 
 
 You are all hasty to come to my baptism, 
 if that would serve you, you would be all 
 saved ; if you will be saved, then shew 
 your fruits of faith, and go to him and be 
 cleansed, for my baptism doth but prepare 
 for this; for after I have delivered my mes- 
 sage, mine must decrease, but his spiritual 
 baptism must increase. My baptism is but 
 to shew you where life and salvation is to 
 be had; therefore behold the lamb of God 
 which taheth away the sins of the world. 
 This none can do, but this lamb of God, 
 which is God. .Matt. iii. 2. 
 
 I am not so great as you take me to be, 
 being the least in the kingdom of God, 
 being the concluder of the law, and the 
 forerunner of the gospel, even the Lord, 
 who is mighty, and then I, whose shoe 
 lachet I am not worthy to unloose, for he 
 
 was
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 117 
 
 was before me; therefore all that will not f^mony 
 yield to him, and receive him as their Lord 
 and Saviour, shall be cut down as with a 
 hatchet, and to sutler a fiery vengeance of 
 an eternal wrath. 
 
 Again, this evangelist doth proye from . 5, n. 
 the mighty miracles done by Christ, and 
 the manner of the doing of them, that he i*. 25. 
 was God as well as man, anc} not only so, 
 but Mark, and the other apostles t}o clearly 
 demonstrate, that he did it splely from his 
 
 viii 19,34,41 
 
 own God-head power, as also what miracles * 39. 
 soever were wrought by them, was all tlque 
 by his name and power. 
 
 Observe the power of Christ; tor by vi} 34 
 three sentences he cures three persons of 
 their several diseases; as thus, 1st. Bethou^.u. 
 clean. 2nd, Be thou opened. 3rd, I say 
 unto thee, Damsel arise. Now the word 
 being spoken, the work was done. The 
 curse of the fig-tree was in these words, 
 never, no man eat fruit of thee hereafter, 
 and the fig-tree immediately withered. 
 Christ by one word speaking, rebuked the 
 wind and the sea, by saying, Be still. 
 
 All this is evident proof that Christ is 
 not only God, but that there is none dis- 
 tinct from him ; for he calls to no God or 
 
 Father
 
 118 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Smony Father without him; but his own word is 
 his own work. 
 
 And the miracles that were wrought by 
 the apostles were all wrought in his name : 
 therefore, said Christ, In my name you 
 shall cast out devils, fyc. and John saith, 
 that life is in his name, chap. xx. 31, and 
 Christ said, that they were to ask life in his 
 name: what was that, but to ask life of 
 God in that name and person of Jesus? 
 Jesus Christ being that God that is the 
 giver of life and salvation ; and therefore 
 said Peter, there is no other name under 
 heaven whereby salvation can be had, but 
 in the name, power, and merit of Jesus, 
 These three words comprise all, and make 
 good that prayer of Christ, saying, Father, 
 glorify thy name, John xii. 28, which how 
 that is, Christ himself shews in his other 
 prayer, John xvii. 5. Glorify me (saith he) 
 with thine own self, with the same glory I 
 had with thee before the world was. 
 
 So that it is clear and evident, that Christ 
 was God himself, only his God-head was 
 eclipsed in Manhood for a moment ; but 
 this Godhead and Manhood in that single 
 person of Christ, was that name that was 
 to possess a father's glory, and was that 
 
 name
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 119 
 
 name the apostle said was above every ^Jj* 
 name, and to that name Jesus or Christ, 
 every knee shall bow, as well in heaven as 
 in earth. Phil. ii. 9, 10, and it is written 
 upon that body of flesh and bone, the name 
 of King of kings and Lord of lords. Hev. 
 xix. 16. 
 
 But further, mind how this apostle Mark 
 brings in his Lord and Master, as Matthew 
 did, speaking in this wise, saying, 
 
 The kingdom of God is at hand, the 
 gospel is come unto you, which bringeth i. is, 45. 
 life and salvation; \ am he which am 
 come tq preach life and salvation. I am 
 the way, the truth, and the life, and that 
 one good God that will give my life for a 
 ransom. 
 
 All that do believe in me are blessed, for 
 their faith in me shall make them whole, 
 and whoever shall lose his life for my sake, 
 shall find it again, and whoever gives any 
 thing for my sake, shall not lose his re- 
 ward; for life and salvation is mine to give. 
 Therefore believe in me, and you have 
 faith in God; for I will lay down my lhe xi22 
 for you, for I am to be killed, but shall 
 rise again in three days; for I am that stone 
 which the builders and teachers of the law 
 
 reject,
 
 120 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Mark's reject, but have you faith in me, and it will 
 
 testimony. J / 
 
 *j ^ remove mountains. He therefore, that is 
 baptized through belief of me, shall be 
 saved : for belief is the baptism of the holy 
 Spirit. 
 
 But he that believeth not shall be 
 xvi. IB, 19. damned, none can deliver out of my hand, 
 when at the right-hand of all power, be- 
 cause all power will be mine. Heb. viij. 1. 
 and xiii. and xii. 2. 
 
 Salvation and damnation are both in my 
 power. 
 
 This is now the substance of the gospel 
 by .St. Jlfark, who bears witness. 
 
 That there is none but Christ; none but 
 Christ ; no other God but our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, now in glory. 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 Shewing that the gospel by St. Luke is the 
 same with Matthew and Mark, proving 
 the Lord Jesus Christ to be the one only 
 and alone true God. 
 
 Luts* f^JT. LUKE in his first chapter, treating of 
 
 testimony. K^ 
 
 ch.i.35. the birth of Jesus, brings in the angel 
 
 Gabriel, giving testimony, that that child 
 
 Jesus,
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 121 
 
 % 
 
 Jesus, was God manifested in flesh, there- jj* 
 tore calls him the just, and the holy thing, 
 and that his kingdom should be an ever- 
 lasting kingdom, nevertheless he should be ' 
 called the Son of God. 
 
 Had the angel said he should be called 
 God, the word could not have born it, 
 although Isaiah said he should be called 
 the mighty God, but that was not to be till 
 this last age, as that the mystery of God 
 should be finished. 
 
 Again, Luke tell us, that Elizabeth by 4S 
 revelation did declare, that the babe that 
 then was in the womb of the virgin Mary, 
 was no other but God, saying in her saluta- 
 tion, Jftlessed art thou amongst women, and 
 blessed is the fruit of thy womb, and whence 
 is this to me, that the mother of my Lord 
 should come to me. 
 
 Again, Luke did declare, that the virgin, ver as, 4. 
 through revelation, at that instant did 
 know, that that holy thing that had entered 
 her womb, was God ; for she gave God-head 
 glory to that babe within her, saying, My 
 $oul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit 
 rejoiceth in God my Saviour. 
 
 At this blessed conception of the virgin, 
 Zacharias being filled with the gift of the 
 
 Holy
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Hol y Ghost > 8 ave a11 the g lor y to 
 child Jesus, saying, Blessed be the Lord 
 
 God of Israel, for he hath visited and re- 
 deemed his people? which is as much as if 
 he should say, 
 
 Now is the promise made good, the Lord 
 God is come from heaven to visit us, and 
 
 i69>74 > 75 - being the horn of salvation will redeem 
 us, being the light sprung from heaven to 
 give light of salvation ; and thou, child of 
 mine, which is now born unto me, shalt 
 be called prophet of the highest, who is 
 not yet born, but in the womb of a woman, 
 springing up from a virgin of the seed of 
 David, thou art to prepare the way before 
 the face of the highest, even that babe which 
 is the high and mighty God. 
 
 No sooner was this blessed babe born, 
 but an infinite number of angels came down 
 
 if. 13. ^0 celebrate the Lord's nativity with songs 
 of joy, to set forth their inexpressible love 
 to the seed of Adam. 
 
 When old Simeon took the child Jesus 
 
 ii. 28. in his arms, and blessed him, then did he 
 bless God that had blessed him ; for he- 
 saw, by faith, that the child Jesus was God, 
 otherwise he could not be the light of the 
 Gentiles, nor the glory of his people Israel, 
 
 Now
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 123 
 
 Now Israel was forbid to glory in any but 
 God, because God would retain his glory 
 to himself, but this blessed babe was that 
 blessed God that Israel was to glory in.' 
 Isa. xlii. 8. 
 
 Luke saith further, that the grace of God 
 was upon Jesus, and that he increased in 
 wisdom and stature, and in favour with 
 God and man. 
 
 Now Jesus must needs have the grace 
 of God upon him, seeing he was God, and 
 so he had the gifts and graces of God above 
 measure. John iii. 34. Christ may well 
 be said to increase in the favour of God ; 
 is it any other, but that he increased in 
 strength and God-head, power, grace, and 
 virtue, &c. 
 
 Now behold the doctrine of Jesus testi-^ 
 fied of by Luke to be in the manner 
 following. 
 
 John Baptist's disciples came to Jesus. 
 saying, Art thou he that shall come, or shall 
 we look for another? 
 
 Jesus said unto them, (having cured se- 7ii 20 
 veral diseases at that time) Go and tell John 
 what you have seen and heard. 
 
 1. Tell John that the blind do see. Isa, 
 xxxv. 6, therefore I am he. 
 
 Q 3, Tell
 
 124 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Sumonr 2. Tell Jo/i/i the lame walk, therefore 
 I am he. Matt. xv. 30. 
 
 3. Tell John the lepers are cleansed, the 
 deaf hear, and the dead are raised, therefore 
 I am he. 
 
 4. Tell John the poor have the gospel 
 preached, and that they are blessed that 
 are not offended with me. 
 
 5. I am he that Isaiah speaks of, and 
 the prophets speak of: tell John I am he, 
 the first and last: I am he. 
 
 6. I am come, and done such works as 
 never man could do, therefore I am he, 
 and tell John I am he, and he knows I am 
 he, and witnesses to it. 
 
 Jesus, having preached thus to Johns 
 
 X. 1) *j Oj lo* 
 
 disciples and the multitude, turns his dis- 
 course to his own disciples, sending forth 
 seventy of them, speaking to this effect: 
 
 Pray you that the lord of the harvest 
 would send forth labourers into his harvest. 
 Now I am he that am the Lord of the 
 harvest, and I send you. Go your ways, 
 'tis I that -send you. I am your Lord, set 
 forth my name; he that despiseth you des- 
 piseth me, and him that despiseth me, des- 
 piseth my Father or God-head spirit, and 
 so sins against the Holy Ghost, being the 
 
 spirit 

 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 125 
 
 spirit of true prophesy, and so shall be mj 
 damned to all eternity. 
 
 Therefore tread on these serpents that x>19 
 blaspheme, and in that you find my words" 
 to be true, and the devils are subject to you 
 through my name, yet rejoice not so much 
 in that, as in that your names are written 
 in heaven, and that the mystery of the 
 gospel is revealed to you. 
 
 Therefore I am thankful to the God-head 
 spirit, who at this instant springeth up, 
 and maketh me to rejoice, seeing he hath 
 hid these things from the learned, and xe- 
 vealed them to babes. 
 
 Wherefore he that learns from me the 
 mystery of the gospel will have cause to 
 rejoice, and will know the Father, but 
 there can be no knowing of me but by the 
 Holy Ghost. 
 
 I cannot declare to you so much now as xii. 12. 
 
 T i / i -1-1 xx * v 4 ^> 5) 
 
 when 1 am in the glory or the rather, then 53. 
 will I send the Holy Ghost. Therefore, 
 you my apostles, wait till then, and tarry 
 at Jerusalem, until you be indued with 
 power from on high; for when I am 
 ascended and glorified, it shall be done, 
 and all things needful to be known shall 
 come into your remembrance, then shaM 
 
 my
 
 126 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 m y Blessing take effect upon yon, and you 
 shall worship me as your Lord and God. 
 Amen. So it shall be. 
 
 This is the substance of the gospel by 
 St. Luke, who bears witness that according 
 to the doctrine now stated, 
 
 That there is none but Christ; none but 
 Christ ; no other God but our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, now in glory. 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 Shewing- that the gospel by John, Jiis three 
 Epistles, and his Revelations wrote in 
 Patmos, is the same with Matthew, Mark, 
 and Luke, proving- clearly, and much 
 more abundantly the divinity of Christ, 
 and that he is the one only and alone true 
 God, in a body of flesh and bone, now 
 in heaven glorified. 
 
 SECT. I. 
 John'* 9 fESUS Christ is most clearly proved 
 
 testimony. *^ . 
 
 iii.13. to be the only true God in these six 
 
 insuring dotrines following, 
 ch.i 14. First, Jesus Christ is said to come from 
 
 heaven, arid that he is above all, and that 
 
 his
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 127 
 
 his glory was wrapt up in mortal flesh, ^f m * on 
 nevertheless, the apostle saith, he is above i ; i 5 2 3 and 
 all, now being ascended; coming down only 
 to give life unto the elect world. 
 
 Now Christ being above all, and his xiv 14 and 
 name above every name in heaven and ! 3 2 i 4 ' and 
 earth, where then must there be a God 
 above him. 
 
 Secondly, The apostle saith, that this 
 God became man, by taking flesh upon him. * 
 God was made flesh (saith he) and we be- 
 held his glory as a son from a father. 
 
 Now, if there never was but one God, i Johniv.2. 
 
 Q 
 
 then it must needs be that God made or 
 begot himself into a son ; so that God is 
 Christ come in the flesh, and he that so 
 believes, is of God; but, saith John, there 
 are deceivers gone out, that deny this doc- 
 trine of God coming in the flesh, they are 
 of Anti-christ. 
 
 As if he should say, in the latter times i. John u. is. 
 false prophets shall go out of the true doc- 
 trine delivered by us, and shall seduce n. John vii 
 many; they shall hold forth another Christ, 
 for they will have a Christ without flesh or 
 a body, or person of his own, and a Father* 
 God that hath no body. 
 
 But you that have the unction, will own 
 
 that
 
 128 NOXE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 ^at Christ came in the flesh, and then you 
 
 , have God in tliat flesh - and the Father in 
 ;'/*4 d that Son; and so he is God become flesh 
 and bone, in a real body of his own, in 
 which his whole name is written, and is 
 read by the spirit. 
 
 TIlii : dly Christ by his becoming flesh, 
 a. and suffering* death in that flesh, became 
 the author of eternal life to those that be- 
 lieve him, and of damnation to those that 
 reject him: therefore, said John, he that 
 believeth on the Son is not condemned, 
 but he that believeth not, is condemned 
 already. 
 
 v 
 
 And the Lord that is this Son, saith thus, 
 
 in the authority of a God, he that believeth 
 
 x 10. in me hath everlasting life, and if he were 
 
 John v. 39. 
 
 viii.28,58. dead, yet will I raise him at the last day; 
 for I am the resurrection and the life; but 
 such as will not receive me, shall die in 
 their sins, and be raised again by me to be 
 damned. You seed of the serpent, you ask 
 who I am, when you have lift np the Son 
 of Man, then you shall know to your sor- 
 row who I am, and that I was before Abra- 
 
 fnd i. 1 !.' ham, and the I am that spake to Moses. 
 
 iii. 7. and By this it is clear that there is no God 
 but Christ, who hath both life and death 
 
 in
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 129 
 
 in his hands, and the keys of David, and 
 sword with two edges, and is judge of quick 
 and dead, as now follows. 
 
 Fourthly, All power is Christ's being 
 
 v. 42. 
 
 Ti. 63. 
 
 judge of quick and dead. Do you mur- 
 mur, said Christ, because I make myself 
 equal with God? know further, that as the 
 Father raiseth the dead, and quickeneth 
 them, even so the Son quickeneth whom 
 he will. 
 
 Here now is Father-hood and Son-ship John v 22 
 
 r Rev. xix. 16 
 
 in an equal power, who must we cleave to 
 as Lord over us ? must it not be the Son, 
 yea, for the next words makes the Son 
 sole Lord and whole judge; whereby it is 
 clear, that the Son in his deity doth ever 
 comprise the Father, and, therefore, said 
 Christ, the Father judgeth no man, but 
 hath committed all judgment to the Son 
 to the end that all men may honour the 
 Son with the same honour as was due to 
 the Father. 
 
 Here it is clear, that Father and Son are 
 one personal being, who then after the sight 
 hereof, will be so bold as to say they are 
 .two persons distinct from each other. 
 
 When Jesus Christ, the Son, is upon his 
 throne, as judge of all. when then sits the 
 
 Father,
 
 130 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 joMt Father, certainly it is so. that one throne 
 
 testimony. 9 
 
 serves one personal God-man Christ Jesus, 
 now in heaven glorified, and one faith hath 
 but that one Lord of a single person, as it? 
 object to pitch upon. 
 
 Fifthly, Christ Jesus is said by John to 
 be Creator as well as Redeemer In the 
 
 S *jj s- beginning was the word, which was Jesus 
 
 Rev.iv. 11. Christ, and by Jesus Christ was every thing 
 made that was made, so Paul declares the 
 same. Eph. ii, 10. Heb. i. 2. Eph. iii. 9. 
 Phil. iii. 21. Coli. 16. 
 
 It is further said, that he made the 
 
 1 10 world, though the world knew him not ; 
 where then is there a Creator distinct from 
 the Redeemer, and where is there a Father 
 now but in that Son. 
 
 Sixthly, and lastly, The apostle, though 
 he speaks much of the Father, yet his po- 
 
 x 30 and sitive sayings centres in the Son, and proves 
 that whosoever hath the Son, hath the 
 Father. Therefore, said Christ, I and the 
 Father are one, not two persons, but one 
 personal glory; and when Philip desired 
 Christ to shew them the Father, he told 
 him that they that saw him saw the Father, 
 and that the Father was in him, all power 
 was his, and all in his hand. 
 
 Again,
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 131 
 
 Again, the apostle in his epistle, though 
 he speaks of the Father's sending the Son* 
 yet nevertheless this Son is owned by him n.'j 2 hn 9 . 
 to be the Father himself therefore called 
 the eternal life which was with the Father; 
 what is that, but that he is the Father of 
 eternal life himself? tor, saith he, Abide in 
 him, that was from the beginning, what 
 was this abiding in him, but their believing 
 him to be God ; for, saith John, he that 
 abides in the doctrine of Christ, hath both 
 the Father and the Son. 
 
 Again, saith John, Abide in him (not in 1 Johnii 27 
 them;) now this him was Jesus, as the next 
 words shew, saying, that when he shall 
 appear, we may have confidence. Again, 
 saith John, Behold what manner of love 
 the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we 
 should be called the sons of God. 
 
 Now this Father and God is all com- 
 prised in the person of Christ, as the next 
 verse shews, savin ff, and now are we the, 
 
 J ' I.Johuiii. 2 
 
 sons of God, and we know that when he 
 shall appear, (namely Christ, that God) we 
 shall be like him, for we shall see him as 
 he is (not as he is in reason's account, but 
 as he is in faith's account) one personal 
 God, and under the title of Christ or Son, 
 R shall
 
 J32 NONE BUT CHRIST 
 
 t>sti"mony shall be very God and eternal life; all other 
 
 v21 God's are idols. 
 
 Therefore abide in Christ, stick close to 
 that name, for the Father is there, salvation 
 and eternal life is there. He that brings 
 not this doctrine^ receive him not, nor bid 
 him God -speed, for he is an antichrist that 
 clenieth Christ to be God become flesh, and 
 Father to become a Son ; so that to have 
 that Son is to have the Father, and there is 
 the God-speed and blessing, 
 
 SECT. II. 
 
 I must still follow the evangelist, be- 
 cause he follows none but the Lamb, nor 
 owns no God but he, if we but see into 
 the spirit and life of his words, and to my 
 faith and light, he speaks in this manner 
 following. 
 
 Hearken to our message which we have 
 >i8. received from him that was from the be- 
 
 ii. 27, and 
 
 iii.2. ginning, which is, which was, and which 
 is to come ; the Almighty, even Jesus 
 Christ. Our fellowship is with the Father, 
 and with the Son, (not with them as two, 
 but with him) with him that is both Father 
 and Son ; if you own this Son to be your 
 
 God, you want not the Father, 
 
 We
 
 NOiNE BUT CHRIST. 133 
 
 We know that the Son of God is come, 
 and this is he that is now come by blood* 
 who came before by water, and we bear 
 witness to this blood, and that he is God 
 under the title of Son, and the spirit that 
 not only assisteth us, but cometh after as 
 a witness itself, and is truth, doth and will 
 bear record unto the truth of Christ, being 
 God, and are to finish this mystery of God, 
 ami in the days of the voice of the seventh 
 angel, when he shall begin to sound, then 
 shall the third witness or record come forth 
 to finish the mystery of God, which when 
 it comes it will declare its message as we 
 have declared ours. 
 
 But in the sounding of all these coun- 
 terfeit angels, truth will be trode under 
 foot, for the letter of our declarations will 
 be given unto the Gentiles, and they shall 
 make merchandize of it, after they have put 
 us true ministers to death, an df they will 
 get riches and honour by their ministry of 
 the letter, and they will teach a false god, 
 a false devil, a false heaven, and a false 
 hell, and no true faith will appear. 
 
 But when the third record comes in, 
 then will the spirit of life from God enter 
 into the letter of our declarations (which 
 
 will
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 be as a dead body) and make it for to 
 Hev.xx. 5. stan( j up 0n its feet by a lively interpretation 
 thereof, and the true believers under that 
 witness, will be the dead men that shall 
 not live again, until the thousand years be 
 finished and more, and then shall truth 
 appear again upon the earth to complete 
 true prophesy, in a full witness to that re- 
 cord in heaven, of Father, Son, and Holy 
 30,21. Ghost, being one Lord Jesus Christ. All 
 other gods are idols. Amen. 
 
 Let the sober peruse the scriptures in the 
 margin and see whether the apostle speaks 
 not in this sense abovesaid. 
 johnxvii.3. This apostle John sets forth the idory of 
 
 Rev.xix. 6, f 
 
 17, and i. s, hi s Lord with crreat splendor. No greater 
 
 and xxi. 6, r 
 
 16 > * titles of honour and dienity, name and re- 
 
 John 1.1. ~ ' 
 
 jbhnl' 20 nown was ever ty tne prophets attributed 
 Rev " to Jehovah in the law, than John doth to 
 Jesus in the gospel, calling him the true 
 God, the great God, the very God, the 
 almighty God, the Alpha and Omega, the 
 first and the last, the King of Kings, and 
 Lord of Lords, and Creator of the Worlds, 
 and that he hath the keys of David, and 
 the sword with two edges, and had the 
 seven stars in his right hand, and that he 
 searcheth the hearts and reins of all men, 
 
 and
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 136 
 
 and sitteth upon his throne alone, whose 
 eyes are as a flame of fire, and feet like 
 burning brass, and his voice as the sounding 
 of many waters, and his countenance as the 
 sun; for the kingdom of heaven hath no 
 need of the sun, for the Lord God, which xx u 23. 
 is the Lamb is the light thereof, and that 
 shining body from that spark of fiery faith, 
 illuminates all things; for I saw his person, 
 and witness to him. 
 
 Thus we see that this beloved apostle, 
 who leaned upon Jesus' s breast, and sucked 
 revelation there, being more conversant in 
 divine secrets than any other apostle, did 
 own no other God but Jesus Christ his Lord. 
 Therefore by the testimony of John, with 
 Matthew, Mark, and Luke, it is as clear 
 as the light, that according as the doctrine 
 is stated now in this last stage, and under 
 this record prophesied of by St. John, to 
 the finishing of that mystery that hath 
 been hid from ages, 
 
 That there is none but Christ; none but 
 Christ ; no other God or Father, but our 
 Lord Jesus Christ, now in glory. 
 
 CHAP.
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST 
 
 CHAP. V. 
 
 Shewing that Paul's doctrine is the same 
 with the rest of the apostles, proving 
 clearly to all that have faith in his doc- 
 trine, and the knowledge of discerning 
 given, that the Lord Jesus Christ is the 
 God become flesh, and is the one only and 
 alone true God, and everlasting Father. 
 
 /4 LTHOUGH Paul doth in several places 
 
 testimony, arm. 
 
 Rom. 1.1. make mention of the father of our 
 
 I. Cor. i. 1. 
 
 ii cor i. i. Lord Jesus Christ, as the rest of the apostles 
 
 and Gal. i. 
 
 1,12,15. do, because their commission was but the 
 commission of blood, and so must render 
 Christ as a son, yet nevertheless Paul 
 owned no other God or Father, but what 
 lived and reigned essentially in Jesus, as 
 will appear in the following discourse. 
 
 Paul doth declare in each of his epistles, 
 that he is the apostle of Jesus Christ, and 
 1? that he had not his commission from man, 
 or by man, but by the Lord Jesus Christ 
 himself, then in heaven glorified; for no 
 God ever appeared or spoke to Paul but 
 
 Jesus
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 137 
 
 Paul ' 
 testimony- 
 
 Jesus only ; and although Paul doth say, pauVs 
 
 that he is an apostle o* Jesus Christ, and 
 of God the Father, yet this God the Father 
 was no other but that powerful voice out 
 of the blessed mouth of that glorious Jesus, 
 which said, Saul, Saul, why persecutest 
 thou me, I have made him a chosen vessel 
 to declare my name. In these words was 
 the God and Father manifested. 
 
 So that Paul's commission from God the 
 Father, was through the mouth of Jesus 
 Christ, and the life and virtue of those 
 words in Paul, was the Holy Ghot, or the 
 gift of the Holy Ghost, which impowered n. cor. m. 
 him to be an able minister, to set forth, 
 and preach the name of Jesus Christ, as 
 Lord and Saviour. 
 
 Again, if Paul saith in some places, that 
 
 Rom. viii. 3 
 
 God sent his Son, and grave his Son in Ga !. iv ; 4 
 
 and i. 4 
 
 other places, he saith that Christ gave him- ^ T'IU'W' 
 self: so let this last word stand as positive H^V 4 
 for the only God, to those that now look 
 for salvation by Christ; and it is but as to 
 say as the prophet Isaiah had said, being 
 no intercessor I became the intercessor my- 
 self, and so said this Lord God, when he 
 was come, / lay down my life of myself; 
 I have power to lay it down of myself, and 
 
 have
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 power to take it up of my self. See 
 Isa. lix. 16, and Ixiii. 5. 
 
 Heb.vii.46. F r this is Paul's doctrine, God became 
 
 Sd/Hi.zo. man an d so an advocate, whicli could not 
 be, unless the Godhead was in him; for 
 man without God, could not be an advocate, 
 because no man is pure, but each defiled ; 
 but that which can be without spot is ca- 
 pable to be an intercessor. 
 
 Therefore it was that the apostle said, 
 x>r ' Tl5 that God was in Christ, reconciling the 
 elect world unto himself, and lest it should 
 be thought, that God should be in Christ 
 but in part, or by an influential light, as 
 in others, therefore, said Paul, the whole 
 
 ,oi.u.9. God-head lived in Christ bodily, or per- 
 sonally, then it will follow, that God lives 
 wholly in Christ, and from hence these two 
 doctrines are clear. 
 
 Phii.ii i. First, That God is not bodiless, but hath 
 
 Heb x. 5. . , i i i i i 
 
 a body to live in, and that body is the body 
 of Christ, which body was, and now is, the 
 eternal Son of God. 
 
 Secondly, Where Christ is, there God is; 
 for if the God-head be wholly in him, then 
 is Christ whole God, and then there will 
 be no Father to send a Son, but that Son 
 which is himself, his divine God-head spirit 
 being the everlasting Father.
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 139 
 
 Again, if Christ had not been the alone 
 
 true God, Paul dould not have said that Acts xx 28 
 he purchased the church with his blood ; 
 arid further, the apostle said, that he pur- 
 chased it to himself, who then are they to 
 worship but Christ? Surely it is God in 
 Christ, and not God without Christ that 
 the saints do worship. 
 
 Did Paul ever preach any other God Actsxvi>31 
 but Christ, witness that to the goaler, yet 
 this faith was judged heresy; but said Paul, 
 that which you call heresy, so worship I 
 the God of my fathers ; which God was no 
 other but Christ. Therefore, said Paul, 
 speaking of election and the promise, 
 meaning Christ, of whose are the fathers, 
 and of whom concerning the flesh (that is 
 bodily flesh) Christ came, who is God blessed 
 for ever. Amen. 
 
 Here Paul shews that Christ was God 
 over all, and puts an Amen to it ; what can 
 be more plain ? Nay, so great was his love 
 to Jesus, that he mentions his name a 
 matter of seven times in one chapter. 
 
 And doth not his doctrine arise to that i c r v "> s. 
 
 and xvi. 22. 
 
 pitch, as to bless all such as believe in, and E P h vi 
 love the Lord Jesus, and to curse all such 
 as love not the Lord Jesus in sincerity and 
 * truth,
 
 140 NONE BUT CHRIST 
 
 Sumony truth, and is not his faith and doctrine 
 
 phiuii 22 '?. according as hereafter follows. 
 
 phu.'w. 5 Walk so as you have us for an example, 
 
 fi A 
 
 c'ai.ii. for I must tell you, that I live by faith of 
 him who loved me, and gave himself lor 
 me, being God over all. 
 
 Now would I be found in his righteous- 
 ness : before I knew him I was for my own 
 righteousness, as if I could perform the 
 law, but now it is the Lord Jesus Christ 
 that I fix upon for eternal life, and count 
 every thing but dung and dog's-meat that 
 I may win Christ. Nothing relishes but 
 Christ, nothing pleases but Christ, nor sa- 
 
 i cor. i so. tisties but Christ ; for he is righteousness, 
 justification, wisdom, and sanctification ; 
 yea, all in all to me. 
 
 So that the only knowledge I press after, 
 
 2 ' is to know Christ in his mighty power, as 
 
 to live and die, and to live again; for he 
 
 being risen and ascended to the right-hand 
 
 of all power, which is a Father's glory. 
 
 Therefore I now look for him, accord- 
 ing to his promise, from heaven, to raise 
 the dead, that died in the faith of him; 
 for if he had not died and rose aoain, the 
 
 I. Cor.XF. 
 
 J 7 ^ 8 ', 20 : dead would never have been raised, then 
 
 I. Thefs. IT. 
 
 14 had it been well for the wicked, but mi- 
 
 serable
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 141 
 
 serable for us that suffer for righteousness 
 of believing in him. Bat behold our Lord L 
 is risen, and so is the first fruits of those Heb'. ix.'s'e. 
 that sleep in him ; and as surely as he is 
 risen, so as surely he will raise all his saints 
 that did believe in him, to receive with him 
 the glory prepared . Therefore look for this 
 Lord Jesus Christ from heaven, and look 
 for him only, and for no other God. 
 
 But you must wait with patience a " J^d'a, 3 
 while; for before this be, there will be an/Tim-ia. 5, 
 falling away from this faith, which we aid iv. 3. 
 preach to you, and they will teach another llpl>15 ' 
 gospel : leaving the simplicity of Christ, 
 they will make a shew of faith, and of 
 Christ, but it shall be but in contention 
 and strife. Therefore seeing they will de- 
 part from the faith of Jesus (seated on his 
 throne in the highest heavens by his per- 
 son, and in the lowest hearts by faith) he 
 will depart from them, and will according 
 to the desire of their corrupt minds, will 
 send them strong delusions. 
 
 Then shall iniquity abound, and false 2 -n^ iL 7 
 teachers in a mystery, and all great wis- Siu"^ 9 . 
 dom, and fleshly learning must handle the I Tim. X. & 
 matter, to delude the simple, and presently 
 after, the man of sin, or last great anti- 
 christ,
 
 J42 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Snony. hrist, shall be revealed ; but in those days 
 there shall be a cail again, ior (he Jews 
 shall be called to the knowledge of our 
 Lord Jesus, and revelation, faith, and 
 knowledge in the mystery of godliness shall 
 
 Kom.xi.25. arise, and fight again with the mystery of 
 iniquity, and shall strike at the man or sin 
 with the breath of God in that revelation 
 aforesaid. 
 
 2Thess. a. Therefore look not for the coming of the 
 
 andiii 2,3. Lord till those things be fulfilled, yet keep 
 
 and2Th.i. , V 
 
 7,8.. your watch, and stand you last, that we 
 
 2Thess.ii. J 
 
 10. may rejoice with you at that day, and then 
 
 shall they have the revelation of his wrath, 
 that had not the revelation of faith in his 
 person, in that their day. 
 
 But as for you, that admitted tire faith 
 
 2Thes.i.io. o f t ne oppression of God, when lie conies 
 in his glory, he shall be admired by you ; 
 for you will admire at the glory and sun- 
 shiny brightness of his blessed person; and 
 you shall admire at his love and joy in 
 
 phii.jii.2i, you, as to make your persons like unto his 
 
 i cor.viu.6. own glorious person ; for he hath a person 
 of his own, equal with God, without rob- 
 bery. 
 
 Again, Paul writing to Timothy, having 
 in his epistle to him, set forth all grace^ 
 
 mercy,
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 143 
 
 mercy, and peace, from Jesus Christ his SSj^ y . 
 Lord, afterwards ascribes all glory and 
 honour unto Je?us Christ, calling him king 
 eternal, immortal, invisible, and the only l 
 wise God; and concludes it, that all honour 
 may be done to him, saying, To him be hon- 
 our and glory, for ever and ever. Amen. 
 Here Paul instructed! Timothy where and 
 who the Father is : even in the person of 
 Jesus, is God and Father, lord and king, 
 grace, mercy, and peace, life, and glory, 
 and that for everlasting. 
 
 Paul lavs Timothy a foundation, and 
 
 * iTim. iii. 15. 
 
 would have Timothy to build thereon, i* . 
 
 *s and i. 2. 
 
 being the pillar and ground of truth, the 
 mystery of godliness ; no God but what is 
 in Jesus, no God but the Lord Jesus, and 
 no Father to ascribe glory to, that is distinct 
 from the Son. 
 
 Wherefore then, the substance of Paul's 
 foundation doctrine to Timothy runs thus: 
 
 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: 1Tim . 
 I greet thee well, as an apostle of Jesus xii 17 
 Christ, and by his commandment which is 
 my hope, my trust, and my lord. The 
 good thing, by me given thee, make use 2Timi>14 
 of, even faith, which is wrought in thee 
 and given thee by the laying on of my 
 
 hands,
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 hands, as I am ordained a preacher in verity 
 i^.viJo and truth, as it is in Jesus; so have I or- 
 uiTflLii j!? dained thee : I charge thee therefore, beibre 
 2 T?mMv 21 Jesus Christ my lord, that thou observe 
 tiBd i, Hlv commaiK |, nen t. Be strong in the grace 
 J, is l that is in Jesus, and hold fast the form of 
 s, i sound words, which lies all in Jesus Christ, 
 from which many shall swerve, and are 
 already gone. 
 
 But the true faith, life, and doctrine, I 
 have declared to thee; therefore let thy 
 prophesying appear, and be not ashamed 
 of the truth. 
 
 For in this Jesus have I believed and 
 taught to be lord and saviour; and let none 
 trouble me henceforward; for I know in 
 whom I have believed ; I am the apostle 
 of Jesus Christ; this is my authority, my 
 answer to all that oppose me is, I know in 
 whom I have believed, even in Jesus Christ. 
 Let this stand as a bulwark or foundation. 
 Therefore, O Timothy, observe my doc- 
 trine, and build upon these twelve articles 
 of my faith, which I will here lay before thee. 
 iTim.ii.3. 1. I believe that Jesus Christ is God 
 
 manifested in flesh. 
 
 2 Tim. i. 10. 2. I believe that Jesus hath abolished 
 death, and brought eternal life. 
 
 3.1
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST, 
 
 3. I believe that Jesus Christ is oar God 
 
 and Saviour, hope and trust. 1-nm.a.w. 
 
 4. I believe that Jesus Christ is the bles- 1 Tim u 3 
 sed Lord God. 
 
 5. I believe that Jesus Christ is the most T im. i. 17, 
 wise God. 
 
 6. I believe that Jesus Christ is the im- 
 mortal and eternal Lord God. Tim. i. 17. 
 
 7. I believe that Jesus is the only po- V1 
 tentate. 
 
 8. I believe that Jesus Christ is God of 
 all power, honour, atid glory. 
 
 9. I believe that Jesus Christ is the bles- 
 sed and everliving God. 
 
 10. I believe that Jesus Christ is King 
 of kings, and Lord of lords. i& 
 
 11 . I believe that Jesus Christ is the 
 
 ii.4. 
 
 Saviour of men that are saved. 
 
 12. I believe that Jesus Christ is iudare 
 
 J 03 Tim. iv. 
 
 both of quick and dead. 
 
 This is Paul's faith and doctrine to Ti- 
 mothy, and when he writes to Philemon, Phil - ver - J 
 once doth he mention God as Father, but 
 he mentions him eight times as Jesus, as 
 thus, 
 
 1. lam
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST 
 
 ' I am a Prisoner for the testimony^ 
 of Jesus. * 
 
 2. I am Paul the aged, a prisoner j 
 of Jesus. 
 
 3. Grace and peace to you from 
 
 = 
 
 4. I rejoice at thy faith in Jesus. 
 
 5. All the good things you enjoy are 
 in Jesus. 
 
 c 
 
 6. Still refresh thou my bowels in & 
 
 y o 
 
 Jesus. * 
 
 7. Salute Epapaus my fellow-pri- 
 soner in Jesus. 
 
 8. The grace of our Lord Jesus be 
 with you. Amen. 
 
 Thus we see now of whom the ends of 
 the world are come, that Paul owned wor- 
 shipped, believed, loved, served, or taught, 
 no other God but Jesus Christ, their Lord 
 and ours. 
 
 Observe Paul's positive proofs of Jesus 
 Christ being sole God. Not one of those 
 sayings of his, but they will stand as a God 
 against all other sayings, and make all 
 other scriptures bow to them; for positive 
 can stand of itself, when privative cannot, 
 as God can stand of himself; so that by 
 this, you that have faith may see that Christ 
 
 can
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 147 
 
 can stand of himself. Behold Paul's posi- Jjjjjjii 
 tive saying is summed up into those heads 
 above, and in these which follow. 
 
 1. There is no truth but what is in Jesus, Ep h. iv.zi, 
 then no God but -Jesus. 
 
 2. Believe only in Jesus justifies; so no Rom. v. 9, 
 God but Jesus Christ. 
 
 3. Every knee is commanded to bow toPsai.H.io. 
 Jesus ; so no God but Christ Jesus. 
 
 4. Whoever calls on Jesus as Lord, shall Rom. *. 
 be saved; so none but Christ. 
 
 5. Christ is the image of the invisible Heb - 3 
 God; so none but Christ. 
 
 6. Jesus Christ had the God-head bodily coi. a. 9. 
 in him; so none but Christ. 
 
 7. God was in Christ, reconciling theacor. ix.is 
 world unto himself; so no God but Christ. 
 
 8. Jesus Christ gave himself for us ; so Ga i. i.4. 
 none but Christ. 
 
 9. 'All riches, wisdom, and grace are incoi 11.3. 
 Christ, Eph. iii. 1 1. so none but Christ. 
 
 10. The world was created by Christ, Eph iu 9 
 Col. i. 16. so none but Christ. 
 
 11. Christ upholds all things by hisneb.i.e 
 power ; so none but Christ. 
 
 12. In Christ is hid all treasures of wis- Col H 8 
 dom, &c. so none but Christ. 
 
 T 13. One
 
 J48 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Simony ^ OnC God ftS OH * ftitn > CVen 
 
 Eph.^.5,6. w jj O j s above a u . so none but Christ. 
 
 Heb.vii.26. 14. Jesus Christ, the high and mighty 
 God; so none but Christ. 
 
 15. Jesus Christ is God over all blessed 
 for ever. Amen. So none but Christ. 
 
 Thus by the testimony of Paul, that 
 learned doctor in the spirit, who had been 
 wrapt up into heaven, and saw things un- 
 utterable ; yet hath he uttered enough to 
 shew, 
 
 That there is none but Christ; none but 
 Christ ; no other God but our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, though millions of men should 
 gainsay it. 
 
 CHAP. VI. 
 
 Shewing that Peter, the apostle of Jesus, 
 taught nor preached no other God but our 
 Lord Jesus Christ only. 
 
 peter', pETER, although he had his doubts 
 
 and failings rather more than the other 
 
 apostles after his call, before the Holy 
 
 Ghost was given (to shew that without Jesus 
 
 we can do nothing that is good) yet was he 
 
 made
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 made chief of the apostles, being so rewarded 
 for his testimony, upon his answer to Christ, 
 saying thus : / believe thou art Christ, the 
 Son of the living God. 
 
 Now when Peter had laid down his Ac * 9 . ui - 
 
 and iv. 12. 
 
 foundation, hebuilded upon it, and miracles 
 were wrought for a confirmation thereof, 
 and all the glory of the miracles given to 
 Christ; therefore when Peter healed the 
 lame man, by saying, In the name of Jesus 
 Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk, 
 
 Now his faith in Peter's words raised 
 him, and he went with them into the 
 temple praising God ; which God was no 
 other but Jesus that had made him whole; 
 for as no other name was called on to heal 
 him ; so no other God had that worship of 
 praise given him but Jesus that healed 
 him, and therefore, said Peter, it is the 
 faith in the name of Jesus that hath made 
 him whole. 
 
 And now doth Peter begin tq make the ... 15 
 name of Jesus glorious, ascribing all power 
 and glory, life and salvation unto Jesus. 
 Therefore, he told the Jews that they slew 
 the Lord of all life, and though it be said 
 in the same verse, that Gfod raised him from 
 the dead, yet Peter doth not mean that 
 
 there
 
 150 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 terttaoiiy. tli ere was a God above him, as distinct 
 from him, but he means his God-head spirit 
 within hisbks-ed body, that quickened in 
 a moment, and he knowing the virtue 
 thereof, therefore said that it was impossible 
 that he should be kept under death. 
 
 Peter begins his first epistle thus, saying, 
 
 i pet. i 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord 
 
 iii. 21, 22. T j-~, . . i i > i - 
 
 Jesus Christ, which according to his mercy 
 hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, 
 by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 
 
 Doth Peter here bless any God distinct 
 
 from Christ ? no ; for this God and Father 
 
 is no other but the life, soul, and spirit of 
 
 m. is. Christ, and it was faith in the word of 
 
 i 23* 
 
 Christ that begat them to a lively hope; for 
 that word of Christ was God and the Father: 
 for Christ had told them before that his 
 word was spirit and life. John vi. 63, 68. 
 and that spirit and life was that Father that 
 raised him from death. 
 
 i 9 ver 10 Again, saith Peter, this word brings sal- 
 vation. This salvation did the prophets of 
 old serch after, and the spirit of Christ was 
 in them: who then was this Christ that 
 gave that spirit, but God the Father then 
 cloathed in his spiritual body of nncom- 
 pounded purity, which was his eternal Son ? 
 
 and
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 151 
 
 and what God was that which raised Christ, j ay- 
 but that spirit of Christ which was in the 
 prophets of old in the seed of faith, search- 
 ing and inquiring for the time of his be/* 
 coming flesh to save them. 
 
 For if God had not become flesh, and 
 died, and risen again, there could never 
 been any salvation for those that died and 
 roted in the grave : for if God would have 
 saved any, he must have taken them up as 
 he did Moses, Elias, and Enoch, and as he 
 did Lazarus before he saw corruption. I. 
 Cor. xv. 15, 16, 18. 
 
 But to come to the substance of Peter's 
 
 i 21. 
 
 doctrine, as in reference to faith's object, *. 11,23. 
 which is Jesus Christ, and you will find it 
 to run in this line following. 
 
 Who by Christ you do believe in God, do i Peu. s. 
 
 i i -i 1^11 -i ii.3, and i. 23. 
 
 believe him to be God, who by that uncor- and iv. H. 
 
 v. 4. 
 
 ruptible seed, doth make you to believe in 4,5. 
 Christ, who is God. If your feith be there, 
 it will be precious, when you groundly 
 believe the virtue of his blood that redeemed 
 you, and have tasted the graciousness of 
 Jesus by that your new birth, it will be 
 found to your praise at his appearing, who 
 then will give a crown of life. Come to 
 frim as a living stone, you are the house 
 
 and
 
 2 V pet.m.i8. 
 ' IV b 
 
 152 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 festoon an< ^ church of the living God. Is" your 
 f a ^h be strong in him ; if you make this 
 Christ your rock, your God, your Lord and 
 Saviour, grow in grace, and in the know- 
 ledge of Christ, the more knowledge, the 
 more love, the more love, the more charity; 
 let faith have its perfect work. There was 
 false prophets, and there will arise false 
 teachers, that will pretend to Christ, but it 
 will be but to gain riches and honour. 
 Those will be against all dominion, but 
 such as upholds them, and the will as JE>#- 
 
 13,19.' laam, bless and curse for wealth, and pre- 
 
 sume to speak evil of things they know not. 
 
 And though they will prophesy in words, 
 
 2 pet. Hi. is. that Christ is their Saviour, and purchased 
 
 18,19. their redemption by his death, yet they 
 will not give him his honour, power, glory, 
 and dominion, but do you that are his 
 saints, do you give him all glory, who hath 
 really bought and purchased you by his 
 precious blood. He hath not bought false 
 
 2 Pet. \\. teachers by the shedding of his blood as to 
 purchase them, but he hath bought them 
 so, as to have power to damn damnable 
 hereticks with eternal torments, and all un- 
 righteouness likewise that oppose his bless- 
 ed person, and will have a God besides him. 
 
 Our
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 153 
 
 Our beloved brother Paul hath wrote of ?J 
 those things aforesaid, according to the ^9 " L 16 
 wisdom given him, and some of his sayings 
 are hard to be understood, which unlearned 
 men in the spirit wrest as they do other 
 scriptures unto their own destruction; for 2Fet " r 
 it will appear evident that such things are 
 done; for, 
 
 1st, Observe that they that divide Christ l Pet . u 4 
 from God, do wrest the scriptures to their 1 ' 
 own destruction. Eph. iv. 5, 9, 10. Col. 
 ii. 6. 
 
 2ndly, And they that seek to be redeem- 
 ed by corruptible things, do wrest the 2 Pet u 3 16 
 scriptures to their own destruction. Rom. 
 
 xiii. 3. Heb. ix. 12, 14, and x. 19, 29. 
 Col. ii. 20, 22. 
 
 3rdly, And they that teach and preach 
 for money, do wrest the scriptures to their .. 1 
 own destruction. /. Tim. vi. 5, 9. Judeai- 
 
 4thly, And they that deny the Lord that 
 bought them, to be the alone true God, do 
 wrest the scriptures to their own destruc- 
 tion. Jude iv. 
 
 5thly, And they that argue from God's 
 long suffering, that there will be no end of Ui 4 
 the world, nor day of judgment, do wrest 
 the scriptures to their own destruction. I. 
 Cor. xv. 32. Rom, ii. 4.
 
 154 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Pet ? r ' e 6thly, And they that glory in a God or 
 
 testimony. > 7 J J 
 
 iii. 10, 17. c nr j s t within them, and deny his person 
 without them, do wrest the scriptures to 
 their own destruction. Rom. x. 6, 7, 8. 
 Eph. iii. 17. Col. iii. 3. 
 
 7thly, And they that hold forth a God 
 of several persons, or a God of an infinite 
 
 ii. i6. formless spirit, without any person, do like- 
 wise wrest the scriptures to their own de- 
 struction. I. Cor. viii. 6. Heb. i. 3, 
 
 Sthly, And they that think to be saved 
 by a bare profession of faith, without a 
 
 . 9 lively operation thereof, do like wise wrest 
 
 the scriptures to their own destruction. 
 Rom. ii, 20. 2 Tim. iii. 5. 
 
 i.pet.i. is, 9thly, And they that hold free will, and 
 
 2.3,' 24. that a man hath power in himself to be 
 saved, do wrest the scriptures to their own 
 destruction. Eph. ii. 8. 
 
 10th, And they that give not the Lord 
 
 i.pet.H.8. Jesus full prerogative, power of life and 
 death, salvation and damnation, do likewise 
 wrest the scriptures to their own destruction. 
 Rom. ix. 20. 
 
 But you, my brethren, seeing you know 
 these things before, and have that grace of 
 wisdom, beware that you be not led away 
 into these heresies, and fall from your own 
 
 . stedfastness,
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 155 
 
 Stedfastness, but grow in grace, in the true t ^* n 
 knowledge of Jesus Christ, give glory unto j 8 Fet iu> 17< 
 him as your Lord and Saviour for ever and 
 ever. Amen. 
 
 Thus it is evident by the testimony of 
 holy Peter, that great apostle of Jesus, that 
 was witness of his death, resurrection, and 
 ascension, that according to the doctrine 
 stated, which is the true Christian doctrine 
 now in this age, that 
 
 There is nor never was, none but Christ) 
 none but Christ; no other God but our 
 Lord Jesus Christ, now in heaven glorified 
 in a body oi flesh and bone, brighter than 
 the sun, clearer than crystal, swifter than 
 thought, and sweeter than roses, to whom 
 be glory lor ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 Shewing that the apostle James, his doctrine 
 and faith, was pitched upon Jesus Christ, 
 as the one only and alone true God. 
 
 HPHE first verse of James's salutation 
 
 -- 111 i X-N i testimony 
 
 declares that he owned no other God James i. 
 but the Lord Jesus', for, saith he, I am the 
 u servant,
 
 156 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Simony, servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 James did not serve two masters, for God 
 and Christ are one, and that particle and, 
 doth not divide betwixt God and Christ, 
 but shews the union of the two natures ; 
 for, if and should make a person, then the 
 national church might make four persons 
 in the God-head, from that saying of Paul, 
 in his exhortation to the saints, to get a 
 full understanding, and then make their 
 acknowledgment of the mystery of God, 
 and of the Father, and of Christ, then add 
 the Holy Ghost to God and Father, and 
 Christ, and there is four. 
 
 Again James saitli, that every good gift 
 is from the Father of lights: this is Christ, 
 and no other ; for he had told James before 
 that he was the light of the world, and 
 here James preacheth him so, for all grace 
 comes from him. Light is glory, and 
 James calls Christ not only Lord, or his 
 Lord, but Lord of glory, which shews that 
 all glory and dominion is his. 
 
 If Christ be God of all power and glory, 
 what room is there for any other Father or 
 God. This Jesus is he that James bids 
 the persecuted saints to wait for from hea- 
 ven. He did not tell them of any other 
 
 God
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 157 
 
 God that was to come from there, even 
 Christ that died for them rose again, and 
 ascended; this was their God they were to 
 wait for. 
 
 Now the apostle speaking of their wait- 
 ing for Jesus, doth not only intend them 
 at that time in his days, but all saints in 
 all ages foljowing; for those that died then 
 may be said to wait yet, and those that live 
 now, were exhorted to wait then ; for the 
 time from then till now is but as one day 
 in faith's account. 
 
 For there is no sensibleness of time in 
 death : so that those that died in the apos- 
 tles days, are but as a day before us, and 
 the end of the world will be but as a day 
 after us. 
 
 So that eternal life is not yet attained to 
 any otherwise, than in the soul of assurance. 
 First, the Lord of life must come, and all v 
 saints whilst in life are to be in a waiting 
 posture, even unto the death of the soul, 
 which is a sweet sleep in Jesus, and when 
 he doth appear, then shall they appear in 
 glory; for he is the resurrection arid the 
 life. I. Thess. i. 10. II. Thess. iii. 10. 
 Col. iii. 4.
 
 =5 
 
 158 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 Thus we see that James grounded the 
 twelve tribes in faith and obedience to Jesus 
 Christ pnly : for, saith he, 
 
 ii. 17. 1. Jesus Christ was the Father of" 
 
 lights. 
 is. 2- Jesus Christ was him that begot 
 
 them. 
 
 *. 12. 3. Jesus Christ was the saints law- 
 
 giver, 
 a. i. 4- Jesus Christ was the Lord of all 
 
 glory, 
 v. 9. 5. Jesus Christ was the judge at the 
 
 door. 
 T. s. 6. Jesus Christ was t]ie God looked 
 
 for from heaven. 
 v 4 7. Jesus Christ was the God of the 
 
 Gentiles. 
 
 8. Jesus Christ is Lord and God, and 
 
 iv. 6, and 
 
 i.s. giver of grace and wisdom. 
 
 ^ 
 
 Thus by the testimony of James, the 
 apostle of our Lord, it is made clear and 
 evident enough to the wise, that 
 
 There is none but Christ; none but 
 Christ; no other God but our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, now in glory. 
 
 CHAP
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST* 159 
 
 Jade's 
 testimony. 
 
 CHAP. VIII. 
 
 Shewing that the apostle Jude, the brother 
 of James, that his doctrine is agreeing 
 ivith the rest, proving Jesus Christ to be 
 the one only and alone true God. 
 
 TN verse the first, lie, as all the rest, does 
 read his commission, and his commission 
 was from Jesus Christ ; this shews his au- 
 thority. Now if a man pretend to be a 
 messenger of God, and cannot produce a 
 commission from God by voice of words, 
 or from him that is so chosen, he manifests 
 himself to be a deceiver and a counterfeit. 
 But to the matter in hand, Jude, as a 
 true apostle directs his epistle to the most 
 holy in faith, being by him described to 
 be such, who were sanctified by God the 
 Father and preseved in Jesus Christ, and 
 called. 
 
 Now though the sanctification is ascribed 
 to God the Father, yet this God and Fa- 
 ther is but Lord and Christ, tor he is it that 
 sanctifies as well as he preserves and calls, 
 and thereupon he had said in his prayer to 
 
 his
 
 160 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 hi s God-head spirit when earth, for their 
 sakes I sanctify myself, that they might be 
 sanctified through faith in me, who am the 
 truth, and thus writes Paul, saying, Christ 
 sanctified his church by his word, and 
 again, Christ sanctified his people with his 
 own blood ; that is, by faith in his blood. 
 Heb. xiii. 12. Eph. v. 26. 
 
 All prophets and apostles have given 
 forth, that God would, and did become man, 
 and would shed his blood for the redemption 
 of his elect. This being done and preached 
 forth, the elect, through this report, laid 
 hold of it, and believed it, according to the 
 report, and so came to be sanctified, and 
 made a holy faith. 
 
 So that God the father is no other but 
 Christ himself, even the word of his power. 
 What is it that is given or done to the 
 saints, but it flows from Christ 1 Doth not 
 Jude here ascribe all gifts, grace, and 
 po ,ver, to Christ. Observe these six in par- 
 ticular, as, 
 
 1 . It is Christ that shews his mercy to 
 
 2. It is Christ that preserveth you, and 
 hath called you to the faith. //. Timothy 
 iv. 18. 
 
 3. It
 
 NONE BUT CHRtST. 161 
 
 3. It is Christ Jesus that gives to you , ny> 
 eternal life. John vi. 68, and x. 38, com- 21 
 pared. 
 
 4. It is Christ that gives you peace, and 24 . 
 multiplies your grace. John xiv. 27, and 
 
 i. 17. 
 
 5. It is Christ that keeps you from falling 24. 
 into error. Rev. iii. 10. 
 
 6. And it is Christ, that at the last day 24, 25. 
 will present you faultless before the presence 
 
 of his glory, which is himself. Col. i. 28. 
 
 So that it is clear by Jnde, that Christ 
 is Father as well as Son; so that according 
 to Paul> the whole God-head centres here, 
 and the faith in its being so, doth wholly 
 sanctify, as Paul likewise said, as 1 Thess. 
 v. 23, for all true faith pitcheth here, even 
 before the presence of the glory of Christ, 
 as Jude saith. 
 
 This Jude calls the great mercy answer- 24 
 ing that divine faith, that the saints shall 
 be admitted into the presence of the glory 
 of Christ, when as all such as denied his 
 power of God-head glory, and live in wick- 
 edness, shall with Cain, their Father, depart n 
 from the presence of the glory of Christ, 
 and fall before him. 
 
 Therefore the apostle exhorts the saints 
 
 to
 
 162 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 * m ^ n< ^ his doctrine, and keep close to their 
 faith in Jesus; and seeing there did rise up 
 many oppdsers of his ddctrine, and further 
 would do, put them forward for growth of 
 faith, that they might be able to resist se- 
 ducers, that would shake their faith in 
 Christ, and yet would come to their feasts 
 2, 12,4, is. O f cnar jt Vj as d ev il s transformed into a shew 
 
 of Christianity, pretending to belief in Jesus 
 as a Saviour of them, but not as their Lord. 
 And so were for the turning the grace of 
 God into wantonness, and not only so, but 
 would deny that the Lord Jesus was the 
 one only Lord God. 
 
 But observe the apostles words well, and 
 it will appear in substance as hereafter 
 follows : 
 
 Beloved, you had need of further exhor- 
 tation, and an increase of grace to with- 
 stand these seducers, being reprobates, and 
 appointed for wrath. We have delivered 
 to you the church's faith, which all the 
 elect must have, and so may be called a 
 common salvation faith. Mind, therefore, 
 the doctrine which you have been taught 
 by us; for deceivers will arise with false 
 doctrines, and would take you off from 
 your most holy faith, but you may know 
 
 them
 
 NONE BtiT CHRIgT. 
 
 them by these works, and there small 
 esteem of Jesus, although they profess him 
 in words, for they will deny his power and 
 glory. Therefore, if you live in what age 
 you will, and find that men teach Jesus 
 Christ, contrary to the common faith de- 
 livered you by us apostle?, reject them, and 3. 
 try their spirits by our words, and let the 
 concl usion of my epistle be the touch-stone, 24, .25. 
 arid the preservation of you for future 
 times, which is thus written. Now unto 
 Mm which is able to keep you from falling, 
 and to present you faultless before the pre- 
 sence of his glory with exceeding joy . To 
 thi " ly wise God our Saviour, be glory 
 ttnd majesty, dominion and power, now, 
 and ererwore. Amen. 
 
 So that whoever shall hereafter pretend 
 to preach Christ, and shall diminish this 
 his power, and dominion of being Lord and 
 God, he is to be rejected by all that have 
 the holy faith that was once delivered to 
 the saints in exercise, and they may be fur- 
 ther known by their pride, coveteousness, 
 and persecution; for, 
 
 1st, They will ascribe honour untover.if, 
 themselves, and will apply themselves to 
 the humours of such as are able to prefer 
 w them,
 
 164 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 festim'ony. them, and if they can set forth article? 
 that may be received by the great and 
 honourable of the world, then will they 
 sacrifice to it. 
 
 2nd, This pusheth them on to covetous- 
 ness, for they are for getting riches, and 
 are hunger bit; they run after reward, and 
 will teach any thing for money, being 
 greedy dogs. 
 
 Also, they are such trencher chaplains, 
 and flattering parasites, that they will praise 
 and applaud their patrons or benefactors, 
 let them be never so wicked, telling them 
 that if they do but observe such a principle 
 or method of worship as they prescribe, 
 and accept of them for their minister to 
 pray for them, they shall be saved, for God 
 is merciful. Thus they have their persons 
 in admiration because of advantage. 
 
 3rd. That nothing shall hinder their 
 
 13. honour and glory, therefore they seek to 
 
 surpass the harmless innocent souls, scoffing 
 at them, and laugh them to scorn, and 
 complain against the faithful with hard 
 speeches, blaspheming against those things 
 
 10 9 of the spirit which they do not know, and 
 against dominion, and so they bring in 
 persecution. 
 
 This
 
 NONE BUT CftRIST. 166 
 
 This is the evidence, that they are of t j e ^ ony 
 those that were of old ordained to this con- 
 demnation, even as Korah, Dathan, and, 
 Abirain would have wrested Moses priest- 
 hood out of his hand, and so are reserved 
 for judgment. 
 
 But at the coming of Jesus Christ, then 
 woe unto them that gp after them, Balaam^ 
 and Korah ; woe unto those wandering 
 stars that wander from scripture to scrip- 
 ture, and father to father, and then cry, 
 thus saith the Lord, and then speak evil 
 of things they knew not, that are truly the 
 Lords. In line, woe unto those seducers, 
 that when they cannot subvert the harmless 
 saints with fear, and smooth speeches, that 
 then seek by great swelling words to frighten 
 them to their obedience. 
 
 But you obedient children, who are sanc- 
 tified, preserved, and called by Jv&us Christ, 
 stand up, quit you like men, and contend 
 for the faith against these men, or wander- 
 ing stars, that are creeping into a profession 
 of Jesus, but not in truth. 
 
 So I shall take leave of you, and leave vcrse , ast 
 you to him, namely, Jesus Christ, who is 
 able too keep you, and preserve you from 
 such an apostacy. When he comes in 
 
 glory,
 
 TfONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 receive you, who is the 
 Ye?last only wise God our Saviour, to whom be 
 glory and dominion for ever. Amen. Hold 
 to this, and be blessed, though it is the 
 dominion spoke against. 
 
 Thus the apostle, seeing the dangerous* 
 ness of the times ensuing, and of these 
 cpkels so springing up amongst the wheat, 
 arms the believers of the twelve tribes, 
 whether then, or thereafter, with argu- 
 ments qf power against them, giving them 
 good proof of the doctrine of the true Gpd, 
 the Lord Jesus Christ, as may clearly be 
 seen by this paraphrase upon his epistle. 
 Read it deliberately, and see whether it be 
 not harmonious. So that to my faith it is 
 clear, that by the testimony of Jude the 
 apostle, 
 
 There is none but Christ; none but 
 Christ ; no other God but our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, now seated upon his throne in 
 glory. 
 
 CHAP
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 167 
 
 Thomat's 
 testimony 
 
 n^ 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 
 Shewing' that Thomas the apostle of Jesus 
 
 acknowledged no God but Jesus. 
 
 ~ 
 
 is never an epistle of TJiomm 
 that is extant, there is they say that 
 goes by his name, but not own in the pri- 
 mitive times, nor spoke of, as ever I could 
 hear; but it is probable there were writings 
 of his. but it matters not much, lor the 
 confession of his faith in Jesus, alter his 
 resurrection, was sufficient; for had he 
 wrote never so much on Jesus, his Lord, he 
 could have gone no higher in his doctrine 
 of Jesus Christ, than he did, as his fellow 
 apostle affirms of him. 
 
 For his doubting the truth of Christ's 
 resurrection was the occasion of strength- 
 ening the saints, both then and for future 
 times more abundantly in their faith and 
 assured confidence, that he was their Lord 
 and God. 
 
 Therefore when Christ bid Thomas come John xx< 27 . 
 near unto him, and feel the print of the 
 nails in his hands, that had been nailed to 
 
 to
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST; 
 
 Tho^aft the cross, and to put his hand into his side 
 
 testimony. 
 
 that was pierced with the sword, and saying 
 to Thomas, Be not faithless, but believing. 
 Here Thomas doing as Jesus Christ bid 
 him, was thereupon fully convinced, tliat 
 it was his Lord and master, and from the 
 spring of his faith (in the virtue of Christ's 
 
 yer.28. wor< j) J} e not faithless, but believing, ci\ed 
 out saying, J\Iy Lord, and my God. 
 
 Jesus Christ hearing this concession of 
 faith in him, owned his confession, and as 
 his Lord and God blessed him, saying, 
 Thomas, because thou hast seen me., thou 
 hast believed me to be thy Lord and God. 
 thou art blessed in this belief. 
 
 But blessed shall all them be, though they 
 have not seen, as thou hast, and yet have, 
 or shall believe me to be their Lord and 
 God, as thou hast done. 
 
 Here hath Thomas given an approved 
 demonstration of his faith; and as his faith 
 was great, so was his blessing; and as 
 Thomas was the first that set to his seal 
 upon his Lord's resurrection, that he was 
 his Lord and his God. 
 
 Ter 4y Even so, Thomas was the first that the 
 
 Lord Jesus .Christ* sealed with the seal of 
 eternal life for that his confession aforesaid. 
 
 Now
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 169 
 
 iSTow was the promise come, and the^** 
 covenant sealed between Thomas ami his 
 Lord, and the other apostles, and their 
 Lord, and all believers with them, I will 
 be your God, and you shall be my people. 
 Herein lies every true believer's happiness 
 to pitch his faith wholly upon Jesus Christ. 
 Therefore let Thomas's confession be the 
 patron of our faith, and then will his bles- 
 sing be the evidence of ours. 
 
 Therefore let every one prove their bles- 
 sing from the proof of their faith, setting 
 to this seal, My Lord and my God. 
 
 All the prophets in the time of the law, 
 and the believers of their doctrine, had this 
 proof of faith of God hidden in man, or 
 to become man, longing and waiting for 
 the accomplishment thereof, as I have 
 abundantly shewed, and in this they were 
 blessed. 
 
 So here, Thomas, and all the apostles in 
 the time of the gopel, with their ordained 
 ministers and saints, had this proof of faith 
 in Jesus, their Lord and God, and in this 
 were blessed. 
 
 So the witness or last record prophesied 
 of by John, that beloved apostle, and the 
 believers of truth, have this proof of faith, 
 
 none
 
 NONE BUT CHRIST. 
 
 none but Christ, and in this we know that 
 
 testimony. 
 
 we are blessed. 
 
 Thus by the testimony of all the pro- 
 phets, apostles, and witnesses of Christ 
 Jesus, and of Christ Jesus himself, the true 
 and faithful witness, and the Amen, that 
 
 There is none but Christ; none but 
 Christ : no other God but the man Christ 
 Jesus our Lord, though men or angels 
 should gainsay it. 
 
 And from faith we say and affirm, that 
 crowns of immortal glory are prepared for 
 all those that receive this doctrine in the 
 love of it, when the Lord Jesus Christ, that 
 high and mighty God shall visibly appear, 
 then shall all saints have the reward of their 
 faith and love, and shall behold his blessed 
 person face to face, with astonishing new 
 joys for everlasting, according to truth of 
 holy writ. Amen.
 
 LETTER 
 
 FROM' THE SAME 
 
 H AUTHOR. 
 
 My beloved Friends, in and about 
 
 London : 
 
 T FIND there is great strife and division 
 among you, and am grieved that the 
 only true church should not only suffer 
 affliction from the common enemies, but 
 also from her intended friends. That such 
 as call themselves sons of the church, should 
 rebel against the church ; that they should 
 cry Hosanna to the church, and yet crucify 
 the church. Take care you struggle not 
 beyond the bounds of love, but hold the 
 unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. 
 There must needs be unity in the seed of 
 Adam, because they are the seed of God. 
 Let all saints take care they retaiii the life 
 of love: if they fall into wrangling and dis- 
 cord, they are in danger of the pure life's 
 withdrawing, and in a moment may be 
 deprived of what: they seemed to have. We 
 are all one man's children; we have God 
 to our Father, and the church to our Mo- 
 x ther
 
 172 A LETTER, $c. 
 
 ther. We being brethren, let there be no 
 strife betwixt us, and then the God of peace 
 and love will be with us. This love is the 
 anointing oil, it makes prophets, priests, 
 and kings unto God. There is no light of 
 truth were there is not love. We are all 
 fed with one food, and are all at one table, 
 where we eat the bread of lite, and drink 
 the water of life ; how then can there be 
 any strife, where there is the soul satisfying 
 bread. We eat the hidden manna, and drink 
 out of the rock of ages. Have but the 
 wedding garment of love and obedience here, 
 and we shall have the robe of glory hereafter- 
 Strange ! that any that profess the faith 
 should have a schismatical retragradation 
 to union and concord. Beware to sow di- 
 vision least you reap damnation. They are 
 not all Israelites that are of Israel. If any 
 be contentious, let him question his own 
 heart, for he is under either desertion of the 
 spirit of faith, or a delusion oi the spirit of 
 reason. The saints do not straggle as lost 
 sheep, but keep together, as a shepherd 
 keepeth his sheep ; for a stranger they will 
 not iollow. 
 
 THOMAS TOMKINSON. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 ANNALL,, FKINTV.R, UKAJ