The little Bible of the man or the Book of God opened in man by the power of the Lamb. Wherein God is the spirit or inside of the book, and man the letter or out-side of it. In whom, as in a glass, you may both behold the spirit and letter of the holy Scriptures in the new man; fulfilled and explained from Genesis to Jeremiah. This is the first volume of Gods Book in man. Written by a weak instrument of the Lords, Capt. T. Butler.

SECT. LXXVI. [§. 76] The righteous man perisheth, but not his righteousness, yet none lays it to heart.

THe righteous man perisheth, though his righteousness en∣dures for ever, yet none lays him or his righteousness to heart, nor consi∣dereth his death or his life; and he, and his righteousness, is taken from the evil to come; for what hath righteousness to do with unrighteousness, or light with darkness? So he is taken from men to God, and shall enter in his peace, and lie down in his bed of rest,

and walk for ever in his righteousness: But the sinful and wicked man he pe∣risheth not, but lives and prospers in the world for a moment, but yet his triumph is short; this is the Adul∣terer and the Adulteress, and her who∣rish brood, that make a wide mouth; speaking blasphemy; false children, full of iniquity, sporting themselves with vanities, and inflamed with idols in every place, in valleys and hills, and hast joyned to another, and enlarged thy bed, and hast not at all remembred the Lord, nor laid him to thy heart; for these lovers and lusts have stollen away thy heart, thy vanity shall take thee away, and none shall deliver thee; but they that trust in me shall be de∣livered, and inherit rest in my Land quietly.