with eternal punishments why page 500 Sins remitted and retained how page 463 Sitting what it signifieth page 489 Christs Sessio at the right hand of God is comfortable in seuen respects page 492 Christs Soule how produced page 263 Excellency of mans Soule aboue other creatures appeares in seauen things page 197 Soule of man made in the Image of God page 197 Soule immortall page 198 What the Soule workes in the body Ibid. Soule resembles God in the Creation Ibid. Condition of our Soules in death page 449 Soule of Christ in his death indured a priuation of what it had before Ibid Soules of the righteous cry vnder the Alter Ibid. Our greatest care must be for our soules page 422 Christ the Sonne of God page 335 God hath many Sonnes page 336 Where the Spirit is there is liberty page 541 Spirit quenched by two sorts of men page 546 Happinesse of Christs subiects page 233 Christs subiects must doe seuen things page 234 Sufferings of Christ Suffering attributed to the diuine nature in respect of personall vnion page 305 Christs Sufferings full of wonder and amazement Ibid. They teach vs six things Ibid. He suffered not for all proued against the Arminians page 307 He Suffered from all sorts of enemies Ibid. To teach vs three things Ibid. Who haue part in Christs Sufferings page 308 Christs Sufferings a matchlesse patterne of his loue page 309 Iust Suffers for the vniust Ibid. Seuen reasons why he suffered page 310 Scriptures fulfilled in his Sufferings Ibid. His sufferings teach vs patience page 311 Two obiections against his Sufferings answered page 312 Difference betweene Christs Sufferings and Martyrs page 313 End of Christs Sufferings teach vs diuers things Ibid. Benefit of his Sufferings appeares in seuen things page 314 Hee suffered by waie of Imputation page 316 Hee Suffered from his conception to his resurrection page 317 What he Suffered from his Baptisme to his last Supper page 320 Where he Suffered page 325 When he Suffered Ibid. Hee Suffered Voluntarily page 326 348 421 Hee Suffered meane vsage why page 356 Christ suffers two things from Herod page 370 Christs Sufferings should make vs afraid of sinne page 397 We should Suffer any thing for Christs sake page 417 Superscription ouer Christs Head page 399 Pilates meaning in it Ibid. God by this giues testimonie to his Son Ibid. Superscription written in three Languages page 402 Deriuation of Symbolum with signification thereof T. ALL men need be Taught page 471 Teares haue power ouer Christ page 385 Christ Teacheth diuers waies page 221 Excellency of Christs manner of Teaching page 222 Christ Tempted for diuers reasons page 320 Christs Temptation teacheth vs fiue things page 321 Christ dwels not in Temples made with hands page 243 Thiefe conuerted page 404 Abuse not his example to procrastination page 405 Three fruits of his conuersion page 406 Thiefes confession page 408 Thiefes prayer hath in it three things obseruable page 409 Christs answer to the Thiefe page 411 How the Thiefe vnderstood what was meant by Paradise Ibid. Profitable to teach the people the whole body of Theology page 2 Thomas his vnbeleefe page 464 Thomas his confession page 465 Christ crowned with Thornes page 381 Thankefulnesse to God for the blessings of Heauen page 176 Thunder and lightning page 170 Times and seasons left to God page 427 Worldfull of Treachery page 334 Christs apparition to his Disciples the doores being shut no proofe for Transubstantiation page 462 Truth of God See God Christ beares witnesse to the Truth page 365 Truth will preuaile Ibid. Constancy for the Truth page 366 Christs subiects are of the Truth Ibid. Christ fastened to a Tree for three reasons page 390 Doctrine of the Trinity page 115 Proofes of the Trinity page 116 In handling the Trinity wee must bee wise to sobriety page 117 Trinity Essence Persons all brought in in the Primitiue Church page 123 Eleuen obiections against the Trinity answered page 124 Doctrine of the Trinity vsefull page 126 We must speake of the Trinity in vnity page 127 Vnsound speeches of the Trinity Ibid. What Heretikes haue assaulted it Ib. V. ORiginall of vegetable creatures page 185 Their variety and vse page 186 Vaile of the Temple rent page 413 What it was Ibid. What it signified page 414 Vbiquitaries confuted page 502 They gaue Christ Vinegar to drinke for three reasons page 398 Virgin Mary not conceiued without sinne page 265 Virgin ouer-shadowed page 265 Christ tooke his Body of a Virgin page 267 Wofull estate of vnbeleeuers page 35 240. Christ vpbraided his Disciples for vnbeliefe why page 470 Vnity of God See God W. GOds dearest seruants exposed to outward Wants page 466 Great Wants fore-runne extraordinary supplies Ibid. Christ speakes to Women page 285 Comfort for Women in Child-bearing page 269 Women chiefe witnesses of Christs death page 419 What wholsome words are page 3 Wicked men incorrigible page 348 Wicked desire Christs miracles not his Word page 369 Wicked men of more account then godly page 371 Wicked men within the Church may be as vile as they are without page 376 Wicked men are impatient vnder Gods hand page 386 Wicked men are like a dry Tree Ibid. Wicked men in a wofull case page 397 Wicked men how condemned already page 509 Wicked men are Goats page 418 Wicked men are cursed creatures page 527 Wicked men forget their sins page 528 Wicked men taste the Word of God without digestion page 540 Difference betweene godly and wicked men in their desire after Christ page 369 Great World a little Garden page 161 It is like a Booke Ibid. Like a faire House Ibid. Fiue things wonderfull in the making of the world page 162 Workes of God of two sorts page 144 Externall Workes of foure sorts page 145 When the world was made page 148 Giue God the Glory of his Workes page 149 Meditate on Gods Workes not delight in idle shewes Ibid. World fiered at the last day how page 531 Word doth not euer presently worke page 354 God Workes sometimes by vnlikely meanes Ibid. How the Word was made flesh page 251 Vnion of the Word and flesh differ from other vnions Ibid. Gods Wisdome moderates betweene his Iustice and mercy â—8 Three beare Witnesse of Christ in Heauen three on earth page 430 LONDON Printed by G. M. for R. R. P. Stephens and C. Meredith and are to be sold at their shop at the golden Lyon in Pauls Church-yard 1626. Pro. 335. * So much as now is published comes vnto thy hands as it was left fully perfected by the Author in his life time 2. Waies of Preaching 1. By Text. 2. Without Text. And both expedient The Apostles Patterne The method intended What the Creed is What wholesome words are Vnwholesome doctrines of two sorts 1. Corrupt doctrine Diuers sorts of corrupt doctrine How many waies true doctrine may be vnwholsome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 How the Creed is a Patterne Note What great respect we should haue of the doctrines
Pro. 30. 19. 6. The Vses they serue for both in respect of God for the Foules praise God in their kinde Psal 148. 10. and in respect of men to whom they are giuen not onely for their foode and seruice Gen. 9. 2. but as the companions of their liues and therefore it is noted as a iudgement to haue the very Foules of the Ayre taken away Ier. 4. 25 9. 10. Especially God hath giuen to the Kings of the Earth a supreame rule ouer the Foules of the Ayre in the places where their subiects dwell Dan. 2. 38. 7. The naturall order among the Foules euery kinde knowing his season Ier. 8. 7. From the Contemplation of the Foules of the Ayre the holy Ghost in Scripture raiseth diuers Vses both to teach and reproue and terrifie First for matter of Instruction hee shewes that the very foules may teach vs first to know that there is a God and that he gouernes the world Iob. 12. 7. secondly to liue without carking care for foode and rayment and trust vpon God for the successe of all our labours Mat. 6. 26. thirdly with all thankfulnesse to acknowledge Gods goodnesse to vs that hath made vs wiser then the Foules of the Ayre Iob 35. 11. and giues vs power ouer them Psal 8. 8. and that hee hath made a couenant with them in our behalfe that they shall not hurt vs Hosea 2. 18. and for that now in the New Testament God hath taken of these ceremoniall restraints and pronounced that all the Foules are now cleane and lawfull to be eaten or vsed Acts 10. 12. Secondly Man is reprooued by the Foules for not obferuing the seasons of grace in that the Foules in their kinde obserue the seasons of nature for their appearing and breeding c. Ier. 8. 7. Thirdly man is threatned that if he sinne against God that God that gaue the carcases of the Foules for meat to man will giue the carcases of men for meat to the Foules Deut. 28. 26. Thus of the Foules The Meteors in the Ayre are certaine impressions God by his power makes in or by the Ayre the Lord framing wonderfull things thence and there for the seruice of his glory The Scripture considers of these Meteors either as altogether extraordinary importing their vse but not the causes of them or else more ordinary God hath strange things in this Heauen vnknowne to vs and of which he giues no account to vs in the booke of Nature Thus wee reade of fire rained downe from Heauen Gen. 19. 2. Kings 2. 10. and oâ— great stones throwne downe from Heauen Iosh 10. and also that God opened the dore of Heauen and rained downe Manna Psal 78. 23. and by experience it hath bin knowne that God hath rained downe liuing creatures from Heauen also as frogges or the like The more ordinarie Meteors may for order sake be cast into three sorts some fiery some ayrie some watery The fiery Meteors in Nature are many which are seene in great diuersity and often as pillars of fire the fire we call the falling of the Starres the fire they call Ignis fatuus or fooles fire the fire that will hang about mens garments or the sailes of ships blazing Starres or the Lightning But the Scripture doth especially single out the Thunder and Lightning to make obseruations about it for our vses And so first of Thunder and Lightning both together the Scripture would haue vs take notice 1. That they are in a speciall manner of Gods making though the Philosopher say much to tell vs how they are raised and framed by nature yet God challengeth a peculiar honour in the making of them aboue what wee can reach too and therefore they are called his Thunder and his Lightning Psal 77. 17. 18. 104. 6. 7. Iob 38. â—5 2. That they are both Officers vnto God in a speciall place about him seruing about the Lord when there is speciall occasion to shew the terror and greatnesse of his Maiesty as when the Law was to bee giuen and the Lord was to come downe vpon Mount Sinay Exod 19. 16. and so when the Lord as King would come downe amongst vs here in the world the Thunder and Lightning doe not onely giue notice of his comming but as his high Marshalls they make roome for it and compell people of all sorts in their places to expect the comming of the Lord Psalme 97. 1. 3. 4. Secondly each of them are magnified apart as 1. The Thunder is called the voice of God the sound that goeth out of his mouth which God directeth vnder the whole Heauen as a wise man directeth his speech to the Hearers It is a roaring voice called also the voice of his Excellence because he speaketh when he speaketh by Thunder with speciall Maiesty The Lord is said to thunder maruellously with his voice all this in Iob 37. 2 3 4 5. Hee speakes in Thunder as the God of glory Psal 29. â— This voice of the Lord is powerfull and therfore called the Thunder of his power Iob 26. 14. Psal 29. 4. 2. The Lightnings are called Gods Arrowes 2. Sam. 22. 14. 15. and so they are wonderfull if we consider that it is God onely that diuided a way for the Lightning Iob 38. 25. 28. 26. and that God can by these Arrowes discomfit an Armie of enemies Psal 144. 6. and that God can shoot so farre with them viz from one end of the Heauen to another Mat. 24. 27. and that God doth make the Lightnings with the raine at the same time when one would thinke the raine should quench the fire of the Lightning Psal 135. 7. and this obseruation of the Psalmist the Prophet Ieremie twise alledgeth Verbatim as a matter of wonder Ier. 10. 13 51. 26. Lastly it is wonderfull that God should shoot with such strange Arrowes as inlighten the world Psalme 97. 3. 4. 77. 17. 18. What vse we should make of the Thunder and Lightning we are likewise taught in the booke of God for the Thunder being Gods voice we are enioyned when God speakes in such Maiesty to heare him attentiuely yea and to speake of his glory in the Temple Psal 29. 9. Iob 37. 2. and what the meaning is of his voice he hath told vs in his Word so that as often as we heare the Thunder wee should know that God by that mighty voice doth tell vs 1. That he is the true God and there is none so great as he Ier. 10. â—0 13. Psal 77. 13. 18. 17. 2. That he raigneth and gouerneth all things and can doe what he lists Psal 97. 1. 2. 3. 3. That wicked men are sure to be destroyed and that their strength shall not preuaile 1. Sam. 2. 10. 4. That the mightiest men on earth must doe their Homage to God and now acknowledge his Glory and Maiesty and worship him with all possible deuotion Psalme 29. 1 2 3 c. 5. That the heart of all men should tremble at the
Spider Of the Ant we should learne diligence and prouidence in times of plenty to prouide for dearth especially in spirituall things Of the Mountaine Rats we should learne vpon the experience of our owne weaknesse to prouide by Faith so as we may rest in the Rock of Gods Almighty protection Of the Locusts we should learne to doe our duties though we be not compelled and to be carefull to keepe our fellowship with the Saints Of the Spider that workes euen in Kings Palaces we should learne to hold forth the light of the Truth by either Doctrine or good example in all places and not to be daunted for the presence of any or the example of the multitude that are otherwise imployed Hitherto hath beene intreated of the Creatures of all sorts some of them being onely spirituall Creatures as the Angels some of them onely bodily creatures as all the rest in Heauen and earth Now followeth that we consider of man who is a creature both spirituall in respect of his soule and corporall in respect of the outward matter of which he consists A creature into whom enters the composition of all the world Nature as it is spirituall and bodily meeting in man for man is the Epitomie of all Gods works and a patterne of the great Vniuerse He is the world abridged or the little world into whose being enters the nature of euery thing without him being a creature partly terrestriall partly celestiall partly mortall partly immortall so as what God made a part in other creatures he makes perfect and ioyntly together in man He had made spirits by themselues and bodies by themselues and then he makes a Creature that should consist of spirit and body ioyned together and therefore as wee haue read in the great Booke of nature which is the world so now we must learne to read in the little Booke of Nature which is man else it will be a shame for vs to know other things and not know our selues He were a sencelesse man that did know curiously all the roomes in other mens Palaces and yet knowes not so much as a corner of his owne dwelling The excellency of Gods workmanship in creating man appeares if we consider his body apart or his soule apart or his body and soule iointly About the body of man God hath done many things more then he did to any other bodily creatures for 1 Whereas all other bodies were created only by saying let them be they were so God did take more special regard of mans body and therefore doth forme it as it were with his owne hands out of the dust of the earth Gen. 2. 7. 2 The body of man now since the Creation is not propagated by the Parents without the wonderfull workmanship of God and therefore all our bodies are said to bee made and fashioned by God as well as Adams Iob 10. 8. Yea it was the Spirit of the strong God that made vs and the breath of the Almighty that put life into vs Iob 33. 4. We are creatures now as well as Adam Marke 16. 15. and Dauid saith He was fearefully and wonderfully made it was a maruellous worke and he was curiously wrought in the wombe Psal 139. 14 15 16. Yea he saith there that God did it by the Booke hauing written it downe from eternity how all his members should be fashioned Euery part of our bodies if wee knew the forming of them would shew a speciall glory of working in God our bones would say Lord who is like to theâ— Psal 35. 10. And as we know not what is the way of the Spirit so we know not how the bones doe grow in the wombe of her that is with childe and so we may say of the rest we know not the workes of God who maketh all Eccles 11. 5. the hearing eare and the seeing eye the Lord hath made euen both of them Prou. 20. 12. It was God onely that clothed vs with skinne and fenced vs with bones and sinewes Iob 10. 11. and so it was God onely that formed the inward parts of mans body hee formed the heart Psalme 33. 15. and the workemanship within mans body was so great that he reserues it as a glory onely to himselfe to know and search the heart and reines of a man and this is the more admirable if we consider that no part of the body is superfluous or idle but euery part hath his function and some excellent worke to doe which function it exerciseth by it selfe for the good of the whole body without medling with the office of the other members which is the more wonderfull if we consider the innumerable parts and parcels of the body of a man Not the least threed or veine in a mans body but it doth some excellent office 1 Cor. 12. 3 God made the body of man in beauty and fairenesse excelling all other visible creatures for both his countenance is lifted vp to Heauen and the parts of his body are with more comlinesse proportioned and his colour is full of sweetnesse and louelinesse Thus it was with man in his Creation and thus and much better it shall bee with his body when hee shall shine as the Starres in the Firmament 4 The body of man had at the first no disposition to wearinesse or sicknesse or death which the bodies of all other liuing Creatures were subiect to This priuiledge mans body had not by nature but by the gift of GOD GOD hauing infused into the body a soule that did her worke in the body perfectly and allowing him such foode as was most effectuall for vegetation and giuing man skill and care to looke to himselfe and if the body in time would haue declined God would haue preuented that by tranflating man to Heauen without sicknesse and death 5. Language is an admirable indowment of the body of man onely who is able to expresse himselfe with infinite variety and distinctions of sound whence flowes all conuersation and delightfull or profitable society But the excellencie of Gods power and glory in the Creation of mans soule who can perfectly recount God hath done wonderfully for man in respect of his soule aboue all other visible creatures for 1. The soule was breathed into the body of man by God himself by speciall inspiration and singular Creation Gen. 2. and neuer was a soule in the body of man but was made of God by his speciall power our bodies may haue earthly fathers but our spirits haue no Father but God Heb. 12. It is God onely that creates and frames the spirit of man within him Zacharie 12. 1. and so man is the generation of God Acts 17. 2. The soule is indued with the light of reason and can discerne things by reasoning and inward discourse seeing things by a light that is Immateriall and with great variety contemplating of things that the senses cannot reach to and finding out strange things euen in those things are presented by the senses
and in respect of her birth and in respect of her preseruation First her Originall in respect of decree is wonderfull because she is vpon record from euerlasting the names of all the members of the Church are particularly written in the booke of life God made an act for her being and aduancement before she was he prouided for her from euerlasting and chose her in his euerlasting grace and loue and this is her originall before time In time shee was in such bondage and misery that she must of necessity be redeemed and purchased out of that vile condition and this purchase is the more wonderfull if we consider either the person by whom or the price by which The Person that redeemed her was no lesse than the Son of God and the price he paid was his owne bloud Acts 20. 28. Her originall in respect of her Birth is also very strange and wonderfull For first she is borne of God not of the blouds of men nor of the will of man but as of God by regeneration fearfully and wonderfully made The world neuer heard of two stranger things than the generation of Christ and the regeneration of the Church of Christ as the Son of God of the Church as it were the daughter of God Secondly she is borne of immortall seed shee is so indued with life that she can neuer die but liue as long as God himselfe 1 Pet. 1. 24. And that seed is the word of God preached to her which makes her all new God hauing chosen a company of men of purpose and separated them by a holy calling to this Ministration euen to sow this seed of immortalitie and eternall life in mens mindes Thirdly in her birth by the mightie working of the Holy Ghost she is qualified with supernaturall gifts such as no other of the children of men can attaine vnto such as are faith and all the gifts of holinesse sauing grace Fourthly the originall of her preseruation also is as wonderfull for her preseruation she hath from Christ her head that doth that for the Church which any naturall head can doe for the bodie This company of men can no more subsist without a head than the naturall or politicall body can It was a law of the Creator that all bodies should liue by their heads in respect of gouernment nourishment and dependance Now the Church hath great cause to reioyce in her Head because first hee is a perpetuall Head that liues in all ages to gouerne and nourish the Church spirituall life being kept afoot in euery age from the beginning of the world till now If the Church had a new Head in euery age then must shee die as often as her Head dieth and be made aliue as often as shee hath a new Head Her Head therefore is alwaies one and the same FINIS AN ALPHABETICALL Index of the most materiall points that are handled in the explanation of the CREED GEntle Reader whereas this Index doth point to the seuerall Folio's wherein vpon perusall thou shalt finde some errors viz. from Folio 64. to 101. Let me intreat thee to correct with thy pen what hath bin mistaken at the Presse so thou shalt make this Index more vsefull vnto thee A. A Bba Father why Christ giues this Title to God page 344 Absence of Christ a fearefull punishment page 527 Sentence of Absolution at the last day page 523 Man infected with Actuall sins page 204 Christ in Adam how page 262 Aduersaries of Christ consult page 326 Our Affections must be set vpon things aboue page 476 Affections in Christ differ from ours page 250 Gods mercy appeares in Afflictions in foure things page 67 God moderates our Afflictions foure waies page 82 Agony of Christ what caused it page 241 It is comfortable in diuers respects page 342 God Almighty in ten respects page 1â—8 Why Almighty attributed to the Father onely page 139 Almightines of God comfortable page 143 Christ Amazeth the Iewes with the impression of his diuinity for three reasons page 348 Angells witnesses of Christs Ascension page 483 Creating of Angels a glorious worke page 156 Their Titles Ibid. Their Substance page 157 Their Place Ibid. Their Number Ibid. Their manner of being and working Ibid. Their knowledge and power page 158 Their Language Ibid. 4. Questions about Angels answered page 159 Angels serue for many vses Ibid. A good Angell to euery elect probable Ibid. No diuine worship due to Angels page 160 Gods Anger pacified page 443 Iustice of Gods Anger shewed towards the godly two waies page 81 Anointing of Christ page 219 What was shadowed out by it Ibid. To what Office hee was Anointed page 220 Christ Anointed to be a Prophet page 221 Strange Apparell page 213 Apparition of Christ He appeared forty daies after his Resurrection page 458 Why he Appeared page 459 To whom he appeared Ibid. He Appeared not to the chiefe Priests and people why page 459 He Appeared to his owne page 460 He Appeared the day of his Resurrection fiue times Ibid. He Appeared to the two Disciples at Emaus who they were page 461 They know him not why page 461 How Christ vanished out of their sight page 462 He Appeared to the Disciples the dores being shut how page 463 His Apparition to Thomas page 464 He Appeared to seuen of the Disciples who were a fishing page 465 His Apparition to 11. Disciples p. page 468 Some of them doubted how page 469 Christ Apprehended why page 350 Christs Arraignement in the Ecclesiasticall court page 350. 358 Arminians confuted page 307. 308 Ascention of Christ How he is said to Ascend page 478 Christ God man Ascended how page 479 How he Ascended Ibid. He Ascended visibly page 480 He Ascended in a cloud why Ibid. He Ascended forty daies after his Resurrection why no sooner page 480 He Ascended from the Mount of Oliues why page 481 He Ascended into Heauen Ibid. He Ascended aboue all heauens how page 482 We must know that Christ Ascended for three reasons page 482 He Ascended for diuers euds page 483 Difference betweene the Ascention of Elias and of our Sauiour page 485 Profit that comes to vs by Christs Ascention Ibid. Christs Ascention procures for vs a threefold Ascention Ibid. Christ Ascending leads our enemies captiue Ibid. Christs Assumption of the humane nature page 265 Gods Attributes how coÌ„municable page 96 Of Gods three Incommunicable Attributes page 97 B. FAll of Babylon page 514 Baptisme Gods broad seale page 472 Baptisme in the name of the Trinity Ibid. Baptisme helps not vnbeleeuers page 473 How Baptized in S. Ambrose time page 14 Forme of Answering at Baptisme in the Primitiue Church page 17 Baptisme not precisely necessary to Saluation page 413 Barrabas is chosen Iesus reiected page 371 Beasts subiect to man page 191 Three things obseruable in Beasts page 189 The Scripture teacheth vs foure things concerning Beasts page 190 Gods prouidence for Beasts appeares in seuen respects page 191 Consideration of Beasts must humble