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A75804	Scripture manifestation of the equalitty of the Father, Sonne, and Holy-Ghost. VVherein is above an hundred particulars by parralell places of Scripture, this truth is clearely confirmed; namely that the Scriptures manifest the Sonne, and Holy Ghost to be God equall with the Father, by ascribing to them such names, attributes, works, and worship, as are proper to God alone. / By Beniamin Austin, pastor of the Church of God at Castle-Ashbey in Northamptonshire.	Austin, Benjamin.	1650 (1650)	Wing A4242; Thomason E1218_1; ESTC R210122	135,284	243

Phil. 2.7 He tooke not on him the Nature of Angels but tooke on him the forme of Abraham Heb. 2.15 Here are two Natures in Christ First the Nature emptying himselfe and assuming Secondly the Nature taken and assumed He tooke not on him the Nature of Angels he was no created Spirit as they are but he tooke on him the Seed of Abraham and therefore surely he was before he tooke this Nature of man on him and so he testifieth of himselfe Joh. 8.58 He tooke part of our flesh and blood Heb. 2.14 He made himselfe partaker of that which was ours that we might more easily take part of that which was his Thirdly the Holy-●host formed his body This the Evangelist affirmeth Mat. 1.18 so the Angel foretold to Mary Luk. 1.35 and likewise telleth Joseph Mat. 1.20 and we acknowledge in the Creed that he was conceived by the Holy-Ghost Thus the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost equall in Power and glory are one and the same efficient Cause of Christs Incarnation which was terminated in the second Person they wrought the Mantle of his Humanitie which he put on who continuing that he was is made that he was not And indeed fit it was that he by whom man was crea●ed should restore as it were recreate man Joh. 1.3.4 Col. 1.16 Thus was the Maker of the earth made man on the earth He that was the brightnesse of Glory tooke upon him the vilenesse of our Nature The Lord Jesus who was in the fo me of God and equall with God tooke on him the forme of a servant Phil. 2.6 7. and made little lower then some of his owne Creatures Heb. 2.7 He that was infinitely more excellent from all Eternitie then Angels made himselfe a little while inferiour to Angels that he might make us like unto Angels Mat. 22. Oh that we had the tongue of Men and Angels to sing forh his praise who thus humbled himselfe that he might exalt us that he to whom the Angels minister Mat. 4. and doe worship Heb. 1.6 for our sakes should as it were leave the Mansions of heaven and take up his first Lodging in a Stall and be crouded in a Manger and swadled in a few ragges such was the riches of his grace towards us that though he were rich yet for our sakes he became poore that we through his povertie might be rich 2 Cor. 8.9 CHAP. III. The Attestation or the Witnesse hearing of the Messiah was the Worke of the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost THe attestation of the Word that he was the Messiah of the World was a Worke of God Fit it was the Sonne of God should receive testimony from God he received not testimony from men Joh. 5.31 God bare witnesse that he was the Saviour of the World Angels and holy men bare witnesse of him secondarily as Gods Messengers to us but God is that witnesse on which our faith must depend Gal 1.8 If we receive the witnesse of men the witnesse of God is greater this is the witnesse of God which he hath testified of his Sonne Joh. 5.9 And surely the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost bare witnesse to us of the Messiah First the Father bare witnesse of him So the Lord Christ assureth us Joh. 5.37 The Father which hath sent me hath borne witnesse of me Joh. 8.18 He testified of him at his Baptisme Mat. 3.17 and at his transfiguratio● Mat. 17.5 Secondly the Sonne indeed as man had no power to beare witnesse of himselfe Joh. 5.13 yet as God he testified of himselfe Joh. 8.18 and did justifie his own testification Joh. 8.16 17 18. who together with his Father witnessed that he was the Messiah Joh. 4.26 Joh. 5.17 Joh. 10.25 and that God was his Father and he his Sonne Joh. 5. Joh. 6. Joh. 10. yea the Lord Jesus telleth the Jewes Except ye beleeve that I am ye shall dye in your sinnes where the Lord stileth himselfe I am a Name peculiar to God Exod. 3.14 and telleth the Jewes they must beleeve it unlesse they will dye eternally Let these that fight against the Divinitie of the Lord that bought them seriously weigh this and other places where he stileth himselfe thus who say that Christ never professed himselfe to be God or tooke any Name of God on him Thirdly the Holy-Ghost bare witnesse of Christ so he telleth his Disciples He shall testifie of me Joh. 15.26 He shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you Joh. 16.14 and the Apostles shew the Jewes that the Holy-Ghost did beare witnesse of Christ Act. 5.32 who bare witnesse of him at his Baptisme by descending on Christ Mat. 3.16 Luk 3.22 Joh. 1.33 and after Christs ascention by dessending on the Apostles and Disciples of Christ Act. 2. Act. 8. Act. 10. Act. 19. There are three that beare record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy-Ghost and these three are one 1 Joh. 5.7 not onely one Witnesse but one God which Text of Scripture because it is a notable Pilate to steere the Ship of the Church in sayling between the Rocks of Arrianisme den●ing Unitie and of Sabellianisme opposing the Trinitie the ●nemies of the truth have therefore endeavoured to destroy it rasing this Text and others out of the Scriptures Thus the Arrians did corrupt this too and other Texts even as Jerome complaineth who notwithstanding citeth this place against th●m so doth Fulgentius and Epiphonius yea Cipryan in Lib. de unitate Eccles who lived before Arrius rehearseth it and Athanasius cited it against Arrius in the Nicene Councell as Junius observeth and it is to be found in the most Ancient Copies both Greek and Latine and is so sutable to the matter the Apostle treateth of and so fitly answering the eight and ninth Verses of the same Chapter and so consonant to the word that there is no reason to thinke this an addition to the Canon of the Scriptures CHAP. IV. The Vocation of Christ to the Office of a Mediator was a Worke of the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost THe Vocation of Christ to his Mediator-ship and the sending of him to preach was a Worke of God alone The Lord Jesus being to offer himselfe a Sacrifice for the sinnes of the World wherein he was both Priest and Sacrifice glorified not himselfe to be made an High Priest Heb. 5.3 as man he tooke not this Office on him for no man taketh this Honour on him but he that was called of God as was Aaron Heb. 5.4 as he was the Sonne of Man he was called of God an High Priest Heb. 5.10 but as God being one with the Father and the Holy-Ghost so he voluntarily undertooke this Office the efficient Cause of this Act was the whole Trinitie First the Father sent him to preach our Saviour speaking to the Jewes saith My Doctrine is not mine but his that sent me Joh. 7.16 He made him an high Priest who said Thou art my Sonne to day have I begotten thee

soule-comforting graces that are therein First the Father witnesseth it to us he sendeth forth his Spirit into our hearts whereby we cry Abba Father Gal. 4.6 Secondly the Sonne witnesseth it to us he is the true and faithfull witnesse Rev. 3.16 Rev. 1.5 he witnesseth in us our salvation 1 Cor. 1.6 and testifyeth to us the comfort that are in his word Thirdly the Holy-Ghost witnesseth it to us he beareth witnesse with our spirits that we a●e the Children of God Rom. 8.16 There is three that beare record in heaven which doe not onely testifie Christ to be the Messiah or Saviour of the world but also to be our Messiah and Saviour the Father the Word and the Holy-Ghost and these three are one 1 Joh. 5.7 one God one witnesse Yea our Saviour Christ speaketh of this testimony plurally Joh. 3.11 we speake that we doe know and testifie that we have seene and ye receive not our witnesse a place not to be paralelld in the Evangelists where our Saviour speaketh plurally not in the name of John Baptist or the Prophets for their authority could no way adde to his neither did he receive testimony from man Joh. 5.34 where he spake it most peculiarly in regard of John Joh. 5.33 but he spake in his Fathers name and also in the Holy Spirits name whose testimony and authority he oft urged Joh. 5.32 Joh. 8.18 Luk. 4.18 19. and surely if Angel or Archangel or any Creature in heaven or in earth should onely witnesse our salvation to ●s in Christ we might then doubt but why should we doubt when the Lord himselfe witnesseth it First by word calling us in Scriptures his Children Secondly by deeds working in us grace which are the fruits of his spirit Gal. 5.22 and Thirdly by seale as I shall now shew ratifying it to our soules Eph. 1.13 CHAP. XVIII Sealing of us is a Worke of the Father of the Sonne and of the Holy-Ghost FIrst sealing is a note of appropriation we worke that which is our own and that which we have confirmed and sealed we doe account it our own now these whom the Lord chooseth to himselfe he sealeth The Lord knoweth who are his having this seale 2 Tim 2.9 Secondly sealing is a signe of distinction Lawyers cause seales to be put to Evidences Merchants set markes on their wares and Shepheards have brands for their sheep to know and distinguish them Thus Christ in a peculiar manner is sealed of God the Father Joh 6.27 and all the Elect are seal●d in him Eph. 1.4 Thirdly sealing is a worke of conforming There is a likenesse of the seale imprinted on the thing sealed and surely when the childe of God is sealed of God there is then an Image of God wrought on his soule God therefore sealeth us First to appropriate us as his own Secondly to distinguish us from others Thirdly to conforme us to his own Image which worke of sealing us is wrought by one God in three Persons First God the Father sealeth us so the Apostle sheweth Eph. 1.13 2 Cor. 1.22 Secondly the Sonne sealeth us Ezek. 9.3 4. He is the Angel of the Covenant Mal. 3.1 that hath the seale of the living God Rev. 7.2 who though an Angel by name yet is he not an Angel but a Sonne by nature Heb 2.16 Heb. 1.3 to 13. where the Apostle distinguisheth the creating Sonne from the created Angels plainly proving the Sonne to be the Creatour but Angels to be but creatures Thirdly the Holy-Ghost sealeth us Grieve not the Holy spirit of God by which we are sealed to the day of redemption Eph. 4.30 where the Apostle meeteth with two contrary errours First the Righteous after their calling may fall into sinne and so grieve the spirit God yet Secondly they cannot fall totally and finally for they are sealed by the spirit of God to the day of redemption Sealing of us therefore is the Worke of one God who is one in Power Will and Operation who sealeth his Children in their hearts confirming them thereby to his own Image and also sealing them in their foreheads imboldening them to professe him By the former he maketh us to love him by the latter he causeth us to acknowledge him CHAP. XIX Christian Libertie is a Worke of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy-Ghost BEing Redeemed Justified Adopted and Sanctified and sealed by God we have the glorious Liberty of the children of God We that were Bondmen by nature Tit. 3.3 Eph. 2.2 3. become the Lords freemen through gtace 1 Cor. 7.22 Lawyers tell us that if any Lord of a Mannor doe contract with his Villain 〈◊〉 is by that Act of his Lords d●liv●●●●● from his most slavish tenure of Villenage and made free thereby surely the Lord our God condescending so low as to covenant with us in Christ he doth thereby free us from that slavish tenure we held by since Adams fall and maketh us therewith free Denizens of Heaven fellow-Citizens of the Saints and of the houshold of God Eph. 2.19 we are freed from sinne Rom. 6.22 Rom. 6.14 Rom. 8.33 we are set at libertie from Satan Heb. 2.14 15. Luk. 11.21 22. from the Law Rom. 7.3 6. Gal. 5.18 Rom. 6.18 from it's curses and maledictions Gal. 3.13 from it's condemnation Rom. 8.1 and from its rigour Gal. 3.10 there was Personall Universall Actuall and Constant obedience required in every title which left no place of repentance Repentance being an Evangelicall grace the proper priviledge of the covenant of grace Christ came from heaven to publish it Luk. 5.31 32. Mat. 4.17 he shed his bloud to purchase it Act. 5.31 he bids his Disciples to preach it Luk. 24.47 and surely therefore it cannot be legall the apostatizing Angels had not the benefit of it nor man till Christ had purchased it Christ hath freed us from this rigour of the Law and from the wrath of God Rom. 5.9 1 Thes 1.10 This Worke is a Worke of God none could effect it But First the Father procureth us Liberty He delivereth us from captivity Paul giveth thanks to God for it Rom. 7.24 25. where God is taken Essentially and not Personally for the Sonne and Holy-Ghost free us from our slavish captivity together with the Father Secondly the Sonne procureth us Liberty Gal. 5.1 Stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free There are two things which the Lord hath entrusted in his Churches hand First christian faith for which we must earnestly contend Jude ver 3. Secondly christian Liberty in which we must stand fast The Apostle calleth it the Libertie we have in Christ Gal. 2.4 which is Christian liberty not onely because we must use it to the glory of Christ and according to his rules but because he is the Author of it If the Sonne make you free then are you free indeed Joh. 8.36 he delivereth us who through feare of death were all our lifetime subject to bondage Heb. 2.15 Thirdly the Holy-Ghost giveth us liberty 2

Heb. 5.5 who was called of God an high Priest after the Order of Melchizedeck Heb. 5.10 where it is observeable that Christ as man is said to be a Priest after the Order of Melchizedeck Heb. 5.6 10. Heb. 6.20 Heb. 7.17 but as Christ was the Sonne of God so Melchizedeck is said to be made like unto him a Priest continually Heb. 7.3 Secondly the Sonne of God made himselfe of no reputation Phil. 2.7 He voluntarily undertooke this Office for so he testified For this cause came I into the World that I should beare witnesse unto the Truth Joh. 18.37 Loe I come to doe thy will O God Heb. 10.8 Thirdly the Holy-Ghost sent him He was led by the Spirit into the Wildernesse Luk. 4.1 and returned in the power of the Spirit unto Galilee Luk. 4.14 and was sent by the Spirit to preach the Gospell to the poore and anointed by him with gifts without measure Luk. 4.18 Act. 10.38 Thus there is one inseparable and undivided Working of the Father the Sonne and Holy-Ghost as there is one insepparable and undivided Nature of them CHAP. V. Christs power as man to worke Miracles was a Worke of the Father of the Sonne and of the Holy-Ghost THe Miracles tbat Christ wrought when he lived on the earth were wrought by the power of God Joh. 10.38 God did them by him Act. 2.22 they were wrought First by the power of the Father The Lord telleth the Jewes many good Workes have I shewed you from the Father Joh. 10.32 the Father that is in me he doth the Workes Joh. 14.10 the Sonne doth nothing but what he seeth the Father doe Joh. 5.19 He gave Christ the Workes that he did to finish Joh. 5.36 Secondly by the Divine Power of the Sonne whatsoever things the Father doth these also doth the Sonne likewise Joh. 5.19 Thus by his owne Power he tooke on him the forme of a servant Phil. 2.6 Heb. 2.16 in his Incarnation he raised up his owne Body in his Resurrection Joh. 2.19 he exalted his owne Body and Soule into heaven in his Ascention Eph. 4.8 9. 1 Pet. 3.21 He manifested his glory in his Miracles Joh. 2.11 As man he had no power of himselfe to doe Miracles but it was given him and in regard of his humane Nature he was Anoint●d of God with the Holy-Ghost and with power Act. 10.38 But the Man-hood being united to the second Person of the God-head he both received power of God as he was man and he had power of himselfe as he was God to worke Miracles and therefore in many Miracles which he wrought he manifested both his Natures as in curing of him that was Dumbe and Deafe Mar. 7.34 He looketh up to heaven and sigheth as Man but he commanded as God be opened In healing the Leper Mat. 8.3 to confound Manicheus denying him to be Man he touched him and to confute Arrius denying him to be God he commanded I will be thou cleane manifesting that he and none other cured him when he and none other touched him in raising Lazarus he prayeth as man but commandeth as God Joh. 11.41.43 Christ did oft cure without Prayer but yet sometimes he prayed and that for our sakes First that we might know he was sent from God Joh. 11.45 Secondly that he might teach us what to doe when we undertake any weightie imployment As for that where it is said that he could doe no great Worke there because of their unbeliefe Mar. 6.4 Mat. 13.58 We must consider there is a twofold Power in God First an absolute Power so the Lord can doe any thing if the doing thereof imployeth not a contradiction Secondly a limited Power which is limited by his Will and Decree thus God by his absolute Power could have destroyed Sodome when Lot was in it by his limited power he could not Gen. 19.22 Christ likewise by his absolute Power could have wrought Miracles in these unbeleeving Cities but in regard of his limited power he could not because it stood not with his good will and pleasure in the like manner God could by his absolute Power have removed the Cup from Christ as Christ sheweth Mar. 14.36 All things were possible to God That therefore which as Matthew puts it if it be possible hath telation to Gods limited Power Mat. 26.36 which is limited by his will and therefore Luke well explaineth it Lu. 22.42 Father if thou be willing the unbeliefe therefore of the Capernaumites did not make Christ unable to doe but it made them unfit to receive it did not diminish Christs Divine power but their owne mercies which they might have recived if they would have believed for as faith on the one side stayeth Gods hand from executing Vengeance Exod. 32.10 so unbeliefe on the other side stayeth Gods hand from reaching forth mercies Thirdly by the power of the Holy-Ghost If I saith Christ by the Spirit of God cast out Divels then is the Kingdome of God come to you Mat. 12.28 Jesus was anointed with the Holy-Ghost and with power and went about doing good c. Act. 10.38 Father Sonne and Holy-Ghost therefore have one and the same power of working Miracles yea that was done by the power of the Father and of the holy-Ghost of whom it is said there went vertue and healed them all Luk 6.19 Mar. 5.30 whose Workes when the people saw it is said they were all amazed at the mightie power of God Luk. 9.43 yea he telleth you that they were his Workes and his Fathers which he did doe Joh 10.37 38. CHAP. VI. Christs Death and Passion that it might be a Ransome for the sinnes of the world was a Work of Father Sonne and Holy-Ghost CHrists Death and Passion that it might be a Ransome for the sinnes of the World was a Worke of God God was in Christ reconciling the world to himselfe 2 Cor. 5.19 He made our sinnes his sinnes that he might make his Righteousnesse our Righteousnesse for he made him to be sinne for us who knew no sinne that we might be made the Righteousnesse of God in him 2 Cor. 5 2● where the Apostle by an Hebrewisme calleth the expiation of siinne by sacrifice sinne chata is to sinne but chitte in pihel is to expiate sinne Christ bare the punishment of sinne and became an offering for sinne for us that we which had sinned might in and through him have our Consciences purged from dead Workes and we which were defiled therewith might be washed by the blood of Christ 1 Joh. 1.7 Rev. 1.5 wherein we may see a Worke of the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost First the Father gave us his Sonne the Lord Christ Joh. 3.16 God so loved the wo●ld that he gave his onely begotten Sonne Rom. 8.32 He spared ●ot his owne Sonne but delivered him up for us all 1 Joh. 4.10 He sent his Sonne to be a propitiation for our sinnes Herod Pontius-Pilate the Gentiles and the Jewes did that to Christ which Gods hand and his Counsell