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A16497	God and man. Or, a treatise catechisticall wherein the sauing knowledge of God and man is plainely, and breifely declared, whereby such as are ignorant may be helped, to heare sermons with profit, to reade the Bible or other bookes with iudgement, to receiue the Lords Supper with comfort, to discerne betweene truth and error, with vnderstanding, and to giue an answere to their minister, or any other that shall aske them a reason of their faith, with readinesse. Collected out of the sacred Scriptures, and the most orthodoxe and best approued diuines ancient and moderne, for the good of such as desire to be made wise to saluation, and heires of eternall life. By I.B. preacher of the Word.	Boughton, John, preacher of the word.	1623 (1623)	STC 3410; ESTC S106544	88,185	194

Ioh. 5. 16 17. pardonable l 1 Tim. 5 2 4. some for euer u Mat. 12.31 Marke 3.28 29. Luke 12.10 Heb. 6.6 1 Ioh. 5.16 17. vnpardonable namely the sinne against the Holy Ghost I. Are all actuall sinnes of equall or alike guilt c B. No. But some are x Ezek. 16.47 Mat 5.22 7.3 4 5. Iohn 15.24 Iohn 19.11 1 Tim. 5.8 2 Pet. 2.20 21. greater some smaller some in a higher degrée offensiue and more hainous before God some lesse Yet so as that the least that can be committed or named is y Rom. 6.23 Gal. 3.10 Ezek. 18.20 mortall and damnable of it owne nature if it bee not pardoned through Christ I. You said that actuall sinnes were such as are committed against the Commandements of God tell mee therefore which are those Commandements you speake of B. They are those ten recorded in order in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus 1. Thou shalt haue none other gods before mee 2. Thou shalt not make to thee any grauen image nor the likenesse of any thing that is in Heauen aboue c. I. Haue you sufficient power perfectly to keepe and fulfill all the commandements of God as you ought B. No z Eccles 7.22 Psal 19 12. Iames 3.2 in no wise neither any man liuing bee hee neuer so holy but euen the most righteous that are doe breake them euery day in thought word and deede yea in the most a Nehem. 13.22 Esay 6 4.6 Reuel 8 3. perfect and holiest performances that procéede from them they grieuously offend against them I. What punishment doe they make themselues lyable vnto which breake any of these Commandements B. To b Gen. 3.17 18 19. Leuit. 26.14 15 c. Deut. 28.15 c. all the miseries woes crosses plagues and calamities of this present life to c Rom. 5.12.14 1 Cor. 15.55 5 6. death of body in the end of this life and to d Deut. 27.26 Ezek. 18.20 Rom. 6.23 euerlasting and inconceiuable torments both of body and soule after this life in Hell fire All this and no lesse is the deserued punishment of euery euen the lest breach of any of these Commandements though it be but in wish desire or thought and that but once onely and no more during the whole time of our soiourning here in this world I. How can this be B. Because the author and giuer of these Commandements is an e 1 Tim. 1.17 eternall f Gen. 18.14 omnipotent g Psal 139 7.8 c. 147.5 infinite and h Psal 145.3 incomprehensible Maiestie euen God the high i Gen. 14.22 possessor of Heauen and earth the King of k 1 Tim 6.15 Kings and Lord of Lords I. Yea but God is most mercifull gracious and full of compassion he will not nay he cannot therefore punish sinne so extreamely B. It is true indéede God is excéeding l Exod. 34.6 Psal 103.8 Psal 145 9. mercifull yea infinite in mercy and compassion but it is also as true that he is excéeding m Exod 34.7 Iob 34.10.11.12 iust and as infinite in iustice as in mercy and therefore cannot punish sinne with a lesse then an infinite and eternall punishment For this iustice requires that the punishment bee proportionable to the offence which takes it greatnesse not from the person by whom it is done neither from the thing about which it is conuersant nor yet from the time in which it is finished but from the quality dignity and eminency of the person against whom and whose lawes it is committed and by this is to be measured Moreouer God is most n Deut. 32.4 Num 23 19 20 Iohn 14.6 true of his Word yea o truth it selfe hee therefore hauing said that the fore recited punishment all and euery part of it shall be the reward of euery sinne it is as impossible that it should receiue any easier recompence as it is that he p 1 Sam. 15.29 Tit. 1 2. should lie or denie himselfe Of Mans estate of grace by Iesus Christ I. BVt is there no remedy for vs who by the sinne of our first parents and our owne personall originall and actuall transgressions which are innumerable are subiect to all this woe and misery you haue mentioned whereby wee may be deliuered from this dreadfull and damnable condition B. In q Exod 34.7 Ps 49 6 7 8 9. Mich. 6.6 ● Mat. 16.26 1 Pet. 1.18 our selues or any méere creature in Heauen or in earth or ought that wee or they can doe none at all Howbeit God out of his infinite loue to mankind r Iohn 3.16 1 Iohn 4.9.10.11 hath ſ Ephes 1.4 1 Pet. 1.20 appointed and in his Word reuealed a most effectuall meanes which whosoeuer make right vse of they shall not onely be saued from all their sinnes and the eternall and infinite wrath of God due vnto the same but also be possessed of a farre more happy estate then euer in t Psal ●30 7.8 Luke 20.36 Iohn 10.10 Rom 5.17 Adam they were created in Mat. 20.28 Iohn 14.6 10 10. Acts 4 10. 20 28. Rom. 3.23.24 Gal. .13 Ephes 2.14 15. Col 1.14.20 1 Tim. 1.15 I. What is that meanes which God hath appointed for this purpose B. Iesus Christ and his merits I. What is this Iesus Christ B. Hee is the u Iohn 1.14 3.16 onely begotten sonne of God the x Mat. 28.19 1 Iohn 1.7 second person of Trinity who of y Gen. 3.15 Luke 1.31 the séede of the z Esay 7. ●4 Mat. 1.20.21 c. Virgin Mary a Mat 1.20 Luke 1.34 35. sanctifyed by the Holy Ghost b Heb. 2.16 17. Phil. 2.6 7 8. assumed and the same personally vnited vnto his Deity a true humane c Iohn 1.14 Heb 10.15 body indued with a reasonable d Mat. 26.38 Marke 14 34. soule and so in e Iohn 3.13 1 Tim. 3.16 one and the same person became true f Esay 7.14 Iohn 1.1 God and true g 1 Cor. 15.21.47 1 Tim. 2 5. Man in all things h Heb 2.17 4.15 like vnto vs i 2 Cor. 5.21 Heb. 4.15 1 Pet. 2.22 sinne onely excepted I. How are the two natures of Christ his Godhead and Manhood vnited together B. In such sort as the one cannot be l Iohn 3.13 Ephes 4.10 11. seuered from the other neither is m Rom. 1.3 4. 9.5 1 Tim. 3.16 1 Pet. 4.1 Luke 2 52. Marke 13.32 Iohn 2.19.24.25 4.6 10 17 18 21.17 Acts 3.21 2 Cor. 13.4 mixed nor confounded with either conuerted into the other but so as both remaine really and truly distinct one from the other both in essence properties wils actions and operations I. Was it necessary that our Redeemer should be thus God and Man in one person B. Yes altogether for otherwise he could neuer haue wrought the worke of our redemption I. For what cause was it