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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61397	A scheme and abstract of the Christian religion comprized in fifty two heads, with the texts of scripture, on which they are grounded : and some short indications, how they were more largely handled / by a lover of truth and peace.	Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.	1684 (1684)	Wing S5393; ESTC R34601	12,283	30

Are from Eternity 5. Unchangeable 6. Do respect whatsoever comes to pass 7. Reach Persons as well as Things 8. Extend to the Means as well as the End 9. The true Cause of a mans Happiness is Gods Will of his Ruine his Own IX 2. Gods Works in Time are 1 CREATION Gen. 1.1 In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth Princ. In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth Here was handled● 1. The Truth of this Proved 1. From Scripture 2. Demonstration 2. The Nature of Creation that is he made Something out of Nothing and out of that Something All things 3. The Author Almighty God 4. The Object The Heavens and the Earth 5. The Order of every Dayes Work 6. The End to display his Power Wisdom and Goodness X. The other Work of God in Time is 2. His PROVIDENCE Iob 1.21 The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away Princ. The Providence of God hath the perfect disposal of all things below Here 1. The Nature of Divine Providence whereby he Preserves and Orders all his Creatures and their Actions 2. The Certainty thereof Proved from the Nature and Attributes of God the general Order in the World c. 3. The Extent And 4. The Beauty and Excellence of it XI The Principal Objects of Creation and Providence are 1. The ANGELS Coloss. 1.16 For by him were all things created that are in Heaven and that are in Earth visible and invisible whether they be Thrones c. Princ. All the Angels were created by the Word of God Here 1. Their Being was proved 2. Their Creation demonstrated 3. Their Nature opened They are immortal compleat Spirits created after the Image of God for his special Service 4. Their Knowledge Natural Experimental Revealed 5. Their Power 6. Their Number 7. Their Kinds 1. The Good Angels who are those Heavenly Spirits Who being confirmed by the grace of God continued their integrity 2. The Evil the contrary XII The other Principal Creature is 2. Man whom consider 1. Severally in his Fourfold Estate And 1. MAN in INNOCENCY Eccles. 7.29 God made man upright Princ. Man was created at first an upright and happy Creature Here was shewed 1. The Nature of Man who is a Living Creature indued with Reason He consists of Body and Soul 2. His Creation 3. His Uprightness being made in the Image of God 1. In his Natural Endowments 2. In his Supernatural 4. His Happiness Inward and Outward XIII Mans Personal Estate being handled Now his Covenant Estate And here THE COVENANT OF WORKS Genes 2.17 For in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye Princ. Upon the Creation of Man God entred into Covenant with him Here was shewed 1. What is a Covenant a mutual agreement between Parties whereby mutual Obligations are contracted 2. That there was a Covenant 3. What was this Covenant whereby God did promise to bestow all Happines● on Adam and his posterity● on condition of perfect Obedience and did threaten the contrary upon his disobedience 4. The End and Use of it 5. The Quality of it Equal Honourable and Advantagious 6. How long the Duration of it XIV Mans next Estate is that by the Fall where 1. His Sin And here 1. ORIGINAL SIN IMPUTED Rom. 5.12 For that all have sinned Princ. Adam and all his Posterity in Him sinned against God in Paradise Here was shewed 1. What Sin is the transgression of Gods Law 2. The Nature of Adams Sin against the Law of Nature and a Positive Law 3. The Time of it 4. The Cause Outward Satan Inward the Will of Man 5. The Heinousness of it 6. It s Derivation to us by imputation through an haereditary and a Covenant right XV. 2. ORIGINAL SIN INHERENT follows Iohn 3.6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh Princ. Original Corruption is in all men by their Natural Generation Here 1. It s Nature It is that Natural Corruption which defiles all Mankind whereby they are wholly averse to all Good and prone to all Evil. 2. It s Certainty Proved from the Death of Infants the Necessity of Regeneration the Confession of the Saints Express Scripture and sad Experience 3. It s Seat in the Body and Soul 4. It s Evil for it is Universal Secret Active Mortal and Inseparable 5. It s Derivation As Sin by Natural Generation and so Christ exempted XVI Next by the Fall comes 2. Mans MISERY by it Ephes. 2.3 And were by nature the children of wrath even as others Princ. All men by Nature are the Children of wrath in a miserable Condition This Misery is 1. Privative of the Image of God Of Communion with God Of Comfortable Relation to him 2. His Positive Misery is 1. comprehended in the Wrath of God 2. Declared in the Curse of the Law which Indicts Convicts Sentences Terrifies him 3. Executed in that Death threatned Temporal Spiritual and Eternal This Misery descends upon us by Nature And to it all are Obnoxious XVII Now follow Mans Third Estate viz. Of Recovery where the COVENANT of GRACE Rom. 5.21 Even so grace might reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Iesus Christ our Lord. Princ. The Grace of God hath sixt upon a way of Recovery for lost Man by Iesus Christ. Here was declared 1. That God was so wise and good that he would not lose the whole Species of Mankind 2. He judged it most fit to relieve him by way of Covenant 3. This is a Covenant of Grace And why 4. Herein there was a necessity for a Mediator 5. This Covenant is between God and Man 6. All adult Persons that accept hereof are obliged to Conditions 7. The Manifestation of this Covenant hath been gradual 8. It is but one and the same Covenant of Grace from Adam to the end of the World 9. This the happiest Covenant that ever was made with Man 10. Our Children are included in it XVIII The Covenant of Grace before Christs coming was administred under the Law And here of the LAWS of GOD. Rom. 7.12 Wherefore the Law is holy and the Commandment holy just and good Princ. The Will of God revealed in his Law was Holy Iust and Good 1. God hath revealed his Will 1. By his Law ingraven in Mans Heart 2. By the Law Written which is either Moral or Mosaical and This Ceremonial and Judicial 2. An Abstract of these Laws 1. Of the Ceremonial in Sacred Persons and Sacred Things and Sacred Times 2. Of the Judicial being reducible to the Commandments which do make up 3. The Moral 3. The use of these Laws severally 4. The Excellency of them Holy Just Good 5. Duration of them The Ceremonial to the Death of Christ The Judicial to the destruction of Ierusalem The Moral to the end of the World XIX As this Covenant is administred under the Gospel we 1. Consider CHRISTS PERSON and NATURES 1 Tim. 3.16 God manifest in the flesh Princ. The Son of God became Man for our Redemption Here was shewed 1. That Jesus