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A54381 An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols. Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Nicols, Thomas. 1654 (1654) Wing P1560; ESTC R36667 64,041 216

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resting from the work of sin Exod. 31. 13. Ezek. 20. 12. And of the blessed rest of the faithfull in the Kingdom of Heaven Heb. 4. 10. Isa. 66. 23. And as it was observed the seventh day after the Creation of the World and was then solemnized with other Ceremonies Numb. 28. 9. But in the light of the * Gospel the Ceremony of the Sabbath is ceast colloss. 2. 16. 17. The Sabbath was by the Apostles translated from the seventh day to the day following Act. 20. 7. 1 Cor. 16. 1. 2. And this day is called the Lords day because our Saviour rose again there on Rev. 1. 10. The Sabbath is moral as it is a certain seventh day to preserve and conserve the Ministry of the word and the solemn worship of God in the holy assemblelies of the Church and for this cause we as well as the Jews are upon this day enjoyned rest from our vocations Isai 58. 13. It is also moral because servants and Cattel are on this day freed from their labours In this Commandment we are not forbidden any holy things or things of present necessity as the preservation of life or the maintaining of the glory of God or a Sabbath days journey Act. 1. 12. Or journeys unto the Prophets or places appointed unto the worship and service of God 2 Kings 4. 23. Or works of mercy in the securing either of life or goods Matth. 12. 12. Or provision of meat or drink Matth. 12. 1. Or watering of Cattel Luke 13. 15. Or curing of diseases as did Christ and his Apostles by praying and calling upon the Name of God Or the necessary voyages of Marriners Or the tending of a flock by shepherds Or the necessary imployments of Medicines Mark 2. 27. The Negative part of this Commandment is this We must not pollute the Sabbath of the Lord Matt. 24. 20. Lament. 1. 7. Levit. 19. 30. We are here forbidden the works of all ordinary callings and all unnecessary things Exod. 16. 29. As fairs on the Sabbath day Nehem. 13. 19. All manner of Husbandry plowing sowing reaping mowing and bringing in of Harvest Exod. 34. 21. All jests scurrility sports revellings all manner of Prophanes and Hypocrisie The fifth Commandment Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy days may be long upon the land which thy Lord thy God giveth thee The Affirmative part of this is this Here is commanded reverence or civil respect to the aged and gray hairs where it is found in the way of holiness Levit. 19. 32. wisdom 4. 8. 9. Prov. 16. 31. Obedience to the Lawfull commands of Parents Rom. 1. 30. Eph. 6. 1. 1 Pet. 2. 9. And relief of them when they stand in need 2 Tim. 3. 3. Here we are commanded to obey superiours yea though cruel but not in wickedness Rom. 13. 1. 2. 1 Pet. 2. 13. 14. 18. Act. 4 19. 1 Pet. 2. 19. 20. Genes 16. 6. 9. Colloss. 3. 23. 24. Rom. 13. 1. 2. And to pray for Superiours for Elders that rule well and for such as are in Authority 1 Tim. 2. 1. 2. and 5. 17. We are here commanded to salute one another with holy signs 1 Pet. 5. 14. Rom. 16. 16. Thus did Moses salute Jethro Exod. 18. 7. Jacob the Shepherds Genes 29. 4. And Boaz the reapers Ruth 2. 4. Here Superiours are commanded to carry themselves as brethren to inferiours Deut. 17. 20. As did Iob to his servants as did Naaman to Elisha 2 Kings 5. 13. 14. They must be as lights to shine before others by good example of a blameless life Tit. 2. 2. 3. 1 Pet. 5. 3. Phil. 4. 9. They must rule in the Lord Deut. 17. 19. Collos. 4. 1. They must provide good things both for the bodies Souls of those that are under authority Rom. 13. 4. Isai 49. 23. Psal. 13 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. They must punish light faults by rebukes and great faults by correction First In punishing They must make a diligent enquiry and examination concerning the fault committed Secondly they must discover to the parties offending the grievousness of their Crimes that they may be sensible of the evils they have done Thirdly they must defer and omit punishment in hope of amendment Eccls. 7. 23. 1 Sam. 10. 27. Fourthly they must punish in Gods Name and not in their own and that with an holy reverence Deut. 25. 2. And as did Joshua Achan Josh. 7. 19. 25. Fifthly in their punishing they must aim onely at the glory of God and the best good of the Soul of the party offending as Prov. 20. 30. Parents are here commanded to provide for the good estate of their Children 1 Tim. 5. 10. Cruelty must not be used in punishing Eph. 6. 4. 9. Jam. 2. 13. Here we are commanded as concerning our selves to preserve the gifts and graces God hath put into us Phil. 4. 8. Men do offend against themselves when they do extinguish the gifts of God Matth. 25. 2. 26. Natural Parents and Superiours are no otherwise to be obeyed but in the Lord Eph. 5. 1. 1 Pet. 2. 9. By Parents here is meant natural Parents Magistrates Ministers Elders and such as excell in gifts of God To the four first of these men do ordinarily give honour and they receive it as their due Joh. 5. 44. But Christians faithfull men and true believers are by the command of Christ forbidden to call any man Father upon Earth Matt. 23. 9. Or to esteem of themselves one greater then another or to go about to take upon themselves any Authority or Dominion one over another Matth 18. 4. and 20. 25. 26. The Negative part Here contempt of Superiours are forbidden Genes 9. 22. Prov. 30. 17. Exo● 117. And disobedience Rom. 1. 30. 2 Tim. 3. 2. Gen. 6. 2. 28. 8. 9. Parents are here forbidden cruelty to their Children either in correction threatning or provocation Eph. 6. 4. 9. Servants are here forbidden stubborness Titus 2. 6. And deceitfulness Tit. 2. 10. To fly from their Masters 16. 6. 9. To resist lawfull Authority 1 Pet. 2. 20. And to obey unlawfull commands Gen. 39. 12. Act. 4. 19. Here is forbidden The rebellious disobliging of Children their lawfull duties to Parents Matth. 15. 4. 5. 1 Tim. 5. 4. And the disobliging of such as are now subjects Their lawfull obedience to Princes as 1 Sam. 26. 8. 9. Here we are forbidden to offend our equals either in word or deed Matth. 20. 20. 21. 24. The sixth Commandment Thou shalt not kill The Affirmative part of this is this Here we are commanded to preserve the wellfare of our Neighbour both in body and in Soul Rom. 12. 15. Job 29. 15. 2 Cor. 8. 3. Joh. 11. 25. Isai 24. 16. To help him in his straights to the utmost of our powers and that speedily Prov. 3. 28. Levit. 19. 17. To help him to bear his troubles by taking part with him sharing with him in his adversities Ps. 119. 136. Isai
Revealed 3. Experimental The Ministry of the Angels is three fold either to adore or to praise or to glorifie God continually To this purpose do they stand in the presence of God ever more ready to do his Commandments as Isai 6. 2. Luke 2. 14. Rev. 5. 11. 12. Ps. 103. 20. Dan. 7. 9. 10. Part of the Ministry of Angels respecteth the Church for they are Ministring Spirits sent forth of God to Minister for the good of those that shall be heirs of salvation Heb. 1. 14. For the good of all these they Minister first in this life 2. In the end of this life and 3. In the last judgement In this life they watch for the good of their bodies and for the good of their Souls and that from the beginning of their days to the end of them Psal. 34. 7. In the end of this life they carry the Souls to Heaven as they did the Soul of Lazarus Luke 16. 22. In the last judgement they do gather all the Elect together that they may come before Christ and so enter into Eternal fruition of glorie both in body and Soul Matth. 24. 31. Another part of their Ministery concerneth Gods Enemies and it is to execute judgements upon his Enemies at his command Of Man and his State Man was made after Gods image and resembling God in holiness In the excellent State of Mans innocency these things are to be considered 1. The place in which he was set in his innocency and that was the garden of Eden that pleasant place Gen. 2. 15. 2. The integrity of Mans Nature he was Created in righteousness and true holiness Eph. 4. 24. There are two parts of Mans first integrity 1. Wisdom for he had a true and perfect knowledge of God and his will as far as it was to be performed of him and of the counsel of God concerning all Creatures Genes 2. 19. 2. Secondly Justice which was a conformity in his will affections and powers of his body to the will of God 3. Man's dignity which consisted in these things 1. In Man's Communion with God God rejoyced in Man made in his own image and Man did fervently love God and this appeareth by God's familiar conference with Adam Genes 1. 29. Secondly in his Dominion over all the creatures of the Earth Gen. 2. 19. Psal. 8. 6. Thirdly in his Decency Comeliness and Dignity of body for though he was naked yet was he cloathed with the best and excellentest roabs even with innocency There was imprinted upon him by God a Princely Majesty so that there could not then be any thing in him unseemly Gen. 2. 25. Psal. 8. Fourthly in his labour of body which was without pain or grief Gen. 3. 17. 19. 4. Man's subjection to God for he was bound to perform obedience to these commandments of God He was not to eat of the two forbidden Trees The commandment concerning the Trees was as a proof and a trial of Man's obedience The Tree of life was a sign to Man to confirm to him his perpetual abode in the garden of Eden if he did continue in his obedience Rev. 2. 7. The Tree of the knowledge of good and evil was a sign of death to him if he did transgress Gods Commandment Gen. 2. 17. 5. Man's calling which was to obey God's Commandments and to dress the garden of Eden Gen. 2. 17. and 2. 15. 6. His diet which was the herbs of the earth and the fruit of all the Trees save of the Tree of life and of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil and all the other Creatures Gen. 1. 29. 30. and 9. 3. His free choice to perform or not perform these Commandments Thus were our first Parents Created in perfect innocency But mutable And thus it pleased God to prepare a way to the execution of his Decree Of the Fall The fall was of Man and Angels Angels fell by leaving that good state wherein God had placed them Jude 6. In their fall may be observed 1. Their corruption arising from their fall by reason of which they are full of malice and hatred and hatred and by reason of this they do set themselves against God and insatiablely desire to destroy all mankinde and that they may do this as much as in them layeth they do neglect neither force nor fraude to act it withall 1 Pet. 5. 8. Eph. 6. 12. Joh. 8. 44. Their degrees and diversity for one of them which is called Baalzebub is chief and Prince of the rest of the Devils and he is far above the rest in malice Matth. 25. 41. Rev. 12. 7. He is also called the Prince of this World and the God of this World 2 Cor. 4. 4. Eph. 22. 3. Their punishment God after their fall gave them over to perpetual torments without any hope of pardon Jude 6. 2 Pet. 2. 4. By this we may see what great punishment they deserved and that grievous sins will be grievously punished Their punishment was first their dejection from Heaven 2 Pet. 2. 4. And the shortning and limiting of their power Job 1. 12. Secondly a grievous pain and torment in the deep which is endless and infinite in time and measure Luke 8. 31. Matth. 25. 41. Rev. 20. 10. Of Mans fall The fall of Man was his revolting from his obedience to sin Sin was his transgression of Gods Commandment or Mans fall was his disobeying of Gods Commandment in eating the forbidden fruit wherein these things are to be considered 1. The manner of Mans fall The Devil having immediatly before fallen himself perswaded our first Parents that both the punishment for eating the forbidden fruit was uncertain and that also God was not true in his word unto them Having done this he blinds the eyes of their understanding and they being thus blinded straight began to distrust God and to doubt of Gods favour And when he had brought them to a doubting he moved them to behold the forbidden fruit which so soon as they saw in its beauty upon his motion of them to this purpose he then stirred them up to desire it and from the desire of it he moved them to satisfie their desires And so the Woman pluckt the fruit and did eat and gave it to her husband and he did eat Gen. 3. 1. to the 8. Thus did they willingly fall from their integrity God for just causes suffering it 2. The greatness of their transgression which appeareth by these trespasses that they committed in that action of disobedience 1. They doubted of Gods word 2. They being bewitched with the Devils promises cease to fear Gods punishment and thus become puffed up with presumption and enflamed with the desire of greater Dignity and will no longer believe Gods threatnings 3. They forsake Gods word and seek after other wisdom 4. They are proud and seek to magnify themselves and to become like God 5. They contemne God and against their