Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	father_n	lord_n	1,414	5	3.7128	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93882	Pantalogia. The saints abundance opened. / By Thomas Sterry preacher of the gospel. Published at the earnest intreaty of some friends. Imprimatur John Downame.	Sterry, Thomas.	1646 (1646)	Wing S5488; Thomason E355_28; ESTC R201127	14,218	28

yea the Deep things of God Take now that your souls may suck at the breasts of Consolation two questions of worth from this Doctrine Quest 1. Wherein doth the ABVNDANCE of a beleeving soul which is these Deep things of God ALL THINGS given fully consist or what more particularly these deep things these all things Answ The holy Trinity one God blessed for ever bestowing himself upon a creature in those sweet relations mentioned in his Word is these deep these All things in whose inward injoyment after this way which is a mysterie hid to the world consists as theirs the Saints abundance From this Answer take three notes The first is the Father is All things the Son is All things the holy Ghost is All things yet not three divided but one All things so that the beleevers abundance is to be conceived not onely to lie in the unity of the Godhead but also in the distinction of persons The second is the relations of the Father of the Son of the holy Ghost downward to the creature are equally common to each of them as one God but distinctly peculiar as three persons The Father bestowing therefore of these All things upon the creature is not onely the free manifestation of community in relation in the unity of the Godhead but also of peculiarity in the trinity of persons The third is a beleevers propriety in this gift so as he can sencibly say My abundance is by an inward relative sence of this Vnity in Trinity Thus God is All things thus he is Given thus as the abundance to the Saints Here 's wine and marrow a misterious peice of heaven displaid in each person in the Godhead which not many wise not many mighty can perceive but is freely reveal'd to tender babes First God the Father is All things abundance Ephes 3.19 That ye might be filled with all the fulnesse of God These words for their conexion their explication refer you to vers 14. viz. For this cause I how my knees to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus that is he prayeth to God the Father and for what besides other things for this as one that the beleeving Ephesians might be fill'd with his own fulnesse which may sound thus That they might have abundantly of him even all things that might make them perfect before him This person therfore freely bestows himself upon such as he bestows his Son that together with him they might have this abundance this all things A mans gift saith Solomon maketh room for him Prov. 18.16 Jesus Christ is the gift of this person and wheresoever he is there is his Father too He is there by deed of gift after the same way as Jesus Christ is So that a beleever may lay claim to him yea as truly to him as to Jesus Christ He may challenge him for his own and all that he hath as freely truly really as any thing that he injoyes in the world For the right that he hath in himself is not more firm proper unquestionable than that which a beleever hath in him it being a way of undeniable propiety which is the deed of gift in which he hath past himself over to his creature By this act and deed he makes himself over in a double relation As a Father to them God in Covenant with them First as a Father It is that which he speaks of himself 2 Cor. 6. ult I will be a Father to you Here as to behold both let your eye equally fall but with a distinct look upon the person I and the relation Father for this latter onely serves as a respective accident under which the first is referr'd and made over to the creature justified Which is done by deed of gift freely giving himself over to them I will be to you thus this person of glory becomes a Father But what is it for him to be thus related or what to give over himself as a Father A sublime mistery swelling with sweetnesse thus opened The reference of himself to them according to a mutuall objective coexistent dependance Here vulgar thoughts of Dependancie are apt but suffer them not to grow over rank This persons is only paternall such as is an inseparable conjunction of a Father and his child in their relative Existencies in their Diffinitions The one which of them soever it be cannot be so nor so call'd but by this dependance Ask what is a Father how comes he to be so Do we not answer One that hath a child and because he hath a child Transpose the termes what is a child how comes it to be so One that hath and because it hath a Father Thus he depends thus mutually Objectively as directly pointing each to other the Father to his child and the contrary in a distinction from all things subjectively depending on their substance in which they inhere Contemporarie are they too neither thus existing before or after each other but both together The Father indeed as a man the agent begetting is said to be the cause and so is in Nature before the begotten but a father the one is not till the other is a child and so he depends coexistently Of this person and a beleever as thus allied according to adoption is all this affirmed Inseparately are they for ever conjoyn'd yea so as abstract the one from the other and neither can be what thus they are neither can be thus call'd passe by our Saviours sonship of eternall generation Come to a beleever's by free adoption and he is their Father he comes to be so as they are his children adopted and because they are so His paternity their sonship have for their basis a mutuall dependance Between these to hinder the object of each others eye flies no gloomy cloud but both like the eye of day darting its beams upon the centure of the Creation are still looking upon still pointing each to other One thought of either excludes darkens neither but takes in both For touching a beleevers sonship what mind can passe a thought and in the same not include this persons paternity They are children as he is because he is their Father And which is more both relations in priority claim an equall priviledge His paternity to them precedes not their sonship neither is first or last they co-exist He is not to them a Father till they are children by adoption to him Secondly as a God in Covenant Of this way too of giving himself himself speaks Hebr. 8.10 I will be their God one article and that on Gods part are these words of a Contract a Covenant everlasting new between God and man For matter it is himself God for manner ●…deed of gift I will be theirs In the first unbound your thoughts and in some particulars inclose not him who hath in one word God given over himself without limits He will be their God not in some one attribute onely or in more but he in All gives himself