Holy Ghost whereby the believer giveth his assent or credence unto Gods holy word and doth apprehend and apply to himselfe in particular as well the Originall promise as also all other promises of the saving good will and grace of God in Christ the promised seed to his glory and to the salvation of his own soul The efficient cause of which justifying faith primarily is God himself The efficient of justifying faith who is one divine essence distinguished into three persons the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost for faith is the gift of God as St. Paul saith Unto you it is given in the behalfe of Christ not onely to believe on him Phil. 1.29 but also to suffer for his sake Yet so as that instrumentally it is either internall or externall The internall is the Holy Ghost by his speciall working the shining of God in our hearts whereby faith is begotten in us 2 Cor. 4.6 while that he doth dispose our understanding to the saving knowledge of Christ and moveth our will to give assent and adhere thereunto The externall is the administration of the Gospell in the dispensation of the Word and Sacraments whereby the Holy Ghost doth ordinarily forme and confirm the work of faith in us although it must not be denyed that for the liberty of the power of his will God without the use of this ordinary meanes when and where he shall so please doth beget and work faith in the hearts of men Rom. 1.16 I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth to the Jew first and also to the Greeke 17. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written The just shall live by faith The matter of faith The matter of Faith if considered subjectively the proper subject thereof is the understanding and will of man so farre forth as each faculty is regenerate by the supernaturall grace and power of the Holy Ghost whereby the understanding discerneth those supernaturall benefits of faith offered in Christ to be true and the will applyeth them assuredly as good and saving O fooles and slow of heart of understanding and of will to believe all that the Prophets have spoken Luc. 24.25 But the matter of faith considered objectively in respect of the understanding is divine verity and in respect of the Will the sole singular grace of God promised in Jesus Christ both which are contained and circumscribed in the written word of God all which and onely which faith respecteth and embraceth as its adequate object and therein Christ crucified as its principall first and proper object Let us draw neare with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evill conscience Heb. 10.22 23. and our bodies washed with pure water Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithfull that promised The matter of faith in respect of the parts of it The matter of faith in respect of the parts thereof are diversly considered as well in regard of the subject as of the object For in respect of the understanding and divine will it is knowledge and assent knowledge whereby a man understandeth the whole word of God according to the principall heads thereof for the measure of grace revealed Assent whereby a man taketh it for granted and is firmly perswaded in his heart that all those things which he knoweth out of the Law and the Gospell are so certainly true that in them as in divine truths is setled rest to be found Rom. 7.16 I consent saith the Apostle unto the Law that it is good In respect of the will of man the principall and primary part of faith is confidence which is a most firm perswasion of the heart whereby all the faithfull doe appropriate the generall promise of Grace to themselves in particular Which confidence produceth a two-fold effect whereof the first is a sure ground or foundation upon which a mans faith standeth in opposition of all dangers internall and externall The second is a full trust in God S. Mat. 7.25 whereby a man doth depend on him that he may be saved It is the testimony of the Spirit which as St. Paul saith beareth witnesse with our spirit that we are the children of God Rom. 8.16 The forme of faith The form of faith consisteth in Relation whereby the believer doth apply unto himselfe the word of truth and the divine promises of the grace of God in particular So that look what the Scripture promiseth and propoundeth generally the believer appropriateth to himselfe by a firme perswasion As for example God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son S. Joh. 3.16 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life And this is it which the Scripture speaketh in generall termes and was first spoken to Adam after his fall and is further spoken in all the old and new Testament which yet the believer appropriateth to himselfe God so loved me that he hath given his onely begotten Sonne that I believing in him should not perish but have everlasting life The finall cause of faith for the first and principall end of it The finall cause of faith is the glory of God the Author of our faith and the Redeemer of our Souls But the next or secundary end is out owne salvation which the scripture therefore calleth the end of our faith and the reward of it as the Apostle St. Peter sayeth 1 Pet. 1.9 Receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your soules Here note by the way Observation that faith towards God is one and yet divers One in the species for though there are many sorts of Christians yet there is but one Catholique faith for faith is species specialissima One in regard of the object for the thing believed is one and the same upon which ground St. Athanasius in his Creed doth conclude peremptorily This is the Catholique faith which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved And the scripture accordingly One Lord one Faith one Baptism Divers both in number and in degree Eph. 4.5 In number Every believer hath his own faith proper and peculiar to himself which is his own faith and is not the faith of any other In degree for faith is in some more in others lesse according to the measure of the divine grace of God There is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and there is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If God so cloth the grass of the field which to day is and to morrow is cast into the oven shall he not much more cloth you O ye of little faith But the woman of Canaan had a great faith S. Mat. 15.28 O woman great is thy faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt Now this
Devils and by their instigation wicked men have their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and quoad rem substantiam rei they have done and can do miracles The enchanters of Egypt did the same things that Moses and Aaron did Exod. 7 12 22. for they cast down their rods and they became Serpents They turned the Rivers into blood They caused the frogs to come up and to cover the land of Egypt Exod. 8.7 ◠2 Thes 2.9 And the comming of Antichrist must be as St. Paul saith after the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders With true miracles if the thing it self or substance of the thing be respected not in appearance only and by imposture he shall work miracles saith Hippolytus by cleansing the leapers by raising the paralytick by casting out Devils and it may be so but yet lying wonders because directed to an undue end and to av cuchlies Miracles therefore which are true miracles omnibus suis numeris partibus perfecta perfect in all parts and numbers True miracles and the causes of them The efficient cause and which are contradistinguished to lying miracles must be known and distinguished by the true and proper causes of them For first the efficient cause is God himself And God doth miracles two manner of wayes mediately or immediately Mediately by his servants the Prophets and Apostles and others also to whom the power of working miracles hath been concredited Hitherto refer all those miracles which Moses did in the land of Egypt in the red Sea and in the wilderness That Josuah divided the river Jordan to open a passage for the people of Israel into the land of promise That at the sound of the trumpets of rams hornes the walls of Hiericho fell flat to the ground That at his command the sun and the moon stood still for the space of a day That Elijah and Elisha raised the dead to life again Hitherto also are to be referred all those miracles which were done by the Apostles and primitive believers A gift which Christ gave unto his Church to serve for a time These signes shall follow them that believe S. Mar. 16.17 In my name they shall cast out Devils they shall speake with new tongues They shall take up Serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them they shall lay their hands on the sick and they shall recover 18. His immediate miracles are properly said to be the creation of the world the divine and wonderfull preservation of it but above all the redemption of all mankind by Christ In which work there are three sorts of miracles Some in persona mediatoris in the person of the mediator himself such is that union of natures which is not naturall S. Joh. 1.14 the word made flesh God and man hypostatically united in one person the hypostaticall union Some propter personam mediatoris for the person of the mediators sake Such was that wonderfull birth which was of a woman Isa 7.14 without a man and she a pure virgin too Some ab ipsa persona mediatoris from the person of the mediator himself and such were all those miracles which Christ did comming in the flesh by divine dispensation S. Joh. 20.30 31. which are written by the Evangelists and many more then are written of him The matter of Christ his miracles in qua in which they were it was the divers miseries and calamities of men The matter of Christs miracles sickness blindness lameness hunger death and such like for the amoving whereof miracles were done by curing the sick by giving sight to the blind by restoring limbs to the lame by feeding the hungrie by raising the dead The matter of his miracles ex qua from which they did proceed it was his own divine power the true and proper cause whereby all his divine miracles were effected S. Luc. 11.20 The matter of his miracles circa quam about which they were wrought it was the kingdom of Satan which he would destroy and the sins of men which he would remit Satan like a strong man armed kept his palace and his goods were in peace till Christ a stronger then he came upon him and took from him all his armour wherein he trusted even all his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and all his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his lying wonders and miracles by his own miracles whereby he was declared mightily to be the son of God and so divided his spoils S. Luc. 11.22 as to deliver the sinfull souls of men out of his captivity The formall cause of his divine miracles quoad modum operandi The formal cause in as much as concerneth the manner of operation is very various Sometimes he wrought his miracles by curing diseases only by his word S. Mat. 9.2 S. Mat. 8.13 if the party were present as the paralytick man Or if the party were absent as the Centurions servant Sometimes he wrought his miracles by curing diseases by his word together with a touch of his hand as in the leper S. Mat. 8.13 and sometimes by permitting the sick and diseased to touch him as once he did the woman who was diseased of an issue of blood twelve years Sometimes he maketh use of means and things naturall S. Mat. 9.22 for effecting of his divine miracles above nature For once with five loaves and two fishes only he fed above five thousand men besides women and children so that they did all eat and were filled Once also with seven loaves and a few little fishes S. Mat. 14.20 he fed about four thousand men besides women and children so that they did all eat and were filled S. Mat. 15.37 If it were naturall to be fed and satisfied with bread and fish as by means and things naturall the miracle was in the proportion it was miraculous to feed and satisfie so great a multitude with so small a quantity Sometimes he maketh use of means and things not naturall or proper it was when he made clay and annointed the eyes of him that was born blind who having washed in the pool of Siloam receiv'd his sight S. Joh. 9.7 Christ his miracles in respect of the finall cause or ends for the which they were wrought were for two purposes The finall cause for the glory of God and for the utility and profit of men I say first for the glory of God For we read in the Gospell that when he had cured him that was sick of the palsie and had also remitted his sins saying Thy sins be forgiven thee Howsoever some of the Scribes said within themselves This man blasphemeth because he attributed that unto himself being but a mere man as they supposed which belongeth only unto God namely to forgive sin according to that of the Prophet I Isa 43.25 even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for my own sake yet when the
168 Hermopolis 88 History Of the Tabernacle and Ark 22. of the holy city Hierusalem 44. 45. 46. of the temple 48. 49. 50. of the wise men 77. of Nathaniel 116. 117. of the Samaritan woman 138. 139. of Jairus and his daughter 146 147. 148. of the man that had the withered hand 154. 155. of Lazarus 204. 205. of Christ his triumphant riding into Jerusalem 206. 207. of his last passeover 212. of the penitent thief 249. of Christ his buriall 254. 255. Of his blessed resurrection 258. 259. Holy things Concerning those who were to administer in or to attend upon holy things 52. The Priests The pontifical order 53. Priests of the secod order 53. 54. Levites 55 Nethinims Singers Porters 55. Officers and Judges ib. Hony wild what it was 100. Hiericho and the hlind man cured 203 I. Jesus The blessed name 74. 75. Jesus goeth up to Hierusalem 128. visiteth the Temple 129. promiseth a sign 130. commeth from Hierusalem into Judea and baptizeth 131. 122. commeth into Galilee 139 healeth the Rulers son 139. known of the devils 140. healeth St. Peter wives mother 141 stilleth the Sea 142. cureth two demoniak men 143 144. cureth a paralytick man 145. calleth St Matthew 145. 146. cureth a woman of a bloody issue ib. raiseth up Iairus daughter 148. 149. restoreth two blind men to sighâ— 149. 150. dispossesseth a dumb man of a devill 150. goeth up to the passeover at Ierusalem 151. cureth the impotent man 152. avoucheth his authority 154. ordaineth his Apostles 156. his Sermon upon the mount 158. cureth the leper 159. 160. the Centurions servant 160. dispossesseth a dumb and deaf Spirit 186. 187. payeth the didrachma 187. 188. is denyed entertainment of the Samaritans 192. absolveth the woman taken in adultery 193. cureth a man born blind ib. preacheth repentance 195. his Disciples must bear their cross 197. leaveth the Priests and Pharisees to consult his death 206. commeth to Beâ—hany six dayes before the passeover where he is annointed to his burial the first time 206. avoideth the snare of the Pharisees 208. 209. confuteth the Sadduces 209. analyzeth the law ib. questioneth them concerning Christ ib. suppeth in the house of Simon the leper and is annointed to his buriall the second time 211. beginneth his passion 236. sweateth blood ib. is apprehended 237. bound and brought to Annas 238 sent to Caiaphas examined 239. false witnesses produced against him ib. adjured 240. brought before Pilate 241. accused examined answereth fully 242. condemned scourged the second time led away to be crucified 245. 246. beareth his cross 246. fastened to it 247. the form of it ib. the superscription annexed 248. He is mocked 249 commendeth his mother to St. John 250. cryeth out ib. complaineth of thirst 251. giveth up the ghost ib. the time of his abode upon the cross ib. confessed by the Centurion 253. his buriall 254. the state of his soul after death 256. See Christ Incense sacred 21. the mystery ib. Infants slain by Herod 88 89. Jubile of the 50th year 38 Iudges and officers 56 Judas Agreeth to betray Iesus for thirty pieces of silver 211. his impudency 232. he hangeth himselfe 241. K. Keyes Of the kingdom of heaven promised and given 180. By what power 181. what keyes Christ hath and what keyes he gave to the Apostles 182. Keyes of two sorts ib. how to be administred ib. To whom promised and given 183. the use of them 184. the keyes to be transferred from the legall to the Evangeliall Priesthood and when 184. the performance of the promise and the keyes transferred 265. L. BRazen Laver 22 Lazarus raised from the dead 204. legation of St. Iohn the Baptist to Christ 161 Leper cured 159 160. ten lepers cleansed 192 Linnen coat 27. linnen Ephod ib. Levitical offerings 32 Levites 55 Locusts eaten by St. Iohn the Baptist 110 Loves in Christ towards his Church 120 M. MAn made in the image of God 1 Martyrs three sorts 90 Martyrdom foretold to St. Peter 271. Magdala and Dalmanutha 174 St. Matthew called from the receipt of custome 145. 146 Miracles First miracle of Christ 120. what they are 120. True miracles and the causes of them 121. the efficient cause ib. the matter of Christ his miracles 122. the formal cause ib. the finall cause 123. Christs miracles for the glory of God 124 the secundary or less principall end of them 125 126 The Mitre 27 Mount Calvary 246 Mystery Of the garments of the high priest 29. of his consecration 30. of the leviticall offerings Of the quotidian profeast Of the new moons Of the sabbath Of the seventh day 39 of the feast of Easter Of the feast of Pentecost Of the feast of Trumpets Of the day of Attonement 40. Of the feast of tabernacles Of the sabbath of the seventh year Of the Iubilee of the 50th year 43 Of the holy city Hierusalem 47. Of the temple 51 52. Of the high Priests 57. Of the Priests of the second order ib. Of the Levites the Nethinims the Singers and the Portâ—rs 58. Of Officers and Iudges 58. Of the Prophets 62 63. Of the Pitcher of water 213. N. NAim 161 Narration concerning the rich man and Lazarus 198 Nathaniel 116 117 Nazareth 67 Nethinims 55 Nichodemus 131 New moons 35 O. Offerings THe whole burnt-offering the continuall burnt-offering the meat-offering the drink-offering the sin-offering the peace offering 32 33 Observations concerning Leviticall offerings 33 Officers and Judges 56 Opinion of the people concerning Christ 176 Mount of Olives 235. P. Primordiall law 1 Propagation of Adams sin 2 Periods of times to be observed 13 Paschall Lambe Concerning the paschall lambe 13. the time 14 the place ib. the persons 15. the ceremonies the meaning the mystery ib. the use 17. Priests The high Priest's garments 26. his consecration 30. Priests of the pontificall order 53. of the second order ib. Priests first consecrated 54 chiefe priests consult to suppresse the rumour of Christs resurrection 262. Porters 55. Paralytick man cured 145. Prophets whaâ— they were 58 59. Pharisâ—es what â—hey were 102. Pharisees reproâ—ed 174. Saint Peter His confession 177. his prerogative ib. a stone of the sâ—irituall building 178. his function ib. his denyall 239. runneth to the sepulchre 260. Period of time the second 66. St. Philip first called to be Christ's disciple 116. Publicans what they were 103 Parable Of the labourers 194. of the lost sheep and of the lost drachma 1â—â— of the prodigall son ib. of the unjust steward ib. of the imporâ—unate widow 199. of the phâ—â—see and the publican ib. of the pounds 204. parables signifying the reprobation of the Iewes and vocation of the Gentiles 208. The parasceue 254. The plate of gold 28. Pool of Bethesda 151. Poor man quarrelled by the Iewes 153. Pentecost a feast 37. Pilate Sendeth Christ to Herod 243. his second policy ib. his third policy 244. his wives dream ib. washeth his hands 245. condemneth Christ to be crucified ib. his punishment 246. Q. QUestion 's proposed by the disciples of St. Iohn the Baptist 146. By the pharisees 198. R. Recapitulation OF the first book of the Sacred and mysterious history 64 65. of the first two years oâ— Christ his age 90. from the expiration of the second year to the expiration of the thirtieth year of his age 111 112. of the one and thirtieth year of his age 150. of the two and thirtieth year of his age 175 176. of the three and thirâ—â—â—â—ar of his age 199 200. 〈…〉 expiration of the three 〈◊〉 â—rtieth year to his Ascenâ— in fine Remission of sins Remission of sins 224. the â—â—ice 225. the grace ib. remitted by God authoritatiâ—â—ly ib. by the Minister dâ—claratively 226. the means ib. the subject ib. How far God doth remit sins after what manner where remission of sins is whether any sin be irremissible 228. whether a sinner may despair 229. whether the force and effect of remission of sins be more to be discerned in the world to come ib. why God will forgive sins ib. Rhemists account of Christ's parables 165. Remission how often it is to be done 190. Robe of the Ephod 27. Rocks did rend 253 S. Sabbath of the seventh day 36. of the seventh year 38. Sabbath prophaned 256. Sadduces come to Saint John's baptisme 102. what they were 103. Sacrament of the Supper commanded 202. Scribe would follow Christ 141. so would two other 142. Sepulchre of Cyrus 80. Sea of Galilee 128. Samaritan woman 138 139. Singers 55. Simon the Pharisee inviteth Christ to his house 162. Salome her petition and her sons 202. Scribes and pharisees convinced of the irremissible sin 163. Sin irremissible what it is ib. Signe of the prophet Ionah 164. Simon of Cyrene compelled to bear the crosse 246. Soldiers divide Christs garments 249. Solomon's porch 195. Superscription of Christ's accucusation 248. T. TAbernacle the mystery of it 18. history of the Tabernacle and of the Ark 22. feast of Tabernacles 38. Temple history of the temple 48 49 c. Temptations of Christ in the wildernesse 106 107 c. Thabor mount 158. Thiefe penitent 249. Saint Thomas inaugurated to the priesthood 267. his incredulity ib. Times distinguished into two periods 6. Traditions of the pharisees reproved 172. Transfiguration of Christ 185. U. VRim and thummim 28. Virgin Saint Mary neither reprehended nor rejected 119. Vail of the temple rent 252. W. WIsemen Their comming to Christ 77. the time of their arrivall 78 what they were 79. probably kings 81 from whence it was that they came 82. They go into Iudea by divine impulsion 83. the star their guide ib. they come to Hierusalem 84. Herod troubled at their comming 84 85. are sent to Bethlehem 85 86. they were the first fruits of the Gentiles 86. Wilde honey what it was 100. Wildernesse of Arabia Petraea 106 107. Women Cured of a bloody issue 147. she erecteth a statue ib. a crooked woman cured 196. Withered hand the man cured who had a withered hand 154 155. Widowes son raised from death 161. Wine mingled with myrrhe 247. Y. ACceptable year of the Lord 97 98. Z. ZAccheus the story of him 203. FINIS
should overthrow the Devill and all his power purchasing for him salvation and everlasting life Finally the finall cause The finall cause of their faith for the first and principall end of it was the glory of God the Author of their faith and the Redeemer of their soules But the next or secundary end was their own salvation which they even as we did work out with fear and trembling And in this manner was the Covenant barely administred under the form of that blessed promise from Adam to Abraham as hath been said before But God reneweth his Covenant with Abraham The Covenant renewed with Abraham c. Rom. 4.16 Gal. 3.9 and with his Seed generally with all the Faithfull for Abraham is set forth to be the Father of us all that is of all us that believe Abraham was blessed by Faith in Christ And all they which be of faith are blessed with faithfull Abraham for they are the spirituall Seed Specially with the People and Nation of the Jews the carnall Seed He draweth his Covenant into Articles indenteth it Gen. 17.11 12 13 14 and setteth his Signe or Seal unto it the Signe or Seal of Circumcision Ye shall circumcise saith God the flesh of your foreskin and it shall be a token of the Covenant between me and you He setteth downe what he will do on his part and what he expecteth that his People should do on their part and he sealeth it with his Seal Circumcision And of all this you may read at large Gen. 17. Circumcision Concerning Circumcision was a sacred action wherein the fore-skin of the flesh of the Male kinde was cut off according to Gods Ordinance for the obsignation of his divine Covenant with men Who it was that was deputed to that Office the Scripture makes no mention probable it is the most antient or honourable of that House or Family of which the party to be Circumcised was descended especially before the Law given for God commanded Abraham to do it and Abraham at Gods commandement Gen. 17.23 Exod. 4.25 circumcised Ishmael his Son and his whole House Zipporah the Wife of Moses although we have but that one precedent did circumcise her Son When the People of Israel were arrived in the Land of Canaan then did Joshua Josh 5.3 circumcise them It is likely that under the Law that Office was to be performed by the Priests as being by their Function sacred to God and therefore the fittest persons to perform so divine a Ceremony The Day appointed for Circumcision was the eighth day for so did God ordain He that is eight daies old Gen. 17.12 shall be circumcised among you And it is plain that our Saviour Christ himself as being under the Law and Saint John the Baptist were circumcised the eighth day according to the Law But if a man had not been circumcised upon the eighth day according as God had appointed he might then be circumcised at any other time for it is never too late for a man to submit himself to the holy Ordinances of God And therefore the Children of Israel who travelled in the Wildernesse by the space of forty years were notwithstanding their age circumcised in the Land of Canaan Likely it is that they did not circumcise with Knives but with sharp Stones for Zipporah the Wife of Moses circumcised her Son with a sharp Stone Then Zipporah took a sharp stone Exod. 4.25 a sharp knife of stone and cut off the foreskin of her Son saith the story And God commanded Joshua saying Make thee sharp knives Josh 5.2 or knives of flints and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time Circumcision was not without the shedding of some blood and much pain For when Moses's Wife had cut off the fore-skin of her Son she cast it at his feet saying Exod. 4.26 Surely a bloody husband art thou to me She said a bloody Husband thou art because of the Circumcision And when the Shechemites were Circumcised it is said that the third day when they were sore sore of the wound of Circumcision Simeon and Levi took each man his sword Gen. 34.25 and came upon the City boldly and slew all the Males They were sore sore of the wound of Circumcision sore the third day after and so sore that they were not able to make resistance no not for their lives Circumcision was a great and venerable Sacrament it was the Sacrament of initiation or reception into the Covenant The mystery of Circumcision and the mystery of it was great For first whereas Circumcision was ordained to be made in that part or member of the body of Man which God would to be for the propagation of Seed it did fitly intimate man's uncleannesse by Nature and the propagation of Originall sin Every father stands in the place of Adam and conveigheth unto his Child besides the nature of Man the very guilt and corruption of Nature Eph. 2.13 We are by nature the children of wrath That naturall uncleannesse of ours must be taken away or we cannot be saved This is a second birth as Christ said to Nichodemus Marvell not that Isaid to thee Ye must be born again S. Joh. 3.7 2ly It did fitly give them to understand that that Seed in whom they believed Christ the Messiah should come of the circumcised seed of Abraham according to the flesh as God had promised Gen. 22.18 Lact. Instit lib. 4. cap. 17. saying In thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed 3ly The making bare of that part or member did as Lactantius observeth signifie in the mystery the true circumcision which is of the heart that the breast must be laid bare and that the spiritual Seed must be circumcised in heart to have their conversation with an open and simple heart I say nothing of that similitude which some have observed betwixt the heart and the prolifick member Rom. 2.28 He is not a Jew which is one outwardly neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew which is one inwardly 29. and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God 4ly That piece of skin which was cut off did signifie the uncleannesse of Nature in a state of sin And like as they cast the prepuce or piece of skin upon the ground at the feet of him that was circumcised Exod. 4.25 as may be conjectured by what Zipporah did when she circumcised her Son So that all uncleannesse of heart and action must be circumcised and cut off it must be cast away as the prepuce throwne upon the ground never to be reassumed 5ly The circumcision-knife was a type of Christ for that knife was of stone and did intimate Christ the Rock the foundation Stone the Stone of Sion elect and pretious the corner stone who by his Spirit doth
space of eleven years till she dyed in the nine and fiftieth year of her age Niceph. lib. 2. cap. 5. Having so disposed of his mother then cryed he out with a loud voice Eli Eli lamasabachthani My God He cryeth out upon the cross my God why hast thou forsaken me Qui non dissolvit unionem subtraxit tamen visionem The Father had not dissolved the hypostaticall union but he had subtracted the divine vision which the manhood alwaies had in the Godhead therefore he complains that he was forsaken These were his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those unknown sufferings of his which no human understanding is able to comprehend Some of the standers by hearing him to cry out in that manner said that he called for Elias and that they would stay and see whether Elias would come and take him down from the cross Who they were that said so it is not mentioned St. Hierom thinketh that they might be Roman Souldiers who not understanding the propriety of the Hebrew language thought that he had invocated Elias when they heard him to say Eli Eli. But saith he if we will understand them to be Iewes that then they according to their old wont did this to infame him of imbecillity as if he had implored succour of Elias Indeed I think them to be Iewes the chiefe priests scribes and elders who had before mocked and obrayded him with his trust and affiance in God and do now out of malice and with subsannation say that he had forsaken God and betaken himselfe to Elias whom he called out of the earthly Paradise where they supposed him to be kept till the comming of the Messiah and that he should then come forth from thence and annoint him to come unto his reliefe Then he complaineth of thirst saying He complaneth of thirst Jud. 4.19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I thirst That thirst of his was a considerable part of his passion and no small affliction For we find in the scripture that Sisara was more afflicted with thirst then with the fear of death And when Sampson had beaten down the Philistims Jud. 15.18 and killed a thousand of them he then complained that he should die for thirst Hereupon one of them runneth and filled a spunge of vineger and put it upon hyspop a reed or stalk of hysop which it seems grows of great length in that country like unto a reed and put it to his mouth it was a prepared potion as St. Chrysostom observeth for those that were condemned and for that cause the vineger and hysop were there in a readiness to be given unto them when they should complain of thirst of which when he had tasted he said no more but this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Mat. 27.46 47 48 49 50 S. Mar. 15.34 35 36 37. S Luc. 23.46 S. Joh. 19.28.29 30. He giveth up the Ghost It is finished intimating thereby that his passion and those things which were prefigured and praedicted concerning it were fulfilled in him So he cryed with a loud voice Father into thy hands I commend my spirit And having said thus be bowed his head and gave up the Ghost He gave it up freely and voluntarily not by compulsion but by divine dispensation he laid it down because he would take it again for he had power to lay it down and he had power to take it again St. Ioh. 10.17 18. This was at the ninth hour But there seemeth to be some difference betwixt the Evangelists The time of his abode upon the cross S. Joh. 19.14 S. Mar. 15.25 as touching the time of his abode upon the cross For St. Iohn saith that it was about the sixt hour when Pilate gave the sentence of condemnation against him and then he said unto the Iewes Behold your king And Saint Mark saith expresly that it was the third hour when they crucified him So that Saint Mark seems to say that he was crucified three hours before he was condemned according to St. Iohn Hence it must needs follow that according to Saint Marke his abode was six hours upon the cross according to Saint Iohn only three But Saint Mark and Saint Iohn wrote by the dictate of one and the same spirit and therefore the difference betwixt them is but seeming He was crucified the same hour that he was condemned and that was the third hour according to Saint Mark if you compute the Iewes artificiall day by twelve hours from the morning which began about six of the clock so that the third hour was according as we account and follow the Romans reckoning the hours from twelve to twelve and beginning at midnight nine of the clock in the fore-noon And yet the sixt houre too according to Saint John that is to say the second part or quarter of the artificiall day for the Jewes did also distinguish the artificiall day into foure equall parts or quarters The first was from the morning to the third houre called the morning the second from the third houre to the sixt called the sixth hour the third was from the sixt houre to the ninth called the ninth houre the fourth from the ninth houre to the twelfth called the evening it was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about the sixt houre for the sixt houre or second quarter of the day so called was then nigh approaching And this also doth reconcile Saint Ignatius with both the Evangelists 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That he was condemned by Pilate the third houre that the sixth houre he was crucified that the ninth houre he dyed that before sun-set he was buried Ep. ad Trallian His abode therefore upon the crosse was about the space of six houres Aug. Ser. 119. de temp For the death of the crosse was a lingring death and for the first three houres from the third houre to the sixt houre we read of nothing but of his mockings and revilings mentioned before the sun also shining and imparting its light unto the world as at other times But for the other three houres which were from the sixt houre to the ninth Darkness over all the land and other miracles there was a supernaturall and miraculous defect of light in the sun and a most horrid darknesse if not over the face of the whole world yet at least over all the land of Iudea sufficient to bear witnesse to the God of nature then crucified by their infidelity Which defect was not caused by interposition of the moon for the moon was then in opposition to the sun and in the full whereas all Eclipses are in the new moon and by interposition of the moon S. Mat. 27.45 S. Mar. 15.33 S. Luc. 23.44 shaddowing the light of the sun from the earth Nor yet was there any other efficient cause but the power and pleasure of him that was then crucified upon the crosse nor any other finall cause but the manifestation of his Divinity and that he might be believed and confessed to
Angel sitteth upon the stone 259. Angell sitteth in the Sepulcher ib. Two Angells in the Sepulcher 260. Archelaus made King or Ethnark of Judea and Samaria 92. Architriclinus 119. Arimathea 254. Attonement the day 37. B. SAint John the Baptist 60 61. Saint John the Baptist 99. his rayment 100. his food ib. his Preaching and Baptisme 101 102 Pharisees and Sadduces come to his baptisme 102. Publicans and Soldiers also come 103. Jewes send Priests and Levites to him 112 113. testifieth Christ to two of his disciples 114 115. goeth into Galilee 137. his legation to Christ 161. His decollation 167. His body buried by his disciples 169. Baptisme The word Baptisme 133. Baptism defined ib. The parts of it 134. the externall part ib. the internall part 134 135. The analogicall or sacramentall relation 135. For what causes ordained 136. Bethlehem Ephratah 67. Bethsaida 116. Bethesda pool 151 152. Bethabara 104 105. Bethany 204. Blasphemy against the holy Ghost 228. Blessednesse of Christs mother 164. the cause of her comming to him as he was preaching 65. Two blinde men restored to sight 149. Breast plate of judgment 28. Brotherly correption and remission 190. Brook Cedron 235. C. GOlden Candlestick 20. Covenant Covenant of grace 2. diversly administred 5. how in the first period of time 6. renewed with Abraham 8. disposed into the forme of a Testament 17. the legall part ib. the evangelicall part 18. Circumcision Concerning Circumcision 8. the mystery 9. the use 11 12. the periods of time 13. Consecration of the high Priest 30. Cyrus his Sepulchre 8. Christ His nativity 68. circumcised and why 71. Why subject to the law and in what manner obedient thereunto 72 73. By whom probably circumcised 73 74. taxed or enrolled 75. presented in the temple 76. fleeth into Egypt 78. place of his abode there 88. his return 91 92. he grew 92. was brought up to Jerusalem at 12. years old 93. why he went up then 94 95 subject to his parents and how 96. Baptized by Saint John 104. went up straight-way out of the water 105 106. goeth into the wildernesse to be tempted 106. His first temptation 108. His second temptation 108 109. His third temptation 109 110. The devill departeth from him for a season 110. commeth to Jordan the second time 113 114. goeth into Galilee 115 116. present at the marriage in Cana 118. His first miracle 120. goeth to Capernaum 126. His baptisme 133. His departure out of Iudea into Galilee 137. raiseth the widowes son 161. dispossesseth a blinde and dumb devill 162. Teacheth the people in parables 165. commeth to Nazareth the second time 166. Taketh his Apostles to a desert place 170. feedeth five thousand with five loaves and two fishes 171. Walketh on the sea ib. arriveth in the land of Genazereth ib. healeth the daughter of the Canaanitish woman 173. one that was deafe and had an impediment in his speech ib. feedeth foure thousand with seven loaves a few little fishes 174. healeth a blinde man 175. interrogateth his disciples 176. foretelleth his passion death and resurrection 185. is transfigured ib. Teacheth his Apostles humility 189. prohibiteth scandall ib. goeth to the feast of Tabernacles 193 is the good shepheard ib. cureth an hydropick man 196. journyeth towards Hierusalem 201. exhorteth to enter in at the strait gate ib. blesseth the little children ib. Rideth into Hierusalem 206. curseth the fruitlesse fig-tree 208. Refuseth to shew his authority ib. foretelleth the destruction of the Temple persecutions to the Gospel calamities to the Jewes and signes of his second comming 210. His last passeover 212. instituteth the sacrament of his supper 214. blessed and gave thanks 215. what was the blessing or thanksgiving ib. brake the bread and took the cup 216. gave the bread and the cup 219. His presence in the Eucharist 221. commandeth the participation of it 221 222. the explicaâ—ion 229. 230 His proâ—estation 231. 232. Foretelleth the offence of his Disciples and Saint Peters denyall 233. His farewell Sermon 234. sorrowfull in soule 235. 236. goeth into Paradice 256. descendeth into hell ib. His resurrection 258. 259. His first apparition to St. Mary Magdalen 260. His second apparition to the other women 261. His third apparition to Saint Peter 262. His fourth apparition to two of his Disciples 263. His fifth apparition to his Apostles the doores being shut 264. appeared naked ib. transferreth the keyes 265. His sixth apparition to St. Thomas with the other Apostles 268. His 7th apparition at the Sea of Tiberias 269. His conference with S. Peter 270. His 8th apparition upon a mountain in Galilee 272. His ninth apparition to St. James 272. His tenth appari ion to all the Apostles at meat ib. See Jesus Capernaum 126. 127. Caesarea Phlippi 148 Centurions servant cured of the Palsie 160 Corban what it was 172 Church compared to a materiall temple 177. built upon Christ the rock 179 D. DAyes and months and times and years which the Jewes had viz. new moons c. 35 Decree of the Emperour Augustus 66. 67. Devill Tempteth Christ in the wildernesse 106. his first temptation 108. his 2d temptation 108. 109. his 3d. temptation 109. 110. he departeth for a season 110. two demoniak men cured 143. Dumb man dispossessed of a devil 150. devils petition 3 things 144. a blind and dumb devill 162. Decapolis 173 Dalmanutha 174 Disciples A three-fold admission of Disciples 127. Disciples eat with unwashen hands 172. reprehended and why 175. 70 Disciples sent forth 194. must bear their cross ib. Darkness over all the land 252. Desert belonging to Bethsaida 170 Divorcement 191 Dreams and their causes 244 E. Feast of Easter 37 Earth did quake 252 Elements both of them make but one Sacrament 222. 223. Ephod The linnen Ephod 27. Robe of the. Ephod ib. Ephod of the high Priest ib. Excommunication The power of it 190. Eucharist The presence of Christ in the Eucharist 221. commandment for the participation 221. 222. two severall sorts of food 222. Two sorts of taking eating and drinking ib. The promise 223 how to be considered ib. Evangelicall priesthood begun 266 F. Faith Concerning faith 2. faith towards men 3. towards God ib. the efficient cause of justifying faith ib. the matter 4. the form 5. the finall cause 5. observation concerning faith 5. faith of the ancient righteous Fathers 6 the efficient cause of their faith 7 the matter ib. the form and finall cause 8. The Feminalls 27 Feast of Dedication 194 Fear of hell fourfold 217 G. Sea of Galilee 128 Gadara 143 Gates of hell 18 Galileans slain by Pilate 195 Gethsemane 235 Girdle 27 Gentiles the first fruits of them 86 God how he was consulted with 61. 62. Gospel First preached by Angels upon Christmas day 68. 69. why first to the shepheards 70. the mystery 70. 71. Graves did open 253 H. Herod Troubled 84. 85. slayeth the infants 88. 89. Herod Antipas his guilty conscience 169 Herodias the cause of her hatred against Saint John the Baptist
which hath been said concerning faith The Covenant diversly administred bringeth us directly into the way of our sacred History For that Covenant which God made with Adam and with all his posterity was diversly administred At this time thus at that time so at divers times in divers manners according as God was pleased to speak unto the fathers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at sundry times Heb. 1.1 and in divers maners saith the Apostle And according as God was pleased to invest it as it were with divers Robes excellently set forth in the type Gen. 37.31 by Josephs coat of many colours dipped in the blood of the Kid which his brethren had killed The times are distinguished into two Periods The times dâ—stinguished into two Periodâ— the first is of the promised seed to be exhibited when the fulness of time should come The second is of that promised seed exhibited when that fulness of time was come for so St. Paul himselfe distinguisheth the Periods of the times Gal. 4.4 saying When the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Sonne Concerning that first period of time the Covenant was administred Concerning the first Period of time how the Covenant was administred Geneb Chr. lib. 2. p. 447. in divers manners For the space of two thousand forty and six yeares or thereabouts for I scuffle not with Chronologers concerning the exact Computation of yeares seeing that of Genebrard is very true that as touching the number of the yeares of the world a man shall finde as many opinions as writers Neither will I have to doe with that vast difference betwixt the Greeke and the Latine writers occasioned by the corrupted Septuagint utterly inconsistent with the Hebrew verity I follow those Latine writers and Chronologers among whom I finde but little difference and they who differ but a little seem no tto differ at all I say for the space of two thousand forty and six yeares or thereabouts from Adam to Abraham and to the ninety ninth yeare of Abrahams age the Covenant came forth naked and was administred under the forme of that blessed promise which God made unto man after his transgression in these words saying unto the serpent in whom the Devill was I will put enmitie betweene thee and the woman and betweene thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heele This was the Originall promise the Covenant of Grace Gen. 3.15 the sum and substance of the Gospel which promise all the righteous faithfull from Adam to Abraham though they knew no more of Christ did believe that they might be saved For as learned St Augustine saith None of all the righteous faithfull could attaine salvation but onely by the faith of Christ to them Christ was knowne and had he not been knowne to them saith he they could not have prophesied Christ to us sometimes more darkly and obscurely as did the former sometimes more plainly and perspicuously as did the latter Prophets Enchir. Cap. 118. The faith of the ancient righteous Fathers The faith of the ancient righteous Fathers was the Catholike faith even the same which we have though otherwise dispensed and revealed to them more obscurely to us more plainly They were Christians as well as we for they did believe in Christ and Eusebius proveth by invincible arguments that the very names of Jesus and of Christ were known from the beginning of the world and had in honour by all the Prophets of God Ec. Hist Lib. 1. Chap. 1. And in the Revelation of Saint John Christ is plainly said to be slain from the foundation of the world It is because by vertue of his death which was to come Rev. 13.8 they were saved even as we I know not whether it were more impiously or ignorantly averred by the Servetani that the Fathers of old time and before the comming of Christ did want both true faith and spirituall life Sure I am it is against the truth for those righteous Fathers who had nothing more but the originall Promise had thereby the true justifying and saving Faith according to all that which hath been laid down before concerning faith for they gave assent or credence unto that promise and did apprehend and apply it to themselves in particular to Gods glory and to the salvation of their owne soules The efficient cause The efficient cause of it primarily was God himselfe whose gift it was instrumentally and internally the Holy Ghost by his speciall working while that he did dispose their understanding to the saving knowledge of Christ and did move their wills to assent and adhere thereunto Instrumentally and externally it was the Gospell it selfe administred by Tradition before they had the Word written or any Sacrament for the obsignation of that Promise whereby the Holy Ghost as by the then ordinary means did form and confirm the work of faith in them The matter The matter of their faith considered subjectively was the understanding and the will so far forth as each faculty was regenerate by the supernaturall power and grace of the Holy Ghost whereby the understanding did discern those supernaturall benefits of faith offered in that promised Seed to be true and the will did apply them assuredly to be good and saving But the matter of their faith considered objectively in respect of the understanding was divine verity and in respect of the will it was the sole singular grace of God promised in that seed both which were contained and circumscribed in the originall promise all which and only which their faith respected and embraced as its adequate object and therein that Seed as its first next and proper object The matter of their faith in respect of the understanding and divine will it was knowledge and assent knowledge whereby they understood the promise for the measure of grace revealed Assent whereby they took it for granted and were firmly perswaded in their hearts that the promise was true and therein found setled rest In respect of their will the principall and primary part of their faith was confidence whereby they did appropriate the generall promise of grace to themselves in particular which also produced a two-fold effect whereof the first was a sure ground or foundation upon which their faith stood in opposition of all dangers internall and externall The second was a sure trust in God to depend upon him that they might be saved which sure trust in God was the testimony of his Spirit Heb. 11.4 whereby as the Scripture saith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice then Cain The forme The forme of their faith likewise did consist in relation whereby that promise or covenant of grace which was made unto Adam and to all his posterity every believer did apply and appropriate unto himself by a firme perswasion viz. that that Seed should come and for him and for his redemption should break the Serpents head