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A89351	Sion's prospect in it's first view. Presented in a summary of divine truths, consenting with the faith profess'd by the Church of England, confirmed from scripture and reason: illustrated by instance and allusion. Compos'd and publish'd to be an help for the prevention of apostacy, conviction of heresy, confutation of error, and establishing in the truth, by a minister of Christ, and son of the church, R.M. quondam è Coll ̊S.P.C.	Mossom, Robert, d. 1679.	1652 (1652)	Wing M2868; Thomason E800_1; ESTC R207347	108,410	128

working in all actions which relate unto the creatures and therefore the works of Creation and of Providence are b Heb. 11 3. Psal 33.6 Job 26.13 Psa 104.29 30. sometimes attributed to the Father sometimes to the Son and sometimes to the Holy Ghost All three Persons being one single and entire Cause c 1 Cor 12 6. Psal 33.6 Ephes 2.22 working all in all yet in this Trinity there is a diverse manner of working What their diverse manner of working according to the distinct manner of subsisting The d John 1.3 1 Cor 8 6. Rom. 8.11 Father he works from himself by the Son and the Holy Ghost The e H b. 9.14 Son he worketh from the Father by the Spirit The f Luke 1.35 John 15.26 Holy Ghost he Works from the Father and the Son by Himself How some one action is appropriate to some one person § 7. And thus when any one action is more peculiarly appropriated to any one Person of the Trinity it is from some more immediate relation unto that Person as when the a Heb. 1 2. Ephes 3.9 Creation with the b Ephes 1.3 1 Pet. 1.3 Original of all Beings is more peculiarly appropriated to the Father c Rev. 2 9. Heb. 1.8 Redemption with the d John 3.35 5.22 dispensation of all Government more peculiarly appropriated to the Son e Rom. 15 16. Sanctification with the f 1 Cor 12.8 9 4.5 communication of all gifts and graces more peculiarly appropriated to the Holy Ghost The firm relation between God's decrees and his works § 8. And such is the near relation betwixt God's will and his Works his Decrees and their effects that whatsoever he a Isa 44 7. Heb. 6.17 Psal 135.6 willeth is done and whatsoever is done he willeth whatsoever he doth effect he hath decreed and whatsoever he hath b Psal 133.11 Isa 14.24 27. decreed he doth effect so that this is certain God hath not decreed sin God hath not decreed sin though he hath decreed to permit sin because he doth c 2 Chro. 19.7 Psal 5.5 not effect sin And though God be said to have c Acts 2.23 4.28 decreed the permission of sin yet is not that decree any way effectual to produce or cause sin What the effectual decree accompanying the permissive for the cause of any thing d Rō 9.20.21 permitted cannot be from the permission where there is no Law natural or positive to oblige the pevention Again sure we are sin could not be committed by man if it were not permitted by God And God would not permit sin in time if he had not determined to permit it from eternity which permissive part of God's decree is accompanied with that which is effectual effectual for the e Gen. 50 2● Acts 2.23 36. ordering to good what is permitted to be evil And thus God he would not permit sin were it not for good yet is not sin therefore from God for then were he not himself good § 9. As the good pleasure of God's will a Rō 11.34 35. receiveth not from the creatures any moving causality The purpose of God's decree imposeth no forcible necessity so nor doth the purpose of his decree impose upon the creatures any enforcing necessity All future events whatsoever they have indeed an b Mat. 2.28 John 19.36 infallible certainty but no forcible necessity from the determinate Counsel of God's will But bringeth an infallable certainty to all Agents and Events which infallible certainty extendeth not onely to all Agents and events c Psal 104. Job 3.8 natural or necessary but also d Prov. 16.1 21.1 free and e Exod. 21.13 Prov. 16.33 contingent whether it be in the f Exod. 14.4 5. Act 4.27 28. greatest effects or in the g Mat. 10.29.30 smallest matters CHAP. VII Concerning the Works of Creation § 1. GOD God the Creator of all things as an absolute and free Agent as a most free Agent without any a Job 22.2 necessity compelling or b Isa 40.13 external cause moving him to c Prov. 16.4 Psal 19.1 8.1 manifest his Glory or communicate his d Psal 104 24 Goodness of his e Rev. 4.11 own good pleasure and by his own most powerful will he made the World f Gen. 1.1 2.4 Col 1.16 in the beginning creating and in g Gen. 1.5 31. Exod. 20 11. six dayes forming all things in their natures h Gen. 1 31. 1 Tim. 4 4. very good § 2. Creation the Work of the whole Trinity as one entire cause The Creation was the a Psal 146.5 6. Jer. 10.11 proper work of God alone not from any one Person but from b Gen. 1.1 Psal 33.6 all the whole Trinity as being a work of infinite power wisdom and love as a work of infinite power so more especially from the Father as a work of infinite wisdom so from the Son as a work of infinite love so from the Holy Gost and yet from all the three Persons as it is from c Mal. 2.10 1 Cor. 8.6 one entire cause one single essence God's who creates the world as a d Ephes 1.11 Rev. 4.11 free Agent Why of God as a free and all-sufficient cause and as e Gen. 17.1 Acts 17.25 all-sufficient in himself for if the World were made of God by a necessity of his nature and not according to the liberty of his will or if the World made did add any thing to the fulness and perfection of the Maker it must needs have been as himself is from eternity and should not cease to be in the end of time which f Gen. 1 5. time was created with the World and did then g Gen. 1.1 John 1.1 begin when the Creation had it's beginning Observ'd in the Work of Creation § 3. In the work of Creation we observe the command of God's Power the approbation of his Goodness the ordination of his Wisdom and the declaration of his Authority 1. The Command of God's Power By a Gen. 1.2 6 c. Psal 33 9. Psal 148.5 the command of his Power he executes his will to the producing all things in their natural being 2. The Approbation of his Goodness b Gen. 1.4 10 31 by the approbation of his Goodness he confirms what is produc'd in those endowments of nature which he had given them c Gen. 1.7.16 the ordination of his Wisdom 3. The Ordination of his Wisdom he ordereth and disposeth what is so produc'd and confirm'd to their proper ends for which he appointed them 4. The Declaration of his Authority and d Gen. 14.15 Psal 148.6 in the declaration of his Authority he enacteth a Law establishing the creatures so produc'd confirm'd and ordered in their being and working e Gen. 1.22.28

Cor. 13.1 Jude 9. Angel even a willing another to know what he wills by him to be known § 23. The Sin of the Apostate Angels What the sin of the Apostate Angels which was the cause of their fall we cannot particularly discern because the Scriptures do not plainly discover We suppose it to have been a sin immediately against the Son of God accompanied or rather compleated with the a Mat. 12.24 31.32 Sin against the Holy Ghost in an irreconcileable hatred and enmity against that truth of which they were in conscience so fully convinc'd Upon b Isa 14.12 13 14 15. Satans pride and envy at Christs person did follow his malice and c John 8 44. hatred of Christs Truth even the d John 14.6 Rev. 14 6. eternal Gospel of his Incarnation as ordained of God in humane nature e Eph. 1.22.23 to be the head of the Angels f Eph. 1.10 united to the body of his Church Satans malice against Christ ●nd how especi●lly prosecuted Which malice and hatred of Christ and his truth Satan hath ever since prosecuted by bloody persecutions rais'd against his Church by horrid blasphemies and Heresies vented against his person in his Divinity his Humanity and the offices of his Mediation § 24. What the knowledg of the Apo●tate Angels Though the evil Angels are a Mat. 13.19 16.25 Eph. 6.12 spoil'd of grace by their sin and b 2 Pet. 2.4 Jude 6. involv'd in darkness by c Luke 10.18 their fall yet are they eminent in d 2 Cor. 2.11 11.3 Eph. 6.11 Jam. 2.19 knowledg by their Nature How increas'd and this much e Eph. 6.11 12. heightned by long experience in the world and from divine f Mat. 4.6 8 29. J●m 2 19. revelations in the Scriptures yea by g Jude 9. frequent contests with the good Angels yet can they not h Isa 4.23 foretel future events How not foretel events by any light of foreknowledg in and from themselves but what they do foretel are either such things as they finde foretold by the holy Prophets How foretel them or prepared in natural Causes or such things as they know already design'd being privy to the good and i assistants to the wicked designs of men or such things as by some evident signs they conjecture or by some seeming probabilities they presume The end of all diabolical predictions but whatsoever it the prediction or revelation from the evil Angels is is intended to k Mark 1.36 Acts 16 17.18 deceive and seduce to mischief and destroy and therefore l 1 Kin. 22 21 22. l Deut. 13 1 2 3. Eph 6.11 neither is to be sought for Why not to be allowed of nor to be allowed of all complyance with Devils being a m 2 Cor. 6 14 15. Ephes 5 11. renouncing of God and thereby a ruin to the soul What the power of 〈◊〉 evil 〈◊〉 § 25. As the Evil spirits are eminent in knowledg so are they also a Mat. 12.29 Ephes 6.12 migty in power yet a power b Job 1.12 2 6. 1 Pet. 5.8 limited and restrained God holding them fast in the Chain of his Providence so that when made executionors of his wrath they are kept c Mat. 8.32 Rev 7.2 3. subject to the command of his will How exercised By Divine Permission and Providential ordination it is that the Evil spirits exercise their d Job 1.12.16.19 Ephes 2 2. Rev 7. ● 3. power in the fire in the air in the waters and on the earth upon trees upon beasts and upon men Some e Luke 8.30 Mat. 8.16 men they actually possess some they f Luke 22.3 Acts 5.3 Ephes 2.2 wickedly pervert some they g Zech. 3.1 1 Thes 2.18 eagerly oppose but all they h 1 Pet. 5.8 2 Tim. 2.26 daily tempt and with the i 1 Chro. 21.1 Luk 22.31.57 best they often prevail though not so as k Gen 3.15 Psal 5.1 Luk 22.61 62. Rom. 16.20 fully to overcome and finally to destroy What their names and how proper and common § 26. The Prince of the Apostate Angels is called by those a Mat. 25.41 Luk. 10.17 names in an eminency of Evil which will fit all the rest in their proportion of Evil. He is called sometimes the b John 8.44 1 John 3.8 Devil the c Rev. 12.10 Accuser with lies reproches and calumnies accusing God unto man and man unto God Somtimes the d Mat. 4.3 1 Thes 3.5 Tempter by evil suggestions still soliciting unto sin Sometimes the e Mat. 13.19 Ephes 6.16 wicked one being full of iniquity himself and ever prompting others unto wickedness Sometimes f Luke 10.18 Acts 26.18 Satan the Adversary setting himself against God and Christ the good Angels and holy men raising and promoting enmity and contentions Somtimes the g Mat. 13.25 Luke 10.19 Enemy and the h 2 Thes 2.10 11 12. Destroyer raising i Rev. 20.8 seditions and wars to destroy nations k 1 Sam. 16.14 dissentions and divisions to ruin families Gods glory manif●sted in all l Mat. 13.25 Rev. 12.12 13 17 persecutions and Heresies to infest the Church In all which God doth manifest the riches of his wisdom and greatness of his power to the glory of his mercy and the advancement of his Justice in m Mat. 24.24 Luke 21.18 the gratious salvation of his chosen and the n Rev. 9.11 just condemnation of the wicked § 27. The wonderful working of Satan By his subtilty and power Satan doth work his a 2 Thes 2.9 lying wonders deceitful in themselves and intended by him for the deceiving of others yea sometimes he doth work b Deut. 13.1 2. Mat. 24.24 true signes yet thereby aims he at the destruction of truth which true signes though they seem wonderful Why not true miracles yet are they not such wonders as are truly c Acts 8.13 called Miracles For they cannot be any supernatural Effects being onely the events of some Natural Causes d Exod. 7.12 8.7 which Satan by a secret subtilty doth compact not by any proper power doth produce Every supernatural Effect must needs be the issue of a supernatural Cause ●ll miracles are from God which is God and e Ps●l 72. ●8 136.4 he alone who did wonderfully create the world without matter pre-existent can powerfully create wonders without means cooperating Such the mira●les of Christ and such were the f Joh. 10.25 Act. 2.22 glorious Miracles of Christ whereby he did testifie the Divine power of his God-head § 28. ●hy not such the workings of ●a●an Wherefore if the Devil could work true Miracles to perswade false Doctrines then were Miracles a weak and insufficient a Mat. 16.17.20 argument to confirm the true faith Besides that is

Why God did neither positively will nor properly nill mans fall so nor did he properly nill mans fall for if God had wil'd that man should fall man falling must have derogated from his goodness and holinesse and if God had will'd that man should not fall man falling must have derogated from his Wisdom and Power but God neither willing nor nilling but permitting and disposing mans fall doth manifest the glory of all his Attributes in the advancement of his mercy and justice his mercy in that a Eph. 1.8 9 10. grace he vouchsafeth by Christ to his Church and his justice by b Psal 9.16 Rom. 9.22 23. those judgments he executeth upon sin in the world § 17. Why God ordered man to be tempted left him and permitted him to be overcome God ordered man to be tempted for his triall left him in that temptation to himselfe for his conviction and permitted him to be overcome for his punishment In the triall he proves mans obedience in the conviction he discovers mans weaknesse and in the punishment he doth correct his a Jer. 17.5 vain confidence his vain confidence in trusting to his own strength Adam lost the assistance of God by not seeking it in prayer and not seeking by prayer the assistance of God who as he gave Adam a power in his Nature whereby he might have obeyed if he had willed would also have given him a further power in his triall whereby he had wil'd that he might have obeyed What strength Adam had by creation and What he might have had by prayer b 1 Chron. 28.9 Psal 9.10 if he had sought it of God And thus having obtained so much grace by creation as to have a power whereby if had wil'd he might not have sinned he had certainly obtained more grace by prayer so as to have had a power whereby he neither might have sinned nor have will'd it being approved in his triall and confirmed in his conquest and so established in grace and made perfect in happiness Why God cannot be said to be the cause of mans fall § 18. God cannot properly be the cause of what he doth not positively will Seeing then he did not positively will mans sin he cannot properly be the cause of mans fall His determining to permit and decreeing to order mans sin and mans fall doth declare his wisdom and power without the least impairing of his holiness and justice it doth speak him in his providence an all wise Disposer Why he permits sin not an unjust Author of sin for that his a ● Psal 145.9 1 John 1.5 infinite goodness is such as would not permit evill in the world were not his infinite power such as out of that b Rom. 6.20 2 Cor. 4.6 evill to bring a world of good CHAP. XII Concerning the Author Cause Nature and Adjuncts of Sin Why God cannot be the Author and cause of sin Its first Originall in the Devill § 1. THe a Psal 99.97 145.1 Isa 26.7 Jer. 12.1 Rev. 15 3. Just and Holy God who doth b Psal 97.10 Heb. 1.9 Rev. 2.6 hate c Exod. 20 3 c. Levit. 11.44 forbid and d Exod. 34.7 Jer. 9.8 9. Amos 3.2 John 5.14 punnish Sin cannot possibly be the e 1 John 1.5 2.16 Jam. 1.13.18 cause and Author of Sin which indeed had its first f John 8.48 1 Iohn 3.8 birth and being from the Divell and unto which Adam g Eccles 7.29 voluntarily betrayed himself in the exercise and abuse of his free-will How by him in Adam by h Gen. 3.6 Matth. 4.3 consenting to the Divels suggestions which had in themselves no power to force though permission from God to perswade How the fountain and cause of sinne is in our selves fallen in Adam § 2. And thus by Adam sin a Rom. 5.12 entred into the world upon whose fall we find the Originall fountain and efficsent or more properly deficient cause of sinne to be in our selves for having lost that harmony and broken that subordination of the appetite to the will of sense to reason of the body to the soul and of all to God man is become even in his best and highest faculties b Jer. 10.14 Rom. 1.21 7.14 sensuall and carnall so that sense overcoming reason and the appetite overswaying the will the will doth over-rule all to a leading the whole man c Rom. 7.14.23 captive into sin And thus the true cause of mans sinne is in mans self for that How actuall sin is brought forth d Jam. 1.14.15 Lust conceiving in the e Matth. 5 28. will 's confenting actuall sin is brought forth § 3. It is not then any coaction or constraint of necessity in Fate any force or fore-sight of Providence in God or any compulsion or power of Temptation in Satan but the perversnesse and consent of a Psa 32.5 51.3 Acts 5.3 Ephes 2.3 will in man which is the proper cause of his sin What those Scriptures intimate in their truth which wicked men wrest to make God the Author of sin in their blasphemy Wherefore all those places of sacred Scriptures which wicked men do wrest against truth and blasphemous mouthes retort upon God to the making him the Author of sin doe all declare and chiefly intimate that wonderfull wisdom and infinite goodnesse of the Almighty who as a powerfull Disposer not a bare Spectator doth order the evill actions of the wicked to his glory yet not any way partaking of the evill b Jer. 51.20 John 19.11 though powerfully assisting in the action § 4. God restrains from sin doth not prompt to sin God it is who a Gen. 31.29 Num. 22.22 2 Tim. 3.8.9 1 Pet. 5.8 restrains the wicked from sin so farre is he from prompting them for ward unto wickednesse but as the Lion let loose from his chain of his own cruell nature doth devour and spoile The wicked rush into sin when not restrained How the same actions are holy in respect of God yet sinfull in respect of the wicked so the b 1 Sam. 16.14 1 King 22.23 Ezek. 14.9 2 Thes 2.11 12 wicked let loose by Divine Providence for the execution of Gods wrath c Rev. 20.7 8. of their own corrupt dispositions they rush into mischief and sin d Gen 50.20 Isa 47.6 7. Acts 2.23 3.14 15. yea the same Actions are good and holy in respect of God as ordered to a good end even the advancing his Justice and Mercy which yet are sinfull and abominable in respect of man as contrived to an evill end even the satiating their malice and fury And thus when e 2 Sam. 12.11 Isai 47.6 7. Acts 2.23 3.14 15. wicked men are raised up to be a scourge for the punishment of others it is from Gods most just and holy will but the malice covetousness cruelty and other