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cause_n	father_n	holy_a	son_n	6,458	5	6.0598	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38604	The civil right of tythes wherein, setting aside the higher plea of jus divinum from the equity of the Leviticall law, or that of nature for sacred services, and the certain apportioning of enough by the undoubted canon of the New Testament, the labourers of the Lords vineyard of the Church of England are estated in their quota pars of the tenth or tythe per legem terræ, by civil sanction or the law of the land ... / by C.E. ...	Elderfield, Christopher, 1607-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing E326; ESTC R18717	336,364	362

because I seek not mine own will but the will of the Father which hath sent me Though he always knew all things necessary for the perfect discharge of his Offices yet there was a time when he was excluded from the knowledge of the hour and day of judgement Mark 13. 32. The words from the Greek are these But of that day and hour no one knoweth neither the Angels which are in Heaven Nor the Son unless the Father Hence it is plain that the Father onely knew the day and hour of Judgement and that the Son himself was at that time excluded from the knowledge of it therefore this knowledge was not originally of himself nor always perfect COl Col. 1. 15. 1. 15. I finde next in your Paper but have already spoken to it yet was willing here to mention it least you should think I had forgot it Sir this Text you say holds forth the Eternal Generation of Jesus Christ I pray consider it again and by your next let me hear what part thereof it is in which Christs Eternal Generation may be seen THe next Scripture is Col. Col. 1. 16. with John 1. 3. 1. 16. To which I shall add John 1. 3. being reserv'd for this place Answ Sir here you harp upon two other strings and think they sound that alowd in your ears which you have entertained in your thoughts to wit that Jesus Christ is the most high God But pray Sir consider whether your Conclusion be the Eccho of those Texts or else of your own thoughts onely But you seem to gather this Argument from the words to manifest the verity of your thoughts He by whom all things were made is the most high God But all things were made by Jesus Christ Therefore Iesus Christ is the most High God I shall answer to your Major by distinguishing betwixt the Agent Principall and Instrumental That there may be in one and the same work one Principal and another Instrumentall Agent none will deny But whether there were in the work of Creation one Principall and another Instrumentall is a thing to be proved That the Father was Principall therein and so the most high God comes not under debate But whether the Son was onely Instrumental in that great work of Creation is the Controversie and must be the subject of our present inquiry I affirm that Iesus Christ was onely an Instrumentall Agent in the Creation of the worlds The Reasons by which I shall at this time guard mine assertion from suspition of errour are these that follow The first is drawn from the silence of all creatures The book of the Creatures Ex Creatione agnoscitur Deus sed non Deus pater fil spir fi quoniam vis illa efficiens quia mundus fuit creatus pertinet ad Essentiam Dei non ad subsistentiam ejus personalem Amesius as well as the book of the Scriptures speak forth with open mouth this sacred truth that there is one first cause and Principall Agent of all things Of a Trinity of Persons in Unity of Essence as Principal Agents in the work of Creation the whole Creation is wholly silent Wherefore our Divines acknowledg that God is known from the Creation but not God the Father Son and Holy Spirit because that efficient power by which the world was created belongs to the Essence of God not to his personall subsistence Yet by their leave God is a Person all actions being proper unto persons and therefore by their grant the works of Creation hold forth but one Agent who must needs be the Principall if not the only Agent therein for it is not imaginable that if there were then one Principall Agent they should not all be equally discovered by the work being equally concerned in it Therefore if Christ were an Agent he was but an instrumental one The Second Reason proceeds from the verdict of pure Reason If Reason may obtain credit she will tell us that there could be in the work of Creation but one Principall Agent because there is by nature and in way of eminency but one God For if there were two Principall Agents there must be two Gods in way of eminency the terms being convertible which to affirm would be absurd and easily disproved And therefore if Jesus Christ were any he was but an Instrumentall Agent in that work of Creation The Third Reason issues from the nature of Christs being That whole Christ is a creature hath been already proved yet let me adde a word from Col. 1. 15. which doth immediately precede the Text now in question Christ is there called the image of the invisible God and so is distinguished from God because the image and the thing whereof it is an image are not the same in that nothing can be the image of its self Now he is called the image of the invisible God in that God through him did principally manifest and declare his Divine Glory and in that the chiefest Dominion of the creature was by the Father committed to him in this sense man is called the image and glory of God 1 Cor. 11. 7. He is also called the first-born of every creature whereby he is ranked among the creatures yet so as that he is the Head of them Now if whole Christ be a creature then will it unavoidably follow that he was but an Instrument in the work of Creation for God and creatures are contradistinct and he could not be unless he were God a Principall Agent The fourth Reason doth spring from the manner of Christs working 1. Though he had an hand in the Creation of the world yet was it not originally of him 1 Cor. 8. 6. where the Apostle doth plainly shew us that all things are of God even the Father and that all things are by not of Jesus Christ and so the Son is distinguished from the Father in the work of Creation the Father being the first cause and originall of all things and Christ the instrument of the Father by whom he did manifest his Divine Glory in producing creatures 2. Instrumentum Minist Ter. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Just 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theoph. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Origin In that in the work of Creation the Scripture tells us that God acted by him Ephes 3. 9. where 't is said That God created all things by Jesus Christ So in Heb. 1. 2. which openly hold forth Jesus Christ as Gods instrument in creating the world He is frequently called by the Fathers the Instrument and Servant of God But you endeavour to strengthen your Proposition by a Reason such as 't is drawn from impossibility God could say you make use of no instrument in the work of Creation But Sir this assertion derogates from Gods All-sufficiency Is any thing impossible with God Is any thing too hard for the Lord 2. It contradicts your own testimony I remember that in a Conference where I exercised both silence and patience