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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61645	A stock of divine knowledge, being a lively description of the divine nature, or, The divine essence, attributes, and Trinity particularly explaned [sic] and profitably applied the first, shewing us what God is : the second, what we ought to be / by the late learned and laborious preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, Richard Stock ...	Stock, Richard, 1569?-1626.	1641 (1641)	Wing S5693; ESTC R34616	191,839	352

is necessary hath appointed us a time to consider of the premises dare any man say that this knowledg of God is not necessary if this knowledge of God had not bin necessary he would never have taught it therefore ignorance of this is sinne especially when a man is negligent upon this supposition that it is enough to know that there is a God and no more therefore every man ought to know this it is necessary that every man that would be saved must beleeve and no beleeving without a distinct understanding of the Trinity he shall be in danger of hell fire that doth not labour to know and understand it when he hath the meanes and yet there are that will not know this distinction but are content to have an implicit faith it is the Doctrine of the Church that a man that beleeves not this distinction cannot be saved 1 Iohn 1.23 he that denies the Sonne hath not the Father Vse 3. This instructs every man to worship God aright how is that undoubtedly as he hath revealed himselfe in unity and trinity not denying the Essence nor confounding the persons he that worships God and not three persons worships an idoll and he that worships three persons and not one God worships three idols therefore to avoid all idolatry a man must be able to distinguish them how as a childe onely by three names no it is not enough to know no heresie but men must know to worship him him aright therefore every man must labour to conceive of him aright as he hath revealed himselfe and here is the image that every man isalowed unto him unity and trinity c. it is not enough for a man not to conceive erroneously but he must conceive truely The worship of God is necessary for whom for God nothing lesse it is nothing to God that thou worship him it is necessary for man and it is necessary to worship aright then necessary as he hath revealed and this they cannot doe unlesse they know him Turks they cannot be saved because God hath not revealed himselfe one in three persons to them the Iewes they cannot be saved because God hath not revealed one in three persons to them though God did in the old Testament shadow this out yet he did it so darkly that they understood it not Then every one that is in the Church may be saved no they that live in the Church and doe not endevour to understand as God hath delivered to the Church cannot be saved Rom. 10.13 Then every one that cals vpon the name of the Lord shall be saved no there is nothing more used in the Scriptures then to put downe invocation for all the worship of God and so it is taken there Then every one that worships God aright shall be saved yea but how can a man invocate God if he know not the advocate and mediator Iesus Christ so how shall a man performe any worship to God but a fiction of his owne braine except he know this mystery therefore fearefull must needs be the condition of such as are ignorant of this sacred mystery This should be a provocation to every man to labour to know these mysteries you must goe and meditate about these things and beat your heads about them so that walking in the worshippe of God here hee will honour you c. OF GOD THE FATHER CHAP. XXV HEB. 1.6 Thou art my Sonne this day c. IN the next place it followes that we speake of every one of the persons in their order and the first is the Father this text that I have read gives ground to speake of him concerning whom the first Question principally to be handled is this namely Quest What is the Father Answ He is the first person in order not in time begetting the Sonne creating the world the thing that is described is the Father This word Father is applied to God in Scriptures two waies First Essentially Secondly Personally Essentially in the first place that is when divine things are opposed to humane eternall to earthly God to the creature and Father in this sense is not applied to the first person in Trinity but to the whole Essence and this is that which Christ taught us Matth. 6. Our Father which art in heaven Father there belongs to all Mal. 2.10 We have all one Father and in this respect the Sonne is called Father Isai 9.6 Father of eternity Heb. 2.13 Here I am and the children that thou hast given me speaking of Christ and those that were begotten by his word and in this respect the holy Ghost may have the name of Father given to him because it is he that begets us againe in which respect it is that God is called Father by creation and Adoption Secondly the Father is to be taken personally and that is with reference to the Sonne and not to the creature and so in this description Father is to be applied to the fitst person as appears by that which I have read The next thing I say he is a person the Essence is common to them all but the distinction is three fold by his order and by his properties and by his workes First order I say the Father is first in order not in time because the Son is coeternall with him he not before him Iohn 1.1 In the beginning ginning when other things began there was the word with God Prov. 8.22 He possessed me in the beginning of his waies a place so manifest of the Sonne of God as Arrius the grand enemy could not deny it where he saith I was with him before the world was and thus the Prophet Micha 5.2 hath it speaking of Christ His goings forth have been of old from everlasting there is mention of two goings forth one in time and that is as he was man his incarnation Secondly another from everlasting and this was his begetting of God from everlasting and so the Father was not before him in time Heb. 9.14 He is called the eternall spirit a place commonly understood of the divine nature of Christ so that by all this it appeares he was before him in order not in time The next thing is his property begetting his Sonne included in the name Father the Father is unbegotten and begets the Sonne the Son is begotten because he hath a beginning of his person from the Father as Saint Basil observes the Father hath his foundation within himselfe we may beleeve the reason because that never any Heretique denied it now he begat his Son I shewed you it before Psal 2.2 Thou art may Son this day c. and so heer unto which of the Angels did he say thou art my Sonne this day have I begotten thee and therefore he is called the onely begotten Son Iohn 1.14 We saw his glory as the glory of the onely begotten Sonne of God therefore he is called the first begotten Col. 1.15 If any aske me Quest How begat he him Ans I answer I know

discerned by others Saint Bernard saith when he was entred upon a text upon Cant. This Well is deepe and I have nothing to draw but yet I see by experience that if a man cover the Well with a linnen cloth he shall wring out some moysture which otherwise hee should not I have therefore bended my selfe upon it and stretched my hands to thee that thou wouldest reveale something to mee for every man bending and stretching himselfe his heart and his hands to God shall receive something for the enterance to thy Word saith David giveth light Solomon saith a diligent hand maketh rich a little stock to begin with being diligently imployed maketh rich So it is in spirituall things a diligent hand maketh rich if a man have a little knowledge if hee have a diligent heart and hand though the Word bee as it were in a dark place yet hee shall see more and more There are two things to be enquired of concerning the written Word of God First by whom it was written Secondly for whom it was written For the first that is by whom this Word was written time will not give me leave to speake of therefore I will proceed to the next Quest For whom was this Word written Answ For all men of all ages and conditions the text that I have read proves it Search the Scriptures to whom did Christ speak To all men of all Nations and Countries that were gathered there together Act. 2.39 The promise is made to you and to your children and to as many as the Lord God shall call the promises were not made to the Jewes onely but also to the Gentiles even to as many as the Lord shall call therefore the Word is written for all Rom. 15.4 Whatsoever things were written afore time were written for our learning they were not written for them onely but for us also upon whom the ends of the world are come These things are come upon them for examples 1 Cor. 10.11 Therefore it is apparent that the Word was written for all men Out of this ariseth another question Quest How is it proved that it is written for all men Answ Three wayes besides the testimony of Scripture First because the Lord that writ it is Lord over all perfect in wisdome Secondly because this written Word is Gods revealed will Thirdly because there is but one way to salvation for all men and this is laid downe in it Wee will manifest this First because it is Gods Word and God is over all times over all places and over all persons as well successors as predecessors as well them that goe before as them that follow after therefore the Word belongs to all We have a Proverb New Lords new Lawes but it is not so here God doth keepe alwayes one Law Kings that have their severall Kingdomes have all severall Lawes the reason is because they cannot make Lawes without their subjects and amongst them one thinks this fit another thinks that but the Lord is an absolute King that makes Lawes without men for the earth is the Lords and all that therein is Psal 24.1 I add to this that hee is perfect in wisdome men when they have made Lawes they repeale them againe because they are imperfect in wisdome and cannot foresee what will bee convenient for after times But God is perfect in wisdome therefore his Lawes are alwaies the same Secondly because it is Gods revealed will the rule of justice by which things are made good or evill and therefore it must needs bee a universall Law his will is over all his Word and himselfe have the same extent without any restraint whatsoever Thirdly because there is but one way to salvation and that is by the Word the Word brings salvation to all men of all times and of all conditions never had any man any way but one and that is by fulfilling of the Law only there is this difference between the Law of works and the Gospel for that by the covenant of works all that will be saved by the Law must doe the works of the Law themselves by the covenant of grace all that will bee saved by the Gospel must apply by faith the fulfilling of the Law by Christ for he is the end of the Law to salvation he must be applyed to every man that will bee saved so that here is an admirable conclusion that man must be saved by mercy and justice and for this the Word was written for all men and for all ages Use 1. If this be so then it is necessary that all men should have the Word of God in their own language though it was written in another language and before they were yet it was written for them a point that our Jesuits cry down that every woman and every boy and every maide should have the Word they cry out of it but if God writ it as well for the unlearned as for the learned why should they not have it when God first writ the Bible did hee write it in a strange language If God had beene minded to have had the Word shut up from the people hee would have writ it in a strange language but God in his wisdome wrote it not in a strange language but in such a one as all might read Nay more then this the Churches at all times have had their Bibles translated into their owne languages Certainely the Spirit of God never knew that which the President of the Councell of Trent saith A Distaffe was more fit for a woman then a Bible when as God hath commanded that women should read it as well as men a Distaffe is fit in due times and seasons but these doe accuse God as the Divell in the Serpent did when he said to Evah God would not have you to know this this is nothing but the brood of the Serpent Saint Chrysostome saith Theeves when they meane to steale first put out the candle so hereticks when they meane to deceive first corrupt the Scriptures The Papists themselves have translated the old and new Testament into English but so darkly that none that reads them unlesse hee be a Scholler can understand them their translating proves against themselves the lawfulnesse of a translation for how dare they doe that which they judge unlawfull their affectation of obscurity is a mocking of God and of his people Use 2. Was the Word written for mee then I ought to have a care to read it and to understand it This is the ground of all wee shall never doe you good with teaching except you read the Scriptures privately God hath written them for you as if your names were expressed in them If a man had lived in the Church of Corinth when the Epistle was written to the Corinthians would hee have thought that hee had beene excluded nay hee would rather have thought himselfe to have beene bound to have read it The whole Word of God is Gods Epistle to the creature If an Emperor should