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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30316	The Spiritual anatomy of man in which is considered I. the happy state of mans integrity in his first creation, II. the woful apostacy of man from God, by his original sin ..., III. mans restoration by ... Jesus Christ, and the excellency of the Covenant of Grace, IV. the whole series of Christian duties ..., V. the particular cases of affliction, especially spiritual defection ..., VI. the great encouragement to believers, for patience and perseverance ... : to which is added an index of the whole contents / published by Andrew Burnet ...	Burnet, A. (Andrew)	1693 (1693)	Wing B5753; ESTC R15370	202,954	328

themselves with a Heavenly Harmony and their Sentiments is one amongst themselves Like the pretious Oyntment on the Head which ran down upon the Beard and as the Dew of Hermon and the Dew on the Mount of Zion Ps 133. As they all accord in Sentiments they are guilty neither of Murmuring Rebellion or Mutiny but Holy and Peaceable therefore all their desires are acceptable with God and are written and recorded by him in his Book of Life and they that feared Lord spoke often one to another and a Book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and thought often upon his Name Mal. 3.10 Then to conclude if it be of a Truth that Believers shall have Eternal Life Jo. 3 16. Are they under an everlasting Covenant with God Hosea 2.19 20 Is 59.20 21. Is 60.20 21. Ro. 11.27 29. Do Remission of Sins of whatsoever degree or quality belong to them Is 1.18 Is 43.26 Mat. 11.28 29 30. Shall they have Comfort in Darkness Is 50.10 Mich. 7.8 Mal 3 16. Shall they be Heirs of all things Rev. 21.7 Ro. 8.32 Gal. 3.29 Eph. 1.11 14. Shall they be one with God in Christ Jesus in Wisdom Spirit and Glory Jo. 17.21 to 25 Shall nothing present or to come separate them from him Ro. 8.35 37 38. Shall they sit on the Throne of God with Christ Rev. 3.21 Shall Christ have Universal Sympathy with them in all their Afflictions Is 63.9 Shall they have Universal Protection by Christ Is 43.2 Ps 91 all Ps 107. all Shall their Chastisement from God be in moderation Is 27.7 8. Jer. 31.20 Shall the end of their chastisement be to take away their sin and for their good Is 27.9 Heb. 12.5 to 11. Shall the Afflictions of the Godly be but for a short time Is 54.7 8. 2 Cor. 4.17 Shall the Afflictions of the Godly be exchanged with greater Mercies 2 Cor. 4.17 18. Hebr. 12.11 Are the Chastisements of the Godly with Reluctance from God Jer. 31.20 Hosea 11.8 9 10 11. Hath he given to his People Promises in Poverty Ps 25.4 Ps 34.9 10. Isa 41 17 to 21. Is 44.2 3. Is 45.3 Have they promises in Captivity Jer. 30.18 ch 31.10 ch 32.37 Have they promises under Reproaches Ps 22.6 to 11. Ps 31.9 to 14. Ez. 36.3 15. Ps 38.10 11 12 15. Pro. 42.10 11. Ps 51.7 8. Have they promises in Sickness Is 38. all ch 40.28 to 32. Jer. 33.6 Ps 41.3 Is 46.3 4. Is 47.18 Have they promises when forsaken of Friends Ps 27.5 to 15. Is 49.15 to 22. Is 54.5 to 11. Is 66.5 ch 6 3 15. Jer. 30.11 to 18. Shall all their Trials and Troubles turn to Everlasting Joy Ps 116.6 10. Ps 91 all Ps 68.13 Have they Christ for their General and Saints their Companions in their Warfare Is Christ Wise and Wisdom it self Pro. 1.2 ch 8. all Is Christ for Experience the Antient of Days Maker and Preserver of all things Col. 1.15 16 17. 1 Cor. 8.6 Heb. 1. to 14. Is his Wisdom unsearchable Job 32.8 ch 38. all ch 39. ch 40. Pro. 8. Is he who furnisheth Wisdom James 1.5 Pro. 1.23 John 1. to 6. Job 38.36 ch 32.8 Is this Wisdom the fear of God Pro. 1.7 ch 9.10 Jere. 9.23 24. Jo. 17.3 7 8. Is Christ all in all to the Saints 1 Cor. 1.30 31. Is he infinitely powerful Omnipotent King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev. 17.14 Is 12 to 29. Job 38. ch 49. ch 40. ch 41. Dan. 17.25 Jer. 27.5 Is 45.7 Is he experience to fight for his People see the large account of the Victory for his People before Hath he overcome the Devil the Antient and Powerful enemy of Man Mat. 4 to 8. Hath he overcome Death and the Cross by his Death and Resurrection Mat. 27.50 ch 28.6 Hosea 13.14 1 Cor. 15.54 to 57. Hath he in the Signal of his Victories that rare Trophy the Hand-Writing of Ordinances blotted out which was against Man Col. 3.13 14 15. John 3.16 17 18. Ro. 5.5 to 9. Is the Cross of Christ the Standard Royal and Saints Glory Gal. 6.14 And hath he in it the Motto of Saints Salvation Jo. 3.14 to 18 and blotting out of their Sins Col. 2.14 Have all the glorified Saints of Heaven Travelled thither under the Cross of Christ for our Example Is Christs Command for chearful fighting under his Banner Jo. 14 to 5. Col. 3.16 17. 1 Thes 5.18 Phi. 1 to 8. Psa 105. all Heb 12.1 2. Shall Christs Combatants have Victory for them before the fight Is 61. to 5. ch 66.7 8. Heb. 4.15 16. ch 6.9 20. ch 12.4 ch 7.25 to 22. ch 9.12 to 28. Is Christ our Advocate making intercession for us 1. Jo. 2.1 Heb. 7.25 Hath he taken possession of Heaven for us Heb. 6.20 ch 12.1 2. Are the Wounds of Christs Combatants cured by his Blood Is 53.4 5 6. 1 Pet. 2.21 to 25. Are the Combatants of Christ always Conquerors Ro. 8.36 37 2 Cor. 4.14 Mat. 10.32 Are all the Combatants of Christ so framed and armed that they can resist all Attacks Ez. 36.26 27. Eph 6 12 13 14 to 19. Are all Christs Soldiers choice and chosen before the World began Ro. 8.29 30. Tit. 1.2 ch 3.5 6. Are they all Marked and listed in Christs Muster-Roll Isa 5.3 Ez. 8.4 5. Rom. 7.3 ch 2.7 ch 3.5 12. Jo 17.6 Are they all secured by Christ that they shall never be lost Jo. 17.24 Psa 91. all Isa 54.17 ch 59.2 16. Are all Christs Combatants of one mind of one spirit will and harmony Eze. 36.26 27. Joh. 17.21 Ps 133. Mal. 3.16 If these be the undeniable Truths of God and Priviledges of such who fight the good fight of Faith under Christs Banner what should hinder but that they should draw near with full Heart and Assurance and rejoyce in the great Salvation purchased to them by Christ Jesus and chearfully close with the Apostles Exhortation wherefore seeing we are compassed about with such a Cloud of Witnesses let us lay aside every weight that hangeth down and the sin that so easily beset us and let us run with patience the Race that is set before us looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith who for the Joy that was set before him endured the Cross dispising the shame and is set down at the Right Hand of the Throne of God for consider him that endured such Contradiction of Sinners against himself lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds Heb. 12.1 2 3. And further Let us draw near with a true Heart and full Assurance of Faith having our Hearts sprinkled from an evil Conscience and our Bodies washed with pure Water let us hold fast the Profession of our Faith without wavering for he is faithful who hath promised Heb. 10.22 23. Let us imitate that Holy Apostle I have fought the good fight of Faith I have finished my Course henceforth for me is laid up a Crown of Righteousness which the Righteous

From the corruption of the Fountain Secondly From Scripture Thirdly From daily experience First From the corruption of the Fountain of our actions or performance of Duties It being already proved that Man having wilfully polluted and disordered the frame of Holiness Integrity and Knowledge in which he was created and poysoned the Heart and Affections from whence actions and performances do flow how can pure and full performances or duties be expected from thence Man being in his Heart and Thoughts polluted his Actions must be suitable to the pure all things are pure but unto them that are defiled is nothing pure but even their Mind and Conscience is defiled Tit. 1.15 This is of necessary consequence who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean not one Job 14.4 Wherefore we must conclude that so long as the Fountain of the Heart is defiled so must the actions and performances coming from thence be impure and weak and until Man be renewed in the Spirit of his Mind by regeneration in Jesus Christ he still remains corrupt and polluted until he be again revested with that holy Spirit and that a new heart be given to him by which again he may be enabled to walk in the Statutes of God to do them by vertue of that promise I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and ye shall keep my Judgments and do them Ezek. 36.26 27. Secondly Scripture is most clear that all the Actions of a Carnal Man such as are all the Issue of Adam until restored by Regeneration are sinful and unacceptable with God First His Thoughts are polluted and defiled and God saw that the wickedness of Man was great in the Earth and that every Imagination of the Thoughts of his Heart was only evil continually Gen. 6.5 Secondly His words are defiled and sinful but unto the wicked God saith what hast thou to do to declare my Statutes and take my Covenant in thy Mouth seeing thou hatest Instruction and casteth my Words behind thee Psal 50.16 17. Thirdly His Actions are all evil the Ploughing of the Wicked is sin Prov. 21.4 Fourthly The very Religious Actions or Performances of Duties of the Wicked are sinful The Sacrifice of the Wicked is an abomination to the Lord Prov. 15.8 He that turneth away his Ear from hearing the Law even his Prayer shall be an abomination Prov. 28.9 When ye spread forth your hands I will hide mine Eyes from you yea when ye make many Prayers I will not hear your hands are full of blood Isa 1.11 to 16. This point we may thus conclude that whatever flows from a Carnal Man whose Mind and Heart is defiled must be impure and unacceptable to God for that the Carnal Mind is enmity against God and is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be Rom. 8.7 Wherefore until the Fountain be purified and the imbred prejudice of the Heart be taken away and man be reconciled to God in Christ Jesus nothing coming from him can be acceptable with God Thirdly Experience clearly proves such disability in every performance Religion for most part is wrapt up in a bare exercise of outward actions of Devotion Formality Ceremony and customary performances are come in such repute that men easily deceive themselves and sit down at ease in these performances without searching into the frame of the Spirit towards God or examining the spring and motive of these Duties or scope and end of their Devotion not regarding whether these duties be undertaken and performed in obedience of the Command in Faith in Sense of Sin in Eye to the Glory of God or remorse for Sin in sense of self pollution and in a desire of renovation and assistance to perform and in every thing to deny our selves and depend on God by Faith but lull their Consciences for most part secure by having done what was customarily reputed religious performances Let a Man pretending to religion more than ordinary examine himself impartially he shall find such disorder of Thoughts in religious duties such narrow and scanty apprehensions of God such invasion of his Thoughts and Affections diverting him from the right and leading him to improper objects unruly interruptions such scanty performances and such uneasiness under these duties that Custom rather than Conscience and Conscience for Self if not carnal Interest at best than for Gods Glory and Salvation is the chief Impulse or Spring of such actions But as to the arraigning of the Affection before God whether placed on God or Lusts Faith on Christ for Justification and Salvation the work of Mortification unfeigned Repentance Christian Patience Charity Brotherly Love and new Obedience are Riddles not only hid from Carnal apprehensions and made mens duties but rather thought nusancies scare crows and enmity to the World and the flesh so that we must conclude that in nature we are without streng●h for any Righteous performances and that until the Law of the Members be brought under the Law of the Spirit we can do no good thing Rom. 8.6 For I know that in me that is in my Flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but how to perform that which is good I find not Rom. 7.18 For I see a Law in my Members warring against the Law of my Mind and bringing me into Captivity to the Law of sin which is in my Members Chap. 7.23 Here we have a clear description and proof of mans natural Incapacity for doing any good and this Incapacity we must ascribe to the corruption of the Heart Affections which had its rise from sin in Adam Having cleared what Original Sin in Adam was and how his Posterity was tainted therewith and made liable to the fatal Consequences thereof we come in the third place to make some practical Inferences from thence First If from the premises it be an unquestionable truth that Adam was created in Perfection and Integrity and that he fell under the most detestable Apostacy and that in his Transgression were complicated all manner of Sins that Nature was polluted in him that all after Posterity are tainted with his guilt and made liable to the consequences of his Sin How little reason have the greatest and richest Men of the World to boast and how great reason have they to humble themselves upon reflection of their Pedigree For that their descent was from him who once was the most glorious absolute richest and only Soveraign on Earth who for his Pride Covetousness Ingratitude and Murmuring was forfeit degraded made miserable and debased That they are at best of corrupted adulterate and degenerate blood and extraction Scripture doth clearly explain this Cause Jerusalem to know her abominations thy Birth and thy Nativity is of the Land of Canaan thy Father was an Amorite thy Mother a Hittite Ezek. 16 23. This People was lineally of Abraham but had followed the Idolatry and wickedness of the Amorites and Hittites therefore are