unto Him but by the same scale He descendeth unto us And hence it followeth that That great Work and last End Our Regeneration is lesse evidently quickning and the Means thereto the Ordinances are lesse efficacious And we must farther say congruous with this Analogy that the not understanding the first Part of the Scale GOD in Essence Subsistencies Energies Operations to the constitution of the creature hath been the Prime cause of the not understanding of the Second viz. The Subsistentiall Actings in the Interpellation and Covenant of the first Transaction the Energies and Operations in the Lines terminating on the Covenant in the second transaction as to his Mediatorship and the Covenant Derivative as to his Apostolate These being but their Operations upon Condescension which cannot have their Light but from a consideration had of these their first Actings And the confused or Indistinct understanding of this Second hath been a like cause of not understanding the Third the Operations from the Mediator and Apostolate by his respective Energeticall Operations to us ward and on us the subject matter exhibited in the Covenant Derivative and Covenant Derivative Finisht This being but the Deriving unto us what was Treasured up in Him And in as much as This Scale of the Intellectuall in its Juncture with the rest is indeed the Spirit quickning the whole we may affirm that all Our Errors as well in Judgement and Faith as in Practise and Manners in the other natur all Theologicall Heads and morall Theologicall Grounds in the Circle and Epicycle modelled have arisen principally from the not aright discerning of these And it would be no hard matter to evidence in particulars where and how from some Misprision or other here in Root of the Intellectuall each and every of our misguided Actings in Morals Oeconomicks Politicks as well of sacred as civill cognisance have burgeoned and put forth The Review of the whole ANd now let the whole be viewed From the Abysse of Essence to the Operations and the Person of Jesus Christ with his Energies and Operations on us From the Look before the Creation to the state of Glorification From the Judgement of the first Race to the Judgement of the second Race From the state of nature in its Primitive constitution to the state of nature in the first Resurrection From the state of nature in the Fall of the first Man to the state of nature in Death the condition of all men From the Covenant of Restauration in Decree to the same Covenant derived unto us and Finisht in us From the Trinity Supream to the Trinity of Condescensions From the Gentile in the Gener all Ordinances to the Jew and Christian in all the speciall Administrations What should I mention particulars Look on the Generals as the Circle in the Epicycle and let the whole be considered in its Symmetry and proportion as it hath wrought it self in the Scheme A Systeme of Truths purely naturall and according to the order of nature without any Artifice at all in the framing we having only followed not forced Them whilest they in their naturall Method as things formed and brought themselves into Diagramme Mathematicall that the Inward subject matters might more efficaciously by demonstrating the Seriptures Designe inform the Reason when fixt according to the order of nature in the outward Form and Figure they shall be transmitted unto it by the convinced Sence that so Sence Reason and Revelation may all conspire to the stating of each and every particular Truth Thus see and consider Essence in the Subsistencies Emanant by their Energies constituting a First Race and upon the Apostacy of some of that Race creating a Second in a Condition Inconsummate Upon their Lapse the Lapse of the second Race in the Protoplast the first and second Subsistencies because They onely had their Principles actually in the constitution of the first Adam in and by their Subsistentiall Actings laying their Designe for the Restauration of this second Race This Decreed Executed in the second Adam revealed by Him and accomplished in the earnest then in the Full in the creature This creature thus restored by the Regeneration and consummately Glorified All by the varied Operations of the Subsistencies by their Energies shew in Figure the Designes the Degrees and Steps of this creatures Constitution Restoration Advance and Exaltation Next see and consider Tophet in its situation A Work not decreed but emergent upon Their Apostacy and extraneous to the Designe of God in the Creation of that first Race as The Sentence from him was aliene They first become Devils and Evil Angels in consequent of their Fall Reserved in chains of darknesse in consequent of their Sentence unto the Judgement of the great Day for the full of their punishment And then become Tempters in that state to the first man and ever afterwards in Enmity with the seed Thus in that Head and Labels And the Last Judgement in proportioned situation opposite because an Abdication of that first Race and at once a Sentence and Abdication of those of the second Race workers of Iniquity then finally Reprobated imported by the Labell Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Concerning which Last Judgement I shall at present onely suggest this one thing that It hath and must keep the seaventh place in the close of the Heads of the Ordinances as the First Resurrection is the seaventh to those of the Mediatorship because It dependeth on those Ordinances which the whole Body of the Head importeth Giving us farther also in the close a Distinction of the Kingdom of Apostolate which he is to resigne after this and to lead us into that merited Kingdom of the Father prepared for us before the Foundation of the World simply considered exprest by that part of the Labell Come ye blessed of my Father c. Matth. 25.34 when those who claime It by Covenant acquitted at the Last Judgement are gathered into One with those of the first Race confirmed Then see and consider The Head of the Fall upon the same ground not decreed of God and so the Root of Death not made by God He made not Death saith the Wise man Wisd 1.13 but man Adam giving himself by sinne into the power of Satan Death came in by Sinne Rom. 5.12 And hence we see how Satan came to have the Power of Death Heb. 1.14 to wit by Adam's admitting of the temptation which was Death in the Root It was indeed a Breach by which man was going forth to the state of those in the Labell reserved in Chaines but by the Interpellation made up that all might be saved by the Covenant as to the Inward man if they perform the Condition though committed to Satan by the Sentence to Death thou shalt return for the destruction of the Flesh the Outwardman And the Head of the state of Nature in Death the Execution of that Sentence in opposite situation and like proportioned Figure
under the Paenadamni or Privative onely Yea farther upon the Creator's admitting that Interpellation A Reprieve from the Sentence and so the Curse for the present sublevated both to the Inward and Outward Man by which a possibility for a following Covenant for Restoring of Both. VI. The Restauration of Nature in the Inward and Outward Man under the forfeiture to Justice suspended upon that Rescue and Reprieve in Decree by the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction as the New Creation in the Second Adam by this the New Covenant for Restauration and Revelation betwixt the Creator Ordaining and the Eternal Word undertaking to be Incarnate by his Eternal Spirit immediately united to the Intellectuall Nature and by it to be united to the Body Whereby the principle of Grace withdrawn Restored to our Nature in that the second Adam He became a fit Mediator Sponsor in the Apostles phrase a Pledge to perform the Condition of the first Adam by Adhesion Inward Obedience Outward This not only Active to vanquishing but Passive also for the satisfying the guilt of the first Adams non-performance even to the suffering of Death whence Raised Glorified as Reward upon the work done taking possession in our nature of the Glory come short of He was thereby made a fit Mediater Regenerator to restore the principle of Grace to particulars and so gave them title to the Glory in Him prepared for them For the efficacious Revealing and applying of which Grace to the Inward by the Outward Man Outward Means and Ordinances are hereunto Codecreed in him as Apostle by Unction from the Father to Reveale as the work given him to do And so here Nature sanctified the Inner Man delivered from the Positive Evil the Execution of the Sentence and the state of Tophet by translating of the Guilt and Curse upon the Satisfaction undertaken From the Privative Evil the Creator now lifting up the light of his Countenance in his Decreed Ordinances for the restoring of the Principle of Grace withdrawn and Glory consecutive thereupon And though the Outward Man still continued under its incurr'd Curse Gen. 3.19 To dust thou shalt return yet that also here sanctified upon Capitulation that the Creator to make it redeemable in us would by a second work prepare it for the Eternal Word to assume and so to become voluntarily and of himself Mediator to Redeem and in it Annoynted Apostle to Reveale All from this the beginning of time by His cooperating Grace in Shadowes and Types in the severall Administrations and from this Compact having efficacie as Ordinances though as to the Actuating them in the fullnesse of time Personally in and from Himself as in the Flesh they were onely in Decree VII The Actual Restauration of Nature compleat in the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the second Transaction mutually made good in the Person of the Mediator by the Creator's preparing and so sanctifying the Humane nature or Body as to the Outward Man And the Word by the Intellectual nature the Inner Man unto which from the first Transaction it was united assuming it prepared into union with his Divine Nature so restoring the Principle of Grace in his Person to Humane nature compleat both to the Inward and Outward Man On whom thus constituted His Duty Obedience Active and Passive performed the Reward Glory is actually conferred All according to that Restauration in Decree VIII The Restauration of Particulars in the Covenant Derivative as the Revelation and efficacious Application of the Covenant Primitive from Him by complication of Ordinances and Mysterie into which coming as into the Kingdom of God their Persons are by the Ordinances sanctified and they renewed in Knowledge from Him as Apostle by unction of the Holy Ghost Jo. 14.26 teaching them all things And then upon the appropriate condition of Faith in its Advances they receive from Him as Mediator by Influx of that his Renewing Nature the Mystery the Righteousnesse of the Kingdom unto their Regeneration in their Inward Man upon and according unto that actuall Restauration in the Person of the Mediator IX That Restauration of Particulars by Influx upon the appropriate Condition of Adhering and Vanquishing in the Covenant Derivative Finish't consummate as to the Inward Man in the Earnest from the Spirit sealing The third Subsistency and the Cutward man by that his work on it the Inward sealed to the Day of Redemption X. The State of Nature by dissolution separate in and after Death relative both to the Inward and Outward Man the Inward because by immediate impresse Sealed immediately in actuall Blisse a Blisse proportioned to this Separate state And the Outward Man because once united to the Inward and by that Seal on it sealed to its Redemption resting in Hope XI The state of Nature both Inward and Outward according to that Seal and Rest in Hope by the Resurrection reunited and perfectly restored Sealed unto Translation XII The State of Nature thus as before perfectly restored in the Persons fully redeemed Now declaredly Acquitted at the last Judgement according unto the different Administrations under which they were whether Generall of the Creature or speciall in their severall diversifications that is Patriarchall Mosaicall Propheticall Interlegall Evangelicall Prime under Christ and the Apostles or Continued in their Successors unto the End of the World XIII The Persons thus by the Resurrection redeemed after the Resurrection sealed unto Translation and according unto their Administrations at the Last Judgement acquitted Now finally Translated as their consummate Glorification and made One Hierarchy with those of the first Race that Adhered and stood This the Accomplishing of that first Designe the End of the first Creation in the state and Covenant of Nature violate and frustrated by the first Adam's Dis-adhesion explicated in his Dis-obedience Now and Thus repaired according to This counsell of the will of God in a second Designe the end of their second and New Creation in the state and Covenant of Grace made good and finisht by the Second Adam Christ Jesus God blessed for ever upon his Adhesion Vanquishing and Suffering explicated by his Obedienc Active and Passive according unto the Interpellation and Covenant Primitive for the Redemption and Restauration of Mankinde Thirdly The Consequentiall Heads of the Grounds of the Scripture as they are involved in the Primitive Fundamentals and unto which they are relatively consequentiall which we have for distinction Chequered THus the Trinity Supreame Creator and Word operating by Creation unto the constitution of the creature Intellectuall as Fountains Prime and Spirit the Third Subsistency distinct from either which was in Designe the consummating Principle to the second Race upon perseverance included in and evidenced by that Head the Creation of the visible world And yet farther their distinct Personalities more fully appearing by the Interpellation and Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction we consequently state it not till in this place the close of the first
us viz. GOD in Essence absolute simply and in Himself Incomprehensible The manner of the Inbeing and Emanation of the Subsistencies so also But then because the Essence by the Emanation as a nearer approach to the creature manifesteth it self subsistentiated And the Subsistencies render themselves comprehensible mediately by their Energies in their Operations immediate therefore when we shall have past all the Advances of the varied Operations and so become made fit by Glorification for the receiving of their Energies immediately Nature which Adam forfeited fully redeemed and exalted the Principle of Grace from which He fell by Restauration fixt and Glorified the Principle of Glory of which He came short of as of Auction secured and Attained and so we Consummate The Subsistencies themselves must necessarily then become Comprehensible And from this ground we have the sense of the Apostles words 1 Cor. 13.12 Face to Face and Know as Known which we have therefore made the close of this Note And that the Apostle's words having found their proper ground do naturally speak their sense to be as we have given it is most evident because Comprehensibility being formally an Attribute upon Communion betwixt God and the Creature Consequentiall upon his Being and not as the other Attributes from God unto the Creature Constitutive of his Being It must therefore necessarily follow that his Being once restored and God taking us into Immediate Communion of the Subsistencies the End of the whole work He then turn his Face unto us and we have Immediate vision i. Face to Face The Communication under Moses his Administrations being but his back Parts of Types to Ours And Ours The Gospel administrations but mediate in the Face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor 4.6 i. by his Energies as Mediator and Apostle not Face to Face of the Subsistencies by their Energies Though when we come thus Face to Face and that the Subsistencies become thus comprehensible Incomprehensibility is even then and afterwards fixt to the Essence as that Abysse unfathomable that state of Godhead Incomprehensible according to the second Note Essence as They in it in the Inbeing It in them Subsistentiated and Emaned now and for ever incomprehensible The Consideration of Our Lord Jesus Christ as represented in this Scheme relative to his distinct Offices and Works of Mediatorship and Apostleship FRom these Inward Lines and their junctures with themselves and the rest of the Body as the Spirit and Informing part of the whole That which next occurres is the consideration of our Lord Jesus Christ through whom onely we can blesse God because through Him onely God hath been thus good unto us in whom all these Advances being first wrought they through Him are as we have said transmitted unto us Him therefore we represent I. Standing upon that direct Energeticall Line from the Word the Divine constitutive Principle by which He assumed our Nature so the words on the Line speak The Eternall Spirit by which He offered up Himself i. His Humane Nature without spot Heb. 9.14 for by the same by which He offered up Himself He must assume it II. Plac't betwixt the severall Energeticall Lines relatively qualifying Him for each Office and Work and conferring the respective appropriate Rewards on Him as Mediator for Man to God in the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the second Transaction and as Apostle from God to Man for promulgating the Covenant Derivative III. Standing also upon his Administrations Patriarchall Mosaicall Propheticall in which Revelation in Shadow Redemption in Type Interlegall as in John Baptist's Ministry preparing his way beforehis Face And Evangelicall in which Revelation before in shadow is now in Substance Redemption before in Type is now in Truth The Consideration of the Crosse Lines or Lines of Commensuration THe Crosse Lines of which in the third Note in the order and manner of Reading are Commensurations of the severall states under those Heads where they terminate we have only this to advert that as the words at either end of them separately considered are the Gages of that state so relatively considered they are the Graines of difference which ballance them Thus first though onely Confirmation was the state of the first Race which adhered and stood yet Confirmation of the second Race could not have ballanc't them without Translation Secondly The Gage of the state of Nature in Integrity being as on the Commensuration Line Ingenerate and unto Glory but determinable presupposing the first Designe of God and That frustrated by the Lapse neverthelesse then though supposing the Interpellation and Covenant for restoring of it cannot That State of Nature be commensurate but by the state of Nature in and after the Resurrection and yet This state hath its graines of difference Regenerate for Ingenerate for Determinable Determinate Thirdly The State of Nature in the Fall because Death in the Root commensurate with the state of Nature in Death with which it cannot be ballanc't untill what Here was in Root by the Fall hath passed over all There by Death the Merit here the wages there Fourthly and lastly That the Gentiles under the Generall Ordinances and their Instructing Paedagogie of the creature-Administrations with the work of the Law written in their hearts if working Righteousnesse according to the purport of the words on the Commensurating Line are as to the Common Interest of Eternall salvation in equall ballance with the Jew and Christian saving that these latter had their Prerogatives as the Graines of difference the speciall Adminisirations The One the Adoption the Glory the Covenants Rom. 9.4 5. The Other 3â— the Kingdom of God and the Righteousnesse thereof Matth. 6. as speciall assistances and more conducible meanes though varied unto Each respectively unto that one Common End of All Sal. vation The Import of those Words THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD LAstly that you see in Capitals these Words THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD taking place between GOD in Essence the Subsistencies and their Energies in their first Operations for constitution of the First and Second Race as situate above them And separating Those Above as the First part of the Scale from the Subsistentiall Actings and the same Energies and their Operations varied for the Constitution of Jesus Christ Mediator and Apostle upon and after consultation to restore the second Part of the Scale together with those Divine Principles in Jesus Christ constituted and for execution of that second Consultation to us ward by Him exerted in whose Person as the Restauration was first wrought so by Him was it to be perfected in us the third Part of the Scale Both these latter gradually in situation as in order of nature beneath Them We do assign unto Our Spirit The Intellectuall Nature its peculiar Object purely spirituall abstract from matter and without the mediation of sense the Knowledge and Acknowledgement of God as represented in this Scheme For want of which we do but groape after God not knowingly contemplate or adore Him For how can we ascend