is a Going out of the Land of the Living but made up also by the first Resurrection as That of the Fall by the Interpellation And the state of Nature in the Fall with this state of Nature in Death being the terminating puncts of the Epicycle speaketh that the matter contained in that Epicycle viz. The Ordinances principled by the unction relating unto the Reparation of that Darknesse contracted in the Fall are though in their severall diversifications to continue untill now the State of Nature in Death as the Day of Grace vouchsafed by God to mortals in and by the Ordinances the lifting up the Light of his countenance upon us In like manner as the Interpellation and Covenant in the Circle did primarily relate unto that Death into which we were sunk but to be delivered from in the first Resurrection by Him that by the Union of Natures brought Immortality to light which he published in the Gospel and in whom whilst Our Life is hid and we by the Spirit sealed our flesh may in this even the state of Death rest in Hope The Notes under the Diagram THe two Notes the One concerning Decrees Eternall as they speake of Election and Reprobation the Other of Attributes are next to be considered which because we foresee may raise some prejudice being here as Notes in barre and in the foot of our Diagramme which in other Systemes and Bodies of Divinity have been presupposed for Truths and laid as Praecognita and Primo-creaita to be foreknown and first assented unto We are for the justifying of our method in these and other particulars coincident with them viz. God in unity Trinity by Generation and Procession Decrees Attributes and Scripture by all others laid together as Prolegomena and certain Premissa as we have said to be first believed necessitated to desire the Ingenuous and unprejudiced Reader to consider that this having been a work purely of disquisition we could not without violence to the nature of Primitive Truths which we hold sacred or distorting their Order which were piacular represent them otherwise or in other order than they gave themselves Wherefore we first consider God in Unity not as a Postulatum to be premised but as the first Truth Trinity hath its place as a Consequentiall inferred as to us from their works ad extra The Creation and Restauration Generation referred to the Person of the Mediator Procession to the Apostolicall Principle and Work And for Decrees of Election and Reprobation our first Note in their notion of Eternall waved we give in supplement the Compact betwixt the Creator and Word and the Decree thereupon in the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction And because there limited to his Person when He should be Incarnate and become a Mediator and to our nature but as He assumed it we referre the more explicit consideration of this Decree of Election and Reprobation as it may concern and lay hold on us in particulars unto the Covenant with us of Grace Derivative and Covenant of Grace Derivative Finisht on which They must necessarily depend For the Attributes the second Note that they should be treated of onely where they emerge is so congruous both with the Word and Thing that we suppose the speaking it onely is sufficient to evince it Yet our Diagramme therefore representeth in view onely and overtly the Attributes Essentiall as the onely and all that are appropriate to the Essence viz. Infinite the genus to Eternity Immensity with such like Immortall i. self-living and with reference to the Creature All Incomprehensible Then the Attributes Subsistentiall from their Inbeing Coessentiall and from their Emanation as Subsistencies Emanant and Emaned Coequall and Coeternall which implyed that all the other Attributes viz. Goodnesse Omnipotency Omnipresency Wisedom Justice which we according to the nature of the thing call Operating Attributes that is in their Personall or Energeticall Actings exerted either in the Creation or Administration of the creature must be delitescent and covert unto us untill they disclose themselves in the respective Heads where they are exerted Nor could we be satisfied in our selves with the imposing of Scripture with the rest of their Prolegomena seeing we could not state it demonstratively untill we had summed up the Emergent Revelations of which it is a Sacred Record those Revelations from God making good by parts these Principles and that Body of Scripture from Men divinely inspired and assisted making good unto us those Revelations But it will be sufficient at present to say that these thus distributed according unto that order which they have in nature is a sufficient warrant for our thus disposing of them in Diagramme which we shall more fully assert when by the Continuance of that grace that is given us of God we shall on these Foundations raise the superstructure and finish the Building in our larger work The Use of all is First As the generall of the Designe by this Series of things which are the first Truths to give in Diagramme an Entire Summe or Body of Divinity Reall that is a Series of all Primitive Truths Theologicall neither Defective nor Redundant evidenced by their Concatenations And then this Diagramme by its exact Concatenations justifying it self as before We do secondly propose it as the Fundamentals in Modell to be the ground of demonstration unto all Dogmaticall and Practicall Truths according to the Title of which we shall shew you a clearer use in our Essay Mathematicall which is to be part of the Prodromus Nor can it be just cause of offence either as restreining the liberty of some or as giving check to the magisteriall determinations of others seeing it is of universall consent that All deduced Theoremes and consequentiall inferences cannot otherwise be evidenced for truths in what science soever but by their proportion with their respective Fundamentals When we say Fundamentals in the Plurall we comprehend the first Angular or corner-stone Truth the knowledge of God and acknowledgement of Him as He hath manifested himself and of all the rest in a connected dependance with and on it Each and every one constituted in it self and having its respective Contignation with the precedent and consequent from the Look before the Creation unto the State of Glorification neither in a Heape of Confusion a discretive Independencie of each other or the Angular nor in a dislocation of Disorder And then we say and affirm That these thus considered and disposed are so the genuine and naturall Fundamentals unto all Dogmaticall and Practicall Truths in matters Sacred and Divine that what can be demonstrated by these and that onely ought to be believed and practised that is our Grounds sound our Deductions certain we may then and then onely securely rest in them Nor let it seem strange if we also say that all our Confessions of Faith as by the Analogie must necessarily be formed according to It and all Our Liturgies of Worship must in congruity be
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
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