to th'elect by Adam's fall defil'd â—he womans seed did break the Serpents head â—he Lamb was slain for Saints and buried Christ hath Redemption purchased for men â—nd intercession he doth make for them â—hose he redeem'd to them he doth apply â—his purchase made by him effectually â—nd by his word a perfect Declaration â—eveal'd to them of th' misteries of salvation â—nd by his spirit in their inner parts â—oth work Obedience and doth guide their hearts And all their enemies he doth overcome By 's Power Wisdome and Dominion Of Free Will MAn in the state of Innocency had A power to will and do both good and bad He badly did and he by doing ill Lost both the power and freedome of his will He disobey'd and lost his happy station To will or do what might obtain Salvation To what is good he wholly is averse And also dead in sins and trespasses Man of himself thus merg'd in misery Can nothing do for his recovery Till God convert him and do him translate Into a godly and a gracious state Then he doth free him from his natural sin And from the bondage he before was in And by his Grace doth give him power and skill Spiritual works as well to do as will Yet still the seeds of unregeneration Remain in him till death remove his station And when he comes into eternal bliss Free to all good and not till then he is Of Efectual Calling ALL those that unto life by God's decree Predestinated are assuredly His Heirs shall be and Heaven shall inherit And shall be called by his word and spirit Out of the state of death and deadly sin In which by Nature they were plunged in Into a state of grace and of Salvation By Jesus Christ and through his mediation And their blind minds shall filled be with light To understand the things of God aright From them shall taken be their hearts of stone And hearts of flesh infused in the room And in their wills they shall renewed be To do what 's good then grace shall make them free This calling is by special grace alone And not for any thing foreseen or known That is in man therein he passive is God by his spirit freely calleth his And them enables also to embrace His gracious offer when he offers grace Elected Infants in their Infancy Are sav'd by Christ although the Infants die Persons elect depriv'd of outward call by 'th Ministry yet they are saved all Men not elected though they called be by 'th outward call of word and Ministry And have some operation of the spirit shall not be saved by Christ Jesus merrit And those that be not Christians they can never Salvation have by any way whatsoever Though they their lives do frame by natures light And keep that Law wherein they do delight Of Iustification ALL those that called are effectually The same God doth most freely justifie And into them doth righteousness infuse They are the Children God doth freely chuse Their sins he pardons and their persons takes As righteous all for Christ our Saviour's sake Not for the works or deeds which they have done Their debts discharg'd by Jesus Christ his Son He by his sufferings did acquit from sin All those that rest and do rely on him By lively faith his righteousness is theirs This Faith God gives to his Adopted Heirs And they receave the same beleivingly And by their faith God doth them justifie All saying graces do attend this one Faith works by love and never goes alone And for all those that are thus justifi'd To answer Justice our dear Saviour di'd Man 's justify'd this done by Gods free grace And yet observe that Justice keeps his place That all the elect for which our Saviour dy'd By Gods decree were freely justifi'd Yet though elected they are not just men Till Christ by 'th spirit be apply'd to them Man justifi'd can never lose that treasure Yet he by 's sins may suffer Gods displeasure And lose the favour of his countenance Till he be humbled by true penitence And do confess his sin and pardon get Renew his faith and so remove the lett Believers under the Old Testament As under new herein is also meant And of God's mercy freely did pertake And justify'd were for our Saviours sake Of Adoption ALL those by God that justified be For his Sons sake adopted are and free God for his Children them doth freely take They have access unto the Throne of Grace And Abba Father they may boldly cry And he will help them in their misery He pities them and them he doth protect He is their father and will them correct Yet he his Children never will forsake Co-heirs with Christ he doth his Children make Of Sanctification ALL the Elect that are regenerated In them new hearts and Spirits are created And all such Saints are sanctifyed more By God's good spirit then they were before And they not only are more sanctifi'd But sins dominion is in them destroy'd And that dominion being so destroy'd Their several Lusts in them are mortifi'd More quickning and more fading graces then Appear in all such sanctified men More power they have to practise holiness Which brings them to eternal hapiness Yet notwithstanding Saints proceed so far Still their corruptions raise a dealy warr The flesh and spirit alwaies are at strife Flesh fights for death the spirit strives for life And in this fight the flesh doth many maime And then the spirit conquer's it again And then the Saints in saving graces grow More flesh doth fight more grace it self doth show Of saving Faith by 'th word and spirit saving faith is wrought In all th'elect and they thereby are brought Into the way that leads to perfect bliss And then their Faith by Prayer increased is Then by the Sacraments they get more strength By Faith in Christ their souls are sav'd at length By this true Faith all Christians do accord To all the truths in the revealed word And square their actions by the Rule and Line Of God's good word as he doth them incline Doing and suffering what he doth require Doing the same with hearts that are intire Trembling at threats the promises imbraceing Resting on Christ our Saviour for salvation Of Repentance unto Life BY Gods good spirit and by his Holy Word Which are as sharp as any edged sword True penitence may be so wrought in him That was defiled by notorious sin That by Gods grace and by the sence and sight Of sins defilement he may grow contrite And greatly greive that he did ever sin Against the Lord that suffer'd death for him And may endeavour with a true intent To walk the waies of God's Commandements Man by Repentance cannot pardon merit And yet without it cannot bliss inherit No sins so small but it deserves damnation No sin 's so great but man may have salvation By true Repentance but observe herein He ought t'repent of all and every sin And them
murmur some do mourn Which maketh God their mercies to adjourn Wouldst thou have mercy seek to God and pray This murmuring doth God's mercy much delay When children struggle they are beaten worse Our sinful passions cause a heavy curse The Isralites by murmuring discontent Procur'd from God a heavy punishment They were rewarded for their peevishness They wandred long within the wilderness Then strive O man against thy discontent This evil spirit labour to prevent The world is such that men the more they have Are less content which makes them more to crave Doth Wealth increase the worldly mans desire Increaseth more this Oyle inflames the fire The heart of man triangular is found The world is very Circular and Round There is nothing man's soul can satisfie But God the Lord the Holy Trinity Then covet not much wealth strive for content Life is a vapour and is quickly spent Sometimes the Sun goes down before noon day Before old age grim death takes life away Sometimes the Sun of life sets presently Death doth approach the dawning Infancy Sometimes it is Eclipsed in the Womb The mothers belly doth the babe intombe Man's here to day to morrow he is gone Our winged Time goes very swiftly on Life is uncertain long it cannot last It is a wheel that 's running ever fast Man's life it is compared to a day Or to a Post that rideth fast away Our life is short long here we cannot stay And little will our charges here defray It is not far unto our journeys end And after death we need no more to spend If Farmers should great summes of money spend In Building when their terme is neer an end They would be deemed very indiscreet For building where they have no better right So he that doth immoderately give His mind to Wealth and hath short time to live May be accounted for a carnal man That slights his soul he is no Christian Then learn content for wealth cannot delay The Pangs of Death which take thy life away Sad thoughts and troubles often here attend A great Estate and terrour in the end T is not aboundance that a man enjoyes That is the thing wherein contentment lies An evil spirit haunts the Worldlings Chest So that the Miser cannot be at rest His heaps of Gold he strives to hide them sure He takes great care his Riches to secure His worldly wealth he labours to increase His anxious thoughts destroy his inward peace The World affordeth many pleasant things This Bee gives Honey but it often stings Within the Sunshine is the pleasant seat Yet it is troubled with the scotching heat Most men they do delight in dainty fare The Rich mans table often is his snare He quickly may ingulf himself too deep And drowned be within these waters sweet T is difficult to know how to abound Good Salve ill us'd may make a greater wound So many times mans great Prosperity Doth make him Proud and cause security And yet aboundance few mens hearts doth fill But many souls this Plurisy doth kill Then with a little learn to be content Srive to be good not to be eminent When Iacob for his Pillow had a stone And when his body lay the earth upon He sweetly slept and did enjoy his rest For Food and Rayment Iacob made request Doth wealth increase it doth increase thy cares And may thee draw into a world of snares Small Pinaces ride safe upon the Sea When storms and winds cast gallant Ships away Our Father Adam fell in Paradise Iob from the Dunghil had a glorious rise Strong Sampson slept securely on the lap O Dalilah that sought his life to trap The fawning world is worse then when it frownes The greatest cares attend the Richest Crownes When men grow rich their hearts begin to swell The sin of Pride in rich mens hearts doth dâ—â—â—ll Observe how mad men when the Moon declines Are quieter then when it 's in the prime When mens Estates are low and in the Waine They humble are and less mind worldly gain Then be contented with thy present lott If thou have less then others envy not A great Estate great envy to it drawes Men hate Superiours that 's the greatest cause When David kept his Father Iesse's sheep None did him envy none his life did seek But when he did enjoy a Kingly Crown Then envy sought to bring his Honour down An envious man he hath an evil Eye He hates to see good mens Prosperity Then be content seek not too high to mount The more thou hast the greater's thy account Trade for Gods Glory hast thou less or more Lay out thy money on this publick score Cast in thy Mite into this Treasury Improve thy Talent for Eternity Art thou exalted to a high degree Then in good Works man labour Rich to be Remember that thou art a Steward here Prepare thy self and make thy reckoning cleare Against thy Lord and Master call for it Thou must account for this thy Stewardship And when this great account is clearely past Then thou art free this reckoning is thy last Then what if thou some hardship here indure Death ends thy Hell and then thy Heaven 's sure Rich Dives did poor Lazarus disdain Who craved crumbs his life for to sustein And yet the doggs some pitty took on him As if those doggs had his Physitians been They lickt his sores when Lazarus did lie At Dives gate to beg his Charity But Lazarus he from sorrow soon was quit Here was his Hell he was releast from it And was by Angels carried clear away To Paradise where he shall be for aye But Dives was sent to the lowest Hell Where he with Divels shall for ever dwell And in his torments in the flaming fire A little water Dives did desire To cool it tongue but could it not obtain The damned must endure eternal pain He that would not afford the poor a crumb For water cryd to cool his burning tounge Observe Gods Justice upon wicked men That have no mercy he hath none for them And seek by prayer Gods Judgements to prevent Use well thy wealth and learn to be content â—t is a judgement for a man to have A great Estate and yet still more to crave The greedy man will never be content He cryes give give he 's alwaies indigent He eats and drinks and yet 's not satisfi'd This glutton hath a greedy appetite For avarice doth foster discontent â—t is a sin it is a punishment It is accounted for a secret curse For goods ill gotten makes the gainers worse The more they have the less they are content The more they crave the more 's their punishment For heaps of silver cannot satisfie Him that loves silver here 's his misery Then strive for grace and greatness set aside Be not content till sin be mortifi'd Though sin in the regenerate remain Yet sin in them doth never rule not reign Be not contented with thy natural state Gods Wrath pursues the Unregenerate
to proceed from God Nor from the dictates of meer flesh and blood The preservation of them also may Though none in time so antient be as they â—nduce us to beleive and eke accord That all the Scriptures are God's holy word Experience shewes the power of God in them Even by their humbling and exalting men And when God's spirit shall our hearts incline For to beleive these Misteries sublime And also write them in our inward parts We shall beleive them with beleiving hearts Of GOD. GOd is most glorious wise and doth excell All future things he knowes and can foretel He sees into each corner of our hearts And knowes the secrets of our inner parts This great Iehovah is Omnipotent Yea good and gracious and omniscient A God of love his love to his sincere More then their fathers or their mothers were He loves all things that he did ever make And loves his Son and his for his Sons sake His mercy 's great he succors his in need He did Elisha by the Ravens feed He is most just in works in word and will Rewarding good detecting what is ill Of the Trinity GOD is one perfect Essence full of Bliss Whose being of himself eternal is Yet in this Essence there are persons three Distinct subsistances Singula sunt in singulis omnia in singulis singula in oÌ„nibus unum omnia Aug. lib. 6. de tri cap. ult these persons be And yet in substance all these three are one Gods Essence is without distinction And yet the persons in this Essence be Distinguish'd by the Holy Trinity The Father Son and Holy Ghost Divine Names Orders Actions do them best define The first the Father 's named in respect Of Christ his Son and then of his Elect. The second person then the Son is nam'd Because he 's of his Fathers nature fram'd And of his substance is by generation Th' Eternal Son of God not by Creation The third the Holy Ghost who by spiration Receives his Essence not by generation And is so called both in this respect That he proceeds and sanctifi's th' elect So by the order several things we see The several workings of the Trinity The Father works by th' son and holy spirit Yet each for dignity of equal merit None first none last save order is excepted One God all God all equally respected The Glotious Essence wholly in all three And in each perion of the Trinity And by the Counsel of Gods holy will He rul'd the world Kingdome of God his eternal decree and so doth rule it still And hath determin'd all things by decree From time to time from all Eternity Some unto life some unto death there be Predestinated by this great decree From hence we learn and so all Christians may God deals with Dust as Potters do with Clay The Creation GOd did of nothing all things fitly frame And made them good for Glory of his name For in six dayes created were by him The world and all things that were made therein And when he had all other creatures made Man Male and Female he did then create And into them immortal souls infus'd With Righteousness and Holiness indu'd In his own Image he did them create Both free from sin and in a holy state And God was pleas'd a Covenant to frame And ty'd them to performance of the same And life to them and their posterity Did promise if they kept it perfectly They were indu'd with liberty of will And freedome had his statutes to fulfill To them all earthly Creatures were made free For meat and use excepted was one tree That was forbidden under pain of Hell They are thereof The fall of man so Male and Female fell Pride puff'd them up they did beleive the Divel They tasted of the tree of good and evil And by this sin eternal misery Intayled was on their Posterity Three things Gods Providence each Christian may observe froâ— hencâ— God's Power Wisdome and great Providence Who order'd all to Holy ends herein Yet was no Author of this grievous sin By Adam's fall all men have inclination To every sin and all their Generation And are bound over to the wrath of God Curse of the Law and his destroying Rod. Now see compassion in this woful case God offers Man Of the Covenac of grace a Covenant of Grace That all th'elect by Faith might saved be Both Jew and Gentile none excepted he Beleive and live God offers Christ to thee â—f thou accept him hel 'e a Saviour be A Prophet Priest and eke a Royal King Right Heire of all things is this Holy thing Head of the Church Redeemer of the same â—udge of the world Christ Jesus is his name Twixt God and man he is the great Peace-maker â—urely for Saints the only Mediator Equal with God yet did assume the nature Of Adams seed faln man a sinful creature Yet without sin but not infirmities He had a sence of all man's miseries Conceaved by the Holy Ghost he was And through the Virgin Maries Womb did pass And of her substance also did pertake And yet his God-head he did not forsake Without Conversion or Confusion there Godhead and Manhood both conjoyned were And doth remain without a seperation Both God and man the God of our salvation Who was Anointed with the holy spirit That he might mediate for man and merit He undefiled was and full of grace And fitted for a Mediators place And from his Father he receiv'd command Who put all power and judgement in his hand To undertake and execute the same For th' good of man and glory of his name That God and man might reconciled be And Christ do all things that might make him freâ— Christ did this Office freely undertake And did discharge it for his servants sake Which none could do but he he did fulfil The Law exactly and his Fathers will His soul and body under sufferings were His blessed body The Passion of Christ peirced with a Spear This blessed man on'th Cross was Crucifi'd And for our sins our blessed Saviour dy'd To save the Saints and free their Souls from paiâ— He dy'd for them that they might live again Who all were dead by Adam's sinful Fall But now revived by Christ's Funeral Who all were slaves till Jesus made them free Till Christ did dye and climb the cursed Tree When death dominion got the power it kept Till the third day Of Christs resurrection and assention our Blessed Saviour slept Without Corruption then he rose again And conquer'd death and Hell and deadly pain And the same body which in earth did lie Assended up into the Heavens high And is exalted to the Throne of Grace By God his Father in a glorious place There to remain until he shall descend To judge the world when it shall have an end Our Saviour was a Holy Sacrifice One offer'd up to God which satisfi'd â—â—s Fathers justice and hath reconcil'd â—im