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A45419
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Of fundamentals in a notion referring to practise by H. Hammond.
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Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.
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1654
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Wing H554; ESTC R18462
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prevent and assist us nor reasonably attempt to doe without this hope § 4. Farther yet the Resurrection of Christ hath the power of a pattern to us and is so made use of and typified in baptisme as an engagement and obligation to us to transcribe that divine copie into our hearts and to rise to newness of life And accordingly that seems to be the importance of the phrase Rom. 10.9 believing in the heart that God raised Christ from the dead there being no more necessary to the superstructing all piety on that one foundation but to sink down the belief of that one Article from the brain to the heart to reduce it effectually to practise CHAP. VI. Other Articles of Belief in Christ § 1. BEside these two a whole calogue and climax of Articles we have set down 1 Tim. 3.16 made manifest in or by the flesh justified by the Spirit seen of Angels preached among the Gentiles believed on in the world received up with glory And these altogether seem to be that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 truth v 15. as elsewhere Faith of which the Church was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a pillar and establishment to sustain and keep it as a pillar firmly set up on the basis sustains and upholds the fabrick laid upon it from sinking or falling For so this truth deposited in the Church or with the Governours thereof such as Timothy there was to be conserved and upheld by that means And it is farther observable in that place that it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the mysterie of Piety and that a great one signifying the price and value of these articles principally to consist in this that they tend mightily to the begetting of piety in our hearts and so are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the articles of our initiation or of our religion into which we are initiated by baptisme as the foundation on which all our Christian practise which alone deserves the name of piety and is opposed to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 impiety is superstructed and built afterward § 2. This will be more visible by surveying the severals 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God manifest by the stesh God was so intent upon this work of revealing and declaring his will to men in order to bringing home sinners to repentance so very desirous that men should reform and live and not sin and perish eternally that to inforce this on us at the greatest possible advantage he was pleased himself to assume and manifest his will in or by our Flesh and so not only God from heaven but God visible on earth to preach reformation among us and if this be not able to make impression on us it is not imaginable that all the preaching of men or Angels that any inferior method should be of force to doe it From whence it was that all the Devil's countermines in the first ages were designed purposely against this one Article the Deity or Godhead of Christ incarnate making all that he did and suffered here an appearance no reality in opposition to which is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so oft repeated by Ignatius the reality and verity of Christ's eating and suffering and rising c. and every branch of such heresie took off as farre as it was believed from the necessity of Christian life not only by implying him to be an Impostor if he were not truly what he oft affirmed himself and was by the Apostles affirmed to be the Messias i. e. the eternal son of God and God blessed forever but by evacuating that great obligation and engagement to reform our lives taken from the authority and Godhead of him that had sought and sollicited it so earnestly and came down from heaven and assumed our flesh upon that one errand or embassie to reveal himself more convincingly among us § 3. Had it been only a Prophet though never so great and extraordinarily furnished with signes and wonders he had been but a servant of God and there were many experiences and precedents among their forefathers of the resisting of such but the personal descent of God himself and his assumption of our flesh to his divinity more familiarly to insinuate his pleasure to us to admonish and invite and denounce judgments and even to weep over those that would yet be obstinate was an enforcement beyond all the methods of wisdome that were ever made use of in the world § 4. For God I say himself to doe all this and to descend so low to so mean an estate and to a much meaner usage a shameful contumelious death to work this work most effectually upon men was a wonderful act of grace wisdome a secret a mysterie indeed beyond all former waies infinitely considerable towards this of turning from every evil § 5. And upon this score the doctrine of the antient and modern Arians and Photinians which so industriously lessens the divinity of Christ in pretense of zeal to God the Father to whom they will not permit him to be equal must consequently take off extremely from this Mysterie of Piety this foundation of a good life laid in the eternal God's coming down to preach it to us And as it is a direct contradiction to those places wherein Christ is called God Act. 20.28 Tit. 2.13 wherein he and his Father are affirmed to be one Joh. 10.30 1 Joh. 5.7 wherein the known title of the God of Israel never named in their services but it was answered by all with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God blessed forever is by the Apostles attributed to Christ Rom. 9.5 as also Heb. 13.21 1 Pet. 4.11 5.11 2 Pet. 3.18 Rev. 1.6 and which as Proclus saith convinceth all the heresies concerning Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and walls up the newly invented waies of injury and contumely against him So it is a great diminution and abatement of the force of that fundamental argument whereon God thought fit that the renovation of the world should be superstructed and how much soever the contrary hereticks the modern Socinians have pretended to the maintenance of Piety 't is certain they have by this taken out one principal stone from the foundation of it the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here God made manifest by the flesh which could not be affirmed of Christ if he were not first God before he was thus made manifest by the means of his incarnation § 5. The next stone in this foundation is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God's having been justified by the Spirit i. e. the several waies of conviction which were used in the world by the Spirit of God to give authority to all that was revealed by Christ as the will and commands of God Such was 1. the visible descent of the Spirit of God upon him at his baptisme Mat. 3. which as preparative to his entring on the exercise of his prophetick office Mat. 5. c. was the divine