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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80319	A confession of faith, according to the best-reformed churches: for the generall satisfaction of tender consciences.		1647 (1647)	Wing C5759; Thomason E370_5; ESTC R201284	5,434	13

A CONFESSION OF FAITH According To the best-reformed Churches FOR The generall satisfaction of tender CONSCIENCES LONDON Printed for T.B. and are to be sold in Westminster-Hall 1647. A Confession of Faith I Beleeve that nothing is without beginning but God no nature no matter no spirit but one and the same God That God as he is eternall almighty onely wise onely good in his nature so he is eternall Father Sonne and Spirit in persons I beleeve that God is so holy pure and jealous as it is impossible for him to be pleased in any creature though the worke of his owne hands So that neither Angell Man nor World could stand or can stand one moment in his eyes without the beholding of the same in the face of a Mediatour and therefore that before him with whom all things are present the Lamb of God was slaine before all worlds without which eternall councell of his it was impossible for him to have descended to any work of creation but he should have enjoyed the blessed and individuall society of three Persons in Godhead onely for ever But that out of his eternall and infinite goodnesse and love purposing to become a Creator and communicate with his creatures he ordained in his eternall councell that one person of the Godhead should be united to one nature and to one particular of his creatures that so in the person of the Mediator the true ladder might be fixed whereby God might descend to his creatures and his creatures ascend unto him So that God by the reconcilement of the Mediatour turning his countenance towards his creatures though not in the same light and degree made way unto the dispensation of his most holy and secret will whereby some of his creatures might stand and keepe their state others might fall and be restored and others might fall and not bee restored in their state but yet remaine in their being though under wrath and corruption all with respect unto the Mediatour which is the great mysterie and perfect center of all Gods waies with his creatures and unto which all his other works and wonders do but serve and refer That hee chose according to his good pleasure man to be that creature to whose nature the person of the eternall Son of God should be united And amongst the generations of men elected a small flock in whom by the participation of himselfe he purposed to expresse the riches of his glory all the ministration of Angels damnation of Divels and Reprobates and universall administration of all creatures and dispensation of all times having no other end but as the wayes and ambages of God to be further glorified in his Saints who are one with the Mediatour who is one with God That by the vertue of this his eternall councell touching a Mediatour he descended at his own good pleasure and according to the times and seasons to himselfe knowne to become Creator who by his eternall Word created all things and by his eternall Spirit doth comfort and preserve them That he made all things in their first estate good and removed from himself the beginning of all evill and vanity unto the liberty of the creature but reserved in himself the beginning of all restitution to the liberty of his grace using neverthelesse and turning the falling and defection of the creature which was to his prescience eternally knowne to make way to his eternall councel touching a Mediatour and the work he purposed to accomplish in him That God created Spirits whereof some kept their standings and others fell hee created Heaven and Earth and all their Armies and Generations and gave them constant and everlasting lawes which we call nature which is nothing but the laws of the creation which lawes neverthelesse have had three changes or times and are to have a fourth or last The first when the matter of heaven and earth was created without formes The second the interim of perfection of every dayes worke The third by the curse which notwithstanding was no new creation And the last at the end of the world the manner whereof is not yet fully revealed So that the lawes of nature which remaine and now governe inviolably till the end of the world began to be in force when God first rested from his workes and ceased to create but received a revocation in part by the curse since which time they change not That notwithstanding God hath rested and ceased from Creation since the first Sabbath yet neverthelesse he doth accomplish and fulfill his divine will in all things great and small singular and generall as fully exactly by providence as he could by miracle and new creation though his working be not immediate and direct but by compasse not violating nature which is his own law upon the creature That at the first the soule of man was not produced by heaven or earth but was breathed immediately from God so that the wayes and proceedings of God with Spirits are not included in nature in the lawes of heaven and earth but are reserved to the law of his secret will and grace wherein God worketh still and resteth not from perfecting the worke of redemption as he resteth from the worke of creation but continueth working till the end of the world what time that worke also shall bee accomplished and an eternall Sabboth shall ensue Likewise that whensoever God doth transcend the law of nature by miracles which may ever seem as new creations hee never cometh to that point or passe but in regard of the worke of redemption which is the greater and whereto all Gods signes and miracles do refer That God created man in his owne Image in a reasonable soule in innocencie in free-will and soveraigntie That he gave him a Law and Commandment which was in his power to keepe but he kept it not That man made a totall defection from God presuming to imagine that the Commandements and prohibitions of God were not the rules of good and evill but that good and evill had their owne principles and beginnings and lusted after the knowledge of those supposed beginnings to the end to depend no more upon Gods will revealed but upon himself and his own light as a God then which there could not be a sin more opposite to the whole Law of God That yet neverthelesse this great sin was not originally moved by the malice of man but was insinuated by the suggestion and instigation of the Divell who was the first defective creature and fell of malice and not by temptation from another That upon the fall of man death and vanitie entred by the Justice of God and the Image of God in man was defaced and heaven and earth which were made for mans use were subdued to corruption by his fall But then that instantly and without intermission of time after the word of Gods Law became through the fall of man frustrate as concerning obedience there succeeded the greater word of the promise that