to others yet in respect of the persons who did them they were no good but euill workes for an euill tree cannot bring forth good fruite AEnig 392. 393. How may two moue the same question yet the one offend the other not How may three laugh at one thing and onely one of them be without sinne Resolution If the one moue it curiously for strife sake the other soberly for learning sake to be better instructed or if the one do it out of doubt and distrust as Sarah about her sonne promised the other out of faith as Abraham did who laughed for ioy because he beleeued the message touching a childe in his old age but Sarah of vnbeleife was mooued to laugh Ismaell in flouting manner as a Scoffer Gen. 21. AEnig 394. How may one offend more by doing a good thing then an other shall do by doing an euill thing Resolution He that doth a good thing against his conscience whiles he iudgeth it euill is more a trespasser then hee who doth some euill ignorantly not knowing it to be euill AEnig 395. How may one without offence of God aske something of him which hee will not giue yet another asking what he is willing to giue shall offend Resolution A childe may aske the life of his father a wife of her husband yet not offend though God be vnwilling to graunt it being asked with condition of his will the Isralites murmuring in distrustfull sort asking meate which God was willing to giue did sinne in their praier Paul sinned not in crauing to haue that prick of the flesh remou'd though God ment to denie it because he praied with submission to his will AEnig 396. How may one be a looser at that time when he is a Winner Resolution A couetous man may winne much worldly wealth and yet bee thereby a looser of his soule also an euill preacher may be a looser of himselfe when he winnes others vnto God Lastely many a wicked man looseth his credit at what time hee gaines some commoditie AEnig 397. How is Vsury a sinne yet one may be an Vsurer without sinne Resolution Vsurie whereby wee encrease our stocke by compact in respect of lending mony or other things to the hindrance of our neighbour is a sinne but to increase our spirituall graces by the due vse of them is a Christian vsury and commendable AEnig 398. Seeing God alone is to be worshipped how may we worship men without sinne Resolution There is a religious diuine worship which by our bodies and soules is to be performed to God as to the searcher of the hart and Lord of all wherof no part can bee giuen from him to any other without sinne Act. 10. 26. Math. 10. 4. Reuel 19. 10. But a ciuill worship is due to magistrates and all our betters in respect of their authoritie and giftes euen by the commandement of God which not to giue willingly is a sinne AEnig 399. How may the first be last and the last be first Resolution This is fulfilled in the Iewes and Gentiles who being called after the Iewes were receiued into fauour and stand in grace while the Iewes who were before them for outward vocation are now cast out for their vnbeleife become the last they were last in acceptation with God who were foremost in his outward vocation whereas the Gentiles being last by vocation became first in acceptation AEnig 400. What is that that was once mortall and twise immortall Resolution It was Adams body once mortall by sinne twise immortall once by creation second time by glorification AEnig 401. How may death which is as the wages of sinne and porch of hell bee yet the way and passage to heauen or how may heauen and hell haue both one gate Resolution Death naturall is the gate and doore to let into the pallace of heauen such as fall a sleepe in Christ and others that die in vnbeliefe and sinne into the dungeon of hell this difference hapneth by the merit of Christ his death sanctifying death to his members to be a porch of paradice and not to others to whom it proues a part of their curse a passage to the infernall lake AEnig 402. If Christ hath destroied death by his death how is it that the godly must die Resolution Christ hath destroied and so taken away the sting of death as it shall not hurt the godly but help them rather yet they die first to fulfill Gods decree secondly to obey his will and ordinance thirdly to be ioyned immediately and fully vnto Christ their head hauing in their death put of sinnes with their bodies AEng. 402. How hath Christ ouercome death by his passion yet death is the last enemie that shall be destroied Resolution Christ in his passion got a victory ouer death in part at the last resurrection hee shall haue a full conquest before the curse was remoued but at the iudgement the thing it selfe shall be quite done away to haue no power ouer faithfull persons AEnig 404. How is it appointed for men once to die yet there are many that shall not die Resolution Ordinarily men die once by vertue of Gods appointment whereas some dead were raised and other at the great iudgement shall only be changed this is extraordinarie howbeit that change is a kinde of death AEnig 405. How can a body which is dead and rotten yet liue at the same time that it is dead Resolution The bodies of Abraham Isaac and Iacob and so of other Saints At what time they are dead and rotten in the graues they are 〈◊〉 to God to whom all liue who hath made a Couenant of life with the bodies of the elect as well as with their soules and is fully purposed to raise them at the last day therefore to him they are as if they were already quickned to life Math. 22. 23. AEnig 406. How may it be that dust shall be made to liue Resolution At the resurrection bodies mouldred to dust by the mightie power of Christ shall be restored to life being ioyned to their owne soules 1. Cor. 15. 22. AEnig 407. How is it that all shall rise from death and yet the resurrection is called the resurrection of the iust Resolution All men and women shall rise for resurrection shall bee of iust and vniust but because the benifit of the resurrection appertaines to the iust who shall then be glorified in their bodies thence is it called the resurrection of the iust AEnig 408. How may bodies bee spirituall and yet remaine bodies Resolution At the resurrection the bodies of the Saints being the same in substance as before yet because they shall bee susteined and preserued by the immediate workeing of the spirit without naturall meanes of Phisicke meat c. hence are they called spiritual though they stil be bodies 1. Cor. 15.44 AEnig 409. How is Christ iudge of quicke dead yet it is
In Hell 4 4 In sinnes 5 5 In Sacrament 6 6 In Afflictions 7 7 In Temptations 8 8 In Harts 9 9 In Diuels 10 10 In the Blessings of this life 11 11 In Redemption which exceedeth creation In it mercy and Iustice met together The redeemer is but one Christ. Conceiued by the holy ghost He is without sinne doth subsist in the Godhead both God and man Communication of properties Humiliation in his Birth Two wills in Christ answering his two natures Christ his manhood promised Christ like Melchisedech Christ made sinne by impuâ—â—tion Rom. 8.8 Christ abased in the world His obedience of infinite value Christ heire of the world Our Mediatour our Priest That which is proper to one nature is attributed to the other Christs sacrifice voluntary else it had not been satisfactory Hypostaticall personall vnion is vnseperable The victory of Christ ouer death 2 2 Ouer Satan Christ the corner stone How the manhood of Christ hath eternall life in it Doubble the fruits of Christs death Christ made a curse Hath freed vs from â—uerlasting torment Eph. 1. Phil. 2. Christ his sacrifice but once The vertue of Christs death looke backeward His agonie or soule suffering His loue His buriall Resurrection His life after his resurrection His ascention His locall abode in heauen His sitting on Gods right hand Ieuites of his assention Ioh. 16.7 Sending of the holy Ghost Mediator Intercession His kingdome spirituall Eternall Word of God inspired Mighty in opâ—ration Full of wisdom A mistery Our duty to search the word Indicia Dei 2 2 Indicia oris Dei Effects of the word It is effectuall by the Spirit The antiquitie of the word before the Church The word is Eternall It is a word of peace The word of the Lord is holy Nitimur in vetituÌ„ It iustifieth not How the Law differeth from the Gospel The Ceremoniall Law fulfilled in Christ. The condition of the Law and the Gospel What things are required of him that shall doe the Law Generall Law yeelds to a Speciall Law of Ceremonie yeelded to the Law of Mercy To whom the Law is easie and how Ioh. 5.3 To whom impossible How Faith is commanded in the Law What spirit goes with the law How law is the ministry of death The gospell vnprofitable to the reprobate Profitable to the elect only Diuers effects of the Gospell according to the subiect According to the degrees Famine of the word Gods counsell gouerns the effect of preaching Math. 11. Women may be no publique Teachers Gospell fructuall like raine When the word fructifieth Testament or Couenant of pâ—ace is but one Fathers beleeuing in Christ to come The gospell preached to them Office of the Ministers How ministers be sauiours and what is their worke Maintenance of Ministers Prophets preached Christ. They be Christs friends Iohn Baptist Middle betweene two testaments Apostles Seruants Friends to Christ. They conquered the world to Christ. How Pastors succeede Apostles A good Pastor a good builder Bad Ministers which teach well and liue ill Wolues Hirelings False Prophets Antichrist True Church It is but one Sundryl waies considered It is Christs body She is a Virgine Spouse to Christ. Hos. 2 Fruitfull in begotting children Likenesse betweene Christ and his Church The church a kingdom a body c Faithfull Ministers the Fathers and children of the Church The likenes between Christ and his Church The censure of the Church In excommunication both vnlawfull And lawfull The dignitie of a Christian. Christians equall The church hath a spirituall regiment True Church is vniuersall False Church Vrbs septicollis Reu. 18.2 The benefit of publike assemblies The elect children of Gods house The called children of God Their coniunction with Christ Christs affection vnto them Spirituall mariage betweene them and Christ. How they are in heauen They be new Creatures 1 1 Kings 2 2 Prophets 3 3 Priests They be still vnperfect More excellent then the Angels Most free Separate from the world by effectuall calling Effectuall calling is a new creation A twofold calling What persons for the most part called Faith in Christ is the entrance to eternall life Faith the eye of the soule or spirituall sight Office of Faith with the force thereof Faith once had neuer lost Nature of faith It resteth on Christ onely Least measure of faith No Faith without doubting What fear is ioyned with faith Degrees of Faith How loued before faith Faithfull man a Virgin Vnperfect in knowledge In some more perfect Regeneration Regenerate are children many waies The vse of Sacraments They be misticall signes Against transubstantiation Baptisme how it saueth How it washeth the soule How it forgiueth sinne Lords supper How eaten How Christ becommeth our foode Spiritually 1. Cor. 13. 12. Math. 26. 26. 27. 1. Cor. 11. 24. Against corporall eating Iustification by faith It is but once Christs iustice ours by imputation Rom. 4. throughout Ro. 10. 4. No man righteous in Gods sight How works do iustifie Adoption by Grace Certainty of our adoption Sonnes of God bee heires Inheritance of heauen hath perfection with differences in degrees Adoption an effect of the spirit The dutie of adopted sonnes Certainty of adoptist Adopted ones why afflicted Free from slauish feare Reconciliation Sanctification It is vnperfect It is a totall change But not absolute The end of sanctification Free from the law Mortification Deniall of a mans selfe Buriall of sinne Mortified in part Resurrection to newnesse of life Spirituall Combat is Continuall It is irkesome Least degree of repentance Repentance a great blessing of God How true repentance distinguished from false Repentance giuen to great sins All men need repentance but not all alike Repentance is the ioy of Angels Generall Repentance sufficient for secret sinnes Good works necessary to saluation They serue to many good purposes How they please God Heauen a free reward of good works God is to be known by Christ. Our knowledge not perfect heere Sauing knowledg is effectual and special Practike knowledg is best knowledge Knowledge without practise is fearefull Knowledge ioyned with godlinesse Knowledge with sobrietie Knowledge groweth by right vse Knowledge abused an occasion of sinne Who bee truly wise Hope How it differs from faith Hope aboue hope How saued by hope Hope ashameth not Our loue of God springs from his loue to vs. Loue lesser then faith being an effect of faith Loue mixt with child-like reuerence For loue of Christs all so be forsaken How earthly things to be loued vnder Christ. Parents lesse to bee loued then Christ. Idolatry to loue ought more then Christ. True feare of God Gods children reioyce with feare Humble prayer It is alwaies heard A speedie Messenger It must come from a feeling of our spirituall beggery There is inward mentall prayer Vocall praier By praier the poore profit the Rich. Patience Relieues our miseries Humility Springes from feeling of our vilenesse The humble are exalted Praiers of the humble accepted Sabboth holy True zeale A broken heart better then Sacrifice Our neighbour to bee loued for Gods sake Brotherly loue the bonde of perfection The loue of a mans selfe is the paterne of a mans loue to others Loue makes all things common for vse It cannot make things common to be proper It loues priuate enemies Maketh rich Good things increase by vse Some lusts be good Godly sorrow a path way to ioy Grace the mother of good works Euill works merit hell Vnregenerate men Haue no fellowship with Christ. Wholy poluted Of a brutish disposition Seem to be in Christ. In their ignorance of the Law sin is dead In the right knowledge of the Law themselues doe dye How far they may go and yet perish The hypocrite is a great lyer Sinne turneth men into beasts Securitie Contrary Apparance of some righteousnesse in some wicked men Scorning the height of sinne Sinne in many is still and quiet Sinne of oppression dangerous Vnbeleife the greatest sinne Outward Idolatry how many waies Sinners be slaues Enuy a Diabolicall vice A wicked tongue How farre ignorâ—nce is a sinne An euill heart mars cheife workes Wicked men sinne freely yet cannot chuse but sinne Idle knowledge Deniall of God Men must hinder sin in others else they sinne What is strife is wicked An euill man can doe no good work Actions to be iudged of by the end and minde Sinning against conscience Rom. 14. Wicked praiers be sinnes Losse of soule the greatest losse Vsury committed without sinne Lending being a worke of mercy must be free as Christ commandeth Luk. 6. Euill worship is no impeachment to religious worship Vocation of the Gentils Bodies immortall Death the gate of heauen hell All men must die Death the last enemy must be destroyed Some onely changed Certainety of resurrection By the power of Christ. Of men women Spirituall bodies after their resurrection Last iudgment Christ the Iudge How Saints shall iudge All iudged yet with differences The world but altered in qualitie not aboleshed Heauen Hell Hell of conscience Angels assumed bodies for a time True Christians most blessed God is the Soule of the world Liâ—ely faith â—â—aseth at our death No vse of it in heauen Christ entertained by a faithfull soule Hell fire vnquenchable Torment of the damned We must not follow the wicked Our minde renued in part The full fruit of Adoption enioyed in Heauen Dumbe deafe how saued Elect found of God before they seeke him Vncleannes Originall sinne in Infants Man wise but by participation of Christs wisdom How men-giue glory to God How Paul built on no other mans foundation How one man must please another Gospell how preached to all the world All saued how to be vnderstood Numbring our daies Mortification A Child and a Seruant both at once The ladder to heauen is Christ. Vpon who the Angels ascend and descend The Heauens wherfore made The Spirit it is that teacheth vs how to pray The wicked how said to know God The spirit how it praieth for vs. Christ how called a Seruant Rom. 9.1 Swearing how forbidden How a thing may be said to be prolonged yet done in due time How Christ is said to be the sonne of Dauid The raising of Christs body an argument of his godhead How all men are liers The works of the law iustifie not and why Of Faith and works Of patience Of iustification and condemnation Wee were bought with a price Baptisme of infants Dying to sinne
into the paines of hell When he wrestled with diuine wrath in the garden and vpon the crosse at which time his manhood was on earth and his godhead in heauen Math. 26. AEnig 114. Who is he that loued his enemy more then himselfe and how this may be Resolution It was Christ by dying and by being made a curse for such as were his enemies Rom. 5. 8. AEnig 115. Who is he that being dead and buried did not corrupt and putrifie Resolution Christ his body being buried in the graue was there preserued extraordinarily from all corruption Psal. 16. 10. AEnig 116. How is it written of Christ that God did beget him in the day of his resurrection yet was he begotten of his father before all worlds Resolution Christ was begotten of his Father by an euerlasting generation but being declared mightily to be the sonne of God when he raised himselfe from the dead Rom. 1. 5. thence he is said to haue begotten him on the day of his resurrection at what time his godhead was so fully manifested to the Church Act. 13. 33. as if he had then been begotten AEnig 117. How can absolution come out of condemnation glorie out of shame liberty out of bondes Resolution Iesus being vniustly bound reproched and condemned suffered obediently the same hence arose the merit of our liberty glory and absolution AEnig 118. How can the death of Christ profit vs more then his life yet had hee not risen and liued his death had done vs no good Resolution It is more to reconcile an enemie then to keepe in fauor a person reconciled The former we gaine by Christs death beleued in the latter he doth for vs being raised and aliue Rom. 5.9.10 AEnig 119. Who is he that did not forsake earth when hee went vp to heauen nor forsake heauen when he came into the earth and how this may be Resolution When the man Christ ascended into heauen the godhead forsooke not earth fulfilling all places and when he first became man and dwelt in the earth his godhead then did not forsake heauen AEnig 120. How can the heauens conteine him whom the heauen of heauens cannot conteine Resolution The heauens containe him locally as man because of his naturall dimensions whom the heauen of heauens cannot containe as God because of his immensity AEnig 121. 122 Who is he that is himselfe God and yet doth sit on the right hand of God And how this may be What one name is that that is aboue all names and how this may be Resolution Christ according to diuine nature is true God who being made true man and in his time dying rising and ascending sitting now as mediator at the right hand of God full of power and maiestie Heb. 1. 3. In which his exaltation to glorie blisse and dominion hee hath receiued a name aboue all names being become more excellent then all creatures which are all put vnder him Eph. 1. as subiect to him AEnig 123. What is that that being absent from vs is more present with vs then when it was present with vs Resolution It is our mediator Christ who being absent from his Church as touching his manhood which he hath taken vp into heauen yet by the presence comforts and operation of his spirit he is more effectually present with his Church then when hee liued here in earth with it AEnig 124. What is that that commeth to the Church at that time when the Church already had it Resolution The Church had the holy Ghost as touching ordinary giftes and working while Christ liued but after that he ascended the same spirit came to the Church by extraordinarie and visible graces and operations Ioh. 7.39 Acts 2.2.3 AEnig 125. How may we pray to one who himselfe did pray to another Resolution We may pray to Christ as he is God equall with his Father also as hee is Mediator who yet himselfe as man and as a creature did pray to his Father in the daies of his infirmitie Heb. 5. AEnig 126. How can the Faithfull be saued seeing they still doe sinne euen after the forgiuenesse of sinne Resolution By the intercession of Christ whose death hauing once reconciled vs the merit of it as an Intercessor 〈◊〉 commeth betweene Gods iustice and our sinnes of frailty to keep vs in fauour by obtayning pardon of our daily infirmities vpon repentance 2. Iohn chap. 2. 3. AEnig 127. How is it that Christ doth dispose of the kingdomes of this world and ruleth ouer the men which be in the world and yet his kingdom is not of this world Resolution His kingdom as he is God is vniuersall ouer all the kingdomes of the earth to giue and take away Dan. 2.21 but as Mediator his kingdome is spirituall peculiarly ouer mens consciences in things which belong to heauen being managed and gouerned in all simplicitie without all outward force and pompe Ioh 18. 36. 2. Corin. 10. 3. 4 5. AEnig 128. How is it written of Christ that of his kingdom there is no end yet he must deliuer vp the kingdom vnto his Father at the resurrection Resolution Christ his kingdome is eternall without end as touching the effects and fruits thereof which are I. the glorious maiestie of his owne person II. the euerlasting saluation of the elect and thirdly the destruction of all his enemies but as touching the manner of his reigning such as now is vsed by execution of his prophetship in the administration of his word and Sacraments 2. of his priesthood by his Sacrifice and Intercession 3. of his royall power by the keies committed to his Church it shall cease that God himselfe immediately may bee all in all 1. Cor. 15. 14. AEnig 129. How can Christ be that Word which is God and yet that word be not the word of God Resolution Christ is the vncreated substantiall word whereby Gods minde for the saluation of his chosen is declared to vs as our minde is declared by our words this Word is God Ioh. 1.1 there is another inspired created worde which serues for euer as a rule of faith and manners to the Church and this is called the word of God not God the Word AEnig 130. 131. What weaknesse is that that is stronger then all strength What foolishnesse is that that is wiser then all wisdom Resolution The weaknesse of Gods ordinance in preaching his word and the foolishnesse therof as the wicked worldlings iudge and speake of it being the wisdome and power of God to make the elect beleeue vnto saluation is farre stronger and much wiser then all the wisdome and strength of this world which cannot effect so much as the conversion of one sinner 1. Cor. 1.25 AEnig 132. What is that which being knowne is still a secret to them that know it and how this may be Resolution The word of the Gospell is still a secret not onely to the