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A54381 An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols. Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Nicols, Thomas. 1654 (1654) Wing P1560; ESTC R36667 64,041 216

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Chron. 21. 1. And this is also effected by occasion of external objects which the senses perceive Job 31. 1. Of Tentation Tentation hath two parts 1. Abstraction 2. Inescation Abstraction is the first thought of committing sin by it the minde is withdrawn from Gods service for which it should be always ready prest Luke 10. 27. * Inescation is an evil thought conceived and for a time retained in the minde and it being thus kept in the minde it doth by delighting the Will and Affections lay a bait for a Man to draw him to consent 2. The second degree of sin of Commission is Conception Conception of sin is when the heart consents and resolves to commit sin Psal. 7. 14. 3. The third degree of it is the birth of sin That is the very acting and committing of sin As when the faculties of the Soul and the powers of the body joyn together to act sin The fourth degree of the Commission of sin is the perfection of sin That is when sin by custom is made perfect and ripe And then it bringeth forth death and damnation and this is all that the sinner reapeth by his sin an example of this we have in Pharo The differences of sins of Commission are these 1. To consent with an offendour and not actually to commit sin Eph. 5. 11. This a man doth 1. When he doth in judgement allow the sin of another Num. 20. 10. 12. 2. When the heart approveth in affection and consent as do Ministers and Magistrates when they do conceal and winck at offences 1 Sam. 2. 23. 29. 3. When sin is done indeed by Counsel presence or inticement as Rom. 1. 13. Mark 6. 25. 26. Act. 22. 20. 2. The second difference of sin of Commission is Sinning ignorantly that is when a man doth not expresly and distinctly know whither that which he doth be a sin or not or if he do know it he doth not acknowledge and mark it 1 Tim. 1. 13. Numb. 35. 24. 1 Cor. 4. 4. Ps. 10. 13. 3. The third difference of sin of Commission Is when any Man sinneth upon knowledge but yet of infirmity as when a Man fearing some eminent danger or when a Man amazed at the horrour of death doth against his knowledge deny that truth which otherwise he would acknowledge and embrace Such was the fall of Peter arising from the rashness of his minde mingled with some fear Thus do men offend by the strength of the corruptions of their flesh provoking them to that which their heart doth detest Rom. 7. 19. The fourth difference of it is Presumptuous sinning upon knowledge as Psal. 19. 13. of this kinde is 1. Every sin committed with an high hand or in contempt of God Numb. 15. 30. Secondly presumption of Gods mercy though we do evil and run on in it Eccles. 8. 11. Rom. 2. 4. 5. The fifth difference of sin of Commission is Sinning upon knowledge and out of self malice against God Of this kinde is the sin against the holy Ghost The punishment of sin Man is punisht for sin first in this life either 1. In body As 1. by care for the provision for his body and by trouble for the things of this life Genes 3. 17. Secondly by proneness to diseases Matth. 9. 2. Joh. 5. 14. Deut. 28. 21. 22. Thirdly by shame of nakedness Genes 3. 7. Fourthly by pains as are in Women in Travail and Child-birth Genes 3. 16. 2. In Soul As 1. By a trembling of Conscience Secondly by care Thirdly by trouble Fourthly by hardness of heart Fifthly by madness Deut. 28. 28. 3. In both body and Soul As first by a fearfull subjection to the Regiment of Sathan Colos. 1. 13. Heb. 2. 14. Secondly by a seperation from the fellowship of God and a trembling at his presence Eph. 4. 18. Gen. 3. 10. 4. By divers calamities and damages in his goods Deut. 28. 29. 5. By the loss of dignity and Lordly Authority which he had over all the Creatures and by the vanity weakning corrupting and abating of the excellencie virtues and powers of the Creatures as Rom. 8. 20. 21. 6. Or in his name By infamy and ignominy before and after his death Jer. 24. 6. All these things come alike to all yet doubtless it is by reason of sin by Adams fall and since that by our improvement of our Original and Actual corruptions Secondly Man is punisht for sin at the last gasp First by death or 2. by a change like unto death Rom 6. 23. Thirdly Man is punisht for sin after this life by an eternal separation from the presence of God and from his exceeding excellent glory 2 Thes. 1. 9. Of Election and his foundation of it Predestination hath two parts 1. Election 2. Reprobation 1 Thes. 5. 9. Election is the decree of God concerning the salvation of some men to the praise of the glory of his grace Eph. 1. 4. 5. 6. This decree of God is the book of life wherein the names of the Elect are written Rev. 20. 12. 2 Tim. 2. 19. The execution of this decree is Gods effectual working of all those things which he purposed for the salvation of the Elect by the same means with which he purposed to do it Rom. 18. 29. 30. The foundation of this decree is Christ Jesus Heb. 5. 5. Isai 42. 1. Eph. 1. 4. The means of accomplishing this decree is Gods Covenant and the seal thereof Gods Covenant is either the Covenant of works or of grace Gods Covenant of works is the moral Law or ten Commandments Gods Covenant of grace is his free promise of Christ and all his benefits to man if man will repent him of his sins and by faith receive Christ The Seals of the Covenant are the Sacraments Gods Covenant of works which is called the moral Law Decalogue or ten Commandments is devided into two Tables The first Table containeth four Commandments The second Table containeth six Commandments Every Commandment is both affirmative and negative That is it doth both command and forbid As it is Affirmative it bindeth at all times but not to all times As it is Negative it bindeth at all times and to all times Under one Vice expresly forbidden are comprehended all of that kinde yea the least cause occasion or inticement thereto are forbidden Joh. 3. 15. Matth. 5. 21. The first Commandment Thou shalt have no other Gods before me In this first Commandment are these affirmatives First that we must acknowledge God Secondly that we must acknowledge no other God but him The marks of the true love of God are these 1. To hear his word willingly 2. To speak often off him 3. To think often off him 4. To do his will without irksomness 5. To give body and all for his cause 6. To desire his presence above all and to bewail his absence 7. To embrace all such
eternal damnation for the least disobedience without offering any hope of pardon This sentence the Law doth pronounce against offendours and by it it doth reign and rule over a man partly by threatning him and partly by terrifying him Rom. 3. 19. Gal. 3. 10. 2 Cor. 3. 7 8. The end of the reigning of sin in men is to urge sinners to fly unto Christ Rom. 11. 32. Gal. 3. 22. 24. The continuance of the power of the Law is for ever unless a sinner doth repent The very first act of repentance doth so free a sinner as that immediatly upon it he is no more under the Law but under grace as we may see by David 1 Sam. 12. 13. Rom. 6. 14. If we mean to have eternal life we must examin the course of our lives by the square of Gods Law we must set the course due unto our sins before our eys and bewail our miseries and have a holy despair of our own powers and renounce our selves and sue unto Christ Jesus This is the use of the Law in unregenerate men and women The use of the Law in regenerate men is To guide them to new obedience in the whole course of their lives and this new obedience is acceptable to God through Christ Rom. 3. 31. Psal. 119. 24. 105. Of the Covenant of Grace The Covenant of grace is Gods free promise of Christ and his benefits to every repentant sinner that will receive him by Faith Hosea 2. 18 19 20. Ezek. 33. 11. to the 15. and 36. 25. to the 27. Malach. 3. 1. This Covenant is called a Testament because it is confirmed by the death of the Testatour Heb. 9. 16 17. This Covenant is like a man's last Will and Testament it is not for the profit of the Testatour but for the benefit of the Heir we do here receive from God and not promise or offer unto God In substance the Old and New Testament is the same The old Covenant or Testament prefigured Christ in Types shaddows who was then to come The New Testament declareth Christ already come in the flesh and sheweth him apparently in the Gospel The Gospel is that part of God's word which containeth the welcome message of Christ and of the benefits that do come to mankinde by him Joh. 3. 14. Act. 10. 43. The Gospel doth manifest that righteousness in Christ by which the whole Law is fully satisfied and salvation attained Rom. 1. 16. 17. The Gospel is that instrument or Conduit-pipe by which the holy Ghost doth convey Faith into the Soul 1 Cor. 1. 21. Act. 11. 19. to the 21. Joh. 4. 28. to the 42. And Faith is the hand by which we do apprehend Christ and his righteousness Joh. 6. 63. The Sacraments are appendants to the word A Sacrament is that whereby Christ and his saving graces are signified exhibited and sealed to a Christian by certain external rites Genes 17. 11. Rom. 4. 11. The parts of a Sacrament are the sign and the thing signified The sign is the visible and sensible matter The thing signified is Christ The matter or signs of the Sacrament have no inherent force or efficacie at all in them to make any that receiveth them holy this is the alone work of the holy spirit which indeed doth ever accompany the signs when at any time they are received by faithfull and believing Souls So that the sign doth onely signify grace either already received or to be received and doth not give it The thing signified is 1. Christ 2. His Graces The action about Christ is spiritual and it is 1. Either of God or 2. Of Faith The action of God is the offering and application of Christ and his graces to the Faithfull The action of Faith is the consideration desire apprehension or receiving of Christ in the Lawfull use of the Sacrament By a figure called a Metonymie one thing is put for another in the Sacrament As the sign for the thing signified Joh. 6. 51. 1 Cor. 5. 7. and 10. ●7 And the name of the thing signified is given to the sign 1 Cor. 11. 24. Matt. 26. 28. Exod. 12. 11. And the effect of the thing signified is given to the sign as circumcision is a Covenant Genes 17. 10. Act. 7. 8. Luke 22. 20. Tit. 3. 5. And that which is proper to the sign is attributed to the thing signified Deut. 10. 16. Joh. 6. 53. The ends of the Sacrament are 1. To confirm our Faith 2. To be a badge or note to distinguish the true Church of God from other Congregations 3. It is a means to spread abroad the Doctrine of the Gospel 4. It doth binde the faithfull to continue Loyal and gratefull to their Lord God 5. It is a bond of mutual amity betwixt the faithfull The Covenant of Grace is absolutely necessary to salvation for a man must be within the Covenant and receive Christ the substance thereof or he cannot be saved But a Sacrament is not absolutely necessary to salvation for it is onely a stay for Faith to lean on whilest that it doth assure to us that which God hath bestowed on us The want of the Sacrament condemneth not but the contempt of it doth For in the * neglect of a Sacrament true repentance will obtain pardon of God M. P. 72. Unbelievers receive onely the sign and not the thing signified and therefore it doth not profit them Rom. 2. 25. Onely true believers do receive the Sacraments with profit Sacraments and Sacrifices do thus differ In a Sacrament God doth bestow his Graces on us In a Sacrifice we return thanksgiving Faith and obedience unto God The Sacraments of the two Testaments thus differ The Sacraments of the Old Testament were many But the Sacraments of the New Testament are but few These pointed at Christ to come These shew him to be come They belonged properly to the posterity of Abraham These are common to all the Church called out of the Jews and Gentils The Sacraments are two Baptism and the supper of the Lord The Fathers had these Sacraments the first of the Corinth 10. 1. to the 4. Baptism belongeth to all the faithfull even to all the promised seed It belongeth to infants whose parents are believing or which have but one believing parent 1 Cor. 7. 14. Rom. 11. 16. Genes 17. 7 13. Act. 16. 31. It belongeth to all even young and old that believe Act. 8. 36 37 38. Matth. 3. 6. Exod. 12. 48. Baptism signifieth our regeneration by the holy spirit Titus 3. 5. And assureth or sealeth to us our engraffing and incorporating into Christ Gal. 3 27. 1 Cor. 12. 13. The parts of Baptism or of washing are three 1. A putting into the water to signifie that all our sins are washt away by the bloud of Christ and that his righteousness is imputed to us Act. 22. 16. 1 Cor. 6. 11. It doth also signify the mortification of sin by the power