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A89351	Sion's prospect in it's first view. Presented in a summary of divine truths, consenting with the faith profess'd by the Church of England, confirmed from scripture and reason: illustrated by instance and allusion. Compos'd and publish'd to be an help for the prevention of apostacy, conviction of heresy, confutation of error, and establishing in the truth, by a minister of Christ, and son of the church, R.M. quondam è Coll ̊S.P.C.	Mossom, Robert, d. 1679.	1652 (1652)	Wing M2868; Thomason E800_1; ESTC R207347	108,410	128

can be but one God How One single pure and perfect Sec. 9. Why said to have eyes and hands to be angry and grieved c. He admits no bodily likeness CHAP. III. Concerning God in the Trinity of Persons Sec. 1. WHat the Knowledge of God from a natural light What from a light supernatural Who are the three Persons and what a Person is Sec. 2. A finite understanding not possibly able to comprehend this infinite Mystery Not to be illustrated by any Instances Sec. 3. The highest pitch of Reasons apprehension Sec. 4. Reason directing to Faith What and how a Trinity of Persons in the Vnity of the Godhead Sec. 5. The Son of God and the Holy Ghost firmly proved Sec. 6. How the Persons are distinguished Sec. 7. How Trinity and Person are found in Scripture What a subsistence is Sec. 8. How the Father is the first Person How each Person is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sec. 9. How the essence and attributes of the Godhead are communicated Sec. 10. The properties of the Persons incommunicable CHAP. IV. Concerning Gods Knowledg Sec. 1. HOw God knoweth all things Sec. 2. Gods foreknowledg how and what it is Not the cause of things and why Sec. 3. How all things depend upon Gods Will preordaining not his Knowledg foreseeing Yet Gods fore-knowledg depends not upon the creatures future existence Before and after past and to come relate not to God Sec. 4. But is in the creature This aptly illustrated Sec. 5. God knowing things to come and past doth it in one and the same act of Knowledg This act eternal So no change in God Sec. 6. No contingency in respect of Gods fore-knowledg Yet in the secondary causes Sec. 7. All future events are fore-known of God His fore-knowledg infallible Sec. 8. How applied unto the Elect in Scripture CHAP V. Concerning Gods Will. Sec. 1. GOds Will one and absolutely free Distinguish'd into his will secret and revealed of sign and of good pleasure Sec. 2. What his secret will What his revealed will Sec. 3. The Will of Gods good pleasure hath its reason not its cause Sec. 4. Gods glory the final cause of what he wils but not of his will How the impulsive cause of Gods will to be understood in Theology Sec. 5 6. The execution of Gods will admits several causes the volition not any what the volition and what the execution is Sec. 7. God wils not sin and why Sec. 8. The purpose of Gods will doth not abolish but establish the liberty of mans will what the necessity of being from the immutability of Gods will Sec. 9. How Gods secret will becomes revealed by his word and by his works How Gods word is called his will Sec. 10. How they agree in a sweet harmony So to be interpreted as that ille harmony be preserved Sec. 11. How Gods revealed will argues with that of his good pleasure when he wils all men to be holy Sec. 12. Where also he commands Abraham to sacrifice his Son Isaac Sec. 13. How the promises and threatnings in Gods revealed will which are conditional de agree with Gods secret will which is absolute Sec. 14. What the true meaning of the conditions declared CHAP. VI. Concerning Gods Decrees Power and Manner of Working Sec. 1. GOd the primary Cause and supreme Agent in his Vnderstanding Will and Power What his Decree what his Work Sec. 2. What his absolute power How limited by his will Sec. 3. Why and how said to be omnipotent Sec. 4. There is no overcoming Gods power no resisting his will what he acts in time he hath decreed from eternity Sec. 5. How the creatures are in God before they are in themselves What the Counsel of God in his decrees Sec. 6. How the whole Trinity is one entire cause What their diverse manner of working Sec. 7. How some one action is appropriate to some one person Sec. 8. The firm relation between Gods decrees and his works God hath not decreed sin though he hath decreed to permit sin What the effectual decree accompanying the permissive Sec. 9. The purpose of Gods decree imposeth no forcible necessity but bringeth an infallible certainty to all Agents and Events CHAP. VII Concerning the Works of Creation Sec. 1. GOd the Creator of all things as an absolute and free Agent Sec. 2. Creation the Work of the whole Trinity as one entire cause Why of God as a free and all-sufficient cause Sec. 3. Observ'd in the Work of Creation 1 The command of Gods Power 2 The approbation of his Goodness 3 The ordination of his wisdom 4 The declaration of his Authority Sec. 4. The immediate Creation what and of whom The mediate Creation what and of whom Sec. 5. Mans partaking of both Sec. 6. How and why called the lesser world Sec. 7. What the first Heaven what the second Heaven What the third Heaven Sec. 8. What the influences And what the predictions of the heavenly bodies Sec. 9. The creation of man and the forming of woman How God rested the seventh day Sec. 10. Gods wisdom in the Order of his creation Sec. 11. Every thing created perfect in its kinde Sec. 12. In his works God manifests his glory 1 The glory of his Power 2 Of his Goodness 3 Of his Wisdom 4 Of his Eternity Sec. 13. The light of nature directs to the worship of God as the Creator The seventh day the Sabbath How long to continue Sec. 14. How the Creation is an object of our faith CHAP. VIII Concerning the Providence of God Sec. 1. ALL things subordinate to Gods will In order either to his Me●cy or his Justice The wisdom and power of his Providence Infallably in its administrations Sec. 2. The Infallibility of Gods Providence doth not take away the use of means but confi●ms it Sec. 3. To deny Gods Providence is atheism to despise the use of means is profaneness to establish both is truth and righteousness to what end is the use of means Sec. 4. The course of nature declares the Providence of God this aptly illustrated Sec. 5. Gods Providence is no naked view but an actual administration What Gods Providence is in its general concourse How absolutely necessary for the creatures preservation Sec. 6. This aptly illustrated Sec. 7. The extent of Gods Providence Why it makes use of means Sec. 8. The seeming disorder in the world doth advance the glory of Gods Providence and assure the general Judgment of the last day Sec. 9. Gods Providence doth order sinful actions without any the least share in the sin This illustrated Sec. 10. That Gods Providence extends to what is sinful is not by a meer permission but by a powerful and wise ordination Wicked Instruments are proper Agents and how Sec. 11. How the Executioners of Gods Justice and in that Execution how guilty of sin The wonder of Gods Providence in respect of wicked mindes Sec. 12. Gods Providence imposeth no compelling force but establisheth the nature of all causes contingent

1.15 God is not to be imagined like any thing that is visible and bodily CHAP. III. Concerning God in the Trinity of Persons What the knowledg of God from a natural sight § 1. THE Knowledg of God which is from the a Rom. 1 19 20 light of Nature doth take it's rise from sense and can ascend no higher then it is supported nor go any further then it is led by sensible objects which give us no clearer Knowledg of God then the effects do of their cause namely that He is and that He is not such as they are but far excelling them in Essence and in Attributes as not being compounded not depending not finite not mutable and the like But the Knowledg of God which is from a Supernatural light What from a light Supernatural that is meerly by divine b Joh. 1.18 Exod. 33.23 Revelation as that God is the c Eph. 1.2 3. Mat. 6.9 Father of Christ and of his Church the d Gen. 15.1 Heb. 11.6 Reward of the Faithful the e Psal 68.20 Isa 12.2 Jer. 3.23 Salvation of Israel and the like Yea such is our Knowledg of God through the apprehension of Faith in the Glorious Mystery of the Blessed Trinity whereby we beleeve the same God which is f Deut. 6.4 Isa 45.5 1 Cor. 8.4.6 One in nature or being Who are the three Persons and what a Person is is also g Gen. 1.26 and 11.7 8. Isa 6.3 63. ver 7 9 10. Mat. 3.16 17. and 28.19 2 Cor. 13 14. 1 John 5.7 Three in Persons or manner of subsisting Father Son and Holy Ghost which Three Persons do not divide the Unity into parts but distinguish the Trinity by their properties § 2. A finite Vnderstanding not possiby able to comprehend this infinite mystery And here we acknowledg it impossible that a finite understanding should comprehend that mystery which is infinite in its Glory and therefore when the minde soars high to conceive the truth of the Unity it is dazled with the glory of the Trinity and when it would conceive the mystery of the Trinity it is overcome with the glory of the Unity And to illustrate this mystery with instances is to shadow out the light with colours Not to be illustrated by any Instances though the instances are that of the same Sun in its body beams and light the same water in its fountain spring and river yea the same soul in its understanding memory and will § 3. This is as high as Reason will reach The highest pitch of Reason's apprehension God is an infinite being having in himself a power to be which begets a Knowledg that he is and from both proceeds a love of that knowledg and power of being This infinite Being is equal and one in all these Relations yet the Relations distinguish'd in themselves as distinct manners of the Beings subsistence Thus the Father Son and Holy Ghost three distinct subsistences of one infinite Essence three distinct Persons of one eternal Godhead the Father as the power of the Godhead begets the Son the Son as the wisdom of that Godhead is begotten of the Father and the Holy Ghost as the Love of both proceeds from the Father and the Son And as that power never was without that knowledge nor that power and knowledg without that love so nor ever was the Father without the Son nor the Father and the Son without the Holy Ghost And as that Knowledge is equal to the Power and the Love equal to both so the Son is equal to the Father and the Holy Ghost equal to the Father and the Son § 4. Now though Reason cannot instruct us to know what is hid Reason directing to Faith yet it doth direct us to beleeve what is revealed concerning this mystery For what more reasonable then this that what we cannot attain by a Natural Knowledge we should receive by a Divine Faith when revealed unto us by God in his Word Which Word teacheth us What and how a Trinity of Persons in the Vnity of the Godhead that the three Persons in the Godhead are not three parts of God but c John 10.30 1 Tim. 1.17 One onely God The d Eph. 1.3 1 Pet. 1.3 Father God the e John 1.1 Heb. 1.2 3. 1 John 5 10. Son God and the f Acts 5.3 4. Holy Ghost God and yet not g Isa 6.3 Rev. 4.8 three Gods but one God all the three Persons being h Gen. 1.26 John 5.18 Phil. 2.6 Coessential and Coequal § 5. That the Son is God The Son God and the Holy Ghost God firmly proved and the Holy Ghost is God is made evident to the eye of Faith from these testimonies of sacred Scriptures which give them the a Jer. 23.6 1 John 5.6 Rom. 9 5. Acts 28.25 Tit. 2.13 1 Cor. 3.16 Proper Names the b Isa 9.6 Heb. 9.14 Phil. 3.21 Psal 13.9 7. John 21.17 1 Cor. 2.10 11 Essential Attributes 2 Cor. 13 14. the c Heb. 1 23. Job 26.13 and 33.4 Eph. 4.8.11 1 Cor. 12.11 Mat. 12.28 John 6.54 Rom 8.11 Divine operations and the d H b 1.6 1 Cor 6.19 Psal 2.12 Eph. 4.30 Mat 28.19 Holy worship of God § 6. In this Trinity the Godhead is not divided How the Persons are distinguished but the Persons are distinguished the Godhead is not divided in it's essence but the a Isa 61.1 John 8.16 17 18. John 14.26 and 15.26 Persons distinguished by their properties The b Psal 2.7 Heb. 1.5 Father begetting the c John 1.14 Heb. 1.6 Son begotten and the d John 15.26 Gal. 4.6 Holy Ghost proceeding which properties do not make them different Beeings but one and the same Being in a diverse manner of subsisting God begetting is the Father God begotten is the Son and God proceeding is the Holy Ghost Again the Father is God begetting the Son the Son is God begotten of the Father and the Holy Ghost is God proceeding from both the Father and the Son § 7. Though the Word Trinity and Person are not found literally exprest How Trinity and Person are found in Scripture yet are they found plainly implyed in Text of a Mat. 28.19 John 14.16 Ephes 2.18 sacred Scripture Yea seeing St. John doth tell us of God that he b 1 John 5.7 is Three the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost who shall question the word Trinity numerus numeratus in the abstract who reads the word Three numerus numerans in the concrete Which Three bearing record most firm it is by a Trinity of testimonies which doth plainly intimate a Trinity of subsistences What a Subsistence is and what a subsistence is St. Paul resolves us when he saith of the Son that he is c Heb. 1.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the express Image of his Fathers Subsistence where the word Subsistence doth truly and fully

and clearly signifie the Divine Essence with it's personal property § 8. a Mat. 28.19 John 5.26 The Father is the first Person How the Father is the first Person not in priority of Dignity or of time but of Order as being the fountain of the Trinity b Joh. 10 30 38. Mat. 11.27 Joh. 16.14 15. Communicating not alienating from himself the whole Nature and Essential Attributes of the Godhead to the Son and with the Son to the Holy Ghost So that the Father hath the whole Essence and Attributes of the Godhead in himself nd from none other the c John 5.26 and 6.63 Rom. 8.12 Son hath the whole Essence and Attributes of the Godhead in himself but from the Father and the Holy Ghost hath the whole Essence and Attributes of the Godhead in himself but from the Father and the Son Thus the Person of the Son is in the Unity of Essence begotten of the d Heb. 1.3 Person of the Father and the Person of the Holy Ghost is in the unity of the same essence proceeding from the Person of the Father and of the Son This divine Essence and Godhead is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neither begetteth nor is begotten How each Person is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neither proceedeth nor is proceeding so that each Person of the Godhead is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God subsisting in himself which subsisting doth imply with the unity of the Essence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the manner of existence How the Essence and Attributes of the Godhead are communicated § 9. As the Father is God a Deut. 33.27 eternal so the Son is God b Isa 9.6 eternal and the Holy Ghost is God c Heb. 9.14 eternal And as the Father is God d Psal 91.1 Almighty so the Son is God e Rev. 1.8 Almighty and the Holy Ghost is God f Rom. 8.11 Luke 1 35. Almighty and thus also in the other Attributes of the Deity they are all equally and fully g John 16.15 Isa 53.8 communicated in an eternal Generation from the Father to the Son and in an h Psal 33.6 Luke 1.35 eternal Spiration from the Father and the Son to the Holy Ghost The properties of the Persons incommunicable § 10. But though the essential Attributes of the Godhead are communicable to all the Persons yet the several properties of the Persons are incommunicable to each other of themselves so that the Son cannot be said to beget nor the Father to be begotten nor the Holy Ghost to be begotten or begetting but proceeding CHAP. IV. Concerning God's Knowledg How God knoweth all things § 1. GOD being a simple and absolute Essence simple without any composition absolute without any dependance a Psa 33.13.14 knoweth all things not by any faculty or habit but by b Psal 147.5 One eternal indivisible and unchangeable act in himself without any succession of priority or posteriority past or to come to whose eye all things are c Heb 4 13. naked and d 2 Pet. 3.8 present according to the e Acts 15 18. omniscience of his nature and the f Acts 15 18. eternity of his being Here we must not expect to give or receive any g Rom. 11.33 1 Cor. 8.2 ful or clear knowledg of God but such as is incumbred with many imperfect notions whilst we endeavour to h Isa 40.18.28 apprehend or represent so lofty a Majesty in our low conceptions § 2. God's fore-knowledg how and what it is The Scriptures speaking according to our capacity of conceiving do tell us of God's fore-knowledg whereby it is that he a Psa 139 2 14. Acts 2.23 Isa 45.21 beholdeth afar off already determined in the councel of his will what is future in the existence of its being And things are not therefore future because God fore-knows them but he therfore fore-knows them because they are future For if God's fore-knowledg had an effective power all things must needs have been from eternity in their existence being b Pro 8.22 23. Acts. 15.18 eternally fore-known of God in his decree yea Not the cause of things and why if God's fore-knowledg were the cause of things then were he the cause of all he fore-knows and if the cause of all he fore-knows then were he the cause of sin which is as opposite to God as c Psal 5.4 2 Cor. 6.14 hell to heaven or darkness to light § 3 God's knowledg and will being equally absolute and eternal How all things depend upon God's Will pre-ordaining not his Knowledg fo e-seeing he must needs know in himself from before all time what he a Ephes 1.11 wills in himself to be in time and hereby the creatures depend upon his will pre-ordaining them to be not upon his knowledg fore-seeing them in their being Yet God's fore-knowledg depends not upon the creatures future existence yet as the creatures future existence doth not depend upon God's fore-knowledg so nor doth God's fore-knowledg depend upon the creatures future existence Before and after past to come relate not to God he fore-knowing them as they are b Ephes 1.9 in him their proper cause not as they are c Rom. 11.36 from him in their own nature § 4. It is by one and the same Act that God doth know all things before and after they have their beeing which before and after doth not relate unto God But in the creature but unto the Creatures and the change of a Exod. 3.14 Psal 102.24 c. Acts 1.7 past and to come is not at all in him but altogether in them which is thus very aptly though not enough fully illustrated This aptly illustrated A man standing upon an high mountain doth behold in the valley beneath several persons passing and repassing some before and some after another all which are present to the single view of his eye Thus God seated on the high mountain of his b Isa 57.15 eternity looking c Psa 33.13.14 113.6 down upon the low valley of time he doth behold his several creatures one before and after another but all d Isa 44.6 present to the intuition of his knowledge so that there is no future in respect of eternity but e Eccles 3.1 Jer. 6.16 Psal 77.5 1 John 2.18 Eccles 1.4 past and to come are the parts and properties of time in the relation of one creature to another in the succession of their beings God knowing things to come and past doth it in one and the same act of Knowledge § 5. That God did know the world should be created and since doth know that the world hath been created is by one and the same knowledge in God though it be not one and the same truth in the propositions that being altered according to the change in the creatures existing without any a Jam

working in all actions which relate unto the creatures and therefore the works of Creation and of Providence are b Heb. 11 3. Psal 33.6 Job 26.13 Psa 104.29 30. sometimes attributed to the Father sometimes to the Son and sometimes to the Holy Ghost All three Persons being one single and entire Cause c 1 Cor 12 6. Psal 33.6 Ephes 2.22 working all in all yet in this Trinity there is a diverse manner of working What their diverse manner of working according to the distinct manner of subsisting The d John 1.3 1 Cor 8 6. Rom. 8.11 Father he works from himself by the Son and the Holy Ghost The e H b. 9.14 Son he worketh from the Father by the Spirit The f Luke 1.35 John 15.26 Holy Ghost he Works from the Father and the Son by Himself How some one action is appropriate to some one person § 7. And thus when any one action is more peculiarly appropriated to any one Person of the Trinity it is from some more immediate relation unto that Person as when the a Heb. 1 2. Ephes 3.9 Creation with the b Ephes 1.3 1 Pet. 1.3 Original of all Beings is more peculiarly appropriated to the Father c Rev. 2 9. Heb. 1.8 Redemption with the d John 3.35 5.22 dispensation of all Government more peculiarly appropriated to the Son e Rom. 15 16. Sanctification with the f 1 Cor 12.8 9 4.5 communication of all gifts and graces more peculiarly appropriated to the Holy Ghost The firm relation between God's decrees and his works § 8. And such is the near relation betwixt God's will and his Works his Decrees and their effects that whatsoever he a Isa 44 7. Heb. 6.17 Psal 135.6 willeth is done and whatsoever is done he willeth whatsoever he doth effect he hath decreed and whatsoever he hath b Psal 133.11 Isa 14.24 27. decreed he doth effect so that this is certain God hath not decreed sin God hath not decreed sin though he hath decreed to permit sin because he doth c 2 Chro. 19.7 Psal 5.5 not effect sin And though God be said to have c Acts 2.23 4.28 decreed the permission of sin yet is not that decree any way effectual to produce or cause sin What the effectual decree accompanying the permissive for the cause of any thing d Rō 9.20.21 permitted cannot be from the permission where there is no Law natural or positive to oblige the pevention Again sure we are sin could not be committed by man if it were not permitted by God And God would not permit sin in time if he had not determined to permit it from eternity which permissive part of God's decree is accompanied with that which is effectual effectual for the e Gen. 50 2● Acts 2.23 36. ordering to good what is permitted to be evil And thus God he would not permit sin were it not for good yet is not sin therefore from God for then were he not himself good § 9. As the good pleasure of God's will a Rō 11.34 35. receiveth not from the creatures any moving causality The purpose of God's decree imposeth no forcible necessity so nor doth the purpose of his decree impose upon the creatures any enforcing necessity All future events whatsoever they have indeed an b Mat. 2.28 John 19.36 infallible certainty but no forcible necessity from the determinate Counsel of God's will But bringeth an infallable certainty to all Agents and Events which infallible certainty extendeth not onely to all Agents and events c Psal 104. Job 3.8 natural or necessary but also d Prov. 16.1 21.1 free and e Exod. 21.13 Prov. 16.33 contingent whether it be in the f Exod. 14.4 5. Act 4.27 28. greatest effects or in the g Mat. 10.29.30 smallest matters CHAP. VII Concerning the Works of Creation § 1. GOD God the Creator of all things as an absolute and free Agent as a most free Agent without any a Job 22.2 necessity compelling or b Isa 40.13 external cause moving him to c Prov. 16.4 Psal 19.1 8.1 manifest his Glory or communicate his d Psal 104 24 Goodness of his e Rev. 4.11 own good pleasure and by his own most powerful will he made the World f Gen. 1.1 2.4 Col 1.16 in the beginning creating and in g Gen. 1.5 31. Exod. 20 11. six dayes forming all things in their natures h Gen. 1 31. 1 Tim. 4 4. very good § 2. Creation the Work of the whole Trinity as one entire cause The Creation was the a Psal 146.5 6. Jer. 10.11 proper work of God alone not from any one Person but from b Gen. 1.1 Psal 33.6 all the whole Trinity as being a work of infinite power wisdom and love as a work of infinite power so more especially from the Father as a work of infinite wisdom so from the Son as a work of infinite love so from the Holy Gost and yet from all the three Persons as it is from c Mal. 2.10 1 Cor. 8.6 one entire cause one single essence God's who creates the world as a d Ephes 1.11 Rev. 4.11 free Agent Why of God as a free and all-sufficient cause and as e Gen. 17.1 Acts 17.25 all-sufficient in himself for if the World were made of God by a necessity of his nature and not according to the liberty of his will or if the World made did add any thing to the fulness and perfection of the Maker it must needs have been as himself is from eternity and should not cease to be in the end of time which f Gen. 1 5. time was created with the World and did then g Gen. 1.1 John 1.1 begin when the Creation had it's beginning Observ'd in the Work of Creation § 3. In the work of Creation we observe the command of God's Power the approbation of his Goodness the ordination of his Wisdom and the declaration of his Authority 1. The Command of God's Power By a Gen. 1.2 6 c. Psal 33 9. Psal 148.5 the command of his Power he executes his will to the producing all things in their natural being 2. The Approbation of his Goodness b Gen. 1.4 10 31 by the approbation of his Goodness he confirms what is produc'd in those endowments of nature which he had given them c Gen. 1.7.16 the ordination of his Wisdom 3. The Ordination of his Wisdom he ordereth and disposeth what is so produc'd and confirm'd to their proper ends for which he appointed them 4. The Declaration of his Authority and d Gen. 14.15 Psal 148.6 in the declaration of his Authority he enacteth a Law establishing the creatures so produc'd confirm'd and ordered in their being and working e Gen. 1.22.28