all a mans diligence any other way be solidly known Wise men amongst themselves do now begin to wonder that they suffered themselves to be so abused by those Dictators in Sciences they complain that there are secrets in Nature hiddennesses in Truths implications in Causes that there is much darkness upon their Mind blindness upon their Intellect weakness in their Understanding that their Knowledge is but Folly their Powers are impotent their abilities insufficient and their researches shallow thus they fall into suspicion and grow into dislike of themselves concluding an utter impossibility in Humane Arts seeing there are so many unknown subtilties in Nature which do escape their senses and so many mistakings by senses which do not come under their cognisance They acknowledge at last that to consummate the Arts and to perfect the Sciences inquired after is above their strength and beyond their hopes and they professingly declared that they will affirm nothing subtilty is their Science and fallacy is their Faculty How many questions might be asked of the most Learned of them concerning the most plain and familiar things such as are most obvious and exposed to the outer senses about Seeing Hearing Smelling Tasting Feeling which would puzzle them and amaze their Understanding were all the witty Ingenioso's and generous Virtuoso's of the World colledged and incoporated into one Philosophick Society all their extra-Scriptural disquisitions would never reach or hit what they say they aim at because they use not improve not the adapted mediums to come at it It would have been more wisdom in such bold undertakers to be Instancers of Learning if they had either laid aside their attempt or pointed to a directer course and to a righter way for by an ill unadvised managing of the inquiry the inner Rooms of Learning are still locked up and her Treasures are not disclosed If the Reader marvel why one of so little Philosophical Learning and of so much worldly despisedness will adventure in such a day to be so open a redarguer of the whole Philosophick World let him know that the Scripture-cause will conqueringly plead it self and its advocate has sufficient security that the Glory will be his who is the Author of so full a word Let the Writer and his Treatise decrease into a nothing as to this and let Jehovah and his word increase into an All whilst the Traditionary Learning of these men which is but the credulous receiving of a false report and their sensitive learning which is often the wrong information of equivocating witnesses and their experimental Learning which is usually the hasty observation of indagators and of casual inventers these shall blush and vanish be gone and ashamed to shew their faces which so long have been set out to sale under the gaudy Titles of Natural History restored Sciences and instaured Philosophy but leaving the buyer sick of his bargain and crying out That he has all this while been over-reached and defrauded imposed upon and insulted over by those who themselves at length do judge this to be a case plainly desperate as not knowing how to extract the real truth of things or which way so to separate all mistakes that they may at last be brought to somewhat which is wholly free from errour and so natural Beings may open themselves and disclose their inside in their primordial Virtues and concealed excellencies The whole of the doctrine of the unseen World is altogether undiscoverable by any lawful means but only the word Revelation and therefore it is that Paul doth condemn that Philosophy as a vain deception which would obtrude upon its Disciples a belief of those things it hath not seen making its own excogitates to be Oracles when it s own phantastick opinions are built upon no other foundation than the feigned Placents of humane imagination It would take away the Prize that belongs to the profiting Disciples in Christ's School and give it unto those that run in the by-race of paganish Studies thus arrogating unto its self an usurped power of judging and of defining who are the most learned and skilful it doth thrust it self into a pretended knowledge of such secret hidden things whereof it is altogether ignorant as if it were its own proper possession my task is to direct the Spiritual man unto that perfect Word where he may get deep into the profoundest Mysteries of Religion and of Reason of Grace and of Nature where a clear-eyed-Faith may satisfie it self with self-evidencing verities I am no investigator of new fictitious humane knowledges but would ingage others to be educers of old sound Scripture-Learning which has been so long veiled with Philosophical darkness and neglected by Sophistical prejudice Shall we any longer walk on in the circular tract of feigned Arts and of corrupted Sciences by Humane Authors who write one after and of another according to the-bad Copy set before them saying over and over the same falsified things putting only a new name to an old Stuff whilst they make little or no progress because they do not follow on in a straight line of edifying knowledge How far are they from having already said all that can be said though one of them has grosly flattered himself by applying of that expression to his own Writings Truth and Goodness have mutual influence upon and friendly fellowship with each other and how then can Humane Arts and Philosophical Sciences approve themselves good unto the Will till they prove themselves true to the Understanding of rational Creatures let no man seduce himself we are at least we should be so far true and kind unto our selves as not to deceive our selves What shall we deal with our selves as a false Thief doth deal with a silly Traveller offering himself readily to be a guide to direct him a better and righter way to his journies end till he mislead him into some dark and dismal place that there he may rob and spoil him of his Treasure such are wrong guides in the way of our Study It any man thinketh that he is wise in this world let him become a fool that he may be wise for the wisdom of this World is foolishness with God the LORD knoweth the reasonings of the wise that they are vain therefore let no man glory in men No Tutor is like unto that Spirit who is the LORD informing humble Disciples of the Book of his Word and of his Works Useful Arts and profitable Sciences have their legitimation in his Word and their naturalization in his Works Here the mind of man is at once both inlightned and sanctified informed and satisfied whereas Academick Scepticisms do make their apprehensions to be but appearances and their propositions to be but probabilities till he that is of an inquiring spirit sees he has fed but upon empty notions and so is discouraged into a desponding fullenness and doth yield to over-coming difficulties Whilst our own unsteddy unskilful hands will be drawing out Lines of Arts
in the beginning or in the end of proper names By naming of Jehovah is noted the mode of his Essentiality and Agenty It is their sin who do not call upon this Name for it is expresly to be named It is therefore an Error in the vulgar versions of Greek Latin and English when they render this proper Name appellatively which hath no plural Number no demonstrative Note prefix'd is not read in the constructed State so as to change its last Letter neither doth it admit of any affixes at the end This particular Name of his shall be glorious This Word has been put into the name of a place and of an Altar So that such a place and such an Altar could not be rightly named without using that form and manner of pronunciation as its Consonants and Vowels are Though proud Pharaoh for a while would not know not acknowledge this Name Jehovah yet Aelohim by his Plagues upon Pharaoh did at last make his mouth pronounce it Pharaoh said to Moses and Aaron concerning them and the Israelites Jehovah shall be with you This is that Hebrew Word which is made up of all the Vowels also of Accents and iâ— doth confist only of such Vowels and Acconts There are in it A E J O V it has H to begin a syllable and H to and a syllable It is evident that the Ethnick's Jove and Jao got its sound from their hearing of this word Jehovah to be pronounced by the Hebrews they retained some of the Hebraick Origination in the very sound of it O how incomprehensibly Glorious is this infâ—â—ite unchangeable Essence who was from all Eternity is and will be to all Eternity without any mutation Who really doth declare and exhibit himself to be indeed such a one as he manifesteth and promiseth himself to be in his Word Jehovah himself was the Author of this Name of his and it is not attributed to any Creature It has in it all the parts of Duration past present and to come Jehoshuah read all the words of the Law the Blessings and the Cursings according to all that is written in the Book of the Law there was not a Word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua read not before all the Congregation of Israel with the Women the little Ones and the Strangers that were conversant among them If all and not a word unread then Jehovah was read for this Word was there It was foretold that even the Priests would be despisers of this Name but withal it is prophesied That it shall be great from the going forth of the Sun to the going in thereof and they shall in a more especial manner be remembred by him who wisely think upon his Name One of Solomon's Names of his cognames brought to his Father David by Nathan from an Oracle was Jedidjah beloved of Jah for Jehovah doved him and therefore he sent his Prophet Nathan so to call his Name because of Jehovah that somewhat of Jehovah's Name might pass over into Solomon's Name for Jah is the contracted word of Jehovah which name Jah is annexed to a multitude of names in the holy Scriptures whereby the ignorance and unbelief of the superstitious heart-veiled Jews is justly reproved who will not acknowledge this syllable this word Jah to be the contracted of Jehovah lest they should be made withal to confess that the Word the Name Jehovah should by found of voice be distinctly and expresly in all its Consonants and Vowels pronounced with due reverence How much is there of this Word and Name that doth 〈◊〉 into Scriptures Sometimes it doth set out the glorious excellency of the Eternal Being other times the virtue and favour of this Eternal Being The acknowledgement celebrating and praising of this Being The profession and worship of this Being of beings and much more This Name is invocated often in the Word and is sometimes put for the Command Will or Authority of this Great LORD How many times is this Expression used thus saith Jehovah in the beginning in the middle and in the end of a Sentence The Margin of this Page cannot contain all the Citations of these in every of the places of Scripture This Name and Word was to be on the High Priest's Forehead that all the people might see it and read it there how else could they understand the Mystery of it And the like is prophesied of elsewhere with an eye to this Name of his he will do much for his people in the later days and it is covenanted that in the purer Church then the knowledge of the Glory of this Name shall so aboundingly cover the Earth as the Waters cover the place of the Seas He doth take notice of it and is displeased at it when this Name of his is seoffed at As Jehovah is the proper Name so also the Memorial of him who is a â—ost lingle pure perfect infinite unchangeable self-being existing and subsisting in and of and by himself who was who is and who will be one and the same and not made another From whom all and every of Creatures in their first making did receive their Essence their Existence and by and in whom they 〈◊〉 kept in their Being who will really and indeed declare and shew forth himself 〈◊〉 such a one the very same True One as he hath revealed himself to be in his Word putting a real Essencâ— an actual Existence into all and every of his Command Promisings Threatnings and Pâ—â—pheses of whatsoever it is 〈…〉 spoken in their time A 〈◊〉 Name which he reserves only to himself had which is communicated 〈…〉 other Name which in the 〈…〉 of it is 〈◊〉 the fittest to work those night apprehensions and that 〈◊〉 knowledge of him in those who are acquainted with him which such 〈◊〉 Word is 〈◊〉 form in them Thou thy 〈◊〉 Jehovah Thou art Thy Name what 〈◊〉 Name hath in Thou 〈◊〉 â—hy Name 〈◊〉 His people shall more know in the later days from the 〈◊〉 of them unto the greateâ—â— of them that 〈◊〉 this He 〈◊〉 The Earth shall be full of the 〈◊〉 acknowledgement of the Glory of him who is this Name How glorious how fearful is this Name O how great in might How holy How wondrous excellent in all the Earth O how good how near how extolled how much hath he done How much doth he and will he do for this Name of his as this is so should his praise be They who knowing it will trust of him The desire of the Soul of Saints is to it and to the remembrance of him They love it they call upon it and do confess to him They praise it for it is high advanced this Name of his his alone This they fear In this they will lift up their Palms In this shall they shout and be glad all the day This they remembred in the night and have observed his Law this they see
of whom Micab foretold that he should come out of Judah for to be a Ruler and whose goings forth are of old from the days of Eternity which in the Book of the Generation of Jesus Christ is spoken of this Gâ—immanu el God with us Thus the Prophet Zachariah describes him at the least in the Type He shall sit and bear sway upon his Throne and he shall be Priest upon his Throne This was the voice of the Angel to Mary concerning Christ The LORD God shall give unto him the throne he shall be King for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end This is to be known for certain that God hath made him for a LORD him hath God by his Right Hand exalted for a Prince and Saviour Thus did Peter openly confess him before men This Jehovah Christ hath reigned he is reigning and will reign How high is that Majesty with which he is clothed He hath girded himself with strength Stable is his Throne from then from the Time that he has been from before any created Time as we now measure it he from Eternity He by the Authority of his Mediatoral Office has Royal Prerogatives to pass Acts of Grace to grant Pardons to particular returning sinners to speak the Peace of this into the conscience to give the joy and comfort of this into the heart Christ had a Glory with his Father before this World was and a love from his Father before the Foundation of this World as the LORD Christ himself doth acknowledge in his holy heavenly Prayer to his Father as John has recorded it He is high above all the people let the earth be glad let the many isles rejoyce Come let us shout joyfully to this Jehovah let us shout triumphantly to the rock of our Salvation For Jehovah a great God and a great King above all gods He is the King of Righteousness and the Prince of Peace All kings shall bow down unto him and all nations shall serve him Christ is the only LORD him only must we serve So doth Christ interpret Moses and so did the Prophet Samuel teach Let us hear the LORD Jesus himself speaking thus in the Book of his Generation One is your leader even Christ One is your Father which is in heaven One is your Master even Christ Paul doth write in the Epistle to the same purpose we have One LORD Jesus Christ And again There is one LORD And in another place He is the blessed and only mighty LORD the King of kings and LORD of lords He is the Head of the Church His Office is so appropriate unto him as that his Priesthood cannot pass unto any other but remaineth in himself for ever There is no other Name given us under Heaven whereby we may be saved Thus calls him The only LORD God and our Lord Jesus Christ speaking of that peculiar propriety that the called ones who are sanctified have in him He trode the Press alone and there was none of the Nations with him Thus did Isaiah hold forth Christ's Kingly Power and his Princely Government in redeeming and saving of his Elect and in subduing and destroying of his Enemies as saith the same Prophet in another passage of his Book The Father hath given him the Nations for his Inheritance and the ends of the Earth for his Possession His Dominion shall be from Sea to Sea His Scepter is a Righteous Scepter he hath loved Righteousness and hated iniquity He shall judge the people with Righteousness and the poor meek ones with judgement and equity He is the Rulling One by his Power from ever Jehovah hath firmly prepared his Throne in the Heavens and his Kingdom ruleth ouer all His Kingdom is a Kingdom of all Eternities and his Dominion in every Generation and Generation Behold the Arm of this LORD Jehovah shall Rule His Enemies shall be made his Foot-stool and in the mean time he shall Rule though in the midst of them How great and wonderful are thy Works LORD thou Almighty God Just and true are thy ways thou King of Saints Who should not fear thee LORD and Glorifie thy Name For thou art alone Holy For all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy Judgements are made manifest All Nations shall can thee blessed Blessed be Jehovah God the God of Israel who dost marvellous things thy self alone And blessed be the Name of thy Glory for ever And let all the Earth be filled with thy Glory Amen and Amen! This Christ is the Lawgiver Thus was it spoken by Isaias the Prophet a Jehovah is our Judge Jehovah is our Law-giver or Statute-maker Thus was it prophesied by Jacob concerning Christ at the least in Type that the Scepter should not depart from Judah and the Law-giver from between his Feet until Shiloh come The Saviour the Safe-maker the Author of Prosperity of Tranquillity and unto him the obedience or the gathering of peoples Christ was to spring from Judah as an after birth which as is implyed should be of the Flesh of a Woman according to which Prophesie and promise Jehudah is said to be the Law-giver in the sixtieth and in one hundred and eighth Psalms He it was who formed Decrees and who made Laws He was at the least figured by that Law-giver who was with the Princes and Nobles of the People when with their Staves they digged and delved the Well at Beer and of the same did Moses speak concerning the Tribe of Gad when he declared the Blessing and the Portion the Provision and the Protection to be from this Law-giver Christ himself calleth the Law his Law in the seventy eight Psalm wherein he himself speaketh unto his people for so the holy Spirit doth expound it in the Book of Christ's Generation when he opened the parable of the Sower and of the Seed One of the Laws of loving one another in bearing one anothers burdens is in express words said to be the Law of Christ by Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians It was Jehovah Christ who spake and gave the Law of the Ten Words at Mount Sinai when God's Chariot the twice ten thousand thousands of Angels were there This Lord was with them He it was the same who ascended on high who led captive a Captivity who had taken gifts in Adam among or unto men For of this LORD Jesus Christ doth Paul teach us to understand this place in his Epistle of the Ephesians where speaking of this One LORD he saith when he ascended into the height he took Captivity captive and gave gifts unto men Now this he ascended what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the Earth he that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the Heavens that he might fill all things This was that Angel of the LORD who appeared to Moses in the Wilderness of the Mount Sinai in a flame of