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A67095	The manifold vvisedome of God In the divers dispensation of grace by Iesus Christ, In the Old New Testament. In the covenant of faith. workes. Their agreement and difference. By G. Walker, B.D. pastor of Saint Iohn the Evangelist in Watlingstreet.	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1641 (1641)	Wing W361; ESTC R217663	63,825	196

THE MANIFOLD WISEDOME OF GOD In the divers dispensation of Grace by Iesus Christ In the Old Testament In the New Testament In the Covenant of Faith In the Covenant of Workes Their Agreement and Difference By G. Walker B. D. Pastor of Saint Iohn the Evangelist in Watlingstreet LONDON Printed by R. H. for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sold at the Signe of the Gilt Cup neere S. Anstins Gate in Pauls Church-yard 1641. To all that love the Lord IESUS CHRIST especially the godly and religious professors of the true faith in and about the Citie of London grace and peace be multiplied BEloved in the Lord as your Christian love and charity hath abounded towards mee in my bonds So Christian affection bindes me to returne to you some tokens and testimonies of thankfulnesse When I was sicke and shut up so fast in close prison that no liberty to visit me nor any accesse unto me for my comforts could by any importunity prayers or petitions be obtained then next under God whose holy Word the sacred Scriptures in the Originall tongues were allowed me for my solace and sole companions day and night your faithfull and fervent prayers which you powred out to God in my behalfe were my chiefest outward help the vertue power of them piercing through the double doores lockes and bolts through which no keyes of gold or silver could make way or enterance did most sensibly reach unto me and I had a lively feeling and sweet fruition of the benefit and comfort of them Also after the loosening of my strait bands and imprisonment when for the preserving of my life and recovery of health I had obtained the favour to be only confined to the house of my brother where my friends might visit me divers of you did most charitably minister unto my necessities and did ease me of the clog of cares for necessaries of this life which otherwise would have pressed me downe as an unsupportable burden and consumed me being stript of my maintenance and meanes of liveli hood and the profits of my benefice which were sequestred and given to others This your Christian charity I do acknowledge with all thankfulnesse and do mention in my dayly prayers and thanksgiving to God firmely beleeving and perswading my selfe that he will aboundantly reward your worke of love and charity who hath promised that whosoever shall give to drinke unto one of his litle ones which belong to Christ a cup of cold water only verily he shall in no wise lose his reward Mat. 10. 42. Neither have I in this time of my restraint neglected to use all diligence and to doe my best endeavour you also helping together by prayer for me that your charity bestowed on me might bring forth some manifest fruits to your selves and others and that by meanes thereof thanks and praise may be given by many to God on our behalfe For being freed by your bounty from worldly cares I gave my self wholly to care for the things of God and to spend my whole study and paines in some things which might be profitable to the people of God especially in revising papers and making fit for the presse and for publike use divers of my labours and workes which they whose judgment I doe much reverence have perswaded me to be more profitable and many of my most judicious hearers have importuned me to publish for the commō benefit of many The first in the communicating whereof I have yeelded to their desire is this small treatise which is as a praeface to the rest and indeed it was first delivered in some few sermons as a praeface to the exposition of the Gospel of Saint Iohn in the yeare 1616. It justly challengeth the first place because the first receiving of men into the Church of God to be visible members of Christ is by their baptisme which is the Sacrament of initiation and their entring into covenant with God in Christ which Covenant is here in this treatise plainly described and the agreement and difference shewed betweene it and the old Covenant of workes as also between the old and new Testament and betweene the Law and the Gospel The next in order is the instruction of Christians in the Doctrine of Christ which in another treatise is described and set forth by the matter forme fruit affect end use and ground of it First delivered in divers sermons upon Heb. 6. v. 11 12 13 14. and now made and formed into a Treatise fit to be published for the benefit of Gods Church at the importunity and request of divers well affected hearers The third is a treatise of God who is the proper subject of the divine art of Theology or sacred Divinity in which the eternall and only true God is described and set forth at large out of the words of Moses Deu. 6. 4. in the unity of his essence and all his attributes and essentiall properties and in the sacred Trinity of persons all fully and clearly proved by plaine Testimonies and demonstrations out of the sacred canonicall Scriptures The fourth is the doctrine of Gods internall operations and eternall works to wet his eternall counsells purposes and decrees concerning the last and utmost end of all reasonable creatures Men and Angels and concerning the way and means by which they are brought to their last end some to eternall life and blessednesse and some to eternall damnation wo and misery The fifth is the doctrine of Gods externall works and outward operations which are first generally laid open and proved out of severall texts of holy Scriptures and afterwards divided into severall heads The first is the great worke of creation fully and plainly described out of the first and second Chap. of the booke of Genesis To which is joyned a treatise of Gods actuall providence by which he doth order and dispose all things created and the actions and motions of them to his owne glory and the eternall salvation and blessednesse of his elect The sixth is the fall and corruption of mankind with all the evills which thereby entred into the world fully and plainly described out of Gen. cap. 3. The seventh is the institution of the Sabbath on the seventh day of the world on which day Christ was promised and by the promise of Christ which was the greatest blessing given and revealed to the fathers in the old testament that day came to be the most blessed day of the weeke and was sanctified by God to be the weekly Sabbath untill by the full exhibition of Christ a perfect redeemer in his resurrection on the first day of the weeke that first day became a more blessed day and by Christ the Lord of the Sabbath was sanctified and had the honour of the weekly Sabbath transferred unto it and is to be observed of Christians for their holy day of rest untill they come to the eternall rest in heaven These severall Treatises I have in this time of my restraint made

to shew how it is impossible to finde perfect righteousnes to be justified and saved but only in Christ There the promises were set forth and sealed darkly in types and figures but now these figures and ceremonies are ceased and Christ the substance of them is set forth naked in his owne colours before our eyes Thirdly the Covenant given by Moses may be said to vanish and be abolished in respect of the light and glory of it For the light and glory of it which it then had is swallowed up of the great light of the Gospell The glory of it was but like a dimme light or candle but the glory of the Gospell is like the light of the Sunne at noone day so that before it the light of the Law is put out and appeares no more then the light of a Candle in the bright Sun-shine Now the Apostle tels us that When that which is perfect is come then that which is in part is abolished And in our common speech we say that the brightnes of the Sun destroyeth and putteth out the light of a Candle that it is as good as nothing and so wee may in the same sense say that the Covenant of the Law is abolished in respect of the light and glory of it For the glory of it which was but in part is swallowed up by the great light of the glorious Gospell But the Covenant of the Gospell abideth in all respects firme and sure for ever and we must never expect a plainer renewing of it to the end of the world And thus I have out of the holy Scriptures and especially from the words of the Apostle discovered plainely the agreement and difference betweene the mixt Covenant which God made with Israel by Moses and the pure and simple Covenant of Grace made with all Nations in the Gospell and published by Christ and his holy Apostles and Evangelists CHAP. XVII THe consideration whereof discovers to us the singular providence of God in ordering the world and his wonderfull wisedome goodnesse and mercy in preparing and giving meanes of grace and salvation fitted for the people of every Age according to their severall dispositions and the necessity of every Age and generation In the first ages next unto the state of Innocency when men lived divers hundreds of yeeres and had the helpes of long observation and great experience besides the instructions and historicall relations of long-lived Progenitors who as eye and eare-witnesses could from Adam Methushelah and Noah rehearse Gods great workes from the Creation and teach them the knowledge of God then the Lord dealt more sparingly and afforded but small and rare meanes even a few visions revelations and generall and obscure promises to turne men from their owne wayes and draw them to seeke salvation in him But when mens ages and lives were shortned by the increase of corruption and by mens multiplying of iniquity and growing more hard stubborne and rebellious The Lord to the former promises made to the Fathers added a fiery Law which he gave from mount Sinai in thunder and lightening and with a terrible voyce to the stubborne and stiffenecked Israelites whereby to breake and tame them and to make them sigh and long for the promised Redeemer when they were pressed with the bondage of the Law and with the intolerable burden of Rites and Ceremonies And when after many ages they were growne so desperately rebellious that they scorned Gods Messengers rejected his Lawes and Commandements misused and persecuted his extraordinary Prophets who wrought wonders in their sight and slew his servants which he sent unto them Then at last hee sent his sonne in whom hee fulfilled all the promises made to the Fathers who also fulfilled the Law both Morall and Ceremoniall and made reconciliation for sinne and iniquity and brought in eternall righteousnesse and hath made with all the world the New Covenant of the eternall Gospell of peace by which we receive the promise of the Spirit who workes in us all grace to the mortifying of the Old man subduing the rebellious flesh casting downe of the strong holds of sinne and Satan and bringing all thoughts in captivity to the obedience of Christ Thus as the world hath had more need of stronger helpes and powerfull meanes God in his wise providence hath increased and supplied them in severall Ages and as sinne hath more abounded and stubburnnesse and hardnesse increased so God hath more shewed his goodnesse magnified his mercy and enlarged his bounty by giving more powerfull meanes by renuing and explaining the Covenant of life and salvation and making his Grace more to abound towards the sonnes of men And therefore let us hereby be stirred up to take notice of Gods speciall providence how he respecteth the sonnes of sinfull men and is mindfull of them to visite them and take care for them in all Ages Let us admire his wisedome extoll his goodnesse and mercy and labour to bring forth abundance of fruit according to the culture and tillage and the powerfull meanes of Grace which God hath bestowed upon us under the Gospell Let us be ashamed and confounded in our selves for our barrennesse after so many plentifull showers powred downe upon us and acknowledge and confesse that we had long agone beene over-growne with all wickednesse and swallowed up of our sinnes and iniquities if the Lord had not by the strong hand of his glorious Gospell and his mighty and powerfull Spirit shed forth plentifully through Iesus Christ in these last dayes stopt the current of our sinfull corruption and staid us from running headlong into destruction As for them who in this great light of the Gospell multiply their workes of darknesse and make their sinnes and transgressions ascend up in great multitudes like thicke cloudes towards heaven and doe hate and persecute the truth which shineth unto them and love the darknesse of errours more then the light of sound doctrine Let them know that their rebellion against the light deserves the reward of the mist and blacknesse of darknesse for ever Let them feare and justly suspect that they are the ground which the Apostle speakes of Hebr. 6. 8. which when it hath drunken in the raine which oft commeth upon it doth bring forth no good fruit but thornes briers and poysonfull stinking weedes and therefore is rejected and is nigh unto cursing whose end is to be burned And just it is with God that hee should send such persons strong delusions that they should beleeve the lies of the man of sinne and dote after errours and heresies that they all may be damned who have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved but have taken pleasure in unrighteousnesse as the Apostle hath foretold 2 Thess. 2. 11 12. CHAP. XVIII Of the Law and the Gospell and the agreement and difference betweene them NOw the last thing onely remaines to wit the description of the Law and the Gospell and their agreement