Lords many but to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in for him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him Q. But who are they that in a good sense may be called Gods A. They in a good sense may be called Gods first who in some Imployment are instead of God Secondly They who in Government are the Sons of God Such both Men and Angels who in some Imployment from God are to others instead of God may be called by the very Name of the most high God As for instance in Exod. 7.1 The Lord saith to Moses See I have made thee a God Elohim to Pharaoh that is instead of God as it is exprest in Exod. 4.16 The Angel of the Lord appeared unto Moses in the flame of a Fire out of the midst of a Bush Exod. 3.2 This Angel is called in vers 4. Jehovah and Elohim or as we english it The Lord and God Also they who in Government over others are the Sons of the most High are called Gods See Psal 82.1 6. God standeth in the Congregation of the Mighty he judgeth among the Gods I have said Ye are Gods and even all of you are Children Sons of the most High John 10.32 c. Jesus answered them Many good Works have I shewed you from my Father for which of these Works do ye stone me The Jews answered him saying For a good Work we stone thee not but for Blasphemy because that thou being a Man makest thy self God Jesus answered them Is it not written in your Law I said Ye are Gods If he called them Gods unto whom the Word of God came and the Scripture cannot be broken Say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the World Thou blasphemest because I said I am the Son of God In Psal 8.5 we read thus Thou hast made him a little lower than the Angels In the Hebr. 't is than the Gods Here and in the like places a single Person is not Elohim but Eloah which is sometimes used of the most High as in Psalm 18.32 Job 12.4 Now the great God is in distinction from these sometimes called The God of Gods and Lord of Lords Deut. 10.17 Josh 22.22 Psal 136.2 Dan. 11.36 Chap. 2.42 And he is said to be greater than all Gods and above all Gods Psal 135.5 He is also said to be high above all the Earth and exalted far above all Gods Psalm 97.9 He is called The high God Psalm 78.35 56. The most High Numb 24.16 Deut. 32.8 2 Sam. 22.14 Dan. 4 17. and elsewhere often and in Acts 7.48 The most High God Gen. 14.18 Heb. 7.1 and elsewhere often The Lord the most high God Gen. 14.22 The Lord most High Psal 47.2 In Psal 83.18 That Men may know that thou whose Name alone is JEHOVAH art the most High over all the Earth See Dan. 5.21 In the place now quoted the same word is rendred High and most High Q. You said That God is a Spirit How prove you that A. Jesus Christ himself hath taught us That God is a Spirit Joh. 4.24 Jesus saith unto the Woman of Samaria Woman believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this Mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father ye worship ye know not what We know what we worship for Salvation is of the Jews But the hour cometh and now is when the true Worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth John 4.21 22 23 24. Q. What must we understand by this That God is a Spirit A. By this That God is a Spirit we must understand two things in the general First That God is more excellent than all things Secondly That the Spirit of Man may be unto us in some manner a Shadow of God Although Method challengeth this place for the confirmation of this That God is said to be a Spirit in way of allusion to the Spirit of Man yet the proof of it shall be reserved for the close of this Discourse concerning God as consider'd in himself where it may be done more easily and in fewer words The Excellency of God is diversly expressed in the Holy Scriptures In 2 Pet. 1.17 He is called The Excellent Glory In the Scripture there is ascribed to God Excellency Deut. 33.26 Job 13.11 Ch. 37.4 Psal 68.34 Isa 35.2 Greatness of Excellency Exod. 15.7 He is said to be excellent in Power Job 37.23 More excellent than the Mountains of Prey Psal 76.4 O Lord our God how excellent is thy Name in all the Earth who hast set thy Glory above the Heavens Psal 8.1 Let them praise the Name of the Lord for his Name alone is excellent His Glory is above the Earth and Heaven Psal 148.13 In the same sence he is called the great God Tit. 2.13 Rev. 19.17 Dan. 2.45 Jer. 32.19 Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and his greatness is unsearchable Psal 145.3 There is none like to the God of Jesurun Deut. 33.26 And Solomon said Lord God of Israel there is no God like thee in Heaven above or on Earth beneath 1 King 8.23 All Nations before the Lord are as nothing and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity To whom then will ye liken God or what likeness will ye compare unto him To whom then will ye liken me Or shall I be equal saith the Holy One Isa 40.17 18 25. To whom will ye liken me and make me equal and compare me that we may be like Isa 46.5 Who in the Heaven can be compared unto the Lord Who among the Sons of the Mighty can be likened unto the Lord Psal 89.6 As the Heavens are higher than the Earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts Isa 55.9 But will God indeed dwell on the Earth Behold the Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain thee how much less this House that I have builded 1 King 8.27 See Jer. 23.23 24. Acts 7.49 But how may we gather that God is thus excellent from his being called a Spirit Thus Jesus Christ here discovers the Divine Nature by the most excellent thing that is vulgarly known to wit the Spirit of Man Hereby he plainly signifies the Excellency of God And in that he discovers this Excellency not as it is in it self but by a Shadow he clearly intimates that this Excellency of God is such and so exceeding great that we now cannot perceive the same as it is in it self being far above the present strength of our Understanding and way of Knowledg The like we are to observe in many other scriptural forms of Speech concerning some things that are Spiritual and those things that pertain to another World See John 3.10 11 12. It was said That the Spirit of Man
Father in Spirit and Truth And therefore they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and Truth Now let the Reader judg CHAP. II. Of God considered in his Works of Creation Q. NOw seeing we have discoursed of God as considered in himself we are in the next place to discourse of him as considered in his Works Wherefore I shall first ask you What are the Works of God A. The Works of God we ought to consider and althô they are manifold yet they may be said in the general to be two-fold namely His Work of Creation and his Work of Government Job 37.14 16. Eccles 7.13 Psal 77.12 46.8 111.2 Rom. 1.20 Q. What is God's Work of Creation A. God's Work of Creation is that Work of his whereby he hath made Heaven the Heaven of Heavens with all their Host the Earth and all things that are therein the Seas and all that is therein Nehem. 9.6 See Gen. 1. Job 38.4 c. Psal 104.5 c. and 136.5 c. Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer and he that formed thee from the Womb I am the Lord that maketh all things that stretcheth forth the Heavens alone that spreadeth abroad the Earth by my self Isa 44.24 Act. 4.24 14.15 17.24 Rev. 10.6 Thus saith God the Lord he that created the Heavens and stretched them out he that spread forth the Earth and that which cometh out of it he that giveth breath unto the People upon it and Spirit to them that walk therein Isa 42.5 See Isa 45.12 18. Mark 10.6 Q. In what manner did God create the World and the things that are therein A. God by reason of his Will and Pleasure did in his Wisdom by his Power and for himself make form or create in six days all things and all very good He created all things by reason of his Will or Pleasure Rev. 4.11 Thou O Lord hast created all things and for or by reason of thy pleasure they are and were created See also before God created them in his Wisdom Psal 104.24 O Lord how manifold are thy Works in Wisdom hast thou made them all Prov. 3.19.20 The Lord by Wisdom hath founded the Earth by Vnderstanding hath he established the Heavens by his Knowledg the Depths are broken up and the Clouds drop down the Dew Psal 136.5 He hath created all things by his Power Jer. 10.12 He hath made the Earth by his Power he hath established the World by his Wisdom and hath stretched out the Heavens by his Discretion Jer. 32.17 Ah Lord God behold thou hast made the Heaven and the Earth by thy great Power and stretched-out Arm and there is nothing too hard for thee or nothing hid from thee See Isa 40.26 2 Pet. 3.5 Psal 33.6 By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the Host of them by the breath of his Mouth Vers 9. For he spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast See Psal 148.5 Gen. 1.3 God said Let there be Light and there was Light 2 Cor. 4.6 God commanded the Light to shine out of Darkness Job 26.13 By his Spirit he hath garnished the Heavens his Hand hath formed the crooked Serpent Job 33.4 The Spirit of God hath made me and the Breath of the Almighty hath given me Life Prov. 16.1 He made all things for himself He made all things in six days and all very good Gen. 1. and Ch. 2.1 2. Exod. 20.11 Q. What are the principal Creatures that God did make A. The principal Creatures that God did make are Angels and Men. Q. What have you learn'd concerning the Creation of Men A. I have learn'd concerning the creation of Men That God after he had made all other Creatures created Man in his own Image in the Image of God created he him Male and Female created he them and that God blessed them and said unto them Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth and subdue it and have dominion over the Fish of the Sea and over the Fowl of the Air and over every living thing that moveth upon the Earth Gen. 1.27 28. Jam. 3.9 Q. Can you express more distinctly the Creation of Men A. Yes after this manner The Lord God created at the first only a Man and a Woman called Adam and Eve For the Lord God formed the Man of the Dust of the Ground and breathed into his Nostrils the Breath of Life and the Man became a living Soul Afterwards the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept and he took one of his Ribs and closed up the Flesh instead thereof And of the Rib which the Lord God had taken from the Man made he a Woman and brought her to the Man to be his Wife and a meet help unto him Of these two have all others of Mankind descended by that blessing of Multiplying and increasing which God gave to Adam and his Wife Gen. 2.7 18 21 22. and 5.1 2. 1 Cor. 11.8 9. 1 Tim. 2.13 Job 4.17 32.22 33.6 34.19 Psal 139.13 c. Jer. 1.5 Zech. 12.1 Eccles 11.5 Job 10.8 c. and 31.15 CHAP. III. Of God's Work of Government in General and in Special as relating to Angels Q. LEt us now speak of God's Work of Government concerning which I shall first ask you this Question What mean you by God's Work of Government A. By God's Work of Government I mean that Work of his in which by his Power he ruleth and reigneth over all throughout all Generations for ever and ever as Lord of Heaven and Earth and as a great King above all Gods God ruleth or reigneth or does exercise Dominion and Kingship over all Psal 103.19 c. The Lord hath prepared his Throne in the Heavens and his Kingdom ruleth over all Bless the Lord ye his Angels that excel in strength that do his Commandments hearkning to the Voice of his Word Bless the Lord all ye his Hosts ye Ministers of his that do his pleasure Bless the Lord all his Works in all places of his Dominion Bless the Lord O my Soul See Job 25.2 3. Josh 2.11 Isa 66.1 God by his Power ruleth and reigneth throughout all Generations for ever and ever Psal 66.7 He ruleth by his Power for ever his Eyes behold the Nations Psal 145.13 Thy Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom or a Kingdom of all Ages and thy Dominion endureth throughout all Generations Psal 93.2 Thy Throne is established of old thou art from everlasting Psal 10.16 The Lord is King for ever and ever 1 Tim. 1.17 Now unto the King Eternal Immortal Invisible the only Wise God be honour and glory for ever and ever Amen See Psal 29.16 Jer. 10.10 Psal 146.10 Dan. 4.3 34. Jude 25. 1 Cor. 15.24 28. Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the Kingdom to God even the Father c. And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that
put all things under him that God may be all in all God ruleth and reigneth as Lord of Heaven and Earth and as a great King above all Gods Gen. 14.19 The Possessor of Heaven and Earth Deut. 10.14 Behold the Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens is the Lords thy God the Earth also with all that therein is Psal 95.3 The Lord is a great God and a great King above all Gods See Psal 97.9 1 Chron. 29.11 12. Thine O Lord is the Greatness and the Power and the Glory and the Victory and the Majesty for all that is in the Heaven and in the Earth is thine thine is the Kingdom O Lord and thou art exalted as Head above all Both Riches and Honour come of thee and thou reignest over all and in thine hand is power and might and in thine hand it is to make great and to give strength unto all 1 Cor. 11.3 But I would have you know that the Head of every Man is Christ and the Head of the Woman is the Man and the Head of Christ is God Psal 113.4 c. The Lord is high above all Nations and his Glory above the Heavens Who is like unto the Lord our God who dwelleth on high who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in Heaven and in the Earth 1 Tim. 6.15 He is the blessed and only Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords See Psal 93. 97. 99. Psal 24.7 145.12 Rev. 19.6 2 Chron. 20.6 Q. What have you learned more particularly touching God's Government in respect of Angels A. Touching God's Government in respect of Angels I have learned a few things that are more easy and needful to be known as this in the general that part of those Spirits called Angels having sinned God spared them not but cast them down to Hell and deliver'd them into Chains of Darkness to be reserved unto Judgment but that part of those Spirits abode in the Truth and are now called the Holy Angels and the like when the name of Devils and the like is given to those that sinned 2 Pet. 2.4 Jude v. 6. Joh. 8.44 Deut. 32.17 1 Cor. 10.20 Mat. 25.31 Q. What have you learned in special concerning those Spirits that sinned not A. Concerning those Spirits that sinned not I have learned that there is an innumerable company of them and that God hath made them to be his Angels that is Messengers and his Ministers in the exercise of his Government and hath made them all subject to Jesus Christ even those that were among them Thrones and Dominions that is Kings and Lords Heb. 12.22 Heb. 1.7 1 Pet. 3.22 Ephes 1.20 Q. What have you learned in special concerning those Spirits that sinned A. Concerning those Spirits that sinned I have learned That their number is very great that one of them is the Prince or Chief and that the rest are his Angels He is called The Devil Satan and the like who as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour but is now under the Power of Jesus Christ Mark 5.9 Ephes 2.2 Mat. 25.41 Mark 1.13 Mat. 12.28 Heb. 2.8 14. Phil. 2.9 c. The name Devil signifies a Slanderer or one that seeks to deceive by lies and Satan signifies an Adversary See Rev. 12.9 CHAP. IV. Of God's Government relating to Men before the sin of our first Parents and thence to the times wherein Christ was raised up Q. WHat have you learned more particularly touching God's Government in respect of Men A. Touching God's Government in respect of Men I have learned several things according to its difference in different times namely the time before our first Parents sinned and the times after it Q. What have you been taught concerning the Government of God as it respects the time before our first Parents sinned A. Concerning God's Government as relating to the time before our first Parents sinned I am taught some general things namely That they had for the place of their abode the Garden of Eden which the Man was to dress and keep that they had given to them for Meat every Herb and the Fruit of all Trees except the Tree of the Knowledg of Good and Evil which God forbad them to eat of Also that they both transgressed this Commandment the Woman first being seduced by the Serpent the Devil then the Man whom his Wife drew to eat of the forbidden Fruit. Gen. 1. 2. 3. Chapters 1 Tim. 2.14 2 Cor. 11.3 Q. What have you been taught concerning the Government of God as it respects the times after our first Parents had sinned A. I am taught in the general That when Man had sinned and so became subject to the Judgment of God then God publish'd his Promise of Christ whom since he hath raised up and since by one Man Sin entred into the World and Death by Sin and so Death passed upon all Men The Government of God towards Man is to be considered according to the times in which Christ was promised and the times after his being raised up Gen. 3.8 c. Rom. 3.19 5.12 Luk. 1.68 69 c. Acts 13.23 Q. What have you been taught touching God's Government towards Men in the times when Christ was promised A. I am taught That the Government of God did then respect Mens being in the World and their seeking of God therein and both in a way agreeable to Men that were subjected to a natural Death and by their sins liable to eternal Death and in a way suitable to the times before the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ who hath abolished Death and hath brought Life and Immortality to light by the Gospel Act. 17.25 c. Rom. 5.12 6.23 Ephes 2.1 2. 1 Thess 1.10 Matth. 11.20 c. 2 Tim. 1.10 Q. How did this Government of God respect the Being of Men in the VVorld A. This Government did respect Mens Being in the World in that God gave unto them places wherein to live and supplies for the sustaining of their Lives and the maintaining of good order amongst them Gen. 3.23 24. Deut. 32. Psalm 115.16 Act. 17.26 Exod. 23.20 Neh. 9.6 Psalm 36.6 Nehem. 9.21 Psal 65. 147. Prov. 24.12 1 King 8.45 Job 10.22 Rom. 13.1 c. Q. How did this Government of God respect Mens seeking of God in the World A. This Government of God did respect Mens seeking of him in that he dealt in such a way and manner with them that they might so seek him as to find mercy and favour with him Heb. 11.6 Psalm 105.4 14.2 Act. 17.27 Jer. 29.13 c. Jer. 6.16 Prov. 21.21 Gen. 6.8 Ps 33.22 63.13 Nehem. 1.5 Psal 25.10 32.10 86.5 103.11 Prov. 8.35 36. Q. VVhat is it so to seek God as to find mercy and favour with him A. To seek God so as to find Mercy and Favour with him is To fear God and to hope in his Mercy This is variously exprest in the Scriptures sometimes as in the
us to know God and Jesus Christ Answ Yes for Jesus Christ himself in his Prayer to the Father said This is Life Eternal that is This is that which the Doctrine that hath the promise of Eternal Life does teach and require for the obtaining of Eternal Life to wit that they may know thee the only truly God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent Joh. 17.3 Quest Well But what does Jesus Christ here intend by Mens knowing him who is the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent Answ To know him who is the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent is according to Christ's intendment here not only to understand or apprehend that which must be known concerning him who is the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent but also to love them as such or according to such a knowledg of them to acknowledg them * Quest But how can you prove that Jesus Christ here intendeth such a knowledg as this * Answ That Jesus Christ here intendeth such a knowledg of things necessary to be known concerning the only true God and him whom he hath sent which has a suitable love to them or answerable acknowledgment of them joined therewith I am able clearly to prove and that abundantly * Quest The proof of this being very needful I am willing to hear it and therefore I now ask you How it may be confirmed Answ First I shall offer this That these Phrases or Expressions To know God and To know Jesus Christ are oftentimes so used in the Holy Scriptures Whence I gather that it is not strange so to accept and take them here Hos 53.4 Tit. 1.16 Jer. 9.3 Ch. 31.34 Heb. 8.11 Dan. 11.32 Hos 2.20 Joh. 15.21 Ch. 17.25 1 Thess 4.5 Psal 36.10 Job 18.21 Isa 53.11 1 John 2.3 4. Ch. 4.6 * Quest You do well to infer no more seeing these Phrases are frequently restrained to a meer knowledg or notion of God and Christ or for knowledg as distinct from Love and Acknowledgment Yea sometimes they are said to know God and to know Christ who have only the means of knowing them Rom. 1.21 Joh. 8.28 But what ground have you to conclude that in this saying of Christ Love and Acknowledgment is implied in knowledg * Answ It plainly appears that Jesus Christ here intends such a knowledg as implies in it Love and Acknowledgment if we consider only this That Christ here declares this to be sufficient for obtaining Eternal Life namely To know the Father the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent Now it is in it self absurd to conceive that it is enough only to understand and notion the Truth concerning God and Jesus Christ * Quest It is so But have you any thing more to say in confirming it * Answ I shall add this That the Scriptures declare expresly that more than meerly to know or only to understand God and Jesus Christ is necessary for obtaining Eternal Life This is so well known that the citing of places will be needless notwithstanding I will repeat the saying of the Apostle Paul Knowledg puffeth up but Charity Love edifieth 1 Cor. 8.1 The Devils have knowledg of God and Christ Jam. 2.19 Mar. 1.24 Act. 19.15 And so have some of the worst of Men. Quest Seeing it is so as you have said we may draw up concerning the Doctrine we are chiefly to learn these two Propositions 1. That it teacheth us to know or apprehend him who is the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent 2. That it teacheth to love or acknowledg him who is the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent Concerning these two I desire now to hear from you a general and brief Account what you have learned out of the Holy Scriptures And first I will ask you some Questions touching the first Proposition And my first Query shall be this What are we to understand by the only true God Answ By the only true God we are to understand the only Creator and most high Lord or Governor of all things 2 Kings 19.19 Now therefore O Lord our God I beseech thee save us out of his hand that all the Kingdoms of the Earth may know that thou art the Lord God even thou only Jude 4. Certain Men crept in denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ 2 King 19.15 And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said O Lord God of Israel which dwellest between the Cherubims thou art the God even thou alone of all the Kingdoms of the Earth thou hast made Heaven and Earth Isa 44.24 c. Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer and he that formed thee from the Womb I am the Lord that maketh all things that stretcheth forth the Heavens alone that spreadeth abroad the Earth by my self that frustrateth the Tokens of the Lyars c. Nehem. 9.6 c. Thou even thou art Lord alone thou hast made Heaven the Heaven of Heavens with all their Host the Earth and all things that are therein the Seas and all that is therein and thou preservest them all and the Host of Heaven worshippeth thee c. Dan. 5.18 c. O thou King the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy Father a Kingdom c. But when his heart was lifted up and his mind hardned in pride he was deposed from his Kingly Throne c. till he knew that the most high God ruled in the Kingdom of Men and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will Rom. 1.25 They served the Creature more than the Creator who is blessed for ever Amen Matth. 11.25 At that time Jesus answered and said I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth c. Psal 22.18 The Kingdom is the Lords and he is the Governour among the Nations Rom. 11.36 Of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory for ever Amen Quest What are we to understand by Him whom the Father hath sent Answ By him whom the Father hath sent we are to understand him whom the Father hath sent to be the Saviour of the World 1 John 4.14 And we have seen and do testify That the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the World John 6.39 40. And this is the Father's Will which hath sent me that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day c. Quest Now concerning the second Proposition I shall ask you several Questions as first How can you prove from the Scriptures that we must not only know him who is the only true God but also love him as such Answ We are not only to know him who is the only true God but also to love him as such For it is written Hear O Israel The Lord our God is one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine Heart and with all thy Soul and with all
Christian Religion CHAP. I. Q. YOu having now in the general shewed the more necessary things contained in the best of Doctrines I am willing to hear from you somewhat a more particular yet brief account of the same matters to wit as concerning God as consider'd in Himself and in his Works But first I will ask you What kind of Knowledg we may have concerning these things here in this Life A. That we may here have concerning God considered in Himself and in his Works such a knowledg as is true and sufficient hath been already proved but a perfect knowledg of God in himself and in his Works is not here in this Life attainable 1 Cor. 13.9 c. We know in part and we prophesy in part but when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away When I was a Child I spake as a Child I understood as a Child I thought as a Child but when I became a Man I put away childish things For now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face Now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known Job 11.7 c. Canst thou by searching find out God Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection It is as high as Heaven c. See Job 36.26 c. Psal 77.19 Thy way is in the Sea and thy Path in the great Waters and thy footsteps are well known See Psal 36.5 6. Eccles 3.11 No Man can find out the Work that God maketh from the beginning to the end See Job 37.5 Rom. 11.33 How unsearchable are the Judgments of God and his Ways past finding out Q. What are you taught from the Holy Scriptures concerning God considered in himself A. The Holy Scriptures teach me concerning God considered in himself these two things namely That God is one and that God is a Spirit Q. Where do the Scriptures affirm That God is one A. The Scriptures do in many places expresly affirm that God is One or that there is one God 1 Tim. 2.5 There is one God and one Mediator between God and Men the Man Christ Jesus Ephes 4.6 One God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all See Deut. 6.4 with Mark 12.29 Mal. 2.10 Matth. 19.17 Rom. 3.30 2 Cor. 8.4.6 Jam. 2.19 Zech. 14.9 Q. What are we to understand by this That there is one God A. By this That there is one God or That God is One we are to understand that He alone or He only is God and that there is no other that hath the same Being or the same Kingdom as he hath It is affirmed in the Scriptures that JEHOVAH which is the Name of God Psal 83.18 Jer. 16.21 Exod. 15.3 is God alone Psalm 86.10 Thou art great and dost wondrous things Thou art God alone See 2 King 19.15 Isa 37.16 Neh. 9.6 That he only is God 2 King 19.19 Thou art the Lord God even thou only Isa 37.20 That he is the only true God John 17.3 see Jude v. 4. That there is no God else Isa 46.9 Remember the former things of old for I am God and there is none else I am God and there is none like me See 1 Kings 8.6 That there is no God besides him Isa 44.6 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel and his Redeemer the Lord of Hosts I am the First and I am the Last and besides me there is no God Vers 8. Is there a God besides me Yea there is no God I know not any Isa 45.5 I am the Lord there is none else there is no God besides me See Vers 6 14 21 22. 1 King 8.60 Deut. 4.35 1 Chron. 17.20 That there is no other God Exod. 34.14 That there is no God with him Deut. 32.39 2 King 5.15 Who is God save the Lord 2 Sam. 22.32 Psal 18.31 That there is no other God but one 1 Cor. 8.4 Therefore we must have before him no other God Exod. 20.3 Nor worship another God Exod. 34.14 Psal 16.4 81.9 But we are to worship Jehovah and serve him only Exod. 22.20 Mat. 4.10 Q. Why in your Answer were those words added That there is no other that hath the same Being or the same Kingdom as he hath A. They were added to shew more distinctly and expresly that God is alone both in his Being and Kingdom and that there is no other that hath with him either the same Nature or the same Majesty and Authority By the Being and Kingdom of God we here intend the same which the Apostle Paul in Rom. 1.20 expresseth thus His eternal Power and Godhead These things are plainly held forth in the Holy Scriptures First God as to his Being or Nature is One or Alone What he is in this respect no other is He is therefore said to be One Jehovah or Lord Deut. 6.4 Mark 12.29 Hence is that saying of Christ to the young Man that called him Good Master Why saith Jesus callest thou me Good There is none good but One that is God Mat. 19.16 17. For the same God is said to be only wise Rom. 16.27 1 Tim. 1.17 Jud. v. 25. and alone to have Immortality 1 Tim. 6.16 Secondly God in respect of his Kingdom and Government is One or Alone There is no other that is such a King Lord or Governor as he Deut. 32.39 See now saith the Lord that I even I am he and there is no God with me I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand 1 Tim. 6.15 He is the only Potentate Jam. 4.12 There is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy Psal 72.18 Blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who only doth wondrous things Isa 43.11 I even I am the Lord and beside me there is no Saviour See Hos 13.4 1 Cor. 12.6 It is the same God that worketh all in all In both respects God testifies of him That there is none like unto him Isa 46.9 Thus the Saints have profest concerning him 1 Sam. 2.2 There is none holy as the Lord for there is none beside thee neither is there any Rock like our God Exod. 15.11 Who is like unto thee among the Gods or mighty Ones who is like thee glorious in Holiness fearful in Praises doing Wonders See Exod. 8.10 Deut. 32.26 1 King 8.23 Psal 35.10 86.8 89.8 113.5 Mich. 7.18 Q. Are not some others even in a good sense called Gods in the Holy Scriptures A. Yes both Angels and Men. And indeed some of both may not only be called Gods but also may in a good sense be Gods but not in that sense as the Lord our God is 1 Cor. 8.4 5 6. We know that an Idol is nothing in the World and that there is none other God but one For though there be that are called Gods whether in Heaven or in Earth as there be Gods many and
may be unto us in some manner a Shadow of God It is necessary thus to conceive for otherwise the term Spirit would here signifie nothing at all for it cannot be taken in its proper signification here and can in no other be accepted but in that we call Metaphorical Q. Whence does it appear that God is more excellent than all things A. It appears that God is more excellent than all things First From his Almightiness Secondly From his Eternity Thirdly From his Happiness or Blessedness For the Scriptures declare him to be Almighty and to be Eternal and to be Happy or Blessed God is called by the Name of The Almighty Job 40.1 2. Moreover the Lord answered Job and said Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him He that reproveth God let him answer it Job 37.23 Touching the Almighty we cannot find him out he is excellent in Power and in Judgment and in plenty of Justice So elsewhere often He is also called The Almighty God Gen. 17.1 I am the Almighty God And elsewhere often also The Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6.18 And I will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord Almighty Also The Lord God Almighty Rev. 21.22 And I saw no Temple therein for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it He is called the Eternal God Deut. 33.27 and the Everlasting God Gen. 21.33 Rom. 16.26 See Isa 57.15 Both his Almightiness and Eternity are mentioned together Rev. 4.8 They said Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come Also in other places he is called The happy or blessed God 1 Tim. 1.11 The happy or blessed Potentate 1 Tim. 6.15 Q. What are we to conceive by this That God is Almighty A. By this that God is Almighty we are to conceive that God needeth not any thing that he can do every thing which is neither wicked nor unequal that he does whatsoever he pleaseth and is one of whom by whom and for whom are all things Acts 17.24 25. God that made the World and all things therein seeing that he is Lord of Heaven and Earth dwelleth not in Temples made with hands Neither is worshipped with Mens hands as though he needed any thing seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things Job 22.1 c. Can Man be profitable unto God c. Job 42.1 2. Then Job answered the Lord and said I know that thou canst do every thing and that no thought of thine can be hindred Matth. 3.9 God is able of these Stones to raise up Children unto Abraham Luke 1.37 With God nothing is impossible Mat. 19.26 With God all things are possible Here understand things that are not wicked nor unequal For it is impossible for God to lie Heb. 6.18 He cannot lie Tit. 1.2 He cannot deny himself 2 Tim. 2.13 Far be it from God that he should do wickedness and from the Almighty that he should commit Iniquity for the Work of a Man shall he render unto him and cause every Man to find according to his ways Yea surely God will not do wickedly neither will the Almighty pervert Judgment Job 34.10 11 12. God cannot be tempted with evil neither tempteth he any Man Jam. 1.13 see Psal 5.4 1 Chron. 29.17 God does whatsoever he pleaseth Psalm 115.3 Our God is in Heaven he hath done whatsoever he pleased Psal 135.6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he in Heaven and in Earth and in the Seas and in all deep places Isa 46.10 My Counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure Isa 48.14 Hear the words of Nebuchadnezzar concerning God All the Inhabitants of the Earth are reputed as nothing and the most High doth according to his Will in the Armies of Heaven and among the Inhabitants of the Earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him What dost thou Dan. 4.25 See Isa 55.11 God is he of whom by whom and for whom are all things Rom. 11.36 1 Cor. 11.12 2 Cor. 5.18 Heb. 2.10 Q. What are we to conceive by this That God is Eternal A. By this That God is Eternal we are to conceive that God is from everlasting to everlasting and always the same Psal 90.2 Before the Mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the Earth and the World even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God See Isa 43.10 44.6 48.12 and elsewhere He is from Everlasting or from Eternity or as we express it without beginning Psal 93.2 Thou art from Everlasting In this sense he is called The Everlasting God Isa 40.28 He is to Everlasting or to Eternity or as we express it without Ending He shall endure for ever Psalm 102.13 See Psal 92.8 Hence he is said to be Vncorruptible Rom. 1.23 Immortal 1 Tim. 1.17 and alone to have Immortality 1 Tim. 6.16 He is always the same Psal 102.26 27. Heb. 1.11 12. They shall perish but thou shalt endure yea all of them shall wax old like a Garment c. But thou art the same and thy Years shall have no end Jam. 1.17 With the Father of Lights is no variableness neither shadow of turning Mal. 3.6 I am the Lord I change not Q. What may we conceive by this That God is Happy or Blessed A. By this That God is Happy or Blessed we may conceive that God hath full and eternal Satisfaction Joy and Pleasure in his own Self and in his own Works Q. You having now spoken of the first Reason Why God is said to be a Spirit namely Because he is more excellent than all things it remains that you speak of the second Reason which was this Because the Spirit of Man may be unto us in some manner a shadow of God whence we may have somewhat a more particular conception of him Wherefore I now ask you In what the Spirit of Man may be unto us in some manner a shadow of God A. The Spirit of Man may be unto us in some manner a shadow of God in that we may thence conceive in some manner what God is not and what he is Q. What do you thence conceive That God is not A. I thence conceive That God is not more than One and that God is not visible for the Spirit of Man is but one and is not visible Concerning God as being but One we have already spoken He is not visible therefore called The Invisible God Col. 1.15 1 Tim. 1.17 His Eternal Power and Godhead are said to be the Invisible things of God Rom. 1.20 He is said to dwell in the Light which no Man can approach unto and to be one whom no Man hath seen nor can see 1 Tim. 6.16 It is said Heb. 11.27 That Moses saw him that was Invisible that is He saw God by the Eyes of his Mind who was not to be seen by the Eyes of his Body But it is said of some That they have seen God face to
Answer So in Psal 147.11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him in those that hope in his Mercy Psal 33.18 Sometimes more concisely as in Psal 103.11 For as the Heaven is high above the Earth so great is his Mercy toward them that fear him And in Psal 33.22 Let thy Mercy O Lord be upon us according as we hope in thee It is sometimes set forth by Repentance Jer. 8.6 Job 42.6 1 King 8.47 Ezek. 14.6 18.30 c. Joel 2.14 Also thus To turn to the Lord and to be obedient to his Voice Deut. 4.29 30. To acknowledg our Offences and seek the face of the Lord Hos 5.15 To return to the Lord and seek him Hos 7.10 Sow to your selves in Righteousness reap in Mercy break up your fallow Ground for it is time to seek the Lord till he come and rain Righteousness upon you Hos 10.12 See Prov. 3.1 c. If thou do well shalt thou not be accepted Gen. 4.7 Noah found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord. Noah was a just Man upright in his Generations and walked with God Gen. 6.8 9. There was a Man in the Land of Uz whose name was Job and that Man was perfect and upright and one that feared God and eschewed evil Job 1.1 He hath shewed thee O Man what is Good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God or to humble thy self to walk with thy God Mich. 6.8 Then Peter opened his Mouth and said Of a truth I perceive that God is no respector of Persons But in every Nation he that feareth him and worketh Righteousness is accepted with him Act. 10.34 35. God will render to every Man according to his Deeds To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality he will render eternal Life c. Rom. 2.6 7 8 9 10 11. Q. How did God make known unto Men this way of seeking him A. God by his Works and Word made known unto Men this way of seeking him Psal 19. Q. Did God both by his Works and Word make known unto all Men this way of seeking him A. No For this way of seeking God was made known unto some only by his Works of Creation and by some Works of his in the Government of the World Psal 147.19 20. He sheweth his Words unto Jacob his Statutes and his Judgments unto Israel He hath not dealt so with any Nation and as for his Judgments they have not known them Rom. 1.19 c. That which may be known of God was manifest in among them to wit the Gentiles for God hath shewed it unto them For the invisible Things of him from the Creation of the World are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal Power and Godhead so that they are without excuse Because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful c. Rom. 2.4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to Repentance Act. 14.16 17. God in times past suffered all Nations to walk in their own ways Nevertheless he left not himself without witness in that he did good and gave us Rain from Heaven and fruitful Seasons filling our Hearts with Food and Gladness Q. Was there no more made known by the Word of God then was made known by his Works A. Much more was made known by the Word of God than was by his Works Ps 147.19 20. 19.7 c. Q. What more was there made known by the Word of God than by his Works A. First This Doctrine That there is forgiveness with God that he may be feared which is the substance of the Doctrine of Christ was more plainly made known by the Word of God than by his Works Psal 130. Deut. 34.6 7. Rom. 3.1 2. Joh. 5.39 c. Q. What else was made known by the Word of God that was not by his Works A. The Works of Righteousness were more fully made known by the Word of God than by his Works Deut. 4.5 c. Q. Is there any thing else wherein the Word of God did excel his Works in point of Instruction A. Yes For those Ordinances which were shadows of good things to come and were to be done away by Christ were made known only by the Word of God Psal 99.7 Ephes 2.15 Col. 2.14 c. Q. Where are these Ordinances to be found A. These Ordinances are to be found especially in the Law of Moses for they appertain only to the times of the Old Covenant wherein Christ was promised Exod. 18.20 2 Kings 17.37 Heb. 9.1 10. Q. What mean you by the Old Covenant A. By the Old Covenant I mean that Covenant which God made with them whom he brought out of Egypt to give the Land of Canaan to them I mean the Children of Israel the Son of Isaac the Son of Abraham to whom and to whose Seed were the Promises made Heb. 8.9 Gal. 3.16 CHAP. V. Of God's Government since Christ hath been raised up and particularly of God's raising up of Christ Q. YOu having shew'd a few things and enough for the present which you have been taught concerning God's Government relating to the times wherein Christ was promised It remains now that we discourse of God's Government in the times since Christ hath been raised up I ask you therefore What have you learned concerning this Divine Government A. Concerning God's Government since the raising up of Christ I have learned That I am first and chiefly to mind the Work of God in raising up Christ and his Work in ruling by him amongst Men unto the end of the World Q. What have you learned concerning the Work of God in raising up Christ A. Concerning the Work of God in raising up Christ I have learned That God according to his Promise raised up the Christ even Jesus by causing him to be born and to become the Christ Luke 1.68 69 c. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his People And hath raised up an Horn of Salvation for us in the House of his Servant David as he spake by the Mouth of his Holy Prophets which have been since the World began Act. 2.30 Therefore David being a Prophet and knowing that God hath sworn with an Oath to him That of the Fruit of his Loins according to the Flesh he would raise up Christ to sit upon his Throne c. Acts 3.26 Vnto you first God having raised up his Son Jesus sent him to bless you in turning every one of you from his Iniquities Act. 13.27 Heb. 5.4.5 And no Man taketh this honour unto himself but he that is called of God as was Aaron So also Christ glorified not himself to be made or become an High Priest but he glorified him that said unto him Thou art
and in the first place this What are we to understand here by the Promise of God A. By the Promise of God we are here to understand that Promise whereby God according to his purpose hath promised to give Eternal Life in or by Jesus Christ unto all that believe in him thorow his Son Jesus Christ that they may be to the praise of his Glory Q. For the setting forth of this Promise more distinctly I shall query concerning the several parts of your Answer as first What is that eternal Life which God hath promised A. That Eternal Life which God hath promised is that Salvation which is in Christ Jesus with Eternal Glory John 2.25 And this is the Promise that he hath promised us even Eternal Life This Matter of the Promise is often called Eternal or Everlasting Life also Life Now this Eternal Life doth consist in that Salvation that is in Christ Jesus and also in Eternal Glory as we learn from 2 Tim. 2.10 Q. But what is the Salvation that is in Christ Jesus A. The Salvation that is in Christ Jesus is a deliverance from the Wrath to come 1 Thess 1.10 Q. And what is this Eternal Glory A. This Eternal Glory is a likeness to God by seeing him as he is 1 Joh. 3.2 These two Salvation and Eternal Glory are in the Scriptures sometimes noted by one of these names as by Salvation 1 Pet. 1.5 and else-where Also by Eternal Glory as 1 Pet. 5.10 and Glory as Rom. 9.23 The Glory of God Rom. 5.2 and the like Q. You said That God hath promised to give Eternal Life in or by Jesus Christ What mean you by this A. God giveth Eternal Life in or by Jesus in that Jesus Christ is the Mediator between God and Men in God's giving of Eternal Life unto them Rom. 6.23 Eternal Life is the Gift of God through in or by Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Joh. 5.11 This is the Record That God hath given us Eternal Life and this Life is in his Son 1 Tim. 2.4 5 c. Who to wit God our Saviour will have all Men to be saved and to come to the knowledg acknowledgment of the Truth For there is one God and one Mediator between God and Men the Man Christ Jesus who gave himself a Ransom for all c. Joh. 14.6 Jesus faith unto him I am the Way and the Truth and the Life no Man cometh unto the Father but by me Q. You said That God hath promised to give Eternal Life to all that believe in him through Jesus Christ But who are they A. They that believe in God through Jesus Christ are they who so believe the Promise of God as to hope in God and live to him thorow Jesus Christ and that to the end 1 Pet. 1.20 21. Who which Christ verily was fore-ordained before the foundation of the World but was manifest in these last times for you who by thorow him Christ do believe in God that raised him up from the Dead and gave him Glory that your Faith and Hope might be in God These Persons in the Scriptures are set forth sometimes only by believing as Gal. 3.22 The Scripture hath concluded all under Sin that the Promise by Faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe Sometimes by believing in the Father as in Joh. 5.24 Verily verily I say unto you He that heareth my Word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting Life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from Death unto Life Sometimes by believing in Christ as in Joh. 6.47 Verily verily I say unto you He that believeth on me bath Everlasting Life These and many the like Expressions of the same signification we meet with in the Holy Scripture Now we are to understand that wheresoever Eternal Life in the possession of it is promised to Believing there such a Believing is intended that the Gospel requires which is an hoping in God and living to him through Jesus Christ and that to the end For meer Belief is not sufficient Jam. 2.14 c. Joh. 2.23 8.30 12.42 Nor is any Faith sufficient that lasteth not to the end Heb. 10.38 c. Q. But what is it to hope in God thorow Jesus Christ A. To hope in God thorow Jesus Christ is to hope or trust unto the end both in God and Christ for Eternal Life as the Gift of God thorow Jesus Christ our Lord and is such a hope that is laid up in Heaven and as such a Grace that is to be brought unto us at the Revelation of Jesus Christ We are saved by Hope Rom. 8.24 This Hope must be an Hope in God 1 Pet. 1.21 Act. 24.15 1 Tim. 4.10 6.17 And in Christ 1 Cor. 15.19 1 Thess 1.3 1 Tim. 1.1 Rom. 15.12 Ephes 1.12 13. That which by this Hope is to be looked for and expected is eternal Life Tit. 1.2 3.7 which eternal Life is the Gift of God thorow Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6.22 and of all Gifts the best for it is the Hope or Good hoped for which is laid up in Heaven Col. 1.6 and the blessed or happy that is happy making Hope Tit. 2.13 and the last Gift being the Gift which is to be brought at the Revelation or coming of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.13 It is also called Grace because a Gift that proceeds from the Grace of God and of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.13 2 Thess 1.11 12. Hence it appears that this future Good must be sought chiefly and humbly and that all which is necessary for obtaining it must also be hoped for from God thorow Jesus Christ Mat. 6.33 Luk. 17.10 1 Pet. 5.5 Joh. 16.23 24. And thus we must hope to the end or constantly 1 Pet. 1.13 Col. 1.23 Heb. 3.6 Q. And what is it to live to God thorow Jesus Christ A. To live to God thorow Jesus Christ is To live to God and Christ in serving the God and Father of Jesus Christ in Holiness and Righteousness before him all the days of our Life and in serving Jesus Christ as Lord of all and as the Head and Husand of Believers who are his Church and Body Rom. 6.11 Likewise reckon ye also your selves to be dead indeed unto Sin but alive living unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Gal. 2.19 For I through the Law am dead to the Law that I might live unto God 2 Cor. 5.15 And that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him which died for them and rose again 1 Thess 1.9 Ye turned to God from Idols to serve the living and true God c. Luk. 1.74 75. That he the Lord God of Israel would grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hands of our Enemies might serve him without fear in Holiness and Righteousness before him all the days of our Life See Mat. 4.10 Rom. 1.9 2 Tim. 1.3 Heb. 9.14 12.28 Rom. 14.18 For
Belief of the Gospel and the Power they have received from God as to deny Ungodliness and worldly Lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World Tit. 2.11 c. Q. What is it for Believers to look for the Mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto Eternal Life A. It is nothing else but to continue to the end in an expectation of that Reward of sincere and constant Obedience which Christ our Lord will at his coming give unto his faithful Servants 1 Pet. 1.13 c. Heb. 9.28 10.36 c. Tit. 2.13 Mat. 25.20 c. 2 Tim. 1.12 Q. You having now spoken of God's Work of preparing Believers for Glory it remains therefore that you speak of that Work of God which is for the possessing of Believers with this Glory by Jesus Christ What say you of it A. This may more conveniently be spoken of in the consideration of that second thing relating to God's Work of ruling among Men by Jesus Christ which I said is his Work of Judging the World by Jesus Christ CHAP. IX Of God's Work of Government in Judging the World by Jesus Christ Q. WEll then let us discourse of God's Work in judging the World by Jesus Christ What in the general have you learn'd concerning it A. This I have learned in general That God hath appointed a day in the which he will judg the World in Righteousness by that Man Jesus Christ whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all Men in that he hath raised him from the Dead Act. 17.31 Rom. 2.16 Q. What are we to understand by the Day which God hath appointed A. This Day is that time when Jesus shall come from Heaven in the Glory of his Father with his Angels Acts 1.11 1 Thess 4.16 Mat. 16.27 25.31 c. Q. But when shall this time be A. At the end of the World but the day and hour Jesus said No Man knoweth no not the Angels which are in Heaven neither the Son but the Father only Mat. 24.36 Mark 13.32 Q. What is it for God to judg the World by the Man Jesus Christ whom he hath ordained A. The meaning is That God although he be the Judg of all yet will not himself judg the World but by Jesus Christ to whom he hath committed all Judgment giving him Authority to execute the same having ordained him to be the Judg of Quick and Dead Heb. 12.2 3. Joh. 5.22 c. Rom. 2.16 Act. 10.42 Q. What did Jesus that God did thus exalt him A. He was obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross Phil. 2.8 9 c. Rom. 14.9 Q. Whom will God judg by Jesus Christ A. God will by Jesus Christ judg the Angels that sinned and all Men both Quick and Dead at his Appearing and Kingdom 2 Pet. 2.4 Jud. 6. 1 Cor. 6.3 Jam. 2.19 Act. 10.42 2 Tim. 4.1 1 Pet. 4.5 Rom. 14.10 2 Cor. 5.10 Mat. 10.15 11.22 Q. What are we to understand by the Quick and Dead A. We are to understand by the Quick or Living all Men that shall be found alive at the coming of Christ and by the Dead all both good and bad that died before his coming Q. But how shall these be brought unto Judgment A. Thus all the Dead both the Just and Unjust shall be raised and then all Men shall by the Angels be gathered and brought before Christ sitting on the Throne of his Glory Acts 24.15 John 5.28 29. Mat. 25.31 32. Q. Is there any thing in special to be observed here concerning the Righteous A. Yes for we are taught That the Dead in Christ shall rise first and that they together with those Believers that shall be alive at the coming of Christ shall be caught up in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Air. 1 Thess 4.13 c. But I would not have you to be ignorant Brethren concerning them which are asleep that is the Faithful which are Dead that ye sorrow not even as others which have no Hope For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord That we Believers which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent that is shall not come before them which are asleep For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the Voice of the Arch-Angel and with the Trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. See also 1 Cor. 15.22 23 52. Q. Now tell me What is it for God to judg the World in Righteousness by Jesus Christ A. God by Jesus Christ will judg the World in Righteousness that is Righteously by rewarding every Man according to his Practice or Works whether Good or Evil for this Judgment is a Just or Righteous Judgment Matth. 16.27 Rom. 2.6 Rev. 2.23 1 Cor. 3.8 2 Cor. 5.10 11.15 Rev. 20.12 13. 22.12 Rom. 2.5 Joh. 5.30 Q. But what is it for God by Jesus Christ to judg every Man according to his Works A. Here are two things to be considered Q. What is the first A. The first is That God by Jesus Christ will judg every Man for all must stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ and give an account of themselves unto God Rom. 14.10 11 12. 1 Pet. 4.1 2 Pet. 2.9 2 Cor. 5.10 Jam. 2.12 Q. What is the Second A. The Second is That God by Jesus Christ will judg every Man according to his Works that is without respect of Persons and according to Truth and Right Rom. 2.11 1 Pet. 1.17 2 Chron. 19.7 Ephes 6.9 Col. 3.23 Rom. 2.2 Rev. 19.2 Deut. 32.4 Psal 96.13 Gen. 18.25 Psal 9.4 Isa 10.2 Job 34.23 2 Thess 1.5 6. 2 Tim. 4.8 Psal 45.6 Heb. 1.8 Q. Can you explain this in a special Application to Men whom God will justify and condemn by Jesus Christ at the last Day A. I can Q. How do you set it forth in reference to those whom God by Jesus Christ will justify at the last Day A. Thus it may be done God will render to every Man Eternal Life who according to the Truth manifested to him does by patient continuance in well-doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality and that God will make them to exceed those in Glory whom they exceed in Righteousness Rom. 2.6 7 10. 1 Cor. 15.41 Matth. 20.23 Dan. 12.3 1 Cor. 3.8 Phil. 4.17 Q. How do you set it forth in reference to them whom God by Jesus Christ will condemn at the last Day A. God will render Indignation and Wrath unto every one that is Contentious and does not obey the Truth as manifested either without the Law or under the Law or under the Gospel