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

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Chron. 21. 1. And this is also effected by occasion of external objects which the senses perceive Job 31. 1. Of Tentation Tentation hath two parts 1. Abstraction 2. Inescation Abstraction is the first thought of committing sin by it the minde is withdrawn from Gods service for which it should be always ready prest Luke 10. 27. * Inescation is an evil thought conceived and for a time retained in the minde and it being thus kept in the minde it doth by delighting the Will and Affections lay a bait for a Man to draw him to consent 2. The second degree of sin of Commission is Conception Conception of sin is when the heart consents and resolves to commit sin Psal. 7. 14. 3. The third degree of it is the birth of sin That is the very acting and committing of sin As when the faculties of the Soul and the powers of the body joyn together to act sin The fourth degree of the Commission of sin is the perfection of sin That is when sin by custom is made perfect and ripe And then it bringeth forth death and damnation and this is all that the sinner reapeth by his sin an example of this we have in Pharo The differences of sins of Commission are these 1. To consent with an offendour and not actually to commit sin Eph. 5. 11. This a man doth 1. When he doth in judgement allow the sin of another Num. 20. 10. 12. 2. When the heart approveth in affection and consent as do Ministers and Magistrates when they do conceal and winck at offences 1 Sam. 2. 23. 29. 3. When sin is done indeed by Counsel presence or inticement as Rom. 1. 13. Mark 6. 25. 26. Act. 22. 20. 2. The second difference of sin of Commission is Sinning ignorantly that is when a man doth not expresly and distinctly know whither that which he doth be a sin or not or if he do know it he doth not acknowledge and mark it 1 Tim. 1. 13. Numb. 35. 24. 1 Cor. 4. 4. Ps. 10. 13. 3. The third difference of sin of Commission Is when any Man sinneth upon knowledge but yet of infirmity as when a Man fearing some eminent danger or when a Man amazed at the horrour of death doth against his knowledge deny that truth which otherwise he would acknowledge and embrace Such was the fall of Peter arising from the rashness of his minde mingled with some fear Thus do men offend by the strength of the corruptions of their flesh provoking them to that which their heart doth detest Rom. 7. 19. The fourth difference of it is Presumptuous sinning upon knowledge as Psal. 19. 13. of this kinde is 1. Every sin committed with an high hand or in contempt of God Numb. 15. 30. Secondly presumption of Gods mercy though we do evil and run on in it Eccles. 8. 11. Rom. 2. 4. 5. The fifth difference of sin of Commission is Sinning upon knowledge and out of self malice against God Of this kinde is the sin against the holy Ghost The punishment of sin Man is punisht for sin first in this life either 1. In body As 1. by care for the provision for his body and by trouble for the things of this life Genes 3. 17. Secondly by proneness to diseases Matth. 9. 2. Joh. 5. 14. Deut. 28. 21. 22. Thirdly by shame of nakedness Genes 3. 7. Fourthly by pains as are in Women in Travail and Child-birth Genes 3. 16. 2. In Soul As 1. By a trembling of Conscience Secondly by care Thirdly by trouble Fourthly by hardness of heart Fifthly by madness Deut. 28. 28. 3. In both body and Soul As first by a fearfull subjection to the Regiment of Sathan Colos. 1. 13. Heb. 2. 14. Secondly by a seperation from the fellowship of God and a trembling at his presence Eph. 4. 18. Gen. 3. 10. 4. By divers calamities and damages in his goods Deut. 28. 29. 5. By the loss of dignity and Lordly Authority which he had over all the Creatures and by the vanity weakning corrupting and abating of the excellencie virtues and powers of the Creatures as Rom. 8. 20. 21. 6. Or in his name By infamy and ignominy before and after his death Jer. 24. 6. All these things come alike to all yet doubtless it is by reason of sin by Adams fall and since that by our improvement of our Original and Actual corruptions Secondly Man is punisht for sin at the last gasp First by death or 2. by a change like unto death Rom 6. 23. Thirdly Man is punisht for sin after this life by an eternal separation from the presence of God and from his exceeding excellent glory 2 Thes. 1. 9. Of Election and his foundation of it Predestination hath two parts 1. Election 2. Reprobation 1 Thes. 5. 9. Election is the decree of God concerning the salvation of some men to the praise of the glory of his grace Eph. 1. 4. 5. 6. This decree of God is the book of life wherein the names of the Elect are written Rev. 20. 12. 2 Tim. 2. 19. The execution of this decree is Gods effectual working of all those things which he purposed for the salvation of the Elect by the same means with which he purposed to do it Rom. 18. 29. 30. The foundation of this decree is Christ Jesus Heb. 5. 5. Isai 42. 1. Eph. 1. 4. The means of accomplishing this decree is Gods Covenant and the seal thereof Gods Covenant is either the Covenant of works or of grace Gods Covenant of works is the moral Law or ten Commandments Gods Covenant of grace is his free promise of Christ and all his benefits to man if man will repent him of his sins and by faith receive Christ The Seals of the Covenant are the Sacraments Gods Covenant of works which is called the moral Law Decalogue or ten Commandments is devided into two Tables The first Table containeth four Commandments The second Table containeth six Commandments Every Commandment is both affirmative and negative That is it doth both command and forbid As it is Affirmative it bindeth at all times but not to all times As it is Negative it bindeth at all times and to all times Under one Vice expresly forbidden are comprehended all of that kinde yea the least cause occasion or inticement thereto are forbidden Joh. 3. 15. Matth. 5. 21. The first Commandment Thou shalt have no other Gods before me In this first Commandment are these affirmatives First that we must acknowledge God Secondly that we must acknowledge no other God but him The marks of the true love of God are these 1. To hear his word willingly 2. To speak often off him 3. To think often off him 4. To do his will without irksomness 5. To give body and all for his cause 6. To desire his presence above all and to bewail his absence 7. To embrace all such
of Christ's death Rom. 6. 3 6 7. 2. Continuance in the water which signifieth to us the burial of our sins and a continual encrease of mortification in us by the power of Christs death and burial Rom. 6. 4. 3. A coming out of the water which signifieth unto us our regeneration or spiritual vivification or a newness of life or quickning in holiness and justice which we do obtain by the power of Christs resurrection Rom. 6. 4 5. The once administring of Baptism is a sign of the washing away of all sins both past present and to come 1 Pet. 3. 21. And this may be a good encouragement to all those that through infirmity fall into sin The Lord's supper is a Sacrament by which in the signs of bread and wine is signified the nourishment of our Souls through Christ by the holy spirit 1 Cor. 11. 23. to the 25. The receiving of the bread and wine signifieth the receiving of Christ Joh. 1. 12. The eating of the bread and drinking of the wine signifieth the applying of Christ to our selves by Faith that so we may finde our Communion with him dayly increased and perceive our Union with him 1 Cor. 10. 16. The whole Scope and intention of the Lord's supper as it was instituted by our Lord was for no other end but to be a remembrance of him 1 Cor. 11. 24. Luke 22. 19. Men must not because of infirmities abstain from the Lord's supper but they must use it to confirm them and to strengthen them So much for the outward means whereby the decree of Gods election is executed The degrees of the execution are two 1. The love of God whereby he doth freely love us in Christ Jesus who in our selves are corrupt 1 Joh. 4. 19. Rom. 5. 8 10. 2. The Declaration of God's love God doth declare his love either in a secret way by his holy spirit as to infants 1 Cor. 12. 13. Luke 1. 35. to the 80. Jer. 1. 5. Or to men of ripe years and that more manifestly as Rom. 8. 30. 1 Cor. 1. 30. As first By an effectual calling in which God separateth a man from the World and doth entertain him into his own family Eph. 2. 17 19. And for this cause it is that the World do hate the faithfull Joh. 15. 19. In this calling God doth give us to Christ Eph. 5. 21. 33. Joh 17. 2 6 7. and 10. 29. Isai 9 6. Rom. 8. 32. And hence ariseth the admirable Union betwixt Christ and his Members which is the engraffing of a man into him Joh. 15. 1 2. and 17. 20 21. Eph. 2. 20 21 22. and 5. 30. This Union or Communion Conjunction or engraffing is wrought by the operation of the spirit which is an infinite essence and therefore sufficiently able to conjoyn those things which of themselves are far distant even as the Soul of a man joyneth all his Members together and doth cause them all to grow and move and live together Eph 2 22. 2 Pet. 1. 4. Phil. 2. 1. By this Union it is that we are said to be Crucified with Christ to die with him to be buried with him and to be quickned raised and placed in heaven with him Rom. 6. 4 6. Eph. 2. 1 5. And by this Union as we all are said to sin in Adam so we may be all said in Christ to fulfill the whole Law of God Of the Members of Christ The Members of Christ are either Members outwardly and before men which are onely out of charity so called as externally professing the Faith Or Members in the sight of God Which are 1. Either decreed so to be as being elect from all eternity though not yet born or not yet called Joh. 10. 16. Or 2. Actually so already and these are first either actual living Members as being engraffed through Faith by the holy Spirit into Christ and therefore grow in the power of holiness Or 2. Actual dying Members or decaying Members that is such as have not the feeling of the power of the quickning spirit in them though they be truly engraffed into Christ of this sort are all those that are yet dead in their sins till such time as they be again quickned and regenerated God doth execute effectual calling by these means 1. By the preaching of the word and by hearing of it Ezek. 16. 6. Isai 55. 1. Joh. 1. 12. By the Law God doth shew a man his sin and the punishment thereof Rom. 7. 7. By the Gospel God doth shew salvation through Christ to such as do believe And whilest the word is preaching God doth inwardly enlighten the eys of the minde and open the heart and the ears that the word heard may be truely understood 1 Joh. 2. 27. Act. 16. 14. Psal. 40. 6. Joh. 6. 44. Isai 54. 6. 2. By mollifying the heart and making it fit to receive his saving grace into it when he offereth it Ezek. 11. 19. The hammers by which a stony heart is bruised and broken are these 1. The knowledge of the Law of God 2. The knowledge of sin Original and Actual and of the punishment due unto them 3. Compunction or a pricking of heart that is a sense or feeling of the wrath of God for sin Act. 2. 37. 4. An holy desperation of our own power in the obtaining of life Luke 15. 17 18 19. Mark 15. 24. Thirdly effectual calling is executed By Faith receiving Christ and by the operation of the holy spirit in applying him Joh 1. 12. 6. 35. Rom. 6. 38. 1 Cor. 2 12. Zach. 12. 10. Rom. 8. 16. Eph. 1. 13. 2 Cor. 1. 22. In the work of Faith there are five motions of the heart linked 1. Knowledge of the Gospel by the illumination of Gods spirit Isai 53. 11. Joh. 17. 3. To this knowledge in those that are truely humbled is joyned a serious meditation of the promises in the Gospel Which Meditation is stirred up by a sensible feeling of their own beggery And after this knowledge there doth arise a general Faith in all such as are enlightned whereby they subscribe to the truth of the Gospel Heb. 4. 2. 1 Tim. 1. 19. and 2. 4. Which knowledge so soon as it is full and perfect it is called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is the full assurance of understanding Col. 2. 2. Rom. 14. 14. Luk. 1. 1. 1 Thes. 1. 5. 2. Hope of pardon by which a sinner believeth that his sins are pardonable though he doth not yet feel them certainly pardoned Luke 15. 18. 3. Hungring and thirsting after grace which is offered to us in Christ Jesus Joh. 6. 35. and 7. 37. Revel. 21. 6. Matth. 5. 6. 4. An approching with boldness to the Throne of Grace that so we flying from the terrour of the Law may take hold on Christ and finde favour with God Heb. 4. 16. This approching of the Throne of Grace is done 1. by an humble confession of our sins in