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A43607	Syntagma theologicum, or, A treatise wherein is concisely comprehended, the body of divinity, and the fundamentals of religion orderly discussed whereunto are added certain divine discourses, wherein are handled these following heads, viz. 1. The express character of Christ our redeemer, 2. Gloria in altissimis, or the angelical anthem, 3. The necessity of Christ's passion and resurrection, 4. The blessed ambassador, or, The best sent into the basest, 5. S. Paul's apology, 6. Holy fear, the fence of the soul, 7. Ordini quisque suo, or, The excellent order, 8. The royal remembrancer, or, Promises put in suit, 9. The watchman's watch-word, 10. Scala Jacobi, or, S. James his ladder, 11. Decus sanctorum, or, The saints dignity, 12. Warrantable separation, without breach of union / by Henry Hibbert ...	Hibbert, Henry, 1601 or 2-1678.; Hibbert, Henry, 1601 or 2-1678. Exercitationes theologiae.	1662 (1662)	Wing H1793; ESTC R2845	709,920	522

God David did run the pure path of Gods commandments and Christ did all things well We are to have respect to all the divine ordinances of the God of Truth that in none if it be possible we may be sound faulty Forsake evil and do good saith the Prophet and so the Lord shall crown our desires above what we are able to ask or think saith the Apostle Let your Covetousness be turned to Liberality that the Saints of God those of the houshold of faith may be the better for you Let your Ambition be turn'd to Humility that ye think not of your selves above that which is meet Let your Adulteries be turn'd to Chastity that your bodies may be fit temples for the Holy Ghost to dwell in Let your Idolatries and Superstitions be turn'd to the zealous and Primitive service of God that God may dwell in the midst of you Let your Wantonness in attires and habits be turn'd to Gravity whereby the Heavenly graces of the Eternal Spirit may be enlarged in you and manifested by you as becometh Saints Let your hideous Blasphemies and horrid Oaths be turn'd to a reverent naming of the Lord that his Name may be hallowed by you In conclusion let all the Intemperance Prophaneness and Corruptions of our lives be turned to Holiness whereby all our actions may favour of grace goodness and obedience This obedience in actions whereby we glorifie God must be 1. Speedy 2. Cordial 3. Ever augmenting 4. Resolutely constant It must be speedy To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts Dilatory procrastinarions beget difficulties and augment our miseries Wherefore to keep a Field from overgrowing with weeds is to pluck them up in the Spring and to preserve ones Body from overcharging with diseases is to purge the bad humors betime Thus sin and disobedience must be nipped in the bud or else they bring forth much soure fruit of trouble and danger 'T is the Polititians observation That à parvis veniunt summa mala principiis The greatest evils have but small beginnings Our obedience must be cordial My son give me thy heart saith the Wise man saith the wiser God If obedience be wrung from us it is not acceptable A cheer 〈◊〉 giver obtains acceptation at Gods hands Abraham's obedience in offering to offen up his son Isaac upon Divine command was cordial So were Davids services being a man after Gods own heart Christs obedience was cordial both in fulfilling every tittle of the Law and suffering the punishment due to our sins So was Paul's when in his conversion he consulted not with flesh and blood but immediately obeyed the Heavenly vision Our obedience must be ever augmenting It is the genuine nature of true grace to be ever growing and of good Christians to grow in grace The perfection of obedience is not compassed in a moment which is but a point of time but by degrees and many previal dispositions Were it not that we are too much indulgent to our corrupt affections our obedience would never leave growing until by Divine assistance and pious endeavours we increase the quantity thereof I know the desire of enjoying the home-pleasures of this sinful life hath the more favorable audience and powerful perswasions in a mind captivated to his own passions and prevails more But where the heart is set at liberty from the bondage of sin there Piety beareth sway and obedience aboundeth Hence proceeds the Apostle's elegant Climax Add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7. Acti agamus and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity If these things be in yo● and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ Our obedience must be resolutely constant With the Galatians to begin in the spirit and to end in the flesh is a deep apostacy from the truth of obedience and from obedience to the truth It is manifest cowardise in Souldiers to forsake their Colours when they are upon service Our whole life is no other than a continual warfare If our resolution be not fixt in our Christian enterprises if we fail after the military oath is solemnly taken by us in our Baptism in obeying the Captain of our salvation the Lord of Hosts we cannot avoid the bafest imputation of coward●se nor be accounted other than dastardly fugitives We know Satan and the World lay strong siege to take us and to draw us by head and shoulders from our obedience But we may learn from Job this point of valour that though God should kill us much less then if Satan should yet we should not upon any terms forsake him For the crown of life and diadem of glory Rev. 2.10 shall be given unto them alone that are faithful to the death Thus much concerning the honour of Obedience which this Glory in the Text imports Now follows the other honour imported by it which is the honour of Divine worship or adoration whereof there are two degrees 1. Internal 2. External The first is the internal affection or serviceable submission which is as the soul or life The other is the external note or sign of such submission as bowing kneeling supplication these are the body or material parts of it Now this worship when divine and opposed unto civil is proper unto God and incommunicable to any creature For the glorious prerogative of our Creation and Redemption in these works he admits no instrumental service much less can brook a Partner in the glory redounding to them My glory will I not give unto another Psal 95.6 In consideration of the works of Creation the Princely Prophet invites all to adore God O come let us worship and bow down and kneel before the Lord our Maker In consideration of our Redemption God speaking of Christ saith Let all the Angels of God worship him much more men Besides the seeds of grace and true religion are sown immediately by Gods sole powerful hand and their native off spring acts of faith especially must be reserved entire and untouch'd for him Prayers intrinsecally religious or devotions truly sacred are oblations which may not which cannot without open sacriledge be consecrated to any others honour but only to his who infuseth the spirit of prayer and thanksgiving into mens heares Bowing the body and kneeling as used to express a religious and divine worship must not be directed to honour them which are no gods but the Only wise and Immortal King Never had any man juster occasion to worship an Angel than S. John or a Saint than Cornelius and his company had The reason why the Lord in wisdom would have as well their willingness to worship as the Angel's and S. Peter's unwillingness to accept their proffered submission so expresly registred was to imprint the true meaning of that Law in

in us not for a time but for ever for the Word dwelling noteth a perpetuity and is opposed to sojourning And also that he hath the full disposition and absolute command of the heart as a man of that house whereof he is Lord. Which disposition consists in these six notable benefits which are sure evidences of the Spirits being and dwelling in our hearts every one whereof is worthy our serious speculation The first is the illumination of our understandings with a certain knowledge of our reconciliation to God in Christ Jesus This is obtained by the special information of the Spirit he shall teach you all things he shall guide you into all truth John 14.26 16.13 saith the Saviour of the world This knowledge is not of Generals but of particulars that God is our Father Christ our Redeemer the holy Ghost our Sanctifier the Spirit of God faith the Apostle Rom. 8.16 Beareth witnesse with our spirits that we are the sons of God Worketh in us a sure knowledge of the remission of our sinnes of our reconciliation and peace with God of our adoption into the liberty of the sons of God and faith the Apostle 1 Cor. 2.12 now have we received the Spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are given to us of God that is the righteousnesse of Christ assuredly It is not in man to know assuredly what great things God hath done for his soul without the special instruction of the Spirit called the Spirit of truth And the Spirit of wisdom and understanding Isa 11.2 the Spirit of knowledge The second benefit of the Spirit which discovers his being in our hearts is regeneration wherby our hearts are renewed by receiving newnesse of life and grace The coruptions of our nature are expell'd by the Spirits infusion of supernatural qualities into us whereby we are made new creatures and of the servants of sin and limbs of Satan are made the members of Christ and sons of God Hence he is called the Spirit of life Except a man be born again by water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of heaven saith our Saviour Ezek. 36.25 and Ezekiel doth Prophecy that God would sprinkle clean water upon them and they should be clean and from all their filthinesse would he cleanse them It is the Spirit that doth regenerate us who is here compared to clean water for these two causes 1. As water mollifies dry wood and puts sap into dry trees so doth the Spirit supple and mollifie our hard hearts and put sap of grace into them whereby we are made trees of righteousnesse and bring forth fruits of eternal life Christ saith John 7.38 39. that he that believeth in him as the Scripture saith out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water this saith the text spake he of the Spirit which they that believed on him should receive 2. As water doth purifie the body from all filth so doth the holy Ghost wash away our sins and our natural corruptions John 4.14 hence called a Well of living water springing up to everlasting life Again John the Baptist saith that Christ baptizeth with the holy Ghost and with fire where the Spirit is by consent of Interpreters compared to fire and that 1. As fire doth warm the body being benum'd with cold so doth the spirits our hearts frozen in sin and though dead in sins and trespasses yet by his reviving heat he quickens our hearts and brings us to life again 2. As fire doth purge and take out the dross from the good mettal so doth the holy Ghost separate and eat out the putrifying corruptions of sin out the canker'd and drossie heart of man And thus regeneration is wrought by the Spirit and therefore said to be born of God The third benefit of the Spirit in them to whom he is sent is an union or conjunction with Christ whereby we are made his members Hine baptismus dicitur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 members of his body of his flesh and of his bones and partake of his benefits hereby his graces are in a plentiful manner and an abundant measure distill'd upon us which were in him above all measure hence it is compared to effusion Joel 2.1 John 3.24 I will pour out my Spirit hereby we know saith Saint John that we dwell in him and he in us because he hathi given us of his Spirit The Spirit is the bond of our conjunction descending from Christ the Head to all his members and begetting Faith that extraordinary vertue whereby Christ is apprehended and made our own by special application The fourth benefit whereby the Spirit is known to be sent of God into our hearts is the Spirits governing of our hearts For in whom he is be is Master ordering and disposing the understanding the will the memory the affections and all parts of the body according to his good pleasure for as many as are the sons of God Sam 8.14 Certum est nos facere quod sacimus sed illi 〈◊〉 ut faciamus are led by the Spirit The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord Psal 37.23 in token whereof they that are of the Spirit do savor the things of the Spirit Rom. 8.5 that is they affect and prosecute those things that are good And this called spiritual regiment it consists in two things 1. In repressing all evil motions arising either from within as from evil concupiscence corruption of our nature or from without us by the in●icement of the world or suggestion of Satan 2. In stirring up good affections and holy motions upon every occasion hereto belong those excellent titles given to the holy Ghost the Spirit of the Lord Isa 11.2 the Spirit of wisdom and understanding the Spirit of counsel and of strength the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord he hath these several attributes because he stirs up in the godly these good motions of wisdom of knowledge of strength of understanding of counsel and of fear of the Lord. In Galat. 5.22 the fruits of the Spirit are recorded there to to be love joy peace long-suffering gentlenesse goodnesse faith meeknesse temperance where oever these be the Author which is the holy Gost of necessity must be As for love whose object is God and man God for himself man for God it is a testimony of the Spirits presence in us and rule of us he is sent into our hearts saith Lombard when he is so in us as that he makes us to love God and our neighbour whereby we remain in God and God in us As for joy it is a main work of the Spirit making us to rejoyce for the good of others as for our selves whereas carnal men pine away and grieve expressively for others prosperity As for peace it is that concord which must be kept in an holy manner Immane verbum est ultio Senec. with all men

humour is childish enough in children worse in men and worst of all in Christians who are also the children of God There are two things which God will not bear in his viz. 1. When they grow wanton with a mercy 2. When they complain without a cross To complain under a crosse is to act below grace to complain of a crosse is to act against grace to complain beyond a cross is a defect of grace but to complain without a crosse is a defect in nature Irrational creatures will not complain when they have the conveniences of nature Great storms arise out of little gusts It is our wisest way to crush the very first insurrections of unruly passions to smother the smoke thereof which else with sume up into the head and gather into so thick a cloud as we shall soon lose the sight of our selves and what is best to be done Passions proceed from bad to worse like heavy bodies down sleep hills once in a motion move themselves and know no ground but the bottome Turk Hist fol. 423. Invalidum amne naturd qu●● rulum Senc● Mahomet the first Emperour of the Turks being wonderfully grieved with the dishonour and losse he had received at the last assault of Scodra in his choler and fran●ick rage most horribly blasphemed against God saying That it were enough for him to have care of heavenly things and not to crosse him in his wordly 〈◊〉 The foolishness of man perverteth his way and his heart fretteth againsh the Lord. Prov. 19.3 Doest thou well to be angry Jon. 3.4 These are 〈◊〉 complainers Jude 16. Neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were destroyd of the destroyer 1 Cor. 10.10 Temperance It is the modernation of lust and appetite in the use of the gifts and creat●●● of God The Jewes are said to be generally very temperate For their diet whether in obedience to the precepts of reason or the injunctions of Pars●mony 〈◊〉 they are very temperate seldom offending in ebriety or excesle of drink nor ●●●ing in gulosity or superfluity of meates In vit Juliani Tanta fuit Juliani temperentia ut ex virg nibus quae specios a sunt capta ut in Perside ubi faeminarum pulchritudo excellit nec contrectare aliquam voluit Alexandrum imitatus Ejecit tonsores coquos tanquam deliciarum intemperantia ministros Theatra ludos non curat similior detestanti eos ludos quàm spectanti Camd. 〈◊〉 Queen Elizabeth was so famous for this vertue that K. Edward ● called her by no other name than his swept Sister Temperance She did seldome eat but one sort of meat and rose ever with an appetite and lived about seventy yeares For the better practising of which vertue remember these four rules We must use moderation in meats and drinks This moderation is to eat and drink with perpetual abstinence And abstinence is to take less than that which nature desires and not more And that measure of meat and drink which serves to refresh nature and to make us fit for the service of God and man is allowed us of God and no more We must use moderation in our apparel And that is to apparel our selves according to our sex according to the received fashion of our Country according to our place and degree and according to our ability Here the common fault is to be out of all order for none almost know any measure We must use moderation in getting of goods And that is to rest content if we have food and raiment for our selves and them that belong unto us 1 Tim 6.8 Here is our flint We may not desire to be rich vers 9. The King himself must not multiply his gold and silver Deut. 17.17 And yet hath he more need of gold and silver than any private man There must be a moderation in the spending of our goods Contrary to the fashion of many that spend their substance in feasting and company and keep their wives and children bare at home Paul reasoned of Temperance One of the fruits of the Spirit is Temperance Adde to Knowledge Temperance Gluttony This sin is com mitted five wayes Praepruperè Lautè Nimis Ardenter Studiosè Plures crapula quàm gladius It is the bane of the body For many more perish by intemperance than by violence by surfeiting than by suffering Epicures are as desperate as Soldiers Meat kills as many as the Musket the Board as the Sword Life is a lamp and as a lamp is choaked with overmuch oil or a little fire extinguished with too much wood so natural heat is strangled in the body with immoderate eating Contrariwise Homini cibus utilissimus simplex It 's said of one Confecit tumulum in dentibus Tenuis mensa sanitatis mater saith Chrysostom But much meat much malady And it is the sepulchre of the soul Many a mans table is a snare to him whiles fulness breeds forgetfulness And that both of God and his works Isa 5.12 And of men and their miseries Amos 6.6 It 's storied of Epicurus That while he looked too much to his Palate he looked not at all to the Heavenly Palace Howbeit Aelian if he may be credited reports better of him And Tully saith Whatever his opinions were his life was temperate But what a Cormorant was Heliogabalus who was served at one supper with seven thousand fishes and five thousand fowls His thirst was unquenchable his appetite like the hill Aetna ever on fire after more Many live as if they were fruges consumere nati Horat. Epicuri de gre●e porci Idem whose Corps are so many Casks to hold or rather mar meat Like that famous Roman Parasite Offellius Bibulus of whom it is said Dum vixit aut bibit aut minxit Many walk Phil. 3.18 19. of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ whose end is destruction whose God is their belly Drunkenness Some could wish themselves Whales Ven●l-●oemones so as the Sea were strong liquor No glue like that of good fellowship Et gratiam conciliant potando Drunkenness is called good fellowship even as the Impious Pope was called Pius the Cruel Innocent and the fierce Clement Mergit mentem extrema potatio Senec. It is Voluntaria insania Aug. And for the body Ebrietas nequitia est quae te non sinet esse senem An intemperate man is one that like some candles sweals away his life Funde iterum Mantuan Eclog 9. potare semel gustare secundus Colluit os poius calefacta refrigerat ora Tertius arma siti bellumque indicere quartus Aggreditur quintus pugnat victoria sexti est Septimus triumphat Bacchus is usually painted by the Poets naked to shew that when a man is drunk Proverbium est in Sanhedrin intrat vinum exit arcanum Drus In vino veritas he reveals