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A89351	Sion's prospect in it's first view. Presented in a summary of divine truths, consenting with the faith profess'd by the Church of England, confirmed from scripture and reason: illustrated by instance and allusion. Compos'd and publish'd to be an help for the prevention of apostacy, conviction of heresy, confutation of error, and establishing in the truth, by a minister of Christ, and son of the church, R.M. quondam è Coll ̊S.P.C.	Mossom, Robert, d. 1679.	1652 (1652)	Wing M2868; Thomason E800_1; ESTC R207347	108,410	128

evils which they commit in their executing this punishment are all from their own corrupt and vile affections It is no excuse to the wicked that they fulfill Gods secret will when they disobey his will revealed and why § 5. And though true it is the wicked do perform a Rom. 9.19 Gods secrets will his will of purpose even when they disobey b Acts 2.23 his revealed will his will of precept yet because Gods revealed will is the Rule of our obedience to disobey that though we perform the other it c 1 Iohn 3.4 is sin So that it can be no excuse of sin in man or imputation of unrighteousnesse in God that the wicked whil'st they sin yet not in their sin actually do what he by his secret counsel eternal decree hath appointed to be done d Acts 4.27 Isai 10.5 c. because they do it not in obedience to Gods just will but in pursuance of their own unjust wilfulnes God wills the permission not the commission of sin and why § 6. Besides Gods purpose and foreknowledge is not the cause of what he hath decreed to permit but of what he hath decreed to effect seeing God then doth not wil the commission but the permission of sin he cannot be the cause of it And that God should wil the permission of sin is most just for that otherwise he should lose the glory of his Justice yea and of his mercy too of this we may be confident God is so infinitely good that he would not permit evill were he not withall so infinitely powerfull as to a Rom. 8.28 5.20 order that evill unto good How God is said to harden in sin § 7. Further yet when God is said to a Exod. 9.12 Deut. 2.30 Isai 6.10 29.10 63.17 Rom 9.18 harden malicious sinners he doth it not by adding more sin or infusing more malice but by further withholding or quite withdrawing his Grace and so in just judgement b 1 Sam. 16.14 Psal 109.6 1 Tim. 1.20 giving them up unto Satan and their own c Rom. 1.24.26.28 vile affections they truly and really d Exod. 9.34 Mat. 13.14 15. Heb. 3.13.15 Acts 28.26 27 harden themselves Sin then is not prompted or caused by God but suggested by Satan or raised by lust and through consent of the will committed by man § 8. And as sin hath no efficient What sin is in its privative Being but a Rom. 3.23 1 Cor. 6 7. deficient cause so hath it no positive but a privative Being and so cannot properly be an action which is a naturall good but the obliquity and error of the action which is a morall evill it is not the work but the evill of the work What in its proper nature in a deviation from the rule of righteousnesse the b Rom. 4 5. Law of God which is the sin And sin being in its proper nature the c Rom 5.15.17.18 Job 34.31 Jam. 3. ● offence of Gods Justice in the d Isa 48.8 Job 31 33. Isa 35 5. 1 John 3.4 transgression of his Law doth bring upon man a guilt a pollution and a punishment § 9. In The severall adjuncts of sin that 1. It is Guilt The guilt of sin is that whereby a Mat. 6.12 23 16. Rom. 1 32. 3.19 4.15 man becomes debtor unto God bound over unto the penalty of that law which he hath transgress'd From this guilt doth proceed an b Gen 3 10. Heb. 10.31 horror From whence proceeds horror attended with despair The c Rom. 1.32 2.15 Conscience terrifying the Soul with a selfe-accusing and condemning sentence d Gen. 4.13 Heb. 2.15 Heb. 10 31. made more dreadfull by despair 2. It s Pollution § 10. Besides this guilt of sin which relateth unto the punishment there is a a Mat 15.11 Rev. 22.11 pollution Whereby God abhors man which cleaveth unto the soul Which pollution doth make God to b Prov. 3.32 6.16 Isai 1.15 Jer. 16.18 b Isa 59.2 Hab. 1.13 abominate and abhorre man and Man himselfe with a confuon of face c hiding his face from him and doth make man d Ier. 3 25 Dan. 9.7 8. with confusion of face to loath and e Ezek. 6.9 Iob. 42.6 abhorre himself and to f Gen 3.8 Ier. 32.33 flie the divine presence 3. It s Punishment Gods vindicative Justice diversly exprest § 11. The punishment of sin that is an a Prov. 13.21 Ier. 18.8 Amos 3.2 6. evill of misery inflicted by God in the execution of his vindictive Justice Which Justice as it is provoked by sin is call'd b Ier. 7.19 Mich. 7.18 anger and wrath as it is more hotly incens'd to severity it is call'd c Deut. 29.20 Ierem. 7.20 fury and jealousie as it denounceth sentence and executeth punishment upon sin it is call'd d Deut. 32.35 Ierem. 51.6 Rom. 2.5 judgement and vengeance Why the guilt punishment of sin is infinite § 12. The weight of the offence committed is to be measured according to the greatnesse of the person offended The a Gal. 3.10 Matth. 5.22 12.36 least violation then of an infinite Majesty must incurre the guilt of an infinite punishment How all punishment is equall and how unequall which is b Rom. 6.23 Eternall Death And thus all punishment becomes equall extensively in duration of time though not Matth. 5.22 11.22 24. intensively in degrees of torment yea as is our obligation to the duty such is our transgression of the command and as is our transgression of the command such is the punishment of our sin all of equall extent the transgression infinite because the breach of an infinite obligation and so the punishment infinite because the penalty of an infinite transgression The duration of punishment is correspondent to the duration of sin and how § 13. Thus the duration of punishment doth become correspondent to the duration of sin of the sin not in respect of its Act which is transient but of its pollution and of its guilt which are permanent and so a John 8.24 permanent as that they are eternall Wherefore seeing the least sin without the grace of the Spirit to sanctifie and the mercy of God to pardon is eternall in its pollution and guilt it must needs be so too in its b John 3.36 punishment c Rev. 21.27 certainly excluding the sinner from life and glory and d Ezek. 18.20 eternally subjecting him to death and misery How Gods Justice doth punish and his mercy pardon sin § 14. When Gods justice executeth the punishment of wrath a Lam. 3.39 Jerem. 9.9 it is with respect to the guilt of sin And therefore when Gods mercy doth pardon the sin he b Heb. 8.12 remits the punishment by acquitting from the guilt So that if God should

working in all actions which relate unto the creatures and therefore the works of Creation and of Providence are b Heb. 11 3. Psal 33.6 Job 26.13 Psa 104.29 30. sometimes attributed to the Father sometimes to the Son and sometimes to the Holy Ghost All three Persons being one single and entire Cause c 1 Cor 12 6. Psal 33.6 Ephes 2.22 working all in all yet in this Trinity there is a diverse manner of working What their diverse manner of working according to the distinct manner of subsisting The d John 1.3 1 Cor 8 6. Rom. 8.11 Father he works from himself by the Son and the Holy Ghost The e H b. 9.14 Son he worketh from the Father by the Spirit The f Luke 1.35 John 15.26 Holy Ghost he Works from the Father and the Son by Himself How some one action is appropriate to some one person § 7. And thus when any one action is more peculiarly appropriated to any one Person of the Trinity it is from some more immediate relation unto that Person as when the a Heb. 1 2. Ephes 3.9 Creation with the b Ephes 1.3 1 Pet. 1.3 Original of all Beings is more peculiarly appropriated to the Father c Rev. 2 9. Heb. 1.8 Redemption with the d John 3.35 5.22 dispensation of all Government more peculiarly appropriated to the Son e Rom. 15 16. Sanctification with the f 1 Cor 12.8 9 4.5 communication of all gifts and graces more peculiarly appropriated to the Holy Ghost The firm relation between God's decrees and his works § 8. And such is the near relation betwixt God's will and his Works his Decrees and their effects that whatsoever he a Isa 44 7. Heb. 6.17 Psal 135.6 willeth is done and whatsoever is done he willeth whatsoever he doth effect he hath decreed and whatsoever he hath b Psal 133.11 Isa 14.24 27. decreed he doth effect so that this is certain God hath not decreed sin God hath not decreed sin though he hath decreed to permit sin because he doth c 2 Chro. 19.7 Psal 5.5 not effect sin And though God be said to have c Acts 2.23 4.28 decreed the permission of sin yet is not that decree any way effectual to produce or cause sin What the effectual decree accompanying the permissive for the cause of any thing d Rō 9.20.21 permitted cannot be from the permission where there is no Law natural or positive to oblige the pevention Again sure we are sin could not be committed by man if it were not permitted by God And God would not permit sin in time if he had not determined to permit it from eternity which permissive part of God's decree is accompanied with that which is effectual effectual for the e Gen. 50 2● Acts 2.23 36. ordering to good what is permitted to be evil And thus God he would not permit sin were it not for good yet is not sin therefore from God for then were he not himself good § 9. As the good pleasure of God's will a Rō 11.34 35. receiveth not from the creatures any moving causality The purpose of God's decree imposeth no forcible necessity so nor doth the purpose of his decree impose upon the creatures any enforcing necessity All future events whatsoever they have indeed an b Mat. 2.28 John 19.36 infallible certainty but no forcible necessity from the determinate Counsel of God's will But bringeth an infallable certainty to all Agents and Events which infallible certainty extendeth not onely to all Agents and events c Psal 104. Job 3.8 natural or necessary but also d Prov. 16.1 21.1 free and e Exod. 21.13 Prov. 16.33 contingent whether it be in the f Exod. 14.4 5. Act 4.27 28. greatest effects or in the g Mat. 10.29.30 smallest matters CHAP. VII Concerning the Works of Creation § 1. GOD God the Creator of all things as an absolute and free Agent as a most free Agent without any a Job 22.2 necessity compelling or b Isa 40.13 external cause moving him to c Prov. 16.4 Psal 19.1 8.1 manifest his Glory or communicate his d Psal 104 24 Goodness of his e Rev. 4.11 own good pleasure and by his own most powerful will he made the World f Gen. 1.1 2.4 Col 1.16 in the beginning creating and in g Gen. 1.5 31. Exod. 20 11. six dayes forming all things in their natures h Gen. 1 31. 1 Tim. 4 4. very good § 2. Creation the Work of the whole Trinity as one entire cause The Creation was the a Psal 146.5 6. Jer. 10.11 proper work of God alone not from any one Person but from b Gen. 1.1 Psal 33.6 all the whole Trinity as being a work of infinite power wisdom and love as a work of infinite power so more especially from the Father as a work of infinite wisdom so from the Son as a work of infinite love so from the Holy Gost and yet from all the three Persons as it is from c Mal. 2.10 1 Cor. 8.6 one entire cause one single essence God's who creates the world as a d Ephes 1.11 Rev. 4.11 free Agent Why of God as a free and all-sufficient cause and as e Gen. 17.1 Acts 17.25 all-sufficient in himself for if the World were made of God by a necessity of his nature and not according to the liberty of his will or if the World made did add any thing to the fulness and perfection of the Maker it must needs have been as himself is from eternity and should not cease to be in the end of time which f Gen. 1 5. time was created with the World and did then g Gen. 1.1 John 1.1 begin when the Creation had it's beginning Observ'd in the Work of Creation § 3. In the work of Creation we observe the command of God's Power the approbation of his Goodness the ordination of his Wisdom and the declaration of his Authority 1. The Command of God's Power By a Gen. 1.2 6 c. Psal 33 9. Psal 148.5 the command of his Power he executes his will to the producing all things in their natural being 2. The Approbation of his Goodness b Gen. 1.4 10 31 by the approbation of his Goodness he confirms what is produc'd in those endowments of nature which he had given them c Gen. 1.7.16 the ordination of his Wisdom 3. The Ordination of his Wisdom he ordereth and disposeth what is so produc'd and confirm'd to their proper ends for which he appointed them 4. The Declaration of his Authority and d Gen. 14.15 Psal 148.6 in the declaration of his Authority he enacteth a Law establishing the creatures so produc'd confirm'd and ordered in their being and working e Gen. 1.22.28

e Luke 1.47 blessed virgin the mother of Christ not excepted is therefore a child of ●●●●h because a child of Adam communicating in his sin by f Mat. 7.16 17. Jam. 3 11. partaking of his nature How we become deprived of Original righteousness § 3. That Adam then and his posterity become deprived of Original righteousness is not because God doth forcibly withdraw it by his power but deservedly withhold it in his justice a 2 Chr. 15.2 God doth not desert but being first deserted And therefore it was not God that spoyled man but it was man b Eccles 7.29 Hos 13.9 who made voide to himself the integrity of his nature by the guilt and pollution of his actual disobedience which disobedience was indeed a complication of the most hainous transgressions of pride ingratitude Why this deprivation is a sin rebellion c. So that the first loss of Original righteousness being by Adams transgression yea in Adam a sin the after privation thereof in himself and his posterity must needs be sinful Why the punishment of Gods withholding righteousness is no excuse for mans sinful waste and want of it § 4. Though true it is that man having first cast away that rich treasure of Original righteousness by his sin God after a Isa 59.2 withholds it in his justice by way of punishment yet doth not this just punishment from God excuse the sinful privation in man his Original sin in the privation of Original righteousness being though a necessary consequent yet not a proper effect of that punishment much less the formal punishment it self Sin in the privation of righteousness doth follow Gods withholding his grace as darkness being the privation of light doth follow the Suns withholding his beams not as a proper effect but as a necessary consequent And though to be deficient in necessaries is equivalent to an efficiency be true where there is an obligation of law natural or positive to require the assistance yet it is not so where the obligation is broken by his default in whose behalf the assistance is required as it is ●●●e in the Case of mans Original sin in the pr●●●●ion of Original righteousness § 5. Original Sin then is not from God he is no waies the Author of it How we become by nature children of disobedience and children of wrath nor it formally a punishment from him it is properly the effect of Adams disobedience and the consequent of Gods wrath whereby we are become by nature children a Eph●s 2 23. of disobedience and children of wrath otherwise neither should children conceived and quickned b Rom. 5.14 dye in the womb nor ought they How proved that we are such being newly born be baptized c Rom. 6.3 6. into the remission of sins As sin d Rom 6.23 doth inseparably bring forth death so doth death infallibly presuppose sin which in the quickned Embryo and new born Infant can be none other then this of Original Sin § 6. How Original sin is a repugnancy to the whole law Which Original sin not onely as the depravation of corrupt nature but also as the deprivation of primitive righteousness it is not barely a 1 John 3.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a transgression of the law in some one or some few particulars but is more fully b Rom. 7.23 8.7 Gal 5.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an enmity or opposition against the whole Law in general For the Law is not onely the rule of our life and of our works but also c Psal 19.7 Mar. 12.33 Rom. 7.14 of our nature and of our faculties requiring integrity and holiness in these as well as purity and righteousness in them The same precept which commands love requires strength otherwise the Law hath said in vain d Luke 10.27 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy strength seeing e Rom. 5.6 we have no strength to love him so that not onely to want righteousness in our lives but even to want integrity in our natures is opposite to the Law yea the whole Law of God and therefore must be sin § 7. Seeing that in original sin The contagion of original Sin extends to the persons of all mankinde and the parts of the whole man the evil deprivation of primitive righteousnes is accompanied with a total deprivation of humane nature therefore as the whole man and all mankinde is become guilty so is a Rom 5.12.13 c. Gen 6.5 Isa 1.6 all mankinde and the whole man become polluted And as this Original corruption of mans nature doth extend to all mens persons so doth this corruption of the whole man extend to all the parts and how spreading its contagion into b 1 Cor. 2.14 2 Cor. 3.14 the understanding by ignorance into c Deut. 32.18 Psal 106.21 the memory by forgetfulness into d Mat. 23.37 John 8.44 the will by perverseness into e Tit. 1.15 16. Heb. 10.22 the conscience by confusion into f Rom. 1.24 26 Jam. 4.6 the affections by disorder and into the g Rō 3.13 c. 6.13 19. very members of the body as the instruments of sin What Original corruption is call'd in Scripture § 8. This Original corruption is called in sacred Scripture sometimes a Rom. 7.7 Jam 1.14 lust and concupiscence sometimes b Rom. 7.8 13 the sin the c Rom. 7.17.20 inhabiting sin the d Heb. 12.1 encompassing sin and sometimes the e Rom. 7.23 8.2 law of sin It is sometimes called the f Rom. 6 6. Ephes 4 22. Col. 3 9. old man g John 3.6 Rom. 7.5 9.8 Gal. 5.19 and the flesh even as flesh is put for the whole man And therefore we read of the h Col. 2 18. Rom 8 6 7. 2 Cor. 1.12 understanding mind and wisdom of the flesh the i Ephes 2.3 Gal 5.24 will affections and lusts of the flesh yea that this man of sin inhabiting in sinful man might be the more fully described this flesh is said to have its k Col. 2.11 body and that body its l Col. 3.5 members The analogy between Christ and Adam in respect of the righteousness and disobedience imputed § 9. Thus as there is an antithesis so is there an a Rom. 5.14 1 Cor. 15.45 analogy between the disobedience of Adam and the righteousness of Christ in that as b Rom. 5.18 19 1 Cor. 15.22 the righteousness of Christ the Head of his Church is imputed to his members for their justification so equal it is that the disobedience of Adam the head of his posterity be imputed to his members to their condemnation and as by the obedience of Christ many even his whole spiritual Generation are made righteous so equal it is that by the disobedience of Adam many even his whole carnal race be made sinners