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A50429	The snare broken, or, The natural and eternal deity of the Son of God, as also of the Holy Ghost, asserted by a person, who having been formerly a a [sic] Socinian, and then an Arrian, came at length, by a free consideration of the Scriptures, to be fully convinc'd of the truth of the Catholick faith concerning the blessed Trinity.	Mayne, Zachary, 1631-1694.	1692 (1692)	Wing M1488; ESTC R19321	12,820	17

But as it is written Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard neither have enter'd into the Heart of Man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him Well how came they to know this Recluse hidden Mysterious Wisdome which the very Chief of the World Princes and Philosophers did not know neither had enter'd into the Heart of Man to conceive Why Ver. 10. But God hath Revealed them to us by his Spirit Why how did the Spirit know Why the Spirit searcheth all things even the Deep things of God There are none of the Secrets of Eternity but the Spirit knows them intimately How so The Apostle hath not done with it yet but instanceth further and proves by a notable similitude Ver. 11. that the Spirit must needs know all that God knows and therefore I think must needs be God the words are these For what Man knoweth the things of a Man save the Spirit of a Man that is in him Even so the things of God knoweth no Man It is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and it is poorly translated No Man it ought to have been translated as I humbly conceive No one neither Man not Spirit nor any Creature No one but the Spirit of God And if the Spirit of a Man be not Essentially One with a Man what is there One with him And now being but a Similitude it cannot be pressed to a Sameness as Nullum simile est idem Yet I must humbly conceive the simile could not have been made without Blasphemy had not the Spirit been of the Divine Essence For what Proportion can there be betwixt Infinite and Finite so that the Spirit or Holy Ghost should be to God as the Spirit of a Man is to him to know all his secrets to search into them and from his perfect intimate knowledge of all the secrets of God to be able to communicate them to us The Spirit is so one with the Father and the Son as that there is no Mystery hidden or that can be hidden from him Therefore he is God with the Father and the Son and as here it is spoken perhaps chiefly of his Intimacy with the Father who ordinarily sustains the name of God So in Joh. 16.15 16 17. is mention made of his Intimacy with the Son He shall take of mine and shall shew it unto you So here you see is the Counsel of the Trinity No wonder therefore where there is so great an Intimacy and Oneness if they often appear together the Father in a Voice and the Spirit in a Dove upon the Son no wonder if these be the Three that are said to bear Record in Heaven If Baptism be ordained to be celebrated in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and to give the last sweet and blessed Farewel to my proofs if the Apople conclude his Epistle to the Corinthians 2 Cor. 13.14 with this Valediction The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God the Father and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all Amen I have now only this to add touching the Doctrine of the Trinity That tho' I believe this Essential Unity which I have mention'd and I hope prov'd yet that I suppose there is a great Respect to behad to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or difference of these Persons in the Trinity For as I humbly conceive they that are of the Orthodox Opinion as touching the Unity of the Three Persons in the Godhead are in great danger of Non-attendance to this Real Difference that there is between the several Persons and are ready to swallow up all the Difference and Distinction or Distinctness in the Unity and to think the Difference to lye only in a various and different Manifestation of the Being of God Whereas there are so plain different Attributes or Attributions of the Three Persons as if they were Three distinct Beings The Father is manifestly the Fons Trinitatis the Fountain of the Trinity The Son is united to our Nature so as the Father is not and the Spirit is not The Son died in our Nature so did not the Father nor the Spirit The Son was sent by the Father so was not the Father by either the Son or the Holy Ghost The Holy Ghost was sent by the Father in the Name of the Son Joh. 14.26 and sent by the Son himself Joh. 16.7 The Father is the Person on whom our Faith and Hope do ultimately terminate 1 Pet. 1.21 So it doth not on the Son or Holy Ghost The Father in the Work of Redemption sustains the Person of the Parties offended and yet giving his Son in order to the Reconciling the World to himself the Son the Person of Mediator the Spirit applies all that is done by the Father and the Son in Conviction Conversion Quickning Comforting Sealing and Intercession within us Rom. 8.26 27. I could instance in many more Particulars which ought to have a serious consideration especially the great Business of Intercession now in Heaven where the Son Ministers as a Kingly Priest at his Father's Right hand in the true Tabernacle which God hath pitched and not Man Is there not a great distinction here made betwixt the Father and the Son in sustaining two different Persons And what is consequent upon this Observation of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 methinks it should seem highly Rational to every Christian every one that owns the Mystery of the Trinity That as there are Three distinct Persons that All justly claim the Name and Title of God as they have the Essence so that they should All that is Each have their distinct Honour from him according to the several Discoveries that are made of them of their several distinct Habitudes and Relations to us and that it should not seem so absurd a Notion as I find it doth to some that we may have a distinct Communion with the Three Persons of the Trinity For if it be nothing else but to endeavour to Abear our selves with distinct Honourable Thoughts and Apprehensions towards them according to the several Attributions or Parts Assign'd to them and most really Assum'd by them for our Good and to do this with the greatest Reverence and Joy that we can conceive in our Minds what is this less than to have Communion with the Three Persons distinctly yet not exclusively to love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity to believe in him Ye believe in God that is in the Father believe also in me and by him we are to believe in God that is the Father that by him our Faith and Hope may be in God 1 Pet. 1.21 The words at large are these Who by him do believe in God that rais'd him up from the dead and gave him Glory that your Faith and Hope might be in God And as this is proper to be endeavour'd and done by us as one Part of Communion to wit that on our Part so we find Two of the Divine Persons promised to come to us together in case we do the Will of God Joh. 14.21 23. Jesus answer'd and said unto him If a man love me he will keep my words and my Father will love him and we will come to him and make our abode with him And do you think the Communion of the Holy Ghost shall be deny'd to that Person where the Father and the Son come and dwell And is not here Communion with the Three Persons and yet I desire all this may be understood modestly and humbly And indeed however it fare with the Notion of these things the Things themselves shall never be understood and experienc'd but by those that are Humble indeed Z.M. A.M. FINIS

taking them when I was a Socinian and the Judgement of my Belief I submit to the Reader of my Arguments So much I humbly conceive may serve to be spoken concerning the Praeexistence of our Saviour to his being Born of the Virgin But here comes in the Arrian And saith he I grant our Saviour was Praeexistent to his being Born of the Virgin and he was made Flesh who had existed Personally before and he was made to partake of Flesh and Blood as those that were to be his Children did that he might die for them and Redeem them He had dwelt in Heaven before ever he came into the World and was not only caught up into Heaven to see and hear what he was to reveal but he was only a Created Spirit or Angel and was in the fulness of time united to the Humane Nature by the power of the Holy Ghost This Opinion I confess I have inclined to also But I am also beaten out of this by the Apostle's Discourse or whosoever was the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews in the first and second Chapters Ch. 1.13 To which of the Angels said he at any time Sit thou at my Right Hand until I make thine enemies thy foot-stool Are they not all Ministring Spirits Ver. 5. Unto which of the Angels said he at any time Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Ver. 6. And again when he bringeth his First Begotten into the World he saith And let all the Angels of God worship him Now if all the Angels of God must worship him and that God the Father said not so or so to any one of all the Angels he is clearly set forth as one above all the Orders of Angels and therefore in plain meaning above all Creatures therefore no less than God Nay whereas the Apostle only words it Worship him all ye Angels or Let all the Angels of God worship him it is in the Psalmist whence the Apostle quotes the Expression Psal 97.7 ' Worship him ' all ye Gods So that whatever Titular God there is or can be conceived in the whole Creation they are all inferiour to him and he is not of their Rank or Kind therefore not a Creature as to his Divine Nature but of the proper genuine Essence of the most High God as a Son is of the fame kind with his Father and we know there is but One God in number tho' the Son and the Father among us make Two in number But that which yet further and beyond all these things convinceth me that our Lord Christ is God by Nature is That he undertook to Answer and Satisfy the Law for Sinners ' The sting of Death is sin and the strength of sin is the Law It were a very small matter for us to Die were it not for Sin that follows us to our Graves to Judgment and to Hell and Sin could have no strength in it to Damn us and cast us into Hell were it not for the Law of God that forbids it and threatens Death and Hell upon the Commission of it Now this Law of God is impowred and invigorated with all the Majesty and Authority of that God that made it and binds down the Sinner unavoidably to destruction until some one come that can deal with this Law so full of Majesty and Authority Until I say such a One come and free us from this Law the Sinner cannot be set at Liberty from the Condemning Power of it I meddle not with that Question Whether God can Pardon without a Satisfaction or no I think it is evidently declar'd that he will not Without shedding of Blood there is no Remission Heb. 9.22 and therefore it comes all to one in this matter Now what Creature tho' never so Great Wise and Innocent dares appear in the face of the Law to rescue the Prisoners for all the World is become guilty before God Jews and Gentiles There is no Creature but is subject to the Law of God and the utmost Good that the Creature can receive from the Law is to be acquitted in his own Person having never offended it Why yet here comes a Champion into the field our Lord JESUS by Name and he comes into the field as it were for that seems to be the Apostle's Scheme Habit or Form of Expression and demands Liberty for the Law 's Captives which he hath Liberty from the Father to Redeem not by offering Violence to the Law but by paying a Price which shall be tantamont to the Damnation or Eternal Sufferings of all the sinful Men and Women of all Ages of the World and by the Ordination of God the Father the Law must yield may not detain them any longer under the Sentence of Condemnation in Case this Great Redeemer Pay to the Law a Valuable Consideration which accordingly he did by Dying And whereas before we were all Naturally or by Condition of our Natures as it were Married to the Law the Law is now by the Death of Christ reputed as Legally-dead and we are no Adulteresses tho' we be Married to another that is to the Son of God who Redeem'd us bought us off from the Law and Marries us to Himself upon the New Conditions of Faith and sincere Obedience and this shall now be accepted at our hands as effectually as perfect unerring Obedience would have been from our first Husband the Law had we stood Innocent I confess the Tropes seem to interfere those of Champion and Surety those of the Fields and the Court but they are all justified by Expressions that we may pick up out of the Apostle's Discourses of this subject And if our Understandings be at last well inform'd it is no great matter what become of the Figures which were only by the Fancy to introduce the matter into our Understanding That Christ's Death-was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Price of our Redemption is expressed often and that he delivered us from the Law is as often found and that this Law was not only the Ceremonial but the Moral Law I think it as plain For else how should the whole World become guilty before God but by the Sentence of the Moral Law which is the Strength of sin And how could our Saviour deliver the Gentiles from their sin but by weakning its Strength that is taking off the Condemning Power of the Law And how could he take off the Condemning Power of the Law but by suffering the Penalty of it And what Creature could sustain the Wrath of God which the Law was armed with Methinks it is as plain as one of the First Principles in Metaphysicks Who but God could sustain the Wrath of God and not perish under it And yet this we find Performed by our Saviour as it had been Prophecied of him Zech. 13.7 Awake O Sword against my Shepherd and against the Man that is my Fellow saith the Lord of Hosts Smite the Shepherd and the Sheep