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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74654	A brief and plain exposition of the creed, commonly called the Apostles Creed. By Christopher Cartwright minister in York.	Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.	1649 (1649)	Wing C683; Thomason E1421_1*; ESTC R209463	35,241	119

Vicegerents I have said ye are gods Psa 82. 6. Thou shalt not revile the gods Exod. 22. 28. But truly and properly so called there is but one God I am God and there is none else Isa 45. 22. Thou shalt have none other gods before me Exod. 20. 3. We know that an Idol is nothing in the world that is no such thing as an Idolater takes it to be and that there is none other God but one For though there be that are called gods c. yet unto us there is but one God c. 1 Cor. 8. 4 5 6. That God is a Spirit infinite eternall God truly and properly so called is a Spirit Iohn 4. 24. And not onely a Spirit for so the souls of men and Angels also are spirits Hebr. 12. 23. 1. 14. but he is an immense and infinite Spirit which none else is Do not I the Lord fill heaven and earth Ier. 23. 24. Yea the heaven even the heaven of heavens cannot contain him 1 King 8. 27. God also is an eternall Spirit which neither the soul of man nor an Angel is He is the high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity Isa 57. 15. The name of Father how attributed unto God The Father Sometimes the name of Father being attributed unto God is taken essentially and is common to the whole Trinitie Have we not all one Father hath not one God created us Mal. 2. 10. I will be a Father unto you and you shall be my sonnes and daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6. 18. Sometimes it is taken personally and belongs onely to the first Person of the Trinity who is called the Father in respect of the second Person called the Sonne Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ 1 Iohn 1. 3. Thus is the word Father here taken as appears by that which follows And in Iesus Christ his onely Sonne c. The whole Trinity is our Father but onely the first person of the Trinitie is Christs Father When it is here said I beleeve in God the Father it is not meant that the first Person onely the Father is God as if the Sonne were not God and the Holy Ghost God also The Father how the first Person of the Trinity but onely the Father is first mentioned as being the first Person of the three the first Person I say not in time nor in dignity for they are all co-eternall and co-equall but in order and proceeding For the Father is of himself not proceeding from any other but the Sonn proceedeth from the Father and the Holy Ghost both from the Father and from the Sonne I proceeded forth and came from God saith Christ Iohn 8. 42. The Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father Iohn 15. 26. And so the Spirit also proceedeth from the Sonne and is therefore called the Spirit of the Sonne Galath 4. 6. and is said to be sent by the Sonne Whom I will send saith Christ speaking of the Spirit or Holy Ghost Iohn 15. 26. which argues that the Holy Ghost doth proceed from the Sonne hath the Divine Nature communicated unto him by the Sonne as well as by the Father even as the Sonne is said to be sent by the Father Iohn 3. 16. and in other places because hee doth proceed from the Father and hath the Divine Nature communicated to him by the Father But the Father is never said to be sent either by the Sonne or by the Holy Ghost as not proceeding either from the one or frō the other Thus then the Father is God and so is the Son and so the Holy Ghost all one and the same God though severall and distinct Persons These three are one 1 Ioh. 5. 7. They are three and yet one three Persons yet one God As Persons they differ each from other as God they are the same one with another This is a great Mysterie which though we cannot comprehend as being above reason yet we must beleeve as being revealed in the Scripture As the Father is Almighty so is the Son and the Holy Ghost also Almighty This attribute Almighty is not peculiar to the first Person the Father but is common to all the three Persons As the Father is Almighty so is the Sonne and so the Holy Ghost also For God as God is Almighty and therefore each Person of the Trinitie being God is Almighty Yet as Athanasius saith there are not three Almighties but one Almighty For the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost are one and the same God and so one and the same Almighty That God is Almighty and how he is Almighty Now that God is Almighty is clear by Scripture I am God Almighty saith he Gen. 17. 1. God Almighty blesse thee said Isaac to Iacob Gen. 28. 3. God is stiled The Almighty Ruth 1. 20. 21. The Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me said Naomi And again The Almighty hath testified against me God is Almighty in that he can do all things whatsoever he pleaseth With God nothing shall bee unpossible Luke 1. 37. True it is God cannot lie Tit. 1. 2. He cannot deny himself 2 Tim. 2. 13. But this doth not derogate from his Almightinesse because these things to lie to deny himself and the like note imperfection and to doe them argues weaknesse and not Power How weak is thine heart saith the Lord seeing thou dost all these things Ezek. 16. 30. God being Almightie 1 Let us fear to offend him Do we provoke the Lord to jealousie are we stronger then he 1 Corinth 10. 22. Who ever hardened himself against him and prospered Iob 9. 4. 2. Let us with boldnesse flie unto him and trust in him O Lord God of our Fathers said Iehoshaphat Art not thou God in heaven and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen and in thine hand is there not power and might so that none is able to withstand thee 2 Chron. 20. 6. And verse 12. O our God wilt thou not judge them for wee have no might against this great Company that commeth against us neither know we what to do but our eyes are upon thee So Paul I know said he whom I have beleeved and that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day 2 Tim. 1. 12. How God made heaven earth Maker of heaven and earth Creatour of heaven and earth In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth Gen. 1. 1. To create is as much as to make of nothing so God made heaven and earth By faith we understand that the world was framed by the Word of God the Word of his power his most powerfull Will Pleasure so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appeare Heb. 11. 3. What is meant by heaven and earth Heaven and Earth These two being the principall parts of the world are put for the whole

Church invisible Again the Church as here upon earth is either visible or invisible The visible Church consists of all such as are outwardly called and make an outward profession of the Gospell Many are called with an outward calling but few are chosen Mat. 22. 14. So that in the visible Church are as well wicked as righteous as well Hypocrites as sincere Professors The visible Church is compared to a Net wherin are both good fishes and bad Matth. 13. 47 48 49. But the invisible Church consists onely of such as are that indeed which they professe themselves to be true Beleevers being chosen of God and called not onely outwardly but also inwardly and effectually called of God according to his purpose Rom. 8. 28. The Church as it consisteth of these is called invisible because it appears not unto men who can onely see the outward profession that is made but the sincerity of the heart they cannot see that is known onely unto God 1 Kings 8. 39. And therefore the Lord onely knows who are his 2 Tim. 2. 19. The Church particular and the Church universall or Catholike Again the Church is either particular or universall A particular Church is a company of such as professe the Gospell in one particular place Thus we read of the Church at Jerusalem Acts 8. 1. The Church at Antioch Act. 13. 1. the Church at Cenchre● Rom. 16. 1. the Church at Corinth 1 Cor. 1. 2. the Church in the house of Aquila and P●is●illa Rom. 16. 3 5. The Church in the house of Nymphas Col. 4. 15. the Church in the house of Philemon Philem. v. 2. 1 Cor 16. 19. Gal. 1. 2 Rev. 1. 11. Thus there are many particular Churches The Vniversall Church is the whole company of Beleevers thorowout the world Vnto the Church which is at Corinth to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus called to be saints there 's a particular Church with all that in every place call upon the Name of Iesus Christ c. 1 Cor. 1. 2. there 's the universall Church So that there 's but one universall Church which comprehends all particular Churches in it And this is that which is called the Catholike Church What the word Catholike doth import For Catholike is a word derived from the Greek and signifies as much as universall or generall The Epistle of Iames is called the gerall Epistle so both the Epistles of Peter and the first Epistle of John and the Epistle of Jude In the Greek it is the word from which is derived this word Catholike Those Epistles are called Catholike or Generall Epistles because they were written to all in generall and not either to particular persons as to Timothy Titus c. or to particular Churches as to the Romanes Corinthians c. How the Church is called holy Now the Church is called Holy First because all that are outwardly and visibly of the Church are called to be holy 1 Cor. 1. 2. and 1 Thess 4. 7. And do professe holinesse 1 Tim. 2. 10. And secondly because all that are indeed of the Church are holy They that are of t●e Church triumphant are perfectly holy they are made perfect Hebr. 12. 23. And they that are of the Church militant are also holy in some measure though not in full measure You are washed you are sanctified c. 1 Corinth 6. 11. As for such as are altogether unsanctified they are rather in the Church then of the Church like a wooden Legge that is outwardly joyned unto the body but is indeed no part of it They went out from us but they were not of us c. saith S. Iohn of some 1 Ioh. 2. 19 who for a while were outwardly joyned to the Church but afterward fell off so shewed that they were not then indeed of it when they were in it So S. Paul saith All are not Israel that are of Israel Rom. 9. 6. that is all are not the people of God indeed who are such by outward Profession and so seem to be of them Therefore all must take heed of resting in a bare profession of faith and be sure that they have faith indeed and so be joyned unto Christ Who is the Head of the Body the Church Coloss 1. 18. And our union with Christ must appear by our conformitie unto Christ He that saith he abideth in him ought himselfe to walk even as hee walked 1 John 2. 6. Of the communion of Saints The communion of Saints By Saints are meant holy ones of such onely doth the Church indeed consist as is before shewed Some think that there are no Saints but in Heaven which is a grosse conceit for though all that are in Heaven are Saints yet all that are Saints are not in Heaven there are Saints also on earth as well as in heaven although not such compleat and perfect Saints Heaven being a place that admits of no sin whereas there is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not Eccles 7. 20. But holinesse may be true holinesse as it is called Ephes 4. 24. although it be imperfect David speaks expresly of the saints that are upon the earth Psal 16. 3. Paul saith that he went to Jerusalem to administer to the saints Rom. 15. 25. And he told the Philippians that all the Saints did salute them especially they of Caesars houshold Philip. 4. 22. And indeed the Saints are seldome mentioned in Scripture but the Saints on earth are meant Now that there is a communion or which is all one a * The same word that is rendred communiō 1 Cor. 10. 16. and 2 Cor. 13. 14. is rendred fellowship Phil. 2. 1. and 1 Ioh. 1. 3. fellowship of Saints we may see by that of S. Iohn That which we have seen and heard declare wee unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truely our fellowship is with the Father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ 1 Iohn 1. 3. Which words also shew that the Saints have communion or fellowship with God with Christ and with one another The saints have communiō with God 1. The Saints have communion with God hee being peculiarly their God and they peculiarly his people he their Father and they his Children Come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you And will be a Father unto you and you shall be my sonnes and daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6. 17 18. The wicked may have an outward formall Communion with God by partaking of his Ordinances but the Saints onely have inward and spirituall communion with him They Worship God in Spirit Phil. 3. 3. Their prayer goeth not out of fained lips Psal 17. 1. And as they draw nigh unto God so doth God draw nigh unto them Ian 4. 8. He is nigh unto them in all that they call upon him for Deut. 4. 7. For he is