under the Paenadamni or Privative onely Yea farther upon the Creator's admitting that Interpellation A Reprieve from the Sentence and so the Curse for the present sublevated both to the Inward and Outward Man by which a possibility for a following Covenant for Restoring of Both. VI. The Restauration of Nature in the Inward and Outward Man under the forfeiture to Justice suspended upon that Rescue and Reprieve in Decree by the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction as the New Creation in the Second Adam by this the New Covenant for Restauration and Revelation betwixt the Creator Ordaining and the Eternal Word undertaking to be Incarnate by his Eternal Spirit immediately united to the Intellectuall Nature and by it to be united to the Body Whereby the principle of Grace withdrawn Restored to our Nature in that the second Adam He became a fit Mediator Sponsor in the Apostles phrase a Pledge to perform the Condition of the first Adam by Adhesion Inward Obedience Outward This not only Active to vanquishing but Passive also for the satisfying the guilt of the first Adams non-performance even to the suffering of Death whence Raised Glorified as Reward upon the work done taking possession in our nature of the Glory come short of He was thereby made a fit Mediater Regenerator to restore the principle of Grace to particulars and so gave them title to the Glory in Him prepared for them For the efficacious Revealing and applying of which Grace to the Inward by the Outward Man Outward Means and Ordinances are hereunto Codecreed in him as Apostle by Unction from the Father to Reveale as the work given him to do And so here Nature sanctified the Inner Man delivered from the Positive Evil the Execution of the Sentence and the state of Tophet by translating of the Guilt and Curse upon the Satisfaction undertaken From the Privative Evil the Creator now lifting up the light of his Countenance in his Decreed Ordinances for the restoring of the Principle of Grace withdrawn and Glory consecutive thereupon And though the Outward Man still continued under its incurr'd Curse Gen. 3.19 To dust thou shalt return yet that also here sanctified upon Capitulation that the Creator to make it redeemable in us would by a second work prepare it for the Eternal Word to assume and so to become voluntarily and of himself Mediator to Redeem and in it Annoynted Apostle to Reveale All from this the beginning of time by His cooperating Grace in Shadowes and Types in the severall Administrations and from this Compact having efficacie as Ordinances though as to the Actuating them in the fullnesse of time Personally in and from Himself as in the Flesh they were onely in Decree VII The Actual Restauration of Nature compleat in the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the second Transaction mutually made good in the Person of the Mediator by the Creator's preparing and so sanctifying the Humane nature or Body as to the Outward Man And the Word by the Intellectual nature the Inner Man unto which from the first Transaction it was united assuming it prepared into union with his Divine Nature so restoring the Principle of Grace in his Person to Humane nature compleat both to the Inward and Outward Man On whom thus constituted His Duty Obedience Active and Passive performed the Reward Glory is actually conferred All according to that Restauration in Decree VIII The Restauration of Particulars in the Covenant Derivative as the Revelation and efficacious Application of the Covenant Primitive from Him by complication of Ordinances and Mysterie into which coming as into the Kingdom of God their Persons are by the Ordinances sanctified and they renewed in Knowledge from Him as Apostle by unction of the Holy Ghost Jo. 14.26 teaching them all things And then upon the appropriate condition of Faith in its Advances they receive from Him as Mediator by Influx of that his Renewing Nature the Mystery the Righteousnesse of the Kingdom unto their Regeneration in their Inward Man upon and according unto that actuall Restauration in the Person of the Mediator IX That Restauration of Particulars by Influx upon the appropriate Condition of Adhering and Vanquishing in the Covenant Derivative Finish't consummate as to the Inward Man in the Earnest from the Spirit sealing The third Subsistency and the Cutward man by that his work on it the Inward sealed to the Day of Redemption X. The State of Nature by dissolution separate in and after Death relative both to the Inward and Outward Man the Inward because by immediate impresse Sealed immediately in actuall Blisse a Blisse proportioned to this Separate state And the Outward Man because once united to the Inward and by that Seal on it sealed to its Redemption resting in Hope XI The state of Nature both Inward and Outward according to that Seal and Rest in Hope by the Resurrection reunited and perfectly restored Sealed unto Translation XII The State of Nature thus as before perfectly restored in the Persons fully redeemed Now declaredly Acquitted at the last Judgement according unto the different Administrations under which they were whether Generall of the Creature or speciall in their severall diversifications that is Patriarchall Mosaicall Propheticall Interlegall Evangelicall Prime under Christ and the Apostles or Continued in their Successors unto the End of the World XIII The Persons thus by the Resurrection redeemed after the Resurrection sealed unto Translation and according unto their Administrations at the Last Judgement acquitted Now finally Translated as their consummate Glorification and made One Hierarchy with those of the first Race that Adhered and stood This the Accomplishing of that first Designe the End of the first Creation in the state and Covenant of Nature violate and frustrated by the first Adam's Dis-adhesion explicated in his Dis-obedience Now and Thus repaired according to This counsell of the will of God in a second Designe the end of their second and New Creation in the state and Covenant of Grace made good and finisht by the Second Adam Christ Jesus God blessed for ever upon his Adhesion Vanquishing and Suffering explicated by his Obedienc Active and Passive according unto the Interpellation and Covenant Primitive for the Redemption and Restauration of Mankinde Thirdly The Consequentiall Heads of the Grounds of the Scripture as they are involved in the Primitive Fundamentals and unto which they are relatively consequentiall which we have for distinction Chequered THus the Trinity Supreame Creator and Word operating by Creation unto the constitution of the creature Intellectuall as Fountains Prime and Spirit the Third Subsistency distinct from either which was in Designe the consummating Principle to the second Race upon perseverance included in and evidenced by that Head the Creation of the visible world And yet farther their distinct Personalities more fully appearing by the Interpellation and Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction we consequently state it not till in this place the close of the first
THE SCHEME OR DIAGRAMME Adjusted for Future use in a larger Prodromus ere long to be published and whereof this is then to be a Part. At present Printed for private Hands A CONCATENATION of the Series of the Heads of the Grounds of the Scripture represented in this second Systeme by Scheme or Diagramme ANd first of that great and prime Hyperphysical that is supernaturall and spiritual Ground GOD demonstrating Himself to us by His first Outgoings and after Condescensions necessarily to be thus in Concatenation considered 1. God in Unitie of Essence One GOD The Abysse Unfathomable 2. That Essence subsistentiated i. specificated in Subsistencies in order to Creation Emanant CREATOR WORD SPIRIT Three Subsistencies For Nature Grace Glory 3. Those Subsistencies so specificated in their Actual Out-goings exerting i. putting themselves forth by their singular Energies the Energieâ— of each respectively 4. Those Energies become in the Subject the Creature Operations This in the Creation simply considered the first Creation the Creation of the First and Second Race of Intellectuals 5. Those Energies for their Operations on the Creature in the second Creation that is the Restauration of the second Race in their Nature laps't concentred in the Person of a Mediator The prime specificate Subject of that Work Our Lord Jesus Christ the Beginning of the Creation of God The new Creation And then the Essence in the Subsistencies worketh by their Energies concentred in that Person of the Mediator through Him and by Him transmitted unto Individuals in lapse The second specificate Subject of that second Work that Persons pertakers of that decayed Nature from the old Adam might by those operations for Restauration through and from Him be made and become New Creatures Whence The Essence is not the Subsistency The Subsistency is not the Energie The Energie is not the Operation And yet The Essence is virtually the Subsistency The Subsistency is virtually the Energie The Energie is virtually the Operation Because The Essence is the Abysse from whence the Subsistencies Emane The Subsistencies are the Fountains from which the Energies flow The Energies are the Causes in the Subject of all Operations In like manner The Operation is not the Energie The Energie is not the Subsistency The Subsistency is not the Essence And yet The Operation is relatively the Energie The Energie is relatively the Subsistency The Subsistency is relatively the Essence Because The Operations in the subject are the Energies terminated The Energies are the Subsistencies limited The Subsistencies are the Essence specificated In result and summe the work of the Creation simply considered pretermitted The Operation Prime for the new Creation or Restauration is the Influence of the Essence from the Subsistencies by their Energies concentred in the Mediator from him by a second operation upon lapsed nature terminated in Particulars And thus the Lowest hath from that which is nearest to it self of the Highest and Soveraign Being what could not otherwise either be derived from It or in that state of Lapse be received by the Creature Because as Essence in its Infinity Essential i. as Essence did not work ad extra i. outwardly to the Being of the Creature but in the Subsistencies Nor did the Subsistencies worke to the constitution or making up that Being in the Creature in the state of Integrity but by their Energies So neither could the Subsistencies condescend to nature in the state of Lapse for Restauration nor the Creature in that state receive their Influence by their Energies immediately had They not by those their respective Working Powers sanctifying in a Person prepared the First Fruits of humane nature as well Treasured up those their efficacies from Themselves as Fitted them treasured up for the creatures Receiving them The Principles as thus in Him predisposedly united so their Glory for the creature as it were rebated in the Person of a Mediator Secondly The Concatenation of the Heads of the Grounds of the Scripture as they are a Narrative of the methods of that GOD in those his great Designes the Creating and Restoring of mankinde and give us the Physicall and Morall Theologicall Grounds conteined in them i. the Naturall Heads and Result of and from them which we represent in the severall Heads and Notes of the Inward Circle and Outward Epicycle And first as an Inlet to the whole A Look before the Creation of the visible and Animate World and so of the Creation of the First Race of Intellectuals Spirits simple Essences of which Some Adhered and stood These Confirmed and their number to be made up by a second Race A Look before the Creation of the visible and Animate World and so of the Creation of the First Race of Intellectuals Spirits simple Essences of which Some kept not their first state These Reprobated for whom Tophet whence the Devil and evil Angels II. The Creation of the visible Animate-world and of the Second Race of Intellectuals Man in the Protoplast the First Adam A Spiritual Essence Imbodied i. consisting of Inner and Outward Man to be made One with the simple Essences Spirits unbodied those of the First Race that stood Their Innate Law Covenant of Nature by Impresse upon Adhesion of the Inward Man And the Appendixes preparatory Sacrament the Tree of Life Sabbath the Rest Symboles of Grace and Glory for consummation of the Person and Nature both in the Inner and Outward Man upon the condition of that Covenant performed III. The Inhibition Probational of his Inward Adhesion in that Covenant of Nature by his Outward Obedience unto this Negative Law for the fixing of that State of Nature in his Person by the Annexing those Appendixes preparatory upon the condition performed i. Adhering and Obeying And the Threat annext if otherwise being an Antedated Sentence IV. The Breach and Violation of that Covenant by Disadhesion and of the Probational Inhibition likewise by Disobedience commonly call'd the Fall whereupon the Appendixes because only preparatory become suspended The Threat before now an Actual sentence the Curse incurred importing upon Nature forfeited Aversion or turning away the Face of his Creator from him and the Word withdrawing his Principle of Grace Both these as the Paena damni or Privative Evil And in demerit eternall Dereliction of his Intellectual Nature in that state and casting it off into the state of Tophet prepared for those of the First Race that kept not their first state as the Paena sensus or Positive Evil of Punishment These relatively from the Covenant distinctly terminated in that his Inward Man And from the Inhibition Support withdrawn as the Privative Evil and Mortality seizing on him as the Positive terminated in the Body or Outward Man and from all these Glory in designe from the Spirit of necessary consequence come short of V. The Interpellation a Rescuing from the Execution of the Sentence and Curse upon that Breach And the State of Nature as so rescued from the Paenasensus or Positive Evil to be considered
Fundamentals from which it hath its evidence as included in them The Consideration of those of the first Race that stood is chequered also though but an Appendix to the sixth Head And that it is properly unto it an Appendix is confirmed by the Holy Ghost in that he saith Heb. 1.14 Are they not all ministring Spirits sent forth for them who shall be Heirs of Salvation that is of those who are Claimers by this Covenant which was properly A Covenant of Salvation the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction which is the sixth Head The Consequentials involved in the Heads of Mediatorship THe Trinity of Condescensions for Redemption The Creator now compleat and actually Father by Generation in overshadowing the Virgin and preparing a Body The Word now Sonne by Incarnation of his Eternall Spirit personally united to the Intellectuall nature and by it to that Body prepared the New Creature The Spirit now Consummator of Glory in full actuated in the Person of the Mediator and by Him merited for particulars as the Seal of Grace and Earnest of Glory All included in and resulting from the Covenant Primitive in the second Transaction and the Covenant Derivative Finisht The Church Regenerate the Ultimate End of this whole work of Condescentions for Redemption as the New Creation of God This Consequentiall upon the Covenant Derivative and Covenant Derivative Finisht The Consequentials involved in the Heads of Apostleship SCripture comprehended in the Emergent Revelations unto the Patriarchs Moses the Prophets Jesus Christ and the Apostles The subject matter of Those Records That Revelation by them to us onely Divine And the Tradition of it from them to us onely Authenticke The Trinity of Condescensions for Administrations in the Apostolate of Jesus Christ The Father now Anoynting as Lord The Sonne Anoynted as Servant The Holy Ghost the Energie of the Father by Procession from Him in fullnesse on the Sonne and by and from Him in the severall dispensations the Principle of speciall Administrations for Revelation included in the Covenant Derivative as the subject matter of his Apostleship and implied in the principle of this House of Administrations The Subadministrators by whom that Apostleship of Jesus Christ was executed in all Ages to whom the word of Reconciliation was committed and with whom it was to remaine and be continued unto the end of the world both as to the prime Ordinances The Power of sending and Government and secondary Ordinances the Administration of the Word and Sacrament by those that are so sent The Church Congregate the Ultimate End of this whole work of Condescensions for Administrations and so the Last in these consequentials that He might sanctifie and cleanse it with washing of water by the Word the Initiating Sacrament to this Church that He might as Apostle present it unto himself as Mediator a Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing Eph. 5.26 27. The Influence of the Spirituall Theologicall Grounds represented in the inner Lines their Juncture and Union with the Naturall and Morall Theologicall Heads on which they terminate themselves HAving thus given in summe the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Narrative of the Things as they are as well Hyperphysicall as Physicall and Morall with their relative Consequentials separate and apart we farther desire for the farther comprobating of the Scheme to suggest the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or manner how in Juncture with themselves and each other they so become one entire Body as we have represented them in It. And first in all humble confidence presuming upon that Demonstration which by his Outgoings the Infinite Immortall Incomprehensible Godhead hath given of it self we do in conformity thereto suppose and by those Lines issuing from the Essence and terminated on the Subsistencies expresse Their Coessentiall Inbeings their Coeternall and Coequall Emanations i. Flowings forth from It. The termination of those Lines upon the Figures 1 2 3. speaketh not their Priority or Posteriority in order of Nature they being so Coequall and Coeternall but onely sheweth their Order of Working demonstratively evident from their after-works in their subsistentiall Actings and energeticall Operations according to their distinct respective specifications for Nature Grace Glory Because there must be Nature i. Being from the Creator before there can be Impresse upon that Being i. Grace from the Word And there must be Nature and Grace from both before They can be anneal'd or fix'd by the Third the Spirit to make that Grace become Nature i. Glory Inchoate in the Earnest consummate here or Glory in full i. absolutely consummate upon Translation And secondly with the same confidence because upon the same grounds of the Subsistencies in Their Outgoings demonstrating themselves we do determine of their respective Energies i. their Working Powers or Spirits One with themselves and therefore distinct from each other as Themselves are And though One with themselves and distinct from each other yet the same Energie from One and the same Subsistency diversifying it self for operations towards and upon the Creature becometh varied in Each and all those Operations according to the capacity of the Subject in its respective states of Constitution and Restauration in its severall Advances Nor is it without reason that we call them Energeticall Operations not simply Energies and Operations because as in and from the Subsistencies they are properly Energies so in and upon the Creature properly Energeticall Operations as we shall shew you in their union with their Heads with which they must be read as in the Order and manner of Reading we have directed All which Subsistentiall Actings and Energeticall Operations we represent by the Lines drawn from the Subsistencies terminating on their severall Heads which we are now cursorily to run over Of which the first Three give us the Constitution of the first Race of Intellectuals Consummate that is every of the Subsistencies having their Energeticall Operations in the Creation of that Race by Constitution fixt In constitution we say as deriving their Nature which we in them call simply Essence from the Creator their Grace which in them we call Specification from the Word their Glory which we in them call Consummation in constitution from the Spirit As giving us the reall ground laid by the wisedom of God in their forming for his indispensible and Absolute Reprobation of them if they should Apostatize in that All their Operations being as we have said fixt All must be equally incensed and so there could be no Interpellator to stop the Justice much lesse Mediator to undertake for them Heb. 2.16 He in no wise lald hold on the Angels i. to deliver them but took the seed of Abraham The next Three speak the Constitution of the Secohd Race not consummate Their Nature complex'd of Inner and outward Man from the Creator onely constituted i fixt Their Grace from the Word in Principle not fix't because to its fixing it prerequired a Condition on Man's part to be performed And
Covenant Derivative the subject Matter of his Apostleship the Two first are to qualifie Him for that his Office Apostolicall and are therefore to be read downwards the Third crowning him with Reward upon the same ground with the former to be read likewise upward The words Restauration executed and Revelation executed which head the points of each refer you back to the second Note in the Epicycle of their being coactuated in their respective Principles by which He was fitted for each work as That doth to the Covenant in the first Transaction when they were codecreed That single Line which from the Spirit the Third Subsistency falleth on the Covenant of Grace Derivative Finish't sheweth that the Mediator having meritoriously attained it in his Person for our Nature we in conformity performing our respective Conditions have in consequence at last from that subsistency an Impresse sealing us to Redemption proportioned to this state which that Reverse Line speaketh pointing to the Redemption it self in the Resurrection The Redemption of our Bodies Rom. 8.23 The next from the second Subsistency the Word terminated on the Church Regenerate doth give us by the Scripture on it the true and reall ground of Communication of Properties to be between the Eternall Word and the Person of the Mediator For though the Body was prepared by the Father by the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost his Energie Luk. 1.35 yet it was still as from That but the Blood of man though of the Sonne of God Sonne of God and sonne of Man being coincident the seed of David according to the flesh Rom. 1.3 But when assumed into union Hypostaticall or Plastick with the Word His Blood viz. the Mediator's becometh so the Blood of God viz. of God the Word and this People purchased by his own Blood Acts 20.28 The next Three give the varied Operations of the respective Energies as the Subject under and by their foregoing operations respectively is prepared for This work the Resurrection and by these their present Operations predisposed for the Next their future Glorification Thus 1. Nature in the Primitive state constituted by the Energie of the Creator becomes forfeited by the Fall reprieved by the Interpellation sanctified in Decree by the Compact in its first Transaction then actually sanctified in the Person of the Mediator as to the Outward man or Body by the overshaddowing of the Holy Ghost in the Covenant in its second Transaction and from that alteration thus wrought in Him Beleevers in Particular sanctified as they come under the Covenant Derivative then sealed to its Redemption in and by the Covenant Derivative Finisht And so Nature Consummate in the Earnest 2. Grace in the Primitive state the Energie of the Word in Principle but not fixt by the Fall withdrawn the Interpellation maketh way for its restoring in Decree by the Compact as That in the Decree maketh way for the Actuall restoring of it in the Person of the Mediator by the Divine nature from the Word assuming our nature into Plastick union in the second Transaction by and through whom it becometh actually conveyed by Influx unto particulars as they receive the mystery in the Covenant Derivative in the strength of which they performing the conditions in conformity required i. adhering and vanquishing the Covenant Derivative is finish't i. fixt in and on them And so Grace perfected in the Inward man 3. Glory the Energie of the Spirit in the Primitive state in Designe onely by the Fall come short of yet by the Interpellation in order to an Advance and consecutively restored in Decree by the Compact in its first transaction as actually consequent upon the work done in the Mediator's assumption into Glory in the second Transaction And in consequent merited for us and applied unto us in the Covenant Derivative Finisht the Seal in the Earnest from the Spirit And so Glory Inchoate Note first That the Fall as the frustrating of the first Designe was the Decay of all these in the Person of the first Adam The Interpellation as the Occasionall ground and the following Covenant as the Fundamentall of the Restauration of them were Subsistentiall Acts betwixt themselves and so forensick to Our Natures The actuall restoring them in the second Transaction in the Person of the Mediator was by Energies and Energeticall Operations and so intrinsick to our nature but terminated in his Person The subsequent Operations in their severall Advances as being Energeticall likewise are intrinsick to our natures in our own persons as we encreasing with the encreasings of God are made conformable to the Image of his Sonne Note Secondly That in all these severall Personall Acts and Energeticall Operations on this side the Fall in their prequalifying Advances The Succeeding are not attainable ordinarily untill the Acts and Operations immediately foregoing have had their Designed Works on or in relation to our nature and Persons because the foregoing onely do predispose and render the subject in and on whom They are wrought capable of the exalted operations immediately following Thus the severall foregoing Operations gradually heightning and advancing our Nature and Persons untill Nature and Grace be consummate in the Earnest we do by that Sealing rest in Hope then raised according to that Hope in this The First Resurrection we have from the Creator by his Energie in a varied Operation Nature in the state of Integrity constituted now Restored Grace from the Word in like manner then in Principle but not fixt now in Principle and fixt Glory from the Spirit then likewise in Designe onely now secured This being the sealing to the Day of Translation intercepted by the Fall Thirdly In concurrence with this latter Note this we must also farther suggest and add that as the Prequalifying Operation is of the Nature of Disposition unto the after Advance so by the after exalted Operation the former Prequalification becometh to be of the Nature of Habit. And being thus brought to the Point where we first set forth and from whence we departed the proper sense of the Apostles word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which hath hitherto been rendred the Restitution of all things Acts 3.21 with this farther advantage that we are sealed to Translation we have in our actuall Translation in consequence of that Seale Nature by the Creator then onely restored now by a varied operation Exalted That Grace from the Word then onely in principle and fixt now Glorified That Glory from the Spirit then onely secured now consummate Then come in those Notes Of which the first The Subsistencies themselves now Comprehensible because Face to Face c. occasioneth us upon review of that Attribute of Incomprehensibility the Boundary of created natures to give you in scale when and upon what grounds in predication of God thus diversly considered in Essence Subsistencies Energies and Operations the Person of the Mediator with his Energies and Operations it becometh moveable when fixt i. when He is Incomprehensible when and how Comprehensible unto
is a Going out of the Land of the Living but made up also by the first Resurrection as That of the Fall by the Interpellation And the state of Nature in the Fall with this state of Nature in Death being the terminating puncts of the Epicycle speaketh that the matter contained in that Epicycle viz. The Ordinances principled by the unction relating unto the Reparation of that Darknesse contracted in the Fall are though in their severall diversifications to continue untill now the State of Nature in Death as the Day of Grace vouchsafed by God to mortals in and by the Ordinances the lifting up the Light of his countenance upon us In like manner as the Interpellation and Covenant in the Circle did primarily relate unto that Death into which we were sunk but to be delivered from in the first Resurrection by Him that by the Union of Natures brought Immortality to light which he published in the Gospel and in whom whilst Our Life is hid and we by the Spirit sealed our flesh may in this even the state of Death rest in Hope The Notes under the Diagram THe two Notes the One concerning Decrees Eternall as they speake of Election and Reprobation the Other of Attributes are next to be considered which because we foresee may raise some prejudice being here as Notes in barre and in the foot of our Diagramme which in other Systemes and Bodies of Divinity have been presupposed for Truths and laid as Praecognita and Primo-creaita to be foreknown and first assented unto We are for the justifying of our method in these and other particulars coincident with them viz. God in unity Trinity by Generation and Procession Decrees Attributes and Scripture by all others laid together as Prolegomena and certain Premissa as we have said to be first believed necessitated to desire the Ingenuous and unprejudiced Reader to consider that this having been a work purely of disquisition we could not without violence to the nature of Primitive Truths which we hold sacred or distorting their Order which were piacular represent them otherwise or in other order than they gave themselves Wherefore we first consider God in Unity not as a Postulatum to be premised but as the first Truth Trinity hath its place as a Consequentiall inferred as to us from their works ad extra The Creation and Restauration Generation referred to the Person of the Mediator Procession to the Apostolicall Principle and Work And for Decrees of Election and Reprobation our first Note in their notion of Eternall waved we give in supplement the Compact betwixt the Creator and Word and the Decree thereupon in the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction And because there limited to his Person when He should be Incarnate and become a Mediator and to our nature but as He assumed it we referre the more explicit consideration of this Decree of Election and Reprobation as it may concern and lay hold on us in particulars unto the Covenant with us of Grace Derivative and Covenant of Grace Derivative Finisht on which They must necessarily depend For the Attributes the second Note that they should be treated of onely where they emerge is so congruous both with the Word and Thing that we suppose the speaking it onely is sufficient to evince it Yet our Diagramme therefore representeth in view onely and overtly the Attributes Essentiall as the onely and all that are appropriate to the Essence viz. Infinite the genus to Eternity Immensity with such like Immortall i. self-living and with reference to the Creature All Incomprehensible Then the Attributes Subsistentiall from their Inbeing Coessentiall and from their Emanation as Subsistencies Emanant and Emaned Coequall and Coeternall which implyed that all the other Attributes viz. Goodnesse Omnipotency Omnipresency Wisedom Justice which we according to the nature of the thing call Operating Attributes that is in their Personall or Energeticall Actings exerted either in the Creation or Administration of the creature must be delitescent and covert unto us untill they disclose themselves in the respective Heads where they are exerted Nor could we be satisfied in our selves with the imposing of Scripture with the rest of their Prolegomena seeing we could not state it demonstratively untill we had summed up the Emergent Revelations of which it is a Sacred Record those Revelations from God making good by parts these Principles and that Body of Scripture from Men divinely inspired and assisted making good unto us those Revelations But it will be sufficient at present to say that these thus distributed according unto that order which they have in nature is a sufficient warrant for our thus disposing of them in Diagramme which we shall more fully assert when by the Continuance of that grace that is given us of God we shall on these Foundations raise the superstructure and finish the Building in our larger work The Use of all is First As the generall of the Designe by this Series of things which are the first Truths to give in Diagramme an Entire Summe or Body of Divinity Reall that is a Series of all Primitive Truths Theologicall neither Defective nor Redundant evidenced by their Concatenations And then this Diagramme by its exact Concatenations justifying it self as before We do secondly propose it as the Fundamentals in Modell to be the ground of demonstration unto all Dogmaticall and Practicall Truths according to the Title of which we shall shew you a clearer use in our Essay Mathematicall which is to be part of the Prodromus Nor can it be just cause of offence either as restreining the liberty of some or as giving check to the magisteriall determinations of others seeing it is of universall consent that All deduced Theoremes and consequentiall inferences cannot otherwise be evidenced for truths in what science soever but by their proportion with their respective Fundamentals When we say Fundamentals in the Plurall we comprehend the first Angular or corner-stone Truth the knowledge of God and acknowledgement of Him as He hath manifested himself and of all the rest in a connected dependance with and on it Each and every one constituted in it self and having its respective Contignation with the precedent and consequent from the Look before the Creation unto the State of Glorification neither in a Heape of Confusion a discretive Independencie of each other or the Angular nor in a dislocation of Disorder And then we say and affirm That these thus considered and disposed are so the genuine and naturall Fundamentals unto all Dogmaticall and Practicall Truths in matters Sacred and Divine that what can be demonstrated by these and that onely ought to be believed and practised that is our Grounds sound our Deductions certain we may then and then onely securely rest in them Nor let it seem strange if we also say that all our Confessions of Faith as by the Analogie must necessarily be formed according to It and all Our Liturgies of Worship must in congruity be