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A26345 The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally receiv'd as being prov'd from scripture : now further cleared and confirm'd by the consonant doctrine recorded in the articles and homilies of the Church of England ... / by Tho. Adams ... Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653. 1675 (1675) Wing A493; ESTC R32695 131,046 217

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day e 1 Joh. 5.13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the Name of the Son of God that ye may know that ye have eternal life What benefits do Believers receive from Christ at their resurrection f Heb. 12.23 And to the spirits of just men made perfect g Phil. 1.23 Having a desire to depart and to be with Christ. h 1 Thes. 4.14 Them also which sleep in Iesus will God bring with him i Isa. 52.7 He shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his uprightness k Job 19.26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God What benefits do Believers receive from Christ at the Resurrection l 1 Cor. 15.43 It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory m Mat. 10.32 Whosoever shall confess me before men him will I also confess before my Father which is in Heaven n 1 Joh. 3.2 When he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is o 1 Thes. 4.17 And so shall we ever be with the Lord. What is the duty which God requireth of man p Mic. 6.8 He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God What did God at first reveal unto man for the rule of his obedience q Rom. 2.14 For when the Gentiles which have not the the Law do by nature the things contained in the Law these having not the Law are a Law unto themselves 15. Which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts Where is the Moral Law summarily comprehended r Deut. 10.4 And he wrote on the Tables according to the first writing the Ten Commandments Mat 19.17 If thou wilt enter into life keep the Commandments What is the sum of the Ten Commandments s Mat. 22.37 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind 38. This is the first and great Commandment 39. And the second is like unto it Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self 40. On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets What is the Preface to the Ten Commandments t Exod. 20.2 What doth the Preface to the Ten Commandments teach us u Deut. 11.1 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God and keep his charge and his statutes and his judgments and his Commandments alway Luk. 1.74 That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear 75. In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our lives What is the first Commandment What is required in the first Commandment w 1 Chron. 28.9 And thou Solomon my Son Know thou the God of thy Father x Deut. 26.16 Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God and to walk in his ways and to keep his statutes and his Commandments and his judgments and to hearken to his voice y Mat. 4.10 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve What is forbidden in the first Commandment z Psal. 14.1 The fool hath said in his heart there is no God a Rom. 1.20 So that they are without excuse 21. Because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God b Psal. 81.11 But my people would not hearken unto my voice and Israel would none of me c Rom. 1.25 Who changed the truth of God into a lye and worshipped and served the creatures more than the Creator who is blessed for ever What are we especially taught by these words before me in the first Commandment d Psal. 44.20 If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange God 21. Shall not God search out this What is the second Commandment What is required in the second Commandment e Deut. 32.46 Set your hearts unto all the words which I testifie among you this day which ye shall command your children to observe to do all the words of this Law Mat. 28.20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you f Deut. 12.32 What thing soever I command you observe to do it thou shalt not add thereto nor diminish from it What is forbidden in the second Commandment g Deut. 4.15 Take ye therefore good heed unto your selves for ye saw no manner of similitude in the day that the Lord spoke unto you in Hor●● 16. Lest you corrupt your selves and make you a graven Image h Col. 2.18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels intruding into those things which he hath not seen vainly puss't up by his fleshly mind What are the Reasons annexed to the second Commandment i Psal. 95.2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and make a joyful noise unto him with Psalms 3. For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all Gods k Psal. 45.11 He is thy Lord and worship thou him l Exod. 34.14 Thou shalt worship no other God for the Lord whose name is jealous is a jealous God Which is the third Commandment What is required in the third Commandment m Psal. 92.2 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name n Rev. 15.3 Great and marvelous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways thou King of Saints 4. Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name o Eccles. 5.1 Keep thy feet when thou goest to the house of God and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools p Psal. 38.2 I will worship towards the holy Temple and praise thy Name for thy loving-kindness and for thy Truth 's for thou hast magnified thy Word above all thy Name q Job 36.24 Remember that thou magnifie his work which men behold What is forbidden in the third Commandment r Mal. 2.2 If ye will not hear and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory unto thy Name saith the Lord of Hosts I will even send a curse upon you What is the reason annexed to the third Commandment s Deut. 28.58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this Law that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful Name the Lord thy God 59. Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful Which is the fourth Commandment What is required in the fourth Commandment t Deut 19.30 Ye shall keep my Sabbath and reverence my Sanctuary I am the Lord. Deut. 5.12 Keep the Sabbath-day to sanctifie it as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath u Gen. 2.3 And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made w Act. 20.7 And upon the first day of the
having broken became liable unto death or to the curse of the Law This Covenant which God entered into with the first Adam was in Paradise a Covenant or Law of Works Do this and live But that Covenant which God hath establisht in Christ the second Adam with all Believers since the Fall whether in the Old or New Testament 't is a Covenant of Grace and the grand Condition of this Covenant on mans part or the qualification whereby he is fitted and capacitated to receive the benefit of this Covenant 't is the righteousness of Faith for it runs thus Believe and live not that the Covenant of Grace whether in the Old or New Testament does not require new obedience but that it does not require this in order to justification for this new obedience or this obedience of Faith it is rather the fruit or effect than the instrumental cause means or condition of justification But more distinctly amongst those many differences which are wont to be assigned by Divines betwixt the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace we may take notice of these 1. The Covenant of Works was made with man before the Fall before he had sinned against God the Covenant of Grace afterward 2. The Covenant of Works did not promise pardon upon repentance the Covenant of Grace does because Christ the Mediator of this Covenant has purchased pardon for all penitent sinners who have but a hand of Faith to receive it 3. The Covenant of Works was without a Mediator for till man had sinned he needed none to mediate peace betwixt God and him but the Covenant of Grace is established in the hands of a Mediator sc. Christ Jesus perfect God and perfect man that he might make a reconciliation betwixt God and Man 4. In the Covenant of Nature or Works Adam was only the Son of God by Creation but in the Covenant of Grace those who were children of wrath do through Faith become the Children of God by Grace and Adoption 5. The Covenant of Works had for its Seals of confirmation or for the Sacraments of it the Tree of life so called because it did sacramentally confirm the promise of life upon condition of perfect obedience and the Tree of knowledg of good and evil which was so called from the event because man having sinned in eating the forbidden fruit he presently came to know by a sad experiment what an infinite good he had lost in losing Gods favour and what misery and mischief he had brought upon himself But now the Seals or Sacraments of the Covenant of Grace were under the Old Testament Circumcision and the Paschal Lamb and now under the New Testament Baptism and the Lords Supper 6. In the Covenant of Works there was no place at all for Gods further exercising of his patience grace and mercy but in the Covenant of Grace his mercy most is signally display'd yea and that which is a mystery as well as a miracle of Divine Wisdom here we may see mercy and justice kiss each other in the satisfaction that Christ has made And as the Covenant of Grace and the Covenant of Works do differ in the foregoing particulars so doth the Covenant of Grace under the Old Testament differ from the Covenant of Grace under the New Testament though these are not two but one Covenant in substance in clearness for till the Law or from Adam to Moses the Promise of Grace was more obscure under Moses more clear from Moses to the Prophets yet more clear from them to Iohn the Baptist yet more clear and from him to Christ yet more clear and under the preaching of Christ whilst he was fulfilling the Promises yet abundantly more clear than under Iohn but most clear of all when Christ had finished the work of Redemption by price and was ascended into Heaven and had sent down his Spirit upon his Apostles in that plentiful effusion of the Spirit at the time of Pentecost Act. 2. A. 13. Our first Parents being left to the freedom of their own will fell from the state wherein they were created by sinning against God To. 2. Hom. xiij Par. 2. When our great Grandfather Adam had broken Gods Commandment in eating the Apple forbidden him in Paradise at the motion and suggestion of his wife he purchased thereby not only to himself but also to his posterity for ever the just wrath and indignation of God who according to his former Sentence pronounced at the giving of the Commandment condemned both him and all his to everlasting death both of body and soul. Expl. 13. Here for explanation sake we may observe 1. That our first Parents were created with freedom of will i. e. if they would have continued in their obedience they might for they had a power to obey God perfectly and if they would sin they might God left them and that very justly to themselves he being not bound to hinder them though he could from sinning against him 2. That by their sinning against God they lost this freedom and with it all that happiness which did belong to a state of innocence and integrity for by their fall they were so bruised in all their powers and faculties that they became unable to serve God and so bemired with the guilt and pollution of sin that they were altogether unfit to enjoy God A. 14. Sin is any want of conformity unto or transgression of the Law of God Expl. 14. This description of sin doth agree to sins of all sorts original or actual and these whether in thought word or deed whether of omission or commission of ignorance or of knowledg of infirmity or presumption and to sins of all degrees and sizes whether great or small for in all sin whatsoever whether it be of men or Devils there is a want of conformity to the Law of God and a violation of his just will as well as a repugnancy to the holiness of his nature Neither is it improper to place the nature of sin in a privation or want of conformity for it is that which doth deprive and rob the rational creature of the rectitude or moral perfection of his own nature which doth consist in his being like to God and in being conformable to his will A. 15. The sin whereby our first Parents fell from the estate wherein they were created was their eating the forbidden fruit Homil. xij This first man Adam who having but one Commandment at Gods hand namely that he should not eat of the fruit of knowledg of good and evil did notwithstanding most unmindfully or rather most wilfully break it in forgetting the strait charge of his Maker and giving ear to the crafty suggestion of that wicked Serpent the Devil Expl. 15. In this A. there are two things remarkable 1. That our Parents by sinning lost that state of perfection which they had in Paradise and Christ only excepted whatever some Quakers dream there was never any