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
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
Their Glory from the Spirit which should have fixed Grace and consummated Nature in Designe onely which we have made the Line to say in that it comes not home because the Energie it self could not be attained but upon perseverance And this gives us the like reall ground of the possibility of restoring this Race if they should Fall because their Constitution was not in their creation consummate The Inhibition hath no Energeticall line terminating on it because not convoying any thing to his nature but onely as of Positive Precept a Negative Law laying hold on him as from the Lord and Soveraigne of his Person Nor hath the Fall any It being his Defection from the God of Nature by his breach of the Covenant of Nature and his Rebellion against the Soveraigne of his Person by his transgression of the Law yet the Consequenâ—s thereof being proportioned to his constitution by the Energies to wit his Nature forfeited into the hands of the Creator from whom it derived its constitution his Grace in Principle the Energie from the Word withdrawn because the condition unperformed not fix't And his Glory in designe from the Spirit come short of because He persevered not minister unto us the reall ground why the Justice of the Creator onely remaineth to be satisfied and mankinde in the Protoplast delinquent to him alone But that the Justice of the Creator might be satisfied order of of nature requireth that It first be suspended And that Suspension must as necessarily precede the Restauration in Decree as satisfaction made good must precede the Actuall Restauration And here we are cast upon disquisition How Mankinde in the first Adam shall for the present be rescued from the Threat now a sentence And how the Justice may be superseded for the making way unto Redemption and Restauration to ensue And this we are necessitated unto that we may make up the Chasme or Hiatus in the Primitive and first Truths betwixt the State of Nature under the Guilt upon breach of Covenant and Transgression by the Fall with the Sentence thereupon And the Redemption from that Justice of the Creator and Restauration of the Race by another Covenant A Covenant of Grace For though from the consticution of this second Race we have discovered and evidenced that by the wisedom of God it was provided that their Lapse if it should become actuall should not put them beyond the possibility of Restoring yet must that incurred Sentence be revers'd as to the delinquent and that Justice stopt which we cannot referre either to the Soveraigne Love of the Creator with some or to His soveraigne Beneplacit or sovereigne Mercy with others because Man being in reall Guilt and under an actuall sentence it would crosse those his other Attributes of Soveraigne Holinesse Justice and Truth already fixt in the Covenant and Threat To salve therefore that crossing of Attributes we have by disquisition found and do give another expedient which we call The interpellation of the Eternall Word so the Line speaks it God of God that is God the Word the second Subsistencie of God in Essence not Christ the Word Incarnate which was the Person of the Mediator Interposing himself And this putting himself in the Gap was His the Word's work solitarily A Rescue upon his self worth And this besides the salving of that Crossing of the Attributes gives us in consequence First A Plumbe-Line by which we sound and fathome in the after Capitulation the depth of the wisedom of the Creator in transmitting not disanulling the Curse in delivering not absolving the delinquent and by that mortality introduced upon the Temptation and Fall destroying the Enemy himself and discover the Bottom upon which the submission of God the Word is also grounded for making satisfaction unto that Justice because from It he rescued mankinde Secondly It reacheth unto us a Jacob's-staff whereby we may take the true height of the Divine Nature of Jesus Christ the Mediator and demonstratively conclude from his satisfaction made Him to be the same Eternall Word then Incarnate which now Interpellated and Capitulated This Head thus discover'd will be Fruitfull for the evidencing of many other particulars which have their first Root in it which we do at present pretermit not willing to anticipate our selves in our larger compleat Prodromus nor in our after larger work Upon the Covenant Primitive in the first Transaction two Lines terminate from the Creator and Word These two Subsistencies being the onely Parties interessed in that Covenant whose respective works the words on the Lines speak which doth import that the Third Subsistency as to capitulation is not concerned because his work was but in Designe in the Constitution of the first Adam by the Covenant of Nature and therefore but consecutive upon the work undertaken in Decree and not till executed to be actually the consummating Principle in and to the second Adam by this Covenant of Grace And this with the Interpellation we are bold to affirm the Beginning of the Gospel The New Creation and to be intended by the Foundation of the VVorld and by all the like Gospel expressions This being the Foundation of the World of Regeneration simply and properly so called as in Gospel sense Yea and the Foundation of the very visible world by the same Figure that the Holy Ghost using hath sanctified to my hand when he affirmeth Heb. 11.19 that Abraham received his sonne Isaac from the 〈◊〉 after a Figure For if the rescuing of Isaac from the sacrificing sword and the providing a Ramme to be sacrificed in his stead made that his Deliverance to be a Resurrection How much more shall this Interpellationall Rescue and Compact for preparing a Ransome unto Man the Heir and Lord of the Creation with the whole Fabrick provided for him forfeited by the Fall be accounted both to him and it a New Creation Trinity Supream as a Consequentiall from the Primitive Fundamentals we have stated in the Systeme of Consequentials Note first that that Line to the Interpellation and Those two to the Covenant Primitive are not Energeticall but Personall Acts For as Personall Consultation was necessary before they did exert their Energies to Constitution so man having here destroyed himself there is a like reason for This their second Consultation before they could exert their Energies to Restauration Secondly Nor is that which we draw from those of the first Race which adhered and stood but only doth denote by the words upon it when they became Ministring spirits as a farther justification of our calling of them Intellectuals there and not Angels till here Those Three that fall upon the Covenant Primitive in the second Transaction are purely Energeticall the Two first qualifying him for Duty of Mediator Sponsor undertaken which we therefore reade downwards The Third crowning him with the Reward appropriate to the work of Mediator Regenerator upon the Duty performed which we therefore reade upward Of the other Three which fall upon the
us viz. GOD in Essence absolute simply and in Himself Incomprehensible The manner of the Inbeing and Emanation of the Subsistencies so also But then because the Essence by the Emanation as a nearer approach to the creature manifesteth it self subsistentiated And the Subsistencies render themselves comprehensible mediately by their Energies in their Operations immediate therefore when we shall have past all the Advances of the varied Operations and so become made fit by Glorification for the receiving of their Energies immediately Nature which Adam forfeited fully redeemed and exalted the Principle of Grace from which He fell by Restauration fixt and Glorified the Principle of Glory of which He came short of as of Auction secured and Attained and so we Consummate The Subsistencies themselves must necessarily then become Comprehensible And from this ground we have the sense of the Apostles words 1 Cor. 13.12 Face to Face and Know as Known which we have therefore made the close of this Note And that the Apostle's words having found their proper ground do naturally speak their sense to be as we have given it is most evident because Comprehensibility being formally an Attribute upon Communion betwixt God and the Creature Consequentiall upon his Being and not as the other Attributes from God unto the Creature Constitutive of his Being It must therefore necessarily follow that his Being once restored and God taking us into Immediate Communion of the Subsistencies the End of the whole work He then turn his Face unto us and we have Immediate vision i. Face to Face The Communication under Moses his Administrations being but his back Parts of Types to Ours And Ours The Gospel administrations but mediate in the Face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor 4.6 i. by his Energies as Mediator and Apostle not Face to Face of the Subsistencies by their Energies Though when we come thus Face to Face and that the Subsistencies become thus comprehensible Incomprehensibility is even then and afterwards fixt to the Essence as that Abysse unfathomable that state of Godhead Incomprehensible according to the second Note Essence as They in it in the Inbeing It in them Subsistentiated and Emaned now and for ever incomprehensible The Consideration of Our Lord Jesus Christ as represented in this Scheme relative to his distinct Offices and Works of Mediatorship and Apostleship FRom these Inward Lines and their junctures with themselves and the rest of the Body as the Spirit and Informing part of the whole That which next occurres is the consideration of our Lord Jesus Christ through whom onely we can blesse God because through Him onely God hath been thus good unto us in whom all these Advances being first wrought they through Him are as we have said transmitted unto us Him therefore we represent I. Standing upon that direct Energeticall Line from the Word the Divine constitutive Principle by which He assumed our Nature so the words on the Line speak The Eternall Spirit by which He offered up Himself i. His Humane Nature without spot Heb. 9.14 for by the same by which He offered up Himself He must assume it II. Plac't betwixt the severall Energeticall Lines relatively qualifying Him for each Office and Work and conferring the respective appropriate Rewards on Him as Mediator for Man to God in the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the second Transaction and as Apostle from God to Man for promulgating the Covenant Derivative III. Standing also upon his Administrations Patriarchall Mosaicall Propheticall in which Revelation in Shadow Redemption in Type Interlegall as in John Baptist's Ministry preparing his way beforehis Face And Evangelicall in which Revelation before in shadow is now in Substance Redemption before in Type is now in Truth The Consideration of the Crosse Lines or Lines of Commensuration THe Crosse Lines of which in the third Note in the order and manner of Reading are Commensurations of the severall states under those Heads where they terminate we have only this to advert that as the words at either end of them separately considered are the Gages of that state so relatively considered they are the Graines of difference which ballance them Thus first though onely Confirmation was the state of the first Race which adhered and stood yet Confirmation of the second Race could not have ballanc't them without Translation Secondly The Gage of the state of Nature in Integrity being as on the Commensuration Line Ingenerate and unto Glory but determinable presupposing the first Designe of God and That frustrated by the Lapse neverthelesse then though supposing the Interpellation and Covenant for restoring of it cannot That State of Nature be commensurate but by the state of Nature in and after the Resurrection and yet This state hath its graines of difference Regenerate for Ingenerate for Determinable Determinate Thirdly The State of Nature in the Fall because Death in the Root commensurate with the state of Nature in Death with which it cannot be ballanc't untill what Here was in Root by the Fall hath passed over all There by Death the Merit here the wages there Fourthly and lastly That the Gentiles under the Generall Ordinances and their Instructing Paedagogie of the creature-Administrations with the work of the Law written in their hearts if working Righteousnesse according to the purport of the words on the Commensurating Line are as to the Common Interest of Eternall salvation in equall ballance with the Jew and Christian saving that these latter had their Prerogatives as the Graines of difference the speciall Adminisirations The One the Adoption the Glory the Covenants Rom. 9.4 5. The Other 3â— the Kingdom of God and the Righteousnesse thereof Matth. 6. as speciall assistances and more conducible meanes though varied unto Each respectively unto that one Common End of All Sal. vation The Import of those Words THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD LAstly that you see in Capitals these Words THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD taking place between GOD in Essence the Subsistencies and their Energies in their first Operations for constitution of the First and Second Race as situate above them And separating Those Above as the First part of the Scale from the Subsistentiall Actings and the same Energies and their Operations varied for the Constitution of Jesus Christ Mediator and Apostle upon and after consultation to restore the second Part of the Scale together with those Divine Principles in Jesus Christ constituted and for execution of that second Consultation to us ward by Him exerted in whose Person as the Restauration was first wrought so by Him was it to be perfected in us the third Part of the Scale Both these latter gradually in situation as in order of nature beneath Them We do assign unto Our Spirit The Intellectuall Nature its peculiar Object purely spirituall abstract from matter and without the mediation of sense the Knowledge and Acknowledgement of God as represented in this Scheme For want of which we do but groape after God not knowingly contemplate or adore Him For how can we ascend
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