Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	divine_a	trinity_n	unity_n	2,602	5	9.3119	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41495	The compleat gentleman, or, Directions for the education of youth as to their breeding at home and travelling abroad in two treatises / by J. Gailhard ...	Gailhard, J. (Jean)	1678 (1678)	Wing G118; ESTC R11538	187,544	338

co-essential in nature co-eternal in time and co-equal or together equal in power these persons are distinguished not divided amongst them is an order without confusion the nature is spiritual and consequently immaterial and uncorruptible simple without any composition whether metaphysical of substance and accident physical of matter and form or moral of act and power It is infinite eternal unchangeable and independent Now this God is known to us in his Nature Attributes whether incommunicable such as we named just now or communicable as are his Justice Goodness Mercy and Wisdom whereof he is pleased to impart some drops to his creatures and in his works which his word doth inform us of either explicitly or by clear and necessary consequence Now therefore that there is a God in whom we live move and have our being w●o is a rewarder of all men according to their deeds who having made the world formed man after his image and that man through his disobedience infidelity and pride fell from that estate of innocency and integrity wherein he was created which not only brought guilt upon him and all mankind but also punishment and misery consisting in death of afflictions natural spiritual and eternal insomuch that thereby we are all fallen into temporal and become guilty of everlasting pains and damnation out of which we cannot be delivered by any strength wisdom or capacity of ours th●refore God out of his wonderful and infinite mercy promised a Saviour from time to time renewed the promises sealed and confirmed them by several types figures who would come in the fulness of times to satisfie his Justice appease his Wrath make a full expiation for our sins and reconcile us to God This Saviour was to represent our person put himself in our place and suffer the pains and torments we had deserved Because humane nature had offended he was to be a man otherwise it had not consisted with the justice of God to punish that nature which had not sinned and as farther it was necessary he should be a man to die so he was to be a God to conquer and overcome death In three words the substance of it is that there is one God and that through the fall of Adam we had been all damned if God had not given us a Saviour The knowledge of these things is necessary to salvation and except we believe it we cannot be saved now all this is clearly and intelligiby expressed in Scripture so that any ordinary capacity may easily be brought to understand it and this we call necessary to be known as to the substance Under the Old Testament to know and believe this was sufficient to salvation for their Faith was extended upon a Messias to come and not upon one already come so that till the time of the Declaration who this Saviour was the object of their Faith was an Individuum Vagum and they were in the dark who that particular person should be Wherefore Iohn the Baptist confesses his ignorance in this point when he saith As for me I knew him not but he that sent me to baptize with water said c. Hence it is that he sent two of his Disciples to ask him Art thou he that should come or do we look for another He knew him by the Spirit 's descending and remaining upon him This was the characteristical note But now there is a second thing necessary to salvation to be known by all who lived since the coming in the flesh of our Saviour and under the Gospel and this is necessary as to the declaration namely that the Saviour promised prophesied of and typified is that particular person Jesus Christ both God and man Son of the Virgin Mary born in Bethlehem in the days of Herod and when by the command of Caesar Augustus the world was to be taxed In a word the same that was Conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried and who did and suffered all things mentioned in the Gospel and in few words contained in the Apostolical Creed This same we ought to believe to be our only Saviour and Redeemer whom we ought to rely upon and put our trust in apply him to us by Faith and except we know and believe this there is no hope of salvation for us as Scripture doth fully and clearly declare so that this Principle may be infused into the meanest capacity Si Christum discis nihil est si caetera nescis Si Christum nescis nihil est si caetera discis But in the third place there are some things contained in Scriptures concerning which the Spirit of God hath not been pleased clearly to reveal his mind to us As revealed things belong to men so secret things belong to God which we must not pry into nor presume beyond what is written Prophecies are certainly dark till they become a History for to understand them before they are fulfilled one must be endued with a Prophetical Spirit Besides Prophecies there are other Points attended with many difficulties which Doctors themselves labour and study very hard to understand Such are the ways and manners of things That things are is a matter of fact and after God hath said in his word they are so it admits of no difficulty out of this Principle That God is the God of Truth but the manner of things is that which breeds scruples the word being either silent or dark about it As for instance that there is one God in Nature and three Persons Scripture doth clearly set it forth in several places and if this truth be obscure in one Text some other place of Scripture will clear it it being proper to Scripture to explain it self by it self yet how this Unity and Trinity can consist together though learned men be able to apprehend yet mean persons and low capacities are not capable of it so is the mystery of Incarnation how the second Person who hath Divine Nature can assume Humane Nature and yet the Father and Holy Ghost who have both Divine Nature should not be Incarnated and again how both Natures can be united in one Person and the idiomes and proprieties of every Nature should not be united but every Nature should retain her own attributes without mixture or confusion yet this we know to be true but cannot dive into the manner how this is done There are also other things as the day when the great judgment shall be and where it is to be and what places Heaven and Hell shall be in which arise from vanity and unnecessary Curiosity Other questions there are which men ought not to dispute too much about because they are somewhat problematical and good and learned men do differ in their opinion concerning them as may be this Whether there will be degrees of Glory and whether this world shall be changed as to the substance or only in the accidents all which