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Beams of divine light: or Some brief hints of the being and attributes of God and of the three persons in the God-Head. Also proving the deity of Christ, and of the Holy-Ghost. Written at the request of a most pious, and and honourable citizen of London. And published by him for the sake of the poorer sort of Christians, in these perilous times.
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Cursed is Man that trusteth in Man and mâââ Flesh his Arm if therefore Christ be no mothan a meer Man we are Cursed of God we trust in him 5. Furthermore then also Chââ could not satisfie Divine Jusâice for our Sââ which were imputed to him because ââ nite Being or a meer Creature could ââ satisfie Infinite Justice and then also it ââ follow that we are yet in our Sins Rom. 5.18 19 20. and cââ not be justified by his Righteousness or Oââ dience 6. Then also it is a Vain Thing to call ââ on Jesus Christ or to pray unto him ââ cause he cannot hear us if he be a ââ Creature neither doth he know our Waâââ yet we read of such that called upon Chââââ Name Acts 7.60 and of Stephen who Called ââân ââ saying * He called on God and that God was the Lord Jesus Lord âsefus receive my Spirit 7. Furthermore if Jesus of Nazarâââ not God Most High he cannot judge the ââ crets of all Hearts because none but Gââ ââoweth and searcheth the Heart besides Jer. 17. Isa 12.3 't is ââstively said that He shall not judge after the ââght of his Eyes nor after the Hearing of the ââs 2ly and Lastly If Christ be not God by âature he shall perish because 't is said The ââds that made not the Heavens and the Earth all perish These Things being so abhor âe Damnaeble Heresies of the Socinians and âââans and the Destable and Damnable ââresie of one Matthew Caffin of Sussex and âold all that favour him or are his Abetââs for this Caffin with one Allen in my ââaring about Twelve Months agoe in a Disââe did deny that Christ was God by Naââ or God of the Essence of the Father or âân of the Substance of the Blessed Virgin or the Seed of Abraham * Those Two Things âere the Matter of the Dispute âO come not near their Meetings Nor the âârs of these Men until they have purged ânselves from the Heresie of this Evil Perââ and Grand Heretick Destroy the Foundaââ and what can the Righteous do That the Holy Ghost hath a Personal Existence and is God âHat which we mean is this that the Holy ââ Ghost is an Eternal Divine Existing â Mance or the same God or Essence with ââ Father and the Son or an Intelligent ââântary Divine Agent he knoweth he ââketh he willeth and is therefore an ââlligent Agent or Personal Subsistence â By the Spirit were the Heavens made ââ were garnished Psal 33.6 Job 26.13 The Spirit of God hath ââene 2. Act. 5.3 4. 1 Cor. 3.16 The Holy Ghost is called God 3. The Saints are the Temple of God cause the Spirit dwelleth in them 4. We are baptized into the Name ââ Father Mat. 28.19 Son and Spirit therefore the Sâââ is the same God with the Father and Soâ we are to worship and live to him 5. Mat. 12.31 The Blasphemy against the Spirit ãâã not be forgiven unto Men hence he ãâã sinn'd against with the greatest Aggravatâ therefore he is God 6. Joh. 14.26 He is called the Comforter which ãâã Personal Appellation 7. He hath Personal Properties assââ unto him 1 Cor. 12.11 as a Will He divideth uââ One as he will And hath also an Uâstanding 8. He is the Voluntary Author of all vine Operations He cherished the Cruââ moved upon the Waters Gen. 5.3 he formed the âvens he spake by the Prophets he eâââneth reneweth regenerates sancâââ guideth and teacheth us these Things ãâã he is God as well as his Personality 9. He is the Object of our Faith ãâã Love and Obedience 10. Eph. 4.30 We may grieve him Nay vex him so we cannot be said to do to a meeâ vine Quality or Operation Grief deââ or belongs to a Person 11. He is a Ruler a Governour and ââeth and disposeth of things according the Counsel of his own Will and giveth Gââ and Grace unto Men therefore God ãâã Divine Person 12. He is said to be sent and to desces likeness of a Dove upon our Saviour Mat. 3. he ãâã on him a Visible Shape to make a ãâã Representation of himself tho' he is a Spirit or a Divine Subsistence yet this was to shew he subsisteth of himself as doth the Father and Son so subsist 13. He is said to appoint or make Overseers Act. 20.28 or give Pastors to the Church 14. We have Communion with the Holy Spirit as with the Father and the Son 15. The New Creature is formed by him John 6.63 and 't is he that quickeneth us therefore he is God and a Divine Person also can he form Christ in us and not be God 16. The Holy Spirit is Omniscient The Spirit searcheth all Things yea 1 Cor. 2.10 the deep Things ââ God therefore the Holy Spirit is God or ân Infinite Essence having an Infinite Understanding 17. The Holy Spirit is Omnipresent Whether ââall I go from thy Spirit therefore God Psal 139 7. 18. The Holy Spirit is Immense or Infinite âe that fills Heaven and Earth or is every âhere and out of whose Presence we cannot go is the Eternal God but the Spirit is ââmense and Infinite filling Heaven and Earth ââe Ergo The Spirit is God 19. The Holy Ghost is Eternal he is called âe Eternal Spirit Heb. 9.14 therefore the Most High âod 20. He hath the Power of the Highest âerefore God Omnipotent Luke 1.35 The Power of the ââghest shall over-shadow thee 21. The Holy Spirit raiseth the Dead He ââsed Christ from the Dead he was Quickeââ by the Spirit therefore God 1 Pet. 3.18 22. Prayer ought to be made to the Holy âârit as unto the Father and Son 2 Cor. 13.14 and so ââal Glory is to be given to him therefore ãâã is the Most High God To Conclude Great is the Mystery of Gââliness 1 Tim. 3.16 and tho' the Mystery of the Trâââââ lies above our Reason yet we must maââ an Article of our Faith and if we can't gâââ a Reason of some Things in the Creature ãâã any Wonder we can't comprehend the ãâã Things of the Creator but tho' it be thââ yet we are bound to receive the Revelââ we have of God in his Word There are ãâã that bear Record in Heaven c. and these ãâã are One that is One God One in Essenââ And as Dr. Owen noteth On the Trinity p. 112. the Distincââ which the Soripture reveals between ãâã Son and Spirit is that whereby they ãâã Three Hypostasis or Persons distinctly âââing in the same Divine Essence upon ãâã Account of an Especial Property subââââ in an Especial Manner as in the Persââ the Father there is the Divine Essence ãâã Being with the Property of begetting ãâã Son subsisting in an Especial Manneââ the Father and the like of the Son and ãâã Holy Spirit so that each Person hath ãâã whole Divine Nature or Godhead in ãâã the Wisdom of God the Understanding God the Will of God the Immensââ God c. is in each Person not as a ââââââson but as that Person is God and as ãâã deed more to be adored then compreheââ And now unto the Father and the Sâââ the Holy Ghost be Glory Honour Wâââ Power Praise and all Divine Adoratiââ Ever and Ever Amen FINIS THe Jewish Sabbath abrogated Oâââ Saturday Sabbatarians confuted ãâã Parts c. By Benj. Keach
all Things ãâã therefore he is the Most High God 4. John 2.25 John 21.17 Rev. 2.23 Omnisciency is ascribed to him ãâã that searches the Heart and knows Things is the Most High God but ãâã searcheth the Heart and knows all ãâã therefore he is the Most High God 5. He to whom Divine Worship is ãâã or is to have the same Worship and ãâã that belongs to God the Father Heb. 1.6 John 5.23 is the ãâã Most High God but this belongs to ãâã given to Christ therefore Christ is the ãâã High God 6. Phil. 2.6 He that is Co-Equal and Co-Eternalâ Co-Essential with the Father is the Most ãâã God John 10.30 but Christ is Co-Equal Co ãâã and Co-Essential with the Father the ãâã the Most High God 7. He that can hear distinctly Ten ãâã sand Persons Prayers at one and the ãâã Time is God but Christ can and doth ãâã distinctly Ten Thousand Persons ãâã at one and the same Time if this ãâã nied what an Advocate is Christ 1 John 2.1 2. Heb. 3.25 and ãâã do our Adversaries come to God by ãâã Will they come to God by one that ãâã hear them 8. He that can pardon all Iniquity ãâã quit Sinners from Vindictive Justice is ãâã but Christ thus forgiveth Sin Mat. 9.6 Ergo 9. He that was with the Father ãâã the World was made John 17.5 and was brought ãâã ãâã Everlasting is the Most High God Prov. 8.25 26 27 28. ãâã Christ as God was with the Father ââfore the World was made and was brought ââth from Everlasting Ergo Obj. If the Father be the Only True God John 17.3 ãâã Christ is not the True God A. Our Lord does not refer to the ââson of the Father but he refers in ãâã 17.3 to all the Three Persons ãâã to the whole Godhead in the Father ãâã Christ is called the True God 1 John ãâã 1 Tim. 2.5 Also when Paul saith to us There is One ãâã and One Mediator c. he refers to all ãâã Three Persons in the Godhead and as ãâã Second Person took our Nature into ãâã with himself he is Mediator but by ãâã of this Union he ceaseth not to be ãâã Moreover by reason of this Union Act. 20.28 ãâã Blood is called the Blood of God beââse the Divine or Humane Nature makes ãâã one Person or but one Christ 10. He that is Omnipresent and is with his ãâã on Earth always is the Most High ãâã but Christ is Omnipresent and is with ãâã People always on Earth Mat. 28.20 c. 11. He that is the First and the Last Rev. 1.8 and ãâã Almighty is the Most High God but âârist is the First and the Last and The ââighty Ergo Secondly Christ is truly Man and so Man ââell as God in one Person God of the âânce of the Father and Man of the Subââce of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1. He was Conceived of the Virgin 2. Born of her and sucked her Breast 3. Made of a Woman 4. Of the same Flesh and Blood that the Children of God are of Heb. 2.14 15 16. He took not on his the Nature of Angels but he took on him the Seed of Abraham 5. Act. 12.30 God sware to David of the Fruit of ââ Loins he would raile up Christ c. therefore they that deny he took the same Flesh of ââ not David's Seed speak blasphemously ââ God as if he were forsworn 6. He is the Root of David accordiââ to his Godhead and the Off-spring ââ David according to his Man-hood Rev. 22. â6 or David's Lord and David's Son 7. Otherwise he is not our Kinsman 8. Nor could he be our Saviour because it was Man that sinn'd and Man me satissie 9. He could not dye had he not beââ Man nor he could not have satisfied had ââ not been God for only an Infinite Persââ could satissie Insinite Justice or give an ââ finite Satisfaction to God 10. Eph. 5.30 He is said to be Flesh of our âleâ and Bone of our Bone The Dangerous Consequences the attend the Pernâcious Error â Denying the Godhead of Jesââ Christ Quest WHat tho' I do not believe tââ Christ is the Most High Gââ if I do believe that Jesus of Nazareth is my ââ Saviour A. 1. Such that deny Jesus of Nazuâ to be Most High God â Pet. 2.1 2. Dâ dery the Lord ââ bââght them and all such Persons are guilty ââ Damnable Heresie and bring upon themâââves swift Destruction 't is not enough to beââeve in that Christ but we must believe who that Christ is Joh. 8.24 or we must Dye in our ââiâs Our Lord would have his Disâiples know who he the Son of Man is and ââuer said Thou art Christ that refers to his ââmane Nature the Son of the Living God Mat. 16.15 16. ââst resers to his Divine Nature And on âis Faith Christ hath built his Church so âit that Church which is not built on this âââh or upon this Confession is no True ââuch of Christ 2. Such that deny Christ to be the Most ââgh God do justisie the Jews John 10.33 John 5.18 in charging ââ with Blasphemy they saying He beââg no more than a Man made himself equal ââth God Now had he not been equal ââth God would he thus have said conâning himself or could he without Blasâemy so own himself Besides when he ââ He was the Son of God they understood ââ meant God by Nature or his Son by Eterââ Generation which he denied not but cââred himself so to be and so to be acââowledged and confessed 3. If Christ is not the Most High God ââ also it would be Idolatry to give Diâe Worship to him because such that âdore him do worship a meer Creaât or One who by Nature is no God and so âe That Glory unto another Isa 42.8 which belongs God only Nay and then also God hath his Word led his poor Creatures into a ââe and to do that which his Nature ââtreth as the worst of Evils viz. Inââoss Idolatry in requiring all to worship the Son John 5.23 Heb. 1.6 and to give the same Honour to him that they are to give to the Father and in his Word to say His Sââ wae with God John 1 2.3 Phil. 2.6 Rom. 9.5 Col. 1.17 and was God and was equââ with God nay the True God and God oâââ all and that God that made all Things aââ by whom all Things consist would he haââ done thus had not Christ been the same Meââ High God or can it consist with the Wââdom and Holiness of God to lead his Crâââtures into such a Snare 4. Moreover If Jesus of Nazareth is ââ the Most High God he cannot be our Sââ our nor ought we to trust in him for noââ is our Saviour but God alone I am God ââ besides me there is no Saviour Isa 43.11 Jer. 17.5 also he saâââ