not this then one of the Depths of God FAITH enters now in Poem 't is the Grace That leads the Van of others in the Race This is a Depth of God and so wil go With ev'ry Freind but not with any Foe This is the GIFT of God this is his Will And of all Works this is the greatest stil This is the Work of Works an EMPHASIS Deservedly is written over This. The Heart is Cabinet and Faith a Jewel Which thorough Christ fails not in any Duel 'T was so with PETER and with many Saints That greatly Comforts might out-bid Complaints FAITH may be shaken in the Soul of Man But shaken out of Souls this never can For Faith must live til the Beleiver dies When all his TEARES are wiped from his Eyes Lord Jesus Christ thou Author art of Faith And Consummator too th' Apostle saith Oh be the ACTOR of it now to Me For act it Self it cannot without Thee INCARNATION The Incarnation of Christ that 's one of the Depths of God As an Vnity in Trinity and a Trinity in Vnity is the Mystery of Mysteries so the Hypostatical Vnion or Vnion of Natures in Christ is the Wonder of Wonders Is not this then one of the Depths of God That Christ was GOD is evident Thus John 1.1 In the beginning was the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the beginning Before the beginning of any Creatures In the beginning of Time so Brugensis In which the World began to be so Beza In the beginning is Christ from the beginning are Creatures That which was in the beginning was ever In the beginning Not temporal determinate or to be measured by time but indeterminate eternal and before all time In the beginning was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Was the Word The Word the Son of God Was Not that the Son of God had beginning with the Creatures but was before their beginning from Eternity This WORD was not made when the Creatures were but before any of them were HE WAS. And the word was with God Here Word is taken personally And the word was God Here Word is taken essentially And the word was God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or according to the Greek and God was the word Christ was co-equal co-essential co-eternal and consubstantial with the Father The Son of God Christ did not then begin to be when he was manifested in the Flesh but was God from all Eternity made Flesh in the last times That Christ was MAN is as evident Thus John 1.14 And the word was made flesh The Son not the Father nor the Spirit became Man not by Confusion of Natures but by Vnion of Natures in one Person of Christ God and Man Was made flesh Made himself or assumed flesh in which he might be manifested to the Senses of Men. Was made flesh Not by changing the GOD-HEAD Non mutando quod erat sed assumendo quod non crat but by assuming the MAN-HOOD Though he became Man he stil remained God The God-head became not a Man-hood nor the Humanity a Deity The Assumption of the Humanity was no Diminution of the Deity But what follows And dwelt among us As in a Tabernacle or Tent for a short time And we beheld his glory The manifestation of his divine Majesty not only in his Transfiguration but also in his Doctrine Life Miracles Passions The glory as of the only begotten of the Father Such glory as was proper and peculiar to the only so begotten of the Father Ful of grace and truth Ful of Grace or the Favour of God towards us And of Truth or by Gifts and Benefits which might demonstrate the Truth of that Favour so L. de Dieu Ful of Grace or with the cheifest Mercy and of Truth or with the Truth of praeceding Shadows so Hammond Is not the Incarnation of Christ now one of the Depths of God So 1 Tim. 3.16 And without controversie Omnium Consensu Confessione Confessedly and by an universal Confession Great is the Mystery of godliness The GOSPEL may be so called because as it is a Doctrine made for the Dignity and Promotion of Godliness so it is a Doctrine consisting of such truths and connexious of things that are far remote from the common Cogitations Reasons and Intellects of Men. But what follows God was manifest in the flesh The eternal Son of God made his Divinity known in his Humanity which he assumed into the UNITY of his Person Justified in the Spirit Approved righteous and innocent though condemned by Jews and Gentiles as a Malefactor Seen of Angels As his Messengers and Ministers Preached unto the Gentiles As the Subject and Substance and Summ of the Gospel to Sinners in Folio Beleived on in the World Made the Object of FAITH by a Remnant according to the Election of Grace Received up into Glory His Session is at the right hand of the Majesty on high Is not the Incarnation of Christ now one of the Depths of God For him who had Eternity for his Mansion Thus Isa 57.15 For thus saith the high and lofty one who inhabiteth Eternity Who alone hath Immortality who alone is eternal without Beginning or Ending who is not only immortal but also immutable For him also who hath Eternity for his Measure Thus Psa 90.2 Vme gnolam gnad-gnolam attah El So the Hebrew From Eternity until Eternity thou God To be an Infant of a day old Thus Luke 2.11 To you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord Is not this the Wonder of Wonders and consequentially one of the DEPTHS of GOD For him who had Heaven for his Pallace to have the Earth for his Pilgrimage is not this one of the Depths of God For him who was higher than the Heavens Heb. 7.26 to be lower than Angels Heb. 2.9 and who was waited by sinless Angels Mat. 4.11 to be watched by sinful Men is not this one of the Depths of God For him who was the Antient of Days Dan. 7.22 to be a Babe Luke 2.12 and who was the GOD of Joys Mat. 11.29 to be a MAN of Sorrows Isa 53.3 is not this one of the Depths of God For him who was born King of the Jews Mat. 2.2 to be born in a Stable and who lies in the Bosome of the Father John 1.18 to lie in a Manger Luke 2.7 is not this one of the Depths of God For him who was crowned with Glory Heb. 2.7 to be crowned with Thorns Mat. 27.29 and who was the Desire of Nations Hag. 2.7 to die for Sinners Rom. 5.8 is not this one of the Depths of God For him who was the Being of of Beings as God John 1.3 the Beauty of Beauties as Man Psa 45.2 and the Blessing of Blessings as God-man Heb. 7.22 to be written if this be a Prophesie of him a worm and no man a reproach of Men and despised of the People Psa 22.6 Is not this the Wonder of
give Check to Mortals when they make too curious an Acquisition into the Mystery of the Incarnation And the power of the highest shal overshadow thee A Metaphor taken from Birds cherishing their young ones Therefore also that holy thing Christ who was sinless Which shal be born of thee shal be called the Son of God Christ as GOD was the eternal Son of the Father Christ as MAN was conceived of a sanctified Mass or Substance without all Sin Now as Christ was the Son of God by Vertue of the personal Vnion so the Christian is the Son of God by Vertue of the mystical Vnion Is not Adoption then one of the Depths of God Is it so honourable to be the Son or Daughter of a mortal MAN how ineffably honourable then is it to be the Son or Daughter of an immortal GOD Is not Adoption now one of the Depths of God If Adoption be the Translation of a Person from the Family of the World and Satan into the Family of God with his Investiture in all the Emoluments and Immunities of that Family is not this then one of the Depths of God ADOPTION enters now and on the Stage Charms unto Joy the Converts of the Age. Christ only is the Son of God by Nature By Grace a Son each Christ'an in his Stature CHRIST maker is of Sons by way of Merit By Vnion and also by his Spirit 'T is something to be Sons of mortal MEN If Men of Birth and Bulk What is it then To be the Sons of an immortal GOD And be exempted from an Iron-Rod This is the Wonder since the World began The Son of God is made the Son of Man That Sons of Men might Sons of God be made And thorough GRACE in muddy Waters wade Sons are invested in Immunity And may in Egypt Abba Father cry Oh blessed JAH by Thee the Day is won I was a Slave but now I am a Son Oh let me live that I may also die A Servant and a Son in Familie VOCATION Vocation that 's one of the Depths of God Vocation is a Comment upon Election is not this then one of the Depths of God If Vocation be the effectual Voice of God to the Soul by his Spirit in his Word in order to a Revelation of Christ is not this then one of the Depths of God They are holy ones that shall be happy ones and pure ones that shall be perfect ones They are gracious ones Suavis Motus in Verbo fortis Tractus in Deo that shall be glorious ones and called ones that shall be crowned ones Is not Vocation now one of the Depths of God Those all those and only those shall be everlastingly crowned who are effectually called is not Vocation then one of the Depths of God As Elijah and Elisha walked together till the fiery Charet parted them So until effectual Vocaion there is no difference between Persons they all run to the same Excess of Riot Is not this then one of the Depths of God If we inspect the Idea or Index of the Volumes of ETERNITY we shall find calling as well as crowning and gracious Manners as well as glorious Mansions Is not Vocation then one of the Depths of God Thus Rom. 1.6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ If God gives effectual Vocation at this Distance with all the Appendexes Cum omnibus pertinentibus and Appurtenances thereof what will he give unto this Person when he comes into his immediate Presence The Symmetry indeed is not to be made between here and there now and then If so much in a Cottage of Clay what then in a Pallace of Glory If the first Fruits be an handful headful heartful what will the Crop and the Harvest then be If the EARNEST amounts to so much what is the total SUMM then like to be But why do such a Pigmy as I attempt to give an Inventory of the Benefits of Vocation when Eternity shall be little enough for their Contemplation The Potentates and Princes of the Earth think they move in a lofty Sphere but the effectually called are in the highest Orb is not Vocation then one of the DEPTHS of GOD Vocation is an absolute Act of Grace and is it not then one of the Depths of God Thus Gal. 1.15 But when it pleased God who seperated me from my Mothers Womb From that very time wherein I was in the Womb so Piscator From the very beginning of my Nativity so Menochius Before I was born saith Tirinus or deserved any thing And called me by his grace Here is Vocation and that by Grace is not Vocation then one of the Depths of God And called me efficatiously in the time of my Conversion so Estius If God efficatiously calleth a Sinner when there is nothing in him but Sin what can be a MOTIVE with God but his Free-Grace Is not Vocation now one of the Depths of God Art thou called a Saint Either be not so much as called so or be more than so called otherwise thy external Priviledge will be but an eternal Punishment For a Person to be running with a full CAREER Hel-ward and Death-ward and Damnation-ward and then to be effectually called is not this one of the Depths of God For a Person to be called out of a State of Darkness into a State of Light out of a State of Death into a State of Life out of a State of Sin into a State of Grace is not this one of the Depths of God For a Person to take more pains to go to Hel than many do to go to Heaven and for this Person then to hear a voice behind it Isa 30.21 saying This is the way c. Soul that 's not the way this is the way That 's the way to Death this is the way to Life that 's the way to Hel this is the way to Heaven is not this one of the Depths of God VOCATION is the Depth of God above For 't is indeed a signal Act of Love From Darkness unto Light men called are That They may in the choicest Mercies share From endless Death unto an endless Life Men called are to Period the Strife Though this hath been obnox'us to Rejection VOCATION is a COMMENT on ELECTION Which meriteth a critical Inspection And also calleth for a due Reflection As to Existence choosing taketh place But calling as to Evidence embrace Though all the Chosen may not called be Yet all the Called chosen are I see Gods grac'ous Call and glor'ous Crown also Like Isa'c's Twins I see together go Oh LAMB of GOD I have a blessed Call Let not my Carr'age be a bitter Thrall Oh Lamb of God! between the Lip and Life No clashing suffer to foment a Strife RESURRECTIOM The Resurrection of the Body that 's one of the Depths of God The Confidence of Christians Fiducia Christianorum Resurrectio Mortuorum is the Resurrection of the Dead Is not this then one of the Depths
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but accidentally so Tirinus Spiritually and Mystically so Beza One in Love in Consent of Will in Grace and in Glory so Menochius Thus Freinds Acts 4.32 are called one Soul because of the Concord of Souls 'T is a Metonymy wherein the Cause is named for the Effect He that is one Spirit is spritually and wholy Christs by Vnion with him He is not divided between God and Mammon Agitur Regitur between the Spirit and the Flesh but he is led and governed by the self-same Spirit So Eph. 2.12 13. At that time ye were without Christ But now in Christ Jesus c. To be in Christ is to be ONE with Christ and to be one with Christ is to be IN Christ for these are convertible Terms Christ and the Soul out of Christ are TWO but Christ and the Soul in Christ are ONE Is not Vnion then with Christ one of the Depths of God So John 14.20 At that day ye shal know At that day But what day was that In that day when I shal be raised so Vatablus In that day when I shal appear to you a Victor of Death so Grotius In the day of Pentecost espicially so Menochius In a future life so Maldonatus Ye shal know They knew before but then they should more gloriously and perfectly know But what should they then so know The UNION between the Father and Himself between Himself also and his Saints That I am in my Father and You in me and I in you Is not Vnion now one of the Depths of God So John 17.21 That they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us So v. 23. I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one c. Here is an Vnion between the Father and the Son Thou in me As the Father and the Son are one by Vnity of Essence Phi. 2.6 And by the Deity dwelling in the Humanity Col. 2.9 So by Co-operation John 14.10 Here is also an Vnion between the Son and the Saints I in them And here is an Vnion between the Saints That they may be made perfect in one Is not Vnion now one of the Depths of God So v 26. And I in them Dwelling in them Now Christ dwelleth in a Christian By a Communication of Nature Thus Heb. 2.11 He who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one Christ and Christians are of the same Family and have the same Father For which cause he is not ashamed to call them Brethren Though CHRIST did not assume the Person of Abraham or any other Saint yet he did assume the Nature of Abraham and of every other Saint So Eph. 5 30. We are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones We all All who are Believers of the right Stock and Stamp Are members of his body ESTIUS Mystical which is his Church Of his flesh and of his bones We are Participants of the same humane Nature with Himself By the Inhabitation of the Spirit Thus Rom. 8.10 If Christ be in you c. Thus he is by the Spirit Be in you as in his Temple and by his SPIRIT which saith Grotius is called by Tertullian the VICAR of Christ So v. 11 By his Spirit that dwelleth in you By the Operation of Faith Thus Gal. 3.26 For ye are all Jews and Gentiles the children of God thorough saith in Christ Jesus So Eph. 3.17 That Christ may dwel in your hearts by faith c. By the Operation of Love Thus 1 Jo. 4.16 God is Love Not only lovely and loving but also LOVE He is so properly and essentially so Estius He is so causally so Menochius But what follows And he that dwelleth in love dwelieth in God and God in him As the Church is one with the Son by Faith so she is one with the Father by Love Is not Vnion now one of the Depths of God Here UNION in Poem now doth enter Communion herein doth also Center 'T is most prudential now to look about us A CHRIST within us not a Christ without us The Scripture saith the Hope of Glory is And Ever wil be unto each of HIS Communion with Christ may lessened be But UNION shal none dissolved see Who once are One for they are ever so And certainly shal unto Heaven go Similitutes that are adapted best As Fabrick Foundation with the rest But HIEROGLYPHICKS are Yea those Relations Who nearest are and dearest in their Stations But EMBLEMS are let no man henceforth doubt This Vnion with Christ to shadow out Lord Jesus Christ this UNION with Thee The CHANNEL is wherein doth run to Me Thy signal Favours All thy Looks are Loves As unto Me so unto all thy Doves COMMUNION Communion that 's one of the Depths of God When Galeatius that noble Marquess was presented with golden Temptations he replied Let their Money perish with them that account all the Gold in the World worth one dayes Communion with Jesus Christ in the Spirit Is not Communion then one of the Depths of God If Communion with a Saint be a HEAVEN on EARTH what is Communion with a Saviour then With a Surety then With a Soveraign then Certainly this is one of the Depths of God A Friend to the Body may prove a Favour to the Soul Civil Acquantance may be of spiritual Advantage and from Communion with the Saint some come to have Communion with the Sanctifier God brings Naomi and Ruth acquainted and Naomi was Naomi to Ruth beautiful lovely or greatly moving as the word fignifieth That there is such a thing as Communion with the Father and the Son is evidently evident but this is far better experienced than it can be expressed Is not this then one of the Depths of God Thus 1 Jo. 3.3 Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ Our Society Communication or Communion Communion with Christ is a COMMUNICATION of Loves from Christ to the Soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus John 14.21 I wil love him and wil manifest myself to him And Reciprocation of Loves from the Soul to Christ Thus Cant. 7.12 There wil I give thee my Loves Is not this now one of the Depths of God The infinite Disparity that is between GOD and MAN made the great Philosopher conclude that there could be no Friendship between them Communion with God is more in Conversation with God then in Contemplation upon God is not this then one of the Depths of God Thus 1 Jo. 1.6 If we say that we have Fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth So 1 Jo. 2.6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked If the Pythagoreans imitate Pythagoras if the Stoicks imitate Zeno if the Academicks imitate Socrates how much more should the Christian imitate Christ That God might have
Communion with U. S Christ was made Partaker of the humane Nature Thus Heb. 2.14 For as much then as the Children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself took part of the same c. The Children The Apostles and Disciples so Tena The Sons of God or Godly so Grotius Were pertakers of flesh and blood they continue in flesh and blood so Beza They are men mortal and miserable so Estius Himself also took part of the same c. In kind so Camerarius Without Sin so Gerhard That we might have Communion with GOD we are partakers of the divine Nature Thus 2 Pet. 1.4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that thereby we might be partakers of the divine nature c. Not of the Substance of the DEITY as the Familists say 'T is a Fellowship with God in his Sanctity the Purity that is eminently and infinitely in Him is formally in His. 'T is a Fellowship also with God in his Felicity i. e. in the beatificial Vision and Brightness of Glory Is not Communion now one of the Depths of God For a Soul to lye as it were in the Bosome of God and to live as it were in the Embracement of God is not this one of the Depths of God For a Soul to see the Face of God and be indulged the charming and ravishing Shines and Smiles of that Face is not this one of the Depths of God This Communion with God and Christ is thorough the Spirit Thus 2 Cor. 13.14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the Communion of the holy Spirit be with you all Amen Is Ish without his Pangs and Pannick Fears COMMUNION a Depth of God appears If this be false thy Pen may this correct Of Vnion Communion's an Effect Experienced I COMMUNION see Far better is than can expressed be That God may have Communion with His Of humane Nature CHRIST Partaker is That We may have Communion with God And Glory in the burning of the Rod Of that Nature which is divine do We Participate Herein let all Agree Oh blessed BRNCH in Thee was never Leaven Is Fellowship with Thine on Earth a Heaven What then is Fellowship with THEE above Where Faith and Hope survived are by Love CONVOY A Convoy of Angels that 's one of the Depths of God As Pharoah David c had so Men in Capital Letters now have their Guards They think themselves safe enough with these though they be mercenary and mortal men howsafe then are they who have a Convoy of Angels which is one of the Depths of God Psal 91.11 For he shal give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways For his Angels will he command for thee to keep in all thy ways so Ainsworth So the SEPTUAGINT 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ki maleachaiv jetzavveh lach c. For his Angels wil he command to thee c. So the Hebrew Though the Power of God be sufficient to govern us yet he appointeth his Angels to watch over us as Soldiers encamped about us These words were applied to CHRIST when he tempted him Mat. 4.6 And no wonder for if they belong to all the faithful in general as Interpreters agree much more eminently unto the Head and Patron of Believers who is the Author and Consummator of their Faith Heb. 12.2 God is a Preserver of Men mediately by Instuments He preserves Man by Man by the Beasts of the Earth and Fowls of the Aire but chiefly he preserveth Men by ANGELS For his Angels shal he command to thee Is not a Convoy of Angels now one of the Depths of God To keep thee in all thy ways But thy ways must be his ways those ways which God hath given thee to walk in In all thy Actions fo Mariana In thy Affairs praescribed thee of God so Gejerus In the ways of the LORD so Munsterus This Clause the Devil left out when he laid Seige to the Mediator of the Promise Is not this Convoy now one of the Depths of God No Prince in the world who is not a Saint hath such a Guard at home nor such a Life-Guard when he goes abroad as the meanest Saint hath Is not a Convoy of Angels then one of the Depths of God So Heb. 1.14 Are they not all ministring Spirits sent forth to minister for them who shal be heires of salvation He doth not so much ask as affirm for the Hebrews improve an Interrogation for the greater Confirmation of a thing Are not Angels the Ambassadors and Heralds of Omnipotency Do not these carry COMFORT from his Throne to his Footstool from Heaven to Earth Certainly then their Convoy is one of the Depths of God The best part of Man even his SOUL is lower than Angels An Angel is a persect Soul and a Soul but an imperfect Angel Is not their Convoy now one of the Depths of God The Schoolmen have a Distinstion between Angels calling some assisting which are always before God Others ministring which are commanded up and down by God c. But 't is the greatest Folly in the World to be Wise above what is written If the Nature of Man be nothing but Sin Quod supra Nos Nihil ad Nos and Angels have not any sin at all in their Natures is not their CONVOY then one of the Depths of God These Angels are very great and so consequentially is their Convoy but there is an Angel ineffably greater and so must his Convoy be Thus Isa 63.9 And the Angel of his presence saved them Some Jewish Doctors understand here Michael the tutelary Angel as they account him of their Nation Others Mitraton an Harbinger or Messenger c. But is not this CHRIST of whom God speake unto Moses Exo. 23.21 23. called Jehovah Exo. 13.21 And an Angel Exo. 33.2 But what of this Angel of Angels He is a Convoy unto all ransomed and rescued by him Is not the Convoy of a Christ now one of the Depths of God Thus Isa 27.2 3. In that day At that time when Caligula's shal be destroyed when the CHURCH shal be pruned and purged by Passion Sing ye unto her a Vineyard of red wine May not this be the Church the Vineyard of God degenerated from her native Excellency and restored to her primitive Generosity and Glory Ani Jehovah I Jehovah do keep it So the Hebrew That must needs be kept which Jehovah keeps but Christ keeps the Church I will water it every moment That it may fertile be it shal be very often under divine Dews and Drops Lest any hurt it I wil keep it Night and Day Night and Day comprehend all time To be therefore kept Night and Day is to be kept constantly to be kept continually to be kept without intermission Is not the Convoy of a Christ now one of the Depths of God So Zach. 2.5 And I wil be unto her saith the Lord a wall of fire
in a Compass or Circuit and unto Glory wil I be in the midst of her So the Seventy Unto her Unto Jerusalem But what wil this CHRIST who is the Lord of Lords be unto Jerusalem A Wall of Fire The City shal be safe though it may not have Walls so Calvin A Wall of Fire Not of Mud though that may be strong nor of Brick though that may be stronger nor of Stone though that may be strongest but of Fire As if God had said If you want a Wall I wil be your Wall my immediate Providence shal be your Defence rather then you should not be defended Is not the Convoy of Christ now one of the Depths of God The ROMANS in their Wars used to call out the Tutelar-Gods of those Cities they beseiged as beleiving them a stronger Defence to those Places than Walls or Forts What may be said of a Christ then who hath promised to be a Wall of Fire Who can batter down a Fire that is it 's own Fewel Or who can set up a Ladder to scale the Flames Is not the Convoy of Christ then one of the Depths of God And the Glory or unto Glory or of Glory in the midst of her She shal not only be safe and secure though without Walls of Stone and Brass though without Towers and Fortifications though without Ditches and Trenches but I wil also be the Glory in the midst of HER. They shal sing Praises and Thanks to Me so Grotius There wil I be glorified so Menochius The solid Felicity of Jerusalem within and without shal be in me alone and in my grace so Calvinus Is not the Convoy of Christ now one of the Depths of God Once more Psa 125.2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem to fortifie and defend that so Jehovah is round about his People to fortifie and defend them from henceforth even for ever Is not the Convoy of JEHOVAH now one of the Depths of God The Trojans had their Palladium so long as That was safe They were safe The Romans had their Ancile or Buckler so long as that was kept they were secure The Isralites had their Ark so long as that was sure there was a Defence upon mount Sion If CHRIST be thine then thou hast a far better and a far greater Guard Is not this then one of the Depths of God To dissipate the direful Pangs of Fear A Depth of God a CONVOY doth appear The meanest Saint is guarded far above The might'st Prince that 's not a Valley-Dove Where is the Man who lives without Complaints The Angels are a CONVOY to the Saints They Keepers are of These in all their Ways And wil be Keepers of Them all their Days But These must keep the Ways of GOD and so Must not aside to right or left Hand go The ANGELS are Ambassadors to bring The timely Tidings of the greatest KING These Solace swiftly carry from the Throne Unto the Footstool when 't is most alone From Heaven These do carry timed JOY Unto the Earth when this is like a TROY The noblest part of Man is called Soul Lower than Angels 't is without Controul An ANGEL is a perfect Soul but then Imperfect Angels are the SOULS of Men. Angels commanded are by Heavens Sage A CONVOY unto Saints in ev'ry Age. One greater than all These is now at hand At Sea a Convoy and a Guard at Land There is the present and the future Tense Oh HEAD of SAINTS be thus to me Defence But who is this 'T is He that beareth Sway Oh HEAD of ANGELS keep me Night and Day Lord round about me be a Wall of Fire And qualifie me for the Papal-Ire CONDUCT The Conduct of God that 's one of the Depths of God For a Person to walk after the Spirit and not after the Flesh to walk in the Flesh and not war after the Flesh is not this one of the Depths of God Thus 2 Cor. 10.3 For walking in the flesh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So the Greek Although we may be Men so Erasmus Like to the rest of Men so Tirinus As to Infirmimities so Sclaterus And Afflictions so Vorstius The Building of the Body so Menochius Or the Nature of the Flesh Though living in the Flesh We do not war after the flesh We do not practice a carnal Warfare so Estius We do not follow carnal Affections so Tirinus We live not after the manner of carnal and political Men so Menochius Is nor the Conduct of the Spirit now one of the Depths of God For a Person to be indulged the CONDUCT of the Spirit to live in the Spirit and walk in the Spirit is not this one of the Depths of God Thus Gal. 5.25 If we live in the Spirit let us also walk in the Spirit Where there is Life there wil be Motion What the Soul is to the Body that the Spirit is to the Soul If there be Life from the Spirit there is also a Life after the Spirit For a Person to be led by the Spirit in the way to Heaven until he be led into Heaven is not this one of the Depths of God That there is the Conduct of the Spirit is evident Thus Rom. 8.14 As many as are led by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God It is not said ruled but led When one is ruled by another Plus est Agi quam Regi he acts Him-self and his Action is Visible but when he is led by another though he may act Himself yet the Action of the Other is more Visible than his Own The SPIRIT leads according to the WORD A Child of God hath the Word without and the Spirit within for a Guide is not the Conduct of these then one of the Depths of God So Gal. 5.18 If ye be led by the Spirit then are ye not under the law Not under a law of condemnation for there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8.1 But as there is the Conduct of the Spirit so of the FATHER Thus Ps 27.11 Teach me thy way Jehovab and lead me in a path of plainess be cause of those which observe me There is also the Conduct of the SON Thus John 10.3 He calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out Into Pastures In Pasiua so Grotius As Christ is the Leader of His so he leads these from Earth to Heaven from a state militant to a state triumphant thorough a State of GRACE to a State of GLORy Thus Ps 73.24 Thou shalt guide me with thy Counsel and afterward receive me to Glory Is not the Conduct of the Father now and of the Son thorough the Spirit one of the Depths of God Those actually Christ's are under a constant and continual Conduct The Prophet having eligantly and eloquently expressed a counterfeit and a true Fast registers and transmits to Posterity this pure and pretious Promise