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Spirit immediately united to the Intellectuall Nature and by it to be united to the Body Whereby the principle of Grace withdrawn Restored to our Nature in that the second Adam He became a fit Mediator Sponsor in the Apostles phrase a Pledge to perform the Condition of the first Adam by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now lifting up the light of his Countenance in his Decreed Ordinances for the restoring of the Principle of Grace withdrawn and Glory consecutive thereupon And though the Outward Man still continued under its incurr'd Curse Gen. 3.19 To dust thou shalt return yet that also here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
THE SCHEME OR DIAGRAMME Adjusted for Future use in a larger Prodromus ere long to be published and whereof this is then to be a Part. At present Printed for private Hands A CONCATENATION of the Series of the Heads of the Grounds of the Scripture represented in this second Systeme by Scheme or Diagramme ANd first of that great and prime Hyperphysical that is supernaturall and spiritual Ground GOD demonstrating Himself to us by His first Outgoings and after Condescensions necessarily to be thus in Concatenation considered 1. God in Unitie of Essence One GOD The Abysse Unfathomable 2. That Essence subsistentiated i. specificated in Subsistencies in order to Creation Emanant CREATOR WORD SPIRIT Three Subsistencies For Nature Grace Glory 3. Those Subsistencies so specificated in their Actual Out-goings exerting i. putting themselves forth by their singular Energies the Energieâ— of each respectively 4. Those Energies become in the Subject the Creature Operations This in the Creation simply considered the first Creation the Creation of the First and Second Race of Intellectuals 5. Those Energies for their Operations on the Creature in the second Creation that is the Restauration of the second Race in their Nature laps't concentred in the Person of a Mediator The prime specificate Subject of that Work Our Lord Jesus Christ the Beginning of the Creation of God The new Creation And then the Essence in the Subsistencies worketh by their Energies concentred in that Person of the Mediator through Him and by Him transmitted unto Individuals in lapse The second specificate Subject of that second Work that Persons pertakers of that decayed Nature from the old Adam might by those operations for Restauration through and from Him be made and become New Creatures Whence The Essence is not the Subsistency The Subsistency is not the Energie The Energie is not the Operation And yet The Essence is virtually the Subsistency The Subsistency is virtually the Energie The Energie is virtually the Operation Because The Essence is the Abysse from whence the Subsistencies Emane The Subsistencies are the Fountains from which the Energies flow The Energies are the Causes in the Subject of all Operations In like manner The Operation is not the Energie The Energie is not the Subsistency The Subsistency is not the Essence And yet The Operation is relatively the Energie The Energie is relatively the Subsistency The Subsistency is relatively the Essence Because The Operations in the subject are the Energies terminated The Energies are the Subsistencies limited The Subsistencies are the Essence specificated In result and summe the work of the Creation simply considered pretermitted The Operation Prime for the new Creation or Restauration is the Influence of the Essence from the Subsistencies by their Energies concentred in the Mediator from him by a second operation upon lapsed nature terminated in Particulars And thus the Lowest hath from that which is nearest to it self of the Highest and Soveraign Being what could not otherwise either be derived from It or in that state of Lapse be received by the Creature Because as Essence in its Infinity Essential i. as Essence did not work ad extra i. outwardly to the Being of the Creature but in the Subsistencies Nor did the Subsistencies worke to the constitution or making up that Being in the Creature in the state of Integrity but by their Energies So neither could the Subsistencies condescend to nature in the state of Lapse for Restauration nor the Creature in that state receive their Influence by their Energies immediately had They not by those their respective Working Powers sanctifying in a Person prepared the First Fruits of humane nature as well Treasured up those their efficacies from Themselves as Fitted them treasured up for the creatures Receiving them The Principles as thus in Him predisposedly united so their Glory for the creature as it were rebated in the Person of a Mediator Secondly The Concatenation of the Heads of the Grounds of the Scripture as they are a Narrative of the methods of that GOD in those his great Designes the Creating and Restoring of mankinde and give us the Physicall and Morall Theologicall Grounds conteined in them i. the Naturall Heads and Result of and from them which we represent in the severall Heads and Notes of the Inward Circle and Outward Epicycle And first as an Inlet to the whole A Look before the Creation of the visible and Animate World and so of the Creation of the First Race of Intellectuals Spirits simple Essences of which Some Adhered and stood These Confirmed and their number to be made up by a second Race A Look before the Creation of the visible and Animate World and so of the Creation of the First Race of Intellectuals Spirits simple Essences of which Some kept not their first state These Reprobated for whom Tophet whence the Devil and evil Angels II. The Creation of the visible Animate-world and of the Second Race of Intellectuals Man in the Protoplast the First Adam A Spiritual Essence Imbodied i. consisting of Inner and Outward Man to be made One with the simple Essences Spirits unbodied those of the First Race that stood Their Innate Law Covenant of Nature by Impresse upon Adhesion of the Inward Man And the Appendixes preparatory Sacrament the Tree of Life Sabbath the Rest Symboles of Grace and Glory for consummation of the Person and Nature both in the Inner and Outward Man upon the condition of that Covenant performed III. The Inhibition Probational of his Inward Adhesion in that Covenant of Nature by his Outward Obedience unto this Negative Law for the fixing of that State of Nature in his Person by the Annexing those Appendixes preparatory upon the condition performed i. Adhering and Obeying And the Threat annext if otherwise being an Antedated Sentence IV. The Breach and Violation of that Covenant by Disadhesion and of the Probational Inhibition likewise by Disobedience commonly call'd the Fall whereupon the Appendixes because only preparatory become suspended The Threat before now an Actual sentence the Curse incurred importing upon Nature forfeited Aversion or turning away the Face of his Creator from him and the Word withdrawing his Principle of Grace Both these as the Paena damni or Privative Evil And in demerit eternall Dereliction of his Intellectual Nature in that state and casting it off into the state of Tophet prepared for those of the First Race that kept not their first state as the Paena sensus or Positive Evil of Punishment These relatively from the Covenant distinctly terminated in that his Inward Man And from the Inhibition Support withdrawn as the Privative Evil and Mortality seizing on him as the Positive terminated in the Body or Outward Man and from all these Glory in designe from the Spirit of necessary consequence come short of V. The Interpellation a Rescuing from the Execution of the Sentence and Curse upon that Breach And the State of Nature as so rescued from the Paenasensus or Positive Evil to be considered
unto Him but by the same scale He descendeth unto us And hence it followeth that That great Work and last End Our Regeneration is lesse evidently quickning and the Means thereto the Ordinances are lesse efficacious And we must farther say congruous with this Analogy that the not understanding the first Part of the Scale GOD in Essence Subsistencies Energies Operations to the constitution of the creature hath been the Prime cause of the not understanding of the Second viz. The Subsistentiall Actings in the Interpellation and Covenant of the first Transaction the Energies and Operations in the Lines terminating on the Covenant in the second transaction as to his Mediatorship and the Covenant Derivative as to his Apostolate These being but their Operations upon Condescension which cannot have their Light but from a consideration had of these their first Actings And the confused or Indistinct understanding of this Second hath been a like cause of not understanding the Third the Operations from the Mediator and Apostolate by his respective Energeticall Operations to us ward and on us the subject matter exhibited in the Covenant Derivative and Covenant Derivative Finisht This being but the Deriving unto us what was Treasured up in Him And in as much as This Scale of the Intellectuall in its Juncture with the rest is indeed the Spirit quickning the whole we may affirm that all Our Errors as well in Judgement and Faith as in Practise and Manners in the other natur all Theologicall Heads and morall Theologicall Grounds in the Circle and Epicycle modelled have arisen principally from the not aright discerning of these And it would be no hard matter to evidence in particulars where and how from some Misprision or other here in Root of the Intellectuall each and every of our misguided Actings in Morals Oeconomicks Politicks as well of sacred as civill cognisance have burgeoned and put forth The Review of the whole ANd now let the whole be viewed From the Abysse of Essence to the Operations and the Person of Jesus Christ with his Energies and Operations on us From the Look before the Creation to the state of Glorification From the Judgement of the first Race to the Judgement of the second Race From the state of nature in its Primitive constitution to the state of nature in the first Resurrection From the state of nature in the Fall of the first Man to the state of nature in Death the condition of all men From the Covenant of Restauration in Decree to the same Covenant derived unto us and Finisht in us From the Trinity Supream to the Trinity of Condescensions From the Gentile in the Gener all Ordinances to the Jew and Christian in all the speciall Administrations What should I mention particulars Look on the Generals as the Circle in the Epicycle and let the whole be considered in its Symmetry and proportion as it hath wrought it self in the Scheme A Systeme of Truths purely naturall and according to the order of nature without any Artifice at all in the framing we having only followed not forced Them whilest they in their naturall Method as things formed and brought themselves into Diagramme Mathematicall that the Inward subject matters might more efficaciously by demonstrating the Seriptures Designe inform the Reason when fixt according to the order of nature in the outward Form and Figure they shall be transmitted unto it by the convinced Sence that so Sence Reason and Revelation may all conspire to the stating of each and every particular Truth Thus see and consider Essence in the Subsistencies Emanant by their Energies constituting a First Race and upon the Apostacy of some of that Race creating a Second in a Condition Inconsummate Upon their Lapse the Lapse of the second Race in the Protoplast the first and second Subsistencies because They onely had their Principles actually in the constitution of the first Adam in and by their Subsistentiall Actings laying their Designe for the Restauration of this second Race This Decreed Executed in the second Adam revealed by Him and accomplished in the earnest then in the Full in the creature This creature thus restored by the Regeneration and consummately Glorified All by the varied Operations of the Subsistencies by their Energies shew in Figure the Designes the Degrees and Steps of this creatures Constitution Restoration Advance and Exaltation Next see and consider Tophet in its situation A Work not decreed but emergent upon Their Apostacy and extraneous to the Designe of God in the Creation of that first Race as The Sentence from him was aliene They first become Devils and Evil Angels in consequent of their Fall Reserved in chains of darknesse in consequent of their Sentence unto the Judgement of the great Day for the full of their punishment And then become Tempters in that state to the first man and ever afterwards in Enmity with the seed Thus in that Head and Labels And the Last Judgement in proportioned situation opposite because an Abdication of that first Race and at once a Sentence and Abdication of those of the second Race workers of Iniquity then finally Reprobated imported by the Labell Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Concerning which Last Judgement I shall at present onely suggest this one thing that It hath and must keep the seaventh place in the close of the Heads of the Ordinances as the First Resurrection is the seaventh to those of the Mediatorship because It dependeth on those Ordinances which the whole Body of the Head importeth Giving us farther also in the close a Distinction of the Kingdom of Apostolate which he is to resigne after this and to lead us into that merited Kingdom of the Father prepared for us before the Foundation of the World simply considered exprest by that part of the Labell Come ye blessed of my Father c. Matth. 25.34 when those who claime It by Covenant acquitted at the Last Judgement are gathered into One with those of the first Race confirmed Then see and consider The Head of the Fall upon the same ground not decreed of God and so the Root of Death not made by God He made not Death saith the Wise man Wisd 1.13 but man Adam giving himself by sinne into the power of Satan Death came in by Sinne Rom. 5.12 And hence we see how Satan came to have the Power of Death Heb. 1.14 to wit by Adam's admitting of the temptation which was Death in the Root It was indeed a Breach by which man was going forth to the state of those in the Labell reserved in Chaines but by the Interpellation made up that all might be saved by the Covenant as to the Inward man if they perform the Condition though committed to Satan by the Sentence to Death thou shalt return for the destruction of the Flesh the Outwardman And the Head of the state of Nature in Death the Execution of that Sentence in opposite situation and like proportioned Figure