disorder and Communion is by union and union is by the uniting means Qu. What Attributes shine forth in the Apostacy of man Answ The holiness and Justice and yet the mercy of God in gentleness and bounty to fallen man do shine forth in or by occasion of mans Apostacy 1. The holiness of God which is that whereby he cannot approve of any but those who do agree with him to advance him as he is most glorious hence he distasted man and abhorred man Hab. 1. 13. 2. His Justice inclined to give every one his due 1. Remunerative in rewarding him who doth well Rom. 4. 4. 2. Vindictive in punishing him who doth evil Rom. 2. 9. and the degrees of this 1. The Sentence called Judgement 2. The Execution of it Eccl. 8. 11. the degrees of this first if more mild called anger if more sharp called wrath and fury Deut. 29. 23. 3. His mercy inclined to succour the undeserving hence first gentleness inclined to spare a sinner in bearing called patience if long his long sufferance 2 Chron. 11. 36. 15 16. 2. His bounty inclined to afford supplies to the undeserving Rom. 2. 4. Man suffers Gods displeasure for sin but this man through his weakness can not bear and therefore breaks under it and cannot satisfy and therefore it is just he should alwayes suffer Quest What is the Anastacy of Man Answ The Anastacy of man is that whereby the mercy of God recovereth some sinners out of a state of sin death into a state of grace and life by the redemption of the Son of God whose work it is to reconcile God and man as he is Priest and man to God as he is a Prophet and King and by his Spirit sent to apply this Redemption 1. The Anastacy of man is his recovery out of a state of sin and death into a state of grace and life Eph. 2. 1. 2. This proceeds from the mercy of God whereby he is inclined to succour the miserable and the undeserving and therefore this is done for his own Names sake Isai 43. 25. The parts of this are Redemption Application 1. Redemption which is a payment of a just price to divine Justice and thereby satisfaction 1. God governs man as he is a reasonable creature 2. Hence according to Justice 3. Hence if man had obeyed he should have been rewarded with life but he having disobeyed he cannot live without just satisfaction made Rom. 5. 17. Concerning Redemption we may consider the person and his work 1. The person who is the Redeemer the Son of God 1. God and man at variance the Father in special the person offended man by his sin having made a breach upon the work of Creation in which work the Fathers manner of working did shine forth as we heard in the Efficiency of God hence it was not meet for him to mediate 2. This work is propounded to the Son of God and he accepts it and his manner of working doth especially shine forth in this who is the second divine person and this is the second great work and he worketh from the Father by the Spirit 1 Tim. 2. 6. Acts 4. 12. 2. His first work to reconcile God to man as a Priest Heb. 2. 17. 2. To reconcile man to God first as a Prophet making known the way of life Luk. 4. 18. 2. As a King dispensing life with a Kingly Authority Psal 110. 1 2 3. And by his Spirit sent to apply this Redemption Joh. 16. 8 9 10 11. but of this afterwards The first being the Sufficiency the second the Efficiency of mans Anastacy or recovery Quest What in the first place ought to be considered concerning this work Answ We ought in the first place to consider the fitness of Christ to be a Redeemer for his two natures being personally united and yet remain the same in Essence and Essential properties and he was anointed that is called and furnished to this great work of Redemption To the performing of the work of a Redeemer we may consider first a fitness of Christ to redeem 2. The parts of Redemption First of his fitness to redeem appearing in his Incarnation and Vnction First his Incarnation the Son of God was made man in all things sin only excepted and the manner of his Subsistence 1. He was like to us Phil. 2. 7. 2. in all things Heb. 2. 17. 3. except sin he was without sin Heb. 4. 15. and the manner of the Subsistence of his humane nature for that subsists in his divine person in which we may consider the union of his natures and their Communion 1. Their union which is that whereby the Son of God assumed a humane nature to subsist inseperably in his own person 1. The person assuming was the Son of God Gal. 4. 4. hence it was God assumed a humane nature and yet not as God for then all the three persons had assumed 2. But the Son of God assumed mediately by his person 2. That which is assumed is a humane nature Soul and body hence 1. a twofold understanding Mark 13. 32. 2. A twofold will divine and humane accompanied with a natural desire of his safety Math. 26. 39. 3. And a twofold presence Omnipresent as God but not so as man 3. The assumption it self his humane nature did not subsist by its self for then it had been a person and then two persons mediating but there is but one Mediator â— Tim. 2. 5. 2. His humane nature subsisted in his person 1. It was sustained by it from the beginning of its Being and thus was related to the divine nature as an Effect or an Adjunct 2. It was filled with the divine nature Col. 2. 9. and thus the divine nature had a twofold respect of Subsistence one in the Godhead as he was the second person this was from Eternity another in the humane nature in time and yet but one Subsistence for this works no change in the divine nature only a relation is added to it 3. Subsisteth in it inseperably for if this union had been broken then no Mediator not God-man in one person hence when Soul and body were severed yet the divine nature preserved its union to both of them Acts 2. 31. 4. Hence assuming was no act of Christs Humiliation for 1. It was an act of his divine person and that cannot suffer 2. If it were an act of Humiliation it should be laid aside in the state of his Exaltation then the union of Christs natures should cease in heaven but this cannot be Thus of the union Next of the Communion of Christs natures only we must remember 1. Their Communion 2. But no Confusion 1. Their Communion which is personal for such is their union 1. Hence they co-operate to the same effect if the divine nature doth effect that to which the humane nature doth not concur then no work of God-man if the humane nature did that in which the divine did not concur then no act of the
abuseth the liberty of his will Eccl. 7. 29. that a glass is breakable is not a defect to be complained of but that man who was mutable would tâ—y whether by an unlawful means he could not attain a good and thus put himself under the power of mutability and thus this glass is broken and undone 2. The blameless cause was the Law of God 1. The Law forbids sin 2. Man opposeth it 3. The Law must yield or man must be broken 4. The Law cannot yield or give place but is like a Rock against which a Ship runneth and breaks it self in pieces Rom. 4. 15. The Effect of this was first guilt 2dly punishment 1. Guilt whereby a transgressor is bound to suffer punishment or is lyable to it Rom. 3. 19. 2. Punishment namely the evil inflicted upon a sinner for his transgression which is death it self Gen. 2. 17. Quest What is the punishment of sin Answ The punishment of sin is death which is a privation of a happy life and being subject to the contrary misery both the first death the body deprived of the comforts of this life and at last severed from the Soul and the second death which is the death of the Soul 1. Death is the punishment of sin Gen. 2. 17. 2. It is a privation of a happy life not meerly a privation of life for then Being should cease and the Subjects of misery be taken away and so the punishment ended but it is a privation of a happy or comfortable life hence the parts of death are 1. A privation of the good and 2. The sense of the contrary misery 3. The kinds of death the first death the second death The first death a corporeal death the beginning of which is in a privation of the comforts of this life in some degree the contrary miseries poverty shame sickness 2 Cor. 7. 10. 2. The perfection of this is when Soul body are seperated the body returns to the Elements Eccl. 12. 7. The second death which is the death of the Soul Quest What is the death of the Soul Answ The death of the Soul is first a privation of that which is Essential to spiritual life as the principle of life the Image of God and the contrary evil possessing namely a principle of Enmity in mans nature against God and a privation of the acts of life and a swerving of mans actions from God the first may be called original sin and the other actual sin In the death of the Soul we may consider it as it is a privation of that which is Essential to spiritual life 2. Of that which belongs to its well Being 1. Of that which is Essential as first a privation of a principle of life and so of the Image of God Eph. 4. 18. man opposing the Law defaced the Image of God and spoyled himself 2. Hence was subjected to a principle of Enmity against God and thus a swerving of his whole nature Rom. 8. 7. Gen. 6. 5. thus sin taketh occasion by the Law Rom. 7. 8. 2. A privation of acts of life and the contrary to this a swerving of the actions from the Law Rom. 3. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. The first of these is called Original sin as it is the beginning and spring of the other and the latter is called actual sin as it is the acting of vicious principles which are in mans nature Math. 15. 18 19. Quest What is the death of the soul in the second place Answ The Death of the Soul in the second place is a privation of the favour of God and being possessed with fear and shame a privation of the confirming presence of God and being subject to the power of Satan and the consummation of this death shall be when the Soul immediately after its departure out of the body shall be cast into hell and both soul and body after the day of Judgment In the former we hear of a privation of that which is essential to a spiritual life next of that which belongs to the well being and compleating of that life 1. A privation of the favour of God Lam. 3. 43 44. And the contrary to this possessed with fear and shame Isai 57. ult Gen. 3. 7 8. 2. A privation of the confirming presence of God Man should have been established in the way of life if he had obeyed but he disobeying is deprived of this and the contrary to this is a being subject to the power of Satan the tempter Heb. 2. 14. Eph 2. 3. 3. The perfection of this death 1. The Soul immediately after its departure out of the body shall be cast into hell 2. The Soul and Body after the day of Judgment together cast into hell fire Mat. 13. 50. Rev. 20. 14 15. Math. 16. 26. Quest What is the propagation of Adams sin unto his Posterity Answ Adams Transgression is extended to all his posterity for all mankind was in him as the common root and he acted as a publick person and therefore his sin is imputed to all his posterity and he hath really communicated the same sinfull nature that we are inclined to act as he did We may consider the union of Adams posterity to him and their communion with him 1. The union Natural Moral 1. Natural all mankind was in him as he was the common root of all mankind Act. 17. 26. Hence what he acted all Mankind did act 2. The moral union He acted as a publick person if he had obeyed all his posterity had been happy he disobeying all become miserable Rom. 5. 12. 2. Communion with him by imputation and real communication 1. Imputation his sin is reckoned to his posterity as if they had done it hence in respect of the merit of it accounted theirs hence guilt and punishment upon all Rom. 3. 19. 2. A real communication of the same sinful nature Original sin Psal 51. 5. Eph. 2. 3. Thus it is natural such as the Root such are the Branches 2. Sin is conveyed either from God or from the Parents not from God for he cannot be the author of sin hence the Soul as it comes out of his hand is not positively holy for then there might be a falling from grace seeing many Children appear to be wicked afterwards and yet the Soul as it comes out of his hand is not positively vicious for he cannot be the author of sin 2. Hence sin comes to the Child nextly from the Parents and that first is either immediately but not so for the Soul of a Child is not immediately united to the Parents therefore can have no such communion with them 2. Or mediately and that is either by the Body or the Spirits which unite Soul and body not from the body nextly for that is united to the Soul by the Spirits hence it is by the deordination of those Spirits which unite Soul and body and these are conveyed from the Parents and not under the power of distemper and
publick life Answ Christ's Humiliation in his publick life was that whereby he entred into his publick life with baptisme and temptation and his course in it was a going about doing good in poverty and much labour preaching and working of miracles towards the conclusion prepared himself and his Disciples for his death 1. Christ entred into his publick life with Baptism Temptation 1. By Baptisme Mat. 3. 15. shewing himself to be the band of both the Covenants and that the Covenant of works and the covenant of grace were performed in and by him 2. By Temptation Mat. 4. the beginning of that Chap. shewing he was come upon his trial and should overcome and be able to succor the tempted 2. His course in his publick life in going about doing good Act. 10. 38. 1. in poverty 2 Cor. 8. 9. 2. In much labour 1. In preaching Luk. 4. 18. 2. Working Miracles of all sorts which was proper to Christ Mat. 11. 5 6 3. Towards the conclusion prepared himself and his Disciples for his death by his practice and his speech 1. His practice 1. His Example in giving such an excellent pattern of humility and love in washing his Disciples feet Joh. 13. 1. to the 18. 2. More especially in his Transfiguration Mat. 17. 2. And his Celebration of the Passover and abolishing of that thereby shewing he was the lamb to be offered up and appointing his Supper in the place of it Matth. 26. 17. 26. 2. By his speech 1. To God in prayer Joh. 12. 27. his most solemn prayer in Ioh. 17. 2. His speech to his disciples in the 14 15 16. Chapters of John Quest What was the Death of Christ Answ Christ's death was the extream punishment he suffered first before his Crucifixion especially in his agony in the Garden and his being arrested by a band of men with Judas being arraigned he suffered extream ignominy by derision and whipping and the sentence of condemnation but principally his suffering the Crucifixion it self Christs death was the extream punishment he suffered before his Crucifixion especially in his Crucifixion 1. Before his Crucifixion 1. Before his arraignment 1. His Soul trouble especially his Agony in the garden Luk. 22. 44. 2. His being arrested by a band of men with Judas ver 47 and 52. 2. His being arraigned before civil and ecclesiastical Tribunal Luk. 22. 54. Thus Justice pursued our Surety Isai 53. 12. 3. Vpon his arraignment followed 1. His Extream ignominy by derision and scourging Mat. 26. 67. A Sentence of condemnation Mat. 26. 27. He was reproached as a Deceiver a false Prophet a Blasphemer and many other horrible crimes for he suffered for all sorts of sins Isai 53. 5. Quest What was Christs Crucifixion Answ Christs Crucifixion was that whereby he was lifted up and hanged upon a cross and so being made a curse languished to death and suffering both a bodily and spiritual death gave up the Ghost and his body continued in the grave three dayes 1. His Crucifixion is that whereby he was lifted up and hanged upon the cross Matth. 27. 35. 2. And thus was made a curse and languished to death Gal. 3. 13. hence the death he suffered was 1. A cursed death the hanging upon the cross being a Symbolum or sign of the curse 2. A most shamefull death hanged up between the heaven and the earth as if the heaven at present rejected him and as if the earth would not bear him 3. A most tormenting death in pain and languishing especially considering the perfection of his spirits and senses and consequently the pam he felt was the greater being perfectly sensible of pain 3. Suffering both a bodily and a spiritual death 1 A spiritual death wholly deprived â—â— the sense of the sweetness of the love of the Father and possessed with the sense of the contrary bitterness Mat. 27. 46. 2. Bodily death He gave up the Ghost Mat. 27. 50. 1. He was a Surety for sinners 2. Hence he was to suffer death 3. Hence must shed his heart blood 4. Hence wholly deprived of the life of joy and comfort in Soul and body 5. But yet not left to sin for that befals man because he is weak and breaks under the punishment of sin but Christ was able to endure the worst and extremity of the punishment The consequence of his death his body continued in the grave three dayes Luk 24. 7. 1. He had endured the punishment respecting sense when he said it is finished 2. Yet continued in the state of death 1. His body buryed 2. His Soul seperated from it though not suffering pain 3. The union of his Soul and likewise of his body continued unto his divine person that although they were severed one from another yet they remain united to his divine person Acts 2. 31. The second part of Redemption namely Christs Exaltation Quest What is Christs Exaltation Answ The Exaltation of Christ is his Tryumph over his and our Enemies the degrees of which are his Resurrection from the dead his ascension into Heaven his session at the right hand of the Father and at the end of the World his return in glory to be the Judge of the World 1. His Exaltation that is his Tryumph over his and our Enemies Acts 2. 35 36. Phil. 2. 8 9. 2. The degrees of which Exaltation 1. Before the end of the World 2. At the end of the world 1. Before the end of the world 1. His Resurrection his body raised Soul and body reunited and this done by his God-head Rom. 1. 4. and seen by his Disciples forty dayes Acts 1. 3. 2. His Ascension 1. His humane nature ascended into the highest Heavens by the power of his God-head Eph. 4. 10 11. his Disciples being witnesses Acts 1. 10 11 3. His session at the right hand of his Father which holds forth 1. His entertainment by his Father Psal 110. 1. having accepted him and put all things under him 1 Cor. 15. 21 22 27. 2. He well satisfied with his reward Psal 16. 11. 3. Hence his Intercession he presents his merits claimeth the performance of what was promised him respecting his glory and the good of his people Heb. 9. 24 25. 2. At the end of the World his return in glory to be the Judge of the World 1 Thes 4. 16 17. 1. In Christs humiliation the glory of Christs divine nature was hidden but not diminished in his Exaltation it is manifested but not augmented 2. His humane nature was really abased and really exalted enjoying the actings of the glory of his divine nature according to its manner and measure 3. When the day of Judgement is come and finisht he will deliver up his Kingdome to his Father as compleat and so to continue for ever but not so as to put an end to his Head-ship and Mediator-ship 1 Cor. 15. 24 28. 4. The degrees of his Exaltation are according to the degrees of his humiliation 1. Christ dyed and he rose again 2.
He descended into Hell and he ascended into Heaven 3. His body lay in the grave three dayes that is a part of all the three dayes and he sits now at the right hand of his Father and shall come in great glory to judge the World Next of Application Quest What is Application of Christs Redemption Answ Application of Christs Redemption is the second part of mans recovery whereby that which Christ hath done as a Mediator is applyed to those whom the Father hath elected made theirs effectually by the Spirit and giveth common gifts to others in which let us consider 1. What is applyed that which Christ hath done as a Mediator 1. That which he purchased by his humiliation 2. And possesseth in his Exaltation for his Eph. 1. 3. 7. 2. To whom is this Application of Redemption made it is applyed to those whom the Father hath elected 1. The Father hath intended the salvation of a certain number of mankind these are his by Election 2. Those and those only he hath given to his Son these are Christs by donation from his Father Joh. 6. 37. 3. These Christ only intends to save Joh. 17. 9 10. 4. Hence no universal Redemption for either these elected he intends only to redeem or others besides them then it should be uncertain to God who shall be saved which cannot be Joh. 13. 1. and if it depends meerly upon the liberty of mans will it should be uncertain whether any shall be saved yea it would be certain then none could be saved for none by nature is sincerely willing Psal 110. 2. 3. but the Lords foundation remaineth sure he knoweth his own 2 Tim. 2. 19. 2. Yet it may be granted that which Christ hath done 1. Is of universal value hath worth enough in it for the salvation of all 2. It is offered to all 3. Man not knowing who are excluded out of or included in Election we ought to hope charitably hence it followeth Herein appears Predestination namely the Decree of God concerning the manifestation of his glory in the everlasting state of man electing some and reprobating others 1. Election 1. He intends the glory of his mercy 2. He chuseth some to be Vessels of his mercy Rom. 9. 23. 3. Hence willeth the means 1. permits their fall 2. Willeth their recovery by Redemption and Application 2. Reprobation 1. The Lord intends the glory of his Justice 1. Some appointed for that end Jude 4. Rom. 9. 22. 2. Permitted them to sin and to continue hardened in sin to their destruction 3. The Application it self that which Christ hath done is made theirs effectually for either it is made theirs by effectual Application to them or it may be theirs before it is applyed to them but that cannot be for before Redemption be applyed to them they are Children of wrath as others Eph. 2. 3. the wrath of God abideth on them Joh. 3. 36. they cannot be saved and damned at the same time hence Election works no change in the person doth not change his state before effectual Application 4. By whom is this Application made it is by the Spirit sent from the Father and the Son 1. As it requireth an almighty power a divine power so it is the work of all the three persons 2. As they co-operate according to their manner of Subsistence and order of working it is of the Father firstly by his Son and Spirit 2. It is of the Son as he works from the Father by the Spirit 3. It is of the Spirit as he worketh from the Father and the Son And hence salvation is of the Father intentionally in Election 2. Of the Son virtually as he hath purchased salvation 3. Of the Spirit effectually as he is sent to apply this Joh. 16. 9 10. and giveth common gifts to others for the sake of his Elect Psal 68. 18. Eph. 4. 8 12. Quest What are the parts of Application and the manner of applying those parts Answ The parts of Application are union to Christ that is Oneness in relation to Christ and Communion with Christ that is having in common with Christ the blessings he hath purchased and the manner of Application of these is either internal and mystical this is proper to true believers or external and visible and this Hipocrites have in common with true believers Application may be considered either in the parts of it or adjunct manners 1. The parts of it that is such parts as doe constitute it and of which it doth consist union to Christ Communion with Christ 1. Vnion to Christ that is an Oneness in relation to Christ whereby they are Christs and Christ is theirs 1. Not an Essential Oneness to be one in Essence with Christ this is proper to the three persons thus to be one 2. Not a personal Oneness this is proper to the humane nature of Christ to be one with his divine nature to subsist inseperably in the same person 3. Such a relative oneness so that the Lord Christ owneth the Soul and the Soul owneth 〈◊〉 and as truely one with Christ in a spiritual sense as the bridegroom and the bride Cant. 6. 3. Revel 22. 17 20. Eph. 1. 11 12 13. 2. Communion with Christ whereby we have in common with Christ the blessings he hath purchased Eph. 1. 3. As a woman by mariage hath the benefits of a mariage relation in common with her husband 2. This union to and communion with Christ may be considered in respect of the manners of it in which we have the distribution of the subject from its adjuncts and those considered as proper or common 1. Proper to true Believers and ariseth out of the special nature of application is that internal and mystical sincere union to and communion with Christ which although it may be seen by him who hath it and may be seen by others as to the Judgement of Charity but cannot be seen by others as to the Judgement of verity and infallibility and therefore may be called inward and mystical Rom. 2. 28. and this is proper to true believers 2. Or that which is common namely an external and visible union to and Communion with Christ 1. In words they speak as such 2. In works outwardly they practice as such who have union to Christ and communion with him 3. And therefore to the Judgement of rational Charity appear to be such 4. And have really an external and visible union to Christ as Christ is the head of his visible Church 5. But this is that which hipocrites have in common with true believers Rom. 2. 28. Let us begin with that which is internal and mystical union to Christ Quest What is that internal and mystical union to Christ Answ Internal and mystical union to Christ is that whereby the Spirit having wrought Faith in the heart causeth the soul to come to Christ for life and is joyned to Christ as its spiritual head 1. That whereby the spirit having wrought faith in the