us and we have seen his Glory So the beloved Apostle witnesses of him He took on him not the nature of Angels but the seed of Abraham Thus the Son of God became the son of man being miraculously conceived of the Holy Ghost in the womb of Mary the Virgin over-shadowed by Gods Spirit and born of her in the humane nature like to us in all things except sin Thus was God the Son made manifest in the flesh by assuming the Nature not the person for then had he been two sons and two persons of man to himself This Man Christ Jesus hath body and soul the two substantial parts of Man even as we have as appear'd in his whole progress both which he hath Glorified not nullified This Fatherless man is as Wonderful as the same motherless God for who can declare his Generation as to the manner of it Thus Infiniteness confined himself God eternal was born of a finite poor Virgin Here is an Object indeed for the best knowledge of the best man God become man 3. Christ is God-man Emmanuel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God with us The true Ithiel God with me the very Vcal who is All. In him by hypostatical Union the humane nature with the Divine do both subsist in God the Son the second person of the divine Trinity Here is indeed a complication of ineffable wonders As there one Divine Nature subsists distinctly in three divine Persons So here two Natures the divine and humane subsist both in one person each of them acting and remaining distinctly conjunctly and inseparably incommutably and unconfusedly as the Fathers expressed it to avoid Errors on both hands Here is no mixtion nor composition no confusion nor conversion but a mysterious and transcendant Union from whence flow the various expressions of Scripture 1. When that is attributed to each Nature which properly belongs thereto as suffering to humane Nature and also when that is attributed to the person which therein belongs to both natures as to be Mediatour this is most proper Secondly When that which is common to the whole Person as to be Mediator is attributed only to one of the Natures suppose to the humane this is more improper Thirdly When that which is proper to one Nature is attributed to the other Nature in concreto by a name denoting the whole Person In that sense its true that God purchased his Church by his Blood and that the King of Glory was crucified by communication of Properties Yet this acception is the most improper of the three being Metonymical as the second is Synecdochical In man two imperfect Natures Soul and Body are coadunated with reservation of Proprieties to the constituting of one Suppositum and Person by the vertue of God Christs Person in the divine Nature being most perfect took the humane nature into the unity of one person by his own Vertue So that its one and the same Christ visible according to the humane invisible according to the divine Nature This hypostatical Union was the work of the Trinity mediately of the Holy Ghost immediately and of the Son terminatively The Fathers compare this Mysterie to the joint work of three Sisters making up one vesture and putting it all conjunctly upon the second of them It was necessary that Christ should be God 1. To impart an infinite value and vertue to his compleat Obedience 2. To overcome all sufferings and enemies 3. To communicate all effectually by his Spirit to his people It was as needful that he should be man 1. Because the Godhead could not suffer Secondly because the same Nature that had offended was to satisfie 3. That our Nature corrupted by the first Adam might be restored by the second Christ Jesus our Lord. Thus is Christs Person the Amiable Object of our Knowledge Secondly CHrist considered in his Office is a precious Object his chief business as Mediator being to procure effectual Reconciliation to the saving of his people by his perfect Oblation presented to God for them and applied to them by Gods Spirit He assumed the Name and function of Jesus the Saviour He was anointed as the Christ of God with all suitable qualifications and made Lord of all but especially made our Lord and Saviour by personal appropriation and effectual application Thus was Christ voluntarily made of a woman under the Law subjecting himself in that wonderful dispensation of his Mediation to receive from the Father his Call to that redeeming Function There was no defect in God but in us only who wanted skil power and will utterly to the curing and saving of our selves Christ therefore was divinely anointed to be our Soveraign Prophet Priest and Prince to effect all for us and in us needful to salvation As a Prophet he Reveals the whole Council of God As a Priest he makes full expiation to God and Intercession for us As a Kingly Prince he subdues all spiritual Enemies and makes all things serviceable to the guidance and protection of his people under his Soveraign Rule and Government All this he did and doth by his Eternal Spirit as the Scripture Records freely fully surely and singularly being therein a glorious Object of Christian knowledge Thirdly Christ in his Progress is considerable under a double state of Humiliation and Exaltation 1. HIs Humiliation appeared in all the steps of his Conception and Birth of his Life and Passion of his death and Burial most wonderfully This God head was then covered with the dark vail of his humane Nature mourning as it were in the sad habit of his infirmities for his peoples Enormities He willingly then eclipsed his divine light within the dark Lanthorn of this submissive state he humbled himselfe to exalt us he emptied himself that he might fill us He parted with all that he might give us all He shewed himself to be the Son of man to the lowest degree that he might bring all his into the state of Children Had there not been an absolute necessity thereof he had never done it Had not our case been so desperate could any other way have expiated and destroyed his peoples sins Christ had not come down from the height of Glory to the bottom of ignominy Here is an object of admiration indeed God humbled to a childs state growing up by degrees in Stature and Grace doing and suffering every moment for his enemies in rebellious arms Behold the Son of man wrastling with earth and hell yea with heaven it self conflicting with mans rage the devils fury and the wrath of God! What think you of sin the murtherer of this Christ and of that Love which gave him to the death Thus made he his soul a sacrifice for sin that he might see his seed and the good will of the Lord prospering in his hands He laid in the grave to confirm his
death and to air that Bed for our Repose His God head held his soul and body asunder from each other yet still inseparably united to himself Thus may you see a man drawing out his sword holding in his hands still both sword and scabret till it be put up again Thus it was needfull that Christ should suffer and so make entrance into his Kingdom Secondly Christs Exaltation is further worthy the best observation Therein his glorious person unvailed himself of all humane weakness though he still retained the nature of man and its properties He laid down his sable weeds to put on the roabes of Immortality His God-head did then raise up his Man-hood in his Resurrection and the Son of man declared himself by his divine Power to be the Son of God The Price paid for his people in his humiliation he applies by power through his exaltation to them orderly and effectually He is God-Man still and therefore tearmed the Man Christ Jesus Thus his office was to be compleated by the compleating of his saving Progress He conversed then among his Disciples the space of forty days to confirm their faith and to instruct them in the affairs of his Kingdom Thence his Ascention was solemnly performed followed with his Session at the Fathers right hand and Intercession for his people These are the four main steps of his exaltation to be singularly improved He rose that we might rise from death to Life he ascended that we might ascend he sits at Gods right hand that we may sit with him on his Throne and he still intercedes to make all our Intercessions effectual Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It s Christ that died yea rather that rose and ascended siting now at the right hand of the Majesty on high and ever lives to make Intercession Thus is Christs progress of chief worth and consideration 4. Christ is most considerable in his purchase also made for all his People which hath both value and vertue in it 1. THE value of his whole Obedience was of infinite worth being the merits of God-man giving full satisfaction to Gods Justice for all the sins of all his elect and making a full acquisition of all the good they were should be capable of This price of Christs perfect Righteousness active and passive was put into Gods Coffers to be seasonably and effectually applied to all his people orderly and actually from their conversion to their utmost salvation by his Spirit according to his eternal Purpose By the same value were all Gods elect from Adam to Christs death delivered from the guilt wages of sin upon Christs engagement of seasonable performance For he is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world intentionally in the divine purpose and promise 2. The Vertue of Christs perfect Obedience extends to the effectual application thereof to all Gods people So the Fathers purpose in electing and the Sons Intention in redeeming do run parallel That value which Christs merits presented to God cannot but be attended with answerable vertue for the making good thereof to the utmost The Son of man came to seek save that which was lost and that to the utmost seeing he ever lives to perform all Whilst therefore he was gone into Heaven to act his part there he was carefull to send his Proxie even his own Spirit that should make a through application of all his Purchase by the conveyance of his saving Grace to all his Chosen His Oblation is living and lively still even as Christ himself who abides for ever The ceremonial Oblations had him shadow'd out to represent the efficaciousness of Christs Oblation A wise man paying a Ransom or Debt as surety for another will be sure to know for whom and to see his purpose fulfilled to his power The agreement or Covenant made between God and Christ distinct from the gracious Covenant made conditionally with the visible Church in Christ imports as much As the Father required that he should offer his soul a Sacrifice for sin which the Son willingly undertook so was it engaged to him that he should see of his seed and the good pleasure of the Lord should prosper in his hand So that the vertue of his blood is still included in the value of it both being directed by divine intention which terminates in the proper subjects thereof Therein concurs his threefold office he being still a Prophet and prince as far as he is a Priest unto any The vertue of Christs Merits is indeed intrinsecally infinite like himself and only limited with the value thereof by the divine pleasure This purchase of his may be said occasionally and secundarily to comprehend the whole Creation in subserviency to divine Intentions but directly and primarily the Scripture limits it to Gods Elect for whom he came and lived prayed and died rose and intercedes still It extends to the removal of all evil both of sin and sorrow inchoatively progressively and consummatively It reaches also the Import of all sutable good spiritual temporal and eternal All things are ours and for our sake that are truly his and so far as we are his Is not this a choice Jewel to be duly viewed Doth not such a purchase challenge our best knowledge The possessive Our gives rellish to all It doth us little good to hear of Indian Treasures that are not our own Fifthly Christ is most precious in his Relation multipliciously expressed to his people by Allusion to all choice relations in things natural civil and artificial The perfection of all creatures is radically in him originally from him and reductively leads to him again None of them can sufficiently set out his wonderfull Relation wherein he stands towards his chosen Ones he therefore borrows the cream and quintessence of them all to shadow out to our shallow capacity the marvels of his glorious Grace Thus he speaks to his Babes in their known Dialect that he may gradually and familiarly be understood of them He calls himself their root giving sap and life to every branch of his He is the Head that conveyes all motion and sense to all his members He is the Fountain-Spring from whom all living waters flow into the streams by his proper conduits He is that Sun who carries Light and Life by his access unto all Creatures He is the Father that tenders his Children He is the husband that cherishes his Spouse the elder brother that looks to his adopted Brethren the Master that hath the best care of Servants That Foundation is he on whom the Fabrick stands that garment that must cover us that food that must sustain us that Portion that must maintain us to saving purpose Look into the whole compass of creatures what ever good you can find therein is
used by him to set forth his goodness What ever defect you find in the Creature he is not capable of that is all goodness all perfection Is not such a Christ a singular object to exercise our knowledge about What his office called him to his progress fitted him for and his relation makes conveyance of through his holy Spirit unto all his Sixthly His Influence is considerable for actual Communication of all Each Relation of his carries still with it a secret sweet and sutable Influx which doth strongly and efficaciously operate on all his thereby they are made more and more Partakers of the divine nature in escaping the pollutions that are in the world through Lust The Apostle had found the precious vertue thereof which made him so desirous to know him in the power of his Resurrection and in the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable to his death This the Converts at Ephesus felt who being made acquainted with this gracious knowledge of Christ were quickned by his power and made to rise with him yea to sit with him at Gods right hand This Influence is free indeed this spiritual wind blows where it lists not being tied to any means it works at pleasure with or without means by weak small improbable or contrary means yet ordinarily God works by his appointed Tools he walks in his own road of Providence and leads his people step by step to the very top of Jacobs Ladder In the course of things natural and spiritual he limits us still though not himself and will be sought and found in each of his ways for the further knowledge of his divine Influence It s he that is the Life of our Life the strength of our strength in whom we live move and have our Being both naturally and spiritually How excellent then is that gracious Knowledge whose Object is thus excellent in every consideration Reason 2. THE Subject and Recipient of this knowledge sets forth the inestimable worth of it They are his Elect his chosen Jewels his peculiar people to whom he imparts this Jewel unto Them only doth he know for his of all the Nations to whom he makes himself thus savingly known As he makes himself the Pearl or Price to them so doth he make them Pearls of Price thereby Blessed are the people who learn to known him being first known of him The rest are refuse stones these are his living precious stones Others he knows with a general knowledge of intuition but these with a special knowledge of appropriation and approbation The rest delight not to know him as he delights not to know them He never knew them and they never knew him in this choise manner For his own he came to make himself thus graciously known to their souls in all the Dimensions of his eternal Love surpassing mans knowledge that they may be filled with the fulness of God How precious is that knowledge that makes the Subjects thereof so precious How admirable is that Jewel that takes up the the sublimest Contemplations templations of the most glorious Angels Those Elect Angels are still attending in his Ordinances to join with his Elect and learn of the Church this manifold wisdom of our God For those Elects sake Christ suffered all things meritoriously and Paul his servant providentially Those Elect whom the Lord did foreknow he never casts away but makes them up among his Jewels by making his Christ so precious to them in a greacious way His choice Love did freely choose them before time and is fully assured to them in Christ being communicated through the precious Operations of his Spirit to make them precious like himself in due time unto eternity Reason 3. The cause of this Gracious Knowledge doth as wonderfully magnifie the same considerable in the Efficient formal and final 1. THe Efficient cause and Author thereof is the blessed Trinity jointly yet distinctly Revealing and communicating Jesus Christ unto his chosen people 1. The external Operations of God towards the creature being indivisibly effected by the three Persons concurring in One the Son doing nothing but what he sees his Father do and working still as the Father works and the Spirit proceeding from both speaks not of himself but whatsoever he hears from them both that speaks he unto Christs Disciples 2. Distinctly according to their distinct personal Relations 1. The Father electing from eternity having chosen them in Christ before the Foundation of the world that they might be holy and unblameable before him in Love and therefore predestinating them to the Adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his Will and making them through his knowledge meet partakers of his Inheritance in Light by translating them into the Kingdom of his dear Son who were chosen according to his foreknowledge through sanctification of the Spirit 2. The Son accepting and undertaking tendring and effecting in and by himself the whole business of their Salvation making known the same by his Word and Spirit as also by his own Person in the dayes of his flesh 3. The holy Spirit by wooing of their souls opening their eyes and fitting them for the Reception of this Excellent Knowledge infusing the same into them applying it particularly to their several dispositions and occasions removing daily the scales of their ignorance and sin scattering the mists raised by the Prince of darkness Repressing the vapours steeming from their boyling Lusts and dunghil hearts setting forth Christ to their souls in his full Beauty and Loveliness and leading them into all Truth by taking of Christ to impart unto them the gracious secrets of the Fathers Counsel Thus the glorious God works graciously in and by all Means of his appointing to the creating encrease and perfecting of his singular Jewel 2. THe formal Cause is very Remarkable in that peculiar saving application made of Christ to his Elect in their conversion gradually carried on towards perfection by the Spirits gracious Operation For then doth he stamp on that soul the glorious characters of Christs Image and begets that new creature which divine off-spring moves upward instantly in conjugal Reciprocations dilating the soul in all her faculties to the further comprehension of Christ It may be parallel'd with that Energetial Power whereby the rational soul and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 animates the humane nature into all suitable operations What the soul is to man in naturals that 's Christ to the soul in spirituals The principle of all Life Sence and Reason thus spiritually applied to the Regenerate enables and excites directs and strengthens them to the choice Improvements of this conjugal Acquaintance Christ on marriage terms by his Spirit in his Word tenders and gives himself to be their Husband By this quickening Touch they
cruel and painful torment They might as well deny the Sun-light at noon-day who deny this Truth To turn plain Scripture into Allegories is to turn substance into a shadow It cost Origen a self-mutilation for mutilating divine writings thus He was called Centaur for monstrous Opinions flowing from Allegorical strainings of Scripture Christs Manhood should be so precious to us as not to endure affronts put on it Therein God and man do most sweetly meet which will help weak faith in every time of need 3 Against both the parts of his humane nature his soul and Body many also fight Apollinarius denying him a human soul as if the Godhead had supplied the want thereof Eutyches destroyed both by his pretended swallowing of them up into the Divine Nature The Manichees and Valentinians allowed him but an aery phantastical Body running through the womb of Mary as through a Pipe Mahometans fain it to have passed through Maries Paps and by the smell of a Rose Divers Novelists are daily broaching strange conceits about it The Vbiquitarians give him a monstrous Body immense and filling all places the Papists as monstrously would have his Body to be distinctly in many places at once to be without quantity without extension without sensible accidents to be made a new daily at the Priests will to be broken and not broken by himself and by all their Priests c. Many such contradictions against Scripture and sence Reason and all Sciences they are forced to for their fictitious Transubstantiation sake All such Malignant vapours which infest many will be effectually dispelled by the right use of your spiritual confection Christ was and abides ever a perfect man consisting of Soul and Body both subsisting in his divine Person being united to the divine Nature therein It will shew you that his soul was sorrowful to death and was made sensible of all humane affections though without sin as clear Chrystal water moved without any mud It will teach you that his Body had flesh and bones after his Resurrection as before which a spirit hath not That the same Body did visibly ascend into Heaven before the Disciples eyes and shal return thence in the same manner That the Heavens must hold him till the Restauration of all things That the glorifying of his Body hath not could not have annihilated it or changed the substance though it hath bettered the qualities thereof It will help you to know the flesh of Christ spiritually though you learn to know him no more after the slesh carnally It will teach you that his bare flesh and the fleshly sence thereof profits nothing a Capernaitish soul being destitute of his Spirit but that it s his Spirit that quickens us giving Life to his flesh and to his Word that both may be Spirit and Life to us in a spiritual and lively improvement Christs manhood is that precious Golden Ring that sets forth the Jewel of his Godhead to us It s a curious Vail of his contriving that his glorious face may through it be beheld It s a Chrystal Glass of the Lords framing to reflect thereby his Image upon us Out of Christ God is a consuming fire but thereby he becomes a Reconciled Father If Christ were not man still there were no hopes for man if we know him not thus we know him not at all It s not a figment of our own divising but the man Christ Jesus that must be our Saviour He cannot be ours unless wholly ours 4. Against his Person appear Nestorius dividing it into two Persons Sabellius Arius all Antitrinarians denying his distinctly eternal Personality from the Father The Socinians and Notionists that fancy the distiction of persons in God to be but nominal according to various dispensations witness Hob's Leviathan among many other poisonous books so commonly scattered abroad TO queneh the force of these pernicious Errors your Counter poison will season your soul with the scriptural description of Emmanuel our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God with us It will prove him to be God-man having both Natures divine and humane subsisting in his person the Son of God the second Person of the divine Trinity by Hypostatical Union it will clear him to be the Brightness of his glorious Father and the express Image of his Person being that one Mediator between God and Man and therefore God-man that he might conquer by suffering and make his suffering infinite for vertue and value for satisfaction and acquisition It will shew you that there are three in Heaven the Father the Word and the Spirit and that those three are one That this Mystery is not against Reason though above it in its common shallow apprehension that the Son sends the Spirit Comforter from the Father and is therefore distinct from them both yet that he and the Father are one in Essence though distinct in person That Gods Reason is the Rule of ours being revealed to us in his divine monuments that we may assent to his Assertion though we cannot fathom the Explicitness thereof no more then Bruits can fathom our rational expressions That the Person of Christ coming out of the water must needs be distinct from that Person of the Spirit who came in the likeness of a Dove lighting on him at his Baptism and from the person of the Father whose voice from Heaven said This is my Beloved Son hear him Thus the Grace and Knowledge of Christ will teach you that he who thought it no Robbery to be equal wtth God being in the form of God substantially made himself of no Reputation that as God-man he might restore man to God in the gloryfiing of all divine Attributes Our Faith is not true if we do not own the true God truly as he holds forth himself in three distinct persons Those divine persons are not meer modes or manners of Attribution or Manifestation but real subsistences The Father is not the Son the Son is not the Spirit personally though they be one God essentially The person of the Son alone was incarnate not that of the Father he could not be Son not that of the Spirit there had been two Sons then The Word became flesh not the Father nor Spirit Divers Emblems are used to set forth this glorious Mysterie but Scripture-Language describes it best to a sober faith The Word Person is a Scripture Word very proper and significant They that deny this right use thereof make way for further denyal of Truth The Person of Christ is then to be owned by all that intend to be owned of him 5. Against Christs Spirit stirs first Macedonius denying him to be a divine Person distinct from the Father and Son Secondly All Antitrinitarians who oppose the distinction of divine Persons Thirdly The Greeke who deny the Procession of the Spirit from the Father through the Son Fourthly The several Blasphemers that vaunted
of Impretation So by his Exaltation he works it out by power in a way of Application The many cavils objected against it Paul fully confuted over and over The Popish pretences for their Transubstantiation have been from Scripture sufficiently taken off by many choice Pens That Capernaitical conceit Christ himself took pains to refute It much wrongs the Glory of Christ to bring him again from Heaven to earth daily to mangle and abuse him by the hand of their Mass-Priests and expose him to shame and suffering again Though they call their Mass an unbloody Sacrifice yet do they make themselves the Butchers and Executioners of Christ in pretending to offer his corporal flesh and blood Scripture indeed cals the Bread and Wine his Body and Blood so doth it call Christ the Door the Vine c. by the like Metaphors yet is not Christ turned into a Door nor Vine no more are the Elements turned into his Body and Blood Christ explains the meaning of those phrases so doth his Apostle to the full As for the Vbiquitarians conceit to make Christs Body present corporally with the Elements and everywhere the absurdity thereof abuses grosly Christs Exaltation in his humane Nature and their Consubstantiation is refuted with that Scripture Reason that dispels the Popish Impanation Their straining of figurative speeches beyond their scope fetches Blood out of Scripture by dreadful violence and absurd consequence Yet will they admit figures in many other places not controverted 12 The Word of Christ suffers much likewise 1. From the forenamed Tenets 2. Formal Antiscripturists old and new quite denying the need and use thereof and questioning the purity sufficiency clearness and divineness of it 3. By Papists charging it with obscurity corruption insufficiency defectiveness and needlesness They keep it from the peoples common use unless licenced teaching that Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion They prefer their vulgar Latin version before both Originals They equalize their unwritten Traditions therewith and the Church commands yea prefer them often before it They bind all to receive its Interpretation only from their mouth They patch to the Canon many Apocrypha's and spurious books stored with lies and contradictions absurdities and fables ascribing thereto the like divine Authority 4. The Quakers join with them in slighting Scripture equaling their pretended Revelations therewith abusing the words thereof to contrary sences wresting it to the disguising of their gross Errors giving to their pretended Light within that Infallibility which the Papists give to their Pope and Council 5. The Behmenists and Notionists that turn it into Allegories and uncouth Eictions changing Realities into shadowes and the substance of Scripture into Chymical Fumes witness Paracelsus Wigelius Behmens several Books which are stored with non-sence and vile blasphemies bold Intrusions into hid Mysteries all under specious colours with bombastical words AGainst these woful Drugs the Knowledge of Christ will be successfully improved shewing us the Excellency and Necessity the sufficiency and purity the clarity and utility of Scripture It will take off all the mistakes objections and cavils made against the Divinity and right use thereof It will clear it to be the sole and sure Standard and Rule of Religion being the full Declaration of Gods Will and Mind the Fountain of all Goodness Truth It will shew the need that all have to study it day and night and observe it in all things It will detect their folly who add thereto their unwritten Traditions additions and Revelations besides above or against it as abominable to God It will discover their madness who pretend to speak and write as good Scripture and will not own the Bible to be the Word of God It will shew that all Scripture was written by Inspiration from God and is sufficient to compleat the Man of God to every good work That it came not by the will of man but that the men of God writ as they were moved by the Holy Ghost That the abuse of it by some must not prejudice the right use thereof corruptio Optimi pessima that if he be hid it s to them that perish That the Word is Light and gives Light That the Spirit of Christ still speaks in his Word whether to Life or to Death being inseparable from it That its never a dead Letter though it be sometimes a killing Letter That Translations are but the Taps of Scripture to broach those full vessels which therefore should be fitted to the use of all and are so far to be owned as they agree with the original sense That the sense of Scripture is Scripture though it may be variously expressed That no mans Interpretation is to be received further then it agrees with the whole Scripture That all seeming contradictions therein are easily cleared by comparing of Scriptures minding the context and scope in a sober humble manner with studious diligence That the sense of Scripture Translations when dark must be brought to the Original Light That all things absolutely needful to Salvation are clearly laid down in Scripture That Scripture Consequence is Scripture That some things are obscure therein to exercise our sobriety industry That it s so fitted to every mans condition that the simplest may reap the benefit thereof That Christ bids all search the Scriptures and sends them to the Law and Testimony for decision and prediction stil That the wisest Christians are most studious of Scripture finding stil most need of it being most sensible of their remaining Ignorance That pride and blindness make men to conceive so highly of their knowledge as to think themselves wise enough without it or as wise as it That they are foolish self-seducers who thus think and say That God indeed spoke to our Fathers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in divers parts and manners by piece-meal as it were but he hath now contracted all in speaking to us by his Son That therefore having closed the Canon and sealed up those Records by his Sons Apostles who ever adds to or detracts from it is liable to that sentence there denounced by the Lord himself That the Lords Will revealed in Scripture obliges all being the Beck and hint of our Soveraign who can becken us all into nothing at his Will That since the compleating of Scripture immediate Inspirations are expired being needless the divine Rule of all being perfectly given out That all pretended Enthusiasms not agreeing with the Word must be suspected to be from evil spirits The several Errors of the Apocrypha are discovered by Scripture Light and have been abundantly confuted by many worthy hands The abuse of Scripture by feigned Allegories is thereby detected also when men will be wise above what 's written giving heed to Jewish and Chymical Fables yea to Magical Notions and Fictions as Paracelsus Behmen c. they are justly given
11 12. Prov. 29. 1. Psal 2. 1 Tim. 1. 8 1 Cor. 9. 21. Ier. 31. 33. Ezek. 36. 27. Rom. 8. 2. Iob. 22. 21 22 23 24 c. 2 Cor. 5. 19 20. Esa 55. Tit. 2. 11. 12. 13. Psal 91. 11 12 2 Chro. 15. 2. Prov. 3. 6. Ioh. 10 27. Eph. 5. 15 16. Esa 8. 20. Act. 20. Col. 2. 6 7. Eph. 1. 22 23. 1 Pet 2. 5 6. Eph. 2. 20 21. Ioh. 15. 5 5. Mat. 24. Mark 13. Luke 21. 1 Tim. 4. 2 Tim. 3. Iude 1 Ioh. 4. Col. 2. 19. Heb. 6. 19 20. Eph. 6. 11 12. Gen. 3. 1 4 5. Mat. 24. Eph. 4. 18 19. Joh. 1. 11 Rom. 16. 17. Rom. 13. 3 4. c. 2 Thess 2. 8 9 10 11. Heb. 4. 2. 1 Ioh. 2. 20. 28. Psal 42. 1 2. Mat. 5. 2 3 4. 1 Pet. 2. 1 2 3 4. Phil. 2. 13. Eph. 6. 10. 1 Thess 5. 21. Rev. 25. Rev. 2. 5. Mar. 4. 24. Luk. 8. 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Pet. 1. 12 13 15. La coz de la yégua no haze mal al pótto Proverb Castigl Quae relinquntur in morbis recidivas faci unt Hippocrat Ier. 17. 9. 1 Pet. 1. 4. Mat. 22. 14. 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 c. 10. Phil. 2. 13. Esa 64. 5. Exod. 20. 24. Ezek. 36. 37. 2 Cor. 3. 5. acti agimus 1 Cor. 15. 10. Rom. 11. 20. Rev. 3. 19 2 Thess 2. 13 14. 2 Tim. 2. 19. Rom. 9. 11 16 23. Rom. 11. 7. Natura naturans nihil facitant loquitur frustra 2 Cor. 2. 15 16. 1 Cor. 4. 7. Eph. 4. 2 Cor. 12. Acts 20. 28. 1 Pet. 5. 1 2. Eph. 4. 11 12 13 14. Heb. 13. 17. 1 Thess 5. 12 13. 2 Tim. 2. 2. Deut. 33. 10. Read Plato Arist Seneca Plutarch Cicer Macro Histories of the Western and Eastern Indies for proof hereof Mat. 24. 42. Revel 12. 15. Prov. 29. 1. See Euseb Socrat Sosomen Zonar Chal. Carion Chron. Center Magdib Baron Annal. History of Turks Sarac Tartars Esay 34. 14. Ierem. 7. 14 21. Ierem. 26. 6. 9. Ierem. 31. 18. 19 20. Deut. 4. 9. c. Revel 2. 5 14 15. Rev. 3. 1 2 3. Luke 19. 42. Prov. 29. 1. 2 Chron. 36. 15 16. 1 Thes 2. 16. A full Relation of Iames Nayler and his comrades is lately printed by Mr. Farmer of Bristol Eph. 4. 18 19 20. Jer. 6. 16. Iohn 14. 6. Heb. 10. 20. Iob 32. 1 2. Eph 1. 18 19. Ier. 4. 14. Tit. 3. 5. Acts 24 16. Prov. 4. 23. Mat. 24. 42. Mark 13. 33 35 37. Mark 9. 20 26. Psalm 91. 10 11 12. 2 Chron. 15. 2. Act. 20. 28. Eph. 6. 4 5. Rom. 13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. Tit. 9. 10 11 12 13 Tit. 2. 15. Esa 3. 7. A Ruler is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Healer or Repairer to signifie his office from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to bind restrain dress fit and order 1 Sam. 2. 30. Ezek. 22. 30 31. Josh 22. Num. 25. 11. Psal 100. 30. Exod. 32. 26 27. Neh. 9. 27. Neh. 13. 13 17 25 26. Error like the Giant Anteus looses strength and life by losing the Ground whence it was cherished Truth cannot lose Heaven and therefore prevails against earth 2 Cor. 2. 14. 2 Cor. 8. 4. 2 Cor. 1. 15. Psal 1. 7. Eph. 2. 8. Rom. 11. 6. Eph. 1. 5 6 11. Ioh. 1. 14 16. Gal. 5. 22 23 1 Ioh. 3. 9. Ioh. 4. 14. Ioh. 7. 37 38. 2 Cor. 5. 17. Eph. 4. 24. Col. 3. 10. 2 Pet. 1. 4. Gal. 4. 19. 1 Cor. 8. 1. 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3. Phil. 3. 8 10. Ioh. 172. Esa 53. 11. Hos 2. 19 20. Affection and Operation Rom. 1. 5. Many choise Tracts have been written formerly and lately about this excellent point see among the modern Mr. Perkins Dr. Stoughton Mr. Reynolds and very lately that by Mr. Iohn â—all of London upon 1 Cor. 2. 2. and Mr. Shesfield upon Mala. 4. 2. Iohn 8. 5. Iob 22. 21 22 c. Phil. 3. 6 7 8 9 10 1 Cor. 2. 2. Phil. 2. 6. Heb. 1. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ioh. 10. 30. Prov. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joh. 5. 11. 19 21 23 26. Ioh. 1. 14. 1 Ioh. 1. 1 2. Heb. 2. 16. Mat. 1. 20 23. Luke 1. 35. Heb. 4. 15. 1 Tim. 3. 6. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Esa 53. 7. Act. 8. 33. Esa 7. 14. Esa 8. 8 9. Pro. 3. 1. In Christo reperitur unio personales non personarum unio naturarii non naturalis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aliud aliud non alius alius In Trinitate divinâ datur alius alius non aliud aliud 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verè perfectè 1 Tim. 2. 5. This Dialect of Gods Word is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Fathers communicatio Idâ—omatum Act. 20. 28. 1 Cor. 2. 8. The humane Nature being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 first was then made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 1. 21. Psal 45. 7 Psal 110. Gal. 4. 4. Heb. 5. 4 5. Act. 5. 31. Act. 3. 21 22 23. Psal 110. Esa 32. 1. Esa 33. 22. Phil. 2 5 6 7 8. Esa 53. 1 2 3. c. Rom. 1. 4. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Rom. 8. 33 34 c. Psal 110. Heb. 1. 3 4. Col. 3. 1. Eph. 2. 5 6. Rev. 3. 21. Rom. 8. 33 c. Heb. 7. 25. Heb. 10. 14. Esa 53. Rev. 13. 8. Rom. 5. 8 9. Luke 19. 10. Heb. 7. 25. Ioh. 14. 16 26. Ioh 16. 7 8 c. Esay 53. 10 11. c. Iohn 10. 18. Iohn 6 28 29 c. 1 Cor. 3. 20 21 c. Isa 53. 2. Revel 5. 5. Revel 22. 16. Eph. 1. 22. Psalm 36. 9. Psalm 87. 7. Mal. 4. 2. Esay 8. 18. Heb. 2. 13. Rom. 8. 28. Iohn 13 13. Eph. 2. 20 21 c. Rom. 13. 14 Iohn 6. 1 Co. 10. Psalm 73. 26. This Sun of Righteousness is to the life set forth Mal. 4. 2. by allusion to the Soveraign influence of the natural sun quickning all the world 2 Pet. 1. 4. Phil. 3. 9 10. Eph. 1. 19 20. Eph. 2. 5 6. Iohn 3. 8. Deus non alligat suas manus Gen. 28. 11 12. Acts 17. 28. 1 Pet. 2. 9 10. Amos 3. 1 2. Psal 144. 15. Psalm 76. 1. Matth. 13. 45 46. Gal. 4. 9. 1 Pet. 2. 5 6. Psalm 138. 6. Psalm 1. 6. Rom. 1. Matth. 25. Ioh. 10. 14 15. Eph. 3. 18 19. Those Countries which are nearest the sun having most of him abound most with precious Minerals Gold Jewels and Pearls 1 Pet. 1. 12. 1 Tim. 5. 21. Eph. 3. 10. 2 Tim. 2. 10. Rom. 12. 9. Rom. 11. 7. Mal. 3. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 7 9. The original is very Emphatical 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Both these Articles are very pregnant and the abstract 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imports Honour esteem choiceness c. Opera ad extra sunt indivisa Ioh. 5. 19 23. Eph. 1. 4 5 11. Col. 1. 12. 1 Pet. 1. 2.
2 c. 2 Pet. 2. 1 2. Iud. 3. 22 23. 2 Tim. 3. 5. 1 Tim. 4. 1 2. c. Tit. 3. 10. 2 Ioh. 7. 8 9. 10. Gal. 1. 8. About these see at large Epiphan Augustin Euseb Socrat. Concilior Tom. Danaeum Chamier Iunium Paraeum Simpsons History of the Church History of Socin Anatom of Socin Cheynels Trinunity Centuriat Magdeb. a Testimony born to Christ by the London Ministers with Lyfords Explanation thereof c. Phil. 3. 10. Mal. 4. 2 Col. 2. 9. Iohn 1. 3. Heb. 1. 2 3. Heb 3. 4. Mark 2. 7 8 9 10. Luke 6. 8. Revel 2. 23. Ioh. 15. 24 26. Rom. 1. 4. Heb. 4. 6. Iohn 20. 28. Matth. 4. 10. Iohn 10. 30. About this read Beckmans exercit against Behmen The History of Familists the answers to Quakers by many godly Ministers Hornebeck de Anabapt German Epiphan de haeret Augustin Danaeum Bishop Vsher of Christs Incar c. Downames Body of Divinity c. Heb. 2. 16. Iohn 1. 14. Heb. 4. 15. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Esay 53. 10. Luke 22. 44. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi grumosus sanguis largiter defluens Matth. 23. 46. So far as Scripture teaches to Allegorize as Galat. 4. It s very useful so as still to retain the proper sence of the place But to strain Allegorles to the destroying of Truth is a dreadful wresting and wracking of Scripture all sorts of monstrous Errors in every Age. See Epiphan Euseb August Socrat. Daneus Calvin Centur. Magdeb. Simpsons Hist of the Church Chamier Panstrat Hornebeck de variis heretic Chemnit exam Ames Bell. Ener Anatom of the Mass by Mornay Anatomie dela Messe par Mousieur du Moulin Willets Synops Perkins Reform Catholick Iun. Antibellarm Not. Books against Quakers Pagets Heresiogr Mat. 26. 38. Luk. 24. 39. Act. 1. 9. 11. Act. 3. 21. The Seulicians of old shewe'd their Enmity to Christ as modern Noonists in faigning a distinctive dissiolution of Christs humane nature 2 Cor. 5. 16. Ioh. 6. 63. Histor Concil Euseb Epiphan Augustine Baron Annal. Gentur Magdeburg Chamier Phanstr Anat. of Socin Histor of Socin Iun. de Trin. Cheynels Triunity Calvin Paraeus Esay 7. 14. Heb. 1. 2. 1 Tim. 2. 5. 1 Iohn 5. 7. Iohn 14. 26. Iohn 15. 26. Mat. 3. 17. Phil. 2. 6. Ioh. 1. 14. the schoolmen Mornaeus de veritate religionis Christi and many others are large on this Subject shadowing out this mysterie by Similes from mans intellect from the Sun c. About this read Concilior Tom. Euseb Danaeus Calvin Magdeb. centur Simpsons History Zonar Sleidan comment Bulinger Histor David George Pagets Heresiogr Luther against Enthus Hornebeck de haeret Chaâ—mier Panstr 1 Pet. 1. 21. Rom. 8. 9 11. 2 Chro. 13. 14. Revel 1. 4 5. 1 Kin. 22. 22. Mat. 18. 31 32. Mar. 9. 29 Heb. 6. 4 5 6. Heb. 10. 27 28. 29 Ioh. 5. 16. About these at large see Hornebeck Danaeum de haeret Paraeum Iunium c. Anatomy of Socinianism Ostorod Catech Cracov c. See Bellarmin Concil Trident. Becan c. Chemnit Exam Chamier Panstrat Ames Bellar. Enervat Willets Synops Nouveaute du Papism Pard Moulin Mysterie of Iniquity by Mornay Rainold Whitaker Fox Monum Pagets Heresiogr See the Quakers Books and Confutations Heb. 9. 22 23. Heb. 9. 23. ons of the Leapers cleansed and the living and dying bird mentioned Levit. 14. 5 6 7. c. and the two propitiatory Goats the one dying the other escaping Lev. 16 7 8 9 c. Ioh. 6. 53 63. Heb. 7. 25. Esa 63. 3. Lev. 16. 17. The Grecians had propitiatory Oblations by devoting of men called therefore Obominals to expiate for the peoples sins the Devil being still Gods Ape in counterfeiting and spoiling his Worsip by humane Inventions and mimical innovations among Pagans and Papists Luke 17. 10. God would have but one Altar and one Door to which Sacrifices should be brought Lev. 17. 3 5. * Ier. 23. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Priests were to put off their own Garments and put on that sacred Vesture which was to serve all the Lords Servants successively typifying Christs Righteousness comming into his special presence for Acceptance and Oblation Christs Oblation is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Mercy-seat or Propitiation that must cover our best Duties and Works Ier. 33. 16. The Church being the Spouse and Body of Christ leaves her own name to borrow his * 1 Cor. 1. 30. * 2 Cor. 5. 21. Gods high Priest alone was to enter into the most holy place to explate and Intercede About this read you may Bellarmin Concil Tridentin Gratian. Lombard Aquinat Becan Chamier Panstr Chemnit Exam. Ames Bell. Enerv. Willets Synops Armachan Nov. Bishop Potter Bishop Davenant is hitaker Rainold Bishop Iewel Jun. Not. Antibell Calvin Institut Luther in Gal. c. About this you may see Davenant Wootten Bradshaw Burges Baxter Downam Quisquis domus partem super arena fundat totius ruinam certò periclitatur ipsius etiam partis quae rupi videbatur affixa Heb. 10. 14 18. Heb. 7. 12 23 24. 1 Joh. 4. 2 3. Totus Christus Salus nostra adae â—uatum fidei Objectum totalis obedientia Christi propitiatio adae quata ad illam complendam Solutem Ioh. 10. 17 18 good works are well stiled via Râ—gni non causa regnandi You may see for this Concilior Tom. Bellarmin Baronii Annal. Chamier Chemnit Exam. Beckmans Exerc History of the Church Calvin contr Fanat Hist of Famil Hornbeck de haeret Authority Impartialty and Infallibility the properties of a supream Iudge belong only to the Lord the Spirit and to his Word Heb. 12. 25 26. 1 Cor. 10. 15. 1 Cor. 5. 12. Act. 15. 28. Act. 16. 4. Rev. 22. 18 19. 2 Cor. 13. 12. Gal. 2. 11. Phil. 3. 12 15. Heb. 12. 23. Ioh. 15. 15. Ioh. 20. 31. 1 Pet. 1. 10 11 12. Ioh. 1. 18. 1 Ioh. 2. 20 27. Ier. 31. 33. 1 Thess 5. 19 20 21. Heb. 12. 25 26. Mat. 10. 40. Luke 10. 16. Gal. 1. 7. 8. Act. 3. 22 23. Mal. 2. 7. Eph. 4. Luke 10. 16. 2 Cor. 3. 18. For this read Hist of Germ. Anab. Pagets Heresiogr Danaeus de haeret Chamier Panstr and Supplem The Books against Quakers Subject to Christ by Thom. Sheph. Downam de Antichrist c. Rev. 19. 16. Psal 110. 1 2 c. Luke 19. 27. Esa 33. 22. Esa 32. 1. 2. 1 Cor. 15. 25. Act. 15. 15 16. Ezek. 21. 27. Hag. 2. 6 7. 2 Thess 2. 3 4 7 8. 1 Tim. 4. 1 2 3 c. Rev. 13. Rev. 17. Rev. 11. Rev. 12. See to this purpose the several places against Quakers Familists by Gataker Featly Rutherford Burges Baxter Farmer The New-Castle Ministers Paget Baily c. Beckmans Exercit Baxter of the sin against the Holy Ghost Compare them with the relation given of the old Valentinians Basilidians Gnosticks Carpocratians c. by Epiphan August Euseb Socrat. Sozomen Theodoret. Magdeb. Centur. History of the Church