Gen. 1.20 21 22 23. Moon and Stars Q. Whâ—t were the works of the fifth day A. The Fishes that live in the water and the fowls that live in the air Q. What are the works of the sixth day A. The creatures living upon the earth Gen. 1.24 25 26 viz. creeping things Beasts Man Q. How did God create man A. In his own image created he him Gen. 1.27 Gen. 5.1 2. male and female created he them Q. What was the image of God according to which man was created A. That likeness by which man did eminently resemble his Maker in such a measure as was convenient to his nature Q. In what things did this image of God in man principally consist A. In four Eph. 4.24 Col. 3.10 Eccl. 7.29 Psal 8.6 viz. 1. The nature of the soul 2. The conformity of the whole man unto Gods will 3. The original liberty of his will to good 4. His dominion over the creatures Q. What is the Soul A. The Soul is a spiritual incorporeal and immortal substance created by God of nothing immediately infused into the body as the proper form thereof by which man is liveth is sensible moveth understandeth willeth and is affected and when it shall be separated from the body it still remaineth immortal subsisting by it self to be reunited to the body at the Resurrection there to abide for ever Q. What is the Providence of God Ioh. 5.17 Psal 76.10 Eph. 1.6 Phil. 2.10 11. Rom. 8.28 Matt. 10.29 30. A. It is an external work of God by which he preserveth and so ordereth and disposeth of all his works and the actions thereof as maketh most for his glory and the good of his Elect. Q. How many parts are there of his Providence A. Two The keeping of his creatures in their being and vertues Acts 11.28 Isa 47.7 Psal 75.7 8. The governing of them to their several ends Q. How is this government divided A. Into common belonging to all his works special belonging to Angels Men. Q. In Gods special government of Angels and Men what is to be considered A. His prescribing to them a Law and Deut. 26.16 17 18. Rom. 9.19 ordering the events that were to follow thereupon Q. Touching the ordering of the events concerning man what are you to consider A. Two things Rom. 5.19 1 Cor. 15.21 1. His Apostacy or fall which was the transgression of the Law prescribed to him by God 2. His Recovery Q. What are there to be considered in his Apostacy A. The transgression it self Gen. 3.6 The propagation of it Q. But for your better understanding of this point what may you further consider concerning the transgression A. 1. The sinfulness of the transgression Gen. 2.17 2. The causes 3. The consequents thereof Q. What are you to consider concerning the causes of this transgression A. 1. Negatively Iam. 1.13 God was not the cause of it 2. Affirmatively Gen. 3.1 3.6 the External cause was the instigation of Satan Internal the swerving of the will of our first Parents from the Will of God Q. What are you to consider concerning the consequents or events thereof A. The Guilt Gen. 2.17 3.10 Punishment viz. Death a great part of which death is original sin 1 Cor. 15.21 22. whence actual sin floweth as an act from the habit Q. What is Original sin A. The hereditary and habitual enmity and contrariety of the whole nature of man unto the Law of God Rom. 7.17 20. Heb. 12.1 Gen. 6.5 Rom. 8.7 Ier. 2.13 consisting in aversness from all good and propensness to all evil Q. What is Actual sin A. It is the swerving of the act of man either in thought Rom. 7.16 17. 2 Cor. 10.5 Mat. 12.37 Eccl. 12.14 word deed from the Law of God Q. How many sorts are there of Actual sin A. Two sins of Omission Commission Q. What is the propagation of sin A. The conveyance of the actual sin of Adam in eating the forbidden fruit Iob 14.4 Psa 51.5 Rom. 5.14 Eph. 2.3 and of original sin to all his posterity proceeding from him by ordinary generation together with the guilt and punishment thereof Q. After what maner is all this propagated A. The Instrumental cause Gen. 5.3 Psa 51.5 Iob 14.4 Ioh. 3.6 Rom. 12.5 is the seed of our next Parents Blameable cause is Adams sin made ours by imputation and by real communication and it may seem by some kinde of participation Unblameable cause is the righteousness of God Gen. 2.17 not as the Author of nature but the Avenger of sin Q. After what order is sin derived to man A. First the actual sin of Adam in eating the forbidden fruit thence proceedeth original sin as an effect from the cause thence actual as an act from the habit with the guilt and penalties all hanging one upon another Q. What is the way by which God reveals this misery A. By the moral Law Rom. 7.7 Q. How doth God reveal this misery by the law A. First Rom. 3.20 Isa 4.4 Rom. 8.15 2 Tim. 1.7 by discovering sin as sin Secondly by the works of conviction bondage terror all in their measure Q. What are we to think of man in this estate according to the Scripture A. That he is wholly dead in sin the childe of wrath and disobedience CHAP. IV. Hitherto of Mans Apostacy or Fall from GOD now Of Mans recovery the Redeemer and the Person of Christ Q. VVHat is mans recovery Rom. 6.14 Rom. 8.2 Gal. 3.10 Acts. 26.18 A. It is the restoring of him from the state of sin and death unto the estate of grace and life Q. How many parts are there of mans recovery A. Two Redemption Application of it Q. What is Redemption A. It is the freeing of man from the bondage of the Curse Sin and Satan into the liberty of the grace of God in Jesus Christ by the laying down of a price Q. Who is the Redeemer 1 Tim. 2.5 6. 2 Cor. 15.21 A. Jesus Christ Q. What is Jesus Christ A. God viz. the second person in the Trinity and Man in one person anointed to be a King Priest and Prophet unto his people Briefly he is God-Man Mediator between God and man Q. What things are chiefly to be considered in Jesus Christ A. 1. His fitness to be a Redeemer 2. The parts of Redemption Q. In what doth this fitness to be a Redeemer consist A. In his person and office Q. What is to be known concerning the person of Christ A. 1. The distinction of the two natures Matth. 1.23 Ioh. 1.14 Col. 2.9 2. The personal union of them in him 3. The effects and consequents of this personal union Q. What is the distinction of the two natures A. That whereby the two natures remain distinct in him both in themselves and in their properties Q. What is the personal union of them A. That whereby the second person in the
Trinity Iohn 1.14 Hebr. 4.15 1 Tim. 3.16 viz. the Divine Essence subsisting in the relation of the Son assumed the Manhood like unto us in all things sin only excepted and the maner of its subsistence for the Manhood never subsisted but in the Godhead from which substantial coupling together both of the Divine and Humane nature both natures make but one person Q. Why must Jesus Christ be Man Ge. 2.17 1 Cor. 15.21 A. That he might in our nature suffer for us Q. Why must he be God A. That his sufferings might be overcome by him 2 Cor. 13.4 1 Pet. 3.18 Heb. 9.1 4. and be effectual unto us Q. But how do you apprehend the Manhood to be united to the Godhead A. By means of the second person so that the Manhood was united immediately to the person and so mediately to the Godhead Q. For the better understanding of this personal union what is to be considered A. Three things 1. A double consideration of the second person of the Trinity 2. The consideration of the nature of a person 3. What it is for the Manhood to receive its personality from the second person in the Trinity Q. How doth it appear that there is cause for a double consideration of the second person in the Trinity A. 1. The second person in the Trinity considered in himself is God and not Man but being considered in personal union with the Manhood he is God-Man 2. That the second person should be of the Father by coeternal generation was absolutely necessary but that the second person should be united unto the Humane nature was not absolutely necessary but proceeded from the free pleasure of God Or that the second person should be was absolutely necessary that he should be incarnate was arbitrary not necessary 3. The second person as considered in himself is of the Father not of the holy Ghost The second person considered in personal union with the Manhood is of the Father Son and holy Ghost 4. The second person considered in himself is equal unto the Father but considered as united to the Manhood is inferior to the Father in respect of his voluntary dispensation 5. The second person considered in himself was of the object of Faith unto Adam in the first Covenant who was to believe in God the Father Son and holy Ghost but the second person incarnate God-Man Mediator was not of the object of Faith in the first though he be in the second Covenant Q. What is a person A. A person is the compleat and lastly perfecting subsistence of a reasonable nature Q. What is it for the Manhood to receive its personality from the second person in the Trinity A. It is for the manhood from the first moment of its conception it never having neither subsistence nor consistence of it self to subsist in the second person of the Trinity so as the second person in the Trinity and the manhood have two natures yet but one and that an increated person Q. What are the principal effects and consequents of this personal union unto the Manhood A. Seven Col. 2.9 1. The grace of Eminence whereby the Manhood by reason of this personal union is exalted above all creatures and now sitteth at the right hand of God 2. Created habitual grace out of measure the same in kinde with which all believers are made partakers of 3. Created knowledge Psal 68.18 Iohn 1.16 Iohn 3.34 Matth. 28.18 4. Capableness to receive all power both in heaven and earth 5. Capableness of the office of a Mediator 6. The communication of the properties of both natures to the same one person 7. The right of Divine adoration yet we are to know that we worship not with divine worship the Manhood as considered in it self but as being personally united to the Godhead that is we worship the Lord Jesus as God-Man Q. How many sorts of created knowledge are there in Christ A. Three 1. Beatifical consisting in the vision of God whereby the Manhood doth not onely see God face to face as all they that are blessed do but seeth it self in personal union with God this is called the knowledge of the vision of it Joh. 1.18 It s principle is the Word its medium a created light of glory 2. Infused by which Christ as Man knew what can be known either of Angels or Men in this life of it Isa 11.2 its principle was a divine habit immediately inspired its medium a created light of grace 3. Experimental by which Christ as Man knew all things that could be known by the light of humane understanding of it Luk. 2.52 its medium the light of created reason CHAP. V. Hitherto of the Person now Of the office of the Lord Iesus Christ Q. VVHat is the Mediatorly office of the Lord Jesus Christ A. 'T is that work of mediation committed unto the Son by the Father Heb. 5.4 5 6. Ioh. 6.27 Iohn 10.16 Phil. 2.6 Isa 53.10 accepted readily and freely by the Son thereby procuring the application of the grace of God to the Elect and uniting and reconciling the Elect to God and working all things pertaining to their everlasting good and salvation Q. What are the parts of it A. Three Deut. 18.15 Acts 13.22 Psa 110.4 Heb. 7.17 Psal 2.6 Dan. 2.44 Luke 1.33 Prophetical Priestly Kingly parts thereof Q. Why are they mentioned in this number and order A. There is a threefold reason of it in respect of Man in whom there is Ignorance Alienation from God Impotency to return healed by his Prophetical Priestly Kingly Office The applicatiō of salvation made known Procured Applied in his Prophetical Priestly Kingly Office The execution of this office He taught He suffered He entred into heaven in his Prophetical Priestly Kingly Office Q. What is the Prophetical part of his office A. It is that whereby the Lord Jesus Christ doth reveal to his people the whole counsel of God teaching of them to know the evil that they are faln into Heb. 3.1 Mal. 3.1 and all the good that God hath provided for them Q. How many parts are there of this Prophetical part of his office A. Two The external promulgation of the Gospel The effectual illumination of the heart Q. What is the Priestly part of his office A. That part of the mediatorly office in which he offered up himself a Sacrifice to God Col. 1.20.22 thereby fulfilling the Law taking away the sins of the Elect and procuring for them the application of the favor of God Q. How many parts are there of this Priestly part of his office A. Two The expiation of sin 1 Pet. 2.24 1 Pet. 3.18 Rom. 8.34 Heb. 7.25 Heb. 9.20 Heb. 7.25 Ro. 8.26 Rev. 8.3 4. The intercession of Christ for the Elect. Q. How doth he make intercession A. 1. By presenting his merit to the Father 2. By the application of it by his Word and Spirit 3. By making intercession in our hearts
of negation Q. How many Negative attributes are there to which or some of which any other of like nature may conveniently be referred A. Five Simplicity Eternity Immensity Imutability Infiniteness Q. What is Simplicity A. It is God one meer and perfect act without all composition Exod. 3.14 Q. What do you mean in saying God is a meer and perfect act A. That God is a cause without any cause a being that is not from any being not compounded of an act by which he is and possibility by which he may not be of whom it never could nor can be said that any thing was to be in him which is not or cannot be that is Q. How many ways of composition are there A. Seven 1. Of parts which are bounded by quantity as a body having one part upon another 2. Of matter and form as a man of body and soul 3. Of general and special nature as every species whose common nature may be found in some other thing where the special nature is not as a living creature and a man 4. Of a subject and an accident as every created substance 5. Of an act and possibility as Angels 6. Of a person and nature as Christ compounded of the Divine Person and Humane nature which yet is not properly composition of parts but of number 7. Of being and individuation that is that by which we have such a particular being as Humanity and Peter Q. What is Eternity A. God without Beginning Isa 57.15 without End and without all maner of Succession where is nothing past nor to come Q. How is the duration of God of incorruptible creatures and of corruptible creatures distinguished A. The duration of God is called Eternity the duration of incorruptible creatures such as Angels and the souls of men which had a beginning but shall have no end is called Eviternity the duration of corruptible creatures is called Time Q. What is the Immensity of God A. God present every where Ps 139.7 Isa 66.1 Ier. 23. neither included in nor excluded from any place or thing Q. How many ways do you understand God to be every where A. Three 1. By his Essence Gen. 1.31 Ioh. 1.3 Col. 1.16 Ps 139.7 Heb. 4.13 Act. 17.28 Col. 1.17 Heb. 1.3 as the cause of all things 2. By his Presence beholding all things 3. By his Power upholding all things in their motion and action Q. What is Immutability Psa 102.27 28. Mal. 3.6 Iam. 1.17 A. God without any alteration in respect of being will or any accidents Q. What is Infiniteness A. It is God incomprehensible in respect of Created understanding Ioh 1.18 1 Tim. 6.16 Iob 11.8 and comprehending in himself the fulness of all perfection Q. Give the sum of the Negative attributes A. By Simplicity Eternity Immensity Imutability Infiniteness we remove from God all composition multiplicity time and succession place and quantity change quality comprehensibility Q. What do you understand by Relative attributes A. Such attributes as are ascribed to God in time imploying a respect unto the creatures now in being by these our understanding is helped in our meditation of God by way of causality Q. Do these Relative attributes in that they are ascribed unto God in time infer any change in God A. No they do not infer any change or accident in God Iames 1.17 in such attributes there is no change in God but in the creatures Q. How many Relative attributes are there to which or some of which the rest of like nature may conveniently be referred A. Seven 1. Creation 2. Providence 3. Lordship 4. Benignity 5. Mercy 6. Redemption 7. Justice Q. What is Creation A. God creating all things of nothing very good Gen. 1. Q. What is Providence A. God preserving and governing all things with the circumstances thereof Prov. 16.4 Rom. 8.28 29. unto their several ends according to the counsel of his will for his own glory and the good of his Elect. Q. What is the Lordship of God A. God having absolute right and power to and over all his creatures 1 Sam. 3.18 1 Tim. 6.15 Iob 33.13 Matth. 20.15 Rom. 9.20 Dan. 4.25 and disposing thereof according to his will Q. What is Benignity Psa 33.5 Mat. 5.45 1 Tim. 4.10 Ps 36.6 A. God freely communicating of his grace and goodness to his creatures according to his good pleasure Q. What is Mercy A. God inclined out of his free love to succor his creature in misery Exod. 34.6 Deut. 4.31 1 Chro. 21.13 Ionah 4.2 Iam. 5.11 Q. What is Redemption Ioh 3.16 Mat. 20.28 Mark 10 45.1â— Gal. 2.20 Rom. 3.26 A. God giving his Son and Jesus Christ God-Man giving himself a ransom for the Elect whence it comes to pass that Justice is no hinderance to the application of Mercy Q. What is Justice A. Justice is Deu. 32.4 Dan. 9.16 Psa 80.14 Isa 5.16 Psal 62.11 12. God rendring unto the reasonable creature what is due thereunto according to his Word whether by way of grace or punishment Q. What do you understand by the Positive attributes A. Such attributes as ascribe some perfection to God not inferring any respect unto the creatures existing or in present being by these our understanding is helped in our meditation of God by way of eminency Q. How many Positive attributes are there to which or some of which the rest of like nature may conveniently be referred A. Six 1. Wisdom 2. Will. 3. Holiness 4. Liberty 5. Omnipotency 6. Perfection Q. What is the Wisdom of God 1 Tim. 1.17 Act. 15.18 1 Ioh. 3.20 Rom. 9.15 19. Eph. 1.11 Ps 135.6 A. God understanding all things intelligible by his Essence Q. What is the Will of God A. God willing the being of whatsoever he pleaseth Q. What is the Holiness of God A. God conformable to himself 1 Sam. 2.2 Isa 40.25 and 41.20 and 29.13 Hab. 1.13 Q. What is the Liberty of God Ps 115.3 Isa 49.13 Dan. 4.35 A. God willing whatsoever is besides himself not of any necessity of nature but of his meer good pleasure Q. What is Omnipotency A. God able to do whatsoever his wisdom doth conceive Gen. 18.14 Mat. 19.26 Isa 46.10 Exo. 6.3 Gen. 17.1 2. Exo. 6.3 Mat. 5.48 Q. What is Perfection A. God All-sufficient and All-excellent not having need of any thing giving sufficiency to and having in him the perfection of all things CHAP. II. Hitherto of the Essence now Of the Subsistence of GOD. Q. VVHat is the Subsistence of God A. That one Divine Essence subsisting in Three Persons of Father Son and holy Ghost so as the Father is of none the Son of the Father the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son Q. How many persons are there of the Divine Essence A. Three God the Father God the Son Mat. 3.16 Mat. 28.19 Ioh. 15.26 2 Cor. 13.13 1 Ioh. 5.7 and God the holy Ghost Q. What is a person
A. A person is God or the Divine Essence subsisting in such a relation Q. What do you understand by the first person of the Trinity A. God subsisting in the relation of begetting and together with the Son breathing forth or producing the holy Ghost Q. What do you understand by the second person A. God subsisting in the relation of being begotten and together with the Father breathing forth or producing the holy Ghost Q. What do you understand by the third person A. God subsisting in the relation of proceeding from the Father and the Son Q. What do you gather from thence viz. that the whole Divine Essence subsists in every person A. 1. That all the Divine Attributes are common and predicate of every person 2. All the Names that are proper to God are common to every person 3. That all the works of God which are upon the creature are truly predicated of every person 4. That Divine worship is due to every person 5. That all the persons are equal Q. How doth a person differ from the Essence A. As the relation or maner of any being or thing is distinguished from the thing it self Q. How doth a person differ from a person A. As a relation or maner of a being or thing is distinguished from a relation or maner of a being or thing or more largely they are distinguished by their order properties and maner of working Q. What is the order of the Three persons in the Trinity A. That the Father is the first person Iohn 5.30 Iohn 15.26 the Son is the second the holy Ghost in the third that is there is a priority in respect of the order of their original but no priority of dignity duration causality or nature properly Q. What rule have we to regulate our apprehensions concerning the order of the persons A. Notwithstanding distinction in respect of order the persons remain equal amongst themselves Q. What is a personal property A. That which is proper to one person Psa 2.7 Ioh. 1.14 15.26 the personal property of the Father is to beget of the Son to be begotten of the holy Ghost to proceed Q. What rule have we to regulate our apprehensions concerning the personal properties A. The maner of the existence of the persons is communicable from one person to another but the Essence is incommunicable Q. What do you understand by the maner of the working of the persons Gen. 19.24 Iohn 5.19 30. 8.28 A. That the maner of their working is according to the maner of their existing the Father not from any Ioh. 16.13 and 14.26 15.26 Gal. 4.6 the Son from the Father the holy Ghost from the Father and the Son Q. What rules have we to regulate our apprehensions concerning the maner of the working of the persons A. Two 1. The causality of the operations of every person is from the Divine essence the order of the operations from the maner of the existence of the several persons 2. All the works of God upon the creature are wrought in common by all the Three persons notwithstanding the work be principally ascribed unto that person whose maner of existence doth most eminently appear in it Q. What terms are we to avoid in speaking of the Trinity A. Five sorts of terms 1. Diversity or difference 2. Of division 3. Of disparity 4. Of confusion 5. Of solitariness opposite to the Simplicity of God Unity of God Equality of the persons Order of the persons Number of the persons Q. After what hath hitherto been said express now your belief concerning God A. I believe God to be Jehovah Elohim that is one absolute being subsisting in Three persons of Father Son and holy Ghost CHAP. III. Hitherto of the Sufficiency now Of the Efficiency of GOD and Apostacy of MAN Q. VVHat is the Efficiency of God A. It is that whereby he worketh all things Eph. 1.11 and all in all things Q. How many kindes are there of this Efficiency or how may the works of God be divided A. They are Essential Personal Personal after a maner Q. What do you mean by the Essential works of God A. Such works as do proceed from the Divine Essence which is common to Father Son and holy Ghost and whose object is the creature Q. What do you mean by the personal works of God A. Such works as proceed from any of the persons working according to their personal properties viz. for the Father to beget the Son to be begotten and the holy Ghost to proceed Q. How do you distinguish between the Essential and Personal works A. The Principle of the Essential works is the Divine Essence common to Father Son and holy Ghost The Principle of the Personal works is some one of the persons working according to its personal relation or relative property Q. How may the Essential works of God be divided A. They are Internal External Q. What is the difference between the internal and external works of God both being essential A. The internal works are increated the external are created The internal are from eternity the external are in time Q. What do you mean by the internal essential works of God A. Such works as are in the Divine Essence it self by an inward and eternal act as namely the Decree of God Q. What is the Decree of God A. His eternal purpose of working all things according to the counsel of his will Act. 2.23 4.28 Eph. 1.9 Q. What are the external essential works of God A. Creation and Actual Providence Q. What is Creation A. It is the first external work of God by which he made all things of nothing very good Gen. cap. 1. 2. Q. What is the efficient cause of the Creation or who is the Creator A. * Gen. 1.1 Iob 35.10 Ps 149.2 Isa 54.5 God the Father Son and holy Ghost Q. In what space of time did God make all his works A. In six days Exo. 20.11 Q. What were the works of the first day A. Heaven the Angels Gen. 1.1 2 3 4 5. the Principles of natural bodies together with their inseparable accidents Light night and day Q. What are Angels A. Angels are Spirits subsisting in themselves created in the beginning according to the image of God incommunicable Iob 38.6 7. not sustained in another nor taking part of another Q. What were the works of the second day A. The Firmament viz. the Air Gen. 1.6 7 8. and by it the division of the waters which are under it from them which are above it Q. What were the works of the third day A. The gathering together of the waters called Seas The appearing of the dry land called Earth Gen. 1.9 10 11 12 13. The adorning of the Earth with grass herbs and trees yielding fruit and having seed in themselves to yield fruits after their kindes Q. What werâ— the works of the fourth day A. The Sun Gen. 1.14 to 19.
4. By making of our persons and actions accepted before God Q. What is the Kingly part of his Mediatorly office A. 'T is that part of the Mediatorly office Rev. 118. 1 Cor. 15.24 25. in which that which Christ makes known as a Prophet and purchased as a Priest he doth now apply and establish by his Spirit as a King to the Elect together with the everlasting overthrow of his and their enemies Q. What are the parts of this Kingly part of his office A. Two 1. His calling upon all that hear the Gospel by the word of truth Matth. 28.18 Isa 11.10 11 12 13. upon the Elect by the special work of his Spirit upon others by his works and the grace of nature i.e. the remainder of the image of God abiding with man after the fall 2. His exercising judgement upon all Q. How hath this an end A. 1. In respect of the maner of dispensation 1 Cor. 15.24 it hath an end 2. But in regard of the glory due thereby to the Mediator Dan. 2.44 Luk. 1.33 and the good that comes to the Elect by it it hath no end CHAP. VI. Hitherto of the fitness to be a Redeemer now Of the parts of Redemption Q. VVHat are the parts of Christs Redemption A. Two Rom. 4.25 his Humiliation Exaltation Q. What is Humiliation A. It is that state of the person of Christ Phil. 2.8 wherein as Mediator God-Man he was subject unto the righteousness of God humbled himself and became obedient to the death even the death of the cross Q. What are the parts of it 2 Cor. 8.9 Phil. 2 8. Gal. 3.13 A. Two Life Death or otherwise his Incarnation fulfilling of the Law Q. What is the exaltation of Christ Iohn 2.10 Iohn 10.18 Rom. 1.4 Acts 1.9 Heb. 10.12 A. That state of the person of Christ wherein as Mediator God-Man after his humiliation he arose from the dead ascended into 05 heaven and sits at the right hand of God Q. What are the parts of it A. Three his Resurrection from the dead his Ascension into Heaven his sitting at the right hand of God Rom 8.34 Q. What is the sitting at the right hand of God A. T is that state of the person of Christ Eph. 4.10 Phil. 2.9 10. Col. 1.11.18 Matth. 28.18 wherein he is set by the Father in the highest degree of his exaltation being head of his Church and King and Governor of all things Q. How many parts are there of this his Session A. Two the first is double 1. His Divine glory in that estate proceeding from the God-head dwelling in the Manhood 2. Is that eminent but created and inherent glory with and in the Manhood by which he is lifted up above all creatures The second part is the actual administration of this kingdom CHAP. VII Hitherto of Redemption now Concerning the application of it with the parts thereof Q. VVHat is the application of Redemption A. It is that work of the Spirit 1 Cor. 12.13 Iohn 3.5 6 8. whence that which Christ hath procured as Mediator is seasonably and effectually applied to the Elect. Q. Why is the application of the work of Redemption eminently ascribed to the Spirit A. In two respects 1. In respect of the office of the Spirit Eph. 1.17 2. In respect of the maner of his working Iohn 14.16 Ioh. 16.7 for as his subsisting is from the Father and the Son so his working is from the Father and the Son and consequently the consummation of things is especially ascribed to the holy Ghost Q. What is the subject unto which the Spirit doth apply the work of Redemption A. The Elect prepared by the work of the Spirit Matth. 10.6 2 Cor. 5.19 Matth. 18.11 Acts 13.48 under the Ministery of the Law and the external call of the Gospel Q. What is to be considered concerning the application of Redemption A. 1. The application of Redemption it self 2. The subject to which it is applied 3. The means by which it is to be applied unto the end of the world Q. What are the parts of this application Iohn 15.25 Rom. 11.17 Rom. 7.4 A. Three 1. Vocation 2. Union 3. Communion Q. What is Vocation A. It is the infusion of a principal of life or as some speak Eph. 2.1 Iohn 6.63 Iohn 6.64 65. Iohn 5.41 Rom 11.28 32. of the habit of Faith by the spirit into a lost soul in measure sensible of its inability and enmity to believe repent or do any good by the means of and together with the external call of the Gospel in which work the soul notwithstanding any preparatory work is meerly passive i. e. a meer passive receiver Q. What is justifying Faith A. It is a saving grace of the spirit flowing from election Tit. 1.2 Ioh. 1.12 2 Cor. 4.1 Phi. 3.12 Col. 2.6 whereby the soul receiveth Jesus Christ as its Head and Savior according as he is revealed in the Gospel Q. What is Vnion A. It is the conjunction of Jesus Christ and the believer in one mystical body 1 Cor. 12.12 13 Rom. 12.5 Col. 2.19 by the Spirit and Faith whence ariseth the relation of a Head and Member between Christ and the believer for ever Q. When is Vnion wrought A. At the same time with but in order of nature after Vocation Q. What is Communion A. It is that whereby a believer by vertue of his Union is orderly made partaker of all the good of the Covenant of GRACE Q. What are the benefits of this Communion which a believer hath with God in Christ Jesus A. They are of two sorts 1. Relative or Imputative 2. Inherent Relative benefits are such which are not Inherent in the subject yet real as Justification and Adoption Inherent as Sanctification and Glorification Q. What is Justification A. It is a gracious act of God upon a believer Rom. 3.22 24. Rom. 4.5 2 Cor. 5.19 whereby for the righteousness sake of Christ imputed by God and applied by Faith he doth freely discharge him from sin and the curse accept him as righteous with the righteousness of Christ and acknowledge him to have a right unto eternal life Q. What is the efficient cause of Justification A. God the Father Rom. 8.30 Son and holy Ghost Q. What is the material cause A. The Active and Passive obedience of Jesus Christ Phil. 3.8 9. Rom. 3.22 Rom. 3.24 Rom. 4.6 Phil. 3.8 9. 2 Cor. 5.21 Q. What is the formal cause of Justification A. The free imputation of this Active and Passive righteousness unto the believer Q. What is the instrument of applying Justification A. Faith which Justifieth Not properly Not by way of a work Not as an inherent quality but relatively Q. What is the final cause of Justification A. To declare the glory of God in a way of mercy mixt with righteousness Rom. 3.25 26. Q. What is Adoption A. Adoption is the gracious good