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A28096 The confession of faith written by Sr. Francis Bacon. Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. 1641 (1641) Wing B280; ESTC R5546 5,342 16

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to the dispensation of times for the Law was first imprinted in that remnant of light of nature which was left after the fall beeing sufficient to accuse it was more manifestly expressed in the written Lawes it was yet more opened by the Prophets And lastly expressed in the true perfection of the Son of God the great Prophet and perfect Interpreter of the Law That likewise the word of the promise was manifested and revealed first by immediate Revelation and Inspiration after by figures which were of two natures the one the rights and Ceremonies of the Lawe the other the continuall histories of the old world and Church of the Iewes which though it bee literally true yet it is pregnant of a perpetuall Allegorie and a shadow of the worke of Redemption which was to follow the same promise or Evangell was more clearely revealed and expressed by the Prophets than by the Sonne himselfe and lastly by the Holy Ghost which illuminateth the CHVRCH to the end of the world That in the fullnesse of time according to the promise and oath of GOD of a chosen lineage descended the blessed seed of the Woman Jesus Christ the onely begotten Son of GOD and Saviour of the World who was Conceived by the Power and overshadowing of the Holy Ghost and tookflesh of the Virgin MARIE That the Word did not onely take flesh or was joyned to flesh though without conconfusion of Substance or Nature so as the Eternall Sonne of God and ever blessed Sonne of Mary was one person so one as the blessed Virgin may bee truely and Catholikely called Dei para the Mother of GOD so one as there is no unitie in universall Nature not that of the soule and bodie of man so perfect for the three Heavenly Unities whereof that is the second exceedeth all naturall Vnities that is the unitie of the three persons in the God-head the Vnitie of God and Man in Christ and the unitie of Christ in the Church the Holy Ghost being the worker of both these latter unities for by the Holy Ghost was Christ regenerate in the flesh and by the Holy Ghost is man regenerate and quickned in the Spirit That JESUS the Lord became in the Flesh a Sacrificer and a Sacrifice for sinne a satisfaction and price to the justice of God a Meriter of Glorie and of the Kingdome a patterne of all Righteousnesse a Preacher of the Word which himselfe was a finisher of the Ceremonies a Corner stone to remove the separation betweene Jew and Gentile an Intercession for the Church a Lord of Nature in his Miracles a Conqueror of death and the power of Darknesse in his Resurrection and that hee fulfilled the whole Counsell of GOD performed his whole sacred Office and anoynting upon Earth and accomplished the whole worke of Redemption and Restitution of man to a state superiour to the Angels where the state of his Creation was inferiour and reconciled and established all things according to the will of the Father That in the fulnesse of time JESUS the Lord was borne in the dayes of Herod and suffered under the Government of Pontius Pilate being Deputie of the Romans and under the High Priest-hood of Caiphas and was betrayed by Judas one of the twelve Apostles and was Crucified at Hierusalem and dyed after a true and naturall death and His Body layed in the Sepulcher the third day Hee raised Himselfe from the Bonds of Death and arose and shewed Himselfe to many chosen Witnesses by the space of divers dayes and in the end of those dayes in the sight of many He ascended into Heaven where Hee continueth his Intercession and shall come in His appoynted time in greatest Glorie for to judge the World That the sufferings and Merits of Christ as they are sufficient to doe away the sinnes of the whole World so they are effectuall to such as are Regenerate by the Holy Ghost who breatheth where Hee listeth of free Grace which Grace as a Seed incorruptible quickneth the spirit of Man and conceiveth him a new the sonne of GOD and a member of CHRIST so that CHRIST having Mans flesh and Man having CHRISTS Spirit there is an open passage and Imputation whereby sinne and wrath is conveyed from Man to Christ and Merit and Life is conveyed from Christ to Man which Seed of the Holy Ghost first figureth in us the Image of CHRIST slaine or Crucified in us in a Holy Faith and then reneweth in us the Image of God in Holinesse and Righteousnesse though both imperfectly and in degrees farre differing even in GODS Elect as well in regard of the office of the Spirit as the Illumination which is more or lesse in a large proportion as namely in the Church before CHRIST which neverthelesse was partaker of one and the same salvation with us That the worke of the Spirit though it bee not tyed to any meanes in Heaven or in Earth yet it is ordinarily dispensed by the preaching of the Word and administration of the Sacraments the Covenants of the Fathers upon the Children Payers Reading the Censures of the Church the society of the godly the crosse and afflictions Gods benefits his judgements upon others his great Miracles the Contemplation of his Creatures all which though some bee more principall God useth as the meanes of Vocation and Conversion of his Elect not derogating from his power to call immediately by his grace and at all houres and moments of the day that is of mans life according to his good pleasure That the Word of God by which his Will is revealed continued in revelation and tradition untill Moses and that the Scriptures were from Moses time untill the time of the Apostles and Evangelists in whose age after the comming of the Holy Ghost the searcher of all trtuh the Booke of the Scriptures is shut up and closed and cannot receive any new addition and that the Church hath no power after the Scriptures to teach or command any thing contrarie to the written Word but is as the Arke wherein the Tables of the first Testament were kept and preserved That is to say the Church hath onely the custody and deliverie over of the Scriptures committed unto the fame together with the Interpretation of them that there is an Vniversall or Catholique Church of GOD dispersed over the face of the Earth which is Christs Spouse and Christs body beeing gathered of the Fathers of the old world of the Church of the Iewes of the spirits of the faithfull dissolved of the spirits of the faithfull militant and of the Names yet to bee borne which are already written ●n the Booke of Life That there is also a visible Church distinguished by the outward workes of GODS Covenant and the renewing of the holy doctrine with the use of the mysteries of GOD and the Invocation and Sanctification of his holy name that there is also an holy succession in the Prophets of the new Testament and the Fathers of the Church from the time of the Apostles and Disciples which saw our Saviour in the flesh unto the Consummation of the worke of the Ministerie which persons are called of GOD by gift or Inward anoynting and the vocation of GOD followed by an outward calling and ordination of the Church I beleeve that the soules of those that dye in the Lord are blessed and rest from their labours enjoy the sight of God yet so as they are in farther expectation of their glory in the last day at which time all fleshof man shall arise and be chaunged and shall appeare and receave from Iesus Christ eternall judgment and the glory of the Saints shall then bee tull and the Kingdome shall be given to God the Father from which time all things shall continue for ever in that beeing and estate which then they shall receive so there are three times if times they may bee called or parts of Eternitie The first the time before Beginning when the God-head was without the being of any Creature The second the time of the Mysterie which continueth from the Creation to the Dissolution of the world And the third the time of the Revelation of the Saints of God which time is the last and is everlasting without change FINIS