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A74654 A brief and plain exposition of the creed, commonly called the Apostles Creed. By Christopher Cartwright minister in York. Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658. 1649 (1649) Wing C683; Thomason E1421_1*; ESTC R209463 35,241 119

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the reason there follows Verse 27. And hath given ●im that is The Father hath given the Sonne Authority to execute judgement also because he is the Sonne of man That is because he is man and so fit to execute judgement in an outward and visible manner For being man he shall be seen of men when he commeth to judgement Behold he commeth with Clouds and every eye shall see him even they that pierced him Revel 1. 7. Wherefore beloved seeing you look for such things be diligent that you may be found of him in peace without spot and blamelesse 2 Pet. 3. 14. Of the Holy Ghost I beleeve in the Holy Ghost After the Articles concerning the two other Persons of the Trinitie the Father and the Sonne followes this Article concerning the third Person the Holy Ghost This Person in Scripture is called The Spirit 1 John 5. 6. Ephes 5. 18. The Spirit of God and The Spirit of Christ Rom. 8. 9. The Holy Spirit or The * The word Ghost imports as much as Spirit Ghostly Father and ghostly Counsell is as much as spirituall Father and spirituall Counsell Holy Ghost Luke 11. 13. Rom. 5. 5. and 1 John 5. 7. God as God is a Spirit John 4. 24. And so also holy Isai 6. 3. And therefore God the Father is a Holy Spirit and so God the Sonne yet the name is appropriated to the third Person that Person is peculiarly called The Spirit and The Holy Spirit or The Holy Ghost Why the third Person of the Trinitie is peculiarly called the Spirit and the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost The third Person of the Trinity is peculiarly called The Spirit either as being after an ineffable manner breathed forth as it were from the Father and the Sonne or as inspiring the Prophets and Apostles Those holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1. 21. And this Person also is peculiarly called Holy as working sanctification and making holy The Father doth sanctifie and so the Sonne but by the Holy Ghost I will put my Spirit within you c. Ezek 36. 27. Whence sanctification is called sanctification of the Spirit 2 Thess 2. 13 because it is wrought by the Spirit And they that are regenerated or borne againe are said to be born of the Spirit Iohn 3. 5 6 8. That the Ghost is God The Holy Ghost is God one and the same God with the Father and the Sonne and therefore as we beleeve in the Father and in the Son so also in the Holy Ghost These three are one 1 John 5. 7. They are three that is three Persons yet one that is one God And that the Holy Ghost is God is evident by that Act. 5. 3 4. Peter said to Ananias Why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie unto the Holy Ghost Thou hast not lyed unto men but unto God And that we are baptized in the name of the holy Ghost as well as in the name of the Father and of the Sonne according to Christs injunction Matth. 28. 19. This unanswerably proves that as the Father is God and the Sonne God so is the Holy Ghost God also For we may not be Baptized in the name of any meere Creature Were ye baptized in the Name of Paul said Paul 1 Cor. 1. 13. That the holy Ghost is a Person Again the Holy Ghost is a Person not an Attribute as Wisdome Mercy Power and the like but as the Father is a Person hath proper and peculiar subsistence and as the Sonne is a Person so is the Holy Ghost a Person likewise This is clear as by other places of Scripture so by that Matth. 3. 16. where it is said that the Holy Ghost came downe in the likenesse of a Dove For no meere Attribute nothing but a Person can assume a bodily shape wherein to appeare and shew it self Sometimes indeed the Holy Ghost is put for the gifts and graces of the Holy Ghost As Act. 19. 2. when Paul asked some if they had received the Holy Ghost they answered We have not so much as heard whether there be any holy Ghost that is any such extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost which in those Primitive times were bestowed upon Beleevers But the Holy Ghost properly taken is a Person That the holy Ghost is a Person distinct frō the Father and the Sonne and proceedeth from them both Again the Holy Ghost is a Person distinct from the Father and the Sonne They are three 1 John 5. 7. The Holy Ghost is called another to wit besides the Father and the Sonne John 14. 16 17. Lastly the Holy Ghost is a Person proceeding from the Father from the Son This is proved before pag. 14 Our care must be that we have the communion of the Holy Ghost 2 Corinth 13. 14. That the Holy Ghost be shed abroad in our hearts Rom. 5. 5. That we be filled with the Spirit Ephes 5. 18. that is with the sanctifying graces of the Spirit Grow in grace 2 Pet. 3. 18. Of the holy Catholike Church The Holy Catholike Church That is I beleeve the holy Catholike Church not in the Holy Catholike Church as in the Holy Ghost wee must beleeve onely in God that is trust onely in him as before noted But we must beleeve that there is a Holy Catholike Church And what is that What is meant by the holy Catholike Church What is meant by Church First by Church here in the Creed and so in the Scripture is not meant that which we commonly call the Church to wit the place where the people of God assemble and meet together to worship God but the people of God themselves are meant by the Church Great fear came upon all the Church Act. 5. 11. There was a great persecution against the Church Act. 8. 1. The Church is the company of such as God doth call out of the estate of sinne and misery into the estate of grace and salvation The Lord added to the Church daily such as should be saved Acts 2. 47. The Church militant the Church triumphant The Church is partly upon earth and partly in heaven That part of the Church which is upon earth is called The Church militant that is in warfare warring against the world the flesh and the Devill Fight the good fight of Faith saith the Apostle 1 Tim. 6. 12. It concerns every member of the Church here upon earth That part of the Church which is in Heaven is called the Church triumphant because it consists of those who have overcome their spirituall adversaries which here they had to encounter and now triumph over them I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith henceforth is laid up for me the Crown of righteousnesse c. said the Apostle when his departure out of this world was at hand 2 Tim. 4. 6 7 8. The Church visible and the
Vicegerents I have said ye are gods Psa 82. 6. Thou shalt not revile the gods Exod. 22. 28. But truly and properly so called there is but one God I am God and there is none else Isa 45. 22. Thou shalt have none other gods before me Exod. 20. 3. We know that an Idol is nothing in the world that is no such thing as an Idolater takes it to be and that there is none other God but one For though there be that are called gods c. yet unto us there is but one God c. 1 Cor. 8. 4 5 6. That God is a Spirit infinite eternall God truly and properly so called is a Spirit Iohn 4. 24. And not onely a Spirit for so the souls of men and Angels also are spirits Hebr. 12. 23. 1. 14. but he is an immense and infinite Spirit which none else is Do not I the Lord fill heaven and earth Ier. 23. 24. Yea the heaven even the heaven of heavens cannot contain him 1 King 8. 27. God also is an eternall Spirit which neither the soul of man nor an Angel is He is the high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity Isa 57. 15. The name of Father how attributed unto God The Father Sometimes the name of Father being attributed unto God is taken essentially and is common to the whole Trinitie Have we not all one Father hath not one God created us Mal. 2. 10. I will be a Father unto you and you shall be my sonnes and daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6. 18. Sometimes it is taken personally and belongs onely to the first Person of the Trinity who is called the Father in respect of the second Person called the Sonne Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ 1 Iohn 1. 3. Thus is the word Father here taken as appears by that which follows And in Iesus Christ his onely Sonne c. The whole Trinity is our Father but onely the first person of the Trinitie is Christs Father When it is here said I beleeve in God the Father it is not meant that the first Person onely the Father is God as if the Sonne were not God and the Holy Ghost God also The Father how the first Person of the Trinity but onely the Father is first mentioned as being the first Person of the three the first Person I say not in time nor in dignity for they are all co-eternall and co-equall but in order and proceeding For the Father is of himself not proceeding from any other but the Sonn proceedeth from the Father and the Holy Ghost both from the Father and from the Sonne I proceeded forth and came from God saith Christ Iohn 8. 42. The Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father Iohn 15. 26. And so the Spirit also proceedeth from the Sonne and is therefore called the Spirit of the Sonne Galath 4. 6. and is said to be sent by the Sonne Whom I will send saith Christ speaking of the Spirit or Holy Ghost Iohn 15. 26. which argues that the Holy Ghost doth proceed from the Sonne hath the Divine Nature communicated unto him by the Sonne as well as by the Father even as the Sonne is said to be sent by the Father Iohn 3. 16. and in other places because hee doth proceed from the Father and hath the Divine Nature communicated to him by the Father But the Father is never said to be sent either by the Sonne or by the Holy Ghost as not proceeding either from the one or frō the other Thus then the Father is God and so is the Son and so the Holy Ghost all one and the same God though severall and distinct Persons These three are one 1 Ioh. 5. 7. They are three and yet one three Persons yet one God As Persons they differ each from other as God they are the same one with another This is a great Mysterie which though we cannot comprehend as being above reason yet we must beleeve as being revealed in the Scripture As the Father is Almighty so is the Son and the Holy Ghost also Almighty This attribute Almighty is not peculiar to the first Person the Father but is common to all the three Persons As the Father is Almighty so is the Sonne and so the Holy Ghost also For God as God is Almighty and therefore each Person of the Trinitie being God is Almighty Yet as Athanasius saith there are not three Almighties but one Almighty For the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost are one and the same God and so one and the same Almighty That God is Almighty and how he is Almighty Now that God is Almighty is clear by Scripture I am God Almighty saith he Gen. 17. 1. God Almighty blesse thee said Isaac to Iacob Gen. 28. 3. God is stiled The Almighty Ruth 1. 20. 21. The Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me said Naomi And again The Almighty hath testified against me God is Almighty in that he can do all things whatsoever he pleaseth With God nothing shall bee unpossible Luke 1. 37. True it is God cannot lie Tit. 1. 2. He cannot deny himself 2 Tim. 2. 13. But this doth not derogate from his Almightinesse because these things to lie to deny himself and the like note imperfection and to doe them argues weaknesse and not Power How weak is thine heart saith the Lord seeing thou dost all these things Ezek. 16. 30. God being Almightie 1 Let us fear to offend him Do we provoke the Lord to jealousie are we stronger then he 1 Corinth 10. 22. Who ever hardened himself against him and prospered Iob 9. 4. 2. Let us with boldnesse flie unto him and trust in him O Lord God of our Fathers said Iehoshaphat Art not thou God in heaven and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen and in thine hand is there not power and might so that none is able to withstand thee 2 Chron. 20. 6. And verse 12. O our God wilt thou not judge them for wee have no might against this great Company that commeth against us neither know we what to do but our eyes are upon thee So Paul I know said he whom I have beleeved and that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day 2 Tim. 1. 12. How God made heaven earth Maker of heaven and earth Creatour of heaven and earth In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth Gen. 1. 1. To create is as much as to make of nothing so God made heaven and earth By faith we understand that the world was framed by the Word of God the Word of his power his most powerfull Will Pleasure so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appeare Heb. 11. 3. What is meant by heaven and earth Heaven and Earth These two being the principall parts of the world are put for the whole