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A89351	Sion's prospect in it's first view. Presented in a summary of divine truths, consenting with the faith profess'd by the Church of England, confirmed from scripture and reason: illustrated by instance and allusion. Compos'd and publish'd to be an help for the prevention of apostacy, conviction of heresy, confutation of error, and establishing in the truth, by a minister of Christ, and son of the church, R.M. quondam è Coll ̊S.P.C.	Mossom, Robert, d. 1679.	1652 (1652)	Wing M2868; Thomason E800_1; ESTC R207347	108,410	128

can be but one God How One single pure and perfect Sec. 9. Why said to have eyes and hands to be angry and grieved c. He admits no bodily likeness CHAP. III. Concerning God in the Trinity of Persons Sec. 1. WHat the Knowledge of God from a natural light What from a light supernatural Who are the three Persons and what a Person is Sec. 2. A finite understanding not possibly able to comprehend this infinite Mystery Not to be illustrated by any Instances Sec. 3. The highest pitch of Reasons apprehension Sec. 4. Reason directing to Faith What and how a Trinity of Persons in the Vnity of the Godhead Sec. 5. The Son of God and the Holy Ghost firmly proved Sec. 6. How the Persons are distinguished Sec. 7. How Trinity and Person are found in Scripture What a subsistence is Sec. 8. How the Father is the first Person How each Person is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sec. 9. How the essence and attributes of the Godhead are communicated Sec. 10. The properties of the Persons incommunicable CHAP. IV. Concerning Gods Knowledg Sec. 1. HOw God knoweth all things Sec. 2. Gods foreknowledg how and what it is Not the cause of things and why Sec. 3. How all things depend upon Gods Will preordaining not his Knowledg foreseeing Yet Gods fore-knowledg depends not upon the creatures future existence Before and after past and to come relate not to God Sec. 4. But is in the creature This aptly illustrated Sec. 5. God knowing things to come and past doth it in one and the same act of Knowledg This act eternal So no change in God Sec. 6. No contingency in respect of Gods fore-knowledg Yet in the secondary causes Sec. 7. All future events are fore-known of God His fore-knowledg infallible Sec. 8. How applied unto the Elect in Scripture CHAP V. Concerning Gods Will. Sec. 1. GOds Will one and absolutely free Distinguish'd into his will secret and revealed of sign and of good pleasure Sec. 2. What his secret will What his revealed will Sec. 3. The Will of Gods good pleasure hath its reason not its cause Sec. 4. Gods glory the final cause of what he wils but not of his will How the impulsive cause of Gods will to be understood in Theology Sec. 5 6. The execution of Gods will admits several causes the volition not any what the volition and what the execution is Sec. 7. God wils not sin and why Sec. 8. The purpose of Gods will doth not abolish but establish the liberty of mans will what the necessity of being from the immutability of Gods will Sec. 9. How Gods secret will becomes revealed by his word and by his works How Gods word is called his will Sec. 10. How they agree in a sweet harmony So to be interpreted as that ille harmony be preserved Sec. 11. How Gods revealed will argues with that of his good pleasure when he wils all men to be holy Sec. 12. Where also he commands Abraham to sacrifice his Son Isaac Sec. 13. How the promises and threatnings in Gods revealed will which are conditional de agree with Gods secret will which is absolute Sec. 14. What the true meaning of the conditions declared CHAP. VI. Concerning Gods Decrees Power and Manner of Working Sec. 1. GOd the primary Cause and supreme Agent in his Vnderstanding Will and Power What his Decree what his Work Sec. 2. What his absolute power How limited by his will Sec. 3. Why and how said to be omnipotent Sec. 4. There is no overcoming Gods power no resisting his will what he acts in time he hath decreed from eternity Sec. 5. How the creatures are in God before they are in themselves What the Counsel of God in his decrees Sec. 6. How the whole Trinity is one entire cause What their diverse manner of working Sec. 7. How some one action is appropriate to some one person Sec. 8. The firm relation between Gods decrees and his works God hath not decreed sin though he hath decreed to permit sin What the effectual decree accompanying the permissive Sec. 9. The purpose of Gods decree imposeth no forcible necessity but bringeth an infallible certainty to all Agents and Events CHAP. VII Concerning the Works of Creation Sec. 1. GOd the Creator of all things as an absolute and free Agent Sec. 2. Creation the Work of the whole Trinity as one entire cause Why of God as a free and all-sufficient cause Sec. 3. Observ'd in the Work of Creation 1 The command of Gods Power 2 The approbation of his Goodness 3 The ordination of his wisdom 4 The declaration of his Authority Sec. 4. The immediate Creation what and of whom The mediate Creation what and of whom Sec. 5. Mans partaking of both Sec. 6. How and why called the lesser world Sec. 7. What the first Heaven what the second Heaven What the third Heaven Sec. 8. What the influences And what the predictions of the heavenly bodies Sec. 9. The creation of man and the forming of woman How God rested the seventh day Sec. 10. Gods wisdom in the Order of his creation Sec. 11. Every thing created perfect in its kinde Sec. 12. In his works God manifests his glory 1 The glory of his Power 2 Of his Goodness 3 Of his Wisdom 4 Of his Eternity Sec. 13. The light of nature directs to the worship of God as the Creator The seventh day the Sabbath How long to continue Sec. 14. How the Creation is an object of our faith CHAP. VIII Concerning the Providence of God Sec. 1. ALL things subordinate to Gods will In order either to his Me●cy or his Justice The wisdom and power of his Providence Infallably in its administrations Sec. 2. The Infallibility of Gods Providence doth not take away the use of means but confi●ms it Sec. 3. To deny Gods Providence is atheism to despise the use of means is profaneness to establish both is truth and righteousness to what end is the use of means Sec. 4. The course of nature declares the Providence of God this aptly illustrated Sec. 5. Gods Providence is no naked view but an actual administration What Gods Providence is in its general concourse How absolutely necessary for the creatures preservation Sec. 6. This aptly illustrated Sec. 7. The extent of Gods Providence Why it makes use of means Sec. 8. The seeming disorder in the world doth advance the glory of Gods Providence and assure the general Judgment of the last day Sec. 9. Gods Providence doth order sinful actions without any the least share in the sin This illustrated Sec. 10. That Gods Providence extends to what is sinful is not by a meer permission but by a powerful and wise ordination Wicked Instruments are proper Agents and how Sec. 11. How the Executioners of Gods Justice and in that Execution how guilty of sin The wonder of Gods Providence in respect of wicked mindes Sec. 12. Gods Providence imposeth no compelling force but establisheth the nature of all causes contingent

1.15 God is not to be imagined like any thing that is visible and bodily CHAP. III. Concerning God in the Trinity of Persons What the knowledg of God from a natural sight § 1. THE Knowledg of God which is from the a Rom. 1 19 20 light of Nature doth take it's rise from sense and can ascend no higher then it is supported nor go any further then it is led by sensible objects which give us no clearer Knowledg of God then the effects do of their cause namely that He is and that He is not such as they are but far excelling them in Essence and in Attributes as not being compounded not depending not finite not mutable and the like But the Knowledg of God which is from a Supernatural light What from a light Supernatural that is meerly by divine b Joh. 1.18 Exod. 33.23 Revelation as that God is the c Eph. 1.2 3. Mat. 6.9 Father of Christ and of his Church the d Gen. 15.1 Heb. 11.6 Reward of the Faithful the e Psal 68.20 Isa 12.2 Jer. 3.23 Salvation of Israel and the like Yea such is our Knowledg of God through the apprehension of Faith in the Glorious Mystery of the Blessed Trinity whereby we beleeve the same God which is f Deut. 6.4 Isa 45.5 1 Cor. 8.4.6 One in nature or being Who are the three Persons and what a Person is is also g Gen. 1.26 and 11.7 8. Isa 6.3 63. ver 7 9 10. Mat. 3.16 17. and 28.19 2 Cor. 13 14. 1 John 5.7 Three in Persons or manner of subsisting Father Son and Holy Ghost which Three Persons do not divide the Unity into parts but distinguish the Trinity by their properties § 2. A finite Vnderstanding not possiby able to comprehend this infinite mystery And here we acknowledg it impossible that a finite understanding should comprehend that mystery which is infinite in its Glory and therefore when the minde soars high to conceive the truth of the Unity it is dazled with the glory of the Trinity and when it would conceive the mystery of the Trinity it is overcome with the glory of the Unity And to illustrate this mystery with instances is to shadow out the light with colours Not to be illustrated by any Instances though the instances are that of the same Sun in its body beams and light the same water in its fountain spring and river yea the same soul in its understanding memory and will § 3. This is as high as Reason will reach The highest pitch of Reason's apprehension God is an infinite being having in himself a power to be which begets a Knowledg that he is and from both proceeds a love of that knowledg and power of being This infinite Being is equal and one in all these Relations yet the Relations distinguish'd in themselves as distinct manners of the Beings subsistence Thus the Father Son and Holy Ghost three distinct subsistences of one infinite Essence three distinct Persons of one eternal Godhead the Father as the power of the Godhead begets the Son the Son as the wisdom of that Godhead is begotten of the Father and the Holy Ghost as the Love of both proceeds from the Father and the Son And as that power never was without that knowledge nor that power and knowledg without that love so nor ever was the Father without the Son nor the Father and the Son without the Holy Ghost And as that Knowledge is equal to the Power and the Love equal to both so the Son is equal to the Father and the Holy Ghost equal to the Father and the Son § 4. Now though Reason cannot instruct us to know what is hid Reason directing to Faith yet it doth direct us to beleeve what is revealed concerning this mystery For what more reasonable then this that what we cannot attain by a Natural Knowledge we should receive by a Divine Faith when revealed unto us by God in his Word Which Word teacheth us What and how a Trinity of Persons in the Vnity of the Godhead that the three Persons in the Godhead are not three parts of God but c John 10.30 1 Tim. 1.17 One onely God The d Eph. 1.3 1 Pet. 1.3 Father God the e John 1.1 Heb. 1.2 3. 1 John 5 10. Son God and the f Acts 5.3 4. Holy Ghost God and yet not g Isa 6.3 Rev. 4.8 three Gods but one God all the three Persons being h Gen. 1.26 John 5.18 Phil. 2.6 Coessential and Coequal § 5. That the Son is God The Son God and the Holy Ghost God firmly proved and the Holy Ghost is God is made evident to the eye of Faith from these testimonies of sacred Scriptures which give them the a Jer. 23.6 1 John 5.6 Rom. 9 5. Acts 28.25 Tit. 2.13 1 Cor. 3.16 Proper Names the b Isa 9.6 Heb. 9.14 Phil. 3.21 Psal 13.9 7. John 21.17 1 Cor. 2.10 11 Essential Attributes 2 Cor. 13 14. the c Heb. 1 23. Job 26.13 and 33.4 Eph. 4.8.11 1 Cor. 12.11 Mat. 12.28 John 6.54 Rom 8.11 Divine operations and the d H b 1.6 1 Cor 6.19 Psal 2.12 Eph. 4.30 Mat 28.19 Holy worship of God § 6. In this Trinity the Godhead is not divided How the Persons are distinguished but the Persons are distinguished the Godhead is not divided in it's essence but the a Isa 61.1 John 8.16 17 18. John 14.26 and 15.26 Persons distinguished by their properties The b Psal 2.7 Heb. 1.5 Father begetting the c John 1.14 Heb. 1.6 Son begotten and the d John 15.26 Gal. 4.6 Holy Ghost proceeding which properties do not make them different Beeings but one and the same Being in a diverse manner of subsisting God begetting is the Father God begotten is the Son and God proceeding is the Holy Ghost Again the Father is God begetting the Son the Son is God begotten of the Father and the Holy Ghost is God proceeding from both the Father and the Son § 7. Though the Word Trinity and Person are not found literally exprest How Trinity and Person are found in Scripture yet are they found plainly implyed in Text of a Mat. 28.19 John 14.16 Ephes 2.18 sacred Scripture Yea seeing St. John doth tell us of God that he b 1 John 5.7 is Three the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost who shall question the word Trinity numerus numeratus in the abstract who reads the word Three numerus numerans in the concrete Which Three bearing record most firm it is by a Trinity of testimonies which doth plainly intimate a Trinity of subsistences What a Subsistence is and what a subsistence is St. Paul resolves us when he saith of the Son that he is c Heb. 1.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the express Image of his Fathers Subsistence where the word Subsistence doth truly and fully

Acts 4.12 13.38 Christs all-sufficient satisfaction or the f Mat. 5.25 26 25.46 Sinners everlasting condemnation Wherfore seeing the poysonous guilt of the least sin is not expelled but by the Soveraign Antidote of Christs blood g Mark 1.15 Acts 20.21 Luke 24.47 Rom. 3.25 through repentance and faith it cannot be that any sin is veniall in its nature but in a respect to Gods mercy and Christs merits in the effect In what all sins are mortal yet not all equal § 27. In this all sins are mortall that by their guilt they meke liable to * Matth. 5.22 eternall death and though all are mortall yet are they not therfore a Ezek. 8.6.13.15 John 19.11 all equall some by their more b Mat. 5.22 11.22 24. Luke 12.47.48 hainous guilt making subject to a more grievous punishment in that death which is eternall How some sins mortall and some veniall That some sins then are said to be mortall and some veniall it is not in the nature but in the effect or rather the event of the sin in relation to the subject which is the sinner to c John 5.24 Rom. 8.1 Acts 13.39 whom through faith and repentance not onely the lesser but the greater sins become venial and d John 3.36 Gal. 5.10 without faith repentance not only the greater but also the lesser sins are mortall so that if we take the weight of sin From whence we are to take the just weight of sins guilt not from the deceitful scales of our own opinions but from the just ballance of the Sanctuary the truth of Gods word we find the least sin to have the greatest guilt so that e Mat 12.36 1 Cor. 4.5 every vain thought What the guilt of the least sin without Ghrist and idle word shal be brought to judgment and whatsoever sin Christ brings to the last judgement shall without Christ bring upon the sinner everlasting punishment § 28. Though all sin be in its nature mortall Though all sins be mortall yet most especially the sin against the Holy Ghost and so to be mortall is common to all sin yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is appropriate to the a 1 John 5.16 sin against the Holy Ghost for its most deadly naure call'd in Scripture the sin unto death which excluding repentance depriveth b Math. 12.32 of forgivenesse even so as never to be forgiven What the sin against the Holy Ghost is not Which sin against the Holy Ghost doth not consist in any c 2 Kings 21.6 c 24.4 2 Chron. 33.12 13. 1 John 5.16.17 18. particular transgression of Gods Law nor yet in that blasphemy and persecution of Christ and his Gospel which ariseth from ignorance no nor in that Apostasie from the truth d 1 Tim. 1.13 and deniall of Christ which ariseth from e Mat. 26.70 72 74 75. infirmity though all of them sins of a deep die and horrid guilt § 29. But the sin against the Holy Ghost What it is is such a denying and rejecting of Christ as ariseth from malice in an hatred of Him and his Truth contrary to knowledge and conscience opposing and persecuting the Gospel of Christ as an imposture of Satan the power and grace of the Spirit as a work and designment of the Divell thus it was in the a Matth 12.24 c. Luke 19.14 20.13 c. Mark 3.30 John 7.28 Pharisees As in the Pharisees Also to sin against the Holy Ghost is to b Heb. 6.4 5 6 10.26 fall away from the faith of Christ by an universall Apostacy in wilfully denying and maliciously opposing Christ and his Truth yea in a contempt of his Sacrifice and an hatred of his Gospel persecuting his Church with an irreconcilable enmity Thus it was in Julian As in Julian thus in many in the Apostles times and thus in many in these our dayes of whom we cannot Why not now to be discovered by us we may not pass sentence of judgement wanting that so eminent a gift c Acts 5.3.9 8.32 13.10 1 Cor. 12.10 among the primitive Saints namely the discerning of the Spirits Why cal●d the sin against the Holy Ghost § 30. This sin is said to be against the Holy Ghost in respect of his a Isa 12.2 Ephes 1.17 more immediate Office of illumination not as being any wayes the more eminent person in the Trinity all being b Isai 6.3 Matth. 28.19 coequall in their Unity of Essence and of Glory Seeing then it is the more immediate c 1 Cor. 12.11 Office of the Holy Ghost to illuminate in the truth of Christ a d Acts 7.51 wilfull hatred of Christ and his truth accompanied with a malicious opposition of his illuminating power is properly called a sin against the Holy Ghost and that this sin shall not be forgiven is not because it e Rom. 5.20 exceeds Gods grace Why this sin shall not be forgiven or out-vies Christs merits f Heb. 7.25 but because it excludes g Heb. 6.5 6. the work of Repentance in despightfully opposing the Spirit and rejects the h Heb. 10.26 Sacrifice of Christ in wilfully denying his truth Sins against Conscience lead the way to this sin against the Holy Ghost § 31. Sins against Conscience they a Psal 19.13 lead the way to this sin against the Holy Ghost Wherefore that this may be prevented those must be avoided avoid we not onely sins against conscience b 1 Tim. 1 19. when enlightned with the truth but also though c Rom. 14.23 seduced with error For that an Erroneous Conscience doth d Tit. 1.15 entangle and fetter in sin How an erroneous conscience entangles in sin but binds not to what is sinful though it doth not oblige or bind to what is sinfull So that he alwayes sins who e Rom. 14.5 23. acts any thing against the dictate of his conscience because the f Rom. 1.14 15. 1 Sam. 24.5 6 dictate of the conscience is by interpretation the precept of God And thereby it is that though the act be materially good yet it cannot be formally so the good is not done well because accompanied with so great an evill a contempt of God in the doing Wherefore whatsoever is good in it selfe if done against conscience though errour judging it to be evill it thereby becomes sin and a sin against Conscience deep in its guilt An erroneous conscience may somewat excuse but cannot wholly acquit § 32. Again the erroneous Conscience may a Acts 26.9 10. Phil 3.6 1 Tim. 1.13 mitigate but cannot make void it may somewhat excuse but cannot wholly acquit from what is sinfull whether it be in omitting what is good supposing it to be evill or in committing what is evill and why misdeeming it to be good Indeed impossible it is that