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A42920	The holy arbor, containing a body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion collected from many orthodox laborers in the Lords vineyard, for the benefit and delight of such as thirst after righteousness / ... by John Godolphin ... vvherein also are fully resolved the questions of whatsoever points of moment have been, or are, now controverted in divinity : together with a large and full alphabetical table of such matters as are therein contained ...	Godolphin, John, 1617-1678.	1651 (1651)	Wing G943; ESTC R9148	471,915	454

not universal to all but indefinite to many of all sorts kindes and estates for if the Promise pertaineth to all then there can be no distinction between Man and Man People and People in regard of Mercy therefore the Opinion of Universal Grace is erroneous 3. That though Christ dyed for all for so the Scripture saith yet he dyed not effectually for all but for all that have Gods Grace to make his Redemption effectual to them by such effectual Faith as is required to the right Application of Christs Merits Lastly that we may not with the vulgar run into popular Error touching this weighty Point consider these two things 1. That our Church doth not teach That God doth simply ordain any to Hell fire but touching Reprobation the Doctrine is this That God hath decreed and purposed to glorifie his Name in the due and deserved condemnation of some 2. That no man from the Doctrine of Predestination take occasion to live as he list for in Gods Decree the end and the means that bring men to that end go always together and must never be severed and therefore such as are ordained to Salvation are ordained to the means thereof Rom. 8.30 therefore they sin most grievously that upon the immutability of Gods Decree take occasion to live prophanely Hezekiah though he had a promise of Fifteen years addition to his life yet neglected not the means of Recovery to cure his Sore and to preserve his life III. THe Creation is that by which God made all things very good of nothing that is of no matter which was before the Creation Gen. 1.1 Gods maner of creating as also of governing is such as that by his Word alone he without any Instruments Means Assistance or Motion produced all sorts of things For to will any thing with God is both to be able and to perform it Heb. 11.3 Psal 148.5 The goodness of the creature is a kinde of excellency by which it was void of all defect whether Punishment or Fault The Creation is of the World or Inhabitants in the World The World is a most beautiful Pallace framed out of a deformed Substance and fit to be inhabited The parts of the World are the Heavens and the Earth The Heavens are threefold The first is the Air the second the Sky the third an Invisible and Incorporeal Essence created to be the Seat of all the Blessed both Men and Angels this third Heaven is called Paradice 2 Cor. 12.4 The Inhabiters of the World are reasonable creatures made according to Gods own Image they are either Angels or Men Gen. 1.26 Job 1.6 the Image of God is the goodness of the Reasonable Creature resembling God in holiness Eph. 4.24 The Angels each of them being created in the beginning were setled in an upright estate Man also after he was created of God was set in an excellent estate of Innocency he was created perfect both in Body and Soul and so had continued had he stood still in Righteousness His Soul is an Incorporeal Understanding and an Immortal Substance infused by God into an Instrumental Body to inform and quicken it for the operation of certain motions and actions external and internal by and without the ministery of the Body constituting one person namely Man for whose perfection it was sufficient if he knew all those things concerning God and his Works which God would have him to know not that he should know all things for that had not perfected Man but transformed him into God The same is to be conceived and thought concerning the perfect Wisdom Righteousness and Blessedness of Angels Touching the Creation of Angels observe these things viz. 1. Their Nature Angels are Spiritual and Incorporeal Essences Heb. 2.16 1.7 2. Their Qualities They are wise 2 Sam. 14.17 They are of great might 2 Thess 1.7 2 Sam. 24.17 2 Kings 19.35 They are swift and of great agility Isa 6.6 Dan. 9.21 and they are wonderfully full of clarity 3. They are Innumerable Gen. 32.1 Dan. 7.10 Mat. 26.53 Heb. 12.22 4. They are ever in the highest Heaven where they alway attend upon God and have society with him Mat. 18.10 Psal 68.17 Mark 12.25 5. Their Degree That there are degrees of Angels it is most plain Col. 1.16 Rom. 8.38 1 Thess 4.16 But it is not for us to search who or how many be of each Order neither ought we curiously to enquire how they are distinguished whether in Essence Gifts or Offices Col. 2.18 6. Their Office which is partly to magnifie God and partly to perform his Commandments Psal 103.20 21. 7. The establishing of some Angels in that integrity in which they were created Touching Man in the estate of his Innocency these things are most chiefly to be regarded viz. 1. The Place The garden of Eden that most pleasant garden Gen. 2.15 2. The Integrity of Mans nature which was created in Righteousness and true Holiness This hath two parts 1. Wisdom which is a true and perfect knowledge of God and of his Will in as much as it is to be performed of man yea and of the Counsel of God in all his creatures Col. 3.10 Gen. 2.19 2. Justice which is a conformity of the Will Affections and Powers of the Body to the Will of God 3. Mans dignity consisting of four parts viz. 1. His Communion with God by which as God rejoyced in his own Image so also man did fervently love God This is apparent by Gods familiar conference with Adam 2. His Dominion over all the Creatures of the Earth Gen. 2.19 Psal 8.6 3. The Decency and Dignity of the Body in which though naked as nothing was unseemly so was there in it imprinted a Princely Majesty Psal 8. Gen. 2.25 1 Cor. 12.23 4. Labor of the body without pain or grief Gen. 3.17 19. 4. Subjection to God whereby man was bound to perform obedience to the Commandments of God which were two The one was concerning the two Trees the other concerning the Sabbath Gen. 2.3 5. His Calling which is the Service of God in the observation of his Commandments and the dressing of the garden of Eden Prov. 16.4 Gen. 2.15 6. His Diet was the Herbs of the Earth and Fruit of every Tree except the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil Gen. 1.29 2.17 7. His Free-choyce both to will and perform the Commandment concerning the two Trees and also to neglect and violate the same whereby we see that our first Parents were indeed created perfect but mutable for so it pleased God to prepare a way to the execution of his Decree There are four kindes of creatures in this world viz. 1. Bare and naked Substances without Life Sense or Reason as Sun Moon and Stars the Sun serves the Plants the Plants the Beasts the Beasts Man and he God 2. That have Substance and Life but no Sense nor Reason as Plants Trees Herbs 3. That have Substance Life and Sense but no Reason as Beasts of the Land

Fish of the Sea 4. That have all as Substance Life Sense and Reason as Man Every Creature is good 1. Partly by Creation as Sun Moon Water Earth Meat Drink c. 2. Partly by Ordination Thus the Evil Conscience Hell and Death are good because they are ordained of God for the execution of his Justice though in themselves and to us they are evil In Creatures there is a twofold goodness viz. 1. A general and natural goodness whereby God accepted and approved all Creatures 2. A more special and moral goodness Revealed in the Moral Law Or thus 1. Uncreated which is God himself being absolutely and perfectly good 2. Created whereby the Creature is made good being the fruit of that goodness which is essentially in God What the Image of God in man is viz. 1. The Soul it self together with the faculties thereof endewed with Reason and Will 2. In the Soul Wisdom and Knowledge of God his Will and Works even such as God requireth of us 3. A conformity with the Law of God or Holiness and Righteousness under which are comprehended the heart and all affections 4. Felicity without misery and corruption perfect Blessedness joy and abundance of all good things and glory wherewith the Nature of man was adorned 5. The Rule and Dominion of man over the creatures The remnants of the Image of God in man viz. 1. The Incorporeal Substance of the Soul together with the Powers thereof 2. Many Motions as of those things which we know by Sense as are Natural Principles some Motions also of God his Will and Works 3. Some prints of Vertues and an ableness concerning outward discipline and behavior 4. The Fruition of many good things 5. The Dominion also over the creatures is not wholly lost God hath preserved those Remnants of his Image in us for these Reasons viz. 1. That they might be a Testimony of the Bounty of God towards those who were not worthy of it 2. That God might use them to the restoring of his Image in Man 3. That they might leave the Reprobate without excuse The Repairing of the Image of God in us is the work of all three Persons and is in this maner viz. 1. The Father restoreth it by his Son 2. The Son by the Holy Ghost immediately regenerating us 2 Cor. 3.18 3. The Holy Ghost by the Word the Gospel is the power of God unto Salvation Rom. 1.16 4. In this Life it is onely begun in the chosen augmented to their lives end and perfected in the end as concerning the Soul but as concerning the whole man at the Resurrection The use of the doctrine of mans creation viz. 1. We must know That man was created without sin lest God be imagined the Author of sin 2. Whereas mans body was fashioned of clay let us think of our frailty to abhor Pride 3. Seeing Gods workmanship in man is so admirable let us not make it a Sty of Devils 4. Seeing God would have Mankinde consist of two Sexes let each have his due place and honor 5. Since man was created the Image of God let his glory be acknowledged and let it not be made the Image of Satan 6. Since Gods Image in man is impaired by sin let us bewail the greatness of this unthankfulness 7. Seeing the glory restored us by Christ exceeds our loss by Adam let us much the more exceed in thankfulness profit and encrease in godliness 8. Seeing the creatures were created for mans use let us use them as the Creator hath commanded and not abuse them to the satisfying of our Lusts 9. Seeing the Soul is created more excellent then the Body let our chiefest care be for the good of our Souls 10. Seeing the end and blessedness of man is the participation and communicating of God his Knowledge and Worship let us thither refer all our life and actions to the glory of our Creator 11. Seeing part of Mankinde are vessels of Wrath let us magnifie the goodness of God that we are vessels of Mercy 12. That we may learn and begin these things in this life tender and help forward the common Society and Salvation of others for which we are born 13. Since we were created higher then other creatures little lower then Angels let us shew forth this excellency by an answerable holiness IV. REdemption is a Deliverance from our Sins by the Imputation of the Pains and Suffering of the due punishment thereof in the person of our Mediator For Redemption is ascribed unto the Son because he is that person which executeth the Fathers will concerning the Redeeming of Mankinde and doth immediately perform the Work of our Redemption for the Son onely was sent into the Flesh and hath paid the Ransom or Price for our sins not the Father nor the Spirit Now Christ is called the Redeemer of all Mankinde not because all are actually Redeemed by him but because no man is Redeemed by any other but Christ onely the meaning is he is the onely Redeemer of all men who attain this great benefit of Redeemption and Salvation Or he Redeemed all men that is in regard of the Sufficiency of that he did and suffered for his Passion being suitable to his Person his dying was more then equivalent to all the Worlds perishing everlastingly in Hell So that wicked men and unbelievers are not hereby secured but more justly and deeply damned as treading under foot the Son of God and prophaning his Blood For though Redemption be virtually Universal yet the Faithful onely have their part in it being ineffectual to them as have not the grace of God to receive it Thus the Sun giveth light generally to all the World yet are there many particular persons that enjoy it not But all that are eternally chosen out of the World into the Church and continue using the means of Salvation are Redeemed it is otherwise in respect of all chosen temporally to a certain Office in the Church as it was with Judas Thus Christ in his Passion and Death offereth himself to all but is given onely to the Elect to all by the Preaching of the Gospel but he is the Savior onely of the Faithful Rom. 1.16 Now the cause that moved God to send this Redeemer was not any foreseen Faith or worthiness of man nor any merit or desert by good Works nor any inherent Righteousness in us but the Free-grace and Favor of God his own Infinite and Incomprehensible love and goodness Redemption is twofold viz. 1. Corporal such as that of the Israelites from Egypt 2. Spiritual which is understood of our deliverance by Christ typified in the former Redemption may be four ways viz. 1. When the Captive is sent away freely and voluntarily Sin and the Devil would never let us go so 2. When one Captive is exchanged for another No creature could be an exchange for man 3. By a violent taking away of the Captive by force Thus onely man was not delivered 4. By paying a Ransom