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A87510	A mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practicall, in severall tractates: vvherein some of the most difficult knots in divinity are untied, many darke places of Scripture cleared, sundry heresies, and errours, refuted, / by Henry Ieanes, minister of God's Word at Chedzoy in Sommerset-shire.; Mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practicall. Part 1	Jeanes, Henry, 1611-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing J507; Thomason E872_3; Thomason E873_1; ESTC R202616	347,399	402

A TREATISE Concerning THE FVLNESSE OF CHRIST Considered ACCORDING VNTO 1 His relations 2 His Natures Divine and Humane 3 His twofold state of Humiliation and Exaltation OXFORD Printed by H. H. for Th Robinson 1656. VNTO HIS HONOVRED FRIEND COLONEL HENRY HENLY A worthy example of personall piety and publike affections HENRY IEANES VVith his unfained prayers for the prosperity of him and his devoteth this part of his labours THERE DWELLETH IN CHRIST ALL FVLNESSE COLLOSS 1.19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell FRom verse the 15th unto the 20th we have a full and pithie description of our Redeemer Christ Jesus and that by his inward by his outward relation First by the intrinsecal relation he beareth unto his Father in the beginning of the 15th verse who is the Image of the invisible God As for his extrinsecal relations they are either unto the creatures in general or else unto the Church in special Unto the creatures in general he carrieth the relation 1. Of first borne the first borne of every creature the latter part of the 15th verse 2. Of Creator and Preserver verses 16th and 17th Unto the Church in speciall he is referred as head verse 18th And he is the head of the body the Church Of which relation we have an amplification a confirmation 1. An amplification from two other titles dependant thereon and resulting therefrom Who is the beginning the first borne from the dead that in all things he might have the preheminence Who is the beginning that is the cause and principle unto all his members of their resurrection of their spiritual resurrection from the death of sinne here of their corporal resurrection from the grave the death of nature hereafter The first borne from the dead the first that was borne from the dead that is the first that rose by his own power unto a present and plenary participation of glory That in all things he might have the preheminence In that he was not only a Creator and Preserver of the living but also a raiser and restorer of the dead Of this relation of headship unto his Church we have 2 a Confirmation from his fitness and qualification for it For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell Upon which words we may look 1. according to the reference they have of a proof unto the foregoing 2. as they are in themselves 1. According to the reference they have of a proof unto the foregoing which is implied in the particle for Here to clear the Apostles meaning we must know there is wanting this proposition He in whom all fulness dwelleth is to be the head of the Church This is to be supplied as necessarily understood and then we have a full compleat syllogisme to prove Christ the head of the Church He in whom all fulness dwelleth is to be the head of the Church because qualified and fitted for it but in Christ dwelleth all fulness and that by his Father's decree therefore he is the head of the body the Church In the head of the Church you see there resides all-fulness Were it not so the Apostle had reasoned but weakly in inferring Christ's being head of the Church from the dwelling of all-fulness in him If any one want this fulness it will goe well with him if among the members of the Church he can find a place of head the name and honour he cannot challenge without the just imputation of excessive both pride and folly I cannot but marvel then how it comes about that the Popes of Rome have for a long time laid so eager claime unto this title for what fulness save that of sin and Satan can be ascribed unto the greatest part of them since their arrogant and sacrilegious usurpation of this incommunicable attribute of our Redeemer We may say of them as Paul of the Gentiles Rom. 1.29 they are filled with all unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousnes full of envy murder debate deceit malignity of this the miserable face of almost whole Christendome is too palpable an evidence Antichrist is stiled in scriptures that man of sin 2 Thes 2.3 For this reason perhaps because he is not only full of sin but the fulness of sinne dwelleth in him Sathan hath filled his heart as Peter spake of Ananias Act. 5.3 And good reason there is Sathan should communicate unto him a double portion the greatest portion of his spirit for he is his eldest sonne the sonne of perdition 2 Thes 2.3 his vicar-general the most powerful and universal agent he hath here upon earth Thus you see standeth the context If we look upon the words as they are in themselves so for the better unfolding of them we must know that in Christ there was a manifold fu●ness according to the diverse considerations of him and considered he may be either relatively or absolutely 1. Relatively and so againe three wayes 1. As an object of all promises and prophecies delivered under the law and also as an antitype unto legal types and ceremonies And so there was in him that fulness of truth of which the Evangelist St. John speaketh John 1.14 The word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us full of grace and truth He is said to be full of truth because he is the performance of the promises the fulfilling of the prophecies the fulfilling of the typical prefigurations of the whole ceremonial law Quia plenus gratiae saith Bonaventure tulit peccata quia plenus veritatis solvit legis promissa because full of grace therefore he bore our sins in his body on the tree and so suffered the curse of the Law because full of truth therefore he accomplisht all the promises of the old Testament In him all the promises of God were yea and Amen 2 Cor. 1.20 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God to confirme the promises made unto the fathers Rom. 15.8 Full he was of truth because in him were fulfilled all the prophecies that ran of the Evangelical Church and therefore he is said Dan. 9.24 to seale up the vision and the prophecies Quoniàm Christus est signaculum omnium prophetarum adimplens omnia quae retro erant de eo nunciata as Tertullian contra Judaeos observeth upon the place Because Christ is the seal of the prophets fulfilling whatsoever was foretold of him Full he was of truth because he made good the prefigurations of the whole ceremonial law In them there was an emptiness they were but shadowes figures Col. 2.17 A fulness then there must be in Christ who is the body of those shadowes the substance of those figures In him they were to be filled full fulfilled perfected and accomplished And so the new Testament whereof he is the substance is said by Aquinas to fill up or fulfil the old because whatsoever was promised or prefigured in this is really and truely exhibited in that 1 a 2 ae

saith that we are saved by hope Rom. 8. vers 24. that is we are saved here in this life not in regard of a present and plenary possession or fruition but onely in respect of an assured expectation thereof And thus I have ended with the exposition of the words in themselves I am in the next place briefely to examine the inference of them from the foregoing There dwelleth in Christ as man all-fulnesse of the Godhead bodily therefore ye who believe in Christ are compleat in him for he is able to make you compleat Because hereupon it followeth 1. that in all that he did and suffer'd there was an infinite merit able to purchase this compleatnesse 2. That there was in him an insinite power able to conferre this compleatnesse Some understand those words of our saviour Joh. 6.63 concerning the humanity of Christ considered alone without his Deitie It is the spirit that quickneth that is it is the Godhead united unto the humane nature that giveth spirituall life The flesh profiteth nothing that is the humane nature of Christ if it were disunited from the divine it would be of little availe unto the quickenance of our soules It s concurrence is not onely profitable but necessary yet it is onely instrumentall and therefore in the vertue of it's principall agent the fulnesse of the Godhead dwelling bodily in it If Christ had beene meere man though clothed with all the power that a creature is capable of He could not have saved so much as one single soule from eternall death But he is God as well as man and therefore able to justifie sanctifie and glorifie even millions of worlds With thee saith the Psalmist unto God is the fountaine of life Psalm 36.9 A fountatine that can never be exhausted The fulnesse of the Godhead in Christ is not as a river but as a sea whence flow all those streames that make glad the city of God Psalm 46.4 It was from his Deity that there was in him an ample sufficiency to finish the transgression to make an end of sinnes and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousnesse Dan. 9.24 Because his righteousnesse is the righteousnesse of God Phil. 3.9 therefore it is appliable to and available for all the believers that ever were are or shall be in the world Because it was the great God that was our Saviour and gave himselfe for us Therefore he hath redeemed us from all iniquity and purified us unto himselfe a peculiar people Tit. 2.13,14 Because he is the Sonne of God therefore his bloud cleanseth us from all sin 1 Joh. 1.7 therefore by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Heb. 10.14 Because the Father hath by eternall generation given unto the Sonne to have life in himselfe Joh. 5.26 therefore he quickeneth whom he will vers 21. He can quicken those soules that are dead in sinns and trespasses and he will at the last day quicken those bodies that have for thousands of yeares beene rotten in their graves Because he is the Lord from heaven 1 Cor. 15.47 The Lord of Glory 1 Cor. 2.8 therefore he can clothe our mortall and corruptible bodies with incorruption and immortality He can change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according unto the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himselfe Phil. 3.21 Can you desire more comfort then that which this point yeeldeth It promiseth as much perfection as our natures can hold But it is indeed onely unto those who are qualified as those Colossians were unto whom our Apostle directs this Epistle Saints and faithfull Brethren Chapt. 1.2 who have received Christ Jesus the Lord rooted and built up in him and established in the faith abounding therein with thanksgiving Chapt. 2. vers 6 7. This restriction is implied thinke some in that the Apostle doth not say ye are compleate from him or by him but ye are compleat in him That clause 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in him containeth say they a description of those that are thus compleate They are such as are in Christ as have an actuall inexistence in him Such as are incorporated and implanted into him by the spirit and faith And they are all new creatures 2. Cor. 5.17 they have all the spirit of Christ Rom. 8.9 Men may take a full draught of a * Musculus Da venant naturall fountaine and yet not goe into it but stand without it But now as for this spirituall fountaine Christ Jesus none can so much as sippe of the water of life in him without passing into him by the act of a faith that purifyeth the heart Acts 15.9 and worketh by love Galat. 5.6 and out of the belly of him that believeth shall flow rivers of living water John 7.38 Branches separate from the vine wither and grow saplesse Members cut off from the head are dead and become carrion Professours disunited from Christ can have no vitall communion with him no participation of any true and reall compleatnesse from him They are but livelesse pictures of Christians have onely a forme of Godlinesse onely the carcasse of that perfection which Christ imparteth unto his members and therefore however they may be for their naturall and acquired endowments most accomplished persons yet as touching spirituals they are next to divels of all creatures most imperfect and incompleate wretched and miserable poore blind and naked Revel 3.17 able to doe nothing John 15.5 In a second place Paul inferreth from the personall union the dignity of the humane nature of Christ in comparison of the good Angels Because in him dwelleth all fulnesse of the Godhead therefore he is the head of all principality and power Here examine we 1. what is meant by principality and power 2. How Christ as man is the head of all principality and power 1. Then enquire we what is meant by principality and power In vers 15. of this chapter and in Ephes 6.12 they signify evill Angels But here they are taken onely for the good Angels Angels which are tearmed in scripture the elect Angels 1 Timoth. 5.21 the Angels of heaven Math. 24.36 the Angells of light 2 Cor. 11.14 the sonnes of God Job 1.6 Job 38.7 who are tearmed 1. Principalities from that excellency which they have by nature and grace above other creatures they are the chiefe of the creation as it were Princes in comparison of other creatures 2. They are stiled powers for that Authority which God hath delegated unto them over other creatures For the restriction of the tearmes here unto the good Angels I shall alleadge 3 arguments 1. This headship is a sequele of the personall union and therefore no meere creature shareth in it But if it denoted barely a superiority over the wicked Angels it were a priviledge communicable unto the good Angels 2. To be head is properly a superiority that is some way or other beneficiall unto those

then of then sufficiency to perfect in things concerning the conscience implieth that the sacrifice of Christ is sufficient to pe●fect the conscience to purify it and pacify it to enable it for the regular performance of all its offices It can put both into our hearts and mouthes the answere of a good conscience towards God 1 Pet. 3.21 By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Heb. 10.14 He hath perfected them for ever as a morall cause in the way of satisfaction and merit 1. He hath perfected them satisfactorily He hath fully satisfied Gods justice for all their sinnes 1 John 1.7 Tit. 2.14 Acts 13.39 and for all things considerable in their sinnes for the fault in the offence of Gods majesty and violation of our friendship with him the staine or corruption of sinne all punishments for sinne whether eternall or temporall so that they are freed from the whole curse of the law Galat. 3.13 and totally exempted from any condemnation whatsoever Rom. 8.1 Sprinkling of bloud seven times was required upon severall occasions under the law As in the sin offering for the ignorance of the anointed Priest * Aynsworth Levit. 4.6 on the day of expiation or attonement Chap. 16.14 and in the cleansing of the Leper Chap. 14.7 Now seven is a perfect number used for the compleating of a worke Gen. 3.2,3 and therefore this sprinkling of bloud seven times fitly served to typify that the bloud of sprinkling Heb. 12.24 perfectly and fully cleanseth our soules from all sinnes purgeth our consciences from all dead workes to serve the living God Heb. 9.14 This utter and to●all removall of our sinnes from us in a way of remission by the all-sufficient satisfaction of Christ was typified by the Scape-goate that did beare upon him all the iniquities of the Children of Israel unto a land not inhabited a land of separation Levit. 16.22 Secondly He hath by the offering of himselfe perfected them that are sanctified meritoriously He hath purchased for them not only a possibility but also a certainty of salvation He hath not onely by his merits opened the gate of heaven made salvation possible unto all that believe but further procured in the behalse of all the elect an actuall admission into glory for he hath merited for them faith repentance regeneration perseverance all gifts and graces that are absolutely necessary and will infallibly bring unto salvation all things that pertaine to life and godlinesse 2 Pet. 1.3 The chastisement of our peare was laid upon him Esay 53.5 the chastisement that was laid upon him was of such worth as that it was sufficient to purchase a through and perpetuall peace full favour and perfect reconciliation with God And a peace with the God of heaven is an ample security and protection against an uncessant warre with all the Divels in hell against the greatest enmity and rancour the most powerfull opposition of wicked men on earth and withall an assured and undoubted pledge of all such favours priviledges honours and dignities as favourites may expect from so royall and munificent a master as the King of kings and Lord of Lords Of this perfection of Christs influence that I have spoken of we have in the remainder of the words an amplification 1. from the extent thereof in regard of continuance 2. from a restraint thereof in respect of object 1. From the extent thereof in regard of continuance By one offering he hath perfected them that are sanctified for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 translated for ever may be referred either unto the duration of the world or else the duration of these that are sanctified 1. Vnto the duration of the world Christs oblation of himselfe perfects those that are sanctified in all ages of the world It is an in exhaust fountaine the satisfaction and merit of which will never be drawne drie As the sunne enlightens all men having the use of sight that ever were are or shall be in the world So Christs sacrifice being of infinite merit perfects all those that ever were are or shall be sanctified unto the end of the world Indeed of it selfe it is sufficient for the perfection of even infinite millions of worlds This perpetuall efficacy of Christs death was typified under the law by the casting of Cedar wood into the midst of the burning of the heifer of whose ashes was made the water of separation and purification for sinne Numb 9.6 Now of this Cedar was a very meete type because it is a firme and durable wood that never rotteth 2. For ever may be referred unto the duration of those that are sanctified and so it denoteth the perseverance of this influence upon them It is not for a time only but unto the end of their lives indeed unto all eternity It keeps them by the power of God through faith unto salvation Lastly you have the restraint of this influence unto them that are sanctified both by infusion of habituall grace and holinesse from God and also by dedication and consecration as vessells of honour unto God as by Gods decree of election so by their owne stedfast purpose and resolution Unsanctified and unrenewed persons then dogs and swine who are not as yet separated out of the world but prostituted unto the vanities thereof whose soules are destitute of all saving and sanctifying graces and defiled with innumerable lusts and corruptions that are unmortified who are utterly neglective and contemptuous of Gods ordinances grosse and impenitent profaners of his worship can expect no share in comfort or benefit by the fulnesse of Christs satisfaction and merit Unto this place we may adde another in the same booke Chap. 5.9 being made perfect he became the author of eternall salvation unto all them that obey him In which words we have 1. The Ground 2. Manner 3. Effect 4. Extension And 5. Restriction of the object of this influence The ground of it Being made perfect to wit by the things which he suffered as appeareth by comparison of the words with the foregoing vers 8. By his sufferings he was perfectly qualified and fully fitted for discharge of this great businesse the purchasing of our salvation 2. The manner of this influence He was not the instrument or meanes but the principall cause the author of our salvation 3. The effect It was not only salvation but eternall salvation * Bilson Fuller or more sufficient then eternall salvation we neither expect nor ever shall have any since that which is eternall admitteth no change nor increase 4. The extension of this influence in regard of object He became the Author of eternall salvation unto all that obey him of what condition soever though never so low and despicable want of learning meanenesse of parts basenesse of birth poverty of estate and all other outward miseries of life can be no impediment unto the all-powerfull influence of Christs merits Lastly we have the restriction of this influence in regard of object He