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A55305	The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By Edward Polhill of Burwash in Sussex Esquire	Polhill, Edward, 1622-1694?; Owen, John, 1616-1683.; Seaman, Lazarus, d. 1675.	1695 (1695)	Wing P2754; ESTC R212920	238,280	559

in Sins Again the natural Will is turned away from God the holy One and so it 's become desperately wicked Jer. 17. 9. a Fountain of blood out of which evil thoughts murders adulteries fornications thefts false witness blasphemies naturally procede Matth. 15. 19. a Forge of iniquities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All the forming or framing of the heart every purpose and desire effigiated there is only evil continually Gen. 6. 5. all 's marred upon the Wheel of man's corrupt Will Nay further the natural Will is turned from God who is Being and so it 's become a Nullity in Spirituals What God says of Israel he mav well say of every Natural man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he hath no will to me Psal. 81. 11. the Object of the Will is Good and yet all the fontal Goodness in God moves it not Nay lastly there is an Enmity in the Will against God Every Natural man as a part of the corrupt World lies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Devil 1 Joh. 5. 19. and his heart as a hell sets his tongue on fire James 3. 6. Deum ipsum quantum in ipsâ est perimit voluntas propria saith one clearly it would if it could abrogate God's Holiness blindfold his Omniscience and chain up his Justice in order to the fruition of its lusts 3. As for the Affections there 's nothing but monstrous Ataxy in them Love in a Natural Man dotes upon abomination and Hatred breaks out against goodness it self Hope hangs upon a broken reed and Fear starts and trembles at its fellow-mortal Joy triumphs in the pleasures of sin and therein virtually sports it self with the flames of Hell and Sorrow which should wait upon Sin pours out it self over worldly Crosses all the Affections are out of frame and place At first they were born Subjects to the Kingdom of Reason but the Rational Faculties which are the man rebelling against God in the first Adam the Affections which are the brutal part mutin and rise up in Arms against Reason and by an unnatural violence depose it and so unman the man Hence he becomes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the unreasonable beasts that perish What Asaph was in his Envy at the foolish that is every man in his inordinate Affections he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great beast before God Psal. 73. 22. Here Dinah that is the judgement is deflowred by the Son of Chamor that is an Ass as his Name imports A generation of bruitish Lusts ravish the Soul Here are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the vile Affections which debase the Immortal Soul to the dust of the Earth Here the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dii Stercorei those dungy Gods of sensual Lusts carnal Profits and worldly Honours ascend up into the heart and as Gods assume the throne of it command the power of it and by a kind of omnipresence fill the whole circumference thereof Here is the troubled sea of passions and affections where Satan the great Leviathan raises up the winds and waves of all inordinate motions making the heart boil as a pot and sporting himself in the sinful tossings thereof 4. As for the members of the body they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 weapons of unrighteousness Rom. 6. 13. The Law of Sin issues out its commands in the soul that speeds them to the members of the body and these are ready to put them in execution Thus deplorable is mans state before Conversion which if duly weighed is enough to make every one cry out Oh! what shall I do to be saved wherefore I proceed to consider the second Quaere 2. What is the nature of the Work And here I shall unfold two things 1. What are the preparatives to Conversion 2. What is the work of Conversion it self 1. What are the preparatives to Conversion For as God makes a way to his anger in punishing so he makes a way to his Mercy in converting sinners First the fallow-ground of the heart must be broken up before the Seed of God be cast into it first Moses must hew the Tables of the Heart and then God writes the Law upon them Manasseh will not humble and turn unto the Lord till he be in chains Every natural man is a Manasseh a forgetter of God as that name imports and will not remember and turn unto the Lord till the Spirit of bondage lay him up in chains under deep Convictions of Sin and Wrath. As when Christ came in the flesh John Baptist prepared his way by the doctrine of Repentance So when Christ is formed in the heart John that is Gods Grace prepares his way by legal humiliations Now the preparatory works to Conversion are these 1. There is a Conviction of Sin the Spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall convince the world of sin Joh. 16. 8. not only of Sin in general but in particular The Law as 't is in the Letter only operates little but as 't is in the Spirits hand it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 7. 9. it comes home to the heart and gives it a full Charge as Nathan to David Thou art the Man These are Sins saith the Law and these hast thou done saith Conscience and from particular sins the Spirit leads up the Sinner to the fountain of blood in his Nature it shews him a Seminary of corruption in his own heart it makes him smell the sink of sin in his ownbosome neither is this conviction only rational and notional but real and intuitvie Sin with all its Hosts is as it were mustered and set in order before his eyes Psal. 50. 21. Nay it takes hold upon him and he is made to possess it as his own which forces him at last to cry out Guilty Guilty 1. There is a Conviction of Wrath. When Satan gave man his first fall he instilled this Principle into him thou shalt not surely dye Gen. 3. 4. No though thou eat the 〈◊〉 thou shalt not On the contrary when God comes to recover a Soul out of its Fall he speaks in the same language as to Abimelech Behold thou art but a dead man Gen. 20. 3. The wages of sin is death and because such sins are found in thee thou hast the sentence of death in thy self In conviction God sets up a Judgement-seat in the heart and there after Law-accusations and Conscience-proofs the Sinner is sentenced to death and after sentence he is drawn into the valley of Achor or trouble to be stoned with the curses of the Law and scourged with Scorpions of Wrath he hangs by the thred of his life over the bottomless gulph of perdition and out of the fiery Law Hell doth as it were flash in his face 3. Out of these convictions there ariseth legal fear Gods judgements which before were far above out of his sight now approach near unto him qualms come over Conscience and hell-pains begin to seize the Soul this fear hath torment a kind of hell in it and out of

of Holiness burning with zeal for God melting in compassions over Men bowing it self down in miraculous humility and in a rape of love doing all the Will of God even to the last gasp upon the Cross. His thoughts were all births of Holiness his words oracles of Truth his works a fulfilling all Righteousness and his meat and drink was to do his Father's Will He ascended up to the top or pinacle of the Moral Law in the sweetest strains of Love and fetched about the breadth or vast compass of it in the largeness of his Obedience and passed down to the very hemm or border of it in the lowness of his Humility Rather than fail he would be subject to his own Creature Luk. 2. 51. pay tribute to his own Subject Matth. 17. 27. and wash his Disciples feet with those very hands which had all the power in Heaven and Earth in them Joh. 13. 3 4 5. Nay he stooped down as low as the fringe of the Ceremonial Law his sinless flesh was circumcised Luke 2. 21. his holy Mother purified Luk. 2. 22. the true Passeover kept the typical one Matth. 26. 20 21. and so obedientially stood under his own shadow In every respect he was obedient unto death His Obedience was a fair Commentary on the whole Law written in glorious Characters of Holiness and Righteousness all his life long and at his death clasped and sealed up with his precious Blood Thus the Mandatory part of the Law was answered now for the Minatory 2. He gave up himself in his passive obedience he was in some sence crucifyed in the womb in that he was made of his creature and coming forth into the world all his life was a perpetual passion The Gospel shews us the immense God in swadling clouts the builder of all things working as a Carpenter the holy one hurried up and down by a tempting Devil the filler of all things hungry the fountain of living water thirsty the power of God weary the eternal joy of the Father weeping the owner of all things extreme poor and not knowing where to lay his head in his own world Thus as a man of sorrows he passes on towards his Cross one of his own Apostles betraying him another denying him the rest forsaking him the chief Priests bloodily conspiring against him false witnesses unjustly accusing him the tumultuous rabble crying out crucify crucify and Pilate first confessing his innocency and then condemning his person And now arriving at his Cross sorrows break in upon every part his head raked with thorns his face besmeared with spittle his eyes afflicted with the tears of friends his ears filled with the blasphemies of enemies his lips of grace wet with vinegar and gall his hands and feet nailed to the Cross and his sacred body hanging between thieves racked and tortured to death in a Golgotha of stench and rottenness But all this is but the outside of his passion at the same time hell was let loose and from thence the Devils as so many roaring Lyons came with open mouth to devour him and which is much more Heaven thundred over his head and the righteous God as angry as our sins could make him fell a smiting of him Isai. 53. 4. and smote him in his Soul too verse 10. and with smiting wounded and bruised him verse 5. the smart and anguish whereof was so great that he was afraid Hebr 5. 7. and his fear was so high that he began 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to faint away and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be sore amazed Mark 14. 33. and in this amazement the Eclipse was so dark that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 surrounded with sorrows even unto death verse 34. and in this spiritual Siege he falls a praying Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt Matth. 26. 39. and in prayer he sinks into an agnony His soul became like that poor ship that fell into a place where two seas met the fore-part sticking fast and remaining unmoveable and the hinder-part broken with the violence of the waves Acts 27. 41. Even so here were two seas met a sea of wrath storming against him as our Surety and a sea of love breathing in him after our Redemption His humane will as nature shrunk at the sense of Gods wrath but as reason it stedfastly pointed at the work of our Salvation Redemption stood fast and unmoveable in his heart yet the same heart though without the least spot of sinful contrariety was broken with the waves of amazing horrors and so dreadful was this agony that it cast this grand Heroe the strength of all the Martyrs into a bloody sweat there fell from him great drops of blood Luke 22. 44. The sins of the world ascending up as a vast cloud before Gods Tribunal now came dashing down upon him in an horrible tempest of incomprehensible wrath and this makes him cry nay as the Psalmist hath it Psal. 22. 1. roar out upon the Cross My God! my God! Why hast thou forsaken me Mat. 27. 46. One would have thought at the first blush that the humane nature had been dropt out of his divine person but though that were not yet the sense of Gods favour was for a time suspended from his humane nature Never was sorrow like to his sorrow In all the legal sacrifices there was destructio rei oblatae and all those destructions were summed up in his sufferings As the corn he was bruised as the wine and oil poured out as the Lamb slain and rosted in the fire of Gods wrath and as the scape-goat driven into the dismal wilderness of desertion He did as it were sport in Creation but in Redemption he sweats suffers bleeds and dyes Now his humane nature thus made under the Law both in his active and passive obedience is the complete and integral price of our Redemption I say both in his active and passive obedience for these were not sundred either in existence or merit 1. Not in existence for there was passion in his actions and action in his passions from first to last his obedience was with suffering and his suffering with obedience There was passion in his actions 't was a great suffering for the great Law-giver to be under the Law for the Lord of the Sabbath to observe it The noblest and purest piece of the Law is the knowing and loving of God and yet even in that there was a great suffering for he who eternally knew the Father in an infinity of light now knew him as it were by candle-light in a finite reason he who eternally embraced the Father in an infinity of love now loved him in the narrow compass of a finite will and therefore even in these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he emptied himself as the Apostle speaks Phil. 2. 7. And on the other side there was action in his passion his passions were with knowledge he shut not

are renewed with the renewings of the holy Ghost but that is shed on them through Jesus Christ they have the Law written in their hearts but that is the Epistle of Christ their filthy flesh is cut off from their hearts that they may love God who is a pure Spirit but this is the circumcision of Christ Col. 2. 11. In a word all the saving Graces of the Elect are as so many Legacies of the New-testament and the New-testament is founded in his Blood Wherefore it is clear from the Covenant of Grace and its special respect to the Elect that Christ died in a special and peculiar manner for them 3. I argue from the Issue of Christ Christ was to have a Seed and this I shall demonstrate three ways 1. From the Preciousness of his Blood 2. From the Purpose of his Father 3. From the Promise of his Father 1. From the Preciousness of his Blood That there should be a Laver made of God's Blood and never a Sinner washed in it that such a vast sum of precious Merits should be paid down and never a Captive released by it is to me no less than prodigious Blasphemy every little Grain in Nature doth confute it if that do but fall into the ground and die it bringeth forth much fruit and shall the Son of God bleed and die in his assumed Flesh and be fruitless God in his waky Providence gives to every little Seed his own body and shall the peerless Flower of Heaven sow his Blood and Righteousness and have none at all A Cup of cold water given in Charity shall in no wise lose its reward and can it be so with the Blood of Christ poured out in a transcendent excess of Love and glorified into an infinite Merit by his Deity When Christ fed the multitude but with Barley-loaves small Fishes nothing was lost and can all be lost when he makes a Feast of spiritual Marrow and Fatness and gives his Flesh to be meat indeed and his Blood to be drink indeed Oh! far be the thought from every Christian 2. From the Father's purpose which as the Scriptures hold forth clearly was that his Son should be a King a Captain a Shepherd an Husband an Head and a Father And what is a King without Subjects a Captain without Souldiers a Shepherd without a Flook an Husband without a Spouse an Head without a Body and a Father without Posterity Empty Names are below him whose name is above every name Wherefore this King must have a Sion a mountain of holiness to reign in Psal. 2. 6. this Captain a Militia an army with banners to fight under him Cant. 6. 4. this Shepherd a flock to hear his voice and follow him Joh. 10. 4. this Husband a spouse a Queen in Gold of Ophir maried to him Psal. 45. 9. this Head a body to be animated with his Spirit and filled with his life Col. 1. 18. and this Father a numerous issue begotten and brought forth into the spiritual World to honour and serve him Heb. 2. 13. 3. From the Father's Promise which was in terminis That he should have a seed Isai. 53. 10. a Seed begotten by his Spirit and by that Generation bearing his Image and in that Image serving of him and to make it sure God engages by special Promises to take away the stony Heart to write the Law there to put his holy Spirit into them and so infallibly to raise up a seed to him and for the continuance of this Seed successively 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 filiabitur nomen ejus his name shall be sonned or childed from generation to generation Psal. 72. 17. The special Promises shall be ever budding and blossoming and bringing forth the fruits of Grace thus Christ shall see of the travel of his soul and be satisfied Isai. 53. 11. and as a sign of this Satisfaction he breaks out Behold I and the Children which God hath given me Heb. 2. 13. Should he miss but one of his Seed or Children his Heart would not rest or be satisfied for they are in a peculiar manner the travel of his Soul But now if Christ died alike or equally for all what becomes of his precious Blood How can the Purpose and Promise of God stand Which way shall Christ have a Seed Shall his Seed be begotten out of Man's Will No such Generation ever was there Joh. 1. 13. 'T is not of him that willeth Rom. 9. 16. Nothing less than the holy Spirit which formed Christ in the Womb can form him in the Heart but shall they be begotten by the holy Spirit That Spirit doth nothing in the work of Regeneration but what Christ merited in his Passion every new Creature which is efficiently begotten by the Spirit was first meritoriously begotten by the Death of Christ or else it would not be the Seed of Christ at least not the travel of his Soul Now Christ did not travel or merit for all men that they should be begotten again by the holy Ghost for then either all would be so begotten which Experience denies or else the Merit and Travel of Christ must be lost which the preciousness thereof abhorrs And if Christ did not merit it for all then neither did he if he died alike for all merit it for any and how then shall he have a Seed His Seed must be begotten by the Spirit and the Spirit begets no new Creatures but what Christ merited and Christ dying equally for all did not merit such a thing for any because not for all Moreover when God promised Christ a Seed either the meaning of that Promise was that some men should become his Seed or that all should be so if that some then Christ died not equally for all if that all then all must be begotten by the Spirit and renewed after Christ's Image the Stone must be cut out of every heart and the Law written there for in these things is the very spirit and life of Regeneration But seeing these things are not wrought in all it appears that the promised Seed is not all but some for whom Christ merited the very work of Regeneration 4. I argue from the Working of the holy Spirit As the holy Spirit eternally procedes from the Father and the Son in his personal Subsistence so he goes forth in time from the Father and the Son in his working in Men. Hence he is called the Spirit of the Father and the Spirit of the Son the Father sends him and the Son sends him and as the holy Spirit works in Men from the Father and the Son so he works in them more or less as the Love of the Father and the Merits of the Son do more or less respect them The Father doth in some sort love and the Son did in some sort die for all men Hence the holy Spirit hath some workings in the Non-elect Within the Church many of them taste the Powers of the World to come nay in the Pagan-world