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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30316	The Spiritual anatomy of man in which is considered I. the happy state of mans integrity in his first creation, II. the woful apostacy of man from God, by his original sin ..., III. mans restoration by ... Jesus Christ, and the excellency of the Covenant of Grace, IV. the whole series of Christian duties ..., V. the particular cases of affliction, especially spiritual defection ..., VI. the great encouragement to believers, for patience and perseverance ... : to which is added an index of the whole contents / published by Andrew Burnet ...	Burnet, A. (Andrew)	1693 (1693)	Wing B5753; ESTC R15370	202,954	328

Knowledge and Understanding So to understand things as they are and not only under the dark shadows of humane appearance First of unity of Spirit As God is a Spirit pure holy and undefiled and of purer Eyes than can behold Iniquity and that he must have all his Companions and Citizens of that new Jerusalem like himself and as Christs promise is to prepare a place for his people in that promise Let not your Hearts be troubled in my Fathers House are many Mansions and I have prepared a place for you John 14.1 2 3. And will have them with him so will he have them to be like his Father and him holy as they are holy blessed are the pure in Spirit for they shall see God Mat. 5.8 The natural Man is so cloyed with the liquorish relish of carnal things that he cannot raise his affections to the true contemplation of the things of God and therefore the Children of God must be made spiritually minded The Natural man receiveth not the things of God for they are foolishness unto him neither indeed can he know them because they are spiritually descerned but he that is Spiritual judgeth all things 1 Cor. 2.14 15 16. Christians are new Creatures and with them old things are passed away and all things become new they are the Temple of God God dwelleth in them who can have no fellowship with the flesh therefore they must be spirituallized for they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit 2 Cor. 5.19 To be carnally minded is Death but to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace because the carnal mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be so then they that are after the flesh cannot please God 2 Cor. 6.15 16 17 18. Secondly Union of the Spirit is to be of one Spirit to mind the same things as God and Christ did before the World began they have and had one and the same purpose intention and mind to do the same things Peace and Unity of Spirit in Counsel and otherwise is the greatest Comfort and Strength of a Society and this is the Harmony of Heaven How doth David magnify this choice blessing How pleasant a thing is it for Brethren to dwell together in unity it is like the precious ointment upon the Head that ran down upon the Beard even Aarons Beard that went down to the Skirts of his Garments as the Dew of Hermon and as the Dew that Descended upon the Mountains of Zion for there the Lord commanded the Blessing even life for evermore Psal 133. all The Lord is a Spirit of Meekness and Peace and by Christs Doctrine the blessing is to the Meek and his Command is to resemble him in the Spirit of meekness I am meek humble and lowly in mind learn of me Mat. 11.28 29. He unites all the Hearts of his People to the unity of glorifying him to have their share of it in constant Hallelujah's see Gods Promise to Christ and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest on him the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding the Spirit of Counsel and Might and of the fear of the Lord Isa 11. to 10. O the admiration of Gods free love and goodness to the Godly in their elevation to such a state of Glory that he makes them all join in such Elogies of his praises that they prompt one another to their perpetual ecchoings of his everlasting glory see what the Apostle adviseth in this case Keep the unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace let the same mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus ye are all called to one hope in Christ Jesus Ephes 4. to 7. To be of the same mind with Christ Jesus is to have the same Will and Purpose which he had as well in doing as in suffering and to do and suffer to the same Ends and Purposes for which he did or suffered any thing Christ did and suffered all things by the joint advice and in obedience of his Father The Father worketh hitherto and I work Lo I come to do thy Will in the volume of thy Book it is written of me Psal 4.6 7 8. Heb. 10.5 In his sufferings and acting in the mystery of Man's Redemption he did all by the resolution of Heaven the Father and Son did agree and join in the Spirit God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have Eternal Life Joh. 3.16 17. Here the Father sends and the Son obeys and cometh and both agree in one in the Spirit In the matter of his Passion on the Cross they concur in one Father if thou wilt let this cup pass over but not my Will but thy Will be done Mat. 26.39 42. The Fathers purpose was that Justice should be satisfied by the Death of the Son on the Cross and the Son humbly submits It is finished and yields up the Ghost John 19.30 Rom. 3.25 26. And so in all the course of his Life as well as at his Death all his steps are squared according to the Will and Counsel of the Father as we see in the History of the Gospel From hence in imitation of Christ are taught to us these two great Duties First Submission Secondly A resignation to the absolute Will of God First Submission In all Afflictions Chastisements and Sufferings in all cases we are to exercise the duty of Submission My Son despise not thou the chastning of the Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked Heb. 12.5 to 12. Chearfulness without murmuring and a Patient bearing up under every dispensation is the duty of submission and with the Apostle to glory in the Cross of Christ Gal. 6.14 God forbid that I should glory in any thing save in the Cross of Christ by whom the World is crucified to me and I to the World And with the Apostle James count it all joy when you fall into divers Temptations Jam. 1.2 The Holy Apostle Paul was a great Proficient in this learning of submission I know how to want and how to abound and in every condition therewith to be content Phil. 4.11 12. And this should be the course and care of all who resolve to follow Christ Jesus to frame their mind and will under all dispensations to submit and acquiesce to the Will of God This was Holy Davids practice under his so severe and great affliction when he had fled from before his Son Absolom who had usurped his Crown and when weeping barefoot and ashes on his head sent back from him the Ark of God the want of which was a great ingredient to his affliction If I shall find favour in the Eyes of the Lord he will shew me both it and his Salvation but if he say I have no pleasure in him lo here I am let him do to me what seemeth good