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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44337	Judicious Hooker's illustrations of Holy Scripture in his ecclesiastical policy; Ecclesiastical polity. Selections	Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1675 (1675)	Wing H2634; ESTC R4356	20,633	51

no less than for our own the Apostle with very sit terms commendeth as being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Work commendable for the largeness of the affection from whence it springeth even as theirs which have requested at Gods hands the Salvation of many with the loss of their own souls drowning as it were and over whelming themselves in the abundance of their Love towards others is proposed as being in regard of the Rareness of such affections 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 more than excellent ib. xxiii 1 Tim. 2. 1. Our Prayers for all men God accepts in that they are conformable unto his general Inclination which is that all men might be saved yet always he granteth them not for as much as there is in God sometimes a more private occasioned Will which determineth the contrary So that the other being the rule of our actions and not this our Requests for things opposite to this Will of God are not therefore the less gracious in his sight ib. xxiv Ioh. 1. 14. The Word saith St. Iohn was made flesh and dwelt in us The Evangelist useth the plural Number Men for Manhood us for the Nature whereof we consist even as the Apostle denying the Assumption of Angelical Nature saith likewise in the plural number he took not Angels but the seed of Abraham Heb. 2. S. 52. xxv Psal. 139. 7. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from any thing because the very substance of God is infinite He filleth Heaven and Earth Ier. 23. 24. although he take up no room in either because his substance is immaterial pure and of us in this World so incomprehensible that albeit no part of us be ever absent form him who is present whole unto every particular thing yet his presence with us we no way discern further than only that God is present which partly by Reason and more perfectly by Faith we know to be firm and certain S. 55. xxvi Phil. 2. 9. The Son of God which did first humble himself by taking our flesh upon him descended afterwards much lower and became according to the flesh obedient so far as to suffer Death even the Death of the Cross for all men because such was his Fathers Will. The former was an Humiliation of Deity the latter an Humiliation of Man-hood for which cause there follovved upon the latter an Exaltation of that which was humbled for with Power he created the World but restored it by Obedience In which Obedience as according to his Man-hood he had glorified God on Earth so God hath glorified in Heaven that Nature which yielded him Obedience and hath given unto Christ even in that he is man such fulness of power c. S. 55. xxvii 1 Cor. 15. 24. The Scepter of Christ 's spiritual Regiment over us in this present world is at the length to be yielded up into the hands of the Father which gave it that is to say the use and exercise thereof shall cease there being no longer any Militant Church to govern This Government he now exerciseth both as God and as Man as God by essential presence with all things as man by cooperation with that which especially is present S. 55. xxviii Act. 17. 28. All things which God hath made are in that respect the Off-spring of God they are in him as effects in their highest cause he like wise actually is in them the assistance and influence of the Deity in their life Let hereunto saving efficacy be added and it bringeth forth a special Off-spring amongst men containing them to whom God hath himself given the gracious and amiable Name of Sons S. 56. xxix 1 Cor 15. 47. We are by Nature the Sons of Adam When God created Adam he created us and as many as are descended from Adam have in themselves the Root out of which they spring The Sons of God we neither are all not any one of us otherwise than only by Grace and Favour The Sons of God have Gods own natural Son as a second Adam fr●m Heaven whose Race and Pro●eny they are by Spiritual and Heavenly Birth ib. xxx Eph. 1. 4. God therefore loving Eternally his Son he must needs eternally in him have loved and preferred before all others them which are spiritually sithence descended and sprung out of him These were in God as in their Saviour and not as in their Creator only It was the purpose of his saving goodness his saving wisdom and his saving power which inclined it self towards them They which thus were in God eternally by their intended admission to life have by vocation or adoption God actually now in them as the artificer is in the work which his hand doth presently frame ib. xxxi 1 Cor. 12. 27. They which belong to the mystical body of our saviour Christ and be in number as the stars of heaven divided successively by reason of their mortal condition into many generations are notwithstanding coupled every one to Christ their head and all unto every particular person amongst themselves in as much as the same spirit which anointed the blessed soul of our Saviour Christ doth so formalize unite and actuate his whole race as if both he and they were so many limbs compacted into one body by being quickned all with one and the same soul. ib. xxxii Ex. 4. 24. God which did not afflict that innocent whose circumcision Moses had ere-long deferred took revenge upon Moses himself for the injury which was done through so great neglect giving us thereby to understand that they whom Gods own mercy saveth without us are on our parts notwithstanding and as much as in us lieth even destroyed when under unsufficient pretences we defraud them of such ordinary outward helps as we should exhibit S. 59. xxxiii Mat. 9. 13. He which requireth both mercy and sacrifice rejecteth his own institution of sacrifice where the offering of sacrifice would hinder mercy from being shewed S. 61. xxxiv 1 Tim. 2. 12. The Apostles ordinance was necessary against womens publick admission to teach because those extraordinary gifts of speaking with tongues and prophesying with God at that time did not only bestow upon men but on women also made it the harder to hold them confined with private bounds S. 62. xxxv Eph. 4. 5. Iteration of baptism once given hath been always thought a manifest contempt of that antient Apostolik Aphorism one Lord one Faith one Baptism baptism not only one in as much as it hath every where the same substance and offereth unto all then the same grace but one also for that it ought not to be received by any one man above once We serve the Lord which is but one because no other can be joyned with him we embrace that faith wich is but one because it admitteth no innovation that baptism we receive which is but one because it cannot be received often S. 62. xxxvi 1 Pet. 3. 21. The declaration of Iustin Martyr concerning baptism sheweth how such as the