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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54381	An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Nicols, Thomas.	1654 (1654)	Wing P1560; ESTC R36667	64,041	216

things as appertain to him 8. To love and hate that which he loveth and hateth 9. To seek to please him in all things 10. To draw others unto the love of him 11. To esteem highly of such gifts and graces as he bestoweth 12. To stay our selves upon his Connsels revealed in his word 13. To call upon his Name with affiance The Negative part of this Commandment is this We must not account that God which is not God In this Negative part of this Commandment we are forbidden these things 1. Ignorance of the true God and of his will 2. Atheism which is a denying of God or of his Attributes as off his justice wisdom providence presence Ps. 14. 1. 3. Errours concerning God or concerning the Persons of the Diety or concerning Gods Attributes Here Helenism or the adoring of a multiplicity of Gods is forbidden 4. The setting of our hearts and affections upon any thing else but one God The heart is drawn from God by these means 1. By distrusting of God Heb. 10. 38. From this distrust ariseth First impatiency in suffering afflictions Jer. 20. 14. 13. 18. Secondly a tempting of God and this is when the man that distrusteth and contemneth God seeks an experiment of Gods truth and power Matth. 4. 7. 1 Cor. 10. 9. 10. 3. A desperation Genes 4. 13. 4. A doubting concerning the truth of God or concerning his benefits either present or to come Ps. 116. 11. 2. By confidence of Creatures as 1. when a man putteth trust in the strength of the Creatures as Jer. 17. 5. or 2. In riches Matth. 6. 24. Eph. 5. 5. or 3. In defenced places Jer. 40. 16. or 4. In pleasures or dainties and who so trusteth in these doth make his belly his God Phil. 3. 19. or 5. In Physicians 2 Chron. 16. 12. or 6. In the Devil and his works Thus Magicians trust in the Devil and Witches and all such as seek help at their hands Levit. 20. 6. 3. The heart is drawn away from God by loving the Creature too much and more than God Matth. 10. 37. Joh. 12 43. And by self Love 2 Tim. 3. 2. 4. By hatred and contempt of God as when a man declining from God doth fly from God and is angry with God when he punisheth sin Rom. 8. 7. and 1. 30. 5. By want of the fear of God Ps. 36. 1. 6. By fearing the Creature more than the Creatour 7. By hardness of heart and carnal security as when a man will neither acknowledge Gods judgements nor his own sins Rom. 2. 5. Luke 21. 34. 8. By pride and presumption as when a man ascribeth that to his own industry and merit which is onely due to God 1 Cor. 4. 6. 7. Genes 3. 5. The highest stair of prides ladler is that fearfull presumption of men of climbing rashly into Gods seat of Majesty as if they were Gods Act. 12. 22. 23. 2 Thes. 2. 4. The second Commandment Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or that is in the Earth beneath or that is in the water under the Earth Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the children unto the third fourth generation of them that hate me And shewing mercie unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments The Affirmative part of this Commandment is this Thou shalt worship God in Spirit and in truth Joh. 4. 24. Here we are first commanded to use the ordinary means of worshipping God As 1. The calling upon the name of the Lord First by humble supplication 1 Tim. 2. 1. 2. By harty thanksgiving 3. By reading hearing talking and continually meditating on the word of God 4. By the use of the Sacraments as Act. 2. 41. 42. and 20. 7. Secondly we are here commanded to use these means holily that is as God in his word hath commanded to use them Matth. 28. 20. 1 Cor. 14. 40. Eccles. 5. 1. Ps. 26. 6. Furtherance of Gods Worship Are leagues of amity with those that truely fear God and serve him according to his word 2 Chr. 19. 2. Malaeh 2. 11. And such Covenants as the Magistrates and people make together with God for the preservation of Christian Religion 2 Chron. 15. 12. 14. The Negative part of this Commandment is this Thou shalt neither worship false Gods nor the true God with false worship Here we are forbidden these things First to represent God by any image similitude likeness or figure whatsoever Deut. 4. 15. 20. For all idols are lies Habak. 2. 18. Zach. 10. 2. Jer. 10. 8. Secondly we are here forbidden the least approbation of idolatry Hosea 13. 2. Gen. 48. 10. And therefore all processions plays feasts that are consecrated to the memorial and honour of idols Exod. 32. 6. 1 Cor. 10. 7. Thirdly all relicks badges and monuments of idols Exod. 23. 13. Isai 30. 22. Fourthly we are here forbidden all society with infidels As 1. Marriage with them Genes 6. 2. Deut. 7. 3. 4. Malach. 2. 11. Ezra 9. 14. 2 Kings 8. 18. 2. All leagues and confederacy with them in war either to assist them or to receive assistance from them and that for these causes 1. Because it doth obscure Gods glory and maketh him in appearance either unwilling or unable to aid his Church 2. Because in so doing we shall without doubt infect our selves with their impieties and idolatries 3. Because we are thus endangered to be made partakers of their punishments 2 Chron. 19. 2. With idolaters we are also forbidden all traffick in such wares as we know may further the service of their idols We are also forbidden with idolaters all Trials in Law before Judges that are infidels when Christian Courts are open and may be frequented 1 Cor. 6. 6. But if Christian Courts be not open we may according to St. Pauls rule appeal from one Court of infidels to another so from Festus he himself appealed to Caesar Act. 25. 11. Such necessities as these do make traffick and other things to be frequently used which otherwise are unlawfull We are here also forbidden all worshipping of the Beast and receiving of his mark Revel. 14. 9. Fifthly we are here forbidden all Will worship or worship of God after our own fancies in wayes which are not waranted by the word of God though we do pretend good intention for the doing of it Collos. 2. 23. 1 Sam. 13. 9. 10. 13. whither it be by Superstitions Sacrifices Meats Apparel observing Ceremonies Gestures or by our Gate Conversations Pilgrimage or by building of Altars Pictures or Idols and the like or by Temples or by strange consorts of Musick or by Monastical vows of single life or of poverty 1 Cor. 14 15. 1 Cor. 7. 9. 1. Such vows as these are altogether repugnant to the Law of God

Communion of the Persons or rather the Union of the Persons is that by which one of them is in the rest and with the rest by reason of the Unity of the God-head and therefore every each one doth possess Love and glorifie another and work the same thing Joh. 14. 10. and 1. 1. and 5. 19. Prov. 8. 22. 30. The Persons of the God-head are three Matth. 3. 16. 17. The Father is a Person without beginning from all Eternity begetting the Son Joh. 1. 3. 10. In the generation of the Son we must note these properties 1. That he that begetteth and he that is begotten are together and not one before another in time 2. He that begetteth doth communicate with him that is begotten not some one part of his essence but his whole essence so that this Communion is not a Communion but a Union 3. The Father begot the Son not out of himself but in himself The incommunicable property of the father is to be unbegotten to be a Father and to beget The Father is the beginning of Actions and beginneth every Action of himself And effecteth every Action by the Son and by the Holy spirit 1 Cor. 8. 6. Rom. 11. 36. The Son is the second Person begotten of the Father from all Eternity Joh. 1. 3. 10. 1 Joh. 1. 1. 2. The Son in regard of his essence is of and by himself * very God But in regard of his filiation and Sonship as he is a Person and the Son of the Father he is not of himself but from another for he is the Eternal Son of his Father And thus is he truely said to be very God of very God For this cause he is said to be sent from the Father Joh. 8. 42. And this sending taketh not away the equality of Essence and power but declareth the order of the Persons Joh. 5. 18. Phil. 2. 6. The property of the Son is to be begotten His proper manner of working is to execute actions from the Father by the Holy Ghost Joh. 5. 19. 1 Cor. 8. 6. The Holy Ghost is the third Person proceeding from the Father and the Son Joh. 15. 26. Rom. 8. 9. Job 16. 13 14. The incommunicable property of the Holy Ghost is to proceed The Holy Ghosts proper manner of working is to finish an action Effecting it as from the Father and the Son The second part of THEOLOGIE Of Gods works and his Decree THe works of God are all the World and all the things contained therein The end for which all things are created is the manifestation of the glorie of God Rom. 11. 36. The Decree of God is that by which God hath freely from all eternity determined all things Eph. 1. 11. 4. Matth. 10. 29. Rom. 9. 21. The execution of Gods Decree is that by which all things in their time are accomplisht according as he foreknew them and Decreed them The Decree of God is the first and principal working cause of all things and it is also in order and time before all other causes This first and principal cause doth not take away freedom of will in Election Nor the Nature and property of second causes but it bringeth them into a certain order and it directeth them to their determinate ends and hereupon the effects or events of things are either contingent or Necessary Even as the Nature of the second cause is And thus Christ according to his Fathers Decree died necessarily as Act. 17. 3. But yet willingly Joh. 10. 18. And if we respect the temperature of Christs body he might have prolonged his life and therefore in this regard he may be said to have died contingently Gods foreknowledge is conjoyned with his Decree and in regard of us it is before his Decree but not in regard of God The branches of the execution of Gods Decree are his Operation and his operative permission His operation is his effectual producing of all good things which either have being or moving or which are done Gods operative permission is that whereby he onely permitteth one and the same work to be done of others as it is evil but as it is good he doth effectually work it Gen. 56. 20. 45. 7. Isai 10. 5. 6. 7. God permitteth evil by a certain voluntary permission in that he forsaketh the second cause in working evil And he doth also forsake his creature either by detracting the grace it had Or by not bestowing that which it wanteth Rom. 1. 26. 2 Tim. 2. 25. 26. And in this we must not think God unjust for he is indebted to none Rom. 9. 15. It is in Gods pleasure to bestow how much grace and upon whom he will Matth. 10. 15. That evil which God permitteth in respect of God is good whither it be as a punishment or as a chastisement because he can and doth produce good out of it Gods Decree as it concerneth man is called predestination Predestination is a Decree of God by which all men are ordained to an everlasting estate either of Salvation or Condemnation 1 Thess. 5. 9. The means of accomplishing Gods predestination was the Creation and the fall The Creation is the World and the inhabitants in the World The parts of the World are the Heaven and the Earth The Heavens are three fold 1. The Air 2. Sky 3. The invisible Heaven Heaven in a large acceptation is all that is above the Earth All which is distinguisht into three Heavens The first Heaven is the space betwixt the Earth and Starry Firmament The second Heaven containeth the Sun Moon Stars The third Heaven is the invisible Heaven this is the place in which the blessed do behold the Majesty and glorie of the Almighty The inhabitants of the World are Angels Men and all other Creatures In Angels there are these things to be considered 1. Their Nature they are spiritual and incorporeal essences Heb. 2. 16. and 1. 7. 2. Their qualities * First they are wise Secondly they are of great might 2 Thes. 1. 7. 2 Sam. 24. 17. 2 Kings 19. 35. Another quality of them is Thirdly that they are swift and of great agility Isa. 6. 6. Dan. 9. 21. 3. Their Number they are innumerable Dan. 7. 10. Hebr 12. 22 4. The place in which these good Angels are and that is in the highest Heaven for there they do ever attend upon God and have society with him Matth. 18. 10. Mark 12. 25. Psal. 68. 17. 5. Their orders or degrees which what they be no man can certainly say but there are Arch-Angels spoken of in Scripture 1 Thes. 4. 16. And Angels Matth. 18. 10. And Cherubims Seraphims Esai 6. 6. But it concerneth us not to search this neither may we curiously enquire after it 6. There office which is to magnify God and perform his Commandments Psal. 103. 20. 21. The Angels were created within the six days as appeareth Gen. 2. 1. The knowledge that the Angels have is either 1. Natural 2