Fundamentals from which it hath its evidence as included in them The Consideration of those of the first Race that stood is chequered also though but an Appendix to the sixth Head And that it is properly unto it an Appendix is confirmed by the Holy Ghost in that he saith Heb. 1.14 Are they not all ministring Spirits sent forth for them who shall be Heirs of Salvation that is of those who are Claimers by this Covenant which was properly A Covenant of Salvation the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction which is the sixth Head The Consequentials involved in the Heads of Mediatorship THe Trinity of Condescensions for Redemption The Creator now compleat and actually Father by Generation in overshadowing the Virgin and preparing a Body The Word now Sonne by Incarnation of his Eternall Spirit personally united to the Intellectuall nature and by it to that Body prepared the New Creature The Spirit now Consummator of Glory in full actuated in the Person of the Mediator and by Him merited for particulars as the Seal of Grace and Earnest of Glory All included in and resulting from the Covenant Primitive in the second Transaction and the Covenant Derivative Finisht The Church Regenerate the Ultimate End of this whole work of Condescentions for Redemption as the New Creation of God This Consequentiall upon the Covenant Derivative and Covenant Derivative Finisht The Consequentials involved in the Heads of Apostleship SCripture comprehended in the Emergent Revelations unto the Patriarchs Moses the Prophets Jesus Christ and the Apostles The subject matter of Those Records That Revelation by them to us onely Divine And the Tradition of it from them to us onely Authenticke The Trinity of Condescensions for Administrations in the Apostolate of Jesus Christ The Father now Anoynting as Lord The Sonne Anoynted as Servant The Holy Ghost the Energie of the Father by Procession from Him in fullnesse on the Sonne and by and from Him in the severall dispensations the Principle of speciall Administrations for Revelation included in the Covenant Derivative as the subject matter of his Apostleship and implied in the principle of this House of Administrations The Subadministrators by whom that Apostleship of Jesus Christ was executed in all Ages to whom the word of Reconciliation was committed and with whom it was to remaine and be continued unto the end of the world both as to the prime Ordinances The Power of sending and Government and secondary Ordinances the Administration of the Word and Sacrament by those that are so sent The Church Congregate the Ultimate End of this whole work of Condescensions for Administrations and so the Last in these consequentials that He might sanctifie and cleanse it with washing of water by the Word the Initiating Sacrament to this Church that He might as Apostle present it unto himself as Mediator a Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing Eph. 5.26 27. The Influence of the Spirituall Theologicall Grounds represented in the inner Lines their Juncture and Union with the Naturall and Morall Theologicall Heads on which they terminate themselves HAving thus given in summe the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Narrative of the Things as they are as well Hyperphysicall as Physicall and Morall with their relative Consequentials separate and apart we farther desire for the farther comprobating of the Scheme to suggest the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or manner how in Juncture with themselves and each other they so become one entire Body as we have represented them in It. And first in all humble confidence presuming upon that Demonstration which by his Outgoings the Infinite Immortall Incomprehensible Godhead hath given of it self we do in conformity thereto suppose and by those Lines issuing from the Essence and terminated on the Subsistencies expresse Their Coessentiall Inbeings their Coeternall and Coequall Emanations i. Flowings forth from It. The termination of those Lines upon the Figures 1 2 3. speaketh not their Priority or Posteriority in order of Nature they being so Coequall and Coeternall but onely sheweth their Order of Working demonstratively evident from their after-works in their subsistentiall Actings and energeticall Operations according to their distinct respective specifications for Nature Grace Glory Because there must be Nature i. Being from the Creator before there can be Impresse upon that Being i. Grace from the Word And there must be Nature and Grace from both before They can be anneal'd or fix'd by the Third the Spirit to make that Grace become Nature i. Glory Inchoate in the Earnest consummate here or Glory in full i. absolutely consummate upon Translation And secondly with the same confidence because upon the same grounds of the Subsistencies in Their Outgoings demonstrating themselves we do determine of their respective Energies i. their Working Powers or Spirits One with themselves and therefore distinct from each other as Themselves are And though One with themselves and distinct from each other yet the same Energie from One and the same Subsistency diversifying it self for operations towards and upon the Creature becometh varied in Each and all those Operations according to the capacity of the Subject in its respective states of Constitution and Restauration in its severall Advances Nor is it without reason that we call them Energeticall Operations not simply Energies and Operations because as in and from the Subsistencies they are properly Energies so in and upon the Creature properly Energeticall Operations as we shall shew you in their union with their Heads with which they must be read as in the Order and manner of Reading we have directed All which Subsistentiall Actings and Energeticall Operations we represent by the Lines drawn from the Subsistencies terminating on their severall Heads which we are now cursorily to run over Of which the first Three give us the Constitution of the first Race of Intellectuals Consummate that is every of the Subsistencies having their Energeticall Operations in the Creation of that Race by Constitution fixt In constitution we say as deriving their Nature which we in them call simply Essence from the Creator their Grace which in them we call Specification from the Word their Glory which we in them call Consummation in constitution from the Spirit As giving us the reall ground laid by the wisedom of God in their forming for his indispensible and Absolute Reprobation of them if they should Apostatize in that All their Operations being as we have said fixt All must be equally incensed and so there could be no Interpellator to stop the Justice much lesse Mediator to undertake for them Heb. 2.16 He in no wise lald hold on the Angels i. to deliver them but took the seed of Abraham The next Three speak the Constitution of the Secohd Race not consummate Their Nature complex'd of Inner and outward Man from the Creator onely constituted i fixt Their Grace from the Word in Principle not fix't because to its fixing it prerequired a Condition on Man's part to be performed And
THE SCHEME OR DIAGRAMME Adjusted for Future use in a larger Prodromus ere long to be published and whereof this is then to be a Part. At present Printed for private Hands A CONCATENATION of the Series of the Heads of the Grounds of the Scripture represented in this second Systeme by Scheme or Diagramme ANd first of that great and prime Hyperphysical that is supernaturall and spiritual Ground GOD demonstrating Himself to us by His first Outgoings and after Condescensions necessarily to be thus in Concatenation considered 1. God in Unitie of Essence One GOD The Abysse Unfathomable 2. That Essence subsistentiated i. specificated in Subsistencies in order to Creation Emanant CREATOR WORD SPIRIT Three Subsistencies For Nature Grace Glory 3. Those Subsistencies so specificated in their Actual Out-goings exerting i. putting themselves forth by their singular Energies the Energieâ— of each respectively 4. Those Energies become in the Subject the Creature Operations This in the Creation simply considered the first Creation the Creation of the First and Second Race of Intellectuals 5. Those Energies for their Operations on the Creature in the second Creation that is the Restauration of the second Race in their Nature laps't concentred in the Person of a Mediator The prime specificate Subject of that Work Our Lord Jesus Christ the Beginning of the Creation of God The new Creation And then the Essence in the Subsistencies worketh by their Energies concentred in that Person of the Mediator through Him and by Him transmitted unto Individuals in lapse The second specificate Subject of that second Work that Persons pertakers of that decayed Nature from the old Adam might by those operations for Restauration through and from Him be made and become New Creatures Whence The Essence is not the Subsistency The Subsistency is not the Energie The Energie is not the Operation And yet The Essence is virtually the Subsistency The Subsistency is virtually the Energie The Energie is virtually the Operation Because The Essence is the Abysse from whence the Subsistencies Emane The Subsistencies are the Fountains from which the Energies flow The Energies are the Causes in the Subject of all Operations In like manner The Operation is not the Energie The Energie is not the Subsistency The Subsistency is not the Essence And yet The Operation is relatively the Energie The Energie is relatively the Subsistency The Subsistency is relatively the Essence Because The Operations in the subject are the Energies terminated The Energies are the Subsistencies limited The Subsistencies are the Essence specificated In result and summe the work of the Creation simply considered pretermitted The Operation Prime for the new Creation or Restauration is the Influence of the Essence from the Subsistencies by their Energies concentred in the Mediator from him by a second operation upon lapsed nature terminated in Particulars And thus the Lowest hath from that which is nearest to it self of the Highest and Soveraign Being what could not otherwise either be derived from It or in that state of Lapse be received by the Creature Because as Essence in its Infinity Essential i. as Essence did not work ad extra i. outwardly to the Being of the Creature but in the Subsistencies Nor did the Subsistencies worke to the constitution or making up that Being in the Creature in the state of Integrity but by their Energies So neither could the Subsistencies condescend to nature in the state of Lapse for Restauration nor the Creature in that state receive their Influence by their Energies immediately had They not by those their respective Working Powers sanctifying in a Person prepared the First Fruits of humane nature as well Treasured up those their efficacies from Themselves as Fitted them treasured up for the creatures Receiving them The Principles as thus in Him predisposedly united so their Glory for the creature as it were rebated in the Person of a Mediator Secondly The Concatenation of the Heads of the Grounds of the Scripture as they are a Narrative of the methods of that GOD in those his great Designes the Creating and Restoring of mankinde and give us the Physicall and Morall Theologicall Grounds conteined in them i. the Naturall Heads and Result of and from them which we represent in the severall Heads and Notes of the Inward Circle and Outward Epicycle And first as an Inlet to the whole A Look before the Creation of the visible and Animate World and so of the Creation of the First Race of Intellectuals Spirits simple Essences of which Some Adhered and stood These Confirmed and their number to be made up by a second Race A Look before the Creation of the visible and Animate World and so of the Creation of the First Race of Intellectuals Spirits simple Essences of which Some kept not their first state These Reprobated for whom Tophet whence the Devil and evil Angels II. The Creation of the visible Animate-world and of the Second Race of Intellectuals Man in the Protoplast the First Adam A Spiritual Essence Imbodied i. consisting of Inner and Outward Man to be made One with the simple Essences Spirits unbodied those of the First Race that stood Their Innate Law Covenant of Nature by Impresse upon Adhesion of the Inward Man And the Appendixes preparatory Sacrament the Tree of Life Sabbath the Rest Symboles of Grace and Glory for consummation of the Person and Nature both in the Inner and Outward Man upon the condition of that Covenant performed III. The Inhibition Probational of his Inward Adhesion in that Covenant of Nature by his Outward Obedience unto this Negative Law for the fixing of that State of Nature in his Person by the Annexing those Appendixes preparatory upon the condition performed i. Adhering and Obeying And the Threat annext if otherwise being an Antedated Sentence IV. The Breach and Violation of that Covenant by Disadhesion and of the Probational Inhibition likewise by Disobedience commonly call'd the Fall whereupon the Appendixes because only preparatory become suspended The Threat before now an Actual sentence the Curse incurred importing upon Nature forfeited Aversion or turning away the Face of his Creator from him and the Word withdrawing his Principle of Grace Both these as the Paena damni or Privative Evil And in demerit eternall Dereliction of his Intellectual Nature in that state and casting it off into the state of Tophet prepared for those of the First Race that kept not their first state as the Paena sensus or Positive Evil of Punishment These relatively from the Covenant distinctly terminated in that his Inward Man And from the Inhibition Support withdrawn as the Privative Evil and Mortality seizing on him as the Positive terminated in the Body or Outward Man and from all these Glory in designe from the Spirit of necessary consequence come short of V. The Interpellation a Rescuing from the Execution of the Sentence and Curse upon that Breach And the State of Nature as so rescued from the Paenasensus or Positive Evil to be considered
under the Paenadamni or Privative onely Yea farther upon the Creator's admitting that Interpellation A Reprieve from the Sentence and so the Curse for the present sublevated both to the Inward and Outward Man by which a possibility for a following Covenant for Restoring of Both. VI. The Restauration of Nature in the Inward and Outward Man under the forfeiture to Justice suspended upon that Rescue and Reprieve in Decree by the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction as the New Creation in the Second Adam by this the New Covenant for Restauration and Revelation betwixt the Creator Ordaining and the Eternal Word undertaking to be Incarnate by his Eternal Spirit immediately united to the Intellectuall Nature and by it to be united to the Body Whereby the principle of Grace withdrawn Restored to our Nature in that the second Adam He became a fit Mediator Sponsor in the Apostles phrase a Pledge to perform the Condition of the first Adam by Adhesion Inward Obedience Outward This not only Active to vanquishing but Passive also for the satisfying the guilt of the first Adams non-performance even to the suffering of Death whence Raised Glorified as Reward upon the work done taking possession in our nature of the Glory come short of He was thereby made a fit Mediater Regenerator to restore the principle of Grace to particulars and so gave them title to the Glory in Him prepared for them For the efficacious Revealing and applying of which Grace to the Inward by the Outward Man Outward Means and Ordinances are hereunto Codecreed in him as Apostle by Unction from the Father to Reveale as the work given him to do And so here Nature sanctified the Inner Man delivered from the Positive Evil the Execution of the Sentence and the state of Tophet by translating of the Guilt and Curse upon the Satisfaction undertaken From the Privative Evil the Creator now lifting up the light of his Countenance in his Decreed Ordinances for the restoring of the Principle of Grace withdrawn and Glory consecutive thereupon And though the Outward Man still continued under its incurr'd Curse Gen. 3.19 To dust thou shalt return yet that also here sanctified upon Capitulation that the Creator to make it redeemable in us would by a second work prepare it for the Eternal Word to assume and so to become voluntarily and of himself Mediator to Redeem and in it Annoynted Apostle to Reveale All from this the beginning of time by His cooperating Grace in Shadowes and Types in the severall Administrations and from this Compact having efficacie as Ordinances though as to the Actuating them in the fullnesse of time Personally in and from Himself as in the Flesh they were onely in Decree VII The Actual Restauration of Nature compleat in the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the second Transaction mutually made good in the Person of the Mediator by the Creator's preparing and so sanctifying the Humane nature or Body as to the Outward Man And the Word by the Intellectual nature the Inner Man unto which from the first Transaction it was united assuming it prepared into union with his Divine Nature so restoring the Principle of Grace in his Person to Humane nature compleat both to the Inward and Outward Man On whom thus constituted His Duty Obedience Active and Passive performed the Reward Glory is actually conferred All according to that Restauration in Decree VIII The Restauration of Particulars in the Covenant Derivative as the Revelation and efficacious Application of the Covenant Primitive from Him by complication of Ordinances and Mysterie into which coming as into the Kingdom of God their Persons are by the Ordinances sanctified and they renewed in Knowledge from Him as Apostle by unction of the Holy Ghost Jo. 14.26 teaching them all things And then upon the appropriate condition of Faith in its Advances they receive from Him as Mediator by Influx of that his Renewing Nature the Mystery the Righteousnesse of the Kingdom unto their Regeneration in their Inward Man upon and according unto that actuall Restauration in the Person of the Mediator IX That Restauration of Particulars by Influx upon the appropriate Condition of Adhering and Vanquishing in the Covenant Derivative Finish't consummate as to the Inward Man in the Earnest from the Spirit sealing The third Subsistency and the Cutward man by that his work on it the Inward sealed to the Day of Redemption X. The State of Nature by dissolution separate in and after Death relative both to the Inward and Outward Man the Inward because by immediate impresse Sealed immediately in actuall Blisse a Blisse proportioned to this Separate state And the Outward Man because once united to the Inward and by that Seal on it sealed to its Redemption resting in Hope XI The state of Nature both Inward and Outward according to that Seal and Rest in Hope by the Resurrection reunited and perfectly restored Sealed unto Translation XII The State of Nature thus as before perfectly restored in the Persons fully redeemed Now declaredly Acquitted at the last Judgement according unto the different Administrations under which they were whether Generall of the Creature or speciall in their severall diversifications that is Patriarchall Mosaicall Propheticall Interlegall Evangelicall Prime under Christ and the Apostles or Continued in their Successors unto the End of the World XIII The Persons thus by the Resurrection redeemed after the Resurrection sealed unto Translation and according unto their Administrations at the Last Judgement acquitted Now finally Translated as their consummate Glorification and made One Hierarchy with those of the first Race that Adhered and stood This the Accomplishing of that first Designe the End of the first Creation in the state and Covenant of Nature violate and frustrated by the first Adam's Dis-adhesion explicated in his Dis-obedience Now and Thus repaired according to This counsell of the will of God in a second Designe the end of their second and New Creation in the state and Covenant of Grace made good and finisht by the Second Adam Christ Jesus God blessed for ever upon his Adhesion Vanquishing and Suffering explicated by his Obedienc Active and Passive according unto the Interpellation and Covenant Primitive for the Redemption and Restauration of Mankinde Thirdly The Consequentiall Heads of the Grounds of the Scripture as they are involved in the Primitive Fundamentals and unto which they are relatively consequentiall which we have for distinction Chequered THus the Trinity Supreame Creator and Word operating by Creation unto the constitution of the creature Intellectuall as Fountains Prime and Spirit the Third Subsistency distinct from either which was in Designe the consummating Principle to the second Race upon perseverance included in and evidenced by that Head the Creation of the visible world And yet farther their distinct Personalities more fully appearing by the Interpellation and Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction we consequently state it not till in this place the close of the first
Their Glory from the Spirit which should have fixed Grace and consummated Nature in Designe onely which we have made the Line to say in that it comes not home because the Energie it self could not be attained but upon perseverance And this gives us the like reall ground of the possibility of restoring this Race if they should Fall because their Constitution was not in their creation consummate The Inhibition hath no Energeticall line terminating on it because not convoying any thing to his nature but onely as of Positive Precept a Negative Law laying hold on him as from the Lord and Soveraigne of his Person Nor hath the Fall any It being his Defection from the God of Nature by his breach of the Covenant of Nature and his Rebellion against the Soveraigne of his Person by his transgression of the Law yet the Consequenâ—s thereof being proportioned to his constitution by the Energies to wit his Nature forfeited into the hands of the Creator from whom it derived its constitution his Grace in Principle the Energie from the Word withdrawn because the condition unperformed not fix't And his Glory in designe from the Spirit come short of because He persevered not minister unto us the reall ground why the Justice of the Creator onely remaineth to be satisfied and mankinde in the Protoplast delinquent to him alone But that the Justice of the Creator might be satisfied order of of nature requireth that It first be suspended And that Suspension must as necessarily precede the Restauration in Decree as satisfaction made good must precede the Actuall Restauration And here we are cast upon disquisition How Mankinde in the first Adam shall for the present be rescued from the Threat now a sentence And how the Justice may be superseded for the making way unto Redemption and Restauration to ensue And this we are necessitated unto that we may make up the Chasme or Hiatus in the Primitive and first Truths betwixt the State of Nature under the Guilt upon breach of Covenant and Transgression by the Fall with the Sentence thereupon And the Redemption from that Justice of the Creator and Restauration of the Race by another Covenant A Covenant of Grace For though from the consticution of this second Race we have discovered and evidenced that by the wisedom of God it was provided that their Lapse if it should become actuall should not put them beyond the possibility of Restoring yet must that incurred Sentence be revers'd as to the delinquent and that Justice stopt which we cannot referre either to the Soveraigne Love of the Creator with some or to His soveraigne Beneplacit or sovereigne Mercy with others because Man being in reall Guilt and under an actuall sentence it would crosse those his other Attributes of Soveraigne Holinesse Justice and Truth already fixt in the Covenant and Threat To salve therefore that crossing of Attributes we have by disquisition found and do give another expedient which we call The interpellation of the Eternall Word so the Line speaks it God of God that is God the Word the second Subsistencie of God in Essence not Christ the Word Incarnate which was the Person of the Mediator Interposing himself And this putting himself in the Gap was His the Word's work solitarily A Rescue upon his self worth And this besides the salving of that Crossing of the Attributes gives us in consequence First A Plumbe-Line by which we sound and fathome in the after Capitulation the depth of the wisedom of the Creator in transmitting not disanulling the Curse in delivering not absolving the delinquent and by that mortality introduced upon the Temptation and Fall destroying the Enemy himself and discover the Bottom upon which the submission of God the Word is also grounded for making satisfaction unto that Justice because from It he rescued mankinde Secondly It reacheth unto us a Jacob's-staff whereby we may take the true height of the Divine Nature of Jesus Christ the Mediator and demonstratively conclude from his satisfaction made Him to be the same Eternall Word then Incarnate which now Interpellated and Capitulated This Head thus discover'd will be Fruitfull for the evidencing of many other particulars which have their first Root in it which we do at present pretermit not willing to anticipate our selves in our larger compleat Prodromus nor in our after larger work Upon the Covenant Primitive in the first Transaction two Lines terminate from the Creator and Word These two Subsistencies being the onely Parties interessed in that Covenant whose respective works the words on the Lines speak which doth import that the Third Subsistency as to capitulation is not concerned because his work was but in Designe in the Constitution of the first Adam by the Covenant of Nature and therefore but consecutive upon the work undertaken in Decree and not till executed to be actually the consummating Principle in and to the second Adam by this Covenant of Grace And this with the Interpellation we are bold to affirm the Beginning of the Gospel The New Creation and to be intended by the Foundation of the VVorld and by all the like Gospel expressions This being the Foundation of the World of Regeneration simply and properly so called as in Gospel sense Yea and the Foundation of the very visible world by the same Figure that the Holy Ghost using hath sanctified to my hand when he affirmeth Heb. 11.19 that Abraham received his sonne Isaac from the 〈◊〉 after a Figure For if the rescuing of Isaac from the sacrificing sword and the providing a Ramme to be sacrificed in his stead made that his Deliverance to be a Resurrection How much more shall this Interpellationall Rescue and Compact for preparing a Ransome unto Man the Heir and Lord of the Creation with the whole Fabrick provided for him forfeited by the Fall be accounted both to him and it a New Creation Trinity Supream as a Consequentiall from the Primitive Fundamentals we have stated in the Systeme of Consequentials Note first that that Line to the Interpellation and Those two to the Covenant Primitive are not Energeticall but Personall Acts For as Personall Consultation was necessary before they did exert their Energies to Constitution so man having here destroyed himself there is a like reason for This their second Consultation before they could exert their Energies to Restauration Secondly Nor is that which we draw from those of the first Race which adhered and stood but only doth denote by the words upon it when they became Ministring spirits as a farther justification of our calling of them Intellectuals there and not Angels till here Those Three that fall upon the Covenant Primitive in the second Transaction are purely Energeticall the Two first qualifying him for Duty of Mediator Sponsor undertaken which we therefore reade downwards The Third crowning him with the Reward appropriate to the work of Mediator Regenerator upon the Duty performed which we therefore reade upward Of the other Three which fall upon the
Covenant Derivative the subject Matter of his Apostleship the Two first are to qualifie Him for that his Office Apostolicall and are therefore to be read downwards the Third crowning him with Reward upon the same ground with the former to be read likewise upward The words Restauration executed and Revelation executed which head the points of each refer you back to the second Note in the Epicycle of their being coactuated in their respective Principles by which He was fitted for each work as That doth to the Covenant in the first Transaction when they were codecreed That single Line which from the Spirit the Third Subsistency falleth on the Covenant of Grace Derivative Finish't sheweth that the Mediator having meritoriously attained it in his Person for our Nature we in conformity performing our respective Conditions have in consequence at last from that subsistency an Impresse sealing us to Redemption proportioned to this state which that Reverse Line speaketh pointing to the Redemption it self in the Resurrection The Redemption of our Bodies Rom. 8.23 The next from the second Subsistency the Word terminated on the Church Regenerate doth give us by the Scripture on it the true and reall ground of Communication of Properties to be between the Eternall Word and the Person of the Mediator For though the Body was prepared by the Father by the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost his Energie Luk. 1.35 yet it was still as from That but the Blood of man though of the Sonne of God Sonne of God and sonne of Man being coincident the seed of David according to the flesh Rom. 1.3 But when assumed into union Hypostaticall or Plastick with the Word His Blood viz. the Mediator's becometh so the Blood of God viz. of God the Word and this People purchased by his own Blood Acts 20.28 The next Three give the varied Operations of the respective Energies as the Subject under and by their foregoing operations respectively is prepared for This work the Resurrection and by these their present Operations predisposed for the Next their future Glorification Thus 1. Nature in the Primitive state constituted by the Energie of the Creator becomes forfeited by the Fall reprieved by the Interpellation sanctified in Decree by the Compact in its first Transaction then actually sanctified in the Person of the Mediator as to the Outward man or Body by the overshaddowing of the Holy Ghost in the Covenant in its second Transaction and from that alteration thus wrought in Him Beleevers in Particular sanctified as they come under the Covenant Derivative then sealed to its Redemption in and by the Covenant Derivative Finisht And so Nature Consummate in the Earnest 2. Grace in the Primitive state the Energie of the Word in Principle but not fixt by the Fall withdrawn the Interpellation maketh way for its restoring in Decree by the Compact as That in the Decree maketh way for the Actuall restoring of it in the Person of the Mediator by the Divine nature from the Word assuming our nature into Plastick union in the second Transaction by and through whom it becometh actually conveyed by Influx unto particulars as they receive the mystery in the Covenant Derivative in the strength of which they performing the conditions in conformity required i. adhering and vanquishing the Covenant Derivative is finish't i. fixt in and on them And so Grace perfected in the Inward man 3. Glory the Energie of the Spirit in the Primitive state in Designe onely by the Fall come short of yet by the Interpellation in order to an Advance and consecutively restored in Decree by the Compact in its first transaction as actually consequent upon the work done in the Mediator's assumption into Glory in the second Transaction And in consequent merited for us and applied unto us in the Covenant Derivative Finisht the Seal in the Earnest from the Spirit And so Glory Inchoate Note first That the Fall as the frustrating of the first Designe was the Decay of all these in the Person of the first Adam The Interpellation as the Occasionall ground and the following Covenant as the Fundamentall of the Restauration of them were Subsistentiall Acts betwixt themselves and so forensick to Our Natures The actuall restoring them in the second Transaction in the Person of the Mediator was by Energies and Energeticall Operations and so intrinsick to our nature but terminated in his Person The subsequent Operations in their severall Advances as being Energeticall likewise are intrinsick to our natures in our own persons as we encreasing with the encreasings of God are made conformable to the Image of his Sonne Note Secondly That in all these severall Personall Acts and Energeticall Operations on this side the Fall in their prequalifying Advances The Succeeding are not attainable ordinarily untill the Acts and Operations immediately foregoing have had their Designed Works on or in relation to our nature and Persons because the foregoing onely do predispose and render the subject in and on whom They are wrought capable of the exalted operations immediately following Thus the severall foregoing Operations gradually heightning and advancing our Nature and Persons untill Nature and Grace be consummate in the Earnest we do by that Sealing rest in Hope then raised according to that Hope in this The First Resurrection we have from the Creator by his Energie in a varied Operation Nature in the state of Integrity constituted now Restored Grace from the Word in like manner then in Principle but not fixt now in Principle and fixt Glory from the Spirit then likewise in Designe onely now secured This being the sealing to the Day of Translation intercepted by the Fall Thirdly In concurrence with this latter Note this we must also farther suggest and add that as the Prequalifying Operation is of the Nature of Disposition unto the after Advance so by the after exalted Operation the former Prequalification becometh to be of the Nature of Habit. And being thus brought to the Point where we first set forth and from whence we departed the proper sense of the Apostles word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which hath hitherto been rendred the Restitution of all things Acts 3.21 with this farther advantage that we are sealed to Translation we have in our actuall Translation in consequence of that Seale Nature by the Creator then onely restored now by a varied operation Exalted That Grace from the Word then onely in principle and fixt now Glorified That Glory from the Spirit then onely secured now consummate Then come in those Notes Of which the first The Subsistencies themselves now Comprehensible because Face to Face c. occasioneth us upon review of that Attribute of Incomprehensibility the Boundary of created natures to give you in scale when and upon what grounds in predication of God thus diversly considered in Essence Subsistencies Energies and Operations the Person of the Mediator with his Energies and Operations it becometh moveable when fixt i. when He is Incomprehensible when and how Comprehensible unto
us viz. GOD in Essence absolute simply and in Himself Incomprehensible The manner of the Inbeing and Emanation of the Subsistencies so also But then because the Essence by the Emanation as a nearer approach to the creature manifesteth it self subsistentiated And the Subsistencies render themselves comprehensible mediately by their Energies in their Operations immediate therefore when we shall have past all the Advances of the varied Operations and so become made fit by Glorification for the receiving of their Energies immediately Nature which Adam forfeited fully redeemed and exalted the Principle of Grace from which He fell by Restauration fixt and Glorified the Principle of Glory of which He came short of as of Auction secured and Attained and so we Consummate The Subsistencies themselves must necessarily then become Comprehensible And from this ground we have the sense of the Apostles words 1 Cor. 13.12 Face to Face and Know as Known which we have therefore made the close of this Note And that the Apostle's words having found their proper ground do naturally speak their sense to be as we have given it is most evident because Comprehensibility being formally an Attribute upon Communion betwixt God and the Creature Consequentiall upon his Being and not as the other Attributes from God unto the Creature Constitutive of his Being It must therefore necessarily follow that his Being once restored and God taking us into Immediate Communion of the Subsistencies the End of the whole work He then turn his Face unto us and we have Immediate vision i. Face to Face The Communication under Moses his Administrations being but his back Parts of Types to Ours And Ours The Gospel administrations but mediate in the Face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor 4.6 i. by his Energies as Mediator and Apostle not Face to Face of the Subsistencies by their Energies Though when we come thus Face to Face and that the Subsistencies become thus comprehensible Incomprehensibility is even then and afterwards fixt to the Essence as that Abysse unfathomable that state of Godhead Incomprehensible according to the second Note Essence as They in it in the Inbeing It in them Subsistentiated and Emaned now and for ever incomprehensible The Consideration of Our Lord Jesus Christ as represented in this Scheme relative to his distinct Offices and Works of Mediatorship and Apostleship FRom these Inward Lines and their junctures with themselves and the rest of the Body as the Spirit and Informing part of the whole That which next occurres is the consideration of our Lord Jesus Christ through whom onely we can blesse God because through Him onely God hath been thus good unto us in whom all these Advances being first wrought they through Him are as we have said transmitted unto us Him therefore we represent I. Standing upon that direct Energeticall Line from the Word the Divine constitutive Principle by which He assumed our Nature so the words on the Line speak The Eternall Spirit by which He offered up Himself i. His Humane Nature without spot Heb. 9.14 for by the same by which He offered up Himself He must assume it II. Plac't betwixt the severall Energeticall Lines relatively qualifying Him for each Office and Work and conferring the respective appropriate Rewards on Him as Mediator for Man to God in the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the second Transaction and as Apostle from God to Man for promulgating the Covenant Derivative III. Standing also upon his Administrations Patriarchall Mosaicall Propheticall in which Revelation in Shadow Redemption in Type Interlegall as in John Baptist's Ministry preparing his way beforehis Face And Evangelicall in which Revelation before in shadow is now in Substance Redemption before in Type is now in Truth The Consideration of the Crosse Lines or Lines of Commensuration THe Crosse Lines of which in the third Note in the order and manner of Reading are Commensurations of the severall states under those Heads where they terminate we have only this to advert that as the words at either end of them separately considered are the Gages of that state so relatively considered they are the Graines of difference which ballance them Thus first though onely Confirmation was the state of the first Race which adhered and stood yet Confirmation of the second Race could not have ballanc't them without Translation Secondly The Gage of the state of Nature in Integrity being as on the Commensuration Line Ingenerate and unto Glory but determinable presupposing the first Designe of God and That frustrated by the Lapse neverthelesse then though supposing the Interpellation and Covenant for restoring of it cannot That State of Nature be commensurate but by the state of Nature in and after the Resurrection and yet This state hath its graines of difference Regenerate for Ingenerate for Determinable Determinate Thirdly The State of Nature in the Fall because Death in the Root commensurate with the state of Nature in Death with which it cannot be ballanc't untill what Here was in Root by the Fall hath passed over all There by Death the Merit here the wages there Fourthly and lastly That the Gentiles under the Generall Ordinances and their Instructing Paedagogie of the creature-Administrations with the work of the Law written in their hearts if working Righteousnesse according to the purport of the words on the Commensurating Line are as to the Common Interest of Eternall salvation in equall ballance with the Jew and Christian saving that these latter had their Prerogatives as the Graines of difference the speciall Adminisirations The One the Adoption the Glory the Covenants Rom. 9.4 5. The Other 3â— the Kingdom of God and the Righteousnesse thereof Matth. 6. as speciall assistances and more conducible meanes though varied unto Each respectively unto that one Common End of All Sal. vation The Import of those Words THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD LAstly that you see in Capitals these Words THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD taking place between GOD in Essence the Subsistencies and their Energies in their first Operations for constitution of the First and Second Race as situate above them And separating Those Above as the First part of the Scale from the Subsistentiall Actings and the same Energies and their Operations varied for the Constitution of Jesus Christ Mediator and Apostle upon and after consultation to restore the second Part of the Scale together with those Divine Principles in Jesus Christ constituted and for execution of that second Consultation to us ward by Him exerted in whose Person as the Restauration was first wrought so by Him was it to be perfected in us the third Part of the Scale Both these latter gradually in situation as in order of nature beneath Them We do assign unto Our Spirit The Intellectuall Nature its peculiar Object purely spirituall abstract from matter and without the mediation of sense the Knowledge and Acknowledgement of God as represented in this Scheme For want of which we do but groape after God not knowingly contemplate or adore Him For how can we ascend
unto Him but by the same scale He descendeth unto us And hence it followeth that That great Work and last End Our Regeneration is lesse evidently quickning and the Means thereto the Ordinances are lesse efficacious And we must farther say congruous with this Analogy that the not understanding the first Part of the Scale GOD in Essence Subsistencies Energies Operations to the constitution of the creature hath been the Prime cause of the not understanding of the Second viz. The Subsistentiall Actings in the Interpellation and Covenant of the first Transaction the Energies and Operations in the Lines terminating on the Covenant in the second transaction as to his Mediatorship and the Covenant Derivative as to his Apostolate These being but their Operations upon Condescension which cannot have their Light but from a consideration had of these their first Actings And the confused or Indistinct understanding of this Second hath been a like cause of not understanding the Third the Operations from the Mediator and Apostolate by his respective Energeticall Operations to us ward and on us the subject matter exhibited in the Covenant Derivative and Covenant Derivative Finisht This being but the Deriving unto us what was Treasured up in Him And in as much as This Scale of the Intellectuall in its Juncture with the rest is indeed the Spirit quickning the whole we may affirm that all Our Errors as well in Judgement and Faith as in Practise and Manners in the other natur all Theologicall Heads and morall Theologicall Grounds in the Circle and Epicycle modelled have arisen principally from the not aright discerning of these And it would be no hard matter to evidence in particulars where and how from some Misprision or other here in Root of the Intellectuall each and every of our misguided Actings in Morals Oeconomicks Politicks as well of sacred as civill cognisance have burgeoned and put forth The Review of the whole ANd now let the whole be viewed From the Abysse of Essence to the Operations and the Person of Jesus Christ with his Energies and Operations on us From the Look before the Creation to the state of Glorification From the Judgement of the first Race to the Judgement of the second Race From the state of nature in its Primitive constitution to the state of nature in the first Resurrection From the state of nature in the Fall of the first Man to the state of nature in Death the condition of all men From the Covenant of Restauration in Decree to the same Covenant derived unto us and Finisht in us From the Trinity Supream to the Trinity of Condescensions From the Gentile in the Gener all Ordinances to the Jew and Christian in all the speciall Administrations What should I mention particulars Look on the Generals as the Circle in the Epicycle and let the whole be considered in its Symmetry and proportion as it hath wrought it self in the Scheme A Systeme of Truths purely naturall and according to the order of nature without any Artifice at all in the framing we having only followed not forced Them whilest they in their naturall Method as things formed and brought themselves into Diagramme Mathematicall that the Inward subject matters might more efficaciously by demonstrating the Seriptures Designe inform the Reason when fixt according to the order of nature in the outward Form and Figure they shall be transmitted unto it by the convinced Sence that so Sence Reason and Revelation may all conspire to the stating of each and every particular Truth Thus see and consider Essence in the Subsistencies Emanant by their Energies constituting a First Race and upon the Apostacy of some of that Race creating a Second in a Condition Inconsummate Upon their Lapse the Lapse of the second Race in the Protoplast the first and second Subsistencies because They onely had their Principles actually in the constitution of the first Adam in and by their Subsistentiall Actings laying their Designe for the Restauration of this second Race This Decreed Executed in the second Adam revealed by Him and accomplished in the earnest then in the Full in the creature This creature thus restored by the Regeneration and consummately Glorified All by the varied Operations of the Subsistencies by their Energies shew in Figure the Designes the Degrees and Steps of this creatures Constitution Restoration Advance and Exaltation Next see and consider Tophet in its situation A Work not decreed but emergent upon Their Apostacy and extraneous to the Designe of God in the Creation of that first Race as The Sentence from him was aliene They first become Devils and Evil Angels in consequent of their Fall Reserved in chains of darknesse in consequent of their Sentence unto the Judgement of the great Day for the full of their punishment And then become Tempters in that state to the first man and ever afterwards in Enmity with the seed Thus in that Head and Labels And the Last Judgement in proportioned situation opposite because an Abdication of that first Race and at once a Sentence and Abdication of those of the second Race workers of Iniquity then finally Reprobated imported by the Labell Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Concerning which Last Judgement I shall at present onely suggest this one thing that It hath and must keep the seaventh place in the close of the Heads of the Ordinances as the First Resurrection is the seaventh to those of the Mediatorship because It dependeth on those Ordinances which the whole Body of the Head importeth Giving us farther also in the close a Distinction of the Kingdom of Apostolate which he is to resigne after this and to lead us into that merited Kingdom of the Father prepared for us before the Foundation of the World simply considered exprest by that part of the Labell Come ye blessed of my Father c. Matth. 25.34 when those who claime It by Covenant acquitted at the Last Judgement are gathered into One with those of the first Race confirmed Then see and consider The Head of the Fall upon the same ground not decreed of God and so the Root of Death not made by God He made not Death saith the Wise man Wisd 1.13 but man Adam giving himself by sinne into the power of Satan Death came in by Sinne Rom. 5.12 And hence we see how Satan came to have the Power of Death Heb. 1.14 to wit by Adam's admitting of the temptation which was Death in the Root It was indeed a Breach by which man was going forth to the state of those in the Labell reserved in Chaines but by the Interpellation made up that all might be saved by the Covenant as to the Inward man if they perform the Condition though committed to Satan by the Sentence to Death thou shalt return for the destruction of the Flesh the Outwardman And the Head of the state of Nature in Death the Execution of that Sentence in opposite situation and like proportioned Figure
conformed unto It of which we shall with submission give you our Practicall Essay ere we close our larger work The Explanation of the Termes HAving now given by the order and manner of Reading thus enlightned the Concatenation of the Heads or Primitive Truths Supernaturall and Naturall and the grounds immediate in their Contignations which give in Systeme their Juncture with each other justified the Figure of the Diagramme and shewed the use of the whole we have brought the matters and things themselves so near to the senses both Inward and Outward in all their severall aspects that the words in which we represent them will have the lesse difficulty And forasmuch as the method is wholly new we presume that the Intelligent Reader will not be offended at the liberty we have taken in Wording such Principles as have discovered themselves not heretofore taken notice of in such termes though new also as may most properly expresse them nor be too severe towards us for varying the words when we have been constreined thereto that we might bring them to the due proportion of Analogie to rectifie the things themselves from what they have been current in these latter Ages Yet for those whose weaker apprehensions may require an Interpreter because in this also we desire to descend to the capacity of the meanest we have thought it our duty to give an explication of them as familiar as the matters will possibly bear By GOD in Essence we intend that state The Abysse unfathomable the Infinite Incomprehensible Godhead wherein before his Outgoings manifested we can onely say that GOD is or that there is a GOD One GOD. Subsistencies The Outgoings of that Essence by their Emanation discovering themselves Three This the true interpretation of the Greek word Hypostasis which the Latines endeavour to expresse by Persons and which we also use though seldom as being more familiar and better known to signifie the same thing Inbeing The state of the Subsistencies in the Essence Emanation The Outflowings from it Incomprehensible Is of which we can frame no Idaea in our mindes Ineffable In consequence must be unwordable for which there can be no expression Emergeth i. Putteth up the head appeareth or sheweth it self Energies Are their Efficacies or Working-Powers called in Scripture spirit Energeticall Operations are the Effects of those Energies in the subject By the First Race of Intellectuals we intend Spirits â—â—bodied i. simple Created Essences which we from their Office and Ministrie not till afterward call Angels By the Second Race of Intellectuals we intend Mankinde i Spirits Imbodied By Animate world we intend a created Dead matter quickned by a Forme from without it self which in this was the Energie of the Creator the Spirit of God moving upon the waters Gen. 1.2 Innate Law of Impulse By Innate we intend that which was in their constitution or making up And because in that their constitution the Superior the Intellectual nature did qualifie the inferior the Animal with Rationality a Forme besides its own I do therefore call that from the Superior to it a Law of Impulse and the same in the Inferior a Law of Instinct The Covenant of Nature properly so called i. of Impresse upon Adhesion whereby is intended that whilst he should adhere and keep himself close unto God the Subsistencies would then continue their Impresse upon him and Concurse with him Appendixes Preparatory Sacrament Sabbath i. these were prepared and but prepared untill he Adhering and Vanquishing not to be actually Appended or exhibited Inhibition i. by that Negative Precept enjoyned not to eat Probationall i. by which God his Lord would know and make Proof whether he would Adhere and Obey Threat an Antedated Sentence i. that which was in Threat was as certainly upon his Disobedience to be his Sentence as it was now a Threat Interpellation Is expounded by the words following Putting himself in the Gappe in English it is nearest to a Rescue but here Legitimate from a Ground because the Interpellator the Word was in a degree concerned in the constitution of the Delinquent and Himself coequall with the Incensed the Creator Superseding i. Dispensing with the present Execution of his own Justice A Law terme in use amongst us So also is Reprieve known unto most in criminal causes The Covenant of Grace Primitive in the First Transaction i. the Mutuall Agreement and Capitulation transacted betwixt the Creator Ordaining and Word undertaking in reference to Redemption and Restauration The Trinity Supream is a consideration of the Subsistencies as They emaned and acted before their Condescentions either in order unto or for the actuall Restauration The Covenant of Grace Primitive in the Second Transaction their mutuall Performance of what was mutually undertaken in the First Transaction in the Person of Jesus The Covenant of Grace Derivative the Publication of that Grace wrought for us in his Person and the offer of termes of Reconciliation thereupon Influx i. A Spirituall Inflowing into us by operation from Him the Mediator opposed unto That which was by union of Natures as Energie radically in Himself Trinity of Condesceutions for Administrations and Redemption are the respective Energies of the Trinity Supream in their condescentions exerted or put forth for the accomplishing of the second Designe both as to Redemption and to Revelation The Explication of the Greek Words ΠΕΡΙΠΟΙΗΣΙΣ i. A Making by Gyre Compasse or circumference first in Christ the new Creature and then Particulars in the state of Lapse from Him as Mediator by union of Natures the Principle of this House ΠΒΡΙΟΥΣΙΟΣ A People pecullar i. those whom God hath dignified with speciall Administrations and so a People appropriated by sanctification of the Holy Ghost the Principle of this House ΑΠΟΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΙΣ An Astronomicall terme The Bringing of Nature about by Grace to the same Point whence it first set forth and from whence it declined and fell ΑÎΑΚΕΦâ—ΛΑΙΩΣΙΣ The Gathering together again under One Head the Word Now by Incarnation Mediator of this second Work for compassing of the first Designeâ— FINIS My Desires to the Reader are FIrst That those who desire the understanding of this Designe would as the Alphabet or first Elements get by Heart the Capitall Heads as THE LOOK Before the Creation THE CREATION THE INHIBITION c. punctually according to the Direction in the order and manner of Reading Secondly That That being done they would in like manner inform themselves of the Subject Matters under every Head and take notice of their concatenate dependenctes Thirdly That These things being done they would then and not before having the Scheme before them and in their eye peruse these Sheets as the Key unto It. Whereto if they bring their Heads as intent and their Hearts as sincere as I have been I take God to witnesse in composing the whole I shall not doubt of that Union so much talkt of in Truth and Peace which as it is the Prayer so it is the endeavour of him that is An obedient Sonne of the Church truly Christian Protesting against all Popish Errors or whatsoever is contrary to sound Doctrine Nicholas Gibbon Errata Pag. 14. line 10. for Resurrection read Dead pag. 24. line 24. for Figurea read Figure wih a Parenthesis pag. 25. line 14. reade Scripture as in a Parenthesis pag. 26. line 5. for Yet read That Which is desired the Reader would correct with his Pen before he peruse them