By effectual vocation we are translated into a twofold state 1. Absolute namely a state of sanctification and glorification 2. Relative namely a state of Justification and Adoption in which last upon our believing we are by Gods gracious Sentence accepted into the number and have a right to all the Priviledges of the Sons of God Adoption then is our Relative state which puts no real worth in the Adopted though it presuppose an absolute state of holinesse and a double act 1. Of free grace on the Adopters part 2. Of faith on the part of the adopted From all hath been said about the Nature of Adoption note these following Corollaries Corollary 1. Hence it follows that Adoption presupposes effectual vocation Regeneration Faith Justification and Reconciliation which are as it were its secondary foundations compare Rom. 8.30 5. ver 1. 2. 2. Hence it follows that Believers expect heaven by a double Title Besides a Title of Marriage-Joynture 1. Of Redemption 2. Of Adoption See both together Rom. 8.23 3. This shews how Christ is applyed in Justification namely as a fountaine and garment how in Adoption namely as an elder Brother and Prince of Salvation Hebrews 2. ver 10 11 12. 4. Hence its evident our Sonship far excels Adams filiation He indeed was Gods Son by similitude and dependance but not by special union and communion with Christ the Natural Son of God as we now are Gal. 4. ver 4 5. 5. Hence we have the true reason why Gods Name is called upon us Jerem. 14.9 1 John 3.1 compare Gen. 48.5 6 16. as well as called upon by us 1 Pet. 1.17 6. This shews why we are in an especial manner of Gods Houshold Eph. 2.19 not as Bastards Sojourners Borders Hirelings Slaves Exod. 12.45 Judg. 11.1 2. Heb. 12.8 but as his honourable Servants his Spouse and his Adopted Children Compare 2 Sam. 9.7 11 13 Esther 2.7 Quest 2. Wherein doth Divine Adoption differ from and excell Humane adoption This Head is a powerful motive Answ 1. In its properties 2. In its Priviledges both which concurre in the substance but are distinguished here for Doctrines sake The Properties of Adoption are foure The properties of Adoption 1. It 's a precious Relation cost as much as our Redemption an infinite price compare 1 Pet. 1.18 19. Gal. 4.4 5. allude to Acts 22.28 with a great summe Christ obtain'd us this Freedome 2. It 's an high and honourable Relation Every Believer is an High-borne Person and as his Birth so his Adoption is high even as high as heaven John 1.12 13. It 's honourable to be the Son of a King much more to be the Son of God to be Gods Servant 2 Sam. 7.5 8. Witnesse Theodosius the Emperour much more to be Gods Son 1 John 3.1 The honour of Sonship ever rises or falls with the honour of Fatherhood This second property flows from the first That which is precious must needs be Honourable Isa 43.4 Whence the same word signifies both preciousnesse and honour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 compare Psal 45.9 3. It 's a free Relation It 's free 1. In an active sense making its subject free Gal. 4.7 A slave adopted is by that act made a Free man 2. In a passive sense and first as to the Adopter who is not moved by any thing in the Creature to bestow this high favour Ephes 1. ver 4 5. God adopts not out of necessity but liberty who can compel or necessitate him not out of indigency he had a Natural Son and many created Sons who were very like him and liking to him but out of redundancy of goodnesse 2. In a passive sense its free also as to the adopted without yea against their deservings We may all with shame take up the words of Mephibâ—sheth 2 Sam. 9.8 19.28 This property flows from the two former that must needs be freely given which is so precious and honourable None is worthy to be the Son of God but only the Natural Son of God He that cannot deserve a bit of bread much lesse can deserve this Divine Relation we deserve an hellish not an heavenly Sonship each of us being by Nature children of Belial 4. It 's a permanent Relation Once a child and for ever so John 8.35 A Servanr a created Son a Natural Son may sometimes be turned out of doors witnesse the Angels and Gen. 21.10 12. But an adopted Son is never cast off Psalme 89.26 30 33 34. and that upon the following accounts 1. From the freenesse of Adoption God chose them not for their well-deservings nor will he reject them for their â—ll-deservings if unworthinesse foreseen did not hinder the purpose of Adoption then unworthinesse present shall not hinder the compleating of Adoption and thus the fourth Property flows from the third 2. Divine immutability is engaged in the Covenant of grace of which Adoption is one great Branch Compare Rom. 9.4 11.29 Heb. 6.17 18. 3. If any thing unchild them it must be their Apostacy But 1. They can fall no further than their Father permits 2. Fall they never so foully he can mend and recover them as he pleaseth 3. He will never permit them to fall finally and totally Jer. 32.40 And what Parent would cast off a son had he this power over him We never cast off a childe unlesse incorrigible Deut. 21.18 19 20. but to our heavenly Father no childe is incorrigible The Priviledge of Adoption Likenesse to God 2. Divine Adoption differs from and excels humane in its Priviledges as well as in its Properties The General Priviledge is Likenesse to God All Gods adopted Children bear their Fathers Image as Gideons Brethren d d his And 1. In holinesse Judg. 8.18 They are like God 1. In holinesse 2. In dignity In holinesse as Christ beares their Natural so they bear his Spiritual Image Compare Heb. 2.7 Rom. 8.29 Their principles and actions prove them the children of their heavenly Father Matth. 5.45 This one truth unchilds most Professours who look not at holinesse as a Priviledge with Machiavels Prince they like the shew of virtue but fly virtue it self as a burthen Such bewray themselves to be Bastards but let genuine children remember that holinesse is not only a duty 1 Pet. 1.14 15 16. but also a prerogative Exod. 19.5 6. 1 Pet. 2.9 Many hope to be like God hereafter who affect not to be like him here but genuine Sons affect the one as well as they hope for the other 1 Joh. 3.2 3. The hope of the former will at farthest dye with themselves Job 8.13 14 15 11 20. 2. In dignity Next Gods adopted children are like him in Dignity This Dignity appeares Which appears 1. In their Titles 2. In their Offices 3. In their Dominion In their Titles they are called his treasure 1. In their titles Exod. 19.5 his jewels Mal. 3.17 his first-fruits and holinesse to
of since the Gospel was restored and all other helps both in publick and private should be cut off which God forbid yet this one Book next to your Bible would be a stock of Divinity which might furnish you with the knowledge of the Essentials of Religion and be like Manna to you in the Wildernesse till you come to Canaan To that end therefore that which I would with greatest seriousnesse urge upon you is to get the substance and power of the truths contained in them into your hearts and so to inculcate them especially the general heads of them upon your children and servants that they may be trained up in the knowledge of these vital principles which are of such use for the begetting and increasing of the life and power of godlinesse It will be sad if what was chiefly intended for your use should finde least fruit amongst you and that which is a common good should be not a Monument only but the aggravation of your unfruitfulnesse But I hope better things of you my dearly Beloved and things which accompany salvation though I thus speak The good Lord who hath put this price into your hand give you an heart to prize it and to improve it that you may not receive this grace of God in vain In this hope I commend you to God and to the Word of his grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified I am Yours in the service of the Gospel THOMAS CASE The Preface to the Reader NOt to increase the number of Books already grown into a burden and more apt to distract minds with their variety than to edifie them with their Contents but for a publick testimony to the truth of the Gospel and to inform the ignorant doth this Piece crowd into the World Had many of the Brethren adhered to their own private inclination and first aime in this work these Sermons had only been published by word of mouth to the Auditory that then attended on them To write to the World is apprehended by them as a thing very distinct from preaching to a company of a few broken-hearted Christians who were willing to take this help along with them in their way to heaven and to need more exactnesse of care and preparation But upon the strong importunity of the Auditors some of them persons of great worth and honour carrying with it the face of a Call from God as valid as that which first invited them to the work they were contented against their own private inclination to yield to this way of publication for the profit of others but with these CAUTIONS First That it be signified that it was not intended to make up a Map or Compleat Body of Divine Truths but only to handle some more necessary points till Providence shall give opportunity to consider the rest Secondly That it was not designed to discusse these points in a Polemical but positive way and sutable to a popular Auditory Thirdly That it be understood that the Brethren that preached were not acquainted with one anothers studies but did every one expresse his own sense in the point recommended to him Fourthly That this be not interpreted to be the work of the whole Body of the London-Ministers but of some of them which they represent with the more tenderness Partly that the other very Reverend Brethren who were not employed in this Turn and Course of the Morning Exercise may not be charged with their weaknesses Partly because they have not without some regret observed that the larger English Annotations in which but some few only of the late Assembly together with some others had an hand are generally ascribed to the whole Assembly and usually carry the name of the Assemblies Annotations as if done by the joynt advice of that grave and learned convention Fifthly That since the preaching of these Sermons there hath been no general review but every one took care of transcribing his own Discourse and sending me the Copy accordingly I sent it to the Presse Sixthly That if any of these points seem not to be discussed according to the full latitude and worthiness of the subject it be remembred that each Exercise was to be punctually confined within the straits of an houre in which time there was no room for larger excursions Under the severity of these terms my Brethren have consented that I should if I saw fit expose their labours to publick view which I do with all chearfulnesse Partly that the world may be conscious to our Unity soundnesse in the faith and sobriety af judgement And partly expecting from thence I will say it notwithstanding the restraints their modesty hath laid upon me no small increase and return of fruit The Lord by his good Spirit guide you into all truth Yours in our Lord Jesus THOMAS CASE The particular heads in Divinity discussed in these several Sermons are these SErm I. Introduct Methodical systems of the special points of Christian Religion useful and profitable for Ministers and people Page 1. Serm. II. That there is a God p. 29. Serm. III. The Trinity proved by Scripture p. 65. Serm. IV. The Divine Authority of the Scriptures p. 85. Serm. V. Man created in an holy but mutable state p. 105. Serm. VI. The Covenant of Works p. 120. Serm. VII The fall of man or peccatum originale originans p. 134. Serm. VIII Original sin inhering or peccatum originale originatum p. 149. Serm. IX The misery of mans estate by nature p. 173. Serm. X. Mans impotency to help himself out of misery p. 202. Serm. XI The Covenant of Redemption p. 216. Serm. XII The Covenant of Grace p. 233. Serm. XIII The Mediator of the Covenant described in his Person Natures and Offices p. 261. Serm. XIV Christs Humiliation p. 258. alias 278. Serm. XV. Christs state of Exaltation p. 305. Serm. XVI The Satisfaction of Christ p. 337. Serm. XVII Of Effectual Calling p. 353. Serm. XVIII The true Believers union with Christ p. 377. Serm. XIX The nature of Justification p. 403. Serm. XX. The Believers Dignity and Duty or High Birth and Honourable Employment p. 433. Serm. XXI Saving Faith p. 455. Serm. XXII Repentance not to be repented p. 485. Serm. XXIII Of Holinesse its nature and necessity p. 554. Serm. XXIV Of the Resurrection p. 577. Serm. XXV The Day of Judgement asserted p. 605. Serm. XXVI Of Hell p. 621. Serm. XXVII Of Heaven p. 647. Serm. XXVIII The Conclusion p. 677. The INTRODUCTION 2 TIM 1.13 Hold fast the forme of sound words which thou hast heard of me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus IT was the Character which our Lord gave of Iohn the Baptist He was a burning and a shining light Such should every Minister of the Gospel be shining with light and burning with zeal Joh. 5.25 he should have an head full of truth that he may disseminate and scatter beams of
hast his Benjamin thou shalt be sure not to go without thy Messe thy five Messes i Matth. 6.33 Seek first the Kingdome of God and all these things shall be * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 added i. e. cast in as paper and packthread to the bargain 3. A loving affectionate frame Believer thou art married to Christ Jesus that Relation calls aloud for union of hand heart spirits all He is bone of thy bone flesh of thy flesh therefore to be dearly loved k 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Graecus Aug. count all that thou art and hast too little for him Love him dearly for what he is for what he hath for what he hath done suffered purchased promised Love him more for what he is than for what he hath more for his person than for his rings bracelets jewels joynture Love him with a cordial active conforming constant transcendent love Psal 116.1 2. 4. A truly noble heavenly frame such a frame whereby thou mayst truly contemn this poor dunghill world Believer being united unto Christ thou art indeed cloathed with the Sun and therefore thou shouldst like uhy mother tread the Moon under thy feet Rev. 12.1 We should never fix our hearts on that whereon our God would have us put our feet Such Eagles as Believers should not stoop at Flies 't is not for persons united unto Christ to be fond on these beautiful vanities fair-faced nothings chases in Arras handsome pictures drawn on Ice such are all enjoyments on this side Christ Believer thy head thy husband thy treasure is above there let thy l Anima illic potius sit ubi amat quam ubi animat heart be also Having Christ for thy portion let a little a very little of the world serve thee for thy passage 5. A pitiful compassionate frame to those that are not as yet united unto Christ That are yet without hope because without Christ Oh as the Elect of God put on * Col. 3.12 bowels toward such Poor souls they are sinking drowning thou art safe on the shoar got into the Ark. They are frying burning in Sodom Thou safe in Zoar a brand pluck't out of the fire Oh pity those that do not will not cannot pity themselves That 's the third advice 4. And lastly walk worthy of this union Let your Conversation be sutable to your Condition This I shall dispatch in these three particulars 1. Walk zealously Be wisely * Gal. 4.18 zealous in and for the promoting the honour of this Christ to whom you are united Make it your only plot and businesse to advance his honour 't is your own peculiar interest so to do Be jealous of any thing that doth or may eclipse or sully his glory He that toucheth him his Person Natures Offices Days Ordinances Ministers Servants let him be thought to touch the apple of thine eye Zech. 2.8 Let the zeal of his house even eat thee up Psal 69.9 2. Walk fruitfully so it becomes every branch ingraffed into Christ the true Vine Phil. 1.11 Thy fruitfulnesse adds much to thy Christs honour the plenty of the crop sets a glosse on the Husbandmans care The fully loaden branch reflects an honour on the root If men see our good works our fruitfulnesse in every good work they will then glorifie our Father Matth. 5.16 John 15.16 3. Walk lovingly tenderly towards believers fellow-members They that are so happy as to be united unto one head should be very careful to be of one heart Believers formerly were so of one heart and * Acts 4.32 one soul as if animated with one and the same soul sutable to the Philosophers description of true love 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Formerly Believers were like Scilurus his bundle of Arrows so trust up together no breaking of them But alas now 't is sad to see how those that agree in one common faith should yet disagree as implacable foes Oh Beloved that Brethren Joseph and Benjamin Moses and Aaron Abraham and Lot should fall out especially when the Canaaniâ—e is in the Land Shall Gebal Ammon Amal k and the Philistines shall these agree and shall Ephraim and Judah be at variance shall the Wolf Lyon Bear Leopaâ—d associate and shall not Lambs and Doves O let such their sin and shame never be publish't in Gath nor spoken in the street of Askelon Believers you have heard the fable of the contest between belly and members The moral of it bids you consult if not your duty yet your safety By your divisions you do but dig your own graves Remember Saints we are all one by spiritual relation why should we not be m 1 Cor. 12.13 27. 1.9 10. 1 Joh. 4.12 16 Gal. 3.28 one in our affection I shall close all with that of the Apostle Ephes 4.3 to 7. wherein he draws this arrow to the very head Keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Why because there is one Body one Spirit one Hope one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God Let me adde you are one with Christ the head 't is your duty therefore and 't will be your priviledge honour safety to be one with one another THE NATURE OF Justification OPENED Rom. 5.1 Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God c. THE words present us for the Argument of this morning exercise with the great doctrine of Justification first to be opened and then improved 1. To be opened And that we may not with Aquinas and the Papists in ipso lâ—mine impingere stumble the very first step we take and so quite ever after lose our way by confoundiâ—g justification with sanctification I shall only premise that as in sanctification â—he change is absolute and inherent so in justification the change is relative and juridical the former is wrought in the sinners person he becomes a new creature but this latter is wrought in his state he becomes absolved at the bar of divine Justice For Justification is a law-law-state 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it abolisheth the convincing power of sin or its guilt Our businesse therefore is to discover the processe at Gods bar in the justification of a sinner which will be best done by comparing it with that at mans which we are familiarly acquainted with To be justified therefore implies in general three things 1. The person is charg'd with guilt 2. Pleads to the charge 3. Upon that plea is discharged by the Judge 1. A justified person must be charg'd with guilt Now guilt is the Relation which sin hath to punishment for sin is the breach of the Law and punishment is the vengeance which the Law threatens for that breach And as the threatening it self is in the nature of it a guard to the Law to prevent the breach of it bidding as it were the transgressour come at his peril break the Law if he dare be wise before hand lest he rue it too late so the punishment
is singularly attributed to Christ because he purchased our Adoption as well as our Regeneration Ephes 1.5 Tit. 3.5 6. The third ground is Divine glory which is the end of all Gods Works much more of such gracious Dispensations as are Regeneration and Adoption Ephes 1.5 6. Isaiah 43.21 The fourth ground is encouragement unto faith by the favours and priviledges vouchsafed unto Believers 1 Tim. 1.16 And these are more implied than expressed in the Text yet flow naturally enough out of it Use 1 1. Of Information About the sad condition of all unbelievers by rule of contraries Are all Believers Gods children c Then no unbeliever is a childe of God either by Regeneration or Adoption Not by Regeneration as having no life of grace which initially infused is the new birth And hence every unbeliever is First A dead man as dead in Law Joh. 3.18 dead in sin Ephes 2.1 dead under wrath and curse Joh. 3.36 Gal. 3.10 compared with Gen. 2.17 dead in expectation and fear Hebr. 10.27 Whoever hath not a part in the second Birth shall be sure to have a part in the second Death Secondly Unbelievers being not children of God can expect nothing from God as a Father Now the state of unregeneracy excludes them from both filiations for unlesse God be a Father by Regeneration he will be no Father by Adoption Nor can unregenerate persons be children by Adoption because they have no faith Hence they are Orphans and so helplesse for God will be no Father to such fatherlesse Children But are they altogether fatherlesse No verily therefore Thirdly They have woful parents namely sin and disobedience Ephes 2.2 wrath and curse Ephes 2.3 2 Pet. 2 14. and lastly Satan Joh. 8.44 who is also their God 2 Cor. 4.4 as God is the Believers Father Oh miserable wretches as destitute of an heavenly Father and more miserable as the woful children of most hellish and cursed Parents who have nothing to make over to them but sin and cutse and that they will do with a vengeance Use 2 2. Of Humiliation And that not only for profane Esau's who despise their birthright nor only for barely nominal and foederal children Deut. 32.5 19. compared with 1 Cor. 7.14 but even for such as groundedly call God Father yet carry not themselves as children to such a Father They are children of the greatest wisest and most Ancient King allude to Isa 19.11 yet walk not up to their principles as Regenerate Sons nor up to their priviledges as Adopted Sons as is evident by the following particulars 1. They think not of rejoyce not glory not in nor walk up to the dignity of Divine filiation but are mean-spirited and sink almost at every difficulty Isa 49.14 15. the natural Son of God did not so 2. They are palpably worldly as if they had no Father to care for them no hope nor portion but in this life Jerem. 45.5 Matth. 6.28 30. That worldlinesse which reigns in Natural men tyrannizeth too often in Regenerate men 3. They behave not themselves as Brethren of Christ and as Children of one Father compare Hebr. 2.11 with Ephes 4. ver 3. to ver 6. Malach. 2.10 How do Brethren fall out by the way how great is their difference when the matter of difference is so little what quarrelling about the hedge when both agree about the inheritance We all professe to believe the holy Catholick Church yet minde not the Unity of the Church but rather the promoting of a party and faction in the Church to the shame of Religion the scandal of the weak who by reason of our differences are puzled which way to choose and the opening of the mouth of the enemy May we not justly feare as one notes well that the neglect of true Religion and true Catholick unity is making way for Atheisme or for Popish Catholick unity Exhort and 1. Unto strangers Use 3 3. Of Exhortation And first unto strangers secondly unto children For the first Art thou an Alien Oh never rest till thou get into a state of Sonship and to this end 1. Be convinced of thy Orphanhood and hellish Filiation 2. Make good thy effectual vocation justification and reconciliation this is done outwardly by consciencious attendance on the Ordinances inwardly by the spiritual Baptisme and faith Gal. 3. ver 25. to ver 29. 2. Unto children Secondly If thou be a childe of God then 1. Evidence thy Sonship this is done by evidencing thy vocation 2 Pet. 1.10 and is necessary First In order to Gods glory Secondly In order to thy duty and comfort Thirdly In order to others conversion and edification neither of which will proceed to purpose without some comfortable evidence of thy filiation 2. Carry thy self as a child of God This will blow up the fire of grace light the candle of comfort and beam forth in thy conversation to the conviction conversion and edification of others To this end First Honour thy Father Directions Mal. 1.6 acknowledge and testifie his dignity and excellency This do 1. Negatively take heed of dishonouring God passively by omission What childe can see or hear his father wronged or converse needlesly with dishonourers of his father 2 Cor. 6.17 18. 2. Affirmatively dishonour not God actively by commission as David Peter and others did How many not only Bastards but genuine Children are either ashamed of or shame to their heavenly Father especially in evil company â—econdly Obey thy Father 1 Pet. 1.14 this flowes from the former and is part of the honour Children owe to their Parents Ephes 6.1 2. Colos 3.20 and much more we to our heavenly Father Hebr. 12.9 whose commands are all of them so holy equitable profitable compare 2 Kings 5.13 Thirdly Imitate thy Father Ephes 5.1 2. This flows from both the former and by it we do both honour and obey God Children are apt to follow their Parents in Naturals in Civils in Morals and if we be Gods children wee must walk not only with him but also like him 1 Joh. 4.17 2.6 Especially imitate God in endeavouring to bring many to glory Hebr. 2.10 Our imitation of God is a great part of our following the Lord Ephes 5.1 2. Fourthly Submit to his chastisements Hebr. 12.7 As afflictions piously born are evidences of our Sonship so the holy humble and fruitful bearing of them is our duty as Children Fifthly Depend universally upon Divine provision and protection casting all thy fears cares and burdens upon thy Father Matth. 6.25 1 Pet. 5.7 Psal 55.22 Faith is both the mother and nurse of Adoption Be not worse than thy own Child who can live without carking upon thy fatherly love and providence Sixthly Abound in filial affections as love delight and fear to offend thy Father Thy sin is exceedingly aggravated by the dâ—gnity of the party offended and offending as well as by Gods singular love to thee Lev. 4.3 13 22 27. 21.9 God may well say to
the Jaylor the doors were opened to and fetters fell off from the prisoners and therewith the door of the keepers soul was opened and his fetters of ignorance and corruptions in which he was holden captive by Satan were broken At first poor man he was afflicted with fear of his Prisoners escaping so as to make attempt against his own natural life not knowing that God intended good by all and to make his Prisoners his Releasers and Deliverers But by and by his amazement and trouble strikes the right way and he is not only willing to keep a natural life but is desirous of and inquisitive after an eternal life Sirs what must I do to be saved And they said Believe c. My allotted work at this time is from this clear and full Text to speak of Saving Faith in the entry whereof let me once for all premise First I purposely wave Controversies as wanting both time and fitness to be an Umpire and give a final decision Secondly I shall endeavor to confine my discourse to my Subject without trespassing upon others ground by repeating what belongs to preceding or preventing what belongs to following Subjects Thirdly I am not solicitous about nor is it possible to please all in method and terms belonging to it those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Method and words I always account are servants to matter Fourthly In this great part of the Body of Christian Religion I can only shew the Sceleton without reading an Explanatory Lecture or give the bones and sinews without cloathing them with a due proportion of flesh for that would take up too much room To engage attention consider This is that great a Joh. 6.29 Work of God a main part of the b 1 Tim. 3.16 Mystery of Godliness a c Heb. 6.1 Principle and foundation at this when excelling d Mat. 8.10 Christ wondered by this e Rom. 4.20 Glory is every way given to God to this f Mark 9 23. Heb. 11.33 all things are possible it sharing with God in his otherwise g Mat. 19.26 incommunicable Omnipotency and accordingly the h Mat. 9.22 Effects of the Divine Power are attributed unto Faith i 2 Pet. 1.1 Pretious and k Jam. 2.5 enriching Faith though in it self and to its Subject the most indigent and emptying Grace Poor yet making rich having nothing yet entitling to all things This is that which all the promises types and prefigurations of the Messiah did lead the Patriarchs unto and by which they obtained a good report Heb. 11.2 This is the end of the Law subordinate unto Christ Rom. 10.4 and the sum of the Gospel commonly named and pretended to but little known and rightly understood Luk. 18.8 less enjoyed and exercised in the World I shall reduce all to these Six Heads The Nature Subject Causes Effects Properties and Opposites of Faith To open the Nature of it 1. Nature I shall remove the ambiguity of phrase and state what I shall prosecute by giving the Distinctions and Description of it Fides quae creditur Distinctions Faith which we believe is the Doctrine of the Gospel or any word of God yea the essential Word of God Gal. 3.23 the promised Seed the Object of Faith is by that word understood by learned persons 1. Fides qua creditur Faith by which we believe and this to begin at the remotest and meanest is either First Without knowledge the ignorant implicite Faith and profession of many owning Christ as the founder of their Order and way but this is not right which only distinguisheth Christians from others Secondly With some knowledge without assent which scarce deserves the name of Faith and this is a Profession of the Faith either customary following education and example or compulsive through fear or gainful for outward advantages as theirs that followed Christ for the loaves and Simon Magus's Thirdly With knowledge and assent of which some Faith respecteth the Truth of God for Doctrine sake I may thus distinguish which is called Historical Jam. 2.19 thus the Devils believe and tremble wicked men believe and sometimes tremble and sometimes rejoyce as if they had enough the only difference is the want of applicability to the Devils in neither is affection to the Revealer or things revealed This is not right though it believe never so rightly concerning Christs Person Natures Offices c. Some Faith respecteth the Truth and power of God and hath for its ground ordinarily some special Word Mat. 10 8. and this is called Faith of Miracles and this is either active Matth. 17.20 which is peculiarly the Faith of Miracles and that to which the special Word refers or passive Act. 14.9 and 3.16 and which the woman with the bloody issue had The Promises that were the ground of this Faith were peculiarly suitable to those times and now not improveable or not ordinarily and the Faith it self though grounded on a special word yet is but a common gift in it self as opposed to saving as appeareth in Judas and those that at last would cry Lord Mat. 7.22 Lord and in the nine Lepers Though sometimes indeed it had the actings of the best even Saving Faith twisted with it Mat. 8.10.15.28 Some Faith respecteth the Truth Power and Goodness of God and this grounded upon General Promises and words of encouragement of an unlimited truth and concernment to time and persons Mat. 6. from vers 25. Now this respecteth either the General love of God to his Creatures and Man as a peculiar one affording support preservation provision necessary or the peculiar love of God to man through the undertakings of Christ making man to look for better things than the effects of common providence even God himself for his portion and full happiness in him Now that bold affianâ—e is not true Faith whereby men carry it at that rate of confidence as if Christ died to save all from hell that are not willing to go thither for in some it is without savor and affections suitable which I may call altogether fained Faith as in the generality of Formalists now who presume all is well God loveth them and Christ died for them In others it is joyned with a savory gust and relish of the Word and Promise which in regard of its continuance and thereby usefulness to its end Salvation though I make not that the only difference is called either temporary springing from sleighty and perishing causes as that of the a Luk. 8.13 stony ground and the b Mat. 25.8 Virgins Or else lasting durable altogether true and c 1 Tim 1.5 unfeigned justifying and saving Faith This indeed is but d Ephes 4.5 one as well as the Object and therefore those Peter wrote to had e 2 Pet 1.1 obtained like precious Faith yet differeth in degrees and f Rom 12.3 measure in some it is g Mark 9.24 small and h Isa
then his * Cant. 2.14 v ice will be sweet when he shall call to them to come up to * Isa 25.6 this Mountain to a feast of fat things a feast of wine on the Lees of fat things full of maâ—row of wines on the Lees well refined Laetissimè excipientis 3. 'T is the speech of one that bids us welcome to the feast too Come my friends I it is Come and welcome now Come poor heart thou hast been coming a long time I went my self to call thee I * 2 Chron. 36.15 sent my Messengers rising up early and sending them continually to invite thee to come in I sent my holy Spirit also like a Dove from heaven and it did light upon thee and gave thee an Olive branch of peace in the Wildernesse of thy fears when it allured thee and call'd thee from all thy wandrings then I sent my black rod for thee by that grim Serjeant death to strip thee of thy soul body of sin not to be touched but by the Angel of death then I sent my Angels to bring thy soul to the Courts of thy God and now by the sounding of the last Trumpet I have call'd for thy sleepy body to arise out of the * Psal 22.15 dust of death And now after all these Messengers thou art come I will not upbraid thee for thy delays but come come blessed soul with as many welcomes as there are Saints and Angels in glory I have * John 14.2 prepared a place for thee * Cant. 5.1 thou at come into my Garden Eat oh friends Drink yea drink abundantly oh beloved And so I have done with the explication of the several branches of the Text now let us see what fruit they bear that may be * Cant. 2.3 sweet to oru taste First 1. Infer Then if there be a Kingdome prepared before the foundation of the World for the blessed Saints and holy ones then what manner of persons are * 2 Pet. 3.11 we in all unholy Conversation and godlessnesse in this generation Men are as dead to Religion as if heaven was but a dream and as hot upon sin as if hell had no fire or was all vanished into smoak as atheistical and wretched as if neither heaven hell nor earth neither did feel a God or any memorandum's of his Providence Therefore a little to fortifie this notion which artificial wickednesse hath endeavoured to expel and expunge out of natural consciences I shall endeavour to confirme your faith by Scripture and reason The Socinians deny the revelation of eternal life and a state to come to have been propounded under the Old Testament and the reward being only earth their Law and obedience to be but carnal and low which is to level the Jews to the order of brutes that so the Gentiles under the Gospel might be advanced to the state of men and so by vertue of rhe new prize of immortal life proposed they should have a new command as their care to run which is all as true as that all the Tribes of Israel were converted into Isacar's * Gen. 49.4 strong asses couching down between two burdens but * Luke 7.35 wisdome is justified of her children and the Chaldee paraphrase renders those words * Gen. 4.7 Remittetur tibi in saeculo futuro if thou dost well shalt thou not be accepted by this glosse Amend thy works in this world and thou shalt be forgiven in the world to come and the â—argum says the very dispute betwixt Cain and Abel was concerning a world to come and those carnal Hereticks that * Jude ver 10.11 19. are sensual not having the spirit in what they know naturally as brute beasts corrupt themselves they are gone into the way of Cain But when God tells Abraham * Gen 15.1 I am thy exceeding great reward and Jacob cries out * Gen. 49.18 I have waited for thy salvation O Lord even when about to dye God stiling himseâ—f their God is not by our Saviours authority * Mat. 22.32 the God of the dead but of the living therefore God held out eternal life in the promises yea and in the very command too * Levit. 18.3 Gen. 3.12 do this and live the reward of that obeeience there enjoyned was no lesse than this everlasting life as appeareth by our Saviours interpretation when the Lawyer came to him * Luke 10.25.28 saying Master What shall I do to inherit eternal life and he said What is written in the Law how readest thou and he answered thou shalt love the Lord c. and Jesus said Thou hast answered right this do and thou shalt live that is thou shalt have that thou desiredst viz. inherit eternal life and the very reproach of the Sadduces and the distinction of their Sect from Pharisees and others argueth sufficiently the world to come was a very common notion among all the Jews and indeed the whole land of Canaan was but a comprehensive type and shadow of heaven and all their Religion but a * Hebr. 10.1 shadow of good things to come in the Kingdome of heaven as well as in the Kingdome of the Messiah * John 8.56 whose day they then saw and were glad and if the Gospel contain the promise of eternal life then they had it in Abrahams days * Gal. 3.8 for the Gospel was preached before to him yea and before to Adam * Gen 3.15 that the seed of the woman should break the S rpents head and the skins of the Sacrifices wherewith he was cloathed might suggest the putting on of that promised seed and his obedience who was * Isa 53.5 to be bruised for the iniquities of his people But now to awaken Atheistical souls that deny not only the revelation of this Kingdome of God under the old Testament but its reality and existence under old and new consider these foure things very briefly as the limits of this Exercise command 1. The whole Creation is a Book which always lyeth open wherein we may read that there is a God who made the goodly Structure and Fabrick of Heaven and Earth Who else could be able to * Job 26.7 hang the vast body of the Earth upon nothing or to * Ver. 10. girdle the Sea and all its mountainous Waves with a Rope of Sand * Psal 104.2 to spread the heavens as a Curtain and hang up those vast Vessels of light in the Skies there must be a being existent from and of himself and so being improduced is infinitely perfect and comprehendeth all those perfections dispersed through the whole Creation and infinitely more yet what he makes is like himself every creature bears his footsteps but * Psal 8 3. Gen. 1.27 the heavens are the works of his fingers and man bears the very image of God We see in the several stories and degrees of the Creation love and
of A BETTER COVENANT This done it was very seasonable to let you hear of the Mediatour of the Covenant which was performed by the Subject 12 Twelfth Minister who preached to you JESUS CHRIST in his PERSON NATVRES and OFFICES from that Scripture 1 Tim. 2.5 There is one God and one Mediatour between God and man the man Christ Jesus Next to his Natures and Offices it was proper to treat of the two states of Jesus Christ and therefore the Subject 13 Thirrteeth Preacher opened to you Christs state of Humiliation out of Phil. 2.7 8. He made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a Servant and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient to death even the death of the Crosse Subject 14 The fourteenth CHRISTS STATE OF EXALTATION out of the ninth verse Wherefore God hath highly exalted him and given him a Name which is above every Name c. Time not allowing a more copious and distinct enquiry into this great Mystery God manifested in the flesh that which came in the Subject 15 Fifthteenth place under consideration as most proper was THE SATISFACTION WHICH CHRIST MADE TO DIVINE JVSTICE and that was done on that Text Col. 1.20 And having made peace through the blood of his Crosse by him to reconcile all things unto himself I say whether they be things in earth or things in heaven And because the Redemption made by Christ upon the Crosse signifieth nothing in effect without the Application of it to the conscience The Minister to whom the Subject 16 Sixteenth turn fell Treated of EFFECTUAL CALLING from Rom. 8.30 Moreover whom he did predestinate them he also called In and by which Call the soul being really but yet Spiritually joyned and united to Jesus Christ that which fell next under consideration in the Subject 17 Seventeenth Course of this Exercise was that exceding precicious Mystery The SAINTS UNION WITH JESVS CHRIST His Scripture was 1 Cor. 6.17 He that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit And inasmuch as Vnion is the Foundation of Communion Interest in Christ the Fountain and Spring-head of Fellowship with Christ the Subjects which followed naturally to be handled were Justification and Filiation Subject 18 JVSTIFICATION in the eighteenth Course out of Rom. 5.1 Being justified by Faith we have peace with God And the Nineteenth Subject 19 FILIATIN or Divine Son-ship to God which branching it self into these two great priviledges of the Covenant ADOPTION REGENERATION the one whereby out State is changed by the other our Natures they were twisted together into one Sermon on that portion of Scripture John 1.12 To as many as received him to them he gave power to become the SONNES of God even to them that believe on his Name In which Filiation it being evident by the Scripture quoted that Faith hath such a special ingrediency therefore it was seasonable in the next place to speak of SAVING FAITH which was the Subject preacht on in the Subject 20 Twentieth morning of this Moneths Exercise the Text being Acts 16.31 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house And although Repentance be usually before faith in the order of sense and feeling yet faith being before Repentance in the order of Nature and operation it being the primum mobile in the orbe of grace as unbelief in the orbe of sins Heb. 3.12 hence it was proper next after Faith to speak to you of REPENTANCE Subject 21 which was handled by him that preached the one and twenty Lecture his place of Scripture being Acts 5.31 Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance and remission of sins Matth. 3.8 And because true repentance is alwayes accompanied with fruits meet for Repentance therefore as the great and comprehensive fruit thereof Subject 22 the twenty second Exercise was spent in setting forth the Nature necessity and Excellency of HOLINESSE from these words of the Apostle Heb. 12.14 Follow peace with all men and holiness without which none shall see the Lord. This giveth the Believer a capacity though not a merit of a joyfull resurrection and the next Preacher took therefore the RESURRECTION Subject 23 for his Subject upon the Twenty third morning and for his Text those words of St. Paul Acts 26.8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead And as upon the Resurrection follows the day of Judgement in the same Method the discourse of the LAST JVDGEMENT succeeded and was the work of the Subject 24 Twenty fourth day the Preachers Text was Acts 17.31 Gâ—d hath appninted a day in the wich he will judge the world in Righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained Subject 25 The sentence of that day was the next thing in order to be considered and although the sentence of the Elect be first in the processe yet because it is last in the execution as appeareth in comparing the 34. verse of the 25. of Matth. with the 46. therefore the TORMEMTS of HELL was the sad and startling Subject which the twenty fifth Preacher insisted on from Math. 25.41 Everlasting Fire prepared for the Divell and his Angels c. And when the Righteous have had the honour as Assessors with Christ to behold with their eyes that sentence executed upon the Reprobate and their persons dragged away into everlasting burnings by the Ministry of the infernal Angels Then the joyful sentence shall be accomplished upon the Elect of God and they shall ride in triumph with Jesus Christ the King of Saints into the gates of the New Jerusalem and so the Subject 26 Twenty sixth and most blessed Subject with wich the last Minister did most sweetly close this morning Exercise was the JOYES of HEAVEN and his Text was Matth. 25.34 Receive the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world And thus honourable and beloved I have prese ted you with the Epitomy or Compendium of sound words which hath Methodically been delivered in the course of this moneth in divers of the chief Heads and Points of Gospel-Dâ—ctrine There is no man that is acquainted with the Body of Divinity but may easily observe this Method or Sâ—stâ—me to have been in some Points possibly redundant but in more defective He that will object the former may consider that eveâ—y man sees not by the same light insomuch as if twenty Divines should have the drawing up of twenty several Models of Divinity not two of them would meet exactly in the same heads or order in this case therefore veniam pâ—timusque damusque vicissim And he that will object the latter must also remember that if we had taken in more Points there must have been more dayes which the course of this Exercise doth not allow Sufficient to the dayes hath been the labour thereof and when we cannot do all we would it his honourable to do what we can To the
glory of God be it spoken since this Exercise was first set up such a moneth hath not been known in this City A word of Exhortation What now remaineth men and brethren but that the Ministers of the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril Hieros praef Cat. Nostrum est dicere vestrum vero agere Dei autem perficere Gospel having done their work in holding out unto you a Form or Model of sound words you stir up your selves in the strength of Jesus Christ to do yours and what is that but that which is commended here to Timothy That you hold fast the form of sound words which you have received of them They have held it forth it concerns you to hold it fast First see therefore that you hold it fast in your understandings My brethren in this Moneths Exercise you have had many of the chief Heads and Points of the Christian Faith unvailed to you * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idem ut supra Non existimes institutiones istas homiliis esse similes c. Sed haec quae per ordinem tradimus documenta c. not only as so many single truths and several precious Jewels to lie by you but that to which possibly most of you have been strangers hitherto as far as the design could well suffer Methodized as it were into a Chaine of Pearls to weare about necks truths fitly joyned together and compacted into a body by that which every joynt supplyeth Now your duty is to wear this Chain or Bracelet carefully that it may not be broken Your labour must be to imprint this Method of truth in your mindes and judgements by vertue whereof you may be able to know them in their Series and Connexion and when you hear any of these Points handled in Sermons you may be able to know one truth from another where they are to be fixed in the Orb of Divinity and so to refer them to their own proper place and station which will prove to be a greater advantage to your proficiency in the knowledge of Christ then you can easily believe It is observable Rom. 8.28 when the Holy Ghost having hinted effectual calling as the ground of that blessed truth that all things work for good to those that love God yet he mentions it again in the very next verse and why but to shew us what place it obtains in the golden chain of salvation how it takes its room between Predestination and Justification Whom he did predestinate them also he CALLED and whom he CALLED them he justified of so great moment it is not onely to know Gospel-truths but how to posture them in their proper rank and file where every truth is to stand This advantage in a great measure you have had by this Moneths Exercise see that you improve it to the clearing of your understandings in the Method of Gospel Doctrines Secondly Hold them fast in yor Memory Truely the Order of this Moneths Exercise if you be not wanting to your selves will not contribute lesse strength to your memories than light to your understandings The truths themselves have been a Treasure given you by your heavenly Father and the Method will serve you for a sack or purse to keep them in and truely it would be a labour neither unprofitable nor uncomely to take so much paines your selves and to teach your Families to do so too scil to Conne this Model without book and the Lord teach you to get them by heart You may once a week or so revolve them thus in your minds I. There is a God II. The Scriptures are the Word of God III. In the God-head there be three Persons or Subsistencies Father Son and Holy Ghost God blessed for ever IV. God Created man in a perfect but in a mutable estate V. The Covenant of works God made with man in his innocency VI. Original sin in the first spring of it in Adams first transgression VII Original corruption derived from thence into mans nature VIII Mans liablenesse to the curse or the misery of mans state by nature IX Mans impotency to help himself out of this estate X. The Covenant of Redemption or the transaction between God and Christ from all Eternity about mans salvation XI The Covenant of Grace revealed in the Gospel XII Christ the only Mediatour between God and man considered in his Person Natures and Offices XIII Christs state of Humiliation XIV Christs state of Exaltation XV. Christs satisfaction to Divine Justice XVI Effectual calling XVII Vnion with â—hrist XVIII Justification by Christs Righteousnesse XIX Son-ship to God consisting in Adopition Regeneration XX. Saving Faith XXI Repentance XXII Holinesse XXIII The Resurrection XXIV The last Judgement XXV Hell XXVI Heaven Christians this and other such like Catalogues or Formes of the Articles of Christian Faith imprinted upon your memories will be of great benefit and service to you Do ye serve your memories and your memories will serve you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril Hieros praef Catechis labour to get them so imprinted upon your memories that they may never be blotted out Thirdly Hold fast yea hold forth these precious Truths delivered to you in your lives and conversations Christians let it be your care and behold it shall be your * Deut. 4.6 wisdom in the eyes of all the beholders to live this morning Exercise the glory whereof hath filled this Assemblie for a moneth together To engage and quicken you herein let me mind you of one rare advantage this Model carrieth with it above most of the acute and learned Treatises of Schoolmen or solid Tractates of Catechetical Divines who have taken great paines in opening and stating the Principles of Christian Religion The Reverend Divines who have travelled in this service of your Faith have in their several Sermons with singular skill and piety brought down Principles unto practice and improved all their Doctrines to Vse and Application wherein they have shewed themselves Workmen that need not be ashamed wise Builders that know how to handle the Trowel as well as the Sword and that made it their design to build up their hearers in holinesse as well as in knowledge The School and the Pulpit met together the Doctor and the Pastor have kissed each other Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci. They have not discust the Doctrines of Faith in a jejune frigid speculative way only but what they cleared to the judgment they wrought it home upon the heart and affections with such warmth and sweetnesse as that the hearers seem'd for the present to be carried into the mountain of transfiguration where they cryed out with Peter It is good for us to be here So that although their Sermons were very large yet the greatest part of their Auditories thought they had done too soon and went away praising God that had given such gifts unto men Oh let it be your care dearly Beloved that as this Model hath been
steps 312 313 314. F Faith commended p. 455 456. Faith distinguished into its kinds 456 457. Faith defined 449. By its genus and subject 460. causes 461 462 463 464 465 466 467. Effects 468 469 470 471 472 473 474. properties 475 476 477 478. and opposites 479. 480 481. Faith if saving receiveth whole Christ on judgement and choice 475. Faith groweth and persevereth and purifieth 477 478 479. Faith and salvation how connexed 473 474. Faith strengthned by the Covenant of Redemption 228. Faith how it justifieth 421. Faith greatly opposed 480. Faith goeth before Repentance in order of nature as its cause 490. Faith in its essential acts without its reflexions is the cause of Repentance 491. Faith of Scriptures authorities to be strengthened 103 104. False Repentance seven kinds viz. Popish 515. Pagan 516. Profane ibid. Legal 517. Slaves ibid. Sullen p. 518. Quakers Repentance ibid. 519. Fall of man was from his own mutable self-determining will 111. Federal transaction did pass between God the Father and Son and that from all eternity 219 226. Fear of God the duty of such who believe God is 58 59. Fear accompanieth true Repentance 542. Filiation to God is by Adoption and Regeneration 447. Filial priviledges Believers comforts 451 452 453. Flesh an enemy to Faith 480. Flesh crucified by union with Christ 391 392. Forme of sound words to be held fast 670. By Magistrates how 674 675 676 677. By Ministers how 678 679. By the People how 680 681. Freedome of God Father and Son in transacting the Covenant for mans Redemption 224. Free-grace the ground of Adoption and Regeneration 477. Fruitfulnesse a note of union with Christ 392 393. G God is p. 30 31. Gods being is evident in nature 31. 48. and Scripture 48 49. Gods being consistent with the adversity of the just and prosperity of the wicked and evidenced by them 45 50 51. God is the only efficient of Faith 461 462. God could not be the original of sin 111. Gods glory the ground of Adoption and Regeneration 447. God as Judge justifieth how and when 122. God the object of beatifical vision 654 655. Gospel a good cause 3. Gospel-means to work Faith 465. and call loudly to Repentance 525. Gospel how it justifieth 421. Gospel-Covenant better than the Legal 245 246 247 248. Gosepl-Manner of propounding Repentance is by way of duty and priviledge 426 Gospel-Arguments perswading Repentance most pregnant and moving 527 528. Gospel-Helps to Repentance most powerful and operative p. 533. Grace of God magnified by mans fall 213 214. First cause impulsive of justification 420. Graces are the fruits of the Spirit 390. Grudge not the prosperity of the wicked 645. H Of Hell 621. the wicked turned into it 623. its name explained ibid. nature described 624. its pain ibid. The Properties of its punishment Extremity 628 629. Eternity 628 629. Hell discerned by the Heathen 635. Hell proved by Equity 636 637 638 639 640 641. Merit 636 637 638 639 640 641. No Bar or hinderance 636 637 638 639 640 641. Heresie an hindrance to Faith 480. Heresies and Errors disbanded when we come to heaven 649. Hearing must be fixt and constant 22. So it will help Repentance p. 545. Heart the subject of Faith 459. and seat of Holinesse 558. Heaven 647. it is a Kidgdome how 649. Hindrances to the understanding Scripture what they are and how removed 100 101. Holding fast what it meaneth 5. Holinesse 554. a state trade habit and disposition 555. Holinesse defined 556. Holinesse the designe of God in all his acts 559 560. Holinesse constitutes a Christian or Saint 561 562. Holinesse spreads over the whole man 558. Holinesse changeth a man 557. Holinesse necessary unto communion with God 563. Holinesse its properties 567. Companions peace righteousnesse unblameablenesse 268. its opposites filthinesse of flesh of spirit over-reaching and hypocrisie 569 570. Holinesse of the Publisher proveth the Scripture to be the Word of God 94. And so doth the holy matter pressed in it 91 92. and its holy Arguments 93. Humility the effect of sensible impotency p. 214. Humiliation of Christ 278. three steps of it 280 281. the manner of it 287. Humanity of Christ a miracle of humiliation 280. Humility must go before honour 333. I Ignorance inconsistent to Faith 479. dangerous 483. Impotency of man since the fall very great 202 203. Impossible to recover of himself 204. Impotent in respect of the Law 205. Of the Gospel 206. 207. Impotency determined in Scripture ibid. Impotency no bar to the demand of duty direction of means or infliction of punishment 210 211 212 213. Impotency is to be seen and known 214. Infants distempers and death an effect and evidence of original sin 143. So is their aptitude to evil and backwardness to good 144. Inheritance of Saints hath no corruption succession or division p. 441. Inheritance why heaven so called 661. Inherited by Adoption 662 663. Donation 662 663. Redemption 662 663. Inspiration what it imports 87. Inventions and many inventions what they signifie 106. Indignation accompanieth Repentance 442. Judgements of God prevented 521 522. and removed by Repentance 523 524. Last Judgement provokes holiness 563. and perswades to Repentance 531 532 533 Judge whom 608. Manner of his coming 610. Last Judgement its day 605. It is particular and general 606. why it must be and when 607. its method and order 609. Justice of God satisfied by the death of Christ 301. Justification its nature opened 402 c. Differeth from Sanctification ib. Justified implies guilt plea and acquittance p. 403. Justified persons are acquitted on their plea. 419. Justification its causes Gods free grace 421 422. Christs satisfaction 421 422. The Gospel 421 422. Faith 421 422. God Law-giver 421 422. God Judge 421 422. Works 421 422. Spirit 421 422. Justification by what plea procured 406. Justification not from Eternity 423. Justification procured by Christs death 341. is evident by the Possibility 342 343 344. Necessity 342 343 344. Nature 342 343 344. Cause 342 343 344. Vicegerency 342 343 344. Peculiarity to this end 342 343 344. Justification doth manifest the wisdome holinesse and mercy of God 428. Justification the priviledge of the Gospel-Covenant 140. Justification the ground of comfort p. 429. to be sought by sinners 430. prized by Saints 432. K Kingly Office of Christ what it is and how executed 255 256. Kingly Office the Saints priviledge by Adoption 441. L Law Regulans 110. Law Regulata 110. Law of God the rule of rectitude ib. Law given Adam in Creation was partly natural partly positive 108. Law requireth duty exacts penalty terrifieth and stupifieth 204 205. Law general and special obeyed by Jesus Christ 223 224. Law fulfilled in Christ his death 301. Law given in Paradise was not executed or abrogated but released and dispensed with p. 413 414 415. Light burning and shining 1. Likenesse of sinful flesh what it means and how Christ was found in it 281 282. Likenesse to God