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A77757	God all in all or The highest happines of the saints. Jn [sic] two parts. The I. Asserting this happiness to consist in the enjoyment of God. II. Enquiring into the quality of that enjoyment. Together with a short appendix, wherein is very briefly considered, the claim of natural reason, and private inspirations to a guidance of us in the things of God. Also what courses dishonour the Gospel, and what duties we owe it. By Edward Buckler, preacher of the Gospel.	Buckler, Edward, 1610-1706.	1655 (1655)	Wing B5349; Thomason E1442_2; ESTC R209631	53,023	167

is not here Sure I am if it be wisdom here is the wisdom of God 1 Cor. 2.7 Beauty here 's the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4.6 the fairest of ten thousand Cant. 5.10 Splendor 't is a glorious Gospel 2 Cor. 4.4 Truth 't is the word of truth Eph 1.13 Goodnesse 't is the good Word of God Heb. 6.5 Piety 't is a Doctrine that is according to godlinesse 1 Tim. 6.3 Power 't is the arm of the Lord Isa 53.1 Peace 't is the Gospel of peace Eph. 6.15 5. Duty Take off by your practices whatever disparagements shall be cast upon the Gospel Will any say it is not the Word of God and so make it such an imposture as would cheat the whole Christian world of their precious souls Pray confute this blasphemy by giving it such a power over your hearts and lives as none but the Almighty God can either challenge or exercise Suffer it to sway you simply without any quatenus or limitation against any counter-cōmand under heaven Will any say it is not a compleat Rule for belief and practice You must disprove this slander by keeping only and constantly to it and by professing that you doe so that peace may be upon you and mercy Gal. 6.16 because it is able to make you wise unto salvation 2 Tim. 3.15 because you may not receive any other though an Angel offer it you Gal. 1.8 c. 6. Duty Be not ashamed of the Gospel Rom. 1.16 Will you be ashamed of your God wil you blush at any degree of heaven * Timor justae vituperationis rei turpiter actae Shame is a fear of reproof for some unseemly action and is it such to own your highest blessednesse It was a preamble to Peters denyal of Christ that he followed him afar off Mat. 26.58 and Nicodemus was but in the infancy of his Discipleship when he came to Jesus by night Joh. 3.2 Read 2 Tim. 2.12 Luke 9.25 26. 7. Duty Hold fast the Gospel Do not part with one truth one ordinance one duty of it You have sad experience of the Devils nibling away of one piece of some mens Religion after another till they have no more left than Davids fool had Psal 14.1 8. Duty Let your conversation be as becometh the Gospel Phil. 1.27 So holy humble harmlesse honest sober just chast peaceable as becomes persons owning a Gospel so full of a holy God See Phil. 2.15 16. 1 Tim. 6.1 Tit. 2.10 Why else doe ye professe it Answer that Quaere of Christ if you can in Luke 6.46 See Mat. 7.23 Mat. 3.10 The Christianity of those that live counter to this Gospel is but meerly * Qui non vivit ut ipse docuit certum id documentum est non esse Christianum Just Mart. ad Anton. orat p. 128. titular that which is indeed true * Christianismus est similitudo Dei quantum possibile est humanae naturae Basil is as fair and full a draught of God upon the soul as it is capable of in a body of death For a conclusion take Phil. 4.8 9. The Table PART I. The First Proposition viz. The highest happiness of the Saints is the enjoyment of God This is 1 Explained by shewing FIrst What the enjoyment of God is made up of 1 The knowledge of God to let in Which he opens 1 His face 2 Our understandings 2 Influences from God 3 Acquiescence in God 4 Converse with God Secondly What our highest happiness is viz. 1. A perfect good 2. In possession 3. Excluding every evil 4. Filling every desire 2. Proved 1. By Scripture 2. By Reason all that makes us happy is in God only being a good 1. Pure 2. Sufficient 3. Satisfying 3. Illustrated by 3. Particulars First All our happiness here is in what we enjoy of God here proved by 1. God 2. The Saints Secondly Gods blessedness is in the enjoyment of himself Proved by 1. Scriptures 2. Reason Thirdly The greatst misery of the damned is that they do not enjoy God 4. Improved by way of First Information in five Particulars viz. 1. God is of a transcendent goodness 1. In himself 2. To his people 2. In things where there is most of God there is most of happiness 3. It is a false draught of Heaven that is not made to consist in the enjoyment of God 4. Most men but pretenders to a desire of going to Heaven as 1. Defying the means where God may be enjoyed 2. Trading in practises where they cannot expect it 5. Who are a peoples greatest enemies Secondly Reproof of such as place their happiness in outward things where Their 1. Charracter 2. Folly Thirdly Exhortation To labour for the enjoyment of God where First Motives From the excellency 1. Of its Object God 2. Of its Act in respect of Its 1. Kinde 2. Degree Secondly Directions viZ. 1 Increase your Knowledge 2 Maintain your assurance 3 Abate of your love to the world 4 Walk close with God Fourthly Declaration why we enjoy no more of God in Ordinances either we do 1 Neglect them 2 Not seek God in them 3 Not seek God in all of them 4 Not seek after a due Order PART II. The Second Proposition layed down That enjoyment of God which is the Saints highest Happinesse shall be immediate sole free full and everlasting FIrst That it shall be immediate is 1 Proved by 4 Particulars viz. 1 Christs Kingdom shal be delivered up 2 All rule c. shal be put down 3 To enjoy God by means is to see him but in a glasse 4 Gods immediate enjoyment groaned after by the Saints 2 Applied in 3 particulars viz. 1 The enjoyment of God by means far short of what it shall be without them 2 When the Saints shal be above the need of Ordinances 3 Death desirable Secondly That it shall be Sole 1 Proved in that 1 God shall be all 2 The world shal be ended 3 Much of our enjoyment is by love 4 The Saints thirst is after God Solely 2 Applied by way of First Exhortation to 4 duties Secondly Instruction in 3 things viz. 1 It s impossible to make the Saints miserable 2 The less we have of the world the more we may have of happiness 3 No cause to be troubled at the dissolution of all things Thirdly That it shall be Free 1 Proved in that 1 All Enemies shall be subdued 2 Every disturbance of Enjoyment is an Eclipse of happinesse 2 Applied for our 1 Information No Heaven where any sin 2 Instruction how to be much in Heaven here 3 Comfort In Heaven we shall enjoy God freely Fourthly That it shall be Full. 1 Proved in that 1 Our enjoyment here and hereafter do but differ gradually 2 Else every evil not removed c. 2 Applied To shew us that 1 The happiest sight of God out of Heaven is in the Gospel 2 The longings of the Saints after more of God shal be satisfied Fifthly That it shall be everlasting 1 Proved by 1 Scripture 2 Reason else 1 A posibility of being miserable 2 Some place for fear 2 Applied by way of 1 Exhortation Place not happiness in any thing that shall have an end 2 Comfort afflictions short happiness Eternal The whole Applied very briefly 1 In what sence we are said to be happy in this life 2 No nature below ours capable of blessedness 3 It is not vain to serve God ERRATA PAge 5. lin 25. for al one read alone p. 7. l. 3 prefix to the beginning of the l. 5. p. 10. l 7. for without r. with our p. 17. l. 22. for frownesse r. frownes p. 30. l. 12. dele ha●● p. 30. l. 17. for come r. came p. 31. l 13. for fondly r. formerly p. 46. l. penult adde 2. 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and practise what God to that purpose reveals in the Gospel is the greatest reason because the truth and certainty of it depends upon a wisdom that can neither deceive nor be deceived upon a light in which there is no darkness at al 1 Ioh. 1.5 The Lawyers say that natural reason may be alleadged where the Law hath not determined * Ratio naturalis potest allegari ubi deficit Lex so it may where the Gospel is silent but in other cases it must stand mute 10. Conclus To take upon us to controle the dictates of the Gospel by or to refuse them upon their non-adaequation to our reason a design of being wiser then the wisdom the manifold Wisdom of God a folly too ridiculous to have any residence in a sober imagination I hope the foolishness of God is wiser then men 1 Cor. 1.25 In matters of Religion * Non aliam putes esse sapientiā nisi veritatem Aug. nothing is wisdom but what is truth and nothing is truth for us to beleeve to walk by to subscribe to but the Word * sapientia est sapida de Deo scientia Religious wisdom is a savory knowledge of the things of God and not to be attained by any other mediums then what God hath ordered to be written for our instruction Rom. 15.4 and if any previous disposition be necessary to fit a man for it it is to become a fool 1 Cor. 3.18 to deny himself and al his carnal wisdom * Abnegando seipsum carnalem suam sapientiam Piscat in locum SECT II. Whether we may be guided by any supposed inspiration or impulse of spirit that is beside or contrary to theword of God THat I may not seem in the least to limit the Holy one of Israel I shal answer by laying down this Proposition In matters of Faith and practise in case it were not the onely way yet it is the safer way to be guided by the Scriptures then by any impulses suggestions or revelations within us supposed to be from the spirit Of this First in Hypothesi in case it were not the onely way the contrary to which I am abundantly perswaded of from these Grounds 1. Ground It seems to me a truth sufficiently bottom'd upon the Scriptures that the Spirit of God doth not immediately reveal any thing in these latter days beside or above what is revealed in the Scripture Because First The Scriptures contain al things necessary to salvation 2 Tim. 3.15.16 17. If an inspiration be for Doctrine or reproof or correction or instruction or to furnish us to any good work al this is done by the Scripture and so the inspiration is not beside or beyond it If it be for more then this it is for more then is necessary 2ly There is a curse pronounced against adding any revelations or discoveries as of the mind of God to those that are in the Scriptures already read Apoc. 22.18 19. and note 1. That this book is a discovery of the mind of God concerning the affairs and duty of his Church cha 1.1 2. That it is a discovery of what shal concern the Church of God from the time it was written to the end of the world chap. 1.19 3. That it is a discovery of no more then is sufficient therefore he is cursed that shal take any thing from it Chap. 22.19 4. That together with what we have in other Scriptures for so I would in each particular be understood it is a discovery of as much as is sufficient and all the discoveries we must look for and therefore is he cursed that shal add to it * Vid. Aret Forbes in locum 2. Ground What was unquestionable from the Spirit of God was not yet imposed upon us any further then as it was confirmed by the Scriptures That the Apostles spake by in spiration I shal take it for granted Gal. 1.1.11 12. Yet 1. They were wont to prove their Doctrine by Scriptures and that you may see the sweet correspondency that is between both Testaments as they are called I shal set you down these instances Rom. 2.24 Proved by Is 52.5 Rom. 2.24 Proved by Eze. 36.20.23 Rom. 4.5 proved by Psal 32.1 2. Rom. 9.7 proved by Gen. 21.12 Rom. 10.9 proved by Isa 28.16 Rom. 11.7 proved by Isa 29.10 1 Cor. 2.29 proved by Ier. 9.23 That the Gentiles should be called the Apostle affirms was made known to him by revelation Eph. 3.5.6 yet he proves it from Gen. 12.3 Gal. 3.8 And 2. Those that would not receive these inspirations until they had examined them by the Scriptures are passed with a noble character for so doing Acts 17.11 12. From these grounds am I convinced that in matters of faith and practise our onely way is to be guided by the Scriptures However Secondly In these it is a safer way then to be led by any impulse suggestion or revelation within us supposed to be from the spirit which I am constrained to beleeve by these Reasons 1. Reason Many have pretended to revelations from the Spirit of God when there was no such thing but the pretenders were either Impostors and deceivers or deluded by a lying spirit and deceived See 1 Reg. 22.23 2 Thes 2.11 2 Tim. 3.13 of this we have examples of above 1500 years old * Rosse his View of all Religions sect 7. p. 184. Martinium de vera relig p. 58 and in our days if there be two men pretending to an immediate inspiration from God and the spirit that is in one be contradictory to the spirit that is in the other one of them at least is a spirit of delusion Whence a 2. Reas We cannot so certainly know whether it be God that speaks in us as that it is God that speakes in the Scripture in that we may be mistaken 2 Cor. 11.14 not so in this 2 Pet. 1.21 Ioh. 9.29 Heb. 1.1 Galat. 1.1.11 12. 3. Reas Be the Inspiration or Impulse from whence it will yet must the Word of God be obeyed before it I argue thus That Power that is supream must caeteris paribus be obeyed before that which is but subordinate But the power of Gods Word is supream and the power of Inspirations as such is subordinate to it ergo c. the minor proposition onely needs proving which the definition of a supream power will sufficiently doe Now a * Summa potestas est cujus actus alterius juri●n●n subs●nt Grot. de jure belli l. 1. c. 3. ect 7. supream power is that which is not questionable by any other jurisdiction But every Inspiration is so far under the jurisdiction of the Word of God as that it ought to be tryed and judged by it for which see Gal. 1.8 2 Thes 2.2 1 Ioh. 4.1 Acts 17.11 And this hinteth a 4. Reas That which proves Inspirations to be true in case they be so must needs be more certain and infallible at least to us than the