of the Just and Vnjust is evident And why there shal be a Resurrection of These is as evident in a manifold Respect As to God This God hath promised Thus 2 Cor. 4.14 Knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus shal raise us up also by Jesus and shall present us with you By that Power Christ was raised shal we be raised also and this was the power of God Thus 1 Cor. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 6.14 God hath raised up the Lord and will also raife us up But how By his own power Or by the power of Himself As to Christ As he was raised so he hath preached it Thus Luke 14.14 Thou shalt be recompenced at the resurrection of the just Gazophylacium Christi The poor mans Hand is as it were the very TREASURY of Christ and a Bil of Exchange for Heaven As to the Scriptures The Sacred Scripture is true Thus Col. 1.5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel As to Faith For these reasons Because the Resurrection of the Body hath been believed As this in Scripture hath been registred and to posterity transmitted so this by Scripturists hath been beleived Faith Eph. 2.8 is the Gift of GOD. Now God gives not Faith to believe a LIE Because there hath been such a Resurrection Thus Mat. 27.52 Upon the Crucifiction of Christ the graves were opened and many bodies of saints which slept arose Because Eaith must not be in vain Thus 1 Cor. 15.14 If Christ be not visen your faith is Vain Because co-incident with Salvation Thus 1 Cor. 15.18 If no corporal resurrection Then they which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished As to the Body For two Reasons Because the Body must be changed Thus Phil. 3.21 Who shal change our vile body Who shal reform transform transfigure and transmute But what The Body of the Vileness of us so the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Body Not in Substance or in Figure in Members and in Lineaments but in Conditions and Qualities so Zanchy That it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body c. The body of the glory of himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the Greek Which is most clear and splendid so Tirinus And immortal so Menochius Because the Body is part of the PURCHASE of Christ Christ wil lose no Part of his Purchase but if no Resurrection of the Body then Christ should lose a Part of his Purchase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for he hath bought the Body as wel as the Soul Thus 1 Cor. 6.19 20. What know ye not that your body is the temple of the holy spirit which is in you and ye are not your own For ye are bought with a price The word PRICE is no Pleonasm but added as an Emphasis to intimate the Excellency and Dignity of the Price wherewith we were bought which was not Silver or Gold but the pure and precious Blood of Christ But what follows Therefore glorifie God in your Body and in your Spirit which are God's Is not the Resurrection of the Body now one of the DEPTHS of GOD Ah! how greatly unbeleiving are great Persons about this great Truth the Resurrection of the Body although it be one of the Depths of God That there should be a specifical numerical or individual Resurrection of the Body these eyes these hands these feet but incorrupt is not this one of the Depths of God That some part of the Body should be buried at SEA and this devoured by the Fish there that the rest of the Body should be interred at LAND and this devoured by the Worms there and that God should give this Man a numerical Resurrection it not this one of the Depths of God For part of the Body to be made Dust in the Bottom of the Sea and the rest of the Body to be made Dust in the Bowels of the Earth and for the God of Gods to gather all this Dust together and give this Man an individual Resurrection out of his own Dust is not this one of the Depths of God May I not now write as the Apostle spake Acts 26.8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead Let every Individual into whose hands this TRACT shal providentially and graciously fal be cautioned against such Expressions Yea Conceptions as these that follow That Salvation should be preached in the Name of a pretended God called Jesus who was born of a poor Jewish-Woman and brought up like a poor Carpenters Son who was crucified like a notorious Malefactor between two notorious Theeves who came under the Arrests of Death and like a MORTAL was laid in a Sepulcre when almost all the Nation of the Jews affirm that he is yet under the Power of Death and when so few talk of his Resurrection what Credibleness of this Doctrine of the Resurrection Ah Soul so incredible is this Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body that all the chief HERESIES of old were either against the Divinity of Christ as the Arrians Photinians c Or the Humanity of Christ as the Simonians Manichees Marcionites c Or the Vnion of Divinity and Humanity into one Person as the Nestorians Eutychians and yet the Resurrection of the Body is one of the Depths of God The RESURRECTION of the Body may Pass for a Depth of God I boldly say Foes very many this hath had in Ages Freinds very few of very many Sages This hath not met with general Digestion In GOSPEL-times 't was called into Question Then many said without declared Dread There is no Refurrection of the Dead But there 's a Resurrection of the Just And Vnjust too both sormed out of Dust As there 's a RESURRECTION to Salvation So there 's a Resurrection to Damnation Be wisely-worldly be not worldly-wise Shal not these Eyes and Hands and Feet arise Young ones may die but die the Old ones must Shal these arise who lived long in Lust Out of their own and not anothers Dust Then surely I should not an ATHEIST trust The Dust at Sea and also at the Land Wil God together gather with his Hand He that wil search may in the Scripture find That the same BODY shal arise in Kind In Number too shal the same Body rise 'T is written and cannot be otherwise A Jesus 't is must raise interred Man Whose Days I find compared to a Span. Oh Lord of Lords things easy are to THEE Let this Vile Body here most changed be That so hereafter Seeing I may see This also raised incorrupt for ME. REMISSION Remission that 's one of the Depths of God Pardon of Sin is a signal and a singular mercy a precious and a plural mercy a congruous and a complicated mercy is it not then one of the Depths of God Sin that 's dangerous that 's damnable is not Pardon of Sin then
go if that I cannot run To Poem therefore do I pass from Prose How sweetly-sweet may now be Sharons ROSE The Depths of God are Depths indeed I see Are not these Depths too deep for Me and Thee The Depths of God! what lapsed man can sound them But lapsed Man hath by the Spirit found them Lord JESUS would I not be wholy Thine Into these Depths be letting down my Line Man surely greatly differs from a Beast O let my Soul of Famine make a Feast CHAP. II. What these DEPTHS of GOD are THese Depths of God are too deep for Me. Can Man who was born of a Woman tel the Stars Can Man who is but a Wink of Life empty the Ocean with a Muscle-shel Can the Line of Man sound the Depths of God The most that I can do is to let down my Line for I despair of fathoming the Depth of these Depths Qu. But what are these Depths of God Sol. They are called THINGS Thus 1 Cor. 2.9 The things which God hath prepared for them that love him They are called the Things of GOD. Thus 1 Cor. 2.11 For what Man knoweth the things of a Man save the spirit of a Man that is in him The Heart of Man is a great Depth and the vastest thing in the World this is out of the sight and reach of others No Man but the spirit of Man that is in him knoweth those things which lye in the Heart Every Man is too great a Stranger to his own Heart but what is another then to my Heart or what am I then to the Heart of another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God No Man abstractedly considered or without the Spirit of God understandeth the Depths of God which are the Things of God Termini convertibiles and the Things of God which are the Depths of God for they are convertible Terms They are also called spiritual things Thus 1 Cor. 2.13 Comparing spiritual things with spiritual Things spiritual cannot be sauingly known without the Spirit As it is true we are to apply spiritual terms and manners of propounding and expressing to spiritual subjects and Matters it is as true we are to confer with the Faithful about points of Faith and to communicate spiritual Mysteries to spiritual Men that we may not cast our Pearl before Swine Thus generally but now particularly to the Depths of God reducible to two general Heads Salvation and all in a Tendency unto Salvation SALVATION Salvation that 's a Depth of God This is not only a Step unto but also a State of Felicity and that for an Eternity which hath its Commencement in the Kingdom of the Son and its Completion in the Kingdom of the Father Is not this then the Depth of God Where is the Person that hath not at once given a Bill of Divorce both to Reason and Religion that would be damned Was there ever any Age before this wherein Men became such Monsters as to imprecate their own Damnation Are not those Bedlamites who are guilty of such Imprecations and doth not such a DELIRIUM demerit DAMNATION Are edged Tools to be played with Will men in their Wits play with Hel and sport with the Devil Will men play with Damnation as the Fish with the Bait Let such then timely and if they can seriously reflect that tremendous Text 2 Thes 2.12 That they all might be damned who believed not the Truth but had pleasure in Vnrighteousness All will be damned judged 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the Greek who dye unbelieving the truth as 't is in Jesus and acquiesce in iniquity That French King LEWIS the 11th spake like himself Si salvabor salvabor Si damnabor damnabor c. when he said if I shall be saved I shall be saved if I shall be damned I shall be damned and that 's all the care that I shall take But He was of another Mind and Mould who said Lord here buffet me and banish me here bleed me or burn me so thou wilt hereafter save me Paul was a curious Orator and all his Oratory was improved in perswading men to be saved SALVATION is a very beautiful thing it is as much above our Thoughts as it is beyond our Deserts Thus 1 Pet. 1.9 10. Receiving the end of your Faith even the salvation of your souls Of which salvation the Prophets have enquired and searched diligently c. For a person to have Grace here and Glory hereafter to have Holiness here and Happiness hereafter is not this one of the Depths of God For a person to have Sanctification here and Salvation hereafter to have a Heaven here and a Heaven hereafter to be in the Suburbs here and in the City hereafter is not this one of the Depths of God For Grace to be Glory in the Bud and for Glory to be Grace in the Flower for Grace to be Glory militant and for Glory to be Grace triumphant for Grace to go into Glory when Time goeth into Eternity is not this one of the Depths of God SALVATION is a Depth of God is No Corrosive but Cordial to His. 'T is not a Step but State of Happiness For EVER to the greater and the less This is made up of Grace and also Glory As running may be read in sacred Story All saved ones indulged matchless pity Have Suburbs here hereafter have the City What Heaven here what Heaven too hereafter 'T is joyful NEWS to ev'ry Son and Daughter Ah! than the Gall more bitter is Damnation Oh! sweeter than the Honey is Salvaion Are not those Bedlamites who do of late Their own Damnation vilely imprecate Shall Those be saved who would damned be I question this and therefore Them do flee Lord here much rather let me burned be Than into HELL hereafter turned be Lord Jesus living let Me clearly see That dying I shall ever be with Thee All in a TENDENCY unto Salvation Whatsoever tends unto and ends in Salvation is one of the Depths of God Whatsoever concurs and contributes unto Salvation is one of the Depths of God Now there are very many things which are concurring and contributing to the Completion of Salvation All tending to and ending in Salvation Are Depths of God most worthy Gratulation FREE-GRACE Free-Grace that 's one of the Depths of God Are the Judgments of God a great Deep Psal 36.6 What are the Mercies of God then For God to measure his Justice by the ordinary Cubit but his Mercy by the Cubit of the Sanctuary which was twice as big is not this one of the Depths of God For God to love before the Soul was lovely yea for God to love when and while the Soul was loveless and loathsome is not this one of the Depths of God Thus Ezek. 16.6 When I passed by thee and saw thee polluted troden under-foot in thine own blood I said unto thee live yea I said unto thee in thy
not this then one of the Depths of God FAITH enters now in Poem 't is the Grace That leads the Van of others in the Race This is a Depth of God and so wil go With ev'ry Freind but not with any Foe This is the GIFT of God this is his Will And of all Works this is the greatest stil This is the Work of Works an EMPHASIS Deservedly is written over This. The Heart is Cabinet and Faith a Jewel Which thorough Christ fails not in any Duel 'T was so with PETER and with many Saints That greatly Comforts might out-bid Complaints FAITH may be shaken in the Soul of Man But shaken out of Souls this never can For Faith must live til the Beleiver dies When all his TEARES are wiped from his Eyes Lord Jesus Christ thou Author art of Faith And Consummator too th' Apostle saith Oh be the ACTOR of it now to Me For act it Self it cannot without Thee INCARNATION The Incarnation of Christ that 's one of the Depths of God As an Vnity in Trinity and a Trinity in Vnity is the Mystery of Mysteries so the Hypostatical Vnion or Vnion of Natures in Christ is the Wonder of Wonders Is not this then one of the Depths of God That Christ was GOD is evident Thus John 1.1 In the beginning was the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the beginning Before the beginning of any Creatures In the beginning of Time so Brugensis In which the World began to be so Beza In the beginning is Christ from the beginning are Creatures That which was in the beginning was ever In the beginning Not temporal determinate or to be measured by time but indeterminate eternal and before all time In the beginning was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Was the Word The Word the Son of God Was Not that the Son of God had beginning with the Creatures but was before their beginning from Eternity This WORD was not made when the Creatures were but before any of them were HE WAS. And the word was with God Here Word is taken personally And the word was God Here Word is taken essentially And the word was God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or according to the Greek and God was the word Christ was co-equal co-essential co-eternal and consubstantial with the Father The Son of God Christ did not then begin to be when he was manifested in the Flesh but was God from all Eternity made Flesh in the last times That Christ was MAN is as evident Thus John 1.14 And the word was made flesh The Son not the Father nor the Spirit became Man not by Confusion of Natures but by Vnion of Natures in one Person of Christ God and Man Was made flesh Made himself or assumed flesh in which he might be manifested to the Senses of Men. Was made flesh Not by changing the GOD-HEAD Non mutando quod erat sed assumendo quod non crat but by assuming the MAN-HOOD Though he became Man he stil remained God The God-head became not a Man-hood nor the Humanity a Deity The Assumption of the Humanity was no Diminution of the Deity But what follows And dwelt among us As in a Tabernacle or Tent for a short time And we beheld his glory The manifestation of his divine Majesty not only in his Transfiguration but also in his Doctrine Life Miracles Passions The glory as of the only begotten of the Father Such glory as was proper and peculiar to the only so begotten of the Father Ful of grace and truth Ful of Grace or the Favour of God towards us And of Truth or by Gifts and Benefits which might demonstrate the Truth of that Favour so L. de Dieu Ful of Grace or with the cheifest Mercy and of Truth or with the Truth of praeceding Shadows so Hammond Is not the Incarnation of Christ now one of the Depths of God So 1 Tim. 3.16 And without controversie Omnium Consensu Confessione Confessedly and by an universal Confession Great is the Mystery of godliness The GOSPEL may be so called because as it is a Doctrine made for the Dignity and Promotion of Godliness so it is a Doctrine consisting of such truths and connexious of things that are far remote from the common Cogitations Reasons and Intellects of Men. But what follows God was manifest in the flesh The eternal Son of God made his Divinity known in his Humanity which he assumed into the UNITY of his Person Justified in the Spirit Approved righteous and innocent though condemned by Jews and Gentiles as a Malefactor Seen of Angels As his Messengers and Ministers Preached unto the Gentiles As the Subject and Substance and Summ of the Gospel to Sinners in Folio Beleived on in the World Made the Object of FAITH by a Remnant according to the Election of Grace Received up into Glory His Session is at the right hand of the Majesty on high Is not the Incarnation of Christ now one of the Depths of God For him who had Eternity for his Mansion Thus Isa 57.15 For thus saith the high and lofty one who inhabiteth Eternity Who alone hath Immortality who alone is eternal without Beginning or Ending who is not only immortal but also immutable For him also who hath Eternity for his Measure Thus Psa 90.2 Vme gnolam gnad-gnolam attah El So the Hebrew From Eternity until Eternity thou God To be an Infant of a day old Thus Luke 2.11 To you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord Is not this the Wonder of Wonders and consequentially one of the DEPTHS of GOD For him who had Heaven for his Pallace to have the Earth for his Pilgrimage is not this one of the Depths of God For him who was higher than the Heavens Heb. 7.26 to be lower than Angels Heb. 2.9 and who was waited by sinless Angels Mat. 4.11 to be watched by sinful Men is not this one of the Depths of God For him who was the Antient of Days Dan. 7.22 to be a Babe Luke 2.12 and who was the GOD of Joys Mat. 11.29 to be a MAN of Sorrows Isa 53.3 is not this one of the Depths of God For him who was born King of the Jews Mat. 2.2 to be born in a Stable and who lies in the Bosome of the Father John 1.18 to lie in a Manger Luke 2.7 is not this one of the Depths of God For him who was crowned with Glory Heb. 2.7 to be crowned with Thorns Mat. 27.29 and who was the Desire of Nations Hag. 2.7 to die for Sinners Rom. 5.8 is not this one of the Depths of God For him who was the Being of of Beings as God John 1.3 the Beauty of Beauties as Man Psa 45.2 and the Blessing of Blessings as God-man Heb. 7.22 to be written if this be a Prophesie of him a worm and no man a reproach of Men and despised of the People Psa 22.6 Is not this the Wonder of