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his power to doe and not according to what he hath not as Chrysippus is by Cicero judged to have done § 34. All which being duly considered and the absurdities of that distinction thus applied betwixt the act and the obliquitie as manifest as those of Chrysippus's expedient in those so many forementioned respects and the contrary so wide from the truth of Scripture the attributes of God and common notions of piety written in men's hearts and experimented in the government of the world and lastly so noxious and poysonous to good life we may certainly conclude with Prosper that great asserter of God's Grace Resp ad 14. Object Vincent Ad praevaricationem legis ad neglectum religionis ad corruptelam disciplinae ad desertionem fidei ad perpetrationem qualiscunque peccati nulla omnino est Praedestinatio Dei To the forsaking the law to the neglecting religion to the corrupting discipline to deserting the Faith to the perpetration of whatsoever sin there is not at all any predestination of God Si ergo in sanctitate vivitur If we live in sanctity grow in virtue and persevere in good purposes the gift of God is manifest in all this Si autem ab his receditur But if we go back from these if we passe over to vices and sins here God sends no evil temptation forsakes not the desertor before he be forsaken and very frequently keeps him that would depart from departing and causeth him to return though he be departed To which may be added that of the Arausican Councel which was very careful to assert the necessity of Grace and yet pronounces an anathema against those who affirm any to be by God predetermined to sin CHAP. XVII Of the Spirits acting all things within the man § 1. WHat hath been said of the doctrine of God's decrees fatally passed upon our persons or our actions will be farther extended to the pretensions of the Spirit and the opinion that of late begins to diffuse it self among some that all that is designed or done by them is the dictate and motion of the Spirit in them § 2. Of this it is evident that either that man which thus pretends never commits any act prohibited by the Word of God and vulgarly called sin after the minute of such pretension and then that were a rare charm indeed to render him impeccable or that this is the means of consecrating every sin of his and so the opinion being imbibed by one that lives in rebellion murther adulterie pride or schisme or any other one or more grossest sins the effect must be that he believe every one of these to be infusions of the Spirit of God and so no more fit to be resisted before nor repented for after the Commission of them then the most eminent acts of piety should be And when it is thus become impious to resist any temptation of our own flesh which sollicites within us or of Satan that suggests and whispers within us too i. e. to omit the acting of any sin that we are any way inclined to what place can be left for exhortation to Christian life as long as I have any temptation against it § 3. This is a doctrine which a man would think should not finde admission with any considerable sort of men and therefore it will be lesse pertinent for this Discourse to take any larger notice of it yet for the preventing and intercepting any farther growth of it where it may unhappily have found any reception It will not be amisse to adde and evidence these few things § 4. First concerning the Spirit which is thus pretended to That the Descent of the Spirit of God was principally for three ends 1. to give Testimony that Christ was the Son of God sent with authority to reveal his will and to command our faith and obedience and consequently to this to give the world assurance that the Apostles were sent by him and to signe the Commission of preaching to all Nations to propagate what he had taught 2dly to assure all men that the Rules which Christ gave us are absolutely necessary to be observed to render us capable of those Promises made those benefits purchased by him And 3dly that we being so corrupt by nature so farre from prone or inclinable in our Flesh to obey those Rules the Graces of his holy Spirit accompanying the Revelation or preaching of his will and word should incline our corrupt hearts to keep his laws § 5. Secondly that after the mission of the Spirit God was pleased for posterity otherwise to expresse his care and love to mankinde viz in giving and consigning to them his written word for a Rule and constant directer of life not leaving him to the duct of his own Inclinations § 6. Thirdly that God hath made and continued through all ages both of Jewes and Christians one sort of men to teach another to learn Among the Jewes one to preserve knowledge in his lips and with the same to dispense it the other to enquire and seek the Law at his mouth and under the Gospel Pastors and Teachers and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rulers set over men for their good Which is a visible prejudice to the pretended guidance of the Spirit For if that by the voice within me be the standing guide of all my actions what use of forein teachers or guides or necessity of obeying the Apostle when he commands me to obey those that are set over me § 7. Fourthly that every thing that comes out of the heart of man is not infused into it or placed there by God For besides that from thence proceed many aerial fictions and phasmes and Chym●raes created by the vanity of our own hearts or seduction of evil spirits and not planted in them by God or nature or the duct of God's Spirit motions and emissions of our phansie and not of our reason of our sensitive not humane nature and to this all the Idolatrie of the antient heathens and the new phansiful divinity of some present Christians and the whole religion of the Mahomedanes is visibly imputable besides this I say it is affirmed by the Apostle Jam. 3.15 17. that there is a wisdome and that must signifie some Codex of directions for practise some law in the members opposite to that in the minde that cometh not from above as well as a wisdome that cometh from above and in plain terms that it is earthly sensual and devilish as that Law in the members is said to lead the man into captivity to the law of sin which is in the members § 8. So again saith Christ out of the heart proceed all the things that defile a man evil machinations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all the most mischievous designments by name murthers adulteries fornications incestuous and unnatural commissions contained under the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fornication 1 Cor. 5.1 thefts false-witnesses evil speakings i. e. as by those few

prevent and assist us nor reasonably attempt to doe without this hope § 4. Farther yet the Resurrection of Christ hath the power of a pattern to us and is so made use of and typified in baptisme as an engagement and obligation to us to transcribe that divine copie into our hearts and to rise to newness of life And accordingly that seems to be the importance of the phrase Rom. 10.9 believing in the heart that God raised Christ from the dead there being no more necessary to the superstructing all piety on that one foundation but to sink down the belief of that one Article from the brain to the heart to reduce it effectually to practise CHAP. VI. Other Articles of Belief in Christ § 1. BEside these two a whole calogue and climax of Articles we have set down 1 Tim. 3.16 made manifest in or by the flesh justified by the Spirit seen of Angels preached among the Gentiles believed on in the world received up with glory And these altogether seem to be that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 truth v 15. as elsewhere Faith of which the Church was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a pillar and establishment to sustain and keep it as a pillar firmly set up on the basis sustains and upholds the fabrick laid upon it from sinking or falling For so this truth deposited in the Church or with the Governours thereof such as Timothy there was to be conserved and upheld by that means And it is farther observable in that place that it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the mysterie of Piety and that a great one signifying the price and value of these articles principally to consist in this that they tend mightily to the begetting of piety in our hearts and so are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the articles of our initiation or of our religion into which we are initiated by baptisme as the foundation on which all our Christian practise which alone deserves the name of piety and is opposed to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 impiety is superstructed and built afterward § 2. This will be more visible by surveying the severals 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God manifest by the stesh God was so intent upon this work of revealing and declaring his will to men in order to bringing home sinners to repentance so very desirous that men should reform and live and not sin and perish eternally that to inforce this on us at the greatest possible advantage he was pleased himself to assume and manifest his will in or by our Flesh and so not only God from heaven but God visible on earth to preach reformation among us and if this be not able to make impression on us it is not imaginable that all the preaching of men or Angels that any inferior method should be of force to doe it From whence it was that all the Devil's countermines in the first ages were designed purposely against this one Article the Deity or Godhead of Christ incarnate making all that he did and suffered here an appearance no reality in opposition to which is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so oft repeated by Ignatius the reality and verity of Christ's eating and suffering and rising c. and every branch of such heresie took off as farre as it was believed from the necessity of Christian life not only by implying him to be an Impostor if he were not truly what he oft affirmed himself and was by the Apostles affirmed to be the Messias i. e. the eternal son of God and God blessed forever but by evacuating that great obligation and engagement to reform our lives taken from the authority and Godhead of him that had sought and sollicited it so earnestly and came down from heaven and assumed our flesh upon that one errand or embassie to reveal himself more convincingly among us § 3. Had it been only a Prophet though never so great and extraordinarily furnished with signes and wonders he had been but a servant of God and there were many experiences and precedents among their forefathers of the resisting of such but the personal descent of God himself and his assumption of our flesh to his divinity more familiarly to insinuate his pleasure to us to admonish and invite and denounce judgments and even to weep over those that would yet be obstinate was an enforcement beyond all the methods of wisdome that were ever made use of in the world § 4. For God I say himself to doe all this and to descend so low to so mean an estate and to a much meaner usage a shameful contumelious death to work this work most effectually upon men was a wonderful act of grace wisdome a secret a mysterie indeed beyond all former waies infinitely considerable towards this of turning from every evil § 5. And upon this score the doctrine of the antient and modern Arians and Photinians which so industriously lessens the divinity of Christ in pretense of zeal to God the Father to whom they will not permit him to be equal must consequently take off extremely from this Mysterie of Piety this foundation of a good life laid in the eternal God's coming down to preach it to us And as it is a direct contradiction to those places wherein Christ is called God Act. 20.28 Tit. 2.13 wherein he and his Father are affirmed to be one Joh. 10.30 1 Joh. 5.7 wherein the known title of the God of Israel never named in their services but it was answered by all with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God blessed forever is by the Apostles attributed to Christ Rom. 9.5 as also Heb. 13.21 1 Pet. 4.11 5.11 2 Pet. 3.18 Rev. 1.6 and which as Proclus saith convinceth all the heresies concerning Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and walls up the newly invented waies of injury and contumely against him So it is a great diminution and abatement of the force of that fundamental argument whereon God thought fit that the renovation of the world should be superstructed and how much soever the contrary hereticks the modern Socinians have pretended to the maintenance of Piety 't is certain they have by this taken out one principal stone from the foundation of it the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here God made manifest by the flesh which could not be affirmed of Christ if he were not first God before he was thus made manifest by the means of his incarnation § 5. The next stone in this foundation is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God's having been justified by the Spirit i. e. the several waies of conviction which were used in the world by the Spirit of God to give authority to all that was revealed by Christ as the will and commands of God Such was 1. the visible descent of the Spirit of God upon him at his baptisme Mat. 3. which as preparative to his entring on the exercise of his prophetick office Mat. 5. c. was the divine