is b Heb. 11.1 v. 27. the evidence of things not seene we may discerne being now otherwise vnto vs invisible And wheresoever we are if we beleeue in Christ we shall neuer bee far to seeke where and how to worship God c Ioh. 4.21.23 The houre is now come when as our Saviour told the superstitious woman neither on that mount nor at Ierusalem but the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth d 1 Ioh. 5.20.21 In hoc quod fecit hunc munduÌ„ coelo terraque conspicuum antequam imbuereatur in side Christi not us omnibus gentibus Deus In hoc autem quod non est iniuriis suis cum dtis falsis colendus not us in Iudaea Deus In hoc verò quod pater est huius Christi per quem tollit peccatum mundi hoc nomen cius prius eccultum omnibus aunc manifestavit iis quos dedâ— ei pater ipse de mundo Aug. tract 105. super Iohan. The Father in the sonne who is the truth by the holy Ghost For we know that the sonne of God is come and hath giuen vs an vnderstanding that we may knowe him that is true and wee are in him that is true even in his sonne Christ Iesus This is the true God and eternall life Babes keepe your selues from Idols e Phil. 2.10 11 At the name of Iesus every knee shall bow and every tongue confesse that Iesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God the Father At his name not at his picture in his name not by his image all prayers and praises offered vp to God the Father are accepted with him f 1. Tim. 2.8 And now we pray every where lifting vp holy hands g Mal. 1.11 and from the rising of the sun vnto the going downe of the same the name of the Lord is great among the Gentiles And in every place incense is offered and a pure offering euen h Rev. 8.4 the prayers of the Saints by the hand of the Angell of the couenant Christ Iesus at the altar of God his presence For the i Ps 141.2 powring out of our prayers is as the incense and the lifting vp of our hands as the evening sacrifice But k Lev. 10.3 God will be sanctified of all that come nigh vnto him Prophanesse Hypocrisie Blasphemy l 2. Tim. 2.19 Let everyone therefore that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquitie m Heb. 12.29 For our God is a consuming fire and will consume those with fire of his indignation n Le. 10.1 that offer strange fire vpon his altar He is a iealous God and will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine Which we doe if either we take notice of his word and works without due affection whereby he makes his name knowne or if we vse any notification of him but in his worship or to his honour with true religion and devotion The Philosophers o Rom. 1.21.22 who professed themselues wise became fooles Because when they knewe God by his workes of creation they glorified him not as God neither were thankfull But the due notice of God his workes by his word thorough the working of his spirit begets faith in vs and that faith restraines from all evill by feare and prouokes by loue to p Igitur qui innotentiam colit domino supplicat qui iustitiam deo libat qui frandibus abstinet oropitiat deum quihomineÌ„ pericuto surripit opimam victiimam caedit Min. Fael oct good workes that we may q 2. Cor. 6.1 not receiue the grace of God in vaine nor take his name in vaine cause it to be euilspoken of r Is 29.14 Mat. 25 8. Hypocrites draw neare God with their mouthes and honour him with their lips but their hearts are farr off Å¿ Ezek. 33.31 running after couetousnesse t Ps 66.18 But if I regard iniquity the lord will not heare me u Ps 50.16.17 To the wicked God saith what hast thou to declare my statutes or to take my couenant in thy mouth seeing thou hatest to bee reformed * Prov. 28.9 The very prayer of the wicked is abominable euen a mocking of God to his face as the x Mat. 27.29.30 souldiers bowing the knee mocked Christ saying haile king of the Iewes and smote him with their hands Wherefore Solomons counsell is god y Eccl. 5.1 v. 2. keepe thy foot when thougoest into the house of God and bee more ready to heare then to offer the sacrifice of fooles for they consider not that they doe euill And that our mouthes be not rash nor our hearts hasty to vtter any thing before God Dauid his resolution is good in our greatest passions and perturbations z psal 39.1 I said I will take heed to my waies that I offend not with my tongue Least by cursing swearing forswaring wee pull downe the curse of God vpon vs and cause a Zach. 5.2.3.4 the flying roule to come forth to enter into our houses to consume theÌ„ with the timber therof the stones thereof to cut vs off on this side on that side according to it Yet are there greater prophanations then these whereby the name of God is blasphemed b Iob. 34.18.19 Is it fit to say to a king thou art wicked and to princes yee are vngodly How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of princes Yet desperat forelorne malecontents c Es 8.21 will curse their God and their king and looke vpwards when they are hardly bestead And there are worse blasphemers then these the bloody persecutors of God his seruants sticke d Iames 2.7 not to blaspheme that worthy name of Christ whereby wee are called e 1 Cor. 12.3 But no man speaking by the spirit of God calleth Iesus accursed And yet there are worse blaspheamers then they f Heb. 6.4 who hauing beene made partakers of the holy ghost fall away desperately malitiously to blaspheme g Manifestê° est a side lapsus crimen maximae superbiae vel a scripto recedere vel non scriptum admittere Basil sermo de fide the known truth the spirit of truth being possessed with a spirit of contradictions for whoÌ„ there is no mercy h Heb. 6.6 no place for repeÌ„tance The prophane vnbeleeuer i Acts. 7.51 resisteth the spirit of God the formall professor k Eph. 4 30. greiues the spirit of god the lewde liuer l 1 Thes 5.19 quencheth the spirit of God but the blasphemous apostata m Heb. 10.29 doth despite vnto the spirit of grace But if we beleeue indeed as wee were baptised haue professed in the name of the Father Sonne and Holy ghost our hearts and tongues and deeds will all ioyne together with the blessed Angels and all the powers of heauen crying holy holy holy lord God of saboth
ratione praedita 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quidninominet quispiam eum filium Dei Arrian epise l. 1. c. 9. sons of God y Iames 1.17 who is the Father of lights And againe wee are his sonnes by grace who of his owne will z Iames 1.18 begat vs by the word of truth through faith in his Sonne a Iohn 1.12.13 For to as many as receiue him to them he giues power to become the sonnes of God euen to them that beleeue on his Name which are borne not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God Who for his part failes not to provide for our good both in the course of nature and in the state of grace For if an earthly father knowes how to provide good things for his children how much more doth our Father which is in Heauen b Acts 14.17 vvho neuer left himselfe vvithout vvitnes doing good And if hee make c Mat. 5.45 his sunne to rise on the euill and on the good and send raine on the iust and on the vniust hee will certainely cause the d Mal. 4.2 sunne of righteousnesse to arise and e Es 60.1 shine vpon his gracious children and will f c. 44.3 send downe sweete dewes of his spirit into their hearts And g Rom. 8.32 he that hath giuen vs his Son how shall he not with him giue vs all things also Nay our heauenly Father preuents vs with all good things both of nature and grace and all to this end that we should haue the good nature or the grace to vse all to the praise of his glory Which whilest we principally intend wee may be well assured that in the end wee shall be no loosers both because our true happinesse consists naturally in the h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus salutaris est sed bonumipsum salutare Arrian Epict. l. 2. c. 8. Summum amare bonum summa est beatitudo August epist 111. ad Iulian. fruition and admiration of Gods glory according to the covenant of nature i Levit. 18 5. Rom. 10.5 doe this and liue and also because the glory of God is ingaged vpon the saluation of his faithfull people by the covenant of grace k Habak 2.4 Rom. 1.17 The Iust shall liue by his faith In assurance whereof the faithfull children of God haue beene well content The true Zelotes of God's glory not onely to frame their liues to his glory but to lay downe their liues for his sake putting the last adventure of their soules that they could make in well-doing l 1 Pet. 4.19 into the hands of God a faithfull Creatour The Lord Himself m Phil. 2.6 being in glory equall with God the Father that without robbery was willing to be abased in the forme of a seruant to the pit of hell that the will of GOD might be done on earth by man for the redeeming of his Kingdome in vs to the glory of his holy Name For although the flesh was weake which for the time put him in a terrible agony yet he soone resolued being strong in the spirit n Luke 22.42 Not my will but thy will be done * Iohn 12.27.28 Now is my soule troubled and what shall I say Father saue mee from this houre but for this cause came I to this houre Father glorifie thy Name And at this marke of our high calling his zealous Saints resolued by his grace through faith presse hard in hope and loue Abraham was content to submit so farre to the will of GOD as to o Gen. 22. sacrifice his sonne Isaacke whom he loued and with him for ought that appeared his owne and all mens expected happinesse For the promise that in his seed all the Nations of the earth should be blessed was before restrayned to Isaacke p Gen. 21.12 Heb. 11.17.18 In Isaacke shall thy seed be called Only he beleeued that God was able to raise him vp from the dead q V. 19. from whence also he receiued him as in a figure Moses wished to be r Ex. 32.32 rased out of the Booke of life rather then that God should not maintaine his owne glory in the safety and prosperity of his people Israel whereon his glory lay ingaged Iob resolueth in his greatest affliction ſ Iob. 13.15 though the Lord slay me yet will I not forsake him The three children Shadrach Mesach Abednego were resolute not to giue the glory of God to Nebuchadnezzar in his golden image whatsoeuer came of them though they perished t Dan 3.17.18 Our God say they whom we serue is able to deliuer vs out of thine hands O King and hee will deliuer vs but if not bee it knowne vnto thee O King that wee will not serue thy gods nor worship thy golden image which thou hast set vp St Paul was content to be u Rom. 9 3◠Anathema from Christ for his brethrens sake not in mere naturall affection to them though it were great but in a feruent zeale of Gods glory which now might seeme to lye at stake with thē Because x V. 4. to them belonged the adoption the glory the covenant And generally all the new borne which onely are the true borne children of God seeme to bee of the same minde Christianos dicit Plinius Secundus omnia vitia detestari sanctissimè vivere hoc solum in eis posse reprehendi quod nimis faci è pro Deo suo profundant vitam quodque horis antelucanis furgant ad canendas laudes Christi l. 10. ep 97. ad Traian who reioyce not only in hope of the glory of God but euen in their greatest tribulations y Heb. 10.34 suffering ioyfully the spoiling of their goods yea of their z Heb. 11.35.36.37 liues vvith most exquisite torments because the a Rom. 5.5 loue of God is shed abroad in their hearts b 1 Pet. 1.8 vvhom hauing not seene they loue in vvhom though novv they see him not yet beleeuing they reioice vvith ioy vnspeakable and full of glory Nay euery creature doth euen by nature spend it self to set forth the glory of the Creator in some sort or other To glorisie the creatoris the glory of the creature being then most happy when it can serue best and is most vsed to that end for which it was made c Iob. 12.7 Aske now the beastes and they shall teach thee the foules of the aire they shall tell thee Or speake to the earth it shall teach thee and the fishes of the sea shall declare vnto thee If wee were not dull of hearing might we not perceiue an * Cicero in Somn. Scip. harmony of the Spheares the Earth below with a deepe base in consort to the Heauenly quier euery creature of God bearing his part all cōming in with a full Chorus to
revelation of that grace in Christ which was shadowed in the law What is it but the h Act. 13.32 glad tidings how that the promise vvhich vvas made vnto the Fathers God hath fulfilled the same vnto vs For i Heb. 4.2 the same Gospell vvas preached vnto them and vnto vs. k Iste intellectus Ecclesiae Catholicae conuenit quae veteris et novi Testamenti vnam asserit prouidentiam nec distinguit in tempore quos conditione consociauit Hieron l. 2. com in ep ad Gal. c. 4. The old couenant in the New Testament promised by the Old performed by the New l 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iust Mart. Quaest Resp ad Orthod p. 354. Novum Testamentum in veteri est figuratum vetus in no vo est revelatum Aug. contr adu legis l. 1. c. 17. shadowed in the Old reuealed in the New reserued to one nation by the Old Testamen extended to all nations by the New The new couenant spoken of in the old Testament not a couenant vpon new conditions but a new condition of the old couenant No new couenant m 1. Ioh. 2.7 as Saint Iohn speakes of the commandement but the old covenant which was from the beginning And yet a new couenant God makes with vs vvhich thing is true in him and in vs In him because the couenant is renewed as hee promised in the seed of Abraham which is Christ with all nations of the earth n Gal. 3.8 For the scripture foreseing that God would instifie the heathen through faith preached before the Gospell vnto Abraham saying In thee shall all the nations of the earth be blessed It is true in vs because we are o Israel spiritualis à carnali non nobilitate patriae sed novitate gratiae nec gente sed mente distinguitur August doct Christ l. 3. c. 34. renewed thereby p. 2. Cor. 5.17 For if any man be in Christ Iesus hee is a new creature Old thinges are past away behold all things are become new The new Testament is ever new being once perfected never to bee antiquated q Heb. 7.18 But there is verily a disanulling of the commandement going afore for the weaknesse and vnprofitablenesse thereof The covenant of promise was rather a promise then a covenant and the typicall Testament was r Regem expressurus pictor cum suo equitatu hostibus victis in triumpho rudi adhuc operi line as tenues obscuras inducit quae autem totum complectuntur quod erat effigiandum quae tamen ita picta non discernuntur nisi à peritissimis sed posteaquam colores splendidos florentes obduxit tunc omnia siunt illustriora accedentibus facile cognita perspecta redduntur Serm. in dictum Pauli Nolo vos ignorare fratres Chrisost 1. Cor. 10. a draught of God his purposed will aforehand rather then the Testament it selfe and therefore vntill it was fully inacted it was rather called a testimony then the Testament s Ps 78.5 Hee established a testimony in Iacob and appointed a law in Israell which hee commanded our Fathers For it tended vnto this as a testimony of what was intended and should after bee performed Yet was that legall-testimony or typicall testament for the time a conspicuous monument of God his singular grace and trueth vnto his people according to the covenant with Abraham their father In which respect Moses exulteth in their behalfe saying t Deut. 4.7.8 What nation is there so great that hath God so nigh vnto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call vpon him for And what nation is there so great that hath statutes and iudgements so righteous as all this law which Iset before you this day But the will of God was not made compleat nor consummat vntill Christ u Heb. 9.16.17.18 For a Testament is not of force vntill the death of the testatour whereupon neither was the first testament dedicated without blood But at the last when all was performed indeede by the mediatour and testatour himselfe which was promised and prefigured then was his Testament consummat as his act and deede for ever And his will is his deede to them that proue it The event of Prophesies Nay the Word proues itselfe to be of God x Es 44.7 c. 42.9 For who as I saith the Lord shall call and shall declare it and set in order for me since I appointed the auncient people To instance in one or two prophesies most pertinent to our purpose proving at once that Iesus is the Christ and the Scripture the word of God That of Iacob at the beginning concerning the state of God his Church and kingdome that it should be amongst his Children the Israelites vntill Christ and that then it should be extended throughout the whole world and that of Haggay towards the end concerning the glory of the second temple a tipe also of the Church z Gen. 49.10 The scepter saith Iacob shall not depart from Iudah nor a law-giuer from betweene his feete vntill Shilo come and vnto him shall the gathering of the people bee Accordingly the state of the Iewes had its groth flourishing and decaying vntill Christ Iesus came When they made open profession saying a Ioh. 19.15 we haue no king but Caesar Vntill then the scepter was in Iudah or the lawgiuer some inferiour magistracy betwixt his feete the Iewes were a certaine nation yea the peculiar people of God b Psal 114.2 Iudah was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion But since Christ came the gathering of the people hath beene vnto him all nations of the earth haue sought vnto him for the blessing whole kingdome is ouer al the Church being now Catholike and Vniversall c Es 2.3.4 Out of Sion the law is gone forth and the word of the Lord the scepter of his kingdome frō Ierusalē all natiōs flow vnto it he iudgeth amonge the people For the other prophesie d Hag. 2.9 that the glory of the second temple should be greater then was of the former it was fulfilled when the sonne of God the Lord of his house was presented in this second temple e 1. Pet. 2.4.5 vpon whom a liuing stone disalowed indeed of men but chosen of God and pretious wee also as liuely stones are built vp a spirituall house f Eph. 2.21 And being fitly framed together in him grow into an holy temple in the Lord. This was the glory of the second temple when g Hag. 2.7 the desire of all nations came and filled this house with glory greater glory then was of the former as much as the h Heb. 3. Lord of the house excelleth the house i Iohn 2.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Et I esus aderat Deus templum Deus inquam tempore omniantiquior templum novum vno eodemque die dissolutum ac tertio post