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A51837	Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition to the doctrine of the Socinians : in several sermons on Col. I, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 verses / by the Reverend Tho. Manton.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1685 (1685)	Wing M520; ESTC R33496	105,834	258

all is done according to the Counsel of his own Will Some thought all created things did come forth from the Creator by way of emanation as Rivers flow out of their Fountain but there is no stream floweth out of any fountain but it was before a part of that fountain while it was in it but that cannot be said of any Creature in respect of God that it was any part of God before it came out from him Others say the Creatures came out from God by way of representation as an Image in the glass from him that passeth by or looketh on it b●t before the world was made there was no such glass to represent God others would express it thus that the world cometh out from God as a shadow from the body but yet this will not fit the turn neither for the shadow doth not come out from the body but follows it because of the deprivation of light from the interposition of another body Others say all cometh from God as a foot-print or tract in Clay or Sand from one that passeth over it but there was nothing on which God by passing might make such an impression What ever good intention they might have by setting forth the Creation by these expressions yet you see they are not proper and accurate These expressions may have their use to raise mans understanding to contemplate the excellency and Majesty of the Creator for they all shew his incomparable Excellency and Perfection together with the vanity nothingness or smallness of the Creature if compared with him as great a bulk as it beareth in our eye They are but as a Ray from the Sun a stream from the fountain or a drop to the Ocean an Image in the Glass or a shadow to the substance or like a foot-print of a ma● in the Clay or Sand and so are but certain signs leading up to the thing signified or Letters and Syllables out of which we may spell God As the streams lead us to the fountain the image to the man the shadow to the body or the track to the foot that made it But the Scripture leaving those comparisons sheweth us that the World came out from the Creator as the Workmanship from the Artificer the building from the Architect Heb. 11.10 Now every Artificer and builder worketh merely out of the Counsel of his own Will and herein they resemble God but onely what they do with great labour God doth with the beck of his own Will and Word Psal. 33.6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth A bare word of his immediately created all the World the Heavens and Earth and all that is in them 2. When did he make the angels For in the History of Moses there seemeth to be a great silence of it I Answer We read Gen. 1.1 that in the beginning that is when God did first set himself to create that then he created the Heaven and the Earth but we read again in the 20th Verse that in six dayes the Lord made heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is I argue that if within that compass of time the Lord made Heaven and Earth and all things that are in them Angels are included in that number being the inhabitants of Heaven as Men and Beasts are of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea As here by things in Heaven the Apostle principally understands the Angels and by things on earth Men Therefore as things on earth were not made but after the earth so things in heaven were not created but after the heavens were created The heavens were not created till the second day nor perfected and fitted till the fourth Therefore as God did furnish the Earth with Plants and Beasts before men so did he adorn the Heaven with stars before he filled it with Angels for he first framed the House and adorned it before he brought in the inhabitants Therefore probably they were made the fourth day Is this seemeth too short a time before the fall of the Apostate Angels you must remember how soon man degenerated some think he did not sleep in innocency quoting that Psal. 49.12 Man being in honour abides not but is like the bea●ts that perish The word signifies a nights Lodging in an Inne shall no● Lodge or stay a Night others make his fall on the next day the Sabbath For at the end of the sixth day all was good very good The Angels fell from their first state as soon as they were Created so short and uncertain is all created Glory Secondly All things were created for him that is for the honour of the Son as well as for the honour of the Father and the Holy Ghost Now this is necessary to be thought of by us because there is a Justice in the case that we should return and imploy all in his service from whom we have received all even though it be with the denial of our nearest and dearest Inte●est He is worthy of this Glory and Honour from us and that we should trust upon him as a faithful Creator in the midst of all dangers 1. I will prove that the gre●t●st Glory the Creature is capable of is to serve the Will and set forth the Praise of its Creator for every thing that attaineth not its end is vain What matter is it whether I be a Dog or a Man a Beast or an Angel if I serve not the end for which I was made and that is not the personal and particular benefit of any Creature but the glory of the Creator for God made all things for himself Prov. 16.4 whether he made Beasts or Man or Angels it was still with a respect to his own glory and service God is independent and self-sufficient of himself and for himself Self-seeking in the creature is monstrous and incongruous 'T is as absurd and unb●seeming to seek its own Glory as to attribute to its self it s own being Rom. 11.36 Of him and through him and to him are all things Gods glory is the end of our being and doing for being and doing are both from him and therefore for him alone Above all it concerneth man to consider this who can glorifie God not onely objectively by the impressions of God upon him and passively as God will overule all his actions to his own Glory but actively as he is the mouth of the Creation not onely to honour God himself but to give him the praise which resulteth from all his works It was well s●id of a Heathen si essem lus●inia If I were a Nightingal I would sing as a Nightingal si alauda If I were a Lark I would pere as a Lark When I am a man what should I do but know love and praise God without ceasing and glorifie my Creator Things are unprofitable or mis-placed when they do not seek or serve their end therefore for what use are we meet

that at length they may acquiesce in the injoyment of one that is God as their chiefest good Alass without this union with the head and among themselves in necessary things what can they expect but wrath and the curse and Everlasting destruction 2. With respect to dependance on one head Rom. 12.5 We being many are one body in Christ and every one members of one another that is all things make up one body of which Christ is the Head and are fellow members in respect of one another As necessary and as desirable as it is to be united to God to Life and Glory Everlasting so necessary and desirable it is to depend upon Christ the Head for no man after the entrance of sin can return to God or enjoy God without Christ the Mediator Iohn 14.6 I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh to the Father but by me Acts 4.12 There is no other name under Heaven by which we can be saved but only Iesus Christ 1 Cor. 3.11 Other foundation can no man lay but that which is layed Iesus Christ 1 Iohn 5.12 He that hath the son hath Life and he that hath not the son hath not Life God proclaimed from Heaven Matth. 3.17 This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased he being one God with the Father and the Spirit of the same substance and essence he only can procure merit and effect our union with God He first assumed our nature and united it to his own Person and so became one flesh with us but then all those that belong to that nature if they believe in him and enter into his Covenant are not onely literally one flesh but Mystically one body and so also one Spirit 1 Cor. 6.17 That is by the bond of the spirit he hath brought them into the state and relation of a body to himself To gather up all Mans return to God is necessary to his blessedness that he may be inseparably conjoyned to him as his chiefest good to this purpose the son of God assumed our nature in the unity of his person and thereby bringeth about the union of the Church with himself as our Head and our communion with one another in Faith and charity if we desire to be blessed and so is according to Christs Prayer Iohn 17.21 That they may be all one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us verse 23. I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one so that as there is one God and one Mediator between God and Men and one Church united to Christ as his body to this Church we must every one of us be united if we mean to be saved and in the Church with Christ and by Christ with God therefore out of this Mysticall body there is no Salvation 2. How is Christ an Head to this Body This must be explained by answering two question 1. What are the parts of his headship 2. According to what nature doth this office belong to him divine or humane 1. The parts and branches of this headship he is our head with respect to Government and sovereignty and in regard of causality and influence he governeth he quickneth 1. It implyes his Authority to Govern as is manifest by Eph. 5.22 23. Wives submit your selves to your own husbands as unto the Lord for the husband is the head of the Wife even as Christ is the head of the Church So that to be the Churches Head implies superiority or right to govern 2. For the other notion in regard of influence that is evident in Scripture also Col. 2.19 Not holding the head from which all the body by joynts and bands having nourishment ministred and knit together increases with the increase of God the head is the root from whence the vital faculty is disfused to all the members We use to say 〈◊〉 arbor inversa a Tree turned upsided 〈…〉 if this be so the Head is the 〈…〉 Tree So doth Life flow from 〈…〉 the Church the spirit is from 〈…〉 begin the union or to con●●nue the 〈…〉 But let us speak of these branches apart 1. His Authority and power to govern his excellency gives him fitness but his Office right to rule and govern the Church When he sent abroad his Officers and Embassadors to Proselyte the World in his name he pleadeth his right Math. 28.18 All power is given to me both in heaven and in Earth Now the acts which belong to Christ as a Governour may be reduced to these heads 1. To make Laws that shall universally bind all his people 2. To institute Ordinances for Worship 3. To appoint Officers 4. To maintain them in the exercise of these things 1. The first power that belongeth to a governing head is Legislation or making Laws now Christs Headship and Empire being novum jus Imperii a new right which he hath as Mediator for the recovery of lapsed mankind his Law is accordingly It is lex remedians a Law of grace which is given us in the Gospel of our Salvation The sum of his own proper remedial Laws are Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and Repentance towards God Acts 20.21 Without Repentance our case is not compassionable without Faith we do not own our Redeemer by whom we have so great a benefit yet because this new right of Empire is accumulative not privative beneficial to us indeed but not destructive of our duty to God therefore the whole Law of God as purely moral hath still a binding force upon the consciences as it is explained in the Word of God Now to these Laws of Christ none can add none diminish and therefore Christ will take an account of our fidelity at the last day 2 Thess. 1.8 2. He hath instituted Ordinances for the continual exercise and regulation of our worship and the Government of his people that they may be kept in the due acknowledgement and obedience to him such as the preaching of the Word Sacraments and the exercise of some Government now all the Rules and Statutes which Christ hath made for the ordering of his people must be kept pure until his coming his institutions do best preserve his honour in the World great charges are left 1 Tim. 5.21 I charge thee before God and our Lord Iesus Christ and his Elect Angels that thou observe these things where he speaketh of Ecclesiastical Censures and Disciplines he conjureth him by all that is sacred and holy that it be rightly used 1 Tim. 6.14 Keep this commandment without spot and unrebuka●le unto the appearing of Iesus Christ. The Doctrines are so determined by Christ that they cannot be changed the Worship not corrupted the Discipline not abused to serve partial Humors and private or worldly Interests 3. God hath appointed Officers who have all their ministries and services under Christ and for Christ Eph. 4.11 He gave some apostles some prophets and some evangelists and some

who are so unmeet for our proper end Like the wood of the vine that is good for nothing not so much as to make a pin whereon to hang any thing Ier. 20.15 Good for nothing but to be cast into the fire unless it be fruitful What are we good for if we be not serviceable to the ends for which we were created 2. The design of God was that the whole Creation should be put in subjection to the word Incarnate Not onely this lower world wherein man is concerned but the upper World also Our R●●eemer who hath bought us hath an Interest in all things that may concern us that they may be disposed of to his own glory and our good and advantage All are at the making and at the disposal of our Lord Jesus Christ Therefore it is said Heb. 2.10 For whom are all things and by whom are all things God that frameth all things ordereth all things to their proper end His works are many and some are more excellent and glorious than others and one of the chief of them is the salvation of man by Jesus Christ. Therefore all things are subordinated thereunto to the Glory of the Mediator by whom this is accomplished 1 Cor. 8.6 But to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Iesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him Thirdly Why the Creation of Angels is so particularly and expresly mentioned I Answer for three Reasons 1. To shew the Glory and Majesty of the Redeemer The Angels are said to excel in strength Psal. 103.20 and else-where they are called Mighty Angels This potency they have from their Creator who giveth power and strength to all his Creatures as it pleases him their strength may be conceived by that instance that one Angel in a night slew one hundred and eighty five Thousand in Senacheribs Camp Now these potent Creatures are infinitely inferiour to our Redeemer by whom and 〈◊〉 whom they were made Though they are the most excellent of all the Creatures yet they are his Subjects and Ministers at his beck and command both by the Law of their Creation as Christ is God and also by the fathers donation as he is mediator and God Incarnate 1 Pet. 3.25 He is set down on the right hand of God Angels Authorities and Powers being made subject to him And again Eph. 1.22 He hath set him far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not onely in this world but in that which is to come They have a great name but Christ hath a more excellent name than they Heb. 1.5 for they are all bound to worship him ver 6. and serve him for he employeth them for the defence and comfort of the meanest of his people They are subject not onely to God but to Christ or God incarnate Look as it is the glory of Earthly Kings to command mighty and powerful subjects are not my princes altogether Kings Isa. 10.8 that so many Princes held under him as their Soveraign and served him as their Commander and when God speaks of the Assyrian he calleth him a King of Princes Hos. 8.10 Namely as he had many Kings Subject and Tributary to him so is this the Majesty of our Redeemer that he hath these powerful Creatures the mighty Angels in his Train and retinue These heavenly hosts make up a part of that Army which is commanded by the Captain of our Salvation 2. This is mentioned to obviate the Errors of that Age Both the Iews and the Gentiles had an high opinion of Spirits and Angels as Gods Ministers and Messengers For he doth not alwayes immediately administer the affairs of Mankind Now as they were right in the main as to their service so they added much of curiosity and superstition to the Doctrine of Angels and by their vain speculations infected the minds of many in the Christian Church who were but newly come out from among them insomuch that they fell to the worshipping of Angels as mediators to God As the Apostle intimateth col 2.18 Now because this was to the disparagement of Christ the Apostles did set themselves to check this curiosity of dogmatizing about Angels and the superstition or Idolatry of Angel-worship thence growing apace Now this they did by asserting the dignity of Christs Person and Office As Paul Col. 2. and the Author to the Hebrews chap. 1.2 3. Hath in these last dayes spoken unto us by his son whom he hath appointed heir of all things by whom also he made the worlds who being the brightness of his glory and the express Image of his person and upholding all thing by the word of his power when he had by himself purged our sins sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high It is true Christ was sent from Heaven as the Angels are and he came in a despicable way of appearance to promote our Salvation and recovery as they assumed bodies sutable to their Message yet his superiority and preheminence above the Angels is clear and manifest He was not onely equal to them but far above them Heb. 1.3 Seven things are observable in that verse 1. Christ came as the Eternal Son of God He hath spoken unto us by his Son When he cometh to the Angels he sai●h they as servants and ministring spirits For a short while he ministred in the form of a servant in the days of his Flesh they continue to be so from the beginning to the end of the World 2. He was heir of all things That is Lord of the whole creation They onely Principalities and Powers 〈◊〉 certain ends to such Persons and Places over which Christ sets them 3. He was the Creator of the World By whom also he made the worlds saith the Apostle they are noble and divine creatures indeed but the work of Christs hands 4. He is the brightness of his Fathers Glory and the express Image of his person that is the essential Image of God They onely have some strictures of the Divine Majesty 5. The upholding all things by the word of his power that is the conserving cause of all that Life and Being that is in the creature The Angels live in a continual dependance upon Christ as their Creator and without his supporting influence would be soon annihilated 6. By himself he purged our sins He was sent into the world for that great and glorious work of Mediation which none of them was worthy to undertake none able to go through withall but himself alone They are sent about the ordinary concernments of the Saints or the particular affairs of the World he is the Author of the whole work of Redemption and Salvation and they but subordinate Assistants in the particular promotion of it 7. He sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high They are Spirits near the Throne of God ever in his Presence attending on