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A64246	The confession or declaration of the ministers or pastors which in the United Provinces are called Remonstrants, concerning the chief points of Christian religion; Confessio sive declaratio sententiae pastorum qui in Foederato Belgio Remonstrantes vocantur super praecipuis articulis religionis Christianae. English	Remonstrantse Broederschap.; Episcopius, Simon, 1583-1643.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1676 (1676)	Wing T564; ESTC R10771	123,629	274

touching the essential Attributes of God pertaining indeed to this Head all which generally and particularly we believe to be most profitable yea hitherto necessary to be known insomuch that without the knowledg of these we cannot worship God aright but by it we may For because God is One it is altogether just and necessary for us that we with Soul and Body depend wholly upon him only as the first or chief Author of our Salvation and again likewise that our whole Worship terminate and end in him alone 15. Because he is of Irresragable Power and Supreme Authority it is altogether meet and necessary that we do whosoever we be and wheresoever at least we are in all things most humbly submit our selves unto him as King of Kings and Lord of Lords any where sworn to none nor obnoxious to any that we do pray continually unto him for his Benefits and other things necessary or at least useful for us that we give him thanks for things received Also that all Adversity whatsoever he sendeth we should bear it patiently and quietly and contentedly and that we should never abuse our Prosperity or grow proud thereby 16. Because he is Eternal and Immutable it is requisite that we be very believingly confident to expect and firmly to hope for the reward of Eternal Life graciously promised unto us by him in Christ and certainly believe that he will never at any time either alter or change it himself nor suffer it to be violently taken away from us by others 17. Because he is Immense and Omnipresent it is meet that we every-where walk circumspectly reverently and carefully as in his sight that we also always pour out unto him our Prayers and Supplications with all humisity and submission and a firm confidence of being heard and that we think speak or do nothing at any time but what is serious grave or weighty and worthy the presence of so great a Deity 18. Because he is of infallible Knowledg it is expected that we walk and live uprightly and sincerely and circumspectly that we always study to approve our Thoughts Words and Actions unto him that we continually commend our Cause when good and just unto him that we with boldness offer unto him our Prayers Sighs and Groans And lastly That we be thorowly perswaded that he taketh care of us and all our Concerns 19. Because he is of most free Power and Will it behoveth us that whatsoever good things we have either in common with others or peculiar before and above others whether bodily or spiritual we attribute it to his alone spontaneous liberality and most free munificency that we always diligently and seriously seek his grace and favour and carefully endeavour to retain the same that we humbly deprecate or pray against his Punishments and Threatnings and whatsoever he either doth himself or suffereth to be done by others or willeth to be done by us we do not measure the same by our own proper sense and apprehensions but that we always religiously adore it as proceeding from his most good and free pleasure and disposal 20. Because he is most good and bountiful it is ●it and meet that we love and delight in him with all our Heart with all our Soul and with all our Might that we resolutely trust or relie on his Promises confidently implore his Grace and Mercy do willingly and chearfully conform our selves to his most bountiful Will and that even under the Cross and always and every-where obey him 21. Because he is of inflexible Equity and Justice and also Truth we are to see that we never murmur against him when he commandeth tempteth visiteth punisheth permitteth evils c. and that we never at any time doubt of his Promises and Threatnings and other his Sayings And because he is in the highest degree holy that we also imitate him in a serious study and exercise of Holiness 22. Because he is of insuperable Power it concerns us that we fear him who is able to cast Body and Soul into Hell and that we dread ●is terrible Anger and the Evils indeed which he threatneth that we seriously fear them and the good Things which he promiseth that we do with a firm and undoubted Faith expect them Lastly That we do not so long as we serve Christ too much fear the force and power either of the Devil or Death or Hell or Tyrants or any of other Enemies or for their sakes ever commit or do any thing unworthy of the Name of Christ. 23. Because he is most blessed and indeed of perfect Blessedness and glorious Majesty it is our Duty that we earnestly aspire unto or breath after a participation of his Glory and Joy according to our measure and therefore desire to be perfectly united with him after Death to see him face to face and to be blessed and satisfied with the fulness of his House and being supported with this desire and hope unshaken that we sincerely do all things that he commandeth carefully avoid those things which he forbiddeth Lastly That we bear with courage whatsoever he will have us to bear although the Punishments of the most bitter and most ignominions Death were to be undergone by us for his Name And thus far concerning the Nature of God in common or absolutely considered CHAP. III. Of the Holy and Sacred Trinity 1. BUt God is considered by way of distinction and relatively under a three-fold Hypostasis or three Persons under which indeed he himself in his Word hath manifested his own Godhead to be considered of us oeconomically i. e. by way of dispensation and with respect to it self And this Trinity is Father Son and Holy Ghost As one Hypostasis or Person of the Godhead is without cause that is unproduced and unbegotten another is produced of the Father by Generation or the only begotten of the Father Lastly Another in peculiar manner proceedeth from the Father and the Son or floweth from the Father by the Son 2. For it is the Father only that is void of all Original or altogether unbegotten and proceeding from none other but who yet hath from Eternity communicated his own Deity both to his only begotten Son not indeed by Creation in which respect the Angels are called the Sons of God nor by gracious Adoption by which we that are Believers are also the Sons of God nor only by the gracious communication of Divine Power or Authority and Supreme Glory as he is Mediator but also by a true but yet secret and ineffable Generation and also to the Holy Spirit proceeding from both by likewise a secret emanation or spiration and therefore the Father is most justly counted the Fountain and Original of the whole Duty 3. The Son therefore and Holy Spirit although as to both their hypostasis

of God pertaining to the life to cone or of the raising again of the dead and eternal Life 1. THe acts of God pertaining to the life to come are the raising again from death or instead thereof a sudden change of our mortal nature and Glorification or the bestowing of Heavenly Glory and Life eternal according to those two last Articles of the Apostles Creed I believe the Resurrection of the Flesh and the Life everlasting 2. This raising will be at the second and glorious coming of Jesus Christ unto the general Judgment to wit when he shall raise unto life again all the dead both the just and unjust and judg both them and those that shall then remain alive at the Judgment-seat of his Father and assign or award unto them all just rewards or condign punishments according to the quality and quantity of their Works which they have done in the body whether good or evil For then he shall raise up his faithful ones and Saints which were indeed dead out of the dust of the Earth unto a Life eternal and blessed and shall endow them alone with a glorious and incorruptible body And those which he shall then find alive and surviving of them those he shall on a sudden and as it were in a moment change and make them immortally blessed with the other 3. This-like raising and in part a change shall be immediately succeeded by that blessed Glorification which is the complement of all the other acts whereby the Lord Jesus after he shall have descended from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the Trump of God to the now said Judgment shall take them being raised by the Angels of his power with himself into the Air and most powerfully deliver or translate them from the universal corruption or total destruction of the whole World being then to be altogether on a flame into the everlasting and glorious mansions of the Heavens which in the Scriptures are called new Heavens a new Earth and the World to come and shall give them to enjoy unspeakable joy with himself and with God and with his holy Angels for ever and for ever CHAP. XX. Of the Divine threatnings and punishments of the Wicked pertaining both unto this Life and unto the Life to come to wit of Reprobation Hardening Blinding and of eternal Death and Damnation 1. TOwards the Wicked and Unbelievers or those who refractorily or obstinately refuse to believe and repent and who although they have been long and much called upon admonished reproved chastened c. do yet nevertheless persist to disobey the Gospel God is minded to exercise acts altogether contrary to the former and they no less severe than just and holy the which he hath threatned them with in his Word and do pertain partly to this life partly to that which is to come 2. The acts pertaining unto this Life are Reprobation or Desertion Also Blinding and Hardening and other temporal punishments of that or the like sort of which the first is the just casting of wicked men off to wit when God will no longer have or account them for his people and therefore doth righteously withdraw from them the Grace of his holy Spirit which hath been so often despised by them yea sometimes also he thinks not meet to bestow upon them those outward means which he is wont ordinarily to make use of for the Salvation of his people to wit by leaving them in their own darkness and sins without true Pastours Godly Teachers or Monitors and diligent Searchers out of Truth 3. Next followeth Blinding and Hardening to wit when these sinners being now left destitute of the light of Heavenly Truth are by Gods permission and just judgment deeply involved in gross ignorance and errours and in wonderful and divers manners seduced and when they are given up to their own unclean lusts or left to their vile or filthy affections or are on every side exposed to the temptations delusions and snares of Satan also when their wicked counsels endeavours and practises are suffered for a time to go on with some happy success and themselves for a while to sin scot-free lastly when manifold occasions of erring and sinning are presented to them and their Consciences in the mean while are not pricked or troubled with any sad remorse or serious sorrow for their sins committed c. All which things indeed and very many other more of like sort profane men are wont to turn to their own destruction From whence there groweth or encreaseth more and more a strange blindness of mind an obstinate hardness of heart and filthy greediness of sinning and finally a thick and gross darkness that is a certain brutish ignorance of God and secure profaneness of life doth wholly seize and possess them And sometimes indeed those acts are seconded and followed even with some exemplary also and publick punishment of these men in this life and such as is visible or obvious to the sight of all 4. The penal acts that pertain to the life to come are most usually contained under the words of the Wrath and Vengeance of God also of Judgment and Condemnation whereby God will not only by judgment irrevocably pass or give away from the wicked and unbelievers immortal glory but will also inflict upon them the torments of Hell and eternal punishments Which indeed shall be done openly at the last day when he shall throw them together with the Devil and his Angels into everlasting fire that there they may be punished with everlasting destruction being banished from the presence of God and his glorious power 5. And these things being thus finished there shall immediately arise that new World wherein dwelleth Righteousness and where Jesus Christ our Lord and King having wholly or utterly destroyed all his Enemies shall deliver up or restore the Kingdom to God and his Father that from thenceforward God may be all in all CHAP. XXI Of the Ministry of the Word of God and of the Orders of Ministers 1. ANd this indeed is the Will of God which is necessary for us to know for that it consists of such like most holy Precepts and so excellent Promises the which that it might become known unto miserable morrals and be continually set before their eyes it pleased that great Pitier or Compassioner of mankind that it should not only be tacitly insinuated or conveyed into them by private reading of the sacred Scripture but also that it should by open and publick preaching be every where proclaimed and daily and openly as it were implanted and inculcated or beaten in to them 2. And that it might be rightly or or duly performed there was first of all necessary a solemn and immediate both election or separation