it Gal. 19 24. and accordingly God not regarding the promised protection of him As is plainliest expressed Heb. 8. 9. And thus the two parties standing at the greatest enmity Man being alienated saith the Apostle and an enemy in his mind by wicked works Col. 1. 21. and God again thus provoked giving him up Rom. 1. 28. as a child of wrath to be a slave to sin to death to Sathan Heb. 2. 14 25. Yet so infinite in his mercy was God so loved he the world Jo. 3. 16. whilst it was yet without strength Rom. 5. 6. yet enemy vers 10. yet sinner vers 8. being not willing that his creature should thus perish 2 Pet. 3. 9. That he was pleased once more to reconcile it to himself and to enter into a new and the last covenant with man and so growing still upon the world were his mercies that this covenant should be so far better then the former that in comparison thereof the other is stiled faulty and not good c. Heb. 8. Now no covenant can be made between Him and mankind without a Mediator a person to go betwixt 1 Tim. 2. 5. Jo. 14. 6. to declare Gods gracious pleasure unto us and to procure and receive from us and offer our submission unto God 2 Cor. 5. 20. See the manner of this Exod. 24. As therefore Moses was of the old Gal. 3. 19. so Jesus Christ was sent the Mediator of the new The substance of which Covenant you may read Heb. 8. 10. relating to Jer. 31. 32. and see the same Ezek. 36. 25. and every where in the Gospels and in the Acts. Repent and be baptized for the remission of Sins and bring forth fruits worthy of repentance where there is remission covenanted on Gods part and future obedience on ours And it was first on Gods part that he would give a free remission of all sins past Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more Heb. 8. 12. 2 Cor. 5. 19. and for the future by giving them plentifully of his Spirit Jo. 1. 17. Act. 2. 17. Jo. 14. 26. would write his laws not in tables of Stone or of the conscience only as formerly but in their hearts so that every one should now know the Lord vers 10 11. and be also enabled by the Spirit to serve him and that not out of fear but love His Laws too now I mean after the Covenant of grace compleated upon our Saviors Incarnation For else the same Covenant was under the time of the Law and before them from the beginning only such as are Spiritual not Carnal so called Heb. 7. 16. -9. 10. natural and grounded on reason and primitive honesty not arbitrary and typical Laws purged from legal Ceremony Col. 2. 14 17. Lastly that he would be their gracious God Heb. 8. 10. and they should be a peculiar trâ—…asure to him above all other people as the same thing is expressed Exod. 19. 5. And this Covenant now he would enlarge from Abrahams seed to all mankind Christ by his Mediatorship making peace as between God and man so between the Jew and the Gentile pulling down the wall which before parted their Courts in the Temple the outer being for the Gentiles See Eph. 2. 14 15. Eph. 1. 10 and would establish it likewise on better promises He is the Mediator of a better Covenant which was established on better promises Heb. 8. 6. The heavenly country and reward of eternal life being not so clearly at least proposed before our Saviors coming as the typical felicities of the earthly Canaan But that he required also on mans counter part That hating and forsaking our former courses we should hereafter being so much enabled by grace so much to be rewarded by eternal glory freed from the unsupportable burden of Ceremonials yeild obedience to his Laws as explained by his Son in a more strict manner then had been performed by former ages Lastly that as he would be our gracious God so we should be his obedient people Heb. 8. 10. Else that there were prepared pa es praemio pâ—…nae And as his exceeding favors were now revealed to obedience even life eternal so his exceeding wrath against all impiety even fire unquenchable Matt. 3. 7 10 12. This I say is required on mans part For in this new Covenant which is done in their baptism by Sponsors and afterward ratified in Confirmation by themselves Men engage something as well as God according to the manner of that former Exod. 24. 3. where the people engaged with one voice All the words c. will we do Now Jesus it was that brought this Gospel this blessed tidings from his Father that was the Sponsor the undertaker the Surety from God of a better Testament Heb. 7. 22. He the person whom the Lord appointed to preach this good tidings unto the meek to bind up the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to open prisons to comfort all that mourn to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord but also the day of vengeance to the wicked Esai 6. 1. He by whom God commended his love toward us whilst we were yet sinners Rom. 5. by whom we have now received the attonement with God vers 11. Rom. 5. 1. by whom it pleased the Father to reconcile all things unto Himself Col. 1. 20. 2 Cor. 5. 18. Eph. 1. 10. -3. 12. And as he came offering Reconciliation from Him so beseeching us to be reconciled also to him 2 Cor. 5. 20. And upon his necessary departure from hence he left others to do the same office and to beseech men the same thing from generation to generation in his stead Vers. 10. And by baptism washing away their sins past to take every ones promise of obedience and fidelity and so admit them into this Covenant Baptism being the Sacrament which now answers to Circumcision which was the Sacrament to the beleevers under the Law not of the first Covenant of works as the Jews misconceived it but of the second of Righteousness by Faith which came by Christ Rom. 4. 11. Gal. 3. 17. In which every single person by Sponsors at the Font if baptized in Infancy afterward in Confirmation by himself gives his particular assent to the Covenant and by this is made partaker of the new promises in it therefore saith the Apostle Act. 1. 33. Repent and be baptized c. for the promise is to you and to your children and therefore a good conscience in obeying Gods commands answering our Covenant made in Baptism to do so called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the vulgar Interrogatio because then interrogatories are proposed about it and engaged for by the baptizand is said to save us 1 Pet. 3. 21. Christ then being the Mediator of a Covenant and no solemn Covenant being made without shedding of blood Zech. 9. 11. see Ps. 50. 5. Those that have made a Covenant with me by Sacrifice See Exod. 24. Gen. 15. Heb. 9. 15 18.
26. Eph. 2. 3. Thus man being in his lapsed condition the Apostle makes as it were four persons sin the law and death and Satan tyrannizing over him and keeping him in an irremediable subjection possessed instead of the free loving good spirit of God with the spirit of bondage Rom. 8. 15. and of fear and of this world See sin which is called also the flesh and the old man described as a person Rom. 7. 9 11. Jam. 1. 14 15. Gen. 4. 7. 2. The law Rom. 7. 3 4. Gal. 3. 23 24. 3. Death 1 Cor. 15. 26 51. Rom. 5. 14. And they assault him in this order Sin slayes him by the dart of the law for the strength of sin is the law and death slayes him by the sting of sin for the sting of death is sin 1 Cor. 15. 56. and Satan slayes him by the hand of death As he who hath the power of death from Gods justice Heb. 2. 14. Lastly Satan having no power but from God the justice of God committeth us into the hands of this officer till we shall pay the debt of sin by the first Covenant due unto him Man being in this deplorable condition the Son of God in great pitty to his creature came to redeem him out of the hands of all these that hated him Esai 61. 1. Luk. 4. 18. Col. 1. 13. and to make him a freeman again Joh. 8. 34. comp 32 36. Gal. 4. 23. c. Gal. 5. 1. And that meanwhile justice might be satisfied and every one of the rest also have his due he put himself in our stead into their hands and paid the full ransom and price that was required not silver nor gold Ps. 49. 6 7 8 9. 1 Tim. 2. 6. 1 Pet. 1. 18 19 20. but life for life Matt. 20. 28. 1. To destroy sin in the flesh he came in the likeness of sinful flesh Rom. 8. 3. and after he had endured with the same weak nature all its assaults Heb. 2. 18. Matt. 4. 1. 16. 23. tho he did not sin yet was he made sin for us i. e. liable to undergo the ill consequents of sin as if he had sinned 2 Cor. 5. 21. 2. To satisfie the law he was made under the law also both the moral and the ceremonial in particular reference to the Jew that he might redeem them that were under the law Gal. 4. 5. most exactly keeping it in Circumcision and observation of the Sabbath tho they falsly accused him of the breach thereof and all other ordinances Yet after all this we being under its curse he also tho obedient in every thing to the law for he became a curse or accursed Gal. 3. 13. 3. Death requiring possession where sin had given it a just title and 4. Satan being not a-wanting to use his licensed power in inflicting it Luk. 22. 53. He therefore being first made sin and a curse also underwent the assaults of these two last for us underwent and tasted of death for every sinful man Heb. 2. 9. 1 Cor. 8. 11. even the death of the cross And his going thus far perchance might have served for the discharge of a debt had we been saving some trespasses past in a perfect and entire condition for the future but besides the fruit already brought forth unto death for which we owed it we were also subjected to the dominion of these enemies to bring forth more still for the future In respect of which no compleat redemption of us could be without a conquest of them as well as a payment And had our Redeemer not made a conquest of them had he been either pierced by sin or broken any point of the Law how then indeed could he have paid that death a ransom for us which had been due for himself Again not breaking these had he yet been any way held by death and Satan since tho the ransom was paid for sins past yet their dominion would have remained still in us for producing more How could he deliver us from this dominion from which he could not save himself In which terms the Devil once began to insult over him on the Cross thou that savest others c. How could he rescue us from death being himself detained in it how by his spirit in us destroy sin if that spirit could not raise him from the punishment of sin for all our spirit and life is only from and in him In whose death all our hopes were also dead 1 Cor. 15. 14. Therefore saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 15. 14 17. If Christ be not risen from death ye are yet in your sins See Rom. 4. 25. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Indeed we were not only prisoners for debt to Satan as an Officer of Gods justice Matt. 5. 25 26 but captives to him as Prince of this world and therefore our Savior was our Redeemer also in two senses from debt and from slavery by paying a ransom and by making a conquest which he throughly did For sin could not enter into him nor the law could not accuse him in any point nor could death tho it had him in its arms hold him Act. 2. 24. and so Satan also that had the power of death yet in his reviving from death was overcome Heb. 2. 14. by the power of the holy spirit raising him again from it See Rom. 1. 4. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Heb. 9. 14. Gal. 1. 4. And that he might be a pattern unto us in the way and of the victory of sufferings the manner he chose to conquer these enemies was by subjecting himself unto them and by making himself capable of their assaults and by suffering from them By comming in the likeness of sinful flesh he destroyed sin in the flesh by dying killed and triumphed over death In which Sampson slaying his enemies by his own being slain and Eliah raising the dead child by imitating the same postures were types of him Destroyed the Devils tempting by being tempted by him and in the likeness of the Serpent Numb 21. 9. Jo. 3. 14. being also made a curse like him cured the bitings of the Serpent by submitting to and most exactly keeping the law annulled it Thus he for his obedience being made Lord of the law Matt. 12. 8. and changing the ordinances delivered by Moses Jo. 4. 21. Col. 2. 13 14. Rom. 7. 24 25. Jo. 12. 31. Col 1. 13 14. and translating us out of the kingdom of darkness into his kingdom Tit. 2. 14. Redeemed us from iniquity for good works 2 Tim. 1. 10. abolished death 1 Thess. 1. 10. Delivered us out of the hands of justice Act. 13. 39. Eph. 2. 15. out of the hands of Moses's law And he triumphing first himself over them all thus set us also at liberty At liberty from them 2 Cor. 3. 17. Jo. 8. 32 36. yet not for our selves to be now our own Masters but redeemed us for his service for ever hereafter See 1 Cor. 6. 19 20. Rom. 14. 4 7.
c. Rev. 5. 9. 2 Cor. 5. 15. That we might be now espoused and appropriated to him and not yield our selves to any other whom he bought out of their hands with so dear a price for whom he paid to Gods justice so rich a Dowry as it was the ancient custome for the husband to pay not to receive a Dowry see Gen. 34. 12. Exod. 22. 16. even himself Eph. 5. 25. Tit. 2. 14. that henceforth we should glorifie him in our bodies and in our spirits which are his Tho indeed this our service of 〈◊〉 is our perfect freedom Again at liberty from them yet hitherto not absolutely Rom. 23. as neither is our Saviors conquest over them as yet perfect in respect of his members tho it be for himself See Luk. 21. 28. Eph. 4. 30. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Rom. 16. 20. Why is it not Because so it seemed good to his wisdom by and for and to whom are all things as he made not perfect the world all at once but successively nor sent this Author of redemption before the latter end thereof so neitheir to make perfect our redemption all at once For indeed had sin and consequently the law and death and Satan upon our Saviors resurrection been utterly destroyed why should not all the Faithful that were before his coming as well as we since have enjoyed the same priviledg Again thus the world must have ended at our Saviors first coming 1 Cor. 15. 26. But the compleating of our redemption is reserved to his second Luk. 21. 28. Eph. 4. 30. Eph. 1. 14. and we see not yet all things put under our Savior in this manner For it pleased God to make our Savior only the Captain and we also but this wholly thro the strength of him who is the Author and finisher of our Salvation partners in this conquest giving us arms and strength to fight them but not victory without our fighting too after the same manner as did our Savior It pleased him that we should yet a while longer suffer the assaults of sin but repel them overcome the Devil but not without being tempted and death but not without suffering it and the law but not without obedience to it Lastly that in these things we should suffer in some sort for our Savior i. e. for his honor as he did for us i. e. for our wickedness that herein all virtues might more be exercised and Gods glory thro opposition more exalted It remains then we enquire next How much of our redemption is performed already by this our Saviour First tho some sin is hitherto still inherent in us yet we are restored to the spirit of God lost by Adam Rom. 8. 23. and 1. by it commanding now within us freed from the dominion of sin for the future In which respect we are said to be dead to sin Rom. 6. 11. And 2. by the price that was paid upon the Cross freed from the guilt and imputation of sins past in the time of sins former raign in us 2. 1 Tho we are still tyed to the obedience of the law moral yet we are freed from the law Ceremonial it being only typical of the things which were fulfilled in Christ. At his death when he cried consummatum est tho before he both observed it himself and commanded it also to others see Luk. 2. 21. Matt. 10. 5. -15. 24. -8. 4 he freed us perfectly from this 2. Again freed from the condemnation of the law Moral both 1. By having our former debts to it discharged by him and so this bond that was kept against us cancelled and nayled thro upon the Cross Eph. 2. 15. Col. 2. 14. 2. And freed by grace given us from that inability we had heretofore to perform it by being now enabled to observe it in all the parts thereof tho not without some defects And there is now no sort of sin how natural how customary soever uncleanness intemperance revenge c. but we have sufficient ability thro Christ to master conquâ—…r triumph over it so as never to commit any one more consummate act thereof if we will but use those weapons the spirit affords us prayer c. Insomuch as that we shall admire upon tryal the strange transformings of our selves and the great goodness and power of Christ. â—…3 And in those deficiencies by being delivered also from the curse of it thro Christ by repentance and faith in him Act. 13. 38 39. Nay yet further freed not only from the condemning power but from the commanding and directing power of the law Mosaick not that we now are without law 1 Cor. 9. 21. but that we have it much fuller then it was before in the Tables written in our hearts by which we walking in the spirit and being filled with love do all things commanded in the law by the demonstration and power of the Spirit see those places much to be noted Gal. 5. 13. 1 Tim 1. 5 9. Gal. 3. 19. Rom. 8. 15. And thus we are said to be dead to the law or it to us Rom. 7. 4. Gal. 2. 19. Dead to the former delivery of it by the giving of which we were not able to perform it as now we are when it is given us by the spirit for the law is given twice at the first by Moses written in Tables of Stone so a killing letter afterward by the spirit written on the heart and so 't is a quickening spirit that now doth the work of the law which law abides for ever Matt. 5. 18. 2 Cor. 3. 6. see Heb. 10. 11. 2 Cor. 3. 7 8. the difference of the ministrastration of the spirit and the ministration of Moses Rom. 8. 2. 3. Tho we are still subject to death yet we are freed already from the most considerable death from that eternal and from the fear of the temporal yea we are now inviting and desiring it as an entrance into our Saviors presence and eternal bliss Nay further taking pride to conquer it the same way our Lord did and turning all the preparatives thereof diseases infirmities c. by willing patient cheerful suffering thereof into matter of advantage and reward so that we had been less happy in a greater present conquest Phil. 21 23. Again freed as our Savior was Heb. 5. 7. tho not from suffering it yet that we shall not perish in it but after a while be recovered from it Therefore harmless now it hath changed its name in the new Testament Scriptures and is called a sleep 1 Cor. 11. 30. In which respect we are said already to be passed from death to life Jo. 5. 24. 4. Tho we are still subject to the temptations of Satan yet are we freed from his former power in and over us Act. 26. 18. by the more powerful spirit of God which is now greater in us then he that is in the world 1 Jo. 4. 4. And the strong man now cast out by a
general i. e. in respect of all persons and of all Covenants made with and promises made to them but only to those times in respect of the covenant of works which then by the errour of many of the Jews the children of works was generally more looked after then the Covenant of faith which had then but few followers see Rom. 9. 31 32. when also the one Covenant was more largely and legibly drawn in great Characters the other put forth more obscure and in a lesser Print and a veil drawn over it 2 Cor. 3. 14. till the fulness of time was come Therefore also the former times had the denomination of the times of the law the latter of the Gospel And again in respect of the literal promise under the law of felicity in the earthly Canaan Therefore where the Apostle saith established on better promises understand there those typical ones of earthly Canaan made to Israel at the promulgation of the law Or opposed to those times in general but this only first in respect of the diverse administrations of the former times with many troublesome ceremonials and types to be afterward abolished and of the degrees of the greater manifestations in the latter times of the way of salvation being void of shadows types and figures all these now being brought to perfection and accomplishment in the incarnation of the Son effusions of the Spirit enlargement of the Church promulgation of an Heavenly country instead of an Earthly Canaan and from these greater manifestations many more of the children of works becoming now the children of faith And from its stronger beams as well those illuminated who before sate in darkness Luk. 1. 79. and midnight as this light increased to those who had before some dawnings thereof And secondly in respect of the accomplishment of those promises to the faithful of the former ages which are made thro Christ spoken of Heb. 11. 13 14 16. In which they could not be compleated and perfected before the times of the Gospel neither in respect of the body they waiting for the restorement of that till those of the Gospel are glorified with them nor according to the reverend opinion of Antiquity in respect of the soul they not having the kingdom of heaven laid fully opened unto them till our Saviour was first entred in thither See Eph. 1. 10. Col. 1. 20. Heb. 11. 39 40. -12. 23. For indeed the performance and perfection of the mystery of mans redemtion was a thing only received in the last daies And tho the virtue of Christs incarnation is communicated alwaies to all men yet not the latter times on the former but the former depend on the latter for the substance and ground of their hope and salvation Jesus Christ come in the flesh These having the body of which body coming toward them the other had the shadow Col. 2. 17. And in these respects the times of the Gospel are said to have so much advantage of those of the law we seeing in a clear glass Gods glory they thro a thick veil we 2 Cor. 3. 13. standing in a clear whereas the best of them in a dim light and the most of them in utter darkness See Matt. 13. 17. -11. 11. 1 Cor. 2. 10. c. 2 Cor. 3. 7. c. Here note that the oppositions of the times that are used in the other heads preceding in which I follow only the phrase of the Holy Scriptures are by these limitations so to be interpreted as that they no way contradict the doctrine of this last chapter FINIS §. 1. Jâ—…sus Christ the truth in the fulness of time Sent. § 2. § 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. §. 4. § 5. Anointed §. 6. A new Law-giver for the law moral 1. Expounding it 2. Requiring stricter obedience 3. Denouncing heavier judgments §. 7. Ministring the spirit § 8. Abrogating the letter § 9. For the law ceremonial Cancelling it § 10. 2 An Apostle of the Gospel §. 11. Preaching it §. 12. Remitting sins giving the Holy Ghost admitting into the kingdom of Heaven §. 13. Before his departure ordaining others §. 14. Transferring his authority to them §. 15. § 16. §. 17. Assisting them from Heaven §. 18. §. 19. Those ordaining others to the end of the world §. 20. He assisting their Successors for ever §. 21. The Apostles also delegating to them the authority received from Him §. 22. The truth of our Saviours doctrines c. attested by 1. Scripture 2 Spirâ—…t 3. Miracles 4. Death §. 23. And a resurrection The way § 1. Christ an Example 1 In doing the work In all obedience to Gods commandements Moral §. 2. Ceremonial § 3. 2 In all sufferings for righteousness sake §. 4. 2 In receiving the reward §. 1. Christ Mediator of the new Covenant §. 2. Enlarged Established 〈◊〉 â—…tter promises §. 4. § 5. The blood of this â—…ovenant §. 6. The Death ratifying this Testament § 7. Performance of tâ—…e promiâ—…es put into his hands revived §. 1. Christ the Sacrifice §. 2. §. 3. §. 4. §. â—… 〈◊〉 1 Sin-offering for remission of guilt §. 6. 2 For puriâ—…ing uncleannesses §. 7. 3 Holocavst §. 8. 4 Eucharistical Peace or thank-offering §. 9. §. 9. §. 10. By eating of which we have Communion 1. with God 2 With his Son and all that is his §. 11. 3 With the Saints and all that is theirs §. 12. And are preserved in both soul and body unto life eternal §. 13. 4 The â—…over § 1. 5. Mans debt to and bondage under 1 Sin §. 2. 2 The law §. 3. 3 Death § 4. 4 Satan 1 As the executioner of Gods justice 2 As Prince of this world §. 5. §. 6. Christ our Redeemer 1 By paying a ransom freeing us from debt §. 7. 2 By making a Conquest freeâ—… us from slavery §. 8. Our Redemption not yet fully perfected §. 9. And why §. 10. How much already performed 1 In respect of sin §. 11. 2 Of the law §. 12. Of Death §. 13. Of Satan § 〈◊〉 §. 1. Christ the second Adam Dependent 〈◊〉 God the Father Before his Incarnation §. 2. Much more after it §. 3. Assuming the infirmities of human nature § 4. Receiving the perfections of it from God his Father §. 5. §. 6. §. 7. A Covenant made with the second Adam as with the first involuving his seed §. 8. He fulfils it By walkâ—… 〈◊〉 a quite contrary way to the first §. 9. §. 10. Receives the reâ—…ard For himself For â—…is sâ—…d 1 The Spirit 2 Life §. 11. His particular benefits 1 As our â—…ead communicates absolution from sin by his death for it § 12. Baptism incorporating us into his death The Sacrament of pardon §. 13. 2 As our â—…ead communicates righteousness or life spiritual by his Resurrection 1 〈◊〉 us to perform 〈◊〉 2 Compleating our imperfect righteousness 3 As our head communicates glory or life eternal in our resurrection §. 14. 1 Effected by the same spirit
Phil. 4. 13. Jo. 15. 5. Therefore also we find the Apostles being to go away by vertue of the perpetual continuation of the assistance and influence of the great Bishop of the Church our Lord transferring their Commission again to others as namely St Paul to Timothy and Titus and this also as themselves received it 2 Tim. 1. 6. Giving them also the name of Apostles 2 Cor. 8. 23. and Phil. 2. 25. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 14. 4 14. where Barnabas ordained by the Church is called an Apostle investing them with authority not only of preaching and administring the Sacraments but of holding Ecclesiastical Courts receiving accusations and that against Presbyters as well as others and providing more plentifully for the more industrious amongst them 1 Tim. 5. 17 19 21. 1 Cor. 5. 12 13. Rev. 21. 2. agreeable with that of Matt. 18. 17. Of correcting and that publickly in the Court 1 Tim. 5. 20. Of silencing and separating the refractory 1 Tim. 1. 3. Tit. 1 5 11. -3. 10. compare 2 Tim. 2. 21 19. from iniquity i. e. such error comp 17 18 20. 1 Tim. 6. 5. 2 Tim. 3. 5. 1 Tim. 5. 11. Of absolving and forgiving 2 Cor. 2. 7 10. Above all transmitting to them the charge tho no doubt the Church had then some of the Gospels at least and perhaps more of St Pauls Epistles which he took order might be made common then now we because by those that remain we perceive some are lost of keeping the form of Doctrine they had learnt of them and of preserving the Commandement that was committed unto them without spot 1 Tim. 6. 14 20. 2 Tim. 1. 13 14. John to the Angel of Sardis Rev. 3. 3. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard and hold fast And lastly the charge of ordaining others and giving them in charge the same doctrines till the coming of the Lord Jesus Tit. 1. 5. 1 Tim. 5. 22. -1. 3. -6. 14. Such Ecclesiastical government was then ordered by them in Ephesus and in Crete c. Therefore we may presume the same was established every where else first both because of the Apostles special endeavour of uniformity in Churches 1 Cor. 4. 17. -7. 17. -11. 16. Secondly and because we find in the Church-History the same government de facto to have been in all the rest as it was in that of Ephesus where Timothy resided in Crete where Titus and also find every where the like Catalogues of their Bishops and so in the Revel the Angel of Ephesus the Church wherein Timothy was placed by St Paul no way differing from or more single then the rest of other Churches Thirdly and again because we find such Government without the mention of any opposition which must needs have been in the purity and fresh memory of those times upon any innovation especially so universal and in this case of some mens usurping preeminence sooner then in any other without the mention I say of any opposition either of the inferiour Clergy or of the superior Apostle St John living some time after the settlement of these Episcopal Governments The continuation of which Government so uninterruptedly ever since as well in the most adverse as the most prosperous times of the Church is the greatest argument that can be that it hath our Lords protection and that it was his first institution and that it shall continue yet longer even till the end Now the Authority of this our Lord's Legislatorship and Apostleship and the Truth of his Revelations and doctrines newly manifested to the world Our Saviour confirmed and shewed to come from God a question the Jews often asked him First by the Testimony of the writings of the old Testament those of Moses Jo. 5. 45 46. and those of the Prophets Rom. 16. 26. Luk. 24. 47. Matt. 22. 32. And by the Testimony of John the Baptist who succeeded these and was more then a Prophet Jo. 5. 32 33. 2ly By an irresistible power of the spirit accompanying him teaching c. He delivering this Gospel with great authority not like others Matt. 7. 29 never man speaking like Him Jo. 7. 46 to the astonishment of all the people crying out what wisdome is this Mark 6. 2. and no man being able to answer Him a word Matt. 22. 46. 3dly By miracles of all sorts Jo. 5. 36. -10. 38. Act. 2. 22. Jo. 3. 2. 4ly By undergoing all sufferings and at last by laying down his life for the truth and being martyred rather then recant it witnessing before Pilate a good confession 1 Tim. 6. 18. and telling the unjust Judge that he came for this end into the world to bear witness to the uttermost unto the truth Jo. 18. 37. and therefore called the faithful Martyr Rev. 1. 5 Where note that as our Lord used great silence as to the vindicating of his innocency before persons self-convinced and as he told them Luk. 22. 68. that would upon no account absolve him yet no way to betray the Truth Which upon all occasions he most freely confessed tho upon this his Confession they grounded and he foreknew it the taking away of his life Thus on Thursday night in the Garden he went forth and met those who sought for him Jo. 18. 4. and freely told them who He was without their need of a Judas to disclose him and when they were startled and recoiled upon it a second time he told them it Jo. 18. 8. Brought before the High Priest and Council and there examined concerning his Doctrine he told them he had ever publickly declared it in their Synagogues in the Temple and that they could not want witnesses enow if any thing were condemnable therein Jo. 18. 20. When asked again more particularly not to inform their Faith as he well knew Luk. 22. 68. but as they used formerly to intrap him for his life whether he was the Messias Whether the Son of God Matt. 26. 64. Mark 14. 61. He now referred them not to witnesses nor asked them a counter-question but answered plainly I am Mark. 14. 62. and foreseeing that day of retribution that would be so terrible to them when he should sit on the Throne and they stand trembling at his Barr in great compassion adds further that whatever he then appeared nevertheless they should see him hereafter sitting as David had foretold Psal. 109. 1. on the right hand of the power of God and coming in the Clouds of Heaven to judge the world and among the rest them his Judges shewing also in this that he retained a magnanimity sutable to his person and that he kept his eye fixed on the future glory in the midst of these his Humiliations Upon this his confession which they thought sufficient to dispatch him being brought by them before Pilat the Judge to receive his sentence and there upon their accusation asked again whether he was the King of the Jews which was a Title equivalent to
then to carry the wood only the instrument whereon he was to suffer and to have his arms tyed But this sacrifice was not only offered up but the Altar much changed from that of the sacrifices under the Law That he might undergo a more accursed and painful and publick and long mactation Hang'd in a common place of execution full of skulls Matt. 27. 33. by the Highway side ver 39. between two thieves stript naked and surely which never happened to any besides whilst he was suffering those acute pains whilst the Serpent and death were thrusting their stings into him instead of pitty which is then but humanity all the world deriding him Ps. 69. 20. He looked for some to take pitty but there was none mocked reviled by the chief Priests Scribes Elders vers 41. by the Soldiers with their bitter gall vers 34. Luk. 23. 35. by the passengers vers 39. and that nothing might be a wanting by those miserable creatures too that were executed with him whilst his acquaintance stood a far off See Psal. 88. 7 8. c. Thus therefore he as the Lamb of God slain from the beginning in the types of other Sacrifices bestowed Himself on us and was offered unto his Father by us and for us a Lamb without spot and without blemish the only sacrifice acceptable unto God of a sweet smelling savour Eph. 5. 2. being an oblation devoted and consecrated to the Lord not only in his death but in all his life Rom. 12. 1. which said of us is much more true of him Nor only in his sufferings see Esai 53. 5. by his stripes we are healed but in all his obedience and service not pleasing himself Rom. 15. 3. or doing his own will in any thing but his Fathers Therefore saith he sacrifice thou wouldst not have Then said I lo I come to do thy will Ps. 40. 9. And this to fulfil not only one but all those ends for which those spiritual sacrifices under the Law were ordained and which they only obumbrated the body being of Christ. Col. 2. 17. Thro which sacrifice now we do not only receive remission of his sins pardonable only thro him but present all our Devotions praises thanksgivings acceptable only through him and obtain readmission into amity and fellowship with God and receive all deliverances and blessings temporal and eternal from God only derivable unto us through Him To whom be glory for ever Amen 1. Then He was the real Expiatory sacrifice for the sins of the world Matt. 26. 28. 1 Jo. 3. 1. answering to and fulfilling the type of the Legal sin-offerings both of that slain and burnt without the Camp according to which he also suffered without the gate Heb. 13. 11 12. the blood of which was carried and sprinkled before the Lord into the innermost Sanctuary upon the solemn day of Expiation once a year Levit. 16. cap. and into the outer Sanctuary at all other times Levit. 4. and 5. cap. according to which His also is now presented in the Heavenly Sanctuary Heb. 10. 19. -9. 12. -8. 2. of which the other place was but a shaddow and type Heb. 8. 5. And of that other scape-sacrifice Levit. 16. 21 22. which after the Priest had laid his hands upon its Head and confessed over it all the iniquities of himself and of the people was let go into the wilderness the like to which was also done in purifying of bodily uncleanness in a scape-bird Lev. 14. 7. according to which He also is said to be the Lamb of God that took and carried away the sins of the world after God had laid on him the iniquities of us all Esai 53. 6. who died so as that he also was delivered from death and as he was resembled by the one sin-offering in his being slain so by the other in his being raised again In which respect also leaven and honey which hath the same nature with it suddenly fermenting altering and corrupting things were forbidden and contrarily salt preserving things commanded to be used in all Sacrifices being types doubtless of that which is said of and was fulfilled in the true sacrifice Ps. 16. 10. Thou wilt not leave my soul c. which resurrection to life was a sign of Gods accepting this offering made for us as the Angel ascending to Heaven in the flame of the Altar was unto Manoah Judg. 13. 20 23. of the acceptation of his 2. Again he was the Real answering to the typical sacrifice under the Law the purifying of corporal uncleanness See Lev. 14. and 15. cap. As the blood of Bulls and the ashes of an Heifer sanctified to the purifying of the flesh so the sprinkling of his blood offered without spot to God purging the conscience from dead works c. Heb. 9. 13 14. see Heb. 9. 21 23. comp with Eph. 1. 10. Col. 1. 20. with which blood also as with that other cleansing composition there was running down from the Cross a mixture of water Jo. 19. 34. He not suffering the ordinary punishment of other Malefactors but as on one side a bone of him was not broken which was usual to represent the paschal Lamb so on the other side his pericardium and his very heart was pierced contrary to custome that blood and water the compound of our purification might be drawn out of his sacred side one for the expiation of us from the guilt of punishment for our justification in respect of sins past and the other for washing out of us the stain of sin for our sanctification from living in sin for the time to come Blood signifying our redemption by the effusion of his life and water signifying our regeneration by his effusion of the Holy Spirit Act. 2. 33. Jo. 7. 39. Matt. 3. 11. Therefore this was he saith the Apostle 1 Jo. 5. 6. that came by water and blood not by water only but by water and blood and he that saw them bare record Jo. 19. 35. And these also bear record the two Sacraments of the new Testament water in Baptism and blood in the Lords supper by which Sacraments in vertue of his passion our sins are now also remitted and cleansed See Act. 2. 38. Matt. 26. 28. And these two together with the operations of the Spirit â—…oyned with them shall bear witness on earth and seal the effects of this Sacrifice unto us to the end of the world 1 Joh. 5. 8. see Eph. 5. 26 27. 3. He was the Real Holocaust fulfilling the type of the legal burnt-offering In burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sin thou hadst no pleasure then said I Lo I come Heb. 10. 4 5. His only sacrifice being of a sweet smelling Savor unto God Eph. 5. 2. comp with Lev. 19. Exod. 29. 41. which the sin-offering alone was not Lev. 5. 11. Mumb. 5. 15. and therefore might have no Frankincense nor Oil upon it Lev. 5. 11. Numb 5. 15. In which only the Father was well pleased Matt. 3. 17. -12.
of him should not be broken tho theirs that suffered with him were That the Scripture might be in all things fulfilled in him And by the eating and the sprinkling of the blood of this as of that see Exod. 12. Lamb it is but we must do it with our staves in our hands and our loins girt as then i. e. prepared for another country that we obtain the true and everlasting redemption of which that other was but a type from Satan the destroying Angel and from all the plagues which are to fall upon the Spiritual Egypt of the reprobate world even upon all those who have no share in this Lamb who is worthy to receive power and riches c. because he was thus slain and hath redeemed us with his blood Rev. 5. 9 12. CHAP. V. Jesus Christ the Redeemer from Sin the Law Death Satan MAN made upright but under a Law not only disposed by the integrity of nature but enabled by supernatural grace to keep it upon his fall presently Gods justice substracting his violated grace first became a subject and slave ever since to the dominion of carnal concupiscence and of sin stiled also frequently the flesh The old man to obey it in all the lusts thereof and to bring forth perpetual fruits of unrighteousness See this tyranny of sin and slavery of man Rom. 7. 7. expressed so far as that he is said even to be not only captiv'd but slain by it Ver. 11. so Eph. 2. 1. Dead in trespasses c. and Rom. 8. 10. the body dead because of sin and sin reviv'd and I dyed Rom. 7. 9. see Jo. 8. 34. comp 32 35 36 44. Man did not abide in the house and family of God but lost his inheritance because of a Son of God Luk. 3. 38. he became a Servant to sin and a Son of the Devil 2. Upon this he presently incurred a second miserable servitude and bondage unto the law keeping him under as a strict Schoolmaster and still exacting its task of him Debtor to the whole law Gal. 4. 3. -5. 3 and no way able now as before by supernatural grace to perform it and he not performing it It presently wrought wrath against him Rom. 4. 15. pronouncing its curse upon him Gal. 3. 10. and so committing him a child of wrath Eph. 2. 3. into the hands of Gods justice 3. Now the penalty of this law not observed was death and so man became also subject unto bondage all the rest of his life thro fear of death Heb. 2. 15. The wages of his sin Rom. 6. 23. which also reigned over him Rom. 5. 14. the enemy of mankind and of all of them the last subdued 1 Cor. 15. 26. 4. Of this death Satan was to be the Executioner As the first creature that was the object so ever since and that not unwillingly made the instrument of Gods vengeance toward any other creature both comforting his own pains as it were with the society of their misery and satisfying his hate against God in any mischief upon his image And so upon sin we were presently seized upon by this Jaylor his Captives and prisoners reserved for destruction upon whom he inflicts also for the present all other miseries here suffered for sin See 1 Cor. 5. 5. 1 Tim. 1. 20. Ps. 78. 49. Exod. 12. 23. Rev. 9. 11. 1 Cor. 10. 10. 1 Chron. 21. 1. compared with 2 Sam. 24. 1. Luk. 13. 15 16. And therefore all venemous and noxious creatures to us are called his instruments Luk. 10. 19. But secondly we are not subject to him only as an Executioner and an inflicter of punishment but as the Prince the God 2 Cor. 4. 4. of this lower world that upon the departure of the good spirit presently possessed us as his best house and lodging here below Matt. 12. 44. Col. 1. 13. the spirit that worketh mightily saith the Apostle in the children of disobedience Eph. 2. 2. and we are become of Gods his children Act. 13. 10. Jo. 8. 44. And the lusts of him our Father now we do so that as in innocency we did no good but by the assistance of the good spirit so since the fall we hardly do any evil but by the suggestion of the ill spirit See Act. 5. 3. 1 Cor. 7. 5. 1 Chron. 21. 1. 1 King 22. 22. 1 Tim. 5. 15. 2 Cor. 2. 11. c. So that as he hath power as Gods Sergeant to inflict death at last so he hath power as Gods enemy in this his Kingdom of the Air of Darkness of this world to make us serve him while we live power both regal and paternal over us yet without either the protection of a Prince or affection of a Father making us do that only for which afterward he may punish us God indeed having put enmity between him and man from the beginning Gen. 3. He being told that at last he should be destroyed by the womans seed and therefore rejoycing in nothing so much as to destroy her seed Rev. 12. And into the hands of this his enemy was now man faln And him a very powerful and dreadful enemy Eph. 6. 12. For note 1. That as man hath not by his fall so neither the Devil by his lost all the priviledges of his nature and being permitted still his being is allowed also all the operations belonging to it retaining power and subtilty 2 Cor. 2. 11. Eph. 6. 11. according to the measure of the spiritual strength and knowledge of other Angels 2. That tho as man sinning was ejected out of Paradise so he out of the blessed place of his first habitation Jude 6. unto these lower and darker regions of the world called Prince of them because they are the place of his abode yet here hath he not received the final restraint and judgment for his sin which shall be passed upon him when upon others i. e. at the general day of doom as well for Angels as men see Rev. 20. 10. 1 Cor. 6. 3. 2 Pet. 2. 4. 3. That mean while in this dejection As God hath not taken away their natural power of hurting and seducing from wicked men so neither from the wicked spirits which power the Devil exerciseth as a tempter toward the good and as a Prince over the wicked in this his kingdom of the air Only as God restrains the power of wicked by the opposition of good men so of the wicked by the opposition of good Angels of the Holy Spirit of Christ himself King over all and both evil men and angels by the secret limitations of his providence Job 1. 10. and restrains those so much more who are less resistable and this more in respect of some then of others the children of God being more protected from his seducements by a greater power of the Holy Spirit residing in them c. 1 Jo. 4. 4. Luk. 22. 31. the children of disobedience more abandoned to his will and commands 2 Tim. 2.
promiseth to pray the Father for them who was greater then he and therefore they might rejoyce they had such a friend with him see Jo. 14. 16 28. -16. 7 26. tho he assured them of his Fathers great affection to them for his sake even in case himself should not pray for them 3. His long many whole nights and assiduous practises of prayer here on earth doubtless for them and us tho importuned with so much other business S. Peters suddain repentance and tears Matt. 26. 75. came from his intercession Luk. 22. 32. 4. If we consider the matter of that one only long praier of his that is set down Jo. 17. after his work was finisht here and he was to leave his Disciples here on earth to the custody of his Father Ver. 12 13. And some part of his Church now and till the end of the world having the same necessities Many sheep that were not of that fold of whom he saith also that he must bring them in Jo. 10. 16. How can he not continue for them the same petitions till he be made compleat also in the whole Church his body Neither praied he then for his Apostles alone but for them also that should believe on him thro their word vers 20. for our sanctification vers 17. for our perfecter union with him and the Father in this world vers 11. 21. for our glorification with him in heaven vers 24. Perfectly knowing every ones infirmities A particular Advocate as any one of his Servants Heb. 5. 9. sinneth procuring remission 1 Jo. 2. 1. and infinitely pitying every ones condition An Advocate as any one of his is tempted and afflicted procuring succour and watching that their suffering may not be beyond their ability Heb. 2. 18. and perfectly foreseeing all their dangers An Advocate begging deliverance from future evils as he did here on earth for Peter when Satan would have sifted him but I have praied for thee that thy faith fail not Luk. 22. 23. and going away for his Disciples left behind Father I desire not to have them quite taken out of the world but keep thou them in it from the evil vers 15. from their powerful and invisible enemy and from all those wolves among among whom I leave them Think we then the Shepheard of Israel now sleepeth But we must not let this pass un noted That his Intercession who is alwaies heard for he asketh according to the will of God Rom. 8. 27. never asketh such things as God hath decreed by no praiers to be exorable in As to be capable of his mercies and favors there are some dispositions prerequisite in the person See Ezek. 14. 3 5 14. For such therefore as want these our Savior perfectly knowing his Fathers will can ask nothing absolutely that is against it Tho with a velleity if you will now as when he praied in the Garden for himself or for his enemies when on the Cross Luk. 23. 34. he desires or wisheth mercy even for all even for those who shall never receive any Velleity I say qua hoc vellet si aliud non obsisteret but his intercession with an absolute will which is alwaies conform to his Fathers and so alwaies fulfilled by his Father is not general and for all so we might think it frustrated but for those that are or will be rightly disposed and are or are to be of his Church even as the High Priest carried in before the Lord only the names of the twelve Tribes I pray for them saith he I pray not for the world Jo. 17. 9. not for those who have the devil for their Father 1 Jo. 3. 8. not for the man of sin and those persecutors of his Church Against whom we may imagine he now deprecates his Fathâ—…r in behalf of the Church in that form Rev. 6. 10. How long Lord c. Ps. 44. 9 17. and Zech. 1. 12. How long c. which Angel was the Son of God and receives from him that answer in the Psalmist Ps. 110. 1. Sit thou on my right hand till I make c. whom he will at last uttâ—…rly destroy at his coming for there is a sin we may not therefore neither doth he pray for 1 Jo. 5. 16. And this much more indears his intercessions unto his since they are not common for all and let us take heed least there be in any of us an heart of unbelief Heb. 3. 12. either not to enter at all or to run out of this fold either not to be ingrafted into or to be cut off from his body and so be made uncapable and loose our share of such dear intercessions and omnipotent praiers by virtue of which 't is not possible for the elect to miscarry Matt. 24. 24. 2. And as this our High Priest intercedes and offers up his own praiers for us so he offers up all ours too For God under the Gospel is served with spiritual sacrifice as under the law he was with carnal both with sin-offerings our Confessions and peace-offering our giving of thanks of praise and glory unto him and Free-will-offerings our restraint of some lawful liberty when this any way conducing more to his service and whole burnt-offerings our resignation and dedicating of all we have and are to the promoting of his glory So our praiers are called Incense and the morning and evening Sacrifice Rev. 5. 8. Ps. 141. 2. Our praise the calves of our lips See Heb. 13. 15. comp with Hos. 14. 2. Ps. 50. 14 15. preferred before all the Herds on the Mountains all our words and actions even to our eating and drinking required to have a special dedication to God Col. 3. 17. 1 Cor. 10. 31. And as all our actions that are by the soul so all our passions and sufferings that are by the body are sacrifices too and much more properly such then the former so both those mortifications and crucifyings of the flesh by our selves whether for the wiping away or for the prevention of sin and killing of our brutish lusts now instead of slaying of beasts or our patient and contented undergoing those sent from God for sin are no mean sacrifices see Ps. 51. 16 17. Thou delights not c. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart c. And those sufferings in the flesh from others for righteousness sake or for the glory of God or for the benefit of our Brethren when we instead of the blood of Beasts offer up our own to God and undergo Martyrdom for his sake this is the highest sacrifice of all and so St. Paul calls his 2 Tim. 4. 6. Phil. 2. 17. 2 Cor. 12. 15. And these sufferings also our Savior presents to God as he doth those of his own body for we also are his body and as he offers up himself so us to the Father Tota congregatio societasque sanctorum universale sacrificium offertur deo per sacerdotem magnum Aug.
duration with his justice because his mercies endure for ever to pardon us for nothing Nay when his favours are built upon our repentance 't is the same tho not so short a way of pure mercy We have no goodness but that some grace prevents it It only makes its own way 't is only it that invites itself and prepares its own lodging and if we would find out the beginning of Gods mercies we can go only from one to another in infinitum who makes first that repentance which he afterward rewards and gives us first to ask those favors which he gives us for asking To return to the subject in hand Now in this time of greatest necessity God sent Moses whose law was given for a light to the feet of the sons of faith as for a letter of condemnation to the sons of Belial About 400 years after Act. 13. 20. when the Israelites were quite declined from the pious steps of their forefathers and the word of the Lord upon it for a long time had been rare and precious See Judg. 2. 10. 1 Sam. 3. 1. God sent Samuel David c. 500. years after this all relapsed into idolatry and in their captivity little amendment see Ezra 9. 1. Zech. 7. 5. c. just when ten foredecreed Sabbaths of years for the land whose Sabbaths among other things by them were not observed see Lev. 26. 34. 2 Chron. 36. 21. were run out God for his names sake sent a restorement of their Church and government by Zerubbabel and Joshua Near the end of 70 Sabbaths or weeks of years i. e. 490 years Dan. 9. 25. after this when we know what a miserable condition the Church of God was in from the wickedness of the High Priest the superstition and hypocrisie and false doctrines of the Pharisee when there was now hoc dignus 〈◊〉 nodus God sent his son to reform all things Heb. 9. 19. And we may gather also from Rom. 11. 26 27 28 29. that the last conversion of this nation shall be only for Gods promise not their repentance And indeed who so considers that from God proceeds all our reformation as well as his blessings for and upon it for all the effects of mercy must wholly acquiesce in him and acknowledg all things alwaies done for his own sake nothing for ours These sâ—…t and foremeasured times of performing these purposes of God the Evangelist hath otherwise observed in the 14 generations that were between those great Epocha's of Abraham and David David and the Captivity Captivity and Christ. Matt. 1. 17. And now what can hinder Gods goodness or decay the Church since 't is plain that sin cannot God preserving it not for its holiness but his glory To whose power Satan is so far inferior that tho he is permitted to work much sin in the world yet was he never nor never shall be able to frustrate by sin any of the least of Gods designs And therefore that supposition is not pious of his assisting the Church so far as she neglects not her duty which is only promising that the Church shall not if it doth not fall away for so doubtless it had been long since many times over perished And Gods enemy have had the universal Monarchy of this lower world But as from him only it is that the Churches faith continues so his promise that she shall not is also that her faith shall not fail see Luk. 22. 32. comp with Matt. 16. 18. And the motives of Gods protection of Her are now the same as of old wherewith his servants upon the rising of his indignation against her alwaies conjured him i. e. not respect to her righteousness but the care of his name least it either the power or glory thereof should be polluted amongst Christs spiritual enemies Satan and his Angels and temporal Antichrist and his worshippers whilst he seemed unable to protect her Hence the jealousy of Gods and Christs name amongst the Mahometans now no less then amongst the Heathen before shall secure Christianity See Numb 14. 16. Who is now also as jealous as ever of his honor and saith as of old Ps. 46. 10. I will be exalted amongst the Heathen c. Or the truth and faithfulness thereof should be aspersed amongst his servants after so many promises and oaths made for besides those latter of the new Testament even that old one to Abraham which was concerning his spiritual seed is no way yet canceld or expired if he should appear unready to preserve her See Exod. 32. 13. And in that great judgment Matt. 24. 21. from which some are saved he saith not for the righteous but for the elect tho e daies shall be shortned i. e. for his election of some to whom he will shew mercy which election Rom. 9. 11. is of God calling not man working who creates repentance as well as shews favor upon it and who of a sudden brings an holy generation out of a corrupt Whose omnipotency delights to exercise it self in changing even curses themselves into blessings As we see in the curse of Adam Satans mischiefs upon Eve being the occasion in cursing him of promising the blessed seed Gen. 3. 15. In the curse of Babel by it peopling the world Gen. 11. 8. -10. 2. c. Of Levi's race Gen. 49. 7. whos 's scattering in Israel became their preeminence in the imployment of the ministry of holy things Numb 16. 9. Of Christ Gal. 3. 13. the killing of whom by Satans great plotting and malice became the salvation of the world The Babilonian Captivity which 't is observed much advanced in the world the knowledg of the true God and prudent laws The prosecuting of the death of Stephen and destruction of the Christians by which the Gospel was spread over the world Act. 8. 4. Onesimus his running away Philem. 15. his conversion Glory be unto his omnipotency and wisdom out of weakness producing strength and good out of evil Amen And again whose unsearchable counsel doth not ty and restrain it self to prosper all good intentions and pious designs of those who are zealous for propagating his Church either by converting Heathens to the christian faith or Heretical Christians to the truth And this only because his preappointed time of mercy to such a people is not yet come who for their sins are yet longer to suffer the just judgment of blindness and error And it is not for men to know the times and seasons which the Father hath put in his own power much less to take up the sword unbidden in his cause being an Engine he hitherto hath not used to promote religion And perhaps therefore it hath been tho I am perswaded sometimes drawn out of pure zeal to Gods honor hitherto so unsuccesful Witness those many unfortunate attempts uppon the Mahometans in several parts by Christian Princes in the Holy war By Lewis 9th by Charles 5th c. Towards which enemy of
by which his 2 Effected by him §. 15. The Eucharist iucorporating us into his life The Sacrament of Union §. 16. All tâ—…ese Benefits depend on our being made his 〈◊〉 §. 17. Which we are by the derivation to us of his nature â—… His Spirit §. 18. Given to us upon Faith and Repentance §. 19 Our new birth at our Baptism Not 〈◊〉 perfected §. 20. By this spirit the image of Christ first formed in the soul. It s mighty working in the soul oâ—… the like graces to those in Christ. His 〈◊〉 in the soul not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this life Umbra in lege Imago in Evangelio veritas in coelo S. Ambros. §. 21. 2 Shall be also in the body hereafter Wâ—…en we shaâ—…l more propâ—…y be the 〈◊〉 of God It s mighty working in the body of the like glory to that in Christ. §. 21. Before the resurrection as we so our Head not compleat §. 22. The diverse relations of Christ to us as second Adam Father Children Husband Wife Root Branches Foundation building Elder younger brethren Configuration as wrought by â—…im so to be advanced likewise by us §. 1. The Holy God not admitting to his service the approach of sinners But of some chosen and consecrated persons in their behalf Some ministring at a greater distance tâ—…e Levite Some nearer The 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 line only §. 2. And nearer yet the High Priest His Office §. g. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Priesi 〈◊〉 imperfect decaying and except typically 〈◊〉 §. 4 This Order Expired Jesus Christ the true High Priest 〈◊〉 li 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nature 2 In the 〈◊〉 thereof Called to this office and anointed by God Of the order of Melchisedeck i. e. Regal and Eternal §. 5. This Holy Priest offering the sacrifice a sin-offering §. 6. After this entring into the Sâ—…nctum Sanctorum Without which his office had been imperfect and ineffectual §. 7. He entring thro the heavens to the true sanctuary The vail of the other being now rent and it made common 1 The description of this Sanctuary §. 8. 2 Of his person entring §. 9 〈◊〉 in the sacrifice And sprinkling the blood before the Lord. §. 10. Making Intercession 1 In presenting his own prayers to the Father for us §. 11. 2 In presenting also our praiers and oblations to the Father The sacrifices and oblations of Christians §. 12. §. 13. 3 In procuring our admission to deliver them our selves unto the 〈◊〉 §. 14. The benefits of his intercession Procuring us the Holy Spirit from the Father And all blessings spiritual and temporal Himseâ—…f imâ—… conâ—… them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 §. 15. As High Priest intercessor answering to Aaron So by his royal Priesthood Captain of Gods people answering to Moses 2 To Joshua And the forerunner into the place of rest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 §. 16. The substitutes of this Priest in his own necessary absence here on earth 1 To present his sacrifice 2 To make intercession for the people §. 17. This honor of Priesthood from Him to be communicated to all his Brethren In some sort alâ—… they officiating in it here on earth But shall more compleatly after tâ—…e day of judgment Being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 as He. And serving God for â—…ver 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Temple 2 Priests also in some sense in the soul after Death §. 18 A glympse of the after-death condition of the souls of the Blessed §. 19 This High Priests at the last day return out of the Sanctuary and reappearance to the people §. 1. Before our Saviors incarnation God the 〈◊〉 by him created sustained governed the whole world And more specialâ—…y the Church §. 2. Our Saviors descent from his eternal throne for mans sake §. 3 A kingdom promisâ—…d to man at â—…first §. 4. Our Savior became man and by obedience and sufferings gained it And so by him all Adams postevity that follow him §. 5. The power and extent of Christs kingdom â—… Over Angels Good Eâ—… 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 Souls â—…odies 4 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 5 Sins to remit to retain them 6Over living over dead The last Judge 1 Of men brought back to life 2 And also Angels The good and the bad â—…ter of 〈◊〉 and â—…ments 7 〈◊〉 all the Creaâ—…ures A new world to be made by Him As men have seen some pieces of it by him repaired §. 6. The manner of exercising this his Regal powâ—…r §. 7. Which is by certain degrees advancing §. 8. 1 In respect of subduing his Enemies 1 Antichrist 2 Satan 3 Death 2 In respect of enlarging his dominion 1 To the Jew in part 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 To the Jew Apostatized §. 9. At last perâ—… 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 § 10. The three Ascents of his throne §. 11. The whole work 〈◊〉 all his members câ—…mpleated â—…mies conquered resigning up his ingdom to the Father §. 12. §. 1. The Old world had not only the types but the benefits of the promises Had the presence and conduct of the sâ—…n of God â—…nd the presence and assistance of the Holy Spirit §. 2. The Government of the old world by the Son §. 3 All judgments and vengeance §. 4. Executed by the second person of the Trinity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 §. 5. Of an 〈◊〉 having 〈◊〉 Attributes §. 6. Some old Testament apparitions must be granted to be of the second person From these granted others in reason cannot be denyed As those to Abraham To Noah To Jacob c. That to Moses on Mount Sinai on the 〈◊〉 In the Wilderness In the Temple c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 §. 7. The descent of the Hoâ—…y Ghost under the old Testament Some sprinklings then of all its gifts It s 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in some 〈◊〉 men And specially on the sons of the Prophets § 8. The 2 Covenants from the tâ—…e Two generations alwaies One of works the other of faith §. 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seth the first Father of the Holy Race Enos Enoch 〈◊〉 §. 9. Of tâ—…e covenant of Grace made or rather renewed with him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 type of Baâ—… Of the Eucharist §. 11. Shem The Lord called the God of Shem. §. 11. Abraham Of the Covenant of Grace renewed with and the Gospel preached to him And of the Sacraments belonging to it David The same Covenanâ—… renewed to him The Prophets Of Gods frequent renewing of the covenant of grace to his people by them §. 12 And by extraordinary Teachers constantly reforming the Church at certain times when much declining 〈◊〉 his true worship and least deserving it As by Enoch Noah Abraham § 13. Moses Samuel and David Zerubbabel and Joshuah His own Son §. 14 God for â—…ver preservinâ—… the 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 to its 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 own 〈◊〉 purpose and pleâ—…sure §. 15. The eminent promulgatioâ—… of the Covenant of Grace 430 â—…ears seniour to that of the law The Gospel preached to the same people when the law was The law to the children of faith coâ—…sistent with subservient to and no way annâ—…lled by the Covenant of Grace or the Gospel §. 16. Tho to the children of works a killing letter Yet 〈◊〉 to drive them made sensible of their inability forward into tâ—…e Covenant of Grace §. 17. The two ministrations of the law by Moses and the spirit by Christ how and how not opposed The Ancients had a waies the same way of salvation as the latter times §. 18. §. 19. The same justification and sanctification The same obedience tâ—…en required and performed §. 20. The Parallel precepts under tâ—…e law to those under the Gospel §. 21. The same sufferings and mortifications c. required and undergone Consider the old Testament mortifications Temporal afflictions of the godly Of single persons godâ—…y Of nations godly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Under the new Testament temporal prosperity in some sense to the godly § 22. 3 The same rewards eternal then promised Punishments eternal threatned The common belief of all nations concerning these Of the Ancient 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a resurrection of the body The scriptures of the old Testament Concerning a resurrection Concerning eternal bliss after it of the faithful Eternal punishment of the wicked Paena damni Paena sâ—…nsus §. 2â—… Conclusioâ—…