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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07876	The excellencie of the mysterie of Christ Iesus Declared in an exposition, or meditation vpon the 16. verse of the first epistle of Saint Paul vnto Timothie.	Moffett, Peter, d. 1617.	1590 (1590)	STC 18247; ESTC S114252	40,698	147

euidently be declared and more fully concluded That trueth wherein is showed and whereby is prooued that God hath been manifested in the flesh iustified in the spirit seene of Angels preached among the nations beleeued in the world and receiued vp in glorie is great by one assent and without all coutrouersie The mysterie of godlynes is that truth wherein al these things are shewed and whereby they are demonstrated The mysterie of godlynes therefore is great by one assent and without all controuersie The last part of this reason hath in the beginning of this sentence been set down which ought not to seeme strange vnto any namelie that the conclusion is set in the first or second place seeing this is an vsuall thing both in the Scriptures and in all good Writers The middle part of the proofe is contained and expressed in the conclusion of this sentence which now we are to proceede vnto and consider The first part of the sillogisme is included in the last words of the verse going before wherein was affirmed that the whole Church of God vpholdeth this excellent truth Now although the Apostle had not insinuated any such matter as that the trueth which testifieth or proclaimeth such wonderfull and profitable things as here are set down is great by one assent or without controuersie yet this is so cleare a a point that it seemeth to bee written with the beames of the sunne not to neede any further speach or proofe To the end then we may not goe about to light a candle where it shineth clearely brightly but be led forward as it were to perfection and to the ende wee may the better vnderstand this chiefe principle of Christian Religion God hath beene manifested in the flesh let vs a while consider the nature of the heauenly godhead As cōcerning the power wisdō Rom. 1.19 Maiesty of the godhead it is in some part or sort made known vnto vs by the creatures and especially by the Scriptures Wherefore whosoeuer shall say with Pharaoh Exod. 5.2 I knowe not God shall shew himselfe herein a lier or a prophane person But as touching the nature or form of the Lords being 1. Tim. 6.16 it is a thing so incomprehensible in it selfe that men are by no meanes able fullie to vnderstand it yea without Christ they cannot saue onelie in small measure darke manner conceiue what it is For that knowledge of God which is conueighed into mē onelie by certaine titles giuen him or by the creatures is bur such a cōceauing of his Maiestie as the patternes of things in this world Rom. ● 20 leade the minde vnto and ingender As for example when the Lord is called the Lord of Hosts in this title we rather see his works than him or if wee see him in any measure it is by the helpe of earthlie creatures by comparison as it were not simply by himselfe Againe when we conceiue him as perfectly wise iust mercyfull Act. 14.16 17. wee rather rife to the knowledge of his effects than of his being by the consideration of these vertues which being in men by measure are properties and qualities onelie howsoeuer being in GOD without measure they are things essentiall Exod. 3.14 Now as touching the great titles of Iehoua the eternal I am or I will bee and such like whereby God in scripture is often called they shew by those creatures which are substances mouing and subsisting in the World Reu. 1.4 that the Lord hath a being by himselfe and for himselfe but that he is a perpetuall infinite vnchangeable glorious essence cannot so well be gathered by the sight of fraile 1. Per. 1.24 mutable and base creatures as is manifested by Christ Iesus The gospel of Iohn 1 18 Heb. 13.8 both God and man who is the same to day and to morrowe and for euer and in whome the whole Godhead dwelleth bodily Neither in deed ariseth vnto man any sparke of sound comfort at all Ephe. 4.18 out of the beholding of the nature of the godhead alone Rom. 2.1 as it is seuerally or confusedly considered by it selfe without Christ but rather so glistering a light and flame is able to cause the most strong and piercing eye in the world to dazle and the most hardie and valiant hear to quake for horror Wherefore we are alwaies when wee turne our fight toward the Godhead with a certaine reuerent and discerning spirit to looke vpon three persons hauing their being therein as vpon three Sunnes in one Mat. 2.19 it I may so speake with that profound diuine Nazianzen who oft most singularly writeth of this matter all of the same nature glorie eternitie and perfection The first of these persons is the father Mat. 3.17 who as he is without all beginning so this person caused from eternitie the two other persons Heb. 1.3 and this father worketh from himselfe by his sonne and by his spirit The second person is the sonne who as he was eternally begotten by the person of the Father only Ioh. 3.16 Heb. 1.3 so from him as the fountaine being himselfe as the streame hee worketh by the holy Ghost as the conduit pipe if that I may so speak and by earthly things in some rude sort shadoweth out these heauenly which nothing in the World can fully or in all respects represent or expresse Ioh. 15.26 The holy Ghost is the third person in trinitie proceeding from the Father and the sonne working from them both immediatlie by himself in such sort as that not onely he quickeneth the whole worlde but sanctifieth the whole Church For he euen he replenisheth with graces the Angels he inspireth the Prophets hee teacheth the Lawgiuers wisedom Basil ho. mil. de side he sanctifieth the Ministers of the word he maketh Captaines valiant he absolueth the innocent hee aduaunceth those that are modest hee worketh gifts of healing hee reuiueth the dead hee looseth the captiues hee maketh strangers children by adoption It he finde a beleeuing Publican he maketh him an Euangelist If he be in a Fisher man he frameth him to be a Diuine If he get a repentant persecutor hee appoynteth and fashioneth him to bee an Apostle of the Gentiles a preacher of the Gospell an elect vessell By him the weake are made strong the poore rich the ignorant and those which are void of eloquence become euen wiser than the wisest Al the which workes with infinite more are also wrought by the Father the Son 1. Ioh. 5.17 and not onely by the holie Ghost but as these three persons are distinct in properties which cannot be communicated to each other as the Father in that he is vnbegotten the Sonne begotten the holy Ghost proceeding so they differ in the manner or order of their workes which in common they put into execution 1. Cor. 8.6 seeing the Father beginneth the worke from himselfe the Sonne worketh it from the