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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93882	Pantalogia. The saints abundance opened. / By Thomas Sterry preacher of the gospel. Published at the earnest intreaty of some friends. Imprimatur John Downame.	Sterry, Thomas.	1646 (1646)	Wing S5488; Thomason E355_28; ESTC R201127	14,218	28

in his tender heart and soul Thou hast ravished or taken away my heart c. Cant. 4.9 Of this friend's especially it is true the heart is not so much where it lives as where it loves By distinction of persons Christ and a Saint are two by union in affection he is theirs This as one branch is that unity which is the beleevers band of comfort Fourthly as their Advocate The expression is politicall a sublime title of office implying a Subject imploy'd after this way for another and as thus spoken of Jesus Christ we read it 1 Joh. 2.1 We have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ who as it is his office makes intercession for us Rom. 8.34 that is continues the mournfull act of his sacrifice after this manner The same body which in beleevers steads with strong cries and tears was upon the crosse once offered now virtually in the heavens with as strong prayers he still so offers up for them to the Father So that in this act of oblation for them his person is as an Advocate theirs And now lastly God the Spirit is abundance yea theirs as the Father's gift with Jesus Christ to them In one breath you may read all three Tit. 3.5 And renuing of the holy Ghost v. 6. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as relating to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which holy Ghost he the Father in a distinction from his Son and Spirit she●…n us abundantly by Jesus Christ Abundantly on us is here joyn'd with the Father's effusion of his Spirit declaring thereby it's signification to be an abundance and that theirs by the Father's gift To this Spirit also hath a beleever then as true a title as to the Father and the Son To them the promise the Father shall give you another Comforter the Spirit of truth Joh. 14.16 17. is fulfill'd Upon them the Father hath poured him forth They have him actually in possession peculiarly in title he is theirs Now as the other two persons had their distinct relations in which they were made over this hath his proper work in which he is theirs viz. This Spirit is their onely light by which they see all things necessary for them to see of the Father and Jesus Christ God hath made sence and reason lights in their own sphears to this world of nature but in the deep things of himself these are darknesse to a Saint As it is written eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared 1 Cor. 2.9 But mark what follows God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit for he searcheth all things yea the deep things of God v. 10. And in v. 12. We have received the Spirit which is of God that we might know the things c. 'T is the proper work of this Spirit to sound these depths for from eternity he lived in the bosome of the Godhead and was privie to all in God and Jesus Christ 'T is his onely too to make them known As an inhabitant therefore he is said to dwell in beleevers 2 Tim. 1.14 Into whose minds to whose souls he continually bringe them Here shines the Saints light in a mistery they know these things not theoretically but feelingly as this Spirit reveals them Thus as well as I am able little of much have I set before you the relations of these persons of glory in which God freely makes himself over to his creature and not all but some yet by these few imperfect lineaments the spirituall sence of that Christiano-Platonicall thesis one was all and all one may be in some sort conjectured For this Trinity indeed is but One and that one a beleevers ALL. This is the close of the first Question Quest 2. What comfort hath a beleever more by having this ALL FREELY GIVEN him than by injoying it any other way Ans A great deal In the injoyment it is unspeakable full of glory Consider this All but simply as a gift so it was neither bought nor borrowed Deeds of Sale and Loan have each their trouble viz. Laerge expence short injoyment And were this all made over by either of these the creature must pay for it and at last part with it If the first their Stock not amounting to the ten thousandth part of the price they must then either go without it or be undone in the purchase Or if not so should God but lend Himself his Son his Spirit a time would come when but justly he would look for his own again Would not this then be as bad as the former The Creature would be undone in the surrender But now the Father hath burthened them with neither of these What they have they have by gift Herein then lies that which is better felt then spoke one peice of their comfort viz. With a price they are not troubled of a parting with they are not afraid This all though in respect of Christ it is true the Saints are bought with a price costs them nothing and is theirs to eternity Consider it again as a free gift And here if you would rightly understand the Answer of the Question have recourse in every particular as the sound passeth by your ear to the chearfull workings of your own soul Are the Saints intitled to are they possessed of All freely All then is theirs without reluctancie Jer. 30.18 The Father the proper giver waits to be gracious In his eye a chearfull giver is of great esteeme 2 Cor. 9.7 for he himself delights to give chearfully All such acts toward his own go not to but from his heart All is theirs without any motive externall Among men the glory of a gift's freenesse consists in the voluntarinesse of the spirit we use not therefore to call that free to which a man is outwardly provok'd Were God thus moved to give Himself Son and Spirit to a Saint a gift it might be but not free That therefore which he doth by deed of gift comes from a principle within him his love Joh. 3.16 that his gift might appear plainly to be free All is theirs without Condition The Father gives it not according to the Law but the tenour of the Gospel He binds not his Creature in the act of donation to the performance of Articles for their interest in his gift but bestows where he pleaseth without these Conditions it is true may perchance sometimes stand with a gift but they are alwaies limits to the freenesse of it that then which is bounded cannot be free This great gift therefore is unconditionate Thus I have done with the Doctrinall part Vses Now to close all give me leave my dear friends to speak thrice to you 1. First an Information Are beleevers thus possessed of All things in the injoyment of Jesus Christ They are then the onely rich men Rich absolutely rich incomparably none so rich nor truly so as they

yea the Deep things of God Take now that your souls may suck at the breasts of Consolation two questions of worth from this Doctrine Quest 1. Wherein doth the ABVNDANCE of a beleeving soul which is these Deep things of God ALL THINGS given fully consist or what more particularly these deep things these all things Answ The holy Trinity one God blessed for ever bestowing himself upon a creature in those sweet relations mentioned in his Word is these deep these All things in whose inward injoyment after this way which is a mysterie hid to the world consists as theirs the Saints abundance From this Answer take three notes The first is the Father is All things the Son is All things the holy Ghost is All things yet not three divided but one All things so that the beleevers abundance is to be conceived not onely to lie in the unity of the Godhead but also in the distinction of persons The second is the relations of the Father of the Son of the holy Ghost downward to the creature are equally common to each of them as one God but distinctly peculiar as three persons The Father bestowing therefore of these All things upon the creature is not onely the free manifestation of community in relation in the unity of the Godhead but also of peculiarity in the trinity of persons The third is a beleevers propriety in this gift so as he can sencibly say My abundance is by an inward relative sence of this Vnity in Trinity Thus God is All things thus he is Given thus as the abundance to the Saints Here 's wine and marrow a misterious peice of heaven displaid in each person in the Godhead which not many wise not many mighty can perceive but is freely reveal'd to tender babes First God the Father is All things abundance Ephes 3.19 That ye might be filled with all the fulnesse of God These words for their conexion their explication refer you to vers 14. viz. For this cause I how my knees to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus that is he prayeth to God the Father and for what besides other things for this as one that the beleeving Ephesians might be fill'd with his own fulnesse which may sound thus That they might have abundantly of him even all things that might make them perfect before him This person therfore freely bestows himself upon such as he bestows his Son that together with him they might have this abundance this all things A mans gift saith Solomon maketh room for him Prov. 18.16 Jesus Christ is the gift of this person and wheresoever he is there is his Father too He is there by deed of gift after the same way as Jesus Christ is So that a beleever may lay claim to him yea as truly to him as to Jesus Christ He may challenge him for his own and all that he hath as freely truly really as any thing that he injoyes in the world For the right that he hath in himself is not more firm proper unquestionable than that which a beleever hath in him it being a way of undeniable propiety which is the deed of gift in which he hath past himself over to his creature By this act and deed he makes himself over in a double relation As a Father to them God in Covenant with them First as a Father It is that which he speaks of himself 2 Cor. 6. ult I will be a Father to you Here as to behold both let your eye equally fall but with a distinct look upon the person I and the relation Father for this latter onely serves as a respective accident under which the first is referr'd and made over to the creature justified Which is done by deed of gift freely giving himself over to them I will be to you thus this person of glory becomes a Father But what is it for him to be thus related or what to give over himself as a Father A sublime mistery swelling with sweetnesse thus opened The reference of himself to them according to a mutuall objective coexistent dependance Here vulgar thoughts of Dependancie are apt but suffer them not to grow over rank This persons is only paternall such as is an inseparable conjunction of a Father and his child in their relative Existencies in their Diffinitions The one which of them soever it be cannot be so nor so call'd but by this dependance Ask what is a Father how comes he to be so Do we not answer One that hath a child and because he hath a child Transpose the termes what is a child how comes it to be so One that hath and because it hath a Father Thus he depends thus mutually Objectively as directly pointing each to other the Father to his child and the contrary in a distinction from all things subjectively depending on their substance in which they inhere Contemporarie are they too neither thus existing before or after each other but both together The Father indeed as a man the agent begetting is said to be the cause and so is in Nature before the begotten but a father the one is not till the other is a child and so he depends coexistently Of this person and a beleever as thus allied according to adoption is all this affirmed Inseparately are they for ever conjoyn'd yea so as abstract the one from the other and neither can be what thus they are neither can be thus call'd passe by our Saviours sonship of eternall generation Come to a beleever's by free adoption and he is their Father he comes to be so as they are his children adopted and because they are so His paternity their sonship have for their basis a mutuall dependance Between these to hinder the object of each others eye flies no gloomy cloud but both like the eye of day darting its beams upon the centure of the Creation are still looking upon still pointing each to other One thought of either excludes darkens neither but takes in both For touching a beleevers sonship what mind can passe a thought and in the same not include this persons paternity They are children as he is because he is their Father And which is more both relations in priority claim an equall priviledge His paternity to them precedes not their sonship neither is first or last they co-exist He is not to them a Father till they are children by adoption to him Secondly as a God in Covenant Of this way too of giving himself himself speaks Hebr. 8.10 I will be their God one article and that on Gods part are these words of a Contract a Covenant everlasting new between God and man For matter it is himself God for manner ●…deed of gift I will be theirs In the first unbound your thoughts and in some particulars inclose not him who hath in one word God given over himself without limits He will be their God not in some one attribute onely or in more but he in All gives himself