A
Scriptural
and
Rational
Account
of
the
Christian
Religion
.
THE
invisible
Things
of
God
from
the
Creation
of
the
World
are
clearly
seen
,
Rom.
1.20
.
being
understood
by
the
Things
that
are
made
,
even
his
Eternal
Power
,
and
Godhead
,
so
that
all
Men
are
without
Excuse
.
Rom.
2.15
Consequently
there
is
implanted
in
every
intellectual
Mind
a
Conscience
of
Good
and
Evil
,
accusing
or
excusing
,
according
to
the
Work
of
the
Law
written
in
their
Hearts
;
Act.
24.25
.
so
that
there
cannot
but
be
Trembling
at
the
Apprehension
of
Judgment
to
come
.
For
the
Elements
of
a
Rational
Creature
are
dependent
upon
the
Creator
for
Life
,
Deut
.
30.20
.
(
God
is
our
Life
,
and
the
Length
of
our
Days
)
and
for
a
Rule
of
Action
,
which
can
be
no
other
than
the
Will
of
God
,
the
only
Eternal
Reason
of
Good
and
Evil
:
Not
any
thing
being
antecedently
good
to
the
Unchangable
,
Eternal
,
Holy
Will
of
God
.
Also
for
the
End
and
Felicity
of
Being
,
Prov.
16.4
.
which
is
the
Glory
of
God
,
including
the
Salvation
of
the
Immortal
Creature
.
God
made
Man
upright
in
his
Image
,
Eccl.
7.29
.
engraved
his
Mind
with
a
Law
,
Rom.
2.15
.
holy
,
just
and
good
;
a
Rule
of
perpetual
Righteousness
,
&
1.12
.
to
direct
and
judg
all
Human
Affections
and
Actions
.
1
Joh
.
3.4
.
But
Sin
,
which
is
the
Transgression
of
the
Law
,
alienated
Man
from
the
Life
of
God
,
Eph.
4.18
.
who
thereby
becoming
vapid
and
unprofitable
,
Rom.
3.23
.
fell
miserably
short
of
the
Glory
of
God
,
subjected
the
Creature
to
Vanity
,
Rom.
8.20
.
Vexation
and
Death
;
renounced
the
all-sufficient
Goodness
,
Truth
and
Soveraignty
of
the
Infinite
Almighty
Creator
,
God
blessed
for
ever
:
Shall
not
then
the
Judg
of
all
the
World
do
right
?
For
according
to
his
Fear
due
to
his
Infinite
Perfections
,
Psal
.
90.11
and
Absolute
Dominions
,
such
is
his
Wrath
in
the
Execution
of
Vindictive
Judgment
upon
all
Sinners
;
so
that
if
there
could
be
an
Intermission
of
this
providential
Circulation
,
an
immediate
Deliquium
of
the
Universe
must
ensue
.
The
conscientious
Awe
of
this
being
the
only
real
Security
of
Human
Relation
and
Society
:
There
must
then
upon
every
hainous
Offence
be
either
Satisfaction
to
Justice
,
or
the
Execution
of
Justice
.
Both
which
intirely
and
absolutely
depend
upon
and
proceed
from
the
Will
of
God
,
which
cannot
be
liable
to
any
finite
Thought
or
Assignation
.
Isa
.
40.13
,
14.
Who
hath
directed
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
,
or
being
his
Counsellor
,
hath
taught
him
?
With
whom
took
he
Counsel
,
and
who
hath
instructed
and
taught
him
in
the
Path
of
Judgment
?
Rom.
11.33
.
O
the
Depth
of
the
Riches
both
of
the
Wisdom
and
Knowledg
of
God!
the
Riches
of
his
Grace
hath
abounded
towards
us
in
all
Wisdom
and
Prudence
;
Ephes
.
1.7
,
8
,
9.
according
to
his
Pleasure
,
which
he
hath
purposed
in
himself
.
Rom.
3.26
.
&
4.5
.
To
declare
his
just
,
and
the
Justifier
of
the
ungodly
which
believeth
in
Jesus
.
The
Institution
and
Hope
of
this
Redemption
was
revealed
to
our
first
Parents
,
under
the
forlorn
Consternation
of
their
Fall
,
when
God
gave
the
Promise
of
the
Seed
of
the
Woman
to
bruise
the
Serpent's
Head
.
Gen.
3.15
.
In
the
Scriptures
relating
the
History
of
the
World
,
and
of
the
Church
before
the
Ministry
of
Moses
,
it
hath
not
pleased
the
Holy
Ghost
to
speak
particularly
of
the
Institution
of
Ceremonial
Worship
and
Religion
.
But
as
from
Adam
to
Moses
,
Death
,
the
Wages
of
Sin
,
reigned
;
now
Sin
is
not
imputed
when
there
is
no
Law
;
for
Sin
is
the
Transgression
of
the
Law
:
So
likewise
the
Salvation
of
the
first
Patriarchs
,
and
of
the
whole
Church
of
God
,
particularly
of
Abel
and
Enoch
,
could
not
be
obtained
but
by
Faith
in
the
promised
Mediator
,
without
which
it
was
impossible
to
please
God
.
Neither
can
Faith
be
separated
from
Obedience
to
a
Word
of
Command
and
Promise
.
The
Object
of
Faith
being
from
the
beginning
,
even
Jesus
Christ
,
the
same
yesterday
,
and
to
day
,
and
for
ever
.
The
Expression
of
the
Prophet
Jeremy
,
is
to
this
most
apposit
,
Jer
.
17.12
.
A
glorious
high
Throne
from
the
beginning
is
the
place
of
our
Sanctuary
:
That
is
,
from
the
beginning
of
God's
reconciling
the
World
to
himself
.
Jesus
Christ
the
Lamb
of
God
,
slain
from
the
Foundation
of
the
World
,
was
the
only
and
necessary
Mediator
of
the
Covenant
of
Grace
between
God
and
Man
for
Redemption
,
and
Remission
,
also
for
Intercession
and
Acceptance
,
Heb
.
5.9
.
who
so
became
the
Author
of
Eternal
Salvation
to
all
that
obey
him
.
Obedience
then
to
the
revealed
Will
of
God
is
the
indispensable
Duty
of
all
true
Worshippers
of
God
with
Acceptance
.
It
pleased
God
in
gracious
Condescension
to
Human
Frailty
,
before
the
Fulness
of
Time
came
that
Jesus
Christ
should
offer
up
himself
,
once
in
the
End
of
the
World
,
when
he
appeared
to
put
away
Sin
by
the
Sacrifice
of
himself
,
in
that
mean
time
to
institute
Sacrifices
which
were
not
voluntary
Devotions
by
the
Will
of
Man
,
either
gratulatory
to
God
,
or
representative
to
the
Offerer
,
but
exact
Performances
according
to
the
express
Precept
of
God
.
For
,
as
Lactantius
says
,
God
only
can
teach
how
he
would
be
worshipped
.
The
Evidence
of
this
also
appears
from
the
words
of
holy
Scriptures
,
Heb
.
11.4
.
concerning
Abel
offering
a
more
excellent
Sacrifice
,
by
which
he
obtained
Witness
that
he
was
Righteous
,
which
could
not
be
unless
his
Sacrifice
were
entirely
and
only
such
as
God
commanded
;
so
that
being
dead
,
he
yet
speaketh
,
and
instructeth
us
in
this
great
Truth
,
That
there
can
be
no
Righteousness
in
any
Religion
,
but
as
it
is
the
Observance
of
the
Word
of
God
.
It
evidently
also
appears
,
that
Sacrifices
were
of
Divine
Institution
,
because
they
were
only
to
be
such
Offerings
of
Beasts
and
Fowl
,
as
were
not
by
natural
Distinction
,
but
by
positive
Command
,
selected
to
be
clean
and
made
capable
to
be
sacrificed
;
all
other
Species
being
excluded
as
unclean
.
In
the
next
place
,
must
be
understood
the
right
End
and
Intention
of
Sacrifice
.
The
Scripture
speaks
expresly
,
Heb
,
9.22
.
&
10.4
.
that
without
shedding
of
Blood
there
is
no
Remission
of
Sin
;
yet
the
Blood
of
Bulls
and
Goats
could
not
avail
to
make
the
Worshipper
perfect
:
so
that
the
continual
Sacrifice
daily
offered
,
and
all
other
extraordinary
Burnt-offerings
occasionally
appointed
by
the
Law
,
were
merciful
Surrogations
of
Typical
Propitiations
with
respect
to
Christ
,
whose
Blood
only
could
take
away
the
Sins
of
the
World
:
Heb
.
13.20
,
21.
Whose
Blood
,
being
the
Blood
of
the
everlasting
Covenant
,
could
only
make
the
Comers
unto
God
perfect
.
Man
being
made
in
Honour
,
did
not
therein
abide
,
but
became
like
the
Beasts
that
perish
.
Also
being
raised
up
to
Hope
in
the
Promise
of
Grace
by
Jesus
Christ
,
they
apostatized
quickly
,
becoming
vain
in
their
Imagination
;
Rom.
1.21
,
25.
and
their
foolish
Heart
being
darkened
,
changed
the
Truth
of
God
into
a
Lie
,
and
worshipped
and
served
the
Creature
more
than
the
Creator
,
who
is
blessed
for
ever
.
Notwithstanding
there
remained
in
the
Hearts
of
the
Heathen
Idolatrous
Nations
a
Conviction
,
that
there
was
a
necessity
of
Propitiatory
Sacrifices
to
appease
the
Wrath
,
and
atone
the
offended
Justice
of
Divine
Majesty
.
Profane
Histories
are
full
of
continual
Instances
of
the
Solemnities
of
Sacrifices
Ilastical
to
appease
the
Wrath
of
God
:
All
which
Offerings
were
feigned
and
imposed
,
as
if
divinely
authorized
and
instituted
:
And
the
Ceremonies
relating
thereunto
,
stiled
Mysteries
,
as
being
the
visible
Signatures
of
spiritual
Intention
and
Efficacy
.
For
tho
the
Medium
and
Object
of
propitiatory
Worship
by
the
Heathen
,
were
vain
and
false
;
yet
most
rational
was
the
indelible
Conviction
of
the
necessity
of
Propitiation
and
Atonement
towards
God
for
the
Remission
of
Sins
committed
by
the
Rebellion
and
Apostacy
of
Human
Creatures
.
The
Mystery
of
Godliness
,
great
without
Controversy
,
1
Tim
.
3.16
.
represents
God
manifested
in
the
Flesh
,
believed
on
in
the
World
.
This
is
the
Mystery
of
God
,
Col.
2.2
.
and
of
the
Father
,
and
of
Jesus
Christ
.
The
Explanation
of
which
is
,
That
God
was
in
Christ
,
2
Cor
.
5.19
,
21.
reconciling
the
World
unto
himself
,
not
imputing
their
Trespasses
unto
them
:
For
he
hath
made
him
who
knew
no
Sin
,
to
be
Sin
for
us
,
that
we
might
be
made
the
Righteousness
of
God
in
him
.
This
Reconciliation
and
Remission
is
always
expressed
under
the
Notion
of
Ransom
,
Atonement
,
Redemption
,
Propitiation
and
Expiation
;
all
which
is
to
be
performed
by
the
Death
of
a
slain
Sacrifice
:
Heb
.
9.22
.
For
the
Scripture
testifies
,
without
shedding
of
Blood
there
is
no
Remission
of
Sins
.
Heb
.
10.1
.
But
it
is
not
possible
that
the
Blood
of
Bulls
and
Goats
should
take
away
Sins
.
The
Divine
Justice
could
not
take
Pleasure
in
any
Sacrifices
which
were
offered
(
tho
by
the
Typical
Law
)
for
Sin
,
so
as
thereby
to
receive
Satisfaction
.
Therefore
when
the
Son
of
God
came
into
the
World
,
a
Body
was
prepared
for
him
,
therein
to
do
the
Will
of
God
;
by
the
which
Will
we
are
sanctified
through
the
offering
of
the
Body
of
Jesus
Christ
once
for
all
.
For
it
is
only
the
beloved
Son
of
God
,
Heb
.
9.14
.
in
whom
God
can
be
well-pleased
with
Sinners
,
even
through
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
who
through
the
eternal
Spirit
offered
himself
without
Spot
to
God
;
who
purgeth
our
Consciences
from
the
dead
Works
of
Sin
,
to
serve
the
Living
God
:
For
by
one
Offering
he
hath
perfected
for
ever
them
that
are
sanctified
.
Heb
.
10.14
.
Therefore
to
imagine
any
Possibility
of
the
Pardon
of
Sin
without
the
atoning
Propitiation
and
Satisfaction
only
obtained
by
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
is
an
evil
Figment
to
palliate
the
desperate
Wickedness
and
Sinfulness
of
Sin
,
to
make
void
the
Law
of
perpetual
Righteousness
which
is
the
indispensible
Rule
and
Judg
of
all
Affections
and
Actions
,
and
doth
indeed
effectually
contemn
and
blaspheme
the
infinite
Majesty
,
Holiness
and
Justice
of
God
,
the
Creator
and
Preserver
of
all
Beings
;
and
,
consequently
,
miserably
deprives
a
Sinner
of
that
strong
Consolation
given
by
God
to
those
that
fly
for
Refuge
unto
Christ
,
Heb
.
6.18
.
to
obtain
by
his
Resurrection
(
the
Evidence
of
his
compleat
Satisfaction
to
Divine
Justice
)
the
Answer
of
a
good
Conscience
.
The
Worshippers
thus
purged
,
Heb
.
10.2
.
as
the
Scripture
saith
,
having
no
more
Conscience
of
Sins
,
Isa
.
53.6
.
the
Lord
having
laid
on
him
the
Iniquities
of
us
all
,
who
do
the
Work
of
God
,
to
believe
on
him
whom
he
hath
sent
.
For
this
is
the
true
Cabala
,
the
faithful
Saying
,
1
Tim
.
1.15
.
and
worthy
of
all
Acceptation
,
That
Christ
Jesus
came
into
the
World
to
save
even
chief
Sinners
.
In
the
Cases
of
Life
and
Death
according
to
universal
Justice
in
the
World
,
it
is
fatal
not
only
to
be
an
Outlaw
,
flying
from
Justice
,
Mute
in
refusing
to
answer
Justice
;
but
it
proves
no
less
mortal
to
suggest
a
Plea
which
the
Law
will
not
allow
.
If
a
Criminal
condemned
to
die
be
favoured
with
some
Reprieve
,
and
then
by
the
Soveraign's
Commission
intrusted
with
an
important
Imployment
,
the
faithful
Discharge
of
that
Trust
is
meer
Duty
,
but
not
Merit
;
and
he
remains
still
a
condemned
Malefactor
,
liable
to
the
former
Sentence
by
the
Law
of
Attaint
and
Death
,
from
which
not
any
thing
can
deliver
but
a
Pardon
from
the
Soveraign
,
laid
hold
on
,
and
legally
pleaded
by
the
Criminal
.
It
is
thus
according
to
the
Rule
of
Righteousness
,
between
the
Judg
of
all
the
World
and
every
Mortal
Creature
,
that
God
might
be
just
,
Rom.
3.25
,
26.
and
the
Justifier
of
him
which
believeth
in
Jesus
.
Therefore
we
must
not
be
ignorant
of
Satan's
Devices
;
the
Popish
Doctrine
of
Merit
,
by
Works
sprinkled
(
as
they
say
)
by
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
1
Tim
.
4.1
,
2.
available
to
Justification
and
Salvation
,
is
an
Antichristian
Departure
from
the
Faith
,
and
the
teaching
of
Lies
in
Hypocrisy
:
For
there
cannot
be
any
Work
possible
to
be
accepted
by
Divine
Justice
,
but
what
is
an
Act
of
Obedience
to
the
Law
;
and
the
best
Performances
of
such
is
but
,
as
our
Saviour
saith
,
Luke
17.10
.
that
of
an
unprofitable
Servant
;
When
we
shall
have
done
all
those
things
which
are
commanded
us
,
we
must
say
,
We
have
done
that
which
was
our
Duty
to
do
.
Therefore
the
Observance
of
a
present
Duty
(
the
Neglect
or
Male-performance
whereof
would
be
criminal
Guilt
)
cannot
in
any
just
Construction
be
assumed
or
imputed
to
expiate
a
precedent
Transgression
guilty
of
Felony
and
Treason
.
Yet
this
Truth
doth
not
in
any
degree
exempt
from
the
Obedience
of
Faith
,
which
is
the
inseparable
and
indispensable
Obligation
and
Duty
annexed
to
the
Covenant
of
Grace
:
So
that
there
is
not
in
the
least
degree
any
Pretence
for
Antinomian
Libertinism
.
Tit
.
2.11
,
12.
For
the
Grace
of
God
that
bringeth
Salvation
,
hath
appeared
to
all
Men
;
teaching
us
,
that
denying
Ungodliness
and
Worldly
Lusts
,
we
should
live
soberly
,
righteously
,
and
godly
in
this
present
World
:
Because
Faith
unites
us
to
the
Principle
of
Life
,
and
works
in
us
by
Love
,
which
is
the
Operation
or
Activity
of
Life
,
in
the
fulfilling
of
the
Law
.
There
is
also
another
Method
of
the
Depths
of
Satan
to
cloud
the
Glory
of
God's
free
Grace
,
and
the
compleat
Merit
of
Christ's
Satisfaction
and
Righteousness
,
and
also
to
shake
the
Confidence
of
a
Sinner's
Hope
to
obtain
Remission
and
Acceptance
,
by
suborning
the
Act
of
Faith
to
share
in
the
Merits
of
Christ
.
Now
how
weak
and
unreasonable
this
Supposition
is
,
will
appear
by
the
Consideration
of
parallel
Cases
of
Civil
and
Natural
Instances
in
Judicature
:
Tho
the
guilty
Person
cannot
have
Benefit
unless
he
plead
the
Royal
Pardon
,
yet
there
is
no
Virtue
in
the
Plea
and
humble
Claim
,
but
only
in
the
extensive
Validity
of
the
Pardon
.
Likewise
in
desperate
Sickness
,
or
deadly
Wound
,
the
healing
Virtue
is
not
in
the
meer
Application
,
or
receiving
the
Sovereign
Balm
,
or
Elixir
;
notwithstanding
the
Patient
cannot
be
healed
without
the
Reception
or
Application
of
the
Remedy
.
Thus
it
is
with
a
Sinner
before
the
Divine
Tribunal
:
Faith
believes
the
Truth
and
Goodness
of
the
Promise
,
and
embraces
and
relies
upon
it
;
that
is
,
upon
the
Redemption
purchased
by
Jesus
Christ
for
compleat
Salvation
from
the
Condemnation
and
Corruption
of
sinful
Death
,
for
reconciliation
and
Acceptance
with
God
,
and
for
Participation
of
Eternal
Life
which
is
in
Christ
Jesus
,
to
be
communicated
to
all
those
who
by
Faith
receive
Christ
,
and
so
have
an
Union
of
Life
with
Christ
.
Now
as
in
the
Body
the
Artery
and
Nerve
is
the
Ligament
,
the
Vessel
and
Conveyance
for
vital
Union
and
Motion
unto
all
the
Members
by
the
Blood
and
Animal
Spirits
:
So
Faith
to
the
Soul
is
a
Means
of
vital
Union
with
Christ
,
and
of
the
Application
and
Merits
of
Christ
.
All
which
is
effected
by
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
2
Cor
.
5.17
.
James
2.26
.
without
which
we
are
none
of
Christ's
,
and
Faith
it self
is
dead
.
The
Look
of
one
stung
with
the
deadly
fiery
Serpent
to
the
Brazen
Serpent
,
had
no
share
in
the
healing
Virtue
of
that
Divine
Ordinance
;
yet
without
looking
up
to
the
Brazen
Serpent
,
the
Person
stung
could
receive
no
Benefit
,
but
must
die
.
So
Faith
hath
no
justifying
Virtue
inherent
in
it self
:
For
what
may
prevail
to
justify
,
must
make
the
Conscience
perfect
.
Consequently
the
Efficient
of
Perfection
must
of
it self
be
perfect
;
but
Faith
cannot
be
such
,
for
it
is
not
of
our selves
,
Eph.
2.8
.
it
is
the
Gift
of
God
.
Now
whatsoever
is
received
,
is
received
according
to
the
Measure
and
Capacity
of
the
Recipient
,
which
being
the
weak
and
frail
unstable
Heart
of
Man
,
it
cannot
be
perfect
;
but
as
the
Law
was
weak
and
faulty
through
the
Flesh
,
so
even
the
Gift
of
Faith
is
not
able
through
the
remainder
of
Corruption
to
perform
any
perfect
Work
.
Therefore
the
Scripture
represents
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
under
the
Notion
of
the
most
tender
Compassion
to
the
weak
in
Faith
,
Isa
.
42.3
.
Mat
.
12.20
that
he
will
not
break
the
bruised
Reed
,
nor
quench
the
smoaking
Flax
,
but
will
bring
forth
Judgment
unto
Victory
:
which
proceeds
not
from
any
Virtue
and
Power
inherent
in
the
Work
of
Faith
,
but
from
the
Righteousness
and
Strength
,
Isa
.
〈…〉
which
only
is
to
be
found
in
the
Lord
Jesus
by
perishing
Sinners
,
who
fly
for
Refuge
unto
the
Hope
that
is
set
before
them
,
Jesus
Christ
the
Son
of
God
.
Even
as
the
Man-slayer
under
the
Law
could
not
be
secure
from
the
Avenger
of
Blood
,
if
he
were
found
out
of
the
City
of
Refuge
;
it
was
only
the
City
of
Refuge
which
conferr'd
and
established
his
Preservation
and
Safety
:
So
the
Sinner
cannot
be
saved
from
Wrath
to
come
,
without
Faith
in
Christ
.
But
the
Propitiation
according
to
the
Will
of
God
,
by
the
Blood
of
the
Everlasting
Covenant
,
can
only
make
a
Sinner
perfect
before
the
Tribunal
of
God's
infinite
Justice
.
Therefore
to
assign
any
degree
of
Ability
to
any
Act
of
Faith
as
meritorious
of
Justification
,
is
to
usurp
upon
Christ
,
and
to
incur
the
severe
Animadversion
of
the
Almighty
.
Job
40.14
.
Then
will
I
confess
unto
thee
,
that
thine
own
Right-hand
can
save
thee
.
The
everlasting
Covenant
of
Grace
is
ordered
in
all
things
and
sure
:
2
Sam
.
23.5
.
For
the
Foundation
of
God
standeth
sure
,
2
Tim
.
2.19
.
having
this
Seal
,
The
Lord
knoweth
them
that
are
his
.
And
,
let
every
one
that
nameth
the
Name
of
Christ
depart
from
Iniquity
.
Psal
.
50.16
.
But
unto
the
wicked
God
saith
,
What
hast
thou
to
do
to
declare
my
Statutes
,
or
that
thou
shouldst
take
my
Covenant
into
thy
Mouth
?
These
Scriptures
fully
evidence
,
that
altho
the
Covenant
of
Mercy
to
Sinners
is
established
only
in
the
free
Grace
of
God
,
and
the
meritorious
Satisfaction
and
Righteousness
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
;
yet
there
remains
an
utter
Incapacity
in
any
Person
to
partake
actually
of
the
Benefit
thereof
,
Rom.
8.9
.
until
by
the
Spirit
of
Christ
(
without
which
not
any
can
be
Christ's
)
he
be
born
again
,
and
made
a
new
Creature
.
For
the
State
of
every
Man
since
the
Fall
is
a
Complication
of
Misery
under
Condemnation
,
Dementation
,
and
mortal
Corruption
.
Accordingly
the
necessary
Remedies
are
distinct
;
Justification
to
take
away
Condemnation
,
and
Sanctification
to
free
from
Corruption
by
a
new
Principle
of
Life
;
by
a
renewed
Faculty
of
Life
acted
by
a
new
Rule
,
the
Word
of
God
written
in
the
Heart
,
directed
to
,
and
aiming
at
a
new
End
and
Mark
,
the
Glory
of
God
,
and
the
Prize
of
our
high
Calling
in
Christ
Jesus
,
our
Eternal
Salvation
.
Accordingly
the
Tenour
of
the
New
Covenant
is
both
promised
and
expressed
in
the
Old
and
New
Testament
:
Ezek
.
36.25
.
Then
will
I
sprinkle
clean
Water
upon
you
,
and
ye
shall
be
clean
.
This
imports
that
washing
throughly
,
and
cleansing
from
Iniquity
and
Sin
,
so
as
to
be
whiter
than
Snow
;
Psal
.
51.7
.
which
is
supplicated
by
David
,
and
promised
by
God
to
Sins
of
the
deepest
Stain
,
Heb
.
12.24
.
&
13.20
,
21.
being
effected
by
the
Blood
of
Sprinkling
,
the
Blood
of
the
Everlasting
Covenant
,
which
makes
us
perfect
to
do
his
Will
.
&
9.14
.
For
the
End
why
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
who
by
the
Eternal
Spirit
offered
himself
without
Spot
to
God
,
purges
the
Conscience
from
dead
Works
,
is
to
serve
the
Living
God
:
But
God
is
the
God
of
the
Living
,
not
of
the
Dead
.
Therefore
as
the
Condemnation
of
Death
is
to
be
taken
away
in
Christ
Jesus
,
Rom.
8.1
.
so
the
Corruption
of
Death
is
to
be
abolished
,
2
Tim
.
1.10
.
which
cannot
be
without
a
new
Principle
and
Faculties
of
Life
,
and
being
made
a
new
Creature
.
Accordingly
the
Covenant
of
Grace
proceeds
to
promise
,
Ezek
.
36.26
.
A
new
Heart
also
will
I
give
you
,
and
a
new
Spirit
will
I
put
within
you
.
This
is
that
renewing
of
the
Holy
Ghost
vouchsafed
unto
the
foolish
and
disobedient
,
Tit
.
3.3
.
who
are
unperswadable
by
any
Moral
Argumentation
,
being
deceived
,
serving
divers
Lusts
and
Pleasures
;
Eccl.
9.3
.
because
the
Heart
of
Man
is
full
of
Evil
,
and
Madness
is
in
his
Heart
while
he
lives
,
and
after
that
he
goes
to
the
Dead
.
This
is
the
native
Misery
of
every
one
;
and
the
Recovery
is
as
wonderful
as
to
restore
the
Habit
and
Exercise
of
Reason
into
a
Person
depraved
with
Idiotism
,
or
Madness
.
Now
as
they
who
are
such
,
tho
they
are
sometimes
capable
of
uttering
some
words
sensible
and
rational
,
yet
they
are
utterly
unable
to
perform
or
maintain
the
Tenour
of
reasonable
Discourse
or
Conversation
:
So
neither
can
any
meer
animal
Man
dead
in
Sins
and
Trespasses
,
1
Cor
.
2.14
.
before
he
be
made
a
new
Creature
by
being
born
again
,
Joh
.
3.3
.
live
to
the
Glory
of
God
,
the
End
of
Being
,
or
in
Communion
with
God
,
the
highest
Felicity
of
every
Intelligent
Being
.
This
is
the
Gift
of
God
,
as
our
Lord
saith
to
the
Jews
,
Joh
.
6.65
.
No
Man
can
come
to
me
,
except
it
were
given
him
of
my
Father
.
Judas
indeed
came
to
our
Lord
,
as
many
do
,
in
Profession
,
but
not
in
Heart
:
He
did
believe
with
a
Faith
of
general
Assent
,
and
of
particular
Fiducial
Affiance
in
the
Power
of
Christ
for
miraculous
Operation
,
but
not
with
a
Faith
of
vital
Union
with
Christ
,
so
as
to
dwell
in
Christ
and
Christ
in
him
,
so
as
to
live
by
Christ
,
Joh
.
6.56
,
57.
Rom.
8.9
.
which
cannot
be
without
having
the
Spirit
of
Christ
.
Also
our
Lord
saith
,
I
have
chosen
you
,
Joh
.
15.5
,
16.
and
ordained
you
to
bring
forth
Fruit
that
should
remain
and
persevere
,
even
much
Fruit
,
to
the
Glory
of
God
.
Election
,
Vocation
,
Justification
and
Sanctification
,
are
inseparable
.
Ephes
.
1.4
.
Rom.
5.18
.
Eternal
Election
is
unto
Holiness
,
and
Justification
of
Life
is
universally
and
necessarily
conjoin'd
with
Renovation
of
Life
:
The
End
of
which
is
Activity
,
Joh
.
15.6
.
Operation
,
Fruitfulness
,
without
which
there
is
Death
,
Burning
,
Eph.
2.10
.
Destruction
;
for
good
Works
are
ordained
by
God
to
be
the
Walk
and
Conversation
of
every
Child
of
God
:
Heb
.
8.10
,
11.
For
this
is
the
Covenant
God
makes
with
every
Israelite
,
to
put
his
Laws
into
their
Minds
,
and
write
them
in
their
Hearts
,
as
both
the
Rule
and
Inclination
of
Life
,
Hos
.
2.20
.
which
is
indeed
to
be
taught
of
God
to
know
God
,
without
which
it
is
impossible
,
that
God
shall
be
to
any
a
God
in
Covenant-Relation
,
or
that
any
can
be
a
People
to
God
.
Now
as
the
Principle
of
Life
,
and
the
Operation
of
Life
,
so
Justification
and
Sanctification
are
not
confoundable
,
yet
always
inseparable
.
For
of
God
are
we
in
Christ
Jesus
,
who
of
God
is
made
unto
us
Wisdom
,
Righteousness
,
Sanctification
and
Redemption
:
That
no
Flesh
should
glory
in
his
sight
;
1
Cor
.
1.29
,
30
,
31.
but
according
as
it
is
written
,
Let
him
that
glorieth
glory
in
the
Lord
.
From
the
beginning
of
Apostacy
the
Devil
was
a
Murderer
and
a
Liar
.
When
he
speaketh
a
Lie
,
he
speaketh
of
his
own
;
for
he
is
a
Liar
,
and
the
Father
of
it
.
He
envenomed
the
old
World
with
the
evil
Imaginations
of
continual
Contempt
of
God
,
and
profane
Irreligion
,
which
broke
out
in
all
the
Acts
of
Wickedness
and
Violence
,
justly
provoking
the
Vengeance
of
God
to
destroy
that
World
of
Atheistical
Rebels
.
When
through
infinite
Mercy
a
small
Remnant
of
eight
Persons
were
not
only
spared
to
survive
the
Deluge
,
that
had
swept
away
the
World
of
the
Ungodly
;
but
much
more
,
a
Covenant
of
Grace
and
the
Blessing
thereof
was
renewed
to
them
and
to
their
Seed
,
Gen.
8.20
,
21.
confirmed
unto
Noah
,
by
the
Acceptance
of
instituted
Sacrifice
;
Then
again
,
the
great
Adversary
and
Deceiver
of
Mankind
tempted
the
new
World
to
distrust
Safety
in
the
Promise
of
the
living
and
true
God
,
and
to
attempt
Self
preservation
in
a
Structure
of
Babel
,
or
Confusion
,
in
the
Land
of
Shinar
,
the
proper
Base
upon
which
was
to
be
built
and
established
the
House
of
Wickedness
;
that
is
,
Zech
.
5.8
,
11.
the
Mystery
of
Iniquity
,
the
Doctrine
of
Devils
,
to
suborn
the
Worship
of
Baalim
,
of
many
Lords
,
or
middle
Gods
,
1
Tim
.
4.1
.
Mediators
between
God
and
Man
.
Now
the
Spirit
speaketh
expresly
,
that
in
the
latter
Times
some
shall
depart
from
the
Faith
,
giving
heed
to
seducing
Spirits
,
and
Doctrines
of
Devils
.
This
is
the
notorious
Apostacy
from
the
absolute
Simplicity
and
Purity
of
Christian
Religion
,
Christianam
Religionem
absolutam
&
simplicem
anili
superstitione
confundere
.
Am.
Marcellin
.
unto
the
fabulous
Superstition
and
Will-worship
,
which
gangren'd
both
Eastern
and
Western
Churches
.
The
Mediation
of
Saints
and
Angels
,
being
introduced
as
succedaneous
to
the
Heathen
Adoration
of
Baalim
,
Heroes
and
middle
Deities
,
called
Dii
Medioximi
.
Those
Pagan
Idols
,
Isa
.
2.19
,
20
,
21.
Rev.
6.15
,
16.
having
been
cast
to
the
Moles
and
Bats
by
the
Divine
Influence
of
Gospel-Light
,
in
the
Manifestation
of
Truth
,
even
this
faithful
Saying
,
and
worthy
of
all
Acceptation
,
that
Jesus
Christ
came
into
the
World
,
the
only
Mediator
between
God
and
Men
,
to
save
Sinners
.
Now
also
for
these
last
hundred
and
fifty
Years
,
the
Gospel-Reformation
(
miraculously
both
begun
and
preserved
)
hath
again
as
it
were
brought
Life
and
Immortality
to
light
,
exploded
the
fabulous
Legends
of
Popery
,
evidenced
the
pretence
of
Antiquity
to
be
no
other
than
as
Defection
from
Primary
Institution
,
precedes
Restitution
and
Reformation
,
convinced
the
Idolatry
of
the
Mass
,
and
the
Superstition
of
their
Will-worship
,
and
Adoration
of
Saints
and
Angels
;
all
cherished
by
an
imposed
Ignorance
,
Joh
.
16.3
.
the
Parent
not
of
Devotion
,
but
of
cruel
Persecution
.
But
as
in
the
first
Manifestation
of
the
everlasting
Gospel
unto
the
World
,
that
lay
in
Darkness
and
the
Shadow
of
Death
,
Rev.
12.
the
Serpent
cast
out
of
his
Mouth
a
Flood
of
deceitful
Errors
,
of
desperate
Wickedness
,
to
carry
away
with
that
Flood
the
Church
from
the
Rock
of
Truth
:
So
now
the
Reformed
Churches
have
been
and
are
infested
not
only
with
the
Dragon's
great
persecuting
Wrath
,
but
no
less
dangerously
with
the
Serpentine
Suggestions
of
false
Teachers
,
2
Pet
.
2.1
.
privily
introducing
damnable
Heresies
,
even
denying
the
Lord
that
bought
them
.
This
being
the
Master-stroke
of
Satan
,
by
verisimilar
Errors
to
suppress
the
Fundamental
Truth
of
Salvation
for
Sinners
,
by
the
Expiatory
Propitiation
of
the
Death
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
in
Satisfaction
of
the
Justice
of
God
,
Eph.
1.4
,
9.
according
to
his
good
Pleasure
,
which
he
had
purposed
in
himself
before
the
Foundation
of
the
World
.
That
this
Truth
may
appear
in
a
right
Light
,
it
must
be
considered
,
that
all
the
Divine
Attributes
are
equally
of
infinite
Perfection
:
Consequently
to
detract
from
,
or
limit
any
,
is
to
evacuate
and
effectually
to
deny
the
Essential
All-sufficiency
of
God
.
Therefore
to
retrench
the
particular
and
universal
efficacious
Providence
of
God
,
and
to
impeach
the
supreme
absolute
Justice
of
God
,
is
,
Rom.
1.23
.
under
the
Profession
of
owning
God
,
not
to
glorify
him
as
God
,
but
to
change
the
Glory
of
the
incorruptible
God
,
into
an
Image
made
like
to
corruptible
Man
,
a
meer
Idol
,
1
Cor
.
8.4
.
which
is
nothing
in
the
World
,
and
as
the
Prophet
expresses
,
Isa
.
41.23
.
neither
able
to
do
Good
or
Evil
.
But
from
everlasting
to
everlasting
the
Lord
is
God
:
Psal
.
90.1
,
11.
Who
knoweth
the
Power
of
his
Anger
?
According
to
his
Fear
,
so
is
his
Wrath
:
according
to
the
infinite
Perfections
,
for
which
God
is
indispensably
to
be
feared
;
so
is
his
Wrath
in
the
Vindictive
Execution
of
his
Justice
upon
every
Violation
of
his
holy
,
just
and
good
Laws
,
the
natural
Rules
of
perpetual
Righteousness
,
to
direct
and
judg
all
the
Affections
and
Actions
of
all
Mankind
.
Herein
therefore
the
manifold
Wisdom
of
God
is
glorified
in
the
Establishment
of
the
infinite
Perfections
of
Justice
and
Mercy
in
the
Redemption
and
Salvation
of
Sinners
.
It
being
impossible
to
make
way
for
immense
Mercy
to
be
manifested
without
Satisfaction
to
infinite
Justice
,
which
otherwise
must
be
exposed
to
blasphemous
Contempt
,
and
Annihilation
:
Accordingly
the
Apostle
Paul
expresses
,
that
we
are
justified
freely
by
his
Grace
through
the
Redemption
that
is
in
Jesus
Christ
,
Rom.
3.
whom
God
hath
set
forth
for
a
Propitiation
,
through
Faith
in
his
Blood
,
to
declare
his
Righteousness
for
the
Remission
of
Sins
;
that
he
might
be
just
,
and
the
Justifier
of
him
,
even
of
the
ungodly
,
which
believeth
in
Jesus
.
So
that
Faith
cannot
fly
for
Refuge
unto
Mercy
,
until
plenary
Satisfaction
be
made
unto
Justice
;
1
Pet
.
3.21
thereby
to
obtain
the
Answer
of
a
good
Conscience
towards
God
,
through
the
Resurrection
of
Jesus
Christ
.
The
Scripture
fully
and
always
testifies
,
that
Remission
of
Sins
is
an
Act
of
absolute
Sovereign
Justice
,
vouchsafed
upon
plenary
Satisfaction
,
Rom.
3.24
,
25.
represented
under
the
Notion
and
Terms
of
Redemption
,
Propitiation
,
Ransom
;
which
word
{αβγδ}
used
by
the
Septuagint
,
Numb
.
35.31
,
32.
Mark
10.45
.
1
Tim
.
2.6
.
is
duly
translated
Satisfaction
.
And
the
learned
in
the
Hebrew
observe
,
that
the
word
in
the
Original
imports
sufficient
Preservation
,
which
a
Sinner
can
only
find
in
the
compleat
Merits
of
the
Death
,
Resurrection
,
and
Righteousness
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
applied
by
Faith
,
and
imputed
by
Grace
.
Accordingly
the
Scripture
stiles
the
Act
of
Divine
Pardon
to
be
Justification
,
Reconciliation
,
Rom.
5.1
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
19.
Atonement
,
Righteousness
;
all
which
words
are
juridical
Phrases
,
evidencing
such
a
Person
to
be
Rectus
in
Curia
,
right
in
Court
,
according
to
the
judicial
Authoritative
Sentence
of
Law
.
This
cannot
possibly
be
obtained
,
or
performed
,
unless
due
Satisfaction
were
made
to
the
infinite
Justice
of
the
Divine
Majesty
.
For
Pardon
upon
any
other
less
or
diluted
account
,
must
leave
the
Justice
of
God
violated
and
void
of
Satisfaction
:
Also
the
Sinner
must
be
without
possibility
of
a
Conscience
free
from
Guilt
;
consequently
never
able
to
arrive
at
Peace
,
Act.
13.39
.
&
10.36
,
43.
Rom.
5.1
.
Eph.
2.14
.
which
flows
from
being
justified
by
Faith
in
Jesus
Christ
,
who
is
our
Peace
with
God
.
It
is
also
absurd
Contradiction
to
imagine
any
Benefit
can
possibly
be
obtained
by
the
atoning
Virtue
of
the
Death
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
without
the
quickning
,
regenerating
Power
of
the
Spirit
of
Christ
making
the
Sinner
a
new
Creature
.
There
is
the
manifold
multifarious
Wisdom
of
God
magnified
to
a
Sinner
,
that
the
Work
of
Grace
may
be
compleatly
perfect
,
in
respect
of
the
Justice
and
Mercy
of
God
,
and
of
the
damning
Guilt
and
deadly
Corruption
inherent
in
the
desperate
Wickedness
of
every
Sin
.
Yet
the
manifold
Wisdom
of
God
decreeing
from
Eternity
,
and
effecting
in
the
fulness
of
Time
,
the
Redemption
of
Sinners
by
the
Blood
of
the
everlasting
Covenant
,
could
not
possibly
have
any
Cause
or
Motive
antecedent
to
the
Eternal
Purpose
of
God
,
which
he
purposed
in
Christ
Jesus
our
Lord
,
and
from
the
beginning
of
the
World
was
hid
in
God
.
For
it
was
both
impossible
for
a
finite
narrow
Intelligence
,
to
conceive
how
God
should
be
manifest
in
the
Flesh
:
And
it
would
have
been
impious
,
blasphemous
Presumption
,
to
imagine
that
the
Son
of
God
,
who
knew
no
Sin
,
should
be
made
a
Propitiatory
Sacrifice
for
Sin
,
unless
the
Will
of
God
had
so
promised
and
declared
.
Indeed
the
immense
Goodness
of
God
made
this
known
immediately
after
Man's
Apostacy
,
by
the
Promise
of
the
Seed
of
the
Woman
to
break
the
Serpent's
Head
;
Gen.
3.15
.
that
is
,
to
destroy
the
Works
of
the
Devil
,
and
more
evidently
by
the
Institution
of
Sacrifices
.
For
it
is
a
most
absurd
Derogation
from
the
Soveraignty
of
a
Creator
,
and
Contradiction
to
the
Duty
of
a
Creature
,
to
impose
upon
God
the
necessity
of
accepting
the
groundless
Fancy
of
a
guilty
Malefactor
in
the
highest
degree
of
desperate
Wickedness
,
Jer
.
17.9
.
to
be
a
Price
of
Redemption
from
everlasting
Wrath
:
Considering
also
that
Man
had
no
Title
of
Interest
or
rightful
Power
over
any
of
his
Fellow-Creatures
,
Psal
.
50.
to
substitute
any
of
them
a
Sacrifice
for
his
Sin
.
Indeed
it
was
an
early
and
due
Apprehension
that
every
Sin
was
of
capital
Guilt
,
and
Forfeiture
of
Life
:
But
it
could
never
have
entered
into
the
Heart
of
Man
,
to
conceive
how
God
could
be
just
,
and
the
Justifier
of
Sinners
,
Rom.
3.26
.
&
4.5
.
until
God
had
revealed
it
by
his
Spirit
and
the
Word
of
his
Grace
.
The
Apprehension
of
Propitiation
attainable
by
Sanguinary
Sacrifices
,
could
not
be
a
Primary
Notion
in
any
Human
Mind
,
but
consequent
and
derivative
from
the
Institution
of
Sacrifices
by
the
express
Command
and
Appointment
of
God
,
without
which
it
was
impossible
to
please
God
.
For
Faith
cannot
be
or
subsist
without
a
word
of
Command
and
Promise
:
But
to
fancy
a
Religious
Worship
to
appease
the
just
Wrath
,
and
to
conciliate
the
Favour
of
the
Majesty
of
the
Great
and
Terrible
God
,
the
Creator
of
all
Beings
,
by
any
performance
of
Offering
not
instituted
expresly
by
God
,
is
a
Presumption
becoming
a
dumb
Idol
,
or
some
precarious
Superstition
;
and
is
an
effectual
practical
Denial
of
the
infinite
Perfections
of
God
,
obtruding
and
imposing
the
Blood
and
Carcass
of
a
wretched
Calf
or
Sheep
,
to
expiate
the
Guilt
of
most
nefandous
Crimes
,
and
satisfy
infinite
Justice
.
Neither
can
there
be
any
possible
ground
of
Reason
to
imagine
that
the
Ceremonial
Ordinances
of
Sacrifices
,
Heb
.
9.1
.
and
other
Rites
of
Divine
Worship
and
Service
,
were
instituted
by
God
,
with
respect
to
,
or
Motive
from
the
superstitious
Practice
or
Expectation
of
profane
Sinners
,
who
offered
their
Devotion
to
Devils
,
as
the
Word
of
God
expresly
testifies
,
1
Cor
.
10.20
.
That
the
things
which
the
Gentiles
sacrifice
,
they
sacrifice
to
Devils
,
and
not
to
God
.
But
Sacrifices
,
and
all
other
Typical
Services
and
Ordinances
,
were
by
God
appointed
,
until
the
time
of
Reformation
,
when
Christ
came
an
High
Priest
of
good
things
to
come
,
(
that
is
everlasting
)
who
by
the
eternal
Spirit
offer'd
himself
without
Spot
to
God
,
Heb
.
9.11
,
14.
by
his
own
Blood
to
purge
our
Consciences
from
dead
Works
(
that
is
,
Heb
.
6.1
.
from
Sins
deserving
Death
)
to
serve
the
living
God
.
The
Ceremonial
Law
had
a
Shadow
of
good
things
to
come
,
Heb
.
10.1
,
4
,
to
10.
but
not
Virtue
to
make
the
Comers
thereunto
perfect
;
For
it
is
not
possible
that
the
Blood
of
Bulls
and
of
Goats
should
take
away
Sin
.
Therefore
because
in
Sacrifices
and
Offerings
for
Sin
God
could
not
take
Pleasure
,
as
therein
receiving
any
Satisfaction
to
Justice
:
When
Jesus
Christ
came
into
the
World
,
he
saith
,
Heb
.
A
Body
hast
thou
prepared
me
;
Lo
I
come
to
do
thy
Will
,
O
God
;
by
the
which
Will
we
are
sanctified
through
the
offering
of
the
Body
of
Jesus
Christ
once
:
But
this
Will
of
God
was
not
induced
by
any
Temporary
Consideration
,
it
was
from
everlasting
.
Ephes
.
1.4
.
God
hath
chosen
us
in
Christ
before
the
Foundation
of
the
World
.
2
Tim
.
1.9
.
God
hath
saved
us
,
and
called
us
with
an
holy
Calling
,
not
according
to
our
Works
,
but
according
to
his
own
Purpose
and
Grace
,
which
was
given
us
in
Christ
Jesus
before
the
World
began
.
Tit
.
1.2
.
In
hope
of
Eternal
Life
,
which
God
that
cannot
lie
,
promised
before
the
World
began
.
Who
verily
was
fore-ordained
before
the
Foundation
of
the
World
,
1
Pet
.
1.20
but
was
manifested
in
these
last
Times
.
It
could
not
then
be
in
Compliance
with
any
Human
Apprehension
of
Expiation
of
Sin
by
any
Sacrifice
of
any
Creature
,
that
Jesus
Christ
was
constituted
and
given
by
God
to
be
the
Propitiation
and
Redemption
for
Sinners
.
Ephes
.
1.
But
contrariwise
,
God
having
according
to
the
Counsel
of
his
own
free
Will
made
known
to
our
first
Parents
in
their
dismal
Fall
the
Mystery
of
his
Will
in
the
Promise
of
the
Seed
of
the
Woman
to
break
the
Serpent's
Head
:
And
then
for
the
Confirmation
of
that
Promise
,
and
for
the
support
of
Faith
,
instituted
Sacrifices
,
revealed
first
to
Adam
,
then
to
Noah
,
and
consequently
in
them
to
the
whole
World
of
Mankind
:
Noah
builded
an
Altar
unto
the
Lord
,
and
took
of
every
clean
Beast
,
Gen.
8.20
,
21.
and
of
every
clean
Fowl
,
and
offered
Burnt-offerings
upon
the
Altar
.
And
the
Lord
smelled
a
sweet
Savour
;
or
a
Savour
of
Rest
and
Satisfaction
.
Now
this
could
not
be
affirmed
or
believed
,
unless
such
Sacrifices
had
been
according
to
the
express
Institution
of
God
,
who
(
as
was
before
observed
)
only
could
appoint
the
Discrimination
of
Beasts
clean
and
unclean
:
All
which
also
was
performed
and
accepted
with
respect
to
,
Ephes
.
5.2
.
and
in
virtue
of
the
Offering
and
Sacrifice
of
Christ
himself
to
God
for
a
sweet
smelling
Savour
.
Immediately
upon
Noah's
Sacrifice
,
Gen.
9.9
.
God
established
his
Covenant
with
Noah
,
and
his
Seed
after
him
.
Thus
all
Mankind
was
by
Divine
Institution
initiated
in
the
Religion
of
Propitiatory
Sacrifices
,
all
in
reference
to
,
and
deriving
Virtue
and
Acceptance
from
the
Merits
of
Jesus
Christ
,
the
Lamb
of
God
,
Joh
.
1.29
.
which
taketh
away
the
Sins
of
the
World
.
But
as
it
is
charged
upon
Israel
,
both
by
David
and
Moses
,
Psal
.
106.13
,
21.
Deut
.
32.
so
all
Nations
soon
forgot
God's
Works
,
they
forgot
God
their
Saviour
,
which
had
done
great
things
for
their
Preservation
;
they
corrupted
themselves
;
Deut
.
32.5
,
15
,
16
,
17.
their
Spot
was
not
the
Spot
of
his
People
;
they
forsook
God
which
made
them
,
and
lightly
esteemed
the
Rock
of
their
Salvation
;
they
provoked
him
to
Jealousy
with
strange
Gods
;
they
sacrificed
to
Devils
,
not
to
God
:
So
that
the
offering
of
Propitiatory
Sacrifices
by
the
Universality
of
Mankind
,
was
not
a
Human
Invention
,
but
a
Derivation
from
Divine
Institution
,
tho
wretchedly
corrupted
by
Satanical
Suggestion
.
Neither
was
there
any
Rite
of
Religious
Worship
among
the
Heathen
,
but
what
was
pretended
to
be
a
Direction
and
Command
from
Heaven
,
so
deeply
engraven
was
the
Impression
in
every
Rational
Mind
,
that
Divine
Worship
could
not
be
acceptable
unto
God
,
unless
commanded
by
God
.
The
whole
Work
of
Redemption
and
Salvation
of
Mankind
by
Jesus
Christ
,
was
in
every
part
and
respect
proceeding
originally
from
,
and
effectually
to
fulfil
the
Will
of
God
.
Ephes
.
1.4
.
2
Tim
.
1.9
.
Tit
.
1.2
.
Mat
.
27.35
Mark
15.28
.
John
19.28
,
36
,
37.
Salvation
by
Christ
was
promised
before
the
World
began
:
In
the
fulness
of
Time
he
was
made
of
a
Woman
;
his
Sufferings
in
every
particular
Circumstance
was
to
fulfil
the
Scriptures
.
Our
Lord
died
according
to
the
Scriptures
,
1
Cor
.
15.3
,
4.
and
rose
again
according
to
the
Scriptures
;
that
is
,
for
the
End
appointed
by
the
Word
of
God
,
to
make
full
Satisfaction
to
the
infinite
Justice
of
God
;
Heb
.
9.9
.
so
as
to
make
perfect
the
Comers
unto
God
by
Jesus
Christ
by
Faith
,
&
10.1
.
in
whom
the
Heart
is
sprinkled
from
an
evil
Conscience
;
&
10.22
.
that
is
,
from
the
Conscience
of
the
Guilt
of
Evil
:
1
Cor
.
15.17
.
1
Pet
.
3.21
.
To
obtain
the
Answer
of
a
good
Conscience
towards
God
,
by
the
Resurrection
of
Jesus
Christ
,
without
which
our
Faith
is
vain
,
and
we
are
yet
in
our
Sins
;
void
of
any
sufficient
Plea
to
answer
the
Charge
of
the
Law
of
Righteousness
at
the
dreadful
Tribunal
of
the
Divine
Majesty
.
The
manifold
unsearchable
Wisdom
of
God
in
the
Administration
of
the
Riches
of
infinite
Grace
,
exceeds
what
Creatures
can
ask
or
think
.
The
most
large
and
advantagious
Pardon
from
an
Earthly
Soveraign
to
a
Rebel
,
cannot
reclaim
a
Felon's
Mind
,
or
alter
a
Traitor's
Heart
.
But
they
who
are
in
Christ
Jesus
,
and
free
from
Condemnation
,
they
have
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
by
which
they
are
made
new
Creatures
,
Rom.
8.
and
enabled
to
walk
not
after
the
Flesh
,
but
after
the
Spirit
.
Eph.
3.18
.
This
is
the
Comprehension
of
the
Love
of
God
in
Christ
extended
to
all
Saints
.
Yet
the
primary
Reason
of
the
Death
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
was
to
make
Satisfaction
to
the
Justice
of
the
holy
Creator
for
the
Sins
of
Rebel
,
Apostate
Creatures
.
It
then
became
a
consequent
Corollary
of
our
Lord's
Death
,
to
awe
from
Sin
,
and
represent
the
abominable
Sinfulness
of
Sin
.
In
all
the
righteous
Administration
of
Rewards
and
Punishments
,
supreme
Justice
obtains
the
first
and
necessary
Consideration
;
so
that
if
there
were
no
Persons
to
be
deterred
from
future
Crimes
,
yet
Justice
requires
severe
Animadversion
upon
the
present
Malefactor
;
Rom.
3.5
,
6
otherwise
,
How
shall
God
judg
the
World
?
God
cannot
be
unrighteous
in
taking
Vengeance
upon
the
Damned
in
everlasting
Torments
,
where
there
is
no
place
for
Repentance
,
nor
Capacity
for
the
Benefit
of
a
deterring
Example
.
The
happy
Sum
of
the
Doctrine
of
Man's
eternal
Redemption
and
Salvation
is
,
That
God
hath
given
us
the
sure
Mercies
of
David
:
Act.
13.34
.
He
hath
made
with
us
an
everlasting
Covenant
,
2
Sam
.
23.5
.
ordered
in
all
things
and
sure
;
and
this
is
all
our
Salvation
:
where
no
proud
Pharisee
can
assume
or
impute
to
himself
,
nor
any
humble
repenting
Sinner
doubt
or
despair
:
Wherein
God
willing
more
abundantly
to
shew
unto
the
Heirs
of
Promise
,
Heb
.
6.17
,
18.
the
Immutability
of
his
Counsel
,
confirmed
it
by
an
Oath
,
that
by
two
immutable
things
,
in
which
it
was
impossible
for
God
to
lie
,
we
might
have
a
strong
Consolation
,
who
have
fled
for
Refuge
,
to
lay
hold
upon
the
Hope
set
before
us
;
which
we
have
as
an
Anchor
of
the
Soul
,
sure
and
stedfast
,
Jesus
Christ
,
the
same
yesterday
,
to
day
,
Heb
.
13.8
.
and
for
ever
:
Amen
.
Now
for
a
Corollary
to
the
precedent
Discourse
,
that
it
may
be
evidenced
not
to
be
a
private
Opinion
,
but
the
Doctrine
of
the
Church
of
England
according
to
the
Scriptures
,
here
are
subjoined
the
Expressions
of
the
Homily
of
the
Salvation
of
Mankind
only
by
Christ
our
Saviour
from
Sin
and
Death
Everlasting
.
Because
all
Men
be
Sinners
and
Offenders
against
God
,
Homily
.
and
Breakers
of
his
Law
and
Commandments
;
therefore
can
no
Man
by
his
own
Acts
,
Works
and
Deeds
(
seem
they
never
so
good
)
be
justified
and
made
righteous
before
God
:
But
every
Man
of
necessity
is
constrained
to
seek
for
another
Righteousness
or
Justification
,
to
be
received
at
God's
own
Hands
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
Forgiveness
of
his
Sins
and
Trespasses
in
such
things
as
he
hath
offended
.
And
this
Justification
or
Righteousness
which
we
so
receive
of
God's
Mercy
,
and
Christ's
Merits
,
embraced
by
Faith
,
is
taken
,
accepted
and
allowed
of
God
for
our
perfect
and
full
Justification
.
For
the
more
full
understanding
hereof
,
it
is
our
Parts
and
Duties
ever
to
remember
the
great
Mercy
of
God
,
how
that
(
all
the
World
being
wrapped
in
Sin
by
breaking
of
the
Law
)
God
sent
his
only
Son
our
Saviour
Christ
into
this
World
,
to
fulfil
the
Law
for
us
,
by
shedding
of
his
most
precious
Blood
to
make
a
Sacrifice
and
Satisfaction
,
or
(
as
it
may
be
called
)
amends
to
his
Father
for
our
Sins
,
to
asswage
his
Wrath
and
Indignation
conceived
against
us
for
the
same
.
But
here
may
Man's
Reason
be
astonied
,
reasoning
after
this
fashion
:
If
a
Ransom
be
paid
for
our
Redemption
,
then
is
it
not
given
us
freely
.
For
a
Prisoner
that
paid
his
Ransom
,
is
not
let
go
freely
;
for
if
he
goes
freely
,
then
he
goeth
without
Ransom
.
For
what
is
it
else
to
go
freely
,
than
to
be
set
at
liberty
without
paying
of
Ransom
?
This
Reason
is
satisfied
by
the
great
Wisdom
of
God
in
this
Mystery
of
our
Redemption
,
who
hath
so
tempered
his
Justice
and
Mercy
together
,
that
he
would
neither
by
his
Justice
condemn
into
the
everlasting
Captivity
of
the
Devil
,
and
his
Prison
of
Hell
,
remediless
for
ever
without
Mercy
,
nor
by
his
Mercy
deliver
us
clearly
without
Justice
or
Payment
of
a
just
Ransom
:
But
with
his
endless
Mercy
he
joined
his
most
upright
and
equal
Justice
.
His
great
Mercy
he
shewed
unto
us
in
delivering
us
from
our
former
Captivity
,
without
requiring
any
Ransom
to
be
paid
,
or
Amends
to
be
made
on
our
parts
;
which
thing
by
us
had
been
impossible
to
be
done
:
And
whereas
it
lay
not
in
us
that
to
do
,
he
provided
a
Ransom
for
us
;
that
was
the
most
precious
Body
and
Blood
of
his
own
most
dear
and
best
beloved
Son
Jesus
Christ
,
who
besides
this
Ransom
,
fulfilled
the
Law
for
us
perfectly
;
and
so
the
Justice
of
God
and
his
Mercy
did
embrace
together
,
and
fulfil
the
Mystery
of
our
Redemption
.
And
of
this
Justice
and
Mercy
of
God
knit
together
,
speaketh
St.
Paul
in
the
third
Chapter
to
the
Romans
;
Rom.
3.
All
have
offended
,
and
have
need
of
the
Glory
of
God
;
but
are
justified
freely
by
his
Grace
,
by
Redemption
which
is
in
Jesus
Christ
,
whom
God
hath
sent
forth
for
us
,
for
a
Reconciler
and
Peacemaker
through
Faith
in
his
Blood
,
to
shew
his
Righteousness
.
And
in
the
10th
Chapter
,
Christ
is
the
End
of
the
Law
unto
Righteousness
to
every
Man
that
believeth
.
And
in
the
8th
Chapter
,
That
which
was
impossible
by
the
Law
,
in
as
much
as
it
was
weak
by
the
Flesh
,
God
sending
his
own
Son
in
the
similitude
of
sinful
Flesh
,
by
Sin
damned
Sin
in
the
Flesh
,
that
the
Righteousness
of
the
Law
might
be
fulfilled
in
us
,
which
walk
not
after
the
Flesh
,
but
after
the
Spirit
.
In
these
aforesaid
places
the
Apostle
toucheth
specially
three
things
,
which
must
go
together
in
our
Justification
.
Upon
God's
part
,
his
great
Mercy
and
Grace
:
Upon
Christ's
part
,
Justice
,
that
is
,
the
Satisfaction
of
God's
Justice
,
or
the
Price
of
our
Redemption
by
the
offering
of
his
Body
and
shedding
of
his
Blood
,
with
the
fulfilling
of
the
Law
perfectly
and
throughly
:
And
upon
our
part
true
and
lively
Faith
in
the
Merits
of
Jesus
Christ
,
which
yet
is
not
ours
,
but
by
God's
working
in
us
.
So
that
in
our
Justification
is
not
only
God's
Mercy
and
Grace
,
but
also
his
Justice
,
which
the
Apostle
calleth
the
Justice
of
God
;
and
it
consisteth
in
paying
our
Ransom
,
and
fulfilling
of
the
Law
:
And
so
the
Grace
of
God
doth
not
shut
out
the
Justice
of
God
in
our
Justification
,
but
only
shutteth
out
the
Justice
of
Man
;
that
is
to
say
,
the
Justice
of
our
Works
as
to
be
Merits
of
deserving
our
Justification
.
And
therefore
St.
Paul
declareth
here
nothing
upon
the
behalf
of
Man
concerning
his
Justification
,
but
only
a
true
and
lively
Faith
,
which
nevertheless
is
the
Gift
of
God
,
and
not
Man's
only
Work
without
God
.
And
yet
that
Faith
does
not
shut
out
Repentance
,
Hope
,
Love
,
Dread
,
and
the
Fear
of
God
,
to
be
joined
with
Faith
in
every
Man
that
is
justified
;
but
it
shutteth
them
out
from
the
Office
of
justifying
.
So
that
altho
they
be
all
present
together
in
him
that
is
justified
,
yet
they
justify
not
altogether
.
Nor
the
Faith
also
doth
not
shut
out
the
Justice
of
our
good
Works
,
necessarily
to
be
done
afterwards
of
Duty
towards
God
:
(
for
we
are
most
bounden
to
serve
God
in
doing
good
Deeds
,
commanded
by
him
in
his
holy
Scripture
,
all
the
days
of
our
Life
)
but
it
excludeth
them
,
so
that
we
may
not
do
them
to
this
intent
,
to
be
made
good
by
doing
of
them
.
For
all
the
good
Works
that
we
can
do
be
unperfect
,
and
therefore
not
able
to
deserve
for
our
Justification
:
But
our
Justification
doth
come
freely
by
the
meer
Mercy
of
God
,
and
of
so
great
and
free
Mercy
,
that
whereas
all
the
World
was
not
able
of
themselves
to
pay
any
part
towards
their
Ransom
,
it
pleased
our
Heavenly
Father
of
his
infinite
Mercy
,
without
any
our
desert
or
deserving
,
to
prepare
for
us
the
most
precious
Jewels
of
Christ's
Body
and
Blood
,
whereby
our
Ransom
might
be
fully
paid
,
the
Law
fulfilled
,
and
his
Justice
fully
satisfied
:
So
that
now
Christ
is
the
Righteousness
of
all
them
that
truly
do
believe
in
him
.
He
for
them
paid
their
Ransom
by
his
Death
,
he
for
them
fulfilled
the
Law
in
his
Life
:
So
that
now
in
and
by
him
,
every
true
Christian
Man
may
be
called
a
Fulfiller
of
the
Law
;
forasmuch
as
that
which
their
Infirmity
lacked
,
Christ's
Justice
hath
supplied
.
Now
that
the
most
important
Truths
which
have
been
represented
in
this
small
Treatise
may
appear
in
right
Light
,
let
the
following
Propositions
be
duly
considered
according
to
Reason
,
enlightned
and
directed
by
the
Word
of
God
.
God
having
given
to
Man
an
Intellectual
Faculty
,
to
judg
and
discern
of
the
Nature
,
Use
and
Excellency
of
Things
,
a
Conscience
of
the
Laws
of
things
morally
good
or
evil
;
and
the
certain
inseparable
Appendixes
of
Rewards
and
Punishments
are
imprinted
upon
the
Mind
,
with
inward
experimental
Assurances
,
as
certain
as
that
we
know
that
we
are
,
and
have
a
Being
.
The
Demonstrations
of
which
Truths
are
clearly
manifested
in
the
Word
of
God
,
the
Scriptures
of
the
Old
and
New
Testament
,
Sacrae
Scripturae
non
movent
,
non
persuadent
,
sed
cogunt
,
agitant
,
vim
inferunt
.
Jo
.
Pic
.
Mirand
.
Ep.
Herm
.
Barber
.
which
do
not
only
move
and
perswade
,
but
effectually
constrain
and
inforce
an
enlightened
Soul
to
yield
Obedience
to
the
incomparable
and
undeniable
Divine
Authority
thereof
,
as
to
the
Fountain
of
all
saving
Knowledg
,
and
the
Standard
and
Rule
of
all
holy
Practice
,
in
order
to
everlasting
Blessedness
,
the
supreme
End
and
Felicity
of
Man
.
Now
as
Mathematical
Theorems
,
tho
equally
demonstrable
,
yet
are
not
alike
perceived
and
apprehended
by
every
Human
Mind
,
the
Faculty
not
being
rightly
disposed
to
the
Object
as
in
species
visible
,
it
is
not
sufficient
that
the
Object
and
Medium
be
duly
disposed
,
unless
the
Organ
be
sufficiently
enabled
and
not
disturbed
:
For
neither
a
blind
Eye
nor
a
Jaundice
Sight
can
judg
of
Colours
.
Accordingly
the
holy
Scriptures
,
which
are
the
lively
Oracles
of
God
,
full
of
Lights
and
Perfections
,
do
fully
demonstrate
the
great
Mysteries
of
Godliness
,
concerning
the
eternal
,
invisible
,
yet
certain
and
necessary
Felicities
,
and
Duties
of
Rational
Intelligent
Beings
,
whose
Immortality
also
is
therein
undeniably
proved
:
Yet
notwithstanding
,
all
these
glorious
and
excellent
Truths
of
the
Spirit
of
God
are
not
received
by
Animal
Minds
,
to
whom
they
are
Foolishness
,
(
as
all
sort
of
Wisdom
is
to
Fools
)
because
of
the
Blindness
and
Ignorance
of
the
Understanding
;
the
Mind
it self
(
the
governing
Power
in
Man
)
being
vitiated
with
the
suffusion
of
Vanity
,
and
the
deceitfulness
of
Sin
,
until
the
Power
of
the
Spirit
come
into
the
Soul
,
with
a
quickning
,
renewing
,
restoring
Demonstration
upon
the
Intellectual
Faculty
,
to
make
it
receive
in
Love
the
benign
Influences
of
eternal
Truth
and
Goodness
.
Accordingly
consider
duly
,
1.
That
from
everlasting
to
everlasting
,
God
is
Infinite
in
his
Perfection
of
all
Divine
Incomprehensible
Attributes
,
whose
Essence
is
eternally
in
and
of
himself
,
and
gives
and
preserves
all
Beings
,
which
were
made
for
his
Pleasure
and
Glory
,
according
to
his
own
Will
,
not
out
of
any
necessity
of
Nature
,
his
Majesty
being
exalted
above
all
Blessings
and
Praise
:
so
that
his
infinite
Essential
Glory
cannot
be
liable
to
any
Addition
or
Detraction
from
any
Creature
.
2.
That
in
the
beginning
of
Time
God
condescended
to
manifest
his
immense
Wisdom
,
Power
and
Goodness
in
the
Creation
of
the
World
,
and
all
Beings
therein
,
by
the
Word
of
his
Power
,
by
which
all
things
are
upheld
and
do
consist
:
All
being
made
and
preserved
for
the
Glory
of
God
,
according
to
the
Original
Law
of
the
Will
of
God
respectively
dispensed
to
every
Being
.
3.
That
all
things
were
made
for
distinct
final
Causes
,
appointed
by
the
Law
of
God
to
be
the
Rule
for
the
Operation
of
Life
conferr'd
upon
every
Being
.
4.
That
the
Providence
of
God
doth
actually
,
effectually
,
continually
govern
and
over-rule
all
the
Actions
and
Operations
of
all
Beings
to
his
Glory
,
according
to
his
determinate
Counsels
.
For
known
unto
God
are
all
his
Works
from
the
beginning
of
the
World
;
so
that
all
contingent
Effects
and
Actions
of
all
created
Beings
,
are
not
only
futurely
turned
and
disposed
,
but
primarily
decreed
and
ordered
to
be
infallibly
subservient
to
the
Glory
of
God's
eternal
Truth
,
Justice
and
Goodness
.
5.
That
as
Activity
and
Operation
is
the
necessary
Expression
of
Life
,
it
is
also
necessary
that
there
be
an
universal
Law
to
direct
,
regulate
and
judg
the
Affections
and
Actions
of
all
Intelligent
Beings
:
Which
Law
can
only
be
the
holy
and
righteous
Will
of
God
,
the
Creator
of
all
Beings
,
who
only
can
righteously
reward
and
punish
all
Actions
.
6.
God
made
Man
upright
in
his
Divine
Image
of
Righteousness
,
Knowledg
and
Holiness
,
with
Freedom
of
Will
,
but
under
a
Covenant
of
Life
upon
Obedience
,
and
of
Death
upon
Disobedience
,
which
is
Sin
:
For
Sin
is
the
rebellious
Transgression
of
the
Law
.
7.
Man
,
tho
made
upright
,
being
left
to
the
Freedom
of
his
Will
,
rebelled
against
and
renounced
God
his
Creator
in
his
all-sufficient
Truth
and
Goodness
,
and
sought
out
and
embraced
the
Vanity
and
Iniquity
of
the
Devil's
Lie
;
by
which
Apostacy
and
Rebellion
,
Mankind
fell
into
a
state
of
the
Condemnation
and
Corruption
of
Death
,
which
is
endless
Misery
,
according
to
the
righteous
Judgment
of
God
.
8.
The
first
Parents
of
Mankind
were
not
only
Persons
individual
,
but
common
Representatives
of
all
their
Posterity
.
The
Evidence
whereof
necessarily
flows
from
the
Consideration
of
the
Covenant
of
Life
,
which
God
made
with
Man
,
when
created
and
placed
in
Paradise
:
The
eating
of
the
Tree
of
Knowledg
of
Good
and
Evil
being
threatned
with
Death
,
which
passed
upon
all
Mankind
both
Infants
and
Adult
,
according
to
the
righteous
Denunciation
of
God
,
and
the
Consent
of
Man
necessarily
supposed
;
for
otherwise
the
refusal
to
consent
would
have
been
a
Sin
,
preceding
the
Transgression
in
eating
the
forbidden
Fruit
.
The
Equity
of
this
is
owned
by
the
universal
Justice
of
all
Nations
,
according
to
which
capital
Crimes
of
Parents
corrupt
the
Blood
,
and
devest
the
Posterity
of
all
Privilege
conferred
upon
such
Families
.
Thus
all
the
World
must
justify
the
Ways
of
God
to
be
most
equal
.
9.
The
Apostacy
of
Mankind
was
not
only
one
transient
Act
of
Offence
against
a
positive
Command
,
but
the
Sinfulness
of
Sin
extended
to
an
utter
Renunciation
of
the
Love
and
Fear
of
God
,
and
introduced
a
Corruption
which
the
Scripture
stiles
Death
,
in
all
the
Powers
and
Faculties
of
a
created
Life
.
10.
The
Justice
of
God
being
infinite
,
the
rebellious
Offence
against
that
Justice
must
necessarily
incur
an
everlasting
Punishment
:
Such
as
the
Infinite
Wisdom
,
Righteousness
and
Holiness
of
God
the
Creator
determines
to
inflict
,
to
vindicate
his
Glory
.
11.
the
Salvation
and
Redemption
of
Man
liable
to
eternal
Wrath
,
as
it
proceeds
only
from
the
free
Grace
of
God
,
so
it
is
impossible
to
be
effected
without
Satisfaction
to
the
infinite
Justice
of
God
:
For
without
such
Satisfaction
the
Godhead
would
be
exposed
to
continual
Dishonour
;
and
the
Fountain
of
all
Righteousness
residing
only
in
the
infinite
Justice
of
God
,
(
the
violation
thereof
remaining
unsatisfied
)
consequently
there
must
be
always
a
failure
of
common
Justice
in
the
World
.
12.
It
was
impossible
for
any
meer
finite
Creature
to
satisfy
the
Offence
done
by
Sin
against
the
infinite
Justice
and
Majesty
of
the
Creator
.
13.
It
was
impossible
and
also
unlawful
for
any
finite
created
Intelligence
,
to
imagine
,
or
contrive
,
or
effect
a
due
Satisfaction
for
the
Rebellion
of
the
Creature
.
14.
It
is
the
undeniable
Sovereign
Propriety
and
Right
of
God
blessed
for
ever
,
the
Creator
and
Possessor
of
all
Beings
,
to
contrive
,
appoint
and
accomplish
the
Means
of
Satisfaction
to
his
own
infinite
Justice
,
and
of
Salvation
for
his
miserable
,
condemned
,
corrupted
Creature
.
15.
Right
Reason
is
the
Faculty
of
discerning
the
difference
between
Good
and
Evil
:
The
Lamp
of
God
for
intellectual
Evidence
for
the
practical
Judgment
concerning
all
Objects
,
Prov.
20
,
27.
being
derived
from
and
the
Exercise
of
Knowledge
,
which
is
part
of
the
Image
of
God
in
Man
;
but
this
being
lost
by
Man's
sinful
Apostacy
from
God
,
there
is
necessity
of
the
recovery
and
renewal
of
the
Faculty
of
right
Reason
by
supernatural
Light
and
Power
.
Prov.
6.23
.
Heb
.
8.10
.
16.
Tho
the
invisible
things
of
God
,
even
his
eternal
Power
and
Godhead
,
are
clearly
seen
from
the
Creation
of
the
World
,
so
as
to
leave
Man
without
Excuse
:
Yet
the
Manifestation
of
the
Grace
of
God
for
the
Salvation
of
Sinners
,
through
the
Satisfaction
of
his
Justice
by
a
Redeemer
,
is
and
can
only
be
revealed
by
the
Word
of
God
contained
in
the
holy
Scriptures
of
the
Old
and
New
Testament
,
and
made
effectual
upon
the
Heart
and
Mind
of
Man
by
the
holy
Spirit
.
1
Cor
.
For
the
things
of
God
knoweth
no
Man
,
but
the
Spirit
of
God
:
But
God
hath
revealed
them
unto
us
by
his
Spirit
;
for
the
Spirit
searcheth
all
things
,
yea
,
the
deep
things
of
God
.
17.
God
who
at
sundry
times
,
and
in
divers
manners
spake
in
time
past
unto
the
Fathers
by
the
Prophets
,
hath
in
these
last
days
compleated
the
whole
Canon
and
comprehensive
Cycle
of
the
Revelation
of
his
Will
,
as
the
only
Standard
in
Truth
and
Goodness
for
the
Faith
and
Obedience
of
Mankind
.
18.
The
Word
of
God
contained
in
the
holy
Scriptures
fully
makes
known
the
Love
of
God
in
Christ
which
passeth
Knowledg
,
even
the
Kindness
and
Love
of
God
our
Saviour
towards
Man
,
which
first
appeared
in
the
Promise
of
a
Redeemer
,
confirm'd
according
to
the
manifold
Wisdom
of
God
,
by
the
Institution
of
propitiatory
Typical
Sacrifices
and
Ceremonial
Worships
,
as
Shadows
,
and
Pledges
,
and
Symbols
;
that
in
the
fulness
of
Time
God
should
be
manifested
in
the
Flesh
,
even
Jesus
Christ
the
eternal
Son
of
God
,
who
is
the
true
God
and
eternal
Life
.
19.
It
is
impossible
for
an
intelligent
Being
to
devest
the
knowledg
and
obligation
of
Dependance
upon
God
his
Creator
and
Preserver
:
Consequently
the
Devotion
of
continual
Worship
is
indispensable
Duty
and
Felicity
,
in
drawing
near
to
God
,
the
only
infinite
,
eternal
,
all-sufficient
and
necessary
Good
.
It
is
also
undeniably
true
,
that
the
only
Rule
of
acceptable
advantagious
Worship
must
be
the
revealed
Will
of
God
:
For
only
God
can
direct
and
teach
how
He
will
be
supplicated
and
worshipped
.
The
knowledg
of
this
Rule
in
the
Manifestation
of
the
Light
and
Perfection
of
Divine
Truth
and
Goodness
,
is
only
to
be
found
in
the
Scriptures
of
the
Old
and
New
Testament
,
wherein
is
revealed
the
absolute
Simplicity
and
Perfection
of
the
Christian
Religion
,
freed
from
the
Confusion
of
vain
and
fabulous
Superstition
and
Willworship
.
20.
The
Covenant
of
Life
and
Happiness
vouchsafed
by
God
to
Man
upon
his
first
Creation
,
being
by
Man's
Apostacy
forfeited
,
and
the
Ability
to
fulfil
it
utterly
lost
:
A
second
Covenant
(
called
the
Covenant
of
Grace
)
absolutely
free
on
God's
part
,
but
intirely
necessary
on
the
part
of
Man
,
is
by
God
instituted
for
the
Salvation
of
Man
:
The
Tenor
of
the
Engagement
to
which
Covenant
is
the
Institution
of
Baptism
,
in
the
Name
of
the
Father
,
and
of
the
Son
,
and
of
the
Holy
Ghost
.
In
which
Ordinance
is
summarily
represented
the
Truth
of
the
Doctrine
of
the
Divine
Trinity
in
the
Unity
of
the
Godhead
:
for
as
the
Father
is
revealed
to
be
the
God
of
Glory
,
so
is
the
Son
to
be
the
Lord
of
Glory
,
and
the
Holy
Ghost
the
Spirit
of
Glory
.
The
incommunicable
Attributes
of
the
Deity
being
ascribed
unto
the
Son
,
and
to
the
Holy
Ghost
,
as
unto
the
Father
,
in
respect
of
Creation
,
of
Preservation
,
of
Regeneration
,
of
Omniscience
;
the
Necessity
of
Redemption
and
Regeneration
is
evinced
by
the
Misery
and
Death
common
to
all
,
and
by
the
universal
depraved
Vitiosity
of
all
Mankind
.
Now
it
is
impossible
that
either
Redemption
or
Regeneration
can
be
effected
by
less
Power
than
Divine
Omnipotence
and
Omniscience
.
The
knowledg
of
the
Heart
in
all
the
inmost
Recesses
of
Thought
and
Imagination
is
ascribed
to
Jesus
Christ
,
and
to
the
Holy
Ghost
.
The
contrary
cannot
be
fancied
without
the
greatest
Absurdity
:
For
if
the
Redeemer
and
Mediator
were
not
essentially
able
to
know
all
the
Thoughts
and
Dispositions
of
the
Heart
of
Man
,
then
some
profane
Hypocrite
might
mock
,
or
defeat
with
false
pretended
Devotion
the
Intercession
of
our
Redeemer
,
or
wickedly
and
securely
lie
to
the
Holy
Ghost
:
Also
something
most
necessary
for
a
Sinner
,
might
escape
the
discern
of
our
Mediator
,
so
that
he
could
not
be
a
Saviour
to
the
uttermost
;
consequently
they
who
come
to
God
by
him
must
remain
most
miserable
.
The
essential
Being
of
God
is
of
such
terrible
Majesty
,
covered
with
the
Light
,
dwelling
in
the
Light
inaccessible
;
so
that
no
created
Intelligence
can
possibly
arrive
at
any
due
Perception
of
the
Godhead
,
but
only
according
to
the
Revelation
whereby
God
vouchsafed
the
Manifestation
of
his
infinite
incomprehensible
Being
;
which
Manifestation
of
the
Deity
is
given
in
his
Word
of
Truth
to
be
God
the
Father
,
God
the
Son
,
God
the
Holy
Ghost
,
one
and
the
same
living
and
true
God
,
blessed
for
ever
.
21.
The
Efficacy
of
the
Covenant
of
Grace
consists
in
Redemption
and
Regeneration
.
Redemption
by
the
Propitiation
to
Divine
Justice
through
the
Satisfactory
Merits
of
the
Sufferings
,
Death
and
Righteousness
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
according
to
the
Will
of
God
for
the
Justification
of
a
Sinner
.
Regeneration
by
the
Holy
Ghost
in
the
Renovation
of
the
Soul
,
quickened
and
sanctified
in
all
the
intellectual
Faculties
unto
Newness
of
Life
by
a
new
spiritual
Birth
.
The
Condition
of
the
Covenant
is
Faith
,
fiducially
resting
on
Christ
,
and
vitally
uniting
unto
Christ
for
Justification
and
Sanctification
by
effectual
Vocation
.
The
Obligation
and
indispensable
Duty
of
the
Covenant
,
is
the
Obedience
of
Faith
working
by
Love
in
the
fulfilling
all
the
Commandments
of
God
.
22.
The
Covenant
of
Works
being
made
with
the
first
Adam
who
was
a
meer
Creature
,
and
therefore
liable
to
fall
when
left
to
the
freedom
of
his
Will
,
the
Perseverance
in
his
created
Uprightness
could
not
be
secure
:
But
the
Covenant
of
Grace
being
made
with
the
second
Adam
,
the
Lord
from
Heaven
,
both
the
Performance
of
the
Duty
of
Obedience
to
the
Precepts
of
the
Covenant
,
and
the
final
Perseverance
in
the
Conditions
of
the
Covenant
,
are
according
to
the
Promise
of
God
,
by
the
Spirit
of
God
,
enabled
to
,
preserved
in
,
and
perfected
.
So
that
no
believing
Sinner
may
presume
in
himself
,
or
despair
in
the
Grace
of
God
,
by
whose
Power
he
is
kept
through
Faith
unto
Salvation
.
The
everlasting
Covenant
is
ordered
in
all
things
and
sure
;
for
this
is
our
Salvation
,
that
nothing
shall
be
able
to
separate
us
from
the
Love
of
God
,
which
is
in
Christ
Jesus
our
Lord
.
23.
That
which
is
stiled
Natural
Religion
,
is
the
Rational
Conviction
upon
the
Intelligent
Mind
of
Man
,
of
indispensable
Duty
to
fear
,
trust
,
obey
,
believe
and
love
God
with
all
his
Heart
,
Mind
and
Strength
,
according
to
the
Commandments
of
God
.
Therefore
there
is
a
necessity
of
the
Revelation
of
the
Will
of
God
,
by
which
is
made
known
the
compleat
Perfection
of
instituted
Religion
.
Instituted
Religion
is
the
Rule
of
true
Wisdom
to
bring
Mankind
to
eternal
Happiness
,
by
directing
all
his
Affections
and
Actions
in
the
Fear
,
Faith
and
Love
of
God
,
to
their
proper
Objects
,
according
to
the
Will
of
God
,
and
the
Glory
of
God
.
That
Religion
only
is
true
,
which
is
the
Practice
of
Obedience
to
the
Word
of
God
,
and
accordingly
brings
us
to
God
in
Spiritual
Worship
by
Jesus
Christ
alone
,
who
is
the
only
Mediator
of
Redemption
and
Intercession
.
That
Wisdom
which
was
the
Enquiry
of
Philosophy
,
the
Demonstration
of
Theology
,
is
the
Possession
and
Practice
of
the
pure
undefiled
Christian
Religion
,
which
removed
from
all
Profaneness
,
Superstition
and
Will-worship
,
is
the
commanded
and
accepted
way
of
Worship
to
God
in
Spirit
and
in
Truth
,
of
Obedience
to
all
the
Commandments
of
God
from
Love
to
God
,
of
Righteousness
to
the
Neighbour
,
with
Love
,
as
to
ones
self
,
of
Holiness
and
Sobriety
,
in
respect
of
his
own
Person
made
and
renewed
in
the
Image
of
God
,
all
upon
hope
of
everlasting
Blessedness
to
the
Glory
of
God
.
Rom.
5.2
.
This
Religion
is
the
Characteristick
Excellency
of
Man
,
and
is
the
only
true
Cement
and
Security
of
Mankind
in
all
Conditions
and
Relations
.
24.
The
Felicity
to
which
the
Christian
Religion
gives
Title
and
Possession
,
is
both
temporary
and
everlasting
.
In
this
Life
Conversion
from
Darkness
unto
Light
,
from
the
Power
of
Satan
unto
God
,
from
the
Folly
and
Madness
of
Vanity
and
Sin
,
unto
the
Fear
and
Love
of
God
,
which
is
the
beginning
of
true
Wisdom
;
Justification
from
the
Guilt
of
Sin
,
and
thereby
Peace
with
God
;
Sanctification
by
the
renewing
of
the
Image
of
God
in
Righteousness
,
Knowledg
and
true
Holiness
,
by
the
Spirit
of
God
dwelling
in
the
Soul
,
to
quicken
,
direct
,
preserve
in
the
Paths
of
Righteousness
from
all
Apostacy
;
Adoption
to
be
a
Child
of
God
,
an
Heir
of
Heaven
,
and
to
have
Right
and
Acceptance
to
cry
Abba
,
Father
;
that
is
,
to
be
emboldened
to
approach
the
Throne
of
Grace
,
and
to
offer
continual
Sacrifices
of
Supplication
and
Thanksgiving
,
upon
our
only
great
and
glorious
Altar
,
Heb
.
13.10
,
15.
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
in
him
drawing
near
to
God
our
exceeding
Joy
.
Psal
.
43.4
.
This
State
gives
Contentation
in
every
Condition
,
under
the
assurance
that
all
things
shall
work
together
for
our
good
,
and
that
all
our
most
difficult
Labour
to
resist
Temptation
,
to
overcome
the
World
,
to
mortify
Corruptions
,
to
deny
Self
,
shall
not
be
in
vain
in
the
Lord
,
but
shall
receive
a
full
Recompence
of
Reward
in
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
.
Therefore
whatsoever
is
done
or
suffered
,
is
in
hope
of
the
Glory
of
God
,
knowing
that
the
State
of
this
present
World
is
not
capable
to
receive
the
Blessedness
and
Glory
of
Eternity
in
Heaven
.
The
Felicity
of
Eternity
cannot
possibly
be
represented
,
or
declared
by
the
Tongues
of
Men
and
Angels
.
Unspeakable
Words
,
2
Cor
.
13.4
,
uncapable
to
be
heard
or
uttered
in
this
Vale
of
Tears
,
are
necessary
to
set
forth
what
Eye
hath
not
seen
,
Psal
.
31.19
.
Isa
.
64.4
.
1
Cor
.
2.9
.
nor
Ear
heard
,
neither
have
entred
into
the
Heart
of
Man
,
the
things
which
God
hath
prepared
for
them
that
love
him
,
and
fear
him
,
and
wait
for
him
,
and
trust
in
him
,
before
the
Sons
of
Men
.
This
is
that
immense
Felicity
when
we
shall
know
as
we
are
known
,
and
shall
be
changed
into
the
same
Image
,
from
Glory
to
Glory
,
even
as
by
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
,
in
the
Beatifick
Vision
of
God
to
all
Eternity
,
when
the
Lord
shall
bring
all
his
Servants
into
the
Possessions
of
the
Joy
and
Glory
of
that
Kingdom
,
which
God
hath
prepared
for
them
before
the
Foundation
of
the
World
.
But
most
dismal
shall
be
the
woful
Misery
of
those
who
refuse
to
obey
the
Gospel
commanding
to
crucify
the
Flesh
,
with
the
Affections
and
Lusts
,
to
renounce
a
vain
Conformity
to
the
Pomps
and
Pleasures
of
the
World
;
to
forsake
sake
a
vain
Conversation
,
received
by
Tradition
from
our
Forefathers
;
to
deny
self
,
so
as
to
cut
off
Right-hand
and
Foot
,
and
pluck
out
right-Eye
and
to
cast
them
away
.
They
that
account
such
Lessons
too
difficult
to
be
observed
,
must
hear
,
and
perish
under
the
Sentence
,
Depart
from
me
ye
Workers
of
Iniquity
into
everlasting
Fire
,
where
the
Worm
shall
never
die
,
and
the
Fire
shall
never
be
quenched
.
The
Conclusion
and
Sum
of
the
whole
is
this
.
In
the
beginning
,
i.e.
Joh
.
1.1
,
3.
from
Eternity
,
was
the
Essential
Word
,
and
the
Word
was
with
God
:
All
things
were
made
by
him
,
and
without
him
was
not
any
thing
made
that
was
made
.
1
Tim
.
3.16
.
Who
in
the
fulness
of
Time
was
God
manifested
in
the
Flesh
;
for
of
the
Seed
of
Abraham
,
as
concerning
the
Flesh
,
Christ
came
,
who
is
over
all
,
Rom.
9.5
.
God
blessed
for
ever
.
Amen
.
In
whom
we
have
Redemption
through
his
Blood
,
Col.
1.14
,
15
,
16
,
17
,
18
,
19
,
20.
even
the
forgiveness
of
Sins
:
Who
is
the
Image
of
the
invisible
God
,
the
first-born
of
every
Creature
.
For
by
him
were
all
things
created
,
that
are
in
Heaven
,
and
that
are
in
Earth
,
visible
and
invisible
;
whether
they
be
Thrones
,
or
Dominions
,
or
Principalities
,
or
Powers
:
All
things
were
created
by
him
,
and
for
him
.
And
he
is
before
all
things
,
and
by
him
all
things
consist
.
And
he
is
the
Head
of
the
Body
,
the
Church
:
who
is
the
beginning
,
the
first-born
from
the
dead
,
that
in
all
things
he
might
have
the
Preheminence
.
For
it
pleased
the
Father
,
that
in
him
all
Fulness
should
dwell
:
And
having
made
Peace
through
the
Blood
of
his
Cross
,
by
him
to
reconcile
all
things
unto
himself
,
whether
things
in
Earth
,
Heb
.
1.1
,
2
,
3
,
8.
or
things
in
Heaven
.
God
who
at
sundry
times
,
and
in
divers
manners
spake
in
time
past
unto
the
Fathers
by
the
Prophets
,
hath
in
these
last
days
spoken
unto
us
by
his
Son
,
whom
he
hath
appointed
Heir
of
all
things
;
by
whom
also
he
made
the
Worlds
.
Who
being
the
Brightness
of
his
Glory
,
and
the
express
Image
of
his
Person
,
and
upholding
all
things
by
the
Word
of
his
Power
,
when
he
had
by
himself
purged
our
Sins
,
sat
down
on
the
Right-hand
of
the
Majesty
on
high
.
For
unto
the
Son
he
saith
,
Thy
Throne
,
O
God
,
is
for
ever
and
ever
;
a
Scepter
of
Righteousness
is
the
Scepter
of
thy
Kingdom
.
Because
God
hath
appointed
a
Day
in
the
which
he
will
judg
the
World
in
Righteousness
,
Act.
17.31
.
by
that
Man
whom
he
hath
ordained
,
whereof
he
hath
given
Assurance
unto
all
Men
,
in
that
he
hath
raised
him
from
the
dead
.
Now
it
is
easier
for
Heaven
and
Earth
to
pass
,
Luke
16.17
.
than
one
tittle
of
the
Law
to
fail
.
The
Son
of
Man
shall
come
in
his
Glory
,
and
all
the
holy
Angels
with
him
;
then
shall
he
sit
upon
the
Throne
of
his
Glory
,
and
before
him
shall
all
Nations
be
gathered
.
Mat
.
25.3
,
12.
Then
the
foolish
Virgins
,
that
neglected
opportunity
to
provide
Oil
,
shall
be
excluded
Heaven
:
They
that
in
divers
Instances
agreed
in
one
Consent
to
prefer
and
over-value
present
Animal
Enjoyments
before
the
Lord's
Invitation
to
his
Marriage-Supper
,
Luke
14.18
.
shall
never
taste
of
Eternal
Life
.
They
that
thought
it
a
hard
Saying
and
not
to
be
born
,
the
Command
of
our
Lord
to
crucify
the
Flesh
with
the
Affections
and
Lusts
,
to
renounce
a
vain
Conversation
and
a
Conformity
to
the
Fashion
of
the
World
which
passeth
away
,
that
refuse
to
deny
self
,
to
take
up
the
Cross
,
to
cut
off
right
Hand
and
Foot
,
and
pluck
out
right
Eye
,
and
cast
them
away
.
All
such
must
hear
,
and
perish
for
ever
under
that
dreadful
Word
,
Mat
.
25.41
Depart
from
me
ye
cursed
,
into
everlasting
Fire
,
prepared
for
the
Devil
and
his
Angels
.
But
on
the
other
side
,
to
those
who
believed
the
Truth
as
it
is
in
Jesus
,
without
contradicting
or
blaspheming
,
received
it
in
Love
and
the
Obedience
of
Faith
,
not
holding
it
in
Unrighteousness
,
the
King
shall
say
,
Ver
.
34
,
Come
ye
blessed
of
my
Father
,
inherit
the
Kingdom
prepared
for
you
from
the
Foundation
of
the
World
.
But
where
shall
ungodly
Sinners
appear
,
that
send
after
the
Lord
Jesus
into
Heaven
this
Rebel
Message
,
We
will
not
have
this
Man
to
reign
over
us
?
Luke
,
That
renounce
the
Satisfaction
and
Redemption
of
Christ
,
that
blasphemously
deny
the
Deity
of
Jesus
Christ
the
Lord
of
Glory
,
they
shall
say
to
the
Mountains
and
Rocks
,
Fall
on
us
,
Rev.
6.16
,
17.
and
hide
us
from
the
Face
of
him
that
sitteth
on
the
Throne
,
and
from
the
Wrath
of
the
Lamb
:
For
the
great
Day
of
his
Wrath
is
come
,
and
who
shall
be
able
to
stand
?
Few
Men
have
been
found
in
any
Age
or
Country
,
to
have
filled
their
Hearts
with
such
profligate
Madness
to
deny
God
.
Indeed
Cicero
saith
,
that
Epicurus
while
in
words
he
allowed
a
Deity
,
he
did
really
and
by
pretended
Notions
utterly
disavow
the
Providence
of
God
,
without
which
the
Name
of
God
must
be
an
empty
and
contemptible
Sound
.
For
,
as
Cicero
observes
,
if
the
Fear
of
God
,
and
Reverential
Regard
to
the
actual
Providence
of
God
be
denied
,
or
weakened
,
thereby
also
the
common
Faith
and
Security
of
human
Society
,
and
the
Ground
and
Foundation
of
universal
commutative
and
distributive
Justice
,
is
altogether
subverted
.
The
Psalmist
affirms
,
Psal
.
14.1
,
that
the
Fool
hath
said
in
his
Heart
,
there
is
no
God
.
That
is
the
Disposition
and
working
of
his
Heart
in
the
desperate
Wickedness
and
unexpressible
Deceitfulness
of
all
its
Jer
.
17.9
.
Purposes
and
vain
Imagination
,
to
avow
the
casting
off
the
regard
of
God
.
Therefore
the
Psalmist
immediately
adds
,
They
have
done
abominable
Works
,
there
is
none
that
doth
good
.
Accordingly
the
Psalmist
again
expresses
,
Psal
.
36.1
,
2.
The
Transgression
of
the
wicked
saith
within
my
Heart
,
that
there
is
no
Fear
of
God
before
his
Eyes
:
For
he
flattereth
himself
in
his
own
Eyes
,
until
his
Iniquity
be
found
to
be
hateful
.
It
is
therefore
most
irrational
Dementation
to
detract
from
the
infinite
Perfections
of
the
Eternal
God
;
for
thereby
Man
is
left
in
a
wretched
Condition
,
more
abject
than
that
of
the
Beast
which
perishes
,
liable
to
the
Miseries
of
this
Life
without
the
help
of
the
Awe
and
Encouragement
of
future
Punishments
and
Rewards
.
There
needs
not
any
Foreign
Topick
of
Argumentation
to
prove
the
Existence
of
God
,
and
his
absolute
Soveraignty
over
all
Beings
.
For
the
Conscience
of
Good
and
Evil
radicated
in
every
human
Intelligence
,
is
a
continual
and
unanswerable
Evidence
of
the
infinite
Perfections
of
the
Eternal
God
,
blessed
for
ever
.
It
is
most
absurd
Folly
and
Contradiction
,
to
own
a
Nominal
God
,
and
to
deny
the
Essential
Attributes
of
the
infinite
Perfection
of
the
Deity
.
Eternal
Being
,
Truth
and
Goodness
are
the
infinite
Perfections
of
one
Almighty
,
All-sufficient
God
.
Eternity
of
Being
implies
Original
Essential
Existence
absolutely
simple
,
altogether
independent
,
wholly
immutable
,
universally
powerful
,
every-where
present
.
From
whence
flows
Almighty
Power
,
to
create
and
uphold
all
things
according
to
his
Will
;
to
be
the
only
Cause
of
all
other
Beings
,
and
of
all
Causes
of
their
Life
,
with
all
distinct
and
proper
Abilities
thereof
;
of
their
Operation
,
with
all
the
Powers
of
Exercise
,
Rules
or
Limits
to
direct
and
govern
,
and
End
of
Performance
.
Of
their
Subsistence
with
all
Circumstances
of
Time
and
Place
,
for
the
Beginning
,
Continuance
or
Progress
,
and
finishing
their
Course
with
all
diversity
and
alterations
of
Condition
therein
,
Sustentation
and
Regulation
,
as
necessarily
flowing
from
,
and
depending
upon
God
as
Origination
.
Truth
is
original
,
eternal
,
infinite
Righteousness
,
and
Holiness
,
and
Knowledg
;
the
Perfection
of
excellent
Eminence
,
whereby
the
Divine
Majesty
and
Essence
is
infinitely
exalted
above
,
and
separated
from
all
possibility
of
Communion
with
,
or
Respect
unto
Vanity
,
Impurity
,
Unrighteousness
,
or
Wickedness
,
and
doth
satisfyingly
rest
in
his
own
All-sufficient
Soveraignty
:
Thence
derives
and
dispenses
to
all
Creatures
the
Law
of
Truth
,
to
guide
and
direct
inherently
the
Sustentation
,
Operation
and
final
Determination
of
all
Beings
,
according
to
their
several
respective
Natures
,
for
the
mutual
Support
,
Preservation
and
Comfort
of
the
Universe
,
all
in
subordinate
necessary
Subjection
to
the
supreme
Obedience
unto
the
Will
of
God
,
and
ultimate
Aim
and
Regard
to
the
Glory
of
God
.
The
Effect
of
this
eternal
Truth
is
the
Stream
of
Truth
,
the
Law
of
universal
Justice
,
Righteousness
,
Equity
,
by
God
implanted
in
the
Nature
of
all
Rational
Creatures
,
to
direct
and
judg
all
their
Affections
and
Actions
.
This
is
Truth
scoffed
by
the
Profane
,
vainly
discoursed
by
Morosophists
,
found
possessed
and
enjoyed
as
the
Happiness
of
all
that
fear
and
love
God
.
This
assigns
the
End
to
all
Controversy
,
is
the
Standard
of
Conscience
,
and
the
Basis
of
all
Rational
Conversation
.
The
Manifestation
of
this
Truth
is
the
revealed
Will
of
God
.
For
Knowledg
in
God
both
satisfyingly
comprehends
the
All-sufficient
Perfection
of
the
Divine
Essence
,
and
effectually
determines
and
appoints
the
Nature
,
Operation
,
Use
and
End
of
all
Beings
to
his
Glory
.
According
to
the
Conformity
to
,
or
Alienation
from
this
Eternal
Truth
,
is
the
Result
of
Happiness
or
Misery
to
every
Rational
Being
:
For
Divine
Truth
and
Goodness
are
convertible
and
inseparable
.
God
only
is
good
originally
,
essentially
,
infinitely
,
eternally
,
all-sufficiently
.
Goodness
is
the
Root
,
the
Branches
are
Love
;
God
is
Love
,
Mercy
;
God
is
the
Father
of
Mercies
,
Consolation
:
God
is
the
God
of
all
Comfort
,
Patience
and
Long-suffering
;
God
is
the
God
of
Patience
,
and
his
Long-suffering
is
Salvation
;
his
Loving-kindness
is
better
than
Life
.
Forgiveness
is
with
the
Lord
,
that
he
may
be
feared
:
Psal
.
130.4
,
7.
Let
Israel
hope
in
the
Lord
,
for
with
the
Lord
there
is
Mercy
;
and
with
him
is
plenteous
Redemption
.
But
this
abundant
Mercy
is
not
in
any
respect
Encouragement
to
Presumption
,
Rom.
6.1
,
2
or
continuance
in
Sin
:
Rom.
2.4
,
5
for
that
is
to
despise
the
Riches
of
his
Goodness
,
and
Forbearance
,
and
Long-suffering
;
not
knowing
that
the
Goodness
of
God
leadeth
to
Repentance
;
but
after
the
Hardness
and
Impenitency
of
Heart
,
treasureth
unto
it self
Wrath
against
the
day
of
Wrath
,
and
Revelation
of
the
righteous
Judgment
of
God
.
God
that
dwells
in
Light
inaccessible
,
cannot
be
perceived
and
apprehended
in
any
other
Manifestation
than
as
he
is
pleased
to
reveal
himself
,
which
can
only
be
in
his
Word
,
wherein
tho
there
be
sufficient
Evidence
to
satisfy
a
created
Intelligence
what
is
the
infinite
Excellence
of
the
Divine
Object
of
Worship
,
yet
it
remains
absolutely
impossible
for
the
most
exalted
created
Mind
fully
to
comprehend
the
Perfection
of
the
Divine
Essence
.
Notwithstanding
what
is
revealed
thereof
as
the
Object
of
Faith
,
is
replenished
with
immense
Goodness
and
Beauty
,
to
be
the
all-sufficient
and
necessary
Felicity
of
an
immortal
Rational
Creature
:
Thus
the
highest
and
deepest
Mystery
concerning
the
Deity
,
tho
not
possible
to
be
investigated
by
human
Capacity
,
yet
being
revealed
by
the
Word
of
Divine
Truth
,
necessarily
constrains
the
Understanding
,
Will
and
Affections
to
adore
,
believe
,
and
receive
in
Love
the
Truth
of
this
glorious
Mystery
.
The
Manifestation
of
the
Divine
Essence
cannot
possibly
be
arrived
at
,
but
by
such
Revelation
as
God
is
pleased
to
make
of
himself
.
No
Man
knoweth
the
Son
but
the
Father
;
Mat
.
11.27
.
neither
knoweth
any
Man
the
Father
,
save
the
Son
,
and
he
to
whomsoever
the
Son
will
reveal
him
.
Neither
can
any
Man
say
that
Jesus
is
the
Lord
but
by
the
Holy
Ghost
.
1
Cor
.
12.3
.
The
Ladder
of
Divine
Knowledg
,
by
which
the
Mind
ascends
to
God
,
the
Top
whereof
reacheth
to
Heaven
,
is
yet
set
upon
the
Earth
.
For
altho
the
very
Light
is
a
Covering
to
the
Glory
of
God
,
Psal
.
104.2
.
yet
things
material
,
visible
,
and
humanly
intelligible
,
present
the
Shadows
of
excellent
Evidence
,
subservient
unto
the
incomprehensible
Perfection
of
Light
and
Truth
of
the
Trinity
in
Unity
of
God
the
Father
,
Son
and
Holy
Ghost
,
the
only
and
true
God
,
blessed
for
ever
.
There
are
Signatures
in
the
Nature
of
created
Beings
,
to
assist
the
Mind
in
its
Ascent
of
approach
to
behold
the
Goodness
of
the
glorious
Mystery
of
the
Trinity
of
Persons
in
the
Unity
of
the
Divine
Essence
.
The
Doctrine
of
the
blessed
Trinity
is
shadowed
in
all
Beings
,
viz.
a
Trinity
of
Subsistences
in
Unity
of
Essence
.
In
every
individual
material
Substance
,
there
is
Height
,
Length
and
Breadth
.
In
every
the
same
Luminary
Orb
there
is
Light
,
Heat
,
fructifying
Influence
.
In
every
Man
,
Understanding
,
Will
,
Affection
,
yet
the
same
univocal
Soul
.
In
the
Godhead
was
always
acknowledged
Entity
,
Truth
,
Goodness
,
subsisting
in
Unity
,
always
from
the
Foundation
of
the
World
declared
to
be
eternal
Truth
of
God
.
The
holy
Scripture
declares
in
the
Trinity
of
the
Godhead
distinct
Properties
,
yet
one
and
the
same
Infinite
Essence
;
and
in
every
Person
of
the
Godhead
Attributes
incommunicable
to
any
but
God
.
Creation
of
all
things
is
assigned
to
the
Son
of
God
,
to
the
eternal
Word
of
God
.
John
1.1
,
2
,
3.
In
the
beginning
was
the
Word
,
and
the
Word
was
with
God
,
and
the
Word
was
God
.
The
same
was
in
the
beginning
with
God
.
All
things
were
made
by
him
,
and
without
him
was
not
any
thing
made
that
was
made
.
Both
the
Creation
and
the
Sustentation
of
all
things
are
assigned
to
the
Son
of
God
.
Heb
.
1.1
,
2
,
3.
God
who
at
sundry
times
,
and
in
divers
manners
spake
in
times
past
unto
the
Fathers
by
the
Prophets
,
Hath
in
these
last
days
spoken
unto
us
by
his
Son
,
whom
he
hath
appointed
Heir
of
all
things
;
by
whom
also
he
made
the
Worlds
.
Who
being
the
Brightness
of
his
Glory
,
and
the
express
Image
of
his
Person
,
and
upholding
all
things
by
the
Word
of
his
Power
,
when
he
had
by
himself
purged
our
Sins
,
sat
down
on
the
Right-hand
of
the
Majesty
on
high
.
The
Knowledg
of
the
Heart
of
every
Man
is
assigned
to
the
Son
of
God
;
Joh
.
2.25
.
Who
needed
not
that
any
should
testify
of
Man
,
for
he
knew
what
was
in
Man
.
Compared
with
1
Kings
8.39
.
For
thou
,
even
thou
only
knowest
the
Hearts
of
all
the
Children
of
Men
.
Isa
.
6.1
,
5.
the
Prophet
saith
,
I
saw
also
the
Lord
sitting
upon
a
Throne
,
high
and
lifted
up
.
Then
said
I
,
Wo
is
me
,
for
mine
Eyes
have
seen
the
King
the
Lord
of
Hosts
.
This
Vision
of
Jehova
is
expresly
applied
to
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
.
John
12.41
.
These
things
said
Esaias
,
when
he
saw
his
Glory
,
and
spake
of
him
.
Also
Joh
.
2.24
,
25.
But
Jesus
did
not
commit
himself
to
them
,
because
he
knew
all
Men
:
And
needed
not
that
any
should
testify
of
Man
;
for
he
knew
what
was
in
Man
.
1
Joh
.
5.20
.
speaking
of
Jesus
Christ
,
This
is
the
true
God
,
and
Eternal
Life
.
Also
to
the
Holy
Ghost
the
Scripture
assigns
the
Creation
of
the
World
:
Gen.
1.2
.
And
the
Earth
was
without
Form
,
and
void
,
and
Darkness
was
upon
the
Face
of
the
Deep
;
and
the
Spirit
of
God
moved
upon
the
Face
of
the
Waters
.
And
God
said
,
Let
there
be
Light
,
and
there
was
Light
.
Likewise
the
Works
of
Divine
Providence
;
Isa
.
63.10
.
But
they
rebelled
,
and
vexed
his
holy
Spirit
,
—
Where
is
he
that
put
his
holy
Spirit
within
him
?
The
Spirit
of
the
Lord
caused
him
to
rest
;
so
didst
thou
lead
thy
People
to
make
thy self
a
glorious
Name
.
The
Work
of
Regeneration
is
ascribed
to
the
Holy
Ghost
;
John
3.5
.
Except
a
Man
be
born
of
the
Water
and
of
the
Spirit
,
he
cannot
enter
into
the
Kingdom
of
God
.
Tit
.
3.5
.
According
to
his
Mercy
he
saved
us
,
by
the
washing
of
Regeneration
,
and
renewing
of
the
Holy
Ghost
.
The
Knowledg
of
secret
Sins
is
ascribed
to
the
Holy
Ghost
;
Acts
5.3
,
4.
Why
hath
Satan
filled
thy
Heart
to
lie
to
the
Holy
Ghost
;
thou
hast
not
lied
unto
Men
but
unto
God
.
Likewise
the
Sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
is
declared
to
be
unpardonable
;
Mark
3.29
.
He
that
shall
blaspheme
against
the
Holy
Ghost
,
hath
never
Forgiveness
,
but
is
in
danger
of
Damnation
.
These
and
many
other
Scriptures
evidence
the
Truth
of
the
Unity
of
Essence
in
the
Trinity
of
the
Divine
Persons
;
Joh
.
10.30
.
I
and
my
Father
are
one
.
1
John
5.7
.
For
there
are
three
that
bear
Record
in
Heaven
,
the
Father
,
the
Word
,
and
the
Holy
Ghost
;
and
these
three
are
one
.
Compare
also
2
Tim
.
3.16
.
All
Scripture
is
given
by
Inspiration
of
God
.
And
2
Pet
.
1.21
.
Holy
Men
of
God
spake
as
they
were
moved
by
the
Holy
Ghost
.
Likewise
in
the
last
words
of
David
,
2
Sam
.
23.2
,
3.
The
Spirit
of
the
Lord
spake
by
me
,
and
his
Word
was
in
my
Tongue
;
the
God
of
Israel
said
,
&c.
Thus
the
Doctrine
of
the
blessed
Trinity
is
not
meerly
Notional
,
but
Real
;
it
is
not
fictitious
,
but
eternally
true
;
it
is
infinitely
good
,
therefore
necessary
to
be
believed
,
and
adoringly
received
in
Love
as
the
Principle
of
Felicity
to
Intellectual
Creatures
.
The
Divine
Trinity
is
Incomprehensible
,
therefore
to
be
adored
,
not
doubted
,
nor
subjected
to
Human
Argumentation
,
which
cannot
illustrate
that
which
in
all
respects
necessarily
excels
all
Methods
of
finite
Proof
or
Evidence
,
tho
the
Reality
and
Efficacy
thereof
be
most
certainly
and
feelingly
perceived
and
enjoyed
.
The
curious
Inquiry
is
like
gazing
upon
the
Sun
,
which
dazles
our
weak
Eyes
.
For
now
we
see
through
a
Glass
,
1
Cor
.
13.12
.
darkly
;
now
we
know
in
part
:
but
when
we
shall
know
even
as
also
we
are
known
,
when
we
are
brought
into
the
third
Heaven
,
2
Cor
.
12.4
.
then
we
shall
hear
those
unspeakable
words
which
in
this
State
of
Mortality
are
not
possible
to
be
uttered
,
fully
to
reveal
the
Glory
of
the
Divine
Trinity
.
What
the
Lord
said
unto
Moses
,
is
also
spoken
unto
us
;
We
cannot
see
the
Glory
of
God
and
live
;
but
the
Lord
maketh
his
Goodness
pass
before
us
,
Exod
.
33.19
,
20.
and
proclaims
his
Name
before
us
,
that
he
will
be
gracious
to
whom
he
will
be
gracious
,
and
will
shew
Mercy
on
whom
he
will
shew
Mercy
;
according
to
the
eternal
Election
of
God
the
Father
,
and
the
Redemption
by
God
the
Son
,
and
Sanctification
by
God
the
Holy
Ghost
,
into
which
Truth
all
Believers
who
shall
be
saved
,
are
baptized
.
The
Duty
of
common
Philanthropy
obliges
deeply
to
grieve
at
the
Folly
and
Madness
of
Epicurean
Sensualists
,
who
renounce
the
Glory
of
the
Image
of
God
,
and
the
hope
of
immortal
Felicity
,
and
corrupt
themselves
to
be
like
natural
Brute
Beasts
,
made
to
be
taken
and
destroyed
,
vainly
imagining
to
evade
the
impartial
Justice
of
the
Almighty
God
,
with
whom
is
terrible
Majesty
.
No
less
miserable
are
the
Profane
,
who
take
up
a
scoffing
Name
of
Deist
to
act
the
Atheist
,
renouncing
the
Fear
of
God
which
is
the
only
Bond
of
Human
Society
,
and
rejecting
Hope
in
God
,
which
is
the
only
distinguishing
Excellency
of
Man
above
the
Beasts
that
perish
.
Unreasonable
also
is
the
Pride
of
those
who
deny
the
predestinating
Prescience
of
God
the
Father
,
Rom.
1.23
.
changing
the
Glory
of
the
Incorruptible
God
into
the
Image
of
corruptible
Man
;
as
if
they
thought
God
to
be
altogether
such
an
one
as
themselves
,
Psal
.
50.21
.
who
upon
any
Disappointment
or
unexpected
Accident
,
endeavour
to
patch
up
a
Remedy
for
unforeseen
Inconvenience
.
But
let
the
Potsherds
of
the
Earth
strive
with
,
Isa
.
45.9
.
and
discourse
of
the
Potsherds
of
the
Earth
.
But
unto
the
eternal
Wisdom
of
God
are
known
all
his
Works
from
the
beginning
of
the
World
,
according
to
that
determinate
Counsel
and
Knowledg
of
his
own
Will
,
Acts.
2.23
.
who
hath
appointed
all
things
that
ever
shall
come
to
pass
,
and
all
for
his
own
Glory
;
so
that
not
any
the
least
thing
,
even
the
falling
of
a
Sparrow
to
the
Ground
,
Matth
.
10.29
,
30.
befals
by
chance
,
but
by
Divine
Appointment
.
Also
the
most
flagitious
Wickedness
that
ever
was
contrived
and
acted
,
even
the
crucifying
the
Prince
of
Life
,
was
to
fulfil
the
determinate
Counsel
of
God
,
for
this
very
end
to
accomplish
the
highest
Exaltation
of
Divine
Glory
and
Goodness
in
the
Salvation
of
Man
.
Which
Salvation
likewise
is
made
effectual
only
to
such
as
are
ordained
to
Eternal
Life
.
Act.
13.48
.
They
also
deny
the
meritorious
Satisfaction
to
the
infinite
Justice
of
God
by
the
Death
and
Righteousness
of
Jesus
Christ
,
for
the
Redemption
of
Sinners
from
Wrath
to
come
;
by
which
miserable
Error
is
effectually
and
really
denied
and
evacuated
the
Essential
Justice
of
God
.
They
also
deny
the
necessity
of
the
Almighty
efficacious
Grace
of
the
Spirit
of
God
to
sanctify
,
regenerate
and
quicken
those
that
are
naturally
dead
in
Trespasses
and
Sins
,
under
that
Corruption
and
Impotence
,
wherein
all
are
alienated
from
the
Life
of
God
.
Now
concerning
the
words
used
by
the
Orthodox
to
express
the
Mystery
of
the
Divine
Trinity
:
It
ought
to
be
considered
,
that
Words
of
Rational
Speech
being
the
Signatures
of
Things
,
there
are
many
more
things
to
be
expressed
than
are
words
to
represent
them
:
For
such
is
the
Poverty
of
every
the
most
copious
Language
,
that
there
is
necessity
to
apply
the
same
syllabical
Word
to
signify
various
and
different
things
,
which
yet
receive
the
Certainty
of
Interpretation
from
the
Rational
Contexture
of
the
respective
Discourse
.
Thus
in
the
Controversies
raised
by
Heretical
Blasphemers
against
the
Doctrine
of
the
blessed
Trinity
.
The
Orthodox
to
vindicate
the
Truth
of
the
Scriptures
,
which
abundantly
testify
both
the
Essential
Unity
,
and
the
distinct
Properties
of
God
the
Father
,
God
the
Son
,
and
God
the
Holy
Ghost
,
have
made
use
of
several
words
,
as
Person
and
Co-essential
,
to
express
and
signify
the
Scriptural
Truth
of
the
Identical
Substance
and
distinct
Properties
of
the
Divine
Trinity
in
Unity
.
Therefore
the
possession
and
use
of
the
aforesaid
Words
or
Phrases
are
duly
retained
by
the
Church
,
according
to
the
Meaning
and
Intention
clearly
made
known
in
the
holy
Scriptures
,
which
ascribe
,
as
before
mentioned
,
unto
the
Father
,
unto
the
Son
,
and
unto
the
Holy
Ghost
,
Attributes
of
Essential
Divine
Perfection
,
incommunicable
to
any
but
unto
the
only
living
and
true
God
,
who
from
everlasting
to
everlasting
,
is
God
blessed
for
ever
.
Religious
Worship
being
the
absolute
Soveraignty
of
the
only
living
and
true
God
,
both
in
respect
of
the
Object
of
Worship
,
which
〈◇〉
only
be
God
;
and
in
respect
of
the
Rule
of
Worship
,
which
can
only
be
appointed
by
God
:
For
all
other
Objects
of
Worship
are
despicable
vain
Idols
,
and
all
Rules
,
Mediums
and
s
of
Religion
not
instituted
by
God
,
are
blasphemous
Detraction
from
the
Truth
and
Majesty
of
God
.
It
must
therefore
be
that
the
great
Temptation
to
Atheism
is
Superstition
;
that
is
,
a
Human
Composition
of
Religion
,
when
the
Fear
(
that
is
,
the
Worship
of
God
)
is
taught
by
the
Precepts
of
Men
.
The
course
of
Rational
Argumentation
carrying
the
Mind
to
infer
,
that
if
the
Object
of
Adoration
must
be
obliged
to
depend
upon
the
Will
and
Fancy
of
Human
Imposition
,
how
,
and
when
,
and
with
what
Mediums
or
Ceremonies
it
shall
be
adored
:
Then
the
Deity
must
become
a
meer
Fiction
,
and
such
Religion
nothing
but
an
Idol-Contrivance
of
the
crafty
,
or
the
foolish
:
Such
Superstition
being
sacrilegious
Invasion
of
the
Divine
Majesty
,
to
institute
or
practise
any
Rite
,
Formulary
,
or
Ceremony
in
Religion
not
commanded
by
God
,
or
otherwise
than
God
hath
commanded
:
Isa
.
33.22
.
because
God
only
can
be
the
Law-giver
of
his
own
Worship
;
for
all
other
Worship
falls
short
of
Acceptance
with
God
,
consequently
cannot
make
the
Worshipper
happy
,
but
prepares
for
an
Atheistical
Rejection
of
all
Religion
.
The
most
refined
Human
Intelligence
could
never
find
out
to
Perfection
the
Works
of
God
,
which
are
the
Objects
of
our
Sense
;
so
as
fully
to
discover
the
Formation
,
Texture
,
Consistence
and
compleat
Use
and
End
of
created
Beings
.
Who
can
fully
understand
the
glorious
Orbs
of
Light
which
dazle
the
Beholder
?
Psal
.
150.1
.
Who
knows
the
firmament
of
his
Power
?
Who
knows
the
Ballancings
of
the
Clouds
●he
wondrous
Works
of
him
which
●s
perfect
in
Knowledg
?
how
the
Garments
are
warm
,
when
he
quieteth
the
Earth
by
the
South
Wind
?
The
very
Augmentation
of
Stones
and
other
Subterranean
Materials
,
the
Growth
of
Vegetables
,
the
Production
,
Generation
,
Use
and
Operation
of
Animals
,
even
of
the
most
despicable
Insects
,
have
escaped
,
and
surpassed
the
diligent
Inquiry
of
the
most
sagacious
Pretenders
:
The
Certainty
of
all
which
having
only
Substance
and
Evidence
in
Faith
by
which
we
understand
that
the
World
was
made
by
the
Word
of
God
;
Heb
.
11.1
,
3
so
that
things
which
are
seen
are
not
made
of
things
which
do
appear
.
But
who
can
by
searching
find
out
God
?
Job
11.7
,
8.
Or
,
who
can
find
out
the
Almighty
unto
Perfection
?
It
is
as
high
as
Heaven
,
what
canst
thou
do
?
deeper
th●●
〈◇〉
that
canst
thou
know
?
Jo●●7
.
3
.
Yet
this
is
Life
Eternal
,
to
know
the
only
true
God
,
and
Jesus
Christ
whom
he
hath
sent
.
The
Mysteries
of
the
Divine
Trinity
,
and
of
the
Incarnatio●
of
Jesus
Christ
,
God
manifes●●
in
the
Flesh
,
must
necessarily
ranscend
the
Comprehension
of
any
finite
created
Intelligence
.
But
tho
the
Love
of
Christ
passeth
Knowledg
,
it
is
impossible
for
sinful
Man
to
be
delivered
and
saved
from
Wrath
to
come
,
that
is
,
from
eternal
Death
,
but
by
●nfeigned
Faith
in
God
the
Father
to
be
just
,
Rom.
3.26
.
and
the
Justifier
of
an
ungodly
Sinner
,
&
4.5
.
which
believeth
in
Jesus
;
in
God
the
Son
,
who
only
is
able
to
save
to
the
utmost
,
having
by
himself
purged
us
from
our
Sins
,
and
satisfied
Divine
Justice
,
is
only
capable
to
be
an
everlasting
Mediator
of
Redemption
and
Intercession
:
Also
in
God
the
Holy
Ghost
,
who
only
can
regenerate
and
sanctify
a
Sinner
,
to
be
received
into
Communion
of
Life
with
God
for
ever
.
Now
for
a
Golden
Clasp
to
the
rehearsed
Truths
,
none
of
them
being
of
private
Fancy
or
Invention
,
duly
consider
the
two
fir●●
Articles
of
Religion
,
being
the
Doctrine
of
the
Church
of
England
,
published
in
the
beginning
of
the
Reformation
,
confirmed
by
Act
of
Parliament
,
and
continually
subscribed
by
the
Clergy
.