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Sandification (or Perfection) producing Nature, Grace and Glory, or cur Perfons, Medicine, and. Health.

9. And God who created the world, is thereupon to be known in his Relations to it; as our Creator in Unity, and as our Owner, Ruler, and Chief Good (efficient, dirigent and final) in a Trinity of Relations. You must know how the Infinite Vital Power of the Father, created all things by the Infinite Wisdom of the Word, or Son, and by the Infinite Goodness and Love of the boly Spirit (As the Son redeemed us as the eternal Wisdom, and Word Incarnate, sent by the eternal VitalPower of the Father, to reveal and communicate the eternal Love in the Holy Ghost: And as the Holy Ghost doth fan&ifie and perfect us, as proceeding and sent from the Power of the Father, and the Wisdom of the Son, to shed abroad the Love of God upon our hearts, &c.)

10. Next to the knowledge of God as Creator, is to be confidered the World which he created, and especially the Inte&elual Creatures; Angels, or heavenly Spirits, and Men. Man is to be known in his person or constitution first, and afterward in his appointed course, and in his end and perfection.

11. In his conftitution is to be confidered, 1. His Being or effential parts: 2. His Rectitude or Qualities: 3. His Relations, 1. Το his Creatour; And 2. To his fellow-crea

tures.

12. His effential partsare his foul and body: His soul is to be known in the Unity ofits Effence, and Trinity of effential facul ties (which is its natural Image of God.) Its effence is a Living Spirit: Its effential faculties are 1. A Viral Haivity, or Power : 2. An Understanding: 3. A Will.

13. His Reditude, which is Gods Moral Image on him, confifteth 1. In the promptitude and fortitude off his Alive Power: 2. In the Wisdom of his Understanding: 3. In the Moral Goodneß of his Will, which is its Inclination to its End, and Readiness for its Duty.

14. Being created fuch a creature, by a meer resultancy from his Nature, and his Creator, he is related to him as his Creature, and in that Unity is the subsequent Trinity of ReJations: 1. As we are Gods Propriety, or his Own: 2. Hie Subjects: 3. His Beneficiaries and Lovers: all comprized in

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the one title of his children. And at once with these Relations of man to God, it is that God is as before related to man, as his Creator, and as his Owner, Ruler, and Chief Good.

15. Man is also related to his fellow creatures, below bim, 1. As their Owner, 2. Their Ruler, 3. Their End, under God: which is Gods Dominative or Honorary Image upon man, and is called commonly our Dominion over the creatures : So that by meer Creation, and the Nature of the creatures there is conftituted a ftate of communion between God and Man, which is 1. A Dominion, 2. A Kingdom, 3. A Family or Paternity. And the whole is fometime called by one of these names, and fometime by the other, still implying the reft.

16. Gods Kingdom being thus conftituted, his Attributes appropriate to these his Relations follow: : 1. His Absoluteneßas our Owner: 2. His Holiness, Truth and Justice as our Ruler: 3. And his Kindness, Benignity and Mercy as our Father or Benefactor.

17. And then the Works of God as in these three Relations follow; which are 1. To Dispose of us at his pleasure as our Owner: 2. Fogovern us as our King: 3. To love us, and do us good, and make us perfectly happy as our Benefactor and our end.

18. And here more particularly is to be confidered, 1. How God disposed of Adam when he had new made him : 2. How he began his Government of him: And 3. What Benefits he gave him, and what he further offered or promifed

him.

19. And as to the second, we muft 1. Consider the Antesedent part of Gods Government, which is Legistation and then (hereafter) the confequent part; which is 1. Judgment, 2. Execution. And Gods Legislation is 1. By making our Natures such as compared with objects, Duty shall refult from this Nature so related: 2. Or else by Precept or Revelation from himself, befides our Natures. 1. The Law of Nature is fundamental and radical in our forefaid Relations to God themfelves, in which it is made our natural duty, 1. To subwit our selves wholly to God, and his disposal, as his own: 2. To obey his commands: 3. And to receive his mercies, and thankfully to return them, and to love him. But though (as Gods essential principles, and his foresaid Relations, arc admirably conjunct in their operations ad extra; so) our Relative obligations are conjunct, yet are they so far diftinguithable, that we may say, that these which conjunctly make our Moral duty, yet are not all the results of our Relation to a Governour, as fuch; but the second only, and therefore that only is to be called the Kadical Law in the strict sense, the other two being the Moral results of our Rectitude. The duty of fubjection and obedience in general, arifing from our Natures related to our Creator, is the radical governing Law of God in us. But yet the same submission, and gratitude, and love, which are primarily our duty from their proper foundations, are secondarily made also the matter of our fubjective duty, because they are also commanded of God. 2. The particular Laws of Nature are 1. Of our particular duties to God; or of Piety: 2. Or of our duties to our selves and others: 1. Acts of Justice, 2. And of Charity. These Laws of Nature are 1. Unalterable; and that is, where the nature of our persons, and of the objects, which are the foundations of them are unalterable, or till the fame: 2. Or mutable, when the Nature of the things which are its foundation, is mutable. As it is the immutable Law of immutable nature, that we love God as God, and that we do all the good we can, &c. becaufe the foundation of it is immutable: But e.g. the Law againt Inceit was mutable in nature: For nature bound Adams children to marry each other; and nature bindeth us fince (ordinarily) to the contrary: 2. The revealed Law to Adam was fuperinduced. The parts of Gods Law must also here be confidered. 1. The introductive Teaching part (for Gods teaching us, is part of his ruling us) and that is, Doctrines, History and Prophecy. 2. The Imperative part, commands to do, and not to do. 3. And the sanctions or motive parts in Law and execution, which are 1. Premises of Beneficial Rewards : 2. Threatnings of hurtful penalties.

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20. Gods Laws being thus described in general, and those made to Adam thus in particular, the next thing to be confidered, is mans behaviour in breaking those Laws, which muft be confidered in the Causes, and the Nature of it, and the im

mediate effects and confequents.

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21. And next must be confidered Gods confequent part of Government as to Adam, viz. his judging him according to his

Law.

22. And here cometh in the Promise, or the first edition of the New Covenant, or Law of Grace; which must be opened in its parts, original and end.

23. And then must be confidered Gods execution of his fentence on Adam, to far as he was unpardoned; and so upon the world, till the end.

24. And next must be confidered Gods enlargements and explications of his Covenant of Grace, till Chrifts Incarnation.

25. And next, mens behaviour under that explained Co

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26. And Gods sentence an d execution upon them thereupon.

27. Then we come to the fulness of time, and to explain the work of Redemption diftinctly. And 1. Its Original, the God of Nature giving the world a Physician or a Saviour: 2. The Ends: 3. The conftitutive Causes: Where 1. Of the Perfon of the Redeemer, in his Effence, as God and Man, and in his perfections, both effential, and modal, and accidental.

28. And 2. Of the fundamental works of our Redemption (such as Creation was to the firft Administration)viz. (his firit Undertaking, Interpofition, and Incarnation, being all presupposed.) 1. His perfect Refignation of himself to his Father, and fubmiffion to his difpofing Will: 2. His perfect fubjection and obedience to his Governing Will: 3. His perfect Love to him: 4. And the suffering by which he expreft all these. The three first meriting of themselves; and the latt meriting as a fatisfactory Sacrifice, not for it felf, but for its usefulness to its proper ends.

29. From this Offering once made to God, Christ acquired the perfecter title of a Saviour, or Redeemer, or Mediatour, which one contained this Trinity also of Relations towards Man: 1. Their Owner: 2. Their Ruler: 3. Their Benefactor: The Father also as the first principle of Redemption, acquiring a second title (besides the first by Creation) to all these: and towards God, Christ continucth the Relation of s beavenly Priest.

30.In 30. In order to the works of these Relations for the future, we must confider of Christs exaltation; 1. Of his Justification and Rifurretion: 2. Of his Afcenfion and Glorification: And 3. Of the delivering of Al Power, and All Things into his hands.

31. The work of Redemption thus fundamentally wrought, doth not of it self renew mans nature; and therefore putreth no Law of Nature into us of it felf, as the Creation did: And therefore we must next proceed to Christs Administration of this office, according to these Relations; which is 1. By Legiflation or Donation; enacting the New Covenant (where this last and perfect edition of it is to be explained; the Preceptive, the Promisory and the Penal parts, with its effects, and its differences from the former Edition, and from the Law of Nature and of Works.

32. And 2. By the promulgation or publication of this Covenant or Gofpel to the world, by calling special Officers for that work, and giving them their commiffion, and promifing them his Spirit, his Protection, and their Reward.

33. And here we come to the special work of the Hoty Ghost, who is 1. To be known in his Effence and Person, as the third in Trinity, and the eternal Love of God: 2. And as he is the grand Advocate or Agent of Chrift in the world, where his works are to be confidered 1. Preparatory, on and by Chrift himself: a. Adminiftratory: 1. Extraordinary, on the Apostles and their helpers: 1. Being in them a spirit of extraordinary Power, by gifts and miracles: 2. Of extraordinary Wisdom and Infallibility, as far as their commiffionwork required: 3. And of extraordinary Love and Ho. liness. 2. By the Apostles, 1. Extraordinarily convincing and. bringing in the world: 2. Settling all Church-Doctrines, Officers and Orders which Chrift had left unfettled (bringing all things to their remembrance which Chrift had taught and commanded them, and guiding them in the rest.) 3. Recording all this for posterity in the holy Scriptures. 2. His Ordinary Agency 1. On Ministers, 2. By fanctification on all true Believers is after to be opened.

34. And here is to be confidered the Nature of Christianity in fieri: Faith and Repentance in our three great Relations

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