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A64246	The confession or declaration of the ministers or pastors which in the United Provinces are called Remonstrants, concerning the chief points of Christian religion; Confessio sive declaratio sententiae pastorum qui in Foederato Belgio Remonstrantes vocantur super praecipuis articulis religionis Christianae. English	Remonstrantse Broederschap.; Episcopius, Simon, 1583-1643.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1676 (1676)	Wing T564; ESTC R10771	123,629	274

and manner and order of having the Deity they be truly distinct from the Father yet are they truly partakers of the same Deity or Divine Essence and Nature absolutely and in common considered with the Father as amongst other considerations is chiefly proved from the Divine Names or Titles also from the Divine Properties and Operations which are every where in the Sacred Scriptures clearly given to them both And here is the sum of the whole Apostles Creed wherein we profess that we believe in one God the Father Almighty c. And in his only begotten Son c. And lastly In the Holy Ghost 4. And these things may suffice concerning even this Mystery the which indeed to treat of very soberly prudently and religiously we judg altogether necessary and very safe as far as may be to express the same in the proper and express Phrases or Words of the Holy Ghost Since the Spirit of God himself must best know himself and be best able most rightly and truly to express his own Nature nay farther and hath also been pleased as far as is necessary and sufficient to declare the same unto us in his Word whom we ought so long reverently most religiously to follow until at length we see God himself face to face know him perfectly as he will then indeed in that glorious World to come hold forth himself most clearly to be seen and known of us And thus far indeed of God himself CHAP. IV. Of the Knowledg of the Works of God 1. IN the second place there come to be considered the Works of God whereby he manifesteth his own Glory and communicateth certain good things unto us and in some respect holdeth forth himself to be known of us and which consequently are a certain Foundation whereon there is grounded a right and authority in God by vertue or reason whereof he may and of Right usually doth require Worship of us both for matter and manner or kind as he pleaseth also a Justice and Equity according unto which we are obliged to yeeld unto him wholly and entirely such Worship as himself according to his due right requireth of us 2. These kind of works fall under a twofold consideration 1. As they were fore-known and fore-ordained of God before all ages or before the Foun dations of the World were laid which are wont in one word to be called his Decrees 2. As they are manifested in time or according to the manner and order now long since most wisely established and pitcht upon in the Divine Decree whether general or special or absolute or conditional are put in Execution And from this Execution and the reason and manner thereof we are to judg of the Decrees themselves For such altogether are the Decrees as is the Execution of the same nor can it be without a mark of inconstancy that the Execution should not answer the Decree much more that it should be repugnant to and cross or thwart the same 3. The Works indeed of such Execution are principally two to wit the Work of Creation when Man was not yet in being and of Re-creation and making anew or Redemption when Man together with his whole posterity was now fallen and by reason of sin become liable to Death and eternal Condemnation To both these Works the continual Providence of God or Conservation and Government of things doth closely cleave and that alwaies accommodate to the Natures and Properties of the things that were created except when any thing falleth out extraordinarily as in Miracles c. CHAP. V. Of the Creation of the World of Angels an● of Men. 1. THe Creation of the World is that first and most powerful Production of all things made of nothing to wit that primaeve perfect forming of the Heaven and the Earth and the Sea and of all things that are therein of which also there is mention made in the Apostles Cr●ed when we say I believe in God the Father Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth 2. Among the Creatures Angels and Men are the most excellent the one being the Inhabitants of the Heavens the other of the Earth the one being in●isible the other visible The Angels are ministring Spirits dwelling ordinarily in the Heavens above the World and there stand before God as Officers or Servants and Messengers attendant on ●im both continually to declare aloud his Praises and to either declare or powerfully to execute his Commands throughout the whole World 3. Subtilely to define many things without the Scriptures concerning thei● Essence Order Degrees Number c we deem neither necessary nor useful but rather dangerous It is sufficient for us piously to believe what the scriptures do clearly affirm of them That indeed some of them keeping their Original or first Estate Principali●● have constantly adhered to God their Lord Creatour which therefore are called Holy Elect and Angels of Light ●istinguished indeed by divers orders into Thrones Powers Dominations c. But which no Man in this Mortality can easily define or determine That others sinning against God abode not in the Truth but left long since their first estate and place of abode and ●ffice and therefore being thrust out of the Heaven of the Blessed into Hell and bound under chains of darkness they every-where in this lower World under their Prince who is called that old Serpent the great Dragon also the god and Prince of thi● World the Tempter Devil and Satan wander to and fro through the Air and being become through their own fault evil Demons and impure Spirits they are every-where Adversaries to the Glory of God and the Salvation of the Godly but in the Wicked and such as obstinately refuse to obey the Will of God they powerfully rule and reign through Seductions or Errours through Wickednesses mischievous Deeds worldly Lusts and various Arts Deceits Force Idolatry Tyranny and other works proper to the World being hereafter together with wicked and ungodly Men to be cast into everlasting ●ire 4. God at the beginning made Men only two Man and Woman and the body indeed of the Man he formed of the Earth but the body of the Woman he formed of a Rib-Bone of the Man and endowed them both with a rational and immortal Spirit yea created them unto his own Image and Likeness and placed and set them in this World as in a most goodly Kingdom beautified and adorned for their sakes yea further he placed and set them in the most pleasant Paradise or Garden of the World it self as in an august or stately Palace as Lords and Princes of the rest of the Creatures 5. God also indeed adorned and beautified them with a pure and clear Understanding a right Mind with a free Will and other upright entire and sound Affections Furthermore he sufficiently furnished

of God pertaining to the life to cone or of the raising again of the dead and eternal Life 1. THe acts of God pertaining to the life to come are the raising again from death or instead thereof a sudden change of our mortal nature and Glorification or the bestowing of Heavenly Glory and Life eternal according to those two last Articles of the Apostles Creed I believe the Resurrection of the Flesh and the Life everlasting 2. This raising will be at the second and glorious coming of Jesus Christ unto the general Judgment to wit when he shall raise unto life again all the dead both the just and unjust and judg both them and those that shall then remain alive at the Judgment-seat of his Father and assign or award unto them all just rewards or condign punishments according to the quality and quantity of their Works which they have done in the body whether good or evil For then he shall raise up his faithful ones and Saints which were indeed dead out of the dust of the Earth unto a Life eternal and blessed and shall endow them alone with a glorious and incorruptible body And those which he shall then find alive and surviving of them those he shall on a sudden and as it were in a moment change and make them immortally blessed with the other 3. This-like raising and in part a change shall be immediately succeeded by that blessed Glorification which is the complement of all the other acts whereby the Lord Jesus after he shall have descended from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the Trump of God to the now said Judgment shall take them being raised by the Angels of his power with himself into the Air and most powerfully deliver or translate them from the universal corruption or total destruction of the whole World being then to be altogether on a flame into the everlasting and glorious mansions of the Heavens which in the Scriptures are called new Heavens a new Earth and the World to come and shall give them to enjoy unspeakable joy with himself and with God and with his holy Angels for ever and for ever CHAP. XX. Of the Divine threatnings and punishments of the Wicked pertaining both unto this Life and unto the Life to come to wit of Reprobation Hardening Blinding and of eternal Death and Damnation 1. TOwards the Wicked and Unbelievers or those who refractorily or obstinately refuse to believe and repent and who although they have been long and much called upon admonished reproved chastened c. do yet nevertheless persist to disobey the Gospel God is minded to exercise acts altogether contrary to the former and they no less severe than just and holy the which he hath threatned them with in his Word and do pertain partly to this life partly to that which is to come 2. The acts pertaining unto this Life are Reprobation or Desertion Also Blinding and Hardening and other temporal punishments of that or the like sort of which the first is the just casting of wicked men off to wit when God will no longer have or account them for his people and therefore doth righteously withdraw from them the Grace of his holy Spirit which hath been so often despised by them yea sometimes also he thinks not meet to bestow upon them those outward means which he is wont ordinarily to make use of for the Salvation of his people to wit by leaving them in their own darkness and sins without true Pastours Godly Teachers or Monitors and diligent Searchers out of Truth 3. Next followeth Blinding and Hardening to wit when these sinners being now left destitute of the light of Heavenly Truth are by Gods permission and just judgment deeply involved in gross ignorance and errours and in wonderful and divers manners seduced and when they are given up to their own unclean lusts or left to their vile or filthy affections or are on every side exposed to the temptations delusions and snares of Satan also when their wicked counsels endeavours and practises are suffered for a time to go on with some happy success and themselves for a while to sin scot-free lastly when manifold occasions of erring and sinning are presented to them and their Consciences in the mean while are not pricked or troubled with any sad remorse or serious sorrow for their sins committed c. All which things indeed and very many other more of like sort profane men are wont to turn to their own destruction From whence there groweth or encreaseth more and more a strange blindness of mind an obstinate hardness of heart and filthy greediness of sinning and finally a thick and gross darkness that is a certain brutish ignorance of God and secure profaneness of life doth wholly seize and possess them And sometimes indeed those acts are seconded and followed even with some exemplary also and publick punishment of these men in this life and such as is visible or obvious to the sight of all 4. The penal acts that pertain to the life to come are most usually contained under the words of the Wrath and Vengeance of God also of Judgment and Condemnation whereby God will not only by judgment irrevocably pass or give away from the wicked and unbelievers immortal glory but will also inflict upon them the torments of Hell and eternal punishments Which indeed shall be done openly at the last day when he shall throw them together with the Devil and his Angels into everlasting fire that there they may be punished with everlasting destruction being banished from the presence of God and his glorious power 5. And these things being thus finished there shall immediately arise that new World wherein dwelleth Righteousness and where Jesus Christ our Lord and King having wholly or utterly destroyed all his Enemies shall deliver up or restore the Kingdom to God and his Father that from thenceforward God may be all in all CHAP. XXI Of the Ministry of the Word of God and of the Orders of Ministers 1. ANd this indeed is the Will of God which is necessary for us to know for that it consists of such like most holy Precepts and so excellent Promises the which that it might become known unto miserable morrals and be continually set before their eyes it pleased that great Pitier or Compassioner of mankind that it should not only be tacitly insinuated or conveyed into them by private reading of the sacred Scripture but also that it should by open and publick preaching be every where proclaimed and daily and openly as it were implanted and inculcated or beaten in to them 2. And that it might be rightly or or duly performed there was first of all necessary a solemn and immediate both election or separation