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The scheme or diagramme adjusted for future use in a larger prodromus ere long to be published, and whereof this is then to be a part.
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Gibbon, Nicholas, 1605-1697.
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Fundamentals from which it hath its evidence as included in them The Consideration of those of the first Race that stood is chequered also though but an Appendix to the sixth Head And that it is properly unto it an Appendix is confirmed by the Holy Ghost in that he saith Heb. 1.14 Are they not all ministring Spirits sent forth for them who shall be Heirs of Salvation that is of those who are Claimers by this Covenant which was properly A Covenant of Salvation the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction which is the sixth Head The Consequentials involved in the Heads of Mediatorship THe Trinity of Condescensions for Redemption The Creator now compleat and actually Father by Generation in overshadowing the Virgin and preparing a Body The Word now Sonne by Incarnation of his Eternall Spirit personally united to the Intellectuall nature and by it to that Body prepared the New Creature The Spirit now Consummator of Glory in full actuated in the Person of the Mediator and by Him merited for particulars as the Seal of Grace and Earnest of Glory All included in and resulting from the Covenant Primitive in the second Transaction and the Covenant Derivative Finisht The Church Regenerate the Ultimate End of this whole work of Condescentions for Redemption as the New Creation of God This Consequentiall upon the Covenant Derivative and Covenant Derivative Finisht The Consequentials involved in the Heads of Apostleship SCripture comprehended in the Emergent Revelations unto the Patriarchs Moses the Prophets Jesus Christ and the Apostles The subject matter of Those Records That Revelation by them to us onely Divine And the Tradition of it from them to us onely Authenticke The Trinity of Condescensions for Administrations in the Apostolate of Jesus Christ The Father now Anoynting as Lord The Sonne Anoynted as Servant The Holy Ghost the Energie of the Father by Procession from Him in fullnesse on the Sonne and by and from Him in the severall dispensations the Principle of speciall Administrations for Revelation included in the Covenant Derivative as the subject matter of his Apostleship and implied in the principle of this House of Administrations The Subadministrators by whom that Apostleship of Jesus Christ was executed in all Ages to whom the word of Reconciliation was committed and with whom it was to remaine and be continued unto the end of the world both as to the prime Ordinances The Power of sending and Government and secondary Ordinances the Administration of the Word and Sacrament by those that are so sent The Church Congregate the Ultimate End of this whole work of Condescensions for Administrations and so the Last in these consequentials that He might sanctifie and cleanse it with washing of water by the Word the Initiating Sacrament to this Church that He might as Apostle present it unto himself as Mediator a Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing Eph. 5.26 27. The Influence of the Spirituall Theologicall Grounds represented in the inner Lines their Juncture and Union with the Naturall and Morall Theologicall Heads on which they terminate themselves HAving thus given in summe the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Narrative of the Things as they are as well Hyperphysicall as Physicall and Morall with their relative Consequentials separate and apart we farther desire for the farther comprobating of the Scheme to suggest the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or manner how in Juncture with themselves and each other they so become one entire Body as we have represented them in It. And first in all humble confidence presuming upon that Demonstration which by his Outgoings the Infinite Immortall Incomprehensible Godhead hath given of it self we do in conformity thereto suppose and by those Lines issuing from the Essence and terminated on the Subsistencies expresse Their Coessentiall Inbeings their Coeternall and Coequall Emanations i. Flowings forth from It. The termination of those Lines upon the Figures 1 2 3. speaketh not their Priority or Posteriority in order of Nature they being so Coequall and Coeternall but onely sheweth their Order of Working demonstratively evident from their after-works in their subsistentiall Actings and energeticall Operations according to their distinct respective specifications for Nature Grace Glory Because there must be Nature i. Being from the Creator before there can be Impresse upon that Being i. Grace from the Word And there must be Nature and Grace from both before They can be anneal'd or fix'd by the Third the Spirit to make that Grace become Nature i. Glory Inchoate in the Earnest consummate here or Glory in full i. absolutely consummate upon Translation And secondly with the same confidence because upon the same grounds of the Subsistencies in Their Outgoings demonstrating themselves we do determine of their respective Energies i. their Working Powers or Spirits One with themselves and therefore distinct from each other as Themselves are And though One with themselves and distinct from each other yet the same Energie from One and the same Subsistency diversifying it self for operations towards and upon the Creature becometh varied in Each and all those Operations according to the capacity of the Subject in its respective states of Constitution and Restauration in its severall Advances Nor is it without reason that we call them Energeticall Operations not simply Energies and Operations because as in and from the Subsistencies they are properly Energies so in and upon the Creature properly Energeticall Operations as we shall shew you in their union with their Heads with which they must be read as in the Order and manner of Reading we have directed All which Subsistentiall Actings and Energeticall Operations we represent by the Lines drawn from the Subsistencies terminating on their severall Heads which we are now cursorily to run over Of which the first Three give us the Constitution of the first Race of Intellectuals Consummate that is every of the Subsistencies having their Energeticall Operations in the Creation of that Race by Constitution fixt In constitution we say as deriving their Nature which we in them call simply Essence from the Creator their Grace which in them we call Specification from the Word their Glory which we in them call Consummation in constitution from the Spirit As giving us the reall ground laid by the wisedom of God in their forming for his indispensible and Absolute Reprobation of them if they should Apostatize in that All their Operations being as we have said fixt All must be equally incensed and so there could be no Interpellator to stop the Justice much lesse Mediator to undertake for them Heb. 2.16 He in no wise lald hold on the Angels i. to deliver them but took the seed of Abraham The next Three speak the Constitution of the Secohd Race not consummate Their Nature complex'd of Inner and outward Man from the Creator onely constituted i fixt Their Grace from the Word in Principle not fix't because to its fixing it prerequired a Condition on Man's part to be performed And
under the Paenadamni or Privative onely Yea farther upon the Creator's admitting that Interpellation A Reprieve from the Sentence and so the Curse for the present sublevated both to the Inward and Outward Man by which a possibility for a following Covenant for Restoring of Both. VI. The Restauration of Nature in the Inward and Outward Man under the forfeiture to Justice suspended upon that Rescue and Reprieve in Decree by the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction as the New Creation in the Second Adam by this the New Covenant for Restauration and Revelation betwixt the Creator Ordaining and the Eternal Word undertaking to be Incarnate by his Eternal Spirit immediately united to the Intellectuall Nature and by it to be united to the Body Whereby the principle of Grace withdrawn Restored to our Nature in that the second Adam He became a fit Mediator Sponsor in the Apostles phrase a Pledge to perform the Condition of the first Adam by Adhesion Inward Obedience Outward This not only Active to vanquishing but Passive also for the satisfying the guilt of the first Adams non-performance even to the suffering of Death whence Raised Glorified as Reward upon the work done taking possession in our nature of the Glory come short of He was thereby made a fit Mediater Regenerator to restore the principle of Grace to particulars and so gave them title to the Glory in Him prepared for them For the efficacious Revealing and applying of which Grace to the Inward by the Outward Man Outward Means and Ordinances are hereunto Codecreed in him as Apostle by Unction from the Father to Reveale as the work given him to do And so here Nature sanctified the Inner Man delivered from the Positive Evil the Execution of the Sentence and the state of Tophet by translating of the Guilt and Curse upon the Satisfaction undertaken From the Privative Evil the Creator now lifting up the light of his Countenance in his Decreed Ordinances for the restoring of the Principle of Grace withdrawn and Glory consecutive thereupon And though the Outward Man still continued under its incurr'd Curse Gen. 3.19 To dust thou shalt return yet that also here sanctified upon Capitulation that the Creator to make it redeemable in us would by a second work prepare it for the Eternal Word to assume and so to become voluntarily and of himself Mediator to Redeem and in it Annoynted Apostle to Reveale All from this the beginning of time by His cooperating Grace in Shadowes and Types in the severall Administrations and from this Compact having efficacie as Ordinances though as to the Actuating them in the fullnesse of time Personally in and from Himself as in the Flesh they were onely in Decree VII The Actual Restauration of Nature compleat in the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the second Transaction mutually made good in the Person of the Mediator by the Creator's preparing and so sanctifying the Humane nature or Body as to the Outward Man And the Word by the Intellectual nature the Inner Man unto which from the first Transaction it was united assuming it prepared into union with his Divine Nature so restoring the Principle of Grace in his Person to Humane nature compleat both to the Inward and Outward Man On whom thus constituted His Duty Obedience Active and Passive performed the Reward Glory is actually conferred All according to that Restauration in Decree VIII The Restauration of Particulars in the Covenant Derivative as the Revelation and efficacious Application of the Covenant Primitive from Him by complication of Ordinances and Mysterie into which coming as into the Kingdom of God their Persons are by the Ordinances sanctified and they renewed in Knowledge from Him as Apostle by unction of the Holy Ghost Jo. 14.26 teaching them all things And then upon the appropriate condition of Faith in its Advances they receive from Him as Mediator by Influx of that his Renewing Nature the Mystery the Righteousnesse of the Kingdom unto their Regeneration in their Inward Man upon and according unto that actuall Restauration in the Person of the Mediator IX That Restauration of Particulars by Influx upon the appropriate Condition of Adhering and Vanquishing in the Covenant Derivative Finish't consummate as to the Inward Man in the Earnest from the Spirit sealing The third Subsistency and the Cutward man by that his work on it the Inward sealed to the Day of Redemption X. The State of Nature by dissolution separate in and after Death relative both to the Inward and Outward Man the Inward because by immediate impresse Sealed immediately in actuall Blisse a Blisse proportioned to this Separate state And the Outward Man because once united to the Inward and by that Seal on it sealed to its Redemption resting in Hope XI The state of Nature both Inward and Outward according to that Seal and Rest in Hope by the Resurrection reunited and perfectly restored Sealed unto Translation XII The State of Nature thus as before perfectly restored in the Persons fully redeemed Now declaredly Acquitted at the last Judgement according unto the different Administrations under which they were whether Generall of the Creature or speciall in their severall diversifications that is Patriarchall Mosaicall Propheticall Interlegall Evangelicall Prime under Christ and the Apostles or Continued in their Successors unto the End of the World XIII The Persons thus by the Resurrection redeemed after the Resurrection sealed unto Translation and according unto their Administrations at the Last Judgement acquitted Now finally Translated as their consummate Glorification and made One Hierarchy with those of the first Race that Adhered and stood This the Accomplishing of that first Designe the End of the first Creation in the state and Covenant of Nature violate and frustrated by the first Adam's Dis-adhesion explicated in his Dis-obedience Now and Thus repaired according to This counsell of the will of God in a second Designe the end of their second and New Creation in the state and Covenant of Grace made good and finisht by the Second Adam Christ Jesus God blessed for ever upon his Adhesion Vanquishing and Suffering explicated by his Obedienc Active and Passive according unto the Interpellation and Covenant Primitive for the Redemption and Restauration of Mankinde Thirdly The Consequentiall Heads of the Grounds of the Scripture as they are involved in the Primitive Fundamentals and unto which they are relatively consequentiall which we have for distinction Chequered THus the Trinity Supreame Creator and Word operating by Creation unto the constitution of the creature Intellectuall as Fountains Prime and Spirit the Third Subsistency distinct from either which was in Designe the consummating Principle to the second Race upon perseverance included in and evidenced by that Head the Creation of the visible world And yet farther their distinct Personalities more fully appearing by the Interpellation and Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction we consequently state it not till in this place the close of the first