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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75804	Scripture manifestation of the equalitty of the Father, Sonne, and Holy-Ghost. VVherein is above an hundred particulars by parralell places of Scripture, this truth is clearely confirmed; namely that the Scriptures manifest the Sonne, and Holy Ghost to be God equall with the Father, by ascribing to them such names, attributes, works, and worship, as are proper to God alone. / By Beniamin Austin, pastor of the Church of God at Castle-Ashbey in Northamptonshire.	Austin, Benjamin.	1650 (1650)	Wing A4242; Thomason E1218_1; ESTC R210122	135,284	243

their Works both common and Essentiall as I have shewed to whom by so many wayes are we tyed to service and obedience but more especially are we bound to love him for he hath loved us first 1 Joh. 4.19 CHAP. V. We must love the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost GOD is the onely proper Object of our love whom we must love for himselfe but our Brother in and for God He is to be loved with all our heart with all our soule and with all our might this is the first and treatest Commandement Mar. 12.30 He is one Lord Mar. 12.29 but three Persons the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost who is thus to be loved First the Father is thus to be loved This the Apostle supposeth If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him 2 John 2.15 Secondly the Sonne is thus to be loved This our Saviour enjoyneth us to love him above our Neighbour of what neere relation soever he be to us yea above our self and therefore with the love required in the first and great Commandement It being that love which is due to God alone Luke 14.26 If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his owne life also he cannot be my Disciple The Father loveth them that love the Sonne John 14.24 And no marvell for the loving of the Sonne is the loving the Father and the hating of the Sonne is the hating of the Father also John 15.23 24. Three times did the Lord demand of Peter who had three times denyed his Lord. Simon sonne of Jonas lovest thou me John 21.15 16 17. yea the Apostle Paul commandeth 1 Cor. 16.22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha accursed till the Lord commeth And surely the love of Christ to us was boundlesse Ephe. 3.19 our love to him must be so likewise if possibly we can he is the First and the Last Rev. 1.17 Rev. 2.8 The first good cause and the last good end he is the chiefe good to the soule and therefore to be loved above all by the soule Thirdly the Holy-Ghost is thus to be loved This the Apostle John supposeth Every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him 1 Joh. 5.1 We are begotten and regenerated of the Spirit John 3.5 6 8. whom we are to love above our Brother that is begotten of him for we are to love our Brother in him and for him Paul beseecheth the Romans by the love of the spirit Rom. 15.30 Not that love wherewith he loved us but wherewith we love him I beseech you saith he for the Lord Jesus sake and for the love of the spirit that ye strive together is your prayers to God for me But why saith he for the Lords sake and for the Spirits sake or for the love of the Spirit Surely it was to set forth unto them his vehement obtestation or greater desire There being a greater tye of love that we are bound withall to the Lord Jesus and to the Holy-Ghost then there is to any particular Brother or to the whole Church of God for these are equally to be loved with the Father Thus the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost is that one Jehovah our God whom we must love with all our hearts with all our soules and with all our mights Deu. 6.4 5. where there is two causes imployed why we ought to love this one Lord First for his own Nature and being He is Jehovah who as he hath being of himself and giveth being to us so he is to be loved of himself and for himself but our Brother is to be loved in him and for him Secondly for his Covenant of grace which he made with his Church and people which brought Israel out of Egypt which gave his Law to Israel which was the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost as I have shewed If therefore our love be free let us set it on him who is worthy to be loved but if our love be vendible who is fitter for it then God who hath paid so deare a price for it and so dearely bought it Let us give him our Mites who hath given us so many Talents Let us love him with all our hearts who hath loved us with such an infinite love Let our whole affection of love be wholly placed on him who is truly lovely who placed his love on us when there was nothing in us worthy of his love for he did not finde but did make us lovely Ezek. 16.6 CHAP. VI. We must heare the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost AS we must give Divine Worship to God serve him and love him So must we like wise believe 〈◊〉 him who is the onely object of our Faith It is the honour of the true God to be believed on his Word but man who is subject to errour 1 Cor. 13.7 may not challenge this to himself The Lord can neither deceive nor be deceived but the best of Men may deceive and be deceived Gal. 2.13 1 King 13.18 we Therefore First Heare God Secondly Know God Thirdly Beleeve in God Fourthly Hope and trust in him First we must heare God He that is of God heareth God and his word John 8.41 It is the marke that Christ giveth to his Sheep that they will not heare the voyce of strangers John 10. yea hearing is the ordinary meanes of salvation Rom. 10.13 14. That which David called a boring of the eare Psal 40. the Apostle citing that place called it a fitting of the body of Christ Heb. 10.5 A body hast thou fitted me why because the eare was a principall member whereby he gave obedience to God his Father This duty we owe to God alone to whose Word we must yeild the obedience of faith Rom. 16.26 and therefore beleeve because he speaketh It is the Psalmist argument He that made the eare shall he not heare Psal 94. And surely we may likewise conclude He that made the eare shall not he be heard In regard therefore of creation we owe this duty to Father Sonne and Holy-Ghost First the Father is to be heard This Christ supposeth when that he saith Luke 10. He that heareth me heareth him that sent me Christ indeed as God and Man as he was the Minister of Circumcision Rom. 15.8 the great Doctor of the Church taught them from his Father John 12.49 He came in his Fathers Name John 5.43 and his Doctrine was his Fathers John 7.16 He did not speake of himself John 7.17 But as he is the Sonne of God equall with the Father so we are to heare him as we heare the Father thus he beareth witnesse of himself John 8.18 Secondly the Sonne is to be heard Ephes 4.21 So the Father commandeth Mat. 17.5 This is my well-beloved Sonne heare him The Sonne himselfe requireth it and promiseth eternall life to them that heare him John

Cor. 3.15 where the Spirit of the Lord is the●e is liberty David calleth the Holy-Ghost the free Spirit Psal 51.12 First because he worketh freely in us 1 Cor. 12.11 Secondly because he worketh freedome in us and for us and therefore the Apostle telleth us The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ hath made us free from the law of sinne and death Rom. 8.2 It is manifest Christian liberty is a worke of the Father Sonne and Holy-Ghost who worke this worke in us and for us God loosing us from all bondage that we may serve him Luk. 1.74 and delivereth us from the slavery of our enemies to tye us more firmly to his service CHAP. XX. Salvation or Glorification is a Worke of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy-Ghost SAlvation or Glorification is the worke of God alone I even I am the Lord and besides me there is no Saviour Isai 41.11 Isa 43.23 he saveth us 1 Tim. 1.9 he giveth us eternall life Rom. 6. last Eph. 2.8 First the Father saveth us so he promiseth Hos 1.7 I will save them by the Lord their God Here are two Persons stiled Jehovah First the Father promiseth to save Israel Secondly the Sonne by whom this deliverance is wrought and Israel is saved And the Lord Jesus telleth us John 10.29 None can pluck his sheep out of his Fathers hands Intimating thereby that he will preserve them to that Kingdome which he hath prepared for them Matth. 25.34 and according to his good pleasure giveth them it Luke 12.32 And to this end out of his love to us was it that he gave his onely begotten Sonne for us John 3.16 yea even for his little ones those who are little in their own eyes through humility little in the eyes of others through contempt yet it is not his will that any one of these little ones should perish Matth. 18.14 Secondly the Sonne saveth us John 6.33 He giveth life to the world So the Father promiseth Hos 1.7 and he himselfe affirmeth that he will give them that are faithfull to death a Crown of life Rev. 2.10 He giveth his sheep eternall life John 10.28 It is his mercy we must look for unto eternall life Jude ver 21. It is his Name by which we are saved Act. 4.12 There is no other Name given under heaven whereby we must be saved According to the merit of our salvation Christ Jesus is alone But according to the efficacy and application of it it is common to him with the Father and the Holy-Ghost Thirdly the Holy-Ghost saveth us He is the Spirit of life Rom. 8. that giveth life to us we being saved by the renewing of the Holy-Ghost Tit. 3.5 who promiseth to give to them that overcome to eate of the tree of life Rev. 2.7 and that they shall not be hurt of the second death Rev. 2.12 Thus these Actions and Works of the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost are their joynt and undivid●d Works because there is not in God a divided or multiplyed Essence but one and the same divine Essence it being the same God which worketh all in all 1 Cor. 12.6 The unity of whose working dependeth on the unity of their power That therefore which the Scripture ascribeth to one Person of the Godhead it ascribeth sometimes to another As in the seven Epistles to the Churches in Asia the Sonne in the beginning is described as the Author of them yet in the conclusion we must here what is spoken as spoken by the Spirit of the seven Churches Rev. 2. Rev. 3. Again the gifs that are given to the seven Churches some times the Spirit doth promise them as to Ephesus Rev 2.7 to Smyrna Rev. 2.11 to Pergamus Rev. 2.17 and sometimes Jesus Christ promiseth them as to Thyatyra Rev. 2.28 to Sardis Rev. 3.5 to Phyladelphia Rev. 3.12 to Laodicea Rev. 3.21 Though therfore the Scripture in setting down the graces doth usually ascribe them to the Father in the Sonne and by the Spirit Ephes 1.4 5. 1 Cor. 6.10 Tit. 3.4 5. This order of dispensation holdeth forth unto us a distinction of persons onely and no division of Essence It sheweth an order in which they worke no inequality in regard of their Nature Essence and Substance which is one their Majesty Power and Glory is one though in respect of the distinction of Persons they are Relatives and therefore so are not one but are thus co-equall and co-eternall Oh that we would look into the Glasse of Gods Word then might we see cleerely how the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost doe worke in all their Works in us and for us Oh what unspeakable comfort would this work in our soules to prais● God for his mercies And Oh what soule-comforting matter would this yeild to stirre up our Brethren to praise the Lord for his mercies there might we say one to another Come and heare all ye that feare God and I will tell you what he hath done for my soule Psal 66.16 then might we sing praise one with another saying Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting and let all the people say Amen Praise ye the Lord Psal 106.48 The fourth Booke Divine Honour is given to FATHER SONNE and HOLY-GHOST CHAP. I. The Scriptures manifest the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost to be God equall with the Father by ascribing to them equally with the Father such Honour and religious worship as is due to God onely THEY who have the same Honour or religious Worship given truly to them which is given to the Father are God equall with the Father But the Sonne and Holy-Ghost have the same honour given truly unto them as is given to the Father Therefore the Sonne and Holy-Ghost are God equall with the Father I shall first cleare the major though undeniably true and then shew the truth of the minor in divers particulars The Lord is a jealous God Exod. 20.4 As a King of his Church he will not endure a partner in his throne or as a Husband of her he will not away with a Rivall in his bed He will not give his Glory to another nor his praise to Graven Images Isai 42.8 We are to worship the Lord and to doe service to him onely Mat. 4.8 we are not to doe service to any that is not a God by Nature Gal. 4.8 The Apostle blamed the Heathen for this sinne much more it is blame-worthy in Christians He may winke at grosse Idolatries in them Act. 17.30 which he will not pardon in his owne people Amos 3.2 The Lord knew Israel by his mercies and he will make Israel know by his judgements what it is to sinne against him If therefore the Heathenish Galathians may not doe service to them that are not Gods by Nature much more may not Christians give this honour unto him who is not a God by Nature Where the distinction inter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will not serve the true for he reproveth them