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love_n	good_a	work_n	work_v	5,769	5	7.4409	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30929	Natural theology, or, The knowledge of God from the works of creation accommodated and improved, to the service of Christianity / by Matthew Barker ...	Barker, Matthew, 1619-1698.	1674 (1674)	Wing B777; ESTC R20207	99,798	210

he rose again loosing the Bands of Death and the Grave and ascended triumphantly into Heaven and acquired a new Title to his Dominion over the World in his conquest of it 5. And being now in Heaven yet still the Creation is in his hand and bringing in revenews of Glory to God by him He disposeth of Kingdoms and Nations as he pleaseth sometimes throwing down the mighty from their Seats and then exalting the lowly and meek as was prophesied of him Luk. 1. 70. Sometimes straitning the Nations in his displeasure and then enlarging them again in his mercy and goodness He takes care for the upholding and propagating the everlasting Gospel accompanies it with his Spirit to the conversion of Souls to God and building them up an habitation for him fits them for his Service and Praise in this World and then gathers them into the presence of his Father to stand before him and to minister to him for ever He also orders their Tryals and Sufferings as he seeth them requisite to the Glory of God and their preparation for Heaven and then when he seeth it meet delivers them out of them also 6. After all this at the time of the Consummation of all things he will come down from Heaven and judge the World receiving some into the Kingdom of his Father and sending others into everlasting Fire wherein the riches of God's Grace and Mercy and the clearness of his Justice will most illustriously shine forth to his eternal Praise and Glory And when this is done he delivers up his Kingdom and Dominion to his Father that he had received from him having subdued all Enemies under his feet and put down all Rule 1 Cor. 15. 28. Authority and Power his Father becomes All in All. Thus with respect to Christ and to the accomplishment of these Glorious Works which I have but briefly touched was this Creation of the World erected and which are transcendently more to the glory of God than what could have been under the first Adam either by any obedience performed by him or the dispensation of God towards him under that first Covenant And from hence I shall briefly make three Inferences Inference 1. That the Redemption of the World is a greater Work than the Creation of it seeing it was erected for the Son of God to transact that glorious Work in The end hath a pre-eminence above all those means that are made use of in a subserviency to it This lower World was made with respect to it where the Foundation of this Work is begun and laid And the upper World also where it is compleated and finished On Earth God hath the praise of it begun and in Heaven it shall be made perfect And if the Angels that are the chief part of God's Creation are made and appointed with a subserviency to it to be ministring Spirits to Christ and to the Heirs of Salvation Heb. 1. ult much more than sure the inferiour part of it And when all the Elect which are these Heirs shall be inflated in their Inheritance and fully possest of it then comes the dissolution upon this visible Creation as having then served the end for which it was first erected Inference 2. It also may be observed hence How the Nature of Man is in Christ advanced to the top of God's Creation For the World was created that it might be set under the government of the Son of God in the Nature of Man So that as I took notice before of its advancement by its union with him so here by the Dominion it hath over the whole Creation by vertue of that Union and the determination of God therein He first descended and assumed our Nature and then ascended and carried it up far above all Heavens Principalities and Powers which are the highest parts of God's Creation being made subject to him Ephes 1. 21. Our Nature was advanced in the first Adam into a great Dominion over the Creatures but it is advanced higher in the second Adam There it had a dignity upon Earth but here it hath a dignity both in Heaven and Earth There it had dominion over the Creatures of this lower World that were of an inferior Nature to it Here it hath dominion over the Angels in the upper World that are of a superior Nature and Order Lord what is Man saith the Psalmist that thou art mindful of him and the Son of Man that thou visitest him Thou hast made him a little lower than the Angels Thou hast crowned him with Glory and Honour Thou madest him to have dominion over the Works of thine hand Thou hast put all things under his feet And the Psalmist had respect not so much to the dignity of Man's Nature in the first Adam as in the Second For these words are in Heb. 2. applyed to Christ and the dignity God exalted him to Being first made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little while lower than the Angels by his debasement and suffering in this lower World and then exalted into Power and Dignity above them all in his ascending the upper World being crowned with Glory and Honour Oh the mysterious depths of Wisdom and Goodness that here meet together in the Man Christ Jesus Oh the stupidity and blindness of fal'n Man that takes so little notice of these great Works of God with respect to which the World was principally made With what sacred astonishment should we behold these Counsels of Heaven With what thanks givings and adorations should we celebrate this unspeakable Love Especially if we consider Man's Nature to be thus advanced after it had transgrest the Law of its Creation and corrupted it self more than any inferiour Nature Inference 3. We may hence conclude That the whole Creation being made for Christ and put into his hand shall be managed to the highest exaltation of the Glory of God However the course of things may run for a while and the reason of many things hid out of our sight yet all things will at last meer in this general Issue the universal end of all things which is the Glory of God The first Adam was made and placed upon the Stage of the World that through him God might have the Glory of his Creation but he being mutable fell from his Station lost his Strength and so could not serve the end of his Being Therefore God hath now put all things into a surer hand and his Glory stands upon a surer bottom For he that is both God and Man is likely to bring in both higher and surer glory to God than he that was but meer Man If he should fail in it it should be either because he wants ability which cannot be because he made all things or because he wants love and good will to God which cannot be neither because he is his only begotten Son And seeing the Work of Man's Redemption and Salvation was principally in the eye of God when he made the World as that Work