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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. 1.3 2 Cor. 1.2 Gal. 1.3 Eph. 1.2 Phil. 1.2 Col. 1.2 1 Thes 1.1 2 Thes 1.1 Rev. 1.4 But writing to particular Persons desire from the Father grace mercy and peace 1 Tim. 1.2 2 Tim. 1.2 Tit. 1.4 2 Joh. 3. Secondly the Sonne is prayed to Jaacob prayeth to him and stileth him an Angel and attributeth his redemption from evill to him Gen. 48.16 David prayeth to him as the Creator of Heaven and earth Psal 102. 22 24. with Heb. 1.10.11 12. Paul prayeth to him and receiveth a speedy answer from him 2 Cor. 12 8 9. Yea he promiseth to heare our prayers John 14.13 besides 2 Thes 2.16 Paul in his prayer puts him before the Father Stephen the first of the Martyrs Act. 7.59 and John the last of all Canonicall writers pray to him Rev. 22.20 yea all the Church pray to him 1 Cor. 1.2 so it was foretold Psal 72.13 14 15 16 17. He promiseth to give us what we aske in his Name Joh. 14.13 The Apostles writing to the Churches pray to him wishing grace and peace from Jesus Christ Ro. 1.7 1 Cor. 1.3 2 Cor. 1.2 Gal. 1.3 Ephes 1.2 Phil. 1.2 Col. 1.2 1 Thes 1.1 2 Thess 1.1 2 Pet. 1.2 Rev. 1.5 But the Apostles writing to particular persons desire from him grace mercy and peace 1 Tim. 1.2 2 Tim. 1.2 Tit. 1.4 2 Joh. 3. Thirdly the Holy-Ghost is prayed to by John Rev. 1.4 and by Paul 2 Cor. 13.14 2 Thess 3.5 The Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and the patient waiting for of Christ first it is he that terminative worketh these graces in us which the Apostle prayeth for He terminateth consummateth and perfecteth them albeit inchoative they are not onely his worke but the worke also of the Father and the Son secondly if the Apostle h●d prayed in this place to the Father he needed not to have said to the love of God but he would have said the Lord direct your hearts to his love Or if he had prayed to Christ he would not have said the patient waiting for of Christ but rather the Lord direct your hearts to the patient waiting for of him Thus you may see the Person that is prayed to is distinct from the Father and the Sonne yea the whole Church prayeth to the Holy-Ghost to be made fit for Christs presence Cant. 4. last Awake O North wind and come thou South blow upon my Garden that the spices therein may flow out O blessed spirit breath thou in my heart that it may send forth a sweet savour of grace Thus Father Sonne and Holy-Ghost are prayed to personally yea you have them all three joyned together by Paul 2 Cor. 13. last the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God the Father and the Communion of the Holy-Ghost be with you all Amen Where foreseeing the Heresy of Arryus doth there in his prayer and also 2 Thess 2.16 put the Lord Jesus before the Father Againe 1 Thess 3.11.12 God himselfe even our Father and the Lord Jesus direct our way unto you and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one towards another and towards all men even as we do towards you To the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holynesse before God even our Father at the comming of the Lord Jesus Christ with all his Saints Where all three Persons are personally prayed to first the Father and the Sonne in the eleventh verse secondly the Holy-Ghost in the 12. and 13. verses whereby the Name of Lord the Holy-Ghost is necessarily understood for the forementioned reasons For first it is the spirit of God that terminatively worketh those graces in us to whom he prayeth in the third place to effect them Secondly if it had been the Father he had prayed to he would have said before him and not before G d ou● Father and if he had prayed to Christ he would have said at the comming of the Lord Jesus Christ John likewise nameth them severally in one Prayer gra●e be to you and peace from him which is and which was and which is to come and from the seven Spirits which are before his Throne and from Jesus Christ c. Rev. 1.4 5. whereto oppose the Heresy of Macedonius the Holy-Ghost is put between tne Father and the Sonne under the name of seven spirits who though one in his subsistence yet he is stiled seven in regard of his graces That this was not Angels as the Papists imagine but the Holy-Ghost is cleare First grace and peace commeth from him together with the Father and the Sonne but come not from these glorious Creatures which though they minister to us Heb. 1.14 yet they worke not grace in us Secondly in this benediction the 7. spirits are set before the Lord Jesus which Cannot be so done if they were Angels for they are his creatures made by him for him Col. 1.16 he is their head Col. 1.18 they worshi● him He. 1.6 thirdly the 7. spirits are set between the Father the Son as being of the same power co-workers of the same grace and givers of the same peace which cannot be so asscribed to Creatures For thus to joyne the creature with his Creator it would be a giving of Gods glory to another which the Lord will not doe Isa 48.11 Fourthly the Lambe is said to have seven hornes and seven eyes which are the seven Spirits Rev. 5.6 The spirit is of the same substance with the Sonne as the eye is of the body Seeing therefore we are to pray to one God alone and yet we pray to the Father to the Sonne and to the Holy-Ghost as one in Essence yet three in Persons we see these three Persons are one Jehovah or Lord. In which indivissible Unity we adore first the Father as being altogether of himself secondly the consubstantiall Word who is begotten of his Father Joh. 1.16 and the co-essentiall Spirit who proceeded from the Father the Son and is the Spirit both of the Father and of the Sonne Oh that we could in all our wants flie unto this trinne God as to a most sure Rock of defence then should we not need to feare the fierce wrath of man nor the fiery rage of Satan For the wrath of man would he restraine Psal 76.10 and through him we should be able to quench all the fiery darts of the Devill Eph. 6.16 CHAP. XIII We are to render Blessing Praise Honour and Glory to the Father to the Sonne and to the Holy-Ghost AS it is the Lords Honour to be prayed to in our necessities so likewise it is to be praised for his graces When therefore God blesseth us with his mercies we must blesse him with our praises For surely we receive all from him fit it is that we returne all we can to him Thus David receiving blessings from God telleth you that not onely his heart is inditing a good matter Psal 45.1 but his tongue and his lips shall

speaketh 2 Pet. 2.7 to be God doe peculiarly give to the Father stiling him in opposition to the Sonne and Holy-Ghost the great God when as they are of one Power Majestie Glory and Essence with him First the Father is stiled the great God by Daniel Dan. 9.4 who prayed to the Lord the Father of our Lord as the sonne of Syrach speaketh Ecclus 51.14 who beseecheth God to heare him for the Lords sake Dan. 9.17 Secondly the Sonne is stiled the great God by Paul Tit. 2.13 looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and Saviour Jesus Christ First the Lord Christ is that blessed hope He is the hope of Israel Act. 28.20 and also him in whom the Gentiles trust Rom. 15.12 Secondly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Zanch. Piscat Beza shew is wholly and alone attributed to Jesus Christ in the New Testament Thirdly if by great God should be understood God the Father and Saviour onely have relation to Jesus Christ then there should be a double Article in the Greeke to distinguish them but here is onely one single Article which pointeth out one onely subject even the Lord Jesus to whom these belong Wherefore if Jesus Christ were not God by Nature but onely by Office as some blasphemously affirme he had not beene a great God Thirdly the Holy-Ghost is stiled a great God so saith the Psalmist The Lord is a great God Psal 95.3 That this was the Holy-Ghost the Apostle sheweth by citing that following part of the Psalme as spoken of him Heb. 3.7 He is the great God whom he introduceth speaking which was the Holy-Ghost But if this Verse be not spoken Personally of him but essentially of God yet this Title is due to him as he is one with the Father and the Sonne and even so in that and other places where the Name of God is taken essentially it is to be referred to him together with the Father and the Sonne CHAP. XVIII Great King is a Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy-Ghost Great King is a Title properly ascribed to the Lord who is the blessed and onely Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords 1 Tim. 6.15 and is God alone of all the Kingdomes of the Earth 2 Kin. 19.15 Isai 37.16 God challengeth this title Mal. 1.14 I am a great King saith the Lord of Hosts yet this onely great King who is God alone of all Kingdomes is First the Father he is a great King Mat. 5. and hath a great Kingdome Mat. 26.29 Secondly the Sonne he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev. 17.14 It is his Name Rev. 19.16 He is the King of Israel Joh. 12.15 Zac. 9.9 Psal 45.5 11 13 15. who hath an eternall Throne a Scepter an Anoynting a Kingdome Heb. 1.7 8. who reigneth as a Conquerour in regard of his Victories over Sinne Death Hell Antichrist and all his enemies It being the honour of earthly Kings to rule over their Subjects with a golden Scepter to shew their riches But it is the honour of the Lord Jesus to rule over his enemies with a Rod of iron Rev. 2.27 Psal 2.9 to manifest his power and strength Thirdly the Holy-Ghost is a great King Psal 95.3 with Heb. 5.7 as I shewed afore who appointeth his inferiour Officers in the Church Act. 13.2 Act. 20.28 and who maketh Lawes for his people Act. 15.28 Yea Father Sonne and Holy-Ghost are one King Rev. 11.17 John treating both of the Lord and of Christ doth adde speaking as of one He shall reigne They have one Throne which is confirmed unto us by the mouth of two Evangelicall Prophets the Prophet Isaiah in the Old Testament and the Evangelist John in the New First Isaiah saw the Lord of Hosts sitting on a Throne Isa 6.1 whom in the fifth verse he stileth a King which did send Isaiah to the people of the Jewes which was not onely the Father which did send Isaiah but the Sonne also Isa 48.16 and so John affirmeth Ioh. 12. 40 41. These things said Isaias when he saw Christs glory and spake of him yet the Holy-Ghost also sent and spake by him Isa 48.16 and Paul witnesseth it Act. 28.25 Well spake the Holy-Ghost by Isaiah the Prophet Secondly John describeth Gods Throne Rev. 4. Rev. 5. where is not onely God the Father but also the Sonne our Redeemer who is stiled a Lambe who is said to be in the midst of the Throne Rev. 5.6 even equall with the Father And the Lambe being there the Holy-Ghost also must be there For the Holy-Ghost called the seven Spirits is the seven Eyes of the Lambe Rev. 5.6 which is in the midst of the Throne with the Father and whose Throne it is with the Father Rev. 22.1 3. CHAP. XIX The God of Israel was the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost THe God of Israel is a Name which the Lord is oft pleased to assume to himselfe Isai 45.3 and is so called of his Church and people Act. 13.17 He is so called in two respects First in regard of his love towards them they being his peculiar enclosure taken out of the Commons of the world Deut. 7.6 Secondly in respect of his service which he expecteth from them and they willingly give to him God will reigne over the wicked in spight of all their oppositions Psal 99.1 But he ruleth over the faithfull in his Church more especially that willingly offer themselves Judg. 5.9 This title distinguisheth the true God from false the Lord Jehovah from Idols and Devils This Name in holy Scripture is ascribed to First the Father he is the God of Israel Act. 3.12 13. Ye men of Israel the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob the God of our Fathers hath glorified his Sonne Jesus The Father of Christ was the God of the Fathers of the Israelites the God of Israel Secondly the Sonne he is the God of Israel So the Angel intimateth to Zachary Many of the Children of Israel shall John turn to the Lord their God And he shall goe before him in the Spirit and power of Elias Luke 1. 16 17. whom did John goe before but Christ whom the Angel calleth the Lord God of Israel Mal. 3.1 Mar. 1.2 Luke 1.76 Luke 7.27 who was also the King of Israel Joh 12.13 The Prophet Zephany maketh them equivalent one to the other Zeph. 3.15 And Ananias an Israelite acknowledgeth to Paul the Lord God of our Fathers hath chosen thee That this was the Lord Jesus Ananias affirmeth Act 9.17 The Lord even Jesus that appeared unto thee in the way hath sent me unto thee and Paul giveth thanks to Christ for choosing him 1 Tim. 1.12 Yea the Lord Christ that appeared to Moses and is called an Angel Act. 7.30 34. who was the Angel of the Covenant Mal. 3. stileth himselfe the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob Exod. 3.6 He it was that sent his Angel to