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A32801	The divine trinunity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, or, The blessed doctrine of the three coessentiall subsistents in the eternall Godhead without any confusion or division of the distinct subsistences or multiplication of the most single and entire Godhead acknowledged, beleeved, adored by Christians, in opposition to pagans, Jewes, Mahumetans, blasphemous and antichristian hereticks, who say they are Christians, but are not / declared and published for the edification and satisfaction of all such as worship the only true God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, all three as one and the self same God blessed for ever, by Francis Cheynell ...	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1650 (1650)	Wing C3811; ESTC R34820	306,702	530

13 14 16 Here is the freewill of the Elect but Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spirituall blessings in heavenly places in Christ according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and unblameable before him in love c. Ephes. 1. 3 4 5. Our thankfulnesse should be shewen for this free Grace to all three Persons in our thanksgiving believing obeving as is cleare from these places and so our prayers should be answerable to our faith love and thankfulness and therefore it is observable that in the very same Chapter the Apostle makes his addresse after this modell That the God of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of glory may give unto you the Spirit of Wisdome and Revelation in the acknowledgement of Christ Ephes. 1. 17. and so 2 Thes. 2 16. Rev. 1. 4 5. 2 Cor. 13. 14. many other places may be urged which containe the mystery of faith worship and obedience and if Christ and his Spirit be not alwaies named in them yet the benefits of Christ the gifts graces fruits comforts of the spirit which are named do direct us to both Moreover when the name of God is used indefinitely all three Persons must be understood to be comprehended in that essentiall Title because they are one and the same God Finally one Person doth subsist in another and the same honour is due to all three because all three have the same divine Nature which is single because infinite and therefore there is enough discovered to prevent all scruples in the upright-hearted and Cavils in the contrary-minded Read the third and fourth Chapters of the Epistle to the Colossians and there you will see a very pregnant proofe of this point Put on therefore as the Elect of God holy and beloved bowels of mercies kindnesse humbleness of mind above all these things put on charity let the peace of God rule in your hearts do all in the name of the Lord Iesus giving thanks to God and the Father by him What ever you do do it heartily as to the Lord. And then the summe of all their requests is That they may stand perfect and compleat in all the will of God This takes in the full scope of Law and Gospell whatever belongs to faith worship or obedience whatever is just and equall or well-pleasing unto God Col. 3. 20. Col. 4. 1. And the Epistle to the Ephesians runs parallel with this to the Colossians Ye are elected and therefore ye must be holy before all three Coessentiall Persons by whom ye were elected ye must beleeve the Word of truth as the truth is in Iesus that ye may be sealed with the Spirit and filled with all the fulnesse of God ye must bow your knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ you must study the unity of Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God ye must keep the unity of the Spirit ye must grow up into Christ in all things ye must not grieve the holy Spirit whereby ye are sealed unto the day of Redemption but maintaine a fruitfull fellowship with God in Christ by the communion of the holy Ghost for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousnesse and truth ye must be filled with the Spirit giving thanks alwaies for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ ye must do whatsoever is right or equall Ephes. 6. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this is right just and equall Put on the whole armor of God take the sword of the Spirit the shield of Faith pray alwaies with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit Peace be to the Brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity I need make no inferences the words are so plaine that they prove the point in terminis terminantibus as we use to say Consider the discourse of the Apostle in the Epistle to the Romans where the Apostle hath even lost his reader in the depth of this Mystery of the eternal counsel of Father Son and holy spirit he puts this question to all the busie disputants who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his Counsellour and concludes that of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory for ever Amen We have mercy from him faith and repentance from him by an effectual vocation according to his purpose of election Rom. 8 28 29. Rom. 9. 11. 15. 16. 18 23 24 29 30. Rom. 10. 20. Rom. 11. 2 5 6 7 29 30 32. 36. We have mercy grace and glory from all three and therefore all honour and glory be to all three for ever Amen And the Apostle doth beseech the God of patience and consolation the God of hope and the God of peace to fill them with all joy and peace in beleeving that they may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost who is the God of hope comfort and peace for the Kingdom of God doth consist in righteousnesse and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 14. 17. and if wee serve Christ who is God blessed for ever Rom. 9. 5. in these things we shall be acceptable to God and approved of men Rom. 14. 18. The fruits of the spirit in us are markes because fruits of our election by God The Apostle writing to the Church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ begs grace and peace for them from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ remembers their work of faith labour of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of God and our Father and then concludes their election of God because the Gospel came to them in power and in the Holy Ghost for they received the Word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Ghost The Apostle exhorts them in every thing to give thanks because it is the will of God in Christ Jesus and bids them beware of quenching the Spirit and beseeches the Spirit who is undeniably the God of Peace and by special office our Sanctifyer and Comfor●er to sanctfy us wholly The very God of peace sanctify you wholly c. And the Apostle discourses in like manner in the second Epistle to Timothy God saith he hath given us the spirit of power of love and of a sound mind saved us and called us with an holy calling according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Iesus before the world began And tells us that every one who doth pretend to be elected or presumes to call upon Christ and claim an interest in him must depart from iniquity be sanctifyed

these unhappy daies may as easily be reconciled as Sophocles and Euripides were concerning the goodnesse of women Sophocles being asked the reason why he did alwaies represent women in his Tragedies as very good whereas Euripides did ever represent them as very bad answered that be and Euripides did not at all contradict one another for saith he I do ever represent women just as they should be and Euripides just as they are In like manner some Writers represent these times just as they should be and others represent them just as they are But I must needs condemn those who draw a crooked conclusion from the corrupt doctrine and manners of this untoward and crooked generation and infer that there is no Church of God in England because Antichristian and blasphemous Seducers are multiplyed without number and favoured in the Land though all the Magistrates and godly of the Nation are by one confederate Body obliged by solemn Oath to root out Idolatry Blasphemy Heresie Schisme Profanenesse and whatsoever else is contrary to sound doctrine and the power of Godlinesse 1. It is not denyed that there is a fry of Achans in the Land 2. The sins condemned are inexcusable and so are all the Foster-fathers of them 3. We pray that they who have given their power to the Beast may give it to the Lamb. 4. All faithfull Ministers do open heaven to the faithfull and shut it against unbeleevers as our Master enjoynes us Mark 16. 15. Luk. 24. 47. and therefore we are true and faithful to the King of Saints and Commonwealth of Israel 5. There are thousands in England whose hearts bleed at their eyes for the abominations of the Land men that do seriously endeavour to save themselves others from this untoward generation according to Peters direction Act. 2. 40. 6. The house of Jacob was the Church of God and yet there were foule faults Incest and murder found amongst his Sons The Lord perswade and encourage the Fathers of this Nation to be as zealous against the sins of the Nation as Jacob was against the sins of Reuben Simeon and Levi. I must go backwards here as Shem and Japhet did I have not time to mention other things but let all such as have the power and bowels of Fathers take heed that they do not persecute or offend one of those little ones who beleeve in Christ much less undo one of those great ones who have much of Christ and his Spirit reigning in them Beleeve it Sir there are a company I put my self out of the number of Select men in Oxford I know not whether there be all things considered the like in the World againe men able and willing to promote the Common-wealth of true Religion publike Liberty and ingenuous learning for the Common-weale and good of mankind in all Nations for they are acquainted with all necessary Arts Sciences and Languages and dare throw the Gauntlet to the proudest Champions in the Antichristian World Some few of these may perhaps be complained of by some Weathercockes who can rather turn then crow some froward children who bite their mothers breasts or vipers who would eate a way to their own preferment thorow their mothers Bowels It is not for want of pride or ignorance that these afflict your doores and eares with unnecessary complaints which they prove just as Erucius did his against Roscius who when he was asked who told him so he answered No body and when it was demanded how the accusation would be proved answered In truth I know not What is this saith Tully pro Sexto Roscio but to abuse the Laws and Judges to object what you cannot prove nay do not so much as endeavour to prove It may be you will reply as Hazael did Am I a dog that I should be accessary to any grievous or unrighteous Decree You know what Hazael did and you know that Asa was a good man and yet a Persecutor But I hope that as you have been zealous for the Reformation so you will be zealous for the preservation of the Vniversity which is the earnest desire and prayer of Sir Your thankfull Servant Fr. Cheynell To the Reader I must entreat you not to mistake the Printers oversights for my dictates I was seldome here to overlook the Presse and can only glance over the Book now with a running eye I leave it to your candor and judgement to correct ordinary slips but before you set your self to read be pleased to correct these 3. places In page 35. line 22. Not is left out and for in line 23. read both thus Not as the spirit of disobebedience acts in children of wrath for we c. In the Margin page 28. b read thus Actus divini considerati secundumid quod sunt In the Margin pag. 370. For Pultum ocera read cultum opera The God of wisdome blesse our endeavours The grace of Christ the love of the Father and Communion of the holy Spirit is the best portion let us all beg it for our selves our friends and our posterity in these evill daies and the Lord send us a gratious returne of all our Prayers at the Throne of grace that we may all find grace and mercy in this time of need March 26. 1650. CHAP. I. The Godhead is Spiritual Infinite Incomprehensible WE read of the eternal Godhead in the Book of the Creature Rom. 1. 20. and therefore I prize Philosophy because it is subservient to Divinity nay that Philosophy which manifests the Eternal Power and God-head of our great Creator is indeed and Truth nothing else but Natural Divinity This Natural Divinity is called The truth Rom. 1. 18. and it is a Divine Truth because it doth declare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all that can be known of God by the light of nature Rom. 1. 19 20. I subscribe to that of Clemens Alexandrinus We ought not to swear allegiance to any sect of Philosophers whether Stoicks Epicures Platonists or Peripatetiques but we must select and embrace whatsoever is true and faithfully delivered concerning God by any Sect and the Truth selected out of all Sects is not vaine Philosophy but Natural Divinity There is something of the Image of God Law of Nature written in our hearts and consciences as is evident by common experience and plain testimonies of the world of God and therefore the Scripture doth not condemn all Philosophy but vain Philosophy Colos. 2. These natural notions of the eternal Godhead should excite us to enquire farther after God as the Apostle shewes in Acts 17. ver 27. because though our natural notions concerning God are true yet they are such imperfect and obscure notions or rather hints that we are by reason of the corruption of our nature very apt to abuse them and therefore we must regulate them by the Word of God The Godhead is Spiritual and therefore invisible the Professors of Wisdome became fools when upon a clear sight of some invisible