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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81727	Gospel-Glory proclaimed before the sonnes of men, in the visible and invisible worship of God. Wherein the mystery of God in Christ, and his royall, spirituall government over the soules and bodies of his saints, is clearly discovered, plainly asserted, and faithfully vindicated, against the deceiver and his servants, who endeavour the cessation thereof, upon what pretence soever. / By Edward Drapes, an unworthy servant in the gospell of Christ.	Drapes, Edward.	1648 (1648)	Wing D2139; Thomason E472_27; ESTC R205811	164,938	187

whereby he gives out himselfe to be knowne after a sort for my eternall happinesse and the happinesse of all his people Chap. IV. Sheweth what we are to understand by God in Christ and what Christ is and what the Father Son and Spirit are GOD is in the Creation but dwels in the Lord Jesus Christ is God dwels in the Lord Christ Gods habitation for in him dwels the fulnesse of the God-Head bodily the fulnesse of Grace and Truth In the Creation he is a God over us in Christ a loving Father to us But seeing this is the great Mystery of Godlinesse viz God manifest in the flesh justified 1 Tim. 3. 16. in the spirit seene of Angels preached unto the Gentiles beleived on in the world and received up into glory Which mystery is hid from the eyes of the world and mans vaine imagination fancyes such vaine understanding of it I shall endeavour to speake more plainely and particularly of it and shall observe this order 1. To shew what we are to understand by God in Christ 2. How God in Christ unvailes himselfe to the sons of men That we may know what we are to understand by God in Christ these three things are to be considered and that from the word Christ which signifies one Anointed wherein consider 1. The Anointer 2. The Anointed 3. The Ointment it selfe wherewith he his anointed Of these in order 1. The Anointer giver dispenser or pourer forth of the ointment who is the Anointer 't is the Father is the Father God in all over all and above all for whom are all things and by whom are all things t is that infinite that incomprehensible majesty that eternall substance which I have already proved to be incomprehensible The Scriptures abound in this doctrine The spirit of the Lord God is upon me saith Christ he Isa 61. 1. hath anointed me God proclaimes it from heaven saying I have found my servant David which is the Lord Christ with my holy oile I have anointed him Againe singeth the sweet Psalmist of Israel in the Song that his heart endited or bubled or boyled forth concerning the King God thy God hath anointed thee This was prefigured shadowed pointed at and typed forth in the Law by Moses anointing Aaron This is the Fathers worke Secondly The subject Anointed is the humane nature in which The subject Anointed is the humane nature God was manifested for he was manifested in the flesh It was that particular body of Christ that the word dwelt in which was made flesh and dwelt amongst us and therefore saith the Scripture he hath Anointed his holy childe Jesus even Jesus of Nazareth the son of Mary of Acts 4. 27. a Virgin the Son of David the Son of Abraham the Son of Man who is called The man Christ Jesus It was that particular person who was the subject of this anointing Now the humane nature is nothing else but a fleshly body and humane soul united in one which humanity is proper to all men yet so that every man hath the whole humane nature in himself and so was this person this man Christ this humane nature consisting of body and spirit in one person was the Subject of the Anointing Thirdly The Ointment it self remains to be declared which is Theointment is the Spirit that holy Oyle with which our Jesus is Anointed which Ointment hath severall names in Scripture to declare its worth and nature It is the Spirit of God therefore saith Christ The Spirit of the Lord is upon Psal 98. 20. me he hath anointed me With my holy Oyle saith the Lord I have anointed him which is the Oyle of joy and gladnesse the holy Ghost and power Which Oyle is sweetly tipified forth to us by the holy Oyle mentioned by Moses whose composition consists of principall spices Ex. 30. 25. 30. as pure Mirrbe sweet Calamus sweet Cynnamon Cassia and Oyle olive wherein though misteriously yet very excellently is deciphered the very nature of the Sprtit of the Lord Jesus for the nature of that composition is such that it is of singuler vertue being soveraign for the brain comfortable for the heart and wholsome for the liver the three natural fountains and springs of the naturall bodies life purging from evil humors mollifying and softning the body enabling the body to performe its naturall vitall and animall faculties Which is abundantly yea superlatively true of the Spirit that gives to a Saint being wisdome understanding light life power love and increase to a Saint softning the hardest heart moistening and relenting the most flinty spirit purging and scouring away effectually all drossy cholerick passionate idle melancholy earthly and evill humors of sin and corruption fitting and enabling the soule to runne the waies of Gods commands preserving the soule from sins venome and poison keeping it from corruption or putrefaction And wheras none was permitted to make any after the likenesse of that composition It declares and proclaimes aloud the contrariety of the true Spirit to all pretences of it or counterfeitings of it which are the powers signes and lying wonders of the man of sinne which Christ through the brightnesse of his coming will destroy Thus briefly have I handled the three essential things to be considered in the true knowledge of God in Christ Now know this That neither of these three abstracted from the other is the Lords Christ t is the composition or conjunction of these three in one person that makes this Christ therefore is it said The word was with GOD and was GOD and yet was made flesh which leads us to the consideration of the various manifestations of God as they are one in Christ Jesus There are three that beare Record in heaven the Father Sonne and holy Ghost or Spirit and these three are one viz One God and one in the man Jesus Christ These three are not three Gods but one God is made manifest What the Father Son and Spirit are after three manner of wayes that is to say God the Father conceived his word in his owne minde which is his sonne eternally brought up with him his wisedome daily his delight it is his light whereby he knowes himselfe and brings forth every thing by himselfe For by his word that is to say himselfe in a way of activity or doing or wisedome made the worlds the word was in himselfe producing every thing below himselfe and the spirit is the mutuall kindnesse each of other which is actively eternall The spirit is sometimes taken for the power of God susteining all things producing all things sometimes for the influence of the Fathers love shed abroad in the heart and this is the Spirit of God the Comforter in the Gospell so that all these are one agree in one and what may be attributed to the one doth agree to the other So that these three are not three distinct substances or persons in the common and most knowne

acceptation of the word viz a particular and individuall substance or being distinct from another In this sense I say there are not three persons in God for this is to make three Gods but because the Scriptures no where saith there are three persons I hope the word invented by mans wisedome shall not be imposed on any as a snare let us more look to things then words I say according to the Scriptures there are three that beare Record in Heaven the Father viz the infinite being the begetter of the Son and the Son viz the expresse image of God the reflection or likenesse of himselfe which is the word begotten of the Father and the spirit the mutuall kindnesse love and communication of the Father and the Son for God is love all agree in one in one man Christ Jesus the Father is in him the Word is in him for it was made flesh and dwelt among us and the Spirit is in him viz the eternall love of the Father the sweet and heavenly influences thereof it is given to him without measure So that God manifested in the flesh in a way of union is Christ for all that may be knowne or understood or enjoyed of God is in the Lord Jesus Nay further what ever God is to a Saint he is it in Christ Jesus for the fulnesse of the God-head dwelt in him bodily that is to say God in his highest manifestation of himselfe in power grace and truth c. For he was full of grace and truth The sum of what I have said or can say in this particular which notwithstanding I must confesse comes infinitely short of the height of its glory is that the conjunction of Father Son and Spirit after a spiritual and wonderfull manner in the man Jesus Christ is the Lords Christ So that God in Christ is God the Father dwelling in and uniting the humane nature after a wonderfull and unspeakable manner to himselfe and therefore is Christ called God and Man and because of this union Christ sometimes speaks as he is man and so dies sometimes as the Word which is God in him and so he raiseth himself from the dead sometimes in a way of union and so he is the Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus Chap. V. Sheweth how God in Christ unvailes himself to the sonnes of men wherein is shewn that Christ is our Priest and the manner of his Consecration and fitnesse for his Office HAving shewed what we are to understand by God in Christ and what the Lords Christ is I am come now to shew that Christ was not anointed for himself only but that he might communicate of his fulnesse to others which appeares in these two considerations First in that Christ was designed by the Father or set apart or ●●secrated to a glorious work Secondly in that Christ is made fit capable and able effectually to performe whatever worke was imposed on him which his being anointed holds forth to us Of these in order In Christ's designation to a worke there are two things to be observed 1. What the worke is that Christ is consecrated to 2. The manner of his consecration Concerning the worke it selfe it is a three-fold office or ministry viz a Priestly Propheticall and Kingly office wherein all the appearance of the love wisedome or power of God are clearly made manifest I shall speake of these in order Now the Priesthood of Christ is that order or office that Christ What the Priesthood of Christ is hath from his Father in a way of relation to God and Man offering up sacrifices to the Lord. Wherein are two things considerable First The Priest Secondly The Sacrifice be offers For he is not a Priest but in reference to his offering of Sacrifice The Priest is Jesus Christ even the man Christ whom I have already Christ is the Saints highest Priest discovered to be the anointed of the Father even this man that that an unchangable Priesthood who is the Son of God according to the divine nature and humane nature it is he that is our Heb. 9. 11. High Priest But now seeing no man takes this honour to himselfe but he that is called The manner of Christs consecration Heb. 5. 5. of God as was Aaron So also Christ glorified not himselfe to be made an High Priest but he did it that said unto him Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee The Father anointed him as I have showne more at large before and now shall shew you the manner of his consecration Which was 1. With an oath saith the Psalmist The Lord hath sworne and will not Christ consecrated by an Oath repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedeck needs must we conclude the matter is of great concernment that is mannaged with so much solemnity That God should with an oath confirme it it hath much weight in it An oath amongst men puts an end of strife and seales up the matter in question Men in all ages as I have said before being convicted in their consciences that God is displeased and must be pacified have had their Priests to accomplish that service Nay the Lord appointed many Priests to offer Sacrifice to himself But now that he might make it appear that none of these were his eternal Priests that he might put all out of doubt and clearly reveal his own mind and the immutability of his counsell sweares by himselfe there being none greater then himselfe to sweare by that he had made established and consecrated the Lord Christ to be the everlasting Priest upon whom he had conferred his everlasting Priesthood The Priests of old were made without an oath but Christ with an oath by him that said unto him Thou art a Priest for ever As if God should have said Son its true there have beene many Priests that I have made but they are dying Priests and their Priesthood is but a shadow or type of thine which I commit to thee for thou art my well-beloved and shalt not dye of thy Priesthood there shall be no end for I have said yea I have sworne it and cannot lye The Priests of old were consecrated by the powring Oyle on their heads and the putting on of the holy garments so our High Priest Christ consecarted by the powring on of oile was set a part for this office by that holy Oyntment even the power and Spirit of the most high by the voice from the most excellent glory that gave this Record of him This is my well-beloved Son in whom I am well pleased The Lord Christ ministers in the Sanctuary with the oyle of joy gladnesse and acceptation powred on him with the garments of righteousnesse and salvation Aaron and his Sons had garments yea holy garments for glory and for beauty which garments were most exquisitely made for workmanship Exod. 28. 2. 3. wise-hearted men filled with wisedome by the Lord being onely