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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30661	All in one, all useful sciences and profitable arts in one book of Jehovah Aelohim, copied out and commented upon in created beings, comprehended and discovered in the fulness and perfection of scr[i]pture-knowledges / by Francis Bampfield ...	Bampfield, Francis, 1615 or 16-1683.	1677 (1677)	Wing B619; ESTC R5686	280,687	170

in Shops he was to be skilled in the Military-art for the charge was given to Aaron the high Priest as well as unto Moses the Superiour Magistrate to number with careful inspection according to the Hosts of the several Tribes of Israel to muster the Army and to give orders for their Incamping and Marching according to their Ranks and Bodies who were to be in the Van and who in the Reer and so for the disposal of the Battel and the manner of fighting and the giving of the exhortation to encourage the Soldiers he was to be a spiritual Nightingal for modulation an expert Musician both for Voice and for Instruments a Singer a Trumpeter a Corneter an Harper a Violist a Lutenist an Organist a Cymbalist a Psalterist he was to approve himself an Artist in Architecture to see workmanships appointed to be framed exactly according to the platform'd Ideas and work-patterns of the Tabernacle and Temple were there need more might be added How learned an Artist in conference and in arguing should a Minister of Christ be by Scripture-arguments to stop the mouths of Philosophical gainsayers sometimes deceptory affectation of Humane Wisdom doth bewray it self in opponents by being carried beyond due limits when it would be judging of such cases and things according to the ordinary course of Nature and the power of a finite Agent which are to be determined and resolved by such Principles of Theologie and of Christianity as are far above and beyond those as if the question be Whether this World were from Eternity or Whether created in time Empty and fallacious Philosophy will affirm That this World was not created in time but that it was from Eternity deceiving and being deceived by this colour and shew of carnal Reason that out of nothing can nothing be made thus it doth mis-judge because the contrary affirmation is besides the common Agency and the usual efficacy of Natural Causes but the holy Scriptures do otherwise declare rightly informing us that all these things were spoken and made into a Being which had no existence before by the Omnipotency of Jehovah the Being of beings that All-glorious Self-being only by his own powerful Word So as the things we see were not made of things that do appear Faith acted aright doth take in this discovery By the word of Jehovah or in him who is the Word Jehovah the LORD Jesus Christ the heavens were made and by the breath of his mouth or in the Spirit of him who is the Fathers mouth to his people all the host of them he commanded and they were created Aelohim saith There shall be light and there was is and will be light who was it that did help the Spirit of Jehovah or the Spirit Jehovah or as a man of his Counsel gave him knowledge silly weak Creatures cannot work without some stuff and materials they must have their tools and other instruments to further what they are about to do and to form but the Almighty One doth not need any such foregoing matter or assisting help it is not impossible that that should be which before was not though the Believer only can rightly understand this here Humane Reason must stoop and Carnal Imagination must submit to Word wisdom and to Scripture-learning which has this mysterious secret treasured up in it the meanest proficient in Christ's School has more discerning in this than the learnedest Teachers and wisest Professors in such corrupt Philosophy If the question be Whether three Persons can be one in Essence who yet are each of them distinct Subsistences in themselves and Whether one in being can be three distinct several persons humane wisdom and the vain affecters of it will return this answer That a person is a living-understanding-nature subsisting by it self a prime or singular individual subsistence which is neither said of any subject neither is in any subject and therefore some of these Philosophets have affirmed that there are multitudes of Gods Whereas the Scriptures of Truth will inform us concerning this great Mystery that there is but one God for there can be but one only Being infinite eternal unchangeable perfection it self one only to exist of himself and by himself who gives existence unto all other things these undoubted Oracles of holy Scriptures will tell us that Jehovah the adored Almightiness of his people in Father Son and holy Spirit is one Jehovah he says of himself See now that I am be and there is no God with me Who saith the Psalmist is God besides Jehovah as long as it can be said as yet ever as yet so long Jehovah and he alone and no other but himself is such We know that there is no other God but one for albeit there be that are called Gods both in Heaven and upon Earth as there be in the vain wrong conceits of men who do seign such Idol gods and as some Creatures in some cases have somewhat of this honorary Title ascribed to them so far as by their Office and Call they do or shall represent the true God There is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we for him and one LORD Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him but in all in every one this knowledge is not it is specially revealed in the Word to and in such Believers and it is one of the greatest mysterious Truths of the Christian Doctrine There is one LORD one Faith one God and Father of all He that sets up many Gods doth withal set up many Faiths for every God would be calling for peculiar Faith to be given to him and every one would be severally believing in his several God In this most simple Essence and single Being there are three truly subsisting whereof every one is another from the other There are that do witness in heaven and they are three the Father the Word and the holy Spirit and these three are one If it be queried Whether one and the same person can be two distinct Natures of different kinds and Whether two such Natures can be in one Person Empty cheating Philosophy will wrongfully state this question and mis-resolve it thus That those things which are of disparate kinds cannot be predicated of one another nor united in the same suppositum whereas true pure Religion in the written Word doth give us to know that two distinct Natures as the Deity or Godhead and the Humanity or Mankind may be both of them united into one Christ In this wonderful one were both these inseparably knit together and yet they each one remain distinct from the other having several Natures Properties and Operations both making up one LORD Jesus Christ This word was made flesh this God hath been manifested in the flesh to the Godhead Christ took the seed of Abraham for so was he born according to the flesh as to his Humane Nature

another the former being alive committeth adultery and he who marrieth her so put way committeth adultery so that it seems evident that for a man to marry another the former being alive is adultery and how could putting away of one be pretended if marrying of many were warranted The conjunction of a Man with his Wife is the highest and chiefest conjunction it is above and beyond and doth exceed and excel the conjunction of Parents and of Children with each other which yet has a very close tie by the bond of Nature yet must this yield to the former so that conjugal conjunction is by much the nearer and greater and this is the Reason of the highest and closest conjunction that it be individuous such as may not be divided or cut in pieces whilst both remain alive it is a being glewed together into one it is not said simply the man and the woman shall cleave or be glewed but in composition and conjunction they shall cleave unto or adheringly be glewed together unto each other which is one great end of their Marriage Union and Conjunction and their conjugal communion and fellowship which words seeing they do not go before but do follow that which Christ had said from the beginning of the Creation God made them Male and Female for this cause shall a man leave his Father and Mother and shall cleave to his Wife it must therefore of necessity obtain that force which the Reason of the sequel doth express and require that therefore which went before that God made but one woman to be a Wife at one and the same time to one man the consequent reason doth require that the conjunction of two only of one man and of one woman be understood for thus is it brought in illatively or by way of causal rational inference It is against Nature to abscind or to cut off one part from another where the two parts make one for this is the Nature of two parts that from the union of them both together the health and safety of the whole doth depend it is not a promiscuous conjunction of many but of two only between themselves so that Christ's reasoning is strongly and clearly convincing inferring the perpetual unlawfulness of putting away from the nearness of Union between the two married persons only one man and one woman together Christ did not make or prescribe any new Law in this case but he doth revive those material causes which the Jews had wrested and wryed perverted crookned quite off from and contrary to the primeve Rule and he doth reduce and he doth call back those Marriage cases to the first Institution From the beginning of the Creation saith he it was not so as you have corrupted it and from that first ordination he skilfully proveth and sheweth that holy Marriage is the lawful conjunction of but two only one man and one woman between two such he appointed the conjugal Union he did not say the man shall glewedly cleave to his Wives in the plural but to his Wife in the singular number that particular Eve whom he himself had built and formed and brought and joyned to the man Adam that which to them was thus only said and they shall be in one flesh is by way of additional explication declared in the New Testament by Christ to have this meaning and they two shall be unto one flesh Christ doth refer that expression in Genesis they two or both of them were naked unto the foregoing sentence and they two shall be unto one flesh and for the greater emphasis sake he doth add the Article they two or these same two and doth repeat it therefore they are no more two but one flesh that therefore which doth follow upon this what God hath joyned the word what doth touch or concern these two one man and one woman If the Jews do object that the practice was anciently otherwise among the Fathers which Moses himself did afterwards tolerate Christ doth answer to this from the beginning of the creation it was not so contrary examples of men ought not to prescribe to the primitive Institution by the adored Almighties However the God of patience did bear with some things for a time which were dissentaneous from the first Institution yet now Christ hath restored them to their primitive order however somewhat was indulged to the peoples perverse froward manners a while yet Christ doth bring men back to the first declared determined leading commanding Will of God unto that which first and in it self in its own nature was pleasing and acceptable to him and unto this all his marriage-Marriage-Offices and Cases must be referred that an end may be put unto all strifes of disputation about them It is emphatical and very significant which Christ doth here say from the beginning that is to say then at the first Creation when Jehovah Aelohim did accommodate his Institutes these Matrimonial appointments not to the depraved judgements and corrupt affections of lustful men but according to the very true Nature of what is just equal and right then God made this conjugal Union and Conjunction to be only between two one man and one woman which is also judged to be the meaning of those words and he said referring them to the Creator of Adam and of Eve and to the Instituter of Marriage the Lawgiver himself saying so not Adam for although Adam may seem to fix and to establish the Law because what he did was by the afflation inspiring and instinct of the Spirit of God yet God himself was he to whom the Authority and Right did belong and he was the Author of this Institution and Law and the Speaker of these words it was Jehovah's Law by the Ministery of Adam There were but two yoke-fellows conjoyned at the first not more Eves to one Adam nor more Adams to one Eve and the same reason still holds for all their Posterity the whole race of Mankind God yoked one man and one woman together they are but two that can fitly and well yoke together they are to draw heavenward together that they may be Heirs together of the Grace of Life and their prayers may not be hindered thus it was appointed by Christ the Head-Captain of all the Hosts of his Creation he conjugated one man and one woman by inviolable Ordination by the way of Creation For this cause or for the sake of this here is the force of Christ's argument therefore these two have the Reason of Parts to put them or divorce them asunder one from another is very wicked an heinous crime and besides Nature for this is the reason the consideration the cause the state the order the frame the nature of two parts that the whole doth depend upon their mutual Union He at the first created Male and Female and gave but one Eve to one Adam therefore from the beginning he appointed Monogamy between two married ones by an Union undissolveable