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A20766 The summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded : more largly & cleerely handled and explaned / published by John Downame ... Downame, John, d. 1652. 1625 (1625) STC 7148.3; ESTC S5154 448,527 580

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sort Mans corrupt Nature yet so as it may be lost againe But whoso once of Malice falleth from it can neuer be repayred CHAP. VI. Of the Church vnder the Law THe Church is One and cannot be diuided but hauing regard to the diuersitie of Gods Dispensation it may be distinguished into the Church vnder the Old Testament and the Church in the New That vnder the Old Testament had diuers Rites Ceremonies and Sacrifices Figures of Christ and of the good things we haue in him especially among the Iewes his then peculiar People Whereby the Dispensation of those Times was more obscure and lesse accompanied with Knowledge and other Graces But of all these things as also of their Sacraments which in regard of the outward Signes were a part of the Legall Paedagogie and likewise of the Ministeries that were among them both that of Prophets inspired by whom were written the Bookes of the Old Testament and of other I haue written at large in a Treatise entituled The Old Testament or the Promise CHAP. VII Of the Church in the time of the Gospell TO the Church of the New Testament the Dispensation is in all cleerenesse and perfection Touching the Sacraments and Ministeries of the New Testament there be two Sacraments Baptisme and the Lords Supper Baptisme is a washing with Water to assure our entrance into the Couenant the forme whereof is thus or to this effect I baptize thee in the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost The Lords Supper is a feeding with Bread and Wine to assure our continuance in the Couenant the forme whereof is thus or to this effect For the Bread Take ye eate ye This is my Body which is giuen for you Doe this in remembrance of me For the Cup Drinke ye all of this for this is my Bloud of the New Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sinnes Doe this as oft as ye shall drinke it in remembrance of me The Ministers of the New Testament were Apostles inspired by whose Ministerie were written the Bookes of the New Testament Prophets Euangelists Pastors Teachers c. CHAP. VIII Of the Church of Gods Elect. THus farre of the outward Church The other is the Church of Gods Elect drawne to beleeue in Christ ordinarily by Preaching Wherefore with these God maketh indeed his Couenant By vertue whereof our Faith albeit apprehending Christ absent it apprehend Him weakely yet confirmed by the Word and Sacraments Prayer and other holy meanes it neuer letteth goe the Hold but continually groweth till we come to see Christ in his glory So as Faith hath alwayes Hope that is an assured waiting for of that blessed Sight going with it CHAP. IX Of Regeneration HItherto of Christs Propheticall Office The Kingdome by excellencie so termed is that whereby destroying the Old Man by the Power of his Death and Sufferings all that are of the Church of Gods Elect He doth regenerate by the Power of his Resurrection The Day of his Rising which was the first Day of the Creation is for an euerlasting Remembrance of that Benefit come in place of the Sabbath and called the Lords Day beginning when he arose and began to renew the World Regeneration is our spirituall incorporating into Christ euery Member in his due proportion whereby being one with him through him with God and his Spirit ours we become Gods children by adoption Of a regenerate estate there be two Degrees as it were two Ages Infancie and Mans estate Infancie which is during this Life by Faith and therefore by meanes of the Word and imperfectly sealed vp in our owne inward assurance of the Spirit not in the Worlds discerning of it and growing according as our Faith doth grow And this is called the State or Kingdome of Grace Mans estate which is after this Life by Sight and therefore immediately by Christs Spirit and in all Perfection And that is called the State or Kingdome of Glorie CHAP. X. Of Wisedome Righteousnesse Sanctification and Redemption THe Spirit of Christ being ours consequently doth saue vs from our sinfull and cursed estate to inioy all the Good that is in him It standeth in Illumination and Iustification and from thence comming Sanctification and Redemption Illumination Whereby expelling Darkenesse he doth inlighten our Minds with the Knowledge of the Will of God in Christ which the Apostle calleth Wisdome Iustification Whereby forgiuing our sinnes by his taking them vpon him he doth account the Holinesse of his Nature and Righteousnesse to be ours From whence as I said come Sanctification and Redemption Sanctification Whereby slaying Sinne he putteth a new Life of Holinesse into vs to bring forth fruits of Righteousnesse Wherein there is no more now required but that Sinne beare not the rule in vs and our Workes of Righteousnesse though all mingled with sinne are not onely pleasing vnto God through his forgiuenesse of the sinne but haue beside of Gods free Goodnesse looking vpon them in the perfection of his Sonne speciall Promises of Reward made vnto them both in this Life and in the Life to come Redemption Whereby freeing vs from the Curse himselfe becomming a Curse for vs he maketh vs blessed by the participation of his Blessednesse Our Blessednesse in this estate standeth First in the Loue of God anew Whereby all things not the Calamities and Troubles of this Life and also Death it selfe but euen our very sinnes turne vnto our good and in the assurance whereof wee haue Peace of Conscience and Ioy in the Holy Ghost Secondly in that wee are made neere vnto him and haue continuall accesse with boldnesse into his Presence Thirdly in our former Soueraigntie and Power ouer the Creatures whereof commeth free liberty of vsing them all and deliuerance from the Bondage of Satan This also as a noble accesse added thereunto that the holy Angels themselues are made ministers for our good Fourthly in a Spirituall Glorie and Wisedome and other Graces After this Life commeth the fulnesse of Blessednesse more or lesse according to the diuers measure of our Faith here To the Soule in Heauen presently after Death till the Latter Day At what time our Bodies being raysed vp glorious the whole Man shall meete CHRIST comming to Iudgement in the Ayre and there receiue Sentence of all fulnesse of Blessednesse for euer Which we shall inioy taken vp into Heauen by the vertue of his Ascension Certaine Men vpon our Sauiour CHRISTS Resurrection rose againe and are alreadie with him in Heauen So are Enoch and Elias both aliue assumed thither Those that are liuing at the Latter Day shall suddenly be changed after the dead are once risen The Creatures also for our sake shall then be renewed into a Glorious estate not subiect to Corruption A TABLE OF ALL THE principall Points handled in this BOOKE The first Booke CHAP. I. THe scope and drift of the Doctrine of Diuinitie Fol. 1. The Parts 6. Of God his Being Life Vnderstanding and
I write it Answerable hereunto is that of z Ezech. 36. 26 27. 1. Iohn 2. 8. EZECHIEL I will giue you a new heart and a new Spirit I will set in the middest of you and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh and I will giue vnto you a heart of flesh and my Spirit will I put in the middest of you and make that yee shall walke in mine Ordinances and obserue and doe my iudgements whereby this Holinesse is distinguished from imputed Righteousnes which is without vs and in another that is to say in Christ And from both these ariseth the third and last consideration of the Law of God as it is qualified and corrected and hath another nature set vpon it by Christ our Sauiour turned now into a 1. Iohn 2. 8. a new Commandement as the Apostle speaketh or a Law Euangelized and of another temper seruing no more for death and condemnation to those that are his but for helpe and direction for b Psal 119. 106 a Lanterne vnto our feet and a light vnto our steps to teach vs how to walke when we are in Christ Therefore c Luke 1. 6. Zacharie and Elizabeth are both commended as righteous before God because they went in all the Commandements of the Lord. d Iam. 1. 25. IAMES also calleth vs hither He that stoopeth downe into the perfect Law of Libertie and abideth in that hee not being a forgetfull hearer but a doer of workes shall be blessed by his doing And our Sauiour Matth. 5. 17. biddeth vs not to thinke that hee came to dissolue the Law and the Prophets I came not to dissolue them but to fulfill them for which cause also the right vnderstanding of the Law is needfull for vnlesse wee know our Masters will how shall we frame our selues to doe it Fourthly The new life put into vs which wee call Viuification or Quickning commeth from the power of Christs Spirit which rayseth vs vp from the sleepe and death of sinne to awake to liue righteously that e Rom. 4. 5. as Christ was raysed from the dead by the glorie of his Father so we might walke in newnesse of life for if wee bee ingraffed into the likenesse of his death verily so shall we also bee vnto the likenesse of his Resurrection Wherefore the f Coloss 3. 1 2. Apostle saith If yee bee risen together with Christ seeke the things which are aboue not the things which are vpon the earth Teaching that it is by the power of his rising that wee are renewed vnto righteousnesse as by his death we obtaine power to mortifie sinne Fiftly Touching the manner of the The Papists say that in Freewill there is a libertie or strength to receiue or reiect the grace that should quicken it which they call Preuenting Grace and so part the slakes betweene Grace and mans Freewill working there is a difference betweene the grace it selfe of Sanctification and the fruits that come from it In the grace it selfe as in the worke of our new birth man standeth meere passiue before God hauing no power or vertue in him to worke with Gods Spirit or to helpe the worke of Grace yet hee is not in this first renewing of his soule as a trunke or a dead stock for that he hath both reason and faculties or powers fit to receiue the Grace of God when his Spirit doth worke vpon them But in the fruits of Sanctification The Papists make not the Holie Ghost but their owne Free-will the principal agent in this second grace which Free-will they say goeth before and disposeth and prepareth vs to a Iustifying Grace in belieuing in hoping in repenting c. the principal Agent is indeed the verie Spirit of Christ who after the first grace and new Creation abideth and dwelleth in vs not idlely but euer working some good in vs and by vs as it is said Rom. 8. 26. The holy Ghost maketh intercession for vs with sighs which cannot be expressed But a second Agent working with Gods holy Spirit is the verie soule of man or rather the new man or new creature in the soule and all the faculties thereof So that in this second Grace which is the action or worke of faith wee stand not as meere passiue but beeing moued by the holie Ghost wee worke our selues by his Spirit working in vs. Whereupon we are called g 1. Cor. 3. 9. The fellow-workers with God 1. Cor. 3. Touching the distinct degrees of Sanctification In wherein there is no more now required but that sinne beare not the rule in vs and our workes of Righteousnesse though all mingled with sinne the estate we now are in there is a difference betweene it and legall Righteousnesse in that perfection is there required without fayling in any iote eyther in matter or manner Whereas our Sanctification in this life is euermore imperfect fayling much and hath alwaies sin mixed with it not as Chaffe or Darnell is mixed with Whear but as water is mingled with wine that there is no drop of wine but it is water also and that is by reason our new birth is imperfect So that Donatists and Nouatians and those heretikes that were wont to bee called Catharises or Puritanes dreame of puritie and perfection in this life albeit by the grace of Regeneration we desire in all things to liue righteously and well yet still we labour vnder the infirmitie of the flesh h Gal. 5. 17. that we cannot doe the things wee would Whereof the Apostle Paul one more then after an ordinarie sort regenerate giueth in his owne person a noble example Rom. 7. 15 c. I approue not that I worke for I doe not that I would but what I hate that doe I for I am delighted with the Law of God as touching the inner man but I see another Law in my members c. and in the end concludeth Therfore I my selfe in the Spirit indeed serue the Law of God but in my flesh the Law of sinne Wherefore in this estate it is enough if sinne i Rom. 6. 12. raigne not in our mortall bodies it is not required which is impossible that it should not at all dwell in vs. And where the Scripture in many places doth call vs perfect as when it saith k Matth. 5. 48. Yee shall therefore be perfect as your Father which is in Heauen is perfect l 1. Cor. 2. 6. We speake wisdome among those that are perfect m 1. Cor. 14. 20. In vnderstanding bee yee perfect n Eph. 4. 13. till wee come to a perfect man o Phil. 3. 12. As many therefore as be perfect let vs bee thus minded p 1. Iohn 2. 5. Whosoeuer keepeth his Word of a truth in him the loue of God is perfected q 1. Ioh. 4. 12. If we loue one another God abideth in vs and his loue is perfited in vs. r 1. Ioh. 4.