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A61645	A stock of divine knowledge, being a lively description of the divine nature, or, The divine essence, attributes, and Trinity particularly explaned [sic] and profitably applied the first, shewing us what God is : the second, what we ought to be / by the late learned and laborious preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, Richard Stock ...	Stock, Richard, 1569?-1626.	1641 (1641)	Wing S5693; ESTC R34616	191,839	352

not an attribute nor part of another thing An accident subsisteth by another thing for it is not a substance in it selfe but in another every accident is in some substance as white and blacke Againe it is not part of another for that which is part of another doth not subsist in it selfe but in the whole of which it is part for instance the matter whereof a man is made in the wombe of a woman so long as it is part of the woman is no person till it have in it a soule and then ceaseth to be a part and so the humanity of Christ hath subsistance in the second person of the Trinity and is no person of it selfe because it hath no subsistence of it selfe Thirdly Individuall that is a particular it is one in number Fourthly Incommunicable it is not Communicable as the Essence is as the nature of things is communicable to all that are of that kind the nature of man is communicable to all men the nature of Angells is communicable to all Angells so the Essence and nature of the divinity is communicable to all the persons but the persons are not so amongst themselves therefore we say it is incommunicable Fiftly we say it is living for that which is without life cannot be a person a Book or a Board cannot be a person neither is every thing that hath life a person and therefore I adde understanding and willing that is so living that it understands and wills thus a Beast and Trees have life but they want understanding and reason therefore they cannot be a person so now you have the description of a person Quest How many such persons bee there in the Diety Answ Three the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost we must prove that these three be substances c. It is manifest first in generall the Father is a substance subsisting by himself individuable incommunicable so is the Sonne and so is the holy Ghost therefore there are three persons in the Trinity Gen. 11.7 Let us goe down and confound their language let us goe is more then one and God doth not speake to the Angels by way of consultation let us but of command go you and in the eight verse it is said the Lord confounds their Language Isai 6.3 Holy holy holy Lord c. three holies is spoken of three persons applied to one that is called the Lord that is one Essence that this is meant of three persons is aparent it is granted by all that the Father is one and then the Sonne is another Iohn 12.34.40 The Testimony of the Prophet is alledged and there used as applied to Christ thus saith the Evangelist Esai spake of him when he saw his glory therefore the Sonne is a person the same is also for the holy Ghost Act. 28.25.26 Well saith the holy Ghost c. that which is spoken of the Father in the old Testament the holy Ghost applies to the Sonne and to himselfe in the new therefore there are three substances c. my text is a manifest proofe of this there are three which c. they are not three names nor three properties nor three severall words they are three that is three substances or persons three that are severall that we may manifest this a little more and that particularly There was never any Heretique that denied the Father to be God concerning the sonne these testimonies Gen. 32.24 Iacob wrestled with a man this same man that Iacob wrestled withall was God so saith Hosea 12.3 that Iacob wrestled with God the text in Gen. saith it was man the other text saith it was God but how appeares this that it was the Sonne because that the Father never appeared in any shape Againe 1 Iohn 1. In the beginning was the word here he is called the word to this may be aded Iohn 8.28 Before Abraham was I am a person severed from the Father Iohn 17.5 Now Ftaher Glorifie me with that glory which I had with thee before the world was A person speaking to the Father severed from the Father Thirdly the holy Ghost is a person Iohn 14.16 I will pray the Father and he shall send you another comforter here is plainely seene the Father Sonne and holy Ghost he speakes not of comfort but a comforter 2 Cor. 13.13 the Apostle praies The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ c. therfore not onely to God the Father but also to God the Son of whom grace is desired and to the holy Ghost is prayer made so that by these Scriptures appeares there are three persons living understanding c. Quest What reason is there that there are such three persons in the Trinity Answ First they are all God Secondly they all created the world Thirdly because that men in baptisme are dedicated unto them all and make a covenant with them all as well as with one we manifest it thus first that they are all God to say nothing of the Father for that is confessed of all it appeares that the Sonne is God Rom. 9.5 speaking of the Son He is God over all blessed for ever so also Heb. 1. O God thy throne indures for ever of the holy Ghost that one shall suffice Acts 5.3.4.5 The Apostle Peter chalenges Annanias and Saphira that they had not liedunto men but unto God and then he tells them that they had lied against the holy Ghost so then the holy Ghost also is God Secondly because they all created the world it appears Gen. 1.1 In the beginning God created the world that the father did create the world will be confessed of all that the Sonne created the world Col. 1.16 the Apostle speaking of the same saith By him were all things created whether things visible so Iohn 1.3 By him was created whatsoever was made and without him was nothing made that was made so Heb. 1.10 Thou Lord hast laid the foundations of the world That the holy Ghost did create appeares Psal 33.6 By thy word were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth so Gen. 1.2 The spirit moved upon the waters What is that as the Hen doth upon her egs to hatch them so the holy Ghost preserves them c. in the 26. verse he saith Let us make man in our Image not in the image of Angels but in the Image of God now then if these did create the world and give it a substantiall being they must needs have a substantiall being in themselves Thirdly because in baptisme men are dedicated unto them all and make a covenant with them all they cannot be dedicated to them that have no being Matth. 28.21 Go c. baptising them in the name of the father of the son and boly Ghost and therefore these three must needs subsist by themselves and therefore they must have all understanding and actions and are all persons c. more particularly we manifest it of these that be in question the son and spirit if

not because he was sent but because he proceeds both from the Father and the Sonne and that is this which Saint Augustine observes when he gave the Spirit he breathed upon the Apostles Iohn 20. to signifie that when he gave the spirit it was proceeding and this is the same which the Psalmist called the breath of God Psal 33.6 by the word of God were the heavens made and the host of them by the breath of his mouth and thereupon he is said to be the breath of the Sonne also in 1 Thes 2.8 he shall consume Antichrist with the breath of his mouth further that he did proceed from the Father is manifest by the place which we have read Iohn 15.26 and that he proceeds from the Son Iohn 15 16. all that the Father hath is mine so he saith he shall receive of mine therefore the procession is from them both so that when our Saviour Christ saith that it proceeds from the Father he doth not exclude himselfe but after a speciall manner of speaking he sets his name after the name of his Father Why because he hath his person from the Father and the holy Ghost received it from them both therefore we may give it to the Father as the beginning and this shall suffise to manifest this therefore we will conclude as Saint Nazianzen doth How is it that the Sonne is of the Father and the holy Ghost is of them both comming from them both differently the Sonne from the Father as the light from the light hee shines by the manner of begeting the holy Ghost he is from the lights not by manner of generation but by manner of procession The third distinction by which he is different from the other is the worke of Sanctification Rom. 1.4 therefore the name of life is given to him it is he that mortifies the old man and quickens the new man Rom. 8.7 The law of the Spirit of life hath freed us from the law of sinne and of death therefore he is after compared to water Iohn 3.5 Except a man be borne of water and the holy Ghost now the nature of water is to cleanse and to make fruitfull and to revive things that are ready to dye so the Spirit is he that cleanseth us from our filthinesse so in Ezek. 36.21 I will power cleane water upon you and you shall be cleansed from all your filthines What is that in the 27. verse I will powre my Spirit upon you so that the Spirit you see is compared to water In this respect also it is compared to fire Mat. 3. He shall baptise you with the holy Ghost and with fire that doth quicken up the heart and cheare it and sanctifie it therefore hence it is in many places that holinesse is called the fruit of the Spirit Gal. 5.22 the fruits of the spirit are joy and peace gentlenesse meeknesse long-suffering c. all these are fruits of the spirit therefore it followes that the holy Ghost is he that hath this worke of sanctifying the elect Quest Why say we that he is the third person in the deitie and so God Answ Because he hath the name of Jehovah Secondly Essentiall Attributes Thirdly workes proper to God Fourthly divine worship and therefore he is God First the name Jehovah is given unto him that appeares by these texts of the old testament Ier. 1.14 Ezek. 1.4 and so in the new testament is given him the name of Jehovah Act. 7.51 You stiffe necked that resist the spirit of God as did your fathers so doe you they resisted him in the Prophets and you now do follow them resisting him in the Apostles one place more Isai 6.9 that which is said The Lord saith go and make the heart of this people fat that same 28. Acts 20. the Apostle Paul saith The holy Ghost spake by Esai as the Prophet and therefore the name Jehovah being a peculiar name given to none but to him that is naturally God the spirit having this name must needs be God Secondly there are given unto him Essentiall Attributes now Essentiall Attributes are foure principally eternity ubiquity omniscience omnipotency all these are given to the spirit first he is eternall for before the beginning he moved upon the waters and Heb. 9.14 He is called the eternall spirit Secondly omnipresence Psal 139. Whither shall I goe from thy spirit the holy Ghost is said to dwell in the Saints Rom. 8.9 2 Cor. 1.16 1 Iohn 2.27 arguing that it is proper to him to be every where Thirdly he is omniscient and knowes all things Iohn 14.26 He shall teach you all things Iohn 16.13 He shall lead you into all truth 1 Cor. 2.10.11 He searches the hidden things of God and no man knowes the hidden things of God but the spirit Fourthly omnipotent because it is he that casts out divells Matth. 12. The spirit of God casts c. this cannot be done by any created power but he must be God that doth it 1 Cor. 12. It is God that worketh all in all And in the 11. verse The spirit worketh all these things and therefore he must be omnipotent and so by these foure Attributes we see he is God Againe he must needs be God for the proper works of God are given to him Gen. 1.2 The spirit moved upon the waters that is preserving them Iob 26.13 The spirit of God hath garnished the heavens So in the 33. Iob 4 The spirit of the Almighty hath made me Psal 33.6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth Fourthly because divine honour and worship cannot be without sacriledge given to any person that is not God but is given to him Mat. 28.19 Baptizing them in the name of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost And so the Apostle praies the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God the father and the Communion of the holy Ghost Nazianzen hath sufficient to this purpose he saith he whom the Church doth professe to believe in is God now the Church doth professe to believe in the holy Ghost so that by these it necessarily followes that hee is God Quest How comes he to proceed from the father and the Sonne Answ Because he received from the father and the sonne the whole Essence communicated to him by way of procession that we manifest thus the Sonnes begetting of the Father you heard to be by receiving the whole Essence from him by way of begetting so the holy Ghost is sayd to proceed from the Father and the Sonne because he received the whole Essence from them by way of proceeding the thing is manifest that he proceeded from the Father and the Sonne and therefore is not said to be begotten but to proceed and as the Scripture hath been strict and carefull to reserve these relations unconfounded so the Church hath diligently imitated them and alwaies saies that the Sonne is begotten and the holy Ghost proceeds

asked hee desired two dayes more then the Tyrant asked him why he did so because saith hee the more I seek after him the farther off I am from finding him so that nature is obscure And secondly it is imperfect because that knowledge of nature without the Word knowes but a peece of God and therefore because God would have his Church know him perfectly he adds his Word to his works and in this reveales himselfe more fully and discovers those wonders which nature could not onely not discover but not comprehend being revealed as the great mystery of the Trinity c. 2. The knowledge of Nature is not a saving knowledge for though it knowes God as Creator yet it knowes him not as Redeemer John 5.39 Search the Scriptures for in them you finde eternall life and they are they that testifie of mee and therefore God adds his Word that he may be known as a Redeemer and Reconciler c. 3. The knowledge of the Word is not effectuall without the Spirit 1 Cor. 3.5 6. It is neither Paul nor Apollos c. but God that gives the increase The knowledge of the Word is outward but the knowledge of the Spirit is inward and man cannot teach inwardly and therefore there cannot be such a knowledge without the Spirit for man can but speake to the eare yea though he may presse it vehemently yet without the Spirit it is nothing God therefore hath joyned the Word and Spirit together and so the answer is cleered in these three things Use 1. Seeing that by the principles of Nature a man cannot come to saving knowledge hee must therefore labour for the knowledge of the Word of God hee must not be a stranger to the Word nor the Word a stranger to him that hee may know God If a man cannot be partaker of true happinesse but by the knowledge of God and if all saving knowledge be by the Word then it necessarily followes that hee must bee acquainted with the Word If hee bee a stranger to the Word and the Word a stranger to him surely he is a stranger to the life of God I will not stand to shew how the Divell bewitcheth many wise men that are carefull to provide for their children and bring them up in naturall knowledge but scorne this which we must most labour for to have the Word familiar we must hearken to the counsell of the Apostle Col. 3.16 to let the Word of God dwell plentifully in us in all wisdome Chrysostome pressing this place Let the Word dwell in you richly c. saith thus It is not Let the Word come into you as a stranger for a night but let it dwell in you as a familiar friend Why sir wee may know a sentence or two No but the Apostle saith Let the Word dwell plentifully in you If a man have learned some sentences by heart as children have learned whole books this is not that which the Apostle meanes but let it dwell in you in all wisdome where the Apostle will have us diligent to understand the Word Why so because there God hath revealed himselfe Pro. 2.5 If thou apply thy heart to instruction it is not if thou wilt read a Chapter or two but thou must beate thy head about it and apply thy heart unto it for what saith the Wise man in the 5. verse If thou search for her as for silver and gold then thou shalt understand the way of the Lord and finde the knowledge of God It is not to bee gotten by carelesnesse but as Christ saith Search the Scriptures as men doe when they have lost any thing as the woman that lost the groat it argues a diligent searching this is that the Authour to the Hebrews speaks of about which wee ought to have our wits exercised through long custome Bretheren It is inexcusable if not damnable idlenesse in many men that they have no heart to read the Scriptures Whatsoever you pretend that you cannot for your callings I tell you that neither your callings nor the works of your callings will excuse you in that day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed you doe abuse God you ought to afford your selves time and you must afford your selves so much time you have time enough to spend in courting and in wantonnesse and in other idle vanities Will you have Christ to know you and acknowledge you when your callings and all other vanities are gone and cease what a question is this who would not have that willingly then must you take care to know Christ here or else he will not know you hereafter Use 2. Seeing that this is so then every man should labour for the Spirit of God that hee may be able to profit by the Word preached or read Without him a man may have a knowledge but not a saving knowledge It is an excellent benefit for a man to have good teachers but it is no benefit in comparison of this that the Spirit becomes our teacher for who teacheth like him Job 36.22 therefore labour for this teacher Saint Augustine saith the teachers are without but hee sits in heaven that must teach the heart therefore looke to him wee can but make a noise in your eares by any our most earnest expressions and vehement cries but it must bee the Spirit that makes all effectuall I pray you tell me saith the same Father what doth the Husbandman can hee doe any thing but the outward work doth he doe any thing inwardly can he make an apple can he make a leafe hee cannot it is God that doth that Aske the Apostle Saint Paul and hee will tell you It is Paul that plants and Apollos that waters but it is God that gives the increase therefore labour that you may have that annoynting you may not bee negligent of the Word which is the means that God will have used who will not give effectuall knowledge without it therefore Ministers must plant but if you will have fruit by the ministery you must labour to have the Spirit That which makes the Word unprofitable is that men look so much upon the husbandman therefore God doth oftentimes send a bad harvest Origen saith it is somewhat in the goodnesse of the ground and somewhat in the husbandman if the harvest bee good but saving knowledge is no where to bee looked for but from God therefore every man must labour earnestly to have the inward teacher It is said in Gen. 30.1 that Rachel was barren while she looks upon the husband but when she goes to prayer in verse 22. then she conceives so many of you looke too much upon your Ministers and therefore there is little profit but lift up your selves in prayer to God and hee will make you profit so that ye shall have the saving knowledge of God in this life and after this life salvation it selfe even life eternall c. CHAP. III. JOHN 5.39 Search the Scriptures for in them yee thinke to have