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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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1. The express Object of it is God, not as absolutely considered, but as existing in three Persons, of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This is the ⟨p. 226⟩principal Glory of Christian Religion and its Worship. Under the Old Testament the Conceptions of the Church about the Existence of the Divine Nature in distinct Persons, were very dark and obscure, for the full Revelation of it was not to be made, but in the distinct actings of each Person in the works of Redemption and Salvation of the Church; that is, in the Incarnation of the Son, and Mission of the Spirit, after he was glorified, John 7.39. And in all the ways of Natural Worship, there was never the least shadow of any respect hereunto. But this is the foundation of all the Glory of Evangelical Worship. The Object of it in the Faith of the Worshipper, is the Holy Trinity, and it consists in an Ascription of Divine Glory unto each Person in the same individual Nature by the same Act of the Mind; where this is not, there is no Glory in Religious Worship.
2. Its Glory consists in that constant respect which it hath unto each Divine Person, as unto their peculiar work and actings for the salvation of the Church; so it is described, Eph. 2.18. Through him (that is, the Son as Mediator) we have our access by one Spirit unto the Father. This is the immediate Glory of Evangelical Worship, comprehensive of all the Graces and Privileges of the Gospel. And to suppose that the Glory of it doth consist in any thing but the Light, Graces and Privileges which it doth it self exhibit, is a vain Imagination: It will not borrow Glory from the Invention of men; we shall therefore a little consider it as it is here represented by the Apostle.
2. Its Glory consists in that constant respect which it hath unto each Divine Person, as unto their peculiar work and actings for the salvation of the Church; so it is described,