A27107:104
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
A27107:104
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
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It is a great Wisdom, and an unspeakable matter for the strengthening of a Christian's Faith, to know how in the mediation of Christ, to invocate God by such a Name, as whereby he hath manifested himself to be most willing and best able to help and succour him in his prese•t need or adversity. The ardent desire of knowing God, is the surest testimony of our love to God, and of Gods favour to us.c Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known my name: he shall call upon me, and I will answer him, &c. And it is a great strengthening of faith, with understanding to begin every action in the Name of God.
It is a great Wisdom, and an unspeakable matter for the strengthening of a Christian's Faith, to know how in the mediation of Christ, to invocate God by such a Name, as whereby he hath manifested himself to be most willing and best able to help and succour him in his prese•t need or adversity. The ardent desire of knowing God, is the surest testimony of our love to God, and of Gods favour to us.c Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deilver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known my name: he shall call upon me, and I will answer him, &c. And it is a great strengthening of faith, with understanding to begin every action in the Name of God.
Thus far of the nominal Attributes.
The real Attributes are of two sorts: either absolute or relative.
The absolute Attributes are such, which cannot in any sort agree to any Creature, but to God alone.
These are two: simpleness and infiniteness.
aSimpleness is that whereby God is void of all composition, division, multiplication, accidents, or parts compounding, either sensible, or intelligible: so that whatever he is, he is the same essentially.
It hinders not God's simpleness that he is three: because God is three, not by composition of parts, but by co-existence of Persons.
bInfiniteness is that whereby all things in God are void of all measure, limitation, and bounds above and beneath, before and after.
From these two do necessarily flow three other Absolute Attributes.
1. Unmeasurableness, or ubiquity, whereby he is of infinite extension,c filling heaven and earth, containing all places, and not contained of any space, place, or bounds, and being no where absent, is every where present. There are four degrees of God's ⟨p. 25⟩presence: the first is universal, by which God is repletively, every where; inclusively, no where.
1. Vnmeasurableness, or ubiquity, whereby he is of infinite extension,c filling heaven and earth, containing all places, and not contained of any space, place, or bounds, and being no where absent, is every where present. There are four degrees of God's ⟨p. 25⟩•resence: the first is universal, by which God is repletively, every where; inclusively, no where.
Secondly, Special, by which God is said to be in Heaven, because that* there his Power, Wisdom and Goodness, is in a more excellent manner seen and enjoyed: as also because that usually he doth from •hence pour forth his Blessings and Judgments.
Thirdly, more special, by which Godb dwelleth in his Saints.
2. Unchangeableness, whereby God is void of all change, both in respect of his dEssence ande Will.
2. Vnchangeableness, whereby God is void of all change, both in respect of his dEssence ande Will.
3. Eternity, whereby God is without beginning of days, or end of time; and without all bounds off precession, or succession.
Thus far of the absolute Attributes; now of the relative, or such which have reference to the Creatures.