THE SCHEME OR DIAGRAMME Adjusted for Future use, in a larger Prodromus ere long to be published; and whereof this is then to be a Part. At present Printed for private Hands. A CONCATENATION of the Series of the Heads of the Grounds of the Scripture represented in this second Systeme by Scheme or Diagramme. ANd first of that great and prime Hyperphysical (that is) supernatural and spiritual Ground GOD, demonstrating Himself to us by His first Outgoings and after Condescensions, necessarily to be thus in Concatenation considered. 1. God in Unity of Essence, One GOD; The Abyss Unfathomable. 2. That Essence subsistentiated, (i) specificated in Subsistencies, in order to Creation Emanant. CREATOR, WORD, SPIRIT. Three Subsistencies For Nature, Grace, Glory. 3. Those Subsistencies (so specificated) in their Actual Out-going exerting (i) putting themselves forth by their singular Energies, the Energies of each respectively. 4. Those Energies become in the Subject (the Creature) Operations: This in the Creation simply considered, the first Creation, the Creation of the First and Second Race of Intellectuals. 5. Those Energies for their Operations on the Creature in the second Creation (that is, the Restauration of the second Race in their Nature lapsed) concentred in the Person of a Mediator: The prime specificate Subject of that Work, Our Lord Jesus Christ; the Beginning of the Creation of God, The new Creation. And then the Essence in the Subsistencies worketh by their Energies concentred in that Person of the Mediator, through Him and by Him transmitted unto Individuals in lapse, The second specificate Subject of that second Work; that, Persons partakers of that decayed Nature from the old Adam, might by those operations for Restauration, through and from Him be made and become New Creatures. Whence, The Essence is not the Subsistency: The Subsistency is not the Energy: The Energy is not the Operation: And yet, The Essence is virtually the Subsistency; The Subsistency is virtually the Energy; The Energy is virtually the Operation: Because, The Essence is the Abyss from whence the Subsistencies Emane; The Subsistencies are the Fountains from which the Energies flow; The Energies are the Causes (in the Subject) of all Operations. In like manner, The Operation is not the Energy; The Energy is not the Subsistency; The Subsistency is not the Essence: And yet, The Operation is relatively the Energy; The Energy is relatively the Subsistency; The Subsistency is relatively the Essence. Because, The Operations (in the subject) are the Energies terminated; The Energies are the Subsistencies limited; The Subsistencies are the Essence specificated. In result and sum (the work of the Creation simply considered pretermitted) The Operation Prime, for the new Creation or Restauration, is the Influence of the Essence, from the Subsistencies, by their Energies, concentred in the Mediator, from him, by a second operation upon lapsed nature, terminated in Particulars. And thus the Lowest hath (from that which is nearest to itself) of the Highest and Sovereign Being; what could not otherwise, either be derived from It, or, in that state of Lapse, be received by the Creature. Because, as Essence, in its Infinity Essential, (i) as Essence, did not work ad extra (i) outwardly to the Being of the Creature, but in the Subsistencies; Nor did the Subsistencies work to the constitution or making up that Being in the Creature, in the state of Integrity, but by their Energies: So, neither could the Subsistencies condescend to nature in the state of Lapse for Restauration; nor the Creature in that state, receive their Influence by their Energies immediately; had They not by those their respective Working Powers, sanctifying (in a Person prepared) the First Fruits of humane nature; as well Treasured up those their efficacies from Themselves, as Fitted them (treasured up) for the creatures Receiving them: The Principles, as thus in Him predisposedly united, so their Glory for the creature (as it were) rebated in the Person of a Mediator. Secondly, The Concatenation of the Heads of the Grounds of the Scripture, as they are a Narrative of the methods of that GOD in those his great Designs, the Creating, and Restoring of mankind; and give us the Physical and Moral Theological Grounds contained in them (i.) the Natural Heads and Result of and from them; which we represent in the several Heads and Notes of the Inward Circle and Outward Epicycle. And first, as an Inlet to the whole, A Look before the Creation of the visible and Animate World; and so of the Creation of (the First Race of Intellectuals) Spirits, simple Essences; of which Some Adhered and stood These Confirmed, and their number to be made up by a second Race. A Look before the Creation of the visible and Animate World; and so of the Creation of (the First Race of Intellectuals) Spirits, simple Essences; of which Some kept not their first state. These Reprobated, for whom Tophet; whence the Devil and evil Angels. II. The Creation of the visible Animate-world; and of the Second Race of Intellectuals, Man, in the Protoplast, the First Adam; A Spiritual Essence Embodied (i) consisting of Inner and Outward Man, to be made One with the simple Essences (Spirits unbodied) those of the First Race that stood: Their Innate Law, Covenant of Nature by Impress upon Adhesion of the Inward Man; And the Appendices preparatory (Sacrament, the Tree of Life; Sabbath, the Rest; Symbols of Grace and Glory) for consummation of the Person and Nature both in the Inner and Outward Man, upon the condition of that Covenant performed. III. The Inhibition, Probational of his Inward Adhesion (in that Covenant of Nature) by his Outward Obedience unto this Negative Law, for the fixing of that State of Nature in his Person, by the Annexing those Appendices preparatory upon the condition performed (i.) Adhering and Obeying: And the Threat annexed, if otherwise, being an Antedated Sentence. iv The Breach and Violation of that Covenant by Disadhesion, and of the Probational Inhibition likewise by Disobedience, commonly called the Fall: whereupon the Appendices (because only preparatory) become suspended; The Threat before, now an Actual sentence, the Curse incurred; importing, upon Nature forfeited, Aversion or turning away the Face of his Creator from him; and the Word withdrawing his Principle of Grace: Both these as the Paena damni or Privative Evil; And in demerit eternal Dereliction of his Intellectual Nature in that state; and casting it off into the state of Tophet (prepared for those of the First Race that kept not their first state) as the Paena sensus or Positive Evil of Punishment; These relatively from the Covenant distinctly terminated in that his Inward Man; And from the Inhibition, Support withdrawn, as the Privative Evil; and Mortality seizing on him, as the Positive, terminated in the Body or Outward Man; and from all these Glory in design from the Spirit of necessary consequence come short of. V The Interpellation, a Rescuing from the Execution of the Sentence and Curse upon that Breach; And the State of Nature (as so rescued from the Paenasensus or Positive Evil) to be considered under the Paenadamni or Privative only: Yea farther (upon the Creator's admitting that Interpellation) A Reprieve from the Sentence, and so the Curse for the present sublevated both to the Inward and Outward Man, by which a possibility for a following Covenant for Restoring of Both. VI The Restauration of Nature in the Inward and Outward Man (under the forfeiture to Justice suspended upon that Rescue and Reprieve) in Decree by the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction, as the New Creation in the Second Adam by this the New Covenant (for Restauration and Revelation) betwixt the Creator Ordaining, and the Eternal Word undertaking to be Incarnate by his Eternal Spirit immediately united to the Intellectual Nature, and by it to be united to the Body. Whereby (the principle of Grace withdrawn Restored to our Nature in that the second Adam) He became a fit Mediator Sponsor (in the Apostles phrase a Pledge) to perform the Condition of the first Adam by Adhesion Inward, Obedience Outward. This not only Active to vanquishing, but Passive also (for the satisfying the guilt of the first Adam's non-performance) even to the suffering of Death; whence Raised & Glorified (as Reward upon the work done, taking possession in our nature of the Glory come short of) He was thereby made a fit Mediater Regenerator to restore the principle of Grace to particulars, and so gave them title to the Glory in Him prepared for them. For the efficacious Revealing and applying of which Grace to the Inward by the Outward Man, Outward Means and Ordinances are hereunto Codecreed in him, as Apostle by Unction from the Father to Reveal, as the work given him to do: And so here, Nature sanctified, the Inner Man delivered from the Positive Evil, the Execution of the Sentence, and the state of Tophet, by translating of the Gild and Curse upon the Satisfaction undertaken: From the Privative Evil, the Creator now lifting up the light of his Countenance in his Decreed Ordinances for the restoring of the Principle of Grace withdrawn, and Glory consecutive thereupon: And though the Outward Man still continued under its incurred Curse, Gen. 3.19. To dust thou shalt return, yet that also here sanctified upon Capitulation, that the Creator (to make it redeemable in us) would by a second work prepare it for the Eternal Word to assume, and so to become voluntarily and of himself Mediator to Redeem; and in it Anointed, Apostle to Reveal. All from this (the beginning of time) by His cooperating Grace in Shadows and Types in the several Administrations (and from this Compact) having efficacy as Ordinances; though as to the Actuating them in the fullness of time Personally in and from Himself (as in the Flesh) they were only in Decree. VII. The Actual Restauration of Nature complete in the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the second Transaction, mutually made good in the Person of the Mediator, by the Creator's preparing, and so sanctifying the Humane nature or Body as to the Outward Man: And the Word by the Intellectual nature, the Inner Man (unto which from the first Transaction it was united) assuming it prepared into union with his Divine Nature; so restoring the Principle of Grace in his Person to Humane nature complete, both to the Inward and Outward Man: On whom thus constituted (His Duty, Obedience Active and Passive, performed) the Reward, Glory, is actually conferred: All according to that Restauration in Decree. VIII. The Restauration of Particulars in the Covenant Derivative, as the Revelation and efficacious Application of the Covenant Primitive from Him, by complication of Ordinances and Mystery, into which coming as into the Kingdom of God, their Persons are by the Ordinances sanctified, and they renewed in Knowledge from Him, as Apostle by unction of the Holy Ghost, Jo. 14.26. teaching them all things: And then (upon the appropriate condition of Faith in its Advances) they receive from Him, as Mediator, by Influx of that his Renewing Nature, the Mystery, the Righteousness of the Kingdom, unto their Regeneration in their Inward Man, upon and according unto that actual Restauration in the Person of the Mediator. IX. That Restauration of Particulars by Influx, upon the appropriate Condition of Adhering and Vanquishing (in the Covenant Derivative Finished) consummate as to the Inward Man in the Earnest from the Spirit sealing, The third Subsistency; and the Cutward man by that his work on it, (the Inward,) sealed to the Day of Redemption. X. The State of Nature by dissolution separate in and after Death, relative both to the Inward and Outward Man; the Inward (because by immediate impress Sealed) immediately in actual Bliss, a Bliss proportioned to this Separate state: And the Outward Man (because once united to the Inward, and by that Seal on it, sealed to its Redemption) resting in Hope. XI. The state of Nature, both Inward and Outward; (according to that Seal and Rest in Hope) by the Resurrection reunited and perfectly restored; Sealed unto Translation. XII. The State of Nature thus, as before, perfectly restored in the Persons fully redeemed. Now declaredly Acquitted at the last Judgement, according unto the different Administrations under which they were; whether General of the Creature, or special in their several diversifications (that is) patriarchal, Mosaical, Prophetical, Interlegall, Evangelicall: Prime, under Christ and the Apostles; or Continued, in their Successors unto the End of the World. XIII. The Persons, thus by the Resurrection redeemed, after the Resurrection sealed unto Translation, and according unto their Administrations at the Last Judgement acquitted, Now finally Translated, as their consummate Glorification, and made One Hierarchy with those of the first Race that Adhered and stood. This the Accomplishing of that first Design, the End of the first Creation in the state and Covenant of Nature violate and frustrated by the first Adam's Disadhesion (explicated in his Disobedience) Now, and Thus repaired according to This counsel of the will of God in a second Design, the end of their second and New Creation in the state and Covenant of Grace, made good and finished by the Second Adam, Christ Jesus, (God blessed for ever) upon his Adhesion, Vanquishing, and Suffering (explicated by his Obedienc Active and Passive) according unto the Interpellation and Covenant Primitive for the Redemption and Restauration of Mankind. Thirdly, The Consequential Heads of the Grounds of the Scripture, as they are involved in the Primitive Fundamentals, and unto which they are relatively consequential; which we have for distinction Checkered. THus the Trinity Supreme, Creator and Word; operating by Creation unto the constitution of the creature Intellectual, as Fountains Prime; and Spirit, the Third Subsistency, distinct from either, which was (in Design) the consummating Principle to the second Race upon perseverance: included in and evidenced by that Head, the Creation of the visible world: And yet farther, their distinct Personalities more fully appearing by the Interpellation and Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction, we consequently state it not till in this place, the close of the first Fundamentals, from which it hath its evidence, as included in them. The Consideration of those of the first Race that stood is checkered also, though but an Appendix to the sixth Head: And that it is properly unto it an Appendix, is confirmed by the Holy Ghost, in that he saith, Heb. 1.14. Are they not all ministering Spirits, sent forth for them who shall be Heirs of Salvation? that is, of those who are Claimers by this Covenant, which was properly A Covenant of Salvation, the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction, which is the sixth Head. The Consequentials involved in the Heads of Mediatorship. THe Trinity of Condescensions for Redemption, The Creator, now complete and actually Father by Generation, in overshadowing the Virgin and preparing a Body: The Word, now Son, by Incarnation of his Eternal Spirit (personally united to the Intellectual nature, and by it to that Body prepared) the New Creature: The Spirit, now Consummator of Glory in full, actuated in the Person of the Mediator, and by Him merited for particulars, as the Seal of Grace and Earnest of Glory. All included in and resulting from the Covenant Primitive in the second Transaction, and the Covenant Derivative Finished. The Church Regenerate, the Ultimate End of this whole work of Condescensions for Redemption, as the New Creation of God: This Consequential upon the Covenant Derivative, and Covenant Derivative Finished. The Consequentials involved in the Heads of Apostleship. SCripture comprehended in the Emergent Revelations unto the Patriarches, Moses, the Prophets, Jesus Christ, and the Apostles; The subject matter of Those Records; That Revelation by them to us, only Divine; And the Tradition of it from them to us, only Authentic. The Trinity of Condescensions for Administrations in the Apostolate of Jesus Christ: The Father, now Anointing, as Lord: The Son Anointed, as Servant: The Holy Ghost, the Energy of the Father by Procession from Him in fullness on the Son, and by and from Him in the several dispensations, the Principle of special Administrations, for Revelation; included in the Covenant Derivative, as the subject matter of his Apostleship, and implied in the principle of this House of Administrations. The Subadministrators, by whom that Apostleship of Jesus Christ was executed in all Ages, to whom the word of Reconciliation was committed, and with whom it was to remain and be continued unto the end of the world; both as to the prime Ordinances, The Power of sending and Government; and secondary Ordinances, the Administration of the Word and Sacrament, by those that are so sent. The Church Congregate, the Ultimate End of this whole work of Condescensions for Administrations, and so the Last in these consequentials; that He might sanctify and cleanse it with washing of water by the Word (the Initiating Sacrament to this Church) that He might (as Apostle) present it unto himself (as Mediator) a Church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; Eph. 5.26, 27. The Influence of the Spiritual Theological Grounds (represented in the inner Lines) their Juncture and Union with the Natural and Moral Theological Heads, on which they terminate themselves. HAving thus given in sum, the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or Narrative of the Things as they are, as well hyperphysical, as Physical and Moral, with their relative Consequentials, separate and apart: we farther desire, for the farther comprobating of the Scheme, to suggest the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or manner how in Juncture with themselves and each other, they so become one entire Body, as we have represented them in It. And first, in all humble confidence presuming upon that Demonstration (which, by his Outgoings) the Infinite, Immortal, Incomprehensible Godhead hath given of itself; we do in conformity thereto suppose, and (by those Lines issuing from the Essence, and terminated on the Subsistencies) express Their Coessential Inbeings, their coeternal and Coequal Emanations (i) Flow forth from It. The termination of those Lines upon the Figures 1, 2, 3. speaketh not their Priority or Posteriority in order of Nature (they being so Coequal and coeternal) but only showeth their Order of Working, demonstratively evident from their after-works in their subsistentiall Actings and energetical Operations, according to their distinct respective specifications, for Nature, Grace, Glory: Because there must be Nature (i) Being from the Creator, before there can be Impress upon that Being (i) Grace from the Word: And there must be Nature and Grace from both, before They can be annealed or fixed by the Third, the Spirit, to make that Grace become Nature (i) Glory Inchoate, in the Earnest consummate here, or Glory in full (i) absolutely consummate upon Translation. And secondly, with the same confidence (because upon the same grounds, of the Subsistencies in Their Outgoings demonstrating themselves) we do determine of their respective Energies (i) their Working Powers or Spirits, One with themselves, and therefore distinct from each other, as Themselves are. And though One with themselves and distinct from each other; yet the same Energy (from One and the same Subsistency diversifying itself for operations towards and upon the Creature) becometh varied in Each and all those Operations, according to the capacity of the Subject in its respective states of Constitution and Restauration in its several Advances. Nor is it without reason that we call them energetical Operations (not simply Energies and Operations) because, as in and from the Subsistencies, they are properly Energies; so in and upon the Creature, properly energetical Operations: as we shall show you in their union with their Heads, with which they must be read, as in the Order and manner of Reading we have directed. All which Subsistentiall Actings, and energetical Operations, we represent by the Lines drawn from the Subsistencies, terminating on their several Heads; which we are now cursorily to run over. Of which, the first Three, give us the Constitution of the first Race of Intellectuals Consummate; that is, every of the Subsistencies having their energetical Operations in the Creation of that Race by Constitution fixed: In constitution we say, as deriving their Nature (which we in them call simply Essence) from the Creator; their Grace (which in them we call Specification) from the Word; their Glory (which we in them call Consummation in constitution) from the Spirit: As giving us the real ground laid by the wisdom of God in their forming, for his indispensible and Absolute Reprobation of them, if they should Apostatise; in that All their Operations being, as we have said, fixed; All must be equally incensed, and so there could be no Interpellator to stop the Justice, much less Mediator to undertake for them: Heb. 2.16. He in no wise lald hold on the Angels (i) to deliver them, but took the seed of Abraham. The next Three speak the Constitution of the Secohd Race, not consummate: Their Nature, complexed of Inner and outward Man (from the Creator) only constituted, (i) fixed; Their Grace (from the Word) in Principle not fixed (because to its fixing it prerequired a Condition on Man's part to be performed) And Their Glory (from the Spirit) which should have fixed Grace and consummated Nature, in Design only; which we have made the Line to say, in that it comes not home, because the Energy itself could not be attained, but upon perseverance: And this gives us the like real ground of the possibility of restoring this Race, if they should Fall, because their Constitution was not in their creation consummate. The Inhibition hath no energetical line terminating on it, because not convoying any thing to his nature, but only as of Positive Precept, a Negative Law, laying hold on him, as from the Lord and Sovereign of his Person. Nor hath the Fall any, It being his Defection from the God of Nature, by his breach of the Covenant of Nature, and his Rebellion against the Sovereign of his Person, by his transgression of the Law: yet the Consequen●s thereof, being proportioned to his constitution by the Energies (to wit, his Nature forfeited into the hands of the Creator, from whom it derived its constitution; his Grace in Principle, the Energy, from the Word, withdrawn; because (the condition unperformed) not fixed; And his Glory in design, from the Spirit, come short of, because He persevered not) minister unto us the real ground, why the Justice of the Creator only remaineth to be satisfied, and mankind, in the Protoplast, delinquent to him alone. But that the Justice of the Creator might be satisfied, order of of nature requireth, that It first be suspended: And that Suspension must as necessarily precede the Restauration in Decree; as satisfaction made good must precede the Actual Restauration. And here we are cast upon disquisition, How Mankind in the first Adam shall for the present be rescued from the Threat, now a sentence? And how the Justice may be superseded, for the making way unto Redemption and Restauration to ensue? And this we are necessitated unto, that we may make up the Chasm or Hiatus in the Primitive and first Truths, betwixt the State of Nature, under the Gild upon breach of Covenant, and Transgression by the Fall, with the Sentence thereupon; And the Redemption from that Justice of the Creator, and Restauration of the Race by another Covenant, A Covenant of Grace. For though, from the consticution of this second Race, we have discovered and evidenced, that by the wisdom of God it was provided, that their Lapse, if it should become actual, should not put them beyond the possibility of Restoring, yet must that incurred Sentence, be reversed as to the delinquent, and that Justice stopped; which we cannot refer either to the Sovereign Love of the Creator, with some; or to His sovereign Beneplacit, or sovereign Mercy with others; because (Man being in real Gild and under an actual sentence,) it would cross those his other Attributes of Sovereign Holiness, Justice and Truth, already fixed in the Covenant and Threat. To salve therefore that crossing of Attributes, we have by disquisition found, and do give another expedient, which we call The interpellation of the Eternal Word (so the Line speaks it,) God of God (that is) God the Word (the second subsistency) of God in Essence (not Christ, the Word Incarnate, which was the Person of the Mediator) Interposing himself; And this putting himself in the Gap, was His the Word's work solitarily; A Rescue upon his self worth. And this, besides the salving of that Crossing of the Attributes, gives us in consequence First, A Plumbe-Line, by which we sound and fathom in the after Capitulation, the depth of the wisdom of the Creator, in transmitting (not disannulling) the Curse, in delivering (not absolving) the delinquent; and by that mortality (introduced upon the Temptation and Fall) destroying the Enemy himself: and discover the Bottom upon which the submission of God the Word, is also grounded, for making satisfaction unto that Justice, because from It he rescued mankind. Secondly, It reacheth unto us a Jacob's-staff, whereby we may take the true height of the Divine Nature of Jesus Christ the Mediator, and demonstratively conclude (from his satisfaction made) Him to be the same Eternal Word then Incarnate, which now Interpellated and Capitulated. This Head, thus discovered, will be Fruitful for the evidencing of many other particulars, which have their first Root in it, which we do at present pretermit, not willing to anticipate ourselves in our larger complete Prodromus, nor in our after larger work. Upon the Covenant Primitive in the first Transaction, two Lines terminate from the Creator and Word; These two Subsistencies being the only Parties interessed in that Covenant, (whose respective works, the words on the Lines speak) which doth import, that the Third Subsistency, as to capitulation, is not concerned; because his work was but in Design in the Constitution of the first Adam, by the Covenant of Nature; and therefore but consecutive (upon the work undertaken) in Decree, and not till executed, to be actually the consummating Principle in and to the second Adam by this Covenant of Grace. And this with the Interpellation, we are bold to affirm, the Beginning of the Gospel, The New Creation, and to be intended by the Foundation of the World, and by all the like Gospel expressions: This being the Foundation of the World of Regeneration simply and properly so called, as in Gospel sense: Yea and the Foundation of the very visible world, by the same Figure that the Holy Ghost using hath sanctified to my hand, when he affirmeth, Heb. 11.19. that Abraham received his son Isaac from the 〈◊〉 after a Figure. For if the rescuing of Isaac from the sacrificing sword, and the providing a Ram to be sacrificed in his stead, made that his Deliverance to be a Resurrection: How much more shall this Interpellationall Rescue, and Compact for preparing a Ransom unto Man, the Heir and Lord of the Creation, with the whole Fabric (provided for him) forfeited by the Fall, be accounted both to him and it, a New Creation? Trinity Supreme, as a Consequential from the Primitive Fundamentals, we have stated in the Systeme of Consequentials. Note first, that, that Line to the Interpellation, and Those two to the Covenant Primitive, are not energetical, but Personal Acts: For, as Personal Consultation was necessary before they did exert their Energies to Constitution; so, man having here destroyed himself, there is a like reason for This their second Consultation, before they could exert their Energies to Restauration. Secondly, Nor is that which we draw from those of the first Race, which adhered and stood; but only doth denote by the words upon it, when they became Ministering spirits, as a farther justification of our calling of them Intellectuals there, and not Angels, till here. Those Three, that fall upon the Covenant Primitive in the second Transaction, are purely energetical; the Two first qualifying him for Duty of Mediator Sponsor undertaken, which we therefore read downwards: The Third crowning him with the Reward appropriate to the work of Mediator Regenerator upon the Duty performed, which we therefore read upward. Of the other Three, which fall upon the Covenant Derivative (the subject Matter of his Apostleship) the Two first are to qualify Him for that his Office Apostolical, and are therefore to be read downwards; the Third crowning him with Reward, upon the same ground with the former, to be read likewise upward. The words Restauration executed, and Revelation executed, (which head the points of each) refer you back to the second Note in the Epicycle, of their being coactuated in their respective Principles (by which He was fitted for each work) as That doth to the Covenant in the first Transaction, when they were codecreed. That single Line, which from the Spirit, the Third Subsistency, falleth on the Covenant of Grace Derivative Finished, showeth, that the Mediator having meritoriously attained it in his Person, for our Nature, we in conformity performing our respective Conditions, have in consequence at last from that subsistency, an Impress sealing us to Redemption, proportioned to this state, which that Reverse Line speaketh, pointing to the Redemption itself in the Resurrection, The Redemption of our Bodies, Rom. 8.23. The next from the second Subsistency, the Word, terminated on the Church Regenerate, doth give us, by the Scripture on it, the true and real ground of Communication of Properties, to be between the Eternal Word, and the Person of the Mediator. For though the Body was prepared by the Father, by the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost, his Energy, Luk. 1.35. yet it was still as from That, but the Blood of man (though of the Son of God, Son of God and son of Man being coincident) the seed of David according to the flesh, Rom. 1.3. But when assumed into union Hypostatical, or Plastic, with the Word; His Blood (viz.) the Mediator's, becometh so the Blood of God (viz. of God the Word) and this People purchased by his own Blood, Acts 20.28. The next Three give the varied Operations of the respective Energies, as the Subject (under and by their foregoing operations respectively) is prepared for This work, the Resurrection; and by these their present Operations, predisposed for the Next, their future Glorification. Thus: 1. Nature in the Primitive state, constituted by the Energy of the Creator; becomes forfeited, by the Fall; reprieved, by the Interpellation; sanctified in Decree, by the Compact in its first Transaction; then actually sanctified in the Person of the Mediator, (as to the Outward man or Body) by the overshaddowing of the Holy Ghost in the Covenant in its second Transaction; and, from that alteration thus wrought in Him, Believers in Particular sanctified; as they come under the Covenant Derivative then sealed to its Redemption in and by the Covenant Derivative Finished; And so Nature Consummate in the Earnest. 2. Grace in the Primitive state, the Energy of the Word in Principle, but not fixed; by the Fall, withdrawn; the Interpellation maketh way for its restoring in Decree, by the Compact; as That in the Decree maketh way for the Actual restoring of it in the Person of the Mediator (by the Divine nature from the Word assuming our nature into Plastic union in the second Transaction) by and through whom it becometh actually conveyed, by Influx, unto particulars, as they receive the mystery, in the Covenant Derivative; in the strength of which they performing the conditions in conformity required (i.) adhering and vanquishing, the Covenant Derivative is finished (i) fixed in and on them; And so Grace perfected in the Inward man. 3. Glory, the Energy of the Spirit, in the Primitive state in Design only; by the Fall come short of; yet, by the Interpellation, in order to an Advance; and consecutively restored in Decree, by the Compact in its first transaction, as actually consequent (upon the work done) in the Mediator's assumption into Glory in the second Transaction; And in consequent merited for us, and applied unto us in the Covenant Derivative Finished, the Seal in the Earnest from the Spirit; And so Glory Inchoate. Note first, That the Fall (as the frustrating of the first Design) was the Decay of all these in the Person of the first Adam; The Interpellation, as the Occasional ground, and the following Covenant, as the Fundamental of the Restauration of them; were Subsistentiall Acts betwixt themselves, and so forensick to Our Natures: The actual restoring them (in the second Transaction) in the Person of the Mediator, was by Energies and energetical Operations, and so intrinsic to our nature, but terminated in his Person: The subsequent Operations in their several Advances (as being energetical likewise) are intrinsic to our natures in our own persons, as we increasing with the increasings of God, are made conformable to the Image of his Son. Note Secondly, That in all these several Personal Acts and energetical Operations (on this side the Fall) in their prequalifying Advances; The Succeeding are not attainable (ordinarily) until the Acts and Operations immediately foregoing, have had their Designed Works on or in relation to our nature and Persons; because the foregoing only do predispose and render the subject (in and on whom They are wrought) capable of the exalted operations immediately following. Thus the several foregoing Operations, gradually heightening and advancing our Nature and Persons, until Nature and Grace be consummate in the Earnest, we do by that Sealing rest in Hope; then raised, according to that Hope, in this The First Resurrection; we have from the Creator by his Energy (in a varied Operation) Nature, in the state of Integrity constituted, now Restored; Grace from the Word in like manner, then in Principle, but not fixed; now in Principle, and fixed; Glory from the Spirit, than likewise in Design only, now secured: This being the sealing to the Day of Translation, intercepted by the Fall. Thirdly, In concurrence with this latter Note, this we must also farther suggest and add; that as the Prequalifying Operation is of the Nature of Disposition unto the after Advance; so by the after exalted Operation, the former Prequalification becometh to be of the Nature of Habit. And being thus brought to the Point where we first set forth, and from whence we departed (the proper sense of the Apostles word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, which hath hitherto been rendered, the Restitution of all things, Acts 3.21.) with this farther advantage, that we are sealed to Translation; we have in our actual Translation (in consequence of that Seal) Nature, by the Creator, then only restored; now by a varied operation, Exalted: That Grace from the Word, then only in principle and fixed, now Glorified: That Glory, from the Spirit, then only secured, now consummate. Then come in those Notes, Of which the first, (The Subsistencies themselves now Comprehensible, because Face to Face, etc.) occasioneth us upon review of that Attribute of Incomprehensibility (the Boundary of created natures) to give you in scale, when and upon what grounds in predication of God (thus diversely considered) in Essence, Subsistencies, Energies and Operations, the Person of the Mediator with his Energies and Operations,) it becometh movable, when fixed (i.) when He is Incomprehensible, when and how Comprehensible unto us, viz. GOD in Essence, absolute simply and in Himself, Incomprehensible; The manner of the Inbeing and Emanation of the Subsistencies so also. But then, because the Essence, by the Emanation (as a nearer approach to the creature) manifesteth itself subsistentiated; And the Subsistencies render themselves comprehensible, mediately by their Energies, in their Operations immediate; therefore when we shall have passed all the Advances of the varied Operations, and so become made fit by Glorification for the receiving of their Energies immediately: Nature (which Adam forfeited) fully redeemed and exalted; the Principle of Grace (from which He fell) by Restauration fixed and Glorified; the Principle of Glory (of which He came short of) as of Auction, secured and Attained; and so we Consummate: The Subsistencies themselves must necessarily then become Comprehensible. And from this ground, we have the sense of the Apostles words, 1 Cor. 13.12. Face to Face, and Know as Known: which we have therefore made the close of this Note. And that the Apostle's words (having found their proper ground) do naturally speak their sense to be as we have given it, is most evident; because Comprehensibility being formally an Attribute upon Communion betwixt God and the Creature, Consequential upon his Being; and not (as the other Attributes from God unto the Creature) Constitutive of his Being: It must therefore necessarily follow, that (his Being once restored, and God taking us into Immediate Communion of the Subsistencies, the End of the whole work) He then turn his Face unto us, and we have Immediate vision (i) Face to Face: The Communication under Moses his Administrations, being but his back Parts of Types to Ours; And Ours, The Gospel administrations, but mediate in the Face of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor 4.6. (i) by his Energies, as Mediator and Apostle; not Face to Face of the Subsistencies by their Energies. Though when we come thus Face to Face, and that the Subsistencies become thus comprehensible; Incomprehensibility is even then and afterwards fixed to the Essence, as that Abyss unfathomable, that state of Godhead Incomprehensible; according to the second Note; Essence, as They in it (in the Inbeing) It in them (Subsistentiated and Emaned) now and for ever incomprehensible. The Consideration of Our Lord Jesus Christ, as represented in this Scheme, relative to his distinct Offices and Works of Mediatorship and Apostleship. FRom these Inward Lines, and their junctures with themselves and the rest of the Body, as the Spirit and Informing part of the whole; That which next occurs, is the consideration of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom only we can bless God, because through Him only God hath been thus good unto us; in whom all these Advances being first wrought, they through Him are (as we have said) transmitted unto us. Him therefore we represent, I. Standing upon that direct energetical Line from the Word, the Divine constitutive Principle, by which He assumed our Nature; so the words on the Line speak, The Eternal Spirit by which He offered up Himself (i. His Humane Nature) without spot, Heb. 9.14. for by the same, by which He offered up Himself, He must assume it. II. Placed betwixt the several energetical Lines, relatively qualifying Him for each Office and Work, and conferring the respective appropriate Rewards on Him as Mediator for Man to God, in the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the second Transaction; and as Apostle from God to Man for promulgating the Covenant Derivative. III. Standing also upon his Administrations patriarchal, Mosaical, Prophetical (in which Revelation in Shadow, Redemption in Type) Interlegall as in John Baptist's Ministry, preparing his way beforehis Face: And Evangelicall, in which Revelation, before in shadow, is now in Substance; Redemption, before in Type, is now in Truth. The Consideration of the Cross Lines, or Lines of Commensuration. THe Cross Lines (of which in the third Note in the order and manner of Reading) are Commensurations of the several states under those Heads, where they terminate: we have only this to advert, that, as the words at either end of them, separately considered, are the Gauges of that state; so relatively considered, they are the Grains of difference which balance them. Thus first, though only Confirmation, was the state of the first Race, which adhered and stood, yet Confirmation of the second Race could not have balanced them without Translation. Secondly, The Gage of the state of Nature in Integrity, being (as on the Commensuration Line) Ingenerate and unto Glory but determinable, presupposing, the first Design of God, and That frustrated by the Lapse; nevertheless then (though supposing the Interpellation and Covenant for restoring of it) cannot That State of Nature be commensurate, but by the state of Nature in and after the Resurrection; and yet This state hath its grains of difference, Regenerate for Ingenerate, for Determinable Determinate. Thirdly, The State of Nature in the Fall (because Death in the Root) commensurate with the state of Nature in Death; with which it cannot be balanced, until what Here was in Root by the Fall, hath passed over all There by Death; the Merit here, the wages there. Fourthly and lastly, That the Gentiles (under the General Ordinances, and their Instructing pedagogy of the creature-Administrations, with the work of the Law written in their hearts) if working Righteousness (according to the purport of the words on the Commensurating Line) are (as to the Common Interest of Eternal salvation) in equal balance with the Jew and Christian, saving that these latter had their Prerogatives (as the Grains of difference) the special Adminisirations; The One, the Adoption, the Glory, the Covenants; Rom. 9.4, 5. The Other, 3●. the Kingdom of God and the Righteousness thereof, Matth. 6. as special assistances, and more conducible means (though varied unto Each respectively) unto that one Common End of All, Sal. vation. The Import of those Words, THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD. LAstly, that you see in Capitals these Words, THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD, taking place between GOD in Essence, the Subsistencies and their Energies in their first Operations (for constitution of the First and Second Race) as situate above them; And separating Those Above (as the First part of the Scale) from the Subsistentiall Actings, and the same Energies and their Operations varied, for the Constitution of Jesus Christ Mediator and Apostle, upon and after consultation to restore (the second Part of the Scale) together with those Divine Principles in Jesus Christ constituted, and for execution of that second Consultation to us ward by Him exerted; in whose Person, as the Restauration was first wrought, so by Him was it to be perfected in us (the third Part of the Scale) Both these latter gradually in situation, as in order of nature, beneath Them. We do assign unto Our Spirit, The Intellectual Nature, its peculiar Object (purely spiritual, abstract from matter, and without the mediation of sense) the Knowledge and Acknowledgement of God, as represented in this Scheme: For want of which, we do but grope after God, not knowingly contemplate or adore Him. For how can we ascend unto Him, but by the same scale He descendeth unto us? And hence it followeth, that That great Work and last End, Our Regeneration, is less evidently quickening, and the Means thereto, the Ordinances, are less efficacious. And we must farther say congruous with this Analogy, that the not understanding the first Part of the Scale, GOD in Essence, Subsistencies, Energies, Operations to the constitution of the creature, hath been the Prime cause of the not understanding of the Second, viz. The Subsistentiall Actings in the Interpellation and Covenant of the first Transaction, the Energies and Operations in the Lines terminating on the Covenant in the second transaction, as to his Mediatorship, and the Covenant Derivative as to his Apostolate: These being but their Operations upon Condescension, which cannot have their Light but from a consideration had of these their first Actings. And the confused or Indistinct understanding of this Second, hath been a like cause of not understanding the Third, the Operations from the Mediator and Apostolate, by his respective energetical Operations to us ward and on us, the subject matter exhibited in the Covenant Derivative, and Covenant Derivative Finished; This being but the Deriving unto us, what was Treasured up in Him. And in as much as This Scale of the Intellectual in its Juncture with the rest, is indeed the Spirit quickening the whole, we may affirm, that all Our Errors, as well in Judgement and Faith, as in Practice and Manners, in the other nature all Theological Heads and moral Theological Grounds (in the Circle and Epicycle modelled) have arisen principally from the not aright discerning of these. And it would be no hard matter to evidence in particulars, where and how from some Misprision or other (here in Root) of the Intellectual; each and every of our misguided Actings in Morals, Economics, Politics, as well of sacred as civil cognisance, have burgeoned and put forth. The Review of the whole. ANd now let the whole be viewed, From the Abyss of Essence to the Operations, and the Person of Jesus Christ, with his Energies and Operations on us: From the Look before the Creation, to the state of Glorification: From the Judgement of the first Race, to the Judgement of the second Race; From the state of nature in its Primitive constitution, to the state of nature in the first Resurrection: From the state of nature in the Fall of the first Man, to the state of nature in Death, the condition of all men: From the Covenant of Restauration in Decree, to the same Covenant derived unto us, and Finished in us: From the Trinity Supreme, to the Trinity of Condescensions: From the Gentile in the Gener all Ordinances, to the Jew and Christian in all the special Administrations. What should I mention particulars? Look on the Generals, as the Circle in the Epicycle; and let the whole be considered in its Symmetry and proportion, as it hath wrought itself in the Scheme, A Systeme of Truths purely natural, and according to the order of nature; without any Artifice at all in the framing; we having only followed (not forced) Them, whilst they in their natural Method (as things) form and brought themselves into Diagramme Mathematical; that the Inward subject matters might more efficaciously (by demonstrating the Seriptures Design) inform the Reason, when (fixed according to the order of nature in the outward Form and Figure) they shall be transmitted unto it by the convinced Sense; that so, Sense, Reason, and Revelation, may all conspire to the stating of each and every particular Truth. Thus see and consider, Essence in the Subsistencies Emanant by their Energies constituting a First Race; and upon the Apostasy of some of that Race creating a Second in a Condition Inconsummate; Upon their Lapse, (the Lapse of the second Race, in the Protoplast) the first and second Subsistencies (because They only had their Principles actually in the constitution of the first Adam) in and by their Subsistentiall Actings, laying their Design for the Restauration of this second Race: This Decreed, Executed in the second Adam, revealed by Him, and accomplished in the earnest, then in the Full in the creature: This creature, thus restored by the Regeneration, and consummately Glorified (All by the varied Operations of the Subsistencies by their Energies) show in Figure, the Designs, the Degrees and Steps of this creatures Constitution, Restoration, Advance, and Exaltation. Next see and consider, Tophet in its situation, A Work not decreed, but emergent upon Their Apostasy, and extraneous to the Design of God in the Creation of that first Race; as The Sentence from him, was alien. They first become Devils and Evil Angels in consequent of their Fall; Reserved in chains of darkness in consequent of their Sentence, unto the Judgement of the great Day for the full of their punishment, And then become Tempter's in that state to the first man, and ever afterwards in Enmity with the seed: Thus in that Head and Labels. And the Last Judgement in proportioned situation opposite, because an Abdication of that first Race, and at once a Sentence and Abdication of those of the second Race, workers of Iniquity, then finally Reprobated, imported by the Label, Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels. Concerning which Last Judgement, I shall at present only suggest this one thing; that It hath and must keep the seaventh place in the close of the Heads of the Ordinances, as the First Resurrection is the seaventh to those of the Mediatorship; because It dependeth on those Ordinances which the whole Body of the Head importeth; Giving us farther also in the close, a Distinction of the Kingdom of Apostolate, which he is to resign after this, and to lead us into that merited Kingdom of the Father, prepared for us before the Foundation of the World simply considered, expressed by that part of the Label, Come ye blessed of my Father, etc. Matth. 25.34. when those who claim It by Covenant, acquitted at the Last Judgement, are gathered into One with those of the first Race confirmed. Then see and consider, The Head of the Fall, upon the same ground not decreed of God, and so the Root of Death not made by God, He made not Death, saith the Wise man, Wisd. 1.13. but man; Adam giving himself by sin into the power of Satan; Death came in by Sin, Rom. 5.12. And hence we see how Satan came to have the Power of Death, Heb. 1.14. (to wit) by Adam's admitting of the temptation, which was Death in the Root: It was indeed a Breach, by which man was going forth to the state of those in the Label reserved in Chains, but by the Interpellation made up, that all might be saved by the Covenant, as to the Inward man, if they perform the Condition, though committed to Satan (by the Sentence, to Death thou shalt return,) for the destruction of the Flesh, the Outwardman. And the Head of the state of Nature in Death, the Execution of that Sentence (in opposite situation and like proportioned Figure) is a Going out of the Land of the Living; but made up also by the first Resurrection; as That of the Fall by the Interpellation. And the state of Nature in the Fall, with this state of Nature in Death (being the terminating puncts of the Epicycle) speaketh, that the matter contained in that Epicycle, viz. The Ordinances principled by the unction, (relating unto the Reparation of that Darkness contracted in the Fall) are (though in their several diversifications) to continue until now the State of Nature in Death, as the Day of Grace vouchsafed by God to mortals in and by the Ordinances, the lifting up the Light of his countenance upon us. In like manner, as the Interpellation and Covenant in the Circle, did primarily relate unto that Death into which we were sunk, but to be delivered from (in the first Resurrection) by Him that by the Union of Natures brought Immortality to light (which he published in the Gospel) and in whom, whilst Our Life is hid, and we by the Spirit sealed, our flesh may in this, even the state of Death, rest in Hope. The Notes under the Diagram. THe two Notes, the One concerning Decrees Eternal (as they speak) of Election and Reprobation, the Other of Attributes, are next to be considered; which because we foresee may raise some prejudice, being here as Notes in bar, and in the foot of our Diagramme; which in other Systemes and Bodies of Divinity have been presupposed for Truths, and laid as Praecognita and Primo-creaita to be foreknown and first assented unto. We are for the justifying of our method in these and other particulars coincident with them (viz. God in unity, Trinity, by Generation and Procession, Decrees, Attributes and Scripture) by all others laid together as Prolegomena and certain Premissa (as we have said) to be first believed, necessitated to desire the Ingenuous and unprejudiced Reader to consider, that this having been a work purely of disquisition, we could not without violence to the nature of Primitive Truths (which we hold sacred) or distorting their Order (which were piacular) represent them otherwise or in other order, than they gave themselves. Wherefore we first consider God in Unity, not as a Postulatum to be premised, but as the first Truth: Trinity hath its place as a Consequential inferred as to us from their works ad extra, The Creation and Restauration, Generation referred to the Person of the Mediator; Procession to the Apostolical Principle and Work. And for Decrees of Election and Reprobation (our first Note) in their notion (of Eternal) waved; we give in supplement, the Compact betwixt the Creator and Word, and the Decree thereupon in the Covenant of Grace Primitive in the first Transaction; And because there limited to his Person, when He should be Incarnate, and become a Mediator, and to our nature, but as He assumed it, we refer the more explicit consideration of this Decree of Election and Reprobation as it may concern, and lay hold on us in particulars, unto the Covenant (with us) of Grace Derivative, and Covenant of Grace Derivative Finished, on which They must necessarily depend. For the Attributes (the second Note) that they should be treated of only, where they emerge, is so congruous both with the Word and Thing, that we suppose the speaking it only, is sufficient to evince it. Yet our Diagramme therefore representeth in view only and overtly, the Attributes Essential, as the only and all that are appropriate to the Essence, viz. Infinite (the genus to Eternity, Immensity, with such like,) Immortal (i.) self-living; and (with reference to the Creature) All Incomprehensible. Then the Attributes Subsistentiall from their Inbeing, Coessential; and from their Emanation (as Subsistencies Emanant and Emaned) Coequal and coeternal: which employed, that all the other Attributes (viz. Goodness, Omnipotency, Omnipresency, Wisdom, Justice, which we (according to the nature of the thing) call Operating Attributes, that is in their Personal or energetical Actings exerted, either in the Creation or Administration of the creature, must be delitescent and covert unto us, until they disclose themselves in the respective Heads, where they are exerted. Nor could we be satisfied in ourselves with the imposing of Scripture with the rest of their Prolegomena; seeing we could not state it demonstratively, until we had summed up the Emergent Revelations, of which it is a Sacred Record; those Revelations from God making good by parts these Principles; and that Body of Scripture from Men, divinely inspired and assisted, making good unto us those Revelations. But it will be sufficient at present to say, that these thus distributed (according unto that order which they have in nature) is a sufficient warrant for our thus disposing of them in Diagramme; which we shall more fully assert, when (by the Continuance of that grace that is given us of God) we shall, on these Foundations, raise the superstructure, and finish the Building in our larger work. The Use of all is, First, As the general of the Design, by this Series of things (which are the first Truths) to give in Diagramme, an Entire Sum or Body of Divinity Real, that is, a Series of all Primitive Truth's Theological, neither Defective, nor Redundant, evidenced by their Concatenations. And then this Diagramme by its exact Concatenations justifying itself, as before; We do secondly propose it (as the Fundamentals in Model) to be the ground of demonstration unto all Dogmatic and Practical Truths (according to the Title) of which we shall show you a clearer use in our Essay Mathematical, which is to be part of the Prodromus. Nor can it be just cause of offence, either as restraining the liberty of some, or as giving check to the magisterial determinations of others; seeing it is of universal consent, that All deduced Theorems and consequential inferences cannot otherwise be evidenced for truths in what science soever, but by their proportion with their respective Fundamentals. When we say Fundamentals in the Plural, we comprehend the first Angular or cornerstone, Truth, the knowledge of God, and acknowledgement of Him, as He hath manifested himself, and of all the rest in a connected dependence with and on it; Each and every one constituted in itself, and having its respective Contignation with the precedent and consequent from the Look before the Creation, unto the State of Glorification, neither in a Heap of Confusion, a discretive Independency of each other, or the Angular, nor in a dislocation of Disorder. And then we say and affirm, That these, thus considered and disposed, are so the genuine and natural Fundamentals unto all Dogmatic and Practical Truths in matters Sacred and Divine, that what can be demonstrated by these (and that only) ought to be believed and practised; that is, our Grounds sound, our Deductions certain, we may then, and then only securely rest in them. Nor let it seem strange, if we also say, that all our Confessions of Faith (as by the Analogy) must necessarily be form according to It: and all Our Liturgies of Worship must in congruity be conformed unto It: of which we shall (with submission) give you our Practical Essay, ere we close our larger work. The Explanation of the Terms. HAving now given by the order and manner of Reading (thus enlightened) the Concatenation of the Heads or Primitive Truths Supernatural and Natural; and the grounds immediate in their Contignations, which give in Systeme their Juncture with each other; justified the Figure of the Diagramme; and shown the use of the whole; we have brought the matters and things themselves so near to the senses both Inward and Outward in all their several aspects, that the words in which we represent them, will have the less difficulty. And forasmuch as the method is wholly new, we presume that the Intelligent Reader will not be offended at the liberty we have taken in Wording such Principles, as have discovered themselves (not heretofore taken notice of) in such terms (though new also) as may most properly express them; nor be too severe towards us for varying the words, when we have been constrained thereto, that we might bring them to the due proportion of Analogy, to rectify the things themselves, from what they have been current in these latter Ages. Yet for those, whose weaker apprehensions may require an Interpreter (because in this also we desire to descend to the capacity of the meanest) we have thought it our duty to give an explication of them, as familiar, as the matters will possibly bear. By GOD in Essence, we intent that state (The Abyss unfathomable) the Infinite, Incomprehensible Godhead; wherein before his Outgoings manifested, we can only say, that GOD is, or that there is a GOD, One GOD. Subsistencies, The Outgoings of that Essence, by their Emanation discovering themselves Three, This the true interpretation of the Greek word Hypostasis, which the Latins endeavour to express by Persons, and which we also use (though seldom) as being more familiar and better known to signify the same thing. Inbeing, The state of the Subsistencies in the Essence. Emanation, The Outflowing from it. Incomprehensible, Is of which we can frame no Idea in our minds. Ineffable, In consequence must be unwordable, for which there can be no expression. Emergeth, (i) Putteth up the head, appeareth or showeth itself. Energies, Are their Efficacies, or Working-Powers, called in Scripture, spirit. energetical Operations, are the Effects of those Energies in the subject. By the First Race of Intellectuals, we intent Spirits ●●bodied (i. simple Created Essences) which we from their Office and Ministry not till afterward call Angels. By the Second Race of Intellectuals, we intent Mankind (i) Spirits Embodied. By Animate world, we intent a created Dead matter, quickened by a Form from without itself, which in this was the Energy of the Creator, the Spirit of God moving upon the waters, Gen. 1.2. Innate Law of Impulse: By Innate we intent, that which was in their constitution or making up; And because in that their constitution, the Superior, the Intellectual nature, did qualify the inferior, the Animal, with Rationality a Form besides its own; I do therefore call that from the Superior to it a Law of Impulse, and the same in the Inferior, a Law of Instinct. The Covenant of Nature properly so called (i.) of Impress upon Adhesion, whereby is intended, that whilst he should adhere and keep himself close unto God, the Subsistencies would then continue their Impress upon him, and Concourse with him. Appendices Preparatory, Sacrament, Sabbath (i) these were prepared, and but prepared; until he Adhering and Vanquishing, not to be actually Appended or exhibited. Inhibition (i) by that Negative Precept, enjoined not to eat. Probationall (i.) by which God his Lord would know and make Proof whether he would Adhere and Obey. Threat, an Antedated Sentence (i) that which was in Threat, was as certainly, upon his Disobedience, to be his Sentence; as it was now a Threat. Interpellation, Is expounded by the words following, Putting himself in the Gap, in English it is nearest to a Rescue, but here Legitimate from a Ground; because the Interpellator the Word, was in a degree concerned in the constitution of the Delinquent, and Himself coequal with the Incensed, the Creator. Superseding (i) Dispensing with the present Execution of his own Justice; A Law term in use amongst us. So also is Reprieve, known unto most in criminal causes. The Covenant of Grace Primitive in the First Transaction (i) the Mutual Agreement and Capitulation transacted betwixt the Creator Ordaining, and Word undertaking, in reference to Redemption and Restauration. The Trinity Supreme, is a consideration of the Subsistencies, as They emaned and acted before their Condescensions, either in order unto or for the actual Restauration. The Covenant of Grace Primitive in the Second Transaction, their mutual Performance (of what was mutually undertaken in the First Transaction) in the Person of Jesus. The Covenant of Grace Derivative; the Publication of that Grace wrought for us in his Person, and the offer of terms of Reconciliation thereupon, Influx (i) A Spiritual Inflowing into us by operation from Him the Mediator, opposed unto That which was by union of Natures, as Energy radically in Himself. Trinity of Condesceutions for Administrations and Redemption, are the respective Energies of the Trinity Supreme, in their condescensions exerted or put forth for the accomplishing of the second Design, both as to Redemption and to Revelation. The Explication of the Greek Words. ΠΕΡΙΠΟΙΗΣΙΣ, (i) A Making by Gyre, Compass, or circumference; first in Christ the new Creature; and then Particulars in the state of Lapse from Him as Mediator by union of Natures, the Principle of this House. ΠΒΡΙΟΥΣΙΟΣ, A People peculiar, (i) those whom God hath dignified with special Administrations; and so a People appropriated by sanctification of the Holy Ghost, the Principle of this House. ΑΠΟΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΙΣ, An Astronomical term, The Bringing of Nature about (by Grace) to the same Point, whence it first set forth, and from whence it declined, and fell. ΑΝΑΚΕΦ●ΛΑΙΩΣΙΣ, The Gathering together again under One Head, the Word; Now (by Incarnation) Mediator of this second Work, for compassing of the first Designe● FINIS. My Desires to the Reader are, FIrst, That those who desire the understanding of this Design, would as the Alphabet or first Elements, get by Heart the Capital Heads; as, THE LOOK Before the Creation, THE CREATION, THE INHIBITION, etc. punctually according to the Direction in the order and manner of Reading. Secondly, That, That being done, they would in like manner inform themselves of the Subject Matters under every Head, and take notice of their concatenate dependenctes. Thirdly, That These things being done, they would then (and not before) having the Scheme before them and in their eye, peruse these Sheets as the Key unto It. Whereto if they bring their Heads as intent, and their Hearts as sincere, as I have been (I take God to witness) in composing the whole. I shall not doubt of that Union (so much talked of) in Truth and Peace; which, as it is the Prayer, so it is the endeavour of him that is An obedient Son of the Church truly Christian, Protesting against all Popish Errors, or whatsoever is contrary to sound Doctrine: Nicholas Gibbon. Errata. Pag. 14. line 10. for Resurrection, read Dead. pag. 24. line 24. for Figurea, read Figure with a Parenthesis. pag. 25. line 14. read Scripture as in a Parenthesis; pag. 26. line 5. for Yet read That. Which is desired the Reader would correct with his Pen before he peruse them.