PART VI. The BELIEVER'S PRINCIPLES, CONC RN G I. CREATION and REDEMPTION. 2. LAW and GOSPEL. 3. JUSTIFICATION and SANCTIFICATION. 4. FAITH and SENSE. 5. HEAVEN and EARTH. CHAP. I. The BELIEVER'S PRINCIPLES Concerning Creation and Redemption; or, Some of the firft Principles of the Oracles of GOD. SECT. I. Of CREATION. The firft chapter of Genefis, compendized; or, the first feven days work, from the following Latin lines, Englished. PRIMA dies cœlum, et terram, lucemque, creavit. In English thus: 1. The first day heav'n, earth, light, JEHOVAH 2. The next, a water-fundring firmament. 4. The fourth fet up bright lamps time to divide., 5. The fifth brought fwimming fish and flying fowl. 6. The fixth, earth's herds, and man to bear the rule. 7. The feventh brought forth no more, yet brought the best, The lab'ring creature's and creator's reft. Or thus: The firft day at JEHOVAH'S Word, The third, fevering land from feas, Made earth produce herbs, grafs, and trees. The fifth made fifh in depths to move, The fixth all earthly beafts did bring, 1 Fetching new heav'ns and earth in fight, Since then the firft is now the best, The Sum of CREATION. All things from nothing, to their Sov'reign Loud for its wife and mighty Lord demands SECT. II. Of REDEMPTION. The mystery of the Redeemer's incarnation ; or, God manifested in the flesh, 1 Tim. iii. 16. John i. 14. WT HAT though the waters ftruck with Is yet more wonderful and odd Thefe creatures were but creatures ftill, What though when nothing heard his call, Let nothing into being pafs, The Sum of REDEMPTION. With haughty mind to Godhead man afpir'd, With loving mind our manhood God defir'd : Man was by pride from place of pleasure chas'd, God-man by love in greater pleasure plac'd. Man feeking to afcend procur'd our fall, God yielding to defcend remov'd our thrall: The judge was caft, the guilty to acquit, The Sun defac'd to lend the fhades the light. SECT. III. The REDEEMER'S WORK; OR, CHRIST all in all, and our complete Redemption. A Gofpel-Catechifm for young Chriftians. K' Question. IND teacher, may I come to learn By framing queftions that concern Anfwer. Yea, child; but if you'd learn to run Know that the name of Chrift alone Q. By fin, my God and all is loft, Q. But how will God with finful me A. In Chrift, in whom his grace to thee Q. O how fhall I a fharer prove, Q. Where fhall I feek all divine ftore, A. In Chrift, in whom for evermore |