The Communion of Saints · Henry Ainsworth
The Communion of Saints, Appendix
Of the three sorts of mē, al diversly affected in things concerning God.
Men are eyther
| OPEN WICKED, | HYPOCRITES, | SAINCTS, |
| …icentious and profane livers▪ professed enimies of the law of the Lord. Iob. 21. 14. 15. | outwardly religious, but inwardly wicked, hating Gods law, and the true righteousnes▪ Isa. 29. 13. Mic. 3▪ 11▪ | that rightly beleev & obey Gods word, with their vtmost power; the friends of the Lord. Psal. 119. 3, 5, 10. 11, &c. |
| These are born but after the flesh / therfore savour they onelyonly the things of the flesh / ād remayn as they ar by nature / Children of wrath. Ioh. 3. 6. 1 Cor. 2. 14. …h. 2. 3. | These seem to be renewed, & born again of ye Spirit, they are inlightned, and boast of heavenly grace: yet continew they stil in their old naturall corruption, vnwashed from their filthines. Heb 6. 4. Isa, 65. 5. Ioh. 8. 41. 42. Pro. 30. 12. | These are born a new, not of blood, nor of the wil of the flesh, or of man, but of God: therefore they savour the things of God, and mind heavenly things, being children of Wisdome. Iohn. 1. 13. &. 3. 3… Luk. 7. 35. |
| These ar neither chosen of God / nor called▪ being neyther of the church / nor in the saine. Psa. 11. 5 Rev. 22. 15. 1 Cor. 5. 82. | These are caled, but not chosen; ar in the church for a a while, but not of it. Math. 22. 14. 1 Iohn. 2. 19. | These are called and chosen of God; ar both in & of the Church, and so continew. Ephes. 1. 4. &c. Iob. 17. 9. |
| In these / syn dayly increaseth inwardly ād outwardly / til righteousnes in them be vtterly extinct Psal. 36. 1. 2. 3. 4. | In these, righteousnes increaseth outwardly, but sin liveth inwardly, and aboundeth. Isa. 1. 11. &c. Ier. 3. 4. 5. | In these, syn dyeth, and righteousnes rev…eth dayly, both inwardly and outwardly. …. 6. 2. …. 4. &c. |
| To these the Law if it be sent / cometh in tables of stone / (for such is the nature of their harts;) but they receiv it not; the tables ar broken before they come at them; for these dance (as it were) about the goldē calf of their own impietie / I…w not what: is becom of Moses; they break and violate all. Exod. 32. Yet vntounto such / the law is given / mid lieth vponupon them as a …urse and condē nation. 1 Tim. …. 9. Deut. 27. 15-26. | To these God giveth the stony tables, and they receiv them; but Moses face so shineth, that they can not look vpō him, vnlesse heveil his coūtenāce. They outwardly keep the law, and rest therein, they also teach others to keep it, yet ar themselves transgressors of it; the inward power and end therof, they cannot see Exod. 34. 29. 30 &c. 2 Cor. 3. 13. 14. Rom. 2. 17. 22 23. &c. | To these the Law is not given, or it lieth … (foreign) on them; 1 Tim. 1. 2. … they have the Gospel, the Law and ministrie of the spirit▪ and … word …fleshly tables of their harts, … on and without by the finger of God: & they … behold as in a …, the glorie of the Lord with open face, and ar changed into the same image frō glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Cor. 3. 3. 18. Ezek. 11. 19. Heb. 8. 10. |
| These keep not the Law / neither ar they kept by the Law; but break forth into al syn ād wickednes. Iob. 24. 13. &c. Psal. 73. 8. 9. | These, though they keep not the Law, yet are kept by the law, and restreyned by terror thereof, frō open wickednes. Mat. 23. 13. 16. 23. 25. | These are the right keepers of the Law in spirit; which sometime also were kept of the Law, til Faith came. Ps. 119. 33. 34. Gal. 3. 23. 25. |
| These hate the Law / and professe their hatred Psa. 2, 3. Iob. 22. 17. | These hate the Law, but professe to love it. Psal. 78. 36. 37. | These love the the Law, & professe their love. Psa. 119. 97. Rom. 7. 22. |
| These ar naked / yet without s…ame: though al men see their filthines / they hide it not. Ior. 6. …. & …. | These ashamed of their nakednes. cover it with figleaves, or spiders webs of their own external righteous nes. Isa. 59. 5. 6. | These have their nakednes covered of Christ, and by the garments of his righteousnes. Rev. 3 1…, & 16. 15. |
| page missing … sa…iters / Numb. 3…. the …niorite… / Sihon / …gh / and the like. | come not into the land of promise. | an… the rest that … mayneth for the p… ple of God. Heb. … 8, 9. |
| These both shal perish; and be punished with everlasting perdition, from the presence of the Lord; their portion shalbe with the Divils in the lake of fyre and brimston, which is the second death. Mat. 25. 30, 41, & …4, 51, Iob, 13, 16. 2 Thes, 1, 8, 9, Rev, 20, …0. 13, 15. | These shal enter into the ioy of then Lord; shal live and reign with him in heaven, & with his holy Angels for evermore Amen. Mat, 25. 21, 34, 4… | |
| The Wicked shal turn into hel Psa. 9, 17. | The Hypocrites hope shal perish. Iob, 8. 13. | The Saincts shalbe preserved forever, Psal, 37, 28. |
| The rejoycing of the Wicked is short; the joy of Hypocrites is but a moment. Iob. 20. 5. | And men shal say. Verily there is fruit for the righteous, doubtlesse ther is a God that iudgeth in ye earth. Psa. 58. 15. |
Finis
End of the text · Henry Ainsworth, The Communion of Saints (1607)