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S . there is nothing that a Chrijli4rt can more. defire than a perfonal union 'WithhiJ my-filcal Head; fi . there is. nothing that a CbriJlian

" ought more to value ·than the preti-

ouutrefj;nes ofiu,;*hievement : For. lIS the high- 0/1 :degr~/J..i>fpet.bEl HappineJfo. is to 'be aElud/{j prefent 14Jith fhrijlin Heaven; fo the higheJl de. gte'e'ofirnperfe¢l:,?appinejJe (Jueh -0/ 'Which 'Wee are capable in this vaHeyof T eares) is our aflu-

ranee (~l a, h'op"6 ,that 'Wctball be. happy in petfei!ti_: ~"'''><rf'''

fJIi./",,' ,fl. 'h G ,11 R 'fi" 1" .. .,r®- H,h,

on; v ~i17amon:grt e'J<rverau, equlltesana 6.'1 .•

me~mesofBliLfej our jnyoking of (jod vllmigh ... ·

€y. is not the leajl; '!: {orwhofoevedhaU t~lliIp_ bi.",:,iuJ onth~nil:me of tbe Lbrd.fhall be bJavd. 'Butltl ",'

)lie cann'oicaH uponbim i1iwhom'W~have no: hdee.; " ved, nor beleeverin himlif~TPhom 'We h(tve not yet ' heard r fo neither can',!n,ee heare: without cae . '. Prea.cher;1}pdn which ttjollflWcs;That hecau{e "t'!fll-f.

Faith _,j'commeth'hyHearing; and lirvocatioo6y. ""O"[HZ'.', Fait~, t~~reflre(in:~rde~.of:A( ~tflre: though ~(;f ',: ifDIgOlt'Y)hlvocatlo~I'l tuhe tlurdfiep; Fitlth

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'"erre 15. the.fecond ;and lawfullo Preachingtbe wryfirft.

'But here it ought to bee conjidered • That Preachingis not only That, rPhich in there inn« .. 'Vating times hath fwalforPed up the word' Preach ... jng. ~r are Sermons only thafe '¥Phicb jena themJelvef and expire '¥PIth the fugitive breath oj him that JPeak! them; and heing puhliquely uttered no more tben once, doe either vanifh , as meere words, into tbe foft Aire; or el(e are, as water

. commonly fpilt upon the Ground. Wee k_noll1 thd' Preaching u a generall word, '¥Phich properly Jig"

'L"", S. 39· nifzes to divulge or! publiih; And tbough'we uJu .. ally rellraine it to the manifeftation of God's OrPne word,yet That may alfo be Preached more wllye} than one. The Catechizing o/'Neophytes in the pureft Ages oj the Church, may bee 'Worthi/-, called one I.,jndeoj Preaching, althl)ugh thry »ere not admitted to allY higher degree of Teaching than to the 'Very firfl Rudiments and GroundsofFaitlL 1t rPM [aid by [uflin Martyr, in his Parrenefis to the Grecians, tbate'VCn in fomeo{ tbeir oWne

g !"dnm;' writings thc'VcryJttdfJ'cment to coinewm P:reach;..

UUJI_I.a7!.!;-Kfr "0

"~,""; Yo' ed to tbem . ,and tJa~cularfy in Plato'stheJ', R.e~

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I~~J::;;~;;,ij Iurrection o/the Body. The fame Father .teU'S

t:;,'i~·':r. us that Orpheus h preached to his ,founcM;u[;eus, ~f:"::;~>- concerning the unity of the o'91ytrueGo.d. Th'tJ :t~o.".» publique Homilies of the Chunchar.e an £PCd i.',~~:' :'P:, Linde of Preaching, and th{ltin ,the iudtrcmelltof·.

hIT"" "'''''' '\: H ell of:IT' J ;:Y

<o1,~l1'''fi''. Mafier ooker, M W SI, \L!o..mg·.f.ames,·aml

mel!Wa~Jf1~VH _ '_ _ \.

E>".""ld"H. the Councell ooJkVaux. 'Thehol,d:;.,J.,,.fJ:J A. 'm:ra;,;_

:ll/fMt. Mail. ~ ,:/""l_k

''';{';,f;,'LI. nuenles dtd even Preach to the EyoS a.na Under .. 1',lu.I·'·§,9· . ftandings

ftandingsoJ all <the World~bJtranJmitting~b_J

, thej'hadwritten from hand tohanA, ;fI~ID 41iJ1ben they conveyed it by 'word of mouth •... Th-e fI( ord '01 qoJdoth Preach it felfeto e"9ery tlian. living ~/!J(I ~iU~ulreade it. 'The publique Ihading (jf;tfij Scripturesutbebeft ~nde of Preaching toa/J J/,4I.

heare it; And.fo the CounceUD{roledO"b11l1 pJeJt;. ,

Jedtoctlll it. The Readingolthe Law»r4l14iJ

".1 Mofes artbe foundationJ ItJherco,n· to ht,tikLio

mens fpirits tbe I feareof God :VpOl'l t1Jej,,,r4 lZl<lrqt. R~ading (J_jwhich Law I(itJg Jofiab wufom.{J've'd. I1.U0I3· liNd wToughtupon, that he ?' numhi£d.himli!lfcf, .. >Chm.14 arod wept,' and rene his. .cloaches 1 -nmde· a;:: 19. '7, Covenambff,oflt'me Lord, ee keepc lrlsCoiJIl. ttland,~mentntaiEI-hiS,Struutes~ .and: p.edOr,m Me words,ofthe Cov.enam:wbi.clt w£t.e,writren in,'

that booker; (J(.3r is .t unr;,otthYlto be rWlit14tM '~'P0n; 'That.though Mofes 'Wu fhe~uit j Ik

F'l'iend anJ Fa:vorireoffjad( -M'llIcUIlI.t\bmhatn)

mrdfure 118 ilhie-to j}eldt.!, "~vithoiut:beoke, theminJ: 'tSn(NEenour cft~eLaw ~llIan'y man thlll ffVet lived ", .

. btfore'JJr after" yethet,hought it 1U~dl:uaIto:tlti '!"',.' '; f!1vJng~f~oules; to t.the:boo~eof meCIlW~ e ,+ .sl'lltnt,'Di?zch ~e h",dfirft tranfcntb~d'from,~t., ~., . tmmcppeachmg upon.the Mounwne,::JUtJ jmltJ,.

litfuely to rI;reade itfll the ~udiencC.Qft~1kopte. ~,*,~, ". ~; ,,~rPthe Reafon. oJ-.tbiJiJ vef)1e¥,iddnt , /411. 1.'. i· 7.f:

Jefo-vesto ,be;cMjirieFtd "'ythist[;w;'ufi'¥.~8r~ »#Jo.are~(JntWJ·prefe~ the ~ds,of·.~e~~· gNcefufly,J~#-ONto/"eheP:ulP.!t'~efo:edifIaiRe wordxofGod~'~n ine;re:!Jmd:v;ut:~~

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not atal! conJiderinrr) That tbe 0 Sun ofRighteouf-

• MaLt,z, ~ I i l S f N

neffein the Scrjptu~e) i~ tbe u,n ,0 anirein

the Firmament, (hines much the brighter for being Naked. It ~ not th~ Language,' Fancy, VVit and Learning (whrcl) are eminentlrfeen« in one fort ofPreachers)much lejJe the Memory, the Lungs and the Geftieulations (which are daily obfer1iable in anot~lerfort of Preachers ) 1 (a~it ~ nor any of theft thmgs, nor all together, that IS ef;. fectualiy powerful] to the converGon of Soules;

,. :J(gy it is not the Spirits going along with the Preacher,that doth alone doe the wor{(/or the Spi .. ¥it ofqod did goe alon:s.W_ith the ApoHles.when they -were calt.out of the Cltles, and along wIth our Sa~ viour,inthe fulneffe of hu,G od. .. head,when yet be

• 0" ,;,',,1, could 'Ilnot doe many Miracles in his own Coun ... ;':;;:~~~- rrev meerly becaufe of their unbeliefe) but ·tishu ::;,~~:,tc. 1JJo;',inrr a docility intbe heads and heartsor 'itchm

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cnim.,p,,,,,., hear . tha't tbev receive with meeknefle the ing.raf: ..

qlllf'ltJu {tcClP'- ., ~

;:~~n~j~~':i;,::'ted P word, which is alone able to [av.e theirSouIs. ~:~:'":;"i;~~:~_''IhiJ:d()tb open to fwa.rea[on wl5ythc1iery:[izme tes q"'jiD". .l h fi h' ' '. :(:". _£I: M sin.tb '1. t m""",dnci",·Sermon,·:Jat . uc·',varletrOj Cne\..Ls.tn,tem:tr.J:a·

~~7~,:::2'~: hear it, and'tiJhy a Jonahlitaypreach,to themeli),.. ~~;~:I:~~" -lng of [orne, }}Jhilejl a Jeren1Y may dd~'it to the

hardning of others. IfrN\egoc to Chrtil:s Sclu~l~ • Mar. 10. as >f.little .. Children (thatu) with humble, atteu]. 15'tive, ,and teachable Difpofitions,rpcejbaO begrittt proficients lmdwife ~n.oughuntofaly~tion; byh~~

• ring thoJe Sermons difttnRly read,lP/Jrch our >f. .. Qn1y [Cor·7·23 Mafter & bu MefIengerSare incei{alidypref"Gh:"

ingtbroughout the Scriptures ;where)y'tiJithout that temper

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cemper anipreparedn¢tfe o{ minde ~ . 'II1e fllllJ, 'ViVJ

, utramqJ. .. ur~m dormire) fln/y lleepe ~itb '0lIl" . ~y~ epen,; IInti 1fhere qads ol'Pne 'Word, tbrottgh own wrecchlefnelfe, 14 nat fulficientto awake mjrom tbar, Lethargie qffinwhcr.ein our Soules :htjlt!epi~ NldfoaUoJPed up, Certainly not,hmg llJ"''I4 hu..; mane 'fpiU raife ,"OUIt{ {JUr feofelefoeflC and car..:' naU feeurity ;AU the, vehemence andlnVflUioRj aUtbe noyfes and Declamations, . all the Grimates IltIeI gefiute;sof all the Ledot~s in the JPlJrldl'flill

, ~Nt .. muft0/4rEate!t, .. ndlull our Fatitfesjandbb.. "

nUlllourApprehenfions}anel{ lj~fo much La .. daaum)m4~e fU Inore in aurfins /0 tntlcQ,the loW-_.. , . der •• ····~"'41~ the,. '1fooliihnetfe tif{]~d(to '!lith, q I C.,..I1S tfpbj1/es Cataehrefis} ttnd /;.1 lhe fQolifhndij,r ~",~~~7rt preathi~( ~the worldly ~wife theh thought il) VIT/. 111., by\~hlch It pleafed God tofavethcrnthilfP,e," ;"~" I~vl:, th.tu tofoY~ "" the plainnelfeanJ fimpiici ..... ' . .fyl oftIJ, Gorpell~Dithvilt. the artifice 4uP col<)\lri "

i?£~!4I(uu.: lf1en~tlie. 'Yorld, was. tttr0cd' '. upfide" '."~

. ~wne, M the,env16us,r Jewes, 'Were,plt'*t/i~ 'A~\1.5'6

Rh~afeit. " ~y that word ,4,nd' t~ (Pitit'lihiO .

l~' ~~atped Greeks fo 'much delp.~, '$""". Peter ,~, "l ' 1~"-theJ eo th'eron'IJcrjf(7) of threethotir~llti~M.l1sj Ak.~~·!~· lItD.n~Jhore$trrn.on" ''Iff!tf oft fiVe;th~~nth·tt~ ... 'A[I, 1- of.

not her.' .' . , L ',' ':j,>,,\ . .

" "Fllr he t/1U 1Phich J,ht!l't>ej}iiIt&l [roirdiei"tfjtj1("diror ,1,'1 s t'f~he diipa~~ment#' thofi'ju,M4diotis' wM 1?f~ , ~monl> 'Whif./)~if'Ue Ifit,ie ~iJ)'-·-p:rda~:d~~ ~m~n~o.:#~fJfJoI·~':-$MIcf~&.t~ttg~ preaching;l!iifii( f'»tn of",lJfdUtGfut~ ~ ~-.1 . H"'\ '

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regularly founded find authorifed, ",of to facti~~ but pious ends, IjiJouldnotlloVi bavegratijielth,~, importunity ofjriemlr (/JorPc}Jer many and urge~t on thu occaFof)) by be/ping to uiher into the 'World, e and by commending to the perulall of e}Jery Rea .. der, 'J4Jho can bee. glad to grow witer then nO'll7f3eu ), 'The very learned, wife andfacred Reliques o/th~ Gn;at Authorn:ho lies before us, l.am notnriJil'f) be taught, That though the beft way to k.no'J4Jledge~ "iI.

II ],h. !. 39. to U Iearch the Scri ptures, as thofe that teJlijie of him. -l,h 6.68. 'J4Jho hath the 'Words rfw eternal life, ant/.JhatjtJ'faitp. cometh by hearing,jri hearing commethb thewol;"d

'R,m.IOI7 of' God (not by the glolfes, orconjeci:tires,or dexrerities of men )yet there are many .",,6,,~ pr~tiousalJri hiddentreafures of knowledge whicb (ja,4."~ plea/al to lock up in Tropes and F igures, of~hj~~

Y2 P".J .• 6 the unl1able Y and the unlearned are not Ct'Itrufirit ,r"(".52 »ub the' Key. The Priefls a Iipps fhouldI,ec)_l ,,-,1[",'7 kllowledge,andthey Ihould reek theLawat~' "A»,'"", mouth, as being the>(- Angell or Meflenger· obli~ 'f,a/LXX. Lord ofHoas,ana'the Steward of '(po) M;y;ft~

ries whick qod haIR comm~tte.{ to hu,keeping,ll'fk, <.AfI/8.27. famous Eunuch '!J< Erhiopia wM"f;le to:maqJ.~( • 8'·~'3°·ll Prophet Efay, and had fi g~od 411undSlr(l-al.lping M to difcern hoTP little he underfiood it,;"" atl4l,h~re:. .fore S' Philip was joyned t(J him lor hir Gu;i.de.

d z PtI.l.16 rrhcre 'Were fame dhard things in S' Pauls Epiales, l"lJhich many did wrell to their own deJ.l;HIC);~9n) of which S' Peter doth gi)1eUlno other r~;afon, the_" their want 0/ leamin g, M 'Il1£U M offt'l-p~ity -. ;f}1fi!

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toehu tall. Elephant'Whil waded in them /O'Ucrl .

q~eply,mu¢h lejfe to the low~ilatur'dfilly Lambs;

»tho are apt, in Ihaiiowplaces, tofillkor Iwimme,

t'I»J therefore, .though it u c'Uident, that OUT-very

bdldrinking iSlmmediat{Y Ollt of the cryftall . Spring,'Whileft the f milk of the word u yetffincere, et I P",l.2; not" mlxt'and troubled ll1ith the skilfull deceiprs of knavii'h g Teachers, or with the zealous ignorance SEph. 4. '4. 0} honea hfools ;yet in the B~dy of the Church,'Wee;!:;.',~~I:'

'«low that every Memberu not anK Eye,/md H,kSH.

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, every one t at at . yes 14 not a " eer, an yet 14'<7:19:

. there muft be Seers, that there may be Vifion ; for ;;j;,~18~. ;0.

• where there isno m Vifion, "the People, perilh, ~h. 3· 7~ 'Tbe Church of God, which ir tbe n Pillar and 18."",'9. ground of the T rllth, is .. univer(3/{Yackt!owledged· rr...·3·t5 The common MOIherofus:il1. And though fome ifherChildren can feed rbemlelves by ber dire ...

ction, an,d are able to dige1l: the fifongeft° Meat, oR_, Pi .. and.c4ncarvebefides to their weaker Bn:thr~n)yet jUch'ltJare Infants in underftanding;or newborn

Ba~es P;n [hriflianitJ,muft fuckthe ¥ milk 1 the ~ t P!fo"'; .

. d" fi bei M th B ft l't:.··· ,C"',3·'·

wQr romt etli'. other's re o oreleret:el'IJettHt~.5oI"

from. theirqlippes; whOinihe".hilZthappoi~dlCll!~.J"'7 . gi1:('t.hemJood In duejeifrm. For tRant of it/;Ie I?i~.

lots :10 'freer their courfe, by the"k_nttiJ11et!ge,iJp.J;ich

they Dave to ufe their Card and them Compalfein Application to their polar r ~tarre,'~~"11l4n~Hitde" ':.:~;~,;~

ones have been f drowned in the' Rlver, onife.ami1r(. Pte." + Mit were Jwa116\>v'dup,bj tha~ fin(iere'¥:·milk,(\)r:~~V"2.[: '

the word, "" which 'able !?aftorswQIIIiJ bA"})-e~lJutht: I P". , .•.

them-to fwall 0 W': down ? ,\. ~". ,;;

. 'But"tU on tkk :im(/ideitmuft begratlce.4;-.ihae;

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where the Script ures are dark there muft be Guides to the blinde , and where the places ate Ileep orf1ip~ pery, there muft be Leaders of the Infirm:fo again on the other fide it is too plain to be.denyed, that

'Mal,23.16 there are many U blinde Guides and feeble Lea~ ders of the blinde, who carry thofe that follow them • Ma~.15· into the fame W Ditch oferror, wherein themjelves '4· are delighted to lye and welter. 'There'arc not 'Wanting in our lfrael Jome blear-eyed Seers, llIho

'!,h.;.I9. love x darkneffe rather than light. 'Their inward eyes are fa fore, and (0 far~e from being patient of feeing the Sun in his Meridian, that nothing(eem~ etb to hurt and offend them more than the bright--· netfe and glory of any oppofite Truth, 'When it endea'Vours tobreak in, and clifpe{ the darknefle of their Oeflgnes; which uin etJeE/; the very reafon that St. John hath rendred wbymen love darlmeffe

'fb<l. .mdhate the lighc,becaufe(faithhe)Their Y deeds are evil. 'There is another kJnde of Seers, who are not blear-eyed, but ratherpurblind; tbey are ex-

, ,P"1.9· treme/Y 1hort-fighted, and cannot fee a far' off. 'Th£tY look, no farther than the ounide and face of things : And not di(cerning the very marrow and hrnelofwhat is written, thf!.J conclude that th"e ts nothing beyond the bone and the Ihell. So'Wben Hercules had traveUed iU farr~ iU the Streights of Gibralrer, he prefently fet up his·Pillars, and 'Wrote upon them his (Ne plus ultra.) (uppoJing he had gone unto the end of all the Earth, becaUJehe 'WM aUe to goe no farther: Wberee« Americus Vefpunus and Chrifiopher Columbus had their eyes of underil:andingfarre better fighted, and Were able

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. t~ finde out another vvsaa.: _ 'I bet~f:il~ third,

fort of Seers, w~o are. not purbhnd.b~ c!ollble; +--

£ig!1ted and fquinr-eyed, ~t kaJl ap.p~nflgt!t!.Oot:

t\VO a wayes at once, havmg one ti/}eE/; ufPH, Goe: ·E"f/IJ ..... _ and another upon Man;mo~; obllquelygla!l~!ng, 1-: " s, llIiththe left eye upon Godhneffe~ an4 a.ttentrve{y-

O'azing with the-right eye upon Gam ;M ifthey endeavour'd by their practile to confute -tlie 4pho:-

~jfni ofChrifi > That No roan (~t oQce) can Ierve

twobMall:ers.. ' '. ....,:', ',- . bL.k,I6,13

. lt iinowtoolate to beidiffembJed,'ThafptlJ;:cfo . .

ininy have preached without a Mjfsion,an4Jin~eJ!

many have made Preachers 'WithoUt, tiCQfllmifS1~

on,jince the Sanctuary ofqod;which Will afrpOit1te_J by.Him·t;.J,e'afIoufe of~'PI:ayef, /i:ltb.be~'n turrs'd_:~",; ,,; byd fame into a Houfe_ofmeer Prea(dung;the'1le~ d T/mft1;, H .... · ry 'plellty alldred undance of focb M pre~h befo1'8 t"';;,~~~~~"

they. are e lent, .andoffoch es preach agalnfi . thofe e ]"','3,>1, -+--

thatfentthem, may be.faid, in fomeftmft,t{J~'l!e .

breda Famine . of the VV ord., Th~ put~:m.ein mine/eofwhat n:asfaiJ by, tbe» HlftOl'lan. (:n,pf~ . '''';''' SamnioSamnlulnreqwratur.)l1J/ilc.b'a~afo,,(#bil.

ir,'l>e .are hardly able to (eewood forTree~/'fh~,

are fo 1Iiany vajinumbe.rs.of eitherUntaUght,~~1tl;.: +

taught Teach~r~,:th4t-amongftthem a4~bm~ of

good 1& fO b~ .leantd.:JVjr llIlU there e:w:r; tV~I#:

needtopreJfo tbat Caveat.upon : Jb.e. PeQ(>le·~biCb'

our. Sa'Vi~urga'Ueto bis Difciples(t~f!gb~mby· , Him in a different/enJe )Ohlmn .r:rr~k!~J.(,Y)hat!.r M""4 '4, yceheare,tI1ldi>.i7i>Tlwik. 'Fak,fheed&llpw-y,e,e-'btiJiJtlud"L.kcS.x8. "';",,'.'n,. 'I'tI~htedb whom,_)'ee' he4r."'i~~~hM""'H' tbere.i« one good kSheph~rd_lkh~'Im(temb~ clI.e k].h.Io,IL

, . )()( t dore'

lwf'" dore I intbthe\Fold,thcreuamThiefahdAuHire:;; ;;:~t: I, ling,tJ 0 VV olf,d?td ti- P Deceiverju>ho doe aUdimb ::~;j, ~~: up fon~eqother way.~or .one :gaaci Sbep'her~,. Mal.7. '5· »bo WIll lay down hIS' ltfe{if tzeta require) In : ].:'\'~t defence' of his Sheep againllthe VVolfe,how ma.:. ;::1;. 'I~·. ny Hirelings are there '¥Pho leave fthe Sheep and

flee away, as Icon as they fee theVVolfe com .. 'verJ.lo. ming ~ How many Thieves ate there, 1l>ha.tcome not into the Fold, but for to Ileale, andco kill, and to deftroy? How fflatJY VV olfe~like Shep ..

UMat, 7. IS herds doer;ral~ about in U Sheeps cloathing,~tftJ,. ... rynothing into the Fold by .",hich they are qualified for Shepherds, bejides an iron Hook and II paire of

Sheers ~ .

, . We k,nowtbe VVord in it felf.hatb noton/Y a

" 7""'1.19, heatingW, but witball tiS c1eanfing Facul~. ,2J1!& '7·il Ij.). at the God of all Grace, and Grace i&filf,fo:the means of Cjrace (next to God and hiJ Grace, are moJl ojlJl/ capable of being injor'd. vI»d becatift the abule oftbe beO: things doth ever p'o<vc 'he greatejt and woril: abufe; tbereflretheolibertyof the Pulpit htlth been vf much fadderco~fequenc:e than that of the Stage. Infidelity tommethbyhea.. ring M well til Faith; and that by hearing th, word of God too; lmef'ln~ by hearing it perverted, not tightly open'd, nor well applyed. And J'i11ijhie '1l?ere not eafie to prove fa lamentable s , Truth h) much deplorable experience,M ,well;" formetu later Times, Since the JefuitesApes ha'PeMtJgfie the People to rely upon the opus operatum ofhea~ ringSermonspe if Religion conjifledin the-. out .. ward Sacrifice o/"theEare) it iI ~eJl k,no»w :tblt&.in

France,

France,'itI.,))dl~ in 1iJ4n,y~er~t~iJ~rtJlisfo pretenders~o ReformatiQrih4)1e,~ .. p=~ 1Int1 pi:adife( tbeir pra~ifefuitable ,~.t.p~

ingjbtlft i(Jtntll(e Reformation 4IJ Qdious ,..,.tm,:i~

W hi/eflt/isy rJ'bo[e Office Jhould have (llJiigdtbt1!f4O

ha')ehun ;Mdfengers of Peace (folt/tImg_~

IITfIOng the People l'Pordso/'Recorn:iliatioD;Hunii4

llty; anlftri~ obedience) hlf'le kenlbe~te.

feuj( and Bellows of nothing but warres 4n'tumults

tmrl irreconcilable Diffenfions. .. The, cbicfeil

.ProtejJantJin France(Juch tUthe Dakeuf3.qsan

'and Boullion, the famoUl Morl1ay dqPkfsis.t"," /e"rnedCameron)(~"'d"otholtljlWllamlP,l.l,anlaialUag

Ilgainfl thtirown Preachers: It [eeming ~ble

-;& Them; thAt the firfl: Banners fhou/tI"~ dif~,.d b:1fuch!d#profeffed to be Miniftersof ~e uoi~,of

Re~ce;'>f8ut fo it u (and canneveTenoughht~4

on, untill apeifefJAnlendmentand R.eflovatiQ~) , , ' CJ7h.4t,jlncethea J!8i'.~~ 1,...0-, 11flelln~ tbeTkflritAU/··MIIi. 2~ - 1- Buchanan'andJunius, Brutus, B()ucheri~~ IS.,. ~ari\IInJ Para!tis;haw been ",ad, .IO;{landiA.

holy a Places, Chrifl;4nMagiftrates /I4)e t~d\bka ttttbe,'l1e",'open;ng afChurch dores,4U11 lilt ..

:ning the dores 0/ JrulUS: and the Bra, d.yof~lre

,week hath Tilther been" day ()j Sabba~ ~",+ Il'itifteringlt1' ofHolb anJ Armies" W",.II ChriJlil!i

.~ahbath or Day of Reft.PulpitSiH'VI." __

.pla~>U1heremm.'~~bea,ten up.;' Dr~, . :.iJ,', "

~hfiedup tht'trvou;eshke fotw.lf}y:r:r~,,, . • -r

"Otl(!l# tbeti'PTQphet}tofuew. the~opk1th_1> If .. s': I. . T'Tanfgrefsions,hut'o~xb6rt cmJinci~~.. ' "W€omnnmoitS'.,' 7'.bd-.¢Q.ijj iji •• ,~. . )( )( ; thoufands

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rhoufands to periih at R oehell/or want of v i6(u,als, rather thanJu!fer them to p,;rta~e J/ t! e Royal, clemency that waJojfer'd; tbey fi'hu, msden confli1~ gration ofth,c w/.oie Province ,0/ Languedoc tine( parts t!d;QYnmg·; they. wZ'o emlOentlY/~jtJrder'd{he learned Cameron, for rejujing to runttltot~efome excefle ofRiot,rrere none others then tbe pretended and profetTed Min ifters ortbe Golpe], rUf(Jd ifihe Name of the Gofpel ~)1aJ tbus abufed even. in France ('Wbere the Beaft )'vaJmore fubjeCl: tabie and Bridle, ) How mucb,morcwaJ it in Scotland; 'Where it was frequent for the Beaft toholdfofl the ;bit betwixt bis Teeth, or to [pit it out of its mouth, 'ortojhiftthe Rainsftom ojf~ts~ed~>an~t~ereupon 'either'hi call or run away- 'WIth Its Rider: The pre~ tended Heralds of Peace and Charity, national Unity and Concord, have been tbe Tragical Boa,.. nerges, lvbofe Thunders h.11Je been [econdedwith Thunder-bolts. They havcturn'd their Flocks and ,Congregations info Bands and Regim~nts,~and ha"'Pe made their Churches theie Jr:'v,era! places of .Rendez-vous, Tf/henany Malecontenrs, Whether Lay or Clergy, ha"ve meditated Difiurbanceto Church and State, tbe common cu/lome hath been to dijjatch their Emiflaries and Tickets to all thePrre~ cones oj the Pulpit,tomake them pray up 1ndpreach up the thing Defign'd : rrbrfe tongues have bem .touch't withfuch Coles o/fury (rather tban zeal) .114 ha"Ve kindled II fire throughout the Body 0{ the

• Church; fuch a flagrant andJjreadmg, de"Slouring fire as hath not been able to be quenched 'Jl!ith lefJe efiufions thanof many lvhole RIvers oj Chriftian, blood,

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blood, King J amescoml'Iain'd IItt Newl1Ql"ltct; < ,4,D,I6~o

(uP(ifJ, occajion of ~ r, Haddock; l)ho 'laIiU))1Dnt ttl

preach in hufieep, Ai h, pretended, that. he7IJight

')lent hi6 own Inventions as the Oracles ofGdd),

of hu Troubles 'I11hich in hi8 KJngdome ofS~dand

he h,td received-from that Sect; ptofiflinghtiina.!

biliry to fuppretTe thofo Minifters{ro;" open ilan~

dering in their Sermons : In fo much that manj

limes he ~as conflrainedto interrupt lhml in the

midji of their Declamations, 'I11hereby they did ~t

onlY prC/ume to raile by name tit, M~erVaJ;fS, bIIZ

IIgt/infl hiJ O'RIn Roral per~on befN'e I~ face_,anri JJ

thy (Jut 4 the Pulpit, and (n per{ef1 chgre[Slooftom

their Text. For twelvemtire y~ars t.oghh-er, Ju.~

ring his Refidence in Scotland (to"k~'R~~gn 2J't

can hardlY call it) he prayed to' fjfJilupon bf8-!tnees

before every Sermon he )lin to heare,that he ,;'ight

hear nothing from the Preacher which migh!W/ie;;.' »;4~(lJgrievehim; but after hU(o"'ming;1Jto-Ell~;.

land (befaid) hilcafi WiU fa weD a/tereti,th!lt;iI,1$

Prayer was to edl~e b! 'nIhat he ~eard. :~¥fflJ" , ~hoever hath bill dlp'('~tQ theSce~I{hS~Jln, ;;'~;';:" rert!einbers'lJlhllt,he hath,.~adconter1J;ngM,fl~~fr.t::f~1 Giblon or David e B[a~ke, Mr.,R:Ober~fBtu'C¢lU:~'I~:

Mr.V., Valter.,g.,'BakllA~I.\al.I,MY:/AMtewh"MH;~, r1r::,':~~';. '11" ''J,;'',' 'J h Ie, VV' el .. -: 'J, 1.;,-0,,,,'1: 'L 't t 10 T(j~J:\.l t.:s' fibid,;~, 4,'.' VI , LY.J.r. 0 n ,) LY,n.~wuet' 'T~¥~l, .. H!!,4":

and Mr. I Dalgleiili, &W'r.To~~~idrdt1,tWIJ;b;~J!;~:

~Mr,'Johnnnlkes, In#d,ei; tli_,i. BiK!t\U\ltYf~¥'Jt}i¥!~~'~~:

Knoxes;tfnd, trtany othtr~ 4'thev.ra1lMJPfJ,ftJ,~, 9fomi., :::i.a, p.lo, declaring,>#- ouMf.. "ll.iePu1~W(t)Tbt1t<41{rJ(Li»i~~~ ='~4~;;'_~

cc the "Devili'Bams .}'{',,"tit #h!\~t",_ JlJf.11t1 • Lo&.'U4t.~, '

« C<m'rt~ tmd i~\th~guidersof;' ;Tbie~~gJJitrt~, . -

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cc in particular, wMpuJJefi'& witbft1Jen Ve"Vils ; That cC hu0gen wasim!y to be pra)ed {or for Jafoions « f1f<t; 'T hat ~een· Elizabeth 'WM an t-..A thrift ; "'lh.t fbI' KJng (thell o'PCY tbem') haddiftr)"vered. .. the treachery vf hiJ heart; That the SubjeEls might C( larr fully rife and tak! tbe /word out of hiJhands . cc That tbe Judges, :J\(obility, and Lords rj th; cc Councel were Mi[crc<1nts and 'Bribers, godlejJe.

c c DijJemblers, enemies to tbeiburcb, ho(y qlaffis,

r c Cormorents ,and oino 1(eligion:) 1 flY> 'Whoe'ller hath read fucb tIJings as rhele, l"pill not wonder at that hatred which the learned and orthodox King Jarnes,(onceiv~l of them; nor at that advice 'Which

~;~\~~:: he gavHiJ[onne, cc To takfheedojfuch °Puritans, ")Joy cPefls in the Church and Commonweale (they < are the Kings own words) whom no deferts can <r oMige> nor oaths or promifes binde; breathing n04 a tb1Jg bfJ.t Sedition and calumnies, a/}iring'lliftbout C( m'rfJ!ur(, r;1yling Tfiithout re.ikm, and makJng their ~Cown 'in1 agi nation J the fqNareof their Conflience.

~'~,P' ~1,,:J\(or, wit/IIH} man wonder;that fiunuch P careWM,t;1.. ;;,:'':.:':::'p;~' ~en bhim for the·g~villg a/La ws to the Pulpit; and =: m~re~/}eciaUy fortheregul~ting ot Lectures, that

.' there might not be cc broached (by the re.1dingio!Iate "Wi-jtm and tmgrounded Vivines) any unfound;

.. , ~<f r/it;oru andilang(!rollJ V{)Elrins, to the JcandaO of

ee the C hurc b, the diJquitting a/the St(tte andl'refent

Ie (jo"Vernmcnt. I wiU conclude what Iha"Ve JPok.en of the corruptions rfthe P:ulpir with~he complaint '

q "It, ~nd,ews and _ PrQphecyoj our incomparable q 1\ uthon

O,u(t. ('oj r.3%~ ~ , . ,.

33· which hrrdeli'lJcred to all tbe Bifhops 0/ if PW"

vincial Synod. F.irjl if all he cQmplaimd, "That

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tr 7hatjince the dumb VO;!S ~ere lately be4len eve- .

~Cry 'J)unfe e',Okl!pIJn him ~o uforpthe'Pllipit;'~here f~:-U~a~<;~a.ll<.Jllgby the hortrglaffi, andthroPling forth head- ;::;'~::';;'~':~' \r J~llg tbetr incoherent, mi/hapen, an'" fJinl(!ngcrudi~ ::~;;;::;;:v ... "lies, to the ')er,yglut and jurfiitofallwife bearers, ~;:';:h~:'::; rc tho have the /uc kJor Jooth to have it caIN 4Y the ~~;;:;';; "". <" name of Preaching. He further <J.ddltd'Ibat :::,;::::,:::

r.. I d l ' , . 1", ''';'4, P'"

cc "nee un esrne and itc oirw tonsue s hdd in'V"ie·'J· t·/,,, /;",;"r.""",.,.'

,0· 0 .. : "'i..~ CO{UI11f'C(O:uII-

~c liberty o(J}e.Jking their piea/ures from she 'fufpit~ ~~t:~,%;;'d,~;' rc the verI Ghurch 'WM infefted with tI4 ~~ /01.erits ;;;'s;,~;f£'~:;; (C of aifiourft as are commonly 'J1entt?l1n tt?'p7ace.l ;'~:;;;,~~:;,~ U »bere men /heart /heep By which n4ans (faith ;;::'''t,!::,:!;::. cc A h )rrh l . ... quUW,"'ffUlI.

our ut or ·L oeo ogle W.u turn'd Into meer Bat~ ';::j,~~~:r"'"

cc to/OUit, lind the dumb Doug) into barLing Whel/JJ .. v"[~~II, UII

~. . ~ .~. r ,-~~-

(C "YI"g out agam/l them 'n'ho improve their Sermons ~~";,I~;:n;:I'.

fr ~ith any un)!u/gar and choyce parts 0/ teaming, lIS ~.::'t:'. <r thoft tbnt corrupt and adulterate the word 0/ God. :;"'c':::'~:;:". VVhl!'ihhey thernfelves (who thus rail againft 'i;';:!lE~" the thIngs they underfland not) cc are the mofl trMdili"';',,,.

;' JjJhoneJi H_uckflm ~nd corrupters ~fif; the crude ~~

e andra.w t~iJles 0/ the" OPl1JJic~ br.uns 4.re41 unft .. J:'.'1,'/!:'m"tt. ce "Vary lIS j}lttle, as taflleJJe andmfpid Ii4lhePlhiteoj:;;:Z,c c : an Egge. TbiriJ the upfhor a/thll grc(lttna1lS ;::::::;;f complainr : dlld biJ Prophecy upon it PlM briejl.J d~::' .. "'j'= this, That unletle the Synod then aflembled "t)1o~/i::::/';~;~~ take heed unto themlelves, and ro all the FlOCK; r;~0~;,2: to tfjeChurc~l of God, to the Doctrinoltbe Churc~ :~~~.";'~;: end to the Diipenlers of. the Doctrin, C~ 1"bere 'fo:,~~t .. ~uJ. <C w(;uld >(. jh;rtly come a time when nothing of theft

cc /bouid be I~fi to be tak;n heed of;, Jnda. i 91~l?el ~:~/4or;;:,:~ .. /hould be ereded in/had of Sl~n. :JI(OP/th4i:~?il b::::'~:.t;~";..

&!It (A' muime 'lIelltit) pojfitl.s atl,,:dt1e. In CINI(. ed Clcrlllll in Si~. pr'~~,' i'aIIIlP~,!"lfp:~;Q~g;'9"J'

rp.iO." - '. '. I.. • •

)( )()( . mofl

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mofllearned and pious Prelate llia-J mojl imparti .. ally revere ine_'l1e? part of that Sermon, andJin~ cere{Y aimed (m hu [evel'lty)at the peace and welfare of Church and State, ( to wbicb be lliM carried

,;,;.""",'/;"" by r nature M well M by defigne) and that he mea~t ;;;~~'.~!.~. tbefame Faction or Sect oj Preachers to rPh011l hIS 1:J:;'7'!::1~a.1 beloved l(ing James 1M3 fo defer~edly fe~ere (as ~::;:~~/~.':; •. being a/waies infefted by them ) rPtll u~dentab{y ap~

. pear to every intelligen.t and honeft R.§ade:, rPh~ 'C."r""f"{c' will' compare that Larin Sermon with hu three

p.p.,o."t& E 'fl.j , dM Ii

p.;>.<3."'" pIn es to tearne Oll n.

),~.65166. (po Wbat the admired Biihop Andrews, .and the

judicious Mr.Hooker, and many other WIfe men o{the age laft paft)~id only feare and forefee, we,the firft oftbeir Pofl:enty,have /zv'd to feel:! mean the lamentable efteCts which are wont to folloni( !fay not tbe liberty, /Jut) the Iicenrioulnefle ojtbe Pulpit. W belt comes too late to be prevented, m,1yyet, in time, be capable oj [orne redrefle, .'Be our condition never /0 ilJ,>1Jetannot hope to ma~ It better by ,meer~ fy defpairingofour Am~ndment. What 1 ha~e hitherto premifed coneern~ng the na_ture of our 01[;'" eale is not intended to deject or affhct Itny 'R..,eader, but ~n!y to ma'«! him the more attentive to Tvhat is offir'd in this Vol ume (at leaft) M one means of Cure and Reflauration. Where there are. too rna .. ny Sermons, I apprehend there are too few. rvlnd the more numerous tbe» are who preael) up Herefie andSchi[me and Djfobedience, the greater num ..

. ber iJ need/ull to preach them down. Tbe more • Ttl 10. unruly and vain -¥- Talkers, efpecially they of the j Vcrf. II. CircumciGon (the ,j 0.,", """'['"' doe t fubvert whole

-------~- .. ~-~

wheleHoules ; and teach things· whicitthey '; .c v , .

ough~ not for filthy lucres fa~e ~"tke'morfneed, "

hitv~ we· of:fuch Iu hold¥-faft the falt11f6R ~ord; • rerf 9. dand ate able. by found Doctriri, both t.QAxb'Or:t; II.

"Ild t-o'to'rrvlnce,and to ftop the moutbs'<lfGain~ {ayers,The greate:ple~ty. thereiJ'Oftherrif~"pd~ ... : 127''''.4. pa~tftom the ~auh, glJ41~g heed~o feducJ~~fp.~ .. ·'r'its\~lfd\DoctrJ.ns ofOevtls,fpeakt9g1yes~.Hy:.: 'p6Jhfi~; &havirig theirCOri[cieocde~ntdlWicll (.,,;;, ., {1tl'ii6t irof1;crhe more mufl TheY/1eneea;Jff!14mr:d tr>: '., who ar.e·t good Minifl:erst of Chrj~mur;11hed t 1",,16-7,

fF . h d dO· " . IJ.IS·16.

upin the words 0 a.nan; t;;QO qctnh,:;, re~

ftlfing pr<?phane and ol? VV rves Fa?le.s!&Y.1og att~ri'd,H1ce nnto Reading and,Med1ta'ri~!(ljrana' (;oritiriuihgin both,thatthey niayra:v;ethe~jfe.lve$ . 'and'tl\.eu1 that hear them. 'By hOfl7.·muchthe-nif»:ewe lEjedlJo~nd }'Inth [uchas)(.. creep into. Houfes, lead- .. 2 r;1H.}.6 1lig c-a'ptive filly VVomc:n, ever learlll~ogJhutne, ;r.~. . ;v~rlJafhed;juch as It{eJannes and [ambres t:efift

thd Truth ;'Thlgreater abundance there-'()ught t(J h~o/fur~a8 f continue in the things w:hid~thex ;:~?;.14.

.. hav,¢' lte·arned . and . beenatfured ~,O[;. kao~g ~of ~.Horrith~y havelearned them, tUld are through. .. 1y1Uriiil{hed~nt~ all gOQd wo~ks.'Theinarr:l·"her~ .:

-areo/thole )(..1tChlOg and.prurienc Eares~ocan' • 11' .;.

not endure [oundDoctl-irie,bu~heap td tbem-r3·.4: '

felves·r eacherswho have iU pl1urieh(~l:1id:it~hipg To.ngues,and turn'away' their!ttt~n~ionS'fr6in ~~d e ~,:,:\:,~ Trurnllnto tlewlydeviferlFabl~s\And~ont:Clp~s ';'" '. a!te~d~e Mode.; ~Yfomur:b~he;gretUu.~!~~ql¢~ ceCsWfof .foth'!M·wrekn~,wtn~ .. ndia}'l¢lc.men, '" .: . hQldihg ''1- faftche, forme of Jaudd'\~~l~ild t1Ti,l.,::I!

.,:\ . )()()( 2 •• eaching

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* Rom.I' 6. preachiilg according to the *' A~a~ogie of Faith., t 7".6.16. teathing th.c .'People to ~alk In, t~le, told a~d the geod way, tbnt walking therein-they may Bnde teft unto their Souls. In a word;, 'lhf 'LH~1I.5' more [nterprerers there are whoh4'~e' taken

away the Key of knowledge .. neither en .. tring in rhemlelves.nor fuffering others to enter

, iii ; by[o mucb the tJ1O"e llJe )land in need ojalltho(e

•• I Cor. 4. faithfuH>f. and able f Stewards, who may b deliver ~;;ov.w. usfrom theway of rhe evil Man, from the man

that fpeaketh froward things. .'

J\(j'l'1l if ever lIn_} Bi£hopinre the ApofilesC)}l1n T i mes.wlU :bOth1Z faithfull,an d able Ste ward,rt;g ht~ 'fy .uling 'the Key ofJmew ledge,l'eligi~tifly opening '.M"'.13·P llJeMyfteries of God, bringing 'forth Out of his

Tr~afuresthings new and 'Old;lf ever any Paflor . , A7.o. 'S took<J. carrfull heed unto him[d~a.nd to his Flock, I 1"'4,6. ()vetwhichtheholy~Gb(}rchadmadehimOvef""

'l TimA-5. feer/w:atch.ingin aH things,endurin,g afflictions" .

'<lot"tJ.g tlre work of lin E vangeWl,and making full f 2Tim.".15 proofoHris Min~nerie; J_t,e'/jer any fVVorkman neededno: tobe llfilamed,asn'ightIy,dividmgtbe word ofTrutb,and 'l.rentirtgnathing MtoftheP1lI .. g ~'''''''.' pit but lllhat.o gelaborate and exact; If ever lin_' ~?;)(;p~'::,;, Preacher had both Urim and Thumminl,the fOf-

n-oncm elabo- . . . '.<

me. "mb,re m'erin hiJ words/1nd tbe later in hi. examole h ua-

'lJo~roJl!dl{C:Pl r .. IF' > 10:11

f,'Ti;,d~:t, 'reprovable in bis Dottrin,and kunblamablein,hti

k I Tim·j.2.life .c[he mon admired Bi'Chop Andrews mtl1 .

T". I. 7. , 'j". .

IT;,. 2.7. paffefor·one 0/ thofe 'Patrerns.is whom thefeLmes

0/ perfection were ailcol1center'd., ..

• c''''p. cor, • Artdthu 1 fly fomuch the ~ather,'bRcaufe 1 finite ~~~~ e. & 'c6. bim to havetbc;honotlf of bemghated and:>f. {mrJ'd

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at by~a i4'te'profane and fawey Scrihler; »1ho., 1I§i[ '. c

he were n;iliingto kill the dead, and pl~,,*4 glori ....

tied SaintOlltl?ftheLand of the "I LlvlOE,hath not "P/J"7.IJ onb attempted to Iullie theNameandtb~VVri ..

tings of thuGreat .Author, but hath puMcJb ma.;. lign'd.hu very imparadi.fed Soul tIJO •. H;e ha!h no: onbdefam'd bis Doctrin, M Atheoiog,cal,lrrau.-.

onal; and worfe than that 'Of Arminius (~hicb,i", tbcjudgement oj the Acc~[er. uno [mall c!,ime) ~O"

hath he only reproach's bim by a moJi odious com-

parifon with one exceedingb below him (tlIhorlt.)61

he prefu"!cth to prefer as far be~or~ hi~,forfl~tb,

in [anchty) but by an', unchriftJan InfintWlOn

'll:iould -mak.! hu'R.eader to bel~e'f)e"'f!ha~.qJi{hnp,.An4

drew.s 'l'1Id8 the worle forbemg B.llhop·~arews, . tbatDr . .Andrews WM more a Sainttb.anthe.Lord BiiliopofVV inchefter, and. by CfJ"fequence, that

hit laft dayeswere11ery unhapptb hi4 worftto(),'BIit . Jince:t.&e.Author qffuch pr~fane?e{{e .~ 'l11~ fuJi,-

dent,l)', ili$i. matiz', d b,ry aVOTlltng htmfelfimprtn.t ,th" Authm' 0/' it; 1 }hall not·in a prefocefaYmDrs ,11,411 . thil;'J:hauhe greatB Bifuop of our .Souls ".,afar '" Yd .•.• s 'Wort.e !de'dlt' 'll:iith; and~in t be later part ofhi! iife:, . yPdJ.calieda VVine~bibber) II Gluuun ; a~ Rja[ .. PA(4t·.6.6s

, n . L ,~ t)J( ... ·.·1·

phemer', a uelnontacK.. . ," . C

,HfJ'ltI cOrifommatc a D1vlne t howexafltt Pr.ea .. cher, hOlluwute a Difplli:ant,IJOwj"Ji,cio1U a Md .. cletat.orandholl! eminen» a Chriftian OM Amho'£ "MII thJe iJ,rivtbiilg moreMjie. than ·t() crmclude)bOtb [rom t*c adrniratrorr o/thebeO: mefl,{ro1'1l_ tbcm~ ligrtityofthe \\o\brtt;Mr1d /NJlit.fi m~ny.ofbuV\Vr~ .... tin~s-tll,hdVeIie.e'nhere'OOfo.re pubblii1t ... .dn(l<_r.r

L )( )( )( 3 . aU

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all, 1 may add)from theJi: imperfeCt, . but. prerious Reliquesl wbich are here prdj:!~ed ". thdea.rn~d and to th.e un~earned Reader. 1 bey.' being fo: pirhie, andyet (0 pl am ;/0 very Ihorr andconci[e, but yet [o fulland perlpicuous ; fo clofe and hornere the

Text,' but yet 10 ufefullin Applications. tbat 'tu bard to lay,[or wbicb fort of 'R.!.aders thcJ are moft proper; rvhetherfor the I:arned;.by beingfo wife; or fOl' the unleal'ned,Dy betngfo eafie, 7' hey. who are the mofi ignorant, may here get Imowledge ;.and they 'Who haw the mofi . knowledge, may here get more.'Ihey.,'tkatare. Leaders iftbe.People,· may learn what thmgs they. :oughtto' preach·; . and they that are followers olthe ,Pulpit, may 'earn~bat

Preachers they ought to l1ear..., ., .

. '!U true,itcaill1?t. be denyed, and it ought in Jufbce .. to be proclaim'd > tkattQu'V()Iumneif Notes'IM! only tak!n /rythe Earefrom the:voluble T ongueofthe Dictator, as he Ie/iver'd them. out ofth: Pulpit;'(md _fo 'are injinitely., Chortroftbeir origlnal perfec1io? We. muft· n~t jwJge;bythi(e Lectures, what k.!;nde of Pre:lcher their.ftuthOr was; but .ll'e mufl gue1Te by the .Author,hQwex~ aflly accomplifh'cthe/e Lectures were. Vhert: have been many' great ~onarchs, whob{lrvingbe .. san to ereel thezr flately Fabricks, ha'velefitbem Imperfect upon Defign, that late Pofieritymigh~ ,~onder at th.c excefllve greatndfe of theid~1(en'1 nons, And It 1J tbu: forre applicable to therqfo ill band/That eve? R.§ader may imagine·by.thi!heau.~ ty ofth~{e RU1l1es, Tvhat k_.ifJdctj Buildings be (hould have/een if be had feenthem flandi~g1~t~e~r

ll1tegrlty.

integrity •. 'But htlvillg {aid thl#mllCb inveflCrnrion of the A uchor, to whom tbe ~>rimel" hAth 0/jer'd this well~meant injury, 1 have flmeebing to alledge b, way of Afolo!,ie jor tbe Printer, by -whore 4evotion oj care andcoft, there .{acred F ragmems werethUicolleded. He k_.nen> the fame of the Au ... thor wasfo tranfceudently high, and placed fo far out of the reacho/'fpight or' envy, defamaticm Or' difgrace, that he fuppofed it a leffer Crime thus to communicate theft LeLfons M nOll> they are,tbali to "eprive Pofleriry of their Advamage. He 1001(& notJo Jleadi/Y upon tbe Name and Credit of tbe Author, M upon the.lmerefl and good o/Souls. Be thought the Reader would efleem it, not onljM an excufible, but M a commendable trangrefsiol1; whicbbeingno way injurious to more than One, .will redound to the benefit of many thoufands. ~.13ejides,itmaybep/eaded in buexcu[e (byfoch AS are wiDing to ma'<! the heft ofa bold adventure ..

not hecaule it u bold, but becatife it u paft, and noW too late to be prevented) That next to the Authors and Compofers of learned VVorks, their ConIervarors and Guardians deferve »loft thanks and commendations, We think.;,we owe II great deal t<l

fuch 1M Photius, andStoba-us, (,md the publickminded Sirmondus (.ft/Jefe laJltimeJ) th!oagl; the induJ!ry of whom we doe enjoy many things, which but for them,ll>e might halle lo(l:. How comes It to paffe, that We have nothing (unleJ!e mee» figments or arrant [craps )offuch IlJ Berofus,Cteuas;& Me' u >, gafthenes~ Theopompus, Euphorus, G::atlifi:Ji~·; Jlcs,andTima'lIs? Or that ll'e llJant fo mdhj ho~ks

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ofDiodorus Siculus,Polybius,Ingens Livius,and Dion Cafsius ? Or that we bave loft. fo many Volumes of learned ',,:,"ritcn in. tbe Church, fuel) as Melitoj TheophIlus, Tarianus, lrenseus, Cle<' mens Alexandrinus,Hippolytus,Origeu,!lnd tbe lik!, but becaufe there 11?m: not in all times, men of. Iairhfull, indultrious, and publick Souls ~ Yet we. rec~n our felves obliged to fucb M will lend us the very Ruiues of Method ius ifTyre, and Oionyfi~ usof Alexandria. J\(qr was the publijherable to. gueJfe at any realon, -why the Remains of'Btjhop Andrews jhould not be every whit M. welcome,(if not to this which is Jo neer him, yet at leaft) to after Ages; when men will value the very Gleanings af..,

'111."9 38. terfo excellent a Labourer in the r Harvell of the golFe!, abv<Je .the many whole Crops of fuchM are llli~kilfull or Idle workmen. ..

'But 11m)! for mine OWn part, I mtifl ingenuouJly (0 nfelJe,tbat tbough j finde my fe(fmore ufefully ancf delicioui1y entertained »itb the 'Very leaft ftag,:. ments oj 'Bijhop Andrews, than with the fuIleO; jjreadTables~ftbofe new Men,ll1ho uninvire the. People to be lus Guefls, end train them up to ana" tber Diet ;yet in reverence to the Fame of JoineLli ... mable a VVriter, and in a fear o/being offenfi.ve to many perjons yet living, with whom his memory is highly precious, and in an humble fubmifsion to . the moft wife determinations oftboft tllio ;R~'iJC" rend and learned 'Prelates, 'Who Were alone intru ... Iled witb the difpofal of his VV orks, 1 jhouldne'f . ver have co~ftnted to the divulging of theft N ores, haJ L been timely confolted with before they ~l1cre

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'fin~ilied~t the Preffe. :J'X.Et onlyfir:thoforeafoTJj ,WIJtch.ljmde to hit. 't'e been$iven. by the. Biihops of London flTJd o/"Ely, both In their EnglIlh)tnd La, nne . Prefaces, before his ErigWhand Latine V~ orks, but/dr divers other r.eaflits which are too o~V:JOus tD.needa prompter. 1 {now that theene::. roles of thu Great Auchor (that iJ tofoy, ofehe Church ?fEngland) .doe love to taf.! theirmea ... fiires ojhlm,not/rom hu lateLl,and mOjlmatur;e,but from. ku roungeft and crudelHVritillg.r. I ~on; . the I?Ju~les he hath fuJfered by the unwarranted publIcatiOns of Jo/~e fe."fl>. things which are fll!nd to "v.ary from that flIh,ICh u known to be his laa and rtpeftJudgement:l{now What calumnies are hea ... pedt/pon his equdlt! beloved and friendly Grotius through th~e hceI~t10US p.uklic~tion oj his poLlhu, mous VVorks '. l {now hu mflmte Improvements from afie~t?atttmewhen he~M Viqr ojS'. Gile$; and hu. dlpi~es olaU preachmg, which, by being too frequent,uwlthaU too loofe, ThencewM hiJ Cen .... ~ure.upon h;mfelf (recorded by 73iJhop Buckridge

tn ~u >(, funeraUSerllJon) 'That when he preached ~i'2I.

twile ~day at St. Giles, he prated once ::J\(E,tbut .. .

~kat hu v~? T able~~alk~and -a:h:zt, in the depth tf

hu HunulIty, he calf'.dhu. prating, WaJmore ufefull

and moreJearned th~n the.vn:; heJl'preachillg Of

the,!, that are Enemiesr» hu Glory M -meIIM'Do':'

ctrin, bat becauJe,he thought the VVord ojGod .. l1?M·. never 'Welt enough handled, and thJt·, t.fj~ V\'orko/Go~ 'WM never 'Well enough done, unti/it'

had r.ece,KrJedhll u~m,ofr care .and cir.cumfpeChi(j!l~'

So m.ee~and modeft'waJ his opinion ofbiScQwfl1'er)..,

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formances, ( howe')Jer admired byot?er men) that he feldome (if ewr) could gi11e them ~u ~naLt\pp~oba .. . tion until they had pajJed, the rhird ume, betWIxt the

Ha~mer and the Anvil!.. .

v111wbich wben I confider, 1 tbinltit ff'!y duty 10

mak.p it ~nown, That I ~ever heard oj tbu Yolum~ until I Jaw it intireb Ermted,and on{y ha'l1e ,ta~n thl! opportunity to pre[er'Ve the <R..eader from bemg dec~l" ved, and the incomparable Autkorfiom. bemg wrong'd. My excufing oftbe pubhfhers{l~ean, my endeavors to excuJe them) 14 not m~anttolmply that theyareinnocent, but utbe mercif_:ullefJwt"!y tf! conclude tb'emguilty ; Whocommonb hve4nd fub ... fill,not by being over .. ten?e~ o(tbe Names .a~d Ret" putatiol1s, but by pubhfhtn& .tbe VVrltmg~ of thore ej}ecialiy, whom tbey thm~ tbemoftvendlble and famous Authors. . ..

Were thole Stenographers .now /i'ving, . bJwkoft

Legerdemain tbeje Np·tesw~refroln .. (anc/yetl,t }iJere lrell if that dexterity b4d ne'"P.et kenufld~o 'W-:: ler ends) tbey would notftrufle, to ~~ll t~e_Re~\!n

, , .. 'iN?dt r Arrian faid to4uclU~Genlqg.,,,,~be'l!er.y. ~:~~'ff::fomecafe. cc (We ha'Uetroanftribed,ebefe Lea;ur~,~ ="Z:"""'~' c< ofBifhop Andrews neither precifl.ebfoM he deler

"'»1'''''''' '/ fa <:11 h ' b h .

;,~~;,.;;:'d'. cc 1Ier'd them )nor perhaps 0 exattJY as. t, eYlmg t.(1,'l1e

:i;~""a:",;,~, c', been tal." en b'll otber men, nor.y,e{ wltb ttt!Yr/ejigpJq

",$I ""m"- '\: '-' ., be /..

t:,,1~'::t_6 "put tbe» limb into tbellght: 13t1t U'ecaug .. ff.l?W

~:S;~, cc out 0/ bis mouth IV' l1eight ojhan?)in_[uchal!Ml''' "::;ni:[;':::1,~" (C ner as ~)Je were able; tbat recoll,eflmg mQ.~:,ple~

?I<ldpj;J<Y, ." , .. , 'A'" ,. "~,, .. _.,. _'I~~fJlLn_7U fi'~ ~Sib~' ;t<4ut&;' -Jia.zu"d;~<V 7H~ ~,(.~rp~ bctPCltt~,,~ mtPPi~~H~5'.;,., ~ - lpA!}t I!~~~ -.'-;.':::"~ ,~ -, ~~

l---... ""'.' " ~ 'J!" , @- ~ 7ttIPep,,,flJ 7l~ «J..'1t:f TWV IItJ~V, tml v "t.yu; tw, __ " ddt.

~tl:-::";;~ rj~;t;rr:,":,;;~~J~"~ ~:~f.;':'~' :~;,?';;rt~,:t:::;:;~~i! W'its;..i.r., 7~lVn O~£?~: ,~nt;. ct..~::~!:~[t;;~~ ~~j;;r;~~~. ~i ~f ~t nOJPI ~ if a.t;7iJ, id'lI'; JJrJ._~~c'~~ :r.r~~' ;J~t'E;W ~;77e,&;. dm~n. Epin: inprd!.rat. ". .". :_:' < >" ···~~>~~rie~

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,cmorics. the, exceDent Le1fons "hhich, .k'.bt1d ;' heard, w·e mIght beahle the more ejfe'ilual/y to lay fC then: upin(Jur Hearrs, :J\&.rcan 'R1echoofo but :: sdmire, howthefe Imperfect ~nd impoliflrt.Le-

ctures Jhould thUl have flown Into tbeCommon cc out ofour lnclofure, not without ourknowledY; " only, but ag,;tinfl our wills too. ."1etare 'J1Jeby /0 :: much the lef{e folicitous,by how mu~hthe more l'l1e

are aifllreJ: rrhat he, whofe·AudltOrs 'R1eJl1ert, :: affe'iled no n:an's applaufe; but WM. wholly in .. tent upon thu very thtng, 'That he might benefit :: his Hearers, by all ,he fpake. Hewalfopower ..

full and mIghty tn what he, taught III out rf the r,c Pulpit, . M to carry . our affe~ons Dhich ~a-, he " pleafed. ,J nd if he proves lefJe pOUlerftlO in thife ~~J.nfl:rucbons of hit which ate deliver'd (rom the ~c Preife, we alone are to be blamed; by 'Jl7bom ~c alone eheyha1Je r.eceived their lmperfedtions. )

,,'But becauJ? thoferea~y wri~ers are;notin he~g·

. toffi.e"k, thenifelves, I WID conJure the &ader"iIJ thm~eh~lJ> [0 to profic ,hi~f~f ty thir Yvlume of Inftr~Cl:lonSjM noP ,topreJudlc~hiJ. Teacher~ arg, '~nde,;' b~t. evermore to·rejie'il· uponithe gTe'lit ... neJJe ofbu Plety~ the tranfcef1denCJof~isJudge~ merit, the excefll.vencj[e af hiJLearning.,a(ld the e~aElnefe ?f his Life; his pairifullnetTeilna dili~ gence~f1hi!Pa~oral charge at'S~:Gil~and afier~ Jl1~rds m~l! ErIfcopal; thegl'eat and manifold fer~ 'VIces he dtdthe Proreflant Church,not by preach .. ing onlY and l,iving in. ~ ';lof! exemplary m1nner, iJUt by defendtng her Dilcipline as l)Jdi ttJ:Doctrin~ againfl the ftrongeLl: Opponents ofeach extreme>

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ElenchUl

ElenchUi Latin(J-AngIUl omnium CMttonufn-totitn Li~rj; :J\(umerUlPagi~am indicat. '., .•

r..; -

• A La;tiile and Ecglifh Tableof(h~Sermons'bf " the whole book, with the number of the

page in which the Sermon *

doth. begin.

Index C01Jcionum in Caput p,imum ge~efiaJ ".

The Contents. of the Sermons preached Up-C)l1

. the firO: chapter of Genefls, , "

~~~~ JE rvobu' Legu inttrplfti/ms:; qf401illm.', IIIRm;. iRis. _ " "

I "" J; '. /'~''''' ._.11·52.

C a)le~ .cognmonll : 'Pi' non intrqjjlll,(,j:o , '

~os 'Jill tnttoibant probi/mi/li4. .,.',

Woe unto you Lawyers, for ye have ta-

ken away t~e key of knowledge, :,'je

CJ . -. entred not In y(jur felv«$ ... d-tbern tl1at.~~re entring~n, ye hindred, t :pag.6~7 J~RYI1fC.IPIll: 'J)~1:"crearv't Cadum <P' Terram, &(1 \,"..,'. GuI.' "

In the beginning God created the Heaven and the . I.I~

1iatt~. , . .• . .. . ' f· I .

(rfarvlt Crtlr.m e'P''T,rr4m, (P omnia lit ;014. . "

He cre3:tedthe Heaven and theE;l.Ith,andall things

t,herem.. .', '. . . . . ,. ~ .•. p. S

Ter'I!,,~eRl era~ r~~ Jllform14 & manu, te",br.e'iue ~t!!It in/H-

i perfi&;~.IIbJPi. ,. . ..., . ,

A. nd., Wf fa.rt.h .. ,~.~as .. ~.\Vl.·.:tllQ~.t form jI,.,.tl~. vo.d,and <la. rk-

l1~I,l,q"as up9p,~he face oft~e d'eep.i' p.IO

lit .ffi"lflff 'Dei jIlC1!I,b~b~~fiperfi'iti a~lI<Iru1fl.,:'... .' ..

~ " And

Index Capitum.

And the [pirit of God moved llp011 the face of the \vi-

ters. p.l}

Tlmldixit'Del15,ej1o lux; <& fuitlu'X.

And God laid.Let there be light; & there was iight.p.14 4, Vidtlque Dnu Luc-m illam bonam tJ!e.

And God law the lighqbat it was good, p.l?

ft dijlillrtiolltlll [ecu 1)015 inter, bane II/cem & tmebrss,

And God divided the light from the darknclTe. p.l) Lurcmque J)ms roocnvi; diem, tenebms <'Vero <'Vo[a'lJit noilem:

1\nd God oiled the light, Day, and thedarknelTehe cat. •

led, Night. , p. 31

Sic {uit ~efpera es: {uit mane diej primi.

And the evening & the morning were the fid1: day.p.66o

6. Detnde.dixit Dew, Ejlo expa/ljum inter aquM ; tit fit dtjhnl,uens inter a'lUIU 1<1140 & olteras,

And God [aid, Let there be a firmament in rhernidflof the waters : and let it divide the water s .from the waters. P: 36 Fecit ergo Det15 boc opalljill11, quoddiftinguiiinter bss aquas, qUd! [ant db infera expanfi ij1i"5, &- aqUH tllas 1u£ Flnt a rel,.'one jitperaexpml/i : es- [uit its. .' And God nude the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the Waters which Were above the firmament .and it was [0. P.H

8. Expall/,j," adem boc D(ftr <'VJcavit Ca:ltlm, '

And God called the firmament, Heaven. p 51

Sic fUIt 'VeJiera, & ji,itfJMlleaieifwlIIdi.

And the evening and the morning were ~h~ fecond

day, '.' ,',p'.(i64

7)OJlM dixit Deus, Conllll,lIlt aq//£ irt£ qu£ luh hoc C¥IJ'!unt i71 locum flImm, & (OIifpI'~la jit arida : e- [ni,dta.' '.dridd11t alt. tem ruocavii Deus terram; fing1lla 'lien) dqwirum ctJm:rpt4mlll

l>oral>jt maria : & l';,/it Deus jd ej{e bonum. ' "

And God [aid, Let the waters under the Heavenbega~ rhered eagecher unto oneplace, and let the drY,\bind appear : and it was fo,," And G6dcalledthe' dry land, Earth, and the gacherrng togetberrofdie 'W~~ers called he, Seas : and God ~aw that it Was good'p',J

lurum

s-

7·

9.10.

lWtjm dixit Deus;, Herbafcat terr« 'herbuiglj '/",.bas fo",.eh14ntes 1 r.

lemm, arbores FuE;ifcras edentej fruRutnin lfrecfesjuM, in

"quibus juum (if' [emen luper terram, . j ;

And .Go~ {aid, Let the earth ?ring f,;>rch g.ralfe,t~e herb : yeelclllg feed, and"t,pe frUIt-tree yeddmg frUltafttr . his kinde, whore'reed.is in Itfelf, upon the~ttih. p,;6j Et fUlt Ita. Nam produxlt terra, herbula~" herbas fetitilltantes

[emen in lImies juas, =. arbores edentesfruRumin 1*i/JHSft;' ,mmjuum, eft in {}ecie, jual': &- 'tid;t Deus id eJJ~ bonum.

Sic [uit 'IleJPera, es: fuh mane diei tertii., , ",

And itwas 10. And the earth brought forthgtatfe, and . herb yeelding feed after his kinde, an4tbeti-eeyeel_ ding fruit, whore feed, was in it felf, after his,~inde : , and God fa~ that it was good. A~d the evening and the mormng were the third day. - ,-p,.666

Toft dixit 'Deus, Sunt» luminaria in e"panp. [u:li" ad fJifia.mo:.. . nem [acjeudum inter diem&.n?Clem :ut fintinjigl14{um,:. tempeftatibu!, tum diebm & annis, Sintque ini"",inlll'UJ' in exp(mJa ({lit, ad, ajfermdum)ucemJi'per. terram :' ,,:,., " And God faid, Let there be lights in, the! firmament; of

, the heaven, to divide the day from thenight.i and , let them be for !ignes, and for feafons, and for dayes

and yeers, And let them be for,lighcs.in the 'firmament of theheaven.to give light upon the earth: P'7,I

Etfuitita. Feciten;,n 'Deus duo ilia Iumin4riJa I!J4gt14, :;1 •. >!~retllajusad pr.i:Jepur4l1l diei, &:Jumil14U minus<;iJJpuje_ ftUJjam noRu, atqM pel las;. 13J ~onOcaWt ni'Deus, in .ncpiutfo f reb;. M aJJerendum lucem./uper terram, Ee ad' fr.4zdettduni

die; 4f,nofi,i,w\4Ii dlfli~aipnem jaci«JalJmiIJter 'uc~.blBlC

(;r tentbras : i:viditque 'Deus id ejJe ~num: $ic.foitrvefJe-

""'jl~''''f"it!:mtmpdip'quar)i.': " ,.: ,.,'" f; " , allQit was fQ· .,4\qd G0911l1\d~ tw,\:li g.i'ftt Ijgh~s.~ the greater light: J() rule ~h~ ·qa;y,a:nd·the !.eLfeJllighuo

, rule the night : he made rhe fl:ar'res alfo. AI\tLGpd fet tb~lllin,theJifmatl\,(mt Qfthe h~avtm,.to ~iv.e lighu:· upop, the earth c,: ',. A~ ~rllle P't~Lth.e- day.\Hid~y,er the,ll\gitt;" an.d.~o,~jYide" ~,lie Ifgh~ fronlthedai~fte{S : and God fa\1li that it, 1('\'.~s good. '. "Andthcce,v~ning

, . b 2 'and

16.17.18• 19.

andthe mOrnil!g we~e the fourth day.p.tS poll~a 'DIxit 'DeM, Vlbunde froglgnljl1tq aqu.t:repttlla anifnan.. tia ; f5 lIolucres 110/0$7110 jupri.l terram , jupe'fic/em' 'VcrJiis

expa7i!i ficeforum. . . '., , .

And God laid, Let the waters hrin,g" fortb abundantly the moving Crearure th;i! hath lite;' and; Fowl that may flie above rhe earth in the open firmament of Heaven.p.667 l.I. eet CTCilYI't DeN.caIOS maxtmor » & ammantla omniareplfJlla, qn.c abUnde progenneTunt aqu4 In fjmfs Ipjorllm>omnelq"~

ruolucrss alarM mf}eCles fUM: ..' .

And God created great whales; and every living Crea ... ture tbat moverh, which the waters brought forth abundantly aftcrtheirktnde. and <.very winged fowl after his kinde: . ..P·Sf

V,dltquc 7JeuJ idt~ebonimi. .

And Godfaw that it was good. . pSg

22. Etbenedlxll til Deus, atce1Jtlo : Fati/iciu, ac a~geftjte, tt'lm~

plete iltlNtN per TIIar"" el rvO/HCres au/.eftunto III n7'1''',. ..

And God bltlTed them, raying, Be fruitfull, and ffiuhiply. andfill the waters in the' Seas, and let fowlrnulfiply in rhe earth, . 'V 89 Desnd» dIxit Deus, rp''DIiucat urr .. a1Jjmanria iti!ftiitJ;rfo1illll., 9«NcilJ et Refll'~tf; b,flla!~"c tm'maJ in f}mes!iufi ~ er fuit liot .

And God faid, Let theeanh bring forth the ·livin~ crelftute after biskinde,eam:ll, and creeping ming',andbeaft6t the earth after his kinde ~ andie was to. ' '1>'. OS?

FCfl6 etiimDl:'us befllM"fm'e1laJt~ fjicm r,u"efpet:Htiu INfjti.:.

Cl0S /u.tJ, Ilm,.i~Hf reptili4tf7"l'IJ.I/'i f}eclfJ'IIIIit4-"Fd "VIrtu

Dttl!ldtfebonum. ,':. .. ...• ,.

And God made the beaO: of the eart~affer hi~ li:irt'lle7'md carrel after their kinde , and every rhtngtliit;'Ci'i!e~fb upcn the eanh aieer his.kinde· ·~.and eioMaw'tl'ial it Was goud. ': . . >.p:~p

']fo(!ea di>xit Dens; F4(pa",IIJ l1omil'k'" .t(.NNhilghieiniJJ~""'l1P,ftctllldrlTII (HlJ,itrwdmem n"flJfttIM iqui: d~nHntt,.r·";' rifttl maril>etm"Uolu(7!eo~ cait, et InpeetJtks'; tr i1l'~tfrHn't'iTram,Mqae In omma reptu14 TtpMntill Mer ferrA111.

'4·

And

And God liid, Let us make. m~~inollr JnJ~e, after oJ~

i~~;:!ea~d~:;\~~C~w~3Jfi;~~~ttJ~~~~t.

and over all. the earth, and over everycr~ing ~.

. ,~.iltc~e!=V~tb9g0·1) tbe;e~rth •. ';" .; ::n: )'P;'llj 1IAif'lfcrelV1,l/~ DeliS ,homl1JllIJ ad Ifl.lag~nellJ 1*f1'1!',# ImagiiJph, 27~ mquam, Dei cr/tlp" tll7lJ : . 1'Ii4t'tm et fltfIJifJiIHJ trr/I"Vit eos..

$"0 God createdman in his own Image,iD the Image ot God Gl'IMt:cdht?mm t male and fcmal.c crc.[cd~ ,~·l'·F

De"," betJealxlI eM "DIIII. It "'{/fIt. eu 'DelIS. tatijiefllt.4(.g"fc1te, et Implete terrsm, eamqru Jllbjmt'i It (Jp,);,n_innq pl/m m"!'M," JIJ "fJo,"cTtt ClZU, It .#J W'S befi, .. tlft-,i

jllpe,jm4I'JI~".. . . .... '. . .... '.

'And:GCiid blcired~bem,' aDd God [aid. iJD~ lfitm,: &f~i~ full and multiply. arid rcplenilh tbe.~artb.aDd (ubduc it:

. ~Qd have dominion.over [he fiili of tbe·SeI.~ndoYi:rt~ fQ~I ofUJCJairei and oyer 'Cv~r'f liring rhingth~m~i~d( upon.d)e~artb.;., . . ,: ... ' "'. ,~,.p •. ~CL>q'

'1'r~#IWi4~/t.f:JtIl"iE:m~ .1hJI '!,bu:6iNItU W.tff"~1Jc"9.30. 31; ft"'fiHJ~IImt,!"/iI""fic,,;(!tJ1I1.tltf'le ~411JUJ;t; arm;.m .

!J."lb~s ~fllTu'lius arborellJ, lementanle.t fellltTl ~kT.Itjlj~ '4Il fiPMrieodM,,,,',r.N1If,. .,01¥'l1bill 4IiIt'(lJ"ffllil.t.tP'Y~ ~l.~

:j,m tt!4'lIfTl~' c«~; otlJIJJNtftf'" rtpldllltb,1IJ I~., ii!-

'Jmlnis.p _",If "fJi'P~D.1, J,J'11ffJtII1.hlib'M lIiWJ1JiI4Uf11!.~

·(ktJtl~ '~.' ~tIUltit4. Tllm mIjmlt. JmU4fIIk~~ frt.t.III;

1t.f(~ ~J"tp, ~;erdl ... 1IIde .: fie foi,·r,'fitrtl, ~/~ ~1I!

. ,,~i .fI.¥tl~ . .. . .... ).... r.'.' .',

AnclGoafaid,J)dJC1IcI~ J h;i\rd gi,cn~ yod 'CYeij1Hrb~~~ :lf1g{c~"biclb~uponthc ~ai:cofaJhh'Cc:;qdi,~~~ .ry:tl'~cmtbc'wblcblstbcfralt.of"ircOY4~·;~i~o fyQuciefitaUjJdormea .. r . And fQ;C\feJY' ~'l\l~!the fllKChj'.n~;tijd'tyfuWl.oftbc a~'~t'U lWCi>'d~ng ._~.,~ahlipQn_.~iarth" Whckiri.tbOt~J~~llltvJt (givep every green he arb for meat: and it w'Ssi01}l :':~Dd .~Q.f_cC.v~1bing,_~ ~"'dcfJ·~ __ ~~ ,Waf;,~ygtKla •. J\Mdu:C"~niog-at1O~mofl'Wg~,c

,hd •• da,~ "~>._.:·:"P:'H

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10d,,,

.lndex .Capitum.

; ,.i r. f . ~ ~

The Contents ()f the ,Strm?nsp\eac~ef4#o~

, , die Iecond chapt,e[ 9t Gell~{h. ,

-: J to::,,)

I ,'T<liJUe. perjeas pllitcaJi et tel'r<lt,()mni[que, ex'rrciruJ iIlilr,um.

. .Thus.rhe heavens and the earth were finifhed, and, aft (theho{lo(thern., ';;'P:lI$ 'f2!jum .lUrem perfmfM Dt»s d,e fe/limo opus (ullm qllodfewa,.

qUte'71U tpfo die/epttmoab am", opere juoqllrui{ecera,;','" Andonrhe feventh day God ended his worKwhicb'hclhad , madm.and he relied on the f;;venth'day'from:allhisi work whichhe hadmade.,,, p,IU

s- Be bcrm(tljs, ,'DeN! dse; [tprio/0,el [anllljica'tliiipfum :quum III , , eOfJ.tJle1Jl~et ab omn» open [ua, quod crca7JtJlar. D6UJ,facifrJdll. And God blefled the feveneh day and 'l'iln&Hied it; becaufe , that in it he bad ~dl:ed frcmafl.his.workwhich.Godcre-

, ared.and made. ·p.I2.8

.IJltt !u"'t,gcneratioll~.rca:li et terre, quandocre'4t,,!unt'~'.quii.at'

.Jebn'7'l4 '7)ells ficil terram flea/ttm :8Mmmmfltrpemagrt. qui IWldu/fJ {IIIJlct fll/llmJ' /1J terra,' ommmqHc hcrb4'1»..p.grj, qu<& YJo1Jdum futfetoritm'a: z. . quum nOlJ.'demifi((dt.JdlO"P.i 7/eu~;!u"Piam juperterrall1,e; 1JuUUJ h8mo/utjie' 4d-coiendllm

tetram, ' .. 1.:;\ \;''iJ\

Thefc~re the generations ofthe heaverisdq.d,oHheunM. . whenthey were created : ill.the day ihatth,H:lor~~od made the earth audehe heavens" Aridcv.e~~plalltJC\£die fidd,jJPfore it·,was in the earth, andJI:\leryi"hc!~b!Jo~dle ficld,:I),efore it gr~w': 'ror:rhe.ldr~\Gackbad'D~'Qau[ed it 19 rain upon rhe.earth, llmdCJIMrej.~ riot ",m:amb:till thegr9UlJd.,' ::.\rl; ';';"~ ;':"[t,)·J~41.

6.7. &Ii lit 'Vapor. aftfllddns ,e .le!':T tt,' quz-irr;g",rit. "t1(rv4n!llfJ£ 1fopirficiem terr~." FIIIN#'~er;; Jrb07J1s "Dills bommefllTdelpuh;ere 'te~r£, jufJl,vuitquc in nares Ip{tIlS bal1ftJ.I7i' rbM&'",'~ fit; faClIIJ eft homo anima -uivens,

Gen. 2.1.

verf.3.

45·

But

Iitdex Capnum. .,

BUt there went up a I1liii {rom the eartb; 8t1ib.v.iter'ed tht; whpleface ofdtcgroulld. Andlhed:;,ord<9d4 formed man ohheduft onhe ground, lind breathdf,into his Dolhils the breath offife : and man beaDle aliYiog

foul. . '. ':. ' '.'" ,'P,J.4.7

O,"a<perat alltelll plalll11 lehttva 7JeNJho1'l.m'!'JRfJewabO_ 's.

ri~"~e l ub,tIJilfC4<vit hiJl1li"eTil lit"", F jinX/Tat.,

And the Lord God_plant~da'gardell'eilfiward in Edeu: , i1qd ehere hepue the mao' whom heilldformcd. ;!p.i$5

'F eceratque J'h'11117Jtl4J14t,~ermi1Jaret 'i Ilrra,II"t{".rl1iJ ""'" 9. ',' dl/idtr.bilil !at14dIfI6lum. et bOIl,," riImm : .. m,., P'Dtpii. . 'r'it4mho1'tfffli.,trlfrlm·{cienltll!bodi et malJ.' '. And out of~heground made the L6ni God t_o gl"<XY e¥.ery

tree that'lspleafsot to the nght,and good for ft:ad: rhq t£¢e ofiifealfo ill the m,dll of the t~eDO anthhi:.trce of

" know ledge algood and eviil, , '". ' , ".. -:p. I~;a:

P LwvlHr alllem prlJ«d,e nil fliJel'R ail ""'i" •• bll1ic.~'tIm : . ~""'tftft·'II'''cJid".fert#,~e i" ifrIalil~ ,c4fimo ~>lJD-

m~n efi']>i/chb1J''I. b.icdl ~lIi4i4irul_lt"~(!h~/it. , ",,11, i(J 4111'H;".'" Et tUlrllih'tltills RlgiM;S pr.efla;Jt!~ 'ibid,.

'FftBJeIiIUTII, & bpisStirdGnyx. ' ! ',L_ i

An'ltarivcr. wenc eue of Eden to waee .. the g'3tdelt;and "' 'from 'thenctit was parted, lind becaine ,inr.Hbill".hcads • 1'·C:f>lie nameof the /irft is PiCon, that is it wflicli ¢lJIDpaf.. , ,'·feth 'tbe whole: land of fi.,.ilah; where tber~ is· .. Gcld. -,,':if\'lidthe Go~dofthatlandis good:. ,rm:re iItBd'clrwili,

a~d ,the Onyx Ilene. , ,',">'~·p.l67

Nomtn ;verQ.{lrnlI {tiJM1Ji eflGichlff'J ihje',(i qui IIt.h', itdJ. ~'t'l1tetJlI1J;m 'CfffclJl.: '8UJl'mtiJlerY" fo'fnr1Ch~N::1Hr efl 'Ypl;'lab~t"r ad OritiJI,;HA!fJriMII:.v"jlli·!fE'InulliilJlem

1fj1iIil'rt'llteU611p""iim. " f " ,,' • ,.::

Atidtbe.llame;oftli'e(ccOtidriTer !s.~: the _cis It Ihatc:ompaffeththewholcland of Ethiopia. ,And,the ' , tkfuc "nhe t'mro; ri.vj:fj!,s; Hiddetc:€il b ihk idbttvliicK gtieth mW:itd dit eaft,6If A«~ia ~ilMfci tilt; fiudthwet

_, is'Eup,hrates. , " ,I~.n If:; :, 'fu1 "i,)fp.1171.

eAcripim's' i'm~~"tiit fYltii~mrf·"<¥l.~iJ"'~\J!fo*;is Jj. bort» HeJtm'!i\itildltnililifi fmii'ft·WCtfjlfJilltdtm;, .. :,

,,' 'And

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re.rr.r s •

f, ,

l ndex Capirurn. '

And rhe.Lord God.cook the man, andput him inro'th~ l~:\f-

. den of Eden; ro.drefle it, and to-keep it. ' p •• 77

J f}lerdljlltqJIC Jeho~ah Deus bomml, dicendo, DIIru{iu qUit/em

" 01l111iJ I1rboriI hujuJ horn 'tbere comedo.;

A:lldthe Lord God commanded the man, (aying, Of every . . tree of the garden thou maye£\: freeljeae. p 18:!. De jruCll4 rvel Ii ,.rborM [cimu« bOIJiel mall,de j({OIlt eOlfled",. But 'of the tree of the . knowledge of good and evilJ, thou

j,halr not eat ofir, p.1 h7

!JI{am qll~ dIe comederu. de en, utique.morituruJfs, " .

Forintheday thoueatefl rherot.rhou illaldurelydye,p.19:t J)lxerat autem jehorvah 7J'UJ, non eft bonUinefS~ bomil1lW/o-

fum: jaClamfl allxlilum comlt1odum 'pli. '

And the Lord God laid, It is notgood thatrhe manJbOlilJ

bealone: I will make him all help meet for him. p.197

19, :J(am,quumformarvifSet jeho'PaDellJ e terrii omnes befl,a.ragri, omnefque 'PaiNeres cati; et addllxifSet ad tAdamum ut lllderet. qU£llocaret fingllla.r (etenim 'luocunque nomine 'VOta'Pff IUn Adam, an;mantem 'lu4mque; td nomen ellIS eft. )

And OUt of the ground the Lord God formed every beal!: ofrhe Iield, and every fowl of the ayr, and brought them unto Adam, to (ce what he would call [hem: and whatIoever Adam called every living creature, th~t:~as the

name thereof. , jJ,.1C!4 Voca'Ptfierque Adam l10mininibus peeudem quaJiJilbe"ct !Vqlumm Gre/', omnem'lue befllam ag" : IJon aderat Adamo alfxillum

eornmofium. ,

And Adam gave names to all catrell, androrhe fowl of the air, and to everybeal!: of the6eld: but for Adi\ID.there was not found an helpmeetfor.himav. . .: 'p . .,H 1 ~apropter mjecit [ebov« Deus (oporem ailflm)7J 4~m1fTIJ qUIJ Dbdormjrvit : et defumptaUnti de co(liJejul •. ,mclll[if,J!H'kf~

proiUa. . ,',> . C;') :,:

And the Lord God caured a deep Ilecp tofall upon :A.4fm, .and he [lepr I and .he took, one of his I ibbs, fly,9"loIcd up the Belli in !lead thereof. . ';I C."lp, J 15 €xtrllxllque JeiJorv4b 7)eus ex cofllllUa, quam fumWti:ar ,ti~:A7 damo, mul,erem : eam']ue adduxit lid ..IldIllliUrp.,. ,,', Alld

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Index Capitum,

'flr." Tmn(dixit inulier Serpel!ti illi, '0'c. ,

And the woman laid unto the Serpent, &c:' p:i57 ,

',3, 'De (ruElu quidem arborum hujus bart] cor:z~ilemus : At,de {ruau 'arborjj ifiius qu£ eft m horwhocdlxlt Delis, Ne comedatu ex iflo, lIeque at tillgatis rum : lie mortamini.

Wemay eat of the fruitof the tree~ o,f the Garden '. But 'of the fruit of the tree which IS inthe midfl of the 'Garden, God hath [aid, Ye Ihall not eat of it, neither

fball ye touch jddl: ye dye. 'p.16o

4,5, 'Dixit WID Slrpem tile 1Ilfjlieri, NQU u(ique moriemini NO)li! ,

, 'e!lim 'Deus,: quo, die comrdnitu ex eo, aperturos fe oeulos Ye-

,jl:ros : & )IDS fore (tcut Deos,jeielltes boni &' Itlali. '):

And the Serpent Iaid unto the woman, YeIhallnoc fure1ydye: For God doth know rhatin the dayye , eate thereof, then your eyesfhaU be 6penedl'!,an~ ye

{ball be as Gods knowing good andevill. : 1',163

6, Q.i_wner,gO'llidmtur mulieri brmni1li!jJefrtlEtum arboru iUiMil1 eibum, <& j,ratij5imam tffe illam Del<ti&, at defiderabilem fjfi 4Y, boru fYIIC1um ad habwdum illtelligwtiam, acCtplt de fruttuejtu,

'& comedit. " "."':; ',(r ,

And when the woman raw that th.{! tree wasgo6dfor food, and that it was pleafant tothe eyes, and a tree to be defired to make one wile, Ihe took of the fruit thereof anddid eat. " .•.. p,'l66,\~ 172-

Eusmau: 'd;dit comedendum <'Viro /t;ofeCU1ll, qui c01lleait:' . ' And gave alia to her husband with her, and he d,id

eat, , ;.' ~"': :,;;'. .P .. ~8l

7. TUllc aperummtJefe oc~ljamborum,,!?<'Ver~llt1"! #.tlu,dos efJe: & eOllfi1tjj 101115 ficulnetS [ecerunt fiblJllbltgarula.

And the eyes of rhern both were opened.and rheyknew

. that they were naked: anatHeyreWed'fig:llia'Yes~tp.' gether, and made,them[dve~ ltj!>rbM;' 1','; \ .,P' \t:~Sl 8, 'Dcinde audl'Verunt"PQC~o/ reb?'JJ'!pe;;it~~'t~ W[ilJl_'tflm ipJUIII ad ·<'VenfUinifliUl 'did ':"'q{lare'illJjc'6l1dlf(e'?ilitm'iif' iI~ohJtU_ a facie "1elJO'II£ 1)~i"i+ileY orbrJie~iNiMmm:) ",: """\:' " And they heard the voice of tRe 'LordG6d}Wll*m~jn . the g,ttde'r1 iri the! ~coolM Ct~eday ::"and·JliJ:i¥ih ":ttldhis wife hid· thetrtrelves f-rom 'tne':prefence !h('the

, Lord

Index Capitum.

Lord God, amongffthe trees of the:garden. d,; lp4 ~ Inclamavit lIUtel'! ;;e"o)11. Deus ;Adamum,J;!)\.d;xit,ei;:'V.bl.et,~, 9; And, the Lord God called Unto Adam; and',.iajdun~o

him, Where art thou / ... '6

fki dixit, rr: .tuam audiebam in boc ';~;to. t extifflMi; 'P·'t·. 9."

, 'd d J7. b~{;' ,. '. 1a1l em; 10;

, eo !lliO nu US/1m, &' a 7condi me. , , ... "'. .

And hF [aid, I heard thy voice in thegllr,deri ; and"f~a$ afraid, becaule 1 was naked; and J hid my felf' ,

1),xlt<'Vera 1)eus,,~u tndi'.t~it tibi,llIldum .effite ~ An'!i: ~t ... _,

,au i!llus arburu, de .quo, I"terdlxeramtibi ne comtdtl4.,ex . '

comederis ] . , ' . ,.eo,

And he [aid, Who told;hee that;,thou Wall: naked,)H 11: ; _ thou eaten oirherree, whereof i.Ji;ommanded:th a .

that thou fbouldeR: not eat ) ." - . ,." ee,

Cui dixit Adum ,: }.lulier tfla "qua~ pojuiflill!etum . ip,r;.'4'd·P4~

de jruE/u illius arboru, «p- comedi: . :, ' 14: ~ It ml I Ii;

A,nd .the manfaid : The woman ~I~";';'.'th n,:(':':n.

b ' h ill . , .. ,""." ",g_lh,,'n!tG

:e:t; Wit. mc,. nc gave me ofthe~~e~ian4;hdid

Tum dixit 1e"o)la ,f)PI~ rnulieri, f2!!!d h~ :Jii~~d fi(i~~rDfx~

autem multer,Serpens ifle !eduKit me, & comedi. ".". ' Ii;

~ndthe Lord God faid unto .. the, woman, Whati~this

. that thou halJ:done / And the woman ral'd Th S

pent beguiled me, lind I did eat.' ""." e er-

R.!t.propter dixit 1e"oll~ 'Pcus SerpmtiiOi i • clinJ /e;eru)fl.!:J~! ,f. , lec/taus efta pr~ 011lnl J~mento, & pr~ omllj'beflia agrj" jjj;'; .

And the Lord <?od faid Unto the Serpent, BeC<lufe tho~ hail: done this" curfednrr thou ~QoveaU~teJ 'and above every beafl Qf the field: .' . ".' ,

Super, ruentrem tuum ito, &< pull>rrem eomedito omni/,,;s";t it~oJ

tee tu£' ., , . , .Ie ~ vr.,

Upod thy belly fbal~ thou goe, and duil:thalt'th~u~at

all the dayes of thy life. _ ~_,', " ..: :',_ .~ .' ~

q>r,~(.el'f4fillimteitiam pOliO ime . rte t;/' mulierem:banc r:. ,.,~:.:6., 71 .

t t; l }"'" .. "" 'J.~7JH<.~erql4C 15

III er Je~n tutlm & I~men )UJUl, ,.'.', ..... •

And I. \Vll1pllF;el\Ql~tybet\Veen thcc'anclthd W~;~lan a_nd_p~,tw~~p:.1:hY.r.~ed,.~M.,~er4:e4~· .' . -,.,6' 8 ._Hoc conteret tlk, CI!P(lt, tit atltemc~lIterfs~h,I!ic c(lleaneum.:,:' ~

, " ". ' , <0., ~ ; .• , '"

C 2 It

.'....__. .. _- -~~- .. --.-

II1deli: Capirurn.

h{hall bruile thy bead, andtl'lowih",lt.bruift:'hi:Sbec:h p.686 I ~.: .?Iif 14t:e~" tI,Xlf" . .A.Jmodum1lUllIiphco tktorem (Pli#/W" ettam:cll'll~ . i!4pllt.i.tNI;' in dolO'll pa#8J111bmUl fjllJlIerg4( "P;rul1Jl tUllm

4fPdtitus taus eflo, (9' I~/e r .. efDt:bl. . • "

... Unto'tA'¢' W01\J1;1n he faId, I w.n. gready n~1!IIuply,thy forscv«, and thy conception- JIl'(oU'owth(')uili1a'lr bring f.onh ,chi:ldrelli' .: . ami. thy dd1[ e fIliatl be toth'}' hasband, :loud hc:'.ilh<3l~hul¢ I!)~enhce; P'31~

'7.1'S, Adam\> "Vero dixIt, .~f4' 4H/cH/ra"Pr{ii,"1)oci. NXo-ris IUd: ; (7

. cul'l'Jdirf# de'frtUitiarbo-ris ,li'flJ quO' mrerdixertt1'lJ'I'ibi, dtcen~ do, :J(e ~omedaJ ex Ifio: ma'e~/Ela eflo terra propfer te ; crl71fdolore com,dJ-to prd'Ventllm4ltj ommbuJ dI6bus'7J1t;etHlt~ Ettq'ut f}ztJJm&'Garduff'm [f'I'o{eN(}t ibl, til 'V'fJ'fo' cQmeth'fo her ... bttm agrl •

.And uaro Apalil1be.f<l'id,Becaufe thou hal'l:,he3'tkened unto the voice of thy wife, andhafi eaten of the tree, of which 1 wtfllnan<le4 thee, faying, Thou !halt not eat oHt; curf~E1 i&the gtoufld fCrt tby fa-ke. iriforr.owfhalcthoueat o((it all the dayes of thy life. Thorns allo and thiflles iliall it brincj'fonh to Ihe~ :' and thou {halt eartne herb

b ' , .

ofthe.field.· P3 ~

] 9. ; tr!uaotl<tJuLt{fsfui 'Vclcitor tibu, dunec re"1)ert4ris in- ImmN,.,. . (Jlf/JC1. e~ de/llmptus flm~: 71am fJlfvit eJ, et i71puh;erem

-rc'iJerteT1J. .

In the {~tat()fflly face iliale thou eat bread tHhhonretUln unto the gt'o'u~d: far oatof it waftfhoutaken; forduft 1!hou arr,an& umo duA! {ha:1t thpu rerurn. p.~11 20. YQCa'pH fluUm .A:iatn nomm uxoris f"~ (hlltnJ4m :' t'o quod ip!a mater fir omnium homimlm"VI'tItrtt'mm. ". ",' And'Adam called his wife~narneE'Ve, bec:llIfefhe\1.'l'sthe

mother of all living. '. P;32.7

a t, Fmtqll( Jeho1Ja'DeuJ Adam(J et uxorj ejfu tlltl;C((SfeUICelti~

quibuJ 'Vc(itcvit eO:1. , "' ..

Unto Adam alto, and to his wife, did theLord God make

. coats of skin,and cloarhed them. , .' ,1'·3;0

22. Et dixjt Jeho'V4 7>(U!, ecce, bomoefltle'ficfltNfltll,exnobiJ, cognoJcendobQl1um et malum?' 'nuflc tgltut "tIldend"",! n« ex· teTJdenJ manum IUam ampia! etlam de jtH6ifl arborJJ "vlt£~ tit

, ·,~~·-:-.'~~r

_.i. ••

Index Cibpirum.

t'.bd:he alfo brought oft~le firlUings ~fhis flo.ck,~nd of thdat:thoreof~ :.... . i ;c"~' . -;'~·374 + 5. ~fj~XliqlieJ~hoi"';.r~ Hebeiur~etad ~II,TJ,US ?us. Arl ~/:tJ~TJUm

:.;wr:-J!a ~tadl'JJf!uuj1efurno'He~lmm •. r ••• , ' .• ,1'.

And :thc Lord had re(pcCl: unto Abel,. ~nd to htso1fettng: . BlIt unto Cain, and to his offermg, hehadnot re-

f a· ". ' ,.'., ';,: ·p • .,81

~t~~op;er accen(lJfflx'ira K:ajini ~1Ild'e; et c~{idit~llituujuJ ..' And'Cain was very wrath, and his cou?~enance fell •. p. j 8& Tum. dixit Jeho"pa Kajlna, JZ_ual'4 a{cenj~.e~ =«: etJiquar~

6:7; _cec'ldlt"Pu'tustrlll~? :J(anne (i bene tg.erlJ,remsjllO'j l'Veru non bene egerti; pr& forlbus e~i peccattunexcubans f:,., .. :.'

And the-Lord {aid unto Cam, Why .arn uhou Wfach)?and wh .is thy countenance,fallen? If thou daft well; {halt th;u 'nor be; accepted-? and if thO.Uido{l.not w.eif, finne

Iyeth at the dore : . . , P·393

eAt erga te efl app,utllS iUms, et (U prdies JOI,

And unto thee {hall be his defire, andtho!l Ibalt rule over

him', . .'.' '. p. 398

3. '7aflcaflnquebafur Ka;io cum Hebelo/raffe flo: eN,"lt alltem quume(lrmt.in agrn! ut'inJurgms KaJIn In Hebdumfratrem

luum Intaficmte~m. . . .

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: a~ld it came t? a£fe when [hey were in the field, that Cam rofe up a,.

:ainfi:hbel his brother; a~d'flcw him; .." p·407

9' *2!!amobremdlxit Jebo"pa Kajll1o, ou ,f1 Heb~:frat:r tuus?

qui dIXIt, J(anTlo')J,! : An cuflosegofet~fratrtJmCl. )

And the Lord [aid unto Cain, Where IS Abel thy brother. . And hefaid,I know not: am I my brothe:rs~e~per?p.~15 J<>, Disat rvero 7)(Us, quid feciflj 'ieoce ~ilcemfangulII~m fralTl4

tui, me ablp/a bamo I11clamanltum. ,', '

And he [aid, What haft thou done? the.voice 'ohhy bro-

thers blood crierh unto me from the ground. P·41:

NunCltaqtJe tu maielMlusefto : ex/u/ab Ifi~tcrra~ qu.t aperuJt

JLIi. os juum ad exciplcndum jdngumem jratrts tUI. e manrdlla~ i?2!!um !Jumum ip/ameo/uerti, ne pergltoedere rtnm !uamtlbl.: ~aguJft tn/eHus agltdtlo1llbus eflo lIZ terra.. '.' .

Andnciwart thoucurfed from the earth; whIch hath ope~ ned

...

ned h¢r mouth r~ received!y brothers, bl~d from thy hand. When.' thou tilleG the: grOUnd.· itinall iJoc henceforth yeelduoto thCc?t~ firengrb·: a -fugiliv~

and evagabcndfbalerhou be in the: earth. '. -P-428 .

Tum Kapn aotlt Jtho,,£, MAjor efl ffZ1JlltlJI"tjlhUll'lltjrljii1Hre Ii •

p~lm;, .:

And Cain faid unto the Lord,Mypunilhmenris grtatenhan

, lean bear .. ,'.. "'P4J5

ErUXpeOfltIJl h.~dwalllftrfiCt't i{ffll.lfn-rw,flt!.i{ildOfm'Ali!elJ":" I.,..

dam me :cumqll''7Iagu.f jim el iTl{efluJ agittltioni/;R.I ""erl'lI

Ji ueus {Neril qui mt. j1l't711J1at>mterficlet:~. i '. " I.. ·

Behold, thou ha!idriven me'out,thisdllj:itom dsc,faaeof the earth; 'and from thyfaccfhall ,{ibc~hid •• nd:Ilhall be 'a: fuWtive·ahda va:gabondiin·thC~rth : and'kfbail come.to pa«e~ tha~ever? 'onethatlindeth me, fhaH4Iay me.'" . . ":" 'P"H3

Dlxlf,:"e~o Jeho"Pa IUt, Pr,;plmaqui(quit il1ter{emlt Kd;imitIJ, IS: flptuplo ~tndlcat~r :. &iiilpofuitJeI»i14 KajiniJ/igI1ll1lJ,1il

eumc~deret UUetH/lli foret l11."en'lWu.r:~-...~ L,' ,,,_ ..

Andtha Lord faid unto him,: 'TlrerefoTcwhbfOevCIf&yc:th Cain, vengeance {hall be. taken on him favenfold..;And the Lor? {e~ ,am~rk uponCain,le!i anyfioding.JJim

: fhoUl~luUh'm.,. _. ,.; ',". . ":.' -::!:,pbn~

EgrellullNqfld efl:K"JI/J "fart.6lJ~ho'PA I (JrCOlljiJitJoterr. 16. . fl(()r1~!ad O,ic11ltm Heame1llrrtver/il.1: ,:!':·::.n :>.; '£1

And 'C:ii~.went(JIltr'frOIh·tlw, prefen(tci bf;unc, LDi~/rand dwelt In ,the~~nd of Nod, on'thdEatt-ofH.den.f'''~p.lf.56

I3t cotl'fa'Plt K'aJII'I HXOI'IfJI {Namr 'fuJI t911f'fit &pt'"it,t'IM;i~ .W c(lm 'J "f1la1Qi1bl'em. iiIIrJdult ~diftr"'" 'e~ltil"fefII. & tIJ~"'IJ;t I'JpmtllJ ei~it4ri1 illi.u~ dh,obJItII{i!iifoioCballlK. ,~'''",:"

And Cain knew his wife,and Ihe conceive:d and ~re;E®ch alltUrebuildllil 3,Citlcj, ,~cf ~Ired .lttiIam1:>bftic-~ a~t<!rtnenhtrtelb.f.b~fbnnt-ifJoodj;;.: :or,,; wi f)jJ~6:

Deind6 Ch~co~feil;f/I'~ @iRi,...wtm_Ner;m.j'tiilrm; - IS.I,.

MfchuaJeI ruero MethujcbaeLtm,&, MelhllfthdelgerJ',;dilme~ r:um·"'-~·-.4ftump/itc'4lltlfJI ftbiJ::et»ec ~U~"'\"'\ :-'-,h'" . e' And Uot'! En~cMl'a'$born' ha!lrapd~db~ft M~j,aclj

I . and Mi:h~lldl.~hrga;Medmfwt,·lmdt rMethtlfaeb:lXgAt

Lameeh,

tndcx:Capitum.

n.

Lamech.' And Lamech wok lllltohimtwowives,p,4!'lS .:A Jiuinpfit autem fivrLemec uxores dUM: prloriJnomen (Ult, Hada,~ lIomelt (eCllnd.e T?;dla. Teperitque Hada Jabalum : !J,cjim aut or habaltn' ium m :Ientorlil. & peCllartle~. ':J'{_omm, .. :que/ratrll ejuJ fUlt Jubal: hie I,m autor omntutn traaa1'Jtj~ um citharam & organon. 71;rj!1a"Vero tpfa quoque peperit ': Ihubal" K.ajmut1f;qui cTudi'):J,It,;(lmnem {{thrum ",ranini< (,9-ler~

,rarlum : /ororcmque Thuba!-lCajmi, Nahamam. '

And Lamech took untO him tWO wives': 'the name of the; onevros Adab, and the name .of the other Zillah. And Adah bare Jaba:l: he was the father of Iuch as dwell in rents,and:o~JlIch as have cattell. And his brothers nairiewasJubal : he.wasrhe fatherof all Iuch.as ban-

i', die [he harpand organ'; -And Zillab {he aHo bare T 1Ib:ihCain ,an iofirllcteLot, everyartificc:r . ill brafle anfl iron; and the {ilter of Tubal-Cain was, Naama.b:-, p 474-

Tumd,xtt Lemec fuiI uxo7lbus, 0 Hada & T'l;.tUa aualle vocem meam,tlxoreJ Lemeci,allribUJ perclplteftrmimern rnCIITIJ: nam 'Vttummterfocerq ad' 'Vuin"J,m~um, eriam adolc{ieneem ad : :tumiatm'meum: Cum (epw;lo (it'''Vi7ld,ca"dus Kajrn,:utique

L~JfI~c jeptlf,_ag'eJ'fopt'CJ tanto, , :,: >

Alldq"amech laid unto his wives, Adah and Zilla; 'Hear my voii:e.'ye wiv-es of Lamech, hearken fo my Ipeech ; fod havcllain a man to my wounding, and a'young'mallia mYAl'Urt.,lfCain b¢av~ngl:d fevenJold, truly 'Lamed"

:feyenty and fevfen fold." ' ' ,;pi48o ';;. Cogno'Vit,au!erndC>1f1o~dam uxorem fila"" qUdfpfperit fiLtum. (y'Vo(a'Vlt nome» t'fusS rhdhum ,:nilmrepojuINnihtDeur, mquit, femen alrerum' trolliebelo i'JudelPjum, ,iTJterftci& s-., K'Jjm~;. .<;q! :-':'" ;~:.: ·:',~,\;A n~L~) ()C;\ .,And Adam knew EN,¢ his' wifilagain,;and lhebare:airoi1)~l1(l , ,.;called his name Setht c«G~'!God)fajd{he. 'ha~ll:apPQin-

re'&'me 'another. (eed', itl'~ ftead of Abel .1, whom' Caia , Ilew.", ,:.\' "'\;P'486 Sed & ip(i S.chetho:geniturefl!iouJ, cuju't"''.Iom~n 'Tloca'Vit"fjpof.. :~bNmt :' func'riepJllrh,e(lill'l1ocari nomenJeho<"C.Ii~ "1m] ',,; t, :Amh:d Seth; toliiru' alf6there was born iarro~jandM, calb\

, hls

,,,:

16,

~;t1ieSdnl(jfjri;irr {ball glW:;J.lWtfi'j,YbU: ;:o1fdd!iliH1<iilith s. Goa the Father fealed.·!p·",UdiBtom Luc, 12.1). 'Dixit i,giwr (u, Vldete, ss: (allete ab a'tlaritia : nee enim eujuf ,quam':Vitaex ii.l qU<I! ipJi Jllpprttlllt, ill eafita eft ut redundet.

And he laid unto them, Take heed and be\vare-of Covetoufne{fe : for a mans life confiileeh not in ., ~~.e f1J;tun~a,{l~Lf!t ~h;e ,tf.AI)g,~, w.~i~h, htC\. poa:~f,. lech. ,_.1 ",L. t ,» ,'I; ;.\\\hM\,\\\lJr,'i'l)3tf.

,Pet. 1.9. Nam cui "de 11011 adj/mt, #'i,e'cih;,rft\~M;il proelll cfrntnS, oblit", feJ~ a 'VeteribU! peccatu {uu IUlUe purificatmt,

But he that lackcth rhefe things IS blinde and cannot fee " far olf; :trid 'hath fro go'tu:[).'.;chal ':h~)W(l~I~r,g~~ f!,QP'i: his 0~,Il_ :(lnges.; !llu 'j ,,'I' ', ,od) I! ('<"rjlP' 544 J oh. 8. 56, +s: pat~r, :#;: W!.l!fr~efti~j~ f'g!~~~ glmiff'm mfltm" ,&.

'VI It (.>" ga1'1U! tl"

y our F~ther Abraham rejoyced to fee my day: and he

Caw it,;lt\d WaS g4d. ',', ", ',' .'p.~~

pra!. 4~' 10. Priilclpes, ~.brulor:u~}~~*rw~iith~; ,fDp'ulu!1>ei:A,brafJ.~tl iJ1j~ 'Deijullt FrQtef!lonerter(~,'Pa!lIfhfxterfiiMl, '" '" . 'tC..J

"the prirtces oft~e::pe'~p'le ,ire"gath~~:e~,~?geth~!,eyen the people of ,th~e, (:;od 0,r-,J'\bralh~:~:.for·t~;J~e,~19~. of the earth ~e't()n'g ~ u~,t?i,O~d :;' ;~'e, IS gre~tI~ (e~ali>

ted. " " ',,: ' "'. , "~",f! 'J '". ,;,'rf·~55

Matt.25.30• Et illutile,m [ercvu»i eji(ite in t.e~ib,fa4 ijrMt~*t(mM: l: 'U1hPerlt fletus & ~I'idor ~enlium:' ",' .. ~:;,' '~LI:.~ ,Lt;~.'rh~~~~r;~ And 'caR: yee the' unprofitable re.tVartt,lrito; ;(Mer darkneffe ,there fhan bee we~~ln~:, ~pq~n~~ing

.i: , of teeth- " ,',',' .,\\, ,''', 'pi~6t

I Sam.I.'7. Pro plleid iflo jupplieilbam, pY.tftiti:tque ~\~!1eb0<i.!.a t~tWo~e~ ,8. meam, quam peteham 4b eo~, ,,~al1lobirm,t;;~ %U'11~e~f~eearll) datum,fifto fum 1£1;011£ omil!busdlebus)quibusfifi:rtt',' 'I(ff rao gaM precario eft FjebO)1£ .Illcjir)1a"itqll~ Jf ~diem'utl"~i1eho- 1'£ IJQlloremeX{,lbens. , ' , . :", ':,' ,"n,'i' : .: ;"

for this child I prayed, arrd the Lordflath gi"erlfu'~ my petition which lasked of him. Th~tefore aWcHhave lent him unto the Lord .as ,long:Is he liveth,"h~mall be lentumotheLord. An-d he \'V;orfhippt;dtlkLord ~here, .'. . " p. ~65

VlRar;

JliFtori dalfo edere ex ,Jr'bore ilia 'Pille "/ld ~n j~ m'd' 7'.' 'KJ,!:'

Dei, ,,'I' e IiJ ' VIr"..,_ ApOc. ~. 7'

To him th~t over~om~t~ " will J give to eat 'ot 'th~

tree of hfe whIch IS 111 t'he 'tnidfl of 'th" P -~'~' c.

of God. " . ear.wlle

Cupimus 'autem ut unuA'uijquuve/hum idem jluJillm 'aii;~\71. "

_ IIRue of!endtlf, dd 'cedti'mJpii ptrjt4ajlohem. ' ' nem Heb. 6. 11.;

Aml wee:~efire thatevery one of you doe fhewth~

fame diligence, to the full affutanceOf h '

the end. ,ope um?

Bt faEfu'", 'en prtflium in [,1:10 : 'MicJ;ael ~ an eli t' p·1S?S '.

tun: ... "",.. , "1\' " ~ 71H r« latl A-' .• ,

)' n, eu", Vl'aeon,e &, vT"copu o naba; J~. Y' "", co-d r-.~2'7.

l" , " .".' '" ,ollgeJltjus: '"" 8.

" non pM1>aluerunt, neque lOCkS eo"'m alil'l'llfls i,I"e'ltu' 'e'r.,' .

'OtEo. ,v': .' 'II IlJ

And there w~s \~ar in heaven, Micha.el and his ~rt<Yeis fO,ught agalnft the Dragon in'd the D " f" u

d hi ' , razon ollgrlt

a1 'filS Angels" An,d J?revailed not, neith~r Was their J' a~e ou~d, any mort in heaven. . 86

flSeqUld dat IIIlhl If' ater', ad me l>eniei '. dI.. ,;u·,· " Pd5. ' "

.' . . ..... ', "'qlll,'Velllt a 11i.t Job.

nequaquam fJfemm forM. .' ' 6. 37~

AU that the Father ziveth me nail ,.' \. "

d hi . tJ, In come [0 me " '

an rm that commeth to me I will I' ",r'

" cafl: out. ' n no Will!' .

~ 'Vera bee au/ii,frunt compunElifiunt cor,de '"~ d' , P)rp94 , ,

t ' 'Z' t' , , v Ixerullta,. e- Act ~ 37'

,~m (Ie re Iqu~s Apojlo os, fl!;!~ taeiei'n14.1 rViiif'ra~m ! P'e- 'c •• •

trus autem alt ad eos, fR.$/IfJl!eite.· '

Now. when they hear~, this; i:h~y, were pricked in

their hearr., and fard Unto Peter a'rid t' " h n.

f h A 'ftl ' , 0 t e -rert

o , tr e fO ~s, Men an~bretheren, 'W bat fhall We d,oe., Then Peter f;i1d nato them R' , "

" ,lU, :tpent.

Tum alter ad alter"m dilCertmtNonlle cbr IiO"" ", ,j, b ;1>:60 l, ;:~,

j,' d" t ' ' , ' . ,,' strumara» at III no- Luc, ~' ':f

II,. um oqueretUT nob~ In <VIa, & JUi!z'4<i.,ipp·j, b', ... :1 •

SmptllTtU. " ' r' rf. 111) II,

And,th~y raid one to another; Did hot ourh~ll'tt bur' . ,.'

wl~hln us.while hee ta~kedwitlills by thewa 'a.n~i'

" \V~lle be opent,d. t? lis the Scr.iptures: " , . !~\607:'- , ,

EUlZlm pe, ""urn Splrlt"m nos amnes In, 'Ulllmi tor..l>L ~ ~b,.·!.j.'fi' ',c' , "

';1: r- ""'. ~S....,.llt· I .. or. n.·, ,

u 1 ' ,;nirs 1:1., '

,

------- -

Ind.d:·<;;apitum,

-----~~--'--~~---,..,--,---.-~-~ .. ~.~. -~~~---

mus,0' Jud,ei, u: D':'fCi, C7[erVt, &.I.lb.cYi : .f!$.. .om~c$ pototiJl!lIltls in tllltllll Sptrltum... . . . • '..

For by one Spirit .. arc wee a)l baptl'Z<cd Into one.body, . whether we be ] ewes; or Gentlles,.whether we be boncl or Free : an,i have been all made to drink into

one Spirit. . . ' .' '·'.P· 614 2 Pet. 1. 4. Ex co qu/;ti maxim,! illll llobu ae prctlOJa fromifla dOIlQ.1'ltf\ 14t per

iJ£c eJficeremilli di1Jill,e t;o'.ifort<'s lIatur.e,. e4apfi eX.GOTrtjptlOlle

qwc eft ill mrmdo per wptdltatrnl. . . .: ' ..

\\'hereby are given to us exceedIng great and :PI'~~OUS promifes, that by rheie YOlt might be partakers of the divine nature, hav10g elcaped the corruption . thac is in the world through 11l11:.. p.6!0

. "d hoc toium CULl /; 1JOS, omni pr.cterea colluta fl. tudio, ad;icitejid .. ei

2 Pet. 1. 5. .ri. !'}

1J,jl .. ", )Iirtutcm.· . :. .'

And be{jdes this, giving all dillgence,adde to your f.·lIth

virtue. ' '. p.nl4-

..AJjicite fidei cueftr", 1Jirtutf1l! ; vi,tuti vero; not~tialll. . '" ' Adde to your faith, vmue; and to .vrrtue , k~()W-

ledcc. p.618

SClentt~ ("vero continentiam; cantincntie vera -to!er+i~tj~, 2 Pet. 1. 6.

am,

And to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, 'pa·

ri~= .~~

'T:o''''antt,e pictilffrJJ,.pietati 'VeTO jirdterrm11' "11'. orem, {rllterND '2 Pd.I. 7- .L! ll"

'Vero limon chartt."um. .

And to patience, godlinelfe ; and rogo?line1fq bro~ therly kindnefle , and to broth~r1yklUdne~e, chamy.' . . .... . .; .~.6;5 '7Ir ,btl ad 'VOJ, 0 'ViatoreJ omnes ? mtuemmr0' 'Vrd~tc an fit do-

L:am,I,lZ. v'\._ fl 'h .n: ~h

lor par dolor: mea, qUI laaus e . I1JI I: qu.~m ali'elt jt 0')'"

mterore die ",filii l1"Ie [u», . .... ,

Is it nothing to you, all yee that palTc by ?behold au~fc:, if there be any (arrow like unto my (o~row, which ;s done unto me,wherewi[h the. Lord hath afiiia:cd mCj'U\ the day of his fierce anger. ,.... '1'.639

P. :;'f am era;iJ 'Veim O'VCJ errant esr Sed ntJIlr;f~n"Vertifiitv9J ad

t ,t.2.25 ..... , -

'Faflorem & Curatortm ammarrrmlleHratllm.

For

For yee were as Iheep goinga!lray, i>1J.t are returned UO[O the Shepheard and BilliOp 'c;.r yo.tif

fouls, .... ; p. 6.4+:: .

"Paullllm, &- nOD conf}JClelll me, & Tllr/llm pall/ij}tr. &- .'TJide~JoIi416 I~ . 61111 me, qllta fgo 'Vado ad Patrem. .. .~.

A Iitd~ while. and ye £haJI not fee me~ : and again a IittI~ .

whIle, and ye {hall fce me, becaufe I goe.ro the Fi,.

. ther, . " . p.648: .

oAdeo pro'Voc4nfc" 'Deum ad mdlgnationem foaM 111M, IIIITT~; 1'&1. Io6~ I peret in eOJ p'aga; dasec confij/mlt '7inchaJo rj jlldIClllm(x.(oq,}o. . .

.' erCC1Jte,coerc11a eflet plagilIU". . . .. ". .

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions:

an~ the plague brake 'i~ upon them. Then ll~odup ..

Phinehas, andcxecuredJudgmcnt: and fo the P,lague Wasllayed. 1'.65'

'\

LECT

PREACHED UPON

the firftChaprer

-OF

- GENESIS.

\.

- 'I

-~. ~ .. -\.

LEe T U RES> Preached at P A U L E S L 0 :J'\.G'D 0 :JIG

Saint

In Prillcipia Det« creavit [",fum o- Terram, «s-c,

Got. I. r,

E E have heard of the undoubted credit and unquefiionable Authority of MOfos the writer:Now . touching his hand-writing. hee hach lefe five Bookes, as five fingers ot hi. ban!l. to point at the knowlcdgofGod and heavenly things, that fo hee might fuew them unto us. - In all which Bookes,wee may obferve two principall pares of his intent and purpore: : The one: was to deliver to Gods Church the Law and Word of God: The: other is to write the Hiftory of Gods Works.

-Firfthc:e fets downe the: Creation of the: Wold, and alllldb; that after hee might Ihew the Lawe which was given to all fldhin

the World. .

This Hiftorie of the worlds Creation apily divldeth it felfimo two pans , The firllconct:rneth the: old World (1 Pel. 1'5') which was in Paradife. The: other, that World which hath been fince, and

fhall he to the end thereof. .

Touching the: old World, hee confidererh it in its perfection, integritY,'and happineffe, in chefe firll two Chapters; and in its defection, decay, and mifery, in the third Chapter : For the perfeCtion of it, wee arc led to confider the: Creation of the World, in the beginning of this Chapter, and the Creation or making of MaD, and invellinghim in PArddift, to bee the Lord and Governor of all

the World and the things therein," ..

The fum ofthefeverles, is the narration 01 the manner 01 the rcaring lip of the frame of all things wee fee in heaven and earth 5 which is a matter offo high, huge, and infinite confideradon, that wee Ibould quickly confound and lofe our Ielves in ie, if God had

. A nor

, '

LeElures preached ill St. IF aul! elmrch.

2 --------.----,s~th~i:s~th~r~ed~o~t:d;i~(e~6:tl:on~in~ou~r~~~a~ndds~,~t~o~bbrrii~ng~us~o~u~t;of

nor gIVen I, h' h ICe woulda(tomill us.

this ,ntricate maze, w. I,e ~, fi dayes works,in which is Ihewed

This CreatiOn IS diVide Int~ ~x frame of the whole world: In the fix joynts , as it were ~r 0 t f God in this worke, confill:eth in' which fix dayes the p~oce\ 10g e~tiLlg of all Creaturc:s, of and after thcfethreepomts. F,lrll:,t ecr atter and mannc:r : For, the lirlt: an indigefr, rude: and lmpc:rte& m h' h after fliP the Earth. Secondday wpmadeAyudemaff~~r r'¥ w l~he Waters. Thirdly, over hoth Iy; a boltomlifJehrlge g"l}e, w inc wiUhich wMt~e Firmament.

was a foggie obfo~re myft of dar~l1elre w is fet'downe the: diftin&ion,

Atter rhat, 10 the fec?n p ~~ htfirom darll1lej{e. Secondly, of

wbichis in three forts. Flr£l:,Oj Ig .) orehe SeiU MIa Clollds.

//;e nttber Waters from the uppey WaltTs, (VIZ. ~

Thirdly, Oflh~rr:alt~sfromtd~~~~' of this, cnCueth inthethird After the dlfimc,hon an 'f ,I I ~ dorningthem afterthisorder place, Gods worke 111 beaun ylng an a

which wee now fee. S ndly the A,re wilh FOI.les.

Firrt, the Heaven whJth ~~arr::; bJ~~~Pla,,~afalifom. Fourthly,

Thirdly the Earth wi! DCAJ'S, r

the seaa~d~~aterswilhF_~ed hi great frame of all the World, and

And having thus fini e t IS hen he framed and made Man,the beautified the fame ,as wee fcc; II ced him therein, as his Pallace little world, after hIS Image, an P a

[0 enjoy and pofiHfe. f h Creation it is fet downe in the lidl

Touching the £irft part 0 t kC f reat'weight and importance.

verfe , in which aretoure wor ~ 0 g Third creAvlt. fourth~

The £irft, In prlnciplo; Secon , D~; cou led doc 'fall under

r, c~lllm&Teyram: . ~or thcCetw~'h elogoffi r!d un~ous four princi-> in one part of the diviiion. In w IC are e

pall matters of g;reat regardd'h thln(t weefie were no' (o ever, hilI had

Firlt Thatthl4 worMan t e .. s ,

II begin;ing al II certain ti,!,t" h .t: ,hings hadnoHhtlr being of thtm~

Secondly, Atlhl:begmmng, I eJI

2. felves, buto! drlOlher. , d working of themwM onl, of God, and

3. Thirdly, That, t~e crelltlo".~nce/lrJdtrlnil' ofperfOns.

of that God which IS In UIfW! o{dell' b e God's lind thaI the, were madc

Fonrthly, 'fhat Heaven an Eart IIr ,

4, and prejtrvtdhy him. , ", ) hath admitted a three fold fence.

Touching the £ir~ (m prtfmp/O. f divers men; all which have

according ,to the dlvtde c~n~~~~o~t error or danger : Fi~ll:. 0';· beene received, and may bend interpret it as thc:Caure, \~hl,h wal gen and Amhrofl doc take a hat i G ds Wifdomc:; which (asthe the beginning of all, and t at IS f 0 to bee led to und~and Caufe) began all. And they may e~me pro'/J 7 Wiftdpme;"he it thus, by thefe two places, the o~e In t~~ 'tvijid;7II; haft tho" mJl heglnnlng, &c. the o.her 1 'h4 pf~t' ~~~t in the beginning is meant, them aU; Thc:refore they t oug ,

Tn Wi(eaome God cremd, &c. Secondly

Secondly, it is. taken for, tpcofdc:rl)t ~i.'AC:i-aswhojhould fay l FirH ot all, andbefore any thiog dl~wasgl]lIe ,.Go4 milde Heaven and E,arth, in the verY.li:rft b~ginniDg ufti!lifll~1th;u: is"io~.D,Joment, or as it were: in the tlVinckling, Q( an eyc:~JC#r. 15. 5%> cltithad all things their bcginnmg and merion, in the beginning ohilillt~u ~bey . fhall leave and lof~it: at the end and Jdl: period of time, w;hich.iSche Worlds end : It is):10 danger ot error rhus to undcrftand( Inprin.

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:rhirdly, Itjsraj~(11 lleb'3') thatiti~aMyfiery.~dmatte'r~f Faith, [0 beleeve thu, of the: CrutlOn, IN ,he hegJ,!nlflg;; an~ fo" is; yct God hath not made our reaion Iorepugnanr trom f,aitb,even in naturall men; but that even by the Ienfe and fight oftbings,mans reafon c~nnotdeny', but ~ufi needs gather.and contc_lfc ,his to be true, Th.,ali 'hing~ wemiJade, .mtIh4d" hegifJI#ng; And tbis:,U Hea .. theniln Philofphers. (as mayappcare by all_hooks o'f.tb~(gn.ib. in ",II ages,fince the fiudy of learning; and learned men qaCa,becne) , doc plainly ibc:w,that thcy had in remembrance themfelvel',_and did commend to others by their writillgs,the knowledge and~du1ow:~ ledgment of this unirerjal creati,~.. ;.. .- ; • .

This hee proverb by thofe Philofophers ·whlch Were asaoeler-I as the Prophet EftUM, untill late times, and thatthey had a remembrance yf.fV,IIh;namjng him :1..,,16, and paintioghim with two faces, one looking into the oldworld before the Flood. and lbcother beholding the world after: Bclides fuch wrjtCJ5,. otna,uraUmeD~ very reafon doth confenr hercuntp,. Th41 ,he "",M ",ttI _,~,~ 'll'olfder!ulJl'Iwer,andjohaa"hegin1/i"g; for Reafon is cyerDltUJally led to,Jookand conlipc:r the b'g!IlDingandcaufc of any.tbiDgit feerh, as when it fcetb a great Trce,thoughitfecnot the;roQt.C. yet it conceiveth, for·~rrain, that it hath a roote which conveyed! fapptQ rtic:.;Trce, bYVI!l*b itgto"'~th andC:Qcreafeth.: . So:wbenit (eeth a gtea~Rivcr "i~ by and by concluderh., there is a.greatEQun. rain a,lld."h,ead, where' it hath 'bis originall.and begioning .. AgaiD~ RcaCor.clllhotabidC:in£initeCau('es,.as i cer. 11. 3. to fay, 'he womancllme_oj"",n, themano/trhrift, and chrift o/G,d; Bccaufedi .. vers Caules have divers times and motions; but E.~afon will bpng things to their partleularhead and chiefcaufes, which by oae motion and at one time did it. .' 'c,

AICo in that we fay things are done fucccfiivcly, by order of times neerer and farther olf, it argu,eth neceffarily a beginning. aM thc:r~ fore faithD4v;d i1a1. rJ9· 'I" AUthi"gsc~lffin"eAlike~j"1JI111I;~lgi1l' ing, tbrollgh 'h, ordinlUl;l. AIl·things fince iii the worid hav_cb~e yb .Gods appoiotmene and DcqeeJ'/4t,6s.".paul ~ellethth,sto tile wife and learned of Athtfll, 11.5 a~which they~~~ andta~t in their Schools to bee true 17 All's 24. And rl."faith IC wa54.Cay· ing of great antiquity and credit in his r ime,and long b~fore ;7'''11 God ma", !1ft ,hing,!, an4 m''''. AI ... certain,nne, wh;chflliM ,hei,j, •. ginlfing. . '. ~. c • ,.

Plutarch !hewcth tba, Iome deemed 'the world tobeeconceivc:&i

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and brought forth, andt~ grow to pcd~etion as a man; and others, that it was the {lamp which God Iet on It, and foalllea~ned menta all ages and all men endowed with natural fence and right reafon have b:c:nc r;:fohed iihhis, That the lVorld H'M tbe 1V9rkmnlljhip,f God,

And had hi; begirming. " /

The partie adverfe (0 this tr~th, was rhe firfl of the fed: of the Peripatethks which (contrary to his mafia plato, and all that were hetore him; and conrrary 1:,.0 his Scholar Theopbraftm, and the moll: that followed him attn) held that V!1I1ndu; erat ~t~T1Im, ,and fo had no beginning nor maker at all; ye~ (n~twlEhfia~dlDg this new ,conceit and opinion) hee confefleth this twice or thl!"', tha~ bee giveth credit to rhofe ancient men which were before him, which by long grounded experience, and by tVid:ot demon!l:ration, and cre?ib~e rcflimonies held and taught orherwife then hee rhonght , and I~ his book de calo hee Iaith that there was a ChMS, a darkndfe and light which had a beginning, therefore as heefeemeth to d,ilf~r,an~ leave his ancients of fingularity only, on a conceit and devife of his own, fa his SCholers and followc:.rsatter him, forfook him in ~hat opini. on, and therefore this point llan~th undoubted; as ratlfic.d both by evidence of realon, and by the )ud~emc,nt of ,the learned m all ages. Thcfecond Poio~ is rhe Creation, In which wee arena nate tirfl, that the things which wee fee were not. ofehemfelves, when they had their being and beginning, }lecaure they ar~ an cffca and worke 01 fame efficiem caufe .. for it IS vcryabfurd ID reafoa, th~t one and the fame thing iliould bee both a. Caufe and an Effect of It felfe, for Io it mull bee granted. th~t a thIng b~th was and w.as not at onetime· for as it is the Caule, ,It mufi needes bee beforelt was, and as ids ;n Elfeetit could riot bee: at the nrft 5 fa idhould bee andyctnotbccato~etime: Therefore David eeacheehus ro fay, Itu heetbatmadem andnotlVeeorwfelvu, weearetheShltpe- ilf hi& paJltm, for prcfervati~n, and the lVorks :01 hil hamls, for Creation! fo that Job Iaith, we mull: rcfolveThatll w,u another th., mait.Rthings, and that one is God.

Thefe two points, that not the World, but:anotber~ madc:the W or Id and all in it, doth ovcrthrow twe errors of t~e Phdo!ophcr~, ~pinJ' S,O'''' the one was of the Stoicks, whic!l taught quod OI1l~/tlftun' {IlIO, as If =«. by the revolution of things and runes, at fuch an tnil:~t the: world mull needs bee, by fatall dd1:iny and neceffiry , and mIght not bee

otherwife.· -

The other were the Epicures, which [augh,; The world was a

Epic",Cl, /II/J. thing made at a venture, by cafnalchance, and happy hazard, br a divine effence , the one taught that God c_~lUld ~oe no Otherwlfe then but make it; tbe other thought that God did hce could not tell what.

But PJal. I 15. 3. DCU4 fee;I qUf.,unq~e voluit in.cdo & 7'er,'" And Revel. 4: 1 I. dU thlngJweremade fOr hIm 411(Hy hu wiU. And-Efdi4S' 18. God made not H caven and Earth In vain, to 110 end, but the word fignifieththAt heemadd,withWifdomeandColmfill. Ef.143· 13' God

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wlM,6ifo,e'4ny141 M;and hce~sketh, Who (fluid ~onj1r4illhil1l '" t,e. {(fllIY to'I1IrIKeltor nor to I1Inkeit. IItb_ 3.4, l(,a'1II4n, hint 111'" jlfilnge Co'mt~y, /haO fee a hOIl[e, hee WIU .eminty,affirm ,{iI' tfie!',hilh'. "'"TJ buildt!lit ,th.t it ;, a "'.m worke; 'fa 'lairh hee, whcil-wl:cfec'all Creatures, H,avED' and Barrh, vvce'il]oW'ill'atGod'i:n'allcihem all •

. Ar~afonagai~fi:ffiat opi~ioh ofFdrtu~eis this,Tharchingsdonc: by Chance asewirhoue cunnIng .. 'But'Godiliith infinite wifdome devlfedall -rhmgs , the -Eye 'to fee,Colbrs 'tobee 'feell ,and'the Light, as the meanes by which weefee , a:lfoaU thingsa;e'iit'cuch. wonderful' -erder , fuccceding One anotHerin,their-c6tirCc: as 'the feafonsof t~ln&s, which Ihew rhem'ndt,to'bec by Chal!c;' . there. ~orc:he~hllolophers Were glad'Whcn theyfound OUt that ''II' , t1I~ef/lgen'14 , !fhat was the caufl:,'df all i fo that they confeffe all tbiogs'eo bcernade by a wODderfiilt'wifeColinfcll aqddircdurfe of an undcrfi!lndin$ minde ;So'tb~t it was made by' a!)OtbC'r no~ by

Neceffitynor Ohimce. ""'. '

[rea1Jrit ClJilum & Ttrram, & '0o/nia in ii/is.

N OW'll't'~wte,c;()~eto thef¢,urth :t_nd'Jaftpoint ~hichwce:ue rocgnlidcr, m this verfe, a~thatI5, 7'h!ltthi thlngswhlGh wIre Cmttlih'f,<fOd,.4Yebolh. ae4vtn_aililEilrth, rVbi"h here t.'!illdtob"liil wo~kmal>j/itp,7 W?ichthough "be here {'ft. 'doWo'e'jn bvoogtehcrall

lhwg$, yet lire hIS works manifGtd; yea ih'fin'it'e atld can'iiot~'ennm-

bred; All ",hl~h Crcaturesaildttiirtgs Clt3:tcl:i, dnnotbiiebttter e~prclfc:dthI:1H!llhcflr tWo, whicb. cOrttaihilltlic rei!: ~ fOr hee (0

faIth EXDd.. 20. U. Infix ditJes heemrfae [{,iIiu'en 11,,4 Eilrth the Sell4T1iJ allthtlri6thtrtiil! So doth Daviolt"pOutldhiSfu~aDirtg, 11'1.116,6. andRwel. 10.,6. therefore :rob illitll,38. 6, 1. Th., G'6dm4ie nolO»-

, "t':e stores J1Itth the nu,'ut1li, 6f1Mfo th~ AngUs, oi'c1iilllr,iI of Gill . - whlGh iSre In tlltm, and Pftl. 2<\,. 1,(;~iI ItIhll; liet Ii [.ttl I' ma&the round Wor!d, he meaneth alfo, flU,h" dw~ll thurin, that Is, AW, il/f,. yea hee IS alfo the Lord and Creator of the: Soules add Spirits of all Flcih, a,s wl!l~ as their bodies.l'lul1l!J. '1.7. 16. So, that, to conclude w.lth SaJilt p.tul, by ehefe two is utidl!tftdod ant!c:olllprehended 'lI1 the Creatures, vilibh!and ihvifible, Vl-hlch God mad." Coli, I. 16. FrJI'the Heilvi,,! tJl't the ,60si,,9 lipIDiltd4nd the Earth;, the b~Nnd below; whith contlufJt "D fltiflititi IbefH ; Ut us tbc.refore titfr confider the!e~ two joyntly I dlen in the order wherein t~Cly ~3Ild, and in the: !:if!- pl:iCHcverallY. Toui:liliig tlte flrfi, DIl'lJ~d falth,Pflll.IO'1.. is. ThoIlL6rtlinihtbliWiiflg-lJiJ! 14itt the [olmd"tllTls of the smb, tIfId thr:maveni/J,!,ldtf6tlttfifl!Jj fiAilds. EfIl14°· IZ. II II G6dlhlll made Heaven .nd EII1',h. fJ,1- 31. ~7. 18. ::fob. 38• 5, 6 ". The Heavens doe /h,w,hN, I" ,h."hej ;if¥JBlhh;; t:rt~ Alor, bcciufe they ate mOY'c:tblc, and yef fuDject to after~io'ri, and the Earthunlnoveablti, and not rubjea' £0 motion, .' . -

Mofis meaning is, Th~t not thl: Earth alone ",as made by God, 2.~Ojot.

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but alto the Heavens, that is, both of them, and all in both, were his ,worke, not the Earth only. but alfo the Hea: vcns , tlgamft the Philofophers , which rhinke therfore that the Heavens were not made, beciufe none can affigne. the point where the Heavens began, nor in what part God began to make them, nor where the Heavens firft began to moves by which rea fan they might hold that the heart of man was not made becaufe none can tell how it began its motion to pant and beat , whether by [.foole or dtajlole, but as the heart was made, though unknown where the firft motion of it is, fo were the Heavens.

That hee made nor rile Heavens only, butalfo the Earth below againft the errors of the Manichees, which hold that there were tw~ caufes of Heaven and Earth; That the good and white God made rh~ Heaven, and Man from the middle upward; And the blaCk and (VIII god was [he efficjenr caufe of the Earth and of Mao from the middle downward; but as Gods power and ;ifedome is Ihewed and ken as well in an Ant as in an ElephAnt, as one faith; as well in the crccpmg Wormes , and bafeft Creatures, as in the Angels and moft excellentCreatures: So doth his Majcfty and Might appearc: in the Earth as well as in Heaven.

Now in regard of the order here fet downe, wee havea confideration fira at the Heavens; for if there were any Order obferved in Gods creaios ; furely the Heavens were made in the firll: place, which fheweth the glory of the Creator; for who ever in building his houle, would or could begin it at the Roofe firft, a~d then afterwards lay the Foundation of the Earth ~ but his omnipotency is fuch, that hee beginnerh to make his houfe from the Roofe downew~rd, as wee fee in the Iecond and third verfes, .And this is ftrangc~ faith fob z 6. 7. 'I hat hee batb made the Heavens tu,n ,ound like II wheele witbout an sxeltree, and ,h., bee hath co.fod ,he :Earth to hang and flantl without an, prop to uphold it .- When Rlee ,hereft" confider the Heaven., and Ea,th, tbe workeofthyhallds, weemuft needesknow that the corners of the Earth are uphclden by his hand. ' .

Let US confider them Ieverally and apart, in which wee muflregard I hem a,fter .three forts; Fira in refpect of God, as they arc compared ~llh him; Se~ondly, as they are compared to themIelves , Thirdlyvcomparmg rhern to us. ..

,Efa,66. I. ComparingthemwithGod; Heaven w,"mad~'ohee /;1$ Seale,And Earth to be bu Foot-fiDDle.

Inre(pecI of themfelves , Heaven was made as the male part of the World, by whofe influence, motion and dewes, the Earth as th~ female part !hould~ as it were out of her womb, bring forth all living and needrary things. Hermes the .£gyptian, the per(iaT) wile men, and OrphefH the Grecian; appoint rhefe two as the: matter of

all things that are. '

In regard of us our felves, Heaven and Earth are the meanes of OUr moving,and re~, for the motion of the Heavens is the beginning of our bOQIly monon, and the: unmoveable Earth is the caufeof rell::

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reft : Wherefore faith :Job 38. 33. That the Courfe and Order of Gods Creatures muft make us orderly in all our doings. In rcfpe{l: of God and us, God hath madethe Earth to beeone ,~", o~r

work houfe (0 doc his willin, & he: made heaven to be hu ~oo.., 8 Ilr ' his COUntry, or pay houfe, where he will reward our good worses, t$ ,or·

Thus we have Ieen Gods ordinance in rhefe words , 1. That Heaven and Earth arc Gods handywork: i.That the Heavens by order are lirft, and firll of U5 to be: cared tor: 3. The ufe ofirwhich we mull: make, both in refpect of God, ofrhemfelres, and our {elves. Now out at this doetrine we frame she firll: article of our belief thus, God in the goodnefs of his fatherly love made Hcavc:n,.and Earth, and all in them: And that he might have a Creature above all others, to whom he might impart and bellow them, be made Man after his own likenefs \ [0 he made all things, non juoeDmmlltU, :Job. 35,6,7. for we can doc him no good; neither did he give them us, noftro ",e,;'0,Ej4, 40. 5,6. for how could we dcfervc any thing, when he gave all things to us before we were, and wben we were made we were but vanity; therefore it was his mere and gratious goodnefs that broug he forth' Heaven and Earth for us at the beginning. pfol. 11 5. IS, We art we bl,{ftd of ,he Lord, .. hiGh mAtie Heaven And lJAnh.-So in that Pfalm is difiinguilhed the true God from all Idolls , for they cannot move, nor fpeak nor dee any thing; but God did all with his word. SoSt.p;ul,bythefaltle reafon, eshorterh the Lycaonlamto turn from ldolls to thc true God, Ans 14. 15' But moft plainlyferemiAhIo.IJ. tcac;hcth t~i~ ule .to be made of the knowledge of Gods Creation. In ell/tl"'lIIe, faith he, YOll jbaf1 6e "",pwitl firvetheir Idols; butbetcllcth them what anfwerthey muf!: make, which, is' written in the Caldee tongue, all the rell: of the bookbeing in Hebrcw, which anfwcr is this iosr God made Heaven And Earth,and All inlh,m til 611t ,ollr Gols elln doe nothing, but their namel /hall vani/h AW_", And nOl he h,ard "POIl the Earth. By which we fee, that this maketh a plain difference bctwl:cn the true God of Heaven, and Idols, their nsmesfhall pcrilh before the earth; but as OUr God was before the Earth was made, fo the Earth and Heavcns!hall pafs away before him,which endureth for ever. The: Gentils made their gods the ofspdegof Hesven & Earth; but.weknow that Heaven and Earth arc the oJspring of-our God, which made all; and this isthe difference to dlfcernc theauc'God from the falfe; thus we have Ieen ",hat we aretoiearnoutof this; lo~ the grounding of our judgment and found knowledgc,and perfc" cling our underllanding in the Crc4tion.' . " .. ; .

. Nowitremainethto!hew,outof~hi5 four points, whatis to be u.' ... le~rne~rthe breeding and nourilhiilg of good ~Otions ;m.dalF",

aionun our hearts. ' . . •

For the firll, If there was I'beginning of all things, then un-

doubtcdly there will be an end. • -. . ,

If there be a head, though the Imagebe never fo great and call, yet we IhIUcome to his feet at the kilt, DAn, "41, 4:l,43. ,allhl:

.,... . wodl!

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world had its feed time, that is, ies beginning, and it' Winter time, when it was overwhelmed with wat::f, and irs hot Summer, w ~cn God rained in it fire fo Ihall it have Its harvefl nme at the Jalt, Iaith Chrifi: Mat!'. 13. {a. when the good Ilull be carried into Gods barn and the evill into Hell fire : therefore fame have well obferve'd that the Hebrew words which figoifie heaven and earth, have the firlt letter of them Aleph, and the laft Ie.ter of them Tau, to (hew that they fhall have an end, as they had a beginning, both in heaven and earth fo faith St. f.ul, 1 Cor. 10.11. and tun.: 2.12. but as in the beginning the morning had his evening, and ~hc: evening his morning: fo fhall it not be at the end; for then faith Saint Tilde in his Epifile there Ihall be to the godly a mormug of erernail life, without ;ny dark. or dimme evening any. more, verf 2 r, and to the wicked an cycmng of utter darknefs, without any rnorningor lightners,verf6. that is, as the Angell Iware Rev. 10. 6. that as God made the beginning of time, io Ikere jhOllld he no more time nor courfe nor order of daycs, but eterOlty of all; Wherefore'faithSt. pet~r, what manne"f men oflght we I~ he _in alt godlTne/! .J life, foeing Godmadetbeworld jn love jor us, andfeetng there will be anena oj the wortd,and ajudg,ementforus. The Apoftle, f/r6. I. I I. 12. citeth DAVids faying, that the Heavens Jhallw4x old, and be folde~ up as a garment, when the [ull number a~ Gods Elect arc accomplifh-d, for whom this garment and covcrlOg of~e,:yeu was made,and who doe bear up the pillersofthe earth; for If It, were: ~Ot for the Godly and EleCt in the world, neither ofthem could connnue, EflJ1 51.6. The earth alfofball be wr~ppe1"p ~t tbe tim« :.in a word. this word (CreAIe) fignificth tobegin with wifdorne and Judgement! and to end with jufhce and judgement; fo, Eloh/m,the Creator,fig~lficth a] udge , and we in our name Creatures carry about us this fen:

renee, that we arc one day to be jt1dge~. .

The fecond point is, That the Creation was of nothing.then g~od motions and affections, which that knowledge muft breed.nourifh, and bring forth in us, is to mak~ us Je~rn to know a~d acknowledge our nihil, thlt each of us 10 particular are nothing, though we in pride fo advance our Ielves here on earth; as though it feerned to us, that we were Iomething , yea, tha~ we were made of {om II: more excellent things than others; as If we were not as the Publican: but faith St. PAul, l~ any th.nk them.[e!ves [Q be: oughr.or if we beany thing now, let him ,know that,thls 15 [0 by God, not of h.im[elf, 2 Cor ~ II. 5. ,ametji nibil fomU!, in 1110 tAmm {umus, therefore If we be nothing, that Ihall condemn,us; If we be any thing, ie is not that which candefcr~e to rave us; tor we are Ih~t wt are,"y hil grace, I Cor. 15. 10. A~d If we can acknowledge this with humilirie then we Ihall know this alfo, to our comfoi e, that he which made u's of nothing, can, and will,bri.ng us to be Iomethings in goodnefs, ifwc Ierve him with humble rnindes, EfoYl8. 3. And

this is the ufe and fruit of that, .

The third point is That God is our Creator whore namt:,Eloh"'~,

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-i. fetched arid defiyed'from rhis Hebr." pr.pofit~ ,I, and,t~OIn the Greek prepofition J)d,obyboth. whiCh God isca1l~d,'wbidlpre.

poftrions bothdoe(ignifie per -&- P"P'" s to reach ISS, chu~eis OUr

per 1I1em,II.1# inuftilc,our pr,,~erq'm", in aUoi!raaio~:'thttefore '

a~ It is he PtI. qllelll fumll4 ,10 We mull make here,his glone Ind praiCe ..

the end ot ill our thoughts, words, aa:ions, or devifes, whatfoeYer,

, 'JII1;""f6.~ S:'Eli!ij71ijSTaidto make a~,aod 1ner~foicwe qiulh,iill

pr~~ ~~~ ~to~ta,molJg th~I'J,~w'n :,So ~~re wQa~ ~!l£ht ~~r~- " mllmbcr him In our YOUfh,1S our Creatoq to knit oudc!ycs anll

our ,wills to him, as our Governor; and ihtrembJlRg~<tofc'ar'him",

as ourJudge,forhwmmnh '~jtidg~'he w~ltJi"lrlltb,!fot. 96. I ro' fOf:if"wc: t!Jall amend Our lim; we,1ha1nejoyce1\nawitb for his'comming, as we ,rcjoyee,'and praift"him for-our making ~

and diis.i~ the perfection: <If ."ChriftiiD _ maa, ,,,,,,.e"'ijier,.

When·wc think how wonderfully,God hath' made us, and.whb joy/

and gladllc{s faywith DAVid,PJ4. ' I 19. ' 1 Z; . 'f rem~"Ifr¥lb, jill",. tNtlltl4j'old, Imd recei"ed comfort: ' ~bd as we know thl(lij;IIi.J(l,.6j hlm,'II1ell'fJe,1IIove,.llmihIl'fJIONrihillg. A{lS1-7; 28. (0 wellluftliyc, moveapd brcathonly for him, that is, fo fmc fort~ ;(slnay'malt:\:, '.

{OrhiS.,! 'I lorie,' that. at., Jail ~m,'. ay Wi~,h ,;oY. ,~~"''''emJlrIr, [Mm. hI"'i Mfo4t,!ilh!lIltcmfor,IPtt'4.ver[.J9._' ""c. >i, '

,The,to~rth point was, tbet~ingsmade,namely, B(a"rtn illd ,.Poin" ' Earl~, which comprehended aUm them s thlt o~c bciog,thcl.lfPcr

bound above, and the othet belbw, 'betwHlibotliiVtaclfarc air: ,Theufeis,thatifwe look upward wefeef1cayen; ttWfC.Il:,qur eyesdowil, th"rth will be [lfell. $ fOl: Ollr ey't"s and lig1it are ginll

10 fcc both, whic~ two, 1!lIiusltllJ"",-,hejwllhell _, :jH:U"7o If

we wilJ nouskthcm. yet thcywillprctcli and .tIe&I",a,tl'g""k.

Pfol.lg. I.thatlIOtonce a weck,but ni0htansi day; not rJf iii '

hour in thenight or dlly, but cODtillually ,thOugh thcitprcacning'

doe. not trouble our ears, beint;:dumb, yct tfrc:y cry alaud; and

though they fpeak not E~gIHj:J, yet their YOyc~ isintelligiple'ro aU

'Nations and Languagesm the World : wherefore feelng tItey ftil.

cry aloud; and tel1.us of [he Creator, thatbe made all thefefor ds ;

it ~,.r"!luircd of us, that Wcbneady Wilh ()ur'trib!1t~:;aDd hOo,

mage~ ~hich .is to yeild due and cOntinullllltauund lhankfgiYing

to God for them; for hemamd. Earth h':ye a fellow _feclilig,ot

the gOOd and ,evil!.which c~thc:r,w.~' doc, or.God dotlf for us, !Ef.,

39· l.alldthc:y reJOYce WltH,US, when we doc, or haYe anygOOif

done to us. And fo \\lhen We.O#ftl'ld Ood·' in p<lyiag out dUty,1"t

:J. l:t. thenit is ell'Otigh to makt~.eri and,· earth ftand 1lI11"~itd.be'

aniazed and,alloniihed at it, ~ilfc we forge~ God lind o~t dutt.

T~Q~ doth our fintJe and u!lgratCfUllnelioVtrtlirow md pr~~~d

ftalnchc whole courfC'allqordet,ofNature,i1;,.I~. 4': fother~ I$a Concurrent ofth,mwitblltinbo~riilg, ,ftt.'i..g,an4' prai,ng tbe

ere.ator, both of thema~ us. Tbercfore i,t-iS our dUty, "Il~ .,.,t",

co gr¥c hcedfllllcarc. eo ,tbofe preachers, whlch preachG()d,wi.h~'

OU! the Chu{cb; alwaycs fu filence; -and fo giYe our .dutyaad rri.i "

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bute roferve andpraife G~d with t.hem among{\: his SaintH'le~"

that we maybe glor.ificd :wlththem ~n ;H':s ven ; ,that we may pr:lIfe and magnific him with his CfCI~ture5: m .earth"t.hatwc!DIY bC!jlo! tified"with.his Saints in Heaven, quod r~"4t DfUd FtrChr!ft_I»,' ,,'\,' .

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G",.l ••. vtr{, Terra ~~tem e~'at resiniormis&:j~~~u,te~efrk.1~e ~ra~ti,~J},~er.

, jieee 4~ypr. - . -: •. ,., , . ,)t!i'"

'1\ .v \ ,',.- \ ,.'" ~ , ,',!\ • . :-, ;,! :;;;-' ;'.

H t formet vcrlciwas delivered to us an ab!\rlla otthe ",holewwk of Gods Creation I" now,lefi. we: fuoulp think that whenllll'!1tntiOl,led Hc~ven and Earth before, he fhould- mean thtt aUthmgs . in Heaven and .Ear.th wert made in the vC.fy,moment ofthe begioniDg,cven1.lSwc: fcc thclPndW~ thcfefore Nefts .. Jllak.elh.;'h:l!l:e . to tell us ~'!' that

though at the beginning and firfi moment God.made quecrmtplt·mm,' filII', yet he made themnot quall~ r/Une Jum, ;but did t~~tm.fixdlfiinCtionsotfcverall times. It had .beenas eafie to him, tl'havc created all things, even in th,~de4ion and order they are, in a momear and infi.anr and.in that hO<\utifull form, lin 1I1hic:hth~y flW' fent theml'~lycs no~ to.our eyes" But it pleafed God, though illl pow~rllc~co\lld,doc ir"yet in w~frlome· to.,.procccda~te~the£e three degr~e~ .nwntioncd bFfore •.. Fll'fi; to create the: ~e~nnlDg, both of ~II times and of all thIAg$,as the matter,apd, bcglbnlDg .of all {upc~ riot bodies, and ~hcbegiilning'.Qf all.inferior ,bQdi~~ of, nothing. After tne work: of cf~atiQn, followethlhc work of dllhncl:too, f~o!YI this z , v'lfc to the 11.' And lafil~ en(ueth the wOirk.of pcrfcG!lon, with be,uty to adorn all his w,arks,and to'finifuthem,whichisfrom

the rr verfe to.rhe 16.'- ." " .': , ,i'ie .....

It pleafed God thus to proceed \0 this 1I10r.k; as ,wdhliat he might !hewhimfelf to ?~ the. God of older; as a~[o to dlfcoverto us the myflerie of the T[lI}I~y,ln the three prope~l\es-ofthethJCc pc~fons , which appear: in die Creation; Foral! was mad:~ by.hlS Power, which is the Pfopcrty of. God the: Father ;~Y hISW;lfcdam, whichis the property of God the Sonne, by which aU things were ~rdedydifpo(ed and difiinguilhed; And by the: dches:?f his Goodnefs, Which is the property . of the holy Ghofi., byw~l.Ch al~ thingswcre adorned and made peri.a :.thcCc~ three. pr()pertles ~[C

rem.embredillthc Revel. 5. n,andAa~17.18.· .', -.

We live by his power ,we, andaUrh,lOgs, moye In thiS order by his wifdome , and wchave thls, QUf belDg by . ills graceilldw>od-. nefs :by ,~is power~care taught 10 ackn.<iwl~ge hiPl"o;be our: 1>!=ginningilnd origioaU, eK quo jilmUd : by hlS;Wlfd0'!1e we ~d;IIOW4 ledge him to be the upbolder. plr quem {tIrnUd .: : by, hIS goodheK!", confefs him to be the Chief, propler'ltHdJ"l»ut; '.For, cdJifidCrm~

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his goodncJs, we, and all Creatures, mutt endeavor to doe all that we can for him, aod his praite and honour. . All which three arc plainly and orderly fer in the I I, RIJm. 36.

God alfo took this orderly proceeding, partly that we cotring into the meditation of Gods works, might by this means have as it were, a thread todir.eCt us orderly therein I for, by this m(3~s,we come co know this difference between Cre"tlem ordinalum, & ".1I4'ul» e(fe, as the Hebrews fay, by this means we Ihall know not only the beginning and being of all things, but alfo howord:dy and excelIemiy all things were made in this Creation ; And thus much ot the reaions ot rhis courfe of Gods proceeding in this work.

Mofes having therefore in the firll: verfe fet down the materials of the World and all in them; now to the II. "erfe he fhewerh rhe w~Jrk of difiinaion : And after, the work of adorning and perfe, lbng all.

,But firft of all he handlerh two things in this verfc Firft what the things wore he made in the beginning, before they' were diftingui-

!hed by God; for they were v~id and vain confufed things, WJth. ~~~,:u:: :Cd;-

out order or form, all covered WIth oblcure da.rknefs. World.

Secondly, He fheweth how God did firft order and difpofe thefe rude: things, ehatthey r:night be fit for difiinCtion and perfection. Of the lirft whereof at this time.

In the lirft verfe w~ confid~r God as Dtflm TheologJcum; for it is ~ matter an? a m1ill:e:ne of Faith, that God gavt:all things their bemg of nothing : But now hereafter we Ihall confider him 1A1I1J1I41n Dellm philoJolhi&ul»; for there is no Philofopher, if you allow him his U" this matter of the world, but will confefs , that it was G~d as they call ,6", an underftanding Spirit, which is his power and wifdome, framed all things in this order and forme, even common natural r:alo~ aUowe.th and admitrerh thi~ mle.becaufeour Confdcn.ces doc fee It, Tharin every excellent work.rhe action mull: by cerrain degrees,and fpaces come to perfection; for before fire can burn any other things, it mull: firft warm, then by little and little make black,an~ parch and Icorch t~e combufiib~e thing, & after thar,it inflameth ir ,and at lal] maketh It perfedly ofirs fiery nature.abletodoe that to anotherthing which the fire did to it at the firfi.;foevery caufe, by an orderly courfe of procceding,doth bring his effect to perfechon

MoJes fhewerh therefore, that God took that courfe which is ve!y agree.1~lc to natural reafon , and therefore firfi fereerh down the 1tnperfeCt«)t~ of all things at their firfi beginning, and then the degre,s by w~lch they come to their perfection . For at the firftthere was a foggie grofs darknefs.afrer ,he made the dawning or morning which is a mixture of fame light and tome darknefs • And after h~ made the perfeCt light. So at the: firll: he !hewett; touching ~hc waters, ,that they were a bottornlefs gulfe , afterward, he: made them quiet waters; and at lafl, made them Ialr Seas and frefh Waters, Fountains and Springs, in moll: neceffary and orderly fOrE,And lor the Earth, fiIll the beginoing of them (which Were the: matter

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at all earthly things) it was a dcfolate and difordered, rude and deformed mats.covered with water; After, God fet it above theWaem, and made it dry ground, as the word lignifieth; And at the lal!: he broughrir to its perfection, making it truicfull and fanttifying it in all neceffrry things: In the handling of which, we will firl!: gc:~ nerally behold [hem together, and then Ieverally and apart.

Touching the firfl, It is even as if he had raid, all things in Heaven and Earth were: not,at the beginning, in that comely and per~ fed order and manner, in which you behold them now : for now they prcfem thcrnfelves to our eyes well fafhioned, adorned and replenifhcd , but then they were: without form, un!hapely, and void. So the waters now we fee, Ierve lor Navigation above, and within them they are moll profitable and fruirfull in bringing innumerable frore oi lith, but at the beginning it was made void, rude, and raging , Now we fcc the Heavens beautified and adorned with Illrs and lights; but at the beginning it was but a grofs mill and confufed darknefs, without any light: Wherefore one calleth them the fwadliog Clouts of the Worldsiniancie, l'{41.I04' 6, for the Waters ovcrfpread and covered all the Earth, and the miftof dllrkntfs,fob faith,,,,,,, the fW4dling h4Y1d of the World, 38. 9. So the Cloudes were rhe I wadling Clouts of the World, in which it was wrapt up; and the Seas were his Swathes, to binde and C wadle it up in its bell infancie.

As the Worlds Creation was of nothing, in the work of di!lin: dionallthings were next kin to nothing; lor that' without was rude andconfufed, and within is void and emptie of any good, is as a thing of nothing , and fuch were all things faith (.Mofes. The Earth being difiinguilhed from the Waters was fomthing indeed, but yet fo dry and unprofitable, that it was to no purpofe nor ufe for any thing to dwell and remain on it.,

Now we Iee the earth is fct firfr, if Mofes had obferved a curious order, he fhould have placed heaven before earth, as in the I. & 6. but the manner of the holy Ghoft in the Icripture, is alwayes to begin to [peak of tlut which is frefhef] in memory, and that is commonly, that which OnC Ipcaketh of lafr.

The earth is called Toh,;, Tobohu, which hath this fignification that it was a thing without thew, in fight misfhapen and deformed to outward view, and within to have no inward vertue of good fubflance , to make amends ; for Tohll,fignifieth a thing misfhapen without, and Tobohll fignifieth a thing wanting all goodneffe, and fubflance within, to make amends for that; and Io it fignifieth a thing of no commendation or value. There are many things which arc ']'ohu, that is, deformed without, as ElifhA ~ Reg. 2, 23. who was mocked and derided of the boyesinthe flreer, but yet within he had inward vertues, which, made amends for his outward want.

And there are fame things which are 'Iobohll, ihat is, void and wanting all inward fubihncc:, and good ftuffing within, without 'arc

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are very goodly ~nd fair in ~ew to look '':'0, as Ab(olo" which.wiebout, was a man Without blemifh, but within he had no good !lufting anfwerable to that without, but rather ffaught wi.h pride murder and difobedience, ' ,

But the earth was both Tohu and 'Iohohu, without deformed and within void and empty, not that it had no form, (or that w~c againfr reafon, but it was fuch a form as was altogether deformed. tor there is. lor_ ,.fujionis, 6- flrm4 ptrfeilionu, and [his defoe: med form, it had wruch made u loarhed, having nothing co commend It ; It had as the prophet E{4] 34. r r, fpeakerh, line of deformity, and the Ilones of emptinclfc, threatning to make wicked Cities fuch deformed things, that is, he willmake them like the: world at this !late, a confuted head, and the francs of the heap !hall not be found ftones, but unprofitable tubbi!h fit for no ufe. Thas we fcc What the earth was at the: beginning.

Now God in proceeding did replenifb and fill that yoyd empty_ neffe which it had, with all good things which it wanted, and beautified the deformity of it in this moll glorious form as no" we fe:r ,and better fhall perceive hereafter: fo that it is eVid~nt, that both the fulneffe of things, with which now it is repleni!hed and

this beauty which it hath, it then wanted. '

Et SpiritlU Dei incubabat fuperficiei aquarum,

SEcondly, we are t.o. confider of the deep which is cal. led "''''I- 2; (um, which in the Scriptures is properlyapplyed unto the wato,s,as in the 7. Gen. II. and E}A] 51.10. and Luke 8. ~Z, 83.

Thele waters were the matter of which the heaveDs were made,

for God fpread them abroad as molten gla{fr,fib 37. 18. and they

fhal! dillolve and melt again in the Jafr day 2. Pel. 3.10, II, r a, fa

tha~ in this depth of water, is conteined the matter whereof the

high heavens were made. St. Auftine calleth it in"dinatum mmfttalem aquarum, that is, a difordered, for they had no limit or bound,

nor any order or courfe in them; they were without any fhore

Pfal. 104. 6,9. for they were abDvethe mountains and prevailed over all,untill God did limit them, andftt them their bOUYlds, Pro. 8.27. which they fbould not pa{fe [0 cover the earth, yea and alfo God limitted the upper waters, .ndboundedthem in Clouds, 1'" 16.8. fo

,h., the Clouds bnak nOl, he alfo. ma.le doors AndJ;arrs lor the Sea below,

fob 38: 10, 11. And {aiJ Ihm f.rrtroll }b.il fome, and no !lIrthe,. Touching their firH diforderly motion, it is Iet down p/4f. 9 3· 3,4.

the ftoD~did'4gth8rribI1.nd thl] did lift lip ,heirw4vts, but now God

hath let them a moll orderly and profitable and nece{fary courfe eundo & redt.nao, P}AI, 104. 10. of c:bbingand flowing by courfe

and recourfe of times and rides: Thefe deeps had a face, nay as the word tignifieth, it had two faces, in which the Philofopbe(s doe eafily confent ~nd agree with him; for all kn~w that t~isgltlbc hath

'I double hemtfphere, yea one half Iphere is-the IIpper lace of the

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earth.and the other is the nether face -at the earth; now hll telleth

us that then the darknefle was over both faces of'the earth and waters and not as it is now; for when it is dark night with us, it i~ bright day with the: Antipodes, which arc as the nether face of the earth but then it covered all with obfcure Barknelfe.

Thirdly, As for darkn.dfe. we arc not to conceive any otherv.:ifll of ir, then to be only a privation, deled: and abfence of light, which then wanted \ for as one faith terlcbr£ eram,id .oll.erat 11l~"So that by the negative, he fheweth that ther~ was ~ prtvatlon of hght~ not that this privation followed the habite, as If there had been light, but that the darknefle was £lrft over all, before there was any light made, 45 Ef:y 7. it was Iaid, that God c~eatcd darkneffe but that was by denying unto things light; for ~cretn appeared God~powcr. in that as he made fomething of nothing, fo God brought Itgl ' out of darkncfle, I Cor. 4, 5. pfal. 18, 11. God GAme dow» And darkm{[ew,u ander his feet, he mad, it his pavillion rou»d ahout kim, to COYer the: brghtnelfe of his perfon, PI.I. 36.6. God and his works are as t~nebN: 0& Ahy(Jm, like the great gulph; therefore we muft not tunoully prye and que!1:ion about him,and his matters, . ,

As God made the darkneffe ·Ior fome ufe and purpofe for him("elf. to be his pavillion, PIal. IS. 11. [o,in refpeCl: of us, he made thc:U to fpeciall ule, pIal. 104. l~. he made darknefle t~at it may be night, which is a time for all things to take their reft In: fa that as the: day was made lor labour; fo this for ref], becaufe qrml GIfT" attema re'1ui£ durAbile 1'01'1 eft.

And God hath made it for a third ufe, to the rebellious Spirits; and Divels, and to wicked men, namely, to refervt ,hem ill lluer dark»effe U»lO the greAt day, :jude 4. 5, 6. So God made: it 1:0 be a pavillion for himfelf, a couch tor us, and a torment to the wicked.

Gu" ;·3 Vtft

Tum dixit 'DeI0, efta lux.

, ~ oft., having before defcribed the primative State ot the world, how God made it of nothing, and then endowed it with an aprneffe to receive a be~ter form, he doth in this verfc unto the 11. proceed to a three fold wOlk,ofdiftind:ion,feparating and fequeflrlng orderly one part from

, the other.to avoid confufion, The £lrfi was of the

light from darkneffe, which was the firfi dayes work: The fec;ond ofthe celefiiall and Iuperior parts of the heavens from the inferior bodies below: Thirdly ,the earth and dry land from the waters, and haYing performed this inward pertedion, as it is called Chap. :t verle 1. he proceedeth afterward to the outward adorning of them three, and 10 finifhcth the Work.

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then doth make it plain here: by Creation, and after -by re:~

demption. .'

Andhetc we may learn the difference: between us and God, In us there is one thin; by which we ~re, and motherthing by which we underfland and conceive things; but in God both his being and un ... ~edb.nding are ot one and the fame fubftar.cc : And thisfubllantial Word of God, is that wherewith St.1ohn beginneth his Gofpell, God created that which was not,. but the word W4S In .he hegin. "ing. Therefore it is ",,,bum ;l1""tum: it made all things at the beginning, Coil. l' 15' 16. Therefore i~ was before the beginning, :foihn 17. 5. Thus we fcc, as Chrift faith, how Mofes ftrlpftt de ,m/John 5.46. this word of God is procccdingfrom God, 1,hn S. ,

42.. as the holy Gholl: doth alfo, 10h1l15' 2.6. .

But Chrifls manner of proceeding is determined af(er four forts. Firll, as a fonne proceeding from a Father. Secondly, as an Image from a Picture, Thirdly, as ehe Iightfrom rhe Sunne, Fourthly, an word from the Ipeaker, as a Sonne from the Father,

pfAl. '1..1. ,his dAJ I beg;"bee ~ this day, that is, from all eternity; lor to God alhimc~ is as one: day: alfo he begot him in. [e[pe6t of the conaaturaliry ana identity of nature and fubftance tbat he hath

with God the Father. '. •

As an Image froln apattern, that is, in Jikenefs and refemblance [0 the Father, Coil. 1. 1 S. for he is like God in property and fimilitude of qulLlity, and therefore is called .. the lively 11lItl e/lf"fs ,bil1'tI~ Oer.ml grAven Image, form, 11l1djl4,""of biJ F"her, He6. I. 3. Thirdly, in rc:lpe6t of Coetelnity; For,as the: light proceeded from tile:

Sunne, Io foon as ever the Sunne was, fq did Cltrill:, the word,' from eternity,aeb.l. 3. and therefore he is called, ,"ebrlghlnefrof his Fathersglorle: So at what time: God was,a! that time the brightnels of his Sonne appeared and Ihone from him. Lafloof all, in regard of the: immateriality, I.:}oh" 1. For,as a word conceived in us, is no matter or lubfiance, fo this was Coematerlall, but an incorpo-

,rcall gc:ncr3tion : Thus we fee that his proceeding is Ioure fold.

UH;~ diOwct Now this word is dillino!C from the Father in perf on, and one

~: t;~g~",;.,:."" with him in fubflance : That he is diftino!C from him, it appearerh Gen. 19. Z<j.. PfAt. 110. l.,he L"d r4idt~my Lml, 30. Provo 4. whAt

it hilll4me, and. Wh41 is his funnes names, Ej_, j6. 9. thefathrr 6T8l4ght firth ~ flnNt; ~rgQ, divcrf.Kom himfclf. Touching the Godhead of C hria, fob faith,forely m, Redee",,, lJ~mh, lind I jbaO fee Gld willi thefe '!lS, 10b. [9.25, '1.6. pfal. 45. 7. God,weurbJGod,jbA~lInno'"1 thee: There is God annoynting God ~ for he is called ,hy Gad4/fo, ... h9mWtl muflworjblp, BfA' 9. 6. 1er. 63. 6. bis n.me illherighlt61H G~tJ. In the new Tcfiamcnt, Rom.g. S. -cven as he was ",erhllm InClrMil14"" 17'lm. 3. 16. aAd1,hn .'7.2. this is eternall Iife, co know God,and him whom he fent,Jcfus Chrifi. I have made itplaill before, that the Heathen had'notice 01 his [econd r.erfon :' As tbe Perfiancalled him the Iecond Underllanding i The Caldeans called Rliliuhe fathcuUndcrLbnding or Wifdoqlc; MllmbltH, a Coon- .

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fdl or Wifdome proceeding from him: [0 may wc:fay Iikewife ofrhis word A.1'" which is arrribured to Chrifl , for they feem not to be ignorant of that name, Some called him 're f"1<4< which is verbum:

Hermescalleth himrhe Naturall Word of God : or/hefl4,the:Word otrhe Father; And plat' moll plainly in his EpilUe ro HltlNi", .. Bur moll flrange is that which ..fujl;.e writeth ;nli{,. de preplrAtione £"'4"ue!ii, kited out of lEmitim and Heraclitfl4. and let rhis rufflce for ihe difiinClion of the duty and notice of Chrift , which is rer_ Dei.

N ow this word hath a relation to him that Ipeaketh it, and alfo to the things Created: therefore it is called verbulN ex/rtj;v14m in . refpect 01 God, and verbum fl0;vu", in regard of his works: tor his Precept did, in refpect ofhimfdf, exprefs his Will ; but, in refpea of us, it had a power to Creategand make things that were nor. Therefore, I. Joh,; 3. he is called ~"" ~mvG<, and in the 15. verfe he is

I •• ", ~I.n'''' fa that both in regard of his Father and us, he is a word. Little divinity, and much danger, is in thofe late Divines, which fay, that this was but a temperarie word, which God ufed in Creating all things; for we fee this isv"buZ1I j",rcatum, and the very root; of which, all that is [aid after, are but as branches derived therefrom:

And thus much for the authority of this Word.

Now ra the Creati~n of li~ht. Mufts maketh plain mention, Fill ts«, That thefirflfeveral thmg which God perfecely made was Light:

Wherefore we wi1lfir!l: fpeak of the Order ,then of the Nature. GQd is Pater 1.1Il11iYlum, Jllm. I. 17. Therefore firll he brought forth light as his funne: But fome, having little Philofophie in them, doc rea: fon againll this work of God very iinpioufly, as if it were not to be raid, that light was made three dayes before the Sunne, which is the: caulethere~f .. But ~f we refpect God, the Father of lights,orthe Sunne, which IS the light -of the World, or the ncceliity of light, for Lf#X eft vox '!lerum, becau!c: that which things cannotexprefs by voyce and words, they doe plainly !hew by the commi!!g of light. which manifeflerh all things. Again, God bdDg about the work of dlllin.guilliing., it ~va.s necelfary, lirft to make the ~reat diftiugui!her of all tbmgs. which IS hght; for ffI n,Oe eft color omlllbll4 idem, & Ilwe6r.e rerumdi[crimi1l" lollllYlt, but the light diftinguilhethonethingfrom another. Again, of the three beginnings, we !hew that the lirll beginning was of time, but )II1e could not have a morning to make a lilft day .withoutlight of it was firll made; for the naturall common Clock ef the world, to dilHngui!h times, is the courfe oflightand darkllefs which is the etfence of dayand night. Furthermore, we hav~ feen that the Heavens were the lirlt and moll excellent : therefore the light. being the firll quality and affeCtion of rhe the Heavens the firfi body made, mull by right order be made firll. Laf] ofali, we be~m naturally, MOIN"'rmioniulU, but there is nothing with which all thtng~ 90e more commonly communicate,than the liglitofthe Son: ergo, It IS firfl, for it is the communication of'Heaven, becaule all the

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Starrcs doe borrow their light ot ir, and we fee by iron earth; it is

~&lIltU nofler, by which we fee, and it is their Creffer to light all them.

There arc feme which will have a reafon of Gods works, and would know how it could be that light fhould be firO: made, and four daies after the Sunne to be made, which was the caufe of it: But to there Lanfwer, that their abfurd doubt, doth argue fmall skill in Philofophy: for they [peak, asifthe light were an affeetion and qua !icy only of the Sunne ; for we fee that th~ fire on earth, the meteors and lightnings in heaven, the Icales of Pifhes, and a dark wood, have alfolightinthem: And what doth give lightto thcfc.? Ianfl'l'cr. not the. Sunae ; But admit the fame were the caufe of lighr, yet we fee that many things have their proceeding in nature before things on which they have, after, their dependance : As all agree that the Iivor in a mao, hath the precedence in nature, and yet after it bath his dependance on the heart as bis chief; for though the light hath now his dependance on the: Sunne, yet then it had his precedence. And 25 Cbri!l: was long before he took the body of Flelh : fo was the light a certain time before it rook.and was joyned, to the body ofrhe Sunne. Again we may fay, that though the Sunne was not created now yet the fubftanceotrhe Sunnc was now made, and fo we may unde'r!1and lux forcorp,u /UCid!l111, which after was perfected,

Lsft ofall, this ofst. B4j1t1willovertbrol'l! their doubt : For if a man will grim to God, that he made all things, Without ':1latter, of nothing : then we: muO: alia "rant that he can make. light Without the Sunne ; for God doth [lot depend upon ordinary means; he is not bound and eyed to the Sunne, that by the means thereof. light fhould fhew , for he can give light without itthree dayes, by miraele,at the beginning, and will for ever give light without the Sunne, after the end of the world. The Hebrews fpake of three Creations. I. De "'ihi~ .. z. [II 1'Iihih .. 3. Sfiper nibilllm' : All things were of nothing, the light was in nothing, the earth h411ged upllf71llthlng, JQ!J. 26. 7. Tell me faith Job, on what the earth dependeth ; and I will tdi thee on wha~ the light then did depend, for it was miraculoufly.giving

light without Snnne.. . ,

A word of the fecond pomt, J06 tellerh, that it Is a probleme.and a hard qucflicn, to know from whence the light is, J06 38. 19. and in the 24. vcrfe, That it is more than mans wifdome to anfwer it. for the very ligbt is dai knefle, and ignorance to us, for all that rear on can conceive of it, is this, that either it muO: needs be a fubftance, or dfc dljlllflm fobfttlnt;,~ ; that is, flowing, or proceeding from a fubflance, as a quality or affectionofit : ifit be a fubftance, itmuO: be a fpiriruaU or a corporal! fubflance : a Ipirituall Iubflance it cannot be ; for it a)fecreth a bodily fubflancc, bodily it cannot be, for the motion orit isarnomenr, for with a flaal it lighteneth all, and alfo-if it were then. it muG: be granted, that two bodies are in one place, as the ayre and the light at one infiant, but indeed as they fay of the Element, that they are nellt Kinne aad affinity to accidents; fo we may fay oflighr.

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preach. 11. s. there is a light of knowledge and it light of com-

fort.· .

The execution of the Precept was of the nature of thePrecep- .The ""'q.-j,,,, tor and Commander. , Cor. 4' 6. For as by his word, he made the of the 1'1,,,,,,,. Whale bring :}01l," lafe to land; fo here he r4uftd light tU6me lilt of

'~rltnrfi; Rom+ 17. caOi/'g 'hinguha' J!1(re1l", '" if,,,,, were; p 'he

"'0';011 01 'he lightlllllg ii, that is, in an inftant with celeney commjn~

from the Eafi to the Well, Luke 17. '4' fo was the Creation of It

fort he facility of making it : we kilow that 110 work iI ;mpofoble "

God, Luke 1. 37. For as calie as it is for man ro {peat. any thing,fb

eafie it is for God to doe any thing: Gods dmll", & ja{lllm is all one

and alike to him. Wherefore we may conclude with David, !hat

Gods wDrd rll1lneth [wift!, to 'he perforrnll1lCe 4nd tXUlllioll 0/ hil WIN :

Ir is eafily and Ipeedily done. There is marter to be learned, to lead us to good motions: But of this hereafter.

Viditque 1)em Luce,#.;Uam bonam ejJe.

Gtil.I ... 'tUTt.

HE meaning of this is, That as we have feen Gods wifdome and power in the execution of his Will, fo now we may fee the goodnefs and mercy of God in t.he confirma." .a~d appr,?barion of the light which he mad.. em allowmg it as good for our ufe, :r,b. % 8.3. • r God gave notrhe light to the

MOOD. but to us, that the: light might arite to us. The reference that this verle hath with rhat which goeth before, is'this : God ~ade things bcfore.; and here Mo{es Ihcweth the quality of ir;that It was even In Gods judgement very good and perfed:, that is, as the Philofophcrs fay, God in all his works limiteth togc:rher lJ/lTltIIII q ens; .forall that he msketh is palling well made, which Ihewetb

the difference between Gods works and ours : Forit is l!Iur manner The dilFeren", fo we doe a thing that God willerh, or that we purpofe, it is no mat~ "''''ct. God> rer, we care not how it be done: But here God reacheth us by his work".doU" example~ that we fhould in attempting any thing, haves fPc:ciaU

care that It be good, and welldone : Allo it is ufuall with us that

the thing we ~ake in haO:cis, as we fay, 'a1lil (tjI;IIans. that;;, it is

rudely and blindely done ~ and therefore that which a man will doe welI,hetaketh·grcupainsand leafure aboucir, becaufe it isa hard

:tD~ difficult marter ro doe athing well; but God doth. and can doc:

~hlngs well, an~ perfectly ",:~II,witb eafe,with quick difpatcb. eyen

10 a moment, With great facIhty and celerity,and yet we fee he con.

firmcth it to be very good in thele words : Therefore ther; arc twol~;~.:n ~l patts; Firft?rhe v.iew which G?dtakctb, inbehol?in.gthelight: CoD6~ion Secondly, his teflimony, affirmmg and confirming It tit be g()od. '0 be ,004.

TouchIng the firft, As before "\\'e havehea~d of Gods fp~akillg, Tho Vi .... fohercnow we arc to confider of Gods feeleg, Touchingboth

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which, MOJf;, by Gods Cpiril, is tau~ht t.o (peak after the manner of men, in our phrafe and dialect, that It miglu be to our capacity I for he caauot beak /0 1M 4S'0 [pirilu,U,. ku' It< to camaU men, for o~t.lkihly tlndedlanding, I Cor. 3. 1. It l~ Iaid, that God .'pake familiarly to rdofes, Exod. H. I r, that is plainly, b?th touching the ~at~cr,and :I110 tor the phrafe and manner ot his Ipeech : My meamng IS,. rhae Mofes lcerneth to tell us, that God did, as men ule to doc; which, when they have done any worse, .they w~llaftcr ~cturn to .!t and rake a view thereof, and look on It, that If any [hlDg be amlfs,he may mend it, and to the c~d h.c may a~ow and ;approve of it,'ifit be well and according to his mtnde.So. God.afcer the fame ~anner. is faid to doe here: having made the light, he conjj.dcredof It; and feting it according to his minde and liki~g~ Ite cxprelfeth his love, liking. and allowing of it. Wherefore It IS as much to fay, as pl4- exit txo .. for as his wordji.,lux exprefled his Couafell and Iecret purpofe, which it plcaCed and liked him t~ determine to bringt? pafs , fa !lOW this approbation expreffeth his goodpleafure, that It thould continue and abide [0 .. o.ur good ~re and ~encfit : So that God is not like the potter, wliu;h Iomeeime having made a pot, doth not likcir, but breaketh it again I but God will have his work continue and therefore doth autborife it to be good, Gell. 1. 4- We feto~r eyes upon things that ar~ good and beaurifull , fo W~l1 God is {aid to like any thing, it is [aId that he looked and beheld It, yel._, andshat he fmelleth alfo to_~t. a. S a p~eaf~nt thing, Getl. S.u.

The life, fruit, and profit oft octrine IS of.two forts.

The itrLl: is in reCrect 01 our . 5 and aiectlons. The fecond

[[1 refp"~ of our actions and practiCe. For our judgem~nt,it teached. us to fmow that Dem '!lidil, that is, we arc the work of his hands, and he doth behold and confider us and our doings, whether they be good Gen. ! 6. Y4. God is there called DelH '!li'fJerJs & ",/Jetls, and :Job. 7. 18. nDS i"dies <lifttAt, thatis,he doth fee us often every morning, he doth vifie us, for that is a frcqucntative of feeing , Io that he by his providence and care doth behold and .,ifit us and our doings continually, not only when iris morning, and in thelighr, but allo in fecret and in the dark and hidden places, pJilI. 139. u. for the darknefs is no darknefs to him, the nlght.nd da, tight " him A" I)oth,,/ite· yea, the 16. verf ofthat Pfalm, God faw D .. ",idwhenhe 'vas Cecre~ly in his mothers wombe , if we could dig down into hell he feerh us there, Amos 9. a , if we fly to the: uttermoft parts and corners of the earth, there he is and feerh us, pfol.139. S. 9. 10. .five lucerna .rdet,'Videlll ; {ive exlln{f .. ejf,'!lidelle, laith one I there is nothing 10 hid but that he knoweth it, and he will reward it opeflly. be it good, Malth. 6.4. 6. 18, or bad, 2 S.m. U. 12. Then this that Cod watcheth and feeth hath relation to thefe two ends; He look. cth on it, that ifit be good it may pleafe and delight him, and Co lie may be moved therewith to Iave and preferYCI and commend us and our actions; but if he Ieerh it evill, it is his intent [ocoademn, diflike,and deflroy it an~ us. Thus we fcc "ods view is profitable for

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~ur thoughts and Judgment to know his approbation or reproba[Jon.

The fecond Cart, is for our practife : for God is faid in the Scriptures, to doe many things, that we may doe like and referable our Father: If God look on his.and our works.much more it is our .duty and behoverh us to doe the like : Ifhe be gflcved, and forrowfulJ, and repent, when he Ieerh our works eVIII ; how much more doth icconcern us to doe the like ~

EXAmCJI in ",mlteft 1"od "'if"! in oCIIlo: Therefore we mull confider ofien of ·our doings, to fee whether they be goad or bad, which thing is contrary and againll a humor of ours; for when we have done anything, we never confider whether it be good or bad, we have no regard "fit afterwards. •

Ther.efore, the Prophets of centimes beat upon this fxho~tion, vadete In cor '!lejJrllm. Confider your own doing in yourheans, Efa] 46.8. Pre.ch.~. lZ.Thewife man, often faith, thac he returned . to confider the fruit and labor of his hands, to lee the vanity or good of them: And if we thus confider ou~ waies and works, wbethcuhey be good or evilF, and repent, or rejoyce, approve or difprove them, then we doe, like Children, imitate our Father: If God return to behold his Ilght, how mucb more Ihould we return to fee and confiderofou~w()rks ofdark~elfe. and to aatnowledge",ithrel'CIIranee, how eV11I rhey are; Ic IS our cuttome and falbion if we doc any thing for,our inferiors. (as food doth here) Il9t td regard iq wherefore feeing .he doth carefully cottfider and reg~rd the .things he maketh for us, being fa bare as worms; how much more doth it COD. cern us,doiilg things for him that is out Crciuor.to doe the like'! For if ~ve doe any thing for a Prince or a Noble man, what great care and pains, and confideration <lac we take'in doing and viewing, thac it may be well e wherefore much more mull we doc ·in Our wOrks foi:

him who is King of Kings. ,..'

.Laft of all, rouchlng the ufe : IfGod were fa carefull to lookto this work, which coul? bring no gain or. profit tohimat llll, then how mnca more doth It concern us, to look to our works, which we doe!o h.im, fee.ing !o them is great reward promifed ~ !fisl. 19. 14. he did his graIn:, without any hope of reward.bur we haveprornife and hope of reward for our well-deing ; and therefore it beh()vetti us to behold and fee that our worK~ be good; which we ljJall the rather doe, If we confider the rel~omne1fe'of our atte~ptibgaliY good,:and the ftllynclfc of our well dOIO~, when they arc; at the b¢ft i for God every day dotb ~any good thlilssperfcGily for us, but wdcarce dee any good once In a week, y~;ftotone good thing, though never fo unpcrfeCt, toa thouraildfllmes,whic!l'ther~ore inull hpmblcus ''anc!

makcuslook.to.ourwOrk$.···,:. " .. , ,(.\, ' .,' ... , - .1·.·

Now weareto;cenfider tliegpoqnc:fi'e:oPthls c!bt'UtC L!tU: L .. · H Touching w~ic~, this .. is thegeneial1 f95ard an~ Iru~ Of 'D,i,~W~ .,. •. m:' N~mo IJllfllS tfhifi 1>ells;M .rk 10. 18;, therefore, ifaby'"~ll'~ 0(4~Y

thlog created; be good,or have all)! goodnelfc alcribcil'to ir;'wlfttiull:

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know that it was derived from God, which is the fcuatain of all goodncflc, Pfot. 1 04. ~. for .goodneife is his garment, ~nd we are naked and dettirure of It, unnu he doth call: the lap of his own garment over us. Light is good, becaufe God made it, and partaketh the quality from God. For it is impiousto think that any thing in the World 1110uld be evill, defective or imperfect, (and therefore not commendable) and the caufe and fault of it not to be in the matter of which it was made, but of the dficient which made it ; But if any thing be good, perfett and commendable, the caufe of it is the goodnefle of rile maker, not of the matter : for the matter of all things is nothing, or a thing rude and unperfect, and therefore of it can proceed nothing of worth. In mens works, if the matter whereof we make things, were as permanent and durable as the form, which the work-man Ierteth to it, our works would be long and vt:.y la~ing i for we fee, that ifthc matter of a houfe or garment would connnne, and were perfeCt, the form and fa!hion of it would continue, and not decay; but bccaufe the matter is ruinous and fubjeCt, the one to be rotten, and the other to be thread- bare. Therefore our works cannot latt, fo all the cefects and imperfections, both of Body and Soul, doe come from the defeCts of the matter, of which we were made, not of the form in which God made us: from [hence therefore had AdAm and his poflerity, an ability and poflibility, to be [ubjet!: to return to emptincffe, to darkncffe, and to deformity, to be without goodneffe and full of evill, becaufe he was made of the rude matter, which was fo: But if any good thing remain in us, it is becaufe of the relicks of that form in which God made us. Thus much of goodnefle in generall : now for a more particula.r confideratio.n o~ the goodnelfe oflight : We fcc that God full: praifeth that, which indeed caufeth all other things to be praifed, and therefore it mull: needs be good and man commendable.

Secondly, God is the tejly and witneffe, which affirmeth it to be fo : Who dare deny it ~

Thirdly, yca who can deny it, for our own eyes being judg and witneffe, we mull: needs alfo, with God fay, it is good, for it hath lIj)e{fa6ilem in fo /;mif4tem ; yea it is a means by which we fee how good God is, Pfol. 34. 8. Behold and fce how good God is. Goodneife hath two refpeds, the one is in regard of it felf,the fecond in refpeCt of others; when it is good ro other things, and in afmuch as it doth good, and delighreth others betides it felf~ by communication of his quality to others; And hereunto arifeth the threefold dil1:inetion of hOflllm, which all Philo'ophers g-ze ar, and Ipeak of fo much. The: lirft, is, blllNm h'lIejlllm. Second, bomlm jucu"d*m. Third, /'011/1", nsil«, all which doe much dilfer. P_r;,I.IH.I. unity and amity of brethren, is lJl11f1m #t'1ue jucIIIIJ,,,,,. Titm 3. 8. many things may· be ~'IIUI1l, utile & jflftlllitJm, but this light is good in all refpeets, t!(!t, 47 3. 'lJtfji. For the firll:, That is good, which isdefired in,and fi'r it feH~ as Eve therefore defired the Apple, ce», 3. 6· but we delire to fi:.c: the: light only for it felf, prllter 'UiJm lurnm ,and theref?rc

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having no pleafanr object at all , Yet We: fiilllo.e to have our cyes open, becaufe it is good to fcc and behold the light of the Sunne. Alfo all good things and vertues arc in a league of great affinity, frlendfhip, and amity with the light, which arguerh rhat it is fomewhat like it in goodnefs, Ezek. I}. 9' l7.:n. 'lJeritlll 1I01l'1ullr;, IIll[/'. los, for truth fearerh and hateth nothing more then to be kept and imprifoncd in darknefs, and all e.ill things cannot abide tbelighr, but hate it as deadly, becaufe llght is contraric to theirevill nature;

but honeft and good things delight in the light. I'

Secondly, It is dclightfulHor others to behold, as the apple, ce», 3. 6. af well as ]JDllllmill fe; for VIC count it a milcrable tbing to eate our meat in darknefs though our meat be good, PTll;h. I J. 7. and 5. 6.1t illlpleAj4I1t1hlllgtDjeetheSullm, PriiIGh. 11. 7. Blinduefs is an uncomfortable thing, as Tobie confeffeth, yel fuch things as ' have not fufficient light. are lefs comfortable and.delightfcll, for the houfe which hath little fiote oflight, we finde fault withall as melancholy and uncomfortable : Therefore: it hath a nature to be comely alfo and amiable or bcautifuIJ,P/al. 147.I.LIIX hilhet'Vtnlljl"" tem, it is fightly for the pleafure of the eye, and therefore is called mater pllkhrit"difli6, the colours that have moil brightnefs and fight in them, arc belt liked, and fo are the filks which han the greateft and fairefi glofs. But without light there is no beauty, lhe eye is vJlthout pleafure or delight in any obieCt~f()r in 'he dark a ruffet coae and a fcarle: robe is all one; no diflCrcncc between a ruinous Dungeon and a princely Pallace : Therefore in this degreeof~ood,light

isvcrygood. .• '. ., _ .

Thirdly, touching the profir of It, Which fltile~lfo caufed the defire of the Apple, Gell. lS_l.1ight is very profitablcand commodious, both in K1attersohxpediepc;ie, andalfo in things of necclJity; for all our knowledge cometh of light, and is comparedto light, E,hef. 5. 8. 9. In:fob. 37.:n. it is compared to gold, both propter Vt1lujllllum, ",iliWtm, 6' fleet/SWU"';· and if you will kllow through. ly the price, value, and cillmatioD of it, then Ice the nine and eHimate of the eye; for one would rather lofe all his gold and treafure for a ranfome, than depart from one: eye, for that did grieve ICrael moll: > ,I Sam. 11. ~. and why fhould one make Illy reckoning of his ' eye:s, if it were. not for the light? for without it, OUI eye and our nofe can Icc: both alikc_: yea, we have no ufe, but trouble: of it, without light ~ we: may know and confider the price of light. by this, that laehe night, whichisa naturall abfcnceof light, rather than we will fit in the dark and want the benefit of light, we wilLrc:deem and buy it with money, and Iome know what coli: fome are at in buying of light. Out of this confideratiOIl ari~ fcth matter of meditation; both for our profit and amendment of life. And fidl:it fue:weth the condemnation and rebuke ofthrcc faults, inthree fons of men: For we fay tbat the aaion which croffeth Gods a~ion, is YCry ill; but the judgmenc IIId opinlonwhich .. ctoflcth, contradil5tcth,· IIId deDicth Gwes jDdg~

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rnenr and approbation o.f a thiog, is fane: worfe.

God, whIrl he Jaw Ihe light,{4idit u goo": l:I~w d~re any perfon be fa ill, as when he Ieeth the light, to !!ly IUS eVIl!? Ye~the[e are three forts 01 men which doe thus. It IS a ufuall thmg;ln the Iale offuch Wares and Merchandife which are adulrerare, evill, and corrupt, men will fay this light is evill, it is not good for us whaefoever God faith· and therefore they doe frame and make falfe and deceiveable lights. But feeing the light, the brighter ~t is, the beter it is, they which will fell good and lawtull ~erchandlfc,~uft n~t make to themfclves dimme and deceiveable lights; for feeing this vifible light is good, we muft not call light darknefs, nor good evill, Efan·16•

Secondly In regard of the light of grace we fcc, as:1obfaith that there ~re fame which arc LII&ifug4, which 6y and hate the liohe fuch Creatures are unclean, Levit. II. 19' 30' as Batts a~d Owles among birds, Moules and Rats among BeaRs, they are odious to all men; fa among place~,. Dungeon.s and darkfome Roomes are odious alfo. And as this 15 fa, in things natural;' 10, in things fpiritual, tucifog4 amon". arc of the like cvill natur~ and odious to God and good men; becaufe both Iuch men,and their doings have an oppofition to Iight,and the autbor of light. They come fran: darknefs of the min de, that is, ignorance and unbelief ,and thi? arc begotten by the Prince a! datkncfs the Divell, Bpher. 6. n. and in the end they goc to utter darknefs, and therefore they are called tbeworksofdarklltF, Rom. 13. n. And fa no marvell though they love darknefs and hate light, if any cannot abide the light of Gods word to be reproved by it, as HetctiquGs and Hypocrites, fuch dig deep pits to hide their Counfells, Efay 29.15. bccau[e they lee the light u to ,h:m eviU, and A4 ,he fhadow Df death, :19b •. 24 '. 17' The em~ prinefs of good things, and the bottomlefnclfe of III thlDgS, and the deformity of both, proceederh and .co~meth from d~!kndrc;. and was inclofed in it as we have feen m it : And fo fpmtually IS all found in the igno'ran.ce 01 [h~ tr~th, BpheJ. 4. 18, 19. ~ith!r t~e blindncfs of mens mindes, which IS natural, or elfe that which IS Wit· full when men doe wittingly winke and will not fee the light. Wherefore we fee God made light firft, before any other good:

And fa our Ielves mufl receive fpiritual light of knowledge before

he will give us any better grace. .

The third fort of men arc catchers and fault finders With Gods Creatures. fuch which think to know how Gods works, which now are good, ~ight have been farre better, as if God might have done well to have craved their counfell and help ~ but Gods works both in particular and general, arc: fo good and pcdea, tbat they could not be mended. Wherefore, it the light feem ill for us, we mull: confe!fe and acknowledge, that the fault is not in Gods work, but ill the illneffe and infirmity of Our eyes and underftanding : If the Word feem evil to us know that it [cemech fo co us.becaule weand our Walks are evil,and ~hcr~fo(e ~llmo~ a~i~~ ~he IiSht, 7Wohhn 3'fi20•

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Wherefore 10 concludej.that which God hath called and Iealed up to be good. Ier no man prefume to call and count to be 'evill, .4t1. 10, 15. For a work belongeth to fach, wbichcallrhie is g~od evill, and evill things good, and ~Jrknetre light, BfA,s' 20. But If we love the hghe at n~t~rc, 3n~ praife God for it, P/iltm. 148• 5,6. And If We love the fpllUuall lrght of grace in his word, and glorifie and praife God for it, 1 Pet. ~. 9. that hath ,AUtd III 0'" of ilarknejJe into hiJ marveilolls light, then God will at laft reward us with his light of glory, . an~ bring us to t~at inacceffible lighr, wherein he ~welleth, whlc~ IS the t~ther of hgt.t~, UntO which no man can auam unleffe Chnft, thehght ofthe. World, bring him, and therefore let us pray, that the father for hIS Ionnes fake, will make a way for us by h.s fpirie of light, to which three perfon! in uniry, be all praife and glory for ever. Amen.

Et diJl:illBionem fecit 1JeJU inter bane lucem & tenebrat.

T H~re was in the fitft verfe nothing before God made fame- G,. ,.~. thing of nothing, after which, ac-the 6rft we faw it to be a .. ,,{c. duordered dark heap, without a,ny good torm or ability to receive

any better: But after followed the impregnation and indowmenr

1Iltich God gave, by which the things Iirlt created had a faculty and

p5wer given, to receive this form which now ehey have. Fourthly

enfued the effence and being of all creatures, .they were prepared

by the. Spirit, and perfeded by the word of God: where we CODfId~rcd, Iirft, the eflence and being of)ight, and then the Dature!

of It : And lafl:ly, of all the goodneffe of the light, both in l;Cgard

of the pretence of God, who in his counfell thought it to be good

and alfo after the creation by his approbatioe, allowed the ufc and continuance of it unto us.

Now followeth, the diftinaion and dividing, which giveth yet a degree of perfection to the former iigbt,morc:thlln it had before; for at the Iirft, he gave light fuch a being, which fhould prlliire ill 4t1llm, and not every being, but a Ipeciall good being, which is a degree further, of order and diftinction. againft diro~der and confufion, to b~ in ~II r~rpcas laudible, and th~t.not every good bcing~ but that .whlch I~ more, an ordered, a!1d dlftmguilhcd, and comely good being, which work of all other IS the perfeaion of Creation; ~s we full! fee in the reLl: : for things though they be Dever [0 good J? them felves,aSS'. Paul faith, 1 Cor. '4.7. of another thing in the !Ike cafe, yet they cannot be difcerned of men to be: Io, Deither are they meet for aoy good ufe of men, unleffe they ha" a certain di-

ftinction and order. •

Therefore order is, IS fome fay, very goodneffe of goodnefti: it Order. {elf, for there arc many good things, which doc ceafe from being

good to us, yea become hurtfull being without the rank, order and ~egref, dt~cr of their fet and diRioct place or time: As lire though

It be good I!lthe C~imncy,y_t it is not good, Diy jlis ,erye,min

D tho

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the tOP of [he houfe, Fire is very good in the Winter to warm us, . but in the Summer It is not [0 good, but Ihunned of'rnen : So the light not being [em pered and proportioned orderly, but being any degree too-br.ghe, it hurteth and blindeth our eyes, that we: cannot fee, AB. 22. 6, I!. Excellens objeBum corrumpit. (Cnfum: So the fire being in any degree tOO fierce.and too hot in the Chimney/and vVimerjrhat is,nor moderated.and ordered in a good degree,« doth us no good. Wherefore weke,that a Iet and a diftinct order mull: be oblervcd in !jood things,both touching the place, time, and degree; And that the contrane, inordinarion, deordination, or want of order in thefe things, which is called Babell hereafter, that is a confuliJn, rnakerh rhings to ceafe from being good to us, which in their own nature are vcry good. It was neceffary therefore, that God Ihould proceed to this work of difiinetion, as he in wifdome doth: This then is as if Mores had faid, the light was good; for elfe cxtingaeret, non diftingueret De", fi lion e[Jet bonum, he would not elfe have difringuifi1(:d ir, but da!hed it in peeces and deftroyed it again.

Therefore becaufe It was good he Ieparated it and fet it apart from darknefle, by it (elf: Which thing doth teach us, that all things created, be they never Io good, they carry in them, as well c • :: mark and Iigne of the matter whereof they were made, as of the: '~:;'''i~:;';';:':: CreatorwhomadethcI?, thari.s, as by rome goodneffe in the. ,,' "g'''' "",d they fhew the excellcncie of their maker, 10 fome part, fo by fome ~;"i~";'<;;':'- ill and vicious quality in them, they bewray the imperfection and e .. ". rudeneffe of the matter of which they cane, As for example, Corn

hath his chaff with it, Light hath adjoyned his contrarie.darknefle, Honey bringerh his unfavory wax, Metals have their droffe, and Liquors and Wines their lees and dreggs,theone fheweth the goodncfs of the maker, the other the rudeneffe, detorrniey, and emptineffe of the matter. Now then we fcc, that untill there bea difiinceion and Ieparation between the lees, grounds or droffc of the Wine or Beer, and unrill a tryal be made to refine and put apart and try the droffe from the pure Metal, and lift the cha1fand fever 'it Lom the Whcat and Corne, we can have no good and fit ufe profitable for us and convenient. Even fo we fay of the Light; for according to the courfe of this mixr world, light was brought forth in his mixture, that is, in darkneffe,:1ohll I. 5- Therefore as God do:h here Iry and di!covcr,and feparate light from darkneffe [0 in uath. 3. r z , he is a Fanner and Winnowcrofthecha1ffrdmthc Whe2r, and by Ieparation cleinfeth his Hoare, leaving there only. the Children of lighr.

()b. Buttouching this action let us confider this firfi, Where/orehe left

any ddrkne([e at all; end why he did not clean Cfll offall darkneJJe, confidering thAI it is oppojite to the /ighl,which is goodlWhere firll: arileth this que"'1<"',, d"k_ Ilion to be diicufled, Whether Darkneffe be evill, feeing it is oppor.cflc he <viII' fire to light, which is good_

TOUChing which I have told you before.That darknes is but a defeCt, abfence.and want of the light,and mere privation, and DO Iub-:

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between thingsdilfcrent and oppoled, which we call, membrA,dl· vldemlA and we mull: not conjoyn and confound rhem together, for God doth eontound Icch, which make a feparation and breach in Gods things, which fhould not be divided, MAlh. ~ 3· 37. as the Chickens which Ieparated th~mfelves from ,the Hens· call, ~nd aljo he confoundeth thofe, which agree and joyn togcthc[ln eV11l things from which they Ihould be feparated and divided, Ge". II. 8, they have a woe which confounds enefe membra divld,,,IIA : ,~lling good evlll, and light dar~nelfe, for God will and d~th dIVide things that arc noble, trom ~hIDgs unnoble, and good ChlDgS from that which is bad, and he will have no agreement between them, but the Divils lin of dividing is contrary, for it is his. ftudy to gl~w and mafh together ill things with good, NAhllm I. 10. and to divide and [cparate good things one from another, and ,therefore never leaveth until! he maketh Gods Church regnum Jlvifum, MAl. 12.26. So the Divell fhuffleth good things to bad,. that there may ~c a!, equality between rhem, which Ihould have no coherence, which 15 mmr ,on/uflonu, as he ~s. author and pAler co?fujio" •• ,Whe~efore this mull teach us to divide, as God doth thm~s o(dlffcrent.,and

contrary nature. , , . .

A.s lor the divifion It felt, the manner of It IS after four forts:

1. For firll he devided them in caufe, for the bright and fair, clean, bodies, as' fire havc their fulgore"" E1.!,h •. I. 4. and is t~c caule of it, the firmalljlcnt hath hisJilendllrem. and.ls tile caufe of It. So he divided them that fo he might appoint thefe to be the caufes of light to the World. So e con,,, he did it, that lhllfe C",PO'II OPACA, rhele thick and compaCt bodies Ihould give a Ihaddow, and 1o be the caufe of darknelfe : fo God divided them firft that the:ymight be divers caufes ofthefe.

2 Secondly, he hath divided them in places ; :whent~e .light is in

, the upper Hernifphere With us, the dluknelfe IS by dlvllion caft into the lower Hemifphcrewith the AntipOdes.: And fa God hath Iet his horizon Circle, as a girdle about the middefl of the Earth, :Job 28.20, which is a lymit and bound of this divllion, to leave: darknelfc that it come no nearer the light, then thar.

3. Thirdly, in time; For as this very, part ~fti~e with us isli~ht,co

to Icme in the afternoon at this very hour, It will be darknefle and night; for as now by Gods fel?aration, light doth drive out darkneffe, [0 then. the light,lhall give place: to the d.rk ~ andIc {ball the: courfe of umes connnue.

Fourthly, in regard of the I1fc, of which we fpak.e before, ~fAl.

4· 1°4. 23. For he divided them thus, . in th$l one we might have tUM to labour and work, and in the other to reft and Ileep : and. tb~fore the light is called the window, by whlch wdcewhat ro.doe, and night the curtain to draw over it, when we arc: weary, ~nd would takc:reft ;Ind as this is the temporall ufe, of ,this alteration oflight and datlmclfe, which God hath mad!! : f()thl:rc is ali erer· nail ufe for which he: did it, and t~at is, 'he fcpar.~edtbc one frrhc

the ~bcr; that the hghtmighc be the inberic.1nU:ofhis SabkHa Jighr, in regatd ofwhi,hGod leetb,4arlifltlJ'e1qtbcStarts.ijJ#. give us ljghr~ II11;'J 5S. But that ligbtwplchGOd'dw~nftlffii' and we.Ihall, isftkliwhich;hath no darkllelll!atalt,Yllhn. ;5': 'Allit1~is o~r reward; whish are thdDbiidtetnbatw-,d!(in light; butf«tlJc ~lckcd, he .bath'tefet\'e~ another cter1!~ll uCe of ~kneae, evei!.cj. itglllem IenC,rArIl11l, which grofie partofdarkoelfe. itiB'thls"dlllincuon call down into thc. bottomlelrc !deep of Hell for tI1e pullilbment of~ne wicked,~s tltadu_, ..... ""to rheg<?Od, fo is1bis ...... td. tothe wicked.. An(bndc:l!d, God bdng,williilgtci,fClid bldi IJOneof

hi~ cr~a!u~~ which he ~~d~e tonotliibg again, thttcfot'iithe wont thlO~ mdil~~ork ofdJlhochon, he f"lIdcrh rorhe place whic;his IItXt nothing, t,hat ,I', to rh~ loweft and bafcift.;plaaofrh.edeprli. TItere-

fore H"'!J~ raid 10 be 1D that place ofcemptinelfe or below; Rt'IJ.9 • .1. HdJ. !\nd f]'.hIlIS I he bottoD?lelfeplace. Ffi#!30. ro, St)thit placeof~1l

IS 7,ohll, ,706,611, ~m~nnelfe of all good,bottom!cfl'e andinlinite in

all ~lJ! diforderedwith allconfufiol). Utter darknclfewithlllltligftt:,

So It IS a plac~,~f all horror and .defolation fill' ever, \9hkbpliCe'of darknclf~ls evill mdce~ ro the fuffe!,t'r; ~lIrto rbe good foe flle ~~ei

~f the rlghteo~; and }ull. God whlcb IS blefi'ed liild gforified by",.

judgmeni eherein, -, . " ,.; , ... ', "

Now tbat we may n!ake ~etter ufeofthe knOwbl~of rbis;thm the Heathen dO,e of[h~lr' Phdofophy,fotthiff'ramirig.'illlis ql'iMQd' and honeftmouons, tbls may we leam for oor tires,,' .: ,', ':~':-'i~6;.~'if!

Firll, ~hat God!s the authout of allorder,'place.lime,md alltl1i,ilgs I. eife, winch d~6.tiferve ~cOlDelyc!)lltfe alidotdei'Qf)inle5 atiCrfca_ f~n~: H~ ordeined lfitll ~tght, thu day by courfe of place, he orderl,' dalhngUllhedfoiftlm& tieorftnfl; aDdfoof otherthiligSas we'1haIl

fee. h~ataf!er : iv.herefore beu"lt~ 6,~t6",Df "ifmkr IlIIJ~ltIfoJ-.

as It IS plamlyfaJd.,I((;". ,14'3J,~hli;ba1folStaughtoflhaddOw aDd figure, ~'.M',:a.,9!f,hc'Ytilnot l1a~e us make a millitpre. and ¢onfulj.

on of thmgs diVided s as not ~o nllogle feeds of d,lvtrs aatrIrrs,1IOt

to make Cloath ,of .weeu an~ Flax,not to plow withan~elllldan' A1k, forfueh things areab~mmation_i!l Gods eyes : wbichtf~h

Ira~ Ij~, to fee the; dcformlt'y of fplCltuaU tonfulioD' abd di(otd'er whlch~s f~tdow!l'IDtll~2C",6.14.IS' OQrfaitb!#Qft'il)t~coJ

pled With lnfiddlty, for what ~menr canlhere~. 'briok. ingt\1l:f.ee opp.o(ite anduncquall things together: fo that'GOddidnOt~i>!lJr make order, Qut alromade it I~ thiS end, that itfhollld cOlitiqIlIl~'a1id

be kept ofe~ry man, yetth~rC'ls =!n.d ever'll1i11 t1e,cQnfnfion 'a.n~ order both, mpanlcular men~' and JO COlilmon-wCllths'cont~ 'to' Go.dsordinatit)n,butrthe end of itinhc: ~n#iHlove~1v,

both of Com~",eak!lsandus, l('II1t'~inucf(j'~iiD ~'V#. !hc:reiS!lIlc!a .. n~",or!lre.a .. t .. h. ,art to. be'felie. ,d.~1!Y~hin wltOjii .. 'tthhiet-e

IS meeNgn~tance oflilllpllClty; bu',,:hentbi!rC! isa mi¥t~l"kltow~

I~dge WIth lei aswhenmenkno~ their igll~e~and . 'e''Wil';,

full, when~c: ~~~k thatM it~w {omtbing~Iit1tI,yei,th.i!W #"

wcA'hould, and:wheo we: feclDg,:willhlH"lIfillly bl • 'lS~

, D 3 dangerous I

L,eFtum pre4cbed ill St. PaulsChurcb.

dangerous: therefore God cannot abide the mixture of outward ho,j lyn~If<:. with inward corrupmeffe, that is, to (cern to be that we arc

Hypocrifi" not, which I'ratIifc is Hypocri{ic, which the prophet comparethro a Cake baked on the out-fide, and dow raw in the infidCl, as it is in aaionro for a£redion, God cjll1Pot abide Iuch as mix and joyn eogether,cold and hoe.and (0 become luke warm in affctIion Rev. 3. 16,

for tuch God will Ipue GUt of his mouth. .

The proper and naturalltermof confulion, is taken from the en, flome of Apothecarles to mingle Oylc and Wine, winch are of divers natures, which !hQuld be kept in Ieverall velfels apart: So if men knowing God and yet will power evill aCtions, and linDes on their own confciences, which are agaipll it, this is the holding or the knowledge of God in unrighteouCnelfe,Rlm;I.18. which God cannot abice ; as we mull: not joyn good things to, evil! things, to culler and cover them, for this is llypo~r~lie as the former was impiety: this God callerh ~. 23.27. the putting ofa fair marble rombe over the fan! rotten carkafs which we;: have: and having bad intcrprifcs and attempts, to put ana well varnhhedvifard to hide the baldoeffeof ir, 2 Cor. 4 2,andcaftoverit the cloak of Godlioelfe,andfoby joyni~ good and evill, making evill to be in the company of good, that It may not be fufpetIed or the better intertained with men, Such are. nowa daies : For the DivilUeekingto dillurb and dellroy the Church. by fame he Iaboreth to doe it, by joyning the Q!!eens injunaionsaod proceedings to it, under which pretence. they fatislie their COYetouflIelfe with the hurt oftheChulch. _ . .

Others under the pretence ofa good thing, namcly.of reformation, on the other fide doe reek much hurt to Gods'Ohurch,Jo fome on the one ~de put ,light to dalkoelfe" QndpD the othedide ;oyndalkndIe to IJght, which !hou1d be fe~ra(cd & not come together. N,,, eft· .. liud Ah, If til, aliud facies "'''71;, they arc not.two things fevered and therefore if it be dark or light in the deep, it will appear [0 in the 'face of the deep ; So we mnll: "ppcar and Ihew plainlyand outwardly by our face and deeds, what we arc within the. borrome and depth of our hearts, and indeed as the !hewing his darknelfc over the face of all, was a preparation to have light fent to.all : fowhen we profeffi: and manifefl outwardly, how cvill we are hy eepentance, it is the very note of reformation, add [heweth we begin to be good.

Thus we fee God is our pattern for imitation, to reach U' to [epatate and diftinguilb good and evill. Touching our [elves 6dl:,wbicb thing Gods word ~Iro ref.mbling, God himfc!lf doth teach us, He(;. S. 10. For it dilcernerh and Ieparateth .tbe will inthe hearts aad thoughts of men, afwdl as in aetions, and fetteth his mad. on them. fa.ying 10 us, this is eviU,avQid it, this isgood, receiveit... .

10'0 .hinl' in There are two things in light. which are the: marks 3lId·DlltCIIO(

li,h., hisgoodnelfe by which irisknown, that is, brightlldfc andcomfurt~ ahlenelfe. So Gods. Spirit is called the ligilt sndoyle o£knowledgt', ~or knowledge, inlhuaion, and direCtion, and in the 4'FPfol; 7,H,: rs c'll,led the oy Ie, of gladnclk ·~nd. codolt and colifuliltion; (Q Gods

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word is ,a lanrhorne, and alfo a joy and comtorr, PJilt, 119, roj .buc t,co»/r4 Igoorance and darkneile is melancholy and uncomfortable. So We may make our rnarke of dill:ioaion on things; tor if we fee them unco:llfortablc to ehc foul and confcience, fer a mark on it, [h~t bowlOg them, we may efchue Iuch things, and enfue fuch things as a, e good and comfortable" And thus much for our [elves.

Now rouching others, we learn alfo that in Common.wealths the Mag~ll:r;Jtc mull have ~is Itone ,rfTynnc,.za,h. 4, 1 D. that is, his m.nklOg Ilone, for that is the word alfo here to let his malk of difference on the tV,ilI, to di~cover them from the good, The Mi. nifter hath belongt,ng to him 0!J1y vifion ro dilcern them, :jer. 15, 19· butthcMaglftrart!lath divifion to doe it; fa that he may by deed appro~e and commend ~begood,and reprove and condemn the bad; and If all did keep this difference, the world would be a It!51lt world , but becaufe the good and the evill, without any dis !ltnchon or regard, ar~ fhuflled together, I S.m. 8. r. this confufiQll in Common-wealths is the caufe, by Gods iuft iudgemenr oftbe confufion and renting alunder of Common-wealths and Churches Da".. 5.18, This,iull: divition then looked to in the Governor,woUld avoid ~On~l!fiDn 10 the popular fort, as God doth here begin to die fi,lIlgUl!hltght from darlmelf~, Co doth he the fame continually by hIS word, Heb. 4. 1). leparauDg and marking the works of darlmclfe !rom the armour of light; for i~ fhewerh to' us, daily, whiih arc 19no,rant and negligent, thefe things areevill, anJ not to he done. that IS good, and muft be done , thefe things the ignorant Gentilf~ and Infidells did; therefore thou muft not doc the like which haft knowledge : rhefe things doe they which are dtfpar~te and with. out hope of comfort; therefore: thou, which haR peace and joy with God mull not doc 10 .

, Thus we mull: be ~arcfuU in reparating cviJI from good, untill

the great day or Ieparationwhen God Ihal He ver all evill from good for ever , for here God i~ a Fifher, and Common-wealths lind Churches arc as aN er, which hath in them good and bad together children oflight and darkneffe, but then at the laft day of [epara: non, when a full, fin all, and perfeCt dill:incrion {hall be made all fhall not betaken into Gods Boat, Math, 25, 32, but thegoarl'fifh only !h;ll bc~aken into Gods Boat, and the CYIlllball be caftaway, Then God Will be: a Sheepherde, M4tb. 25. p, anddividuheSnec:p from the Goats for ever, fctting this eterna II marse venilt Benedilll tie .v.,aleaic1i. Untill t~e. !aft day of,perfect feparatio.i, there wili be Ilill confufion and. diforder, both In private men and publiquc Weales, but they which ceafe not to confound themfelves- inthc:mfelves, J uftiec with unrightcoufDclfe, 'l,li con/undllnl, cow{tlndentllr, Thus we ~aye Ieen the order of reparation· in God ,. alfo the: manne- of It sn us, both privately and pubJickly - And-what confu; fio? will be unto t,h~ laft day. And thus much of the natural fepa~

ration. and the fplntual ufechcacof. • - .

Now

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G.m.l. r. ~elfe.

N was here we lee divifio rerum, [0 in the next place is let down J, I a j·n' .. - & denomlnalioTmm, which ever enfueth the othe~, , .. vljio nom .'" ., h' . hei denorni

c .' h finne ofthe world not [0 divide t Ingun t err -

roru u e e I. • I d'n' '(h d'

. d names which are perfeCt:ly and plain y nnngui e In

nations an ~ d f f II l1i 'and

h . Co . they call repentance an rem or e u enne e . t eimaeures , l' 1 "/1.. ffi Ii ffi

melanchol ,and DAVids fpiritual JOY foolifhne c, C?vctO~ ne e h all h~neft rhrifr.profufenefs providen~e, and not hb~rallly,pa. ;ie~c~ they call cowardlmeffe, and quarrelling manhood,llght darkn Ife and darkneffe light: So they ~onfound the na~es, when they c:nnot the natures: But fuch Chilli gl~e .account for It, to the great dill:in uiCher in the great lall: day 01 divifion,

W~ have in this diftinc!Hon m~ny things to confider, as, The . n The Atheifts objection, And fundry other mauers,

names give , .

of which the next time.

Lucemque Deu« lIoca)lit diem, tenebrs« <"t!ero <"t!oca)lit 1I08em.

F T E R God had diftinguiChe~ an~ divided light from darkneffe, as being things ~n nature oppofire and in degree unequall, which contranery anct'inequality, not being Ieparared, are the au. thors of all ccnfufion. Now he procce:~e~h to divide them in name; for as the natural divifion Ierveth for all things, Io this diftind:ion of denominarions and names, in refpeCt: ot us men, ferveth for our kno_w. led e to dillinguiCh them, which inducement moveth ~s !o t.hlnk tha~ God had rcfpeCt: to mankindc eYeD from the begmnlng In all thin s that he created, as if he purpofed to make them for men ~ for thouggh light and darkneffe alfeCt:clh all Creatures, even beafls, yet the Dame and title given to them concernerh only man, who underfbndcth and difcerneth things, by their names; and therefore as foon as he: made man, he gave him a gift to know by what names to call and difiioguifh one !hing f~om another, Gen. z. 19. for God hath in the Creation ordained things Ihat they Ch~ul.d ~e kno~n, and that they might be known, he giveth names of dlthnchon,whlcll 1[1: fymbola rerum as it were, notes to know them by ~ and becaufe wc cannot in this iifc know all that God made, we look for a clearer light afcer this life, by which our knowledge Chall be perfc:d:,

I Cw. 13· u. hl lid

Touching this divitionofnamcs, we havcfour 1 Ingsto con 1. er,

Firft, the manner of denominarions . Secondly, the caufe : T~lfdIy, the ende : Fourthly, the dependance ofthe day onthc:llghr, and not on rhe Sunne, asfome Iay, .

Touching the firft, that is, Whether God called them ~ythel_[ names and impofed ddes to them after a feDfi~Je ~annc~, With ad", nind: audlble voyc.e, 1 fil!dc: a double cOII~rariety ~ ~rl~crs, B~~

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to reloJve upon it,To whom fhould hcfpeak audibly, fceingthere.was n one to hear and underlland ( And therefore to no end and purpofe fhould we thiuk, he fhould fpeak fo, but as the Hebrew fay -, .pfeil,.. '!lit, id eft·ficit AIP,llari, the Iame phrafe, as wefay Prir.c<sooc build houfes, [hat is, doe caufe them to be buildcd : wherefore the manner of giving names is this, that as God gave before the natura II ule of things. to now he took order that we might have aufe of them by names, to know and talke of them Io,

God is the caufcand author orrhe names of things, by which we 2, know and call them; for though we fay, tbatwhen God created man,

he made him capable ol [peech & of language, in which language we

fee God badfpeech and conference with him, being made, ce». ~.I 6, 17,18. Yet AdAm impofednot the namcsro4he Creaturcs,Gtn.z. 19.

but according to that gift ofknowJedge and utterance, hccallerh things

by Iuch rumesand titles as he had received from God ; for as God did 14rgiri lingl14m, fo he did nominiDHS pr4;rt lingu," ; for here we fee betore ever man was made, in all the fix dayes works, God gave names to the things as he made them, and to AdAm himfelf, and in

rhefe feven thing, named, are contained all other particular things

made in, and with them. .

The end,to which God gave & impofed fundry names was thatwe 3.

fhould doe as he hath done,that is,wh~n things have a true being,chen

[0 give names to them accordingly, and no. 10 our fancies, and tblogs which indeed are nor ar ~",asthc cullome of the World is for things

that have no ejfe,3S the Hebr, [aid, muft have rio name: FOr God gave namestothingsthat were created.and bid a being : WetnUIl: notthen

doe as the Apothecaries,that is,fet on their Boxes it name and rirle of a -u ~reciousthing,when within it thereis 00 fuch matter; we muft not af:-

feCt: the name of Learning, Godlineff'e and Light, nor give it to others,

when we knowourfelves and they to be darkned and evill, Second.

l.r, When things have a true being, we have a care to give names and

titles, agreqbJe torhe nature and quality of them, that the aCt: aod lIa-

!ure of the thing, may be made manifcfl in the name of it, as written

In the forehead: fo~as aman d~awe~hgood Liquor OUt of the Cask,

Io ?l1t of the meanmg"and figmficatlOn of the Word, and denominations given by God, we may draw out the hiddell nature and know-

ledge of the thing, forn,mtntjl (1m6omm rei,and tQisis feen even in

thef: names of day and night, I!:ven to light and darkncff'c ; for con. cermng the name of the day 10m, it is very. fignificam and pregnene

and difcloferh the nature. cifthe day, and the Hebrew word,.which, . ~gnifieth night, is the negati~f, to the. meaning of the ~"y, the ~ay :rho ~'Y "h't nnporreth as much aSEIH, being, (hewrng us that our bemg and life. "6gmfi,,h. mufi be imployed altogeth~r in the' day time,.io fome honea e.ercif~

and work of our calling. of God or ehe Country, and that we are not

any longer to recken or accompt our [dves, to live or: have any

bemg, t.hen when we walke, asin the day, in the cOllrieanda6Hons

of o~r life, and work of our calling; for being idle, ill impl01'Sd, or

fleepmg, floathfJ!lly fpending and coofuming our time in van~, we

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are dead and have not the beil,ig of men; alfo there is a go~ . lignification given of thofe, which t~ke ~he name of 10m fr~~ ftn.log and moving, teaching that th~ day IS a time ?! walkmg, Ihmng, fpcakmg and labouring, aid th~ mght e f01Jtr", a time of filence, relt, and calc, and fleep, or rather a nme, thereby \0 reftore and rccovc~ the fircngth of body, which in the day was Cpent by carefull and pamfull tra~ell, in which fcnfe 1 {hewed the day to be the wQrk·hou!a.andth~mght ro be our Cabin or Couchofrefi,P(aI. 104. ~3· ".

4. La!Hy, touching this divifion, we fee tbat the rc:ar?n of man, 1$

offended with God in this place for nammg a .day,. f.YlOg there w~s a day, Co long before there was any Sunne, which ie:c!lIcth abfu,de t? them, bec~u[etheythinktbe day dependct~ onthe ::.unne,a.s on his caufe, therein molt faf1y.~nd groffely, drawing .the.1f r~fon t~om that which is now to that whiCh was then at the beglOmng, III which the,

argue their ignorance and error, even in learnil'lg and PhyloCopby. Wherefore touching this queflion, whether be the caufe ofthe day, we fay md prove according to this, that before there was any Sunne, there was a day, ewe or three, for the courfe and order of ~hi~gs arc

otherwife intbe proceeding of nature, then of the lirll begmmng, as we have [hewed : Again. !ouching-this particular, we fay, that the day is broken and drawtth long before we fee the Sunne, ,?n~y b~caufe otthe approaching ofrhe Iigh~;alfo when the~unnc 15 In hiS Eclipfe,and when it is aUdlY long hid and cq.cred with ehe Clouds, yet we fay,& call it,the day time; Io the contrary ,we ~ec and.r~y,t~at the day dependetb on th~ light, not on t~e Sun~e, and blS pa~lclpatlOn, of communication; Again, thc Sun~ IS not light, but 'lIehlt~/flm ~ ;uJ/ucillx qu.fit dies ;andthcreforc IS called the L~mpwh.lch.containeth lighr, 0- t.llquamlJt:h~flJ. as 1I.fill wel~ faIth, whlCh.Js~t light and {hining of It [elf, unnll the accelfary light be put to It, .1,"ntl, as this light by which the day was, afterward was PUt to the Sun;e and fo no~ fine': it caureth our day : Again, there are many things: which can and doeeonce.ive and br.ing forth light, b~fidcs the«, Sunne ,~S a Flint,Guo.powder, Flre,by which we may perceive a great difference between this light, and the Senne :after, that y.rh~thd we take the light to be deft#fll1J or a fiream of brrghtnetfe Iffmng from God. for N,h~ra in Hebrew fignifieth as well a Ilrcam ot water, as a beam oflight, Job. 3.4. we {hallCeethadight doth ~ot fiream from the body of the Sunne only, but from many other thu1gs, created as we fee as the fire De R,.v;um ;trnM julgor,Bz,ed,. I. "..Alfo there 15 D,

, , '"' ., Tl._ fi f" . h --r

• Bri,htn'11'c. jluvium ftrmJll1JtrI,ijlentior. Dan. U. 3. ''': ream~ o. [If: teuua'

neffe fhining from the Firmament. a~ fireammg and Iffumg from th~ impreffions and meteors of the Alre ; or whether we fay, that it flrtamtd from the Heavens, aad from Gods glorious Majetly, as light did to the lfraelites Ollt of the Pillar, Illy ?fthefC:, or alt~hcr.

will give them their anfwer, and repell the frivolous and nnlearllCd objeetionsofthc Atheifis : or elfe ifwc confider asN,tz.iaTil/I,erI doth very wifely think and gatber, that is, 'all things in groa'~ were created It the beginning, in the tWO gencralls,HIOaven oUId J:artb. thollgh

the

NOIe rhe:

SUOJolc.

Mcttou.

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[be perfeding and pohfhlng of'rhe Creatures in particular were by degrees brought to pededion in the fix Ieveral dayes, fo he conjeaureth that the Sunne was made when the Heavens were made at the firn, hu~ a ftc~ th~ fourth day it was perfected, and had the: light annexed to, It, thIS giveth them an anfwcr,

. N ow touching the fpirirual ufe of t.his knowledge; in which we

'wl~1 ~ec:~,the couree or rhefe three things before' noted. Firft, that The ute. a ~IRlndlOn of names of us mult be truly kept. Secondly that they , might be agreeable to the oat~re of the things. "i'hirdly; that we

~ull: expreffe the nature of things {hewed by their names, by OUr

rigbe and well uCage and pradife of them.

I ?c.gan ~o teach th~ Jail day; that it doth not avail us; that things r. bedl~m~ In nature, If th~re be.a confufion of names; therefore

God In wlCdo~e brought.lnthe right divifion of both orderly; for ,though nam~s tn affirmauon and negation cannot change' the true nature of things, NOli amtttflTII qllOti fom Gum _iji~1It n'mjll~. as in :;tlt1M name, and though we call Gold Copper, and Lead Silver,

yet the fal fe name affrrmed or denyed hurreth not the nature. yet notw.ithlland:n~, in re{peClofus, except there be a dillindi~n of ~ertaln appeHatI~ns, names and titles, we lhalJ grow erronious and 19~oraO[ ofrhe flgh, ~atures of things; therefore one Ieneth down

thIS rulc,tpatftdes 1I01»111f1", tft (41t11 proprie14tllm. the rigbr kccping of

rh~ names truly difcerned, is the preierver DE the true properties of! things: Therefore the: Direll, not being able to. alter the nature

of things made, and dillingui{hed by God, he Iaboureth io the otber

tc! Ibu~e and coofound. tbe Dames of thiogs,which ought to bediIhng~JIh,d, co deceive men: T()Tuch God f.i[h,:;~b. ~8. z.

~~ II th,,~ n>hJ&h dll,'mcth 'he CDllllfeO b, w".ds wlthlllllul_Julge f for gwmg of III and wrong namcs,confufedly obfcarerh the right loow"

ledge of the natures of ~hings to us, -and PlII#t complalnetb of it'

I 'Tim. 6. zoo he ccmplainerh Ifay of things in his timej.lfl, 10 c,,8tl

So may we ~ow compl~ln of 'i'",Jl»,""" .. "" that is, of the falfe faith,

~cale, lincenty, preaching, and. retormation of many. w hieh indeed

15 ~ut falf1~ Co called; for their unfruiefull faith is no faith their bljede ~eal.ls,no z~al, ~heir reformation is deformation, and their prl~chmg IS but a J IOghng or ~ratling, though it be falfl yotherwifc

ca ed, Wherefore thc~ ar~ !D.great fa~lt, which give one and the ffmb,name both rtI,c: Prtvlltlllllrei,to tHe fubltanee andtbe Ihadows

o t lOgs. This then IS the firllufe, whicb,by Gods example we are

tGo lcarn; n~,mefy ~o' term things by their right names by which

od hath qlfimgUllhed them. '; , _._ '

Secondly, As the names mull not be in confulionlo there'mull

be a fitndrca~dfiabl(ndrcagreeableand correfpo'ndcnttothe • 2. t~res ?flftethlD&S; for commonly the: names and tides ofthe wo~

~~ eirher fOI) hlgge or too little in proportion for the.nature of

i lOgs. If f!1cn be t?reat i,o authority and wealth, we are no niggards

be of (jwors, butgive great and [welling titles 't? tbem, thou~h.dley

o malloroodeferts"sE/"J 31. S. theywdl not ftickto«U -

E :l ' liJ",fl

Naball by thename of Natath, that is, a toolifh clowni!h Chrule, a right wor!hipfull man, to !latter him withall ; but God WIll be 30- , gry if we give titles after fuch a manner,-1~b. 3Z' n. 1\5 we are raE ralites to others for favour or gain, [0 we love to be flattere 0

h and to have a great and glorious name for Imall and fimple

. o:ft~~S'though our deeds be very [mall and few, yet we. mull bumtall: ~ur words as great as may be, but God obferveth agreeable:

neffe. . bi th t

Laftl We learn that If the name be, agrcea e to e na ure,

then in r~r life and aCtion we mull: alfo exprefle the ,nature of ~he things by well ufing, as the word teachc~h us, tha~ IS, ~hat fee~ng the day is our being and fhewerh that our lIfe and being IS laboring and well being in ~ur Calling, therefore we ~uft reckon or accomptour felvesno longer [0 live and have the being of ~ manf~~l:n we arc in the day imployed in Iuch hondl: and good actions a I e, and efleem our [elves in that refpeCt as dead men, or as beafls, when we are idlc:ilothfull, and givc010 fleep, ~rov. Z4' 33, 34~ we muft be farre therefore from the Cpeech and faymg of th,e fiuggard, that is ylt a little more jlllp and Jlumbe~, that is del!ght in idleneffe. And I~ mull: we be tar from it in dOlOgs, behaviour and cull:om~, Prov, 26. 14, which is thus defcrlbed, even ... Adore movlth on ~l1IglJ,fo doth he In idlenl[Je, one callcth Iuch jungos & '~IIIICOS. !h~WlDg that we differ not from blocks, being idle and Ileeping, ?or rrom m~Ih-. romes eating and dr inking, nor from whelp~,rporrJDg and pla~Jngf but th~n we arc men, when wc doe the a~IODs of ~e~, that IS, to Ilud for knowledge and work and travail f?~ thy hVlOg •• (0 that the Jigbt is our time M noneffi~ (0 long as we will ocio{t!meffi·Whercfore feeing Chrif!:ians are "0' of the "Ight hut 0/ the day, 1 'The[. 5· 5· we muft doe the aCtions of good wor~s. which belong tothe d~y, and for which the day was made 5 for idleneffe, theft, adultererie,

h r &c hate the light becaufe they are works of darkneffi,e,

mutt e, , , , f h f d R

I Cor. , . [0 arc there three pane a t em ee own, O,,?' I J. 13·

So thc4qJaliticsof our aCtions mull: be framed to the meanmg of the, word and nature of the things, ~hi,ch ~od hath made for us. And

this may fuffice for the fecond dlll:t1butlOn of the name.s, ' cIA

Et dixit 'De", fit jirm4mentum, ss«.

a N the reeoDd verre thefe two were coupled together darkDcll'c and rhe deep , and how blefled an exchange of light we: hadbeen mad~ par~kcrs of we have already heard.

'Now it followeth to hear the wond~rfull works of God in the deep, and that not ID the face of the deep, but in ,~c bowcl5 and mi~Qlc part. ~hcrcol; ~a~~

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bath before removed. [he fwadling band of dar~neff~, and nowhe cometh to tak: order 10 the deep, and herea&cr he will come (0 the earth ro order It, which as yet Iycth defoleee, overwhelmed and buried in the midefi of the warcrsand deep,

Th.ough the deep, had but a poor being ~5 fct, yet it had caure ~o p~alfe G<;d f~r it, as fimple 3S it was, pfot, 148. 7, ~ut God, that Itrmgh~ pralfe him more, being moved wirh piry,tokelhis poor rude being, 10 great goodneffe, fwallowed up A"JfJu~ in 46;;1', roteach us, th~t as ehere IS norhlDg fa clark and hiddee, rbough it be in darkI1cll'c It [elf, but his eye ot'proeidence can fee it, fa tharrhere is nothl?g fod\:eply covered in fecrer, but that he by the famc: can reach eore •.

In thisfecond work the; Prophet beginnerh at the third peinr " forthe fir/I: two, which ar~ th~ maleria.l1sand womb and ~q~ i!J1prtg~ lIatlng, mak.ngfir or enabling It to receive; better form, were things belonging parricularly to the firfi dayes Walk, which, in re(peCt of ~he preroganoos n bad, was called the: one day and the day alorie : For In th~ lim ~ay there _was JPiritm 1111" sr Mi. fld v"rill pr,erCl/#p ; for al~thmgsbe~ng made-in groife at the firl!:, and impr~gnared and CoD. ceived In this womb of the waters, had afterward in the fil( f(Vcrall dayes IDd times th~ir procreation, and were brought forth, and therr-fore r~e gulph beIng cn~ble~ before, is not diltinguifiled and Ieparated into that place, which 15 the upmoft Heavens of all al)Ovc liS and the puretl:and c1eeretl:ancl bell p,art pf the watef!;' Th~ other part which is more unpure is (et in that placebelow under us which ~eacheth mtothe bortora of the deep Qft~ earth : ~HPI ,,:-

• .flint faith, that this feparatioo was th~rdore made, I:>ccauJe .God would not trouble the living Creatures of the earth, aftenv.rdwirb many waters, which were not a meet Element f~r,them~oJive in,but only they Ihouldhave the i mpreffions orroe Ayre to water we earth as rain,f~w,h3ile and dews.' ,," . '

Touching Heaven which is one part of the-clivifion. thereis "'41';" ,filM ••• ,,.. ~~ieeti. ve~"i, ir is.diverfly underftood ,for firfi,it i •. takel;l(Ore, ... .i.", "er~"m,whlch weca~ltbe skie as inrhe 200. verfeofthis Chap,vollle",

~ceI" when Heavenis taken for the: Ayre or Skie, JeT. 8 7.~;lv!lJ

Irutelo, &e. rharis, ID the Ayre, fo Gen. 9. 14, 1J"bel c/Eli, tb~t is the

Clou~, which hang and Hie in the Ayrc : AndChrifl faith, ~b:¢.:hey

are skilfuU to difcern the rimes, by view of the face of He~ven; to

kn?W what the day will~by the redneffe orJowring of'tbc'Ayr,c or

Skie, LIlIr_~. 2,5. he Iaith, the Heavens were !hiltorJQck~ up three

yeers,that, IS, the Ayre 'Where thc,C1oudsare. So. doe Heathen wl'i-

terst,ake the wordctel_nolJ,illUm'l11! _t4IJtqH;tran, m4rtc"""mtt,

tbat IS; they ch~i1gethe' Ayre ,nOt:thclr mindes, Ike. w,here e~hI"..is

taken folthat dtlboce of plaCe. which, is between us and dle Moon,

After we have fpoken,of:l:nisc ... t"mAem1m;wt! will come tOJheotber

'(tel"m cr.elml111 , bur ,firf!: let us confider the Ayre in the g(llcraH,

and then {he true,Charnbersof the Ayre, ~ B".#callctbctbem.

Pfol.l o+~'3.that IS,o£tru:three Regicnsofthe Ayre • .InN'lbWh t~d. ..

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DJJiri&tttilJ,

. lid Ii n the matter or argument of there verfeS.

tile we will con I er, r '. . Ielf inrhc 8 verfe

Secondly, the name ofhthe thlngt~ bee ~oted . Fu{l, Gods Edia : Se-

In the lirt!: three t lOgs .are . of the . verfe' And the

condly, the execution 01 It.l~he fW~~r~;;., it wa;';o. Of the firft, third is the return 01 the Edl dO~he ma~ner and the parts, to whom in which v:e ~onfider t~ wO~I;3r wherein 'and to what end it was; the Edlalsglyen;.an ten wat;rsfromtl:eother. namelytodl{llogulfhtheoned ics work to have feverall fpcech and

It pleafed God in ever~ ad S i it the one to exclude neceffity. mention made of his War an cP fuait . the word is ever named to the ot~er t~ eacluder'~~~~~~~a~on q~i~ lTat e; m,jiliAY;NI, E{A, 40•

conelu e an JUt'du eed of cou~ldl or adviCe, t.he other to e.x- 13, 14·th3th(' ha . no n 1 as he did all thlog,wlthouttheadvlfe elude quis dedttlllt prt.or'(ef/ fo hedid ito! his meer goodneffi: and and help 01 any, by hl~ or' erfwalionofourdeferts.

grace, wit~out any mOJlve hi hIt ld you was verbllm unum ;ncrta~

Touching rhe w; ,w ~cconli~er It "biding in God, as si{iII,.arr, tum & ,,~ernnm: . e ~u erfect work- man ; and hisproec:cdmg5 and cun~lOg d~th ~bldle me !atures 3S the skill of an artificer, proand maolfefiatl,?n I~ t1~. ! k and there is to be feem [0 rhefecond ceedeth from him IOta IS w~ 'h for ever wholly in God, and dwelperfon, the wor~ of. God abi e~ : And this by this means palfeth Iets and reilethlO h,sb,?fom~ roo kmanfhip ~nd Creatures, and is from 90d the ~t~fr, ;n: w~~de~fu!l and glorious Gods word an~ to be teen manue yO. h h made all . And(omaywefayofbls

w~r~ome.and. a~t G' by 'bt'c d ~oequall with it : for as with ?ur words fpirit which IS 10 epara C an t of our meuthes in one aalOn, and at our breath alfo proceedeth dU d the Ipirit of God proccedcth from one time: fo ever the wor . an f wor k So we fee th:y are in~~m together, to the perfh~ft~ 0 "';,~~ Gld ;"ade the world, is there divifible, Heb. ,.2·3' C fi "(hlS Father andthebrightneffe0fht& c ,Iled a flamp, orgr~'!Ien °n:;ed the fe~ond {lamp and iml'rellion glory; [0 tdhf, n0'd '~~h~Ce works, in which the b:ightnelfe of his graven an orme I h' ower and wifdome,&c. For by the

Image fay ~~ ~r.n;.~::,n~~~ ~e~vens made ~r41. 33- 6. faith DAVit/,

word 0 ~o a 0 I rn two fpeclall pOIOIS.

out~fwhl~h fe~te~~~~rgo~ais the generall mediato~ not only

r , be;~~~ tJ~dta~d ~an ~n the w?r: ~f!o~~f~i~~:r't~\:O~d ~~~~d God h~d ~yiS :~~~ ~7It~~~n~~e~~~ th~ir being, and were that th,ey are,

was, d i d by him then by the fame veT"u""nand were ret joyt a~ In Godr togcth;rwith that powerfuU worki~g

_ :r:;;I~~~~;i:;gs~frTr, !"e:b a.n t~ng~~::s cfi~~:d~ka~d!: ~f

right order and Joynt agam, emg y

frame. .. h h - it had been all one for MD(esto

The other pomt IS, t at w ereas 1 h hl h fe, D;;xit De-

z. fay,DtUsJ;xitAutDelisfocil,hcrathcrcaufct t ISP rae,. 118

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1/1, qlliil ftc;' diem", : in men indeed for"", -& 'I'" are nvo things ot divers natures, often fepararcd , for commonly the Ircatell {ayen arc leaa doers well, the talkative arc fddom attive I bue in God they are all onc,his dill"", & !iI{lIIIN have no difference I tor isJP;. jille faith, with God in#illlJl ftrl110nit tjJ peTjemOoperu, and ,his i's the

prerogative of the (upern.tural A.gc:or. . ~

Touching theftile or phrafe ohhe Ediltbr Mandate;" is imrerative : the Kingsofthc: Earth arc: glad oftentimes byfairmeaoa to entreatthat their inferiors and (ubi~as may docthCir,.rut u.the anmeD! mcncounfclled RobOA"" I Rig. 12.6,7' Ar.dlhe ApoftlCj dU!e alwaf. es ufe t. hCirauthotl.·ty in comm. andiog;: C"., 8.8. :B\i d cont,nually gocth by way of cotnmandingtbeaufe lUlIIe are a le ro refi(\ his will, hdearcth none that 1ballwnhftuid hilll. In this fiile and phrafc: he is, in rc:fcmbling, compared to a PtiIicc: or King, who uleth but his eommandemene and word II) ha.,e hiS willinanychingc:uculed, if.he will haYe 010 HoftofGleo'mAr" mor, he needeeh but fend out his commandemene, and it is fptedil, done, while he littcth fiill : So doth God here .: Whetctort\ jf we fear and obey Princes Precepts, and if rhe.dumb CreatureS execute his cornm3lldcmcnt, How much morc: oughl we: which Ire / men, to obery and doe that he commandctlt us f

The: third point unto whom this Edi~ isdire6tc:d, isnitrt1l1i,Il"", 3'

+, 7.k f),,"ethII thillgllhlll'reflOt, 1M if th'1It1U1, fa did-heio the

tir!!: dayes work, but now h.comlll&Dderh che decps ohbt WatGts. :zCw'4' 6. touching which God challcngeth the greateft Princes

in the world, ~. 38. 8. r r, c",p ,"'" ~""",.,.J."" tlltl' I The

proud Kingof this Itland, u we road ill ChfooidCl~tookilpOn him thisauthority to comapand the "'atelS, but he was chcdccd by their difobc:ditnc:e ~ bu*whcn God cOlllmanclclh the: deepst&cy obey, contrary rothc:irlIatUre,Ef'1+1'. 27' Thos'we fee "hQiHaught cm'.jk.

by the Edia : . And then, to whom it was given, . .

Astheworktomake light of darklldfe illpaftallourtlpacitYf fa this is as wOllderfull a miracle. and as great Clontraricty, atilt former, 'to make .l!ljilll_,x&,Ij_etrli, tx pr'filTttiil.tbJli, which, asthe other, fhewetb the wondcrfull power of the Crdat()r char _ madethcm. Agaill', GodioaUth~work, is cOilUary totheman-

ncr of Illen in their Archite~ure ;. for men ufe in' making any thing. eo maketboir framer in that place where the fittdi matiCr .Ai1,.Der had neere hand for thril! work : But as' thit matt,er is> ooDrrlrJi in ourrezfon; fo he thiaketb it all 0110 tofClCbthc:matterfofwhich he will make Hf&VCfI"f;OUt 0fthe clcepeft and rcnt«a1l pbce·ohll ~ whereaswe, bllilding Shipf;doCiclJogMth~placewlwrb the ... is new, and co build hoDfes 11'0 fa. a> pIIIte where. fiontl"llfd Aigh ath~d tobc:hI,d! butiliitaH _with God"l!isal1Jlois_!f.14 his power and wOrd aleina moB\tJIuoM!:illJtillddoc:'" . .

Secondly, It is Gdd4, challctlJogc.:1,s. 38, B.ehlt n'*t caaDlllh :;

;ething orderly OUt elf a difordercd Ihat'~; blK God\;tJflltt 80ft: (;OIIfufcd. {udefmging..aadi6rdeflld c;,IUUtO itt,. _W".tIdc

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Lef/;ures preached i,l St, Pauls Cburch.

the Heavens, who are moll: beautifull, and whof~ courfeis moll: or-

derly and certain, '

3. Thirdly, He is admirable in this, that he can make ftrmaTll~llI"TIf

ex infirmi(Jimo, of rhe infirmity 01 the deeps; for what more weak than water! Y c. of it he made the Heaven, 'which is the moll: firm and {l:abl~ thing, and thcrdorecallcd the firmament.

4' Laftof all, Men ufeto begin the frame 01 their building at the

foundation and pavement, but God beginneth his houfe at Heaven, w hichis the roofand cealing, prato 104' 2, and then after makerh the Earth, which is the foundation and pavement, as iris 1'{.I. :14' 1,2. which confidcration maketh David ufe this exda_.lion by wayofadmiration,p!al, uS. '1. The right h4ndofthe LD.id'h

tho preheTllint1lce,it dOlh bring mighrythings 10 paJJe, '

:1" part. The fecond part confill:eth in three points, de quo,ln quo, ad quid :

We will begin with the Firmament, which is called ll..chia, that is expanjio, a ftretehing forth abroad; the property of which word includeth the fignification 01 the nature of fuch actions, whereby Jllctalsare driven thin and beaten abroad into plates, as Smiths with

their hammers ufe to doe; in which fcnfe itistakcn, Numh• 16. 38• and 7tr, 10. 9.fo the expanfion or driving out of metals, is the orin, Finn.. ginal from whence this.word is borrowed, and being fo borrowed; ment of Hot- it is applied to the fpreading or drawing out of any thing whatroevon compared. vcr, as of a curtaic, pI-l; 104,2. which kinde of phrafc by compa-

rifon, is there given to the milking of the firmament,as ifhe had, as it were, fprca&. the: HeavenS abroad as a curtain I alfo to the overfpreading of allault, to which alfo thctirmament is compared ; alfo to the pulling OUt abroad and expanfion of a roll of paper or parchmcnr, to which alfo it is likened, E[ay 34, 4,·ljkewife to the blowing up ofglatfcout ofa lump into a hollow compatfe, to which :job refemblcth the making of Heaven 37. 18. which comparifons doe ycdd unto US the hidden confideration of rhis work 'of God: fot iuch a like work was performed here this Iecond day in making HeaYcn, asthefc handy-Cra!r$ men doe fhew. Simplecomparifons thefc'areto fhew fuch a matter, yet fufficient, filhente we can con-

ceive: no better,

The two aCtions of Gods Spirit mentioned before, Juftole & di4~

polt, which I raid arc feen in all workS created, are no where better expretfcdthan in this work ,for the dilatation and conlraCi:ion ohhe Ipirit moving in this work, was thc. expanfion and Ilretching out of

t~e Hc~vcns; and the cOI?prefl!0n and drawirigin of his force and virtue IS and !hall be the dltfolutlonof the firmament, for then they will run and row Ie together as a roll, and as molten glatfc, &c,

ThenfemblaDcc: and Ihadow of this WOrk of God we: may fet before you in a Blatter of common experience; for it is ufuall mice: a pot of water, by the force of the fire, to evaporat~,and fo'll:retch~ crh forth out ola little por,asto fill the whole: room with hismoiRurc extenuated; and again, being 10 dilated into a thin vapour, weCcdt drawn in and comprelf~d into little drops of water again,

which

Deqrto.

In ouo.

Ledures preached in St, Pauls Church,

which alfo fome explane by the mann f diflill . ' nferh as a vapout, filling all and rh er 0 .1 l I ha~loD, which ficlt

d ' d ,~n rClo vee mro drot ,

an IS rna e the fame quantity of water and 'll r~ps ~gamt before, So Ood in this work as a Still fimol ure whlcb~1J was up by the Sunne, he firetched~ abroad etrh ril, bya vapLJurrlling rhcnrhecold congealerh and compreflerh cili\'atcrs ab?ve us, aDa and after "by heat, again refolrerh and me~~:C~~UrllltOclo~ds, drops of ram, which return to ~he Sea' S h ' r c!ouds Into AtreUm, the rarefying and exrenuarl the ~:t at ~n reatlng CIZ/um dilating it by expanfion was the fira ' ,crs mro vapers, and fo fiinction is taken after ;hc manne egm1:?g of them - Gods diIlene, with which faith salomon: ,of: t Inm:! Ilone, or marking cino foD, asif he h;d a com alfe ;o~;· .27- "'Cllil ca!l,u" 'lu4ft airEfay 40, I2. faith that in th~s (eparad kc ~ 'hrcle ~rthdr feparseion,

luP the upper wat~,rs, and With the or~!~! d~pn:dfe~dt~Od didbobld ow : we know It to be a ma fli ' e warers c· courfe of waters, that it bu(jett~e~h~ b~~ha~~ffic,~tftYh tOdfiOp the up the breaches, once bein made \VI c, ea s to Ilop feparare the waters; and ke~ a; Yet God, b>: h,ls power, doth

t>artition wall and bank which 1: uf:r;:v;, ~?~ lIS In/erger/llm, his fromehe cther is the weak"efi EI • °halV,1 e andkeep ous one which is moll' firangc"lhat tha/ili~~~d tb t J', namely the Aire, bound to the mighty waters which h d e term/11m, a bank and limit it felf; yet God hath made O/it ts. ~~c~ of a, te,'!'illlll ~o jirm£4"'.tnlllm, t~"t is,a moll frrong fure and Ii :n;~lt ~hlChh!S caUed not ad; yea. It is more firm add' on , IV ich 1hall made of a rock of Adamant f permanent, than it it had been

and perahed, but tbis is moft' d~:a~~~a~~bG:~ters w,?uld have etten

The laft thingisad'lMjJ, namely, t'hilt thcr~a!:fOlntment •. ,

~her~generally is implyed a double di 'fi heay be, a dlVlfion. Ad 1NitI.

things Innature op ofite andc Vll?n, tone Jsbefore-,of

other is here ofthi~gs which ~Btrary, ,as light and darkneffe I the

ters from the unclean and i ave an mequality, lube purcft wa-

evil! diftingui!h~dfrom goot6'urctf< fo~ Go_d wdl have noronly quality are better and more e~cc~fe~t 0 [ e th~glc that in degree and

which i~ more bare and vile, for th ' are ~?Il:' c epa~ated from Ihar mother of confufion _ We:n e not I ingunhing rhefe, isthe

Devill the adverfar ~hich is ~~ n?t only mark and ,beware of the apparentlyevil or lee not alt-o 7~h"" but al{o ofthings which are

the clearefl wa;er$ iq the bell a~~ h .fr ~o~d : therefore God divide4

he fer below in the depth ~ big pace above.and thegrolleft pendiclI/4m, & 4'l1l4m ftflid:m ~ ::a:e a;rc a difference between tlffl-

re in!erIlTif. ThiS is the: divifi;on oOrneblsWM.re fillerflm, the other is M'-

N' me arers

ow In the upper waters of ClZt " •

A,!flala6i111 k4f11'AI/,Li/" hi h fI",aCre.m, therc are two parts,

h f ,tT )-0 w, W ic areuniedto h N ' tee two waters cbus divid d b g~t er. ow berween

ture, but only different in ~e' ecau~ t~ey ~re not contrary in na .. doe tirft, as it were reveren~:yeea' "t e IOlfcdiior an,d bafC! , waters

, c now e ge rheh humility, b)l

. F fehdin,

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Leflures predche(l in St. Pauls Cimrc/,.

lending up vapour$ to them in the Clouds; and they, as grarefull, doe fend down drops and {hQwers more liberally, even powring them down again: SQ there is a mutual! reciprocation and clrcularing in nature between them, as ebbing and BQwing is below; Io is there breathing up and dropping down between them both.

But to what end arc there waters above and below, and wherefore is thcre a divifion of them ~ Bccaufc God had before taken .order for light, that there. might be time, it was next ofall convenient and meet that he Ihould take order Ior place, wherein his Creatures might inhabite , for in that place where the thick and compact body of the Waters is, the CreatUre could have but a flow motionj and therefore it is no fit Element forns ; WherefQre God haYing an eye to man, rcfpeCting him in all his works, provided in this,that he might have a fit Element of Aire, in ~hich he might live, move,

and have his being. .

The end of the other divifiol) and reparatiQn was this, that the

waters bdngthus iet apart, might be as a bridge for us, not only from one CQuntry to another, by fhip here .on the nether waters, but alfo that there might be a cQmmunication and pafi"age from Earth to Heaven, by the: means ot the Aire , for the Aire is,as it; were, the bridge and path and cafemenr, by which the light of Heaven commeth to us; it is the pipe, through which founds and VQyces come to our cares, Imells to our noftrils, colors to our eyes; it is the ftraincr or five, through which, as :.Job faith, the rain is fitted in little drops, but efpccially as you know in the lirft day God made light, which hath a proportionand refemblance to thi:s word :.John 8. u.yca;it is 'vox creatorllm allo , tor the dumb-and fcnllcfi"e rhings doe, as it were, fpeak and rell us what they arc by thelight ; So, if you mark, the Aire, which is made the fccondday, hath a refemblance to Gods Spirir; for as the Airc is the aCt ofbf~athing, which we rlfily fafhion and recdve into our bodies , fo our fpiritual life is by the holy Ghoft, of whom we have the like aPl'rehenfion, and as light commeth to our eyes by the Aire,and words to our cars, [0 that by it we apprehend light and Ipeech and communication; Ic is the Spirit of GQd the very means whereby our fouls doc apprehend the fpirituallight, and by which the word of God is conveyed to the eats of .our beam; So fpiritually the Holy Ghoft is vehieulu", lueu, & 'VDcis Dei, 6oc. and this we learn by way ofrdemblance,

The laft point is concerning this, to know to what end are thefe

upper waters of the Aire, We are to know, that God made them to be his magnfH The!AllrfH, his great treafure houfe for ftore, tn«, ~8. ;. for there he faith he will at his plealure open this great ftore houfe.and out ofit give the firft and latter rain and fnow, to molifie and make fruitfull tbe Barth, which is fa great a blefling tbltwe

arc bound to praife God continually for his gracious work.

The manner of which work is fet down inGm. 28. 6. GQd,outof the lower waters rat(ctha fume or vapour or mift, which he candrn(atcth

The maener,

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Fecit trga '])e:U fiat' expanfu'»I,' quod diJ!i~!!,it' jn,~{~:~~~:

aqUM, &c. '-t

.< i'"" __ ,','',,\ r : .: ·~1:~';;:".~/

..,.,.""u=;w He treaty concerni~gAill:JcCQ!lddayeswonkj:itdi •. vided accordinl to the. Wllrk lefc!I~I.&IId the.iname:. given. to it the,W9lk is Jet dOWhillthe:fiKmand fevcntb tdthe !lI~l)fJeI'f)£i.inthe.,cighth ~alii. In; 'ttie'workwe obfclved three points, according to< the threC:'fcv~rall verbs l)ixit,fi,#&;{iN,'The firll: containeth the precept or ;wafr~tit for thema':

king of the work. The feeond the workmanfhip and goinga~ut to doe or make it. The: rhird, the return andl:ertl~te. toftgDllieth.a~ it was fully executed, which three arc,1O Dix~t,fe&!t&. ftn_~ •. "'.

With man it often times falleth OUl thard,x", Is'wlthoutfim ,.that

is, it is too ufiiall, that men promiCe ~ndfaymuch"but doe1it.not;and many times we fee hisfttit, to be Wlt'hOl:lt/erftf/t,~hat onc:maY_fllY! foc1u11' qI, it is fully and perfealy done. ;the.fidl!we f~ MA'., 1II.I~O.

he raid, but he did it not, the other cuftome ofmenl5excmplificd. Lu«, 14. 3 o, for ashe did i,tnot,fo oli ~be other fide7his ~4t16~g~",. buiUa hOlJfi hilt did tlo1ftnifb It: So,nCtnc: ~ fay. that-~lsJ"'~was f"num. eft .• the firftalfowe ~ce! tS"".18! 17"sulfau;J !tlS3'!ould give Michot tOD4'11id,ibut did It n~.b~t ltwas,notro~lth God: for he is not,yea in raying, and natli!' .dolDg and ,pe!fOrmID~. bU,tas. certain ashe iait)lllthitlg, fo furel),)It IS done,.for}iis wor~'llltfCl~1. and that his deed declareth , and.Qntbe other tidi:,lt Is firr odic:lwlfct with God,thanitis with m;n; for:irGddbegltia'~Q?,Y1ork.mwi,ll fureIyfiniiliitchrou&hly, p.~iI. I.6'Fe~ft&# IjIlprJ.fo.u~.ifbe ~~b~be. ginner and author of any thlDg, he will alfo perfea lundfirliiliUi, H,b. J~ ~. Io thatwe filall confe'ife,as here,that.tJllld j,c;,j""- ~;5<J:that that is the firft confideratiOllin God •. ~hat, there threefcvcr3lhhlngs •• faying, doing, -irid' p~rleaing, arc ;in~patable ili,hil(l, ioync:d-~nd linked together as II chain,that one enfulOg the othc:rand allfollollllng thefirll:. '.' ., ,<, ,. :

The Iirft oftbere hath been fhewed before; thi:twolalt,~ Work and the Cenificatc arc now til be handled in order •.. TheWork, in this [wenth v~Jfe, touching wbicb,wc fee that it c;lOth;ftan~/~ two points and parts, ,Firfi, He made it. Secondly, I;Ic'fc:pa~tNlt~ .... >' •

Concerning the making, the wordgnAjIIl' figm6ctb to !Dakc,> which hath an oppofite and divcrf fenfe, from two words which may Ieem tobethe famcloo,meaning FfoJ 45. 7. there is thcret~rcewords /o,m4vi, cre4vi,jui, of [h~rc:~~ree Ieverall words the firft l~coll1f!10n

to the other two' for all that IS made oi lomewhat or nothing hath a ffirm; and thercforeis formed : butfACerlu trtare are dill:ingui!bed tHus; To make prefuppofeth a matter fubje"; but ,to create, Is.t,a make of nothing, in the firfiday God created of nothlllg; but.now In

this werle hdsa maker.for Clt'/lIrIII ~{wlm was made ~rfomcthmg, the Heavons

vi/linni-J.

LeRures preachfd in St. rp",,j{s Cburch.

fore : So God in this plac~ is faid, ~y this g1kljlrA,1>0 give the outward form to rheie Heavens, and CQ 10 trimaJtd pertethhem up as they fuuuld be;, for they· being made. bcrorc in.grolt·, IlCIW he Ilretched them OUt after a circularform, 1,69.8; IS bavil)g~e a CUltain, {b()U13 fpresd it abroad, andIet it Opt wh~rfllSbdor.it Jay wrapt up rudely together; 70b. 2:1 .• l+ol,mJilCtrl'_. thati" now he did bend and bow the Heayc:ns compalf~ I.S a b(,w, wbich was made before, but not half round, butcucular round. and fpllericall ; andllotonly did he Irt this form to them,but aUo saYei them .3 eircular & fphcricall motion te mrn round in their courfubapt the Earth, pIAl. 19. 6. it doehgoe in his compafle, i1l gJTD !1I.,PrIMh. I, SJ 6; tbe-Sunnc and. Windes, doe goc: 1 circuit J i" "'fllllilliie. '1Jel&;r~ {uittl [U4r. ··ThirJly, He in this kinde ot makbg them did now add tq.them 1 virtue, force, and heavenly inlluence, 1'" 38. J I. which heavenly and comfortable influence is called the Iwe:ctnc1f.ofthc Heavc!1$,.Deut. H' 13. 'Therefore WI: arc willed to praifllGod III firmament6 'lIlrtlitu fo~. PIal. I so.~.b}' which virrlle the Heavens have a comtorrable and reviving force, an aaion, in. fluence, and dominion, as the word fign.ficLh, in thef., Creatures

bc:low. '

And thu.s much of flcit. Now of thcthiugs which he made.

Firll:,-We: lee tharwhereas the: Heavcps before .were compaclhnd entire. xcw by G..,ds workmanfbipthc:y arc£r.a(tcrcdandfprc:ad round ab-ut and divided; for being made, it ,~oias Gods purpafe. that it Ihould be to this ufe, to be parted afunder into two parts.

The H£lvens b.y focie is called ,e_ txp"n/"",. that: is, 3 tbing thinly Ipread abroad, In the making of it we confider the Maker and the manner of it, which is both fimply and plainly,and.lfo comparatively by way ofrefemb'ance fel down in the 'Scriptures ;

for the power & force: by which it was m_de,was the Spirit of God. The Spirit of the Bsecurion r and Minill:er ot Ihat thing was Gods Word, the God. fecond perfon who willed and command, d it to,be doae, 'I,e. 10+ The W.[d ot 30.Htfe1ld~'hfDrlh hu spirit "tid ,m, lt1erecmeeti.7,b 34.14.15.°00,

1/ he draw or gathed" hi4 Spir.t, Iht'J pertJh ilg";11 : sothu all thar is

made, is afcribed to the expanfion and motion of the SpiriEgQing

out \ and the undoing or marring.ny thing is attributed to the draw-

ing in of it again. .. " ::,:

The breath of Man hath adiycrffofct and nature IS ita drawn

inorout~ for as its with open mouth brea.hed Out (whidlis'hU. Warm ... """ 'IU) it is warm, and being drawn in, it is cold again, itit~mihily \ and naturally expired and breathed our, as then. it IS warm and hut,

fo being violently and forcibly with 3. blall: puffed out, iriS dryaad

cold·, of which' two forts of motions of Gods Spirit is the ~irc

made,tne moift moderate fhowres and rain hy thc one, 1',.1.147.

18. and wind~s and troll by the other, 10b 31.10.50 it is !ii,itMlllfl.

~iI ,,,lo,iI, which 'warmerh, rarefieth, and maketh thin ncrythlng

liYing: 10 that power moving on the waters, mldetbelD srowig.;

to a thin body. whcrcoftbc Airewas madc~ ,.... .', ~~:,

Now

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