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A13863 An exposition of a parte of S. Iohannes Gospel made in sondrie readinges in the English congregation by Bartho. Traheron ; and now published against the wicked entreprises of new sterte vp Arrians in Englande. Traheron, Bartholomew, 1510?-1558? 1557 (1557) STC 24168.5; ESTC S2370 60,439 164

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malice of Sathan and his owne fault he neglected Gods commaundemente and so lost those goodly qualitees and became blinde and begatte blinde childrē namely such as he was himselfe This is diligently to be noted that the faute mal remaine where it is in dede and not in God who is the autor of good thīges ōlye and not of any thinge that is euill although he dispose in dede and order all the thinges that man hath infected and made euill For nothing cōmeth to passe without him But he appointeth and ordreth where and whan euerye man shall vtter that euil that is in him that is in hī I say not by Gods workinge but by hys owne procuring For God is not the autor of an adulterous theuishe or murtherous minde and yet no man shall put in practise the leacherie that boileth within him nor the thefte and murder that lurketh in his heart as often and wher whan he will but only where and whan God will And therefore S. Augustyne saieth that nothīge is dō in the world that commeth not out of the inner courte of the soueraine Emperor For this cause we graūte not that God willeth euil thinges to be don lest he shulde be thought the autor of euil thīges which is impossible nether graūte we that he willeth euil thīges not to be dō or that he nilleth thē to be don lest he shuld be thought impotēt not able to ordre mēnes euils to his glorie which is false But this matter we wil leaue to another occasiō giue God thāckes for that he hath now permitted vs to speake who graūte vnto vs al both to acknowlege the darckenes that we haue madly pulled vp on our selues also to perceaue the same insome part lightned againe by the beames of his sonnes diuine spirite Amē The Fourth READINGE ¶ THERE was a mā sēt of God c. IT is manifestly true that plaine traces euidēt signes of the diuinite Goddes wisedom the shew thē selues euerie where For if we lifte vp our yes beholde the mouīges the due courses cōstāt ordre of the starres we shal be cōstrained to cōfesse that there must nedes be ā heauēlie mīde that gaue thē those mouīges that appoīted to thē those limited courses certaine ordre For where thīges goe by chaūce there no ordre no du certaītie is kepte Againe if we cast doune our eyes loke vpō thīges in the erth cōsidre how creatures are preserued cōtinued in ther certaīe kīdes we shal be led to God as it were by the hāde For we see that mē begette not horses nor horses mē lions begette not wolues nor wolues beares birdes brīge not forth fishes nor fishes conies But if thinges went by chance withoute the gouernment of a minde endued with strength and wisdome these thinges many moe monsters should be seen daily and howrely What nede we to straye farre we may remaine within our selues and almost touche God For we see that euery thinge in vs is made to a certaine ende and vse The mouth besides other vses is made to receaue meate and beecause hard thinges are sometymes to bee taken the teeth are ready to breake and to grinde them whan the meate is wel grounde and fitte to passe there is a condure pipe to conueie it to the stomake where because the meate must bee more sodden the liuer is sette vnder as a fier to geue it heate Whan the meate is well concocte in the stomake and turned into a iuce it is sent thens into certaine gutts whiche are small because it shal not passe away to hastely and from thēce the best and swetest part is drawē vp by innumerable litle veines and deriued to the liuer and there thorough more heate turned into blood And the warrishe part of that blood is seuered and sent to the kidneys thēce strained out conueied to the blader beneth The hotest part fōe of it which we cal cholere or gal is receued into a litle blader fastened for that purpose to the liuer The dregges earthiest part cōmōly called melāchol is thrust into the milt The blood that remaineth is sente oute by a great veine called the gate veine to the hearte wher it is made hoter and finer Whan that is done ther be arteries to receaue the finest and purest part of the blood called the vital spirites whiche bee twise as thicke as the veines because of the thinnes of the matter that they muste kepe and there bee veines also to cōuei the rest of the blood into all partes of the body that no parte be left without norishmēt and sustināce The remnaunte of the meate whyche is grosse and vnprofitable hath conueniēte places where to be receaued and issues also to be voided out of the body And because the ill sauour and sente of those thinges woulde hurte the noble partes that bee aboue as it were a skinne called the midriffe parteth them a sonder and kepeth of suche noisances Now where thīges be appoīted to certaine ēdes vses chaūce hath no place but there must nedes be a mīde to appoīte the same For they cold not be so appoīted by chaūce yea chaūce wolde oftē sette our mouthes ī our fore heades our teeth in our fingers ēdes Chaūce wold oftē hange our stomakes at our elbowes sett our heeles vpō the toppe of our heades our eyes in our knees Chaūce wold iomble al to gether without ordre without al cōsideratiō of ēde our vse We nede not thā to goe far for a witnes of the diuinitee Howbeit though there shine in our selues a thousāde lampes to shew vs God a thousāde thousād ī al his other worckes yet our blindnes is such that we are not thereby rightly directed to God Therefore it pleased the goodnes of the almightie to adde to his worckes the testimonie of his worde to guide vs more certainly familiarly to a iust knowlege of him This his worde he deliuered to our first graūdfathers afterward in more ample wise to Moses the Prophetes vntil the appoīted time was comme that he wold most largely fully reuele him selfe by the in carnatiō of his sonne To this most glorious most excellēt most opē most cleare reuelatiō our Euangelist hasteth therefore passeth ouer the patriarches Moses and the Prophetes and beginneth with the testimonie of Iohan Baptiste the first and most excellēt preacher of Goddes sonne beinge now clothed with mānes nature THERE WAS A MAN c. In Iohan Baptiste al thinges were wonderful diuine aboue mannes nature His begettinge his conuersation his zeale manifolde vertues shewed a singular power miraculous worckinge of Goddes spirite This is he whom the Prophete Esaie painteth forth calleth the voice of a crier in the wildernes This is he of whom God saieth beholde I send myn Angel before my face c. And agayne beholde I sende you Elyas the Prophet before that great