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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02844	Gods vniuersal right proclaimed A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the 27. of March 1603. being the next Sunday after her Maiesties departure. By I.H.	Hayward, John, D.D.	1603 (1603)	STC 12984; ESTC S103942	20,193	63

in al the house and he doth ascribe the creation therof vnto God In whose bookes these are the first words grauen as it were in the forhead therof In principio deus creauit coelū et terram in the beginning God created the heauen the earth so that as the two disciples going to Emaus said vnto Iesus after his resurrection not yet known vnto them that he must needs be the only stranger in Israell if he knew not the things that had lately happened to Iesus of Nazareth a Prophet mighty in deede and in word before God and all the people so hee must needes bee a very great stranger in the Scriptures that knoweth not that God made the worlde Manye great Philosophers among the vnbeleeuing Gentiles hauing read the bookes of other writers haue doubted of the creation of the worlde and some haue thought it to haue beene eternall neuer made And some more folishly haue supposed it to haue beene accidently made Ex atomis conflatum growne to this forme by the falling of small motes together But among Christians which haue the bookes of Scripture Scripturae diuinitus inspiratae giuen by inspiration of God the childe that hath but spelled the first line of the Bible learneth that the Almightie God did create the heauen and the earth In Esa. 40 25. the Lord saith To whom now will you liken me that I should be like him saith the holy one lift vp your eyes on high and beholde who hath created these things and bringeth out their armies by number and calleth them all by names After verse 28. Knowest thou not or hast thou not heard that the euerlasting God the Lord hath created the ends of the earth c. In Ieremie in his tenth chapter where he sheweth the vanitie of idols compared vnto the liuing God the God of trueth in the 11. verse it is thus written Thus shall yee say vnto them the Gods that haue not made the heauens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from vnder these heauens he hath made the earth by his power and established the world by his wisedome and hath stretched out the heauens by his discretion And in the 27. Chapter and 5. verse God saith of himselfe I haue made the earth the man and the beast that are vpon the ground by my great power and by my out-stretched arme c. Yea God manifested in the flesh Iesus Christ the sonne of God and sonne of the Virgin Marie to whome in regarde of his humaine nature the iudgement of the worlde is committed which in regarde of his diuine nature was his without commission he hath made the worlde and all things therein and dooth now conserue the same Paul saith of him Colos. 1. 16. That by him althings were created which are in heauen and which are in earth things visible and things inuisible And the Apostle to the Hebrewes 1. 2. speaketh thus That whereas in former times God spake vnto our fathers by the Prophets in these last daies he hath spoken vnto vs by his sonne whom he hath made heire of all things by whom also he made the world who being the brightnesse of the glory and the ingraued forme of his person and bearing vp all things Potente verbo suo by his mightie word hath by himselfe purged our sinnes by him the world was made and by his mighty worde the world and all things in it are susteined So that certainly God did create the earth the habitable world all that dwell vpon it He did found it establish it vpon the seas being now by Gods appointment as a wall at the foote therof and a strong buttrice to shore and vphold the same But is this a good reason to claime the soueraigntie of the world because he made it I surely When Iacob had made his pottage and Esau came home hungrie out of the field he acknowledged that to be Iacobs that Iacob had made he challenged no right in it neither desired to haue it but vpon composition with his brother He is therefore more vnreasonable then Esau that acknowledging God to haue made the world will denie him to be Lord of the world of the worke of his owne hands Paul among the Athenians Acts. 17. 24. speaketh thus God that made the worlde and all things that are therein seeing that he is Lord of heauen earth dweleth not in temples made with hands Where he hath affirmed that God made the world and all things therin he feareth not immediatly to annex as a thing not to be spoken against that he is lord of heauen earth Concerning man one part of this earth and habitable world for he was made of the dust of the earth the Prophet saith Psal. 100. 3. Know yee that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made vs not we our selues we are his people and the sheepe of his pasture Hence he inferreth that we are his and he Lord and owner of vs as any man is of the flockes of his sheepe because the Lordes hands did make vs. And if the reason be good in any part of the world it is good also in the whole If the sonnes of men be Gods possession because hee made them then the earth and all that are vpon it are his for he made them In Esa. 45. 12. the Lord saith I haue made the earth and created man vpon it I whose hands haue spred out the heauens I haue euen commanded all their armie Because he made and created these things and did spred them out giuing both being and forme substance and shape vnto them therefore he commandeth them as their Lord. Omni exercitui eorum mandata Dei he commandeth all the armies of them Which he should not doe if they remained not his Therefore vpon so great reason let vs yeelde God his right and say with the Prophet The earth is the Lords and all that is in it the world and they that dwell therein For he hath founded it vpon the seas and established it vpon the flouds Thus haue yee heard the doctrine of these wordes Now let vs consider what holy good vse we may make thereof And let this be the first vse that if God be Lord of all the earth and also the inhabitants that then all the earth and the inhabitants doe acknowledge and honour him And this the holye Ghoast doth teach vs in the Psalme 96. from the verse 7. Giue vnto the Lorde the families of the people giue vnto the Lorde glory and power giue vnto the Lord the glory of his name bring an offering and enter into his Courtes Worship the Lorde in the glorious sanctuarie tremble before him all the earth say among the nations the Lord reigneth Surely the worlde shal be stable and not mooue and he shall iudge the people in righteousnesse Let the heauens reioyce and let the earth bee glad let the Sea roare and all that therein is let the fielde bee