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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77132	The description and confutation of mysticall Anti-Christ, the Familists; or, An information drawn up and published for the confirmation and comfort of the faithfull, against many Antichristian Familisticall doctrines which are frequently preached and printed in England: particularly in those dangerous books called Theologia Germanica, the Bright Star, Divinity and Philosophy dissected. / Written by Benjamin Bourne. Published according to order.	Bourne, Benjamin, fl. 1646.	1646 (1646)	Wing B3844; Thomason E349_21; STC 672; ESTC R201037	116,136	151

inventions of men is the wisdom of the world The wisdom of this world is foolishnesse with God 1 Cor. 1. The wisdom of God is pure peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated But sin which is the wisdom of the world is carnall sensuall earthly and devillish The wisdom of God is that by which God himself knows how and in what way man might be redeemed justified and glorified but sin brings death shame and everlasting ruine and destruction to men Rom. 7. Chapt. 2 and Chapt. 3. Jam. 3.1.16 17. so along where the Apostle shews what miserie and eternall bondage sin hath brought upon the whole world and how Christ by his death hath freed men from this eternall thraldom Secondly sin is contrary to the power of God the spirit doth make weak poore dying men strong in the Lord and in the power of his might But sin is the cause why men are weak and miserably poore and it makes them to be in a continuall dying heartlesse condition The power of God is that that changes the heart and makes a person conformable to the Image of Christ translating him in to his kingdom But sin makes a man conformable to it self and so translates the whole world into the kingdom of the devil Ephes 2.1.10 11 12 13. Heb 9.14 Luke 1.14 Ephes 6.10 Rom. 5. Thirdly sin is contrary to the mercy of God the mercy of God is sweet and lovely but sin is filthy and abominable God is love 1 Ioh. 4.16 But sin is hatred and is at enmity with God it cannot be subject to his Law Rom. 8. Christ died to reconcile the persons of men but he never died to reconcile the sins of men The sins of a Saint are as contrary to the mercy of God as the sins of a reprobate are Fourthly sin is contrary to the providence of God that doth feed and nourish all creatures Psal 104. But sin is that that brings a universall famine upon the whole world The power of God bears up all things Hebr. 1. and the providence of God is that that orders all but sin is a universall faintnesse that distempers the world and causeth all things to be out of order Fiftly sin is contrary to the Justice of God in it self and in all the righteous proceedings of it it is just holy pure and heavenly but sin is unjust impure and unholy But I leave these to your meditations Secondly sin is contrary to the Name of God Thirdly sin is contrary to the nature of God as it is in all Saints and in all Angels too Fourthly sin is contrary to the being of God God is a Spirit and a spirituall substance but sin is a meer vanity and a spirituall wickednesse Last of all sin is contrary to all the works of God I le name three of them the work of Creation Redemption and Regeneration First sin is contrary to the work of God in the Creation when God made all things they were very good and beautifull Gen. 1. but sin causeth all creatures to loose that goodnesse beauty and joy that then all creatures had and fils all full of sorrow and evill and makes all to be subject to vanity Gen. 3. Rom. 8. Every creature suffers by the sin of man it causeth all creatures to groan and travail in pain waiting for deliverance But then secondly sin is contrary to the work of God in our Redemption By reason of sin we are heirs of hell children of wrath and of the devil torment eternall torment unexpressable is the punishment due for sin But Christ hath delivered us he became sin for us he took upon him the curse that was due to us he satisfied his Fathers Justice and made us who by nature were heirs of hell and children of wrath to be the children of God and annexed co-heirs together with himself of an immutable immortall incomprehensible glory In the work of Redemption consider first that sin is contrary to the coming of Christ Secondly sin is contrary to the life of Christ Thirdly sin is contrary to the death of Christ Fourthly sin is contrary to the Resurrection And lastly to the intercession of our Lord and Saviour The last work that sin is contrary to is our Regeneration First sin is contrary to the Spirit Secondly it is contrary to the work of grace wrought in us by this Spirit sin is contrary to all the graces and glorious vertues of the Spirit First sin is contrary to the faith of a Christian secondly to the hope of a Christian thirdly it is contrary to the love that a Christian hath to God fourthly sin is contrary to the grace of self-deny all fifthly contrary to the grace of Repentance in all the parts of it last of all sin is contrary to the grace of Mortification it is as contrary to all these to whatsoever God is in himself to whatsoever he is in all creatures by Creation Redemption and Regeneration as light is unto darknesse sin is not a noune substantive for if there were neither men nor devils sin could not be sin doth subsist in and is a dependance upon men and devils sin is not a substantiall being but hath a being and is upheld by these beings the devil is sins originall the first rise of it sprung out of his substance and he is the greatest upholder thereof the devil was a particular principalitie Angel or power before he fell so he is still for when the devil had sinned in heaven if God should have taken away the same power from him in respect of his substance when he cast him down to hell which before he had when he was in glory and had not sinned then would he have been altered in his very being and so he that was in the light and glory of God before could not be the same now that now he is in darknesse But this is against the Scripture and against all Reason too the Scripture saith that those Angels which were once in glory and were happy by sinning and leaving their habitation were most miserable and unhappy and so came to be devils Jude 6. So that they keep their power still but not the same degree of power they had power to glorifie God willingly and with delight now they bring glory to God yea but that is no thanks to them it is not in the will of the devil nor any defire that he hath at all by doing all that mischief that he doth to bring any glory to God or good to man if the devil did know the glorious effect and event that many times God bringeth to passe by his cunning devillish hellish subtilty he would do the best he could to avoid many abominable exploits that he takes in hand What is the condemnation of men and devils but because the Lord is pleased to catch them in their own snare that is he makes their own actions to be the means of their own confusion They in the Gunpowder-treason would not have begun

all bound and ingaged to inquire into The being nature and essence of the Almighty God is such that we may quickly and easily be mistaken in our highest and greatest meditations we may think that to be God which in truth is not God and think also that not to be God which in truth is God The true and reall knowledge of God is the foundation of all Christian Religion if a man be not spiritually firm and sound in this one main principle he must needs be sandy in all the true knowledge of God will bring a man to the knowledge of all things J●b 17.3 Chap. 14.7.17 The knowledge of God is that that makes us to imbrace him to love and exalt him above all to worship and obey him in the spirit Joh. 4.24 Suppose the King should give a rich Jewel to a poore childe although it were worth many thousands yet he would not look upon it or esteem of it any more then an ordinarie stone or trifle What is the cause why the men of this world do slight and undervalue the glory and excellency of the Lord Jesus and do exalt and embrace this present evill world and the glory thereof but because they never have seen him nor known him Joh. 8.19 Chap. 15.21.24 The seventh Reason to prove that the life and spirit of all things is not God is this God is above all things but the spirit of man is not above all Ergo the spirit of man is not God Joh. 3.31 Again eightly God is also the Creator preserver and governour of all things both in heaven and earth Gen. 1. Act. 7.49 50. Isa 66.1 Hebr. 1.3 Psal 104. But the spirit of man in the highest respect cannot rule it self neither is it the Creator preserver and governour of all things therefore that spirit is not God Ninthly that that is the Godhead or essence doth all things according to the good pleasure of his will and worketh all after the counsell of the same Act 4.28 Exod. 33.19 Rom. 9.16 Act. 2.23 But it is impossible that ever this should be done by man and blasphemy it is to attribute to him Ergo he is not God This errour is not onely against the Scriptures but also against all Reason both Divine and Humane pull down this pillar and the foundation of this mysterie will quickly fall to the ground this is the first and greatest principle if they forsake this they can hold forth nothing either in preaching disputing or writing but what shall be so confused and intricate that a man shall hardly know where they begin what they speak of or where they will end Thus much for the first Errour The second in order by way of confutation is this CHAP. III. Whether all things are the act of God yea or not Whether every creature in all its actions be acted and ruled by the Spirit of God the truth is acknowledged the errour explicated and confuted I Have included this in the generall in what I have said before I will now speak of it in particular Let us now see wherein this is a truth according to Scriptures and then I 'le set down the contrary Antichristian falshood I intreat you to consider what I shall say without mistaking or misapprehending of me that none may justly say that I go about to call out or confute many Antichrists without me by a greater and a subtiller Antichrist within me The truth is this First God is the supream chief and onely Ruler of all things both in heaven and earth all sorts of creatures whether angels devils or men all creatures all things whatsoever without exception are under his power and heavenly jurisdiction No man Angel or devil can rule and dispose of himself according to his own will and pleasure in any condition work or action whatsoever contrary to Gods eternall will counsell and determination Jer. 10.23 O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps The power by which all men doth turn and winde their hearts and hands to do all things is of God David saith Once have I said it yea twice that power belongs to God And St. Paul saith Rom. 13.1 that there it no power but of God Matth. 28.18 our Saviour saith that all power it mine both in heaven and earth Joh. 17.2 Secondly the way in which man walketh is not in himself but in him that created him Act. 17.28 Every mans being life and motion is in God Secondly there is nothing that can have a being in this world which is absolutely against the will of God if the devil had not been ordained from all eternity for that condition into which he fell then had he never fallen into it 2 Pet. 2.4 Job 4.18 they that were elected could never fall 1 Tim. 6.21 Thirdly there is nothing in the world whatsoever that is absolutely evil under all considerations but in some respects is necessarily good and must needs be the greatest evil in the world is the sins of the world now sin although it be the greatest evil Rom. 7.13 yet in some respects 't is good and absolutely necessarie and must needs be in the world Of him to him and thorow him are all things Rom 11.36 that is in reference to his eternall purpose counsell and determination The devil as a devil is not of God sin in reference to it self is not of God 1 Joh. 2.16 for all that is in this world as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of this world The sins of the whole world are comprehended under these three aforenamed Joh. 8.38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father ye do that which you have seen with your father Ye are of your father the devil his works ye will do he hath been a murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there was no truth in him when he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father thereof verse the 44. Sin is not of the nature of God it is exceeding blasphemy to speak it sin is not of God that is in a respect to it self as it is the will of man and the devil but sin in respect of Gods purpose ordaining it for such an end to manifest and exalt his glory in that respect it is good Now all this is not the act and will of man nor the devil for the will and end of God in ordaining sin in the being of it and the will and end of the devil and of man in acting of sin are not one but directly contrary and in this he is a devil and man a sinner and worthy to be condemned I will give you two or three instances and many Scriptures to prove this Matth. 6.13 Exod. 9.16 Isa 6.9 Joh. 17.12 Rom. 9.33 Matth. 6. How is this a truth that God