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A19285 The Christians daily sacrifice containing a daily direction for a setled course of sanctification : diuided into three bookes / by Th. Cooper. Cooper, John, fl. 1626. 1615 (1615) STC 5695; ESTC S1680 138,332 492

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The finding out of strange deuises and conceits 3 The couragious acting of Great conquests in that speedy and happy manner Hath not the ground of these beene some Superiour Power inspiring and prospering the same Deut. 31. Esr. 1.1 Iud. 14.19 Eleuenthly And seeing that euen the world hath beene acquainted with the certaine and cleere demonstration of future euents Could this proceed from any but from the All-seeing GOD who in mercy hath reuealed these things for the comfort of His Church and confusion of His enemies Esay 41.23 Ezech. 12.21 Twelfthly And doe wee not see things graciously and certainely attaine their proper ends and vses notwithstanding contrary meanes and strong oppositions And is there any but the LORD that can bring light out of darkenesse 2. Cor. 4.6 Is not this to bee ascribed to some supreme Power Thirteenthly Especially if we consider that the ends of causes and effects are finite must there not be some First and Principle cause either Immediately or Mediately producing the rest on whom all other causes may depend and to whom as to their center they may returne againe Eccl. 1. euen as the Riuers vnto the sea And therefore 1 As this shall bee sufficient to make the Athiest without excuse Rom. 1.20 2 So let it teach not to despise the voyce of nature because though heereby wee shall not attaine to perfite knowledge 1. yet shall these notions both bridle much euill 2. and also further the performance of much morall good 3 Yea they shall aduance the Iustice of GOD in the gouernement of the world 4 And seeing they are insufficient therefore shall they prouoke to seeke GOD in the right meanes And 5 Hereby shall such as are conuicted as by a generall consent of witnesses bee better confirmed in the truth thereof And 6 Lastly this ignorance shall hereby be acknowledged and so Gods meere mercy aduanced in sauing his Elect especially seeing this knowledge if it bee not sanctified is enmity against GOD leading from obedience of GOD euen while it leads to the knowledge of Him Rom. 1.23.24.25 1. Cor. 1.20 3 Let this comfort vs that what is impossible to Nature the LORD hath reuealed in His Word And therefore 4 Here let vs search the knowledge of GOD Let this bee the Touch-stone of all the other meanes let them all haue their reference hereto not resting in them or the effects thereof but renouncing and condemning vtterly the same that wee may know GOD alone in IESVS CHRIST by which wee may attaine Life Euerlasting 3. Phil. 8.9 Ioh. 17.1 5 Discerning herein the Insufficiency And wee must conceiue thus of GOD. 1 Least wee conceiue that which is vnworthy of his Maiesty 2 That wee may renounce sence in seeking of Him and so 3 Seeke Him in His Word and Workes 4 That wee should not dare to represent Him by any bodily shape 5 That wee should not thinke Him sufficiently worshipped with the gestures of the body or members onely but with the minde and spirituall motion of the heart 1. Tim. 4.8 6 And seeing the SPIRIT alone proceedeth from Him therefore 1. Wee should acknowledge the gift both to proceed from Him 2. Onely seeke the happinesse of the minde from this Fountaine and 3. Wholly referre it to His Glory Thirdly t●●●is GOD is Intelligent as being 1 The cause of the minde of man and of all the notions therein 2. And of that order which is in the nature of things and Common-wealthes 2 All Intelligence or Vnderstanding of the creatures comes from Him both Psal. 94.9 1 In respect of the Faculty and also 2 The operation thereof And this serueth 1 To condemne those that ascribe the variety and order of Nature and things therein to proceed from it matter and the inclination thereof to it forme 2 To ascribe all knowledge and gifts naturall to bee the meere gifts of GOD. 3 And so to vse them for the glory of the Giuer Fourthly this God is Eternall 1 Neither hauing beginning Ps. 30.2 2 Nor ending Ps. 48.13 3 Giuing eternity to Mankind and that because Hee is 1 Absolutely and Infinitely Perfect and 2 Of power accordingly yea 3 Infinitely good and therefore Hee is euerlasting in His Protection Couenant Reward c. And this serueth 1 To reproue 1. The doctrine of doubting and despaire 2. the malice of the world that thinks to roote out GODS Church As also Psal. 85.2 2 Our infidelity that complaine as if GOD had forsaken vs Psal. 22. 3 It teacheth vs to ground our faith not vpon present time or things but Eternity 2. Pet. 1.8 Heb. 11.26 Ps. 119. 4 And comforteth vs in our greatest eclypses and decayes that once loued and euer loued Ioh. 13.1 Ioh. 17. 2. Tim. 2.19 Fifthly this GOD is Other from all creatures 1 Because Hee is the Creator of them 2 Hee is of a different Nature without comparison farre excelling as being 1 Perfectly Wise whereas the world hath many parts vnreasonable 2 Indiuisible and Vnchangeable and therefore Immutable and dimensiue substances cannot bee deriued out of GOD being indiuisible 3 There can neither bee nor imagined any similitude of a finite nature and an Infinite And this serueth 1 To conuince Phylosophy who will haue Nature or the world to bee GOD. 2 To condemne the Maniches and Seruetus who hold that the creatures spring from the Essence of GOD. 3 To exclude all prophane and idolatrous cogitations of GOD as if Hee were like the creature 4 Heereby wee are resolued 1 That though all things are said to bee of GOD It is not meant of His Essence but because Hee makes them of nothing Rom. 11.36 Rom. 4.17 2 Though the soule bee said to bee Diuine and wee pertakers of the Diuine Nature this is not to bee vnderstood of the communication of the Substance but of the similitude of Properties as being adorned with heauenly gifts being but created qualities though they be a certaine shadow of the Diuine Nature 2. Pet. 1.3 3 So are wee to vnderstand when the Elect are said to bee the sonnes of GOD and that it is not so by Propagation of the Essence but by similitude of the Properties Ioh. 1.13 8.47 4 So are wee to conceiue what is ascribed to the Saints that they are one Spirit with GOD 1. Cor. 6 17. 2. Pet. 1.4 to imply onely our conformity with GOD and the inhabitation by Grace in vs of His blessed Spirit 5 And so when CHRIST is said to bee GOD thereby is not meant a permutation of the Diuine Nature into the Humane and so contrary but an inseparable conioyning of two Natures reteining their Properties distinct into one Person and a glorifying of the Humane Nature which though it agreeeh to a Nature which is Ruler and Gouernour of all things yet notwithstanding it is but Made and Created Sixthly This GOD is incompresible And that 1 In our cogitation or the conceite of any creature 2 In the vnmeasureablenesse