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A50400	The beauty and order of the creation together with natural and allegorical meditations on the six dayes works of the creation : with the addition of two compendious discourses : I. of the creation of man after the image of God, II. of the creation of angels, with a description of their several properties / by ... Mr. John Maynard ... ; published by William Gearing ...	Maynard, John, 1600-1665.; Gearing, William.	1668 (1668)	Wing M1448; ESTC R14885	107,977	226

THE BEAUTY and ORDER OF THE CREATION TOGETHER With Natural and Allegorical Meditations on the Six Dayes Works of the Creation With the Addition of two Compendious Discourses I. Of the Creation of Man after the Image of God II. Of the Creation of Angels with a Description of their several Properties By that Eminent and Learned Divine Mr. IOHN MAYNARD late of Mayfield in Sussex Published by WILLIAM GEARING Minister of the Word Mundi Creatio est Dei Scriptura cujus ●●ia sunt folia Coelum Terra Mare Clem. Alexandr Cum nequeat cerni Deus ab universa Creatura imaginis loco posuit Hominem ut omnes Creaturae dum inserviunt homini sic colant supremum numen hujus universi scil Opific●m Procopius Gazeus in Gen. c. 1. London Printed by T. M. for Henry Eversden under the Crown Tavern in VVest-Smithfield 1668. To the Right Worshipfull Sir Iohn Stapley of Patcham in the County of Sussex Baronet and to the vertuous Ladies the Lady Springet of the Broyle in Sussex and to the Lady Stapley of Patcham ALL things in the World be the Creatures of God the efficient cause of Creation is God essentially not personally taken As for the order of working Divines thus say the Father is causa Movens the Son Operans by whom all things were made the Holy Ghost Pe●ficiens it is sa●d Genes 1. he moved upon the face of the Waters Yet are we not to think as if there were three efficient causes of Creation but only one the Father Son and Holy Ghost being one and the same essence is but one and the same cause of Creation Indeed Creation is principally attributed to God the Father both in respect of order and because he is Principium Operationum the Son is of the Father so are all Divine actions God is the only Creator of all things not Natur● not Angels not Chance and Fortune as many blasphemous Hereticks and some Philosophers have conceited That the World was Created and not Eternal as the same Philosophers affirmed faith principally assures us of it Hebr. 11.3 By Faith we understand the Worlds were created In Genes 1. Moses sets down fully the History of the Creation But the Creation may be proved 1. From the Originals of all Nations we may plainly know the first beginning of all People inhabiting the whole World as Genes 10. Moreover 2. when Arts were first invented is clear and manifest as the invention of Musick of Instruments of Iron and Brass c. and by whom it is unlikely if the World had been Eternal so many Generations of Men had lived without them 3. It appeareth from the Order of causes there must needs be a first Cause otherwise there should be Processus in infinitum which is impossible now if a first cause then that which is the efficient of all other is God therefore all things were Created I will let pass the curious Questions of the Schools as what God did before the World was created in what time of the Year upon what Day it was Created why God did not create the World sooner c. 't is knowledge enough to know that God did create the World Now God hath drawn and framed all things out of nothing for that is properly to create viz. to make something of nothing The School-men observe this difference inter Genita Facta Creata between things begotten things made and things created Things are begotten of their own matter they be made of another matter they be created of no matter We and all things are said to have been created by God because he made us of nothing that is of no pre-existent matter but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of things that were not before giving beeing to that which had not beeing now when I say God made all things of nothing Nothing is to be taken negative nor privative that is God created all things out of pure nothing The Philosophers have a maxim indeed that ex nihilo nihil fit but as one well distinguisheth that is to be understood de generatione Physica non Creatione Divina of natural Generation not of Divine Creation Nature must have something wherewith to work something whereon to work God had neither of both when he created the first matter out of which afterwards he created other things called by Moses Tohu vabohu by Philosophers Chaos he had neither Instrument to work with nor matter to work upon he commanded only as David saith and all was made spake the word only and all was Created God said let there be Light c. Which supposeth no matter to work upon but God by the Power of his word created it Omnipotency can effect things without matter Creation is an act of Omnipotency Angels and the Souls of Men were created of nothing without matter because immaterial God therefore can as well create other things If God created the World from some matter then that matter had being from it self or from another if from another then that was created of nothing if from it self then should it be the same with God because only God is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Being from himself to affirm that were Blasphemy Now God only can and did create because God only is Omnipotent and Omnipotency is an incommunicable attribute there is an infinite distance between ens non ens Besides every thing that is created is good only by participation therefore it is necessary all things receive their goodness from that which is essentially good which is God Moreover if God created some and not all Creatures but left the Creation of inferiour creatures to any else then it was either because God was weary or because God takes no care of smaller Creatures but it is neither God being Omnipotent did by a Word Create What more easie and he takes care of all inferiour things As for the Form it is double 1. In respect of God who Created the World 2. In respect of the Creatures themselves The Form in respect of God in gene●al is the manner of Gods Creation of all created things which manner appeareth in these following things 1. That God made all things by his word Let the Earth bring forth c. By word we are not to understand as if God did speak words and syllables but by it we are to understand Gods powerfull willing of things to be 2. He made all things without any wearisome toil or labour but with great facility and ease were all things made by him God willed things to be done and they were done 3. Without any change a Workman may as occasion serveth change his Plot intended by him but God doth not so 4. Without succession his works were made in a moment even in an instant The form of the Created Things is twofold General Particular The generall form is Gods wise and ordered disposition of all the parts of the world Although in themselves they are of diverse matter diverse

golden mines Learn to humble thy self before him whose eyes are ten thousand times brighter than the Sun who knoweth many more faults in us than we can see in our selves be we never so watchful who is greater than our hearts and knoweth all things Let it not seem incredible unto thee that God should be every where present and see all things in all places seeing the Sun which is one of his Creatures and but apart of his fourth day's work doth at once shine many hundred thousand miles if you reckon how his light reacheth downward from heaven to earth and that Northward Southward Eastward Westward yea from heaven to heaven for when it is on the other side of the earth it shineth on the Moon on this side the earth and causeth it to shine yea it shineth upon every tree upon every little grass and doth as it were in its kind look upon the smallest thing Is it then to be doubted that God who can make a thousand Suns as excellent as this with a word should be in all places at once and see all things at one view Even reason may teach us that it is more strange that the Sun being a Creature should shine so far and on so many Creatures at once than that the Infinite God should be thus every where present and see all things Yea thou maist assure thy self that as the Sun is not polluted with the loathsome puddles and dunghils on which it shineth so neither is the Lord by filling all places even there where are the greatest pollutions He is no farther from happiness in Hell than in Heaven for himself is Hi● perfection and excellency from whom no degree of happiness can be taken 8. Consider also the swiftness of the Sun which is beyond the thought of man wonderful is the work of God in this regard if we consider what an huge compass the Earth hath and then how the heavens are above the Earth so that the Sun in twenty four houres doth not onely go round about the Earth but also round that huge compass between Heaven and Earth I cannot conceive but that it must needs go many hundred thousand miles in one hour Now is it not easier for God to be every where at once ●han for the Sun to make such a speedy course yet notwithstanding the time of thy life goeth as fast as the Sun it self for it carrieth about thy time thy days thy years thine age with it Oh consider every time thou seest the Sun in his race my life runs along and keepeth pace with this Sun a thousand times faster than any Eagle can fly in the ayr I sit still but my life runneth post I am idle but my time is every moment in a speedy course nay I go backward when my time runneth forward woe is me that I grow less careful in hastening on in my journey that I linger that I go out of the way when my days are carried away upon the wings of the Sun oh call to God for quickening grace that the spirit of God may lift thee up and carry thee on in a farr more speedy course of holy obedience When thou thy self lackest means to pass away the time or hearest others complain in this regard look up to the Sun and think with they self doth not the Sun go fast enough surely time goeth along with it and never laggeth one inch behind it is it not a madness then to call for more help to drive it forward Is there not much more cause to labour by all means to make hast after our time which we have already lost which hath long since out-run us let us take time to bewail our loss of time and be ashamed any more to complain of it as if it were too slow-paced 9. Consider that as the Sun is not the Authour nor cause of darkness when he taketh away his beams from us but the darkness followeth upon his removal so God is not the Authour of sin or blindness when he most justly denieth his light and graces to the unworthy sons of Adam but that sin followeth thereupon glorify his perfect purity and do not conceive one thought against him so as to enwrap him with thy self in guiltiness but say with the Psalmist The Lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works Thus much for the Sun SECT 3. NOw follow the Moon and Stars The Moon which is appoin●ed to rule the night is a Creature where we may behold the glory of God though more dimly shining than in the Sun 1. Here see God's wisedome and goodness in mitigating the darkness of the night that when the Sun is out of sight yet we should have a Moon to give us some though not so great a light and if both be sometimes absen● yet then we have the Stars to make some abatement of utter darkness How wonderful was the Lord in his works who was pleased not onely to give us so great a light by day but also to set up candles for us in the Heavens in the night time even so should we think also how the Lord dealeth with his servants if he take away the Sun-shine of comforts from them even fulness of joy yet even then he leaveth some Moon-light or Star-light at the least some glimmerings whereby they conceive some hope and are though not much cheered yet supported Be thankful for the least degree and wait patiently for a greater measure seek to him stand not in thine own light let not thy soul refuse comfort or if there be no Moon or Stars to be seen by reason of the clouds yet I am perswaded that in the darkest night there is some little degree of light though not scarcely to be discerned by us yet I do not think it is ever so dark as in those three nights before the Sun was made so in the greatest decay of grace the greatest darkness of spiritual desertion when there is scarce any degree of spiritual life grace or comfort to be discerned yet in every true Christian who once was made a new Creature there is some degree and it is not with him as it was before the Sun of righteousness was risen upon him there is not that utter darkness that was upon his soul while it was in that more confused chaos and heap of unregeneration 2. The Moon in respect of the Sun is as the Church in respect of Christ the Moon borroweth her l●ght of the Sun so doth the Church her graces righteousness and all her happiness of Christ the Sun of righteousness What a poor Creature is the Moon how dark is it when the Earth cometh between the Sun and her how empty would the Church be of all light grace comfort if Christ should be hidden from her when the Moon is most enlightened by the Sun yet there are some dark spots to be disce●ned in her so when the Church is most replenished with the beams of this Sun of