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A69728	The darknes of atheism dispelled by the light of nature a physico-theologicall treatise / written by Walter Charleton ...	Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.	1652 (1652)	Wing C3668; ESTC R1089	294,511	406

testimonies out of holy writ supporting the mobility of the Term of mans life in individuo duty viz. the Confession of those Reasons which charmed my judgement to an adherence to their perswasion who contend for the Mobility of the Term of mans Life The First of those is desumed from the Testimonies of the Oracle of Truth the Book of God and in our list of those Testimonies those deserve to stand in the front which in ample elegant and express terms warrant our Assertion that the life of man hath bin and may be both Abbreviated and Prolonged The Coryphaeus or leading Text is that of the Wise King Proverb 10. vers 27. Timor Domini apponit aut prolongat dies anni verò impiorum abbreviantur the Fear of the Lord prolongeth daies but the years of the wicked shall be shortned Then which nothing can be more express perspicuous and positive and so nothing less subject to detorsion or altercation The Lievtenant or second to that is the gracious encouragement to filial reverence and obedience annexed to the 5 th Precept in the Decalogue Honora Patrem tuum matrem tuam ut prolongentur dies tui super terram quam Jehov ah Deus tuus dat tibi which the Apostle of the Gentiles in Epist ad Ephes 6. ver 2. call's the first understand it of the second table Commandement with promise viz. of a singular reward or the first with a peculiar promise and such as hath ever bin held distinct from the promise made in the second Precept of the Decalogue insomuch as that is common and universal comprehending all kinds of Blessings but this only peculiar and determined to that of diuturnous subsistence or Longevity In Exhod 24. ver 25. and many other places the Pen-man of God earnestly inculcates the benefit of the Fear of God by this forcible impulsive that he would crown them with length health and serenity of days who should revere his most sacred name and conscientiously observe his laws Si colatis Deum vestrum benedicet pani vestro aquis vestris auferetque infirmitatem è medio vestri non crit abortiens aut sterilis in terra vestra numerum dierum in terra vestra complebo Which importune incitement to piety those Commentators have no way enlarged who have extended it to this just height of intention that to those happy Sonnes of Israel who subjugated their Wills to the written Will of God and cherished no desires so much as those of cordial obedience to the rules of his Law demeaning themselves reverently towards their Maker and righteously toward their Neighbour to these God would vouchsafe not only that they should accomplish that lease of life which they held by the grant of Nature or the condition of each mans Idiosyncrasy but even that their Temperament should be meliorated made more symmetrical compact tenacious and consequently more durable as well by the soveraign balsamical and restorative Faculties of their Aliment impregnated or inriched by the tincture of his continual Benediction as by the benigne and salutiferous disposition of the Aer and propitious influences of the Host of Heaven which otherwise are wont to induce sensible Exorbitances and Anomalies upon the blood spirits and solid parts of mans body and from those seeds of morbosities produce various both Acute and Chronique Diseases which either consume or corrupt the Vital Nectar and accelerate the execution of that Sentence Pulvis es Pulvis eris So that of infirme languid and valetudinarious persons they should be made robust athletical and longevous no less then the Barren should be made Fertil the one by the Conservatory the other by the Prolifical virtue of Gods special Grace The same promise we read frequently repeated by God in most of his Embassies delivered by his Secretary Moses to his People and more particularly in Deuteron 4. vers 40. and chap. 30. vers 20. And as he proposeth length of days for the desiderable reward of obedience so on the contrary he makes Immaturity of Death the affrighting penalty of Disobedience For Deuteron 30. vers 19. and 28. vers 20. contain a large Catalogue of insirmities diseases and corporal calamities feircely comminated to the immorigerous and disobedient and in vers 62. t is emphatically sayd of Transgressors ye shall be left few in number whereas you were as the starrs of heaven for multitude because thou wouldst not obey the voyce of the Lord thy God A Third egregious text is that where God gratefully resenting Salomons Election of Wisdome before all other Accomplishments temporal set before him supererogates to his vote by the additional concession of long life 2 Kings 3. 14. And if thou wilt walk in my wayes to keep my Statutes and commandements as thy Father David did then will I lengthen thy days A fourth is that definitive sentence of David Psalm 55. vers ult Bloody and deceitfull men shall not live out half their days A Fifth that of the same Author Psalm 102. vers 25. O my God take me not away in the midst of my days and in like manner Psalm 6. and 30. and 88. and 111. he with fervent importunity supplicates that God would be pleased not to cut off the thread of his life while he was then in the spring and vigour of his age but restore him from that languor and marcid Consumption introduced by his grievous disease to his pristine sanity that he might thereby be enabled to chant his praises in the Sanctuary and do good to the children of Sion A Sixth that remarkable Precedent of the prolongation of life beyond the term presixt King Ezechias Esai 38. vers 10. who being infested with the most mortiferous of diseases the Plague and convulst with the horror of death denounced by the thundering Prophet in the intervalls betwixt the showers of heavy tears he sighes out this lamentation in the cutting off my days I shall go to the gates of death I am deprived of the residue of my years Mine age is departed and is removed from me as a shepards tent I have cut off like a weaver my life vitam meam veluti textoris telam praecidi as some read it he will cut me off with pining sickness Which signifies as much as this that he was adjudged to dye before his time But this night of sorrow was dispelled by a comfortable morn caused by the light of that Sun which riseth with healing in his wings for immediately after his contrition sincere resipiscence and earnest supplications obtaining a repreive from the mercifull hands of him who desireth not the death of a sinner the execution of that fatal sentence was suspended and a paroll lease of 15. years supernumerary annexed to that old one of his life fully to some few anxious minutes expired And can any Prejudice be so inslexible as not to stoop to the conversion of this pregnant Example which on one side testifies the possibility of the Decurtation of the Term

subjoyned viz. because of their impious and bloody Inclinations and Practises and so consequently our present opinion be admitted For if he beleived it constituted by the immutable law of Fate that such should then and at no other time be taken off without any relation at all to the contracting and anticipating merit of their Impiety what makes it to the principal scope that he sayd they shall not dimidiate their days since according to this inconvenient interpretation they do not only not Dimidiate theirdays but fully Accomplish them as any the most mortified and conscientious observers of Gods sacred laws and so neither Piety shall retain its attribute of having the power to prolong nor its Contrary longer weare the just imputation of having the power to abbreviate the Term of Life To which we may add that David could not without special Revelation from that omniscient Light that penetrates the darkness of Futurity deliver this certain Prognostick concerning the non-dimidiation of their days For since he could not but have observed that many the most accursed Vassals of Satan the Providence of God so permitting for considerations privy onely to his Wisdome attained to extreme old age whence could he acquire that prophetique knowledge that those particular Villaines whom he levelled at should be taken in their own snares and perish immaturely in the nonage of their lives Undoubtedly he could desume that prediction from no oracle less prescient then that Spirit whose Essence is Truth and to whose cognition all things are actually present but who can though but with a specious or verisimilous argument prove that David received any such special Revelation Wherefore Reason adviseth that we acquiesce in the judgement of most of the Fathers who unanimously resolve that David reslected his thoughts upon that positive sentence in the Levitical Law which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the major part comminates a short and calamtous life and a repentine and miserable death to the Ungodly but on the contrary promiseth longevous and peaceable days to those who should revere the sacred Majesty and observe the wholsome ordinances of Jehovab and upon the general infallibility of that Sentence erected his particular prediction that those Sanguinary traytors who had with so much detestable policy prepared stratagems to ensnare his feet walking in the ways of innocence and charity should be entangled in their own mischievous wiles and stumble into their graves in the midle of their race To which we may accommodate that of Juvenal Ad Generum Cereris sine caede ac sanguine pauci Descendunt Reges sicca morte Tyranni Few Tyrants goe late to th' infernal slood But sink betimes in Cataracts of blood The second place they endeavour to betray out of our possession is that promission of Longevity whereby the Father of all things Article 7. The second Testimony vindicated from several Exceptions was pleased to invite Children to a due Veneration of their Parents which they corrupt with this dangerous gloss This say they was spoken Anthropopathically or ad captum hominis by the Holy Spirit who frequently hath descended to discourse in the stammering and imperfect dialect of mortality so that the days of obsequious children are said to be prolonged then when they are blessed with diuturnity tranquillity and sanity of life which as it immediately depends on the immutable decree of God so cannot one moment be superadded thereunto beyond the term prefixt unless we infer a manifest Inoonstancy upon that immutable Essence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning But that the Ancient of days had determined that such should live to wear the honourable badge of Antiquity who should constantly beare a venerable regard toward those from whom under God they had derived their being yet so that if any obedient Child should chance to be snatched away by the tallons of that sarcophagous Vultur Death before time had reduced his haires to the same colour with his skull which is no rarity yet notwithstanding doth God in no respect deflect from the point of his general determination but persevere in the accomplishment of his promise no less then a Prince who bestows a million of crowns upon that servant to whom he had promised only a hundred For this life is no Mansion but a narrow and incommodious Inne standing in the way to a better whose Term is Eternity and therfore ter felix ille cui ante lassitudinem peractum est iter thrice happy he who arrives at his journies end before he is weary of travell And our Grandfathers tell us that old Age is but the magazine of sorrows the sowre Dreggs of life the Portal to the Nosocomie or Hospital of Diseases and indeed a kind of living-Death wherein men only Breath and Doate which though all men wish for yet no man delights in when it comes optima cum expectatur cum advenit onerosa sibi aliis molesta good only when expected evil when enjoyed because burdensome to it self and troublesome to others So that those Saturnine minds which were most ambitious to wear the silver Crown of old Age when they had obtained it found it to gall their feeble temples and enervate all their limbs nor did they appear other then weatherbeaten and mouldring statues of their former selves Human-Grashoppers or Ghosts walking in Skeletons In fine that the whole concernment of this encouragement to Filial Duty doth consist only in this that Vivacity in this transitory World is promised unto morigerous Children only in this capacity that it is a Benediction of God and a Benediction only in this respect that it is a Document of Divine Grace or an Evidence of Gods singular love toward them which he doth infinitely more testify unto them by a timous and early delivery of them from this calamitous prison of Mortality into the glorious Liberty of the Sonnes of God We reply that this plea of Exception against our lawfull right to the place is not only frivolous and dilute but even derogatory as well to the Sanction as Excellence of the Promise For to transmute the serious and faithfull promise of him whose words are yea and amen into an Anthropopathical Sophisme or affected expression in the stammering Dialect of Humanity is frivolous and not only to stagger but subvert the Fidelity thereof and so demolish the comfortable hopes of Filial Piety nay what 's a degree of Blasphemy to insimulate Truth it self of Imposture For to promise Longevity to morigerous Children when formerly and without any respect to their prevised obedience God hath prefixt unto them an Intransible Term of life what els can it be but to make him promise that which cannot be promised Hypothetically or upon condition unless that which was Absolutely decreed long before the promise was made be violently cancelled and altered And so much the more intolerable indignity to the sacred majesty of God doth this absurd Exception infer by how much the