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death_n	word_n	work_n	world_n	671	4	4.0250	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26751	Corporal vvorship discuss'd and defended in a sermon preached at the visitation April 21, 1670, in Saviour's-Church Southwark, and published to prevent farther calumny / by W.B.	Basset, William, 1644-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing B1051; ESTC R37086	18,178	37

seems but of late crept out of her infancy not yet ascended to the Meridian of ingenuity and learning whence we may as rationally conclude that it is not of so long a standing as that a youth by his looks and parts hath not attain'd the age and experience of a full-grown man The Heathens did generally believe that all things had a beginning and though some flie to Aristotle as the great Patron of the worlds Eternity yet whatever arguments he might lay down to prove it Barlow in his Metaphysical Exercitations denyes him to have been constantly if ever purely of this mind by reason particularly of his speaking of an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a being from whence all other beings flow but if this seems not prevalent enough the world is compos'd of parts and the parts must of necessity be before whole in order both of time and nature but was the world Eternal either the whole must have been as soon as the parts or else the parts must have been before Eternity it self neither of which reason can allow It is as evident too that things could never be made by chance or the fortuitous union of some stragling attomes as Epicurus saith for though matter and motion may do something yet 't is impossible they should ever produce a world so admirably seated and fitted for the entertainment of so many creatures and then furnish it too with such variety of beings which are all in a manner necessary and seem not only intended for some end but are so exactly fitted for the several ends they seem to be made for all the wit in the world can never contrive how things should be better neither the whole nor any part wants any thing necessary nor hath any thing superfluous the Sun Moon and other Stars for so many thousand years together are so constant and regular in their motions that day and night Winter and Summer are alwayes exactly at their wonted seasons all which with much more that might be nam'd can never be the work of meer matter and a fortuitous motion It is also as apparently contrary to reason that man or any thing else should make it self for the cause must act before the effect be produced therefore if man be the maker of himself he must be both the causa and the causatum and consequently must act in order to his own being and hence it will follow that he must have a being before he is made else he could not act in order to his own being for action necessarily pre-supposes being and so he must be and not be at the same instant which is so repugnant to reason that we may safely conclude we were all made by another which can be none but God He made us and not we our selves we are the work of his hands and the sheep of his pasture in the beginning God made Heaven and Earth and whatever is contain'd in either himself only excepted and that which Moses calls the void and formless earth was the materia prima out of which all earthly beings were produc'd neither was this any Eternal matter but was created by him and made fit for the reception of any manner of forms as preparatory if I may so speak to the great work of Creation hence though things were made of pre-existing yet not of co-existing matter and consequently there never was any thing but what lies under the notion of a Creature and therefore we belong to him by Creation And are not our own But the express argument the Apostle uses to prove the proposition is Redemption Ye are not your own For ye are bought with a price This supposes man's fall by sin for unless he had revolted from his Creator there had been no need of Redemption for none buy that which is their own and as it supposes mans sin and folly so it proclaims Gods goodness and mercy in not leaving him to perish in his own devices but in laying help upon one that is Mighty and able to rescue us from the paw of the Lyon For We are bought with a price As Justice could be satisfied with no price of less than an infinite value so we are bought not with corruptible things as gold and silver but with the precious bloud of the Son of God though it be impossible there should be in God any potentia passiva yet there being so near an union between the Divinity and Humanity of Christ that what was done too or suffered by one was attributed to the other we are truly said to be redeem'd by the bloud of the Son of God this is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or price in the Text. Ye are bought with a price Now we cannot in reason doubt but that we are bought the price already pay'd and that by him too whom we own to be the Messias having so many things that may serve as very strong preparatories to bring us to this belief and others that do more clearly evince it Among the preparatories I might reckon some of the Prophesies both of Sybilla Cumaea and Sybilla Erythraea and also the ceasing of Oracles mention'd by Plutarch though by his strange sancies in that discourse he plainly shews he knew not the reason of it which we must fetch from the Prophet not the Philosopher as likewise the confession of the Jews themselves and some of the Heathen as Cornel. Tacitus in particular lib. 15. Annalium par 44. who own that there was such a person as Christ and that he suffer'd death under Pontius Pilate which is agreeable with one of the Articles of our Faith and should we from hence cast an eye upon the world which lay groaning under the bondage of sin some of the Heathen being puzzled and non-plust in conceiving how divine justice should be satisfied and the Apostles also telling us that we were without strength spoyl'd of all power of doing any thing in order to our own recovery we shall be much help'd toward this belief that VVe are bought with a price But there are other things that do more clearly evince it as Types under the Law both persons and things which were shadows of things to come and like so many fingers point out him to be the Messias and all the Prophesies like so many lines do meet in him as in their proper center Then his Birth was set off with a train of wonders as an extraordinary Star supposed by some to be hinted at in Balaam's Prophesie and a Quire of Angels singing To us a Child is born to us a Son is given Next behold his works which being real miracles must have been wrought by a supernatural power as dispossessing of Devils raising the dead c. only by a word which he wrought both to prove his Divinity and also the end of his coming to be the Redemption of the world His Death likewise was not only follow'd by a praternatural Eclipse cleaving of Rocks opening of Graves and rending the Vale which