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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91893	The birth of a day: being a treatise theologicall, morall and historicall, representing (as in a scene) the vicissitudes of all humane things, with their severall causes and sacred uses. Compos'd for the establishing mans soul unchangeable in the faith, amidst the various changes of the world. / By J. Robinson Mr of Arts and preacher of Gods Word.	Robinson, John, Preacher at East-Thorpe.	1654 (1654)	Wing R1698; Thomason E1493_4; ESTC R203378	52,211	117

the Winds blew but it fell not because it was built upon a Rock And such a well-built house was Saint Basil who being threatned with death by Val●ns if he would not advise further and turn Arrian answer'd with this brave resolution Sozom. bist lib. 6. c. 16. In hoc mihi consilio non est opus nam idem qui jam sum cras etiam futurus sum I need not any further advice then I have taken already about this matter for to morrow I shall be the same man that I am to day therein and no other And here know that some things are of Necessity wherein we cannot but change as in naturall civill and morall things and to change in these is only humane Others again are of Duty and these either prohibited or enjoyn'd 1. Prohibited as in evill and erroneous things and to change here is pious and divine and not to change either Weaknesse or Obstinacy 2. Enjoyn'd as in sacred and religious and to change here is impious and Diabolicall and not to change true Christian Fortitude and Constancy Whatsoever things we see then wheeling about in the world as Governments Families and the like nay howsoever we may change our selves or be chang'd in some things of an indifferent nature by those that have dominion over our Bodies and Estates yet is there no man that hath dominion over our Faith But this is Gods peculiar and therefore 2 Cor. 1. last in this we must not change It is not with saving Truths as it is with Clothes which alter every year as the fashion doth for the fashion of the world passes away sayes Saint John but true Religion 1 John 2. 17. is ever in fashion with good men and alters not And herein we may justly take occasion to bewail the unsteadinesse of some in these times who are mere Scepticks in Religion alwayes conceiving some new Opinions in it and alwayes in pain till they be deliver'd of their new conceptions though never so monstrous and deformed That which was truth with them yesterday The Magd●burgenses tell us Cent. 4. c. 11. that such was Eustathius Bishop of Sebaste who was one day for the Homousian and another for the Homoiusian Confession accordingly as they suited best with his present turn is no such thing to day and what is so to day is otherwise to morrow such Changelings there be in this last Age who like the Moon do never appear the same two dayes together And I would to God Atque utinam vel sic mutentur Hoec enim cito ad plen●●udinem suam redit hi vero nec sero convertuntur Ambros Proviriis actionibus conc 4. in Tom. 5. sayes Saint Ambrose that their change were no worse then that of the Moon for she returns again within a little time to her full light but these never And he is blind that sees not this among us namely how some turn every day to Popish Superstition but more to Anabaptisticall Francies some unto Socinian Blasphemies but most unto Atheisticall Notions and all into Sensuality this being the Common Sewer into which all the former run and are ultimately resolved But as Saint Paul said to his Galathians so do I to such O foolish Galathians who hath Galat. 3. 1. bewitch'd you that you should not obey the Gospel And it is a metaphor sayes one from Sorcerers who use to cast a mist before the peoples eyes that so they may not take a right view of what is presented to them As if he had said Who hath cast a mist before the eyes of your understandings to make that appear unto you for truth which indeed is not What Are ye so foolish that having begun in the spirit ye will be perfected in the flesh So Are ye so foolish that having begun in truth ye will end in falshood or can ye be so simple as to exchange Gold for Dirt Wheat for Chaffe and your pretious Faith as Saint Peter calls it which is the substance 2 Pet. 1. 1. Heb. 11. 1. of things hoped for for Errours of all sorts and mere shadows of Truth I trow not For if Errour as our Kingly Divine said well have any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 137. advantage it consists in Novelty or if Truth any it consists in Constancy Was the Doctrine then of the Reformed Churches and the Harmony of our Confessions grounded upon evident and pregnant Scriptures maintain'd by the Orthodox and primitive Fathers and conveyed to us by the constant tradition of the universall Church the Faith of Christ once deliver'd to the Saints and the Truth of God yesterday why so it is to day and will be to morrow also And therefore to day in our profession of it we must be as yesterday and to morrow as this day because as God is the same Heb. 13. 〈◊〉 yesterday to day and for ever so also is the Truth of God That which was once so Veritas Dei una semperque sui similis In praefat ad Harm Confes will be so alwayes and cannot be otherwise Oh that we would then be exhorted in the Apostles words To stand fast in the Ephes 4. 14. Faith to quit our selves like men and be strong and not to be as children toss'd to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Metaphora a rota quae motu continuo circumacta partes summas imas semper commutat Pareus in locum and fro and carried about with every wind 1 Cor. 14. 20. of Doctrine but to be as men in understanding stedfast and immoveable that so God may have cause to glory on our behalf as he did on Jobs Hast thou consider'd sayes God to Sathan my servant Job 2. 3. Job So hast thou consider'd such a servant of mine Seest thou to how many changes I have subjected him to changes in his Children to changes in his Estate to changes in his Liberty to changes in his Friends and Acquaintance Nay seest thou how many of his Brethren are chang'd of late from a febrish distemper before now into a sleepy lechargy Seest thou how indifferent they are for their religion round about him and how many shaken reeds there are on every side Nec iratum colere destitit ●●men Sen. ad Marc. cap. 13. of him And yet for all this as my servant Job did so doth he still hold his integrity But enough of this Secondly Gods end also in it is To reform our lives and do us good by his so various dispensations towards us Hence we Huic affine est illud Amos 9. v. 9. ubi duo consideranda vel purgatum frumentum à sordibus vel exagitatum à cribrante dum ab uno cribri laterc in alterum propellitur Sanct. in locum read Isa 30. 28. of a sieve of vanity wherein God sayes he will sift the Nations and shake them to and fro one after another that so he may winnow them from that Chaffe of