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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10074	The clearing of the saints sight A sermon preached at Cundouer neere the religious and ancient towne of Shrevvsbury. By Sampson Price Batchelour of Diuinitie of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1617 (1617)	STC 20329; ESTC S120672	26,939	47

2. King 6. which were Angels 2. King 6.17 or most commonly not seene to men yet alwayes in a readinesse for Gods seruice and his childrens preseruation encamping round about them that feare him Psal 34.7 and deliuering them being all ministring spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heires of saluation Heb. 1.14 Besides these God comforteth men with his other creatures those two great lights the Sunne to rule by day Psal 136.8 which Anaxagoras held much greater then Peloponesus a countrey in Graecia Anaximander as bigge as the earth the Mathematicians exceeding the earth 166. times Clauius the Moone to rule the night Iob 38.31.32 such are the influences of Pleiades bringing the spring the bands of Orion bringing raine Mazzaroth in his season and Arcturus with his sonnes Hee heareth the heauens they heare the earth and the earth shall heare the corne Os 2 2● and the wine and the oile He is with Kings is their kingdomes Bishops in their churches Peeres in their consultations Iudges in their iudgements Captaines in their battels euer ready to comfort when the helpe of man is vaine Is 50.3 He that can cloath the heauens with blacknesse and make sackcloth their couering can also stretch them out like a curtaine to couer himselfe with light as with a garment He that can send out a great winde into the Sea till it worke and be tempestuous Psal 104.2 Io. 1.4.11 and the waues thereof tosse themselues Ier. 5.22 can also stay them that they preuaile not thought they rore and smite through the pride thereof Instrumenta sunt tota creatura Dei all the creatures of God are ready at his command to attend the elect for their good Iob 26 12. Wigand Syntag V●t Test and the reprobate for their hurt He is the best comforter others may deceiue a friend his friend as Achitophel did Dauid a Counseller his client as Abimelech the Schechemits the wife the husband as Dalilah did Sampson the daughter leaue the mother as Orpah Naomi but God neuer faileth and therefore as Demosthenes held that no man could be miserable which laid temperance and continencie for a foundation of wisdome so much more may wee hold him to be most comforted which hath the Lord for his God and as that Emperour Marcus Aurelius often professed that hee would not leaue the knowledge hee might learne in one houre for all the gold hee possessed receiuing more glory from the bookes hee read and wrote then all the battels he wonne and kingdomes he conquered so may wee resolue that this only maketh vs happy that God doth comfort vs. Vse 1. How wretched then is the estate of them which oppose themselues against this God of cōfort Such are the Atheists of this age whose Patron was Diagoras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in plaine termes denying that there was any God at all and Epicurus trampling vpon religion They are Infidels in heart Blasphemers in tongue the greatest Traitors to their Prince Rebels to their country a poyson to their houses plague to their friends causing the earth vpon which they goe to be cursed the ayre where they speake to be infected and Sathan where they enter to be possessed Strange it is that eyther Graecian or Barbarian Turke or Christian any one whose se et tread vpon the earth or whose eyelids are opened towards heauen should not in their liues proclaime the comfortable Maiesty of this God but as it is supposed that Anaxagoras would neuer haue affirmed snow to be blacke but that he was starke blinde of both his eyes so these would neuer so much erre but that they are blinded in their vnderstanding more insensible then the creatures voyd of reason for the starre confessed the son of God and led the wise men to Christ the sea and windes did obey him the Asse did beare him to Ierusalem the Fishes at his command came into the net and one brought money to pay tribute the Sunne at his death was appalled the earth did tremble the stones did cleaue asunder and the graues did open they are more obstinate then the Deuill Mar. 5.6.7 seeing Iesus a farre off he came and worshipped him crying with a loud voice that hee was the Sonne of the most high God Iesus hee knoweth and Paul Acts 19 15. but these acknowledge neyther God nor Iesus nor any true Prophets sent from God but the time shall come that the eyes that sinne hath shut damnation shall open and they shall know that this God is not vnfitly called by the Graecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the sharpnesse of his sight and swiftnesse of his course seeing all and ruling ouer all in a moment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as that whereby all things are caused to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for that he giueth life and motion to all Aristed in hymno in Iouem Diog. La●r● c. el Rhodig and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in reguard of his goodnes whither should I send the foolish Naturals which neuer look vpon the God of Nature but to the creatour of all which fashioned all Nature it selfe is nothing but a power placed by this God in his creatures Hugo Quis disposuit membra pulicis culicis who hath disposed in order the limmes of the flea and gnat they haue their life and motion flying death louing life seeking after that they delight in shunning that which troubleth them hauing sense and quicknesse in motion This God made them Qui fecit Angelumin coelo fecit vermiculum infecta He that made the Angell in Heauen made the little worine on the earth Aug super Psal 148. Totum attende totum lauda consider all the order of Gods workes thou shalt see cause enough to praise God for all Thou art without excuse for the inuisible things of him from the creation of the world are cleerely seene being vnderstood by the things that are made Rom. 1.20 Witnesses against thee shall be that the Lord hath done good for thee and giuen thee rain from heauen and fruitfull seasons filling thy heart with food and gladnes beside the expresse testimonies of the word Acts 14 17. open prophecies of things to come thousands of yeeres before they came and infinite miracles O reason not as the besotted Epicure How doth God know can hee iudge through the darke clouds Iob 22.13 thicke clouds are a couering to him that he seeth not and he walketh in the circuit of Heauen God is euery where and there is no euasion from him no corner in hell no mansion in heauen no caue in the top of Carmel no fishes belly in the bottome of the Sea no dark dungeon in the land of captiuity no clouds of the day darknesse of the night secrecie of a friend or a more secret conscience nor any like euasion can hide thee or thy actions from this God He maketh the fields haue eyes to see thy