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A36109 A Discourse presented to those who seeke the reformation of the Church of England wherein is shewed that the new church discipline is daungerous both to religion, and also to the whole state : together with the opinions of certaine reverend and learned divines, concerning the fundamentall poynts of the true Protestant religion : with a short exposition upon some of Davids Psalmes, pertinent to these times of sedition. 1642 (1642) Wing D1616; ESTC R41098 212,174 304

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difference it pleased GOD to put vpon the Workes of Power and the Workes of Wisdome wherewith concurreth that in the Former it is not set down that GOD said Let there be Heauen and Earth as it is set downe of the Workes following but actually that GOD made Heauen and Earth the One carrying the Stile of a MANVFACTION and the Other of a LAW DECREE or COVNCELL From the Heauens in generall our Prophet commeth in Particular to the Moone and Stars which why they were ordeined at the first Moses declareth in many Words Let there be Light r Gen. 1.14 saith Moses in the Firmament of the Heauen to diuide the Day from the Night and let them bee for Signes and for Seasons and for Dayes and Yeeres And let them be for Lights in the Firmament of the Heauen to giue Light vpon the Earth And God made two great Lights the greater Light to rule the Day and the lesser Light to rule the Night he made the Starres also And God set them in the Firmament of the Heauen to giue Light vpon the Earth and to rule ouer the Day and ouer the Night and to divide the Light from the Darknes Otherwise as ſ Plin Nat. Hist l. 2. c. 107. Pliny noteth it exceedeth all Miracles that any one Day should passe and all the World not to be set on a light consuming Fire But how comes it that in this place there is no mention of the Sunne who is the Chiefe of all the rest For as Light is the Queene of Heauen as t Aug. Confess l. 10. c. 34. speakes S. Austen so who is the King to that Queene but that glorious Planet in Heauen that heauenly u Ps 19.5 Bridegroome who so much rejoyceth euery Day to runne his Course x Chrys in hunc Ps S. Chrysostome is of Opinion that in specifying the Moone and Starres he intimates the Sunne to And because that Some saith he exempt the Night from being the Workemanship of God the Prophet here sheweth them their owne Error in making mention of the Moone declaring in these Words that God was the Workeman thereof Whereunto is correspondent that of the Prophet y Esay 45.7 Esay I forme the Light and create Darknes I make Peace and create Euill I the Lord doe all these things But as the Moone is here mentioned and the Sunne not spoken of so elswhere the Sunne is mentioned and the Moone not spoken of at all as in the z Ps 19.5 Psalme before alleaged In them hath he set a Tabernacle for the Sunne which commeth forth as a Bride-groome out of his Chamber and reioyceth as a Gyant to run his Course a Greg. in Ezech Hom. 13. S. Gregory thinkes that the Prophets omitting the Sunne in this Psalme cannot be excused but by an Allegory I should thinke that this Psalme was made in the Night time when the Sunne being gone from that Horizon the Moone was in her Brightnesse all the Night long as sometimes She appeares to vs when She is in the Full. Vers 4. What is Man that thou art Mindfull of him and the sonne of Man that thou visitest him Man b Calvin Instit l. 1. c. 1. §. 3. saith Calvin is neuer sufficiently touched and inwardly mooued with Knowledge of his owne Basenes vntill he haue compared himselfe to the Maiesty of God And how in that case they are at their Wits end we haue often Examples saith he both in the Booke of c Iudg. 13.22 Esay 6.5 Ezec. 2.1 Iudges and in the Prophets so that this was a common Saying among the People of God We shall surely die because wee haue seene God With like Astonishment is the Prophet David here strucken and as here so elswhere Lord d Ps 144.3 saith he what is Man that thou so respectest him or the Sonne of Man that thou so regardest him And Iob to like purpose What is Man e Iob. 7.17 saith he that thou shouldst magnifie him and that thou shouldst set thine Heart vpon him and that thou shouldst visit him euery Morning and try him euery Moment So that holy Men here speake as Mephibosheth f 2. Sam. 9.8 spake to Dauid What is thy Seruant that thou shouldst looke vpon such a dead Dog as I am Indeed consider we Man as he comes into the World and the great adoe there is about him in the bringing of him vp and when once he is brought vp the many By-wayes that he takes and well may we say as here it is What is Man and the Sonne of Man Pliny saw somewhat in Mans Miseryes when he g Plin. Nat. Hist l. 7. Prooem spake as he did namely of all other liuing Creatures how Nature hath brought him forth altogether Naked and afterwards when he is clothed how she hath clothed him yet with the Bounty and Riches of Others how when he is Borne he is immediatly fast bound hauing no part or Member at liberty a point not practised on the young Whelpes of the wildest Beast that is how among all other Creatures there is not one but by a secret instinct of Nature knoweth his owne Good and whereto he is made able some make vse of the Swiftnes of their Feete Some of their Wings some of their Finnes and so forth Man only knoweth nothing vnlesse he be taught he can neither Speake nor Goe nor Eate otherwise then he is trained to it in a Word how naturally he is apt and good at nothing but to pule and crye but how much deeper should wee looke then Pliny did into the Depth of his Misery should we consider which Pliny did not neither indeed could hee the great and aboundant MERCY of God in bestowing vpon him such Dignities as here are specified by the Prophet amidst those and greater Miseries as First that the Lord is Mindfull of him Secondly that he Visiteth him Memores quasi absentis visitas praesentem Thou art Mindfull h Aug. in Ps 35. saith S. Austen as of one that is Absent thou visitest him as Present Thirdly that he Crowneth him with Glory and Worship Fourthly that he giues him Dominion ouer the Workes of his Hands and puts all things in subiection vnder his Feete as is specified in these Particulars Sheepe Oxen Beasts Fowles and Fishes Nor all this in regard of Princes onely and the high Potentates of the VVorld but as i Lem. Exhort ad Vit. Opt. Instit c. 3. Lemnius well noteth Vniversitatis Prafecturam ac Principatum attribuit etiam infimo cuique Cerdoni ac Plebeio qui non minus fruitur Creatoris Munificentia totiusque Mundi Amoenitate spectabili cum primis ac visenda quàm Regum quivis Copijs Opibusque affluens He bestoweth the Gouernment and Principality of all these worldly Things euen vpon euery meane COBLER and basest Artisan who no lesse inioyes this Munificence of the Creator and Pleasure of the World then the most wealthiest King and Potentate But what hath