Selected quad for the lemma: end_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	day_n	hour_n	minute_n	1,570	5	11.3251	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18711	Miscellanea philo-theologica, or, God, & man A treatise compendiously describing the nature of God in his attributes, with a lively pourtraiture of his wisedome in ordering, and disposing of the celestiall, and terrestriall bodies. Containing much variety of matter ... and apt applications singular for brevity, and perspicuity. By Henry Church.	Church, Hen. (Henry), fl. 1636-1638.	1637 (1637)	STC 5217; ESTC S107879	200,401	392

Time there was no World Gen. 1.1 In the beginning God made the Heavens There was a beginning and the Earth Before that time nothing did appeare Heb. 11.3 Object They say Of nothing comes nothing therefore the World was eternall Answ Of nothing comes nothing in Mans worke because he cannot worke without materials Of nothing comes all things in Gods worke Psalme 33.9 because he is a Creator and his Word gives a being to that which had no being and his command produces substances and reall things so they appeare and are in being though they were form'd of nothing Quest 2 Were not the highest Heavens eternall and the dwelling place of the Lord Answ The maker thereof is God Heb. 11.10 It was made without hands 2. Cor. 5.1 Heaven is a glorious and excellent place yet a created place 'T is called Gods dwelling Psal 2.4 1. Kings 8.27 because he is manifested there in glory Yet the Heaven of Heavens the most excellent Heavens cannot containe him He had glory excellency before Heaven or t e World had a being Himselfe is eternall who had no beginning Iohn 7.5 The Heavens are not eternall which had a beginning Quest 3 Are not the Angels eternall of whose Creation 't is not spoken of in Genesis 'T is spoken of inclusively though not so plainely Answ Gen 2.1 The Heavens and Earth were finished with all their Hoasts In the Hoast of Heaven the Angels are not excluded for elsewhere they are called the Lords Hoast Gen. 32.2 So Ps 103.20 21. Praise the Lord yee his Angels praise the Lord yee his Hoasts And that the Angels were created read Psal 148.2 Praise the Lord yee his Angels vers 5. For he commanded and they were created Col. 1.16 By him were all things made things visible and invisible whether Thrones or Dominions Principalities or Powers Angels are not eternall but were created and had a beginning Quest 4 Saint Iude speakes of eternall Fire Iude vers 7. Had that Fire no beginning as it shall have no ending Answ It had a beginning that which Saint Iude calls eternall Christ calls Everlasting fire Math. 25.41 Math. 25.41 'T is eternall in a future relation it is prepared saith Christ for the Divell and his Angels being prepared fitted Iude 7. verse and made ready proves it had a beginning Note that Eternall and Everlasting one word is used for both Quest 5 What is the reason that men knowing that on this moment of time depends their eternall estate yet are carelesse for Eternity and minde so much the present time Answ The Reason is from the great subtilty of Sathan that separates betweene end and meanes If wee thinke of eternall fire hee will labour to race these thoughts out of our mindes yet provoke us to sinne which is the meanes hiding the end In good things hee will keepe us from the meanes as Repentance Prayer Holinesse yet gull us with a fooles hope we shall have the end as well as those that are most painefull and vertuous 2. Temporall things are next us and wee are too much led by Sence and Appetite like Esau wee will have the present pottage with losse of the future blessing Quest 6 By what Arguments can you prove Gods Eternity Answ 1. That which is the first Cause of all Causes must be eternall which is God He that gives the being to al● creatures must be an eternall being 2. He that had glory before there was a World and decreed and purposed before the foundations of the World were laid must be eternall But God had glory before the world Iohn 17.5 2. Tim. 1.9 and purposes and decrees before the world Ephes 1.4 and therefor is eternall 3. He that can give eternall rewards must be eternall But he can give eternall rewards Rom. 6. last vers ther●ore is eternall 4. To be eternall is to have no beginning no mutation no end God had no beginning with him is no shadow of change nor possibility of end Quest 7 How is Christ th● eternall Sonne of God Answ In respect of his God-head Hee was before the mountaines a Synechdoche a part for the whole Mountaines put for the World Prov. 8.25 And for the future None can declare his age Esay 53.8 For hee liveth for ever Rev. 1.18 The Heavens have a duration without life The devils have an everlasting being without joy The Angels have an everlasting joyfull being but their being is dependant and by participation and their joy successive The Saints in Heaven have a blessed everlasting being but not perfect till the Day of Judgement But Christ is eternall and hath with his eternity and everlastingnesse life joy perfection fulnesse at once so that he is eternall as God Quest 8 Shall Judgement be eternall in pronouncing will the great Sessions last for ever 'T is Heb. 6.2 called Eternall Iudgement Answ Eternity follows the Sentence an eternall God judges and he gives an everlasting Sentence pronouncing to the Elect eternall life and to to the reprobate eternall destruction 2. 'T is Eternall judgement in opposition to temporall judgements here then time is out and we have nothing to doe with it all wee have to doe is about Eternity 3. As a Malefactor when he goes to the barre wee say he hath received his death notwithstanding the execution followes after so then men receive their eternall sentence 't is eternall judgement Sect. 4 Fourthly Vses to Edifie Vse 1 1. THis shewes us the difference of Eternity in Time First Time had a beginning and shall have ending Eternity hath neither beginning nor end 2. Time is measured by ages yeares moneths dayes houres minutes Eternity hath no measure nor portions nor limits it passes and out-strips the bounds of our thoughts nor can our reason gage it nor our understanding fathom it 3. Time is alwaies in motion as the spring of a Watch never stands still till it be consumed and brought to an end Eternity hath no motion it ever stands still it s alwaies the same Vse 2 Secondly here we may gaine a glimpse of Gods excellency he is Eternall without beginning or end Angels had a beginning so had men and the world Angels and men shall have an everlasting being after once they have begun to be from him that never began to be who is the Eternall God Therefore when we thinke or speake of Gods Eternity we should conclude as St. Paul To the King Everlasting Immortall c to him be glory for ever Amen Vse 3 Thirdly we may in Gods feare learne two profitable lessons considering we have time and are swittly passing to Eternity 1. Consider the brevity of Time 2. Take the opportunity of time 1. The brevity Time is short whilst I am in thinking some of it is gon mans whole life is numbred by dayes compared to a spanne a bubble to a winde that passes away c. If we could seriously alter our thoughts to thinke more of the shortnesse of Time it would

observe these things 6. God hath made his workes for this end that wee should behold them Isaiah 40.26 and have them in rememberance Psal 111.4 Thus we shall be able to exalt God in our hearts and declare his workes to others so God will be glorified others edified our soules much delighted and a weighty duty discharged and God will recompence us with revealing his loving kindnesse to us Psal 107.43 Of the worke of Creation 1. Who created all things 2. Whereof all things are made 3. The time when they were made 4. For what end all things were made Sect. 1 First who made all things THe maker of all things is God it is his prerogative to create Gen. 1.1 God made heaven and earth Col. 1.16 his workes are visible and invisible 1. Creation is a worke of the whole Trinity 2. All was made by the power of his word 3. In wisedome all was made First creation is a worke of the Trinity as appeares 1. The Father created Ephes 3.9 who created all things by Jesus Christ 2. The Sonne created Colos 1.16 Heb. 1.10 3. The Holy Ghost created Iob. 26.13 Iob. 33.4 Secondly all was made by his word Gods word is either first substantiall or secondly written or thirdly operative Though God made all by his substantiall word yet that is not meant when he saith let there bee this or that for the operative word was in time the substantiall word was eternall Psal 33.9 the word was a willing things to bee not a sounding of syllables so that without toylsomnesse with great facility God created all things he spake the word and it was done 3. In wisdome all was made Prov. 3.19 Jehova sapientia fundavit terram statuit coelos intelligentia Psal 104.24 1. God makes the creatures without sence these are superior as the light the firmament and ornaments of heaven as Sunne Moone and Starres or inferiour as the seas earth trees and plants 2. He makes the s●nsitive creatures as beasts fishes and fowles then the reasonable creatures man and woman Some creatures have matter and forme and generation as men some no generation as the heavens and sunne c. some have distinct formes without matter as Angels some are bodies without immortall spirits as beasts some are immortall spirits without bodies as Angels some are immortall spirits and bodies as men Reflections 1. Let me lift up mine eyes A desire of 1. Contemplation and behold who hath made all these things (a) Isai 40.29 and bringeth out their armies by number and cal●eth them by their names then shall I see his eternall power and god-head by his visible works (b) Rom. 1.20 and let me cast my thoughts on the sea where goe the great ships (c) Ps 104.26 and are creatures innumerable there is the great Leviathan that sports himselfe in the waters which God hath kept in with bankes by his decree (d) Iob 38.11 let me looke on this earth hanging in the aire (e) Job 26.7 the foot-stoole of my Creator (f) Isai 66.1 and then break out to admiration and say 2. Admiratiō 2. O Lord how wonderfull are thy works in wisdome hast thou made them all (g) Ps 104.24 when I behold the heavens the workes of thy hands the moone and the starres (h) Psal 8.3 then I thinke thou hast got thee an excellent name and renowne in all the world and for my owne part I give glory to thee and acknowledge none is like to thee none can doe thy workes Psal 86.8 3. Supplication 3. O Lord my Creator enable me to remember thee now in my youth before the evill day doth come (i) Eccl. 12.1 with such a remembrance as to turne to thee (k) Psal 12.27 and doe thou remember me with the favour of thy people (l) Psal 106.4 thy hands have made me and fashioned me oh give me understanding (m) Ps 119.73 and thou which first didst create me doe thou new make me grant that I may be a new creature (n) 2 Cor. 5.17 Create in me a new heart (o) Psal 51.10 and renew me in the spirit of my minde (p) Eph. 4.23 that I may serve thee with gladnesse and cheerefulnesse for thou hast made us and not we our selves (q) Psal 108.2 3. I am thine by creation oh make me thine by redemption and grace 4. Gratulatiō 4. Fill my heart with thy praises that thy noble workes being in my eyes thy high acts may be in my mouth and I may often say thou art worthy to receive honour and glory and power for thou hast created all things (r) Rev. 4.11 let me ever bee resolute to praise thee as for the workes of creation in the generall so for forming my selfe in particular (ſ) Psa 139.14 thou hast cloathed me with skinne and flesh and united my bones and sinewes (t) Iob 10.11 I praise thee for my being for my well-being O let me praise thee in an everlasting well-being 5. Resignation 5. Thou hast made me and put a living soule within me and set me on the earth to live and breath a short time and then thou wilt bring me to death the house of all the living (u) Iob. 30.23 dust I am and to dust I must returne (w) Gen. 3.15 so thou hast ordeined all must dye (x) Heb. 9.27 because all have sinned (y) Rom. 5.12 grant that all my dayes I may waite till this change come (z) ●ob 14.14 and so become wise to consider my latter end (a) Deu 32.29 wheresoever I die or howsoever grant I may in much assurance commit my soule into thy hands as into the hands of a faithfull Creator (b) 1. Pet 4.19 Sect. 2 Secondly Whereof God made all things HE made all things of nothing to create is to produce something out of nothing to worke without materials Heb. 11.3 the things we see were not made of things which did appeare Reflections I desire 1. Faith 1. Had I beene trained up onely in morall Philosophy I had learned that of nothing comes nothing Indeed it is so in mans worke but in my Bible I learne that of nothing come all things it is so in Gods worke 2. 2. Reverence What cause have I to feare and reverence this great Creator I my selfe once was nothing now have life and being and substance oh cause me to repent and to prize thy favour or else I shall be at last worse then nothing 3. How easie is it for God to helpe his Church 3. Dependance he can worke without materials if he wills the good of his people no adverse power can hinder him 4 In me is nothing that is good 4. Regeneration Lord create in me that may make me acceptable in thy fight which may be to me a pledge of thy love Sect. 3 Thirdly The time when all things were made

brightnesse of the Moone is usefull and seasonable Things are beautifull in their season water to the thirsty and the Moone in the night I may learne from the Moone to be usefull seasonably and to take the opportunities offered me to doe good in them to give and forgive to beare and forbeare to speake and to bee silent seasonably makes me like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringes forth his fruit in due season Thirdly the Moone discovers onely grosse things The estate of nature is as the Moone-light the estate of grace is as the Sunne-light of wicked men it may be said Nescierunt neque intellexerunt they know not Psalme 82.5 nor understand but of the godly we may say Blessed are your eyes for you see Mat. 13.16 The Moone light discovers houses trees and beasts The light of the Sun discovers in his beames the smallest moates 3. Considerations from hence 1. I must labour to get out of a naturall condition and I must pray for that blessed spirit of God which doth convince that seeing my misery I may rellish the mercy of God O how sweet is mercy to a selfe condemning broken hearted sinner 2. By this I know God hath given me a better light then my owne which I have by nature I once thought that if I abstained from grosse sinnes made knowne to me as blasphemy murther adultery theft c. it was a great matter but being farther convinced I see idle thoughts and idle words to be offensive evills I see that omissions of good duties is dangerous and am troubled not onely for my ill disposition but for my indisposition want of zeale for God want of sorrow for other mens sinnes not shunning the occasions of sinne it disquiets me since the Sunne of righteousnesse hath appeared on my horizon 3. Those which cannot see trees nor houses nor mountaines have not so much as Moone light sometimes it is so darke in the aire that men cannot see their hand held up before them Some men want the light of grace and of nature and reason these men are darknesse Ephes 5.8 and walke in darknesse Ioh. 8.12 and their wages is in Tenebras exteriores it utter darkenesse from the estate of darknesse the worke of darknesse and the wages of darknesse O Lord deliver my soule Fourthly the nearer the Moone is to the Sunne it is darker to the earth The Moone being nearer the Sunne is the brighter above but darker beneath So the nearer my soule is to God the more it is bright upward and of a heavenly disposition God shining on mee my glory is reall though invisible to others my light and life being with God men may looke on me as one not to bee desired without forme or beauty so they looked on my Saviour Isai 53.2 to some he was vailed yet to some hee was revealed So it is with Christians the world sees their infirmities and afflictions but there is a bright side they see not Exod. 25.5 there is a curious Arke though covered with Badgers skinnes the world sees the blacke side but not the best side they cannot see invisible things till they have obtained faith Let me bee light to God though darke to the world when God shines on me then am I bright upward and then I resemble his light as the drop doth the Ocean The Moone more remote from the Sunne is bright downeward so the lesse portion of grace and the more remote from God the more welcome to the world It is my Lord Esau though prophane and Agrippa and Bernice are seene with great Pompe Absolom and his foote-men Belshazzar and his Captaines and Concubines Herod and his royall aparrell have terrene glory yet these are remote from the Sunne of righteousnesse Oh that I could neglect that splendor is had with a neglect of communion with God Let mee never bee so shining toward the earth that I may bee darke towards heaven Let me not flatter for favour nor feare contempt but let me draw neare to God that he drawing neare to me the raies of his light shining on me shal make me both honourable and satisfied Sect. 2 Secondly of the Moones borrowed light 1. THe light of the Moone is received 2. The light of the Moone is communicated 3. The Sunne lending his light hath not the lesse First it is a received light She hath light in her but it is not of her the streams that came into Paradise had not their spring in Paradise the graces the Church hath are all received 1. Cor. 4.7 Applications 1. Let me humbly acknowledge I am a receiver from God and deeply ponder this great receipts must have great accompts he that hath two talents must accompt for two he that receives five must answer for five a day will come when I shall be called to give account of my stewardshippe Luke 16.2 2. I must beware of pride I am but a receiver and must be called to a reckoning Pride growes from this we looke on the middle and neglect both ends men enjoy some present excellency which breedes pride as Iron doth the rust Remember thy originall remember thy accompt thou swolne dust and ashes I came naked into the world without a ragge of cloathes or dramme of grace shortly I must descend into the grave and carry nothing with me and must stand at the barre to answer how I have imployed my gifts my wit my wealth my time my strength and abilities all I have is but lent me why should I bee proud of that the Lord betrusts me withall Let me labour to use it well and learne to be humble Secondly the light of the Moone is communicated She receives light and we pertake of it the Moone receives not light onely for her selfe wee receive not our talents to hide in a napkin we must disperse and sow abroad of our wealth Psal 112.9 Heb. 13.16 and be as good stewards of Gods manifold graces to the edification of others 1. Pet. 4.10 Let the little I have bee well employed let my gifts edifie encourage and comfort others alwayes endeavouring to be distributive and communicatiue Thirdly the Sunne lending his light hath not the lesse Nor hath God the lesse for giving largely to others he gives aboundantly yet is not the poorer the wise Virgins could not spare oyle for others but God hath suf●iciency for himselfe for others for all Lord if thou give me wisedome it diminishes not thy owne open the treasures of thy blessings and let the fountaine of thy goodnesse over-flow and runne into my soule so shalt thou pleasure me a poore creature and not disparage thy selfe my blessed Creator Sect. 3 Thirdly of the Moones blacknesse and blemishes 1. THe blemishes are reall 2. The blemishes are apparant 3. They are continued and remaining First the blemishes are reall not feigned or imaginary so are the blemishes of my soule true and reall blemishes I am really guilty and polluted and neede a reall satisfaction by Christ