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Notes and observations vpon some passages of scripture. By I.G. Master of Arts of Christ-Church Oxon.
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Gregory, John, 1607-1646.
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was not created for sport CHAP. XXIX Jsa 13. 22. And the wild Beasts of the Islands shall cry in their desolate houses and Dragons in their pleasant Palaces c. 'T Was spoken of Babylon and the Prophecy is fulfilled A Dayes journey from hence saith Benjamin Bar Jona in his Itinerary is Babel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. This is that Babel which was of old a City of thirty miles in breadth 'T is now laid wast There is yet to be seene the Ruines of a Palace of Nebuchadnezar but the Sonnes of men dare not enter in for feare of Serpents Scorpions which possesse the place Now you may read the rest of the Prophecy V. 19. And Babylon the Glory of Kingdomes the Beauty of the Chaldees Excellency shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah V. 20. It shall never be inhabited neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation neither shall the Arabian pitch his Tent there neither shall the Shepheards make their sold there V. 21. But wild Beasts of the Desert shall lie there and their houses shall be full of dolefull Creatures and Owles shall dwell there and Satyres shall dance there CHAP. XXX Luk. 15. 10. Likewise I say unto you there is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over one Sinner that repenteth THese words of our Saviour will sound the lesse strange to you If I helpe you to a counterchange of Easterne Expression Would you thinke that in Heaven it selfe whither when we come all teares shall be wiped from our eyes there should now be weeping and mourning for the dead in sinne because they are not 'T is a Tradition firmely received by the Jewes and from them derived to the Mahumetans In an Arabicke Manuscript of theirs this answer of God to Moses is found 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O Moses c. Even about this Throne of mine there stand those and they are many too 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that shed teares for the Sinnes of Men. If there be teares and sorrow in Heaven for one that is gone astray how much more ought there to be Joy over a sinner that Repenteth And our Saviour was not the first that said it The words have a reflexe upon that old position in the Hebrew Divinity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. That a Repenting man is of greater esteeme in the sight of God then one that never sell away This is the meaning of that expression more then ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance Their Elders talke higher yet of this excellent virtue The Man in Saint Austin might have return'd another answer to him that askt him what God imploy'd himself about before the world was made He was making Hell No such matter The Doctours in the Talmud say He was creating Repentance or contriving all the wayes how he might be mercifull enough to the Man he is so mindfull of and to the sâ—nne of Man so much regarded by him They say more That one day spent here in true Repentance is more worth then Eternity it selfe or all the dayes of Heaven in the other world CHAP. XXXI Isay 57. 15. For thus saith the High and Lofty one that inhabiteth Eternity whose Name is Holy I dwell in the High and Holy Place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones BUt will God dwell upon the Earth the Heaven of Heavens cannot conteine him How much lesse this House which we have built All things are full of God He is therefore called in the Holy Tongue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hammakom the Place Or that Fulnesse which filleth All in All. God as the great Hermes is a Circle the Center whereof is every where and the Circumference no where If I climbe up into Heaven thou art there if I goe downe to Hell thou art there also Nor is He present onely to these reall Capacities of Earth and Heaven but even also to those Imaginary spaces of incomprehensible receipt and infinitely extending He is there where Nothing else is and Nothing else is there where He iâ— not But then are we to thinke that we men have his Company but as the Devils have to trâ—mble at No The Cry there is What have we to doe with thee thou Sonne of the most High Not so here but why art thou so farre from me ô my God Pâ— 10. 1. The Finger of God is there as in the Plagues of Aegypt Exod. 8. 19. But his Right Hand is here Psal 20. 6. They have God Almighty we All-sufficient There He is a consuming Fire He. 12. 29. Here Immanuell God not against but with us Therefore it is that though He were here before yet upon our occasion He is said to bow the Heavens and come downe He was seene at Moria At Peniel Face to Face Gen. 22. 30. The Patriarch Abraham invited him to Dinner and He lay at Lot's House aâ— Night Jacob wrestled with him at Mahanaim got the better and would not let Him depart except He blest him He past once by Moses in the Clift of the Rocke He met him often at the doore of the Tabernacle He wandred with his People in the Wildernesse When the Arke stood still so did He When the Arke set forward He also was spoken to to arise Rise up Lord the Leader said and let thine Enemies be scattered Numb 10. 35. To allow for all this we are to take knowledge of some considerations according to which it may stand with the divine Immensity to be as differently present in some places as alike in All. We can doe no better then rest our selves upon that ancient and well advis'd of distinction delivered in the Schoole God saith the Master by his presence power and Essence immutably existeth in every Nature and Being indetermin'd by Circumscription or definition He is otherwise and more excellently present with Saints and Holy Men by his Grace and Holy Spirit But most of all and most excellently present by Vnion Hypostaticall in the second person in whom the Fulnesse of the Godhead dwelleth bodily c. 1 Dist 37. To these three Molina superaddeth the fourth and fifth difference the one per peculiaria signa giving instance in Jacob's Ladder the other whereby God is present Cum Câ—nciliis summâ—s Pontificibus But these differences are written upon as supernumerary by Nazarius Gonzales c. The two being indeed but one and that no other then the second of the three wherby God is present by his Grace and Holy Spirit By presence power and essence the Doctours generally meane by the first an appropinquity of Vision that all things are open and naked unto his sight by the second an Approximation of power that He worketh in and ruleth over All by the third an Indistance of his Being to all things whatsoever of Actuall or possible existence Thus God is