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A20187 The opening of heauen gates, or The ready way to euerlasting life Deliuered in a most familier dialogue, betweene reason and religion, touching predestination, Gods word, and mans free-will, to the vnderstanding of the weakest capacitie, and the confirming of the more strong. By Arthur Dent, preacher of the word of God, at South-Shoobery in Essex. Dent, Arthur, d. 1607. 1610 (1610) STC 6619; ESTC S116579 52,599 137

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THE Opening of Heauen gates OR The ready way to euerlasting life Deliuered in a most Familier Dialogue betweene Reason and Religion touching Pradestination Gods word and Mans Free-will to the vnderstanding of the weakest Capacitie and the confirming of the more strong By ARTHVR DENT Preacher of the word of GOD at South-Shoobery in Essex Imprinted at London for Iohn Wright and are to bee sold at his shoppe at Christ-Church gate 1610. The Epistle to the Reader THis Diuine worke gentle Reader though the Author left vnprinted yet comming to his hands that wisht a continuance to the memory of the famous Writer and a comfort to the soule of the desirous Reader hee thought good to bring it to the presse and the rather seeing that the points herein handled beeing in them-selues very difficult and heretofore not so plainly expressed are here laid down that the meaner capacity may be instructed the skilfuller more confirmed Heere thou maist see Reason contending with Religion and Religion resoluing those doubts which to Reason seeme dissoluable Here thou shalt know though Reason tel thee if God haue praedestinated his elect yet Religion will tel thee except thou worke out thy saluation with feare and trembling thou art none of Gods fore-chosen If from hence Reason say vnto thee thou hast absolute free-will yet Religion will tell thee that thy willing comes from God In a word heere Ignorance shall be taught by Truth and Atheisme confuted by Religion Then courteous Reader peruse this worthie Worke of the eminent Preacher Maister ARTHVR DENT wherein thou shalt finde the ready Pathway to eternall life through which if thou wilt soiourne at the end thereof thou shalt finde Heauen-gates set wide open to receaue thee and troopes of Angels ready to carry thee into Abraham his bosom where thou shalt rest from thy labor and haue all teares wiped from thy eyes A fruitfull Dialogue betweene Reason and Religion touching Gods Predestination and mans freewill c. Reason WHO made this world Religion God of his owne singular mercy for the loue that hee bare vnto mankinde Reas Of what substance did God ere●e it Reli. Truely of nothing but by his 〈…〉 ly word Reas And is it euerlasting or shall it ●ee haue an end Reli. The scripture doth testifie that shall bee destroied with fire from heaven at such time as the Lord hath appointed Moreouer we are informed by common experience that it is by nat●●● sabiect to dissolution Reas I pray you what are we to think● of God that wonderfull workemaster Reli. Wee ought stedfastly to beleeue th● hee is almighty righteous in ●●● thinges and eternall That of nature he is indeuisible and yet consisting of three distinct persons the Father the Sonne and the ho●● Ghost This God is called God of incomprehenstble wisdome according t● which he hath most wisely foreseene and appointed all things He is vnchange able alwaies one neuer passionate ●● is the Lord of reueng the God of Judgement at whose breath the mountai●●●●oe shake whose seat is the lofty Che●●● bines whose foote-stoole is the earth h● is a iealious God striking idslators a●● such as derogate from his honor wi●● terrible plagues Hee is a consuming ●ire the king of kings the onely Lord ●● all worlds the beginning the end an● yet without beginning and euerlasting Hee is inuistble though at one ●●●●ant beholding all things at wh●●ecke the heauens are obedient t● clouds dos gather themselues together and the earth doth quiuer and tremble This God rebuketh the windes calmeth the seas limiteth to euery starre his instuence course and name this God formed light and darkenesse sendeth and calleth backe lightnings thunders tempestes fearefull commets bla●ing ●starrs and all other wonderfull impressions of the ayrs This is the God that ●ouldeth the huge earth in his hand hanging like a Globe in the midest of the world that fouldeth the heauens like a ●crowle that sendeth the seasonable spring-time Summer and Harnest Frost Could Hunger Famine and ●●stil●nce he it is that by a certaine in●used fertility causeth trées herbes flowers and euery little grasse to sprout and ●pring to the behalfe of all liuing creatures So that neither birdes of the ●●●●●e●●ts of the ●●eld nor the silly worme●●●●he earth doe want sustenance this is ●●at prouident God that conta●neth the ●welling se● within her ban●●●s that or●●reth that maruelous waterchange of ●●owing and ebbing w●●●●s that feedeth ●e whales and euery ●●●ing thing dwel●●ng in the deepes this is that searcher of ●●ret●s whome no place doth exclude whose presence no action word nor thought can escape This is the good God that created man according to his owne likenesse made him Lord of the earth And when he had plaied the rebe● against him that recomforted him being throwne out of Paradice with the promise of the séed of the woman This God is he that sent his people Israel remedy when they were in thraldome in the land of Egipt that parted the red sea drowned their enemies that did safe conduc● them in the wildernesse that rained downe Manna that defended Dauid from the force of Saul that foiled the G● ant that saued Ionas in the bottome o● the sea that deliuered Daniel out o● th● Lions denne Ieremy out of the dung● on the thrée children out of the hot consuming Duen he is that God that se● his welbeloued sonne to abide th● death to redéeme mankinde from th● bondage of sinne and from the iawe● of sathan Finally this is that God by whole power all things were ma● and by whose onely prouidence eue● thing is effectually mooued ordered a●● brought to passe Reas All praise therefore bee vnto this ●od most mighty most righteous and ●ly that on this tender wise hath loued ●wnworthy wreatches deseruing no●●ing but the rigor of his Iustice Now I ●ay you declare what was the caus●at moued God to create man and to set ●im in the world Reli. That he should serue him and ●cri●ie him Reas Which is the way to serue God ●d to glorifie hi●●right Reli. To acknowledge him as he hath appointed by his word Reas Which call you the word of God Reli. The same which the Patriarches Prophets and Apostles receiued by the ●●ly ghost and committed to writing which we call at this day by the name of ●e eld and new testament Reas How should a man know that ●hose monuments left by the Patriarkes Prophets and Apostles came from God or that they did euer leaue behind them ●●y such writings as we tearme the old ●nd new testament Religi As touching the authority therof though the orderly dispositiō of the wisdome of God the doctrine it self sau●ring nothing of earthlinesse the Godly agrée ment of all parts together among them-selues the maiesty of God shinyng forth in that homelinesse of spéech the laying together of the foresayings of the prophets and the successes of the same and many other such arguments may ●o●pell the wicked ones to confesse that