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A02484	An apologie of the povver and prouidence of God in the gouernment of the world. Or An examination and censure of the common errour touching natures perpetuall and vniuersall decay diuided into foure bookes: whereof the first treates of this pretended decay in generall, together with some preparatiues thereunto. The second of the pretended decay of the heauens and elements, together with that of the elementary bodies, man only excepted. The third of the pretended decay of mankinde in regard of age and duration, of strength and stature, of arts and wits. The fourth of this pretended decay in matter of manners, together with a large proofe of the future consummation of the world from the testimony of the gentiles, and the vses which we are to draw from the consideration thereof. By G.H. D.D.	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1627 (1627)	STC 12611; ESTC S120599	534,451	516

forceably consequently hath a greater power of making men not outwardly formally but really inwardly vertuous And if we should look back into Histories compare time with time we shall easily finde that where this Profession spred it selfe men haue generally beene more accomplished in all kind of morall civill vertues then before it took place It is true indeed that in processe of time thorow the ambition covetousnes luxury idlenesse ignorance of them who should haue bin lights in the Church it too much degenerated from its Originall purity therevpon manners being formed by it were generally tainted this corruption like a leprosie diffusing it selfe from the head into all the body But together with the reviving of the Arts Languages which for sundry ages lay buried in barbarisme the rust of superstition was likewise in many places scowred off from Religion which by degrees had crept vpon it fretted deepe into the face of it and the Arts being thus refined Religion restored to its primitiue brightnes manners were likewise reformed euen among them at least in part in shew who as yet admit not a full reformation in matter of Religion A foule shame then it were for vs who professe a thorow reformation in matter of doctrine to be thought to grow worse in matter of manners GOD forbid it should be so I hope it is not so I am sure it should not be so That grace of God which hath appeared more clearely to vs then to our fore-fathers teaching vs to adorne our profession with a gracious and vertuous conversation to deny vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and to liue soberly and righteously and godly in this present world soberly in regard of our selues righteously in regard of others and godly in regard of religious exercises If then we come short of our Auncestors in knowledge let vs not cast it vpon the deficiencie of our wits in regard of the Worlds decay but vpon our own sloth if we come short of them in vertue let vs not impute it to the declination of the World but to the malice and faintnesse of our owne wills if we feele the scourges of God vpon our Land by mortality famine vnseasonable weather or the like let vs not teach the people that they are occasioned by the Worlds old age and thereby call into question the prouidence or power or wisedome or iustice or goodnes of the Maker thereof but by their and our sins which is doubtles both the truer more profitable doctrine withall more consonant to the Sermons of Christ his Apostles the Prophets of God in like cases And withall let vs freely acknowledge that Almighty God hath bestowed many blessings vpon these latter ages which to the former he denyed as in sending vs vertuous and gracious Princes and by them the maintenance of piety peace plenty the like Lest thorow our ingratitude he vvithdraw them from vs and make vs know their worth by wanting them which by injoying them wee vnderstood not But I will not presume to advise where I should learne only I will vnfainedly wish and heartily pray that at leastwise your practise may still make good mine opinion maintained in this Booke refute the contrary common errour opposed therein that you may still grow in knowledge and grace and that your vertues may alwaies rise increase together with your buildings These latter without the former being but as a body without a soule Yours to doe you service to the vtmost of his poore abilitie G. H. THE PREFACE TRuth it is that this ensuing Treatise was long since in my younger yeares begunne by me for mine owne private exercise and satisfaction but afterward considering not onely the rarity of the subject and variety of the matter but withall that it made for the redeeming of a captivated truth the vindicating of Gods glory the advancement of learning the honour of the Christian reformed Religion by the advise and with the approbation and incouragement of such speciall friends whose piety learning and wisedome I well know and much reverence I resolved permissu superiorum and none otherwise to make it publique for the publique good and the encountring of a publique errour which may in some sort be equalled if not preferred before the quelling of some great monster Neither doe I take it to lye out of my profession the principall marke which I ayme at throughout the whole body of the Discourse being an Apologeticall defence of the power providence of God his wisedome his truth his justice his goodnes mercy and besides a great part of the booke it selfe is spent in pressing Theologicall reasons in clearing doubts arising from thence in producing frequent testimonies from Scriptures Fathers Schoolemen and moderne Divines in proving that Antichrist is already come from the writings of the Romanists themselues in confirming the article of our faith touching the Worlds future and totall consummation by fire and a day of finall judgement from discourse of reason and the writings of the Gentiles and lastly by concluding the whole worke with a pious meditation touching the vses which we may and should make of the consideration thereof seruing for a terrour to some for comfort to others for admonition to all And how other men may stand affected in reading I know not sure I am that in writing it often lifted vp my soule in admiring and praysing the infinite wisedome and bounty of the Crator in maintaining and managing his owne worke in the gouernment and preservation of the Vniverse which in truth is nothing else but as the Schooles speake continuata productio a continuated production often did it call to my mind those holy raptures of the Psalmist O Lord our governour how excellent is thy Name in all the world Thou Lord hast made me glad through thy workes I will reioyce in giuing praise for the operations of thy hands O Lord how glorious are thy workes thy thoughts are very deepe An vnwise man doth not well consider this a foole doth not well vnderstand it And againe The workes of the Lord are great sought out of all them that haue pleasure therein His worke is worthy to be praised had in honour his righteousnes endureth for euer And though whiles I haue laboured to free the world from old age I feele it creeping vpon my selfe yet if it shall so please the same great and gratious Lord I intend by his assistance spating mee life health hereafter to write Another Apologie of his power providence in the government of his Church which perchaunce by some may be thought both more proper for mee and for these times more necessary though he that shall narrowly obserue the prints of the Almighties footsteppes traced throughout this ensuing discourse may not vnjustly from thence collect both comfort and assurance that as the Heauens remaine vnchangeable so doth the Church triumphant

corrupt glosses and malicious interpretations as the fruite of their doctrine lay hidde vnder the leaues and as the learned in their language well knowe very little vse can be made of their best Commentaries vpon Scripture howbeit they presumed that their chiefes kill lay that way So that wee neede not doubt but the most excellent Diuines haue all beene since the comming of Christ. It is to mee very strange that not onely the Pharisees should be infected with ths opinion of the Pythagoreans touching the dwelling of the same soule in diverse bodies successiuely in diverse ages but that Herod and the whole nation of the Iewes should bee tainted with that grosse errour as appeares in that they held our Saviour to be Iohn the Baptst or Elias or one of the Prophets all which they knew to be dead and some of them long before Their meaning being that the soule of the Baptist or of Elias or of one of the Prophets was by traduction passed into our Saviours bodie as Pythagoras writes of himselfe that he was first Euphorbus and then Callidas then Hermotimus then Pyrrhus and lastly Pythagoras But yet farre more strange it is that the Apostles of our Saviour themselues should be thus misled and yet it should seeme by that their demaund touching him that was borne blinde Master who did sinne this man or his parents that he was borne blind that they were indeede possessed with that opinion for how could they conceiue that he should sinne before he was borne but in some other bodie which his soule actuated before and in truth Saint Cyrill vpon that occasion is induced to thinke that they were swayed with the common errour of that nation and those times and Calvin confidently cries our Prodigij sane instar hoc fuit quod in electo Dei populo in quo coelestis sapientiae per Legem Prophetas lux accensa fuerat tam crasso figmento fuerit datus locus Truely this is a prodigious kind of wonder that among the elect people of God who were inlightned by the heavenly wisedome of the Law and the Prophets way should bee giuen to so palpable a fiction Yet I know not whether their stupiditie were greater in this or in that other demaund of theirs at our Saviours ascension Lord wilt thou at this time restore the kingdome to Israell where Calvin againe stands amazed that they should all with one consent for somuch doth the text imply ioyne together in such a foolish question as hee tearmes it mira profecto illorum fuit ruditas quod tam absolute tantaque cura per triennium edocti non minorem inscitiam produnt quam si nullum vnquam verbum audissent totidem in hac interrogatione sunt errores quot verba wonderfull in truth was their rawnesse rudenesse that hauing beene so exquisitely and diligently taught by three yeares space they notwithstanding bewray asmuch ignorance as if they had neuer heard somuch as one word of instruction as many errours are in their question as words But this likewise of restoring them a temporall kingdome then was and at this day continues to be the common errour of that whole nation neither by any meanes will they be beaten from it That which to mee seemeth more admirable is that S. Peter himselfe euen after the descending of the holy Ghost was ignorant of the calling of the Gentiles of whom together with the Iewes the Catholique Church was to bee made vp whereby it should seeme that then likewise he was ignorant that himselfe was the head of the Catholique Church as by those who hold themselues the only Catholiques hee is now made yet may it not be denyed or somuch as doubted that the holy and blessed Apostles were all indowed with singular gifts and graces aswell for knowledge and wisedome as all kind of morall vertues fitting for so high a calling and that in their writings they were the pen-men of God inspired by the holy Ghost but leauing them let vs descend a little lower in the Church of Christ. As then the three first Centuries are commended for Pietie Deuotion Martyrdome so is the fourth for learned and famous Diuines Habuit haec aetas si quae vnquam alia plurimos praestantes illustres Doctores say the Magdeburgians This age if euer any abounded in excellent and famous Doctours as namely Arnobius Lactantius Eusebius Athanasius Hilarius Victorinus Basilius Nazianzenus Ambrosius Prudentius Epiphanius Theophilus Hieronymus Faustinus Didymus Ephraim Optatus to which number they might well haue added for that hee began to shew his worth in the same Centurie that renowned pillar of trueth hammer of heresies S. Augustine These and the like great Diuines of those ages I much honour eorum nominibus semper assurgo I confesse I reuerence their very names yet most certaine it is they had all their slips and blemishes in matter of doctrine But before this age Tertullian and Origen and Cyprian are specially branded for notorious errours and Vincentius Li●…inensis giues this rare commendation of the Fathers assembled in the Councill of Nice that they were tantae eruditionis tantaeque doctrinae of so profound learning and singular knowledge vt propè omnes possent de dogmatibus disputare that almost all of them could reason of matters of faith Yet in those very times was the Church so rent and torne in sunder with Capitall heresies trenching vpon the very vitall parts and fundamentall principles of Christian Religion touching the sacred Trinitie and incarnation of our blessed Saviour vt illis temporibus ingeniosares fuit esse Christianum so as in those times it was a matter of wit to be a Christian Such were the nicities wherein their Teachers differed and such their subtilties they bound their schollers to maintaine But that which to mee seemeth most strange is that so many of them were infected with the errour of the Millenaries that so many specially of the Greeke Fathers held that the Angells were created long before the creation of the visible world that a number both of the Greeke and Latine maintained that the soules of men departed this life goe neither to heaven nor hell till the resurrection of the bodie but remained in certaine hidden receptacles they knew not whree that Antichrist was to come of the tribe of Dan that the sonnes of God who in the sixth of Genesis are said to haue fallen in loue with the daughters of men were the blessed Angells vpon which occasion Pererius a learned Iesuite hath these memorable words Pudet dicere quae de optimis Scriptoribus hoc loco dicturus sum I euen blush to vtter those things which heere I am to speake of most excellent writers they being not only false but absurd and shamefull vnworthy the wit learning of so famous men as also of the puritie and holynesse of the blessed Angells yet truth inforceth me to speake partly least

three Vpon these then will I insist with these conclude this comparison of Arts Wits the rather for that there is none of them but some haue excepted against as being not moderne but ancient inventions I will begin with Printing touching which Bodin outvies Cardane Vna typographia cum omnibus omnium veterum inventis certare facile potest Printing alone may easily contend for the prize with all the inventions of the Ancients And Polidore Virgill hauing spoken of the famous Libraries erected by the Ancients presently adds Fuit illud omnino magnum mortalibus munus sed nequaquam conferendum cum hoc quod nostro tempore adepti sumus reperto novo scribendi genere tantum enim vno die ab vno homine literarum imprimitur quantum vix toto anno à pluriribus scribi possit That was indeede a great benefit to mankinde but not to be compared with this which our age hath found out injoyed since a new kinde of writing was brought to light and practised by meanes whereof as much may be printed by one man in one day as could be written by many in a whole yeare or as Sabellicus as much as the readiest pen-man could well dispatch in two yeares And by this meanes bookes which were before in a manner confined to the Libraries of Monasteries as their onely Magazines were redeemed from bondage obtained their inlargement freely walked abroad in the light so as now they present themselues familiarly to the eyes hands of all men and he that hath but slender meanes may notwithstanding furnish himselfe in a competent manner there being now more good Authours to bee bought for twenty shillings then could then be purchased for twenty pounds And besides they then spake such languages as it pleased the Monkes to put into their mouths who many times thorow ignorance or negligence or wilfulnes mistooke words and sentences and sometimes thrust that into the Text which they found in the Margine From whence arose such a confusion in most Authours that it much puzled the best wits how to restore them to the right sense as Lodouicus Viues complaines it befell him in the setting forth of S. Augustines workes de Civitate Dei diuinandum saepeuumero fuit coniecturis vera restituenda Lectio I was often forced to guesse at the sense none otherwise then by conjectures could the text be restored to the true reading And Erasmus in his preface to the workes of the same father vix in alterius tam impie quam in huius sacri Doctoris voluminibus lusit otiosorum temeri●…as hardly hath the rashnes of idle braines so impiously played its part in the volumes of any other as of this holy Doctour Yet that other complaint of his in his preface before S. Hieromes workes touching the many and grosse corruptions which therein he found farre exceedes this Vnum illud vere dicam audacter minoris arbitror Hieronymo suos constitisse libros conditos quam nobis restitutos This one thing may I truly and boldly affirme that in mine opinion S. Hieromes bookes cost him lesse paines the making then me the mending Againe it cannot be denied but the fairenes of the letter beyond that of ordinary writing addes no small grace to this invention Mira certè Ars sayth Cardane quâ mille chartarum vna die conficiuntur nec facile est iudicare an in tanta facilitate ac celeritate pulchritudo an in tanta pulchritudine celeritas facilitas sit admirabilior An admirable Art sure it is by which a thousand sheetes may be dispatcht in a day neither is it easie to judge whether in so great easinesse and quickenesse of dispatch the fairenes of the letter or in the fairenesse of the letter the quickenesse of dispatch and easinesse thereof be more to be wondered at Lastly it is not the least benefit of printing that by dispersing a number of Copies into particular mens hands there is now hope that good letters shall neuer againe suffer so vniuersall a decay as in forrmer ages they haue done by the burning and spoyling of publique Libraries in which the whole treasure of learning was in a manner stored vp Since then by this meanes bookes are become both fairer and cheaper and truer and lesse subiect to a totall perishing and since by this Art the preseruer of Arts the Acts writings of worthy men are made famous and commended to posterity it were a point of haynous ingratitude to suffer the Inventor thereof to be buried in obliuion Some difference I confesse there is about his name yet not such but may be reconciled without any great difficulty Peter Ramus seemes to attribute it to one Iohn Fust a Moguntine and in trueth shewes good cardes for it telling vs that he had in his keeping a copie of Tullies Offices printed vpon parchment with this inscription added in the end thereof Praesens Marci Tullij clarissimum opus Iohannes Fust Moguntinus ciuis non atramento plumali canna neque aerea sed arte quadam perpulchra manu Petri de Gerneshem pueri mei faeliciter effeci finitum an 1466 4 die mensis Februarij This excellent worke of Marcus Tullius I Iohn Fust a citizen of Mentz happily imprinted not with writing ynke quill or brasse pen but with an excellent Art by the helpe of Peter Gerneshem my servant finished it was in the yeare 1466 the 4th of Februarie Pasquier averres that the like had come to his hands and Salmuth that one of the same impression was to be seene in the publique Librarie at Ausburg and another as others in Emanuell College in Cambridge and my selfe haue seene a fifth in the publique Librarie at Oxford though with some little difference in the inscription Yet Pollidore Virgill from the report of the Moguntines themselues affirmes that Iohn Gutenberg a Knight and dwelling in Mentz was the first Inventor thereof therein with him accord Palmerius in his Chronicle Melchior Guilandinus in the 26 Chapter of his Treatise touching paper parchment Chasaneus in his Catalogue of the Glory of the world the second part and 39th Consideration Veignier in his Bibliotheque Bibliander de communi ratione omnium linguarum in his chapter of printing professing that therein he follows Wymphilingius in his Epitomie of the affaires of Germany Iohannes Arnoldus in his booke of the Invention of Printing And lastly Munster in his Cosmographie who addes this particular that he smoothered it a long time labouring to conceale it all that he might For the reconciling then of this difference it may well be that Gutenberg was indeed the first happy inventour of this invalueable Art But Fust the first who taking it from him made proofe thereof in printing a booke They both then deserue their commendation but in different degrees Gutenberg in the highest Fust in a second or third no doubt but many since haue added much to the