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A20531 Anwick his meditations vpon Gods monarchie and the deuill his kingdome And of the knowledge that man in this life may obtaine of the almightie, eternal, and most glorious godhed: with other thinges not only worth the reading but also the marking and the retayning. Anwick, I. 1587 (1587) STC 694; ESTC S108317 93,450 132

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11 to this litle flocke it is geuen to know the secrets of the kingdome of God but vnto them that are without all thinges are done in parables that they may see and not discern heare and not vnderstand c. Neither wil they * come to the Lords Luc. 14. 16. 10 24. Psal 115. 5. c. Esai 6. 9. Mat. 13. 14. Mark 4. 12 Luc. 8. 10. Iohn 12. 40 Act. 28. 26. Rom. 11. 8. Supper when he calleth * Therefore they are as dead images they haue mouthes and speake not any thing to Gods honor and their own saluation therefore they speake not at all For it is written * Yee shal see indeed but not perceaue yee shall heare but not vnderstand make their Hartes fatte their eares heauy and shut their Eies least they should s●e with their eies heare with their eares and vnderstand with their hartes and be conuerted that Christ Iesus might heale them Reade all those places coated in the margent Beleeue and repent which if yee cannot doe aske faithfully of God yee may haue it for the asking if a man may haue meat at his request and wil sterue rather then demaund it hee is woorthy to die of hunger and none to bewayle him Saynt Peter wrote * vnto the elect according to the foreknowledge 1 Pet. 1. 2. 10. 18. read all of God that wee were not redeemed with golde and such corruptible thinges nor by traditions of the fathers but by the precious bloud of Christ Iesus which was ornained to y● end before the foundations of the world * we are called 2 20. Iud. 1. 4. 6. to follow him in suffering afflictions * Saynt Iude saith the vngodly turne the grace of God into wantonnes euen ordayned to damnation so were the angels that kept not their Eph. 1. 4. 5. first estate * But God hath chosen vs in Christ Iesus before the foundations of the world to the ende wee should bee holy and without blam● before him in loue he forepointed vs to be adopted in Christ Iesus according to the good pleasure of his will * Hee hath saued vs and called vs with an holy calling 2 Tim. 1. 9. not according to our woorkes but according to his own purpose and grace which was giuen vnto vs in Christ Iesus before the world was Paul the seruant of God and Apostle of Christ Iesus according to the faith of Gods elect in knowl●dge of the truth in god ●iues vnder the hope of eternall life which God that can not lye hath promised before the world began * Which forepointment of God as a secret was kept Rom. 16. 25 26. Colos 1. 26 closse from the beginning except here and there one in euery age but now is opened published by the holy Scriptures at the commaundement of the euer liuing God that thereunto fayth might giue obedience * For in Christ Iesus wee Ephes 1. 16 2. 10 were chosen when wee were predestinat according to the purpose of him that woorketh all thinges after the counsell of his owne will * and wee are his woorkmanship created in Christ Iesus vnto good workes which God hath ordayned for vs to exercise our selues in them And what soeuer God hath forepointed and established shall neuer bee altred for it is written * My counsell shall stande and I wil do whatsoeuer Esai 26. 10. Rom. 15. 4. I will * Seeing all holy Scriptures are written for our learning then ought we to seek know all the secrets therein contayned and make our profite of them for so is our Iohn 5. 39. maysters will and commaundement * Search the scriptures which testify of mee This foresayd litle flocke chosen of God were forepoynted to suffer all kindes of iniuries and afflictions of the wicked people which God hath not chosen during this lyfe in euery age from the beginning to the ending of the Mat. 23. 3● World That vppon all the wicked may come the gyltinesse of all the innocent bloud of righteous Abel vnto the blood of Zacharias spilt betweene the temple and the aulter But likewyse the giltines of all the innocent bloud which hath bin is now or shall bee shed from the first to the last in the world Luc. 18. 7. * For shall not God reuenge his elect that cry vnto him day night yes though hee suffer long for them I tell you hee wil reuenge them quickly that is to say ●ffectually euen with the twinckling of an eye Those four rehersed sentences are notes of the true plain song of Gods holy and eternall forepoyntment prickt downe in holy Scriptures by Moses by the holy Prophets and by Christ Iesus himselfe vppon which most pleasant and infallible grounde the concorde of Diuine Musitions the Apostles and their most true followers sithence theyr tyme haue song pleasant and sweet descant each one according to the measu●e of this gift receaued of God and prononuced as the holy Ghost wrought in them and gaue them vtterance not varying a note from the firme grounde If men would fall into consideration of this doctrine that God is all in all and worketh all in all and that there procedeth from him both right iustice and tender mercy surely they would feare him for his iustice and they would loue and obay him for his mercy yea they would magnify his eternall and almighty power * and declare the wonders that hee doth among Psam 107. the children of men CONCERNING NATVRES LAWES for all creatures visible and inuisible reasonable and vnreasonable sencible and incensible CAP. 12. THat there bee angels which are spirits both good and euill and that they are the inuisible messengers of God and woorkers of his wil both secret and manifest it is not for any man to doubt thereof seeing holy Scriptures do so largely testify of the same As for their beginning they are the creatures of God as man male and female are And they liue vnder Gods holy laws and ordināces each in their kinde as mankind ought to doe There is a law for holy Angels in their kinde or nature A law for euill angels in their kinde or corrupt nature A law for man male and female contrary to their kinde and corrupt nature Natures law in the firmament in the elementes in the creatures that liue and moue in the waters in creatures that goe and creepe on earth and with fethers flye in the ayre Each of these according to their kindes haue lawes established in them by nature This woord all creatures are to follow the Law of nature moue and to doe as God in the creation did forepoint to each thing in his kind to kepe their natural courses wherin they are bounde and can not erre except monsters come foorth Example The honny Be sucketh the iuice of sweet flowers which turneth into his owne substance that is poison The lyke smell is of Gods elect and the reprobate The holy Scriptures are most precious and sweete flowers out of