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heaven_n	create_v	earth_n	new_a	11,986	5	7.3680	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01881	The creatures praysing God: or, The religion of dumbe creatures An example and argument for the stirring vp of our deuotion and for the confusion of atheisme. Benedicite omnia opera Domini Domino; laudate & superexaltate eum in secula. G.G.	Goodman, Godfrey, 1583-1656.	1622 (1622)	STC 12021; ESTC S118284	27,928	40

which God first appointed the Sunne keepes his iust houre of rising the Moone obserues her certaine reuolutions so all the dumbe Creatures and all the beasts of the field doe the like you may assoone abolish their nature as accuse them for the breach of the law of nature they are led by their owne instinct they haue no liberty of will to oppose they cannot be refractory but are like the Angels in heauen sealed and confirmed in their state and condition Here is their conformity to Gods naturall law as farre forth as God hath giuen them a law they are surely led by the law and the most sanctified man can doe no more but according to the measure of grace that is giuen him Alas I should shame our selues if I should speake of our disobedience in respect of theirs Heare then how all those naturall vertues appeare in them how they are rooted and grounded in them suppose temperance iustice sobriety industry naturall affection and the like I will forbeare to speake being verily perswaded that nature hath proposed them vnto vs as presidents of each vertue that hauing giuen vs a rule some inclination in our selues to morall vertues she might annexe some example to that rule the example of dumbe Creatures that if we our selues through the malignity of our wills should practise to abolish the law in our hearts for so the custome of sinne takes away the sence of sinne yet still the law might be reserued whole and entire together with the exact patterne and practice of the law as I may so say bookes of reports in the Creatures and to this purpose I had made a long discourse but to enter vpon it I should proue tedious therefore I will forbeare to make any further mention of this which indeed is so euident and palpable as that it cannot admit a contradiction From their law come we then to their sacrifice which truely is as naturall as is their law for sacrifice is a pledge of our thankfulnesse which thankfulnesse is a branch of common iustice this iustice is naturally ingrafted in all Creatures that receiuing our selues from God we should offer vp our selues vnto God or at least something in lieu of our selues some quit-rent or fine in the acknowledgement of our Tenure that we hold our selues from God and therefore we are not at our owne disposing but must surrender vp our selues vnto God so that you might as well exclude from nature a naturall law as to deny a sacrifice Thus in generall all things being ordained to Gods glory they are likewise ordained for his seruice here is their sacrifice More particularly Nothing in it selfe containes in it selfe the vse and end of it selfe but hath some reference beyond it selfe E. g. Doth not euery thing euaporate and impart some part of it selfe suppose the flowers of the field in their sweet smels many Creatures with their incense and odoriferous perfumes and what are these indeed but natures sacrifices Shall we yet come neerer and shew how they partake in a true sacrifice What are the stones in the Temple but indeed offered vp in sacrifice For it is not necessary that all should consecrate who attend at the Altar all cannot be principals if the materiall temple will not suffice come we then to mans body which is the Temple of Gods Spirit and surely things ordained for the vse of this Temple and the vse consisting in their owne slaughter they are indeed consecrated and become a sacrifice If hitherto you dislike the metaphoricall or large signification come we then to the strictest sence What were the sacrifices of the Iewes but indeed the offering vp of dumbe Creatures Then surely these dumbe Creatures were no small part in the sacrifice they cannot be excluded but these were only types and shadowes of a true Sacrifice Come we then to that one and only true Sacrifice the sacrifice of Christ As we partake in his sacrifice in regard of our nature the manhood of Christ so all the Creatures cannot be excluded in regard of one common matter or substance in the body of Christ so that in him in him alone the whole world the great world in the little world becomes a true and reall sacrifice And for Sacraments Are not all the Creatures sanctified for mans vse And what is this in effect but to be the visible signes of inuisible grace Suppose the foure Elements The fire when as God appeared like fire in a bramble-bush and the Holy descended in fiery tongues The aire when as Christ together with his owne breath breathed out his Spirit The water in our baptism The earth in her fruits Bread and wine in the Eucharist Thus they share in our Sacraments according to the capacity of their nature we actiuely they passiuely all concurre in the Sacraments And to proceed yet further Lest they might seeme to faile in the end and scope of religion I say they are not altogether without hope for what may they not hope and expect from God who is so bountifull and magnificent in his rewards though their seruice be a naturall seruice a seruice necessarily imposed and that they can doe no lesse then serue him in their owne kinde yet it stands with Gods bounty to reward their seruice I say then that they are not altogether without hope for there is a naturall hope as Iob speaks Iob 14.7 Lignum si praecisum fuerit habet spem quod reuirescet so if I should extend this naturall hope as an earnest or as an implicite hope to a renouation of nature this were no inconuenience For certaine it is of all the dumbe Creatures that at the generall day of our Resurrection they likewise though not in themselues yet in their owne elements and principles shal be renewed For there shall be a new heauen and a new earth that then they may be fitted for our vse as now in the time and state of corruption they serue our present turnes and occasions If this seeme a strange doctrine then let this reason confirme it Creatures were first created in Paradise Then surely they were not so much ordained for slaughter and mans vse as for the setting forth of Gods glory Now since our fall they groane and trauell in paine together with vs vnder the burthen of our sinnes and our miseries the punishments of sinne Rom. 8.22 yet still they continue innocent in themselues they are often imployed in Gods seruice alwaies praysing God in their owne kinde and neuer incurre the breach of his law but are patient notwithstanding our immoderate and inordinat abuse Then surely by a course of iustice according to their manner and the capacity of their owne nature though not in themselues that is in the fiercenesse malignity and corruption of their nature yet in their owne first elements and principles or as they haue now entred into mans body and are become parts of mans flesh all the Creatures in generall shall