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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44540	A sermon preached at the solemnity of the funeral of Mrs. Dorothy St. John, fourth daughter of the late Sir Oliver St. John, Knight and Baronet, of Woodford in Northamptonshire, in the parish church of St. Martins in the Fields, on the 24th of June, 1677 by Anthony Horneck ...	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1677 (1677)	Wing H2849; ESTC R7942	28,330	40

the less to the greater If the whole Creation hopes to be delivered from her bondage and oppression you may with far greater reason both look for a happy deliverance and comfort your selves with the thoughts of it And indeed he will soon be convinced that the Creature was made subject unto vanity that shall observe how much its gloss and beauty decay'd after the fall of Adam how the Earth that before was a stranger to all noxious herbs and plants brought forth Thistles and thorns now how her former fertility was lost in a dismal barrenness and the ground that before required no labour would yield little now but what Men forced and squeezed out of it by the sweat of their brows how the Blessing that enrich'd and adorn'd it before exspir'd into a Curse and Nature which before knew no poison no enmity to Man degenerated now into Hostility and from a friend became a foe how her former lovely face is all disfigured with spots and freckles now and that which was all charm to a rational soul before is now become an object which few wise men indeed none but fools delight in how the Heavens which before dispens'd their kindly influences to Man and seem'd to be proud of the employment soon after became Gods Arsenal from whence he sometimes fetches water to drown as he did the first World sometimes fire to consume as he did Sodom and Gomorra sometimes hailstones to kill as he did the Amorites sometimes winds to overturn as he did Job's houses how the Creatures which were commission'd only to seed and cherish man are now very ordinarily made use of to punish him and they that before served him for the noblest uses in his integrity at the best do now relieve him in his misery how the Creatures which before did reverently observe and bow to him do now as often seize on him as if Nature were inverted and they had got the dominion over him whose primitive right it was to have dominion over every living thing that moves upon the Earth and how many things which before might have made him truly happy serve only now to make him an object of scorn to God and his holy Angels So much of this change II. The manner of the change or rather the cause of it Not willingly but by reason of him that subjected it unto the same Men and the Apostate Angels indeed were made subject to vanity with their own consent and their own wilfulness lost them that glory they once enjoy'd but the other creatures in a manner against their will because it was not for any fault of their own but for Man's sin that God doomed them to their vanity Cursed be the Earth for thy sake saith God to Adam Gen. 3. 17. And that no man may think it strange that the curse of God should light on things innocent and incapable of sinning we must remember that God in punishing the creatures with their vanity punished Man himself for whose use and service chiefly they were created as a Magistrate that confiscates the offenders goods inflicts Justice on the offender and puts him in mind of the error he hath committed and of the injury he hath done to the publick So that he that hath subjected the Creature unto vanity is God by whose just sentence it came to pass that the Creatures all glorious before became sutable to Man's corrupt and miserable condition and were permittied to be stings and thorns in his side and so far from yielding true content and satisfaction that they ordinarily lead to trouble and vexation of spirit I will not here enlarge upon Adam's sin nor shew you what unbelief what pride what contumacy what ingratitude what want of love what Apostacy may be discover'd in it We may be confident God had reason for what he did and that he saw the crimson dye of the transgression which made him issue out this order that upon this Great Princes fall the whole Creation should go into Mourning III. That which in a great measure qualifies and mitigates this Vanity the Creature hath been suffer'd to sink into is this That it is subjected in hope God hath as it were endow'd the Creatures our eyes behold with hopes of their restitution to their pristine beauty usefulness and glory For according to his promise we look for new Heavens and a new Earth wherein dwelleth righteousness the old Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat the old Earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up 2 Pet. 3. 10. 13. Thus the Creature will one day undergo a kind of Glorification and participate of the splendor which shall encircle all righteous and sanctified souls and as Gold in the fire is refin'd it 's dross purged away and comes out more splendid than it was before So the World that now lies under corruption purified by that future fire will put on a face more pleasant and beautiful than now it hath and let no man scoff at this assertion under a pretence that the Earth at that time will be of no use for good men will be in Heaven and the wicked in Hell and consequently the Earth will have no need of Renovation for can any man be so irrational as to think that there is no use of the Creature but what consists in eating and drinking and sensual pleasure And though I will not say with Tertullian who favours the Millenary opinion that the new Heavens and the new Earth will be in compensationem eorum quae in seculo vel despeximus vel amisimus to make amends for what we have either lost or despis'd in this World yet how are we sure that the glorified Saints shall be so confined to that place we strictly call Heaven as not to descend upon this glorified Earth which for ought we know will be fill'd with God's glory in a manner as much as Heaven and will together with Heaven make one great Theatre of bliss and happiness And who knows but these triumphant Saints as at that time they 'll know things perfectly and see through a glass no more are to read the wisdom and goodness and bounty of the Great Creator in the several Creatures that shall adorn that new World And this is that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that restistution of all things foretold of all the Holy Prophets since the World began mention'd Act. 3. 21 That this stately Fabrick of the World is to be at last consumed by fire and whatever we see before us to be lost in an universal Conflagration is not only the import of the Apostles discourse here but hath been the opinion of the most ancient Heathen Philosophers Pythagoras Heraclitus Zeno and of all the Stoicks who therefore talk'd much of an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and seem to have receiv'd it by an immemorial tradition from Adam himself who as Josephus tells us Prophesied that the World should once