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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40386	A philosophical treatise of the original and production of things writ in America in a time of solitudes by R. Franck.	Franck, Richard, 1624?-1708.	1687 (1687)	Wing F2065; ESTC R20723	60,851	198

this was a token of Love to the Creation when God daily renewed his blessings upon the Creature For the blessing upon Adam was by divine appointment transferred to succession upon Adam's Generation which afterwards in time perverted through corruption by a passive neglect in Adams Posterity Now as every good thing is the Gift of God and since whatever God gives is certainly good the Fruit of Paradice could be no otherwise than good because the Gift of God that gave it and the Fish in the Sea and the Fowl in the Air which God gave unto Adam were supreamly good So that every thing in the Creation and created being had the tincture and sweetness proceeding from God who through Wisdome ordain'd it and by Providence maintains it the consequence therefore must needs be good Yet above all the blessings that ever God gave us was in giving unto us himself in his Son the glorious Mystery and Revelation of God which Gift of God was greater than the World and was the Gift of him that gave himself for the World. To all the Creatures in the Creation God bid them be fruitful and in multiplying multiply and replenish the Earth But in Adam peculiarly as in a Divine Garden-Plot God sowed there the Seed of Everlasting Life from whence by cultivation and the Goodness of God he might expect to reap an ever-living Crop for the Seed was the Seed of Eternal Life and not the effects of Sin and Dead Works No Brambles grew up in this heavenly Vintage whereof God himself was the Vine-roon This is the new and the holy Ierusalem wherein Paul may Plant and Apollo Water yet if the Sons of Adam be barren Sciens how can they produce this soveraign Fruit without the heavenly Dews of the Son of God. Adam may multiply and replenish the Earth yet if wanting the blessing of God his Benefactor what profits it To be good therefore is to be like unto God and likeness in every thing creats love since every thing naturally loves its like and this love in Man is the abstract of God in as much as God is Love original Whatever goodness therefore shines in Man is really a derivative from God himself So that should we trace the dimensions of Adam with the extent of his Monarchy how large his Commission runs over the Earth and the Ocean it would be endless for his limitation was boundless the Fowl of Heaven knew no Lord but Adam and the Fish in the Sea no Soveraign but himself and every created thing that had breath and moved and every moving thing that breathed and was created had no Supream nor Superintendent but Adam For Adam as a Star shin'd then upon Earth and made great by him that 's all goodness and greatness was blest in his Posterity and glorious Nativity or heavenly Birth since two Divine Natures shin'd splendidly in him For God had implanted both himself and his Son to make Adam beautiful as himself is glorious the nature of the one was to live and never die but the nature of the other was to die to live This seems a Paradox I 'll therefore explain it That Power that lives and never dies is the Divinity of the Majesty of God when the Almighty before the Creation divinely calculated the Nativity of Life for God said in himself let us now make man like unto our self in our similitude let us make him which likeness or similitude was uncapable of death consequently of diminution or division of parts because the similitude of God himself for God breathed into Adam the breath of Life and he became a living soul who therefore so vain precipitant and idle as to imagine the Breath of God can extinguish Time shall wear out and Gerations walk off and Death it self become an Exile and all things terminate and drop into decay but the Breath of God which is that illuminating light that enlightens the World and the Soul of Man when that glorious light shall co-unite with darkness which is altogether improbable and utterly impossible then shall that hidden life God breathed into Adam be capable of death and not before So that two Lives liv'd at once in our Ancestor a created Life and a Life regenerate a created Life as from a heavenly Birth which sprung Originally from the Womb of Eternity and because made like to the likeness of his Maker it gave him Victory to triumph over Sin putting into his custody the secrets of Life and placing in his hands the Keys of Death So that he knew nothing but absolute freedome and unprohibited the use of the whole Creation one Tree only by the Divinest excepted in which God had placed a peculiar property fit only for himself in wisdome to know God therefore imposed his commands upon Adam not to taste thereof lest peradventure he die The other Life was that of Regeneration which is Christ incarnate God in the Creature this Life liv'd invisibly before the Creation and is that hidden Life in Christ manifest by the Apostle Christ in you the hope of Glory Which remains a mystery to this very day as in former Ages a secret to our Ancestors which Life is the Power of God to Salvation and was in the beginning with God himself and it was God and was made Flesh and by the Will of God dwelt among men This is that Word that spake in the beginning and moved in the Patriarchs our Ancestors to speak that liv'd immaculately in the blessed Virgin that was made Flesh and dwelt among men that bore our infirmities and was Crucified at Ierusalem that in spight of Death took captivity captive and in despite of Hell captivated Death and which also is that Eternal Word that now is ever was and for ever shall be to convince the World of Sin Impenitency Incredulity and Ingratitude which Monster of a Sin is worse than Witchcraft and tho' a Witch be superscrib'd a Rebel in Physicks yet reversing the Point a Rebel is a Witch in Politicks The one because acting against the Law of Nature but the other because striving against Order and Government But God gave unto Adam a Charter Royal that was sign'd and seal'd with those glorious Characters of Sun Moon and Stars and all the Host of Heaven to witness to it This was that great and superlative Grant that God gave unto Adam when he placed him in Paradice and wherewith to refresh him he gave him every Herb and of every Tree that was burd'ned with Fruit whereof he might eat and live before him These Royal Priviledges God gave unto Adam and Heavens Benefactor confirm'd them unto him Now Adam may freely eat and live or he may eat and assuredly die for Life and Death stand as it were in a poiz and because to our Protoplast seemingly mingled they seemingly presented one single Existence as if Property and Quality were intirely one 't is true one Mantle overshadowed both till God out of compassion made more visible discoveries

exuberant and miraculous Womb not only those innumerable and inexhaustible Treasures as the Principles and Elements but also whatever besides them was made visible was by Wisdom drawn forth out of this immense Deep And to whatever had Sense by Life and Motion Nature by Ordination gave it a beginning but Light and Life she had not power to give for that sprung spontaneously from the Divine Fiat which great work with the great Creator took up but seven days tho seven times seven is adjudged too little nay had I said Months are supposed little enough if when attempting to compleat a Philosophick Operation So that now the Darkness because disappearing the glorious and beautiful Ray of Light suddenly and at once invades all the Universe for after Separation by Divine Ordination every individual as to Vertue and Purity in its innate Quality arose up from obscurity And because relinquishing its Earthy fecula elevated it self according to Dignity correspondent also with the Purity of Matter The Sun therefore with the Moon and the Stars exalted themselves and surmounting the Aether were supreamly ranged in a Divine Order The Elements also they separated themselves into four Divisions or distinct Classes whereby to illustrate this imbellish'd Creation and the Principles because lock'd up in every individual whereby to make permanent by the Law of Perfection began to ferment which the Vulgar understand not for should they be separated purified and reconjoyned a new Creation would inevitably ensue in the Microcosm or the little World as by Divine Appointment it never ceases daily to influence and operate in the Macrocosm From whence all Celestials appear immortal most fiery luminous subtile and bright and by the Divinest made distant and remote were separated from all impure and immund dregs and because excavated into Rotundity they elevated themselves and flew up at once for which cause also Nature of her self desires a round form for things Eternal as being most perfect permanent and indeficient On the contrary it follows that Terrestial things are subject to corruption mutation and death because contrarieties are joyned in their elementary Composition and wherewith the dreggs and impurities of matter were mixed as at first with what was impure otherwise the produce that had proceeded from them would have been beyond dispute Subjects immortal Nor could there ever have been any Generation for without contrariety of qualities in Elements there had never been alteration nor mutation of form and all would have had but one Face without distinction remaining equally in purity and subtilty And tho cloathed with its own Ornament of Beauty and Swavity yet wanting matter whereon to impress formation would become deficient indigent and destitute of Creation It was necessary therefore to mix subtilty of substance with the gross and impure faecula of matter for where nothing but Clarity and Purity remains there of necessity can be no Action and where no Action is there can be no Patient seeing what is pure wants act of Power over that also which is as pure and this End and Operation is Natures Work of Separation for preservation of its Essence and Vital Encrease For if the Earth and her Fruits were as pure as the Heavens all Animals would live as long as Celestial Incholasts But Nature by the Divinest has ordained a Law that whatever partakes of Matter or Corporiety should dwell about that which is also Corporial and that which is most corruptible and inquinate about that which is also likest unto it but the Earth as subordinate is the most precipitant of Bodies consequently most gross and of all things most corruptible nothing therefore can proceed or be deducible from it but what is naturally most agreeable unto it wherefore its Corruption Sordities and Impurities must also be rarified by progress of Separation When therefore it s more pure Substance is extracted and exalted by a true and Magnetick Philosophical Medium Nature of necessity begins there all her Actions and in separation all is found And the Spirit of God moving upon the Face of the Waters was by Incubation or supream Act of Power by the determinate Wisdom and Counsel of God the immediate and proper cause of Separation for here you may read that the Spirit of God divinely moved upon the Face of the Waters And here also you may consider and deliberately understand that the Spirit of God inspired them with Vegetation otherwise of themselves how could they bring forth For the Chaos had a Passive but no Active Spirit in it till God by Wisdom roused up the Ferch or the hidden Life therein concealed and illuminating or kindling the Commassated Matter by the Ray and Majesty of his Divine Spirit that separated the pure from that that 's impure which could be no otherwise since no impure thing can enter nor center where the whole is pure And thus the Angel Gabriel salutes the Blessed Virgin with Hail Mary full of Grace God is with thee the glory of Females Now this Virgin was a Native and true Israelite and had not hitherto known her Husband which Virgin conceives by the Holy Ghost and was a Miraculous and a Spiritual Birth so that we may consider there 's nothing impossible with God the Creator that made the World when in love to incarnate himself to redeem it And Moses he tells you That when God had breathed into Adam our Protoplast the breath of Life he then became a living Soul not that Adam was destitute of a Natural Soul but of a Divine and Spiritual Life which also implies a supernatural state in which excellent state our Protoplast stood when God had transformed his Earth into Heaven and in which pure state he for ever had stood had he stood in simplicity and the Will of his Maker for what we sow that shall we reap and nothing is quickned except it die Mortification therefore precedes Regeneration we must all die to Sin to live to Righteousness But the Spirit of God moved upon the Waters which Act of Power was no sooner performed but the Waters of themselves incessantly brought forth and every created thing that God had made by a Divine and Soveraign Act of Power began to Operate Vegetate and Fructuate who surrounded the Constellations with a Crystalline Firmament and cloathing the Principles which stood naked before him with a Body suitable to their necessity gave Laws and Ordinances to Nature as Substitute immediately to let loose the Universal Spirit whereby to vegetate encrease and multiply to form also to animate and impregnate Bodies but Nature of her self because bounded with periods admits Death inevitably to invade all Compounds for were it otherwise there needed no Separation and Nature preadventure would become sloathful and idle Consequently the Fabrick of the whole Creation would again redact and result in a Chaos Separation therefore is of absolute necessity whereby to distinguish the pure from the impure the fair and immaculate from the most pollute and unclean which