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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88701	The attributes of God unfolded, and applied. Wherein are handled the 1 Life 2 Perfection 3 Holiness 4 Benignitie 5 Mercy 6 Truth 7 Wisdome 8 Power 9 Justice of God. 10 Love 11 Hatred 12 Anger 13 Independencie 14 Simplicitie 15 Eternitie 16 Infiniteness 17 Immutability 18 Immensity of God. / Delivered in sundry sermons, at Tavistocke in Devon: By Thomas Larkham, preacher of the word of God, and pastour of the congregation there. Divided into three parts.	Larkham, Thomas, 1602-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing L441; Thomason E867_1; Thomason E867_2; Thomason E867_3; ESTC R207649	158,169	180

others For by living to Gods glory we shall gaine to our selves glory and be matter of good example worthy the imitation of others And this is praise worthy to give good examples It is commanded Math. 5.16 Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good workes and glorifie your father which is in heaven And 1 Pet. 2.12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles that where as they speak against you as evill doers they may by your good works which they shall behold glorifie God in the day of visitation And as it is profitable to others so also to our selves abundantly For as ye sow so shall ye reap if yee sow to righteousnes your name shall be spoken of with honour when ye are dead and gone The righteous shall be honorable both in their lives and in their death And therefore while we live let us live to the glory of God that so it may befall us that we may have honour in life a sweet name after death and that we may be good examples to them amongst whom we live that they also may glorifie God when God shall visit their soules in mercy Then will they with David blesse the Lord that gave us a life and blesse us and our good examples as he did the Lord that sent her 1 Sam 25. and her and her good councell But how should a man live to Gods glory may some say Quest Answ I Answer in the performance of these three particular duties First He that would live to Gods glory must shun all manner of sin and sinfull wayes he must forsake those contrary courses that tend to Gods dishonour you must know what God can not abide and lay that aside Pro. 8.13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evill pride and arrogancy and the evill way and the froward mouth do I hate saith wisedome there Now would you glorify God then hate evill lay aside your pride and let not arrogancy come out of your mouth and so Prov. 14.16 A wiseman feareth and departeth from evill evill courses must be forsaken yea evill men that worke wickednesse for both read Psal 141.4 Incline not my heart saith David to any evill thing to practice wicked workes with men that worke iniquity and let me not eat of their dainties both evill workes and evill workers must be shunned by such as would live to the glory and honour of the Author of their life Secondly Such must carefully set and settle themselves to the workes of holinesse and righteousnesse every one in his owne particular person dilligently endeavouring to walke holily and uprightly towards God and the world That ye may be blamlesse and harmlesse the sons of God without rebuke in the middest of a crooked and perverse nation among whom ye shine as lights in the world saith the Apostle Paul Phillip 2.15 Thirdly We must labour all that we can so much as lyeth in our power to provoke others to the wayes and workes of godlinesse especially those that are any wayes allyed or related to us either in regard of kindred or acquaintance or any such like respect as in the verse following my text viz. Heb. 3.13 But exhort one another daily while it is called to day lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfullnes of sinne And chap. 10.24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good workes This is a speciall way to glorifie God in our lives to exhort one another to provoke one another to love and to good workes If people instead of provoking God by their sinnes and provoking one another to wrath by speaking and doing such things as they know they cannot beare Would study this commendable kind of provocation we should have a sweet time of it In Isaiah 2.3 it is prophesied that many people should go and say come yee and let us go to the mountain of the Lord c. O that this prophesie might be more and more fulfilled among us In the use of these helpes we may some what live to Gods glory which who so doth God lives in him and he shall live with God for ever Because I live saith Christ Joh 14.19 ye shall live also The third proposition in this attribute is That God in respect of his attribute of life is infinite and incomprehensible This is evident in divers respects Doct. Reas 1 First because Gods life is independant he hath life in himself he received it not from any other The Father hath life in himselfe John 5.26 Whereas the life of creatures depends upon him Deut. 30 20. He is thy life and the length of thy daies saith Moses there And further as ye have heard already out of Acts 17.20 and 25 verses In him we live move and have our being God liveth I say of himself Reas 2 Deus est ita perse vivens ut ipse sit vita sua Zanch. Secondly Because life in God is not a part of God but his whol essence life is but apart of man the bond or tie that kniteth the two essentiall parts viz the body and soul of a man together But it is not so in God 1 John 5.10 this is the true God and eternall life Life and God is all one Reas 3 Thirdly Because God in respect of his life is eternal therefore by an excelency he is termed the living God Dan 6.26 Darius is made to confesse that he is the living God and stedfast for ever And so Nebuchadnezzar before to wit Cap. 4.34 honoureth him that live 1 Thes 1.9 Heb. 9.14 for ever c. And in this regard he is said Only to have immortality 1. Tim. 6.16 He is called a living God to distinguish him from all those other things that are said to live His life being eternall as well as his whole essence and of himselfe These are the three Reasons Vse 1 First Therefore to make some application we may learn that there is no want nor defect hereof to be found in God God hath such a life as ever was and ever will be the same How greatly then do they abuse the Majesty of God who fain God to be like the gods of the heathen A deaf a dumbe idole a thing without life as a senceless creature that understands not the ways and works of men who imagine God to be so confin'd to one place in respect of the powers of life as that he sees not nor knows not what is done afar off Job 22.13.14 And thou saist how doth God know Can he judge through the darke clouds Thick clouds are a covering to him that he seeth not and he walketh in the circuit of heaven Hereupon wicked men are encouraged to go on in their sinfull way Psal 10.13 Condemning God in their hearts c Thinking God ' cannot be present at all times But alwayes they are deceived Jer. 23. ●3 24 Am I a God at hand saith the Lord and not a God a far off Can

very fals yea Sathan himself with all his instruments as over-ruled and over master'd by God have this injunction upon them to further Gods good intendment to us and a prohibition to do us no harm O that we could see beauty and goodnes in every providence Vse 3 And lastly perfection is a communicable attribute There is still giving out God is a giving God therefore what James the Apostle saith of wisdome Jam. 1.5 If any of you lack wisdome let him ask of God c. So for all goodnesse and perfections go to God ask them of him that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and they shall be given you pray for a perfect heart which Hezekiah had gotten Isa 38.3 I have saith he walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart And this God requires of Abraham Gen. 17.1 Walk before me and be thou perfect Beloved God is a fountain and he communicates to the creature therfore ask and ye shall have seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you especially I say beg a good heart of God a perfect heart I know we shall have some ignorant prophane wretches make their boast of this Though they cannot talk as others do and now and then rap out an Oath or two and take a cup too much or so yet they have as good a heart as the best But as Christ said to the Devill hold thy peace c. So must I bid such hold their peace never talk of a perfect heart one may know by your tongues and actions what your hearts are ever stark-naked nought And therefore do not deceive your selves in thinking ye have that which ye have not But seek unto this giving God for a good and a perfect heart the presence of which causeth God to look over and passe by many failings and the abscence whereof was the cause that neither Cain nor his offring was respected And to encourage you know that God hath enough And that is the last thing That God in this attribute of perfection or natural goodnes is infinite and incomprehensible 3. Prop. or Doct. I will not stand to prove the point who doubts it I have said enough here and there in my former discourse to make this truth evident God is absolutely good without beginning without end without limit Bonus dominus amabilis valde bonitatis ens non est finis without manner and measure anticipating and alone containing every good Hence is it that all things suck their sweetnes according to their capacity from God And the perfections of God have no efficient cause and want all limits So is Gods Vse 1 wisdom power essence infinite infinite also is his goodnesse and perfection All in God is his most simple and one onely essence And therefore let me advise you all in the first place to have a care how ye medle with this God who is so perfect and compleat Surely ye will meet with your over match Set not your selves against him Remember Pharaoh and consider what the Apostle Paul saith 1 Cor. 10.22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealously Reas 1 Are we stronger then he It is as if he should say it will not be for your ease nor profit so to do For first let men do what they will God is perfect in wisedom and cannot be deluded Secondly he is perfect in power and blessednesse and Reas 2 cannot be damnified Never was he defeated never lost he so much as the hair of a mans head The very blasphemies oaths and villanies of wicked men do not touch him in the least A good Note He suffers not by any thing for he is infinitely and incomprehensibly perfect And this by the way may bear up the spirits of Gods poor servants afflicted and cast down for their sins Their sins have not cannot touch God ye have not hurt God by your sins there is no harm done as we say if ye have made God in Christ your all Thirdly God cannot be hindered or Reas 3 retarded He transcends all impediments Isay 43.13 Saith the Lord there Yea before the day was I am he and there is none that can deliver out of my hand I will work and who shall let it as if God should say If I have a businesse in hand I would fain see that man that would hinder me But there be bars or nobles in the way for the word signifies either mark therefore the 14. vers Thus saith the Lord your Redeemer the holy one of Israel for your sake I have sent to Babylon and have brought down all their nobles and the Caldeaus whose cry is in the ships If Bars be in Gods way Nobles or Prelates or Kings themselves God doth but laugh at them Psalm 2.1 2 3 4 5 6. Heathen rage People imagine Kings set themselves Rulers take counsell Bonds must be broken they be resolute They will not allow of Christs wayes and will But he that sitteth in heaven shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure He must be King in Mount Sion in despite of men and devils What fools are men to blow feathers against Wals of Brass to beat water against the stream to thrust fleshy feet against Iron pricks that 's an expression Acts 9.5 It is hard for thee to kick against the prick And therefore what mad men are they that run upon God that run on his neck upon the thick bosses of his Bucklers as Job speaks Job 15.26 The folly of men is seen first in thinking to match perfection But secondly it is far worse to think to be too hard for God who with one blast of the breath of his nostrils can blow all his enemies into hell yea all the world to nothing Vse 2 Secondly Is God infinitely and incomprehensibly good and perfect as hath been shewed and the Author and worker thereof in all things created then let us learn that none hath done any thing for the Lord that came not from him first O consider this ye that advance nature above God Whatsoever goodness is in you either by creation or recreation comes from this fountain Jehovah blessed for ever Sacrifice not therefore to your own nets and burn not Incense to your own yarn Give God the glory and praise of thy wit wealth health deliverance and especially of saving grace What hast thou that thou hast not received Vse 3 A third Use shews us the extream folly of the wise men of the world so called that think to shew their wisdome and make themselves happy by heaping up many creatures riches pleasures honours and the like Might not all that these can do and much more be had in one most perfect And yet how lamentably do men hunt after the Butterflies of this world Frustra sit per plura quod fieri potest per pauciora with labour care and