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A18711	Miscellanea philo-theologica, or, God, & man A treatise compendiously describing the nature of God in his attributes, with a lively pourtraiture of his wisedome in ordering, and disposing of the celestiall, and terrestriall bodies. Containing much variety of matter ... and apt applications singular for brevity, and perspicuity. By Henry Church.	Church, Hen. (Henry), fl. 1636-1638.	1637 (1637)	STC 5217; ESTC S107879	200,401	392

Soule and body from God and Glorie is eternall death Secondly how the Soule can be said to dye It dyeth not in respect of existence and being but relatively in respect of Gods Grace and favour as the body being dead there is eares and eyes and handes and feete but without life so it is a carkasse till life be put into it being voide of motion so the Soule hath understanding memorie will and affections yet is dead by Nature having no spirituall motion hence t is said Men are dead in trespasses and sinnes Ephes 2.1 Let the dead burie their dead Matth. 8.22 This thy brother was dead Luke 15.31 She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth 1 Tim. 5.6 Thirdly the cause of death is sinne there was an immortall lively estate in mans innocencie Death was threatned as a punishment and was accomplished when man had sinned Adam stood or fell for himselfe and his Posteritie as Levie paid Tithes in Abraham Heb. 7.9 So we sinned in Adam being in his loines so death went over all men in asmuch as all men have sinned Romans 5.12 Fourthly the signes and markes of death 1. Where a dead body is there in time is rottennesse so t is with the dead soule Psalme 53.3 All are corrupted that is loathsome and stinking Ainsworth 2. Where death is there is insensiblenesse So the Soules dead in sinne are past feeling Ephes 4.19 They are so sensles they feele nothing though the foundations of the earth be remooved Psal 82.5 They in greatest danger be as the drunkard asleepe on the top of the m●st Pro. 23.34 3. Where men are dead they feede not present to them the daintiest dish they taste not of it so men that are dead in sinne feede not on Christ the heavenly Manna nor on the word the foode of their Soules if wisedome make her feast and prepare her dainties the living are her guestes the dead in sinne heare not her invitations not come to her house nor eate with her at her table Of Gods Image on the Soule resolving First what an Image is 2. What the Image of GOD is 3. How Adam was made after Gods Image 4. Whether this Image still doth remaine 5. In whom t is repaired First what an Image is It is not onely a resemblance for the Sunne resembles God in light and brightnesse but yet the Sunne is not an Image of GOD an Image is a likenesse forme shape and similitude Gen. 1.26 Let us make man in our Image Exodus 20.4 Thou shalt not make any graven Image nor the likenesse The Image is substantiall so Adam begate Seth in his likenesse Gen. 5.3 So Christ is the substantiall Image of his Father Coloss 1.15 Heb. 1.3 Or an Image is artificiall Matth. 22.20 Whose Image is this saith Christ. By Art Images are molten graven carved painted or an Image is spiritually taken Ephesians 4.24 This Image is Holinesse and Righteousnesse Secondly what the Image of GOD is No corporall likenesse is Gods Image for he is a Spirit of infinite perfection the Image of God is Knowledge Goodnesse Soveraigntie Righteousnesse Immortalitie Blessednesse c. Thirdly how Adam was made after Gods Image 1. He was made Good Gen. 1 3. Simply good without mixture of evill 2. He was made in Knowledge Col. 3.10 He knew God and the Creatures after an excellent manner and gave the Creatures sutable names Gen. 2.19 3. He was created Holy Ephes 4.24 free from all sinne set apart for God So fourthly He was made Righteous Eccles 7.3 being conformable to the will of his Creatour fit to conceave a right of things in his mind fit to will righteousnesse to remember righteousnesse to love righteousnesse to speake righteousnesse and to doe it 5. He was made Glorious having these admirable endowments shining in his Soule and his body without infirmitie or deformitie strong nimble active healthie 6. He was Immortall heate and cold moisture and drought were as I take it perfectly compounded fire and water aire and earth so curiously mixed and so tempered by the Lord of the Artistes that man was not in this estate capable of sicknesse sorrow paine or death 7. He was Lord over Gods works and bare the Image of God in superioritie Psalme 8. Thus was man every way happy resembling the blessed God the favour of his Lord shined upon him the Creatures submitted to him the Aire did not distemper him the Lyon fawned on him like the dog he had no lusts nor passions within him he was ioyfull and wise and rich filled with contentment and satisfaction he most lively resembled and was the very Image of his Creatour Fourthly whether this Image of God doth still remaine in us Man being in honour he stood not in that condition but is like the beastes that perish insteed of goodnesse Now we are evill Matth. 7.11 Insteed of knowledge wee are Ignorant 1 Cor. 2.14 Wee were created holy in Adam but now are uncleane Iob 14.4 Insteed of righteousnesse wee have found out many Inventions contrarie to righteousnesse Eccles 7.31 Insteed of glorie we have shame which makes us cover the nakednesse of our bodies with garments and the nakednesse of our soules with excuses diminutions distinctions imputations to others Insteed of Immortalitie we have death attends on us and is sure of us although we be Lords over the Creatures sometimes they rebell 1 Kings 13.24 In steed of being happie now we are accursed in our Natures with sinfull dispositions Rom. 7.23 And accursed in our labours the Earth sometimes denyes fruits to releeve us and brings forth bryers and thornes to greeve us Micha 6.15 Gen. 3.18 Fifthly In whom is the Image of God repaired Onely in the Regenerate they so learne CHRIST that they are renewed in the spirit of their mindes Ephes 4.23 GOD shines in their hearts 2 Cor. 4.6 And turnes them from darknesse to light Act. 26.18 In the Gospell they so behold Gods glorie so as they are changed into Gods Image 2 Cor. 3.18 They put off the old man which is corrupt and put on the new man which maketh them like their first Creation in holinesse and righteousnesse Ephes 4 24. These new Creatures are after the Image of God by resemblance and are in this his Image 1. He is a God of knowledge 1 Sam. 2.3 And these are an understanding people being fed with knowledge Ier. 3.15 the Image of God is repaired in knowledge Colos 3.10 2. God is an holy God Leviticus 11.44 The Regenerate are a holy people 1 Pet. 2.9 3. God is a mercifull God Exodus 34.6 And these are mercifull like him Colloss 3.12 4. God is righteous Psalme 92.15 And these are a righteous people Psalme 11.6 5. God keepes his Covenants Daniel 9.4 And these people keepe their Covenants Psal 15.4 6. God cannot abide iniquitie Habakkuk 1.13 And these people hate evill Psalme 97.10 Adam had Gods Image in his body and soule the Image of God was in his Nature and if he had not

soules or bodies names or estates Amos 3.6 Js there evill in the City and the Lord hath not done it 2. For the measure he orders them to be great of small Jer. 30.11 I will correct thee † Moderately or sparingly in measure 3. He orders the time sometimes hee will have it but an Evening Psal 30.6 Sometimes 10. Dayes Revel 2.10 Sometimes our sorrows shall be for Yeeres Psal 90.15 4. He orders the deliverance There is an appointed time Psal 105.19 The prisoners shall be loosed out of their pit Zach. 9.10 And though our troubles be many and great yet at last comes the Lord in his stre●gth and delivers us out of them all Psal 34.19 5. Here is consolation in respect of Death our bodies shall not alwayes rot and consume we must awake and sing though we dwell in the dust Isai 26.19 And our vile bodies shall be changed Luke 1.37 Psal 115.3 and made like to the glorious body of Christ by this mighty power which is both an absolute power and an actuall power Phil. 3.21 Vse 7 Let us abase our selves that are poore weaklings and admire Gods power which is 1. Proper Ephes 6.10 2. Exceeding Ephes 1.19 3. All power is derived from him 1. Chron. 29.12 4. All power is subordinate to him 2. Chron. 14.11 Of Immutability 1. What Immutability is 2. That God is immutable 3. Proofes by Scripture and answers 4. Applications to edifie Sect. 1 First What Immutability is THe word signifies a Constancy it is to be without change or alteration where Immutability is in perfection there must be no beginning Beginning argues mutation from a not being to a being Secondly there must be no dissolution Thirdly no addition nor diminution Fourthly no weaknesse Fifthly no dependancy on another Sixthly there must be Omnipotency to overcome all impediments that may hinder and Omniscience to foresee all inconveniences to prevent all errours that may cause a mutation Sect. 2 Secondly God is immutable IN his Essence He is Jehovah and changeth not Mal. 3.6 He is eternall in being nothing can can be added to him nor taken from him He is independant omnipotent and omniscient his Decrees stand Psal 33.11 and his purposes and actions have a constant course and have not any possibility of change or alteration Sect. 3 Thirdly To prove Gods Immutability IT may farther be proved by Scriptures and Answers to Objections By Scriptures Iames 1.17 With him is no variablenesse nor shadow of change So in Numb 23. God is not as man that hee should change God is both infinite and perfect Object 1 God is said to repent Gen. 6.6 1. Sam. 15.11 Answ 'T is spoken for our capacity The Scripture gives to God the properties of the creatures for our learning Therefore God is said to have a Soule Isai 1.14 a Heart 1. Sam. 13 14. An Eare Psal 34.15 An Hand Jsai 59.1 2. When men doe repent they change their actions God threatned Niniveh and tells Hezekiah hee shall dye there was included Except Niniveh doe repent or Hezekiah pray God wills a change he changes not his Will Phineas had a Covenant of the Priesthood yet Ely's sonnes by sin cut it off God would establish Davids Throne yet for sin ten Tribes fell to Iereboam from Rehoboam Solomons sonne Davids Grand-child Inpromises and threatnings which are temporall we are to looke to something included as well as expressed So then the mutation is in us not in God as to those in a Ship neare the shore the houses seeme to move and the trees but they stand firme and the motion is in the Ship Object 2 The Spirit of God moved on the waters Gen. 1. Is there not mutation where is motion Answ The Spirit of God sustained and nourisht and brought things to perfection in a constant motion without mutation There is motion in the Creature still in possibility of let or change but God doth honourably proceed in his purpose and worke without shadow of change So then God is not a dead God without all motion but a living infinite God constant and immutable in his motion Object 3 God is said to be the ancient of dayes Dan. 7. Was he not once young and so changed to be ancient Answ With the Creatures 't is so we are first young and then by nourishment we doe grow and Time brings us to be ancient But God was ever ancient yet ever flourishing in his vigour and strength He is not capable of more perfection he is the Lord of Time and is called ancient in regard of his Eternity Object 4 God came downe to Sodome to see if their cry were true that is the cry of their sinnes Gen. 18.21 Did not he change his place to come downe Answ 1. It is a figurative speech God filleth all places hee doth not goe nor come he knowes all things he needs no inquisition to informe him 2. God teaches us by this manner of speech not to beleeve too hastily the reports of grosse sinnes Wee too often and too lightly presume to give credit and passe censure without probation It is a lesson for Magistrates gravely and deliberately to passe sentence and punish after they have by inquiry found out the fault Iob 29.16 Sect. 4 Fourthly Vses to edifie Vse 1 1. TO abase our selves to the dust and to honour and exalt God above the Heavens God is immutable without shadow of change in his Essence purposes or proceedings We shall shortly change dissolve and turne to our dust we daily change in our selves purposes affections and actions we change every step we tread being weary we sit then wee lye downe then we rise and walke and weary our selves againe now we are wearie with fasting anon wee are weary of eating now we smile anon we weepe and sigh to day we love to morrow we hate wee are constant in uncon●●ancy and unlike God being alwayes mutable Vse 2 Here wee may discerne the misery of the impenitent the Lord or they must change but God is immutable therefore they must change or else they must perish Luke 13.5 Objection They cannot change no more than the Black-moore can change his skinne or the Leopard his spots Ierem. 13.23 They are dead in sinnes and trespasses Ephes 2.1 and cannot change unlesse to more rottennesse Answ Though they cannot change yet God can change them Nothing is too hard for him Ier. 32.27 The Lord hath changed others and will doe much for those that seeke to him Ezek. 36.37 Wee must use meanes for our change and true conversion wee must heare the Word For by it men are chang●d Acts 26.18 Wee must pray often and earnestly Ier 31.18 This changed Christ into a glorious estate Luke 9.29 Prayer is a meanes of obtaining the Spirit of God Luke 11.13 The Spirit of God being obtained will change us 2. Cor. 3.18 Vse 3 Here is comfort unto us in respect of 1. The God we serve is immutable 2. The duties and services we doe performe

and a reall renovation by Gods holy Spirit Secondly the Moones blemishes are obvious and apparant so are the sinnes of Gods people apparant to him Psalme 90.8 and apparant to others as were the sinnes of David and Peter apparant to our selves Psal 51.5 Lord let my iniquities be forgiven and my sins covered not from thy omniscience that is impossible but from thy judiciall view Lord looke not on my sins to take vengeance and let me so looke on the apparant faults of others that I forget not to looke on their apparant graces Thirdly the Moones blemishes are continued so are the blemishes of the regenerate St Paul had a law in his members these Canaanites are left for our exercise perfection is for the next world here we are as the Moone with blemishes Applications 1. Alas poore soule that I am not onely in a place polluted Mich. 2.10 but my very soule is polluted and my pollutions sticke fast upon me Heb. 12.1 so that much Nicer and Sope will not wash them away 2. Yet there is a fountaine opened for sinne and uncleanenesse Zach. 13.1 There is a blood that can cleanse from all sinne 1. Ioh. 1.7 and make me whiter than Snow 3. Death is not to bee abhorred as the greatest evill for it puts an end to my pollutions He that is dead is freed from sinne Rom. 6.7 Death takes away our sins as well as our lives then perfect holinesse and happines shall meete our blemishes shall be done away and we shall shine as the Sunne Mat. 13.43 Sect. 4 Fourthly Of the Moones mutation LIke the English people she ever changes her forme and shape and hath a diverse light sometimes like a bow and sometimes like a globe she is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when she is new and seemes horned she is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be-in halfe at the full at eight daies old she is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when there is doubt of the full roundnesse she is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shining at the full going from the Sunne she hath hornes toward the East comming toward the Sun her hornes be toward the west the side toward the Sun is alwaies the bright side Considerations 1. As the Moone is alwaies mutable so are all things under it the Windes change the waters ebbe after flowing the earth lies dead in the winter but buds springs blossoms and beares fruit in the Summer generation and corruption is acted on this terrestriall globe Oh how mutable a creature is man first an embrion then a living creature growing till he be borne Then he cries at his birth and is restlesse till his death First hee changes from an infant to a childe from a childe to a youth from a youth to a man from weaknesse he changes to strength and from strength to weaknesse againe In youth he is more strong and lesse wise in age more wise but lesse strong every steppe he treades he is mutable now he goes anon he runnes then he sits then he eates anon he is weary of eating he desires his bed and in short time is weary of it he would be rich then honourable then he longs for pleasures he will marry and if he could he would againe be unmarried he wil to sea and shortly desire the shore Man is made of composition and alwaies subject to alteration now he laughes and anon is madde angry now embraces anon he strikes and stabbes to day he is at his recreation to morrow groaning on his sicke bed to day in a Bower feasting to morrow in the field fighting he desires hee rejoyces he feares he sorrowes now patient anon vexed now zealous anon cold Ahasueros loves Vashtai but anon hates her hee honours Haman then he hangs him Ammon lusts for Tamar anon despises her A man is an unsettled thing he never leaves tumbling till hee comes to the pit and there he doth change to dust whereof hee was made 2. If there be a necessity of an unavoidable mutation let me labour to change for the better to change from Adam to Christ from nature to grace from sinne to sanctification Those which be never changed cannot be saved those which are in the flesh cannot please God Rom. 8.8 Except we repent we must perish Luke 13.5 Let me labour to be renewed and changed Rom. 12.2 This will evidence that I beare his Image 2. Cor. 3.18 3. All my little changes are but fore-runners of my great change Iob. 14.14 Death will come let me prepare for it by seeing his approaching and pulling out his sting which is done by faith in Christ his blood and serious repentance the thoughts of my end should be the end of my thoughts and my thoughts of death should be as a bridle and a spurre so death would be to me not a ruine but an advantage Sect. 3 The fifth branch is of the Moones gubernation HEr Regiment is over the waters a moist government the flood and ebbe is according to the encrease and wane of the Moone what power she hath on our braines or blood exceedes my knowledge but this is plaine the Moone drawes the Ocean as the Adamant doth the Iron At new moone and full moone the tide is highest Considerations How is my condition like the Moone as in my mutation and blemishes so in my calling and condition being Clerke and Steward to the Water engines like the Moone I cause the waters to flow abroad by my direction 1. The Moone was appoynted among the rest of the Planets for this office so I was chosen from the rest to my place 2. The Mooone is under the Sunne and an inferior yet over the waters as a governour So am I under my superiors yet as the Centurion have sevants under me 3. The Moone is faithfull in her Regiment and was never knowne to stoppe a tide or take a bribe to pervert order to teach me my duty to keepe order and Justice 4. The Moon is sometimes clouded yet still hath relation to the waters so is my inclination that way when other occasions keepe me away I forget not my relation that I beare toward the water-workes 5. The Moone is lesse welcome to theeves who love the darke because their deedes are evill and I finde my selfe most maligned by them whose falshood I discover Secondly the Moone over the waters is as the King over the people 1. As many droppes makes a River many rivers an Ocean so many people doe make up a Nation or an Army 2. Waters are sometimes calme and quiet and sometimes troublesome so are people sometimes quiet sometimes raging and furious 3. Water are for ornament and defence profit and refreshing so are people to the Prince 4. Some waters are salt some are fresh some are bitter some are for healing so are the people some are tart byting and censorious some are sweet loving amiable some are good mercifull and religious 5. Some waters are more obvious some are more obscure and runne under the ground so

with gratulation To love them dead in sinne Ephes 1.2 To love enemies Rom. 5.10 To those that did manifest enmity by evill workes Colos 1.21 4. The duration It is an everlasting Love Ier. 31.3 Troubles deprive us not of his love Psal 91.15 for hee will be with us Infirmities cannot quench his love for he will spare us Mal. 3.17 Death cannot separate us from his love Rom. 8.38 39. Sect. 3 Thirdly Of Mans love to God MAns love is either naturall or sinfull or spirituall Our love to God must be spirituall but before we can thus love God ourselves must be regenerate 1. John 4.19 We love him because he first loved us and gave us grace this love of ours to God is a constrained love 2. Cor. 5.14 not a constraint but by a sweet influence as the Sunne shining on Hearbs and Flowers doth constraine them to grow and smell sweete The love of God to us is love active the love of God in us is love passive he is loved of us 2. From whence love commeth surely the Fountaine is God 1. Iohn 4.7 Love commeth from God The roote is the Spirit the fruite is love Gal. 5.22 Gods love is manifested to us by the Holy Ghost Rom. 5.5 Then We love him which first loved us 1. Iohn 4.19 3. The markes of our love to God First love earnestly desires his presence Psal 42.2 This desire is compared to a thirst wee thirst for God as the chiefe good the onely good This thirst requires 1. A suit●ble satisfaction 2. A present satisfaction 3. A large satisfaction 1. A suteable satisfaction To offer a thirsty man a garment or to tell him a ●leasant tale or let him heare Musicke it is not suteable it is drinke that he desires 2. It is a present satisfaction he desires not drinke to morrow or next weeke but presently 3. It is a large satisfaction a drop or a spoonefull satisfies not he desires a large draught Thus love it desires God and none else to enjoy him sweetly and speedily and largely this is the first marke of love Secondly love bewayles the absence of God it is as death to the soule having once enjoyed him to want him Psal 77.10 In the want of all things we want God above all if we truely love him Psal 63.1 Thirdly love rejoyces in his presence by prayer wee draw neare to God Isai 55.6 and then joy increases Psal 43.4 Prayer brings us into his presence with a holy gladnesse Phil. 1.4 Fourthly love makes us obedient to God Iohn 14.15 If yee love me keepe my Commandements The more love the more duty obedience and conformity to his Will Fifthly when we love God wee doe love the children of God If we love him that begat we doe love them begotten 1. Iohn 5.1 4. The promises made to them that love God First they shall have mercy shewed to them and their posterity pardoning mercies relieving mercies Exod. 20.6 Secondly they shall share in Gods affection Ioh. 14.21 The Father will love them the Sonne will love them that love Christ Fourthly all shall worke for the best unto them Rom. 8.28 What can be more comfortable Fourthly they shall have a crowne of life Iames 1.12 and a kingdome Iames 2.5 This is the portion of them that love the Lord. Sect. 4 Fourthly Of Mans love to man THE love of man to man is either naturall or spirituall the naturall love is grounded on naturall Causes either beauty or bounty or consanguinity something we judge to be love-worthy that drawes the naturall affection Spirituall love is a peculiar among the regenerate they love God for his owne sake they love their enemies for his commands sake they love his children for his Image sake The more holy and righteous and heavenly minded men are the more they love them Of this love to the godly consider 1. The necessity of it 2. The excellency of it 3. How it is exercised 4. The markes of true love 5. How 't is preserved First the necessity of this love to our brethren 1. Without this love we can have no sound evidence that we are the children of God 1 Iohn 3.10 2. We can doe no workes that God accepts without this love 1. Cor. 13.1 2 3. 1. Cor. 16.14 All our things must be done in love If love be wanting the work is lost love is as the salt that seasons all Secondly the excellency of love 1. The Divine Essence is love and 't is excellent to resemble God 2. Love is an excellent badge of a servant and scholler of Christ whereby they are manifested and knowne Iohn 13.15 3. 'T is an excellent fruit of faith Eph. 1.15 Faith in Christ is fruitfull in love to all the Saints 4. 'T is an excellent testimony of a sound convert By this we may know wee are changed from sinne to grace 1. Iohn 3.14 5. It is excellent to have God to dwell with us Where love is there God dwells 1. Iohn 4 12. 6. 'T is as the anoynted above the rest for excellency 1. Pet. 4.8 Above all have fervent love Col. 3.14 Above all put on love Thirdly how love is exercised 1. Love seekes to be united as soone as we love Gods children we endeavour to joyne with them Act. 9.26 2. Love enjoying the objects turnes to delight Psal 16.3 3. Love casts the garment of charity to hide our brethrens infirmities 1. Pet. 4.8 4. Love edifies others 1. Cor. 8.1 To edifie is to build Love builds artificially 1. By pulling downe the old wall of naturall corruption 2. I aying a sound foundation of faith and repentance it will conferre with young ones and weake ones to helpe them not puzzel them Rom. 14.1 3. It brings new materials from the word and raises the building higher and higher and strives to adde practice to knowledge wisedome to zeale mercy to justice patience to diligence reverence to assurance 4. Love is excercised in relieving the necessities of our brethren Love ministreth to the necessitie of the Saints Heb. 6.10 Fourthly the markes of love to our brethren 1. True love is unfeigned 2. Cor. 6.6 without dissimulation Rom. 12.9 2. 'T is fervent there is heate in true love and haste to doe them good heate hath motion 1. Pet. 4.8 3. 'T is diligent Love nor hatred will be idle 1. Thes 1.3 Love is laborious for them beloved Heb. 6.10 4. 'T is constant 't is not as carnall lust hot lust is soone cold as Ammon to Tamar but true love continues Heb. 13.1 Fifthly how love is preserved 1. Labour for reall sound effectuall love then it will last and hold out 1 Cor. 13.8 Love doth never fal away 2. Avoyd groundlesse surmises Love thinketh none evill 1. Cor. 13.5 3. Interprete doubtfull things charitably as old Iacob did when he saw Iosephs coate 4. Harken not to every tale and report of the faults of others the words of tale-bearers sinke deepe and embitter our affections 5. Give loving answers for sweete