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A41631 An essay of the true happines of man in two books / by Samuel Gott ... Gott, Samuel, 1613-1671. 1650 (1650) Wing G1354; ESTC R6768 89,685 312

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it self and so fill and overwhelm our selvs in this Ocean of endless Perfection From this hight of Contemplation let us look back again upon the World which will appear to us but as a shadow of his Being a Molehill full of busy Ants or a show of self-moving Puppets acting their parts upon a Stage set up for that purpose which must be taken down when the Play is done This is true Liberty and Greatness of Mind full of truth and delight and worthy our selvs whom God hath made capable thereof They who travail over diverse Countries thereby greatly enlarge their Spirits and reflect upon that corner of the Earth in which they were born with other Eies then when they set forth The fansy of Lucian who placeth Charon on the top of an high hill viewing all the affairs of living men and looking on their greatest Cities as litle Birds nests is very pleasant Socrates by making himself a Citizen of the Universe became an Universall Freeman But all those Contemplations are still bounded within the Circle of a finite Nature Let us escape out of this Prison of the World and enfranchise our Souls by restoring them to their native and perfect Liberty Let us realize and eternize all things by enjoying them in him who is All in All which is such an Ingredient in all our Good things as doth not only Sanctify but Deify them and without which they are as vain and nothing in the Enjoyment as they are in their own Being without him Thus the Soul being united to God by that Union partakes of his Unity and Universality resting on him as in its Center and enjoying all the Creatures as so many Lines Streaming from him and again reflecting unto him having no other Inclination Motion nor End but only God himself in whom it dwells and abides for ever V. Of Christ. IN the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made The same Word was also made Flesh and so the Founder of the First World became the foundation of the second which is a World of Mysteries and of Faith as the first was a World chiefly of Nature and Reason Now these being two severall Worlds or Natures of things it is as irrationall to measure matters of Faith by Reason as it is to weigh the Aire or measure a Spirit It begins with the great Mystery of Mysteries the Trinity and so proceeding to the Incarnation of the Son of God end● in our Mysticall Union with Christ and God The Deity of the Creator may be plainly proved by the Creation which is the Work and Effect thereof but Divines say that the Works of the Trinity out of themselvs are undivided and so nothing in Nature can lead us to that distinction of Persons in the Godhead nor demonstrate it to us Yet there is nothing in this great Mystery contrary to Reason though it be far above it for they are not three Infinites not three and one in the same consideration but three in one that is three Persons in one Nature The Nature and Unity of God are both Infinitely diverse from ours therefore unless Finite Reason should limit Infinity it must acknowledge that it may be so and Faith beleeveth that it is so but neither Reason nor Faith can possibly comprehend how it is so because it is infinitely and incomprehensibly so The Incarnation of the Son of God is a Mystery almost as wonderfull as the former and evidently setteth forth the Mystery of the other for God the Son only is incarnate and not God the Father nor God the Holy Ghost though they all equally partake of the same Divine Nature which is incarnate Besides there are two Natures infinitely diverse united in one Person Therefore Arrians and Socinians who deny the Divinity of Christ do also deny the Trinity which is the ground thereof This Mystery is so far above all naturall Reason that it cannot possibly be comprehended by it and therefore most improbable to be the Invention or Conception thereof for certainly Reason would rather have produced something like it self or at least that which it might in some sort comprehend as all false Religions have done The sinfulness of all men doth evidently demonstrate the necessity of a Savior and the nature of sin being a transgression of the Divine Law of the Creator binding the Creature to perfect and perpetuall obedience shews the necessity of a Divine Savior There is no other Name under Heaven given among men whereby we may be saved nor hath any Religion or Philosophy offered to the World any other probable way of Mans Salvation and yet the Mind of Man is naturally so far from Saving Faith that it hardly entertains an Historicall Faith of Christs Divinity and Incarnation Men have stretched their Reason and Fansy to the utmost to find out any other way of Salvation rather then accept of this which is most Glorious and Divine Philosophers seem to weigh our Virtues with our Vices and according to the preponderation of either denominate us Good or Bad and so deliver us up to Reward or Punishment Whereas Man being bound to perfect obedience to the very utmost capacity of his Nature the least Sin attaints the Soul as one Act of Treason makes a Traitor The Poets Fansy a Purgatory in another world wherein all are to be clensed and purified as Virgil describes it Ergo exercentur panis veterumque malorum Supplicia expendunt aliae panduntur inanes Suspensae ad ventos aliis sub gurgite vasto Infectum eluitur scelus aut exuritur igne Quisque suos patimur Manes But though we should admit of such a washing away the Filth of sin yet this is no abolition of the Guilt Imprisonment is no paiment and punishment no satisfaction but the perpetuall Vengeance of an unsatisfied Justice and can no more restore a past defect then make that which is done to be undone Iulian the Apostate in despight of Christ set up a Poeticall Savior Aesculapius the God of Physike who comming down in the beams of the Sun his father should purge the World from Sin and Evill But this is a Creed of his own making and believed by none but himself Heathenish Religion taught the purging away of sin by the bloud of Bulls and Goats which shows the common opinion of the World that there should be some bloudy Sacrifice for sin But certainly if a mans own sufferings cannot expiate Sin much less the Suffering of Brute Creatures Mahomet and others have pretended to be Saviors of the World but none knows how nor doth all their Doctrine hold forth any probable Color or Shadow of effecting it whereas the Incarnation of that Son of God who took upon him the Humanity to that very end that he might satisfy for Man and so was no otherwise obliged to obedience and by his Divinity