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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04851	A sermon preached in Oxon: the 5. of November. 1607. By John Kinge Doctor of Divinity, Deane of Christ Church, and Vicechancellor of the Vniversity	King, John, 1559?-1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 14985; ESTC S108045	19,773	38

forgetfulnes more thē this if his works were quite contrarie as wee might conceaue to his works of mercie not diuersa but aduersa which the Prophet calleth opera peregrina strange and vnproper workes aliene almost from his nature I meane of troubling and afflicting his people so farr forth that the verie heathen should say of vs where is now their God Yet should we liue by our faith and possesse our soules in patience and waite for the time when the vision should speake for it shal certainelie speake and shal not lie vnto vs. But there are that beleeue not vnlesse they may see plus oculo quàm oraculo Non videmus signa An adulterous and wicked generation carnal at least seeketh a signe Vnlesse wee maie see with our eies saie they and handle with our hands thrust our very fingers and nailes into the prints of Gods works wee wil not beleeue it must be brachium reuelatum demonstrated to sense or it cannot moue them For the satisfaction therfore of them and the whole world they ioine potentèr patentèr togither the works and the euidēce of thē Venite videte opera Come behold his works wee feed you not with deceaueable fables Sensus assensus sunt See them touch them handle them they are not spirits fansies speculations they are true bodies and haue the flesh bones of real acted accomplished workes It is iustlie that answere that Philip shaped to Nathanael 1. Iohn when he asked him commeth there anie good thing out of Nazareth Come and see Let thy foote bring thine eie to behold that which thou beleeuest not Yea our blessed Sauiour himselfe vouchsafed to perswade with this argument ●o Iohn If you beleeue not me beleeue my works opera testantur de me for my works beare witnesse of mee Now though the noblest demonstration of things bee from their causes and principles yet the nearest to vs warde and most apprehensible is from effects and performances But what are the works they tel vs of The workes of God are without number if wee saile in the maine Ocean of them put not in into some special arme or creeke we shal neuer find an end 104. Psal. Quàm magnificata o how manifold are thy works o Lord In wisdome hast thou made them al. The earth is ful of thy goodnes So is the great and wide sea wherin are things creeping innumerable both great and smale beasts c. Manifold are they and maruaillous from the huge Leuiathan to the little worme Omnia in sapientia But that as St Austin speaketh Consuetudinis perseuerantia amisit admirationem we maruaile not because they are common The like Tertullian Semper abundantia contumelio sain semetipsam est Of fulnes commeth lothing at least neglect VVee see nothinge but this Man Assiduitate oculorum saith Tully assues cunt animi It is vse that beguileth vs and it is not magnitudo but nouitas the greatnes but newnes of the thing that draweth vs after it Otherwise to goe noe farther how admirable are the works of God euē vpon ourselues It is hee that hath made vs wonderfully in our mothers wombes tooke vs forth of our mothers bellies and when father and mother forsook vs tooke vs vp that giueth vs our dailie breade to feede vs and our dailie breath to quicken vs with many the like blessings Al which shew that hee is not far of frō every one of vs Act. 15. but watcheth continuallie ouer vs with his heauenlie and fatherlie prouidence But of the works of God there is noe end if we thinke to take a view of the whole sūme of thē Come therfore to some particular The holie Ghost teacheth mee to distribute the workes of God into 2. sorts One of which sorts is exprest in my Text Solitudines desolations Some reade mirabilia wonders not ordinarie workes some prodigia prodiges not ordinarie wōders The most solitudines So then by the light of my Text J perceaue the workes of God are two fold 1 Sōe of position cōstitution creatiō in the beginning God made heauen and earth quicquid me diū cum ipsis finibus exortum est al things contained with in them of supportation and gouernment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Heb. He carrieth althings with the word of his power of redemption purchase reconciliation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Cor 5. 10. of restitution reparation renouation 3. Act. 20. there shal be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 times of the restauratiō of al things These bee his positiue works 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whatsoeuer I meane either giueth or maintaineth or bettereth and amendeth the beeing of things of which we maie read plētifully the mean time in the book of nature more happily in the bookes of grace but hereafter most blessedlie contentedlie in the lardge volumes of glorie 2 Other are his workes of corruption dissolution as my text calleth them desolation The Scripture testifieth of both viuifico occido I quicken I kill Creans lucem formans tenebras Creating the light and forming darknes These workes of desolation are not such the onlie end wherof without farther good is to marre destroie depriue of beeing as the drowning of the old worlde the burning of Sodome with hir sisters the sacking of Ierusalem where the scope proposed to God was to overturne ouerturne overturne without sparing they are desolations to our enimies but consolations to vs ruins to them to vs resurrections they are falen downe saith the Psalme wee stande vpright corruptions to them generations creations recreations to vs. And without these corruptiue destructiue works of God to let passe the other mēber we could not bee or at least wise not so happie Take for example God neuer made death Inuidia diaboli intrauit 2. Wis. through the enuie of the deuill it entred into the world through sinne the inspiratiō of the deuil 5. Rom. not onlie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 entred but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wēt ouer al as a gangraine and infection more thē that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Alexander the great a triumphant conquerour peruenimus ad solis ortum occasum reigned ouer al the sonns of Adam Now vnder this accursed brat thus entring borne by equiuocal and spurious generation vnder this epidemical oecumenical contagion possessing al the corners of the earth and not a King but a tyrant vsurping bearing swaie ouer al flesh what flesh could euer haue beene saued for what man had liued and not sinned or sinned and should haue liued not died the second death but for a worke of desolation comming betweene to desolate and disapoint the works of death Of this worke you maie read I. Ioh. 3. 8. To this end was the sonne of God manifested 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he might dissolue the works of the deuil that is to saie sinne and death 2. Heb. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that