vessels we let them slip For First how weake an account can wee give unto God as we must of all the good lessons we have heard and ought to have remembred Secondly how could we continue the same men from yeare to yeare unchanged if the word did continue in us Thirdly what strangers are many of us to the Scripture and grounds of Religion whereas if it did dwell in us it would be as well knowne unto us as those that are in house with us Fourthly how far is it to seeke and absent from us when our mindes understand it not our hearts affect it not our consciences are not guided by it nor our actions nor the creatures are sanctified by it as 1 Tim. 4. 4. How plaine is it now that thou art not in Christ who wilt not affoord his Word a resting place in thy soule Remember that place 1 Iohn 2. 24. If that which yee have heard from the beginning shall remaine in you yee shall continue in the Son and in the Father The fift note Examine whether thou hast the Spirit of Christ. This is made a note of such a one 1 Iohn 3. 10. Hereby we know that hee abideth in us by the spirit which hee hath given us And Chap. 4. 13. Hereby we know that wee dwell in him and hee in us because hee hath given us of his spirit And if any man have not the Spirit of Christ the same is none of his that is no member of his body set into him but in shew as a woodden legge which receiveth not vitall powers from the head Object This is a difficult marke But how shall I know the Spirit of Christ to be in mee Answ. Many finde and conceive it to be harder than it is because they hold it no sinne to doubt whether they have the spirit or no when as they may as lawfully doubt whether they be Christians or no. But try thy selfe by this note First wheresoever the spirit is he rebuketh sin Ioh. 16. 8. The spirit pricketh the heart of every convert and if thou hast him thou must finde him a spirit of conviction Object I have beene often checked for my sinne and that is my comfort Answ. But deceive not thy selfe To the spirits conviction are required three things First sense and sorrow that thou hast sinned Secondly earnest desire of mercy expressed in vehement hunger and thirst Thirldly a loathing and leaving of sinne Never any received the spirit but thus was sinne rebuked in them Secondly the spirit writeth the law in the heart where he is Ier. 31. 31. and leadeth into all truth Iohn 16. 13. Hast thou this spirit of direction and counsell teaching thee and leading thee into duty Object I know as much as any can teach me Answ. But art thou led by the spirit or mis-led by the flesh and doctrine of carnall libertie Many are taught few are led and yet onely they that are led by the Spirit are the Sonnes of God The Spirit must be the guider of thy course as the Pilot in the ship thou must shut thine owne eyes of carnall reason and as a blinde man give thy selfe to be led by the spirit Thirdly the spirit where hee is ruleth and commandeth yea reformeth and casteth out old errors of heart and life for hee will not dwell as an underling but as a commander his worke is to cast downe all high things exalted against grace and to bring every thought into the obedience of Christ. Findest thou a spirit in thee prevailing against fleshly thoughts carnall affections desires conversation findest thou a spirit framing thoughts speeches actions to the conformitie of the Word a spirit quickning to all that is good this is the Spirit of Iesus Christ. Fourthly he being the spirit of supplication Zae. 12. 10 maketh the elect to cry with unspeakeable groanes Dost thou finde not the words of prayer which any hypocrite may but the spirit of prayer who alwayes in prayer first leadeth into the sense of sin secondly into the apprehension of the excellency of mercy which maketh him servent thirdly letteth the soule see God appeased in Christ fourthly it sealeth to it the truth of Gods promises who will heare Psal. 50. 15. Fiftly assureth it selfe to be in state of Christ his merits and intercession to whom the Father denieth nothing all which must needes quicken the heart to fervent and frequent prayer The sixth Note If thou canst discerne Christ in thy selfe thou maist be sure thou art in him for one ralative affirmes the other And knowest thou not that Christ is in thee except thou be a reprobate 2 Cor. 12. 5. Quest. How may I know this Answ. First examine if Christ be formed in thee Gal. 4. 12. And then Christ is formed in thine heart when God hath begun a change in thy soule by his grace laying in thee the beginnings and seedes of grace The Apostle useth a comparison drawne from the forming of an infant in the wombe which is not formed all at once but the principall vitall parts first the heart braine and liver and then the other by degrees so grace is not wrought all at once but by degrees first the beginnings of Faith Repentance and holy desires and then a more lively impression of the Image of Christ imprinted in their heart which standeth in knowledge holines and conformity to Iesus Christ in practice and passion in suffering and doing as he did in some measure Now if there bee no new lumpe which was not in nature no forming no reforming of heart and life Christ is not there Secondly try if Christ liveth in thee and then Christ liveth in thee when thou livest by faith in the Sonne of God making thy faith thy stay in all estates in all actions temptations afflictions when faith carrieth a sway and hath a stroke in every thing and in life and death maketh the heart and life leane upon Christ. Thirdly if Christ bee in thee then hee moveth in thee and thou in him The infant in the wombe is discerned by the moving of it and so is Christ discerned in the heart and then Christ moveth in the heart when his spirit moveth and inclineth it by a still and secret voyce unto all good speeches and duties and then thou movest in him when thou cherishest fosterest and followest his motions agreeable unto the Word and sufferest them not to die in thee As for example The Spirit moveth thee to redeeme the time to read in Gods Booke there to acquaint thy selfe with Gods will in time to worke the workes of God to mind thy account and reckoning but thou resistest those motions carnall and contrary motions thrust them our and call thee to cards dice epicurisme merriments wasting thy time putting off the evill day as the heathens Now Christ moveth not in thee but the spirit that ruleth in the world for Gods sweete motions are so strong as that
promise and who be they even Abrahams seed the faithfull posteritie of faithfull Abraham Gal. 3. 10. Fourthly by being in Christ the Christian hath a sure estate First in this life strength and assurance in temptations tryals and dangers to bee upheld unto victorie 2 Cor. 12. 2. I know a man in Christ and vers 9. My grace is sufficient for thee Iohn 10. The sheepe of Christ can none plucke out of his hands his estate is not lyable to casualtie no cheater nor robber shall defraud him of it Secondly in death hee hath hope and assurance in which state hee is a member of Christ and hee that sleepeth in Christ perisheth not nay being in Christ but he shall be made alive againe 1 Cor. 15. 18 22. 1. Thes. 4. 14 18. Thirdly in that day of judgement hee shall stand with boldnesse 1 Ioh. 2. 28. Little children abide in him that when hee shall appeare we may be bold and not ashamed before him at his comming Vse 1. Labour to know thy selfe in this happy condition else is Christ appeared in vaine unto thee the whole Gospel is in vaine unto thee Quest. But how may I know this namely that I am in Christ First hast thou disclaimed thy owne righteousnesse and given thy selfe wholly unto him Phil. 3. Paul could not be found in him till hee had disclaimed his owne righteousnesse and esteemed it as dung Papists cannot be in Christ because they doe not this Hast thou denied thy selfe thy head did so Takest thou up the Crosse daily so did hee Canst thou abide to crucifie the flesh and lusts of it thy head was crucified but if thou canst not take thy selfe short in carnall delights nor renounce the fashions of the world nor abide the doctrine and practice of mortification never say thou art in Christ can a member be so contrary to the head Gal. 5. 24. The second note is subjection unto Christ as a head The most gracelesse men in the world yea the devils are subject unto Christ as a Lord but art thou subject as a member unto such a head Quest. How is the member subject unto the head Answ 1. Sweetly and willingly not by force and compulsion Now aske thy selfe Is Christs yoake irkesome and tedious Are his commandements grievous Is it grievous unto a member to obey the head into which it is set Secondly universally it doth all that the head enjoyneth Art thou subject in some commandements but not in others Thou canst forbeare murther adultery drunkennesse but must sweare lie prophane the Sabbath spend thy time idly which is given thee to repent in Doe the members thus picke and chuse with the heads commands Thirdly sincerely in all things seeking the good of the head above it selfe a member will venture it selfe to be cut off for the safety of the head Now what is thy aime in thy subjection is it thy owne name reputation thy wealth or ease or any base respect how doth a member neglect it selfe for the head Fourthly constantly A member is never weary of obeying the head but how fickle and inconstant art thou in the wayes of God Thou wilt obey on the Sabbath but wilt not be tied to daily duties some occasions must give thee dispensation If some seasons of the yeare can win of thee to cast off thy calling and live like an Epicure eating drinking scorning gaming chafing coveting swearing and the like Is this to be in Christ The head setteth thee on no such worke and if a man be not commanded by Christ in his actions hee may easily know who is his master and pay-paster What man dare goe to God for such workes to have them rewarded The third Note He that is in Christ and abideth in him there is no abiding for sinne 1 Iohn 3. 6. Hee that abideth in him sinneth not Quest. Is there any that sins not Answ. 1. He sinneth not studiously he purposeth not sin but holdeth a resolute purpose against it Hast thou this note of Christ his being in thee that thou sinnest not who canst deliberate and purpose and willingly venture on sinne Secondly he sinneth not willingly namely with his whole will and full consent for the will so farre as it is renewed is not gained to his sinne but striveth relucteth and resisteth Thirdly hee sinneth not affectedly or with full delight in sin hee sinneth sometimes but if I have delight to sinne saith Dauid God will not heare me hee sinneth but loveth not his sinne but hateth what hee doth canst thou love thy sinnes and lusts and delight in workes of darkenesse in thy selfe or others Christ abideth not in thee Fourthly hee sinneth not deadly or not to death he abideth not in his sinne in whom Christ abideth his sin hath after it three things 1 Sorrow and griefe that hee hath sinned 2 Care to rise and recover himselfe 3 Feare not to sinne againe Canst thou run on in sin without remorse without returning without care of repentance or feare of Gods justice canst thou turne head against the wayes of God and good men desperately as if thy conscience were turned into a rotten post Thinkest thou that so living a roote can admit such dead branches or can the surpassing holinesse of Christ the head receive into it such rotten and gangrenous members No no tye thy selfe by a thread of profession so long as thou wilt unto this stock thou wert never ingrafted as yet that bringest such wilde and unsavory fruits Rom. 8. 10 If Christ be in you the body is dead because of sinne but the spirit is life for righteousnesse that is the spirit liveth by grace and manifesteth that life in motions of grace and holinesse And a plaine marke of a man in Iesus Christ is that in Rom. 8. 1. He walketh not after the flesh but after the spirit Fourthly hee that is in Christ and abideth in him the Word of God abideth in him for these two are inseparably joyned Iohn Chap. 15. verse 7. If you abide in mee and my Word abide in you And this is made a sure signe of our being in Christ 1 Ioh. 2. 5. Hee that keepeth his Word in him is the love of God perfect By this we know that we are in him This is more than to heare the Word than to understand it or to retaine it as many doe who can entertaine it as they do strangers for a meale or a nights lodging or a short time but it must abide as an in-dweller for wee dwell no longer in Christ than his Word dwelleth in us 1 Ioh. 3. 14. Hee that keepeth his commandements dwelleth in him and hee in him And on this condition onely he commeth in and dwelleth in us Iohn 14. 23. If any man love mee and keepe my Word my Father will love him and we will come into him and dwell with him Wee heare many good things but we heed and hold but a few and those few but a little while as riven
man to make a whole house full of pots or glasses than to take one broken all to peeces to set the sâ—eards together as strong and handsome as they were so is it here For wee may conceive a higher power First in setting an eternall frame than a temporary Secondly where a greater opposition and resistance is as here there being none in the other Thirdly that creation was to make something of nothing here of worse than nothing Fourthly in that Christ made man by a word but to this Christ must bee made a man and set his arme to his Word Luke 1. 51. Yea hee must set his side to it and sweat droppes of water and bloud before hee can produce it Fifthly as that was out of nothing so it cost nothing but this cost a greater price than heaven or earth could containe for God must shed his bloud to redeeme his Church Sixthly that was done in sixe dayes this is not perfected of a long time being done by degrees the whole life after conversion is little enough for it Seventhly that was one powerfull miracle but in every new creature are a number of miracles in every one a blinde man restored to sight a deafe man to hearing a man possessed with many devils dispossessed yea a dead man as Lazarns raised from the dead in every one a stone turned into flesh From this creating power I gather these conclusions First that the worke of Gods grace where God pleaseth to worke it can neither be resisted nor frustrated What Creature could resist the being and forming of it selfe Indeed before the worke of grace commeth wee cannot but resist it but in the instant of grace wee neither can nor will resist For God that found no will to grace hath made a will and doth so over-power and over-rule it as that Paul being converted shall as willingly preach Christ as ever before he persecuted him And no marvell seeing the Workeman is the spirit of strength and fortitude and the instruments which hee useth are mightie through God to cast downe all contrarieties The late refiners of Palegianisme and Popery followers of Arminius lest they should lose all nature hold the doctrine of free-will in man to his own conversion and say that possitis omnibus operationibus quibus ad conversionem in nobis operandam utitur Deus manet tamen ipsa conversio ità in nostra potestate ut possumus non converti that is Grant all the operations which God useth to worke conversion in us yet conversion so abideth in our owne power that we may be not converted and perpetually put a resistability in mans will to frustrate Gods worke of conversion Which rightly and plainly in few words to conceive First wee deny not but there is a rebellion and a resistance of grace in depraved nature quantum in se est that is so farre as it can to hinder grace Act. 7. You have alwayes resisted the Holy Ghost as your fathers did Nay in the regenerate themselves the flesh lusteth against the spirit Secondly but though wee grant some act of resisting yet wee deny any such resistance as is superans and prorsus impediens that is there is no such power or resistance in corruption as to frustrate Gods intention or altogether hinder the efficacy of his grace where he will put it forth so as it may remaine in our power to bee converted or not Which wee may prove by these testimonies of Scripture Ier. 31. 18 Convert me I shal be converted therfore the Lord worketh inresistably Ezek. 36. 26 A new heart I will give you Ob. Yea hee may give it but we may resist the gift and choose whether we will receive it Answ. No saith the text I will make you walke in my Statutes Acts. 16. 14. God opened the heart of Lidia Ob. Shee might have resisted Answer No the metaphor is taken from opening a doore or locke and hee that is the opener is hee that hath the key of David and hee openeth and no man shutteth Revelat 3. 7 which is as much as to say hee worketh irresistably Reason 1. If mans corruption could hinder the worke of Grace where God is pleased to worke it then Gods counsell and decree may bee hindred and frustrate for the Lord never intendeth any execution or action without any eternall decree But this position is contrary to Scripture Isay. 46. 10. My counsell shall stand Isay 14. 27. Hath the LORD determined who shall frustrate it Therefore the Lord effecteth his counsell irresistably Secondly if mans corrupt will can hinder the efficacy of Gods Grace where hee will please to bestow it then the corrupt and finite will of man is of more power than the omnipotent power of God which hee alwaies putteth forth in the worke of mans conversion Ephes. 1. 19. The Apostle prayeth they may know what is the greatnesse of the power of God in them that beleeve Why how great even the same which hee put forth when hee raised Christ from the dead and the same power hee putteth forth in raysing us from the dead Who ever saw a dead man either helpe or hinder his owne quickning So as we conclude this putting of GODS grace and aid under the power of man and the not putting of mans will under the power of him who quickneth where hee will Iohn 5. 21. to say that God by his omnipotent power doth not incline our wils to his will or that hee hath not our wills more in his power than our selves have all this is the Pelagian Heresie Let sharpe wits busie themselves in it as much as they will God setteth not forth his grace as Chapmen doe their wares to see whether a customer will chuse and buy or not Is his power almighty then it is not resistable If it be resisted how is it almighty Object But the word which is the meanes of creation may be resisted Answ. 1. The word it selfe without the presence and concomitance of the spirit is not an able instrument of conversion for Paul is nothing Appollos nothing Secondly the word as an ordained instrument of Gods will to effect this or that attended with the spirit of fortitude can no more bee resisted than the omnipotent will of God but now it doth ever that for which it is sent Isa. 55. Conclus 2. The gift of saving grace is no exciting or reviving grace as Papists and Pelagians teach but it is more even a creating grace which is a framing of something out of flat nothing in grace and godlinesse If it were so that every man had such an internum principium that is an inward principle as they speake of to dispose himselfe to will that which is truely good or if a man were but halfe dead and wounded as the Samaritan here were no creation If in conversion Christ onely removed an impediment as the Goaler when hee taketh off the prisoners shackles and
sinnes even those which himselfe doth small and great he spareth none Nay he hateth his life and loveth it not to the death in comparison of Christ. These are strange affections but inseparable to the new Creature Fifthly new senses a new cleared eye to discerne the things of God Ephes. 1. 15. A new eare opened boared circumcised to heare and obey Psam 40. 6. A new taste how good God is and rellish of the things of God A new smell to savour the things of the spirit Rom. 8. 5. which before were unsavoury and tastelesse A new feeling hee feeleth the worke of the Word and Spirit in him hee feeleth a sweete apprehension of remission of sins and Gods favour in Christ hee feeleth the peace and joy of a good conscience and fellowfeeleth the affliction of his brethren Sixthly a whole new estate hee is in state of regeneration and in state of salvation being before in state of death and damnation A new name Esay 62. 1. Being married to Christ is called by the husbands name Christian. A new language of Canaan he is of a pure language Hee hath new food new milke from the breasts of the Church Mannah from Heaven to grow by Every creature hath his proper foode to live by so here he hath new raiment to cloath him the righteousnesse of Christ the elder brother new attendants and servants to keepe him in his way the Angels Psal. 34. A new and living way by Iesus Christ to walke into heaven contrary to the way of the world Seventhly a new death not of his soule in sin as before but of sinne in his soule Nay his body dyeth not the common death of all men but a new death sanctified seasoned in the death of Christ yea more he hath a new grave and buriall of sinne in his soule and his body is layd in a Tombe wherein never wicked man was layd al perfumed in the buriall and grave of Iesus Christ. Here is a new Creature all new all tending to perfection The fourth note of a new creature is new Motion called new obedience first from the original secondly the matter thirdly the manner fourthly the end of it First the spring or rise of the new Creatures Motion is from within all hee doth is from the spirit within him The Old mans Obedience is from without hee beginneth at his finger ends is drawne by outward inducements hee setteth his service to sale to the view of men as a clocke that worketh not from within but is moved by plummets and weights without But the new Creature performeth new Obedience from a new ground he hath not onely Spiritum adstantem but assistentem that is hee hath not the presence of the spirit only but his assistance Of all sins hee shunneth the most inward and spirituall of all judgements hee most dreadeth inward and spirituall of all places hee would have his heart within sweetest cleanest and best trimmed Secondly the matter of his Obedience is grounded in the Word either in some precept generall or speciall or in some example in all his motion hee looketh to the rule as the Israelites to the cloud hee hath a new commandement to observe Iohn 13. from a new Master whom his desire is to please in all things which cannot be in any thing but commanded by himselfe Thirdly the manner of his motion is new and diverse from other men yea from himselfe A beast may doe the same things that a man doth eate drinke sleepe but the manner is not the same A wicked man may doe some things that are good and commanded as hearing reading praying fasting but hee slubbers it over and contenteth himselfe to doe it in any fashion to get it over But a new Creature aimeth as much at the right manner of doing as the thing it selfe The maine difference in the manner of doing betweene the old and new creature is in two things 1 As every Creature hath his severall delight in his proper action so the new Creature doth duties with delight freedome cheerefulnesse The Bird delighteth in singing so the new Creature delighteth in his new motion and the Commandement is not a burthen 2 As every Creature is uniforme in his proper action it doth them all alike every where so the new Creature is the same in his obedience every where Ioseph is Ioseph in the dungeon as well as in the top of the Kingdome Iob is Iob on the dung-hill Fourthly the end of his Motion and Obedience is new Gods glory directly as the glory of God shareth in all the workes of the Creation Rom. 1 〈◊〉 The Heavens declare his glory and the Earth show his handy workes Much more this new Creature in his motion expresseth the glory of God Carnall men are like blazing-starres which so long as they are fed with vapours shine as if they were stars but let the vapours dry up presently they vanish and disappeare So so long as earthly vapours of profit preferment vaine-glory feed naturall men so long they appeare in motion and shine as starres but no longer But the new Creature is of anothet mould he is a new wonkemanship that will serve to the praise of the glory of the grace of the workeman Ephes. 1. 6. The third point is How may a man become a new Creature The Text saith Let him be a new creature as if it were in our power to be so or not to be Answ. This implieth our dutie not our abilitie of our selves Our duty is to labour after this new creation to get into this new estate and to be sure wee have our being in grace secondly the Text speaketh of one in Christ whose will is freed in part Ob. But how can I seeke a being in grace having no being in it I can resist it but how can I helpe it forward can a dead man move to life Answ. 1. All such places as Ier. 4. 4. doe shew us 1. what wee cannot doe 2. what wee ought to doe 3. what we must attaine by grace 2 The Lord who doth the wole worke of creation doth it not so immediatly as hee did the creation of naturall things but ordinarily useth meanes sanctified to this worke God that made us without our selves will not save us without our selves nor worketh in the elect as in stockes and stones but as in reasonable instruments First hee hath appointed meanes for our regeneration and salvation secondly commandeth us to use them thirdly promiseth that in the right use of them hee will put forth his mighty power upon his own meanes Therefore thou maist present thy selfe to the meanes and submit thy selfe unto Gods ordinances beware of thrusting away the offers of grace No man can helpe himselfe into life but being quickned by God knoweth that he liveth and doth the actions of life Quest. But how can I having no grace seeke after grace in the meanes Ans. No man can seeke grace but by grace but being
good man will and may easily fall out of earthly talke into heavenly for when hee mindeth heaven and the carnall man earth both are in their elements The fire of the one namely the spirituall man heaveth him vpward and the earth of the other presseth him downe and burieth him alive Wee have seene by the former discourse that no man wanteth Preachers to helpe him towards GOD. Every Creature may be a Preacher to him in whom the spirit first inwardly preacheth wee may take notice how barren fruitles our mindes are how frothie our speeches by our owne defects God is not wanting to us neither in his Word nor in his Works neither in the Scriptures nor in the creatures but is stil teaching counselling admonishing and justly condemning those that in both remaine untaught Wee will conclude the Treatise with the words of Iob Behold these are a part of his waies but how little a portion heare we of him and who can understand his fearefull power FINIS To be in Christ as a member how How we come to be in Christ. The happy estate of a man converted How to know a man in Christ 1. Note 2. Note 3. Note How a man in Christ sinneth not 1 2 3 4 4. Note How to know that the spirit of Christ is in me 1. Note 2. Note 3. Note 4. Note 5. Note 6. Note Vnum relatorum ponit alterum How to know that Christ is in us 1 Triall 2. Note 3. Trial. Imitation of Christ wherein I. 1 2 3 II III IV. V. 1 2 3 To be in Christ is an estate 1. Honorable 2. Comfortable 3. Safe 4. Fruitfull 5. Perfect Rom. 8. 38. Non quoad substantiam sed malitiam Resemblance between the first and second Creation 1. The Author 2 The matter 3. The manner 4. The order 5. The qualitie 6. Relation The new Creature discerned by foure properties 1. Note of a new creature 2. Note of a nevv creature 3. Note of a nevv creature 1 Thes. 5. 23. The nevv Creature hath all nevv 1. New life 2. New birth 3. A new soule And faculties 1 2 3 4. 5 New senses 6 A whole new condition 7 A new death 4. Note of a new creture 1 2 3. 4 Meanes to be used in this work of grace 1. Word preached 2. Faith 3. Strife 4. Prayer Why a man must be a new creature Reas. 1. Reas. 2. Reas. 3. Reas. 4. 2 2 Reas. 5. Vse 1. Second creation no lesse powerfull than the first 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1. Conclus Reason 1. Reason 2. 2. Conclus 3. Conclus 4. Conclus 5 Conclus 6. Conclus 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 How to grow up in this new creation 1. In humility 2. Infaith 3. In beautifull graces How to demeane our selves new as creatus 1. Manifest and maintaine this image 2 Resigne our selves to Christ our second Creator 1 2 3 3 Move as new creatures 4. Converse among new creatures How 1 2 Esa. 5 3 2 3 Popery in some sense rightly called the old Religion 1 2 3 4 5. Live as new creatures Priviledâ—es of thâ— new creature 2 A new condition 1 Covenant 2. Life Notes of heavenly life 1 2 3 4 5 3. Inheritance New creatures denominated from imperfect nevvnesse 1 2 3 New creatures how upheld 1 2 3 4 Why the new creature is so hated in the world 1 2 3 The voice of the creatures in generall I. II. III. IV. VI. VII Mundi creatio Scriptura Dei Clemens How to meditate of the creatures Instance shewed 1. In the heavens 1 1. Their height 2. Their matter 3. Their forme Acts 10. 4. Their firmenesse 5. Their motion 6. Meditations from them as they are still in our eye II. The light III. The light bodies 1. His magnitude 2. His brightnesse 3. His motion 4. His sâ—tting 5. His eclypse 6 His burning heate 7. His resemblance to Christ the Son of righteousnesse Cant 2. 8. The Moon 1 11. The Moon resembleth the Church Gal. 1 4. Ecclesia sua habet tempora viz persecutionis pacis c. Amb Hex lib. 4 cap. 2 Ecclesia videtur at luna deficere sed non deficit obumbrari potest deficere non potest Orbis lunae integer manet cum totus non ful get c. III. The moone resembleth this world in 1 Inferiâ—ritiâ— 2. Mutability 3. Obscuritic Vse 4. 5. Disappearing Of the starres Psa. 136. 8 II. III. IV. V. Christ the morning starre Christ the starre of Iacob Of the clouds Cloudes lead us to God II. Dewes resemble Christ. 1 2 3 4 Of the ayre I. Leading to God many wayes III. IV. Of the Windes I. Windes resemble God Motum scimus motum nescimus II. Windes leade us into our selves The Earth I. III. IV. Of trees and plants Of the Beasts Of the Birds Of the Sea and Fishes Vox Dei est in om nibus per ominia de omnibus ad omnia loquens nobiscum semper ubique Iob 26. 14.