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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09511	The poore mans appeale In a sermon preached at Leicester assises before the judges. By T.P.	Pestell, Thomas, 1584?-1659?	1620 (1620)	STC 19791; ESTC S100747	21,164	34

Secondly Perfectionis affirmationis when what is most excellent in things create wee applie to God by way of Analogie and resemblance So wee call him iust mercifull high glorious Thirdly of excellence or super-heminence as this here implies A title therefore sutable to his nature for to seeke him among the highest things we know is ridiculous to pin or determine him there impious vltra vltra quaerendus still aboue and beyond all we must enquire for him sayes Bernard And as sutable so there is none of his titles more auncient so soone I thinke as we find mention of any height amongst men regall or sacerdotall as hoth are referred to him so with this title annext Gen. 14 Melchizedek king of Salem and priest of the most high God It is held throughout the old Testament and not left of in the new So Luke 1. Iohn is called the Prophet of the highest and Luke 6.35 Doe good c. and so be Children of the highest So that as Dauid speakes of his greatnesse God is great and there is no end of his greatnesse So he is high too and no end of his highnesse We haue those on earth that are to day high to morrow low as the graue and therefore though men haue and doe weare this title of most high yet God weares it with a difference sayes the Prophet But thou O Lord art most high for euermore Psal 92.8 And as it belongs to him for euer so to euery person in Trinitie to the Father first acknowledged both by the powers of heauen and hell In Luke 1.32 A celestiall Angell testifies of Christ He shall be called sonne of the highest and in Luke 8.28 the Confession of a spirit infernall Iesus thousonne of the most high God So the sonne himselfe is styled the same S. Luke still 1.78 Oriens ex alto the day spring from on high And in Ephes 1.21 He is sayd to sit at his Fathers right hand farre aboue all principalities and powers hauing put all things vnder his feete and giuen him to be head ouer all things So the holy Ghost is not onely called virtus ex alto power from on high Luk. 24.49 but of him sayd The power of the most high shall ouer-shadow thee Luke 1.35 In so much that God himselfe seemes to receiue delight and complacencie in this title for whether men prayse him on earth it must be with an Hosanna in the highest or Angels and Hosts from heauen it must hee with a Gloria Deo in excelsis Glorie to God in the highest Now this title is applied to God either in respect of his essence or his attributes and diuine vertuer First in essence and nature he is Altissimus among the causes efficient exemplarie finall he in all these hath the preheminence as primum principium and vltimus finis In puritie of nature water aboue earth aire aboue water then fire then light and he Pater luminum the Father of lights Beasts aboue plants men aboue beasts aboue men Angels and spirits and he Pater spirituum the Father of spirits In sublimitie of nature there being in him the perfection of all his creatures and that in a most eminent and vnspeakeable degree So that none is Highest but he onely nay none like the Highest He that said he would be fell the lowest I saw Satan fall from heauen like lightning As thus in essence so last of all in Diuine vertue Now there is incident to God none of thosevertues which suppose imperfection as Faith Hope c. But such as these mercy bountie power iustice wisedome holinesse and in all these is GOD superlatiue nay infinitely aboue all degrees of comparison we may choose to shew it in these foure for all the rest mercie wisedome iustice power His mercie first is highest ouer all his workes Psal 144. For his power made nothing but what his mercy mooued him to of an vnknowne height it is then as appeares by Psal 103.11 As high as heauen is ouer the earth for it is stablished in the heauens Psal 88. and the earth is full of his mercie Psal 32. In both places hee is Pater misericordiarum a father of mercies 2. Cor. 1. according whereto the Church prayes O God whose nature and propertie is to haue mercie c. For if we inquire a reason of his mercy at large to all his creatures to men as his image to good men as his sonnes what can bee returned but ô altitudo O the height of the exceeding riches of his mercie Againe his wisedome is another ô altitudo Rom. 11. Mans knowledge is farre aboue the beasts in quibus non est intellectus But we come to no height no perfection in enigmate in part and but darkely like the Foxe licking the Viall when he could not come at the liquor it selfe And if yet euen from men wee see so manie wise lawes of Princes and Bookes of Councellors and Iudges in which there is extant a strange light of humane reason what shall we thinke of the Highest in whom is the highest law out of which as out of a fountaine these are drawne and thither as waters to the Sea returned For there is one Law-giuer and one Iudge Iam. 1. By whose onely wisedome it is that Kings doe raigne and Princes decree Iustice Pro. 8. What euer the Creature hath is a deriuatiue from that Primitue as Art is conueighed sayes Aquinas from the mind of the Artizan into his workemanship So that this whole Vniuersitie of Gods worke is as it were a certaine common place of wisedome But that poore deale whereof men are capable is receiued in long time and but by drops by many acts we vnderstand one thing hee in one act all distinctly they are naked and bare in his sight with their substances formes differences wee read of wise men from the East and of the high wisedome of Salomon excelling all the East but nor he nor those three attained to the first three not to Alti here in the end of this verse Downe then with all humane presumption and ascribe vnto the Lord as the glory so the wise dome due vnto his name for as his name is here so is his wisedome higher than the highest There is no Iudge aboue God nor none that hath vnderstanding like the highest 2. Es 7.19 We come to his Iustice and Power of which it is here especially vnderstood that he is Altissimus His Iustice first so high that he is sayd to be Iudge alone and this height of Iustice is best discerned by the armes or top branches Proemium poena Reward and punishment whosoeuer shall but regard those foure conditions of Hell torments for varietie the most for their greatnesse insufferable for puritie vnmixt with the least allay of comfort or hope of mitigation for their continuance euerlasting will easily discouer in them Gods Iustice to be highest And contrary for reward it excels all a good measure pressed downe yet running ouer Great is