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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20943	A treatise of the knovvledge of God, as excellently as compendiously handled by the famous and learned divine, Peter Du Moulin, late minister of the Reformed Church in Paris, and professor of theologie in the Vniversitie of Sedan. Faithfully translated out of the originall by Robert Codrington, Master of Arts; De cognitione Dei. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1634 (1634)	STC 7321; ESTC S118646	41,950	94

his unrighteous soule how Iulian in his very entrance into the Empire strooke through with an arrow gave up his impure spirit how if we may beleeve Suidas enraged dogs tore Lucian in pieces Neither is that an Argument of little consequence to confirme the authority of the Scripture which Iosephus writeth in the twelfth Booke of his Iewish Antiquities Chap 2. where Demetrius Phaleraeus the Keeper of the Kings Library speakes thus to Ptolomaeus Philadelphus out of Hecataeus Abderita concerning the sacred Bookes of the Iewes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as being pure and holy it was unlawfull that they should be exprest by a prophane mouth the same Demetrius Phaleraeus relates out of Aristaeus that Theopompus having wrought into his story some part taken from the sacred Word was for fourty dayes together strucken with an Apoplexy untill by some respits of releasement from his sickenesse he appeased God by his prayers and desisted from his enterprise being admonished in a dreame that these things happened to him because he intruded into holy things In the same manner Theodoctes the Poet having inserted into a Tragedie of his something taken from the Word of God being strucke with blindnesse was inforced to abandon the enterprise which so rashly he beganne Agreeable to this is that which Clemens speaketh in his first Booke of Tapist and Tertullian in his Booke of Womens habites that Ierusalem being taken and razed by the Babylonians all the Bookes of the Iewes were restored againe by Esdras their intention is not that the holy Bookes were utterly extinguisht and abollished and then againe restored by Esdras for so the holy Bookes which at this day we reade should not be the Bookes of Moses of David or of Esay but of Esdras who by new inspirations did compile them the intention of Clement and Tertullian is that the Bookes of the Old Testament during the Captivity of Babylon dispersed or but rarely and negligently transcribed were digested by Esdras into order more accurately written and restored to their native beauty And since that time these bookes with so much Religion were observed by the Iewes whom it pleased God to make the Library of the Christians that if the booke had at any time fallen to the ground they would enjoyne themselues a solemne and extraordinary fast and at the end of every booke they did use to write not onely the number of the verses but the number of the letters also in which scrupulous sedulity of theirs the true honour due unto the Scripture doth not consist but hee doth reverence it as hee ought who reads it with such eyes as the constant wife doth the contract of her marriage or the good Sonne doth his fathers Will who never heares the Scripture mentioned but his heart doth leape and his filiall affections earne who by this rule doth compose and squares all his life his deeds and words nay and his thoughts also But as young Samuel being awaked from sleepe by the voice of God lay presently downe to sleepe againe thinking it to be but the voyce of Man and not of God so the greatest part of men the word of God being heard and they awakened by it in a light feare they beginne a little to stirre stretch themselues but by and by they fall againe into a sleepe of vices because they heard this word as the word of man and not as the word of God What is contained in these bookes it would bee too tedious to describe it shall be sufficient to propose unto the eye the elements of Christian Religion that wee may see in what things the true knowledge of God consisteth The Scripture therefore teacheth that Man was first created to the Image of God endued with Holinesse and Righteousnesse and revolted from God by his owne consent and by the suggestion of the Devill whereupon came sin into the world and by sinne Death and Malediction notwithstanding the Image of God in Man is not so disfigured that there remaine not certaine traces of it to wit a certaine perceiving of Divinity and some graines of honesty and civill justice which notions that God might helpe and that no man might excuse his sinne by pretending ignorance God hath given his Law written by man which Law is reduced to these two heads To loue God with all our heart and with all our strength and to loue our neighbour as our selues which Law with great terrour hee pronounced in a voice whose accents were thunders and shining with flames of Lightning that the people might understand that their Lawgiver was armed and who so despised his commandements should not escape unpunished this dreadfull clause adjoyned to it Cursed is he that continueth not in all things which are contayned in the booke of the Law to doe them When therefore Man by nature prone unto sinne cannot fulfill these Commandements this Law were nothing else then the torment of the conscience and the ministery of Death had not God according to his mercy releeved Man in this forlorne estate Hee therefore in his appoynted time prescribed by the Prophets sent his Sonne the everlasting Word the wisedome of his Father whom hee begat from all eternity who together with the Father and the Holy Spirit is one God into the world and endued him with humane flesh so the Word was made flesh and God in vnity of person assumed humane Nature without any diminution of the Divinity or mixture of the Natures for it was requisite that the Mediator betwixt God and Man should bee God and Man and touch both extreames by the Communion of Nature In this Nature of Man this Sonne of God our Redeemer finished the worke of our Redemption perfectly fulfilling the Law by expiating our sins by his Death and triumphing over Death by his Resurrection hee is the Author of eternall life to all those that beleeue in him Wherefore as the Sinne of Adam is imputed to all his posterity so the Righteousnesse of Christ is imputed unto all those who by the Spirit of Adoption and faith in him are made the Sonnes of God By this marke Christian Religion is discerned and distinguished from all Religions which humane reason hath invented that it shewes the way by which onely we haue accesse to God by his Sonne who is the Way the Truth and the Life that is the true way to life And though God inhabites light which none can come unto yet after some manner hee hath made himselfe visible in his Sonne who is the Image of God invisible and God with us whosoever shall endeavour to come to God by any other way hee shall find him a Iudge and not a Father and the more he hasts the more hee erres and headlong fals into a certaine ruine To the finishing of this worke of our Redemption the person of the Sonne was chosen rather than the person of the Father or the Holy Ghost for if the Father had beene made Man and assumed our Fesh there had beene in