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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35177	The summ of two sermons on the witnesses and the earthquake that accompanies their resurrection occasion'd from a late earthquake, Sept. 8 and preach'd on the fast following, Sept. 14 / by W.C., M.A. ...	Cross, Walter, M.A.	1692 (1692)	Wing C7264; ESTC R31339	35,336	46

of Natural Causes without their relations to to their Creator 1st As their Author 2ly As their Pattern 3ly As their Governour makes but half Philosphers And we find the end of Scripture treating of these is to make us see a God in them and from them Psal 29.6 He maketh Lebanon and Syrion to skip as a young Vnicorn And Job 37. speaking of the Fiery Meteors says They are turned round about by his Councils that they may do what soever he commandeth them upon the Face of the World or in the Earth He causeth it to come whether for Correction or for Mercy c. 4ly The moving Cause which supposes the demeriting because he was wroth who can be angry at nothing but Sin Isa 13.13 I will shake the Heavens and the Earth shall remove out of it's place in the Wrath of the Lord of Hosts and in the day of his fierce Anger and it shall be as the chased Roc. Our Sin and God's Anger for it is a Burden the Earth cannot bear Hence are it's Groans and Travailings in Pam Man is punished in the Earth as a King in his Subjects or a rich Man in his Poslessions Three remarkable Degrees of Punishment the Earth undergoes for Man's Sin 1. The Curse in Adam's time Gen. 3.17 Cursed is the ground for thy sake which we may compare with the 7th Verse The Natively consequential Punishment on Man's Body they both were naked The nearness of the Union and Relation between his Soul and his Body brought the Curse there before the other and without a positive Infliction There was a capacity of ever-living from that harmonious Constitution in his Body but his Constitution is now mortal not only a Disease as Physicians say but Mortality it self is a preternatural state For Perpetuity is a Print or a stroak of Divine Image that became him to put on the Substance of every Creature he made For he cannot deny himself in his Works or in his Word All he does must have a fittedness to represent him and what became him to make became him to continue And Aeviternity of Creatures is the Image of the Eternity of God Death was a conditional Threathing Life was an absolute natural Promise Man had nothing to do but to continue yielding himself to that Inclination that was from the Image of God in him without attempting to do any thing of himself by which he might be something by himself Self denyal which is a Negative Term was the principal Duty 2. There could not but arise from this Immortal Constitution an unspeakable Beauty The most fresh healthy young and vigorous Constitution is like wrinkled old Age in comparison of an Immortal one Old and Young Sickness and Health in a Mortal differs but in Degree but that is a natural capacity of ever living Mortality and Immortality differ like Sin and Holiness Death and Life So much must the greatest Beauty of Mortals sall short of Eve's Secondly If we take measures of this Beauty from what the meanest Man shall be when sinless and the Beauty was a Glory for our very Bodies shall be fashioned like to his Glorious Body and the very reason of it flows from it's incorruptibleness 1 Cor. 15.32 The first Property being always the eminent and emanent Cause of the rest Adam's Immortality was a proper Incorruptibility Thirdly If we compare this Beauty with the remaining Relicts in Plants and Fowls for we cannot suppose the Curse to sall so heavy or to last so long upon any body as the Body of Man for their union with the Soul is nighest and the Property and Dominion greatest it is a kind of Covering for such are their Feathers and Flowers that excells all the Glorious Ornaments that a Solomon could array himself with by reason of their Nativeness flowing from the Constitution of the Creature it adorns Matth. 6.28 29 30. The Privation of this Covering that did consist of Glory or radiant Beams of Light was literally Adam's and Eve's Nakedness which did flow from the Souls Nakedness of the Objective Image of God and the inherent qualitative Image that did flow from it For Man in Regeneration is in part restored to what he was when sinless and this is a changing into a glorious Image by beholding the glorious Image of the Lord in the Glass of our Souls formed there by the Spirit of the Lord. The Curse of Barrenness upon the Earth must be some way proportioned unto this An inward change of the Contexture and Particles at least of the Surface and Crust of the Earth above the great Deep which would necessarily cause an Alteration in the Air the Constitution thereof being ruled by the Vapours and Exhalations of the Earth if it reach'd no higher We may see this from the vast difference of Soils their Barrenness or Fertility ariseth from the Disposition of the Earth and Position of the Sun The Second Degree of Punishment was in Noah's time by the great Deluge where there was made not only a Change of Particles or composure of the Earth but the whole uppermost Sphere or Crust broke in pieces and laid like an Heap of Rubbish or Shipwrack and from this Constitution of it ariseth it's fitness for Conflagration it 's Liableness to Earthquakes Thunder and Lightning Storms and Tempests So that Philosophers ought not only to study it's relation to God but it 's relation to Sin and Punishment it 's constant or natural Constitution is preternatural like a crazy Person Hectick and Consumptive The Third Punishment is yet to come when it shall be wholly burnt up by Fire 2 Pet. 3. And if we may take Measures of what it was before Sin from what it will be after it must certainly have been a glorious Globe When the most solid Gold shall be transparent and the whole new Earth the Foundation of the New Jerusalem more precious and Diaphanous than the most precious Stones some Rudera of this appears in the Chrystalline Stones and other things under Ground and that vast Fire in which all will be burnt up hath an evident Vertue to render it vitrial So much for the Nature of an Earthquake The Second thing to be explained is the Nature of a Prodigy which is superiour to a Sign and is a Miracles Fellow These three explain one another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Sign 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Prodigy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Miracle Heb. 2.4 Signs Wonders and divers Miracles 1. Signs are Naral as Gen. 1.14 We know how long to Night or Darkness by the place we see the Sun in or to Morning by other Stars So when Spring and Harvest c. When an Eclipse when the Tydes when seasonable to Sail to Fish to Plow to Sow c. The Lights of Heaven are given for Signs of these things So Mat. 16.2 A red Sky is a sign of fair Weather because the Sun shining through it demonstrates it to be thin but if the Clouds in our Horizon be black