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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59934	[Evangelion aionion eis t aionch] doxotaton, or, A glimpse of gospel glory. The first part together with a short but pithie treatise of Mr. E.D. shewing that Peter was never at Rome : to which is subjoyned as an appendix some pregnant collections by ... H. Nelson ... to a like purpose.	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?; E. D., Mr.; Nelson, H., 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing S3404; ESTC R25256	86,334	226

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR A GLIMPSE OF Gospel Glory Together with a short but pithie Treatise of Mr. E. D. shewing tha● Peter was never at Rome to which 〈◊〉 subjoyned as an Appendix some pregn●●● Collections by that Grave and Reverend ●●vine Mr. H. Nelson B. D. to a like purpo●● The First Part. Hanc scilicet fallaciam scripturarum negle●● in Christianismum bodie de Antichristo intru●● Viricus Velenus Minhoniensis LONDON Printed by M. S. for Tho. Parkhurst at the Th●●● Crownes against the great Conduit at the lower end of Cheap-side 1661. Vere Honorabili ac ter Reverendo Domino Roberto Saundersono S. S. Theologiae Doctori pridem in Celeberrima Accademia Oxoniensi Regio Professori ornatissimo jam vero Dioecesis Lincolniensis Episcopo Eximio minutae hae ab indigno authore Evangelicae Gloriae dantor humiliterque exhibentor scintillulae To the Right Honourable and very Reverend Robert Lord Bishop of Lincolne the Author of the ensuing Treatise wisheth all Peace and Glory through and according to the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Lord of all My Lord I Doubt not but your known worth for learning soundness of judgement piety and conscience-satisfying skill and experience hath singled you out as a fit object of eminent honour from the publick Authority of this Nation who yet do appear more honorable in the esteem of conscientious Christians in regard of that truly Christian frame of Spirit remarkeably in you by your ready propensity in promoting of unitie manifest by your willingness to the taking away the hinderances thereof in these divided times the like disposition of mind would also be justly honorable in all of your ranke that substantial good in Religion might more be advanced but shaddows and seeming appearances less and the glory of Gospel grace above all other glories for which the Apostles rule is both general and peremptory 1 Cor. 14. 26. Let all things be done to edifying How might truth and peace by that means soon be settled in the Church which ought of all men to be esteemed of far greater value then all their worldly interests yea then a mans own dearest present life And truly so much as I know my own heart in my most retired thoughts I have often offered in these distractions amongst good men even my life as an expiation unto God if he would take it in any way of his faithful service upon that account so that I dying truth and peace might live and florish in this our Israel yet I may happily amongst some be deemed an obstructer of both but as according to my measure I have been studious of the one so according to your Honours ancient testimony of me I have followed the things that make for the other to the utmost of my power neither am I changed from my former principles though now in sundry respects I may not perhaps have the same freedome I confidently beleeve the soveraign hand of divine providence in special favour not only to my self but to many much better deserving persons hath in this juncture of time given you the inspection over us the consideration whereof with other special favours which you readily chearfully aunciently vouchsafed unto me with the observatioon of such your Christian frame of spirit still abiding in you whom new and eminent honour known learning sound judgment worldly interest or engagements appear not to have made either less humble meek peaceable or charitable and that man that is well moulded up from such materialls and in his better part as it were fitly compounded of four such elements must needs be of a good constitution such living Christians adde a glory to Gospel glory I would my small Mite here offered could adde unto your store yet if it doe but occasion you better to weigh and value what you already have to the praise of him that gives us all it may prove some advantage to you then I should be well appaid and shall thankfully returne the praise to him by whose remarkeable grace I have been carried on therein who as the Apostle speaketh Colos 1. 29. striving according to his working who worketh in me mightily Yet one thing more doth move me to this address I have long since known you a strong Champyon of sound truth against Popish errours witness your ancient conditions of dispute against Mr. Ford well worthy of the worlds view and profitable for such use which happily deterred him from proceeding In the same general cause many times appeared your reverend father and my worthy friend Mr. H. Nelson to whom about thirty years now past I communicated a short but pithie discourse of Mr. E. D. a reverend person related to him from whom I received it and since also to my self which hereunto I have annexed which your good father so well approved of notwithstanding all Antichristian flourishes to the contrary that he was pleased to write some notes of his own upon it some of which I transcribed into the margin I cannot say all and whose collections to like purpose as an Appendix I have also subjoyned thereunto which after many years lying aside unthought of upon my late removal were offered to my view upon the perusal whereof I considering the known gravity and piety of both the Authors with the worth of their workes fit to antidote such weakelings as are lyable to that danger against the strong contagion of that popish pestilence by beating down the main pillar of that foundationless fabrick no wonder then the prophetical spirit Rev. 8. 18. 1. reitterates her ruine Babylon the great is fallen is fallen Vt ingens pondus mole sua ruens as an huge and mighty pile weltring downward by its own weight since her supposed foundation failes her yea is discovered to be but a lye which I here likewise tender unto your Lordship but not with further expectation from your self in respect of this or the other to be approved then as they will endure the tryall by the Touchstone of all saving truth the written word of God and consonant to sound judgment and reason and answerably thereunto a blessing from his divine Majesty thereupon to whom in that case all the praise will be due and to whom in the mean time his prayer shall be presented before the throne of grace in the behalf of your self your deare yoakefellow and all yours that he would largely display the spiritual glory of Gospel grace in and unto all your soules to a greatertransformation of them into the same Image by the Lord the Spirit as followeth to the inlargement of all your eternal glory who is My Lord Your Honours long obliged though unworthy servant in Christ W. Sherwin From my study July 1661 TO THE CHRISTIAN READER and more especially to my Honored Friends and Kinsmen Thomas Bowles of Wallington Esquire and Mr Tho Bowles his eldest Sonne with the rest of that Family a choice and chiefe part of my late Charge

and then put together the words to know the sence of what they from time to time may reade in any or all the books of God in this world set forth for their learning wherin God sets before all sorts of men new lessons of all kinds if they would not be such dullards and trewants that they will not take them out look then upon the letters of Gods great folioes in the world the Creation the upholding the disposeing and ordering of it and all things in it Look first to the motions illuminations and influences of the heavens look upon the successions of times dayes and nights winter and summer seed time and harvest but thou wilt say how shall I put these together and make sillables and sentences of them look unto the 19 Psalme and there the word of God shall be thy schoole-master herein it tells thee the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmaments sheweth his handy-work and day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth language that is they hold out matter for thy understanding knowledge or experience to work upon such works of God to his praise and glory so again Gen. 8. 22. Gods word instructs us that seed time and harvest cold and heat summer and winter day and night shall not cease which is another syllable to spell the truth of God by in such things how that he hath ever since the destruction of the old world fulfilled that his promise in times of plenty the Psalmist shewes how he crowns the earth with his goodness Ps 65. 11 when all sorts of Creatures are full of rejoycing and comfort the Scriptures informs us to spell out thereby Ps 145. 16. That God openeth his hand and satisfieth the desire of every living thing and so to come to thy own particular case and condition in outward things thou mayest spell out words and sentences by the help of many instructers which God allows thee as thy Reason if rightly regulated thy own and others experience observations examples of others Gods judgements providences mercies and all sorts of outward Dispensations of God whereby thy capacity may be raised up toward the attainment of higher learning by degrees upon thy well using thy first rudiments of Divine knowledge for they should all discover God unto thee and so thou mayest by degrees come to attain a good measure of skill in the truly liberal sciences in the schoole of spiritual and heavenly grace or glory if the use of the former bring thee not neerer to God they will make thee go further from him as it was with the Gentiles Ro. 1. 21. Because when they knew God by his outward works they glorified him not as God neither were thankful therefore he gave them up if such works of God discover him not more unto thee they will cause him the more to hide his face from thee as is observed of some skilful experienced Physitians they know and see so much of the secret operations of Nature that by that means they become more Atheistical forgetting and neglecting the God of Nature they pore so much upon the excellencies of the Creatures which they think they know and make use of by their own skill industry for their temporall advantage that they therefore forget and neglect the Creator and the glory therefore due unto him and doth not this Atheisme grow upon men for the want of spelling the words and sentences of Gods ordinary Books in the world by the teaching of his Word whilest men would chuse rather to be thought great Naturalists and Politicians in the world by others when without that teaching they become meere naturalls fooles and Ideots rather than soundly judicious persons in that which mainly ought to be knowne observed and acknowledged by them to the glory of the all-working God Secondly Let this direct such men as have learned to spell out Gods names in his outward works by the help of his Word then to set themselves better to reade him in his word of grace let them know the principles of his Religion and know the maine foundations of his divine truth especially let them take notice of these two maine principles of such excellent knowledge First That all glory is to be rendred unto God as the only true Originall of all good And Secondly That all emptinesse is ever to be ascribed to the creature in it selfe further than God makes it any way capable of goodnesse and puts such goodnesse into it or makes it communicative of that goodnesse unto others or of further enlargement or longer injoyment of goodnesse from himselfe even as he pleaseth unto whom the praise thereof is ever therefore to be ascribed and if thou wilt but then take up that teaching word and use those meanes which God thereby directs thee to improve them and continue therein he will then more and more discover himselfe unto thee yea when once thou art set in such a serious seeking of him this way it is evident thou wert sought of him before and he hath begun already to make himselfe knowne unto thee and so thou dost and wilt seek him still and shalt finde him more and more in that way wherein thou shalt behold his glorious grace which is the sure way for thee to become acceptable unto him and shalt be truly blessed by him Thirdly But for others who have these glorious discoveries in any good measure already made unto them Let them hence learne with the most inlarged apprehensions that may be to behold them and with the most earnest bent of their affections to entertaine them and with the highest and fullest expressions of joy in their inward and with their outward man to mainfest and declare them to the everlasting praise of the Author of them let them improve them to his glory and the good of others let them more be transformed into the image of them that they may have the greater measure of true comfort and glory by them Againe Let men wisely hence observe the divine excellency of a truly gracious spirit when once a transfiguration is made in it what an excellent yea heavenly frame is put uponit what glorious discoveries are made unto it what celestiall Joyes are put into it what everlasting happinesle is prepared for it O that these things were setled upon mens souls and that they could with such divine meditations and spirituall Soliloquies by the assistance of the Lord the Spirit so rivet them into their own hearts and keep them there that they might still soar higher and higher in such heavenly contemplations till they attaine to the top of most glorious eternitie to receive in fullnesse what here in their measure only they can but taste of Againe Let them hence learne to be thankfull above all things in this world for such gracious discoveries in any measure or degree by their good God vouchsafed unto them Let them be humbled in the sence of their unworthinesse thereof as great as manifold