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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07683	A demonstration of God in his workes Against all such as eyther in word or life deny there is a God. By George More Esquire.	More, George, Sir, 1553?-1632.; More, George, Esquire, attributed name.	1597 (1597)	STC 18071.5; ESTC S112856	95,106	174

of our weakenes which ought not to be doubted of in regard of his vprightnes often is if not euer wont to lay open his iudgement by some notable way of punishment eyther vpon thēselues or vppon theyr heyres before the eyes of men which is blindnes not to see and wickednes not as a good lesson giuen for our instruction thankfullie to receiue Great were the Emperours of Rome and the Tyrants of Greece but as wicked as they were great for the most part Slayd de 4. Monarchijs The miserable death of the wicked Romaine Emperors and therefore of the Romaines thirtie were slaine by those in vvhom they dyd or in likelihood might repose their trust being seruaunts or souldiours chyldren or wiues vnto them and foure being fearefull of theyr enemies or wearie of theyr owne lyues became murtherers of themselues beeing all iustly punished by the hand of God who wickedly had prouoked the displeasure of God by pride coueteousnes or cruelty So of all the Tyrants of Greece Aelian lib. 6. three onely left their progeny heires of their tiranny The tyrants of Greece punished in their posteritie Gelon in Sicilia Lencamor in Bosphorus the Cipselides in Corinthus the will of God being to reuenge the Fathers sinne by cutting off the children and not suffering them to raigne Of all Nations examples are to be found of the constant course of Gods iustice towards wicked and vngodly men be they neuer so great euermore shewed either vpon them selues or their houses in rooting them out from the face of the earth Some haue beene visited in their owne persons by foule and lothsome diseases whereby they haue beene made vnwilling to liue and yet vnable to dye as Sylla Hadrianus and Maximianus Some fed vpon aliue Pluta in Silla Dion Nicae Pompon Latus Iosep Naucle Baptis Egna Iustin. Egesippus and gnawne till they were dead by wormes and lyce as Herodes Ascalonites Honoricus King of the Vandales and Arnulphus the Emperor Some tormented in mind liuing in horrour of conscience and dying in base and fearefull sort as Atalus King of Pergamus and Aristobulus Sonne of Hyrcanus Some also when they were in health and strength sodainly and miraculously taken away as Fabius the proud Senator with a hayre swollowed in milke Abbas vrsper and Pope Adrian the fourth after that he had accursed Frederick the first choked with a flye in a draught of cold water VVhich sharpe corrections of God in so maniefold wise inflicted serue to shew that his meanes are as his power is infinite to chastice and scourge the proudest and greatest vnder heauen offending against him VVhereby the fairest and goodliest of body may learne to know that being vngodly they stand in danger by greeuous diseases or vile creatures to be consumed the soundest of vnderstanding to be tormented in minde the richest in treasure to be spoyled in an houre the best in health to be deliuered vnto death by many and straunge wayes not to be feared or suspected which if they happen to escape yet haue they cause still to feare that what is held from them is layed vp for their children The Parents feele paine in the after punnishment of theyr children 1. King c. 14 2 Chro. 13. who being part of them selues proceeding from out their loynes as they fore-see they cannot but fore-feele their owne present paine in the future punishment of them Iereboam rebelled against God and did cast him behind his backe by whom he was exalted and made Prince ouer his people Israell VVherefore the Lord God albeit he was made strong by vaine and wicked men gathered vnto him did not onely smite him before Iudah The bitter sentence of God against Ieroboam and his posteritie and plague him that he dyed but pronounced a fearefull iudgement against his house that he would cut of from him him that piffed against the wall and would sweepe away the remnant of his house as a man sweepeth away dong till it be all gone and further that the doggs should eate him of Ieroboams stock that dyed in the Citty and the fowles of the ayre him that dyed in the fielde VVhich sentence prouoked by the wickednes of Ieroboam was by the iustice of God performed accordingly vpon all saue onely Abiah who was suffered to come to the graue because in him there was found some goodnes towards the Lord God of Israell 1. Kin. c. 16. The like was threatned by Iehu the Prophet and executed by Zimri against the posterity of Baasha because being by God made Captaine ouer Israell hee walked in the way of Ieroboam and made the people to sinne 1 Kin. c. 17. Ahab sold him selfe to worke wickednes in the sight of the Lord yet hauing humbled him selfe before the Lord euill was not brought in his dayes but in the dayes of his Sonne it was brought vpon his house The Lord God hath sayed it and it cannot be but true Exod. 20. that he will visite the sinnes of the Fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation of those that hate him VVhat comfort then can the vngodly haue in their greatnes when they see by the example of others what is like to happen vnto them selues Can the high Tower of prosperitie wheron they stand be delightfull vnto them when they behold the deepe dungeon of miserie before them whereinto they are ready to fall and cannot but fall continuing in their sinne The life of the wicked cannot be but sorowfull The whole body is out of frame if the least member thereof suffer paine how then can the minde be at rest and take delight when it is vexed with griefe and tormented with feare of that which no feare can auoide Is it possible for that man trauailing on the way to haue a pleasing thought who is enforced to think that the ende of his iourney shall be the beginning of his calamity that his place of rest must be the bed of sorrow his passage vnto it the way of shame and that for his sake his whole trayne as him selfe shall haue entertainment alike The threatning of that onely so blacke a cloud to fall in this life might seeme sufficient to make men lay aside the glorious and rich attire of pride and wantonnes which serueth to no good vse and to put on the sober habite of vertue and torne cloake of true repentance which like the Vine leafe might serue both to let in the shining beames of Gods mercy and to defend the sharpe shower of his wrath in this world But if that preuaile not to withdrawe them from their sinfull waies The punishment in this life nothing to that which is to come thē is that punishment nothing in comparison of the torment that is behind that as a cloud passeth and like a shower scattereth and is soone done The thred of life is quickly cut asunder be it spunne how long so euer The blow is sharpe but short

miraculous sort The water that is cold and moyst and least meete of all the rest to haue the company of fire farre from that and next vnto the earth wherwith it well sorteth being cold and somwhat heauie is bestowed but so as in wonderfull wise it cōpasseth surmounteth and ouerfloweth the same beeing penned in with banks not made or deuised by any creature whatsoeuer Then is the ayre which is warme moyst placed betweene fire and water as betweene two aduersaries a stickler being friend to eyther side through qualities agreeable to eyther part It reacheth vp to the one and downe to the other and although it be ioyned to them both which are mighty and mercilesse yet being weake and of small force it doth both preserue it selfe in safety and hold those in continuall peace which continually are disposed to warre So are they martialled in places best agreeing to their natures that according to their most power they may execute their best seruice at the will of their Commaunder And to the end they should all agree in mixture which are diuers or contrarie of nature for that all naturall bodies haue beeing and constitution of them they are each to other so ioyned and coupled in fellowship that they are all in all and hold together a perpetuall friendship The transmutation of elements For fire extinguished passeth into ayre ayre thickned groweth into water water mudded incorporateth into earth and againe earth into water is dissolued vvater into ayre exhaled and ayre into fire extenuated whereby it commeth to passe that none is alone without the others company and all are setled in a common societie which holding they giue constitution to other things and bring no destruction to themselues For as in themselues so in other things considered they are mingled in such sort as one is Maister and the rest giue place which causeth them to rest in peace O the depth of that wisedome and riches of that power which hath placed disposed and ioyned them in so wonderfull wise and to so necessary vse Heereof it is Frō whence the varietie and diuersitie of creatures that within the bowels of the earth vaines of sundry mettalls quarries of diuers stones are found in colour and nature one differing from another that out of the earth varietie of hearbs and flowers doe spring whereof none in sent leafe and vertue doe agree that trees are vnlike in barke and in fruite that all brute beasts are knowne so vvell a sunder and that as well the fishes of the Sea as the fowles of the ayre are seene infinitely to differ For as the earth is a receptacle of all influences descending from heauen like a mother bringeth forth and feedeth those things which are begotten with in her herselfe receiuing nourishment from water breath from ayre and naturall heate from fire of which according to the seuerall quantities vvhich she receiueth she yeeldeth forth her broode more or lesse perticipating of euery of them but taking most from herselfe because in herselfe shee ouermatcheth all the rest so after the like manner all liuing things bred or fed vpō the face of the same and within the depth of the Sea haue theyr beeing being earthly watery or ayriall according to the place of which they are temperature which they receiue and all by the inwarde power they haue to moue or to rest to increase or to decay shew forth that first power whereby strength was giuen to those elements at the first to strengthen all things which of them should consist Hoc opus immensi constructum corpore mundi Manili Astro 1. Membraquae naturae diuersa condida forma Aeris atque ignis terrae pelagique iacentis Vis animae diuina regit sacroque meatu Conspirat Deus et tacita ratione gubernat Et multain cunctas dispensat faedera partes Altera vt alterius vires faciatque feratque This worke of world so huge framed into a body And parts of nature formed formes diuers to bewray Of ayre and fire of earth and sea which low doth lie Soules power diuine doth rule and by a sacred way God doth with all conspire and gouerne secretly And so doth many leagues betweene al parties make That each each others vertue may both giue take Hee which so sayed was deceaued in that hee thought the heauen and the elementes to haue soule and life whereby they are mooued and ordered but he perceaued truly that by the secret working of God they all are gouerned and by him sondry wayes vnited to make and to suffer each others vertue and power But daylie experience may seeme to controle what hath beene sayed touching the places and the peace which the elements are sayed to hold For it is seene that water is drawn vp neere the fire which ought to remaine below the ayre and ayre passeth downe into the earth whose place is prefixed aboue the water whereby their peace is broken and they are at warre amongst them selues the ayre thundering aboue and the earth trembling below True that so it is and fit it should be so the more to shew his aucthority that doth commaund and their dutie which doo obey for thereby appeareth his power in heauen and on earth when he thundereth from heauen and shaketh the earth and that the elements are his instruments to vse at his pleasure when he maketh them to followe and to forsake their nature VVhich is done the water ascending and the ayre passing downe and after the same water falling downe when the cloud is broken and that ayre going vp when the earth is opened and both returning to their appoynted quarter and executing as before their prescribed order to the quiet preseruation of the world The care and the eye perceaue there is a God So as sounding the thunder the eare doth heare and the earth shaking the eye doth see and when both are calmed of both we are assured that one supreame there is whose onely will as dutifull seruants to their onely Soueraigne they all obay VVhereas were they of them selues and subiect to no higher power which could commaund their seruice and correct their disorder in the world nothing should be but a generall Chaos and confusion of all together They could neyther be deuided for each others safetie nor mingled but to each others hurt For would fire continue vnder heauen and aboue ayre without consuming the one or wasting the other The nature of it being continually to befed or immediatly to be extinguished or should not the earth by the ayre be rent a sunder or by the water be ouerwhelmed the ayre pearcing into euery corner and not i●●luring to be smothered and the water ouerflowing whatsoeuer it lyeth ouer No more possible were it they should be mingled and not destroyed following their nature which beeing contrary would neuer suffer them to agree So should they haue no beeing nor cause any other thing to be VVherefore the heauen and the