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work_n	create_v	good_a	workmanship_n	4,350	5	11.8942	5	false

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A67005	A sons patrimony and daughters portion payable to them at all times but best received in their first times when they are young and tender : laid-out without expence of money only in the improving time and words with them contained (in an answerablenesse to their ages) in two volumes ...	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.; Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3506	409,533	506

hast received So God hath exalted thee so shouldst thou exalt the Lord and all this from thy outward frame the site and posture thereof And so farre we are gone and before we go further we must take fuller notice of things we have passed briefly over for they are observable § 1. We are Gods workmanship His building wonderfully were we made by b Isa 45. 11. Him accordingly should we strive to live unto Him if we ask more grace He will not deny us it A strong argument it is c Psal 138. 8. We are the workmanship of thy hands and as strong is this Created in Christ Iesus unto good d Ephes 2 10. works † 1. 2. He brought us forth thence where many miscarried because there was no power that our praise might be alwayes of Him And He gave our parents charge over us and them a strong affection to discharge that trust though we were froward and like perverse children which engageth mightily to honour the parents to obey them in the Lord. And to do what possibly we can and all too little for their good if they shall need it and for the promoting their comfort in the childes well-doing the very garland of their hope and sore travell under the Sunne and a very cordiall to their drouping spirits § 2. His exceeding patience to us ward in sparing us so long and His good providence over us all this time but specially then when we could have none for our selves when we foresaw nothing not not a pit before us For mark I pray you that little thing such an one I was so wast thou and let us not carelesly behold him If now he be out of the cradle and the armes and can do more then creep by the wall we shall see it still in harmes-way now pu●dering in the fire then in the pot of seething liquour then up the stairs it will creep and down again it tumbles with little or no harm And if it can break the mother prison we shall see it marching in the streets presently in the Carts way or under the horses heels perhaps as his strength is upon their backs or upon some Ladder or some Tree where he ventreth his necke for an apple or a lesse matter Like a Lapwing it is Squerill headed still skipping into danger not so quicke to get from it Such like and many more dangers attend that silly age So that this is a sure thing which I shall tell you It was not the care of the earthly Father though he was carefull with all his care nor the tender hand and eye of the Mother though both still helpfull and wakefull neither this nor that was it which provided for the childe and secured its safety but the providence of the Almighties eye 2. Kin. 4. 13. His good hand upon the childe that kept it That that was it and to that we must sacrifice that we have been preserved where so many have fallen and escaped those snares and dangers wherein so many have been taken Make this use we must of the casualties And forget we must not the many diseases this vile body is subject to which we have been kept from or delivered in Plinie reckons no fewer then 300. from top to toe I mention but two and they be capitall ones the Evill and the Falling sicknesse very incident to children and makes their life but a death to themselves and friends That we have been preserved and delivered thus and thus what a mercie herein what praise therefore 3. He hath ranked us in His highest form amidst His chiefest creatures that our thoughts should be on high and our wayes on high Noble creatures we are of an heavenly stamp impresse and superscription that our carriage and deportment should be answerable Oh then how is it that the horse and the mule which have no understanding should teach their Lord and this Lord so brutish that he will not be taught by them We put bits in our horses mouths and they obey us The dogge follows our foot and will be struck by our hand the d Jer. 8. 7. Storke the Crane the Swallow know their season The e Isai 1. 3. Ox knoweth his Master and the Asse his Crib but man is become brutish he considers not Every f Jam. 3. 7. kinde of beasts and of birds and of Serpents and things in the Sea is tamed and have been tamed of mankinde But man is the unruly creature the ungoverned person yet hath he reason to guide him Reason I say the crown and dignitie of a person when the naturall powers and noble faculties are entire and sound a great good mercy go to Bedlam else and enquire we there but that we need not do we need but go sit down and hearken there and then we must needs say Oh what a blessing is it what a mercy that we have the use of reason that our understanding part is sound and perfect He hath reason I say to guide him the fear of the Lord to awe him His word to instruct him and if he be not guided reclaimed taught he will have no excuse no pretext for himself for saith g In Gen. Hom. 9 p. 85. Chrysostome man tameth the Lion and he leads the Beare and he frays the Serpent that he hurts him not thou art unexcusable then O man if thou art an u●●overned creature so the Father reproves man made in 〈◊〉 image And Elihu to h Job 35. 10. 11. Iob gives us as full a reproofe and concludes the use saying But none saith where is God my Maker who giveth songs in the night Who teacheth us more then the Beasts of the earth and maketh us wiser then the fowls of heaven 4. Lastly he hath given us our parts proportion and comelinesse in all nothing wanting what praise therefore we have the candle of the body whereby we escape the pit under us and the rock before us a great mercy ask him else who at noon-tide gropes his way as in the night We have tongues whereby we may make our thoughts known and eares we have whereby we understand what others say to us The nose beautifies the face we must not forget that for a great ornament it is as the want thereof defaceth and disfigureth nothing more the Virgins thought so who saith the i Barthol Anat. li 3. c. 10. p. 143. ω. Anatomist and out of our Chronicles too cut off their noses that they might prevent both love and lust from their amorous but bloudy conquerours This organ we have a great comelinesse to the face and the stomacks taster it is of as great use also We have hands both the instrument k Putean Epi. 17 of instruments an excellent instrument We have feet two whereby we can walk and go and as occasions are run all these instruments we have and exceeding great mercies all these Ask him else who hath eyes but sees not a nose but smels not a

and humble both I see all these and what ever else I do see all in their ranks glorifying their Creatour and serving man who of all the works of Gods Hands once the most glorious is fallen out thence and from his station rebells against his Maker and now is called as he is A transgressour from the wombe and so makes the creatures groan under him serving in bondage and in wearinesse This consideration instructs and humbles very much if it come home So also if we consider how little it is that we understand of all that varietie which we do see If saith the Father g Chrysost in Ephes Hom. 19. ω. thou shouldest come into a Physicians or Chirurgions closet how small a part couldest thou understand of what thou seest there If into a Carpenters Painters or Smiths shop in how many things wouldest thou be posed there Thou couldest not tell what the workman can do with this little thing or with that but thou must be forced to acknowledge a skill in him beyond thy apprehension Nay I will go lower with thee yet saith the same Father Go to the bee hive where thou mayest note by the way and it is of great use That h Mar. Aur. Ant Medit. lib. 6. sect 49. pag. 94. See Cic. Offic. 3. p. 141. Chrysost Ibid. which is not good for the bee-hive or for the whole swarm cannot be good for the bee see whether thou canst understand that curious art from the bee go to the pismire see whether thou canst understand ● Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 11 cap. 5 6. 7 8. 30. Basilii ep 168. ω. her wayes and work from thence to the spider consider her web and her house Then to the swallow and mark her nest and the workmansh●p there And if thou hast understanding herein then be bold to enquire into Gods works and to search them out to the bottom but if not then enquire not but rather admire and break forth into praise For if in these creatures thou art forced to acknowledge an art beyond sense in beasts or apprehension in man how much more then when thou lookest abroad into the great shop of the world must thou needs acknowledge the Creator and Disposer of all these is wonderfull in working and His wayes past finding out k Job 11. 7. Zophars question is a strong negation We cannot by searching finde out God we cannot finde out the Almighty to perfection The secrets of his wisdome are double to that which is we understand not the least part of His works And which is our great fault what we do understand in our measure we do not make use thereof according to our measure But this we must acknowledge that He is good to us and the earth even in those things which we count hurtfull and know to be poysonfull even in the toad and in the serpent And then we must conclude How great is that goodnesse which makes the worst things good And he is infinite in power and skill in the smallest as in greatest of His works In both we must see the footsteps of a Deitie how they carry a mark imprinted in them of the power and Godhead of the Creatour For he that made the greater and more excellent Creatures made also the least and most contemptible And as His power is great in the greatest so not one jot lesse in the least l Deus ita est Artisex magnus in magnis ut non minor sit in parvis c. Aug. d● civit lib. 11. c●p 22. Nusquam natura magis tota quàm in minimis Plin. Nusquam pote●tior natura quàm in maximè ●ragilibus There is not the smallest creature whereof there is not some need and use to set forth the glorious power of the Great God when He shall please to use it for such a service We may observe also that mean and small things discover the skill and art of the workman better then the greater things and more excellent Examples whereof are common and familiar And sometimes also small things can help to discover the great better then the great can discover the small So He hath disposed it who doth many times choose the weakest things to confound the strong and simple things to confound the wise It is a good note which the Learned Advancer gives us m P. 107. We see how that secret of nature of the turning of iron touched with the Loadstone towards the North was found out in needles of iron not in barres of iron And this I have added that we may take notice of the power and wisdome and goodnesse of God As in mountains and all hills fruitfull trees and all cedars Beasts and all cattell So also in creeping things such despicable creatures n Psal 148. 9. 10. Quicquid ●ssentiâ dignum ●st id etiam scientiâ Novum organ 1. 120. Creatorem n●n in coelo ●antum miramur terrâ sole oceano elephantis camelis c. sed in minutis quoque animalibus sormica culice muscis c. Hier. lib. 2. Ep. 22. p. 268. For I see that all the hostes of men though they should joyne their strength together cannot make the least of these creatures which I see not a creeping worm not the flying dust where-from I must conclude as the Prophet before me o Isa 40. 12. 17. all nations before Him are as nothing and they are accounted unto Him lesse then nothing and lighter then vanitie it self This use the Prophet could make of the smallest dust when it came into his eyes We should not neglect the least atome or mote in the Sunne for that also gives us an instruction It was spoken to the praise of a Prince excellently learned That he was a carver or divider of cumine seed which onely noted his patience and setled spirit to enter into the least and most exact differences of causes p Cymini sector Adv. p. 69. So much to the generall view of the creatures upon the earth for we are yet no higher particulars here unto us are infinite and to insist upon generalls is to walk in a maze Therefore I shall single out two creatures from out of the throng for the singularitie of natures work in both the one the greatest that goeth on earth the other the small●st that creepeth on the same It is a well known observation and experience concludeth it That in every kinde there is the greatest and the smallest q Datur maximum minimum in utroq●e genere a greatnesse which cannot be exceeded and a littlenesse which cannot be contracted So in men though we should not beleeve the narration of Hollings-head yet we know there have been men of great stature r Hist of the World p. 1. 5. 8. Dr Hak. Apol. 3. 2. and we see there are dwarfes So in Creatures going on the earth and never rising higher there is the greatest and the least and in those two I shall now