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A19254 Bartas Iunior: or, The worlds epitome; man Set forth in his 1. generation, 2. degeneration, 3. regeneration. Cooke, Edward, fl. 1626-1631. 1631 (1631) STC 5667; ESTC S117171 40,888 74

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BARTAS JVNIOR OR THE WORLD EPITOME MAN Set forth in his 1. GENERATION 2. DEGENERATION 3. REGENERATION MICAH 7 8. Rejoyce not against me ô mine enemy when I f●●● shall rise when I sit in darknesse the Lord shall light unto mee LONDON ●●inted by W. I. for Francis Coules and ar● to be solde at his shoppe in the Olde ●●ylie neere to Newgate 1631. TO THE READER Gentle Reader IT is almost 12 yeares since I finished this subjects and now by the importunity of a learned friend divulged That c●nctation is my blemish thy dislike but surely dislike the subject thou wilt not yet if thou doe not approve and dislike it thou art not thy selfe Thou art my subject comprized in Adams loynes In thy first estate I present thee like Ovids Cornucope stored with all the fecundity of blessings blessed man can beare In thy second and worse estate like Pandora's boxe stored with all the fecundity of miseries that wretched man shall beare In thy first estate I know thou wilt approve thy selfe in being the Image of God made perfect holy immortall In the second I suppose thou wilt dislike thy selfe being made imperfect unholy mortall Man that is in honour and understandeth not is like the beasts that perish Psal 49.21 Dislike or approve doe which thou wilt doe both I am 〈◊〉 EDVV COOKE THE JNDVCTION BEfore the Lord distinguisht time or place Each creatures forme lay open to his face And in the presence of their Maker were That is i● his eternal Id●●a Though not then extant as t' us now they are For his all-seeing Essence was the glasse In which he saw what after came to passe Yet he that view'd them in one onely act Zanchy Gen 1 ●0 And in one Chaos did them all compact Would not in one day but in sixe dayes space Make them apparent in their proper place That Man might know it was his will and pleasure To order them in Number Weight and Measure In this eternall powerfull operation Gods transient operation ou● of himself Which GOD did explicate in the Creation Out of himselfe as Transient unto us He shew'd his love and mercy plenteous But in his owne worke wrought internally He doth reveale more power and mystery That same internall secret power is it Of this power St. Augusti●● speak●●● to M●●●● mi●●● By which he did the Word his Sonne beget VVhich worke continues and is never done And yet he hath begot a perfect Sonne Much like the Beame which from the Sunne doth rise Alwayes begot yet perfect to our eyes But his externall worke my Muse must show As transient from himselfe to things below And passe his inselfe-worke so infinite To speake somewhat of this so exquisite Psal 104.24 Made with such wisedome and variety As did expresse the Makers Deity BARTAS JVNIOR THe glorious Earth was fruitfull without rain Gen. ● ●1 The creeping Serpent suffered then no paine The irefull Adder had no power to sting Leviathan was then a harmelesse thing The Wolfes and Lyons with the Lambe did play Isay 11.6 7 No creature then became the others prey The great vast Sea no vigour had to rage August de Civit. Dei l. 14. c. ●6 No force had Nature then to bring old age The Thornes and Bryers they did trouble none Perfection was the end that made them knowne Then scarce and rare these served for to show The Wisedome of our GOD in things below Ps 2. ●● The Trees were greene and grow without plantation Gen. 1.11 12. Iob 26.7 The Earth was firmely laid without foundation The heavenly Orbe was fil'd with harmony The lower-Region had like sympathie The beast with man most friendly did agree And man with GOD had blessed company He fram'de and finish'd the whole hoste of heaven Psal 33. ●● He made them All of Nothng streight and even He did the Angels and Archangels make Col. 1.16 And having made them he no rest did take He never rested till the Man was made And then he rested when his Bed was laid The Center of mans heart he made his nest And there in mercy did vouchsafe to rest Heavens Earth and Sea each sublime terrene thing Psal 33.6 Fiat lux One onely Fiat unto passe did bring But Man the last of creatures then to be Imploy'd to make him the whole Trinity In him their sacred image may be found A Trinity in Vnity profound Which from his soule most severall doth arise 1 Minde 2 Will 3 Worke of power all from one soule As Minde Will Worke Three royall faculties His Minde conceiving well doth represent The Fathers royall person excellent Who being God as Father did beget His onely Sonne which worke continues yet The Image of the Trinity in the soule of man His Wills Affection being gain'd or reapt Or else begotren of the Mindes conceipt Resembles well as we from it may gather The Sonne of God begotten of the Father The power of Worke done and in action still Proceeding from his Minde and from his Will Resembleth well the Holy Ghost as one Proceeding from the Father and the Sonne As these three Persons make but one-sole God Not three Gods but one God Not three soules but one soule Distinct in Office and yet not at odde So these three faculties not three Soules make But from the Soule doe their Existence take And as no Person in the Trinity In time precedes others in dignity But onely in their order so are brought The Son is not the Father neither is the holy Ghost the Sonne For some externall worke upon us wrought Distinct in office and in Personall state Yet in the Worke all-three cooperate So neither in this one Soules act within Did Minde in time before his Will begin Or power of Worke in time as after brought For that begins before the thing is wrought But in respect of order properly Existing with the Soule immediately But as an Image pictur'd to the sense Comes short of that whom neere it represents And can no whit attaine to that perfection Whereof it is an Image by reflection So Man comes short of the blest Trinity Though in himselfe he beares th' Imagery When he was made this creature wanted name When it was given he receiv'd the same Not from his Goodnesse Wisedome rationall Adam doth signify Rea● earth But from the earth his Parent Naturall Which name not taken from his dignity Taught him a lesson of humility Nay in that name though he Immortall were A mortall Character he then did beare Though death were farre off in propinquity And he enjoy'd all with tranquillity The Tree of life to serve him for his meate August de Civit. Dei l. 14. c. 26. The Angels as his guard while he did eate A body of so sound a constitution As should have kept him from all dissolution Yet if he fell he should be as his name And so returne to earth