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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15703	A nevve anatomie of vvhole man aswell of his body, as of his soule: declaring the condition and constitution of the same, in his first creation, corruption, regeneration, and glorification. Made by Iohn Woolton minister of the Gospell.	Woolton, John, 1535?-1594.	1576 (1576)	STC 25977; ESTC S120280	46,530	114

that many are choked oppressed with the thornes of this world and very fewe ridde them selues oute of the same All godly men ought to acknowledge this their great infirmitie and to pray continually that God of his mercy woulde vouchsafe to gouerne our pathes and steppes in this slippery way of the worlde that eyther we may not fall at all into foule offences or at the least that we may not be drowned vtterly perish in the same The newnes of maÌ„s hart regenerat is al so such that some diuine motioÌ„s are lightened and as it were kyndled So there beginneth both a certen harmony of affections in the harte and also a certaine consent of the mynde will and harte And so it conceyueth by the ayde of the holy ghoste and not of it selfe some sparkes and seedes of a reuerende and childish feare of god a loue of God and godly thinges a wonderfull tollerancy and patience in afflictions and a lothsome detestation of sinne and vvickednesse It beginneth to restraine brydle raging affections and embraceth hys â—auen ChristiaÌ„ with loue and charity Albeit not so perfectly as the lawe requireth Thou shalt loue the Lord thy god withall thy harte thy neighbour as thy selfe For the perfect exact fulfilling of the law belongeth to perfect incorrupt nature There remayneth therfore in the harts of men regenerate not onely a greate infirmitie coldnes dulnesse to all good motions but the same motions are confounded tumbled together as it were with a certaine whyrlewind And moste commonly corrupt affections beare rule and burst out with great shame and infamie as flames of lust desire of reuengement malice hatred either too much or preposterous feare or loue of externall and temporall thinges And many in these stormes and tempests are vtterly caste oute of Christes shippe and other some with muche adoe aryue in the hauen in a bote all to rent and torne as experience in all ages maketh manifest The hart therefore is muche lyke a roring sea of furious affections subiect to diuerse stormes and tempestes which if it be not made calme and quiet with the holy ghoste it will make greater shipwrackes in sinne then saylers do in Scylla and Charibdis The fountaine origine of these stormes tempestes is originall sin as I haue often already repeated so deepely rooted in oure nature Which the foule feend with his craft furor and power ouer miserable men meruelously augmenteth and increaseth And therefore Dauid beeing regenerate prayeth after this maner Create in me O God a cleane harte and renewe a right spirite within me He felt no doubt in him selfe these raging fluddes of the hart wherewithall hee vvas tost and almost oppressed diuersly and with great daunger neither was he able to resist the same withoute the ayde and assistance of the holy ghost The man regenerate then by Gods grace beginneth nevv obedience internall and externall whiche is acceptable to god through Iesus Christ who sayeth vnto vs I am the vine you are the braunches he that abideth in me and I in him that man bringeth forth much fruite for without me ye are able to doe nothing When wee are therefore ingraffed in Christe by regeneration and made good vve may doe good vvorkes as the Apostle euidently declareth We are his vvorkmanshippe created by Christ Iesus in good workes which God hath prepared that we should walke in But we muste alwayes remember that the good workes of men regenerate are not perfect in this lyfe according to the declaration of the law Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy hart with all thy soule with all thy strength and thy neighbour as thy selfe And therefore man regenerate hath not remission of sinnes and inheritance of eternall lyfe by meanes of his ovvne iustice which is vnperfect but onely by iustice imputatiue which is deriued vnto him by the iustice of Christe yet the maÌ„ regenerate hath this solace and comfort that his newe obedience is acceptable and pleasant vnto God Because he is reconciled to God by faith in Christ and all his vvorkes accions and obedience springeth of fayth And moreouer almighty God of his greate and abundant mercie doth recompence and crovvne this nevve obedience both in this lyfe and in the life to come This punnishment continueth all the dayes of mannes lyfe in this vvorlde that the greate dignity authoritie and rule which our parentes had before the fall ouer other liuing creatures is not restored vnto him againe The pleasure of God is that some signes of our corruption and transgression shoulde alvvayes be obiect vnto our eyes That we might the rather thereby feare and obey his maiestie And yet we may also see Gods blessing in making many beastes not onely tame but also as it were familiar and domesticall seruantes vnto vs and that more willingly and prosperouslye they serue vs then they serue the wicked and vngodly And in lyke maner the fertilitie of the earth is not perfectly restored in this lyfe to man regenerate and yet by the blessing of god all liuing creatures are fed as the Psalmist saith There is no scarsitie to those that feare him There yet remaineth also in the mariage of man regenerate certen signes and admonitions of his transgression as in that childreÌ„ are borne with paine peril of their parent are all by nature the sons of wrath And yet notwithstanding God is present with his seruants in their mariages and mitigateth the karkes cares thereof but also conserueth prouideth peace sendeth some Halcions dayes And often tymes for one good mans sake he blesseth whole regions and countries as the examples of Ioseph Danyell and many others do sufficiently declare The godly also haue this prerogatiue that because they be true and lyuely members of Christes church they onely may assure them selues that they bring forth seedes and plants of the heauenly Ierusalem and are as it were Nurceries bringing foorth as Plato called them worshippers of the diuine power and maiestie The tyranny and furor of the diuyll againste menne Regenerate ceasseth not in thys lyfe because sinne remayneth yet in oure nature And Gods will also is that the enemie of mankinde shoulde bee perfectly knovven that both the greate benefites of Christe mighte more clearely shyne and shevve them selues and also that the excercyse of fayth and confession might be more frequent and common amongst his faythfull seruantes and louing children For albeit the prince of this world be iudged already and hys power and weapons made dull and broken yet he is not altogether remoued out of this vvorld separated from the Sainctes for that shall not be absolued and finished before the last day And because mention hath oftentimes bene made of men regenerate and not regenerate to â—â—ende their differences may be more manyfest I vvil put downe certayne

his onely begotten sonne to take our nature vppon him to vvashe vs from our sinnes vvith his precious blood and to redeeme and deliuer vs from Satan For this inestimable benefite let vs continually vppon our knees geue moste hartie and earnest thankes vnto oure God euer and euer And although this great vvorke of God with many other things spirituall seeme ridiculous to the carnall man and humaine sence and prophane Nations accompt it but a deuise of phanaticall persons yet all those that are vnder the Insigne of Christ ought thaÌ„kfully to acknowledge highly to esteme this holsome worke benefite of God This doctrine issueth out of the places of Repentance of Iustification and of Baptisme For Regeneration conioyneth and lynketh all these thinges together RegeneratioÌ„ signifieth not in this place to returne corporally into our motheÌ„rs womb to be borne againe as Nicodemus supposed but a spiritual renewing and the similitude is taken froÌ„ the corporall natiuitie For as man is conceiued borne of his natural mother in sinne euen so in this spiritual natiuitie by the efficacie of gods worde and sacramentes externall instrumentes he is regenerate and spiritually made cleane from sinne that is to say he receyueth remission of sinnes he is made the sonne of God the temple of the holy ghost and an heire of eternall life albeit the spottes of Originall sinne doo yet remayne in this body of his And vnder this generall worde Regeneration mans conuersion vnto God his iustification and the effectes thereof are comprehended and conteyned Regeneration of Christians in Gods inuisible accion plainly expressed by his holy worde and sacramentes annexed vnto the same whereby our mercifull God doth spiritually forme and fashion of a carnall man a newe iust and holy manne ingraffing him into his kingdome remouing from hym his sinnes coÌ„mitted his wrath indignation and imparteth vnto him his iustice grace deliuereth him also from the power and kingdome of the Diuell and giueth him the holye ghost the earnest pledge of eternall lyfe and fynallye kindleth in him newe strength to begin newnes of life acceptable and pleasaunt vnto God in this world The groundes this definition are the words of the holy scripture Go teach all nations baptising theÌ„ in the name of the father the sonne and the holy ghost and he that beleeueth and is baptised shall bee saued This Renouation as I sayde before is a matter of the greatest moment and an especiall signe of Gods loue and mercy toward man For when godlesse man put vpon him the image of the diuell and was therby more then oppressed with many miseries and had cast away al hope of releefe the louing Lord vsed a wonderfull temperature of iustice and mercy and ministred medicines to man his sonne euen then beeing a Solliciter and intercessor for vs. This sonne of the eternall father our Lorde Iesus Christ was from the beginning appoynted to descend take mans nature vpon him and was subiect to all humaine infirmities sinne excepted He appeared to destroy the works of the diuell to seeke the lost grote wherin Gods image vvas stamped to bring home the lost sheepe to the folde of eternall life to th ende that he might florishe for euer there vvith al heauenly companies beeing here regenerated and there according to Gods image perfectly renevved For when man kinde had receiued most greeuous vvoundes and vvas bounde in strong chaynes not able to be brokeÌ„ by mans strength this bruser of the Serpentes head came professed him selfe when the fulnesse of time should come to be our tender and faythfull Phisition to geue his flesh for the life of the world and that he woulde suffer suche punishements that by his stripes and vvoundes we should be healed and that through death he shoulde be destroyed that had povver of death to vvit the diuell that craftie serpent cruell dragen the enemie of man from the beginning This regeneration of mankinde vvas then done by none other but by Iesus Christ our Priest and euerlasting king who collecteth preserueth his church by the sound of his Gospell vvherein is written the decree of our recoÌ„ciliation Which Gospell he beeing the eternall worde of the eternall father reueleth vnto vs Shevving the chearefull countenance of his father and powring the holy ghost into our harts that with perfect loue and heauenly ioy we might in obedience be vnited to our god Which propertie of his office speciall priuileges he hath made most manifest by his resurrection by the sending downe of the holy ghost vpon the Apostles that thereby vve might the better consider the inestimable price of that benefite The sonne of God together with the Prophets Apostles do exhort vs to repentance that we might be renued and clothed with that newe image and regenerate to a celestiall wisdome iustice And to th ende that we might know the deformitie of the olde Adam and be excited to seeke gods image in Christ who is the newe and heauenly Adam we must vse both the lavve and the Gospell The Lavve I saye that vvee stricken vvith feare and dread in respect of our sinnes might be enforced to seke after the true and perfect Phisition who is Christ whoÌ„ the Gospell affyrmeth to be made vnto vs vvisedome redemption iustice and sanctification But wee muste also vnderstande that not onely that iustice which was gotten by Christes blood is transferred vnto vs through gods woÌ„derfull grace mercy but in this regeneration there is a redeliuerie or restitution of certen powers or strengthes in maÌ„ out of the which certen accions issue flowe And yet this restitution is not so perfect as that vve are able eyther to fulfill the Lawe or to be accompted iust before God but it is the fruite of Iustice Imputatiue as they call it albeit in some places other respect it haue the name of Iustice as That I may be founde in him not hauing mine owne iustice which is of the lawe but that whiche is of fayth in Christ. I vvill therfore write somvvhat particularly of the powers restored to the godly in regeneration and aftervvarde I will speake of their accions and vvorkes And first of al mans mind hath certen powers or habilities restored by the holy ghost and a kinde of light kindled in thinges spirituall and diuine Be yee renewed sayth the Apostle in the spirite of your mindes And Renewe the newe man in the knowledge of God. And agayne We all vvith face reueled beholding the glory of the Lodre are transformed into the same image from brightnes to brightnes as it were by the spirite of the Lorde There is then restored some power abilitie vnto mans mind somewhat to vnderstand the diuine and heauenly mysteries and a certayne light to discerne the doctrine of God according to the rule of his worde from false doctrine and heresie For it hath vsually come

of god perfectly restored by Christ in glorification shal much excel the first donatioÌ„ but bicause the curious sifting of these matters passe the coÌ„passe of mans capacitie and smal is the smacke that we haue of these things vvhiles our foules are clogged with earthly vessels let vs besech Christ to hasten his coÌ„ming that we may take possession of that heauenly heritage where we shal beholde all those things euen with these eyes of ours and enioy the same in our bodies and soules This excelleÌ„t restitution of the faythful may not be ascribed to their owne works albeit god in his mercy promiseth to reward crown the same but onely to the mercy of God in his sonne Christ For as the resurrection from the dead is neither the work of man nor of angels but of god alone euen so al those things vvhich apperteine to mans eternall glorification proceede only of the power goodnes of god in exhibiting his sonne to finish this vvorke As the Apostle sayth We are reconciled to god by the death of his sonne Agayne Receyuing abundance of grace and iustice they shall reigne in life by one man Iesus Christ And also He rose agayne for our iustification And hereof it coÌ„meth to passe that our sauiour Christ is ofteÌ„ times in the scripture called our life I am the way the truth and the life And I came that they mighte haue life Euen so is the donation of eternall life ascribed vnto him And the reason is because he is our Mediator Redemer For albeit the father and the sonne are one yet will the father be knowen in his sonne only and it is the sonne only that demeriteth sendeth the holy ghost into the harts of beleeuers The vvordes of Athanasius are worthy the obseruation in this matter It was requisite that the sonne should assume mans nature that by meanes of the essentiall Image of god man being the create image might be restored Wherof Origen also writeth excellently MaÌ„ brought the maligne image throgh sinne therfore Christ came in the likenes of maÌ„ to reforme vs according to his image Novv that vvee all may be partakers of this glorification it behoueth vs to begin new obedience in this life which is acceptable to god through Christ and as the Apostle doth exhort vs Let vs put on the new man which after God is formed in righteousnesse and holynes of truth Let vs alvvayes haue in remeÌ„brance that this life of ours is nothing els but a pilgrimage through the vvhich vvee must trauell into eternall life Let vs forget those things that are behinde our backes and desire those things that are before our faces Let vs ame to the marke euen to the garland of eternal life through Iesus Christ Let vs be certeÌ„ly perswaded as the truth is in dede that there can be no greater plague then to be separate from God by sinne in place of eternal ioy to abide eternal misery for swete life to receiue bitter death Let the consideration of Gods image imparted vnto mankinde moue vs to haue alvvayes in remeÌ„brance gods great loue tovvarde vs our dutie to him againe Wherof S. Augustine writeth excellently after this maner Vnderstand O man by thy honor in thy first estate how much thou are bound to thy creator which dignitiâ— he adâ—aunced thee vnto that thou should so much the more loue him as he hath prefâ—rred thee in honor before all mundaine creatures For by the counsayle of the holy trinitie thou wast not onely excellently created but created after the similitude image of the creator which was not collated to any other creature but to man only By this and such like consideratioÌ„s it shal come to passe by the aide of Gods grace that we shal defie treade down earthly things couet celestial heauenly things We shal say with the Apostle I desire to be losed to be with Christ So shal we dye blessedly and rest froÌ„ all labors so shall we arise agayne to immortalitie and our bodies shal be conformed vnto the body of christ And so we shal haue perfect felicitie beeing ioyned to god the perfect goodnes in perfect loue and the image of God after the which we be first created shal be more perfectly absolued in vs In the whiche Image there shal shine perfect iustice perfect holynes perfect libertie perfect vvisdom perfect clearnes glory wherof the Prophet speaketh saying I shal be satisfied when I shall awake according to thy similitude Whervnto Salomon also alludeth saying The eye is not satisfied with seeing neither is the eare filled with hearing In whiche sentence the Wiseman signifieth that nothing can suffise man before he come to god rest in him For there is in man such a desire of diuine things that nothing can sufficieÌ„tly coÌ„tent him but that which is the chiefest which when he obteineth then he resteth in the same as in the cheefe felicitie And therfore his perfit estate must nedes be in eternal blessednes which we begin here in this life absolue perfectly in the life to come vvherof Prosper speaketh The life to come is beleeued to be blessed sempiternally sempiternally blessed where there is perfect loue no feare The state of this blessednes was offred to S. Iohn in a vision He sawe the holy citie Ierusalem prepared like a spouse for her husbande Christ in the which there was neither mourning neither clamor nor death but ioye peace quietnes euerlasting life Whose walles were of precious stone And the citie was pure golde like vnto cleare glasse and the foundations of the wall of the citie were garnished with all maner of precious stones The twelue gates were twelue pearles euery gate was of one pearle and the streete of the citie was pure gold as it were shining glasse And I sawe no temple therein for the Lord god almightie the Lambe are the temple of it And the Citie had no neede of the sunne neither of the moone to lighten it for the glory of God the lambe is the light of it And the nacions of them which are saued shal walke in the light of it and the kings of the earth do bring their glorie and honor vnto it And the gates of it shal not be shut at all by day for there shall be no night And they shall bring the glory and honor of the gentiles vnto it And there shall in no wise enter into it any vncleane thing neither what soeuer worketh abhomination or maketh lyes but they onely which are vvritten in the lambes booke of life The image of true felicitie which we couet desire is after a sort represented vnto vs in this descâ—iption which albeit it doth not nor can not liuely perfectly expresse the same yet it is proposed both to stirre vs vp to an earnest desire thereof and to kindle in vs an ardent

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