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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44220	Magnetismus magnus, or, Metaphysical and divine contemplations on the magnet, or loadstone written by Sir Matthew Hale.	Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.	1695 (1695)	Wing H250; ESTC R8784	65,385	172

whole Matter the whole Design of the Evangelical Dispensation is ordered and contrived with most singular Wisdom and Forecast with most admirable Congruity to the most refined Reasons and with singular Advantage to affect the Souls of Men and to bring them about to the great End designed by it namely the stating of the Soul in its due Position and Habitude to Almighty God the perfecting of its Nature and Habits and the final Fruition of Everlasting Felicity And the Truth is that the Divinity of this Evangelical Dispensation is herein manifested for if all the wisest Men on Earth yea or all the Angels of Heaven had set themselves to have contrived a Method of the Redemption and Salvation of Mankind they could never have found out so exquisite an Oeconomy suited to this End as is delivered in the Revelation of the Evangelical Mystery And therefore it is those glorious Creatures the Angels look upon it with Admiration 1 Pet. 1.12 unto whom the manifold Wisdom of God is herein declared and manifested But yet besides the admirable Wisdom of this Dispensation in the Matter and Ends thereof there are two great Circumstances in this Revelation that signally declare it to be no less than a divine Contrivance and Message from the God of Truth and Wisdom 1. In that the Ends propounded in it are not of any Secular or Worldly Advantage Had the Gospel promised its Disciples and Followers External Wealth Honour Grandeur Temporal Delights or Pleasures it might have been suspected to have been a Politick Contrivance of some sagacious Men to conduct Men under pretence of a New Religion to secular Advantages But the Business of the Gospel is quite of another Nature directed to the attainment of Ends that are quite of another kind nay is so far from it that it tells its Disciples they must not expect the Splendor of this World but must neglect deny and contemn it that instead thereof they must expect persecution neglect and contempt from the World and accordingly it succeeded to them especially in the first and purest Ages of the Christian Church 2. In that the Means and Instruments of its Promulgation to the World were the most disproportion'd to a politick humane Contrivance and the most unlikely in all humane Appearance to attain its End or Acceptation with the World Had the Evangelical Oeconomy been the Product of a Consultation of a Conclave of Learned Rabbi's or of deep Philosophers or of Politick or Wise States-men possibly it might have given an Occasion to the rest of the World to have said or thought that it is true indeed it is a well-polished System of a Religion but yet it carries a Suspicion with it of a humane Contrivance considering what Wise Men were emyloyed in the digesting or promulgation of it But the glorious God to prevent any possible Surmises in the Minds of Men of this kind and to let the World see and know that it was not a Contrivance of Humane Invention Wisdom or Policy but a Method of Religion and Salvation instituted and manifested by Almighty God himself and by his own immediate Ordination and Wisdom in the whole Method of the Evangelical Dispensation doth industriously decline all Instances and Contributions of humane Helps and Advantages and chooseth those Circumstances and Instruments therein that had the least semblance of any Contribution of worldly or humane Wisdom or Advantage Christ the Messenger of the Gospel a poor obscure Man hated and persecuted by his Country-men and at length Crucified his Apostles poor Fisher-men unlearned and ignorant Men Acts 4.13 the whole World of Learned Philosophers of Jewish Masters of Great Princes and States-men opposing this Doctrine with the greatest Industry Skill and Power vilifying it with Reproach Scorn and Contempt a Stumbling-Block to the Jews and to the Greeks Foolishness And wherefore was all this Certainly next to the Excellency of the Evangelical Doctrine it self there could not have been a greater manifestation of the Divine Wisdom and a greater Indication that the Christian Religion was really and truly a more divine Institution than this manner of its Mission into the World namely That by this it might appear in the Success it had in the World that the Power thereof is of God and not of Men And therefore he chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty That no flesh should glory in his presence 1 Cor. 1.27 29. That in the admirable Success of the Christian Religion in the World all Men might see and acknowledge that it was neither the Contrivance of Wise Men nor carried on by the Wisdom or Power of Men but by the Power of God and the Wisdom of God And thus far touching this great Means of Reduction of the humane Soul to his just Habitude and Respect to Almighty God viz. The Redemption of Mankind by Christ Jesus CHAP. XIII Touching the Reasonableness of the Christian Religion and the sutableness thereof to the Reduction of the Soul to its due State Position and Happiness THere are many Truths both in Nature and Divinity that have not neither indeed can have their first Discovery unto Mankind but by supernatural Revelation which yet being discovered have a high Congruity and Consonancy to true Reason As for Instance The manner and order of the Creation of the Universe as it is delivered by Moses if it be duly considered is greatly consonant to the Nature and Reason of the things in the World and yet it is impossible that it should at first be discovered but by supernatural Revelation for no Man was or could be a Witness to the Creation of things that were pre-existent to his Being neither is it possible for humane Reason to search out by bare Ratiocination the distinct order method periods and other Circumstances of that Great Work of Omnipotent Power and Wisdom And the same may in a great measure be asserted touching many of the important Methods and Circumstances of the Redemption of Mankind and Evangelical Doctrine Some things therein delivered I confess were before believed either by the Light of Nature or at least by some antient Tradition as the Existence and Perfection of Almighty God the Immortality of the Soul and a Future State of Rewards and Punishments though the Notions thereof were troubled and confus'd But the Evangelical Revelation hath these great Preferences 1. That some things are discovered therein which were never before discovered nor discoverable but by Divine Revelation as the Miraculous Conception and Mission of the Messias the Expiation for the Sins of Men and the Impetration of Eternal Life for Mankind by his Death and divers other great Evangelical Mysteries 2. That as to those very Points of Truth that in some measure were before apprehended and believed by Mankind yet they are more distinctly plainly and evidently discovered in and by the Evangelical Revelation so that as to both these