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A56917 A brief discovery of the three natures viz., humane, divine, devilish, the rootes or originals of the politike states of Caesar, Christ, Antichrist in relation to a former treatise discovering the said three states, and withall farther clearing the usefulnesse thereof : whereby also is laid open to humane reason the impossibility of compulsive ecclesiasticall government to be of divine institution, and that liberty of conscience is to be allowed by all unto all, holding the bounds of civility, fully confirmed by principles in nature and Holy Scripture : humbly presented to the serious consideration of the High Court of Parliament / by Michael Quintine. Quintyne, Michael. 1642 (1642) Wing Q226; ESTC R13006 12,945 21

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who to confound mankinde in all wayes by his deluding feates and wiles hath brought in fashion in all parts of the earth violent and compulsive government of conscience knowing whilest that continueth humane race especially the most upright and innocent must to wracke for who in conscience can governe or be governed by humane power but for civilities sake except such men as can to gaine the world and present welfare of their flesh subject conscience to any thing excusing themselves upon the unjust demanded charge of others who for all their great takings upon them have as much to doe in that respect to give account for themselves as they the truth of this discovery is plaine enough by experience that the nature of the devill is infinite envie if men would looke into it but what shall I say if our first Parents in the time of innocencie were short sighted well may their posterity conceived in sinne and brought forth in iniquitie be blinde And that the nature spirit and disposition of the hellish rabble the whole company of devillish men and Angells is envie the same with the devills their spirituall Father See Ioh. 8.44 1 Ioh. 3.10 11 12. That the essence of man consisteth of a two-fold substance is formerly proved the nature of his humane part and the nature of his spirituall substance being derived from God or the devill together with the nature of them also is likewise set forth which three natures are also discovered to be the ground and roote of Policie The next thing intended and promised in this Treatise is to lay open how two natures are consisting in man without intermixtion and interposition of contraries which in any height of measure is the meanes of confusion in any creature By the way it falleth to my hand to speake of the excellencie of the constitution of humane nature in the first creation which was without sinne and whereunto all the creatures besides were made subiect and inferiour both in the nature of their constitutions government and use which humane constitution also was made serviceable being the subiect part of man to the right spirit which God breathed into him whereby man became that compleate creature in both parts the discription of whose nature in both respects is the Morrall Law of God whose lively or rather living Image was the onely begotten Son of God that quickning spirit Jesus Christ the Redeemer of what was lost in and by man in and for all the Elect and chosen seede of Adam but for brevitie sake I shall omit to speake any more of it and according to my purpose indeavour to shew how the essence of man consisteth of a two-fold substance without interposition of contrary natures Man considered as formerly created and fallen redeemed and under the curse the Law of Justice holds him liable to love and wrath salvation and reprobation and to be made a vessell of honour and dishonour without any wrong and injustice at all The consideration of man as created in righteousnesse as redeemed from all iniquitie Tit. 2.14 whereby righteousnesse is imputed and man becomes as made without sinne is both one if any difference be in case of priviledge redemption affords the greater making stronger the union by the meanes of reconciliation wherein the redeemed are indeered unto God Rom. 5. from vers 6. to 11. Rom. 8.32 c. And God is the like unto them 1 Pet. 1. from 13. to 20. The case standing thus betweene God and man by redemption whereby the humane part of man is made or become as at first a subiect or materiall vessell for a divine reasonable or living soule and although full of frailty and infirmity as all elementary and mortall bodies as also as earth and drosse it self in comparison of any divine spirituall substance which as it is in it self is void of any divin use yet such as God in his wisedome is pleased to make part of the essence of man which setteth forth the glory of redemption and the power of Christ in the work of salvation 2 Cor. 12.9 so man in his consistance of soul and body flesh spirit is imputed as in first creation without sin and said to be born of God not to commit sin as God accounts of his children through redemption 1 Joh. 3.9 10. And thus the two Natures Divine and Humane are consisting in man without intermixion of contraries though through infirmitie of the flesh subject to naturall corruption temptation of the devill and abuse of the men of the world against which they warre untill the perfection of the redemption of the body doe appeare even untill Mortality hath put on Immortality Man considered fallen and under the curse is a correspondent subject for the devill being both inclineable to confusion and the way of destruction as is set forth in their severall natures these are the enemies Tares which he sowed amongst the good seed these grow together in the world untill the harvest of God I need not stand to relate the meanes of their union nor the testimonies thereof the world in all parts every day yeelds plenty thereof what doth God reprobate but the devils own the union it selfe of the nature of man and of the spirituall substance which he receiveth from the devill as the father thereof is all one by way of infusion with that of God and man differing only in nature and substance and the end thereof Thus contrary to the two-fold consistence of the essence of the redeemed is this of the cursed without contrariety in nature of both parts but not without mans confusion because in this case the poore creature Man is made a slave unto the worst of creatures whereby his being and end becomes more vile and miserable than the most inferiour creature which God formed out of the earth This once more with my heart in my hand in the sight and discovery of natures the fountaines of Policy for the truths sake which is the way of all mans reall happinesse Must I speak unto this high Court which guideth the Raines of the power of all the State of this Land If the strength of the devils envy through delusion was too hard for you Parents in the time of Innocency in their nature and hath since their fall prevailed against divers of their posterity both by deceit and violence to the confusion of them in respect of matters spirituall and temporall Consider ye civill powers and yet children of Adam and Eve yea and since the curse are ye not as liable to be corrupted in your policy which is but the image of their nature both in the nature use and service thereof may not ye subscribe to devillish advise reaching after more and higher dominions than God hath given you and make what is your own an instrument of confusion in imploying it out of bounds to the destruction of innocent bodies which is worshipping the devill and an effect of the curse upon mankinde such
eternity of evill and misery the humane nature being thus subjected under the power of justice God is free in the compassion of his love to bestow his Spirit and redemption where he please and in his wrath and displeasure to reject and cast away whom he will who and what shall contend with his Maker Rom. 9.20 21. The nature of the spirituall substance the immortall soule the formall part of the essence of man it issueth from God or the devill and is one of the said two Fathers or Fountaines of Spirits and it will be sufficiently set forth in the discovery of their natures But that the soule of man receives his being and participateth in nature as aforesaid take a few proofes from principles in Nature and Positive truth of Divine Writt Man begets a Sonne in his owne likenesse in the nature of his materiall substance but the often contrarietie in the spirits of parents and children as godly parents and wicked children wicked parents and godly children the unlikenesse in that part proveth them no soule Parents Likewise in case Parents should beget soules when as often times the father and mother are contrary in nature of spirit what shall be their Off-spring in that respect The Scripture sheweth plainely that the children of God in respect of their soules and the nature of them are said to be borne of God Joh. 1.13 Joh. 3.6 God is called the Father of them in respect of that part of their essence Matth. 5.16 and ver 48. Luke 12.32 Christ cleareth this point to the full discovering the Fountaine or Father of the spirit of the Jewes who went about to kill him Joh. 8.42 and 44. and in Heb. 12.9 the Holy Ghost tearmes our naturall parents Fathers of our flesh and God the Father of Spirits The divine nature spirit qualitie or disposition of God which most specially of any part of his essence sets him forth to be what he is the onely and absolute good Matth. 19.17 is infinite love every part of the whole creation doth testifie the truth thereof which he made not to supply his owne want the continuall supply of the sundry wants of the whole earth doth the same the great mountainous worke of love never to be forgotten by the sonnes of men the giving of the price of Redemption his onely begotten sonne his expresse Image who laid downe his life for his people fulfilling the will of his Father Ioh. 3.16 17. A testimony without exception proving the nature of God to be infinite and matchlesse love Rom. 5.8 The nature and qualitie of all things is the most eminent part of their essence and so it is the most pernicious part by which God is made knowne to the sonnes of men for his nature or spirits sake which is love hee is called love 1 Ioh. 4.16 for a testimony hereof alwayes to stoppe the mouthes of lyers and their father whose envie would cloud all the favour of God towards poore men besides the state of humane Policy God hath from Adam unto this day from time to time instituted a state of Divine policy in publike testimony and visible acknowledgement of the fellowship which he hath with his redeemed ones and now according to the fulnesse of time manifesting the fulnesse of his love in paying downe the full price of Redemption the perfection and full accomplishment of the worke of salvation of his divine Nature which is perfect love and goodnesse he hath instituted a visible state of divine Policy for the sonne of his Love the Captaine of salvation and his people of Love here upon earth which is composed of love not onely for matter and forme but also in respect of state and platforme and the Lawes and Ordinances thereof upon what can man thinke or looke and not see the tender mercies of God over all his workes Psal 145.9 And that the Nature Spirit or disposition of the whole Hoast of God both men and Angels is Love the Word of God cleareth it experimentally by the ministring of the Angells and by the Morrall Law of God both Tables written in the hearts of men which are made partakers of the divine nature for by love is the same fulfilled Rom. 10.13 The nature Spirit or disposition of the Divell from whom every base spirit deriveth his measure of unnaturall lewdnesse both men and Angels of the devilish broode is infinite envie Loves opposite the first Act that ever the devill did unto mankinde proveth the truth thereof for in his hopelesse desperate fallen estate without any expectation of reliefe to himselfe he treacherously deceived man in the time of his innocencie and by delusion and flattery through rebellion against his Maker drew him into the thraldome of sinne and misery notwithstanding it could be no abatement to his owne Gen. 3. and ever since man hath subsisted in an hope of redemption from time to time and in sundry ways hath the nature of the devill beene largely expressed to be envie her selfe which is alwayes so ready to worke mischiefe that she pines at the good of any witnesse the case of Adam Abel and Iob yea all of note for uprightnesse upon record in Scripture from age to age farther testimony hereof is 1 Chron. 21.1 1 Pet. 5.8 The severall states of Policy which God did opportunely institute in the world for the good and comfort of men the upright in speciall against which none but the nature of the devill boundlesse envie could except or vilifie them yet the chiefest of them hath she undervalued and by delusion hath drawne the chiefe of the earth in the state of civility and the greatest part of temporizing subjects thereof likewise to tread the same under foote and all that apparantly incline thereunto and hath caused the earth the great ones greatest part therof to set up countenance and support a state of Tyranny in matters of conscience wherein is disorderly forced together with violence divine and civill things to the confusion of both the service he willeth and delighteth in even the utter undoing of the whole earth In the time of the state of the Jewes which God ordained as a great light to shew the world that he had visible fellowship with such as feare him and to preserve them in holinesse then and therein how did the envie of the devill and his crew shelter such oppression and grosse abuse of Gods holy things which grew to such an height of hipocrisie that they were not ashamed without Law or Reason yea contrary to both to put to death equity yea Love himselfe the very Sonne of God whom none could convince of sinne which effected the confusion of their house Matth. 23. and since the desolation thereof and Gods election of the Kingdome of his Sonne in the state of love composed of matter and forme of love Subiects won by love Volunteers worshipers in spirit and truth Joh. 4.23 24. How hath matchlesse envie beene palpably manifested to be the nature of the devill