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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16505	The rainebow, or, A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the tenth day of Iune, 1617 by Immanuel Bourne ...	Bourne, Immanuel, 1590-1672.	1617 (1617)	STC 3418; ESTC S725	61,782	73

God Theodoret in Genes cap. 7. Numb 23.19 Malac. 3.6 Lyra Glossa in Genes Not that there is any repentance properly to bee found in God For as Theodoret demaundeth the question Quomodo poenitentia cadat in eum qui suâ praescientiâ regit vniuersa How should repentance be found in him who by his eternal prescience and foreknowledge doeth gouerne all things But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 figuratiuely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speaking after the manner of men Non secundum rem sed secundum modum not according to the thing but according to the manner of the thing as Lyra and the ordinary Glosse interpret according to that golden rule of Athanasius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 These things are spoken humanely but they are to bee vnderstood diuinely that is as they are agreeable and answerable to the nature of God Greg. magnus in Iob lib. 20. cap. 24. And therefore Gregory the great doeth wittily and pithily conclude concerning God in his morall exposition vpon Iob quia ipse immutabilis id quod voluerit mutat paenitere dicitur quamuis rem mut●t consilium non mutet Because God himselfe being immutable doeth change that which hee hath willed he is said to repent although indeed he doeth change the thing but doeth neuer change his counsell and eternall Decree And thus it repented the Lord that is as Moses doeth expresse the hatred of sinne in the sight of God The punishment of the old world grieuous according to the capacitie of men and therefore their sinne was intollerable And their punishment which is the next circumstance was likewise grieuous First in respect of the Authour of it a mightie powerfull and terrible God who is a consuming fire to the wicked Hebr. 12.29 and a lake of brimstone to the workers of iniquitie Secondly in respect of the time which was the Spring S. Ambros in Genes Secundū mensem verni temporis fuisse non ambigitur as the most and best Expositours doe iudge to the greater griefe of the wicked because they were taken away in their pleasure and the world was drowned when the earth was filled in great abundance Thirdly in respect of the manner of it for then were the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp and the mightie cataracts and flood-gates of heauen opened the streames of water gushed foorth with a terrible noyse and a dolefull roaring from the heauen and from the earth from aboue and from belowe on the right hand and one the left so that there was no way to escape from the reuenging hand of an angry God To conclude it was grieuous and terrible in respect of the effect of it for excepting Noah and the rest in the Arke all flesh died that were on the earth there was none that was saued no not one the husband and the wife the father and the sonne the mother and the daughter the master and the seruant the olde and the young they were all drowned together O then beloued what heart can there be in the world so hard and slonie what eyes so flintie that cannot melt into brinish teares and breake in pieces with griefe and sorrow at the consideration of so lamentable a spectacle Good GOD Mans degeneration lamentable that euer man should so farre degenerate from his first integritie and fall into such vile impieties which could prouoke so gracious a God to plague him with so terrible a destruction But man is fallen man is degenerated from his first integritie who can but lament with a dolefull lamentation God is angrie hee hath smitten hee hath plagued he hath drowned the olde world with a dolefull iudgement who can but quake with fearefull tremblings What man is there vnder the cope of heauen that cannot by this be mooued to remooue his hatefull sinnes the causes of Gods direful punishments since for them God is mooued to destroy not onely man but the bruite creatures together with man the soules of the ayre the beasts of the field and the creeping things of the earth Obiection Sed quid hi fecerunt But what haue these done may some man obiect will the Lord destroy the righteous with the wicked shal not the Iudge of all the world do right is there the same condition of him that sinneth him that sinneth not what had the beasts of the field offended wherin had the creeping things of the earth sinned or what iniquitie had the foules of the heauen committed that they also must be destroyed with man Solution The creatures destroied in the flood for a threefold reason To which I answere that as all these were created in the beginning for man and for the good of man so they were all againe destroyed with man for the sinne punishment of man by the iust iudgment of God First because man was become a rebellious traitour against God his Creator therfore as a King condemning a perfidious rebell doeth not only command him to be put to a shamefull death but his lands goods and chattels to be confiscate so likewise God doeth not onely destroy man but the creatures together with man which were created for his vse Secondly because that beastly men had abused the creatures by their filthy pleasure and riotous excesse and therefore it stood with Gods iustice to punish the instrument with the principall Lastly to shew the hatefullnesse of sinne in the sight of God hee beeing Lord of all doeth not onely destroy man but the bruite creatures together with man as before he did curse the earth for mans sake Genes 3.17 If then thou wilt not bee mooued for thine owne sake to refraine from thy sinnes and remooue thy impieties The destruction of the beasts should mooue vs to remooue our sinnes yet take pitie vpon the bruite beasts vpon the creeping things vpon the foules of the ayre lest by thy sinnes thou pull downe Gods terrible iudgements and they also perish with thee If thou wilt not bee mooued for any of these yet take pitie vpon thy seruants vpon thy little children vpon thy wife that lieth in thy bosome lest thou prouoke Gods anger against thee and they also perish with thee But O corda saxis duriora Mens hearts more hard then adamāts O hearts more hard then adamants how many are there in the world that cannot bee mooued for any of these nor for all these nor for greater motiues then these to remooue their sinnes and forsake their impieties For although they haue often heard of that inestimable loue of God towards mankinde in that hee spared not his owne Sonne but gaue him to the death for vs miserable sinners yet are they nothing hereby mooued to repentance although they haue often heard of that vnspeakeable loue of Christ in that hee spared not his owne life but offered vp his body vpon the Altar of the Crosse a sweet smelling incense of reconciliation to God his Father for our redemption yet are they nothing