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A44070	The creatures goodness, as they came out of God's hands, and the good mans mercy to the brute creatures, which God hath put under his feet in two sermons : the first preached before the University of Oxford : the second at the lecture at Brackley / by Thomas Hodges ...	Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1675 (1675)	Wing H2319; ESTC R17986	37,570	50

of it self yet keep the Fruits of the Earth warm like Wool He giveth Snow like Wool How do the Winds as God's Besom sweep the Air and carry about the Clouds which are his Chariots though these Chariots of God are twenty thousand even a thousand thousand of them yet all these move very swiftly upon the wings of the Wind. Come we to the lower region of the Air and there to the Fowls of Heaven Their flight above the Earth being made most of earth and water is very admirable The Ostrich doth partly go and partly fly makes use both of her legs and wings and so they say moves as swift as if she did sly The very feathers and wings of the Birds are of goodly sight Gavest thou the goodly wings to the Peacock Job 39.13 Besides the Fowls are of use some for food some for physick some for our recreation Even the very Swallow and the Bat some may think useles Creatures do the one by day and the other at even purge the Air of Flyes The Crows Ravens and Eagles devour those dead Carkases which lye on the Earth and else might corrupt the Air and make it pestilential The Crows pick up the Worms after the plough and so better the soil Some Birds are meat for the rest and they again for us Come we to the Beasts of the Field God hath put all these into our hands Psal 8.7 yea under our feet The Horse and the Cow Creatures of great and ordinary or daily use God hath not given them so great galls as to other Creatures lest being much used or misused by us they should wax angry and turn again and rent us The Horse doth not bite or kick his Keeper when he gives him chaff instead of provender The Beasts are for our food or physick or for the food of other Beasts who are useful or serviceable to us either to our necessities or our delights Even venomous Creatures themselves the Physicians make good use of they say these pick up or suck up poyson which is scattered up and down the Earth and make the places where they are more wholsom Again some of those poysonous Creatures are meat for other Creatures which are good food for us as Hens pick up Spiders and yet yield us good nourishment Besides it may be questioned whether there were any such thing as poyson before Sin came and brought it into the World we find no Antipathy then betwixt the Woman and the Serpent and so possibly no venom neither in the Serpent until the Devil that great Poysoner possessed it however poysons should not have been hurtful As for Flyes and creeping Things these are many of them for physick some for food so some sort of Locusts and Snails for our sport some with these other Creatures are fed and some taken as the Fishes Of what admirable use are these to us to the Silk-worm we owe our soft rayment and to the Coche●-●al our scarlet-dy And as for the Air it self 't is a fit Medium for us to breathe in to move in to derive the influences and light of Heaven to us Come we to the Earth our Bodies are made of it we dwell therein It brings forth Grass and Fruits and so food for us and the other Creatures It is our Bed to sleep in after death In the Earth the Valleys and Plains are sit conveyances of water to water the Earth are very fruitful stand so thick with Grass and Corn that they sing and shout for joy Psal 65.13 The Mountains are a shadow against the storm and heat they are for the grasing of the Cattel and thence we have our most goodly prospects Come we to the Waters there Fish are useful to us for food or delight or for other uses The Waters themselves yield matter of Rains and Dews to refresh the dry and thirsty ground serve to wash us and refrigerate us or to refresh us The Ebbing and Flowing of the Seas prevent the corruptions of the Waters is very useful for speedy transportation of Men and Merchandize and of the best Merchandize the Pearl of price And now if after all this there be yet any doubt or scruple concerning the goodness of God's Creation or his Creatures I answer God knows wherefore he made them all and to what use they serve although we do not When we come into a Goldsmiths or other Artificers Shop and see many Tools there which we know not how to use In officinâ non aude● vituperare fabrum audes in hoc Mundo reprehendere Deum Aust or what they are good for yet we do not straight way condemn them as useless because the Artificer knows what good use they serve for Neque in potestate hominis est indagare quam ob causam produxerit Natura formicarum alias alis instructas alias absque alis Quamobrem etiam vermium alios pluribus pedibus alios paucioribus produxerit quisvè sit hujus vermis hujus formicae finis 2. We say that if there be any deformity at present in the whole Creation if there be any Insects or other Creatures which are noxious I answer this comes from Mans sin Creantur quidem a Deo sed ultore saith Calvin in Gen. 2. If Man that was good and very good for till he was made God only saw and said of his Creatures that behold they were good but then very good prove Apostate from God and Rebel against him no wonder if God do begin to pull the house about his ears If Man himself become a Briar and a Thorn no wonder if the Earth bring forth Briars and Thorns to him Whil'st Adam continued in his goodness Heaven and Earth was full of God's goodness of God's good Creatures If there be any Creatures which are evil and pernicious to Man he must blame the evil of sin for that that is the fly in this Box of Ointment And yet as things now are in statu quo we may say as the Son of Syrach doth For the Good are good things created from the beginning so evil things for Sinners And a little after enumerating some of the principal things for the whole use of Mans life he saith All these things are for good to the Godly so to the Sinners they are turned into evil Eccles 39. 4. And so we come to our Fourth Head or Topick from whence we are to evidence the goodness of the Creatures namely their obedience unto their Maker It may be said of all God's Creatures as they were made at first by him from the highest Angel in Heaven to Man on Earth and the meanest Worm in or under the Earth that God commanded and they were created and they rebelled not against his Word And now since the Angels so many of them and Adam sell they from Heaven and he from Paradise yet the residue of the Creatures even the whole Creation these excepted keep the Law that their Maker set them and are

Trades and Imployments The Birds Nightingals excepted sing not in the night but the Dogs bark in the night and this Creature alone betrays the Thief at what hour of the night soever he comes 4. They delight in a diverse kind of Dyet feed on several Dishes and God gives every one his proper Dish his Meat in his season The Sheep doth not feed on flesh nor doth the Horse take pleasure to gnaw the bones like the Dog nor the Fish to eat hay like the Oxe 5. They have several Dwellings or Hiding-places The Hare does not lye down at the Crib nor doth the Dog delight constantly to abide in the Wood amongst Wolves Tygers and Lyons Of the Second God first made the Dwelling-houses of the Creatures before the Inhabitants thereof yea he first furnished and stored those several Mansions of the Creatures before he made and brought the Creatures into them First God made the grass for the Beasts and then the Beasts themselves First the inferior Creatures and then Man the Epitome under God supream Lord of all First God made Vegetative Creatures then Sensitive and then Rational First the simple bodies as the Elements and then compound and there first a being without life then a being and life without sense then a being life and sense without reason then altogether all in one and that is Man Again goodly was the order which God set for the propagation of the Creatures He gave them a seed whereby to beget others in their own likeness Or from whence should grow alway another to continue and replenish the World It is admirable to think that so much should come of so little that the seed of Plants is not quickned except it dye that when seed is sown in the Earth the seed should grow and spring up and the Sower knoweth not how For The Earth bringeth forth fruit of her self first the Blade then the Ear then the full Corn in the Ear Mar. 4.27 28. And all this comes from the goodness and blessing of God upon it in the first Creation Gen. 2.11 12. Again it had been a goodly pleasant sight to have seen the Waters bring forth Fish and Fowl of themselves first and so the Earth to bring forth Beasts and all kind of Cattel after their kind and all at God's Word of Command at first And that all these Creatures should have virtue to multiply and increase and to replenish the Sea and the dry Land this is very wonderful This is a goodly order too that God hath set namely that sensitive Creatures should some bring forth living Creatures some egs only that the Ostrich should bring forth egs and leave them And yet God take order with the Beams of the Sun as with his wings to keep them warm and hatch them That God should seed the young Ravens when they cry and the old one the Dam hath left them viz. as some tell us by causing a little worm to grow out of the dung in the nest and to crawl into their very mouths to feed them Again that the great Creatures are not so fruitful as the small and that the wild beasts do not so multiply as the tame and more useful Creatures do this is also admirable That the Waters greater than the Earth and at first above the Earth should not overflow it but be bound in by a girdle of Sand and that a light body which the wind can blow too and fro where it listeth That the Fire doth not consume and devour all the other corporal Creatures That the Beams of the Chambers of the World should be laid in the Waters Psal 104.3 and yet not be moved That the Globe of the Earth and Waters should hang upon its own Center only like a ball in the air this is indeed wonderful Again a most beautiful sight it is to behold and consider the good order and concatenation of Causes first set by God God appointed the Heavens to hear the Earth and the Earth to hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oyl and these to hear Jezreel Hos 2.22 This is that sight which the poor Heathens had some glimps of in the night of Gentilism as appears by that Poetical Fancy of the chain fastned to Jupiter's Chair and reaching down to the Earth What should we say more When God finished the Heavens and the Earth and all the Host of them he left them like a well govern'd Army standing in Battel-aray every one set in his rank every one ordered to march on in his way and none to break their ranks no one to thrust another So that if the greatness and glory of King Solomon and the goodly order of his House or Court was a sight which put the Queen of Sheba to an extasy what a sight had it been to have been with Adam in Paradise and to have seen the general muster of the Creatures before him that he should give them their names and to have seen that excellent order which was observed in this great House of the World and in all the Family of Heaven and Earth when God looked upon them all and behold they were very good Surely a far greater sight than that of Solomon's Court was here for a greater than he hath said Mat. 6.29 That Solomon in all his glory was not arayed like one of these Of the Third 3. The Creatures are very good because they are very useful to us In the state we are now some are for food some for Physick some for defence some for covering some for ornament some for our service some for our delight and recreation To instance in some particulars The Heavens were made spread out and garnished for Mans benefit and advantage Every Man has his portion in the Stars of Heaven Deut. 4.19 as well as in the clods or glebe of the Earth For as God hath determined to all Nations and persons the bounds of their habitations on the Earth so hath he divided unto them all the Sun Moon and Stars of Heaven The third Heaven is the Seat of the Blessed the Receptacle and Mansion of Saints and Angels the Palace and Paradise of the second Adam and his Seed The visible Heavens compass the World as a glorious wall of fire are a goodly Mount and fence yea a goodly covering and canopy to the sublunary World and to the Inhabitants thereof The Sun Moon and Stars distinguish Times and Seasons separate Day and Night give light to the Inhabitants of the Earth render it fruitful by their heat and influences Job 38.31 The Meteors in the middle region of the Air Fire and Hail Snow and Vapour stormy Winds Thunder and Lightening the small Rain and the great Rain of his strength these all set forth the Power of God are good for the Earth and the Inhabitants thereof they all fulfil his Word and this Word of his that Lo he beheld them and they were very good How doth the Snow though cold