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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

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pearcing all thinges But this subtilty is rather to be referred to the exquisite and perfect power of the senses Wherevnto may also be added affections vvhich shall not be grosse and earthly molesting the minde In this sense spake the Apostle It is sowen a naturall body but it riseth agayne a spirituall body In the vvhich vvordes he ment not that our bodyes shoulde be chaunged into spirites But that they should come as neere the propertie of spirites as possibly they might in respect of their Notices and affections reteyning still their corporall nature and substance These notable properties are collected by the schoole men out of Gods vvord many others there be omitted for it is truely sayd The eye hath not seene the eare hath not harde those thinges which God hath prepared for those that loue him It is not vnmete to be obserued in this place that neither the holy scriptures nor auncient Fathers nor Scholasticall writers haue in any place ascribed either to the bodies of Sainctes glorified or to Christes body vbiquitie to be in no place or in euery place It is that not without cause wondred at that some writers of our time doo so obstinatly mainteine that opinion without any good ground at all And it is to be noted ▪ that many of the Scholemen and amongst others Thomas Aquinas in consideration that the bodies of blessed men shall come moste neere vnto celestiall qualities He inferreth vpon the same that their habitation shall be aboue all elementes in the supreme and high heauen They dispute also of the age of men in their resurrection and their opinion is that the same shal be freshe strong and lustie inforcing that of the Apostle to the prouing therof vntill we growe in the vnitie of fayth into the knowledge of the sonne of God into a perfect man into the measure of the age of the fulnesse of Christ But by their patience the vvords of the Apostle tend to no suche ende For he speaketh not there of the reformation of bodies but of the renouatio of myndes as the words going before do most euidētly declare And yet I agree with them in the perfectiō of glorified bodyes but in some other sort For when god first created mā he made him no infant no decrepit de●●med or vnperfit person And seing the resurrectiō is a certen new kind of reformation it must needes be lyke and correspondent vnto the first As therfore all was very good that is to saye perfect in their kindes vvhich god created so shal mens bodies in the resurrection in their kindes be absolute and perfect And these are the properties which the schoole men attribute to the bodyes of saintes in the resurrection Nowe if any mā will be inquisitiue of the qualities conditions in the bodyes of vvicked mē when they shall arise to condemnation Let him vnderstande that they also shall haue immortality But as for those other ornaments of glorified bodies they shal haue none at all but rather shal be disfigured with the cōtrary deformities For they shall haue no brightnes nor light but as Christ hath taught shal be cast into vtter darkenesse Neither shall they be impassible for they shal be afflicted with dolor paine without any intermission There shal be weeping and gnashing of t●●th Their worme shal not dye their fire shal not go out They shall haue no nimblenes nor agilitie for being bound hād foote they shal be cast into helfire They shal wāt such subtilty purenes in affections as I spake of before because they shall wepe wayle be vexed with grosse affections vehement desires as we may see by the Euangelical narration of Lazarus and the rich mā But in al these things that haue bin spoken hertofore in this matter this is always to be had in memory that notwithāding these varieties of qualities yet the selfsame substance of our bodies shal not be altred For the selfsame fleshe and body that we beare and carie about with vs nowe shal be raysed vp agayne at the laste day Hitherto Peter Martyr The glorification of blessed men ouer besides those things which I haue spoken of the body cōsisteth in these things folowing First in iustice imputatiue in christ whereby those shal please god euerlastingly that are iustified by fayth and translated into the heauenly Ierusalē So the prophet Daniel calleth that Iustice which is gotten by the death of Christe sempiternall For this iustice vvhiche is so dearely bought by the sonne of God is not onely a merite for the which eternal life is giuen vnto men but it is also their euerlasting possession and the very wedding garment vvherewith men beeing clothed may boldly sitte downe at the banquet of their Lorde It cōsisteth also in notable excellent wisdom far passing that which euer any mundaine creature was indued withall It hath also annexed vnto it sanctitie puritie a restitution of all powers aswel of the body as of the soule These glorified natures shal haue a notable preeminence ouer all mundaine creatures whiche shall bee in the newe vvorlde as some suppose according to the good vvill and pleasure of almightie god For the Apostle Sainct Peter sayth Wee looke for a newe heauen and a newe earthe according too hys promise vvherein Iustice dwelleth But touching the manner or order of these thynges vvee ●ught to referre them to Gods vvyll and pleasure He him selfe knoweth best howe he will doo them and vve of the sequeles consequences shal knowe the workes of god which I the rather add bicause some may happily wonder at this doctrine This immutation or restitution of man being thus cōplet finished the image of god being perfectly restored vnto mā he shal at the last be translated into reall possessiō of the heauēly kingdom which he had by faith hope only in this life as Christ hath promised that himself wil giue sentēce in this forme Come ye blessed children of my father possesse the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the worlde Mortal mē therfore shal be remoued not into any earthly but into an heauenly Ierusalē according to the words of christ spoken to the thiefe This day thou shalt be with me in paradise Now in the possession of this kingdom the godly shal haue endles ioy wherwithal they shal be crowned in steed of misery afflictiō persecutiō which they suffred for Christes sake in this mortal life vvhich do so farre excel those miseries that there can be no iust cōparison betwene thē which the same Apostle calleth the crown of Iustice and S. Peter a crowne of glory vvhiche neuer fadeth avvay For first the Saincts shal see god shal come to perfection in knovvlege We see now in a glasse in a dark spech but then we shall see face to face And what thing can there be more pleasant or acceptable thē
of creatures whiche was created by him in his sonne in iustice holynes of truth wherin he taught mankinde that sinne and all the effects therof had his origin of the diuell and of man as it is written It irketh me that euer I made man. Agayne He that committeth sinne is of the Diuell For the diuell sinned from the beginning And also By one man sinne entered into the worlde and through sinne death Now albeit man receyued so greeuous a wound in his body and minde vvherevvith not onely the image of god in him vvas defiled and destroyed but also his povvers and ornamentes euerye vvaye vvere maruelously decayed besides the remouing of immortalitie whereof by worde sacrament god assured him before his transgression and in place therof a subiection to sicknesses death it selfe Yet the secōd death did not out of hand sease vpon Adam but God left him like a Pylgreme or banished man out of Paradise many yeeres in this animall or corporall lyfe after the acte and decree was published that god of his immence and infinite mercy woulde repayre his Image blotted defaced and his good pleasure was that man passing his time running his race prefixed here in this vvorld should in his body whiche vvas made so subiect and seruile vnto sinne be resolued into dust and earth but in soule he appoynted him to be immortal because the same was breathed into him by god whiche he also ordeyned to be a daily testimonie remēbrance vnto mā aswel of his estate before his fall as of his glorification after the day of iudgement Which bodily death al the children of Adam are subiect vnto by meanes of sinne abounding yea and raigning in them beeing nothing but dust poysoned which must returne into dust after which the second death to wit eternall condemnation both of body and soule followeth and is assuredly to be looked for of all those that doo contemne the sonne of God mans mediator and aduocate and doo not seeke to bee deliuered from Gods wrath and indignation by the effusion of hys moste precious blood vvhiche onely is able to purifie and vvashe men cleane from all their sinnes And to th ende that this great ruine and decay of man after hys fall maye bee more euidently perceyued I vvyll put dovvne the lamentable complayntes of diuers Writers concerning this matter vvhereby at the firste vevve the matter will moste playnely appeare and shewe it selfe And first that is a notable memorable saying of Cicero repeted by S. Augu. touching the corruption of mans nature Man is brought foorth and as it vvere expelled into this world by nature beeing rather his stepdame then a louing mother In body naked frayle and infyrme and in minde carefull in sorowes abashed in feare vveake in labors prone to pleasure hauing in him notwithstanding certayne sparkes and seedes of a diuine nature Wherin as sainct Augustine sayth he rightly deplored and bevvayled our miserable and pitifull case and savve the horrible euent Yet vvas he ignoraunt of the cause neither dyd he perceyue that a heauy yoke vvas layde vpon all the children of Adam from the time of their byrth vntill their death by meanes of originall sinne wherwith they are infected and corrupted Sainct Augustine him selfe writeth after this manner I doo omitte howe God created Man righte But touching our discente from our firste Parentes that wee are thereby a generation forlorne and caste awaye this very life of ours if it be to be called a life vvhich is so full of deadly miseries doth moste playne●y declare For what other thing can vve gather of that horrible and depe ignoraunce vvhereof all Error proceedeth vvhich possesseth and deteyneth the children of Adam in profounde darknes so violently that a man can not ridde him selfe thereof vvithout great labar sorrowe and feare What other thing doth that loue of vayne and deceitfull things import and therwithall such consuming cares perturbations sorrowes feares disceitfull ioyes discordes adulteries fornications incests rapes and vncleane commixtions agaynst nature vvhich may not bee vvell named and therewithall heresies blasphemies periuries oppressions of Innocentes slaunders false witnesses vniust iudgements and other suche like mischeefes vvhich we see incident to mans nature And to conclude as Viues writing in the same place sayth There vvoulde be founde no beast more sauage and vnbrideled then man if he vvere not chastised and amended vvith discipline and good education for if he might runne his owne race he would conuert all his force and power to satisfie his filthy lustes and appetites neither vvere it possible to finde any brute beastes more fierce and vvylde then manne And sainct Barnarde writeth very pleasantly of this matter in this sorte That blessed and eternall Trinitie the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost one God of cheefe power wisedome and goodnes did create another trinitie after his image and similitude vvhiche had certayne resembla●nces of that eternall Trinitie I meane the reasonable Soule vvhiche consisteth of Reason memorie vvill And he created the same in such sort that by participation of him he might be blesssed and beeing a●erted from him shoulde be most miserable And this created Trinitie did rather bende it selfe to followe the motion of his owne vvill then to stande in that libertie vvhiche vvas giuen vnto it And therfore it sell through suggestion delectation and consent frō that fayre beautifull trinitie that is to say ▪ frō power wisdome puritie into a contrarie and filthy trinitie verily into infirmitie bundnesse and vnclennesse For Memorie is become impotent and infirme Reason improuident and darke and the vvill impure More●●er Memorie falling as it were vpon harde Rockes was broken and rent into three partes namely into affectionate heauie and idle cogitations I call those affections vvherewithall man is encombred about cares of things necessarie as in eating drinking and suche like And those are to be accompted heauy vvhich we spende about the exercise of externall and harde busines And those are vayne and feeble vvherewith mans minde is neyther affected nor greatly molested and yet notwithstanding is drawen from the contemplation of heauenly thinges as to spende his time in beholding how byrdes doo flye or dogges doo runne The light of Reason also hath three manner of vvayes fallen into ruine For vvhereas it vvas his propertie to discerne betweene good and euill truth and falshood profite disprofite It is nowe couered with such darknes that it is caried most cōmonly into a peruers iudgement receyuing euill for good falshood for truth incōmoditie for commoditie Wherein it coulde neuer haue erred so miserably if it had not bene depriued of that light which it had in the first creation Whereby it is nowe commen to passe that man hath lefte that vsuall and necessarie instrumēt to vnderstand wisdome that is to say Ethicke Logike Phisike which we may otherwise call the science Morall Contemplatiue and Naturall For by
loue of pietie and all other heauenly vertues vntill vve haue runne out our race in this life do come vnto the goale or garland of promised felicitie vvhich is so incomprehensible to all humaine speeche penne and cogitation that the Apostle in the declaration therof findeth in him selfe some defecte and vvante and therefore repeteth oute of the Prophet The eye hath not seene the eare hath not heard neither hath the hart of man conceyued those Ioyes vvhiche God hath prepared for those that loue him FINIS The knowledge of Anatomy profitable for mans lyfe The knowledge of anatomy doe induce vs to thinke y there is a god Galen vsu part alijs locis Iob. 10. 37 38. 39. Psa 19. 33 133. Wysd 7. The consideration of the spirituall anatomy and y fruite thereof The knowledge of the se thinges commeth out of gods word Man partly the fayrest partly y foulest of visible creatures The Ethniks know the disease of our nature but they know not y cause Aug. contra Iulia. lib. 4. ca. 14. Hom. in aliqu scrip tos locos Cicero his sentence of mans soule De finibu● liber 1. Tus quest li. 1. 3. 5. Nature yel deth to corrupt affections Mans nature before his fall Cic. tus 1. 4. Cicero hys speeche consonant to y scripture Cicero lib. de legibus Mans soule in the state of innocency a good captayne or guide to liue well Rom. 2. Man in the state of innocency a sufficiētscholemaster to him selfe A plaine explication of the premisses by a cōpa●●son of the nature of brute ●eastes Cic. tus 5. Nature the common parent of all thing Nature hath giuen to dyuers beastes dyuers inclinations A speciall disposition of some particuler liuing creatures Man instructed by a consideration of the nature of brute beastes Jere. 1. The excellencie of mans nature Melan. de anima in locis com Mans power before his fall Tert. contra Marcionem Luthe in Genesim The necessity of this doctrine Col. 1. 2. Co. 4. Heb. 1. Of y word Image or ●imilitude Gene. 1. Calu. Inst lib. 1. Gene. 1. Gene. 5. A differēce betweene image similitude Ex Augu. de quantit●te anim● Pet. Mar. in cap. 1. Gene. Luth. super 5. Ge. Two significations of y image of God. Colo. 1. 2. Co. 4. Ioh. 14. Now christ is y image of God how ●● is the image of God. Gene. 1. Colos 3. 1. Cor. 11. Theodret quest 20. in Gene. what this Image of God in man is Aug. li. 14 detrinitate ca. 8. Pet. Mar. in 1. cap. gen et in locis com lo. xij fol. 101. Cal. lib. 1. inst Luth. in gen ca. 1. whether man is the image of God in respect of his soule or bodye or of both Arabian heresie Anthropomorphites Ioh. 4. Doubtes answered resolued touching this matter The duetie of man in y consideratiō of these things Augu. lib. 14. de Tr. cap. 8. The excellent qualities of man before hys fall The excellencie of mans mind Mans wil. 〈◊〉 hart and affections Man had a lordship ouer al wiling creatures Psal. 91. Great beastes ruled by little children Mans beginning ende Sap. 2. Mans immortality Gen. 3. 5. If m●● had not sinned he shou●de haue b●ne translated ●ute et Paradise into heauen Immortality annexed to y outward Sacrament How man loste Gods Image The deadly wounds which man receiued by transgression Bonauentura woundes in mannes mind woundes in mannes will. Gen. 6. woundes in his whole nature Adam felte y greuous sores and smartes of these woūdes Howe Adā in these miseries was comforted Adan sawe some effects of hys sinne in his children Cayne God himselfe lamenteth mans fall Gene. ● The second death came not by and by after mans fall Man lefte as a pylgrime or exiled man vpon the earth All the children of Adam subiect to death A do●eful lamentable 〈◊〉 of mans 〈◊〉 by certayne auncient fathers Aug. cōtra Iulianū li. 4. cap. 14. repetit ex lib. 3. Cic. de repub De Ciuita ●● dei lib ▪ 22. ca. 22 Ludouicus Viues in 22 August ▪ de Ciui ca. 22 Barnar in sermone 1. paruorum sermonū what is reteyned in mans nature of gods image The Gentiles Ethnicks are ignorant of the fall of man. what know ledge remaineth in man touching y first table what knowledge he hath lefte vnto him in the second table ● differēce betweene mā brute beastes Psal. 49. August de peccat ori contr● Pelagia●●● Rom. 1. 2. Mannes knowledge in the properties of things altogether lost Adam before his fall an excellent Philosopher Man hath loste all holines of body soule Iob. 14. Reg. 3. What instice y Ethnicks haue Mans power and faculty in spiritual thinges lost 1. Cor. ● Medaea Man hath yet left som vnderstanding in worldly things All mans vnderstanding in worldly things is a portion of gods image yet remayuing Mans power dominia oncr liuing creatures much impayred Eze. 5. A duble cōmodity 2. Reg. 17. 1. Reg. 13. 2. Reg. 2. Man hath lost eternall felicitie ▪ and blessednesse Death the possessor of all men and the cause therof The sting● of death The vse of this doctrine Errors cotrary to this doctrine Psal. 51. Rom. 8. Synergistae 1. Cor. 2. Rom. 2. Gods mighty mercy Ethnickes 〈◊〉 at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of regeneration The signification of the worde regeneration Ioh. 1. 3 Tit. 3. 1. Pet. 1. 2. The definition of regeneration Math. 28. ●ar 16. Iohn 3. Tit. 3. The work of regeneration appointed frō the beginning ●eparatiō of man by Iesus Christ Exhortations to repentaunce what kinde of iustice ●s restored in regeneration Phil. 2. Of y minde renewed Ephe. 4. Colos 3. 2. Cor. 3. Muche ignorance and blindnesse yet remayning in mās minde 1. Cor. 13. Gal. 5. why excellent lightes of Christes Church ●o e●●●●●all Of the will renued after regeneration Phil. 2. Rom. 7. The weaknes of the godly in the houre of death and the cause thereof Rom. 7. The principal cause of the patience and strēgth of martyrs ●n their ●assions 1. Cor. 10. The power of will regenerate in temporal thinges What men not regenerat cheefly respect in their accions Ioseph his accions and the ground thereof A great● diuersity of mans wyll both in those that be regenerate and not regenerate The spots in the godly Loth. Dauid Hely The thornes of thys world Of the hart of man regenerate Perfect nature onely perfectly fulfilleth y lawe Greate infirmityes remayne in mans hart after regeneration The effects of raging affections The harte is muche lyke a troubled sea of raging affections Of the good accions work of men regenerate The good workes of man regenerate are vn perfect in this lyfe The comfort of men regenerate Of the dominion of man regenerate ouer other liuing creatures Of the frut fulnes of y earth Psal. 3. 4. The mariage of men regenerate Ephe. 2. Ioseph Da●ell Plato Of the tyranny of y Deuil Autitheses or certen differences betweene man regenerate and not regenerate Why the vertues noble actes of the Gentiles are esteemed The cōmoditie of this doctrine Errors cōtrarie to this true doctrine The Papistes Saduces Libertines Gala. 5. Gnosticks Anabap. c. Th ende of all thinges is at hande Of the qualities properties or glorified bodies Ex Pet. Mart. in 2. Re. 4. The firste conditiō of glorified bodies is unmortality 1. Cor. 15. Rom. 6. 1. Cor. 15. Glorified bodies need no sustentation of corporal food Luk. 22. Glorified bodies indued with shining brightnes Phi. 3. Dan. 12. wise 3. 4. 5. Glorified bodies indued with agility wised 4. Vbiquistae Glorified bodyes impassible 1. Cor 15. Passions of two sor●●s What kind of passions y glorified bodies shal haue Glorified bodies thin and subtill A naturall body and a spirituall body 1. Cor. 15. Esa. 6. 4. 1. Cor. ● Agaynst vbiquitie Of what age bo●ies shal be in the resurrection Ephe. 4. The qualities of wicked mens bodies in the resurrection Iustice imp●tatiue Math. 22. 2. Pet. ● Esai 65. Translation into the kingdome of heauen Luke 23. Rom. 8. 2. Tim. 4. 1. Pet. 1. and ▪ 5. 1. Cor. 13. Perfect ●bedience in men glorified John. 3. The torments of hell The payne of losse Payne of sence Sap● ● 4 ●f y eq●●litie or inequalitie of ●oyes in ●ternall life Rog. Allaeus ex Pe. Mart. in 1. Cor. 14. The sicke-mans salue Drigans the Ch●lias●●s error touching y saluation of all men It were better for y wicked neuer to rise a gayne Pe. Mar. in 1. Cor. 15. Rom. 5. The state of man glorified excelleth y firste state of man after his creatiō Glorification is properly the worke and gift of Christ Rom. 5. Rom. 4. Joh. 14. 10 ●heworke of redemp●ion is only Christes Joh. 14. Jo. 16. 7● Athanasius Origines Ephe. 4. August libe de s●lut doc cap. 3. The effect and fruite which shoulde spring by the consideration of these thing●● Phi. 1. R●u 14. Phi. 3. Ecclsi 1. Godly men are satisfied onely in the fruition of heauenly thinges Reu. 21. A certen description of the ioyes of heauen out of the holy scripture Esa. 64. 1. Cor. 2.