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A14284	A plaine and perfect method, for the easie vnderstanding of the whole Bible containing seauen obseruations, dialoguewise, betweene the parishioner, and the pastor.; Plaine and perfect method, for understanding the Bible	Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth.	1617 (1617)	STC 24600; ESTC S102671	80,065	286

all knowledge all power all mercy euen that is my name Par. What is the Word or second person in Trinitie Past Hée is the onely naturall Sonne of the most high and eternall God his Father his Word his Image and Character coessentiall and coequall with the Father and the holy Ghost Hée is said to be the Sonne of God in regard of his Godhead and not in regard of his manhood Par. Now let me intreate you to speake of his humanitie Past This diuine nature tooke vpon himselfe a reasonable soule and an humane body of a virgin and was made flesh as of the séed of Dauid and of the roote of Iesse The Godhead in no case can be said to haue any conuersion into the flesh neyther the Godhead to stand in stead of the soule no more then that he could be turned into sinne After his glorious resurrection these two natures to wit his Diuinitie and his Humanitie continued still distinct in substance and properties and euer continued one and the same And yet it is to be granted that there was great necessitie of the Godhead in his humane action or suffering that by the vertue thereof hée might ouercome all sufferings yea Death and the Diuel In the holy vnion or coniunction of these two natures we are to take them inseparably euen ●ince the moment or point of time in which the holy Virgin conceiued being made as one person Par. What vse haue wee of these two natures in one person Past It declareth the obedience of Christ performed in the manhood with innarrable wisedome and surpassing faithfulnesse In his wisedome he was able to deliuer vnto vs the whole will of his Father and in his faithfulnesse he concealed nothing As the Phoenix in her hot nest at Arabia is burned to ashes and yet saith I liue still and old age dyeth in me euen so Christ though being in his graue like one dead yet dyeth not but mortalitie dyeth in him for the good of all men Par. What be the parts of Christs mediation Past It consisteth principally of two parts to wit his Priesthood and his Kingdome His Priesthood stands in teaching and in doing he is a Prophet Doctor and Apostle for that he plainely teacheth the will of his father and saith I call you no more seruants because they know not what their maister doth but I call you friends Christ taught by Prophets by Apostles and by Euangelists and himselfe taught by farre greater authoritie then euer did any before or after The priesthood of Christ and the priesthood of Aron being compared wée shall therein finde two necessary parts to be considered One is what manner one he ought to be that entreth into this Office The other how it ought to be executed The manner or qualitie of him that entreth is two-fold to wit well qualified with gifts within and well called without He is to vs sanctification that is fréedome from the tyrannie of sinne the effects of righteousnesse and sanctification goe alwaies together For immediately so soone as man is partaker of Christs righteousnesse he is also possessed with the spirit of sanctification which worketh mortification and viuification P. what is the third persō in Trinity Past He is said to be the holy Ghost to wit a diuine innarrable maiestie procéeding from the father and the son who in respect of his diuers operations workings and effects is called by diuers effectuall names which being considered in their natures they doe clearly enlarge his gifts and graces towards the Church It is sometimes called Fire Oyle Wine Water Doue Cloude Winde Spirit Earnest pēny Comforter God Par. What religion had these the other holy fathers before recited betwixt the Creation the Flood Past The law of nature Gen. 11. They had the Law of Nature which was a rule of reason or an hidden iustice inforcing to doe well It was indéede the sum and effect of Gods diuine law which was most liuely expressed in the names of those ten holy Fathers who being linked together makes vp a Christian Sacrifice or an holy summe of true religion As he is not rightly reckoned a man that wants reason so hée was not then rightly reckoned to be of God that wanted this religious rule Saint Paul said as the eternall power and godhead by the creation of the world maketh all wicked men without excuse though they had no law euen so men knowing the end of their creation by the law of nature are without excuse if they doe euil though they were blinde and saw not the creation The Gentiles said hée that had not the Law written did by nature the things contained in the Law they hauing not the law written were a law vnto themselues euen so the people of the old world and others that sinned before the Law perished euerlastingly as those which afterwards perished vnder the law Rom. 7.23 Saint Paul cals the Law of nature the Law of the minde shewing thereby that as the minde is such an effectuall power of the Soule as maketh all other faculties thereof and of the bodie to plyable and without tediousnesse to performe matters beyond ordinary strength euen so by the law being spirituall he was vrged to the performance of all other matters and lawes which were literall beyond all ordinary strength And as a line Diameter-wise in a Geometricall figure doth equally diuide one side from another euen so this Law naturall diuideth equally that which is Gods to God and that which is mans to man Nightingales are said to contend in singing that they die in their contention happy say I is he that so contends with the law of his minde against the law of his members for so to die is indéede to liue The East gate of Sala Temple was alwaies shut and neuer opened because the Lord God of hosts once entred by it and as into the windowes of Noahs Arke nothing entred but light euen so the minde of man wherein the law of God hath once entred must alwaies be shut against prophane inclinations and euer opened to diuine contemplations Par. Who were enemies in those times and who I pray you were they that priuately or publikely opposed themselues against this Law and the professors thereof Past These were open and knowne enemies to wit the Diuell Caine. Lamech From whom issued that wicked sort of people who so highly displeased God that he repented him of the good he had done to mankinde Par. What is there to be said concerning the Diuell Past The Angels séeing the excellencie of their creation day by day and perceiuing that they and all creatures else were made but as seruants to Adam they presently vpon his creation murmured and not being content God threw them into euerlasting darknesse The head of these euill spirits was Lucifer As he was more cleare and brighter then other Angels so hée fell into a more filthy Apostacie Hée was not euill by kinde but of his own aduisement

spake in olde ●ime as they were moued by the holy Ghost by meanes of which Spirit Moses was able to set downe as is specified in the said booke all that was spoken and done 2400. yeares before he was borne and of all things else most profoundly that should befall the children of Israell many hundred yeares after he was buryed yea most directly of things that should be performed vntill the birth of Christ The Prophets likewise doe testifie that they spake nothing of themselues concerning things to come but as the Lord by his Spirit did informe them which they vttered in these words Thus saith the Lord. The foure Euangelists in like manner disposing themselues seuerally to yéeld famous and renowmed testimony of Christ Iesus the holy Messiah they so agréed in their writings though many yeares and many miles sundred them as that their Gospels being compared together they al agrée for matter of waight and substance as if they had béen personally present the one with the other at one time And S. Paul writing his Epistles alwayes confessed that he deliuered them nothing for matter of doctrine and life more then that which was taught him and that which hée had receiued from the Lords owne hand directly All which manner of writing and forme of spéech plainely publisheth to all ages for euer the truth and dignitie of Gods word the plainnesse thereof to some and the profunditie therof to others Par. Now it remaineth by order to expostulate vpon the Creation which you said is one of the chiefest and most memorable matters in the first Obseruation tell me therefore what did God create the first day Past God made all things excéeding good euen out of that which was then without any preiacent matter or out of nothing and that not all together which he might well haue done but as it were by degrées day by nay night after night vpon diuine deliberation The very title or name giuen to this book imports in effect this wonderfull worke or creation of almightie God whence it is called Genesis that is to say a begetting generation or creation And the first day he created that stately Element of Fire which he gathered out of the whole masse setting it in the heauens as a glorious Globe whence it is said he made Light which indéede is nothing else but a qualitie of Fire in which wonderfull worke hée brought light out of darknesse as an Element impugning the former In this day hee created those celestiall Spirits which are called Angels Par. What was the second work Past The second dayes worke was that liuely Element of the ayre or firmament or as I may say more properly that vaste or void place betwixt the earth and the clouds which made a separation betwixt water and water and which giues breath and life to all liuing things The third day he made the Element of water which hée caused to retire into more proper places which fitly according to the qualitie thereof was called the Seas to wit a gathering together of waters The fourth Element of Earth which according to the qualitie thereof was called Dry land was also made and so continueth as vpon a firme foundation The generall creation of compound bodies were ordained for the inhabitants of this great element Earth In this general earthly creation his Maiestie goeth forward as from things that were vnperfect to that which was perfecter till at last he came to the most perfect as from trées hearbs and plants which haue onely life whereby they grow and increase vnto beasts which haue an increasing and a sensitiue life and from thence to Adam who hath a reasonable life with the increasing and sensitiue which Element of Earth his diuine Maiestie stored with all kinde of commodities méete for the vse of mankinde to be and to remaine for euer This order of Creation vpon a sodaine view may seeme strange to wit that God made corne grasse trées hearbes and such like to grow and to haue their being before celestiall bodies as the Sunne the Moone and Starres whence corne grasse and such like haue their growth and influence But being rightly and aduisedly considered the Almighty Creator shewes that increase propagation preseruation of all things consists onely in him and by him and not from the vertue of celestiall creatures as men haue imagined and spoken The fourth day God made lights the Sunne to rule the day the Moone and the Starres to gouerne the night both which are very great that they might the better giue light to the darke earth being so farre from the heauens These two great ornaments in the heauens doe distinguish betwixt day and night the moneth from the yeare one moneth from another and summer from winter The first day and night hée created in the night fishes in the day birds Fishes were compounded of the foure elements especially of the element of water whence it commeth that they liue in the waters Birds were made of all foure elements but especially of the ayre whence it comes that they take pleasure in the ayre The sixt day and night he made all sorts of beasts some to goe and some to créepe some wilde some tame God then made man in both kindes plurally to wit male and female and yet of single bodies the better to helpe one another and therefore said It is not good for man to be alone I will make him an helper like vnto himselfe He was made after all other creatures that hée might in the beholding thereof laud and magnifie his Creator The whole Trinitie deliberated and consulted concerning him which he did not concerning any other creature The seauenth day God dedicated by his owne rest and ceasing from labour for an euerlasting rest amongst all posterities For when heauen and earth was finished and furnished God said Behold I haue made all things and loe they are exceeding good Hée blessed that day he hallowed it and sanctified it to his owne honour and glory and to the commemoration of the eternall ioy peace and comfort of Adam who was fallen and risen againe in Christ Iesus Adam rested and sanctified that very next and first Sabaoth with inuocations and offerings c. Par. Seeing that God made all things so deliberately and as hee said exceeding good why did hee afterward destroy them with the inundations of waters Past Almighty God saw that the wickednes of man was great on earth and all the imaginations of his heart was euill continually the sonnes of God marryed with the daughters of men onely because they were faire and it repented the Lord that hée had made man therefore he said I will destroy man from the face of the earth Par. What say you of our first father Adam and of his originall Past Adam was made or created in the sixt day being Friday before the Iewish Sabaoth Par. What was that breath which God infused into Adam Past It was an immortall an inuisible and an Angelicall or

holy pure and immaculate substance incorporated in an humane body where it became sinfull This great and innarrable creature so wonderfully wonderfull was made and framed of nothing as other creatures were As when a man makes a blast or breath out of his mouth it procéedeth not of his nature but of the ayre which he draweth in the strength of nature enforceth out not the same but some other euen so the Almightie breathed into Adam the breath of life to wit it came out of his mouth not out of his nature nor out of this ayre about vs but euen of nothing The naturall man cannot extinguish or decay the soule because it hath production not from him but from GOD onely As the body is the instrument of the soule so the soule is the instrument of God Par What be the affections of the soule Past They are motions first and then acts eyther good or euill There is also a custome grounded or fixed in the soule to good or euill which hardly can be remoued Par What difference make you of Soules or how many sorts of soules be there Past Trées hearbs plants and such like haue a soule but it is onely effectuall for growing Beasts are said to haue soules sensitiue féeling and perceiuing things present Man is said to haue a soule reasonable and hauing both the former Par. Doth God daily create soules as men come into the world Past It were very offensiue to affirme the same for then wée should inferre that God in the beginning when he created all things left something vnperfect or vndone Though sinne possessed the soule originally the sixt day in which Adam was created yet God created afterwards no new but preserued the selfe same soule by his diuine wisedome whereby it may be said he worketh alwayes and yet not after the same manner as at the first Par. I remember that you said the soule was created pure holy and immaculate how came it to passe that it was so sodainly ouerthrown by contagion corruption and such like Past The breach of Gods commandement was the cause of that corruption Such is the nature of sinne that it seazeth vpon the soule possessing it with all filthinesse and so consequently dispossessing her of all former integritie As in a sanctified and pure soule the beames of Gods truth and clearnesse doth shine euen so in a soule once touched or tainted with disobedience all deformities and workes of Satan will appeare As the body feareth death and other hurtfull things euen so the soule that continueth in Gods fauour not onely shunneth grosse sinnes but also small sinnes because they also proue very pernicious Par. Proue the immortalitie of the Soule Past The immortalitie of the Soule is substantially proued by the resurrection of Christ God said to Moses I am the God of Abraham of Isaac and Iacob Whereupon Christ concludeth that Abraham and the faithfull shall liue for euer If our soules were not immortall no reward to the godly nor punishment to the wicked were to be expected Then as S. Paul said we of all men were most miserable In this life the soule doth nourish the body with much care but being fréed from the body it nourisheth it selfe with diuine contemplation Par. Why did the Serpent tempt Euah and not her husband Past As the Serpent being a most subtile creature was a fit instrument for the Diuell to traduce sinne and disobedience into the woman euen so the woman being a goodly garish and an intising creature was a fit Instrument to traduce sinne into Adam and so consequently into euery man Par. How did the Serpent tempt her Past He tempted her with the promise of greater felicitie and glory which he effected by alledging profit and omitting the penaltie Sometimes the Diuell peruerteth Scripture giuing it a false glosse or a wrong interpretation as he did of that Psalme when he tempted Christ himselfe Par. Why did God so seuerely punish so small a sinne and all mankinde for one mans sinne Past There were two reasons one was to declare how loathsome a small sinne is to his Maiestie withall to declare that a small sin doth deface and disgrace the holy Image of God in man Par. Why did God create all other creatures first and man last Past Thereby to declare his singular mercy and prouidence in preparing and in making all things ready méete and fit for man against he came giuing no place for him nor for his posteritie to depend vpon themselues neyther yet to be doubtfull of any thing that might satisfie the body content the eye and delight the heart for all things were ready Par. Whence haue we the names and the right vse of these creatures Past Euen from Adam for we read that God brought euery creature or rather euery creature came of his owne accord being commanded of God and presented himselfe before Adam Par. How were all things made and created Past They were made euen of this word Let as though hée would declare thereby his excéeding power to whose will or Let there was no let or stay but all things had a present prosperous progresse Par. Whereas in the creation of Adam God spake of himselfe plurally Gen. 1.26 to wit Let vs make man after our owne likenesse declare vnto mee somewhat briefly and materially what God is by whom as you say all things were so wisely ordered so effectually performed and miraculously maintained and preserued Past The Epicures Atheists and such like are compared to the Hircanian fishes from whom comes neither good nor euill because they are not danted with the feare of God nor delighted with his loue But you I finde by this to be far otherwise minded and therefore reuerently and in the feare of his holy Maiestie I will answere you God before the creation was perfect and after the creation was the same God is vnknowne according to his essence and infinite according to his Maiestie He illuminateth spirituall things he illustrateth intellectuall natures and he is the highest amongst intelligible things No man is able to attaine vnto the essence of a Star much lesse of God As a man standing vpon the shoare of the Sea séeth not the bredth and depth of it euen so the Angels in heauen and the Elect on earth may sée God really yet not comprehend the depth of his greatnesse nor the height of his euerlasting essence In regard whereof he answered Moses when he desired to know what he was with few words of innumerable difficultie and incomprehensiblenesse Exod. 3.14 saying I am that I am As though hée had said Though I did declare my selfe vnto thée what I am yet canst thou not comprehend mée neyther yet he to whom I send thée When he was to comfort Abraham and to set him forward as an example vnto all his posteritie for faith and an vpright life Gen. 17.1 he said vnto him I am God all-sufficient As if he had said Feare not in me is