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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41434	The two great mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity, [the] vvonderful incarnation, explicated to the satisfaction of mans own naturall reason, and according to the grounds of philosophy / by G. G. G.	Goodman, Godfrey, 1583-1656.	1653 (1653)	Wing G1103; ESTC R4826	120,015	119

points out the whole course progress of Christianity that man was first created in happiness then he commits sin and is therefore expelled Paradise untill justly for his sin passing through a vale of misery God takes mercy on him becomes his Shepherd guides him with his grace dies for his sin and in the right and virtue of his own passion conducts him to the heavenly Jerusalem where you may see the tree of life the water of life and no longer darkness or the state of sin and so man attaines a far better condition then what was lost in Paradise as you may read in the last of the Apocalypse which I confess was figured out in the Mosaicall law for upon the death of the high Priest the banished men returned and were restored to their own inheritance so by the death and Passion of Christ our high Priest there was purchased a full restitution of Paradise implyed in that heavenly Jerusalem Having thus compared the first pen-man of Scripture with the last let us now take our Apostle Saint John more particularly and first for the very name of John which signifies the grace of God it was given by a Miracle to John Baptist he that imposed the name old Zacharie immediately received the benefit for he was instantly restored to his speech as an argument of the cessation of the law and an inchoation of the state of grace to be suddenly put in execution as it was already in part begun for an earnest thereof was given when as John Baptist in the wombe did express joy as it were in reverence saluting Christ in the virgins womb then he became the immediate forerunner of Christ and what the Prophets spake a far off and somewhat obscurely he pointed out Christ with his finger Ecce Agnus Dei and had the honour to be Christs ghostly Father in Baptizing him preparing the way for Christ by preaching repentance and by his strict and austere life gave a good example of mortification sending his Disciples to Christ and himself suffering Martyrdom in the execution of his office for reprehending Herod and then did Christ express sorrow and mourn for his death giving him an honourable Testimony Thus did the grace of God appear in John Baptist according to his name but much more in our Saint John the Evangelist for though Iohn Baptist was greater then the old Prophets yet he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater then he much more the beloved Disciple who leaned on the bosom and pointed out the eternall generation of Christ which is a work of much more excellency and difficulty then to point him out in the wombe Our Saint Iohn had the honour to be the onely Prophet of the New Testament the forerunner of Christs second coming in glory which is described in the Apocalypse and which is much more admirable then to be a forerunner of Christs first coming in our flesh Our Saint Iohn was present at the transfiguration of Christ where he did see the glory of God and as Moses and Elias were there transfigured no doubt but our Apostle might likewise be transfigured and have an earnest of his reall and actuall enjoying of Gods glory besides those many visions which he had in the Apocalypse as a farther and successive confirmation for the assurance of his possession and these are the great favours and graces of God which are ●…tly implyed in the name of Iohn Thus far for our Saint Iohn the Evangelist in comparison with Moses and Saint Iohn Baptist and such as went before him now for such as did accompany him in respect of the rest of the Apostles He was the youngest Brother of Saint Iames the Apostle both sons of Zebedee their Mother Mary Salome recommended them to Christ desiring him that one might sit on the right hand the other on the left hand in his kingdom which requests did savour of much weakness that she should presume so far to make such a suit considering their unworthiness and how unfit it was that they should encompass and monopolize Christ on every side yet proceeding out of the great love and affection of a Mother Christ gave but a slight reprehension and in a sort yeelded to her request for these two brethren were ever in speciall favour with Christ and ever imployed in the greatest actions suppose in Christs transfiguration which did betoken the kingdom of Christ or the Triumphant Church in heaven and therefore it was in the Mount but below was S. Peter or the Rock upon whom the Church should be built and there being none other then present but Saint Iames and Saint Iohn surely they might be said to be sup-porters or butresses on either side both on the right hand and on the left hand to uphold the building while Christ doth alwayes reside in his Church But because the transfiguration was not a kingdom having but a short time of continuance therfore it may be the more fitly understood in regard Saint Iames was the first of al the Apostles who suffered martyrdom some very few years after the ascension of Christ and so being first admitted into heaven in regard of precedencie he might be said to have the first place or to sit on the right hand of Christ and Saint Iohn as being the last Apostle that dyed for he lived almost 70 years after the ascension of Christs even to the beginning of the second Century because the reward of his glory was so long deferred therefore Christ admitted him as the beloved Apostle to lean on his bosome and no doubt nearest the heart on the left side and so was the Mothers desire accomplished Of all the Apostles our Saint Iohn had the prerogative to be called the beloved Apostle in so much that the great Apostle Saint Peter made him a mediator and intercessor for him what he himself durst not presume to ask he beckoned to him to know of Christ and further above all the Apostles he had the happiness and courage to be present at the sacrifice of Christ together with the Blessed virgin mother whilest Saint Peter denyed Christ and all the rest of the Apostles fled for fear of the Jewes Saint Iohn alone was the onely Apostle there to assist as a Deacon or a Priest or a servant to the high Priest in offering up himself a sacrifice upon the holy Altar of his Crosse and as a token of the great love of Christ to him and as a reward for his observance and attendance at the Crosse as the mother of Saint Iohn recommended him unto Christ so Christ recommends him to his own blessed mother the virgin he adopts him and makes him her son and commits her to his custody which as it was a high honour unto him so it argues a greater trust reposed in him then in others His love and observance still continued after the death of Christ for when it was known that Christ was risen

my Brethren the Church-men that they would intend painful and profitable preaching rather then frequent and tedious preaching which I speak out of the great honour and reverence which I bear to preaching Multiloquium parit contemptum Some there are I fear who spend their hours with vain repetitions while their Auditors in stead of taking things to heart and working upon their affections they labour and take pains on the Sabbath with their short writing of Notes while others wonder what they should write but this gives them occasion to make their repetitions at home and that breeds them up perfect Preachers so that now you have Preachers of all Trades and Professions and ●…am sure some have preache i who can neither write nor reade and their Sermons are plundred of all learning and elegancy and they think themselve such Preachers that they are grown to have a very mean esteem of all humane learning which certainly in the end must bring in Ba●…barism Some men there are who take a very preposterous course for they begin their Religion and in effect their whole course and practise of Religion consists in the last book of Scripture the Apocalyps for all their devotion is in pointing out Antichrist and in pulling down Babylon Thus they are destroyers But take heed of the Apocalyptical Doctors I think I should have called them Apocalyptians for they are very like our Gyptians who are alwayes wandering up and down to tell Fortunes and to cousen people so in truth they are very great impostors they have raised up so many Controversies in Religion that now Religion it self is become a Controversie and therefore I desire every Lay-man especially such as have had good b●…eeding and education that seeing Church-men themselves are parties therefore they as more indifferent would be pleased to see with their own eye●… and to allot one hour in the day to study the Controversies of Religion for while men are wavering and doubtful in the Doctrine they take little thought of the Practise But let them consider that our time is but short and here we are to lay up for Eternity If we were but rightly perswaded of Religion it were impossible that such actions should proceed from Christian men God grant we may so live in this world that we may not lose the end of our Creation What a lamentable thing it is to see all the great Cathedral Churches and all the ancient Foundations which were erected for Gods glory and the practise of our Piety that they should serve as an occasion to our Sacriledge and that our devotion should be to pull them down and to convert the Revenue to profane uses as if we did grudge and envy that God should be served who notwithstanding created the whole world for man and created the world especially for this end that man might serve God but we on the contrary as if we did desire utterly to abolish Gods service we pull down the Monuments and Reliques of Devotion erected by the Ancients our present Reformation consists in demolishing and it is to be feared lest we give such an example to posterity that none of them hereafter will erect Churches and God grant they do not forget all devotion and this not onely for the present but for all times past and future from the beginning of the world to the end of the world if it lay in our power we should make Gods service void and of none effect I cannot speak of these Times with patience and therefore I will here end abruptly onely this I will say That when I began to speak of the blessed Trinity I began with the beginning of S. Johns Gospel and I ended with the end of S. Johns Gospel and when I spoke of the Incarnation I began with the beginning of S. Johns Epistles and now I end with the end of S. Johns Apocalyps Surely I come quickly Amen even so come Lord Jesus the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Amen How long how long O Lord wilt thou suffer thy Church to be thus afflicted Lord shorten our dayes hasten thy Kingdome accomplish the number of thine Elect Even so Lord Jesu even so Lord Jesu come quickly come quickly and give us all a joyful deliverance Usquequo Domine Usquequo Sancte individuae Trinitati Crucifixi Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Humanitati Sit omnis Honor Gloria Amen FINIS To my worthy friend Mr. Charles Harcourt Servant to the L. Bishop of Gloucester SIR HEaring that the Book is now in the Press and ready to be finished I do intreat you to cause these few verses to be printed in the later end of the Book it must be done without his knowledge for I know him to be inexorable I do it onely to shew my special respects unto him and that it might appear in print Your true friend Jeffery Moore G. G. G. Vir Trium Literarum Dominicalium Ecce fidem Godfreede Ecce fidem Goodmanne Ecce fidem Gloucestre tuam tres literae una Litera designant Deus est tibi trinus unus Anacl GODFREE GOODMAN GOD is FREE and GOOD to MAN Goodness Grace Glory be thy portion God Giving Grant thee full possession ORATIO AGnoscimus ultrò agnoscimus O clementissime Deus ex hoc quod fecisti nos debemus tibi nos ipsos quia nos redemisti pro nobis homo factus es pas●…us es deberemus tibi plusquam nos si habe●…emus quanto tu m●…jor es nobis pro quibus dedisti teipsum Sed ecce nec plus habemus nec quod habemus da●…e tibi possumus sine te Sancte D●…us nos ipsos nobis eripe totos nos tibi dede aufer tolle a nobis quicquid nos avocat vel abstrahit à te vilescant caecera propter te chara sint tua tu Deus plusquam omnia de nullo gaudeamus vel doleamus nisi quod promoveat ad te vel abducat à te nulli placere appetamus vel displicere timeamus nisi tibi sordescat omne gaudium quod est absque te suavis sit omnis dolor qui provenit a te delectet nos omnis labor qui est pro te taediosa sit omnis quies quae est sine te nec aliquid velimus qu●…d est extra te F●…cisti nos Domine propter te inquietum est cor nostrum donec veniat ad te via ergo ad te sis nobis Domine mentes instrue sensus corrige gressus di●…ige sid●…m adjuva spem vivisica charitatem excita qui es Via Veritas Vita consige timore tuo cor nostrum ut quae minaris metuendo evadamus redde nobis laetitiam saluta●…is tui ut quae spondes diligendo percipiamus suggere quid de te cogitemus doce quibus te sermonibus invocemus da quibus operibus tibi placeamus ut inter prospera adversa