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A02484	An apologie of the povver and prouidence of God in the gouernment of the world. Or An examination and censure of the common errour touching natures perpetuall and vniuersall decay diuided into foure bookes: whereof the first treates of this pretended decay in generall, together with some preparatiues thereunto. The second of the pretended decay of the heauens and elements, together with that of the elementary bodies, man only excepted. The third of the pretended decay of mankinde in regard of age and duration, of strength and stature, of arts and wits. The fourth of this pretended decay in matter of manners, together with a large proofe of the future consummation of the world from the testimony of the gentiles, and the vses which we are to draw from the consideration thereof. By G.H. D.D.	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1627 (1627)	STC 12611; ESTC S120599	534,451	516

thorow his death when they were enemies they shall much more be saued by his life now that they are friends For how incredible is it nay how impossible that he who pardoneth an enemy should condemne a friend He loued them whiles they yet bore the image of the Diuell and will he not much more loue them now since he hath in part repaired his owne Image in them They were deare vnto him when there was in them no goodnesse can hee now abandon them being made partakers of that goodnes which himselfe hath wrought in them Being then pluckt out of the power of darknesse let them neuer feare to be rejected by the Father of lights having the blessed Angels sent forth to minister for their sakes let them neuer feare to be deliuered ouer vnto or in the finall sentence to be joined with the Divell and his Angels What shall we then say to these things if God be on our side who can be against vs who spared not his owne Sonne but gaue him for vs all to death how shall he not with him giue vs all things also Who shal lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen it is God that iustifieth who shall condemne it is Christ which is dead or rather which is risen againe Who shall separate vs from the loue of Christ shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword nay in all these things wee are more then conquerours thorow him that loued vs. And wee are perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor heighth nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. And as the loue and favour of God in Christ doth thus arme his children against the terrour of the day of iudgment so doe likewise the gracious promises made vnto them which imbolden them to say again with the blessed Apostle I haue fought a good fight I haue finished my course I haue kept the faith from henceforth is laid vp for me the Crowne of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous Iudge shall giue me at that day and not to me only but vnto all them also that loue that his appearing If I shall then receiue a Crowne of righteousnesse I need not feare hell fire if the righteous Iudge himselfe will giue it me I need not stand in awe of his severity if he shall giue it to all those who loue that his appearing I need not tremble at the thought thereof nay I haue rather great reason to be glad and rejoyce thereat and when I see those things come to passe to looke vp lift vp mine head as being well assured that my redemption draweth neere And not only my redemption but mine advancement to honour euen in that very act of Iudgment the bench rather then the barre being my place there my selfe being ordained not to stand forth as a prisoner but to sit as a Iudge Verily I say vnto you that when the Sonne of man shall sit in the Throne of his Maiesty yee which followed me in the regeneration shall sit also vpon twelue thrones and iudge the twelue tribes of Israell sayth Truth it selfe Which priviledge lest we should thinke to be restrained only to his Apostles one of them by good warrant extends it to all the faithfull Doe ye not know saith he that the Saints shall iudge the world that is wicked men who haue oppressed vs And againe Know ye not that we shall iudge the Angels that is wicked spirits who haue tempted or assaulted vs. Now what folly is it to be afrayde of that judgment where we our selues shall be Iudges and that of our greatest enemies nay what incouragement should it bee to receiue if need were the sentence of death for Christs sake since it is certaine that as Christ himselfe shall judge Pilate before whom hee was arraigned and by whom he was wrongfully condemned so also shall we in some sort at leastwise as Assessors with him approouers of his sentence judge our Iudges For although Christ our Head principally and properly shall be the Iudge yet wee that are his members shall haue a branch of his authority and shall be as it were joyned in commission with him SECT 6. Or the quality and condition of the Iudge in respect of them by whom they are to be tryed or lastly the sweetnesse of the sentence which sh●…ll then be pronounced on their behalfe BVt setting this Commission aside what a comfort will it bee to the Godly to be summoned to be assembled to be separated from the goates by the ministery of those very Angels who were appointed to be their guardians to pitch their tents round about them and to beare them vp with their hands that they might not dash their foote against a stone nay what joy vnvtterable with their eyes to behold and looke vpon that Sauiour of theirs appearing in Maiesty as a Iudge who redeemed them with his heart blood and gaue his life as a ransome for them in whom they haue trusted on whom they haue beleeued to whom they haue prayed for whom they haue suffered with whom they shall be glorified Their Father their Husband their Master their Head their Physitian their Advocate and Intercessour and can the father condemne the sonne the husband the wife the Master his faithfull servant the head his members the Physitian his patient the Advocate his Client How happy is our case then that hee must be our Iudge that was himselfe judged for vs and our assurance is that hee will not condemne vs that hath already be●…ne condemned for vs No he will be so farre from condemning vs that then and there hee will fully acquit vs in the sight of the whole world and pronounce that favourable sentence on our behalfe Come yee blessed of my Father inherite a kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world A judiciall sentence shall I call it or rather a brotherly gratious invitation Come ye blessed of my Father Come that where the husband is there may the wife be that where the father is there may the sonnes be that where the Master is there may the servants be that where the Captain is there may the souldiers be that where the king is there may the subjects be that where the head is there may the members be Come it was thy voice sweet Savior whiles thou wert yet in the state of humility Come vnto me all ye that are weary heavy laden I will refresh you dost thou still retaine the same sweetnes and familiality being now in glory and that whiles thou art sitting vpon the throne of justice Good Lord how dost thou at the same instant shew thy selfe terrible as a Lyon to thine enimies yet gentle as a Lamb to thy friends frowning vpon the one and yet smiling on

few Before I conclude this discourse touching the comparison of the strength of the Ancients with ours it shall not be amisse to remember a moderne example or two of Parents famously fertile in the linage issued from their bodies such as I doe not remember any where to be parallelled by antiquity In the memory of our Fathers saith Vives in his commentary vpon the eight chapter of the fifteenth booke of the Citty of God there was seene a village in Spaine of about an hundred houses whereof all the inhabitants were issued from one certaine old man who then liued when as that village was so peopled so as the name of propinquity how the youngest of the children should call him could not be giuen Lingua enim nostra supra Abav●…m non ascen●…t For our language saith hee meaning the Spanish affords not a name aboue the great Grandfathers father Likewise in S. Innocents Church-yard in the citty of Paris is to be seene the Epitaph of Yelland ●…aeily widow to Mr Dennis Capell a Proctour at the Chastellet which doth shew that she had liued eighty foure yeares and might haue seene 288 of her children and childrens children shee dyed the 17 of Aprill 1514. Now imagine saith Pasquier how much she had beene troubled to call them by a proper denomination that were distant from he●… the fourth and fifth degree Wherevnto wee may adde that which Theodore Zwinger a Physitian of Basill in the third volume of the Theatre of mans life recites of a noble Lady of the family of the Dalburgs who saw of her race euen to the sixth degree whereof the Germanes haue made this distich 1 Mater 2 ait natae 3 dic natae filia 4 natam 5 Vt moneat natae 6 plangere filiolam That is to say The mother said to her daughter daughter bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughters daughter cries The more I wonder at Pliny that he should report it as a wonder worthy the Chronicle that Crispinus Hilarus praelata pompa with open ostentation sacrificed in the Capitoll 74 of his children childrens children attending on him And so I passe from the consideration comparison of the stature strength of mens bodies to that of their mindes consisting in the more noble faculties of the reasonable soule and the beautifull effects thereof CAP. 6. Containing a discourse in generall that there is no such vniversall and perpetuall decay in the powers of the minde or in the Arts Sciences as is pretended SECT 1. The excellencie of the Ancients in the powers of the mind compared with those of the present as also their helpes and hinderances in matter of learning ballanced SInce it is a received conclusion of the choisest both Divines Philosophers that the reasonable soule of man is not conveied vnto him from his Parents but infused immediatly by the hand of the Creator withall that the soules of all men at their first Creation infusion are equall perfect alike endued with the same essence abilities it must needes bee that the inequality disparity of actions which they produce arise from the diverse temper of the matter which they informe and by which as by an instrument they worke Now the matter being tempered by the disposition of the bodies of our parents the influence of the heavens the quality of the elements diet exercise the like it remaines that as there is a variety vicissitude of these in regard of goodnes so is there likewise in the temper of the matter whereof wee consist the actions which by it our soules produce Yea where both the agents the instruments are alike yet by the diversity of education or industry their workes are many times infinitely diversified The principall faculties of the soule are imagination iudgement and memory One of the most famous for memory among the Ancients to my remembrance was Seneca the Father who reports of himselfe that hee could repeate two thousand names or two hundred verses brought to his Master by his Schoole-fellowes backeward or forward But that which Muretus reports of a young man of Corsica a student in the Civill Law whom himselfe saw at Padua farre exceedes it he could saith he●… recite thirty six thousand names in the same order as they were deliuered without any stay or staggering as readily as if he had read them out of a booke His conclusion is Huic ego ne ex antiquitate quidam quem opponam habeo nis●… forte Cyrum quem Plinius Quintilianus alij Latini Scriptores tradiderunt tenuisse omnium militum nomina I find none among the Ancients whom I may set against him vnlesse Cyrus perchaunce whom Plini●… Quintilian and other Latine writers report to haue remembred the names of all his souldiers which yet Muretus himselfe doubts was mistaken of them Zenophon of whom onely or principally they could learne it affirming onely that hee remembred the names 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of his Captaines or cheife commanders And Aeneas Sylvius in his history of the Councill of Basill at which himselfe was present tels vs of one Ludovicus Pontanus of Spoleto a Lawyer likewise by profession who dyed of the Pestilence at that Councill at thirty yeares of age that he could recite not the titles onely but the intire bodies of the Lawes being for vastnes and fastnes of memory nemini Antiquorum inferior as he speakes nothing inferiour to any of the Ancients It is to this purpose very memorable which Famianus Srada in the first booke of his Academicall P●…olusions relates of Francis Suarez who hath sayeth he so strong a memory that he hath S. Augustine the most copious various of the Fathers readie by heart alleadging euery where as occasion presents it selfe fully faithfully his sentences which is very strange his very wordes nay if he be demaunded any thing touching any passage in any of his volumes which of themselues are almost enough to fill a Librarie Statim quo loco quaque pagina disseruerit ea super re expedite docentem ac digito commonstrantem saepe vidimus I my selfe haue often seene him instantly shewing and pointing with his finger to the place page in which he disputed of that matter This is I confesse the testimonie of one Iesuite touching another But of Dr Rainolds it is most certaine that he excelled this way to the astonishment of all that were inwardly acquainted with him not only for S. Augustines workes but almost all Classike Authours so as in this respect it might truely be said of him which hath beene applyed to some others that he was a liuing librarie or third vniuersitie I haue heard it very crediblely reported that vpon occasion of some writings which passed to fro betwixt him Doctour Gentilis then our Professour in the Civill Lawes he publiquely professed that he thought Dr Rainolds had read and did remember more of those Lawes then himselfe though

exercendae atque desidiae mi●…uendae causa fieri praedicant It is no discredit among the Germans to robbe so it be without the bounds of their citties and this they allow for the exercise of their youth the shunning of idlenes But particulars are infinite wherefore I will content my selfe with one nation three or foure notorious vices of that Nation The Nation shall be that of the ancient Romans I meane before their receiuing of Christianity because they were commonly reputed the most civill best disciplined of the whole world The speciall vices I will instance in shall bee their cruelty their couetousnes their luxurie their vaine-glory and ambition and in these will I shew their wonderfull excesse beyond latter ages concluding with a demonstration that the most eminent and renowned vertues of the Romanes as their wisedome courage haue likewise beene at least matched by some of latter ages and that in some other vertues as namely in modesty and humility they haue beene much exceeded CAP. 4. Of the excessiue cruelty of the Romans towards the Iewes the Christians other Nations one another vpon themselues SEC 1. Of the Romane cruelty toward the Iewes THe savage and barbarous inhumanity of the Romans appeares partly in their cruell handling of the Iewes Christians partly of other Nations But chiefely in their vnnaturall disposition one towards another and vpon themselues First then for the Iewes it is indeede true that by putting to death the Lord of life and crying alowd His blood be vpon vs and vpon our children they wilfully drew vpon themselues the Divine vengeance that dreadfull threate Loe the dayes shall come when they shall say happy are the barren and the wombes that haue not borne children and the paps that haue not giuen sucke Yet were the Romans though greater enemies to Christian Religion then the Iewes appointed by divine providence as the Executioners of that vengeance which they performed in a most vnmercifull manner And in regard of themselues an vndue vniust measure For to let passe all other bloody massacres of them in diverse townes citties thorow the Romane Empire after the passion of our Saviour and before the destruction of Ierusalem surely their cruelty acted in the siedge of that citty recorded by Iosephus was such as were able even to resolue an heart of steele into teares of blood It was on every side so straightly begirt that the besieged by extreamity of famine were forced to 〈◊〉 not only horses asses dogges rats mice and the leather that couered their shields bucklers but also the very dung out of their stables yea a Noble woman was knowne to eate her owne child that suckt vpon her breast wherein no doubt was fulfilled the prophecie of our Saviour happy are the barren Such as were taken by the Romans were by the commaundement of Titus crucified before the walls of the citty to the number of fiue hundred every day vntill at length as Iosephus reporteth there wanted both crosses for the bodies and place for the crosses Also great numbers of them who being forced with famine sought to saue their liues by yeelding themselues to ther enemies were nevertheles killed by the mercilesse souldier and their bowels ripped vp in hope to finde gold therein vpon a report or at least a conceite that the Iewes did swallow their gold to convay it out of the citty by that meanes Finally the number of those which were slaine and died during the siege was as witnesseth Iosephus a million and an hundred thousand and of the Captiues nine hundred and seventy thousand whereof Iosephus himselfe was one and of those some were condemned to the publique workes others of the stronger handsommer sort carried in triumph and such as were vnder the age of seventeene yeares were sold for litle or nothing those which remained in their countrey were loaden with such greivous impositions and tributes that they liued in a continuall misery slauery worse then death Yet the cruelty of the Romans towards these miserable Iewes ceased not heere but in the next age in the time of Traiane the Emperour within lesse then fifty yeares after the subversion of Ierusalem infinita eorum millia sayth Eusebius infinite thousands of them were killed in Egypt and Mesopotamia in Macedonia they were vtterly extinguished and in Cyprus they were all either put to the sword or banished and a law made that it should be death for any Iew to arriue there though he were driven thither by tempest against his will And in a few yeares after Iulius Severus being called out of Brittaine by the Emperour Adrian and sent into Iudea destroyed almost all the countrey For as Dyon writeth he dismantled fifty strong forts and razed or burnt nine hundred eighty fiue townes or villages and killed aboue fifty thousand Iewes in battell besides an infinite number of others that died either by fire famine or pestilence or were sold for slaues Shortly after Adrians time they were also miserablely afflicted by the Emperour Antoninus Pius and after him by Marcus Aurelius and againe some yeares after that by the Emperour Seuerus who renewed the decrees of Adrian for their exclusion from the sight of their countrey and triumphed for his great victories against them Now though it be true that the wickednes of the Iewish Nation was such as they well deserued to be thus seuerely punished yet cannot the Romanes be excused from vnreasonable cruelty in dealing thus vnmercifully with them as if they had beene beasts rather then men SECT 2. Their cruelty toward the Christians first in regard of the insatiable malice of their persecutors THeir dealing with the Christians whom they likewise named Iewes because our Saviours Apostles first disciples were all of that nation was yet more mercilesse because more vnjust They pretended the frequent rebellions of the Iewes to be the reason of their great severity towards them But the Christians they deadly hated and most cruelly persecuted only for their religion whereas they suffered all religions saue the Christian to be quietly exercised thorow their dominions Now their cruelty towards the poore Christians appeared in the insatiable malice of their persecutors the incredible number of those that suffered as Martyrs or Confessors and the exquisite variety of their tortures St. Augustine and his scholler Orosius compare the tenne persecutions of the Primitiue Christians which as so many raging waues came tumbling one vpon the necke of another to the tenne plagues of Egypt the first of which was vnder Nero whose cruelty or luxury was of the two more monstrous vnnaturall cannot easily be determined He caused Rome to be set on fire that he might the better conceiue the flames of Troy singing vnto it Homers verses His father and brother he poysoned murth●…red his master wife mother taking an exact view of her dead bodie commending the proportion of some parts discommending others