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mercy_n	faith_n	grace_n	repentance_n	2,335	5	7.5639	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52804	A compleat and compendious church-history shewing how it hath been from the beginning of the world to this present day : being an historical-narrative how the power and providence of God, according to his promise, hath hitherto confounded all the damnable plots of the Devil : to which is annexed a Scripture-prophecy fore-shewing how it shall be hence to the end of the world : to whole containing the quintessence of sacred, civil and ecclesiastick-writers, and serving as a short comment upon all the books in the Bible, both historical and prophetical / published for publick good by Christopher Ness ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1680 (1680)	Wing N446; ESTC R37720	248,071	530

that is To Corrupt the White Line the Posterity of Seth and to make them as Black as those of the black Line the Cursed brood of Cain That the latter Line was very Obnoxious and Injurious to the former all along may easily be believed though the Scripture doth not express it even until they were all swept away with the Flood Job 22. 16 17. However this is Exprest That the Devils design was now to Debauch those bold Professors who had so openly opposed his Kingdom and this he promotes and pursues by setting the Fair Faces of the Daughters of Men Cain's Brood before the Eyes of the Sons of God the off-spring of Seth Gen. 6. 2. This by the Tempters Instigation drawing out Mans Corruption Corrupted the very Church it self The Sons of God Deut. 14. 1. or Members of the Church looks loves and Lusts after the Daughters of Men that were out of the Church Their Eyes became Burning-Glasses to se● their Hearts on Fire even Loop-holes of Lust and Windows of all Wickedness the Lust of the Eyes usher'd in the Lust of the Flesh and the Pride of Life 1 Joh. 2. 16. Professors then began to be prosligate with the Prophane and made Prophane Marriages with them as prophane Esau did Gen. 26. 34 35. and 28. 8 9. contrary to God's Law Deut. 7. 3 4. They took them Wives of all which they chose that is Such as their wanton Eyes and Wild Affections liked and loved without either Gods License or their Godly Parents leave Cù● multùm Caepissent Generare Multùm Caepissen● Degenerare When the Two Seeds mingled multiply'd and began to Generate much they began to Degenerate much Their Marrying by the Eye more than by the Ear thinking a fair Face enough though covering never so foul a Soul without either Holy Grace or an Honest-Race made them as Carnal as the Off-spring of Cain Hence sprang the Gyants call'd Nephilims that is Faln Ones as the Hebrew Word signifies for they were faln from God as they had faln on Men and made Men by force and fear to fall before them They fall into Lamechs sin of Poligamy and must have more Wives than one Item pollices Quot Quas Volebant and as many Whores as they pleased Hence all the World was overspread with Cruelty and Corruption even a World of ungodly Men 2 Pet. 2. 5. Hereupon God saith Gen. 6. 3. I 'le Consult no more with my Mercy for sparing them I am Resolved with my Justice to Ruine them Satan had Consulted to Destroy and his Consult had an Happy or rather Unhappy Hit here 'T is sad when God will not at such a time Consult to Deliver The World was now become so Fowl with Sin that there was no Remedy but to Wash it clean with a Flood the whole Earth plainly stank before God v. 11 12. and he Sweetens it with a dowsing Deluge This Resolve to Ruine the World to wit both the Seeds of Seth as well as of Cain must needs make the Devil Laugh to see his Design so seemingly successful notwithstanding all this The Lord laughs this Project to nothing God still consults to Save as well as to Destroy Though the World shall be Drown'd yet the Church shall not be so according to the Devils Design for unto Noah God graciously gives a Promise of Preservation and the Platform of an Ark wherein he and his should be Preserved Gen. 6. 8 14. Yea and for the Churches future Sustenance and Accomodation Two of every sort of Creatures shall be preserved also Gen. 6. 20. And ah how Sequacious were they all to God their Centurion they All come at his Call and even Beasts of Prey were so cicurated and Tamed for this Time that they all Liv'd together and Dyeted together the Lyon with the Lamb Isa 11. 6. without any dissention Yea the Antipathy and Enmity 'twixt the Serpent and the Woman was here Restrained By Faith Noah prepares the Ark Heb. 11. 7. and every stroke upon it was a Real Sermon to Fore-warn the Old World that they flee from the Wrath to come And so this Preacher of Righteousness Preached without Preaching In the midst of Wrath resolv'd on God remembred Mercy Habb 3. 2. Those Corrupters of the Earth and of their Ways had 120 Y. given them wherein to be Reclaim'd by this Preacher of Right but they had the Space not the Grace of Repentance and they Jeered where they should have Feared looking upon Noah's Work of Preparing an Ark onely as a Work of Dotage as if he had Dreamed not so much of a Dry Summer as of a Wet Winter This long-Suffering of God is Admir'd and Ador'd 1 Pet. 3. 18 19 20. All the Devils Vassals were Drown'd Yea and Burn'd too So Deep is the Stain of Sin it Requires Fire as well as Water to fetch it out For they are call'd The Spirits once in Pleasure now in Prison and in pain of Everlasting Burnings but Noah Gods Servant was Saved who in the Spirit of Christ strove long with them for their Salvation to whom he was but a little Beholden for his own in this Respect especially The Door into his Ark must be in the side of the lowest Story and so it was under Water a whole Year all the time of the Flood and it must be a prodigiously great Door for so vast and Bulky a Body as an Elephant to enter Noah within cannot shut it 't is too heavy for him This Jeering Generation without would not they ought him no such Service Now rather than the Church should be drown'd either by an Open or a not well-shut Door the most High God stoops to that low Office of Shutting the Door after Noah That which God does is well done therefore it Leaked not for so long a time and he that Vouchsaf'd to be Noah's Turnkey condescends to be his Pilot too for a long and dangerous Voyage whereby the Ship or Church Swam safe to shore the Ark arrives at Arrarat its place of Rest Gen. 7. 16. and 8. 4. The Fourth Plot against the Church in AEGYPT Defeated by GOD. CHAP. IIII. NO sooner was the Church in Noah safely Landed and God had Smelt a sweet Savour instead of the stench of the Old World from Noah's Sacrifice Gen. 8. 11. but Satan hath a 4th Plot to Promote and Pursue God will not War with a Weaponless Devil but out of his Unsearchable Wisdom ever allows him Suitable Instruments to work withal in the World for the Glory of his own Grace The Enmity betwixt the Two Seeds never dyes as before so long as the World Lives and Cain will be Murdering Abel by Propagation to the end of the World Yea and the Older he grows the more Savage and Bloody will he be The last Bite of the Beast will be the most deadly Bite As the Serpent had crept into Paradise to Plot against our first Parents the First Foundation of the Church so Satan creeps into the Ark to Plot