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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13542	A man in Christ, or A new creature To which is added a treatise, containing meditations from the creatures. By Thomas Taylor, Dr. in Diuinity.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1629 (1629)	STC 23833; ESTC S101983	68,841	266

without any pillar to support it that can bound the sea with his word onely that can sustaine such a masse of creatures 4. His bountifulnesse and goodnesse In his endowments of every creature in this kinde In his large provision for them in their severall necessities In making them all so good in themselves and for our good and benefit All of them call on us to taste and see how good God is in himselfe who is so good in these how good unto us hee will bee in his Pallace who is so good to us in our prison Here bee millions of Ministers and Apostles sent by GOD into the world to preach unto men the inexhaust treasures of their Lords goodnesse wisedome and power All of them teach us to depend upon him as they doe for their being and well-being for their motion or station Psal. 145. 15. The eyes of all things waite on thee and thou givest them food in due season and Psal. 147. ● The young Ravens cry to him for food and hee feedeth them So should wee much more not onely cast our care on him and expect all our good from him which is to knocke at the right doore and to goe to the fountaine but also receive all as from his hand not shifting for our selves by unlawfull meanes and taking our estate at the hand of the Devill in lying deceiving usury c. and to returne all in a sober moderate and sanctified use unto him againe for how unkindly did the Lord take it at Israels hands that they should take his wooll and flaxe and oyle and bestow it on Baals service Hos. 2. 8. Thinke now with our selves how disdainefully wee should heare The Oxe and Asse know their feeder but wee doe not ours All of them teach us to love him and returne all fruits of love to him because 1. They are all fruits of his love his love-tokens to us 2. God loveth us better than all them whom hee made their Lords and should not wee love him better than all creatures 3. All threaten us failing in our love for that turneth them against us and they become revengers of his quarrell the sun will burne up our fruites or deny his comfort and shine the clouds will drowne our fruits the aire pinch them and punish us 4. Shall every creature of which I am Lord yeeld me fruit my cattell my trees my ground and shall my love bee fruitlesse unto my Lord All of them teach us unitie love and peace one with another all of them doe conspire in unity and harmony among themselves for the good of the whole they preferre the good of the universall before the particular good of themselves Fire will descend water will ascend and all to hinder a rupture and vacuum or emptinesse in nature They all have their severall contrary qualities and motions but trouble not one another The fire doth warme the aire the aire preserveth the water the water moysteneth and maketh the earth fruitfull one element is a good neighbour to another though never so contrary in qualities They have all their severall degrees and differences some high some low some light some darke The sunne excelleth all the starres in splendour the starres one differ from another in glory Gold excels amongst mettals In the sensible creatures the heart and vitals are most noble yet nature hath so sowdred them together as there is no disdaine no contention but superiour creatures are bound to the inferiours and communicate themselves in governing the inferiour communicate in obeying Nay they all conspire to set forward mans happinesse and welfare So ought we to preferre the publike before the private good of our selves and bee helpefull to one another in our severall wayes Also in our severall degrees of superiority and inferiority bee beneficiall and communicative of our gifts and services All must conspite and consent to set forward the good of every man and helpe up his happinesse heavenly and earthly All of them teach us to grow weary of our present fervitude of sinne and waite for our promised deliverance Rom. 8. 22. For if they shall sigh under our burthens shall not we our selves shall wee bee more senselesse of our misery than they bee of it shall we goe on in sinne which is so burthensome and dangerous Aske the beasts and they will tell thee sinne is an intolerable burthen and takest thou pleasure in sinne Seest thou not the beasts wanting reason saving themselves from danger as they may Balaams Asse will shun and not goe forward against a drawn sword and shall we against the sword of the Lords hand drawne out against sinne Thus the creation of the world is a Scripture of God and the voyce of God in all the Creatures and by them all speaketh unto us alwaies and every where The whole world is his booke so many pages as there are severall creatures no page is empty but full of lines every qualitie of the creature is a severall letter of these lines and no letter without a part of Gods wisedom in it Thus of the creatures voice in generall Now come we to shew the voce of God in the particular creatures which are so infinite in number so divers in qualities as this discourse would swell to an exceeding great volume Therefore I will onely instance in some few particular creatures which our Prophet here specifies in this Psalme as the heavens the sun the moone and starres c. Holding these instances sufficient samplers whereby wee may patterne out our meditations and as occasion shall serve sucke out the sweet even out of every creature as shall be obvious dealing as Geographers who being to contract the great world in a little sheete for great rivers they draw small lines and for great citties onely a period The first particular creature that the Prophet mentioneth as the subject of his meditation is the heavens and firmament In which consider How the heavens and firmament have a voyce to declare the glory of God is plaine Neither is there any speech or language where this voyce is not heard Psal. 19 3. Let us see what lessons the Spirit will speake to us in them 1. The height of the heavens above the earth sheweth the infinite height and honour of him whose standing house is above all aspectable heavens How great is himselfe that thus stretcheth the heavens with his span Isay 40 5. 2. This may put us in minde of the infinite mercy and goodnesse of God So David in Psal. 103. 3. How much higher the heavens are above the earth so great is his goodnes to them that feare him 3. This mindeth us of the majesty of God Kings have their Palaces to shew their majesty and glory in now heaven above is the pavillion of the Lord Psal. 104. His throne and seate is in heaven 2. The matter of them is so pure subtile and excellent as mans wit cannot reach all this