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Show Thefut Bookeafehepethpuart\. + Cusr2.$.4.5 of the Eiiftory of the World. SIT we is 2 odsm,23i3!nan) bos. Over bafaneFraiche:end EMBeereMitep|ponld Jeet ob mindralSoe, bogs Heexternall man.God formed out dfthedutbofthe Batth;or actording tothe fignification Arias Movt.de oer outokthe flimoofthe Earthonainixed matter.ofEarthand-WatersVox ex quan mtfirsé. "gy Nthis frame andcarcaffe God breathed the breathoflife, and the man was.a lining i Soule : (thatis) God gaue a body of: Earth and of corrupt ible matter, ‘a Soule {pioA ituall and incorruptible; notthat'God had any {uch bodily inftruments as men vie, Ofthe\word) wider, of stalumathsof red, Earth, orsel ero terré, laet ureiasfed.ex ghapharradamath (idast) ex: pinguifsionad: malli{simas\Not that God made andmage orStatue ofClay,butvent ofGlaysEarth or Daft Godformedandmadeiflefosblindyand band; with elkparts ofmats: i ar -\That man wasformed:of Earthand Dutt did Abrabam acknowledge, when in-hum- Gen.18.27. 100 4.276 Ofthe Spirit-ofLife, which Ged breathed inte man in his Creation . ble feare he called vnto God,to faue Sodome: Let hot my Lord now be angry; if Iyfpeake, I, 1¢ that am but dnft and afbesind, Inthé/e Honfes of Clay , whofe: fonndation tein the disft, but Godbreathed the Spirit of Life and Immortalitie into man) as-hee breatheth his e dailyinto fuchas loue and feare him. The Spirit of God (faithEL1uv inIo B) bath made mec, and the breath of the AlmightyhathSinen me Life : In qua fententia (faith EORABANVS) Vitenda eit paupertas fenfus carnalis, neforte putemus Deum, vel manibus 10b,3304 corporeis de limo formaffe corpus hominis, vel faucibus aut labys fuss tnfpiralf e in faciemsfor mati, vt vitere pofsit & fpiraculame vite habere: Nam & Prophets cum ait, Manustue fecerunt wie, Gc Tropica hac locutione magis quam propria, (id ei) iuxta confuctudinem, detour foules inhabite,, according to fob. And though-ont owne eyes doe everywhere behold the fudden &wefiftleffe affaulrs of Death si andiNatutéaffareth vs by! neticr-fai- Died folent homines operari, loqu gtas est: In which fenatence (faith hee) ling Experience; 8 Reafon by infalliblé: demoriftvation; that ountimes vporithe Eatth haucAcither cértainty non duvability,that our Bodi¢sate but htAnduiles of paineand difeafesyandiou the begcarlineffe of ciel Tonle te bee auoided, left perhaps wee fhould thinke, either' phat Godwith bodily hands made'mans body offlime,or breathed with iawesor lips upon hisface(being formed that bt r Mindsthe Hives of'vnnumbred cares\forrowesand paffions ? andithat (when we aremioft glorified) we are but thofe painted pofts , againft which Enuy and Forwunedireét their darts4:yet fuch isthe true vnhappinefle ofour condition yrand 'the darke ignorance whichcouereththe ‘eyés of our viderftanding,that wee onely phizé720 pamperyand.exaltthis Vaflaltand Slaue ofdeath' and forget altogether (or onely re- line,and baue the Spirit ofLife: for the Prophet alfo when hefaith. Thy hana hane ee, fpake this Tropically, rather thaxproperly (that 1s) According tothe caitorme which in working. Quantum estpericuli his, gut Scripturafenfu-corporeo legunt ? In what > danger are they that reade the Scriptures is acarnallfenfe? Bythis breath was infufédinto man both life and foule ; and theréfore this (Soule) the Philofopherscall Animam , gue vinificat corpus, c animat , Which doth amimate, andpinelife to the body. The in[oiration member at ourcaft-awayleifure) the imprifoned :immoztall Soule, which cam neither dye withthe! Reprobat ey nor. perifh with the mortal] parts of vertuous: mens feeing Gods infticeiin the one,andshis goodneffe in the otheri s exertcifed'for cuermdte} as the cucr-liuing of the Almighty giueth underfanding, faith oy . andthis {pirit, which God breath ed into man, which is theteafonablefoule of man, returneth againe to Godthatg aue it, fubiects of hisrewardiand puifhment.. Buti when ts it‘that wee examine this great account? Neudt while we haueone vanity left vsto fpend: wee plead for Titles, till ouxbicashifaile ys ; digce for Riches, whiles our fitength-enableth vs. exercife malice, while whan reuenge'; and then when Timehath beaten from vs both youth pleafaresand health,and that Nature it felfe hatestithe-houfe ofiold age, wee vemierhiber lob to.a1.8 87. with Ioh;that dre rmu/l coe the wayfi om whesith wefPallnot nekarne, and that.our bed ismade 30 3 ready for'v's én thedarkesfnd then Leeh1214. I fay,looking ouer-late into the bottome of our co{cience which Plcafure and Ambition had Jocked vp-from vs allour liues; )we behold therein thefearcfull Imagesvof our a@iohs paft,, and withall this terrible Infcription : That. as the bodyreturneth vntothe Earth, ‘our of which*it was taken, accordi ng to Ecclefiafies : And dust fhallreturne tothe Earth, out ofwhith it wastaken, andthe [piritball re- xcolef tx; turn to God that caue it. Neither is this word(Spirit)vfually otherwife takenin theSc rip- tures, than for the foule ; as vvhen I Stéphen cried ‘vnto God : Domine, [ufcipe[piritum meum ; Lord lefus receine myfpirit : andin$:1o wn, And Tefus bowedhis head, andgaue 3° ep the Ghost, or Spirit, (vvhich was) that his life andfoulelef his body dead. And that vg... the immortallfoule of man differeth fromthe foulés of beafts, the mannerof creation 102 9.30; maketh it manifeft: foritis written, Let the waters bring forth in abundance eu TIENEC@ cons a0, bing God wilkbring cucry wotkeinte tidy eniicnt that msanhath dene But what exathpleshauecher moued-ys¢ what perfwafio vader the San ns reformed ys? or what threatnings madews affraid? ‘ 4° 24. a%p ture againeto Godthat gaue tt, h ig Vv. Nil hofles; nil dire fames, vil denig , tnorbi That man ts (4s it were) a little world: with « dizreftion touching our mortality. Egcrunt, fuimus, Gai nunc farau s, xf, periclis Temtati, wibilo meliores reddimuy a Subwitijsnalle culparamfine manentes, } Seals} amine, Enemies.in vs no change hae Wrought, W wat erlt we were,we are; {till in the fame {hare caught : 2% AN, thus compounded and formed by God., vvas an abftract or modell, or Me iefe Storie of the Vniuerfall ; inwhom Godconcluded the Creation, and vvorke ofthe World, and vvhom heemadethelaft and moft excellent of his Creatures, No time can our cor rupted Manner s mend r o Ta Vice wedwell.in Sinne that hath noend,; But let.vs norflatrer our immogral l Soules here erein.: for to neglecét:God all ourIiues, j 6 and knowthat wee neglecnhim Yto :offend God voluntarily, and know that wee offend him, cafting our hopes onthe Peac e, which wee truftto make at parting, thanatebelliousiprei umption, isno other and (that whichis the wort of all) éicn acontemptuous laughing ta.foarne, and:deriding mimife l risoraia But of Mah itis written, Let vs make man in our owe Ima rt, ere, and they again be diffolued into the famefirft m itter,vvhence they vveretaken: butthelife of breath euerlafting,vvhich God breathed into man, thall ac cording to Ecclefiafles, ve. Ecchi 2.73 F of God, his Lawes'and Precepts. Fra/ iri fperaxt Det Det fibs fbi blam blamdiwatar ; They Th hopDe ¢ ie Fits Jerk fistter them/elues with Geds METETe ye. that the Lord breathedin bis face the breath oflife. Wherefore,as from the Wa- Ger.2:5, terand Earth vvere thofe creatures brought forth, andthence receiued life : fo fhall we behaldother mens Tragedies plaid-bef ore vs,we heare whatis promifediandthreatned : but the Worlds bright glory-hath put ont he eves ofouraninds:ahd:th efe betraying ying ligt i which lights; (with sel wee eisintile only fee)'doeEe neyther as looke vp towards veithclefic ioyes ,. rior downetowards endif forrowes, till wee neither know, norcam looke for any thing elf, :at the World s han ds::O£ which exce llently 4a Marius Victor: thing, andlet the Earth bring forth the living thing, accordingtohis kinde, the beast of itvaine, fait fai h Bexnap : >. y's whic bi his §.1V- being ternally endued vvitha diuine ynderftanding, by which hee might contemplate and feruehis Creatour, after whofe im age hee vvas formed, and enducd , vvith the powers and faculties of Reafon and other abi s, that therby alfo he might 395 erneand rule the World,and all other Gods creatures therein. And vvhéreas God i s of lining natures. (to wit Angelicall, Rationall,and Brurall ; giuing tellectuall and to Beafts a fenfual! natyre, he vouchfafed vnto Man,both f Angels. the fi f Beafts, and the proper rationall belonging 4;,pryx9; therefore (faith Grnecony NAZIANZENE,) Homo cif vtrinfy meer ace! nT Van isthe bond and chaine whith treth tovether both matures : and becaufe in Owais ia bewi« dv there tion arep of all the entation of the Voiuerfall, and by allu ne createra, O err Ae 3-4 parts there, therefore was man called icro-alam Mart L Dews igitur hominem falum, cs velut alteram qucndam UR ~ 7 vata: L3 Aum, |