Why the creatures were punished with mans ruin, that were not guilty of •s sin. This was just with God. 1 Because they were all made for mans use, […] therefore man suffers in their losse. Terra propter hominem producta, terra propter •inem maledicta. As a foul traitor being executed, hath his house fired, his very •d harrowed with brambles, and sown with stones. 2 Seeing they were made […] mans use, he being taken away, they were of no further use.1 The general being •ne, the army perisheth: the head being cut off, the members die. 3 Such was […] greatness of sin, that it brought destruction, not only upon the sinner, but on ⟨p. 538⟩all that belonged to him. 4 Because brutish men had abused the creatures by t•••• filthy riot and excess; therefore God saw it just to punish the Instrument wit•••• principal:2 so that there is not a Creature, which is not Subject to some vanity. […] that requites his Princes favours with treason, not only suffers in his own pers•• but every thing about him feels the smart. His followers are suspected, his […] • rits disgraced, his children disinherited, his friends discomforted, his house […] all things droop with him, his gardens are over-run with weeds, his orchy•• lie uncouth, man and beast is made sensible of his judgment. Adam, that was […] holding to God for his very self, apostating into treason; his house grew out of •• shion to him, his pleasures were turned to thorns, the arms of his nob•• were defaced: and he that was made a Master of living bodies, breaking his all•• ance with God, became despised of his own servants: some of them shaking of […] yoke of our government, when we shook off our makers. Especially the greatest, […] the smallest of them: the greatest, as Lions, Tigers, Panthers, are hardly […] but the least, as bees and gnats, not at all. In a general destruction when the ene•• triumphs, not only men, women and children lose their lives: but the houses […] fired, the trees cut down, the walls razed, the horses slain in fight, the cattle […] in the stalls:3 as Saul had his charge for Amalek; Spare neither man nor beast. […] there not rots of cattle, and murrains of beasts, so well as mortalities of m•• In a spoiling war or plague, who remains to fill the empty crib or marg•• Do they not suffer with their Masters?
Why the creatures were punished with mans ruine, that were not guilty of •s sinne. This was just with God. 1 Because they were all made for mans use, 〈…〉 therefore man suffers in their losse. Terra propter hominem producta, terra propter •inem maledicta. As a foule traitor being executed, hath his house fired, his very •d harrowed with brambles, and sowen with stones. 2 Seeing they were made 〈…〉 mans use, he being taken away, they were of no further use.1 The generall being •ne, the army perisheth: the head being cut off, the members die. 3 Such was 〈…〉 greatnesse of sin, that it brought destruction, not only upon the sinner, but on ⟨p. 538⟩all that belonged to him. 4 Because brutish men had abused the creatures by t•••• filthy riot and excesse; therefore God saw it just to punish the Instrument wit•••• principall:2 so that there is not a Creature, which is not Subject to some vanity. 〈…〉 that requites his Princes favours with treason, not onely suffers in his owne pers•• but every thing about him feeles the smart. His followers are suspected, his 〈…〉 • rits disgraced, his children disinherited, his friends discomforted, his house 〈…〉 all things droope with him, his gardens are over-run with weedes, his orchy•• lie uncouth, man and beast is made sensible of his judgment. Adam, that was 〈…〉 holding to God for his very selfe, apostating into treason; his house grew out of •• shion to him, his pleasures were turned to thornes, the armes of his nob•• were defaced: and he that was made a Master of living bodies, breaking his all•• ance with God, became despised of his owne servants: some of them shaking of yoke of our goverment, when we shooke off our makers. Especially the greatest, the smallest of them: the greatest, as Lions, Tygers, Panthers, are hardly but the least, as bees and gnats, not at all. In a generall destruction when the ene triumphs, not only men, women and children lose their lives: but the houses fired, the trees cut downe, the walls rased, the horses slaine in fight, the cattell in the stalls:
- 1Chrys.
- 2Rom. 8.20.
- 31 Sam. 15.13.
