A26344:83
God's anger
God's anger ; and, Man's comfort two sermons / preached and published by Tho. Adams.
London: printed by Tho. Maxey for Samuel Man, 1652
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In the other Army we find. 1. Quanta, how puissant they are; Comforts. 2. Quota, how many they are, indefinitely set down; Abundant comfort. 3. Cujus, whose they are▪ The Lords, he is their general; Thy comforts. 4. Quid operantur, what they do: they delight the soul. In the nature of them; being Comforts, ⟨p. 44⟩there is tranquility: in the number of them, being many comforts, there is sufficiency: in the owner of them, being Thy comforts, there is omnipotency: in the effect of them, delighting the soul, there is security. There is no fear in them, for they come for peace; they are Comforts. There is no weakness in them, for they come in troops, they are many comforts. There is no disorder in them, for the God of wisdom is their Captain, and leads their forces, they are Thy comforts. There is no trouble in them, for they evangelize joy, They delight the soul.
In the other Army we find. 1. Quanta, how puissant they are; Comforts. 2. Quota, how many they are, indefinitely set down; Abundant comfort. 3. Cujus, whose they are▪ The Lords, he is their generall; Thy comforts. 4. Quid operantur, what they do: they delight the soul. In the nature of them; being Comforts, ⟨p. 44⟩there is tranquility: in the number of them, being many comforts, there is sufficiency: in the owner of them, being Thy comforts, there is omnipotency: in the effect of them, delighting the soul, there is security. There is no fear in them, for they come for peace; they are Comforts. There is no weaknesse in them, for they come in troopes, they are many comforts. There is no disorder in them, for the God of wisdome is their Captain, and leads their forces, they are Thy comforts. There is no trouble in them, for they evangelize joy, They delight the soul.
1. The Rebels are thoughts. Man is an abridgement of the world, and is not exceeded by it, but in quantity, his pieces be not pauciora, sed minora. If all the veins of our bodies were extended to rivers, our sinews to mines, our muscles to mountains, our bones to quarries of stone, our eyes to the bigness of the Sun and Moon, and all other parts to the proportion of such things as correspond to them in the world; man might stride over the sea, as the Hebrews feigned of Adam; the air would be too little for him to move in, and the whole firmament but enough for this Star; yea indeed, this little world would be the great one, and that great world appear but the little one. There is nothing in the world for which we may not find some answerable part in man: but there is something in man for which we can find no answerable part in the world: I need not say Part; for the whole world is