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Gods anatomy upon mans heart. Or, A sermon preached
Gods anatomy upon mans heart. Or, A sermon preached by order of the Honourable House of Commons, at Margarets Westminster, Decemb. 27. Being a day of public humiliation By Thomas Watson, pastor of Stephens Walbrooke, London.Gods anatomy upon mans heart. Or, A sermon preached by order of the Honorable House of Commons, at Margarets Westminster, Decemb. 27. Being a day of publick humiliation By Thomas Watson, pastor of Stephens Walbrooke, London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1654
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.
4. We act against God, when we1 act against that Order and Government which he hath set up in his Church▪ God is the God of Order▪ he hath set every thing in its proper sphere. The order and harmony of the World doth consist in Degrees, one thing still above another. For as Aristotle saith, no Harmony consists of Union; there can be no music, if all the sounds be alike; The Countertenor is above the Base. In nature, the Sun is Commander ⟨p. 34⟩in chief among the Planets. Thus in the Body Politic; God hath set King, Nobles, Judges, still in a descent: and this makes up the Harmony. And these Powers are of God, Rom. 13. 1. The Powers that 2be, are of God. Magistracy is the hedge of a Nation, And he that breaks an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
4. We act against God, when we1 act against that Order and Government which he hath set up in his Church▪ God is the God of Order▪ he hath set every thing in its proper sphere. The order and harmony of the World doth consist in Degrees, one thing still above another. For as Aristotle saith, no Harmony consists of Union; there can be no musick, if all the sounds be alike; The Countertenor is above the Base. In nature, the Sunne is Commander ⟨p. 34⟩in chief among the Planets. Thus in the Body Politick; God hath set King, Nobles, Judges, still in a descent: and this makes up the Harmony. And these Powers are of God, Rom. 13. 1. The Powers that 2be, are of God. Magistracy is the hedge of a Nation, And he that breaks an hedge, a serpent shal bite him.