Considerations.
1. Two contraries may agree for a common good; the Sunne and water produce the Clouds; some men are
Miscellanea philo-theologica, or, God, & man A treatise compendiously describing the nature of God in his attributes, with a lively pourtraiture of his wisedome in ordering, and disposing of the celestiall, and terrestriall bodies. Containing much variety of matter ... and apt applications singular for brevity, and perspicuity. By Henry Church.
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- Miscellanea philo-theologica, or, God, & man A treatise compendiously describing the nature of God in his attributes, with a lively pourtraiture of his wisedome in ordering, and disposing of the celestiall, and terrestriall bodies. Containing much variety of matter ... and apt applications singular for brevity, and perspicuity. By Henry Church.
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- Church, Hen. (Henry), fl. 1636-1638.
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- London :: Printed [by J. Norton and J. Okes] for John Rothwell, and are to be sold at the Sunne, in Pauls Church-yard,
- M.DC.XXXVII. [1637]
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"Miscellanea philo-theologica, or, God, & man A treatise compendiously describing the nature of God in his attributes, with a lively pourtraiture of his wisedome in ordering, and disposing of the celestiall, and terrestriall bodies. Containing much variety of matter ... and apt applications singular for brevity, and perspicuity. By Henry Church." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18711.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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of contrary dispositions, and cannot agree; yet in advan∣cing the Gospell, maintaining the truth, releeving the poore, let them joyne in this, and be like the Sunne and the water, which differ in nature, yet meet, and do good together.
2. I learne to deny my naturall disposition, to obey the higher powers; the nature of the water is to descend, but by a heavenly influence it ascends: I will deny my selfe in that may offend a weak brother, equall to me, and will not be refractory in an indifferent thing, to yeeld to my superiour which is above me.
3. I see what a sweet influence doth; it causes the vapors to come from below, and mount up on high: a sweet disposition gaines a voluntary service; let me shine on them below me with the beames of favour, and warme them with kindnesses, and winne their affections; then they will beginne to bethinke themselves of motion to∣ward me, and I shall prevaile with them more than by a sterne carriage, threats, or stripes.