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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God -- Early works to 1800.
Nature -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800.
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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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First, the cause why the Rain-bow was made.
After the deluge God gives the Rain-bow; the cause was his goodnesse, his compassion: God gives the Rain-bow undesired, unsought for; there is his free goodnesse; he gives a bow, for singularity none is like it; for dig∣nity it is his bow, the bow of God, hee gives it as a signe of his Covenant, which for latitude, is not on∣ly betweene God and man, but (inter omnem ani∣mantem ex omni carne:) betweene all living Crea∣tures of all flesh, for longitude, the Covenant is for ever.
1. His goodnesse teacheth me, to love him, to praise him, to flie to him, to reverence him, to repent and turne to him, Psal. 136.1. Hosea 3.5. Rom. 2.4.
2. His compassion teaches me to feare him, Psalm. 103.13.
3. His Covenant teaches me to trust in him, and to re∣semble him in keeping my covenants.