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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Considerations.

1. In their condition, they were captives, 2. Tim. 2.14. now they have liberty, 2. Cor. 3.17. They were children of wrath, Ephes. 2.2. they be changed to be children of God, 1. Iohn 3.1.

2. They be changed in disposition, Isa. 11.6, 7, 8. they were enemies, Rom. 5.10. now are friends, Ioh. 15.14. they have a divine nature, 2. Pet. 1.4. and a new heart, and a new spirit Eze. 36.26.

3. They be changed in conversation; the old compa∣nions they cry away from me▪ Psal. 119.115. they be changed in their speeches which were once rotten, Eph. 4.29. but now gratious, Col. 4.6. they are changed in their ations, they eschew evill and doe good, they pra∣ctice righteousnesse and doe exercise mercy, they doe performe duties of piety from an inward principle, from a new life infused into them, there is an universall change where Gods spirit comes, savingly and effe∣ctually.

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5. Fire purifies, and purges, and seperats, the drosse from the mettall.

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