Sorrow, Repentance, and the like. </s> <s>What &longs;hall we &longs;ay there<lb/>
fore? </s> <s>Without doubt &longs;uch like Attributes agree with God (to <lb/>
u&longs;e the Schoolmens words <emph type="italics"/>Metaphorically, Proportionally, and by <lb/>
Similitude<emph.end type="italics"/>: And touching Pa&longs;&longs;ions, it may be &longs;aid, that God <lb/>
conde&longs;cendeth to repre&longs;ent him&longs;elf after that manner: as for <lb/>
in&longs;tance, <emph type="italics"/>The Lord is angry<emph.end type="italics"/>; i.e. <emph type="italics"/>He revealeth him&longs;elf as one that <lb/>
is angry: He grieved<emph.end type="italics"/>; i. </s> <s>e. <emph type="italics"/>He revealeth him&longs;elf, as one that <lb/>
is &longs;orrowful: It repented him that he had made man<emph.end type="italics"/>; i.e. <emph type="italics"/>He &longs;ee<lb/>
med as one that repented.<emph.end type="italics"/> And indeed all the&longs;e things are <emph type="italics"/>Com<lb/>
parativè ad nos,<emph.end type="italics"/> and in re&longs;pect of us. </s> <s>So God is &longs;aid to be in <lb/>
Heaven, to move in time, to &longs;hew him&longs;elf, to hide him&longs;elf, to <lb/>
ob&longs;erve and mark our &longs;teps; to &longs;eek us, to &longs;tand at the door, <lb/>
to knock at the door; not that he can be contained in a bodily <lb/>
place, nor that he is really moved, nor in time; nor that humane <lb/>
manners or cu&longs;tomes can agree with him, &longs;ave only according to <lb/>
our manner of Apprehen&longs;ion: This Conception of ours orderly <lb/>
di&longs;tingui&longs;heth the&longs;e Attributes in him one from another, when, <lb/>
notwith&longs;tanding, they are one and the &longs;ame with him: This Ap<lb/>
prehen&longs;ion of ours divideth al&longs;o his actions into &longs;everal times, <lb/>
which, neverthele&longs;&longs;e, for the mo&longs;t part, are produced in one and <lb/>
the &longs;ame in&longs;tant: And this, to conclude, alwayes apprehendeth <lb/>
tho&longs;e things with &longs;ome defect, which, notwith&longs;tanding are in <lb/>
God mo&longs;t perfect. </s> <s>For this rea&longs;on doth the Sacred Scripture <lb/>
expre&longs;s it &longs;elf <emph type="italics"/>according to the Vulgar Opinion,<emph.end type="italics"/> whil&longs;t it a&longs;cribes <lb/>
to the Earth Ends and Foundations, which yet it hath not; to <lb/>
the Sea a Depth not to be fathomed; to Death (which is a Pri<lb/>
vation, and con&longs;equently a Non entity) it appropriates Actions, <lb/>
Motion, Pa&longs;&longs;ions, and other &longs;uch like Accidents, of all which it is <lb/>
deprived, as al&longs;o Epithites and Adjuncts, which really cannot <lb/>
&longs;uit with it: <emph type="italics"/>Is not the bitterne&longs;&longs;e of Death pa&longs;t<emph.end type="italics"/>? </s> <s>1 Sam. </s> <s>15. 32. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Let death come upon them,<emph.end type="italics"/> P&longs;al 6. <emph type="italics"/>He hath prepared the In&longs;tru<lb/>
ments of Death,<emph.end type="italics"/> P&longs;al. </s> <s>7. 14. <emph type="italics"/>Thou rai&longs;e&longs;t me from the gates of <lb/>
Death,<emph.end type="italics"/> P&longs;al. </s> <s>84. <emph type="italics"/>In the mid&longs;t of the &longs;hadow of Death,<emph.end type="italics"/> P&longs;al. </s> <s>23. <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Love is &longs;trong as Death,<emph.end type="italics"/> Cant. </s> <s>8. 9. <emph type="italics"/>The Fir&longs;t-Born of Death,<emph.end type="italics"/> Job <lb/>
18. 13. <emph type="italics"/>De&longs;truction and Death &longs;ay, &c.<emph.end type="italics"/> Job 28. 22. And who knows <lb/>
not that the whole Hi&longs;tory of the rich Glutton doth con&longs;i&longs;t of <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg886"></arrow.to.target><lb/>
the like phra&longs;es of <emph type="italics"/>Vulgar Speech<emph.end type="italics"/>? </s> <s>So <emph type="italics"/>Eccle&longs;ia&longs;ticus,<emph.end type="italics"/> Chap. </s> <s>27. <lb/>
ver&longs;. </s> <s>11. <emph type="italics"/>The godly man abideth in wi&longs;dome, as the Sun; but a <lb/>
fool changeth as the Moon<emph.end type="italics"/>; and yet the Moon according to the <lb/>
real truth of the matter no wayes changeth, but abides the &longs;ame <lb/>
for ever, as <emph type="italics"/>A&longs;tronomers<emph.end type="italics"/> demon&longs;trate, one half thereof remain<lb/>
ing alwayes lucid, and the other alwayes opacous. </s> <s>Nor at any <lb/>
time doth this &longs;tate vary in it, unle&longs;&longs;e <emph type="italics"/>in re&longs;pect of us,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>ac<lb/>
cording to the opinion of the Vulgar.<emph.end type="italics"/> Hence it is cleer, that the <lb/>
holy Scripture &longs;peaks according to the common form of &longs;peech u