The Creatures Liberation from the Bondage of Corruption, Title page – Errata
OF The Creatures Liberation from the Bondage of corruption.
Wherein is diſcuſſed
I. What is moſt probably meant by (the Creature.)
II. The vanitie or corruption from which it ſhall be delivered, and its unwillingneſſe to that vanitie.
III. The manner, or way of its deliverance.
IV. What Creatures are conceived as moſt capable of this, and of their uſe after reſtauration.
V. And laſtly is diſcuſſed that glorious libertie of the Sonnes of God, into which the Creature is to be reduced.
Diſcurſu Philoſophico-Theologico, by John Waite, B.D.
Ubi enim de re obſcuriſſima diſputatur, non adjuvantibus Divinarum Scripturarum certis, clariſ que documentis, cohibere ſe debet humana praeſumptio, &c. Auguſt. lib. 2. de peccatorum meritis, cap. 36.
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To the Worſhipfull, and his eſpeciall good friend William White of Baſhall, Eſquire, in this life health, in the next happineſſe.
SIR, the Philoſopher in libro Moral. 9. cap. 11. moves this queſtion, foreign, utrùm magis opus eſt amicis in proſperitatibus, quam in infortuniis? whether a man ſtands more need of friends in proſperity, or in calamity? He wiſely anſwers, in utriſquè, in them both; in proſperity, for a mans ſociety, friendly councell, delight, and the exerciſing his favours towards them; in calamity, or adverſity, that from ſuch he may be ſuccoured, helped, or upholden, and defended. The former is more common, for who knows not, ſi fueris foelix? &c. yet the latter is more commendable, indicates more charity towards man, and ſhall have more reward from God. But tempora ſi fuerint nubila, are ſo cloudy and miſtie times, that its heard to ſee a friend in them. I have read of many that are content to worſhip the Sunne-riſing, but few or none the Sunne-ſetting; yet in this latter poſture, you have bin pleaſed to remember me; therefore for ſuch your friendſhip, I am the more obliged. A noble Perſonage (as you cannot but know) was once pleaſed to confeſſe, that he ſhould accept it as an honour, if I would dedicate this worke upon ſo abſtruſe a ſubject unto him; but that ſpectatiſſimus heros exceſſit è vivis, and is now at reſt. The next to whom for this worke, your ſelfe may deſervedly challenge the Patronage, having laboured much to have it brought in apricum. But as the Poet writes of Poeſie, Carmina ſeceſſum ſcribentis, et otia quaerunt, ſo may I ſay of Theologie. The taſke was the harder, being undergone, inter armorum ſtrepitus, fulgentes aere catervas, et crebris ictibus enſes, fumantes pulvere campos, et rorantes ſanguine criſtas. Yet, through the good hand of God upon me, even in theſe times, operi coronidem impoſui: and becauſe I know, quòd verbum ſapienti ſat eſt, I preſume I ſhall not need to ſay any more, but that I ſhall remain.
Yours in the beſt of his ſervices, John Waite. è Mu…aeo noſtro Gargraviae, 23. Januar. 1649.
To the Chriſtian Reader.
COurteous Reader, ſome pains I have taken to adde one Mite more to the Treaſurie of the Church; if thou wilſt not beleeve what labour it coſt me, facito periculum, make a triall thy ſelf of ſome ſuch like ſubject, and then I dare preſume that thy cenſure will be more charitable. Souldiers ſay, that they can do no execution without Ammunition. Bees we know can make no honey without flowers, nor Schollers ſoundly handle any point of learning, without books; onelyonly ſuch as are ſine literis, have reaſon to be content ſine libris. Know (good reader) that I live procul a Sole, procul a ſale, extra Rempublicam bonarum literarum, ac ingeniorum theſauros; my houſe hath ſuffered plunder, the common calamity of the times, and falling in upon my Library, (a Schollers riches) they aſked for the Practice of Piety, as ſutable to their work, and I confeſſe a great ſtranger to them, and therefore ſtood need of inquiry after it. A few broken Regiments I had left, and thoſe now much tattered and torn, in being forced to march from Town, to Town. News of late have been the moſt vendible Commodity; here is a new heaven, and a new earth, new Creatures, all things new; as God in his wiſdome ſhall think fit: God make thee a new heart, fitted to injoy the new eſtate in the life to come. Reader, here thou haſt the fruits of four Moneths travell, ſpared and ſequeſtred time from the ordinary charge of my Miniſterie, in all which time, that had its ſhare with this,
Det tibi Deus intellectum.
Errata.
Pag. 6. lin. 15. For for read by, p. 27. l. 1. for inanihibabilis r. inanihilabilis. Heb. p. 55. for foreign read foreign p. 61. l. 21. for God r. good, p. 133. r. ablatiſ que for abluteſque. P. 179. r. habebunt for hebebunt. P. 197. r. innovabuntur for innovabantur. P. 212. in marg. r. fluctuum for fluctum. P. 229. r, Sole for Sol. P. 253. r. autem for aurem. and more I finde not.