Heraclitus Christianus; or, the Man of Sorrow a Reflection on All States and Conditions of Human Life

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1677 Excerpt: ... OT' "thou approachest to death, the farther "thou removest thy self from thy Sal"vation, thou takest so much pains, and "art at so much cost to nourish and adorn "this body which is but a vessel of filth, u and a Sepulcher of worms and rotten"ness, and leavest thy poor soul, which "is the Image of God, and Idea of Eternal "Wisdom, altogether neglected. These are the complaints which this holy man made in his retirements against the Ingratitude and wickedness of this World, all which things deduced by him and others, tend to no other end, than to stir-up Man to the consideration and knowledg of himself, and to shew him how vile a Creature he is, that he may at all times learn to consider that he is in the hands of God, tu theclay and earthen vessel i) in the hands of the Potter; which he may make, unmake, form,-break, repair, and destroy «ven as it pleaseth him, without any injury,or suspicion of injustice '-, which needs but one push, and falls immed iately and is broken and yet let what misery soever light upon him, he knoweth not, nor humbleth himself under the Yoke of his Almighty Creator. B 5 CHAP C H A P. II. That Man in respeSt of many natural advantages, if inferior to the BcaUs and Inanimate Creatures. SO now, having consi'Jered Mans Estate universally, it's requisite to Discourse more largely or' this matter, and to contemplate and consider him It ore nearly. And because that amongst all Ethnics, Tliny hath best Philosophiz'd on our Subject, we shall produce his Testimony, That Christians to their great confusion and infamy, may receive their Instruction from a Pagan, without God, without Law, without any Ways being illuminated with the light Evangelical: "Let us con- sider, faith he, a little, how that man i$ ' forced to cover his body at the...