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<P>GODS VALVATION OF MANS SOULE.</P>
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<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>W. J.</HI> for <HI>Nicolas Bourne,</HI> and are to be &s;olde at the South Entrance of the <HI>Royall Exchange.</HI> 1632.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, HIS NO LESSE HONOVRED LORD; GEORGE LORD ARCH-BISHOP OF CAN|TERBVRY, PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND AND METROPOLITANE, ONE OF HIS MAIESTIES MOST HONOVRABLE PRIVIE COVNCEL.</HEAD>
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<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>May it plea&s;e Your</HI> GRACE,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IT is now full three yeares, foure times tolde, &s;ince; it fir&s;t plea&s;ed God, <HI>by Your hands,</HI> to tran&s;plant mee from a more bar|ren &s;oyle, into that no le&s;&s;e fruitfull than plea&s;ant Place, (<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Queenes Colledge in Cambridge.</NOTE>) like unto the golden Orchard of <HI>He&s;peri|des,</HI> if I may not rather liken. It, unto the Garden of <HI>Eden</HI> (<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Gene&s;: ch: 13. ver&s;: 10.</NOTE>): as in the mid&s;t whereof al&s;o there &s;tood A Tree of Knowledge (<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">D. Davenant then Ma&s;ter of Q: C: now Bi&s;hop of Salisbury.</NOTE>), I ta&s;ted of (through Your Favour) <HI>without offence:</HI> yea was ingrafted into It, by <HI>Your Grace.</HI> Which if, after &s;o many yeares, It ex|pect &s;ome fruits, I wonder not; but am rather im|boldened to pre&s;ent You with the&s;e <HI>Fir&s;t.</HI> Which how&s;oever they belong unto You, as Gods High-Prie&s;t (<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Numb: ch: 18. ver&s;: 17.</NOTE>); yet, if worthy any re&s;pect, are they Yours, in many re&s;pects more; for that indeed my &s;elfe al&s;o am: even as punctually obliged unto Your Grace, as ever was <HI>Mephibo&s;heth</HI> (<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 Sam: ch: 9. ver&s;: 1. &amp;c.</NOTE>), unto that <HI>Man after Gods owne heart</HI> (<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 Sam: ch: 13. ver&s;: 14.</NOTE>). Ble&s;&s;ed bee his name, who&s;e glory it is chiefly; <HI>to bee found of &s;uch as &s;eeke him not: and made manife&s;t unto them that looked not after him.</HI> (<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Rom: ch: 10. ver&s;: 20.</NOTE>) What Your &s;incerity will not that I publi&s;h, may it plea&s;e Him to reward according to his Promi&s;e. (<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Matth: ch: 6. ver&s;: 4.</NOTE>) But, me thinkes, I heare a &s;ententious <HI>Seneca:</HI> (<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Quo modo Beneficium non &s;emper recipiendum, &s;ic non uti&abque; reddendum. Quare &s;ub&s;idere apud te munus meum non vis? Quare obligatus, mole&s;t&egrave; fers? quare, qua&s;i cum acerbo Faeneratore, &s;ignare rationem parem pro|peras. Senec. de Benefic. lib. 6. cap. 40.</NOTE>) <HI>Quid in me Deos immittis? quo modo exigeres, qui &s;ic reddis?</HI> there is, as a time to receive; &s;o a time to render. Good deeds (as good dayes) would not be &s;ent back, but &s;et
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<PB REF="4"> downe. He that is urgent to be loo&s;ed, &s;hewes he is a weary to be bound. Neither in truth ought wee, to reckon with all men as exactly; as if none gave, but in hope to gaine. Our Saviour is peremptory; <HI>doe good and lend,</HI> (&s;aith hee) <HI>hoping for nothing againe: then &s;hall your reward be great, and ye &s;hall be the children of the Highe&s;t:</HI> for, He is kind unto the <HI>unthankfull</HI> and to the <HI>Evill.</HI> (<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Luk. ch. 6. ver&s;: 35. Illud certum est, juvandus e&s;t proximus; etiam nullae recipiendae &s;ortis habit&acirc; ratione. Bez. annot. in Loc. Beneficiae qui dat, Deos imitatur; qui repetit, Faeneratores. Seneca de Benef. lib. 3. cap. 15.</NOTE>) and if the <HI>Spirit,</HI> of &s;uch thus jointly; will not Your Clemency pardon me: &s;ince, if I have beene more trouble&s;ome, yet hath it been, but that I might not be; <HI>le&s;&s;e good.</HI> Otherwi&s;e (not unworthily) might my hopes al&s;o melt away, <HI>as the winters hoare fro&s;t; and and as the hope of the unthankefull</HI> (&s;o paraphra&s;eth it Our Living-Library) (<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Iohan. Sarisbur. Epi&s;cop. Comment: in Colo&s;&s;. cap. 4. ver&s;. 2.</NOTE>) <HI>runne away as unprofitable wa|ters.</HI> (<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Wi&s;dom. ch. 16. ver&s;. 29.</NOTE>) Yet am I not over-&s;ollicitous, how to render, that were to repent (as it were) that ever I received, (<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Paenitet accepti Beneficij, quam nondum redditi piget. Quare qui tibi dignus vi&s;us e&s;t a quo acciperes, indignus videatur cui debeas? Senec. de Benefic. lib. 6. cap. 42.</NOTE>) or a&s;hamed to owe, where I fore&s;ee a nece&s;&s;itie (if I will live wel) to borrow. To the prai&s;e of Gods glo|ry, long may his Church enjoy Your Grace: even <HI>until</HI> (for Zions &s;ake) <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</HI> that (againe) (<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Haec enim primo ac proprie de Iudaeorum &agrave; Babylonijs glorio&s;&acirc; Libe|ratione. Scultet. concion: in Loc.</NOTE> <HI>goe forth as brightne&s;&s;e, and the Salvation thereof as a Lampe that burneth: untill Jeru&s;alem al&s;o that be, as a crowne of glory in the hands of the Lord; as a rich diademe in the hands of thy God.</HI> (<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">I&s;ay ch. 62. ver&s;: 1. &amp;c.</NOTE>) So prayeth unto Chri&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your GRACES mo&s;t &s;incerely devoted thankefull Vicar M. CAPELL.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From Tillman&s;tone <DATE>Iune 28. Anno 1631.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Chri&s;tian Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>FOr &s;o I mu&s;t needs in charity</HI> <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Corinth. ch. 13. ver&s;. 5.</NOTE> <HI>&s;tile thee, till I &s;hall have found thee le&s;&s;e courteous than in truth</HI> <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. ch. 4. ver&s;. 32.</NOTE> <HI>be&s;eemeth thee; however it being a common opinion that</HI> Speech <HI>hath the advantage of</HI> Writing, <HI>I wonder not &s;o much,</HI> <NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Sacrum enim morbum et&s;i Opinionum, vere pariterac eleganter, ab Antiquis pro|ditum memoriae e&s;t: Cuius tanta vis et efficacia e&s;t, ut &s;i quem vel leviter afflaverir, eum tanquam vinctum con&s;trictum&abque; teneat, neque ad veritatis lucem attollere o|culos permittat. Dan. Hein&s;ii Orat. 24.</NOTE> <HI>it &s;hould be approved, by &s;o many.</HI> <NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Gregor. Nazianz. epi&s;t. 38. &amp; 52. Bernard. Efficacior e&s;t Lingua quam Litera. Cie|ad Attic. lib. 2. epi&s;t. 8. Ip&s;e aliquid, immo multa, quotidie dicat, licet enim exemplo|rum ad imitandum ex Lectione &s;atis &s;uppediter, tamen viva illa (ut dicitur) vox abit plenius, praecipue&abque; &amp;c. Quintil. In&s;t. Orat. lib. 2. cap. 2.</NOTE> <HI>And yet remember I, what they of the Apostle</HI> St. Paul; his letters are weighty and powerfull, but his bodily pre&s;ence is weake, and his &s;peech contempti|ble. <NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 10. ver&s;. 10.</NOTE> <HI>Not to examine how truly they &s;pake thus, of him; I am &s;ure most mens &s;peeches, manife&s;t &s;uch are their thoughts of</HI> Young men. <HI>I could therefore wi&s;h, would &s;ometimes rather print, than preach: and, as much as in them lyes, indeavour to remove all</HI> Prae|judices: <NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Following <HI>St. Paul,</HI> who is thought purpo&s;ely to have concealed his name in his Epi&s;tle unto the Hebrewes: for that writing unto the Iewes, it might have beene praeiudicious unto him, to be knowne.</NOTE> <HI>which no le&s;&s;e than bribes</HI> <NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Exod. 23. ver&s;. 8.</NOTE> <HI>blinde, and (as di&s;tem|pered affections</HI>) <NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Tu quoque &s;i vis, Lumine claro cernere verum; tramine recto carpere callim, Gaudia pelle, pelle Timorem; Spem&abque; fugato nec Dolor ad&s;it; nubila mens e&s;t, vincta&abque; froenis: Haec ubi regnant. Boet. de Con&s;ol. lib. 1.</NOTE> <HI>binde too too many. I have often pittied to heare, &s;coffe and &s;corne (as they will) at Iuvenility;</HI> <NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg"><HI>H. B.</HI> to Mr. <HI>R B.</HI> Epi&s;t. Let not your Iuvenility &amp;c. nec &s;altet, nec in&s;ultet Senex.</NOTE> <HI>and com|plaeine, as &s;ympathizing with, the</HI> Oppre&s;&s;ion <HI>of the poore</HI> Pre&s;&s;e. <HI>As if, there might not be</HI> mente <HI>as well as</HI> mento Seniores: <HI>as if, all men were now &s;ooner rotten, and not &s;ome &s;ooner ripe al&s;o. As if, it were nece&s;&s;ary alwayes a</HI> Writer <NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Si meliora Dies, ut vina, poemata facit; Scire velim pretium chartis quotus arroget annus &amp;c. Horat. lib 2. Epi&s;t. 1.</NOTE> <HI>&s;hould have yeares, or requi&s;ite nothing, but what is ab&s;olute,</HI> <NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Nemo tunc quicquam recte edit unquam: apparet aedi licere, in quibus, quod de|&s;iderent, &s;it aliquid &amp;c. Acentius Epi&s;t. Wolfio.</NOTE> <HI>&s;hould be licenced to pa&s;&s;e. As if, it were not prai&s;e-worthy for any, but the able&s;t men, to write:</HI> <NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Scribimus indocti&mdash;Hic error tamen, et levis haec in&s;ania virtutes habeat. Horat. lib. 2. epi&s;t. 1.</NOTE> <HI>As if confluence of Bookes might not bee without confu&s;ion of Beleefes:</HI> <NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Plures libros a pluribus fieri, diver&s;o &s;tylo, non diver&s;a fide &amp;c. Augu&s;t. de Trinitat. lib. 1. cap. 3.</NOTE> <HI>As if,</HI> in the multitude of Coun&s;ellours, <NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Proverbs 24 ver&s;. 6.</NOTE> <HI>&s;tood not a mans &s;afety. As if, ene|mies would, or friends dur&s;t, what Letters will not blu&s;h to tell. As if,</HI> Printers <HI>de&s;erved not incouragement; by who&s;e Providence (I may &s;ay)</HI> <NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Acts 24. ver&s;. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> <HI>&s;o many worthy deedes are done, unto this our nation: as that it were utterly a fault for us to &s;uffer any, either to que&s;tion their Art,</HI> <NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Boni neplus an mali Chalcographia con&s;ulerit Literarum &s;tudiis? In&s;ul. Di&s;&s;ertat annex. libello Liburnii Hi&s;tor. Flor.</NOTE> <HI>or abu&s;e of their diligence (who love not to live idly) for the bringing forth and charging of the world, with a brood of illigitimate bratts;</HI> <NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Such was the Originall of Here&s;ies by <HI>D.</HI> fathered upon <HI>C.</HI> and a booke in Folio, lately printed for <HI>R. D.</HI> commonly &s;old as if they were Mr. D. <HI>Sibs</HI> Sermons; I heare for certaine they are not, and in truth beleeve it; &s;o that I would have <HI>uprightne&s;&s;e</HI> removed, and onely, <HI>He hath Boldne&s;&s;e,</HI> left alone: as the Publi&s;hers Motto.</NOTE> <HI>meere Titles,</HI> <NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Ingenio&s;i ad &s;pecio&s;os Titulos excogitandum, quibus ex hominum manibus bo|nos extorquent libros &amp;c. Acentius epi&s;t. Wolphio, annex. Sathanae Stratagem. lib. Ba&s;il. edit. 1565. in quarto.</NOTE> <HI>trifling and &s;cur|rilous Pamphlets, I know not whether I &s;hould wi&s;h were ca&s;t unto</HI>
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<PB REF="7"> <HI>the chimney, or channell; into the fire, or water.</HI> <NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Acts 19. ver&s;. 19.&mdash;Flammam accendit amoris, Mergi non uri debuit i&s;te liber. Owen, epigram. l. 2. ad Sidneium de ip&s;ius Arcadia.</NOTE> <HI>It is well knowne,</HI> Lactantius <HI>and others have both thought, and taught it as a Chri|&s;tian duty; every man &s;hould endeavour to profit many.</HI> <NOTE N="v" PLACE="marg">Profit qui&s;que quam plurimis. Lactant. Divin. In&s;tit. Epitom. cap. 12. et Iu&s;tin. Mar|tyr Zenae et Sereno epi&s;t.</NOTE> <HI>Why then, &s;hould I be cen&s;ured by any? &s;ince, not only Letters la&s;t lon|ger;</HI> <NOTE N="w" PLACE="marg">Sit verbum vox viva licet, vox mortua Scriptum; Scripta dum vivunt, non ita verba diu. Owen epigr. lib. 3.</NOTE> <HI>but, a &s;horter way,</HI> <NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Voces &s;igna &s;unt, per quae prae&s;entibus loquimur; inventae &s;unt literae per quas po&s;|&s;emus et cum ab&s;entibus loqui &amp;c. Augu&s;t. de Trinit. lib. 10. cap. 1. et lib. 15. cap. 10.</NOTE> (<HI>than through the Pre&s;&s;e) can no man &s;hew we, to goe unto &s;o many, as my me&s;&s;age concernes. If Others,</HI> <NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Dr. Deni&s;on, Chri&s;tians Care &amp;c. Mr. Cob, Worldlings Looking-Gla&s;&s;e.</NOTE> <HI>before me have delivered, yet doubt I of one of them,</HI> <NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Namely Mr. Cob, a M. I meane, a Mini&s;ter of late.</NOTE> <HI>whether he were &s;ent (otherwi&s;e than</HI> Ahimaaz, <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. chap. 18. ver&s;e 23.</NOTE> <HI>that would needes runne and over-ranne</HI> Cu&s;hi, <HI>by the way of the plaine) how&s;oever I am confident, is not our writing vaine, or le&s;&s;e warrantable therefore. May we not put &s;ome in remembrance,</HI> <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">A &s;ufficient warrant. 1 Cor. 4. ver&s;. 17. 2 Pet. 3 ver&s;. 1. Ep. Iude ver&s;e 3.</NOTE> <HI>of the &s;ame things; they may both have heard, and read, and yet forgotten? &s;o weake are our memories, we had need both to write, and be written to.</HI> <NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Literas fateor immorandorum cu&s;todes e&s;&s;e foelici&s;&s;imas: in&s;criptionem memora|bilium in libris, omnem aliam remini&s;cendi artem &s;uperat. Lip&s;. epi&s;t. &s;elect. 64. Centur. 3.</NOTE> <HI>Which now that Chri&s;t hath al&s;o by me (le&s;&s;e than the lea&s;t of his Servants &s;ervants</HI>) <NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Servorum Chri&s;ti famulus. Fulgent. epi&s;t. ad Gallam&punc; Probam &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>a greater &s;in mu&s;t it needes be for any henceforth</HI> <NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ioh. ch. 15. ver&s;. 22.</NOTE> <HI>to offer or proffer to deale with the Divel, or exchange his</HI> Soule <HI>for a few, &s;hort, &s;weet-&s;harpe, never-&s;atisfying Plea&s;ures,</HI> <NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Dolor ac voluptas, invicem cadunt; brevior voluptas. Senec. Tragaed.. Impia, &s;ub dulci melle, venena latent. Ovid. Nihil prodigae &s;atis voluptati; famam &s;emper pati|tur &s;ui&mdash;nec tran&s;-acta &s;atiat &amp;c. Ambr. in Luc. Hierom. epi&s;t. ad D.</NOTE> <HI>witch-like</HI> <NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">For &s;o it is that in&s;tead of gold and &s;ilver, the Divell payes &s;uch his &s;laves, with a few withered leaves, or &s;ome &s;uch worth-nothing, &s;aith <HI>Remigius</HI> of Witches, in his booke intutuled Daemon &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>Profits; worldly Preferments; and le&s;&s;e worthy Prai&s;es, than the lea&s;t part of that which is of God.</HI> <NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Rom. chap. 2. ver&s;. 29.</NOTE> <HI>I &s;hall reque&s;t thee, to remem|ber me unto; by thy prayers: and, if ought thou finde prai&s;e-wor|thy in the&s;e paines of mine (undertaken not to plea&s;e,</HI> <NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Galath. ch. 1 ver&s;. 10. <GAP DESC="foreign">, &amp;c. Theognid. &s;entent.&mdash;hand cunctis Rector Olimpi, Sive pluit &s;eu non; Iupiter Ip&s;e placet. Iacob. Schegkio interprete.</NOTE> <HI>but to pro|fit) give thou unto Him all the glory. A Chri&s;tian Subject ex|pects not, but con&s;cionably</HI> <NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Remembring that of the Apo&s;t. Rom. ch. 13. ver&s;. 1. and 7.</NOTE> <HI>payes &s;ub&s;idies. A Fellow-&s;ervant &s;hould not &s;uffer him&s;elfe to be honoured as his Master.</HI> <NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Chry&s;o&s;t. in Ioh. cap. 1. Homil. 15.</NOTE> <HI>Others may, I must not offer to rob</HI> <NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Malach. ch. 3. ver&s;. 8. A hard &s;aying; I could wi&s;h did not harden many in their wic|kedne&s;&s;e, through Gods iu&s;t iudgement on them; &s;o as that they thinke not this kinde of robbing, any &s;inne; I am afraid will prove heavie enough to pre&s;&s;e their &s;oules downe &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>God. Hee alone is</HI> worthy <NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Revel. chap 4. ver&s;. 11.</NOTE> all prai&s;e and glory, <HI>who is</HI> the onely wi&s;e <NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Rom. ch. 16. ver&s;. 27.</NOTE> GOD.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Who&s;e I am and thine for his &s;ake and <HI>thy Soules Salvation</HI> mo&s;t &s;incerely devoted M. C.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From his hou&s;e at Till|man&s;tone in Ea&s;t-Kent, <DATE>Ianuary 15. Anno Re|demptionis Animarum, 1632.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<Q>What &s;hall it profit a man, if he &s;hall gaine the whole world, and lo&s;e his owne &s;oule?</Q>
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<P>_WERE it not, but that I know; the &s;weete&s;t wine may &s;oone&s;t be turned in|to the &s;harpe&s;t vineger; I &s;hould more wonder &s;o good a Confe&s;&s;our, as <HI>Saint Peter,</HI> could ever have been changed into &s;o bad a Coun&s;ellour, as the Temp|ter. And yet, I find, &s;o it was: even that our Sa|viour, who before had afforded him all due prai|&s;es, inverts his commendations, into a condem|nation. How unhappily is his &s;tile changed! a|las! that he who had before exclaimed; <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. 16. 17.</NOTE> <HI>art thou,</HI> Simon Bar-jona, <HI>for fle&s;h and bloud have not revealed it unto thee; but my Father which is in heaven:</HI> Should, as it were with one and the &s;ame breath, di&s;claime his undutifull proceed|ings; and &s;ay: <HI>Get thee behind me Satan, for thou</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. 8. 33.</NOTE> <HI>&s;avourest not the things that are of God.</HI> And yet (I reade) it was &s;o. Saint <HI>Peter</HI> would needs (as it
<PB N="2" REF="9"> were) play the phy&s;itian, and ordaine Chri&s;t a remedy, wor&s;e then his di&s;ea&s;e: which our Sa|viour finding out, he refu&s;eth: and had rather die, than incur the danger of lo&s;ing his life, in hope to &s;ave it. Even as many, that feare more the death of their bodyes: than that which is of their &s;oules. Vnto whom heare what it is <HI>the truth</HI> it<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn. 14. 6. Marke 8. 35.</NOTE> &s;elfe, avoucheth here: <HI>Who&s;oever will &s;ave his life &s;hall lo&s;e it,</HI> even Eternity, for a moment: that everla&s;ting life, for this tran&s;itory, &s;o &s;aved. Who then had not much better, as a wi&s;e Merchant at &s;ea, ca&s;t away all; than him&s;elfe, <HI>be ca&s;t away?</HI> were<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 9. 25.</NOTE> our Saviour le&s;&s;e plaine, I might be le&s;&s;e per|emptory.</P>
<Q>What &s;hall it profit a man if he &s;hall gaine the whole world, and lo&s;e his owne &s;oule.</Q>
<P>A text, were I to name, me thinkes, I might mo&s;t properly; <HI>Gods valuation of mans &s;oule.</HI> For the better under&s;tanding of which, ob&s;erve with me two generalls: <HI>Formam et Materiam,</HI> or, if you will, a fourefold que&s;tion in this one, wherein are remarkeable,
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. The manner of &s;peech Chri&s;t here u&s;eth?</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. What we are to under&s;tand by the world?</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. What by the &s;oule?</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. And la&s;tly what it is for a man to loo&s;e his &s;oule?</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>And of the&s;e in their order, and fir&s;t of the former; what is that manner of &s;peech Chri&s;t here u&s;eth? Even a mo&s;t piercing, a mo&s;t pathe|ticall interrogation: <HI>as a nayle</HI> not onely <HI>fa&s;tened,</HI> but driven (even to the head) <HI>by the Ma&s;ters</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 12. 11.</NOTE>
<PB N="3" REF="9"> <HI>of the a&s;&s;emblies.</HI> It is not <HI>quantum,</HI> but <HI>quid:</HI> not how much, but how little, or rather indeed, no|thing at all will it profit any. So is it, I reade, Saint <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI> renders, and expounds, that of<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 130. 3.</NOTE> the Prophet: <HI>O Lord if thou marke&s;t injqui|ties,</HI> there is none would bee able to &s;tand. May we not as fitly then determine, of our Sa|viours que&s;tion; and conclude, as if he had &s;po|ken<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 5. 17, 18.</NOTE> affirmatively, (as he was wont) and &s;aid; veri|ly verily it cannot po&s;&s;iblie any thing profit any man to gaine the world. And that (as you may re|member) a &s;econd que&s;tion to be re&s;olved, even what it is we are here to under&s;tand by the world. For, as it is of a mo&s;t capatious figure, according to Philo&s;ophy; &s;o is it not uncapable of ma|nifold acceptations, according to Divinitie, then is <HI>orbis interior, exterior</HI> and <HI>&s;uperior:</HI> then is <HI>mundus continens,</HI> &s;uch as is the whole fabricke of<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn 1. 10. Heb. 11. 3.</NOTE> heaven and earth: and there is <HI>mundus contentus;</HI> and of this there is both <HI>Flos et Fex;</HI> as it were,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 5. 12.</NOTE> in meale, both floure and branne: as are Angells<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 5. 19. 1 Iohn 5. 19.</NOTE> both good and bad: and of men, whether alive or dead, both Elect and Reprobate: together with all tho&s;e other, commonly called <HI>Goods of this world,</HI> as are honours, plea&s;ures, and profits of what nature &s;oever. And how&s;oever, I finde Interpretors, as it were, &s;wimme in one &s;treame this way, yet is it ob&s;erveable (me thinkes) our Saviour &s;aith not onely, what will it profit a man to gaine the world but (as the Originall hath it) <GAP DESC="foreign">; even <HI>this whole world.</HI></P>
<P>So that, we may ea&s;ily co~ceive of our Saviours
<PB N="4" REF="10"> minde, by his words: which are, of a larger ex|tent, than that they &s;hould intend any thing le&s;&s;e than he &s;pake, whereas he &s;pake as much as if he<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ay 1. 18.</NOTE> had &s;aid: <HI>Come and let us rea&s;on together.</HI> Is it not &s;o, that he gaines nothing, that gaines this whole world: whether continent or contained, whe|ther heaven or earth, Angells or men, honours, plea&s;ures, or profits? For I may &s;uppo&s;e, thou mighte&s;t have heaven and earth, and yet not bee po&s;&s;e&s;&s;our; otherwi&s;e the~ is an u&s;urper of a King|dome, the King him&s;elfe will &s;oone drive out: as a &s;trong man the theefe that comes to &s;poile him<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 11. 21. &amp;c.</NOTE> of his goods, except it were po&s;&s;ible a man might be &s;tronger than his Maker; or an earthen ve&s;&s;ell, able to re&s;i&s;t the potter: or if you will, I may &s;up|po&s;e thou mighte&s;t have Heaven and earth, even as madd men have Empires; or that franticke fan|cy, had all &s;hippes at &s;ea, by imagination onely. But &s;uppo&s;e thou had&s;t indeed, tho&s;e ten times ten thou&s;ands of Angells (that attend Gods Throne) as &s;o many Squires of thy body: that thou had&s;t on thy &s;ide, the very <HI>God of this world;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4. 4.</NOTE> and together with him, that numberle&s;&s;e number of <HI>Legions</HI> he hath under his command: even<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mark. 5. 9</NOTE> <HI>Principalities and powers, rulers of the darkne&s;&s;e of this world, &s;pirituall wickedne&s;&s;es in high places,</HI> Sup|po&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 6. 12.</NOTE> <HI>Noah, Daniel, and Iob,</HI> were willing to pray<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezech. 14. 14.</NOTE> for thee; or that thou coulde&s;t procure letters re|commendatory, from all per&s;ons, in all parts, of this world. Suppo&s;e, thou wert as great and gra|cious in all Princes eyes, as ever was <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> in<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 41. E&s;ther. 3.</NOTE> the &s;ight of <HI>Pharoah;</HI> or <HI>Haman</HI> in the favour of
<PB N="5" REF="10"> <HI>Aha&s;uerus:</HI> or that thou thy &s;elfe, wert in|ve&s;ted with imperiall robes, and (out of thine owne &s;overaigne authority) coulde&s;t command the Sun to &s;tand &s;til, the Moone to be cha~ged in|to bloud, the powers of heaven to &s;hake, the &s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s to &s;et them&s;elves in array to fight for thee, the birds of the ayre to come, and they &s;hould come; the fi&s;hes in the&punc; &s;ea to goe, and they &s;hould goe; the bea&s;ts of the field to do what thou lu&s;te&s;t, and they &s;hould doe it; even mountaines to be remo|ved, and they &s;hould be &s;o. Suppo&s;e, thou had&s;t <HI>gardens and orchards, Men-&s;ingers and Maydens,</HI> as<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, &amp;c.</NOTE> many concubines to cheri&s;h thee, as had <HI>Salomon;</HI> in one word, a full draught of all tho&s;e manifold plea&s;ures his &s;oule ta&s;ted of: that thou had&s;t, as <HI>Iob</HI> (who&s;e latter &s;ub&s;tance was more then his<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iob 42. 12.</NOTE> beginning) even foureteene thou&s;and &s;heepe, &s;ixe thou&s;and camells, one thou&s;and yoke of oxen, one thou&s;and &s;hee-a&s;&s;es, together with a very great hou&s;hold, had&s;t thou, rivers of rivers of<NOTE PLACE="marg">Micah 6. 7.</NOTE> wine, <HI>tenne thou&s;and rivers of oyle;</HI> thy barnes built greater, and all of them ful, of the choi&s;e&s;t wheat, or, not onely thy baggs, but, thy coffers, as full of the fine&s;t gold, the pure&s;t <HI>gold of Ophyre.</HI> Yet<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 King. 9. 18. 1 Chro. 29. 4.</NOTE> alas! for as much as all the&s;e things, (&s;aith <HI>Pari|&s;ien&s;is) Nec plenitudinem, continenti conferre po&s;&s;unt, nec fulcimentum innitenti, nec fructum laboranti;</HI> woe, woe unto thee for all this whole world, when as death &s;hal be &s;ent po&s;t, on that <HI>pale-hor&s;e,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Revel. 6. 8.</NOTE> to &s;ummon thee unto iudgement: if &s;o be then, <HI>the righteous Iudge of all the world</HI> &s;hall deliver up thy &s;oule, unto the officer; and he ca&s;t thee into
<PB N="6" REF="11"> that pri&s;on, whence, there is no hope thou &s;houl|de&s;t<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 5. 25, 26.</NOTE> ever get forth, <HI>untill thou have paid the utmo&s;t farthing. Et illud donec nunquam,</HI> that untill will be never (as <HI>St. Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI> con&s;ents) how&s;oever the Pope of Rome wil not: but pre&s;ums his <HI>Habeas A|nimam</HI> (a writt never heard of before) may fetch thee out, but (by his prophane&s;&s;e leave) Chri&s;t, it is not likely, would then have beene &s;o per|emptory, as, without all exceptions, to a&s;&s;ure us Nothing could any thing profit, any man, if hee &s;hould lo&s;e his owne &s;oule. Which, as it was a third terme, I propounded to be explicated; &s;o am I now come to expound it. I confe&s;&s;e, it is promi&s;cuou&s;ly taken in &s;cripture, &s;ome times for<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 7. 2. Math. 10. 28.</NOTE> our naturall life, &s;ometimes even for that which is the life of our life, a &s;upernaturall &s;pirit: or, as one &s;ings,</P>
<LG>
<L><HI>A &s;oule divine, pure, &s;acred, admirable,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Immortall, endle&s;&s;e, &s;imple, unpalpable.</HI></L>
</LG>
<P>Now though it be true, he gaines nothing, that gaines this whole world, and lo&s;eth his life: for a&s;much as, what can all the world doe a dead man good? Yet am I willing to take this word here, as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> u&s;eth it, to &s;ignifie the breath of our lives, that invi&s;ible E&s;&s;ence, and &s;pirituall<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 2. 7.</NOTE> &s;ub&s;tance: Divines mo&s;t commonly call the Soule: we may, our &s;elves. Even, for that not mens Philo&s;ophy teacheth us, that <HI>animus cuiu&s;|que is e&s;t qui&s;que:</HI> but even Saint <HI>Luke</HI> him&s;elfe, expounds as it were this text, when as hee ren|ders
<PB N="7" REF="11"> it, as if <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> (in &s;o many words) had &s;aid&punc; <HI>what will it?</HI> or, it can nothing at all advantage any<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 9. 25.</NOTE> man to gaine the world <HI>if he lo&s;e him&s;elfe.</HI> Even as a Marchant that peri&s;heth at &s;ea, whil&s;t he is go|ing to the <HI>Indies,</HI> for gold; or, as a man that hath lo&s;t him&s;elfe (as we &s;ay) when as any hath lo&s;t his way, or is out of the right way: So is it a Chri&s;tian may lo&s;e his &s;oule and him&s;elfe, be|ing out of that way to life; as are all &s;uch, as cry, <HI>Lord Lord but doe not the will of God:</HI> all &s;uch, as<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. 7. 21.</NOTE> profe&s;&s;e but practi&s;e not: if any &s;uch there bee here, let me a&s;&s;ure them: in the words of him who was, both <HI>the Way, the Life, and the Truth:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn 14. 6.</NOTE> it will nothing profit them, though they gaine the world, yet if they forfeit (as it were their &s;oule by &s;inne. And of this (as a quinte&s;&s;entiall truth ari&s;ing from our determination of tho&s;e foure former que&s;tions) it is I mu&s;t now treate.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t now treate, and not onely propound but approve unto you,</P>
<P><HI>He mu&s;t needs be a loo&s;er by the bargin (who&s;oever hee be) that for to gaine the world, &s;elleth away him|&s;elfe (like Ahab) to worke wickedne&s;&s;e in the &s;ight of the Lord: even for as much, as &s;o doing, he lo&s;eth his owne &s;oule.</HI> Which if once it be lo&s;t how &s;hould we ever be &s;aved? (for as <HI>St. Chry&s;ostome</HI> well) how&s;oever a man have two eyes, two eares, two armes, two hands, two legges, two feete, yet hath he but one &s;oule. So that as <HI>Abraham,</HI> after his onely &s;ons death, might have iu&s;tly di&s;paired of an heyre had it not beene for <HI>Gods All-&s;uffici|ency:</HI> &s;o might a Chri&s;tian of &s;alvation after e|very
<PB N="8" REF="12"> &s;inne (which is as <HI>Nazianzen</HI> truly the death of the &s;oule) were there any thing <HI>too hard for the All mightie?</HI> For as the P&s;almi&s;t, ab&s;olutely; <HI>There is none</HI> (&s;aith hee) <HI>can by any meanes give God a ran|&s;ome:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 49. 7, 8.</NOTE> <HI>The redemption of the &s;oule is precious and it cea&s;eth for ever.</HI> And if &s;o bee, that the purcha&s;e but of a longer life in this world, be &s;o hard a bargaine, as that it can never be bought; <HI>aut prece aut pretio</HI> (as <HI>Lyranus</HI> worthily) neither for price, nor prayers: is it not le&s;&s;e wonder our Saviour &s;hould be &s;o re&s;olute? <HI>Or what</HI> (&s;aith hee) <HI>&s;hall a</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. 16. 26.</NOTE> <HI>man give in exchange for his &s;oule?</HI> &s;hal he the lu&s;t of the fle&s;h? &s;hal he the lu&s;t of the eies? &s;hal he the pride of life? it is true, <HI>Haec tria &s;unt omnia:</HI> the&s;e are the three parts, into which <HI>St. Iohn</HI> divides the whole world: and yet (as the &s;ame Apo&s;tle in the &s;ame place) <HI>This world pa&s;&s;eth away and the</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Ioh. 2. 16, 17.</NOTE> <HI>lu&s;t thereof.</HI> And if &s;o, then cannot it probably be worth that, which is much more durable than either gold, or pearles, or any of tho&s;e many &s;tones, we e&s;teeme mo&s;t precious: and why? ex|cept for their invincible durity.</P>
<P>To proceed: give me leave, in an equall bal|lance as it were, to way before you this worlds vanity, together with our &s;oules excellencie, and then (<HI>I &s;peake unto &s;uch as have under&s;tanding</HI>) iudge you: whether he mu&s;t not needs be a lo&s;er, by the bargaine, that parts with &s;o excellent a thing, as is the &s;oule; for the purcha&s;ing of &s;o vaine a nothing, as is this whole world, which if e|ver any man knew the worth of, it was hee that <HI>gave his heart to &s;eeke and to &s;earch it out</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 1. 13.</NOTE>
<PB N="9" REF="12"> <HI>by wi&s;edome.</HI> But, alas! what &s;aith hee? Vani|ty<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 1. 2.</NOTE> of Vanityes: yea (with ingemination) Vanity of vanities, are all things under Heauen: &s;aith <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tes.</HI> And yet not onely &s;o (but as the &s;ame Preacher el&s;e-where) not onely vanity but vex|ation<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 14.</NOTE> of &s;pirit are they. So as that, we may not unfitly re&s;emble this world; as unto a Reede, that will of it &s;elfe faile a man, and give him a fall if he doe but leane upon it: &s;o unto a Thorne: that will not onely pricke his hand but even peirce through his heart al&s;o. For, as <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tes:</HI> of all things under the Sunne; <HI>They are &s;o full of labours</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 1. 8.</NOTE> <HI>there is no man can utter it:</HI> and if &s;o, what then are tho&s;e things, all or mo&s;t men magnifie &s;o much? what are riches? what are honours? but even va|nity of vanities &amp; vexation of vaine &s;pirits? And yee I may &s;u&s;pect (and not be uncharitable) the&s;e are two as great Idolls, and as gracious in the e|&s;timation<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 19. 28.</NOTE> of mo&s;t men as ever was <HI>Diana unto the Ephe&s;ians.</HI> Two Idols, I had almo&s;t &s;aid it were hard to &s;uppo&s;e there might be found &s;o many men in the world as have not bowed the knee unto one of them as there was (among&s;t I&s;rael)<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 11. 4.</NOTE> that had not wor&s;hipped, that <HI>dominering Baal.</HI> And yet, alas! what are riches? but (as it were) the excrements of nature, the bowels of the earth wa&s;hed cleane, good of them&s;elves for nothing, except as dung, to be &s;pread abroad. Have they not wings, flie they not away often? and then, alas! what vexation? as much griefe in the lo|&s;ing, as ever there was either labour before, in the getting; or anxiety and care in the keeping. I
<PB N="10" REF="13"> am a&s;hamed, <HI>Canaans</HI> cur&s;e &s;hould now adayes bee thought no cur&s;e, when as &s;o many make them&s;elves <HI>Servants of &s;ervants:</HI> even are more devoted &s;laves, unto their Kings coine; than<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen 9. 25.</NOTE> otherwi&s;e &s;ubject, unto his Crowne. I am a|&s;hamed, we &s;hould &s;peake, as we doe: when as commonly wee &s;ay of a man that hath lo&s;t his meanes, alas! he is undone: as if they made<NOTE PLACE="marg">St. Iohn indeed 1 Ep. 3. 17. calls them the worlds goods</NOTE> him. I am a&s;hamed any &s;hould e&s;teeme tho&s;e <HI>Goods,</HI> which (as Saint <HI>Au&s;tine</HI> urgeth) make many men wor&s;e, few or none better. As <HI>Iobs</HI> freinds, are they not <HI>mi&s;erable comforters:</HI> &s;ince it is not in the power of a purple gowne, to pre|&s;erue any mans backe from a-like-&s;potted-fea|ver: no more than can a crowne of gold, cure the head-ach: or a Noble Garter, prevent the gout. And are Honours a le&s;&s;e vanity, thinke you, or a le&s;&s;e vexation? How ordinarily may wee &s;ee, the greate&s;t Favorites &s;ometimes vp, and &s;omtimes downe, to&s;&s;ed, as it were bals at <HI>Tennis?</HI> Even when as they are at the highe&s;t, how are they faine to borrow other mens imagi|nations, to thinke them&s;elves happie? Many might I recount, and &s;peake of: who&s;e Moone hath beene eclyp&s;ed at the full, and their Sunne &s;et at Nooneday. But of all, memorable (me thinkes) is the &s;torie of <HI>Haman:</HI> who &s;ets, and fea&s;ts to day with the King and the Queene: yet to morrow is hee hung vp, for food (as it were) unto the fowles of the ayre. Not to &s;peake of <HI>Iacob,</HI> or what it is, we may reade of him: how it was he beheld <HI>Labans</HI> countenance: and it was
<PB N="11" REF="13"> not towards him <HI>as the day before.</HI> Why trouble<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 31. 2.</NOTE> wee our &s;elves. It is certaine, there is no Ma|&s;ters, no Vncles, no Fathers, any mans Favour, but may be lo&s;t in one day, wee &s;ee. So that, as are Riches, &s;o are Honours; even a d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gree more vaine: for that, honor in honorante, our honours are alwayes in other mens hands who may withdraw, or withhold, them as they plea&s;e&punc; may wee not then conclude this our Sur|vay of the world; and &s;ay of it: not as the Di|vell, <HI>all this power of the world,</HI> but, as <HI>Solomon</HI> more<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 4. 6. Eccle&s;. 12. 8.</NOTE> truely; <HI>Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity, even Vani|ty of Vanityes</HI> is this whole world compared un|to mans Soule.</P>
<P>Which, if there be any de&s;ire to know, what it is: I mu&s;t needs an&s;were &s;uch a man, as one did him; who would needs know, what God was give me time, and I will tell thee: and when hee a&s;ked him againe and againe; &s;till, give me time, and I will tell thee. For, no more, then the eye of man can &s;ee it &s;elfe; no more is it po&s;&s;ible our under&s;tanding &s;hould ever under&s;tand it &s;elfe. And yet if it may &s;uffice, to de&s;cribe that, I may not define; The Soule it is a &s;ub&s;tance, invi&s;i|ble<NOTE PLACE="marg">A De&s;cription of mans &s;oule.</NOTE> and &s;pirituall indivi&s;ible and incorporeall, in|comprehen&s;ible and eternall&mdash;<HI>plena Deo, &s;imili&s;|que Creanti:</HI> &s;aith <HI>Prudentius. St. Bernard,</HI> doubts not to &s;ay; It is not &s;o much a heavenly Sub|&s;tance, as heaven it &s;elfe, in &s;ub&s;tance. And <HI>St. Au|&s;tin,</HI> he compares it, to that ble&s;&s;ed Trinity; for as there are three in one, and one in three: &s;o are there in the Soule of man three Faculties and yet
<PB N="12" REF="14"> but one Soule: Three in one and one in three: though, I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e, betwixt the former, and this latter; God and our Soules, there is an in|comprehen&s;ible di&s;tance of glory. Very Hea|then have acknowledged it a Particle of Divine Breath, a branch of the Deity, not to be compa|red with any thing (as <HI>Cicero</HI> thinks) except God him&s;elfe. But of all, me thinkes, a moderne wri|ter of our owne, mo&s;t emphatically calls it; a Riverling of that divine Spring, who brake not his &s;elfe-e&s;&s;ence or Triple-vnity, yet afforded us this portion: even breathed into man the&s;e pure qualities. Of which before we &s;peake, fora&s;much as the worke is oftentimes e&s;teemed the more, for the workemans &s;ake: give me leave, to put you in minde, the Authour of them was God.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 2. 7.</NOTE> And was not hee the creatour of the world al&s;o? True: but after a different manner, matter, mo|dell, made he man. For it is ob&s;ervable; God &s;pake the word, and the very heavens they were<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 33. 6.</NOTE> made: he commanded and they were created: he<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 1. 3.</NOTE> &s;ayed but, let there be light, and there was light. I will not trouble you, with that perplexed con|trover&s;ie of the Schoole: whether by light wee are to under&s;tand the Angells, yea or no? &s;uffici|ent it may bee, that if &s;o: then were the Angells them&s;elves created, by the &s;peaking of one word: &amp; that word was (as Divines &s;ay) but a thought of the Deity. Which being about to make man,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 1. 26.</NOTE> how doth it goe about (as it were) to call a coun|cell: Let us make man, yea and in our image, af|ter our likene&s;&s;e. So created God man in his own
<PB N="13" REF="14"> Image (&s;aith <HI>Mo&s;es</HI>) in the Image of God created he him. The Lord God formed man of the du&s;t of the ground, and breathed into his no&s;trills the breath of life, and man became a living Soule.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 2. 7.</NOTE> now who knowes not, it is the glory of an earth|ly King; not to &s;tampe with his Image or envi|rone with his &s;uper&s;cription any peece, but of the choi&s;e&s;t mettalls, as are &s;iluer and golde: and if &s;o, what thinke we of our Soules, Gods owne Image, Gods owne &s;uper&s;cription? had wee no other, it were, argument &s;ufficient to procure mans excellency above all other creatures. E&s;pe|cially if <HI>St. Austins</HI> opinion, be true, that a fly, fora&s;much as it hath life, farre exceeds, in digni|ty of nature, the very &s;unne it &s;elfe. And if &s;o, what is man? how &s;urpa&s;&s;ing excellent is hee, that hath a rea&s;onable &s;oule: under&s;tanding, me|mory, will and affections: each of them more worth then a world. Oh then, give me leave, to unfold this curious peece of Tapi&s;trie: or, as it were, take a&s;under this watch: even that &s;o yee may the better perceive the rarity of this worke, by viewing (as it were) each wheele by it &s;elfe.</P>
<P>As if the under&s;tanding alone were (as the whole &s;oule) <HI>All in all, and All in every part,</HI> not onely of the body, but even of the world, it is ad|mirable to con&s;ider how, mounted on the wings of contemplation, it approves a Godhead, and proves there are Angells: It di&s;cour&s;eth of their Hierarchies: as al&s;o, of tho&s;e highe&s;t &s;pheares and their motions: of the &s;unne, the moone, and
<PB N="14" REF="15"> the &s;tarres; their number, di&s;tances, and differing paces, together with their influence: of the origi|nal of Windes, Lightning, Thunder Haile, Snow, Raine, Ice, Blazing-&s;tarres, Pe&s;tilences, even as if it had had the heading of &s;uch like Gods ar|rowes, or the charging of &s;uchlike his murdering peeces. And is not under&s;tanding alone then, worth a world, that is thus able to di&s;cour&s;e of of more, then <HI>Ptolomy, Plato, Pliny, Plutarh,</HI> even<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Kings 4. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>Salomon</HI> him&s;elfe ever &s;pake: and yet is under|&s;tanding but one part of mans Soule: which, I will not now controvert, whether it lodge in heart or in the braine chiefly. Wee are wont to to admire in great hou&s;es, at the multitude of lod|gings: and if &s;o, what thinke we of the memory of man, copped up (as it were) in &s;o &s;mall a roome, as is the conceavity of mans skull? &amp; yet how many whole volmues doth it containe: how many hi&s;tories of things done before, and even &s;ince <HI>Noahs</HI> floud? how many different langua|ges? what a numberle&s;&s;e number of words? not to &s;peake of <HI>Methridates,</HI> as famous for his me|mory as his medecines: nor how <HI>Seneca</HI> was able to repeate. <HI>Pyrrhus, Cyrus, Cae&s;ar</HI> are to this day remembered for their memories: as al&s;o is hee that could ea&s;ily &s;alute every man in <HI>Rome</HI> by his own name. And is not memory alone then worth a world? and yet, is memory, but one part of mans Soule.</P>
<P>What &s;hould I &s;ay, of the will of man? what of the power of his affections? It were idle to di&s;cour&s;e (as Poets) of love: and as for the <HI>wrath
<PB N="15" REF="15"> of man</HI> (we know, it) <HI>worketh not the righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e of God.</HI> I will not therefore of naturall but &s;pirituall affections. Oh the power of divine<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iames 1. 20.</NOTE> Love! &s;hew mee &s;uch a peece, if you can, as the <HI>Canticles</HI> of <HI>Salomon.</HI> What are not, affections &s;anctified, able to doe? a greater victory than for a man to overcome him&s;elfe there cannot be. Any man may &s;ooner hate father, and mother, give all hee hath to the poore, yeeld up his body to be burnt, and &s;uffer any thing, rather then <HI>de|ny</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. 10 37. 1 Cor. 3. 13. Luke 9. 23. 1 The&s;&s;al. 5. 15 &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>him&s;elfe:</HI> and yet a &s;anctified will, can not on|ly doe this, but all things el&s;e; impo&s;&s;ible to fle&s;h and bloud: even <HI>not render evill for evill unto any man, but ever follow that which is good. Rejoycing e|vermore; praying without cea&s;ing: In every thing, giving thankes; quenching not the Spirit, de&s;pi&s;ing not Prophecyings, ab&s;taining from all appearance of e|vill.</HI> And may wee not then, as devout <HI>St. Ber|nard,</HI> exclaime; admiring at &s;uch a Creature: <HI>O Dei imagine in&s;ignita, decorata &s;imilitudine, redemp|ta &s;anguine, de&s;pon&s;at a fide, dotata Spiritu, deputata cum Angelis.</HI> I would engli&s;h it, but that I may not: I am affrayed the&s;e things are too glorious for tender eyes. And if &s;o, yet may wee behold the Sunne by reflection; even our &s;elves in a gla&s;&s;e, as it were, by ob&s;erving the operations of our Soules; and tho&s;e &s;undry tran&s;cendent in|ventions of their wit. Their wit, I &s;ayed; for, a|las! the body of it &s;elfe what is it, but, a ma&s;&s;i|lumpe<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 3. 19. Eccle&s;. 3. 20. Chap. 12. 7.</NOTE> of fle&s;h, a conglutination of <HI>du&s;t,</HI> than which <HI>haud vilius&s;ter quilnium:</HI> &s;aith <HI>St. Bernard.</HI> All purer Exhalations, they are breathed out by
<PB N="16" REF="16"> this bla&s;t; at fir&s;t <HI>breathed in, by God</HI> and his Spi|rit<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 2. 27.</NOTE> of wi&s;edome. Whereby were men moved to &s;earch after tho&s;e hidden trea&s;ures of know|ledge, both of all arts and &s;ciences. Not to &s;peake of tho&s;e many things <HI>Polydor Virgill</HI> hath written &s;o largely. Who hath not read of, <HI>Iabel,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 4. 20, 21, 22.</NOTE> <HI>Iubel, Tubal-Cain,</HI> and their exqui&s;ite workeman|&s;hippe that built <HI>Salomons</HI> Temple? who hath<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 King. 5, &amp;c.</NOTE> not heard of <HI>Myrons</HI> mare? <HI>Zeuxis</HI> &s;hoales of birds? <HI>Apelles Venus? Archimides</HI> Sphaere? <HI>Archytas</HI> flying pigeon made of wood? <HI>Regi|montanus</HI> admired inuention of an <HI>Eagle</HI> atten|ding the Emperour unto <HI>Noremberg?</HI> that King of <HI>Per&s;iah's</HI> heaven of gla&s;&s;e? <HI>Ferdinands</HI> hea|vens of &s;ilver, alwayes moving? Not to &s;peake of <HI>Briareus</HI> burning gla&s;&s;e; or that Clock at <HI>Stra|e&s;boug:</HI> or Cannons imitating &s;o neere Gods voyce of Thunder, <HI>Indians</HI> wonder not more at <HI>Epi&s;teling,</HI> than I at the art of Printing. Not to &s;peake of any, of our many <HI>Catheralls,</HI> &s;o admired. I have &s;eene, a Perpetuum mobile, made of a round gla&s;&s;e full of water, ebbing and flowing as the &s;ea: a payre of Virginalls that would have played, if but a hot hand had beene held over them. Others I have heard tell, of two hundred &s;tanding cuppes in one pepper corne. And may wee not (among rare&s;t inventions) re|member our Pro&s;pectives, triangulary, and multiplying gla&s;&s;es? Not to &s;peake particu|larly of liberall Arts. Is any &s;cience &s;o ad|mirable? What is that Soule then that inven|ted it?
<PB N="17" REF="16"> But, as one well, <HI>in pretio pretium nunc e&s;t:</HI> as King <HI>Arthur</HI> of olde, &s;o are mo&s;t men unto this day wont to e&s;teeme of things according to their prices: as if &s;uch were onely be&s;t, as co&s;t mo&s;t. And if &s;o, I can a&s;&s;ure you our &s;oules, are much more worth than the world. Of which, ye may reade when it was lo&s;t in the Deluge;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 8. 1.</NOTE> God onely remembred <HI>Noah,</HI> and the waters they returned into their &s;everall channells. But o|therwi&s;e was it our &s;oules being lo&s;t. If I may &s;o &s;peake, Gods word (as it were) could not bee taken; but him&s;elfe, mu&s;t come from hea|ven upon earth, and bee impri&s;oned, as it were, one thirty yeares in the fle&s;h: and yet not onely &s;o, but in truth pay a ran&s;ome too: for the re|demption of &s;oules. A ran&s;ome, not of &s;ilver or gold, and yet are the&s;e two (like the &s;unne and the moone in the firmament) two &s;uch great Lights, as that, with their exceeding lu&s;tre, they are able to dazzle mo&s;t mens eyes in the world. And yet were not &s;ilver or gold, any ran&s;ome that could bee acceped for a &s;oule: fora&s;much<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Epi&s;t. 1. 18, 19</NOTE> as <HI>Corruptible,</HI> &s;aith <HI>St. Peter.</HI> Wherefore al|&s;o were you not redeemed, with them, but by blood, even precious or honorable blood, blood of Chri&s;t: <HI>Blood of God,</HI> &s;aith <HI>St. Paul.</HI> And<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 20. 28.</NOTE> yet was not a drop of this bloud (as a man would have thought) &s;ufficient: otherwi&s;e had Chri&s;t beene too prodigall in &s;hedding it &s;o often: even &s;ix &s;everall time, for the redeeming of our &s;oules: as fir&s;t at his circumci&s;ion, that bloudy &s;acrament<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 2. 21.</NOTE>
<PB N="18" REF="17"> (for which <HI>Zippora</HI> called <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> a bloudy hu&s;|band)<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 4. 25.</NOTE> there was bloud &s;hed once, for the redemp|tion of Soules. Secondly, in his Agony in the<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 22. 44.</NOTE> garden; when, though it were in the garden an open ayre, though it were in the night the coo|le&s;t &s;ea&s;on, and at &s;uch a time of the yeare (as that wee reade <HI>St. Peter warmed him&s;elfe</HI>) our Saviour<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. 14. 54.</NOTE> <HI>&s;weats;</HI> and that not water, but bloud: nor yet blouldy drops, but <HI>drops of bloud:</HI> there was bloud, precious and honorable bloud, &s;hed a &s;e|cond time for the redemption of &s;oules. Thirdly, in the Pretorian Hall: when his skin was &s;o torne<NOTE PLACE="marg">Reade the E|vang. of Chri&s;t pa&s;&s;ion. Matth. 27. Mark&punc; 15. Luke 22. Iohn 18.</NOTE> with &s;courges, as that there was &s;carce fle&s;h e|nough left to di&s;tingui&s;h one la&s;h, one ga&s;h from another: oh! there was bloud, precious and ho|norable bloud, bloud of Chri&s;t &s;hed (a third third time) for the redemption of Soules. Fourth|ly, whenas that crowne of thornes was fa&s;tened to his &s;cull. Fifthly, when as his hands and his feete they were nayled to the cro&s;&s;e. Sixtly and la&s;tly, when (through that channell the Soldiours &s;peare had made in his &s;ide) then i&s;&s;ued forth water and bloud: or (as Anatomizers ob&s;erve) his very hearts bloud. Oh! there was bloud indeed, bloud of Chri&s;t, <HI>as of a lambe without &s;pot, and without blemi&s;h,</HI> &s;hed<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 1. 19.</NOTE> a &s;ixt time for the redemption of Soules. And yet <HI>skin for skin,</HI> bloud for bloud, what will not a<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iob. 2. 4.</NOTE> man give for his life? O but Chri&s;t <HI>dyed,</HI> to re|deeme our &s;oules. And, as before hee was im|pri&s;oned in the fle&s;h, &s;o is hee afterwards in the grave (three dayes) and all for the redemption of &s;oules.</P>
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<P>Yea, but happily may &s;ome men &s;ay, have we not knowne may pay too deare for a thing they have had a minde unto? were not our &s;oules created by Chri&s;t, happily (as me~ prize their own mo&s;t) payed he not too deare? Dare any m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n thinke &s;o? Is there any &s;uch mi&s;creant here? O let him heare, what it was his owne father; the Divell him&s;elfe proffered Chri&s;t, but in hope of a &s;oule. Now, it is well knowne, Sathan is a Serpent, and therefore wi&s;e; an olde Serpent, and by &s;o much the more cunning: and yet, if Chri&s;t will but commit one &s;inne; for tho&s;e &s;mall hopes, he might have thereby to gaine one &s;oule, how willing is the <HI>Prince of this world,</HI> to part with more<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn 12. 31.</NOTE> than his whole Principallity? how, prodigally<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 4. 8, 9.</NOTE> bent, offers he unto Chri&s;t; the world, the King|domes of this world, and all their glory? So that I am now more confident, than that I &s;hould hope onely; I may now &s;afely conclude (for this time) and &s;ay: That, for which God created the world; That, for to &s;ave which God would come into this world; That, but in hope to pur|cha&s;e which <HI>the God of this world,</HI> would have<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4. 4.</NOTE> given away his world; it mu&s;t needs be, mu&s;t be more worth than all this world. And if &s;o. <HI>What</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 16&punc; 26. Mark. 8. 36, 37. Luke 9. 25.</NOTE> <HI>&s;hall it profit a man, if he &s;hall gaine the whole world, and lo&s;e his owne &s;oule? Or what &s;hall a man give in exchange for his Soule?</HI></P>
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<P>GOD <HI>therefore, who is the Father of Spirits, grant unto us his Spirit; which may daily more and more convince our con&s;ciences, and leade us into all Truth: e&s;pecially may wee know and acknowledge,</HI> Godline&s;&s;e <HI>to be the greate&s;t</HI> Gaine: <HI>for that, it hath the Promi&s;es both of this life and of that which is to come. Into which, He bring our</HI> Soules; <HI>Who liveth, and was dead: Thou, who ha&s;t the keyes of Hell, and of Death: the faithfull</HI> AMEN.</P>
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<DIV1 N="2" TYPE="sermon">
<PB N="21" REF="18">
<HEAD>A SECOND SERMON.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<BIBL>MARKE CHAP. 8. VERS 36.</BIBL>
<Q>What &s;hall it profit a man, if he &s;hall gaine the whole world, and lo&s;e his owne &s;oule?</Q>
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<P>_IT was a wi&s;e Ob&s;ervation of the wi&s;e&s;t <HI>Salomon,</HI> how that under the Sunne, Hee had al&s;o &s;eene <HI>this Evill,</HI> (as<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 10. 5, 6, 7.</NOTE> an errour which proceeded from the Ruler) <HI>Folly to be &s;et in high dignity, and the rich in low place: Servants riding on hor&s;e-backe, and Prin|ces walking, as &s;ervants, upon earth.</HI> An errour of Praepo&s;terou&s;ne&s;&s;e (that I may &s;o call it) where|of even this our Age complaineth of, unto this Day: as if, either blinde Fortune di&s;pen&s;ed of
<PB N="22" REF="19"> praeferments; or Providence it &s;elfe, were at lea&s;t not &s;o prudent. And yet (as <HI>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">than</HI> tolde <HI>David</HI>) even our &s;elves are the men, that in thus<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 12. 7.</NOTE> condemning of others, have, together with them, ca&s;t our &s;elves. Who&s;e manner it is, not onely in regard of the&s;e our bodyes; <HI>to bestow more abundant honour upon &s;uch like members, as are</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 12. 23.</NOTE> <HI>le&s;&s;e honorable: more abundant comeline&s;&s;e upon &s;uch, as are most uncomely,</HI> but even, too too common|ly, to preferre them before our &s;oules. Even the&s;e our mortall Bodyes, before our immor|tall &s;oules: the&s;e our bodyes, which were made to &s;erve our &s;oules, before our &s;oules; which were never made but created (as <HI>Petrus Galatinus</HI> well) and that not to &s;erve but to governe, even as Gods owne Vice-Roys or Lieutenants here up|on earth. And is it not then a &s;hame we Chri|&s;tians &s;hould, as children, run and tyre our &s;elves after every painted fly: be more &s;ollicitous for the &s;hell, than the kernell: e&s;teeme more of gilded out&s;ide, then a golden &s;ub&s;tance: prize the Cabinet, more then the Iewell: the &s;traw more then the wheat; the&s;e bodyes, more then our Soules, this tran&s;itory life, more then that which is Aeternall; a vale of mi&s;ery, more then a King|dome of endle&s;&s;e glory? yet, alas! how many &s;uch <HI>babes in Christ</HI> are there: if not <HI>mento</HI> yet<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 3. 1.</NOTE> <HI>mente,</HI> children in under&s;tanding? and, as chil|dren, are they not fit then to be catechized: even as our Saviour doth his Di&s;ciples here:</P>
<P>What will it profit a man to gaine the whole world? &amp;c.</P>
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<P>Even nothing at all can it po&s;&s;ibly (&s;aith <HI>St. Au&s;tine) Quid enim in mundo &s;tabile? quid firmum? quid porr&ograve; non breve, et incertum, et ca&s;ui &s;erviens? Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ale istud Bonum, quod &s;emper t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">eas amittere: quod vel auferendum metuas, vel relinquendum &s;cias:</HI> neither is it his opinion onely, I dare appeale un|to your owne con&s;ciences, what an&s;were they? confe&s;&s;e they not accordingly: This world it is &s;o vaine, the &s;oule &s;o tran&s;cendently &s;uperexcel|lent: as that it cannot profit any man any thing, if hee gaine the whole world and lo&s;e his owne &s;oule. Which if any admire not, it mu&s;t bee a &s;prightle&s;&s;e Spirit and a Sence pa&s;t all &s;ence. But, <HI>I hope better things of you:</HI> we have not laboured in vaine: if yet in vaine it may be, to have &s;poken &s;o much of <HI>vanities:</HI> as indeed are, <HI>All things un|der</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 1, &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>the Sun.</HI> I had almo&s;t &s;aid, the Sun it &s;elfe: in compari&s;on of mans &s;oule: which is of a purer lu&s;tre, and a more coele&s;ticall light: even, &s;o glo|rious,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 8. 3, &amp;c.</NOTE> as <HI>when I &s;ee the Sunne, the Moone,</HI> the Stars, Gold, Silver, tho&s;e mo&s;t orient pearles and &s;parkling diamonds: O Lord, &s;ay I, what are the&s;e but Gloowormes! <HI>what is man!</HI> what an Irradia|tion of that incomprehen&s;ible light, thou &s;itte&s;t in, and art cloathed with, ha&s;t thou, &s;ettled in him &amp; cloathed him with! oh that, as <HI>Salomon</HI> I might<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Kings 3. 5.</NOTE> have offer made me this day, to aske of God any thing, I could de&s;ire more: &s;ure I would not, as <HI>Cleanthes,</HI> aske to &s;ee all things as light as the &s;un: but onely that our eyes might be opened, and wee inabled to behold truely, that inward ex|cellencie of mans rare&s;t, ravi&s;hing Beauty
<PB N="24" REF="20"> Whereof, <HI>hactenus loquutus &s;um, nec tamen dixi;</HI> I have &s;aid &s;omewhat, and yet &s;poken much le&s;&s;e than <HI>Saint Austine:</HI> who &s;tands a&s;toni&s;hed, and exclaimes; <HI>O res mira, omnique &s;tupore digni&s;&s;ima!</HI> As if a Bu&s;hell could containe the World, or a Bucket holde the Ocean, or a &s;poone empty the &s;alt-waters; as if the line of mans under&s;tanding were not too &s;hort, or the plummet of his judge|ment were &s;ufficient to &s;ound, that bottomle&s;&s;e depth of Gods Divine-E&s;&s;ence: <HI>Saint Au&s;tin</HI> is of Opinion, A man may as &s;oone under&s;tand it, as our <HI>Soules:</HI> of which, &s;aith hee, there is none can conceive any thing of their matter (or immateriality rather) that is certaine. So that (as <HI>Gregory</HI> &s;peakes of God) <HI>Ip&s;ius ignoratio, ejus veri&s;&s;ima ratio.</HI> Shall any &s;ay, Hee hath &s;eene God; and can hee tell what hee &s;aw: the &s;ame hath &s;eene nothing. <HI>Aliquid de Deo tunc cogno&s;|cimus, cum aliquid de eo non po&s;&s;e cogno&s;ci &s;entimus.</HI> Except it be by his word, except <HI>by his workes;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 1. 20.</NOTE> the <HI>Godhead,</HI> wee wor&s;hippe, is invi&s;ible, incom|prehen&s;ible; &s;hall any further aske, how &s;o? Let <HI>Gregory</HI> him&s;elfe an&s;wer him; <HI>Rationem qui non invenit, in infirmitate &s;ua rationem inveniat, cur ra|tionem non inveniat.</HI> It is <HI>the God of this world,</HI> it<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4. 4.</NOTE> is &s;inne, <HI>hath blinded our eyes</HI> &s;o; as that we can|not, not onely not &s;ee God, but even our &s;elves, our Soules, as neare as they are to us. But all this while, I have beene but (as it were) bu&s;ied, in mu&s;tering and ordering my Forces; but, as it were, charging and planting my Field-peeces. <HI>Nihil nunc agere,</HI> were but to give occa&s;ion to
<PB N="25" REF="20"> &s;ome, to cen&s;ure mee; as <HI>Plutarke</HI> tells us, one did <HI>Ptolomey.</HI> In a few words therefore to make &s;ome Application. Now that I have bent my bow, and made ready my arrowe, to &s;hoote it, I de&s;ire my aime may bee no other than I re|member, <HI>Ionathans</HI> was, even not to wound,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 20. 36.</NOTE> but to warne: not to harme, but fore-arme.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t Mini&s;ters, again&s;t undutifulne&s;&s;e; both <MILESTONE N="1"> towards God and his people.</P>
<P>Secondly people, again&s;t unthankefulne&s;&s;e; <MILESTONE N="2"> both unto God and his Mini&s;ters.</P>
<P>Thirdly all &s;orts of men again&s;t uncharitable|ne&s;&s;e <MILESTONE N="3"> either towards their owne &s;oules; or the &s;oules of their bretheren.</P>
<P>I begin with Mini&s;ters, and that not onely<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 4. 17.</NOTE> for that <HI>Iudgement mu&s;t begin at the hou&s;e of the Lord:</HI> but even fora&s;much as, I have alwayes accounted it as great a &s;inne for a Mini&s;ter upon a good occa&s;ion not unto preach to him&s;elfe fir&s;t, as, upon any occa&s;ion at all, to preach him|&s;elfe.</P>
<P>Is it &s;o, that &s;oules are &s;uch precious Iewells? Oh then the exceeding bounty of Gods good|ne&s;&s;e that hath made us, not <HI>Seekers of A&s;&s;es:</HI> but,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 9. 3.</NOTE> even committed unto our care the cure of &s;oules. And &s;hould wee not be faithfull? God forbid. <HI>Vt honos, ita et Onus:</HI> as our honour is great, &s;o our burden is grievous: &s;o grievous as that (<HI>St. Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI> is confident) the Angells them&s;elves might iu&s;tly bee affrayd to undertake the charge of &s;oules. May it plea&s;e you, to heare yet further, what it is <HI>the &s;ame golden mouth,</HI> a&s;&s;ureth us: even
<PB N="26" REF="21"> that his heart, often trembled with horrour, at the remembrance of that of the Apo&s;tle to the <HI>Hebrewes: they watch for your &s;oules.</HI> And who&s;e<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 13. 17.</NOTE> heart doth not? who&s;e Belly, who&s;e Bowells paines him not, that but ever read tho&s;e many &s;criptures urged by the ancient Fathers (a com|pany not of Popi&s;h <HI>Lyars, evill bea&s;ts, &s;lowbellyes,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Tit. 1. 12.</NOTE> fleepy, greedy but barking Doggs) a Preci&s;er<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn. 8. 36.</NOTE> &s;ort of men then &s;ome, who (<HI>as the Iewes &s;tyled Abraham</HI>) call them Fathers. O their Zeale, and our Lukewarmene&s;&s;e! tho&s;e <HI>Elia&s;&s;es,</HI> and our <HI>E|lies!</HI> Our carele&s;ne&s;&s;e, and their con&s;iderations! <HI>Iufoelix&punc; Ego</HI> (cries <HI>St. Bernard) quo me victum &s;i &s;tillantem, in cruce Domini &s;anguinem collegr&s;&s;em; e&s;&s;etque repo&s;itus panes me in va&s;e vitreo: quod et por|tare &s;aepius oportuit: quid animi habiturus e&s;&s;em <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n di&s;crimine tanto? At certe quidem id &s;ervandum accepi, pro quo Mercator non in&s;ipiens (immo Ip&s;a &s;cilicet Sapientia Patris) &s;anguinem illum dedit.</HI> And, <HI>who is</HI> there then <HI>&s;ufficient for the&s;e things?</HI> I know,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 2. 16.</NOTE> God indeed is a good Ma&s;ter, and no churli&s;h inverted <HI>Nabal;</HI> yet, as <HI>Laban</HI> at <HI>Iacobs</HI> handes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 31. 39.</NOTE> &s;o will the Lord, even at our &s;oules require that &s;oule that &s;hall have beene torne with bea&s;ts:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezech. 33. 34.</NOTE> or &s;tollen, by night or by day, through our want of watching. Oh, may I then ever more <HI>fulfill</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Colo&s;. 4. 17.</NOTE> <HI>my mini&s;try!</HI> both by keeping the flock of Chri&s;t as al&s;o by feeding, and (as a good &s;hepheard) my &s;elfe going ever before them. I grant, if God<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 22.</NOTE> call, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> may leave I&s;rael with a brother: and yet, I remember, <HI>Aaron</HI> was affrayd to di&s;plea&s;e them. I &s;ay no more: how are children, how are
<PB N="27" REF="21"> &s;ervants, all inferiours di&s;ordered commonly; when as their Parents their Ma&s;ters, their Supe|riors are from home?</P>
<P>And yet as good no Hou&s;holder, as no Pro|vi&s;ion: is not <HI>he that provides not for his owne wor&s;e</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 5. 8.</NOTE> <HI>than an Infidell?</HI> are not <HI>dry brea&s;ts</HI> one cur&s;e?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 49. 25. Ho&s;ea 9. 14. 2 Cor. 12. 14.</NOTE> milke increa&s;eth it not, by giving &s;ucke? <HI>Fa|thers</HI> can <HI>lay up for their children:</HI> Such as them|&s;elves are evill, can give them good things: not<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 7. 9. &amp;c.</NOTE> &s;tones in in&s;teed of bread, or in&s;teed of an egge,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 9. 16.</NOTE> Scorpions. <HI>Woe is me then if I preach not the Go&s;|pell!</HI> and as great a woe, if I &s;hal abu&s;e Preaching; as Adulterours doe women: onely to &s;atiffie mine owne Lu&s;ts, and not out of a &s;incere de&s;ire<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 4. 19.</NOTE> to beget &s;oules unto God, in Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>And fora&s;much as to have a tongue, greater then ones hand, is a mon&s;trous thing: fora&s;much as to build with one hand, and pull downe with with the other, is a building of <HI>Babell,</HI> and can<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 11. 9.</NOTE> never goe forwards: as I preach and profe&s;&s;e, &s;o would I practi&s;e a life to the Aedification of<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn 10.</NOTE> Soules. And (as every good &s;hepheard &s;hould before rea&s;onable &s;heepe) march and leade them the way rather than drive them, as calves, from<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh. 11. 11.</NOTE> behind. <HI>Ignave venire&mdash;Te Cae&s;ar non ire jubet.</HI> Our Saviour unto<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh. 11. 16.</NOTE> his di&s;ciples, <HI>I goe: Dydimus</HI> unto his fellowes, <HI>Let us goe.</HI> Children, it is ordinary, we &s;ee, they ha&s;ten after their Parents. Many are of that Scribes minde, re&s;olved to follow their Ma&s;ters <HI>where&s;oever they goe.</HI> Who would carry<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 8. 19.</NOTE> any friend thither, <HI>Dives</HI> &s;o earne&s;tly de&s;ired his<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 16. 28. Exod. 34. 6.</NOTE> friends might never come? I know <HI>God is merci|full,</HI>
<PB N="28" REF="22"> and yet (I remember) he never intends to &s;hew mercy unto him, that tempted others to<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn 8. 44.</NOTE> &s;inne, how otherwi&s;e was <HI>hee a murderer from the beginning?</HI> or, is Murder a &s;mall &s;inne? A whore may be puni&s;hed with fewer &s;tripes, but a Bawde (in all mens opinion) cannot have too many. Rebells may be pardoned, but a Ringleader hath beene alwayes cut off. I will &s;ay no more: for<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 17. 10.</NOTE> that, <HI>a word, unto the wi&s;e is enough:</HI> and <HI>as for a foole bray him in a morter, he will never bee the wi&s;er.</HI></P>
<P>To proceede, it remaines our &s;peech ad|dre&s;&s;e it &s;elfe, unto you, Beloved: oh how thank|full &s;hould you be unto God! who, when as hee might never have created man, gave him a being, a Being more excllent, not onely than, Apes, A&s;pes, Spiders, Toades, Hogs; but even the no|ble&s;t<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 1. 2.</NOTE> Bea&s;ts: provided him (as it were an hou&s;e ready furni&s;hed) this whole world: and is plea|&s;ed to afford us a &s;oule more worth, than all the&s;e things. <HI>O &s;ing unto the Lord</HI> therefore <HI>yee Saints</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 30. 4.</NOTE> of his e&s;pecially, <HI>bee thankefull unto him!</HI> And &s;ince it is &s;o, your <HI>Goodne&s;&s;e cannot reach &s;o high,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 16. 2. 3.</NOTE> as unto him; oh let it expre&s;&s;e it &s;elfe, unto his! I de&s;ire not, Brethren, all <HI>your &s;heaves &s;hould bow</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 37. 7.</NOTE> <HI>downe</HI> to ours. Much le&s;&s;e (as <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> and <HI>Pompey</HI>) are we unwilling to acknowledge Aequalls, or Superiors. We di&s;claime tho&s;e &s;everall Bla&s;phe|mies; that a Prie&s;t &s;o farre excells, even a King, as a man doth a Bea&s;t: that by how much God, is better than a man, by &s;o much is a Prie&s;t bet|ter, than a King: that who&s;oever praeferreth a King, before a Prie&s;t; praeferreth a creature, be|fore
<PB N="29" REF="22"> his Creator. Hee (<HI>who knowes all things</HI>)<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn 21. 17.</NOTE> knowes we de&s;ire (as <HI>Gregory</HI> wrote unto <HI>Mauri|tius</HI>) even to be <HI>&s;ubject unto higher powers;</HI> and are<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 13. 1.</NOTE> &s;o, <HI>for con&s;cience &s;ake:</HI> we defie, as Antichri&s;tians,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 13. 5.</NOTE> all tho&s;e vaine boa&s;tings: that, looke how much the Sunne is bigger than the moone, &s;o much is the Papall Power greater, than they Imperiall. <HI>Capi&s;tranus,</HI> I &s;hould thinke, de&s;erved <HI>Capi&s;trum</HI> for &s;aying, the Pope was the Emperours Lord. And yet what wonder? when as not onely flat|tering, fauning, Canoni&s;ts; but even his Holi|ne&s;&s;e it &s;elfe is &s;o prophane, as to <HI>wre&s;t &s;criptures,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 3. 16.</NOTE> to this purpo&s;e. But, I remember <HI>St. Pauls</HI> ob|&s;ervation; <HI>evill &s;peeches corrupt good manners.</HI> I am<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 15. 33.</NOTE> affraid many a rightous <HI>Lots</HI> &s;oule, may have bin too much already, <HI>vexed in &s;eeing and hearing,</HI> of<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. 8. Ezech 16. 49.</NOTE> the <HI>Pride</HI> of <HI>Sodome,</HI> my hope is, wee have better learned Chri&s;t, and of him <HI>to be humble,</HI> and <HI>not</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 18. 4. Matth. 20. 25. Matth. 23. 8. Iam. 3. 1. 1 Pet. 5. 3.</NOTE> <HI>to exerci&s;e any &s;uch Power:</HI> of <HI>St. Iames, not to be thus many Masters:</HI> of <HI>St. Peter, not to Lord it</HI> &amp;c. an argument (mee thinkes) &s;ufficient of it &s;elfe, (had wee not other) to improve the Popes claime of &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, unto <HI>St. Peters</HI> Chaire: fora&s;much as <HI>St. Ambro&s;e,</HI> worthily; <HI>Qui fidem Petri non habent, nec habent haereditatem Petri.</HI></P>
<P>But to leave them, and returne unto our &s;elves (beloved Brethren) how&s;oever wee neither de|&s;ire not de&s;erve &s;uch honour: yet (as the Lord liveth, and as you would have your &s;oules live) may you not e&s;teeme of vs otherwi&s;e than be|commeth<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 4. 1.</NOTE> <HI>the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t, and Stewards of the My&s;teries of God.</HI> Yea may not di&s;pi&s;e Go|vernement:
<PB N="30" REF="23"> pre&s;umptuous are they and &s;elfe|willed, that &s;peake evill of Dignities. Saint <HI>Pet. 2. Epi&s;tle chap. 2. v. 10. &amp;c. Saint Iude ver&s;e</HI> 8. un|to the 12. <HI>Obey</HI> yee mu&s;t all &s;uch, as have the rule over you; <HI>for they watch for your Soules.</HI> Rob<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 13. 17. 1 Tim. 5. 17</NOTE> them not of their owne, <HI>that double honour</HI> you owe them, both of re&s;pect and reward: and to this end, remember allwayes <HI>they watch for your &s;oules.</HI> What makes a Phy&s;itian more e&s;teemed, than a Farriour: is it not becau&s;e the former un|dertakes your &s;elfe, whereas the latter gives Phy&s;icke onely to your hor&s;e? What makes a Lawyer a Phy&s;itians Superiour, but for that a Good-name (we &s;ay) is better than life? what is a Gold-&s;mith more than a Smith, but &s;o farre as he deales in golde, whereas the other in yron, or copper? And if &s;o, what &s;hould I &s;ay more? But only <HI>know</HI> know &s;uch <HI>as watch for your &s;oules.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 5. 12, 13</NOTE> Know them, I &s;ay, and acknowledge them, <HI>wor|thy of double honour.</HI> Ob&s;ervable it is, that of olde, the <HI>Hebrewes</HI> had but one word; to &s;ignifie<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 41. 50.</NOTE> both <HI>a Prince and a Prie&s;t:</HI> ob&s;ervable that of olde, <HI>Iehoram</HI> the King thought it no di&s;paragement <HI>Iehoida</HI> the Prie&s;t &s;hould match with <HI>Ieho&s;hebeath,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 22. 11.</NOTE> his daughter: ob&s;ervable, what <HI>St. Peter</HI> &s;aith, <HI>a Royall Priesthood,</HI> memorable, what a worthy <HI>Ben|jamin</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2. 9.</NOTE> lately well ob&s;erved, that (among&s;t other &s;innes, <HI>Germany</HI> was guilty of <HI>for&s;aking the Le|vite.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 12. 19.</NOTE> But we are not: I would to God, I could &s;ay &s;o! what meaneth then, our praeferring of e|very &s;teward of our hou&s;es, every ma&s;ter of our hor&s;es, very Faulconers and Hunt&s;men, before
<PB N="31" REF="23"> &s;uch <HI>as watch for our Soules!</HI> I am a&s;hamed, not onely their re&s;pect, but even their reward &s;hould be &s;o little. God lay it not to our charge! Had<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 26. 24.</NOTE> <HI>too much learning</HI> (thinke you) made <HI>St. Paul mad?</HI> or are not wee? that, whenas he chargeth <HI>Timo|thy</HI> &s;o &s;trictly, <HI>to give attendance to reading;</HI> as the<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 4. 13. 16.</NOTE> onely meanes, whereby be&s;t <HI>to &s;ave both him&s;elfe and others:</HI> are of opinion (or &s;eeme to bee) there is no &s;uch need, our mini&s;ters &s;hould have Libra|ries: otherwi&s;e, why give wee them not &s;o much at lea&s;t, as may buy them a Bible. And <HI>St. Au&s;tin?</HI> except wee expect they &s;hould keepe their Families for nothing, or &s;pend of their owne, as if Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tle, were not worthy to teach us: or had not, that: <HI>The labou|rer</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 10. 7.</NOTE> <HI>is worthy of his hire: Hee that preacheth the Go&s;|pell</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 9. 14.</NOTE> <HI>&s;hould live</HI> (not by the benevolence perhaps of Go&s;&s;ips but) <HI>by the Go&s;pell.</HI> O that I were &s;ure, for &s;uch things, God would never vi&s;it: that his Soule would never be avenged on &s;uch, as tender &s;o little &s;uch as watch for their!&mdash;<HI>&s;ed m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tos prae|&s;tat componere fluctus.</HI> I had rather pray than pro|phecie.</P>
<P>To winde up all, and draw towards a conclu|&s;ion, we are wont to &s;ay, Charity begins at home:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iames 2. 8.</NOTE> thy neighbour <HI>as thy &s;elfe:</HI> is <HI>the Royall Law.</HI> I would have all men therefore fir&s;t indeavour to &s;ave them&s;elves. I &s;ay not but, that they &s;hould o|thers al&s;o: forasmuch as though <HI>Cain</HI> helde the<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 4. 9.</NOTE> contrary, yet we &s;hold know better, even that we are our brethrens keepers; and ought to be care|full, as of their good name, their bodyes, their
<PB N="32" REF="24"> goods &s;o, much more of their &s;oules. <HI>St. Au|stin</HI> is peremptory; <HI>Qui errantem non &amp;c.</HI> He that will not &s;ave his brother, &s;hall be condemned and damned with his brother. Is it not lamentable? <HI>Cadit A&s;inus, et e&s;t qui &s;ublevat; perit Anima, et non e&s;t qui manum apponat.</HI> If our neighbours oxe &s;tray, wee bring him home: if his hou&s;e be on fire, wee runne to helpe him&punc; if he let but fall, his pur&s;e, we call upon him: and yet who cares for his &s;oule &s;traying, <HI>&s;et on fire by Hell,</HI> falling away unto<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iam. 3. 6.</NOTE> &s;wearing, prophane ie&s;ting, drinking, drabbing, Hypocri&s;ie, Lukewarmene&s;&s;e? all which are wayes (and a thou&s;and more, <HI>Mundus enim laque|atus</HI>) men lo&s;e them&s;elves in, for want oftentimes of better directions, even from &s;uch as &s;ee them entring (as it were) the&s;e paths of Death. And yet, of all others, would I have thee chiefly to <HI>keepe thine owne heart,</HI> &s;o; as that no <HI>Ignis fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">us&punc;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 4. 23.</NOTE> the Divell him&s;elfe may never mi&s;leade thee by fal&s;e lights, into that mo&s;t deepe and narrow pit, he laboureth to praecipitate our Soules in.</P>
<P>In the feare of God, harken then unto coun|cell; comes that olde Broker, at any time, unto thee; bid him (as tho&s;e Martyrs were wont to reply unto their Tormentours, tho&s;e Tyrants) bid thee &s;omewhat worth thy &s;oule: &s;ay hee doe this whole&punc; world, aske him whether he thinke it bee worth heaven? &s;hould hee &s;ay &s;o; aske him what hee lo&s;t then by being ca&s;t out thence? and withall forget not <HI>Hee</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 3. 4.</NOTE> <HI>was a Lyar from the beginning,</HI> and may there|fore the more iu&s;tly alwayes be &s;u&s;pected.
<PB N="33" REF="24"> But, oh the folly of man! I have &s;eene them of|ten laugh at children, who are wont to part with golde for counters, with any thing for an ap|ple, I have heard them much blame &s;uch Gentle|men, as are willing to kill a gelding of twenty pounds price in hunting a bea&s;t hardly worth &s;o many pence. Who pitties not a young&s;ter, &s;elling away his whole Patrimony unto an u&s;urer, even for a great deale le&s;&s;e than halfe the worth of it? Yet alas! how many, thou|&s;and, even for nothing, exchange their &s;oules: and give them&s;elves unto the Devill; who had rather give them any thing, than mi&s;&s;e of &s;uch a bargaine. O the weakene&s;&s;e, the wickedne&s;&s;e of Prodigalls now a dayes! it was not &s;o, from the begining. I reade indeed of our<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 11. 3.</NOTE> Grand-mother, how at fir&s;t &s;hee was <HI>beguiled;</HI> yet I wonder not (&s;o much the le&s;&s;e) for that it was <HI>through &s;ubtletie:</HI> and &s;he was a woman, and therefore al&s;o more credulous. I wonder &s;o much the le&s;&s;e, for that none had then ever heard of a|ny &s;uch Cheater before: &s;o much the le&s;&s;e, for that even &s;he was wi&s;er than her children: for, al|beit<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen 3. 5, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> &s;he &s;inned, yet was it in hope to be <HI>like God:</HI> as al&s;o, becau&s;e <HI>&s;he &s;aw the Tree that it was good for food, plea&s;ant unto the eyes, and a Tree to be de&s;ired, to make one w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e. Adam</HI> he &s;ins, to gratifie his wife; but we, to plea&s;ure an enemy: the murderour of our fir&s;t Parents, and one would have cozened us (even then) of our chiefe&s;t inheritance.</P>
<P>To proceede I reade of <HI>E&s;au, prophane E&s;au,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 16.</NOTE> that hee &s;inned; and yet I reade withall, that
<PB N="34" REF="25"> it was by &s;elling away his birth-right onely,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 25. 29, 30, 31, &amp;c.</NOTE> unto a brother, praeferred by God, in his extre|mity, for a me&s;le of Pottage hee could not other|wi&s;e obtaine. I remember <HI>Balaam,</HI> and his &s;in|ning; and yet &s;erved he Sathan not without wa|ges:<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. 15. Iude. 11.</NOTE> <HI>&s;uch as they were,</HI> yet (I dare &s;ay) were they as good, as ever the Divell gave any. What &s;hould we &s;peak of <HI>Achan?</HI> it is granted he &s;inned,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Io&s;h. 7. 21.</NOTE> and yet withall ob&s;ervable, it was for a wedge of Gold, two hundred &s;hekells of &s;ilver and a Babi|loni&s;h garment. I read of <HI>Ahab</HI> and his compli|ces,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Kings 21.</NOTE> how they &s;inned; even for to get <HI>Naboths</HI> Vineyard unto the King: and both Kings and Queenes favour unto them&s;elves. I reade of <HI>Ge|hezi</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Kings. 5. 23.</NOTE> that he &s;inned, and I reade withall, that it was for talents, of &s;ilver and two changes of raiment. I remember <HI>Iudas,</HI> hee &s;inned, but it was <HI>for thir|ty peeces of &s;ilver: a goodly price indeed,</HI> and yet bet|ter<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 26. 15. Zechar. 11. 13. Acts 8. 18. 19.</NOTE> then nothing. I rememember <HI>Simon Magus,</HI> hee &s;inned; and yet in hope of that (if any man might hope to buy) there might many more be as forward to purcha&s;e, &s;uch admirable gifts of the Holy-Gho&s;t. It is recorded of Pope <HI>Sylve|ster,</HI> that he &s;old away him&s;elfe unto the Divell, and yet withall was it for a Triple-Crowne: and<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 9. 25.</NOTE> in&s;teed of <HI>Canaans</HI> title, <HI>A Servant of Servants,</HI> e|ven Gods owne praerogative, to bee <HI>King of</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 6. 15. Revel. 17. 14.</NOTE> <HI>Kings and Lord of Lords.</HI> I might ea&s;ily tyre, both my &s;elfe and you, in recapitulating &s;uch like in|&s;tances:<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10 11.</NOTE> it is certaine, <HI>their Examples are written for our admonition; upon whom the ends of the world</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3. 3.</NOTE> <HI>are come:</HI> when as men are <HI>void of all affection.</HI>
<PB N="35" REF="25"> As appeares, in that they love them&s;elves &s;o little; as that, even for nothing they now be|&s;towe their &s;oules vpon the Devill. I am a&s;ha|med to con&s;ider, how many &s;inne without all hope, either of profit, plea&s;ure, or any thing If I might, &s;ure I would not but upon condition, of a life longer than <HI>Methu&s;alahs age</HI> thrice tolde:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 5. 27.</NOTE> I would not, except with a provi&s;o, I might en|ioy what&s;oever my heart could de&s;ire: and that &s;hould be, a Kingdome as glorious as have the Saincts; a beauty as &s;uperexcellent as is that of Holine&s;&s;e; freedome from all mi&s;ery: <HI>Fulne&s;&s;e of</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 16. 11.</NOTE> <HI>all joy for evermore;</HI> God, his incomprehen&s;ible Maje&s;ty, and an everla&s;ting po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of that Beatificall vi&s;ion in his eternall Glory. But a|las! men dreame of none of all the&s;e things, for a &s;hort frenzie, for a fancie, for a nothing, it is they forfeite their &s;oules willfully. For in truth, what gets a common &s;wearer? is he not di&s;com|mended by all men, even by his owne compani|ons? is he not di&s;credited for ever? &s;o, as that when he &s;peakes truth, it is hard, for any to be|leeve him, though he &s;weare. What gets Drun|kard for his &s;oule but want of rea&s;on, &s;ence, me|memory, money? what are all wants, but priva|tions; or Privations but meere nothings? An A|dulterer, what gets he for his &s;oule? but (as the Drunkard) <HI>in his body the puni&s;hment of his &s;inne;</HI> by<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 1. 27. 1 Cor. 6. 18.</NOTE> his &s;inne, an inclination to &s;inne; by that incli|nation, Cu&s;tome; by Cu&s;tome, a contracted hardne&s;&s;e of heart; and what are all the&s;e but Pri|vations? or what are Privations, but meere no|things?
<PB N="36" REF="26"> I might be infinite in particulars, I will therefore but name two more. What gaines an u&s;urer, by his oppre&s;&s;ion? indeed, eight in the hundred &s;eemes faire: be&s;ides that many times, hee &s;wallowes downe whole mannours at one mor&s;ell. Oh but, wants he not wit all this while, that (as <HI>Salomons foole) hath a Price, but mu&s;t have</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 17. 16.</NOTE> <HI>others to lay it out</HI> for him? wants hee not wi&s;e|dome, that cannot under&s;tand (or will not con|ceive) <HI>&s;uch as bite &s;hall bee devoured?</HI> What gaines<NOTE PLACE="marg">Galat. 5. 15.</NOTE> a Carnalli&s;t by his hypocriticall profe&s;&s;ion, an outward <HI>forme of godline&s;&s;e onely without the power</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3. 5.</NOTE> <HI>thereof?</HI> Hee cries out of Puritaines, in the meane time him&s;elfe is is the greate&s;t; both in opinion and practi&s;e: for, he thinkes other men &s;hould be without all &s;inne, and is angry, any &s;hould urge him to be more holy. I would wee were all Hy|pocrites! &s;aid <HI>Athana&s;ius:</HI> and &s;o &s;ay I, would God thou wert a puritan! as the name is now u|&s;ed (mo&s;t commonly) for any Zealous Per&s;on. Ought wee not to bee <HI>fervent in Spirit?</HI> is it not<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 12. 11. Galat. 4. 18. Revel. 3. 16.</NOTE> <HI>good to be Zealous?</HI> hath not God threatened &s;uch as are <HI>Lukewarme,</HI> hee will &s;pue them out? Oh then, that thou wert hotter! even for thine owne &s;oules &s;ake: that thou didde&s;t not want that <HI>Light of Gods countenance,</HI> the a&s;&s;urance of his favour,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 4. 6.</NOTE> tho&s;e &s;weete ravi&s;hments, manifold con&s;olations &amp; graces of Gods Spirit! O that &s;incerity might free him, from that angui&s;h, tho&s;e agonies, de|&s;pairing thoughts, whenas his &s;oule is going, but him&s;elfe knowes not where, and therefore expo|&s;tulates, <HI>O Animula, blandula &amp;c.</HI> My &s;weete
<PB N="37" REF="26"> friend, art thou leaving mee! whether! may I hope to be happy! why &s;ee I no light! Into a Lande of darkene&s;&s;e mu&s;t thou! oh that I had eaten and drunken, and taken my fill with thee! better have had &s;ome comfort of my life than e|ven now bee ca&s;t out of Gods mouth, his King|dome,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 25. 41.</NOTE> into hell, <HI>among Devills,</HI> even for all e|ternity.</P>
<P>O then (Beloved) I would I might, as <HI>St. Iohn</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh. 3 Ep. 2.</NOTE> to his beloved <HI>Gaius:</HI> if I may not: I &s;hall wi&s;h at lea&s;t, our &s;oules may pro&s;per and be in health, even as our Bodyes pro&s;per. Our Bodyes (I &s;ee) are fed, well clad &amp; accordingly adorned; dwell mo&s;t willingly in the be&s;t ayre, are provided for, both of purges and cordialls, have leave given them to re&s;t, exerci&s;e, match according to their degrees: oh that our &s;oules were no more neg|lected! I am &s;ure we would e&s;teeme more of that<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2. 2. Revel. 6. 11.</NOTE> <HI>&s;incere milke of Gods worde,</HI> more of tho&s;e <HI>long white robes of Chri&s;ts</HI> Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e; of that chaine of graces, recommended unto us <HI>by St. Peter:</HI> a|voyding<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 1. 5. &amp;c.</NOTE> infectious per&s;ons, and places, we would purge out all that <HI>olde leaven and become a new</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 5. 7.</NOTE> <HI>lumpe:</HI> we would &s;trengthen our &s;elves, with re|newed re&s;olutions of better obedience, &amp; more Zeale, and not &s;uffer our <HI>hearts to be overcharged with tho&s;e many cares of this life,</HI> but <HI>exerci&s;e our</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 21. 34. 1 Tim. 4. 7. Io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">. 3. 28. 29.</NOTE> <HI>Soules unto godline&s;&s;e:</HI> and not match them unto ba&s;er Lu&s;ts, but unto Chri&s;t their <HI>Spou&s;e.</HI> To con|clude all: as we take care for our bodyes after death; &s;o let us think of our Soules: Is it not fitter <HI>Abrahams bo&s;ome</HI> &s;hould receive them, than that<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 16. 22.</NOTE>
<PB N="38" REF="27" MS="y"> place of horrour? is not there, <HI>the worme that ne|ver</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mark. 9. 44, 46, 48.</NOTE> <HI>dyeth, the fire that never goeth out.</HI></P>
<P>I pray God then, receive our Spirits, and deli|ver us from all evill: for thine (O heavenly Fa|ther) is the Kingdome, thine is the power, thine is the glory, for ever and ever Amen.</P>
<CLOSER>Laus Chri&s;to ne&s;cia</CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<Q><L>Quas fueram Prae&s;ens emendaturus, arun&punc;</L>
<L>Emendet mendas, Lector, amica tua:</L>
<L>Ab&s;ens a Prelo, liber quin ab omnibus <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">p&s;e</L>
<L>Mendis &s;im, parvus quas habet i&s;te Liber?</L>
<L>Nec cur non Prae&s;ens fueram, fugiat modo quanquam</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e ni&s;i quis credat, verba dedi&s;se mod<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">:</L>
<L>Quod prohibete nefas Superi! prae&s;um quibus, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">egr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Non vnquam inter&s;um, numina ve&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">.</L>
<L>Mira nec haec cuiquam videantur; nov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>Oder<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt charo corpore abe&s;&s;e &s;uo.</L>
<L>Clarior at quanto e&s;t Anima! &ocirc; quam pulchrior <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>Forma mihi, Su<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="4 letters"> plena decora Dei!</L></Q>
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