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A04034	A bundle of myrrhe: or Three meditations of teares The first in the effect. pag.1. Last in the cause of Dauids teares. Psal. 42.3 pag. 270. The middle, and most intended, of religious teares in general. p. 96. The particulars whereof, are prefixed to each page, and principall section.; Bundle of myrrhe.	Innes, William, fl. 1620.	1620 (1620)	STC 14091; ESTC S119560	100,050	414

of the Lord shall returne and come to Sion first in the Church on earth but more magnificently in heauen with songs and euerlasting ioy vpon their heades they shall obtaine ioy and gladnesse and sorrow and sighing shall fly away The Prouerbe is Transition Omne tul●t punctum c. He is able to accomplish all that mixes profit with his pleasure but our meaning is at this present to ioyne power to profitablenes To speake therefore of the efficacie of teares which was fourth amongst the heads propounded to be treated touching them If you will call them showers or stormes from aboue they hinder the attempts of diuels which besiege the Citie of God quenching all their canon shot for teares are th' effects of faith whose vertue is to quench the enemies fierie darts Ephe. 6.16 Or if you tearine them cataractes or falls of water from the highest mountaines they presse and crush what e're lifts vp it selfe against God 2. Cor. 10.5 of which perhaps a little after he here complaines Psal 42.7 whence is truly said S Bern. festo omnlum sanctorum serm 1. A stubborne horse is tamed by the whippe and a rebellious spirit by shedding teares For riuers and brookes carrying with them what euer lyes in the way at length ouerwhelming the very walls and bays opposed vnto their violence hence that is to them asscribed which is neare vnlawfull to attribute to a creature that by thē a man in wrestling preuailed with God Hos 12.4 He had power ouer the Angell and preuailed but how he wept and made supplication vnto him Or if we say they are pure waters of some siluer streame in which the letters otherwise vnlegible are perceiued Bern. de Coena ser 12. Lachryme dicant quia voces explicare non queunt Naso Lachryma pondera vo cis habent Flor. lib. 1. c. 22. For if the drooping soule cānot declare her minde teares shall supply where the tongue is tyed Or if that which is intended by weight of arguments must be enforced teares are the weightiest words wherewith Veturia vnarmed Coriolanus her sonne now readie to batter the wals of Rome To Antipater cōplaining grieuously to Alexander of his mother he returned this answer Knowest thou not ô Antipater that one teare of a mother will blot an hundred iniurious letters Will you stile them bathes the hardest ice will speedily resolue being cast therein such as they say Stella in Luke 7. was the heart of the first most sinfull and then most mournfull Mary Magdalen For in these is a hote resoluing quality issuing from the mines not of blacke sulphure or the like but of the precious and celestiall gold of wisedome inspired by God Are they called noble wines and generous that makes men confident Spes iubet esse ratas and they giue great confidence towards God which in one of Dauids words euidently appeares where to the Almighty he dares to say Hold not thy peace at my teares Psal 39 1● Ephr●●● de comp●●●cti● ne ho●● 4. What is hold not thy peace at my teares I know saith he O Lord thou art a righteous Iudge none I know can deliuer out of thine hand Iob 10. I know thou wilt iudge the quicke and dead Rom. 2. thou wilt strictly iudge the sonnes of men for euery idle word Mat. 12. vpon euery secret Eccles 12. though lightest thought I know thou wilt come and call the nations from East to West Psal 50. to heauens from aboue and to the earth beneath that thou mayst iudge thy people And I to my selfe am conscious of manifold offences Psal 38. yet this I also know that thou art mercifull I know that teares and troubled spirit are to thee most acceptable Psal 51. because these thou hast commanded and these are sacrifices wherewith thou art pleased Therefore I pray do not remember my sinnes and forget my teares for so should I not be able to stand Psal 130. but rather remember these forgetting those So shall I not feare to come into thy presence when the thrones of Princes are cast downe Dan. 7. and thou art set the Ancient of dayes with garment white as snow and haire like vnto the purest wooll vpon thy throne a fierie flame with wheeles as burning fire from which the fierie streames shall issue and come forth from before thy face when thousand thousands shall minister vnto thee and ten thousand times ten thousand shall stand before thee when iudgement is set and the bookes are opened out of the which all dead shall be iudged according to the things written therein Then shall be discouered the iniquities of vs all and mine amongst the rest but if for them my teares in thy presence shall appeare Vide efficacissimam his iusmodi deprecationem in Anacreonticis Damasceni 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. their accusations shall be void and their guilt vndone Therefore thus confidently I request hold not thy peace at my teares Finally if by art you wil perfect nature and ranke them amongst those which stillers skill makes and cals strong waters Maximus Taurinensis serm hiem de poenitemia Petri ostiaria hom 3. Qui etiam est inter sermones diui Ambrosij nec non S. Augustini sed faliò illius enim nō c●iusuis horū stilū redole● able to breake through that which hammers lightly do not burst for Weeping hath some preheminence of praying which Peter conuerted by his Lords lookes taught others by his owne experience breaking forth in teares without request of words For we see his teares but do not heare his voice we reade his weeping but no mention of his speaking Iustly indeed Peter wept in silence because that which is bewailed is not wont to be excused and what cannot be defended yet may be washed away for teares can cleanse the offence which shame forbids vs to confesse so teares are carefull both of credit and saluation not ashamed to seeke and sure to obtaine in asking Teares I say are silent and yet effectuall prayers they aske not pardon and yet obtaine it they make no plea but finde mercie This difference there is the prayers of teares are more auailable then of words for speech in prayer perhaps doth lie which teares cannot speech oft times doth not vnfold the whole businesse but alwayes teares declare the entire affection Therefore now Peter vseth not speech Inuertio quod fleuerit non inuenio quid dixerit lachrymas eius lego satisfactionem non lego wherewith he had sinned wherewith he had lyed wherewith he had denied the faith lest thereby he be not beleeued in confession which erewhile denying he had abused Therefore had he rather lament then pleade his cause and confesse with teares what he had denied in words And yet see further what Peter hath profited in teares He fell before he wept Ibid. paulò infra