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A03411	The arraignement of the vvhole creature, at the barre of religion, reason, and experience Occasioned vpon an inditement preferred by the soule of man against the prodigals vanity and vaine prodigality. Explained, applyed, and tryed in the historie and misterie of that parable. From whence is drawne this doome orthodoxicall, and iudgement divine. That no earthly vanity can satisfie mans heavenly soule. ...	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.; Hobson, Robert.; Henderson, Robert, 17th cent.; Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; Droeshout, Martin, b. 1601, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 13538.5; ESTC S103944	228,566	364

d 1 Sam. 1.27 Samuel and e Luk. 1.13 Iohn Baptist the sonnes of Prayer Monicaes Augustine the sonne of f Filius precum lachrimarum dictus ab Ambrosia Teares hee sends this Booke as Iacob g Gē 37.14 his Ioseph as Iesse his youngest sonne David h 1 Sam. 17.17 to visit his Brethren to aske them of their welfare to wish their health and happinesse That as Iohn writes to i Epist 3. ad Gajum n. 2 Gaius they may farewell even in their Soules as hee now fared himselfe Yea hee sends this booke as Abraham his Steward Eleazar out with a k Gen. 24.6 7. blessing to fetch Rebeccha from her Fathers house and to marry her to his Isaac the Fathers joy if I may allegorize with Origen to fetch the Soule of man that faire Rebecca out of her Naturall birth and abode in the state of Corruption in her naturall condition wallowing in her l Ezek. 16.6 blood soyled with her old and vaine Conversation to be Spiritually espoused and married unto ISAACS Antitype her Lord and Saviour her head m Berchoriū vid. in reduct Morali vol. 10. cap. 18. and husband that Ithiell and Vcall as hee or wise AGVR calls n Prov. 30.1 him in whom shee shall finde true joy and true rest as NOAHS Dove o Gen. 8.9 found in NOAHS Arke if shee will at last leave to feed with NOAHS Raven on the Carrion of the worlds vanities yea this Booke may bee as Davids spokesmen to p 1 Sam. 25.39 Abigall after her Dis-joynting from Naball the worlds folly to unite and contract her selfe to the GOD of David or it may bee to the Soule as Salomons Parinimphs and Sutors to Pharaohs daughter to forget and forgoe her Fathers q Psal 45.10 house to leave and loath her birth sinnes and bred sinnes to mortifie and crucifie her originall and actuall sinnes and transgressions to breake out of all the intangling fetters of all her vicious vanities and so to marry and unite her selfe unto the true the typified Salomon the GOD of Salomon the Prince of peace the everlasting r Esa 9.6 Father in whom from whom and by whom onely is perfect joy and true tranquility to the immortall Soule and spirit of mortall and without God miserable man For the better conceiving of this It 's worthy our Animadversion That as SALOMON as wee all know was the Amanuensis or penman of the Spirit to write three Bookes the Proverbes the Canticles and this his Ecclesiastes So as ſ Lib. de Isaac cap. 4. in Psal 36. in titulo in Psal 118 v. 1. Praef. in Lucam AMBROSE t Hom. in princ Prov. BASILL and other expositors note There is in them a certaine Climax or gradation ascending by certaine staires and degrees to more sublime and heavenly matter For in the Proverbes hee allures Ephaebi and young men to honest and lawfull things by that beauty and lustre that is in vertue and from the reward of well doing And this they say answers his Name Ididiah or Amabilis u 2 Sam. 12 25. Lovely In this Ecclesiastes or Booke of the Preacher hee provokes these that are Adulti and more strong and perfect to the dispising and repudiating earthly and terrestriall things from their insufficiencie blemish and deformity discovering their perilous and painted beauty from whence hee is tearmed the Preacher In the third his Canticles his Ep●thalium or mysticall Song from the consideration of naturall and earthly things Paulo maiora * Virgil. cadendo hee ascends to the speculation and contemplation of mysticall divine and supernaturall things in which Metaphysicall meditations w●e rest and fixe as in an internall and setled peace truely anchored in GOD The Asilum and Sanctuary of all true rest and tranquility and this answeres his third name SALOMON or Pacificus The Peace-maker or peaceable Others make his three Bookes answere the three Courts of the Tabernacle The outward Court the inner Court and the Sanctum Sanctorum CASSIANVS alludes to that double Abrenuntiation injoyned unto ABRAHAM of house and habitation of vices in manners and Conversation and of approaching to IEHOVAH by heavenly Contemplation Others x Richardus apply his three Bookes to the three Patriarchs ABRAHAM y Gen. 12.4 Gē 22.3 was obedient ISAAC digged z Gen. 26.19.21 22 32. Wells IACOB saw a Gē 28.12 visions even Angels ascending and descending His Proverbes urgeth and perswades obedience to the voyce of Wisdome Even to CHRIST the second person in Trinitie the wisedome of the Father Ecclesiastes is a well or fountaine of heavenly Counsels and conclusions digg'd deepe from his owne deare bought experiments to the watering and refreshing of the Israell of GOD The Canticles soares higher as an Eagle under the vaile and shadow of the letter from his matrimoniall love to PHARAOHS Daughter as carried up into a Divine rapture and extasie singing the mysticall love betwixt Christ and the Church But least as is the fashion of the Speculative Fryers and contemplative Monkes these allegories be too farre stretcht as on the Lasts and Tentors as a mans nose that 's too hard wrung gives blood Popery affording moe allegorizing Origenists than found Textuists So I like that tropologicall order which BERNARD observes b Bernard in Canticis that In primo pellitur superfluus amor sui In secundo Vanus amor mundi In tertio perscribitur castus amor Dei The Proverbes disswade that Philautia and superfluous foolish love of our selves The Ecclesiastes disswades the vaine and worthlesse love of the vicious world The Canticles perswade the pure and chast and perfect love of GOD who as hee best deserves onely desires our hearts c Prov. 23.26 and affections I will not discusse much lesse determine the Time when these three Bookes were writ whether his Canticles were writ in his youth d The Book call'd Salomons solace cap. 27. pag. 113. thinks the Canticles writ before the 20. yere of his Age. before his Fall Or according to e Praefatione in Joshuam BEZA and f De Haeres PHILASTRIVS in his old Age when his heart was purged and purified Though according to others his Proverbes were writ in his elder yeares his Ecclesiastes in his extreame old Age I will not stand on thinges Conjecturall in the fluctuations of opinions but I like the allusions of the Ancients That they are all three of them like the triple Passeover in Aegypt Exod. 12.1 In the Wildernesse and in Gilgall beyond Iordan Iosh 5.10 Or like that triple kisse of the hand the foot and the g Oseulum oris mannum pedum c. mouth testifying Love observance and obedience Or like that three-fold Cord not easily broken drawing and dragging the Soule of man out of the pit and puddle of vanity as IEREMY was drawne out of the myrie Dungeon and pulling it upwards nearer unto God

Ecclesiastes he useth not the name Tetragrammaton as being ineffable and to sinners most terrible and dreadfull in the Consciousnesse of his sinne he doth not once mention it Mindfull of that in the 50. Psalme ver 16. of his Mr. Asaph forbidding the wicked once to take the Name or Covenant of God in their mouthes Which Text when Origen read after his Apostasie mentioned by Eusebius Lib. 6. Magdeb. Cent. 3. and Niceph. Lib. 5. Cap. 12. Hee burst out into teares and could not preach He in awe and reverence thinkes himselfe unworthy to name IEHOVAH Fourthly being converted himselfe he labors as Christ injoyned y Luk. 22 32 PETER and in him all true Paenitents and as PAVL z Act. 9.28 practized the Conversion of others for this booke of the Preacher preacheth repentance unto all both Iewes and Gentiles yea it teacheth mortification from the worlds Vanities the Feare of the Lord and obedience to his a Eccl. 12.13 Commandements therefore in respect of the affe●t of it or Salomons affections to doe good by it ●s cald by some b Rabbi Salomon in Cātica the booke of the calling againe of the Iewes c Comment in Cantica Origen calls it Ecclesiastes à Congregando Ecclesiam from that desire which Salomon had to congregate a Church to God and some of the Hebrewes as two famous amongst the d Hierom. in Eccles cap. 1 in Ezek. cap. 46. Fathers and e Aquinas de Regimine principum l. 3. cap. 8. Schoolemen have call'd it his Booke of repentance in which booke as a true Preacher indeed hee labours to finde out right Scriptures Delight some words and words of truth that as goades and nayles he might rivet them in the hearts of others to worke that remorse in them which hee found and felt in himselfe which indeed is a signe of true and saving Grace when it is Communative and diffusive for the conversion of the wicked or confirmation of the weake when wee would imprint grace in others which is sealed in our selves herein tutored by the Cock who when he hath found a Barly Corn clocks and calls to it his Hennes as the Hen calls her Chickens and when we are awaked our selves out of the darke dreame of our sinnes by clapping our wings and g Gall● vigilantis Episcopi Typus apud Majolum de dieb Canic Colloq 7. p. 210 crowing as Salomon heere and since LVTHER that h Vide Epistolas ad Leonem Papam ad diverses Episcopos nobiles Libellis de captivicate Bab. de Missa disputationes scripta apud Sleidanum Nigrium Bucholcheram Osiander Cent. 16. lib. 1. Cocke of Belgia to awaken others either out of Popery or prophanenesse is a sure signe of a sanctified heart and of a Conscience truely touched Fifthly SALOMONS confession was ioyned with faith he beleeved with his heart as did PHILIPS i Acts 8.37 Evnuch as he confessed with his mouth to his k Rō 10.10 Salvation for his confession heere to to GOD primarily as in the Iudgement both of charity and verity wee are to conclude and to his scandalized Church secondarily was not the Confession of a Felon to his Iudge as ACHANS to l Iosh 7.20 ●1 IOSHVAH fearing execution Nor as the Confession of IVDAS to the m Math. 27.4.5 Pharises for want of Faith ending in a halter and in n Psal 9.17 Act. 1.25 Hell but as the Confessiō of a Son to his indulgent Father for that reference the Lord himselfe professeth he hath to o 2. Sā 7.14 SALOMON or as a Confession of a Patient to his Physitian in hope of helpe and health and he confesseth to the offended Church as any man may in the like case confesse even unto man t As appeare by that cōfortable letter which Luther sent the sicke Duke of Saxony apud Osiandrum Cent. 16. l. 1 pag. 70. stearing yet farre enough from the Rockes of Popish Auricular Confession not onely to give satisfaction in case of p Mat. 5.23 24 scandall but as a diseased man to his Surgeons as the perplexed CHRIST crucifying paenitents to q Act. 2.37 PETER the Publicans to r Luk. 3.12 IOHN the Magicall ſ Act. 19.18 19 Nicromancers and others converted by PAVL and as many in our dayes have done to the zealous GRENHAM PERKINS DENT DEERING DODD and others to whom the Lord gave the tongue of the u Esa 50.4 learned and created the fruites of their lips to bee * Esa 57.17 Peace even in Case of desired Comfort and Consolation Esay 57.19 Iob 33.23.24 Sixthly SALOMONS Repentance was constant and Conscionable it was not in a flash or in a Crocodiles x Vincentius hist l. 17. c. 606. teare or two like y Heb. 12.16 ESAVVES and the hypocriticrll z Deu. 1.45 Iewes not in a SAVLS a 1. Sā 15.24 Confession but as PAVL's it begun and continued in that true Conversion the very life and soule of repentance that sincere aversion from sin and turning unto b Haec vera paenitentia preterita plangere plāgenda non cōmittere August de pan God which the Prophets every where call for he did not after any fained humiliation returne to his sinne againe as the Dog to his vomit the Sow to her wallowing as did Ahab Saul Adoniah Ioab Semei but acording to the rule and Canon he did Praeterita plangere plangenda non committere Lament his by-past Vanities and as a man that gives a Bill of Divorce to his whorish wife never to intermedled with her more as Noah Lot Iudah David Peter and others hee did not Apostate againe and backe-slide to his repentant and abandoned follies now hee esteemes all the Honours Pleasures Riches Dignities Policies Studies Counsels thoughts actions endeavors of men in this life without the Wisedome Word Worship Feare and Favour of God to bee meere Huskes and Vanities such as will never helpe ease profit comfort or cōtent him in life in death nor death and his judgement ushering his practice he made a Covenant with his heart never to feed more on these Huskes to sinne more in the use abuse of these Vanities But as a Traveller ever talking of and fitting for his journey his Thoughts and tongue now walke and talke another way even how to feare GOD and keepe his Commandements Legall and Evangelicall being indeed that Regia Via Vitae the true way to life and herein indeed was his true repentance according to CHRISTS l Ioh. 5.14 Precept and AMBROSE his prescript when he sinned no more in that culpable kinde as m Haec vera poenitentia cum sic paenitet hominem peccasse ut crimen non repetat Amb de poenit before the best repentance saith that zealour Belgick n Luther call'd oft by Hennius Eccardus and others the Elias of Germany Apostle being in one word A new o Optima paenitentiae nova vita