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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20782	The iaylors conuersion Wherein is liuely represented, the true image of a soule rightlye touched, and conuerted by the spirit of God. The waightie circumstances of which supernaturall worke, for the sweete amplifications, and fit applications to the present time, are now set downe for the comfort of the strong, and confirmation of the weake. By Hugh Dowriche Batch. of Diuinitie.	Dowriche, Hugh, b. 1552 or 3.	1596 (1596)	STC 7160; ESTC S111947	34,879	82

my hope my helpe and all is gon from me It were a lamentable thing that our wilfull and wicked sinnes dayly crying for vengeance to fall vpon vs from the seate of God our couetousnesse vsurie drunkennesse whordome blasphemie periurie contentions pride enuie disobedience should giue our Corne to be meate for our enemies and the fruite of our labours to refresh strangers while we our selues famish yet thus it hath beene in time and thus it may bee againe Some thinke there be too many Books too many Sermons too much preaching too much Printing and I thinke there is too little of eueriesort There is no fault found with too much ease too much pleasure too much negligence too much wantonnesse in behauiour too much pride in apparell too much loue to imitate new Apish toyes and strange fashions we are neuer cloyed with these come as thicke as they can but the poore dispised word sounds too oft comes too thicke vpon vs. O sinne O Sathan Papisticall enuie saith euery boye is become a preacher euerie foole is become a writer Iosua enuiously murmureth against Eldad and Medad for prophecying in the Tent The Disciples Num. 11. 28 Mark 9. 38. Luke 9. 48 Iohn 3. 26. of Iohn enuied at Christ for working of Miracles but I say with meeke Moyses I would all the people of God did prophecie I woulde all were learned I would all were preachers I would all were so perfectly taught of God that euery man were able to preach to himselfe to teach and instruct himselfe and his charge in all things that wee might indeede neede lesse preaching and lesse writing Some woulde haue no Bookes written but such onely as did wade into the depth of Diuinitie and contained the marrow and quintessence of learning such as did profoundly handle deepe points suttle quiddities of Diuine or Phylosophicall controuersies and such as in a manner shoulde speake that which was neuer spoken before This is the verie pollicie of Sathan to take from the simple people their greatest comfort next vnto preaching that they enioy which is the reading or hearing at leasure times some plaine exposition or familiar Sermon penned to their capacitie wherin many and many take great and singular comfort delight and profit Many there be that for age troubles and other occasions cannot often come to heare Sermons where and when they would which hauing at home some good Booke supplies often times the want of a better meanes to bring them to the knowledge and loue of God I speake not this to patronise any lewd wanton or foolish Pamphlets which tend not to edification but rather to destruction neither yet to prefer or compare reading or writing with preaching which is the blessed and ordinarie meanes of our saluation but onely to crop the blossomes of their proud Enuie that despise their weake brothers gifts in respect of theyr own surmised perfections which think that some profit may not redound to the simple by the most simple gift that euer was bestowed of God vpon the most simple man I detest the fantastical humor of them that write or publish any booke to hunt for any priuate praise glorie or profit to themselues and not with a single and simple intent to seeke onely the glorie of God the furderance of the Gospell and the knowledge comfort and saluation of Gods childrē the weake brethren With this intent and no other as he knowes that knowes my hart I haue perswaded my self to suffer these plaine Countrie notes to subiect themselues to the curious eyes to the sharpe conceites and the quicke iudgements of the learned Readers of this age not intended or adorned for the learned but onely vowed and plotted in the lowest kinde for the capacitie of the simple and ignorant It may bee that I haue studied more to bee plaine briefe and perspicuous then some haue to flie aloft in the mistie cloudes of rolling eloquence be cause I seeke the edification of the simple not the praise of my selfe If I should vauntingly flie so high as the wings of fancie would carrie but a meane Schollers reache I might neither in dutie doe that I should nor in conscience performe that which I would Let the Iaylors and keepers of Prisons in these daies accounte this example the chiefe flower in their garland that there hath beene so honest a man an vndoubted childe of God found in their Corporation of whome I would they would all learne to be more mercifull and courteous to their poore brethren that are in bands to consider the cause of their imprisonment not to hepe miserie vpon miserie but in their punishments to see the anger of God against their owne sinnes to bee sorrie for them that are in Captiuitie to thanke God for their owne freedome not to insult ouer them whom God hath cast downe but in a charitable mind to comfort them that are in heauinesse and relieue the wants of the poore and needie to their powers So God with this Iaylor shall blesse them with the true knowledge of their saluation and the ioyfull spirite of regeneration So shall the Lord comfort them in their distresse and deliuer them from the prison and punishmēt which their sins haue deserued This is the wourst I wish thē this the Lord graunt them And so I commit thee gentle Reader to Gods mercifull protection From Honiton in Deuon this 30. day of Iune 1596. Thine in the Lord Hugh Dowriche Verses written by a Gentle woman vpon The Iaylors Conuersion THe man is blest which can indure Whose hart doth neuer slide When for his sinne with fierie scourge His patience shal be tride No daunting feare can once attainte The conscience that is cleare The wicked waile that haue no faith When dangers doe appeare The rod that doth correct our life And sinfull waies reproue Is said to be a certaine signe Of Gods eternall loue No tempting tryall from the Lord No griefe or dire annoye Can seuer once the faithfull hart From Christ his onely ioye Though sinfull flesh doe oft rebell And fancie file our fall Yet happie man that can returne When God beginnes to call Though God permit his chosen flocke Sometimes to walke astraie Yet sets he both the times and meanes To wayne them from their waie How long did Paule with cruell hart The Church of Christ molest Till called home to see the truth His blindnesse did detest How cruell was this Iaylors hart To vex the poore elect Till trembling earth by mightie power His madnesse did detect The God that makes the haughtie hils And Libans Cedars shake When he shall take his cause in hand Will make the prowdest quake To comfort his that be in neede The Lord is alwaies prest And all that haps to his elect Is alwaies for the best Which in this picture here is seene By that which shall in sew Lord graunt vs grace when he doth call To frame our liues anew A. 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