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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15713	The christians mourning garment	Worship, William.	1603 (1603)	STC 25987; ESTC S113276	27,165	63

sinnes dyed so déepely in crimson that time hath not yet worne out colour If thou thinke thou canst blesse thée from the euill to come make a couenant with thine eyes as Iob did yet let thy heart be griped Iob. 31. 1. and twinged in regarde they haue heretofore béene rowling and extrauagant eyes Thirdly haue respect to the description of sinne Sinne is the transgression of the Law Wherein obserue first what this lawe is which thou breakest Secondly who this God is whom thou offendest First then let it damp thée disquiet thy soule to consider that in euery loose thought by thée conceiued and in euery vnsauory word by thée vttered and in euery lewd déed by thée committed thou hast violated Gods law which law is farre more excellent than the beautifull frame of the whole worlde though in each part it be good and in all the parts together excéeding good For such is our purblindnesse that the great booke of Nature is not able of it selfe to direct vs to the true God as much resembling that Athenian Aulter wherein was written Vnto the vnknowne God but the lawe written Acts. 1. ● 23. pointeth as iust to God as the finger to the dyall and which commends it most of all Psal 19. 7. conuerteth the soule Go to now miserable wretched sinner canst thou by thy dissolute life cracke and disestéeme of this matchlesse Iewell and when when thou hast done wilt thou not enter into a sad and sober consideration opening the sluces of thine eyes and sending forth a swift current of teares Would not that fellon be hangd in chaines who hauing broken most notoriouslie the wholsome lawes of his Prince takes no thought at all but reuiles and playes at Tables all the while he is in prison with his héeles in yrons and his neck in suspence Yes verily Wel then take héed For if after thou hast lift vp thy horne most insolently and pusht downe the incompararable statutes of the Lord thou be not ashamed of thy selfe and confounded in thy selfe but doest feast when thou shouldst fast sing when thou shouldst sobbe laugh when thou shouldst wéepe thou art as néere in quality to the aforesaid théefe as can be well imagined and therfore likely to come to some heauie and fearefull end Secondly take knowledge who he is that enacted this law which thou hast transgressed so shamelesly It is no earthly Prince nor Potentate a creature finite ready to huffe out life at euery moment but it is Iehouah Esa 40. 12. that mighty God who spannes the heauen and measures the waters in his fist in respect of whom all nations are but as the drop of a bucket nay nothing nay lesse Nah. 1. 2. than nothing euen vanity The God of anger who hath his way in the whirlewinde and in the storme at whose sight the earth is burnt the mountaines quake the hils melt the deuils shudder O my déere brother how can thy hart be light sith thou hast offended so great a Maiesty Why doest thou not put sack-cloath about thy loynes and an halter Kings 1. 20. 31. about thy neck with the seruants of Benhadad and crye out Mercie good Lord good Lord graunt mercy for we haue heard that the King of Israell is a mercifull King If thou hadst committed but petit treason against an earthly Prince I perswade me it thou mightst be admitted to his presence thou wouldst stoope and looke forlornly with a palish chéeke and vnkeambd beard neglected apparell vsing these mutes as vocall spokesmen and intercessors for thy pardon and all because The feare of the King is like Prou. 20. 2 the roaring of a Lion And is thy hart so crusted and rough cast that thou wilt not throw thy selfe euen below the earth for displeasing that glorious and fearefull name The Lord thy God Shall a Grasse-hopper Deu. 28. 58 out-face the omnipotent Clay the Potter filth Puritie Darkenesse Light A wispe of stubble a consuming fire a sinner of sinners the holyest of all holyes Surely if these perswasions make no dint nor impression thy hart is harder than the Smiths Anuile yet hearken still I beséech thée to the nature of this God who chiefly ioyes in getting him honor by his boundles mercie If this make thée not bewéepe thy personall sinnes thou hast not so much as a sparkle of grace truly working in thée Wilt thou not be gréeued for offending thy God who loued thée before thou wast Ephe. 1. 4. borne yea before the first stone of the worlds foundation was laide who was thy hope when thou hungest vpon thy mothers brest who guarded thée with Angels as thou layest spralling in thy Cradle and hath euer since fed thée cloathed thée preserued thée Didst thou deserue the least of these blessings If thou say thou didst thou art a lyer and there is no truth in thée For I say vnto thée that he might haue made thée a Dog or a toade or a Serpent haue done thée no wrong at all Euen when thou wast a delightfull burden to thy mother taking thy pastime in her wembe and hauing no other mouth but thy nauell then euen then wast thou odious to God in thine owne nature because conceiued in sin Neither must thou thinke this to be rigor for thy selfe canst not abide a yong Woolfe for that he hath in him the spawne and cruelty and will destroy the flock when he comes to full growth Why wilt thou recompence the Lord euill for good and not rather pine away like the Hart that findeth no pasture for displeasing so indulgent louing a father whose kindnesse is stretched out still Behold this God hanging for thy sake vpon the crosse loe how he stretches out his arines to imbrace thée loe how he bowes downe his head to kisse thée loe how his hart is opened with a speare to loue thée to loue thée an vndutifull and gracelesse child vnworthy indéede to be called his childe And yet he giues not period 1. Cor. 12. 12. to his goodnesse but layes thée nearer his heart marrying thée vnto him and calling thée Christ by his owne name to manifest the wonderfull yet reall coniunction betwixt him and thée O the depth of the riches of the mercy of this God who hath hereto adioined another singuler benefit What is that He hath decréed that thou shouldest be borne not a Turke or a Jew but English then there not when Pharaoh of hell and Antichrist his vicegerent made all true Israelites weary of their liues with all manner of spirituall bondage which they laid vpon them most cruelly but when he set the Diadem on the head of that virgin Quéene who hath giuen vs already thrée and fortye yeares of Iubilee wherein we sit peaceably vnder our vines go ioyfully to the Church to heare the golden bell of Aaron ring sweetely in the Pulpit to feele the fragrant smell of his Pomegranats Be glad yée heauens at this