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A36543	The Christians zodiake, or, Twelve signes of predestination unto life everlasting written in Lattin by Ieremie Drexelius.; Zodiacus Christianus locupletatus. English	Drexel, Jeremias, 1581-1638.	1647 (1647)	Wing D2168; ESTC R38850	91,238	264

The Christians Zodiake or TWELUE SIGnes of Predestination unto Life euerlasting Written in Lattin by Ieremie Drexelius LONDON Printed for William Willson Anno Dom 1647 Inward Light Frequēti● Sacram Patience tribulation ●●mes deedes Love of enemies propensed over will to Apreporatio to Death Renouncei● Worldly thing● Frequenting Sermons Self Contempt Detestation of Sins past Moderation of our passion● The Author to the READER J Present thee here pious Reader with 12 signes of Divine Predestination collected at spare houres out of the sacred Scrip●ures and holy Fathers which for the helpe of memorie beare each one their Device or Impres in the ●ront of them This Glasse ●f thou shalt take daily into ●hy hands to dresse thy self ●herein and diligently ●ark how many of these ●ignes thou discoverest in thy selfe whether all or none one or but a few thou wilt be able if thou alterest not thy course to give a near conjecture in whether booke thy name bee written either of Life or Death which bookes are for the present shut up not to bee opened till the last Generall day when those who shall not be found recorded in the book of Life shall be cast into the dreadfull lake of Fire whereas those whose names are registred in Heaven shall participate of a joy which neither knowes a Measure nor an End Series Signorum I. 1. THE first signe of Pred stination is An internall light which beares for it's Device a burning Taper The Motto is Thy Word is a Lanthorne to my feet and a light unto my paths Psal 119. II. 2. A re●dinesse to dye The Device A dead mans Scull The Motto I desire to be disso●ved and to be with Christ Phil. 1. III. 3. Frequentation of Sacraments Device The sacred Eucha●ist The Motto He that eateth of this bread shal not dye Joh. 6. IV. 4. Contempt of world●y things The Device A bare Altar dispoy●ed of all its ornamen●s The Motto is But what things were gain ●o me those I counted losse for Christ Ph l 3.7 V. 5. Patience in the midst of long affliction The Device A Rose tree The Motto You are blessed who weep now for you shall laugh Luke 6. VI. 6. Frequenting of Sermons Device A Fig tree The Word is The wise man shall increase his wisedome by hearing Pro. 1. VII 7. Almes deeds bestowed with a tender affection The Device A Balsome tree The Motto God hath committed the care of his neighbour to every one Eccl. 17. VIII 8. Selfe contempt The Impres The Cypresse tree The Motto Unlesse you become as little infants you shall not enter into the kingdome of Heaven Mat. 18. IX 9. Love of our enemies The Device Two thwarted Lances combined with an Olive wreath The Motto bee not vanquished by evill but by good conquer evill Rom. 12. X. 10. Detestation of our passed sinnes The Device A rod and Scourge The Motto I will come presently to thee and remove thy candlestick out of its place unlesse thou doe rep●nt Apoc. 2. XI 11. Propension of ou● w ll o Good The Device An Anchor The Motto I have inclined my heart to fulfill thy statutes for ever Psal 119. XII 12. Moderation of our passions or the victory of temptations The Device A strung Lute The Motto Thy desire shall bee subject unto thee and thou shalt master it Gen. 3. The Coronides of the Zodiake Is a short discourse of the scarcity of the Predestinate Embleme j Inward Light Thy Word is a Candle unto my feete a Light unto my pathes Psalme 119 V. 105 The Christian Zodiake The first Signe of Predestination Is a Burning Taper The Motto Thy word is a Lant●orne to my feet and a light unto my paths Psal 119 BY the burning Taper is set forth that internall Light Psal 119. which so farre forth shewes us Gods benefits the worlds vanity lifes shortnesse sins filthinesse the fading shadowes of all pleasures that whosoever begins to see them breaths after heaven and cryes with the Kingly Prophet Psal 41. My soule thirsteth for the strong God for the living God When shall I come and appeare before the presence of God Psal 4 88. There be many that say who will shew us any good Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us and in this light of thy countenance will we walke 1. A Master to teach us there is within us the light of Reason which God of his bounty deriving from his own countenance hath placed in the better part of man and this light doth not onely distinguish us from beasts but makes us like unto God This light imprinted in mans understanding is an indelible Sermon which teacheth us not to doe that to another which wee would not have done to our selves inasmuch as we can hope for from anoth●r none otherwise tha our selves have done to others W th what measure ye mete it shall bee meted to you againe Luke 6. Hence it is that wee must neither violently nor deceitfully impaire either the goods of others or their chastity This light shewes us all the creatures and though darkly G●d himselfe the ●reator having all things perfect most blessed eternall sufficient for himselfe and all others the beginning middle and end which dwells in the light that none can approach unto in his works and gi●ts no lesse amiable than powerfull whose Will and Work are the same he w●ich is al mercy and goodnesse yet an holy severe incorrupt Iudge and not to be flattered He which is all Iustice whose shape and greatnesse is beyond expression whose like n ither may wee see nor conceive that at any ti●e we shall see All pleasant and beautifull things compared with him be no better than meere darknes and a poore shadow which lovely transcendant beauty delights in nothing more than to be beloved This light manifests unto us the wor●s of our Creator the interchangeable rule of day and night the star-bright eye of the Heavens Maiesty the long iournies of Sun and Moon earths fruitfull wombe the spatious compassings of Rivers the dreadfull Lordship of the Sea the severall kinds of living creatures and the increase of fruits All which God made without hands or any labour onely he willed that they should be made and they were made Also this light of Reason and Faith shewes mans chiefest happinesse to consist in this if as much as is possible hee become like his Maker for like unto like is ever acceptable and surely no livelier image is there than that which is most like him whose image it is But this shall be not here but in another place in another world in the land of ●he living Nondum apparuit quid erimus c. It is not as yet apparent s i th St. John what wee shall be Iohn 2. onely this we know that when he appeares we shall become l●ke unto him in that wee shall behold him truly as he is From the thought of this seconded by refulgent light the will

they were before Nemo odeo ferus est qui non mitescere possit Si modo culturae patientem accommodet aurem There 's none but 's tam'd how wild so e're he were If hee to 's cure but lends a patient eare The fold of Christ are discerned from other straying flocks by this distinction in their eare in that they heare and obey the word of God with great avidity The second Paragraph TH●t serious saying of St. Augustine makes a deep impression in the minds of the Predestinate That they are guilty of no lesse a crime who negligently hear the Word of God than those who thorow their carelesnesse suffer the body of Christ to fall unto the ground Wherefore we are not so much to regard in the Preacher who it is that speaks as who it s that dictate a to him what he is to s●y since he sayes nothing but what he hath in charge to deli●er from A●mighty God himselfe Plom 26. in ●ib 5. For my owne particular sayes Saint Augustine what am I but a sowers basket into which he vouchsafed to poure the seeds which I am but to scatter among you againe and so you are not so much to consider the unworthinesse of the basket as the wor●h of the seeds and the sowers dignity A good Christian gathers somewhat for his instruction out of every thing and is alwayes making his profit out of it and he may take this for a cleare signe of Predestination if sitting with Mary Magdalen at the feet of our blessed Lord he remaines so fast hanging on his words by the strong chaines of his attentio● as no care of any domesticall busine●se no sisters murmuration nor no allurements of any friend can possibly draw him thence Yet neither to heare the Word of God onely nor what is m●re to remember it is any such Signe of predestination unlesse withall we proceed to put that which we have heard in execution For w●at availes it us to have eaten any thing if as soon as we have swallowed it we cast it up again The Mother of God among other her rare vertues was particularly praysed for conserving all these words Luke 2. and laying them up in h●r heart And the royall Psalmist sayes In corde meo abscondi eloquia tua ut non pe cem tibi I have hid thy word in my heart that I should not sinne against thee Those who hearing of this word doe conserve it in a pure and pious heart and bring forth fruit thereof in patience are fitly compared to a fruitfull soyle and like as to read and not to understand even so to hear and not to remember what they have heard is as good as wholly to to have neglected it Th t pa nter doth both lose his time and labour which drawes out upon a table some curious picture in light water colours which presently with a spunge he doth deface again And even as great a folly is it those Christians who hearing do presently forget what they have heard We are therefore to strive to remember i● and that in such a manner as it be no dead remembrance neither but rather a quicke and active one which may urge that on to performance which wee have heard Iohn 13. Si haec scitis beati critis si feceritis ea no man ever arrived to heaven by knowing what was to be done but by doing it and he is farre from action who will not so much as give eare to what he is to do The books of the holy Scriptures are of all others the purest fountain of knowledge out of which though never so many draw and that never so often yet it is impossible for to draw it dry for such is the nature of this rich veine that the deeper you dive into it the more it abounds with divine sence and can never bee exhaust As the Ant makes provision of food in the summer against the winter season so Christians during the calme of their affaires should store themselves with the Word of God against the stormes of future calamities This is most certaine that never any yet contemned to make his benefit in this kind but they were at last so punished for it by Almighty God that both themselves to their cost did feele it and others evidently perceived the same God hath so ordeined that one man should learne of another and submit himselfe to his direction and so we see that King David although of himselfe he was most wise and prudent and had besides in many things ever the helpe of the holy Ghost for his instruction did not yet open his eyes to repent for his grievous sinnes of murther and adultery although he could not but know that they were severely forbidden by the Law untill the Prophet Nathan had sharply reprehended him Our Saviour did as we may say preach himself out of the Clouds unto S Paul and yet he sent him to Ananias for his further instructions Cornelius was certified by an Angel that his prayer and almes-deeds were acceptable to Almighty God and yet he intim●ted unto him withall that he was to repaire to St. Peter for his better information Queen Candace's Treasurer whilst he read the Prophet Isaiah in his Coach had no● an Angel assigned him for his instructour but Saint Philip the Apostle And finally Mose● who in regard of his neare familiarity with Almighty God may well be stiled of his privy Counsell was notwithstanding instructed by his fathe● in law a forrainer no otherwise than a little Child and taught not without many b tter taunts how he should behave himself in poynt of governing the Children of Israel ay even Christ himselfe the eternall wisedome would sit among the Doctors demanding their vice so as t●ere are none of what sexe of what estate or condition soever they be that are exempted from hearing the word of God The th rd Paragraph BVt you will say perhaps you have the reputation of a learned man I know it well and what sequells such great Doctors use to inferre from t●ence Behold the proud erudition of a mortall wit and who I pray ever arrived to such a height of knowledge or yeares as not to be ignorant of farre more than ever he had learnt but grant that you were the learnedst man alive and had such a proheminency of understanding above all the rest as you could heare nothing at a sermon you had not known before But what becomes of your wil and memory the while are they never to be inflamed never to be stirred up is not the one sometimes to be incited the other afresh renewed how easie is ●t for the memory to mistake and how prone to errour is the will unlesse there be dayly helps invented to rectifie the first and rightly informe the second for which reason it is not on ly very profitable but even absolutely necessary that all doe repaire to sermons t●e evil for their amēdment the good for their pers●verance