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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08279	A load-starre to spirituall life. Or, a Christian familiar motiue to the most sweet and heauenly exercise of diuine prayer With prayers for morning and euening. Written to stir vp all men to watchfulnesse and reformation of their carnall and corrupt liues. By I. Norden.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1614 (1614)	STC 18612; ESTC S100614	72,800	324

of these presageth Many miseries calamities saith he remaine for them that shall liue in the latter time because they shall walke in great pride 2. Esd. 8. 50. Doth not God by Esay threaten the people for the arrogancie and pride of the women Because the daughters of Sion saith hee are haughtie and walk with stretched out necks and with wandering eyes walking and minsing as they goe and making a tinckling with their feete therefore shall the Lord make the heads of the daughters of Sion balde Looke into the third of this prophecie and behold as in a glasse the end of your pride change your glasse of wantonnesse and lay it by a while and looke into the word of God which shall better discouer your beautie or deformitie by far then your materiall glasses And if you finde your sures to sute well with the word weare them and where you haue now an inch take an ell of excesse and still the more happy shall ye be but if you find them contrary vnto the word of God cast them off from you Many execrations hath God denoūced against this sinne of sinnes this mother-sinne the original cause of our fall and the cause of his fall that caused our fall and therfore more to be abhorred if I may so say then the Diuel himself but more to be feared I dare speak thē the Diuell himselfe for that he may be resisted by faith But Pride entertained with it is couertly entertained him that seekes to confound as many as entertaine him Pride once possessing the heart and the heart embracing this vnholy habite looseth all faculties that should expresse loue or obedience to God or men for it is so fraught with idle and vnholy affections as faith in God loue towards God and praier to God haue no place in the vnderstanding neyther agree they with that will that Pride possesseth Light and darkenesse sinne and sanctitie humilitie and pride of life neuer concurre in one mind Let then the sword of ciuill iustice vnsheath to cut downe this and other grosse sinnes and common enormities What an infinite masse of treasure is spent vpon silkes and vanishing ornaments and the most of it within one yeare cast to the dunghill euery man exceedeth and yet the lawes inhibit it If the law of right religion bare rule in our harts as we would be seen to professe it with our lips no law of seueritie needed to curbe our excesse But it seemeth the law of true loue to God is not written in or is blotted out of our hearts wee regard the law of man so litle And yet the Iewes in their best loue were not better beloued of the Lord then wee haue been to whom according to the greatnesse of his loue he freely gaue his greatest blessings opening as it were the doore of the Treasure-house of his goodnesse to vs which hee shut against many other Nations gaue vs free libertie to take and vse the most pretious Iewels of his loue his Word and Sacraments And as hee gaue vnto Salomon with his wisedome riches and honor so hee gaue vnto vs with Religion peace and plentie and so deare and precious was his word vnto vs for a time● as men sought it with greater perill then Dauids men fetcht water for him with the danger of their liues and many sealed their loue vnto it with their dearest bloud which wo●d we still enioy as touching the freedom of the vse but the fruits wee produce do rather argue a carelesse neglect then a constant embracing thereof in verie many No maruell therefore if wee disobey man in breach of the ciuill institutions sith wee so little regard the lawes of God But shall we recompence God for his blessings so manifold with such a high hand of vnthankfulnesse CHAP. XXVII The bringing in of true Religion was of great difficultie effected by God by his instruments wee must beware lest we neglect it and so loose it againe THe rooting out of Idolatrie in the time of K. Henry the eight was an attempt of highest difficultie the state of the time then cōsidered wherin few or none durst open their mouthes against the grossest errours of the Synagogue of Rome but God stirred vp the King and gaue him courage and withall stroke the strongest aduersaries with such a fear and enfeebled their powers so as they durst not lift vp their tongues or handes against that which God had decreed to bring to paste for our saluation Hee opened the bookes of his owne will vnto vs the olde and new Testaments which were before shut vp vnder the locke of an vnknowne language The word was freely preached and read the Sacraments truly administred and the diuine seruice of God truly solemnized vntill God againe to trie whether it were truely embraced or fainedly professed shut vp the books again for a time that none could partake of the truth nor publish his allowance thereof by word or work but it cost him his life yet continued the light to shine euen in darkenesse albeit it was still sought to be quenched by the death of many most worthy Martyrs whose deaths gaue life againe to the light and it resplended and faith praier beganne againe in strength to giue glorie to God that had so wonderfully brought a mat●er of that difficulty to passe euen by his owne power the diuell roared the enemies raged all in vaine God protected his people and ledde them by that gracious Queene and by his godly Ministers as by the hands of Moses and Aaron and now by preuayling Ioshuah vnder whom by whose wisedome pietie and diuine vertues if we resume retaine and practise our first loue if we bring forth the effectuall fruits of that true religion we seeme to professe we shall yet liue and possesse the word maugre the Diuell and his instruments But if we waxe cold in our profession if the Word become loathsome and harsh vnto vs if we thinke the sacred sacraments needlesse and holy prayer fruitlesse then will God assuredly depriue vs of our glorie hee will remoue the Arke of the couenant as from a gracelesse and most vnworthy people and place it with a Nation that neuer heard of it And we that haue beene so long and wonderfully admired for our Religion more generally more freely and truely professed then in any Kingdom of the world haue been more plentifully blessed and more powerfully defended by God against so many and strong enemies shall become a by-word to al neibour-Nations CHAP. XXVIII God loueth vs no more then the Turkes and Pagans if we liue like Turks and Pagans our manifold Idoll-gods the carnall mans sophistrie the long vse of the word hath made vs weary of the word nothing can preuent danger but repentance and prayer WEe may not thinke that God is more in loue with vs then with the Turk nor respecteth vs more then the Pagan if we hauing the Gospell liue like the Turke and professing