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A41020	A fountaine of teares emptying it selfe into three rivelets, viz. of (1) compunction, (2) compassion, (3) devotion, or, Sobs of nature sanctified by grace languaged in severall soliloquies and prayers upon various subjects ... / by Iohn Featley ...	Featley, John, 1605?-1666.	1646 (1646)	Wing F598; ESTC R4639	383,420	750

A FOUNTAINE OF TEARES Emptying it selfe into three Rivelets viz of 1 Compunction 2 Compassion 3 Devotion Or Sobs of nature sanctified by grace Languaged in severall Soliloquies and Prayers upon various Subjects for the benefit of all that are in affliction and particularly in these distressed times of warre By Iohn Featley Chaplaine to his Majesty sometimes preacher in the Island St. Christophers Ier 9.1 O that mine head were waters and mine eyes a Fountaines of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the daughter of my people AMSTERDAM Printed for IOHN CROSSE English Bookseller i● the Calver-streete ne●re the English Church 1646. To the ROYALL MAJESTY of Our DREAD SOVERAIGNE CHARLES By the grace of God KING of GREAT BRITTAIGNE FRANCE YRELAND c. And To the RIGHT HONOURABLE the LORDS and COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT the unworthy Author humbly dedicateth these his weake Indeavours To the Reader Christian THou art here invited to thy punishment yet such as is intended for thy profit Blame mee not for the former lest thou partakest not of the latter Noe chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous Heb 12 11. never-the-lesse afterward it yeeldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousnesse unto them which are exercised thereby I have laboured to accompanie thee in all thy sadnesse Cant. 2 5. therein to Stay thee with flagons yea with flagons full of that re-viving wine which cometh from the true Vine Io 15.1 Prov. 〈◊〉 25.11 and to comfort thee with apples even with words fitly spoken which according to King Solomon are like apples of gold in pictures of silver True it is that in this litle booke as in the roll of the booke sent to Ezekiel are written Lamentations and Mourning and Woe Eze 2.9 but it is not my fault All these words seemed to be pronounced unto mee by the mourners in Zion Ier. 3● 18. I wrote them with inke in the booke So long as wee are sinfull we must be sorrowfull I have but languaged thy sighes and lent a tongue to thy Sobs if thou art such as I ayme at endeavoured to rectifie thy Teares Thou art here entertained at David's Ordinarie Ps 42.3 His teares were his meate day and night I hope thou wilt not thinke that I dishonour thee when I seate thee with a King I was first invited to this taske by the moanes of a gracious and vertuous gentle-woman Mris Elizabeth Keate wife of Mr. Gilbert Keate a grave and eminent Citizen of London who much complained that her sexe was so much neglected by Divines that they had not penned devotions for all their severall sufferances that are common to many onely here and there shee found a few small gleanings proper for some occasions of griefe It is about five yeeres since I tooke her complaint to be a kind of command and setled my selfe to the worke yet although I hastened it with what speede I could considering my constant course of preaching the same day that I finished my booke 2. Tim. ● 7 shee finished her course Noe sooner had I ended mourning out this Fountaine of Teares in my study then I was sent for to her sad house of mourning where having given her a rellish of many of these Soliloquies and Prayers especially of those which are fitted for the dying she thanked mee for them as long as she lived for even after that her tongue was insnared in the jawes of death what she could not by language she expressed by signes From her father she brought a name with her into the world which could not choose but put her in mind of the power of the All-mighty Bra●fort or Armestrong an ancient noble familie in Nottinghamshire in which Countle her worthy father did live at Rem stone 1. Cor. 15.25 1. Pet 3.7 1. Ki● 18 who in Psal 89.10 is said to have scattered his enemies with his Strong-Arme by the same power which the most-high vouchsafed her she overcame the last enemie which was to be destroyed For her deere sake these Soliloquies and Prayers were fitted for Females and taught to speake in the persons of the Weaker vessells I hope noe Man will blame mee for it for it is but changing the gender according to the sexe and the booke may be usefull unto both When first I began to penne it there arose but a litle cloud like a man's hand this Devout mourner then grieving chiefly out of jealousie that either her Teares were not enough for her sinns or not seasoned enough with the sanctifying grace of the blessed Spirit Then her Heart was complained of next her lost time was bemoaned But afterward by degrees the whole heaven was black with clouds and wind her eyes were full laden with teares vers 45 and her heart with sighes there was a greate raine For her house was visited with the pestilence and shut up by her owne appointment One of her sweete and tender children and a gracious Matron Cosyn unto her dyed of that uncomfortable disease And her weake selfe all this while was moulting and crumbling away in a Consumption At length upon her white thinn and sinking cheekes the characters of her teares which were firme evidences of her unfeigned repentance not being fully drie a litle dust was throwne upon them and then she was layed up in the Cabinet of her grave To that worke then finished I have added nothing but those teares which are shed in these distracted times of an Vnnaturall Warre and I hope that addition will not be unfruitfull I am sure and I grieve not a litle that I am so sure it is not unseasonable For mine owne part I have not beene without my portion of sufferances in these stormy times Num. 27.14 Ps 106 32. Ex 15.23 Ps 104 3. and drinking a deep draught of these waters of Meribah these waters of strife by my tast they rellish like the waters of Marah I could here call to mind how upon the wings of the wind fleeing from one danger I have beene involved in thousands The boisterous and churlish swelling of a rough and troublesome Severne full of un-expected turnings and windings carrying us farre to sea was the cause of embalning two of my deere children in the salt ocean was like to have proved the ruine of fower more of them besides the beloved wife of my bosome but it pleased God at last that all except those two came safe to land Ps 74.20 The darke remote places of the earth which are full of the habitations of cruelty entertained mee with vexatious troubles and pining sicknesse In mine absence from my divided countrie one of the brightest burning and shining lights of our Church went out in a dampe D.D.F. A man deere to mee not onely because an uncle by allyance but allso because my chiefest and safest Oracle among men whilest he lived and a friend Deut 13. which

hungrie cry when they buy of the rich and are cozened by the rich when they suffer in the cozenage and suffer likewise in the publike in the generall punishment for the cozenage For this our land mourneth for this our people are visited our houses are shut up our streetes are not frequented ou● markets not filled and yet the hungry lament and the thirstie doe mourne The poore can neither buy for their money not be imployed in their willing labours to earne them money Is 59.11 nor live without money Wee roare all like Beares and mourne sore like Doves Wee looke for judgment but there is none for salvatien but it is farre from us Therfore with the oppressed I will cry and with the visited allso I will cry I will cry with the oppressed for right and I will cry with ●…e visited for health How long Lord ●ow long wilt thou punish us c. 44.22 O remove ●…ur sinnes like a cloude blott out as a thick cloude our transgressions and as a cloude our sinnes returne unto us for thou hast redeemed us part 3 The Third part of the Soliloquie shewing that Sinne especially is the cause of the Pestilence THe diseased ignorant of the kind of their maladies cause the Phisitian 〈◊〉 consult with their pulses to examine their ●rine and by symptomes to find out the ●ause of their disturbance So should the sick soule allso or else the ignorance of the sinne may hinder the cure Generall complaints have beene made by men groaning under the burdens of severall visitations but doeth the Pestilance come by the same rules and arise from the same causes Surfeits and Consumptions and Feavers and Palsies and Plurisies and other such sicknesses may have their causes in nature and their remedies oftentimes by physick but neither is the cause of the Pestilence so cleere in nature nor is the cure thereof so easie by physick Or if it be yet is this disease more infectious more mortall and therfore more dreadfull then any of the rest It shall therfore be my first care to find out the cause in my soule before I looke upon the effects thereof in the bodies of sinfull mortalls I will examine our times by those of our ancestours and see whether this generall contagion doeth not rather proceede from the mallice of the soule then from the aire dyet or whatsoever else the Phisitians conjecture at The men which Moses had sent to spie out the land of Canaan returned 1. Num 14.36 and made all the congregation to murmur against Moses by bringing up a slaunder upon that land of promise those very men that did bring up that evill report upon the land vers 37 dyed of the plague before the Lord. What Of the plague Of the Pestilence There were but ten of those spies and those ten onely dyed Wee have the Pestilence too but it contenteth not it selfe with ten ten and ten and ten but hundreds dye hundreds are visited thousands complaine every one feareth But was their disease the same as ours Was not theirs an inflammation of their tongues and wormes issueing out of them as a just recompense● because with their tongues they had lyed Or was it not some other extraordinarie plague from the hand of God Or was it not that Pestilence which was threatned when the Lord said unto Moses vers 11 How long will this people provoke mee and how long will it be ere they believe mee for all the signes which I have shewed among them vers 12 I will smite them with the Pestilence and disinherit them and will make of thee a greater nation mightier then they Whatsoever their disease was though I cannot determine it yet will I consider the cause thereof The cause was a sinne a grievous sinne a lye and the effect of this was a sinne a grievous sinne it was murmuring O thus have wee allso added sinnes unto sinnes Wee allso lye wee lye grievously desperately impudently Like unto Iob's friends wee are forgers of lyes Iob. 13.4 Ps 40.4 Ps 58.3 Ps 62.4 Eze. 24 12. Hos 10 13. wee turne aside to lyes wee goe astray so soone as wee be borne and speake lyes wee delight in lyes and wee have wearied our selves with lyes justly therfore now doe wee eate the fruit of lyes And yet not contented with this wee murmur too Against our superiours wee murmur for not governing us according to our licentious and sinfull desires against the rich wee murmur because wee floate not in their plentie yea even against God himselfe wee murmur because hee graunteth not our sinfull desires Thus in every thought and in every word wee either find a sinne or make a sinne For this our lying for this our murmuring wee are now visited wee are now stricken wee are as those spies were destroyed of the destroyer 1. Cor. 10.10 The rebellious Israëlites were threatned by Moses that Every sicknesse 2. Deut. 28.61 every plague which was not written in the booke of the law them should the Lord bring upon them untill they were destroyed vers 62 And they should be left few in number whereas they were as the starres of heaven for multitude These were the menaces these were the threats to the children of Israël but among all these sicknesses where is that which reigneth among us Hath God prepared a new punishment for us such as the Israëlites never suffered nor the law ever mentioned nor skill ever cured Doubtlesse thus God could afflict us but hee chuseth rather to punish us as hee did others that so wee might find out the cause as others have done Hee was pleased to tell the Israëlites the cause of their plague which hee would send upon them vers 62 even Because they would not obey the voyce of the Lord their God Iust thus hee punisheth us as hee punished them even untill wee are allmost quite destroyd and hee telleth us our sinne our offence too by his word by his ministers by our owne consciences even that wee refuse to obey the voyce of the Lord. Iust therfore most just it is that seeing wee have wee doe wee will thus sinne even thus yea thus severely likewise wee should be punished Yea wee deserve it in a farre greater manner in a sarre greater measure Hee who threatned those that would walke contrarie unto him and would not hearken unto him Lev 26 21. that hee would bring seaven times more plagues upon them according to their sinnes Hee who by Moses threatned them that If they would not observe to doe all the words of that law which are written in that booke Deut 28.58 that they might feare this glorious name The Lord thy God vers 59 Then the Lord should make their plagues wonderfull and the plagues of their seede even greate plagues and of long continuance and sore sicknesses and of long continuance The selfe-same God hath found us walking contrarie unto him and therfore hath