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A45630	Horæ consecratæ, or, Spiritual pastime. concerning divine meditations upon the great mysteries of our faith and salvation : occasional meditations and gratulatory reflexions upon particular providences and deliverances, vouchsafed to the author and his family : also a scripture-catechisme dedicated to the service of his wife and children, and now published, together with other treatises mentioned in the following page for common use / by Sir James Harrington ...	Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680.; Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680. Meditations upon the creation, man's fall, and redemption by Christ.; Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680. Noah's dove.	1682 (1682)	Wing H803E_PARTIAL; Wing H815_PARTIAL; Wing H831_CANCELLED; ESTC R4540	368,029	493

he wanted not opposition that time of his Youth being a gradation and introduction into a height of suffering and a private preparation to a publick Office and Ministry Which he no sooner enters but he is encountered by Temptations and those none of the least they being fortified with the greatest subtilty of Sathan which over-blown Man seconds the Devil heaping upon him whatsoever injuries humanity can possible be capable of beginning with his good Name which they seek to scandalize and make approbrious with their blasphemous tongues reporting him to be a Glutton a Wine bibber a friend of Publicans and Sinners Disparaging his birth and calling him the Carpenter's Son affirming his miraculous power to be the effects of a Satanical confederacy saying that he cast out Devils by Belzebub the Prince of Devils Poverty to all is a misery full of miseries yet not alike to all Circumstances alter much the state of things He is poor that is born so but he is truly poor that is made so since the one knows most of his misfortune is from and by reason of others When the others woful experience makes him more sensible of his woe A Man 's own censure more than the judgments of others makes him more or less unhappy Deprivation and loss is the extremity of poverty and most grievous to humanity But who can lose what he never had In nature want is as it were a part of Mans nature and therefore less wretched The first works most upon the body this last upon the Soul and therefore far more unsufferable by how much that purer substance hath a deeper apprehension of pain than the more gross and outward senses O my Soul is this outward indigency so full and overflowing with sorrow how infinite bound art thou unto him who being rich became poor that thou through his poverty might be made rich The greater the height the more miserable is the dejection The more eminent the state the more unsupportable the humiliation O behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto this sorrow wherewith the Lord afflicted him in the day of his fierce Wrath. Was he rich in beauty had he the dew of his youth from the Womb of the Morning Behold for our sakes he is become as a Root springing out of a dry ground he hath no form nor comeliness And could we now view him as he was then there would be no beauty that we should desire him What thing so without measure glorious and unexpressible as the simple and infinite essence of the Godhead what Element more vile and base than Earth the principal ingredient of our bodily substance O miracle of love behold God is made Man the Word was made Flesh and dwelt amongst us Immortality putting on mortality that mortality might become immortal A King of Caesar payes tribute to Caesar and will be subject to his Subjects The Master of all as a Servant to all washes the Feet of all his Disciples Is there any comparison betwixt Heaven and Earth a Crown of glory and a Crown of Thorns yet how willingly doth this not to be equal'd love accept of this unequal change Such Lord were the honours which the World gave thee The story and contemplation of my Saviours sufferings leads my Soul into a Garden not fraught with joy pleasure and delight but with grief sorrow and perturbation O who can by a true faith look upon his humbled Saviour and not be humbled in Spirit Who can behold the clodded drops of blood falling from his blessed Body with a drye Eye not sorrowing for the sin that caus'd this sorrow not shedding plenty of tears in apprehension of his love who shed plenty of blood in the imputation of our sin If his external parts were thus prest and opprest with pain how painfull were the pressures of his Soul the internal cause of this outward Agony Surely as the Power was infinite which sustain'd him so the Passions were infinite which he endured and are as far above the height of Mans expression as above the height of Mans sin In a Garden Adam sinned and Christ suffered Sathan in the one deceiving our first Parents by a Serpent in the other betraying our blessed Saviour by a Judas The unsupportable wrath of God the immense weight of Mans transgression and the ebbe and flow of his humane will being all expressed in that significant and passionate Prayer of his O my Father if it be possible let thus Cup pass from me He had now thrice bowed his blessed Knees to Earth to whom all knees do bow in Heaven and Earth when a wicked trayterous crue under the conduct of a most ungrateful Leader enter the lists adding affliction to his affliction and becoming a party against him took their parts Thus merciless and unthankful is the disposition of ignorant Man thus free and undeserved is the mercy of God Lord Jesus shall my faith lose sight here forsaking thee with thy Disciples No Lord I will yet follow thee even to the high Priests Hall not denying thee with Peter but confessing thee Can any better or more lively express thy cruel usage there than thine own spirit doth in the mouth of the Evangelical Prophet Isa I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them that pulled off the hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting Loe how this Heavenly Chronologer by Divine Inspiration even as an Eye-witness describes the several cruelties inflicted on our Saviour Although the judgments of the Lord are unsearchable and his wayes past finding out yet such is his goodness towards his People that he reveales these his secret decrees before they come that when they are come we might with a more firme assurance believe them A Christians Faith hath a double confirmation as from the uncontrol'd truth of History so from the Divine testimony and presage of prophesie Some hundred years before his passion our Saviour by the mouth of the Prophet told us what he would do Now behold in the fulness of time his own Person and Act makes good his own Word Witness the true Relation of his sufferings Then did they spit in his face and buffetted him and others smote him with the palmes of their hands Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him thus by his stripes we are healed I am now in Spirit before the Judgment Seat of Pilate where I view the Judge of the World arraigned before a Judge of a Province and hear at once an unheard of injustice the most righteous of Men accused acquitted condemned If there be any power as well as form of godliness any lively and applying faith besides a bare Historical belief in you let the patient Perusers of these my thoughts unworthy this subject read no further before yee have called with me a private Sessions in your souls Where a diligent search and enquiry being made after sin and

trust in the Name of the Lord and stay upon his God When ye are troubled on every side be not distressed when ye are perplexed be ye not in despair Be not faithless but believing Say not with despairing Cain my iniquitie is greater than that it may be forgiven Nor go not with him out of the preference of the Lord. Destroy not your Souls which I died for With hopeless Saul who took a Sword and fell upon it Nor do as Judas who went and hanged himself Whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither is he that loves not his brother He that loves not his Brother abideth in death Whosoever hates his Brother is a murtherer and ye know that no murtherer hath eternal life abiding in him Be ye not like the violent Man who inticeth his Neighbour and leadeth him into the way that is not good who shutteth his eyes to devise froward things moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass Nor like to Potiphar's wife nor to the strange Woman that flattereth with her lips nor to them who say Come with us let us lay wait for blood let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause cast in thy lot amongst us let us all have one Purse Imitate not Jeroboam who did sin and who made Israel to sin You shall not hate your Brethren in your heart you shall in any wife reprove them and not suffer sin upon them He that speaketh flattery to his friends even the eyes of his Children shall fail And a flattering mouth worketh ruine Wo to the Sheppards of Israel that do feed themselves Should not the Sheppards feed the Flock Ye eat the fat and ye cloath you with the Wool ye kill them that are fed but ye feed not the Flock The wicked in his pride do persecute the poor but they shall be taken in the devises that they have imagined He that leadeth into Captivity shall go into Captivity He that killeth with the Sword must be killed with the Sword For they have shed the blood of the Saints and Prophets and God will give them blood to drink for they are worthy At the hand of Man at the hand of every Man's Brother will I require the life of Man whoso sheddeth Man's blood by Man shall his blood be shed For in the Image of God made I Man And blood defileth the Land And the Land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it Therefore whoso killeth any Person the Murderer shall be put to death Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a Murderer which is guilty of death But he shall be surely put to death If a Man cause a blemish in his Neighbour As he hath done so shall it be done unto him breach for breach eye for eye tooth for tooth As he hath caused a blemish in a Man so shall it be done unto him again Be ye not like unto unjust Zedekiah who put Jeremiah into Prison for speaking to him in the Name of the Lord. Not like cruel Herod who bound John in Prison and beheaded him for Herodias sake left you partake of their punishments If a Brother or Sister be naked and destitute of daily food and one of you say Depart in peace be you warmed and filled Notwithstanding you give them not those things that are needful to the Body What doth it profit When I sit upon the Throne of my Glory I shall say unto such on my left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Verily I say unto you inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these my poor Saints ye did it not to me Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his I will be a swift witness saith the Lord against those that oppress the hireling in his wages the Widdow and the Fatherless and that turn aside the stranger from his right He that doth wrong shall receive from the wrong that he hath done And with me there is no respect of Persons Behold a flying Roll the length thereof is twenty Cubits and the breadth thereof ten Cubits This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole Earth for every one that stealeth shall be cut off according to it And it shall enter into the House of the Thief and it shall remain in the midest of his House and shall consume it with the Timber thereof and the Stones thereof Therefore let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have to give to him that needeth Let no Man go beyond and defraud his Brother in any matter because that the Lord is the avenger of all such I speak to the shame of many is it so that there is not a wise Man amongst you No not one that shall be able to Judge between his Brethren But Brother goeth to Law with Brother and that before the Unbelievers Is any one will sue you at the Law and take away thy Coat let him have thy Cloak also He that by Usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance he shall gather it for him that will pitty the poor Woe unto such who like the Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites make clean the out-side of the Cup and of the Platter but within they are full of Extortion and excess Therefore exact no more than is appointed you Woe unto them that joyn House to House and lay Field to Field till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the middest of the Earth Of a truth many Houses shall be desolate even great and fair without Inhabitant Yea ten Acres of Vineyard shall yield one Bath and the Seed of an Omer shall yield one Epha Do violence to no Man neither accuse any falsly for a false witness shall not be unpunished A false witness shall perish Behold if a witness be a false witness and hath testified falsly against his Brother then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his Brother Bless and curse not Those That delight in cursing so let it come unto them As they delight not in blessing so let it be far from them As they have cloathed themselves with cursing as with a Garment so let it come into their bowels like Water and like Oyle into their bones He that uttereth slander is a Fool I will tear those in pieces

contrariety of Providences and opposition of Sin and Sathan make more for thy Glory the Chiet Just and Soveraign end of all thy Works Who but thou O Lord who art the God of Nature canst change and unnaturalize Nature So that hungry Lyons shall not devour thy Daniel Fire shall not burn thy Three Children A Whale shall not smother and concoct thy Jonah nor the fluid Sea flow over and drown thy Israel Who but thou O Lord at this time didst forbid a Sulphur Stone to spit forth Fire at the collition and motion of the wheel of my Pistol or extinguisht its sparks with Gun-Powder that thou mightest preserve my Hand from the guilt my Conscience from the trouble my Heart from the grief and my good Name from the reproach of Man-slaughter Who but thou O Lord did cause Man with naked Swords to recoil and valiant Souldiers to turn their backs and to flie from two naked Men provoking them and in part disarmed that so Friends might not act as Enemies nor pour forth the blood and destroy the lives of one another Who was it but thou Almighty Saviour that gave a right understanding betwixt us and turned our feares and dangers into a Happy deliverance and thanksgivings Which then and now accept O Lord who at this time didst mercifully prevent my friends at other times didst powerfully restrain my Enemies from taking away my life And as thy goodness hath been continued so let my praise be perpetuated in this Memorial to future Generations even till time shall be no more Amen The INVISIBLE GVARD A Corolary Poem upon the former Subject MAn's Life is wholly unsecure Vpon him dangers do attend As Shades on Substances As sure As Sparks flie up from Foes from Friends Asleep awake early and late In Sickness Health In every State Instance Loyal Mephibosheth By slandring Ziba spoil'd the ends Murders of sleeping Ishboseth And Abner by their seeming Friends Of sick Benhadad Amasa Of healthful Ammon Sisera This Axiom oft hath been prov'd true In and by me Witness this Role Full fraught with dangers old and new And this which Mercy did controle Else had I Kill'd or Killed bin Or both without malicious sin That Leaders should by Day-light take A Palace for a Tenement That Friends like Enemies should break Ope Doors not shewing their intent Assault as Foes no words exchange But Swords and Pistols was most strange But this most wonderful of all A Fire-stone struck no sparks confer Or if it did should vainly fall Into a Bed of Gun-Powder As upon Snow that Powder drie Should be more merciful than I. That Souldiers and their Officer That fear'd not thundring Cannons Crack Should flie from naked Men as 't were Afrighted with one Pistols knack That this should end without all harme Was only God's restraining Arme. O Lord though danger is sins Lot By thy Decree like Persian Law Reversless yet this Haman's Plot 'Gainst Isr'el thou dost over-awe And by assisting Providence Vs safe-guard gives in thy defence Wherefore Purin-like Feasts of Praise I will keep Daily unto Thee Who hast been gracious all my Days In Peerless Mercies unto me That all things work as saith thy Word Good unto thine I here Record Amen ARGUMENT Vpon God's gracious preserving Me from the Infection of the loathsome and dangerous Disease of the small Pox Four times and of my Wife Six times when some Persons in the Houses in which we lived in were sick of it Soliloquium or Discourse AS Sin is the Distemper of the Soul so is Sickness of the Body both Maladies ending in Death the one Temporal the other Eternal As every Sickness is the sad effect of Sin so every Disease Herogliphical and Sumetomical of some Sin or other discovering as well as punishing it So the Tun-bellied Dropsie is both the figure and scourge of Drunkenness The inflaming Feaver of Fiery anger and passions The noisome French-Disease of filthy Lust and the fulsome Face ingraving and marring small Pox of Pride O how doth our righteous God humble affright and punish the proud wanton and beautiful Persons of our times by this Tyrant Who as the Lord's Bayliff having seiz'd their whole Bodies upon Execution for the Debt of Sin and baffled and fool'd their expected Rescuers their deified Physicians binds his Prisoners Hand and Foot unto their Beds Regards not their groans sighs and teares that falls from their late amorous and lascivious Eyes which he seales up with a scab singing off as Peasants do their Swine even unto baldness their curiously curled powdered and abused Hair swells up and greatens their Heads and Faces beyond all proportion even unto monstrousness Cloaths their Idoliz'd and beautiful Faces and Bodies instead of Silk and Tissues of curious paints promates and costly washes at first with Job-like Boiles and Ulcerated Carbuncles afterwards with a loathsome ugly and stinking temporary Leprosie and when that shakes off he brands and stigmatizes them with most dis-figuring Marks that so all may know that looks on them under whose Tyranny they have been As for their smiling and inticing Lips their false Tongues and Epycurian Throats the Instruments of Voice by all which they used to quaver and warble forth wanton Aires and deluding words He commands to silence and binds them by the strict and sore Bonds of outward and inward Tumors and Imposthumations to be dumb and quiet scarcely permitting them so much liberty as to send relief and nourishment to their almost-starved and languishing Mother-Nature O Lord hast thou no less than four times delivered my self and six times my second-self my dear Wife from this painful dangerous loathsome unsatiable and dis-figuring Malady even when it seized upon others of our Family Hast thou fore-told and fore-threatned as I humbly conceive this destructive Disease by thy Prophet Isaiah as thy most just Judgment for pride Chap. 3. Vers. 7. held forth in these words The Lord shall smite with a Scab the Crown of the Head of the Daughters of Zion and the Lord will discover their secret parts yea hast thou set down and ennumerated the many Instruments of Israel's pride and ours Vers. 18 19 20 21 22 23. A Scripture worthy to be seriously read and considered by the proud Gallants of both Sexes in our times Concluding thus Vers. 24. And it shall come to pass that instead of a sweet smell there shall be a stink and instead of a Girdle a Rent and instead of well-set Hair baldness and instead of a Stomacher a girding of Sack-cloth and burning instead of beauty Judgments that seemes to me to be the very lively Characters of the small Pox. O let me to whom thou mayest say as once my Saviour did to the Scribes and Pharisees If thou beest without sin throw the first Stone at the proud Offenders of these times After my humble and penitent acknowledgment of my manifold offences of this kind Bless and praise thy Name for these thy so often reiterated