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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01077	The bitter vvaters of Babylon, or The miserable estate of the citizens of Sion considered by the confusion of all things in this world.	Forsyth, James, fl. 1615-1619.	1615 (1615)	STC 11191; ESTC S121939	26,614	42

your delights if you repent not in time and take heede vnto your waies olim sed●… in panis you shall end and consummate your daies euerlastingly in hell torments Diue● while he liued fared deliciously euery day and the text tels vs that he was gorgeously apparelled did he take such delight in his decking or did he spend so much time in trimming of his body as the young gallants of these times surely I thinke yes for Abraham doth vpbraid him herewith Recordare mi silt tu bona recepists in vit a tua Remember my sonne that thou in thy life time didst take thy pleasure and Lazarus receiued paine wherefore thou art to mented and he comforted I haue read in a storie of a certaine man named Pambo that on a time looking out at a window and perceiuing a woman spend a great time in trimming of her selfe fell a weeping and being demanded the cause answered haue not I great cause to weepe to see yonder worme consuming so long time in decking of her vglie carkase to the sight of man and I spend so small time in preparing my soule to God If this man were aliue in these daies he would do nothing but weepe and lament for let a man cast his eies euerie where vpon the Clergie and Laytie Priest and people and he shall see all men taken in loue with their foule carkasses but their soules they little regard women will spend the whole halfe day in poudring painting and frizling of their lockes to the lustfull aspect of the passers by and our young Gentlemen scorne that the weaker vessels should out go them in these trickes they will rather spend the whole day in phinifying of their phantasticall phisnomies to satisfie their lustfull Mistris eye and not once a weeke bestow one smoothing of their soules which if they doe by comming to the church once a week it is but for a shew only like their spangled roses and glistering garters it is ●or no profit but let them know that although now they spend their time in pleasure the time shall come that illie sedimus the remembrance of it shall torment them aboue measure as it doth here in this place the Israelites and so I proceede to the second action By their second action their miserie is much aggrauated for although they had been detained for a long time in captiuitie and yet had had all necessaries to comfort them their case had not been so miserable but being depriued of their bodily sustenance remaining in captiuitie and abridged of their soules solace which was the comfort they receiued in Sion they spend their whole daies in lamentation cura dolorque anim●● alimenta fuere Teares were their meate and drinke night and day their estate is most pittifull The eye is the mindes messenger whereby wee conceiue the imagination thereof a sorrow bred in the heart can by no meanes be better expressed then by an inundation of teares dum bene se habebant ne l●● hryma quidem ab illis extorqueri poterat While they liued in prosperitie their could not one teare be drawne from them ●gnaui enim stolidi est lachrymas effundere it is the signe of a Dastard to weepe like a childe sed aduersa fortuna facile ri●ulos emittunt but now being sent into banishment they send forth a fountaine of teares Saint Ambrose doth very well note the greatnesse of Peters griefe in that hee did weepe and vtter no words cur● l●ues loquuntur ingentes stupent The greater our griefe is the more silent we are they weepe vncessantly but not a word they do vtter to expresse thei● fulnesse of griefe fleuimus is sufficient to set it forth There be three sorts of teares obserued of the auncients which may be well exemplified by the authority of Scripture Deuotionis Compassionis Et contritionis That is Of deuotion Of compassion And of contrition Teares of Deuotion wee haue in Dauid who out of an holy deuotion did water his couch night and day with his teares Teares of compassion we haue in Ieremie that doth compassionately weepe for the miseries of other men O that mine head were a well of water and my eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the staine of the daughters of Sion Likewise in Dauid mine eies gush out with riuers of water because men keepe not thy law Teares of contrition we haue in Peter who after he had remembred the error of his imbecillity went out of the place and wept bitterly All which three sorts if we consider their teares aright we shall finde them to relish of deuotion I am sure they are for it was an holy consideration of blessed Sion that did moue them hereunto dum recordaremur Sionis doth expresse it of compassion no doubt they are for they are surely mooued by the griefe of others according to that of Saint Paul weepe with those that weepe omnes in vno peccant omnes in vno pl●…ntur omnes simul lachrymas emittunt they all offend in one transgression they are all punished with one affliction and all together send foorth teares of lamentation fleuimus doth shew it And of contrition doubtlesse they are remembring their sinnes to haue been the cause of this their great miserie But right honorable right worshipfull and welbeloued if we diue in more deepely into this riuer of teares arising from the deaw of their deuotion drawen out from the weedes of their offences by the fire of contrition that we may cause some droppes thereof to fall vpon our faces whereby we may shine gloriously before the lambe that sits vpon the throne the cause thereof wee shall finde threefold Propter peccati commissionem Propter mundanam afflictionem Propter virtutum defectionem That is For their sinne committed which was the cause of their miserie For the punishment inflicted being in captiuitie And for their graces ecclipsed that before had not grace to preuent this danger And now hauing not the abilitie to performe those Christian duties that are required in releiuing those that are in miserie and necessitie The first cause of their weeping is a chiefe cause of sorrow and alwaies proper to the children of God which respecteth more the offending of so gratious a God then the punishment inflicted vpon them this is that which the Apostle Saint Paul calls a godly sorrow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a sorrow towards God being grieued only that they haue offended so gratious and louing a father which was the prodigall childes greatest greife I haue sinned against heauen and against thee I am no more worthy to be called thy sonne Estque pa●● paenans quam meruisse minus To an ingenious nature it is more greife to deserue then to suffer punishment an instance of this likewise we haue in Dauid when the Prophet Nathan came vnto him and did lay before him his sin by a

braies and weepes to him for releife and so is taken Which let euery Christian man learn to follow this example that seeing himselfe beset with innumerable enemies wearied with the burthen of sin let him turne to the man Iesiu who is able and will deliuer him from all dangers O that we had mindes to consider our misdeeds hearts truly touched with a greife for sinne that they might relent and eies of a spongie humor that by the distillation of our teares we might bedeaw our faces that as Na●… was clean sed from his leprosie by washing in the riuer Iordan so wee being bathed in the pure fountaine of teares of a contrite heart may be thoroughly purged from the filthinesse of sinne There is a certaine riuer in Cecilia that if blacke sheepe be bathed in it there wooll shall turne white immediately such surely is the true nature of the fountaine of teares for if thy sinnes were as red as scarlet in them if thou bath thy selfe they shal be as white as wooll When Pharaohs daughter did di'cent into the riuer she found a babe lying among the flagges if thou discend into the riuers of teares thou shalt finde the babe Iesus comfortable to thy soule Lachryma enim lauat quod peccatumpolluit Teares will wash that which our sinne● hath defiled Teare are silent praiers they craue not and yet they obtaine pardon they plead not a mans cause and yet they receiue mercy saith Saint Ambrose Peter by weeping was remitted Susanna by weeping was deliuered from the false accusation Ezechias by lamenting was restored to his former health and his life prolonged let vs weepe then with Peter lament with Mary Magdalene mourne with Manasses that our soules may be cleared from Satans false accusation and our liues prolonged in that celestiall kingdome euerlastingly And lastly I come to the last obseruation betweene the behauiour of the godly and wicked The Citizens of Sion mourne for the want of it but the Citizens of Babilon neither remember Sion nor regard The wordly man may perhaps somtime weep but his ●e the tears of Esau only for want of the blessing because he cannot get some great bargaine to the vndoing of his poore brother The carnall man may sometimes be sorrie but it is the greife of Ammon because he cannot fulfill his lust with his sister Thamar The Enuious man may perhaps greiue but it is because of his brothers prosperous estate inuidus alteri●s rebus macrescit opimis the griefe of the wicked is only that they cannot do mischeife but the sorrow of a godly soule is when he wants some peaceable comfort to his soule Sion is his solace The remembrance of Sion in respect of the depriuation thereof is a great vexation vnto them The comfort that a godly man receiues by the word of God preached vnto him cannot be expressed of which when he is depriued like these Iewes in captiuitie what a heauinesse brings it to his tender heart Dauid being in banishment accounts this his greatest losse therefore he esteemes the sparrow and swallow happie because they had libertie to lay their young neere vnto the altar of God not that hee thought the birds did receiue any benefit hereby but that he out of his compassionate affection being rauished with a desire thereafter doth vtter this patheticall depriuation that he did want that which the birds did inioy when the minde of man by an heauenly contemplation is rapt into the heauen of peace to consider mans miserable estate in Babel and his ioyfull and happie estate in Sion he cannot expresse his greife without great lamentation herefore wee sigh and groane desiring to be dissolued and be with Christ Iesus da amantem sensit quod loquer euery soule that sighes for Sion and hath his cogitation there doth conceiue what I say O sancta Sion vbitotum stat nihil defluit O blessed Sion where there is no penurie no leading into captiuity nor no complaining in her streetes but peace and plenty within her borders for euermore happie shall he be that shal be admitted into her gates to pertake of her solace that hee may sing Halelutah vnto the lambe that sits vpon the throne for euer and euer Hauing ended my text right honorable right worshipfull and welbeloued it followes in the next place to speake of their iniquitie which was the cause of their miserie and to paralell them with the sinnes of these times wherein wee liue such as Idolatrie shedding of innocent blood pride drunkennesse lasciniousnesse and want of charity as the scripture doth set them downe vnto us but because the time hath preuented me I will only leaue them to your godly consideration first because I know these things haue been spoken against out of this place many times and therefore you are not ignorant of the heinousnes of them As also I speake vnto Christians that haue the word of God daily preached vnto them to diswade them from those and the like sinnes and therefore a shame for such to bee tainted with them it shal be easier for Sodome and Gomorah nay and Babel in the day of the Lords appearance then for this Citie because the word of God is so plentifully preached in it You right Honorable and worshipfull Magistrates of this Citie qui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cooperatores dei estis Gods vicegerents or assisters vpon earth weigh diligently the charge that is committed vnto you remember that you are exalted to that place of dignitie to represse iniquitie let not your too mild meek spirit encourage the wicked to do euill for foolish pittie may mar the City Consider that the sword is not giuen vnto you in vaine but to take vengeance on them that do euill the daies are dangerous the people impious they will hardly obey but by constraint let sin be your subiect to suppresse it and the glorie of Sion the obiect of all your labors knowing that you stand alwaies in Gods sight from whose presence nothing can be hid I would to God that you had the spirit of Elias and zeale of Phineas to suppresse sinne in the action I would to God that the Magistrates of this City were like vnto the watchmen of Israel to search about the Corners thereof and finde out the abhominations therein to the oppressed be mercifull to the wicked fierce and terrible that you being faithfull in a little when your Lord and Master doth appeare he may make you rulers ouer great and exalt you to that blessed Sion to remaine with him for euermore And you honorable Iudges that are ordeined to determine the cause of the oppressed and to releiue the poore from wrong let not the greatnes of the person nor superiority of place cause you to haue any regard but only to the sinceritie of the cause But let all iust iudges that wish to inhabite blessed Sion haue only a respect vnto the truth of iustice quia non