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A68256
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The soules solace, or Thirtie and one spirituall emblems
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Jenner, Thomas, fl. 1631-1656.
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STC 14494; ESTC S105988
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as'twere by chance Others in downy beds their spirits expire Some 's vitall powers may be benumd retire To th' heare those are not dead for put a glasse Thus triall 's made against their mouth and face Breath being found thereon aliue they seeme If not them to be dead doe all men deeme Death seizeth on the body Not on soule That must liue aye death can it not controule But yet the soule is dead too spiritually When as vpon its face you shall apply Christs righteousnes but it like a dead stone Breaths not thereon That man is such a one In whome's noe spirituall life nor living grace For this Divines count life in the last place And this rule 's certaine If there shew no breath No truer signe can be of life or death Therefore though I be wounded like to die I am not dead yet for the whilst that I Breath at my Christ I liue and shall liue ever I'n ghoastly breath which shewes I shall die never Christ is the glasse thy sinnes doe cause the sound If breath of faith then life of grace is found M. F. 11 The sacrifice of the Masse THe Law Leviticall to know's much worth For that the offices of Christ sets forth And manifestly shewes the Papists Masse A needlesse Ceremonie euer was For why They offer Christ continually Which you shall see confuted presently The Preist was one who onely was to enter Into the holy place none else might venter Where for the people he did sacrifice And they without God worshipt otherwise But might not make an offering that alone Concern'd the Priest that in to God was gone When all was done within and he come out He streight in peace dismissed all the rout Thus Christ our high Preist enter'd is within Holy of holiest offering there for sinne His merrits with an incense doth afford Sweete smellings in the nostrills of the Lord. The world 's the outward court where we remaine Whose duties are to prayse and laude Gods name Not doe the Sacrificing worke at all For Christ that same performed once for all And when himselfe He offerd vp that day All sacrifices else tooke end for aye Leaue off then Masse and such like trumperies Vnlesse Christs offring will not you suffice Who as he is that one so he 's the best Yea to this end is entr'd in that rest While Nadab and Abihu brought strange fire God cut them off in his provoked ire Then feare ye Papists while you are at Masse You be not slayne for God is as he was M. D. 12. A remedy against spirituall pride THe grasse hearbs to looke on cheares the sight So doe the flowers and fruits t is mans delight He takes great comfort and can glory much To see them greene and sprout his joy is such He thinks one well could liue by these But when He veiwes the sunne the case is alterd then For though he gaze vpon them nought he spies That seemeth pleasant or can glad his eyes Cause now a while he 's blinded though he tooke That great delight before on them to looke This is the cause why Christians are so proud Of their transcendent grace God hath bestowd For they themselues doe with themselues compare And many times with those that weaker are And see not how farre they of him come short Who knew noe guile and had in sinne no part When one shall wisely see what God desires What himselfe wants and what the Law requires Hee 's strucken blind who did before behold Such graces in himselfe he grew so bold To vaunt of them This rule to make thee humble be sure thou take and then thou shalt not stumble Vpon the Rock of thine owne haughty mind If thou 'lt see what thou wantest and what 's behind M. B. 13. Some time spent in holy duties hinder not a mans perticular calling THe Swayne that with the sweating of his browes Food to himselfe and family allowes Who Digs and Delues and mowes the Corne and Grasse And will no precious time in vaine let passe Yet whets his sythe and time to make it keene Spends daily much for thereby it is seene He cuts the Corne more smoother and a pace And rids more worke And counts it no disgrace Ost so to doe and that way further gaines Then if he vs'd in cutting greater paines So knowes the true Nathaniell Israelite By taking paines in good things his delight He looseth not by that but double gets First comfort to his soule and yet not lets His owne peculiar calling That day more He speeds then worldlings doe with labour sorr And I for my perticular can say I gaine more then Then any other day The Lords Commandement was to Israell When they did come in Canaan land to dwell All their male Children thrice should in the yeare Before the Lord of Lords goe vpt ' appeare And while they so would worship oft The land None should assay to get from out their hand But each thing prosper and succesfull proue And all occurrents turne to their behooue On Christian practises whet oft thy sythe And take 't for certaine thou and thine shall thriue M. D. 14. The way to please God in all our actions THat Archer will not ayme with both his eyes Which shooteth in a game to winn a prize But lookes with one eye narrowly to hit That pinn or marke he shootes at in the white So he that God will please serue and obey That eye must shut that vseth to survey Honours or prayse of men or worldly pelf And thus he good may purchase to himselfe Good things then for themselues must freely follow Or else Gods name aright thou canst not hallow If I should seeke to please men saith S. Paul Then were I not Gods Minister at all Who doth an heart and heart with hate detest The single eye and simple heart are best While men doe seeke the loue of men to gaine They saile of that and loose the Lord the maine The Lord with him Corrivall will haue noue But who alone Him loues is blest alone O let my heart be in thy statutes sound That shame may not my soule or face confound The Lord all creatures for mans vse did make But for himselfe vouch safed man to take Sith so 's Gods minde let man to God surrender Himselfe and leaving all God only tender And when these two shall meet My profit ease Gods glory will Let this downe to their pease The while Gods glory mans selfe th' eye shut quite Disclaimst thy selfe in all Thou 'st hit the white M. S. 15. The cause why wicked men die either suddenly sullenly or desperately THe Parents to their Children wont each night To deale out some convenient jnch of light That seemelier they might to their rest resort Who fall parchance to wrangle or to sport And so their peece of candle vainly wast Which being out themselues in bed they cast They know not how one runns in at the feete Another hawles