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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16740	Diuine considerations of the soule concerning the excellencie of God, and the vilenesse of man. Verie necessarie and profitable for euerie true Christian seriously looke into. By N.B. G.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1608 (1608)	STC 3647; ESTC S116485	38,586	191

DIVINE CONSIDErations of the Soule Concerning the excellencie of God and the vilenesse of man Verie necessarie and profitable for euerie true Christian seriously to looke into By N. B. G. LONDON Printed by E A. for Iohn Tappe and are to be solde at his shop on the Tower-Hill nere the Bulwarke Gate 1608 To the right worshipfull and worthy Knight Sir Thomas Lake one of the Clarkes of his Maieiesties Signet health happinesse and Heauen WOrthy KNIGHT The longe affectionate duty wherin I haue followed your vndeserued fauour hath made me study how to prooue some parte of my protestation but finding my spirite by the crosses of fortune vnable to be it selfe in the best nature of thankfulnesse I haue yet by Gods greate blessing laboured in the vineyard of a vertuous loue where hauing gathered those fruites that are both pleasant and holsome bounde vp this little handfull I presente them to your patience knowing that your loue to learning your zeale in Religion and your wisdome in iudgement being able in diuine Considerations to finde comforte aboue the worlde will vouchafe to make that good vse of them that maie giue me comforte in your regarde of them but least tediousnesse maie prooue displeasing yea in matter of much worth I wil leaue my labour to your liking and my seruice to your imploimēt in which I humblye rest in heartie prayer for your much happinesse Yours deuoted and obliged at commande NICH. BRETON To the Reader MAnye reade they knowe not what too many they care not what but how necessarie is it for all men before they reade to consider what they reade and to what end they bestowe both time labour in that excercise I refer to the iudgement of their discretions who are able to finde the difference betwixt good euill you then that reade this little worke to your greate good if you well disgest the considerations contained in the same Let mee intreate you what you finde for your good to esteem of as you haue cause and what may be to your dislike to correct in your kinde patience in a little room is matter enough for the good consideration of a cōtemplatiue sperit which looking towards heauen and longing to bee there shall finde such comfort in these considerations as I hope shal giue cause to gloriefie God the Author of all good and not thinke a misse of me that by his goodnes haue set them downe for the good of all his Seruants of which number not doubting you to be one I leaue you in this and all your good labours to his onely gratious blessing Your well wishing friend N. B In praise of these Diuine Considerations GOe little Booke the Iewell of delight The heauenly organ of true vertues glory Which like a christall mirror sets in sight The truest tract of high Iehouahes story Which who so reades shall finde within the same Gods powerfull loue to those that feare his name I reading of it did much comfort finde And so no doubt may euery Christian doe That is to vertue any whit inclind Such right directions doth it lead him to Read then dear friend for heere I dare well say To know God truely is the ready way And more within this lttle volume heere Who so doth read with due consideration His owne estate most vilely will appeare If not reformed by heauenly meditation Consider then and doe aplaud his paine That thus directs true knwledge to obtaine And for my selfe as hauing gain'd therby These few lines of my loue shall specifie Pleasure attend the author that did write it Heauens happinesse the heart that did indite it True comfort be to him that loues to read it And ioy betide his soule that truely treads it I. T. A Diuine Poem O Lord that knewst me ere that I was knowne And sawst the cloath before the thred was spunne And framd'st the substance ere the thought was growne From which my being in this world begunne Oh glorious God that onely of thy grace Didst all and onely to thy seruice make me and hauing giuen me heere an earthly place Vnto the Guard of thy faire grace dist take me Of all pure bright and euer-seeing eye That seest the secret thoughts of euerie heart Before whose presence doth apparantlie Heauen earth Sea Hell in all and euerie part In wisdome more O then wit can comprehend That mak'st and iudgest gouern'st euerie thing power of all powers on whome all powers attend Spring of all grace from whence all glories spring From that high holy heauenly throane of thine Where mercy liues to giue thy glorie grace Looke downe a little on this soule of mine That vnto thee complaines her heauie cace Oh sweetest sweete of my soules purest sence That in thy mercie madst me first a creature And in the truth of loues intelligence The neerest image to thy heauenly Nature And hauing framde me to thy fauours eye Didst with thy finger fairely write me out In holy writ of heauenly Misterie How I should bring a blessed life about Forbidding onely what might be my harme Commaunding onely what might doe me good preseruing me by thy Almigtie arme and feeding me with a celestiall foode Thou madst the ayre to feede the life of nature That I might see how weake a thing it is The earth the labour of the sinfull creature Which beares no fruite but onely by thy blisse Thou madst the water but to clense or coole Or serue thy creatures in their sundrie vse That carefull wit might reason not befoole In vsing nature to the soules abuse The fire thou madst to c●eere the chilling colde With a reuiuing heate of natures ne●de That reason might in natures ruine holde How farre that Force might stand the life instead Thus vnder heauen thou madst these Elements To maintaine all those creatures thou hast made But so that nature with her ornaments shall haue a time to flourish or to fade But that same heauenly fire that doth enflame The heart and soule with a continuall heate Whose loue doth liue but in thy holy name Where faith doth mercy but for grace intreate Where that did kindle or that Cole to finde Or smallest peice or sparckle of the same I found the eye of nature was too blinde To finde the sence or whence thee secret came Till by the inspiration of that grace That to thy seruants doth thy goodnesse showe I found thy loue the euer liuing place From whence the substance of this sweete doth flowe And when I saw within this soule of mine How farre thy loue exceedes the life of nature and natures life but in that loue of thine Which is the being of each blessed creature Then I beg●n to finde the foile of sinne And onely long'd to liue in mercies grace and hate the world that doth their hel begin That doe not long to see thy heauenly face And thus perplexed in that passions griefe That hath no ease but in thy mercies eye To thee that art the faithfull