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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00514	The yong mans gleanings Gathered out of diuers most zealous and deuout fathers, and now published for the benefit of euerie Christian man, which wisheth good successe to his soule at the later day. Containing these foure subiects. 1 Of the mortality of man. 2 The poore mans harbour. 3 The mirror of vaine-glory. 4 Saint Barnards sermon on the passion of Christ. Whereunto is adioyned a most sweete and comfortable hymne, expressing the euerlasting ioy of a glorified soule. By R.B. gent.	R. B., Gent.; Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673, attributed name.; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. aut	1614 (1614)	STC 1065; ESTC S115857	39,366	120

quires of Angels being incorporated in the glorious society of all those heaunly Cittizens which raigne with me eternally There shalt thou haue for these poore rags Garments that shall neuer be worne There thou shalt feede on spirituall Manna and Mella there shall be no hunger but eternall feasting no sorrow but perpetuall reioycing no discord but mindes generally vniting where fulnesse shall not breede lothing nor others glorie in thee repining nor lights perpetuitie obscuring nor times eternitie ending for there will I be all vnto all to shew my glory more euidently towards all Thus will that father of all comfort comfort thee with his diuine consolations thus will he in the very middest of thy anguishes miraculously infuse instill into thy distressed soule these the like spirituall refections he will annoint thee with the oyle of Gilead put vpon thee a new raiment and on thy finger will he put a ring of pure Gold with the seale of Armes on it with the seale of thy election predestined to eternall life O meditate of this and the like diuine comforts and the perturbations billowes and afflictions of this life will be lightly esteemed in comparison of that exceeding measure and quantity aboue all measure of spirituall Treasures reserued for thee in heauen Alasse thou liuest here that I may vse the Greeke phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the very penetrals and cauernes of the earth farre remoued from thy centre farre transplanted from thy natiue Countrie O then be not so enthralled with this masse of corruption so captiuated by sinne and Sathan so deluded by the vaine flourishes of earths vanities eleuate thy spirit erect thy minde liue not so long in this dangerous Clymate as thou forget to returne into thy Countrie Thou hast an excellent motiue poore hunger-starued soule not to desire thy abode or residence vpon earth sith thou feelest within thee nought but biting hunger and without thee nought but hard hearts that consume their daies in chambering and wantonnesse in securitie and carelesnesse respectlesse heauen knowes of their chiefest good the aduancement of Gods glorie the feare of his name reuerence to his ministers or any worke which might tend to the edification of faith or manners Hinc illae lachrimae hence comes our cause of lamenting hence the true and efficient motiues of sorrowing But thou pore man that art sequestred as it were out of the world not as much as obserued with the eie of popular respect seeing thy owne contempt of one side and the impiety of this enormious Age of the other side hast reason with Paul not onely to desire thy dissolution but euen in the meditation of it to conceaue especiall comfort and delight For the world what is it But a cage of vncleane Birds a masse of indigestion an indisposed frame of pollution a sink of corruption True was it that that Dominican Frier obserued There was in the world at the first saith he conscientia but that was altered presently and turned to scientia and that too by the foolish stupidity of these times is changed into mere Entia a poore Being indeed when we know not the essentiall cause of our Being but ledde away with either singular conceipt of our ignorant knowledge or besotted with the present obiects presented and represented to vs which so auert and distract the intellectuall eye of our vnderstanding or so enthralled and engaged as it were to priuate profit like the worldly statist or with the itch of honour like the Ambitious Artist or with the dispersing of our victories in forraine prouinces with the insulting Martialist that we forget for a little worldly gaine the Gayne and treasure of Eternitie for a puffe or blast of vaine glory or ambitious honour the Honour of God and sacred ministers for a soone perishing fame the fame and reputation which wee ought to purchase of our heauenly father Deere pilgrim thou seest these transitorie and temporarie delights how soone they fade how short their continuance is for thou canst see further then one in higher place can see We make the Argument infallible for demonstration proues it a man may see more piercingly into the beauty of the firmament within some hollow place or pit then he can vpon the euen superficies of the earth Thou art placed in this pit retired from the world inferiour in order bereft of the cloude of honour nay exempted of all inconueniences which might any way seeme to darken the eye of thy vnderstanding here thou seest the piecolored flagges of vanity displaied the poore Ostrich robbed of her taile to fanne a Ladies face The sillie wormes disbowelled to cloath a case of corruption with a silken couer Nec atriora sane vidimus peccata quam ea quae sunt sericea Silken sins goe with a priuiledge they haue a good couer for deformiti this I know simple soule thou seest and admirest Then thou goes further and thou sees seeming sanctitie put on the roabes of holinesse furnisht with a little lippe labour to mumble a few key cold deuotion-lesse prayers making his lippes goe as if possessed with some spirit as indeed he is for no spirit more execrable then hypocrisie there thou seest halting instice a Magistrate that goes on stilts to saue his footecloth hee ouerperes a whole multitude but taking so great paines vpon his artificiall legges he must be annointed there 's no remedy hee will grow stiffe else it is a golden potion must restore him his sence of hearing which was welnigh perished applie but this receipt to his pulse and the vertue is admirable it s better then Eare-salue it will restore him the faculty of hearing instantlie There thou seest a great patron of iniuries that has erected two Sanctuaries dedicated to two contrary Soueraignesses Vertue and Vice Vertue for her name Vice for her Nature many such professors of vertue poore beggar I know thou findest that can make externall show or appearance of vertue but hath vice to be vertues riuall vertues building is easie to be discerned there 's no superficiall cost to beautifie her Temple shee hath a good inside and a bare outside vice her opponent boasts and truely so shee may of curious edifices rare deuises monuments of more honour and celebritie then poore vertue and all her posterity euer attained to in the one the worlds map is rightly charactred in the other there is representation of a more glorious pallace But I will proceed further they haue beene characterised too often to bee now vnknowne Now thou hast seene all this poore pilgrim ragged vertue and roabed vice thou canst not be deceaued in their Colors The purple whore is easie to be discerned me thinkes thou should glorie much in thy ragges seeing vertue no better clad one better habilimented with rents then rints God hath done well for thee to giue thee so faire a patterne to imitate nor is it disparagement to be her attendant with thine owne Garment without adorning thy outside to