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A00972	The historie of the perfect-cursed-blessed man setting forth mans excellency by his generation, miserie [by his] degeneration, felicitie [by his] regeneration. By I.F. Master of Arts, preacher of Gods word, and rector of Wilbie in Suff.	Fletcher, Joseph, 1577?-1637.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1628 (1628)	STC 11078; ESTC S105608	35,115	104

a joyous Wife Yet as the most accomplisht Pourtrature Is but the bare Idaea of some Creature Which can by no means actually express The vitall Faculties ther-of much less Can finite Man th'Infinite adaequate In pow'r though inf'nite Pow'rs He actuate Man is in deed of the World but a point Yet points He out the whole World ev'ry joynt His Soule Sun-like the measurer of how'rs Gives Life and Sense to all the Bodies Pow'rs VVhich being sphaer'd in'ts Bodies organon And that though center'd in this Horizon Can send its winged thoughts from East to West And yet it Selfe immov'ably to rest His Minde 's a Mappe with such varieties fraught As in the greater World at large are taught Or 't is a shoppe where Vertues works are fram'd Which sent abroad they just wise good are nam'd His Intellect a cleare Prospective glass Attracts to Minde what shall be is and was Or 't is an eye to pry into the cause Of Natures secret work of Reasons Lawes His Reason Queen of all his Faculties Enacteth Lawes and Rules and Liberties Or 't is the scrutinie of Veritie Dispelling clowds of Ambiguitie His Will commands free as an Emperess Subduable by neither wile nor prowess Or 't is a Castle of Resolution Wher-in are Engines of execution His Wit 's a living well-spring of Invention Affording unto Will all due Attention Or 't is a Hand to reach from Memorie The things for use that ther-in hidden lie His Heart 's the Temple of all Reverence VVher-in the Graces keep their Residence Or 't is the sacred Altar of Devotion VVhen Grace and Will consent upon the motion His Conscience is a little God in h's brest To tell him of his Deeds what 's curst what 's blest Or it is else the sentence being found A secret friend or foe to cheare or wound His close un-seen Affections appear Like sparks blown-up with sorrow joy love fear Or else like greedie flames devour and wast Their Nat'rall forces whiles their fewell last His Inward Senses outwardly are blinde Discerning only what the Outward finde Much like neat inward Rooms dark like the night Till that with outward beams they be made light His Common-Sense is Senses Common-Hall Where outward Senses forms assemble all For all the Outward Senses serve I wis Their abstract forms to retransmit to this His Fantasie's a Childish Lord like pleas'd VVith Good or Ill when once on either seiz'd Or like a brainless Tyrant raging still 'Gainst Reason Consc'ence Right to have his VVill. His Memorie 's the store-house of the Minde To lay-up close what th'Intellect doth finde Or 't is his Register for after-times VVhere He records Mens Glories or their Crimes His Out-ward Senses are the known Cinque-Ports VVher-to and whence all knowledge safe resorts Or they are else each in their proper kinde So many sev'rall Touch-stones of the Minde The Sense of Touch all o're the Body spreads His Medium and so his Object reads For subtill Nerves twixt skin and flesh doe grow VVhich from the Brain diffusedly doe flow The Sense of Sight hath cristall eyes to see All visibles that in th' Horizon be VVhich like a seale doe true expression make Of th' outward forms which they doe inward take The Hearing through the Organon of Eares Once strook with Ay'r all sounds distinctly heares VVhich Eccho-like into the Brain resownd The qualities of each received sownd The Taste all savours by the Tongue receives Through its moist porie superficies VVhose liquid touch on wholsome feeding things To th' Power Nutritive his foyson brings The Smelling-Sense doth all such sents assume As doe the Nostrils through the Ay'r perfume VVhose object it embraceth or rejects As Good or Ill the Organon reflects His Body though in show a slender stemme Yet is 't of reall things the richest gemme Or for the Soule a curious built Pallace Lodging her Pow'rs each in a royall place His Head 's the watch-towre of that goodly frame Keeping a Sentinell o're all the same Or of this Microcosme the highest Sphaere VVhence his Soules star-like faculties appear His Speech is princely Reasons Messenger Making the Tongue his Hearts Interpreter Or 't is a Caracter wher-by He 's knowne As well as by his Face of all his owne His Face of outward beauty is the mirrour Yet striketh Brutes with a Majestick terrour Or 't is the Ensigne of his inward brest Displaying love or hate ther-in to rest His Hands the scale and sword of Iustice hold To render weale or woe to yong and old Or for himselfe they 'r servants ready prest Alwaies at hand to doe their service best His Feet the Basis wher-on all are builded Doe make Him stand no further help b'ing yeelded Or they are stedie Porters to convey Him When that He stirs what way his Mind doth sway him It were too much to tell what Powers reigne In h's sinews veins lungs lights blood livour brain But last of all of all things the Heav'ns under All these in One make Man the greatest wonder All these in One must needs be wonder great'st For ev'ry one 's a wonder ev'n the least Is 't not a wonder Man should be create Of Nothing That from thence to such estate He should be rais'd as to become partaker Of all that 's good In th' Image of his Maker That finite should the Inf'nite actuate That He in one thought should capitulate Things past and present and to come That He Should of this Vniverse the Sov'raign be And rule all things with Majesty and might And yet a naked and a little Wight That He of this world but a Point should be Yet comprehend the worlds varietie The Earth the Sea the Regions of the Ay'r Heav'ns altitude their distances compare The secret vertues of Earth-hidden Mines The ope aspect of Stars crossing the Signes VVhere th' Artick and th' Antartick Pole is fixt VVhere Zenith Nadir and their Center 's mixt The revolutions of the restless Sphaeres Whose un-eav'n motiōs make ev'n daies moneths years The circled Confines of the wide VVorlds center The Reign of Kings both where when they enter That He beyond the VVorlds circumference Should in his thought transcend and fix his Sense On that which all Sense and all thought exceeds O this great wonder breeds great wonder breeds All these great wonders are Oh then who can VVonder enough all these should be in Man O Men O Angels admire ev'ry how'r Admire and praise the great Creatours Pow'r That powred into Man such inf'nite worth That worthily no tongue can it set-forth Let Men let Angels set-forth what they can They can set-forth no worthier thing than Man So great So good So absolutely free That independent save of God was He. Perfect in all to perfect-up this storie Had He stood still H 'ad still stood full of glorie THE CVRSED MAN Setting-forth MANS

THE HISTORIE OF THE Perfect-Cursed-Blessed MAN Setting-forth Mans Excellencie by his Generation Mans Miserie by his Degeneration Mans Felicitie by his Regeneration By I. F. Master of Arts Preacher of Gods Word and Rector of Wilbie in Suff. Bernardus in Meditat. Anima insignita Dei imagine decorata similitudine desponsata fide dotata Spiritu redempta sanguine haeres bonitatis capax beatitudinis deputata cum Angelis LONDON Printed by M. Flesher and are to be sold at the signe of the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 1628. Formae naturâ lue morum morte subactâ Almus eram ater eo mox tamen albus ero CHRISTIANVS MILITANS I wrestle not against flesh and blood only but against principalities powers Ephes. 6. 12. All-spotless fair I formed was But am by Sin deform'd Yet trust ere long by Death to pass To glorious life conform'd ERRATA ARe not many and yet fewer in some Copies then in other for as they were spyed in the Presse they were amended in the remaining Copies Let those that are found be thus amended In the Epistle Dedic read like flesh-flyes In the Epist. to the Reader p. 5. l. antepenult excellency and goodnes p. 13. l. 2. cals for more wrath In the Booke p. 28. l. the last were all destroy'd p. 41. l. 25. threw them headlong instantly There are some other but they are so sleighty as the Read●r cannot but amend them in the reading TO THE RIGHT WORshipfull Sir Anthony Wingfeld Knight Baronet the p●ime Heir of that Right-Noble Generous and Renowned Familie of the prime House of the Wingfelds the growth and increase of Grace and Honour here and the fruition of Glorie and Happiness hereafter SIR AS you take-notice of this happiness and blessing of God upon you to bee the Heir of this great worthie Family so take-notice also I beseech you of the true cause of that worth and greatness of your Ancestors and imitate them ther-in and then inheriting their worth together with their wealth you shall also most undoubtedly enrich your selfe with the obsequious attendance and hearty affection of your native Countrimen and so grow in Grace and Favour with God and Man Your Noble Progenitours have bin famous for their Pietie to God for they were alwaies noted to be zealous in Religion They have bin renowned for their Loialtie to their Soveraigne for they were alwaies of great and high Commission many of them being ex intimis Regum Consiliis They have alwaies bin much honoured of their Country for their great care of the Publique Good and Welfare therof which as occasions required they did manifest sometimes by their Valour thogh it were to hazard the loss of Life or Living sometimes by their Wisdome and Jntegrity in so much that weighty causes in difference have bin by the Parties consent referred to their sole Arbitration sometimes by their Lenity for this was their anciēt Motto revived by the last of your name Posse nolle Nobile and alwayes by their great Hospitalitie upon which to their great Renowne and Glory they yearly spent the greatest part of their Revenues All these with many such lived together with your Predecessors whiles they lived were the Life of their fame worth And let me tell you Sir there is an expectation the tedious Monthes of your Minoritie being worn-out of their reviving and together with your Person of their keeping residence in some or other of your Mansions God enable you with such a competency of Gifts and Graces as you may satisfie expectation I speake not thus out of doubtfull fear but in officious love for since it pleased the Divine Providence when you were baptized to use the hand of my Ministery for the receiving of you into the Church I living then in your worthy Fathers house who never entertained any other Chaplain but mine unworthy selfe and sith I live still in statu quo as your Father placed me me thinks the same Providence leads me by the hand to doe some service for you now when his Majesty the King sends you so timely into the Common-wealth by gracing you Honoris onere with the dignity of Knight-Baronet and by trusting you Onoris honore with the command of some of his Forces for the Countries defence My prayer is that you may walk worthy of the severall Callings wher-unto you are called and my desire is to doe something for you to further you therein For which purpose I have presumed to present you with this History though weakly contrived yet strongly warranted for it hath the undoubted truth of God for its authority Wher-in I endevour to let you see your selfe in your triple estate for it doth not praedicare de uno Homine in specie individuo but de singulis Hominibus in toto genere Humano and is verified particularly in everie One being cursed or blessed in their imitation of it It will advertise you to take-heed that you give no way to Naturall Inclinations but as you finde them renued by Grace and to stop your ears against the buzzings of fawning Sycophants which life flesh-flies that corrupt sweet ointments alwaies breathe infection and serpent-like never insinuate but for secret mischievous ends God give you the Spirit of Wisdome to discern and the Grace of Zeale to detest illud pessimum hominum genus In a word it will I hope helpe to direct you how to recover the perfection of pure Nature how to get-out of the miserie of corrupt Nature and how to attaine to the fruition of that super-naturall Felicitie that the world cannot apprehend Many Tractates I confess you may finde tending to these ends but all that I have seene are meerly indicative teaching onlie by instruction wher-as this is exemplarie and teacheth by demonstration and therefore though they may be more punctuall and pithie yet I am sure this is more plaine I trust not unpleasant God give grace to make them all profitable If this shall further you but one step towards any of those ends either for your mortification or vivification a double work but must be singlie performed by you and by all that intend to save their soules I shall rejoice in my paines and you I trust be encouraged to press-on towards the mark set-before you for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus This is the maine thing that you have to doe in this world without which you shall neuer here deserue the Happiness you have nor ever hereafter attaine to the Happinesse you desire Your Riches Honour the Favour of this VVorld these were the desert of your Ancestours which out-lived their Persons and are now cast upon you their undoubted Heir to make you worldly happy But it is Religion and the love and practise of Religion onely in the exercise of vertuous and pious actions that can bring you to deserve this temporall Happiness and assure you to enherite that which is immortall Thus commending these broken lines to 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Mercy or what Attributes soe're But Heav'n Earth shall know what Truth affirms Iehovahs Zeal for Iustice sake confirms VVhen mighty Angels did them-selves exalt Down from the Heav'ns to Hels infernall vault I threw them instantly how than Can this proud worm this trait'rous cative-Man That hath not pow'r weak motions to withstand How can He scape the force of my strong hand For 'fore that Heav'ns should grant Man a remission And not on some equivalent condition Or that the Earth should yeeld Him nutriment By annuall-successive increment The fruitfull plains with barrenness I 'le strike And make his dwelling places Sodom-like The showring clouds I 'le turn to banks of brass And th' Earth to iron that so fruitfull was The flintie Rocks to shivers I will tear And kernell-sands to mightie mountains rear The gladsome day and rest-affording night That by their intercourse had wont delight I 'le turn to timeless motions never changing Their constant changes of unconstant ranging Among th' Infernall Furies where the Man Shall be tormented while those Furies can To plague Him thus is rightly to reward Him From which nor heav'n nor earth shall ever guard him Yea all the forces they are able make As thunder lightning famine plague earth-quake And whatsoever else as grave and hell Angels and Devils all I will compell To become furious Agents in the cause So strict and pow'full are Iehovah's lawes Thus as Truth said Mans state you may bewail But to redeem 't you never shall prevail Peace here-upon for Mercy could not answer She was through Wraths peremptory censure So speechless grown and heartless like to fall But Peace stept-in affected like to all And with soft speech did sweetly moderate What these her Sisters could not arbitrate First she began with mildest exhortation To move them to take-heed of emulation For that quoth she doth often kindle hate The bane of Bliss and ruine of a State We Sisters are in one we must consent And not by strict exactions once dissent We know our parts wherfore let be our care Them to discharge as it comes to our share You Wrath Truth Iustice ye desire no more But as Man sinn'd so Man be plagu'd therefore Well fear it not but constantly expect The constant God will duly it effect And Sister Mercy you desire no less Than for Mans Sin that God give forgiveness Desire so still that by importunitie God may be mov'd to grant him immunitie Which yet beleeve it may not prejudice Th' inviolable right of strict Iustice Nor any of our worthy Sisters dear VVho equally to God are seated near And though nor you nor I Iustice nor Truth Can see the mean wherby our God renu'th The broke estate of miserable Man Yet certainly our Sister Wisdome can For what soe're our Sov'raign God decrees She th'equitie therof alwaies fore-sees Yea she deviseth things beyond all thought And then propoundeth how they may be wrought And happy they whose actions she directs For only them in favour Gods respects To her therfore have ye recourse for this And ye shall see she 'll not devise amiss Herewith was Mercy inwardly well pleas'd Truth Iustice Wrath were ev'ry one appeas'd To Wisdome then they all referr'd the cause When she making a long but decent pause For Wisdome's alwaies slow to speak enclin'd She doth so duly ponder all in minde When she this controverted cause had waigh'd She orderly the same before them laid The one side pleads quoth she that since Man-kind From Life to Death by Sin are all declin'd Then Death due wage to all our God must give Else can nor Wrath nor Truth nor Iustice live If all Man-kinde the other side replies Must suffer Death for their iniquities No pitie had of any in Gods sight Then Mercy Pitie Peace are banisht quite So prejudiciall then since th' issue is That Man or sav'd or damn'd all is amiss Iustice if sav'd but Mercy if He die That th' one of these perforce from Heav'n must fly And many other of our Heav'nly train Shall therby base indignity sustain My doom is this To salve and keep all eav'n That Man by Death to Life by Hell to Heav'n Shall take his course T'enabl'Him for which end Let all the punishments Iustice can send Be all made good yea Sin and Death and Hell And whatsoever most with Evill swell Let all of them be made good unto Man And then let Wrath inflict ev'n what she can So Mercie may for Mans Sin satisfie And Iustice punish Mans iniquitie Most rev'rend Truth exactly shall appear And austere Iustice strictly dominere Consuming Wrath shall sweetly be appeas'd And all-preserving Mercy shall be pleas'd Remorsefull Pitie shall be highly praised And death-deserving Man to new life raised Contentment thus we Sisters all may have And all of us accomplish what we crave So God in all and of all shall be knowne The God of Life Death Glory Praise Renown No sooner Wisdome had this case decided But Heav'n and Earth who stood by Sin divided VVere both of them with wonderment astonisht At th'equity of what she had admonisht All things with joy 'gan instantly be cheared As soon as hope of reconcilement ' peared Twixt God and Man Yet Reason made this Quaere How Sin how Death how Hell so dark so dreary How these could be made good since for Mans fall They are the pain to plague the Man withall To second this saith Truth there 's none so good That ever yet did spring from tainted blood VVho Man 's depraved Nature could controule By changing Ill to Good to save his soule To change Ill into Good t is to create A work of inf'nite Pow'r wherefore no state Of finite force can be so virtuall As to make Death to Life effectuall By Sin Man did an inf'nite Pow'r offend Which none but inf'nite Pow'r can amend Neither can God Mans Mediatour be For who offended was by sin but He 'T is God in Iustice that looks for amends Therfore not He which satisfaction sends Who then is it that makes this Evill Good Nor God nor Man by Reason they 'r withstood T is I quoth Goodness I as Wisdome bod Will heale Mans sores and make all eav'n that 's od I 'le make his Evill Good his Death the way Wherby eternall Life attain He may I 'le yeeld my selfe my uncorrupted Essence To purifie his Soule his Sp'rite his Sense Yea here behold I offer all I have I 'le with-hold nought that 's needfull Man to save Quoth Truth again kinde Sister you doe well You offer more than Angels tongues can tell Yet cannot your beneficence alone Vnright'ous Man with right'ous God attone 'T is more to reconcile Man to his Maker Than one can doe who ere be th'undertaker When Charity who all this while attended Did understand how Goodness was commended For her kinde offer and withall did hear No one of th' Heav'nly Pow'rs sufficient were Both to