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A04034	A bundle of myrrhe: or Three meditations of teares The first in the effect. pag.1. Last in the cause of Dauids teares. Psal. 42.3 pag. 270. The middle, and most intended, of religious teares in general. p. 96. The particulars whereof, are prefixed to each page, and principall section.; Bundle of myrrhe.	Innes, William, fl. 1620.	1620 (1620)	STC 14091; ESTC S119560	100,050	414

of the Lord went out from Mizpeh where he had slaine him that began to gouerne in the feare of God weeping all along as he went and as if he would haue ioyned his supplications with theirs or rather in religion haue preuented them intreated them to come with him to Gedaliah the gouernour but when he had brought them whither he would into the midst of the citie then slue them and cast them into a pit like in resemblance to that which Iob saith Iob 6.27 his friends digged for him sparing onely those that had in the fields treasures to disclose vnto him To perfection of number was wanting but the seuenth kind of teares in vain altogether or most part employed here behold the backsliding daughter of Rome shewes her foolish forwardnesse presenting as vaine if not so wicked a sort as any of the rest of her owne inuention namely of those which are shed not willingly but by compulsiō wherewith they are tasked who for plenary satisfaction for their sinnes to God are adiudged to an outward and forced lamentation for some part or the whole residue of their life within monasteries or abroad of which teares well speakes father Isac in Iohn of Cassia Collat. 9. ca. 30. saying By their straining they more abase and drowne the soule of him that prayeth pulling it downe from that heauenly height wherein the suppliants mind should vnremoueably be fixed and so compell him losing the prime intention of deuotion to be sicke in seeking fruitlesse and constrained drops of teares Where we reade the valley of mulberrie trees 1. Chro. 14.14 Saint Ierome renders ex aduerso flentium Tradit Hebr. in Paral. ouer against them that weepe whereon he thus commenteth saying The Philistins had an Idol whereto they sacrificed with mens teares Betweene which Idoll and our God I would know what difference they put that for diuine and spiritual worship vrge teares and like exercise of constraint as though in them for themselues he were pleased The eight and onely at all times laudable kind of teares are those of sincere religion contrition compassion and heauenly desire whereof we haue next to speake For onely these we obserued before Dauid calls his owne teares My teares Obseruatiō 4 and that not onely in kind but also in number not onely that they were his that is godly such as he vsed but also they were those which onely himselfe did shed Proposition confirmed For not indifferently the teares of any but of our selues must make request to God for vs. So of the Church it is said Lam. 1.2 Her teares are on her cheekes And our Lord to the daughters of Ierusalem Luk. 23.28 Weepe for your selues and for your children So the Lord to Hezekiah the King giues testimonie I haue heard thy prayer Esa 38.5 I haue seene thy teares Application Which against them is to be noted who if they commend themselues to the prayers of some deuout persons if happily they build some Hospitals for those that in age solitarinesse and sicknesse shall lament meane while themselues be resolued into all lasciuiousnesse are fully perswaded God is with them well appeased which if it be righteousnesse I know not wherein Simon Magus attempting to buy the holy Ghost with mony Act. 8. hath at all offended Such other offence is that when in the morning vnblest going to mingle strong drinke Isa 5. to vse the Prophets words or else about vngodly merchādise they hire with a little mony some shaueling to say their prayers in certain Aues and Paters and Credoes by a rate It was easie for Israel to say to Samuel 1. Sam. 12.19 Pray for thy seruants vnto the Lord thy God that we die not while as themselues ate the calues out of the stall Amos 6. and chanted to the sound of the viole It was easie for Simon of whom we spake to intreate the Apostles Pray yee to the Lord for me Act. 8.24 that none of these things which yee haue spoken come vpon me but no heart he had to ioyne his owne voice with them It is like Dauid who wept and chastened his soule with fasting Psal 69.10 was not ignorant of the Gentiles prouerbe Weeping becometh not a King Euripides yet being a King he counteth it no shame to sorrow a little for the burden of the King of Princes Hos 8.10 Caution Yet say I not it is vnlawfull to request or vnprofitable to haue the prayers of the Lord his seruants The aduenturous Hester putting her life in her hand for her peoples cause Hest 4.6 bids Mordecai gather together all the Iewes that were present in Shushan and fast yee saith she for me And Amos preacheth Amos 5.16 They shal call the husbandman to mourning and such as are skilfull of lamentation to wailing And in Ieremie Thus saith the Lord of Hosts Ier. 9.17 Consider yee and call for the mourning women that they may come and send for cunning women that they may come and let them make haste and take vp a wailing for vs. But most agreeing is his precept by the Prophet Ioel Ioel 2.17 Let the Priests the Ministers of the Lord weepe betweene the porch and the altar and let them say Spare thy people O Lord and giue not thy heritage to reproch that the heathen should not rule ouer them And Hezekiah to conclude by messengers saith to Esay 2. King 19.4 Lift vp thy prayer for the remnant that are left In all which places we may perceiue the holy people allowed accustomed to vse the prayers of others with their owne yet so as alwayes appeares the concurrence of their owne with others Obseruatiō 5 In this wise as many as here sow in teares hope for increase whereof they shal not be deceiued Greg mor. l. 5 c. 7. Luctu suo anima pasci tur adde sicut vrsae boreales sugentes pedes suos i. vltima sua meditantes the which their future expectation euen in their teares procures a present consolation This is that vse of teares which Dauid implies whereas he saith they haue bin my bread for teares oft times both feed and ease the minde Proposition Ambr. de obitu Valentin Est enim pij̄s affectibus quaedam etiā flendi voluptas plerūque grauis euaporat dolor Weeping saith one cooles the stomacke and solaceth the troubled spirit In weeping holy affections haue their proper pleasure and so most part surcharging melancholy is expelled Therefore the Prophet requests Turne away from me Esa 22 4. that I may weepe bitterly Now we know delight is presupposed to follow whē the desire is obtained So the people in Babylon remembring Ierusalē in bitternesse find no sweeter leniment then this Psal 137.1 Vpon the riuers of Babylon there sate we downe yea we wept when we remembred Sion Wherefore else doth Ieremie wish so earnestly Ier. 9.1 O that my head were

or else from which true teares do spring for ioy is either the cause or effect of all religious teares The heauens saith he knew not but by the children of the Church Bern. in Cantica ser 68. For the Angels haue from their beginning and for euer ioy without all experience of the contrary The Church this while hath them both in practise and shall hereafter esteeme more highly of the one hauing proued the other How worthy are those of all to be commended which by God so choisly in his bottle are conserued Psal 56.8 Most noble must needs be that wine which is layd vp in the Kings priuie cellar which vnder a speciall key is kept the stopping and straining and drawing whereof if we may say it lawfully the Almightie hath vouchsafed no not to any celestiall Minister O that my soule were another Ezekiels booke written within and without Ezek. 2.10 written I say with lamentations and mourning and woe That I might be found so forward to weepe as I haue bene bold to sinne and such intention as I haue had in offending so great deuotion I might haue in repenting Teares are that which in her choisest children the Church euer most frequently hath vsed whither I hold may be referred which in the mysticall writings is obserued those first Fathers of the faithfull congregation Gen. 26.18 Abraham I meane and Isaac are euer reported to haue digged wells but Philistines to haue stopped them So speakes the Prophet of the wayfarers that iourney towards heauen Who passing through the valley of mulberries make it a well Psal 84.6 How but digging by continuall contrition the wells wherout they draw the liuing waters of lasting consolation they dig vp fountaines still that as one well it all appeares but Satan and his Angels Philistian-like stoppe them with all their might that Israel and Iudah with all that ioyne vnto them 2. Kin. 3. might for want of water perish in the wildernesse wherethrough they go to fight against incestuous Moab So againe it is recorded by a song not as a matter of an externall letter Nū 21.17.18 that the Princes of the people digged the well they digged it with their staues at the appointment of the Law-giuer I will with Israel most gladly say Spring vp ô well euen out of my hearts veines so will I cheerefully sing vnto it magnifying him that made it and put water thereinto Euen the Lord himselfe of whose laughter in all his dispensation in the flesh we heare not so much as once mention yet at least thrise is reported in the Gospell to haue wept Luke 19.41 for the Cities destinie Ioh. 11.35 for the Iewes infidelitie Heb. 5 7. for the acceptance of his owne prayers with the Father S. Bafil Greg. Theod. Iohan. Chrysost which obseruatiō is often I know not whether first in the Triumviri of the Grecian Church of their time He wept Aug. serm 104. as Augustine preaches That with his teares he might blot out the sinnes of the world that he might abolish the hand-writing of legall ordinances that was against vs which was contrary vnto vs for saith he Col. 2. if Peter could with the shedding of his teares wash off his spots ministerially why should we not beleeue the sinnes of the world are wiped away by Christs virtually Finally after the Lords teares many beleeued at Lazarus his resurrection Vicit ergò ex parte incredulitatem iudaeorum Dominicae pietatis affectus discordes eorum mentes molliuit prima fusio la●● chrymarum so partly his piety ouercame the Iewes infidelitie and the profusion of teares first softened their rebellious hearts Blessed are these water flouds whereby euery wall of sinne is broken through and ouerborne Ex Augustino adfratres serm 11. Wholsome waters that quench and cast out the poyson of vices a constant lauare which so often is able to cleanse as mans heart hath need of purging This is beloued the hear be of that heauenly fuller wherewith he daily whites his seruants vestements when they are fouled this is the spirituall niter which being it selfe composed of the dew of diuine grace wipes out the blots of our slippes this the precious lixiuie wherewith the inner man his head is washed This is the holy teare sweet solace against our daily falls which as it were the vicar of Christ his passion giuing remedie against iniquitie that thereby Christ may seeme so often to die in efficacie as the elect of God comes into the deepe This alone is the health of soules the remission of sinnes a spirituall sacrifice acceptable to God a burnt offering full of marrow Is the sinners heart humbled and bewet with daily teares this saith the Father is a goad whereby God is enclined to man the cord whereby he is strongly bound vnto him without which saith he neither Baptisme auailes those that in ripe age receiue it and the Lords body is taken to condemnation without which there is no fruit of hearing the word no reward of workes Wherefore let none be voide of teares whom the dignitie of the Israelitish name commendeth from the action or affection the exercise or desire the shedding or remembring them no good man be destitute at any time at whatsoeuer solemnitie in whatsoeuer mirth if so be he will prolong his gladnesse to perpetuall whereas the word of truth tels Pro. 13.14 the other ends in heauinesse and without doubt vnpleasant vndelightfull wherefore the author and giuer of all our ioy better prouiding for it not onely appointed a fast of afflicting soules on the tenth day of the seuenth moneth Leuit. 16 29 but also on euery monethly and yearely feast appointed a goat to be sacrifised For remembrance of sinne Num. c. 28. and c 29. Which also that pious penitent seemes not to haue misknowne presenting our redeemer at the Pharisie his feast with more welcome dishes of teares then all that cheare the euent also whereof approued the deed when our Sauiour indeed by open protestation preferred thē Luke 7. The like whereof againe he exemplified in his owne person for comming in triumph to the Towne Luke 19. in a most celebrious manner accompanied with the multitudes cutting downe branches strawing the wayes spreading their garments crying Haleluiahs and Hoshangnahs to the Sonne of Dauid Dauids Lord acknowledged in spirit wept ouer them The third meditation of the chiefe cause of godly teares Thus by occasion of Dauids teares I haue digested as I could the whole subiect of teares next is to consider the matter of Dauids teares in the proper cause which in this wise himselfe deciphers While as it was said vnto me daily where is thy God For this is the other part of the verse containing the cause of that sorrow related in the former This cause is declared in termes first more generall and then more speciall This is the generall comprehension While it was

said vnto me daily which shewes the iniury in the matter person and time the matter is in this while it was said whose quality on the aduersaries part and manner of expressing by the innocent iniured may be considered Obseruatiō 1 Reproach grieuous The kind of iniury that it is in word not by deed sauing that reproach and vniust accusation is the mouths wicked worke no lesse to be imputed to the heart then that which is acted by the hand do then words grieue godly men Yes no lesse the lips then hands words thē blows nothing here we heare of losse in banishment of the feare of death no mention the tongues offence alone causeth all teares while it was said For as speakes one Adagger smites the body Bernard de triplici custodia the soule is pierced by the tongue a deadly dagger is an euill tongue striking three through with one blow when as it smites the conscience of him that heares and wounds the charity of him that is offended at once slayes with it selfe both the other This tongue verily is a viper poysoning three with one breath a two-edged yea a three-edged sword is this tongue Their tong is a sharpe sword Psal 57.4 saith the same Innocent in another place Psal 59.7 S. Bernard bids on his credit not feare to say that such a tongue is more cruell then the speare that opened our Lords side For that I may adde something to his reason it being thrust in at a moment water and bloud issued out scarce an houre but this both night and day drawes out of the heart drops dried with cares and feares vnto the soliditie of bread And as he saith This also pierceth Christ his side and the member of his member neither pierces it being dead but maketh it dead by piercing For if he had not preferred the life of this body which now is pricked and pierced to that which there was nailed he would neuer haue giuen that for this to the paine of death and shame of the crosse Vse Go to now you that say S. Bern. in Cant. speech is a light thing words are but wind the tongue of man is but a little and tender and soft flesh what wise man will much regard it True it is speech is light for it runs rather flies lightly but it wounds heauily It passeth lightly but it burnes grienously lightly it enters in vnto the soule but goes not easily out againe it is vttered lightly but it is not so recalled it fires swiftly and therefore suddenly wounds charity The dead she is a thing contemptible Eccl. 10.1 but it causes the oyntment of the Apothecary to send forth a stinking sauour The tongue is soft but it is so slipperie that hardly it can be held tender and little in substance but great and forceable in vse a little member but if it be not ruled a great mischiefe Thinne and broad and long an instrument most fit to empty both the speaker and the hearers heart easily a man slips in his tongue and as easily therewith he slides into anothers soule so that it hath little auailed some to haue bridled their owne while as they haue not shunned others And yet would God this plague could be so bounded that it hurt but two that the contagion of it did not reach vnto the wounding of the third and innocents and vpright persons For hereupō not onely Dauid in this place but also in other much agrieued prays with all attentiō both for taking away reproch contempt now present and also for holding away the like yet feared and that by the weightiest arguments on both sides as could be vsed of his owne obedience and Gods clemencie For the one Remoue from me reproch and contempt Psal 119.12 for I haue kept thy testimonies As if he had said This will I esteeme a great reward of all my seruice if thou remouest this reproch And after Ver. 39. Turne away my reproch which I feare for thy iudgements are good requesting this as a speciall fruite of the gracious promises to be deliuered from such reproches This Ieremie the Prophet with crying out clamour condemnes as violence and spoile Ier. 20.8 that the word of the Lord is made vnto him reproch and derision daily The selfe same thing Nehemias the restorer of Gods Citie and repairer of his Fathers sepulchers accounts most worthy of weeping and mourning Neh. 1.3.4 and fasting and prayer before the God of heauen that a remnant of the captiuity in the prouince were in affliction and reproch being derided of the nations that were about them Finally this with one consent is the whole Churches supplication to the Lord Remember O Lord Lam. 5.1 what is come vpon vs and of those things this is first Consider and behold our reproch Indeed the account of good esteeme Chrysost in epistad Hebr. The esteeme of credit hath taken so deepe roote in the nature of men that reproch alone is al-sufficient to darken the mind with clouds Therefore the Prophet of the God of Israel afflicting with condigne punishment the Priests of Baal frets them not with vniust calumnies but with reproches most deserued pourtraying out in contraries what is that God in whom they trust 1. Kin. 18.27 And saith the Scripture it came to passe at neone that Elijah mocked them and said Crie aloud for he is a god either he is talking or he is pursuing or he is in a iourney or peraduenture he sleepeth and must be awaked Therefore the holy women Rahel and Elizabeth Gen. 30.23 triumphing and reioycing for remouing the reproch of barrennesse Luk. 1.25 declare that they before lamented not so much for not bearing children as for bearing infamie Herefore are seuen women said vpon most vnequall termes to take hold of one man Esa 4.7 saying We will eate our owne bread and we will weare our owne apparell onely let vs be called by thy name to take away our reproch namely that same reproch as some suppose Iunius in notes whereat those twaine named before and a third most vertuous womā Hannah so much were troubled Vse Yet some as a flint haue hardened so their faces that not onely refusing to put on holinesse but daring to put off humanitie feare not to fulfill that of the Prophet The vniust knoweth no shame Zeph. 3.5 and that another saith Ier 3.3 Thou hadst a whores forchead thou refusedst to be ashamed And this last Prophet in another place Ier. 6.15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abbomination way they were not at all ashamed neither could they blush Whose iudgement follows Therefore shal they fall among them that fall Surely it proceeds from an ingenuous to wardnes that Ephraim is ashamed Ier. 31.19 yea euen confounded because he doth beare the reproch deserued of his youth and Iudah the soune of Iacob Gen. 38.23 fearing the shame he had