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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68977	The prodigals teares. With a heavenly new yeeres gift sent to the soule; contayning many most zealous and comfortable prayers, with deuout meditations: both worthie the acceptance of all Christians, and their expence of time to peruse. By H. G. preacher of the most sacred Word of God	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Goodcole, Henry, 1568-1641.	1620 (1620)	STC 3580; ESTC S114442	53,955	283

THE PRODIGALS TEARES WITH A HEAVENLY New yeeres Gift sent to the Soule Contayning many most zealous and comfortable Prayers with deuout Meditations Both worthie the acceptance of all Christians and their expence of time to peruse By H. G. Preacher of the most sacred Word of God Psal 118. We wish you good lucke ye that be of the House of the Lord. Ouid. Flectitur iratus voce rogante Deus August Oratio Coelum penetrat nubes transit Dei aures attingit LONDON Printed by B. A. for Iohn Browne and are to be sold at his shop in Little Brittaine neere Duck Lane end or else at Bernard Alsop his House at S. Annes Church neere Aldersgate 1620. TO THE RIGHT Honourable Sir William Cokayne Knight Lord Maior of the Honourable Citie of London the Right Worshipfull the Aldermen his Brethren and Sherifes of the same Together with those two splendent Ornaments therein M. Robert Heath Esquire Recorder and M. Thomas Iones Esquire Common Serieant The God of their Fathers guide prosper and defend them in this life and indue them with that vnexpressible Blessednesse of the life of Glory hereafter RIght Honourable and right Worshipfull Theologie Nature Moralitie and Heathen Philosophers do all condemne and brand Ingratitude and disciplines Man gratefull Retribution Whence Benefits receiued and conferred in the seuenteenth Chapter of S. Luke verse 18. ten Lepers were by Iesus Christ cleansed and but One returned for to giue God prayse the Nine are recorded for their Ingratitude and that One stranger for his thankefulnesse commended by Christ for the same and in holy Scriptures recorded of all good Christians to be imitated In the seuenth Chapter of S. Luke verse 37. is likewise publikely noted with the brand of Ecce that all might obserue and take notice what strange newes should ensue Behold a Woman in the Citie which was a sinner As her sinne did defame her likewise her teares and penitent behauiour did wash away and blot out her crime and infamie for Christ Iesus her most mercifull Sauiour to whom shee sued and wholly applyed pittied her vnfained Teares cleansed and remitted her Soule of all her Sinnes commended her Faith and recorded her Zeale and Charitie That wheresoeuer that Gospel should be read or preached that which was done by her vnto him should likewise be spoken of and be remembred Nature instructeth and thankfull Dauid blusheth at Man in the 49. Psalme verse 10. Man being in honour hath no vnderstanding but is compared to the Beasts that perish How farre the Beasts in whom there is but instinct of Nature excells many men in gratefulnesse to their Benefactors the first Chapter of Isaiah verse 3. expresseth The Oxe knoweth his Owner and the Asse his Masters Cribbe but Israel hath not knowne my people hath not vnderstood The Horse neigheth when his Owner commeth to Prouender him the Oxe and Cow loweth when their Owner foddereth them the Sheepe know the Voyce and Whistle of their Shepheard for at the Eccho thereof they looke vp and flocke together and then bleat as an acknowledgement of him Aesope in his Fables maketh mention of a Lion out of whose Paw a Shepheard tooke a Thorne and gratefully the Lion requited the Shepheard for such his former kindnesse for when the Shepheard for a notorious Crime was adiudged to be put among Lions of them to be deuoured it happened this Lion was one of them and knew the Shepheard and came and fawned on him and saued him from the others and so his life was thus strangely preserued Aesope in his 22. Fable thereupon insculped this Motto Accepti memores nos decet esse boni It behooueth vs to be thankefull and alwayes mindfull of them that doe good vnto vs. Moralitie iustly exacteth where kindnesse and courtesies haue been performed Men to be Reciprocall in some measure and not to burie them in obliuion no sooner done but forgotten and written in the Dust These kind of People are Sordidum genus hommum the basest and respectlesse Generation not worthie to be accounted as a People Heathens not Christians for they scorne it and I would that Christians did not too much affect and disgrace Religion by it Bias sayth That two Heads in one Bodie is a monstrous sight but one vnthankfull Heart in one Bosome is more odious to behold Nay Cui beneficia excidunt haerent iniuriae Some are such Pagans and Iudas-like to their friends that they who haue fed them at their Table cloathed their Nakednesse harboured them in their Houses succoured them at all times in all their Distresses and supplyed their Wants and Necessities these with Iudas for base Gold and Siluer will sell and betray an invaluable trustie and louing friend The Heathen Philosopher Simonides beeing demaunded What would quickly grow out of date or bee soone forgotten and waxe old thus answered Beneficium a good Turne or Benefite Seneca sayth Memoria Beneficiorum labilis iniuriarum vero tenax Good Turnes done are soone forgotten and slide suddenly out of Mens minds but reuenge for Iniuries done vnto them they will hold that in memorie and for a thousand good Turnes that you haue done to them requite and repay you with mischiefe for a small iniurie or trespasse vnwillingly or not wittingly committed by you against them Diogenes sayth the same Plato sayth All humane things grow old and come to the end of their time except Ingratitude for the greater the encrease of mortall man is the more doth Ingratitude augment That Heauenly Propheticke Dauid would not be guiltie of this monstrous sinne but in his 116. Psalme verse 11. inquireth Quid retribuam Domino What shall I render vnto the Lord for all the benefites that he hath done vnto me And so proceedeth in others of his Psalmes zealously stirring vp his Soule to a recapitulation and remembrance of Gods great Goodnesse towards her Prayse the Lord O my Soule and forget not all his Benefits Lucian compareth an vnthankefull Man to a Vessell bored full of holes which is neyther apt to contayne nor receiue any thing Aurelius sayth It behooueth a Man in receiuing of Benefits to be thankfull though hee want power to requite them And Seneca 38. Epist Beneficia bene soluere interdum solutio est ipsa confessio To repay and well requite whence a Benefite was bestowed sometimes the acknowledgement and confession thereof is an accepted Solution and an acknowledged Satisfaction Which willingly and humbly I pay at this present to your Honor and Worships and come with the poore Cottager and Tenant at Will to present with him as this Time it is vsuall a few Lemons Oranges or Dish of Pippins shewing with him therein my Loue and the meanenesse of my Estate who am not able to present Gifts of better value but therein expressing my duty and a poore Beads-mans heartie praysing and praying to God for your Honor and Worships health and prosperitie by whose kind permission and mutuall generall consents in the Maioraltie of the late deceased graue