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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74649	An entertainment of solitarinesse or, the melting of the soule, by meditations, and the pouring of it out by prayers. By Sir Richard Tempest, knight and baronet.	Tempest, Richard, Sir, 1619 or 20-1662.	1649 (1649)	Wing T625; Thomason E1410_1; ESTC R209519	28,217	157

Qui violat Rosam spinis Coronabitur Qui Violat Rosam Spinis Coronabitur Sanguine sub nimiâ languet Rosa tincta colore sic luget proprio purpurat ora rubor En Phoebi reditum madesacta liquore precatur sub Caroli radiis ut micet illa sui AN Entertainment OF Solitarinesse OR The Melting of the SOULE by Meditations and the pouring of it out by Prayers By Sir RICHARD TEMPEST Knight and Baronet Sine me liber ibis in Vrbem Printed in the yeare 1649. TO His deare Brothers Nicholas Tempest and Thomas Tempest Esquires Deare Brothers IN you I have enjoyed the happy freedoms and privileges of friendship which consociate the remotest regions of mens hearts with the participation of their mutuall thoughts I communicate to you now these Conceptions the Companions of my solitarinesse that notwithstanding the Presse is debaucht yet by the quick passage of it you might participate of my thoughts at this distance whereby in part I might turne my Lonenesse into Companie and Conversation And though the accidents of the time have violently snatcht you from me whereby you have changed your freedome for restraint yet all the unpleasing passages of Fortune or her most plausible Courtships work nothing upon a mind seated on that firm resolution to be true to GOD the King and his friend the very Heathen could say Commit thy self to an honest just action as to a tutelar God Those minds alone that are not raised above the trifles and vanities of the world feele the tyranny of passion and adversitie others who lie not levell with its injuries carry a happinesse in their owne brests which tents as it were they can set down in any condition or place be happy in Saint Paul named no one state wherein he could be content but had learned in what state soever to be content certainly such a state of mind onely as is agreeable to the traverses of the world considering every thing as it is in its own alterable nature and withall making use of the prerogative of the Soule which is above any created thing can fix or settle in mans life a felicitie which all men so earnestly court and so few obtaine many presenting their service to that Mistris of all mens Soules out of vainglory or covetousnesse or worldly interest she being the most quick-sighted Lady which will not confer her favors on any but who are truly inamored with it self God himself being that essential Aeternitie who is alone to be loved for himselfe Questò e il vero geiore che nasce dà virtu dopò il soffrire From Amsterdam Decemb. 20. 1648. Your faithfull Brother Rich Tempest To the Reader HE who sacrificeth his Vertue to the genius of the Times shall find its favours not so durable as the reward of his Vice is certaine one may goe smiling or fearelesse to destruction the affections of deceived minds change nothing the nature of the evils incurred there is a fixt unalterable nature of good which accidents of fortune and events communicable to good or bad actions cannot change nor subvert successe dazles the vulgar eye and minds that undertooke the service of Vertue for the love they bare its rewards no longer adore the beautie of the other than their lower minds are bribed with the pettie satisfactions to their inferior interests It s the most contemptible slaverie of the mind to pin its value and esteeme of justice upon the sleeve of fortune there being nothing truly fixt and permanent but sacred Vertue which men so readily forsake for every thing that of its selfe naturally makes progresse to change a necessary mutabilitie and alteration adhering to the nature of all other things By the communication of these thoughts the times are not courted chusing rather to dote upon the foame falling from the jawes of Cerberus they being such as Tacitus notes sometime to happen out wherein is a certain ruine for those who hold with dutie and wherein one might justly resume the demand of that Orator who being applauded by the vulgar asked his friend what ill he had spoke These papers chuse rather to be as miserable as ever the merry Poets could make any by their threatned judgements and wittie condemnations aut piper aut thus It will be a loathsome thing to stay behind all that to which destruction is threatned when as with all their protestations pecuniarie and sanguinarie prodigalitie in stead of bringing home the Golden Fleece which is that addition of Wealth Honour and Power to the King and his people they have onely used them all as means to make them most miserable by the destroying of what is glorious and worthy The Kingdome is touched as I may say with Monarchy and though the Needle is by a violent hand set to contrarie Pointe of the Compas and by the contrarie winds of Factions they attempt to sail to Utopian fancied Governments yet usque recurret the Needle will not stand but to it s beloved Pole All miserable practises upon the healthfull constitution of our dear Mother But alas who would grieve truly for thee must let his veines bleed purple teares to deliver thy tender brests dearest Mother from the desperate hands of thy cruell and bloudie executioners Vale. The melting of the SOULE c. On Sundayes Holy dayes and Fasting dayes HEE whose mind remaines in the power of Reason and Religion orders his outward observances so that they may be the transitorie Hieroglyphicks of his inward pietie They are unmannerly Devotions which neglect the Injunctions of the Church concerning the time place and manner of them since every action is invested with such circumstances and hath such formalities annext to them the gravitie and solemnitie of enjoyned Ceremonie will suite better with regular zeales than the garbes and formes privat fancies would put on them Thy holy Word O Lord is the Sunne which by casting its beames on the figures and distinctions of the Churches Dyall points out and orders to us the times of our lives Some Religions weare onely the finer Liverie of Sundayes others love to appeare attended with the sadder traine of Fasting dayes When I consult with the Church I finde both enjoyned and when I advise with my owne nature I find them suited to the two principall affections in man Joy and Griefe Let not my service of thee O Lord be mis-shapen in its parts but what I doe to please thee let it be guided by thee There is such a confederacie betweene the soule and the body they doe so mutually operate one upon another that even those restraints put upon our appetites quicken and make active the motions of the soule for when the body its organ is distempered it retorts and shoots backward its indispositions to the minde our thoughts sometimes condensed into the corporeall delights of the sense sometimes rarified into the pure abstracted pleasures of the spirit And since bodily abstinence aides and contributes aptitude to the mind for diviner

receptions let me follow the wisdome of thy methods Lord who by the Churches directions of their Fasts to precede our Festivals teacheth us humilitie goes before glory repentance and mortification before true joy But now alas the outward and materiall Temples are made to mourn in their own ashes while the living ones rejoyce over the ruines of Sion The loosenesses and indulgences of this Age rather beares a proportion with the Religion of the Ottomans than exhibits Sacrifices pleasing to the most Holy One. They cashiering all strict observances as fetters and bonds to their more free Genius are mis-led by their owne evill spirits in a wildernesse of Opinions The observing these signall dayes turnes our devotions into the knowne and vulgar Character which the world by our practise as it were may reade Our memorie charges the Times with good or bad events happening in them not but those good or ill qualities adhere to the things done in those Times Time being onely the measure of motion upon whose skore wee retaine the remembrance of what things pleasing or displeasing have befallen us To quarrell at the observation of Times is to quarrell at the holy and devout Exercises at such times usually performed whence wee see so easie a slide in many from the contempt of the time to neglect the humble and pious practises of the other To take away the set Dayes set Prayers and set Patrimonie of the Church is to make the Church contemptible their lives dissolute and their devotions prophane The Magnificats of hearts divinely in love and the heavenly wealth of an open-handed Charitie makes these dayes prospect so glorious and in this respect they are inlightned with no vulgar Ray nor doth the Sunne shine with any common beames The Heathens marked their fortunate dayes with white or precious stones but wee must observe these with white and spotlesse actions by which they will prove so to us Our miserable Times we becloud either over againe with our griefes and distrusts or else adde to them the feathers of vanitie to make them more insensibly flye away the two excesses of our life too jocular Vanities or too sad Dejections But from the heights of these dayes doe our soules take their Aethereall flights and range themselves in the Quires of Angels while they beare part with them in their Allelujahs Lord grant that by the continued practise of these Heavenly Attempts the chayne of my mortalitie being broke I may get wing and flye to thee and that constantly reaching my hands to thee from these dayes which are the upper steps of the Ladder of my Life next to Heaven thou mayest at last reach forth thy hand and receive me Morning Thoughts DArkenesse no sooner gives way to the approach of the Sunne but the whole Theatre of Nature seemes to smile the Clouds put on their severall-coloured Habits the Musicall inhabitants of the Groves warble forth the Aire in varied and delightfull tones of harmonie the Flowers draw forth their severall flames and beauties offering sweet incense from their fragrant bosomes all mists and fogges breake up and vanish and that which before dissembled so bright a lustre hath lost it in the light of the Sunne And now my senses loosned from the soft chaines of sleepe enjoy the prospect of the glory of the Heavens the pleasant view of the Woods Fields Rivers but as there be Groves and Caves where the Sunne hath not accesse so my Body is that Cave where without the beame of Reason to discerne the causes and effects of those works I externally behold it is still in darknesse nay I shall still continue so if with the reflext beame of Reason I looke not into my selfe and see what habits and affections my Soule weares and what belongs to me in respect of duties and severall relations without nay I am still in darknesse if I behold not with the eye of Faith the Sonne of Righteousnesse arising as it were out of the immense Ocean of his Goodnesse and Mercie darting into my Soule the glorious rayes of his Truth and Goodnesse then doth my little World rejoyce and my flesh rejoyces in the living Lord then are all my affections the Birds in my little Grove tuned with his prayse then doth each thought weare a severall Liverie of its Makers prayse put on from the contemplation of his severall workes then are all the false splendors of Vanitie obscured the mists and fogges of Passion breake up and vanish then doe the flowers of Vertue salute him with that lustre and odour he himselfe bestowed on them some yeelding their sweets at a distance as the tender Vertues of Mercie Compassion Liberalitie others impart not their fragrancie till bruised and crushed as the Vertues of Patience and Constancie And now Lord my imprison'd Soule beholds thy beames through the chinks as it were of thy Creatures but a full vision of thy presence is reserved for the state of Glory Let my mind so feed on thy Workes that they be disgested into thy prayse and let me looke out so constantly through these Cranies at the rayes of thy Goodnesse Wisdome and Power that at last my spark may be swallowed up in the immensitie of thy light Evening Thoughts HEavens sable Curtaines being dtawn Darknesse makes all things alike the feather'd Musicians of the Wood repose their aeriall spirits amidst the leavie Groves a silent horror seemes to possesse all places while those Silver-footed Nymphs that by so many windings arrive at the watrie armes of Neptune send forth their pleasant murmures louder not drowned with greater noyse if the Sunne hath set in a Cloud it hath presaged stormes to the ensuing day I finde a resemblance in my lesser World of Nights Liverie when I winke the World into Darknesse by which all beauties lose their distinctions all lye lovingly together in the bosome of sleepe and agree in their obedience to these soft injunctions and delightfull commands of Nature Here the Miser is pleasantly robd of his store and the miserable man of his sense of being poore The ambitious man leaves to court Greatnesse and is content with the ordinarie favours of Morpheus the Lover layes aside the sweet tortures of his Amours and solaces himselfe only in the duskie imbraces of sleepe the Souldier in making his passage to the gates of vocall Fame ceases to invite Death and is here content with its image Now doe our senses which are the Birds that make the Musick in mans little Grove shrowd themselves under the downie wings of sleepe Thus doth Death equalize all things onely for a longer time in its habitations a quiet horror seems to dwell where all lye lovingly in the bosome of their Mother Earth silently crept under the soft Coverings of Ashes where our divided parts revell in their loosened motions which had before beene crowded together in our sickly composures I lye merrily down in my Bed though I expect to rise againe to resume the burthen of all my feares hopes and