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The patterne of all pious prayer, and the epitomie of all Christian Catholique beliefe being a patheticall and paraphrastical meeter vpon the Pater Noster, Ave Maria, and Credo in Deum, &c. : together with a divine dittie made vpon St. Patricks Day last past in honour of the Christian crosse, with wholsome preparatives for death and judgment : also a short panigyre on Mary-land in America.
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Mayerne, Patrick.
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Cressus his Wealth nor Alexanders Pompe Nor Caesars rarely Imitated Honor Could winne on Earth Eternity nor Campe Nor Court nor City can prescribe a manner How to shunne this inevitable Doome All men must Dye and then to Iudgement come 6. As it is certaine that we all must Dye Sith divine Statutes are Irrevocable So that wee may 't expect continually To know the time we Mortals are vnable Therfore wee should from'th houre we first draw breath Looke for this certaine yet vncertaine Death 7. That certaine Doctrine of Gamaliels Scholler Statutum est hominibus semel mori Which is the Godly's joy the Wicked's dolour The Prouds confusion and the Humbles glory Is the elected theame of my Discourse In carelesse Christians to procure remorse 8. Yet least the onely certainty of Death Should not be weyed as Iustice doth require Post hoc autem Judicium After Death Some Iudg'd to Blisse some to Eternall Fire Mee thinkes the memory of these two points Should Palsie-like shake proud Belshazers joynts 9. Though it be true a Christian rather ought For th' only love of God live Vertuously If in our Hearts wee still retaine this thought O Blessed Ihesu thou for Sinne didst Dye And shall I wretch reitterate the same Which caus'd thy cruell scourging Death and shame 10. But yet alas vilde Man is so propence T'ingratitude and Epicurian sloath Doth so consopiate and dull his sence Him to awake Mercy and Iudgement both Being joyntly vs'd doe all too little seeme Of God and Goodnesse to winne his Esteeme 11. Indeede a tender hearted Man or Woman That curiously in Pious Contemplation Shall with Devotion dayly call and Summon Within the Breast to scan our Saviours Passion May finde most Charitable motives still As spurs to Good as Bridles to all Ill. 12. To such as these the memory of Death And after Iudgement Are both comfortable They knowing that this momentary Breath Doth but detaine them in a Life instable Which having once forsaken they are sure T' injoy a Life that ever shall endure 13. Yea to both Good and Bad Memento mori is a most profitable Document In all Discourse and Concourse 't is a story Fit to bee told and heard for most are bent Vnto forgetfulnesse Nay many strive The memory of Death away to drive 14. Tell a young Royster of his vicious wayes And bid him mend his life which is but short With a fastidious pish hee smiles and sayes Forty yeares hence is time sufficient for 't And yet too many of these Youngsters come By vnexpected Death to their long Home 15. Your Female Painters that will mend by Art Natures defects to compasse base desire Aske any one of them when shee 'le depart From folly and doe what our Lord require Shee 'le say that when shee 's Old all shall be left Some times next Day she is of Life bereft 16. Your Goatish-Leacher counsell him to leave Those sordid courses wherein hee delights Noe other answer you 'le from him receive But why should I rob Nature of her rights He 'le leave when hee 's vnable more to sinne Nor Death nor Iudgement hee regards a pinne 17. The Gormandizing-Glutton that destroyes More at one meale then 20. poore would serve If you demand why hee all this enjoyes While nak'd and hungry Christ i' th streets doth starve He puts off Charity till Death arrests him Till then he thinkes not on 't nor him that blest him 18. The bold Blasphemer who audaciously Belcheth out Oathes and Imprecations strange Devising new for Curiosity As men their fashions they their oaths do change Thinke you if they of Death or Iudgement thought Such damned words could from their mouths be brought 19. The Grinding Vsurers the hard Oppressors Did these each minute thinke vpon that Day That shall to Iudgement summon all transgressors Sure conscience in their soules would beare more sway But Sathan still to traine them in his path Makes them to put farre off the day of Wrath. 20. Those Luke-warme Christians that doe at this day For worldly Honors and promotions sake With Heretiques participate they 'le say Before they dye another course they 'le take But God in Iudgement oftentimes prevents And by Deaths warrant frustrates their intents 21. It is a dangerous thing with God to dally Whose eyes are open to discerne all Hearts Art thou well minded stand not shall I shall I Take hold of him whilst he his Grace imparts Experience lamentable proves too well That millions for this fault now burne in Hell 22. To punish our remisse and carelesse Lives Our Lord hath sent his Angell with commission To take from wives their men from men their wives In many Families is this Division It 'h Morne all sound at Night all Dead and gone O is not this a case fit to bemoane 23. If it be requisite at any season To thinke of Death and judgement certainly T'th time of Plague and Pestilence most reason Wee have to looke each day and houre to dye Woefull effects envite vs to this care Many are seized by Death ere the'yr aware 24. Let every CHRSTIAN thus Expostulate With his own conscience every houre and minute Is my state better then my Neighbours state My friends and Kindred who have suffered in t What priviledge can I vile wretch pretend That heaven more then they should mee defend 25. And if thou bee protected from the same Vaunt not thy selfe as though thy Merrits were Without Gods grace the cause No rather claime Continuance of his love with trembling feare Glorifie him and still in this confide That thousands better then thy selfe have dyed 26. This meeke acknowledgment of Heavenly ayde And thy vnworthinesse assure thy selfe Is the best Antidote that can be made Against the Plague these will not wast thy pelfe Not that I speak ' gainst Corporall provision For th' holy Ghost sayes honor the Physitian 27. Art thou infected be not heavy hearted But with alacrity thy selfe prepare To take from him who hath much Good imparted This little Ill now't fals vnto thy share In holy Iob a perfect mirror see God plagued him yet he loved him why not thee 28. And thou that with no Sicknesse art perplext Bee Charitable vnto all that need Thinke every houre thy turne may be the next Prepare for that while yet thy selfe art freed Doe good to all as holy Scripture sayth And chiefly to the Family of Fayth 29. Bee conversant in Prayer and vse the meanes As God by meanes of Holy Church affords That when this sad Contagion thee restraines Thou being in heart resolu'd to bee our Lords While all thy thoughts are in this order kept Our Lord the will will for the deed accept 30. Aboue all things have care to keepe thy Soule From the contagious malady of Sin While that best part 's preseru'd from being foule Then what estate so e're thy corpes bee in Sicknesse and health what 't is the sender please Thou shalt at all assayes finde Ghostly ease 31. Lastly in generall all you who bee Because of this pestiferous Infection Sequestred and shut vp from Company Bee pleased herein to follow my direction Let this seclusion make you thinke what 't is The glorious Company aboue to misle 32. And from this meditation may proceed An ardent fervor of their intercession Desire their prayers and merits in your need That CHRIST of blisse may give you full possession And let your memory evermore retaine The thought of Death and Iudgment joy and paine 33. Thus for their sakes who may want better meanes I spend this Humble talent with goodwill Desiring nothing of them for my paines But that in their Devotions they may still Remember mee as I for them are zealous Sweet IHESVS both in Soule and Body heale vs. AMEN A BRIEFE YET DEVOVT PRAYER TO THE GLORIOVS Citizens of the Coelestiall IERVSALEM very fit to bee vsed in time of Mortality O! all you Coelestiall Inhabitants of the new IERVSALEM Vnto whose names and memories our parish Churches were by our pious progenitors Erected Dedicated and Consecrated Wee devoutly begge of you by that vnbounded love wherewith our common Lord hath loved you that you will make Intercession vnto him in the behalfe of those parishes whose Churches yet reteyne your names That our mercifull Lord will be pleased to revoke the destroying Angell lately sent out with Commission to punish our sinnes with the Plague of Pestilence And although such is the prophanenesse of these times most of the Inhabitants being miserably consopated inebriated with heresie doe contemne your suffrages and seeke as farre as they are able vtterly to annihilate that Authority wherewith the King of all Kings hath ennobled you Yet O yee holy company be pleased for their sakes who devoutly craue your patronage protections merits and Intercessions to desire our Lord to be mercifull to all in generall and that he will not for the iniquitie of the Disobedient punish the Obedient But rather in mercy spare the chaffe for love of the wheate least plucking vp the one hee destroy the other before the harvest of separation is come Pray for vs O yee beloved of God heare vs O mercifull IESVS and divert thine anger from vs miserable wretches who meekely come vnto thee relying vpon thy wonted favours O bee pittifull spare vs O benigne IHESV To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost Bee all glory for ever and ever AMEN