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A95842	An antidote against sorrovv, in order to the obtaining of sanctified joy. An excellent treatise first written in French by N. Vedelius, then translated into Latine by Gallus Pareus, and now into English, by Cadwallader Winne, M.A.	Vedel, Nicolaus, 1596-1642.; Winne, Cadwallader, b. 1622 or 3, translator.	1650 (1650)	Wing V167; Thomason E1421_1; ESTC R209478	59,453	229

therefore who seeth not that these honours and spirituall riches infinitly surpasse all the riches and glory of this world This is thy present condition as long as thou art in this world as for thy future thou art indeed as all men are subject to death whereby thou obtainest more excellent things than thou couldst injoy in thy life time so that not without cause it is said precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal 116.15 for death will put a period unto all thy adversities and will be the beginning or rather the fulfilling of all good things By death thou ceasest to sinne and provoke God thy father to anger and to commit such things as are unworthy thy eminent condition as long as thou art clothed with the mantle of flesh the concupiscence thereof will vexe and solicite thee with that unchaste woman saying lie with me But when thy mantle as that of Elias when he ascended into heaven shall fall from thee it shall never trouble nor molest thee By death thy last enemy all the rest of thy enemies shall be put to flight They shall be never able to hurt and entrap thee Thou shalt be freed from the feare of all dangers which in this life abide thee It will rid thee from all molestations milteries afflictions cares and griefes Thy foule being severed from thy body will escape as a bird out of the snare of the fouler the snare is broken and wee are escaped Psal 124.7 Being then freed from innumerable torments and troubles she shall enter into rest insomuch that when the last houre shall make the neerest approach thou mayest say unto her Return unto thy rest O my soule for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee Psal 116.7 Departing this world she shall enter into heaven to injoy eternall happinesse and rejoyce at the beatificall vision of her heavenly bridegoome Then shee goeth forth to behold King Solomon with the Crowne wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals and in the day of the gladnesse of his heart Cant. 3.11 As for thy body it shall returne into dust but it shall not long remain in that state It is sown verily in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sown in dishonour it is raised in power it is a naturall body it is raised a spirituall body 1 Cor. 15.42,43,44 so that the death of the body is nothing else but as feed cast into the earth producing in its time most plentifull fruit Then being reunited to the soule shall bee brought into the Kings chambers where it will bee glad and rejoyce for ever and enjoy plenary possession of ineffable happinesse which eye hath not seene nor eare heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 Goe to then if thy condition hath beene so miserable and will bee so happy hast not thou sufficient cause to rejoyce Now thou art sorrowfull and despairest and sufferest molestations which thou canst not repell or drive away from thee repeating these words to thy selfe Alas when will that day appeare wherein I shall have cause of rejoycing and rendring thanks to God Know this that the meditation of spirituall benefits were there no other occasion moving thee to rejoyce should bee a most weighty motive inducing thee thereunto and even without intermission to praise God amidst the most grievous calamities How would that wretched Captive rejoyce being set at liberty from the darke and noysome dungeon with what exultation did that lame man restored to his feet by Peter praise God Act. 3.8 The guilty person being certified of his Princes pardon even at the very nick hee is to suffer for joy is as it were wrapt out of himself Judge thou whether all the miseries of this world may bee compared to that out of which God hath rid thee Canst thou be so sencelesse and dull as not to rejoyce from the bottome of thy heart in that he hath delivered thee from those infinite calamities those everlasting burnings and darknesse where is weeping and gnashing of teeth Thou art really possessed thou hast a most just cause to be sorrowfull and conclude thy condition to bee miserable and unhappy Then verily thou shouldst have cause to complaine of thy miseries if God had left thee in the state of corruption and misery Alas how many miserable Infants are there and will bee in hell who have knowne neither good nor evill And how many are damned who though they lived in this world without the feare of God yet committed not such grievous sinnes as thou didst and thought they worshipped God aright But since they lived without faith neither made Gods will revealed in his word a rule to square their actions by were sons of perdition And could not God leave thee in the very same misery hee left them in by his just judgement Consider then how much happier thou art then so many Miriads of men who are eternally damned Consider further how farre happier thou art than innumerable wicked men who whilest they lived in this world were seemingly blessed in regard of honours riches pleasures powers estimation and authority How infinitly and without comparison is thy condition happier than their state in that they persisting in their sinnes are reserved to horrible punishments and unutterable torments God forbid then thou shouldst envy their varnishing happinesse and deceitfull prosperity and that thou wilt not consider how much happier thou art than those as being not liable to the same condemnation And if thou canst not find in thy heart to be joyfull in that hee hath not left thee in that miserable plight Behold thou hast a more weighty motive thereunto in that hee hath translated thee into a most happy condition vouchsafing to receive thee into the number of his children for he is not onely satisfied to deliver thee from so many evils but he sends thee as many benefits That speech of Christ unto his Disciples concerns thee Rejoyce that your names are written in heaven Luk. 10.20 Thou wouldst really rejoyce if thou wert now in the state of innocency wherein Adam was in that earthly paradise but assure thy selfe there is greater than paradise here For thou receivest more blessings and honours in Christ than thou hast lost in Adam Then man was Gods creature now thou art his sonne in Christ The first man was formed out of earthly matter thou art borne of heavenly and incorruptible seed Gods word In thy former state thou couldst sin as that dolefull experience witnesseth In this thou canst not sinne In that thou wert subject to die whereas the life prepared for thee in Christ hath neither end nor consummation Lastly doth not the consideration of thy future condition move thee to rejoyce The time will shortly appeare wherein all thy adversities and miseries shall be brought to a period and thou shalt possesse all those things which God hath prepared

AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST SORROVV IN Order to the obtaining of sanctified joy An excellent treatise first written in French by N. Vedelius then translated into Latine by Gallus Pareus and now into English By Cadwallader Winne M. A. London Printed for George Lathum and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Bishops head in Pauls Church-yard 1650. The Authors Preface TO The most Noble and Renowned Iames Micheley Nicholas Vedelius wisheth Grace Peace through our Lord Jesus Christ Most Noble Sir THere is no mortal man but is subject to sorrow which so disordereth the sweetnesse of his life if it hath any that it turnes it altogether into bitternesse and wearisomnesse It spares none neither Kings nor Princes nor such as are placed in higher and more eminent auhority yea the higher in dignity they bee the more violently it sets upon them like waves which dash against the highest rocks in the sea with most vehement motion The weapons which this most prevalent mischiefe useth against us are as manifold as the afflictions themselves whereunto we are exposed in this life wherein are all manner of molestations and miseries some more grievous than others not unlike to greater and lesser living Creatures that are found in the vast Ocean and to divers and innumerable creeping things on the earth for one while one sorroweth as feeling some spirituall evill and assaulted by some grievous and stinging temptation which gives him most vehement blowes and shakes him insomuch as it hurles him well-nigh into hell that is desperation otherwhile some temporall miseries assault him in regard whereof hee is of a heavy drooping countenance his sounder senses disordred and his whole person depressed and cast downe And what Christian is there whom the miserable and calamitous face of the Church afflicts not what house holder is there that is not afflicted with the afflictions accompanying marriage Look how holier the state is and the more excellent be the blessings therof the more grievous afflictions it sustaines It happens that desparity in nature betwixt man and wife afflicts the mind as when an Abigail is married to Baball or a Moses is conjoyned with Zephorah that is so contrary to him A barren bed afflicts others untoward disposition of children torment others which at last brings them to a tragicall end others lament the untimely death of their children who for the present were their joy and comfort and hopefull for the time to come and their cutting off by some strange and extraordinary mischace heightens their griefe Hither may be referred the death of one of the married persons and decease of our beneficiall kinsfolke and allies Neither is the state of single life free divers nay innumerable molestations attend it to wit perfidiousnesse crafty wiles of enemies dishonesty ignominy contempt poverty losse of goods imprisonment banishment imperfections both in body and soule diseases and at last after the chaine of so many evils death it selfe which either feare preconceived or present invasion presents to his view Moreover neither doth that which is really calamitous only breed in us sorrow but even joy it selfe carries with it this inseparable companion as the body the shadow either in respect those things which thou wishest fall not out so as thou desirest they should or because all manner of joy is as it were a certaine forerunner of sorrow wherein it ends To say nothing here that in that very time that prosperity on the one side cheers up thy spirit some sinister thing on the other side is annexed moving thee to be sorrowfull and as there is none that is not subject to this passion so none can be found that is so bluntish that wisheth not to bee discharged therefrom To which end divers use divers meanes for there be some that use meanes altogether unlawfull to be rid thereof but are successelesse and more than that are oftentimes worser than the disease as Ahab did following his wife Iezabells counsell whom when she saw so heavy that he would eat no bread shee came unto him and said unto him why is thy spirit so sad that thou eatest no bread let thy heart be merry and I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth 1 K. 21.5.7 for which purpose she subornes false witnesse against the innocent and with the wine and blood of Naboth makes the King merry and joyfull others think to withstand this evil by other means which are indeed in themselves indifferent the use whereof is not able to drive it away and the abuse ignominious and opprobrious unto him that applieth them to wit when strong drink is given to him who is ready to perish and wine to those that be of heavy hearts that hee may drink and forget his poverty and remember his miserie no more Pro. 3.6,7 There are great many drinkers an unhappy crue who would suffocate and drown their sorrowes in wine which will at last bite like a serpent and sting like an adder and cause thee to crie out woe is me woe is mee Prov. 23.29,32 Meat and musick are of like nature being abused and turned into carnall pleasure whereby many doe endeavour to put farre from them the day of calamity as the Holy Ghost speaks Am. 4.5,6,7 Hither may be referred those speeches and discourses which are framed by humane reason to expell it and to minister comfort to the afflicted but they cannot doe him any good for they leave him at last in perplexity of mind discourses I say which are not onely able to drive away this evill but are sometimes frivolous idle foolish yea evill and pernicious Such consolation did Absalon suggest sometimes to his sister Thamar who fell into desperation by reason of the violent incest wherewith Amon deflowred her Hath Amon thy brother said hee been with thee but hold now thy peace my sister hee is thy brother regard not this thing 2 Sam. 13.19 A fair spoken speech if credible and good comfort forsooth which was that she should patiently beare with that ignominious and execrable infamy for that she was deflowred not by any other but by her owne brother But his words wrought nothing upon miserable Thamar for the Holy Ghost saith that she remained desolate in her brother Absalons house Further those books which are forced I know not with what fables trifles toies or other narratives whether true or feigned are of the same bran wherewith sorrowfull men use to drive away the time and melancholy Hither may be referred the exercises of the body as hunting and the like lawful recreations whereby the sorrowfull man strives to rid his mind of cares wherein there is not only that defect found comon with other insufficient meanes in that when these recreations are finished heavinesse waxeth fresh againe but there is also this discommodity therein that they are not answerable to the nature of his disease as being ill applied these excercises working directly upon the body but upon the mind indirectly and accidentally onely

Gentleman no more than the beard the Phylosopher give it then entertainment and hug it with your best affections aswell in respect it may prove in this mournfull age a Cordiall and restorative for your declining age as because it speaks not the language of the scurrilous malevolent abusive brats of the swelling fancies of these last times wherein mens minds labour with strange and fearfull expectations times I say which have produced as Africa some uncouth mishapen monsters I had almost said every morning bitter invectives I meane which are no better than Libels which are stiled and not without cause by a most Noble learned eloquent personage of this land Sir Fran. Bacon Females of sedition such as were never seene in this temperate region Zeale misgoverned hath quickned them into a numerous swarme like so many Egyptian Locusts and are compiled perchance by the Adorers of that spirituall Egypt and Sodom embracers of that woman spoken of in the Revelation which is drunken with the bloud of the Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Iesus Rev. 17.6 insomuch that they have fluttered and taken their flight into every corner of this Kingdome darkning even to consternation and amazement the cleare aire of truth The Presse hath groan'd is bringing to light such dismal il-boding spurious brats who assoon as they are borne to use the Psalmists words go astray speak lies wiperous brood which have made it their only design enterprize and work to burst asunder the bowels of our mother the Church and tear in pieces the seamlesse coat of Christ But Sir for this poore Infant I present unto you it speaks not daggers it despiseth not dominions nor speaks evill of dignities it railes not at principalities and powers It comes not with a rod but with the spirit of meeknesse It exhorts lovingly the sorrowfull afflicted man to take courage and rejoyce in the Lord It sheweth sorrow to bee good for nothing but sinne It admonisheth the faithfull man to be of the Syrens disposition whom they report to be most joyfull when most of all oppressed and compassed about with stormes and tempest It teaches him to be of that Godly mans temper mentioned by one of the Ancients who though he had lost all his goods and substance was so farre from being sorrowfull that this was his prayer Lord thou knowest where all my goods are laid up in store he meant in the Kingdome of Heaven where neither moth doth corrupt and where theeves doe not break through and steale Matt. 6.19 a Kingdome incorruptible undefiled that fadeth not away 1 Pet. 1.4 a Kingdome where there is an induring substance Heb. 10.34 Where God shall wipe away all tears from our eyes where shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying nor pain Rev 21.4 but spirituall joy surpassing mans understanding and that for ever wherewith the God of all comfort and consolation crowne your hoary haires after fulnesse of happinesse and dayes in this world which shall bee some part of the prayers early and late of your most observant obedient and dutifull sonne Cadwallader Winne The Contents of the Chapters following CHAP. I. The first ground or reason why the faithfull man should renounce worldly sorrow is drawn from its filthinesse and deformity CHAP. II. The second ground or reason is drawn from the pernicious effects thereof CHAP. III. The third ground or reason why the faithfull man should abandon it and be joyfull is drawn from Gods spirituall grace in Iesus Christ CHAP. IV. The fourth ground or reason consists in the corporall benefits conferred by God CHAP. V. The fift ground or reason is drawn from Gods providence and that the faithfull man should for the future hope to receive corporall benefits CHAP. VI. The sixth ground or reason is that afflictions themselves yield matter of joy CHAP. VII The seventh and last ground or reason is drawne from the condition of the faithfull man in this world which consisteth herein that hee is a traveller journeying into his countrey AN Antidote against sorrow CHAP. I. The first ground or reason why the faithfull man should renounce worldly sorrow is drawn from its filthinesse and deformity WOrldly sorrow wherewith thou art now possessed winds it selfe into thy heart under the specious colour of lawfull care under the pretence of decorum or comelinesse naturall honesty and of pittying thee as also under the vizard of doing thee good and friendship and of procuring thee refreshment But I would have thee know that there lies in it nothing but trecherie and deceit which thou shalt most manifestly perceive the vizard thereof being pull'd off by visibly discerning the face of this chymera for then thou shalt find it a monster exceeding deformed impure and abominable most cruell furious and pernicious In this Chapter it shall suffice us to unfold in some proportionits deformity and more fully in the following Wee affirme therefore sorrow being predominant in mans heart to be a filthie passion and altogether infamous as burdening him with reproach and ignominy which will more cleerly appeare considering it in relation to God his Neighbour and lastly him in whom it freely domineeres In relation to God it is manifest that it is contrary unto him divers manner of wayes for it sets light by and contemnes his commandment often enjoyning us heartily to rejoyce Rejoyce in the Lord and againe I say rejoyce Phil. 4.4 Consonant hereunto is the counsell of the wise man Give not over thy mind to heavinesse and afflict not thy selfe in thine own counsell love thy own soule and comfort thy heart and remove sorrow farre from thee Eccles 30.21,24 And againe take not heavinesse at heart drive it away and remember thy last end Eccles 38.20 Neither doth it lesse thwart Gods providence for it causeth one to thinke that the hand of God hath not wrought his afflictions neither fastneth hee his eyes upon divine providence howsoever in words acknowledging it But if hee would firmly believe afflictions to be the worke of his providence he should find therein more matter of joy than sorrow the afflictions of the godly being badges of Gods love tending to the good and salvation of his faithfull ones And though he be constrain'd to think upon God and to acknowledge his visitation upon him with this or that affliction hee presently offends him another manner of way for he is impatient and by his frequent murmuring accuseth God himselfe That displeaseth him which is acceptable to God and complaines of his wil saying Thou art a bloudy husband to me Exod. 4.26 And with that wicked servant I knew thou wert a hard man Mat. 25.24 and hating that which is a token of Gods love and being in extreme danger of the losse of his spirituall life hee spills that medicine which should have been so necessary for him yea blames the Physician himselfe for stretching a healing helping hand It causes him to be pagan like distrustfull of Gods goodnesse and the verity of

world Joh. 5.4 But what is it to overcome it It is not for one to make himselfe a slave thereunto neither to stoop to adversities on the one side nor to place his felicity therein on the other Hee that doth this may assuredly perswade himselfe to be borne of God and to enjoy Gods benevolence and grace whereby the world is vanquished Contrarily one by being sorrowfull plainly testifieth that he is desperately in love with this world Moreover it openeth a gap to the devill to assault him with divers temptations and bring him into thousand evills and hainous sinnes The murtherer Cain may serve for an example whose anger was not onely kindled but his countenance fell assoone as God disrespected his sacrifice which moved him to kill his brother It induces him to become an Apostate or revolter from the true Religion subscribing and consenting to the lies of Satan when calamity is set before his view as Poverty banishment imprisonment and death which hee is bound to suffer for the confession of truth It makes him dispaire and to lay violent hands upon himselfe and ministreth an opportunity to the devill to set aside his proper shape and appear unto such as give themselves thereunto visibly as it hapned to the Egyptians in times past which were as the wise man witnesseth scattered under a darke vaile of forgetfulnesse being horribly astonished and troubled with strange apparitions Wisd 7.3 It gives way to the envious man the devill to perswade him to make a covenant with him and renounce his baptisme as witches are wont to doe which being done hee possesseth vexeth and tormenteth him after a wonderfull manner Behold the mischiefes thereof behold the off-spring the sorrowfull man breedeth in his bosome who seeth not that the grievousest plague is that of the heart Eecl 25.13 And it cannot be but it should produce the greatest mi●fortune and misery it being the grievousest punishment and curse which God threatneth to the transgressors of his Law The Lord shall give thee a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind Deut. 28.65 I will distresse Jerusalem and there shall be heavinesse and sorrow it shall be unto me as Ariel Esay 29.2 Thus saith the Lord of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel they shall eat their bread with carefulnesse Ez. 12.19 Remove farre from thee this most dangerous disease and embrace Godly mirth which as hath been said doth not onely become Gods children but affords excellent commodities It represents to the joyfull mans view the happy successe of future things causing him to beare all things patiently and to follow his businesses or employments or forgoe them having regard to time and other circumstances And howsoever all things fall not out according to his mind yet he is contented with his condition Hee handles worldly things as they are in their owne nature fading and indifferent and being not clogg'd by them he goes on lustily in the way of life till hee hath prosperously finished his journey Hee leads his life as quietly as hee can in this world neither aggravates it with new miseries being burthensome enough of it selfe His understanding is sound and perfect in that hee judgeth not according to his affection but as reason directeth him his body is recreated and refreshed thereby Hee knowes experimentally what Solomon speakes of a merry heart doth good like a medicine Prov. 17.22 A merry heart hath a continuall feast Prov. 15.15 and againe The gladnesse of the heart is the life of man and the joyfulnesse of a man prolongeth his dayes Eccl. 30.22 Moreover one endued with this sanctified joy is most assured of Gods love and throughly furnished against Satan so as he cannot exercise his power and force upon him In briefe the blessing of the heavenly father resteth upon him and in that hee rejoyceth it is the worke of grace and because he rejoyceth in God it is an infallible signe that God hath pleasure in him Wherefore be not sorry for the joy of the Lord is our strength Neh. 8.11 and say I will greatly rejoyce in the Lord my soul shall be joyfull in my God Esay 61.10 CHAP. III. The third ground or reason why the faithfull man should abandon it and be joyfull is drawn from Gods spirituall grace in Iesus Christ THere is nothing which should beget a greater measure of joy in the faithfull man than the contemplation and enjoyment of spirituall benefits which God hath conferred upon him for thereby he is freed from the grievousnesse of his misery and translated into a most happy condition which thou faithfull soule being in misery and sorrow which now boils within thee and is fixed in thy breast shouldst especially take into consideration That thou maist cleerly perceive as thou oughtest Gods grace and judge more rightly of the excellency of his benefits Consider with me I beseech thee these three things to wit thy state past present and to come What is man in respect of his past estate but naturally the child of wrath and eternall condemnation for whereas he was originally created after the image of God now hee is deprived thereof by his incredulity and rebellion which is the cause that by the most just sentence of God hee is adjudged to death that is to all manner of miseries spirituall and corporall temporall and eternall wherein hee involved all his posterity Hence it is that man is conceived and borne in sin and so being deprived of righteousnesse he inclines to all vice his understanding darkned his will maliciously bent all his affections depraved and out of order Out of this corrupt fountaine it cannot be but an infectious and corrupt streame should flow to wit perverse abominable thoughts words answerable to the abundance depravation of his heart actions altogether unsavory to Gods will Briefely he is dead in sinnes and so cursed in the sight of God unto whom that speech of Martha may be applied Lord by this time he stinketh for he hath beene dead foure dayes Jo. 11.39 for whereas once hee was the temple of God how he is become a noisome den and sinke whereinto that infernall soule disburthens his filth Nay hee rebells against God and enters into acts of hostility the wrath of God is thereupon revealed from heaven against all his unrighteousnesse and ungodlinesse Rom. 1.17 Being left then to himselfe by Gods judgement he followes his own wayes he is given to a reprobate sense whereupon he feeles divers curses inflicted by God who either punisheth him in his goods in his body in his honours or in such as are deere unto him one while hee armes the heaven to be his enemy otherwhile the Elements otherwhile beasts otherwhile he makes men to fall out amongst themselves At length he cuts him off from the land of the living whom vengeance dogges no lesse than before for his soule no sooner forsakes the body but it endureth infernall paines untill the resurrection at what time the