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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