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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02266	A sermon preached at St. Maries Spittle on Munday in Easter weeke the fourteenth day of Aprill, anno Dom. 1623. By Walter Bancanqual ...	Balcanquhall, Walter, 1586?-1645.	1623 (1623)	STC 1240; ESTC S100541	40,503	108

they haue sought God wiping all teares from their eyes hath bestowed vpon them And this is all I haue time to say of the fourth Well the Well of Life These now are the foure Wells from whence we may draw these teares this precious Seede which heere wee are commanded to sowe Though prophane men thinke these teares but the badge of hypocrites yet know that Dauid did sowe them who was none but a man according to Gods owne heart That they proceede out of childishnesse and simplicitie yet Dauid did sowe them who was wiser then his Ancients and Teachers though they doe account them womanish and signes of weakenesse yet Dauid did sowe them who had the heart of a Lion and was one of the Worthies and valiant men of Israel Though they thinke they proceed of idlenesse and lazinesse yet did Dauid sowe them a man as full of businesse both in peace and warre as euer was any And if Dauids example wil not serue the turne remember Christ the Sonne of Dauid one farre beyond all the exceptions wherewith prophane men vse to charge the precious teares which wee are to draw from those foure Fountaines So that as from the bitter flowers of Wormewood by the Art of distilling and heat of the fire sweete and wholesome moystnesse and waters are distilled euen so from the bitter consideration of our sinnes miseries for sinne the bitter passion of Christ and our absence from God by the fire and heate of Gods Spirit and this act of spirituall sorrow and weeping do drop and distil teares of farre more vertue and vigour then all the waters you vse to distill which you make serue for so many purposes O sweete waters O precious seede O diuine teares What can you not do You whom God maketh so great account of as that hee putteth you in his owne bottle You which keepe vs from euerlasting teares weeping and gnashing of teeth You that make fat and fertill our hearts like that Fountaine which came out of Paradise Genes 2. and make them bring forth a plentifull haruest of ioy You that both quench our thirst and coole our concupiscences for as when we are thirstie we run to the Well and when our houses are on fire wee run to the water so these teares both lay our thirst and coole our lusts You that doe rayse vp our soules towards heauen as the waters of the Deluge did lift vp the Arke for the peoples teares by the waters of Babylon brought into their minds the remembrance of Sion You that are the viaticum or prouision at our death when wee are trauelling to our euerlasting home as you were to Iphtahs Daughter Dauid Iob and Ezekiah who vpon the sentence of his death turned himselfe to the wall and wept You blood of our soules which crie lowder into the eares of God then either our sinnes or the blood of Abel and therefore in our language is called a crying who next to the blood of Christ speake best things who neuer held your peace though you want tongues and teach our eyes to speake powerfully to the Lord Lament 2. 18. Ne taceat pupilla oculi tui Let not the apple of thine eye hold its peace or take rest Of you I will say no more for such is the sweetnes and force of your owne eloquence with God that whatsoeuer the most eloqueÌ„t toungs or happiest pennes can say or write of you it is farre beneath your worth Happie is the man who hath his bottle full of you his eyes running ouer with you for you are the precious seede here spoken of They that sow in teares And thus much of the first thing in the first season the seed to be committed Teares NOw secondly see the manner of committing this seed it must not be thin or niggardly scattred but sowed plentifully else our Haruest shall bee no reaping but a gathering for he that soweth sparingly shall sparingly reape as the Lord in the parable of the Gospell complained of the reapers so may we now of the sowers he complained that the Haruest was great but the reapers or laborers few We may on the other side complaine that the seed is great here is seed enough neuer more matter and cause of teares but the sowers few few that plentifully shed and powre them out Many now and then will drop a teare vpon the present occasion as in extremitie of heate you shall see sometimes a few drops of raine or a few prodigious drops of bloud to fall but you know the verse Gutta cauat lapidem non vâ— sed saepe cadendo teares will neuer sinke into our stony hearts but by oft falling as wee see drops doe hollow stones And who is there among vs that doth thus sowe them We must shed them often and many at a time often Day and night saith Ieremie without taking rest to our eyes ne taceat pupilla oculi tui day and night saith Dauid and many at a time So many as will fill Gods bottell so many as you may wash your bed and water your couch with them at a time so many as may serue a man for meate and drinke They were my meate saith Dauid and I mingled my drinke with teares As many as would serue to wash ones feete with Marie Magdalen or if wee cannot attaine to that measure of spirituall moysture and perfection of teares with those holy men and women yet let vs doe that which the strict letter of the Text requireth of vs let vs sowe them obserue a seede time for them that is to say set out some certaine times and seasons for the sowing of them principally those which the Church hath or shall set out but euery one his owne times and seasons too according as hee feeleth his owne wants or is touched with the sense of others miseries especially the Church of God I doubt not but that some such sowers there are these are they that stand in the breach and that the wrath of God doth not burne among vs as it doth among many perhaps lesse deseruing then we no question a good part of the cause is the seed of these sowers the many teares of these men of teares which they throw vpon the deuouring flames of wrath which are gone forth from the Lord the number of which teares vnlesse they bee increased and in this combustion of Christendome we will shew our selues as swift in running to the foure Wells aboue mentioned as we can be forward to run and ride if wee heare but of any new vpstart Well in the Countrie and from them bring pales full of teares to quench this flame the fire may go on and as now it is in our neighbours house so next it may take hold of ours Now as all are bound to sowe these teares so they especially who in the Parable of the Sower Matth. 13. 3. are designed by that name I meane Gods

therefore it were not much amisse to make Logicians change their termes and say that flebile or lachrymabile the facultie of weeping is more mans proprium then risibile or the faculty of laughing for wee know that neuer was any man but hee wept at least when hee was borne some men there haue been who for any thing we know neuer laughed as the Fathers all haue obserued it of Christ. I haue not time to bid you shed teares for the miseries common to all men in regard of which the Saints of God haue neuer thought other-wise of this life then of a valley of teares as of a place of exile or pilgrimage by Iacob Dauia Saint Paul of a place of strife and warre by Simeon Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace as of a prison and place of bonds by Saint Paul who accounteth his going out of it a being dissolued or vnbound Now how doe men in exile bonds or vnder a war behaue themselues Not in mirth but mourning in teares not in triumphing I will only now desire you to shed teares for some speciall miseries of this life O you will say that labor may be spared in this place here are none acquainted with any other miseries then those generall ones which humane nature is subiect to Here in this Citie is no miserie pouertie warre complaining in our streetes nor carrying away into captiuitie We haue our Summer and our Winter-houses fulnes of bread beds of Yuorie to stretch our selues vpon wine to make our hearts glad oyle to make our faces shine euery one of vs may su vnder our owne vine and fig-tree and eat the fruite of them therefore let vs feast and laugh we haue no other cause let them mourne and weep whom it concernes O but soft God hath not done so to euery Nation other people in the world feele the weight of al these miseries aboue-named we are commanded to mourne with those that mourne we must shed teares for their miseries aswell as our owne It is the deuils cunning when he meaneth to stop vp this Well of teares to present the state of this vally of teares to vs as he did the estate of the land of Egypt to the Israelites to make them remember the Riuers and cleere Springs there but to forget their seruitude and taske of making of brick to remember their Garlick Cucumbers and flesh-pots but to forget their stripes and bonds or to present it vnto vs as he did it to Christ take vs vp to the top of a high mountaine and from thence shew vs all the riches pompe and pleasures of the world but sheweth vs none of the miseries and calamities of it But now if any of vs from some high Mountaine could but looke downe into this large valley of teares and there haue at once obiected vnto vs all the speciall miseries and calamities which men are suffering there to heare there at once all the sighes of the sicke the tortures and rackings of many mens limbs both by the hand of Iustice and Iniustice the lamentable cryings of the poore for want of bread the faint chillinesse and chattering of many one half starued with cold heare the disconsolate weeping and teares for the losse of parents husbands children friends should see the pitifull anguish and affliction of such as are condemned to row in Galleys work in Minerals to turne in Mils to see how they eate nothing but the bread of sorrow by weight and drinke nothing but the water of affliction by measure to heare their vnpitied roarings and teares at the smart of their vnmercifull lashings nay if you did see from thence the miseries of a besieged Citie to heare the roaring of the Canon the sound of the trumpet and the noise of the Drum to heare the pitifull groanes of men dying and wallowing in their blood or swouning in the streetes for famine to see the women many times as the Prophet hath it to eate their owne children of a span long to see the vncomfortable teares of fathers and husbands for the barbarous rauishing of their wiues and daughters If these and millions of such miseries in the world were obiected to vs all at once and wee did but know what men were doing abroad perhaps it would draw teares from those eyes which now laugh so much See a little the necessitie and vertue of these teares for others I he necessitie of these teares appeareth as did the necessitie of the former 1. by precept 2. practice 1. precept of the Apostle who commandeth vs to mourne with those that mourne Rom. 12. 15. of Iob â—0 25. Did not J weepe with him that was in trouble Was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore Of Jsaiah Jeremie all the Prophets who powred out their soules in teares before the Lord for the miseries God at any time brought vpon his people But let our Master bee as the chiefe mourner in this traine who shed teares for Ierusalems miseries for the griefe of Lazarus his friends for the text saith there directly Iohn 11 15. that Christ was glad for Lazarus his death that his Disciples might beleeue so that he wept only for his friends sake who were then a weeping to shew vs the necessitie of our teares and mourning with those that mourne say the Fathers on that place Now in shedding our teares for others wee shall doe well rightly to distribute them Shed these teares for these speciall miseries of any men though they be both Gods enemies and ours at least in this regard that they should haue deserued them Saint Aug 1. lib. de ciu Dei cap. 6. doth highly extoll the fact of Marcus Marcellus which was this When hee was besieging the famous Citie of Syracusa hee got himselfe vp to an high Turret there to see the issue of the battell and when he saw the Armies on both sides in the furie of â—he fight heard the clashing of the Armes the horrible out-cries of those that were beaten saw the flames of the fire which they had cast into the Towne ascending vp towards heauen heard the noise and terrible cracking of the falling of the houses of that ancient Citie hee could not containe himselfe from teares as if the battell were going against him notwithstanding the victory was sure enough on his side onely because he did see men though they were his enemies endure so much miserie Shall not wee haue as compassionate a mind as a Heathen man had when wee heare of the like miseries which many in the world sustaine though they were enemies to our State to our Religion though they were Papists nay though they were Pagans If his example cannot moue vs to be of his mind yet as the Apostle speaketh Philip. 2. 5. Let that same mind be in vs which was in Christ Iesus who when he came neere the Citie of Ierusalem and with his bodily eyes did see the proud buildings and stately Towers but

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