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A04034	A bundle of myrrhe: or Three meditations of teares The first in the effect. pag.1. Last in the cause of Dauids teares. Psal. 42.3 pag. 270. The middle, and most intended, of religious teares in general. p. 96. The particulars whereof, are prefixed to each page, and principall section.; Bundle of myrrhe.	Innes, William, fl. 1620.	1620 (1620)	STC 14091; ESTC S119560	100,050	414

forewarned of Shimei the fauourer of his owne 2. Sam. 16. and Sauls house howeuer he lurkes yet if euer which God forbid time shold serue he would by his curses openly declare himselfe Dauids enemie a traitor to him in heart vnder whose shadow he had shrouded himselfe during all the time of peace a hater of those of Dauids house with whom in outward appearance he had liued most peaceably wherefore it is wisedome against all occurrences to be armed 1. Sam. If Abner and Amasah both Captaines strong and valourous 2. Sam. 20. of Israel the one the other of Iudahs hoast had not bene too credulous to Ioabs friendly pretēded brother-hood neuer had either so valiant in warre and honourable in peace fallen so suddenly and shamefully If those fourescore from Shechem from Shile and from Samaria hauing their beards shauen and their cloathes rent and hauing cut themselues though in superstition directly forbidden in the Law with offerings and incense in their hands to bring them to the House of the Lord had not so simply consented to deceitfull Ishmael Ier. 41.5.6 7. they had neuer so miserably perished by his trecherie for sure they neuer ceasse off intending if at any time of plotting against the iusts death what kind of calamities they are able which also the Princely Prophet by the circumstance of time implies Obseruatiō 4 Perseuerance in euill For saith he It is said vnto me all the day or euery day so long as the time lasteth so oftē as that space returnes which men call the day so long so often mine enemies reproach me Psal 107.8 as in another place he expoundes himselfe Mine enemies reproach me all the day and in another Psal 56.2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me vp Ver. 5. for that they cease at all by night is not from any asswaging of their cruelty but from necessity of nature which requires sometime rest or of their vicious disposition which buries them in sleepe and wine Wearied they may be in sinne as Babylon in the greatnesse of her way Esay 47.13 but not of it for saith the Apostle They cannot cease from sinne 2. Pet. 2 14. Saul surely so long as euer he could gaue not ouer of pursuing Dauid and Pharao so soone as the scourge ceased returned to afflict the beloued nation And the presidents of Persia so long persecuted to death the man of delights Dan 6. till they cast themselues into the snare Amplificatio And to say no more thereto they haue addicted themselues whereunto their naughtenesseis their guide thereunto they are giuen ouer that is their rest and refuge which often by the word of sitting the Scripture signifies Psal 50.20 Thou sittest speakest against thy brother they that sit in the gate speake against me Psal 69.12 Princes also did sit Psal 119.13 and speake against me Man eaters are they like vnto the Brasilians or Canibals as Saint Paul implyes forbidding criminations vnder the names of biting and deuouring Gal. 5.15 and consuming one another and Iob thus speaking Iob. 31.31 If the men of my Tabernacle said not O that we had his flesh we cannot be satisfied And to his friends Iob 19 22. Why do ye persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh Saith not the holy Ghost of these truly They are gredie dogs Esay 56.11 which can neuer haue enough What shall the seruant of God do here but beare with courage in the present and as he can shortly rid himselfe therefrom following his Lord who vpon the like occasion said For my loue they are my aduersaries Psal 109.4 but I giue my selfe vnto prayer And againe Woe is me that I soiourne in Meshech Psal 120.56 that I dwell in the tents of Kedar my soule hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace And where is hope for to escape Gen 40.14.15 as Ioseph and Ieremie shut vp in prison Ier 37.10 bound with fetters pricked with reproaches of vnreasonable persons as with goades being innocent themselues what way they could procured their owne enlargement so shall he withdraw himself chusing the desert before the furious bellowing of the iudgment hall and citie of Cain Cypr. forum litibus mugit insa●●m euer vnquiet with tumult and noise of barking dogs and yelling wolues and roring Lions and leaue in end them who by their owne presage tell before their restlesse torment vexing now vncessantly so far as they are able them that are quiet in the land Psal 35.20 whose common confession that is and complaint in the words of one Psal 57.3.4 He shall send from heauen and saue me from the reproch of him that would swallow me vp God shall send forth his mercie and his truth My soule is among Lions and I lie euen among them that are set on fire euen the sonnes of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes and their tongue a sharpe sword The speare was sharpe that pierced our Sauiours side Transition to the specialtie of the cause but sharper was that iron which entred into Iosephs soule Psal 105.18 and yet a sharper sword is this tongue by intentiō separating the soule from the life thereof The life of the body is the soule the soule liues by God the life of the body is more inward then the bodie and the soule is without the life thereof So deep he smites that strikes at God Other wounds though in the soule Dauid might perhaps haue borne but that which takes away the life of his life is vnsupportable The word of God is quicke and powerful Heb. 4.10 and sharper then any two edged sword piercing euen to the diuiding asunder of the soule and spirit but of a created spirit The words of man as though he w●re more mightie then God would separate from the soule of man the spirit vncreated for this is the particular cause of Dauids teares that it is said vnto him Where is thy God Fierce is this anger Gen. 49.7 and this wrath most cruell not onely in the kind but also by occasion The kind is robbing God Mal. 2. not by subtractiou of tithe but by denying his prouidence to his owne and to himselfe his Godhead But of the occasion first a little Obseruatiō 5 Impious to aggrauate euill For that euill the vngodly now do aggrauate wherewith the godly man before was grieued He had said before Psal 42.1 When shall I come and appeare before God They aske him Where is thy God Not as the daughters of Ierusalem in the Canticle humbly beleeuing that which clearly they did not vnderstand in desire to learne thus enquire Whither is thy beloued gone Can. 6.1 O thou fairest among women whither is thy beloued turned aside that we may seeke him with thee Nor as God in the beginning louingly teaching man that whereof himselfe could not be ignorant asked Adam

Dauid at that time almost stoned as the cause thereof at another time constrained to leaue Ierusalem for a season yet with hope of safe returne couering his head vncouering his feete though guarded with an armie of valiant men b 2. Sam. 15.30 Weeping as he went vp by the ascent of the mount of Oliues 2. Sam. 15.30 And grieue that I neuer enough reproue mine own stupiditie and sloth and dulnesse O let vs all set before our selues as one of the Ancients c S. Ambros well aduiseth that Adam thrust out the garden d Gen. 2.23.24 kept out by Cherubim and edge of flaming sword which turneth euery way to keepe the tree of life Obserue our wretched father with Eue the mother of her husbands miserie sent out looking backe desiring but not daring to returne somewhile comming trembling wise soone by the lookes of the awfull Angell terrified departing then accusing his wife imputing to her alone the losse of all the plenty pleasure and ease of Paradise her in silence that had abused her tongue with teares and sorrow alone her selfe condemning and him againe looking home reflecting rebukes vpon himselfe at lenght but late acknowledging his follie in too much facilitie to a woman Finally both at length farre remoued that now they may not breathe into that ayre wherein erewhile they had all hearts desire yet in sight confined within some territorie frō whence they may as from afarre looking be moued to thinke what land what Lord what libertie what honours what friends and riches by their owne vnrighteousnes they had lost And this esteeme in present to be the case of each of vs. Thus farre now of the good things lost yet not of the euill ensued of the gifts whereof we are despoiled not of our punishments inflicted Which if I could as easily as I may truly and wofully expresse a day would not suffice briefly to relate them In the soule for knowledge hath ignorance taken place for wisedome follie for righteousnesse iniquitie impiety for holinesse And in the bodie for foundnesse rottennesse for health sicknesse for strength feeblenesse for swiftnesse stifnesse a liuing death for constant life a death beginning at our entry into the world passing along amidst the manifold changes of our few and euill dayes e Gen. 47. perfected at length when we go off the stage but neuer ended except to them that are in Christ So that we are at first loathsome seed in the middle brittle clay at last wormes meate Cherish the flash neuer so much flesh it is and if you consider diligently what issues by the mouth and nose and other passages of the bodie you will confesse as a deuout f S. Bern. me ditati cap. 3. man said A viler dunghill you neuer saw If you could relate in order all its miseries how with sinnes it is laded wrapt in vices itching with concupiscence possessed of passions polluted with illusions euer prone to euill inclined to all naughtinesse you should discerne it full of confusion and all shamefulnesse What is more worthy of teares if you consider the best condition of these present things and if you will foresee what after The grape g S Bern. ser san Cant. once pressed affords no further liquor but with perpetuall drinesse as salt vnsaunrie after is condemned Like so the flesh by deaths presse for euer is dried from all delight neither euer againe recouers strength or stomacke for former wantonnesse Heretruly me thinkes I may assume the Prophets words The precious sonnes of Sion comparable to fine gold Lam. 4.2 how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers the worke of the hands of the potter And a little after V. 7. Her Nazarites were purer then snow they were whiter then milke they were more ruddy in body then rubies their polishing was of saphir but ô what change their eir visage is blacker then a cole V. 8. they are not knowne in the streets their skinne cleaueth to their bones it is withered it is become like a sticke As for the Princes fauour which once we had now to the tyranny of hellish fiends our kind is subiect Can the mind of man with patience behold the seed of Adam miserably serue their lusts Ægyptian bondage is a shaddow compared with this for they in bricke and stone in clay chaffe and stubble but those materiall but earthly and therefore either measurable and so tollerable or as that Stoike l Seneca in Epistolus in libro Qua re bonis viris mala eueni ant said extreame and so in short cutting the thred of life ending paine and doing disgrace away yet God so soone as his people came into the promised land commanded they should be circumcised doing the shame away that still remained saying m Iosh 5.9 This day haue I rolled away the reproach of Æygpt from off you wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal rolling vnto this day Whereby may be coniectured what shame from Satan they haue got who are taken captiue by him at his will n 2. Tim. 2.26 Doth any of you with vnwatered cheekes behold his sonne or brother nephewe or neere friend caught out of your company fettered with chaines bound to the gallies wanting bread cruelly beaten by Turkish vngodlinesse detained abused But if we could looke about vs and behold much more basely slauishly cruelly our brethren at the pleasure of vncleane spirits now as it were with cudgels beaten driuen vp the dangerous hill of pride anon compelled ouer steepe rockes to cast themselues vpon sharpe pikes of many offences sometime them of high descent filling and emptying swine troughes with the prodigall in drunkennesse and gluttonie Others with Sampson in stead of horse or asses grinding in the mill of the fleshes vncleanenesse which all and thousands such slauish conditions this present age affords in filling of mens lusts then should we sure acknowledge necessity of teares What is here not base laborious bitter shamefull and lamentable yet these things daily without teares I wish without laughter without puffing vp 1. Cor. 5. as at the incestuous Corinthian without reioycing in such things of nought we daily see Amo. 6.30 certainely if nothing else yet this it selfe to extort some teares from the eyes of a reasonable minde were all-sufficient I will not here record what sorrowes are come in place of the ioyes of Paradise a cursed earth for the blessed garden thornes and brambles for the tree of life wearinesse for strength to labour poison in steed of foode rebellion of beasts against the obedience of all the creatures I will omit banishment in place of dwelling for plenty scarcity and torments present to come which already partly on other occasions we haue touched and partly shall in better season speake after on better occasion At this time this onely will I say nature hath excellently instructed vs necessity of weeping bringeth forth into the light all mankind with

the elect but who so in this wise sinneth not that is knowledgeth not himselfe to be a sinner or knowledging doth not as the Apostle bids Rom. 12.1 By the mercies of God thus present his bodie a liuing sacrifice holy acceptable vnto God the same hath no part in Christs intercession Now to conclude necessitie with the nature most conueniently Nas●imur in lachrymis lachrymis quoque vita madescit vitam rursus linquimus in lachrymis The Lord of nature and God the giuer yea and rewarder of religious teares hath himselfe ordained that we in teares should come and liue and depart this world Necessitie indeed doth greatly of it selfe commend the subiect The vsefulnes of teares yet profit and pleasure are the things whereby we are most perswaded The pleasure or delight of teares De hac adhuc si placet vide Aug. Confess l. 4. c. 5. I haue in fit place before declared as I could the healthfull and manifold vse thereof shall therfore now succeed For whether we respect our ghostly aduersaries Col. 2. euen those that make the hand-writing of Gods or dinances to be against vs in figure of the floud of Egypt Exod. 14. they are ouerwhelmed Amos 9.5 For thus the Lord in Esay speakes Esa 44.22 I haue blotted out as a thicke cloud thy transgressions and as a cloud thy sinnes Or if we regard our friēds or brethren in distresse S. Basil con tra calumniā 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 affert solatiū lugentibus suspiriorum societas Fellows in tribulation are the afflicteds cōsolatiō This doth the purpose of Iobs friends shew how euer the effect answered not Iob 2 11. For they had made an appointment together to come to mourne with him and to comfort him that is to mourne with him that by others partaking the burden of his griefe his shoulders might be a little eased thereof Next adde we the vse thereof in respect of vs. For first they are auailable for inward consolation insomuch as Ioy fitly cometh after sorow S. Bernard in Cam. serm 68 like as after labour rest the hauen after uracke by sea securenesse is acceptable vnto all but most to him that hath liued in feare to all the light is pleasant but more delightfull to him that is come out of darknesse to haue passed from death to life doubles the benefite thereof Finally as more moderately so more healthfully ioyfully after teares we dilate the spleene with diuinely applauded laughter whereof it is written When the Lord turned againe the captiuitie of Sion Psal 126.1.2 we were like them that dreame then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with singing Another profit we haue by them is for testimonie yet to God I meane not to men for whose testimonie good men are not much solicitous For Teares as speakes that pathetick Doctor are witnesses of the spouse her loue S. Bernardon Caena Dem. ser 9. to whom her beloueds absence is a floud of teares while as she seekes but findes him not Cant. 5.6 she calls but he giues no answer nothing she delights to do but weepe And for this purpose Whatsoeuer is mournfull into her soule she heapes together Finally the allowance of this witnesse is testified by that differēce put by the Lord himselfe Luk. 7. betwixt the Pharisees banquet and the distressed sinners teares Moreouer no lesse the flouds of teares lift vp the soule from the gulfes of worldly lusts Gen. 7.17 then the deluge of waters the Churches Arke For Hanna the religious mother of holy Samuel after weeping triumphantly being exalted makes her boast in God saying 1. Sam 2.1 My heart reioyceth in the Lord mine horne is exalted in the Lord. In whom also as easily though in figure may be seene that plentie of fruites follow the showers of teares for she before barren hath borne now seuen 1. Sam. 2 5. And yet this while in letter we heare but one vnlesse that one because of worth be equalled vnto seuen as by the heathen one Plato to a thousand Hereby that Theoreme of nature appeares also to hold in grace Aristot hist. animal 7. That the raine from heauen is more fruitfull then those that frō the lower wels are deuided vnto the lands that is The Churches teares are more abundant in good workes then all inferiour ordinances and motiues of earthly commonwealths After these is still our benefit but in respect of God a most conuenient way of seeking him For this by the Prophet himselfe doth promise shewing the Israelites of God Gal. 6. and Iewes in spirit Rom. 2. their accesse in the time of grace In those dayes Ier. 50.4 and at that time saith the Lord the children of Israel shall come they and the children of Iudah together going and weeping they shall go and seeke the Lord their God But what were it to seek if we should not find The next is therefore that by weeping in constant seeking Christ with his Angels is seene himself which by another example that serious penitent Marie Magdalen after all other both men and women persisting in seeking him whō she found not where she saw him layed as the holy Euangelist Saint Iohn records in these words Then the Disciples went againe vnto their owne home Ioh. 10.10.11 but Marie namely she that first visited the sepulcher in the morning Ioh. 20.1 and after returned with the Apostles stood without at the sepulcher weeping and as she wept she stouped downe and looked into the sepulcher and seeth two Angels in white sitting the one at the head the other at the feete where Iesus had layen And after a little she turned her selfe backe and saw Iesus standing When her soule in mourning was no lesse then her body bowed downe vnto the dust Psal 44. then sees she him standing that is the conquerer of death whō lately euen dead she had beheld laid in dust The last profit of mourning and if it be lawfull so to speake the first is Gods namely by deliuery of the distressed out of trouble for boldly yet not vntruly faith that Father once and often already named S. Bern. in Cant. serm 68. Thinke you our God shall haue his entire and glorious praise vntill they come who shall in presence of the Angels sing Psal 90.15 Make vs glad according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflicted vs and the yeares wherein we haue seene euill from whose praise if they be wanting who may say Psal 66.12 We went thorough fire and thorough water but thou broughtest vs into a wealthy place I will adde if they be wanting Apoc. 7. from whose eyes he may wipe all teares the tokens of their former sorrowes in signe of changing mourning into perpetuall but most gracious mirth when Esays words shall be fulfilled of them long expected long since vttered by him in this wise Esay 35.10 The ransomed