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A03411	The arraignement of the vvhole creature, at the barre of religion, reason, and experience Occasioned vpon an inditement preferred by the soule of man against the prodigals vanity and vaine prodigality. Explained, applyed, and tryed in the historie and misterie of that parable. From whence is drawne this doome orthodoxicall, and iudgement divine. That no earthly vanity can satisfie mans heavenly soule. ...	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.; Hobson, Robert.; Henderson, Robert, 17th cent.; Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; Droeshout, Martin, b. 1601, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 13538.5; ESTC S103944	228,566	364

many moe holding this is the thing that I urge that as other Creatures cannot be fed with such food as is discrepant from their natures as hay cannot bee food for the Dog Wolfe Foxe those wilde Dogs nor bones for the Horse Cow Sheepe as not fitting their kindes holding so in their severall Individuum so the soule cannot be nourished with these earthly things they are not food convenient for which wise Hagar prayes k De vsu partium l. 1. cap. 17. l. 9. c. 4. l. 3. de locis affect cap. 3. in the h Pro. 30.8 Proverbs for as materiall things cannot be filled with i Materiale non agit in Jmmateriale spirituall as a mans stomacke cannot be filled with wisedome nor a Chest with vertue so that which is materiall cannot be filled with that which is immateriall now the Soule being neither composed of the Elements and humors as Empedocles * Sic Clearchus Anaxagoras Aerium in quid putaverunt held nor being the vitall spirit of the bloud as the Stoicks held nor a certaine exhalation of the purest of the bloud as Galen held nor a fiery body as Lucippus and Hipparchus l Tholos syntax artis mirab l. 24. c. 4. p. 599. held nor an Aeriall body as Critias Anaximenes and that Cynicke m Alij quadam alia vt tradit Theod l. 5. cont infid Arist 1. de anima cap. 2. held nor a watery n Jdem ibid. substance as Hippon thought nor an earthly as Hesiod imagined nor a fire and Ayre as Epicurus nor of Water and Earth as Zenophon conceited nor a heat Complexion or any Corporeall quality diffused through the body as Zeno Cleanthes Antipater and Possidonius were perswaded nor extraduce by propagation from the Parents as Tertullian and some Phylosophers o Nutat in hae sententia Arist l. 2. c. 1. sic Galen Tertullianus Apollinaris Alexand. ut refert Gr. Nissenus lib. 2. de anima c. 6. in h. tripert l. 5 cap. 44. thought confuted by p De Haeresi ad quod vult Deum haer 58.59 Hier. Tō 7. in cap. 12 Eccles sic idem Aug. Epist 157 Tom. 2. St. Augustine not a middle thing betwixt the spirit and the body as q In Clavi p. 138.137 142 Dorne a late Writer thought nor a third substance as Didimus and Origen conceited as they are refelled by the same r De Eccl. Dogm Tom. 3. cap. 2. Father but as ſ De anima p. 19. Melancton and more fully the learned t Lib. de Defin. animae et Epist 7. de Orig. an Augustine defines it and Athanasius confirmes it Since this Soule in man is a substance created a spirit intelligent invisible immortall incorporeall like the Angels and most like unto God in bearing the image of her Creator It will never take any complacency in these grosse earthly materiall terrestriall things as cleane contrary or contradictory to the nature of it it cannot bee nourished nor as Hyppocrates well * Lib. 1. de victus ratione disputes is able to be altered by meates and drinkes or ought else corporeall The proud mans Soule can never be filled with Popular Ayre though hee gape never so wide the Soule of the Covetous man will never be filled with Gold Silver Pearles Iems Stones Mettals though he should swallow the best of the Earths or Seas Extractions as the Aestridge doth Iron The Soule of the Luxurious man will never be nourished with the flames of Lust as the x Negat Galenus lib. 3. cap. 4. de Temper et Diosc l. 2. c. 56. Salamandrum igne vivere asserit tamen praeter Ar. et Plin. Aug. de Civ dei Salamander the y In Aerarijs fornacibus bestiolas quasdam pennatas in medio igne nasci asserunt Arist l. 5. hist c. 19. Fire-flye and u Tom. 4. tract de definit Eccl. the Crecket with the fire-materiall Nor the Envious man will ever feed with Poyson like the Spider Aristotles z Sectiō 28 Problem 9. rule in these and all the rest holding right that qui solido cibo non vescuntur perinde afficiuntur ac si nullum penitus capiant Those that feed not on meates solid and right fitted and suited for them it 's all one as if they were fasting The third reason of the insufficiency of these huskish Vanities and the sufficiencie that is in God the prime and principall verity is deducted and drawne from the immensitie of mens appetites which are so infinitely extended and dilated that they cannot be replenished by any finite object more then the Coat or Armour of a Pigmee will fit the Gyant a Que Brachia Centum Briareus apud Claudianum et Virg. l. 6. Aeneid Briareus or the b Nam quātus qualis cavo Polyphemus in Antro Vir. l. 3. Aeneid Polyphemian Cyclops for no faculty of the Soule so represents Gods Infinitie as that which Philosophy calls Epithumetike the burning appetite or desire of the Soule which is so spacious and extensive that the Prophet hath compared it to Hell and and to c Hab. 2.5 Death which cannot bee satisfied and therefore since no finite object is able to fill up this gaping Chasma this insatiable Gulfe of the Soules appetite to satisfie this all-devouring Minotaure till it cry Hoe or d Pro. 30.15 enough there must be some infinite object for the better conceiving of this suppose according to e Aquinas 1.1 q. 78. art 1.3 p. 168 Schoole-divinity that every faculty in nature requireth such an object as is fitting unto it it must needs follow that Appetitus Appetitum the desire and what 's desired must be proportioned as Locus Locatum or else there should be both Vacuum Vanum in nature which is against the rules of f Prob. sect 8. Probl. 9. Tō 2. p. 461 Philosophy for since God and Nature doe nothing in g Arist l. 1. de Coelo c. 4. Tō 1. p. 156 vaine if there were not in Nature some object fitted and proportioned to fill the appetite the largenesse of it unfilled should admit both Vacuity and h Inanis vanus erit appetitus Arist l. 1. Eth. c. 1. Tom. 2. pag. 604. Vanity which erres and abhorres from the very scope and course of Nature now if any doubt the Capacity and indeed rapacity of mans appetite let us take a briefe Synopsis or survay into the severals and according to i Aquinas 1. q. 7. art 2. p. 14. q. 59 art 1. p. 127 q. 6. art 1 pag. 129. Aquinas dividing the generall appetite into the three speciall kindes of Naturall Sensible Intellectuall wee shall see in all and every one of them an infinite avidity and greedinesse not to bee filled with any finite Creature or ought else than the infinite Creator as Aquinas in many places disputes and of which many instances might be given And first to begin with

and carryes him even beyond himselfe as the Ship that breakes Cable is caryed into the maine continent even sometimes against the maine Rocks oh then as Plato and Tully speake of Vertue could we view and contemplate that beauty which is in God which is indeed pure and essentiall without all mixture of Corruption Naturall or Pigments of Art Mirabiles amores excitaret sui How should we be taken with it How ravished How refreshed As the * How sweetly and necessarily the Angels love God Vide Aquin. contra Gent. cap. 67. Angels and Soules and Spirits of the lust are now in Heaven how should we say as PETER IAMES and IOHN who saw but a Glympse of it in the Mountaine where Christ was transfigured Bonum est esse hìc It is good for vs to be here Let us build x Mat. 17.4 Tabernacles this is Bethel Gods house here God will be y Ge. ̄ 21.16 seene the place is holy ground Exod. 3.5 Whereas on the Contrary that Love which is meerely kindled and inflamed from naturall beauty inherent in the Creature unlesse in obedience to Gods ordinance in the lawfull use of mariage as ABRAHAM enjoyed his beautious z Ge. ̄ 12.11 SARAH ISAAC his beateous a Gen. 26.7 REBECHA IACOB his beauteous b Gen. 29. RACHEL or by natures instinct amongst the Heathen Collatine his Lucretia Adnetus his Alcest Orpheus his c Quintil. l. 2. Orpheus Euridice and Assuerus his Aesther if this Love I say be not kept as Fire within the Chimney as the Lyon within the Grate the Sea within his bounds but be lustfull e Homer Odysse et Ouid Metam 4. extravagant exorbitant placed on wrong objects where 's then the content that 's in it Nay what Racke is it to the Mind What torture to the Soule A Gibbet to the Conscience A staine to Reputation A wound to d Pro. 6.33 a good name in a word a pleasing yet fatall Poyson a bewitching Circes a killing Basiliske a Vultur gnawing on Titius his Liver a furious Disease of the Minde as one quaestions f Carolus a Lorine an amor sit morbus it and Tully concludes g In his Tusculcanie quaestions it a lingring Fire as the Poets styled h Horat. Od. 19. lib. 1. it stupifying i Obstupuit primo aspectu S●donia Didu Gorgon yea a species of madnesse as Ficinus tearm'd it a Melancholy madnesse as Rhasis held it yet madnesse it selfe as Plato called it an Error and a Terror as the Proverbe speakes it k Comment in Plat. c. 12 and the practise of most have found it Non Deus vt prohibent amor est sed amaror error Love is no God as foolish Men doe call But error terror bitternesse and Gall. And therefore if we have any peace in this affection of Love we must turne the streame of Naturall love into a Spirituall Love Phylosophy tells us that naturall motion is better than that which is against Nature but Divinity tels us otherwayes that Love is best which is different from Nature the fruit of l Gal. 5.22 Grace for ever since we were as the demerit of sinne turn'd out of Paradise in that Apostasie and fall like as when a man falls topsie turvie from a Rocke or promontory our desires have beene turn'd upside downe as a dish with the bottome upwards we falling headlong as it were from Heaven to Earth like a Child that turnes in the Mothers body our love is turn'd wrong wee need the hand of a skilfull Midwife even the Spirit of Grace to turne it right againe else the birth of this Carnall love may be the death of the Heart that breeds it as prooving a Viperous m Faetum vlpere matris Alvum lacerare testam Aelian hist l. 1. c. 25. Isodor l. 12. c. 3. Basil exem hom 9 off-spring and therefore as when a man bleeds too much at the Nose to stay bloud another n The Generall practice of Physicke in Folio way so it s our best Soule-Physicke to turne the course of our earthly loves which satisfie not into a Heavenly and Spirituall love towards God in whom is all Contentation Consolation and Satisfaction So shall we be assured of true peace from the God of Peace Phillip 4.7 Ioh. 16.33 For as the lower part of of the Elementary Region is the seat of Windes Tempests Earthquakes but that part which is towards Heaven is alwayes peaceable and o Applicat Gaminianus in summa exempl similitudinum l. de Coelo Elementis still so our love shall be ever full of unquietnesse and unsetlednesse whilst it rests and seates on these base and brittle things below but when it takes the winge of an Aeagle ascends up above raiseth itselfe up towards Heaven fixeth upon Gods Promises in the assurance of the pardon and forgivenesse of sinnes the want of which assurance is the cause of all the doubts distractions and want-rest p Psal 6. Ps 32.3.4.5 Psal 38. per totum of the Soule then is the Soule at rest as in her proper Center and fixt as on the true Pole till this her best food is but Huskes for Swine her best peace security satiety her best Harvest of Vanities seed eyther horror of Conscience q Gen. 4. Cain and r Mat. 27.3 Iudas or lethargicall be nummednesse as in ſ 1. Sā 25.37 Nabal yea her best Consolation hearts vexation or approaching confusion though for the time neither felt nor feared for as the Snow water easily turnes into yce the yce into water againe as it is now frozen now thawed seldome constant some few houres in one forme but as an acute Phylosopher concludes t Scaliger cōtra Cardanū exercit 119 pag. 435. it when the yce is so congealed in the Alpes that it turnes into u De Generatione Christalli ex aquis Basil exem hom 3 Isodor l. 16. c. 1 3. et August de Mirab Scripturae l. 1. c. 24 Chrystall then by reason of the hardnesse of it turnes into no other forme all the Sunne and heat in the World will not melt it nay the Iron Mall will hardly breake it so in our earthly loves we are changed and carried yea hurried divided distracted now this way now that hither and thither backward and forward to and fro as a feather in the Ayre with the Wind now pleased now displeased now frolicke now froward now sad now glad now merry now melancholy ever vaine and foolish and fluctuate in all our wayes irregular in every Act but when our Love is once truly fixed and fastens upon God himselfe then it is as firme as Chrystall as strong as * Cant. 8.6 Death as unmoveable as Mount Syon as joyous as when sorrowing x Luk. 2.48 Mary weeping y Ioh. 20.15 Magdelen and mourning z Ioh. 11.20 15 Martha met with Christ their Saviour whom theyr Soules loved CHAP. XVI

all unregenerate men desires to bee filled and refreshed but all in vaine for as ERASMVS k In his Periphrase on Luk. chap. 15 hath it though like sweet Huskes they puffe up the belly as a windy bladder or the Pipers bagge and delight for a time yet they neyther fill nor furnish the minde with any good they neither satisfie nor fatten l Nec sati●t nec saginant animam the Soule they vanish like Tobacco into smoake and as smoake into Ayre and like Ayre into nothing they m Et redit in Nihilum quod fuit ante Nihil never turne in Succum sanguinem as good meate as the Childrens bread into sollid nutriment to sustaine the Similary or dissimilary part to augment and nourish eyther the Body Blood or Spirit vitall or animall But as wee have seene this in the Mysterious and Spirituall sence so wee shall see a little more clearely into the propounded poinct from the very Letter If from the grounds of Physicke Philosophie and Historie wee make a little further scrutiny into the Name nature quality and operation of these Huskes in Symbolicall Theologie wee shall from the Schoole of Nature as many moe have done n As Iob chap. 37.38 39. Salomon in Canticis passim Proverbijs Valesius in sua sacra Philosophia Alstedius in Theolog Naturali Dane us in Physic Christian Gemimanus in summa exemp Bercherius in Reductorio in Sylva Allegoriarum in folio before us reade in this most pleasing and profitable poinct to every illuminated Christian even lectures of Grace For whether we take huskes as some do for Mast or Acornes an ordinary meat for Swine falling from Oake trees for which purpose they put theyr Swine into some woods in England Westphalia Ireland and other Countries till they be fatted Secondly or wee take them for that fruit which is like Acornes or Mast which o Liber 7. Simplic Fereus siliquam vt glandes quercus GALEN saith comes from a tree by him called Siliquastrū by him compared though by others distinguished to that tree which p Lib. 13. hist cap. 8. PLINY calls Ceraunia Thirdly or with AMBROSE wee take them for certaine Cods or swads which they give their swine in Africke Fourthly or as wee call them the huskes of Beanes or Pease or Fitches which the poorer people cast to the swine after they have eaten the Pescods as our Countrey calls them Fiftly or as some q Reidanus Medicus in Geldria apud Levinū Lemnium de secretis call them a kind of light Pelfie corne inclosed in certaine eares which are long and swampe and full of awnes abounding in Apulia and Italy of a sweet taste but of little nourishment which those of Genoa call Carube or Carabole Sixtly or if the huske bee that Silicon which ISODORE saith is corruptly called Siliquam taking the name of the Greekes from the Etymologie of it because the fruit of it is r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 enimlignum dicūt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dulce sweet Seventhly or take them in the best acceptation that wee may and speake all the good of them that VARRO and COLVMELLA affirme of them and place them amongst some kindes of fruits yet they are seldome or never used but of the poorer sort or in case of dearth or famine such as was in Ierusalem besieged by TITVS VESPASIAN in Perusia besieged by OCTAVIVS in Melus by NICIAS in Athens by SCYLLA and other Countries in which according to Scriptures and other Historians worse meate than huskes even Mice and Rats and Dogs and Cats and Ants and Frogs yea old Shooes and leather hearbs and plants ſ De quibus Dio lib. 16. Suetonius in Claudio Liv●vs Suidas Thucidides Appianus lib. de bello Mithridatis Bosquerus in Academ peccar Cicero lib. 5. ad Attic Cap. 51 Ammianus lib. 19. 33 Vegetius lib. 3. cap. 3. L●rinus in Acta cap. 11. pag. 483. yea Cabs and Doves dung the heads of Asses t 2. King 6.25 and flesh of Horses was desired food Hunger I say which BASIL u Oratione de Fame si●itate cals the head of evils MARCELLINUS * Rom. Hist lib. 19. the last of miseries HOMER x Odyss 12. the worst of evils MENANDER the most dire and dolorous evill GALLEN y Lib. de Cibis Cuchemicis a lingring death with other Epithites appropriated by OVID z Metam lib. 8. and others that hunger which as wee say breakes the Iron-wall constrained this Prodigall to eate these Huskes 8. But take these huskes in the worst sence as they are meate for Swine with which Swine are fed and fatted both with us and in Syria and other Countries as PLINY notes a Lib. 18. Hist Cap. 12. So this Prodigall as an Hog of Epicurus b Epicuri de Grege porci Horatius his stye was faine to seeke to the trough too for Mast or to Woods for Acornes or to the Dunghill for huskes as his course was Swinish so his fare was course his Commons were with the Swine the common case of Prodigalls the fairest end of Luxurie from superfluities to want necessaries the burning Feavers and pleurisies of Lusts ending in a cold Palsie of want a consumption or consummation of meanes extremity of lacke being the Daughter killing the Mother c Filia devoravit Matrem ut portus ille viperinus de quo Pl●us lib. 10. cap. 62. Aelian lib. 1. c. 25. Lasciviousnesse as NERO kild AGRIPPINA d Suctonius in vita Neronis Oh durum telum necessitas need hath no Law needs must hee run whom need drives he playes at small games ere he sit out he faine would have filled his belly with the huskes saith my Text c. Oh the all-prevailing Oratory of Hunger what a crafts-Master yea a Master of Arts e Magister Artium Iugenijque largitor Venter Pers Sat. is the belly What a hand and a Hanke hath it over Men and Beasts It tames the wilde Panther the Wolfe and the Tyger Not onely gratitude as to his Physition for medicine but hunger even for meate makes the conquered Lyon follow ANDRODIUS f Aulus Gellius de noctibus atticis lib. 5. cap. 14. Aelian lib. 7. cap. 43 the Roman fugitive as a Dog his Master it makes the wild Deere even Bucks Harts and Hindes as I have seene follow the Wood-man in the Snowy Winter for greene Boughes yea it brings the Wilde Hares to foder with the Sheepe it teacheth the Indian Parrot to prate g Sic de Psittaco Ascanij lege Prodigium Antiq lect lib. 3. cap. 32. de alio mira refere Zonaras in Basil the Cardinals Popin Iay to salute her Master CESARS Crow to cry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Coblers Crow to chatter out Ave Caesar h De istis Plinius lib. 10. cap. 3. 4. sic cap. 42 43. yea the Birds of Sappho i Magnus Deus Sappho Polyenus in

so the Scribes and Pharisees Saduces and Horodians were Murtherers and Crucifiers of CHRIST as they were called both before q Ioh. 8.40 and after r Acts. 4.10 they put CHRIST to death because they sought his bloud as SAVL sought ſ 1. Sam. 20.33 DAVIDS Even as the Prodigall seeking Huskes as vaine men doe their pleasures their profits their preferments and the atchievement of their Covetous ambitious and luxurious desires and designes is accounted a foole a Younger Brother a Bedlam a vaine man as are all those of whom hee is a Type and a Mappe notwithstanding that hee did not accomplish his desire for the Text sayth No man gave unto him CHAP. VII How vaine it is to trust to vaine men in any distresse Observatiō NO Man The phrase is observable 1. Oh this it is to put any confidence in man or in the sonne of man or in the best of men the greatest of men Kings and Princes terrestriall Gods whose breath is in their Nosthrils 2. But chiefly this it is to serve the Citizen of the Country to hold a candle before the Divell to observe him and offer sacrifices to him as the Indians Virginians and other Salvages in their divellish bloudy devious t De hisce Daemonum sacrificijs lege apud Majolum de diebus Canicul parte 2. pag. 47. 64 65. titulo de cultu Daemonum Purchase hic pilgrimage passim devotions 3. And this it is also to rest and relye on wicked and prophane men to feed Hogs and Swine as this wastfull Sonne once what trust is there in man that is altogether u Psal 39.5 On which read Purchase his Microcosmus extant vanitie What in the Divell that old * Rev. 12.9 Dragon the Father of lyes Who alwayes leaves his Clients Witches Coniurers and Necromancers though in their owne esteeme his darlings and of his Privy x Delrius disquis Magicarum Pierius de Magia Councell as he left Dr. Faustus Cornelius y Iovius in Elogijs illust Agrippa and others on a Lea-land in their greatest exigents and pressures of body and soule fishing even for their soules as he did for z 2. King 1. AHAZIAHS and a 1. Sam. 28. SAVLS in the troubled waters of their greatest miseries but chiefely what repose is there to be put in vaine and prophane men in carnall Comrades and Pot-companions those Swine into which the uncleane c Mar. 5.12 spirit still enters What helpe or assistance what comfort or good Counsell had the Prodigall now in his extreamest hunger from these Swinish Epicures on whom he had spent and mispent his meanes those whom he fed so long as ought lasted or that had fed upon him as Harpies and flesh Wolves would they now feed him Can he get so much as Huskes from them Though this had beene but faint feeding he to feed them with the best corne with the distillations of the Malt the best broth of the Barly the best bloud of the Grape and hee to receive againe from them even in his gnawing hunger not so much as Swads and Huskes not awnes Not Leas Not Dregs to drinke Hoccine humanum factum apud Comicum aut inceptum hoccine officium amici Is this square and candid dealing Is this the part and office of a friend Is this the fruit of carnall friendship To use thy companion as the Spaniell doth the water so long as thou canst get and gaine by him and wipe the fat off his beard as d 2. Sam. 16 Ziba did from Mephibosheth and then in his miserie to shake him off to leave him as the twatling e Jngrati symbolum apud Whitnaeum Alciatum Reusucrum Swallow the Country mans house in the Winter to picke his meate as some Lawyers with their Clients as the Eagle with the opened Oyster and to leave him the shell to feede on which his strong Patience must digest as hee may as the Ostridge doth f Ass●runt plerique Hi●stori● negat sotum modo Albertus anim lib. 23. li● 5. Applicatio Iron Oh consider this you unadvised Hotspurres summon your wits together you younger Brothers or rather you elder Brothers you Prodigall Heires whose wings for a time are better feathered as you may see the Lyon by his g Ex vnguibus leonem pawe see the end of your race in the course of this Prodigall bee not h It is a Phrase used in the book cald the Iesuites Catechisme in Quarto whereby these sharkers are discovered drained as the Iesuites deale with young Gentlemen out of your meanes be not gulled and flattered out of your Revenewes by Sycophants and flaging Companions that seeke to feed on you as the little Bird Trochilus in Iawes of the i De quo Plinius lib. 8.25 Aeli●nus lib. 3. c. 11. Heroditus lib. 2.5 Crocodile that seeke to grow up by you as the Ivie that spreads on the Churchwill till they sucke your moysture and bring you downe for all together building on your ruines bee not uncased out of your lands your livings as the Cookes uncase Conyes by such g●atonicall Conny money catchers bee not C●rrion for such chattering Crowes to prey upon you had better feed all Diomedes wilde k Vt qui Throicij quoudam praesepia regis fecerunt dapibus sanguinoleus suit Ovid in Jbidem horses or with this Prodigall feed all the Townes Swine or with the Roman CRASSVS feast an l De divitijs numeroso exercitu Crass● Ravisius in Theat phil Pag. 92. Pag. 258. Army than feed such Helluohs such trencher Guls that haunt you as SOCRATES his Genius or BRVTVS his m Who met him fatally at his Pharsaliā battell apud Liviū Ghost whom at last you will occasionedly curse as n De eujus querelis vide Iosephum Antiq. lib. 18. Cap. 13. lib. 19. cap. vltima Et Lorinum in Acta cap. 12. v. 23. HEROD and o Alexander apud Indos vulneratus en inquit vestrum Deum Apud Curtium ALEXANDER did their Flatterers in their greatest exigents as ADRIAN did his multiplicity p Turba medicorum occidet Cae●arem of poysoning Physitians as FAVSTVS cryed out on his Mephistophilus some Witches on their attending spirits some heart broken penitent on his bloud sucking Whore some SAMPSON on his DALILAH even at his death whether naturall in his bed or violent at the Gallowes lamenting your acquaintance with them as CORNELIVS AGRIFPA did his familiarity with the Divell in the forme of a blacke r Abi inquit perdite qui me totum perdidisti See the Theater of Gods judgements in Quarto cap. 23. Pag. 124. Dog at the best know that if ever you stand in need to those Cannibals that have so long fed on you as here this Prodigall did to his former Comrades you shall cough for comfort as he did you shall have as much reliefe even for your out ward man as DAVID

to die frantick ECCIVS and Cardinall d The Popes Embassador at the Councel of Trent anno 1552. frighted by the Divell in the likenesse of a black Dog Sleidan l. 231 Comment CRESSENSE with frenzie e In the memorable Histories of our time a pag. 187. ad paginam 195. FRANCIS SPIRA with d●spaire f De cujus morte lege Caelium Rhodig Antiq. Lect. l. 29. c. 8 ARISTOTLE HOMER SOPHOCLES the g Val. Max. l. 9. c. 12. Tragedian ANTONIVS the h Apud Plutarchū Roman APOLLONIVS the i Apud Plin. l. 7. c. 23. Rhodian HOSTRATVS the Fryer and divers k As Latonus and B●melius and Gerlach of Lov. D. Kraus of Hall in Germ. P●usenas Advocat of Dolphin in France with others who dyed desperate others upon sundry occasions were suddainly surprized with griefe and melancholly of which they dyed Pomponeus Atticus and Antonius Caesar sicke with Feavers Hieronimus Vrsinus suddainely wounded in Rome Mathew King of Hungarie diseased of an Apoplexie Wenslaus the young King of Bohemia thrust through with a Sword Iohannes Medices and Henry the second King of France unexpectedly wounded in Iusts and Turneaments Tyberius the Emperour Hanibal the Carthagenian Philippomones Generall of the Messineans Alexander the fixt and Caesar Burgias poysoned with millions moe that might bee l Apud Ravisium Broson Fulgosū Zwinge●ium in magno suo Theatro passim enumerated in their perfect healths in the Sunne-shine of their glory strucke some with one sicknesse some with another disease shew how uncertaine the health is of the strongest and most vigorous since both naturally and casually as also deservingly by reason of m Gen. 2.17 Rō 6. sin we are subjected to moe diseases than eyther Horse or Hawke or any other Creature whatsoever So for life it selfe alas how uncertaine Lubrick and fraile is it as brittle as Glasse as fading as a o Iob. 14.1.2.11 Esay 40.6 2 Pet. 1.24 Flower as vanishing as smoake as swift as a Post or a Weavers shuttle the Scriptures Histories and experience of all times doe demonstrate as I have seene elsewhere in varieties of p In Simeons dying Song in the Book cal'd 7. helep to Heaven examples together with Reasons which if they bee not satisfactory the consideration of so many excellent Worthies both for Arts and Armes even amongst Christians to omit Turkes Iewes and Pagans as have beene cropt by that meager Death even in the budding and blossoming of their yeares together with others that have beene taken away in their prime and flower or full strength plainely shew unto us as in a Map or Glasse on what a weake and uncertaine Threed our life depends amongst the rest praetermitting that good IOSIAH the sonne of IEROBOAM ACHAZ King of Iuda the Babes of Bethlem the first borne of Aegypt DAVIDS spurious Child with others in the Scriptures when I consider the fatall and untimely fall of that Roman BRITANICVS the Son of CLAVDIVS De diebus canicularibus par colloq 4. p. 271 de 〈◊〉 alijs CONSTANS the sonne of CONSTANTINE the Great slaine by MAGNENTIVS the sonne of MAXIMINVS slaine with his Father by the tumultuous Souldiers LADISIAVS the young King of Polony slaine by the Turkes LODOVICK GRATVS that excellent Linguist and Astronomer as hee was commended by MAIOLVS all foure cut off in the 21. yeare of their q Plurimaque exempla recinantur a Gregorio Richtero in axiom Oecono pag. 35. Age together with PHILIP the young King of Spaine HYPOLITVS MEDES the Cardinall HERACLIVS CONSTANTINVS HENRY RANZONIVS IEROM TIRVSANVS that young Bishop who all were taken away some by a naturall some by a violent death in the 28. yeare of their r Idem p. 36. Life to omit CHRISTOPHER LONGOLIVS and the Marquis of Brandenburgh who dyed in the 35. yeare of ſ Jdem ibid. their Age as RADOLPHVS AGRICOLA and that delight of Nature TITVS VESPATIAN in their 42. t Idem p. 37 yeare ere ever they came to their u Quam fatales fuere anni septenarij climat terici rebus personis magnis Familijs Consulo Fencerum de divinat pag. 21. Bucholcherum in Indice Chronico sub anno 1463. Strigellum in Chronicis part 2. pag. 277. Perel in Gen. cap. 2 p. 32. Bodinum lib. 4. de repub cap. 2 p. 647.658 Climacteriall in which so many worthy men have beene taken away in these instances wherein I see such tall Cedars untimely falne and cut downe by the Axe of Death I see how vaine it is to take any contentation in a hoped long life with neglect in the meane space of a good life by deferred repentance since Hodie mihi cras tibi quod cuiquam contigit id cuivis That may happen to every man which happens to any man Serius enim aut Citius metam properamus ad unam We saile to one Haven we must lodge in one common bed the Grave and with that BRVTVS kisse our Mother Earth God knowes how soone Besides how uncertaine is the Prospertty of this Life suppose there should be a man amongst a Million Rara avis in terris A rare one indeed a black Swan that were as healthfull as OTTO HERVVARDVS a Senatour in Ausborough in Germany who if we beleeve Astrologicall * Exemplis Genit praefixis Ephem cap. de infirmit LOVITVS could never remember that ever hee was sicke in all his life or that this age could affoord such an one as NESTOR that is sayd to live three hundreth x Nestoris est visus per tria secle Ciuis propter lib. 2. et Iuven Sat. yeares such an on as PARACELSVS boasts of that in the best improouement of his Art by Paracelsian physicke could be made to liue 400. yeares If a man could preserue himseife so long by meates medicines exercize Bathes Diets as that POLLO ROMVLVS is said to preserue himselfe by y Jntus Mulso foras oleo wine and oyle though now it be a rare thing to see a man liue 127. yeares as our late deceased frier at LISMOORE yea to liue 105. yeares as ZENOPHILVS that musitian in z Lib. 7. hist c. 5. Though Narcissus of Jerus is said to have lived 116. yeares Paul the Hermit 113. Prosdocimus a Bishop 114 Florentinus a Priest 123 T. Fullonius 157. B. Syrus 132. Homer 108 nay more one Heroimes 304. Iohannes de temporibus 361. PLINY if besides all this he had all that inward worth in him which the Romaines ascribe to their Catoes Curioes ffrabritioes the Greekes to their Socrates Solon Aristides Homer to Agamemnon that he was like u Iupiter in ffeature Mars in Valour Pallas in wisdome and had what all such outward Prosperity as d Regis filia Vxor Mater Pliny lib. 7. Paterculus ascribes to Quintus Metellus Plutarch to P c Fuit Crassus ditissimus nobilissimus eloquentissimus Juris peritissimus Pontifex Maximus Mutianus Crassus

their times like Semeies k 1. King 2.39 Servants l Pauls Epiad Philemon Onesimus and that captive Androdius in the Roman m Apud Aelian hist l. 7. c. 34. Anlum Gellium Noct. attic lib. 5. c. 14. Story to runne from their masters never perhaps returning like a word n Ne●cit vox em●ssa reverti once spoke a Bird flowne a losse in honour or lost Virginity never perhaps recovered againe though their once owners in pursuing after them too farre beyond the limits of religion and conscience loose their soules for silver p Acts 1.18 Iudas-like as Semei lost his q 1. King 2 46. life in seeking his servants for indeed well may wee call Gold and Pearles and Plate o Reductio per impossibile and all kinde of Riches and Revenewes Currant as well as Currant money since we see with most men like fooles Travellers Gypsces Cheators Beggars and fickle headed Servants whose shooes are made of running Leather they will not stay long except some few that have the wit the will the Art the heart to chaine them as Leopards Lyons and Cats doe after their prey they skip from place to place from man to man like some fawning Dog or insinuating Whore for the Scripture puts them both r Deu. 23.18 together that will bee every mans and yet no mans further then they will themselves they are moveable as Shittlecookes or Tennis Balls now racliated here now there or as Frolicks at Feasts sent from man to man returning againe at last to the first man after they have had their course abovt or else they take their leaves of all as some guests in an Inne and are never seene more and some they can no more be caught than Ghosts or Shaddowes as that DAPHNE from APOLLO the more they are pursued the farther the faster they flye ſ Quo fugis ah demons as fast as that Aegle that snatcht vp Ganimede in the Poet but when they are expected to returne they have alas Passarinas wings as feeble as Sparrowes yea sometimes as Stags and Deere howted and hunted into another Country they never returne they come againe to their first owners when some Cheator or Politique Banquerupt payeth his Debts ad Calendas Graecas as our Country Phrase is when Hens make Holy-water at new-Nevermasse If any doubt whether Riches bee thus fickle and fugitive or no if we had not the example of t Iob. 1. Iob who in one day may one heare lost with his Children such moveables of Oxen Camels Sheepe as the greatest man in the East hardly possessed the like and of Zeno the u Apud Brusonium Philosopher that in one bottome lost all his goods by Shipwracke and of the Turkes Bashawes that sometimes in shorter space than Naboth lost his questioned * Vineyard or the mother of x Iudg. 17.2 Michay these eleven hundreth sheckles of silver about which she so cursed lose their heads their honors their becke and command of the Turkish y Knols in his Turkish History Passim Tyrant if we had not the lamentable relations of Historians and Travailers how the poore Armenians the Greekes and those Christians that are dispersed throughout the Ottaman Dominions are upon all occasions chiefly at the death of the grand Turke bereft sometimes by the Ianizaries as the Israelites once by the z Iudg. 6.11 Madianites the Saxons by the Lord a Dane once ruled in every house cald the I. Dane now such as live Drones and Abbey-lubbers are called Lurdanes Holins Cosmog Danes of all that ever they have as were the Citizens of Ierusalem in the siege of Titus Vespatian spoyled by Simeon and b Iesephus et Egisippus de excidio Hieros Iehocanan their seditious Captaines as our vulgar Irish and some of better note are squeazed spunged and c The word is used for cheating in the Iesuites Catechisme druried by the Priests of all the moneyes and meanes they are able to scratch and scrape from them as some of their owne ouerburthened as once the d Vide C●tum gravamina Germa●e vel onus Ecclesiae Germans have confessed and complained I say if these instances were not so pregnant as hee that with that Reynold e In his discovery of Witchcraft extant in 4. Scot denies there be any Witches besides the Testimonies of f Magos enim habuit Pharaoh Exod. 7.11 Scriptures and g Delrius Pierius Wierus cum Antiquis et Modernis Authors let him but bee present at the Assizes of severall Shires and his owne eyes and eares will convict him so hee that credits not the relations of others in this point let him but observe in one yeare nay but in a very few Moneths how many men formerly reputed of good rancke and fashion of alll sorts Gentlemen Marchants Mariners Tradesmen Mechanicks Yeomen Citizens Country men within the Circuit of some few shires and Cityes in Great Britaine are come from a Spring-tide to a low Ebbe from CRASSVS to a poore CONON from DIVES to a LAZARVS some by Shipwracke by Sea some by Surety-ship the House wracke at home some by bad Debtors and politique Banquerupts these Shopwrackes some by Sicknesse Diseases Physicke and Physitians some by bi●ing Vsuries and paying Forfeitures brought to an irrecoverable Consumption some by carelesse Thievish fugitive Servants some by good bad Fellowship great House-keeping their mindes over-bowing their meanes some by Hawkes Hounds Horses and Whores devoured by their owne Lusts and eaten with the Wolfe bred within their owne flesh or as ACTEON eaten vp with their owne h Theatrum Philos lib. 8. p. 855. Ethice applicat Fabulam de Acteone Dogs some by intermedling in callings in which they have no skill some by one meanes some by another lodging in Beggars Inne and Suttons Hospitall perusing their Briefes and Pasports that come every Sabboth to the Citie and Country Churches in England and Ireland and that very man in these observations shall bee perswaded that there is as much rest repose and confidence to be put in momentary transitory and uncertaine Riches as in a broken staffe or in a false DALILAH a Whorish i Mony is compared to a faire Harlot whō many court as the Greeks did Lais yet she is constāt to none woman of whose love and constancy the wisest man on the Earth can have no further assurance than stands with their owne ends turnes likings and Lusts But however these externall and adventiall good things as Philosophers call k Bona Fortunae them may stay with some as though they were wedded to them not to depart for terme of Life yet there must be a seperation in death therefore they are not that which can make the Soule aeternally happy as DAMASCEN hath the Fiction of three Friends who all professed love the tryall is this one Friend would stay with him all the time of his health and prosperitie that friend was Pleasure

withall our worldly love being inflamed by some resistance and whetted by difficulty as the fire is more inkindled by the blowing of the winde when some simple ones thinke it would blow it out or not unlike to those Fishes that love to bee in violent streames and floud gates but dye in a calme or still water whereas againe if the difficulty be such as there is no probability possibility of obtaining as if a Pigmee should attempt to lift as much to reach as high as a Gyant the Frog to swell as big as an Oxe a poore Plebean or a Shoomaker to be a Knight or an honourable man as a fantasticke Tayler once tendred his love and service to a great Princesse the desire by reason of the extreame difficulty faints as a Bird in the bosome or dyes in the Birth at least if any fruit bee produced it is an Agrippa Aegre parta hardly come by like Racheli c Gē 35.18 Beniamin the Sonne of Sorrow or like the Rain-bow Thaumantis filia the Daughter of d Prov. l. 2. et Arist 3. Met. 6 ●ū Titelm ● 6. de natura rerum c. 12. 13. Wonder but if we can by no means effect what we affect as Parsons that for all his Policies could never compasse a Cardinals e Iesuites Catechisme so scoffes him Hat f De quo Ni● l. vt etiam 〈◊〉 Flo● 〈◊〉 bla● 12.20 vt 〈◊〉 Eccius for all his Disputes could not conclude for a Byshopricke Arrius for a Dignitary nor Cardinall g S● Woolsey for all his fishing with golden books and baites even in troubled waters could not catch the Papall triple Miter Desire then turnes into Despaire wee fret and torment our selves in vaine as greedy Boyes that see ripe Cherries in the Orchard but cannot d●re not s● the intrenching Wall or as the Cat that 〈◊〉 Bird chirping in the Bush and the h Catus vult Pisces sed non vul tangere pedes Fish gliding in the waters that is ready to hang her selfe that she can catch neither Now the cause of all this unquietnesse is because our Love is placed upon false Obiects as if the love of a great Princesse should be placed upon a Mechanicall man as once the French Kings daughter upon a Forrester else never trust Ballad more as if Pasiphar should love a Bull or the i As Semiramis loved a Horse Aristus the Ephesian an Asse Fulviuia Mare Theat Phil. l. 5. cap. 75. pag. 677. like which Obiects cannot satisfie for if we reflexe upon all things in the world we shall finde besides the Creator Preserver and Redeemer of the world nothing firme fixt stable permanent worth the least corner of our hearts no more than a Kite or Kestrell to roofe in the Nest of an Aeagle or an unclean Hog or Dog worthy to Kēnell in the privie Chamber of some great k Vide luch●num Jesu●ū de Novissimis Serm. de Munditia cordis in 8. Jmitio libri King all sublunary things being but a chaine of Cares lincked together and a Web of successive woes woven in a Loome of Sorrowes from severall threeds of diversified Crosses drawne out by the hand of Experience on the Rocke of Time our best meates having tart sawces our chiefe sweets mixed with sowers as Aloes and Worme seed with Figs and Rayzings our chiefe Comforts in meannesse eminency Riches Poverties Age Youth Marriage Single-life in every Calling Profession Estate Condition from the Crowne to the Cobler having annexed their severall Crosses as those that have writ of the miseries of man l As Innocentius 3. The French Morney in his Tract of death The Author of the French Academy Stella ac contemptu Mundi Purchase his Pilgrim With Carpenter his preparative to Contentation cum multis alijs have punctually demonstrated from which Crosses our Persons State Callings can no more bee exempted than the Ayre from Cloudes the Sea from Waves the middle Region from Meteors chiefly in the atchievement of the best of these things with which we Idolatrize we are sure to meet with many prickes in the pursuite ere wee come to the Rose whē it is pluckt it proves perhaps after all our paines perils but a Cockrose or Canker Rose for all that Or it may bee we never plucke it after so many prickes of Cares and anxieties like the Hawke that oft flyes yet never toucheth feather and the Archer that oft aymes yet never hits the marke I could wish that as that m Zeno vel Thales Philosopher which lost all his goods by Shipwracke was by this meanes driven more closely to the study of Phylosophy as n Alexandrinus Preceptor Hieron Didimus by the losse of his externall eyes was driven to internall Contemplation as Ignatius Loyola by the losse of his o Pelargus prefatione ante sun● Jesuitismun Lambe was driven to be at least in shew Religious So making againe of their losses as Plutarch directs how to gather fruit from our very p The Fruit of Foes in English trāslated Foes I wish I say that we could bee at least even Epimethians so after wise at q Prestat tamen esse promet hiū quā Epimethiū last as beat by the rod of our owne and others experience tutored by the doctrine and discipline of Salomon and this our Prodigall as to leave and loath these uncertaine momentary Vanities as unworthy the love of a man much lesse of a Christian and turning the streame of our love as once Iordan r 2. King 2.14 backwards to give our hearts our affections our loves our lives as the best Persian present to our Heavenly King an absolute resolute deed of Guift to the Lord IESVS ſ Totus figatur in Corde qui totus pro te fixus in Cruce CHRIST who as he bought and purchased them with his owne t 1. Pet. 1.18 bloud no lesse u 1. Cor. 6.20 prize who most desires * Prov. 23.26 them of all other Sutors he best deserves them SECT V. Severall Reasons vnited convincing the Proposition first propounded placing all Contentation in the Creator not in the Creature AS many little Brookes meeting together and running in one torrent make it the deeper and carry it the swifter so these things promised as now ayming at my Conclusion to make a great Grand-Iury indeed of severall reasons all truly and unpartially giving in their Verdicts against these Huskish Vanities as we have expressed them both in the letter and the sence as x In promptuario Morali Stapleton Philip Diez and Granatensis in their Postrils bring in sometimes together by bandles Cōgeries similium many similies as united in one to one y Sic vis vnita fortior purpose so I bring in Congeries rationum a whole Iury of Reasons all united as the rods Seleuchus shewed his sonnes bound up in one Faggot for the greater strength proportioning my munition and fortification according to the