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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

of ambitious desires of rule place dominion and superiority In the 6. the vacuity of that devouring gulfe the unsatiable desires after riches In the 7. the vacuity of divining prognosticating and foretelling things to come In the 8. the vanity of hunting after applause and praise of men catching the popular Ayre In midst of the 8. Chapter and 9. the Vanity of the Heathenish and Paganish fortune In part of the 9. and 10. the vanity of corporall and bodily strength In the 11. and 12. the Vanity of flowring and flourishing youth all these heads as a spirituall HERCVLES though as many and monstrous as that m De Hercule Ethice apud Ravisium in Theat l. 8. p. 85 5. de Hydra apud Majolum de dich Canic part 1. Colloq 1. p. 12. Hydraes he labours to lop off with the sword of the spirit least they sting others as they have wounded him all these Cates of vanities like those of Appolonius Tyrancus he shewes to be painted or like the wine which Pope Alexander brewed his Cardinals poyson but drunke n Nauclerus Balaeus Chron. Funccij fol. 165. apud Osiandrum cent 15 l. 4 p. 492. it himselfe or at least as our Prodigals Huskes or Gland vnsatisfying as he hath received the Aconite and Mithridate against their poyson so he administers it as preventing or purging Physicke to others he knowes the dangerous sting that is in every vanity which fixing in the soule of any vaine man like some sting with some kinde of o De quibus Majolus ut supra volumin 1. Coll. 8. tit serpentum Serpents he eyther dyes laughing or else sleeping as they that have taken supe●bundant of Poppy or Opium or such dormitory potions unlesse they be awakened in a determinate time therefore as a Physitian carefull of his Patients to keepe them waking or to awake those that are asleepe or slumber in vanity with their golden deluding gulling dreames Cynthius aurem Vellit he plucks them by the eares hee rings them a peale as lowd as Bow-bell yea as lowd as Thunder he lifts up his voyce as a Trumpet that as it 's sayd of the old p Allusio Origenis Hom. in Psal 38. Geminiani in summa Exempl Lyons that by their lowd yell awake their long sleeping dead-seeming young he may rouse and raise men out of their Lethargicall slumbers in their vanities Salomon as now escaped from these enemies sets up a flag of defiance against them as a man new got out of the gulph quagmire of Vanity he now sets up a stake as the fashion of charitable men is to fore-warne others of the same perill as the rich Helluoh in the q Luk. 16.28 Gospell would have his brethren fore-warned that they come not into the like danger as an incautelous Mariner having dasht on some sand-bed and by splitting on some rocke himselfe having by repentance which is the second repaire of the Navie of the soule r Secunda post naufragium Tabula secundum Canonistas after shipwrack swum out as by some board or plank he cautelously admonisheth others to steere from the discovered shelves as that Tyrian Queene he commiserates others having beene in the furnace ſ Non ignaeramali miseris succurrere disco apud Virg himselfe as we pitty those that are diseased and distressed by the Gout Stone Strangury Collick Tooth-ach if we have beene afflicted with these maladies and as by sympathizing tenderly affected prescribe for their ease our best experiments That we have found good in our selves so it is betwixt Salomon now recured and recovered out of his spirituall sownes qualmes the sons of men surcharged and surfeiting on the Cates of vanity at the Divels Banquet he cryes to them as a Mother to a child ready to eate Mercury or Rats-bane with an opinion of Sugar oh Hands off Mors in t 2. Kings 4 40 olla death is in the pot or in the platter he cryes to vaine men in the utmost extention of his powers as CRAESVS dumbe sonne on a suddaine to those that would have murthered his u Apud Brusonium Father as Paul and Sylas to the * Act. 16.28 Iaylor that would have murthered himselfe Oh! doe yourselves oh do your selves no harme Yee vaine men Why doe you set your heartes on x Psalm 4.2 Vanity and follow after leasings Why doe you imagine a vaine thing why do you spin spiders webs Set nets snares and gins for your owne Soules Why doe you feed on Huskes and Swads As the Israelites once and the Muscovites now on Garlick y Democritus Junior part 1. Sect. 2. pag. 101. and Onions As once the Italians and our now roving Gypsees on Frogs and Snailes As our poore hungry vulgar Irish oft on Hawes and Shamrocks For such is vanities best food best Commons When Gods larder your Fathers house allowes you bread enough Which bread in Gods language includes concludes all satisfactory good even the coursest bread that Gods servants eate being as Israels Manna above all the Food of worldlings better than the Affrican and Spanish rootes the American Palmitos and Potatos the Chinaes hearbes the Nomades milke the West-Phalian fat meates the Tartars raw meates the Flemings Butter the Camhro-Britaines white meates the Scandians fish Or the chiefe and choyce of food of any Nations Ye● GODS bread affords more varieties of contents than that one Indian z Palmae Instar totius orbis arboribus praestan-Linschoton cap. 56. Tree which yeelds them Coquernuts meates drinke fire fuell apparell with his leaves yea oyle Vineger and cover for their houses if Authors relate truly SECT 3. SALOMONS three Bookes compared the summe of his Ecclesiastes being his verdict against Vanitie TO expresse SALOMONS verdict of lying Vanities as Ionas calls them these vnsatisfying Huskes as our Prodigall found them Not bread as GOD himselfe in Esay tearmed them earthly waters which quench no thirst as our Saviour himselfe expressed them and to presse it somewhat fuller and further Wee may consider that this booke of Ecclesiastes according to Cyrill being the letters testimoniall or Certificate sealed by the spirit of his repentance being as Most generally hold the booke of his old Age as Ioseph was to a Gen. 37.3 Iacob his youngest his darling most neare and deare unto him as Abell b Habel id est vanitas to Eve his second birth his better birth experience being the Godfather and late though true repentance the Godmother he christens it Vanity as Tullies booke of Offices and de Senectute being his last workes the mentall issue of his understanding part as the learned Critick calleth them shew the most maturity of Iudgement so this being Salomons last worke as his Canticles was his Beniamin the Son of his right hand in the prime of his youth this is his Benani the sonne of the sorrowes of his old Age as Isaac is called the sonne of c Gē 18.14 Promise

Cures would needs be named p Aelian lib. 12. Iupiter 4. In Alexander that would needs be the Sonne of q Ex Curtio Strigel lib. 1. Ethic. pag. 39. Iupiter and bee cloathed like Hercules in a Lyons skin 5. In Cotys King of Thrace that in all haste must be married to Minerva 6. In Sapor the Persian King that after his Victories over Valerian will needs bee Brother to the Sunne and Moone t De his alijs ex superbia et Jnsolentia insaenius consule Philippum in locis Mālij p. 476 ●t part 1. Postil p. 576. Strigell●us in Psal 73. p. 7. Praecipua in Themistocle Pōp●io Philippo Metello ●t Wolseo nostro Anglo instāt Patritius de regno l. 4. tit 18. p. 286. Pencerus in Chrō 26. Aprilis et 14. Iunij Anno 72. Cytre● in Chron. Saxoniae l. 7.213 et Hyppolit in s●o Consiliario p. 220. 7. In Antonius the Roman that will be crowned with Ivie and adored like r Paterculus poster Volū Bacchus With other such fits of Frenzie as Petrarch once acknowledged ſ Lib. 1. de Mundi contempt● ingenuously he himselfe was subject unto Yea some by too much dilating and diffusing their spirits have dyed suddainely as over-ioyed and too vehemently surprized as was that aged Father at Rhodes imbracing his two sonnes that came Victors from the Games of Olympia Iovius u Apud Goulart pag 478. reporting the like of Sinan Generall of the Turk● Armies recovering his onely sonne whom hee supposed slaine the like the French Histories of a Mother that received her Sonne in the Civill Warres safe and sound whom she supposed dead the like the Italian Histories * Guiccard alledged by the same Goulart relate of Livio and Camilla two Constant Lovers that being long crost by the Father and Claudio the Virgins Brother at last inioying one another as overjoyed the first night of their marriage were found dead in one Bed together but above all as most memorable being that which both x Jn vita L● onis ho. l. 4. Iovius and that joviall y Essays l. 1. cap. 2. Montaigne writ of that merry Pope Leo the tenth who upon certaine Newes of the taking of Millaine which he extreamely desired like a peaceable Praelate as hee was fell by an excessive Ioy into such a present Feav●r as shakt him out of Saint Peters Seat like a mellow or rotten-Apple But a great deale more dismall and Tragicall have beene and are the contrary Passions and perturbations of sorrow as in thousand examples may be instanced and in dayly experience verified 1. Some for the death and losse of Friends as David for his z 2. Sam. 18 33 Absolon for his a 2. Sā 1.17 Ionathan for b 2. Sā 3.3 Abner for c 2. Sam. 13 31 Ammon Iacob for his d Gē 37.34 Ios●ph Alexander for his e Impe●dit in ejus Funus 10. mi●lia Talentorum Gorlicus axiom Pol. pag. 244. Ephestion Achilles for his f Apud Hemerum Patroclus Hercules for his Hylas Adrian for his Antonius Aegens for his g Officina Textor pag. 255. Sonne the Widdow of Naim for h Luk. 7.13 hers Augustine for Monica his i He often speakes of her in his workes Chiefly in his Confessions l. de cura pro●mortuis Mother Quintilllian for his k Praefat. l. 6. Son Cardan and l De libris proprijs Mezentius for their onely Sonnes Niobe for her m Solicito lachrimans defluis a Scypio propertius l. 2. Children Portia for her n Vixisset Brutus tunc non tam clara fuisset Portia Pamph. Brutus Pompey's Wife for her p Pompey Hecuba for her o Off. Tex l. 5. pag. 553 Apud Sen. in Traged Priamus ANDROMACHE for her HECTOR mourning sometimes to madnesse sometimes to fearfull howlings and lowd laments as the Greekes and our Irish over their dead sometimes in sorrow continuated like Rachel for her q Mat. 2.18 Children not to be comforted even to annuall if not continuall memorials of them and mournings for them as the Primitive Church celebrating her Martyr the whole Roman Empire lamenting the death of Augustus Caesar and of Titus ſ Totus orbis Lugevat Victor Vespatian The Iewes bewailing their r Apud Tumulos ●artyrum inde tādem superstitio●e invocationes See M. Perkins his Problēs de Invoca● Ioshuah and u 2. Ch. 35.25 Iosias Rome Papall their Leo decimus the French their Lewis the 12. t Iosh 24. the Bohemians their x Aeneas Sylvius Zisca the Turkish Army their y Mortuns est Mustapha hodiè Turcicum Proverb Mustopha We English our Prince Henry Edward the sixt and Queene Elizabeth yea Patients some mentioned by z Montan. Cons 242. Physitians Turtle-like have bemoaned the death of their Mates many yeares together * Budaeus l. 5. de asse some being so greeved and sadded that they have suddainly dyed with them as Pyramis with a Apud Ovidium Thisbee some dying for them as Dido for the absence of her b Apud Virgilium Aeneas 2. Brothers also as impatient of life following voluntarily their Brothers to the Grave as Zeanger sonne to Sultan Solyman stabbing c Centorius l. 6. de bello Transilvano himselfe when he saw is worthy Brother Mustapha strangled with a Bow-string 3. Sonnes deadly surprized with griefe at the death of their Parents as one of the Sonnes of Gilbert Duke of Montpenzier falling downe a● the sight of his Fathers d Guiccard l. 5. de belloltalico sect 5 Tombe at Pouzzoll 4. Chiefly Fathers bursting their very hearts at the death of their Children as RAIZCIAT a Nobleman discovering under his Helme that i● was his owne sonne new slaine that fought so valiantly in the Hungarian Warres violence of griefe vanquishing his vitall e Montalgno Essayes l. 1. c. 2. Jovius in Histor Spirits hee fell downe instantly dead 5. Others beeing so inraged and impatient that they have themselves leapt into the Graves of their f Sic Pythius Bythinius in mortui filij Monumentum se coniecit Dead as the best beloved Wives amongst the g M. Polus Venetus Vertomānus Indians others have slaine many living in an unadvised distraction to accompany the Ghosts of their dearest dead as the Tartars at this day killing h Boterus Amphitheat many Inferiors to attend the Funerall of great Princes Others againe have beene as passionate and sorrowfull at and in the losse of Honours in Warre and in Peace as MARK ANTHONY that sate silent in his Ship and sullen three dayes together after he was overcome by i Plutarchus in Antonio Caesar drooping as a Cocke that is beat out of the Cocke-pit as Figueroa a Spanish Captaine kils himselfe with his mans Pistoll for his negligence and Cowardise at the siedge of k Ascanius Centurius l. 4. Belli Trāsilv Segedin as PHILIP Father to PETER

abused blessings from God as Sampson had Dalilah and the Tymnites Daughter from the b Iudg. 14.4 Philistines meerely to insnare them as the Troians had the Palladian Horse from the Greekes to intrap them God gives them these things in wrath as he did give c 1. Sam. 8.11.12 Saul to the discontented Iewes as that Iupiter in the Fable gave to the croaking d Apud Aesopum Frogs a destroying Storke for a King having the Creatures without the Creator they have no more comfort in them than a vaine Man the mispent Dowry of that Woman whom he neyther loves nor ever was beloved of her his Matrimony being meerely aymed a matter of money which God never joyned nor ever blessed Now the premisses considered these outward things sequestrated from the assurance of Gods love being accompanyed in all unsanctified hearts eyther with too-working and waking a conscience as in Saul whom every thing troubled friends foes Philistines David Ionathan Michol the Priests of Nob yea the Evill Spirit it selfe injoying no peace though he were a valiant and victorious King Or else with too Lethargicall cautherized and drowsie conscience as in Naball who lived like a Belly-God and dyed like a Beast which is no Peace but a perilous security the Herald and Prologue of their approaching destruction In eyther of these what true contentation hath the Soule More than a Traytor in his Racke Securitaetis Comes ruina Mel●eth Tom. 2. pag. 431. Penc de Divinatione p. 67 a Felon in his Iaylor his Executioner More than the Eye in the Moate or Pearle that paines it The heele in the thorne that prickes it The Toe in the corne that pesters it Or the foot that is pinched in the Shoe-makers Stockes This Vanity is vexation of Spirit CHAP. XX. The Peroration or Conclusion of this Tract THus in these discussions discourses discoveries and demonstrations frō premisses truly grounded both from Phylosophy and Theology The principles of Art Grace and Nature we have etrxacted our Conclusion at first propounded as truely Orthodoxe though to the bleare-ey'd world it may seeme a Paradoxe that as in the darker Night we have all the glimmering light of the Starres yet we want the Sunne which is Instar omnium in steed of all yea more than all to the illumination of the World to the chearing and refreshing of Men and Beasts so in the darke Night of our Ignorance and Vanity we may participate of all the glistering and glimmering comfort and contentation which is in the Creature and yet as children of Darknesse romaine still disconsolate Vbi Cimmerij extitere est de Pr●verbio Tenebrae Cimmeriae Pli● l. 3 c. 8. et 6. c. 6 Melancth lib. 1. c. 4. as in Egyptian and Cimmerian darknesse and in the shadow of Death wanting the vivification inlightning and inliving which is from that Sonne of Righteousnesse that Father of lights that GOD of all Comfort and consolation unto his Elect ones the Children of Light And therefore to knit up all in one word as its the onely fishing in the Sea with Peter Iames and Ioha especially when CHRIST is present and the onely drinking at the Fountaine rather then at dry puddles standing waters marrish bogs or broken pits So since Pacem te poscimus omnes All would have true Ioy peace and contentation it s the best course and most compendious way to seeke it where it is to bee had in the fountaine in the well-spring and Originall of it in GOD the one and onely Author donor and giver of this true Comfort Seeke not the living among the Dead as the Angell revealed concerning CHRIST so I say concerning that Consolation which is sought for of every true Christian Resurrexit non est hic it s Risen yea and ascended too it is not here It is an Eagle mounted up above as that vltima Coelestum quae terras Astraea reliquit Its returned to Heaven from whence it ever came it is not to bee found heere below in these things terrestriall they are too low unworthy the affections love and desires of that heavenly infused Soule which came from above Finally in this case the counsell of the Apostle is worthy our observation worthy our imitation Set your affections therefore on things that are above and not on things beneath Col. 3.2 Mortifie your earthly Members whether Concupiscible Verse 5. as Fornication vncleannesse inordinate affection evill Concupiscense and Covetousnesse which is Idolatry Verse 8. Or Irascible as Wrath Anger Malice Blasphemy and the like Vers For which things sake not onely the wrath of God commeth on the children of Disobedience whereby they are lyable to an unsupportable curse but also they doe euen so much disappoint disorder and distresse the Soule that is with them infested that they utterly deprave it deprive it and make it uncapable of any true Peace comfort and content I might heere amplifie at large upon these Vses of Exhortation and Dehortation and vse divers Motives to both of them to make these Considerations sinke deeper into the drowsie conceipts of our bewitched Worldlings and also to spurre forward the slow motions of other tardy Christians But by these that warily peruse the Workes enough may bee found dispersed in the Body thereof to these and the like purposes Besides the Volume is swolne farre ●ger in the Presse then I suspected by the Manuscript I will therefore drive this Part no further The Apostles practice to the Hebrews shall be my patterne I beseech you Brethren suffer the words of Exhortation Heb. 13. ●2 Galat. 6.18 for they are but few The Grace of our Lord IESVS CHRIST be with your Spirit AMEN FINIS LONDON Printed by B. ALSOP and T. FAVVCET M.DC.XXXI

this Greeke word Pan intimates therefore it 's a curse mixt with a Command that ADAM shall eate his bread that 's earne whatever is needfull ad victum cultumque for meat drinke and apparell in the sweat of his h Gen. 3.10 Marlorate inlocum browes in some lawfull calling and that which is the best of i Danaeus in orat Domini Ambrosius in Psal 118 Babingtō on the Lords Prayer fol. 75. prayers the rule and square of all other prayers directs us to pray for our dayly bread that is whatever is needfull for our temporary life according to our places callings conditions SECT 2. GODS Children as they have GODS plenty So they have GODS peace which worldlings want NOw from these praemises according to the letter we extract this truth that as Huskes signifie every vanity as opposed to bread including concluding every good blessing so the truth as a square shewes what 's crooked shewing it selfe and the contrary demonstrates to it both the propositions first propounded that in the service and observance of sinne and Sathan the Citizen of the Country the Author and Father of all the sinnes of the City and Country there 's nothing but hungry Huskes emptinesse vacuity vility vanity insufficiency as on the contrary in our Fathers house in the true Church of God in the service and worship of the true IEHOVAH the Father of Mercy the Father of all Flesh of all spirits there 's bread enough Corporall Sacramentall spirituall comfort and contentation enough externall internall aeternall GOD providing a large allowance a liberall dyet for his family above that which SALOMON dayly allowed for k 1. Kings 4 22.23 his every day being to them a solemne Feast a Christ-tide a Festivall as in the new Moone and solemne Assemblyes a great Feast indeed above that of l Esth 1.3 ASSVERVS or the Roman Galba or m When he supt in Apollo LUCULLUS a Feast of fat things in his Holy n Esay 25.6 Mountaine his Syon a Feast of Wine on the Lees of fat things full of marrow of Wine on the Lees well refined p Mat. 22.4 for Wisedome hath killed her Beasts o Prov. 9.2 already her Oxen and her Fatlings yea the Paschall Lambe and fat Calfe Omnia q V. 8. Luk. 14.17 parata all things are prepared she hath mingled her wines she hath furnished her Table the milke of the Word the Wine of the Sacrament the oyle of the Spirit the unction from above cheeres the countenance and glads the heart of all the Israel of GOD they are all aboundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of their fathers house he makes them drinke of the rivers of his r Psal 16. vers 11. Psal 17 15 pleasures the faith-espoused soule married to the Kings sonne is brought into the bridall ſ Cant. 1.4 Chap. 2.4 Chap. 5 1 Chamber takes her fill of love yea is led into his banqueting house in his pleasing Garden there eates hony with the hony combe drinkes wine with milke yea drinkes aboundantly till she be inebriated t Rō 14.17 with love u Gal. 6.16 which is better than wine yea till she be even in a Love Qualme sicke againe with love as in a spirituall extasie of Ioy For the Kingdome of God is Love Peace and Ioy in the Holy Ghost and this Peace is upon all the Israell of God whosoever this Peace as his last and best legacie the Prince of Peace left with all that have true and * Ioh. 14.27 saving Grace to which peace is inseparably united and married yea lincked as in a golden x Gal. 1.3 Rom. 1.7 1 Cor. 1.3 2. Cor. 1.2 Eph. 1 2 5. chaine For it 's a false Calumny and frivolous imputation which the Children of darkenesse cast upon the Children of Light that they are ever sad sullen y Semper taciti tristesque recedunt Lucretius sighing z Sic dictum ●lim Calvinianos esse Melancholicos melancholly as a Hare or a See Demecritus of Religions Melancholy Part. 3. sect 4. pag. 493. ad p. 537. Owle never injoying themselves but pine and droupe and hang downe their heads as a Bull-rush so pure and precise that they take no content in the Creatures but deprive themselves of all Ioyes or pleasures unsociable besides as Tymon b Tymonille Atheniensis Misanthropos retyred or as Students unhewen unmanly unmannerly men such as take delight in no company and none in them and so consequently that they are starved in respect of any true content For have they no joyes because the beetle blinde bleare-ey'd world sees them not Is there no soule in man this little world no God in the world this great c Homo Microcosmu● Mundusque Megacosmos comparantur ab Alstodio in Theol. Nat. Part. 2. pag. 643. man because man sees neyther Had the Israelites no Manna because the Moabites and Ammonites tasted it not Doth not the Sunne shine because the blinde Begger discernes it not Is there no sweetnesse in Hony and Suger because the distempered palate of the aguish sicke man gusts it not Is ABRAHAMS ISAAC sacrificed because hee was on the Altar No ISAAC then and still d Gē 22.12 lives ISAAC the sonne of laughter the Fathers joy the joy of GODS salvation ever lives in the heart of the Elected and called the Ramme is onely e Gē 22 1● sacrificed carnall sensuall Sodomitish sinfull belluine brutish fleshly uncleane and impure Ioyes in the abused Creatures such as brutish Swinish hoggish Epicures loose Libertines wallow in as the Eele in the mud in the abuse of Wine Women Musicke Meares Drinks Apparell Hawking Hunting Sports Pastimes Feasts recreations turning liberty into licentiousnesse Christianity into Carnality these joyes and contents in which vaine men live or rather by which they dye as it were laughing even tickled to death these onely are moderated mortified sacrificed yea crucified on the Crosse of CHRIST but ISAAC the sonne of Promise spirituall joyes they still live yea then live most when ABRAHAM or the sonne of ABRAHAM a beleeving f Gal. 3.7 Christian is most tempted tryed afflicted persecuted as the Lawrell is greenest when the winter is g Imo vivit viget in Mari Rubro Plin. lib. 13. cap. 25. fowlest the Dolphin most playes when the Sea is most h Solinus c. 17. stormy the Swan sings sweetest when death is the i Cantaetor cygnus funeris ipse sui nearest as it may bee seene DANIEL rejoycing in the Lyons k Dan. 6.21 Den PAVL and SILAS singing in l Act. 16.25 Prison the Apostles glad that they were threat and beat for the Name of m Act. 5.41 Christ the Martyrs tryumphing at the n As Jgnatius Polycarpus A●talus Bi●rlaam Fabianus Victoria apud Eusebium lib. 3. c. 30. lib. 4. c. 15. lib. 6. c. 29. Niceph. lib. 3.19 l. 14 15. lib. 5 7 apud Basilium

life Now true Repentance being never incident to CAIN ESAV PHARAOH or any other Reprobate SALOMON truely repenting who can without manifest untruth deny him mercy unlesse he deny the Scriptures and make GOD to deny himselfe Besides doth not the Lord himselfe say that if he sinne as he did too grosly he would visit his sinnes with Rods and his transgressirns with p 2. Sā 7.14 Scourges as indeed he did by stirring up enimies q 1. Kin. 11 14.26 against him as oft against rebelling r Iudg. 4.2 c. 6.2 c. 10.6.7 Israel according to his ſ Lev. 26.17 Deu. 28.25 threats but yet hee would not take away his mercy and loving kindnesse from him Gods visitations being to him as to all Gods children as Rods corrective from a father as Physicall purges from his Physitian instructive and redargative for the good and health of his soule as Rubarb and Aloes to purge the viscous and gluttonous humours of his follyes as t Discorides and Dodoneus in their Herbals de Helebro Hellibore to cure his Spirituall Frenzie they were not condemnatory Iudgments from a Iudge not as plagues upon the Reprobate as we reade of the plagues of u Exod. Ch. 7 8.9 10. Aegypt of * Gē 19.24 Sodom of x Esa 16. v. 11.13 Moab of Edom y Esa 17. v. 1.2 of x Esa 16. v. 11.13 Damascus and of the z 1. Sam. 5 6 7. ● Philistins in a word they were to the instructiō of an adopted Son not to the destruction of a rejected a 〈◊〉 instruct●onem non ad ru●m Reprobate Nay further see the Antithesis in the Comparison betwixt SAVL and SALOMON the Lord promising that he will not take his mercy from him as hee did from b 2. Sā 7.14 Saul doth it not include yea conclude that SALOMON is as certainly Elected as SAVL reiected whether wee take it of a temporary rejection from his Kingdome as the rigged c Hunnius Huberus in Thesib Eccardus in fas●iculo controversier● Osiander in Euchirid Lutherans and some Armenians wrest that place of the d Mal. 1.2 3 Prophet and of the Apostle concerning ESAV and the Iewes to bee meant of a temporary not of a finall Reprobation or wee hold his reprobation absolute and finall without any participation of saving e Rō 9.12.15 mercy grace or glory as is more probable since God tooke away from SAVL even here his common graces his spirit of Magistracy sent an evill f 1. Sā 13.14 spirit working on his g See Willets Hexapla in locum Melancholy as his executioner to torment him gave him over to a Reprobate sence to commit reiterated sinnes with greedinesse as his maligning and persecuting first DAVID h 1. Sā 19.3 c. 20.22 hunting for his bloud ungratefully and ungraciously after so many l 1. Sam. 22 18 19 kindnesses received from him i 1. Sā 24.14 perfidiously breaking his promises bloodily k 2. Sā 21.1 murthering the Gibeonites more bloudily the Lords Priests vowing m 1. Sā 14.44 swearing and n V. 45. forswearing the death of iust IONATHAN his sonne his raylings o Chap. 20.27 30. revilings Cursings vaine p Ch. 22.7 boastings maine disobedience and q Ch. 15.22.23 rebellion against GOD hypocrisie and r Ch. 11.15 Ch. 14.33 35. formality in all his seeming profession proud and peremptory intermedling with the Priests ſ 1. Sam. 13.10 Offices as once t 2. Sam. 6.7 VZZAH Consulting with the Witch of u 1. Sam. 28.7 Endor and other sinnes for ought wee know unrepented doe plainly testifie and at last as the conclusion of his Tragedie here and beginning of a greater in Hell unlesse Grace came as it may come in an * Jnter pontem ●ōtem See Abreuethy his Physick of the Soule c. 24. p. 374. Democritus Iunior de Melancholia p. 782. instant when his owne Sword was in his owne bowels giving him over to the power of his spirituall and corporall enimies the Divell and the Philistines and to paynick and agonizing x 1. Sam. 28 30. feares suffered him to be Felo de se a mutherer of y 1. Sā 31.4 himselfe I say however wee hold of SAVL from these praemisses it 's plaine that SALOMON was an object and subject of that mercy which the Lord denyed unto SAVL and therefore as contraries illustrate one z Contraria juxta se opposita magis clucescunt another as blacke shewes white to be more white GODS strict Iustice upon SAVL as a Vassell of wrath shewes SALOMON to be an Elect Vessell of Mercy I might say more for SALOMONS salvation as that he is joyned with his Father DAVID as a true worshipper of God therefore saved as his Father DAVID for 2. Chran 11 27. the Tribes of Israel are sayd to walke in the wayes of DAVID and of SAMPSON and indeed however I have no heart to Apologize for the sins of SALOMON as some me thinkes too farre for the a Apud Willetum in sua Hexapla in Genesin Poligamy of the Patriarkes yet it 's plaine in that Chapter that notwithstanding the Idolatries superstitions provocations of his strange Women Religion was not altered in SALOMONS dayes an Argument some b Salomonis Solace Ch. 29. p. 219. thinke that the foundation of his Faith was unshaken And it is not probable that he himselfe did adore Astoroth Milcom Molock or Camos in his owne person no more than AARON himselfe did worship the golden Calfe which the Idolaters importunity caused him to c Exo. 32. ● erect though in tolerating his Wives in their strange worship he is sayd to follow these Idols which his Apocryphall booke of Wisedome if it be d Some attribute it to Philo Judaeus his divulged even to the Gentiles shewes how much hee disprooves and dislikes and e Sapientiae c. 13.10 14.8 15 3. abhorres Lastly SALOMONS last vertues did so farre counterpoize and countervaile his first Vanities that as worthy of aeternall Record they are registred by three Prophets NATHAN AHIIAH and IEEDO 2. Chron. 9.29 Insomuch that these praemisses considered Ambros in Apol. Davidis cap. 3. Author lib. Eccles cap. 47. with moe Arguments that might be alleadged notwithstanding his humane sinnes some f Nazianzen Orat. 11 have call'd him Divinum Salomonem Divine SALOMON yea others though hee were such a sinner since his sinnes were his sorrowes his Vanities his vexation to the comfort of all sincere paenitents such as was SALOMON and my Texts Prodigall have called him a Saint others a most h Hierom. Epist ad ami●um Aegrotu● Tō 9. holy man SECT 6 SALOMONS Salvation prooved from Authors and Authorities ANd indeed if I may free my selfe from transgressing in this my seeming digressing for some reasons which time permits me not now to relate as once over shooes over bootes

Voluptuousnesse Mirth the second friend would stay with him in his Sicknesse yea to the houre of death that Friend was Riches Wealth Worship but at the Crave there it left him a third Friend would goe with him into the Grave after the manner of the best beloved Wives amongst the l Acosta Maffaeus Petrus Hispalensis de rebus Indicis Indians and some other Savadges yea as a friend indeed that will goe with his friend to the Court stand by him and plead for him it will goe with him to Iudgment even to Gods Tribunall and this friend is Gods feare and Gods favour but as for the second friend Riches they leave us you see at the Grave as I have seene at an Assise some Popish Gentlemen leave the Iudge and the Iustices at the Church doore as purposing to goe no nearer towards Heaven with us these friends saith BERNARD eyther have their end before we dye or see our end when wee m Habent aut fi●em suum aut tuum dye eyther they forsake us or are forsaken of us we are active or passive in our dereliction sayth n Aut possidentem deserunt aut a possidente deseruntur Ambrosius Epistola 9. AMBROSE Naked we came into the World and naked shall we goe out againe saith holy IOB the great Saladine the Conquerour of Asia a second TAMBERLAINE well applyed it to himselfe for dying in his Army in stead of all other obsequies such as ACHILLES made for his friend PATROCLVS ALEXANDER for EPHESTION the Greeks for AIAX and ACHILLES the Troyans for HECTOR or English for the noble SIDNEY and many moe military men he caused onely a Linnen Cloth a winding sheet to be carried on the top of a Speare throughout the Campe with this Proclamation Saladini quod o F●lgosus hist l. 7. c. 2. Theatrū histor in 9. praeceptū p. 707. reliquum Here 's all that 's left of great SALADINE Ensignes Trophees Victories Conquests Tryumphs all are included concluded in this linnen rag the Cover for my dead Corpes and except this all the rest must remaine behind this Earth Houses Lands Wife Children must we shake hands p Linquenda rellus domus placens vicor Hora. with when we depart our Pilgrimage the Poet in his Paganish Divinity thinkes wee carry none of these to the lower Manes the infernall Ghosts q Divitis ad manes nil feret umbra suos Ovid Tristium 5. beneath but most truly the heavenly inspired Propheticall Poet tells us that the rich man when he dyes shall carry nothing away with him his Pompe shall not discend with him to the Grave Psal 49.17 Therefore that excellent AVGVSTINE bids r Vide viventem cogita morientem quid hic habet quid secum tollit attend Aug. etiam Ruffinin Psalm 48. us Eye the rich man Poyse and ponder his estate living and dying to consider what he hath here and what he takes with them from hence and in this meditation wee shall finde the men of this world those Brutigenists or Terrigenists as they are called Earth-bred wormes which with that BRVTVS kisse and cull the l Osculare terram Jussus est ab Oraculo apud Plutarchum Brutus Earth as in the Iewish Feilds and Vineyards to be permitted to plucke and eate whilst they were there but to carry and pocket none away with him Deut. 23.24 25. Or theyr condition to be like boyes that having stolne a great many of Apples or Peares in an Orchard stuffing and stopping their sleeves and pockets full besides these with which they cram theyr bellies full but at the doore there standeth one that searcheth them takes all their fruit from them knocks them about the eares and so sends them away with no more than they brought in the World is the m Mundus est Pomariū nos p●tri Mors Janitor Gal●lmus Parisensis de vitijs Orchard the Cormorants of The World are those greedy Boyes the Fruite stolne are Riches ingrost the Porter is Death or we may conceit them like a poore man that is invited to a Rich mans Table he hath the use of plate to drinke in of silver spoones to eate his meate with whilst hee is there at the Feast but if he presume to pocket up any Plate or carry away the least spoone there is search made by the Porter for what is missing and it 's taken from him with a checke and n Similitudo Stellae in suis en erratio ibus in Lucā disgrace as IOSEPH said of PHARAOHS o Gē 4● 25 dreames both the Parables are one to one end one application serves both we are here as in an Inne sayth TVILY we may use the world as our Hosts house and our bed too that proper place to which GOD hath called us for the time wee lodge but wee must carry away no Cloathes no Coverings except we borrow one Sheete as our Winding sheet usefull as the seconds to the p Ve secunda ad oditum Infantem Sen. Epist 92 Child to wrap us in excepting this Death as a Pyrate or q Mors Latro est qui Mundanos omnes Nudos dimisit Ranlimus Doct. Mor. tract 1. c. 6. Chrysost in Psal 48. de hoc argumente Theefe strips us of all our Cloathes and robs us of all the rest of all our best now if there bee any faelicity to be found Contentation to be hoped in these fluctuate and uncertaine things which eyther ere long will leave us or of necessity we must leave them let any judge who is not too farre already hoodwinckt and bewitched with these Vanities I might shew further the uncertainty not onely of these extetnals but even of those guifts which are Common to the Reprobates as well as to the Elect to Pagans as well as Christians which are internall too whether acquired as Arts Sciences Languages or Naturall as humaine wisedome Prudence Policy memory for it were easie to instance in many particulars in all ages of many that eyther from naturall causes or adventitiall as Sicknesse Frenzie Fancies Beatings bruisings of the braine Age Colds Rheumes Apoplexies Lethargies or from GODS hand inflicting for causes best knowne to his Maiestie eyther as tryals of probation r Exempla extant apud Plinium l. 7. c. 24. apud Maximum l. 1. Solinum c. 6. or as penall for sinne of Wisemen are become Fooles of learned men become Ignorants and unlearned of Politians simple witted yea some of strong and retentive memories become oblivious and forgetfull to admiration not so much remembring their owne names God usually taking away his Talents from those that eyther bury them suffer them to rust for want of imployment as that idle Servant in the ſ Math. 25. v. 24 25. Gospell or else in the Pride of their hearts and prophanenesse of their lives imploy them ill to their owne sinister and lustfull ends the hurt and dammage of his Church and Children and Gods

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