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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72333	The holy sinner a tractate meditated on some passages of the storie of the penitent woman in the Pharisees house. by [sic] W.H.	Hodson, William, fl. 1625-1640.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1639 (1639)	STC 13555; ESTC S123530	25,322	116

asked indefinitely This day Verily I say unto thee This day shalt thou be with me in paradise The conversion of S. Paul In the list of these admirable Converts I cannot omit the blessed Apostle S. Paul When Saul wasted the church dispersed the Disciples destroyed the Christians following them from the synagogues into the streets from the streets into their houses when he breathed out threatnings and slaughter Acts 9. when he was journeying with a commission towards Damascus the Lord might without any expostulating have poured down vengeance upon him he might have summoned some punishment or other to have served the execution of wrath against him But if ever mercy and judgement met together there was judicium misericordiae misericordia judicii a voice and a stroke the one striking down to earth the other lifting up to heaven a light shining from heaven and a light shining to direct him to heaven a light shining to him that was in darknesse and in the shadow of death to bring him from the snare of darknesse unto the glorious liberty of the sonnes of God He that was the Way met him in the way He that was the Light met him with a light He that was the Word met him with the voice of a word Saul Saul why persecutest thou me It was a gracious favour of the Lord to vouchsafe to question with him but to call him by his name and to ingeminate that name Lorinus hoc indicat affectum commiserationis it was a signe of his great affection and commiseration It was a voice indeed Psal 29.4 5. the voice of the Lord mighty in operation the voice of the Lord is a glorious voice the voice of the Lord breaketh the cedar-trees yea the Lord breaketh the cedars of Libanus This voice strook him to the earth strook him from horse strook him from his presumption Persecutest thou Me Maximam emphasin habet illud Me Yet the voice was not more powerfull then mercifull it was suaviter fortis fortiter suavis It was the heaviest fall and yet the happiest fall that ever any had it was his fall and his rising Thus as dumbnesse unto Zacharie was not a dumb instructour it taught him faith against another time so blindnesse sent unto Paul took away his blindnesse making him to see more in the wayes of life then all his learning gathered at the feet of Gamaliel could have revealed unto him Here I confesse I have hunted a little wide unâ fideliâ duos parietes dealbavi Which the rather I was led unto because I intended to have writ a treatise on the conversion of S. Paul as likewise to have spent some oyl on the penitentiary thief But second thoughts have taken place SECT VII TO joyn issue with my former meditations I will imitate the most curious gravers who look sometimes upon green flies to recollect their scattered sight again I will fix my eyes through the glasse of contemplation on the picture of this penitent woman Repentance Repentance say the Fathers out of Numb 35.11 is a city of refuge to flie unto which again out of Acts 27. they call secundam tabulam post naufragium the happy plank which hath saved many a soul from the gulf of despair the board that after shipwrack will carry us safe unto land and bring us to those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the fair havens as the Apostle speaks in the same chapter in his voyage towards Rome Others do compare it to a Phenix-nest A Phenix-nest wherein the old Adam is consumed to ashes and out of those ashes ariseth the new man of God For conversion is a sacred riddle a divine aenigma A divine riddle wherein when we are born we are buried and when we are quickened we are killed and when we are mortified we are raised Thus Ninive was overthrown and yet not overthrown Aug. de civit Dei lib. 21. cap 24. Eversa est Ninive quae mala erat aedificata bona quae non erat it was overthrown by sinne but builded again by repentance He that is a skilfull Penitent doth cunningly play this after-game and a sinner after his recovery for the most part seeketh God more fervently For the Saints come out of the bed of their sinnes as Hezekiah out of his sick bed more humble more holy more pious more penitent as the Eagle that is wearied comes out of the water into which she dips her wing with a more surging ascent toward heaven then ever Dum peteret Regem Mart. lib. 1 epig. 22. When Mutius Scevola missed of his aim and in stead of killing Porsenna slew one of his scribes being as richly apparell'd as his prince he presently offered that hand which gave the stroke as a willing sacrifice unto the flame In admiration of whose great spirit the poet giveth this acclamation Major deceptae fama est gloria dextrae Si non errasset fecerat illa minus Without any inversiō I may apply it to this womans conversion Si non peccasset fecerat illa minus Nor let this be taken for a paradox For what an enemie would upbraid by way of reproch is the greatest praise that can be Faults that were Their very sinnes do honour some as the very devils that Mary Magdalene had are mentioned for her glory since we do not heare of them but when they are cast out for repentance is a supersedeas that dischargeth sinne making God to be mercifull angels to be joyfull man to be acceptable But because I have almost every where fair occasion given to treat of this divine grace of Repentance which like Miriam leads the dance before the daughters of Israel I will not stand to gather the fruit in this orchyard as clean as I might I now onely give the shaking of a tree two or three berries from the upper branches I now come with speed to this womans good speed to her accesse and to her successe For ut cognovit venit when she knew where Jesus was she came SECT VIII NOn cervus fluvios sic avet algidos Buchan in psal 42. Cervus turba canum quem premit c. The noble beast of chase the subtle cerffage the wind-footed Hart hearing the deep-mouthed hounds to vent his secret leyr and listning to the loud and deep yellings wherewith the forrest rings lifts up his high-palmed head rusheth out rouzing driveth the brakes trusteth his speed and getteth ground the kennel cast arere at length imbost with heat he beateth the brooks and ponds for sweet refreshing soil Without stretching the metaphor the Sic doth here punctually answer the Sicut This woman now touched with repentance for her former vanities like the thirsty and panting Hart in the extremitie of drought desiderat ad fontes aquarum doth eagerly long for the cooling springs Infixa erat in corde ejus sagitta saith Salmeron her soul was deeply wounded with the arrow of her sinnes haerebat