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A19254
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Bartas Iunior: or, The worlds epitome; man Set forth in his 1. generation, 2. degeneration, 3. regeneration.
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Cooke, Edward, fl. 1626-1631.
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1631
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STC 5667; ESTC S117171
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for to asswage A long-felt-paine by tedious Pilgrimage Not that by Death thou canst yet satisfie My yrefull Wrath or just Indignitie But thou by Death shalt finde a passage cleere To that Beatitude ungained here When this same Trunke of thine shall turne to Clay The Martyrs passion day was called of old Natalitium salutis Gen 3.15 Bid joyfull welcome to thy new-birth-New-birth-day For Death shall be the Bridge for to transport Thy spotlesse Soule to my celestiall Court Then Courage Adam be not thou dismaid Wrestle with Sinne and Death be not afraid 'T is I will helpe thee in thy greatest Neede And raise a Saviour to thee from thy Seede Now thou art naked loe take here these Skinnes Cloath thee with them live to lament thy sinnes Phil. 3.9 Rom 13 14 1 Cor. 1.30 Lay holde on Christ to come by Faithfulnesse Who is thy Garment and thy Righteousnesse He shall defend thee from the parching Heat Of sinnes Contagion be it ne're so great And being cloathed with his Innocence Thou maist behold my Face with confidence Now looke into Thy selfe and see thy Fault Take heed thou do'st not after this revolt Ending his speech The Lord derides him thus â—ehold the man 's become as one of us Gen 3 2â— Which is as much as if the Lord had said â—ee what an alteration Man hath made Beholde what unto him doth now betide Chrys hom 18. in Gen. All through his Disobedience and his Pride And let his whole Posterity take heede How they reject my word by Adams deede GOD having cloath'd his Carkasse with a Skin Irena l. 3. c. 37. Armed his minde with hatred of his Sin Humbled his Soule with sorrow for his Vice Doth next exclude him out of Paradice And that he might not backe againe returne To eate the Fruite that he would have him shunne And live for ever as the word implies God sets the Cherubims before his eyes Gen 3.24 With them a Blade or Sword appearing rife To barre his passage to the Tree of Life That now beholding with perspicuous eye Tertul. in Marci l. 2. His former State past all recovery And he unable to redeeme the Losse Might now submit himself to beare the crosse And by his Faith upon that Life relie Iesus Christ eâ—tternall with the Father Which was with God from all Eternity Nay which was God and did assume our State That he might Man againe new renovate Whom God before all Ages did decree To be prefigur'd typed in this Tree Whom he in Wisdome did before provide To helpe him when this Tree was laid aside Now takes the Tree of Life from Adams sight Because he knew not how to use it right God did it both in Iustice and in Favour Chrys hoâ— on Gen. 1 That Man might thirst hunger for his Saviour Foreseeing in his divine providence His confidence in Christ. Epiphan â—ares 64 That it would further Adams confidence When he should be removed from that Tree Whereon his mind might run by Fantasie Yet had no power to give any Life Either to Him his Children or his Wife God did not feare that Man should live for ever When from the Tree of Life he did him sever But therefore he debarr'd him of the Tree Because he did abuse his Liberty Gen 2.17 One onely tree the Lord would have him spare And that same one the Man would not forbeare Therefore the Lord in his displeasure great Chrys Ib. Debarres him of that One which he might eat He had procured Death by tasting One Ieremy â—anch Beda â—amascen â—piph haeâ—â—s 64. â—hat is â—hen hee â—â—gan to â—â—te the â—â—â—bidden â—â—ite as â—â—th that â—â—ther â—â—â—l 90.4 Pet. 3 8 And might have liv'd in letting it alone Now having sinn'd the other will not serve Which was ordain'd before Life to preserve And had he eaten tree and fruit withall He should have still continu'd caducall For in That Instant he began to die Though for a while he liv'd in Misery Yet was his Life but a prolonged death Which soone did vanish from him with his breath That Adam did not die immediatly Behold the Lords unequall'd Clemency To whom a thousand yeares is but a day Respecting his Eternity for aye Yet he confounds not Times rotundity But counts each day in perfect mensity â—â—â—l 147 4 Who can the Number of the Starres declare But he that made them in particular Or who can tell the drops of raine that fall 〈◊〉 37 11 But he whose Influence giveth Sap to all The Fowles of Heaven Haires upon our head Mat. 10 30. To us unnumber'd he hath numbered Numbers which unto us are infinite Compar'd to God are found but definite Isay 40 17 Gen. 5 5 Say Adam liv'd nine hundred thirty yeares Yet breath'd he not a Day as it appeares A thousand yeares did his olde age surmount And this is but a Day in Gods account Psal 90.4 No Creature ever liv'd this Day compleat Hee lived 969. Gen. 5 27 The neerest was Methusalah the great Yet since his time our age doth so decay That scant we live One-hower of this day THe life of Man is as a Spiders Webbe Note Or like a Sea decaying in his Ebbe Or like unto a little Sparke of Fire Which in a minute doth it selfe expire Man is a temporary Loane of life A debt of Death a Creature full of Strife An Inne a Receptacle soyled Cell Chrys in his tract upon the 7 verse of the 39 Psalme Wherein his Passions for a time doe dwell An abject object of dire misery A very Habit of Infirmity A Subject whereon Griefe predominates An empty Caske which Sinne contaminates A tottering Reede which easily is broke A scatter'd Cloud a transitory Smoke To day in health amongst his Bags of gold To morrow dead most ghastly to behold To day in 's study casting up his Summes To morrow he is cast unto the wormes To day with his Associates making cheere To morrow borne by them upon a Beere To day in glory tended on in state To morrow left without associate To day attired in a purple Robe To morrow by mischance as poore as Iob To day in honour full of Majesty To morrow thrust from all his dignity Adam as yesterday in Eden plac't Gen. 3.24 Was by the Cherubims expulst in hast Herom tradit Hebr. in Gen. MAny there are that by the Cherubims And firy Sword shooke by the Seraphins Doe understand nought else but Phebus heat In that same space wherein his power is great They understand it for the torrid Zone Pointing upon the Indian-Horizone Others doe take it for materiall-Fire Which should environ Paradise entire And as a Wall incircling it about With such like horrour for to keep him out Aquinas Kupertus Lyra. Some take it for the fire of Purgatory And stand on their opinion peremptory But these and all the rest the text confutes And