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A treatise on the First Psalme. By Mathew Stonham. Minister and preacher in the cittie of Norwich
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Stoneham, Mathew.
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1610
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stocke thirdly withernig and drooping in the age of it so man while he is as a twigge in the first spring of his infancy or childhood is tender in his body being but as a flower which is sonne blasted and withered away And in his mind is flexible as a twigge easily inclined either to Vertue if hee bee informed or to Vice if hee bee neglected being as waxe which may be wrought and brought into all formes but being once stiffened and confirmed in the strength of his â—â—cke by his youth or Mans-age he is it may bee in his body more firme though â—ee can neuer bee wholy without them against infirmities and more tough in his mind either to retaine the habit of Vertues if he shall be seasoned with them or to cotinue the poyson of vices if hee hath bene nusled vp in them An exccellent Caueat vnto all Parentes and gouernours vnto whome the educacion of these young springes euen in the first sprigge or twige of them is committed that they may while they bee tender enbow them frame them while they be plyable and worke them while they be flexible least that when of pliant sprigs they shall become stockish trunkes they grow curelesse they waxe redreslesse As Adam our first Parent was appointed to tend the Trees of Pradise so wee his ofspring Gen. 2. 15. haue misticall trees commited to our keeping and dressing euen the fruit of our bodies Which if they shall bee timely tended duely ordered and rightly framed vnto that Mica 6. 7. which is good will proue such plantes as shall bee both peaceble and pleasant peaceable shall they bee because they shal be as Oliue plants pleasant shall they bee because they shal be as curtaines of ornament spread round about our table Psal 118. 3. But if wee shall bee ouer-indulgent and ouer-tender toward them a fault ouer-rife in these times they will grow stiffe in sin and be hardned in the thicke dregges of there owne lose and misleading courses prouing no better then wild-trees which will bring forth fruit no better then the Wild grapes Esay 5. 4. resembling the bramble in presuming against vs and vsurping ouer vs there parents and Gouernours though we be towards them for Fatnesse as the Oliue Tree for Sweetnesse as the Figge-tree for Pleasantnesse as the Vine Rough and vntrimmed Brambles Iâ—dg 9. indeed will they argue them-selues to bee which vnlesse they may haue their mindes will threaten fire to come out of them which shall consume the Cedars of Libanon A lesson is this seriously to bee weighed and â—eedfully to Iudg. 9. 15. bee practised in these times wherein the complaint of Saint Chrysostome may often and againe bee vsed Patrâ— Chrysost sup illud Matth accessit ad illum mater Zebâ—dâ—orum et matres corpus suorum natorum amant animam autem contemnunt c. Fathers and Mothers doe â—oue the bodies of their children but lightly passe by their Soules for they desire onely to see them in this world not caring what they shall sufâ—er in the life to come A folly is this euen with teares of the bitterest sorrow to bee lamented that Men should loue the huske and neglect the graine regarde the Shell and reiect the Kernell esteeme of the Bagge and despise the Treasure therein contained beautifie the Bodies of their children and suffer their Mindes to bee blacke deformed corrupted whereby these mysticall trees waxe so rough and tough in their stocke being not other-wise set and disposed in their twigge as they will bee broken before they bee bent ended before they bee mended More-ouer in the third place is man in his growth like a tree flourishing haply in his youth but drooping in his age looking toward the Dust before hee returneth to Gen. 3. 19. the dust This is the worke of Time who is the great conqueror of all things A time is appointed to â—uery thing so Eccles 3. 1. cannot this thing escape from this appointment There is a time to be borne a time to dye so is there according to to the same proportion a time to be Yong and a time to waxe Old also Mans life is but a day whose euening will certainly follow his morning vntill the night of death maketh him to sleep in the bed of the graue vnto the time that the day of the resurrection shall awaken him againe Bee it that a Man in his youth bee as strong as the Oake as tall as the Cedar as straight as the Pine-tree as flourishing as the Greene Bay-tree yet when the winter or his age shall ceaze vpon him his strength will bee weakened his talenesse abated his streightnesse crooked his florishing withered because then the Keepers of the house that is the hands will tremble the Strong-men that is the legges will bow the Grinders that is the teeth shall cease they shall â—axe darke which looke out at the windowes that is the eyes the dores shall bee shut without that is the lippes and he shall rise at the voyce of a birde that is sleepe shall depart from him and the daughters of Musicke that is the eares shal bee abased and they shall bee affraid at the high thinge that is they shall stoope towards the earth againe and the Almond Tree shall slorish that is their haire shall bee as white at the blossomes of that tree and the Grassehoppers that is as some will haue it the shoulder-pinnes shall sticke vp And old-age shall be as an house which euery man if death cut him not of before must goe vnto Eccle. 12. 5. Eccl. 12. The Philosopher mentioneth small flies neare to the bankes of a certaine riuer which liue but one day They are bred in the morning like vnto Man in his infancy therin Aristo de natu animal lib. 3. as a Tree in the twigge they are at there full strength at noone like vnto man is his confirmed age therein as the Tree in the stocke they are at night growing toward there end like Man in his Old-age therein as a Tree in the drouping thereof Third Man may bee said to bee like a Tree in the state of a Tree which the higher it is the more dangerfull it is as that which then is more exposed to the violence of the Windes to the blasting of the Lightninge to the dent of the Thunder-boult and the lesse fruitfull it is as may appeare by the Cedar one of the talest Trees yet none of the frut-fullest whereas those Trees which are of a lower and more base groth are both lesse dangerfull as they which are exempted by there submissenesse and deiection from the ragings of the Windes the flashings of the lightnings and the fury of the Thunder-bolts as also more fruitfull as it may appeare by the Vine the lowest almost among the Plants as that which vnlesse it bee by the care and hand of man shoared and vnderpropped creepeth vpon the ground leaneth and layeth still vpon the