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A05379 A crucifixe: or, A meditation vpon repentance, and, the holie passion. Written by Christopher Lever Lever, Christopher, fl. 1627. 1607 (1607) STC 15535; ESTC S120020 15,889 44

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judgement must be just Denounceth sentence of our condemnation Traytor thy flesh shall first returne to dust The matter of thy first formation Thy Soule transported to that strange vexation Whereas the soules of damned doe beginne To act the wofull parts of tragike Sinne. This is the law and thus we sentence thee Our power extends not for to moderate This court is Iustice Iustice we decree The seate of Mercie is predominate And liues in God he that did first create Thy Innocence To him thou must appeale If this our Condemnation thou repeale ¶ Thus farre the law Now to our worke of Grace To wash this Moore and giue him Innocence To reobtaine what ●…r'st he did deface Integritie To cancell his offence In lieu whereof to giue him excellence To make that glorious that before was base Doubt those that list It is a worke of Grace Of Grace me thinkes th'vngratious will replie I rob Gods Image of his worthinesse Because to sinfull man I doe denie Innatiue power to worke his holinesse Will you O men deceiued I confesse That God will share the glory of his name With men whose liues dishonour most the same Here is the world in great dispute and strife Whence doth arise this penitentiall fire That purgeth Sinne and rectifies the life Some will deriue it from their owne desire Others the blessed Angels doe inspire Some in their Friends and many in thei●… Priest In Errour all in God they place it least When God did giue a spirit vnto man He did but gently breathe it in his flesh But if he once call backe the same againe He speaketh loud and groanes with painefulnesse Adam and Lazarus doe well expresse That he that can determine sinfull strife Doth somewhat more than he that gaue vs life It were a well deseruing worke to set The kirnell that 's a prisoner in the shell Which when the Sunne doth warme and heauens wet Receiues a life yet doth it farre excell In curious Art to make that prosper well Which like a rotten member of a tree For fewell fit for Grace vnfit to be Me thinkes I heare the Mutinous repine And blame the hard construction of my verse And to the fire condemne this discipline Or wish my recantation to reuerse The doome I censure on this vniuerse Thus these repiners God should wrong our spirits To giue vs Lawes and take away our Mer●… Thus may your earthen vessels make dispute And aske how hap the Potter made them so Doe you not know that God is absolute Nor giues a reason for his doing so Shall God out of himselfe for wisedome goe How dar'st thou argument with God maintaine Being his vassaile he thy Soueraigne To make it best thus I compare thy state Like to a Candle wel prepar'd for light The reason why I thus doe estimate Is thy Discourse thy Reason and Delight To vnderstand each cause But the insight Of that which neerest doth concerne thy minde In this thou art not sighted but starke blinde Suppose ten thousand torches in the night They giue no light vnlesse thou giue them fire So is thy Reason and thy judgements sight Blind in it selfe if Grace giue not desire It is the God of Spirits doth inspire Thy soule with Grace For when it wants his light It is more blacke then is the darkest night And in this darknesse this our man of Griefe Whome we proportion is in darknesse placed Within himselfe he cannot finde reliefe What was diuine in him is now defaced The pride of his deseruings is disgraced And when a man in this dejection lyeth He wastes in sorrow and in teares he dyeth And die he must in his repentant teares Before his reformation can beginne The graine must die before the blade appeares New birth is gotten by the death of sinne When thus we die our spirit that 's within Respires a life that neuer will deceiue vs Whereof nor Time nor Enuie can berea●…e vs. The manner how This out of my report When man is ouer-charged with the cares Arising from the judgement of this Court. And when within himselfe he much despaires The holy Spirit then to him repaires And brings his Pardon testified good With this subscription IESVS writ in blood And thus this sacred instrument of life Poore man we adde not to thy heauinesse To speake in anger or contentious strife Mercie is only in our businesse We come to make thy much affliction lesse And offer to thy neere despairing spirit The Psalme of Mercie Mercie best can merit See here the booke of Life I do present thee Wherein thou maist Eternitie behold Thou canst not reade before thou first repent thee Thou must first know thy selfe and then vnfold This sacred volume The Spirit then doth hold Before the darkned spirits of his eye A Representment how his Christ did die Said I a representment and no more It is much more then in my wordes can be My soule conceits a verie Christ before Spreading his sacred bodie on the Tree Me thinkes his verie torments I doe see This Crucifix is that most sacred booke Wherein each happy Spirit needes must looke And this the holy Ghost presents the eye And bids vs reade our penitentiall verse If we can Clarkely reade this mystery He promiseth our judgement for to trauerse And all our condemnation to reuerse But Sinne alas so darkned hath the minde As in this holy learning we are blinde Like when th'vnlearned Fellon hath his booke Without a Prompter he no letter readeth Although with much desire he thereon looke Euen so our Soules as much vnlearned needeth The help of that sweete comfort that proceedeth For if that God assist vs not the better We vnderstand no sence no word nor letter In this condition this our man of sinne Cannot reade mercie in these misteries Before Gods holy spirit doe beginne To cleanse the soule of his impieties To moue the hart and cleere the darkned eyes When once this grace in vs hath but a being In holy secrets we haue perfect seeing The leaprous man to heale his filthinesse Must seauen times water his contagious skinne Is holy water of that worthinesse Then with repentant teares let vs beginne To wash the leaprous body of our sinne Seauen times is nothing multiply thy seauen We must wash cleane ere we can enter heauen This is our first degree of holinesse Which at the first as all beginnings are Little in trueth but large in hopefulnesse He that beginnes this sorrow with a teare Vnto a better worke doth but prepare And when in vs this grace hath but beginning We liue to hope and die vnto our sinning Take for an instance him whom we proport No more of sinne but now the childe of Grace As he wastes teares his benefits resort The bad thrust out the betters haue the place What was delightfull now he doth deface When thus he hath a new begotten minde His eyes are open that before were blinde No sooner open but with eagernesse They