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A02186	Greenvvoods vvorkes contayned in fiue seueral tractates. 1. Of the day of iudgement. 2. Of the Lords Prayer. 3. Of the race to saluation. 4. Of the torment of Tophet. 5. Of the baptisme of Christ.	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Treatise of the great and generall daye of judgement. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Race celestiall. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Tormenting Tophet. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Joyfull tractate of the most blessed baptisme. aut	1620 (1620)	STC 12329; ESTC S115797	129,145	422

of the Father the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Math. 28. 1● in nomine Mat. 28. 19 not nominibus in the name not names here is the vnity of Essence of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost here is the Trinity of persons Augustine illustrates this mysterie by a Simile from the Sunne and Fire We sée the Sunne in the heauens Running Shining Giuing heate The Fire hath three properties Mouing Light Heate Now thou Arrian if thou canst diuide the Sunne and Fire diuide thou also the Trinity No the Trinity must be distinguished but by no means diuided The holy Ghost is called digitus Dei the finger of God the Sonne is called manus Patris the hand of the Father As therefore the finger in the hand and the hand in the body so of the same Essence and Substance is the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost But to search too much into this mysterie is dangerous as saith Bernard To enquire too much of the Trinitie is peruerse curiosity to beleeue as the holy Church holdeth is faith and securitie To see as it is is most absolute selicitie I remember an olde report that runnes of Alanus who promised his auditorie to discourse next Sabbath following the mysterie of the Trinity It hapned as he meditated by the Sea side hee saw a young boy goe about with a shell or spoone to empty the water of the Sea into a little hole Alanus demanded of him what hee meant I intend saith he to bring the whole Sea into this hole Why goest thou about a thing impossible answered Alanus So doest thou saith the boy vnto him for it is as possible for me to bring the whole sea into this hole as for thee thorowly to discourse the mystery of the Trinitie Alanus being very much dismayd and comming into the Pulpit his auditorie looking for the performance of his promise was silent for a pretty space at last brake out into these words Sufficit vobis vidisse Alanum it is enough for you to haue seene Alanus for to vtter that which I promised is aboue my reach and so came downe So surceasing the prosecution of this mysticall point any further I come to another obseruation from hence and hasten to an end And that is this As the whole Trinity was present at the Baptisme of Christ so it is the pleasure of Christ that euery of vs should be baptized in the name of the whole Trinitie Not in the name of one person alone Nor in the name of any creature Obiection But against the first may bee obiected that in the Acts where Peter exhorts them to be baptized in the name Act. 2. 38. of IESVS Acts 2. 38. and no more persons mentioned Answere He speaks not there of the forme of Baptisme but shewes that the whole effect thereof consists in Iesus Christ Againe vnder the name of IESVS the other persons are comprehended Obiection Against the second may be obiected that in the Corinths The Israelites were baptized in ● Mosen vnto Moses 1. Cor. 10 ● in the clo●d and sea 1. Cor. 10. 2. Answere It is an Hebrew phrase and in Mosen vnto Moses is as much as per Mosen by Moses as Augustine saith Duce Mose seu Mosis ministerio by the ministery of Moses Ambrose sayth they were baptized into M●ses that is duce Mose foeliciter transi●runt erapti sunt morte Moses leading them they passed the Sea without dange● and were s●ued from death Or in Mosen into Moses in 〈…〉 nam legem Mosis into the doctrine and law of Moses as those twelue are sayd to be baptized in baptisma Iohannis vnto Iohns baptisme Acts 19. Act. 19. ● 3. 7. that is in doctrinam Iohannis vnto Iohns doctrine as writeth that learned man Pareus so the like phrase is vsed Exod. 14. 19. Where the people Exod 14. 19. are said to haue beleeued in Moses that is in Deum per Mosen in God by Moses This is my beloued Sonne Text. Christ is Gods Son Onely Naturall Consubstantiall Coeternall We are but by adoption Gods children O the wonderfull loue of God the Father to vs that would vouchsafe to giue vs his Son his onely Sonne his onely beloued Sonne that whosoeuer 〈…〉 beleeueth in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting Ioh. 3. 16. In whom I am well pleased Text. Complaceo nemini nisi in te per te I am pleased with none but in thee and for thee In quo oblector In whom I am wonderfully delighted as sayth Euthymius In quo requiesco in quo placor saith Theophilact i. In whom I rest fully satisfied in whom I am well contented As that verse goeth In quo laetitia est in quo mihi facta voluptas In whom I much reioyce So that these words doe testifie that Iesus Christ is that worthy Mediator in whom the world is reconciled to God Let vs not therefore goe to Rome for a pardon nor to Mahomet for a blessing nor to the Magician for counsell nor to the Sorcerer for skill but let vs ●locke to Iesus our Redeemer in whom onely we shall finde GOD well pleased with vs saying with Peter Quo ibimus Whither shall wee goe for thou hast the words of eternall life There is in the world a foure-fold Call yet but one salutiferous The Diuell sayth Come vnto me sed destruam I will destroy you The World sayth Follow me sed decipiam I will deceiue you The Flesh sayth Follow me sed de●icia●● I will faile you Christ onely saith Come vnto me egore●●ciam I will refresh you Christ now knocketh at the doores of your hearts and would gladly come in and dine and sup with you Ren●● ● 20. drine him not out of your countrey as did the clay headed Gadarens Shut him not out of your houses as did the ●u●lling Bethleemites but be yee open ye euerlasting doores that the King of glory may come in that hauing giuen the Lord Christ entertainment into the houses of your hearts in this life hee may vouchsafe to put you all in possession of his heauenly mansions in the life to come To the which most blessed place of glory the Lord bring euery soule of vs at the day of our death and dissolution and that for Iesus Christs sake his beloued Sonne in whom onely he is well pleased to whom with God the Father and God the blessed Spirit thrée great persons but one Essentiall Godhead be offered vp all praise and thanksgiuing euen from the bottome of our hearts this day and euermore Amen FINIS A Godly and right Christian Prayer made for the instructiou and comfort of his weakest Parishioners of Hempstead reuerently to be vsed euery Euening in their seuerall Families O Most gracious God and in thy sweet Son Iesus our most mercifull heauenly Father we thy poore seruants and vnworthy Creatures with mourning spirits and perplexed hearts doe in most humble manner fall down before thy

glory killing vs thou dost but deliuer vs from 〈…〉 prison of our bodies thou shalt 〈…〉 remoue the rockes and moun●●i 〈…〉 their places then make vs 〈…〉 from the profession of the glorious Gospell of Iesus Such was the resolution of Sydrach Myshach and Abednego that rather then they would crouch to Nebuchadnezzars golden Image which wa● Dan. 3. 1 23. 60. cubits high they would be cast into the hot fiery Furnace which was made seuen times more hot then vsually it was for necessary vses Such was the resolution of blessed Paul that nothing could separate him from his LORD and Master CHRIST whose couragious vow we may find in his Epistle to the Romans on this manner Who shall separate Rom. 8. 35 33 39. vs from the loue of Christ shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword No verily for I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall bee able to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord neither the loue which wee haue to God from ●● who are made his sons through Christ Iesus And ●ndeed that which Paul promised he performed for he was beheaded at Rome for the Gospels defence although the sword did separate his head from his shoulders yet it could not separate him from his head Christ Iesus Such was the resolution of the patterne of patience that though the Iob. 13. 15. Lord should kill him yet would he put his trust in him Such was the resolution of Ignatius Ignatius Bishop of Antioch after Peter that the rauening Beasts could not make him flinch from his Redeemer yea being commanded by the King of Sy●ia to bee torne in pieces of wilde Beasts and being led to the place of execution the vttered this golden sentence Nihil moror visibilium nec inuisibilium modo Iesum Christum acquiram id est I care neither for things visible nor yet for things inuisible neither for things seene nor yet for things not seene Onely this is my care that I may obtain CHRIST IESVS with him euerlasting saluation And when the Beasts were let loose vpon him these were his last words as saith S. Ierome I am Gods corne and the Ierome teeth of these wilde Beasts must grind me in pieces that I may be pure bread and fine manchet for Christ Iesus his Table in Heauen Such was the constant resolution of that good old woman Apollonia Apollonia that she chose rather to haue her teeth dasht out of her head willingly and to be burnt to ashes then to worship any other god besides the true and euerliuing God Yea this was the constancy of all holy Martyrs that they would rather indure a thousand deaths then shrink backe from the word of Life Peter Peter was beheaded for the Gospels defence Iames throwne downe from an Iames. high Pinacle and his head cleft asunder yea almost all the Apostles were put to grieuous deaths some were stoned some broyled some put to one death some to another Old Simeon that was cousin germane Simeon to Christ sonne to Cl●ophas and Mary Bishop of Ierusalem after Iames was nayled to the Crosse being sixe score yéeres old and more S. Cyprian beheaded at Sexti nigh the Cyprian City Carthage Polycarpe Bishop of Smyrna Disciple Polycarpe to Iohn was most pittifully tortured to death by fire yea for the space of 300. yéeres after Christ and more the Lord sent persecution ordinarily to his Church Willingly did these Saints suffer and ioyfully did vndergoe all these afflictions for the Kingdome of Heauen sake Hic vre hic seca vt in eternum parcas 〈…〉 Domine saith Saint Augustine i Here burne me Lord here slay me to spare mee hereafter Doe what thou wilt Lord with my body so that thou wilt spare my soule Vtinam saith S. Ierome ob Domini Ie 〈…〉 mei nomen atque iustitiam cuncta Gentilium turba me persequatur tribulet vtinam in opprobrium meum stolidus ●ie mundus exurgat tantùm vt ego mer●●d●m Iesu consequar id est I would to GOD that the whole Nation of the Gentiles Pagans and infidels would for the name of my God and for the glory of his Gospell persecute me and trouble me I would to God this mad and foolish world would rise vp against mee for the profession of Gods blessed Truth onely that I may obtaine CHRIST IESVS for my reward Ammonation Mercuria Dyonisia Ammonation with diuers other godly women wold run to the fire with their children as to a ioyfull feast or banquet thinking no greater glory on earth then to suffer for the Gospell of Christ And thus should euery man and woman as they tender the wel-fare of their deare soules resolue to suffer willingly and beare patiently whatsoeuer calamity may befall them in this heauenly Race considering the torments of Hell which by reuolting they shall vndergoe considering the ioyes of Heauen which they shall haue by patience and considering what others haue done before them as the Martyrs and what Christ hath suffered for them that so with perseuerance holding out to the end they may obtaine euerlasting blisse The Merchant wil thorow fire and water suffering no repulse that hee may haue his Pinnace fraught with plenty of pure gold at the Indian Hauen according to that of the Poet Impiger extremos currit mercator ad Indos Poet. Per mare paup●riem fugiens per saxa per ignes Id est The painfull Merchant aduentureth to the forraine Indians beyond the Seas thorow fire and water fearing nothing that hee may eschew pouerty and obtaine much treasure Euen so he that will haue the Pinnace both of Soule and body fraught with the siluer of all earthly prosperitie and with the gold of all celestiall felicitie must runne the ra●e that is set before him with patience leaping ouer the wall of all obuious afflictions perseuering till he commeth at the happy hauen of Heauen that then hee being more then Conquerour in CHRIST IESVS may triumph ouer Death Hell and Damnation saying with the Prophet Ero mors tua ● mors id est O death I will bee thy Hos 13. 14. death O graue I will bee thy destruction and with valiant Paul Death 1. Cor. 15. where is thy sting Hell where is thy victory Of necessity afflictions must méete with vs that runne in the high-way to heauen yea no man liuing can be fréed from them All that will 2. Tim. 3. 12. Act. 14. 22. liue godly in Christ Iesus shall suffer persecution wee must through many afflictions enter into the Kingdome of God Whom the Lord loueth he chasteneth H● 12. 6 ● and hee scourgeth euery sonne whom he receiueth wee are bastards and not sonnes if wee be free from

and bodies may be kept blamelesse to the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ Amen From Hempsted in Essex Ianuary 10. 1629. Your Worships alwaies ready to be commanded in the LORD Henry Greenwood To the CHRISTIAN Reader CHristian Reader I commend to thy charitable view this terrible and lamentable description of Hell a subiect most necessarie in these dayes wherein Iniquity hath gotten the vpper hand the greatest part of mankinde laboureth of this dangerous disease namely hardnesse of heart and contempt of all grace I therefore for the remouing of this damnable euill haue prepared this Tormenting Corrasiue Blame me not if I be too bitter in denouncing Gods Iudgements against sinne the presumption of the time compels me this only is the ayme of my intention herein that many may be saued from the damnation hereof Thus commending this Tractate to thy Christian consideration and thy selfe to Gods most blessed protection I rest Thine euer-louing and wel-willing brother in the Lord Henry Greenwood Tormenting TOPHET Or A terrible description of Hell able to breake the hardest heart and cause it quake and tremble Esay 30. 33. Tophet is prepared of old it is euen prepared for the King hee hath made it deepe and large the burning thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lord like a Riuer of Brimstone doth kindle it ALbeit the LORD in the beginning created man in glorious manner omnino ad imaginem sui ratione sapientem vita innocentem dominio potentem altogether after his owne most glorious Image in purity and in perfection of holinesse both in soule and body yet withall he gaue him naturam flexibilem a mutable and changeable nature creating him in potestate standi seu posse cadendi in power of standing and in possibility of falling power of standing that he had from God his Creator possibility of falling that he had from himselfe being a creature A reason whereof S. Augustine giueth Augustine in his booke of Confessions Because the Lord created man ex nihilo of nothing therefore he left in man possibility to returne in nihilum into nothing if he obeyed not the will of his Maker And as Basil saith Si Deus dedisset Basil Adae naturam immutabilem deos potius quàm homines condidisset id est If God had giuen Adam an immutable and vnchangeable nature he had created a God not a man for this is a maine truth in Diuinity immutabiliter esse bonum proprium solius est Dei id est to bee immutably and vnchangeably good only proper to God Adam therfore being thus created that he might either stand or fall by the Diuels subtill suggestion and by the abuse of his owne frée will receiued a double downe-fall the fall of sinne by disobedience and the fall of death by sinne the last fall being the wages of the first fall as ye may read Rom 6. last verse The wages of sinne Rom. 6. 23. is death The Lord therefore hauing pitty vpon this his miserable estate vouchsafed in his Sonne to shew mercy vpon some by election to saluation as to shew iustice vpon other some by reprobation to damnation According to which irreuocable decrée the LORD hath prepared euen from the foundation of the earth answerable places a glorious habitation for the one and a terrible dungeon for the other Which generall truth is confirmed in the words of my Text hauing particular reference to the reprobat Assyrians For as the Lord in his mercy doth promise in this Chapter to his people repenting them of their sins manifold blessings spirituall and corporall temporall and eternall so doth he threaten in his iustice terrible vengeance to their enemies the Idolatrous Babylonians and Assyrians not only temporall but also eternall not to the meane subiect alone but to the King himselfe saying Tophet is prepared of old it is euen prepared for the King c. Not to insist therefore too long vpon introductions lest it should be said to me as once a flowting Cynick sayd to the Citizens of Myndus a little City with great gates Shut your gates lest your City run out I come to the Text it selfe which containeth in it a terrible and lamentable description of Hell prepared of old for the tormenting of all vngodly people of the world of what estate or condition soeuer they be euen for the King For Tophet is prepared of old it is euen prepared for the King c. In which terrible Description of Hell I obserue so many seuerals as the Beast had heads in the Reu. 13. 1. Reuelation that must be tormented in her First the certainty of this place of torment Tophet is prepared of old Secondly the parties for whom for all vngodly wretches yea euen for the King It is euen prepared for the King Thirdly the impossibility of getting out once in He hath made it deepe Fourthly the great number that shall be tormented in her expressed in this word Large Fiftly the extremity and bitternes of the torments of Tophet the burning thereof is fire Sixtly the eternity and euerlastingnesse of the torments of Tophet much wood so much as shall neuer be wasted Seuenthly the Authour or inflictor of these fearefull tortures and that is the Lord offended in these words The breath of the Lord like a Riuer of brimstone doth kindle it wherein I note the seuerity of God against sinne and sinners The certainty of this place of torment The first part is here described by thrée by the Name by the Act by the Antiquity First by the Name Tophet Secondly by the Act is prepared Thirdly by the Antiquity of old Tophet is prepared of old This Tophet was a valley neere Tophet vnto Ierusalem iuxta piscinam fullonis agrum Acheldema ad austrum Sion that is Neere to the Fullers poole and the field Acheldema on the South side of Sion Called also Gehinnom the valley or dale of Hinnom Quia locus iste in praedio erat viri cuiusdam Hinnom Aretius dicti Because this place was in the possession of a certaine man called Hinnom as saith Aretius In which place the Iewes following the cursed example of the Ammoni●es did sacrifice their children in the fire to the Idoll Moloch Quem pro Mercurio colebant whom they worshipped for Mercury as saith Montanus or rather pro Saturn● Montan. in Esay colebant for Saturne as saith Scultetus Quem Poetae proprios fingunt Scultet in Esay deuorasse filios whom the Poets fained to haue deuoured his owne Children This Moloch was Idolumaereum Scultet in Esay concauum passis brachijs ad excipiendos infantes sacro nefario destinatos subiectis prunis torrendos that is A brazen Idol hollow within his hands spred abroad to receiue Infants that were through their cursed Idolatry tortured in the fire and sacrificed to him as writeth Scultetus Snepfsius describeth this Snepfsius in Esay Idoll on this manner Idoli statua erat cuprea sic enim

with the sheep on his right hand and singing this blessed haruest song vnto you Come ye blessed of my Father inherite the Kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world To the which most blessed place of glory the Lord bring euery Soule of vs at the day of our death and dissolution and that for IESVS CHRIST his sake to whom with God the Father and God the blessed Spirit thrée glorious persons but one immortall God be ascribed all honour and glory both in Heauen and Earth this day and euer Amen * ⁎ * FINIS An Earnest and zealous Pray er to be saued from the damnation of TOPHET O Most glorious euerliuing and euerlouing Lord God the fountaine and well-spring of all our happinesse wee thy poore seruants vnworthy in regard of our manifold transgressions of the least of thy blessings doe most humbly fall downe before the throne of thy dreadfull Maiesty confessing in the bitternesse of our soules the basenesse and vilenesse of our estates by sinne O Lord ashamed wee are to come before thee that are nothing but sinfull corruption and abomination but thou a Maiesty most pure in comparison of whom the Angels themselues are counted impure we dare not therfore being thus lothsome and abominable presume to present our selues before thee as in our selues but in thy manifold mercies and thy Son Iesus Christ his merits in whom thou art delightfully pleased with all that faithfully call vpon thy name Lord in thy Son behold vs we humbly beseech thee accept vs in his worthinesse clense vs in his blood iustifie vs in his righteousnes sanctifie vs with his spirit and in his most precious death frée vs from the damnation of hell O till these comfortable tidings be sealed vp to our soules how perplexed are we O how do our harts quake and tremble till we haue found the saluation of thee our God! Reiect vs not O heauenly Father that faine would as be saued of thee so vprightly serue thee we plead now and euer for pardon so for grace whereby wee may in plentifull manner bring forth fruits worthy of amendement Lord kéepe vs in body and soule to thy euerlasting Kingdom and saluation Lord preserue vs from the terrible torments of Tophet O what shall become of vs if we for our sins when we dye be thrown into that Lake that burnes with fire and brimstone so bitterly as forceth screeching and screaming continually Lord deale not with vs according to our sinnes and thy iustice but in the multitude of thy mercies saue our soules aliue O consider the terrors of our troubled Soules Let not the grones of our hearts be despised but suffer them to pierce the heauens for a blessing O thou that art the God of endlesse compassion cast vs not away from thy presence we are the workmanship of thine hands O Lord confound vs not O Lord that delightest not in the death and damnation of a sinner bee moued to shewe pity vpon vs O Christ our blessed Sauior make intercession to God the Father for vs speake by thy gracious Spirit peace to our disquieted Soules bind vp our broken hearts giue vs that wée may cléerely sée our names written in the Booke of Life and our soules released from the fearefull damnation of Tophet To this end gracious God remoue all sinne from our soules and plant in the garden of our hearts all those spirituall and heauenly graces that are proper peculiar to thine Elect that we may be alwayes a swéet smelling sauor before thée giue vs faith in thy promises loue to thy Maiesty zeale to thy glory obedience to thy lawes and guide vs daily by thy blessed Spirit into all truth and godlinesse Lord giue vs to bee out of loue with the vanities of this life to hate euery worke of darknes the little sin as well as the great quicken vs O Lord by thy quickning Spirit O giue vs hearts to bee inflamed with the loue of thy truth O that wée could hunger and thirst after grace as the chased Hart doth the running Brooke O that wee could experimentally say with thy seruant DAVID that all our delight is in thy Commandements Thus O Lord we receiuing grace from thy Maiesty to repell the fiery darts of the diuell to flye euen from euery apparition of euill so doing we may reap much comfort to our soules in this world of trouble and at the fearefull day of Iudgement wee may be freed from the lamentable tortures of Tophet where howling and yelling shall be for euermore and that for Iesus Christs sake thy Sonne our Sauiour to whom with thée and thy most glorious Spirit we desire euen from the bottome of our hearts to haue offered vp all thanksgiuing and praise both in heauen and earth this day and euermore Amen FINIS A IOYEFVLL TRACTATE OF The most blessed Baptisme that euer was solemniz'd VIZ. Of the Baptism of our Lord IESVS by IOHN in Iordan The fourth Edition corrected and amended IOHN 3. 5. Except a man be borne of water and of the Spirit hee cannot enter into the Kingdome of God LONDON Printed by George Purslowe and are to be sold by John Clarke 1620. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull M. ROBERT MORDAVNT of Massingham Hall in the County of Norsolke Esquire and Mistris AMY MORDAVNT his mostlouing Bedfellow All increase of Grace in this life and of glory in the life to come SEldome or neuer Right Worshipfull doe we finde Tractates either Humane or Diuine passe without their particular Dedications that being shrowded vnder the safe-garding gourds of honorable and right godly dispositions they might the better bee preserued from the parching detractions of malignant Cynicks I make bolde therefore discarding all selfe-humour and irregular singularity to commend this poore Present vostrum ad patrocinium to the worthy patronage of your well-affected Worships two especiall reasons mouing me hereunto First that mine vnfained gratitude entire affection and most humble duty for all your fauors inexpressible might heereby bee made apparent Secondly it being deliuered at that solemne baptisme of Charles your first born and hopefull heyre none I know more worthy of this Dication than your worthy and right Christian persons I present it to your religious considerations as a louing and friendly New-yeeres gift for it aymes at that blessed New birth and happy New life liuely in baptisme represented without which it is not possible for either of you to possesse the Kingdome of God Accept therefore I humbly beseech you and take in good worth this short Treatise short both in line and learning respect not as is that Prouerbe the measure of the gift but the minde of the giuer what is wanting in the one I dare boldly promise is made vp in the other At your best leisures vouchsafe I pray now and then to peruse it and I trust that your Christian paines herein shall bee well reguerden'd with heauenly pleasures herefrom The Lord God make this with all other like