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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95616	Mans master-piece: or, the best improvement of the worst condition. In the exercise of a christian duty. On six considerable actions. Viz. [brace] 1. The contempt of the world. 2. The judgement of God against the wicked, &c. 3. Meditations on repentance. 4. Meditations on the Holy Supper. 5. Medita. [sic] on afflictions and martyrdom. 6. With a meditation for one that is sick. / By P.T. Kt.	Temple, Peter, Sir, 1613 or 14-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing T632; Thomason E1886_1; ESTC R210134	91,034	280

of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil and with his rebellious throat hath swallowed at once the Apple and Death He hath swallowed the leprosie which hath corrupted the masse of all his blood and the poyson which hath penetrated through all the members issues of his body This Lord this fountaine which hath continued corrupt in all it's streames this is the gloomy and black cloud whence distills not one drop not infected 'T is Lord this cursed rebellion which hath constrained the heavens ever bright and serene before to conspire and confederate against man and to poure forth upon him deluges of blood and universal scourges to extirpate and exterminate the Posterity of this Ancestor 'T is this rebellion which hath caused man to totter from his first estate rendred him a slave of sinne and a prey of that roaring Lyon who graspeth his throat with his foot So soon as the prohibition was made sinne followed and by sinne we have all received a Decree of condemnation But great God thou hast rais'd up and restored thine through thy mercy Thou hast destroyed that cursed spirit who would glut himself with the blood of our entrals and hast born us upon thy wings as an Eagle his Ayry Thou hast brought back and renddred in a flourishing condition our soules who were languishing and abased unto death The deluge of our vices hath drawn a deluge of plagues upon us but the deluge of thy Compassions hath swallowed the deluge of these Maledictions Thou hast cleansed these streames of iniquity in a sorce perpetually flowing into life Thou hast healed these leprosies with a vermillion blood and corrected and abated the force of these poysons by a heavenly Antidote By the offence of one alone death reigned over men and by the merit of onely one men shall reigne unto life The transgression of Adam is fallen upon all to condemnation and the justice of Christ justifying is come also upon all to justification Many by the disobedience of one alone Rom. 5.17 were rendred sinners and by the obedience of one alone many are rendred just To the intent that as sinne reigned unto death grace should also reign unto eternal life 'T is Lord that which Thou hast so often foretold to our Fathers by the mouths of thy Prophets who have declared on the earth that thy Sonne should bear our sorrowes that he should charge on himself our afflictions that he should be pierced for our offences and bruised for our iniquities Thou hast caused all our out-rages to fall upon him and the wounds are come on him for the Transgressions of thy people As a Lamb is led to the slaughter neither hath he opened his lips Dan. 9.26 he is set as an oblation for the transgressions of them who have known him is cut off not for himself but for us Oh admirable Architect of the World who hast stretched out the heavens sustained the massive foundations of the earth and commanded the waters of the Ocean to distill gently through the veines of the Rocks for the nourishment of men Oh holy streame of our felicity the strength of our Might that the graces of thy divine goodnesse are singular the effect of thy providence marveilous in the conservation of men in having prepared for us by thy mercy this conciliation before the foundation of the World and from the beginning having prefigured this sacrifice by the Tree of life in the Terrestrial Paradise afterwards by the Paschal Lamb by the Manna by the loaves of propitiation by the bread which the Angel brought to the Prophet Eliah in the strength whereof it is said that he went even unto the Mountain to have instructed us that so much blood of Bulls and Goats which was spilt before thee and the ashes of an Heifer wherewith they besprinkled the unclean were prefigurations of that juslifying blood which was requisite to be poured on the earth to blot out our transgressions And lastly Lord after having often spoken to our Ancestors by thy Prophets Heb. 17. Thou wouldst speak to our fathers face to face by thy Son who is the brightnesse of thy glory who as the snow tumbling from heaven scattering it self to whiten our plaines so is he descended from on high to publish peace from the rising to the setting of the Sunne and to save those who were fallen among the precipices for for the punishment due to their offences The woman the first seduc'd sees her self a thousand times happier she did see her self a Virgin-Mother containing in her womb the Saviour of the World Oh happy day that thou art Remarkable among us for having first beheld and having first caused us to see the well-beloved Son of God the Father and the Redeemer of the faithful And you bright Services that you are precious having given growth to the body who hath suffered for our sinnes and who since is risen with so much glory And thou earth thou art happy to have nourish't within thy bosome and seen to march upon thy face the Saviour of the World The Sages conducted by the Star hasted to prostrate themselves at thy feet thy Angel in giving advice to the Shepherds and the multitude of the heavenly Host leaping for joy lifted up their voyces to thy honour saying Glory be to God on High in Earth peace good will toward men Acts 5.3 Then Lord he whom thou hast raised up by thy right hand for a Prince and Saviour to give repentance unto Israel and remission of sinnes appeared in the flesh that so the flesh might live and by his humanity thy Clemency might approach us which before was with-drawn Thou hast sent him as a Bright Sun to enlighten all the compasse of the Earth He appeared cloathed with humane flesh but all repleat and all shining with Divinity The Power of His Vertue was manifest to the eyes of all the people The most impetuous stormes and billowes of the Ocean gave way unto the sole power of His word The tempestuous whi●le-whinds which troubled the serenity of the aire gave truce to their whistlings roarings at the only waging of his hand and acknowledg'd that they ought him respect and silence and that all things should be prepared to receive His Commands Men captiv'd under the power of the Devil were enlarged with the onely glance of His eye The most inveterate maladies departed at the only touch of His garment and the bodies mouldering under the obscurity of the Coffin rose again at his voyce in the Tombe His life was nothing but an open Book of Doctrine with a multitude of miracles and favours toward men The limits of his Course were so pleasant they were so bright with the beames of his compassion so glittering with his triumphs over the enemy of men The History is therein so rich that the excesse takes away and obstructs the description And that the world as saith his Beloved Apostle is not sufficient to contain that which might

be written John 21.25 Also Lord He came to stifle by the impetuosity of his power and by the grandure of his merit our cursed enemy and to cut off the streame of the course of his puissance flying through the world He came as a great Royal Eagle from the heighth of heaven to descend on the earth and in favour of his own to scatter with the onely ayre of his vigerous clapping of his wings all the strength of Satan unworthy of his encounter He came as the Evening and close of our miseries and dawning of our felicity as the bright Sunne of men to comfort and strengthen them by his wholsome and pleasant influence He came as the morning which chaseth away the night and advanceth declaring the returne of the light as the holy Columbe of the world the solid pillar of the heavens the lively image of his charity and the divine foot-steps which giveth life And finally my God thy Christ our Saviour being upon the point to die would that the last act of his life should be the institution of the Holy Sacrament of his body which he celebrated in the company of his Apostles declaring unto them that all they who firmly believe in him shall have remission of their sinnes in the effusion of this blood and shall for ever possesse the Kingdome of heaven and to conferre on us an infallible assurance he elected for a seal and witnesse of his last will bread and wine to the intent that the faithful by these signes should be ascertained of the treasures which are acquired for them by his bounty But my Great God 'T is now that we must commemorate the excellent Sermon made to the Disciples for to instruct them and to render them capable of the participation of this Holy Sacrament 'T is here expedient to call to mind the words of him which thou pronounc't with thy voyce in the Mountain in the hearing of Saint Peter Saint James and Saint John this is my well-beloved Sonne hear him Jon. 6.53 He then said Verily verily ●●●y unto you that if you eat not the flesh of the Son of man and drink not this blood you shall have no life in your selves he who eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath life eternal and I will raise him up at the last day For my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed he who eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him As the Father who is living hath sent me and I live by the Father So he who eateth me Shall live also by me That is the bread which descended from heaven not as your fathers have eaten Manna and are dead who eateth this bread shall live for ever He spake these things in the Synagogue teaching in Capernaum But knowing that many of his Disciples found this saying hard he added doth this offend you what will you do then if you shall behold the Sonne of man astend there where he was at the beginning 'T is the Spirit that quickens the flesh is unprofitable the words which I speak to you are spirit and life And after he had finish't these instructions he made them partakers of his Holy Supper even as he hath declared by the hand of his blessed Apostle In the night wherein he was betray'd He took bread and having given thanks he broke it and said take eat this is my body which is broken for you do this in remembrance of me Likewise also after Supper he took the Cup saying this Cup is the New Testament of my blood do this in remembrance of me For how often and whensoever you shall eat of this bread and drink of this Cup you shall shew forth my death even untill I come And in the end Lord his incomprehensible Charity and which exceeds all admiration having conducted him to the hour wherein by his death he would redeem our lives he became the saving hand which broke and opposed the blow and received the smart of the other members And be who was able as a Thunder-clap of heaven to overturne under his Tempest the highest Mountaines who could as a whirle-poole swallow all in an instant that opposed this power and as a whirle-wind sweep away all that was on the earth He said I who by the force of his Arme with one small motion can destroy all humane soules and with one onely glance of his Eye arme a million of Angels and overthrow under his feet the heaven and the earth submitted himself to the rage and brutishnesse of his people adopted above all people the first-born among men and whom thou defendest as the Apple of thine eye He permitted them to extend his members on the Crosse to wash our sins in his blood and in that flood which the Iron made to issue from his body And thus great God Thine only Son gave his life a ransome for us and delivered us from the curse of the law which had so long time held us slaves to sin He offer'd his body in sacrifice and by that holy oblation acquir'd for us the gifts and the fulnesse of his graces wherein the blessed shall eternally rejoyce 'T is this Christ who is worthy to take the Book of life Apoc. 5.9 and to open the seals thereof 'T is he who is the Lambe Apoc. 5.12 who meriteth to receive power strength Honour and Praise His death was the sacrifice of sacrifices the accomplishment and consummation of all ceremonyes which have been from the beginning of the world This is the sacrifice without renewing whereby the wrath of God is forever appeas'd his justice satisfied and the transgressions of men effac't 'T is that bright shining sacrifice in comparison whereof the foregoing were but obscure shadowes This is the only sacrifice full of Majesty which is alone the object of all sacrifices offered in time-past by all people adoring the true God All that which the oblations of Aaron and of our fathers have had of Propitiation and of sweet Odour were anticipated on the fulnesse of grace and on the infinite merit of this sacrifice so often made in all foregoing ages This is the eternal sacrifice fill'd with lively splendour which darts his Rayes and confers his Balme upon his to render them a sweet Odour before thee my God This is the sacrifice which hath placed them on the sacred seat of the Church and hath carryed them into the glorious Temple of the legitimate Spouse of Christ all Glittering with Divinity 'T is my God this sacrifice which hath conferred thy love on me which without intermission I observe to shine in the flames of my own wretchednesse and hath acquired for me the infinite Grandure of thy compassion which I have ever beheld firme in the glances of my extreame afflictions Also my God there was nothing but the puissant and victorious hand of thy Sonne which could sever the cords and the entangling which held us bound in the snares of

of it for a time for a time which thou cuttest which thou shortnest at all times every moment according to thy pleasure And not being lesse prudent than the savage creatures who know their dens and love them and the foules who desire their nests and they please themselves there I will lift up my soul and direct my eyes toward my true and natural Country wherein I ought to trust toward that heaven wherein pleasures are heap't upon delights wherein at all seasons the beauty of the amiable spring flourisheth in such delightful cogitations I shall find ease to my mallady the refreshment proper to extinguish and sweeten my scortching In these pleasant fountaines I shall draw out waters and liquors to allay and temper my feavour and my heat and plunging my self into these holy streames I shall despise all other remedyes as being but an aggravation and fomentation of my paine and although that where-ever I stay my self my body pains me Neverthelesse I shall receive more of ease in the contemplation of my misery and of thy Grandure of the quantity of my offences and the multitude of thy graces which they have not which give not themselves but to be inquisitive after divers remedyes which they esteem healthful and find a way and a means to provoke them to sleep by the harmony of resounding voyces I seek not my recovery in the substance of rootes and herbs but in the might of thy hand who hath made the plant to spring and hath given it it's encrease I shall not seek my rest in diverting my self from the remembrance of my mallady but in reducing to my memory the wretchednesse of my condition in representing to my self that fancying a thousand conceptions in my brain I was neare swallowed in the Billowes and over-flowings of my defires that I have a long time borne the wound in my heart without sense or without complaint that I well nigh imitate the fish who swallow at the same time the bait and death That this world never affords me a cheerful look dains not to smile on me that afflictions have ever clouded my countenance that my pleasures are fill'd with torments my hopes with dispayres that the course of my afflictions have been equal to those of my dayes Briefly that I have been a subject to all accidents that hang over the head of man that I am the Butte and white against which all the crosses and mis-fortunes of the world let fly and discharge their shot and their arrowes And so Lord I constrain and force not my self to expect my recovery in the vertue of herbs I sooth and flatter not my mallady and deceive not my pain in stupifying and benuming my spirit or otherwise diverting it I seek not my recovery in flight but contrarily I feel the inequality of my pulce and the difficulty of my respiration I will consider how my mallady is fixt that it is rooted that it holdeth off my body and that I beare in my stomack the spring and receptacle of heat and cold which consumeth me and that all the parts of this body cease their operations and sunctions through the grief that afflicts them and not longer able to support it fail and yield to death Behold me then gracious God as the Bird in crossing the otian and not finding where to pirch her self after she hath long laboured with her wings in the end drops down weary and not able to struggle longer into the sea and death I have walked among the paths of this world the Thornes have pricked me the Brambles have offended me the stones have made me to stumble the strokes have bruised me they have batter'd me the feavours have weakned me I have search't for medicines and emplasters I have applyed splinters to sustain my bones I have swallowed bitter juces to drive away my distempers I have sustained and propped this poore cottage on all sides but in conclusion 't is necessary that it ravel that it crack that it sink under it's proper weight I perceave Lord that it slacks that it dissolves that it growes loose I behold on the other side that my soul the which she depresseth distasts and cleers himself of him by degrees as not longer able to contain it But alas It is very requisite this poore carcasse cannot ever draw his yeares under so heavy a bondage it cannot last ever 't is necessary that in the end she render her self to this deafe and inexorable death who yields not to any prayres who comes to surprize him without noyse and demands his debt without agreeing to delay In conclusion I must after having so long course over the sea slaves to stormes and tempests enter the haven which I have toucht already that I am already entering into It 's expedient that I retyre out of the croud and throng of the world to a more pleasant conversation and that I sustaine this assault and attempt without palenesse without amazement and without a dejected spirit How I' st not more expedient I fall once for all than alwayes to remaine tottering wherefore decline I the terminating of this life which to me is a passage to a thousand better lives why should not death be agreeable since she comes to unloosen the bonds which fetter me so closse to anguish and misery why make I difficulty to embrace death to obtain heaven and everlasting delights and pleasures and to arive at the haven where the feare of death shall neare approach Shall I doubt Lord that ' tisnot seasonable to dye since 't is but to live better till the wayes to live fail shall I preserve my life to my torment no good God no I will march confidently unto death I will commit my self to thee who hold'st in thy hands the number of my yeares the bounds and markes of my life I will cast my self into thy embraces to the intent thou shalt dispose of thy Image and thy clay according to thy good pleasure I will constantly suffer the law of my condition and the decree pronounc't by thy mouth Moreover good Lord what can I farther expect of my so frail life so feeble so subject to lose it self what can I hope farther of the continuance of this body which hath endured so many miseries that hath suffered so many evils that hath been so of 't menac't and that so many light occasions hath so varyed it's condition can it be but this smoak must sometime vanish and that this dust should be carryed a way with the wind observe I not that the strongest the most sturdy and most healthful are but light shadowes who must suddenly encrease the number of the dead That these great thunder-bolts of war find themselves not armed against death That these beautiful tresses these white breasts the lineaments of these graces are not exempt and that fame it self who triumphs over time and death in the end tumbles into it's obscure abode perceive I not how easily old age surprizes us and crumbles