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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00972	The historie of the perfect-cursed-blessed man setting forth mans excellency by his generation, miserie [by his] degeneration, felicitie [by his] regeneration. By I.F. Master of Arts, preacher of Gods word, and rector of Wilbie in Suff.	Fletcher, Joseph, 1577?-1637.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1628 (1628)	STC 11078; ESTC S105608	35,115	104

Mercy or what Attributes soe're But Heav'n Earth shall know what Truth affirms Iehovahs Zeal for Iustice sake confirms VVhen mighty Angels did them-selves exalt Down from the Heav'ns to Hels infernall vault I threw them instantly how than Can this proud worm this trait'rous cative-Man That hath not pow'r weak motions to withstand How can He scape the force of my strong hand For 'fore that Heav'ns should grant Man a remission And not on some equivalent condition Or that the Earth should yeeld Him nutriment By annuall-successive increment The fruitfull plains with barrenness I 'le strike And make his dwelling places Sodom-like The showring clouds I 'le turn to banks of brass And th' Earth to iron that so fruitfull was The flintie Rocks to shivers I will tear And kernell-sands to mightie mountains rear The gladsome day and rest-affording night That by their intercourse had wont delight I 'le turn to timeless motions never changing Their constant changes of unconstant ranging Among th' Infernall Furies where the Man Shall be tormented while those Furies can To plague Him thus is rightly to reward Him From which nor heav'n nor earth shall ever guard him Yea all the forces they are able make As thunder lightning famine plague earth-quake And whatsoever else as grave and hell Angels and Devils all I will compell To become furious Agents in the cause So strict and pow'full are Iehovah's lawes Thus as Truth said Mans state you may bewail But to redeem 't you never shall prevail Peace here-upon for Mercy could not answer She was through Wraths peremptory censure So speechless grown and heartless like to fall But Peace stept-in affected like to all And with soft speech did sweetly moderate What these her Sisters could not arbitrate First she began with mildest exhortation To move them to take-heed of emulation For that quoth she doth often kindle hate The bane of Bliss and ruine of a State We Sisters are in one we must consent And not by strict exactions once dissent We know our parts wherfore let be our care Them to discharge as it comes to our share You Wrath Truth Iustice ye desire no more But as Man sinn'd so Man be plagu'd therefore Well fear it not but constantly expect The constant God will duly it effect And Sister Mercy you desire no less Than for Mans Sin that God give forgiveness Desire so still that by importunitie God may be mov'd to grant him immunitie Which yet beleeve it may not prejudice Th' inviolable right of strict Iustice Nor any of our worthy Sisters dear VVho equally to God are seated near And though nor you nor I Iustice nor Truth Can see the mean wherby our God renu'th The broke estate of miserable Man Yet certainly our Sister Wisdome can For what soe're our Sov'raign God decrees She th'equitie therof alwaies fore-sees Yea she deviseth things beyond all thought And then propoundeth how they may be wrought And happy they whose actions she directs For only them in favour Gods respects To her therfore have ye recourse for this And ye shall see she 'll not devise amiss Herewith was Mercy inwardly well pleas'd Truth Iustice Wrath were ev'ry one appeas'd To Wisdome then they all referr'd the cause When she making a long but decent pause For Wisdome's alwaies slow to speak enclin'd She doth so duly ponder all in minde When she this controverted cause had waigh'd She orderly the same before them laid The one side pleads quoth she that since Man-kind From Life to Death by Sin are all declin'd Then Death due wage to all our God must give Else can nor Wrath nor Truth nor Iustice live If all Man-kinde the other side replies Must suffer Death for their iniquities No pitie had of any in Gods sight Then Mercy Pitie Peace are banisht quite So prejudiciall then since th' issue is That Man or sav'd or damn'd all is amiss Iustice if sav'd but Mercy if He die That th' one of these perforce from Heav'n must fly And many other of our Heav'nly train Shall therby base indignity sustain My doom is this To salve and keep all eav'n That Man by Death to Life by Hell to Heav'n Shall take his course T'enabl'Him for which end Let all the punishments Iustice can send Be all made good yea Sin and Death and Hell And whatsoever most with Evill swell Let all of them be made good unto Man And then let Wrath inflict ev'n what she can So Mercie may for Mans Sin satisfie And Iustice punish Mans iniquitie Most rev'rend Truth exactly shall appear And austere Iustice strictly dominere Consuming Wrath shall sweetly be appeas'd And all-preserving Mercy shall be pleas'd Remorsefull Pitie shall be highly praised And death-deserving Man to new life raised Contentment thus we Sisters all may have And all of us accomplish what we crave So God in all and of all shall be knowne The God of Life Death Glory Praise Renown No sooner Wisdome had this case decided But Heav'n and Earth who stood by Sin divided VVere both of them with wonderment astonisht At th'equity of what she had admonisht All things with joy 'gan instantly be cheared As soon as hope of reconcilement ' peared Twixt God and Man Yet Reason made this Quaere How Sin how Death how Hell so dark so dreary How these could be made good since for Mans fall They are the pain to plague the Man withall To second this saith Truth there 's none so good That ever yet did spring from tainted blood VVho Man 's depraved Nature could controule By changing Ill to Good to save his soule To change Ill into Good t is to create A work of inf'nite Pow'r wherefore no state Of finite force can be so virtuall As to make Death to Life effectuall By Sin Man did an inf'nite Pow'r offend Which none but inf'nite Pow'r can amend Neither can God Mans Mediatour be For who offended was by sin but He 'T is God in Iustice that looks for amends Therfore not He which satisfaction sends Who then is it that makes this Evill Good Nor God nor Man by Reason they 'r withstood T is I quoth Goodness I as Wisdome bod Will heale Mans sores and make all eav'n that 's od I 'le make his Evill Good his Death the way Wherby eternall Life attain He may I 'le yeeld my selfe my uncorrupted Essence To purifie his Soule his Sp'rite his Sense Yea here behold I offer all I have I 'le with-hold nought that 's needfull Man to save Quoth Truth again kinde Sister you doe well You offer more than Angels tongues can tell Yet cannot your beneficence alone Vnright'ous Man with right'ous God attone 'T is more to reconcile Man to his Maker Than one can doe who ere be th'undertaker When Charity who all this while attended Did understand how Goodness was commended For her kinde offer and withall did hear No one of th' Heav'nly Pow'rs sufficient were Both to

all joyes in One conjoin'd Which fulness join'd to Him Him nere accloies And yet such fulness alwaies He enjoyes His Senses all on perfect objects feed His Faculties aright their actions speed His Appetities are all acquieted His Parts his Pow'rs are all engloried His Bliss is this He 's endlesly emploi'd In blessing Him Destruction hath destroy'd And op'ned-wide Heav'ns narrow gate to those That in Christs Death their hope of life repose No other Heav'n no other Help He hath To scape the Hell of Gods eternall wrath But to beleeve and by his life disclose That for Him Christ did dye and for Him rose In which Beleefe He lives and living dies And dying lives his life t'immortalize And in this Faith He 's confident to plead When He at Gods Tribunall shall hear read The Bill of his Indictment for h's offence Not guiltie Lord thy dear Sons Innocence And his most perfect-perfect observation Of all thy Lawes his upright conversation His bitter-bitter Passion on the tree O these ô these have paid Sins debt for me T is true indeed my Sins thy Wrath provoked Most dreadfull Iudge and I with guilt stood yoked To feel the smart of horrid Death and Hell But such sweet gladsome newes thy Truth doth tell That in thy Son sith Wrath and Mercy kist Wrath hitting Him in Iustice I am mist. Which double Iustice may be equall rang'd 'Cause Sin for Grace and Grace for Sin we chang'd Thy Son my Lord was perfectly so pure As had not I on Him my Sins fixt sure And clad my selfe with his bright-shining Grace Not Him but Me Death had had pow'r t' embrace Then stead of me sith Wrath seaz'd on thy Son He ther-by Death I ther-by Life have won This is my rest I rest upon my Lord Lord let me live according to thy Word The Man in this strong confidence of his In Life in Death no whit deceived is For God on Him in Mercy doth bestow What he to him for his Christs sake doth owe. First Life of Grace with some false woes opprest Next Life of Glorie with all true joyes blest Which woes are truly called false for why They vanish straight like mists or cloudy Sky And then come-in to make od reck'nings eav'n Th' eternall true substantiall joyes of Heav'n In th' Interim whiles He is militant In honest labours He is conversant Vsing the things with sober moderation That God affords Him for his Preservation Abusing nothing ord'ring all aright As alwayes being in his Makers sight If God give much He thanks the Giver much Or if but little yet His Heart is such As He 's content for that his little serves To let Him know 't is more than He deserves 'Mongst whom He lives He lives with warie eyes That He nor envie Rich nor Poore despise And with his Equals He just equall waighes Nor up nor down for fear or favour swaies To all He 's friendly humble charitable Iust constant chearfull patient peaceable And waits all turns when with heart hands voice He may or work or rest sigh or rejoice As turns and returns turn Him many waies So still He turns his heart to pray or praise The great All-turning God who for Mans good Turn'd Death to Life hard Rocks into a flood Whose Greatness is so good Goodness so great As Mans most worthy praise when most complete Is all-unworthy the all-worthy fame To blazon-out of Gods most worthy Name Nathles to doe his best Man stands resolv'd But wishes daily that He were dissolv'd That so He might send-forth some perfect strains Of perfect glory 'mongst the glorious Trains That spend their nere-spent time in holy layes Chanting-aloud their Alleluiahs Till when 'mongst Saints on earth assembled thickly He cryes to Heav'n ô come Lord Iesus quickly Lord Iesus come the end of all I crave I crave the end of all my Soule to save To save my Soule Lord Iesus no time spend Spend though to 'gin that time time cannot end FINIS Triumphans Eus tumidus tenuis fulsi cecidi resilivi Dives inops ingens sorte dolore fide The Light and glory of the Lord is risen upon thee Isai. 60. 1. As Man aspiring penitent I stood I fell I ris ' Most rich most poore most eminent In state through woe to Bliss The Creation of Man by God who is a Spirit Omnipotent Mans perfection being made in the ●mage of God rarely understood The image of God in Man expounded The 3 persons of the Trinity resembl●d by 3 faculties in the soul. Minde Will A Power to do● As 3 Persons and but one God so divers faculties but one Soule As no priority of Persons in the Deity so neither of faculties in the Soule The image of Gods infinitie in man Memorie Vnderstanding Providēce Mans Soveraignty The excellency of the Soule● facultie● Minde Intellect Reason Will. Wit Heart Consciēce Affections Inward Senses Common-Sense Fantasie Memory Outward Senses Touching Seeing Hearing Tasting Smelling Body Head Speech Face Hands Feet Man asp●ring ●verthrew Himselfe and his posteritie The entrance of Sin The guilt and reward of Sin The effects of Sin in his Person In his Soule In his Body Manifested in his actions The wages of Sin Death temporall eternall wher-upon Man fleeth feareth God findeth him examineth his fault and proceeds to censure Satan The Serpent The Woman The Man for whose sake God curseth the earth the living creatures and all other creatures Man punished in his person by the creatures coelestiall accidentally intentionally By his Wife By his Children By his Neighbours Mans miserable condition Mans Redem●tion p●opounded and discust by the Heavenly Powers moved by Pitie granted by Mercy resisted by Iustice. They appeale to Truth Truth resolveth against Mercy and sideth with iustice Wherupon Mercy complaineth expostulateth prayeth Wrath interrupts Mercy and joineth with Iustice and Truth exalteth Gods zeal and threatneth Mans punishmēt Peace mitigateth Wrath pacifieth Iustice and Truth cheareth and animateth Mercy and admonisneth to refer the cause to Wisdome They applaud it Wisdome undertaketh it openeth it decideth it and ascribeth to every one their due Her decision is applauded Reasons Quaere to which Goodness answers Truth replieth that Reason is not yet satisfied for one alone cannot make satisfaction Whereupon Charity inciteth all the divine Powers to joyn in one for the business They all meet and promise assistance God approveth their consent and declareth how Mans Redemption shall be wrought by his Word incarnate to fulfill righteousness and to suffer punishment for Man For which work He promiseth to enable the Messias This promise was found effectuall upon the revealing of it both to Iew and Gentile CHRIST conceived and born Being one Person He is joyntly described in his Divine and Humane Nature His works His intertainment What the wo●ld thought of Him few well most ill How dearly He was affected of those ●ew How the great ones band against him The Multitude at first applaud him but after to humour their great ones deride Him They watch attache arraign condem● and kill Him The end of his death Their manner of killing Him The effects of his death His Resurrection Ascension and Glorification His comming to Iudgment Mans Naturall parts refined Mans corruption Sin ab●l●s●ed by Baptism and the Lords Supper The miseries of this life sweetned His death is made the way to eternall life where He is rewarded with joyes privative positive Hi● emploiment in Heaven His plea at the bar of Gods Iudgement The issue of his plea.

that rebellious unbeleeving Crew That his milde Precepts stubbornly refus'd And their own carnall mindes to follow chus'd Nor will his comming be to these selfe-foes More terrible than joyfull unto those His friends that in chearfull obedience In Faith and Hope and humble Patience At that his glorious return expect To reap of all their labours the effect For though they Sinners were their sins yet laid On Christ his Passion the debt is paid For sith Christ dy'd for Sin and Sin had none Sins debt was paid by that his Death alone Thus Christ b'ing free for Mans Sin became bound Thus Sin bound Man through Christ was guiltles foūd Thus was the Lord enthrall'd at last enthron'd Thus was the Slave enlarg'd and God atton'd VVhich being done Mans enemies b'ing foil'd The Tort'rers torments 'gainst themselves recoil'd Disabling them his welfare to impeach VVhen He for help his faith to Christ doth reach For ev'n for Man as for Him-selfe Christ had Pow'r to resist and overcome the bad And base assaults of th' enemies of Grace That would from endless Bliss Mans soule erace Yea this puissant matchless Conquerour Not only did expell Sins venom rancour Or satisfie for Mans Iniquitie Or re-invest Him-selfe in Majestie But also did Mans Nat'rall Pow'rs controule By breathing life of Grace into his Soule His Intellect He did illuminate With beams of Truth all error dissipate He his Affections all did sanctifie And his crookt-perverse Will did rectifie For howsoe're Mans will was first made free As well to Good as to Iniquitie But choosing Ill in Ill confirm'd it stood Yet Grace in Christ reclaimes it all to Good Yea Grace converts his Bodies Faculties To the right use of their Abilities His Head his Feet his Tongue his Heart his Hand Moved by Grace to Good inclined stand And all Man 's other parts b'ing all declin'd Grace doth reduce into their proper kinde And though Gods Image in which Man was made By Sins approach was totally decaid That He could then nor doe nor think aright All was so faulty in his Makers sight Yet is 't by Grace in Christ so well refin'd That God with Man-renu'd no fault will finde For Man therby is all so purifi'd As that He can Gods fiery triall bide Nathles though Christ redeem'd Him perfectly Yet what He doth He doth imperfectly For old corruption still sticks close unto Him And all 's imperfect that is known come fro Him Which imperfections Christ the perfect heals Affording perfect help under his Seals Of those two saving Sacraments for by The first of them Christ biddeth Him relie That all the leven of Soule-slaying Sin Wherewith He poison'd was is purged clean And He thence-forth by Grace renued stands Though weakly yet to doe what God commands In which when He through humane frailty falls By new-enspired Grace his Saviour calls Reclaiming Him and bids Him first abhor it And bring forth fruits of due Repentance for it Laying his hand his constant hand of Faith On that Obedience his Saviour hath To all Gods Lawes in full perfection wrought In 's Life in 's Death beleeving He hath bought The full remission of each sev'rall Sin That he through want of Grace offended-in And so in humble confidence appeal Vnto the cov'nant of that other Seal Trusting that guilt of Sins both old and new With whatsoever can from thence acrue Are all abolisht if He strive to rise By Grace from Sin to holy exercise And though in this his military strife To please his God by holiness of life Some bitter storms of Miseries befall Him Yet Grace so calmeth them that none appall Him For He is taught to trust on his Protectour Who sorrows how to bear was his Directour Is He from Regall Dignity depos'd Is He to basest Povertie expos'd Is He to joyless banishment cast-out Is He with deadly foes beset-about Is He with foulest slanders vilifi'd Is He for fairest qualities envi'd Is He with Bodies pain distempered Is He with griefe of Minde entortured Is He by faithless friends to danger set Is He in stead of joy with sorrow met Is He with shame to live or die mad● thrall Is He with one of these Is He with all It matters not His Saviour hath afore Him Endur'd them all and in all doth restore Him To this true light of Grace to know his state Is from Gods certain love though seeming hate To give God hearty thanks when things work well Or take with silent patience what comes ill And then cross Accidents Him none can move B'ing all substantiall tokens of Gods love For though 't be true great troubles on Him chance 'T is also true God sends deliverance And greater ones nay none so great betide Him As did to Christ when God it seem'd deny'd Him It seemed so to seem so though to Man Sometimes they seeme hopeless of help yet can Th' Almightie God the Father of all aid No more forbear to help Man so dismaid Than dearest Mother can her dearling-Son Who newly born unholpen is undone From 's infant-cradle to his dying-bed The Man is still by God's Grace succoured And in his Death what waves soever toss him Be 't sense of pain or pangs of fear that crosse him Christ bids him fix his hopes in h's wounded side For He Deaths killing instruments hath tri'd And spoil'd them all None then hath pow'r to sting His Soule to death they 'r Porters it to bring From-out Deaths gastly dungeon to the Hill Of Heav'nly Life where Heav'nly joyes it fill Where Christ th' Al glorious King with glory crown'd Crowns all his subjects that are loyall found With his own glory making them all Kings Enjoying Him in Him t' enjoy all things Thus Grace conducts Man through the miseries Of Life and Death to Heav'ns felicities VVhere no misfortune cold nor hunger dwels VVhere no proud hope Him with ambition swels VVhere stormes of clowding cares none hang o're's head VVhere pale-lookt sickness nere sends Him to bed VVhere fearfull dreams affright Him not asleep VVhere crasie Old-age on Him cannot creep VVhere fatall vespers Ill-portending stars VVhere bloodless fear where noyse of bloody wars VVhere none of these to vex Him once are found VVhere no false showes but true delights abound VVhere alwaies is the absence of all evill VVhere never comes nor Sin nor Death nor Devill VVhat e're is to be wisht b'ing wisht is there All Knowledge Goodness Truth Content And where Soe're He turns his eye or eare they light Vpon some welcome objects of delight So what He hears or sees He sees it raise Ioy to Himselfe and to his Maker praise Pray there He needs not Pray'r complains of need Need breedeth Pain and Pain Complaint doth breed But no Complaint no Pain no Need no Pray'r Hosannas none all Alleluiahs there His Body there 's not subject to corruption His Soule new cloath'd with flesh shines in perfection His Soule and Body both in one rejoyn'd Finde fulness of