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abounds with men of corrupted and depraued minds It is the harbour of head-strong Rebelles which haue sworne the downefall and destruction of true Piety and much ado she hath to finde one angle out in al this spatious Round in which she may rest secure from their assassinous murthering handes A vertuous deede cannot escape the forked tongue of venemous Detraction nor a good intention finde passage for it selfe but with exceeding opposition 2. Tim. 3 8 Moses Aaron shal no sooner goe about to discharge their dutyes but Iannes and Iambres will bee ready to resist them 1. King 22 11. the Baalites will continually be busy with Elijah and plain Micheas shall no sooner stirre abroad Nehe. 2.19 but Zidkijah will bee butting at him with his Iron hornes Where Christ is there are the Pharises where Simon Peter is there likewise is Simon Magus and where Saint Paule is there are the false Apostles that what the right hand of the Lord doth raise the left hand of the Deuill may destroy Whilst our abiding place is here we shall alwaies meete with many rubs and lets to i●terrupt the smoothnesse of our course in iust proceedinges but this shall not abate my resolution I will striue to franchise and surmount al difficulties Nor Sinne nor Sathan shall so strongly barricado vp my passage but by the assistaunce of the holy Spirite I will make thorough them to my aymes Phil. 2 13. Hee that wrought in mee the Wil shall likewise worke in me the Deede and as he gaue me the grace to begin so shall he grant me the power to goe on I am freede from the yoke of bondage and now Rom. 8.38 nor death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor thinges to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to seperate mee from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. LI. WIsedome is a princesse of extraordinary State and Dignitie Prou. 9 3. many honourable Virgins doe continually attend het She hath hew● out her house of seauen pillers and hath sent out her Maides to call men to the wals and Towers of her Citty but there are some that wil not indure to haue their passage made by them they are they say inspired frō aboue and as Elijah was fed by Crowes so are they by Angels not with meate nor breade but with a hidden kind of celestial Manna They scorn those grosser introductions of school Philosophy and thinke they cannot admire Gods power and authority as they ought if in things Deuine they shuld attribute any force to human reason 1 Cor. 2.14 Their vsuall discourses are The natural man not the things that are of God for they are foolishnesse to him he cannot comprehend them because they are spiritually discerned and That the Lord hath threatned to destroy the Wisedome of the wise Cor. 1 19 and to cast away the vnde●standing of the prudent Againe the word and preaching of S. Paul say they stood not in the enticing speech of man 1. Cor. 2 4. but in plaine euidence of the Spirit and of power What should we therefore do but vtterly abandon those needlesse Arts and Sciences Colos 2 8 which are as the Apostle saith the rudiments of the world and not after Christ As if the way to bee ripe in faith were to be rawe in wit and iudgement as if reason were an enemye to Religion Childish simplicity the Mother of diuine sufficiency The name of the Light of Nature is growne hatefull to them the Star of Learning is no better thoght of then if it were a disastrous and vnlucky Comet or as if God had so accursed it that it should neuer shine out in things concerning our dutye any way toward him but bee esteemed as the Star of Remphan or as that in the Reuelation called Worme-wood which beeing fallen from Heauen maketh Riuers and fountaines of Waters Reuel 8 10 into which it falleth so bitter that men in tasting them do dye therof The word of GOD say they is a two edged Sword as for the Weapon of naturall Reason it is as the Armour of Saul rather cumbersome about the Souldier of Christ then needful wheras indeed it is as that which slew Goliah if they bee as Dauid was that vse it Poyson may com frō out a Rose and out of Hemlocke Honie may bee drawne but then a Spyder must not sucke the one nor a Bee the other I will not therefore be affrayde to imitate the Hebrewes who at their going out from amongst the Egyptians took from them all the Gold and Siluer that they could afterwards made a Tabernacle of it to God in the desert nor Salomon who refused not to accept both Woode and Workemen Caedar and Firre from the hands of Hiram king of Tyre for the erecting of a house vnto the Name of the Lorde his God There is in the world no kinde of knowledge whereby any part of truth is seene but wee iustly account it precious and that principall trueth in comparison whereof all other knowledge is vile may receiue from it som kind of light So that whether it be that Mathematicall Wisedome of the Egyptians and Caldeans wherewith Moses Daniel were so richly furnished or that Naturall Morall and Ciuill wisedome of the Graecians which the Apostle Saint Paul did bring from Tarsus or that Iudaicall which he learned sitting at the feet of Gamaliell I will by no means detract from the dignity therof least by so doing I shuld iniure euen God himself who beeing that light which none can aproach hath sent out these lights whereof we are capable euen as many sparckles resembling the bright Fountaine from whych they rise That the lawfull vse and application of prophane authoritie can bee no preiudice to sacred Writ howsoeuer therefore I drinke of the Waters of life with Christ yet will I not let as occasion serueth to drawe at the Well with the Samaritan LII THe Pride of a man shal bring him low but the humble in Spirit shall enioy glorie He that delighteth himselfe in the contemplation of his own greatnes and when hee vieweth the statelinesse of his high-built Palaces doth vaunt out of a swelling Spirit with Nebuchadnezar Dan 4 27 Is not this great Babel that I haue built for the house of the Kingdome by the might of my power and for the glory of my maiesty A voyce from Heauen shall tell him presently that he shall bee vtterlie depriued of the societie and commerce of men and bee enforced to take vp his dwelling with the Beasts of the fielde Hee that shal say in his heart I will ascend vp into Heauen Esay 14.13 and exalt my Throne aboue beside the starres I will sit vppon the mount of the congregatiō in the sides of the North I will climbe aboue the height of the cloudes and I will bee lyke the most High He shal
that eateth Bread in the Kingdom Reuel 19 9 of God and sitteth at Supper with the holy Lambe XIIII IN this World there is a threefold roade The one is that of Christ frō ill to good from sinne to Grace which beginneth at the Valley of Hinnon reaches to the Mount of Oliues and thorough this haue al the holy Patriarches Prophets and Apostles iournyed from time to time to theyr eternall happinesse The other is that of ADAM from good to ill from life to death and goeth downe from Hierusalem to Ierico Luke 10.30 It is a way that is exceeding dangerous and beset on euery side with Theeues and Murderers that wil rob vs of those vertues wherwith wee are arayed and hauing wounded vs wil go their way leauing vs there alone to languish in our misery The third and last is that of sathan which is round and Circular He compasseth the earth and like a roaring Lyon he walketh about Iob. 1.7 seeking whom hee may deuour 1. Pet. 5.8 To go right forward is no pace for him he must continually bee turning and the reason hereof is this he would not rest himselfe when time did serue in the lord his God who as he is to all Creatures the first efficient of their beeing so is he the last final cause of their working as it were the breathing stop and period of their operations But his motion hath no center therefore must bee alwayes wheeling Frō amongest them all then I wil select the first It is straight and ready and will quickly bring a man to his expected harbour Luke 10.4 Being entred once into it whomsoeuer I meete I will let him passe according to the precept of my blessed Sauiour 1 King 4.29 and not salute him If hee salute mee I will not aunswere him He treads a path directly contrary to mine and I will not seeme by complementing to affect his company XV. THE wicked man is a great Linguist Euery desire in him hath his peculiar speech and euery passion his proper dialect His bosome is the very Babell of al confusion Wisedom may notwithstanding cry till she bee hoarse there is not one that vnderstands her accent The toongs they speake withal are forked but not fiery Actes 2.3 and cannot therfore serue for vnion but diuision They are such as will sooner bring a punnishment vpon the speaker then cause astonishment in the hearer I will leaue them therefore to him that liketh them and not suffer a Thought within my breast Esay 19.18 that speaketh any language but that of Canaan XVI THe Lord is liberall Iames 1.5 and reproacheth no man There is not the least meanest of those benefites which euery moment wee receiue frō him but is farre more then wee could deserue farre more then we durst desire Hee neuer values that which he giues yet giues hee alwayes that which is pure and perfect He will not flatter our hopes with verball Complements Ioh. 16.24 nor torture them with vaine delaies Aske and you shall receiue saith our Sauiour Christ that your ioy may bee fulfilled Luk. 12.19 The world doth otherwise Faire promises but slowe performance in the end Insteade of bread it offereth vs a stone instead of fish it feedes vs with a Serpent we looked for a substance and beholde a shadow My Soule said the rich man in the Gospell thou hast much goods laid vppe for many yeares liue at ease eate drinke take thy pastime when loe that very night it was taken from him and the goods which he had gathered were he knew not whose Iere. 4.23 The earth is desolate and void saith the GOD of Israell by the mouth of his holy Prophet it can afforde no pleasure which is not counterfaite and Adulterate the best things in it are sophisticated The Wine therof is mingled with water Esay 1.22 and the Siluer of it is turned into drosse I will take no thought therfore for my life Psal 55 22. what I shall eate nor for my body what I shall put on but cast my burden on the Lord 1 Tim. 6 19 and hee shall nourish mee I will labour to bee rich in good workes laying vp in store for my self a sure foundation against the time to come that I may obtaine a blessed and euerlasting life still crauing somewhat at the handes of God that hee may still haue occasion to giue XVII BEtter it is saith Salomon to bee of humble mind with the lowly Prou. 19 9. then to deuide the spoyles with the proud Wrath confusion shal follow these but grace and glory shall be giuen vnto those Ephraim shall be preferred before Manasses Ishais little one before the rest of his brethren Adonijah may pretend his eldershippe Gen 48 20 1. Sam. 16 11. 1 King 1.30 but Salomon shall enioy the Kingdome It is Humilitie that maketh vs acceptable to God and Man whereas the contrarie maketh vs hated and abhorred of both While Saul was little in his own sight GOD made him head ouer the tribes of Israell 1. Sam. 15.16.17 Let vs but looke vppon the life of our blessed Sauiour and wee shall see that hee drew more people vnto him in his Eclipsed and obscure estate then hee did in the transcendent of his glory Only three were present at his transfiguration in the Mount Mat. 17.12 but lying in a Manger ther came kings to worshippe him Luke 9.28 and Sheepheardes to adore him Math. 2.2 And when he humbled himselfe so farre as to become obedient vnto death Ioh. 12.32 yea to the death of the Crosse then was his exaltation for then he drew all thinges vnto him Learne therefore of me saith he for I am meek and lowly of heart Mat. 11 29. And indeed where shall we find a more glorious precedent then is the Patron of all glory Phil. 2.67 who beeing in the forme of God did clean annihilate himself took on him the shape of a Seruant The pride of Heauen became the scorn of Earth The son of God the slaue of man He left his fathers court such was the loue hee bare vs to come and cure the Vlcerous Inflamations of our infected Soules Phil. 2.5 Hee did abase himselfe that hee might honor vs and was carelesse of his owne dignity to purchase ours I will labour therfore that the same mind which was in him towardes mee may likewise bee in mee towards others I will not boast my selfe against the Publican nor as one that had tasted of the Leauen Luk. 18.11 of the Pharises thinke better of my selfe then I am or worse of others then they are but desire God that he would deck mee inwardly with lowlinesse of Spirite 1. Pet. 5 5 6 that I may be exalted of him in due time XVIII OVR Sauiour is not of that outward appearance that worldly Princes are his traine is small himself not chargable He