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A12996	A treatise on the First Psalme. By Mathew Stonham. Minister and preacher in the cittie of Norwich	Stoneham, Mathew.	1610 (1610)	STC 23289; ESTC S117850	168,319	238

stocke thirdly withernig and drooping in the age of it so man while he is as a twigge in the first spring of his infancy or childhood is tender in his body being but as a flower which is sonne blasted and withered away And in his mind is flexible as a twigge easily inclined either to Vertue if hee bee informed or to Vice if hee bee neglected being as waxe which may be wrought and brought into all formes but being once stiffened and confirmed in the strength of his ●●cke by his youth or Mans-age he is it may bee in his body more firme though ●ee can neuer bee wholy without them against infirmities and more tough in his mind either to retaine the habit of Vertues if he shall be seasoned with them or to cotinue the poyson of vices if hee hath bene nusled vp in them An exccellent Caueat vnto all Parentes and gouernours vnto whome the educacion of these young springes euen in the first sprigge or twige of them is committed that they may while they bee tender enbow them frame them while they be plyable and worke them while they be flexible least that when of pliant sprigs they shall become stockish trunkes they grow curelesse they waxe redreslesse As Adam our first Parent was appointed to tend the Trees of Pradise so wee his ofspring Gen. 2. 15. haue misticall trees commited to our keeping and dressing euen the fruit of our bodies Which if they shall bee timely tended duely ordered and rightly framed vnto that Mica 6. 7. which is good will proue such plantes as shall bee both peaceble and pleasant peaceable shall they bee because they shal be as Oliue plants pleasant shall they bee because they shal be as curtaines of ornament spread round about our table Psal 118. 3. But if wee shall bee ouer-indulgent and ouer-tender toward them a fault ouer-rife in these times they will grow stiffe in sin and be hardned in the thicke dregges of there owne lose and misleading courses prouing no better then wild-trees which will bring forth fruit no better then the Wild grapes Esay 5. 4. resembling the bramble in presuming against vs and vsurping ouer vs there parents and Gouernours though we be towards them for Fatnesse as the Oliue Tree for Sweetnesse as the Figge-tree for Pleasantnesse as the Vine Rough and vntrimmed Brambles I●dg 9. indeed will they argue them-selues to bee which vnlesse they may haue their mindes will threaten fire to come out of them which shall consume the Cedars of Libanon A lesson is this seriously to bee weighed and ●eedfully to Iudg. 9. 15. bee practised in these times wherein the complaint of Saint Chrysostome may often and againe bee vsed Patr● Chrysost sup illud Matth accessit ad illum mater Zeb●d●orum et matres corpus suorum natorum amant animam autem contemnunt c. Fathers and Mothers doe ●oue the bodies of their children but lightly passe by their Soules for they desire onely to see them in this world not caring what they shall suf●er in the life to come A folly is this euen with teares of the bitterest sorrow to bee lamented that Men should loue the huske and neglect the graine regarde the Shell and reiect the Kernell esteeme of the Bagge and despise the Treasure therein contained beautifie the Bodies of their children and suffer their Mindes to bee blacke deformed corrupted whereby these mysticall trees waxe so rough and tough in their stocke being not other-wise set and disposed in their twigge as they will bee broken before they bee bent ended before they bee mended More-ouer in the third place is man in his growth like a tree flourishing haply in his youth but drooping in his age looking toward the Dust before hee returneth to Gen. 3. 19. the dust This is the worke of Time who is the great conqueror of all things A time is appointed to ●uery thing so Eccles 3. 1. cannot this thing escape from this appointment There is a time to be borne a time to dye so is there according to to the same proportion a time to be Yong and a time to waxe Old also Mans life is but a day whose euening will certainly follow his morning vntill the night of death maketh him to sleep in the bed of the graue vnto the time that the day of the resurrection shall awaken him againe Bee it that a Man in his youth bee as strong as the Oake as tall as the Cedar as straight as the Pine-tree as flourishing as the Greene Bay-tree yet when the winter or his age shall ceaze vpon him his strength will bee weakened his talenesse abated his streightnesse crooked his florishing withered because then the Keepers of the house that is the hands will tremble the Strong-men that is the legges will bow the Grinders that is the teeth shall cease they shall ●axe darke which looke out at the windowes that is the eyes the dores shall bee shut without that is the lippes and he shall rise at the voyce of a birde that is sleepe shall depart from him and the daughters of Musicke that is the eares shal bee abased and they shall bee affraid at the high thinge that is they shall stoope towards the earth againe and the Almond Tree shall slorish that is their haire shall bee as white at the blossomes of that tree and the Grassehoppers that is as some will haue it the shoulder-pinnes shall sticke vp And old-age shall be as an house which euery man if death cut him not of before must goe vnto Eccle. 12. 5. Eccl. 12. The Philosopher mentioneth small flies neare to the bankes of a certaine riuer which liue but one day They are bred in the morning like vnto Man in his infancy therin Aristo de natu animal lib. 3. as a Tree in the twigge they are at there full strength at noone like vnto man is his confirmed age therein as the Tree in the stocke they are at night growing toward there end like Man in his Old-age therein as a Tree in the drouping thereof Third Man may bee said to bee like a Tree in the state of a Tree which the higher it is the more dangerfull it is as that which then is more exposed to the violence of the Windes to the blasting of the Lightninge to the dent of the Thunder-boult and the lesse fruitfull it is as may appeare by the Cedar one of the talest Trees yet none of the frut-fullest whereas those Trees which are of a lower and more base groth are both lesse dangerfull as they which are exempted by there submissenesse and deiection from the ragings of the Windes the flashings of the lightnings and the fury of the Thunder-bolts as also more fruitfull as it may appeare by the Vine the lowest almost among the Plants as that which vnlesse it bee by the care and hand of man shoared and vnderpropped creepeth vpon the ground leaneth and layeth still vpon the

euery side and that God had blessed the worke of his hand and his substance was increased in the land Iob. 1. 10. His vertuous actions as the vertuous actions of the righteous were prospered Secondly which haply may seeme strange he shal prosper in his Vices This prosperity accrueth vnto the righteous man from his Vices not simply but respectiuely not in regard of the beeing or existence of the Vice but of the dependance or consequence thereupon not in respect of the act but of somethinge deriued from the act For bee it far from the heart of any man to thinke it from thetongue of any Pastor whose lipp●s God hath touched with a coale from his Altar to publish it for the eare of any Christian to listen vnto it which certaine men whom the God of this world hath blinded 2. Corin 4 4. namely the Libertines Swenck●eldians but most especialy the Familists haue broched and maintained that when GOD is Hominified in man and man Deified in GOD whatsoeuer man doth yet is it accepted with GOD alledging for themselues Scriptures to no better purpose then the Diuell vidz All thinges shall bee cleane vnto you If all thinges say they shall bee cleane then our sinnes Math. 4. Luk. 4. Luk. 11. 41 likewise Again there is no condemnatiō to them which are in Christ Iesus If no condemnation say they then let them do whatsoeuer they wil they shal bee saued An interpretation of Rom. 8. 1. Scripture with like vnto the vipers brood eateth out the bowels of the text by taking y● which may serue their turne omitting that which may make against them wheras they should haue well scanned that which our Sauiour Christ speaketh who is so far from admitting that darknesse should become light as these men would haue it in that they would make vice vertue as he● 〈◊〉 v●geth this caueat that we should Take heed that o●r ●●ght doth ●o● become darknesse Likewise th● Apo●●l● S. Paul in the fore-alledged Luke 11. 35. place that there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Iesu● Annexeth that which must of necessity bee imply●d to them which walke not after the flesh but af●er the spir●t These men therfore if they walke after the Rom. 8. 1. fl●sh stand not in the state of saluation but are to be sentenced with dome of condemnation But where I affirme that that the doings of the godly man shall prosper as well in his Vice as his Vertues my meaning is not as I formerly distinguished simply in the existence and act of sinnne but respectiuely in the dependance or some-thing deriuatiue from the act thereof The Godly man no sooner falleth into sinne but he forth-with riseth againe How many fallings so many risings how many ●rrors so many returnings into the way how many pollutions and defilements by the sinne of Adam so many bathings and cleansings by the blood of Christ that as his Offences do abound so his Repentance may superabound Lead thy captiuity captiue thou sonne of Abinoam Iud. 5. 12. The Godly man hath bene led captiue by sin but so as afterward he also leadeth this his captiuity captiue though sin causeth them on whome it ceazeth both in the affections and actions to be Bestiall Beast-like yet vseth the Godly man repentance as the Priest vsed the sacrificing-knife to kill those beasts in mortifying of his earthly members Coloss 3. 5. Though his sinnes bee as Tares in his conuersation yet his Repentance as teares in his eyes sueth and sobbeth for remission He indeauoureth for that perfection which may occasion him truely to auouch with Dauid Psal 6. 6. 7. that hee doth not onely shedde teares but in that aboundance which 1 watereth his couch 2. causeth his bed to swim 3. not some but euery night 4. so as his ●ie was dimmed yea as it is in the Originall his eye was eaten as it were with wormes Hee riseth from the Graue of sinne as Christ arose from the graue of death 1. betimes 2 neuer to returne thither againe He prouideth all that he may not to sinne at all but because it cannot be auoyded but hee must sinne when hee hath sinned he husbandeth his sinne to the best aduantage and will not continue in it but as speedily as may bee deliuer himselfe from it answearing therein as writeth Saint Augustine to the August praesat in lib. retrecta Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fore-wit and after-wit by which name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or after-wit repentance is also called His offending of God causeth Godly sorrow this Godly sorrow leadeth vnto repentance not to bee repented of 2 Corinth 7. 10. The effect of that is in him to bee found which is witnessed by Saint Chrisost Peccatum dolorem peperit dolor Chryso hom de p●nitent peccatum contriuit Sinne hath brought forth sorrow and sorrow hath crushed sinne a sunder euen saith hee as the worme which is bred in the woode perisheth the woode that breedeth it so sorrow which is borne of sinne proueth sinnes distruction In which sence euen the doings of the vices of the GODLY man may bee sayd to bée Prospered Moreouer we may obserue a two-fold fruit which the GODLY man reapeth by repentance and by consequence by sinne which causeth repentance whereof the former is that hee is made more wise in his knowledge the other more wary in his cariage and through them both by occasion of his vices prospered First after his repentance for sinnes committed is hee made more wise in his knowledge for hereby is he taught that In his owne strength no man is strong but it is the Lord which keepeth the feete of his Saints 1. Sam. 2. 9. That God dealeth with his chosen as mothers deale with there children who let them goe of themselues till they waue and reele and then lay they hold of them to keepe them from falling or as Christ dealt with Peter walking vpon the sea whome he first suffered to size and then stretched forth Math. 14 30. 31. his hand and saued him from sinking Secondly heereby is hee made more wary in his carriage that after the first hee may not fall into the second shipp-wracke that after the first hee may not bee tainted by the second venome that after the first he may not receiue the second wound of his spirituall enemy Indeed the wicked leaue sin as the Letcher the Stewes with a minde to returne thether againe But the godly man as Amnon did Thamar neuer to regard her againe The wicked deale with their wickednes as Chiurca a certaine Ioseph Acosta natur moral hist East●●nd VVest Indies beast in Brasilia among the West-Indians with her yong ones which she whelpeth a thousand times as often receiueth them into her womb again But the godly in his repentance dealeth with sin as Iael● with Siserah who Iud. 5. 26. not only pierced his Temples but cutte off his head that