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death_n	sin_n	soul_n	sting_n	5,285	5	11.5055	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83980	Englands new-yeares gift, or, A pearle for a prince: with such grapes from thornes, and fruits from foes, to the whole land, as none shall be worse for wrongs, nor hurt by any but themselves, though the times should prove worse and worse.		1648 (1648)	Wing E3004; Thomason E424_4; ESTC R204545	38,288	40

their wrath the more shall the gold of thy Faith be purified the more the winds blow the more Oake like shalt thou be fixed and rooted in thy holy resolutions 2 Sam. 6.20 21. as David by the mocks of Michal the more thy foes rub thee like a Pomander yea pounce thee in the mortar of their malice the spices of thy graces smell the sweeter the more that Sathan and his Organs winnow thee the lesse chaffe they leave in thee the more thy Kitchin-sculs scum thee and scour thee as a vessel of Honour the brighter they make thee the tongues of these Dogs these Cerberized whelpes doe but medicinably lick the sores of thy sins as once the ulcers of Lazarus their Gall and Aloes doth but imbitter the dugs of the world to thee that Christ may be more sweet these bug-beares do but make thee cry and fly into the armes of thy Father faelix crux quae ducit ad Christum it is a happy Crosse which drives thee yea drawes thee nearer unto Christ it is no matter how fierce and rough the winds be that drive the loaden ship sooner and safer into her Haven the Port of Peace The conclusion of all is to prevent confusion we may be wronged by others hurt only by our selves others may plunder our goods but so long as the flesh is sound the silver feathers may grow againe as in Jobs case Job 42.10 the Devill himselfe could not hurt Job nor his cursed wife though called the Devills Dam Naomi that is emptie may be full againe Ruth 1.21 however thou runnest thy race never worse to heaven though thon wantest thy trappings and golden Bosses and though thou beest in as great exigents as once David 1 Sam. 21.3 ca. 25.8 and as Elias 1 King 17.12 13. to beg thy bread of some Nabal some poor Widdow yea as poore as Job on the dunghill or as once Christ thy Master Luk. 9.58 yet in all this not forsaken Psa 37.21 the Lord forsakes not his Saints V. 28. though the Lions lack and suffer hunger yet they shall not want Psal 34.10 though they gather but a little Manna it sufficeth Exod. 16.18.20 godlinesse with contentation is enough 1 Tim. 6.8 God can blesse to them a little meale a little oyl in a cruse as to two poor Widdowes 1 King 17.13 2 King 4.2 a little pulse to Daniel cap. 1.12.13 as sometimes a few Turnops and Potatoes when we were besieged in Ireland as well as a stalled Oxe There is one Pearle even for a Prince which cannot be plundered it adornes a Crown though beset with Thornes and this Pearle is patience a great possession unto all as Christ calls it Luke 21.19 a rich dowry to a Widdow as poore as Ruth a possession out of which the Devill himselfe could not dispossesse Job c. 1.22 withall thou mayest be wronged in thy name a Joseph may be falsly accused a Cato a Scipio an Abner a Themistocles a Phocion a Socrates yea the best Patriots and Patricians may be questioned an Athanasius an Eugenius a Narcissus may be scandalized in life and Doctrine by the Arrians as was Calvin Beza Luther our best Belgick Divines by Cocleus Bolsecus Scurrilous Kellison Endemon Cacodemon and other Romish Rabshakehs but what of this is an Eagle hurt by the chartering of a Crow or a Lion by the yelps of a Curre doth the Moon shine lesse though the Dogs of Egypt bark at it can earthly or lunatick interpositions long ecclipse the Sunshine of the Saints we have heard of a Grandee which wished his man to call him Knave and then shakt the lap of his Gowne and what was he worse for it words are but wind they breake no bones quid male feci what evill have I done may any Plato say that a bad man speakes well of me de me male dicunt ast mali God will doe David good even eo nomine because Shimei reviles him 2 Sam. 16.12 Besides thou art imprisoned yea Paul and Silas may be so far wronged as whipt in prison Act. 16. yet not hurt these blessed Birds sing sweeter tones in their cages v. 25. then ever the birds of Hanno or Sapho thou mayest be also so farre wrong'd as to be banished thy Countrey and bandied and racketed from post to pillar and find no rest like Noahs Dove to the soale of thy foot yet not hurt so long as thou findst rest in Christ so long as the Spirit doth visit thee in thy Pathmos Rev. 1.10 11. omne solum forti Patria the Sun shines every where and God is found in every Countrey indeed could thy foes banish God from thee as thy sinnes doe thy worst foes then thy case were lamentable as once Sauls 1 Sam. 16.14 cap. 28.15 16. Lastly thy foes may take away thy life yet they hurt thee not onely sin hurts thee that deprives thee of the life of grace and of the life of glory that deads thy soule here Ephes 2.1 Luk. 6.60 and damnes it hereafter Rom. 6.23 it is onely sinne the sting of death which hurts thee 1 Cor. 15.55 56. which sting being taken away by Christ thou maist put this stinglesse Bee in thy bosome v. 57. death is to thee a sweet sleep Esay 57.2 a blessed rest Rev. 14.13 in Abrahams bosome Luk. 16.22 in these and whatever else is obnoxious to humane nature the Saints are Conquerors Rom. 8.37 now did Conquests ever hurt a Caesar a Pompey a Lucullus a Fabius doe all things health wealth poverty sicknesse life death friends foes worke together for the good of the Elect Rom. 8.28 as all the Physicall Simples in a compound for the good of a Patient all the Starres and Planets by their influence for the good of these sublunary bodies and can that which works for our good doe us hurt unlesse we hurt our selves as indeed we doe bringing the worst foes we have from home with us yea carrying them about with us as Snakes in our bosomes to sting us our sinnes our darling regnant unmortified sinnes bred in our soules these and onely these being the Achans in our Camps to disturb us the Sinons in our Cities chiefely in our Troynovant yea the Quoy-ducks the Dalilahs in our Families our Chambers our Closets to betray us the vipers which breed within our bowells the wormes within our intralls the Flesh Wolves within our flesh which corrode us yea kill us the Cantharides in our oyntments to soile us to spoile us the Moaths in our Garments to fret us the Midianites amongst us to vex us the Canaanites in our borders as pricks in our sides and thornes in our eyes Judg. 2.31 to torture us to torment us that of Chrisostome being to me oraculous truer then from Delphos that nemo laeditur nisi à seipso hone is hurt but by himselfe by his owne sinnes as Noah was drunke with his owne wine Gen. 9.22 Cambises slaine with his owne sword Marlow stabbed with his owne Dagger so we are slaine by our owne

the soule married and espoused to Christ by faith Hos 2.19 Eph. 5.25 being now as under covert Baron not liable to the debts and the arrests of her widdow-hood when she was estranged from Christ Eph. 2.12 Christ her husband being liable unto them who hath satisfied and paid them by his blood Eph. 1.7 1 Pet. 1.18 even eo nomine in this very case the child of God being freed both from the guilt and punishment of his sinne in life and death and judgement whatever happens to him being not in the nature of a punishment from a sterne Aeacus Minos Radamanthus or an Orbilius Flagellator or a Dionisius in schola a severe Tyrant an inraged Schoolemaster but a castigation from a Father non quod odio habet sed quod amat not out of hatred but out of love what a motive is this to drinke patiently as Christ his Master before him Mat. 26.39 and Job Iob. 5.11 and Ezekias Esa 39.8 and David Psal 39.9 and old Eli 1 Sam. 3.18 and all the Martyrs Iam. 5. v. 10. and Confessors the Physicall cup his Father hath prepared for him though very bitter in the divine providence so much the better if another man equall to thy selfe or inferiour yea if superiour hit thee a blow on thy eare or spurn thee with his foot perhaps thou art moved and waspish even a Micah or a Paul himselfe suffering humani aliquid some reluctance to be unjustly beaten by a Zedekias a false Prophet a Prelaticall Ananias a painted wall 1 King 22.24 Act. 23.2 3. or to be scourged unjustly by a Governour Act. 22. v. 25. but put the case that thy King thy Leige Soveraigne or thy naturall and affectionate Father give thee a blow or two chiefliy upon thy demerits wilt thou grudge wilt thou grumble like a curst Cur whilst thou as a whipped dog fly in thy Fathers face surein this case of muttering murmuring impatiency like the carnall Israelites against God against Moses against Aaron Exod. 16.2 3. cap. 17.2 Num. 21.5 in every crosse and losse that hath befallen thee in thy past or present pressures thou shewest thy selfe not a mournfull dove but a hissing Snake yea a stinging Serpent not a patient plundered sheep but a gruntling Hog a tusk-whetting Bore when the hand of heaven toucheth thee chiefly if Satan enter so farre into thee as he did into Iudas Ioh. 13.27 and into Ananias Act. 5.3 and into Elimas the Sorcerer Act. 13.10 and into Edens Serpent Gen. 3.1 and into the Pithonist or Ventriloquist at Philippos Act. 16.16 as still he speaks in seducing Friers and Jesuites in blaspheming Hereticks and in all cursing and accursed swearers that instead of blessing God in thy crosses in thy losses by the plundering Caldeans or Papall Babilonians as Iob blest God in his greatest exigents Iob. 1.20 21. thou rave and rage like a Bedlam set thy mouth against heaven like Homers Centaures to sight with Iupiter curse thy Creator in the devillish Dialect of Iobs wife blaspheme thy Redeemer in tearing againe worse then the Jewes on the Crosse his heart wounds bloud as a Dog doth a harmelesse Hare and a Wolfe an innocent Lambe In this case thou hast a soule as blacke as pitch stinking and sulphurious I say of thee as Simon Peter said of Simon Magus Act. 8.23 thou art in the gall of bitternesse and in the bond of iniquitie in the very snare of the Devill 2 Tim. 2.26 yea his sympathizing sonne Ioh. 8.34 he blaspheming God in hell or in the aire where ere he carries his hell about him and thou on earth like a Dutchman a French-man a Spaniard or an Italian thou may be known by thy Tongue to what Countrey thou belongest even to the lower and infernall Regions to the reall Styx Tartaerus and Flegeton thy very speech bewrayes thee Mat. 26.37 were Satan on earth in the forme of a man or Caine Iudas Achitophel Iulian the Apostate Porphiry Libanius Hacket Kett Michael Servetus Dioscorus Nestorius Arrius here againe returned out of hell they would bring their hell-fired tongues with them and blaspheme just as thou blasphemest they would be as birds of a feather fit companions and comrades with all God-dam-mees and Roarers whose mouthes like Butchers dogs are bloudy with bloudy oathes Herod and Pilate Ahab and Iezabel Simeon and Levi the Atheist and the Papist the Caldean and the Sabaean never agreed better now or heretofore in any mischiefe plotted or performed then thou both in thy mouth and in thy minde would consort with such Sathanicall sympathizers with thy hellish humours Oh this course this carriage is not to kisse thy Fathers rod like a dutifull a patient a penitent a submissive Child but to snuffe up the wind like an Onager or wild Asse yea to kick and spurn like Iesurum Deu. 32.15 with the heel as a Mule when God would catch thee as we catch wild Colts in a strait in a lane or betwixt thorny hedges as Iudah catched Adonizebek Iudg. 1.4 and the Assyrians Manasses amongst the thornes 2 Chron. 33.11 this shewes thou art as M. Deering once used the phrase at the Court not tanquam ovis as a sheep silent before the shearer Esa 53.7 who never bleats when the Butchers knife is at the throat but indomita juvenca an untamed Bullock bellowing when Sauls Doegs or Dogs be about thine eares I tell thee Siboleth and Shiboleth did not more clearely distinguish an Ephraimite from a Gileadite Iudg. 12.6 7. or the fire doth not more distinguish gold from drosse or the touch-stone gold and pure silver from counterfeit and adulterate metalls then patience and impatiency blessing or blaspheming the language of Canaan and the language of Ashdod shew thy heart thy mouths fountaine to be carnall or spirituall degenerate or regenerate the habitation of Christ 1 Cor. 13.5 Eph. 3.17 or a den of Devills a cage of Scorpions and a nest of uncleane Birds Mat. 15.19 yea I say the blew spots nor the Carbuncle broke out doe not more shew the plague nor the white spots the Leprosie of a Gehezi a Miriam a Naaman nor a stinking breath demonstrates not more infected lungs nor the red ploukes and rubies in the face and nose of a Drunkard testifie not more plainely a too much heated and inflamed Liver then oaths curses and blasphemies demonstrate a rotten an ulcerous a poisoned and a polluted heart Oh looke to it thou saist it is thy nature to curse and sweare and tear when thou art abased abused wronged or exasperated thou art of a hot and cholerick disposition so indeed are all Serpents which make them by a kind of Antipathie with the moisture of the soils to die as soon as ever they are brought into the Islands of Gaulon in Creet or into the Northerne Lapponia or to Ebusus or Sardinia a Apud Aelianum lib. 5. Hist c. 2 cum Solino cap. 9. cap. 25. cap. 31. Mela lib. 2. ca. 5. as well as they died in Ireland for the same