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A03411	The arraignement of the vvhole creature, at the barre of religion, reason, and experience Occasioned vpon an inditement preferred by the soule of man against the prodigals vanity and vaine prodigality. Explained, applyed, and tryed in the historie and misterie of that parable. From whence is drawne this doome orthodoxicall, and iudgement divine. That no earthly vanity can satisfie mans heavenly soule. ...	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.; Hobson, Robert.; Henderson, Robert, 17th cent.; Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; Droeshout, Martin, b. 1601, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 13538.5; ESTC S103944	228,566	364

to die frantick ECCIVS and Cardinall d The Popes Embassador at the Councel of Trent anno 1552. frighted by the Divell in the likenesse of a black Dog Sleidan l. 231 Comment CRESSENSE with frenzie e In the memorable Histories of our time a pag. 187. ad paginam 195. FRANCIS SPIRA with d●spaire f De cujus morte lege Caelium Rhodig Antiq. Lect. l. 29. c. 8 ARISTOTLE HOMER SOPHOCLES the g Val. Max. l. 9. c. 12. Tragedian ANTONIVS the h Apud Plutarchū Roman APOLLONIVS the i Apud Plin. l. 7. c. 23. Rhodian HOSTRATVS the Fryer and divers k As Latonus and B●melius and Gerlach of Lov. D. Kraus of Hall in Germ. P●usenas Advocat of Dolphin in France with others who dyed desperate others upon sundry occasions were suddainly surprized with griefe and melancholly of which they dyed Pomponeus Atticus and Antonius Caesar sicke with Feavers Hieronimus Vrsinus suddainely wounded in Rome Mathew King of Hungarie diseased of an Apoplexie Wenslaus the young King of Bohemia thrust through with a Sword Iohannes Medices and Henry the second King of France unexpectedly wounded in Iusts and Turneaments Tyberius the Emperour Hanibal the Carthagenian Philippomones Generall of the Messineans Alexander the fixt and Caesar Burgias poysoned with millions moe that might bee l Apud Ravisium Broson Fulgosū Zwinge●ium in magno suo Theatro passim enumerated in their perfect healths in the Sunne-shine of their glory strucke some with one sicknesse some with another disease shew how uncertaine the health is of the strongest and most vigorous since both naturally and casually as also deservingly by reason of m Gen. 2.17 Rō 6. sin we are subjected to moe diseases than eyther Horse or Hawke or any other Creature whatsoever So for life it selfe alas how uncertaine Lubrick and fraile is it as brittle as Glasse as fading as a o Iob. 14.1.2.11 Esay 40.6 2 Pet. 1.24 Flower as vanishing as smoake as swift as a Post or a Weavers shuttle the Scriptures Histories and experience of all times doe demonstrate as I have seene elsewhere in varieties of p In Simeons dying Song in the Book cal'd 7. helep to Heaven examples together with Reasons which if they bee not satisfactory the consideration of so many excellent Worthies both for Arts and Armes even amongst Christians to omit Turkes Iewes and Pagans as have beene cropt by that meager Death even in the budding and blossoming of their yeares together with others that have beene taken away in their prime and flower or full strength plainely shew unto us as in a Map or Glasse on what a weake and uncertaine Threed our life depends amongst the rest praetermitting that good IOSIAH the sonne of IEROBOAM ACHAZ King of Iuda the Babes of Bethlem the first borne of Aegypt DAVIDS spurious Child with others in the Scriptures when I consider the fatall and untimely fall of that Roman BRITANICVS the Son of CLAVDIVS De diebus canicularibus par colloq 4. p. 271 de 〈◊〉 alijs CONSTANS the sonne of CONSTANTINE the Great slaine by MAGNENTIVS the sonne of MAXIMINVS slaine with his Father by the tumultuous Souldiers LADISIAVS the young King of Polony slaine by the Turkes LODOVICK GRATVS that excellent Linguist and Astronomer as hee was commended by MAIOLVS all foure cut off in the 21. yeare of their q Plurimaque exempla recinantur a Gregorio Richtero in axiom Oecono pag. 35. Age together with PHILIP the young King of Spaine HYPOLITVS MEDES the Cardinall HERACLIVS CONSTANTINVS HENRY RANZONIVS IEROM TIRVSANVS that young Bishop who all were taken away some by a naturall some by a violent death in the 28. yeare of their r Idem p. 36. Life to omit CHRISTOPHER LONGOLIVS and the Marquis of Brandenburgh who dyed in the 35. yeare of ſ Jdem ibid. their Age as RADOLPHVS AGRICOLA and that delight of Nature TITVS VESPATIAN in their 42. t Idem p. 37 yeare ere ever they came to their u Quam fatales fuere anni septenarij climat terici rebus personis magnis Familijs Consulo Fencerum de divinat pag. 21. Bucholcherum in Indice Chronico sub anno 1463. Strigellum in Chronicis part 2. pag. 277. Perel in Gen. cap. 2 p. 32. Bodinum lib. 4. de repub cap. 2 p. 647.658 Climacteriall in which so many worthy men have beene taken away in these instances wherein I see such tall Cedars untimely falne and cut downe by the Axe of Death I see how vaine it is to take any contentation in a hoped long life with neglect in the meane space of a good life by deferred repentance since Hodie mihi cras tibi quod cuiquam contigit id cuivis That may happen to every man which happens to any man Serius enim aut Citius metam properamus ad unam We saile to one Haven we must lodge in one common bed the Grave and with that BRVTVS kisse our Mother Earth God knowes how soone Besides how uncertaine is the Prospertty of this Life suppose there should be a man amongst a Million Rara avis in terris A rare one indeed a black Swan that were as healthfull as OTTO HERVVARDVS a Senatour in Ausborough in Germany who if we beleeve Astrologicall * Exemplis Genit praefixis Ephem cap. de infirmit LOVITVS could never remember that ever hee was sicke in all his life or that this age could affoord such an one as NESTOR that is sayd to live three hundreth x Nestoris est visus per tria secle Ciuis propter lib. 2. et Iuven Sat. yeares such an on as PARACELSVS boasts of that in the best improouement of his Art by Paracelsian physicke could be made to liue 400. yeares If a man could preserue himseife so long by meates medicines exercize Bathes Diets as that POLLO ROMVLVS is said to preserue himselfe by y Jntus Mulso foras oleo wine and oyle though now it be a rare thing to see a man liue 127. yeares as our late deceased frier at LISMOORE yea to liue 105. yeares as ZENOPHILVS that musitian in z Lib. 7. hist c. 5. Though Narcissus of Jerus is said to have lived 116. yeares Paul the Hermit 113. Prosdocimus a Bishop 114 Florentinus a Priest 123 T. Fullonius 157. B. Syrus 132. Homer 108 nay more one Heroimes 304. Iohannes de temporibus 361. PLINY if besides all this he had all that inward worth in him which the Romaines ascribe to their Catoes Curioes ffrabritioes the Greekes to their Socrates Solon Aristides Homer to Agamemnon that he was like u Iupiter in ffeature Mars in Valour Pallas in wisdome and had what all such outward Prosperity as d Regis filia Vxor Mater Pliny lib. 7. Paterculus ascribes to Quintus Metellus Plutarch to P c Fuit Crassus ditissimus nobilissimus eloquentissimus Juris peritissimus Pontifex Maximus Mutianus Crassus

Herod consumed with h Act. 12.23 Wormes Hatto the rich Byshop of Mentz devoured with i An. Dom. 314. vt testatur Job Fincellinus Munster Cosmog l. 3. Loincer in 5. praecep et 6. p. 346. et 539. Rats Adonizebech disgracefully mangled in his Hands and k Iudg. 1.6 Toes ●ating Crums as a Dog under a Table Agag a King hewen in l 1. Sā 15.33 peeces as an Oxe Iezabel a m 2. Kin. 9.35 Queen and a Kings Daughter gnawne by Dogs as a Carrion n Dan. 4.34 Nabuchadnezzar turn'd out of his Pallace like a Beast to graze in the Parke Great o Chronica Phil. l. 5. Campo Fulgosus lib. 9. cap. 5. Baiacet as a VVolfe or some wilde Beast carried up and downe by the Conquering Tamberlaine in an Iron Cage p De quo praeter E●tropium lib. 9. Zonarum Petrum Hisp in vita Euseb hist l. 7. c. 9. Valerian as a Slave and Vassall to Sapor holding his Stirrup as though he were Pope whilst he got on Horse backe Fredericke the third one of the best of Emperours trod vpon by Alexander the q Bergomensis in supplem Chron. Adventinus sixt the worst of Popes in St. Marks Church in Venicec as though he had beene an Aspe or Basiliske how that Scythian Shepheard had his Couch drawne with the Kings of r Marlow in his Poem Asia as though they had beene his Coach-horses how Mauritius the ſ Niceph. hist lib. 18. c. 40. et 58. Emperour as before him that perverse t Ier. 39.6 Ezekiah had his Empresse and his Children slaine before his eyes by that bloody Phocas his Servant the first Countenancer of Papall u De quo Fusius Mor. naeus in suo progressu Paepatus Superiority which was the case also of that aged Priamus of Troy and Palaeologus the Emperour of * De Turcica clade et crudelitat lege ex Punc in Churnol p. 163. O fiandrnmin Epit. o●nt l. 3. pag. 482. Constantinople when those two famous Cities were destroyed the one by the Greekes the other by the Turkes with many moe great ones suddainely cast as was threatned x Luk. 10.15 Capernaum from the Heaven as it were of highest exaltation into the Hell of the lowest Confusion yea into the darkest Dangeons of Desolation by greevous Imprisonments as was once the case of Richard the second King of y Miserum Senem it a Fame et calamitatibus in Carcere fregit Cā●d in Britania in Wiltshire England Roger the Byshop of Salisbury the second man to King Steephen Francis King of France imprisoned by Charles the z Guiccard fift Robert Duke of a Mathew Paeris Normandy Huinades and divers other worthy personages I say of my selfe pondering these examples of the Tragdeies of so many great ones they wrought in me such impressions as the reading of the death of Socrates in Platoes Phaedon wrought in Scaliger and the death of Dido with the destruction of Troy wrought in St. b Confessienem l. 1. Augustine even to make my heart full and mine eyes weepe beeing ready to say as St. Gregory when hee was to speake of the repentance of Mary Magdalen Flere magis libet quam dicere I would turne my pen into an eye my Inke and my tongue into c In fontem frontem in flumina lumina vertā Teares but chiefly I see in all these Glasses how vaine a thing it is for any man to place his faelicity and chiefe contentation in eminency of place and high exaltation with neglect of the dignity of dignities saving Grace since in the revolution of the Globe in the once turning of Sesostris his d Magnus ille Aegypti rex qui habuit copijs pedestribus 600. peditū millia equitum 24. Wheele even in a trice in the twinckling of an eye all humaine glory may be layd in the dust the Sunne of all honour set or Eclipsed or Clouded in ignominy all Grace turne to disgrace as the hot gleaming Sunne to a suddaine storme like honoured Haman that was taken immediately from Feasting with Assuerus and Esther and hang'd on the Gallo●es Esther 7. v. 10. So for pleasures alas how short lived are they Even the best of them how soone doe they fade as vapors Passe away as a Dreame that is told Perish as the grasse upon the house top or untimely fruit of a Woman how soone are they dasht and quasht in a moment As the newes of SALOMON proclaimed King and the noyse of Trumpets suddainly strucke dead all the joyes and jollities of ADONIAH and his feasting e 1. King 1 vers 49. Guests and the hand writing on the wall with DANIELS interpretation did as a suddaine Dampe put out all the light of sensuall content which Baltazar had in carousing out of holy Vessels unholily prophaned the healthes of his Queenes and f Dan 5.6.7 Concubines so the suddaine fall of Dagons house upon the Philistines when they were Idolatrizing as grosly as if they had beene at a g Caeteraquis nescit ah si fas dicere Masse sacrifizing to their Pagan Gods mocking as Asp●s that Lyonly Nazarite SAMPSON as if he had beene a Hugonite an Hereticke a Lutheran a Calvinist a true Christian this unexpected fall of the house about their h Iudg. 16. v. 25.26.30 eares as unwilling to beare the burthen of their abhominations instantly as a Vessell of water cast on a smoothering brand quencht and cooled yea schooled all their madding I had almost sayd Massing mirth And indeed it 's true of all pleasures if they die not like Children in their very birth yet the least crosse that bites and comes to the quicke nips and bl●sts them as the frost the tender buds and the lightning and h De causis et effectibus Tonitru fulgurationis consule Arist l. 3. Meteor Plin. l. 2. c. 49. et 50.54 et Pontanum in Metoris Thunder the setting fruit till they wither and decay and dye againe the paine in one Tooth the Cramp in one Ioynt the Gout in one Toe the Megrim in the Head the Collick in the Guts the Feaver in the Bloud the Wolfe in the Flesh the Scyatica in the Thigh the Fistula but chiefly the Hemeroides in the nether parts or any other perilous or painfull disease makes your Voluptuous man all amort turnes his singing into sighing his musicke and ministrelsie into Mourning or madding and his Ryot into rage So for Riches are not they as uncertaine as any of the rest take they not sometimes the Wings of an Aeagle and flye away when their possessors thinke they are as sure of them having them close prisoned in bags and bolts under locke and key as the Romans thought themselves sure of the Goddesse i Apud Majolum de Cultu deorum Victoria when they clipt her wings and walled her within their Citie at least these Riches are Fugitives and by degrees take

Cures would needs be named p Aelian lib. 12. Iupiter 4. In Alexander that would needs be the Sonne of q Ex Curtio Strigel lib. 1. Ethic. pag. 39. Iupiter and bee cloathed like Hercules in a Lyons skin 5. In Cotys King of Thrace that in all haste must be married to Minerva 6. In Sapor the Persian King that after his Victories over Valerian will needs bee Brother to the Sunne and Moone t De his alijs ex superbia et Jnsolentia insaenius consule Philippum in locis Mālij p. 476 ●t part 1. Postil p. 576. Strigell●us in Psal 73. p. 7. Praecipua in Themistocle Pōp●io Philippo Metello ●t Wolseo nostro Anglo instāt Patritius de regno l. 4. tit 18. p. 286. Pencerus in Chrō 26. Aprilis et 14. Iunij Anno 72. Cytre● in Chron. Saxoniae l. 7.213 et Hyppolit in s●o Consiliario p. 220. 7. In Antonius the Roman that will be crowned with Ivie and adored like r Paterculus poster Volū Bacchus With other such fits of Frenzie as Petrarch once acknowledged ſ Lib. 1. de Mundi contempt● ingenuously he himselfe was subject unto Yea some by too much dilating and diffusing their spirits have dyed suddainely as over-ioyed and too vehemently surprized as was that aged Father at Rhodes imbracing his two sonnes that came Victors from the Games of Olympia Iovius u Apud Goulart pag 478. reporting the like of Sinan Generall of the Turk● Armies recovering his onely sonne whom hee supposed slaine the like the French Histories of a Mother that received her Sonne in the Civill Warres safe and sound whom she supposed dead the like the Italian Histories * Guiccard alledged by the same Goulart relate of Livio and Camilla two Constant Lovers that being long crost by the Father and Claudio the Virgins Brother at last inioying one another as overjoyed the first night of their marriage were found dead in one Bed together but above all as most memorable being that which both x Jn vita L● onis ho. l. 4. Iovius and that joviall y Essays l. 1. cap. 2. Montaigne writ of that merry Pope Leo the tenth who upon certaine Newes of the taking of Millaine which he extreamely desired like a peaceable Praelate as hee was fell by an excessive Ioy into such a present Feav●r as shakt him out of Saint Peters Seat like a mellow or rotten-Apple But a great deale more dismall and Tragicall have beene and are the contrary Passions and perturbations of sorrow as in thousand examples may be instanced and in dayly experience verified 1. Some for the death and losse of Friends as David for his z 2. Sam. 18 33 Absolon for his a 2. Sā 1.17 Ionathan for b 2. Sā 3.3 Abner for c 2. Sam. 13 31 Ammon Iacob for his d Gē 37.34 Ios●ph Alexander for his e Impe●dit in ejus Funus 10. mi●lia Talentorum Gorlicus axiom Pol. pag. 244. Ephestion Achilles for his f Apud Hemerum Patroclus Hercules for his Hylas Adrian for his Antonius Aegens for his g Officina Textor pag. 255. Sonne the Widdow of Naim for h Luk. 7.13 hers Augustine for Monica his i He often speakes of her in his workes Chiefly in his Confessions l. de cura pro●mortuis Mother Quintilllian for his k Praefat. l. 6. Son Cardan and l De libris proprijs Mezentius for their onely Sonnes Niobe for her m Solicito lachrimans defluis a Scypio propertius l. 2. Children Portia for her n Vixisset Brutus tunc non tam clara fuisset Portia Pamph. Brutus Pompey's Wife for her p Pompey Hecuba for her o Off. Tex l. 5. pag. 553 Apud Sen. in Traged Priamus ANDROMACHE for her HECTOR mourning sometimes to madnesse sometimes to fearfull howlings and lowd laments as the Greekes and our Irish over their dead sometimes in sorrow continuated like Rachel for her q Mat. 2.18 Children not to be comforted even to annuall if not continuall memorials of them and mournings for them as the Primitive Church celebrating her Martyr the whole Roman Empire lamenting the death of Augustus Caesar and of Titus ſ Totus orbis Lugevat Victor Vespatian The Iewes bewailing their r Apud Tumulos ●artyrum inde tādem superstitio●e invocationes See M. Perkins his Problēs de Invoca● Ioshuah and u 2. Ch. 35.25 Iosias Rome Papall their Leo decimus the French their Lewis the 12. t Iosh 24. the Bohemians their x Aeneas Sylvius Zisca the Turkish Army their y Mortuns est Mustapha hodiè Turcicum Proverb Mustopha We English our Prince Henry Edward the sixt and Queene Elizabeth yea Patients some mentioned by z Montan. Cons 242. Physitians Turtle-like have bemoaned the death of their Mates many yeares together * Budaeus l. 5. de asse some being so greeved and sadded that they have suddainly dyed with them as Pyramis with a Apud Ovidium Thisbee some dying for them as Dido for the absence of her b Apud Virgilium Aeneas 2. Brothers also as impatient of life following voluntarily their Brothers to the Grave as Zeanger sonne to Sultan Solyman stabbing c Centorius l. 6. de bello Transilvano himselfe when he saw is worthy Brother Mustapha strangled with a Bow-string 3. Sonnes deadly surprized with griefe at the death of their Parents as one of the Sonnes of Gilbert Duke of Montpenzier falling downe a● the sight of his Fathers d Guiccard l. 5. de belloltalico sect 5 Tombe at Pouzzoll 4. Chiefly Fathers bursting their very hearts at the death of their Children as RAIZCIAT a Nobleman discovering under his Helme that i● was his owne sonne new slaine that fought so valiantly in the Hungarian Warres violence of griefe vanquishing his vitall e Montalgno Essayes l. 1. c. 2. Jovius in Histor Spirits hee fell downe instantly dead 5. Others beeing so inraged and impatient that they have themselves leapt into the Graves of their f Sic Pythius Bythinius in mortui filij Monumentum se coniecit Dead as the best beloved Wives amongst the g M. Polus Venetus Vertomānus Indians others have slaine many living in an unadvised distraction to accompany the Ghosts of their dearest dead as the Tartars at this day killing h Boterus Amphitheat many Inferiors to attend the Funerall of great Princes Others againe have beene as passionate and sorrowfull at and in the losse of Honours in Warre and in Peace as MARK ANTHONY that sate silent in his Ship and sullen three dayes together after he was overcome by i Plutarchus in Antonio Caesar drooping as a Cocke that is beat out of the Cocke-pit as Figueroa a Spanish Captaine kils himselfe with his mans Pistoll for his negligence and Cowardise at the siedge of k Ascanius Centurius l. 4. Belli Trāsilv Segedin as PHILIP Father to PETER