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duty_n	day_n	holy_a	lord_n	6,251	5	4.5326	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01077	The bitter vvaters of Babylon, or The miserable estate of the citizens of Sion considered by the confusion of all things in this world.	Forsyth, James, fl. 1615-1619.	1615 (1615)	STC 11191; ESTC S121939	26,614	42

THE BITTER WATERS OF BABYLON OR THE MISERABLE Estate of the Citizens of SION Considered by the confusion of all things in this world PROV 22. 3. A prudent man seeth the plague and hideth himselfe but the foolish goe on still and are punished HIERON in lib. de hom perfecto Omnes sumus in minimis cauti in maximis negligentes hoc itaque fit quia vbi vera vita sit ignor amus LONDON Printed by Edw. Griffin for Ralph Mab and are to bee sold in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Grey-hound 1615. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE RIGHT Vertuous and truely Religious IOHN Lord RAMSEY Vicount Hadington and to the true Noble and very Industrious Ladie ELIZABETH the Vicountesse his most louing Wife All true happines in this life and eternall glorie in the life to come Right Honourable I Need not be in doubt as many men be to chuse a fit Personage to patronize this mine Embrio or my first Crude and vndigested meditations seeing that vnder God I haue from your Honours my present earthly being and therefore may iustly challenge as much interest in mee as Paul did in Philémon both my selfe and all my labours for it hath beene the gracious splendor of your Honourable kinde fauours that hath so bountifully shined vpon so base an obiect not through any deserts of mine obtained Alasse I am too priuy vnto mine owne wants qui rudis iners not worthy to bee named the same day with learned men but that the bright Rayes of your Honourable kinde fauour in this are like vnto the Royall Sun beames that shine as bright in the poore mans cottage as in the Kings pallace Your worthinesse in your Honorable attempts in promoting learning religion is an euident proofe of your godly religious disposition without flattery these I professe which haue had a more particular experience of your gracious fauors For they need not false praises that abound with true And I appeale vnto al those that haue had a triall of your Honorable fauours which freely haue beene found amongst a great number both of inborne forreiners wherby your honorable names may be well registred amongst the worthies in this age which no doubt will remaine in all ages neuer be blotted out in your honourable posterity And lest that I should incur the censure of ingratitude which is a monster by nature for all kindnesses receiued I haue cast this smal mite into your treasury that as I walke vnder the the safegard of your honorable roofe I may goe in safety heerein vnder your Honors tuition beseeching your Honors to accept of it as our Sauiour Christ did the poore widdowes gift because I giue all that I haue hoping that you will not regard the meannesse of the gift so much as the minde of the giuer which if I louingly find in your gracious acceptance I shall thinke my selfe most happy in all mine essaies shall daily pray as by duty obliged vnto the God of mercy for your Honors happinesse in this life and euerlasting happinesse in the life to come Your Honours most humble and dutifull Chaplaine and seruant in the Lord JAMES FORSYTH To the Christian Reader MAruell not gentle Reader that I haue diuulged these my mean meditations being preched in that Place from whence daily doth drop most sweet honny of diuine eloquence since that most of the learned that repaire thither are vnwilling to publish their workes by reason of the multiplicity of printed sermons that proceed from thence There be two reasons that induce me heereunto The one is the encouragement I had by the Audience that day whereon it was deliuered And secondly the vrgent entreaty of many of my especiall friends vnto whom I owe my selfe and all seruice Looke not for eloquence according to thine expectation proceeding from such an eminent place For I came not with eloquence of words but euidence of the spirit to perswade men and women to lament their lewd-led-life that by their vnfain dcontrition they may preuent Gods visitation in Iustice for their transgressions by the example of these Israelites beeing captiuated for their offences If any thing heerein contained in thy iudgement bee too tart and bitter Consider with what weapons I and all Gods faithfull Ministers do● come into the field to fight against Gods enemies the two-edged sword of Gods Spirit doth diuide betweene the Carnall and Spirituall man the stone that Dauid tooke vp against Goliah did sinke suddenly into his temples The diseases of these times wherein we liue require such corrasiues and bitter potions for we are like vnto Babel that will not be cured When thou readest those things gadde not abroad nor aime thou not at other men descend into thine owne Conscience and feeling thy selfe wounded apply these warily vnto thine own soule and so shalt thou be healed of thine infirmity That this consideration may work some zeale of Gods glory in thee and that thou mayst daily encrease more more in the knowledge of his waies I shall as by duty bound vnto all faithfull Christians daily pray for thy happinesse in this life and eternall glory in the life to come with Iesus Christ and his holy Angels Amen Thine in the Lord IAMES FORSYTH IT hath been the manner of most of the Anncient in former time and at this day is retained in the Church as a forme amongst the best D●anes to chuse a text fitted for the time and to speake out of the Scripture appointed for the day Which order if I had obserued my text should haue entreated of mirth and melodie both in respect of the season of the yeare and occasion of the feast for of all seasons this is most sweete pleasant and deliciouse Iam floridu aestas quae spicea serta gerit Now it is florishing summer which brings foorth the fragrant flowers Nay this the merry moneth of May if the occasion of the feast had ledde me to my text the matter had been me odious for by the reuolution of this time euery yeare is specified vnto vs the comfort which we receiue by that sweete Comforter sent downe by Iesus Christ vpon the Apostles in visible signes wherefore the Auncient in their Lythargie did tearme it a glorious time gloriosum hunc fecists diem was their Antheme And wee obseruing the same in our Church pray the Lord to grant that we may reioice in his holy comfort in the Collect for the day either of which if I had regarded then my song had been solacious or a song of degrees But I considering the iniquities of the time and knowing that m●nare readie to enlarge their hearts too much with worldly mirth and especially about this time of the year wherfore I haue changed my note into an Elegiacall tune which sounds nothing but weeping mourning and lamentation for worldly mirth is like vnto pure wine which not being mingled with some other ●cour will draw drunkennesse vpon the receiuer in