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A14860	A posie of spirituall flowers taken out of the garden of the holy scriptures, consisting of these sixe sorts: hearts ease, true delight, the worlds wonders, the souls solace, times complaint, the doom of sinners. Gathered for the encouragement of beginners, direction of proceeders, meditation of good hearers, consolation of true beleeuers, expectation of Sions mourners, confusion of irrepentant sinners. By George Webbe, minister of the word.	Webbe, George, 1581-1642.	1610 (1610)	STC 25164; ESTC S102126	70,373	214

is with vs indeed God is alwaies with his and hath a speciall care of them Psal 46.7 Psal 34.15 Vers 18. Vers 7. Psal 30.6.7 The God of Iacob is our refuge The eyes of the Lord are vpon the righteous and his eares are open to their crie the Lord is neere vnto them that are of a contrire heart The Angell of the Lord pitcheth his tents round about them that feare him and deliuereth thē He is their shelter from tempests and stormes of troubles he keepeth them safe vnder his protection as the henne doth the chickens vnder her wing Luke 13.34 Deut. 32.10 yea hee keepeth them as the apple of his eye Psal 34.10 The lions doe lacke and suffer hunger but they which seeke the Lord shall want nothing that is good Psal 23.1 Rom. 8.31 God is their shepheard what can they want Hee is on their side who can bee against them 1. Sam. 2.30 He honoreth them whose disgracing of them can hurt thē In euery estate he saueth and vpholdeth them by his prouidence 1. Pet. 5.7 what miserie can befal them God is their God for euer and euer Psal 48.14 euen their guide vnto the death Psal 149.9 This honour shall be to all his Saints And albeit heere it please the Lord for a while to trie thē with affliction Affliction taketh away nothing of Gods sweetnes and to chastize them with his correction to mingle their wine with Aloes and to send much bitternes into their cup Yet howsoeuer it be God is good to Israel Psal 73.1 Malach. 3.6 1. Cor. 4.9 euen to those that are pure in heart Ye sonnes of Iacob shall not be cōsumed though you are in distresse yet you shall not be forsaken Psal 30.5 Heauinesse may endure for a night but ioy will come in the morning Hosea 6.2 After two daies he will reuiue vs and the third day hee will raise vs vp againe Thy chastisements O Lord are like the pretious balme of Gilead Psalme which will not breake but supple our heads How many thousands of thy Saints may say It was good for vs Psal 119.71 yea exceeding good that wee were in troubles Thou O Lord Prouerb 3.11 doest loue those whō thou chastenest and albeit no chastising for the present seemeth to bee ioyous but grieuous yet afterward it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnes vnto them which are therby exercised Heb. 12.11 Rom. 8.18 For the afflictions of this world are not worthie of the ioyes that succeed them Rom. 8.28 Heb. 12.6 and All things euen afflictiōs themselues turne to the best to them that feare God and are signes that they are beloued of God Behold the patient childe of God whose afflictions are the greatest and marke and behold his end Psal 37.37 for the end of that man is peace And though God for a while doe seeme to hide away his face so that the godlie soule goeth heauie and mourning all the day long Psal 30.11 yet God will turne their mourning into ioy Psal 56.8 he will loose their sackcloth and gird them with gladnes Rom. 8.37 he will put their teares into his bottle and in all these things in the end they shall bee more then conquerors O Lord of hosts how amiable are thy tabernacles The boldnes of the faithfull in their prayers Psal 84.1 how ful of sweetnes Why Lord wee see here vpon earth how hard a matter it is to haue accesse to the great men of this world which differ from our selues not in stuffe but in vse and that for a while and to an earthly Prince but at sometime and for some one pleasure is few mens cases to obtain an entrance when as we may boldly presse in to the portall of thy priuie chamber and with confidence breake our mindes lay open our griefe Mark 11.24 preferre our suite and commune familiarly with thee as with a friend when wee will as often as we will thou neuer being wearie of vs neuer taking scorne nor reiecting vs yea thou doest inuite vs to come vnto thee and art more neere to heare then wee to aske and although in our prayers there are manifold infirmities and wee know not how to pray as wee ought and are soone wearie and cold in praying yet the spirit helpeth our infirmities yea the spirit it selfe maketh request for vs with sighes which cannot be expressed Rom. 8.26 O when was there any that could say he prayed in vaine if his prayer were it selfe not vaine who can repent or bethinke any minute of time herein spent This is the assurance which wee haue of him 1. Ioh. 5.14 that if wee aske any thing according to his will hee heareth vs. And albeit God doth not presently grant our requests and sometimes seemeth to defer the hearing of the prayers of his seruāts yet is his goodnesse heerein exceeding large to them that feare him All this turneth to the best for them their faith being exercised their hungring after grace more heereby strengthened and encreased thēselues stirred vp the better to esteeme of the graces of God whē they haue thē and to shew themselues more thankfull for them Whoso is wise will obserue these things Psal 107.43 that he may vnderstand the louing kindnes of the Lord for his mercie is great vnto the heauens Psal 108.4 and his trueth reacheth vnto the clouds Psal 145.9 15. The Lord is good to all and his mercies are ouer all his workes The eyes of all wait vpon him and he giueth them their foode Hee maketh the Sun to shine vpon the euill and the good Matth. 5.45 and sendeth raine on the iust and vniust Luke 6.35 He is kind euen to the vnkind Psal 87.2 yet the Lord loueth the gates of Sion aboue all the inhabitants of Iacob He hath liberally prouided for them aboue all other both here in this life and in the life to come he hath laid vp for them his sweetest sweetes A taste whereof though they haue here in this world and that so glorious as that it is ineffable yet the full fruition is reserued for them in a better world whē they shall bee replenished with the sweetnes of his presence and see him face to face at whose right hand are fulnesse of pleasures for euermore If in this life only we had hope in Christ 1. Cor. 15.19 we were of all men the most miserable and yet in this life also our sweetnes we feele in God is incomprehensible but there is reserued for vs a better life and in that life a richer sweetnes by many thousand degrees more then tongue can speake 2. Cor. 5.1 or heart can thinke Wee know this that when this earthly house of our tabernacle shall be destroyed wee haue a building not made with hands 2. Cor. 5.2 but eternall in the heauens therefore wee sigh desiring to be

wealth Eccles 6.1 and it is reckoned now adaies the only gaine to fill their coffers with mony treasure the only paradise to looke vpon these falsely tearmed goods Sueton. in vita Calig cap. 42. I see no such solace in it Me thinkes Caligula was but a foole when he so delighted to touch and handle mony that laying great heapes of gold in a spatious place hee might tread on it bare foote and tumble it vp and downe and I pitie their ridiculous practise and toiling life who thirst so greedily and scrape together so eagerly lock vp so carefully these so truly called vncertaine riches 1. Tim. 6.17 O you mony masters and wealth admirers your riches are not as the water of life alwaies flowing but as the brooks of Arabia which are then most drie when one should most need them for water They be like vnto the Spider webs which when they waxe great are swept away with a besome either they perish from you or you from thē Why then doe you cast your eyes vpon that which is nothing for riches betaketh her selfe to her wings like an Eagle Prou. 23.5 Psal 49.17 The rich man shall take nothing away with him when hee dieth Iob 27.19 neither shall his pompe follow him The rich man sleeps and when he openeth his eyes there is nothing whiles worldly misers dreame of multiplying their wealth Luke 12.20 poore fooles death comes and makes a diuorce between them and their goods Eccles 4.15 and they must returne naked as they came and what profit then hath the rich man that he hath laboured for the winde And yet wee see there is no end of the desire of this as riches are vncertaine so likewise are they insatiable There is one alone Eccles 4.8 there is not a second which hath neither sonne nor brother yet is there no end of all his trauell neither can his eye be satisfied with riches neither doth he thinke for whom doe I trauell and defraud my soule of pleasure This also is vanitie a man may sweare it is but vanitie mad Orestes might well iudge such a miserable man much more mad that standeth thus like Tantalus in the stygean lake Horat. sat 1. lib. 1 and like the drudging Indians which toile in the golden mines but enioy none of the Ore By how much the more may wee still admire the follie or the phrensie rather of those Purchasings and possessions whose soule as if it were made of earth Isai 5.8 is euer plotting to ioyne house to house land to land and though their inheritance stretch to the plaine of Iordan Numb 1.14 yet are alwaies with vnquiet mindes stirring and striuing to inlarge their demains Doubtlesse it is but lost labour that they rise vp early and so late take rest Psal 127.2 whiles Gods beloued take their quiet sleepe for in the middest of all their wealth their soules shall be taken from them Luke 12.20 and then whose shall these things bee yea though like another Alexander a man could stretch his Demaines from the East vnto the West and from the North vnto the South yet within short space a seuen foote of ground or thereabouts will be the most that hee can claime to be his owne Yet they thinke their houses shall endure for euer Buildings Psal 49.11 euen from generation to generation and call their lands by their names 2. Sam. 18.18 therefore like to Absalom they build Pyramides to keepe their name in remembrance and glorie not a little in their costly buildings as if they should remaine for euer This also is meere vanitie and vexation of spirit Eccles 2.26 For what are all the sumptuous buildings in the world but heapes of stones peeced patched together with lime and morter which like to swallowes nests in winter do fall downe of themselues Chrysost in epist. ad Coloss and which all consuming time at last dissolueth Luke 19.44 leauing not so much as one stone vpon another I come now to the garden of Adonis variety of pleasures Pleasure which the world maketh her garden of Eden the flowers which therein grow are the vaine plants of pleasure and delight which albeit they make a glorious shew to the eyes yet is their roote bitternes their glosse vanitie and their fruite poison Beautifull obiects which delight the eyes sweete sounds that please the eares fragrant smels that affect the nose any other accidents that please the other senses what they are when they are euen at the best let him Eccles 2.3 I sought c. let him that drew the threed of delight and stretched the webbe of pleasures on the largest tenter of varietie come foorth and speake I said in mine heart Salomons probatum est Eccles 2.1 saith hee the wisest Sceptick Goe to now I will prooue thee with ioy therefore take thou pleasure in pleasant things But what followed I said of laughter Ioy laughter Verse 2. thou art mad and of ioy what is it that thou doest laughter is mingled with sorrow Prou. 14. and mourning ensueth at the end of mirth Vers 4. Houses Vineyarde Gardens Orchards Vers 5. Cesternes Vers 6. Seruants Children Demaines Well he goeth on I haue made my great workes I haue built me houses I haue planted me vineyards I haue made me gardens and orchards and planted in them trees of all fruite I haue made me cesternes of water to water therewith the woods that grow with trees I haue gotten seruants and maids Vers 7. Flocks Cattell and had children borne in the house also I had great possessions of Beoues and Sheepe aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem Vers 8. Siluer Gold Treasure Musicke I haue gathered vnto mee also siluer and gold and the chief treasure of kings and prouinces I haue prouided mee mensingers and womensingers and the delights of the sonnes of men whatsoeuer mine eies desired I withheld it not from them Vers 10. I withdrew not mine heart from any ioy Then I looked on all the workes that mine hands had wrought and on the trauell that I laboured to doe Vers 11. and behold all is vanitie and vexation of spirit If thou Salomon out of thy so deare bought experience doest giue no better commendation of this world and these worldly treasures surely I see no cause why I should affect them or any of them for my selfe nor enuie them in others No no I rather pitie them that dote so much on these Heb. 11. and to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season take more paines alas then I can doe for true delight Well well I see that all things here are full of vanitie man cannot vtter it Eccles 1.8 the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the eare filled with hearing A figge then for the world I haue done with it I see nothing worthie my loue about