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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12309	A memento for Christians In some short meditations on the third verse of the thirteenth chapter of the Epistle vnto the Hebrewes [...] Published by the author, for the comfort of all those that mourne in Sion, and very fit to be seene in the hands of all men in tese troublesome dayes of the Churches sorrow.	Doolittle, E.	1623 (1623)	STC 6163.5; ESTC S113555	39,885	102

A MEMENTO for Christians IN Some short Meditations on the third verse of the thirteenth chapter of the Epistle vnto the Hebrewes Remember those that are in bonds as bound with them and them that are in afstiction as if ye were also afsticted in the body Published by the Author For the comfort of all those that mourne in Sion and very fit to be seene in the hands of all men in these troublesome dayes of the Churches sorrow PSAL. 137. 5 6. If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning if I doe not remember thee let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth yea if I preferre not Ierusalem to my chiefe ioy PSAL. 137. 1. By the riuers of Babel wee sate and there wee wept when wee remembred Sion LONDON Printed by I. L. for Fulke Clifton 1623. To the holy Church of God the Spouse of Christ and Matron of all the faithfull planted in these nearer parts of Christendome all peace be within thy Walles and prosperitie within thy Palaces HOly Mother from whom I haue receiued all that I haue and more then I haue to whom I owe both my selfe seruice Looking about me vnto whom I should Dedicate this little Treatise I could finde none more fit in respect of dutie from me nor none more fit in respect of parentage frō you you being the highest 1 Ioh. 5. 1. Psal 45. 9. for birth none more fit in respect of matter it concernes thy self none more fit to free me from censure of any by-respects nor none more right to claime it at me nor none more worthy to deserue it of mee then thy selfe To thee therefore holy Mother doe I presume to offer these first ripe fruits complete of my meditations as a handfull of mandrakes such as they bee receiue them Gen. 30. 14. Mother what though they be crazed in the gathering and so made vnsightable yet if they will procure thy Husbands loue whereby thou mayest bee made more fruitfull accept of them of which good wil of thine I haue no cause 1 Cor. 4. 7. 1 Cor. 11. 23. to doubt seeing they are thine owne receiued from thee for thee such therefore as I haue receiued doe I offer vnto thee and no other passe by my vnskilfulnes accept of my willingnes And so doing thou shalt increase my diligence to helpe thy furtherance I rest a sonne of thine age E. D. The Churches Lamentation by reason of her sorrow BEhold O Lord for I am in distresse Lam. 1. 20 my bowels are troubled my heart is turned within me abroad the sword bereaueth at home there is death They haue heard that I sigh there is Verse 21. none to comfort me All mine enemies haue heard of my trouble they are glad that thou hast done it Heare I pray you all people and behold Verse 28. my sorrow my louers and my young men are gone into captiuitie I called for my louers but they deceiued Verse 19. me my Priests and mine Elders gaue vp the ghost in the Citie while they sought their meate to relieue their soules For these things I weepe mine eye mine Verse 16. eye runneth downe with water because the Comforter that should relieue my soule is farre from me my children are desolate because the enemy preuailed Sion spreadeth forth her hands and there Vers 17. is none to comfort her the Lord hath commanded concerning Iacob that his aduersaries should be round about him Ierusalem is as a menstruous woman among them Is this nothing to you all yee that passe by Vers 12. Behold and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow which is done vnto mee wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger To the Christian Reader greeting CVrteous Reader vnto whom this litle Treatise in particular is dedicated if you bee in Christ and so a member of the Church and therefore I doubt not but that it shall finde free acceptance with thee I presuming to honour thee with that which men ordinarily designe to their chiefest friends euen the dedication of a booke neither respecting honour nor greatnesse nor pompe and dignity which the world ordinarily lookes after but finding in thee ioyntly all whatsoeuer is worthie due respect I haue fastened mine eyes by reason of my affection full vpon thee as I presume therefore on thy louing acceptance so I desire thee to make claime vnto it for it is thine by right not onely in respect of the drift of the matter but also in the intention of the Author it is dedicated vnto thee therefore if thou wilt not shew thy selfe inhumane receiue it louingly reade it diligently consider it weightily and respect it worthily The matter concernes as thy selfe so the whole Church of God it intreates of a dutie inioyned vs by God which is to remember those that are in bonds as bound with them and them that are in affliction as if wee were afflicted in the body for considering with my selfe the troubles of the Church not onely at home more couertly but also abroade more openly insomuch that it may iustly take vp that cōplaint of the Church in the Lamentations of Ier. and being no way able to releeue it I could do no lesse then shew my affection towards it by stirring vp all Gods people to remember it the which I could not more forcibly do then in the words of God himselfe wherein he calles vpon all men to remember those that are in bonds Wherein I obserue the Lord first exhorting vs to a duty 2. directing vs in the manner how to doe the same In the exhortation I obserue the earnestnesse of it in the word Remember in the direction I obserue the strictnes of it in these words As though you were bound with them Next I obserue the words in particular wherein I note first what wee are to doe To remember Secondly who those in bonds Thirdly how As though wee were bound with them And lastly from the words in generall I obserue the great loue of God towards his afflicted seruants in calling vpon all his people as it were by open proclamation to remember them In this Treatise wee haue shewed also how we are to perform holy duties that wee may doe the will of God on earth as it is done in heauen For wee must haue respect to the manner as well as to the matter in the performing of holy duties as the reuealed Will of God must bee our ground for the matter so the holines of God must be our rule for the manner seeing the Lord is as strict in directing vs how as earnest in exhorting vs what to doe Also I haue endeauoured to answer some questions as first how wee are to remember those in bonds Secondly why the Lord suffers his to bee in such bonds and afflictions And thirdly how the godly may know that the Lord loues them notwithstanding they are in great affliction which is by