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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

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