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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43357	Heraclitus Christianus, or, The man of sorrow being a reflection on all states and conditions of human life : in three books.		1677 (1677)	Wing H1487; ESTC R12496	69,902	193

there is afterwards no mark to be found where she went CHAP. XIV Of the Final Judgment HOW comparatively happy would Men be could they here end their Misery might their Souls moulder away as their Bodies and both one and the other return into their Primitive nothing But alas they both must unite and appear before the Great Tribunal of an All-knowing and Impartial Judg Who will render to every man according to his works and they that have done good shall go into everlasting life and those that have done evil into everlasting destruction What horror and confusion will this Day strike into the heart of the most resolute sinner When the Sun shall be turned into dark ness and the Moon into blood when the Stars shall no more produce their light nor be any more seen shining in the Heavens when the Elements shall melt with servent heat and the Earth be burnt up with fire And as it was in the time of Noah so shall it be then for there shall be eating and drinking Marrying and giving in Marriage and immediately the Trumpet shall sound to call them to Judgment then shall the People and Nations of the earth howl and lament and hide themselves in the holes and caves of the earth and shall call upon the mountains to fall down upon them and cover them from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne Sound the Trumpet and cry a loud saith the Prophet Joel and let all the Inhabitants of the earth tremble for the day of the Lord draweth nigh the day of darkness and obscurity the day of clouds and trouble when all the Inhabitants of the earth shall be burned the fire shall devour before his face and flames of fire shall follow him And after this Execution of the Divine Justice the dead which are in their Graves having heard his voice shall arise and come forth The bones and other parts shall seek for their joynts in order to their union with the body all those that the Beasts and Birds have devoured all them whom the Sea has swallowed all that is evaporated into Air all that the fire hath consumed shall be reduced into its essence and pristine state all the blood which the Robbers and Pirates Murderers Tyrants and Mercenary Judges have unjustly shed shall be then found without the diminution of a drop of it And if it was a cruel spectacle to behold the Beasts leave the earth which is their proper Element following the anger of God and entring into the Ark with Noah and as it were imploring his aid and succor how much more dreadful will it be to them who have lived unjustly to appear before the great and dreadful Judg When the Books shall be opened that is to say the Sins and Enormities of our poor ulcerated Conscience shall be at that time manifested and laid open to the sight of Men Angels and Devils If the Vail of the Temple was rent if the Earth trembled and the Sun was darkned and obscured for the injury which was done to our Saviour on the Cross although he had in nothing offended with what countenance can poor sinners look who have offended and blasphemed so many times If that the Vision of an Angel is so terrible to us that we cannot endure it as testified St. John who was not able to behold such splendor and brightness but fell to the earth for dead And the Children of Israel had such terror that they earnestly desired Moses to speak unto them himself saying We will hearken to thee when thou speakest but we cannot bear this voice coming from Heaven which causeth us even to give up the ghost although that the Angel spake favourable How will the poor sinner then endure the Voice and Splendor of the Majesty of God being in his Throne of Glory When he shall say as speaketh the Prophet Isaiah Now is the hour wherein I will avenge my self on my enemies and my anger shall be accomplished and they shall know that I am the Lord who have so often admonished wooed beseeched and entreated them for I will stand before them as a Bear who is robbed of her whelps I have been still for a long time and kept silent but now I will cry out as she that is in labour I will scatter I will swallow up all together I will reduce the Mountains to Deserts I will cause the Herbs to wither the Rivers and Floods to be dried up and hinder the course of the Spring and turn the darkness into light I have called them but they have refused I have stretched out my hand but they have not regarded They have rejected my counsel and would not hearken to my reproof therefore will I laugh at their calamity and mock when their fear cometh and when their torment and anguish draweth near to them they shall call but I will not answer they shall seek me but I will not be found and if the Heavens are unclean in his sight and if he hath found fault in his Angels what will he find in us who are houses of clay and whose foundations are in the dust How shall we be able to stand before him whose countenance is as Lightning and before whom there goeth a consuming Fire and yet stand we must and give an account of all the various circumstances and cases of our Life then we must come to a reckoning concerning the good we have received and the good which we our selves have done then 't is that we must give an account of the improvement which we have made of all those wholsom instructions and Fatherly chastisements wherewith we have been corrected then will it be exacted of us how we have entertained those good motions and suggestions which the Divine Spirit hath put into our hearts how we have withstood the suggestions of Satan and the temptations of the world and our own carnal inclinations then shall we be examined how we have employed all the faculties of our souls and members of our bodies then shall we give an account not only of all our wicked words and actions but also of our impure thoughts and filthy imaginations which shall all be laid open to the sight of Men and Angels then must we give an account of all filthy and nasty speeches prophane writings and unsavoury jests nay of every idle word so strict a tryal shall we then be put upon Lastly Of sins of omission and commission of the time which we have spent in Eating Drinking Sleeping Revelling Dancing Gaming in haunting Taverns Play-houses and Brothel-houses then must we give an account of the spending of our Youth and of our seasoning of those tender years with Prophaness and Debauchery and offering the first and best of our time unto the Devil which should be dedicated unto God and his Service Then must we give an account of the employing of our Man-hood and whether that has been grounded and setled in Piety and Devotion or passed over in resolved enjoyments

distempered that they have knocked their own heads against the wall as did a Learned man of our time called Ange Politian Some have been constrained in their sickness to eat Serpents as do those who are infected with the Leprosie From the bodies of others have issued out great number of Serpents as did out of the body of the Philosopher Pherecides Some there have been in whose bodies have been ingendred such great quantity of Lice that they have been eaten up with them CHAP. VI. Of Poysons NEither are these evils enough but Man hath invented of himself more to set forward his own death as well as his Neighbours as if those which Nature had prepared for him and were born with him were not sufficient to crush him Such are the poysons which men make now-a-days and that so dexterously that there can be no preservation from them unless men should shun all Society and betake themselves to Desarts with the brute Beasts in the company of whom he is more certain of safety than with men Some Ancient Authors as Orpheus Orus Medesius Heliodorus and Aratus have taught the Composition of five hundred sorts of Poysons and some others have since augmented the number but if they were now alive they would be reputed as dull and insiped so much is humane malice increased In former Ages they made use of certain Drugs which are of their nature so venemous that a Grain weight of them would kill a man immediately and was sold at an hundred Crowns an Ounce so great a Tribute paid he that used them yet nevertheless they had this consideration that they made him Swear who bought them that he should not use it in their Province nor against their Friends and Allies but only against strangers but men are grown in these our times so ingeniously industrious to do evil that they have found out ways to poyson men by scent only as did a certain Sienois to his Corrival presenting him with a Nosegay of Flowers the smell of which struck him dead immediately Another a Florentine Cavalier having taken off his Head-piece that he might refresh himself was espied by his Enemy who rubbed on the inside of it so deadly a poyson that as soon as ever he put it on his head made him give up the Ghost immediately They spare not in Italy so much as their Flamboies and Torches but corrupt and sophisticate them and that so artificially that the smoak of them poysoneth so that you dare scarcely light your Torches for your conduct in the night if you have suspicion of an Enemy 'T is a small matter to apply poyson to meats and drinks as in time past for men have found out means now-a-days to poyson the very Horssaddles Boots and Spurs and that which seemeth more pernicious is that some have lost their lives by shaking hands with them whose pretence was Friendship Some have been poysoned by Letters and Papers sent them which when opened there flies out such a poysonous vapour which rising upward penetrateth to the brain And so artificial are they in these Compositions that the venom killeth according to the intention of the Murderer for if he pleases the party shall live three months six month a year or longer so that death shall answer the time of the design of the Composition Moreover if they please they can so order the effects of the poyson that it shall hurt but one member at a time An experiment not much unlike to this we now speak of hath been found too true to their cost who drank of a poysoned Fountain on this-side the Rhine which caused their teeth to fall out of their heads who tasted of it but mens malice hath extended farther yet and hath given greater testimony of their execrable wickedness in that they have not stuck to mingle poyson with the blessed Sacrament CHAP. VI. Of the great Calamities which Men have suffered by the overflowing of Water WHAT remaineth more for the perfecting of Man's Misery seeing the very Elements rise up against him and are as Witnesses and Ministers of Gods vengeance for his sins what is there more necessary to Humane Life than Water seeing that neither Man Beast nor Herb can subsist without it not to reckon the Ornament and Beauty which it bringeth to the Universe it is the most ancient and mightiest of all the Elements as saith Pliny and Isidore It ruineth and layeth low the Mountains predominateth and governeth the Earth puts out the Fire turneth it self into Vapours surpasseth the Region of the Air from whence afterwards it descendeth to engender and produce all things on the Earth and yet nevertheless what Chastisements hath Antiquity experimented from the vigor of this Element when the Deluge of Water overflowed and covered the whole Earth when the Veins of the Heavens were opened that the Waters surpassed the highest Mountain by fifteen Cubits as Moses describeth it in Genesis How many times hath Egypt been drown'd by the overflowing of the River Nilus How many thousands of men have lost their Lives and been buried in the bellies of Fishes How sensible has Greece been of the fury of the Waters when the greatest part of Thessaly was drown'd all the Inhabitants expecting nothing but the entire ruin of mankind by the violence of this Element What mischief received the Romans by the overflowing of the River Tiber which swelled after such a manner that the waters mounted above the highest Towers and Pinacles of the City the Bridges were broken down their Gold Silver Corn Wine Cloth Silk Stuff Oiles Wool and other Goods to the value as was computed of two or three Millions of Gold lost and consumed above 3000 Men Women and Children were destroyed by the violence of the Flood Jasper Contaren writeth in his Book of the four Elements That in our time Valence a City of Spain lacked but little of being drowned with all its Inhabitants by the violence and before unknown eruption of Water so that if it had not been speedily succoured with Ramparts they had all undoubtedly perished CHAP. VII Of Fire and the Mischiefs which Men have receiv'd by it WHAT is there more admirable in Nature than the Fire by the benefit of which all our Meats are seasoned the Lives of many preserved the Metals Calcinated and made flexible the Iron softned macerated and vanquished the Stones which we use in the structure of our Buildings baked and hardened in the belly of the Earth by its aid and assistance and yet nevertheless how many famous Cities have been burned and reduced to Ashes the most ancient Testimony of this is in the Sacred Writings concerning Sodom and Gomorrah upon which the Lord rained Fire and Brimstone from Heaven The last Conflagration and Universal ruin of the Earth must be executed by the fury of this Element as is written by the Prophets and Apostles In the time of Lucius Marcus and Sextus Julius Consuls there broke out such a great Flame from two Mountains that all