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A20158	A three-fold resolution, verie necessarie to saluation Describing earths vanitie. Hels horror. Heauens felicitie. By Iohn Denison Batchelour in Diuinitie.	Denison, John, d. 1629.	1608 (1608)	STC 6596; ESTC S109587	139,837	594

and dying godly that yeelds true Nobilitie according to that of Seneca Philosophie found not Plato a Noble man Sen. Epi. 44. but made him one Chrysostom What disparagement was it to Abraham that his father was an idolater in Vrre of the Chaldees Iosua 24.2 or what disgrace to Timothy Acts 16.1 that his father was a Gentile surely none at all seeing they both became truly noble by their vertues and as little honour was it to Cham that he was the sonne of iust and noble Noah seeing he himselfe was leud and vicious When the Lord chose a King ouer Israel 1. Sam. 9.21 it was out of the smallest tribe when Christ called his disciples Mat. 4. they were of the meanest sort of people and at the promulgation of the Gospell 1. Cor. 1.26 not many wise men after the flesh not many mightie not many noble are called but the simplest the meanest and most despised that no man should glorie in his birth or boast of his nobilitie and man was made out of Paradise the woman in Paradise S. Ambrose that it may appeare nobilitie not to depend vpon place or posteritie Now to the vanitie of Nobilitie this may be added which experience daily verifieth That to some nobilitie of birth begets ignobilitie of minde Greg dial lib. 1 c. 16. Plutar. in vita co●iol and vntimely honour doth hinder many from honorable attempts so that whilest the eyes of all men are vpon such tasking them with their expectation and taxing their defects and defaults with their censures they staine their stocke and disgrace themselues by degenerating from their vertuous auncestors But what is Nobilitie of no more reputation Truely that may be fitly sayd of Nobilitie which Salomon speaketh of old age Age is a crowne of glorie Pro. 16.31 when it is found in the wayes of righteousnesse A double honour belongs to those that ioyne vertue of life to their Nobilitie of birth and noble descents make grace more gracious in the eyes of men and Angels but contrarily he that hath onely the honourable ensignes of his auncestors may be a man of note Notus magis quam nobilis Sen. but he is not truely noble The Iewes bragged of their birth and boasted that they were the children of Abraham but being vngracious our Sauiour tels them they are the children of the Diuell Ioh. 8.44 and giue sinne and iniquity for their badge as their father did before them And Iohn the Baptist can teach vs that although a man be a slippe or stemme of what tree soeuer if he bring not forth good fruite he shall be hewne downe and cast into the fire Math. 3.10 Let all those therefore whom their birth hath thus blessed that they are borne the sonnes or daughters of Nobles and Gentles consider that the same should not make them ambitious but industrious and if the vaine-glorious cogitation of any ones auncestors honour begin too much to affect him let him looke into their graues and there shall hee see his hereditarie ensign●s of honour and be compelled to acknowledge with Iob I said to corruption Iob 17.14 Thou art my father to the worm Thou art my mother and my sister In a word whosoeuer thou art noble or ignoble in the eyes of the world yet if thou embrace the mercies of God and the merites of Christ with a liuely faith Ioh. 1.12 and haue the new birth of the immort●ll seede of Gods word 1. Pet. 1.23 with an vnfained desire and a fruitfull endeuour to serue him then art thou truly noble in the sight of God because thou art the sonne of God 1. Ioh. 3.1 The consideration whereof may be ten thousand times more comfortable to thee then if thou hadst lineally descended from the greatest Monarchs in the world SECTION 2. Of Prosperitie SAlomons obseruation of the course of worldly occurrents is very right All things come alike to all Eccles 9.1 the same condition is to the iust the wicked For the Lord suffereth and sendeth the raine to fall aswell vpon the wicked as the godly Mat. 5.45 so that profane Esau hath the fatnes of the earth for his dwelling place Gen. 27.39 and is watered with the dew of heauen aswell as godly Iacob and therefore his inference vpon his obseruation is very good No man knoweth by these temporals either loue or hatred of all that is before him Eccles 9.1 When Ahab would go vp to Ramoth Gilead to battell his foure hundred false Prophets gaue him incouragement to it 1. King 2● but Iehosophat the king of Iuda said wisely Is there here neuer a Prophet of the Lord more that we might inquire of him Such is the folly of many whose eyes the God of this world hath blinded with the goods of the world that they rest in the testimonie of flattering prosperitie as the king of Israell did in his false Prophets imagining thems●lues to be highly in Gods fauor because they abound in temporal blessings but those that are wise in heart will inquire thus with thēselues Is there no better testimony of my adoption then these temporall benefites and this deceiueable prosperitie and that very iustly because the same are nothing but meere vanities Prosperitie is commonly vaine in two respects as sententious Seneca noteth Vel premit vel praeterit for either it presseth or passeth either it stayeth by a man to his hurt or flyeth from him to his griefe It is either like the golden bracelets that Tarpeia had for betraying the Romaine castell to the Sabines Plutarch in vita Romu wherewith she was pressed to death or like to the hawke which soaring very high without the hearing of the call or lure flyeth cleane away from the Falconer so doth prosperitie glisten like gold but oppresseth the possessor Penè priusquàm teneretur auolabat August Confes lib. 6. Prou. 1.32 it soareth like the hawke but flyeth away from the owner Experience verifieth the Prouerbe of Salomon Ease slayeth the foolish and the prosperitie of fooles is their destruction Pharaoh being afflicted was humbled but enioying prosperitie he was hardened Yea prosperitie hath bene dangerous to the godly and when aduersitie could not fasten a temptation vpon them it hath foy-them exceedingly G●n 9. Noah in the arke embraced sobriety but being in his vineyard was ouertaken with drunkennesse Lot being vexed in Sodome Gen. 19. abhorred their vncleane conuersation but being safe in the mountaines he fell into grosse iniquitie 2. Sam. 11. Dauid being persecuted gaue himselfe to meditation and prayer but being aduaunced he committed a bloodie sinne Thus aduersitie is like the rough windes causing a man to keepe close vnto him the robes of righteousnesse but prosperitie is like the faire Sunne winning them from him The Moone is not eclipsed but when she is in the full so the godly are seldome subiect to those obscurities of

shall lose their light and vtt●rly cease to measure time by their motion leauing the same to passe on without end or intermission till the Lord be fully auenged vpon all the wicked in hell Therfore are all the torments of the reprobate noted with the Epithets of Eternity and perpetuitie The shame that shall couer their face Dan. 12.2 Mar. 9.44 is perpetuall the worme that gnaweth their conscience neuer dyeth Mat. 25.46 the pain which they shall go into is endles the fire that shall deuoure them Iude. 7. is eternall the torments of the fierie lake last for euer Reu. 20.10 the perdition which shall punish them from the throne of the Lord 2. Thes 1.9 and the glorie of his power is euerlasting and the death which they suffer is an euerlasting death It goeth hard with a man that would faine dye but cannot and such shall be the conditiō of the damned as Saint Iohn speaketh of certaine men Reu. 9.6 They shall seeke death but shall not find it and shall desire to die but death shall flie from them And it is a iust recompence that they which might haue found life but would not seeke it should now seeke for death and not find it Thus shall they be like to a man that lyes with many waights vpon him to bee pressed to death crying and calling for more waights to dispatch him but alas hee cannot get them so shall they wish euen an increase of torments to end their liues but it shall not bee graunted That is a fearefull iudgement which the Lord threateneth to the Iewes Behold Ier. 8.17 I will send Serpents and Cockatrices among you which will not be charmed but this is a farre greater iudgement that the Lord will cast men into the euerlasting fire Mat. 3.12 that shall neuer be quenched If those who are shut vp in the dungeon of hell had so many thousand yeares to endure there as there bee sands on the shore fishes in the sea stars in the firmament or grasse in the field there were some hope and comfort though God knowes it were very small but when so many millions of ages and worlds are passed ouer their torments alas for pitie are as fresh and new to beginne againe as euer they were according to that of Gregory They poore wretches haue a death without a death Mor. lib. 9. cap. 48. an end without an end a defect without a defect for the death liueth the end alway beginneth and the defect neuer faileth Is it possible for Almightie God not to be eternall neither is it possible for the punishment of the wicked in hell to be temporall offences against an infinite Maiestie require an infinite punishment Many to embolden themselues to sinne in this life are willing to remember that Gods mercie endureth for euer but such shall in the life to come receiue the reward of their sinnes and prooue against their willes that the arme of his iustice is as large as the arme of his mercie and that his wrath and indignation also endureth for euer Dauid hath a dolefull complaint Will the Lord absent himselfe for euer Psal 77.7 and will hee shew no more fauour is his mercie cleane gone for euer hath God forgotten to be gracious and hath he shut vp his tender mercies in displeasure Alas this were a pitifull case indeed he hath not dealt thus with Dauid but hee will deale so with all the damned Of many things in the world me thinkes this is most admirable That men perswading and assuring themselues there are such pains prepared for the wicked do yet liue as though they feared no such thing some making but a iest of sin Prou. 14.9 Iob. 15.16 others drinking it vp like water Oh God is mercifull thou wilt say not desiring the death of a sinner and that giues them hope I but to whom is God mercifull to all nay shall not the greatest part of the world tast of his heauie indignation Mat. 7. What to euery man how lewd so euer he bee nay hee hath threatened that to a man going presumptuously on in his lewdnesse without remorse Deut. 29.20 he will not be mercifull If it were bruted for certaine that in a citie where there are thousands the Prince would shortly vse some strange and seuere execution vpon an hundred but vpon whom it were vncertaine would it not cause euerie man to tremble If it were told ten going ouer a bridge that one of them should fall into the water would it not make euery one looke to his feete lest he should be the man If a skilfull Phisitian should assure a towne that many in it were infected with some daungerous disease what running and riding would there be to Phisitians to preuent the same Behold now men do heare that the King of Kings will shortly come to execute his fierce wrath vpon many Rev. 22.12 Iude. 13. they know that not one of ten but rather nine of ten are in danger of falling from the bridge of iniquitie into the pit of eternall destruction Mat. 7. and see that in euery towne many are infected with those daungerous diseases which bring eternall death yet how few are found that tremble looke to thēselues or seeke to the Phisitian of their soules that they may escape these daungers Who would for thousands of goldly burning in the fire for only one dayes space who is so mad that he would for one houres pleasure be racked a whole yeare together and yet alas how many are there that for trifles doe damne themselues to the fire of hell and how many that for foolish and sottish sinnes such as are odious in the sight of God hatefull to men and hurtfull to their owne health do bring them selues to the racke and torments which endure not for an howre or a yeare but for euer and euer and if it were possible for euer and after If euer it please God to visite thee with sicknes thinke with thy selfe deare Christian as thou sittest or lyest in thy bed how irkesome it would bee to thee if thou shouldest lye alwayes in that small paine without comfort or company of friends and if that seeme tedious to thee bethinke thy selfe how gieuous it will bee to lye in the vnspeakeable torments of hell without all comfort and companie saue of the terrible fiends and miserable soules of hell and that world without end and this meditation must needes mollifie thy heart and humble thy soule But alas men do not remember or else do onely superficially consider these things But I beseech thee for Gods sake who created thee like himselfe for Christs sake who shed his bloud and dyed to redeeme thee and for thy soules sake which should be more precious to thee then ten thousand worlds let not these infinite torments bee passed ouer with a short or shallow consideration but engraue the remembrance thereof in the most sensible and secret part of