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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77664	A rare paterne of iustice and mercy; exemplified in the many notable, and charitable legacies of Sr. Iames Cambel, Knight, and alderman of London, deceased : worthy imitation. Whereunto is annexed A meteor, and A starre : or, Briefe and pleasant meditations of Gods providence to his chosen, of the education of children and of the vertue of love; with other poems. / By Edw: Browne.	Browne, Edward.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5105; Thomason E1109_1; ESTC R208421	51,495	182

to bow or governe as Esau was for Iacob Hophni and Phinehas for Eli c. then I should thinke my selfe a happy man And this is the principall reason why I spend all this labour in looking after a discreet and vertuous woman to helpe mee as well in the education of these two Infants I have as those that it shall please the Lord to send me by her that so having for the duration of my service lived as Iacob I may likewise as hee become into two bands Thus have I given vent to this new wine and because it is new some flying lees may be found therein but if it bee well setled upon a sound judgement the lees will sinke to the bottome and being clearly rackt the pure liquor may bee exercised for many profitable uses The pure liquor if there be any found therein I doe humbly acknowledge is Gods worke but the filthy lees and unwholsome dregs is mine Let God have the praise of the good but let me have the blame and shame of what is ill done so shall the glory and praise of God be the Alpha and Omega of all my workes Therefore Oh! that God would worke in me both the will and the deed of his owne good pleasure that it would please him to gr●nt the desires of my heart and request of my lips that all mens thoughts words and actions and mine especially may redound to the praise and glory of God and not for any vaine applause before men to the good and welfare of Gods chosen and not for any by-respects and to the joy and comfort of our owne soules in the day of the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ in glory when hee shall render to every one according to the workes hee hath done in this life that every conscionable Saint may then heare that joyfull welcome of his Saviour and Judge Well done good and faithfull servant enter into thy Masters joy Which blessed happinesse God in mercy grant to mee and all his chosen not for any merit of our owne which is nothing but damnation of soule and body for the best good that ever we have done o● can doe But for the alsufficiency and meritorious sufferings of Christ Jesus in our nature here upon earth To whom with his all-glorious Father and soule-sanctifying Spirit three Persons and yet but one true essentiall God be ascribed by me and all creatures as is most due all honour glory praise thanksgiving adoration and obedience from this time forth and for evermore Amen FINIS A STARRE OR Briefe and pleasant Meditations of Love Judg. 5. 20. The starres in their courses fought against Sisera Stella effulget in noctu The Proem Primo Die Januarii 1640. GReat Julius Caesar did ordain Compose and frame the Julian yeare And was the first that gave the name Vnto this day as may appeare And cald it New-yeares day thereby to show How we in Virtue should begin to grow Now of all Vertue Love 's the Queen Which is comprised in this Booke And in her Liverie I am seen Wherefore do not disdain to looke Into this same which is a New-yeares Gift From a kind friend whose love doth seldom shift Vale Invocation O Holy glorious ever loving God Who art the fountain and the living spring Of Godly Love distill it all abroad Into my Soule that I from thence may bring Such liquor good that I therewith may cheare My Godly friends that are to me most deare O thou that art the Sun of holy Love Inflame my heart by thy bright beames of light That I may sole delight in things above Let this same holy fire burn day and night Within my Soule that stubble chaff and hay Of hate and envie may soone wast away But what am I that dare so boldly write Vpon so holy and divine a thing I have no judgement or wit to indite O thou canst water out of hard Rocke bring Pardon my error guide me by thy sprite Direct my judgement in that I shall write Amen A STARRE A briefe Meditation of Gods Love in generall and in speciall to me OH what a taske have I here ta●ne in hand Vnder whose waight Atlas could hardly stād No stout Alcides or great Sampson strong Were able to sustain this burden long Then What am I that I should dare to write Of the great Lo●e o● God that 's infinite I might as well number the Oceans sand Count the grasse piles that grow upon the land Give the true sum of all the spangled starrs Or truly show the totall of our haires Nay I could sooner empty th' Ocean dry With a small spoone then tell this mistery Of Gods great Love to man how should I then With unlearn'd wit and an untutr'd Pen Dare to set forth ev'n in the least degree His Love to all but most of all to me And yet because God in his word hath showne His Love to man and therein made it knowne It is his will that we should make relation Of all his favours to the generation That shall succed us I will truly shew What I of Love out of Gods word do know And yet I cannot tell how to begin In such a Sea of Love I 'm plunged in For whether I looke on the ●arth below Or up to heaven God doth his great Love show In three great streams me thinks his Love doth run Vpon mankind in t●mporall blessings some Th 'others Spirituall Grace the third is Glory Oh where or how shall I begin this storie For if I should of earthly blessings speake My Brain 's too shallow and my wit 's too weake But much more unfit to relate a story Of spirituall Graces or eternall Glory Yet what unto my mind God hath me showne I hope he will assist me to make knowne And first of all there comes into my mind The wonderfull creation of mankind And here the Love of God did great appears Before mankinde was made a house to reare Like to a loving Friend unto his Guest He would prepare his house and s●e it dr●st And all things very neate for his delight All this to welcome an unworthy wight For God made earth mans footestoole heav'nly light As a faire Canopie both day and night But when he was to make mans noble features He did not say as unto other Creatures Be made and it was so but he did call A Councell with himself and then he all Mans body made and did his breath infuse ●t upon what things speaks my unlearn'd Muse ●y that desire more of this thing to know ●armed Du-Bartas will divinely show ● is enough that my unlearned Pen ● this can shew Gods kindnesse unto men ●d unto me for he hath well endu'de ●y mind with knowledge his similitude ●stampt in me my bodi 's right and straight ●d every part though little hath its waight ●nd this by Gods great Love I do enjoy ●un many are perplext with much annoy ●e next great blessing that from Gods Love flowes

be possible to prevent them Their death is a plaine prognostication of some evils to come and should bee as a trumpet to awaken others out of the sleepe of sinne Many of the wicked rejoyce when the godly are taken away from them they love their roomes better then their company they hated them and their profession in their life time because as they say they are not for our profit and they are contrary to our doings they checke us for offending against the law it grieves us to looke upon them for their lives are not like other men and therefore at their death they are glad that they are rid of them when indeed they have greater cause to howle and weepe for the miseries that shall come upon them The righteous need not to imitate the ungodly practice of Herod who being ready to die and thinking that his death would be a great joy to many shut up in prison some Noblemen in every town and required his sister Salome and her husband Alexa that so soone as he was dead they should kill those Noblemen and then all Iudea would lament his death The Lord himselfe doth often make the death of the righteous to bee lamented by sending of extraordinary judgements immediately after their death When Noah entred into the Arke the world is drowned with the floud when Lot departs out of Sodome it is burnt with fire 2 In this respect also the righteous have no cause to feare death but rather to desire it for what is it but an ending of some troubles and a preventing of others They may with Paul desire to be loosed to be with Christ which is best of all It is true which Salomon saith That the day of a mans death is better then the day of his birth For the day of a godly mans birth is the beginning of his miserie but the day of his death is the end of his miserie Indeed the day of a wicked mans death is the most wofull day that ever be●ell him for he is not taken away from the evill to come but he is taken unto evill to bee tormented in hell for evermore And therefore hee feares death as much as a malefactor feareth a Serjeant that commeth to carry him to prison where he is like to abide till the day of execution That is true in them which the Divell said Skin for skin and all that ever a man hath will he give for his life And as the Gibeonites were content rather to be bondmen hewers of wood and drawers of water then to bee killed by the Israelites as other nations were So they had rather indure any kinde of miserie then to die as others doe because they feare a worse estate after death and therefore must bee pulled from the earth with as great violence as Ioab was pulled from the hornes of the altar unto which he had fled as to a place of refuge But the godly knowing what an happie exchange they make by death they desire to die so soone as it pleaseth the Lord. Indeed none ought for the ending of present calamities or preventing of future miseries to shorten their owne dayes as Saul did by falling on his owne sword nor yet for the present enjoying of eternall happinesse procure their owne death as Cleombrotus did who reading Plato his booke of the immortalitie of the soule cast himselfe headlong from a wall that he might change this life for a better He onely who gave life must take it away and the Lord may say to such I will receive no soules which against my will have gone out of the body the Philosophers which did so were martyrs of foolish Philosophy Yet seeing that death freeth the righteous from present and future miseries they may be most willing to die so soone as the Lord calleth for them and when death approacheth may say with Simeon Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace 3 Lastly in this respect we must learne not to mourne immoderately for the death of the righteous Though wee received great comfort and enjoyed some benefit by them while they were alive as I did by my late Master Sir Iames Cambel yet seeing that death is an advantage unto them we should ●ee content patiently to bear our owne losse in respect of their great gaine If two friends should lie in prison together or should dwel together in a strange Countrey where both of them were hardly used were many wayes injured endured great want and sustained much miserie though they loved one another dearly and the one were an he●pe and comfort to the other yet if the one should bee taken from the other and brought to his chiefest friends and among them be not onely freed from all such miseries as before he had endured but also bee advanced to great preferment will the other which is left behinde him be discontented at it Will he not rather wish himselfe to bee there with him in the like then desire that either hee had stayed with him or might returne againe This our life is as a prison or strange Country in which wee indure great miserie and may every day looke for more if therefore our dearest friends bee taken from us freed from these miseries and advanced to great glory with Christ and his Saints in the Kingdome of heaven wee have no cause to wish that either they had stayed longer with us or might returne againe unto us but rather desire that wee might quickly goe unto them to bee glorified in like sort Though we may thinke that they died too soone for us yet they died not too soone for themselves for the sooner they come to rest and happinesse the better it is for them Their condition is farre better then ours for they are freed from miserie we are reserved for further miserie they are already arrived at the haven of eternall rest and we are still tossed on the sea of this world with troublesome waves and dangerous tempests they have ended their journey with lesser travell and making a shorter cut and wee are yet travelling with wearisomnes in our journey If any one of them could speake after their death he would say unto them which weepe for him as Christ said to the daughters of Ierusalem Weepe not for me but weepe for your selves and for your children because of the dangerous dayes that shall ensue Or as Christ said unto his Disciples If ye loved me ye would verily rejoyce because I goe unto the Father But if examples doe move any thing at all I may apply all that hath beene spoken to this present occasion A righteous man is perished a mercifull man is taken away for God hath made me seriously to consider and lay close to my heart the losse of my late ●udicious loving Master Sir Iames Cambel Therefore for a memoriall of him I have presumed to set forth his unparallel'd Legacies Which though they be unskilfully performed yet God may work such an effect in