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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01846	Reasons metaphorphosis, and restauration Whereunto are annexed two other treatises. viz. 1. Choyce and applications. 2. My friend. By Charles Goldwell Master of Artes, and minister of Gods word.	Goldwell, Charles.	1621 (1621)	STC 11988; ESTC S103303	48,170	303

concipitur as Bernard sweetly the cheefe and sole ioy and the sum of al ioyes is that we cōceiue of our Creator in comparison whereof all our pleasure is but care our contentation no better then vexation all sweetnesse bitter and whatsoeuer delights vs is but troublesome We can build nothing in the flesh but ruine nor reape ought besides corruption Gal. 6.8 Momentaneum est quod delectat aeternum quod cruciat the flashing pleasures of the flesh are extiguished with infinite easlesse and endlesse paines whereas in the kingdome of Grace with the Saints of God it is otherwise Momentaneum quod cruciat aeternū quod delectat Their light afflictions which are but for a moment do cause vnto them a far most excellent eternall weight of glory Foūd Ephraim any honor in her pride any aduantage in her drunkennesse Or that Babylon of spirituall and fleshly whoredomes hath she carryed away any Christian reputation by her idoll seruice as they tearme it and cautelous prostitutions Or the raging Heathen any victory by combining themselues in a conspiracy against the Lord and against his Christ They made a couenant with death and with Hell they are at agreement Isa 28.15 Yet doe they from hence vainely indulge themselues with a confidence of impunity for Christ hauing purchased a vniuersal Lordship ouer the quicke and the dead by dying and rising againe Rom. 14. exactly challengeth a proportionable fealtie that all knees shal bow before him and all tongues confesse him And they that prouoke him shall be ashamed Isa 45.23.24 It is an aduenture as hopefull to saile to the golden Mines of Peru in a Ship of Glasse as that we in pride in couetousnesse in pleasures may haue a welcome accesse to God in die nouissimo that great new and last day so enter the sweet Elysium of heauenly rest For as when the children of Benianim and Iudah went to helpe Dauid he said vnto them If ye bee come peaceably my heart shall be knit vnto you but if otherwise God behold it and rebuke it 1. Chron. 12.17 So if we will be reconciled to God to fight his battails vnder the tuition of his owne banner we must make a peaceable repaire vnto him with the spirit of meekenesse obedience loue and not with the signes of hostility and defiance as are those sinnes wherein the wisedome of the flesh doth instruct and animate vs for that being enmity against God suggesteth vnto vs nothing but to be stubborne to rebell and stand out in our own conceits and not submit our selues to the yoake of Christ and so long cannot he knit his heart vnto vs nor behold vs but as an incorrupted Iudge with due austeritie to reprooue and reiect vs for his owne hand is against all our iniquities therefore vnlesse we confesse and forsake them they may not be cancelled It was Darius his case who after hee had sealed the writing against them which should aske any petition of any God or Man for thirtie dayes saue of himselfe when Daniel was accused that he regarded him not he could not deliuer him though hee laboured till the Sunne went downe Dan. 6.14 How then shall God be inconstant in his word and purpose in whom there is no possibilitie of mutation The fashion of this world passeth away saith the Apostle 1. Cor. 7.31 So that by vniting our harts to things transitory wee basely confine our hope to a period of time to the moment of death When the wicked man dyeth his hope perisheth Pro. 11. hauing no waies to send it vp past the confusion of despicable and dying Obiects to the Throne of heauen there to releeue strengthen it with a certaine apprehension of eternity but our submisse relying on Christ as a sure soundation is whose feare is assured strength Pr●● 14. It is a good hope and an euerlasting consolation which lesus Christ that loued vs hath giuen vnto vs. Neuerthelesse wicked men whose waies for the most part prosper as the Prophet Dauid noteth Psal 10. contemne God and say in their hearts they shall neuer be mooued nor be in danger securing vnto themselues a perpetuity of perfect blessednesse from those vnstable adminicles which God hath cursed vnto them how they insult we see who bear rule who command who are obeied Who feared so much as they they prate and speake fearefully All the workers of iniquitie vant themselues they smite thy people O Lord and trouble thine heritage Psal 94.45 We shall not haue a good Christian triumph in the deceitfulnesse of things present here being no Theatre of exultation for them but a vale of mourning a bryerie desart a warring pilgrimage who are hereafter freed from all infirmities and miseries to bee gouerned by the Lambe who shall leade them to the liuely fountaines of waters And God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes Apoc. 7.17 So that the impious boasters are only to expect a horrid and desperate end whom if God were not determined most seuerely and incogitably to torture in flaming fire Rendring vengeance vnto them 2. Thess 1.8 When he shall iudge the secrets of men by Iesus Christ Rom. 2.16 He would not now permit to transgresse and prouoke him as they do but for his greater glory in the manifestation of his hyest Iustice doth he suffer them in this life to make full the measure of their impieties that hee may discharge the full vials of his wrath vpon their odious soules at last giuing to euery quantum of scandalous pleasure a tantum of vnsufferable torment Hell hath enlarged it selfe and hath opened its mouth without measure saith the Prophet Isaiah for them that royne house to house and field to field for them that rise vp early to follow drunkennes and for them that continue vntill night till the wine doe inflame them and haue the Harpe and Violl Timbrell Pipe and wine in their feasts but they regard not the worke of the Lord their glory and their multitude and their pompe and he that reioyceth among them shal descend into it Isa 5.14 Saint Iohn presents them as it were standing at Gods Tribunall where what he saw in the Spirit reuealed concerning such he reuealeth thus againe I beheld and loe the Kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chiefe Captaines and the mightie men and euery bond man and euery free man being vngodly and disobedient hid themselues in dens and in the Rockes of the mountaines and said to the Mountaines and Rockes fall on vs and hide vs frō the presence of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who can stand Apec 6.15.16.17 These are our sensuall prosperous and delicious liuers see what they come to They are made to be taken and destroyed and therefore they shal perish through their owne corruption and shall receiue the wages of vnrighteousnesse as they which count it pleasure daily