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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01453	The portraitur of the prodigal sonne liuelie set forth in a three-fold discourse.1. Of his progresse. 2 Of his regresse. 3. Of his ioyfull welcome home. Published by Samuell Gardiner Batchler [sic] of Diuinitie.	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1599 (1599)	STC 11579; ESTC S105696	153,821	288

similitude to weaue a web to entangle a flie Or with little children all the day long to spend thy breath in blowing vp of feathers to the ay●e or in running vp and down with a swift pace after toies and vaine pastimes whereby both they get many knocks and falles or at the fairest returne home at night tyred like dogs Betake thee then to such a maister whom thou oughtest most to serue and who wil best reward and requite thy seruice thou oughtest aboue all to serue the Lord to serue him only for so is it written Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God but him only shalt thou serue And he is a most faithfull and liberal rewarder of such as serue him their labours shal not be in vain in the Lord for doubtles he shal withhold nothing that is good from them that liue a godlie life and will be his seruaunts As hee that serues the diuell hath a double hel in this world and the other so they who serue God haue a double heauen a most ioiful and most happy life in this life and the other Wherefore say we with Dauid Whom haue I in earth in comparison of thee There is none that doth so great thinges for vs thou art God alone Thou art our God and we wil praise thee thou art our king and we wil honor thee Therefore if thou beest not a blinde man who cannot iudge of colours if thou wilt not wilfullie stumble with Balaam thou maiest soone perceiue who is thy best maister and make choise of him whether the diuell that loadeth thee with labour starteth thee with hunger and giueth thee no wages or God who easeth thy shoulders of all burdens whose yoake is easie who filleth thee with the plenteousnesse and pleasures of his house and last of all who giueth thee the rewarde of thy fayth the saluation of thy soule vnspeakeable riches which the eye hath not seene the eare hath not hearde neither canne the heart of man conceiue which God hath laide vp in store for his seruantes The fourteenth Chapter An exhortation to auoide sinne and to liue a godlie life the onelie vse and purport of the premisses SIthens the decaie and downefall of this man happened by his sinne as falling immediatelie by his departure from his father into the most miserable slauery of the diuel it behooueth vs that stand to take heed least we fal and in time preuent such occasions of sin if wee would escape the iust punishments of sinne The Lacedemonians the better to mooue their children to auoid drunkennes would present vnto their viewe their drunken seruantes that the sight of their vnseemelie and most beastlie behauiour might breed in them a loathsom detestation of this crime To this ende in this discourse hetherto we haue set before your eies this mans example and haue blown vp his skirts that yee might see his nakednesse that at this strange sight ye might blush within your selues you might couer your faces with the vaile of shame and not commit such filthinesse This man is the perfect patterne of a sinner and therefore if yee lift to shape out a sinner take measure of this manne for hee must haue his proportion And if yee liste to auoyde sinne sette him before your eyes and euerie waie auoide him When Augustus Caesar studied with himselfe to beautifie his Empire and to make Rome renowned and to leaue it built with marble being before but of brick and acquainted one Apollonius Thyaneus the Philosopher with this his princely purpose asked his aduise for the better dispatch of it he replied in this wise If your Grace be so wel minded to effect so good a worke you must take such a course as a skilful expert musitian in times past did take with his son who sent him to schoole to an vnskilfull Musitian charging him whatsoeuer he should see him do to do the contrary and he should do very wel for his fingering his lessons and h●● whole order was nought In the like manner ●eere christian if thou wilt beautifie and a●or●● thy soule the temple of Gods spirit and whereas it is now but rude and vntrim by reason of thy sinne by which it is dawbed vp with distempered morter and by godlinesse and true zeale wouldest make it like the polished corners of the ●emple like the gate of the temple called Beautifull learne of this musitian goe to schoole a while with this prodigal yong man whatsoeuer hitherto thou hast seene him doe do thou the contrarie ●●est thou not howe hee departed from his father howe he wasted out his goods how he serued his enemie doe thou the contrarie ô cleaue vnto thy father vse well his good gifts and finally abandon his enimy and thy enemy the diuell and thou shalt li●e for euer 〈…〉 be ●ppressed To do this the better thou must kill this serpent sin in the shel while it is an egge before it springeth out and become a bird this ill weed must be rooted out at the first when it beginneth to bud first of all to appeare before it sprouteth forth and bee a flower and ouerspreadeth the ground It must bee subdued while we are yong least it get dominion and preuaile so ouer vs as we shal not bee able to ouerrule it in our age This man in his youth and tender age infected with sin was so bowen therwith as if he had not in time bin suppled with the oile of Gods grace he must haue bursten and dyed in his sinne Let our youth youth therefore bee deuoted vnto God and let vs from our childhood as Anna did Samuel be consecrated vnto God To insinuate that our prime age belongeth vnto him he commanded in the olde law the first borne for an oblation and the first fruites for a sacrifice as also to the like intent and meaning hee ordained that the Leuites singled out to his seruice and work of ministration Leuit. 16 should from their childehoode giue vppe themselues vnto this his holie function The rod and the wand howsoeuer crooked while it is tender is easilie made straight A similitude but when it is growne a vaste and drie stocke it cannot bee righted It is meere madnes to shift off duties of deuotions with delaies and to put ouer godlinesse to after times A similitude Is not hee a fonde fellowe that saith I will not breake my horse while hee is a Colte but when he is old and shal sling me into the dike and shal cast me down headlong and shall breake my necke so in like sorte is not he as madde that shall resolue not to subdue and keepe vnder his bodie while it is yong and may soone be tamed but shal let it alone till it hath vanquished the spirit thrown it down into the pit of perdition and hath broken the necke of it with the deadly fall which sinne hath giuen vnto it It is verie good and godly counsaile which the Poet