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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01475	Two treatises the first, entituled, The foode of the faithfull. The second Deaths welcome.	Garey, Samuel, 1582 or 3-1646.	1605 (1605)	STC 11600; ESTC S115877	35,139	126

great is the fairenes and pleasure of Eternall light that if one might not liue there longer then one day for thys onely innumerable yeeres full of the delights of this life and aboundance of temporall goods he might rightly worthily be cōtented For in heauen we shal haue light without end brightnesse without comprehension peace without inuasion In this world our sences are benummed frozen with the extremitie of miseries coldnesse but in heauen there shal such vnexpected blisse shine vppon vs that all the parts of our body and soule shal be miraculously cherished with the lightning of selicitie In this world if the whole worthinesse of all humane creatures vvere comprised in the globe of one mans breast yet were not that one man so happy as the least Saint in Heauen In this world wee are but as it vvere ships without a Pylot tumbling vp and downe in vncertaine waues till we runne vpon the rocks of selfe deuision or bee ouerthrowne by the stormie winde of forraine inuasion In this VVorld we are but as it were tenisbals tossed by the racked of iniurious fortune but in heauen vve need not feare the tempests of aduersitie for there wee shall dwell vvith Saints vnited in perfection there we shall tast the golden fruite of blessed soules there wee shal haue Christ a guide vnto our waies and a Gardian to our persons there Christ shall be light vnto our eyes musick vnto our eares sweetnes to our tast contentment to our soules The state of the Church militant heere in this world is like the Arke floting vpon waters like a lilly growing among thornes like Christs ship in the 8 of Mathew couered vvith waues and yet not drowned But in the second worlde it shall be triumphant where it shal gloriously raigne for euermore Man in this world is but an Anatomy of misery or a spectacle of a dolorous ending tragedie but in the world to come he shall be a paragon of glory and a patterne of endlesse happinesse Therefore sith the reward of our godly endeuours shal be so well recompenced in the future life let vs abandon all vicious pleasures neuer be recalled to the vomit of carnall desires Let vs fight manfully vnder the banner of our grand captaine Christ vntill we vanquish all his enemies the denill his angels and for that good seruice performed in Christes quarrell we shall receiue at his handes a large pay namely an euerlasting life and an immortall crowne of glory Now therefore sith I haue as it were lighted a candle to the glorious sun-shine of this heauenly glorie which cannot any way be better shadowed out with the best pensil then by couering it ouer with the vaile of silence I will speake but verie little more concerning this happines but will onely compare the torments of hell to the ioyes of heauen For as beautie seemes more excellent when it is paralelled with deformitie so wil heauen show more glorious when it is compared to hell For as it is an axiome with the Logicians Of contrarie things the reason is contrarie so in this contrarietie in heauen and in hell hee which doth perceiue the ioyes in heauen may easily coniecture at the torments in hell If the ioyes in heauen cannot bee expressed by the tongues of Angells then the torments of hell cannot be declared by the best Orator For as those two places be distant in qualitie so their ioyes and paines be equall in quantitie If that the ioyes of heauen be infinite the paines of hel must consequently followe to be infinite Now then sith these two opposite places bee distinguished with such a contrarietie the ioyes of the one euery man would gladly enioy the paines of the other euery man would willingly eschewe it followeth that this is the greatest impediment for a man not willingly to welcome death because he is wonderfully afraid least he should bee punnished for his sinnes in these hellish torments these torments doe ingender such a feare in a man that hee horridly quaketh at the mention of death For when a man shall recount with himselfe that he offered the May crop of his life to the deuill that hee sacrificed his blooming yeares to the seruice of the deuill and that now the flowers of his youth are blasted the fruite perrish the body of the Tree groweth to decay then hee shall thinke with himselfe that hee being voyde of the sap of good fruites shall become fuell for hell fire When he shall lie on his departing bed burdened with the heauy loade of his trespasses and vexed with the worme of conscience and feeling the crampe of death wresting his harts strings and ready inpathed in his finally voyage and not farre from the period of his daies Oh how hee shall be distracted in his senses when he should make a free gift of his body and soule to God and by bequeathment to dispach the whole menage of all eternitie and of the treasures of heauen Oh how shall he bee mazed when he shall consider how the morning pleasures of his youth lulled him a sleepe in sinne how the violent heat of the noone of his age did prouoke and excite sinfull affections and therefore in the coole and calme of his euening how can hee hope to retire to a Christian rest and close vp the day of his life with a cleare sunset wanting the light of grace without which euery one shall abide in euerlasting darkenesse These considerations I say will make a man tremble at the mention of death for peccati stipendium mors the reward of sinne is death and these torments in hell fire therefore when hee shall thinke with himselfe that the most vertuous can scarce attaine to heauen in mountenance of yeares whose liues were died in the beautifull graine of vertue how then shall hee wretched sinner hope to obtaine heauen since all his life time hee hath perseuered in sinne that now death hauing taken away abilitie in sinning and left him to the lees of his dying daies how shall he beleiue to be infranchised in that heauenly Citty which is not so penurious of friends that it should bee made salable for the refuse and reuersion of euery sinners life A King which hath liued like an Epicure heere vppon earth and in nothing tooke delight but like a Nero to oppresse the innocent shall not inioy the heauenly happinesse For as Bernard saith It is impossible to ioyne present and future delights And as the same father in another place addeth He that is fed with earthly pleasures is counted vnworthy of eternall ioyes The shining title of worldly glory shall nothing helpe to the happines of that life they be like bladders which are puffed vp with the winde of prosperitie and only doe affect the smoke of vaine glory they doe not obserue the precept giuen by Moses vnto Princes Princes must reade the Lawe all the daies of their liues and as Iosua let not the booke of this Lawe depart out of

bellie Gods whō the trencher doth make friendes to Christ like vnto him which when he sweat ouer his trencher yet cryed out O quanta patimur pro amore Christi Lorde what suffer we for the loue of Christ Iesus therfore reprehendeth these men saying Verily verily I say vnto you yee seeke mee not because yee sawe the miracles but because yee cate the loanes and were filled Yet they obstinatly aunswered him VVhat miracles hast thou done hast thou commaunded the Sun and the Moone to stand still as Iosua did hast thou reuiued the widdowes son as Elias did hast thou made yron to swim as Eliza did hast thou reuiued the dead bones as Ezechiell did hast thou been in the VVhales belly with Ionas or parted the redde sea with Moses Our Fathers did eate Manna in the VVildernesse Moses gaue them bread from heauen to eate but marke I pray you how Iesus did aunswere them Nay saith hee Moses gaue you not bread from Heauen but my Father gyueth you the true Breade from Heauen For the breade of GOD is hee vvhich commeth downe from Heauen and giueth life vnto the world Then sayde they vnto him Lorde euermore giue vs this Breade And Iesus sayde I am the Breade of life hee that commeth to me shall not hunger he that belieueth in me shall neuer thirst And thus much for the cohaerence and occasion of our Sauiour Christs wordes now particularly as they lie in order first who is this Breade VVhich is Christ persona loquens signified in this word I. Secondly what is this breade It is the breade of life Thirdly the powerfull efficacie and effect of this bread declared in these wordes Hee that commeth to mee shall not hunger and hee that belieueth in mee shall neuer thirst And first vvho is this Breade which is Christ I am the liuing Breade vvhich came downe from heauen saith Christ Ego sum panis vitae et fons aquae viuae I am the bread of life and sountaine of liuing water Omnia nobis est Christus sayth Ambrose si esuris ipse est panis si sitis ipse est fons aquae viua si carus es ipse est lumen si infirmus es ipse medicus si mortuus ipse vita gratiae et gloriae Christ is all things to vs if thou beest hungry he is bread if thou beest thirsty he is the fountaine of liuing water if thou beest blind he is the light hee is the health of a feauered soule light of thy life life of thy desire heauen of the minde guide to thy wandring feete succorer in necessity helper in aduersitie yea hee is all things to thee I am the liuing bread sayth Christ The bread which I giue is my flesh and the drinke which I giue is my blood my flesh is meate indeede and my blood is drinke indeede Hee that cateth my flesh drinketh my blood hath eternall life and I will raise him vp at the latter day O blessed meate O celestiall food O heauenly Manna it farre excelleth the Poets Ambrosia would to God that all of vs daily might eate of this Manna would to God that all of vs which trauell in the Wildernesse of this world might lodge at such an Inne where God the father is the host the holy Ghost the hostesse the Church the Inne the crosse the signe and Christ the meate and drinke Aristotell must dine when it pleaseth Phillip but heere thou maist haue store of spirituall foode for the repast of thy soule and take it when it please thy selfe Say but thy grace before this blessed banquet and then sit downe and satisfie thy hunger The more thou eatest the more it encreaseth like to Iupiters nectar the more it is drunke of the more it ouerfloweth Neither needst thou vse the counsaile of Lysander which hee perscribed to his Daughters to drinke with a drop of wine a spunful of water Thou maist drinke as much of this pretious wine as thou wilt neither canst thou infuse any mixture of water but of the water of eternall life This meate is of the like quality with the stone of Thracia which whosoeuer findeth is neuer after troubled so whosoeuer eateth of this meate is neuer after grieued labour therefore to get this meate which endureth to euerlasting life No water was so good as that which came out of the Rocke no meate so delicate as Manna which came from heauen no wine so wholesome as that which Christ made of water at the marriage of Cana no oyle so pretious as that which the Samaritan had no robe so costly as that which the father gaue to the prodigall son no bread no foode no meate so profitable as this meate of the soule which endureth to euerlasting life This meate is water to refresh vs and wine to cheare vs this is bread to strengthen vs and Manna to nourish vs it is a treasure to inrich vs and a pearle to adorne vs it is a fire to purge vs and salt to pouder vs it is a trumpet to call vs and wisedome to instruct vs it is a way to direct vs and life to reuine vs it is a Lanterne to guide vs and a buckler to shield vs it is phisicke to recure vs and a salue to heale vs if wee haue this meate this Manna this bread we shall haue no neede of Elizens to increase our oyle no neede to begge at the gluttons gate or to send vnto Naball the churle for foode if wee haue this treasure wee shall not neede to rob the Egiptians if we haue this pearle we shall not neede the golde of Ophire if we haue this water wee neede not drawe water at Iacobs well Naaman needes not wash his feete seauen times in Iordan the sicke needes not to goe to the poole of Bethesda for this pretious meate and inestimable Manna will purge vs from all leprosie of sinne So that we shall loath to drinke of the slumbering cup of the deuills sorceries to bewitch vs to sinne this bread is Homers Moly and Plinies Centauria against all lustfull inchauntments for this bread this spirituall foode will so clense our mindes and purifie our harts that we will alwaies detest the eye-pleasing baits of carnall desires and wholly delight our selues with this inestimable treasure carnall voluptuousnes is transitorie and fading the minuts that lackey at the heeles of time runne not faster away then doe those pleasures but this spirituall foode this breade of life is not like palate-pleasing dainties whose sugered sweetenesse once rellisht is presently gone but it yieldeth the hungry soule an euerlasting fruition of most rauishing pleasantnesse labour therfore for this bread which bringeth to euerlasting life The Bees doe labour to get a little hony Mella stipant et dulci distendunt nectare cellas But this bread is sweeter then honie or the hony-combe Our forefathers did eate of the Acorns of the Oakes and thought them pleasant meate And we which by Ceres huswifrie haue learned to bury the