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A12258	Heptameron, the seven dayes: that is, meditations and prayers, vpon the vvorke of the Lords creation Together with other certaine prayers and meditations, most comfortable for all estates, & c. By M. A. Symson, minister at Dalkeith.	Simson, Archibald, 1564-1628.	1621 (1621)	STC 22566; ESTC S102416	80,114	236

nourish it within thy Sanctuarie that I beeing brought through this shaddowe of the darke worlde by thine externall and internall light may come to that place where there shall bee no night and where there needeth no Candle Rev. 21.23 neither the Sunne nor the Moone to giue light euen where thy glorie shineth and where the Lambe himselfe giueth light To whome with thee O Father and the holie Spirit bee all honour praise power and dominion now and euermore So bee it A MEDITATION VPON THE LORDES second dayes vvorke THE Heauens were created the seconde Daye The worde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the natiue language is taken frō the Waters because the Waters are there and descende from thence The Greeke worde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato takes as it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conspicable because it is objected to the sight of all men The Latine Coelum because it is Coelatum carued with goodlie Ornaments and Firmamentum from the surenesse of it and Expansum because GOD hath spred it foorth as a Curtaine Ps 104.2 The Heauens haue three significations in the Scriptures First it is taken for the Aire wherein the Fowles and Birdes doe flie Mat. 6.26 Heauen hath three significatiōs Secondlie for the Firmament And thirdlie for the Seate of the Angels and blessed Soules Paradise the Bosome of Abraham the third Heauens wherevnto the Apostle Paul was rauished These three were made this day God created a faire Theatre to himselfe this daye wherein there should bee innumerable Quiristers neare vnto his Throne of pure Seraphims and Cherubims euerie one prouoking other to his prayse and saying Holie Revel 4.8 holie holie LORD GOD Almightie c. And againe there are infinite Aëriall Quiristers who fill the ears of men with their pleasant Songs by their example prouoking men to laude their Creatour And there is a Parpane and middle inter-stise which is the sole and grounde of his vpper House and the Roofe of his neather House to couer the Worlde by an admirable manner I marke three thinges in the Creation of the Heauens Thre things obserued First the order which GOD vseth in the making of them for seeing Man was to bee made of an Heauenlie Soule and an Earthlie Bodie and was to dwell in Heauen for euer and on the Earth onlie for a little time hee maketh the Heauen first If Heauen was first made then seeke it first setting it aboue the Earth and making Man to bow vpwardes looke vnto it and not downward towards the Earth as the Beasts doe being the place of his abode perpetuall remaining The consideration wherof should make vs to vse that same order in our actions which God did in his Albeit our bodies be on the Earth let our hart bee in Heauen Let vs put Heauen in our heart before the Earth let vs looke vnto it and haue our conuersation in it albeit our bodies be captiuate in the earth let our hearts be in our owne Countrey where wee shall dwell for euer Next God grounded the Heauens vpon the second day and perfected them vpon the fourth day God worketh by degrees This is his common forme both in his Spirituall works and in his naturall he worketh by degrees he layeth the foundation of his benefit and after he finisheth it Therfore let vs not hasten nor precipitate but attend Gods will who will perfect our earthly and heauenlie comfort in his owne time Last yee see he bindeth vp the Cloudes in the Aire that they cannot drowne the Earth as he wardes the Seas by the sands By weake meanes God preserueth man to teach vs how God by these weake meanes doeth preserue Mankinde Which if he doe to his enemies what should his Elect Children looke for at his hands A PRAYER Vpon the LORDES second Dayes Worke. O Almightie GOD Thou who created the Heauens the second day inspire my soule I beseech three with heauenlie Meditations inlarge mine heart and loose my tongue to thy praise Ouer-shadow mine heart with thy grace as thou couerest the Eearth with the Heauens that I may consider thy power and goodnesse towards me in this thy workmanship Thou needest not the Heauens O Lord for before the Heauens were thou wast the Heauen of Heauens cannot containe thee 1. King 8.27 but thou madest them for me Therefore lift vp my minde by a spirituall meditation that with heart and minde I may seeke for thee in them and loue them for thee who is in them Thou dwellest in a light vnaccessable I cannot enter into thy Throne to see but I prostrate my soule before the gates of thy grace wrapped in the beggersie clouts of my sinne and at thy commandement I knock Long for Heauen where thou mayest see God Cant. 5.12 Cast the crumms of thy mercie to me that I faint not in this wildernesse Looke with the eyes of the Doue out of thine holie Temple Heare the voyce of my prayer and gather my teares into thy Bottle who am in a strange countrey and so long absent from my Lord and Husband who is now dwelling with thee Looke foorth at the grates of thy Fathers window Cantic 2.9 O thou whom my soule loueth and cure the griefe of mine heart by thy gracious countenance Should wee dwell sundrie so fare I here thou in the heauens hasten thy comming in the Cloudes or hasten my departure by death that I may enjoye the sight of him whome my soule loueth O Lord the Heauen is full of thy glorie when thou commest out of thine Yourie Palaces Psal 45.8 and out of the moste holie places and shewest the signes of thy presence amongst thy Sainctes then the foundations of the Heauens shake then the innumerable legions of the Coelestiall Spirites rayse vp their voyces Psal 18.7 sounding thy prayses they fill al thy Temple speak words which cannot bee expressed Thine holie Armie of twentie thousand thousandes of Angels Revel 7.4 9. and of euerie Tribe of Israel twelue thousand and of all the Nations vnder the Heauens innumerable thousandes Their voyces are like the sound of the Thunder Rev. 14.2 or as the noyse of manie Waters O our God howe glorious art thou in thine holie Temple O that Spirituall Musicke and the Harpes of God wherevpon thy Sainctes doe play both daye and night The twentie and foure Elders Rev. 7.14 15. and the rest who made their long Robes white in the bloode of the Lambe thou leadest them to the pure Fountaines of Waters thou hast wyped away all teares from their eyes They sing Prayse Glorie and Wisedome Thankes Honour Power and Might bee vnto our GOD for euermore The foundation of that Citie is of precious Stones The Iasper the Saphyr Rev. 21.19 20.21 27 and the Emarald the Topaz and the Hiacinth The twelue Gates are twelue Pearles The Streete of the Citie is pure Golde as shyning Glasse There is none vncleane thing

the glorie of Salomon What Flowres for the smel Mat. 6.28 what Hearbes with such rare vertues for the preseruation of man yea there is not the basest weed wherein there is not inclosed some speciall vertue for the maintenance of mans nature All thinges on earth created fo● mans vse Psal 105.16 Ibid. 104.15 NOTA. The Cornes are againe brought foorth which are the staffe of bread to strengthen him and the wynes which doe glad mans heart and the Oyle which maketh him to shyne the Figges which are sweet to the taste Then Lord if thy creatures doe yeelde such comforts to me is there not much more consolation in thee Thou hast giuen me a large portion of all these benefits which thou hast withholden from others Giue me thy selfe with them or else take them all from me Three things I doe aske at thy Majestie Three requests 1. first let not these benefits which I receiue daylie become snares to me to draw me from thee Giue me no moe of them than may further me to thy seruice When thou giuest me any new earthlie gift then presentlie with it giue me a newe remembrance of thee that it may bee a Loue-token of my Lord whereby I may bee kindeled to loue thee the more Next I beseech thee that whatsoeuer earthlie gift I get thou wilt put some secret blessing therein that it may bee profitable vnto me Thou giuest thy benefits to manie and blowest vpon them so O Lord likewise blow vpon me with the blast of thine owne Spirit and bid thy creatures increase and multiplie And last of all let mee not bee taken with an excessiue desire of them but that with an open heart and hand I may bee comfortable vnto others O Lord let my Cup ouer-flow and let not my left hand knowe what my right hand doeth psal 23.5 Matt. 6.3 but as thou giuest liberrallie and freelie so with a free heart I may giue to thy Sainctes who are of the Familie of Faith psal 16.3 Let me bee a seruant of them and wash their feete And seeing thou art wise in the dispensation of thy benefits to me sometimes thou wilt haue me to abound sometimes to want in the one to haue a proofe of thy liberality in the other of thy chastisements learne mee in euerie estate to be content Pray for contentmēt and giue mee that heauenlie benefite of contentation the Note and Marke of thy Children And sith I brought nothing into the world Iob 1.21 I will carrie nothing out of it Giue me Meat Rayment with contentment And giue mee thy poore creature the assistance of thy principall Spirit that when I shall depart from these creatures and they from mee euen as thou gauest them vnto mee so I may bee heartilie content that I by the separation from them may perfectlie be vnited vnto thee for thou art my portion my lot and euerlasting inheritance So bee it A MEDITATION Vpon the LORDES fourth Dayes Worke. GOD made the azury Heauens vppon the second Day and now hee carueth them vppon the fourth Day and decoreth them with a multitude of Coelestiall Lights as is wonderfulll to beholde such glorious Tortches so infinit in number and powerfull in operation Notwithstanding Pharoahs daughter brought vp Moses in the Sciences of the Aegyptians and namely in Astronomie as some Writers testifie wherein they with the Caldeans were most curious Yet the Spirit of God by his Penne To auoyde curiositie describeth the Starres simplie without any curiositie Whereby God would teach vs to be wise with sobrietie and search no deeper in these profound actions of God than it doeth please him to reueale vnto vs or that may be to his glorie lest through our deepe searching our wit be dazeled and so befall vs as it did to the Astronomer who in a Winter Night searching the Starres fell into a Well Similitude and died He curiously seeking the knowledge of the Starres forgot the Earth and so lost both Heauen and Earth In the TREATISE of the fourth Day Moses first setteth down the creation of the Sunne Moone and Starres Next the ends for which they were made which were three First for Dominion the Sunne should rule the Day the Moone the Night Secondly for Distinction that they might separate the Day from the Night And thirdlie to be significations for signes and seasons First hee setteth the Sunne in his Tabernacle who commeth foorth daylie like a Bridgroome psal 19.5 or like a valiant man readie to runne a race God hath put into the Sunne such beautie and such wonderful operations which are but sparks of that Majestie and wonderfull operation power which is in himselfe The majestie which is in the creatures is but a sparke of that which is in the Creator Ezech. 8.16 Ier. 7.18 2. King 23 5. The admiration whereof made not only the ignorant Gentiles to adore them as Gods in consecrating the dayes of the weeke to the seauen Planets but also the superstitious Iewes did adore the Sunne and Moone as the King and Queene of Heauen and did maintaine that they did waile against Ieremie Ezechiel I will speake first of the Sunne by Gods helpe without curiositie seeking only out those things of him by which wee may praise God I obserue then in him three things to wit his qualities his courses and his defects His name is Sol quasi solus alone domining ouer the rest to whom he imparteth his light Sol quasi solus And againe by the brightnesse of his appearance he obscureth them all 1. The Sunne giueth light Now I would yee considered that if a created Sunne containeth such measure of light as illuminateth all the world yea the Heauen also who will not thinke but Iesus Christ If one created Sun can giue light to all may not Christ giue light vnto all who is God himselfe Sol justitiae the Sunne of Righteousnesse is able to giue life and light to all the world without the helpe of the light of these halfepennie Candles the merits of men For a thing vnperfect may be made more perfect by addition augmentation as one Candle by another Similitude but a thing perfect is disgraced by addition as if yee would bring a pot of water to the Sea or light a Candle to the Sunne Thinges perfect are disgraced by addition or breath in the Aire So to augment or adde any thing to him is to dishonour him and pulleth his glorie from him as though hee were not sufficient I am the Lord saith he and none besides me And againe if the Starres dare not appeare before the Sunne what madnesse is it to present the filthie and menstruous clouts of mens merits before God Iob 4.18 who did finde follie in his Angels and the Heauen it selfe is not cleane before him 2. The Sunne giueth life The other qualitie of the Sunne is hote by which he reuiueth

O Lord I confesse I haue sinned with the rest of my Sexe and I am now punished with them as thou gauest out sentence against them all But Lord I pray thee for Iesus sake who was the Seede of the Woman that thou wouldest loose the bandes of my sinne Gen. 3.15 Pittie me pittie me now O deare Father for thy Christs sake Woe is me that my pleasure in sinne should haue brought mee to such displeasure But these are the wages of sinne Forgiue me O Lord my sinnes and let the bonds thereof be broken that thou mayest loose me out of the bondes of this disease wherewith I am bound When thou spakest of the greatest paine thou comparedst it to the pangues of a woman who trauelleth with child Isa 13.8 then since my pangues are most vehement most sudden haue come to mee before I was aware O Lord let thy power bee so much the more towards me to deliuer me let my greatest miserie bee the object of thy greatest compassion Therefore nowe O Lord helpe mee for the helpe of man or woman is all in vaine pittie the workmanship which it hath pleased thee to frame in my wombe alace bring it and draw it out of my bellie Thou hast framed my Childe in a secret place thou hast brought it to the point of perfection and there is no strength in me to bring it foorth but O my God euen when I am weakest bee thou strongest yea then let thy power and mercie shewe it selfe to come in a due and acceptable time Glorifie thy selfe O Father in my weaknesse and these persons which are now present with mee let them all bee witnesses of thy mercifull deliuerie and preseruation of mee and my Childe for I will heere lie downe at thy feete and crie out vnto thee Psal 69.3 euen till I be hoarce neither will I cease my groaninges and fearfull shouts vntill it shall please thee to relieue mee O God thou Father of Heauen let not this bee my Benoni Gen. 35.18 that is the child of my trouble but let it bee my Benjamin the childe of my dayes and I will consecrate mine Infant vnto thee and thy seruice in whatsoeuer calling thou pleasest to employ it giue mee it and I will giue it to thee 1. Sam. 1.27 for alace I desire from thee no children to receiue life but such as shall bee partakers of Life eternall Now Lord helpe mee and renewe my strength that when thou hast deliuered me I may rejoyce in the worke of thy mercie and feast not to my fleshlie desires but to the honour of thee my God whose mercie endureth for euer Psa 136.1 Oh Lord my strength is dried vp like a potsheard Psa 22.15 and yet I seeke no meanes for my reliefe but onlie out of thine hand I commit my selfe whollie to thy Majesties good will and pleasure and I will not onelie sacrifice vnto thee the Calues of my lippes Hos 14.2 but also of a most thankfull heart whensoeuer it shall please thee to release mee yea and whatsoeuer I shall receiue of thee that shal I render backe againe vnto thee Euen nowe thou gauest mee some relent and casment of my pangues but now my sorrowes are increased againe Oh for Iesus Christes sake who by his holie Birth hath taken away the sinne of our birth haue mercie vpon mee and purge my birth Giue mee I beseech thee a comfortable deliuerie of my childe that wee both may prayse thee all our life and spend our dayes in thy true feare and seruice through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen A MEDITATION OF PERSECVTION AMongst many Rods whereby GOD correcteth his Childrē there bee chiefelie three to wit the Sword the Famine and the Pestilence which were all giuen to Dauids choyse 2. Sam. 24.14 of the which three hee chose the Pest vvilling rather to come vnder the Lords hands than mans not but that the Sword Famine were also in the hand of God but mediatelie for the Pest is immediatelie the hand of God It seemeth harde that Susanna should choose the handes of man rather than Gods and Dauid rather the hand of God than of men It is to bee vnderstoode that Dauid was meaning of his mercie Re●onciliation betwixt Dauids and Susannaes choyse and Susanna of his justice for the mercie of God is greater than the mercie of men but the feare of Gods justice is more terrible than all feares else whatsoeuer As for persecution it is the note and marke of the Church others may bee persued Persecution a marke of the Church but not persecuted Treason is against Princes and Parricide against Parents but persecution is against Christ and looke how high Treason is aboue slaughter so is persecution aboue Treason because the person of God who is persecuted is the greatest Majestie Next Christ persecuted with vs. it is to bee marked that Christians are persecuted with Christ Saul Saul why persecutest thou me We haue our Head Partaker and Companion with vs in our troubles may wee not then be glad of such a partie and yoke-fellow Thirdly it is common to all Christians who would liue godly in Christ Persecution common to all Christians Ioh. 15.20 Heb. 4.14.15 to suffer persecution then since it is the way of the head who through afflictions entered into Heauen and of all his members let vs not refuse persecution for in so doing wee refuse to bee Christians Then since the way of persecution is the Kinges way by the which hee went into his Kingdome and againe sith it is the way by which all the Sainctes and the Brethren and the First-borne are entered into glory then I say let vs bee bolde to enter in thorowe that way for who would refuse to goe through a Wildernesse vnto a Kingdome and by persecution to enter into Heauen Sinne raiseth vp enemies to vs. Iudg. 2.11 and 3.7.8 and 4.1.2 Fourthlie God rayseth vp enemies against vs because we haue beene enemies vnto him as hee did to the people of Israel euer when they went vnto Idolatrie and 6.1.2 and 13.1 1. King 11.14.23.26 and when as they prouoked him by thinges which were no gods so hee punished them by a People which were not a People and so likewise did the Lord to Salomon when as hee committed Idolatrie God hath our enemies in his hand Simil. Fiftlie albeit our enemies bee as sharpe as Rasours yet they are all in the handes of God who may well cut away our excrementes from vs thorow our foes but they can doe no more For although God giue them leaue and libertie to cut off our flesh yet it is but an excrement of our soule Onlie wicked men are persecuters Gen. 42.21 Exo. 14.27 1. Sam. 31.4 Psal 115.15 It is naturall for wicked men to persecute Rev. 12.1.2.3.4 c. Sixtlie none are chosen of God to persecute the Righteous but euil men whom God either will conuert with