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A14860	A posie of spirituall flowers taken out of the garden of the holy scriptures, consisting of these sixe sorts: hearts ease, true delight, the worlds wonders, the souls solace, times complaint, the doom of sinners. Gathered for the encouragement of beginners, direction of proceeders, meditation of good hearers, consolation of true beleeuers, expectation of Sions mourners, confusion of irrepentant sinners. By George Webbe, minister of the word.	Webbe, George, 1581-1642.	1610 (1610)	STC 25164; ESTC S102126	70,373	214

and fixe mine eyes on those superiour Orbes me thinketh these very heauens abundantly declare the glorie of God Psal 8.3 Psal 19.1 and the firmament sheweth his handy work whose huge proportion when I behold like molten glasse Iob 37.18 and meditate vpon the varietie of influences in the same managed by so admirable a consort of diuers motions which thwart and yet disturbe not one another then saith my soule within it selfe O Lord my God Psal 104.1.2 thou art exceeding great thou art clothed with glorie and honor Psal 104.1.2 which couerest thy selfe with light as with a garment and spreadest out the heauens like a curtaine O how beautifull Caelum beatorū how glorious how admirable must the heauen of heauens be seeing there is so glorious a lustre in this lower heauen that is so obuious to our eyes Here he The Sunne 1. Iohn 1. Gen. 1.16 who is all light himself hath placed his two glorious lights the greater for to rule the day and the lesser to be a nightly Torch Here hath he set a Tabernacle for the Sun which commeth foorth as a bridegroome out of his chamber Psal 19.4.5.6 and reioyceth like a giant to runne his race His going out is from the end of the heauen and his compasse is to the end of the same nothing is bid from the heat thereof It riseth and goeth down Eccles 1.5 and draweth to his rising place againe who can expresse the greatnes of this Planet Plato in Epinar Cicero 2. de natura Deorum whose raies do illighten the whole globe of the earth and therefore though it seem but smal vnto our eyes yet reason demōstrateth that it must needs surmount in greatnes al the earth Plin. lib. 2. c. 11. Who can describe his circular motiō in his neuer wearied race Basil homil 6. in Hexam who can track his yeerely beaten path thorow the Zodiack or the milke-white way what Eagle-sighted eye dareth to confront his beames and is not dazeled at his lustre what tongue is able to describe his influence or paint foorth his wonderfull effects Come we from this Landlord of light the Sunne vnto his Freeholder The Moone Heauens lesser light the Moone Gen. 1.16 and who would thinke so full a bodie to our eyes should be so many degrees inferiour to the Sunne in greatnes Plin. lib. 2. c. 11. were it not for her neernes who can record the influences of this palefaced president of the night or sufficiently admire her wainings and encreasings her often changes and eclipses who can but wonder at her more then strange effects in the sad and silent time of night Psal 104.20.21 when the beasts of the forrest come abroad and the hungrie lions rore after their pray The more I fixe mine eyes vpon the firmament the more mine eyes are dazeled with the great varietie of wonders in the same The Starres when I behold the glorious glittering canopie of Heauen so decked with stars Gen. 1.17 as with siluer spangles or pretious stones Lord thinke I then how great a God art thou which countest the number of these starres Psal 147.4 and callest them all by their names For what man is able to discourse of their number partition order or situation Can we restraine the sweet influences of the Pleiades Iob 38.31 32 33 34. or loose the bands of Orion Can we bring foorth Mazaroth in their times or guide Arcturus with his sonnes No no it is the Almightie alone that knoweth the course of heauen and hee that in his right hand holdeth the seuen starres Reuel 1.16 that can sufficiently declare the wonders of the stars He it is that sheweth his wonders in the Heauen Meteors fierie Inel 2.30 The Bolides Comets Blasing Starres blood fire and pillers of smoake heart-dreading Comets and doome presaging blazing starres are flagges of his imperiall standerd and who can but admire his diuers coloured Bow the ensigne of his couenant The Rainbow Gen. 9.16 Behold our God is excellent and ful of power neither can his wonders be sufficientlie admired at The earth trembleth and quaketh when hee is angrie The Lightning the foundations also of the mountaines shake at his displeasure a smoake goeth out at his nostrils Psal 18.7.8.9.14 and a consuming fire out of his mouth coales are kindled thereat He sendeth foorth his arrowes and scattereth thē his fierce lightnings flash from the one end of the heauen to the other The Thunder Iob 37.3.4 After that a noise soundeth hee thundreth with the voyce of his Maiestie and his Demicanons rore so terribly through the clouds that the vndantedst Caligula cannot chuse but quake and tremble at the noise thereof Sueton. in vita Caligula Loe these are a part of the waies of God Iob 26.14 Meteors atrie but how little a portiō haue we heard of him and who can record the one halfe of his workes of wonder The windes Psal 104. Eccles 1.6 It is our God that bringeth the windes out of his treasurie and walketh vpon the wings thereof euen the winde which goeth towards the South and compasseth towards the North and whirleth round about The whirle winds and dreadfull blasts are the wings vpon which hee doth flie The whirlewind Psal 18.20 The Earthquakes Ariff metcor lib. 2. Psal 18.17 19.6 with the drie and cold vapors whereof passing thorow the cranies of the earth he maketh the earth to tremble and the foundations of the mountaines to shake he maketh the wildernesse to tremble and the Cedars of Lebanon to be rooted vp Hearken vnto this Meteors watrie The clouds Iob 37.37.25 O man and consider the wondrous works of God Who can number the clouds by wisedome Iob 26.8 who can sufficiently admire these bottels of heauen how the waters are bound vp in them and the cloud not broken vnder them The Dew how they are stuffed with watry vapors lift vp into the ayre Iob 38.28 and how the spouts thereof are diuided to powre down raine vpon the earth how wonderfull is the generation of the drops of dew The Mists Psal 77. which ariseth out of the earth like a sweat or of the dew-dropping Mists which like an hoarie mantell ouershadeth the earth What a wonderfull thing it is to consider the opening of the windowes of heauen The Raine Gen. 7.11 Iob 28.26 Psal 104.13 and the distilling of the raine frō aboue whereby the earth is watred and the thirstie lands do quench their thirst The Snow How admirable is the snow which the Almightie scattereth abroad like wooll Psal 147.13 and which like a sheete is spread vpon the earth Eccles 47.18 The eye maruelleth at the whitenes of it it dazeleth the eye with the glistering shining of it Et quae me genuit mater mox gignitur ex me the senses stand astonished to see it beget againe

clothed with our house from heauen There we haue in store laid vp for vs an inheritance immortall and vndefiled that fadeth not away 1. Pet. 1.4 and 18.19 but is reserued in heauen for vs bought and purchased not with gold and siluer but with a farre more excellent price euen with the pretious blood of Christ Iesus Had I the tongue of men and Angels yet were I not able to expresse the least glimmering light or taste of this reserued sweetnes Paul himselfe rapt vp into the third heauen 2. Cor. 5. and hauing heard things that were not to bee vttered and seene sights not to bee specified passeth them ouer with this preterition The sweetnesse reserued for Gods children in heauen is such 1. Cor. 2.9 as no eye hath seene nor eare hath heard neither is the hart of man able to conceiue O happie and thrice happie they that shall one day feele and see and taste the same Mine heart reioyceth my soule leapeth my tongue and penne exult to think vpon the sweetnesse of it and to thinke vpon mine owne happinesse who am right well assured that one day I shall enioy the same O when shall I come to appeare before the Lord in heauen My soule longeth Psal 84.2 yea and fainteth for these courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh reioyceth in the liuing Lord for I am sure that my redeemer liueth and though after my skinne wormes destroy this carcase of mine yet shall I see God in my flesh Iob 19.25.26.27 whom I my self shall see and mine eyes shall behold and none other for me though my reines be consumed within mee O happie time it ioyes my very hart to thinke of it before it comes where this poore soule of mine bidding a farewell to my bodie for a while shall be carried with no meaner attendants on it then a guard of angels into Abrahams bosome there to take possession of a kingdome vpon the receit whereof it shall enter the fee simple of life which it shall neuer lose O what a glorious welcom and meeting shall it haue with al the companie of celestiall euer blessed spirits with Angels and Archangels Cherubims and Seraphims principalities powers thrones and dominations with Abraham Isaac Iacob and all the holy Patriarks with Isay Ieremie Hosea and all the famous Prophets with Peter Iames Iohn and all the rest of Christs Apostles yea with the whole companie of Martyrs Innocents Confessors and Saints of God with them together to enioy the highest degree of the communiō of Saints for euermore Why my soule there is wonderfull sweetnesse laid vp in heauen for thee the time is comming when thou shalt enter into thy glorie where is a citie and the gates of it are pearle and the streetes of it gold and the walles of it pretious stones and the Temple in it the Almighty God and the light of it the Lambe and the vessels to it the Kings of the earth where is a riuer the spring of it is the throne of God and the water of it Crystall and the bankes of it set about with the trees of life where there is a banquet and the cheere is ioy the exercise singing the dittie Halleluiahs Vers 4. the Quire Angels where all teares shall be wiped away from thine eyes and there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying nor paine where there is infinite ioy and mirth without sadnes health without sicknes light without darknes felicitic without abatement all goodnesse without any euill where youth florisheth that neuer waxeth old life lasteth that neuer endeth beautie that neuer fadeth loue that neuer cooleth health that neuer diminisheth ioy that neuer ceaseth where sorrow is neuer felt complaint is neuer heard matter of sadnes is neuer seene where in the same instant I shall be rauished with seeing satisfied with enioying secured for retaining O sweetest happinesse how doe I long for to be filled with thee how doe I hunger and thirst after thee But euen heere alreadie I haue more then either I could desire or deserue I will not leaue my solace in this world for the worldlings heauen a dramme of Christian comfort is better then a pound of earthly ioy I had rather enioy a taste of this then to liue at rack manger in any other happinesse FINIS True delight Or THE WORLDS Farewell and Christs Welcome TO THE WORSHIPFVL Mr. GEORGE BAINARD and Mistris BAINARD his Wife HAuing begunne to make these my priuate Meditations publique and sending them vnder the protection of many their best well-willers to see the world I should much forget my selfe Worshipfull and most especiall benefactors if I should forget your names in these my multiplied dedicatiōs There is no man liuing who may claime that interest in mee or challenge my very best endeuours in that measure as your selues who may iustly say to me as Paul did to Philemon Philem. 19. Thou owest vnto vs euen thine owne selfe For besides that your house hath been to me as the house of Onesiphorus was to Paul 2. Tim. 1.16 euen this also that I my selfe haue an house to dwell in and a pastoral charge to labour in I may impute it vnto your selues as principall meanes raised vp by God to procure it for me Iob 31.20 The loines of me and mine may blesse you because by your meanes wee are cloathed with a fleece I haue nothing to returne vnto you for your so great paines but these few homelie papers the poore present of an euer remaining debtor I would they were as worthie of any respect with you as in many respects they doe belong vnto you My soule perswadeth it selfe that you both are of the number of those Reuel 6.4 who haue receiued the seale of the lion of Iudah Galat. 6.16 that long since the world hath bin crucified vnto you and you vnto the world that you haue proposed Christ Iesus to your selues the onely gaine Philip 1.21 I therefore send not vnto you this farewell which I haue sung vnto the world to perswade you but rather to encourage you Phil. 1.6 He that hath begun a good worke in you will performe it and encrease it more and more Vers 9. And this I pray that your loue may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all iudgement Vers 10. that yee may discerne things that differ and may be pure and without offence vntil the day of Christ Amen Yours in the Lord Iesus G. W. True delight PHILIP 3.8 Yea doubtlesse I thinke al things but losse for the excellent knowledge sake of Christ Iesus my Lord for whom I haue counted all things losse and doe iudge them to bee dung that I might win Christ IN these desperate diseased times wherein men are so vniuersallie drunken with their owne conceits to see how fondly conceited the selfe pleasing humors of Adams children are I know not whether with Democritus I might laugh

1. Sam. 1.8 mine Elkanah is better vnto me then many sonnes Farewel affected knowledge and learnings lore 1. Cor. 2.2 for I esteeme not to know any thing saue Iesus Christ and him crucified Farewell humanists and artists studies my studie shall be in the Librarie of the holie Ghost Psal 1.1 and therein will I meditate day and night Fare well Philosophie and diuing into Naturall causes I will erect my thoughts vnto him that is the primum mobile Gen. 1.1 the cause of causes Farewell the knowledge of the Law and quirkes of earthly statutes the gleaning of Theologie is better then the whole vintage of Iustinians facultie Farewell Physicke the lengthner of mens liues Luke 5.31 Iohn 15.5 my Physitian is the same that is my life Farewell Geometrie and measuring of the earth Philip. 3.20 I will now measure the celestiall Globe of heauen in my thoughts Farewell Astronomie acquaintance with the Starres soare vp I will aboue the starrie skie Reuel 1.16 to know him that in his right hand holdeth the seuen starres Farewell Arithmetique the Art of Numbring Lord teach me to number my daies Psal 90.12 that I may applie mine heart to wisedome Musicke farewell my musicke shall be hencefoorth Halleluiahs to the King of Heauen Reuel 19.4 Farewell this world for a moment and welcome Christ Iesus for euer THE WORLDS Wonder TO THE RIGHT VERTVOVS AND Worshipfull Ladie the Ladie Mary Ley. MAdame Master Richard Greenham Master Ioseph Hall they which haue proceeded Graduats in the Art of Meditation doe commend the infinite obiects in the Theater of the world as the most fit subiect of Meditation Reason sheweth this their position to be most true for where may wee haue either more varietie of matter for our minds to worke vpon or more readie meanes to set the same on worke then in the great varietie of the worlds wonders which are continually obuious to our eyes The whole world is a table wherein is portraited foorth vnto vs infinit wonders in the seuerall natures of all the creatures not for vs to view alone but with a fruitfull vse to meditate vpon All the creatures are made for Man and shall not we be led by the prospect of them to wonder at the mercifull respect God hath to so poore a creature as Man There is none of all the creatures but readeth vs a lecture in this common schoole and shall we be such idle truants as to learne nothing of so many masters The workes of the Lord are great Psal 111.2 and ought to bee sought out of them that loue him Vers 4. He hath made his wonderfull workes to be had in remembrance O that wee vsing the creatures so continually as we do would make better vse of them then vsuallie we doe I haue here set downe a little paterne of meditation in this kinde had some skilfull Apelles hand been in it to draw and polish the lines of it it might peraduenture bin worth the perasall Now in this colour as it is though I my selfe be silent in crauing pardon for it or excusing it yet you might iustly say vnto me as Apelles said to an vnskilfull Painter Though thou hadst said nothing yet may I easily gesse by the workmanshippe that it was done in haste As it is Madam I make bold to consecrate this little Treatise to your name the rather for that besides all other respects of duty which doe oblige me vnto your Ladiship you vouchsafed such kinde acceptance vnto the first fruits of my labors in this kinde which vnder your name was sent to see the world In hope of the like acceptation of these my poore endeuours and fauourable pardon of my boldnesse I commend this meditation following to your better meditations and your selfe with all your holy meditations to the Almighties good blessing Your Ladiships in all Christian duties G. W. THE WORLDS Wonders PSAL. 8.9 O Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the world PAul the Apostle of the Gentiles disputing with the Athenians the most wise learned amongst the Gentiles Act 17.22.23.24.27 when hee saw their blind deuotions in ignorantly giuing worship vnto God vnknowne as by the inscriptiō on one of their Altars he did perceiue wondred much at this their ignorance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that this great God should be to thē vnknowne seeing that by groping after him they could not chuse but finde him in the very workes of wonder which hee had done For albeit the heauen is his throne Isai 66.1 1. King 6.1 and the earth his footstoole neither dwelleth hee in Temples made with hands Act. 7.48 Deut. 4.15 16. and no man hath seene any similitude or likenes of him at any time Act. 14.17 yet hath hee not left himselfe without sufficient witnes not onely in his word but also in his works yea The inuisible things of him that is Rom. 1.20 his eternall power and Godhead are seene by the creation of the world being cōsidered in his works that men might be without excuse Which when I think vpon I cannot chuse but wonder at the Buzzardlike Atheists soule-blinded monsters of our age Against Atheists who in their hearts do say Psal 14.1 There is no God and whose vnderstanding is so darke and dimme that they cannot discerne themselues nor see a God that is the fountaine of all Natures in so cleere a glasse as the mirrour of his creatures They see an Heauen abundant in varietie of influences ouer them an Earth so plentifull in al sorts of commodities vnder them a Sea so full of wonders by thē they see a world which is a building infinitly admirable for the firmenes capacitie vse order and motion of it and in themselues may see themselues a little world or abridgement of the greater world and yet cannot surmise a God that was the compactor of this Heauen and the endower of this Earth and the controller of the Sea the worlds both the greater and the lessers Creator Isay 1.2 O ye heauens be astonied at this you bruit and senselesse creatures conuince these reasonable creatures vnreasonable and void of sense Isay 6.9 Rom. 11.8 They are possessed with the spirit of slumber and wilfully they winke with their eyes like the Idols of the Heathen Psal 133.15.16.17 Eyes haue they but see not eares but heare not hearts but cannot vnderstand As for my part I can no where fixe mine eyes but that I doe behold a liuely Idoea of the incomprehensible Deitie the whole world being a booke or large volume Du Bartus in oper sex dierum and euery kinde of the so many kinds of creatures being a leafe or page wherein in grand characters and great capitall letters are engrauen the wonders of our God most wonderful so that he which runneth by cannot chuse but reade it For first The Heauens wonders when I look vp to the heauens

swords to apprehend him like a theefe Iohn 18.12 when hee that made vs free was bound and haled and dragd and brought as a sheep to the slaughter Isai 53.7 as a lambe dumbe before his shearer so hee opened not his mouth Bitter be the remēbrance of that gloomie night Iob 39. and let the starres of the twilight be dimme through the darknes of it when he that gaue others often sight Mark 8.22 Mark 10.46 Isai 9.1 and came to lighten those that sate in darknesse himselfe was blindfolded to bee made a scorne of he that neuer offered wrong Matth. 4.15 and when himself was wronged opened not his mouth Luke 22.64 was buffeted and smitten on the cheeke that face Isai 53.7 that glorious face of his which on mount Thabor shined as the Sunne was made a loathsome Iewish spitting place Matth. 17.2 Mark 14.65 Psal 45.6 1. Cor. 4.9 Iob 3.6 and himselfe the head of men and angels made a gazing stock to men and angels Let that day be darknes and not bee ioyned to the daies of the yeere nor come into the accounts of the moneths wherein with sighes and sobs I call not to minde that dolefull day when hee which one day shall come in the clouds with glorie and great maiestie Matth. 24.30 was brought before the tribunall of an earth pettie Iudge Matth. 27.1 and stood at the barre with all disgrace and infamie Isai 53.7 when hee the innocent Lambe was arraigned though found not guiltie was condemned wrongfully Matth. 27.22 hee the prince of glory was placed as a grieuous malefactor between two thieues Ioh. 19.18 his sacred hands and feete being nailed to the crosse Iohn 19.2 his head scratched rent and torne with a thornie crowne and his sacred sides pierced thorow with a gastly souldiers speare Iohn 19.34 with which there gushed foorth both blood and water Behold see if there were any sorrow like vnto this sorrow which is done heere vnto my Sauiour Lament 1.12 wherewith the Lord afflicted him in the day of his fierce wrath witnes the griestly gastly grone giuen by himselfe whiles hee was hanging on the crosse when that hee bellowed foorth his Eli Eli Matth. 27.46 lamasabachthani My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Witnes the whole face of Nature chaunged at his suffering Vers 51. The Sunne being clothed in blacke Vers 52. the pillers of the earth rocking Vers 53. the vaile of the temple renting the rocks shieuering and the very graues themselues opening their more then brasen gates But why was al this To saue and what was the end of Christ his comming into the world and his suffering of so many things heere in the world Surely he came for vs not for himselfe he came to saue Therefore did the Lord anoint him therefore did hee send him that he might preach good tidings to the poore Isai 61.1 and binde vp the broken hearted and preach libertie to the captiues and to them that are bound the opening of the prison To preach the acceptable yeere of the Lord Vers 2. to comfort them that mourne to giue beautie for ashes the oile of ioy for mourning the garment of gladnes for the spirit of heauinesse that they might bee called trees of righteousnesse Vers 8. the planting of the Lord that hee might be glorified This was the good shepheard that came to seek vs lost and wandring sheepe Iohn 10. this is that mighty champion which came to deliuer vs from the iawes of the lion and the wolfe 1. Sam. 17.34 Numb 21.9 this is that brazen Serpent which cureth vs stung to the heart by that old fierie Serpent Satan Iohn 3.14 this is that good Chirurgion whose comming was to heale our sores Luke 10.33 The good Physitian who came to saue vs from death Matth. 9.12 Iohn 10.10 He came to saue so saith he himselfe I am come that they might haue life and haue it in abundance So saith the Angell of him which brought newes of his comming into the world Vnto you this day is borne a Sauiour Luke 2.11 which is Christ the Lord. O sweete Iesu Cantic 1.2 thy very name is as an ointment powred out to make the virgins loue thee Well maist thou be called Iesus for there is no other name vnder heauen whereby we may be saued Matth. 2.27 but by thine whose name agreeth with thy nature to saue the people from their sinnes The very sauour of which so flagrant ointment of his pretious name Sinners Cantic 1.2.3 as it well may draw the loue of all good hearts vnto him and make them runne after him so when I further consider with my selfe our qualitie and condition what we were when first he cast his loue vpon vs me thinkes it carrieth mee beyond admiration that so great a Sauiour should so much as respect such vile and miserable wretches for this so sweete a Sauiour came not to call the righteous Matth. 9.13 but sinners to repentance Were we righteous No there was none righteous Psal 14.2.3 no not one we were all gone out of the way there is was none of vs all that did deserue his fauour no not one Were wee his friends that hee did impart such kindnes vnto vs Nay wee were his deadly enemies we were sinners Rom. 5.8.9 Doubtlesse one would scarse die for a righteous man but God setteth out his loue towards vs seeing that whiles we were yet sinners Christ died for vs. The partie offended came to helpe the offenders the iust to die for the vniust the innocent for the guiltie the king of peace for his enemies Christ Iesus to saue sinners We were dead in sinnes and trespasses wherein wee walked according to the course of the world and after the prince that ruleth in the aire Ephes 2.2.3.4 but he rich in mercie through his great loue wherewith he loued vs was content to die for vs to quicken vs. We were alients from the common wealth of Israel strangers from the couenant Ephes 2.12.14.19 without hope without God in the world He is become our peace who by breaking downe the stop of the partition wall had made vs of strangers and forrenners citizens with the Saints and of the household of God Our habitation our kindred was of the land of Canaan Ezech. 16. Vers 3. our father was an Amorite and our mother an Hittite in our natiuitie when we were borne Vers 4. our nauell was not cut wee were not washed in water to soften vs Vers 5. nor salted with salt nor swadled in clouts Vers 6. None eye pitied vs to doe any of these things vnto vs or to haue compassion on vs then did he passe by vs saw vs polluted in our own blood he said vnto vs euen then when wee were in our blood Thou shalt liue

damned of his owne selfe and being senselesse of his sinne is giuen ouer to a reprobate sense Rom. 1.24 and being past feeling Ephes 4.19 giue themselues ouer to worke all vncleannes euen with greedinesse being alreadie within the iawes of hell before they bee awares And well I wote that when such sleepie soules shall awake and wake they shal securely now although they sleepe that then their horror shall be the greater farre like wilde beasts which though so long as they lie asleepe seeme tame and gentle yet being roused vp are fierce and wrathfull In the meane Sinners Gods enemies albeit in outward shew they may seeme ioyfull yet let them know their case is fearfull for if the wrath of an earthlie King bee raging how dreadful then must needs be their estate who are professed enemies to the King of Heauen Isai 26.11 Surely he hateth all those that worke iniquity Psal 5.6 and both the wicked man and his wickednes are in hatred with him Psal 14. Prou. 15.9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord Isai 1. Psal 50. Hee cannot abide nor permit the sinner to praise him to pray vnto him or to take his couenant in his mouth no maruell then if at the last day hee shew such rigor vnto them who in this life are so extreamly hated and detested of him Gods threatnings against sinners What peace then can they haue that haue the Lord of hosts to be their enemie Psal 10. God shall raine snares of fire vpon sinners brimstone with tempestuous windes shall be the portion of their cuppe the Lord shall breake their teeth in their mouthes Psal 57.6.9.10 and shoote foorth his arrowes and destroy them Hee shall carrie them away as a whirle winde in his wrath and wash his feete in the blood of the vngodlie He will powre out his wrath vpon them and fulfill all his anger in them Ezech. 7.8.9.10 Hee will iudge them according to their waies and lay vpon them all their abominations neither shall his eye spare them neither will he haue pitie on them and they shall know that hee is the Lord that smiteth them Cursed be they in the towne and cursed in the field cursed in the fruite of their bodie Deut. 28.16.17.18 and cursed in the fruite of their land the increase of their kine and in the flocks of their sheepe cursed when they come in and cursed when they goe out cursed in their bodies and cursed in their soules Now then let them boast while they will of their prosperitie The beginning of hell here in this life to the wicked and let such as are like vnto them flatter them in their follie though they seeme with Capernaum to be lifted vp to heauen Matth. 11.23 yet behold alreadie they are in the confines of hell though they haue a name of mightinesse yet indeed they are in the lowest estate of abiectnes Though they may seeme the only men that liue yet they are but dead whiles heere they liue 1. Tim. 5.6 Though worldlings do admire them Rom. 6.16 yet are they but the Lords laughing stockes Sinnes slaues and Satans drudges Poore woodcocks are they ensnared in Satans springs 2. Tim. 2.26 Rom. 9.22 vessels of wrath ordained for the Diuels blacke kitchin alreadie treading the waies of darknesse Prou. 4.19 Exod. 3. the prince of darknesse taske mē in the works of wickednesse yea they dwell alreadie in the land of darknesse and in the shadow of death Psal 107.10 being fast bound in miserie and iron Psal 37.8 when Gods children are satisfied with the dainties of his house Luke 15.16 they feed on husks of sinne and draffe of beastly life when the soules of the Saints are temples of the holy Ghost 1. Cor. 6.15 Reuel 18.2 their soules be nests of Scorpions dungeons of Diuels Reuel 21.27 when Gods children haue their names registred in the booke of life their names are engrossed in the book of perdition being alreadie in the power of the Diuell and his angels 1. Tim. 5.6 subiect to sinne and all temptations dead in trespasses and sins whiles in their bodies they bee aliue and when they die hauing this death the earnest penie of the second death For certainly The dolefull estate of the wicked in the day of death The reioycing of the wicked is but short and the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen his head reach vnto the clouds Iob 20.5.6.7.8.9 yet shall hee perish for euer like his dung and they which haue seene him shall say Where is he He shall flee away as a dreame and shall passe away as a vision in the night Goe he shall there is no remedie Iob 10.22 into the land of darknesse and shadow of death into a land I say darke as darknesse it self and into the shadow of death where is none order but the light is there as darknesse Heb. 9. Eccles 3.19 And albeit this is the condition of the iust as well as the vniust and as the one dieth so must the other die and returne vnto the dust yet good Lord how great a difference is there betweene the righteous and the wicked at the day of death Mark the vpright man Psal 37.37 and behold the iust for the end of that mā is peace when ghastly death approcheth with her inexorable destinie then doe they lift vp their heads Luke 21.28 for that their redemptin̄ draweth nigh from the labours and toyles of this world Psal 40.1.3 Blessed then are they that feare the Lord the Lord wil strengthen them vpon their bed of sorrow and make their bed in their sicknes So that with holie Hilarion they then begin to cheere vp their soule Hieron in vita Hilarion Exito anima mea exito c. Goe out my soule goe out thou needest not feare thus long thou hast serued Christ why shoul dest thou now bee afraid to goe to him But for the wicked and vngodly man as there is no peace to him during the whole course of his life so shall hee finde least peace at the houre of death O Death how bitter is the remembrance Eccles 41. of thee to a man that liueth at rest in his possessions how irksome shall it bee to an vnrepentant sinner when hee shall see Death it selfe standing before his face to arrest him and approching vnto him with this incultable doome Thou soule Luke 12.19 this night I must take away thy soule from thee and then whose shall these thy pleasures and thy profits be A wofull anguish must thē needs possesse his heart when hee must part from all his earthly ioyes pleasures commodities which he hath trauelled for with the hazard of his soule and finde no profit in them but that hee hath trauelled for the winde Eccles 5.15

vpon the horror presentlie rushing vpon these dammed wretches what howling crying wailing and yelling by them will bee made Reuel 16.9.11 when the infernall officers and fiends of hell with bitter skofes and taunts will hale and dragge them vnto torments Reuel 16.9.11 then shall they curse the day of their natiuitie Iob 3.9.10 and wish that they neuer had been borne and that they had perished as an vntimelie birth They shall bee readie to rend and teare their soules for that they so neglected the time of grace offered vnto them There shall bee weeping and gnashing of teeth with them Luke 13.28 when they shall see Abraham and Isaac and Iacob and all the Saints in the kingdome and themselues thrust out of doores Psal 112.10 The vngodly shall see the happinesse which they haue lost and it shall grieue him Hee shall gnash with his teeth and consume away and his hope shall perish For though like Diues they would giue a thousand thousand worlds for a droppe of cold water to coole their tongue Luke 16.25 they may not haue it No no but whurled shall they be to hell Isai 66.24 to bee companions with Diuels and damned spirits in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone Mark 9.44 where the worme dieth not and the fire neuer goeth out Who is able to dwell in this deuouring fire The paines of Hell Isai 33.14 or who shall be able to dwell in these euerlasting burnings Matth. 8.12 1. Pet. 3.19 The place it selfe so lothsome into which they are cast a dungeō far more dark thē pitch worse then the Egyptian darknes which might be felt Exod. 10.21 A lake that burneth with fire and brimstone Matth. 11. Matth. 8.13 where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth In that lake it is wonderfull to thinke how wicked damned soules shall be tormented day and night Reuel 10.14 not only bodie but soule and all with bitter hellish torments to which all plagues and torments mans heart can deuise are but like flea-bitings and not to be named for as the ioyes of heauen are so exceeding great 1. Cor. 2.9 as neither eye hath seene nor eare hath heard or heart of man can possiblie conceiue so the pains of hell are such as the tongue of men or Angels cannot vtter nor any thought imagine Happie be they that heare and feare but neuer feele these fearefull paines Dan. 12.2 for tribulation and anguish shall be vpon their euer burning neuer dying soules the shame that shall couer their faces is perpetuall Iude 7. the fire that shall deuoure them is eternall the horrors that shall astonish them are euerlasting 2. Thess 1.9 the worme the gnaweth vpon their conscience neuer dieth Matth. 25.46 and the fire which shall deuoure them neuer goeth out the paines which they shall feele shal neuer neuer haue an end How can I then but pitie those many thousand sillie soules The application who proue themselues such fooles as to buy the pleasures of sinne for a season Heb. 11. at so high a price as will cost thē a dreadfull setting on for euer How can I but admire their senselesse madnesse Prou. 14.9 who though they heare and know this doome of sinners Iob 15.16 yet make a iest of sinne and drinke vp iniquitie like water Why should men be like Thomas Ioh. 20.25 that will not beleeue except they see Exod. 10.7 and so neere of Pharaos mind that will be destroied before they leaue their sins As for me seeing this is the sinners portion I will endeuor as neere as I can to keep my self from sinne Surely I shall neuer be able to endure the pains of hell and therefore as neere as God will giue mee grace I will keepe me farre from them Seeing there is no peace to the wicked I will not leaue my peace of conscience for a thousand worlds FINIS