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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33985	The weavers pocket-book, or, Weaving spiritualized in a discourse wherein men employed in that occupation are instructed how to raise heavenly meditations from the several parts of their work : to which also are added some few moral and spiritual observations relating both to that and other trades / by J.C.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1695 (1695)	Wing C5351; ESTC R26037	76,699	180

rendring to all their Dues Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custome to whom Custome Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour The Minister of the Gospel throws his Shuttle to his People Preaching the Word of GOD in season and out of season with all Faithfulness Diligence Boldness In Meekness instructing those who oppose themselves Fleeing also Youthfull Lusts being Vigilant Sober of good Behaviour given to Hospitality apt to Teach not given to Wine no Striker not greedy of filthy Lucre Patient no Brawler not Covetous c. On the other side Their People return the Shuttle being Obedient in the LORD to those who have the spiritual over-sight of them Laying apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness and with meekness receiving the engraffed Word which is able to save their Souls being doers of the word and not hearers only Oh what rare and beautiful webs of righteousness are made at these double Looms when they thus work according to the divine rule happy is the people that is in such case Men shal certainly say this People have the LORD for their GOD. The Poem How swiftly doth my Shuttle fly To th' other hand and by and by Returns to th' other hand it first did throw Stops not at all nor yet moves slow But as it moves a threed doth stay To be united by the slay Vnto the Web. All our days here Swifter than Weaver's Shuttles are Saith holy Job souls cannot rest Idle at all but work what 's best Or worst They cannot move but some New actions stays upon the Loom Adding still to their Web and must At last be judged just or unjust According to them all when done So will the Judge's Sentence run For life or death The whole must be Judged by the All-seeing Eye What care had I of thoughts need take Of Words of Actions all these make My Web as it is true or not So will the wages I have got Be unto me at last Then Watch My drowsy soul Let no sleep catch Thine Eyes Let nothing thee betray To what in the great Judgment-day Will not abide My head my hand Mine Eyes my feet move at Command Of my quick soul Each act their part While I am in my Weavers Art The head contrives the hand doth cast The Shuttle feet do move as fast All is at work the nimble Eye Observeth how the Shuttles fly Should I not this work Righteousness With my whole man is that work less In labour or in price Then shake Thy self my soul Let each power take It's part Command the Members too That each of them their part may do Think not GOD will be served by A pious Tongue or devout Eye Nor by a false pretending heart He must have all and every part Doth a threed break doth thy soul sin Do what it can Oh look back ●hen And by Repentance make that good Which nothing but thy Saviours Blood Can expiate Repentance may Pardon obtain bu● no scores pay My soul see that thy Tempels be Always before thy face Oh see Thou workst from Faith love holy Fear These will thee keep thou shal not Erre Thy work will streight and even be Nor shalt thou move incertainly My soul learn how to work alone And how with a companion Who doth not work of every kind Himself will not approved find CHAP. VI. The Art The Weaver in Weaving sometimes finds a Threed defective in the Warp mostly through the negligence or other infirmity of him that wound the Warp on ●e not discerning the breach of the Threed Sometimes also a Threed breaketh in the Striking if it happeneth in the former the Weaver Supplieth it by another Threed in its Room If it breaketh in the Striking he brings the two Ends together and goeth on in his work When he hath wrought a Plate then he looks it over with an Instrument picks it out and brusheth off the loose knots So goes on till he hath finished his Web Then he Cuts it off the Loom The Meditations 1. THE Spiritual We●vers Warp is his Credenda the several Propositions of Faith and Truth which are wound upon his Soul partly by the Exercise of his Reason upon Natural Principles partly upon the Revealed will of GOD in his Word For the Candle of the LORD in our Souls is dighted both these ways Reason working upon Natural Principles will conclude That there is a GOD who made Heaven and Earth that he must be Eternal infinite just and Holy c. That to him must be given account of our thoughts words and Actions That Man hath an Immortal Soul c. But there are many more Propositions of Truth which Reason working from Meer Natural Principles will never Discover yet are Concluded from Reason upon this Hypothesis That those Sacred Books which we call the Scriptures contain the Revealed Will of GOD and are the words of Him who cannot Lie Now as Na●ural Light is not the same in all but varieth according to the Capacity of a Man to Exercise his Reason and the Helps he hath for it so also there is a vast difference in Mens Conclusions from Scripture-Principles Every Man is not alike able to search the Scriptures nor hath the like Advantage from Forrein Help nor is so able as another to compare spiritual Things wi●h spiritual There is not a greater Difference in Faces than there is in the Sentiments and Opinions of Pious Souls who all have set up to themselves the same End viz. the Glory of GOD who dayly Beg of GOD to Lead them into all Truth and would not willingly believe a Lie and necessarily there must be so unless it would please GOD that all Men should be Born with the same Wit Reason Parts and Arrive to the same Degrees of Learning and have the same Helps of Instruction Now it is impossible that the two Contradictory Parts of the same Proposition should be True Hence of Necessity every Spiritual Weaver will at last be found to have some Threeds in his Warp defective Some indeed more some less but all some Nemo sine Crimine vivit Optimus ille qui minimis urgetur saith Horace There is none liveth who hath a right Apprehension of every Divine Truth And this Reflection were but Men possest with Common Humanity would oblige them to bear each with his Brother There will not be found a guiltless Person to throw the first Stone at his Neighbour Neither is any M●n Infallible Nor is there upon Earth any Infallible Judge why do I then Judge and condemn my Brother may not he by the same Right Condemn me Is there not the same Distance from him to me Stand where he will as from me to him who shall judge betwixt Us shall the Church or any Authority of Men Determine betwixt Us The Church indeed yea the Civil Magistrate may Determine that nothing be Published within their Territories contrary to what they apprehend the will of GOD But certainly no Man can make an Hair

and makes him carefull and wary how he throws it The spiritual Weaver understanding that every Action of his Life will contribute to his VVeb ought to keep a VVatch upon his Heart his Tongue his Hands his whole Man to look before he throws his Shuttle ay and look back upon it too when he hath thrown it For a Christian works more for Eternity than Apelles painted for it 5. A Threed through the weakness of it will break sometimes do the VVeaver what he can The VVeaver lays the Ends together or knits a Knot to Vnite the Threeds again then it passeth provided it be not done too often Iniquities saith David prevail against me Let the spiritual VVeaver do what he can his Threed will sometimes break his Course of Righteousness through Corruption will be interrupted The good which I would I do not Romans 7.19.23 I see another Law in my Members warring against the Law of my Mind and bringing me into Cap●ivity to the Law of Sin The spiritual VVeaver hath nothing in this Case to do but by Repentance ag●in to lay his Ends together to make his former Righteous Actions agree with the latter to knit the Knot of a renewed Covenant with GOD and a new Resolution to keep the LORDS Statutes This being done though the Failures are seen by the Eye of him who seeth all Things yet the VVeb passeth upon the Covenant of Grace for which we may give GOD thanks for our LORD JESVS CHRIST For we have not an High-Priest which cannot forgive Infirmities the Apostle tells us He can have Compassion upon the Ignorant and upon them that are out of the way Hebrews 5.2 6. The VVeaver must have his Temples which lying upon the VVeb keep it fixed and extended he would otherwise never work to any Purpose What the pair of Temples is to the VVeaver those noble Graces Fear and Faith and Love are to the Christian These spiri●ual Habits dwelling in e●●●y Gracious Heart influence all his Actions and keep his VVeb fixed and steady he walks in the Fear of the LORD all the day long he lives in the prospect of a Promise yea of many Promises made to them who hold out to the End he acteth not out of Constraint but VVi●lingly from a Principle of Love The Hypocrite wanting these Habits of Grace works with no fixedness but at great Uncertainties these Habits keep the VVeb of Righteousness extended and the spiritual Soul fixed his Heart is fixed trusting in the LORD saith the Psalmist Do this and Live for I fear GOD saith Joseph and again in the Case of his Mistriss How shall I do this great Evil and Sin against GOD The Sameness and Immutability of GOD in His Nature and VVill who is the Object of the Souls Faith and Fear makes him the same in all times it keeps his Soul fixed and to the same extent and dimensions of spiritual Duty his Eye is alwayes upon him that is Invisible Oh what lamentable work doth the Hypocrite make in his spiritual Loom for want of these spiritual Temples at what incertainties doth he throw his Shuttle he is fixed and steady in nothing one thing to day another thing to morrow his Sails are set according to the wind of his interest which according to the Varieties of this VVorld one while blows from the North another while in the quite opposite Quarter VVhereas the sincere good spiritual Workman keeping his Temples before him works Evenly Steadily Fixedly he sets GOD before his Eyes alwayes as his Fear thence it is that his Feet do not slide he is alwayes Eyeing the Promise so is ever labouring to fulfill the Condition and dayly fearing and taking heed lest having a Promise of ●ntering into rest he should fail through Unbelief These Temples move every day with him and in him he carries them along with his work till his Web of Righteousness be wholly done 7. Lastly I observe there are some Pieces of Stuff and Cloth which a single Person cannot work alone two sit at the Loom the one receiveth the Shuttle which the other throws and returns it to the Hand from which it came The Spiritual Weaver hath Some such Webs too he hath Relative as well as Personal Duties The Husband throws his Shuttle to his VVife walking before Her as a Man of VVisdom and Knowledge Loving Her and Honouring Her as the VVeaker Vessel She returneth it back to him again Obeying Her own Husband submitting Herself to him he must Love his Wife as CHRIST Loves his Church and she takes care to Reverence H●r Husband Both are at work together as meet helps one to another in the things of GOD and in the things of the VVorld and this is acceptable in the sight of GDD What Rare Hangings for an House do such a Pair of Weavers make How much more Excellent than those of Guilded Leather and Tapestry The Father throws the Spiritual Shuttle to the Child bringing him up in the Nurture and Admonition of the LORD teaching him the way in his or her Youth which he shall not forget when he is Old The Children return it to the Father or Mother Obeying them as it is Right in the LORD Honouring them not Meerly from a Natural Right but because it is the first Commandment of GOD with a Promise annexed to it The Master throws his Shuttle to his Servant Commanding him and all within his gates to Remember to keep Holy the Sabbath-day whetting the Law of the LORD upon them when they Lie down and when they Rise up when they go out and when they come in giving unto his Servants that which is just and equal The Servant again returns it to his Master being Obedient to him that is his Master according to the flesh with fear and trembling in singleness of Heart as unto CHRIST not with Eye-service as a Man-pleaser but as a Servant of CHRIST doing the will of GOD from the Heart with good will doing service as to the LORD and not unto Men knowing that whatsoever good thing any Man doth the same he shall receive from the LORD whether he be Bond or Free Ephesians 6.5 6 7. not answering again not purloining but shewing all good Fidelity that they may adorn the Doctrine of GOD our SAVIOVR in all things Titus 2.9.10 So in Political and Ecclesiastical Relations the pious Magistrate throws the Shuttle to his Subjects ruling them in the fear of the LORD commanding the Ministers of the Gospel in his Dominio●s to fulfill their office commanding all his Subjects to keep the Law of the LORD forbidding all deceitfull Weights and Ballances not regarding faces in Judgement not oppressing the Poor and Fatherless but regarding the Cryes of them and of the Widows The Subject again returns the Shuttle to the Magistrate being subject to the higher Powers knowing there is no Power but is ordained of GOD being subject not only for Wrath but for Conscience Sake for this cause paying Tribute also because they are GODS Ministers