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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

into this maruellous light Iohn 15.19 and hath chosen you out of the world that you should not perish with the world Doubtlesse the peace of conscience Philip. 4.7 that peace which the godly doe enioy is an inualuable treasure it passeth all vnderstanding This peace shall euer be vpon the Israel of God though there be no peace at al vnto the wicked As you therefore haue begun in the spirit so I cease not to pray for you Colos 1.9.10.5 that you may be fulfilled with the knowledge of the wil of God in all wisedom and vnderstanding that you may walk worthy of the Lord and please him in all things being fruitful in al good works and encreasing in the knowledge of God for the hopes sake which is laid vp for you in heauen whereof you haue heard before by the word of truth which by me and others hath bin preached vnto you And here I leaue with you these following meditations as a testimony of my thankfull remembrance of many kindnesses which you haue shewed vnto me and not to me alone but to all those which come in the name of a Prophet amongst you Matth. 10.41 Reade meditate and vse it to your comfort and the God of peace sanctifie you both in soule and bodie and keepe you with all yours blameles vntill the comming of our Lord. Yours euer in Iesus Christ G. W. THE SINNERS Doome ISAI 57.21 There is no peace saith my God vnto the wicked FRet not thy self saith Dauid because of the vngodlie Psal 37.1.2 neither bee thou enuious for the euill doers for they shall soone be cut downe like grasse and wither as the greene hearbe Me thinkes it should be an easie matter to disswade any man from enuying them who are rather to be pitied because they are set in slipperie places The seeming prosperitie of the wicked rather to be lamented because their estate is so dangerous fickle and full of woe For albeit these are they that seeme to prosper in the world and to encrease in riches Psal 73.12.5.7 which are lusty and strong and not in trouble like other men their eyes stand out for fatnes and they haue more then heart can wish Though they liue and waxe old Iob 21.7.8.9.10 and grow in wealth their seed is established in their sight with them and their generation before their eyes Their houses are peaceable and without feare and the rod of God is not vpon them Their bullock ingendreth and faileth not their cow calueth and casteth not her calfe Psal 49.11 Though they thinke their houses and their habitations shall continue for euer euen from generation to generation and call their lands by their names Though the people fall downe vnto them and they be deemed the only happie men in the world The vnmasking of the wicked Psal 73.17.18 yet let a man but goe into the Sanctuary of the Lord seek to vnderstand their end and he shall finde that their wealth is not in their own hand Iob 21.16.17.18 but they are set in slippery places and their change is fearefull O how oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out and their destruction come vpon them at vnawares he shall be as stubble before the winde and as chafe that the storme carieth away O how suddenly are they destroyed perished and horribly consumed Psal 73.19.20 as a dreame when one awaketh so shall the Lord make their image despised For why Iob 21.30 the wicked is kept but as a stalled oxe vnto the day of destruction he shal be brought foorth vnto the day of wrath In the hand of the Lord there is a cup the wine is red it is ful mixt Psal 75.8 and hee powreth out of the same surely the wicked of the earth shall wring out and drink the dregs therof This is Gods iust doome vpon them they shal be like the raging of the sea that cannot rest Isai 57.20.21 whose waters cast vp dirt and mire There is no peace saith my God to the wicked And surely how true this restlesse doome of wicked wretches is The restlesse and wretched estate of the wicked euen in this life who seeth not that hath but an eye to see and an heart to vnderstand whose mouthes though they bee set against heauen Psal 73.9.6 and their tongue walketh through the earth though pride be a chaine vnto thē and crueltie couereth them like a garment Iob 21.9 Though the houses of their hearts seeme peaceable and without feare yet God he knoweth their dolefull mindes are tossed vp and downe with many a blast of anguish and blowne about with many a gale of terror like surging waues which rage vpon the seas Pompon Mel. lib. 2. and like Euripus which euer boyleth and is in cōtinuall agitation The wicked man is continually as one that trauelleth with child Iob 15.20.21 oppressed with inward throbs and gripes of heart A sound of feare is euer in his eares terrors shall take him as waters Iob 27.20.21 and tempest shall carrie him away by night the cast winde shall take him away Prou. 28.1 and hee shall flie when none pursueth him And why The worme of conscience there is a worme that neuer dieth which is alwaies nibling at their hearts and like the Poets furies lashing their guiltie conscience with accusing horror Mark 9.44 In the middest of all their hearts delights pleasing mirth there appeares an hand writing before their eies which troubleth their thoughts within them and maketh the ioynts of their loines loose Dan. 5.6 and their knees to smite the one against the other Whiles they seeme to enioy their chiefest iollitie there hangeth ouer their head a waightie sword by a small twine of threed when they full faine would put God out of their mindes Amos 6.3 and put the euil day farre from their thoughts and would reioice in their youth and cheere vp their heart in their delights will they nill they an heauie hammer knocketh this memento into their hearts Eccles 11.9 Know that for all these things God wil bring thee vnto iudgement Yea his eye shall faile with fearfull looking for the dreadfull iudgement and violent fire which shall deuoure the aduersarie Heb. 10.27 But say some senselesse soule and cauterised conscience should be so fast asleepe as not to feele this smart Want of feeling this horror of conscience in the wicked most desperat as doubtlesse many sinners are yet shall wee thinke their case as void of feare No no a deadly lethargie possesseth such mens soules whose pangs may well be thought most grieuous then when least they are felt and whose estate is most terrible when they are most insensible 1. Tim. 4.2 whose consciences are seared with an hot iron O take heede of such for well wee know that such a one is peruerted Tit. 3.11 and sinneth being

Vers 8. He spred his skirts ouer vs and couered our filthines and made a league and couenant with vs when we were sinners he came to saue vs Rom. 5.7 when we were his enemies hee came to seeke vs when we were yet of no strength he died for vs. Wherein as we cannot but acknowledge the riches of his vnspeakable loue who loued vs before wee were and followed vs with his loue when we were his enemies so may it well assure vs of his perpetuall loue and fauour towards vs. Rom. 5.8.9.10 For seeing that whiles wee were yet sinners Christ died for vs much more then being now iustified by his blood shall we be saued from wrath through him If when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his sonne much more being reconciled wee shall be saued by him What then though the bedroule of our sins reach vp to the clouds and vice attracting vapors doe ouershadow my soule as innumerable as Atomes what though our rebellious nature will not be kept in as we desire and Satan pleade full sore to bring our hearts to desperation heere heere our endlesse comfort is Isai 1.18 be our sinnes as crimson they shall be made as white as snow though they bee of a skarlet engrained die they shall be made as white as wooll For this is the Anchor on which assuredly we may repose our trust This is a true saying and worthie by all meanes to be receiued that Christ Iesus came into the world to saue sinners But if in generall only this my comfort were Whereof I am chiefe that there was a Iesus Christ that hee came into the world and that his comming was to saue and yet not feele the assurance of my part and portion in it cold comfort God wot would this be to my soule small matter for me to reioyce Nay blessed be the author of my peace I can apply it to my self Ephes 3.12 for I haue boldnes and confidence by faith in him to put my finger into his side with Thomas Ioh. 20.28 and to say My God my Lord to call him my Iesus my Christ and to relie wholly by faith vpon this Son of God who hath loued me Galat. 2.20 and giuen himself for me yea euen for me G.W. the meanest poorest vilest vnworthiest of all Gods children the greatest and most miserable sinner in the world Rom. 7.18 For I know that in me in this my sinfull wretched flesh dwelleth no good thing from the sole of my foot vnto my head Isai 1.6 there is nothing whole but wounds and swellings and sores full of corruption In sinne was I conceiued Psal 51.4 in sin was I borne sin seased vpon my childhood and hath lackied my life vnto this my youthfull age and the longer I liue the surer foothold getteth foule sin in my bosome and setleth the contagion in my soule How huge a masse of sinne lieth in me hidden from mine eyes which take possession on me and I poore I neuer tooke notice of them These O these that I see before mine eyes by looking into the bottomlesse gulfe of my sins appeare as many as the stars in the skie or drops of water in the Ocean sea When I looke vpon my selfe I am ashamed of my selfe me thinkes the heauens ouer me cast a dire aspect vpon me and the albearing earth groneth vnder the sinfull burthen of me me thinkes the Sunne is ashamed of me and the palefaced Moone lookes wanne vpon me and the airie clouds doe mourne for me I cannot chuse but wonder how in so little a substance as my soule should be so great a sinke of sin Of this sure I am I know none so sinfull as my selfe neither haue I any reason to imagine how any can be a greater sinner then my selfe yet why should I despaire I know that my Redeemer liueth Iob 19.25 and hee liueth to bee my Redeemer Though my sins were more hee could pardon them though they were a thousand times greater then they be he hath satisfied for them Be they black vgly his blood hath washed them Be they great and many hee hath paid the ransome for them Be they heauie waightie he hath mercie in store for them Heere then will I cast my anchor and pull downe the sailes of feare to harbour in this safest hauen let the flesh say despaire and the world say relent and the Diuell seek to cut the cable of my hope yet my footing is sure I know on whom I fixe my hope euen on Christ Iesus yesterday and to day the same for euermore FINIS THE MOVRNERS Lamentation Or THE BEWAILING OF the miseries of our times with Gods fearefull iudgements to be expected for the same TO THE WORSHIPfull my Christian neighbour and most religious hearer Mistris Amie Long. WHen the Lord in a vision would shew to the Prophet Ezechiel the destruction of the Citie Ierusalem he is brought in by the same Prophet speaking thus vnto one of his Agents herein Goe through the midst of the Citie Ezech. 9.4 euen through the midst of Ierusalem and set a marke vpon the foreheads of them that mourne and crie for all the abominations that bee done in the middest thereof Doubtlesse many such mourners are there in our Ierusalem whose teares are put in Gods bottle and for whose sake the Lord yet spares this our Israel the Lord encrease the number of them For God knoweth we had need call one an other to mourning and take vp continuall lamentation for who seeth not how rotten ripe the sins of this land are Amos 5.16 and how deep all estates of the same are setled vpon the lees of their transgressions And who can chuse but feare that there is a day of wrath Zephan 1.15 of trouble and heauines of woe and horror neere approching For mine own part what deepe impression the meditatiō hereof maketh in mine heart he knoweth which knoweth the secrets of all mens hearts One of my priuat contemplations which I haue communed with my owne heart in silence Psal 4.4 I heere make publique by communicating them to you and others To you especially because I know you to be one of the mourners in Sion as hauing had experience of your zeale to Gods house loue to his word and hatred to the common corruptions euer since you came to be partaker of the vnworthie labours of my ministry The Lord encrease that good worke which long since he hath begun in you This little Enchiridion if you please you may binde vp in the volume of your daily meditatiōs Thus to mourne is neither hurtfull to our selues nor offensiue to our Church We may be merrie in the Lord and yet without lightnes sad and heauie in heart for our own sins and the corruptions of our times yet without dumpishnes If we forget Ierusalem let our right hand forget to play Psal 137.5.6 if we

iealous of thy glorie and will not hold him guiltlesse that shall prophane thy name Hab. 1.13 thou wilt not surely cleere the innocent but wilt visit the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children Deut. 5.11 Exod. 34.7 and vpon the childrens children vnto the third and fourth generation Art not thou the same that whurledst downe angels frō the heauen because of their sins Ierem. 32.18 and madest Sodome and Gomorrha God is no lesse bent to punish sinne now then heretofore which sometimes were as an other Eden a breeding place for nettles and a lake of ashes yea thou didst not spare Ierusalem thine owne selected city Iude 6. 2. Pet. 2.4 Genes 13.10 Genes 19.24 Ierem. 25.29 Matth. 24.3 Isai 59.1 Heb. 1.11 but hast made it for sin an heape of stones yea Lord thine hand is not shortned that it cānot strike nor thine eares heauie that they cannot heare Thou art still the same and thine hatred against sin now as great as euer it hath been Or haue wee a greater priuiledge to pleade vpon then other people had We haue no more priuiledge to secure vi frō Gods iudgements then other nations had Nahum 3.8 Are wee better then No which was full of people that lay in the riuers and had the waters round about it whose ditch was from the sea and her wall from Egypt to Ethiopia yet she was carried away and went into captiuitie Are wee in safer shelter then the people of other countries who for their sins are rooted vp as though they had not been planted as though their stocke had taken no roote in the earth Isai 41.24 the Lord hath blown vpon them and they are withered and the whirlewind like stubble hath taken them away yea the Lord hath not spared the city wherein his own name was called vpon Ierem. 25.29 and shal we goe free O no it is impossible it cannot bee The Lord hath sworne by his holinesse Amos 4.2 that his eye shal not spare neither will he haue pitie but will powre out his wrath and fulfill his anger in vs Ezech. 7.8.9 and pay vs home according to our waies and of the abominations that are in the midst of vs. Ierem. 7.16 Bootlesse ah I feare is it to lift vp crie or prayers against the same for though Moses and Samuel stood before him to entreat him yet how could his affection bee towards this so sinfull people Ierem. 15.1 Though hitherto hee hath for a long time held his peace Isai 42.14 yet now hee will destroy and deuoure at once Yea verely What the reason is why these iudgements haue not alreadie seased on vs. it is the Lords mercie that we are not yet consumed for we had long ere this haue bin as Sodome and our countrie as Gomorrha had not some zealous Phineahses delaied his wrath and some of his chosen Moseses stood in the breach before him to turne away his wrath Lament 3.22 Zeph. 2.9 Numb 25.11 lest hee should destroy them But now alas these righteous men decay apace Psal 106.23 and no man considereth it in his hart merciful men are taken away no man vnderstandeth that they are taken away from the euill to come Isai 57.1 What hope of health now when there is scarse a godly man left Psal 12.1 and the faithfull are diminished from among the children of men Therfore now the daies of our visitatiō must needs be neere The neere approach of Gods iudgements the daies of recompence are comming Israel shall know it our selues Hosea 9.9 our wiues our children I feare shall shortly feele it Me thinks I heare already the noise of the whip Nahum 2.2 and the mouing of the wheeles the axe is alreadie lifted vp and ready for the stroke O would to God our Elders would sanctifie a fast What the way is to preuent Gods iudgements and our Priests the Ministers of the Lord would weepe between the porch and the altar and cry Spare Lord Ioel 2.15.16 spare thy people and all the people from the highest to the lowest would turne to the Lord with fasting Vers 12. weeping and with mourning Vers 14. who knoweth whether the Lord wil returne and yet spare and leaue a blessing behind him Doubtlesse our God is gratious and mercifull slow to anger and of great kindnes But Lord What to do when Gods iudgements shall sease on vs. if the decree bee alreadie come forth and cannot be reuoked yet Lord correct vs but with iudgement not in thine anger lest we be consumed and brought to nothing Ierem. 10.23 Powre out thy wrath rather vpon the Heathen that know thee not and vpon the families that call not vpon thy name Or if there be no remedie yet well I know that in the midst of these his iudgements God is louing vnto Israel Psalme to such as are true of heart He will deliuer them from six troubles Iob 5.19 and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch them Psal 37.24 they may haue a fall but they shall neuer be cast off Al things euen Gods greatest earthly iudgements work for the best to Gods childrē Rom. 8.28 for Sions sake I will not hold my tongue but mourne for her desolations As for mine own part I will rest my selfe vpon Dauids resolution 2. Sam. 15.25 If I shall finde fauour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me againe and shew me both it and the Tabernacle thereof but if hee thus say I haue no delight in thee Behold here am I let him doe to me as seemeth good in his eyes THE SINNERS Doome Or A SVRVEY OF THE wretched estate of the wicked both in this life and in the life to come TO MY WORTHIE and much respected friend Mistris Mary Prime I Began with a taste of happinesse and now I end with a taste of wretchednes Both of these are necessarie to be knowne that wee may loue the one and feare the other I dedicate this my last theorem vnto you not as pertinent to your condition but as an Amulet for your consolation For I beare you record that you haue alreadie tasted how sweet the Lord is Psal 34.8 you haue had a taste of the good word of God Heb. 6.4.5 and of the powers of the world to come and haue found them sweeter to your soule then the honey and the honey combe Psal 19 10. Luke 10.6 And I am well assured that you are a childe of peace far free from that portion which here my following treatise describeth to be the sinners legacie for I haue had experience of your vnfained faith in Christ your loue to his word Psal 16.3 and delight in his Saints I therefore commend this little Pamphlet to your meditations to stir you vp more more to thanksgiuing vnto God Coloss 1.13 who hath called you out of darknes

But what should I speake of the losse of these toyes and trifles they must part with life it selfe Iob 2.4 Skinne for skinne and all that a man hath will hee giue for his life But all the wealth and riches in the world cannot purchase one houres lease of longer life Death will claime his due an inexorable creditor which when it cannot chuse but breede an horror in the heart of him that lieth a dying so will it fill his soule with direfull griefe to call to minde the vaine attempts of his forepassed life whē they shall sigh for griefe of mind and say within themselues O senselesse we and more then frantick fooles We haue wearied our selues in the way of wickednesse Syracides 5.1.3.7.8.9 and wee haue gone through dangerous waies but we haue not knowne the way of the Lord. What hath our pride profited vs or what profit hath the pomp of our riches brought vnto vs all those things doe passe away like a shadow 2. Cor. 5. and as a post that passeth by At that day will God be knowne of them to be a terrible God and dreadfull Hee will then write bitter things against them Iob 13.26 and make them possesse the sinnes of their youth The conscience will come in then with her bill of accounts and shew many old reckonings and arrerages of sinnes and Satan will shoote foorth many millions of canons of desperation against the sicke besieged soule and lay before his eyes the large bedrole of their sinnes which when the guiltie conscience cannot denie O how it filleth the heart with horror and souseth the dreadfull soule with feare How bitter and lamentable is that parting farewell which they make to their departing soule Aelius Adrianus Animula vagula blandula quae nunc abibis in loca pallidula frigida nudula c. like that of Adrian the Romane Emperour when he was now a dying My darling soule poore soule poore fleeting wandring soule my bodies sometimes best beloued ghest and equall whither art thou now going pale wanne and naked into places vgly dismall full of horror and tribulation Yet happie yea thrice happie were it The wicked haue no peace after death if death were the Catastrophe of the sinners Tragedie and the end of their being might come with the end of their earthly liuing Their soules posting to hell happy were it for them if like to dogges and toads and beasts they might perish and bee no more but loe their chiefest woe is yet to come for when they lie in the graue like sheep Psal 49.14 Iob 19.26 death gnaweth vpon thē whiles wormes destroy their carkase hell fire seaseth vpon their soules and vexeth them with torments What shall I heere recount the sudden dreadfull passage of their soules from the bodie to their doome dragd downe by furious fiends of hell vnto their place of torment 2. Pet. 2.4 Iude 6. where they shall be in euerlasting chaines vnder darknes vnto damnation and to the finall iudgment of the great day At which day good Lord what horror amazement will affright them when the vngodly whose bodies are rotten in the dust of the earth The horror of the wicked at the day of resurrection Matth. 25. shall on a sudden be roused from their deadly sleepe by the Trumpet of an Angell and like guiltie malefactors they shall come foorth of the filthie dungeon of rottennes to appeare at the tribunall for their triall 2. Cor. 5. What a dreadfull day will that bee for those that haue passed their time securely here in this world how will they be amazed at the suddennes of this their rousing vp from the bed of death What a sea of miseries and terrors shall rush vpon them when on a sudden being raised vp Matth. 24.30.31.32.33.34.35.36.37 and apparelled with the same robes of their bodies so long laid vp in the wardrope of the dust they shall heare about their eares so hideous a noyse of Trumpets sound of waters motion of all the elements when they shall see the earth reeling and tottering the hils and dales skipping the Moone darkned 2. Pet. 3.12 the Starres falling downe from heauen the firmament shiuered in peeces and all the world in a flaming fire If Adam Gen. 3.8 after his eating of the forbidden fruite would faine haue hid himself from God walking in the garden at the coole of the day how shall the desperate forlorne sinner then abide the presence of the Iudge 2. Thess 1.7 not walking in the coole of mercie but comming in flaming fire and sitting in his throne of Maiestie Matth. 25.31 Reuel 20.12 when the books shall be opened when not onely they shall be called to account for their grosse and hainous sinnes Matth. 12.36 but shall be compelled to giue account for euery idle word Rom. 2.16 and their verie secret thoughts shall be brought to iudgement 1. Cor. 1. Alas what wil those wise people doe then that now liue in delights and count a christian conuersation foolishnesse What shift will they make in those extremities what will they answere for themselues doubtlesse they shall not be able to answere him one of a thousand Iob 9.3 whither will they then turne themselues Will they hope that the Bill of their Inditement may be lost Reuel 2.23 They haue small hope of that for he who is their Iudge searcheth the heart and reines yea all things are naked and open to his eyes Hope they that their greatnes shall countenance them out Behold he findeth no stedfastnes in the Angels Iob 4.18.19 how much lesse then in them that dwell in houses of clay and whose foundation is in the dust Doe they perswade themselues that they can bribe the Iudge Loe Prou. 11.4 Matth. 16.16 riches auaile not in the day of wrath and what shall a man giue for a recompence of his soule Doe they hope vpon a Psalme of mercie or a pardon There was a time indeed when that was offered vnto them if with repentant mindes they would haue accepted of the same but now there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin Heb. 10.26.27 but a fearfull looking for of iudgement which shall deuoure the aduersaries Good Lord then what will the wretched sinner doe at that most dolefull day what shift will he make He shall euen drie vp for very feare Matth. 24. Hee shall seeke death and death shall flie from him Reuel 6.15.16 He shall crie to the hils to fall vpon him and to the mountaines to couer him But all in vaine for there shall hee stand a desperate forlorne caitise wretch vntill he receiue that dreadfull and irreuocable sentence Matth. 25.41 Goe thou cursed wretch into euerlasting fire prepared for the Diuell and his angels Which finall sentence once pronounced The endlesse miserie of the wicked after the day of iudgement me thinks my heart doth quake to thinke