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judgement_n	day_n	heart_n	youth_n	1,554	5	9.4723	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44560	The spiritual bee, or, A miscellany of scriptural, historical, natural observations and occasional occurencyes applyed in divine meditations by an university pen	University pen.; Horsman, Nicholas, fl. 1689.; Howard, Luke, 1621-1699.; Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1662 (1662)	Wing H2872; ESTC R30341	60,423	277

felt the furnace and is by it purged and separated from its dross it come's out the most pretious of metals In somuch that the flames seem rather to make then purify the Gold Many who before they were cast into the furnace of Affliction had so much dross and impurity and earthliness cleaving to them that little of Heaven was discernable in them come out of it wholy unlike themselves That searching and penetrating flame separateth the precious from the vile divideth between them and those corruptions which are most closely and intimately combined with and embraced by their Spirits They enter into the fiery trial earth and come out Gold This endue's them with that holiness and humility by which they are prepar'd for that high perfection of beauty and glory which they shall be vested with when they enter that great and glorious city whose streets are paved with pure Gold and whose foundations and gates are precious stones The hue and complexion of their souls who thus pass thorough the fire is altered they have abandoned and laid aside all their carnal adhaerency's repaired the breaches of their consciences the decays of their graces their neglect of duties their coldness in religious services Though before they were bound and fetter'd by their lust yet they come forth as the three children out of Nebuchadnezar's Furnace free and at liberty XXX 'T Was an inference that deserved laughter which one made who reading in the subscription of some of S. Paul's Epistles Missa fuit Romae presently thence concluded that surely Mass was said at Rome in S. Paul's days Pointz a Jesuite cry's out ther 's no hopes of prevailing with these Hereticks because it was long since Prophecy'd of them 2 Chron. 24. at illi Protestantes noluerunt audire 'T is well as one say's Protestants were heard of in the old Testament as well as Jesuites whose name by good hap one of them hath found out Numb 16. 24. even as Erasmus found Friers in S. Paul's time inter falsos fratres Many there are whose dictates are as little favour'd by Scripture and who are not asham'd to make as ridiculous a claime to it's patronage That will not bring their opinions to the word of God but draw it to their opinions and force their own sense out of it with as much violence and torture as that whereby Chymists endeavour to extract that out of Metals which God and Nature never put into them Such would make the divine oracles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to speak to the patronizing of their own interest and would suborne God for a witness to their errours As Caligula dealt with Jupiter's statue taking off the head of it and placing his own in the roome so they substitute the devices of their own brain in place of the sense of God's word Yea sometimes such interpretations and Glosses are given as doe not only corrupt but contradict the Text and that with as open and declar'd an enmity as that of the Papists when they make in one of their Pope's Canons by the word statuimus to be meant Abrogamus Such might with greater shew of reason pretend either to a new Revelation or to have found what they deliver in some of those spurious writings the Epistles of Paul to Seneca the Gospel of the Hebrews the Acts of Paul and Tecla c. rather then in the Old or New Testament XXXI 'T Is as strange as true what we are told of the Tarantula an Insect not unfrequent in Italy that if it happen to bite any usually with a wonderful fit of mirth and laughter by degrees they dye away And nothing but Musick can cure them A Viti saltus doth the like in those who are feiz'd by it their humours and spirits being so distempered that they are continually dancing till death take's hold of them and conclud's their comick mirth in a Tragical Catastrophe Methinkes the case of those is much the same who are bitten by that Infernal Serpent All whose years are spent in mirth and their days in laughter but in a moment they goe down unto the grave Let us see a little how the humour worke 's and look on the image of this spiritual Phrensy and listen to this crackling of thorns Let out hearts chear us say they and let all care be extinguished in laughter let a solemne aspect ne're be entertain'd in our countenance and let a sad looke be perpetually banish'd Let a serious speech be interpreted the raising a Mutiny against the reigne of Mirth a sigh be punish'd with manacles and the dropping of a tear as the venting of a Pasquil Let him that break 's not out every way in jollity like the wheele of a well-couch'd firework that flye's out on all sides be baulked as a male content as one that would blend and dash our wine with water or that would corrupt the charmes of our Musick with discord Let us own no care but how we shall multiply and vary our methods of delight how to make the ensuing day glide away with more softness and jollity then his forerunner how to sublime and exalt pleasure extract an Elixir from all the flowers in the Paradise of Delight let us eat our bread with joy and drink our wine with a merry heart for there is nothing better then this Let disports and Revels feastings and dalliance be our daily and nightly entertainments Rejoyce o young men in your youth and let your heart chear you in the day of your youth and walke in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes But listen and you shall hear a clappe of thunder Know that for all these things God will bringe you to judgement Your Joy is but a flash your mirth vanisheth in the noyse your disports do but impe the wings of Time your feasts are but Running banquets short delights your Ordinary's are pleasant but the Reckoning is Ruine your Dalliances do not embrace content your Musick is as empty as sound What is the summe of your misery the frolicksome excesses and extravagancy of your mirth are the Harbingers of anguish and sorrow these symptomes are the Prognosticks of destruction the end of these things is death Eternal wrath is entail'd upon your momentany delights and nothing can cut off the entaile but an act of soveraign mercy The Kisses of Pleasure like Joabs to Amasa are but a glosing to maske the conveyance of the Sword into your bowels Surely that laughter well deserve's experienced Solomon's definition of Madness which is thus the forerunner and symptome of destruction Which as he speake's elswhere cast's arrows and firebeands and death and all in sport XXXII WE read of Agrippina that the course she took to destroy her husband Claudius was by tempering poyson at a banquet with the meat which he most delighted in a Mushrome boletum medicatum avidissimo talium ciborum obtulit And we know that what is venomous being mingled with Wine worke 's more