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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07626	Quadrivium Sionis or the foure ways to Sion By John Monlas Mr of arts	Monlas, John.	1633 (1633)	STC 18020; ESTC S102304	90,305	189

not stay to bee troubled with their cries The Israelitish women at the first asking of Aaron dispoiled themselues of their Rings Carcanets and Iewels to make that Idoll the golden Calfe Exod. 32. and should wee be abl● to stop our eares and not to heare those pittifull and lamentable cries of Christ speaking by the mouthes of the poore use charity give and it shall be given unto you those almes or benefits which are done either by importunity or by force or for shame deserue not the name of ●ercie thinke you that it was a great favour which the wicked and malicious Iewes did to Christ to give him gall and vineger to drinke in the agony of his Passion when hee pronounced these grievous words I am dry those that give almes for spight to be rid of the poore for griefe or for shame if they commit not an equ●ll malice they commit a like offence What then is that Tyger and Dragon-like cou●age tempered in the water of eagernes and c●uelty that is not penetrable to the shot of th●se powerfull reasons who is so unnaturall as to behold with dry eyes a poore Christian languishing for hunger starved with cold and full of wounds and doth not give him bread to eat calleth him not into his house to warme him and that like the Samari●ane powreth not oyle into his wounds what Adamantine heart is so hardned as not to open and cleave with griefe at the object of such pittifull sp●ctacles and sights There be some that take the Etymologie of Miscricordia Mercie from that it makes the hearts of men miserable by beholding the miserie of others and that with as much t●uth as reason for the truly mercifull feeleth in himselfe all the miseries of o●hers which was it that drew so many teares out of Heraclitus his eyes being able to behold nothing on earth but what was lamentably miserable Saint Paul exhorteth us Rom. 12.15 ●o weepe with them that weepe and to be of like affection one towards another Good Iob in his complaints Chap. 30.25 said Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble wa● not my soule in heavinesse for the poore It is one of the most pious and generous actions of the soule to take upon her the afflictions of others and to ease them of them It is the sacrifice the most delightfull with which the Lord is pleased they are I●remiahs ragges but they draw us from the Cave of sinne from the pit of iniquity it is the dry rock of the mountaine of Horeb from whence flowes aboundantly the wholesome waters of grace and blessing In a word it is a Iacobs ladder by the which the Angels of consolations and divine favours descend upon us by the which our faith our love and affection ascend up to Christ who stayeth for us on the top to say unto us Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you before the foundation of the world And will not therefore our hope to heare those sweet and gracious words oblige us to comfort and consolate the afflicted and with our mean●s to ease and refresh the poore and needie since those are actions so pleasing acceptable to God that S. August saith That charity towards the poore was a second Baptisme b●cause that as the water of baptisme is a sacred sig●e unto us that the fire of originall sinne is ex●inguished in our soules so pitie and compassion of the afflicted is an undoubted marke that God hath powred out the sacred wate●s of his grace and forgivenesse upon the burning coales of our transgressions to quench them Saint Chrysostome calles it the friend of God that obtaineth of him all she asketh shee setteth prisoners at liberty recalls the banished and implores and obtaines grace for the condemned the hand of the poore is the purse of God it is the Altar whereon wee leave our gifts to goe and reconcile our selues to our eldest brother Iesus Christ our Saviour whom the wickednesse of our sinnes did cruelly fixe and naile to the Crosse. Having sufficiently confidered the two first branches of mercie let us now behold the third branch of this divine plant which Saint Luke hath perfectly taught us saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Love your enemies and ye shall be the children of the most high Math. 5.44 Luk. 6.27 Luk. 3.24 for hee is kinde unto the unkinde and to the evill And indeed this part of mercie doth greatly beautifie and make glorious her body for her two sisters Pitie in giving and Compassion in condoling are actions which humanity cannot refuse to the lamentable cries of the languishing to the sad and sorrowfull objects of poore and miserable men but must move your hearts were they of steele and draw teares from your eyes though they were of marble But to forgive our enemies is to vanquish and overcome our selues it is a nearer approaching to the divine nature then to the humane All Histories are full of charitable actions of men towards their neighbours and without taking them out of Scripture the examples are thankes be to God usually to be seene but to forgive our enemies not to annoy them when it is in our power is to be enlightned by the sacred presence of the holy Ghost to be regenerated by his grace to bee fully possessed of mercy Moses that great servant of God who had beheld him face to face that had seene him practise this rare and excellent vertue towards the people of Israel falling into Idolatry Hee that had mediated for them speaking to God after this manner O Lord what will thy enemies say that thou hast brought thy people out of Egypt by a strong hand and stretched out arme to kill them in the wildernesse seeing that thou couldest not bring them into the land which thou diddest promise them and himselfe notwithstanding is carried away by this passion of revenge when hee made the earth open and swallow vp alive Core Dathan and Abiram with their families though it bee not mentioned that they had participated in the murmuring of their heads yea he did not spare Mary his owne sister whom he covered with leprosie Neither is it to the purpose to say that it was in Gods cause that hee used this revenge that is vallable in putting Nadab and Abihu to death because they had violated the divine ordinance God forbid that I should excuse their fault but I desire onely to shew that though Moses were so holy a man yet hee had some touch of humane weakenesse But in this circumstance what shall wee say of David a man after Gods owne heart that so often curseth his enemies that giveth charge to Sa●omon his sonne to revenge him of the injuries and curses which Shimhi had spoken against him as he fled from before Absalom What greater Prophet then Elijah neverthelesse because two of Achazias Captaines were gone to seeke him to take him and bring him to the King as hee had commanded them he made the fire

that the charity which we give and exercise to our neighbours hee will accept as done to himselfe alas who would be so savage and hardened with rigour who would be so defiled with ingratitude that having received favours from a King would yet refuse to obey him and to serue him with all his power should not hee be worthy of the greatest torments of the most cruell punishments that have ever beene imagined would not the heaven the elements and all the creatures together rise up in judgement to aske punishment for so grievous a crime since it is most true that ingratitude is the basest and damnablest vice that can infect the soule of man Let us remember that we have nothing but what we haue received of our heavenly Father and if wee have received it from his favourable and fatherly hand why should wee be so ungratefull as to refuse him a small portion of it when ●ee asketh for it Now and at all times when we heare and see the poore praying and crying unto us in the streetes or at our doores it is the voyce of God himselfe tha calleth us to acknowledge his benefits as often as wee see one afflicted that asketh us helpe and consolation let us r●n●e to him and give him occasion of joy and gladnesse for it is Christ himselfe which was comforted by an Angell in the Garden when praying to God his Father hee sweated drops of blood which made him pronounce these lamentable words so full of griefe My soule is full of sorrow even unto death When we have bin offended by our neighbour and that he will cast himselfe at our feete to aske us forgivenesse let us not be such tygers and so unnaturall as to refuse him his request remembring that it is a condition needfull to obtaine the pardon for our owne sinnes which wee shall never obtaine untill wee have first forgiven our brethren their offences but let us follow the example of our heavenly Father who saith That at what time so ever a sinner repen●eth him of hi● sinnes he will put away his wickednesse out of his remembrance And when wee must appeare before the terrible and dreadfull Throne of the Soveraigne Iudge when wee shall be called to a strict account for the talents and administration which hath beene committed to our charge by our heavenly Master let us then I say follow the example of that wise Steward let us make our selues friends with the riches of iniquity let us fill the hand of the poore which is the Al●ar of God upon the which hee affectionatly rec●iveth the Incense of our prayers as a delightfull and pleasing Sacrifice to the glory of his holy name Then I say shall wee heare that sweet and heavenly voyce of the Saviour of our soules speaking graciously to us after this manner Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you before the foundation of the world Amen Amen The Prayer O Lord God full of mercy and compassion O favourable Father that art the fountaine of pardon and remission and the refuge of them that truely repent who desirest not the death of a sinner but rather that hee may turne from his wickednesse and live wee thy poore and miserable creatures who by the weaknes of our fl●sh by the malice of our mindes by our owne vitious inclination to follow ill examples have provoked thee to make thy wrath and indignation fall upon our sinfull heads we have many wayes and times by our transgressions incited thee to cast upon our sinfull soules the thunderbolts of thy judgements we have made sinne our delight and iniquity the height of our happinesse Thy ju●tice did cry and runne after us like a roaring and ravening Lyon seeking to devoure us thy judgements were ready to cast our bodies and soules into hell but that the excellent greatnesse of thy mercie O bountifull and gracious Father hath interposed her selfe and hath not permitted that we should be cast downe into the depth of eternall death and condemnation thy hand O sweet Saviour hath upheld us and thy clemencie O our Redeemer hath perfectly delivered us therefore O gracious Father seeing thou hast preserued us from evill conserue us still in good things receive if such b● thy good pleasure the incense of our prayers o●r sacri●ice of thankesgiving which wee most humbly offer upon the sacred Al●ar of thy divine compassions Put up our teares into thy bottels accept our contrite hearts broken with griefe to have offended thee for a pleasing Sacrifice receive our griefes and displeasures for thy satisfaction and behold thy Sonne thy onely thy welbeloved Sonne his head pricked with thornes for our sinnes his hands his sides and his feete pierced with Lances and nayles for our iniquities for his torments sake for his paines and for his deaths sake restore us unto life forgive us our sinnes O great God blot out our iniquities that so following thy example wee may doe the like to them that have offended us change in us our hard hearts and make them gentle and easie to pardon and forgive and suffer not our soules to be defiled and infected with the venome of revenge but that leaving it unto thee we may thinke of nothing else but to be obedient unto thee blessing those that curse us speaking well of those that slaunder us and praying for those that persecute us O good God kindle in our soules an holy love towards our afflicted brethren that wee may partake with them in their afflictions and so ease them that they may the better beare that burthon which thou hast imposed upon them We most humbly beseech thee also O good Saviour to give us charitable hearts and full of compassion to helpe the poore in their neede remembring that they are o●r brethren that thou art the Father of us all and that we are the children of the same mother that a glasse of cold water onely given unto them is of an inestimable price before thee because thou acceptest of it as willingly and recompensest it as largely as if it had beene given to thy selfe make us understand and know that thou art the King and great Master of the world that all that is therein justly belongeth unto thee that wee are but thy Stewards to dispose of thy goods to them of thy houshold to wit the poore who as well as we have that honour to belo●g to thy house to be thy servants y●a to beare the name of thy children that when it shall please thee to call us to account wee may bee found to have used with profit the talent committed unto us and that it may please thine infinite goodnesse not for our sakes but through thy mercy for thy welbeloved Sonne● sake to call us good and faithfull servants and to make us enter into our Masters joy which is the heavenly Ierusalem Amen The second Way to Sion THE PRAISE OF PVRITIE MATH 5.8 Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall