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A64744	Flores solitudinis certaine rare and elegant pieces, viz. ... / collected in his sicknesse and retirement by Henry Vaughan.	Nieremberg, Juan Eusebio, 1595-1658. Two excellent discourses.; Eucherius, Saint, fl. 410-449. De contemptu mundi. English.; Vaughan, Henry, 1622-1695.	1654 (1654)	Wing V121; ESTC R35226	150,915	376

with misery and immortality with rust and rottennesse Such another Divine rapture is that in his Poems Et res magna videtur Merc ari propriam de re pereunt● salutem Perpetuis mutare caduca c. And is the bargain thought too dear To give for Heaven our fraile subsistence here To change our mortall with immortall homes And purchase the bright Stars with darksome stones Behold my God a rate great as his breath On the sad crosse bought me with bitter death Did put on flesh and suffe'rd for our good For ours vile slaves the losse of his dear blood Wee see by these Manifesto's what account he made of this great deed so great that none now adaies thinke of doing it Go thy way sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the poor is a commandement as well as take up the Crosse and follow me This last cannot be done but by doing the first Well sell oftentimes but seldome give and happily that is the reason we sell so often He that keeps all to himselfe takes not the right way to thrive The Corn that lies in the Granarie will bring no harvest It is most commonly the foode of vermine and some creatures of the night and darknesse Charity is a relique of Paradise and pitty is a strong argument that we are all descended from one man He that carries this rare Jewell about him will every where meete with some kindred He is quickly acquainted with distressed persons and their first sight warmes his blood I could believe that the word stranger is a notion received from the posterity of Cain who killed Abel The Hebrewes in their own tribes called those of the farthest degree brothers and sure they erred lesse from the law of pure Nature then the rest of the Nations which were left to their owne lusts The afflictions of man are more moving then of any other Creature for he onely is a stranger here where all things else are at home But the losing of his innocency and his device of Tyranny have made him unpittied and forfeited a prerogative that would have prevailed more by submission then all his posterity shall do by opposition Not to give to one that lacks is a kind of murther Want and famine are destroyers as well as the sword and rage very frequently in private when they are not thought of in the Publick The blessed JESUS who came into the World to rectifie Nature and to take away the inveterate corruptions of man was not more in any of his precepts then in that which bids us Love one another This is the cement not onely of this World but of that other which is to come Blessed are the mercifull and give to him that asketh thee proceeded from the same lips of truth And in his description of the last judgement he grounds the sentence of condemnation pronounced against the wicked upon no other fact but because they did not cloath the naked feed the hungry and take in the stranger Love covers a multitude of sins and God loves the chearfull giver But this is not our whole duty though we give our bodies to be burnt and give all our goods unto the poor yet without holinesse we shall never see the face of God Darknesse cannot stand in the presence of light and flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdome of God The great difficulty then as our holy Bishop here saith is to become a living sacrifice and truly the next way to it is by an Evangelical disposing of these outward incumbrances this will open and prepare the way before us though it takes nothing from the length of it The Hawke proines and rouseth before she flyes but that brings her not to the mark Preparations and the distant flourishes of Array will not get the field but action and the pursuance of it His Estate in France being thus disposed of he retyred into Italy where having done the like to his Patrimonies there hee came to Millaine and was honourably received by holy Ambrose then Bishop of that Sea But these gay feathers of the World being thus blown off him by the breath of that Spirit which makes the dry tree to become green and the spices of the Garden to flow out all his kindred and former acquaintance became his deadly Enemies Flyes of estate follow Fortune and the Sun-shine friendship is a thing much talked off but seldome found I never knew above two that loved without selfe-ends That which passeth for love in this age is the meere counter to it It is policie in the cloathes of love or the hands of Esau with the tongue of Jacob. These smooth Cheats the World abounds with There is Clay enough for the potter but little dust whereof commeth Gold The best direction is Religion find a true Christian and thou hast found a true friend He that fears not God will not feare to do thee a mischiefe From Millaine he came to Rome where he was honourably entertained by all but his own kindred and Siricius the great Bishop It was the ill Fortune of this zealous Pope to be offended not onely with Paulinus but with that glorious Father Saint Hierome It was a perillous dissolutenesse of some Bishops in that Century to admit of Lay-men and unseason'd persons into the Ministry This rash and impious practice Siricius had by severall strict Sanctions or decrees condemned and forbidden and it is probable that the reason of his strange carriage towards Paulinus and Hierome was because he would not seem to connive at any persons that were suddenly ordained though never so deserving lest he should seeme to offend against his own edicts It is a sad truth that this pernicious rashnesse of Bishops fighting ex diametro with the Apostolical cautions hath oftentimes brought boars into the Vineyard and Wolves into the sheepfold which complying afterwards with all manner of Interests have torne out the bowels of their Mother Wee need no examples Wee have lived to see all this our selves Ignorance and obstinacie make Hereticks And ambition makes Schismaticks when they are once at this passe they are on the way toward Atheisme I do not say that Ecclesiastical pol●ty is an inviolable or sure sense against Church-rents because there is a necessity that offences must come though wo to them by whom but rules of prevention are given and therefore they should not be slighted The Bride-groom adviseth his spouse to take these foxes while they are litle In a pleasant field halfe a mile distant from Nola lies the Sepulcher of the blessed Martyr Felix To this place which from his youth hee was ever devoted to did Paulinus now retire It was the custom of holy men in that age no● onely to live near the Tombs of the Martyrs but to provide also for their buriall in those places because they were sure that in the Resurrection and the terrours of the day of Judgement God would descend upon those places in the soft voyce that is to say

those which are drowned these last are innumerable thought it is thought otherwise because they are sunk into the bottom and cannot be seen Admit not I beseech thee for a testimony against● Death those ejulations and tears which darken Funerals and make foul weather in the fairest faces Opinion makes the people compassionate and they bewail not the party that is dead but their owne frailty Call not for evidence to the teares of strangers because thou knowest not whence they flow but call for it to thine own for none of us is happy or miserable but in his own sense which makes us any thing What reason hast thou to think life better then death because others mourne when thou dyest who when thou wert born didst weep thy selfe It is madnesse to judge our selves miserable because others think so The solemnities of death are contrary to the ceremonies of life At the birth of man others laugh but he himself weeps At his death others weep but surely hee rejoyceth unlesse his ill life hath made his death deadly Nor must thou think that his joy is either little or none at al because it is not manifested unto thee Thou mayst lye watching by the side of one that dreams of Heaven is conversing with Angels but unlesse hee tells it thee when he is awaked thou canst discover no such thing while he sleepes The Infant that is born weeping learns to laugh in his sleep as Odo and Augustine have both observed So he that bewailed his birth with tears welcomes the shadow of his death with smiles He presaged miseries to follow his nativity and beatitude his dissolution Weeping is natural tears know their way without a g●ide Mirth is rude and comes on slowly and very late nor comes it then without a supporter and a leader It must be taught and acquired Weeping comes with the Infant into the world Laughing is afterwards taught him the Nurse must both teach and invite him to it When he sleeps then he sips and tasteth joy when he dies then he sucks and drinkes it Mourning and grief are natural they are born with us Mirth is slow-paced and negligent of us The sense of rejoycing if we beleeve Avicenna comes not to the most forward child till after the fortieth day Men therefore weep at thy death because it is an experiment they have not tryed and they laugh at thy birth because the miseries of thy life must not be born by them Thou onely art the infallible diviner of thy own frail condition who refusest it with teares which are the most proper expressions of unwilling constrained nature But as the ceremonies of Life and Death are contrary so he that is born and he that dyes have different events Death to some seems to destroy all but she restores all By discomposing things she puts them in their order For he that inverts things that were be●ore inverted doth but reduce them to their right Positure The Funeral rite of the T●bitenses who are certain East-Indians is to turn the inside of their garments outward they manifest that part which before was hidden and conceale that part which before was manifest by which they seeme in my opinion to point at the liberty of the soul in the state of death and the captivity of the body whose redemption must bee expected in the end of the world This inversion by death is reparation and a preparative for that order wherein all things shall be made new Most true is that saying of the Royal Preacher 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A good name is above precious ointment and the day of death is better then the day of ones birth But thou wilt ask To whom is the day of death better than the day of his nativity It is in the first place to him that dies True thou wilt say if he be a just and holy man Yea say I though he be wicked Who doubts that there can happen in all their lives a better day to the just and honest then the day of death which frees them both from seeing and from feeling the miseries which are in this world As for the unjust it is most certain that no day can be more beneficiall to them then that which sets an end to their impieties tyranny perjury and sacriledge To deny a sword to one that would murther himself is benevolence to deny money to a Gamester that would presently cast it away is courtesie and to deny life to those that would use it to their owne damnation is Mercy and not Judgement But to whom besides these is the day of death better then the day of life Certainly to God Almighty because in that day when the wicked dye his Justice on them and his Mercy towards his own are conspicuous to all and acknowledged by all And to whom else Not to speak of the rich and amb●tious It is good to all men to the whole Creation and to Nature it self For in that day the fair order and prerogative of Nature is vindicated from the rage and rape of lustfull intemperate persons It becomes constant consonant and inviolable by putting off those gross vestiments which make her productions subject to the assaults and violence of man who is the most perverse and shamelesse defacer of Gods Image in himself and the most audacious and abhominable contemner of his Ordinances in his works by using them to a contrary end and quite different from that which their wise Creator made them for But let us not consider the goodnesse of death by those evils onely which it freeth us from but by the blessings also which it brings along with it Their soules are by some men less valued then Fortune and temporal power Some cast away their lives to winne a Crowne yea the Crowne and the Kingdome of another They plot to forfeit a Crown of Eternall glory by usurping a transitory one They murther their owne soules by shedding the blood of some innocent persons permitted to be overcome by men that they might have power with God and prevail Shall the short sove●aignty and sway of some small corners and spots of earth be compared to the everlasting triumphs in the Kingdom of Heaven The death of the sufferer is in this case the most gainfull the more he loseth by it upon earth his gain is by so much the greater in heaven The shorter our stay is here our time above if reckon'd from the day of our death is the longer but hath no end at all and the more our sufferings are the greater shall our glory be Hegesias the Cyrenian when he praised death promised not these blessings of Immortality but onely an end of temporall miseries and yet he did so far prevail with his Auditors that they preferred death to life they contemned the one and so lusted after the other that they would not patiently expect it but did impatiently long for it they fel upon their own swords and forced death to come on by

of those that sin against their own soules can be no authority unto us I beseech you look alwayes upon the vices of others as their shame not your example If it be your pleasure to look for examples seek them rather from that party which though the least yet if considered as it is a distinct body is numerous enough Seek them I say from that party wherein you shall find those ranged who wisely understood wherefore they were born and accordingly while they lived did the businesse of life who eminent for good works and excelling in virtue pruned and drest the present life and planted the future Nor are our examples though of this rare kind only copious but great withall and most illustrious For what worldly nobility what honours what dignity what wisdom what eloquence or learning have not betaken themselves to this heavenly warfare what soveraignty now hath not with all humility submitted to this easie yoke of Christ And certainly it is a madnesse beyond error and ignorance for any to dissemble in the cause of their salvation I could but that I will not be tedious to you out of an innumerable company produce many by name and shew you what eminent and famous men in their times have forsaken this World and embraced the most strict rules of Christian Religion And some of these because I may not omit all I shall cursorily introduce Clement the Roman of the stock of the Caesars and the Antient Linage of the Senatours a person fraught with Science and most skillfull in the liberall Arts betook himself to this path of the just and so uprightly did he walk therein that he was elected to the Episcopal dignity of Rome Gregorie of Pontus a Minist●r of holy things famous at first for his humane learning and eloquence became afterwards more eminent by those Divine Graces conferr'd upon him For as the Faith of Ecclesiastical History testifies amongst other miraculous signes of his effectual devotion he removed a Mountain by prayer and dried up a deep lake Gregory Nazianzen another holy Father given also at first to Philosophie and humane literature declined at last those Worldly rudiments and embraced the true and Heavenly Philosophy To whose industry also wee owe no meaner a person then Basil the Great for being his intimate acquaintance and fellow-student in secular Sciences he entred one day into his Auditory where Basilius was then a Reader of Rhetorick and leading him by the hand out of the School disswaded him from that imployment with this gentle reproofe Leave this Vanity and study thy Salvation And shortly after both of them came to be famous and faithfull Stewards in the house of God and have left us in the Church most usefull and pregnant Monuments of their Christian learning Paulinus Bishop of Nola the great Ornament and light of France a person of Princely revenues powerfull eloquence and most accomplish'd learning so highly approved of this our profession that choosing for himself the better part he divided all his Princely Inheritance amongst the poor and afterward filled most part of the World with his elegant and pious writings Hilarius of late and Petronius now in Itaelie both of them out of the fulnesse of Secular honours and power betook themselves to this Course the one entring into the religion the other into the Priesthood And when shall I have done with this great cloud of witnesses If I should bring into the field all those eloquent Contenders for the Faith Firmianus Minutius Cyprian Hilary Chrysostome and Ambrose These I believe spoke to themselves in the same words which another of our profession used as a sparre to drive him●elfe out of the Secu●ar life into this bless●d and Heavenly vocation They said I believe What is this The unlearned get up and lay hold upon the Kingdome of Heaven and we with our learning behold where we wallow in flesh and blood This sure they said and upon this consideration they also rose up and tooke the Kingdome of Heaven by force Having now in part produced these reverend witnesses whose zeal for the Christian faith hath exceeded most of their successours though they also were bred up in secular rudiments perswasive eloquence and the Pomp and fulnesse of honours I shall descend unto Kings themselves and to that head of the World the Roman Empire And here I think it not necessary that those Royal religious Antients of the old World should be mentioned at all Some of their posterity and the most renowned in our Sacred Chronicles I shall make use of as David for Piety Josiah for Faith and Ezechias for Humility The later times also have been fruitfull in this kinde nor is this our age altogether barren of pious Princes who draw near to the Knowledge of the onely true and Immortal King and with most contrite and submissive hearts acknowledge and adore the Lord of Lords The Court as well as the Cloyster hath yeelded Saints of both Sexes And these in my opinion are more worthy your Imitation then the mad and giddy Commonalty for the examples of these carry with them in the World to come Salvation and in the present World Authority You see also how the dayes and the years and all the bright Ornaments and Luminaries of Heaven do with an unwearied duty execute the commands and decrees of their Creatour and in a constant irremissive tenour continue obedient to his ordinances And shall wee for whose use th●se lights were created and set in the firmament seeing we know our Masters will and are not ignorant of his Commandements stop our ears against them And to these Vast members of the Universe it was but once told what they should observe unto the end of the World but unto us line upon line precept upon precept and whole volumes of Gods Commandements are every day repeated Adde to this that man for this also is in his power should learn to submit himself to the will of his Creator and to be obedient to his Ordinances for by paying his whole duty unto God he gives withall a good example unto men But if there be any that will not returne unto their maker and be healed can they therefore escape the Arme of their Lord in whose hand are the Spirits of all flesh Whither will they fly that would avoyd the presence of God What Covert can hide them from that Eye which is every where and sees all things Let them heare thee holy David let them heare thee Psalm 139. Whither shall I go from thy presence or whither shall I flee from thy Spirit If I ascend up into Heaven thou art there if I make my bed in Hell b●hold thou art there If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the Sea Even there shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand stall hold me If I say surely the darknesse shall cover me even the night shall be light about thee Yea