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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17343	The first part of youths errors. Written by Thomas Bushel, the superlatiue prodigall	Bushell, Thomas, 1594-1674.	1628 (1628)	STC 4187; ESTC S114222	35,791	180

to performe thy couenant and as for mans accusation thou knowst hee is arraind at the barre with thee how can hee iudge or condemne thee when all his hope is vpon our Sauiours mercie to redeeme himselfe But if afterwards thou shouldest wilfully continue repleat in any one sinne thy conscience reiterating daily the same and yet wilt obstinatelie perseuere in hope of his mercy I might iustly suspect Iudas receiuing and feare thy damnation when the pensill of the holy Ghost hath exprest He that sinneth wilfullie after receiuing the knowledge of truth there remaines no more sacrifice for sinne but a fearfull looking for iudgement O then flesh of my flesh let my present tortures preuent thy future torments for I call God to witnesse I now wish one of my limbs had perisht when I consented to wilfull sinne or receiued martirdome when I committed mortall sinne doe not then perseuere in offending nor delay thy conuersion for I should sooner curse thy begetting than ioy in thy being or hope of thy atchiuing to Gods Kingdome Trouble not thy selfe with purgatorie for feare of falling into the perpetuall punishment but spend the remainder of thy daies in alms-deeds fasting praying and the like for the surer preuenting of both and gaining of heauen Trust alwaies in Gods prouidence then thy owne conscience will be sure to direct thee better then mens counsells yet in spirituall negotiations and how farre thou maiest trench into temporall affaires without preiudice to soule or bodie Be vigilant to ioyne alwaies thy ghostly father in commission with thy conscience but let thy conscience bee of the coram for he cannot saue thee the other may condemne thee though he must answere it if hee either neglect or direct thee wrongfully howsoeuer his torture will be no mitigation to thy torment Obey the King to the losse of life fortune wife or family but let thy conscience receiue no impression contrary to its own direction for if thy soueraigne be vertuously giuen he will neuer presse thee if otherwise follow thy Sauiours words feare not those that destroy the body but loue and feare him which can destroy both soule and body Fight not against any Nation that doth baptise with signe of the Crosse and beleeues the invisible Trinitie without thou art commanded by thy Soueraigne or inuaded by themselues so shall thy hands be freed from the guilt of christian blood stand not so much vpon the title or theorie of religion as the practise in religion for what is a crowne without a Kingdome honour without vertue or learning without perseuering neither hunt after the diuine and hidden mysteries of predestination election destinie and the like for in my conscience they are left eclipsed and as stumbling blocks for seeming-wise men to stagger at Therefore rest thy soule vpon this resolution that although the causes be not knowne to thee yet vndoubtedly they cannot be vniust being preordaind by the sacred Iudge of all Iudges Shew alwaies a reuerent obedience to the supreme head of the Church vnder Christ Iesus and giue credence to their canon lawes but not as canonicall scripture though they were debated by the consistorie of counsels and established to be● reall in the strength of mans capacitie yet they receiued an impression of mortall frailtie euer since the fall of our first parents howsoeuer owe dutie to them all as laboures of holy fathers but faile not to follow those which thou findest plainely quoted in scripture or recorded in thy conscience so shalt thou offend none but practise all that God will require at thy hands And if the controuersie in supremacie startle thy fidelitie chose rather the explanation of scripture to decide the question than mans disputation so shall thy heart not onely haue the rock of Christ thy leader but his diuine inspiration vpon Peter the Apostle for thy supporter and vnlesse thou findst it recald by re●elation I would not aduise thee ●o beleeue tradition Doe homage ●o God in all sanctified holy pla●es and giue due glory to all ●aints and Angells as inuisible ●reatures already consummated ●y Christ Iesus But thinke not ●f meriting heauen for then I am ●ertaine to behold thee in hell ●hough thou hadst fulfilled the whole law yet thy originall sin would accuse thee thy presump●ion condemne thee and Christs ●eath a witnesse against thee who then will saue thee none ●ut the sentence of Lord haue mercie vpon thee onely thus farre ●hou mayest goe according to humane iudgement and not derogate from the diadem of his sacred Deitie beleeuing through hi● assisting prouident compassion thou standest in a more sure certainty of saluation then whe● thou liuedst in worldly perturbation owe an obseruant obedienc● to those that are elected in th● place of Gods ministers yet conuerse with none but those who● liues are answerable to their profession In so doing thou wilt pr●uent the ones vice and reape th● others vertue for thou canst n● expect to finde all true Leuit● when Christ himselfe found o● in twelue a traytor Giue place t● thy betters respect thy elders e●pecially those that are in author●ty and goe to law with no man but in thy owne defence yet if ●hou canst not play thy part without passion acquite the stage for thou hadst better to lose thy reputation and reuenue than hazard thy soule and body Be curteous to all men hate no man doe good to any man especially to those ●hat cannot requite thee Honour old-age reuerence thy ghostly fa●her and if it be possible remaine ●hy selfe single but aboue all of ●is part so shalt thou be freed from suspecting a third person ●hough the sacred integritie of the others fatherly friendship may be ●quall yet nature will be iealous ●nd make thee alwaies suspicious which in time might proue pernicious Deuote a daily dutie to the sect of women and when thou beholdest any whose ornaments are decent commend them if curteous requite them if charitable extoll them if vertuous adore them but if vicious loath them if ambitious scorne them and if malicious shunne them so shal● thou bee freed from the ones iniquitie and share in the others vertue for there is no such companion as a discreet religious woman which to my great comfort haue knowne the one and to my ouercharged griefe the other But i● thou appeare so infortunate a● to forsake the celestiall rites of a single life to obtayne the society of a temporall wife let her vertues be the foundation of thy affection and thy conscience debate vpon confirmation before thou conclude a resolution that God may honour the vnion and your selues ioy in the coniunction which if diuine prouidence blesse the fruit of her wombe let thy inward loue be equally descended to thy eldest as scripture hath commanded and thy gentle correction as occasion shal be required so mayest thou redeeme thy virginitie in raising a posteritie to glorifie God by a fraternitie But aboue all be sure to let charitie be thy gentry and

humilitie thy honour let loue be thy laurell and loyaltie thy louer let aduersity be thy fortitude and fortune thy flatterer let vertue by thy veritie and patience thy paterne let wisdome be thy wealth and reason thy ruler let sinne be thy enemy and thy selfe her sister let truth be thy tongue and temperance thy taster let iustice be thy iudge and conscience thy Iuror let faith be thy father and obedience thy brother let children be thy blessing and education their portion let mercy bee thy matron and meeknesse thy minion let curtesie be thy kinsman and chastitie thy cosen-german let virginitie be thy affection and vtilitie thy afliction let repentance be thy profession and prayers thy peregrination let confession be thy contemplation and contrition thy regeneration Let life be thy lamentation and death thy preparation Let thy speech be plausible and thy protestations irreuocable Let thy studies be celestiall and thy sorrowes supernaturall Let thy sighes be Sacramentall and thy groanes coëternall Let thy diet be debility and thy attire decencie Let want be thy infirmitie and Will thy integritie Let thy hope be heauenlie and feare thy frailty Let grace be thy guide and God thy glory Thus in a word thou pledge of my posteritie thinke speake and deale with God as if all the world did behold thee and liue and conuerse with man as if God saw thee So shalt thou appeare the liuely image of thy maker the crowne of thy mother the honour of thy name and the repairing of the Angels God leade thee by the hand and a fathers blessing goe with thee as thou perseuerst in the practise of these precedent precepts To his louing brother Edward Bushel Esquire BEst beloued to annihilate your least suspition of my fidelitie or selfe-wild imbecilitie in this my retirde pleasing life I ingenuously acknowledge that mutuall fraternitie ioyned with inward spiration to glorifie God is best pleasing most accepted and greatest rewarded So that I am confident a publique religious life is better than any monasticke priuate liuing by how much virginitie is esteemed aboue mariage yet the leaw warranted to be honourable according to the Apostles words If thou doest marry thou doest well but if thou canst abstaine 't is better So likewise if tho● canst liue priuate without wilfull sinne it is well but if thou canst publique it were better And where he saith better to marry then to burne 1 Cor. 7.9 euen so my conscience assures me that it is better to liue priuately without sinne than burne publiquely in sinne for you know in the one there is hope of saluation but in the other certaintie of damnation Which reduc'de mee to apply for experiment this soli●ary course to prohibite mee from former follies and preuent futur● perils For you know from min● infancie I so much naturally delighted in a male-contented life a● our parents disciplinde gentle correction to withdraw me fearing 〈◊〉 was bewitched Likewise in the height of my prodigallity both your selfe and others were witnesses how I then made triall at a poore fishers habitation which God knowes would haue long continued had not my popula● name beene knowne yet in those dayes such was my childishnesse that more fear'd the preiudice of my base reputation then the displeasure of my Sauiour like iesting Pilate which beleeued the innocencie of Christ howsoeuer to satisfie the Iewes crucified him Luk. 23.14 Besides for almost three yeeres you know I was tost vpon the waues of time in expectation of a familiar companion who at last to my great griefe vnfriendly left mee for no other reason I could imagine but that he would verifie our Sauiours speech Mat. 20.16 Many that are first shall be last and the last first So that it is no new fantasie but hatching from my cradle as God knowes some particular friends that my determination was long agoe bent to leaue the world deny my selfe regaine the time and follow him were it within the caues of the earth if his Diuine pleasure allotted mee But what through the rawnesse of yeeres natures frailtie and instigation of others I remain'd so long with taking leaue of my houshold and striuing to satisfie the humours of mortall friends that almost my vitall hope was turned into despaire of immortall glory But thankes be to the Diuine prouidence my own conscience is enlightened by the Gospel of Christ to warrant mee his mercies will heare my supplications from a poore Cell as hee did Ionas in the Whales belly Ion. 2.1 So that if now I should reuolt hauing had a yere of vnparallel'd experience for either temporall fortune or fear of corporal affliction I must account the offence vnpardonable when the pensill of holy Ghost hath dictated the same by these irremarkeable fatall words If wee sinne wilfully Heb. 10.26 after the receiuing the knowledge of the truth there remaines no more sacrifice for sinne but a fearefull looking for iudgement Therfore I hope by Gods permission your beliefe of my fidelitie will expell all doubts scruples or feares knowing that I haue bequeathed these lines to ensuing memorie as a recorded witnesse on the contrarie against mee at the Day of Iudgement 2 Pet. 2.21 In the meane time let him that is tied to loue you as his owne soule perswade your diligent search into the world without partialitie and then I dare boldly say you will find nought worth louing no fortune worth valuing nor no pleasure worth following but he that first made you in conscience then he ought onely to be lou'd valu'd and seru'd For my owne part I by woefull experience haue found it you by tradition from a brother may shun it Let not then others ends set a● end to your owne happinesse no natures frailtie barre the fruition of your future felicity but be sur● to curbe the one and scorne the other in so doing your conscience shall say I was your friend no● your flatterer as mine must alwaies acknowledge you a father more then a brother Yet giue me leaue louingly to chide your wilfulnesse since by Diuine prouidence I haue rebuked my ignorance Your causes of discontents it s knowne rise early will you therefore keepe them in perpetuall waking Those crosses that stand betwixt you and happines are mortall must you then make your sorrowes perpetuall and immortal The way to shorten them is to sleight them and the best meanes to mitigate them is not to minde them I by experience doe sensibly feele it you by practise may bee sure to finde it O then gentle brother let not griefe for a wildernesse Mar. 8.36 preuent your birth-right in Paradise for vnder correction deerest Sir if you cannot brooke a temporall misfortune in my conscience you will neuer attaine to a spirituall blessing when our Sauiour and all his Elect are witnesses against you Mar. 10.24 yet I must confesse your afflictions are greater then mine though my sinnes are a thousand for one of yours Howsoeuer not equall