your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid if ye loved me ye would rejoyce ib. 27 28. A glimpe onely and tast of this joy put Peter beside himselfe Master it is good for us to be here let us here pitch tabernacles and not downe to the world againe Motives to Fear Fear is the betraying of those succours which reason offereth Wisd 17 12. arising from dangers which reason telleth us we are unable to withstand These dangers may affright us 1. in our temporall estate 2. in our spirituall 3. in our eternall being hereafter For temporall afrightments what thunders are so terrible startling as those against 1. Pharoah and Egypt for his perfidious and treacherous dealing with Gods people Ezech. 29. 2. against Tyrus and their King for their pride and luxury 3. against Babylon Isa 13. and 14. for their captivating and insulting upon Gods people 2. For his temporal estate Cain complained not Gen. 4.14 but the feare of a guilty conscience was a Fury that ever haunted him My punishment is greater then I can bear Behold thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth and from thy face shall I be hid and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond and it shall come to passe that every one that findeth me shall slay me A scantling of the third It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10.31 This fcarfulnesse in proposing the law was so terrible that the people could not endure that which was commanded and if so much as a beast touch the mountain it shall be stoned and thrust through with a dart and so terrible was the sight that Moses said I exceedingly feare and quake Heb. 12.20 21. What horrour will then be can any heart imagine when the sun shall become as black as sack-cloth of hair and the moone and the stars of heaven fall unto the earth even as the fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind when the heavens shall depart as a scroul rolled together and every mountaine and iland shall be removed out of their places when the Kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondman and every free-man shall hide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountaines and shall say unto the rocks and mountaines Fall on us and to the hills Cover us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 6. When the dismall doome is once pronounced Go ye cursed of my father into everlasting fire prepared for the devill and his angells Matth. 25.41 Motives to Joy Joy the ayme of all our desires must be raysed especially on the serious consideration 1. of joy in the holy Ghost 2. comfort in a good conscience 3. a chearfull and thankfull use of temporall blesings These depend one on the other Temporals delight not if conscience be not satisfied conscience receives not content but from assurances from the holy Spirit that all is well Amongst the fruits of the spirit this joy is served in with love which quickneth all the rest The fruit of the Spirit is lov joy peace long-suffering gentlenes goodnes faith meeknes temperance against such there is no law Galat. 5.22 23. Upon this is grounded that holy frolick if the word profane not of the Apostle to the Philippians Rejoyce in the Lord alwaies and again I say rejoyce Let your moderation be knowen unto all men the Lord is neer at hand Phil. 4.4 5. Upon which grounds we have the excitation of the church O come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our salvation Psalm 95. O be joyfull in the Lord all ye lands Psal 100. O sing unto the Lord a new song Psal 98. And divers other Psalms set to the same key of joy This was the rejoycing of the blessed-Virgin My spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour Luk 1.47 That which our Saviour exhorteth his disciples unto In this rejoyce not that the spirits are subject to you but rather rejoyce that your names are written in heaven 2. Luk. 10.20 All the dayes of the afflicted are evill but he that is of a merry heart upon a good conscience hath a continuall feast Prov. 15.15 This merry heart maketh a cheareful countenance but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken Ib. For our rejoycing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world 2 Cor. 1.12 Thus the Apostles when they were beaten and threatned after their imprisonment by the high priests command departed from the presence of the Council rejoycing that they were accounted worthy to suffer for his name Act. 5.41 It was St. Paul's excercise to have a conscience voyd of offence towards God and towards men Act. 24.16 And the Hebrews tooke joyfully the spoyling of their goods knowing in themselves that they had in heaven a better and an enduring substance Heb. 10.34 3. Joy and thankfullnesse for temporall blessings are not onely approved but enjoyned Thou shalt rejoyce before the Lord in acknowledgment of temporal blessings Deut. 12.12.18 At the presenting of the first fruits and tithes after a set paryer it is added Thou shalt rejoyce in every good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee and unto thine house thou and the Levite and the stranger that is among you Deut 26.11 When God crowneth the yeer with goodnesse and the clouds drop fatness upon the dwellings of the wildernesse the little hills are brought in to rejoyce on every side when the folds shall be full with sheep the vallies also shall stand so thick with corne that they shall laugh and sing Psal 65.12 Whereupon the Kingly prophet sets forth a proclamation O prayse the Lord for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God yea a joyfull and pleasant thing it is to be thankefull Psal 147. Motives to Sorrow A sorrowfull spirit is a sacrifice to God despise not O Lord humble and contrite hearts Psal 51.9 Sorrow ariseth commonly from any thing that crosseth our desires and therefore may be either 1. godly or 2. worldy Concerning both which we have that of the Apostle Though I made you sorry with a letter I do not repent though I did repent for I perceive that the same Epistle hath made you sorry though it be but for a season Now I rejoyce not that ye were made sorry but that ye sorrowed to repentance for ye were made sorry after a godly manner that ye might receive dammage by us in nothing for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of but the sorrow
Psal 22.1 O God my heart is ready my heart is ready I will sing and give praise with the best member that I have Psal 18.1 2. A complaint studded with such sparkling gems we have Psal 69. 3. Quick speeches called by the Preacher goads and nails fastned by the masters of the assemblies Eccles 12.11 come under this reckoning As Our Saviour turned water into wine to supply the new married's wants but we turn wine into water out of luxurious wantonnesse If St. Peter's successor were stinted to his founder's allowance Silver and gold have I none he would quickly be weary of the Chair which hath so scant a cushion Both sorts of those fanaticks are to blame as well those that will have no set prayers as those that will have no prayers but set God makes Protestants but the Papists make god Religion makes us but they make religion and this made-religion they maintain that this maintained may maintain them We should as well apply our selves to Christs merits that so his merits might be rather a stay to our infirmities then a stale to our enormities We must therefore couple faithfulnesse with faith that we may do as well as believe and that because we do believe We must take heed that whilst we hunt after neat expressions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Col. 2.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 1.19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ib c. 7.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephes 5.6 we let not slip the thing that should be chiefly pressed and expressed Divers aim to shew how much they can say on a Text with no regard at all how little their auditors can bear away as though they came into a Pulpit to open onely their store not to feed their flocks and to beg applause of their Congregation that they are ready Preachers not to so lead them that they may be profitable hearers Such sounding brasse is not fit metal to make vessels for the Temple and such tinckling cymballs without solidity and charity make fit musick for a May-pole These sycophanticall sermonings angling for gain more then souls and applause more then the proficiency of the hearers the Apostle calls God to witness was far from his manner of teaching 1 Thess 2.4 5. CHAP. IV. * Called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quia affectus seu motus animi istas Sententiarum figuras praecipué sequuntur Differt Sententiae figura à figura Dictionis quòd illa sententias illuminet in figuris autem dictionis aptè jucundè inter se resonent deinde quòd sententiarum conformationes mutatis verbis confistere possunt Figurae autem dictionis non item quia mutatis sedibus perit resonantia quâ fit color Of Schemes TO teach to delight and throughly to perswade are the scopes of Oratory After teaching-Tropes therefore and delighting-Figures convincing and perswading Schemes may be well enquired after These come under the titles of 1. Ecphonesis 2. Epanorthosis 3. Apostrophe 4. Prosopopoea 5. Aporia 6. Anacoinosis 7. Synchoresis * Exclamatio because in the pronountiation there is required a straining and elevation of the voice the signe of which is either some Adverb or Interjection Ecce quà m bonum quà m jucundum habitare fratres in unum Psal 133. O prosundas divitias tum sapientiae tum cognitionis Dei quà m inscrutabilia sunt ejus judicia ejus viae impervestigabiles Rom. 11.35 Ecphonesis Ecphonesis or exclamations are raised upon so various occasions that they can hardly be confined most fall within compasse of these limits 1. Of Admiring How is the faithfull city become an harlot It was full of judgment righteousnesse lodged in it but now murderers Thy silver is become drosse Isa 1.21 thy wine mixt with water 2. Wishing O that they Gods people were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end Deut. 32.29 O that my people would have hearkened unto me If Israel had walked in my waies I should have soon put down their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries The haters of the Lord should have been found lyers Also with the finest wheat-flower and with hony out of the stony-rock should I have satisfied thee Psal 14.15 16. O that thou wouldest rend the heavens that thou wouldest come down that the mountains might flow down at thy presence as when the fire of melting burneth Isa 64. the fire that causeth the waters to boil to make thy name known to thine adversaries 3. Complaining O Lord what shall I say when Israel turn their backs before their enemies for the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it and shall environ us round and cut off our name from the earth and what wilt thou do unto thy great name Josh 7.8 O God wherefore art thou absent from us so long why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture O think upon thy congregation whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance and mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt Lift up thy feet that thou maist utterly destroy every enemy which hath done evill in thy sanctuary Psal 74. O wretched man that I am Rom. 7.24 who shall deliver me from this body of death 4. Indignation O generation of Vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come Matth. 3.7 O faithlesse and perverse generation how long shall I be with you how long shall I suffer you Matth. 17.17 O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken Luk. 24.25 Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears ye do alwaies resist the holy Ghost as your fathers did so do ye Act. 7.51 O full of subtlety and all mischief thou child of the devill Act. 13.10 thou enemy of all righteousnesse wilt you not cease to pervert the wayes of the Lord 5. Exsultation Behold how good and joyfull a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity Psal 133.1 What reward shall I give unto the Lord Psal 116.11 for all the benefits he hath done unto me 6. Insultation How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer son of the morning How art thou cast down to the ground which didst weaken the nations Isa 14.12 O thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetuall end Psal 9.6 even of the Cityes which thou hast destroyed their memorial is perished with them 7. Commiseration Ah Lord God! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israell in pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem Ezek. 9.8 Behold O Lord and consider to whom thou hast done this shall the women eat their fruit and children of a span long shall the Priest and the Prophet be slaine in the Sanctuary of the Lord Lam. 2.20 To this Exclamation may be referred an * Rei narratae vel probatae summa acclamatio Quint. ut Tantae molis erat Romanam condere
if thou refuse to let him goe behold I will slay thy son even thy first born Exod. 4.22 23. And often he had brought them out to the confusion of mighty Pharoah and all their opposites and supplied their wants What heart would not melt to ponder that affectionate winning speech And now Israel what doth thy Lord thy God require of thee but to fear thy God and to walk in his waies and to love him and to serve thy Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul Deuter. 10. More patheticall is that if it may be concerning their hard usage though deserved from Assur and Babel Israel is a scattered sheep the lyons have driven him away first the King of Assyria hath devoured him and last this Nebuchadnezzar hath broken his bones Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts behold I will punish the King of Babylon and his land as I have punished the King of Assyria and I will bring Israel again into his habitation and he shall feed in Carmel and Bashan and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead In those dayes and at that time saith the Lord the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none and the sins of Judah and they shall not be found for I will pardon them whom I reserve Go up against the land of the rebells over against it and against the inhabitants of Pekoda that are to be visited waste and utterly destroy after them saith the Lord and do according to all that I have commanded thee Jerem. 50. If this love take not what should the considerations worke 1. that it is the Lord that woeth us that made us and not we our selves 2. that loved so the world being his enemies Joh. 3.16 Rom. 5.10 Col. 1.21 that he sent his only begotten son to redeem us from hellish slavery to an everlasting kingdome 3. that sent his holy spirit to be our comforter Joh. 16. to helpe our infirmities Rom. 8.26 and to cry Abba father 4. Psal 119. his word to be a perpetuall lanthorn unto our feet and a light unto our pathes 5. his blessing for our supply in all necessaries all conveniences Verily thou shalt be fed Psal 37.3 When young lyons do lack and suffer hunger those that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing Psal 34.10 his protection and safe conduct from the roaring Lion 1 Pet. 5.8.0 and his complices that walketh about seeking whom he may devoure 7. his deliverance from all contempts Psal 107.41 and pressures Motives to preserve love our selves What can be more patheticall then that of our Saviour What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his owne soul or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul Matth 16.26 or that of Job What is the hope of the hypocrit though he hath gaine When God taketh away his soul will God hear his cry when trouble commeth upon him Will he delight himselfe in the Almighty will he all way call upon God Job 26.8 Or that of the Apostle Know you not that your members are the the members of Christ shal I take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot God forbid 1 Cor. 6.15 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and the spirit of God dwelleth in you if any man defileth the temple of God him God will destroy For the Temple of God is holy whose temple ye are 1 Cor. 3.16 17. Ye are not your own ye are bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit which are Gods 1 Cor. 6.19 20. For the loving of Gods Church and our neighbours and enemies what can be more pathetical then that speech watered with teares of our Saviour over Jerusalem When he was come neer he beheld the city wept over it saying If thou hadst known even in this thy day the things that belong unto thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes Luk. 19.41 42. The Aposiopesis makes it more passionate As that of Moses for the people O this people have sinned a great sin and made them Gods of gold yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin If not blot me I pray thee out of the book which thou hast written Exod. 32.31 32. which St. Paul professeth in plainer speech I say the truth in Christ I ly not my conscience bearing me witnesse in the holy ghost that I have great heavynesse and continuall sorrow in my heart For I could wish my selfe were accursed from Christ for my brethren my kinsmen acording to the flesh Rom. 9.1 2 3. And what a lamentation have we of Davids for Saul his enemy 2 Sam. 1.17 And of Jeremiah for Zedekiah and Jerusalem that had used him so barbarously in his passionate Threnes Which are a sufficient pattern where love should be opened and placed which our Saviour urgeth as the cheife mark of his followers A new commandement I give you that ye love one another as I have loved you that ye also love one another By this shall all men knovv that ye are my disciples if ye love one another Joh. 13.34 35. Which is farther urged by that beloved disciple 1 Joh. 4. from the 7 v. to the end of the Chapter Motives to hatred May be especially bent against 1. sluggishnesse 2. impertinences 3. sordid avarice 4. bestiall luxury 5. brutish inhumanity 6. persidious breach of promises oathes and vowes 7. and rebellion against such as God hath set over us For the first To the Ant thou sluggard consider her wayes and be wise which having no guid overseer or ruler provideth her food in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest How long wilt thou sleep ô sluggard when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of thy hands to sleep So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth and thy vvant as an armed man Pro. 6. Why stand ye here Idle Matth. 20. Belly-gods vvhose glory is their shame Phil. 3 r9 to whom the Apostle would have no victuall afforded 2 Thess 3.10 Notwithstanding 2. such pragmaticall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and busy-bodies will work not at all as they should but disorder all 2 Thess 3.11 these will be digging a pit which themselves fall into breaking hedges till a serpent bite them removing stones and cleaving wood whereby they shall be hurt and endangered Eccles 10.8 and slaves on hors-back when Princes goe on foot ib. Promising liberty to others when they themselves are the servants of corruption 2 Pet. 2.19 Women will have their share amongst them with their tattling 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and idle running from house to house 1 Tim. 5.13 And some of the pick-thanke tencher-chaplaines who will take upon them to epis copize it in other mens diocesses 1 Pet. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4.13 till a judgment
of the world worketh death 2 Cor. 7.8.9.10 Motives to Godly sorrow are frequently met with in Scripture For 1. private corruptions 2. publick calamities 3. praevayling pressures and insultations of Satan and his adhaerents to the scandall of christian religion and professon 1. What an heart-breaking was this to David Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive or warme m◠Psal 51.5 Mine iniquities are gone over my head and are a sore burden for me too heavy for me to beare Psal 38 4. Innumerable troubbles are come about me my sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to looke up yea they are more in number then the hairs of my head and my heart hath failed me O Lord let it be thy pleasure to deliver me make haste O Lord to help me Psal 40.15 16. When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin thou makest his beauty to consume avvay as it vvere a moth fretting of a garment Every man therefore is but vanity Psal 39.12 whence St. Paul bemoans himselfe I delight in the law of God after the inward man Rom. 7. but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death sin must needs bring sadnesse to many that proved so odious to God's nature that it ruined the angells bereaved Adam of Gods favour and Paradise could not be expiated but by the son of God who knew no sin yet was made sin for us that we might be made the righteousnes of God in him 2 Cor. 5.21 2. How publick calamities affect the heart with sorrow of all those that are true of heart may be gathered by those passionate passages of Isaiah Look away from me for I will weep bitterly labour not to comfortmè because of the spoyling of the daughter of my people Isa 22.4 Of Jeremy My bowells my bowels I am pained to the very heart The vvall of my heart makes a noyse vvithin we I cannot hold my peace because thou hast heard O my soule the sound of the trumpet the alarm of war Destruction upon destruction is cryed for the vvhole land is spoyled Suddainly are my tents spoyled and my curtaines in a moment Hovv long shall I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet For my people is foolish they have not knowen me they are sottish children they have not understanding they are wise to do evill but to do good they have no knowledg Jerem. 4 O that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of teares that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people Oh that I had in the Wildernesse a lodging place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people and go from them for they be all adulterers an assembly of treacherous men Jer. 9.1 Thus Jerusalem is bemoaned made drunk with the cup of fury that had none of her sons to take her by the hand to guide her of all those she hath brought up but lay as a bull in a net at the head of all the streets Isa 51. 3. Complaints of Sataincall insultations are The ungodly for his own lust doth persecute the poore He is so proud that he careth not for God neither is God in all his thoughts His wayes are always grievous thy judgments are far above out of his sight and therefore defieth he all his enemies For he hath said in his heart Tush I shall never be cast down there shall no harm happen unto me Psal 10. This complaint is taken up again Psal 73. To which satisfaction is given Psal 37. and 49. Jeremy harps upon the same string Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper wherefore are they happy that deal very treacherously Thou hast planted them yea they have taken root they grow yea they bring forth fruit Thou art neer in their mouthes but far from their reines But it followes Those that have so trodden downe the Lords portion and desolated the land shall reap Thornes instead of Wheat put themselves to pain without profit For they shall be asham'd of their revenues because of the fierce anger of the Lord Jer. 12. Motives to Zeal Zeal which may be good or bad Good is either 1 for Gods honour 2 house or 3 people The first was of Elias I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts because the children have forsaken thy Covenant thrown down thy altars and slain thy people with the sword and I even I onely am left and they seek my life to take it away 1 King 19.14 For this zeal Phineas is commended of God Phineas the son of Eliezar the son of Aaron the priest hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel while he was zealous for my sake amongst them that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy Num. 25.11 Of this zeal Jehu boasted Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord so they made him ride in his chariot 2 King 10.16 The 2d sort of zeale may be typified in David The zeale of thy house hath eaten me up and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me Psal 69.9 My zeale hath consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words Psal 119.139 But practised by our Saviour when he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changers of money sitting He made a scourge of small cords and drove them out of the Temple and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changers-mony and over-threw the tables and said unto them that sold doves Take these things hence and make not my Fathers house an house of merchandize And the disciples remembred that it was written The zeale of thine house hath caten me up Joh. 2.14 Much different from the zeale of our modern zealots the zeale of whom eateth up God's house 3. For zeale to Gods people The zeale of Moses and St. Paul are notoriously eminent which was seconded by that of that resolute Priest Mattathias who when he saw a Jew sacrificing to idols was inflamed with zeale and his reins trembled neither could he forbeare to shew his anger according to judgment wherefore he ran and slew him upon the altar Also the Kings commissioners who compelled men to sacrifice he killed at that time and the altar he pulled downe Thus dealt he zealously for the law of God as Phineas did to Zambri the son of Salom. 1 Maccab. 1. Bad zeale spendeth it selfe either in Nemesis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Zelotypia 1 revenge 2 rejoycing at others ruines or 3 in impetuous undertakings and pursuances not acording to knowledg Belonging to the first kind was that of Saul for rooting out the Gibeonites 2 Sam. 21.2 And those more then forty that had bound themselves under a curse