silver and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five 2 King 6. Gehazi vvill cheat both Naaman and his Master though the Leprosie attend it 2 King 5. And Korah vvith his complices oppose Moses and Aaron though the earth her selfe doth gape to svvallovv them for it and their families Instead of acknovvledging of our rebellions vve cry out vvith them in the prophet we have no King because we fear not the Lord What should a King do to us false swearing and a covenant will batter fit our plots Hos 10. We vvill not have this man shall reign over us this is the heire come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours Matth. 21. Luke 20. But shal the svvord devour for ever vvill not this bring forth bitternesse in the end 2 Sam. 2.26 In the mean vvhile Jonah sentt to Niniveh flyes to Tarshish and vve vvhen our Master is going to suffer are questioning Who should be chiefest Hovv can vve censure Esau for parting vvith his birth-right at so lovv a rate He vvept vvhen it vvas done but we do vvorse and boast of our bargains O Judas hovv doth our perfidiousnesse justifie thy highest treachery Thou soldest thy Master yet in a desperate kinde of repentance restored'st the money but vve hold it a disparagement to be over-seen in any thing and vvill venture rather Hell and the Gallovvs to be thought grand Politicians then to part vvith that vve have once gotten It vvas a poore content the rich man had of his full barnes that must the same night lose his Soul Luk. 12.16 And Dives feasting vvas not vvorth the reckoning that afforded him not a drop of water for a Grace-cup Luk. 16. The Spirit of the Pythonisse could preach true Doctrin These men are the servants of the high God Acts. 16. but to bring about a plot to drive the Apostles out of Town by the infatuated Aldermen that heeded not God but their gaine Rebobohams brazen shields make a shew as those of Gold placed in the Temple by his wiser father but put to the touch the case is altered The Holy Ghost may be so invocated that instead of a Dove an Owl may make appearance So many men talk of gifts that are but shifts and vaunt of taking pains who from our Saviour in the latter day shall have small thanks for their labour Matth. 7.22 These Rabshakehs will tell us of lands of corn and vvine and olives and honey that they will transplant us unto 2 Kings 18.32 but it will prove better to advise with some trusty Isaiahs then to presume too far upon the Gentleman's word The Woman that upbraided the Shoomaker for want of a shoo to fit her foot was found to have a foot not to be fitted without a mis-shapen shoo made on purpose It is dangerous to break such hedges where a Serpent is like to bite us by the fingers Eccles 10.8 and to poure in new vvine into old vessels that will surely break them Of the three Teaching Fig-trees in the Gospel the first telleth us that leaves without fruit draw on a curse Matth. 21. The second that where dressing helps not it must not any longer stand to burden the ground Luke 13. The third that a day of reckoning is growing upon us Matth. 24. It was too late to gather Mannah when the Sun had risen and melted it and in vain to cry Lord Lord with the foolish virgins when the doores are shut Matth. 25. Thirst is a signe in Physick that the purgation taken hath well wrought as it should My soul hath a thirst for God yea even for the living God when shall I come and appear before the presence of my God Psal 42.2 My meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his worke John 4.34 And Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousnesse for they shall be filled Matthew 5 6. 1. The Generation of vipers 2. Sons of Belial 3. Baal Kemarims 4. tongue-men 5. belly-gods 6. cursed lyers and slanderers 7. filthy dreamers that blaspheme dignities may have their portion here but shall have their potion hereafter fire and brimstone storme and tempest this shall be prepared for them Psalm 11. The Spider weaves a subtile web and watcheth in it diligently to intangle flyes which he may devour but when the beesom of destruction commeth behold his travail shall come upon his own head and his wickedness on his own pate Psalm 7.17 Musicians usually tune their Instruments before they play in consort and the foot should be looked unto before we enter into the house of God except we intend to offer the fool's Sacrifice Eccles 5.1 The water of Siloah that runneth softly will prove better in the end then the Son of Remaliah's over-flowing torrents Every plant that the heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out Matthew 15.13 CHAP. III. Of Figures AS tropicall Speeches consist of choise and gracefull Words So * Called by Cicero Orationis habitus from the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because speech is cloathed and adorned therewith termed Figura because it giveth a new shape or face to the word or sentence that is embelished and set forth with those flowers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch Figura aneem est oratio immutata ab co quod in usu in consuetudine positum est constans fictione quâdam ornatûs aut utilitatis causa Tully in Bruto divides them in verberum sententiarum lumina 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Figures arise from the fit placing disposition or repetition of vvords in Sentences vvhich othervvise vvould be represented as homely or as may be said disfigured In this range are these of especiall Note and Use to which the rest may be reduced 1. Epizeuxis 2. Anaphora 3. Epistrophe 4. Epanalepsis 5. Epanados 6. Paronomasia 7. Polyptôton * Ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jungere because the same vvord is adjoyned or presently repeated therefore termed by Quintilian lib. 9. chap. 3. Geminatio There are three ends of it put down by him there 1. for amplification as occidi occidi non Sp. Metium Wherein the first serves to shew or demonstrate the other to affirme 2. for commiseration Ah Coridon Coridon 3. for elevation being joyned with an Irony Epizeuxis By an Epizeuxis the same vvord is geminated in the same sentence in an elegant earnest manner My heart is fixed O GOD my heart is fixed I vvill sing and give praise Awake up my glory awake up my lute and harp I my selfe vvill awake right early Psalm 57.7 O God to whom vengeance belongeth thou God to whom vengeance belongeth shevv thy selfe Psal 94.1 Hovv long shall the wicked Hovv long shall the wicked triumph Hovv long shall they utter and speak hard things and make such proud boasting Ib. For these things I vveep mine eye mine eye runneth dovvn vvith vvater because the comforter that should relieve my Soul is far
who can heal thee Lament 2.11.13 Howsoever Gods people may be worried and vilified as trampled drosse yet God professeth He will make them his battle-axe and weapons of War Jer. 51.20 21 22. For with thee saith he will I break in pieces the Nations and with thee will I destroy Kingdomes and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider and with thee will I break in pieces the Chariot and his rider with thee also will I break in pieces man and woman and with thee will I break in pieces old and young and with thee will I break in pieces the young Man and the Maid I will also break in pieces with thee the Shepheard and his flock and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoak of oxen and with thee will I break in pieces Captains and Rulers Jer. 51.20 What went ye out into the wildernesse to see three times assumed Mat. 11.7 The 11th Chapter to the Hebrews is a continued Anaphora by resuming the word By Faith * Rutilius calleth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hermogenes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cicero Conversio quid ad postremum continenter revertimur Auth. ad Heren Epistrophe That elegancy which Anaphora acquires by repeating the same words in the beginning Epistrophe equalls by doing the like in the conclusion which follow one the other Ye house of Israel put your trust in the Lord He is their succour and defender Ye house of Aaron put your trust in the Lord He is their succour and defender Psal 115. So His mercy endureth for ever Psal 136. twenty and seven times repeated To which Figure may be referred that of our Saviour This is the Father's will which hath sent me that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day And this is the will of him that sent me that every one which seeth and believeth in him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day No man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw him and I will raise him up at the last day Joh. 6. Likewise that If thy hand offend thee cut it off it is better for thee to enter into life maimed then having two hands to go into hell into the fire that never shall be quenched And if thy foot offend thee cut it off for it is better for thee to enter in halt into life then having two feet to be cast into hell into the fire that never shall be quenched where the worm dyeth not and the fire is not quenched And if thy eye offend thee pluck it out it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire where the worm dyeth not and the fire is not quenched Mar. 9. So of mysticall Babylon's ruine it is said The voice of harpers and musitians and pipers and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee And no craftsman of whatsoever craft shall be found any more at all in thee and the sound of the mill-stone shall be heard no more at all in thee and the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee and the voice of the bride-groom shall be heard no more at all in thee Rev. 18.22 Under Epistrophe may be compriled * Commoratio quia in loco firmissimo que tota causa continetur monetur diutiùs eodem saepiùs reditur nam commoratio in una re permultùm movet Cicer. de orat Epimone est Tropus in theologiâ quando dictio repetitur ad majorem certitudinem vel defiderii expressionem ut Amen amen dico-vobis Alâ—iâ—i unt quod sit quando dictio non tota repetitur sed principium finis variatur ut Expectando expectavi Vetus Vocabularius Epimone When a sentence as it were the burden of a song is often repeated as that Turn us again thou God of hosts shew us the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole thrice repeated Psal 80. So Why art thou so vexed O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me O put thy trust in God Psal 42.11 So that passage O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men Psal 107. four times repeated As that For all that his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still Isa 9. So that of our Saviour to his Disciples He that loveth father or mother more then me is not worthy of me thrice repeated Matth. 10.37 And so receive a reward Ib. 41. In the same strain is that Charity beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things 1 Cor. 13.7 From Anaphora and Epistrophe joyned together ariseth * Complicatio because both the former Figures are folded and wrapt in this Cum repetitio fit in principiis clausulis Symploce as O give thanks unto the Lord for he is gratious because his mercy endureth for ever Let Israel now confesse that he is gratious and that his mercy endureth for ever Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for ever Yea let all them that fear the Lord confesse that his mercy endureth for ever Psal 118.2 3 4. No man of us liveth to himself and no man dyeth to himself for whether we live we live to the Lord or whether we die we die to the Lord Whether we live therefore or die we are the Lords Rom. 14.7 8. We know in part we prophesy in part but when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things 1 Cor. 13.9 10.11 A stupendious Symploce is that Ezek. 32. Ashur is there and all her company his graves are about him all of them slain fallen by the sword whose graves are set in the side of the pit and her company is round about her grave all of them slain fallen by the sword There is Elam and her multitude round about her grave all of them slain fallen by the sword which are gone down uncircumcised unto the neather parts of the earth which caused their terrour in the land of the living yet have they born their shame with them that go down into the pit So There is Mesech Tubal Edom the Princes of the north and all the Sidonians in the same posture More punctuall is that of Obadiah Obad. 1.13 Thou shouldst not have entred into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity nor laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity To this may be referred that strain of our Saviour If ye love
Praise the Lord O my soul Thus he doth himselfe and makes Apostrophe's to others to do the like O come let us sing unto the Lord Sing unto the Lord a new song So all former Halleluiahs are shut up with an Apostrophe to all Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord Psal 150. * Fictio personae when the person is not there but brought in upon the stage speaking as if he were present So a thing that is mute oft-times is dressed up in a person and words put in his mouth In this there ought to be a decorum observed that ye dresse not the servant like the master but that there be a respect had to the thing personated and accordingly to be clothed with words Prov. 1.22 Prosopopoea By a Prosopopoea 1. Wisdom is filled with a speech How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning and fools hate knowledge Turn at my reproof behold I will pour out my spirit unto you I wil make knovvn my words unto you 2. A Harlot I have peace-offerings with me this day I have payed my vowes Therefore come I forth to meet thee diligently to seek thy face and I have found thee I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry with carved work vvith fine linnen of Egypt I have perfumed my bed vvith myrrh Prov. 7. aloes and cynnamon Come let us take our fill of love untill the morning let us solace our selves with love For the good man is not at home he is gone a long journey he hath taken a bag of mony with him and will come at the day appointed 3. Sacrilegious Church-robbers Come let us root them out that they be no more a people and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance Psal 83.4 4. Hypocriticall Separatists Isa 65.5 that walk after their own thoughts Stand by thy self come not near to me for I am holier then thou 5. Rebells For now they will say We have no King because vve feared not the Lord Hos 10. vvhat then should a King do to us They have spoken vvords svvearing falsly in making a covenant Thus judgment springeth up like hemlock in the furrows of the field The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth aven 6. Wretched Nabals What shall I do I have no room to bestovv my fruits This vvill I do Luk. 12.17 18 19. I vvill pull dovvn my barns and build greater and there vvill I bestovv my fruits and my goods And I vvill say to my soul Soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years Take thine ease eat and drink and be merry 7. Penitent Prodigals How many hired servants of my fathers have bread enough and to spare and I perish vvith hunger I vvill arise and go to my father and say to him Father I have sinned against heaven and against thee and am no more vvorthy to be called thy son make me as one of thy hired servants Luk. 15.17 18 19. In like manner the Pharisee and Publican are fitted vvith prayers Ib. 18.11 12 13. And the desperate vvith a speech consonant to their remedilesse case This vvas he vvhom vve had sometimes in derision and a proverb We fools accounted his life madnesse and his end vvithout honour Hovv is he numbered among the children of God and his life among the Saints We wearied our selves in the way of wickednesse What hath pride profited us All these things are passed away like a shaddow Wisd 5. Sometimes in stead of personating one divers are represented on the theater as Who is this that comes from Edom with his garments from Bozrah that is glorious in his apparell travelling in the greatnesse of his strength I that speak in righteousnesse mighty to save Wherefore art thou red in thy apparell and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat I have trodden the wine-presse alone and of the people there was none with me For I will tread them in my anger and trample them in my fury and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments and I will stain all my raiment Isa 63.1 2 3. We have a little sister and she hath no breasts what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for If she be a wall we will build upon her a palace of silver and if she be a dore we will enclose her with boards of cedar Cant. 8.8 * Addubitatio eùm â—â—â—â—lamus quaerere unde incipiendum ubi desinendum quid potissimùm dicendum omnino fit Quint. l. 9. c. 2. Aporia Aporia is as it were a casting about and deliberating with our selves in a doubtfull business what way to take The Steward said within himself What shall I do for my Lord taketh away from me my Stewardship I cannot dig and to beg I am ashamed Luk. 16.3 I am in a strait betwixt two having a desire to depart and to be with Chirst which is far better nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needfull for you Phil. 1.22 23 24. Such deliberations by an anthropopathy are ascribed to God himself O Ephraim what shall I do unto thee for your goodnesse is as the morning clowd and as the dew it goeth away Hos 6.4 So Ib. 11.8 How shall I give thee up Ephraim how shall I deliver thee Israel how shall I make thee as Admah how shall I set thee as Zeboim Mine heart is turned within me my repentings are kindled together What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits he hath done unto me I will receive the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vowes now in the presence of all his people Right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal 116.11 12. * A Dubitatione non procul abhorret Communicatio cum aut ipsos adversarios consulimus aut quando cum judicibus deliberamus Quint. l. 9. c. 2. Anacoinosis Anacoinosis debates the matter with others and admits of scruples but so far as we may plausibly decide them And here a Prolepsis the foreseeing and anticipating of doubts is most naturall Will a man rob his God Yet ye have robbed me But ye say Wherein have we robbed thee In tithes and offerings Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even the whole nation Mal. 3.8 9. Thou wilt say The branches be broken off that I might be graffed in Well because of unbelief they vvere broken off and thou standest by faith be not high-minded but fear For if God spared not the naturall branches take heed lest he also spare not thee Rom. 11.19 20 21. Thou wilt say unto me Why doth he yet find fault for who hath resisted his vvill Nay but O man vvho art thou that repliest against God Shall the thing framed say to him that formed it Why hast thou made me thus Rom. 9.19
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
fall upon them which they cannot avoyd 3 Our Saviour waving the decision between two brethren for a matter of pelfe with this exemplary put-off Man who made me a judg or a divider over you lanceth this sordid avarice with the proposall of a Parable of that base rich churle that was all for the inlarging his barnes without thinking on Him that sent the corne that any ingenious person would detest the case of the wretch who applauded himselfe in the gain of his Grain to the losse of his soul Luk. 12. And who can think upon the drunken sottishnesse of clownish Nabal without indignation and detestation who could not afford good words where good deeds were due Who is David or who is the son of Jesse There be many servants that now a dayes break away every man from his master Shall I then take my bread and my water and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers and give unto men whom I know not whence they be 2 Sam. 25.10 11. Little knew this caitiffe that was such a son of Belial that a man could not speak to him what mischeif was neer him and his if his wive's courteous demeanure had not prevented it but God let it not so passe Ib. This sordid humour by the Apostle is termed Idolatry that praeferreth his muck before his Maker Col. 3.5 the doltish vanity of which is touched by the preacher When goods increase they are increased that eat them and what good is there to the owners thereof saving the beholding of them with their eyes and his foolish son perchance shall spend all Eccles 5.11.14 Who vvould not loath the labour that brings so unpleasing an in-com 4. To represent how much bestiall luxury is to be detested the parable of Dives vvith the circumstances may be insisted upon 1. backed most pathetically by that of our Saviour They ate they drank they married til the flood came and destroyed them all And as aftervvards in Lots dayes in Sodom they ate they drank they sold they planted they builded till fire and brimstone from heaven marred their market Luk 17. vvhere Lots wife is pillarred for a mark of remembrance And Esau's bad bargain in parting vvith his birthright for a morsell of meat registred for a caution to all posterity Heb. 12 16. 5. Brutish inhumanity may be displayed to the detestation of the auditors in the usage of Joseph by his bretheren They said one to another Behold this dreamer cometh come novv therefore and let us slay him and cast him into some pit and vve vvill say some evill beast hath devoured him and vve shall see vvhat vvill become of his dreames Gen. 37.19 Thus they brought his feet to be hurt in the stocks the iron entred into his soul Of Jeremiah vvhom they plunged so in the mirie dungeon that he vvas fain to be dravvn up vvith cords and cast-clouts and rotten rags put under to save his flesh from gaulling Jer. 38.12 Of St. Stephen whom they stoned at least possessed with a phrensy Act. 7.58 Of St. Paul who was like to be pulled in peices between the factions of the Pharisees Sadduces Act. 23. 6. Breach of oaths and promises may be rendred odious by Zedekiah's heavy doome for revolting from Nebuchadnezer to whom he was obliged by oath 2 Chron. 36.13 And what a misery fell upon the house of Saul for wronging the Gibeonites to whom their forefathers had so long before obliged themselves by oath Jos 9 though all that Saul did was out of his zeal to Israel 2 Sam. 21.2 and Judah 7 what can set out Rebellion to be hated more in his gastly colours than the swallowing up of Korah Dathan and Abiram with all that belonged to them Num. 16. The prodigious hanging of Achitophel and Absalom 2 Sam. 18. And the fearfull end of Judas the traitor in Akeldama Act. 1.18 Motives to Hope Hope layeth hold on 1. deliverances 2. praeservation 3. consummation from which arise all spirituall comfors God is our hope and strength a very present helpe in trouble therefore will we not feare Though the earth be moved and though the hills be carried in the midst of the sea though the waters thereof rage and swell and though the mountaines shake at the tempest of the same The rivers of the flood thereof would glad the city of God God is in the midst therefore shall she not be removed God shall help her and that right early The heathen make much adoe and the kingdomes are moved but God hath shewed his voice and the earth shall melt away Psal 46. God is called the hope of Israel Jerem. 14.8 which maketh not ashaimed Rom 8.24 to which salvation is attributed Rom 8.24 whose emblem is an anker Heb. 6.19 which is layd up for us in heaven whereof we have heard in the word of the truth of the gospell Col. 1.5 and therefore with the work of faith and labour of love the Apostle will have the patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ without ceasing to be remembred 1 Thes 1.3 Upon this hope of deliverance was grounded the resolute answer of the three children to angry Nebuchadnezzar We are not carefull to answer the in this matter if it be so our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thine hand O King But if not be it known unto thee O King that we will not serve thy Gods nor worship the golden image that thou hast set up Dan. 3.17 18. This hope was the onely help King Darius could find for Damel Dan. 6.16 Thy God vvhom thou servest continually he will deliver thee 2. for help of preservation vve have a veyn of golden oare running through all the Psalmes and allmost all the Scripture I vvill not be afrayd of ten thousand of people that have set themselves against me round about Psal 3.6 The Lord is my light and salvation whom then shall I fear The Lord is the strength of my life of vvhom then shal I be afraid When the vvicked even mine enimies and my foes came about me to eate up my flesh they stumbled and fell Psal 27. Though I vvalk through the valley of the shadovv of death I vvill fear no evill for thou art vvith me thy rod and thy staff comfort me Psal 23. Confidence against taking thought we have pressed by our Saviour Matth. 6.25 Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat ad finem and Diffidence reproved Why are ye fearfull Matth. 8.26 3. For inflaming the hope of consummation what can be more patheticall then that of our Saviour Let not your hearts be troubled ye beleeve in God beleeve also in me In my fathers house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you Joh 14.1 2. Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you not as the world giveth give I unto you Let not
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