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lord_n	day_n	night_n	time_n	11,545	5	3.7585	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68133	Occasionall meditations by Ios. Exon ; set forth by R.H.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Hall, Robert, 1605-1667.	1631 (1631)	STC 12688.5; ESTC S103693	60,258	379

they would bee seene more there is no true greatnesse without a selfe-humiliation we shall haue made an ill vse of our aduancement if by how much higher we are wee doe not appeare lesse If our light be seene it matters not for our hiding XL. Vpon the sight of Boyes playing EVery age hath some peculiar contentment Thus wee did when wee were of these yeares Me thinkes I still remember the old feruour of my young pastimes With what eagernesse and passion doe they pursue these Childish sports Now that there is a whole handfull of cherry-stones at the stake how neare is that boyes heart to his mouth for feare of his play fellowes next cast and how exalted with desire and hope of his owne speed those great vnthrifts who hazard whole Mannors vpon the Dice cannot expect their chance with more earnestnesse or entertaine it with more ioy or griefe We cannot but now smile to thinke of these poore and foolish pleasures of our Childhood there is no lesse disdaine that the Regenerate man conceiues of the dearest delights of his naturall condition He was once iolly and iocond in the fruition of the world feasts and reuels and games and dalliance were his life and no man could bee happy without these and scarce any man but himselfe but when once Grace hath made him both good and wise how scornfully doth hee looke backe at these fond felicities of his carnall estate now he findes more manly more diuine contentments and wonders hee could bee so transported with his former vanity Pleasures are much according as they are esteemed One mans delight is another mans paine Onely Spirituall and Heauenly things can settle and satiate the heart with a full and firme contentation Oh GOD thou art not capable eyther of bettering or of change let me enioy thee and I shall pitty the miserable ficklenesse of those that want thee and shall bee sure to bee constantly happy * ⁎ * XLI Vpon the sight of a Spider and her Web. HOw iustly doe wee admire the curious worke of this Creature What a thred doth it spin forth What a web doth it weaue Yet it is full of deadly poyson There may bee much venome where is much Art Iust like to this is a learned witty Heretick fine conceits and elegant expressions fall from him but his opinions secretly-couched doctrines are dangerous mortall were not that man strangely foolish who because he likes the artificiall drawing out of that web would therefore desire to handle or eate the Spider that made it Such should bee our madnes if our wonder at the skill of a false teacher should cast vs into loue with his person or familiarity with his writings There can bee no safety in our iudgement or affection without a wise distinction in the want whereof wee must needs wrong GOD or our selues GOD if wee acknowledge not what excellent parts hee giues to any Creature our selues if vpon the allowance of those excellencies wee swallow their most dangerous enormities XLII Vpon the sight of a Naturall OH God Why am not I thus What hath this man done that thou hast denyed wit to him or what haue I done that thou shouldst giue a competency of it to mee What difference is there betwixt vs but thy bounty which hath bestowed vpon mee what I could not merit and hath withheld from him what hee could not challenge All is O God in thy good pleasure whether to giue or deny Neither is it otherwise in matter of Grace The vnregenerate man is a Spirituall foole no man is truly wise but the renewed how is it that whiles I see another man besotted with the vanity and corruption of his nature I haue attained to know God and the great mystery of Saluation to abhorre those sins which are pleasing to a wicked appetite Who hath discerned me Nothing but thy free mercy O my GOD why else was I a Man not a brute Beast Why right shaped not a Monster Why perfectly limmed not a cripple Why well-fensed not a foole Why well affected not graceles why a vessell of honour not of wrath If ought be not ill in mee O LORD it is thine Oh let thine bee the praise and mine the thankfulnesse XLIII Vpon the Loadstone and the Iett AS there is a ciuil commerce amongst men for the preseruation of humane Society so there is a naturall commerce which GOD hath set amongst the other Creatures for the maintenance of their common being There is scarce any thing therefore in nature which hath not a power of attracting some other The fire drawes vapors to it the Sunne drawes the fire-Plants drawes moysture the Moone drawes the Sea all purgatiue things draw their proper humors a naturall instinct drawes all sensitiue Creatures to affect their owne kinde and euen in those things which are of imperfect mixtion wee see this experimented So as the senselesse stones and mettals are not voyd of this actiue vertue the loadstone drawes Iron and the iett rather then nothing drawes vp strawes and dust with what a force do both these stones worke vpon their seuerall Subiects is there any thing more heauy and vnapt for motion then Iron or steele Yet these doe so run to their beloued loadstone as if they had the sence of a desire and delight and doe so cling to the point of it as if they had forgotten their weight for this adherence Is their any thing more apt for dispersion then small strawes and dust yet these gather to the Iett and so sensibly leape vp to it as if they had a kind of ambition to be so perferred Me thinks I see in these two a meere Embleme of the hearts of men their spirituall attractiues The grace of Gods spirit like the true Loadstone or Adamant drawes vp the yron heart of man to it and holds it in a constant fixednesse of holy purposes and good actions The world like the Iett drawes vp the sensuall hearts of light and Vaine men and holds them fast in the pleasures of sin I am thine yron O Lord be thou my Loadstone Draw thou mee and I shall run after thee Knit my heart vnto thee that I may feare thy name * ⁎ * XLIIII Vpon hearing of Musicke by night HOw sweetly doth this Musicke sound in this dead season In the day time it would not it could not so much affect the eare All harmonious sounds are aduanced by a silent darkenesse Thus it is with the glad tidings of Saluation The Gospell neuer sounds so sweet as in the night of persecution or of our owne priuate affliction It is euer the same the difference is in our disposition to receiue it O God whose praise it is to giue songs in the night make my prosperity conscionable and my crosses cheerfull XLV Vpon the fanning of Corne. SEe how in the fanning of this Wheat the fullest and greatest graines lye euer the lowest and the lightest take vp the highest place It is no otherwise in