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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13283	Rest for the vveary, or A briefe treatise tending to the comfort of a poore soule trulie humbled for sin. By Archibald Symmer, Aberdonen, minister of the Gospell.	Symmer, Archibald.	1630 (1630)	STC 23587; ESTC S111463	9,168	19

REST FOR THE VVEARY OR A BRIEFE TREATISE tending to the comfort of a poore soule trulie humbled for sin By Archibald Symmer Aberdonen minister of the Gospell Matth. 11. Come vnto me all yee that labour and are heauie laden and I will giue you rest LONDON Printed by I. N. for William Sheres at the South doore of Paules 1630. To the Right worshipfull Sir Iohn Hanbury of Kelmarsh Knight peace externall internall supernall eternall Right worshipfull GReat is the loue of Christ to his Saints 1. Ioh. 3.16 and gracious is the effect thereof in them which is their Christian charity one to another This is not in word neither in tongue onely but in deede and in truth v. 18. and such is that of your Wor● to me This is a comfort but what shall I say it inferres a difficulty it must be mutuall loue requires a requitall and how can Cleanthes requite a reall a golden loue with the airie flore of his phantasie For pouerty is the patrimony of the Muses Noble sir though Momus reckon that letters are but the clouds of Helicon yet in Apolloes esteeme they are durable riches yea so louely is learning Fauin Parisien in his Thea●● Honor and gracious are the Muses that the Rose is become their liuery and the Hieroglyphicke of such as loue them and good reason for most tried is the truth of that posie Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori Per Th' Immortall Sisters Chaplets in their Bowers They Wither not as doe all other flowers Reict not therefore I humbly intreate this poore present of my rustique muse the testimony of my loue so shall my litle infant being swadled in the gentle bands of your most worthy acceptance batten at the last among men and its parent shall be bound to continue Your Wor. humble Orator at the Throne of Grace euer in the Lord Iesus to be commanded Archibald Symmer Comfort for a wearie soule humbled for sin Chap. 1. All men are weary MAn that is borne of a woman is of short continuance and full of trouble Iob. 14.1 Surely euery childe of Adam is altogether vanity for all that is vnder the Sunne is vanitie and vexation of the spirit Psal 39 11 Which the wise man declares by his owne example Ecles 1.14 and very deare experience And if that wise and peaceable King of the Lords peculiar people 1 Tim. 1.1 and glorious type of Christ the prince of peace and author of our hopes and happinesse Psal 39 5. was on the highest spheare and top of all his earthly prosperity and rest altogether vanity what shall we say of our selues Epict. who are but punies and Wretches yea mappes of miseries and calamityes in comparison of him Now this vniuersal labour of mans mind vnresisted vexation of his spirit is properly when we can neither obtaine that which wee desire nor shun that which we loth And as the mutinous perturbations and affections of our hearts wils and the desires of our flesh are in number and variety many so are the afflictions and vexations of the spirit for euery affection a seuerall affliction Euery carnall desire causeth sorrow and sorrow is a tedious labour and toyle to the mind Pro. 15.13 Euery carnall affection causeth griefe because it is alwaies confounded and disappointed What if the carnall heart obtaine all that it desires yet is it frustrated and disapointed still for it hoped for more comfort in its perishing hopes and earthly transitories than euer they can possibly afforde the hope of earthly comforts is better than the sruition and inioyment of them Thus euery man laboures is heauy laden and weary vnder the burthen of vanity The labour of the vnre generate The proud and ambitious man laboures for honor and glory and curryes the applause of the world with all his might to touch heauen like Herod with his finger and the firmament as Lysimachus with the point of his lance and all is vanity The mammonist Idolatrous worldling coues to waxe plentifull and rich Eph. 5.5 Col. 3.5 this is the moiling toile of his miserable carkeis by day and watching vexation of his restlesse spirit by night Mammon in the Syriacke dialect is the desire of riches This labour is neuer at an end in this life for mammon increaseth as fast as money the loue of riches increaseth with the vanity loued The Epicure and voluptuous manlabours for pleasure and to plung himselfe with the sow in the mire of sensuality and perishing delight Crescitamor nummi c. Inuen This is the most brutish labour of all for heereby a man is as it were metamorphized and turned into a beast The enuious man labours to annoy and endammage his neighbour Thus did those fourty men trauell with mischiefe that vowed Paules death their labour was painfull for they would neither eate nor drinke till they had effected their purpose Act. 23.12 c. Thus all men labour by nature and all are weary and all these labours are sinfull The Saints and spirituall Ones of the Lord also labour but after another manner theirs is a blessed labour for it is for the remission of sinnes and peace of conscience they are weary vnder the burthen of Iniquity and therefore crie out euery one with Dauid Psal 51.2 Wash mee throughly from mine iniquity and clense me from my sinne and with the holy Apostle O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from the body of this death Chap. 2. All finde not rest ALlour cares tend to this end saith St. Augustine we may inioy the thing we desire No truè rest for thè Wicked And the heart findeth rest when it obtaines that which it hopeth and laboures for Now Christ will neuer fulfill any carnall desire therefore the naturall and carnall heart shall neuer finde content and rest there is none for such in Christ for carnall men are none of his Cassiodor Psalm 6 A narrow sea betweene the hauen Aulis of whom nothing can please but the new creature Gal. 6.15 For they haue not the Spirit of Christ Rom. 8.9 And without Christ there is nothing but labour and toile vexation and wearinesse The world is like an Irish sea wherein is nothing to be expected but the stormy tempests of aduersity It is like Euripus which ebbeth and floweth seauen times a day constant onely in inconstancy Behold therefore the carnall mans folly though there be no peace to the wicked saith my God yet will he Seeke for content and rest by the meanes of his owne labour Beotia and Eubeu arist Isa 57.31 and to quiet his discontented heart by his owne waies but all is in vaine Riches cannot possibly satisfie the couetous man if Iupiter as the heathen reporteth should multiplie his sheepe still at his request he would mutter notwithstanding Pauperis est numer are pecus he is but a poore man that can number his flocke Isay 47.21