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A FREE-WIL Offering Gen. 4. part of verse 4. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and his Offering BY JAMES HARWOOD D.D. DVBLIN Printed by J.C. Anno Domini 1662. To his GRACE JAMES Duke Marquis and Earl of Ormond Earl of Ossery and Brecknock Viscount Thurles Lord Baron of Arclo Lanthony Lord of the Regalities Liberties of the County of Tiperary Chancellor of the University of Dublin Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of His Majesties Kingdom of Ireland one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honorable privy Council of His Majesties Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Lord Steward of His Majesties Houshold Gentleman of His Majesties Bed-Chamber and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter May it please your Grace YOur great Imployments might implead my boldness while I have presumed with unpolished lines to withdraw you from your high affairs The Church and State under God depend upon you you have given such assured Testimonies of your care to tutor up these Twins so that Clergy and Laity bid you welcome as wished for by all true Protestants and prayed for by all the suffering Sons of Levi. We look upon you as the Physician sent to cure our Kingdoms maladies as the Master Pilot able to steer to a safe Harbour this crazy Vessel the Common-weal The Star in the East conducted the Wisemen to the Cratch of Christ and that most resplendent Constellation Charls his Wain is your Conductor to this Kingdom We honor our King for he honors God we honor you who honors the King The King hath given you a Commission and our Church gives you her blessing yea Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Most Mighty Prince I have neither Myrrhe nor Aloes nor Cassia to present to your Illustrious Highness yet a little oyl in a barrel not much for not Master of much not less lest my present had been less then the Widows Mite Christ feasted thousands with a few Loaves and Fishes No marvel He could make that little more My little I can make neither more nor less not less lest too little should be brought to the Table not more lest your State affairs should surfeit of long lines Here is a Viaticum Modicum an Offering and a small one presented by him who joys in your presence who was engaged to honor you before he saw you Your favours at a distance oblige and your love to the CHVRCH commands for you and all yours the prayers Of your most humble devoted Servant James Harwood THE CONTENTS A Christians Looking-Glass 1 Mercy beyond Measure 13 Gods Magistrates the Peoples Deliverers 21 A home charge for all Subjects 30 Sions sad Complaint 37 The Angels Antheme 43 A Lesson for Souldiers 51 Gods love mans life 60 Gods Presence Patients Protector 67 Where Unity Amity 76 ERRATA PAge 10. l. 6. after he is a sinner adde and whilst p. 58. l. 3. r. Mutineer p. 37. line 10 for Alphaltes read Asphaltes p. 41. l. 6. for Doe r. dare p. 46. l. 11. adde it after the word shall p. 47. l. 19. for men r. man p. 56. l. 3. for did r. dyed l. 18. for tripertite maudat r. tripartite mandat p. 59. l. 9. for care r. can p. 70. l. 6. for madles r. madles A FREE-WIL Offering A CHRISTIAN LOOKING-GLASS I Said I will look unto my ways Psal 39.1 A Good resolution if brought to Birthdom but O it is time to resolve of Good when Evil hath harrased the soul And yet what are all my resolves beneficial to me if I resolve not to do as I determine I confess Say well is good but Do well is better but as the fruit is first in the bud so the blossom of a good intent first blooms à Corde then in os then in opus I am in hopes to proceed on happily when à Radice from the root there is a visible shew tending to perfection I said I will A word would almost warrant an happy issue Resolute intents to do good are stout Agitators to assist first endeavours Yet if this I will proceed from humane confidence the weakest temptations lay flat our presumptuous undertakings Let me beg the assistance of God and by his adjuvant grace my Will will scale the Walls of Jericho I said I will This is the language of a Saint a Sinner a Devil Saith the unclean Spirit Then I will return the Devil he wills a mischief to man a Sinner to himself a Saint the sin-slaughter in his soul The Devil is peremptory to repossess the sinner wilful to do evil the Saint hath a will to do good What a fair shew makes this man of God so he is and yet a man after Gods own heart may have a fearful stop betwixt his intent and act Again had not David failed to perform he had never been thus resolute to have will'd when sin overtakes Gods childe if the childe of God he takes up new resolutions to amend and as the Ram giveth the biggest push runs the furthest back so the backsliding of a sinner may if grace serve to amend his pace to Paradise Surely here hath been a sinful party sent out to divert our Kingly prophet in his spiritual progress Else why is it resolved upon the case I will look unto my ways If he had not with Lots Wife lately lookt back to carnal Sodom here had been less need at this present to look unto his ways But O when the old Man stands in the way the good Man had need carry both his eyes in his head Though it be natural for the works of darkness to blindefold our best of intellectuals yet by a spiritual vertue in the herb of Grace my sin is made my eye-salve and fro once with the Snake I have rubb'd my speckled Conscience betwixt those two peeble stones the two Tables the ten Commandments then those scales Ignorance of my offences pill off And instead of walking Will. Then I resolve I will look unto my ways but no sooner do I look but lo Bears and Bug-bears sad afflictions and disguised trespasses I lookt and knew not this last my peccata splendida till I lookt and lookt again ad Dei Judicia I offered up for my Quit-rent to the Lord of Heaven counterfeit Coyn for current Silver till the Touchstone Affliction discovered Hypocrisie to be the metal within whilest External Profession the thin covering without O let me be what I seem to be otherwise there is a God will set me out in my own colours I know it and for certain that though I may cozen man yet I cannot deceive my God and therefore lest I be found a dissembler with man or with ire to encense my Maker once more I will look unto my ways and look at them with a double eye Corporis mentis At all without in the confines of my Conversation and at all within in the territories of my Conscience With my bodily eye I can spy much amiss