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A00514	The yong mans gleanings Gathered out of diuers most zealous and deuout fathers, and now published for the benefit of euerie Christian man, which wisheth good successe to his soule at the later day. Containing these foure subiects. 1 Of the mortality of man. 2 The poore mans harbour. 3 The mirror of vaine-glory. 4 Saint Barnards sermon on the passion of Christ. Whereunto is adioyned a most sweete and comfortable hymne, expressing the euerlasting ioy of a glorified soule. By R.B. gent.	R. B., Gent.; Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673, attributed name.; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. aut	1614 (1614)	STC 1065; ESTC S115857	39,366	120

it that thy mother tooke thee from amongst the brute beasts Take comfort take comfort ye that liue in pouertie because God liues with you in your pouertie hee lies not in delicious beds nor is hee found in the waies of such as liue in their delights To what end dost thou reioice O rich man being but clay wallowing in thy gorgeous and trim bed since the King of Kings chused rather to honour the straw beds of the poore with his humble repose Why dost thou disdaine hard straw when a tender infant in whose hand are all things preferred the hard litter of beasts before thy silkes and fethers But this thy tender and weake infancie O Christ was not secure from the sword of the persecutors for whilest thou yet suckt hanging at thy mothers brest an Angell appeared vnto Ioseph in his sleepe saying Arise and take the child and flie into Aegipt and abide there till I shall tell thee for it will come to passe that Herod will seeke the child to kill it c. Now from this time O good Iesus thou beginnest to suffer sharpe things for thou sufferedst not only this vexation in thine owne infancie but the death of those little ones many thousands whereof by the cruelty of Herod were put to death being rest from their mothers brests Hauing past thine infancie thou gauest vnto vs an example of professing the truth with all humility for thou satest not with the counsell of vanitie but in the midst of Doctors questioning and hearing them although thou wast the Lord of knowledge and the wisedome of God thy Father But thou wast likewise an example of obedience vnto vs when as thou being Gouernour of the whole world subiected thy selfe humblely vnto the will of thy parents When the grouth of a stronger age came so as thou wast to apply thy selfe to more weightie affaires thou wentest forth to finish the saluation of thy people as a mighty Giant to run the race of all our misery And that thou mightest in humane resemblance frame thy selfe like vnto thy brethren thou the innocent lambe of God neuer defiled with the lest staine of sinne camest vnto thy seruant baptizing penitent sinners as if thou hadst beene a sinner desiring that thou mightest bee baptized but hee baptized not thee in the water but the water in thee sanctifying them that they might sanctifie vs by thy sanctifying spirit working in vs. From Baptisme by the strength of thy spirit thou wentest into the desert giuing vs an example of solitary life in thee Thou sufferedst patiently solitarines and fasting for the space of 40. daies bitternesse of hunger temptations and illusions to the end thou mightest make all these things more tollerable vnto vs. At last thou camest to the lost sheepe of Israell shewing openly the lampe of thy diuine word to illuminate all the world declaring thy kingdome to all such as obeyed thy word and followed thy precepts confirming with signes and shewing the power of thy diuinity to all that were sicke doing all things to all men freely which might conduce to the saluation of sinners to the end thou mightst profit all But the fooles heart is darkened O Lord and he hath throwne thy commandements behind him neuer harkening vnto all those wonderfull workes which thou hast wrought amongst them except a few very noble and stout champions which thou hast elected out of the weake and abiect things of the world that by them thou mightst wonderfully discomfit the strong and mighty Neither haue they alone bin vnthankefull vnto thee for thy benefits but O Lord of Lords they haue reproched thee and done vnto thee whatsoeuer it liked them for what said they when thou didst those workes of God which none else could doe This man is not of God in the Prince of diuels he throwes out diuels he hath a diuell he seduceth the people hee is a glutton and a bibber of wine a friend of Publicanes and sinners Why weepest thou why sighest thou O man when thou art iniuriously reproched dost thou not heare how many rebukes fell vpon thy Lord and Sauiour for thy sake If they call the master of the household Belzebub how much more his household seruants But O good Iesus whilest they spake these and the like blasphemies stoning thee sometimes with stones thou sufferedst all things patiently and thou becamest as if thou hadst not heard hauing no rebukes in thy mouth Lastly they set thy iust and vndefiled blood betraied by thy disciple a sonne of perdition at the price of thirtie pieces of filuer that they might take away thy life without a cause Albeit the trechery of that wicked betraier was not hid from thee when in the supper where thou washedst thy Disciples feete kneeling downe on thy knees before him thou vouchsafedst to handle wash and wipe his cursed feete swift to sheede blood with thy most holy hands Wherefore then O thou dust ashes art thou yet so proud doth pride yet lift thee vp doth impatience yet vox thee Behold thy Iesus the creator of all things the fearefull Iudge of the quick and the dead the very parerne of humility and mercie kneeling before the feete of a man and that man a traitour Learne because hee is meeke and humble in heart and bee ashamed of thy pride and blush at thy patience This was also O Lord an especiall token of thy mildnesse when thou wouldest not discouer that disloyall wretch in the middest of his brethren nor publiquely confound him onely bidding him doe that hee would doe quickely In all these his malice ceased not towards thee but going forth hee perfects his mischeeuous purpose O Lucifer how fellest thou from heauen that shined before so brightly in heauen thou that once appearedst glorious in the delicious borders of Paradise fellow Cittizen with the Angels in Heauen and a guest at the table of the diuine word how art thou now reckoned among the children of darkenesse thou that wast nourished with spices wherefore doest thou embrace filthines Now is thy familie O Christ purified when hee went into the world leauing the Angelicall society which in heauen remained Now is that happy companie made drunke with the plentifull inundation of thy diuine oracles hauing casten him out whom thou knewest to bee vnworthy of the infusion of so pure a liquor When thou hadst giuen a commandement of charity and wholsome patience and hadst disposed of thy Fathers Kingdome vnto thy brethren thou wentest aside with them towards the place knowne to thy Betrayer knowing all things that would come vpon thee There thou wast not ashamed to confesse in the hearing of thy Apostles the sadnes of thy soule by the imminencie of thy passion which voluntarily thou assumedst as also other things which then thou sufferedst saying Now is my soule heauie euen vnto death Also kneeling vpon the ground thou fellest flat vpon thy face praying in thine agony and saying O Father if it be possible let this cuppe passe from me And

the heauy hand of God thou hast tasted of the bitter cup and drunke deepe of the Cup of affliction what then where is thy conclusion doest thou reason hence that thou art depriued of the fauour of God and excluded from his sheepfold God forbid these afflictions doe rather approue and testifie his exceeding loue towards thee whom I loue saith the Lord those I chastice and correct he is not a father where thou art not a sonne nor is he a sonne that is incorrigible he must bow his necke vnto the yoke and presse his shoulders with the Burden he must not argue that the burden is heauie or the yoke not easie but with all patience sustaine all and support all that God may be glorified in all This resolution will arme thee with a serious preparation against all difficulties calling to minde how the Apostler after the death and passion of Christ Iesus were as a puissant armie constant amidst all tribulations Their afflictions their stripes their imprisonments were experiments to trie them not affrightments to dismay them By them they were proued and in their resolution approued because they fought valiantly the Lords Battell to increase the number of the faithfull to breake the bread of life to such as were appointed vnto saluatiō weakning the power of Antichrist and discomfiting sinne Fight thus deere Christian and thou shalt raign where those victorious champions raigne already the vale of this earthly habitation shall be dissolued and thy spirituall Temple renewed to supplant the whole body of sinne and to receiue a glorious diadem of eternitie by subiecting thy selfe to the materiall sword to be nourished with that spirituall foode of Gods word vnto eternall life for whosoeuer will raigne with Christ must likewise suffer with Christ. He was crucified that we might be saued and shall we be exempted from that which he suffered No rather let vs put on the complete Armour of righteousnesse with slings in our hands to wound that malicious Goliah that terrible Philistine in the head that is vtterly to discomfit him that we who haue receiued so glorious an inuestiture the speciall indowments of his Grace may by the operation of his spirit effectually working in vs arriue at the Kingdome of glorie That what is here inchoate may be there consummate of Christ we are called Christians if we be Christians of Christ we should follow Christ that ascending with him to the Crosse on Mount Caluarie we may likewise ascend with him to his Throne exalted with maiestie THE POORE MANS HARBOVR IN thy affliction haue I heard thee and in the bitternesse of thy sorrowes haue I attended thee for thou descendedst down as it were into the graue buried thy honour in the dust But who euer hath cried vpon me that I haue not heard or craued my helpe whom I haue not aided Art thou poore and sicke and hungry and naked crying for almes yet art not rewarded for one crum yet art not satisfied why what of this if thou bee poore so was Lazarus if sicke hungry and naked so was he if despised so was hee character what miseries soeuer thy miserable state is afflicted with and thou shalt see them personated in more ample sort in disconsolate Lazarus yet was not he comforted were not his rags turned to robes his hunger to festiuall honour his pensiue affliction to extensiue consolation he was abandoned of Diues contemned of Diues nay reproued and shamefully iniured by the seruants of Diues yet behold the exchange Lazarus is exalted Diues tormented Lazarus comforted Diues afflicted Lazarus in Abrahams bosome in ioy for euer Diues in the fire of hell to be deliuered neuer O what subiect of ioy and comfort what argument of diuine consolation is this vnto a poore distressed soule that trauels vpon the pilgrimage of earth hungry naked and despised But there is a greater occasion then this for him to pull vp his courage to solace his depressed minde and that is the very promise of God himselfe past and that by a constitution irreuocable to the poore and afflicted spirit I looke to him saith the Lord by the mouth of his Prophet Esay that is poore that is broken in spirit and that trembleth at my words Here the Lord professeth himselfe a patron to the poore their stength and mighty defence in the time of their necessity He is none of our time-obseruing friends our state affectors that rather patronise our errors to insinuate themselues in to the vnstedy affections not of vs but of our patrimonies so long professing amitie till our estate the adulterate oyle of their pretended friendshippe be extinguished These are good Mammonists augmenting their meanes by indirect courses running euer on the Byas of Adulation till that clawing humour worke to their vnhappie friend remedilesse desolation But God is faithfull and whom he once loueth he loueth vnto the end How happie art thou poore pilgrim of such a louer that erects thy drowping head directs thy erring feet supports thy declining faith and placeth thee in the retired harbor of all spirituall comforts ministring these and the like solaces vnto thee Wipe thy eyes poore harborlesse soule complaine not of times iniquitie descant not of thy penury relate no more of thy miserie I haue heard thy voice and am come to comfort thee I haue put all thy teares vp in a Bottell and they shall remaine as testimonies against those obdurate and impenitent those remorcelesse and vncharitable Nabals that haue stopped their eares to thy cries their eyes to thy teares solace thy selfe in me for I will receaue thee into my protection I will shelter thee vnder the wings of my mercie so as no violence shall oppresse thee no ensewing miserie afflict thee no pouerty dismay thee for why I am rich in mercy and will enrich thee with the comforts of my diuine spirit Who euer called vpon me and I heard him not or powred his prayers vnto me and I relieued him not Thy pouerty is no barre in my Court to hinder thy expedition Thou beggest and surest informa pauperis yet thou shalt finde a Solicitour that will not neglect thy affaires He it is that created thee as well as the mighty ones of this world and he will not suffer his Image his similitude his Impression to be rased defaced or contemned It is I that haue seene thee exposed to all the miseries of earth and I considered thy patience for which haue I accepted thy prayers which like sweet and redolent persumes ascended vp vnto my nostrels Be comforted be comforted the extent of thy afflictions is almost expired the date of thy sorrowes extended and the period of thy miseries consummate I will cloth thee with the Garments of eternity Thou shalt dwell in the mansions of my glorious City and for thy pouerty receaue the rich ornaments of a celestiall inheritour and herein shall thy ioyes be redoubled for thou that liued desperable in the eyes of men shalt Triumph amongst the

penurie may taxe vs of excesse that liue in Epicureal riot consuming our daies in security and carelesse prophanation of God and his sacred ministers neither vsing reuerence to them nor him for in contemning them wee contemne him as he the father of verity hath spoken O deere christian we haue too long dallied with sinne too long delaied the time of our conuersion Turne turne from thy euill waies least thou be cut downe in his fury the vials of his wrath haue beene long in diffusing but so much longer the stroke is delaied so much it returnes more violent O let vs relinquish earths vanitie and plant our affections vpon heauens beauty why should we loue such things as breede lothing hauing bitternesse in their tast and producing no fruits but the distastfull weedes of repentance Who so is bewitched or captiuated with the pie-coloured vanities of this world deserues a pie colord coate to describe the foole in his follies Learne to be wise in spirituall affaires that the commerce which thou hast had with the factors of vanity may be now disualued hauing reference to the maine price of thy redemption working out thy saluation with feare and trembling Thou seest the race thou must of necessity run not the race of lasciuious prodigals whose exorbitance makes their house die in infamy nor the race of the Auaricious Miser that treasures vp vengeance for himselfe and his posterity making the issue of his loines the heires of shame nor the race of adulterers that wast their estate in the brothels of licentious delights but the christian race making thy beginning a hopefull proeme of a successiue end thy end a happy concluder of so faire beginnings Runne thus and thou shalt obtaine not a temporall reward but the crowne of eternitie that God who reclaimed thee from thy sinne may be glorified in thy members consecrated to holinesse and integrity Meditate of this contemplate this exercise the faculties of thy soule in these and the like spirituall meditations so shall the deceipts of Sathan be diuerted the gracious operations of Gods spirit renewed and the promises of God to thee performed in supernall Syon A SERMON of Saint Barnard vpon the passion of the Lord. LEt vs celebrate deere christians with diuine honours Iesus of Nazareth by the Iewes innocently condemned by the Gentiles crucified Let vs that are Christians worshippe with all reuerence embrace with all feruentnesse and imitate with all faithfulnesse as it is meet comfortable and glorious the infirmities of our Sauiour for these sufferings be those instruments by which the omnipotent power and inscrutable wisdome of God hath wrought wonderfully and powerfully the restauration of the whole world For Christ our Lord hath so wrought for vs that he became lesse then Angels to make vs equall vnto Angels And who will not humble himselfe for Christs sake Christ our Lord was crucified for our sinnes and hath sweetened the bitternesse of the Crosse to such as loue his Crosse. He died and destroied death that through him we might liue and who will not loue Christ our Lord who will thinke much to suffer for Christ Christ by the ignonimie of his Crosse passed to the glorie of heauenly excellence and all power in heauen and in earth is giuen vnto him by God his father for his reuerence All the Angels of God doe worshippe him and in the Name of Iesus let euery knee bow of things heauenly earthly or whatsoeuer is vnder the earth wherein O Christian canst thou glory saue in the Name of our Lord God crucified and in the name of Christ which is aboue all names in which whosoeuer is blessed shall be blessed vpon earth Glorie in the Name of the Sonne your redeemer and ascribe honour to your Sauiour who hath done great things for vs and magnifie his name with me saying we worship thee O Christ thou king of Israell and of all Nations King of Kings Lord of the whole earth God of Sabboath the most sure strength of the omnipotent God We worshippe thee that art the precious price of our redemption the peace offring who alone by the inestimable sweetenesse of thy perfumes hast moued thy father whose dwelling is on high to behold the things which are on earth appeasing his indignation conceiued against vs. We declare thy mercies O Christ and we vtter the remembrance of thy sweetenesse in aboundance We offer vnto thee O Christ the sacrifice of praise for the multitude of thy goodnesse showen vnto vs of a depraued seede wicked and rebellious children For when wee were thy enemies O Lord and death had entred vpon all flesh to which all the seede of Adam became subiect by the condition of our originall sinne thou remembredst thy mercie and lookedst downe from thy high habitation vpon this vale of teares and miserie Thou sawest the affliction of thy people and being inwardly touched with the sweetenesse of charitie thou conferredst the thoughts of peace and redemption vpon vs and when thou was the sonne of God very God coeternall and consubstantiall with God the father God the holy Ghost inhabiting an inaccessible light and supporting all things with the word of thy strength thou disdainedst not to bow downe thy maiesty to this fraile prison of our mortality whereby thou mightest both tast swallow down our miserie and aduance vs to thy glory It had beene but little to thy charity to finish the worke of our saluation by deputing the consummation thereof to some Cherubin or Seraphin or one of thy Angels but thou vouchsafedst thy self to come vnto vs being commanded by thy father whose exceeding charity we haue tried in thee Thou camest I say not by changing thy place but by exhibiting thy presence vnto vs by taking vpon thee our flesh Thou camest from the royall throne of supreme glory into the wombe of a Virgin humble and abiect in her owne eyes sealed with the religious vow of virgins continence in whose sacred wombe the ineffable power alone of the holy spirit made thee to be conceiued and to be borne in the Nature of true humanity so as the occasion of thy birth did neither impaire in thee the power of thy maiestie nor in thy mother the purenesse of her virginitie O amiable and admirable humility that being God of infinite glorie became as a contemptible worme of miserie Thou being God of all became a seruant vnto all It seemed too little in thy sight to be our Lord and father but thou vouchsafest likewise to be our brother and thou Lord of the whole earth standing in neede of nothing from the beginning of thy Natiuitie refusedst not to tast the inconueniences of pouertie For as the Scripture saith thou hadst not when thou wast borne anie place in an Inne nor cradle which might receaue thee in thy tender infancie but in the base crib of a filthy stable Thou which containest the whole earth in thy selfe art wrapped vp in swathling clouts and placed in a desperable repose Hence is

surely could not I attaine to the measure of that I owe thee sith that which I owe and that which is possible for mee to giue is thy gift without which I haue nothing to giue Thou art to be loued O my Lord with all my heart with all my soule with all my strength and thy imitable footsteps are to be followed by me because thou vouchsafedst to die for me and how can this be done in me but by thee let my soule cleaue vnto thee because all my power dependeth on thee And now O Lord my redeemer I worship thee as the true God I put my trust in thee I hope in thee and with my vtmost desires doe I sigh after thee helpe my many imperfections I incline my selfe wholly vnto the glorious signals of thy passion wherein thou hast perfected my saluation In thy name O Christ doe I reuerence the royall Banner of thy victorious Crosse. O Christ with all humility doe I adore and glorifie the remembrance of thy thornie crowne thy red-skarlet nailes besmeared with blood thy lance drenched in thy sacred side thy wounds thy blood thy death thy buriall thy glorious and victorious resurrection and glorification For the breath of life breatheth to mee in all these by these liuely and redolent odors raise my spirit O Lord from the death of sinne By the power of these preserue me from the subtilties of Sathan that the yoke of thy commandements may be vnto me easie and the burden of thy Crosse which thou commandest me to beare after thee may be light for what is my strength that according to thy commandement I might be able with an inuincible spirit to sustaine so manifold afflictions in the world Are my feete like Hindes feete that like a swift courser I may be able to runne ouer the thornes and difficulties of thy passions but heare my voice and lay thy corsse softly vpon thy feruant that crosse which is the wood of life to them that lay hold vpon it my hope is I shall runne swiftlie and shall carrie as constantlie the crosse which is giuen me of my enemies to follow thee Lay I say that most diuine crosse vpon my shoulders the breadth whereof is charitie the length eternitie the height omnipotencie and the depth inscrutable wisdome replenished with maiestie Naile my feete and my hands vnto it and conforme thy seruant O Lord whollie vnto thy passion Grant vnto me O Lord that I may abstaine from all the workes of the flesh which thou hatest and doe those workes of righteousnesse which thou louest and in both to seeke thy glorie I suppose it verie expedient that my left hand bee nailed vnto the crosse with the nayle of temperance my right hand with the naile of vprightnesse Grant that my soule may continually meditate vpon thy law fixing all her cogitations vpon thee and fasten thou my right foote to the same wood of life with the naile of wisdome Grant that the seeming felicity of this transitory life may not enfeeble the operation of my spirit with a sinister sensualitie nor that it be troubled with this present liues infelicity but that both my right hand and left may be fixed vnto the crosse with the naile of fortitude and that some appearance of the thornes which were platted vpon thy head may be resembled in me giue vnto my heart I beseech thee the wholsome compunction of repentance compassion of anothers miserie the pricke of feruent zeale which may be founde vpright before thee and to turne vnto thee in my affliction whilest my head is crowned with this threefold wreath of thornes I desire thee also to reach a spunge vnto my mouth by a reede and to minister the bitternesse of gall vnto my tast I desire also that by thy Scriptures thou wouldest illuminate my reason that I may tast and see how this flourishing world is as an empty spunge and all the concupiscenses there of more bitter then vinegar So my father may that Babilonian Cuppe diffused vpon the whole earth seeme bitter vnto me not able with her fruitlesse flourish to seduce me nor with her false sweetenesse to inebriate me as shee doth those who call darknesse light and light darkenesse that which is bitter sweete and what is sweete bitter Thy wine mixed with mirrh and gall is suspicious vnto me forasmuch as thou wouldest not drinke of it because it imploied the bitternesse of enuie and impiety of such as crucified thee Fashion thy seruant O Lord after thy liuely death so working in me that I may die in the flesh but liue in the righteousnesse of the spirit But that I may reioice in the carrying of the whole image of Christ crucified expresse in me a similitude of that which the insatiate malice of the wicked Iewes exercised against thee after thy death let thy quicke and effectuall word more piercing then the sharpest lance reaching euen vnto the diuision of my soule wound my heart and produce out of it as from my right side in stead of blood and water a loue O Lord vnto thee and to thy brethren finally wrappe my spirit in the pure syndon of my originall stole of innocencie that I may rest there going out and going in into the place of thy admirable Tabernacle hiding me till thy furie be ouerpast but in the third day after the day of my labour the day of punishment early in the first sabbath raise me thy vnworthy seruant and place mee perpetually among thy children that in my flesh I may see thy glorie and be satisfied with the light of thy countenance O my Sauiour and my God let the time come let it come I beseech thee that what I now beleeue I may behold with reuealed eyes what I now hope for I may at last obtaine that what I now desire vehemently I may embrace really may kisse louingly being plunged in the bottomlesse sea of mercie O my Sauiour and my God But blesse thou my Sauiour O my soule and magnifie his name O how good sweet art thou O Lord Iesus vnto the soule that seeketh thee O Iesus the redeemer of the lost the sauiour of the redeemed the hope of the banished the strength of the wearied refreshing to the distressed comfort to the desolate a sweete repose and a comfortable to the sorrowfull soule running O Lord speedily after thee till shee oreget thee the crowne of triumph the chiefest marchandise and the ioy of all the heauenly Citizens an euer-flowing fountaine of all spirituall graces the onely child of God and the great God Let all things which are in Heauen aboue or in earth below praise thee Great art thou and great is thy name O thou immortall glorie of the high God and the pure maiestie of the light eternall O life that quicknest all things O light that enlightenest all things O light that illuminatest euerie light and conseruest by thy eternall splendor Thousands and ten thousands of lights haue shined before the Throne