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A27113	Juvenilia sacra, or, Divine youthfull meditations consisting of a dialogue between Christ and the soul, a preparation to the Lords Supper, characters of the pious and impious man, of the good and wicked woman, the foure quarters of the yeare, ten historicall, ten scripture and ten occasional applications / by P.B., Gent.	P. B., Gent.	1664 (1664)	Wing B151; ESTC R5392	34,585	144

have got this Pearle my Christ have attained such riches to which theirs is but Drosse and Dung 10. DIogenes was a man so much despising Riches that being proferd great Wealth by Alexander he bid him stand out of the Sun-shine as being a comfort that all his Riches could not bring him He chose a Tub for his Pallace a Wooden dish was all his Houshold-stuffe and Water and Herbs his chiefest Sustenance Though some may take this for a Tale of a Tub yet surely it is a great example of a Generous and Moderate life which without doubt was full of a perfect Tranquility His minde was calm not like the Merchants tossed with every Wind more then his Ship nor alarum'd with Thieves seeing he had nothing but his Wooden dish to loose and Christians may be ashamed to be so farr out-gone by a Heathen in Morral Vertue but yet we finde this Diogenes whose diet was so spare to desire the unchaste embraces of a Lais Ah! how then doth the Pampring of our bodyes now a dayes put oyle to the flame and increase our natural lustful desires ●t is a worthy sentence of Hesiod that half is better then the whole one dish will serve nature better then ten for with our many Courses we course away our Health though Bread and Water be all my Food as long as the Sun of Righteousnesse shines on me I will not envy Sardanapalus all his daints of the Sea and Land Scripture Applications This Book of the Law shall not depart out of thy Mouth but thou shalt Meditate therein Day and Night 1. UNmatchable was the strength of Sampson yet could he notwithstand the charming allurements of Delilah but by her treachery his so admired strength was brought to nought How carefull therefore ought we to be to eschew the company of these subtill charmers to stop our ears to these Syrens Harmony doth their pleasing Warbling Ravish thee Oh! consider their Lustfull Layes will lull thee a sleep to thy ruine Doest thou admire them for their Lilly hands Know that therewith they will lead thee to all uncleannesse Perhaps their Golden Locks may ensnare thee but be assured that every curle is a chain to hold thee to thy sin Or if their twinkling eyes have bewitched thee consider them as false Lights as the fatall Funeral piles of thy honour and chastity thy Saviour had not whereon to lean his Head and wilt thou rest on a downy Bed with thy lewd Minion Oh no! but reject these Delilah's since they like Sylla and Charybdys miserably Shipwrack all those that approach them 2. NAaman Captain of the Host of Assyria was a Leaper who was Cured by Elisha by being dipt seaven times in the River Jordan Most Leaprous is my soul wash it therefore Oh my Saviour in the Jordan of thy blood but are not Abana and Pharphar Rivers of Damascus better then the Streams that flow from thee Oh no! they may wash the filth from our bodies but never from our souls T is only the Rivolet of thy blood can make us perfectly clean Oh! be thou my Jesus or the Physitian to my sick soul and heal me and for my Cure I will not return thee money or coyne nor offer up unto thee Sheep or Oxen but Prayers Thanks and Tears Sacrifices most acceptable unto thee Incense which smells sweetest in thy Nostrills 3. VVHen the Israelites abode in Shittim the Daughters of Moab allured then to commit Whoredoms and thence we see a sad story of Cozby arise who was slain in the lustfull embraces of her Lover in the sight of all the Congregation And yet how many Daughters of Moab have we in these dayes Ah! how many Delilahs which wear the Sun of Darknesse in their Faces and I fear to in their hearts who preferr a white Cheek or a Cherry Lip before the beauty of Holinesse it self and which covet no other Heaven but their Lovers Armes Fools thus for a moment of fading pleasures to purchase everlasting Torments For let them know their Patches do not Beautifie their Faces but set so many black spots upon their Souls their Anointing and Painting causes them to slide the quicker into Hell and their Pouders and Perfumes do but make them a daintier bit for Divels 4. VVHen Goliah Encountred David he was Armed with a Helmet of Brasse and a Coat of Maile with a Sphear like a Weavers Beam but on the contrary David comes in the Name of the Lord of Hosts the God of the Armies of Israel and thus with a Sling and a Stone only he Slays this mighty Phylistine Victory is in the hand of God and in vain is the strength of man without his assistance if God be on thy side let not the number of Enemies dismay thee for he can defend his Elisha with Charriots of fire and save his David both out of the Paw of the Lion and out of the Hand of the Phylistine He that comes in the name of the Lord of Hosts is sufficiently armed against all Encounters thus Guarded I 'le not fear the World the Flesh no nor Satan himself for when the Tempter comes I will meet him with my Saviours answer It is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve This this is the way with these Weapons with David I will strike the Monster in the forehead and slay him 5. SInfull Soddom sinned against God and Just God Punished Soddom But what was wretched Sodoms sin which hath not been in our habitations what Crime did miserable Gomorrah perpetrate which we have not committed Niniveh in forty days could Repent at the Preaching of one Jonas and we not in fourty years though hundreds thunder daily in our ears the emminent Judgments of God upon us Purples and Silks are the Sack-cloath and Powders and Perfumes the Ashes which we Repent in Ah! our God we have justly deserved that thou shouldst make our Land a place of dead mens Sculls an Island encompassed with her own Blood Once what Land more Righteous then England and alas now who more sinfull she was once the Daughter of Nations the joy and perfection of the whole Earth but now her Beauty is departed from her she is black but no more comely Lord we were once thy Darlings as dear unto thee as the Apple of thine eye Oh! therefore do not leave ●is nor forsake us but draw us with the Cords of thy Love that we may once more run after thee Poure the Oyle of thy Mercy into our Souls and heal us that thou again mayest be our God and we thy People 6. WHen I call to mind my Christs Death I cannot but admire the goodness of my Saviour that he the Son of the King of Kings should suffer his precious side to be pierced with a Spear His Sacred Temples those beds of sweetest Spices to be rent and torn and all to preserve me from destruction But must no less then the blood of the King of Heaven be the Balm to

Juvenilia SACRA OR Divine Youthfull Meditations CONSISTING Of a Dialogue between Christ and the Soul A Preparation to the Lords Supper Characters of the Pious and Impious Man Of the Good and Wicked Woman The Foure Quarters of the Year Ten Historicall Ten Scripture and Ten Occasional Applications By P. B. Gent. London Printed by Tho. Mabb for John Playfere at the White Bear in the Upper Walk of the New-Exchange 1664. Perlegi hunc Libellum cui Titulus Juvenilia Sacra in quo nihil reperio sanae fidei Disciplinae Ecclesiae Anglica aut bonis moribus contrarium Joh. Hall R. ● D. Episc Lon. à sac Domest Mar. 15. 1663. TO HIS Honoured Friend Francis Dashwood Esq SIR I Have Read of Pylades and Orestes and many others but the Past Present or Future Age have not nor will never Produce such a Stupendious Example of Friendship as Yours to me which though I cannot Requite yet I will never Cease to Acknowledge I here Present You the Fruits of my Youthfull Idle Hours and it will be a Repetition of your former Courtesie to Protect and Accept such a Trifle yet therein You have Your own Picture drawn in the Character of my Piou● Man which if it be not to the Life the World wil● conclude that it is not because You wanted Merrit but the Unskilfulness of Your Humble Servant P. B Courteous Reader PErhaps in the Perusal of my little Book thou mayest think me too Satyrical but I hope thy Ingenuity will apply these Invectives to those unto whom they were directed to the Vicious for mistake me not I am none of those that think all they which wear black patches cannot go to Heaven I only aime at such as hang them out as the Ensignes of Lust neither do I carp at all that are attired in Gorgeous Apparrel No for surely the Lillies Beauty and Solomons Royalty was not displeasing to God But only at such who are proud in them that hug their Inventions for devising fantastique fashions that spend most of their time in pruning of their Locks and setting those Netts to catch Fools Suppose you should be Enamoured of a false though a seeming Lovely Beauty and at the Instant of the Injoyment of your Imaginary Heaven when your Sun should disrobe her self of her Shroud If then I say instead of the Beams of a dazling Beauty you should meet with nothing but Deformity Those Tresses which you have Esteemed as the Netts of Cupid as the Beams of the Sun should prove the horrid spoils of the dead and those teeth which you call'd Pearles should be false as her self and confin'd each night into a Box would not this fright your resolution This is all that I have endeavoured to do to unmask the Strumpet and shew you her ugly Visage hoping it may perswade you no longer to serve so deformed a Mistris Here thou wilt finde Heavenly Milk for Babes Counsel for Young Men and such was I being but sixteen when I wrote most of them hereafter when my Judgment grows Riper with my Years I shall endeavour to give thee more solid food If you reap any Fruit by the perusall of my Book I am too well paid for my Labour in Composing it Thine P. B. Heaven and Earth in a Dialogue betwixt the Soul and Christ CHRIST 1. AH Foolish Soul how often have I displayed unto thee the Beauties and Riches of Heaven propos'd such Glories as thy dim eyes were too weak to behold Why wilt thou feed on huskes empty pleasures when thou mayest be satisfied with Heavenly Manna and Fountains of ever Living Waters why will you walk in the wayes of Sin which are black as Egyptian darkness horrid and full of precipices and decline the milkie paths of Heaven which are smooth and full of Innocency SOVL 2. True Lord but yet my Darling World comes with ten thousand charms and ravishes my Soul and can those paths be unpleasant which are strewed with pleasure and paved with love if thy paths are so smooth how then comes it that thy Servants so often stumble in them sure they are either rugged or as you say hells are so they are dark t is the Poets milkie way is full of Stars CHRIST 3. Thy Darling and all her Charme will soon leave thee doest thou trust to terrene pleasures Alas the World is but a rotten staire to mount up to Glory Had Jacobs Ladder had one such round in it he could never have mounted up to Heaven by it Could'st thou by the eye of Faith but see the beauty of holiness the charms of thy Saviour how would thy enlarged Soul be ravished with them and if there be any rubbs in Heavens path there are no precipices they do but stumble not fall whereas the wicked when they are once fallen are like the Elephant they seldome rise and as the Poets so is Heavens milkie way full of Stars it is stuck full of the Pious Examples of my Saints which may serve as so many Constellations to guide thee And I thy Saviour am thy North Star by which if thou doest stear thou canst not erre SOVL 4. But Lord are not thy paths more rugged then those of sin Loves fire with a kind of mistick heat onely cherishes our Souls and who would not rather live in such a flame then such as do thy Servants who are consumed by that of Martyrdom what are thy cares but deaths heads sighs and tears and are these thy pleasures is this Heavens banquet CHRIST 5. The Paths of sin seem smooth but alas they are paved with thorns though sin hath subtilly covered them with flowers and guilded her poison Hells flames are not so black as those of lust instead of cherishing thy Soul it preyes upon it whereas the Fire of Martyrdom doth make you like Gold to come out of it more glorious And if Deaths Heads Sighs and Tears are such harsh food unto thee it is because thou knowest not how to use them aright and besides this thou shalt eat Celestial Manna and if all this will not please thee thou shalt by faith eat my Flesh and drink thy Saviours Blood SOVL 6. When I assault a Beautie what delight it is to see what prettie shifts it will make to avoid being conquered how sometimes I am forced to let mine eyes showre on her stonie heart till their continual dropping have worn away its hardness what prettie devices it makes us invent when Doves are our Post-Masters how sometimes I seek to bribe my prettie Enemie with gifts and then how I glory in my Conquest my thinks Caesar did not so well deserve a triumph for subduing the Universe as I for Vanquishing my little World CHRIST 7. And I will teach thee how thou shalt woe Heaven how thou shalt make the Heavens bow and come down and catch thy pious whispers and my Holy Dove shall be the Carrier of them and bring them into my Fathers bosome and thus shalt thou subdue Heaven and thousands of

Fortresse by Storme His second Squadron hath black Ensignes under which fight Dispair and he gives a furious Assault Next comes Covetousnesse who seeks to Bribe and Betray the Fortresse and with these are all other deeds of Darknesse but his third Squadron have White Ensignes and under these are all catching Pleasures and Allurements Ambition Fame Pride Riot and Lasciviousnesse 'T is these that come with the white Flag of Truce and yet mean War t is these that seem to be the least considerable Troops and yet the most to be feared t is these lay all the Ambushes with these are his Artillery and that is Woman out of the Loop-holes of her eyes she discharges her murderers this is the fatal Flame that sets the whole Fortresse on fire and besides these that he may not omitt any thing on his part he hath intelligence within even thy own thoughts thou thy self art foe to thy self and Satan beats thee with thy own Weapons but that which shews the height of his Policy is that he will be sure to storm the Fort in the Weakest place but do thou Jesu stand in the breach and repell him back do thou Man the Castle with Assurance and Constancy Strengthen Faith that it may keep its Ground cause Repentance to open the Flood-gates of his Eyes and drown its Foes and thus shall the Siege be raised and thou remain Conquerour and Faithfull Souldier to the King of Heaven who will reward thy Victory with a Wreath of Glory 10. The Ship THis World is a Sea Man is the weak Barke that is tossed in that Restlesse and Stormy Ocean our hands are two of the Oares that Row us thither and every good Deed we Act we fetch a Stroak towards Heaven and the Almighties Spirit is the gentle Blast that fills our Sails for without it we are becalm'd He that sails with the Tide glides towards Hell Orphans sighs are the winds that drive him swiftly on he hath often a merry Gale and he seldom thinks on the sadnesse of his Voyage till he almost arrive at the Dismal Haven of Death and though God the Searcher of Hearts who knows if he liv'd longer whether he would steer a new course may pardon him yet this is dangerous and he often Miserably Perishes But he that will steer in a direct course to Heaven must Saile against the Tide and he must always be Rowing for whilest he is idle the Stream carries him backwards he will often meet with a thousand Impediments in his Voyage Though Historians doubt whether there be any Syrens yet in this Sea he will meet with many Riches is the Fatall Remora which sticks to the bottome of the Vessel and hinders its course but above all he must have a care he doth not Shipwrack himself against the White Rock of a Womans Breast And besides these he shall meet with other Storms which will drive him back again but he must Wrastle with these difficulties and tug against the Stream and if he chance to overcome the Tempest Zephyrus gently filling his Sailes and he enjoys Peace and Tranquillity let him consider that after the wanton play of Porposes there comes a Storm and therefore repair the Breaches which the Tempest hath made hath Dispair enterd cast it out and resume thy Anchor of Hope and at last thy Voyage shall be Prosperous and thy Barke shall unlade its Pretious Fraight in the Bosome of its Saviour that Great Factor of Souls who will Treasure it in his Coelestial Store-house and binde it up amongst his Jewels to all Eternity A Table of the several Subjects in this Book HEaven and Earth a Dialogue wherein Christ Convinces the Soul that all those Honours Gifts and Pleasures which it imagines to injoy here are to be found in him with advantage page 1 A preparation to the Lords Supper p. 25 Character of the Pious Man p. 37 Character of the Impious Man p. 44 Character of the Good Woman p. 50 Character of the Wicked Woman p. 55 The four Quarters of the Year And First of Spring or Infancy p. 61 Second Of Summer or Youth p. 67 Third Of Autumn or Man-hood p. 73 Fourth Of Winter or Old Age p. 78 Ten Historical Applications 1. Henry the Fifth By his Example to forsake this Worlds Vanities p. 83 2. Ixions Cloud or the vanity of Earthly pleasures p. 85 3 Caesars Herods and Swedlands Kings death or the Frailty of Mans Life p. 86 4. The Exchange Or Divine Trafick p. 87 5. Zeuxis Tablet against Painting p 89 6. Sinon or the Hypocrite p. 91 7. Demosthenes Oration Against Commedies p. 92 8. Thersites Or the Back-biter p. 94 9. Aesops Cock Christ our Pearle of Price p. 95 10. Diogenes An Example of Temperance p. 96 Ten Scripture Applications 1. Sampson Lust to be avoided p. 98 2. Naaman Christs blood can only cleanse Vs p. 100 3. Cozby Lusts punishment p. 101 4. David and Goliah God alone the Giver of Victory p 102 5. Soddom Its sins compared to Englands p. 103 6. Christs Death Expressing his Love to Vs p. 105 7. The Prodigal Gods mercy upon Repentance p. 106 8. The Widdows Mite God regards not the full hand but the heart of the Giver p. 108 9. Christ Riding on an Asse His Humility p. 109 10. Peters Sermon The words power and our hardness of heart p. 110 Ten Occasional Applications 1. On a withered Rose Our backwardness to Repentance and Gods mercy p. 112 2. The Fly in the Candle Carnal Security p. 115 3. On a Blotted Paper Against Patches p. 116 4. The Sow in the Mire or the worldling p. 118 5. The Whipping of a Tap or Fatherly Correction p. 120 6. On a Fleet of Ships in the night Christ our Pilote p. 121 7. The dropping of the Eaves Mercies cannot mollifie us p. 123 8. On a Ship-wrack Christ the Rock of our Salvation p. 124 9. The Castle Man a Besieged Fortresse p. 126 10. The Ship the World a Sea wherein poor man is tossed p. 128 FINIS ERRATA'S For CAres Page 4. line 8. Pilate p. 8. l. 6. S●earest p. 8. l. 7. Armes p. 9. l. 17. So●s p. 13. l. 6. Brooks p. ibid. l. 13. Son p. 14. l. 20. Armes p. 16. l. 20. sit p. 20. l. 18. may for p. 48. l. 22. party p. 51. l. 9. T●rget p. 61. l. 5. Lillies p. 62. l. 22. intseat p. 64. l. 19. indissolvable p. 69. l. 2. strikt p. 69. l. 5. wained p. 70. l. 17. Fer●ore p. 73. l. 2. strain p. 77. l. 9. Ecclip'd p. 79. l. 10. our p. 87. l. 14. Worldling p. 96. l. 2. staid p. 107. l. 1● sports p. 119. l. 9. Read Cares Pilote Steerest Armies Suns Brook Sun Armies set may be for parley Turget Lillie intreat indissoluble strict weaned Fervore staire Ecclips'd ours Worldlings staind spots