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love_n	aaron_n	dew_n	skirt_n	19	3	11.6947	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41020	A fountaine of teares emptying it selfe into three rivelets, viz. of (1) compunction, (2) compassion, (3) devotion, or, Sobs of nature sanctified by grace languaged in severall soliloquies and prayers upon various subjects ... / by Iohn Featley ...	Featley, John, 1605?-1666.	1646 (1646)	Wing F598; ESTC R4639	383,420	750

fidelitie nor his religion could preserve him from the sentence of a temporall death O what would I not doe to call him back againe What would I not give to have him restored to life againe But all that I can either doe or give cannot perswade his soule to returne back to its prison Were I the most rich and wealthie in the world yet could not my treasures urchase his returne Noe noe I am well assured of the trueth of the Psalmist who saith that They who trust in their wealth Ps 49.6 and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches vers 7. none of them can by any meanes redeeme his brother nor give to God a ransome for him Well then seing that I cannot fetch him from the grave I will yet send up my sighes towards the place where hee is blessed This I may doe without any check either of reason or religion It was a curse which God did Inflict upon Iehojakim for his sinnes Ier 22.17 even for his coveteousnesse for his oppression and for his violence vers 18 That they should not lament for him saying Ah my brother But on the contrarie when Deborah though she was but Rebeckah's nurse was buried beneath Bethel under an oake Gen 35.8 the name of it was called Allon-Bachuth the oake of weeping When the enemies of David were sisited with sicknesse Ps 35.14 hee behaved himselfe as though they had beene his friends or his brethren yea hee bowed downe heavily as one that mourneth for his mother But hee who now is dead was not mine enemie but my friend yea and noe common friend but a brother yea and not a brother in the flesh so much as in affection even as deare as a mother why then should I not sorrow for the losse of such a brother I will grieve I will lament when I remember the love and the courtesies which hee shewed unto mee and I will speake in the language of the Church to Christ and say O thou that wert my brother Cant 8.1 that sucked the breasts of my mother when I should find thee without I would kisse thee yet I should not be despised I will lament him as David did Saul and Ionathan and say 2. Sam. 1.19 vers 23 vers 26 The beautie of Israël is dead hee was lovely and pleasant in his life I am distressed for thee my brother very pleasant hast thou beene unto mee thy love to mee was wonderfull passing the love of women But what advantage to the dead are the teares of the living Can my sighes inspire life into his bosome Can a draught of my teares fetch him back againe to life O noe 't is this 't is this therfore that doeth heighten and increase my sorrowes even that my teares cannot recover him whom I lament But cease fond woman cease thy sobbs and cryes of discontent By the extreamitie of thy passion thou mayst hasten to his grave yet if th●… murderest thy selfe with excessive sorrow thy soule may be deprived of the locietie of his 'T is true indeede 't is most true Litle can I expect to come to heaven if I violently force my selfe from the earth Why then doe I take on as if I either suspected his happinesse or doubted of following him What comfore can it bring to his body of earth to have i● cabined in the grave with his dispersing ashe● The dust of both of us may mixe in the vault and yet noe joy arise to our senselesse asher If his earth was that which drew mine affertion I see my fondnesse in the corruption of that earth but if his gracious soule was the object of my love I must strive to come where that surviveth To heaven hee 's gone and to heaven I 'll hasten and because I will goe the surest way I will walke in those paths which faith and patience shall direct mee in I will noe more disturbe the peace of my mind since that cannot helpe mee to the companie of him Weepe indeede I doe I am enforced unto it 't is the law of nature 't is an act of necessitie I cannot avoide it Yet though I weepe I will labour for content and since my God as I undoubtedly believe hath beene pleased to crowne my brother with glory I will beseech him to comfort mee here with his grace I will not immoderately weepe lest I injure my selfe I will not Weepe without hope lest I offend my Maker but that I may weepe as I should and hope as I ought live as I am required I will humble my selfe at the feete of him to whom my brother is gone and I will pray unto him and say The Prayer ALl mighty God ever-lasting father Is 9.6 thou in whom wee live and move and have pur beeing be pleased to take pittie upon thy distressed servant grieving for the losse of a ●eloved brother Thou knowest Lord how ●eerely our hearts were knitt in affection and ●herfore how justly I lament my losse Be●hold how these teares doe witnesse my love and imitate that oyntment on Aaron's head Ps 133.2 which went downe to the skirts of his out ward garments Behold how these dropps like that deaw of Harmon and that deaw which descended upon the mountaines of Zion vers 3. doe arise from that unitie which thou hast commanded O how shall I beare the losse of him whom thou in thy law didst charge mee to love Thou ô God didst tye us together in the bond of love yet thou thy selfe hast seperated him from my sight But since it was thy pleasure to receave him to thy selfe be pleased allso to hasten my journie to him Give mee patience to endure this stroake of thy scourge and thankfully to acknowledge thy goodnesse in his happinesse Him thou hast taken fron● the evills to come Rom 7 24. ô deliver mee allso from thi● body of death Make mee setle mine affectio● onely upon thee that my delight may be wholly in thy righteous lawes Give mee a sight of my sinnes for which I have not grieved so much as for the losse of my deceased brother and turne all my teares into a godly sorrow for offending thy majestie Be thou unto mee a father in thy provident care and a brother in thy love that all my wants may be supplyed by thy sufficience On earth I see there is nothing permanent Lord let my treasure be stored in heaven Mat 6.21 and then where my treasure is let my heart be allso When it shall be thy pleasure to free mee from this tabernacle of flesh ô let mee be receaved into that quire of Saints whereof I doubt not but my brother is a joyfull member Graunt ô my God that when I have passed the waves of this troublesome world I may sing tryumphant Halelujahs to thy praise and glory through the merits of him who is mine elder brother even Iesus Christ my onely Lord and Saviour Amen subject 24 THE TWENTIE-FOURTH

the Lord passed by her and looked upon her Eze 16 8. and behould her time was the time of love and hee spread his skirt over her and covered her nakednesse Yea and I have had a time of his love too when all this while that I have continued in obstinacie and rebellion hee hath yet deferred the execution of his justice But now most of all now ô my God I find and feele thy love which I was not sensible of before It is thy love that I affect thy love that I seeke thy love because I beginne to know my sinnes which hindered mee from the knowledg of thy love and among the rest of my sinnes because I now beginne to be sensible of my pretious but ill-spent and lost time And since thou hast now begunne thy love the manifestation of thy love to mee I am so much the more revived by how much I know that thou canst not choose but continue thy love even for my good that I may have time and knowledg and desire and power to love thee againe But especially for thine owne sake for thou that art eternall even thou and thou alone art likewise love for so the Apostle tell 's mee God is love 1. Io 4 16. Thy love therefore being thy selfe and thy selfe being eternall for thine owne sake ô love eternall continue unto mee thy love And that I may be the more sensible of it 1. Pet 4 3. Lord let it suffice that the time past of my life I have wrought the will of the Gentiles vers 7. when I walked in all manner of wickednesse ungodlinesse And now seeing the end of allthingsis at hand make mee to be sober to watch unto prayer Make mee to walke circumspectly Eph 5.15 vers 16 nos as a foole but as the wise Redeeming the time because the dayes are evill But how shall I redeeme the time since I have allready quite lost it There is noe other way but by un-doeing un-sinning the evill which I have hitherto committed and this must be with my present sorrowes for my past my deluding ioyes Lord will one teare serve thy turne for one sinne I know it is too litle I confesse it and yet that one for one is more then I can give for my teares can be but finite but few whereas my sinnes are many are infinite But may one teare serve thee for all my sinnes Alasse that 's too litle in all conscience and yet even that is more then by nature I am willing to give I must I must weepe if ever I hope to receave any comfort yea and when I have wept as much as I well can weepe even then I must endeavour to weepe because I can weepe noe more David was a man and yet hee could weepe yea hee had so many teares that hee was charitablie pleased to dispose of some for others yea very many for his owne words are Ps 119.136 Rivers of waters runne downe mine eyes because men keepe not thy law I am a woman and shall I have noe teares I can cry sometimes for anger and that is onely to satisfie a sinfull passion I can cry some times for a losse when as that which I loose is not worth a teare O if ever I will be angry while I live let mee be angry now Let mee be angry at my selfe for misse-spending my time Let me be heartily angry even till I cry againe O if ever losse was greate I am sure that mine is for I have lost my time my pretious time my whole time even my whole life ever since I was borne unto this very minuit Otherwise I might have had in all this space whole millions of good thoughts and speeches and actions and sobbs and teares registred in heaven against my appearing at the tribunall But instead of those I have filled the booke of remembrance of my God with nothing but vanities and follies with sinnes and wickednesse with omissions and commissions so many and so grievous that unlesse they be blotted out there is noe remedy but I my selfe must be blotted out of the booke of life But there is yet hope so long as there is life There is hope that they may be expunged but then I must beginne the worke in my repentance and so blott them with my teares O that I were now a very piller of salt Gen 19 26. even such a one as Lot's wife was turned into though not with her backsliding not with her looking back and longing to returne to Sodome againe Noe noe that were to repent of my repentance and to undoe what I have begunne But I would be salt because a teare is so and I would be all salt a whole pillar of falt that so in my repentance I might be all sorrow all teares and melt quite away in my laments for my wickednesse for thus might I beginne to blott out the sinns which I have committed But if I may not have that wish Lord let mee howsoëver weepe as much as I may as much as nature and grace can possiblie wring from the eyes of a woman and when I have thus endeavoured to beginne to blott out the offences of the time which is past then helpe mee ô my God assist mee ô Christ ô Iesus and with thy most pretious blood which was ●hed upon the crosse blott them all out of thy remembrance for ever and ever part 2 The second part Of the Soliloquie A consideration of the time present IT is the practise of the wise to redeeme the time past to governe well the time present and carefully to provide for the time to come That which is past may be redeemed ●y sorrow at the time which is present and the well imploying of the present may prepare us for the future I have wickedly lost ●hat time which is past I would therfore dispose well of that which is present And yet Lord how swiftly doe's this present time hasten away If I marke but the pulse of my watch I heare it cry tick tick tick tick as ●ast as I can well count and yet that come's not neere a full informing mee of the flight of the time Alack the last minuit is already gone that which is present is but an ●nstant and not discernable it continueth at most but the twinkling of an eye and yet the present moment is often lost in the expectation of the future The minuits fty and stay not the accountant's leasure The dayes hasten and in their swift expedition chide my negligence and slownesse in religion But if I well consider it my time is not so short but I am an ill house-wife of it there 's the fault I receave not a short life but I make it short for I am not driven to a poverty of time but contrarily I am guilty of the prodigalitie I am carefull and provident for my outward estate and with all my discretion and industrie I endeavour at least to

is short If I could possibly be as ould if I could live as long as from time to time from the beginning of time to the end of time frō the creation of the world to the dissolution of the world yet all this time would not be long yea it would be nothing in comparison of eternitie It would not be the hundred thousand thousand thousand thousandth part so much as one graine of sand is to the whole earth to the whole world and all therein conteined allthough the world should be a million of millions of thousands of millions of times greater then it is or could be accounted by Arithmetick Well then I can have but my life in earthly things and perhaps not that neither in those things which I desire they will not be mine for ever noe for they shall not endure for ever but that which is eternall shall be for ever and ever world without end I meane not this world without end for this shall have an end but I meane that other world that better world the world to come eternall in the heavens Sinfull I was even before I was before I was in the world for I had the staine of originall corruption even in my mother's belly and then I was not or not in this world for so our common speech goe's yea so our Saviour him selfe doeth say allso A woman Io 16.21 when shee is in her travaile hath sorrow because her howre is come but as soone as she is delivered of the child shee remembreth noe more the anguish for joy that a man is borne into the world Our yeeres are constantly reckoned not from our conceptions for then wee were imperfect noe nor from the time of life from the time wee were first quick when our soules were at once both created and infused into us and yet then wee were guiltie of originall pollution but as if wee were not worthy to be sayd to be untill wee may beginne to be more sinfull our age is onely reckoned from our first societie with sinners The simple world account's that wee have beene but just so long as wee have beene companions together in the view of men so if men were to number my transgressions and had both power and skill to summe them up they would begin but at my birth onely at that time when they began to corrupt mee but God will beginne at my beginning at the first time that I receaved a soule and from that very instant shall my soule be accountable for all my sinns But if hee be so strickt as to beginne with my originall uncleanesse when I knew it not oh what will hee say to mine actuall abominations which I both did and doe know So many actuall sinns I have committed that I cannot number them so greate and grievous actuall sinnes that I cannot estimate them All my former time hath indeede beene wholly mine none of it was God's But what good have I done to or for my selfe in all this time Iust none at all nay on the contrarie infinite hurt infinite injurie for I have not onely dishonoured my God and offended my neighbour but allso I have every moment made my selfe more lyable to eternall damnation But shall I have my time and shall not God have his too Yes yes hee hath all this while had his time Rom 2 4. his time of patience and forbearance and long-suffering dayly expecting my repentance and conversion But this was rather my time then his for it was for my good in that hee spared mee And shall not hee yet have his time Some other time Yes hee will have it Hee will have a time of visiting the proude for so hee threatned Babylon by the mouth of his Prophet saying Ier 50.31 Behould I am against thee ô thou most proude saith the Lord God of hostes for thy day is come the time that I will visite thee I have beene proude with Babylon justly therfore may I expect that God should visit mee as hee visited Babylon Hee will have a time of vengeance C 51.6 for so saith the Prophet too Flee out of the middest of Babylon and deliver every man his soule● be not cutt off in her iniquity for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance hee will render unto her a recompense I have lived all this while in Babylon and I have sinned with Babylon and justly therfore might I be destroyed with Babylon But the goodnesse of my God hath hitherto spared mee his kindnesse is greater then I can meritt or requite or vallew for though hee had his time of vengeance against Babylon yet his time of mercie continueth to mee in calling mee to flee from out of the middest of her Hee did call before but I heard not before for though the sillie birds and the fowles doe know their times and seasons yet I knew not my time when God called for my conversion C 8.7 The Storke in the heaven knoweth her appointed times and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow observe the time of their coming but I poore I simple I did not know the judgments of the Lord. Hee will allso have a time of calling every one to an account for their sinnes and that time hee may take when soëver hee pleaseth yea and so hee doeth too for every day some or other doe appeare at his tribunall This time hee might have taken against mee allso all this while while I have lived in my sinnes for I did not watch Mar 13 33. and pray though I knew not when the time would be After judgment hee will have a time of execution too but hee deferr's hee delay 's both judgment execution This was well knowne even unto those two possessed with Devills Mat. 8 28. in the countrie of the Gergesenes which met my Redeemer as they were coming out of the tombes exceeding fierce so that noe man might passe by that way for they cryed out saying vers 29 What have wee to doe with thee Iesus thou sonne of God Art thou come hither to torment us before the time O let the time of vengeance put mee in mind of my sinnes and what I have deserved justly by them Mat 13 25. Yet lest Sathan should sowe tares among my wheate lest hee should tempt mee to despaire when I prepare to repent let mee as well consider that God hath a time of love too as hatred of mercy as of fury Thus the Apostle telleth mee Gal 4.4 When the fullnesse of time was come God sent forth his sonne made of a woman vers 5. made under the law To redeeme them that were under the law that wee might receave the adoption of sonnes O what a blessed time of love was this when his owne sonne his onely sonne his sonne of his bosome was sent to redeeme such wicked and ungodly wretches as I poore creature am Ierusalem found a time of love too of infinite love when