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love_n	charity_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	51	3	9.1941	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06676	Paraphrasticall and devout discourses vpon the Psalme Miserere, composed by Ch. M.	Kellison, Matthew.	1635 (1635)	STC 17130; ESTC S102830	80,842	304

in cryes and my eyes vvitnesse it vvith flouddes of teares O Dauid vvho art thou vvho novv art so humble euen in heart vvast not thou elected by God and anointed by Samuel the Prophet King of the Ievves vvas it not thou 2. Reg. 10. vvho killedst a lion and a beare 1. Reg. 17. foyledst at thy feete the great Giant Golias vvho braued the hostes of God made them all to quake Art not thou he of vvhom the yonge maydes virgins sange 1. Reg. 18. Saul stroke a thousand and Dauid ten thousand It is true I am he that did all this but I vvho killed the lion 1. Reg. 17. the beare and the Giant Golias am now slaine by an homebred yet more cruell beast concupiscence vvhich pretending to doe me a pleasure hath giuen me my deadlie vvound and like a trayterous Ioab seeming to offer me a kisse 2. Reg. 20. 1. Reg. 18. Psa 88 gaue me the stabb O Dauid art not thou he to whom God promised the Kingdome of Israel to continue in thy race for euer of vvhich race the Messias was to descende vvhy then art thou so deiected and humbled in heart I am he but I am now a greeuous sinner and those great titles prerogatiues and priuileges vvherevvith God heretofore honoured me doe now but aggrauat my sinnes and therefore not vvithstanding the aforesaid titles I am afflicted in spirit my heart is contrite broken vvith sorrovv and humbled 11. And yet ô Lord saith he I vvill not dispaire knowing thee to be mercifull and mercie it selfe Psa 21. Ps 70 ibid. Thou art my hope from the breastes of my mother thou art my hope from my youth In thee Lord I haue hoped let me not be confounded for euer Ps 131. Remember Dauid ô Lord and all his meeknes Remember vvhat I vvas heretofore Act. 13. a man according to thy heart consider not vvhat I am but pardon vvhat I am restore me to what I was to my former vertue grace and fauout and for my sinnes past I vvill offer thee a sacrifice not of oxen or sheepe but of my selfe of an afflicted spirit of a cōtrite humbled heart vvhich is more agreable to thee thē hecatombes of brute beastes I ô Lord vvill be my selfe the Priest my Altar shall be my soule my sacrifice my heart vvhich by contrition I shall breake and bruse by charitie I vvill burne vnto thy honour as a most gratefull holocauste knowing that a contrite heart and humbled thou wilt not despise 13. O the noble sacrifice of a contrite heart This sacrifice in all lavves be it the lavv of Nature before Moyses or the lavv vvritten before CHRIST or the nevv law since the comming of Christ is auaylable alwayes gratefull neuer abrogated as the old sacrifices are I neede not seeke farre countries for it it is vvithin me I neede not lay out mony to buy it it is myne CHRIST IESVS by his passion bought it and gaue it to me if I vvill I neede not begge it of any but CHRIST IESVS it is in my povver with his grace it is a sacrifice which euerie one may offer aswell the poore as the rich aswell the subiect as the King aswell the seruant as the Master it maybe offred asvvell in the night as the daye aswell in the field as the Church no time no place no person no hovver no moment vnfit for this sacrifice 14. I ô Lod remembring with Dauid my many greeuous sinnes am desirous with him to offer a sacrifice to appease thy anger cōceaued against me for them and because the sacrifices of brute beastes which were offered in the old lavv are not now pleasing vnto thee nor neuer vvere for themselues vnlesse they proceeded frō the invvard sacrifice of the heart I offer vnto thee the invvard sacrifice vvhich Dauid offered thee to wit a contrite and humbled heart beaten to povvder with contrition burned to ashes by loue of thee and charitie The zealous Moyses vvhen he saw that the Iewes had adored the golden calfe instead of God Exod. 32. vvas transported with such an holie rage furie that in this zeale he slew the Idolaters and caused the golden calfe their Idoll to be beaten to powder and mingling the powder with water caused the children of Israel to drinke it If Moyses was so angrie vvith that Idole which committed no Idolatrie but vvas onely the obiect of the Iewes Idolatrie to vvhich also it could not consent How should I detest my heart in what a rage should I be against it vvhy should I not beat it to povvder by contritiō it hauing committed a kinde of Idolatrie so often as it sinned mortallie in preferring the creature before the Creatour his cōmaundements and why should not I mingle this powder with the teares of contrition and drinke daylie this potion and make it my meate and drinke Psa 41. as he did vvho sayd Fuerunt mihi lachrymae meae panes die ac nocte My teares haue beene breads vnto me day and night 15. O sweet Iesus our true Moyses the veritie of the Ievves Moyses a tipe figure of thee who gauest vs the law writtē in heartes not in tables as he did vvho deliueredst vs not from a temporall captiuitie of Pharao as he did Exod. 17. but from an eternall thraldome of the Deuill strike vvith the rodd of thy crosse and consideration of thy passion suffred for our sinnes on it the rocke of my stonie heart that the teares of contrition may gushe forth and flow from it by my eyes as they did frō Dauids S. Peters S. Marie Magdalenes eyes O sweet Iesus resolue by the blood of thy passion my hard heart into the riuers of teares in vvhich Dauid Manasses S. Peter S. Marie Magdalene vvashed their soules frō the filth of sinne In this Iordā of teares vvash me ô Lord 4. Reg. 5. Luc. 4. from my leprosie of sinne vvith Naaman Syrus In this poole of Siloe vvash myne eyes vvith the blind-borne Ioan. 9 Ioan. 5. In this Probatica heale me and cure me of all my infirmities Ioan. 4. Wash me in this fountaine of liuing water which springeth vp to life euerlasting In this second baptisme called Baptismus flaminis regenerat me a new creature 2. Par. 33. Ionae 3. 4. Reg. 20. 1. Reg. 2 Psa 50. Luc. 7. Math. 26. These teares restored Manasses to his kingdome deliuerd Niniue from destruction prolonged Ezechias life fifteen yeares procured to Anna a Samuel to Dauid S. Peter S. Marie Magdalene and thousand other sinners remission of their sinnes And if in Noë his tyme the vvorld had beene vvashed in this water it had neuer beene drovvned in the Deluge In this vvater the ship of my soule shall sayle to the hauen of heauen securely because in this sea of teares there is no storme to shake it no surging vvaues to tosse it no rock to shiuer it in peeces or on which

one can not by grace and contrition be remitted vvithout the rest grace being equallie opposite to all but also from his veniall sinnes and the temporall payne due to mortall sinne remitted For although the eternall payne due to mortall sinne be alwaies remitted with the sinne yet not the tēporall payne vnlesse the contrition be extraordinarie as it vvas in S. Marie Magdalene And therefore after that Nathan had tould Dauid 2 Reg. 12. that our Lord had taken away his sinne he tould him also that because by his sinne he had made the enemies of our Lord to blaspheme for this thiag the sonne that is born to thee dying shall die Yea Nathan tould Dauid that the sword should not depart from his house 2. Reg. 13. 2. Reg. 18. 3. Reg. 1 2. Par. 21.24.25.35 As indeed three of his owne sonnes Ammon Absalon and Adonias were slaine as vvere also many others of Dauids race and familie Finally Dauid in desiering to be more amplie washed desired to be cleansed from all the reliques of sinne 2. But thou ô sinfull Christian because thou hast not that reuelation which Dauid had to witt that our Lord hath takē away thy sinne 2. Reg. 12. Desire him to vvash thee cleane euen from the malice of sinne yea and to wash thee more amply that is frō the payne and reliques of sinne Say vnto thy mercifull God ô Lord how often haue I wallowed in my filthie pleasures and in the fowle puddle of sinne by which I haue polluted body and soule yea the earth on which I haue vvalked and the ayre in which I haue breathed in so much that I haue defiled by sinne the Image of God engrauen in my soule and haue caused my soule to sauour so ill to thy diuine senses and to seeme so vglie to thy diuine eyes that thou hast turned thy face from me 3. And if it seeme strange to any that sinne should pollute the soule which is of a spirituall immortall incorruptible substance he must know that then a thing is polluted or defiled vvhen it is vnited or mixed with a baser thing then it selfe See S. Tho. 2.2 q 7. ar 2. in corp then graced or embellished vvhen it is mixed vvith a thinge more noble then it selfe And so siluer is defiled vvhen it falleth in the durt or into moltē leade but when a siluer ring falleth into molten gold it is guilded and graced And seeing that by sinne our soule auerteth it selfe from God and conuerteth and vniteth and as it were mingleth it selfe by inordinate affection with creatures as corporall and beastly pleasures of the body the trash and pelfe of the world baser then she and inferiour to her she is contaminated and defiled but when she conuerteth her selfe to God the creatour by charitie and loue then is she graced and adorned because then she is vnited to a more noble substance then her selfe And therefore as one can not touch pitch Eccl. 13 coales or other filthy thinges but he shall file his hands so a sinner can not touch creatures by inordinate affection but he shall be defiled in soule 4. S. Tho. 1.2 qu. 86. ar 1. 2. Hence it is that Diuines doe affirme that euery mortall sinne leaueth behind it maculam a spott or blott which blurreth staineth and defileth the soule and maketh her odious in the sight of God Wherefore God by Hieremie the Prophet telleth the Iewish Synagogue which had defiled her selfe by many sinnes and euen by Idolatrie Hier. 2. If thou shouldst wash thy selfe with nitre and multiply to thy selfe the hearbe borith thou art spotted in thine iniquitie before me And of our Blessed Ladie because she vvas free from all sinne at least actuall Cant. 4 the Spouse saith in the Canticles Thou art all fayre my loue and there is not a spott in thee Ephes 5 And S. Paule saith that Christ so loued the Church that he deliuered him selfe to death for it that he might sanctify it and cleanse it by the lauer of water in the word that he might present to him selfe à glorious Church not hauing spott or vvrinkle 5. And this spott and filth of sinne is the filthiest of all filthes for corporall filthes doe onelie pollute and defile bodies and cannot defile any spirituall substance And therefore if an Angell or a mans soule should paste through the most filthie puddle that is it would not be defiled and hence it is that in a lepours body the soule of man is not a vvhitt contaminated but sinne is so fowle and filthie that it defiled Lucifer the Angells that followed him in his rebelliō against God and it blurreth spotteth and polluteth our soules as I haue shewed And therefore God vvho hath created all thinges euen those which seeme to vs foule and vncleane and yet neuer defiled his handes and who is in all thinges by essence power and presence S. Tho. 1 pa q. 8. ar 3. and yet is no more contaminated by them then the sunne is when he shineth on the puddle or dunghill yet if he could create or be Authour of sinne he should be contaminated and therefore he can not be Authour of it because he can not be contaminated 6. From this filth Dauid cryeth to be washed cleansed But what water ô penitent Dauid wouldst thou haue to wash cleanse thee from this filth the filth of sinne is so abominable that neither the water of the Cistern of Bethleem which thou once so greedilie desiredst nor the Probatica Pond 1. Para. 11. Ioan. 5.4 Reg. 5. Luc. 4. which being stirred by an Angell cured the corporall lame and blind nor the riuer of Iordan in which Naaman was cleansed frō his leprosie can wash away this filth of sinne or take out the stayne thereof And therefore most wiselie ô Royall Prophet thou specifiest none of these vvaters but onelie demādest that vvater and lauer vvhich hath force to wash out the filth of sinne and leauest to God to fynd out the vvater at vvhich also by faith thou thy selfe aymedst 7. And vvhat is this lauer it is the bloud of the Lambe CHRIST IESVS vvhich he shedd for all sinners Apoc. 1 1. Ioan. 1. and in which he hath washed vs from our sinnes By vertue of this Bloud all the sinnes that were euer remitted from the fall of Adam haue been vvashed and our soules haue been cleansed frō them And therefore this lambe of God is sayd to haue been killed from the beginninge of the world Apoc. 13. Not onelie because he vvas in figure killed in Abel but also because all vvho haue had remission of their sinnes from the beginninge of the world haue had it by faith in Christ and by vertue of his sacred bloud which was shed for vs. O Lord sayth Dauid wash me and rinse me in this holy bathe and lauer of thy bloud that I may be cleansed from all fylth of sinne and appeare gratefull hereafter to thy