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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13282	Anapausis. Rest for the restlesse soule. By Archibald Symmer, minister of the gospell	Symmer, Archibald.	1637 (1637)	STC 23586; ESTC S106029	9,180	18

and lusts of his flesh by obeying and following the same but hee is grossely deceived for as oyle being cast into the sea mitigates the violent surges of the same but for a moment and by and by they become a great deale fiercer so the thing that a voluptuous man desires though it abate the toile of his labouring minde it is but for a while and never fully but presently afterward it befalleth him as it did the monster Hydra when Hercules Simile had cut off one head two did rise in the place so the Epicures labour and vexation of his swinish heart after it is a little mitigated increaseth and ariseth to an higher pitch than ever it did afore As then he that hath the dropsie can never quench his thirst by drinking so can no carnall and unregenerate man content and quiet his spirit with the vanities of this world nor the sensuall soule its brutish desire with pleasures CHAP. 3. All and onely the weary members of Christ are refreshed HO every one that thirsteth come yee to the waters c. for thus saith hee that is high and excellent hee Isay 55. 1. that inhabiteth the eternity whose name is the holy one I dwell in the high and holy place and with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to give life to them that are of a contrite heart Isay 57. 15. And againe Come unto me all ye that labour Mat. 11. 28. and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Such as feele the burthen of their sinnes originall and actuall and grone under the same labouring to have the release and ease of Matth. 5. 3. them and such as are poore in spirit and sensible of their spirituall wants and weaknesse lowly in heart and base in their owne esteeme and therefore labour for the free pardon of all their offences for the righteousnesse of Jesus Phil. 3. 9. Christ which is by faith and a joyfull sense of the love and favour of God which is better than life it selfe and pray for that peace of God even that tranquillity of conscience that passeth all naturall understanding such as are thus humbled are fit objects of mercy and compassion C. 4. 7. for the Lord giveth grace unto the humble they are capable of rest and refreshment Such broken hearts are the sacrifices Iam. 4. 6. Psal 51. 17. of God a broken and a contrite heart O Lord thou wilt never despise who so doth pray with David hide thy V. 9 10 11 12. face from my sinnes and blot out all mine iniquities Create in mee a cleane heart O God and renue a right spirit within mee Cast me not away from thy face and take not thy holy spirit from me Restore unto mee the joy of thy salvation c. that poore soule shall be liberally comforted and fully refreshed in the bowels of Christs endlesse compassions Never did any Faithfull penitent heart depart from the throne of Grace without some sensible consolation Never did Christ since the foundations of the Isa 1. world reject any of his poore ransomed members but though their sinnes were as red as crimson they became as white as snow so that the bones which the Lord had broken did ever thereafter rejoyce in his mercy CHAP. 4. The reason of the former point ALl the weary Saints of Christ are refreshed whether Gal. 3. 28. Eph. 6. 9. these be rich or poore Jewes or Greeks bond or free mals or female for with God there is no respect of persons but as many as walke according to this rule peace shall be upon them and mercy and upon the Israel of God Who Gal 6. 16. else should be invited unto the participation of mercy to be partakers of the privileges and comforts of the Kingdome Phil. 2. 8 9. of Christ but such as he came into the world to save whom should he refresh but those whom he hath redeemed Matth. 10. 6. And whom should hee exalt but those for whose sakes he was humbled and afterward highly exalted Now it is evident that Christ was sent of the Father into the world not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance and to save the lost sheepe of the house of Israel for the same was prophesied of him by the holy Ghost long before his Incarnation Isa 61. 1. c. And when Christ himselfe came to Nazareth where he had beene brought up he went as his custome was into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day and the booke of this Prophecie being delivered of the Minister unto Luke 4. him he expounded the same The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anoynted me that I should preach the Gospell to the poore hee hath sent mee that I should heale the broken hearted that I should preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind that I should set at liberty them that are bruised and that I should preach the acceptable yeere of the Lord Luk. 4. 16 17 18 19. Hence it is evident that our blessed Saviour was sent of God the Father not for his owne cause but for his afflicted members sake neither came he to be Lord over all but to redeeme all his owne So God the Father delivered Mat. 11. 27. all things unto him he gave him all power both in heaven and in earth made him Lord over all that hee might deliver C. 28. 18. us wretched soules from the jawes of hell and pull us out of the pawes of that infernall Lion Satan whose bondslaves we were sitting in darknesse in the region and shadow of death till that day-spring from on high visited Isay 9. 1. Luke 1. us and set us at libertie Thus our blessed Redeemer sitteth at the right hand of God and maketh intercession for us he helpeth his afflicted servants and sends them release in Rom. 8 34. Gen. 45. 5. their distresses So was Joseph sent into Egypt by God and there exalted for the preservation of his Church and so he was a type of Christ So David was preferred and advanced Psal 18. unto the Kingdome of Israel and so was hee likewise a figure of Christ 2 Sam. 22. CHAP. 5. Damnable is the case of all such as are strangers from Christ WHat shall wee say then of those that are enemies unto the Crosse of Christ Jesus what is the condition Eph. 2. of such as are strangers from the life of God aliens from the common wealth of Israel and forrainers from the Covenants of promise who have hope but are without God in the world walking according to the course of the same according to the Prince of the power of the aire the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience Their estate is most damnable wofull the tragicall plight of all such impenitent and senselesse sinners is to be deplored even with teares of

ΑΝΑΠΑΥΣΙΣ REST FOR THE Restlesse Soule By ARCHIBALD SYMMER Minister of the Gospell MATTH 11. 28. Come unto mee all yee that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest LONDON Printed by Iohn Haviland for WILLIAM SHERES 1637. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Sir Iohn Hanbury of Kelmarsh Knight peace externall internall supernall eternall RIGHT WORSHIPFULL GReat is the love of Christ to his 1 Ioh. 3. 16. Saints and gracious is the effect thereof in them which is their Christian charity one to another This is not in word neither in tongue onely but Verse 18. in deed and in truth and such is that of your Worship to mee This is a comfort but what shall I say it inferres a difficulty it must bee mutuall love requires a requitall and how can Cleanthes requite a reall a golden love with the airie store of his phantasie For poverty is the patrimony of the Muses Noble Sir though Momus reckon that letters are but the clouds of Helicon yet in Apolloes esteeme they are durable riches yea so lovely is learning and gracious are the Muses that Favin Parisien in his Theatr. Honor. the Rose is become their livery and the Hieroglyphick of such as love them and good reason for most tried is the truth of that posie Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori For Th' Immortal Sisters Chaplets in their bowers They wither not as doe all other flowers Reject not therefore I humbly intreat this poore present of my rustick muse the testimony of my love so shall my little infant being swadled in the gentle bands of your most worthy acceptance batten at the last among men and its parent shall be bound to continue Your Worships humble Orator at the Throne of Grace ever in the Lord Jesus to be commanded Archibald Symmer Comfort for a weary soule humbled for sinne CHAP. 1. All men are weary MAn that is borne of a woman is of short continuance and full of trouble Surely every childe Job 14. 1. of Adam is altogether vanity for all that is under the Sunne is vanitie and vexation Psal 39. 11. of the spirit Which the wise man declares by his owne example and very Ecles 1. 14. deare experience And if that wise and peaceable King of the Lords peculiar people and glorious type of Christ the 1 Tim. 1. 1. Prince of peace and author of our hopes and happinesse Psal 39. 5. was on the highest spheare and top of all his earthly prosperity and rest altogether vanity what shall wee say of Epict. our selves who are but punies and Wretches yea mappes of miseries and calamities in comparison of him Now this universall labour of mans mind and unresisted vexation of his spirit is properly when wee can neither obtaine that which wee desire nor shun that which wee loath And as the mutinous perturbations and affections of our hearts and wils and the desires of our flesh are in number and variety many so are the afflictions and vexations of the spirit for every affection a severall affliction Every carnall desire causeth sorrow sorrow is a tedious labour and toyle to the mind Pro. 15. 13. Every carnall affection causeth griefe because it is alwayes confounded and disappointed What if the carnall heart obtaine all that it desires yet is it frustrated and disappointed still for it hoped for more comfort in its perishing hopes and earthly transitories than ever they can possibly afford the hope of earthly comforts is better than the fruition and injoyment of them Thus every man labours is heavy laden The labour of the unregenerate and weary under the burthen of vanity The proud and ambitious man labours for honour and glory and curryes the applause of the world with all his might to touch heaven like Herod with his finger and the firmament as Lysimachus with the point of his lance and all is vanity The mammonist and idolatrous worldling covets to wax plentifull Eph. 5. 5. Col. 3. 5. Mammon in the Syriack dialect is the desire of riches and rich this is the moiling toile of his miserable carkeis by day and watching vexation of his restlesse spirit by night This labour is never at an end in this life for mammon increaseth as fast as money the love of riches increaseth with the vanity loved The Epicure and voluptuous man labours for pleasure and to plunge himselfe with the sow in the mire of sensuality and perishing delight This is the most brutish labour of all for hereby a man Crescit amor nummi c. Iuven. is as it were metamorphozed and turned into a beast The envious man labours to annoy and endammage his neighbour Thus did those forty men travell with mischiefe that vowed Pauls death their labour was painfull for they would neither eat nor drink till they had effected their purpose Act. 23. 12 c. Thus all men labour by nature and all are weary and all these labours are sinfull The Saints and spirituall Ones of the Lord also labour but after another manner theirs is a blessed labour for it is for the remission of sinnes and peace of conscience they are weary under the burthen of Iniquity and therefore cry out every one with David Psal 51. 2. Wash mee throughly from mine iniquity and cleanse mee from my sinne and with the holy Apostle O wretched man that I am who shall deliver mee from the body of this death CHAP. 2. All finde not rest ALl our cares tend to this end saith Saint Augustine No true rest for the wicked that wee may enjoy the thing wee desire And the heart findeth rest when it obtaines that which it hopeth and labours for Now Christ will never fulfill any carnall desire therefore the naturall and carnall heart shall never finde content and rest there is none for such in Christ for Cassiodor Psalm 6. A narrow sea betweene the haven Aulis of Beotia and Eubaea Arist Isa 57. 21. carnall men are none of his whom nothing can please but the new creature Gal. 6. 15. For they have not the Spirit of Christ Rom. 8. 9. And without Christ there is nothing but labour and toile vexation and wearinesse The world is like an Irish sea wherein is nothing to be expected but the stormy tempests of adversity It is like Euripus which ebbeth and floweth seven times a day constant onely in inconstancy Behold therefore the carnall mans folly though there be no peace to the wicked saith my God yet will hee seeke for content and rest by the meanes of his owne labour and to quiet his discontented heart by his owne wayes but all is in vaine Riches cannot possibly satisfie the covetous man if Jupiter as the heathen reporteth should multiply his sheepe still at his request hee would mutter notwithstanding Pauperis est numerare pecus hee is but a poore man that can number his flock The Epicure and sensuall man thinketh to satisfie the concupiscence