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Reasons metaphorphosis, and restauration Whereunto are annexed two other treatises. viz. 1. Choyce and applications. 2. My friend. By Charles Goldwell Master of Artes, and minister of Gods word.
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Goldwell, Charles.
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Alexander that loued it but regarded and rewarded as a vertue whilest hee more esteemed the vulgar Medes and Persians for reuerencing him for the sonne of Iupiter then he did the Nobles of Macedonia for their loyal and faithfull dealing so where voluptuousnesse ambition and auarice get hands to their passe they are disputed by some as necessary by others as conuenient to be vsed loosing the note of sinnes Why so As in Egypt sometimes they that were vnlearned in Necromancy were accounted infamous wherfore the best and wisest would apply their study vnto it So not to bee skilled in these blacke Artes were enough to bring disease disrespect and pouerty vpon vs besids the accumulating of other vnworthy contumelies Therefore to auoyd the tax of being cruel to our selues which Saint Austine layes vpon them that neglect their fame meaning the good report which a christian should be carefull to preserue wee in a misconstruction of his sence will bee tyrants to our soules that we may be famous sinners This ignorance springs from our non proficiency in the Schoole of Christ as Saint Pauls example effectually prooues against vs who being ripe in that measure of diuine knowledge which is giuen as diuersly to the Saints in this life so to all sufficiently toward their eternall state would not reioyce but in the Crosse of Christ whereby the world was crucified to him and he vnto the world Gal. 6. teaching the same to bee the duty and practise of all well gouerned christians to hold fast with the rock whereon they are founded and not to suffer the externall respects of riches reuerence and time-seruing to loosen their anchor from this shore and bewitch them from his obedience on whom they ought meerely to depend as being wholy his We are either old learners and too young proficients or but yong learners and no proficients who hauing in Christs Gymmasy but one word to learne haue not yet learned it as wee should Christ faith Discite a me quia corde mit is sum et humilis We must learne of him humility but pride commune nobilitatis malum that common mischiefe of Nobilitie that too common misery imo pene omnium almost of al men doeth so often put them all out as they goe about to pronounce it yet necessity lies so hard vpon vs deuiating Pilgrimes if we will be happy and happy are we that we can be taught that we must not thinke our direction hard thence be discou raged from following it but labour and thereby we shall be able to take the low way which is the right way for there is no high way to that high countrey and heauenly inheritance Quicunque desiderat primatum caelestem sequatur humilitatem terrestrem non enim qui maior fuit in honore ille maior sed qui iustior ille maior as Chrisostome Our humility on earth must helpe vs to preferment in heauen for the most honourable heere shall not in that in that respect be the greatest there but the iust shall shine as the brightnes of the firmament and they that turne many to righteousnesse shall shine as Starres for euer and euer Dan. 12.3 The lesson is but short the vnderstanding sweet our obedience vnto it gracious the reward glorious therefore detesting pride the enemie of prayer and bane of all godly motions Humilitate omnia facto nostra condiantur as S. Augustine aduiseth let vs season all our wordes and workes with humility CHOYCE AND APPLICATIONS Which may serue partly for the vse of the precedent Treatise Not vnprofitable for direction as well in Sacred as in ciuill duties By Charles Goldwell Master of Artes. LONDON Prined by Bernard Alsop for Iohn Pyper 1621. TO THE WORTHY and right nobly disposed Sir Walter Tichborne Knight the blessing of heauen and earth be multiplied SHall not my hand present my heart to him That gaue my feeble armes more strength to swimme Then faile my hand to guide thine artlesse pen And heart forget good nature vnto men If both prefer him not to lasting praise That made me happy in my dysmall dayes This be a Record of your noble mind Seated in blood of a most loyall Kind That Prince and people cannot wish to see Hearts better stockt with true integrity Nor any blame my gratefull heart that giues Aduancement to your worth where merit liues SIR I Haue entred so great a Bond to your worship that I am hopelesse euer to say as the indebted seruant to his master vpon your patience I will pay you all yet doe I not desire that vpon proofe of my willingnesse your clemency should pardon all I would not be so secure lest ingratitude corrupt me but that hauing iustly to consider your free and frequent fauours my best endeauours may still bee striuing to procure your acquittance so shall your Worship bee sure not to loose what is worth the requiting I hopefull still to receiue those benefits which may continue my study thereunto Sir I could make choyce of no better thing to present you with all then what my heart hath chosen to rule and content it selfe withall desirous to perswade you so much hereby that no greater seruice shall bee wanting which may deriue a promise from this briefe Hierogliphick The shortnesse is to bee measured by the streightnesse of my time not by the defect of my loue the matter to bee examined by my purpose of profiting others so well as my selfe not in any thing taxable of presumption the vnfiled composure to bee tollerated for the condition of the matter As they are I heartily wish they may at least content you if not adde a scruple to your happy experience The Lord who hath abundantly blessed you with many sweete hopefull branches likewise enrich your hearts with his graces that you may bee throughly and perfectly blessed in body and soule and euermore protect and direct all yours to the glory of his sauing health Your Worships euer bounden CH. GOLDVVILL TO THE WORshipfull my deare Father Iohn Goldwell Esquire the continuation of blessings temporall the increase of graces Spirituall and the assurance of life eternall be granted and sealed by God and his holy Spirit SIR AMong many your necessary and wholsome rules laid downe by way of Fatherly aduertisement vnto me this hath beene one as not the least repeated not the least worthy Efficacius est vitae quam linguae testimonium It is better specially for a Diuine to make his life then his tongue his witnesse vnto the people that in being an example vnto his flocke bee may saue himselfe and them that heare him wherein howsoeuer I haue failed or may hereafter yet I intended hereby to expresse my desire euen by this my resolution vnto a constant setlednesse and composition of life Who shall thankefully entertaine the friendly reprehension of any noting my going astray from that which I haue chosen Sir that I haue not made the dedication of these my labours vnto you the world knoweth that
REASONS METAMORPHOSIS AND RESTAVRATION Whereunto are annexed two other Treatises viz. 1. Choyce and Applications 2. My Friend By Charles Goldwell Master of Artes and Minister of Gods word LONDON Printed by B.A. for Iohn Pyper 1621. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Sr. Lionell Cranfield Knight Maister of his Maiesties Court of Wardes and Liueries and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell WHat I haue read of Sisimus experience resolues mee of your Honour that you are temperate vertuous liberall whereof my sight hearing feeling haue made me a sensible and iust witnesse Therefore though I were often discouraged whilest my vnpractised hand was trauelling in this Tract and thought as Dauid when he put off Sauls armour because he could not goe with it beeing not accustomed to haue retired with the losse of some paines especially seeing both opportunity place and requisite furniture were wanting to fauour my attempt yet these reasons not ceasing to allure me I followed them faintly as I could so far as any time would giue mee leaue For as there can be none more challenging then your Honour so great fauours freely deignd vnto me so would my negligence at lest to striue in some measure to requite them I considered sprinkle me with the fowlest blemish of ingratitude And finding your Honour so fit a personage in regard of the gratious temper of your mind to Patronize a Worke of this nature which handleth that ancient argument giuen at the first conquest of our first Parents in the Garden Pleasure and Ambition both so incident to their noblest wisest and mightiest ofspring after the flesh that Saint Paul in this respect noteth their condition to be most dangerous and consequently that they haue most neede of all others to be put in remembrance whereof I haue apertly and briefly displayed the vanity as being the maine and professed aduersaries of a conscionable care of religious duties I humbly craue your Honourable acceptance of it that it passing vnder the protection of such vertue others may bee animated like Adonijah flying for the safegaurd of his life to the hornes of the Altar to hasten from these extreames to the constant and safe Pillars of Temperance and a Christian reioycing which I haue like wise pitched vp vnto their view and these will be able as to defend them from infamy in this life so to present them blamelesse in the day of our common apperance I must acknowledge my selfe to haue written this Treatise in a boisterous Tempest that by looking downeward I might not see the threatning clouds ouer my head nor greatly feare their fall therein imitating Vlisses that stopped his eares with wax and would be tied to the maine mast of his ship that he might not heare the Sirens to his destruction so haue I put of with silence occasioned by this imployment the busie whisperings and sometimes the publike clamors of a distempered multitude that I might reteine patience in their highest displeasure which was kindled with no other fire but of mine earnest and double industry in seruing two allied Chappels in one day For which causes I knowing these labours of mine vnworthy of so graue and approued a iudgement submissly desire that the sinceritie of my intention may rectifie or at least excuse my faultes as your Honour shall meete with them The Lord speake peace vnto your soule and grant your Honour many prosperous dayes on earth that God may bee glorified in you you in his Christ Your Honours most humbly deuoted in all christian seruice Charles Goldwell Lectori Cum serpentino mea sit caro sparso veneno Et mens criminibus commaculate suis Cum nos pelliciant illectamenta volentes Saepe sit sacro nunc opus eloquio Hic ege quem facile scripsit meacura libellus Sit medicina meis opto tuisque malis Thine in the Lord. C. G. REASONS Metamorphosis and Restauration MAN if relinquisht to himselfe were comparable to the veriest Brute for immanity saith Saint Augustine whom Chrysostome affirmeth to be the worst of all Euils Nulla homine immanior fera si sibi relinqueretur for as much as euery irrationall creature hath but one euill propriè of propertie belonging to it but Man abounds in al So that though he wash him with Niter and take him much Sope yet his iniquity is marked before God Ierem. 2.22 Now the first thing that transports the minde from setling on the most setled and sweetest happinesse is voluptuousnes His Reason in the Infancy approueth least the integritie of manners dissolute Pleasures best and this is warranted from the pretence of weaknesse which refuseth laudable and vertuous actions as too difficult such as most barren of content and sucketh on the breast of delights as onely sutable to the tendernesse thereof In the growth and maturitie when it is able to distinguish according to the worth and excellency of things should therefore make discretion of it selfe from that meere nature which is in Brutes not onely in the appetite but also in the choise and prosecuting of good then the obiects of Pleasure grow more specious and delectable in our eyes and we more diligent to execute her vnlawful motions for that we are then cunning to discharge our parts with her This proceeds not from the debilitie of Reason but partly from the force of allurements which are in Pleasure and partly from Natures refractarie headinesse which hauing gotten some aduantage of Reason will bee ruled no longer by it for so it appeares Nature is the Beast Reason the Bridle and Man holds the Reines Man sits fast vpon the Beast but heere loseth the reputation of manhood in that he cannot curbe and guide it as he should but suffers himselfe to be run away withall so preuenting the due efficacy and genuine operation of his Reason through vnskilfulnesse to vse it Behold then Pleasura Her pollicy amiably adorned with whatsoeuer may perswade the senses stands sweetly inuiting Her lips drop as an Hony combe and her mouth is more soft then oyle Prou. 15.12 Licentious Nature runs lasciuiously vnto her ignorant Man is carried violently with it and abused Reason as a dumbe Picture must neither see nor speake that best Minister of the soule is peremptorily put to silence This hath aduanced the head of Pleasure Her preferment There is not a vanitie in her shop but cries out to our shame In me turbaruunt luxuriosa proci A wanton troupe incenst with lust with hearts resolu'd vpon me thrust So she hauing fortified her selfe with friends of all sorts the Presidents haue chiefely giuen her preferment and now she sits as a Lady and saith I am and none else I shall not sit as a Widow nor see the losse of Children It was woe with Rahel Her prosperity with many naturall and godly Mothers in the bitter tempest of their teares which fell for their Children because they were not But Pleasure is an Harlot and speeds better not