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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48917	Baulme for bleeding England and Ireland, or, Seasonable instructions for persecuted Christians delivered in severall sermons / by Nicholas Lockyer.	Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.	1643 (1643)	Wing L2783; ESTC R30503	161,977	432

the exercise of al I dread to thinke what this presages Wee shal see poverty and heare cursing see bleeding and heare blaspheming and both in one house yea both in one person Wee shal see bodies wounded and soules breathing themselves through these wounds in the face of God and man because in a helpelesse state This grieves me no man layes to heart what God already suffers in these evil dayes from impatient spirits I have heard some as I have gon along the streets breake forth most bitterly against the most religious of the Kingdome as the cause of al our misery laying bloud at innocent mens doores great ones doe thus against conscience poore ones doe thus out of ignorance as rich mens echo being their creatures made through feare or hope or both all sides I am sure breath not forth al but little very little patience Ah! yee of little patience what doe yee meane to make a miserable condition remedilesse a state miserable damnable will you sin in poverty that wealth may never returne will you sin in War that you may never have peace wil you sin in bloud and death that Hell may follow Because men have killed your Trades your States your Bodies shall the devil have your Soules Is there any evil in the City or Country which God hath not done God takes away much to save the maine and you make the losse of much the losse of all the losse of your soules through impatience A rod should humble you and your skin swells with stripes Gods Hand on your back should make your hand on your mouth and you curse you curse and God curses surely you wil be cursed you sweare and stare because you have lost your peace your temporall respect and God sweares you shall neither have temporall nor eternall rest Ah Lord what hath this soule done murmured and sworne himselfe out of al for ever Yee men of no patience have you no light no conscience no soule doe yee sinne against no light no soule no God are yee heathens are yee worse I will tell you the evils of impatience that you may dread it and every degree of it and make them as I name them motives to endeavor after all Patience i a heart freed from all impatience The first evil is this so farre as the soule is impatient so farre 't is set at a distance from God Impatience grieves God grieved withdrawes So farre as Saul rages so farre is the Spirit of God gon So farre as the soule is shut out from God 't is shut out from al. A bedlam is put alone and there chained and whipt he is fit for no company but forlorne spirits like himselfe a Legion of these possesse every impatient soule No soule hath lesse fellowship with God then passionate God cannot dwell in fire nor worke in fire any otherwise then to torment the tormented Froward children are frowned upon and kept at a great distance 'till their hearts come downe A soule that hath little of God hath much of the devil if you would see the devil face to face looke a passionate man in the face you shall see the devils eyes his browes his tongue his mouth al as blacke as horrid as firey as Hell A second evill of impatience is this Impatience maimes parts gifts graces and makes a man otherwise able feeble and uselesse The counsells of the froward are carried head long saith the holy Ghost if their counsels how much more then those things they doe without counsell and thus most an end doe passionate men doe all they doe Passion puts out a man's eyes cuts-off a man's armes it thrusts a man in hast still to the wrong doore to the wrong end of his busines Passion cannot observe modus nor media agendi 't wil up to the top of the house presently before there be any staires made 't wil run and leave tools behind yea 't will run and leave God behind and so buries her honour still in an untimely birth A passionate man hath Reubens judgement written in his forehead never to excell Thirdly impatience is the mother of al evil 't is a sin-teeming temper it brings forth children to old Age and then most of al passion in old Age brings forth by troopes Impatience 't is a spirit set on fire of Hell prepared and ready to every hellish worke to sweare to curse to kill to speak evil to doe evil t is a short possession a man mad for so many houres that will not stick at any thing that the devil and deprav'd nature bid him doe he wil flee in the face of servants children wife magistrate God any one 't is a Snake whose tongue is his sting his teeth poyson he takes in and casts up venome by mouthfuls his heart brings forth sinnes by troopes he speaks as many sinnes as words he burnes al black with too much heat he over-heats words workes the wheeles light a fire still in carriage especially when loaded with any heft and burne cart and carriage both Passion 't is the devils glasse-house black fire workemen are at it in this soule day and night t is the devils sinne-moul'd to make many sins quickly many great sins on a sudden Impatience puts a price onely upon praesentia * Appetitui apta carnal present things a measse of potage at present better then birth-right although Christ and Heaven be wrapt up in it Tell an impatient man of things to come Heaven and Glory Praesentibus futura majora and the like he cannot stay so long Heaven a great way off is no Heaven to him he must have a Bird in the hand a Heaven here or else Heaven and earth shall ring of him he must have what he wil and when he wil or he wil make the house too hot for al that are in it This renders an impatient person utterly uncapable of the great'st blessings because these are longest a comming and he cannot waite Le ts have a golden Calfe as for this Moses we know not what 's become of him nor when he will come a golden glittering Calfe at present better then to stay for Moses though hee brought the beames of God the glory of Heaven shining in his face Le ts eate and drinke for to morow we die Magna ●●●antiâ nulla Impatience must have a Heaven at present a belly-heaven as for a soule heaven a heaven in promise t is a dead thing This renders an impatient man utterly below motive our greatest Gospel motives are fetcht from great things to come in another World and the greatest things are nothing at such a distance to this man hee cannot waite so long for a Heaven though hee lose his soule There is no divine contemplation in an impatient heart which is that that makes Heaven here So that an impatient man loses his Heaven here-after and here too Impatience 't is a soule still in a hurry never at home never at leisure to goe to

thoughts I can leave my children no earth but I can leave my children Heaven I cannot leave my children this hilly Country nor that neither the blessing of hils nor vallies here but I can leave them the blessing of the everlasting Hills as the expression is of Josephs blessing Heaven was eyed in that expression I conclude all thus we are under age here hardship is fit for us and ours Such heires must comfort themselves with what they shal have You which are partakers of the divine nature shall be partakers of more felicity then the tongue of men and Angels can expresse and yours for your sakes will be blessed below when you are so blessed above FINIS USEFULL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THESE Evill Times COLOSS. 1.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Giving thankes unto the Father which hath made us fit to the part of the Lot of Saints in light THE greatest favours come most immediate to us Eternall mercies fall as a Lot in our lap no art no medium no merit Gods own finger points them to persons to such and not to such Who hath made us fit to the Lot of Saints Doct. Providence hath a mediate and an immediate course to give out favours to man This that expression of the wise man gives us House and riches are the inheritance of fathers but a prudent wife saith he is of a higher descent is from the Lord. The mercy is higher and therefore disposed by a more immediate and speciall providence As things rise in the Nobility of their owne nature so they rise in the manner of their birth and bringing forth to us Grace and glory are simply and absolutly the noblest natur'd things and these in the noblest way descend upon us by a very immediate disposing hand of God like a Lot Things are of a double descent There is mans off-spring and Gods off-spring wee are his off-spring saith the Apostle The noblest things are onely Gods off-spring the great things of eternity come onely out of the wombe of a God Heaven comes forth from betweene his 〈◊〉 Some things come down along in such a line to us through so many wombes through so many hands into our hands Heaven comes out but of one wombe but that wombe as blessed as God from Gods immediate hand by providence not to be explained just as a Lot the Lot of Saints c. Some things have succession others have none Melchisedeck neither father nor mother The great'st favours come all so into the World neither father nor mother but God Out of nothing came al from nothing comes al stil to the Saints heaven which is a Saints al from nothing but from Heaven From what house doth that great house descend upon us to be ours From what progenitors but Christ Is it not disposed to such and such secretly wonderfully by a hand and power unknowne to all the World Upon Christs vesture they did cast Lots and as that fell so the vesture went by a supreme hand onely Heaven is Christs vesture the Sons best garment his robe of state and glory and this goes by Lot too t is put upon the back of none by any art of their owne but by a power supreme by that hand which disposeth Lots which none sees so all the Saints get their greatnesse The lot of the Saints c. As power did create so providence doth dispose A very unknowne creation had the Heaven of Heavens * Above speculation therefore not subjected to it wisdome would nor dazell weake eyes The Angels and all the state and glory of that brave World to come Doe you finde any piece of that stately building above so much as once expressely mentioned in the dayes of Creation T is disposed as 't was created in a very close way as a Lot by such a power and providence as no Ceature can explaine or peep into This World was made by an immediate hand but that above after a more close more entire and more supreme way i utterly without all hint to be guessed at So this World is disposed of by a providence of God but by a providence working very externally and very humanely i al-along in such and such humane and secular wayes as usually knowne unto us But that glorious World above is disposed by such a providence as workes very internally very hiddenly in utter unlikely meanes and in these moves utterly out of our sight and reach just as that hand and those fingers doe which dispose into your bosome such a Lot of great treasure Some motion is peculiar for state Kings give low things by Offices and take no notice of them themselves what they are nor to whom they goe But other things of a more noble nature they give with their own mouth and with their own hand such and such noble things to such and such noble persons Heaven is nobility confer'd with Gods own hand 'T is the best robe put upon the Prodidall by the hand of his Father and none else 'T is lame Mephibosheth advanced by word of mouth from David himselfe as a piece of the state of his greatnesse to which God had raised him and as a high point of love The more immeditate things come out of one friends hand into another the more they speake out love and render parties honorable I did it for him with my own hand you have such a common expression when you would worke your respect with such and such to a great height The King gives a Jewell and he gives it with his owne hand his love and honor doublely sparkle in such a Jewel every time 't is look 't upon Heaven is a Jewell hanged about our neck by Gods owne hand God makes a rich portion and as it were rolles it up in a Lot and with his owne hand without any art of man casts it into our lap the lot of Saints Some motion is peculiar for complement 'T is a filling up of Love to give and to give with a mans owne hand to give an onely son and the father to do it with his hand onely this is Love to admiration love filled up to the brim God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Sonne Some persons give as if they would give themselves too if they knew how that makes the gift mighty big yee shall have gift and hand and al words and armes and all A gift fully circumstanced with love is a double gift Heaven given and cast into our lap with Gods owne hand is a double Heaven A Lot in a good ground and to fall there Heaven and to fal as out of Heaven that 's two Heavens Gods love motions are fully circumstanced with love the Sun wants not a beame to give forth its glory Heaven comes from God to the soule as the soule it selfe came from God the soule and the felicity of the soule both breathed from Gods own mouth Some motion is pecular for Echo * A trumpet is soūded so and