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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13017	The heauenly conuersation and the naturall mans condition In two treatises. By Iohn Stoughton, Doctor in Divinitie, sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge; and late preacher of Gods word in Alderman-bury London	Stoughton, John, d. 1639.; Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1640 (1640)	STC 23308; ESTC S113792	78,277	283

to bid a point of Time to buy a Circle a Crowne of eternitie especially seeing we cannot but know it better then the heathen Philosopher did that pronounced all that resolved it Vnlesse I had beene admitted to partake of these it had beene no great matter to be borne unlesse wee get a part of heaven it was not worth the while for us that wee are borne Fourthly Necessitie double of ours times and place First Times for send your meditations abroad as Noah did the Dove out of the Arke and they will finde no place to rest but returne and tell you of an universall deluge of affliction which hath well nigh overwhelmed the Church of God unlesse as the Duke of Alva told the King of France who asked him whether he had observed the late great Eclipse no said he I have so much to doe upon earth that I have no leasure to behold the heaven so wee are so busied in the world that we thinke not on Gods kingdome or be so rude and barbarous to thinke the state of the Church is nothing to us abroad while we at home feele nothing But what if our selves be in more danger the more secure we are Have we any priviledge above our neighbours May not God justly take away his Gospel and his mercies from those that abuse them I read it observed in the Scriptures that when the Israelites came to eate of the fruites of the land de frugibus terrae the Manna ceased If Hony be thy friend doe not swallow all saith the Arabick proverbe Let us take heed we abuse not the gentlenesse of God toward us lest if we grow earthly minded God take away his heavenly Manna the richer the Wine is the sowrer is the Vineger saith the German and c if his love hath beene so unspeakeable towards us his hatred of our lewdnesse will be infinite like himselfe being voyd of limits and bounds saith a father and how shall we prevent our owne danger or relieve the miseries of our brethren When Ierusalem was taken there was heard they say a voice from heaven Migremus Let us depart hence let us doe so betake our selves to God to Heaven for helpe in these dangerous times an heavenly conversation lest Gods judgements sease upon us as the Souldier slew Archimedes while he was drawing lines in the dust so busily First Be zealous for Religion A Lacedaemonian woman delivered her sonne going to the warre his fathers Buckler with this mothers blessing either let me see thee bring this backe to me my sonne with life and victory or let me see thee brought back againe upon this dead with honour either fight victoriously or die valiantly The Serpent say they if he be so invironed that hee must of necessitle passe thorough one of them will sooner adventure upon the flame or fire then the shadow of the Poplar Tree Let us resolve either to live with the Gospel or dye for the Gospel and the faith of our Fathers the Buckler that defended them from all dangers and let us feare more the black shaddow of Roman superstition then the bright flames of a Marian persecution There is a prophesie reported in Telesphorus that Antichrist shall never overcome Venice nor Paris nor the royall city of London But we have a more certaine word and let us take heed we be not luke-warme in Religion lest God spue us out of his mouth Secondly be zealous in Religion To this end let us then practise First Serious repentance and sincere reformation If the booke of the Law chance to fall upon the ground the Iewes custome is presently to proclaime a fast why should not wee doe so who have let the Law of God fall to the ground many times and trample upon it too by disobedience I have heard sometime that one of the wisest Statesmen that ever sate at the sterne of this Kingdome had this verse written upon his Study dore Anglica Gens est optima flens pissima ridens The English nation is most healthfull when it swimmes in teares and more dangerous to fall into a sicknesse when it overflowes with laughter The truth whereof our late experience hath confirmed In the Plague what shewes of devotion what faire promises but some have well observed a double fault in our nation concerning the state of their bodies which may be better applyed to the state of their minds that the English are not sicke soone enough and they are well too soone to correct both which let mee give but one word of advice Let our repentance be swift and currant lest Gods decree outrun it and let our fasts be according to an old Canon which defines their continuance even untill the starres appeare in the Firmament and let us humble our selves betimes before the decree come forth and let us goe thorough still with the worke when it is begunne and resolve with Iacob I will not let thee goe untill thou blesse me Secondly Let us be servent and earnest in Prayer The Jewes have a blasphemous fable that our Saviour found out the right pronounciation of the name of God the Tetragrammaton and that wrought all his miracles but the right invocation of the name of God will indeede worke miracles and doe wee thinke much to aske and have There was one at Rome offered the booke of the Sibyls to sale entire and whole a rare monument but set a round price which the King would not adventure upon then burning the halfe of the bookes and doubling the price of the whole for the remainder he made a second offer and that was also refused hee made no more adoe but burnt againe the halfe of the halfe and doubled againe the whole price of the whole and so once more he offered the reliques the third time and then the King at last bethought himselfe and bought Beloved God offers us now his Gospell his sonne with peace and prosperity all blessings are as it were let downe from heaven to us in the sheet which Peter saw and that at no great price our prayers onely if wee make nice and dainty to purchase these blessings when the Lord is so willing to make sale I feare the time will come when wee would be content to bid teares and sweate and blood and our very soules for the least part of them and yet may goe without Let us pray earnestly then for our selves for our brethren let us not thinke much to weepe for them that bleede for Christ The Iewes have a saying that since the destruction of the Temple of Ierusalem the doores of Prayer have beene shut but the doore of teares was never shut a sonne of teares cannot perish Let us knocke at that doone Our place and Calling It is one of Ieremiahs Lamentations that they that are brought in scarlet should embrace the dung and the Lapwing is made an Hieroglyphicke of infelicitie because it hath as a Coronet upon the