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A42921	The holy limbeck, or, A semicentury of spiritual extractions wherein the spirit is extracted from the letter of certain eminent places in the Holy Scripture : and a compendious way discovered for the spiritual improvement of the literal sense, in order to the better understanding of the minde and meaning of the spirit therein / by Jo. Godolphin.	Godolphin, John, 1617-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing G944; ESTC R37865	39,502	269

persecuted stand still keep an eye to the promise and be strong in the faith Art thou fortune-fallen become poor and through no default of thine cast into prison stand still remember the Lord heareth the poor and despiseth not his Prisoners Psal 96.33 Art thou ingaged in any combate at home with Monsters like Pauls Ephesian Beasts or in any desperate hazard of life stand still never forgetting who it is that hath calculated even the very hairs of thy head Thus what once Moses said to the unbondaged yet murmuring Israelites let me say to the Redeemed yet distrustful people of God when pursued by the heart-hardned Pharaohs of this age Fear ye not stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord Exod. 14.13 Let me alone Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot c. Exod. 32.10 TO will and to do are all one with God it is the Prerogative-Royal onely of the Almighty to be able to do whatsoever he pleaseth to will whatsoever he will he doth but all that he can he doth not Now the power of the Creature flows from that in the Creator hence it is that the more we are formed into his likeness the more prevalency we have with him and the more victory over our selves A just man is a wonderful strong Creature I can do nothing to Sodom saith God to Lot till thou be gone thence Gen. 19.22 Thus the free condescendency of the Highest vouchsafes such a voluntary restraint of his Justice as the prevalent integrity of a righteous man in favor with God seems to over-power even the Almighty The faithful are Gods favorites rather then their Petition shall be laid aside his own Mercy shall say Amen unto their Prayers Faith is such a solicitous grace such an importunate beggar as it will never leave God alone yea the very wicked of the Earth fare the better for the Prayers of the godly see it in the case of Sodom Gen. 18. and here those Israelites might have been led to the slaughter like the Calf they worshipped had not this Moses refusing to be the Adopted Grandchilde of the King of Egypt though his Daughter might have challeng'd him by Providence Exod. 2.5 now become such a Favorite in the Court of Heaven that God himself must as it were importune him to slack his importunity and sue to him to withdraw his suit and say Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them and I will make of thee a great nation Exod. 32.10 The right Interpretation of Scripture Ye shall put nothing to the word which I command you neither shall ye take ought therefrom Deut. 4.2 VVHen thou readest the Scripture let the Text interpret the Text and grope not to winde thy self out of the Labyrinth of those sacred Oracles by the clue of thine own private spirit nor conceit thy self wiser then the Omniscient To wrest Scripture is to father a lye on the Spirit of Truth and he that betrays the Word to a sense the Spirit never meant it Sophisticates the great Seal of Heaven and hath no share therein the Plagues therein denounced onely excepted Whether then thou readest to thy self or expoundest to others do not gloss the holy Text with unintelligible notions the Bastard-comment of a Weathercock-faith nor bespatter the splendor of such a glorious Light with the scarce vapor-proof atomes of an erroneous muddy judgement Many Revelations are arrived of late some no question came from beyond the world are Commissioned from Heaven have the Seal of the Spirit indeed whose authority admits not of dispute such onely are the faithful interpreters of the holy Language other Revelations there are which came from below the world are Commissioned from Hell have the Seal of the Beast on them these also pretend a title to our faith but believe not every Spirit 1 John 4.1 To take the crutch from the Lame by the impudent assertions of a blinde yet wilful judgement is the inhumanest piece of imperious ignorance in the world and to mis-guide the doubtful Pilgrim under pretence of a more compendious way to the New Jerusalem then was ever yet discovered is to incur the curse of Heaven the thanks of Hell and the blackest guilt of the highest murther No Scripture may be construed by the corrupt Dictionary of any ill-byass'd Spirit or according to the Analogy of private interests he that strains the Scripture to a note the Spirit never tuned it perverts it to his own destruction Ye shall put nothing to the word which I command you neither shall ye take ought therefrom Deut. 4.2 The Foundation of Knowledge The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom Prov. 1.7 OF all creatures Sub-angelical Man is the noblest of all the parts of Man the Soul of all the faculties of the Soul the Understanding which if not exercised about her genuine object the Gospel-fear or true worship of her Creator merits not the name of Sense and he that bottoms his knowledge or lays the Foundation of his wisdom on any other Basis builds but on the sand with hay and stubble and shall finde the edifice soon prove more brittle then the shell of that brain which built it Christ the wisdom of the Father is the Corner-stone of ours and if other Foundation any man hath laid the structure if it prove not his Babel in this world will undoubtedly a Tower of Shilo in that to come Whose wisdom begins not with the fear of God ends in his eternal displeasure If our wisdom commence with the fear of the Lord his grace will accompany the progressions thereof and his glory crown the event Without this fear there may be wit not wisdo●… the gravest Sages without 〈◊〉 are but the most decent fools and the choicest extractions of their unsanctified brain but the Chymistry of vaporing prophaneness or at best the high Magick of most learned Lunacy For the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom Prov. 1.7 The poor Mans Advocate Withhold not good from them to whom it is due when it is in the power of thy hand to do it Prov. 3.27 ROb not the Poor of the Tribute of thine Alms lest at the general Assize or Grave-delivery they indict thee of Sacriledge The poor mans Box is Gods Exchequer and he that adds not to it takes from it There is not a mite given in charity on earth but is recorded for a pound in Heaven yea a Cup of cold water flowing from the bowels of Compassion may so swell that out of his belly shall flow even Rivers of Living water There 's not a poor man that asks a peny of thee but thou art so much indebted to him that in case he commence his Suit in Forma Pauperis and prefer a Bill in the Chancery of Heaven by way of Petition against thee it may be feared an Ite Maledicti may issue forth to thy everlasting and inevitable ruine Thou owest God more for the

THE HOLY LIMBECK OR A Semicentury of Spiritual Extractions Wherein The Spirit is Extracted from the Letter of certain eminent places IN THE Holy Scripture And a Compendious way discovered for the Spiritual-improvement of the literal Sense in order to the better understanding of the minde and meaning of the Spirit therein By Jo Godolphin L.L.D. London Printed by John Field For Edmund Paxton and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Chain over against the Castle Tavern near the Doctors Commons 1650. TO THE READER THou mayst not Reader expect any exact Method here there being no Obligation of art on such Stillatories as these thereunto neither mayst thou expect a were opened and they saw that they were naked stript of the Image of God of that purity and righteousness wherein they were created Eccl. 7. ult naked of the favor of God naked to the subsequent temptations of the envious one to the subtile insinuations of that fawning Serpent Conscience that before was Vertues Guardian now becomes Deaths Herald an imperfect Idea of Gods Image defaced in some Natures curb through Gods providential care in others the Graces magazine by the operation of a higher and supernatural light That nakedness which was before the Creators glory now becomes the Creatures shame once the embleme of Innocence the character of Truth now the livery of Pride the purchase of a Lye Come buy of Christ white raiment that thou mayest be clothed and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear Rev. 3.18 And they sewed them Fig-leaves together and made themselves Aprons What could a Fig-leaf hide them from God whose eyes are in every place Prov. 15.3 A Fig-leaf cover them from him whose eyes run to and fro throughout the whole earth 2 Chron. 16.9 or cloud them from his presence whose very eye-lids try the children of men Psal 11.4 Could they think a Fig-leaf to be a plaister of breadth sufficient to salve a Leprosie as epidemical as the world is wide Could an Apron of Fig-leaves hide a worldful of Impieties Could a Fig-leaf shelter their Rebellion hide their Unbelief cover their Ingratitude shadow their Pride cloke their Ambition cloud their Contempt of Gods Truth dissemble their Faith in crediting the Devil palliate their Sacriledge excuse their abuse of the Creatures to wanton lust or conceal the Temporal and Spiritual murther of themselves and their posterity Such Fig-leaves Aprons are never out of fashion are made and worn by their naked Issue to this day The Atheist wears the Fig-leaves of Ignorance and the Ignorant the Livery of an Atheist the Prophane garb themselves with the Fig-leaves of gallantry and heroick mindes the Idolater hath whole Groves of Fig-leaves to shadow his worshipping the Host of Heaven the Heretick sows his Fig-leaves in his brain and hath an Apron for every Heresie the blinde Ceremonialist sitting still on brood on his Superstition to hatch Promotion would fain shrowd his Romish Judaism under the withered Fig-leaves of wellworn Antiquity or the more substantial Aprons of Order and Decency the Hypocrite that Janus of Religion hath his fine-spun Apron broad Fig-leaves of very specious Sanctity as if Piety pretended were not Iniquity doubled the Laodicean hath his Fig-leaf Aprons of a golden Mean holding it no good policy to engage too far for God lest Times of Persecution prove too hot for his luke-warm Faith the Moral honest man stands much on the Fig-leaves of his Legal Righteousness and thinks because he is not what he might be he is what he ought to be the high-way Christian thinks himself priviledged by that stile to commit the worst of villanies under the Fig-leaves of an outward Profession that if he speak for God he may practice for the Devil the State-Politician to legitimate the spurious oftspring of his projecting brain hath the fading Fig-leaves of his Princes favor and the plausible Rhetorick of all affable humility to cloke the sprouting designs of his unlimited Ambition dazling the judgements of the wise by his ambodextrous compliance attracting by his powerful influence the Star-gazing Multitude to admire the Comet of his rare Endowments whilest himself lies forging in the Vault of his double heart some sugar'd Poyson for the ruine of them both the envious man covers the venom of his heart with the Fig-leaves of equivocating kindeness and under the vizard of much sweet deportment will handsomly beguile you to become his instrument of your own destruction the Covetous man weaves specious pretences of impartial Justice and therewith makes Fig-leaf Aprons for his sordid Oppression calls his Covetousness Praise-worthy providence his Extortion Damage-recompence and his Usury nothing but Consideration-money in token of gratitude the Proud for want of other Fig-leaves will glory in an apish-fond-affected humility the Drunkard thinks himself the onely good Companion and rusheth into all excess of Ryot under the notion of good-fellowship the Adulterer wallows in the mire of his lust and glories in his shame that it more tends to Natures credit then his disgrace more an ornament wherewith he is well qualified then a vice whereby he is heaven-exclude 1 Cor. 6.9 and acts the beast under the Fig-leaf of a venial sin Thus the accursed progeny of the first Adam are still vainly sewing Fig-leaves together for their nakedness whilest the new-born Issue of the second covered with the white Robes of his Righteousness are clothed with the garments of salvation Isa 61.10 and shall stand before the Throne and before the Lamb with palms in their hands Rev. 7.9 when these Fig-leaves shall be useless save to kindle the fuel of chaff and stubble to everlasting burnings 2 Pet. 3.7 and be the sad Remembrancer of their Parents Apostasie when they sewed Fig-leaves together and made themselves Aprons Gen. 3.7 The first Martyr And Cain talked with Abel his brother and it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel and slew him Gen. 4.8 ANd Cain talked with Abel his brother So did Esau with his heart when resolved on the like fratricide Gen. 27.41 Trust not any brother that will supplant Jer. 4.9 the honiest tongue may have the strongest poyson of Asps under it Solomon disswades thee from going into thy brothers house in the day of thy calamity Prov. 27.10 Envy not the wicked yet familiarize not thy self with them for their heart studieth destruction and their lips talk of mischief Pro. 27.10 And it came to pass when they were in the field Solitary places are the Devils vaults witness the Garden when he beguil'd the first Adam Gen. 3. witness the Wilderness when he tempted the second Mat. 4.1 God said betimes It was not good for man to be alone Gen. 2.18 Chaste Joseph knew it well Gen. 39.11 And wo to him saith the Preacher that is alone Eccles. 4.10 indeed the field is the proper place of blood for man to act the beast in But he that formed the eye shall he not see Psal 49.9 yes and the man of