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A14860	A posie of spirituall flowers taken out of the garden of the holy scriptures, consisting of these sixe sorts: hearts ease, true delight, the worlds wonders, the souls solace, times complaint, the doom of sinners. Gathered for the encouragement of beginners, direction of proceeders, meditation of good hearers, consolation of true beleeuers, expectation of Sions mourners, confusion of irrepentant sinners. By George Webbe, minister of the word.	Webbe, George, 1581-1642.	1610 (1610)	STC 25164; ESTC S102126	70,373	214

iealous of thy glorie and will not hold him guiltlesse that shall prophane thy name Hab. 1.13 thou wilt not surely cleere the innocent but wilt visit the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children Deut. 5.11 Exod. 34.7 and vpon the childrens children vnto the third and fourth generation Art not thou the same that whurledst downe angels froÌ„ the heauen because of their sins Ierem. 32.18 and madest Sodome and Gomorrha God is no lesse bent to punish sinne now then heretofore which sometimes were as an other Eden a breeding place for nettles and a lake of ashes yea thou didst not spare Ierusalem thine owne selected city Iude 6. 2. Pet. 2.4 Genes 13.10 Genes 19.24 Ierem. 25.29 Matth. 24.3 Isai 59.1 Heb. 1.11 but hast made it for sin an heape of stones yea Lord thine hand is not shortned that it caÌ„not strike nor thine eares heauie that they cannot heare Thou art still the same and thine hatred against sin now as great as euer it hath been Or haue wee a greater priuiledge to pleade vpon then other people had We haue no more priuiledge to secure vi froÌ„ Gods iudgements then other nations had Nahum 3.8 Are wee better then No which was full of people that lay in the riuers and had the waters round about it whose ditch was from the sea and her wall from Egypt to Ethiopia yet she was carried away and went into captiuitie Are wee in safer shelter then the people of other countries who for their sins are rooted vp as though they had not been planted as though their stocke had taken no roote in the earth Isai 41.24 the Lord hath blown vpon them and they are withered and the whirlewind like stubble hath taken them away yea the Lord hath not spared the city wherein his own name was called vpon Ierem. 25.29 and shal we goe free O no it is impossible it cannot bee The Lord hath sworne by his holinesse Amos 4.2 that his eye shal not spare neither will he haue pitie but will powre out his wrath and fulfill his anger in vs Ezech. 7.8.9 and pay vs home according to our waies and of the abominations that are in the midst of vs. Ierem. 7.16 Bootlesse ah I feare is it to lift vp crie or prayers against the same for though Moses and Samuel stood before him to entreat him yet how could his affection bee towards this so sinfull people Ierem. 15.1 Though hitherto hee hath for a long time held his peace Isai 42.14 yet now hee will destroy and deuoure at once Yea verely What the reason is why these iudgements haue not alreadie seased on vs. it is the Lords mercie that we are not yet consumed for we had long ere this haue bin as Sodome and our countrie as Gomorrha had not some zealous Phineahses delaied his wrath and some of his chosen Moseses stood in the breach before him to turne away his wrath Lament 3.22 Zeph. 2.9 Numb 25.11 lest hee should destroy them But now alas these righteous men decay apace Psal 106.23 and no man considereth it in his hart merciful men are taken away no man vnderstandeth that they are taken away from the euill to come Isai 57.1 What hope of health now when there is scarse a godly man left Psal 12.1 and the faithfull are diminished from among the children of men Therfore now the daies of our visitatioÌ„ must needs be neere The neere approach of Gods iudgements the daies of recompence are comming Israel shall know it our selues Hosea 9.9 our wiues our children I feare shall shortly feele it Me thinks I heare already the noise of the whip Nahum 2.2 and the mouing of the wheeles the axe is alreadie lifted vp and ready for the stroke O would to God our Elders would sanctifie a fast What the way is to preuent Gods iudgements and our Priests the Ministers of the Lord would weepe between the porch and the altar and cry Spare Lord Ioel 2.15.16 spare thy people and all the people from the highest to the lowest would turne to the Lord with fasting Vers 12. weeping and with mourning Vers 14. who knoweth whether the Lord wil returne and yet spare and leaue a blessing behind him Doubtlesse our God is gratious and mercifull slow to anger and of great kindnes But Lord What to do when Gods iudgements shall sease on vs. if the decree bee alreadie come forth and cannot be reuoked yet Lord correct vs but with iudgement not in thine anger lest we be consumed and brought to nothing Ierem. 10.23 Powre out thy wrath rather vpon the Heathen that know thee not and vpon the families that call not vpon thy name Or if there be no remedie yet well I know that in the midst of these his iudgements God is louing vnto Israel Psalme to such as are true of heart He will deliuer them from six troubles Iob 5.19 and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch them Psal 37.24 they may haue a fall but they shall neuer be cast off Al things euen Gods greatest earthly iudgements work for the best to Gods childreÌ„ Rom. 8.28 for Sions sake I will not hold my tongue but mourne for her desolations As for mine own part I will rest my selfe vpon Dauids resolution 2. Sam. 15.25 If I shall finde fauour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me againe and shew me both it and the Tabernacle thereof but if hee thus say I haue no delight in thee Behold here am I let him doe to me as seemeth good in his eyes THE SINNERS Doome Or A SVRVEY OF THE wretched estate of the wicked both in this life and in the life to come TO MY WORTHIE and much respected friend Mistris Mary Prime I Began with a taste of happinesse and now I end with a taste of wretchednes Both of these are necessarie to be knowne that wee may loue the one and feare the other I dedicate this my last theorem vnto you not as pertinent to your condition but as an Amulet for your consolation For I beare you record that you haue alreadie tasted how sweet the Lord is Psal 34.8 you haue had a taste of the good word of God Heb. 6.4.5 and of the powers of the world to come and haue found them sweeter to your soule then the honey and the honey combe Psal 19 10. Luke 10.6 And I am well assured that you are a childe of peace far free from that portion which here my following treatise describeth to be the sinners legacie for I haue had experience of your vnfained faith in Christ your loue to his word Psal 16.3 and delight in his Saints I therefore commend this little Pamphlet to your meditations to stir you vp more more to thanksgiuing vnto God Coloss 1.13 who hath called you out of darknes

more then I am able to expresse An vnwise man knoweth it not Wicked meÌ„ think it otherwise Psal 92.6 and a foole doth not vnderstand this An vnregenerate man cannot feele it and a child of Belial though he had eyes as cleere as Crystal cannot behold it Such as make sinne their solace and reioyce onely in the pleasures of iniquitie haue thy beloued ones Lord Wisd 5.4 in derision and count their life madnesse their conuersation dumpish their profession grieuous Cantic 5.9 They say vnto vs What is your welbeloued more then another welbeloued Vers 10. what is your welbeloued more then another Louer Will they needes know it Vers 11. why Our welbeloued is white and ruddie the chiefest of tenne thousand Vers 12. Vers 13. his head is as fine gold his locks curled and black as a rauen his eyes are like doues vpon the riuers of waters Vers 14. his cheekes are as a bed of spices and as sweete flowers his lippes like lilies dropping downe pure myrrhe Ver. 15. his hands as rings of gold set with the Chrysolite Vers 16. his hollie like white Iuorie couered with Saphires his legges as marble set vpon sockets of fine gold his countenance as Lebanon excellent as the Cedars his mouth is as sweete things and he is totus delectabilis whollie whollie delectable Yea thou our God art delectable all together Nothing in God but full of sweetnes sweete art thou in thy word sweete in thy promises sweet in thine inward consolations sweete in thy mercies sweete in thy iudgements How perfect is the law of the Lord Psal 19.7 connerring the soule Vers 8. The statutes of uerting the soule The statutes of the Lord are right and reioyce the heart Vers 9. The commandement of the Lord is pure and giueth light vnto the eyes Vers 10. The feare of the Lord is cleane and endureth for euer The iudgements of the Lord are truth and righteous altogether and more to be desired theÌ„ gold yea theÌ„ much fine gold sweeter also then the honie and the honie combe Psal 109.21 How sweet are the mercies of the Lord and that my soule knoweth right well which forgineth all mine iniquities and healeth all mine infirmities which redeemed my life from the graue Psal 103.3 4. and crowneth me with mercies and compassioÌ„s And what shal I say of his iudgements May we not see Sampsons riddle heerein expounded without the helpe of any Sphinx Iudg. 14.14 Out of the strong commeth sweetnes and out of the lion the honie combe O how sweete are his corrections as the pretious balme of Gilead as cauterismes in physick and not as punishments in hostilitie O sweet Sauiour thou hast well said it and we finde it true Matth. 11.29 Cant. 9.16 Thy yoke is easie and thy burthen is light yea thou art wholly delectable O they bee blessed whos God is the Lord Iehoua The securitie of those vvhich haue tasted the Lord. Psal 84.5 Isai 48.21 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee and in whose heart are thy waies His soule shall dwell at ease when the wicked shall bee afraid of their owne shadow and tremble like an Aspin leafe at euery little blast of winde or thunder-clap Psal 91.1 Hee that dwelleth vnder the shadow of the Almightie Psal 46.2.3 his soule shall dwell at ease though the earth be moued and the waters of the sea rage and the mountaines shake at the surges of the same their mindes are void of feare And why Verse 4. There is a riuer whose streames make glad the citie of God Psal 91.4 Hee couereth them vnder his wings and they are safe vnder his feathers They know and are assured that all things shall worke together for the best to them Rom. 8.28 that they are beloued of God Reuel 21.27 Isai 1.18 their names written in heauen and their though crimson sinnes washed in the blood of the Lambe Reuel 7.14 and that neither height nor depth nor death nor life nor any thing shall bee able to separate theÌ„ from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus their Lord. Rom. 8.38 The ful assurance whereof when they hold in better tenour then they can hold any thing in this life by seale lease writing witnesse or any other way that law can deuise O how it glads their hearts and cheereth vp their vitall spirits What an heauenly comfort is it for them to meditate thus often with themselues Psal that they shall see the good pleasures of the Lord in the land of the liuing 2. Cor. 5.1 and haue an house not made with hands but eternall in the heauens Stoope downe to this all comfort of wealth Wicked men oft desire his comfort and would giue a world for it pleasure or delight in the world in what account or price soeuer they bee with worldly fooles there is neuer a Balaam were he well aduised but would giue them all for one quarter of an houres feeling of Gods louing kindnes sweet countenance toward him Numb 23.10 Sillie wretches albeit they would seem to spend their daies in mirth and with a light heart to passe away the time Iob 21.13 yet God hee knoweth with wearie sighes and grones that cannot be expressed many a time their soules thus reason with themselues O how happie are they whose names are written in the booke of life O that they might die the death of the righteous and that their latter end might be like his O what an vnspeakeable treasure is the peace of conscience yea and what they would giue for a taste thereof how many thousand worlds if it were in their power for a part in Gods kingdome But these pleasures are onely for the Bridegromes friends Matth. 25.10 these dainties are for the children such whelpes shall not bee suffered to taste so much as of the crummes that fall from the childrens table Mark 7.27 Behold saith God my seruants shall eate and yee shall be hungrie Only the godly feele enioy it my seruants shall drinke and ye shal be thirsty my seruants shall reioyce Isai 65.13.14 and ye shall be ashamed my seruants shall sing for ioy of heart and ye shall crie for sorrow of heart and howle for vexation of minde Iohn 4.32 They haue another meate to eate which the world knoweth not they haue another drinke to drinke which others dreame not of for their meate is of the tree of life Reuel 22.1 and the Nectar which they sup out of the sweetnes of their gratious God is as a well of water springing vp to euerlasting life Iohn 4.14 Gods seruice not grieuous to his So that they feele that most delightfull which to the wicked and vngodly is most irkesome they see and feele the seruice of the Lord to bee the chiefest freedome Heb. 11.6 because the Lord is a

remember not the peace of this our Sion let our tongue cleaue to the roofe of our mouth yea if wee preferre not Ierusalem to all our mirth Yours intirely in Christ Iesus G. W. The Mourners Lamentation PSAL. 119.126 It is time for thee O Lord to work for they haue destroyed thy law TRue it is Lord that we are not to appoint thee thy times and limits for thou art the Ancient of daies Daniel 7.9 Gen. 1.15 Times Creator and destinator Neither doe wee presume to presse in at the portall of thy priuie chamber to know the times and seasons which thou our Father hast reserued in thine owne power yet Lord Act. 1.17 thou hast taught vs as to discerne the face of the skie Matth. 16.3 so to descrie the signes of times and from the cause to expect the effect which necessarily doth ensue Psal 103.8 Thou art a God full of compassion and mercie slow to anger and of great kindnes and thou doest sustaine many wrongs of the sonnes of men being crushed with their sinnes as a cart is laden with sheaues but if still they continue to load thee thou wilt ease thy selfe of that burthen and cast it on the ground of confusion Thou art slow to anger Nahum 1.3 but great in power and wilt not surely cleere the wicked Thou doest for a long space hold thy peace at mens sins and art still Isai 42.14 Psal 7.12 and doest restraine thy self but if men will not turne thou wilt whet thy sword and bend thy bow and make it readie Patient thou art and for a long time doest forbeare thine hand but when the forehead of sin beginneth to lose the blush of shame when the beadrole of transgressions do grow in skore from East to West when the crie of them pierceth aboue the clouds when the height of wickednes is come vnto the top Gen. 15.16 and the fruits thereof are ripe and full then it is time for thee Lord to take notice of it to awake like a giant Gen. 18.21 Psalme and to put to thine alreuenging hand But our sins are alreadie ripe yea rotten ripe the measure of our iniquities is full vp to the brimme Doubtlesse our land is sunken deepe in iniquitie Isai 3.8 Our tongues and works haue bin against the Lord to prouoke the eyes of his glorie Isai 3.9 the triall of our countenance doth testifie against vs yea wee declare our sinnes as Sodome Gen. 18.20 we hide them not the crie of our sinne is exceeding grieuous Iam. 5.4 the clamors of them pierce the skies and with a loud voice rore saying How long Lord holy and true Reuel 6.10 Ierem. 9.9 how long ere thou come to auenge thy selfe on such a nation as this is If there were but one vniust man amongst vs Sinne in all sorts of people iniquitie for this one mans sinne were lamentable Iosh 7.1 much more now when whole families nay whole streetes yea whole towns and cities are such the case is to bee lamented and the estate to be feared when like a Gangrene sinne hath eaten thorow euery ranke of people and in a bodie politique from the sole of the foote vnto the head there is nothing whole therein Isai 1.6 but wounds and swellings and sores full of corruption In Children Psal 22.31 when our yong children which should be a sanctified seed to serue the Lord sucke blasphemie from the dugge and not learne to speak before they learne to sweare filling each house and streete and high way with their othes In yong men Eccles 12.1 wheÌ„ our yong men which should remember the Lord in the daies of their youth haue their heads full of drunkennes their eyes full of adulterie their tungs full of ribaldrie their eares full of flatterie their hands ful of blood their feete full of vanitie destruction only and calamitie being in their waies Psal 14.3 and no feare of God before their eyes When our old men which should be sober In old men are giuen to drunkennesse which should be chast Tit. 2.2 are giuen to wantonnes which should be discreet are full of foolishnesse which should be sound in the faith are as ignorant as horse and mule which should be in charitie are full of enuie which should take their farewell of the earth are theÌ„ most greedie of the earth when themselues are more then halfe earth In women 1. Tim. 2.9 When our women which should adorne themselues with shamefastnes and modestie striue who can most disguise themselues in cloathes of vanitie Isai 3.16 and in stead of hauing the hiddeÌ„ man of their heart vncorrupt 1. Pet. 3.4 looke onely to their outside to paint that vnto the world In the Commons When our common and ordinarie sort of people are murmurers complainers Iude 16.17 walkers after their owne lusts makers of sects fleshly minded and ful of prophanenes When the children shall presume against the ancient Isai 3.5 and the vile against the honorable When young and old shall thus openly without blush of shame expose their sins to the sunshine of the world when euery one hunteth his brother with a net Mich. 7.8 Psal 12.2 and in one body there is a double heart Ierem. 9.9 Shalt not thou be auenged for these things O Lord shall not thy soule be auenged on such a nation as this But bee it that generally the common sort of men were so ill inclined In Ministers yet so long as the watchmen of the Lords vineyard were vnpolluted with blood Groenham in his common place of sinne cap. 62. there were some hope the rest might bee recouered But when they which should be eyes to others themselues are blinde as beetles Matth. 6.23 wheÌ„ they which should be lamps to others Matth. 5.14 haue no oyle within their lamps when they which should bee Pastors to feede the flock of Christ Matth. 25.8 Ezech. 34.2.3 clothe themselues with the fleece and eate of the fat but feed not the sheep Malach. 1.7 when they at whose mouth the people should seeke the knowledge of the law speake good of euill Isai 5.20 and euill of good put darknes for light and light for darknesse bitter for sweete and sweete for sower when they that should be faithfull stewards Luke 12.42 giuing to Gods household their portion of meate in due season 2. Cor. 2.17 make merchandise of the word of God selling the cause of the Lord for handfuls of barley and pieces of bread Ezeth 13.19 when they which should shew the people their transgressions Isai 58.1 and the house of Iacob their sinnes heale the hurt of the people with sweete words saying Beace peace when there is no peace Ierem. 6.13 when they that liue of the Altar 1. Cor. 9.13 liue from the Altar and working euill in the eyes of the people cause men through

damned of his owne selfe and being senselesse of his sinne is giuen ouer to a reprobate sense Rom. 1.24 and being past feeling Ephes 4.19 giue themselues ouer to worke all vncleannes euen with greedinesse being alreadie within the iawes of hell before they bee awares And well I wote that when such sleepie soules shall awake and wake they shal securely now although they sleepe that then their horror shall be the greater farre like wilde beasts which though so long as they lie asleepe seeme tame and gentle yet being roused vp are fierce and wrathfull In the meane Sinners Gods enemies albeit in outward shew they may seeme ioyfull yet let them know their case is fearfull for if the wrath of an earthlie King bee raging how dreadful then must needs be their estate who are professed enemies to the King of Heauen Isai 26.11 Surely he hateth all those that worke iniquity Psal 5.6 and both the wicked man and his wickednes are in hatred with him Psal 14. Prou. 15.9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord Isai 1. Psal 50. Hee cannot abide nor permit the sinner to praise him to pray vnto him or to take his couenant in his mouth no maruell then if at the last day hee shew such rigor vnto them who in this life are so extreamly hated and detested of him Gods threatnings against sinners What peace then can they haue that haue the Lord of hosts to be their enemie Psal 10. God shall raine snares of fire vpon sinners brimstone with tempestuous windes shall be the portion of their cuppe the Lord shall breake their teeth in their mouthes Psal 57.6.9.10 and shoote foorth his arrowes and destroy them Hee shall carrie them away as a whirle winde in his wrath and wash his feete in the blood of the vngodlie He will powre out his wrath vpon them and fulfill all his anger in them Ezech. 7.8.9.10 Hee will iudge them according to their waies and lay vpon them all their abominations neither shall his eye spare them neither will he haue pitie on them and they shall know that hee is the Lord that smiteth them Cursed be they in the towne and cursed in the field cursed in the fruite of their bodie Deut. 28.16.17.18 and cursed in the fruite of their land the increase of their kine and in the flocks of their sheepe cursed when they come in and cursed when they goe out cursed in their bodies and cursed in their soules Now then let them boast while they will of their prosperitie The beginning of hell here in this life to the wicked and let such as are like vnto them flatter them in their follie though they seeme with Capernaum to be lifted vp to heauen Matth. 11.23 yet behold alreadie they are in the confines of hell though they haue a name of mightinesse yet indeed they are in the lowest estate of abiectnes Though they may seeme the only men that liue yet they are but dead whiles heere they liue 1. Tim. 5.6 Though worldlings do admire them Rom. 6.16 yet are they but the Lords laughing stockes Sinnes slaues and Satans drudges Poore woodcocks are they ensnared in Satans springs 2. Tim. 2.26 Rom. 9.22 vessels of wrath ordained for the Diuels blacke kitchin alreadie treading the waies of darknesse Prou. 4.19 Exod. 3. the prince of darknesse taske meÌ„ in the works of wickednesse yea they dwell alreadie in the land of darknesse and in the shadow of death Psal 107.10 being fast bound in miserie and iron Psal 37.8 when Gods children are satisfied with the dainties of his house Luke 15.16 they feed on husks of sinne and draffe of beastly life when the soules of the Saints are temples of the holy Ghost 1. Cor. 6.15 Reuel 18.2 their soules be nests of Scorpions dungeons of Diuels Reuel 21.27 when Gods children haue their names registred in the booke of life their names are engrossed in the book of perdition being alreadie in the power of the Diuell and his angels 1. Tim. 5.6 subiect to sinne and all temptations dead in trespasses and sins whiles in their bodies they bee aliue and when they die hauing this death the earnest penie of the second death For certainly The dolefull estate of the wicked in the day of death The reioycing of the wicked is but short and the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen his head reach vnto the clouds Iob 20.5.6.7.8.9 yet shall hee perish for euer like his dung and they which haue seene him shall say Where is he He shall flee away as a dreame and shall passe away as a vision in the night Goe he shall there is no remedie Iob 10.22 into the land of darknesse and shadow of death into a land I say darke as darknesse it self and into the shadow of death where is none order but the light is there as darknesse Heb. 9. Eccles 3.19 And albeit this is the condition of the iust as well as the vniust and as the one dieth so must the other die and returne vnto the dust yet good Lord how great a difference is there betweene the righteous and the wicked at the day of death Mark the vpright man Psal 37.37 and behold the iust for the end of that maÌ„ is peace when ghastly death approcheth with her inexorable destinie then doe they lift vp their heads Luke 21.28 for that their redemptinÌ„ draweth nigh from the labours and toyles of this world Psal 40.1.3 Blessed then are they that feare the Lord the Lord wil strengthen them vpon their bed of sorrow and make their bed in their sicknes So that with holie Hilarion they then begin to cheere vp their soule Hieron in vita Hilarion Exito anima mea exito c. Goe out my soule goe out thou needest not feare thus long thou hast serued Christ why shoul dest thou now bee afraid to goe to him But for the wicked and vngodly man as there is no peace to him during the whole course of his life so shall hee finde least peace at the houre of death O Death how bitter is the remembrance Eccles 41. of thee to a man that liueth at rest in his possessions how irksome shall it bee to an vnrepentant sinner when hee shall see Death it selfe standing before his face to arrest him and approching vnto him with this incultable doome Thou soule Luke 12.19 this night I must take away thy soule from thee and then whose shall these thy pleasures and thy profits be A wofull anguish must theÌ„ needs possesse his heart when hee must part from all his earthly ioyes pleasures commodities which he hath trauelled for with the hazard of his soule and finde no profit in them but that hee hath trauelled for the winde Eccles 5.15

recouered for they will not be wrapped Ierem. 8.22 Isai 1.6 nor bound vp nor mollified with oile This people hath an vnfaithfull and rebellious heart they are departed and gone Ierem. 5.23.24.25 They say not in their heart Let vs now feare the Lord our God that giueth raine both early and late in due season and reserueth vnto vs the appointed weekes of the haruest yea our iniquities haue sometimes turned away many of these things and our sins haue hindred good things from vs Slight regard of Gods iudgements Isai 1.3 The oxe knoweth his owner and the asse his masters crib but our Israel will not know this people will not vnderstand Thou hast stricken them O Lord but they haue not sorrowed Thou hast consumed them Ierem. 5.3 Hardnes of hart but they haue refused to receiue correction they haue made their faces harder then a stone and haue refused to returne yea they haue made a couenant with death and with hell are at agreement saying Isai 28.15 Though a scourge run ouer and passe through it shall not come to vs for we haue made falsehood our refuge and vnder vanitie are we hid This thou seest O Lord and canst thou suffer it or shall not thy soule be auenged on such a nation as this Ierem. 5 9. When as for swearing blaspheming Swearing and blaspheming from the names of sins they are now shrouded vnder the habit of ingenuitie and valour Exod. 20.5 and he is counted a Precifian that maketh a conscience of an oath Iam. 2.6 when the very aire is polluted with blasphemous speeches and euery little child as if their tungs were set on fire of hell can rent and teare thy sacred body Christ and the whole land groane vnder othes Ierem. 23.10 canst thou see it Lord and suffer it that what thou condemnest for so capitall a crime men should count it for a glorious vertue Sabbath breaking When thy Sabbaths Lord whose sanctification thou enioynest so straitly Gen. 2.23 Exod. 20.11 Heb. 4.4 and giuest vs a memorandum so seriously to make it our delight and to consecrate it Isai 58.13 as glorious vnto thee are not onely now polluted with fearefull prophanation but also called into irreligious question when there is almost no wickednesse which is not especially committed vpon this day Bucer in Psal 92 it being peruerted from the seruice of the Lord to the pleasures of the flesh Muscul in praecept 4. and from the honour of the great and high God to the rites of Bacchus and Venus and so made the Diuels high holiday with many Wilt not thou for this kindle a fire in the gates of our Zion and shall it not deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem When whoredome and adulterie are esteemed as trickes of youth and vsurie consenage Adulterie and whoredome and oppression as things indifferent when the adulteries of men are written in their foreheads and the whoredome of women betweene their breasts Ierem. 8.12 when they are not ashamed that doe commit these things neither can bee brought to any shame but though thou feedest them to the full Ierem. 5.7.8.9 yet they commit adulterie and assemble themselues by companies in the harlots houses and rise vp in the morning like fed horses euery man neighing after his neighbours wife When whoredomes prodromus or pandar Pride doth so taint and infect all degrees Pride and the vanitie of all other natioÌ„s is little enough to make vp the measure of an English follie When the daughters of Zion are haughtie Isai 3.19 and walke with stretched out neckes and wandring eyes Rom. 1.27 and men effeminate to fashion themselues according to the world onely Rom. 12.1 Rom. 13.4 making it their onely thought to fulfill the lusts of the flesh When the stone crieth out of the wall Couetousnes Hab. 2.11 and the beame out of the timber answereth it against the common practise of those that ioyne house to house and lay field to field Isai 5.8 till there be no place for the poore that they may bee placed by themselues in the midst of the earth when euery one hunteth his brother with a net Mich. 7.2 Hab. 1.16 and sacrifice to their yearne and to their net and as a cage is full of birds Ierem. 5.27 so are their houses full of deceit by which they are become great and waxen rich When the fat buls of Baashan gore the sheepe of the flocke Oppression Psal 22.12 and the rich men swallow vp the poore that they may make the needie of the land to faile and the sellers make the Ephah small Amos 8.4.5.6 and the Shekel great and falsifie the waights by deceit that they may buy the poore for siluer and the needie for shooes Is it not then time for thee O God to whom vengeance belongeth to shew thy self Psal 94.1.2 Arise thou indge of the world and reward the proud after their deseruing Psal 10.16 for the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee who art the helper of the fatherlesse and needie When Court and Countrie swarmes with desperat hacksters braules Crueltie and quarrelling with whom rapine enuie malice and murther are but veniall sinnes which yet like Abels blood from out of the earth doe crie vnto the Lord Gen. 4.10 When men rise vp early to follow drunkennes Drunkennes and continue till night vntil the wine doe inflame them Isai 5.11 and reckon it a point of valour to bee mightie to drink wine strong to powre in strong drinke Vers 22. And Sodoms trinitie of master sinnes pride Ezech. 16.40 Idlenes fulnes of bread and abundance of idlenes abound in vs there being so many millions that liue inordinately amongst vs 2. Thess 3.11 and so many walking the sluggards pace of whom the heauenly Apostle Paul hath told vs ofteÌ„ Philip. 3.18.19 yea and told vs weeping that they are enemies to the crosse of Christ whose end is damnation whose god is their bellie whose glorie is their shame which minde earthly things Vnfaithfulnes When there is no trust to be reposed in a friend Mich. 7.5 nor coÌ„fidence in a counseller and the doores of a mans mouth had neede bee locked vp from her that lieth in his bosome wheÌ„ the whole land like a bowle is ouerswaied by the strong bias of iniquitie Nothing but sin and bends without opposition to black corruption when there is no care of truth Hosea 4.1.2 nor mercie nor knowledge of God in the land but by lying and swearing and killing and stealing and whoring men breake out and blood toucheth blood Can there be a God and he not see can he see and not punish these so vile abominations No no It agreeth with the equitie of Gods instice to punish these sins thou art a God of pure eyes and canst not endure the sight of euill Thou art

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