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A14612	The contrition of a Protestant preacher, converted to be a Catholiqve scholler conteyning certayne meditations vpon the fourth penitentiall psalme, Miserere / composed by Iames Waddesworth, Bachlour of Diuinitie in the Vniversity of Cambridge, & late parson of Cotton, and of Great-Thorneham in the County of Suffolke, who went into Spaine with the Kinges Maiesties first Embassadour-Legier, as his chaplayne ...	Wadsworth, James, 1572?-1623.	1615 (1615)	STC 24924.5; ESTC S2953	166,461	144

may stand stately and proudly for a time like the walls of Babel yet in all the worlde it was neuer sene that where religion was debased but in few Ages their commanding policy was confounded 3. Wherfore let vs praye continually for the sincerity of Sion the prosperity of Ierusalem O lorde repayre the walls vnto the one and vnto the other shew the kindnes of thy good will Arise O God and haue mercy vpon Sion because it now seemes time to haue mercy vpon her and because her highe time is now come if great neede can shew when it is her highe time for now new fangled people broken o● from thy churche are broken into thine inheritance thy haue polluted thy holy Temples profaned thy churches thy Altars they haue caste downe and they haue caste out thy holy sacrifices they haue turned thy houses of orderly religion into habitations of moste disordinate pleasures or else haue layd them desolate in barbarous ruynes posuerunt Ierusalem in pomorum custodia●t hey haue made Ierusalē which was well inhabited eyther like a poore Cottage of an orcharde where dwelles some churlish warrener or it is quite suffered to decaye since all the fruite was gathered They haue placed the dead bodyes of thy seruantes to be meate for the soules of the ayre and in some places they haue lefte the flesh of thy sayntes vnburyed to become a preye for the beastes of the earthe they haue shed the bloud of many like water in the circuite of Ierusalem and there were none permitted to bury them with sacred ceremonyes We are made a reproche vnto our neighbors a laughing stocke and a scoffe vnto them who are round about vs. How long O lord wilte thou be angry vnto the end shall thy zeale be kindled like fire O powre out thy wrathe vpon the nations which haue not known thee and vpon the kingdomes which haue not called vpon thy name For they haue eaten vp Iacob his place they haue layde desolate O remember not our olde iniquityes but let thy mercyes soone preuent vs for we are made exceding poore O God our saluation helpe vs deliuer vs O lord for the glory of thy name and be mercifull vnto our sinnes for thine owne name Least they say among the nations where is theyr God rather make knowne vnto the nations before our eyes the vengeance of the bloud of thy seruantes which hath bene shed and let the sighes of them who are in fetters enter into thy sighte and according to the greatnes of thine arme possesse and preserue the children corporall or spirituall of them who now are martyred or oppressed whether they be children of nature or of grace of succession or of conuersion 4. Deale kindly O lorde in thy good will towardes Sion Benignè sac or bonam fac make Sion to become good or thoughe it be faulty yet shew it thy fauour in thy good will Allso for the Benignity of our Sauiours incarnation as Saint Paul calleth it or according to the gracious prouidence of thy good will and pleasure both decreeing our remedy and fullfilling thy fauour Or as vnto God the Father is attributed the minde vnto the Sonne reason and will vnto the holy Ghoste so let vs particularly praye for this good will of his holy spirite therein to sanctify Sion and withall for our selues as passengers in a shippe to directe it euer by his good will as the helme 5. That the walls of Ierusalem may be builte not alone that the Temporall state may be free from domesticall suspicions forreyn feares florishing in strenghte of vnity at home amity abroade by which it shall be compassed defended as with firme walls But especially that in the quietnes of christendome free from persecution we may haue many good religious men renued and repayred to be sayntes deare seruantes of God for these are the cheife defence the best Armyes the horsemen the footemen the Artillerye the munition the shippes the walls of any kingdome And of these the scripture saith all thy walls are precious stones and all other good Catholique Christians are well squared liuing stones builte vpon our L. Iesus as the ch●ife principall foundation beside whom no man can lay any other firste foundation and then secondly nexte after him S. Paul telleth vs we are builte vpon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets And among them cheifly vpon S. Peter his successors vnto whom our Sauiour promised that vpon this rocke he woulde builde his churche 6. O gracious Sauiour thou haste hitherto continued this promise and we doubte not but thou wilte performe it vnto the end of the worlde so that the gates of hell neither by Diuells Tyrantes Heretiques nor Antichrists shall preuayle against it But in particuler we moste humbly earnestly sorowfully entreate thee not only to continue blesse Sion where it is now well seated but allso to builde and repayre the walls of Ierusalem wheresoeuer they haue bene defaced O sweete Iesu repayre our ruynes restore our breaches make vs all liuing stones of thy Temple and vouchsafe once agayne amongest vs to renue the walls of Ierusalem Let vs be so composed combyned in vnity of Catholique religion and in charity of true Christian loue so compacted that we may seeme like one of those Towres in the walls of Ierusalem which Iosephus saith was so artificially contriued that it appeared all but one stone Thy charity is the best bitume morter or cement or playster of Paris or spanish yesso wherwith to combyne vs bind vs together O let this charity be so diffused spread abroad in all our hartes that we may be all of one harte of one minde of one faith and of one flocke vnder one shepheard one God 7. Sion signifyes a watchtowre and Ierusalem a city of peace In his towre thy preistes prelates are watchemen and all thy constante Catholiques are inhabitantes of Ierusalem O how beautifull is this towre when it standes in vnity but when it crackes or breakes by diuision o how ruynous dangerous And as for the other Commons Citizens of Ierusalem how can they remayne vndestroyed by Titus Vespasian their cōmon enemyes whiles they foster broyles or breede factions within their owne bowelles Wherfore O deare Sauiour O God of peace settle our towres of Sion in concorde of watchemen and vnto thy Citizens of Ierusalem send thy peace thy externall peace from outward persecution thy internall peace from inwarde diuision and thy eternall peace in euerlasting consolation By this shall the walls of Ierusalem be rebuilte if we seeke kepe peace and by this shall we be knowne to be thy disciples if in that peace which thou diddest bequeath vs we doo loue one another O mercifull Iesu take not away thy peace because of our disagreementes but rather take away our disagreements and restore vs thy peace we deserue indeede more anger yet according to thy

of the Diuell Which is signifyed by the olde custome of the Catholique churche which hauing baptized new conuerted christians at Easter and hauing vsed fasting penance in lent they called the first Sonday after Easter Dominica in Albis white Sonday because those who were newly baptized were then all clad in white to shew their cleansed innocency and so they solemnely read that saying of S. Peter quasi modo geniti infantes as children new borne to teach vs that after our sinnes washed by baptisme or blotted out by penance we should be carefull to kepe the garments of our soules white and cleane or hauing become againe as yong children without malice or sinne we should afterwarde procure the cleansed table of our soules no more to be defaced in vice by the Diuells fowle fyst but to be adorned in vertue with golden letters of grace MANY SIGNIFICATlONS AND PETITIONS for creating a cleane harte and renuing of a righte spirite Sect. 2. 1. BLotte out all my faultes and then Create a new harte in me o God First remission of sinne next infusion of grace For thoughe Iustification be in an instante yet in order of nature not of time pardon is before fauour And he saith Create grace in me because it is not deduced out of any power or faculty of our soule as are naturall formes out of their substances or matter but our soule had lost all his morall essence or Being of grace therfore he saith Create a cleane harte that is restore in me all morall gifts of nature and renue a righte spirite that is all spirituall graces 2. Create my harte which had loste it selfe for Ezechiel saith to a sinner Thou arte become nothing Neither let Ieremy call me a foole which hath no harte to res●ste sinne for to haue no harte is to be dead and to haue no life But in creating my harte I ●ha●l ●ecouer both life and wisedome and by creati●g me a cleane harte I may be among those blessed who shall see God 3. Let me haue a cleane harte not defiled with delightes of any sinne nor delighted in the filthynes of any pleasure nor turmoyled with contentious passions nor troubled with peruer●e cogitations for it ought to be a cleane temple of the holy ghoste not polluted with luxury not straytned with enuy with ambition not headlong no● houering with pride Or if we heare any of these clamorous affections within vs yet not take pleasure nor giue consent to their allu●ing voyces not a whitte to feele them who can say he hath a cleane harte yet must we cleanse our hartes not to harbour and consent vnto them Or if we haue listened any whit too long vnto such dangerous thoughtes let vs pray for a cleane harte that all corrupte intentions may be abolished and with a right spirite all good purposes orderly directed despising all the glory of this worlde fastening our mindes in the loue of God keping patience in reproches and inju●yes humbling our selues to all men in meekenes louing our freindes in God and our enemyes for God not coueting oughte from other men but rather giuing of our owne to the poore in prosperity sober and constant in affliction Thus let vs be renued in the spirite of our ●indes which in all these is a cleane harte and a right spirite but by the vices which are contrary vnto these it doth become a crooked and a lothsome harte 4. Create in me a cleane harte not materially but formally for this creation is not of the harte in substance but of his quality in cleanenes Create cleanenes in my harte for infused vertu●● and grace may be s●id created as neither compounded of any material substance no● deriued therfrom But yet being Accidentall formes they are not created alone ●ut existing in some subiect and so Deuines say Gratia non creatur sed concreatur subjecto inesse grato 5. Least from my reasonable discourse impertinent or vicious thoughtes should ascend into my harte Create in me a cleane harte of vnderstanding Least my actions should be hipocriticall hauing my harte a farre of from thee Create a sincere intention of harte in my will And in my deuout hartie affections Create a cleane harte in me that I may follow Dauid as a man according to thine owne harte 6. And renue a right spirite in my bowells Renue it for I am waxen olde in vice and make it righte to be directed streight to heauen nor bowed downe in basenes nor bended awrye in crookednes to any thing of this worlde New in grace for we may not put new wyne into olde bottels Righte in nature wherfore we praie vnto the holie ghoste Send out thy spirite they shal be created thou shalte renue the face of the earthe 7. Our Bowells are of such earthly nature that they haue neede to be renued in spirite and our Hartes are so corrupted in sinne that they haue neede to be caste in another molde which is to be created a cleane harte O my soule we were become like Ephraim a seduced doue hauing no harte and we may complayne with the psalmist Our harte hath forsaken vs let vs desire our Lord to create vs a harte Allso like the Quene of Saba admiring Solomon we haue no spirite or faynting in goodnes we may say defecit spiritus meus our spirite fayleth vs let vs beseech our lord to Renue our spirite O Iesu create in vs a cleane harte out of which may not procede lewde thoughtes adulteryes theftes ambitions nor any wickednes Renue in our Bowells a righte spirite to make vs right in all vertues which according to the hebrew worde are called rectitudines righteousnes streight lines or perpendicular lines from the center of the earth leading righte vp to heauen That as in the begimning our Lord made man righte so to the intent our End may be answerable restore vs a righte spirite 8. Dauids hart● was vncleane by Adultery his spirite was crooked by malicious subtilty in this subtle malice he murdered Vrias in adultery he had abused Bersabee In like sorte against luste we desire cleanenes of harte and against crafty crooked malice rightnes of spirite or we pray that we may haue in our harte cleane affections louing God entirely and a righte spirite of discretion to discerne good prudently Allso mixing these we desire discreete affections in our harte and in our spirite louing charitable imaginations Nay we haue so much neede of a better alteration that we may alter interchange these wordes to desire a change of our selues allmost into any fashion rather then to remayne in our present corruption o lorde create in vs a cleane harte and renue a righte spirite in our bowells or create in vs a righte spirite and renue in vs a cleane harte Allso we haue neede of a cleane spirite and me doo wante a righte hart We haue no harte which therfore must be created