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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09850	A looking-glasse for the soule, and a definition thereof. Written by Edward Popham Gentleman	Popham, Edward, gentleman.	1619 (1619)	STC 20115; ESTC S102083	11,412	70

maine crop to the diuell and set God to gleane the remainder of the haruest or gorge the diuell with the fairest fruits turne God to feede on the filthy scraps of his leauings How great a folly were it when a man pyneth away in perillous languor to prouide gorgious Apparell and take order for the rearing of stately buildings and neuer thinke of his owne recouery but let the disease take roote in him Chrysostome saith When mans Soule hath surfeited in all kinde of sinne and is drenched in manifold diseases they pamper the body with all possible delight Where as the Soule should haue the soueraignty and the body follow the sway of her directions but seruile sences and lawlesse appetites rule her as superiour and so make her as a Vassall or seruile in her owne dominions What is there saith S. Augustine in thy meanest necessaries that thou wouldest not haue good Thou wouldst haue a good house good furniture good apparell good fare good cattell and not so little as thy Hose and Shooes but thou wouldst haue it good onely thy Life and poore Soule thy principall charge of other things the most worthiest thou art content should be nought by cankering and rusting in all kinde of euill Oh vnspeakeable blindnes to preferre our shooes before our Soules refusing to weare an vnseemely shooe and not caring to carry an vgly Soule Alas let vs not set so light by that which God prized so high let vs not rate our selues at so base a worth being bought to so peerelesse a dignity The Soule is such that all the gold in the world nor any thing lesse worth then the body bloud and death of the Sonne of God was able to buy it If not all the treasures of the world nor any thing that wit can deuise but onely Gods owne pretious body was by him deemed a fit repast to feede it If not all the creatures of the world nor Millions of worlds if so many were created but onely the illimitable Maiesty and goodnesse of God can satisfie the desire and fill of the capacity of it who but one of lame iudgement or peruerse will yea who but of incredulous minde and pittilesse spirit could set more by his olde shoes then by his Soule and suffer so noble a Paragon so long time to be channelled in ordure and myred in sinne If wee see our seruant sicke wee allow him a Phisition if our Horse be diseased we send for a Leach nor our garment torne but we seeke to amend it and yet maligne our own Soule and let it dye for want of Cure and being mingled with so many vices neuer seek meanes to restore it to the former integritie If any should call vs Epicures Atheists or Rebells wee should take it a reproach and thinke it a most disgracefull and approbrious calumniation yea but to liue Epicures to finne like Atheists or like violent Rebells to scorne Gods commandements and daily with damnable wounds barbarously to stabbe in our vnfortunate Soules we account no contumelie but rather register it in the vaunt of our chiefe praises O yec sonnes of Men how long will you carry this carelesnesse of heart following Vanity and seeke after Lyes how long will Children loue the follies of Infancy and sinners run wilfully to their owne ruine and destruction You keepe your Chickens from the Kite your Lambs from the Wolfe you will not suffer a Spider in your bosome nay scarce in your house And yet nestle in your Soule so many Vipers as vices and suffer it to be long chewed with the poysoned Iawes and Tuskes of the Diuell And is your Soule so vaine a substance as to be had in so little estimation Had Christ made shipwracke of his wisedome Or was he but in a fit of passion when hee became a wandering Pilgrime exiling as it were himselfe from the comfort of his godhead and passing three and thirty yeares in paine penury for the behoofe of our Soules Or was he surprised with a distempered spirit when in the Tragedie of his Passion so grieuously in flicted patiently endured he made his body as a cloud to disolue into showers of most innocent blood and suffered the dearest vaines of his heart to be launced to giue full issue to the prize of our Soules redemption But if as indeed Christ did not ere or deeme amisse when it pleased him to redeeme vs with so excessiue a ransome Then what shall we deeme of our most monstrous abuses that sell our Soules to the Diuell for euery vaine delight and rather venture the hazard thereof then the silly pittance of worldly pelfe Oh that a creature of so incomparable a price should be in the demaine of so vnnaturall keepers and that which in it selfe is so gratious and amiable that the Angels and Saints delight to behold it alas if the care of our owne Soule moue vs no more but that we remaine negligent of the better portion of our selues let vs at least feare to doe iniury to an other very careful iealous ouer it who will neuer indure so deepe an impeachment of his interest to passe vnreuenged Wee must remember that our Soule is not onely a part of vs but also the Temple the Paradice and Spouse of Almighty God by him in Baptisme garnished stored and endowed with most gratious ornaments And how thinke ye he can brooke to see his Temple prophaned and turned into a den of Diuels his Paradice displanted changed into a wildernesse of Serpents his Spouse defloured and become an Adulteresse to his vtter Enemie If Man offering such vsage to one of meane estate for feare of the law and popular shame forbeareth to effect the same shall not then the reuerend Maiesty of God and the vnabated iustice of his angry sword terrifie vs from offring the like to his owne Spouse shall wee thinke God either so impotent that hee cannot or so base and sottish that hee will not or so weake witted that hee knoweth not how for to wreake himselfe on such daring offenders Will he so neglect and loose his honour which of all things hee claimeth as his chiefe peculiar Will he that for the Soules sake keepeth a reckoning of our very haires which are but the excrements of our earthly weed see himselfe so much wronged in the principall passe by it without demonstration of his iust indignation Oh let vs remember that the Scripture termeth it a fearefull thing to fall into the hands and iustice of God who is able to crush the proud spirit of the obstinate and make his enemies his foote-stoole Let vs then wrastle no longer with the cries of our owne conscience and the forcible inspirations of the Holy Ghost Let vs I say embrace his mercy before the time of rigour and like penitent children returne to the obedience of his will lest hee debarre vs of his Kingdome And as the members of one body wherof Christ is the head let vs liue in humble

A Looking-glasse for the SOVLE AND A DEFINITION thereof WRITTEN By Edward Popham Gentleman LONDON Printed by T. S. for Nathanael Newbery and are to be sold at the signe of the Star in Popes-head Alley and vnder S. Peters Church in Corne-hill 1619. TO HIS BEST worthy and most endeered Friend Mr. Iohn de Hem Merchant of this Honourable Cittie of London Edward Popham wisheth all terrestriall blessings in this world and the fulnesse of all celestiall blessings in the Life to come MY most loued and best esteemed Friend I haue read that mongst that little laborious Common-wealth of Bees they haue a law that if a Drone hauing lost his sting which gaue him spirit to labour because being armed with that hee was able to encounter with his aduersary now giuing himselfe to sloth and sucke the honey from the rest he is by a generall consent presently thrust out and banisht or put to death as an vnprofitable member To auoyde which imputation I haue gathered vp some remnants of time to meditate vpon an euerlasting subiect which is the Soule a subiect being created to serue her immortall King and euerlasting because a blessed euerlasting life is her reward if she perseuere in her Creators seruice to the end I confesse it is a large field whereon in expert Artist may frame and build a goodly Cittie ●ut I being but a simple la●ourer dare not presume to speake of Colossus or build pyramides wonders of the world lest in piercing too high I meete with Babell and so fall to ruine Yet as the poore widdow in the Gospell amongst the many great superfluous gifts did not doubt but her mite would be accepted so I doubt not but mongst those many huge vollumes that swarme in the world some well-iudging Christian may cast his eye on my poore worke so may giue a gentle conclusion saying this poore man hath cast in his Mite into the treasury and brought one little stone to the eternall building To giue a better glosse to my small commodity I haue thought good my deere Friend to patronize it vnder your protection coniuring you by all the lawes of friendship not to refuse the guardiance of this poore Infant but nourish it with your best loue for which you shall be sure to finde double requitall first you shal bind my poore loue and labour to your seruice and last which is best you shall find Gods blessing to your soule and body to whose protection I leaue you and rest yours euer deuoted Edward Popham THE PREFACE OR Introduction THe soueraigne decree of God enacted by the Father of Heauen ratified by his Sonne and daily repeated by the instinct of the Holy Ghost bindeth euery good Christian to distribute according to their measure lent be it more or lesse so it may any waies profit following that saying of Plato Non solum nobis nati sumus For it is a motiue that alloweth of no excuse but of necessity presseth euery good mind to the performance of dutie Nature by grace is not abolished but perfected not murthered but manured neither are her impressions quite rased or anulled but suted to the colours of faith and vertue And if Natures affections be so forcible that euen ●n Hell where rankor and 〈◊〉 spight raineth and all feeling of Gods goodnesse is ouerwhelmed in mallice it moued the rich glutton by experience of his owne misery to carry a desire of admonition to his friends much more in the Church of God where grace quickeneth charity inflameth and Natures inclination directed by supernaturall grace prouoketh ought the dutie of piety to preuaile And who but more mercilesse then damned Creatures could see their Christian Brethren almost plunged in like perill and not be wounded with deep remorse of their lamentable imminent hazard If in beholding a mortall enemy wrung and tortured with deadly pangs the toughest heart softneth with some Sorrow If the most fierce mind cannot but thaw melt with pitty when it seeth the worst Miscreant suffer his deserued torments how much lesse can a Christian heart consider the number of such which daily fall into farre more bitter extreamities and not bleed in griefe for their vncomfortable case nay rather imploy all their cares studies and indeauours to winne and reclaime them from that dangerous brincke of perdition Surely though I challenge not the prerogatiue of the best disposition yet my desire is with young Tobias to trauell and bring home spirituall substance and medicinable receits to cure such ghostly malladie as euidently at this day is to be seene and did in no former Age more exceedingly abound I haue with Esau prouided Venison which may procure a blessing and bread with Ioseph for the repast of their soules which most carelesly they oppresse with famine in time of plenty Let it not therfore be thought any dishonor to men of more grauity or disparagemement to any person whatsoeuer that I in all humility offer my aduise in a case so much to be pittied and a time so dangerous One man cannot be perfect in all faculties neither is it any disgrace to the Goldsmith if he be ignorant of the Millers trade Many are deepe Lawyers but shallow Diuines and are farre to seeke in religious actions If therefore I offer the fruits of my labours and make you apresent of my zealous indeauours I hope you will censure thereof rather as of the part of a dutifull Christian then of any poynt of presumption And so I humbly refer you to the rest as followeth Demidium facti qui bene coepit habet Jbi res humanae nunquàm prosperè succedunt vbi negliguntur diuinae A DEFINITION OF The Soule FIRST it is an immateriall substance While it doth reuiue the body it is the Soule when it willeth or chooseth any thing it may though improperly be called the Minde While is knoweth any thing it may be called though improperly againe the Vnderstanding While it iudgeth some haue tearmed is Reason While it doth breath or contemplate a Spirit While it calls any thing to minde the Memorie While it thinketh any thing though more grosely the Sence But to speake of the Soule as it is it is an immateriall substance and Reason Memory Sence c. are the seuerall faculties and diuers opperations thereof A Looking-glasse for the Sovle MOst necessary and behoouefull it is for euery good Christian humbly and heartily to beseech God for his Sonne Christ his sake the honour of his glorious Name our dutie towards the Church and the comfort of our Soules that wee may seriously consider the termes of our present estate wherein we stand and weigh our selues in a Christian ballance taking for our counterpoyze the Iudgements of God Let vs take heede in time that the word Tekel written Dan 5. 25. of old against Baltazar and interpreted by Daniel be not verified in vs whose exposition was You haue beene poyzed in the Ballance and found of too light waight Let vs remember