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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22051	The prisoners plaint a sermon preached by Gualter Ashton, Master of Arts, prisoner in the Kings Bench for debt, before the imprisoned and others in that place, vpon the 25. of August. 1622.	Ashton, Walter, b. 1585 or 6.	1623 (1623)	STC 843; ESTC S100269	10,492	31

THE PRISONERS PLAINT A SERMON PREACHED BY GVALTER ASHTON Master of Arts Prisoner in the Kings Bench for Debt before the Imprisoned and others in that place vpon the 25. of August 1622. 1. SAM 2. 6 7. The Lord killeth and maketh aliue bringeth downe to the graue and raiseth vp The Lord maketh poore and maketh rich bringeth low and exalteth LONDON Printed by Augustine Mathewes 1623. TO THE COVRTEOVS READER CHristian READER this Sermon was preached for the comfort of the Imprisoned and now Printed as a Card and Polestar for thy direction when the same Lot shall fall into thy Lap expect not in it Philareta verba pickt words or matter of transcendent consequence Onely Items to sustaine thee when the Lord shall hedge vp thy way and compasse thee about with Gall and Wormwood I freely acknowledge that when I first thought vpon this Text it was not in my thoughts to expose his Context to publique view for I know my Infirmities and my Countrey my grieuances which haue well nigh made a diuorce betwixt me and my Studies The Authors ayme is to encrease thy patience against thou come to mourne in Dauids Deepes The winde may change though it long haue kept his quarter and he that stands may fall although most watchfull Reade traduce not shauings may haue their weight so well as greater Wedges Thus referring these Lines to thy perusall and Thee to thy Maker I rest From my distracted studies in the Kings Bench Jan. 26. Anno 1622. Thine in the Lord GVALTER ASHTON TO THE CVRIOVS READER THough others haue trodden this Tract and discust these words yet it is Saint Pauls Rule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That euerie man should abound in his owne Sense Thine G. A. THE PREFACE WHen the people of God were captiuated by the Babylonians they requested them to sing some of the Songs of Sion to which they answered How can wee sing the Lords Song being in a strange land and full of heauinesse Psal 127. 3. 4. Mutato nomine de me narretur historia change but the name and the case is mine owne They captiuated I imprisoned they suited to sing some of Sions Notes and Ditties I requested not to sing I must confesse but to say to speake some word of Exhortation They answered How can we sing the Lords Song being in a strange land and full of heauinesse I might haue replyed How can a man Preach in a strange place a house of mourning But calling to minde that Saint Paul and Sylas when they were confined did not intermit to pray and praise the name of the Lord their God Acts 16. v. 25. Hence haue I resolued to make their Patterne my Practise and at this time to vndertake this dayes Taske THE PRISONERS PLAINT PSAL. 130. VER 1. Out of the Deepe places haue I called to thee O Lord c. THe Text is one of Dauids Petitions when he was in his Prosunditatibus as Iunius and Tremellius read the words in the depth of deepes distressed in body distracted in soule persecuted in person wounded in spirit Distracted wounded both in soule and conscience with the feare of Gods wrath for his sinnes committed which many times euen in this life breakes forth into due strokes of vengeance against all such as trade in sinne and goe on in the workes of their owne inuention yet herein the Prophet Dauid bewraies a wonderfull measure of faith in giuing the Lord no rest nor himselfe any ease but prefers Petition after Petition request vpon request and still is not satisfied like an importunate Suitor vntill the eares of his God be possest with the voyce of his complaint and hee in mercy haue obtained the desires of his heart which is not vsuall with many in their daies of triall and houre of temptations who are so farre from wrestling with God by deuout supplications for deliuerance that they either fall off from their affiance and trust in God or else faint vnder the weight of the Crosse thinking that God hath forgotten to be gracious and that hee will be no more intreated if one poore libera nos Domine doe not produce the effect of their longing and languishing desires which is to bee marked as a direction for vs the imprisoned that seeing the Lord hath written bitter things against vs and hemb'd vs in on euery side with wants oppressions reproches and the like therefore wee should not suffer our eyes to sleepe nor the lids thereof to slumber vntill wee haue made our peace with God by true conuersion and godly sorrow for all those sinnes which haue brought vpon vs this bondage and immuerement which being done the Lord hee cannot but grant vs his gracious liberate I meane discharge from this house of Teares the common Inne of all the Oppressed The Epigraphe or Title of my Text with the rest of the context is a Song of Degrees and so called as Arius Montanus giues the reason because the Priests and the Leuites as they ascended from that place of the Temple which was called the great Court into a higher roome named the inner Court of the house of the Lord did at solemne feast daies sing this Psalme with others of the like Inscription vpon euery staire once Teaching vs as in a Ceremony that all those who serue God must doe it with lifted vp hearts and spirituall affections according as wee are called vpon with the words of Sursum corda in the suffrages of our Church ●●●hurgie and English seruice Booke Others be of another minde as Apolinarius in his Metaphrasis who saith that because the voice was more lifted vp and strained in the singing of this Psalme then it was in others hence had it this denomination of A Song of Degrees Well to passe by coniectures our later expositors as Iunius and the rest thinke that nothing is meant but that a certaine excellency lies hid in this Psalme aboue the rest as being a choise and heauenly Epigrame and therefore called a Song of Degrees as the Canticles a Song of Songs The ten Commandements a Doctrine of Doctrines the Creed a History of Histories the Lords prayer a Prayer of Prayers onely to shew the eminency and excellency thereof To conclude then we are not to be too inquisitiue and curious in searching out the reason of each particular sed quaedam ignorare non tantum est boni Christiani sed etiam docti Theologi not onely a good Christian but a learned Diuine may without disparagement to his profession bee ignorant of some things In the Text these parts be remarkeable 1. The party Suiting 2. The party suited 3. The subiect or matter of the suite 4. The manner thereof with the condition of the time Lastly the Vbi or the place where the Prophet Dauid was when hee does thus plant and supplicate The party suiting is exprest in the vowel I. being Dauid by name The party suited is the Lord and more pathetically O Lord. The matter of his suite is