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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00514	The yong mans gleanings Gathered out of diuers most zealous and deuout fathers, and now published for the benefit of euerie Christian man, which wisheth good successe to his soule at the later day. Containing these foure subiects. 1 Of the mortality of man. 2 The poore mans harbour. 3 The mirror of vaine-glory. 4 Saint Barnards sermon on the passion of Christ. Whereunto is adioyned a most sweete and comfortable hymne, expressing the euerlasting ioy of a glorified soule. By R.B. gent.	R. B., Gent.; Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673, attributed name.; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. aut	1614 (1614)	STC 1065; ESTC S115857	39,366	120

that bloody sweat did most euidently expresse the sorrowes of thy hart which al the time of thy prayer trickled downe droppe by droppe vppon the ground O my Lord Iesus whence comes this thy sorrowfull supplication didst thou not voluntarily offer thy selfe a sacrifice vnto thy father euen so Lord. But we suppose that thou tooke this vpon thee for the comfort of thy weake and disconsolate members least peraduenture some should despaire if at any time the fraile flesh seeme to murmure when the spirit is ready to repell any tentation Surely thou didst it to this end that we might haue continuall motiues of loue thankfulnes towards thee hauing expressed the naturall infirmity of our flesh by these tokens in thee By which we are taught that thou hast truely borne our infirmities hast passed the pricking thornes of thy passions not without a sensible feeling of them For that voice seemed not to be the voice of the spirit but of the flesh in that thou addest the spirit is truely ready but the flesh is weake That the spirit was ready to thy passion thou euidently demonstrated when thou ran of thine owne accord to meet thy betraier such men as were giuen to shed blood attending him seeking to take away thy life with lanternes and Torches and weapons vpon the Night and least they should receiue any notice by the Captaine of this impiety thou manifested thy selfe for thou turnedst not away from that cruell Beast comming to kisse thy most holy mouth but affably gaue thy mouth wherein was neuer deceipt found vnto his mouth which abounded with all malice O Innocent lambe of God what hast thou to doe with that wolfe what concord betwixt thee and Belial but this was O Lord thy great mercy to exhibit all such things as might any way mollifie the pertinacie of a depraued heart for as one not al together vnmindfull of ancient friendshippe thou admonished him saying my friend to what end camest thou and willing as it seemes to wound the heart of this impious Traitour with the horror of his sinne thou said Iudas doest thou betray the sonne of man with a kisse and behold the Philistins are vpon thee Sampson Neither didst thou driue them from thee intending to smite them at the houre of thy apprehension with thy right hand no not in defence of thy selfe that the foolish presumption of man may know that they can doe nothing against thee but so much onely as is permitted by thee But who can heare without weeping how they laid their murdering hands vpon thee tying thy innocent hands with cords sweet Iesus who like a most meek lambe speaking nothing was carried after the manner of a theefe contumeliously to the slaughter Neither ceasedst thou then O Christ to shew thy mercy vpon thy Enemies to diffuse the honiecombe of thy sweetnesse vpon them reprouing the zeale of thy defendor and withholding him from hurting such as haled thee Their furie was cursed because wilfull being neither moued by the maiesty of thy miracles nor the greatnes of thy benefits Thou wast brought before a counsell of wicked head-priests consulting against thee and confessing the truth as was seemelie thou wast adiudged to death for thy blasphemie O louing Lord how many vnworthy things hast thou suffered of thine owne Nation men of polluted lips beslubbring with their spittle thy amiable countenance on which the Angels haue desired to looke replenishing the whole Courts of heauen with ioy and vnto which all the rich men in the world shall make intercession beating it with their sacrilegious hands and blindfolding thee in derision and being Lord of all creatures buffetted thee as a seruant most contemptuous of all others But let vs now come to their deliuering vp of thy soule to be swallowed vp by vncircumcised flesh They lead thee bound before Pilate requiring that thou maist be crucified which knewest no sinne that a murderer might bee let loose vnto them lesse esteeming of a lambe then a wolfe of gold then clay O vnworthy and vnhappy merchandise neither was that wicked Pilate ignorant how all these things were done through enuie against thee yet for all that he proceeded rashly in iudgement against thee filling thy soule with much bitternesse without a cause He suffered thee to be mocked commanding thee to stand in the sight of thy mockers nor spared he to teare thy pure virgin-skinne with most sharpe scourgings cruelly inflicting stripes vpon stripes and wounds vpon wounds O thou deere child of God what hast thou committed that should deserue so great bitternesse so great reproch Surely nothing It is I it is I wicked man that I am that was the cause of thy death I O Lord haue eaten the sower grape and thy teeth are on edge paying for that which thou neuer tooke And yet the impiety of the trecherous Iewes is not satisfied with all these indignities done against thee but thou art now at last deliuered ouer into the hands of vncircumcised souldiers to be put to a most shamefull death It seemed but a little matter for those sacrilegious miscreants to crucifie thee but they must also vex thy soule with reproches For what saith the Scripture of them Then all the people gathered together and taking his owne garments from him they put vpon him a purple coate and they cloathed him with a skarlet robe and winding a crowne of thornes they put it vpon his head and a reede in his right hand and bowing vnto him they mocked him saying Haile King of the Iewes and they buffetted him and spit vpon him and taking the reede in their hands they smote him on the Head and after they had mocked him they put his owne garments vpon him to crucifie him bearing his owne crosse and they led him to Golgotha giuing him wine to drinke mixed with mirrhe and gall and when he had tasted of it he would not drinke then they crucified him and two theeues with him the one of the right hand and the other of the left and Iesus in the middest And Iesus said Father forgiue them for they know not what they doe Afterwards Iesus knowing that all things might be done that the Scripture might be fulfilled said I thirst and one amongst them running tooke a spunge and filled it with vinegar and put it vpon a reede and gaue him it to drinke assoone as he had receiued the vinegar he said It is finished and crying with a loud voice he said Father into thy hands I commend my spirit and bowing downe his head he gaue vp the ghost Then one of the Souldiers opened his side with a speare and presently their issued out water and blood for the redemption of man Awake O my soule shake of the dust of sinne and fixe thy contemplation vpon this memorable patterne of Humanitie whom thou seest presented vnto thee in this glasse of Gods word Behold O my soule who it is that cometh in vnto thee hauing the image of a

King and yet reproched by his most despicable seruants treading vpon Crownes and yet his Crowne is a vexation vnto him wounding his beautifull head with a thousand pricks hee is clothed with roiall purple but in it hee is rather despised then honoured hee caries a Scepter in his hand but with it his reuerend head is wounded they worshippe him with bended knees and call him King but presently they besmere his amiable face with spitting dishonouring his cheekes and venerable aspect with their fists See O my soule how this man is afflicted and contemned of all sides Hee bowes himselfe vnder the burthen of his Crosse bearing that ignominie which was proper vnto thee where being brought vnto the place of execution his thirst is quenched with mirrhe and vineger vpon the Crosse saying Father pardon c. What kinde of man is this who in all his sufferings doth not once open his mouth or vtter one word of complaint or excuse or of threat or of curse against those reuiling doggs but concludes with such mild wordes of blessing as haue not bin heard before O my soule when hast thou seene any one more mercifull what can be more curteous then this man Behold him with more attention how worthy he is of admiration and most tender compassion Looke at him naked and torne with whips betwixt two theeues ignominiously nailed vpon the Crosse quenching his thirst with vinegar and after his death wounded in the side with a speare sending out plentifull riuers of blood from those woundes in his handes feete and side O my eies abound with teares and O my soule bee thou dissolued with the fire of compassion in condoling so mercifull a man whom thou seest amidst so great biternesse to bee afflicted with sorrowes And now O my soule thou hast seene his infirmicies and thou dost pitty him now thou hast looked vpon his maiesty and thou dost admire him for what saith the Scripture From the sixth hower vnto the ninth hower there was darkenesse vpon the whole earth and the Sunne was darkened and the vaile of the Temple rent asunder from the toppe euen to the bottom and there was an Earth-quake and the rockes cloue and the graues opened and many bodies of the Saints which were dead arose Who is this with whom both Heauen and Earth doe suffer and whose death doth raise men from death Know O my soule know that this is the Lord God Iesus Christ thy Sauiour the onely begotten sonne of God very God very man who of all men vnder the Sunne was onely found to be without sinne and behold how hee is accompted amongst the wicked and esteemed as one of the Lepars or as an abortiue birth throwne from his mothers wombe So is hee throwne from the wombe of his Mother the vnhappy Synagogue Hee that was the fairest amongst the children of men how deformed is hee made hee was wounded for our iniquities and broken for our sinnes he was made a burnt Sacrifice of sweete incense vnto thee O Father of eternall glorie to pacifie thy wrath conceaued against vs and to place vs in the celestiall mansions of glorie Behold O holy Father from thy Sanctuarie and from thy high habitation behold this our holy sacrifice which our Head-priest offereth vnto thee thy holy Sonne and our Lord Iesus offering himselfe vp for our sinnes and mercifully doe away the multitude of our transgressions Behold the voice of the blood of our Iesus crieth vnto thee from the Crosse. For what O Lord what is it that hangeth thereon hee hangeth euen now because things past are as things present before thee Take knowledge O Father vnto the coat of thy true sonne Ioseph Behold a sauage beast hath deuoured him and trampled vppon his garment in his furie staining his bewtie with the effusion of his blood behold he hath made pittifull rents in it This O Lord is the garment which thy inocent son left in the hands of that Aegiptian harlot thinking it better to lose his coate then his honour and chusing rather to be spoiled of the garment of his flesh and to descend into the prison of death then for the glorie of the world to harken vnto the voice of the Adultresse to that voice I say where it was said vnto him All this will I giue thee if thou wilt fall downe before me and worship me which was as if he shold haue slept with the Adultresse And now O my Lord we know that this thy sonne liueth and is Gouernour ouer all Aegypt and in euerie place of thy dominion for hee is aduanced from the prison of death and of Hell to thy Empire and attaining a Crowne of immortallity hath changed the garment of his flesh to reflourish within the immortality of the spirit where thou hast receiued him with much honour For hee hath subiected the empire of Pharoh vnto him and hath triumphantly ascended Heauen by his owne proper maiesty behold he is crowned with glorie and honour when hee sitteth at the right hand of thy maiesty mediating for vs for hee is our flesh and our brother Behold O Lord the face of thy Christ who became obedient vnto thee euen vnto death nor let the scars of his woundes euer depart from thy sight that thou maiest remember the satisfaction thou hast receiued for our sinnes I would O Lord thou wouldst but weigh our sins in a balance by which we haue deserued thy wrath and the calamity which thy sonne suffred to appease thy wrath Surely more forcible and more worthy would the cause appeare to show thy mercie vpon vs then by reason of our sinnes to powre downe the viols of thy Ire vpon vs. Let euery tongue O father giue thankes vnto thee for the exceeding aboundance of thy loue in not sparing thy onely begotten Sonne but giuing him ouer vnto death for vs that we might haue him as a faithfull Aduocate before thee in Heauen for vs. And thou O Lord Iesus most mighty most zealous of mans saluation what thanks shall I giue vnto thee that I may giue thankes worthie being but dust and the workemanship of thy hands for what couldest thou doe for my saluation and hast not done it from the sole of thy foot to the crowne of thy head thou hast plunged thy selfe wholly into the waters of thy passion that thou mightest draw me wholly from them and these passions haue entred euen vnto thy soule For thou subiectedst thy soule to death and desolation to preserue my soule from death and perdition and behold thou hast bound me in a double bond vnto thee First in that thou hast giuen thy life for mee and secondlie because my soule was giuen by thee twice vnto me once in my creation and once in my recreation wherefore I haue nothing that is fitter to giue thee then my soule which I had of thee for if I should in recompence of thy mercy giue vnto thee the Heauen the earth and all the excellency thereof yet