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A50081	Microcosmography, or, Speculum mundi being a glasse for worldlings, a sermon preached at the funeral of the right worshipfull Spencer Lucy, Esq. at Charlecote, August 11, 1649 / by Christopher Massey.	Massey, Christopher, b. 1618?	1650 (1650)	Wing M1030; ESTC R28813	17,093	29

Hony-falls on the Dead Sea as little fruit as notice of them The beams of his Spirit fall as on a Sea of glasse rebounded in his face and like glasse only ductile in the fire the Lord can do no good on this world till he bring it into the fire The water that he manifested his anger in to the old world or the water that he shows his mercy in to the present Baptism or the Baptism of tears no good Nay not culinary ordinary fires he must drop downe the Element or Mat. 24.27 come like lightning so swift so sodain so consuming yet though never so hard it is but b●●tle 'T is a sad truth what many melancholly people have fancyed that we are glasse not that Christian Religion is only a fit of fancy or melancholy O there are such transcendent enjoyings in God such joyings in the exercise of the habits of grace and vertue beyond the dreamed musick of Aristotles eleaven morall Crystall spheares which make the proudest calmest smiles this world affords madnesse but because this great treasure this soul presevre is in gallipots or course green glasses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 4.7 earthen shells Alas that wee so admire the shell that we feed not on the meat Alas that weso gaze on the glasse that we regard not the face that it represents Alas that with the filly Indians we so are taken up with this glasse that the Merchant Rev. 3.18 that sells gold grace has no custome though the price of his gold be only to take it while he offers it and put it to use This Sea is a false glasse like those false glasses that are contrived so as to represent all faces much unlike the naturall Such was that mirrour of Smyrna which show'd such mutability in the face that a fair one might show ugly and an uggly one fair Think now what a poor portion thou leavest thy child though never so fair an estate a cupboard of glasses a shelfe of gallipots All worldly estates and conditions are glassie How glassie that Sea of Rome that once was marble How brittle Jacobs stone though it will prove marble Glassie even the keys of our Church though one should have esteemed them more durable then Iron Glassie our Bishop Seas though pure Venice break ere hold poyson 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oh then let us go down to the Glassemans house as Ier. 18. you shall not only see mans spirit imprisoned in a glasse but sayes St. Paul 1 Cor. 13.12 2 Cor. 3. ult if you will see God in this dark time of our earthly pilgrimage you must see him in a glasse not that you should beleeve the eternall Spirit is imprisoned in a glasse too as some black Artists or rather cheating Hocuspocusses seem to promise you but twice he calls you to see him in a glasse that you might not only as men see him in the creature but as Christian men in the Word as for his creatures the more clear they are the more lively they represent him yet see again the more clear they are the more glassie and brittle they are so that as it is no wonder to see man the nobler piece of Gods creature broken much lesse need we strange to see the noblest of men make such hast to their unripe fall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yet stay the world 's not the worse for being so glassie if so slippery so brittle 't will teach us not to stand on it not to rely on it Nor is the little world the worse Oh it will make us very carefull that we do not fall into sin with preparation into the grave unprepared Nay nay ever since I knew Psal 51. that Gods Gospel-Sacrifice was a broken heart I can't think but that we are the better for being so easily broken Rome only can show the man however Tiberius is reported to have put him to death that makes glasse flexile or an heart that is only attrite by the turn of a key contrite Lord give us breaking hearts Which though 1. in their nature they be not feysable with good though 2. in their effects they be dangerous not being well broken Yet 3. by the power of thy Word and Spirit they may become malleable and consequently an acceptable reasonable sacrifice to thee Thirdly this Sea is like Crystall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Where if I may beg leave to speak with the Vulgar as the use is with those that interpret Gen. 1.16 and such like places of Scripture I shall not need to quearee after its lapidificall principle but say with Scaliger 't is a white pellucid stone concreted of ice or with the Etymologer t is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 water hardned by extream cold And so here again discovers 1. The worlds and worldings temper cold and congealed by nature and so buryed in earth that heaven can't thaw it Pharaohs temper a crystallized heart The furnace that melts glasse findes this a Salamander Yea 2. Appears white clear and clean you shall see his inside so clear his outside so clean that you will find it a very hard province to write slut in a Pharisees cup very hard by the eye to discern his sowre leaven from the Saints lump but you may easily smell him out for Matth. 23.27 they are but whited Sepulchers And 3. There 's the mischief on 't they are transparent to Gods eyes thence their stincking rottennesse within though they can gull and cheat mans eyes yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are pellucid as clear as Crystall to the all searching eyes of the great God Oh then 1. Do not brag thy crystall-Crystall-eyes but Leahs eyes tender still dropping still running with crystall tears Brag not the ranting the crystallized heart no crosse no losse mollifie it no Balm no anointings of Gods Spirit supple it Consider this ye that have forgotten God Psal 50.22 Alas remember God is a Lyon as well as a Lambe lest hee tear you to pieces and all your forces can't deliver you if he can't hew his passage through your mountains with intreating tears he will do it with vinegar Pray that he will change this stone-stone-heart for a flesh-heart Ezek. 36.26 that he would send forth his crystall as the Lxx. read Psal 147.17 like morsels all in pieces 2. Boast not thy clearness of knowledge such a light as Lucians men in the Moon have and a thing they call the Spirit which they ever hold forth as the only Gorgon to stun reason withall Alas how dim sighted how dark in this world we are glad the quickest to use spectacles 1 Cor. 13.12 and then see but riddles too even then when thou com'st face to face thou 'lt hide thine eyes with the highest Seraphims Esa 6.2 and for all that so much talkt of glasse of the creatures or matutine knowledge of Angels thou wilt finde thy selfe unable to fashion Gods depths to comprehend an incomprehensible essence God as in himself though thou dost certainly find inconceivable

Devills Creed Mat. 43. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speak i.e. make these stones c. because he does what he speaks as easily as we speak what we would do without him nothing comes to passe all things by his providence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The throne is mentioned no lesse than 28. times in this booke oh sure it is to put us in mind still to have an eye to it as encouraged by his power as awed by his presence as guided by his providence This world the sea the glasse the crystall vanishes away But the Spectator God is ever the Father is an Ocean of mercy the Son a true Glasse reflecting representing such a Father the Holy Spirit the true Crystal through which wee see most clearly both the Father and the Son So that though 1. here be a sea of misery yet know the sea of mercy loves us cares for us Though 2. our nature bee very glassy yet the Son makes it strong by uniting it to him Though 3. we are full of blindnesses yet the spirit of Christ is the true Crystall showing us all things Wherefore as I have heard spoken what the sea washes from the Low-countreys it leaves in our Easterne parts so may I say here what we have have lost in the first part we may find in the second part God restores supplyes one way or other what ever the world robs us of His Power Presence Providence is for us 1. Crystal sees us as a potent Pilot to steer us to a safe harbor 2. Glassy yet strengthned by his comfortable presence So that 3. though the sea rage against us yet there 's not a wave dashes on us without his Providence he is not a sleepy Spectator 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Have you heard how it is a sea of Glass of Glass because he has set all its roares their bounds which they cannot pass Hence our Saviour Mat. 26.39 not only intimates to us in what kind these brinish waters are sprinkled on us that is in kindness they come from God i. e. our father but also the measure but a cup a glass of teares they are proportioned to us 't is but thy cup 't is but my cup drinke it off make not a fire not a god of thy Cross but carry it patiently to thy Golgatha and make it a cup of salvation For here is matter of true consolation the Devill cannot tempt the first or the second Adam but in Gods word and he that holds fast that word of truth cannot be deceived He cannot make one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without our God Exod. 8. nor hurt an Oxe or an Ass till impowered Iob. 1. not drowne that unclean beast of the more unclean Gergesens Mat. 8. not plucke a bristle from the Hogs back as the learnedst Father expresses it without our God Yet lest we go too fast I must beg you to take this along with you that as there is not a sparrow falls to ground without him Mat. 10.29 so not an idle word Mat. 12.36 Does God think you take such care of hogs of sparrowes sure he rather intimates what care hee hath of us whose providence reaches to sensitive creatures Oh how canst thou be so swinish to bemire thy reasonable soule in those stinking sinks which even beasts do loath How canst thou hope an haire from thine head should not perish when thy sinnes are more than the hairs of thine head for number and for fashion sake less cut off O do but view thy self a little in this glass and dress thy self accordingly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 How dar'st thou sin when as the Lord has a glass a thing which that most eloquent Orator wisht for in every mans breast trying searching judging hearts and reins O rather since thou art glass bee like that in these windowes fight against the stormes of passions fight them all all the strong holds of sin of satan of thine own reason but let in light true lights faith love c. And like those Harpers Rev. 15.2 stand on this sea of glasse despise what is below your high birth Gods off-spring trample all the things of this world under foot that as St. Paul Rom. 8.38 we may in all things be more then conquerors even in this life more How can that be yes because we shall never be ashamed of our victory through him that loved us wee shall parta tueri no man shall pluck us out of his hand Yet know that to conquer is not to keep one commandement as the use is now a dayes cry up the fourth commandement and 't is no matter what becomes of the fifth sixth seventh eight c. O let not sin break in at one commandement if once you give it but a little leake and take no care to stop it you call your ship in question For sin is more dangerous then a Remora it not only stayes your progresse in grace though it be but small as an externall agent but weakens grace as an enemy within as a Torpedo benums the soul and senselesly sinkes it Me thinks I see a soul at the generall Resurrection going to assay its new clothes with what squeamish horror it beholds its former dust Is this that sea that was so flourishing so green in mine eyes that I forsooke the ocean of mercy that ran softly for Is this that brittle and weak glass that I had thought Gods free spirit had been coopt up in Is this that glass that I lookt into more then the perfect law of liberty Is this that Crystall that I prefer'd before the true loadstone that pulled me so kindly so strongly towards him How dark now is this shel that made such a glittering show in the dark How were mine eyes deceived with that which seemed its proper colour How perishable was my fancied immortality Alas when death pale chilly death comes crawling down thy snowy Alpes drilling down thy hoary hill when thou beginnest to feel him at thy gates besieging thee puls up now thy pallisado now is in thy outward works nay now in thy suburbs has taken thy senses thy eyes dimme hearing dull tasting done nay is taking a limb of thee thy feet cold How will thy heart beat up a march into another world How wilt thou shrug groan How wilt thou hope that this last minute shall be accepted who hast not spent one day truly in Gods service all thy life long What is now left thee but those unutterable prayers of the spirit sighes groanes if then acceptable For there is a time when God is stone as you have seen from ver 3. Thou think'st him a father and he is Jasper thou thinkst to find him a brother he is Sardin thou doubtst not to find him a comforter but he proves an Emerald Yet pray thou art in the glass house before the throne Nay pray Heb. 4.16 with all liberty of speaking for he will be bread to his children Luk. 11.11 and not stone he will be found by such

as seek him in the acceptable opportunities and though Rev. 20.11 his throne be a great one to show his power majesty providence yet it is a white one to show his meekness mercy and that this throne is a mercy seat was revealed although but vailed Exod. 25.22 standing upon the arke trampling as it were the law under feet After some silence of his after some tryall of us after much rage of the world and the worlds prince comes Tace obmutesce so that though he lets sorrow flow in full tides ore-night yet it ebbs in the morning However I beleeve he can make iron swim I beleeve it he throw me into the sea with Ionas hee will provide me a fishes belly for my ship or coffin Hee that counts of his body but as of his souls prison may easily rejoice when the Lord shal be pleased to snap this frail glass a pieces to rench open these prison doores and give us footing in a more lasting world That bad spirit Mat. 4.8 was but the goods spirits Ape who also lifts us aloft to see this glassy worlds glory Only the Devill drawes a curtaine before its glassinesse its fadingness But see here as plainly as in Archimedes his spheare of glass how sleepily how dully the earth and its adherents be fixt whilst the heavens and heavenly things are weariless restless in declaring Gods glory see plainly mans life which is like a thread spun from the true distaffe of Gods decrees though with many turnings and windings as the Scripture elsewhere compares it like to a visage in a glass O since this world is so brittle that wee cannot carry it up to heaven it must be crumbled to pieces let us bring downe heaven on earth and take it by force To do this we must not only have our head by faith in Christ in another world but with that great Mathematitian our footing too our conversation To this purpose I hope it may be if I present you with another world though a Microcosm a little one disgus'd now under those blacks and he 1. a sea a man of sorrowes or a sea of troubles 2. Yet glassy a mortall man there 's an end of all perturbations Yet 3. Crystall he was a Christian an immortall man For though 1. like a sea he had his ebbs his flowes yet he had his immensities his depths too Though 2. he was glassy being made up of such a sandy dusty principle yet 3. he was Crystal ennobled with so clear knowledges so perspicuous excellencies Yet for variety sake bee pleased to take with mee another method another way to the same City And 1. the same great God creator and preserver of all things and more especially of man being placed in his throne of power presence essence Let us 2. view this narrow sea this little world brought on the stage in his severall actings Many very eminent men in the Church of God have compared the life of man to a Play So does St. Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 4.9 his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 10.33 seem to allow it and allude to it Expositors find such drames such interlocutors such chores in the Canticles and even in this Apocalyps I am sure here are some in this honourable presence do very well remember the time when he spake his Prologue as all do at their entrance in teares which though not divine yet divining the future brinishness of this troublesome sea His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but here I must be silent lest I revive that ocean of teares that neer nine yeers since seemed to drown'd his countrey aswell as his family or those last years torrents which heaven and earth seemed to weep to carry on the celebration of his most honourable parents funerals The sun is again entred Cancer and we mourning It is Gods harvest time he hath taken the tithe whether we wil or no. His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he acted a while under Artists at home which could both give him the sunny side of the garden and with fine reflecting glasses ripen him and we well know that his vast memory sudden apprehension fine expression refined judgment c. must needs place him in the first Classis of Gentlemen But lest our coal or turfe smoake should be thought equally sweet with the cryed up frankincense of other countreys he passes that neck of sea that cuts the head of England from the body of Europe where his tongue so quaintly relishes the honyed language of the French that it makes mee thinke that though our Bees make hony the same way yet theirs have more flowers of Rhetorick His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may show you his returned state when his naturall Father leaving him he findes quickly a political to adhere to and with that Vestall zeal that resolved constancy that all other tyes nay his houses and lands nay his life must a while stand under sequestration Mercifull heart thy stables and studies thy horses and houses plundered whilest many of thine enemies owe their houses their lives to thee Few Gentlemen in Oxford gave more groats then he shillings and that to his foes sometimes as well as his friends knowing that when their sins were greater Calice would be wonne again It was here that he made choice of his Vertuous and choice Lady where al that censure him say his aim was rather to joyn man and wife than house to house His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 began at his sad coming hither last year And since his late King dy'd he lived only as headlesse bodies do in some strugles of forma corporeitat is now you plainly see that the King was indeed the breath of his mother or like to that of Psal 131.2 My soul is even as a weaned child Blessed Lord thou hast given me fair and full breasts to live on yet so much wormwood withall makes me nauseat the nibble The Crosse of Christ like the Mathematicians point begins and ends the line of our learning and life It was just two months before that Sabbath on which I hope he began his eternall Sabbath in heaven when after a week spent in continuall prayers and preparation he incorporates himself into the body of Christ in that sacred Ceremony so much slighted of his own institution after the form of the Church of England yea notwithstanding much bodily indisposition in the sacred place Pious soul I fear'd that the cold assembling the clownish behaviour the non-sense devotion used there had quite frighted thee away from thence long since so that as we see in heavy bodies the neerer they approach to their center the more speedily they hast to it so pensive souls the neererthey draw to God the faster they go to God so that though ever before he did converse with the Lord in prayer twice or thrice daily yet now as aiming at the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he has been observed to have trebled that thrice and more nay least