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spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	place_n	5,553	5	4.7190	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18431	The garden of prudence Wherein is contained, a patheticall discourse, and godly meditation, most brieflie touching the vanities of the world, the calamities of hell, and the felicities of heauen. You shal also find planted in the same, diuers sweet and pleasant flowers, most necessarie and comfortable both for body and soule.	Chappell, Bartholomew.	1595 (1595)	STC 4999; ESTC S104953	25,188	80

pardon my sinnes to forgiue mine offences and to renew thy holy Spirite in mee that I may so passe my time in this life that through thy grace fauor I may neuer wāder in the most filthy streetes of eternall death and destruction but for euer escape the daungerous and stinking gulfe of hellish calam●ties and damnation Consider O Lord consider I beseech thee the weaknesse and frailty of my sinful flesh and according to the multitude of thy mercies receiue my soule into thy fauour and put all my wickednes out of thy remembrance Cleanse me O sweet Sauiour and so shall I be cleansed and made whiter than the snowe in thy sight Strengthen me O God strēgthen me that the gates of hel preuail not against me neither let Satan death or hell euer haue power to triumph ouer me but let mee that am thine be thine stil and be thou mine Grant this O most victorious triumphant Lord for thy tender mercies sake and for thy deare sonnes sake our onlie mediatour and Aduocate Amen A Prayer to attaine heauenly feliciti●s THis worlde O Lord is a dungion of darknes a mountaine of miserable martyrdoms a lewd laberinth of loathsom lusts a canckred course of choking calamities a place of all vanities quite void of all vertues Wherfore make me strong O sweet Sauior to walke vpright in this wretched wildernes and arme me blessed Lord with thy holy armour let me haue O tender Father thy righteousnesse for my breast-plate a liuely faith in thee for my target a firm hope of thy mercies for my helmet and the true knowledge of thy word for my banner so that I may be strong against all the fond allurements vaine fancies and most wicked assaultes of the world the flesh and deuill the mortall enemies both of my body and soule and after the ende of this fraile life I may participate with thee and thy holie Angels the perfect ioyes of heauenly felicities in eternall life but feeling the heauie burthen of my sinne and calling to memorie the grieuous punishment which thou hast often time laid vpon sinne as when thou diddest send fire vpon Sodom and Gomorrha for sinne when thou diddest cast foorth Adam out of Paradice for sinne when thou diddest harden the heart of Pharaoh for sin when thou diddest cast Lucifer foorth out of heauen into vtter darknes for sin yea when thou didst persecute Salomon in himself his posterity with Dauid thy own seruant and many others to our example al for shameful sin O Christ most mercifull I beseech thee that art the lamb of God and takest away the sins of the world to blot out al mine iniquiti●s which I cōfesse O Lord to be more then al theirs let not mine offences be witnesses against me in the great day for then I know that both death and euerlasting damnation shal be my reward Wherefore I beseech thee O most mighty God and mercifull Father that the pittifull passion of thy deare son may be a sufficient ransom for al my sins a ful satisfaction for all mine offences Grant me O Lord thy holy spirite of thy louing kindnes turne thy fauourable countenāce towards me that I may for euer in all my thoughts words and deeds praise glorifie thy holy name after this life attaine the felicities and ioyes of thy blessed kingdome and there with thee to raigne eternallly To whome with the father the son and the holy Ghost be all honour and glorie world without end Amen Sweet and comfortable Flowers for soule and body Auarice THe chariote of Auarice is carried vppon foure wheeles of vices which are Faint courage Inhumanitie contempt of God and forgetfulnesse of death The two horses that drawe the same are Rauine and Niggardship to them both is but one Carter which is a desire to haue the whip which the carter vseth hath two cords and they are a greedy mind to get and a fearful heart to forgoe As hell and perdition are neuer filled euen so the minde of a couetous person is neuer contented Riches hastily gotten shall soone diminish but that which by honest trauel is by litle and litle gathered shal dayly increase and continue long He that maketh hast to bee rich and beareth enuie to others litle knoweth how soon pinching necessitie shall summon him to the base court of pouertie Endlesse woe is the rewarde of him that greedily doth gather to maintaine his house that his nest may stand on high and thinketh to escape the great strok of vengeance The couetous person neuer taketh rest for in this life his mind is vexed and his soule shall euer burne in the fiery lake of eternall perdition O with what difficulty shall they that are in loue with mony enter into the kingdome of heauen Verily I say vnto you more easie is it for a Cammell to passe through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter into the kingdome of heauen Such as be rich or couet much wealth sal no doubt into most wicked temptations and are taken in the s●ares of the deuill yea by greedy and vnlawfull desires are drowned in the stinking gulfe of sempiternall death damnation Pouerty lacketh many things couetousnes al things the niggard ●o no man is good ●ut to himselfe worst Money is a seruant and drudge to a wise man but to a foole a Ladie and Mistresse Inordinate desire of riches and rule is the onlie fountaine whence springeth all mischiefe for couetous appetite subuerteth credit honestie humility clemencie patience benignitie with all other vertues Riches to a wicked man are instruments of mischiefe As the fire euer desireth more fewell that it may consume it euen so a man that is couetous craueth more welth that he may hoord it the fire to his comfort because it is therby maintained but the man to his misery be-because he is thereby damned Riches to the vertuous and godly that vse them wel are a token of the sweet mercies fauour of God but to the wicked that abuse them a perfect signe of their reprobation losse of Gods loue towards them Ambition THe Deuill did fall only because he wold rather be a prince then a subiect An aspiring mind neuer inioyeth quietnes He that desireth to be aboue others often times falleth and is set with the lowest Such as are infected with ambition are desirous of honour must be enforced to possesse such treasures only as are vnspotted and cleane from all mischiefe which may not of any enemy be corrupted of any friend misliked nor of any man slandered All such as exalt themselues shall surely be daunted and set low Who so liueth in authority let him weigh in the vpright ballāce of his clear conscience in what sort he came vnto it and comming wel vnto it how he ought to liue wel in it to the end he may gouern wisely let him cal to remembrance his owne infirmity Rule

doest possesse when Croesus wealth to thee is bound When all things els that world can yeeld at thy command and becke do stand Then commeth Death like Mars in field and pluckes thy life into his hand Thy landes thy rentes thy wife most graue thy daughters clad with Venus hoe Thy sonnes ado●n'd with vertues braue thou art compeld to bid adue Thy houses high thy castles strong thy gardens square in each degree Thy pleasant courts and towres long all to forsake thou forst must be Thy lambes thy goates thy fatlings all which feed themselues in pastutes green Thine Oxen eke within thy stall thou wilt then wish hadst neuer seen Thy horses which in stable stand and praunce most stately in their kind Thine oxen eke that plow thy land thou art full loath to leaue behind Thy Deere which raunge thy forrest wilde and brouse on boughes in winter cold And such as rome abroad the field doe please thee well though thou bee old Thy tender youths and seruants graue which on thee wayt in comely glee No longer with thee must thou haue but leaue them al thus must it be Thy brothers kind and sisters deare thy kindred all that lou'd thee best Hereafter may not keepe thee here but trudge thou must among the rest Contemne therefore all worldlie wealth and craue no more then may su●fise So God wil blesse thy soule with health which stil shal dure without surmise But if with want thou be opprest if pinched eke with pouertie Let all by sufferance be redrest when it shal please our God on hie For Iob by patience wan great praise cruel Pharaoh could not Dauid daunt By patient hope they both had ease and al their foes could not once vaunt Or say loe here we haue preuaild loe here is he whom we subdude But Peacocke like they al were quaild and forste to flie in sort most rude Let these examples mooue thy hart al woes al paines for to endure For heauens blisse without great smart none can atchieue I thee assure All crosses who so doth imbrace all miseries who doeth sustaine Adorn'd is hee with diuine grace with Angels eke shall he remaine But he that liueth wantonlie he wicked Mammon that doth loue He that desires to climbe on hie forgetting God that sits aboue And he whose mind is pu●t with pride whose heart with malice great doth swell With Lucifer still shal abide and with the Furies must hee dwell Wherefore O man O wretched wight this wicked vale seek thou to scorn Thy latter end haue still in sight least soule and corpes be both forlorne For what can it thee ought auaile if all the world thou doe possesse Sith grie●ly graue is thy reraile where worms thee gnaw without redres Yet worse then that doth it remaine when Spirits thy silly soule shall rent In fiery flame with hellish paine Which neuer staies nor will be spent In dungion deepe when thou shalt lie a place from God that's farthest cast Where damned soules both houle and crie where fiery chaines doe hold them fast Wherefore with Salomon I crie O sonne remember thou thine end Then wilt thou wicked sinne defie then wilt thou neuer God offend Now sith tha● we compassed be with dreadfull death on euery side And that the same all creatures see what of vs all shall now betide May not we call this wretched life a vale whose corne is bitter woe The crop whereof we reape with strife in age which lustie yeares did sowe The worms which vexe our minds be cares most griping griefe our bodie presse And sicknesse takes vs in his snares whereof we hardly get redresse Our bodies are a cursed ground our skin is like to withered hay Our humours weake and watrish found which filthie wormes shall suck away Behold now marke you what we are Behold but dust and brittle glasse Behold a streame that fals like starre behold a wind that soone doth passe Behold here are we turnde and cast Behold we often times do change Behold from piller to the post both to and fro are forst to range The sands in sea the grasse we see in ●ertile lands and fields most faire With all the starres may reckoned be that glister in the healthsome aire Much sooner I doe tel thee right then al the woes and pinching paine Which stil on men doe fal and light that in this loathsome vale remaine Amongst mankind was neuer one that euer here on earth did dwel Of miseries that taste had none or once could say all things run wel Although he were in glorious state although he liu'd in high degree Yet forst was he to blame his fate and say I see it wil not be But if both poore and indigent thou be and canst not wealth attaine Thy life thy breath thou doest repent and stil in sorrowe doest remaine If that a suckling babe thou be but euen now if thou were borne Thy life is death we all do see thou art a silly wretch forlorne And when a t●nder childe thou art thine age is chiefest spring of woe Ten thousand griefs oppresse thy heart and stil on euery side they floe If that by yeares thou be a man most great mishaps on thee will fall And dangers will sare now and than cast thee and thine int'wofull thrall When crooked age comes stealing ou then haue we lost all worldly blisse With pinching paine and sicknesse strong then all our bodie troubled is If that a wedded man thou bee then art thou tide to blocke of paine Then art thou bound which once wert fre and so for ay thou must remaine If thou a single life doest lead then sunke thou art in all annoyes And drownd in grie●e although indeed thou thinkst to swim in sea of ioyes Although thy bodie thou adorne with glittering gold and pearle bright Yet is thy mind with care forlorne because in sorrowes thou art pight What life thou wilt do thou prosesse of want and woe thou shalt haue store Be what thou wilt thy cares to cease thy dolors yet are as before Vnconstant is the state of man his life as brittle as the clay And is compared to a spanne for in short time it fades away It to a bubble likened is which to our sight appeareth hie And in the time thou canst say this flat with the water doeth it lie The man that late in wealth did flowe in pouerty is now and thrall And is constrain'd to lie full lowe vvhich lately vvas the prince of all Whom God in mercie hath extold and set in golden chaire of blisse Death plucketh downe in sort most bolde and vnto him least partiall is He liues to day quite void of paine no griefe hath he nor yrksome care Passing the time in pleasures vaine vvith iolitie and daintie fare To morrow dead and turnde to dust to morrow put in mournfull tombe And to the earth his corpes he must commit till dolefull day of dombe Such is the state which