your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid if ye loved me ye would rejoyce ib. 27 28. A glimpe onely and tast of this joy put Peter beside himselfe Master it is good for us to be here let us here pitch tabernacles and not downe to the world againe Motives to Fear Fear is the betraying of those succours which reason offereth Wisd 17 12. arising from dangers which reason telleth us we are unable to withstand These dangers may affright us 1. in our temporall estate 2. in our spirituall 3. in our eternall being hereafter For temporall afrightments what thunders are so terrible startling as those against 1. Pharoah and Egypt for his perfidious and treacherous dealing with Gods people Ezech. 29. 2. against Tyrus and their King for their pride and luxury 3. against Babylon Isa 13. and 14. for their captivating and insulting upon Gods people 2. For his temporal estate Cain complained not Gen. 4.14 but the feare of a guilty conscience was a Fury that ever haunted him My punishment is greater then I can bear Behold thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth and from thy face shall I be hid and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond and it shall come to passe that every one that findeth me shall slay me A scantling of the third It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10.31 This fcarfulnesse in proposing the law was so terrible that the people could not endure that which was commanded and if so much as a beast touch the mountain it shall be stoned and thrust through with a dart and so terrible was the sight that Moses said I exceedingly feare and quake Heb. 12.20 21. What horrour will then be can any heart imagine when the sun shall become as black as sack-cloth of hair and the moone and the stars of heaven fall unto the earth even as the fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind when the heavens shall depart as a scroul rolled together and every mountaine and iland shall be removed out of their places when the Kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondman and every free-man shall hide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountaines and shall say unto the rocks and mountaines Fall on us and to the hills Cover us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 6. When the dismall doome is once pronounced Go ye cursed of my father into everlasting fire prepared for the devill and his angells Matth. 25.41 Motives to Joy Joy the ayme of all our desires must be raysed especially on the serious consideration 1. of joy in the holy Ghost 2. comfort in a good conscience 3. a chearfull and thankfull use of temporall blesings These depend one on the other Temporals delight not if conscience be not satisfied conscience receives not content but from assurances from the holy Spirit that all is well Amongst the fruits of the spirit this joy is served in with love which quickneth all the rest The fruit of the Spirit is lov joy peace long-suffering gentlenes goodnes faith meeknes temperance against such there is no law Galat. 5.22 23. Upon this is grounded that holy frolick if the word profane not of the Apostle to the Philippians Rejoyce in the Lord alwaies and again I say rejoyce Let your moderation be knowen unto all men the Lord is neer at hand Phil. 4.4 5. Upon which grounds we have the excitation of the church O come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our salvation Psalm 95. O be joyfull in the Lord all ye lands Psal 100. O sing unto the Lord a new song Psal 98. And divers other Psalms set to the same key of joy This was the rejoycing of the blessed-Virgin My spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour Luk 1.47 That which our Saviour exhorteth his disciples unto In this rejoyce not that the spirits are subject to you but rather rejoyce that your names are written in heaven 2. Luk. 10.20 All the dayes of the afflicted are evill but he that is of a merry heart upon a good conscience hath a continuall feast Prov. 15.15 This merry heart maketh a cheareful countenance but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken Ib. For our rejoycing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world 2 Cor. 1.12 Thus the Apostles when they were beaten and threatned after their imprisonment by the high priests command departed from the presence of the Council rejoycing that they were accounted worthy to suffer for his name Act. 5.41 It was St. Paul's excercise to have a conscience voyd of offence towards God and towards men Act. 24.16 And the Hebrews tooke joyfully the spoyling of their goods knowing in themselves that they had in heaven a better and an enduring substance Heb. 10.34 3. Joy and thankfullnesse for temporall blessings are not onely approved but enjoyned Thou shalt rejoyce before the Lord in acknowledgment of temporal blessings Deut. 12.12.18 At the presenting of the first fruits and tithes after a set paryer it is added Thou shalt rejoyce in every good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee and unto thine house thou and the Levite and the stranger that is among you Deut 26.11 When God crowneth the yeer with goodnesse and the clouds drop fatness upon the dwellings of the wildernesse the little hills are brought in to rejoyce on every side when the folds shall be full with sheep the vallies also shall stand so thick with corne that they shall laugh and sing Psal 65.12 Whereupon the Kingly prophet sets forth a proclamation O prayse the Lord for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God yea a joyfull and pleasant thing it is to be thankefull Psal 147. Motives to Sorrow A sorrowfull spirit is a sacrifice to God despise not O Lord humble and contrite hearts Psal 51.9 Sorrow ariseth commonly from any thing that crosseth our desires and therefore may be either 1. godly or 2. worldy Concerning both which we have that of the Apostle Though I made you sorry with a letter I do not repent though I did repent for I perceive that the same Epistle hath made you sorry though it be but for a season Now I rejoyce not that ye were made sorry but that ye sorrowed to repentance for ye were made sorry after a godly manner that ye might receive dammage by us in nothing for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of but the sorrow
first year Exod. 12.9 Corn the Son of the threshing floore Isa 21.20 the Owles daughters Ib. 3.21 that is Chicken Villages belonging to Bethshean and other Cities are said to be their daughters Jos 17. Daughters of Jerusalem Sion or Babylon are the inhabitants which acknowledg those places for Mothers In which sense Jerusalem is said to be the Mother of us all Gal. 4.26 To this Trope are referred Anthropopathies wherein hands and eyes and eares and other members and humane affections are referred to God and Spirits which Anthropomorphites taking literally were condemned for Hereticks Of this kind are these passages It repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved Him at the Heart Gen. 6.6 His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel Judg. 10.16 Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them Exod. 32.10 The Lord repented of the evill that he thought to do unto his people v. 14. and the like In which expressions for mans weak capacity God is said to do such things out of passion which from eternity he had determined as men do out of weakness when they change their minds No change being in God but in the things done which fall out in men according to the mutability of their purposes carried on by passion Thou tellest my wandrings put my teares in thy bottle Are they not in thy book Psal 56.8 * Comprehensio intellectio Intellectio est cum res tota parva de parte cognoscitur aut de toto parva pars Author ad Heren Synecdoche Of Synecdoches are met with no lesse store 1. In generalls put for particulars Preach the word to every Creature Mar. 16.15 meaning that is capable of it The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God Rom. 8.19 all sorts of men hoping to have their states bettered Submit your selves to every humane Creature for the Lords sake 1 Pet. 2.13 that is every man to whom you are subordinate because God will have it so 2. Specialties put for generalls as The Sun shall not burn thee by day nor the Moon by night Psal 1216. that is nothing shall hurt thee Edom and Moab and Ammon have confederated or covenanted to take unto themselves the houses of God in possession Psal 83. i.e. the progeny of such wicked persons So souls are put for persons All the souls that came into Egypt with Jacob were 70. that is all the persons Gen. 46.27 His travell shall fall upon his own head and his wickednesse upon his owne pate Ps 7.16 his person shall endure the brunt of it Is not the hand of Joab in all this 2 King 14.19 Joabs advice and counsell 3. A synecdoche is frequently observed in putting a set number for an indefinite and reciprocally If we would contend with God we cannot answer one for a Thousand 1 Sam. 18.8 that is a great multitude by which trope 7 is often put for many or an unlimited number The women said to Naomi concerning Obed He shall be unto thee a restorer of life and a nourisher of thine old age For thy daughter in law which loveth thee which is better to thee then 7 Sons hath born him Ruth 4.15 So an evil spirit cast out when he returns is said to take with him 7 other spirits which makes the re-possession of him that was freed worse than when he was first possessed Matth. 12.45 It is a good caution put in by a father Augustinus de Doctr. Christia Lib. 3. c. 5. 10. 11. that To urge a trope according to the letter and that which is literally taken to wrest to a trope in some sort verifieth that of the Apostle The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life 2 Cor. 3.6 Such a mistake the Disciples were guilty of who understood the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadduces which their Master warned them to take heed of to be literally meant of bread which should have been understood metaphorically of their leaven of doctrine Matth. 16.12 And the false witnesses alledged against Christ the destroying of the materiall Temple which was spoken of him by a Trope concerning the Temple of his Body Jo. 2.21 These tropes twisted together in a speech continuate are as sparkling Diamonds in a Ring by the Apostle termed an allegory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. 4.24 Gal. 4.24 And may be conspicuously discerned in 1. Types 2. Mysteries 3. Apologues 4. Parables 5. Apothegms 6. Reproofs * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exemplar figura a picture or shadow of things to come qui in veteri testamento praefiguravit aliquid in novo fit tribus modis vel 1. Natura vel 2. Hominum confilio vel 3. Dei Types Hagar and Sarah by the Apostle are urged as types of difference between the old and new Testament as answerable to Sinai in bondage and free Jerusalem Gal. 4.25 Israels reducing from Egypt mentioned by the Prophet Hosea 11.1 is made a type by the evangelist of our Saviours returning from thence Matth. 2.15 The deliverance by the arke said to be a type of baptisme 1 Pet. 3.21 as likewise the lifting up of the brasen Serpent a type of Christ's lifting up on the Crosse Joh. 3 14. The passing of the Israelites thorough the red sea mannah the cloud and the rock set down as types of the Sacraments of the New Testament 1 Cor. 10. So to take such precepts literally as Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milk Exod. 23.19 Thou shalt not plough with an asse and an ox together Deut. 22.10 Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn Ib. 25.4 and not morally for avoiding cruelty parting stakes in worshipping and defrauding the Minister of his due the Apostle brandeth as grosse for saith he Doth God take care for oxen 1 Cor. 9.9 1 Tim. 5.18 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—uâ—d An hidden secret in Religion the knowledge of which is not attainable by any strength of flesh and blood but by divine revelation Mysteries Mysteries under aenigmaes or hidden speeches contain matter either 1. Morall 2. Sacramentall 3. Propheticall for informing of manners by way of doctrine confirming of promises or points of belief or fore-warning of things to come for the good of Gods people and terrour of their opposites For instances in either Without controversie great is the mystery of godlinesse God was manifest in the flesh justified in the spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the world and received into glory 1 Tim. 3.16 To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God but to them that are without all things are done in parables Mar. 4.11 Of these mysteries the Apostles and their successors are the dispensers Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God 1 Cor. 4.1 Which mystery was kept secret
Praise the Lord O my soul Thus he doth himselfe and makes Apostrophe's to others to do the like O come let us sing unto the Lord Sing unto the Lord a new song So all former Halleluiahs are shut up with an Apostrophe to all Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord Psal 150. * Fictio personae when the person is not there but brought in upon the stage speaking as if he were present So a thing that is mute oft-times is dressed up in a person and words put in his mouth In this there ought to be a decorum observed that ye dresse not the servant like the master but that there be a respect had to the thing personated and accordingly to be clothed with words Prov. 1.22 Prosopopoea By a Prosopopoea 1. Wisdom is filled with a speech How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning and fools hate knowledge Turn at my reproof behold I will pour out my spirit unto you I wil make knovvn my words unto you 2. A Harlot I have peace-offerings with me this day I have payed my vowes Therefore come I forth to meet thee diligently to seek thy face and I have found thee I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry with carved work vvith fine linnen of Egypt I have perfumed my bed vvith myrrh Prov. 7. aloes and cynnamon Come let us take our fill of love untill the morning let us solace our selves with love For the good man is not at home he is gone a long journey he hath taken a bag of mony with him and will come at the day appointed 3. Sacrilegious Church-robbers Come let us root them out that they be no more a people and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance Psal 83.4 4. Hypocriticall Separatists Isa 65.5 that walk after their own thoughts Stand by thy self come not near to me for I am holier then thou 5. Rebells For now they will say We have no King because vve feared not the Lord Hos 10. vvhat then should a King do to us They have spoken vvords svvearing falsly in making a covenant Thus judgment springeth up like hemlock in the furrows of the field The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth aven 6. Wretched Nabals What shall I do I have no room to bestovv my fruits This vvill I do Luk. 12.17 18 19. I vvill pull dovvn my barns and build greater and there vvill I bestovv my fruits and my goods And I vvill say to my soul Soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years Take thine ease eat and drink and be merry 7. Penitent Prodigals How many hired servants of my fathers have bread enough and to spare and I perish vvith hunger I vvill arise and go to my father and say to him Father I have sinned against heaven and against thee and am no more vvorthy to be called thy son make me as one of thy hired servants Luk. 15.17 18 19. In like manner the Pharisee and Publican are fitted vvith prayers Ib. 18.11 12 13. And the desperate vvith a speech consonant to their remedilesse case This vvas he vvhom vve had sometimes in derision and a proverb We fools accounted his life madnesse and his end vvithout honour Hovv is he numbered among the children of God and his life among the Saints We wearied our selves in the way of wickednesse What hath pride profited us All these things are passed away like a shaddow Wisd 5. Sometimes in stead of personating one divers are represented on the theater as Who is this that comes from Edom with his garments from Bozrah that is glorious in his apparell travelling in the greatnesse of his strength I that speak in righteousnesse mighty to save Wherefore art thou red in thy apparell and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat I have trodden the wine-presse alone and of the people there was none with me For I will tread them in my anger and trample them in my fury and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments and I will stain all my raiment Isa 63.1 2 3. We have a little sister and she hath no breasts what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for If she be a wall we will build upon her a palace of silver and if she be a dore we will enclose her with boards of cedar Cant. 8.8 * Addubitatio eùm â—â—â—â—lamus quaerere unde incipiendum ubi desinendum quid potissimùm dicendum omnino fit Quint. l. 9. c. 2. Aporia Aporia is as it were a casting about and deliberating with our selves in a doubtfull business what way to take The Steward said within himself What shall I do for my Lord taketh away from me my Stewardship I cannot dig and to beg I am ashamed Luk. 16.3 I am in a strait betwixt two having a desire to depart and to be with Chirst which is far better nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needfull for you Phil. 1.22 23 24. Such deliberations by an anthropopathy are ascribed to God himself O Ephraim what shall I do unto thee for your goodnesse is as the morning clowd and as the dew it goeth away Hos 6.4 So Ib. 11.8 How shall I give thee up Ephraim how shall I deliver thee Israel how shall I make thee as Admah how shall I set thee as Zeboim Mine heart is turned within me my repentings are kindled together What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits he hath done unto me I will receive the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vowes now in the presence of all his people Right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal 116.11 12. * A Dubitatione non procul abhorret Communicatio cum aut ipsos adversarios consulimus aut quando cum judicibus deliberamus Quint. l. 9. c. 2. Anacoinosis Anacoinosis debates the matter with others and admits of scruples but so far as we may plausibly decide them And here a Prolepsis the foreseeing and anticipating of doubts is most naturall Will a man rob his God Yet ye have robbed me But ye say Wherein have we robbed thee In tithes and offerings Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even the whole nation Mal. 3.8 9. Thou wilt say The branches be broken off that I might be graffed in Well because of unbelief they vvere broken off and thou standest by faith be not high-minded but fear For if God spared not the naturall branches take heed lest he also spare not thee Rom. 11.19 20 21. Thou wilt say unto me Why doth he yet find fault for who hath resisted his vvill Nay but O man vvho art thou that repliest against God Shall the thing framed say to him that formed it Why hast thou made me thus Rom. 9.19