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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

tith'd nay what is worse let no tithes be paid These worldly ones are properly the sea Esay 57.20 a boiling sea their heart casts forth mire dirt scum Murders thefts c. Mat. 15.19 Oh how it troubles David Psal 73. to see how the fish of this sea rant it these prosper They are not curst that dwell in the sea only the Earth Aire Gen. 3. nor are they sufferers in that great drowning time Gen. 7. these tyrannicall winds and waves make for them I may in a word decide those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. That there be Men-fish Tritons Nereides Syrenes 2. That the earth and sea joy and sorrow good and bad make up one globe Yet 3. that there is more sea than land And 4. that the sea is higher than the dry land If you see 2. Depth for here you see Gods footsteps are not known Psal 77.19 no tract of God his discipline in the Church His faithfull must take notice of sin and of the punishment of sin and fear to sin His Israel must make bricks whilest their Nimrods Pharaohs perpetuate their names in Babels Pyramids St. Iohn himself like an hoary apple having scaped the locust the wind and storm the pluckers hand hung neer an hundred years old on the tree of life yet then unseasonably enough must be coddled in a caldron of oil because Christians derive their pedegree from Christ and Christ his from his spirituall chrism O when thou comst to Heaven thou shalt know how Domitians brazen Sea hurt him not onely prov'd a Bath to renew him then thou shalt clearly see why Adam falls why Cain kills Abel Apryes seremy Esay sawn asunder by Manasses Then thou shalt plainly read what the four Beasts be What and whose that mazing knot of figures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 666. What God and Magog what Harmageddon Be not rash in judging St. Paul made but a glance as it were at that future light but had he not borrowed a thorn from his Saviours Crown much Revelation had made him mad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 t is deep 3. Inconstant wavering ebbs flows now calm now storm so inconsistent the great World So its compendium Iob 14. never continues in one stay for 2 Sam. 14.14 all spill and glide away like water in continuall hast to fall into this Sea No Planet more hastens Westward then this wandring Tabernacle of Dust this sod of earth to its center this rivolet to its Ocean He findes a fall and a spring tide in his veins till as Psal 2.14 he is powred out clearly like water not a jot sticks to the vessell alas What advantage has that water that is exalted above the Heavens but to see his greater ruin from an higher place Thus in this world Psal 107.26 Mounts up to heaven then sodainly drops down to hell the Poet owes perchance to the Prophet Iamjam tacturus c. now all 's serene and wee mistake it for heaven then Wars Famines Plagues in a necessary chain nay the Plague of all plagues civill Wars muddy us and hell seems not more sooty more black more divellish thus in States Now repent then justified then sanctified in a necessary concatenation too then in heaven but that a great billow some sinfull stumble slip fall rebounds us to our earth glues our souls to the pavement then in hell Thus in Church temporall spirituall state in this world is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mutable Yet though 1. Never so variable so long as we six not our Ark any where but on Ararat so long as we sit not down with our Tabernacle till we come to Shiloh so long as with those celestiall bodies we sail on fixed poles only making the great God not this little earth our center we shall be blessed at least in our Haven Our castles on earth may sink in their ruines our castles on the Sea in their seditious waves our castles i th' air in our giddy fancies we have a castle higher than Earth Sea Fancy the Lord is our Castle Psal 31.4 2. Though the Sea in Dogdayes such dayes as these is thicker and darker no wind to hinder the Suns-salting-power yet is it safer swimming in these deeps than in shallows in salt waters than in sweet Nay Israel is safer in the red Sea than on land nor are fishes salt because in the Sea Abraham Lot not tainted in the dead Sea Gods children make all waters sweet So as Elias 2 King 2.20 21. by throwing in salt a salt to which I may truely apply Homers Epither 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and which they having within themselves Mark 9.5 faith relish all things be they never so bitter and distastfull to humane sense and also give the right seasoning and Hogoo of Gods palat and mans and hence is that they say there are sweet Fountains in the deepest saltest Seas Nay 3. Though never so raging and boistrous there is no Sea but he that had sounded all of them sayes 1 Cor. 10.13 is navigable nay profitable for Gods Halcyons can breed here Onely as they that travell through those Tides of Sand in the Arabian deserts doe shelter themselves in Arks or Castles on Camels backs make thee an Ark according to Gods command and thou shalt sail in safety in a deluge nay thy child with Moses in the Ark of Gods covenant thou shalt find in safety Oh if like a fly thou cabin thy self in some little crevice of this great ship thou wilt come to the Haven in Peace Be the red Sea nere so cold be the Furnace never so hot both stand up like a wall to Israel Ever since Christ the true Halcyon was born here was peace and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Secondly This Sea is Glassie every fall every knock every clash breaks it Whether it be that microco●me man witnesse those unperceiv'd needles from the Italian bow yet where they are not cunning enough to enter grief envy malice more subtill engines will dash him to pieces or whether those great worlds the world of pleasure the world of profit the world of honour such they are Ice not more slippery Glasse not more brittle 1. Such in respect of their chief matter sand ashes their parts as impossibly coherent into ropes and yeelds the foolish soul a foundation Mat. 7.27 as inconsistent 2. In their effects as dangerous to their intrails So taken inwardly do their hard angles grate and pierce the inward man Here swelling it with pride there inflaming it with those dropsie desires of having and in a word spoiling the bowells of mercy Yet 3. Such in respect of the continuity of their parts so that a heart made up of these worlds is indeed become glassie yeelding to nothing without breaking but the Diamonds points the quicksilver to which I compare the Word and Spirit of God that bores through metalls gold silver c. or stone enters not a worldly heart All the dews of Gods graces spend themselves like

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-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-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