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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

with a Threnodia Thou foole this night shall thy soule bee taken away Alas so soone this was the first night it seemes of his rest aud must it be his last too yes Esay answereth him There is no rest to the vngodly hee is euer in discontent seeking to quench his hydropticke thirst with getting but is neuer satisfied They which should bee Gods Amners to distribute to the necessity of the Saints are oppressors beeing as sponges which sucke vp the laborious gaines of the poore Let there not bee a begger in Israell saith God to Moses but these regraters which exhaust and consume the meanes of the poore make many beggars in Israell But the Lord shall come in thunder and roote them from the face of the earth hee shall raze doune their buildings and make their dwelling with Ostriches For the Lords delight is in the poore that humbles himselfe beefore him his horne shall bee exalted with honour but for the mighty oppressors that grinde the face of the poore the Lord will chastice them in his fury and be auenged of them in his mightie displeasure O if the rich man knew being Gods dispensour how soone the sythe of humane frailety will cut him short hee would not promise to himselfe length of daies but with all integrity of heart feruencie of spirit and humility of minde fall downe before the Throne of Gods merie Sicut Apes flores quaesitant ita Sancti misericordiam Dei The Saints of God and such as are consecrate to him will seeke the mercie of God and with teares of entire compassion turne to the Lord that it would please him to turne from their sinnes They will not protract the time nor take day with their sinnes but with hearty contrition speedy conuersion and firme resolution not to commit the like sinnes again they purchase their atonement with God leauing off sinne before sinne leaue them For what is it when the Organs and naturall faculties of the bodie through their debilitie haue lost all power of sinning then to surcease from sinne No reserue the heate of the day for the Lords vineyard let not him haue the afterlings The first fruits were in ancient time giuen to the Priests and wilt thou detaine thy first fruits from him which is the head Priest O dedicate thy labors vnto him and be conuerted euen in the maturitie of thy time Thou art now able to cope with Antichrist to morrow it may be thou shalt be lesse able A valiant captaine in the siege of any Citty or fortresse will apprehend euery aduantage and occasion of attaining his purpose he will not intermit any time but with all alacritie prosecute the charge he hath in hand that his deportments may purchase him glory Sub vexillo meret moeret si non mereat Thou art in the same case in a straite siege beleagred with impetuous and violent enemies The world besiegeth thee on euerie side by those 5. Gates or breaches viz. thy fiue corporall sences eye eare tast smell and touch he woundeth thy soule as with most venemous Arrowes so as death entreth in at the verie window of thy soule Ismaell plaies with thee and deludes thee the flesh whom thou pamperedst rebels against thee thy verie housholds sinnes begin to wrastle with thee and Grauis lucta Graue est periculum contra domesticum hostem pugnare saith Barnard Thou must wrastle with sinne conspiring within thee with the flesh which enuirons thee and the voluptuous affections of worlds vanitie that seeke to surprise thee Show thy selfe resolute in this encounter fight a good fight and with the complete Armour of a spirituall warriour raze downe the tyrannicall kingdome of Antichrist Thou must passe many difficulties ere thou canst obtain the victorie Those Cyanea saxa those rockes of perill temptations of euery kinde but perseuerance will make thy victorie most eminent The yong man must needes take leaue of his friends before he can follow Christ. But thou must abandon friends estate possessions and all encombrances that thou may be thought a worthy follower of Christ. Qui Christum sequi petit equum est vt omnia relinquat quo Christum arctius teneat Riches were best demonstrated by the Romane word Impedimenta hinderances indeed for our heauenly expedition we should vse them in necessarie respects not to adore them if the price of gold had not beene knowne Baals golden calfe had not beene erected It is a cause of much false Adoration and many I am perswaded yet timerous in perswasion worship the idoll in their chest more then their Messias in his Temple O prophanation of Times when an externall appearance of tempting vanitie can seduce an Intellectuall soule from her Creator with the desire of a bare mettall ordained for the vse of his creature We are wise and vnderstanding in chymicke labours and are profoundlie read in minerals But that onely and principall good the select treasure of the minde is as farre estranged from our reading as Demas heart was from any thing saue what tasted of the world We can talke of eccentricke lines bodies motions temperatures affections but which amongst vs seekes to season the ill disposed temper of our minde O pittie and great pitty it is to neglect so diuine a substance let the Philosophers idle axiome alone the body should take her temperature from the soule and not the soule from the body Corpus Ancilla est vt pareat non domina vt imperet Confusion of Gouernors spoile euerie well gouerned state and those kingdomes be most happy where there be not the most but the best Kings Thou hast a monarchy and that 's the best kinde of Gouernement within thy selfe O dispose then of thy affections like a Prince be inuested with a roabe worthy an Emperor the pure stole of integrity thy thoughts must be eleuate not depressed downe to this earthly centre It is reported that the Emperour Augustus could see as well by night as day thy eyes should be so not obscured or darkned with the night of error but euer tralucent that if there were windowes in thy heart the splendor of thy internall man might show her owne dignity But especially let me caution thee in this that thou be open handed and bountifully hearted to thy neeedfull brother it will make thee see more cleerely into the prouidence of God and excite thee to an acknowledgement of his mercies euer meditating of his bounty in bestowing and thy immerrited seruice in deseruing It will inflame in thee a perfect and exact measure of charity to giue freely because thou hast receiued more amply An affectionate charitie is approued by God and man making our selues in distributiue iustice Christians and imitating the inimitable patterne of Christ who sustained the weak supported the needy relieued the hungry being all to all that he might show his glory towards all his humility may asswage our pride and caution vs to be humble here that wee may be exalted elsewhere His