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A20468	Contemplations, sighes, and groanes of a Christian. Written in Latine, by Iohn Michael Dilherrus. And Englished by William Style of the Inner Temple, Esquire; Contemplationes et suspiria hominis Christiani. English	Dilherr, Johannes Michael, 1604-1669.; Style, William, 1603-1679.	1640 (1640)	STC 6879; ESTC S109707	124,554	324

shall Sun or heat fall on us because thou dost governe us and leadest us to the fountaines of waters and shalt wipe away all teares from our eyes thou shalt make us drunk with the plenteousnesse of thy house and refresh us with the streames of thy pleasure O Lord as the hart desireth the fountaines of water so longeth my soule after thee O Lord my soule hath thirsted after God the living fountaine when shall I come and appeare before the face of God O Lord when shall I worthily call to mind thy mercyes thy praises which are farre above all things which thou hast given me and exceeding the multitude of the goods of my house which thou hast bestowed upon mee according to the multitude of thy mercyes CONTEMP 21. c. Of Christs sixt word uttered upon the Crosse THou hast performed all and every of those things which thou knewest necessary to recover our salvation most willingly and with all thy heart And therefore thy sixt word was not it shall be finished as thou diddest say in thy journey to Jerusalem behold we goe up to Jerusalem and all things shall be fulfilled which are written by the Prophets concerning the Son of man for hee shall be delivered up to the Gentiles shall bee mocked shall be scourged and spitt upon and after they have scourged him they shall put him to death But hee saies it is finished whatsoever the wicked nation could invent to exasperate thy torments is finished thou truly diddest foretell the houre and power of darkenesse and the time of thy crucifying I have finished sayest thou the work which thou gavest me to doe but that was another work namely the work of Preaching the Gospell as thou thy selfe doest intimate unto mee when thou addest I have manifested thy name unto men this work which thou sayest is finished is the work of suffering for mankind the work of drinking off the cup of the passion which thy father hath given thee thou hast now drunk it all off so that there remaines nothing but that thou give up the ghost the power which was given the apostate Angels and the filthy rabble of wicked men is finished thy pilgrimage wherein thou wentest out from thy father and diddest come into the world is finished wherein thou wast upon the earth like a husbandman and a travailer the mortality of thy humanity is at an end every prophecy which the prophets had foretold concerning thy life or death is finished the greatest sacrifice of all sacrifices is finished that upon which all the sacrifices of the old covenant as types and shaddows did reflect for by one oblation thou hast for ever made perfect those that are sanctified and art become the end of the Law to every one that beleeveth Now the variety of carnall sacrifices ceasing thou fulfillest all those distinctions of beasts by once offering up of thy body and blood thou hast O Lord drawne all things unto thy selfe for by rending the vaile of the temple the Sanctum Sanctorum departed from the unworthy high Preists that the figure might bee turned into a truth the prophecy into a manifestation and the Law into a Gospell O cleane O unspotted sacrifice whose Altar was the Crosse which the viler it was before Christ overcame it so much the more famous and noble did it afterwards become the fire thereof that consumes the burnt offering and perfecteth the sacrifice is this immeasurable charity which like a furnace exceedingly heated did burne in thy heart O Jesus which the many waters of thy sufferings could not extinguish O Jesus my redeemer my mercy my Saviour I praise thee I give thanks unto thee though farre unproportionable to thy benefits though very voyd of devotion though leane in comparison of that fatnesse which thy most sweet affection towards us doth require in them yet my soule doth pay unto thee what thanks shee is able not such as shee knowes are due unto thee from mee Thou hope of my heart thou vertue of my soule let thy most powerfull worth perfect that which my most chill weaknesse doth endeavour my life thou end of my intention though I have not loved thee so much as I ought to love thee yet doe I at least desire to love thee as much as I ought O Jesus let this word alwayes stick in my memory It is finished When sinne and damnation shall band themselves against mee wrastling with the pangs of death and shall present unto mee my ugly life made deformed by my sinnes let me be able then to say the sacrifice for my sinnes is finished For thou art the Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Thou hast not redeemed me with corruptible silver and gold but with thy most precious blood as it were of an unspotted undefiled lamb When the law shall accuse me and shall exact punishment let me say each tittle of it is accomplished For when the fulnes of time was come God sent his Son made under the Law that he might redeem those which were under the Law and that we also might receive the adoption of children When death shall infest and terrifie me let me say thy power is determined thou art conquered by my Lord who hath spoiled thee of thy power hath taken out thy sting and purged out thy poyson that death may be to me a sweet repose great gaine a dismission in peace a recalling from evils a momentary hiding me till wrath is past and till heaven gates be opned for me When kindred friends and acquaintance shall at the time of my departure bewaile my going hence and compasse my bed with groanes and teares let me say my course is finished the appointed time is past the period is fixed which we cannot passe the glasse is runne the houre of freedome drawes neare here my misery makes a stand and the haven I make to is neare where all teares shall be wiped away behold I leave unto you a Fulfiller of all good and an asswager and ender of all evill hee shall comfort you if you flie unto him hee shall keepe and defend you to whom I recommend my soule and to whom I recommend you the beloved of my soule for evermore Amen CONTEMP c. 22. Of the seventh and last word of Christ uttered upon the Crosse ALthough Lord Jesus Christ great is thy humility great thy abasement and great is thy affliction that thou seemest scarce a man but a worm yet in thy seventh and last word before thou gavest up the ghost tho-shewedst thy selfe not a man only but even set above the reach of mans power for when thou wast about to breathe out thy most holy Spirit thou criedst out Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit Ah what a mournfull lamentable sad and miserable silence is there when mournfull lamentable sad and miserable man is commanded to breathe forth his soule how silent faint and how dead as it were are all things before death our death-bed takes

all shew of truth The wooden engines were heretofore framed with that art that when they were brought forth unto the solemnity of the triumphs they did suddenly grow great raise themselves to a great heighth rumours are indeed these Pageants which when they begin to spread are accustomed suddenly to increase and to extend into an incredible greatnesse But O the rashnesse of mans minde we lead a very short life we have an end as soone as we begin the most swift time returnes not in his gate his course nor in his flight and forsakes us even while we are thinking of vanity by a flight never to be recalled And we amidst these precipices of swit-footed time are not only slow but triflers wear out our best dayes in most idle bawbles Our swift dayes doe passe away and we also are carried away in their motion we are snatched away unawares whilst we are toying and make pastime to our owne destruction Beleeve not every thing is told thee nor report all that thou hearest except thou intend to lose thy friends and to kindle the hatred of many against thy selfe First weigh things before thou judge of them He that reports things he onely heares being first deceived himselfe doth most usually deceive others Behold how far the eyes and the eares doe stand asunder If all that the miners did cast out of the mines were silver and gold the world by this time might have beene gilded all over but whilst the metall that is digged thence is severed from the drosse earth stones and sand that is mixed with it it is brought at length to a small langot so it is with the recitall of things we heare if we take away the things which are fained false and ill understood and those which are added by conjecture alas what a small scantling of pure truth remaines for the most part halfe that is fained that is related in a many-worded Oration Let the words of the tongue agree with the meaning of the heart shunne falsehood lies It is easie to say what a lie is there needs no long dispute about it To speak one thing think another is a lie To speak against a mans minde is a lie Let not thy brest conceale one thing and thy tongue utter another thing Let no man doubt but he lies that utters any thing with an intent to deceive One of the veines ties the tongue the heart together another the tongue and braine by which disposition of the veines nature teacheth us that one member is so to be governed by the understanding that the tongue may agree with the heart For this is a lie to carry one thing hidden in the heart another thing ready at the tongues end to beleeve in heart that a thing is black but to affirme in words that it is white But that you may more fully understand this you must know there is a threefold lie an officious lie a jesting lie and a pernitious lie An officious lie is said to be that that may be beleeved to profit another but himselfe least of all that tels it They call a jesting lie that that hurts no body but is spoken by way of fancie but though a lie spoken in jest is not so ill as that which is spoken to another mans hurt or for very pleasure we take in lying even that also because it is a lie is sinne for it is vanity and extravigancie to take pleasure in that thing which should be farre distant from us yet it is not called a jesting lie if any one speake a falsity not in earnest but in such a jesting way that all may perceive that he meaneth other wayes than he speaketh for in regard there is no signification of falshood it is not a lie but that is a lie when any one relates a falsity for fancies sake and that he takes pleasure in it and doth doth desire to perswade others that he is serious Thirdly and finally a pernitious lie is that that is alwayes joyned with anothers harme and is reckoned amongst sinnes of a high nature An officious lie is not so called because any man may excuse it by taking upon himselfe the deceit Although he that sinnes to profit another sinneth lesse than he that doth it not to this end yet notwithstanding he dealeth not simply and in a right manner for ill is not to be done that good may come thereon Therefore flie with diligence all manner of lying and neither by chance or of set purpose speake that which is false beware of lying in all things This vice is so to be avoided that though the safety of many were to be contrived in one lie and that but only an officious or jesting lie yet it would not be lawfull for thee to tell it Yea if any one by a slight lie could rid his parents or any more dear to him than his parents from devouring flames yet might he not lawfully tell a lie it would be better to forsake them amidst the flames than by an untruth to offend thy God But thou wilt say this is a hard saying it is rigid yet it is true Hast thou not read Let us doe evill that good may come thereon whose damnation is just All doctrine of truth shall in this manner be taken away if we yeeld to most licentious falshood if any place be any where left open to a lie though it be but an officious one for whosoever lies proposeth to himselfe his owne or anothers temporall commodity than which what can be done more perversly Certainly an injury offered to God is greater than all the ill we can doe unto man How many thousand of most holy martyrs would rather prodigally powre forth their bloods by drops than consent with one lie to defend their innocencies But if our very life be not to be preferred before the truth what can be objected to maintaine we may lawfully lie by those that are of opinion we ought sometimes to lie Be gone then let every lie I say be gone because it hath the devill for its authour who himselfe neither remained in the truth nor is there any truth in him Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord but those that deale faithfully are pleasing unto him If thou know any thing that a good man in other things hath done and thou hast long concealed it with the cloake of charity doe not in thy wrath reveale it that no man may accuse thee of passion and to have a malicious minde and that others doe not that to thee which thou shouldest not do to others I advise thee not to reveale thy selfe and all thy secrets to any but a true pious honest man thou needest not feare such a one because for Christian charities sake which is the foundation of all friendship he will perchance willingly pardon thy offences nor will at all reproach thee Doe nothing also in any mans presence which may cause thee to feare that thou maist raise

inheritance yet O my Father thou hast not lost the heart of a Father though I have fallen from thee my Father yet wilt not thou fall from me or cease to be my Father that word never failed As I live I will not the death of a sinner but that hee may bee converted and live And although my sins be innumerable and my wounds may seeme incurable yet art not thou ignorant of a way to cure me confirme therefore and fulfill thy promises wash me effectually with the blood of thy Son that as to me his death prove not in vaine I am as well a part of his flesh and he a part of mine as Peter David or Paul he is as well to me an Emmanuel as to any other Hee bare the sins of the whole world and therefore hee bore mine also Looke back therefore look back therefore O Lord upon this lost sheepe regard thy creature nor contend with him in thy fury whom thou hast made with thy hands take care O Lord of the soule which thou hast redeemed I come creeping to thee wounded with many wounds but thou most experienced Physitian of soules and Ma●●er of the diseased canst heale them all I come being blinded but thou canst enlighten me I come dead unto thee but thou canst give me life I come full of leprosie but thou canst cleanse me Sprinkle me with Hysop and I shall be cleane wash me and I shall be whiter than snow O my God the God of my life thy mercy is greater than my sins thy clemencie exceeds all my iniquities Thou canst forgiue more O Lord than I can offend thy mercies are bottomlesse and numberlesse but as many as my sins are and as great as they are they are neither bottomlesse nor numberlesse Take me out therefore and deliver mee forgive mee my great injustice take away my stony and hard heart and create in me a soft and a cleane heart that even in this life I may give thee thanks let me by my faith and good example bring sinners to thee and let me glorifie thee and celebrate thee for these and other thy innumerable blessings for evermore Amen my God be it so even so be it my Lord Jesus Christ CONTEMP c. 38. Of the greatnesse and foulnesse of our sinnes and of the Confession of them I Am affraid of my rashnesse when I consider with my selfe what a Majestie I have offended with my sins when I consider how benigne and wonderfull a Father I have forsaken I detest mine owne ingratitude when I consider from how happie a libertie of spirit into how miserable servitude I have cast my selfe I condemne mine owne madnesse and am wholly displeasing to my selfe nor have any other object before my eyes but hell and desperation namely that doth terrifie my conscience by Gods inevitable Justice I am to be consumed like rottennesse sin is rottennesse indeed for it destroyes the beauty of the soule the sweet savour of a good name the worth of grace the relish of glory it is truly durt being wallowed therein we become abominable to honest men the good Angels and the just God It is truely smoak that foretels us that hell-fire is not farre from it and doth drive away the heavenly Dove It is indeed the Devils taverne in which for the price of soules hee sels the world the wine of pleasure it is the dart with which our soule is pierced thorow and is deprived of all vigour and life It is true sicknesse because it leaves us no health in our flesh nor from the presence of Gods wrath grants us any quietnesse in our bones It is truly a Sea for it swels over our head and easily swalloweth up our whole body It is truly a burden because a sinner is most burdened therewith and is even pressed downe unto hell it selfe But whither shall I goe where shall I withdraw my selfe Ah! be mercifull unto me O take pitie upon mee according to thy great mercy and according to the multitude of thy compassions wash away mine iniquities Against thee against thee onely have I sinned and done this evill in thy sight behold I am begotten in iniquitie and in sinne hath my mother conceived me I have gone astray like a sheepe that perisheth seeke out thy lost sheep O Lord remember not the faults and transgressions of my youth O Lord who understands his owne sins Cleanse me from my secret offences Enter not into judgement with thy servant because no man living can be justified before thee Remember O Lord thy mercies and compassions which have been of old Remember me according to thy mercies even for thy goodnesse sake O Lord. O Lord be mercifull unto mine offences make thy mercies wonderfull thou who savest those that trust in thee Turne not thy face from me nor cast away thy servant in displeasure for in death no man remembreth thee nor shall any praise thee in the grave What profit is in my bloud when I descend into corruption Shall dust give praise unto thee or set forth thy truth Regard and heare me O God lighten mine eyes that I sleepe not in death Set not thy mercies farre from me for thy mercy and truth doe alwayes preserve in thee O Lord have I trusted let me never be confounded Amen CONTEMP c. 39. Of Gods readinesse to forgive sinnes and our thankesgiving for the forgivenesse of them WHo can despaire of pardon from him who doth so often in the writings of the Prophets of his owne accord invite sinners to repentance crying out That he would not the death of a sinner but rather that he should bee converted and live How ready is also his pardon to them that repent he hath inculcated unto us by his only begotten Son in many of his Parables as of the groat that was lost and found againe the strayed sheepe brought back upon the shoulders but more plainly by that of the prodigall sonne whose very image I am No man O God is so ready to sinne but thou art far more ready in thy good time to pardon our sinnes O pitifull and mercifull Lord slow to anger and very pitifull He strives not with us for ever neither is he alwayes wrath with us Because as the heaven is higher than the earth so hath he made his mercies to prevaile over me As farre as the East is distant from the West so far hath he set my sins from me As a father taketh pity upon his sonne so hath the Lord taken pity upon me he hath washed me from my iniquity he hath clensed me from my sins he knows whereof we be made he remembers we are but dust Why art thou sad ô my soule and why art thou troubled returne ô my soule into thy rest for the Lord hath done thee good He hath delivered my soule from death mine eyes from teares and my feet from falling Blessed are they whose sins are forgiven and whose offences are covered Blessed is the man unto whom the