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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43038	Divine meditations upon some of the virtuous, and vitious women, in the Scriptures wherein, as in a glass, every one may see their own faces; whether fair, or foul; deformed, or comely. A work worthy their spare-hours; which, by the grace of God, may work an holy emulation in many, either to equal, or out-vie their sex in virtue. By William Harvey, minister of the Word of God.	Harvey, William, minister of the Word.	1661 (1661)	Wing H1092B; ESTC R216453	24,926	90

indeed many times it proves so take it either by way of Profession or Station and the Proverb will often be made good A Possession is sold but a part onely is brought and layed at the Apostles Feet 'T is impious and irreligious to part Man and Wife for those whom God hath joyned together let no man put asunder But it had been happy for Sapphira she had been less indulgent and distinct in this particular Well she was privy to the Sale and to the Sin Grace is Communicative and so is Vice A drowning Man plucks the next that 's to him in with him and one struck with the Plague loves Company When Sin conceives the Sign is in Gemini and brings forth Twins Sacril●ge walks not alone but must have a lye to wait upon it Yea for somuch said this Poor Soul and presently falls down at the Apostles feet and yields up the Ghost Verse 10. (a) ubi pecata ibi procella Aug. A Storm is ever at the heels of Impietie and where Sin is Mistress Sighs attend as Hand-maidens As Solomon in the Singnlar Number addresses his Speech to his Young man I will deliver in the Plural (b) Eccles. xi 9. Rejoyce O ye Sinners and let your hearts chear you and walk in the waies of your hearts and in the Sight of your eyes but know ye that for all these things God will bring you into Judgement This Sin of Sacrilege with us as Fornication with the Papists is counted venial though otherwise in God's eye damnable If not so what mean the bleating of the Sheep and the lowing of the Oxen which I hear as Samuel said to Soul in another sence (c) 1 Sam. XV. 14. Why are Livings every where so small and with Pharaoh's Kine so lean and il●-favoured that the Man of God is fain to graw upon a Crust Is not this to make Brick without straw And yet which is beastly and unreasonable they will exact the tale of their Bricks expect from their Minister that which he is not able to perform How can the Ox tread out the Corn when his mouth is muzzled And how can he preach who hath not bread many times to satisfy the hungry bellies of himself and Family O Cruelty to be abhorred Aves paseunt ferae par●unt homines saeviunt the Birds feed us for Elijah was fed by Rvens Salvage Beasts spare us so the fierce Lyons Daniel in the Den but shall I speak it Men onely are cruel and devour This is that which brings both Ministers and Ministrie in Contempt to the scorn of the World the shame of Religion the dishonour of God and without repentance the damnation of their Souls For the affront offered to them is offered to God himself and 't is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God We know who said it (d) Luke x. 16. He that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me This simple Woman came to a sudden end for keeping Back part of that which was her own or perhaps for concealing it onely what judgement then must they expect who keep back and detain from their Pastours that which is their own (e) Gen. xlix 6. O my Soul come not thou into their secret unto their Assembly mine Honour be not thou united The pitifull Pharisee who was an Hypocrite a verbal onely and external Professour shall one day rise in judgment against this generation and condemn it for he paid his Tithes even unto Mint Anice-seed and Cummin when some Christians so called Nomine non re in name onely would not willingly spare the paring of their Nails Well let them cosen and cheat Aurum habent Tolosanum they or their posteritie will be met with and when the hand of the Almighty lights heavie upon them they will then cry out as the Philistins did when the Ark was brought into the Camp Vae nobis Vae nobis Wo be unto us Wo be unto us Hear and tremble for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it (f) Mal. iii. 8 9 10. Will a man rob 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 this whole Nation c. Her next sin was Lying Yea said she for so much Had she left this out and spoken Truth her fault had been the less but now it 's aggravated To perpetrate a Sin is bad enough but to maintain it is a great deal worse O Sapphira would thy Lying had perished with thee but thou art dead thy Sin survives and like a Gangrene hath dilated it self far and wide as if from thee hereditary This is thought small for it is Epidemical yet it bids defiance to God and spits in the Face of the Almighty I am the Way the Truth and the Life said once thy Saviour What therefore can be more contrary and opposite to him then Falshood Every like delights and rejoyceth in its like saith Philosophy Now thy God is Truth yea Truth it self by Consequent then Falshood and Lying must needs be odible to him What Emolument comes by Lying All that I know is onely this Shame and not to be credited when they speak the Truth Let them weep and presently we say Crocodili Lacrymae Behold the Tears of a Crocodile and let their Speech seem never so fair and seconded by deep Oaths and Imprecations Yet it is but taken as ridiculous and as a Syren's Song that tends onely to the Ruin of the poor Mariner The female Sex commonly is the fairer and of a more tender Constitution therefore more attractive Yet nothing doth more imbellish them then Vertue an innocent and harmless Conversation Their Tongues and Hearts should be ever Coviaetours and fellow-Travellers and nothing should put a Divorce between them The Calves of our Lips is a Sacrifice pleasing to God but it must be without Blemish He cannot away with Halting neither accept that which wants an Eye Me thinks that Proverb should not be amongst Christians Plain dealing is a jewel and he that useth it dyes a Beggar How a Beggar this is no fair play and those scales were not right to waigh down so precious a Commoditie We have another equivalent (g) Obsequium amicos Veritas odium parit Flattery gets friends Truth hatred but more is the pity Tell it not in Gath publish it not in the Streets of Askelon lest the Daughters of the Philistines rejoyce lest the Daughters of the Vncircumcised triumph Admire the depth of this sin It 's a precipice so steep that it will strike terrour in any but to look down and being once known by the grace of God deterr all Passengers from coming that way You are of your Father the Devil and the works of your Father you will do c. He was a murderer from the begining and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him When he speaketh a lv he speaketh of his own for he is a lyer and the father of it John viii 44. See who brings up the rear of the Black-guard (h) Revel xxi 8. But the Fearfull and Vnbelieving and the Abominable and Murtherers and Whoremongers and Sorcerers and Idolaters and all Lyers shall have their part in the Lake which burneth with Fire and Brimstone which is the second death FINIS