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A14612	The contrition of a Protestant preacher, converted to be a Catholiqve scholler conteyning certayne meditations vpon the fourth penitentiall psalme, Miserere / composed by Iames Waddesworth, Bachlour of Diuinitie in the Vniversity of Cambridge, & late parson of Cotton, and of Great-Thorneham in the County of Suffolke, who went into Spaine with the Kinges Maiesties first Embassadour-Legier, as his chaplayne ...	Wadsworth, James, 1572?-1623.	1615 (1615)	STC 24924.5; ESTC S2953	166,461	144

confirmed by the worde of our Lorde in a successiue motion of nighte day for labour for rest so confirme vs we entreate thee in rest of ioye and in labour of feare that by our sonnelike feare we may be directed in our labour finally admitted into the eternall ioye of thy rest euerlasting SEVERALL DISTRIBVTIONS OF THE same spirite into Righte Holy Principall Sect. 3. 1. IN these ver●es the spirite is thrice mentioned 1. a righte spirite 2. a holie spirite 3. a principall spirite The sonne of God is a righte spirite A holy spirite is the holy Ghoste And God our Father is a principall spirite Sinne is said somtime to be forgiuen by grace somtime blotted out by the bloud of the crosse and somtinne to be couered by charity The holy ghoste infuseth grace the Sonne shed his bloud and God the Father in wonderfull loue to vs gaue his only sonne for vs. O blessed Sauiour renue vs with thy righte spirite o holy ghoste take not thy holy spirite from vs O allmighty father confirme vs with thy principall spirite Renue vs by thy bloud take not thy grace from vs being renued and not loosing grace let vs be confirmed by thy principall spirite for so shall all our sinnes be blotted out haue pardon be couered 2. O holy and vndeuided Trinity Create my harte which is worse then naughte for thou arte creator Renue my bowells who serchest our Reynes for thou arte Redeemer And giue me a righte spirite instead of my corrupte thoughtes for thou arte Sanctifyer Doo not caste vs of for thou arte our Patron to whom else can we flye Take not thy selfe from vs for thou arte our paymaister of whom else can we haue rewarde Restore vs for thou haste made gracious promises and Confirme vs for in all these thou haste principall power I call firste vpon the spirite of the Sonne because none can come to the Father but by the Sonne and I place the holy ghoste betwene them both because from both he procedeth Allso I praye thrice for thy spirite to haue some proportion thoughe not the same measure with the Apostles who receiued him thrice 1. to heale diseases when they were sent to preache 2. after the resurrection when they receiued full Orders 3. when they were confirmed and illuminated in their authority at Pentecoste I beseech thee let me haue my sinnes and infirmityes healed let me receiue grace in thy Sacramentes and confirme me euer with boldenes in the profession of thy faithe that if before time I haue fled from thee as a fearfull Disciple I may after thy Pentecoste as a strenghthened Apostle reioyce in suffering for the name of Iesus 3. Furthermore by thy Righte spirite grante me verity By thy holy spirite Bonity And in thy principall spirite vnity So to haue Truthe of faith ioyned with goodnes of life and neither of them separated from vnity of loue peace that so allso in thy spirite our Beleefe may be righte our conuersation may be holy and aboue all our peace and loue may be principall eyther because it is a principall marke of thy true disciples or is a principall vertue or because Satan laboring nothing more then Diuision we haue neede to pray for the principall power and spirite of vnity to confirme vs euer in this principall charity 4. Or by thy righte spirite order me arighte towardes my neighbor by thy holie spirite make me good in my selfe and towardes thee o God let me haue a principall spirite for to thy honor we must directe all and loue thee aboue all Allso let me enioye a righte spirite against couetousnes and vniustice a holie spirite against luxury and intemperance a principall spirite against pride and oppression for a principall noble minde is humble and not cruell in superiority a holy harte is moderate abstinent in all delightes and a righte eye doth neuer couet another mans goods nor will looke vpon any Bribe Thus shall we not be squynte eyed nor pur-blynde against whom the prophet complayneth They haue not knowne to doo righte treasuring vp iniquitie robb●rie in their houses Thus shall we obserue the counsell of S. Paul charging vs to folowe sanctitie without which no man shall see God Thus if be humble and curteous euen towardes our inferiors our Lord hath promised by Esay that his spirite shall rest remayne vpon him that is humble feareth his wordes Wherfore in all these let vs euer praye for the ioye of Iesus and his saluation to be giuen if we wante it to be preserued if we haue it to be restored if we haue loste it so alwayes to be confirmed with his principall spirit TO TEACHE OTHERS IT IS CONMENdable but it is necessary firste to be well informed reformed ourselues Sect. 4. 1. THis is a worke worthy commendation to teach the bad to become good The cheife skill of a good pilote is among rockes of a discrete schoole maister is about dull or vnruly wittes of an experienced Capteyn is among fearfull or disordered soldyers So our Sauiour came to heale the sick● to binde vp the broken harted so must we allso seeke to helpe the sicke for the hole haue not such neede of the phisityan to teach the wicked and vngodly least any sorte be loste by our negligence to bring the wicked into the wayes of God that the vngodly may be conuerted vnto him whether they be wicked Christians or vngodly Pagans or such as haue no God haue forsaken God or doo greiuously offend God for as S. Paul saith It is God who iustifyeth a penitent sinner of what sorte soeuer 2. Thus let vs drawe all sortes we can vnto repentance the tractable by hope of pardon the harde harted by feare of hell fyre for this is both a signe a duty of a true conuerte to be desirous allso to conuerte others either by perswasion of wordes or by example of deedes assuring our selues that the zeale of soules is a great satisfaction on our parte vnto our lorde a gratefull sacrifice 3. Obserue notwithstanding that firste we must desire to be cōuerted confirmed our selues before we take in hande to reduce teach others as our Sauiour appoynting his Apostles to conuerte all the nations of the worlde yet firste he willeth them to sitte in Ierusalem till they were endued with vertue from aboue firste to haue our selues enabled which our lord performeth to them who sitte in Ierusalem 1. who abide in constancy within the city of peace for vntill we be well rooted how shall we endure a storme or bring forthe fruite 4. So allso said Exechiel The lippes of the tables one hande breadthe were turned inwarde vpon which wordes S. Gregory collecteth that measuring by palmes or hande breadthes signifyeth actions and to turne the lippes inwarde to these is to heare firste as a scholler before thou speakest as a teacher to taste what

when the storme is passed the vowe is forgotten the Saynt is beguiled or they are soone weary of well dooing they must needes go backe to the flespottes of Egipte Non discēdunt à peccatis sed recedunt non desinunt sed relaxant these go not awaie from sinne they doo but go aside they do not cease but slacken their iniquityes Their time of amendement is but like a parenthesis in a speache being only in●erposed as in the by after which he presently followeth his former discourse ●r as a mad mery company at table full of wyne and good cheare and more full of immoderate mirthe laughter swearing scoffing and telling of lew de tales vntill peraduenture some body amongest them at the end of their meale at leastwise for custome say a grace and then all putting off their hattes euery one for shame if he haue any beginnes to set himselfe for a more sober countenance except some like a Puritan holde his hatte before his eyes to dissemble and couer his continued laughter But so soone as the grace is ended as men paste grace they presently returne to their vnruly reuell Such are they who faste a daye and become gluttons a whole weeke who are abstinent in lent and all the yeare after luxurious who are demure at sermons lasciuious in chambers who in his prayers turnes vp the white of his eye and presently in his dealing woulde teare out his neighbors harte who is sober or continent for a few dayes about Easter or any other time to come to the blessed Sacrament but ere long after he returnes to his quaffing potte or to his cursed harlotte Or whosoeuer else beginnes to be a penitent and before his end growes weary and faynte From all these faylers the grace of the sacramentes is subtracted the giftes of the holy spirite are taken away and deseruedly they are caste out from the face of our lord MEDITATION VIII Redde mihi laetitiam salutaris tui spiritu principali confirma me Docebo iniquos vias tuas impij ad te conuertentur Restore vnto me the ioye of thy saluation with thy principall spirite confirme me I shall teach thy wayes vnto the wicked the vngodly will be conuerted vnto thee IESVS IS THE IOYE OF OVR SALVATlON which a sorowfull soule desireth to be restored and a confortable soule prayeth to be continued Sect. 1. 1. VEspasian the Emperor was called deliciae hominum Delighte of men because he gaue such curteous answers to all that neuer any went from him di●contented But with much more truthe and reason doo we call lord Iesus the Ioye of our Saluation of whom neuer any asked hartily pardon and conforte who w●nt away denyed or greiued He came to heale the sicke to ●eeke the loste not to condemne but to saue the wor de that whosoeuer beleeueth in him should haue life euerlasting w●o hath w ished vs from our sinnes in his ow●e bloud who dyed for our offences and ro●e agayne for our ju●tific●tion who verily did beare our infirmityes and our sorowes he did vndergoe who was wounded for our iniquityes afflicted for our wickednes and by his tortures we are h●aled Allmighty God not sparing his only sonne and he being God equall to his Father not ref●sing to become man and to dye for vs not his freindes nor his seruantes but his enem●es and slaues vnto the Diuell redeeming vs from hell and damnation to be equal● with Angells and heyres with himselfe of eternall glory Wherfore o my soule I will glory in our lorde and I will rejoyce in God my Iesus for in all these pointes recited He is the Ioye of my Saluation 2. Lighte is pleasing and confortable d●●kenes is irkesome and odious of lighte comes de●ighte but blacknes followes desperation He that neuer before saw lighte yet loues the sunne at first sighte But blind Tobias who had seene daye sittes musing with himselfe o what a Ioye would it be to recouer mine eyes who now sitte in darkenes and see no lighte of heauen Holy Dauid had seene much lighte of heauen for euen now he said The doubtefull and hidden thinges of thy wisedome thou hast manifested vnto me The wisdome of God we knowe is the Sonne of God And was there or is there any thing more doubtfull in nature then God to become man or more hidden to reason then for him so to redeeme the worlde by suffering on the crosse wherfore these hidden doubtfull secretes are called a stumbling blocke to the Iewes as thinges ignominious shamefull are estemed folly by the Gentiles as matters impossible and ●idiculous for to flesh and bloud without faith they are doubtfull hidden Vnto Dauid as a Prophet these doubtes and secrets were in some sorte reuealed he knew the Messias should procede of his linage and aboue all he expected whiles he was in Gods fauour to be partaker of the Benefites of his redemption but hauing fallen into sinne he perceiued himselfe to be gone out of the ioye of lighte into the horror of darkenes and not to haue any parte of saluation in those gracious promises Therfore desirous of his former estate he doth aptely praye Restore vnto me the Ioye of thy saluation and fearfull any more to susteyne 2 like losse he carefully addeth And with thy principall spirite confirme me vid least ● fall agayne 3. O mercifull God how long haue we sitte in darkenes and in the shadowe of death● vntill by thy bowells of me●cy thy morning starre from aboue hath visited our hartes in the Ioye of saluation and enlightened our mindes to guide our feete into the way of peace To come from hellishe darkenes to lighte from aboue is Ioye of heauen To be taken out of the shadowe of death into the way of peace is saluation of Iesus O swete Sauiour by thy bowels of mercy we beseech thee to visite vs in this Ioye and to enlighten vs in this saluation then shall thy seruante departe in peace when myne eyes doo beholde thy saluation 4. Saluation and Ioye are well joyned for euen the future hope of saluation hath present possession of ioye for who doth firmely hope to be saued he doth cherfully rejoyce in his hope But S. I●rome translating this Ioye of saluation to be Ioye of Iesus he doth include much more for in Iesus are conteyned all the infinite theasures of the Deity and of our felicity vnto Iesus is committed all power in heauen and in earthe Iesus is the brightnes of eternall lighte Iesus is the figure and substance of his Father Iesus is the hope of Israell and of the nations Iesus is kinge of kinges and lorde o● lordes Iesus is Prince of peace Iesus is the wisdome of his Father Iesus is beautifull aboue the sonnes of men Iesus is the glorious sunne of justice Iesus is the way truthe and life Iesus is the water and founteyn of life Iesus hath the wordes of life Iesus is the bread of