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A18014	The plaine ma[ns] spirituall plough Containing the godly and spirituall husbandrie. Wherein euery Christian ought to be exercised, for the happie encrease of fruite, to eternall life. By I.C. preacher of the word.	Carpenter, John, d. 1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 4663; ESTC S118755	136,138	254

the Soole is the round-Hale BY the former handle of the Soole called also the Broade Hale is signified the turning about 7 Correction of the words and works c. and correction of the heart minde and inwarde affection of the Soule Now by this second called the Round-hale there is noted also a correction of mans words workes actions conditions and endeuours that therein the conuersion might be not onely in the minde or inward man but also without in the members so in the whole man is a perfect conuersion answerable not onely to the Greeke Metonoiah but also to the Hebrue Teschubah the altring or renewing not onely of the minde but of the whole man That is the meaning of the Prophet when hee saith Turne againe vnto the Lord Conuert thou vs and we shall be conuerted The order thereof wee may learne from the practise of the cunning Phisitian who endeuouring to alter the constitution of his sicke Patient applieth to cold causes hotte medicines and to hotte humours colde things as that with the cause of euery maladie The order of conuersion might with his contrary be best maistred and suppressed the like we may take from the vsage of the husbandman who into his hungry fields brings the fattest soyle into snapy and wet places hotte lime ashes and sand into high earth the sound marrle and into stony ground the cleanest worthe Euen so in this conuersion it is required that against wicked vices there be opposed all godly vertues Thus taught our Sauiour Christ who came into the world to saue sinners and thereto as Simeon prophecied to be the downe-falling Luk. ● and the vprising of many in Israel which is meant not onely of sundrie persons diuersly affected to whom he allots a contrary retribution but also of one and the same singular person or persons in whom he destroyeth the kingdome of sinne that in the same he might set vp and establish the kingdome of righteousnesse And in this hee wrought the ruine of pride by his humility the ruine of auarice by his liberalitie the ruine of luxury by his chastitie the ruine of enuie by his charitie the ruine of gluttony by his sobrietie the ruine of wrath by his patience the ruine of sloath by his diligence in a word the ruine of all wickednesse by his righteousnesse A certaine man endeuouring to perswade to this patterne counselled as thus translated Vnto the sicknesse of the Soule the contraries apply Giue Niggard of thine owne thou wanton bend to chastitie Turne Enuie into loue and Pride to good humilitie Yeeld Glutton to Sobrietie thou wrathfull patience loue In fine to bridle youthfull flesh the Rodde of Nurture proue Luk. 3.5 This rule taught Iohn the Baptist in his preaching of Repentance Let euery hill bee brought lowe let euery valley bee filled vp let thinges which are crooked be made straight and that which is rough be made plaine The same Ezechiel hath without a metaphor saying Ezec. 18.21 Let the vngodly man turne away from his vngodlinesse and doe the thing that is right And Daniel counsailing Nabuchadnezar thus Breake off thy sinnes by righteousnesse Dan. 4. and thine iniquitie by mercie The meaning is that men should cast away the deedes of darkenesse and put on the armour of light that the errour of their liues might bee redressed and themselues turned to the truth and brought from the power of Sathan vnto the Lord their God This is the enkindling of the blacke cole which hauing fire in it shineth bright yea this is the well culturing of mans vntrimmed land wherby the face and forme thereof being changed renewed and all things perfected hee is made liable both in body and minde to the heauenly and soueraigne seede Howbeit we must neuer forget this that both the beginning the proceeding and the effecting of this holy worke of mans Conuersion is not of mans owne will or abilitie but that which belongeth onely to his grace who hath created him and by his Spirite in his Sonne renueth them which belong vnto his kingdome The necessitie and manner of the Lords diuine worke therein hee declareth in his disputation with Nichodemus concerning the same saying Verily verily I say vnto thee Io. 3.5 except that a man be borne of water and of the Spirite he cannot enter into the kingdome of God Where he meaneth the Spirituall water whereby wee are baptized by the holy Ghost into newnesse of life The which being an especial worke of God not onely aboue mans abilitie but farre beyond his wisedome to conceiue he is bound to ascribe the praise thereof vnto the Lorde and with continuall inuocations and praiers desires of his goodnesse that as hee is most willing to worke this conuersion in vs by his Spirite we may not any way refuse the good motions of the same but euermore yeeld our selues readie both in minde and members to suppresse vices by the exercises of holy vertues and to turne away from all euill to follow and encline vnto all that is good by the helpe and grace of God in his sonne Iesus CHAP. XXII The ninth part of the Soole is the Chaine 8 The combination of Vertue AFter the two Hales or Handles wee regard the Chaine or Iron-Rope the which being fastned to the Tractorie and grapled to the yokes the whole Soole is pulled forth by the Oxen This Chaine or Rope is made of many Rings or linckes fastened one within an other so as one of thē being drawn forth all the other must of necessitie follow To such a matter aymed those auncient The three Graces wise and gratefull men who framed their three Xarisetes or Graces so as Xaris charin pherei One grace held supported or prouoked an other By this is fitly depainted the true combination prouocation of those motions which are agreeable to the lawe of God inspired and kindled by his diuine Spirite yea those very heauenly vertues and graces which are deriued vnto vs by a measure from the fulnesse of Christ and are appointed to sustaine and followe one an other in these persons regenerate Of this spake Saint Iohn when he saide that From his fulnesse we all receiue Grace Ioh. 1. vpon Grace or one vertue following an other And no doubt of the same spake Paul when hee would that such as beleeued should thereto adde not onely vertue but Proceede from vertue to vertue that is to adde one vertue to an other vntill they were made perfect in Christ But Saint Peter iumpeth iust to the Graces 1. Pet. 15. and numbreth vp sixe particular Linckes for this Chaine saying Giue yee all heede that yee minister in your faith vertue in your vertue knowledge in your knowledge temperance in your temperance godlinesse in your godlinesse brotherly kindenesse in your brotherly kindenesse loue Whereas hee saith Giue ye all heede that ye minister in your faith vertue c. He meaneth not that the power of the action or

prepared HAuing before spoken of the sowing of the seed and that it is required the lande wherein the same seede is sowne should first be well fallowed whereby the tares and weedes may be mortified and suppressed that the good fruites might ensue without hindrance it is now in question with what instrument this is to bee wrought and performed But seeing that al things are difficile and so hard as fewe men can expresse them wee hold him happie which by the diuine grace is made able thereto for it is certaine that the natural man cannot conceiue the things of the holy Ghost as wee plainely see in the example of Nicodemus Ioh. 3. ● 2 with whom Christ disputed concerning mans Regeneration teaching him to vnderstand diuine thinges by the similitudes taken from the truth of things terrene After whose example wee may againe consider the Husbandman how and with what instrument hee dealeth in this point of good husbandry as wherewith the better to ease himselfe expedite his worke The chiefe Instrument of his Action is that Aratrum which wee call the Plough wherein are found fiue generall partes to bee considered as First the Soole with his members Fiue parts of the Plough Next the Oxen which draw it Thirdly the Holder which directeth it Fourthly the Leader who allureth it Fiftly the Driuer wh prouoketh it To the which also wee may adde one other thing which thogh not any part of this Plough yet incident and conuenient to the better preparation of the Land and that is the Harrowing wherein also are considered three partes That is 1. The Hart owes which breake the Clods Three parts in the har●owing of the Lād 2. The Horses which draw 3. The Driuer who yoketh them Comparable to the which we haue found a ●ertaine spirituall Plough and like Harrowes in ●●d by the true vse whereof the spirituall Hus●●ndman may with the more facility and better ●eed effect that which is required and thereby ●uch ease himselfe touching the great paines ●rowes of his handes about the Earth Gen 3.17 and 5. ●9 which ●e Lord had cursed according to that prophesie Lamech in the naming of his sonne Noah who ●erwarde became so good a Husbandman ●ow in the examination of the Parts let vs first ●●nsider of the Soule which is that Instrument ●erewith being fastened to the Oxen The Soule with che parts therof 14. the Hus●●dman rippeth vp his land for the Seede and ●●●rein we finde besides some others fourteene ●s or members as they follow viz. 1 The Share 2 The Shippe 3 The Culter 4 The Beame 5 The Tractorie 6 The ground Rise 7 The broad hale 8 The Round Halt 9 The Chaine 10 The farther Wheele 11 The neere Wheele 12 The Axell 13 The Key 14 The Tawe ●o the which particular parts and members so many Actions and vertues of Righteousnesse and Mercy may be compared viz. 1 Contrition of the heart 2 Humility of the Spirit 3 Confession of the mouth 4 Maceration of the flesh 5 Hope of Remission 6 Patience in affliction 7 Conuersion of minde 8 Correction of works 9 Combination of vertues 10 Meditation of godlinesse 11 Continuance of good actions 12 Inuocation of God 13 Iustification of faith 13 Loue of the Spirit A memorandū for the Ploghmen in the field Loe in this sort is the Soole of Pieties Plough framed as whereby the verie Plough men labourers in the field following or beholding the Plough may easily as by certain Symboles consider theit owne condition and call to memory those things wherunto the Lord in his word and by his seruants hath inuited seekes to perswade them that being thereby sooner taught they may as good Husbandmen labour in the Lords field both for his glorie and their owne commodity And this that wee may yet better know remember to obserue let vs be contented to peruse and examine those particulars CHAP. XIII .. The first part of the Soole is the Share THe first is the Contrition of heart Contrition of heart likened to the Share of the Soole This Instrument is called in Latine Dentale Dentale of the word Dens or Tooth for that it pierceth or biteth and the vse thereof is to pierce the ●owels of the soyle as therein to force the same ●nd make way for the Culter which followeth ●●ne to diuide and open that which the Share ●●th pierced and this very aptly expresseth that ●●ntrition of heart which is well defined the Cō●●ction or wholesome motion of an humble ●inde or sorrowful heart rising of the Recorda●●n of sinnes committed and the feare of Gods ●●ements on the same and is declared with 〈◊〉 sighes and weeping eyes And howsoe●● wee finde the same to be occasioned by any ●●●●rnall action wee most know it to be the ve●● worke of God then wrought when by the 〈◊〉 and iudgement of Conscience he openeth 〈◊〉 a man the greatnes horrour of his trans●●ssion and sins demonstrateth to him his high pleasure with an iminent plague for the same 〈◊〉 it slicteth on his heart the bitter sense o● his ●●ath as whereby hee is forced to feare to tremble and to feele the eager gnawing wringing torment of a guiltie Conscience now as readie to be drawn to the Iudgement Seate and thence as gultie to bee sent forth to the place of execution that so beaten downe daunted and mortified he might afterward be made capeable either of grace and consolation in the Lords mercy or being left to himselfe might fall through dispaire into eternall death and damnation With this Share did the Lord pierce and wound the hearts of those Iewes to whom Peter preached accusing and charging them with the betraying and murthering of the Lord Iesus which had iustly prouoked the Lord deserued the paine of his iust iudgements whereon being pricked in conscience they said vnto Peter and the other Apostles Act. 2.37 Men and brethren what shall we doe The same Share pierced the Publicans the Souldiers and the people when Iohn the Baptist told them that the Axe was laide euen to the roote of the tree so that euery tree that brought not foorth good fruit was to be hewen downe and cast into the fire This was the preaching of the Lawe whereat also Dauid Manasses Peter Magaalen accusing themselues as guilty were brought to contrition And indeede Dauid after the experience of this instrument found that it was not onely a thing profitable for him as whereby not might begin to proceede with Pieties Plough Psal 50. but also a pleasing Sacrifice vnto God the which is strongly seconded by the Lord himselfe who saith To whom should I look but to him which is poore and contrite in heart and trembleth at my wordes Esai 66.2 Therefore the same Paul much commendeth 2. Cor. 7.7.8 writing to the Corinthians and addeth Though I made you sorie with a Letter I repent not though I did repent Againe I now