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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15713	The christians mourning garment	Worship, William.	1603 (1603)	STC 25987; ESTC S113276	27,165	63

let the Rauens of the vallie picke out his eyes that curseth this ancient mother in Israel I could make more ample rehearsall of Gods speciall fauour to thée beloued Christian but the intended quantity of the booke will not suffer me Wherfore read on be not weary of well doing and for thy next taske thinke vpon thrée principall Effects of sinne that so thy sorrow may be aggrauated First ascertaine thy selfe that so long as thou weltrest in thy wickednesse without remorse touch of conscience thou art a seruant Rom. 6. 23 Luk. 15. 15 a vassall to Sinne whose wages is Death A prodigall childe thou art strayed from thy good father into a farre countrey where being all ragd and tottered eaten into the flesh with vermine thou art glad to become the deuils swinheard Which tyrant hath taken thée prisoner to do his wil. mued 2. Tim. 2 26 thée vp in a far more noysome dungeon than that wherein poore Ieremie stacke so fast This is thy state O man Why then doest thou not thrust forth teares and smoake out sighes euen breake the kall of thine heart with sorrow Is swéet liberty so yrkesome yrkesome bondage so swéet Inquire of the Foules of the ayre they will tell thée that fréedome in the wood is better than prisonment in a cage of gold Inquire of the Lions and they wil make answer that they had rather séeke their meate at God in the Wildernesse than haue it put into their mouths through the grate Inquire of the Riuers they will resolue thee that they would much sooner lye open to winde weather at home in the sea than crawle neuer neuer so calmely by the gréenest and best sented medowes I beséech thée therefore by the mercies of God that thou bewayle thy miserable vassallage The Babilonians of hell the Deuil his Angels haue led thée away captiue the cruell Edomits thy sinnes prouoake them against thée and both of them by way of mockage require a song melody of thée then sit thou downe vpon the waters bank wéeping and hanging thy harpe vpon the Willowes for mirth at such time is out of season Cast not thy selfe vpon thy Iuory bed eate not gluttonously drinke not Wine in boules but remember thy soule thine afflicted Ioseph who all this while hath his féet in hel stocks The blessed father of our Lord Iesus Christ bore thine cares that thou maist heare and suffer these wordes of exhortation and plow vp thy hart by his holy spirit for it is made of a tough and churlish kinde of clay I procéede to another Suasiue During the time of thine impenitencie all the Creatures in the world band themselues against thée conspire thine ouerthrow And the reason is for that the Lord of Hostes is marching forward whose faithfull sworne souldiers they be Is not here sufficient matter to cloud ouercast thine eies and to change thy ioy for mourning thy beauty for ashes thy Oyle of gladnes for the spirit of heauinesse At dead time of night in thy soundest sléepe the Imbers on thine hearth desire the winde in their kinde to leaue his naturall course of blowing assant and to whip them vp that so they may get matter to worke vpon The spars and rafters of thy house haue vowed to be ready to increase the flame at lesse than an houres warning Walkest thou in the stréet The tiles threaten downfall In the field the ayre will conuay infection the earth will grone vnder thy soote as loath to beare so vnprofitable a burthē Nay what wilt thou say if the silliest imperfectest creatures dog thée and make thée weary of thy life Are Frogs and Lice Caterpillers nothing with thée Doth not one poore Gnat hartning on her selfe to battaile with her Cornet which she winds so lastingly waken thée and make thée start with her feeble sting Then what would a legion of Gnats doe Ah sinfull soule and laden with iniquity is thy hart made of rubbish thine eye of Marble that the one will not giue againe the other become dankish Knowest thou not what it is to haue the stones of the field out of league with thée and the beasts of the field out of league with thée Take an example of Ionah and sée how he was handled when God mustered vp such forces against him in his displeasure After this Prophet had long laboured and toyled in Israell and could doe no good the Lord gaue him expresse charge to remooue his plow into the Nineuites fielde to shame her He vnmindfull of his commission paies the fare and is shipt For Tharshish he he is resolud While he thus strugled with diuine prouidence the Winds at their Creators commaund brake loose bad the Mariners Ionah 1. 4. deliuer Ionah The Sea sawe that and was wroth and bad the Marriners deliuer Ionah The Whale laye watching all this while and bad the Marriners deliuer Ionah The ship poore winged vessell laye swooning vpon the billowes and bad the Marriners vnballase her of Ionah Nay Ionah stood vp against Ionah and besought the Marriners to tumble him into the large Sepulcher of the sea How now mery sinner doth not the senere vsage of the man of God appall thée If so righteous a man be thus harshly intreated by the creatures where wilt thou an vngodly and vnrepentant man appeare O Sampson why sufferest thou lady Pleasure to play the Delilah dandling thée on her knée til she haue shaued of all thy goodnesse made thée wretched féeble and impotent what Samplon Sampson fend for thy self the Philistnes are vpō thée Sampson There remaineth a third effect of sinne sufficient to split thy hart be thou not insensibly blockish wilfully nefarious extreamly impious It is this All creatures in the world grone vnder the heauy burden of thy sinnes yea the Creator himselfe S. Paul affirmes this in part most excellently For we know Rom. 8. 11. saith he that euery creature groaneth with vs also and trauaileth in paine together vnto this present because it is subiect to vanitie vnder the bondage of corruption The world left being a world when Adam left béeing obedient it was neuer beautifull nor chéerfull since it waxed old in youth through manifold ataxies and disorders and at this day lyes bed-rid waiting with a seruent desire for the glorious cōming of the sonne of God When Israelits sinnes were ripe and calde for the sickle rotten cryed for the corastue what followde The harmelesse creatures must pay for it The beasts of the field and the foules of the heauen must be cut off and Hose 4. 2. 3 the Fishes of the sea must be taken away The Prophet Ieremie bewailing the pitious Lam. 2. 4. estate of Ierusalem testifieth that the very wayes of Sion and the rampart wall did lament for the iniquitie of the Iewes Sée sée my beloued how the dumbe creatures complaine vnder the intollerable waight of

may enter in Héere begins he to sighe at the view of his sinnes Presently comes me in a Ruffian whom God sends to prooue him whom the Deuill sends to spoile him and he with a payre of Cardes and a Cup of neate Claret thrusts Iesus out into the Stable because there is no roome for him in the Inne Thus be the good motions of the holye Ghoste extinguished by the accesse of a Gamester that Schooles his young maister in the Arte of Driuing away time Driue away time Is Tyme so slow-footed that it néedes driuing My friend if a sinner intice thée to sport when the Feuer of thy sinnes begins to shake thée consent not to him Rather goe aside as a man throwne from the world and then let thy belly tremble let thy lips shake let rottenuesse enter into thy bones Learne of the Nightingale who when she is robd of her yonglings gets her to some solitarie trée where she bewailes her vnhappie marriage Abstract and sequester thy selfe flée resorte say vnto laughter thou art madde haunt vntrodden pathes desire the Lillies of the fielde to cloath themselues in blacke and accompanie thée in thy dolefull passions The fourth Impediment is Impayring of health A ioyfull hart saith the Wiseman causeth good health but a sorrowfull minde Pro. 17. 22 dryeth vp the bones Let not this dismay thée better go sickly to heauen than healthfull to hell Be not all for thy bodie nothing for thy soule but like the Lapidarie estéeme the Iewell farre aboue the rinde or barke Moreouer I affirme that it is the care of this worlde that brings a Calender into the bones and snowes vpon mens heades so timely and not this sorrow which we magnifie For as the Sea at high water if angred with a boystrous wind threatneth present deluge to the earth and yet suddainely it giues backe and runnes away like a coward so the panges and gréeuances of the righteous stird vp by the iustice of God euen when they séeme to deuoure are deuoured of his mercy They are as sorrowing and yet alwayes reioycing by reason of spiritual comfort which putteth life into them Heauines may indure for a night but ioye wil be sure to be with them in the morning The last and worst Let is the holding the mortality of the soule There is a cursed generation that sit downe to eate and drinke and rise vp to play and hold that their soules in death vanish away like a dogges This Satanicall paradoxe possest the hart of that great Phisition Galen A man might haue cast his water and found filthy sediments of Athisme But he is dead long ago I would this sin had died with him Good Christian neuer come thou nere those Carrions that maintaine the soule to be a vapour vnlesse thou haue the winde of them That thou maist be assured of the soules immortality harken to these pregnant and vnanswerable proofes Our fathers are the fathers of our bodyes Heb. 12. 9. Eccle. 12. 7. not of our soules saith the Apostle The spirite returnes to God that gaue it saith the Preacher The Lord breathed the soule into Gen. 2. 7. mans body saith Moses Therefore is it not elementary therefore is it euerlasting But because the disputer of this worlde renounces Christian principles we will enter the listes of reason with him a little and foile him in his proper element The sence is so corrupted by a great obiect that it cannot indure the lesse For example The eye is so dazeled with the beames of the Sun that it cānot iudicially discerne colours in an obscurer light It is contrary with the vnderstanding For the more vehement the obiect is whereabout it is conuersant the more forcible is it in comprehending the inferiour An euident demonstration of the soules diuinity I omit the horror of conscience which cānot possibly light vpon the body it being a spirituall punishment nor yet vpō the soule were it not a subsisting essence And I will but tutch the most admirable gradation of the creatures some whereof are onely bodily as beasts some spirituall as Angels some both spirituall and sensible as man the one in respect of his soule the other of his body Therfore my beloued be thou stedfast immooueable aboundant in mourning for thine iniquities for as much as thou knowest thy sorrow shall not be in vaine in the Lord. If thou finde thy soule at od times vnwilling to thinke of flitting impute that to her illnesse for naturally she is estranged from the father of lights and lodging so warmely and peaceably in the body she is not so forward to remooue as she ought The Infant is at harts-case in the mothers wombe and would not change it for a pallace yet when it is borne and comes to discretion it cannot indure to thinke of the closet where it lay enwrapped The soule delighteth now to inhabit the body but when death hath brought it to a ioyfull birth after a long trauaile O then it would not be imprison'd againe in the body for a thousand worlds And thus by Gods goodnesse haue I gone through the Impediments And now good brother that I haue giuen thée a potion the vertue whereof I trust hath had full course to runne throughout all thy vaynes I am for a farewell to leaue thée a swéete Electuary or Iulep for thy comfort It is a Moderation in sorrowing For the tempter will couet to besnare thy soule with intollerable anguishe that so with Cain thou maiest complaine that thy sinnes are greater than can be forgiuen O pray pray pray for patience and comfort of the holy Ghost for a wounded spirite who can beare Iob and Dauid a blessed pare of Saints mourned like Doues and Pellicans when the Lord caused them to possesse Pro. 18. 14. the sinnes of their youth Surely no wisdom can counsell no counsel can aduise no aduise can asswage a perplexed conscience nor any thing els but onely the hart bloud of Iesus Christ which blood hee hath powred out so plenteously for all true penitent sinners that they may bath themselues therein Then cry incessantly and importunately O sonne of Dauid haue mercy on me open mine eyes heale my woundes cure my Maladies euen for thy goodnes sake O Lord. Remember the heauenly wordes Christ vttered in the extreame agony of his soule My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Behold how hée calleth his father his God twice what time his wrath ceazed vpon him in an incomprehensible maner Sorrow not too much when the Lord openeth the booke of thy conscience all blurd and blotted with sinne but bee of good cheare kisse his holy hand euen when he striketh thée The father of mercies and God of al consolatiō be thy Castle of defence in all thy tribulations spirituall conflicts that thou maist be able to comfort others in the like distresse by the same comfort wherewith thou thy selfe art comforted of him Amen FINIS A Morning praier to bevsed in