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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01077	The bitter vvaters of Babylon, or The miserable estate of the citizens of Sion considered by the confusion of all things in this world.	Forsyth, James, fl. 1615-1619.	1615 (1615)	STC 11191; ESTC S121939	26,614	42

to those plagues which the Lord doth threaten vpon the disobedient being alwaies hanging ouer the wicked as wee see by Lot that dwelling amongst the wicked Sodomites was taken prisoner with them in the ouerthrow Or else they are likely to be tainted with them dumspectant laesos oculilaeduntur ipsi they can hardly escape the wicked without receiuing some blemish of them Righteous Ioseph being amongst the prophaneseruants in Pharaohs court learning to sweare 〈◊〉 of Pharaoh if we then obserue the prophanesse of the place or the imp●e●ie of the people of that place we shall finde their case miserable by reason of their habitation and so I come to the fourth circumstance of their commiseration that they did dwell by the bankesides if they had been receiued into their Cities or townes where they might had s●…er for their safegard then had they receiued some comfort but being expelled from their Cities and from thence to the Riuersides to remaine without shadow is a great miserie vnto them super slumina sedent they remaine by the riuer side in the countrey of Caldea there were sundry r●…rs such as Euphrates Ne●…rd●a Ahaua and Tigris which doth shew the place to bevery fruitfull to encrease their greife because they cannot be receiued into the Cities with them The Caldeans darenot receiue them into their fellowshippe Inimicis fidere cum illis habitare non tutum sentiunt to trust their enemies and to dwell with them they thinke it not safe enough therefore are they exposed into the Riuerside when the woman of Samaria came to lacobs well shee retained some comfort of her lourney for shee found the Messias the Sauiour of the world that was able to deliuer and did deliuer her from all her fornications but here they come to the riuers of Bab●l where they haue no hope of deliuerer nor comforter to help them for the space of seuenty yeares Although Agar sit sorrowfull for a while by the Well in the wildernesse yet at last the Angell came to comfort her but here they sit a long space and haue no hope of Angell nor man to comfort nor releiue them These waters may be well called Massah or Meribah of strife or tentation Naturae enim repugnat for it is against their nature to be tied into such a barren place hauing had such goodly aspects of their owne before Their goodly Orchards gallant gardens delicate fine walkes beset with fruitfull trees and sweete bushes is now conuerted into a barren bankeside ouergrowne with willowes their pleasant parlors braue ●●ls and costly hung chambers are now translated into a poore tent not able to defend them from the raine nor tempest hoc miseria plenum the more I do discend into their miserie the greater I findetheir greife to be aggrauated and so much of their affliction In their affection wee haue first set downe the cause of their conceiued sorrow which was the remembrance of their former happinesse Dura satis miseris memoratio prisca bonor●… Of all miseries it is the greatest to remember the io●litie of our former life this torment doth father Abraham adde vnto the rich glutton lying in hell forments R●cardarem● sili remember my senne that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy pleasure which no doubt did afflict him more then all his former torments Whileman is in prosperitie hee neuer thinke of his future miserie which when it doth assault of all afflictions it is the greatest to remember his former happinesse in●…cissimum est in fortuny genus meminisse fuisse foelicem of all things it is the most vnhappie to remember that we were once happie King Cresus doth affirme this by that often repetition of Solon when he was going to the place of torment who did on a time bragge of his happinesse vnto Solon a Sage of Greece and said that hee thought himselfe the happiest man that liued vnto whom Solon replying said no man can be said to be happie before his death and being afterward taken in battell of King Cyrus did vtter nothing but Solon Solon shewing that the remembrance thereof did onely vexe and afflict him surely the greatest punishment that the damned shall receiue in hell torments wil be the remembrance of their former pleasure Plungent quia mundum dilexerunt plangent quia vitam non correxerunt plangent quia paenam incurserunt They shall weepe because they haue loued the world they shall mourne because they did not amend their life while they liued in the world They shall lament because they did deserue by their wickednesse to come to that place of torment when they departed out of the world the remembrance of their former losse will be their greatest griefe But to come to the height of their vnhappinesse and to take a veiw of the depth of their miserie it is no earthly thing that doth greiue them only the comfort which they wanted of S●on is all that vexe them When we remembred Sion Mary sits very sorrowfull in a mournefull habite as long as Christ was absent from her but when her sister Martha came and told her that the Master was come and called for her O how speedily did she arise and embrace him ioyfully the want of the comfort of the word of God is the greatest griefe that can come to a godly soule Dauid accounts in his banishment this his greatest losse and the people there in captiuitie lament for the defect here of while they were in their owne countrey they did not account of it they dispised the Prophets quid nobiscūcum illis what haue we to do with such as prophesie euill vnto vs but now being depriued of it ô how they weepe for their want of it Demosthenes being banished Athens ô how he did weepe when he looked towards Athens the Israclites being banished into Babilon ô how they do weepe when they remember Sion Sion was an eminent place in Ierusalem where the Lord had set his name to be worshipped and where onely they did receiue comfort in the word Agar she weepes because she is thrust out of her Masters house they weepe because they are put out of Sion and debarred from their Masters presence in his house Diues being in prosperitie did not regard the word of God nor take any delight therein but in aduersity lying in hell torments he lamented his carelessenesse thereof wherefore he wished Abraham to send Lazarus to his fathers house to giue his brethren notice of their neglect herein least they should come into that place of torment Hauing spoken of the historicall sense according as it happened vnto these Israelites really may it please you right honorable right worshipfull and welbeloued that I speake of the my sticall meaning It is no allegorie which I handle but onely a moralitie drawne from the true historie according to the opinion of all the auncient as S. Augustine lerome Chrysostome Hugo Cardinalis Lyra and others as