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A14976	The flaming bush. Or, An embleme of the true Church. Written by Thomas Westerne, minister of Gods Word at Alderleigh in Cheshire	Westerne, Thomas.	1624 (1624)	STC 25284; ESTC S119681	39,521	118

make shipwracke Bel. de iust lib. 3. 14. both of faith and loue but I haue neither faith to beleeue him nor loue to like him nor enuy him his red hat with this label this bable for whom God loueth hee euer loueth neither can any one snatch them out of the hand of Christ He that is elect and whose faith worketh by loue eyther neuer falleth Aug. de Cor Gra. c. 8. or if he fall is raysed and reuiued before this life be ended If your leaues be true they can neuer wither if wither away they were neuer true then let your faith and loue haue a continuall spring that you may bud now and flourish alwayes bee not Gods prentises a while and the diuels iourney-men after God will scorne the blew bottome if Satan sup the creame Forget not Ephesus remember you forsake not your first faith first loue hold on hold out Vsque ad extremum vitae terminum to the December of your dayes till your spirits ascend to heauen to him that gaue them your bodies descend to the earth whereof he made them your carkasses transcend on foure mens shoulders to Golgotha the place of dead-mens skulls Thus and this for the Root Body Fruites Barke Branch and leaues while I shake the fruites prepare the basket of attention to gather them the mouth of meditation to chew them and the stomacke of obedience to digest them The myrtle is a little bush In Elide but it hath many berries Pausanius makes it an Embleme of one of the graces The Church is this myrtle fruitfull and fertile and like Theophrastus his tree euery child of God is fructiferous he is that true tree of Reu. 22. 2. life which bare twelue manner of fruits and yeelds her fruite euery moneth These twelue fruites are twelue good workes sixe for the body and sixe for the soule you may wedde them together in that old● distich Visito poto cibo recoligo vestio condo Instrue castiga remitte solare fer ora To visite the sicke is a wholesome 1. Visito fruite Religio munda non mundi it is pure religion and vndefiled to visite Iam. 1. vlt. the fatherlesse and widdowes in their affliction Bee not slow to visite the Eccl. 7. 35. sicke for this shall make thee beloued Christ takes this office as done to himselfe When I was sicke and in Mat. 25. prison ye visited me therefore let euery one visit The King his Subiects the realme is sicke almost sicke to death from the shoulders to the sole many infirmities 1. The shoulders the Nobles in many places are sicke of phlegmons and tumours either attending in Court but what sayes the Prouerbe Exeat Aula qui vult esse pius or ruffling in citty while their Emissaries Bayliues are rifling the Countrey visiting not the whole the sicke but the sicke the whole to make them sicke There was once but one racke and that in the Towre for Traytors circumcelions and malefactors now wee haue in euery hamlet too many for honest Tenants husbandmen and farmers enhaunsing their fines finem facere to vndoe them improouing their rents to rent their estates and impouerish them or inclosing their Commons that their Oues Boues caetera peccora campi cannot peepe out of doores for feare of a trespasse so hedging God out and fencing the diuell in here a bush and there a thiefe that God might iustly send some hunting Nimrod to trample downe their quicksets The feet the Commonaltie are sore pained with botches and vlcers as Informers that eate vp Gods people as if they were bread Forestallers that scarce suffer Gods people to haue any bread vnlesse they will buy it at their price or can doe as the diuell counceld Christ turne stones into bread Scriueners that hale men to the Counter with parchment halters Brokers that deale with old garments as the most with voyd offices Who will giue most without a pawne a man shall sooner borrow their conscience then their money Breakers that gallop they care not in whose debt then play at most in hiddles till they trot out on the backe of a protection or skip vp into the saddle of a reference while the poore of the land are bridled and sadled and ridden and spurred expecting the supreame power to visit them The Iudge his Circuit Iustice like 2 that traueller twixt Iericho and Ierusalem is falne amongst theeues Couetousnesse that old theefe hath put out her eyes mercenary Lawyers haue deflowred her Bribery hath cut out her tong countenance in Court hath deaft her Partialitie hath robd her of her sword willfull conniuence hath broken her ballance and a swarme of perfidious bayliues are ready to cut her throat helpe sage Senators and visit this desolate widow doe right be expedite while Psal 82. 3. you haue light be not Iudices quasi ius dicentes nor legis-latores quasi legis latrones but doers rather then speakers treaders rather then pleaders of the law Why should great theeues hang vp little ones or Saul spare Agag for pretexts or Vlisses swarue from Telemachus in the furrow take heed perhaps some seuere Cambyses shall make cushions of your skinnes for your successors Let not poore supplyants both pay and pray and stay and in the end goe empty away Euery vniust Demurr anagramatized is murder The Bp. his Diocesse the plague 3 of Egypt is lightamongst vs and many too many are sicke of the scab Religion though not deceased is sore diseased while truth keepes her chamber with a scratched face Atheists would stifle her while walking Nebuchadnezzar-like vpon the turrets of nature and battlements of reason they breath forth blasphemie against God and infamy against man is not this great Babel which I haue built Is not that which wee D●n 4. 27. doe done by natures power haue not we wit haue not we will haue not wee reason haue not we skill thinking to be good when indeede they are ill disarming themselues while they make flesh their arme reiecting neglecting the power of God but when his name is mentioned Adder-like they clap one eare to the ground while with their tayle they stop the other wolfe-like they barke against the resplendent moone Owle-like they fly the light at noon Asse-like they bray against the thunder and Viper-like gnaw out the bowels of their mother saying with the Psal 14. 1. foole there is no God yet science in the most conscience in the rest notions in the soule motions of the heauens ptoclaime to his face that his toung is a lyer Papists would smoother her loading the Church with such a multitude of traditions that groaning vnder the burthen shee is fal●e into sweat Pope Zachary excommunicated one Virgill a Bishop for confessing the Antipodes and Popery would exterminate our Virgin truth for suppressing their ceremonies the want whereof is the best company ceremonia a carēdo O Lord send this curst cow but short hornes else

in the compter Are not most of our Despots turnd Tospots musicke for the eare beautie for the eie Pomanders for the nose Banquets for the tooth healths for the throte noe health for the body Hell for the Soul But Oh bone Iesu fons indificiens Tu humana corda reficiens Ad te curro te solum sitiens Tu mihi domine solus suffici●ns Oh sweete sauiour thou art our stay When these mundane props shall vanish away Thou art that Roote that shall neuer decay As Christ is the fundament so he 2 Nourishment giues aliment iuyce and nutriment moysture and nourishment to the Bush his Church Radix est os ●t stomachus arboris the roote is the mouth and stomacke of the tree mouth to feed it stomach to nourish it giues sustentation which breedes vegetation and fructification nor would it haue verdure or greenish tincture without this sappie moysture but would bee leaueles liueles fruitles Euen so Christus est os et stomachus fidelis Christ is the mouth and stomach of his Church mouth for instruction stomach for refection manna of the soul to feed mans soul bread of life to breed mans life sowen in heauen reapt in earth in'd by Mary thresht by the Pharisies ground on the crosse betweene two stones beetweene two theeues baked in the Sepulcher distributed in the Sacrament where god doth impart to euery faithful branch its part Sumit vnus sumunt mille quantum isti tantum ille whoeuer feedes on this refection eates and drinkes his owne 1 Cor. 11. saluation my flesh is meat my blood is drink flesh and blood meate and drink meate indeed drinke indeed Psa therefore as the Hart thirsteth for the riuers of water so doth my hart thirst for this heauenly moysture Cuius guttulis abluuntur animae Cuius riuulis dispelluntur maculae Quem qui effugiunt moriūtur viui Quem qu● sequ●●tur viu●nt ●orituri The Bush hath a bole trunke or 2 Bodie Rom. 12. Eph. 4. 4. body so hath the Church we are many members yet but one body glued and serued and cemented together with the morter of Vnitie plaster of Amitie asphaltum of Vnanimitie where the King is the head Councell the eies Iudges the eares Lawes the teeth Pastours the toung good Houskeepers the stomache Husbandmen the feet Souldiors the hands the Pope was the haire the haire of the head aboue the crowne till Harry the eight did shaue him downe God grant his trentals still to bee excrements We are all baptized into one body 1 Cor. 12. Why doth then the Guelph Gibbelin why doth the red and whitros● faction or Papist Hugonet or Precisian harrow and til the soyl of dissention Vnum corpus vnus a●●mus one Bole one Soul but of this succinctly 1 Cor. 10● 3 Barke cause by others sufficiently The Bush hath a Barke so the Church The Bark to the Bush is a beauty or ornament 2 a couer or tegument A good conuersation is such to the christian this doth Corpus tegere Cor protegere deck the soul protect the body moues god to respect both A fa●re Rinde argues a good mind good Conuersation a signe of sanctification as virtuous manners are precious treasures commodious to vs and also to others to vs ad iustificandum though not effectiuely so we are iustified by Christ not apprehensiuely so wee are iustified by faith yet declaratiuely by iust and holy virtuous workes So our Sauiour of himselfe the workes that I haue d●● beare witnesse what I am to others ad aedificandum that others seeing our workes on earth may glorifie our father which is in heuen V●●●tur exemplis man is led by practice more than instruction like pliable wax for any S●neca Epist lib. 1 Epist 1. impression But if you bee either male agentes doing wickedly or nihil agentes lying idly or aliud agentes vnbeseemingly your Couer is gone your honour 's none you are barkles Bushes naked Forresters Moreouer the Bush hath not onely a barke without but also a little Filme within so haue god● Darlings as faire outward parts so good inward hearts corporall vrbanity and cordiall sinceritie as knowing that Sermo interpres cordis apud v●rum cor interpres sermonis apud Deum men iudge of our harts by Philo-Iud the outward countenance but god of our works by the inward conscience therefore as they hang out a bush so they haue also Wine lodginge for Christ as well as a signe As pargetted walles so garnished chambers furnished closets swept washt rubd and pared from dust cobwebs filth and rubbish ab offensis le●ioribus smaler offences and suauioribus sweeter concupiscences grau●oribus grosser vices know you not that you are temples of the Holy Ghost but the holy-ghost will not dwell in those temples where En●y stands at the doore Wrath leanes in the porch drunkennes lyes on the ●●●ore Gluttony sits at the table Lechery keepes the bed Pride lookes out at the window Let vs now with Zacche get vp to 4 Branches the branches that we may eie espie our beloued Iesus The bush hath aboundance of twigges redundance of sprigges sprouts shuts boughes and armes so hath our slender tender Church whereof some are temporall some spirituall the issue of the wombe the issue of the word nor without the former can wee haue the later for no filij soeculi no filij coeli no generation no regeneration barrennesse was a curse among the Iewes wee thinke it a crosse among vs Gentiles Children are the first the best blessing Thus could Iuno preach to Ae●lus Sunt mihi bis septemprestanti corpor● nimphae Quarum quae forma pulcherrima D●●op●ian Con●●bio iungam stabili propriamque dicabo Aeole qua faciet pulchra te prole beatum Twice seauen beautious nimphes I haue in store Whereof the fairest I will giue to thee Instable wedlock which shall blesse thee more With children than great ●oue hath blessed mee Psa 128. And thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. His wife shal bee like a fruitfull vine by the house sides his children like Oliue branches round about his table vt Angeli in circuitu throni dei like a garland of angels round about gods throne vt stellae in circuitu Poli Arctici as a garland of stars round about the North-Pole Alcibiades asked Socrates how hee could indure the chiding of his wife Socrates ask'd Alcibiades how hee could indure the cackling of his hens sayes the one pariunt pullos my hens hatch me chickens but the other parit filios my wife beares Psal me children Happy he that hath his Psal quiuer full of them he shall not be ashamed to speake with his enemie in the gate they preserue our Species and after a sort make vs immortall by deriuing life from the roote to the branches from the Father to the Son from the Sonne to the sonnes sonne in longinquum as Dauid