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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01475	Two treatises the first, entituled, The foode of the faithfull. The second Deaths welcome.	Garey, Samuel, 1582 or 3-1646.	1605 (1605)	STC 11600; ESTC S115877	35,139	126

great is the fairenes and pleasure of Eternall light that if one might not liue there longer then one day for thys onely innumerable yeeres full of the delights of this life and aboundance of temporall goods he might rightly worthily be cōtented For in heauen we shal haue light without end brightnesse without comprehension peace without inuasion In this world our sences are benummed frozen with the extremitie of miseries coldnesse but in heauen there shal such vnexpected blisse shine vppon vs that all the parts of our body and soule shal be miraculously cherished with the lightning of selicitie In this world if the whole worthinesse of all humane creatures vvere comprised in the globe of one mans breast yet were not that one man so happy as the least Saint in Heauen In this world wee are but as it vvere ships without a Pylot tumbling vp and downe in vncertaine waues till we runne vpon the rocks of selfe deuision or bee ouerthrowne by the stormie winde of forraine inuasion In this VVorld we are but as it were tenisbals tossed by the racked of iniurious fortune but in heauen vve need not feare the tempests of aduersitie for there wee shall dwell vvith Saints vnited in perfection there we shall tast the golden fruite of blessed soules there wee shal haue Christ a guide vnto our waies and a Gardian to our persons there Christ shall be light vnto our eyes musick vnto our eares sweetnes to our tast contentment to our soules The state of the Church militant heere in this world is like the Arke floting vpon waters like a lilly growing among thornes like Christs ship in the 8 of Mathew couered vvith waues and yet not drowned But in the second worlde it shall be triumphant where it shal gloriously raigne for euermore Man in this world is but an Anatomy of misery or a spectacle of a dolorous ending tragedie but in the world to come he shall be a paragon of glory and a patterne of endlesse happinesse Therefore sith the reward of our godly endeuours shal be so well recompenced in the future life let vs abandon all vicious pleasures neuer be recalled to the vomit of carnall desires Let vs fight manfully vnder the banner of our grand captaine Christ vntill we vanquish all his enemies the denill his angels and for that good seruice performed in Christes quarrell we shall receiue at his handes a large pay namely an euerlasting life and an immortall crowne of glory Now therefore sith I haue as it were lighted a candle to the glorious sun-shine of this heauenly glorie which cannot any way be better shadowed out with the best pensil then by couering it ouer with the vaile of silence I will speake but verie little more concerning this happines but will onely compare the torments of hell to the ioyes of heauen For as beautie seemes more excellent when it is paralelled with deformitie so wil heauen show more glorious when it is compared to hell For as it is an axiome with the Logicians Of contrarie things the reason is contrarie so in this contrarietie in heauen and in hell hee which doth perceiue the ioyes in heauen may easily coniecture at the torments in hell If the ioyes in heauen cannot bee expressed by the tongues of Angells then the torments of hell cannot be declared by the best Orator For as those two places be distant in qualitie so their ioyes and paines be equall in quantitie If that the ioyes of heauen be infinite the paines of hel must consequently followe to be infinite Now then sith these two opposite places bee distinguished with such a contrarietie the ioyes of the one euery man would gladly enioy the paines of the other euery man would willingly eschewe it followeth that this is the greatest impediment for a man not willingly to welcome death because he is wonderfully afraid least he should bee punnished for his sinnes in these hellish torments these torments doe ingender such a feare in a man that hee horridly quaketh at the mention of death For when a man shall recount with himselfe that he offered the May crop of his life to the deuill that hee sacrificed his blooming yeares to the seruice of the deuill and that now the flowers of his youth are blasted the fruite perrish the body of the Tree groweth to decay then hee shall thinke with himselfe that hee being voyde of the sap of good fruites shall become fuell for hell fire When he shall lie on his departing bed burdened with the heauy loade of his trespasses and vexed with the worme of conscience and feeling the crampe of death wresting his harts strings and ready inpathed in his finally voyage and not farre from the period of his daies Oh how hee shall be distracted in his senses when he should make a free gift of his body and soule to God and by bequeathment to dispach the whole menage of all eternitie and of the treasures of heauen Oh how shall he bee mazed when he shall consider how the morning pleasures of his youth lulled him a sleepe in sinne how the violent heat of the noone of his age did prouoke and excite sinfull affections and therefore in the coole and calme of his euening how can hee hope to retire to a Christian rest and close vp the day of his life with a cleare sunset wanting the light of grace without which euery one shall abide in euerlasting darkenesse These considerations I say will make a man tremble at the mention of death for peccati stipendium mors the reward of sinne is death and these torments in hell fire therefore when hee shall thinke with himselfe that the most vertuous can scarce attaine to heauen in mountenance of yeares whose liues were died in the beautifull graine of vertue how then shall hee wretched sinner hope to obtaine heauen since all his life time hee hath perseuered in sinne that now death hauing taken away abilitie in sinning and left him to the lees of his dying daies how shall he beleiue to be infranchised in that heauenly Citty which is not so penurious of friends that it should bee made salable for the refuse and reuersion of euery sinners life A King which hath liued like an Epicure heere vppon earth and in nothing tooke delight but like a Nero to oppresse the innocent shall not inioy the heauenly happinesse For as Bernard saith It is impossible to ioyne present and future delights And as the same father in another place addeth He that is fed with earthly pleasures is counted vnworthy of eternall ioyes The shining title of worldly glory shall nothing helpe to the happines of that life they be like bladders which are puffed vp with the winde of prosperitie and only doe affect the smoke of vaine glory they doe not obserue the precept giuen by Moses vnto Princes Princes must reade the Lawe all the daies of their liues and as Iosua let not the booke of this Lawe depart out of

they make the lawes and statutes limetwiggs to catch the simple which should bee as it were Sea-markes to auoyde shipwracke for ignorant passengers they studdie for to inuent pollicie how to palliate committed disorders The Iudges imitate Samuels songs which did not walke in their fathers waies but tooke bribes and rewards to peruert right The widdowes complaine the Orphans are wronged the poore are not regarded And as Isidorus saith through the loue of desire lawes are of no force hee that hath to giue hath also to gouerne And as Saint Augustine saith a fat Hen doth more preuaile with Iudges then iustice and money more then innocencie They will not regard any plea vnlesse the euidence containes golden eloquence But there is another commaundement giuen them in Deutronomie Wrest not the law nor know any person neither take any rewards for giftes blind the wise and peruert the words of the righteous as there is a common axiom among the Canonists Ni nire non debet esse acceptio personarum the Iudges and Lawyers should not regard the great men more then the poore nor the plaintifes bagges more then the defendants in forma pauperis Woe be vnto them that make vnrighteous lawes whereby the poore are oppressed Woe vnto that abominable Cittie whose Rulers are as roaring Lyons whose Iudges are as Wolues in the Eucning these threatnings out of the Scripture will make the Lawyers timerous to die when they shall recount with themselues how oft they haue trangressed these diuine lawes how many bribes they haue receiued to giue vniust sentence how oft they haue stopt their eares against the crie of the needie how oft they haue heard the accuser would not hearken to the accused Reiecting Alexanders graue iudgement who did alwaies stop one of his eares when any one did complaine againe another saying this care I lend the accuser the other I reserue for the excuser When I say they shall record their publicke and priuate iniuries their conniuence at manifest faults and too much seueritie at small crimes their vnlawfull condemnations and their partiall absolutions I say these committed offences will so examinate them and strike such a terror into them when the streame of their life runneth at a low ebbe and the date of their life heere in this world is expired and they entering into the kalends of death then they will sit quiuering for feare and knocke at the doore of their conscience and there summon a quest of inquirie for their sinnes and when they shall come to appeare at the Bar of consideration and there be arrained they shall answere as prisoners at the Barre guiltie guiltie And this is the reason why they are so vnwillingly to depart out of this life in like manner the Tradesmen who are customers to the world who haue gotten false ware sutable to the shoppe of such Marchants whose traficke is to toile whose wealth trash whose gaine miserie they I say are vnwilling to depart this life because by their fraudulent dealings they haue purchased an ill conscience which doth make them sleepe like the Nightingalls who alwaies sleepe with a prickt against their brest so doe they sleepe or rather slumber hauing a pricking conscience It alwaies registreth their misdeedes showing them their offences and so they haue no confident perswasiion that their election is sure Also the husbandmen who haue long time tilled the earth and by the sweat of their labours haue increased their worldly possessions now perceiue by the infirmitie of their body they bee not able any more to endure the churlish entertainment of the world or to prolong the tedious line of life and recount with themselues what infinite paines they haue vndergone for to obtaine worldly riches and neuer laboured one houre in the field of Gods Church to possesse beauenly treasures sowing the seedes of repentant sorrowe and watering them with the teares of contrition that they might reape a more beneficiall haruest and gather the fruits of endlesse comfort Then they will thinke with them selues that it is an vnseasonable time to alter the course of their vnthriuing husbandry when in the Aprill of theyr yeeres they might haue brought foorth the flowers fruites of saluation and these be the causes why they be vnwilling to depart out of this life and dare not say with father Simeon O Lord cōmaund that my Soule may depart in peace Nor dare not cry out with Dauid the pyller of mother Sion who liued in the child-hood of the Church when the clowde of the Law did ouershadow the appearance of the Sun in fulnesse of comfort before Christ had opened the store-house of ioy and yet he beeing wearie of his life and the burden of his body cryed out Oh howe long shall I liue in this prison And Paule the notable organ of the holy Ghost singeth the same long with Dauid saying ô wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from this body of sinne So did Father Ieremie wish that the wombe had serued for his tombe And so did Esay be waile his birth and murmured against the knees that held him vp the breasts that gaue him sucke For they knew that the worlde was but a sea of sorrow and our life like vnto a new ship put into the sea fleeting to the bottomlesse swallow where as the tempestuous winds and waues of this world doe beate vppon and alwaies threaten a drowning of life but whē this fraile mortall life seemes to haue brokē her wings by the force of death then presently as immortall shee taketh her flight and lands at a good port VVhy therefore should wee desire to adde more feathers to the wings of time sith after our dissolution we shal be made liuely members fully knit in our body Christ Iesus Ay but a man will say if I were fully perswaded that I should bee made partaker of this beauenlie life I would willingly desire to die and wish that the feeble threds of my life would euery howre vntwine But now my guiltie conscience doth accuse mee my ill ledde life doth terrifie me and all my wicked deedes doe so molest my mind that I am afraide to die Sure this serious consideration of our former offences dooth much amaze a good grounded christian when hee lies vppon his dying bed wayting for the rufull diuorcement of his body and soule hauing a fettered conscience which alwaies will assure him that he hauing been a sluggish drone in the hiue of Christes Church shall not tast the sweetnes of pleasure nor the hony combe of comfort in the heauenly Citty but hee shall bee glutted with the sower grape of persecution of Gods wrath and these hellish torments that he hauing been a carelesse Marriner in this world and alwaies the shippe of his body remaining in the scope of the wicked wind and vveather of this world the Pirate the deuill shall make shipwracke of his saluation and so hee perrish vppon the rocks of eternall ruine But