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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77664	A rare paterne of iustice and mercy; exemplified in the many notable, and charitable legacies of Sr. Iames Cambel, Knight, and alderman of London, deceased : worthy imitation. Whereunto is annexed A meteor, and A starre : or, Briefe and pleasant meditations of Gods providence to his chosen, of the education of children and of the vertue of love; with other poems. / By Edw: Browne.	Browne, Edward.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5105; Thomason E1109_1; ESTC R208421	51,495	182

our free justification Not by mans workes but by the holy Ghost Inspiring saving faith but I almost In this most sacred Theme my selfe had lost Then how wee 're justifi'de therein to shew What Graces in Repentance Garden grow How in the heart springs sorrowfull Contrition How in the lips doth sprout humble Confession How satisfaction from the hands d● flow To them we wrong'd Rep●●●ance true to show How wee should die to sinne and live to God But in this Theam I make too long abode Yet not too long but that my Wit 's unable My Brain 's too shallow and my selfe unstable Therefore I 'll leave it unto all Divines That in such things should spend their pains and times For ● have small skill in me to reveale The Love of God which I must needs conceile For that bright glory I cannot expresse It is encit●h that my we●ke shallownesse Can on●ly thinke of that same mighty power Which is prepared in that heavenly Bower For to describe it fully any man By pen and inke neuer be able can Therefore ●●e draw a v●il● before mine eyes Not d●ring to behold such mysteri●s Which is so great th● like never eye saw This well is deepe I have no pale to draw Eare h 〈…〉 h not hard nor the heart understood What God prepara'hath for his childrens good How as his earthly Globe doth f●r surpasse In beauty and a●lights that darkesome place Of our Nativity so heav'nly bliss Doth farre ●urmount all that in this world is How mortall bodies subjest to corruption Shal be immortall without interruption How that the soule shal be fil'd with the sight Of God and Saints in that Celestiall light And there I hope for to behold my wife For here she liv'd a Godly quiet life Oh here is Love past all mans apprehension And therfore farre beyond my dull invention Therfore I 'll cease in this discourse and pray That God may keepe me in a vertuous way That I in God may comprehended be For I 'm not able to hold him in me Yet why thus say I if I living be I truely dwell in God and he in me For God is Love and he that dwels in Love Doth dwell in God but this is farre above My apprehension fully to relate The rare conjunction of this hapy state Oh Lord I pray thee send thy Love in me That I againe may returne mine to thee Then shall I praise thee with a thankefull heart When thou thy Love thus to me doth impart Now I 'll conclude with praise unto thy might For thus inabling my weake hand to write Soli Deo Honor Gloria A briefe Meditation of Mans Love LOve is a Passion of the heart seated in the affections and called by the Philosophers A menta●● vertue because it is a longing desire of the minde to be united to the beloved object There are three kindes or species of Love The first is divine spirituall and heavenly The second is carnall earthly and sinfull The third is humane civill and naturall The first love is pious and onely makes happy The second is sinfull and only makes miserable The third is vertuous and commendable The first love is proper to the pious Religious man The second is proper to the sinfull wicked man The third is proper to the civill honest man Thus Love may be compared to water conveied from the fountaine of the heart in these three pipes first if we consider this liquor running in the first channell then we shall finde it to bee pure cleare and the onely saving water of life In whose heart soever this divine spirituall and heavenly liquor springs shall never thirst but rests alwayes satisfied in prospe●●ty ●● is ●●mper●te and humble and in adversity he is patient and meeke in what state of life soever hee is in hee is therewith content He is in this world but is not of this world He useth the things of this life as though he used them not his delight is in grace and goodnesse and all evill wayes he utterly abhorres for although he walketh upon the earth his conversation is in heaven he is truly a heavenly minded man he really fulfilleth the commandements of the first Table in the Decalogue he loves the Lord with all his heart with all his minde and with all his strength nothing is so comfortable to him as the favour of God nothing so fearfull as his displeasure nothing so desirable as grace and nothing so ha●efull as sinne while the ship of his soule doth sayle upon the troublesome waves of this miserable world no storme of persecution can stay or hinder his heavenly course of godlinesse till it arive at the haven of eternall happinesse because the anchor of this ship is a stedfast hope cast upon the firme rock Christ Jesus her cables are a strong confidence fast bound to the maine mast of a lively saving and justifying faith her lading is no vaine merchandize or trumperies but rare jewells and cost●y ornaments even the rich treasury of the graces of Gods Spirit The Pilot is the word of God which at the last will guide her to the desired haven This man wa●kes upon the earth as a stranger and pilgrim The world is but his Inne wherein hee lodging for a night departeth in the morning Heaven is his Countrey there rests his love there lyes his treasure there is his heart here he hath many enemies the lust of the flesh lust of the eyes and pride of life The world the flesh and the Divell against these he is strongly armed with the whole armour of God for the defence of the head the helmet of salvation for the defence of the heart the brestplate of righteousnesse for the loines the girdle of verity for the safeguard of the feet shoos of the preparation of the Gospell of peace and ●or the defence of the whole man the shield of faith wherewith he quencheth all the fiery darts of Satans suggestions blunteth the edge of the worlds allurements and dulleth the heat of fleshly temptations his offensive weapon is onely the sword of the Spirit which he cunningly using cutteth off all sinne for the word of God is lively and mighty in operation sharper then any two edged sword for it cutteth through even to the dividing assunder of the soule and the spirit and of the joynts and the marrow It is an axe with which the whole tree of sinne with his forbidden fruit is hewn downe with these weapons the man that is inflamed with the love of God will trample upon the flesh despise and contemne the world resist the Divell and at the day of death by the assisting grace of his Captaine Christ Jesus will conquer and overcome sinne death and hell and be carried by the Angells of God into heaven the place of happinesse where he shall hold a perpetuall feast sing an everlasting song weare an incorruptible Crowne possesse an eternall Inheritance and fully enjoy his love with endlesse joy content

and rest Secondly if wee consider this liquor running in the second current then wee shall finde it to bee muddy foule loathsome and the onely poysonous and soul-killing water in whose heart soever this carnall earthly and sinfull liquor springs shall ever thirst and never be satisfied he is in every thing contrary to the former lover hee is never contented with his estate In prosperity he is proud presumptuous and cruell and in adversity hee is desperate fretfull and envious His minde is onely upon earth and fading transitory riches hee careth for no heavenly grace so he may have carnall pleasure he takes no care for his soule but all his care is to pamper his body he accounteth the godly simple fooles and esteemes them as the off-scowring among the people he boasteth himselfe in the multitude of his riches and solaceth himselfe in his pleasures he thinkes hee shall live for ever upon e●●th and puts the day of death a farr● off hee ca●eth not by what meanes he getteth ●is riches so hee may goe bravely and fare deliciously every day Thus the lover of carnall and fl●shly delights will not feare to commit adultery gluttony drunkennesse c. fulfill the d●sire or lust of the flesh And thus the l●ver of the world will venture to comm●t cove●ousnesse oppression cruelty c. to fulfill and satisfie the lust of the eyes and pride of li●e The man th●t is inflamed with this love liveth upo●●he earth as a Citizen in his owne C 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the world dandleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 child● 〈…〉 ding his desire with rich●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fl●sh p●mpere●h him as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●●eding his desire with pl●●sure and d●l 〈…〉 and the Devill fostereth him as his father by perswading him that he is in a happy condition yet he is in subjection to the world a servant to the flesh and a slave to the divell Thus he lives in seeming happinesse and dyes in reall misery and or one drop of the shadow of comfort loseth an Ocean of true consolation Thirdly and lastly if wee looke upon this liquor running in the third pipe wee shall finde it to be clean good and wholesome wa●er I● whose heart soever this humane ●vi●l and naturall liquor springs may rest satisfied for a time but this cannot give the heart any true content except it proceed from the first love which in a good Christian are never separate for he that truly loveth God will love his brother also but he that hath not this charitable love for so we may terme it cannot have the first love as the Apostle testifieth saying If any man saith hee loveth God and hateth his brother he is a lyar for how can he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seene love God whom hee hath not seene Yet this love may be without the first as appeares in divers of the Heathen Philosophers who have exceeded many Christians in morall vertues yet were without the divine spirituall and heavenly love for they did not know God nor the mystery of godlinesse and therefore had no faith and consequently could not have the first love which proceedeth from faith The man that is inflamed with this love doth really fulfill the commandments of the second Table in the morall Law he loves his neighbour as himselfe this is a true charitable man he hath dispersed abroad and given to the poore hee doth much good in the world he relieves the needy helpes the oppressed feeds the hungry instructs the ignorant comforts the comfortlesse c. he layes for himselfe here a good foundation by good workes and shall at the last receive the reward of his labour if he faint not This love doth in large it selfe into three severall species or pipes In the first runnes that humane love wherewith we love all mankinde as they are men of one common nature with us In the second runnes that civill love wherewith wee love our owne Countrey and Nation as they are men brought up under one civill government in Lawes and Religion with us and in the third pipe runnes that naturall love wherewith we love our kindred or friends as they are of the bloud or to whom wee are bound by some speciall obligation of amity To let the humane and civill love runne out as men are pleased to convey it forth from the fountaine of their heart I will onely fix my meditations upon this naturall love and of that I will not write any thing of the love of parents to their children or brother to brother c. although I know their love may bee very great But I will onely insist to write what that natural love is wherewith a man is affected to a woman And herein I would not bee understood to meane that lustfull love which is commonly covered under this title although experience shewes that it is very powerfull in whose heart soever it is kindled and is a raging passion as all love is if it bee not kept in as fire within the chimny the sea within his bounds It is a foolish madnesse a labyrinth of errour and a miserable thraldome before it can be obtained But if the lover doth fulfill his desire what hath he got but a racke to his minde a torture to his soule a gibbet to his conscience a staine to his reputation and a pleasing yet fatall poyson This breeds a consumption in his purse rottennesse in his bones and a blot in his good name But if this love bee in the lawfull way of marriage as this kinde is seldome to that effect then if the lover doth make his choice onely for the beauty of the body without any respect to the qualities of the minde hee may finde one that may please his eye but commonly she proves a wanton Hellen or a trayterous Dallila one that will consume his wealth and worke his destruction or else such a one that will make him a scoffing stocke to the world by cunning planting upon his head Acteons livery Thus for pleasure he gets misery and for a beautifull outside embraceth a snake in his bosome poyson in his meat and gall in his drinke Againe I would not bee understood to meane that covetous desire which is also commonly clothed with this title and in these dayes chiefly embraced when a man doth onely chuse a wife for riches although hee cannot like her person much lesse love her Such may meet with one that may fulfill his desire with wealth but commonly she proves a scolding Xantippe one that will be alwayes scolding railing and taunting him and with whom hee shall never live one quiet houre Thus for a little wealth he is alwayes pinched with a strait shooe lives in continuall vexation and at the last is forced to leave her because he cannot live quietly with her But this is not the love which I purpose to describe for this is carnall earthly and sinfull but the other is naturall honest and commendable which is an honest desire of the