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A12821	Staffords Niobe: or His age of teares A treatise no lesse profitable, and comfortable, then the times damnable. Wherein deaths visard is pulled off, and her face discouered not to be so fearefull as the vulgar makes it: and withall it is shewed that death is only bad to the bad, good to the good.	Stafford, Anthony.	1611 (1611)	STC 23129; ESTC S106303	42,293	224

Christianitie torne in peeces by schisme and heresie He scorneth the head the more because hee sees the members of the bodie so wound one the other Oh that wee could with the harmony of an vnseparable vnion charme the eares of this Christianities serpent But surely hee will stop his eares to our charming who disobeyeth the voice of that great charmer charme hee neuer so wiselie Thou seede of Abraham thou house of Iacob thou disposer of the graces and promises of the all-puissant I bewaile from my soule thy heauie condition and lament that thou canst not repent What grosse absurdities haue seized on thee of the which beliefe is not capable As for example that God before he built this world exercised himselfe a long time in setting-vp and pulling-downe before hee could learne to finish the frame hee hadde conceiued Thou further sayest that God hath certaine appointed daies wherein he afflicteth himselfe because in choler he defaced thy citty with thy temple and tokens of this his felt sorrow thou makest to be lightning and thunder Thou saiest also that God ordeined a sacrifice amongst the Iewes euery new Moone to recompence the wrong he did to the Moone in taking light from her to giue it to the Sunne Thou farther sayest that he is angrie once a day and then the crimson combes of the Cookes waxe pale and bloudlesse Thou hast also a prophane fable that on a day there being a disputation betweene certaine Rabbins and R. Eliezer God gaue sentence on Eliezers side for which the Rabbins excōmunicated him and then God smiling said My children haue ouercome me Thou sayest also that he that gainsayeth the words of the Scribes deserues more to be punished then he that contradicts the Law of Moses the one may be absolued the other must absolutely die Thou saiest also that he is no good Rabbin which doth not hate his enemy nay that doth not pursue reuenge euen vntill death And hee that disalloweth of any thing in these bookes denieth God himselfe What God will doe with thee I know not this I know that no Nation hath kept her integritie but thou Oh would thou hadst also kept thy sinceritie in religion It is more then a miracle to mee that feare doth not weigh-downe the eye-lids of the Iewe when he offers to looke-vp to heauen Neque enim saith Origen deberent vltra coelum aspicere qui in creatorem coeli pe●●auerunt et dominum Maiestatis Neither indeed saith he ought they to beholde heauen who haue sinned against the Creatour of heauen and the Lord of Maiesty The Turke conceiueth more reuerently of Christ then the Iewe for he accounteth of him as of a great Prophet the Iew as of a false Prophet Neither hath the Turke so grosse abuses and absurdities as hath the Iewe which whosoeuer listeth to compare shall finde The Turke hath many riddles which rather merite laughter then loathing and for example sake we will set-down some fewe of them What is that which is first wood and afterwards receiueth a spirit into it It is there answered Moses Rod. What woman is that which onely came from a man and what man is that which onely came from a woman It is there saide the former to be Eue the later to be Christ The rehearsall of more of these friuolous fooleries would cost mee much time and yeeld the Reader little profit and therefore I will onelie heere insert one or two things remarqueable in the Turkish Phisiques They hold that the starres hang by golden chaines Againe they saie that a Bull beares the earth vpon his hornes so that when the Bull shakes his head an earth-quake ensues Modesty wil not let me enter into the Turkes paradise where all things are vncleane and beyond measure baudy Oh my God! who is there that rightlie vnderstandes the courses of mans life the curses due to it for the vices of it and withall considereth the variances of religion as also that Turkes inhabite the better halfe part of the world Iewes and Atheists a quarter of the other halfe Schismatickes Heretickes three quarters of that quarter who is there I say that weighing all these things will not welcome if not inuite death specially in this age in which that of Tacitus is right true et propter virtutes certissimum exitium And vertues saith he are rewarded with certaine destruction Vertue looke to thy Essence for thou hast almost lost thy Existence thou hast a Being of thy self but scarce any Being in any other Wherefore I exhort all those who either haue or loue vertue to desire to bee dissolued and to bee with Christ Let them contemplate this that death is the Orient of Weale and the Occident of Woe that is the rising of all comforts and the fall and setting of all crosses Death is the sole sanctuary for sorrowe the freedome from feare hope 's harbour faith's faire field the ending of a bad beginning of a better life Death is not so vgly as the world would make her her lookes are louely and when all the world disdaines desert shee rewardes it Wherefore wee should not with such a fond childish griefe bewaile the death of our friends whom mercy hath taken from miserie As when we see the sunne eclipsed wee grieue not knowing it shall come to his former forme againe euen so 〈◊〉 it is heere we should not fall into womanish lamentations for the losse of them whose bodies wee know shall rise againe who shal see God with those eyes with which they leaue to see the world For though they die to vs they liue to the Lord. Wherefore wee must not thinke that Dauid lamēted the temporal death of his sonne Absolon but that his propheticke soule fore-sawe that eternall death due to Diuells and their ministers for to them death bringes damnation The wicked man dares not in his greatest passion call to God for compassion but hides himself from his face hauing all his time beene glutted with forbidden fruite If hee looke vp hee sees Gods iudgement hang ouer him if downeward he meditates his graue vnder him and hell vnder it if on both sides of him at each hand sitteth horrour and confusion if before him he beholdeth Perdition his hangman dragging him on to his slaughter if behinde him Vengeance doggeth him at the heeles the least noise makes him expect his pursiuants At last he withdraweth himselfe into his cabine thinking to lock-out Death who in a moment locketh-vp his eye-lids neuer more to open till they shall see heauen gates shut against their master Oh foole reuolt from thy irreligious superstition to a religious pietie neither quake at that whose power it is in thy power to conquer by an heartie penitence and feruent prayer Shrinke not at thy fatale blowe thy death shall be life and that a blessed and eternall one I for my part will account of death as of that which helps me to an vnualued bargaine things eternall for things momentarie

things truelie delightfull for things falsely deceitfull Oh welcome minute that shall free this body from so long an apprentiseship of woe And indeede what is there that should holde or delight me heere except to satisfie the vnordred appetites of the body and vnlawfull desires of the soule But perhaps some wil vrge that I am as yet in my spring of youth which I grant Yet am I glutted and tired as much with the troubles of this Age as a Priam as a Nestor The dayes are alreadie come vpon mee wherein I may truely say I take no pleasure in them But others will reply that I haue friends for whose sake I should desire to liue It is true indeede that I haue friends but with-all such friends as Tacitus speaketh of Et quibus deer at inimicus ab amicis sunt oppressi and they saith he to whom enemies were wanting were oppressed by their friends I long to bee acquainted with my neerer kinred to whom I shall say Corruption thou art my father and to the worme thou art my mother my sister Salomontelleth vs All pleasures vnder the sunne are vanity I take his word and therefore long to see what pleasures are aboue the sunne where the Son of God sitteth at the right hand of his father making intercession for mee and all sinners And thou Lord of hosts grant that when this my last and best day shall come and those harbingers of death summon me to appeare that then I may bee readie and grant also that as at the first my body was willing to receiue my soule so at the last my soule maie be willing to leaue my body Thou louer of soules be thou mercifull to my soule and when mine eyes shall grow dimme my lips black my mouth drawen-vp my browes knit my eares deaf my hands and feerebenummed with cold my pulse beating yet weakely and when all my senses faile me then giue me some sense of life euerlas●ing My good God let me at that houre thinke as I do now that it is a thing no more strange to die the● to be borne ●being it is an equal law of Nature which bindeth ouer all alike to their first and last appearance I knowe there is some paine in death but withal I knowe that I owe that paine with the vantage to my mother Who as she endured as great paine us euer woman did to bring me into the world so must I endure some paine to rid my selfe of this painefull life of the which I am as weary a● a 〈◊〉 of his ●are I shallneuer be truely merry till that day of mi●th and releasement commeth All ioy h●ere belowe is sinfull and almost all delights vnlaw 〈◊〉 according to that of Austin 〈◊〉 l●titia est imp●●it a 〈◊〉 The ioy saith he of this Age is nothing else bu● 〈◊〉 ●●punished Ye● will I not seeke to hasten the hour●● of my deare deliuery but will attend Gods 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 of life as of a gift If it will tarrie I will not thrust it soorth of doors if it make haste to be gone I will not be he that shall intreate it to abide The time I haue to liue deuotion shall dispose of and my chiefer pleasure shall bee in prayer I will first pray for Christs church militāt that it would please him to shorten the time of her warfare that so the time of her triumphing may approach Next of all I will pray for all Gods anointed ouer what Kingdomes or Nations soeuer they bee placed and in particular as by the duty of a subiect I am bound for my gratious Soueraigne Faiths great defender Thou Ancient of daies crown his dayes with happinesse and as he raignes by thee so let him raigne for thee and while he defends thy Truth defend thou him from those porte-couteaux For in these treacherous times it is to be feared that his greatest enemies are those of his own● house And as for his succeeder in the throne gratious God let him be successeful in al his approued proceedings that so succeeding ages may sing say his praises Lord shield him rather from secret flatterers then from open enemies and hauing all things let him not want this one A truth-teller I will wish the same to him which Thomas Walsing hamus reporteth of Henry the fift that as he is Modest us 〈◊〉 so he may be Magnanimus in actu Last of all I will pray for my selfe that hee that made me would vouchsafe to haue mercy vpon mee Thou that art able to throw an Angell down ar● able to raise a sinner vp Lord then raise me 〈◊〉 fal●e 〈◊〉 the gul●● of sin Thou into Lambe of OOD which dyed●t once for the 〈◊〉 of the 〈…〉 mercy vpon me and seeing thou hast suffered for my wickednes let not me suffer for it too nor cry for my crying sinnes lesus at thy Name my ●●ee shall bowe my heart bend and all my soule and body be transformed into reuerence Oh blessed comfortable allpromising Nome in which the olde Age of new names and if you will haue it so the newe Age of olde names may be included Christ●● 〈◊〉 Origen qui 〈◊〉 ill is or is 〈◊〉 ap●d 〈…〉 Christ saith he who is in those 〈…〉 of the earth ●●en amongst the Britannes Amen Lord Iesus and bee with vs still to the ends of the world Mercifull maister let mee with my last gaspe pronounce in confidence those words of dying Luther I haue serued thee I haue belieued thee and now I come to thee And because there is no other way to come to thee but by death Lord let me expect death euery where and alwaies not knowing where or whē it will expect me and 〈◊〉 me thinke of that often which I must doe once Blessed Maister my will is thine but if it bee thy blessed will take me out of this Age before I bee aged and let this corruption put-on incorruption this mortalitie immortality imperfectiō perfection and then this impotency shal see omnipotency this nothing all things Oh inconceiueable ioy to behold the Apostles Patriarks and Prophets together with the Kings of the Earth doing homage to the King of Heauen and Earth And till this ioyfull appointed time come the greatest comfort I can yeeld my selfe and others is an allusion which I tooke out of an 〈◊〉 French Writer to weer that as GOD laboured six dayes and rested the seuenth so man after hee hath turmoiled himselfe through-out all the sex ages of the world shall in the seuenth Age repose himselfe in a better world Which he that created the world grant for his sake that redeemed the world Amen FINIS Iob. 31. 35. Sen Epist 62. Sen. de benef lib. 1. cap. 10 Ambros de poenit lib. 1. cap. 34. I Scalig. lib. 1. poetic cap. 2 Scal. lib. 6. poetic pa. 800. 801. Lip cent Epist 5● Mat. 27 24 Athenaeus lib. 6 Ibidem Ann●l li. 1 Mat. 23. 3 In Alcor Turc pag. 191. Sen. de benef li. ● cap. 34. A Coward who Mat. 5. 39. ●er●ins Gen. 2. 24 Prou 16 Prou. 15 24 Tacit. Annal lib. 14. Sen. Epist 29. Heb. 13. 8 Iob. 36. 14. Deut. 23. 18. Ezech. 16. 33. Prou. 22. 14. Prou. 23. 17. Prou. 26. 5 Albert. Mag. de mulier fort Reuel 14. Iob. 31. 1 Castilionaeus in suo Aulico lib. 4 De ciuit 15. 100. 23. Bernha● Serm. 25 super canticum canticorum Deut. 28 53. Mal. 3. 3 Zach 5. 2. Ier. 23. 20 1. Tim●t 6. 10. Phil. 3. 19 Lu. 12. 15 Psal 39. 6 Eccl. 5. 9 Mat. 18. 10. Mat. 19 8 Wis 7 Sen. de beat vita cap. vlt. Sen. Epist 26. Sen. Epist 7. 1. Disser● cap. 9. August de ciu cap. 19. Sen. lib. 4. de ben cap. 13. Sen. Epist 58. Serm. 1. Mat. 10 34 35 De Benif lib. 4. cap. 26. 27. Lipsius in ex●mp po lib. 1. cap. 4. Idem ibidem Luk. 1. Luk. 1. Mat. 3. v. 7 Franc. de ver Con. par 2. ca. 2 Socr. in vita Iul. Baronius in paraenes ad venet pag. 9● Colin ●●ditionis Agust de baptis contra Donat. lib. 2. cap. 20. Acts. 17 22. Auer in 12. Metaphysi Tacit. Annal lib. 14. Ma. 20. 22 55. episto Cambdenus epist ad lectorem Mat. 5. 19 1. Ti. 3. 6 Tert. de resur carn Psal 60. 1. 2. 3. See the quotatiōs of Monsieur du Plessis vpon their Thalmud in his book entituled Aduertissement aux Iu●fs In Alcor Turc Tacit. hist lib. 1. Ecclesiastes 12. 1. Tacit. hist lib. 1. Iob. 17. 14. Eccles. 1. August in Euang. seeun Lucam serm ●7 Mat. 10. 36