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A03411	The arraignement of the vvhole creature, at the barre of religion, reason, and experience Occasioned vpon an inditement preferred by the soule of man against the prodigals vanity and vaine prodigality. Explained, applyed, and tryed in the historie and misterie of that parable. From whence is drawne this doome orthodoxicall, and iudgement divine. That no earthly vanity can satisfie mans heavenly soule. ...	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.; Hobson, Robert.; Henderson, Robert, 17th cent.; Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; Droeshout, Martin, b. 1601, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 13538.5; ESTC S103944	228,566	364

Sea Vers 17. hee is reprieved and bailed by a Fish yet kept imprisoned as for his good abearing three dayes and three nights in the bowels and Garbage of the Whale as in a living Grave hanging as a feather in the Ayre betwixt life and death truely humbled for his sinnes yet apprehending and applying mercy with a bleeding yet beleeving heart hee makes his Propheticke Song in manner of Lyricke Verses according to the Hebrewes which hee pens when hee is cast upon the x See the learned Lectures of D. Abbot and D. King upon Ionas Shore In which Song aggravating in many Phrases and Metaphors his owne misery both in his outward and inward man amongst the rest he tels us that even his very soule was overwhelmed with him or as some translations expresse it was even failing or sainting y Cum deficeret anima secundum 70. Interpretes cum Augustaretur secundum Hierom. cum obrueretur secundum Iunium quando desperab●t ●t Pomeranus in him straitned in him yea even despairing in him in the very soliloquies of his soule he tells us the distracted and desperate thoughts of his heart that hee was according to sundry readings even excisus succisus cut off from z Ion. 2.4 God Eiectus reiectus Cast out cast off Ejected rejected of the Almighty forgotten yea forsaken of him yet thus under water he lifts up his head hee remembred the a Vers 7. Lord here was his Faith his Prayer as a winged Mercury darted out as Pellets from a Gun in the heat and fire of fervency penetrated the Heavens pierced the Clouds and ascended the Clouds as an Aeagle mounts unto the Almighty and in this heavenly soliloquie with GOD the eye of his soule being quickened opened and annoynted with Collyrium of the spirit he sees also the insufficiency of every deceiveable Lust and worldly vanity to give his sinne distressed soule any satisfaction his old burthened conscience any contentation Nay rather as by interposition this sublunary lying vanities as he cals them doe cloud and eclipse from him the sinne of that mercy in the heat and light of which was his true tranquility for so indeed are his expresse words Commenting my Text as the Prodigall before his repentant returne both felt and found they which imbrace lying vanities forsake their owne b Ion. 2.8 mercy that is that mercy which as a man a Lease by purchase from a Landlord they might have made their owne and appropriated to themselves as sure as the Cote to their backes that mercy they have neglected and rejected repudiated and refused yea despised and despited by following and persecuting hugging affecting and imbracing as once our unregenerate Prodigall their Fancies Follies and vitious vanities Which Text that I may presse to the quicke because it Paralels my Text in the substance of matter and plainely and prospicuously speakes the point in hand Whither by vanitics here the subject and object of the love of vaine men we understand with HVGO VICTORINVS that double vanity that is in every sublimary thing the vanity of mutability and change that is in the Creature not onely Terrestriall but Celestiall even in the Heavens themselves as the Fathers c Hier. Comment in Esaiam lib. 8. cap. 24. lib. 14. c. 51. Origen in Rom. 8. v. 20. allude all which Creatures are vaine in respect of God mans soveraigne good whose name is onely I am d Exod. 3.14 incommunicable to any e Hierom. Epist 50. Comment in 24. Esaiae Creature as also vaine in respect of man by reason of his sinne man being the end of the Vniverse according to f Homo finis vniversi Arist 1. Phys text 25. Philosophy even a Microcosme and little world being himselfe altogether vaine Psal 59.5 Subiects them also to vanitie Rom. 8.20 2. Or the vanity of sinfull corruption that is man by submitting and subjecting himselfe to the Creature which was made to be subject unto him by placing and planting his desires and affections or things terrestriall or temporary and not on him that is infinite incomprehensible and aeternall making himselfe exceeding vaine as the Antients g Augustinus de moribus Ecclesiae cap. 21. Athan in Synopsi G●ep lib. 5. in lib. 1. Rep. have discussed Or in a larger division if with a moderne h Berchorius vel nonullis Sterchorius in verbo vanum Fryer in whose Dunghill there is yet some i Vt olim Virgilius extraxit ex Ennio gold wee consider eyther vanities naturall which are in every Creature being nothing in respect of the Creator and returning againe unto nothing being of the earth and from the earth and returning againe to the Earth their prima materia their first matter as the Rivers to the Seas as the Yce Frosts and Snowes into waters which came from waters 2. Or Vanities temporall and Temporary of these outward and externall things called abusively by Pagans and Heathens and Paganizing Christians the Goods of k Bona Fortunae Fortune such as Riches honors wealth worship profits praeferments 3. Or Vanities acquiring as Arts Sciences liberall mechanical languages moral wisdome eloquēce oratory 4. Or Vanities personall there being so many vaine men and Fooles of the world as there be vitious men wicked men in Scripture l Psal 14.1 Psal 53.1 Psal 39.6 Prov. 7.7 Chap. 8.5 Chap. 4.9 language being ever unwise and bad men mad men 5. Or Vanities Criminall which are all the vaine workes words actions affections thoughts cogitations imaginations of vaine sensuall sinfull and unregenerate men 1. Whether they bee mentall in errors of Iudgement as all these Heresies old and new lopt off as Hidraes heads by Councels and m Augustine Epiphanius Jrenaeus Sluselburgus in Catalogo Hereticorū Fathers now revived and sprung up againe in Popery the Spunge of all Abhominations and Corruptions in Doctrine and manners 2. Or Cordiall as rooted and eradicated in an unsanctified heart the fountaine and root whence n Mat. 15.19 they proceed the Seminary and Nursery where they are fostered and cherished the very shop and furnace where they are moulded 3. Or Actuall as they are acted wrought and produced by the Organs instruments and members of the o Rom. 6.13 body the slave and servant of a worse Maister the corrupted 4. Or Orall and Vocall bleared and blazed from the Hell-inflamed p Iam. 3.6 tongue sending and darting out Oathes Lyes Slanders Calumnies rotten words unsavory speeches blasphemies against the q Vide Peralin summa de Peccatis li●guae in sine libri Holinesse the verity the charity sanctity sincerity purity that should be in speech All these vanities with many moe which might be referred to these and other heads our IONAS here tearmes and Christens them by the name and Epithite of lying Vanities by which as by a r Gen. 4.15 Vers 2. brand set upon CAIN they shall for ever bee marked and stigmatized to all

to die frantick ECCIVS and Cardinall d The Popes Embassador at the Councel of Trent anno 1552. frighted by the Divell in the likenesse of a black Dog Sleidan l. 231 Comment CRESSENSE with frenzie e In the memorable Histories of our time a pag. 187. ad paginam 195. FRANCIS SPIRA with d●spaire f De cujus morte lege Caelium Rhodig Antiq. Lect. l. 29. c. 8 ARISTOTLE HOMER SOPHOCLES the g Val. Max. l. 9. c. 12. Tragedian ANTONIVS the h Apud Plutarchū Roman APOLLONIVS the i Apud Plin. l. 7. c. 23. Rhodian HOSTRATVS the Fryer and divers k As Latonus and B●melius and Gerlach of Lov. D. Kraus of Hall in Germ. P●usenas Advocat of Dolphin in France with others who dyed desperate others upon sundry occasions were suddainly surprized with griefe and melancholly of which they dyed Pomponeus Atticus and Antonius Caesar sicke with Feavers Hieronimus Vrsinus suddainely wounded in Rome Mathew King of Hungarie diseased of an Apoplexie Wenslaus the young King of Bohemia thrust through with a Sword Iohannes Medices and Henry the second King of France unexpectedly wounded in Iusts and Turneaments Tyberius the Emperour Hanibal the Carthagenian Philippomones Generall of the Messineans Alexander the fixt and Caesar Burgias poysoned with millions moe that might bee l Apud Ravisium Broson Fulgosū Zwinge●ium in magno suo Theatro passim enumerated in their perfect healths in the Sunne-shine of their glory strucke some with one sicknesse some with another disease shew how uncertaine the health is of the strongest and most vigorous since both naturally and casually as also deservingly by reason of m Gen. 2.17 Rō 6. sin we are subjected to moe diseases than eyther Horse or Hawke or any other Creature whatsoever So for life it selfe alas how uncertaine Lubrick and fraile is it as brittle as Glasse as fading as a o Iob. 14.1.2.11 Esay 40.6 2 Pet. 1.24 Flower as vanishing as smoake as swift as a Post or a Weavers shuttle the Scriptures Histories and experience of all times doe demonstrate as I have seene elsewhere in varieties of p In Simeons dying Song in the Book cal'd 7. helep to Heaven examples together with Reasons which if they bee not satisfactory the consideration of so many excellent Worthies both for Arts and Armes even amongst Christians to omit Turkes Iewes and Pagans as have beene cropt by that meager Death even in the budding and blossoming of their yeares together with others that have beene taken away in their prime and flower or full strength plainely shew unto us as in a Map or Glasse on what a weake and uncertaine Threed our life depends amongst the rest praetermitting that good IOSIAH the sonne of IEROBOAM ACHAZ King of Iuda the Babes of Bethlem the first borne of Aegypt DAVIDS spurious Child with others in the Scriptures when I consider the fatall and untimely fall of that Roman BRITANICVS the Son of CLAVDIVS De diebus canicularibus par colloq 4. p. 271 de 〈◊〉 alijs CONSTANS the sonne of CONSTANTINE the Great slaine by MAGNENTIVS the sonne of MAXIMINVS slaine with his Father by the tumultuous Souldiers LADISIAVS the young King of Polony slaine by the Turkes LODOVICK GRATVS that excellent Linguist and Astronomer as hee was commended by MAIOLVS all foure cut off in the 21. yeare of their q Plurimaque exempla recinantur a Gregorio Richtero in axiom Oecono pag. 35. Age together with PHILIP the young King of Spaine HYPOLITVS MEDES the Cardinall HERACLIVS CONSTANTINVS HENRY RANZONIVS IEROM TIRVSANVS that young Bishop who all were taken away some by a naturall some by a violent death in the 28. yeare of their r Idem p. 36. Life to omit CHRISTOPHER LONGOLIVS and the Marquis of Brandenburgh who dyed in the 35. yeare of ſ Jdem ibid. their Age as RADOLPHVS AGRICOLA and that delight of Nature TITVS VESPATIAN in their 42. t Idem p. 37 yeare ere ever they came to their u Quam fatales fuere anni septenarij climat terici rebus personis magnis Familijs Consulo Fencerum de divinat pag. 21. Bucholcherum in Indice Chronico sub anno 1463. Strigellum in Chronicis part 2. pag. 277. Perel in Gen. cap. 2 p. 32. Bodinum lib. 4. de repub cap. 2 p. 647.658 Climacteriall in which so many worthy men have beene taken away in these instances wherein I see such tall Cedars untimely falne and cut downe by the Axe of Death I see how vaine it is to take any contentation in a hoped long life with neglect in the meane space of a good life by deferred repentance since Hodie mihi cras tibi quod cuiquam contigit id cuivis That may happen to every man which happens to any man Serius enim aut Citius metam properamus ad unam We saile to one Haven we must lodge in one common bed the Grave and with that BRVTVS kisse our Mother Earth God knowes how soone Besides how uncertaine is the Prospertty of this Life suppose there should be a man amongst a Million Rara avis in terris A rare one indeed a black Swan that were as healthfull as OTTO HERVVARDVS a Senatour in Ausborough in Germany who if we beleeve Astrologicall * Exemplis Genit praefixis Ephem cap. de infirmit LOVITVS could never remember that ever hee was sicke in all his life or that this age could affoord such an one as NESTOR that is sayd to live three hundreth x Nestoris est visus per tria secle Ciuis propter lib. 2. et Iuven Sat. yeares such an on as PARACELSVS boasts of that in the best improouement of his Art by Paracelsian physicke could be made to liue 400. yeares If a man could preserue himseife so long by meates medicines exercize Bathes Diets as that POLLO ROMVLVS is said to preserue himselfe by y Jntus Mulso foras oleo wine and oyle though now it be a rare thing to see a man liue 127. yeares as our late deceased frier at LISMOORE yea to liue 105. yeares as ZENOPHILVS that musitian in z Lib. 7. hist c. 5. Though Narcissus of Jerus is said to have lived 116. yeares Paul the Hermit 113. Prosdocimus a Bishop 114 Florentinus a Priest 123 T. Fullonius 157. B. Syrus 132. Homer 108 nay more one Heroimes 304. Iohannes de temporibus 361. PLINY if besides all this he had all that inward worth in him which the Romaines ascribe to their Catoes Curioes ffrabritioes the Greekes to their Socrates Solon Aristides Homer to Agamemnon that he was like u Iupiter in ffeature Mars in Valour Pallas in wisdome and had what all such outward Prosperity as d Regis filia Vxor Mater Pliny lib. 7. Paterculus ascribes to Quintus Metellus Plutarch to P c Fuit Crassus ditissimus nobilissimus eloquentissimus Juris peritissimus Pontifex Maximus Mutianus Crassus

their times like Semeies k 1. King 2.39 Servants l Pauls Epiad Philemon Onesimus and that captive Androdius in the Roman m Apud Aelian hist l. 7. c. 34. Anlum Gellium Noct. attic lib. 5. c. 14. Story to runne from their masters never perhaps returning like a word n Ne●cit vox em●ssa reverti once spoke a Bird flowne a losse in honour or lost Virginity never perhaps recovered againe though their once owners in pursuing after them too farre beyond the limits of religion and conscience loose their soules for silver p Acts 1.18 Iudas-like as Semei lost his q 1. King 2 46. life in seeking his servants for indeed well may wee call Gold and Pearles and Plate o Reductio per impossibile and all kinde of Riches and Revenewes Currant as well as Currant money since we see with most men like fooles Travellers Gypsces Cheators Beggars and fickle headed Servants whose shooes are made of running Leather they will not stay long except some few that have the wit the will the Art the heart to chaine them as Leopards Lyons and Cats doe after their prey they skip from place to place from man to man like some fawning Dog or insinuating Whore for the Scripture puts them both r Deu. 23.18 together that will bee every mans and yet no mans further then they will themselves they are moveable as Shittlecookes or Tennis Balls now racliated here now there or as Frolicks at Feasts sent from man to man returning againe at last to the first man after they have had their course abovt or else they take their leaves of all as some guests in an Inne and are never seene more and some they can no more be caught than Ghosts or Shaddowes as that DAPHNE from APOLLO the more they are pursued the farther the faster they flye ſ Quo fugis ah demons as fast as that Aegle that snatcht vp Ganimede in the Poet but when they are expected to returne they have alas Passarinas wings as feeble as Sparrowes yea sometimes as Stags and Deere howted and hunted into another Country they never returne they come againe to their first owners when some Cheator or Politique Banquerupt payeth his Debts ad Calendas Graecas as our Country Phrase is when Hens make Holy-water at new-Nevermasse If any doubt whether Riches bee thus fickle and fugitive or no if we had not the example of t Iob. 1. Iob who in one day may one heare lost with his Children such moveables of Oxen Camels Sheepe as the greatest man in the East hardly possessed the like and of Zeno the u Apud Brusonium Philosopher that in one bottome lost all his goods by Shipwracke and of the Turkes Bashawes that sometimes in shorter space than Naboth lost his questioned * Vineyard or the mother of x Iudg. 17.2 Michay these eleven hundreth sheckles of silver about which she so cursed lose their heads their honors their becke and command of the Turkish y Knols in his Turkish History Passim Tyrant if we had not the lamentable relations of Historians and Travailers how the poore Armenians the Greekes and those Christians that are dispersed throughout the Ottaman Dominions are upon all occasions chiefly at the death of the grand Turke bereft sometimes by the Ianizaries as the Israelites once by the z Iudg. 6.11 Madianites the Saxons by the Lord a Dane once ruled in every house cald the I. Dane now such as live Drones and Abbey-lubbers are called Lurdanes Holins Cosmog Danes of all that ever they have as were the Citizens of Ierusalem in the siege of Titus Vespatian spoyled by Simeon and b Iesephus et Egisippus de excidio Hieros Iehocanan their seditious Captaines as our vulgar Irish and some of better note are squeazed spunged and c The word is used for cheating in the Iesuites Catechisme druried by the Priests of all the moneyes and meanes they are able to scratch and scrape from them as some of their owne ouerburthened as once the d Vide C●tum gravamina Germa●e vel onus Ecclesiae Germans have confessed and complained I say if these instances were not so pregnant as hee that with that Reynold e In his discovery of Witchcraft extant in 4. Scot denies there be any Witches besides the Testimonies of f Magos enim habuit Pharaoh Exod. 7.11 Scriptures and g Delrius Pierius Wierus cum Antiquis et Modernis Authors let him but bee present at the Assizes of severall Shires and his owne eyes and eares will convict him so hee that credits not the relations of others in this point let him but observe in one yeare nay but in a very few Moneths how many men formerly reputed of good rancke and fashion of alll sorts Gentlemen Marchants Mariners Tradesmen Mechanicks Yeomen Citizens Country men within the Circuit of some few shires and Cityes in Great Britaine are come from a Spring-tide to a low Ebbe from CRASSVS to a poore CONON from DIVES to a LAZARVS some by Shipwracke by Sea some by Surety-ship the House wracke at home some by bad Debtors and politique Banquerupts these Shopwrackes some by Sicknesse Diseases Physicke and Physitians some by bi●ing Vsuries and paying Forfeitures brought to an irrecoverable Consumption some by carelesse Thievish fugitive Servants some by good bad Fellowship great House-keeping their mindes over-bowing their meanes some by Hawkes Hounds Horses and Whores devoured by their owne Lusts and eaten with the Wolfe bred within their owne flesh or as ACTEON eaten vp with their owne h Theatrum Philos lib. 8. p. 855. Ethice applicat Fabulam de Acteone Dogs some by intermedling in callings in which they have no skill some by one meanes some by another lodging in Beggars Inne and Suttons Hospitall perusing their Briefes and Pasports that come every Sabboth to the Citie and Country Churches in England and Ireland and that very man in these observations shall bee perswaded that there is as much rest repose and confidence to be put in momentary transitory and uncertaine Riches as in a broken staffe or in a false DALILAH a Whorish i Mony is compared to a faire Harlot whō many court as the Greeks did Lais yet she is constāt to none woman of whose love and constancy the wisest man on the Earth can have no further assurance than stands with their owne ends turnes likings and Lusts But however these externall and adventiall good things as Philosophers call k Bona Fortunae them may stay with some as though they were wedded to them not to depart for terme of Life yet there must be a seperation in death therefore they are not that which can make the Soule aeternally happy as DAMASCEN hath the Fiction of three Friends who all professed love the tryall is this one Friend would stay with him all the time of his health and prosperitie that friend was Pleasure

so the Scribes and Pharisees Saduces and Horodians were Murtherers and Crucifiers of CHRIST as they were called both before q Ioh. 8.40 and after r Acts. 4.10 they put CHRIST to death because they sought his bloud as SAVL sought ſ 1. Sam. 20.33 DAVIDS Even as the Prodigall seeking Huskes as vaine men doe their pleasures their profits their preferments and the atchievement of their Covetous ambitious and luxurious desires and designes is accounted a foole a Younger Brother a Bedlam a vaine man as are all those of whom hee is a Type and a Mappe notwithstanding that hee did not accomplish his desire for the Text sayth No man gave unto him CHAP. VII How vaine it is to trust to vaine men in any distresse Observatiō NO Man The phrase is observable 1. Oh this it is to put any confidence in man or in the sonne of man or in the best of men the greatest of men Kings and Princes terrestriall Gods whose breath is in their Nosthrils 2. But chiefly this it is to serve the Citizen of the Country to hold a candle before the Divell to observe him and offer sacrifices to him as the Indians Virginians and other Salvages in their divellish bloudy devious t De hisce Daemonum sacrificijs lege apud Majolum de diebus Canicul parte 2. pag. 47. 64 65. titulo de cultu Daemonum Purchase hic pilgrimage passim devotions 3. And this it is also to rest and relye on wicked and prophane men to feed Hogs and Swine as this wastfull Sonne once what trust is there in man that is altogether u Psal 39.5 On which read Purchase his Microcosmus extant vanitie What in the Divell that old * Rev. 12.9 Dragon the Father of lyes Who alwayes leaves his Clients Witches Coniurers and Necromancers though in their owne esteeme his darlings and of his Privy x Delrius disquis Magicarum Pierius de Magia Councell as he left Dr. Faustus Cornelius y Iovius in Elogijs illust Agrippa and others on a Lea-land in their greatest exigents and pressures of body and soule fishing even for their soules as he did for z 2. King 1. AHAZIAHS and a 1. Sam. 28. SAVLS in the troubled waters of their greatest miseries but chiefely what repose is there to be put in vaine and prophane men in carnall Comrades and Pot-companions those Swine into which the uncleane c Mar. 5.12 spirit still enters What helpe or assistance what comfort or good Counsell had the Prodigall now in his extreamest hunger from these Swinish Epicures on whom he had spent and mispent his meanes those whom he fed so long as ought lasted or that had fed upon him as Harpies and flesh Wolves would they now feed him Can he get so much as Huskes from them Though this had beene but faint feeding he to feed them with the best corne with the distillations of the Malt the best broth of the Barly the best bloud of the Grape and hee to receive againe from them even in his gnawing hunger not so much as Swads and Huskes not awnes Not Leas Not Dregs to drinke Hoccine humanum factum apud Comicum aut inceptum hoccine officium amici Is this square and candid dealing Is this the part and office of a friend Is this the fruit of carnall friendship To use thy companion as the Spaniell doth the water so long as thou canst get and gaine by him and wipe the fat off his beard as d 2. Sam. 16 Ziba did from Mephibosheth and then in his miserie to shake him off to leave him as the twatling e Jngrati symbolum apud Whitnaeum Alciatum Reusucrum Swallow the Country mans house in the Winter to picke his meate as some Lawyers with their Clients as the Eagle with the opened Oyster and to leave him the shell to feede on which his strong Patience must digest as hee may as the Ostridge doth f Ass●runt plerique Hi●stori● negat sotum modo Albertus anim lib. 23. li● 5. Applicatio Iron Oh consider this you unadvised Hotspurres summon your wits together you younger Brothers or rather you elder Brothers you Prodigall Heires whose wings for a time are better feathered as you may see the Lyon by his g Ex vnguibus leonem pawe see the end of your race in the course of this Prodigall bee not h It is a Phrase used in the book cald the Iesuites Catechisme in Quarto whereby these sharkers are discovered drained as the Iesuites deale with young Gentlemen out of your meanes be not gulled and flattered out of your Revenewes by Sycophants and flaging Companions that seeke to feed on you as the little Bird Trochilus in Iawes of the i De quo Plinius lib. 8.25 Aeli●nus lib. 3. c. 11. Heroditus lib. 2.5 Crocodile that seeke to grow up by you as the Ivie that spreads on the Churchwill till they sucke your moysture and bring you downe for all together building on your ruines bee not uncased out of your lands your livings as the Cookes uncase Conyes by such g●atonicall Conny money catchers bee not C●rrion for such chattering Crowes to prey upon you had better feed all Diomedes wilde k Vt qui Throicij quoudam praesepia regis fecerunt dapibus sanguinoleus suit Ovid in Jbidem horses or with this Prodigall feed all the Townes Swine or with the Roman CRASSVS feast an l De divitijs numeroso exercitu Crass● Ravisius in Theat phil Pag. 92. Pag. 258. Army than feed such Helluohs such trencher Guls that haunt you as SOCRATES his Genius or BRVTVS his m Who met him fatally at his Pharsaliā battell apud Liviū Ghost whom at last you will occasionedly curse as n De eujus querelis vide Iosephum Antiq. lib. 18. Cap. 13. lib. 19. cap. vltima Et Lorinum in Acta cap. 12. v. 23. HEROD and o Alexander apud Indos vulneratus en inquit vestrum Deum Apud Curtium ALEXANDER did their Flatterers in their greatest exigents as ADRIAN did his multiplicity p Turba medicorum occidet Cae●arem of poysoning Physitians as FAVSTVS cryed out on his Mephistophilus some Witches on their attending spirits some heart broken penitent on his bloud sucking Whore some SAMPSON on his DALILAH even at his death whether naturall in his bed or violent at the Gallowes lamenting your acquaintance with them as CORNELIVS AGRIFPA did his familiarity with the Divell in the forme of a blacke r Abi inquit perdite qui me totum perdidisti See the Theater of Gods judgements in Quarto cap. 23. Pag. 124. Dog at the best know that if ever you stand in need to those Cannibals that have so long fed on you as here this Prodigall did to his former Comrades you shall cough for comfort as he did you shall have as much reliefe even for your out ward man as DAVID

this Greeke word Pan intimates therefore it 's a curse mixt with a Command that ADAM shall eate his bread that 's earne whatever is needfull ad victum cultumque for meat drinke and apparell in the sweat of his h Gen. 3.10 Marlorate inlocum browes in some lawfull calling and that which is the best of i Danaeus in orat Domini Ambrosius in Psal 118 Babingtō on the Lords Prayer fol. 75. prayers the rule and square of all other prayers directs us to pray for our dayly bread that is whatever is needfull for our temporary life according to our places callings conditions SECT 2. GODS Children as they have GODS plenty So they have GODS peace which worldlings want NOw from these praemises according to the letter we extract this truth that as Huskes signifie every vanity as opposed to bread including concluding every good blessing so the truth as a square shewes what 's crooked shewing it selfe and the contrary demonstrates to it both the propositions first propounded that in the service and observance of sinne and Sathan the Citizen of the Country the Author and Father of all the sinnes of the City and Country there 's nothing but hungry Huskes emptinesse vacuity vility vanity insufficiency as on the contrary in our Fathers house in the true Church of God in the service and worship of the true IEHOVAH the Father of Mercy the Father of all Flesh of all spirits there 's bread enough Corporall Sacramentall spirituall comfort and contentation enough externall internall aeternall GOD providing a large allowance a liberall dyet for his family above that which SALOMON dayly allowed for k 1. Kings 4 22.23 his every day being to them a solemne Feast a Christ-tide a Festivall as in the new Moone and solemne Assemblyes a great Feast indeed above that of l Esth 1.3 ASSVERVS or the Roman Galba or m When he supt in Apollo LUCULLUS a Feast of fat things in his Holy n Esay 25.6 Mountaine his Syon a Feast of Wine on the Lees of fat things full of marrow of Wine on the Lees well refined p Mat. 22.4 for Wisedome hath killed her Beasts o Prov. 9.2 already her Oxen and her Fatlings yea the Paschall Lambe and fat Calfe Omnia q V. 8. Luk. 14.17 parata all things are prepared she hath mingled her wines she hath furnished her Table the milke of the Word the Wine of the Sacrament the oyle of the Spirit the unction from above cheeres the countenance and glads the heart of all the Israel of GOD they are all aboundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of their fathers house he makes them drinke of the rivers of his r Psal 16. vers 11. Psal 17 15 pleasures the faith-espoused soule married to the Kings sonne is brought into the bridall ſ Cant. 1.4 Chap. 2.4 Chap. 5 1 Chamber takes her fill of love yea is led into his banqueting house in his pleasing Garden there eates hony with the hony combe drinkes wine with milke yea drinkes aboundantly till she be inebriated t Rō 14.17 with love u Gal. 6.16 which is better than wine yea till she be even in a Love Qualme sicke againe with love as in a spirituall extasie of Ioy For the Kingdome of God is Love Peace and Ioy in the Holy Ghost and this Peace is upon all the Israell of God whosoever this Peace as his last and best legacie the Prince of Peace left with all that have true and * Ioh. 14.27 saving Grace to which peace is inseparably united and married yea lincked as in a golden x Gal. 1.3 Rom. 1.7 1 Cor. 1.3 2. Cor. 1.2 Eph. 1 2 5. chaine For it 's a false Calumny and frivolous imputation which the Children of darkenesse cast upon the Children of Light that they are ever sad sullen y Semper taciti tristesque recedunt Lucretius sighing z Sic dictum ●lim Calvinianos esse Melancholicos melancholly as a Hare or a See Demecritus of Religions Melancholy Part. 3. sect 4. pag. 493. ad p. 537. Owle never injoying themselves but pine and droupe and hang downe their heads as a Bull-rush so pure and precise that they take no content in the Creatures but deprive themselves of all Ioyes or pleasures unsociable besides as Tymon b Tymonille Atheniensis Misanthropos retyred or as Students unhewen unmanly unmannerly men such as take delight in no company and none in them and so consequently that they are starved in respect of any true content For have they no joyes because the beetle blinde bleare-ey'd world sees them not Is there no soule in man this little world no God in the world this great c Homo Microcosmu● Mundusque Megacosmos comparantur ab Alstodio in Theol. Nat. Part. 2. pag. 643. man because man sees neyther Had the Israelites no Manna because the Moabites and Ammonites tasted it not Doth not the Sunne shine because the blinde Begger discernes it not Is there no sweetnesse in Hony and Suger because the distempered palate of the aguish sicke man gusts it not Is ABRAHAMS ISAAC sacrificed because hee was on the Altar No ISAAC then and still d Gē 22.12 lives ISAAC the sonne of laughter the Fathers joy the joy of GODS salvation ever lives in the heart of the Elected and called the Ramme is onely e Gē 22 1● sacrificed carnall sensuall Sodomitish sinfull belluine brutish fleshly uncleane and impure Ioyes in the abused Creatures such as brutish Swinish hoggish Epicures loose Libertines wallow in as the Eele in the mud in the abuse of Wine Women Musicke Meares Drinks Apparell Hawking Hunting Sports Pastimes Feasts recreations turning liberty into licentiousnesse Christianity into Carnality these joyes and contents in which vaine men live or rather by which they dye as it were laughing even tickled to death these onely are moderated mortified sacrificed yea crucified on the Crosse of CHRIST but ISAAC the sonne of Promise spirituall joyes they still live yea then live most when ABRAHAM or the sonne of ABRAHAM a beleeving f Gal. 3.7 Christian is most tempted tryed afflicted persecuted as the Lawrell is greenest when the winter is g Imo vivit viget in Mari Rubro Plin. lib. 13. cap. 25. fowlest the Dolphin most playes when the Sea is most h Solinus c. 17. stormy the Swan sings sweetest when death is the i Cantaetor cygnus funeris ipse sui nearest as it may bee seene DANIEL rejoycing in the Lyons k Dan. 6.21 Den PAVL and SILAS singing in l Act. 16.25 Prison the Apostles glad that they were threat and beat for the Name of m Act. 5.41 Christ the Martyrs tryumphing at the n As Jgnatius Polycarpus A●talus Bi●rlaam Fabianus Victoria apud Eusebium lib. 3. c. 30. lib. 4. c. 15. lib. 6. c. 29. Niceph. lib. 3.19 l. 14 15. lib. 5 7 apud Basilium

us onely to good or evill cum privilegio so wee usually subscribe to their Iudgements what they hold and enact whether true or erronious as foure hundreth Prophets yeelded to the false opinion of one u 1. King 22 12 AHAB that it was good for him to fight at Ramoth Gilead and most of Israel worshipped the Calves at Dan and Bethel * 1. Kings 12.29.30 because Ieroboam erected them and millions turn'd Arrians in the dayes of x Arrianus apud Funcciū 109. h. Magd. Cent. c. 3. p. 101. Constantius y Jdam Cent. 4. c. 3. p. 40 Theod. l. 4. c. 26. Valens and z De quo sigfridus saccus Dom. 8. post Trinit axiom Eccl. Gorlicij pag. 315. Anastatius Denying Christs Divinity because these Emperors were Arrians as the whole Christian world was Orthodoxe professing the truth as zealous proselites in the dayes of Constantine Honorius Arcadius Gratian Iovinian Iustinian Theodosius the elder and the younger because these Christian Emperors were Orthodox zealous sincere and religious as a Hist l. 7. c. 10. l. 10. c. 7. in vita Const l. 1.2 3 4. Eusebius b 〈…〉 c. 9 c. 6. c. 2 l. 7. c. 22. c. 23. l. 5. 〈◊〉 10. Socrates c Hi● 〈…〉 6. 〈…〉 Zozamen d l. c. 2. cum hist trimpert l. 1. c. 8. Ruffinus Nicephorus and that Tripartite Historie testifie of them such force as is more largely proved in the Eare-jewell for Iudges have both the Iudgements and practises of Princes with their Plebean subjects every superior like the heavenly bodyes having a wondrous operative influence upon their dependant sublunary inferiors why should not then SALOMONS Verdict being so great so wise a King excelling amongst men yea even amongst Kings as the Lyon amongst the Beasts as the male Deere amongst the heard as the e Cassanaeus in Ca● p● 2 ful 373. et Plin. l. 10. c. 5. Eagle if not f Idem ibid. Phoenix amongst birds the Lilly amongst flowers the Cedar amongst Trees why doth it not I say as a golden Seale in soft waxe worke in us the same impression that was in himselfe Why should we be Didimists Sceptecks or Athists to doubt discusse and deny what he knew speculatively as he was a wise man practically as a sinfull but repentant man and declares to us authoritively upon his word and the pawne of his honor as he was a King and the greatest of men that all these terrestiall transitory things which we admire on which we dote with which wee Idolatrize by which we perish are but meere Vanities toyes trifles delusions dreames golden slumbers huskes vacuities in conclusion except the meanes of our confusion nothing and therefore not to be rested in nor relyed on more than on a broken staffe or the Reeds of g Esa 30.2 Aegypt lest as burnt at last as the fond Flea by comming too neare these dazling flames wee occasionedly exclaime on these Impostors as here repenting Salomon and lament that ever we put any trust or confidence in them as did that good old Iohn the King of h Reale●n Historia per Marinaenus l. 18. rorum Hispanio●nū Aragon on his death bed yea least being brought by our credullty to such exigents as Cresus was captivated by Cyrus and tyed at a stake to be burned we then cry oh Salomon Salomon as he cryed oh Solon i Apud Herodotum l. 1. Solon or at least trying them all to our no small paines cost and prejudice every way both in our credit with men and conscience with God we occasionedly complain as even Tully the Heathen did ego omnibus tentalis nihil invenio in quo acquiescere k Verba recitantur per Majolum de diebus Canicul Coll. 7 pag. 520● possum trying and attempting every thing like a sicke man rouling every way in his bed I can finde rest and contentation in nothing no more than our Prodigall here in his hungry Huskes SECT 5. SALOMONS Repentance Sanctification and Salvation prooved from Scriptures and Reasons BVt if we beleeve not SALOMON as hee was morally wise as hee was practically experimented and traded in all the mysteries of Vanities as he was a Preacher proclaiming his best notions and motions of his repeated Vanities shooting off a warning piece to the admonishing of others yet let us beleeve him which is my last and not least Argument as hee was a Prophet and so like ESAY IEREMIE IOEL AMOS EZECHIEL and the rest of the greater and lesser l See Gualter Danaeus in their Cōments upon the small Prophets Prophets in their Sermons and extant Prophecies indued in the penning preaching and publishing of this Ecclesiastes being Propheticall and so m Lelius de expresse Dei verbo Zāchi de sacra Script prove that no bookes in the old Test are Propheticall but those are also Canonicall Canonicall with an vnerring spirit to expatiate a little into a Champian and Field of matter concerning SALOMON and yet to finde the truth of the poinct we stil prosecute as the Center in a large Circumference That SALOMON sinned fearefully who knowes not That hath read his best and worst in the sacred Scriptures In IOSEPHVS and others chiefly some Hebrew Rabbies that have writ his life so fearefully indeed and fouly in his manifest and manifold Idolatries his grosse and grievous Adulteries his lusts insatiable more than these of PROCVLVS AEGISTVS NERO n De hisce omnibus alijs vid. Ravisium in Theat Philo. lib. 5. cap. 53 pag. 65 3. ex Plutarcho Thucid. Coelic Gellior cum alijs CAESAR SARDANAPALVS of old the Turkish Emperour and the Kings of Morocco now or any of hers that ever wee reade of that I know as BELLARMINE CANVS GREGORY de Valentia and other Schoolemen o Answered by Zanchius de preservatione Sanctorum Willet in Synopsi Pelargus Ju Iesuitismo cum alijs contra Modernot nostros Arminianos and Iesuites reckoning without their Host and swimming without their Corke have untruely as uncharitably concluded his reprobation as falsly as the damnation of Infants dying without Baptisme So even some of the Fathers p Inter quos Cyprianus l. 1. Exempla 5. vel Epist 7. de vnitate Ecclesia poss medium Aug. de Civit Dei lib. 17. cap. 20. de Doct. Christ lib. 3. cap. 21. cum Tertul. lib. 2. contra Marcio c. 23. l. 3. c. 20. Reasons of the fall of Salomon and so of the sinnes of the Elect. 2 Cor. 12.7 I know have questioned whether by his Fall hee fell finally from Grace or no as did SAVL and even those that have beene most favourable to him as St. BASIL Exempla ad Cytonem IVSTIN MARTYR contra Tryphonem together with ORIGEN IRAENEVS CHRYSOSTOME BARNARD have wondrously lamented his fall as also the fall of Sampson and have layd downe some reasons why it pleased the Lord so to permit him to fall As

Cures would needs be named p Aelian lib. 12. Iupiter 4. In Alexander that would needs be the Sonne of q Ex Curtio Strigel lib. 1. Ethic. pag. 39. Iupiter and bee cloathed like Hercules in a Lyons skin 5. In Cotys King of Thrace that in all haste must be married to Minerva 6. In Sapor the Persian King that after his Victories over Valerian will needs bee Brother to the Sunne and Moone t De his alijs ex superbia et Jnsolentia insaenius consule Philippum in locis Mālij p. 476 ●t part 1. Postil p. 576. Strigell●us in Psal 73. p. 7. Praecipua in Themistocle Pōp●io Philippo Metello ●t Wolseo nostro Anglo instāt Patritius de regno l. 4. tit 18. p. 286. Pencerus in Chrō 26. Aprilis et 14. Iunij Anno 72. Cytre● in Chron. Saxoniae l. 7.213 et Hyppolit in s●o Consiliario p. 220. 7. In Antonius the Roman that will be crowned with Ivie and adored like r Paterculus poster Volū Bacchus With other such fits of Frenzie as Petrarch once acknowledged ſ Lib. 1. de Mundi contempt● ingenuously he himselfe was subject unto Yea some by too much dilating and diffusing their spirits have dyed suddainely as over-ioyed and too vehemently surprized as was that aged Father at Rhodes imbracing his two sonnes that came Victors from the Games of Olympia Iovius u Apud Goulart pag 478. reporting the like of Sinan Generall of the Turk● Armies recovering his onely sonne whom hee supposed slaine the like the French Histories of a Mother that received her Sonne in the Civill Warres safe and sound whom she supposed dead the like the Italian Histories * Guiccard alledged by the same Goulart relate of Livio and Camilla two Constant Lovers that being long crost by the Father and Claudio the Virgins Brother at last inioying one another as overjoyed the first night of their marriage were found dead in one Bed together but above all as most memorable being that which both x Jn vita L● onis ho. l. 4. Iovius and that joviall y Essays l. 1. cap. 2. Montaigne writ of that merry Pope Leo the tenth who upon certaine Newes of the taking of Millaine which he extreamely desired like a peaceable Praelate as hee was fell by an excessive Ioy into such a present Feav●r as shakt him out of Saint Peters Seat like a mellow or rotten-Apple But a great deale more dismall and Tragicall have beene and are the contrary Passions and perturbations of sorrow as in thousand examples may be instanced and in dayly experience verified 1. Some for the death and losse of Friends as David for his z 2. Sam. 18 33 Absolon for his a 2. Sā 1.17 Ionathan for b 2. Sā 3.3 Abner for c 2. Sam. 13 31 Ammon Iacob for his d Gē 37.34 Ios●ph Alexander for his e Impe●dit in ejus Funus 10. mi●lia Talentorum Gorlicus axiom Pol. pag. 244. Ephestion Achilles for his f Apud Hemerum Patroclus Hercules for his Hylas Adrian for his Antonius Aegens for his g Officina Textor pag. 255. Sonne the Widdow of Naim for h Luk. 7.13 hers Augustine for Monica his i He often speakes of her in his workes Chiefly in his Confessions l. de cura pro●mortuis Mother Quintilllian for his k Praefat. l. 6. Son Cardan and l De libris proprijs Mezentius for their onely Sonnes Niobe for her m Solicito lachrimans defluis a Scypio propertius l. 2. Children Portia for her n Vixisset Brutus tunc non tam clara fuisset Portia Pamph. Brutus Pompey's Wife for her p Pompey Hecuba for her o Off. Tex l. 5. pag. 553 Apud Sen. in Traged Priamus ANDROMACHE for her HECTOR mourning sometimes to madnesse sometimes to fearfull howlings and lowd laments as the Greekes and our Irish over their dead sometimes in sorrow continuated like Rachel for her q Mat. 2.18 Children not to be comforted even to annuall if not continuall memorials of them and mournings for them as the Primitive Church celebrating her Martyr the whole Roman Empire lamenting the death of Augustus Caesar and of Titus ſ Totus orbis Lugevat Victor Vespatian The Iewes bewailing their r Apud Tumulos ●artyrum inde tādem superstitio●e invocationes See M. Perkins his Problēs de Invoca● Ioshuah and u 2. Ch. 35.25 Iosias Rome Papall their Leo decimus the French their Lewis the 12. t Iosh 24. the Bohemians their x Aeneas Sylvius Zisca the Turkish Army their y Mortuns est Mustapha hodiè Turcicum Proverb Mustopha We English our Prince Henry Edward the sixt and Queene Elizabeth yea Patients some mentioned by z Montan. Cons 242. Physitians Turtle-like have bemoaned the death of their Mates many yeares together * Budaeus l. 5. de asse some being so greeved and sadded that they have suddainly dyed with them as Pyramis with a Apud Ovidium Thisbee some dying for them as Dido for the absence of her b Apud Virgilium Aeneas 2. Brothers also as impatient of life following voluntarily their Brothers to the Grave as Zeanger sonne to Sultan Solyman stabbing c Centorius l. 6. de bello Transilvano himselfe when he saw is worthy Brother Mustapha strangled with a Bow-string 3. Sonnes deadly surprized with griefe at the death of their Parents as one of the Sonnes of Gilbert Duke of Montpenzier falling downe a● the sight of his Fathers d Guiccard l. 5. de belloltalico sect 5 Tombe at Pouzzoll 4. Chiefly Fathers bursting their very hearts at the death of their Children as RAIZCIAT a Nobleman discovering under his Helme that i● was his owne sonne new slaine that fought so valiantly in the Hungarian Warres violence of griefe vanquishing his vitall e Montalgno Essayes l. 1. c. 2. Jovius in Histor Spirits hee fell downe instantly dead 5. Others beeing so inraged and impatient that they have themselves leapt into the Graves of their f Sic Pythius Bythinius in mortui filij Monumentum se coniecit Dead as the best beloved Wives amongst the g M. Polus Venetus Vertomānus Indians others have slaine many living in an unadvised distraction to accompany the Ghosts of their dearest dead as the Tartars at this day killing h Boterus Amphitheat many Inferiors to attend the Funerall of great Princes Others againe have beene as passionate and sorrowfull at and in the losse of Honours in Warre and in Peace as MARK ANTHONY that sate silent in his Ship and sullen three dayes together after he was overcome by i Plutarchus in Antonio Caesar drooping as a Cocke that is beat out of the Cocke-pit as Figueroa a Spanish Captaine kils himselfe with his mans Pistoll for his negligence and Cowardise at the siedge of k Ascanius Centurius l. 4. Belli Trāsilv Segedin as PHILIP Father to PETER