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A45630	Horæ consecratæ, or, Spiritual pastime. concerning divine meditations upon the great mysteries of our faith and salvation : occasional meditations and gratulatory reflexions upon particular providences and deliverances, vouchsafed to the author and his family : also a scripture-catechisme dedicated to the service of his wife and children, and now published, together with other treatises mentioned in the following page for common use / by Sir James Harrington ...	Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680.; Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680. Meditations upon the creation, man's fall, and redemption by Christ.; Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680. Noah's dove.	1682 (1682)	Wing H803E_PARTIAL; Wing H815_PARTIAL; Wing H831_CANCELLED; ESTC R4540	368,029	493

the Dead know not any thing neither have they any more reward for the memory of them is forgotten Also their love and their hatred and their envy is now perished neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing done under the Sun Doubtless God is your Father though Abraham be ignorant of you and Israel acknowledge you not Unto whom you have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Me. Let no Man therefore beguile you of your reward in Voluntary Humility and worshipping of Angels intruding into those things which he hath not seen vainly puft up by his fleshly mind An Angel when John fell at his feet to worship him said See thou do it not I am thy fellow-servant and of thy Brethren that have the testimony of Jesus worship God And an Angel said to Manoath if thou wilt offer a burnt-offering thou must offer it unto the Lord. I am the Way the Truth and the Life no Man cometh unto the Father but by Me that one Mediator betwixt God and Men. You know the Commandements Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or that is in the Earth beneath or that is in the Water under the Earth Thou shalt not bow down to them nor serve them For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God Visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate Me And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me and keep my Commandements Why then doth the Beast that rose up out of the Sea having seven Heads and ten Horns and upon his Horns ten Crowns and upon his Heads the Names of Blasphemy And those that worship him and his Image and receive his Mark in their Forehead or in their Hand Reject the commandments of God that they may keep their own Traditions Blasphemously leaving out of their Decalogue in some of their Books this Commandement As hating the Light because their deeds are evil To whom will ye liken God Or what likeness will ye compare with him I am the Lord that is my Name and my Glory will I not give to another nor my praise to graven Images They shall be turned back they shall be greatly ashamed that trust in graven Images God is not worshipped with Mens hands as though he needed any thing seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things They lavish Gold out of the Bag and weigh Silver in the Ballance and hire a Goldsmith and he maketh it a God Did not the Israelites thus worship God in the Golden Calf at Horeb In Mica's Teraphim and Images and in Jeroboam's Calves in Dan and Bethel Yea did not the Heathens formerly and do not the Pagans now profess that they worship not their Idols as believing them to be Gods But they worship their Gods in those Idol-Representations Wherefore confounded be all they that serve graven Images that boast themselves of Idols Worship him all ye Gods What is Man that he should be clean and he that is born of a Woman that he should be righteous Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean Not one Behold you were shapen in iniquity and in sin did your Mothers conceive you And every Imagination of your Heart is evil and evil continually Yea by Nature you are all the Children of wrath and dead in trespasses and sins Who can say I have made my Heart clean I am pure from my sin There is not a just Man upon Earth that doth good and sinneth not If my Servant Job abhorred himself and repented in Dust and Ashes And David professeth that in my sight no Man living shall be justified And Daniel confessed to him belonged confusion of face because he had sinned against Me And Paul my chosen Vessel cried out O wretched Man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this Death In me that is in my Flesh there dwelleth no good thing And my beloved John declares if ye say you have no sin ye deceive your selves and the truth is not in you Yea my self commanded my Apostles and all my Saints to acknowledg that when they have done all those things that are commanded them say Ye are unprofitable Servants We have done that which was our duty to do Then how dares that little Horn that hath a Mouth speaking great things and makes War with the Saints and for a time prevailes against them with his Abetters presume to assert and teach these damnable Doctrines That all Children after Baptism have no Original Sin And that in and by nature Man hath a free-will and is able and may with some help of grace keep and fulfill the whole Law And not only that some of them merit salvation and justifie themselves by their good works before God but do super-errogate and merit salvation for others also Wherefore let him that glorieth glory in the Lord For it is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that sheweth mercy To will is present with me saith my Servant Paul But how to performe that which is good I finde not For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure And your faith is the gift of God and so is Eternal Life The Dead shall hear the Voice of Me the Son of God and they that hear shall live For you hath God quickned together with me being dead in sins and trespasses Wherefore say with my Prophet Isaiah we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousness are as filthy rags In the Lord have I righteousness and strength In the Lord shall all the Seed of Israel be justified and shall glory Therefore by the deeds of the Law there shall no flesh be justified For by the Law is the knowledge of sin But now the Righteousness of God without the Law is manifested being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of me unto all and upon all them that believe For there is no difference for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God For I which knew no sin was made sin for you that you might be made the righteousness of God which is in me Who am the end of the Law for righteousness to every one that believes And am made of God to you wisdome and righteousness and sanctification and redemption This know also that in these last days perilous times shall come for Men shall be lovers of themselves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to Parents

Chore of Glory to Eternity Right honourable and renowned Gentlemen as I have presum'd to present and direct this weak Piece to your view so what I have above written in Zeal to God's glory and unfeigned love to your Souls shall be my Apology to the following subject As that my end therein is primarily the glory of God whose praises is my duty as well as his command to exalt in my own Soul and others as hath been declared and to perpetuate as much as in me lies to my Posterity and to all future Generations what great and free love mercy and goodness he hath shewed to me and mine herein endeavouring to imitate the Holy example of that Royal Psalmist King David who hath thus in Verse exprest both his resolution and practise Come unto me all ye that fear God and I will tell you what he hath done for my Soul I say for my Soul as may appear in some degree in the alluzions and applications in several temporal mercies and personal deliverances commemorated in this Book I acknowledging to Angels and Men that God's Fatherly love in Christ and care of my poor Soul in supporting preserving and delivering it from Sin Sathan and the World my mighty Adversaries and from innumerable spiritual evils and temptations Do as far transcend to the glory of his free grace be it spoken my temporal and corporal deliverances and mercies as the Heaven is above the Earth and my unvaluable Soul is more precious than this poor Hut of Earth I sojourn in Here possibly some great Men or rare Wits who Eagle-like soar far above my mean parts and gifts may uncharitably sensure and object to say no more What doth this poor Man's Personal or spiritual mercies and deliverances concern us To such I answer Are you Christians and fellow-members of Christ's Body and will you not weep with those that weep and rejoice with those that rejoice As God commands you Can you be living Members although in the highest rank in this spiritual Body and not sympathize and be affected with the grief or weal of the lowest Christians its Feet O take heed lest such pride and insensibleness declare you to be no living Member of one Church However I am assured all those that fear God now and in Ages to come shall read with delight rejoice and praise God with me for his gracious providences and merciful deliverances recorded in this following Treatise Which I although cloathed in a plain and low stile in the Opinion it may be of some carping Momusses and over-curious Criticks whom nothing will please but what 's their own or what is like Sphynkes Ridles to be understood by a few Or that is not imbroidered with humane strains of Wit and Eloquence or bumbasted and imbossed with affected praises and needless Epithites For my part I have not endeavoured to humour such nor to drown matter in words but without affectation vaunting or racking in Prose or in Verse I have desired to keep to my own Genuine and natural Dialect And to be understood rather than to be so obscure as to need a Comment What you finde is good herein it flowes although through my Leaden Pipe from the Spirit of the Lord the unexhaustible Fountain of Grace and goodness what is incongruous or evil it is the sinful slime and filth which naturally cleaves to every humane Aquaeduct except the Holy Scripture Nam Humanum est Errare which being in voluntary is pardoned by the Lord I doubt not of yours unless I should be so uncharitable as to think you disdain to imitate so Divine a Pattern To conclude my Lords and Gentlemen I confess I was heartily grieved for my own and your great ingratitude when upon a diligent inquiry I could finde few or none Monuments or Returns of this Nature although I am assured all of you are vastly indebted to our great and gracious God for numberless spiritual and temporal blessings mercies and deliverances and which is worse many of you have great Incomes given you by him and to this end of wit parts and gifts with which you might and ought to make to him a just and thankful repayment especially since our liberal Heavenly Father expects from you but his own Coin lent you to improve to his glory and but a sincere praiseful and declared acknowledgments for real and unvaluable benefits This serious and sad consideration of my own and your sinfull Omissions stirred me up speedily lest I should dye ungratefull to Pen and publish this Work not only in discharge of my duty to the only great and glorious God my loving and merciful Father But as an humble Essay and Copy for you to write by which if but any one of you follow I shall rejoyce much because such an one hath received great good thereby and the Lord by him much glory But if none I shall weep in secret for your Ingratitude And have much joy and peace in that herein I have done my duty to God and to you But I hope better things of you In which charitable expectation I subscribe my self my Lords and Gentlemen Your most humble Servant In the Lord J. H. OCCASIONAL MEDITATIONS ARGUMENT Vpon the Lord's most gracious Sustentation of Me when I was Born a Moneth before my full time Soliloquium or Discourse EVery extraordinary acting of Nature is not only to be admired but to be observed by us wherefore was I so over-hasty to be Born which the wisest of the Heathen accounted the bginning of their misery Was I weary of my Eight Moneths Prison and ambitious of a freer Place and Air Or was my heart more hot than others and therefore sooner needed the refreshing fanning of my Lungs Or was the Womb weary of such a sinful burden or rather did my loving Mother's affectionate longing to see and enjoy me occasion this Abortion was it weakness in her or too early strength in me that relaxt or brake in Pieces the silver Bonds of the Womb was I by the care of the Nurse wrapt in the Skin of a Lamb as in a second Womb to preserve and renue my heat and life were some or all these the natural causes of my unexpected Birth and preservation yet it becomes me as a Christian to look far higher even to him who is the cause of causes the beeing of Beeings Natura Naturans God blessed for ever whose Eternal Will and Decree was the first cause the others but secondary Yea he was the Midwife that brought me forth thus sooner into this World of sin and misery In sense of which my sad condition as by a natural instinct with all other Infants the first thing I did then was to weep and cry How much more cause have I now and that experimentally with humble Paul to cry out O wretched Man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of Death and to sigh out this my Prayer and spiritual Hymn unto the Lord The NEW BIRTH

he became a Priest unto God not to offer up for himself or for others expiating Sacrifices because sin then was not for God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good But his sweet incense was Prayer proceeding not from want but from love and duty his Kids were the Calves of his Lips inflamed with praise and sparkling with admiration from the Altar of a pure heart an un-bloody Sacrifice But this Jubile continued not a Year a Moneth a Week I think scarcely a Day God's first Sabbath of rest I suppose was the utmost date of Mans freedome from sin For no sooner had temptation voluntary leave to enter through the sences into this holy Temple but the ambush of sin rushed out of Sathans imposture as the Grecians from their Horse and overthrew and polluted the Priest the Sacrifice and the Altar If the Clay works not according to the mind of the Potter no marvail if he bruise it to powder And if the Creature honour not the Creator 't is Justice in him to destroy it When the House of God is become a Den of Thieves the Priest of God an Idolater and servant to sin and the Altar of God dedicated to Sathan It must needs follow that the curse of God fore-threatned shall now be executed Yee shall surely die O wretched Man hath God pronounced that thou shalt die Be ascertained thou must die since his unchangable Decrees are shaddowed out unto us by the Laws of the Medes and Persians which alter not Must Man die and hath God enacted it who then can deliver us from this Body of Death Be of good comfort we have mercy for our Esther the Son of God for our Mordecay who hath without reversing qualified and fulfilled the decree of his Father Who now can lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect it is God that justifies who is he that condemneth it is Christ that dyed yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us being the only Mediator betwixt God and Man All Priests since the fall within the Church of God were the Types of our high Priest Christ Jesus For no sooner was there a breach made betwixt God and Man the Creator and the Creature but mercy pleaded for a reconciliation and that reconciliation in Justice required a Mediator which is the Lord Jesus A principal part of whose Mediatorship is this his office of the Priesthood Before the Law typified in Melchizedeck in the Law pre-figured by Aaron and his Sons and in the Gospel really executed and fulfilled by himself The acts of this his office are chiefly two as being proportionable to the defect and necessity of Man the offendor viz. To satisfie to intercede Go forth now my Soul and bid defiance to all thy Enemies For the Shield of thy faith shall receive all their darts without any danger to thee retorting them back even into the adversaries faces Appear now with confidence before the judgment Seat of God bringing with thee to the Bar of Mercy thy Advocate Christ Jesus Thither summon Sin that Tyrant whom whilst thou weart a Traytor to thy Maker thou didst serve together with those Homicides Death and Hell Let him bring his Parent with him also even Sathan his Agent thy Accuser yea let thy own conscience be called as a Witness Lastly let the Law be prefer'd as thy Inditement Against all those let thy Saviour oppose himself and maugre their objections and accusations plead thy innocency that so thy righteousness may break forth as the light and thy judgment as the Noon-day For he shall trample thine and his Enemies under his feet and destroy them with the two-edged Sword of his Word Doth Sin challenge a right on thee Our Saviour answers That the old Man is crucified with him that the Body of Sin might be destroyed that hence-forth thou should'st not serve Sin Doth Death and Hell cry out we are thy wages The Almighty Conquerour replies O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory And that thou maist never hereafter fear 't is added Death and Hell shall be cast into the Lake of Fire Doth Sathan accuse thee behold thy Michael shall chase this malitious Dragon from the judgment Seat witness that voice of tryumph that the Accuser of our Brethren is cast down which accused them before our God Day and Night And as for thy conscience fear not its testimony since it ceases to accuse when Sin is not imputed For whosoever is born of God sinneth not Again a spotless and blameless conscience cannot be a blaming and condemning conscience But Christ through the eternal Spirit hath offered himself without spot to God that he might purge thy Conscience from dead works Wherefore having such an High Priest over the House of God draw thou neer with a free Heart in full assurance of Faith Lastly doth the severe justice of the Law threaten to swallow thee up strengthen and comfort thy self in Christ who hath redeemed thee from the curse of the Law being made a curse for thee for it is written cursed is every one that hangeth on a Tree c. Yea let this following immunity The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus having made thee free from the Law of Sin and Death dismiss thy fears and silence all thy adversaries O my Saviour who art only the true Melchizedeck the compleatment of Aaron's Priest-hood and the end of the Law How much praise is thy due from me thy redeemed since to me is thy saying verified Blessed are those Eyes that see those things that I see And the Eares that hear those things that I hear Abraham saw thee in Isaac David saw thee in Solomon but I see thee in thy self yea in these and in all other thy Types I see thee also and that with much comfort and confirmation in thy Calling Vnction Bloody Sacrifice Sanctification Redemption Ascention and Intercession which were heretofore mysteriously bound up in the Levitical Priest-hood are now fulfilled and to me graciously manifested Lord Jesus since of thy free mercy thou hast made my deafness to hear and hast given me sight that was blinde for the strengthning of my faith As I have seen thee in thy types so let me see thee also in that eternal decree of thy Father So shall salvation appear Gods act and not Mans phantasie viz. Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Thou art the Lamb slain that takes away the sins of the World Lastly let me behold the execution thereof wherein the Lord is both offered to me and accepted for me viz. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased O my Soul what canst thou now more desire as having the Decree of God for thy Foundation the merit

until Shilo come and unto him shall the gathering of the People be Now it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda. Further Moses drawing neer to his dissolution Prophesies and that from the Mouth of God That God will raise them up a Prophet like unto him Now Moses was not only a Prophet but a King He was King in Jesurun In the next place hearken to the mellodious and foretelling Hymns of the royal Psalmist David who knowing that God had sworn with an Oath to him that of the Fruit of his Loynes according to the Flesh he would raise up Christ to set on his Throne At once beholds his Seed his Saviour and becomes the Herald of his King his Son thus Proclaiming I have set my King upon my holy Hill of Sion And again The Lord said unto my Lord set thou on my right hand until I make thine Enemies thy Foot-stool Of him also the Prophet Esay thus Prophesieth Vnto us a Childe is born unto us a Son is given and the Government shall be upon his Shoulders and his Name shall be called Wonderfull Counseller the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace of the increase of his Government and peace there shall be no end Zachary also remarkably points him out and that not only verbally but by certain actions of our King Rejoyce O Daughter of Sion behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just and having Salvation lowly and riding upon an Ass and upon a Colt the Fole of an Ass. Lastly lest the testimonies of Men should seem weak the premulgation of Angels shall conclude and that undeniably this holy and comfortable truth Behold saith the Angel Gabriel to the blessed Virgin Thou shalt conceive in thy Wombe and bring forth a Son and shalt call his Name Jesus he shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the Throne of his Father David And he shall reign over the House of Jacob for ever And of his Kingdome there shall be no end Again as his Birth and Kingdome over the Jews yea over the whole World was foretold by the Angel so correspondently they were proclaimed by an Angel and seconded by a multitude of the Heavenly Host saying unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. O my Soul I have hitherto like John by the finger of the Prophets pointed out unto thee thy King thy Saviour The Lamb of God which taketh away the Sins of the World It is expedient and time now that with Andrew thou follow him home and by the eye of thy faith takest a particular view of his excellencies administrations and government That thy heart being bedewed with those many comforts benefits and blessings which descend therefrom may with those ravished Jews in the Gospel cry out Hosanna blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord Blessed be the Kingdome of our Father David that cometh in the Name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest And also sing with that Heavenly multitude Salvation unto our God which sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb Blessing and glory and wisdome and thanks-giving and honour and power and might be unto our God for ever and ever Amen Proceed then O my Soul and diligently consider first how thy King governs amongst his Subjects Secondly how he rules and reigns over his Enemies and lastly how in that great Assize he shall execute his last Judgment and translate his Kingdome on Earth to Heaven there establishing and fixing a glorious and tryumphant Monarchy even for Eternity The wisest Heathen whose choisest flowers of learning and knowledge were gathered out of our Paradise of God the Scriptures stiled their Kings Pastors of the People That the Spirit of God useth the like Metaphor and that it might well be that they stole it from thence may be supposed from these places amongst others The Psalmist glorifying God for the deliverance of his People out of Egypt concludes thus Thou leddest thy People like a Flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron And the same Moses neer the ending of his life desires God to appoint his Successor That the People be not as Sheep which have no Shepward Michaiah Prophesying of Ahab's death and the overthrow of his Army saith That in a Vision he saw all Israel scattered a Sheep that have no Shepward And the Lord by the Prophet Esay promising his People a deliverance from their Captivity by the means of Cyrus even many years before his birth ●aith thus of him He is my Shepward and shall perform all my pleasure Surely as there is good cause to commend the Heathens choice and application of this Metaphor So a-above all to admire the infinite wisdome of the Spirit of God as the Original who under this similitude comprehends and discovers the whole duty of a religious Prince and Governor as that like a Shepheard he is to feed his People to lead them to fold and keep them from straying and to protect them from those Wolves and wicked Enemies that seek to destroy them See all this exprest in that woe pronounc'd by the Spirit of God against the Shepward of Israel that do feed only themselves Should not the Shepwards feed the Flock The diseased have yee not strengthned neither have you healed that that was sick neither have yee bound up that that was broken neither have yee brought again that that was driven away neither have yee sought that that was lost But with fierceness and with cruelty have yee ruled them Seeing then that the Lord himself commends unto us this humble vocation offering it as a Glass unto Princes his Vice-roys upon Earth therein to see their duties It will neither be unfit nor unprofitable to meditate and consider the office and actions of the Lord of Lords even our Lord Jesus Christ under the same Metaphor And the rather because St. Peter gives us a Precedent who stiles him the chief Shepward and Bishop of our Souls and more especially for these reasons First because God the Father so calls him often in Scripture witness that Prophesie of Ezekiel saying I will set up one Shepward over them he shall feed them Secondly he so names himself and with abundance of affection and delight and prosecutes and applies the similitude saying I am the good Shepward and know my Sheep and am known of mine And lastly whatsoever he in that Chapter or elsewhere applies to himself in the office of a Shepward doth most aptly agree with his Kingly administration But to make this more cleer Is it the duty of a King to govern and direct his People by good Laws Which though written yet are as it were his lively fixt and continued voice And is not this verified of our King the Shepward of

her Ape and imitatrix As for the Plain it self which I may well call Nature's great Oval Table because there she Daily teasted her Guests and off-spring it was most beautifully spread as it were with a green Carpet of unshorn Velvet imbroidred with many coloured and Gold like Flowers For it was now about the Moneth of May the gladsome and concluding time of her anniversary Feast in remembrance of her Creation the Beasts we call wild as though they had been metamorphized Acteons and had still retained his reason seem'd tame and civiliz'd feeding upon her Varieties cookt and prepared for them there without intemperance or gluttony But O how short and temporary are all Earthly delights and refreshments for no sooner was I cheared contented and revived after about ten Hours travel with this new Scene of things pleasant change and sweet prospect but the carreering of four Horse-men issuing out of several quarters of the Woods alarm'd me to prepare for an on-set and to alight with my Servant that drawing our Swords and cocking our Pistols and backt by our Horses we might not be surpriz'd but secure our selves and a considerable sum of Money This our prepared vigilancy as I conjecture being at a neer distance perceived by our adversaries they stopt united and wheeled about retreating into the Woods again thereby encouraging us to remount and to return that Night with safety home But the true cause of this great deliverance as being from thee O Lord is only known to thee who struck the Sodomites and Syrians with an intellectual rather than with an organical blindness that thou mightest preserve safe thy Lot and Elisha and caused the numerous Army besieging Samaria for the sake of a few there and to make thy Word good and thy Power known to be abused and deceived also by their other Sence of Hearing and to fly when none pursued them How and by what means these Robbers were diverted I know not but this I know that it is my duty O Lord greatly to praise thee for this preservation and to commemorate it to Posterity for ever which accept I beseech thee in this my poor Sacrifice of Thanks-giving and never-dying Record dedicated to thy Glory Amen The RESCVE Ejaculation or Hymn on the former Subject MY Life from first to last O Lord's A Pilgrimage a Journing tow'rds My home few evil are my Dayes As wrackt with sickness scortcht with Raies Of Earthly and Coelestial Suns Wearied with care dusted undone With slanders sweating all my race Vnder sad troubles and disgrace Amidst these travels thou didst please Good God to give to me some ease An interval wherein I did A sweet refreshing take and rid As on a Plain adorn'd with store Of Flowry blessings green all o're With mercies then I Brutes did see Grown tame and civiliz'd by Thee Yea there encompast with thy Armes I was from Sun and other harmes Secur'd then did I often hear Musick beyond that of the Spheres Without within me But alas This lasted not for soon I was Assailed by a Troop of slie And Hellish Thieves powers in high Places spiritual wickedness Skilfully arm'd none weaponless One Fiend as I remember well Had Darts of Lust inflam'd from Hell Another Bow and Arrowes on Feather'd with Pride Ambition A third was arm'd Cappee point V●e With a Coat-Male of Avarice The last with Sword and Lance excess Of Pleasures and Voluptuousness O Lord I bless thee who didst then And since counsel even when I knew not how for to defend My Soul and Treasures from these Fiends Thou didst advise me to dismount From my own strength and to account Humility the surest Ground On which to stand and to confound These Robbers yea thou did'st prepare And cockt my heart full-charg'd with prayer Thou help'st me to draw out thy Sword The Devil-daunting written Word They thus repulst fled gave me space For to proceed on tow'rds my Place Of rest and peace That Tower wherein No fear of Sathan World or Sin The Soul and Body both which thou Didst and dost still preserve shall bow Vnto thy Praise Eternally And Triumph in thy Victory Amen ARGUMENT Vpon God's good Providence over me and his Preservation of me from the Vices of the times when I was left by my Parents to my liberty and alone in the Cities of Westminster and London young and about Seventeen Years of Age. Soliloquium or Discourse O How early even in the Spring of my Youth did sin and vanity bud flower and bring forth clusters of Sodom and Apples of Gomorah no sooner was I mounted for London about the year 1625. but a Troop of Lusts were on Horse-back also ready to attend me thither Viz. Pride in a disguise and Garment of neatness Lust in a light riding suit of love and amorousness Lying in a divers coloured Coat of Complement and good language and Idleness in a wide-made Suit slasht and open-sleeved of recreation upon which was a travelling Cloak of friendly Visits seventy miles as to my labour seem'd but a short stage but as to my longing desires five hundred until I got a fight of the Southern constellation of the English Geminy Peter and Paul's Churches and the united Cities of London and Westminster where I was no sooner setled but I found my self unsetled through the multitude of temptations and incitations to sin and vanity Being almost suffocated with ill scent of pride and vanity I rode out for Recreation to a Park neer it to find out sweeter Air but there me thought the Proverb was verified The World runs upon Wheels which raised up Clouds of dust as though the Earth against Nature would take place of the Element of Air There I saw many Inchanters of both Sexes raise their familiars and command and charm them within multiplied circles of Coaches wherefore I returned from thence to walk as I conceived in a more private and reserved Paradice called therefore the Springs Garden but that I was so crowded and shouldred with the Gallants of both Sexes which as so many moving Groves fill'd up and replanted the Walks that the whole Garden was me thought changed into a wild Wood and Wilderness wherefore to avoid this throng through some solitary Meddowes and winding Paths I sought in the Centre of the Wood for some place of privacy and found some little Hermitages where I hoped to have discoursed with some sober or devout Persons but found them to be Chapels of ease dedicated to Bacchus Ceres and Venus which made me think of the truth and reason of that Sentence Sine Cerere Bacho friget Venus The Lord's Day being come I thought to spend that Day better than the Days of the Weeks past and therefore Visited the Church of Peter's Westminster which to say no more in its commendation according to Relations I found to be in some things like St. Peter's Church in Rome This being I was a Protestant and in a Protestant City