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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54805	The creples complaint, or, A sermon preached Sept. 29, 1661 at Akly, near Buckingham, upon some sad occasion in which among many motives unto loyalty and other religious duties is proved, by lamentable experience, that good things are better known when they are not, than when they are enjoyed / by Thomas Philpot.	Philpot, Thomas, b. 1588?	1662 (1662)	Wing P2124A; ESTC R28438	45,670	51

may examine what those years are which are multiplied to so many thousands and then upon the account we shall find that every month is an year and so there being in every thousand years twelve thousand months though their Records should be of forty thousand years antiquity yet that Adam which Moses mentioned will be as ancient as any other Adam that may be imagined St. Luke saith that there was an Adam who was the Son of God St. Paul saith there is an Adam which is the Son of Adam and the Son of God and if there should be an Adam before these then it might be said Sic à Jove tertius Adam that there is one nearer unto God than either of the two which in Scripture are named and so St. Paul also might be mistaken in his account who saith The first man Adam was made a living Soul and the last man Adam was made a quickening Spirit And again The first man Adam is of the earth earthly the second man is the Lord from heaven heavenly So then as Sapientum octavus quis fuit nondum constat the eighth wise man of Greece is not yet found so that man only must be the man that must find out that Adam who shall be before the first And all that are descended from him the mean while may say with the Satyrist Stemmata quid faciant or rather with David What profit is there in my blood descended from my ancestors when I with those Puteolani which are near Avernus go down into the Pit And now taking Adam in his Puris Naturalibus he is but earth and this earth of all the four Elements is the coldest and thence is it that man is cold in his devotion to God cold in his charity to man and cold in all comfort that should come from him Secondly Take him from the Adamant or Diamo●d as some will have him there he is the hardest as in the other he is the coldest So that we are of Ba●tus his breed or descended from Deucalion or from such stones whereof children should be raised unto Abraham or from any stone that might be harder than any of these if there might be any for Gutta cavat lapidem the least drop leaveth some impression upon the hardest stone but many drops Se●e cadendo falling often from the eyes of Orphans can leave no impression on our stony hearts for if they could we should cast our bread upon the waters of Mara even bitter tears of those which at this day do weep for want of it Thirdly Derive Adam from Adma the true Anagram of Adam which was a City of Pentapolis as red a soyl as that from whence Adam was descended for it was a City built on blood and yet as dry as the Adamant was hard for if there had been but one penitential tear in it even that tear might have quenched the fire and saved the City and all the Citizens that were i● Adma So then by the one we are Genus frigidum a frozen generation by the other Genus durum an obdurate generation yea and so hard that as Saint Peter saith And you as lively stones are made a spiritual building yet let us talk what we will of edifying if we have not something to hold these stones together Duro conduro non fanno muro saith the Italian Hard to hard will never make a Wall Fourthly By Adma we are Genus sicoculum a dry-ey'd generation Nor is this drouth confined to our eyes but it is Hydropically dispersed over all the parts of our body yea insomuch that Erisictho● whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or hot digesture did devoure more than Bell or the Dragon or whom St. Peters sheet would not serve for a second course was not so hungry as we are thirsty Our drouth exceedeth the drouth of Summer or of the drouth of Synosura whose Bears about the Northern Pole would drink up the Sea as some suppose if they could come at it Nay our drouth or thirst is greater than the thirst of Tantalus who Quaerit aquas in aquis suffereth drouth in a deluge for we are dry while we drink like unto the Horse-leach Nec missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hirudo we being not satisfied until we be suffocated And what do we thirst after not after the Wine but after the Vine nor after the Vine but after the Vineyard that was it that Ahab sought after although it were the price of blood But these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or thirsters after blood may know that as drinking in the cold fit of a Fever increaseth the fervor or heat of the Fever So those whose charity being cold do long after this cup of cruelty will increase the heat also of a greater fire And now all that hath been said is to shew in what miserable condition man is where he is left to his own nature grace having forsaken him Therefore saith Solomon Ve soli Wo unto him that is alone not for want of warmth only as in the text but by reason of the warfare that is betwixt the willer and the worker where the Spirit is willing but the flesh though weak will not suffer the Spirit to do what he would The wo to him then that is alone is not for want of heat only as in the text for a man were better be alone than to have such a companion whereby he may Calescere plus satis-have wo with his warmth First had not Sechem felt the warmth of Dina Dina might have been still a chast Diana and not an indomita invenea to go a gadding after may-games quae non inventa reperta est whom when Jacob found found that she was lost Secondly had not Zimri found the warmth of Cosbi but had been alone all had been well but Musitians can tell you that Solus cum sola is a sweet melodious tune but the musick is sad mournful and melancholy withal and so it was with Zimri and Cosbi or else the bed of Cosbi had not been the bloody bath of Zimri nor Zimries goar had been the grave of Cosbi So then a man may be Solus but not Solitarius alone but not so solitary alone but he shall have associates When Christ was in the wildernesse fasting alone he was not long solitary alone for Silenus quamvis nemo vocaret adest Satan came tempting him to eat before his time Again when Christ was praying in the Mount of Olives alone he was not long alone though in a long Agony for Angelus en Christi solatus pectora An Angel came from heaven comforting him in his agony So then a man is not alone when he seemeth to be alone nor comfortless when he seemeth to be comfortless nor forsaken when some think he is forsaken for then some would be but in a sad condition First the poor are supposed by some to be forsaken when they beg their bread because David saith Nunquam vidi I never saw the righteous forsaken

better than Sacrifice as Samuel told Saul then Sacrifice of necessity must be bettered by obedience and this is shewed by bowing the body and bending the knee both being proper postures for expiating Sacrifices and where this obedience is not performed there is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or gout in the knee or a dead Palsie totally dispersed through an ill disposed body When Carmenta had not yet invented letters from whom cometh Carmen or a Verse and when she knew not where to write them but in libris the barks of trees from whence cometh Liber a Book the ingenuous Egyptians did find a way by Hierogliphicks or Pictures to express their minds in writing the one to the other viz. a violent man by a Lion Rampant a vinolent or swilling man by a Swine dormant a lascivious man by a Goat Saliant a meek man by a Lamb Couchant and the like Among which we find two proper for our present occasion First Abel and Delborah kneeling at their Sacrifice on both knees signifying Gods acceptance or approbation Secondly Cain and his sister Calmana kneeling at their Sacrifice but on one knee intimating rejection and reprobation If God then was so displeased that there was a knee and not a knee or but one knee when two were too little how will he be offended when at our Sacrifices we cannot afford him one knee but sit as though we were sacrificing the Sacrifice of fools and what is fit for the back of fools Prov. 26.3 you may soon find When the wise men came with their oblations to Christ the King of the Jews as they supposed only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Arius Montanus Prostrantes Procidentes as St. Jerom and Erasmus and the Genevaists themselves say fell down and worshipped The Original goeth farther if it be the Original as Munster affirmeth it to be using the Hebrew word Harets They prostrated themselves to the Earth and worshipped What shall wise men think of those that at their Sacrifices and Oblations sit or stand and neither bow nor bend at all unto the King of the heavenly Jerusalem This King himself when he was to sacrifice his soul for our sins though he could neither bow his body nor bend his knee being both bound too fast to the Cross yet at the offering of it up he bowed as much as he could bow for he bowed his head and gave up the ghost and this may be sufficient to teach wise men both what belongeth to humility and civility in all our Sacrifices whatsoever There are yet another kind of Claudicants who are lame in their Benevolences tributes or rather retributions in which they should not be if they were as they should be First Because St. Paul saith That we have nothing but what we have received and therefore on reasonable conditions may more willingly part from it Secondly Because Tully telleth us that Non nobis solum nati sumus we are not born for our selves alone and so goeth on Partem Patria our Countrey will expect a part which part is Constancy in our Countrey-men who when they travel with the Prodigal into strange Countreys they should read the learned work of a reverend Divine called Quo vadis that they may know whither they do go before they go and be careful in the first place they do not change their Religion unless it be such a one as some of our new ones are and then they need not fear for no man will change with them Next they must be so far from Arminianism that as judicious Zancheus saith they must be neither Lutherans Zuinglians Calvinist but Christians and that they may so still continue they must not read Mariana the Scot who will have Kings to be deposed if they be not of his pestilent opinions nor must they meddle with Molanus who will have no faith with Heriticks and yet they that are the chiefest Heriticks must be judges of the Herisies And if a Prince shall dislike that which they have a liking unto nor Loyalty nor Allegiance shall oblige them to do any thing but what they list who will also so limit His Prerogative that rather than He shall be in all Causes as well Ecclesiastical as Civil Supreme Head and Governour they will take off his HEAD And this is the Practice of Piety which of late hath been brought over into our Countrey either by such Tutors or by their Disciples for want of Constancy at their return Insomuch that many men knowing what we have been formerly and seeing what we are now do admire to see our unconstancy Gregory the Great looking on some of our English features which were taken captive said Angli quasi Angeli The English are as Angels but now our Neighbour Countreymen looking into our nature say Angle terre bonne terre mauvais gens England is a good Nursery but the Nation is ill Nurtured Nay so unconstant are we or rather careless that we have forgot our own Mother Tongue for our ancient Language which was Lingua monosyllabica a Language of one syllable may now be termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a confusion of Languages where by putting new pieces of cloth into an old vesture thinking to make it better make it worse For English of it self without mixture is not inferiour to any Language that seemeth to be of a higher nature First The Hebrew Siriak Calde Arabek Indian Egyptick Saracen and all the Oriental Languages which may be so termed as well because their letters look Eastward as that they are Languages of the East have all dependance one upon the other and have been corrupted as appeareth by that Hebrew which was before Esdras and that which was after him Secondly the Illirick Greek French Spanish Roman Italian and all the Occidental Tongues so termed as well because their Letters look unto the West as that they are Western Languages I say when in all these Languages there are so many Sesquipedalia verba or words of so many sillables that some of them will make an Hexamiter or long verse Yet our true English consisting but of one sillable for the most part as the Hebrew Radixes do of three letters is so significant that it may well be termed our Mother tongue because in one sillable you may finde not only the names of an innumerable company of creatures both by sea and land but their natures also as hot cold moist dry and all parts belonging to them and to our own bodies as a heart to sigh and groane for want of grace a hand at hand to help a friend and give his bread unto the poor who pine and die for want of it an eye to weep and send forth tears for time ill spent when all the time we have to live may not be long enough to repent for the ill spending of it as hath been said Fleres si scires totum tua tempora mensem Rides cum non sit for sitan una dies The men of Ninive hearing