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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

Flatu ex nihilo asserunt August ut supra Epist 7. frenaeus l. 2. c. 63. 〈◊〉 6● Greg. Nazian in apolog Lact. l. de Opit Dei cap. 19. Aqu● 〈◊〉 iusus Gentes lib. 2. cap. 88. Almighty Creando infusa et infundendo creata by Creation infused and by infusion created here shee is but for a time as it were banished and exiled as Themistocles and some others by Ostrecisme she is here Tanquam in ergastulo a● in a Prison 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi Sema the Earth is the Prison of the Body he stockes or little ease of the soule Now wee know that Honours Riches Pleasures and all worldly things being but from Earth how can they satisfie the Heavenly Soule As a man in a forreigne Land whose heart is at home with his wife and Children bloud friends and Consanguinity Riches and Revenewes takes little Complacency till be at his owne homely home againe as the Bird at her old l ●uus Nedus curque Magnus Nest the Bee at her old hive Vlisses at his owne m Optat Vlisses fumum de patrijs posse videre focis Ovid. Ithica as AENEAS above all things to see old n Vrbes Tr●janas primū Priami Tecta alta Maioris Troy as all other men the place of their birth and o Nescio qua Natale solum dulcedine cunctos ducit et Inmemores non sinit esse sui breeding so the Soule comming from Heaven as Noahs Dove p Gē 8.8 9 sent from the Arke to the Earth is never well till she returne and retyre thither againe as to her Center and resting place we know every Creature every Element tend properly to it owne Center the fire upwards the water stones and other heavy and grosse things q Omne leve sursum grave deorsum downewards so the Soule hath her Center that 's Heaven or the God of Heaven by Faith here on Earth which indeed is her true Heaven in the midst of all corporall and spirituall afflictions and fluctuations her true Heaven as the waters and Rivers to the Seas she tends to the proper place from whence she came till she come thither to heaven locally after her desolution as the Soule of r Kuk 16.21 LAZARVS or Heaven come here into the Soule by the blessed influence of Grace and the sanctifying comforting Spirit she hath no more true and solid content in these outward things with which she may be besotted for a time but never satisfied then the Moale hath out of the Earth the Fish out of the waters like some Seamen or Sea-monsters or Fishy men or men Fishes I have ſ Many such are recorded by Olaus lib. 21. c. 1 by Alexan. ab Alexandro Gene. dier lib. 3. c. 8. By Peter Hispalensis c. 22. pag. 1. et de Pisce Calano scribit cap. 21. ex Alexandro l. 2. c. 21 cum alijs Historicis read of that are never quiet but sometimes pine or perish till they be let goe into the Sea againe not contented with all that the Land can affoord them so it is with the soule till she be carryed by meditation contemplation and divine speculation into that maine Sea and Abysse of Maiestie and mercy of God nothing contents her no more than that Avis Paradisi that Bird of Paradise which you see pictured in your great Maps which never leaves mourning till she dye if shee bee once snared and captivated till shee bee loosed and set at libertie Seaventhly not onely the disposition t How the Soule with her 3. Faculties is an image of the Trinitie it 's lively shewed by Roseliu● in his Comment upon the Pymander of Mercuriut Trismi●sius but even composition of the heart seemes to plead and perswade the incompetency of any sublunary Vanity to give it any true contentation for the heart of man being in the composure of it parva trinacria like the letter Delta amongst the Greekes Triangular in forme the Soule beeing as a little Trinitie adorned with three faculties Vnderstanding Will Memory as the heart in proportion is three cornered wee know according to the principles of the Mathematicks and experimentall demonstration no Sphaericall or ●ound figure can fill that which is triangular but some Corners will bee voyd some Angles will be empty Now the whole world is sphaericall u Mundum alij Sphericū alij turb●natum alij in Formae Ovi asserunt apud Plutarchum l. 2. c. 2. de placit is Philosopherum orbiculer and * Nec est tamen rectilineus nec triangularis alterius ve figurae quam ro●un●ae Plimus l. 2. c. 2. Arist l. 2. de Coelo cap. 4. Al●inous l. 2 de doctrina Platonis c. 10. vide orbis dictus round therefore called Orbis the whole Earth is a Globe voluble or round the Sea is a crowned Circle compassed round by the Land for that cause called perhaps by some of the Ancients Amphitrite the Heavens too are all Spheares and incompassing Circles circling the Land and the Sea as the heart is inclosed in the body the yolke of the egge within the shell on this is a wondrous Globe the whole Earth the whole Sea the Heavens vast and great being all Sphericall this whole Globe this Spheare cannot fill this little triangulary heart so many Omicrons cannot fill one little Delta yea one corner of the heart is able to containe more than the whole world even our understanding part as I have prooved is able with that ALEXANDER and ANAXAGORAS to understand imagine and conceive moe Worlds and the will is able to desire more the memory to retaine and remember more than this visible World and therefore if there be no Vacuity x Nullum est ●cuum v● rerum ●ra in Nature as hath beene discussed what shall fill who shall fill the Inanity and Vacuity of the heart of man but the true God who shall fill every Angle of this trianguler heart and spirit but the Triune God the blessed Spirit the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost to be blessed and praised for ever Without whom it is ever empty ever hungry it 's like the Country in which the Prodigall once lived in his aberration from his Father in which there was a great famine y Facta est sum●s valida Luk. 15 14 spirituall as once corporall in Ierusalem and z De quibus supra in Margine Samaria when GOD left them Eighthly for the further manifestation of this we know there must be ever a Proportion betwixt the Continent and the thing contained when we would fit a thing we fit it acording to the measure quantity of that it will containe we cānot hoise in the Sea or a River into a narrow Vessell as Augustine in a Vision meditating on the Trinitie by the Sea-side saw a child attempt to put the Sea into a a Possidonius in vlta Aug. Sive nor can a great gutter or vast bottome

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

suis stratagem or Hamo to play the Parasites and Carroul out their desired Dieties yea it makes the young Hawkes and Eagles active and agill for their prey being first taught by the old ones Yea this hunger brought the Dove backe againe into NOAHS Arke after she was sent out as a scout-watch to discover the desired k Gen. 8.9 dry land after the deluge and this famine brought refractary HAGAR l Jnterposito Angeli mandato Gē 16.7.8 back againe as tamed and obsequious to her Mistresse SARAH CHAP. V. The Prodigalls hungry Huskes further applyed to Epicurish profuse and prophane men IF I might make a digression from my intended scope though still jumping in equall parts with the Text my pursuite being one onely poinct as the Faulkener and Woodman follow but one game as the Lionesse that brings forth but one young one at one m De partis hoc leonino Plin. l. 8.16 Basil hexam Hom. 9. birth but yet it is a n Reusneros in Symbolis Lyon no Ape no Mouse no Monkey I would from this hint and opportunity wish all Birds of the Prodigalls feather to see their faces in his Glasse to measure at last their foote and their shooe too at his Last To take up with themselves ere they bee at last cast split upon his Rockes bog'd in the quagmire of his miserie not to bleed any more like pruned Vines or as a sicke man in the fluxe of his nose when they have lost too much blood already least their meane meanes daily washing as Conies and Lambes in wet o Columella Varro de rebus Rusticis weather they come to a speedy irrecoverable consumption of all Lodge in beggers Inne sit under Beggers bush stand without as Peirce pennilesse the Client before the doore of the p Si nihil attuleris stabis Homere Foras Lawyer lye begging as that Lazarus before the gates of churlish q Luk. 16.21 Dives without eyther Crust or crum make a knagg'd staffe and a wallet their Fidus Achates their individuall companions their miserable Comforters yea least they make their mother earth their bed the Circling Ayre their Curteines the heavens their Canopie the water springs their Taverne their fists as once that r See Staffords Diogenes and the Forrest of Histories ex Laertio Fulgoso cum aliis Cynicke their drinking Dish Figge leaves their cloathes painted Cloathes their best apparell greene hearbes their diet Duke Humphrey their hoste Mother Need their hostesse their meate sighes their teares Drinke hunger their sauce and patience their ſ Levius fit patientia quicquid corrigere est nefas Horat. Physicke to endure what ever Gods Iustice mans hardhartednesse and their owne demerits shall bring upon them Besides thinke upon the desolate Case of this prodigall you daintie Courtlie Dames you pampered Cittizens you full cram'd Countrymen that make feasts like t 1 Sam. 25.36 NABALL fare delitiously every day as that rich Churle in the u Luk. 16.20 Gospell that abound in all Asian luxuries and more than Sabaritish delights that rob the Sea of the choisest fishes the Forrests and fields of beasts the Ayre of birds to sacrifice to that Curtian gulph that devouring Minotaure your bellies to satisfie your Epicurish curiosities Thinke of it too you who make your Belly your * Phil. 3.17 God who spare no cost nor paines to content your paunch that love your Gut better than your GOD that had you Pearles like CLEOPATRA would dissolve drinke them you that feast as superflously as that Romaine GALBA VITELLIVS LVCVLLVS and the greatest Epicures That eate like gurmundizing Helluohs drinke as that PROCVLVS TRIGONGIVS and TIBERIVS x De hisce omnibus allisque Gulosis lege Textor in Theat Phil. lib. 5. p. 641. Brusonium exemp Facet l. 3 cap. 1. pag. 165 166. in 4. Athen. lib. 2. l. 10. l. 11 Crantzium lib. 10. cap. 5 lib. 11. cap. 7 Lonicerum in Theat lib. 9. folio 660 661. ad pag. 674. in Catalogo gloriae Cassaneū part 2. p. 64. NERO whom the ordinary Creatures cannot content in fuellizing and refreshing Nature which is content with a little but you must over-ballance the bulke of Nature with superfluities both in Quantity and Quality nothing satisfying your Pride your vanitie your curiositie Oh know that Gods inflicting Iustice and the demerits of your provoking Sinnes concurring if the LORD should turne your Plenty into Penury your Fulnesse into Famine your superfluities into want of necessaries If your full bags full barnes full baskets should bee emptied your full Seas and spring-tides of meates and monies revert to a shallow If Bread and the staffe of Bread should bee taken from you leanenesse by Cleannesse of teeth be brought upon you if you should try and experiment the miserable fruites and effects of Famine which some of the Pagans and Heathens have felt as they are described by y De tuenda valetudine PLVTARCH z Noct. Attic l. 16. c. 3. GEILIUS a Antiq. lect lib. 13. c. 24. CELIUS RHODIGINUS b Lib. 8. Metamorph OVID c Lib. 5. Epist 21. TULLY d Lib. 3. de Bello Phars LUCAN and of later times by PHILIP BOSQVIER the e Jn Flag Acad. peccat Gallice lect 1. Num. 21. Iesuite and f Conc. in Serm. 2. post Dom. 3. Quadrig MAURICE HILARET but chiefly by g Vt supra Orat. de Fame 5. St. BASILL that hath writ a whole tract of this Argument Or if you were exercised but the one halfe in this tryall of Dearth bit with the hungry teeth of this monster Famines in any measure as were the ancient Patriarchs and the people of GOD at Nine severall times for severall Sinnes as the Hebrewes and the Chalde Paraphrase have observed The first hapning in the dayes of ADAM as the castigation of his Disobedience Gen. 3.17 18 19. The 2. vnder LAMECH the first Bigamist Gen. 5.29 The 3. in the dayes of ABRAHAM Gen. 12.10 The 4. in the dayes of ISAAK Gen. 26.1.5 The 5. in the dayes of IACOB Acts 7.11 The 6. in the dayes of BOOZ because the unthankfull Israelites began to serve BAALIM and ASTEROTH Ruth 1. vers 1. The 7. in the dayes of DAVID for the sinnes of the bloody house of SAUL 2 Sam. 21.1 2. vers The 8. in the dayes of AHAB for his and IEZABELS barbarous out-rages against ELIAS and the Lords true Prophets 1 King 17.1.9 The 9. under ELIZEUS in distressed Samaria even for the like causes 2 King 6. I say had these our delitious Libertines that now so prodigally profusely and prophanely abuse the Creatures in all excesse of h 1 Pet. 4.4 Ryot beene pincht and prest with this pressure of Hunger and suffered scarcity of Bread with these pristine Patriarches or scarcity of Drinke eyther as did once the i Exod. 17.3 Israelites in the Wildernesse HAGAR and her Sonne ISMAEIL in the k Gen. 21.15

Iewish Iordan as the Iewes bragd of MOSES and x Ioh. 8.53 Ioh. 9.29 ABRAHAM above CHRIST as our Papists now of their owne waters though bloudy as these seene of y 2. King 3.22 Moab bitter as these of z 2. King 2.19 Iericho as they run from the Romish a As Traditions so urged and answered by D. W●…t i●… his reply to ●…sh●… A Pa●… pag. 47. Sea above the waters of Shiloh the mundifying waters of the Word as they extoll the puddles and broken p●…s of their owne b Alti●… summa●… 3. cap. 12. q. 2. Rhemists in Heb. 6. An●… 10. V●…sques sup 1 ●… p. ●… disp 2●4 Cap. 1. workes above the Christalline fountaines of Gods mercies Christs merits our Saviour instructing her ignorance rightly informing her judgement reforming her errors tels her by way of Anttihesis or comparison that whosoever drinks of the water of Iacobs Well shall thirst againe but he that drinks of his water shall never thirst c Ioh. 4.13 14. intimating that there is a defect in the waters of IACOBS Well and so in every other earthly thing d Rogers in his true cōvert in locum pag. 91. whatsoever it cannot quench this inward thirst of the soule no more than these Huskes could satisfie hunger but causeth a greater thirst than was before even as sprinkling of a little water upon a raging hot fire of coales makes it burne the faster and fiercer all the vaine men in the World fed with Swinish huskes and drinking on the Worlds Cesternes chiefely gulping downe stolne e Pro. 9. vlt. waters and swallowing the bread of Deceit as HAGGAI f Hagg. 1.6 Prophesieth of those Carnalists Iewes and Gentiles they eate but they have not enough they drinke but they are not filled with drinke they put their waters into leaking vessels that run out and againe as AVGVSTINE saw in his vision by the Sea-side g Poffidonius in vita Aug. they seeke but to fill a sive with water a frivolous labour they eate as a man that hath a consumption wonderous greedily but their meate doth them no good they are still as lanke and leane for all they devoure as PHARAOHS Leane Kine which eate up the h Gen. 41.4 fat nay for all theyr feeding they famish at evening they returne and make a noyse like a i Psal 59.14.15 Dog they goe round about the City wandring up and downe for meate and grudge if they be not satisfied sayth the Psalmist which cannot be meant so much in respect of food corporall for NABAL makes a Feast like a k 1. Sam. 25 36. King the rich Churle fareeh deliciously every l Luk. 16.19 day and the wickedst have their Barnes m Lu. 12.70 full their Cow calving their Oyle and their Wine n Iob. 21.10 abounding but there is deficiency in their Soules notwithstanding all their aboundance in externals in respect of Nutriment Spirituall In which respect even the young o Ps 34.10 Lyons those great and mighty Peeres Princes and Potentates of the world that seeme to bath themselves in Oceans of delights as once that proud p Vxor Neronis Popea in Goates milke which here rule the roste are Domine fac totum as the Lyon in the Fable Ninerodian q Gen. 10 9 hunters tyranizing over others as the young Lyons which are most agill and spirited over Beasts the Eagles over Birds even these doe lackc as did r De Tantali supplicio apud Inferos fame sitique torquente Vide Proportium lib. 2. 4. Horatium in Epod Senecā in Octavia Ravisium pag. 81. Tantalus and that Midas in the midst of their opulencie and superfluitie and suffer hunger as this our Prodigall * To have all home-bred arities all veneriall Iunkets such as are reckoned up by Pliny Lib. 26. cap. 10. and ab 28. c. 14. ad finem By Galen lib. 5. de sin●p di● 6. cap. 2. And by Ty●aquell lib. 14. conub●ul All farre fetcht and deare bought booties as Figs and Lemmans from Spaine J●cca from Cuba Moyze from Peru Ryce from Pegu and Cambaja the bread of Luce from Congo the fruites of the Palme-tree from Guinee yea Tobacco from Trinidaao which to some is i●star omnium And for liquors the peerelesse pearled health of Cleopatra Quae centies sestertium 1.250 milia anreorum vno ferculo consumpsit Tex p. 62 9. Or some Ganimede draw them the neatest Wines whether Cyprus and Candise Muskadine Jtalian Falerne Spanish Sacke German Rhenish French Claret or the rest whose severall species are reckoned up by Cassaneus in Catol gl● fol. 352. Pt. 12. And kin●s are recounted by Pliny lib. 14. c. By Columell lib. 4. cap 3 de re rustica c. Let them have C●ya from Gre●ce C●ffa from Turkey Aqua vitae and Rosa s● from our mother Alb● Vsquebath from ●reland Or which of all is most rare let them sucke up the Ferrall which drops from the ever dropping Tree in the Island of Canaris reported by Mazi●s De rebus Jndicis All these and what ever else in this kind can be desi●ed cannot satisfie the soule nor content the spirit of man without that spirituall ●od here spoken of If the Earth should bring forth for these sons of men all her choysest store of hearbes fruites and flesh the water afford all plenty of the most desired fish the Ayre administer the most esteemed Fowls the whole lap of Natures store layd open and all Arts and Inventions farre and neare improving and preparing the best materials therein for the filling and satisfying of the most sensuall sencelesse and unlimited appetites in the world Yet unlesse they by Faith Spiritually eate the flesh and drinke the bloud of their incarnate a Ioh. 6.51.53 Saviour unlesse they feede on the Milke and Manna of the Word and Wine of the Sacraments unlesse they be a thirst and come to the waters buying Wine and Milke without b Esay 55.1 2. money without merits without price without Popish Peter-pence unlesse the Lord prepare for them a Feast of fat things upon his holy c Esay 25.6 mountaine unlesse with spirituall Israell they eate that Pascall d Exod. 12. Lambe slaine in Gods decree from the beginning of the e Rev. world to take away the sinnes of the f Ioh. ● 29 world off the Elect unlesse with this repenting Prodigall there be killed for them this same Vitulus saginatus this fat g Luk. 15.30 Calfe for all the rest of their dainties they suffer a dearth they are pincht with spirituall famine as this our Swine-feeding prodigious Prodigall as their Viands are of no valour no valew without these they doe but breed gravell in the belly or turne to a stone in the heart more dangerous than the stone in the Reines as the waters of Ielousie drunke by the guilty Iewish women they turne to putrefaction and swelling they are as rot grasse to sheepe

2. c. 42. alij resitantur in pratospirituali c. 143. et 165 ●t on vitas Patrū p. 2. c. 141 Iohn's reclaimed Prodigall yea SALOMON himselfe of the repentance of all which we have such infallible Testimonies as shall make them disgorge evaporate and evacuate by cordiall compunction contrition and confession all these x Prov. 9.17 stolne-waters sweet Morsels poysoned faire flesh windy huskes which did for a while content their sensualities but for ever distresse their Consciences distract their hearts divide their mindes and damne their y Pro. 9.32 Soules If I may stand to give a Soule of exhortation to the Body of this reason as other famoused Physitians Galen Avisen Rhasis Hypocrites Arateus Aetius Gordonius Guianerius Alexander Paulus and of later times Funccius Fracastorius Fernelius Celsus Hermus Iason Practensis Piso Wecker Donatus Altomarus Faventinus Victorius Mercurialis Hercules de Saxonia Laurentius our Butler Bright Barlow have praescribed Cures and Medicines for all kindes of corporall Diseases whether Acute Chronicke First Secondary Laethall Salutary errant fixed simplo compound connexed or consequent as they are divided by z Parthem l. 1. c. 9 10 11 12. Fernelius Funcsius in his Institutions a Lib. 3. c. 7. Sect. 1. et c. 11. sect 1. Weckner in his Syntagma and some others and as they are numbred by b 300. Morbi recensentur a Plinio lib. 7. c. 11 Pliny in all their varieties so as c 1. Sā 21.9 David said of the Sword of Goliah in another case there 's none like this praescribed for the Soule it may bee Christened None-such for the curbing cooling and curing of the Feaver and Frenzie or every tyranizing Lust onely the sonnes of Vanity are hard to bee perswaded to receive Gods owne praescribed Ingredients as Impatient Patients they sleight scorne and vilifie both the Physitian and the physick with us his Ministers his administring Apothecaries which makes them continue still like Babell incurable from the crowne of the head to the sole of the foote nothing but wounds blaines bruises and putrified d Esa 1.6.7 sores neyther closed nor bound up nor molified with oyntment they take their owne cures imagining to satisfie Lust by fuellizing and feeding it which is to cure Venus by e Sine cerere et Bacehe friges Venus Ceres and Bacchus to stop bleeding by launcing the greene wound deeper and deeper this is preposterous Soule-physicke since Concupita non possunt applicar● concupiscēti as an eloquent Moderne well f Bosquerus de paenitentia filij prodigi observes these forbidden fruites these huskes of Vanities unlawfully lusted after as the Israelitish g Exad 16 12 13 Quailes cannot rightly religiously safely and savingly be administred and applyed to the lusting Heart no more then a sharpe knife or poyson can safely be given to a youngling child though he cry for them like a froward Vixan since as in some diseases arising of contrary causes as in the Dropsie and the Iannice that which cures the one increaseth the other to which Physitians in all their praescripts have a principall eye so these Lusts which transitorily delight the flesh aeternally destroy the Soule These Lusts like these loves which are procured or cured by such Magicall spels Characters Philters and Love-potions as are related by Lobelius Fernelius Cardan Delrio Wier Mizaldus Codronchus Paracelsus and other Physitians they end and tend to greefe sorrow vexation exangeration distraction desperation damnation and therefore as all other Creatures by the very instinct of Nature for the most part know how to cure themselves and have taught as some q Plin. l. 8. cap. 23 think the first use of Physicke to man as the Dog and the Aegyptian Ibis cure their sicknesse by vomit the heart his wound by Dictany the Swallow recovers her sight by Chelidine the Weafill preserves her selfe from poysoning by Row the Panther by Aconite and mans r excrements the Dragon helpes himselfe by wild ſ Contra Vernam Nauseam Lettice the sicke Beare by eating Ants and Pismires Storke Doves Iayes Marls Partridges Crowes their yearly Meat lothings by the leaves of Lawrell and other Birds and Beasts by other meanes as those that have writ of Husbandry and cures of Cattell besides St. t Vrsam saxciam varbusc● testudinem Or●gano anguem Feniculose mederi refert aexem hom 9 Basil have particularly u De his omnibus lege Columellam de re rustica lib. 8. cap. 2 3 4 5 et 7 Virg. lib. 3 4. Georg. Varronem l. 2. cap. 2. Nec non nostrates Tusser Martham related chiefly Gregory Tholosanus Syntagm artis mirb l. 28. cap. 38. pag. 541. So me thinkes man the Lords * Psal 8. Deputy and Vicegerent from God over all the Creatures should take onely Gods Physicke and praescript which is Faith in Christ and Repentance from dead workes to purge his x Acts 15.9 Lusts to crucifie his sinfull y Gal. 5.24 Vanities his soule Sicknesses and so to purifie his heart the fountaine z Mat. 12.34 of his words and works otherwayes to expect a sound heart and a quiet conscience and yet let lust raigne and not disthroniz'd is to think to heale a green wound with suppliant oyles yet the poysoned bullet stick still in the flesh and fixe in the Flancke for its meerely Faith which gets a victory over the a 1. Ioh. 5.4 world and what ere is in the b 1. Ioh. 2.16 world and where Lusts tyranize there 's no list of Faith nor right application of Christ crucified SECT III. The Composition of the Heart Sublimity of Mans Soule Center of his Spirit Gods Image●Mans Pilgrimage SIxthly the insaturity of the Soule of man taking so little Complacency and Contentation from these externals comes partly too from the diversity of the place where we are and reside for we are heere on earth Pilgrimes and Strangers as c Gen. 47.9 Iacob d 1. Chr. 29 15 David and the e Heb. 11.13 Patriarkes acknowledged themselves our bodyes are Earth from the Earth and tend to f Gen. 3.19 Earth as the yee is from the water water it selfe and dissolves into g Aqua es ex aquaes et in aqua● redibis Bra● millerus in Concior funeb water earth then is the proper place of the h Carnis proprius locus terra est Gregorius body as water of the Fish but the Soule is from Heaven Olli caelestis Origo She hath a caelestiall i Animam esse spiritum et incorporale● ass●r●t Eusch lib. 6. de praepar Evan. c. 5. Claudianus Mamertus de statu animae lib. cap. 4. Plotinus lib. 7. Ennead 4. cap. 2. Nec non ●ug l. 1. de anima Origine cap. 3. ad Hieronimum originall and off-spring Poets say but Divines more truly that shee is Divinae particula aurae breathed by the inspiration of the k Factum a solo Deo et ex Dei