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A07487	The carde and compasse of life Containing many passages, fit for these times. And directing all men in a true, Christian, godly and ciuill course, to arriue at the blessed and glorious harbour of heauen.	Middleton, Richard, d. 1641.	1613 (1613)	STC 17870; ESTC S104498	98,424	266

did Anselmus seeing a woman curious about her person to please her Louers himselfe not so diligent to please his God O miserable men whom so infinite loue blessings and riches cannot prouoke to such care and diligence of pleasing God as the vilest things doe incite our industrie to please the diuell 6 The sixt is the pleasure and glorie in sinning which is a degree higher then all the rest To take pleasure and boast of our iniquities this is to sinne against God with a high hand Of this Dauid Psal 10. the vngodly boasteth himselfe in his owne hearts desire Psal 52. cries out of such wicked men Why boastest thou thy selfe thou canst do euill But sinne was neuer so boasted as now Women and men in their words walkes weeds proclaime the glorie of their sinnes are proud of nothing but their sinnes 7 The seuenth is the perseuerance of sinning this the highest step of damnation and ruine For hereby the most grosse and odious sinnes become insensible and grow so little and light we neyther see them nor feele them How true is that of Gregory Crimina diuturniora sunt grauiora Time doth not diminish sinne but increase it if we cease not to sinne God will neuer cease to punish What is this but the sinne of the Iewes to be stiffe-necked and of vncircumcised hearts and eares Act. 7. euer resisting the holy Ghost and therefore were reiected and cast off from being the people of God Therefore I conclude where these seuen signes are there cannnot eyther a change or at least most grieuous plagues bee wanting And that I may not seeme to speake without booke hauing no sacred warrant for it this I put as a diuine vndeniable positiue truth that God neuer brought any generall or particular extermination or ruine vpon any Kingdome c. but these signes were the harbingers and fore-runners Gen. 6.5 First see Gen. 6.5 c. all 7. 1. Great wickednesse 2. Much wickednesse for all flesh had committed 3. Manifest and without shame for in the Earth 4. Vnpunished for one as bad as another the earth was filled with truelty 5. With affection and studie for gie imaginations of their hearts were emll c. 6. With pleasure and glory ithout feare for all their imaginations t●● 7. Perseuerance for continually 2. the Gen. 19. where you shall see all these ●gnes going before their iudgement Gen. 19. 〈◊〉 A great crie for great horrible sins 〈◊〉 A multitude of sinnes Ezek. 16. for 4. as Ezek. 16. and all the men of the Citie from the young to the old 3. Shamelesnesse for they publiquely demanded the men that they might know them 4. Impunitie for the sinnes cried which they neuer doe if seuerely punished for then they loose their tongue seeing Quae non placent non nocent Aug. Sinnes that please not hurt not Besides they said shall he rule ouer vs 5. Their affection and studie of sinning They rose vp out of their heds on the night to cōmit wickednesse cried to Lot to bring out the men c. and pressed sore vpon Lot himselfe 6 Pleasure and boasting of their sinnes Is not he a stranger and shall he rule ouer vs 7. Continuance in sinne for they left not their abhominable wickednesse till God rained fire and brimstone on them so that these seuen are worse then Ber. 4. for he saith that the dissembling of our weaknesse the excusing of our wickednes ignorance of o●● wretchednesse perseuering in our si●● fulnesse are foure steps that lead vs to d●struction If a man trauaile through a● the Scriptures and all prophane storie● he shall euer finde these seuen signes eu●dently going before the desolations an● ruines of Kingdomes and States If the● iniquitie be increased Mat. 24. 1. Cor. 10. the loue of many waxe cold if the ends of the world be come vpon vs if all these signes present themselues to our view and can no more be hid then a scarre in the face let vs know assuredly that the warning is gone out and except we meete the Lord with true and speedie repentance we cannot be secure for it may more truly be verified of our age then of any before which that most famous English traueller Sir Iohn Mandeuile liuing in Edward the 3. time hauing trauelled Scythia the greater and lesse Armenia Aegypt both Libias Arabia Syria Media Mesopotamia Persia Chaldaea Greece Illiricū Tartary many other Kingdomes and returning into England left to perpetuitie Virtus Ecclesia clerus daemon symonia cessat calcatur premitur regnat dominatur Vertue ceaseth the Church is despised the Cleargie troden on the Diuell reignes Simonie dominiers Iunius l. 1. quaest polit 5. That these thinges belong to the durable safetie of Kingdomes 1. The studie and care of Pietie and Religion 2. The wisedome of the Magistrates 3. Obseruation of the Lawes 4. Iustice 5. Concord 6. Punishment of offences 7. The flight of innouation 8. Integritie and vigilancie of Princes 9. Flight of factions amongst the potent and Nobles 10. Conseruation of families 11. Taxes instituted vpon good reason 12. Constitution of Censors 13. Conseruation of the treasure 14. A vigilant circumspection that the Magistrates make not a gaine of the Commonwealth Therefore the contrarie of these procureth the euersions and ruines of Kingdomes Arist in Topic. seeing of contrarie causes must needs proceed contrarie effects All causes of Kingdomes ruines may be referred to these three Originalles 1. Prouidence of God 2. Influence of Heauen 3. Confluence of vices First Prouidence of God who hath put a period to all sublunarie things So Plato Nihil stabile perpetuum sed omnia orta certis temporum interuallis periodis interire nothing is stable and perpetuall but all things that haue a beginning by certaine spaces and periods of time die which also chanceth to Re-publicks Secondly influence of the heauens temperature and distemperature of ayre Thirdly confluence of vices Scipio to Masinissa Non tantum ab hostibus armatis periculumest quantum a circumfusis volupt atibus not so much danger from our armed enemies as from our common volupt uousnesse is to bee feared This floud is diuided into two streames generall and speciall Most of them Aristotle Polit. 5.2 repeats Vnto this ranke referre First Iniustice for the helpes of armed men doe not so much conferre to the safetie of the Kingdome as Lawes Iudgements and constant care of inuiolated iustice On the other side it is an easie coniecture That that Re-publique cannot long stand in which peruerse and wicked iudgements are Sleidan Sleidan in Orat. ad Princip Ordin Imper. Nihil est procliuius quam vt talis Respublica nutet languescat intereat collabaturtota quando hoc illi proprium vt in ea suum quisque priuatum spectet emolumentum that Commonwealth must needes totter languish die and come to nought where euery man respectes his owne priuate Secondly contempt and neglect of