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A43357	Heraclitus Christianus, or, The man of sorrow being a reflection on all states and conditions of human life : in three books.		1677 (1677)	Wing H1487; ESTC R12496	69,902	193

there is afterwards no mark to be found where she went CHAP. XIV Of the Final Judgment HOW comparatively happy would Men be could they here end their Misery might their Souls moulder away as their Bodies and both one and the other return into their Primitive nothing But alas they both must unite and appear before the Great Tribunal of an All-knowing and Impartial Judg Who will render to every man according to his works and they that have done good shall go into everlasting life and those that have done evil into everlasting destruction What horror and confusion will this Day strike into the heart of the most resolute sinner When the Sun shall be turned into dark ness and the Moon into blood when the Stars shall no more produce their light nor be any more seen shining in the Heavens when the Elements shall melt with servent heat and the Earth be burnt up with fire And as it was in the time of Noah so shall it be then for there shall be eating and drinking Marrying and giving in Marriage and immediately the Trumpet shall sound to call them to Judgment then shall the People and Nations of the earth howl and lament and hide themselves in the holes and caves of the earth and shall call upon the mountains to fall down upon them and cover them from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne Sound the Trumpet and cry a loud saith the Prophet Joel and let all the Inhabitants of the earth tremble for the day of the Lord draweth nigh the day of darkness and obscurity the day of clouds and trouble when all the Inhabitants of the earth shall be burned the fire shall devour before his face and flames of fire shall follow him And after this Execution of the Divine Justice the dead which are in their Graves having heard his voice shall arise and come forth The bones and other parts shall seek for their joynts in order to their union with the body all those that the Beasts and Birds have devoured all them whom the Sea has swallowed all that is evaporated into Air all that the fire hath consumed shall be reduced into its essence and pristine state all the blood which the Robbers and Pirates Murderers Tyrants and Mercenary Judges have unjustly shed shall be then found without the diminution of a drop of it And if it was a cruel spectacle to behold the Beasts leave the earth which is their proper Element following the anger of God and entring into the Ark with Noah and as it were imploring his aid and succor how much more dreadful will it be to them who have lived unjustly to appear before the great and dreadful Judg When the Books shall be opened that is to say the Sins and Enormities of our poor ulcerated Conscience shall be at that time manifested and laid open to the sight of Men Angels and Devils If the Vail of the Temple was rent if the Earth trembled and the Sun was darkned and obscured for the injury which was done to our Saviour on the Cross although he had in nothing offended with what countenance can poor sinners look who have offended and blasphemed so many times If that the Vision of an Angel is so terrible to us that we cannot endure it as testified St. John who was not able to behold such splendor and brightness but fell to the earth for dead And the Children of Israel had such terror that they earnestly desired Moses to speak unto them himself saying We will hearken to thee when thou speakest but we cannot bear this voice coming from Heaven which causeth us even to give up the ghost although that the Angel spake favourable How will the poor sinner then endure the Voice and Splendor of the Majesty of God being in his Throne of Glory When he shall say as speaketh the Prophet Isaiah Now is the hour wherein I will avenge my self on my enemies and my anger shall be accomplished and they shall know that I am the Lord who have so often admonished wooed beseeched and entreated them for I will stand before them as a Bear who is robbed of her whelps I have been still for a long time and kept silent but now I will cry out as she that is in labour I will scatter I will swallow up all together I will reduce the Mountains to Deserts I will cause the Herbs to wither the Rivers and Floods to be dried up and hinder the course of the Spring and turn the darkness into light I have called them but they have refused I have stretched out my hand but they have not regarded They have rejected my counsel and would not hearken to my reproof therefore will I laugh at their calamity and mock when their fear cometh and when their torment and anguish draweth near to them they shall call but I will not answer they shall seek me but I will not be found and if the Heavens are unclean in his sight and if he hath found fault in his Angels what will he find in us who are houses of clay and whose foundations are in the dust How shall we be able to stand before him whose countenance is as Lightning and before whom there goeth a consuming Fire and yet stand we must and give an account of all the various circumstances and cases of our Life then we must come to a reckoning concerning the good we have received and the good which we our selves have done then 't is that we must give an account of the improvement which we have made of all those wholsom instructions and Fatherly chastisements wherewith we have been corrected then will it be exacted of us how we have entertained those good motions and suggestions which the Divine Spirit hath put into our hearts how we have withstood the suggestions of Satan and the temptations of the world and our own carnal inclinations then shall we be examined how we have employed all the faculties of our souls and members of our bodies then shall we give an account not only of all our wicked words and actions but also of our impure thoughts and filthy imaginations which shall all be laid open to the sight of Men and Angels then must we give an account of all filthy and nasty speeches prophane writings and unsavoury jests nay of every idle word so strict a tryal shall we then be put upon Lastly Of sins of omission and commission of the time which we have spent in Eating Drinking Sleeping Revelling Dancing Gaming in haunting Taverns Play-houses and Brothel-houses then must we give an account of the spending of our Youth and of our seasoning of those tender years with Prophaness and Debauchery and offering the first and best of our time unto the Devil which should be dedicated unto God and his Service Then must we give an account of the employing of our Man-hood and whether that has been grounded and setled in Piety and Devotion or passed over in resolved enjoyments

the earth taken your ease filled your hearts And now saith the Lord of Hosts Weep and howle in you misery Your riches are corrupted your costly and sumptuous garments are full of moths your gold and silver is everspread with rust and the rust of it shall witness against you and shall eat your flesh as fire For the tears of the Widows have pierced even unto my Throne These are the complaints which the Prophets and Apostles poured out against mercenary Judges these are the censures which the Lord hath thundred against them CHAP. XIV Of the Miseries of Marriage LET us now consider the happy or unhappy state of Marriage and it is most certain that if we would forge in our minds the Idea of an excellent and accomplisht Marriage on every side as Plato hath made in his Republick and St. Austin in his City of God There 's nothing in this world which may equal that state in delight it being the consummation and real comfort of all our hopes and desires and the end of all our travel That this is true will more certainly appear if we consider every thing their Fortunes as well prosperous as adverse are common the bed common the children common and which is more there 's so great commonality of body and union of souls that they seem as two transformed into one and if the pleasure seemeth great to us of conferring our affairs and secrets to our Friends and those that are nearest us how much greater is the delight which we receive from the opening of our hearts to her who is linked to us in such bonds of love and duty who is even as our selves to whom we discover the most intimate recesses of our souls What greater testimony can there be of vehement and indissoluible amity than to abandon and forsake Father Mother and all Relations and to be as it were an enemy to ones self for to follow a Husband whom she wholly cleaves to and having all other things in méprision depends alone on him If he be rich she keeps his wealth if poor she employeth all the artifice which nature hath given her to share with him in his adversity if he be in prosperity his felieity is doubled in her seeing her participate in it if he be in adversity he beareth but half of the evil and moreover he is comforted and assisted by her if he would dwell retired and solitary at home he hath one that will bear him company who will comfort him and make him digest more easily the incommodiousness of solitude if he will go into the Country she conducteth him with her eye as far as the sight of it can reach she desireth and wisheth for him being abfent sigheth and complaineth lamenting as if he was always near her being returned he is welcomed and received into her imbraces so that it seemeth to speak the truth that the Woman is a Coelestial gift bestowed upon man as well for the refreshment and contentment of his Youth as the repose and solace of his old Age. Nature can give us but one Father and one Mother but Marriage representeth many to us in our children who reverence and honour us and have us more dear unto them than their own lives being young and little they toy and prattle about us and prepare us an infinite of pleasures so that they seem as it were amusements and play-things which nature hath given us to deceive and pass away part of our miserable life Are we besieged with old Age a thing forced and common to all they mitigate the irksomness of it close our eyes and take care of our decent burial they being our flesh and blood in seeing them we behold our selves so that the Father seeing his Children seeth himself as it were young again in them who immortalize him in procreating of others after him I would not for fear of being accused of inconstancy despise that which I have so much exalted but because my Subject which treateth of all States of Life requires that I should not excuse this no more than others I shall therefore in short recapitulate that which I have read in many Authors who confess with me that there is much of sweetness and deliciousness in Marriage but if one did well consider and weigh in a just balance the great and insupportable vexations which are found in it it will appear to be replenish'd no less with miseries than others The Athenians a people famous for their wisdom and prudence observing that the wives could not well accord with their Husbands by reason of an infinite of strifes and dissentions which arose ordinarily betwixt them were constrained to establish in their Republick certain Magistrates whom they called Reconcilers of those that were Married the office and only business of whom was to reduce them to concord by all ways and means that were possible The Spartans in their Republick had likewise ordered certain Magistrates whose charge it was to correct the insolencies of women repress their arrogancy and curb their audaciousness towards their Husbands The Romans would not ordain Magistrates thinking with themselves perhaps that men were not able to bridle the unbridled temerity of women but they would have their refuge to their gods and to that purpose they Consecrated a Temple to the goddess whom they called Viriplaca where they in the end made up their Domestick and private quarrels But who can patiently endure the charges of Marriage the insolency and arrogancy of women the yoke of so imperfect a Sex Who can furnish and satisfie their lustful appetite their insatiable pomp Saith not the Ancient Proverb That Women and Ships are never so well fitted but that one shall find some thing or other that lacks mending If thou takest her being poor she will be despised and thy self less esteemed if rich and wealthy thou makest thy self her slave and servant for thinking to espouse an equal companion thou shalt betroth thy self to an insupportable Mistress if thou takest her deformed thou canst not love her if comely and handsome she will be as a bush at thy door to draw in company beauty is a Tower which is besieged and assaulted by all the world and indeed that thing is difficult to keep and preserve of which every one pretends to have the Key Behold the hazard saith De la Perriere of thy round-heads being made forked which indeed were a fearful Metamorphosis if it were visible and apparent The conclusion then is That riches makes a woman proud beauty suspicious deformity odious c. Wherefore Diponates having experimented the torments of Marriage said That there was but two good days in it one the wedding day and the other in the which the wife died the one whereon they were Married and in which they feasted and made good chear the other day which he said was good was that on which the woman died by the death of whom the Husband was freed and delivered from servitude History makes