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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33985	The weavers pocket-book, or, Weaving spiritualized in a discourse wherein men employed in that occupation are instructed how to raise heavenly meditations from the several parts of their work : to which also are added some few moral and spiritual observations relating both to that and other trades / by J.C.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1695 (1695)	Wing C5351; ESTC R26037	76,699	180

woven threeds by the continual motion of his Slea In the mean time his Feet are moving the Treddles which raising the heavels do part the Warp and are continually making a new room for the Shuttle In the mean time a pair of Temples spread upon the Web keep it fixed and extended advantaging the Weaver in his Work Some Webs are of that Breadth that a single Person cannot work them in such Cases two Weavers are employed each at the Extremities of the Loom catching and returning the Shuttle which his Partner throws The Meditations 1. OUR Spiritual Weaver is the good Christian his f●stening his Warp to his Beam is the rooting of his Soul in Faith To him every diversified Providence supplies the place of a Filling-boy offering him matter to work with and upon in making his VVeb of Holiness We have seen him set in his Loom fixed to his Work resolved to have respect to all GODS Commandments Now how quick doth he throw his Shuttle from one hand to another This is that which the Scripture calls a Running after GOD. Draw me saith the Spouse and we will run after thee Canticles 1. 4. I wi●l run the wayes of thy Commandments saith the Man according to GODS own Heart Psalms 119.32 The VVeaver works Early and Late from Four in the Morning till Eight at Night The good Christian also preventeth the Morning-Watches Ps●l 119 1●8 and medi●ates of GOD in the Ni●ht-Watches Psalms 63.6 he awaketh Early in the Morning and Early seeketh GOD. Psalms 57.8 and 63.1 and 108 2. Isaiah 26.9 he is throwing his Shuttle working the work of GOD all the Day long Evening and Morning and at Noon be Prays and Crys aloud Psalms 55.17 2. The Shuttle m●veth swiftly and thus also ru● the Dayes of the Weavers Life my Dayes saith Job are swifter than a VVeavers Shuttle As swift as the Shuttle will run The VVeaver thinks himself concerned to be at his Loom betimes that his Task may be done by Night Because the Christians Dayes are swif●er than a VVeavers Shuttle he is highly concerned to be up betimes Remembring his Cre●●or in the Dayes of his Youth Ecclesiasticus 12.1 and as he hath need in the Morning to be throwing his Shuttle so in the Evening his hand must not be slack not only because he will else not finish his Course but because the spiritual work is of that Nature that as a Piece of Cloth or Stuff not Finished is fit for no Use but will all Ravel out so if a Righteous Man forsake his Righteousness and commit iniquity his Righteousness shall never be remembred but he shall Die in the Iniquity which he hath committed A Christians work is like rolling a stone up an Hill from which if the hand ceaseth till it be lodged on the Top it certainly falls back to the Bottom and he that hath laboured about it hath done just nothing but onely tired himself to no purpose nor shall reap any thing but his Labour for his Pains 3. The whole of our VVeaver is employed in his work His Head contrives it his Eyes observe the Motions of the Shuttle and the several parts of the Loom that they be Regular and serving his intendment One hand throws the Shuttle the other catcheth it in the mean-time his Feet are not idle they are at work upon the Treddels moving them Without these Varicus Operations of the several Members of his Body our VVeaver could never dispatch his work in any desireable or acceptable Manner nor hath the Law of the LORD left our spiritual VVeaver one Limb or Member of his Body idle as to his spiritual VVork His Head is employed in meditation and contrivances for GOD his Eyes are lifted up unto the LORD from whom come all his Mercies his Hands must work the VVork of Righteousness with his Feet he walks with GOD. Every Bodily Member hath its Office to a spiritual VVork as well as that which is Natural GOD made every Member and not a Member but for himself Every Member in Man's Body hath a Natural Operation for which it is necessary In our Civil Employments we both can and do use them successively there 's none there useless amongst them And sh●ll we think that there is any of them of no use to our spiritual work Shall I with both my Hands work on my Trade and have never an hand at work for GOD how busie am I at my work with Hands and Feet and Head and all my Body was I ever so wholly imployed in the VVork of GOD though the wages be highly more The Fruit of this VVork will be but a few Shillings at the End of the VVeek b●th the VVork of Righteousness will be Peace and Quietness and Assurance for ever To what purpose are my Knees and Hands and Eyes and Tongue at VVork in Prayer if presently my Hands be working iniquity In the Web of Righteousness every Member hath its Office It is the Fruit of the Souls Sanctification in Body and Mind and Spirit GOD must be served with all and every Part and Faculty with all our Heart and Soul and Strength 4. The Shuttle every time it passeth from Hand to Hand leaveth a Threed behind i● Good or Bad thus doth every Action of a Christian's Life All his Actions make but one Web according to the Goodness or Badness of which he must have his Reward every particular Action is a Threed in this VVeb and so hath an influence upon the VVeavers Praise or Dispraise and upon his Wages at last So that as the VVeaver may say upon every Cast of his Shuttle now my VVork is nearer an End than it was before I threw my Shuttle so a Christian upon every Action may say By this Action I am nearer Heaven or Hell I have either added a Jewel more to my Crown or a Coal more to the Fire I must endure The Shuttle passeth not up and down for nothing All our Thoughts Words and Actions are of an abiding Nature Thousands of them slip our Memory but none of them escapes the Book of the Divine Omniscience In thy Book saith David Psalms 139.16 all my Members are written and again Thou tellest my Wandrings put my Tears in thy Bottle are they not in thy Book It is as true concerning all our Actions Are they not in GODS Books VVe do them and GOD keeps silence some time Psalms 50.21 but he will let us know that he seeth them and will set them in order before our Eyes Every Action makes a part of our web we must receive our Eternal Reward according to what we have done in the Flesh Man hath an imperfect Eye A Master may over-look many an ill Threed in a Piece of Stuff But the Eye of GOD is Acute and Perfect nothing slippeth that He will set all in order before our Eyes The VVeavers Knowledge that his Shuttle leaves every time he throws it something towards his web makes him diligent to see it be rightly ordered

wrought in Looms yet as the Prophet saith of the Threshers discretion Isaiah 28.29 This also came from the Lord of Hosts who is wonderfull in counsel and excellent in working if weaving as the Philosopher thinks were ●earnt from the Spider yet the Spider hath it from the Lord mighty in counsel He that teacheth the Warriours hands to War and his fingers to fight teacheth the Weaver also to mix his Yarns and to throw his Shuttle Sect. 3. The Weavers Trade then is Canonical An imployment of which God is not ashamed to be called the Father as to which he is pleased to imploy his own Spirit 'T is good to be in a Calling as to which we can say That God hath called us to it Pious Parents may have a little too much Zeal in refusing all but Scripture-Names for their Children the Scripture it self borrows Childrens Names from words significant of Mercy and Duty But those Parents are as much too careless who think they may give their Children the Names of Pagan Idols or otherwise foolish and insignificant There may be particular Imployments lawfull enough which are not Canonized by holy writ all things were not written what should the world then have done with the Books Trades are for necessary Uses and every Imployment of that nature not serving to maintain wickedness or meerly to debauch the World with Wantonness and Luxury are doubtlesse lawfull whether we can derive them from Scripture or no But certainly it is a satisfaction to a pious Tradesman when he can find the Name of his Trade written in that Book of Life This you see the VVeaver may if he cannot derive from Naamah yet he may derive from Bezaleel and Aholiab and they both derived from God Sect. 4. These Weavers were working for the Tabernacle Weaving then doth not only derive from God but may be usefull for God and that in Services which in the first degree are acceptable to him The excellency of a Trade derives from its usef●lness the Nobleness of it from the particular use to which it may be serviceable A Trade can serve no higher use than that of the Tabernacle This the Weavers Trade is here serviceable unto Your Bodies saith the Apostle are the Temples of the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 6.19 The Temple and Tabernacle differeth not in their end but in their Foundation only and Ornament The Temple was fixed the Tabernacle moving The Tabernacle in a more travelling Habit than the Temple Both Houses for the Lord God of Israel The Temple is made the Figure of Christ Joh. 2. Weaving then may be serviceable unto the Lord Jesus Christ yea it is so serviceable Let not the Eunuch say I am a dry tree let not the Weaver say I am a poor mean Trade He who in his Trade serves the highest Uses may contend with the noblest Tradesman let not the Weaver say then that he is of a mean Trade in Israel of a Family lightly esteemed of Kings Servants have no contemptible Notion The Dignity of a Trade is not beholden to the VVorld's estimate but to its own usefulness He that can work for a Tabernacle works for the highest end Sect. 5. But there is a difference yet betwixt working for the Tabernacle and working in the Tabernacle Bezaleel and Aholiab work for it but Aaron and his Sons only must work in it and No man taketh that honour to himself saith the Apostle but he who is called of God as Aaron was Let every man saith the Apostle abide in the Calling to which God hath called him When I consider the composition of the Tabernacle I find there no work for the Weaver but in the making the fine linnen in converting the Wooll offered of Blue Purple and Scarlet or working the Goats-hair offered into webs making the Hangings for the Court and the Door of the Court and the Clothes of Service the Holy Garments for Aaron the Priest and for his Sons to Minister in yet is not this to be despised he that makes but a Curtain for the Lords Tabernable certainly hath as high an Office as he who is but a Door-keeper in the House of the Lord which David preferred before a dwelling in the Tents of Wickedness Surely it is better to make a Garment for Aaron than a Shrine for Diana The lowest Room in Heaven is Heaven saith a grave Author though it be but behind the Door Vzzah must not touch the Ark though a Levite nor Saul nor Vzzah offer Sacrifices though both great Princes God's Church is like an Army which must march in Rank and File God saith the Apostle is a God of Order and not of Confusion The Weaver shall have his wages working for the Tabernacle though he wears not but only weaves the Holy Garments if he offers not a Bullock yet he offers a Turtle-Dove and young Pigeons he serves the Lord Christ though it be not at the Altar and doth any serve him for nothing Sect. 6. But the House in Shiloh is pull'd down and there is no more going up to Gibeon yea there is not one stone left upon another either in Solomons or Zorobabels or Herods Temple the Curtains are rent in pieces and the Holy Garments are worn out Is then the Weavers Trade antiquated Or is the usefulness of it for the Temple abolished Or need we to devise New Holy Garments for Priests to intitle them to an Imployment for God And must Hangings of Blue Purple and Scarlet again be made necessary No surely Know you not saith the Apostle to the Christian Corinthians that your Bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost Temples in which the Lord dwells even he who dwells not in Temples made with hands If the Weaver cannot yet see himself at work for God's Tabernacles the fault is in his own Eyes or in the lust of his own Heart He that works for the clothing of the Naked is doubtless at work for God's Tabernacle Nay for that fixed Temple which he hath set up amongst the Sons of Men For the poor saith our Lord you have always with you The Weaver that made our Lords Seamless-Coat understood not what he did but had a noble Imployment That Coat was to cover the Person who was the Eternal Son of God but he never made more than that one for such an use Me saith Christ you have not alwayes he who wore that was presently to put on the Garments of Glory but he that Weaves for his Members hath a more standing work for GOD and so seems to be more blessed in his Imployment Our Saviour corrected the devout woman that cried out Luke 11.27 Blessed is the VVomb that bare thee and the Papes which thou hast Sucked by adding verse 28. Yea rather blessed are they that hear the VVord of GOD and keep it Doth any think Blessed was that VVeaver which wore the Seamless-Coat for him who was his Saviour who was an Instrument to cloth him with the Robe in which he was to appear before