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A68977	The prodigals teares. With a heavenly new yeeres gift sent to the soule; contayning many most zealous and comfortable prayers, with deuout meditations: both worthie the acceptance of all Christians, and their expence of time to peruse. By H. G. preacher of the most sacred Word of God	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Goodcole, Henry, 1568-1641.	1620 (1620)	STC 3580; ESTC S114442	53,955	283

weighing anchor nor how to ballase thy shippe euenly to wit with the lastage of Reason and poyse of Discretion nor knowest thou thy Points and Distances and therefore hazardest thy Shippe in Shelues and Sands continually Little knowest thou that rockes be neerest where the seas seeme whitest Not a Syrens voyce but may tempt thee and draw thee to folly thou hast no power ouer thy selfe and therefore vnfit to haue power or soueraignetie ouer another No as thou wast created a seruant thou shalt subiect thy selfe to the guidance of reason the line and square of a discreete obedience I will see thee play the subiect better before thou be King Better is it for me that my flesh serue in a Turkes galley then in tyrannicall discipline to dominiere ouer my soule poore and miserable soule that hath such a guardian The Prodigals desire vnto God for mortification of the Flesh to inable him to subdue it to the Spirit O Lord let me I pray thee be rather imprisoned in my flesh then by my flesh for the one endureth but a moment in comparison of the other Peter was in prison and was deliuered Paul in prison and was released Manasses pressed with many yrons yet at last enfranchised But when was Demas that was imprisoned to the World freed or the Sodomites imprisoned to the filthie lusts of their flesh exempted or the proud Pharises imprisoned to outward Obseruances publique Reuerences Hypocriticall Semblances when shall they bee dismissed Kill me in my flesh so I may liue in the spirit for I know Lord that hee who will saue his life must loose it no affliction no crosse no perturbation shall separate mee from the loue I beare to my Sauiour and little is it for me to giue him my life now when he requireth it that gaue for mee his life freely before I did aske it Who would not goe to Heauen although it were with Eliah in a Whirlewinde When Dauid speakes of Troubles hee speaketh of Troupes and Heapes and Starres and Sands and rightly too for fit it is that our troubles in some sort answer the proportion of our sinnes They are multiplyed like the Starres in the Firmament or the Sands vpō the Sea-shore that cannot be numbred Our sinnes therefore like Sands in number should be seconded with troupes of Troubles succeeding in order The righteous neuer want them they are so inured with them as they terme them to be but exercises to trye them and not Terrors to the end to dismay them I know the Worldling makes not Troubles his exercises nor Afflictions his trialls It is miserie enough for him to loose his temporall estate or to be bereft of honour or the like and the reason is for that hee expecteth no further he findes his Non vltra heere the period of his hopes extend no further then to bee rich to be obserued that in the fulnesse of his estate his soule may be at peace Farre be his peace from the mansion of my soule Farre be my hopes enlarged aboue his farre be it from mee to liue with him in this World deliciously and staruing my soule in the World which is to come eternally Though I carrie not so much with me liuing I shall carrie more with mee dying a sincere Conscience and the inestimable Treasures of an vndefiled Soule And these will weigh downe all earthly mindes being possessed by such corrupt mindes and opinions Socrates answered one wittily being demanded Who could carry a Citie about with him saith he the worldly minded man Alas poore rich man haeret lateri laetales arundo Thou hast bought thy many Possessions at a deare rate when Earth shall receiue thee those many acres of earth shall leaue thee and then must thy account bee made for thou canst be no longer Steward Here the Prodigals Vow to Heauen his Legacie to Earth that as he is resolued for his Creatour in Heauen thou mayest be willing to bee dissolued from the Tabernacle of the Earth Thou wilt not die one houre to liue for euer but the Prodigall wisheth he may quickly die that hee may liue for euer Nothing so sweet to thee as life for life is to thee aduantage but nothing more sweet to this poore Prodigall then death for death is to him aduantage Thou thinkest of thy accompts in this life onely hee of his accompts after this life Death to thee is entrance to sorrow Death to him is ender of sorrow reade but his Legacie and thou shalt heare him resolued for death If I could leaue any thing poore Earth behind me it should be my prayers that the simple honest-minded man may quickly leaue thee Vertue is no Tenant for thee shee shall bee shut soone out of doores hauing no other Trade then honestie If I should giue thee any thing it should be that which thou needest lesse vanitie more stayednesse lesse hypocrisie and more sincerenesse If I should begge any thing of thee it should neyther bee fame nor popular praise for I am mortified and doe not loue it it should be that thou wouldest rumour my vices that others hearing them may be cautioned If thou wouldst haue me doe aught for thee I will doe it willingly so it be not to stay with thee If I should aske any thing now at my farewell from thee it should be no curious monument for what would that auaile me I haue a better monument prouided for me with this Imprease Nec spe nec metu will I tarry with thee As I did once loue thee so am I willing to leaue thee for I haue obserued such as loued thee die in their beds vnquietly As I made thee once my palace bee now my graue I loue thee not so ill but I will leaue something with thee my body thou shalt haue for thou fosteredst it but my soule shall fly to him that made it This is all the legacie I will make to earth it now rests that I make my vowes to heauen this little which I gaue to the first is too much this all which I giue to the second is too little yet will my vowes be acceptable to heauen proceeding from him that willingly for heauen forsakes earth I haue soiourned long enough vpon earth now am I for my war-fare to heauen hauing charity for my scrip confidence for my staffe and desire for my guide charity towards my brother confidence in God and desire towards heauen in my abode heere I haue patience to indure prouidence to retire resolution to conquer Patience to indure afflictions prouidence retiring to Christs compassion and resolution to conquer all incursions I will neuer so presume on Gods mercy as to forget he is a Iudge or despaire on Gods mercy to forget he is a Father I will rather with the seruants of God suffer afflictions though with bitternesse then enioy pleasures of sinne for a season and loose my inheritance My best Arithmeticke shall be numbring of my dayes that when my dayes bee

Senatour Sir Iohn Swinnerton which is seuen yeeres and a halfe since I was admitted Preacher to the Gaole of Ludgate and by your Honour and Worships Predecessors hitherto successiuely therein haue bin continued And most willingly long since your Honour and Worships in Court did generally condiscend the Stipend thereunto belonging to augment In acknowledgement heartie thankefulnesse in some lieu thereof vouchsafe to receiue the first Fruits of my poore Haruest a Bunch of Grapes of my first Vintage a Flower from a Slip of the first growth I do vnfainedly acknowledge I owe my self and mine by your Hon. and Wor. all to be commanded who haue been so good and beneuolent lately to me mine Continue fauorable still in receiuing of this my small grown Wheat leaue the Chaffe my Wine leaue the Dregges my sweete Flower leaue the vnpleasant sented Earth nay I hope a little Treasure though in a base Earthen Vessell presented to your view I am the miserable Sonne of Man that is subiect vnto Mutabilitie but poore meane and therefore the more respectlesse and least regarded in these dayes wherein Money is so loued and Mammonists adored respected and of all capped and crouched vnto with low-bended knee I am a Vine whose Branch is weake young and tender and stands in need of supporting Will your Honour and Worships vouchsafe with your powerfull hands to support mee I am a new gathered fresh flourishing Flower which soone fadeth I am in the Bud and Bloome soone blasted Vouchsafe your carefull Ouersights and Protections that the Critikes of this our Age wherein we liue may not breake into your Fields Orchards or Gardens which like a wild Boare will extirpate me wholly and I will by Gods grace as by dutie bound for euer heartily and dayly pray and supplicate vnto the Almightie for continuance of his great goodnesse and mercie towards your Honour and Worships Now the Lord Almightie who of his infinite goodnesse feeds you all with the finest Wheat and cloatheth you with the purest Wooll continue Peace Plentie Prosperitie Safetie and Health within the walls of that most famous and Honourable Citie whereunto God hath elected and made you the prime Gouernour and eminent Magistrat next vnder our most gracious Soueraign and dread Lord the K. Maiestie a place conspicuous to the whole World and admired at the state and ciuill gouernment thereof May it still so flourish in Plentie Honour and with discreet vnderstanding Magistrates The Lord God grant that all your successors may be such vigilant Watchmen for the preseruation maintenance thereof as now it is may that good care be continued still from generation to generation from predecessors vnto all successors and from this your Lo. time wherein all things quietly are gouerned and safely rest And when ye shal surcease to liue amōg men your names may liue for euer and be remembred for the good you haue done that as now men do reioyce to heare of your names whilst you are liuing they may lament for the losse of you when you are gone May this be an Inheritance bestowed by the Almighty to cōtinue vnto all your Ho. and Wor. successors to the Worlds end Amen Now that Blessednesse the Lord vouchsafe your Ho. Wor. which is mentioned in Psal 128. To feare him walke in his wayes quietly to eat the fruit of your endeuours the fatted Oxe in your Stalls the Sheepe of your Fould and the Doue that flyeth about the Courts of your owne Houses The Lord make your Wiues like Dauids Vine fruitfull make your Children like Oliue Branches decking and standing round about your Tables and may they drop sweetnesse and goodnesse to the Church and Common-wealth wherein they are borne bred and brought vp O Lord let them vestigiate the steppes of their Fathers to be an honour vnto their Posteritie Linage a godly President vnto successiue Posterities and Generations that many hundred yeeres hereafter it may be spoken both of you and your Children Loe these are the Men that feared the Lord and therefore God did so blesse them that they did see their Childrens children vnto the third and fourth generation to flourish prosper graciously and vertuously to liue and in Magistracie doing good their Parents to succeede Furthermore the Lord Iesus giue vnto your Honour and Worships from the first day of this New yeere at the expiration of your dayes the New Heauens and the New Man Christ Iesus in the immortalitie of your Soules and of his infinite mercie graunt that as here on Earth yee feast like Princes yee may be partakers of that most Royall Feast and Banquet of Iesus Christ the Prince of Glorie and Light of the whole World who came a Light at this time into the World to light all thither And this blessednesse I will dayly and heartily pray vnto Almightie God to bestow on you all at the end of this your mortall liues The Lord Iesus with that blessed Life of Glory indow you and all your Posterities for euermore Amen Your Honor and Worships much bounden and in the seruice of my Lord and Master Iesus Christ at all times to be commanded Henry Goodcole TO ALL GODLY zealous religious sanctified and Christian-minded People who expect and vnfainedly desire the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ fruition thereof to the euerlasting ioy of their Soules PEruse mee Will you please Then finde helpe for each Disease Soule and Body I apply And cure both their Maladie Such good meanes not disdaine When to thee so friendly sent Lest in sicknesse thou remaine And thy folly doe repent Had I wist breedes much woe Gentle Patient be no foe To the health and happie states Of such peerelesse louing Mates Farewell good Soule till wee meet In Heauens Blisse each to greet Expect wee doe and dayly pray Lord graunt to vs that happie day CHristian and conscionable Reader thou mayest now iustly with Apelles reprooue and deride me who thus haue presumed to diuulge and diue into the height of all Learning Arts Sciences Knowledge Wit and Skill whose vnskilfulnesse in all of them recommands me to the lowest degree that may be to be abased I know it is but lost labour to cast water into the Ocean an vnthankefull respectlesse Gift to cast a Sheaue of Wheat into a rich mans Garner or to put a small Bunch of Grapes into a vaste Wine-presse small encrease thereof can issue Yet seeing I am called and sent into my Heauenly Lord and Masters Haruest hired and sent to his Vineyard in both to worke and not to loyter That I haue in both endeuoured I present thee good Christian friends this little of my hard labour and gleaned Corne obtained by following others of my fellow Labourers Though theirs was pure yet mine not without Chaffe receiue my Grapes though not without some soure and sharpe distaste altogether disliking your Pallat and disappointing your expectation The Lord of the Vineyard hath sent by me some Bread and Wine to strengthen

soule what hast thou done to day Hast thou employed thy time in studies well fitting Gods glory thy brothers benefit and thine owne soules health Whom hast thou oppressed Whom hast thou iniured O! these commemorations are able to rowse vp the sluggish soule from the sleepe of sinne and securitie and to bring him to the knowledge of himselfe and his owne infirmities Alas how many vaine houres wee spend with Nabuchadnezzar in walking vainly in the pride of our hearts nay euen in the royall places of Babel strowting in the very height of our hearts as vessels not composed of ordinary substance but admiring our owne demerites beginne to boast of our owne actions Heere we glory in gorgeous buildings when indeede our houses should be like Obadiahs temples dedicated to Gods worship There of our learning yet for all our learning we are but Agrippaes halfe-christians Heere of the applause of people and amidst our glory with Herod become miserable There of policie but Haman like it becomes starke folly vaine be the imaginations of man full of vanities falshood and vntrueths and wherein can we glory of our owne strength O then since our times is so short our houres so few and our constitution so weake let vs become respectiue of the time lest hauing lost it we be neuer able to recall it againe The Prodigalls care to redeeme his expence of time past O My soule thinke thou of this redeeme that time thou hast spent if not in houres for many haue beene the houres of my vanity yet in teares that the Lord God beholding thy contrition may take thy repentance in lieu of thy times expence Thou hast a reckoning O Lord of all my idle houres how vainely I haue consumed my daies in the affections of vanity O that I might redeeme the time with sorrowing and yet there is some comfort appearing For as thou hast a booke of accounts wherin my sinnes are set downe so I know thou hast a bottle wherein to put my teares albeit I be vnworthy to lift vp mine eyes to heauen to pray to thee yet am I not vnworthy by blinding mine eies with teares to weepe before thee True it is that teares be the best and soueraignest Balme to cure the wounds of a sin-bleeding Soule and neuer came teares from the heart which cured not the poison of sinne Mine eyes therefore like plentifull fountaines shall euer be sending forth water to rince the vlcers of my soule and fire of zeale to consume the thorny cares in which I haue beene too long enwrapped There shall be no impediment now if the progresse of my pilgrimage doe hinder mee from so heauenly an expedition O that I had not eyes to see my follies before this time or hauing eies woe is me I directed them not to the line and leuell of wisdome yet my comfort is though poenitentia sera raro est vera yet poenitentia vera nunquam est sera Neuer too late vnfainedly to forsake my euill wayes for thou wilt receiue the thiefe rather then faile euen at the last houre to expresse thy mercies and fatherly compassion to penitent sinners yet that example Ministers mee a double vse not to despaire at the last because there was one nor to deferre my repentance to the last because there was but one Happy thiefe happy theft the thiefe an heire in heauen the thiefe an inheritance in heauen Amongest the Scythians no fact was with such seueritie punished as theft for saith the Historian if it had beene lawfull to steale amongest them what had beene safe amongst them But I say no theft in this kind was lawful to this good thiefe for without it nothing at all had beene safe vnto him The Prodigals description of the diuersities of theft THe oppressors of the poore steale for they sucke the blood of the Orphanes and treasure vp vengeance for themselues The Monopolists steale for they doe ingrosse to themselues a peculiar gaine inlarging the Garnars with the Rich man to make their punishments the greater The Lawyer with his mentall reseruations for he who should procure his Clients peace prolongs his suite because he hath an Action to his purse as his aduersary had to his land The proud Pharisee steales for he meanes to steale Gods glory from him attributing that to his owne merites which is none of his making himselfe the Author and accomplisher of euery deseruing worke let mee be none of these good Father I see their miserable ends by their sinister meanes For how should vicious beginnings haue vertuous ends They peruerted the wayes of Iustice walking in crooked by paths where the Saints of God neuer traced Be it farre from me to be said to steale thy glory with the Pharisie or protract the poore widdowes cause with the trifling Lawyer or hoord vp vengeance for my selfe with the couetous ingroser or sucke the blood of the needy with the remorcelesse oppressor The Prodigall sheweth wherein true content consisteth I Will desire one thing of thee O my GOD and that shall bee all to taste true contentation and not the worldlings seeming content who professe themselues to be fully satisfied yet crie still more and more that content proceedes enforced I would haue mine enfranchised let it be riches to mee to possesse thee cloathing to me to put on my Lord Iesus foode unto mee to feede on the bread of his word and life vnto mee to liue for my Sauiours glory So shall my riches be eternall not subiect to the casualties of Fortune or Chance for no moates can corrupt that treasure which is reserued in Heauen for the Elected So shall my cloathing neuer be worne out but like the Israelites garments continue euermore new For they which put on Christ shall continually haue their raiments renewed So shall my foode for it is Spirituall Manna feede my soule with holy and heauenly meditations nourished so shall my life neuer fade being by the Almighty preserued Alasse Lord if I should continue in my old transgressions and in the hardnesse of my heart assay to clime vp to heauen with the Gyants should not I be soone destroyed yea Lord what am I that I should be able to stand against thee Or is my house of Clay so firme that it can support it selfe without thee When the King of Iuda proclaimed warre against the King of Israel the King of Israel returned answere That the Thistle rebelled against the Cedar And should I that am lighter then vanitie oppose my selfe against the Eternall power of the Almightie No Lord I will rather humble my selfe before thy Throane and with teares of heartie remorce purchase pardon Thou hast hung the white banner out to expresse thy mercie vnto all such as will submit themselues I will descend therfore before the red signall of thy wrath denounce bloud and vengeaunce I haue fore-slowed my returne O Lord too long sleeping on the bedde of securitie I haue carowsed Balthazar-like