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A00945	Certaine very proper, and most profitable similies wherein sundrie, and very many, most foule vices, and dangerous sinnes, of all sorts, are so plainly laid open, and displaied in their kindes, and so pointed at with the finger of God, ... Collected by Anthonie Fletcher, minister of the word of God, ... This present yeere of our happines 1595.	Fletcher, Anthonie.	1595 (1595)	STC 11053; ESTC S116009	166,265	184

on high first kéepeth it lowe and holdeth it downe with the force of a van and the gathering togither of much winde Euen so our God presseth vs downe and kéepeth vs lowe that he may lift vs vp and exalt vs on high he throweth vs downe héere in earth that he may exalt vs in heauen and laieth many times disgrace vpon vs in this world among men that we may be gracious in the world to come with himselfe his angels and his saints On the other side AS a wrastler imbracing him with whom he striueth in the wrastling place for victorie lifteth him vp the higher that with the greater force he may hurle him against the ground So this world doth extoll vs that with throwing vs downe headlong it may hurt vs and that we may fall from the top of deceitfull and transitorie glorie downe to the bottome of most certaine and perpetuall ignominie Cyprian saith The world smileth vpon a man with a cruell purpose it flattereth to deceiue it calleth a man to it to kill him it extolleth him to vndo him AS men mad and frantike are woont to teare and rent themselues So wicked and vngodly men inflict vpon themselues most deadly and incurable wounds yea they be most wilfull murtherers of their owne soules and bodies For that is true in the booke of Wisedome Man through his owne naughtines killeth his owne soule And what greater madnes can there be than a man to run headlong vpon euerlasting destruction Iob hauing a desire to describe the ignorance of such men and to declare that euen in matters most euident and plaine they be vtterly void and destitute of wisedome he saith In the day light they run into darknes and as in the night so stumble they at noone daies And whereas the feare of God is the beginning of wisdome as Dauid and Salomon his sonne do both affirme and vngodly men loden with all maner of naughtines to the feare of God are méere strangers it is plainly and truly concluded that they be not onely without wisedome but also that they haue not so much as the beginning of the same AS the filthie swine regard not but thrust from them roses that are most beautifull and swéete and séeme to contemne most fragrant and pleasant flowers and do rather séeke after foule puddles and stinking mire and forsaking dainty dishes and costly iuncates do franke themselues most gréedily with wilde mast and vncleane things So vngodly men haue no taste of the word of God but hunting after vncertaine riches which are in continuall hazard and at the length will deceiue them they are as it were fettered in the inchanting pleasures and pestilent flickerings of the world From the which the Lord preserue and deliuer vs. Amen AS in a fruitfull and fertile ground among many wholsome and very medicinable herbes some that be dangerous and full of poyson do grow So the wits and wisedome of men togither with some profitable and wholsome counsels and admonitions do bring foorth perilous and pestilent errors and are therfore with wisedome and great discretion to be regarded euen as herbes are to be gathered and vsed But this wisedome and discretion is to be sought for and had onely in the word of God which is a lanterne to our féete and a most perfect light vnto our pathes It is onely acceptable to the soules of Gods saints and nothing but it doth féede them to eternall life It is swéeter vnto them than hony and the hony combe In mens iudgements words and works we may be deceiued in the Lords we cannot Thy iudgements O Lord saith Dauid are iust and more to be desired than fine golde or pretious stones and they are swéeter than hony and the hony combe It is the power of saluation to all that beléeue it it is able to saue our soules if it be throughly rooted in vs. The word of the Lord laid vp in our harts doth preserue vs from sinne it clenseth our harts and by the working of the holy Ghost with it it createth right spirits within vs. By the meanes of it the saints and seruants of God attaine to that puritie and cleannes of hart and minde that they wish for and desire nothing but that which is good godly and holy The author of the word is God himselfe who can neither deceiue nor be deceiued and therefore whatsoeuer is written in it is truth whatsoeuer is taught in it is vertue and holines whatsoeuer it promiseth after death is eternitie and endlesse ioy to the children of God when this life is ended Whereto the Lord bring vs all if it be his good pleasure AS that man that will giue an onset and encounter with an enimie or wil defend and kéepe himselfe vnwounded at his hands hath néede of a sword in his hand to smite the enimie withall and to repell his violence So whosoeuer will triumph and carry away the victorie ouer this world flesh and diuell must hold fast in his hand that is in his maners conuersation and the whole course of his life the worde of God which is called the sword of the spirit is sharper than any two edged sword This the Lord commandeth to be closed and safely laid vp in the cofer of our harts and to be worne as a signe vpon our hands and to be had for a remembrance alway before our eies Salomon doth counsell vs to binde it fast to our harts and to vse it as a chaine about our necks and to take it with vs when we walke abroad And Christ himselfe saith If any man loue me he will kéepe my saying Againe Blessed are they that heare the word of God and kéepe it The apostle also Not the hearers of the law are righteous before God but the doers of the lawe shall be iustified And Iames saith Be ye doers of the word and not hearers onely deceiuing your owne selues The Lord giue grace and his holy spirit vnto vs that we may loue to heare his word and to do his will EVen as doues do loue and delight in houses that be faire whited and do willingly frequent swéete and pleasant places but contemne and flie from blacke foule and vnsauorie cottages So faithles and vntrustie friends do hunt and séeke after the friendship of those men by whose wealth and riches they may be holpen reléeued and enriched But men in pouertie and distressed persons vnable to fill their bellies to clothe their backs or otherwise to pleasure them with some worldly things they vtterly despise they care not for their companie their loue nor friendship feare they God neuer so much Yea if some blustering storme and terrible tempest of aduersitie shall blowe away thy wealth and shall separate thy riches and thy selfe thy greatest friends as thou thoughtest will hide them from thée and no where be found but a faithfull friend loueth at al times

sore and weake is very troublesome and hurtfull and yet the sunne euer all one and the selfe same that it was before So God that hath euer shewen himselfe benigne and bountifull to those that were kinde and tender harted towards his saints and mercifull to those that shew mercie vnto the same men when they fall into wickednes and grow to be full of beastly crueltie the Lord sheweth himselfe to be very wrath and angrie and yet still one and the selfesame immutable God from euerlasting to euerlasting So that we sée the Lord to beare and shew himselfe vnto men according to that which he knoweth them to be The prophet Dauid had great knowledge and no small experience of this when he said The Lord will reward me according to my righteousnes and according to the cleannes of my hands in his owne eie sight with the holy thou wilt be holy and with the froward thou wilt deale frowardly When the wicked and vngodly do prouoke the Lord to anger and euen pull vpon themselues through their rebellion and hardnes of hart some iudgements plagues or scourges then they thinke that the Lord dealeth hardly and frowardly when as notwithstanding he is most holy and most iust AS a looking glasse doth shew whatsoeuer thou shalt set against it if thou shew thy selfe pleasant and milde vnto it it also will shew it selfe milde and pleasant vnto thée and if thou beest angrie and full of wrath and indignation thou shalt perceiue in like maner the countenance of the glasse to be as it were furious and cruell to behold whereas notwithstanding the glasse is one and the same So God whereas he is one and the selfesame immutable and euerlasting God and as it is said in the booke of Wisedome A glasse without spot or blemish is sometimes compared to a gentle lambe and sometimes to a fierce and terrible lion Esaias saith of him Euen as a shéep vnto the slaughter was he led and as a lambe before the shearer so he opened not his mouth And Iohn Baptist saith of him also Behold the lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world And Christ speaketh of himselfe Learne of me for I am méeke and lowly in hart These and such other places do shew the mildnes and kindnes of our God But the prophet Esay speaking of him againe saith The furie of the Lord is wax●n hot against his people And a little after His voice is as the roring of a lion And Amos the prophet saith A lion of the tribe of Iuda hath the victorie Christ himselfe affirmeth that he is mercifull towards them that be mercifull saying Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercie And touching the Lords maner of dealing with cruell and vnmercifull men Iames the apostle saith He shall haue iudgement without mercie that sheweth no mercie himselfe Thus do we plainly sée how diuersly the Lord sheweth himselfe to wit mercifull to those that be mercifull and to those that be mercilesse and cruell he sheweth himselfe sharpe and seuere Christ declareth in his Gospell that he will say vnto the good in the last iudgement day Come ye blessed children of my father possesse a kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world for I was hungrie and ye gaue me to eate c. O swéete and comfortable saying to the children of God And to the wicked he will say Depart from me ye cursed ones into euerlasting fire prepared for the diuell and his angels for I was hungrie and ye gaue me not to eate c. O dolefull and fearfull curse well had it béene for them if they had neuer béene borne Our sauiour Christ in his holy Gospell that he may teach vs his care loue towards vs compareth himselfe to many things calling himselfe somtimes a shepheard somtimes an husbandman somtimes a man somtimes an housholder and somtimes also a king calling his seruants to their accounts rewarding wel the good and condemning the bad and somtimes also a king bidding all to a marriage and to a wedding dinner For thus it is written The kingdome of heauen is like vnto a man a king which made a great marriage for his sonne He is called a man a king that we may vnderstand him to be bountifull and mercifull toward vs. But not long after it is said When the king heard it he was angrie When he is noted to be angrie he is not called a man a king but king onely And as we read the scriptures we find that Christ is called by diuers and sundrie names and all to expresse his nature and disposition vnto vs. He is said to be woonderfull a branch iust comely beautifull Iesus Messias a sauiour saluation a rocke a corner stone a counsellor strong beloued the sun a captaine a giant a bridegroome the east the prince of peace the father of the world to come a lord an high priest a physition Emanuel an eagle a mediator a fountaine of water of life the bread of life the way truth and life a light the roote of Iesse a swift destroier and by many other names is he called as we shal finde in the scriptures as we read and marke them well and yet he the same God and as Iames the apostle saith Without any shadow of change He brought and aduanced the people of the Hebrewes to great dignitie and againe did throw them into extreme ignominie but the change was in them and none in him He placed them in the land of promise and brought them into the captiuitie of Babylon and all these things did he without any alteration in himselfe to shew both his mercie and his iustice EVen as a twig or branch taken from a very good and fruitfull trée and graffed in the trunke or stocke of some wilde trée as a crab thorne or such like doth draw the trunke or stock to the nature of the twig or branch that now it beareth other leaues and other fruit than it was woont to do So the doctrine of Christ well planted and surely graffed in our barren harts doth draw vs and conuert vs vnto and into it selfe and causeth vs to beare other goodly leaues of holy and godly words and other most pleasant and wholsome fruits of vnfained vertues and graces But by the way we must néedes crop and cut off the boughes of our old sinnes that Christ may be graffed in vs and then no doubt our fruit shall be such as God for his sonnes sake will accept and take in good part at our hands A good trée cannot beare bad fruit nor an euill tree good fruit No man can be delighted with the foule pleasures and filthie delights of the world and the flesh and with the ioyes of heauen at the same time No man can be giuen both to the contemplation of heauenly things and to the wisedome of the flesh Truth and lying things euerlasting and things most vile

being troubled the brooke is troubled also and the prince disquieted the people finde no peace Herod the king was troubled and all Ierusalem with him Whiles he raigned impietie ruled good lawes were nothing set by iustice and iudgement lay dead ancient and laudable customs were banished there was no rest no peace which is the end of godly gouernment For to that end are gouernors ordained that people may liue in peace The worke of iustice shall be peace Iustice and peace haue kissed ech other There shall arise in his daies iustice and abundance of peace AS the roote of a trée being vtterly rotten the boughes cannot bud and florish nor bring foorth pleasant fruits in their due time So iustice being violated it cannot be that peace can florish and bring foorth so plentifull fruits as she is woont to do THe prosperitie of this world is as the cléerenes of winter weather as the calmnes of the sea and stabilitie of the moone As these do wauer and be suddenly changed So the state of wealth and worldly things hath no firmnes no perpetuitie no constancie for as it is said All these things passe away like a shadowe and are as a messenger running afore Man flieth away like a shadow and neuer continueth in one state For somtime it falleth out that when thou dost thinke thy selfe to haue gotten innumerable riches and great dignitie and that thou art set euen in the top of excellencie and honor then all of a sudden in the twinkling of an eie thou art hurled from that high and mounting glorie of the world downe headlong into a bottomles gulfe of all disgrace For out of that place which thou hadst thought to be full of rest and securitie very often great calamities and most bitter blustring stormes in the turning of an hand suddenly do arise Séeing therfore that these things stand so we ought not to put any confidence in deceiueable dignities nor to be proud of them neither must we trust in the vncertaine riches of this world which are daily changing but we must flie to our redéemer onely sauiour Christ Iesus place our whole hope and settle all our confidence in his infinite and endles mercies God giue vs grace to do so Amen EVen as the eagle is caried vp on high and falleth not vpon the ground but to séeke his necessarie foode and hauing caught his pray by and by flieth vp againe and maketh no abode below on the earth So we ought to haue our mindes occupied in heauen and all superfluous care of worldly things laid apart with the eies of our mindes and faith to behold our God and in the quietnes and staiednes of our soules rest our selues vpon his grace without hauing more to do with this world than in our seuerall callings to séeke lawfully those necessaries onely which may serue for the preseruation of life Which had we should in the meditation of our mindes and the thoughts of our harts with all our powers flie vnto our God The apostle Paule his counsell is excéeding good Hauing meate and drinke and wherewith we may be clothed let vs be therewith contented for they that will be rich do fall into tentation and into the snare of the diuell And Salomon making his praiers vnto God hath these words Giue me O Lord onely necessaries for my life least if I be too full I may be drawen to denie thée And againe Better is a little with the feare of the Lord than great and insaciable treasures Dauid also Better is a little that the righteous man hath than the great riches of the vngodly EVen as thicke and blacke cloudes do obscure and darken the bright and glittering stars So degenerating posterities and such as be polluted and blemished with trecherie and iniquitie do dishonor their ancestors and do extinguish the cléere light of their noble vertues and do put vpon them the vgly darksomnes of their owne vices that although they be noble men by birth and discent yet they fall into obliuion and by little and little are quite forgotten It is better that a man be renowmed and nobled by his owne noble acts and excellent vertues than to depend vpon the nobilitie of his ancestors They ought not to be called the sonnes of noble men which please themselues with vanities and do wallow in ignominie and wickednes but the sonnes of those wicked ones whose kinde of life they do imitate and whose footsteps they follow Christ called the wicked Iewes which said they had Abraham to their father the children of the diuell And speaking of Christians he saith And how many soeuer did receiue him he gaue them power to be made the sonnes of God In Christ Iesu saith the apostle neither circumcision auaileth any thing neither vncircumcision but a new creature True nobilitie before God consisteth not in the prowesse of ancestors but in newnes of life by faith in Christ AS the pleasant and swéete riuer of Iordan when it runneth into Asphaltites that bitter poole of Palestina is also made bitter vnwholsome loseth the vertue thereof So that man which ioineth himselfe in friendship and doth couple himselfe in familiaritie with wicked and vngodly men becommeth wicked and vngodly himselfe and is stained and blemished with their vices although héertofore he had béen inclined to vertue and godlines It is therefore pithily said of Ecclesiasticus Depart from the wicked and euill things will depart from thée And the apostle in the fift of the first to the Corinthians also in that to the Galath saith A little leauen doth sower a whole lump of dowe AS of necessitie a shadow doth accompany those that walk in the sunne shine So is enuie a continuall companion to those that in good and honest things do excell others and are aduanced and renowmed with the best There is no felicitie saith Valerius Maximus be it in neuer so good measure and modestie which can eschew the gnarling and gnawing téeth of enuie One demanded of a learned man how he might auoid enuious persons If saith he thou shalt haue no excellent thing in thée and shalt do nothing fortunately Enuie is alway vertues companion and is euer at the héeles of them which in honestie vertue and godlines go beyond others Miserie onely admitteth no enuie EVen as the inferiour planet shadoweth and ecclipseth the planet that is aboue it but the higher not the lower So men without honestie indued with no wisedome not acquainted with vertue and enimies to true godlines do their greatest endeuour to distaine the commendation and deserued honor of notable and very woorthie men Iob calleth him a little one or a man of no valure that is tormented with grudging and repining against the welfare of others An enuious man is as vnprofitable to a citie as darnell is to wheate AS rustinesse consumeth iron so enuie consumeth the enuious man

he be throughly tried S. 35. P. 13. The best foode for the soule of man S. 36. P. 13. 14. Not proud but humble men do profite by reading and hearing of the worde of God S. 37. 38. P. 14. 15. The riches dignities and honors of this world and the life of man are fitly compared to clouds in the aire which are suddenly dispersed and scattered with the windes S. 39. P. 15. 16. The word of God is a looking glasse that wil deceiue no man If a man behold himselfe well in it he shall see plainly that before he was man he was earth and before he was earth he was nothing S 40 P 16. As a birde thrusteth hir bill through the loopes of hir cage in token of hir great desire to be at libertie So the soule of a true Christian groneth and sigheth in the bodie in desire to be dissolued and to go to dwell with the Lord Iesu S. 41. P. 16. 17. Papists compared to vipers S. 42. P. 17. Man for his inconstancie is compared to a ballance that is mooued with euerie little weight S. 43. P. 17 18. Man is so wauering that he is compared to a Chameleon which changeth his colour according to the thing that is next him and also bicause the Chameleon will be changed into any colour saue white S. 44. 45. P. 18. Not they that trust to a dead faith but they that haue a liuely and working faith shall be saued S. 46 P. 18. Many men of very good qualities and indewed with sundrie vertues and full of good parts haue been strongly altered and greatly disgraced through their familiaritie with the wicked S. 47. P. 18. 19. When Peter came into Cayphas his hall he denied Christ S. 48. P. 19. What it is not to eat the word of God and not to fill a mans bellie and bowels with it S. 49. P. 19. The harder that the tree of sinne and wickednes is to be cut downe the more earnestly and diligently ought the preachers of the word to strike at it with the sharpe edge of Gods most mightie and most holie worde S. 50. P. 20. The Lord doth humble vs in this world that he may exalt vs in the world to come this world doth smile vpon vs with a purpose to deceiue vs S. 51. 32. P. 20. Wicked men are wilfull murtherers of their owne bodies and soules S. 53. P. 21. Vngodly men finde no comfort nor sweetnes in the word of God S. 54. P. 21. In mens iudgements words and works we may be deceiued in Gods we cannot Whatsoeuer is writtē in Gods word is truth whatsoeuer is taught in it is vertue and holines and whatsoeuer it promiseth in the world to come is eternitie S. 55. P. 22. The onely weapon that we must vse to ouer come the world flesh and diuell is the word of God and the practise of the same S. 56. P. 22. Poore men feare they God neuer so much are little set by in this world S. 57. P. 23. Christ hath his cup and the world his the one is bitter but wholesome the other very pleasant but pestilent and deadly S. 58. P. 23. and 24 and also S 60. P. 24. As a guiltie man whose conscience doth accuse him would neuer see the iudge and a traitor would neuer willingly be espied of his prince nor a disloyall person of one that knoweth him and on the other side a true and faithfull subiect that hath done dutifull seruice desireth the presence of the prince in hope to be well rewarded So the wicked and vngodly ones of the world are greeued to heare of Christs comming to iudge the quicke and the dead but they that haue liued with good consciences do grone for his comming S. 61. P. 24. There be great braggers of religion which make a great noise as thogh none were right professors of the truth but themselues such be not the best men humble minded Christians are better than they S. 62. P. 25. Death commeth suddenly vpon many that neuer thought to die nor cannot tell what shall become of them when they bee dead S. 63. P. 25. 26. All men are alike subiect to death whether they beyoong or olde this world is like a potters warehouse and all men in it are earthen vessels S. 64. P. 26. As the moone decreasing hath hir open side hanging downward but increasing and gathering light hath hir opening vp towards heauen So men meere naturall haue their harts set only vpon earth and earthly things but men regenerate haue the open side of their harts euer towards God heauen and heauenly things S 65. P. 26. 27. A common wealth without good lawes and holy ordinances put in practise is like a bodie without a soule S 66 P 28. As the horse is ordained to run the oxe to plough and the dog to hunt So is man borne to loue God aboue all things S. 67. P. 28. Mans hart is so hard that it must be smitten with the Lords owne hand and bruised with one calamitie or other or else no godo thing will euer issue out of it S. 68. P. 28. and S. 69. P. 29. S. 70. P. 29. The earth is the Lords steward and doth dispose and detaine the increase of it selfe at the Lords appointment when God wil plentie when he will scarci●ie S. 71. P. 29. 30. If man cleaue to God God will sticke to him if he will run from God yet can he not escape his hands S. 72. P. 30. A man that is vertuous without hypocrisie is an excellent iewell he is greatly greeued to see any bewitched with the forceries of the world he doth what he can that none may Carnall men are meere strangers to true christianitie S. 73. P. 31. Vaine and carnall men compared to organs S. 74. P. 31. Naturall men will do no good thing vnles they be pricked forward with the praise and commendations of the world S. 75. P. 31. 32. Hypocrites most plainly and truly described by a wood or groue full of goodly trees and pleasant plants to delight men and also full of stinging serpents to poyson and to kill men S. 76. P. 32. Heauenly meditations doe molli●ie and warme the hart and do greatly inflame men with a feruent loue of God This world and the things thereof haue euer been false and haue deceiued euen their louers and deerest friends at the length S. 77. P. 32. 33. The Lorde suffereth his owne children whom he loueth most deerely to bee oftentimes in great wants when the wicked haue euen the world at will The afflictions of this are not the maledictions and curses of God but rather most certaine signes of his loue and tokens of his grace S. 78. P. 33. 34. God doth su●fer his saints heere vpon the earth to be smitten and sore beaten of the world and to be throughly tried with diuers tentations to the end that their inward graces may breake