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A50081	Microcosmography, or, Speculum mundi being a glasse for worldlings, a sermon preached at the funeral of the right worshipfull Spencer Lucy, Esq. at Charlecote, August 11, 1649 / by Christopher Massey.	Massey, Christopher, b. 1618?	1650 (1650)	Wing M1030; ESTC R28813	17,093	29

Microcosmography OR SPECVLVM MVNDI BEING A GLASSE FOR WORLDLINGS A SERMON Preached at the funerall of the Right Worshipfull SPENCER LUCY Esq at Charlecote August 11. 1649. By Christopher Massey Master of Arts of Gonv. and Caius Colledge Cambridge LONDON Printed by RICHARD COTES Anno Dom. 1650. To the Right Worshipfull Robert Lucy Esq my most honoured PATRON I Am very sensible of the unfledgednesse of this Lapwing that runnes about so confidently Bee pleased therefore instead of its shell to let it have the shadow of such a wing the glory of such a name as yours is affixt to it but let it goe as a Decoy to bring in souls For truly some have been pleased to esteeme these pieces of Glasse which I broke at your Royall seat Charlcote at an higher rate than to bee onely throwne out to choake Hens or patcht together only to catch Larks But whether it be custome or the importunitie of some that heard it that hath got it from me it wil now undeceive those that heard it not T is a Sea but so calme and cleare that he that can stoope with the Country wench to see his foul face in fair water may find in himselfe both what to wash off and what with Narcissus to fall in Love withall Sir I am weary of catching shadowes and embracing clouds and will now entirely devote my self to prayer for you and your noble familie that that great God whose Throne is indeed a Mercie-seat to all that sincerely addresse themselves to it in the name of the Mediator wil preserve to you your inheritance in Canaan and Heaven and so I humbly subscribe to be ever Your obliged Servant and faithfull Chaplaine Christopher Massey Microcosmography OR SPECVLVMMVNDI Being a Glasse for Wordlings A SERMON preached at the Funerall of the Right Worshipfull SPENCER LUCY Esq REV. 4.6 Before the throne was a sea of Glasse like Crystall IF I did intend to word it only as the use is now a dayes the use and principall even in Doctrines and Uses I might easily stile the seven Bishops and Churches in the three precedent Chapters St Iohns Reformed Churches his Heptarchy his Patriarchy this the rather for though in his two latter Epistles he is an Elder yet in his first a father and lest hee should bee mistaken for a Lay-Elder in this Apocalyps a Divine So like his embleme the soaring Eagle though perhaps not so clearly from ver 7. he not only gazes on the worlds light himselfe but beares his Eaglets on his wings to teach them with undazeled eye to fixe on Alpha and Omega an ever rising never setting sun But now in this fourth Chapter he begins to discover in aenigmaticall Idea's of Gods decrees the future militant Churches mournings to the worlds end Vers 2 3. A throne not empty but the Jasper Sardine Emerald stone the Eternall Trinity on it vers 4. Four and twenty Elders enthron'd i. e. the triumphant Church Jewish Gentile in their lawfull Representative twice twelve Founders Patriarchs Apostles vers 5. God writes contra gentes lightnings thundrings c. black lines vers 6. A sea i. e. the world in which his militant Church is tost that I say not shipwrackt Rejoice yee faithfull for though vers 6. your pressures great yet ver 3. the great God is your judge and your avenger 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you are before his throne I intended no other division for my discourse before this honourable presence but that of soul and body but the Scripture is so brief in this matter speaking but one word or two of the greatest persons Funerall that I am forced to present you with these particulars 1. A show a spectacle the world 2. A Spectator God both their actings under three severall disguises The world 1. A sea tumultuous Yet 2. 't is glasse quickly broken Yet 3. like crystall shining clear But again although 1. Like crystall bright Yet 2. 't is glasse brittle 3. A Sea brinish God as on a throne intimating in respect of himself 1. His judgment 2. Majesty 3. Eternall rest In respect of the world 1. His power 2. Presence 3. Essence See the pretty knack the thing they call the world 'T is 1. a sea Why do we immerse our selves in it Air is mans element 2. Glasse Why build on it Earth is mans pavement 3. Crystall its congealed Atoms yeeld nothing but coldnesses hardnesses Fire love is a Christians element Else See 1. the power of God in judgement to condemne thee Or 2. the Majesty of his presence to shame thee Or 3. the eternall rest and happinesse of his essence to allure thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They that goe down to the sea in ships Psal 107.23 they behold the great Gods works and wonders we are shipt for an houre and though it be dangerous travelling at sea yet the right spirit of our righteous Saviour with his gentle breathings his effectuall gales will harbour us in quiet for lambs may wade here where elephants drown'd The comfort is ver 1. the doore which the lambs well know is open Sweet Jesu we know no doore but thee How shall mans beetle-cy'd body nay eaglecy'd soule pierce into heaven but through thee Lord open before it be too late for fooles to enter First the world is the sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so Ribera Bullinger Pererius Paraeus here so Scripture the best Expositor Mat. 13.47 Christs Kingdome is like a net cast into the sea where the Ship is the Church the Sea the World the Net the Word the Fishermen Ministers Fish the Men of the world 'T was good fishing when mutus ut piscis was in date our fish will catch the fishermen So the Church of England the Catholicke Churches best Expositor in her forme of Baptisme may so passe the waves of this troublesome world And he that rests not in her judgement sink or swim at his own perill bee it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the world 's a sea and then needs must it bee dangerous where the Prince of the Air throwes downe his blustring stormes those shortned dayes Mat. 24.22 will ere long leave him to his eternall night where sinne in stead of sand to ballast us is quicksands to bury us Honour bubbles Passion froth Company waves crowding on one another Misery the ebbe Successes the tide a stream however Trowts beare up against it against which no striving Our teares as soone as borne prognosticate its brinishnesse Our life being teares for misery at the best for sin 'T is a sea see this 1. in its rage Psalm 93. 98. the flouds have voices and hands so like the wicked world cry down with it and put forth sacrilegious hands to pull in the poore ship the Church or under pretence of having it to the dock pare it and patch it till it have as little of the ancient ship in it as that of the Athenians Christiani tollantur has been the voague of all ages decimentur let them bee