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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15713	The christians mourning garment	Worship, William.	1603 (1603)	STC 25987; ESTC S113276	27,165	63

corrupt vgly fruites of that infection and contagion wherein I was first conceiued both in thoughts words workes If I should go about to recken vp my particular offences I know not where to begin or where to make an end For they are moe then the haires of my head yea far mo then I can possibly féele or know For who knoweth the height and depth of his corruption who knoweth how of the offendeth Thou only O Lord knowest my sinnes who knowest my heart nothing is hid from thée thou knowest what I haue béene and what I am yea my conscience doth accuse me of many and gréeuous euilles I do daylie féele by wofull experiene how fraile I am how prone to euill and how vntoward to all goodnesse My minde is full of vainity my hart full of prophanenesse mine affections full of deadnesse dulnesse drowsinesse in matters of thy worship seruice Yea my whole soule is full of spirituall blindnesse hardnesse vnprofitablenesse coldnesse and security And in very déede I am altogether a lumpe of sinne and a masse of all misery and therefore I haue forfeited thy fauour and incurred thy high displeasure and haue giuen thée iust cause to frowne vpon me to giue me ouer and leaue me to mine owne corrupt will and affections But O my deare Father I haue learned from thy mouth that thou art a God full of mercy slow to wrath and of great compassion and kindenesse towardes all such as grone vnder the burthen of their sinnes Therefore extend thy great mercie towardes me poore sinner and giue me a generall pardon for all mine offences whatsoeuer seale it in the blood of thy sonne and seale it to my conscience by thy spirite assuring mee more and more of thy loue and fauour towards me and that thou art a reconciled father vnto me Graunt that I may in al time to come loue thée much because much is giuen and of very loue feare thée and obey thée O Lord increase my faith that I may stedfastly beléeue all the promises of the Gospell made in thy son Christ and rest vpon them altogether enable me to bring forth the sound fruites of faith and repentance in all my perticuler actions Fill my soule full of ioy and peace in beléeuing Fill me full of inward comfort and spirituall strength against al temptations giue me yet a greater féeling of thy loue and many folde mercies towardes me worke in my soule a loue of thy Maiesty a zeale of thy glory an hatred of euil and a desire of all good things Giue me victory ouer those sinnes which thou knowest are strongest in me Let me once at last make a conquest of the worlde and the flesh Mortifie in me whatsoeuer is carnal sanctifie me throughout by thy spirit knit my heart to thée for euer that I may feare thy name renew in me the image of thy sonne Christ daylie more and more Giue me a delight in the reading meditation of thy word Let me reioyce in the publique ministrie thereof Let me loue and reuerence all the faithfull ministers of thy Gospel Sanctifie their doctrines to my conscience seale them in my soule write them in my heart giue me a soft and melting heart that I may tremble at thy wordes and be alwayes much affected with Godly sermons Let not my sinnes hold backe thy mercies from me nor mine vnworthynesse stoppe the passage of thy grace Open mine eyes to sée that great wonders of thy Law Reueale thy secrets vnto me be open harted towards me thy vnworthy seruant Hide nothing from me that may make for thy glory and the good of my soule Blesse all meanes vnto me which thou vsest for my good Blesse all holy instructions to my soule Blesse me at all times both in hearing and reading thy word Giue me the right vse of all thy mercies corrections that I may be the better for them Let me abound in loue to thy children Let my heart be very néerely knit vnto thē that where thou louest most there I may loue most also Let me watch pray that I enter not into temptation giue me patience and contentment in all things Let me loue thée more and more and the world lesse and lesse So drawe my minde vpward that I may despise all transitory things Let me be so wrapt and rauished with the sight féeling of heauēly things that I may make a base reckoning of all carthly things Let me vse this world as though I vsed it not Let me vse it but for necessity as meate and drinke Let me not be carried away with the vaine pleasures and fond delights therof Good father worke thy good worke in me and neuer leaue me nor forsake me till thou hast brought me to true happinesse Oh deare Father make me faithful in my calling that I may serue thée in it and be alwaies carefull to do what good I may in any thing Blesse me in my outward estate Blesse my soule body goods and name Blesse all that belongeth vnto me Blesse my goings out and commings in Let thy countenance be lifted vp vpon me now and alwayes cheare me vp with the ioyes and comforts of thy spirite make me thankefull for all thy mercies For I must néeds confesse that thou art very kinde vnto me in all things For in thée I liue mooue and haue my béeing of thée I haue my welfare and good béeing thou art a dayly friend and special good Benefactor vnto me I liue at thy cost and charges I hold all of thée in Chiefe and I finde that thou art neuer wearie of doing me good thy goodnesse towardes me is vnstanchable Oh I can neuer be thankefull inough vnto thée for al thy mercies both spirituall and corporall But in such measure as I am able I praise thy name for all beséeching thée to accept of my thankesgiuing in thy Sonne Christ and to giue me a profitable vse of all thy fauours that thereby my hart may be fully drawne vnto thée giue me O Father to be of such a good nature and disposition that I may be wonne by gentlenesse and fayre meanes as much as if thou gauest me many lashes Pardon all mine vnthankefulnesse vnkindnesse and great abusing of thy mercies and giue me grace to vse them more to thy glory in all time to come Strengthen me deare Father thus to continue praising and glorifying thy name here vpon earth that after this life I may be crowned of thée for euer in thy kingdome Graunt these petitions most mercifull God not onely to me but to all thy deare children throughout the whole world for Iesus Christs sake in whose name I doe further call vpon thée saying as hée hath taught me O our Father which art in Heauen c. 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thy sinnes while thou iettest vp and downe with a Cammels proud neck bearest no part in their song of sorrow Thy corne which thou hopedst would growe plumpe in the eare is blasted in the prime and it thanks thée for it Thy close is pesterd with thornes and thistles and other cursed and vntimely fruite and it thankes thée for it Thy fishes are frozen to thy pond they silently thanke thée for it O what a rack what a gybbet would this be to thy soule if thou hadst any grace But thou more sencelesse then sencelesnesse euen when fit opportunitie is offered to cast dust vpon thy head and that thine eye euen thine eye should shoure forth teares day and night goest metily away regardlesse of so lamentable spectacles What is this but a cleare demonstration that so continuing thou art within an inch of hell Water is an heauie substance and yet if a man lay close to the bottome of the sea he should féele no waight because No Element is heauy in it proper place The whole world is crushed with the ponderousnesse of thy sinnes and thou féelest it not A shrewd token that sinne is where it would be Alas for pitty why wilt thou dye why wilt thou strangle thy soule with so full resolution If thou loue God who loued thée first be no longer an Heafer of thrée yeares olde euer liuing in pleasure neuer féeling sorrow but let thy bowels sound like an Harpe or Shawme for thy transgressions and now at length sigh out this exclamation Oh that mine head were full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might wéepe day and night for my manifold and bloody sinnes And that thy hart may yet waxe colder within thy body know further that thy sins lye so sore vpon thy swéete Saniours back that he can take no rest Hearke how he complaineth Beholde I am pressed vnder Amo. 2. 13 thy sinnes euen as a Cart is pressed that is full of sheaues Pitie O pitie thy selfe if not take pitie vpon thy Redéemer who is prest downe to hell with the heauy sheaues of sinne which thou hast pickt vpon him most cruelly more like a Iew than a Christian It was thou O wretch that didst cast him into his agony where he swet such a sweat that the drops of blood trickled downe apace and the Angels were faine to comfort him It was thou O wretch that betraiedst him with a kisse soldst him for a little pleasure of sinne not worth thirtie péeces of siluer It was thou O wretch that camest vnto him with swords and staues as if he had béene a théefe who indéede thought it no robbery to be equall with God It was thou O wretch that didst whip him and clap a crowne of thornes vpon his head mocking him spitting in his face O cruelty If thou haue occasiō to spit thou gettest thée to the Chimney or behinde the doore for manners sake and yet thou makest no bones of spitting in the face of the God of Angels It was thou O wretch that didst strip him naked riuet his hands and féet to the crosse flouting him euen when he indured for thy sake the incomprehensible wrath of God his Father Behold thy Redcéemer offering vp praiers with strong crying and teares and art thou srolicking The daughters of Ierusalem wéepe the Virgin Mary is pierced through with the sword of sorrow and doost thou run ryot and chop away thy soule for a mite of pleasure The Sunne lends night in midst of day the vaile of the Temple is rent from the top to the bottom the earth quaketh the Mat. 27. 51. stones cléeue the graues open and art thou fatting thy selfe with merriment And meanest thou for all this to saile to heauen by heauen Can there be two heauens If thou still play the Epicure letting these reasons which the scripture yéeldeth so bounteously rebound from thine eye eare and hart like a Tennise from the ground I euen plunged in a gulfe of sorrow to sée thée like a frantick smile when thou dingest thy knuckles against what is next thée till the blood spin out must leaue thée to the secret councell of God if thou néeds wilt perish thy blood will be vpō thine owne soule But I trust these words shall prooue vnto thée the swéet sauour of life vnto life and not of death vnto death wherfore be dilligent in waighing two reasons moe so will I betake me to the remainder The first is the blessednesse of this godly sorrow Doest thou molest the ayre with sighes and the earth with teares not countersaite and forced but sincere and penirent Reioyce and be glad Thou art in the kingdome of Grace the forerunner of the kingdome of heauen Before the conuersion and Zeph 1. 12 new spirituall byrth thou was frozen in the dregs of thy sinne there was such a thicke Ice vpon thy soule that the euill Angelles shotte at pricks as it were and droue carts vpon it but since the Holy Ghost which the Math. 3. 12 Gospell compared to fire hath caught holde on thée thy congealed nature is dissolued and thawed into a flood of teares Wouldst thou thinke it There is not a Psal 56. 8. teare shed for sinne but God catches it before it falles to the ground and treasureth it vp in his bottle Not a teare spent in this sort which thou shalt not finde vpon recorde in heauen so soone as euer thy soule is vnhousde In summe the Lambe in the midst of the Thorne will with his owne hand wipe away al teares from thine eyes Thus they that sowe in teares shall reape in ioye Blessed art thou if thou now wéep for thou Reue. 7. 17 shalt laugh blessed art thou if thou now mourne for thou shalt be comforted Yet a very little while and he that shall come Luck 6. 21 will come and will not tary The last Motiue is the consideration of their deplored estate who ayming at nothing but the bodyes corrupt satisfaction bury the excellent designes of the soule in muddy sensuall pleasure terming sorrow for sinne nothing els but a sullen passion be got betwéene Feare and Melancholy the silly effect of the foolishnes of Prenching Whervnto shall I liken this generation They are like vnto the fat Kine of Bashan that are in the mountaine of Samaria appointed for the slaughter They are like vnto Théeues that goe through a fayre sloured field to the gallowes They are like vnto Riuers that run swéet fresh into the salt sea They are like vnto Passengers laide along to sléepe vnder shady trées who wakning since themselues swelted with the heate of the remooued sun These Riotours that neuer came where true sorrow grew first are base For themselues affirme that pleasure is for the body all men know the body is for the soule so become they seruants to their seruants seruāt Secondly their estate is damnable in life in death after death In