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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74649	An entertainment of solitarinesse or, the melting of the soule, by meditations, and the pouring of it out by prayers. By Sir Richard Tempest, knight and baronet.	Tempest, Richard, Sir, 1619 or 20-1662.	1649 (1649)	Wing T625; Thomason E1410_1; ESTC R209519	28,217	157

content imagining that he still enjoyes those things which commonly so swells mens mindes that they cannot with that evennesse of judgment taste those purer pleasures which arise from the observation of Nature making as it were his Disease his Cure the immoderate esteeme of the other having so vitiated his pallat that he can rellish nothing else though it be by the proxie of the fancie Lord give mee Iacobs Dreames that my very imaginations may represent things as Ladders whereon I may see thy Goodnesse Wisdome and Power descending our Allelujahs ascending Considerations on these Times ALL this goodly Fabrick is broke up The mischiefes of a Civill Warre and disbanded the Elements of it rudely blended and hurld together that which was high becomming low and that which was low becomming high The towring Eagle is shot by an Arrow made of the same Tree where he had built his Imperiall Nest and in that Red Sea of Bloud with which Pride and Faction hath overflowed this Island is the Sunne of Justice and Religion almost set men growing onely politick in Ruine and wittie in Destruction the best meanes applyed to the worst ends the vigour and strength of the Commonwealth consumed on a Disease A Civill Warre once but named what evills throng not into our conquered imaginations How doth our unhappie Country feast the eyes of their enemies with the numerous funeralls of its owne Children What cruell Opinions are entertained residing as Tygers in the brests of men to which must be offred the Victimes and Sacrifices of their dearest Countreymen What monsters of new Faiths lodge in their brests that thus devoure and prey upon the tender Virgins I meane the ancient integritie and candor of their dispositions How doe they dabble in one anothers bloud searching one anothers bowels as if like poysonous Scorpions they should be bruised to yeeld an oyle to cure the poyson given by their owne stings Of 〈◊〉 Warre A forraine Warre is like Lightnings in the Skie which purifies and cleanses those upper Regions but then Nature keepes its station whereas if the Elements themselves of which this World consists should make a Warre together that must needs bring a dissolution If men saw no reason for it it s enjoyned their beliefes That a House divided cannot stand Oh miserable Triumph of our Ruine Oh wofull Pompe of our Destruction How all things weare the Liverie of Mourning There may you discerne Justice in its sable Weedes so farre gone in Melancholy scarce ever to be seene abroad here Religion in a corner weeping grieved to see that they have so long like Whifflers kept the Doore of the Church against the comming in of strangers till all the Church is become full of strange Opinions and that they never more take care to appeare honest and good men than when most especially they intend to deceive in another place the Lawes wildly running about and lamenting yet so lowd that all take notice of it And now as in Orpheus Theatre upon the ceasing of this Musick of the Laws men returne to their frenzies and factions Men consult not with reason but with partio● they doe not debate examine and resolve but follow adhere and combine Sequere post me is the Motto of the Times every one taking notice of the Signe where he hath taken up his Lodging ranging themselves in severall Boxes which beare some outward Badge of the Faction The peoples minds with the fire of Zeale and the heat of these Troubles being become fluid and melted are cast in the severall Moulds that wittie Contrivers had fashioned The vulgar spirits which make up the multitude to preserve their beloved Chattels are prepared to side with parties since that begets support and countenance and that he should be a prey to both without being a partie to one Thus every thing is imbraced to which Ambition armed with Power can make its way Quisque deliberat de partibus de summa nemo The wisdome of later times consisted in wittie diversions of these Troubles The wisdome of later times to divert troubles saith Bacon whereby the many evills threatning the Common-wealth were clearely shun'd An example whereof wee finde in former times in the people of Capua who being resolved to have their Governours no longer to rule over them one who being well thought of by the people and intending to oblige the Senatours used thus his power he had with them he tells the Senatours if they would follow his advice he would save them whereupon they consented all to be lockt up in a roome and thither he brings the people pretending he had got them into that posture to sacrifice them all to their furies for the people will ever be deceived but he desired of them before they proceeded to execution they would chuse from among themselves who should have the others places They divided by their particular affections and severall judgements were brought to put in practice the punishment they intended the others upon themselves falling into so great difference and contentions To prevent which they all cry'd to have the former Senatours released and restored Though the care of former times did keepe this humour low yet The miserie of this to buckle with them like originall sinne it was alwayes sprouting into action If in the naturall body any malignant humour be predominant it presently confounds that harmonie of health which consists in an equall and just temperature of the humours so in the civill Body if those that are lovers of the Common-wealth grow inferiour in number to those affecting change it s like the healthfull temperature disordered by a prevailing noxious humour it s the miserie of these present times to encounter with this obstinate Masse of the matter What evills happen through the remedie is like sicknesse occasioned by Physick and yet many times Potions are entertained with worse faces than a Consumption● And such is the nature of some Sicknesse to flatter the partie into the opinion that it is his onely delight and so subtilly mingles it selfe with their blouds that the other purple streames of Nature seeme to usurpe their azure channels There be in all things circumstances and outward accidents which mock the Polititians Counsels which are governed by the highest Providence and like the Kingdome of Heaven comes not by observation yet here we may view the parties upon the Stage and see how the Sceane is layd The Presbyterian shewes you out of the Word a Government of the Church which is Christs own Kingdome which ought to be superiour to all other Powers and Jurisdictions and saith its lawfull by Armes to impose it upon the Magistrate in case he refuse his practice hath seconded his Opinion The Independent growes angry at it that any restraint of the Spirit should be used and saith its libertie of Conscience hee can prove it out of the Bible it s that he hath fought for and will have The Cavalier admonishes every man to returne to the

errors of my life I give thee Lord that one syllable thou desirest my heart begging the exchange of another for it Love But because I am a very bubble which howsoever it be blowne into some curious-coloured Hemisphere by some good inspirations yet the least ruffling winde from abroad makes evaporate And though I be wound up to some holy resolutions by the finger of thy Spirit yet without thy constant assistance I should relapse and fall into loosenesse and dejectednesse therefore I begge of thee my Heart againe that thou wouldest before the conveyance of it passe give it me under the custodie of thy Grace sealed up by thy blessed Spirit that no sinfull Passion within nor outward Glory nor Beautie the solliciters of Vanitie doe ever breake it up Deceit doth debase our Nature and false Policie destroy Governments MAn that Noble Coyne which bears the Image of the King of Heaven is so debased with the alloy of his owne imaginations that it will not passe Lord thou art one undivided simple essence and requirest Truth in the inward parts and spirits wherein there is no guile Wherefore thou hast taught us that under the forme of Children wee obtaine the Kingdome of Heaven by the revocation of which innocent and contemptible part of our lives the value is brought downe of all those false Wares men have fraughted their mindes with in the voyage of this life those false Opinions deluded Affections which doe create to men their joyes and feares Wee shall finde Deceit hath underminded all the little structures of Delight men have builded out of Fancie while Opinions are entertained in the Soule which beare not the lawfull impression of Truth but the counterfeit stampe of their owne affection Truth is the onely firme Basis of mans content and happinesse the images of the things themselves as they be in their owne natures received as it were into the Glasse of the mind settle there that which we call Truth when there is a conformitie betwixt the things and our minds but when man vitiates and distorts his mind with wrong and erronious apprehensions of those things then are our mindes a Magick Glasse which shewes us the images of things that are not Thus are mens griefes Panique and their joyes personate Those teares of Alexander were as ridiculous which the report of another part of the World yet unconquered drew from him as of that poore woman whom the Philosopher saw weeping for her Pitcher she had broke Man mingling his deceived conceptions with the things themselves frights himselfe with that Vizard hee himselfe bestowes on things which in themselves are naturall orderly and necessarie Waters that at the Fountaine head are pure and sweetly tasted in their subterraneous passage beget new and foraine tasts What a Maze doth humane nature tread in How many are the Cozenages of his affections Man as it were in the Tyring-roome of his fancie bestowes his severall Dresses and Attires on things which he on the Stage of the world really counts for such as he hath cloathed them for Thus are all things made to beare the Liverie of his imaginations and are accepted back againe into the affections according to the richnesse of the habits hee made them fine with Folly saith Erasmus heares it selfe ill spoke of even amongst the most foolish and many would entertaine with laughter the storie of that foole who leapt and danced because he thought all the ships that came into the harbour were his owne when perhaps no lesse Comicall would their owne Mirths prove which are drawne perhaps from the esteeme of some things which serve to make a great part of their lives seeme pleasant to them which having their worth viewed in the light of Reason would be found not sufficient to yeeld such a warmth and influence to warme or recreate their deluded affections at Some are overflowed with a deluge of teares for that which to another hath no such ugly Character stampt on it Opinion is sufficient to move passion and Opinion many times rises from the bare shewes of things and yet the impressions are no lesse violent and strong which Opinion retorts on us then what comes from things in themselves ill Beautie is a glorious Ray which might rayse our thoughts to the Creator of Lights who is Beautie it selfe and wherein the Minde might take as much content with due reflections on the Giver as in any other sparks of that omnipotent brightnesse communicated to the Creature Honour is that badge wherby they will honour Vertue Wealth is a banke against the flowings in of the necessities of this life Yet all these befoole our loves and cheat our affections they not being brought in by the trials and examinations of Reason but by the secret motions and recommendations of Passion for Beautie by the Hyperbole and excesse of my thoughts is made another thing to me than it is being onely those clouds whither the Sunne of mens wit send their beames to gild Thus when wee would immortalize the objects of our Earth-borne wishes or make Earthly Beauties Divine then by this disproportion are our unsatisfied affections betrayed to Repentance being it must be recalled from the height and rate it had carryed the thing too or if one in stead of true Vertue and Merit fall in love with vulgar Breath and Court that Eccho being as much taken with those ayrie reverberations as Narcissus was with the watrie reflection seeking for that rich Ore of happinesse in other mens soules which he would have coyned into respect and observances of him what doth he but as Solomon sayth possesse the winde Or if one admire too much that Idoll of vulgar mindes Wealth thinking the felicitie of it consists in the abundance when as that Divine Aphorisme delivers More than what is necessarie the owner hath but to behold it with his eyes Men augment their joyes from the greatnesse of their wealth as they doe their feares from the greatnesse of the appearance of his danger All the Ocean strikes a terror in the minde of him like to be drowned when lesse than a Tun would serve the turne Or if the whole Ayre that incompasseth the Globe were infected one should adde the consideration of the vastnesse of that to encrease his sorrow whereas he could suck in no more than what conferr'd to his owne mortalitie Oh that my wayes were directed with a Line the Line of thy Word there being no other Guide out of this intricacie and perplexednesse of our owne natures Man was from the hand of the most glorious Workman set on the solid Basis of integritie and justice and is now crumbled away into trifles minute-deceits which hath weakened the soliditie of this best piece of the Creation Truth is that noble prey mans Soule is in the inquest after and to have it in stead of realities stored onely with maskes and outward formes it dishonours our natures makes them unhappie and miserable The moralitie of the Heathen puts out of