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A14670	Salomons sweete harpe consisting of fiue words, like so many golden strings, toucht with the cunning hand of his true skill, commanding all other humane speech: wherein both cleargie and laitie may learne how to speake. Preached of late at Thetford before his Maiestie, by Thomas Walkington Batchelour in Diuinitie, and fellow of S. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge.	Walkington, Thomas, d. 1621.	1608 (1608)	STC 24971; ESTC S119399	35,733	88

meant Aliis seruiens me ipsum contero by giuing light to others I burne out the lampe of my owne life If he thought this to be the duty of a secular prince how much more should we thinke it the dutie of a spirituall prophet of one that is set apart for the holy function of the ministerie to spēd his happie daies in Gods seruice to preach in season out of season neuer to giue ouer but to runne the race with chearefulnesse vnto the gole and end of his life knowing that his labour shall not be in vaine in the Lord. We know the Heffers that carried the arke they went lowing continually but these Estridges these Heffers these fatte Buls of Basan they neuer low at least so low that none can heare them or if they doe it is but tanquam partus Elephantinus as Elephants bring forth that is once in ten yeares and well too if they themselues who duly looke for their tithes at mens hands will giue the tenth yeare as tithe to God These men doe not giue that portion of meate in due time vnto the hunger-starued soules with Demosthenes they doe pati argyranchen they are molested with a siluer squinancie mute as S. Mathews fish with twentie pence in his mouth they haue bought a farme purchased possessions bought a yoake nay a hundred yoake of oxen and yet all them teames of oxen can not draw them out vnto the plow of the sanctuary vnto the solemnization of the mariage of Iesus Christ and his blessed spouse Whom for their securitie and supine negligence we may tearme as Athanasius cals the wicked that florish like a greene bay tree in this world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hogs that are larded for the day of destruction And the Lord Iesus open their eies that they sleepe not in death nor suffer the slumbering soules of Christs flocke committed to their charge to become as fuell for hell fire and that they may at the length after their long scandalous silence speake Salomons diure Kephets his pleasant words 3 Lastly In one word I will couch all the proiect comes to be considered He sought to find out that was his care and studie he beate his braine about this to speake pleasant words The hebrew word bickesh doth signifie with an earnest endeauour and care to find out a thing euen as a mettalist would search for a golden minerall or as a merchant for a prizelesse orient pearle and this Salomon he did no doubt by them foure christian exercises in Augustine Lection meditation oration contemplation neither are here by the way meditation and contemplation to be confounded as some dote for meditation is a painfull searching out of the hidden truth and contemplation a ioyfull wondermēt at the truth reuealed Thus Salomon he sought to find out this pretious pearle of pleasant speach with all industrie If then in breefe Salomon who was inriched with an extraordinarie knowledge and wisedome that he might worthily threby be esteemed and tearmed the Non such for wisedomes residence the very quintescence of science the pretious balme of the wounded soule If he I say did studie to be wiser did seeke carefully to speake pleasantly then let vs who cannot espire to his heauenly pitch striue with might and maine to grow in all good gifts from grace to grace from knowledge to knowledge from faith to faith from vertue to vertue vntill wee become perfect men in Iesus Christ and let vs carefully indeauour that the meditations of our hearts and the words of our mouthes may euer be acceptable to God our strength and our redeemer that we may speake these diure kephets Salomons pleasant words And by your leaue here we may taxe a fourth sort of teachers insinuated in this our text which fitly might be called psittaci plain parrats but that they cā not crie Aue Caesar I meane our extemporarie start-vps who without preparation premeditation feare and trembling are wont to speake of the mightie name of Iehoua they neuer seeke with Salomon studie to speak these pleasant words We know Gedeons souldiers held in one hand a trumpe in the other hand a lampe and so should euery dispenser of the word who are the Lords souldiers to fight his battaile against the kingdome of sinne Sathan Antichrist and the wicked world they should I say hold in one hand the trumpe of the word in the other the burning lampe of spirituall vnderstanding and meditation they should both speake and see what they speake for cursed is he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently Those are they whose fiery deuotion is not managed by discretion they wholly relying on Dabitur in illa hora as if they had the spirit of God at commaund which as elegant Nazianzen whom I cannot mention too often saies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 heriliter non seruiliter it is present to vs all in dominion not subiection as a Lord not as a seruant and these are our Donatists and Brownists men of separation who are wont to vse such excursions in their preaching wandring in the wildernes of wofull digressions when they are the furthest from the mark shewing the hottest zeale and vociferation like your bastard plouer that beeing furthest from her nest will euer cry the most The zeale of Gods house did euen eate vp Dauid but they with their irregular zeale haue eaten vp the house of God These are vsually your hot spurres against the state against Caesar against the Gordian knot of the two worthy kingdomes against necessary tributes princely and noble recreations against our reuerend prelates blessed hierarchy all spirituall gouernement running in a fierie indiscretion they know not whether like Iehu the sonne of Nimshi that droue the coach as if hee had beene madde crying and shouting for a reformation or rather a deformation for a new presbiterie and sage senioury and for our our gouernement downe with it downe with it euen vnto the ground And it were very necessarie that in many places of this land they beeing growne vnto the height of Brownisme drawing an infinite troupe of the brainesick commonalty especially from their loyable allegeance that these eares of cockle and darnell were quickly cropt or their heads were pruned off in time and that these little foxes were taken with a quick sent and a full crie which will in time if not prevented with the hand of wisdome in my simple iudgement waighing with my selfe some priuate circumstance by a giddie and headie commotion by their burning firebrands of sedition set a wild fire on the vineyard of the Lord which the Lord in mercy forbid pardon me O Lord if in a feruent zeale of the peace of our Sion I may seeme as a rigorous and mercilesse inueigher against those schismatikes who violently would raught away the oliue branch of vnitie from the mouth of thy spotlesse doue and O pray for the endlesse peace of Sion they shall prosper that

silent but to speake 3 The obiect that he aimed at in his speach euen words of spirituall delight and pleasancie The Preacher sought c. 1 The subiect Salomon or Ecclesiastes or the Preacher he was the blessed pen-man of this booke the heauenly musician who was equaliz'd vnto the sweete singer of Israel whose songs were a thousand and fiue whose sweeter straine went beyonde the apprehension of a vulgar eare out-stripped the Poets Daphnis of whome thus the Caprarius speakes O how pleasant and amiable is thy voice O Daphnis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I had rather listen to thy chaunting and inchaunting voice then to taste of the most delicious Hyblean hunnicombe This Salomon whose admirable wisdome the Queene of Sheba came afar to heare presenting vnto him sixescore talents of gold pearelesse precious stones and abundance of sweete odours He who excelled all the Kings of the earth in riches for he offered in one sacrifice vnto the Lord 22. thousand beeues an hundred and twentie thousand sheepe Who made himselfe palaces of the trees of Lebanon whose pillers were siluer the pauements gold the hangings purple whose midst was paued with the loue of the daughters of Ierusalem Who had in his building seuentie thousand that bare burdens and 80. thousand masons in the mountaine He who planted himselfe vineyards made him orchards of all manner of fruit who had the gold of Kings and prouinces who had men singers and women singers the delights of the sonnes of men who had nothing withheld from him of all his heart desired who was seated in the blissefull Eden and Paradise of all content glutted with all delicious viandes crammed as it were with the pleasures of the world wanting no delicie to relish his tast no elegancie to delight his eie no symphony to rauish and surfet his eare when he had had his full repast in sinne when he had runne through myriades of delights glutting all his fiue senses which we may tearme the Cinqueports or rather the sinports of his soule hauing thus runne his wild-goose chase waging warre against God almightie tandem receptui canit he sounds at lēgth a woful retreit he comes home by weeping crosse he sees the windowes of his spirituall eyes beeing ope with Daniels vnto Ierusalem that he was in the very suburbs of death rowing along by the banks of hell he sees that vanitie was the Golden calfe he daily sacrificed vnto vpon the altar of his sinfull heart with the fire of too carnall deuotion This mighty Monarch therefore vnmasks and pulls off the vizard of all vanitie and pennes this booke this heauenly booke of Retractations which the auncient Rabbies entituled Teshuuah leshelomoh the repentance of Salomon it is he that conuerts himselfe by the helpe of God and beeing conuerted seeks to conuert others to God it is he that here is the Preacher We must not thinke with Dauid Kimchi that Esay wrote both his owne prophesie and the Canticles and this booke also that he was the preacher nor with the Talmudists that Ezechiah and his adherents writ the booke which they call Iimshoch that is Esay the Proverbs the Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes but as Boaz saide to Ruth gleane in no other field but this so let vs imbrace no other sinister opinion but this that Salomon was the penman of this book that here he was this Preacher who sought to finde out pleasant words They that auerre Salomon not be this preacher the penman of this booke doe prooue it hence because the booke is penitenciarie and they constantly auouch that he neuer repented but that he was damned to the gulfe of hell of which thing because comprized by methode within the lists of our Text we will by Gods assistance treate a little Their chiefe Authorities to patronize their opinions are culled out of Augustine one place in his booke of the citie of God where he saies that Salomon had good beginnings but euill endings secondly in his booke Ad Faust. Manich. The holy Scripture sayes he reprooues and condemnes Salomon because no where we read of his repentance and Gods indulgence But the most strict place of all is in his commentary vpon the Psalmes where he saies in plaine tearms Salomon reprobatus est à Deo Salomon was reprobate of God a cast-away as they interpret it I know that some of the Fathers are diffident concerning the saluation of Salomon and amongst them this Augustine as it seemes at a blush yet notwithstanding they may be answered 1 First for the first be it that he began in the spirit and ended in the flesh yet this is not to be ment of his final ending he died not in his sinnes we know the iustest man he falls 7. times a day that is often yet he rises againe and after his rising he still falls when the finger of the holy Spirit holds him not vp and euery fall though not finall may be called malus exitus an euill ending in regard of the holy rise which is a good beginning Or els thus he began to sway the scepter of his kingdome very wisely and religiously yet after he reuolted from God especially in his old age which may be called his exitus yet so that ere he did depart this world ere he were gathered to his fathers he did clense his wayes he did repent 2 For the second we wil answer with Bacchiarius a Britaine in Augustines time in a booke which he writ concerning a Monke that had committed adulterie sayes he let vs graunt that in no place we read that Salomon repented be it so at acceptabilior erat poenitentia priuatâ eius conscientiâ quàm publicâ notitiâ ecclesiae more gratefull to God was his penitencie in the closet of his owne heart then by giuing publike notice to the Church 3 For the last The word reprobatus doth not alwaies signifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as we take it for one in the state of the damned for a cast-away but for one reprooued of God So Tertullian speaking of the second comming of Christ saith that Christ post reprobationem fuit assumptus after his reprobation was taken vp now what blasphemous tongue would euer say that Christ was a reprobate So Salomō was reprooued of God as he was of the Scripture Ireneus after he had recited the good gifts that God had inriched Salomon withall out of the rich exchequer of his vnspeakable bountie and mercy about the midst of the chapter he saies that he fell grieuously and was tainted with the pollution of outlandish women yet saies he sufficienter eum increpavit scriptura vti dixit mihi presbyter vt ne gloriaretur vniuersa caro in conspectu Domini Whēce we may gather these two things 1. that he was reprooued of the Scripture as we spake before 2. that the word of God so sufficiently wrought vpon his heart that it caused him to repent

his instruction and heauenly aduise Againe we know the Hebrues haue one word both for ruling and feeding Wise was that speach of an honourable counsailour that the greatest part of a king was the sacerdotiall function And surely the mightiest Monarch of the world yea euery inferiour none exempted euery true Christian euen from the Cedar to the shrub is or ought to be a priest and a preacher as Salomon was to teach and instruct others their words of edification to the inward care ought to be like the pretious stones set in the brestplate of the ephod like the pillar of fire in the darkesome night of ignorance to direct the wandring pilgrims of this wretched world out of the wildernes of Sin vnto the heauenly Canaan then shall they be as priests with God and as kings raigne with Christ a thousand yeares What if we who are happily numbred among the Prophets cannot cunningly cast our net out of the right side of the ship and with Peter the fisher of men draw at one draught three thousand soules we must not leaue fishing we must not leaue tilling the fallow and barren soile of the vnbeleeuing heart with the plow of the sanctuarie the blessed crosse of Christ Iesus we must neuer giue ouer either our publike or priuate holy function but we must stand still at the sterne and holde the helme with courage and hope guiding the shippe of the Church tossed with neuer so many Euroclydons assailed by neuer so great temptations of Satan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the beautifull hauen the kingdome of blisse If but one soule be won to God by thy blessed meanes it will imparadize and greatly comfort thine owne soule with that spirituall peace that passeth all carnall vnderstanding when shee is a flitting from this earthly tabernacle this house of clay wherein shee for a short time beeing Gods tenant at will doth take vp her inne and mansion and thus much of Coheleth the shee-preacher 2 The second thing I intend by Gods assistance to speake of is the obiect that Salomon aimed at that is pleasant words Whiles the minstrell plaied Elisha prophesied so whiles the Spirit of God sings sweete melodious harmonie vnto the soule each corporeal part must needs be tuneable to euery heauenly action there will be no iarring no discordancie at all the soule to the limmes of the bodie is like the Centurion to his seruants if it say to one goe it goeth to another come it commeth if to another doe this it doth it heauenly is that motion that action that comming where the spirit hauing happie residence commands If the spirit say vnto thy right hand doe good it will in bountie and pitie cast thy bread vpon the waters that is the teare-bedeawed cheeks the wet faces of the poore afflicted members of Christ if to thy feete walke presently they will runne the waies of Gods commaundements if to thine eyes weepe they will euery night water thy couch with teares they will burst out into a fountaine they will gush out riuers of teares because men keepe not the law of God so if the spirit say vnto the tongue speake ò how wil it then shew forth the praise of God how will it edifie how will it flowe out these diure kephets these pleasant words Thus Salomon his strings of his tongue were in tune with the strings of his heart and they both are melodiously strucke with the learned and cunning finger of the blessed spirit the sweetest musician that euer strucke the heart as a harpe and the tongue as a sweet cymball therefore Salomon hauing the spirit his schoolemaster must needs learne to speake well which he earnestly thirsts after He did not as Lucian saies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cast out a mierie vomite of words like the wicked in the prophet The vngodly are like the raging sea whose waters cast vp mire and dirt he spoke not with a heart and a heart like Pilate who in that was but a bad vnskilful pilate in running the ship of his soule to peeces against the rocke Christ Iesus the spirituall rocke he spoke not like your hypocrits who are the deuills retainers in Gods liueries rather from his heart then as they farre from his heart for sure as his tongue was so was his heart and as his heart was so was his tongue like the wheeles of Ezechiel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one wheele in another and fitly to wheeles for in that text Prouerbs 25. in the Hebrue thus it runnes A word spoken not in his due place but gnal aphnau vpon his wheeles is like apples of gold with pictures of siluer As Athanasius in his questions to Antiochus saith The males of the palme-trees by the pleasant euaporations of aire that breaths from them doe make the femall palmes fruitfull and the sweet influentiall breath that blowes from Paradise causes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the trees nie adioyning and bordering to that place to flow and cluster with spices so fares it with the pleasant influence of the inward heart breathed vpon by the blessed spirit they both cause Salomons tongue to vtter forth these diure kephets most pleasant words euen like the dulcid humour that flowed from that louely hand when Diomêdes had wounded it like the sweete dropping deaw of Hermon the showre vpon the hearb and the raine vpon the grasse Pleasant words At the skirts of the Ephod there hung xij golden bells and so many pomegranates the pomegranates insinuated integritie of life and the xij bells as Iustin Martyr saies intimated the sound of the twelue Apostles and so consequently of all ministers depending on the euerlasting priest our blessed Melchisedech Iesus Christ. As then there is a sound words to be required in Aaron and his sonnes and all his successors so a pleasant delightsome sound is very expedient and requisite therefore were the tinkling bels of purest gold the preachers words should not prooue harsh distastfull to the hearer but as Christs coate was without seame so his word ought to be without reprehension thus while he plants with Paul and waters with Apollos God will giue a wonderfull increase to the multiplying of that blessed seede which as pure wheate shall be laid vp in the Lords garner the kingdome of heauen thus shall he speake with Salomon these diure kephets pleasant words Wise words must haue three circumstances they must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They must haue maturitie paucitie and pleasancie 1. For the first to auoide rashnesse in speach that holy father giues a good aduise Verba prius ad limā quàm ad linguam words ought first to be filed in the heart least they prooue defiled in the tongue and the Grecians say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wise deliberation in speach is the midwife of all singularitie therefore Dauid desires God to