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Nevves from Ierusalem containing, 1. The beauty of the citie of the great King. 2. The vanitie of the isles of the sonns of men. 3. The comming of the Kings sonne. VVritten by Augustin Taylor, preacher at Hawarden.
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appeare 42 No Moone nor Starres nor Candles there can profit any whit They shew much like as clouds doe heare that yeeld no benefit 43 The Citizens thereof are Saints the Gouernour 's the Lambe No Treasure neither pleasure wants that God can giue to man 44 And if Iehouah vse his skill to make a place compleat To praise the worke of his best will none can but those that see 't 45 Who cannot comprehend admire and we shall see in time The state of those that doe aspire to that celestiall Clyme 46 Remooue your thoughts to better things the nature of the mind Aspires and seekes a campe of Kings and cannot be confin'd 47 A King a time may be contain'd vnder the poorest roofe But long no Monarch so remain'd I need to bring no proofe 48 Euen so the soule awhile may night within weake walls of clay But wayts the time to take her flight to finde a better day 49 Then since there is no certaine good allotted heere below Get wings against another Flood and teach thy selfe to know 50 The Towers of Bethell Babells downe and like to rise no more Except to fall seeke thou the Towne from which old Simon bore 51 His Masters Crosse for thou must passe the Valley to the Mount Then change thy selfe from what thou was and make a full account 52 To leaue the earthly Citie and prepare thy selfe to sing Such Songs as fits the Holy Land to praise so great a King 53 O let no gracelesse Syrens Song thy graces ouer-cast If thou want strength to come along binde thy selfe to the Mast 54 Of Heauens holy Ship the Church yet there thou mayst be tost But for her safest Harbour search and thou canst not be lost 55 The Owner of the Ship may winke and Passengers may weepe When they as Peter thought doe thinke the Master is asleepe 56 And Windes and Seas doe threaten death but then like Peter call And Windes and Seas and Hell beneath confesse t' obey him all 57 Who may it bee that these obey Iehouahs onely Sonne Sayling for Heauen Happy they that in this passage runne 58 Each one will venture to find Land that yeelds small Gemmes of price And for a trifle take in hand a tedious enterprise 59 As 't was it is Canaans Gold is gracelessely refus'd For Straw in Egypt but why should the best be thus abus'd 60 Why buy men prophane Bookes apace and leaue the sacred Story For want of grace and want of grace will breed the want of glory 61 Therefore you that desire those things prepar'd with God aboue Contemne the world and take the wings of Faith of Hope and Loue. 62 The Heauens are ope the Way is light true Ioyes abounds amaine The Lambe and Bride in glory bright eternally shall raigne 63 In Persons three in Essence one God grant we all adore Not onely euermore alone but euer more and more Amen FINIS THE MISERIE OF THE WORLD Or The Vanitie of the Isles of the sonnes of men Hoc momentum vnde pendet aeternitas By AVGVSTIN TAYLOR Preacher at Hawarden LONDON Printed by Augustine Matthewes dwelling in the Parsonage house in Bride Lane neere Fleet-street 1623. To the Right Worshipfull WILLIAM RAVENSCROFT Esquire c. a Principall of the Honourable Societie of Lincolnes Inne WOrthy Sir it hath been a proper custome in all ages amongst all but especially the best sorts of people to requite euery benefit at the least with gratitude for it is found in the rules of humane equity non datur beneficium nisi propter ossicium and if it be so that no benefit is bestowed but in regard of some office to be performed for it then your bounties weekely bestowed in so large measure in our Church of Hawarden towards the reliefe of them most needfull in that Jurisdiction deserues a publike testimoniall of many thankefull voices and not to be a requitall to you but to be an excitall to others to doe the like In a word your datiue acte vnto your natiue place shall finde rewards at God and should finde imitation but shall finde commendation with men being an acte both good great and lasting And since your bounties truely construed are Gods blessings J take it to belong to mee to erect some columne in your memoriall in the behalfe of those that in so great measure taste your gracious gifts for since I am appointed to offer their sacrifice to God I am likewise allotted to conduct their thankefulnes to you not to flatter you for I know you are not vaine glorious because it is knowen you are charitable charitie and vaine-glory were neuer yet chamberfellowes and therefore that as you doe you may still seeke for those treasures aboue I present you with the vanitie of these trifles below the basenes of the latter inuites you to pursue the excellencie of the former and as you haue begun with Grace so without question you shall finish with glory which is the earnest desire of Your worships in the seruice of God AVGVSTIN TAYLOR THE MISERIE OF THF WORLD IF any one long after life and desires to see good dayes let him refraine his tongue from euill remooue his feete out of the paths of Impietie hold his hands from all actes of Seuerity wash his heart from all thoughts of impuritie and then willingly cast aside the coate of Iniquity and hauing put it off put it on no more let euery one striue to obtaine a reformation and then to continue perfect It is most apparant euery one desires to see many dayes but it is very doubtfull that few desires to see good dayes and it is true for ipse dixit all those that doe not desire to see good dayes are certaine to bee partakers of many euill nights for the decree is out that none can disanull those that doe not loue the light are deomed to bee shut vp in darkenesse for the vnfortunate vnfurnished vnfortunate to bee vnfurnished wicked man heard this sentence denounced against him when in speachlesse silence his eares were forced to entertaine the iudgement of damnation that in the dayes of peace would not receiue the glad-tidings of Saluation Matth. 22. Binde him hand and foote and take him away and cast him into vtter daskenesse there shall bee weeping and gnashing of teeth sorced howling and continuall torments the horrible clamours of the damned soules there is nothing to bee seene but darkenesse nothing to bee heard but horror nothing to bee vnderstood but confusion nothing to be knowne but dolours nothing to be felt but torments and last of all which is worst of all there is no ende of these they are eternall And these remaines for those that will not put off the workes of darkenesse and put on the armour of light that wil not cease to doe euill and learne to doe well that will not cast away the ragges of wickednesse polluted with their owne miseries and seeke the white robes of righteousnesse prepared by our Sauiours
mercies There is none no not the meanest shut from the benefit of saluation God hath bestowed vpon vs the word Incarnate wherein God was made man Ioh. 1. The Word was made flesh and dwell amongst vs and wee saw the glory of it as the glory of the onely begotten sonne of God full of grace and trueth so that no greater dignity could bee bestowed vpon vs then to be personally and bodily ioyned vnto the nature of God in the onely begotten Sonne of God In few words man could haue been set no neerer the God-head vnles he had been altogether changed into it Wee are the children of a gracious Father which hath prouided for euery towardly child an euerlasting inheritance therefore since the booke is vnsealed let vs bee carefull to search that sacred Euidence wherein wee may finde directions to land vs in that fayre Countrey which euery blessed soule doth seeke and now that it may bee knowne you are bound for Ierusalem you must forsake those wayes that leads to Babylon you must content your selues first to endure the crosse and the promise is you shall after enioy the crowne and to mooue you to remooue your affections to the world to come and to refuse the infections of the world present If you contemne the voyce of meaner men heare a King speake and He is Rex magnus a great King Regnans super omnia Regna terrae Reigning ouer all the Kingdoms of the world hee aduiseth vs Matth. 6.33 Seeke first the Kingdome of heauen and the righteousnesse thereof and all things necessary shall bee giuen vnto you Now you that are contracted to the world and the vanities of it spare a little time to examine what benefites it can afford that may moue you to put your confidence in it or settle your loue vpon it and for your owne speedy satisfaction that you may be resolued in as little time as may bee conuenient You that aime to winne the world consider but these two things first the quantitie of the purchase secondly the qualitie of the price and first for the first The quality of the purchase is great there is honour praise clothing worldly wisedome riches and carnall pleasures and more and yet the best of these are to those that trust in them worse then nothing because had they beene nothing they had not been truâ—â—ed in therefore they are something nothing worth for the time wil come I am afraid that as Christ once said of Iudas particularly in Matth. 26. It had been good for that man if hee had not been borne so a number will say of themselues plurally It had been good for vs if we had neuer been for better to haue no being then to want a being well But let vs be further satisfied Shall wee account our selues happy to enioy earthly honour not as it is earthly for first it is gotten with much labour kept with great costs and lost with great griefe I remember the great men in Iury rather chose to deliuer Christ to death then to rob Caesar or themselues of their dignitie and honour Ioh. 11. If wee let him alone he doth so many miracles hee will take away both our place and nation our honour and authority O! I feare policie preuailes against piety there are too many two is many but there is too too many that prefers temporall honour before eternall happinesse It is sayd and it is a true report that Homo vanitati similis factus est Man is made like vnto vanity for hee looseth his breath with pursuing shadowes or it had not been said In vanitate sua appenditur peccator The sinner is weighed in his owne vanitie Where is now the dignities of all our antique Worthies Caesars was murthered in the Senate Alexanders died of poyson Salomons is in a dead sleepe on an adulterous bed Absaloms was hanged in the cords of disobedience Nimrods tumbled with Babylon Nebuchadnezzars is turned to grasse Siseraes is nayled to the ground Holofernes honour is beheaded by a silly woman Senacheribs is slaine in the Temple Herods is consumed with vermine this earthly honour is so attended with death and infamie that hee that desires it shall in the ende bee found guilty of his owne endlesse ouerthrow Honour flies from those that followes it and followes those that flies it Who desired it more then the Monarchs and who had lesse who esteemed it lesse then the Apostles and who had more those that liued in honour died with disgrace to liue in endlesse torments and those that liued in disgrace died with honour to liue in endlesse glory Then we must not bee thus satisfied but seeke some better benefice Matth. 21.9 for it will profit vs nothing to win worldly honour 2 Shal we account our selues happie to enioy the praise of men Luk. 23.21 no who desires the fruits of stinking breath that is rotten before it bee fully ripe The heathen saith Non refert quam multi laudent te c. It forceth not how many praise thee but how good for to bee praised of the wicked is to bee dispraised it is Pauls resolution 1. Cor. 4. I passe very little to be iudged of men There are a number like the Babylonians spoken of in the third of Daniel a little sweete musicke made them to fall downe and honour Nebuchadnezzars new God and a little flattering praise of men will make a number to dishonour Iaacobs true God The bright Angels in heauen seekes not their owne but their makers worship Reu. 22. The glorious Elders takes off their Crownes and casts them at the feet of the Lamb and sing not their owne but their Princes praise yet man being but a poore worme would bee extolled and makes Sycophants and flatterers the best welcome I can heare none crie with good King Dauid Psa 141. Away with this oyle and oyntment of sinners it shal not come vpon my head A man may haue the praise of a multitude yet be neere his fall Note the profite that came to the great Prophet by mens praise Matth. 22. at Iesus comming to Iernsalem the gates were opened bonefires kindled branches cut garments spread trumpets sounded and the sacrifice of euery one was Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid Matth. 21.9 blessed is he that commeth in the Name of the Lord. This praise was great but it both begun and ended together they forgot Hosanna in a few houres and the very same lips cried crucifige eum Luk. 23.21 crucifie him crucifie him Who couets the praise of the people that commends Barabbas the murderer and condemnes Iesus the Sauiour Let vs maintaine the Apostles motion Nolite esse pueri sensibus bee not you children in vnderstanding run not after bables but seeke the true treasures we are set at libertie to gather gold in Canaan shall not wee then disdain to toyle for straw in Egypt let vs stretch our best indeuours to finde some better benefice for it will auaile vs