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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02520	Christian moderation In two books. By Jos: Exon.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1640 (1640)	STC 12648B; ESTC S103629	96,446	388

indignation at their nicenesse Ye have the river Nilus running by you and doe you aske for vvine and how he upbraided them vvith this scornfull taxation Blush for shame those that overcome ●ou drink water We know vvhat ●he vvise and just Socrates returned ●o Archelaus tempting his fidelity vvith large proffers Goe said he ●ell your Master that foure gilles of floure are sold at Athens for an ●alf-peny that our vvells yeeld ●s vvater for nothing But now ●ince our liberall Creator hath ●hought good to furnish our Ta●les vvith forty kindes at the least of beasts and Foules vvith two hundred as they are computed of fishes besides the rich and dainty provenues of our gardens and orchards and the sweet juice of our Canes and the Cells of our hives what should this argue but that he vvho made nothing in vaine and all for man intended to provide not for our necessity only but for our just delight The Father of the faithfull though he promised only to comfort the hearts of his great and divine guests with a morsell of bread yet he entertaines them with a tender and fat calfe with butter and milk the delicates of those homelyer times But this in all likelihood was but small cheare in comparison of that which he prepared for the celebrity of his son Isaacs weaning which is by Moses styled a great Feast After this when his son Isaac feasted a King doe we not think there were all the choice services the times would afford Sampson though by Gods destination a Nazarite yet kept his wedding Feast seaven daies long Samuel a Prophet of God feasted thirty persons and reserved a choyce bit for his best guest What speak I of this When every new moone was wont to be celebrated with a solemne feast by Gods people and David shelters himselfe under this excuse for his absence from the Table of Saul I might well have silenced all the rest if I had only mentioned Great Solomons both practice and counsell There is nothing better saith he for a man then that hee should eat and drink and that hee should make his soule enjoy good in his labour This also I saw that it was from the hand of God for who can eat or who can hasten hereunto more then I Certainly this challenge is unanswerable Neither hath the Spirit of God thought it unfit to give us a Bill-of-fare of that mighty King and to record in those holy Archives the particulars of his daily expences of Meale floure oxen sheep besides Harts Roe-bucks fallow-deere and fatted fowles which the Monarches of all ages may admire none can emulate What speak I yet of this when he that was greater then Solomon sanctified feasting by his owne blessed example He the Lord of glory that took up wi●h a manger for his cradle and after the Carpenters cottage owned no house but heaven is invited to a Bridall feast the jolliest commonly of all meetings carries his traine with him helps on the cheere by turning water into the richest wine Had he beene so sowre as some sullen Hypochondriaques who place holinesse in a dull austerity would fancy him it had been an easie answer They want wine all the better water is more fit this safe liquor wil send the guests home coolely tempered but now as one that would be known to be a favourer of honest and moderate delight he bids Fill the water-pots with that which hee would make better Wine Neither was it any rare or strange matter for our Saviour to honour and blesse other feasts with his presence Matthew the Publican when he was called from his Tole-booth to a Discipleship and was now to be matriculated into the family of Christ entertained his new Master with a sumptuous banquet himselfe now an Evangelist speakes modestly of his own cheer as if it had beene but common fare but S. Luke tells us It was a great feast What should I speak of the Tables of Zacheus of Simon the Pharisee of Martha and Mary so did our Saviour in a sweet sociablenesse of carriage apply himselfe to a free conversation with men in the cheerefull use of Gods good creatures that his envious maligners took occasion hereupon to slander him with the unjust and blasphemous imputation of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a wine-bibber a friend to Publicans and sinners He that made the creatures can best tell how to use them his practice is more then all laws Those men therefore are not more injurious to themselves then to the divine beneficence who in an opinion of greater sanctity abridge themselves of a moderate participation of those comfortable helps God hath allowed them and sit sullenly at a liberall board with their hat pulld over their eyes not so much as removing their napkin from their trencher unjustly scrupling their conscience with Touch not taste not handle not There are times of abstinence and not of a private fast only but much more of a Bannitum j●junium as that Councel styled it solemne and sacred There are out of civill grounds wholsome laws for either forbearance or change of diet far be it from us to detrect our strict obedience to these Surely unlesse we will take up that lawlesse resolution of Disrumpamus vincula Let us break their bonds cast their cords from us we must be content to be tyed by the teeth and in these cases to determine with Frier Giles that the best diet is to eate nothing but where we are left open from all just restraint of divine and humane lawes to pine our selves in an affectation of holinesse and so partially to carve unto our selves as if all things were not cleane unto the cleane it is but a wayward and thanklesse austerity The like may be said for other usages of the body in matter of attire sleep lodging recreation Socrates the historian tells of Sisinnius the witty Bishop of the overstrait-laced sect of the Novatians a man of singular temperance and moderation yet somewhat more spruce liberall and costly in his apparel and more nice in his frequent bathings then ordinary that being asked where hee found it written that a Priest for his daily array should be suted in white answered Yea tell me first where you find it written that a Bishop should be clothed in black you cannot shew me this I can shew you the other for Solomon sayes Let thy garments be white How fitly the Text is applyed I labour not sure I am that no wise man need to be more nice then a Novatian and that the Kingly Preacher in that liberall concession of his gives large scope to our lawfull liberty in the use of Gods blessings hee allowes within the compasse of our callings rich sutes to the back sweet oyles for the head comfortable drinks for the stomach Neither ought we to be scant where God meant to be bountifull And if he have made us the Lords of the world why

vvhich cannot but naturally abhorre paine and torture What malefactor vvas ever in the vvorld that vvas not troubled to thinke of his execution There is a sorrow that lookes not at the punishment but the sinne regarding not so much the deserved smart as the offence that is more troubled with a Fathers frowne then with the whip in a strangers hand with the desertions of God then with the feare of an hell Under this sorrow and sometimes perhaps under the mixture of both doth God suffer his dearest ones to dwell for a time numbring all their teares and sighes recording all their knocks on their breasts and stroakes on their thighes and shakings of their heads and taking pleasure to view their profitable and at last happy self-conflicts It is said of Anthony the holy Hermite that having beene once in his desart beaten and buffeted by Divells he cryed out to his Saviour O bone Iesu ubi eras O good Iesus where wert thou whil●s I was thus handled and received answer Iuxta te sed expectavi certamen tuum I was by thee but stayed to see how thou wouldest behave thy selfe in the combat Surely so doth our good God to all his he passeth a videndo vidi upon all their sorrowes and will at last give an happy issue with the temptation In the meane time it cannot but concerne us to temper this mixed sorrow of ours with a meet moderation Heare this then thou drouping soul thou are dismayed with the haynousnesse of thy sinnes and the sense of Gods anger for them dost thou know with whom thou hast to doe hast thou heard him proclaim his own style The Lord the Lord mercifull and gratious long suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquities and transgressions and sinnes and canst thou distrust that infinite goodnesse Lo if there were no mercy in heaven thou couldst not be otherwise affected Looke up and see that glorious light that shines about thee With the Lord there is mercy and with him is plentious redemption And is there plentious redemption for all and none for thee Because thou hast wronged God in his justice wilt thou more wrong him in his mercy and because thou hast wronged him in both wilt thou wrong thy selfe in him Know O thou weak man in what hands thou art He that said Thy mercy O Lord is in the heavens and thy faithfulnesse reacheth unto the clouds said also Thy mercy is great above the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds It is a sure comfort to thee that he cannot faile in his faithfulnesse and truth thou art upon earth and these reach above thee to the clouds but if thy sinnes could be so great and high as to over-look the clouds yet his mercy is beyond them for it reacheth unto heaven and if they could in an hellish presumption reach so high as heaven yet his mercy is great above the heavens higher then this they cannot If now thy hainous sinnes could sink thee to the bottome of hell yet that mercy which is above the heavens can fetch thee up againe Thou art a grievous sinner we know one that said he was the chiefe of sinners who is now one of the prime Saints in heaven Looke upon those whom thou must confesse worse then thy selfe Cast back thine eyes but upon Manasseh the lewd son of an holy Parent See him rearing up Altars to Baal worshipping all the host of heaven building Altars for his new Gods in the very courts of the house of the Lord causing his sonnes to passe through the fire trading with witches and wicked spirits seducing Gods people to more then Amoritish wickednesse filling the streets of Jerusalem with innocent bloud say if thy sinne can be thus crimson yet behold this man a no lesse famous example of mercy then wickednesse And what is the hand of God shortned that he cannot now save Or hath the Lord cast off for ever and will he be favourable no more Is his mercy cleane gone for ever hath God forgotten to be gracious hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies O man say justly on This is mine infirmity thine infirmity sure enough and take heed if thou persist to distrust that it be not worse These misprisons of God are dangerous The honour of his mercy is justly deare to him no marvell if he cannot indure it to be questioned when the temptation is blowne over heare what the same tongue sayes The Lord is mercifull and gratious slow to anger and plentious in mercy He will not alway chide neither will he keep his anger for ever He hath not dealt with us after our sinnes nor rewarded us after our iniquities For as the heaven is high above the earth so great is his mercy towards them that feare him Oh then lay hold on the large and illimited mercy of thy God and thou art safe What cares the debtor for the length of a bill that is crossed what cares the condemned person for the sentence of death whiles hee hath his pardon sealed in his bosome Thou art an hainous sinner Wherefore came thy Saviour wherefore suffered he If thy sinne remaine wherefore serves his bloud If thy debt bee still called for wherefore was thine obligation cancelled If thou be still captive to sin and death wherefore was that deare ransome paid why did he stretch forth his blessed hands upon the crosse but to receive thee why did he bow downe his head but to invite thee why vvas his precious side opened but that he might take thee into his heart Thou despisest him if thou trustest him not Iudas and thou shall sin more in despairing then in betraying him Oh then gather heart to thy selfe from the merits from the mercies of thine All-sufficient Redeemer against all thy sinfulnesse For who is it that shall be once thy Judge before what Tribunall shalt thou appeare to receive thy sentence Is it not thy Saviour that sits there He that dyed for thee that he might rescue thee from death shall he can he doome thee to that death from which he came to save thee Comfort thy self then with these words and if thou wouldst keep thy soule in an equall temper as thou hast two eyes fixe the one of them upon Gods justice to keep thee low and humble and to quit thee from presumption fixe the other upon his transcendent mercy to keepe thee from the depth of sorrow and desperation §. XIV Of the moderation of the Passion of Feare SOrrow is for present and felt evils Feare is onely of evils future A passion so afflictive that even the expectation of a doubtful mischief that may come is more grievous to us sometimes then the sense of that mischiefe when it is come That which Torquemade reports of a Spanish Lord in his knowledge I could second with examples at home of some who have been thought otherwise