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A14860	A posie of spirituall flowers taken out of the garden of the holy scriptures, consisting of these sixe sorts: hearts ease, true delight, the worlds wonders, the souls solace, times complaint, the doom of sinners. Gathered for the encouragement of beginners, direction of proceeders, meditation of good hearers, consolation of true beleeuers, expectation of Sions mourners, confusion of irrepentant sinners. By George Webbe, minister of the word.	Webbe, George, 1581-1642.	1610 (1610)	STC 25164; ESTC S102126	70,373	214

they all deceiued and therefore deceiued because they neuer tasted it For did they make a taste hereof they would then quickly proue it not a bondage but a freedome not bitter but pleasant not sowre but sweete Psalm 19.10 yea sweeter then the honie and the honie combe Did they once but take a perfect view hereof with the wisest Salomon they would subscribe and say that neither the gold of Ophir Prouerb 8.12 nor the mines of India nor al the pleasures in the world were in any sort to bee compared to it Yea they would say with him that heere commendeth this taste vnto them Psalm 84.4 5. Blessed are they which dwell in Gods house for they will euer praise him Blessed is the man whose strength is the Lord One day in Gods house is better then a thousand elsewhere 10. It is better to be a doore-keeper in the house of our God then to dwell in the tabernacles of wickednesse 11. for the Lord God is the Sunne and shield vnto them he will giue grace and glorie and no good thing will hee withhold from them that haue tasted of him His mercies to them are endlesse his fauors numberlesse his comforts infinite he is glasse to their eies musicke to their eares Honie to their mouth Balme to their smel contentation to their will continuation to their happinesse When a man hath once taken a full taste of him No comfort in the world to the comfort of Gods children Philip. 3.7 Eccles 1.1 Eccles 2.2 Philip. 3.8 all worldlie dainties will seeme but vanities all worldly gaines will seeme but losses all worldly pleasures will seeme but toyes all worldly delights will seeme but madnes all worldly treasures will seeme but dungie trash 1. Sam. 18.27 The very taste of this is like vnto Ionathans tasting of the honie combe whereof when he had put but a drop into his mouth his dimme eyes were clarified to a quicker sight The taste hereof is like vnto the Poets riuer Lethe Virgil. Aeneid lib. 6. whereof whosoeuer had a taste did soone forget all other delights and pleasures The taste hereof made Peter to confesse that Bonum est esse hîc Matth. 17.4 It is good abiding here 2. Cor. 12.3 It made Paul in an ecstasie to forget whether he were in the bodie or no The very taste heereof is enough to rauish the soule and to cause it to say with Iacob I haue enough Gen. 45 26. I haue tasted of this all other pleasures seeme sowre to rellish bitter to be out of taste O that I had now but Ananias his gift Act. 9.17 that to giue a glimse of the eye-dazeling lustre of this so glorious light I could but touch the moleblind Sauls the earth-worme scoffers of this our age and make the scales fall from their eyes how cleerely should they see D. Eedes Sermon of heauenly connersation Philip. 3.20 2. Cor. 1.12 Galat. 6.15 1. Tim. 6.6 1. Cor. 1.9 Reuel 7. Psalm 34.8 and seeing taste and tasting testifie that there is no estate like to a Christian conuersation no ioy to the solace of a religious heart no peace to the peace of consciēce no glorie to the crosse of Christ no riches to godlinesse no wisedome to that of the spirit no pleasures to the soule delights no sweetnes to the sweetnes of the Lord. My soule Greater sweetnesse in the Lord then at the first before the feeling of it can be imagined thou must needes confesse hadst thou been put to thy choice before thou didst feele a taste heereof thou couldest not haue asked or desired the tenth part thereof the Lord hath giuen more then I could aske or thinke more then had I all the tongues of men and Angels I were able to expresse yea more then any heart but that which feeleth it can beleeue So that thou my soule and what doe I speake of mine euery beleeuing soule can say no lesse as Shebaes Queene said of Salomons wisedome 1. King 6.6 7 8 9. so maist thou say of this sweet taste of heauē It was a true word which I heard related to me of the most sweet dainties of Gods children when I was in mine owne corruptions fedde with draffe with fancies and dreames and deceitfull pleasures howbeit I beleeued not this report till I came and saw it with mine eyes and had a feeling and a taste thereof but loe now I see the one halfe was not told me for the sweetnes I feele in the taste hereof doth farre surpasse al that euer mine eares did heare reported of it or mine heart could possibly imagine to be in it And whereas in other delicates satietie may breed lothsomnesse The longer it is enioied the sweeter it is proued and the continuall vse of one sort of meate may glut the stomacke in this taste of the sweetnes of the Lord the longer I enioy it the better I know it the sweeter I feele it the more delight I perceiue in it and receiue from it The longer I taste it the more I am enamoured on it still more and more comfortable I proue it like to Ezechiels riuer which hee saw issuing from vnder the threshold of the temple Ezech. 47.1 2 3 4 5 6. which at the first arose but to the ancles then to the knees afterwards to the loines and at the last became a riuer which did ouerflow Here in this life we can haue but a taste And yet my soule here in this life whiles thou art soiourning in this vale of teares thou canst haue but a taste 1. Cor. 13.9.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here thou canst only know in part and feele in part and taste in part and see it but darkly as through a glasse The full fruition thou shalt enioy when thou shalt come to sing Haleluiahs in heauen with the quire of heauen vnto the King of heauen Reuel 19.4 at whose right hand are fulnes of ioy for euermore Psal O sweete Lord if the taste of thee bee so excellent how superexcellent shall that sweetnes be Psal 36.5 Augustine when I shall be satisfied with the fatnes of thine house and drink out of the riuers of thy pleasures If the glimmering light of our happinesse bee so glorious how full of glorie shall the full prospect be If there bee so great solaces for thy children in these daies of teares what shal there be in their day of mariage If our iaile containe such ioyes what shall our countrie and kingdome doe O my Lord and God thou art a good God The infinite sweetnes of the Lord. How great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid vp for them that feare thee and done to them that put their trust in thee Psal 31.9 euen before the sonnes of men Psal 40.5 O Lord my God thy comforts are so many that none can count them I would declare and speake of them but they are

more then I am able to expresse An vnwise man knoweth it not Wicked mē think it otherwise Psal 92.6 and a foole doth not vnderstand this An vnregenerate man cannot feele it and a child of Belial though he had eyes as cleere as Crystal cannot behold it Such as make sinne their solace and reioyce onely in the pleasures of iniquitie haue thy beloued ones Lord Wisd 5.4 in derision and count their life madnesse their conuersation dumpish their profession grieuous Cantic 5.9 They say vnto vs What is your welbeloued more then another welbeloued Vers 10. what is your welbeloued more then another Louer Will they needes know it Vers 11. why Our welbeloued is white and ruddie the chiefest of tenne thousand Vers 12. Vers 13. his head is as fine gold his locks curled and black as a rauen his eyes are like doues vpon the riuers of waters Vers 14. his cheekes are as a bed of spices and as sweete flowers his lippes like lilies dropping downe pure myrrhe Ver. 15. his hands as rings of gold set with the Chrysolite Vers 16. his hollie like white Iuorie couered with Saphires his legges as marble set vpon sockets of fine gold his countenance as Lebanon excellent as the Cedars his mouth is as sweete things and he is totus delectabilis whollie whollie delectable Yea thou our God art delectable all together Nothing in God but full of sweetnes sweete art thou in thy word sweete in thy promises sweet in thine inward consolations sweete in thy mercies sweete in thy iudgements How perfect is the law of the Lord Psal 19.7 connerring the soule Vers 8. The statutes of uerting the soule The statutes of the Lord are right and reioyce the heart Vers 9. The commandement of the Lord is pure and giueth light vnto the eyes Vers 10. The feare of the Lord is cleane and endureth for euer The iudgements of the Lord are truth and righteous altogether and more to be desired thē gold yea thē much fine gold sweeter also then the honie and the honie combe Psal 109.21 How sweet are the mercies of the Lord and that my soule knoweth right well which forgineth all mine iniquities and healeth all mine infirmities which redeemed my life from the graue Psal 103.3 4. and crowneth me with mercies and compassiōs And what shal I say of his iudgements May we not see Sampsons riddle heerein expounded without the helpe of any Sphinx Iudg. 14.14 Out of the strong commeth sweetnes and out of the lion the honie combe O how sweete are his corrections as the pretious balme of Gilead as cauterismes in physick and not as punishments in hostilitie O sweet Sauiour thou hast well said it and we finde it true Matth. 11.29 Cant. 9.16 Thy yoke is easie and thy burthen is light yea thou art wholly delectable O they bee blessed whos God is the Lord Iehoua The securitie of those vvhich haue tasted the Lord. Psal 84.5 Isai 48.21 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee and in whose heart are thy waies His soule shall dwell at ease when the wicked shall bee afraid of their owne shadow and tremble like an Aspin leafe at euery little blast of winde or thunder-clap Psal 91.1 Hee that dwelleth vnder the shadow of the Almightie Psal 46.2.3 his soule shall dwell at ease though the earth be moued and the waters of the sea rage and the mountaines shake at the surges of the same their mindes are void of feare And why Verse 4. There is a riuer whose streames make glad the citie of God Psal 91.4 Hee couereth them vnder his wings and they are safe vnder his feathers They know and are assured that all things shall worke together for the best to them Rom. 8.28 that they are beloued of God Reuel 21.27 Isai 1.18 their names written in heauen and their though crimson sinnes washed in the blood of the Lambe Reuel 7.14 and that neither height nor depth nor death nor life nor any thing shall bee able to separate thē from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus their Lord. Rom. 8.38 The ful assurance whereof when they hold in better tenour then they can hold any thing in this life by seale lease writing witnesse or any other way that law can deuise O how it glads their hearts and cheereth vp their vitall spirits What an heauenly comfort is it for them to meditate thus often with themselues Psal that they shall see the good pleasures of the Lord in the land of the liuing 2. Cor. 5.1 and haue an house not made with hands but eternall in the heauens Stoope downe to this all comfort of wealth Wicked men oft desire his comfort and would giue a world for it pleasure or delight in the world in what account or price soeuer they bee with worldly fooles there is neuer a Balaam were he well aduised but would giue them all for one quarter of an houres feeling of Gods louing kindnes sweet countenance toward him Numb 23.10 Sillie wretches albeit they would seem to spend their daies in mirth and with a light heart to passe away the time Iob 21.13 yet God hee knoweth with wearie sighes and grones that cannot be expressed many a time their soules thus reason with themselues O how happie are they whose names are written in the booke of life O that they might die the death of the righteous and that their latter end might be like his O what an vnspeakeable treasure is the peace of conscience yea and what they would giue for a taste thereof how many thousand worlds if it were in their power for a part in Gods kingdome But these pleasures are onely for the Bridegromes friends Matth. 25.10 these dainties are for the children such whelpes shall not bee suffered to taste so much as of the crummes that fall from the childrens table Mark 7.27 Behold saith God my seruants shall eate and yee shall be hungrie Only the godly feele enioy it my seruants shall drinke and ye shal be thirsty my seruants shall reioyce Isai 65.13.14 and ye shall be ashamed my seruants shall sing for ioy of heart and ye shall crie for sorrow of heart and howle for vexation of minde Iohn 4.32 They haue another meate to eate which the world knoweth not they haue another drinke to drinke which others dreame not of for their meate is of the tree of life Reuel 22.1 and the Nectar which they sup out of the sweetnes of their gratious God is as a well of water springing vp to euerlasting life Iohn 4.14 Gods seruice not grieuous to his So that they feele that most delightfull which to the wicked and vngodly is most irkesome they see and feele the seruice of the Lord to bee the chiefest freedome Heb. 11.6 because the Lord is a

is with vs indeed God is alwaies with his and hath a speciall care of them Psal 46.7 Psal 34.15 Vers 18. Vers 7. Psal 30.6.7 The God of Iacob is our refuge The eyes of the Lord are vpon the righteous and his eares are open to their crie the Lord is neere vnto them that are of a contrire heart The Angell of the Lord pitcheth his tents round about them that feare him and deliuereth thē He is their shelter from tempests and stormes of troubles he keepeth them safe vnder his protection as the henne doth the chickens vnder her wing Luke 13.34 Deut. 32.10 yea hee keepeth them as the apple of his eye Psal 34.10 The lions doe lacke and suffer hunger but they which seeke the Lord shall want nothing that is good Psal 23.1 Rom. 8.31 God is their shepheard what can they want Hee is on their side who can bee against them 1. Sam. 2.30 He honoreth them whose disgracing of them can hurt thē In euery estate he saueth and vpholdeth them by his prouidence 1. Pet. 5.7 what miserie can befal them God is their God for euer and euer Psal 48.14 euen their guide vnto the death Psal 149.9 This honour shall be to all his Saints And albeit heere it please the Lord for a while to trie thē with affliction Affliction taketh away nothing of Gods sweetnes and to chastize them with his correction to mingle their wine with Aloes and to send much bitternes into their cup Yet howsoeuer it be God is good to Israel Psal 73.1 Malach. 3.6 1. Cor. 4.9 euen to those that are pure in heart Ye sonnes of Iacob shall not be cōsumed though you are in distresse yet you shall not be forsaken Psal 30.5 Heauinesse may endure for a night but ioy will come in the morning Hosea 6.2 After two daies he will reuiue vs and the third day hee will raise vs vp againe Thy chastisements O Lord are like the pretious balme of Gilead Psalme which will not breake but supple our heads How many thousands of thy Saints may say It was good for vs Psal 119.71 yea exceeding good that wee were in troubles Thou O Lord Prouerb 3.11 doest loue those whō thou chastenest and albeit no chastising for the present seemeth to bee ioyous but grieuous yet afterward it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnes vnto them which are therby exercised Heb. 12.11 Rom. 8.18 For the afflictions of this world are not worthie of the ioyes that succeed them Rom. 8.28 Heb. 12.6 and All things euen afflictiōs themselues turne to the best to them that feare God and are signes that they are beloued of God Behold the patient childe of God whose afflictions are the greatest and marke and behold his end Psal 37.37 for the end of that man is peace And though God for a while doe seeme to hide away his face so that the godlie soule goeth heauie and mourning all the day long Psal 30.11 yet God will turne their mourning into ioy Psal 56.8 he will loose their sackcloth and gird them with gladnes Rom. 8.37 he will put their teares into his bottle and in all these things in the end they shall bee more then conquerors O Lord of hosts how amiable are thy tabernacles The boldnes of the faithfull in their prayers Psal 84.1 how ful of sweetnes Why Lord wee see here vpon earth how hard a matter it is to haue accesse to the great men of this world which differ from our selues not in stuffe but in vse and that for a while and to an earthly Prince but at sometime and for some one pleasure is few mens cases to obtain an entrance when as we may boldly presse in to the portall of thy priuie chamber and with confidence breake our mindes lay open our griefe Mark 11.24 preferre our suite and commune familiarly with thee as with a friend when wee will as often as we will thou neuer being wearie of vs neuer taking scorne nor reiecting vs yea thou doest inuite vs to come vnto thee and art more neere to heare then wee to aske and although in our prayers there are manifold infirmities and wee know not how to pray as wee ought and are soone wearie and cold in praying yet the spirit helpeth our infirmities yea the spirit it selfe maketh request for vs with sighes which cannot be expressed Rom. 8.26 O when was there any that could say he prayed in vaine if his prayer were it selfe not vaine who can repent or bethinke any minute of time herein spent This is the assurance which wee haue of him 1. Ioh. 5.14 that if wee aske any thing according to his will hee heareth vs. And albeit God doth not presently grant our requests and sometimes seemeth to defer the hearing of the prayers of his seruāts yet is his goodnesse heerein exceeding large to them that feare him All this turneth to the best for them their faith being exercised their hungring after grace more heereby strengthened and encreased thēselues stirred vp the better to esteeme of the graces of God whē they haue thē and to shew themselues more thankfull for them Whoso is wise will obserue these things Psal 107.43 that he may vnderstand the louing kindnes of the Lord for his mercie is great vnto the heauens Psal 108.4 and his trueth reacheth vnto the clouds Psal 145.9 15. The Lord is good to all and his mercies are ouer all his workes The eyes of all wait vpon him and he giueth them their foode Hee maketh the Sun to shine vpon the euill and the good Matth. 5.45 and sendeth raine on the iust and vniust Luke 6.35 He is kind euen to the vnkind Psal 87.2 yet the Lord loueth the gates of Sion aboue all the inhabitants of Iacob He hath liberally prouided for them aboue all other both here in this life and in the life to come he hath laid vp for them his sweetest sweetes A taste whereof though they haue here in this world and that so glorious as that it is ineffable yet the full fruition is reserued for them in a better world whē they shall bee replenished with the sweetnes of his presence and see him face to face at whose right hand are fulnesse of pleasures for euermore If in this life only we had hope in Christ 1. Cor. 15.19 we were of all men the most miserable and yet in this life also our sweetnes we feele in God is incomprehensible but there is reserued for vs a better life and in that life a richer sweetnes by many thousand degrees more then tongue can speake 2. Cor. 5.1 or heart can thinke Wee know this that when this earthly house of our tabernacle shall be destroyed wee haue a building not made with hands 2. Cor. 5.2 but eternall in the heauens therefore wee sigh desiring to be

himselfe of no reputation and take vpon him the forme of a seruant Galat. 4. to make vs that were children of the bondwoman to be heires Rom. 8.17 euen the heires of God and fellow heires with himselfe that hee in whom was the fulnes of riches Ephes 2.7 2. Cor. 8.9 Ioh. 6.35 should become poore that hee might inrich vs that hee who was the bread of life should suffer hunger to feed vs Luke 4.2 Deut. 18.15 that hee who was the fountaine of liuing waters should suffer thirst to satisfie vs that hee who was the light of the world Ioh. 4.7 Ioh. 7.37.38 Iohn 8.12 Iohn 11.9 1. Cor. 1.22 should liue obscurely to illighten vs that he who was the power of God should be tempted that he might strengthen vs that he who was the life of the world Matth. 4.1 Iob. 1.4 should die that he might quickē vs that he who himselfe was innocent Galat. 3.13 should sustaine the curse of the law that he might deliuer vs Isai 53.5.9.10.11 and be wounded to heale vs and bee broken for vs to stop vp our breach Who can heere but acknowledge the infinitenes of his snspeakeable loue who can chuse but say with Paul O the deepnes of the riches both of the wisedome and mercie of God Rom. 11.33 how vnsearchable are his iudgements and his waies past finding out Who can chuse but say with Dauid O Lord Psal 8.4 what is man that thou art so mindfull of him or the sonne of man that thou so regardest him Who can but with the Church in the Canticles confesse that his name is a pretious ointment powred out Cantic 1.2 because of the sweete sauour whereof our hearts must needes bee allured to loue him and admire him Especially if wee but meditate vpon that neuer sufficiently admired loue of his Came into the world Gen. 1. who being the God of Nature to free vs from the corruptiō of our nature Rom. 7.5 took vpon himself our nature came into the world to saue vs from the destruction of the world me thinkes this one thing might bee sufficient to woe and winne our loue to him when wee consider that he who had his seate aboue the Heauen of Heauens Psal 148.4 should vouchsafe to come downe and dwell vpon the earth his footstoole Isai 66.1 that he might draw vs after him to heauen that hee who was equall to the Father Philip. 2.7.8 should humble himselfe to bee a seruant that he might purchase for vs the right of sonnes that hee which was God Iohn 1.1.2 should not disdaine to become that which wee are that hee might make vs partaker of that place where he now is The meditation of which in generall though it bee enough to adde wings to the minde that is most dull and worke an impression in the soule that is most voide of sense yet if we take a further suruey in the particulars therof and note the vnkinde entertainment of him so kind a guest vnlesse our heart were an heart of flint it can not chuse but melt For ah alas he was in the world Ioh. 1.11.12 and the world was made by him and the world knew him not he came vnto his owne and his owne receiued him not The Bethlemits Luke 2.7 amongst whom he was borne would not affoord him houseroome Luke 4.29 but such as their oxen and asses were wont to lodge in The Nazarites his countrimen by education driue him out of their citie to the top of an hill to throw him thēce downe headlong And we yea all of vs Isai 53. for whose sakes he came into the world what gaue wee him but the heauie burthen of our sinnes for his welcome His entrance into the world was obscure his being heere dolorous his departure hēce ignominious The place of his birth little Bethleem Mich. 5.2 one of the least of the many thousands of Iudah Matth. 2.6 the chamber where hee was borne but a stable the cradle in which hee was laid but a manger the swadling bands wherein his sacred bodie was wrapt Luke 2.16 but homelie ragges the parties that first came to greete him but sillie shepheards All things in the natiuitie of him so great a one euen below the lowest degree of meanes Thus grew he vp as a branch and as a roote out of a drie ground Isai 53.2.3 hauing neither forme nor beauty whē men did see him that they should desire him Despised was he and reiected of all men a man full of sorrowes and one that had experience of our infirmities No sooner was hee borne Matth. 2.16 but Herod fought to destroy him no sooner was he baptized Matth. 5.1 but the Diuell set vpon him to tempt him no sooner was hee in his publique preaching Matth. 15.40 Matth. 9.34 Luke 6.7 but the Pharisies enuy him the Sadduces accuse him the Scribes slander him the common people scorne him Matth. 13.55 the high Priests send their officers to intrap him Ioh. 7.45 his owne Disciple spareth not to betray him Marth 26.48 Matth. 26.60 false witnesses are suborned to belie him and tost he is from Pilate to Herod Luk. 23.7.8 and from Herod back againe to Pilate to mock him and make sport of him Matth. 27.28.32.35 neither did they leaue vntill that after much buffeting torturing and tormenting by a cruell death they had made away with him So cold an entertainment found he in this world to shew that his kingdome was not of this world He had no legions of men or angels to bee his guard no chariots nor horsemen to be his pompe no palace to bee his court He wore no crowne but that of thornes no Scepter but that of Reed no throne but that of his crosse In his life time not hauing so much as a foxes hole to couch in at his death not hauing a shroud but what was left him to bee wrapt in nor a tombe but what was borrowed to be buried in What shall I here recount his grieuous paines and direfull maladies which while he was in the world hee sustained heere My soule gush out with teares of blood whiles thou doest call to minde the sorrow of his soule when in Gethsemane his soule was heauie euen to the death Matth. 26.36.37 38. when though an Angell from heauen appeared to comfort him yet his agonie was so bitter that his sweate was like drops of blood trickling downe to the ground Luk. 22.43.44 O let mine head be full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares Ierem. 9.1 that I may weepe day and night for the afflictions which he endured who was afflicted for my sinnes Matth. 26.49 when I call to mind those dismall daies wherein my Sauiours owne seruant did betray him with a kisse Vers 55. and the High Priests catchpoles came foorth with clubs and staues and

But what should I speake of the losse of these toyes and trifles they must part with life it selfe Iob 2.4 Skinne for skinne and all that a man hath will hee giue for his life But all the wealth and riches in the world cannot purchase one houres lease of longer life Death will claime his due an inexorable creditor which when it cannot chuse but breede an horror in the heart of him that lieth a dying so will it fill his soule with direfull griefe to call to minde the vaine attempts of his forepassed life whē they shall sigh for griefe of mind and say within themselues O senselesse we and more then frantick fooles We haue wearied our selues in the way of wickednesse Syracides 5.1.3.7.8.9 and wee haue gone through dangerous waies but we haue not knowne the way of the Lord. What hath our pride profited vs or what profit hath the pomp of our riches brought vnto vs all those things doe passe away like a shadow 2. Cor. 5. and as a post that passeth by At that day will God be knowne of them to be a terrible God and dreadfull Hee will then write bitter things against them Iob 13.26 and make them possesse the sinnes of their youth The conscience will come in then with her bill of accounts and shew many old reckonings and arrerages of sinnes and Satan will shoote foorth many millions of canons of desperation against the sicke besieged soule and lay before his eyes the large bedrole of their sinnes which when the guiltie conscience cannot denie O how it filleth the heart with horror and souseth the dreadfull soule with feare How bitter and lamentable is that parting farewell which they make to their departing soule Aelius Adrianus Animula vagula blandula quae nunc abibis in loca pallidula frigida nudula c. like that of Adrian the Romane Emperour when he was now a dying My darling soule poore soule poore fleeting wandring soule my bodies sometimes best beloued ghest and equall whither art thou now going pale wanne and naked into places vgly dismall full of horror and tribulation Yet happie yea thrice happie were it The wicked haue no peace after death if death were the Catastrophe of the sinners Tragedie and the end of their being might come with the end of their earthly liuing Their soules posting to hell happy were it for them if like to dogges and toads and beasts they might perish and bee no more but loe their chiefest woe is yet to come for when they lie in the graue like sheep Psal 49.14 Iob 19.26 death gnaweth vpon thē whiles wormes destroy their carkase hell fire seaseth vpon their soules and vexeth them with torments What shall I heere recount the sudden dreadfull passage of their soules from the bodie to their doome dragd downe by furious fiends of hell vnto their place of torment 2. Pet. 2.4 Iude 6. where they shall be in euerlasting chaines vnder darknes vnto damnation and to the finall iudgment of the great day At which day good Lord what horror amazement will affright them when the vngodly whose bodies are rotten in the dust of the earth The horror of the wicked at the day of resurrection Matth. 25. shall on a sudden be roused from their deadly sleepe by the Trumpet of an Angell and like guiltie malefactors they shall come foorth of the filthie dungeon of rottennes to appeare at the tribunall for their triall 2. Cor. 5. What a dreadfull day will that bee for those that haue passed their time securely here in this world how will they be amazed at the suddennes of this their rousing vp from the bed of death What a sea of miseries and terrors shall rush vpon them when on a sudden being raised vp Matth. 24.30.31.32.33.34.35.36.37 and apparelled with the same robes of their bodies so long laid vp in the wardrope of the dust they shall heare about their eares so hideous a noyse of Trumpets sound of waters motion of all the elements when they shall see the earth reeling and tottering the hils and dales skipping the Moone darkned 2. Pet. 3.12 the Starres falling downe from heauen the firmament shiuered in peeces and all the world in a flaming fire If Adam Gen. 3.8 after his eating of the forbidden fruite would faine haue hid himself from God walking in the garden at the coole of the day how shall the desperate forlorne sinner then abide the presence of the Iudge 2. Thess 1.7 not walking in the coole of mercie but comming in flaming fire and sitting in his throne of Maiestie Matth. 25.31 Reuel 20.12 when the books shall be opened when not onely they shall be called to account for their grosse and hainous sinnes Matth. 12.36 but shall be compelled to giue account for euery idle word Rom. 2.16 and their verie secret thoughts shall be brought to iudgement 1. Cor. 1. Alas what wil those wise people doe then that now liue in delights and count a christian conuersation foolishnesse What shift will they make in those extremities what will they answere for themselues doubtlesse they shall not be able to answere him one of a thousand Iob 9.3 whither will they then turne themselues Will they hope that the Bill of their Inditement may be lost Reuel 2.23 They haue small hope of that for he who is their Iudge searcheth the heart and reines yea all things are naked and open to his eyes Hope they that their greatnes shall countenance them out Behold he findeth no stedfastnes in the Angels Iob 4.18.19 how much lesse then in them that dwell in houses of clay and whose foundation is in the dust Doe they perswade themselues that they can bribe the Iudge Loe Prou. 11.4 Matth. 16.16 riches auaile not in the day of wrath and what shall a man giue for a recompence of his soule Doe they hope vpon a Psalme of mercie or a pardon There was a time indeed when that was offered vnto them if with repentant mindes they would haue accepted of the same but now there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin Heb. 10.26.27 but a fearfull looking for of iudgement which shall deuoure the aduersaries Good Lord then what will the wretched sinner doe at that most dolefull day what shift will he make He shall euen drie vp for very feare Matth. 24. Hee shall seeke death and death shall flie from him Reuel 6.15.16 He shall crie to the hils to fall vpon him and to the mountaines to couer him But all in vaine for there shall hee stand a desperate forlorne caitise wretch vntill he receiue that dreadfull and irreuocable sentence Matth. 25.41 Goe thou cursed wretch into euerlasting fire prepared for the Diuell and his angels Which finall sentence once pronounced The endlesse miserie of the wicked after the day of iudgement me thinks my heart doth quake to thinke