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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34898	A cabinet of spirituall iewells wherein man's misery, God's mercy, Christ's treasury, truth's prevalency, errour's ignominy, grace's excellency, a Christian's duty, the saint's glory, is set forth in eight sermons : with a brief appendix, of the nature, equity, and obligation of tithes under the Gospell, and expediency of marriage to be solemnized onely by a lawfull minister ... / by John Cragge, M.A. ...	Cragge, John, M.A.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6783; ESTC R4552	116,039	199

of the Amethist the amiable greennesse of the Emerald all these were nothing to this one pretious Pearl There is a Pearle Gemites wherein appears a hand in hand that is this Pearle Christ Jesus and his Kingdome wherein God and Man are joyned hand in hand and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God with us Well then get this Philosophers Stone and thou needs want no Gold of the Sanctuary this most pretious Pearl so pretious that it is beyond all conceptions transcendant Reason cannot fathom it but is at a stand Scripture expresses that it is unexpressible Phil. 4. 7. Eye hath not seen ear hath not heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man The Saints at the sense of it are rapt into an Extasie Cherubims vail their faces Sanctifying grace in man comes somewhat near it which causeth joy in the heart unspeakable and yet there is as great a disproportion as for a Star that is enlightned by the Sun to expresse the whole glory of the Sun The World is but a painted Map the reall Vision is in Heaven all Creatures are but Raies and Spangles from this Pearle that sits upon the Throne and keepes the Keyes of Life Tell me then poor soul what if this World were as the Gardens of Alcinous Elysian fields or Paradise the Rivers run with Nectar the Fields brought forth Ambrosie Hyacinth and Moly thy Ways were strowen with Carpets thy Head crowned with Rose-buds each Tree were as the Tree of Life or Apples of the Hesperides the Heavens were a Globe of Gold the Earth a Centre of Diamond the Clouds shoured down pretious Pearles like Gold in Diana's lap each Man were an Orpheus or Amphion with Musicks harmonious charm to set Devotion on the Wing Tell me whether this one pretious Pearl being found thou wilt not sell all that thou hast and buy it So we are come to the last Parallel or fourth River of our Paradise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He went and sold Grace is nimble heel'd will not stand still when it is transported with an Object but moves unto it as grave things to the Centre The Merchant sought this Pearl before he found it and when he had found it he still went on A Christian moves in a Circle that point that ends one motion like a Terminus communis begins another Standing water corrupts Go we must for this Pearl and yet we need not farr Pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to the Tombs of Saints are now out of date Heaven in this Sunshine of the Gospell is to be found every where Go but not from thine own Pastour in every Church Revel 22. 17. The Spirit and the Bride saies Come Let him that is athirst come and whosoever will let him take the water of life freely And yet he went and sold That which cost our Saviour his Blood must cost us something Though we have nothing but what we have received yet God must receive of that which we have Or if we have any thing it is but sin Let us cut off our Hand of revenge pluck out our Eye of lust belch out our Heart of pride and sell our selves that we may buy our Saviour This is to sell all that we have not for a new Inheritance in a New England under a new Discipline this is with Demosthenes to buy repentance to be repented of which some of them confesses Others like the mured Anchorit at Bruxells bites-in the lip and dissembles and sees their exchange to be like his that gave golden Armour for Brasen but too late We must sell all to buy Heaven Shall Creates of Thebes throw his Gold into the Sea for purchase of Philosophy and shall not we for Christ Many in Hadrians time lost their goods their lives in following that false Messias that styled himself Benchochab the son of a Star but proved Bencozba the son of a Lie But he that followes Christ shall gain his life and fight under that Banner that Constantine saw with this inscription and the apparition of the Crosse or rather crucified Saviour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In this overcome What then if we had the whole World to cast in counterpoise with this Pearl it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not worthy of it but as the dust of the Ballance in comparison We are like Sun-Dialls unlesse It shine blaze Torches Tapers Candles all Stars at once are of no use flow Riches Honour Strength Wives Friends Children to our contentment without this Sun of Righteousnesse it is still night Lesser Pearles may be Copies of Gods Grace but without Seal Cyphers of no value unlesse the Unity in the Trinity be joyned with them We cannot conceive so great a number of earthly things but still more may be added more desired but he that hath this Pearle is ravished in spirit cannot conceive more hath contentment in minde cannot desire more his Cup doth overflow To the fruition and beatificall vision whereof God of his mercy bring us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A SERMON Preached at the Ordination of MINISTERS The Text Revel 3. 19. Be Zealous THIS word is one of the last uttered by Him who is Alpha and Omega the First and the Last to the Church of Laodicea the last of the seven Churches of Afia A golden Lesson delivered by Him that stands in the midst of the seven golden Candlesticks girded about his Papps with a golden Girdle counselling us to buy Gold tryed with the fire A light shining from Him that holds the light of the seven Stars in his right hand whose countenance shines as the lightning A burning Coal of Affection sent from his Altar the feet of whose affections burns as fine Brasse in a Furnace to in flame the key-cold affections of the luke-warm Laodiceans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be zealous The Angels of these seven Planet-moving Churches are compared here to seven Stars yet all of them borrowing their light from that Son of Man Christ Jesus that shines in the midst of them The Angell of the Church of Laodicea is ranked here like the Moon the last in the Sphear of this heavenly Vision As the Moon waining from grace she hath left her first love as the Moon eclipsed she is poor and blinde and naked as the Moon seeming the greatest in her own eyes I am rich increased in goods and stand in need of nothing when she is the least of the Stars wretched and miserable as the Moon bemoystening all things with watry humours not with dew-dropping tears of repentance but with carnall humours to be repented of Repent and do thy first works As the Moon neither hot nor cold in it selfe they are luke-warme so hot as still Professors so cold as but hypocriticall disguisers As the Moon the Fountain of coldnesse to others befreezing the well-springs of Grace and sluces of Charity thus this poor Church is sick quid faciet what shall she do To what Gilead shall she resort for Balm Come all you that are sick and

praise of him that made him styling the fabrick of mans body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the handy-work of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 preserved by God For the Body is the Soul's Castle the mouth the entrance the Lipps a double leav'd door the Teeth a portcullis and Ivory gate the Tongue the porter trenchman and Soul's Oratour the Head an eminent Tower where four senses externall Seeing Hearing Smelling Tasting three senses internall Common sense Fantasie Memory keep so many scout-watches The Brain the Armorie and Treasury fenced about with hair skin bone the pia Mater or golden Eure the Neck a Wheel to turn this Turret to every point in the Compasse The Tongue Teeth and Palate musicall Instruments for modulation of the voice the Chordae or silver cords stretched through the body the Liver is the Well the Pores the Conduits the Veines the Pitchers of blood the Heart is the Cistern and Fountain of Life the Systole and Diastole moves gales of winde to free from putrefaction For this cause Man is called a Microcosme or little World in that he resembles the greater World The Liver resembles the Ocean the Veines the lesser Rivers the Breath the Aire the naturall Heat the warmth of the Aire the radicall Moysture the fatnesse of the Earth the Hairs of our head the Grasse of the earth Knowledge Light our Eyes the Sun and Moon our Beauty of Youth the Flowers of the Spring the Thoughts of our Minds Motions of Angells our four Complexions resemble the four Elements seven Ages seven Planets Thus was Man created a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 containing All till that by usurping All he lost All. Neither was this Beauty solely the Bodies but the Soul in beauty far surpassed the Body as far as the Soul is more active than the Body The Understanding clear without ignorance the Will holy without disobedience the Affections calme without distemperance Thoughts undistracted Heart untempted Conscience unwounded The wonderfull union of them both more wonderfull than both Earth and Heaven were espoused a Body from Earth a Soul from Heaven were united that nothing but Death could part nor Death neither if bodily concupiscence with Martha had not made choise of the worser part Knowledge of sicknesse and sorrowes was unknown No Paracelsus distracted about Extractions It would have been the Physitians Disease that there was no Disease the Grave's Death that there was no Death Envie 's Griefe that there was no Envy What Man was in Rule and Dominion after the Creation Emperour of the whole Earth Admirall of the whole Sea Heir of Eden peerlesse Peer of Paradise that with the Grand Sultan he might have insulted styling himselfe Ruler of the World and Shadow of God With the Pope have worn a triple Crown trampling upon Hell triumphing upon Earth trusting For Heaven All Creatures seeing the splendour of Majesty and God's Image resplendent in this new created Magistrate with reverence pointed at him with an Ecce Adam lo Adam The Stars that lately created were gazed upon as the world's wonder wonder at this new created Star with an Ecce Adam The Angells those ministring Spirits Heb. 1. 14. behold him to whom they must minister with an Ecce Adam God who after the Fall came with an Ecce exprobrandi or upbraiding comes now with an Ecce demonstrandi or declaring to all Creatures Ecce Adam lo this is Adam whom ye must all serve this Adam Lord of all was Man Lord what is Man Thus we have done with the first what what Man was in his Creation We come to the second what what man is in his Degeneration where we must distinguish of a three-fold what what degenerate Man is in his life what in his death what after death The Degenerate in life what in his Body what in his Soul In his Body the length of his time the strength of his time What Man is in the length of his time His life is a Mask his Prologue is acted in secret within the Curtains of the Womb the Protasis in his Birth and Cradle the Epitasis in his checker'd mirth and sorrow Death is the Catastrophe the Grave his Wardrobe His time is a gliding Shuttle a riding Post a flying Cloud a spying Eagle a floating Ship a fading Flower The Shuttle is through the Post is gone the Cloud dissolves the Eagle vanishes the Ship is out of ken the Flower fades His length is but a Span his strength Grasse his beauty but a Venice-Glasse a China's Dish his thoughts Dreams his body a Shadow his flesh but a Vapour his glory but a Taper which begins as a Bubble continues as a Blaze ends with a Blast Lord what is man Thus what Man his Body is in length of time the second what in strength of time what in his Infancy what in his Youth what in his Manage what in his Old age in all these Natures ridle unfolding Sphinx his ridle In his Infancy an Image hath hands and cannot handle right tongue and cannot speak feet and cannot go a soul and cannot understand an unreasonable Brute in the shape of reasonable Man conceived in lust imbrued in blood brought forth in sorrow with throbs and throws His Youth an untamed Tiger unsetled Quicksilver a Camelion of every colour a Polypus of every shape an Ape in all imitations beginning to swell with Pride boyl with Revenge burn with Lust gaspe for Honour gape for Riches Manhood is a Monster composed of many miseries a Sea of sorrowes a World of warrs where all fears affright him The Sea is full of Pirats the Land of Robbers Wealth is envied Poverty is contemned Wit distrusted Simplicity derided Religion suspected Vice advanced and Virtue disgraced Old age is a Creple blinde as Appius blear-eyed as Leah lame as Mephibosheth bald in the head wrinkled in the face rotten in the teeth stinking in the breath teasty with choller withered with drinesse overwhelmed with sicknesse bowed together with weaknesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 looking upon the earth which must be his grave till he lie down in the grave gasping for breath begins with crying continues with sighing and ends with a groan Lord what is man Thus is every Age of life a Stage of strife that well may we sing with Ausonius a Turtle-like Song 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every Time is a troublesome Tide no place or condition is secure in the world Fear of Enemies affright Suits in Law vex wrongs of Neighbours oppresse care for Wife and Children consume The house is full of cares the Field is full of toyl the Country of rudenesse the City of factions the Court of envy the Church of Sects 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What course of life then shall a man take when every life is a curse What Art shall he study when he is the dolefull subject of every Art and studying it studies his own misery What does Grammer teach him but to speak the language of his owne confusion The first part whereof containes the