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A41020	A fountaine of teares emptying it selfe into three rivelets, viz. of (1) compunction, (2) compassion, (3) devotion, or, Sobs of nature sanctified by grace languaged in severall soliloquies and prayers upon various subjects ... / by Iohn Featley ...	Featley, John, 1605?-1666.	1646 (1646)	Wing F598; ESTC R4639	383,420	750

yet slept that hee had neede to be awaked Is 65.1 Noe noe hee that was found of them that sought him not would not without cause deny himselfe to her who sought him with diligence It was his promise to the captives in Babylon that after seaventie yeeres they should returne to Ierusalem Ier 29.10 vers 12 and should call upon him and goe and pray unto him and hee would hearken unto them They should seeke him vers 14 and find him when they should search for him with all their hearts How then came it to passe that his Spouse did misse of him especially in the bed where shee might justly expect him Alasse alasse shee thought her selfe so sure of her beloved that shee layd her selfe downe as on the bed of ease but supposing him to be with her shee missed his companie and though shee sought him by solitary meditation yet shee found him not In the night shee sought him in the night of her afflictions but shee found him not not presently that because shee neglected his grace when hee offered it unto her or because shee kept it not carefully when hee gave it unto her Yet Is 54.8 though in a litle wrath hee hid his face from her for a moment Cant. 3.4 shee afterwards found him whom her soule loved And why then should not I hope to find him too though in my bed though in the night It is not through sloath that I seeke him here but 't is in the fervency of my affection that now awaking I would find him here If yet I cannot find him here if thou hidest thy selfe from mee ô my sweetest Iesus that either in judgment for mine offences or in thy love that thou mayst heighten and inflame mine affection I will doe as the Israelites did at the newes which was brought them by those that were sent to search the land I will lift up my voyce cry yea Num. 14.1 Ps 6.6 with the people too I will weepe all night Or with the Prophet David All the night will I make my bed to swimme and water my couch with my teares Or with Samuel for Saul 1 Sam. 15.11 I will cry unto God all the night Or as King Darius for Daniel in the Lyons denne Dan 6.18 I will passe the night fasting while my sleepe goeth from mee Or as David againe when his child was sick I will fast and lye all the night upon the carth 2. Sam. 12.16 rather then I will not find thee ô my Saviour Thus when I have found him whom my soule loveth then untill the day breake and the shadowes fly away Cant. 2 17. hee shall turne and be like a Roe or a young Hart upon the mountaines of Bether Weepe indeede I may weepe I must for I sent my faith as a Spie to the promised land to the celestiall Canaan and shee through her weakenesse and feare hath brought me word that the citty is walled Num. 13.26 as if I could not or should not enter But with Caleb vers 30 I will resolve that I wil g●e up and possesse it for I know that through the assistance of my Iesus I shall be able to conquer Weepe I must 1. Sam. 15.11 with Samuel for my Saul for my poore soule which hath turned back from following my God and hath not performed his commandements But I will not onely weepe but will allso question my Saul vers 14 and say What meaneth this bleating of the sheepe in mine eares and this lowing of the oxen which I heare What meaneth the noise of my lesser offences and the roaring of the greater which are larger and fatter then the bulls of Basan I will thus examine my soule and then I will cry for her vers 24 untill shee shall confesse that shee hath sinned and transgressed the commandements of God Weepe I must with King Darius for my Daniel for my heart Dan. 6.2 Ps 57.4 1. Chr. 12.18 Ier. 50.17 2. Sam. 12.15 vers 22 which is the chiefe of my Presidents for 't is in the lyon's denne my soule is among lyons it is wounded with lyons with such mighty sinnes that their faces are as were David's worthies even like the faces of lyons These lyons these Kings of Assyria and Babylon have scattered this my Israel and driven her away and allmost devoured her Weepe I must with David for my child my darling soule for it is stricken it is very sick yea I will fast and I will weepe for who can tell whether God will be gratious to mee that the child may live Why should not such thoughts as these entertaine the howres which are borrowed from my slumbers Dan. 2.29 King Nebuchadnezzar had thoughts came into his mind upon his bed for so Daniel styleth his dreames what should come to passe hereafter 2. Chr. 7.12 The Lord appeared to Solomon by night after his dedication of the tēple sayd unto him I have heard thy prayer and have chosen this place to my selfe for an house of sacrifice Iacob had a vision by night Gen. 28. 12. vers 13 vers 16 and in a dreame was promised the land where hee flept Thus sleeping or waking I hope that it shall be truely sayd The Lord is in this place True it is that the night is the presenter of dismall apparitions to diverse persons and the absence of the Sunne in many is the discoverer of the weakenesse of faith But surely those that feare the shadow of a fant'sie doe not truely feele the power of faith which according to the Apostle is the substance of things hoped for Heb. 11 1. and the evidence of things not seene The diseases of the body make sick men sensible of the want of the Sunne for to them the nights administer both anguish and melancholie Ps 77.2 Iob. 7.3 David's sore ranne in the night and ceased not his soule refused comfort Iob was made to possesse moneths of vanity and wearisome nights were appointed to him His bones were pierced in the night-seasons C. 30.17 and his sinewes tooke noe rest Yea as well the healthfull as the sick may find the night a producer of affliction even those that are most laborious Eccl. 2.22 and industrious in the world What hath man of all his labour saith the Preacher and of the vexation of his heart wherein hee hath laboured under the Sun vers 23 For all his dayes are sorrowes and his travaile griefe yea his heart taketh not rest in the night To the sick and to the healthfull in time of peace in time of watre the night hath often beene a time of sorrow 2. King 19.35 Once did the Lord send his Angel which went and smote in the campe of the Assyrians an hundred fourescore and five thousand when they arose early in the morming behould they were all dead corpses Thus have miseries siezed on diverse in the silent

eate on the left hand and they shall not be satisfied they shall eate every man the flesh of his owne armes Touching Ierusalem hee said by his Prophet Ezekiel Eze 4.10 Thy meate which thou shalt eate shall be by weight twentie shekels a day from time to time shalt thou eate it vers 11 Thou shalt drinke allso water by measure the sixth part of an Hin from time to time shalt thou drinke vers 12 And thou shalt eate it as barley cakes and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man vers 13 in their sight And the Lord said unto him Even thus shall the children of Israel eate their defiled bread among the Gentiles whither I will drive them Among other curses which Israël should endure for rebellion and disobedience the fore-runner of famine was not the least Deut 28.39 Thou shalt plant vine yards and dresse them but shalt neither drinke of the wine nor gather of the grapes for the wormes shall eate them Among other punishments sent upon idolaters the Prophet terrifieth them with this above all When they shall be hungrie Is 8.21 they shall frett themselves and curse their King and their God and looke up-wards Here was allmost all the miserie that man could suffer the wickednesse that hee could act in this present world Hunger was sent as a punishment for idolatrie and rebellion blasphemie and impenitency were the effects of the punishment Hunger produceth rebellion they curse their King rebellion blasphemie they curse their God and blasphemie both impudence and impenitencie they looke up-wards towards heaven as if they were not ashamed The curse which should happen to the enemies of Sion was accounted greate because they should be resembled to people that are hungrie c 29.8 As when a hungrie man dreameth and behould hee eateth but hee awaketh and his soule is empty or as when a thirstie man dreameth and behold hee drinketh but hee awaketh and behould hee is faint and his soule hath appetite So shall the multitude of the nations bee that fight against mount Sion But what is the cause why the anger of the most high is commonly discovered in the curse of famine What moveth the Lord to punish his creatures with this pining destruction Whence ariseth his wrath that his vengeance is so terrible Alasse alasse I neede not wonder that his furie is so fierce if I doe but remember how justly hee punisheth Hee smiteth not before wee offend hee punisheth not before wee transgresse When our sinnes are so impudent as to provoke his displeasure how can hee choose but awake Ps 78.65 as one out of sleepe like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine For iniquitie onely doeth hee visitt hee visiteth our offences with the rodde Ps 89.32 and our sinne with scourges For this did hee give Israël cleanesse of teeth Amos. 4.6 in all their citties and want of bread in all their places yet they returned not unto the Lord. 2. Sam 21.1 For Saul and for his bloodie issue because hee slew the Gibeonites therfore there was a famine in the dayes of David three yeeres yeere after yeere and it ceased by the execution of seaven of Saul's sonnes Is 5.13 Therfore saith God my people are gone into captivitie because they have noe knowledg and their honourable men are famished and their multitude dryed up with thirst This is the punishment for sinne and yet upon repentance the Lord is as willing to remove it from us as when wee offended hee was just in sending it His promises were gratious to the Gentiles which should be fullfilled by Christ as his Prophet relateth them Is 49.10 They shall not hunger nor thirst neither shall the heate nor Sun smite them for hee that hath mercy on them shall leade them even by the springs of water hee shall guide them Yet let mee not too much forget my selfe Though this famine be one of the weapons with which the Lord doeth commonly fight and wound his enemies I must not therfore conclude that they all are forsaken and hated who endure this affliction I must not conclude that Because with this hee punisheth his enemies therfore with this hee correcteth not his saints This were but to frame an argument to urge mee to despaire and to judge my selfe with greater severitie then the Lord himselfe I hope will judge mee Every scourge which hee taketh in his hand may be for chastisement to the godly as well as a judgment to the wicked Though this must bring mee to a sight of my sinnes yet it may not enforce mee to a distrust of his mercies Though sometimes the godly dye under an affliction yet they know that they shall live by the merits of Christ Wee have noe more freedome from punishments here then the worst of reprobates Yea our portion is greater and bitterer here then theirs 1. Cor. 11.32 but wee are chastened of the Lord that wee might not be condemned with the world There is a greater deale of difference betweene corrections judgments The beloved child may be wounded as deepe yea deeper then an enemie but the deeper his Wound the surer is his cure To the godly they are afflictions to the reprobate torments to the godly chastisements upon the reprobate revenge At the famine in Samaria 1. King 18.5 good Obadiah went into the land unto all fountaines of water and unto all brookes to sieke for grasse that hee might save the horses and mules alive When the Prophet Ieremiah was cast into the dungeon Ier 38.9 hee was like to dy for hunger in the place for there was noe bread in the citty 1. Cor. 4.11 The holy Apostles did both hunger and thirst and were naked and buffeted and had noe certaine dwelling place They were in wearinesse 2. Cor. 11.27 and painefullnesse in watchings often in hunger and thirst in fastings often in cold Act 10 9. and nakednesse When Saint Peter went up upon the house to pray the vision appeared to him while hee was hungry vers 10 Saint Paul professed that hee had learned both how to be abased Phil. 4.12 and how to abound Every where in all things hee was instructed both to be full and to be hungrie both to abound and to suffer neede Gen. 12 10. When a famine was in the land where Abraham dwelt hee was enforced to goe downe into Egypt to sojourne there for the famine was grievous in the land Many saints and servants of God have drunke very deepe of this cup of afliction Why should I then be too much dejected and complaine so of want as if God had forgotten mee How know I to the contrarie but it may be his pleasure even by this affliction to bring mee to humilitie and so unto glory It is my part to thanke him for his visitation and not to repine at his correction Plenty is commonly the ground

it doe tingle yea and mee think's not onely mine eares tingle but even my heart allso tingleth and trembleth at the same Well though that stone be there yet the inscision shall be made and howsoever I will desire that a paine I may endure If yet I am not sensible enough when the inscision is made I hope I shall have time enough to smart before the eskar be off Lord I desire that I may be sensible of the wounds of this land and that the blood which is shed in these violent times may be washed away by the teares of mee and other penitent sinners Or if blood requireth blood Lord let the wine and oyle of the best Samaritane let the blood of my mercifull Redeemer prevaile for pardon for the blood which is shed in these un-naturall warrs and let it stoppe the fountaine the current the issue thereof If my poore countrie was formerly troubled with a plurisie I am sure that now it useth the harsh meanes of phlebotomie for it is let blood in every part in the head the armes the leggs the feete yea and even in the very heart And yet for all this are there not some among us upon whose hearts the stupifying infernall stone is layd who are like unto Moab Ier. 48.11 who have beene at case from their youth and have setled upon their lees and have not beene emptyed from vessell to vessell nor have gone into captivitie and therfore their tast remaineth in them neither is their sent changed Are there not those among us that put farre away the evill day Amos. 6.3 vers 4. and cause the seate of violence to come neere That lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches and eate the lambs out of the flock the calves out of the midst of the stall vers 5. That chaunt to the sound of the violl and invent to themselves instruments of musick vers 6. That drinke wine in bowles and annoint themselves with the chiese ointments but are not grieved for the afflictions of Ioseph Ierusalem was then surest of her destruction when she laughed and rejoyced in her surfeits and riotts my compassionate Iesus at the same time foreseeing her ruine mourned and wept over her Oh Luc. 19 41. mee thinks when I lay my hand upon my heart when I touch my heart I find it a stringed instrument and when I stoppe upon the fretts the lesson that it playeth is nothing but Lachrymae Yet I feare I weepe not so much as I should and I feare too that every one doth not weepe so much as I doe I feare there are still those among us Isa 49.26 who dilight to be fed with their owne flesh and to be drunke with their owne blood as with sweete wine What shall I say of such or how shall I pleade for them Have these workers of wickednesse noe knowledg Ps 14.4 who eate up the people as they eate bread and call not upon the Lord 2. Sam. 2.26 Lord shall their sword devoure for ever Know wee not that it will be bitternesse in the latter end How long shall it be then ere the people be bid returne from following their brethren The Lord hath said by the mouth of his servant David that he will abhorre the bloody Ps 5.6 Ps 55.23 and deceitfull man yea he saith that bloody and deceitfull men shall not live out halfe their dayes Ps 68.30 Ps 51.14 Ps 46.9 and that hee will skatter the people that delight in warre Deliver 〈◊〉 from blood-guilinesse ô God thou God of 〈◊〉 salvation O that my God would make these warrs to cease O that he would breake the bowes and cut the speares in sunder and bur●… the chariots in the fire This I am sure he● and hee alone can doe Hee and hee onely is our refuge and strength vers 1. and a very present he●e in trouble This therfore that hee may doe I will imitate the Prophet Daniel and I will speake Dan. 9.20 and pray and confesse mine owne sinnt and the sinns of this people and present my supplication before the Lord my God and thus I will say The First Prayer wherein is set downe 1 Gods Iustice in punishing his owne people in former times 2 His Iustice allso in the present punishing us for our offences 3 An earnest supplication for our repentance and his forgivenesse O Righteous father thou who art righteous in all thy wayes Ps 145.17 and holy in all thy workes I thine unworthy creature in the very griefe of my heart and with a sad and bleeding soule cannot choose but sit downe and weepe Ps 13● 1. vers 8. in the consideration of our poore Sion wasted with miseries Yet great and grievous though our afflictions are and the increase and growth which they may yet arise higher unto is all-together as unknowne to us as when the period and end of them shall be howsoever I must confesse thee to be a righteous God strong and patient And seeing all things are naked and open unto thee with whom wee have to doe I cannot choose but acknowledg here upon my bended knees before thine all-seeing majesty that the sinns oh the grievous the scandalous the out-ragious sinns of this nation have cryed for this vengeance Ps 51.4 that thou mayst be justifyed when thou speakest and be cleere now thou judgest I confesse ô Lord out of a sense of mine owne transgressions and consideration of the crimes of this people Is 59.12 that our transgressions are multiplyed before thee and our sinns testifie against us for our transgressions are with us and as for our iniquities I desire of thee Lord that wee may know them When thine owne deare people of Israel would not be reformed by terrour Lev. 26 16. vers 17 and consumption and the burning ague by their enemies eating that which they had sowed and reigning over them by their fleeing when none did pursue them by making their heaven iron their earth as brasse vers 18 by suffering them to spend their strength in vaine vers 19 and causing their land not to yeeld her increase n● the trees their fruite vers 22 by the wild beasts robbing them of their children by destroying their cattell and making them few in number and their high wayes desolate then didst thou threaten them vers 23 saying If yee will yet walke contrarie to mee then will I walke contrarie to you vers 24 vers 25 and will punish you yet seaven times for your sinns I will bring a sword upon you that shall avenge the quarrell of my covenant when yee are gathered together within your citties I will send the Pestilence among you Deut. 28.15 yee shall be delivered into the hand of the enemie Againe thou didst allso threaten them saying If thou wilt not hearken to the voyce of the Lord thy God to observe to doe all his