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A20158	A three-fold resolution, verie necessarie to saluation Describing earths vanitie. Hels horror. Heauens felicitie. By Iohn Denison Batchelour in Diuinitie.	Denison, John, d. 1629.	1608 (1608)	STC 6596; ESTC S109587	139,837	594

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Sa. 20.9 Mat. 26.29 like Ioab and Iudas and that breaketh the heart of him who relyeth vpon such a one If an enemie had wronged me saith Dauid I could haue borne it Psal 55.12 implying that for a friend to prooue trecherous it was intollerable Thus doth the friendship of our dayes begin with iniquitie continue with flatterie and end with trecherie So that the Lords querulous admonition doth verie well agree with our times Ier. 9.4 Let euery one take heed of his neighbour trust you not in any brother for euery brother wil vse deceipt and euery friend will deale deceiptfully To these inconueniences may be added the iarres that vsually fall out among friends and that oft times vpon trifling occasions No instrument is sooner out of tune then the harmonie of friendship and then as the purest wine prooues the tartest vineger so the most inward friendship being dissolued turnes into the deadliest hatred And as the peeces of cleare Christall cannot be reunited by any art so the nearest friendshippe turned into hatred doeth hardly admit any reconciliation according to the diuine Prouerbe Pro. 18.19 A brother offended is harder to winne then a strong citie and their contentions are like the barre of a pallace Friendship should be as the houses that ioyne together and as the stones thereof one stone and one house helping to support and vphold one another but they are sometimes ponderous occasiōs rather to suppresse and pull downe one another For as sheepe doe eagerly follow one another into the forbidden pasture so many a good man is brought to do euill by the societie and example of his friend Confes 2. lib fine as Saint Augustine ingeniously confesseth of himselfe and therupon iustly exclaimeth O nimis inimica amicitia And as it hath oft fallen out that they which haue aduentured themselues to saue a man from drowning haue by that meanes bene drowned themselues so many a one by his readinesse to succour and pleasure his friend hath bene brought into the same snare and made partaker of the same daunger To manifest this by stories which is euident by daily experiments were very superfluous Ad Demonicum So hard a thing it is to haue an absolute friend It is a straunge speech of Isocrates That there is a friend who will grieue for his friends mishap and indeuour to releeue him in distresse yet repine also at his good fortunes but it is true in obseruation hath reason also of it For there is in euery man by nature a secret selfe loue Omnesmeliùs sibi mallent quàm alteri Ter. whereby he wisheth better to himselfe then to others which is the cause of this repining humour Now let it be supposed that none of all these euils were incident to friendship that neither iarres daungers or trecheries had any place in dissipating or dissoluing of the same yet were this enough to set foorth the vanitie thereof That friends cannot alwaies liue together but against their wils are subiect to separation and that by sundrie accidents and vnexpected calamities Whereof we haue a notable instance in Abraham and Lot Gen. 13. who by reason of their seruants variance were enforced to depart one from the other And if nothing else effect this yet death strikes the dolefull stroke of separation and then the dearer the loue the greater the losse For as by the losse of one of the optickes the other is endaungered so by the losse of one friend the other must needes be much perplexed Then doth Dauid mourne ouer Ionathan with a great lamentation 2. Sa. 1.26 Wo is mee for thee my brother Ionathan The consideration of all this may be a notable meanes to auoide the Prophets curse and woe Ier. 17.5 Cursed be the man that maketh flesh his arme Isa 3.1.1 Wo be to them that go down into Aegypt for help For if friendship be so fraile and vaine why should any man depend vpon it to depart from the liuing God or to diminish his cōfidence in him Iob. 23.21 Embrace Eliphaz his exhortation Acquaint thy selfe with God whose loue once set vpon thee is immutable Ioh. 13.1 whose fauour and kindnesse is vnspeakeable his power inuincible and his promise inuiolable 2. Chro. 15.2 The Lord is with thee whilest thou art with him he is the first in inuiting and last in reiecting Oh what a singular priuiledge is it to haue God to be our friend if men reioyce in their great and louing friends how much more may wee make our boast of God all the day long Psal 44.10 If thou desire to be partaker of this priuiledge remember our Sauiours saying You are my friends Ioh. 15.14 if you do whatsoeuer I command you SECT 11. Of Mirth IOy and Mirth is a thing desired of all except some few whom a certaine inhumane and melancholie disposition hath distinguished from others so that it will not be ha●d for this delightfull vanitie to find patrons enough in the world but who is he that shall be able to free it from the iust imputation of vanitie We reade of some Aul. Gel. noct Attic. lib. 3. ca. 15. whom ouermuch ioy hath brought to their graues very speedily as Diagoras of Rhodes who hauing three sonnes which wonne the prizes in seuerall exercises at Olympus when his children in a filiall reuerence cast their garlands ouer him and the people with admiration applauded him fell downe dead in the place In him and others the like mentioned by historians the Prouerbe faileth The merier heart the longer life And surely immoderate mirth cannot be but very hurtfull by reason that it disperseth and spendeth the vitall spirits which are the munition of the heart the castle of the bodie Besides this the Lord enuying the pleasant estate of wicked men which are strangers from the life of God doth often shoot out his arrowes of dolour and discontent Psal 32.10 so that their ioyes become very momentanie the end of their mirth is heauinesse like a faire calm Pro. 14.13 that endeth with a blustering storme Ioh. 20.4.5 Which cause●h Zophar to aske Iob Knowest thou not that the rei ycing of the wicked is short and that the ioy of hypocrites is but f●r a moment as if he should say If thou knowest not that thou knowest nothing And as the Lord deales with the wicked in iudgement so doth he with the godly in compassion knocking at the doore of their hearts with the hammer of chastisements and affliction mixing like a carefull Physitian his cordials with corrasiues to keepe them low and to cherish in them a contrite heart and an humble spirit So that Salomons saying for the vicissitude and chaunge of things is often proued true There is a time to laugh and a time to weepe Eccles 3.4 a time to dance and a time to mourne For the drif● of his discourse is not to teach that it should be so

of iudgemen namely their amazednesse in the resurrection THe princely Prophet hauing deciphered the vaine indeuours of wicked and couetous carnall men labouring to establish perpetuall habitations to them and their posteritie concludeth thus of them Psa 49.14 They lye in the graue like sheepe and death gnaweth vpon them If this were all their miserie it were lesse to be maruelled at but behold whilest death is feeding vpon their bodies and turning them to rottennesse hell fire seizeth vpon their soules and vexeth thē with torments neither is this the finall conclusion of their wretchednesse For as it is appointed to all men once to dye Heb. 9 27. So after that commeth the iudgement whē both soule and bodie must be reunited that they may bee tormented together Thus the life of the vngodly is spent in wickednesse their death is with horror ●oel 2.2 Zeph. 1.15 Diuerse mistake these places of the Prophets applying them to the day of ●udgement whereunto they cannot agree except ●y the way of illusion and their rising againe shall be with much terror The Prophets do describe the day of Gods vengeance vpon the Iewes and the terrors of their enemies insultings by diuerse dreadfull speeches calling it a day of darknesse and blacknesse a day of cloudes and obscurity a day of wrath and a day of trouble and heauinesse a day of destruction and desolation If the comming of the enemie and the Lords approching with temporall afflictions bee thus terrible blacke cloudy and desolate oh how dreadfull shall the comming of Christ and the day of spirituall vengeance bee to ●he wicked For they shall bee wonderfully amazed in their resurrection exceedingly terrified at their arraignement and dolefully astonied at the sentence of condemnation 1 Their resurrection shall be with much amazednesse by reason of the sodainnes The sodaine comming of the day of iudgement is set foorth by sundry similitudes in the holy Scriptures 1. Thes 5. Mat. 24. Luk. 21. Eccles 9. it shall come like an enemie a theefe and a snare it shall speedily assault like an enemie slily breake in like a theefe and suddenly entrap men like a snare If a man should suddenly wake forth of his sleepe and see his house on fire and his friends wailing and weeping about him wold it not amaze him Lo death is but a sleepe and the graue is the bedde when a wicked man awaketh and shall behold on the one side his sinnes accusing him and on the other side the hellish feends and furies readie to vexe him a troubled conscience burning within him the frame of the heauens the earth flaming without him vnder his feete the fearefull pit of hell readie to deuoure him ouer his head the axe of Gods iudgment lifted vp to strike him and many of his friends wailing and howling about him because of the instant desolation and destruction oh how do we thinke that this miserable man shall be amazed A sudden thunder-clappe awaking a man will make him start and quake and will not the sudden showt and sounding of the Archangell and trumpet of God cause men to tremble 1. Thes 4.16 When Adoniah heard the trumpets sounding at Salomons coronation he was much dismayed 1 King 1. and fearing the presence of Salomon arose and went and tooke hold on the hornes of the altar When the vngodly which now sleepe in the dust of the earth shall heare the Archangell and the trumpet ratling at our Sauiours coronation it must needes dismay them much and so much the more because they shall find no sanctuarie but must be brought before him that is greater then Salomon to receiue their fatall doome 2 As the sodainenesse of this dreadfull day rowzing them from death is terrible so the end thereof also is lamentable their resurrection being to destructiō Joh. 5.29 For they that haue done euill shall come foorth to the resurrection of condemnation yea they shall rise to perpetuall shame and contempt Dan. 12.2 The prisoner though he come forth of the filthie and darksome dungeon into the sweet and wholsome aire yet when he must goe to his triall in some desperate case had rather if he might remaine there still The graue is a prison of filthie rottennesse and darknesse yet happie were the wicked man if he might haue an eternall habitation therein and not be brought to iudgment Whē Dalilah cryed suddenly to Sampson Jud. 16.20 The Philistims are vpon thee Sampson he awaked thinking to shew his strength as at other times but the Lord was departed from him Therefore the Philistims tooke him put out his eyes brought him to Azzah bound him with fetters and made him to grind in the prison house Lo thus shall the wicked be awaked at the day of iudgement when because the Lord is not with them the eyes of consolation shall be put out they shall bee brought to the iudgement seate of Christ who shall cause them to bee bound in fetters and to bee cast into the prison house of hell there to bee tormented world without end Act. 23.8 Now shall the wicked Sadduces which say there is no resurrection nor spirit find that there is both a resurrection for their shame and contempt and spirites for their torments and confusion The Diuels said to our Sauiour that hee came to torment them before their time Mat. 8.29 so shall these wretched men thinke they are raised to iudgment before their time but it may be said to them in the Prophets words Wo be to them for their day is come Ier. 50.27 and the time of their visitatiō Seeing now my Christian brother that the day of Christs comming shall bee thus speedie and the resurrection of the vngodly so full of miserie and amazednesse let the remembraunce therof cause thee so to leade thy life that thou maiest bee fitly prepared for the one and happily escape the other Reu. 20.6 Blessed are they that haue part in the first resurrection for on such the second death hath no power Yea happie and thrise happie is he who by the power of Gods spirit is in this life raised from the death of sinne to the life of righteousnesse for behold he shall assuredly in the life to come enioy a resurrection to eternall life and saluation SECT 2. The second steppe of the wicked into hel at the day of iudgment namely their terror in beholding Christ and appearing before his throne of iudgment WHen Adam had takē of the forbidden fruite Gen. 3.8 being naked he would faine haue hid himselfe from God walking in the garden in the coole of the day the poore sinner naked both in body and soule would faine hide himselfe from the presence of Christ comming to iudgement in the euening of the world but it may not be For as it is intollerable to abide his presence so is it impossible to auoid it Euery eye must see him Reu. 1.7 Mat. 25.32 and all the