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water_n	drink_v	eat_v	meat_n	4,143	5	8.2696	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14976	The flaming bush. Or, An embleme of the true Church. Written by Thomas Westerne, minister of Gods Word at Alderleigh in Cheshire	Westerne, Thomas.	1624 (1624)	STC 25284; ESTC S119681	39,521	118

in the compter Are not most of our Despots turnd Tospots musicke for the eare beautie for the eie Pomanders for the nose Banquets for the tooth healths for the throte noe health for the body Hell for the Soul But Oh bone Iesu fons indificiens Tu humana corda reficiens Ad te curro te solum sitiens Tu mihi domine solus suffici●ns Oh sweete sauiour thou art our stay When these mundane props shall vanish away Thou art that Roote that shall neuer decay As Christ is the fundament so he 2 Nourishment giues aliment iuyce and nutriment moysture and nourishment to the Bush his Church Radix est os ●t stomachus arboris the roote is the mouth and stomacke of the tree mouth to feed it stomach to nourish it giues sustentation which breedes vegetation and fructification nor would it haue verdure or greenish tincture without this sappie moysture but would bee leaueles liueles fruitles Euen so Christus est os et stomachus fidelis Christ is the mouth and stomach of his Church mouth for instruction stomach for refection manna of the soul to feed mans soul bread of life to breed mans life sowen in heauen reapt in earth in'd by Mary thresht by the Pharisies ground on the crosse betweene two stones beetweene two theeues baked in the Sepulcher distributed in the Sacrament where god doth impart to euery faithful branch its part Sumit vnus sumunt mille quantum isti tantum ille whoeuer feedes on this refection eates and drinkes his owne 1 Cor. 11. saluation my flesh is meat my blood is drink flesh and blood meate and drink meate indeed drinke indeed Psa therefore as the Hart thirsteth for the riuers of water so doth my hart thirst for this heauenly moysture Cuius guttulis abluuntur animae Cuius riuulis dispelluntur maculae Quem qui effugiunt moriūtur viui Quem qu● sequ●●tur viu●nt ●orituri The Bush hath a bole trunke or 2 Bodie Rom. 12. Eph. 4. 4. body so hath the Church we are many members yet but one body glued and serued and cemented together with the morter of Vnitie plaster of Amitie asphaltum of Vnanimitie where the King is the head Councell the eies Iudges the eares Lawes the teeth Pastours the toung good Houskeepers the stomache Husbandmen the feet Souldiors the hands the Pope was the haire the haire of the head aboue the crowne till Harry the eight did shaue him downe God grant his trentals still to bee excrements We are all baptized into one body 1 Cor. 12. Why doth then the Guelph Gibbelin why doth the red and whitros● faction or Papist Hugonet or Precisian harrow and til the soyl of dissention Vnum corpus vnus a●●mus one Bole one Soul but of this succinctly 1 Cor. 10● 3 Barke cause by others sufficiently The Bush hath a Barke so the Church The Bark to the Bush is a beauty or ornament 2 a couer or tegument A good conuersation is such to the christian this doth Corpus tegere Cor protegere deck the soul protect the body moues god to respect both A fa●re Rinde argues a good mind good Conuersation a signe of sanctification as virtuous manners are precious treasures commodious to vs and also to others to vs ad iustificandum though not effectiuely so we are iustified by Christ not apprehensiuely so wee are iustified by faith yet declaratiuely by iust and holy virtuous workes So our Sauiour of himselfe the workes that I haue d●● beare witnesse what I am to others ad aedificandum that others seeing our workes on earth may glorifie our father which is in heuen V●●●tur exemplis man is led by practice more than instruction like pliable wax for any S●neca Epist lib. 1 Epist 1. impression But if you bee either male agentes doing wickedly or nihil agentes lying idly or aliud agentes vnbeseemingly your Couer is gone your honour 's none you are barkles Bushes naked Forresters Moreouer the Bush hath not onely a barke without but also a little Filme within so haue god● Darlings as faire outward parts so good inward hearts corporall vrbanity and cordiall sinceritie as knowing that Sermo interpres cordis apud v●rum cor interpres sermonis apud Deum men iudge of our harts by Philo-Iud the outward countenance but god of our works by the inward conscience therefore as they hang out a bush so they haue also Wine lodginge for Christ as well as a signe As pargetted walles so garnished chambers furnished closets swept washt rubd and pared from dust cobwebs filth and rubbish ab offensis le●ioribus smaler offences and suauioribus sweeter concupiscences grau●oribus grosser vices know you not that you are temples of the Holy Ghost but the holy-ghost will not dwell in those temples where En●y stands at the doore Wrath leanes in the porch drunkennes lyes on the ●●●ore Gluttony sits at the table Lechery keepes the bed Pride lookes out at the window Let vs now with Zacche get vp to 4 Branches the branches that we may eie espie our beloued Iesus The bush hath aboundance of twigges redundance of sprigges sprouts shuts boughes and armes so hath our slender tender Church whereof some are temporall some spirituall the issue of the wombe the issue of the word nor without the former can wee haue the later for no filij soeculi no filij coeli no generation no regeneration barrennesse was a curse among the Iewes wee thinke it a crosse among vs Gentiles Children are the first the best blessing Thus could Iuno preach to Ae●lus Sunt mihi bis septemprestanti corpor● nimphae Quarum quae forma pulcherrima D●●op●ian Con●●bio iungam stabili propriamque dicabo Aeole qua faciet pulchra te prole beatum Twice seauen beautious nimphes I haue in store Whereof the fairest I will giue to thee Instable wedlock which shall blesse thee more With children than great ●oue hath blessed mee Psa 128. And thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. His wife shal bee like a fruitfull vine by the house sides his children like Oliue branches round about his table vt Angeli in circuitu throni dei like a garland of angels round about gods throne vt stellae in circuitu Poli Arctici as a garland of stars round about the North-Pole Alcibiades asked Socrates how hee could indure the chiding of his wife Socrates ask'd Alcibiades how hee could indure the cackling of his hens sayes the one pariunt pullos my hens hatch me chickens but the other parit filios my wife beares Psal me children Happy he that hath his Psal quiuer full of them he shall not be ashamed to speake with his enemie in the gate they preserue our Species and after a sort make vs immortall by deriuing life from the roote to the branches from the Father to the Son from the Sonne to the sonnes sonne in longinquum as Dauid

truth had need to looke to her essence for shee will bee in danger to loose her existence If Father Sweet be her Physitian he will teach her speake Spanish while the purchase of Christ shall bee fed with a halfe Sacrament a wafer-cake and now and then a draught of the whores holy-waterbottle Transubstantiation of the bread iustification by workes inuocation of Saints adoration of Images peregrinations to Loretto Tridentall decrees Remish glosses Romish asses knauish Seminaries and a myriad of other their Babylonish opinions Seperatists would strangle her whilst with the sheeres of shamelesse dissention they so cut and diuide the coat of Christ Iesus that Gath and Askalon may iustly laugh at vs wandring as much on the right hand as Antichrists disciples on the left for whereas they would ouerpresse vs with too many these will not admit vs any ceremonies but like the naked Adamites would haue a bare Church without the apparrell of all order Alphonsus the tenth of Spayne sayd blasphemously Si in principio mundi ipse deo adfuisset multa melius ordinatiusque condenda fuisse that if Lipsig God in the beginning had chosen him for a Councellour many things should haue been ordered better and with lesse confusion and if these men had as much power in their hands as slander in their tongues and faction in their breasts many things in our Church gouernment should bee otherwise then they are for Quod volumus sanctum est is as truely conceited by them as it was by the Donatists Bishops Downe with them down with them euen to the ground best let euery priuate minister bee a superintendent the surplice as the whores smocke torne in pieces the ring put in the beares s●out and for the cap what should they doe with any but a cap of maintenance stinted prayers saith one of them are stinking prayers and God saith an other is like a man that loues pottage Pow. Brow well but as man may bee glutted with one broath often vsed so will God with one prayer often said yet these are the men that make the silly Plebeians beleeue they know more like Marcian and Montanus then euer Christ or his Apostles when like the Lesbian Masons they rather frame the square of the Scriptures to their braine-sicke positions then bow their positions to the not-erring Scriptures Therefore it is no wonder if in stead of the trees dauncing the dogges fall a barking while such vnskilfull Neanth● handle Orpheus his harpe Helpe soueraigne iudge Bp. visite these distressed oppressed may dens charity iustice truth else God will visite for these things But who am I that Phormi●-like I should presume to read any lectures of Chiualry to Hannibal Let each man visit his neighbour brother sister friend enimy in sicknes and in prison in distresse and misery The day-starre from on high hath visited vs and wee must visite one another not as Henry the fifth did his father to snatch away his crowne nor as many amongst vs to catch at the sicke mans crownes preferring one Testament of a rich man before both the Testaments of God but as the virgin blessed for euer did visit hercozen Elizabeth she carryed Christ in her wombe wee must carry Christ as in our hearts so in our tongues to minister as what worldly thing soeuer is wanting so some words of comfort to diseased Patients that their hearts like Iohn Baptist may leape and spring within them T is pure religion vndefilde To visit Gods distressed child To quench the thirsty is a moyst Poto 2. Psal fruite the thirsty ground cries for water the thirsty stomacke cals for moysture God giues the one giue Rom. 12. 2 we the other T is the Apostles mandat if thy enemy thirst giue him drinke how much more thy friend he that requires it will one day requite it thus sayth the Lord he that giues not a gallon but a cruse not a pottle but a pot not a but but a cup but a sup not of Nectar but of water be it cold water to a Prophet in the name of a Prophet Non perdet mercedem shall not loose his reward But least I loose my selfe in this buttery or teach you to wring at a wrong spigget learn in briefe whose thirst to quench Who is drier then the drunkard T is the ●ap-house catch Drinke will make a man drunke and drunke will make a man dry Quo plus sunt pot● plus sitiuntur aquae the more drinke they haue the more drinke they craue though with Maximine they drinke an Amphora a day almost sixe gallons yet by no Iul. capit Herod meanes they will leaue their reckning pot but euer they cry one tooth is dry Shall we quench this thirst No vnlesse we will quench it in them as the Indians did in the Spaniards they with boyling gold eate gold Christian Oliu. de Noort Benz. lib. 1. cap. 23. Luk. 16. 25. scalding broth were too coole for these hot throats Be as inexorable to them as Abraham was to Diues and wet not 1. the tippe of thy finger to coole their 2. tong much lesse to augment or prouoke 3. their thirst least of all to make thy selfe merry Woe vnto him that giues his neighbour drinke that puts his bottle vnto him and makes him drunk he may drinke too but shamefull Abbacu 2. 15 16. spewing shall bee on his glory But broach thy beere to such as indigence inforceth to aske Dapotum ouibus water these sheepe bee it at Gen. 29 7. the well-head and at the bleating of such cattle let the rock of your heart gush out streames of pitty Let not your fosset once be dry To such as want compells to cry To feede the hungry is a full fruit 3. Cib● and full of this fruit must bee euery Rom. 12. 20 Deut 11. 17 Luk. 19. 8. Ioh. 12. 3. 1. Sam 25. 18. Eccl. 11. 1. branch If thy enemy hunger feede him shut not thy hand from thy poore brother but make a diuident of thy goods with Zache an vnguent of thy oyle with Mary a banquet of thy bread with Abiga●l Cast thy bread on the face of the waters to those whose face is wet with teares moyst with waters The Hebrew is Lachem which is all sort of fruite as well as bread were it bread alone then bread is Panis and P●nis is P●n and Pan is all meat and drinke and welcome withall else it is as good not to giue at all The Scripture doth Way giue certaine cautions to direct our giuing Est modus in dando quid our Quid. cui quomod● quando What must we giue that which is ours honour the Pro. 3 9. Lord with thy owne substance and feede not the poore at anothers dore for why shouldest thou be free on an others trencher The diuell would giue all the world to our Sauior a liberall almes but out of Gods Exchequour and Alexander the sixt America ●n