The Motiue.
I Will lay me down••, and also sleepe in peace, for thou, Lord, onely makest me dwellin safety. Psal. 4. 8. Dauid by this declareth his ovvne bodily infirmity, vvher∣unto all men are like∣vvise subiect, namely, to such debility, as
A poore mans rest founded vpon motiues, meditations, and prayers. Expressing to the inward man, true consolation. In all kindes and times of afflication. By Io. Norden.
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- A poore mans rest founded vpon motiues, meditations, and prayers. Expressing to the inward man, true consolation. In all kindes and times of afflication. By Io. Norden.
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- Norden, John, 1548-1625?
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- London :: Printed [by T. Snodham] for Iohn Budge, and are to be sold at the signe of the Greene-Dragon in Pauls church-yard,
- 1620.
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without rest and sleepe they cannot long continue; yet this rest (as he acknowledg∣eth) may be a troublesome rest, vnles God blesse it: for as Dauid did, so all men lye downe and take their rest, but all not in peace; for such as lye downe forgetting God, God leaueth them to themselues, and so their sleepe (in stead of peace) tur∣neth into troublesome dreames, idle & sin∣full imaginations, horrible visions, and fearefull fantasies, whereby not onely the body is distempered, but the soule also grie∣uously vexed. And therefore, though we couch vs on a bed of Downe, with Cur∣taines of gold, & Couerings of silke, these administer not the peace that Dauid spea∣keth of, but God is he that giueth it onely. It is not then the sweet sound of Musicke, or the cradle of pleasures, that can giue vs that peaceable sleepe and safe rest that Dauid speaketh of, but Prayer vnto God, in faith and true attonement with him in Christ, thoughts free from sinne, and the conscience cleered, may safely assure a man, that when he lyeth downe, God is with him; and when he riseth vp, God wil not giue him ouer, but be his God, louing and mercifull for euer.