An epithrene: or Voice of vveeping bewailing the want of vveeping. A meditation.
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Title
An epithrene: or Voice of vveeping bewailing the want of vveeping. A meditation.
Author
Lesly, John.
Publication
London :: Printed by A[ugustine] M[athewes] for Humphrey Robinson and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the three Pidgeons,
1631.
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Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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"An epithrene: or Voice of vveeping bewailing the want of vveeping. A meditation." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05357.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.
Pages
§. 25.
And here because I may hap¦ pily seeme, either palpably to bewray mine owne Oscitancie, or dastarly to betray the causes I haue vndertaken; as if this were to make Weeping the easi∣est worke in the World, yea a Pandar to Sinne, and wee made no more of it, but Sinne and Weepe: As if our Weeping could get a Pardon of the Old, and a Licence for the New. And likewise because the Lawyers rule may in such a case goe currant with Divines,* 1.1〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, That the false colluding Accuser, and the faint-hearted Maintainer of the
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Truth are alike blame-worthy. Lest therefore any (as Patients oft doe of Physitians Bills) should complaine of Danger in this case; This Divinity wee publish not to profane Ones, that turne every good thing to their owne destruction. But as Physitians administer their choycest Cordials only to pre∣pared bodies; So the comforts of these Attributes, can ease on∣ly those Weeping Hearts, in whom also they expell Sinfull delights and desires; Who when they have appeased the Lord by their Weeping, adiure themselues and others not to offend him againe. As for the peevish Multitude (that frowar•• Generation) to them it is not gi∣ven to know the mystery of Weeping, neither have they a¦ny part or portion in the fore∣mentioned
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Attributes of holy Weeping, the sole mundifying water that washeth off the Cor∣ruption, stayeth the Infection, cooleth the Inflammation, and healeth by degrees the most in∣ueterate and dangerous Impostu∣mation of our Transgressions.