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A17048	Saint Peters path to the ioyes of heauen wherein is described the frailtie of flesh, the power of the spirit, the labyrinth of this life, Sathans subtilitie, and the soules saluation. As also the election, liues and martyrdomes, of the twelue Apostles. By W.B.; Saint Peters path to the joyes of heaven.	Broxup, William.	1598 (1598)	STC 3921; ESTC S116865	25,793	61

Saint Peters Path to the Joyes of Heauen WHEREIN IS DESCRIBED THE FRAILTIE OF FLESH THE power of the Spirit the labyrinth of this life Sathans subtiltie and the Soules saluation As also the Election Liues and Martyrdomes of the twelue Apostles By W. B. Poenitentiae nemo nimis Cupidus At London Imprinted by Felix Kingston 1598. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR RICHARD MVLLENEX KNIGHT ALL health of bodie increase of ioy with the full fruition of perfect felicitie RIGHT Worshipfull It is reported that Althema hoping to gratifie Alexander that famous Conquerour with some excellent piece of workemanship searched so farre in the depth of his Arte as striuing with cunning to be curious his pencill past beyond his skill not being able to make his worke perfect who being blamed by his friend Pethieus for imboldning himselfe so vnaduisedly answered that although Arte wanted to beautifie the worke yet heart and good will did make perfect that which lacke of cunning had left vnperfect whose answere Right Worshipful as one guiltie of a greater crime I claime for the sufficient excuse of my follie in beginning this worke rudely continuing rashly and ending rawly None can expresse a Passion that he feeleth not neither doth the penne deliuer but what it copieth out of the minde This passionate Discourse thought it reach not to the dignitie of Peters repenting yet shall I thinke my endeuours well apaid if it may 〈◊〉 some skilfuller penne to supplie in this matter my want 〈◊〉 ●bility and exercise their happier talents in the like pie●● I confesse my fault in committing these vnpolisht lines to the Presse yet I craue pardon with fauourable censure and thus farre dare I answere for my selfe that although Demosthenes had a plaudit for his Oration because it was curious yet Nimius got the Sentence for the trueth of his plaine Tale. This worke of S. Peters path to the ioyes of heauen I humbly commit to your Worshippes protection which if it may please you to let this tearie Mappe passe vnder the countenance and credite of your Name and that you will deigne to reade it ouer and therewith seeme to be but pleased I account my selfe highly fauoured Apelles presented Alexander with the counterfeit of Campaspe the face not fully finished because hee liked the Picture and I offer these few stanzes vnto you not well furnished because I know you are a fauourer of vertue Achilles made it not daintie to take the view of Phidias homely worke because it was the Image of the God of Warre and I hope your Worship will vouchsafe the viewing of this silly booke for that it describes the submissiue mind of a penitent Sinner although it spring frō a barren soyle being a dish of such fruite as my poore orcharde can yeeld not vnlike to Zeuxes pictures which seemed to the birds to be grapes but being thorowly proued were bare shadowed colours yet it may be that you passing ouer many learned works wil at last view this and smile as Theodosius did at the Pomegranate not that he scorned the fruit but to see the simple meaning of the man that presented him with so slender a gift yet I hope by your protection this my labor shall find acceptance according to the minde of the giuer and to haue as many fauorers as readers no moe readers that mislike the matter then like to write some other as well meant for that it proceedes from a minde as willing to shew it selfe thankefull as whosoeuer els that commends himselfe by a greater present Thus I humbly take my leaue wishing you all heartes content in this life and euerlasting happinesse in the World to come Your Worships in all duetifull seruice to commaund WILLIAM BROXVP To the courteous and friendly Reader GEntle Readers although I present you with this tearie Mappe of S. Peters submissiue Minde yet I craue pardon of you as Clinius did of Virginius that if you finde any thing amisse you will passe it ouer with fauourable censure desiring you to reade with fauour correct with iudgement and winke at a fault After I had writ these few lines I stoode in doubt whether I should commit them to the Presse let them lye obscurely in corners or else to remaine priuately in my owne hands but being in doubt least any false copie should be scattered abroad by that meanes it should come corrupt to the Print disguised in the fancies of an other mans humor it imboldened my weake abilitie the more to giue it passage to the Presse yet it may be that courteous skill will make this reckoning that though it bee course in respect of exquisite labours yet it may entertaine indifferent mindes for that the ground thereof is pietie and this commoditie it will carie with it that the Reader may learne the true path to perfect Ioy and how to humble himselfe in the schoole of repentance Thus wading ouer rashly like Gherillus I flattered my selfe yet farre from the minde of Terence when he first beganne to studie Poetrie he thought all the world would be in loue with his writing but if this may winne any one to a repentant minde hee shall receiue the fruites of his good worke and I shall inioy the content of my full desire Phidios founde the more fauour in setting out his simple pictures in that he did what he could and I hope to find your fauourable iudgement for this imperfect worke in that I doe what I can Though Cicero were eloquent Ennius was bluntish high stile is not herein used but a plaine Decorum touching the matter a worke roughly hewed out of a hard rocke not polished by the curious hands of Artifex yet brought to the view of the learned whose cleare sighted iudgement may condemne me of boldnesse yet this I know that the well literate will winke at a fault when the captious misliker will finde fault with euery letter for the one I will honour his discreet fauour for the other I neuer meant to please his humor Thus I commit my selfe and my booke to your courtesies wishing the friendly Readers the fruition of all felicitie committing them to the protection of the celestiall powers and this my good will towards them to their fauourable considerations Yours to commaund in all kindnesse W. B. In alios lenis est● THE ORDER OF THE Euangelistes in laying downe the names of the twelue Apostles   1 Peter Actes 1. 2 Iames Zebedeus   3 Iohn   4 Andrew Luke 6. 5 Philip.   6 Thomas   7 Bartholomew Marke 3. 8 Matth.   9 Iames Alph.   10 Simon Zelotes Matth. 10. 11 Iude Iames. bro.   12 Matthias THE ELECTION LIVES and Martyrdomes of the twelue Apostles HEre gentle Reader wee may beholde the Saintes of God which by great care and entire loue did plant the principles of the Gospell not sparing their liues to quench the heat of fire By viewing their Martyrdome we may comfort our selues with this saying Sanguis Martyrum semen Ecclesiae

he askt me if I loued him Thrice I confest and three times I replyde Thou knowest my God my loue to thee is firme And meete it was that thrice I should replie I loued him whom thrice I did denie Full fortie daies did Christ on earth remaine After his glorious rising from the dead Shewing himselfe to his Disciples plaine In most familiar manner breaking bread When all was done his Godhead had intended Most suddainely the bright heauens he ascended In faire Bethania did he leaue vs all While blessing vs with his aboundant grace He was tane vp with power maiesticall A glorious cloude his body did imbrace We gazing after did his power adore Whom Heauen inclosde and we beheld no more On right hand of the fathers brightest cleare In glory great he sitteth euery hower Till in the cloudes he shall againe appeare To iudge the world by his eternall power Lord send our soules to that most blessed place To see the splendor of Iehouahs face Our mightie God as Daniel plaine doth shew In throne doth sit the Sheepe from Goats to cull His raiment all more white then winters snow His siluer hayre like to the purest wooll His seate bright shining like a fierie flame And thousand thousands for to serue him came God make vs seruants to so great a Lord To know his mercie and admired loue Whose praise all Angels sing with one accord By whom all earthly creatures liue and moue With him is life that neuer shall decay Soules perfect ioy doth in his presence stay The wounded heart by hatefull sinne misled His grace doth cure and makes for euer sound The bitter teares that contrite sinners shed Within his citie is preseru'd and found Sinne death nor hell cannot that soule destroy Whom this most mighty Lord preserues for ioy For he will lay it in a bed of peace And lap it round with ioy on euery side Where is no sorrow mourning shall surcease No cause of griefe shall in that place abide It is a kingdome fraught with all delight Such as no heart can thinke no pen can write No tribulation of this mortall life No smart no sorrow that can happen here No torment torture no heart-killing strife Is worthie of the ioy prepared there Then come all griefes that euer eye did see From loue of Christ they shall not sep'rate mee If I doe suffer for Christ Iesus name His dearest Saints haue been as fore afflicted Some sawne asunder some on suddaine slaine Imprisoned stoned and extreamely whipped But yet most blest were they though pained so Heauen is their meede where is no taste of woe And thither is our Sauiour gone before For vs a glorious kingdome to prepare Where we shall liue and raigne for euermore In heauenly pleasure passing all compare Then feare no foes to them it is damnation But vnto vs a signe of sure saluation For why this is a doctrine firme and sure Worthie of all men to be still imbraced Christ came on earth the sinfull soule to cure To saue all such whom Sathan hath disgraced And when we end this life so transitorie We shall be crownde with euerlasting glorie Then Peter cease thy ouer-mournfull dittie In highest heauens remaines thy greatest treasure And with Saint Iohn describe that holy Cittie Which is the pallace of eternall pleasure Where Angels dwell and Saints all clothed be In purest white with palmes of victorie All pau'd with golde are those Celestiall streets With precious stones and Diamonds enterlaced Twelue gates of pearles call'd Margarets The wals foundation preciouslie is placed With Chalcedon Em'rald Birle Topaz Iasper Chrisolet Sardonex Amthest and Sapher Christ in this heauenly Citie is the light In midst whereof his glorie doth appeare There needs no sunne for there is neuer night And from his seate descends a riuer cleare Whose precious springs with christall streames are rife The bankes all set with trees of lasting life Into this Citie enters none at all But such as are within the booke of life No discord no aduersitie doth fall No sinne no shame no sorrow paine or strife Among those soules which there so blessed be Nor ought that tasteth of mortalitie But there is ioy and mirth without all sadnes Rest without labour gaine without all losse Health without pain abundance ioynde with gladnes Life without death and cleannesse without drosse All ioy vnspeakable in Gods most glorious sight Where Saints and Angels sing both day and night O ioy of ioyes ioy without all measure Where Saints doe bathe in euerlasting blisse And swim in streames of euer during pleasure Where all the hoast of noble Martyrs is Where Abraham Isaacke and all Patriarkes be Singing sweete Alleuia's of eternitie Mirth to the heart and musicke to the eares Is the fruition of Gods sacred sight Health to the soule and ioy for bitter teares And to the grieued conscience sweet delight The crowne of saints the diademe of grace Whose powrefull deitie rules in euery place O when shall I beholde this heauenly sight When shall I heare my blessed Sauiours voyce When shall I enter in this glorious light When shall my soule on Syon hill reioyce Most mightie Lord protector of my will Let me sing Himnes vpon thy holy hill Let all sicke soules laden with extreme sinne Come vnto Christ in faith and trembling feare Feare ioynde with loue though they haue dazeled bin Christ on the Crosse did all offences beare And then will he by his imperiall might Blot their transgressions cleane out of his sight Stand stedfast man and striue thou to attaine That high immortall Crowne of puritie Till death approach still faithfull doe remaine So shalt thou finde Heauens true felicitie Most glorious God oh heare my mournefull cryes With wings of mercie wipe my watrie eyes And so let all relenting sinners say With faith and hope in this vnstable state With trust in God driue damnd dispayre away And so come boldlie to Gods mercie gate In christian armour wrestle striue and venter Vntill thy soule the blissefull citie enter Wher's full fruition of thy soules saluation Where holy Angels still doe sing and laude Where Saints shall triumph at thy blest crownation And all the heauenly court thy ioyes applaude Warrant this Lord free vs from Sathans den Forget forgiue sweet Iesus say Amen FINIS Matth. 4. 18. Iohn 1. 42. Luke 6. 14. Marke 1. 16. Luke 5. 10. Marke 3. 16. Matth. 16. 17. Iohn 21. 15. Hieron lib. de viris illustr Anton. Chro. part 1. tit 6. cap. 4. parag 1. Actes 12. 4. verse 8. Eusebius eccle hist lib. 3. ca. 9. Matth. 8. 14. * 1. Pet. 1. Luke 4. 38. Mark 1. 31. Matth. 14. 29. * This was vpon Mount Thabor Matth. 17. 2. Marke 9 5. Luke 9. 35. * Iohn 21. 18. Euseb Eccle. hist lib. 3. ca. 1. An. Christi 70. Matth. 4. 21. Mark 3. 17. Clem. lib. 7. hypot. Actes 12. 2. Pet de natal lib. 6. cap. 133. Mat. 4. 21. Policrates B. of Ephesus Euseb lib. 3. cap. 16. An. Dom. 97. Ierenaeus lib. 5 Abdias The wordes of Iohn the Euangelist to the thiefe Tokens of true repentance Irenaeus lib. 2. cap. 39. Cle●n An. dom 99. Ierome saith he dyed the 68 yeere after the passion of Christ anno Dom. 101. Mat. 4. 18. Luk. 6. 14. Euseb lib. 3. cap. 1. Dorotheus Eccle. hist an Christi Luk. 6. 14. Marke 3. 18. Iohn 6. 9. Mat. 14. 19. Actes 8. 9. Anton. chron tit 6. cap 11. pet de natal de sanctis lib. 4. cap. 107. Iohn 20. verse 24 25 26 27 28. Agbasus wrot an Epistle vnto Christ acknoledging him to be the soone of God Christ writ to Agbarus againe Euseb lib. 1. cap. 15. Anton. chron Abdias Apost hist lib. 9. Luk 6. 14. Mark 3. 18. Mat. 10. 3. Dorotheus Abdias B. of Babilon pet de natal lib. 7. cap. 103. Anton chron tit 6. cap. 12. Mark 3. 18. Abdias hist aspost lib. 7. Euseb Eccle. hist lib. 2. cap. 22. Clemen lib. 6. Aegesippi s li. 5. Ioseph Antiq. lib. 20 cap. 16. Abd hist apo Dorotheus Anton. chron part 1. tit 6. cap. 8. anno Dō 6. Luk. 6. 15. Aegesippus writeth that Cleopas was brother to Ioseph Simon was the second B. of Ierusalem He was crucified anno dō 110. Euseb lib. 3. cap. 11. 29. Luk. 6. 16. Mark 3. 18. Dorotheus Eccle. hist Acts. 1. 26. Pet. de natal lib. 3. cap. 149. Anton. chron tit 6. cap. 15. Act. 7. 58. Act. 8. 3. Euseb lib. 2. cap. 1. Ex Hieron lib. de viris illust Euseb lib. 2. cap. 1. Act. 9. 4. Anno Chr. 35. Euseb lib. 3. cap. 27. Abdias de viris lib. 2. The summe of Paules doctrine Paul condemned Euseb lib 2. cap. 2. lib. 1. cap. 1. anno Christi 70. Dorotheus Eccle hist Euseb lib 2. cap. 16. cap. 25. Dorotheus Actes 6. 5. Euseb lib. 2. cap. 1. Actes 7. 59. Actes 8. 2. Luke 13. 34. Stephen signifieth a crowne Matth. 10. 38. 39. Matth. 16. 24 25. Psalm 34. 19. Matth. 10. 22. The number of Martyrs in the primitiue Church