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A35684	Pelecanicidium, or, The Christian adviser against self-murder together with a guide and the pilgrims passe to the land of the living : in three books.	Denny, William, Sir, 1603 or 4-1676.; Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702.	1653 (1653)	Wing D1051; ESTC R22350	177,897	342

praise For high thy Way 's It leads Thee up to Skie To Stars thou shalt be nigh Where soaring Eagles flie Thou shalt pass Clouds that swim in Air Unto a Place that 's clear and fair No Fogs thy sight shall there impair Now Contemplations HOLY HILL ascend But Reverence bids at every Step to bend For humble climbing gains this Journeyes End And when th' ast gain'd the towring Top and look'st below All Things will then to Sight so pettie little show As Thou scarce Them or Mortals Thee will hardly know 12. Behold the Place A Narrow Space Like up-cast Face Or as some Perspective Through which Eyes Beams do drive At th' Object far t' arrive As in an Astrolabe the Dame Does pierce with sight the heavenly Frame To th' Onely One I AM by Name She with weak Eyes does God in Essence see And by Reflex of 's Word eyes in One Three Though Eyes too weak alas for●s Mysterie First in His ESSENCE Him she INFINITE does finde IMMORTAL Him INCOMPREHENSIBLE by Minde Subsistences so Three to GOD by'Inbeeing joyn'd 13. SUBSISTENCES Amaze such Eyes Wu'd be too Wise. In their Inb'eeing may see How every One o' th' Three Exceedes Capacitie IMCOMPREHENSIBLE th' are so INEFFABLE by all that know From such their In-beeing doth flow The Persons COESSENTIALITIE So does She apprehend the TRINITIE And so does finde it in the UNITIE Their Emanation or Procession there is none Can comprehend or utter All Conceits out-gone So Coeternall so Coequall Three in One. Let Gospel show Church read such Depth She lets alone 14. Her loftie Bower Or living Tower Whose top doth flower Although it raise her high And helps her piercing Eye To dart up through the skie And into Heaven to ayme aright Where Glorie is Eternall Light Her Eye 's too weak yet for the Sight But there sits mounted and her Garments are Embroid'red o're with many a Gemmie Starre An Eagle pierched from her standes not farre With constant Looke upon the Radiating Sunne As if he watcht his Steeds that 'bout the World do run Whose wings oft trye a Course before the Day be done 15. There thus alone With Love oregone Views Th' Only One Her Soul 's a spirie Fire Of Extasi'd Desire And flames the more the nigher So his Perfection does behold As in his Attributes are told None but Himself can God unfold Amazement seizes on her Dazzled Sence At Sight of the Mysterious Excellence O' th' TRINITIE All Energies from thence What Pen can write Or skill can read His Holy Name All tongues are Dumb and each attempting hand is lame Had he not told Himself how could she know I am 16. Her too weak Bow Shoots not to know What 's lockt from show As in Himself God None Does know but God alone Who 's Infinite and One. She studies not their Braine to cure Wu'd finde a Circles Quadrature Her Thoughts are hallow'd sober pure Enough 's for her His Back-Parts She behold She dares not further then 's reveal'd be bold Nor knows she how to go If not first told And what is so reveal'd enough to Good Life is She sees without bold prying into Mysteries No vein she has to search for what vain searching ' t is 17. With humble bent With meek Ascent With Minde intent From Gods Sufficience shee Doth his Efficience see Her knowledge such must be Such are her Faith 's attempting Wings By which she climbes to holy Things And to Capacitie Them bringes These unto Consolation are the Prop And Pietie's Provokers to the Top And in pursuit of these she makes no stop In Gods Sufficience all Fulnesse sees more shall In His Efficiencie as in His Publick Hall She views how wondrous in his Works Gods All in All. 18. HIM absolute None ought Dispute None can confute For in his Essence Shee Beholds ETERNITIE 'Fore world or ought was He. Thus does She raise a vig'rous Look 'Fore Time or storm but by one Book That any Their Creation took As Relative tow'rds Him She Eye does place Upon the first o' th Intellectual Race Reads Angels made Some stood some lost their place To those adher'd and stood the great Creator gave Their Confirmation Everlasting Blisse to have But those that fell were thrust to Hell in chains of Slave 19. Then Tophet told Ordain'd of old Prepar'd to hold Those Fiends in quenchlesse fire T' endure Th' Almighties Ire In Pains that ne'er expire Then Tophet was ordain'd to be And then prepared by Decree Prepared onely Shee does see And for those onely was that horrid Den For Reprobation absolute Decreed then As their Predestination it had been As Relative She GOD Creator doth perceive O' th' World call'd Visible Man second Race doth give Man second Race of Intellectuals then made did live 20. By Satans Spell Alas Man fell Deserving Hell Inward Adhaesion lost Outward Obedience crost Soul's Bodie 's curse it cost Forfeit was Nature with drawn Grace Glorie come short of from blest Place So fell both Man and all his Race Th' Interpellation of th' Eternall Word Did Mercie 's Miracle for him afford And was first means for Man to be restor'd His standing in the Gappe Did Execution stay His Superceeding It was stop in Sentence Way His Sponsion gain'd Decree that He the Debt should pay 21. 'T was co-decreed For such a Deed As Man did need The Word should Flesh become And satisfie God's Doome By Suff'ring in Mans Roome So sanctified was Nature then Grace Glorie was restor'd agen In that Decree to help fallen Men. As co-decreed coactuated were Th' Apostles place Mediators he should bear Though both distinct yet both on him t' appear Th' Apostleship by Unction of the Holy Ghost The Principle of Government for Church so tost And speciall Ordinances Fount choice Men t' accost 22. And those were given From bounteous Heaven In Portions even Yet were they severall As to those Patriarchs all As Moses speciall Call In Shadow Revelation was Redemption so in Type did passe So read first Times The future Case Administrations interlegal came By th' Baptists Ministrie before that Lambe To whom the Angel gave the Holy Name But th' Evangelical deliver'd were to th' Jews And to the twelve Apostles whom Christs Self did choose And to All Nations that would not the same refuse 23. Time did at full The Curtain pull And types annul In Substance Revelation In Truth appear'd Salvation To Jew to every Nation Then did break forth the shining Light O' th' Gospel to appear more bright Is represented to her Sight Of Jew was borne unto the Jew Christ came And to them first He published his Name Then to the Gentiles did He do the same To several Ages were all These Administrations In their respective times emergent Revelations Summ'd and upon Record were Scripture Affirmations 24. MEDIATORS Place By UNION was Of Natures as Redemptions Principle Regenerations Well Of Life to those that fell So Nature sanctifi'd new stood Restor'd is Grace Glory made

PEL●●●●ICIDIVM OR THE CHRISTIAN ADVISER AGAINST Self-Murder Together with A Guide and the Pilgrims Passe To the Land of the Living In Three Books Soles occidere redire possunt Senec. LONDON Printed for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and are to be sold at the Signe of the George in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1653. PELLICANICINIUM SInce All the World is Folly well may one Be th' Hieroglyphick not alone As unprun'd Trees Men all abroad expresse In strange Wild growths A Wildernesse In which alone does dwell each friendless Man Each ' mong'st the rest 's A Pellican This That about the Neast flame hidden brings To take The Foule with singed wings Whose Piety to save her Young from Fire Makes her a Prey to sharp Desire This Pellican owns none that so unclean Do Her Self-Death's Example meane Yet hath she heard within her lonely Place As she t' her Young did put the Case The shreiking Newes that from New Troy did cry Self-murder which did cause her fly From Wildernesse of Beasts to That of Men Where each House seems A Dragon's Den. With stretched Pineons she her Flight does take Leaves Young does not her Young forsake And to that Forrest of hewn Trees squar'd stone Where Thousands dwell yet live Alone She comes And on a sacred Mountain's Head Takes stand and then the Round does tread Earst dedicated was that Place to Paul Not for his cruell Deeds when Saul But for such Acts his Courage did discusse With Beasts in Fight at Ephesus Upon that lofty seeming Ruine she Does all about Destruction see There mounted high as on a Tower she stands To ' th' Desart sings Divine Commands To That forsaken Place with op'ning Wings Pointing her Beak t' her Breast she sings This uncouth Note Why changed Mortalls Why With horrid Deeds thus blast ye Skye How are your Voices chang'd too by done Wrong Now Groanes now Cryes beare Parts in Song And what so tunable was Sweet before Now beares the Burthen does deplore Were once your Hands too smooth your Face too fair Must Faith be traffick for Despair Ah Troynovant Thy too unhappy state May justly feare from Heaven Troy's Fate Which nought can hinder but such ●louds from Eyes Of Penitence as drown Sin 's Cryes Who made The World Who turns the starry Ball Is not Th' Allmighty Head of All What 's Pleasure made is ord'red by His Will His Hests were Lawes And must be still 'T is not Inferiour Wit of things below Can cause by wisdome Ought to grow His Creatures All are All from Him derive Without Him there is Nought can thrive Let Him but turne his Back to Self leave all I' th' darke they reel to ruine fall And but His Way Most High can Not be found His Walk is Not like Paths on ground What Blindnesse then possest bewitched sight That needs it must forsake The Right What unknown God do you adore in vain What Idols set you up in brain Are Those Thy Gods that did from Egypt free Or what doest call thy Liberty Or what Religion is it that you coine When All Sins with Devotion joyne Is Heaven not just or does forget to pay The Debt you scoar'd but yesterday Dispute it not Nor cast with recklesse Mind Approaching Judgments so behind Hark! How the Night-Ravens croak Strange sights appear When Seasons alter Judgment 's near When Self-Destruction does among you rage Soon Publick Fury may engage O stand not out Apostates least you burne To common Ashes in One Urne Returne to Life as I to Death for Young returne The Prooeme SInce Adam's Fall his Posterity became Partakers not Onely of his Sin but his Sorrow I will greatly multiply thy Sorrow and thy Conception In sorrow shalt thou bring forth c. said God to Eve Gen. 3. 16. Grief is antienter than the Eldest Son of the World And by production of Time as Sin increased Sorrow had the bigger growth The Dayes of the Years of my Pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty Years Few and Evill have the Dayes of the Years of my Life been and have not attained unto the Dayes of the Yeares of the Life of my Fathers in the dayes of their Pilgrimage So Iacob to Pharaoh Gen 47. 9. Every Day was in new Labour and every Minute a step onward in Pilgrimage Life then is a Long Journey on Foot And the further we goe the wearier we are It is Fabled of Iupiter that being wearied with the brabbles of Pleasure and Sorrow he linkt them together with an Adamantine Chain that the One should not part from the Other Invicem cedunt Dolor ac Voluptas Sayes the Poet Grief hangs at the Skirt of Pleasure Sorrow is her close Attendant Why make men then such a Wonder at the Miseries of the world As if they had not heard of them Why are some so dejected at usual and unavoydable Burthens groaning and crying out under them yea and many times thinking to throw them off overthrow themselves And whence the Source of All This but that they have laid by as uselesse the Reason of Men and cast off or forgotten the Religion of Christians For as their Reason may be sufficiently informed by the Many Experiments in This World of the Instability and Violence of the same which may render Notions enough to convince the Understanding Religion likewise might in the Soundness of it's Principles and by the strength of it's Superstructures so evidence by Faith the Certainty of Hope and Assurance of Future Enjoyment of Celestiall Things that Our Souls being as it were transanimated by Divine Contemplation should not onely despise the Calamities of This World as Trifles But rather rejoyce in the Blessing to suffer Crosses and Afflictions Here especially to be accounted worthy thereof in A Good Cause These being Nothing in their Greatest Bulk and Number compared with the Unspeakable Rejoycings of Hereafter It is want of Faith that makes us fall Below our Reasons and to subject Our selves to a Lower Kind of sense than Bruites So Geat is the Punishment of God for Our Aversion and Turning Our backs upon Him that instead of Being near the Degree of the Angells As He created us He leaves Us infatuated to fall into a grosser sense than Beasts How else can it possibly come to pass that Any Distresse should so overpower Us to destroy Our own Lives As if we had proclaim'd war against Our selues which even Nature by Instinct and it 's own secret Impulse doth dictate to preserve Cor est primum Vivens et ultimum moriens The Heart is readiest to welcome Life at First and most loath to part with it at Last by the Adhaesion of Nature which is a Lecture of Self-preservation unto All. How much more are we to listen to and obey The Divine Law putting so strict an Obligation upon Us when It commands Thou shalt not Kill This considered I cannot but stand Amazed at the Steam of so much Humane Bloud running in streams and the open Veins dayly bleeding of so many Christians