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A04391	Seauen helpes to Heauen Shewing 1. How to auoid the curse. 2. How to beare the crosse. 3. How to build the conscience. 4. How with Moses to see Canaan. 5. Simeons dying song, directing to liue holily and dye happily. 6. Comforts for Christians against distresses in life, and feare of death. 7. Feruent prayers, to beare sicknesse patiently, and dye preparedly. The second edition: much enlarged by Steuen Ierome, late preacher at S. Brides. Seene and allowed.; Moses his sight of Canaan	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1614 (1614)	STC 14512.3; ESTC S118682	265,158	563

knoweth what is best for thee ibid. 7 Pouertie hinders not the acceptance of thy Prayers 508 8 If thou be poore in spirit thou art rich in Christ 509 9 Pouerty is no hinderance to thy saluation 510 10 The lesse thou receiuest the lesse shall thine accounts be 511 11 The Lord hath a care of thee euen for the things of this life 512 12 And can blesse a small portion vnto thee 514 13 Christ himselfe and the most excellent Saints haue beene poore on earth 516 MOSES His sight of Sion applyed to encourage and direct euery Christian to his heauenly CANAAN NVMB. 27.1.2.3.4 And Zelophehad the Sonne of Hepher had no Sonnes but Daughters CHAP. I. The case of the inheritance of Daughters propounded Sect. 1. BEcause this case of the Daughters of Zelophehad is extraordinary and not obuious in the Scriptures besides in any the like example it will not be amisse lying in the forefront of the Chapter bordering vpon that of Moses his warning to dye since it concernes a subiect not vsuall the title of the Womans Inheritance to touch it in some perticulars and the rather because it was the last case that Moses adiudged immediately before that the Lord himselfe sentenced and adiudged him to dye In which though there be many things worthy our exact dilating and vrging both pleasing and profitable as would appeare in the opening and applying of this Scripture yet I choose rather from the warrant and writings of an excellent Light in our Church according to his Method to commend vnto you these Notes and Obseruations Note 1 Here then first note how carefull these Daughters are of a place among the people of God in the Earthly Canaan which was a type of the Heauenly Ought not all wee to be as carefull for that Heauenly yes and more carefull so no doubt are Gods Children when their eyes be opened and by name Women for although many are busied about attyres and vaine shewes to make them pleasing vnto men yet others doe seeke by all meanes for that eternall rest and how to be pleasing vnto God which is the onely good and perfect way Fauour is deceitfull and beautie is vanitie but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised Prou. 3.30 Sect. 2. How cases are wisely to be carried before the Magistrate Note 2 OBserue how these Daughters goe not vp and downe from Tent to Tent from one to another tatling and pratling murmuring and complaining but directly they goe to the Magistrate and there exhibite their desire waiting for reliefe and order from him so should all men doe not marring a good cause with ill handling Being come to him see how modestly and womanly they propound their matter without any vnfitting words of choler or anger or any vnseemely behauiour any way see againe how vvisely they preuent an obiection that might haue beene made of their Father that happily he was one of those Rebels that tooke part with Corah Dathan and Abiram and so perished No say they our Father dyed in the Wildernesse and he was not among the assembly of them that were assembled against the Lord in the Companie of Corah but dyed in his sinne that is as all sinners must for death is the reward of sinne c. Where you may see what a comfort what a credit and glory honest Parents be to their Children they leaue a good name behinde them which makes their children bold to speak of them when others must hang their heads and blush eyther to mention them themselues or to heare them spoken of by others A great motiue to all Parents euen for this cause to be carefull of their carriage Sect. 3. The true rule of iudging cases Consultation with God FOr the iudgement and resolution of this request it is said in the 5. vers Then Moses brought their cause before the Lord. And the Lord spake vnto Moses saying The daughters of Zelophehad speake right c. Before you see that the cause was brought before Moses and Eliazer and all the Princes such a coniunction there was of the ciuill Magistrates and Ecclesiasticall Ministers together in hearing of causes which continueth euer since as appeareth in good records of Antiquitie But neyther Moses nor Aaron spake till they had receiued resolution from God and vnderstood his will Note 3 In like manner should it be still with all Iudges first to know and vnderstand and then to iudge wherein the Lord still is ayding and directing although not by speaking as to Moses yet by his Spirit of wisedome and vnderstanding of counsell and knowledge men vsing the meanes as they ought of learning and prayer Be wise ye Kings and be learned yee that are Iudges of the earth For Prayer if any lacke wisedome let him aske it of God as Salomon did which giueth to all men liberally and reprocheth no man and it shall be giuen him c. Note 4 Another vse againe men may well make here euen a caueat for Plaintiffes and Defendants to haue but such causes as if they be brought before GOD may be approued as this was of the Daughters of Zelophehad but alacke should the most of our suites and controuersies in these dayes be brought to this touch and tryall how impious how hatefull how vile would they appeare The all-holy God is offended with our braules much more with our wicked paines costs and charges to effect the madnesse and malice of our Hell-heated harts in bringing to passe our diuellish designes and pestilent plots against our Brethren that I may say nothing of them that pleade them to the vttermost of their wit and cunning daubing them ouer with humane Eloquence and painting them out with filed and flowing words against their owne consciences and that knowledge which they haue both in the Lawes of God and man Is it not a grieuous fault to iustifie a wicked man or to condemne an Innocent man and is it not so in causes Doth God pronounce a woe against the one and is hee not wroth with the other Well for this cause if it were nothing else there must needes be a generall Iudgement that those things may be pleaded and iudged before the Lord which are wrongfully pleaded and adiudged here Well God giue eyes and feeling I say no more Sect. 4. The case adiudged and spiritually applyed GOds answere you see now following first perticular in regard of these women The Daughters of Zelophe had spake right thou shalt giue them a possession to inherit amongst their Fathers Brethren and shalt turne the inheritance of their Father vnto them Then generally for a Law to others If any man dye and haue no Sonne then yee shall turne his inheritance vnto his Daughter and if bee haue no Daughter yee shall giue his Inheritance vnto his Brethren and if hee haue no Brethren yee shall giue his Inheritance vnto his Fathers Brethren And if his Father haue no Brethren yee shall giue

rich prizes Old age is venerable youth is lusty but death reuerenceth not the gray hayres of the one for though Adam Enoch Sem Methusalem Malaleel Iaired Noah Heber and others in the primitiue times as also Arganton Nestor Valerius Coruinus Epiminedes Metellus Terentia Clodia Hipocrates Sybill and infinite others amongst Christians and Heathens liued so long that the Historians write and Poets sing that Tercentum Messes c. That they liued their one two and three hundreds yet though their lifes day were very long at last came Euening Song Neyther respecteth it the greene lockes of the young but like an Eagle and Vultur seazeth on the flesh of Infants as in the murther of Bethlems Infants and in the death of many Children younger then Dauids Childe that dyed Experience saith that Prima quae c. The houre that gaue them breath did end that houre in death as Seneca saith of others Yea Mista c. Both young and old Deaths cruell armes infold Et fugacem c. The man can neyther flie him nor the youth passe by him Hazael was as swift as a Roe and Atlanta was too swift for a woman yet Death ouertooke them Goliah was a great fellow but Death was greater Sampson was strong but Death was stronger it killed him that killed a thousand with the iaw-bone of an Asse it cut downe him that pluckt vp trees by the rootes That Enceladus that great darter could not shunne his darts neyther can any for it is like that Ram●ne which Daniel saw in his Vision that shakes his hornes against the East and the West the North and the South and the beasts are notable to resist him It is like a Haruester that with his Sickle cuts downe all Corne and Tares good and bad Mors resecat mors omne necat nullumque veretur What ere it meetes with vp it sheares For none it fauours none it feares It is a mad Dog that bites all as it hath his name like the Vsurer of biting so Mor● mordet omnes c. It bites all yea euen the biting Vsurers and grindes those that grinde the faces of the poore It is a fire vnsatiable burning the greene Iuie and the cragged Oake young and old It is a Tyrant ouer Tyrants bringing them to their graues cum eaede vulnere as it did Nero and Domitian with bloudy heads It is like the Sea terrible not to be dramd not to be turned out of his channell carrying all away with it by as many wayes as there be wayes to the Sea all waters runne to the Sea and all men tend to their earth It is like the Lyon in the Fable to whose denne many Beasts went but none returned It accepts as many as comes like the Harlot in the Prouerbs but none returnes since like those Oxe-like beastly fooles that goe in to a whore they goe into the chamber of death like a couetous Niggard it receiues all but parts with none Spaires none neque moribus nec aetati Nay saith a Papist nec Matri vitae nec vitae neyther the Virgin Mary which they say is the Mother of life nor CHRIST the life it selfe then much lesse will it spare vs for Pallida mors equ● pulsat pede c. With aequall foote it knockes the gate Both of the rich and poore estate And that so indifferently that as one saith if hee should make choyse of a Iudge in the whole world he would chuse Death it is not corrupted like a corrupt Officer but is as vnpartiall as imperiall Thus much for the necessitie of dying Now it is time by Vse and Application to bring home vvhat hath beene said vnto the heart of euery Reader First therefore from the necessitie of death let it teach vs not too much to be in loue with life or with any thing in this life What a folly is it for a man to set his heart vpon a strange woman in a strange Country whose face it is likely hee shall neuer see more If Sampson had knowne how soone he should haue beene taken from his Dalilah hee would neuer haue so doated on her if Sichem had knowne how speedily his lusting loue to Dinah would haue occasioned his destruction hee would rather haue loathed her before his folly with her as Ammon did Thamar after then haue loued her If wee did but ponder how soone vvee are to leaue these perishing pleasures and profits which will be our ruine and irreuocable destruction wee would cast them from vs as a menstruous cloath wee would hate them as wee doe a Toade detest them as wee doe the Diuell and flye from them as Moses from his rod when it turned into a Serpent Oh the thought of death may moderate euen lawfull affections and curbethem in their idolatrous exorbitancie from being immeasurable least by a violencie of desires they be carryed away after any outward thing that wee doe inioy and may cause vs as it did the holy Patriarks Prophets Apostles primitiue Christians ancient and moderne Martyres to leaue father and mother wife and childe house and land portion and pence for Christs cause voluntarily as Moses did the pleasures of Pharaohs Court since as Horace hath it Linquenda tellus c. Wee must leaue them will we nill wee Necessarily and sure if vvee ought to leaue in affection the good things that vvee liue by much more vvee ought to leaue both in Affection and Action the sinnes that vvee perish by ere vvee leaue the vvorld least wee dye as vvicked men haue dyed before vs as wretchedly as vvickedly Secondly since wee must all dye and that as wee haue heard because vvee haue sinned then if wee loue life as all doe naturally let vs hate sinne that depriues vs of life A man that loues his Wife dearely cannot loue him that would make a breach betwixt them or deuorce him from her hee that loues his life me thinkes should not loue the intentiue murtherer that plots and contriues his death This disturber this destroyer is Sinne It is a right Faux a plotter of thy perdition a right Cateline a conspirator of thy calamitie it watcheth opportunities as the Foxe doth the Hare as the Lyon doth the Dogge as Iael did S●sera as Iudith did Holofernes and as Delilah did Sampson when to deceiue thee when to destroy thee yea euen when it fawnes vpon thee and flatters thee and playes with thee then like the Cars play with the Mouse it purposeth to prey vpon thee Thus it fawned and flattered vpon Adam and Eue and offered them as Witches and poysoners offer Children an Apple to play withall but by this Apple it killed them so hath it done all mankinde besides and wilt thou fauour it Zealous was his spirit that once expostulated with one as I now with thee Peccatum omnes maiores tuos occidit tu fouis Sin saith one hath slaine all thy Predecessors and Ancestors and wilt thou