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A06192	The merchant reall. Preached by VVilliam Loe Doctour of Diuinitie chaplaine to the kings sacred maiestie, and pastour of the Englishe church of merchants adventurers residing at Hamboroughe in Saxonie	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1620 (1620)	STC 16688; ESTC S119918	69,019	116

die for the lord Iesus Act. 10 11 He had learned this lesson of his master vvho had taught him That if any man vvould come after him he must deny himselfe take vp his crosse Matth. 16.24 followe him What other things then denying our ovvne frends our ovvne goods our ovvne selues doth that myrhe mortification that dying burying vvith Christ signifie vvhereof so oft is made mention in scripture For vve are but strangers pilgrims like the children of Israell in vvhose tvvo forty stations is figured resembled the race of a Christian For they came to Rameses the store house of the Egiptians from thence to Succoth so to Etham in the edge of the vvildernes From thence to Pihiroth at the red sea before Migdoll So on to Marah vvhere they vvere three dayes vvithout vvater there they murmur From thence to Elim vvhere they found tvvelue fountaines seauenty palme trees Thence to the red sea in the desert of Syn vvhere they had quailes Manna so on till they had finished forty tvvo stations a cloud by day a pillar of fire by night being their pilotts to guide them Matth. 1. And as Christ had in his generatiō three fourteenes From Abraham to Dauid from Dauid to the captiuity from the Captiuity to Christ vvhich in all make forty tvvo So if vve haue so many fleetings as Dauid calls them in the psalmes in our regeneration yet must vve goe on continue vntill vve haue finished our course We see it vvas so in Christ For being yet an infant he must flie into Egipte back againe into the land of Israell turne a side into the parts of Galilee for feare of Archelaus the the sonne of Herod In all his life from the crach to the Crosse vvhat see vve but stations of vvoe sorrovve He that shall but cast his eie to see Paules peregrination from place to place to Cyprus to Iconium Lystra Der be Antioch to Thesolonica Beraea Athens Ephesus Miletū Ierusalem tovvard Rome suffered shipvvracke at Mileta novve called Malta Lastly vvas beheaded at Rome What sees a man I say in all this his peregrination but a sea of sorrovve sobbs sighes a perfect resemblance of the travaile of regeneration The right of this appeares to gods children For they knovve that here they are but pilgrimes in respect of their stay pay vvay Noe stay Iob. 14. Thou shalt seeke me to morrovv I shall not be In respecte of pay Noe peny noe PATER NOSTER Poore is the entertaynement that a traueler shall find that hath noe mony Lastly in respecte of our vvay for euery day vve goe forvvards Secondly gods children knovve that they must not be here allvvaies 1. Cor. 15. in respect of their sinne vvhich causeth death For the angell of paradise must vvith his svvord cut the tvvine of this life before vve can tast the tree of the other life Thirdly in respect of the place wherein they liue vvhich Iob calls cottages of clay Job 4. God calls the land of the curse Genes 3. Dauid calls the land of the dead The philosophers tearmed the sublunary region vvhere vve enquire still vvhat state the moone is in And Barnard calls it the place vvherein vve liue by deaths for vvhatsoeuer flyes in heauen or goes vpon the earth or glides in the vvaters that is eateable vve bury in our stomackes so vve liue by their deaths Againe right reason shevves this that there must needs be a dissolution vve must goe from our selues First because our bodies are composed of diuerse qualityes vvhich cannot endure For a kingdome deuided against it selfe cannot stand Secondly from the morall cause vvhich is sinne sinne causeth death Thirdly from the counsellor to sinne vvhich vvas the deuill by vvhose enuy sinne entered death by sinne Lastly by the decree sentance vpon that sinne For as there vvent a decree from Augustus Cesar that all the vvorld should be taxed Luc. 2.1 So there is a statute in heauen concluded by the great Cesar of heauen earth that all men must once die Heb. 9. Fourthly gods children knovve that vvhen they goe from themselues they goe to their holy burgeshipe Phil 3.20 Ephe. 2.19 2. Cor. 5. Ioh. 14. to their sacred seruice to their heauenly entertaynment to their abiding place In a vvord this light of the scripture right of reason shevves this conclusion That if vve vvil not by denying our ovvne frends our ovvne goods our ovvne selues in respecte of Christ be buried vvith CHRIST be crucified vvith him suffer vvith him be made conformable vnto him vve shal neuer liue vvith him raigne vvith him or be glorified by him Practice 1 The practice of this is first of direction For in a Christianslife there is no faring delitiously euery day Luc. 16. Matth. 7. Noe going on in a broad vvay CHRIST directs it saith If ye vvere of the vvorld the vvorld vvould loue his ovvne but because ye are not of the vvorld but I haue chosen you out of the vvorld Ioh. 15.19 therefore the vvorld hateth you but a reall Christian must cast avvay all that hindereth his race as the blind man cast avvay his cloke Heb. 12.1 Ma● 10. follovved Christ For euery child of god must knovve that this a rule case that euery citizen of heauen is a stranger on earth so Jacob speakes to Pharoh So Dauid to god Gen. 4● 9 And Peter exhorteth therevnto that vvee should pass the tyme of our dvvelling in feare 1. Chro. 29 15. 1. Pet. 1.17 1. Pet. 2.11.12 againe he saith Dearly beloued I beseech you as strangers pilgrims abstaine from fleshly lusts vvhich fight against the soule haue your conuersation honest among the Gentiles that they vvhich speake euill of you as euill doers may by your good vvorkes vvhich they shall see glorifie your father in the day of your visitation Practice 2 The second practice is a full declaration of our misery gods mercie The Israelites doe not allvvaies march on forvvards to Elim vvhere are fountaines palme trees as before but retyres to Marah to the vvaters of bitternes The navigator doth not allvvaies saile before the vvind for then he vvould neuer learne to bring his tacke a boord It appeareth euidently that god vvho knovves vs knovves vvhat is best for vs therefore preuenteth our peeuishnes vvith his pitty For hovve vnvvilling haue gods deerest children bine to enter into his seruice to goe from themselues Moses excuseth himself that he is not elequent Ieremy saith that he is a child Lot lingereth to gett out of Sodom Confes lib 8.1 2 7. S Augustine hauing a long conflicte at Rome goeth to Millain to heare S. Ambrose yet being not satisfied for resolution He complaines sayth Hovve long lord hovve long shall I still say as the crovv sayth CRAS CRAS