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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06685	The soules pilgrimage to a celestial glorie: or, the perfect vvay to heaven and to God. Written by J.M. Master of Arts	Monlas, John.; Maxwell, James, b. 1581, attributed name.	1634 (1634)	STC 17141; ESTC S102722	91,677	186

lids he seeth all his Kigdome he beholdeth all his subjects in a word hee hath eyes Eagles eyes which though soaring and flying in the highest clouds yet seeth clearely in the lowest places of the earth His eares are alwayes open to heare the cries and complaints of his subjects he delighteth in that pleasant harmony in that sweet consort and in those delightfull tones and Diapasons caused by the sweet union and concord of all his Provinces and Subjects Hee smelleth with an incredible content the delectable the delectable odours which embalme his spirits hee senteth with delight the perfumes proceeding from the vowes prayers and obedience which his faithfull subjects sweare to his service Hee tasteth what is good or evill what is sweet or bitter for the good and case of his people Hee himselfe feeleth hee sets his hand to the worke hee considereth what is hard and offensive to cut it off hee chooseth what is soft and easie to conserue it In a word the time would faile us sooner then our conceptions upon so royall a subject full of admirable considerations notwithstanding we will be contented onely with this As we see that all the members of the body take their nourishment and receive their sustenance by the mouth which sendeth the foode into the stomack as into a common storehouse thence to bee distributed according to every members neede from whence are first sent to the head by a very remarkable gratitude and acknowledgement the best and most subtill for the nourishment of the braine the seate of the understanding the spring of the senses and the cause of his subsistance so must the best and fairest of the Kingdome be reserved and dedicated to the Prince which is the head and first mover thereof The examples of it are yet now a dayes familiar that Kings and Princes give their particular possessions to their Subjects on condition of some yeerely acknowledgement which they are obliged to according to their agreement and conventions Againe there is no Kingdome in the world but hath beene sometimes conquered and consequently all the lands thereof are absolutely in the Conquerours hand to dispose of at his pleasure now it is the custome of a new and victorious Prince to bestowe them on whom he pleaseth alwayes reserving to himselfe some tribute or homage for it that the remembrance of his liberall favour may never be forgotten Againe we reade not that those which went to seeke new habitations did goe confusedly and disorderly and in equall authority but they went all under the colours and conduct of some chiefe which afterwards became the King and Prince of that land the which hee distributed according to the deserts or affection which hee bare to his souldiers So we reade Numb 34. Chapter that Eleazar and Ioshuah divided among the Israelites the land of Canaan which they had conquered by the sword and yet no mention is made that that valiant Captaine Ioshuah which had brought them into that land flowing with milk and honey reserved any portion thereof for his share for the which he had beene questionlesse blamed by the Israelites had they not sufficiently knowne that seeing hee had put them in possession of so large a territory they were at his command The Apostles had nothing and yet possessed all the riches of the faithfull of whom they were as Kings and Princes and therfore in signe of acknowledgement all the new Christians brought their goods to their feet Acts Chap. 5. for who would not despise all his wealth for love If a man should give all the substance of his house for love they would greatly contemne it saith Salomon Cantic 8.7 But what horrible ingratitude would that be in him that should doe otherwise seeing that paines care and unquietnesse follow commonly the Scepter and that there is no burthen so heavie as a Crowne and the reason hereof is manifest to wit that a private and particular man aymeth no further then to his houshold bufinesse but the King must embrace all the affaires of his Kingdome hee must care for all and provide for all which maketh Salust say That a great Empire is alwayes accompanied with great cares and troublesome labours and with much anxiety and vexation of minde Seleucus in Plutarke said That if men knew how troublesom a thing it is to governe a Kingdome they would scorne to reach and take up a Diadem from the ground this was the cause why Numa at the first refused the Kingdome offered unto him by the Romanes but in the end overcome by their importunity he accepted it with griefe saying That to raigne was greatly to serue the gods thinking to deserue much from them by taking upon him so heavie a burthen In a word let us say with Cassiodorus that Sub imperio boni principis omnium fortunae moresque proficiunt Vnder a good Princes government the goods of all encrease and their manners are augmented and enriched in civility Now as in a faire meadowe enamelled and beautified with a thousand different kindes of flowers one may finde Serpents Vipers and Toades which defile and infect by their mortall venome the rich and naturall Tapistry the beauty goodnesse and vertue of an infinite number of Simples and wholesome hearbs wherewith it is richly diapred So wee see to our griefe that in the bosome and middest of the fairest richest and most illustrious Kingdomes the corruption of the age aid the infection of vices are produced and propagated Some Ravens which goe about presaging and fore-telling their sinister and lamentable predictions who by their odious voyce to them at least that have good soules and generous hearts and affections cry out aloud That it is the facility weaknesse of men which hath brought in this ambition of mastering and governing the nations That it is more by usurpation then by election or by divine ordinance that they have taken the rule and Empire over Kingdomes and they alledge for proose of their saying that the first King that ever was in the world to wit Nimrod came to the Crowne by force and violence and not by the ordinance of God That all Empires for the most part were gotten by the sword by force of Armes by deceit by injustice by a foolish and desperate ambition that hath often covered the fields with slaughtered bodies and made them overflowe with blood when one Prince offended and angry with another sought to revenge himselfe with the lives of his miserable subjects That the establishing of Monarchs is simply humane alleging that of Saint Peter 1. Epistle 2. Chap. ver 13. Submit your selues unto all manner of ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be unto the King as unto the Superiour or unto Governours as unto them that are sent of him But these both ignorant malicious Loyolites and Anabaptists stop for the nonce their cares that they may not heare this lowd resounding voyce from heaven which convinceth them of malice and would recall them from

honourable charge of deliverer Prince and lawgiver of his people The King and Prophet David had this vertue in great measure in him for which cause God changing his Sheepheards crooke into a Roy all Scepter gave him victory over a world of enemies that rose up continually against him which maketh him to cry out in one of his Psalmes Lord remember David and his mansuetude or clemencie In the booke of Leviticus God commandeth the Priests to offer him a Lambe without blemish for a peace offering a Lambe is the symbole of mildnesse then according to that command hee that will receive the peace-makers recompense from God must offer him his soule full of gentlenesse and mildnesse The Lambe in the Revelation of all living creatures was onely found worthy to open the booke sealed with seaven seales so among all men the faithfull onely and among the faithfull the meeke shall bee able to open the booke of life there to behold his name written before the foundation of the world The Bridegroome in the Canticles calleth thus his beloved Come my Dove that art in the clefts of the rocke thy eyes are like Doves eyes and thy checkes like Turtles my Dove is alone and perfect Now it is familiar and common enough that of all creatures Doves are the symbols of mildnesse and meekenesse for it is noted that they have no gall And here to apply these places to our designe let us know that the Bridegroome in this epithalamium or marriage song is Iesus Christ himselfe speaking to his Church setting her forth by her lively colours by the pensill of his love shewing us in this comparison of the Dove the perfections wherewith shee is adorned where if wee waigh and consider diligently the force of every word wee shall finde them all emphaticall and deseruing a more particular search and obseruation He saith first Veni Columba mea come my Dove hee doth not call her my Eagle or my Hawke for those are creatures too cruell loving nothing but blood and slaughter and their humour is incompatible with the Bridegroomes bounty who desireth that the Church his well beloved Spouse bee altogether like him and therefore he calleth her my Dove as having no gall nor bitternesse in her soule When that sweet IESVS was baptized by Iohn in Iordane the three divine persons of the glorious Trinity were clearely manifested for the majestuous voyce of the Father was heard speaking from heaven thus This is my well beloved Sonne in whom I am well pleased Mathew 3.17 Iesus Christ was in Iordane and the holy Ghost descended from heaven like a Dove and lighted upon him from which place wee may draw this instruction that if wee desire to bee called the children of God if we wish to heare from heaven that gracious voyce speaking to our soules Thou art my well beloved Sonne in whom I am well pleased If wee aspire to that great happinesse to receive the spirit of grace mildnesse and meekenesse in our consciences Let us remember that wee must be like unto sweet IESVS our example hee was naked so must we put off cruelty malice and hatred he was in the water even so to enjoy so great a favour we must plunge our selues in the rivers of our teares in the Iordane of a holy and true repentance which may open our hearts and continually touch them with griefe for our fore-past offences It was Gods ordinance under the law of Moses that when a man was uncleane hee should for his purification resort to the Temple and there offer two Turtle Doves That we may light the torch of truth within the shadow of Moses law let us say that there is nothing that more infecteth and soyleth the soule then cruelty debates and hatred It is a Gangrene that gnaweth and undermineth her untill it seeth her absolutely possessed by wicked spirits but the onely remedy to this obstinate disease is to runne to the sacred Temple of Gods divine mercy there to offer him the gift of a mild meeke and peaceable conscience When Noah would know if the waters were withdrawne from upon the face of the earth he sent forth a Dove which came to him in the evening with an Olive branch in her mouth also he sent forth a Raven which returned not because hee stayd on the dead bodies and stinking carcasses of those which died in this inundation God in this example is represented unto us by Noah our soule by the Dove peace by the Olive branch it is God that staying in the Arke of heaven sendeth our soules to visite the inundations of this world which message faithfully to performe they do not sit on the highest and loftiest tops of Cedars arid Pine trees for they love not vanity nor the glory of this world they doe not pearch upon the Iuniper nor thornes of quarrels and contentions but upon the Olive tree of mildnesse and meekenesse wherewith they adorne themselues and so prepare themselues to returne into their heavenly Country there to give a true account of their journey But the Ravens that stayed upon the carcasses drowned by the flood are those blacke and infected soules that delight in nothing but quarrels and contentions and who so excessively love the corruptions of this world that they never returne to heaven from whence they tooke their first flight The excellencie of this particular peace cannot be sufficiently knowne without we consider the privation of it that is contemplate her contrary let us judge it by our selues for there is no man that sinneth not there is nothing more extrauagant in the world then a seared conscience nothing more tossed up and downe then a soule troubled and vexed by the unquietnesse of sinne for example doe wee seeke the meanes to revenge some injurie presently our minde runneth and rangeth all about to obtaine a sufficient satisfaction Our eyes dart and cast forth burning flames of wrath and rage our mouth proffereth nothing but injuries and blasphemies our feete cannot stand still our hands itch our hearts vomit revenge and our braines are so preoccupated by this damnable passion that there is nothing but confusion to be seene as in a clocke out of order whose wheeles are dismounted these be the effects of sinne that never gives rest to soule never so little touched by the venome of his passion Consider I pray a malefactor how bold and secret soever his crime be hee thinks neverthelesse that all know it the least looke altereth his face and for his contenance If hee thinke that to keepe off be good for him when he is in the fields he thinketh every bush a Sergeant to lay hold on him every tree a Hangman that stayes for him and every leafe that stirreth a witnesse to testifie his wickednesse Now contrariwise let us see the sweet rest and tranquillity of a soule that hath made her peace with her God whom shee loves with all her strength and that cherisheth her neighbour as much as her selfe who is not