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A16539	The last battell of the soule in death diuided into eight cof̃erences ... : whereby are shown the diuerse skirmishes that are between the soule of man on his death-bedde, and the enemies of our saluation : carefullie digested for the comfort of the sicke / by Mr. Zachary Boyd, preacher of Gods word at Glasgow.	Boyd, Zacharie, 1585?-1653.	1629 (1629)	STC 3447; ESTC S881	434,219	1,336

that tyme Ornan with his foure Sons while they were threshing Wheate saw also the Angel and hid themselues Dauid vpō that occasion bought the floore and offered Sacrifices with prayer and God answered him by fyre vpon the Altar of brunt offering and so God was pacified After Dauids death Solomon builded the Temple there It signifieth the feare or doctrine of GOD The sicke Man Let mee heare a little of that glorious Temple The Pastour It was seuen yeares in building The length thereof was threescore cubites and the breadth thereof twentie cubites and the hight thereof thritie cubites all the stones were readie for the wall before they were brought thither So that there was neither Hammer nor Axe nor any toole of yron heard in the House while it was in building Those that write of this Temple diuide it in three parts First toward the West was Sanctum Sanctorum the Holie of holies called also the Oracle This by a vaile was diuided from all the rest At the death of Christ this Vaile was rent from the top to the bottome Before that no man might enter into it but the hig●… Priest that but once in the year●… not without blood There stood the Arke wherein was the Pot of Mannah and Aarons Rod and the Tables of the Couenant The sicke Man While I was a Scholler I heard that passage confronted with another which declareth that neither the Mannah nor the Rod were in the Arke but onelie the Tables The Pastour Indeede it is written that the Mannah was layed vp before the Testimonie or Arke In another place it is plainlie said There was nothing in the Arke saue the two Tables of stone So indeede in that passage of the Epistle to the Hebrewes the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth juxta beside the A●…ke The second roome of the Temple is called by the Apostle The first That is the first part of the Tabern●…cle Not first in dignitie but in regard of entrie if it bee compared with the Holi●…st or Oracle This part is called Sanctum Sanctuarium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sancta which word some of the Learned take to bee corrupt as also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In this middle roome was the Candle sticke and the Table of the Shew-bread and the Altar of incense The third parte of the Temple toward the East was the Porch called Atrium Heere stood the Brasen Altar wherevpon the burnt offerings were burnt sub dio vnder the open aire as some think on this altar was kept that fire which came downe from Heauen Heere stood also the Molten sea set vpon twelue Oxen. c. The sicke Man I haue heard concerning mount Sion and mount Moriah and of the holie Temple with great contentment Now I intreat you to let me heare of the mount of Oliues while Christ was nigh vnto the Mount hee sent his Disciples into a Village for to bring him the Asse whereon hee rode thorow Ierusalem the day the little Children cryed Hosanna Hosanna The Pastour Indeede this Mount is well renouned by Christes often resorting vnto it While hee was sitting vpon the mount of Oliues hee taught his Disciples most diuinelie concerning the destruction of Ierusalem and the signes preceeding as also of the end of the world of the signes of his comming to Iudgement It was vpon the mount of Oliues that Christ told Peter that before the Cocke cre●… twise hee should deny him thrise It was to the mount of Oliues that he came out of Ierusalem after his last Supper for Matthew saith That after they had sung an Hymne they went out into the mount of Oliues It was at the descent of the mount of Oliues that Christ said That if men should holde their peace the stones would cry ou●… his praise It was in Gethsemane a valley at the roote of the mount of Oliues where Christ suffered the bloodie agonie While hee there in a colde night did sweate blood there the Disciples slept With himselfe hee tooke a part Peter Iames and Iohn to whom hee said My Soule is exceeding sorrowfull vnto death tarrie yee heere and watch There the Lord fell on the ground praying that if it were possible the houre might passe from him all this befell to our Lord at the roote of the Mount of Oliues At last from the mount of Oliues our Lord ascended vnto Heauen As for the Mount it selfe it is so called because of the Oliue trees which grew there in great aboundance S. Augustine calleth it The mountain●… of vnction because of its great fertilitie Others calleth it the mountaine of health because of diuerse Herbes good for Physicke which growe there Ierom writteth that vpon this mount the red Cow was burnt whose ashes were prepared by the Priest●… for separation and purification This Mount was s●…uate toward the East from Ierusalem some thing more than a mile between it Ierusalem runneth the Brooke Kidron The sicke Man Mine heart is sore wounded to heare of these places which hath bene so renouned by the pen of God I haue heard of Sion of Moria and of the mount of Oliues Now let mee heare of Hermon The Pastour The Hill Hermon is also made glorious by Gods word wherein mention is made thereof The heauens are thine saith the Psalmest the earth also is thine The North and the South thou hast created them Tabor and Hermon shall rejoyce in thy Name Dauid speaking of brotherlie loue and of the communion of the Sainctes compareth it to the oyle that ranne downe vpon the beard of Aaron To this hee subjoyneth As the dew of Hermon and as the dewe that descended vpon the mountaines of Zion In the Song of Solomon mention is made of Shenir and Hermon This Hill hath three names the Iewes call it Hermon the Amorites call it Shenir and the Sydonians call it Sirion Moses by the figure Syncope t●…king out two Letters calleth it Syon From Aroer to Arnon saith he euen vnto mount Syon which is Hermon This Mountaine is thought by some to bee higher than mount Syon that is in Ierusalem It is neare the Iordan not farre from the mountaines of Gilboa where King Saul was slaine Some will it to bee called Hermon from Heren res devota a thing consecrate to God or to an holie vse The sicke Man There is a passage in the Psalme concerning Hermon whereof I know not well the sense O my God saith the Psalmest my Soule is cast downe within mee Therefore will I remember thee from the Land of Iordan and of the Hermonites from the hill of Missar or the little hill The Pastour These wordes want not difficultie In our poesie they are turned after this manner And thus my Soule within mee Lord doeth faint to thinke vpon The Land of Iordan and record the little

the Apostle wee are chastened of the Lord that wee should not bee condemned with the world Many will suffer legs and armes to bee cut from them into a feaster for to saue the rest What reck what the body suffer if so be the Soule bee saued what euer affliction ye suffer in bodie or mind it is for the saluatiō of your sillie Soule by such pangues your God will preuent the paines of hell In your greatest griefes God is but practising his owne precept of sauing Soules by feare vvhereby they are pulled out of the fire The Sorrowes of the godlie end in joye But as for the wicked they are like the Sea whiles tossed whiles tumbled but euer inwardlie disquieted The sicke Man Is this then the estate of the godlie heere to be betimes crossed with most fearefull temptations whereby as vvith an Ocean sea they will seeme to bee ouer-vvhelmed The Pastour It is certaine for many are the troubles of the righteous Christ deerest here are lik Lillies among the thornes This life are the Winter of their affliction They are a groning genaration Turtles crouding with sighes and grones vvhich their tongues cannot expresse vvhile Abraham began to sleepe loe an horrour of great darknesse fell vpon him The sicke Man But in such anguish of heart will they not haue some bosome comforts salt Sea vvater strained thorow the earth becōmeth sweete At the greatest sense of vvrath will they not aye haue some hope of mercy though for a space they haue swimmed downe the current of the times shifting their sailes to the turning of euerie wind The Pastour They will bee in great distresse Their Soule vvill be shaken like a sea full of surges tossed with contrarie Tydes As for their comfort it vvill be lik the smoke of flaxe without a flamme In their deepest temptations they vvill haue some bosome secret graces into the heart as cmbers vnder an heape of ashes Some times in all outward appearance they vvill bee so douked that they vvill seeme to be drowned While they are all vnder the vvater vvith Ionah as it vvere at the rootes of the mountaines they vvill thinke and so also vvill others thinke that they are in the bellie of hell This is their estate vvhile for a space they are borne downe vvith the vveight of vvrath and vvith the burden of their sinnes they are as it vvere many fathome deepe vnder the vvater But so soone as it pleaseth God for to remoue that weight incontinent they come vp to the brimme of the vvater because there is breath and life vvithin them So long as there is life in a man hee may vvell at the first plunge goe downe to the bottome of a Poole but incontinent hee mounteth vp againe because there is a Spirit and breath vvithin him But if hee bee once deade hee sinketh downe like Leade vnto the ground It is euen so vvith the vvicked and the godlie the wicked are dead in the vvaters of affliction and therefore vvith Pharaoh and his armie they sinke downe like Lead into the mightie waters But as for the godlie though heauie vveights of sin for a space hang fast on yet because the Spirit of God a Spirit of life and of breath is vvithin them they may vvell at one plunge or other douke downe because of the vveight of their corruptions but incontinent they come vp againe By vertue of the Spirit as by Corke they are caried aboue so at last swimme thorow all the waues of their troubles and temptations till they come to the shallow where they may set their feete vpon a Rocke euen the Rocke Christ. When Ionah was cast into the Sea who euer thought that hee should come out againe yet heare how the drouked man sang at last Yet hast thou brought vp my life from corruption my Lord my God So litle was his hope once that hee said beeing in the bellie of hell The earth with her barres was about me for euer What hope of change can wee haue of that which we call For euer * See what little hope that Prophet had for a certaine space before that God would bring his life from corruption What out-gate could the poore man see into such a darke dungeon into the bellie of the Fish downe at the rootes of the mountaines into the bottome of the deepe That which the sillie man could not see God saw Hee whom the Shippe could not saue was saued in the bellie of hell He who could saue Ionah in the water could saue his seruant Sadrach and his fellowes in she fire While these three poore men were bound in their coats their hosen and their hattes and cast into that fearfull Furnace there came in One that afraide them all a fourth man euen the Sonne of God which by an absolute soueraignetie loosed the other three so that they all foure in the Kings sight walked vp down together without any hurt All the miracles of the olde Testament were but types and figures of Gods mercie and spirituall blessings vnder the New The passage of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan was a type of our walking in this world vnto that Canaan that is aboue The Egyptians behind the Sea before the Mauniaines on euerie side were but types of our spirituall enemies Some like Egyptians behind are chaissing vs some like Mountaines on euerie side hedge vs in to keepe vs from escape Some before like a Sea are before vs betweene vs and Canaan Christ is a cloudy Pillar which in the day time is darknesse commeth betweene vs and the rage of the Egyptians of this world so that for mist they cannot see vs In the darke night of our tribulations hee goeth before vs in a pillar of fire for to be a light vnto our steps At last after we haue passed by many mountaines of miseries and are come to the red sea of temptations euen to the last temptations on our death bed where all our sins red like scarlet stand like a red sea betweene vs and the place of promise God by the rod of his mercifull power giueth that sea such a blow that all its billowes make roome to let his people passe thorow Then all mourning is turned into musicke Moses singeth with the men Mi●…ian with the women Nothing is heard there but songs sounding Timbrels Manie a ●…ore sigh had they before they came to this Song Many a pittifull looke gaue they backe to Pharaoh breathing out rage behind them they q●…aked lik an Haire that heareth the barke of the Dog breathing to bee at it But while at last they saw thēselues bounded with an enemy that boasted them with drowning then God in their greatest feares sent a powerfull deliuerance Behold here as in a Cart the draughts of the Christian