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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58223	The pilgrims pass to the new Jerusalem, or, The serious Christian his enquiries after heaven with his contemplations on himself, reflecting on his happiness by creation, misery by sin, slavery by Satan, and redemption by Christ ... relating to those four last and great things of death, judgement, hell, and heaven ... / by M.R., Gent.	M. R., Gent.	1659 (1659)	Wing R47; ESTC R5428	94,586	254

past being dead the future unborn and onely the narrow compass of the present all that man can challenge We know not how soon death may overtake us when we are sent into the world the greatest part of our errand is to dye and the onely business of our life to prepare for death We are not certain to be Masters of one minute of time when we begin to breath the next moment may be our last How many have lien down to take a healthful sleep that have wak't in another world Death saith a learned man lies in wait for us in all places and there 's no escaping his tyranny Death borders upon our Births and our Cradles stand in our Graves How many have we seen carried from the Womb to the Tomb from the Birth to the Burial and what a short cut hath the longest liver from the Grave of the Womb to the Womb of the Grave Ever since the fall of our first Father death hath ranged through the world and made a general slaughter of mankinde sparing none The most eloquentest Orator that ever was could never charm him nor the potentest Monarch that ever breathed could never bribe him the greatest Warriour that ever was death hath civilized and made a green turf or weather-beaten stone cover that body that living a Lordship could not cloathe or the world contain the most famous persons that ever the world enjoyed hath death laid at his feet without regard either to Worth Dignity Majesty Youth or Age Sex or Condition he favours not the best nor spares the worst Samson with all his strength Absolon with all his beauty Josiah with all his zeal David with his conquests and Solomon with his glory Crasus with his wealth and Irus with his poverty Lazarus with his boyles and Dives with his bravery the Beggar with his rags and the Courtier with his robes all come under the rugged imbraces of this grim Sergeant He spared not Innocency it self but had the confidence to look the Son of the Highest in the face arrests him and keeps him three dayes his prisoner in the Grave The mortal Sythe is master of the Royal Scepter and it mows down the Lillies of the crown as well as the grass of the field death uses no civillity to Princes more then Pesants he findes them out in their Palaces and it may be in their most retired Closets and handles them no otherwise then the meanest person in the street Death saith a learned Divine suddainly snatcheth away Physicians as it were in scorn and contempt of Medicines when they are applying their preservatives and restoratives to others as it is storied of Caius Julius a Chyrurgeon who dressing a sore Eye as he drew the Instrument over it was struck by an Instrument of death in the act and place where he did it Besides diseases many by mischances are taken as a bird with a bolt while he gazeth at the bow Death is that King against whom there is no rising up which all men are sure to meet with whatever they miss of but when that 's unknown Of Dooms-day there are signs affirmative and negative not so of death every day we yield something to him our last day stands the rest run And how should this put us all in minde to prepare for death that he snatcheth us not away at unawares Whatsoever thou takest in hand therefore remember thine end saith the wise Man and thou shalt never do amiss No thoughts so wholsome as those of death and none so profitable as those of our end We read of Isaac that he brought his new Bride Rebecca into his Mother Sarahs Tent thereby to moderate those Nuptial pleasures with the thoughts of her Memory whose Corps but few dayes before were carried thence And King Saul was no sooner anointed but Samuel sends him by Rachels Sepulchre lest his new greatness of being a King might puff him up and make him to forget that he was a man We read of many heathens who did so much contemplate on their mortality as their discourses their houses and their tables should be constant Monitors of it The Aegyptians were wont to carry about their Tables a Deaths head at their greatest feasts and the Emperours of Constantinople on their Coronation day had a Mason appointed to present unto them certain Marble-stones using these words or to this purpose Choose mighty Sir under which of thes● Stones Your pleasure is ere long to lay your Bones And 't is storied of Philip King of Macedon that he caused a Lackey ever● morning to awake him with that sh● Memento of Sir remember that you ar● a man Shall heathens be thus mindful 〈◊〉 their dissolution and shall we put tho●● thoughts far from us surely no but ●●ther cogitate of it and make every d●● our last Certainly did we but consid●● that we are Men that all our actio●● stand upon record and shall one day be impartially rewarded We should so demean our selves every day as men that endeavoured that no action of any day should be such as should stand against us at the last Young men remember this you that may promise your selves many dayes upon earth let not every day that is added to your life bring new sins with it but let grace be added to your dayes that so your last dayes may be better then your first and your burial day better then your birth as the wise Man speaks Make God the Alpha and Omega of all your actions and remember him in your work and he will remember you in the reward remember him as an Omniscient and Omnipotent God one that beholds all thy actions and will reward them remember him in thy youth and let him have thy best dayes as well as thy worst the blossoms of thy Youth as well as the leaves of thy Old age and be sure that thou spend the glory of thy years as well as the dregs of thy age in his service so shall thy life be prosperous thy death happy and thy resurrection glorious On the contrary if thou forget him now a day will come when he will not remember thee but strangely excommunicate thee with a depart from me for I know you not therefore ever bear this wholsome lesson in minde and forget it not Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy Youth It may be some may think that Old Men come not within the verge of this exhortation and that Solomon had nothing to say to them when he directed his speech to the Young Man I answer that Old Men are more concerned to take notice of this then the Young man and thus I prove it Young Men are but newly come into the world and they must have some time to look about them Old Men are ready to leave the World and 't is not long ere they must render an account to God for all their actions 'T is but the dawning of the day with the Young Man but night begins to shew it self

in Unity and Unity in Trinity There you shall see the Lamb with his train of Attendants Cherubims Seraphims Principalities Powers Thrones Dominions Archangels and Angels Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Martyrs and Confessours crying Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbath And there shall those good Angels which were your Guardians upon earth be your everlasting Companions in Heaven In a word 't is such a home where you shall be made perfectly happy Time shall not rust or diminish your glory nor adversity with her frowns ever approach near those Mansions for you shall be ever in the Sun-shine of Gods favour and your happiness as everlasting as his that made it Oh! did we but all consider the shortness of the sweetest pleasure here in comparison of those endless and eternal joyes that the Saints shall there partake of and the shortness and smallness of the longest and greatest misery or torture that can be endured here to the Worm that never dyes to the fire that is never quencht to those everlasting torments that shall in full viols be poured upon the wicked in Hell for ever we should think less of this world and more to be happy in a better And this brings me from the first particular observable to the second From being mindful of our home to our choice of Guides to conduct us thither Choose the best guides These guides are in the Old Testament called Seers in the New Overseers and these are they whom God hath appointed to lead us the way to that home to which many Saints are already gone in Soul and many more shall in Gods due time arive and be fully glorified both in soul and body These Seers or Overseers are those that open the Scriptures and make plain the way of the Lord and cause his paths to be known to the sons of men they are also for their dignity term'd Ambassadors of Christ Christs Stewards Publishers of glad Tidings proclaimers of Salvation Fellow-workers together with Christ and Ministers of the Gospel These God hath set up as lights that by their soundness of Doctrine and Integrity of life many Souls may be recalled from darkness unto his marvellous light they are Cities set upon a Hill for men to see and Candles lighted upon candlesticks to light the Traveller the way and these by their eminency are or at least ought to be Men of excellent qualifications and rare endowments Angelicall persons men made up of Heaven and if we take such for our guides we need not fear crooked paths but may be confident of our way But because all is not Gold that glisters nor all such as they seem it behoves us to be very cautious in the choise of our guides for if the blinde lead the blinde whither will they go The way to Hell is broad and easily found 't is a pleasant way beset with Roses able to intice the foolish Traveller who is ignorant that it leads to death And on the contrary the way to heaven seems to flesh and blood very uncomfortable a narrow sharp steep and unpleasant way very intricate long tedious troublesome and hard to finde in which many a passenger hath stumbled and many a blinde guide lost his way But that we may be warned by others harms and reach that which they fell short of let 's bear with the sharpness of the way and be incouraged by the happiness of the end The advice of a late ingenuous Author to this purpose is worthy your observation Regard not saith he how difficult the passage is but whither it tends nor how delicate the journey is but where it ends If it be easie suspect it if hard endure it He that cannot excuse a bad way accuseh this own sloth and he that sticks in a bad passage can never attain a good journeyes end It cannot be denyed but that many a passenger hath suffered by bad guides such as have let them go out of their way and made them believe the pleasantest way was the best and the poor Traveller not sensible of the mistake till it hath been too late to talk of returning But of such we are cautioned to beware and though they speak never so smoothly This is the way walk in it we are to turn our deaf ear to erring Charms of such blinde guides and witless Councellours And this brings me from the second particular observable to the third from the choice of our guides to our haste in setting out and perseverance in our course Set out betimes and hold out to the end As this Exhortation is two-fold so shall be my discourse upon it I shall in the first place apply my self to young men who like my self are but newly risen or scarce set out And in the next humbly address my self to aged persons who are or at least ought to be near their journeys end And first to young men let me request you to make God and Heaven the constant objects of your thoughts the one of your fear the other of your love so walk that ye displease not the one and ye need not fear the attaining of the other Are you setting out lose no time remember that many have squandred away the morning and have not reacht their journeyes end ere night and with those foolish Virgins for their tardiness have been excommunicated that place of repose where the early Traveller safely and in good time ariv'd An hour in the morning you know is worth two at night and God is better pleased with young Zeal then decreped Holiness Josiahs forwardness makes him renown'd to posterity and young Timothy's Piety eternizes his name to future generations Are you on your way persevere in your Christian course and think upon the end whilst ye are at the beginnings and even now upon the race have an eye to the recompence so shall the splendid glory of the one faciliate the irksome tediousness of the other Every true Christian saith a learned writer is a Traveller His life his walk Christ his way and Heaven his home his walk painful his way perfect his home pleasing Let 's not therefore loiter lest we come short of home nor wander lest we come wide of home but be content to travel hard and to be sure to walk aright so shall our safe way find its end at home and our painful walk make our home welcome We are all concerned to make our best use of time lest too late we lament the abuse of it yesterday cannot be recalled to morrow cannot be assured to day therefore is onely ours which if we slight we lose which lost is lost for ever Young men remember this I mean you whose bodies are strong and healthful not beset with any sickness or besieg'd with any diseases nor loaded with those common infirmities incident to old age consider that you know not how short your time is your Sun for any thing you know may go down in the morning and your night may fall ere noon Therefore be early up and earnest on your way towards home that if death shall