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B00023 A looking glasse of mortalitie. Not verie pleasant at the first view to many men, but yet most necessarie, profitable and commodious for all sorts of people, of what estate dignity, or calling soeuer they be. : With an Exhortation to good life annexed: wherein are treated all such things as appertaine vnto a Christian to do, from the beginning of his conuersion, vntill the end of his perfection. / Made by I.B.. I. B. 1599 (1599) STC 1041.3; ESTC S124171 41,847 174

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without sadnesse without labour without griefe without trouble without corruption without feare without varietie without alteration a life replenished with all bewtie and dignitie where there is neither enemie that can offend nor delight that can annoy where loue is perfect and no feare a● all where the day is euerlasting and the spirit of al is one where almighty God is seene face to face who is the onely meate whereupon they seed● without any lothsomnesse 〈◊〉 delighteth me to consider thy brightnesse and thy treasure do delight my longing heart the more I consider thee the more I am striken in loue with thee the great desire I haue o● thee doth wonderfully deligh● me no lesse pleasure is it vn● to me to keepe thee in remembrance O life most happy ● kingdome truely blessed wherein there is no death no● end neither yet succession e● time where the day continuing euermore without night knoweth not any mutation where the victorious conquerour being ioyned with the euerlasting companies of Angels and hauing his head Crowned with a garland of glorie singing vnto almighty God one of the songs of Siō O happie yea and most happie should my soule bee if when the race of this my pilgrimage is ended I might be worthy to see thy glory thy blessednesse thy beauty the walles and gates of thy Citty thy streetes thy lodgings and thy noble Citizens and thine omnipotent king in his most glorious Maiestie the stones of thy walles are precious thy gates are adorned with bright pearles thy streetes are of very fine excellent gold in which there neuer faile perpetuall praises thy houses are paued with rich stones wrought throughout with Saphires and couered aboue with massie gold where none entreth in that is not cleane neither doth doth any abide there that is defiled faire and bewtifull in thy delights art thou ô Ierusalem none of those things are suffered in thee that are suffered here there is great diuersitie betweene thy things and the things we doe continually see in this miserable life in thee is neuer seene neither darkenesse nor night neither yet any change of time the light that shineth in thee commeth neither of lāpes nor of the moone nor yet of the bright glistring starres but God that proceedeth of God and the light that commeth of light is he that giueth clearnesse vnto thee euen the very king of kings himselfe keepeth continual residence in the midst of thee compassed about with his officers and seruants there do Angels in their order sing a most sweete and melodious harmonie there is celebrated a perpetuall solemnity and feast with euery one of them that commeth thither after his departure out of this pilgrima ge there be the orders of Prophets there is the famous company of the Apostles there is the inuincible army of martyrs The bless companie heauen there are the true and perfect religious persons there are the holy virgins which haue ouercome both the pleasure of the world and the frailtie of their owne nature there are the young men and yong women more auncient in vertue then in yeares there are the sheepe and little lambes that haue escaped from the wolfe and from the deceiptfull snares of this life and there doe now keepe a perpetuall feast each one in his place all alike in ioy though differēt in degree there charity raigneth in her full perfection for vnto them God is all in all whom they behold without ende in whose loue they will be al cōtinually enflamed whom they alwayes loue and in louing doe praise and in praysing doe loue and all their exercises consist in praises without wearinesse and without trauell O happie were I yea and very happie indeede if what time I shall be loosed out of the prison of this wretched bodie I might bee thought worthy to heare those songs of that heauenly melody song in the praise of the euer lasting king by all the Citizens of that so noble city happie were I and very happie if I might obtaine a roome among the chaplaines of that chappell and waite for my turne to sing praises to my God if I might be neere to my King my God my Lord and see him in his glory euen as he promised me when he sayd O father this is my last determinate wil that all those that thou hast giuen vnto me may be with me and see the glory which I had with thee before the world was created hitherto are the words of Saint Augustine Now tell me good Christian reader what a day shall that be that shall shine in thy house if thou leade thy life in the feare of God when after the course of this pilgrimage thou shalt passe from death te● immortalitie in that passage when others shall beginne to feare thou shalt beginne to reioyce and lift vp thy head because the day of thy deliuerance is at hand Come foorth a little sayth Saint Ierome out of the prison of this body and when thou art before the gate of the Tabernacle set before thine eies the reward thou hopest for tel me what a day sha● that be when the Lord himselfe with all his Saints shall come and meete thee in the way saying vnto thee Arise make hast ô my beloued my delight and my turtle-doue for now the winter is past and the tempestuous waters are ceased and flowers begin to appeare in our land How great ioy shall thy soule then receiue when it shall be at that time presented before the throne of the most blessed Trinity by the hands of the holy Angels how clearely shalt thou vnderstand the value and excellency of vertue there the obedient man shall talke of victories there vertue shall receiue herreward and the good shall be honored according to their desert moreouer what a pleasure will it be vnto thee when thou shalt see thy selfe to be in that sure hauen when thou shalt remember the tempestes wherein thou hast beene tossed the straights through which thou hastpassed and the daungers which thou hast passed and the daungers of theeues and pirates from whō thou hast escaped this is the place where they shall sing the song of the Prophet which sayth Had it not bene that the Lord had bene my helper it could not bee but that my soule had gone to hell And how it hath pleased almightie God that among such a multitude of damned persons thou shouldest be of the number of his elect and one of those to whom hee would graunt such exceeding great felicitie and glorie Besides all this what a goodly sight shall it be to behold the feastes and triumphes which they daily celebrate with their new brethren who hauing conquered the world and finished the course of their pilgrimage do enter in there to be crowned with them O what a ioy will it be to see those seates filled vp and that Citie builded and the walles of that noble Ierusalem repaired again with what cheerefull imbracings shall the whole Court of