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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01475	Two treatises the first, entituled, The foode of the faithfull. The second Deaths welcome.	Garey, Samuel, 1582 or 3-1646.	1605 (1605)	STC 11600; ESTC S115877	35,139	126

sound a retraite frō sin alwaies remembring Christ crucified For as Bernard saith The remembrance of Christ crucified crucifieth sinne And as S. Augustine saith Then Christ dooth sleepe in thee when thou hast forgot his passion The readiest way direct path to goe to Heauen is to swim through the red sea of Christes blood The droppes of Christs precious blood raigning downe from the clowdes of his mercie must quēch the angry flame of Gods wrath which wee cannot extinguish by the vertuous water of any merrit It is the oyle of Grace which must purge our defiled harts It is the dewe of heauen which will make vs florish beeing ingrafted into the true Oliue It is the welspring of our saluation it is the heauenly manna which all of vs should gather vp in the wildernes of this world Loue this good thing in which all goodnes is it is enough for thee yea obserue but this short lesson which Augustine giueth thou art a good Christian Ama deum et amices in deum et inimicos propter deū et beatus es Loue Christ who loueth thee loue his friends that loue Christ and thee loue Christes enemies that hate Christ and thee then thou shalt be beloued of Christ for louing him thou shalt bee beloued of Christ for louing thē that hate Christ thee the haters shall perrish yet thou louing shalt be beloued Loue GOD without measure thē shalt thou be happy without measure Loue God withal thy hart whō thou shalt behold without end loue without pride praise with out wearines Therfore if men did but obserue this briefe lesson wee need not feare death but welcome him vvith a thousand kisses for that messenger doth bring vs gladde tidings for by him we change transitory mortall and corruptible things for certaine immortall and incorruptible treasures earth for heauen sin for godlines darknes for light feare for security trauell for quietnesse sicknesse for health death for life the company of men for the companie of the omnipotent God and heauenly angels the vile pleasures of this world for the inestimable ioyes of heauen Oh therefore let vs hartily wish to be losoned frō this life that we may come to appeare before the presence of God let vs say with Dauid Like as the Hart desireth the water brookes so longeth my soule after thee ô God O GOD thou art my God early will I seek thee my soule thirsteth for thee my flesh also longeth after thee in a barren and dry land where no water is Let vs say with Iob It grieueth my soule to liue longer in this mortall body Let vs say with holy Toby O Lord deale with me according to thy will and command my spirit to be receiued in peace For whē the liuely threds of our life vntie the spindle vndoe the web riue and our naturall life endeth yet the spirituall and essentiall part namely the soule shall be receiued with Angels carried to heauen most louingly as a precious relique into the kingdome of heauen It shal be like a Doue carried on the wings of Angels into this heauenly Palace For as Augustine saith It is the office of Angels to carry soules to the company of the blessed Now therefore when Death shal breake vp your mortall house imprint this lesson in the forefront of your languishing flesh yea euen when you are halfe berest of life that you remember Christ crucified remember him to be the onely Sauiour remember God the Father to bee a most mercifull Father Fixe the eyes of your faith on Iesus Christ on his merrits on his passion death on his blessed body breaking and his most precious blood shedding on his triumph and victory ouer fathan and his hellish army Forget not that all your sinnes are washed away in Christes blood that by vertue of his death and passion you are made beyre of euerlasting saluation Fight a good fight be not discouraged by the paines of death neuer shrink in Deaths battell call vppon Iesus for no baulme will be more comfortable to a wound thē the name of Iesus to deaths wound Put on the Helmet of saluation the brest-plate of righteousnes the girdle of truth the shield of faith the sworde of the spirit and your feete shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace Feare not stand fast quit your selues like men for in this spirituall battell you sight vnder the banner of the mighty victorious Emperor Iesus Christ onely continue with these weapons the day is yours If sathan tempt you you may with hartie prayers good Orators for your saluation inchant that Dragon that hee may sleep while your soule is translated to tast of the golden fruite of blessed soules perseuere in this battell which is the true complement of vertue The paine of the battel is small the glorie of the triumph shall abide for euer euer For so saith the scripture To him that ouercōmmeth I will giue to eate of the tree of life which is in the midst of Paradice be faithful vnto the death and I wil giue thee a crowne of life Hee that ouercommeth I wil make a piller in the temple of my God and hee shall go no more out yea to him that ouercōmath wil I grant to sit with me in my seate These precious promises rewards may make vs couragious against death folow your captaine Christ you cannot erre for he is the way belieue christ you cannot be deceiued for hee is the truth abide and remaine in Christ and you cannot die the death euerlasting for he is the life wherfore cleaue with strong faith to Christ and say with that wise man My minde is rooted and built in Christ and then you neede not feare when death shall giue your soule the winges of true libertie to depart out of your fraile flesh and to flie vp to heauen and rest within Abrahams bosome for thē you shal rest from your labors trauels For so saith the scripture the soules of the righteous are in thy hād ô God the paine of death shall not touch them In the sight of the vnwise they appeare to die but they are in peace they are as the Angells of God they are clad with white garmēts haue golden crownes vpon their heads They doe stand day night before his Maiesty there they haue all ioy solace and harts contentments By death we passe from earth to heauen from men to Angells from warre to peace from paine to pleasure from griefe to gladnesse from miserie to perpetuall felicitie we passe by death from this life which is like a bubble in the water like a weauers Shettell like a smoake like a vapoure like a shaddowe like a flower that fadeth like grasse that withereth it is but a span-long it is a warfare it is like a ruinous house euer readie to fall it is like a cloude in the element whereof wee are vncertaine where and when it falleth This cloude sometimes melteth in the cradle sometimes in the chaire Death is like the Sunne whensoeuer it shineth it melteth our cloudie life be the cloude thereof neuer so thicke or thin in yeares this life is like an vncertaine wethercocke which turnech at euery blast like a Waue that mounteth at euery storme like a reede that boweth at euery whistling wind This world is an exile a vale of miserie a wildernesse of sorrowes a dungeon of sinners a sea of miseries where wee passe away the wauering daies of this vncertaine life sayling as Pilgrims on the waters of this world tossed by the tempests of aduersitie and oppressed by sundry Pyrats the flesh sin and the deuill and yet by the Barke of a liuely faith and by the Marriner death wee shall bee transported from the flesh pots of Egipt to eate of comfortable Manna not in the wildernesse but in new Ierusalem Therefore hast ô good God to deliuer me frō this painfull life to that glorious life from this wretched mansion to that excellent tabernacle from this stormie worlde to the calme country of heauen where I shall haue liberty without imprisonment health without sicknes ioy without sorrowe pleasure without paine in such securitie eternitie and perpetuitie as passeth all thoughts Come therefore Death thou art welcome thou art thrice welcome death For when the Tree of my life shall fall downe heere vpon earth and I shall see my father dust my mother ashes yer my soule shall be carried into Abrahams bosome Adiew vile life farewell life sinfull life adiewe and welcome Death the Embassador from my louing Sauiour for by thee my misery shall end So that O Death thou art welcome VVelcome sicknes for my Lord Iesus hath nowe sent thee to fetch mee from this prison to his Pallace from a strange pilgrimage to dwell in the restfull Country of Canaan from these teares and mourning to the day of mariage sweet Iesus to bee espoused to thee in thy merrits for euermore where I shall liue like a Demie-god hauing the sight of the glorious Trinitie and the companie of holie Patriarks Prophets Apostles Martirs and blessed Saints inherite such ioyes as neither eye hath seene nor eare hath heard nor hart euer conceiued Therefore welcome death welcome sweet death for thou shalt remooue me out of this prison deliuer me frō this body of sinne to enter into the amiable tabernacles of my Lord where one day is better then a thousand else-where I shal no more weep by the waters of Babilon when I shal remember thee ô Sion for now I shall be in Sion and dwell there for euermore Come therfore ô death to mee at thy pleasure for it is a pleasure for me to die com death ô my ioy for it is a ioy for mee to enioy thee VVelcome death the beginning of ioy the first fruite of pleasure when thou commes●●ar well sorowes adiew miseries death is the Prince of delights Arise therfore make hast ô my beloued my delight my comfort for at thy comming my winter is past and the tempestuous waters of miseries are ceased thou art io●es messenger and gladde tidings bringer ô life thou art my death ô death thou art my life this life is a cōtintiāll death but after this death hath ceased vpon my body thē shal my soule go vnto her life Adiew therfore ô myserable li●e welcome thrice welcome death farewell also ô death welcome immortall life Laus Deo FINIS

wherevpon they feede without any loathsomnesse It delighteth me to consider thy brightnesse thy treasures do reioyce my lōging hart the more I consider thee the more I loue thee The great desire I haue of thee doth wonderfully delight mee and no lesse pleasure is it vnto mee to keepe thee in my remembrance O life most happy O Kingdome truly blessed where there is no death no end neither yet succession of time where the day continueth euermore without night knoweth no mutation where the victorious conquerour beeing ioyned with those euerlasting quieres of Angels and hauing his head crowned with a Garland of glory singeth vnto almighty godone of the songes of Syon O happy yea most happy should my soule bee if when the race of this my pilgrimage is ended I might bee worthy to see thy glory thy blessednes thy beautie thy walls and gates of thy Citty thy streetes thy lodgings thy noble Cittizens and thine omnipotent King in his most glorious Maiestie The stones of thy walls are precious thy gates are adorned with bright pearles thy streetes are of very fine gold in which there neuer faile perpetuall praises Thy houses are paued with rich stones wrought with Zaphires and couered aboue with massie gold where none entereth that is not cleane neither doth any abide there that is defiled Faire and beautifull in thy delights art thou O Ierusalem our mother none of those things are suffered in thee that are suffered heere There is great diuersitie betweene thy things and the things that we doe continually see in this miserable life In thee is neuer seene darkenesse nor any change of time The light that shineth in thee commeth neither of Iampes nor of the Moone nor yet of the bright glistering Starres But God that proceedeth of God and the light that commeth of light is he that gieueth clearensse vnto thee Euen the very King of Kings himselfe keepeth continuall residence in the midst of thee compassed about with his officers and seruants There doe the Angels in their orders and quiers sing a most sweete and melodious Harmonie There is celebrated a perpetuall feast with euery one of them that commeth thether after his departure out of this his pilgrimage There be the orders of Prophets there is the famous society of Apostles there is the inuicible army of Martirs there is the most reuerend assembly of Confessors there be the true religious persons There are the holy Virgines which haue ouercome the pleasures of the world and the frailty of the flesh there bee the young men women more auncient in vertue then in yeares there are the sheepe and little lambes that haue escaped from the wolues and from the deceitfull snares of this life There charity raigneth in her full perfection O happy were I yea and very happy indeede if at what time I shall bee loosed out of the prison of this wretched bodie I might bee thought worthy to heare those songs of that heauenly melodie sung in the praises of the euerlasting King by all the Cittizens of that so noble Citty Happy were I yea and very happy if I might obtaine a roome among the Chaplens of that Chappell and waite for my turne also to sing my Alleluia if I might bee neare vnto my King my God my Lord see him in his glory euen as he promised mee when he sayd Iohn 17. O father this is my last determinate will that all those that thou hast giuen vnto me may bee with mee and see the glory which I had with thee before the world was created Hetherto are the words of Saint Augustine Marke also I pray you how Saint Iohn describeth in his reuelation the new Ierusalem xxi And I Iohn sayth he saw a new heauen and a new earth for the first heauen and the first earth were passed away and there was no more Sea and I Iohn saw the holy Citty new Ierusalem come downe from God out of heauen prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband and I heard a great voyce out of heauen saying behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and hee will dwell with them and they shall bee his people and God himselfe shall bee their God with them And God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes and there shal be no more death neither sorrowe neither crying neither shal there bee any more paine For the first thinges are passed and there came vnto mee an Angell saying come I will show thee the Bridegroome the lambs wife And he carried me away to an hie mountaine and showed me that great Cittie that holy Ierusalem discending out of heauen from God hauing the glory of God and her shining was like vnto a stone most precious as a Iasper stone as cleere as Christall and had a great wall and hie and had twelue gates and at the gates twelue Angels and the names written which are the twelue tribes of the children of Israell and the building of the wall of it was of Iasper and the Citty was pure gold like vnto cleare glasse the foundation of the wall of the Cittie was garnished with all manner of precious stones and the twelue Gates were twelue pearles and euery gate is of one pearle and the streetes of the Citty is pure gold as shining glasse and there is no Temple for the Lord almighty the Lambe are the Temple of it There is the pure Riuer of water of life cleare as Christall proceeding out of the Throne of God and of the Lambe There is the tree of life which beare twelue manner of fruites There is no night no candle or light of the Sun for the Lord God giueth them light and they shal shine for euermore Now then tell me ô zealous Christian what needest thou feare death sith frō a most miserable world thou shalt passe to a glorious kingdome from miseries to euelasting ioyes frō labours troubles to eternally pleasures and delights Will not the hope of these rewards mooue thee to welcome Death Thē heare some more ioyes which thou shalt possesse in the blessed future life The righteous shall shine as the Sunne in the kingdome of their Father They shall haue the inheritance of euerlasting life They shall be as the Angels of heauē they shall be in Abrahams bosome they shal be where Christ is and see his glorie The Apostle S. Paul saith The eye hath not seene the eare hath not heard nor hath it entered into the hart of man the thinges which God hath prepared for them which loue him vve shall be with the Lord and liue with him for euer vvee shall be vessels vnto honour vvee shal haue the crowne of righteousnes we shal dwel in the Citty of the liuing God the heauenly Ierusalem and see the innumerable company of Angels VVhen Christ our chiefe Shepheard shal appeare saith S. Peter we shal receiue an incorruptible crowne of glory and S. Iohn in his Reuelation saith To him that ouercōmeth I will giue to eate of