love of the Brethren for whom my life in the flesh is necessary I am in a strait having a desire a vehement earnest and continued desire Having a desire to depart to dye and to be with Christ Death of it self should not be desired because this desire crosseth nature the grand desire to dye should not be to be out of the world but to be with Christ which may confute the error of those who dream that the Soul separated from the Body does sleep Which is far better It is very significant in the Original far much better or much more better Art actually in Christ Cordial II. Triumph then for Death will strip thee of thy Rags of Mortality Queen Esther appears before King Ahasuerus in her Royal Apparel If Joshuah appears before an Angel he must have change of rayment Could not he appear before an Angel in his own Rags How then shall a Soul appear before God without Christ's Robes There is no appearing before God in the Rags of Mortality nor in the Rags of Morality Self-righteousness is a Rag yea a menstruous Cloth Morality is but old Adam in another Dress Phi. 3.7 8 9. What things were gain to me those I counted loss for Christ yea doubtless and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod canibus exponitur and do count them but dung Dogs-meat so the Greek that I may win Christ And be found in him in him here and in him hereafter not having mine own righteousness which is of the Law but that which is thorough the faith of Christ the righteousness which is of God by faith Death is a putting off the Rags of Mortality and Morality that the Soul may be decked and diessed with the Robes of Glory Art actually in Christ Cordial III. Triumph also whether living or dying thou art Christs Blessed are they that live in the Lord and blessed are they that dye in the Lord. There are many that live not in the Lord and dye not in the Lord that living and dying are not the Lords but while thou livest and when thou dyest thou art the Lords for thou art Christs Rom. 14.7 8. None of us liveth to himself and no man dyeth to himself for whether we live we live unto the Lord or whether we dye we dye unto the Lord whether we live therefore or dye we are the Lords Now to have a Christ in Life and a Christ at Death is not this a comfortable Cordial Art the Lords in Life and the Lords at Death Go then from a Reflection of this Truth as Hannah did from Eli and let thy countenance be no more sad at the thoughts of Death Do men say the Nations are angry they are consulting conspiring and confederating against Christ and those that are Christs and thou mayst go bleeding out of the world or burning out of the world true saith the Soul but Christ is mine while I live and will be mine when I dye Does Conscience say Winter is coming a Storm is at Hand we may be near a showre of blood the winds are like to rise and be prodigious the waves are like to roar and be impetuous true saith the Soul but Christ is mine while I live and will be mine when I dye Does Satan say thy Life is uncertain and thy Death is certain Man is mortal and not a match for Death true saith the Soul but whether I live or dye I am the Lords It is said in the Life and Death of a worthy Minister Mr. Jessey That he passed unto Glory triumphing rejoycing under the very stroke of Death Art actually in Christ Cordial IV. Triumph also for Death will arrive and anchor thee in a desirable and delectable Harbor and Haven Ah poor Soul it may be thou hast as it were been at Sea ever since thy new Birth thy second Birth and hast met with winds and waves there with storms and tempests there it may be thou hast been without Sun-light there without Moon-light there yea without Star-light there but when Death arrests thy Body it will arrive thy Soul at a desirable and delectable Harbor and Haven yea at a Harbor and Haven of desire and delight The Navigator meets with hard things at Sea there is often nothing but difficulty in view danger in view yea Death in view but he forgets these when he comes within sight of the Harbor within sight of the Haven But Soul what Harbor like unto Heaven what Haven like unto Heaven when thou art landed at this Port at this Paradise thou wilt then forget thy Tryals and Troubles and Travels thy Sicknesses and Solitudes and Sufferings Luk. 23.43 And Jesus said unto him Verily I say unto thee To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise This Text is like a bundle of myrrh and being so sweetly-sweet I shall touch upon the Meditations flowing from it That unto the worst hath Christ shewed mercy at last Meditat. Thou Thee Verily I say unto Thee Thou This man had been very bad for he had been a Thief and Theft is a great Sin for it is the breach of the great Command of the greatest God This man had sinned and this man was to suffer for his sin yea to suffer death for his sin and yet Christ had mercy upon him Though this man had lived to his last day and possibly to a little part of that day yet Christ said unto him To day It is very emphatical Mat. 20.9 To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise The Saviour promiseth more than the Sinner asketh He that came into the Vineyard at the eleventh hour had his penny had his pay That Christ was God manifested in the flesh Shalt Thou shalt This Text and Truth prove the Deity and Divinity of Christ Thou shalt Had not Christ been God he would not have spoken thus and had not Christ been God he could not have thus spoken 1 Tim. 3.16 Thou shalt Great is the mystery of Godliness God was manifest in the flesh That words of Assurance are Christ's words No Soul hath a word of Assurance for Heaven until Christ speaks it John 6.63 68. The words that I speak unto you they are Spirit and they are Life To day shalt thou be If Christ be a Mute the Soul is in doubt I that speak unto thee am he If Christ be a Mute the Soul is in a maze If Christ be silent the Soul is sad A word of Assurance is from Christ Whither should we ge but unto thee thou hast the words of eternal life No voice but the voice of Christ will still the voice of Desperation If the Soul be comforted Isa 51.12 and assured Christ must be the Text and the Preacher too I even I am he that comforteth thee Not I with another not I or
Heaven and must be the way for his also By his own blood Heb. 9.12 he once entered into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us The spurious spawn of the Papists are under a prodigious mistake who say That Heaven is not that place where the Man Christ is above or beyond the visible Skies but the happiness they have within them If Israel according to the flesh passed thorough the Red Sea unto Canaan as Type so Israel according to the Spirit must pass thorough the Red Sea of Christs blood Heb. 10.19 unto Heaven the Antitype Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest but how by the blood of Jesus Our Sins did shut Heaven but Christs blood is the Key that opens the Gate of Paradise for us Christ's blood is pacifying blood Christs bleeding was Gods pacifying Christ's blood Col. 1.21 22. is the blood of Atonement You hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh thorough death Christ's blood is not onely a Sacrifice but also a Propitiation denoting a bringing us into favour with God It is one thing for a Traytor to be pardoned and another thing for this Traytor to be brought into favour Mans sin rent him from God but Christ's blood Rom. 5.10 cements him to God Reconciled to God but how by the death of his Son Had we as much Grace as the Angels had we offered up millions of Sacrifices had we wept Rivers of Tears we could never have appeased an angry Deity It is the blood of a Christ that ingratiates us into the favour of God and causeth him to look upon us with a smiling Aspect When Christ dyed the vail of the Temple was rent This was not without a mystery shewing that thorough Christ's blood the vail of our sins is rent which did interpose between God and us One Theodoret. calls the Cross the Tree of Salvation because the blood which trickled down the Cross distilleth Salvation It is the blood of Christ that pacifies Christ's blood is conquering blood After the Combat and the Conflict is the Conquest Nay in all these things Rom. 8.37 we are more than Conquerors thorough Christ that loved us These things but what things were these There were seven Dishes and each Dish enough for the strongest Palate Tribulation Distress Rom. 8.35 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Persecution Famine Nakedness Peril Sword yet in all these things we are more than Conquerors We over-overcome so the Greek We are more than Conquerors in them because we are Conquerors by them But how is this thorough Christ. Though Christians may be killed yet they cannot be conquered for though they die in the Combat yet like Sampson they shall have the Conquest The Conquest that the Christian hath is thorough Christ's blood They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb Rev. 12.11 and by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death Conquest is thorough Christ Christ's blood is crucifying blood A Christ bleeding to death will bleed sin to death They that are Christs Gal. 5.24 have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts As that Physick saves a mans life which removes his sickness so that which is life to the soul is death to the sin We must look upon our sin as that which was the death of our Lord and we must look upon the death of our Lord as that which will be the death of our sin Our old man is crucified with him Rom. 6.6 that the body of sin might be destroyed Sin drew out the life-blood of Christ and faith in Christ's blood will draw out the life-blood of sin Christ's blood is softening blood Though the heart of man be the hardest thing in the world yet the blood of Christ God-man can soften the heart of man Oh says one my heart is like the nether milstone and what can soften that Oh says another my heart is like an Adamant and what can soften an Adamant Is there any thing in the world that can soften an Adamant Yea Soul blood will soften an Adamant The blood of Christ if applied will soften the most Adamantine heart The blood of Christ if applied can dissolve the most stony heart and break the hardest sinner The Jews who are hardened to a Proverb for one saith Dost thou think that I am a hard-hearted Jew these Jews shall have the Rock of their Hearts turned into a Fountain of Tears Zech. 12.10 They shall look upon him whom they have pierced and mourn as one for his onely Son and be in bitterness as one for his first-born God himself hath laid himself under Promise to take away the stony heart and to give an heart of flesh Ezek. 11.19 There is nothing so hard but it may be softened if it lay a steeping in this blood Water will soften the earth but it will not soften a stone the blood of Christ if applied will soften a stone yea an heart of stone This blood turns a flint into a spring The Jaylors heart was dissolved Christ's blood is quickning blood The life of a thing is in the blood The life of the flesh Lev. 17.11 is in the blood and I have given it to you upon the Altar to make an atonement for your sins for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul The blood is called life because the seat of life is in the blood and this was a figure of Christ a Type of Christ's life whose flesh is meat indeed and whose blood is drink indeed The life of our soul Sanguis Christi Clavis Coeli Luther is in the blood of Christ Christ's blood is Heaven's Key One little drop saith One of Christ's blood is more worth than Heaven and Earth What is the blood of a Grape yea what is the blood of a Son though an onely Son to the blood of a Saviour Can we give our first-born for our iniquity the seed of our body for the sin of our soul It is the blood of Christ that quickeneth John 6.53 54. Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood ye have no life in you whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day Christ's blood puts vivacity into us Christ's blood is justifying blood Justification â—s a great thing to be acquitted from sin and death the wages thereof and to be accounted righteous unto life and Glory the Reward thereof is not this a great thing and yet this is by Christs blood The moving cause of Justification is the free Grace of God but the meritorious cause of Justification is the blood of Christ Being justified freely by his Grace Rom. 3.24 thorough the redemption that is in Christ Jesus The justification of one sinner is more than the creation of all the world There are many not onely in Italy but also in England who
as he loves himself yea he seems to love them above himself for he loves them and lays down his life for them Who loved us Ezek. 18.31 32. and washed us from our sins in his own blood Why will ye dye O house of Israel For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dyeth saith Jehovah God Why will ye dye will ye not onely kill your selves but also me Let me dye that ye may live let me have a Cross that ye may have a Crown let me be betrayed that ye may be blessed let me be buffeted that ye may be beautified let me be crucified that ye may be crowned let me be sacrificed that ye may be sanctified and saved Thus Joh. 13.1 a Christ loveth and who but a Christ thus loveth His are loved rather than Himself if not above Himself And having once loved he ever loveth Christ is a living yea ever-living Physician Physicians below may dye must dye yea Rom. 6.10 often dye before the Cure is made but Christ having once dyed dyeth no more but lives for evermore The Physician of the Body is mortal as well as the Patient and may dye before the Patient but Christ the Physician of the Soul having once dyed no more dyeth death Joh. 5.26 hath no more domiaion over him As the Father hath life in himself so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself Christ is a valuable Physician Job speaking of his Visicors calls them Job 13.4 Physicians of no value but Christ is of value of great value of greatest value Col. 2.9 In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead personally Christ is rarely skilled infinitely qualified he knoweth every Cause to him therefore is easie every Cure Nullus effectus dature sine causa effectus sequitur virtutem causae Causa est prior essecto Faelix qui â—otuit rerum cognoscere causas 1 Kings 4.32 33. Prov. 8.14 Effects cannot be produced without Causes It is a Maxim That where sufficient Causes are in Act there of necessity the Effect must follow The Effect cannot be existent before its Cause Effects must depend upon their Cause as their Base and Principle It is an approved Aphorism That the Cause precedes the Effect in order of Nature and Time and Both every thing resolves into its principle It is usually said They are happy who know the causes of things And in respect of corporal diseases they say That a disease is half cured when the cause of it is discovered Christ knows the cause and therefore can make a cure Solomon was a great Philosopher his Parables prove his divine wisdom He was prodigiously parted greatly read in Trees and Pants in Beasts and Birds in creeping things and Fishes which manifest his humane wisdom But a greater than Solomon is here under discussion One that is not onely understanding in all things but also understanding it self I am understanding Christ is a sudden Physician Some Physicians of the Body are long in curing As some persons are long diseased palsical Eneas kept his Bed eight years The woman whom Christ called a daughter of Abraham had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years There lay also at the Pool of Bethesda a man which had an infirmity thirty and eight years Now as some persons have been long diseased so some Physicians are long in curing such diseases They are long in curing if there be money coming Their Cures are like Chancery-Suits depending several years Isai 107.20 but Christ is quick at curing He sent his word and healed them It is enough to the Centurion if he can but get a word from Christ Speak the word onely Matth. 8.8 13. and my Servant shall be healed And Jesus said unto the Centurion Go thy way and as thou hast believed so be it done unto thee And his Servant was healed in the self-same hour Christ is a seasonable Physician The season of a mercy does greatly accent the mercy For a person to be sinking in the Thames and for another to rescue him from those merciless waves is not this in season Mark 5.23 24 c. For the daughter of Jairus who was at the point of death and the woman with her issue of blood of twelve years time to be both healed was not this in season For a person to be arrived near the Gates of Hell by his Sin and for Christ to give him check by his Grace is not this in season Zech. 3.1.2 For Joshua to stand before the Angel of the Lord for Satan also to stand at his right hand to resist him to be his Adversary margent and for God to rescue Joshua being a Brand plucked out of the Fire is not this in season Christ is a sutable Physician All Cures they say are by Sympathy or by Antipathy Both these ways Christ cureth Christ cureth by Sympathy In all their afflictions he was afflicted An Eye for an Eye and a Tooth Isa 63.9 1 Cor. 15.21 for a Tooth Blood for Blood By man came death by man also came the resurrection of the dead Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Christ cureth by Antipathy There is Good for Evil Light for Darkness Life for Death Heaven for Hell God hath not appointed us unto wrath 1 Thess 5.9 Non cur atur pars nisi curetur totum 2 Pet. 3.18 but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ Physicians say If ye would cure any unsound part ye must cleanse the whole Body Christ cures by Sympathy and by Antipathy he must needs universally cure that every way cures Christ hath once suffered the just for the unjust A Physician asking a Lacedemonian How he did answered The better that 〈◊〉 meddle not with Thee nor take of thy Physick Certainly no Soul unto whom Christ hath been a Physician will say so of his Physick Christ is an incomparable Physician Christ is incomparably qualified and under an incomparable qualification It is said of a good Chyrurgion or Physician that he must have an Eagles Eye a Lyons Heart and a Ladies Hand Christ with the greatest Reverence be it written hath all these A good Physician must have an Eagles Eye He that is good at healing had need be good at seeing that he may discover where the fault and the failing is Thus Christ is incomparably qualified He is excellent at seeing excelling in seeing so good at seeing Joh. 9.6 7 that he gave sight unto one that was born blind A good Physician must have a Lyons heart He that is a Physician must be strong and stout-hearted for if the Physician fail how will the Patient bear up his courage A Physician must deal freely and plainly with the Patient telling him the disease and the danger if he take not this or that he is a dead man c. Thus Christ deals freely and plainly with the souls of men and women telling them If ye believe not that I am he ye
be unwilling to be a Man for to be a Man is to be mortal Luther Cedo nulli As one said in the matters of God and Faith I give place to none so saith Death I give place to none As it is true what Man is he that liveth and sinneth not Eccles 7.20 Ps 89.48 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homo There is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not It is as true what man is he that liveth and dieth not What man is he that liveth and shall not see death that is shall not die What Man What Man or Woman The Greek and the Latine words for Man comprehend both Sexes What Man so the English and Junius What strong Man so Ainsworth and the Hebrew Mi Geber Mi Geber Geber a Man so called from his power and strength A strong man or a man in his strength It is properly one who is neither a Boy nor an old Man What strong man or man in his strength is he that shall not see death that shall not die Shall he deliver his soul or Life from the hand or power of the grave From this long Text there is this short meditation That man is mortal Every man and woman is mortal and not a match for Death All men and women may die yea must die What man is he that liveth and shall not die what man that is no man Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's Elect Rom. 8.33 34. That is none shall Who is he that condemneth That is not one Thus here what man what strong man That is no man no strong man Not Caesar nor Pompey though the one could not endure a Superiour nor the other an Equal Not Sampson or Scaliger though persons of strength not Gustavus or Huniades though persons of conduct and courage Not Alexander or Ajax though persons of Terror Not Gideon or David though persons of valour Not Peter or Paul though the one the Doctor of the Jews and the other the Doctor of the Gentiles All the Apostles died yea all the Apostles save John who had such intimacy with Jesus died violent deaths and laid down their Blood on this side the Grave concerning which Luther was so troubled that he did not Death is the way of all flesh the way of all men the way of all the world Death is a Tribute due to Nature and every man must pay this Debt what Debts soever he leave unpaid Death is the way of all men This way Gen. 47.28 31. Gen. 35.29 Jacob went He bowed himself upon the Beds-head that is he died This common way did Isaac go He gave up the Ghost died and was gathered unto his people being old and full of daies Though Isaac was old and full of daies yet he died This common way Abraham went He gave up the Ghost Gen. 25.8 and died in a good old age an old man and full of years and was gathered unto his people Though Abraham lived to a good old age yet he died He died in a good old age an old man and full The Hebrew goes no farther He died full Full of what Our Translators to fill up the sense add by way of Explication full of years This way Methuselah also went Gen. 52.7 His daies were nine hundred sixty and nine years and he died This man was long-lifted indeed would not a man living in his time have thought that he had been immortal But he was mortal Though he lived to be very gray yet he died at last If the Majesty of Heaven call him upon the stage this is the last Act wherewith the Commedy ends Et mortuus est And he died Methuselah is his name which is by Interpretation He dieth And He died is the Epitaph for every Individual Death periods the daies of a long-lifed Methuselah And He died Though he had lived so long yet he died at last Though he had lived so many daies yet there came a time when he had not a day longer to live Though he had lived so long in the world yet there came a day when his Time went into Eternity And He died All Object have not died All have not been graved All have not had a Pillow of Dust for their Head All have not passed under the first Death All Solu have died or been translated All shall die or be changed To these distinctly All that have lived have died or been translated I read but of two men who made a leap over the Grave and did not see Death Now these two were Enoch and Elijah Enoch Enoch taught as the word signifies walked with God Gen. 5.24 and was not for God took him Enoch was so little like the world that his stay was little in the world Enoch was so like God himself that God takes Enoch unto himself He was not for God took him Not that there was an Annihilation of him but a Translation of him he was personally translated Soul and Body were translated to Heaven Enoch walked with God and he was not And not He so the Hebrew He was saith one translated from the society of men Junius This is a difficult Scripture but the Apostle gives a full Heb. 11.5 and unerring Comment upon it By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death and he was not found because God had translated him for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God Here is One that never went to the house of the Grave As God had before translated him out of a State of Sin into a State of Grace so Enoch was such a proficient in Grace that God translated him from Grace to Glory without so much as looking into the Grave Gen. 4.17 Jude ep v. 14. There was an Enoch in the Hebrew Chanoch who was the third from Adam and who was the immediate Son of cursed Cain But this Enoch or Chanoch was according to Jude the seventh from Adam And Enoch also the seventh from Adam Enoch was so the seventh from Adam as that both Adam and Himself must be computed to be Two of that Number Enoch was not so the seventh from as to be the seventh after or the seventh that came of Adam The like expression there is in Matthew Mat. 1.17 All the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations Into which Abraham and David themselves must be taken to make them up fourteen Enoch also was not so the seventh person from Adam as that there were no more than seven persons begotten from the time of Adam to Enoch for all those six Patriarchs mentioned before Enoch are said to beget Sons and Daughters but Jenkin in loc Enoch is called the seventh from Adam because he was exactly in that particular direct Line the seventh from Adam to Him Ainsworth This Enoch after saith one he had lived so many years upon the Earth as
night And as we are to reflect on the Certainty of Death this being a Tribute due to Nature and a Debt to be paid by every Individual so we are to reflect the Vncertainty of the Time of Death which comes to many persons as a Thief in the night suddenly silently unexpectedly SECT VIII The Impartiality of Death DEATH is common to All. Pallida mors pulsar Regum turres pauperumque tabernas Zach. 1.5 Death when she marches her Rounds knocks at a Palace as well as at a Cottage at the Princes Palace as well as at the Peasants Cottage The King as well as the Beggar may die must die The persecuting as well as the persecuted may die must die The man in his Robes as well as the man in his Rags may die must die Your Fathers where are they and the Prophets do they live for ever The Hebrew Proverb is That in Golgotha are Skulls of all sizes as well as of all sexes Death knows no difference no distance Death is like the Sword of Alexander the Great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 11.13 that knew not how to make a Difference The Apostle in the Book of Martyrs epitomized speaking of those Worthies of whom the world was not worthy saith These all died in Faith or according to the Greek according to Faith All these died naturally though they died believingly There is not a man in the Charter of man-kind but he is obnoxious to the common and equal Law of Death There are no Sons of Zerviah too hard for Death though a Sampson this great Leviathan Death account him but a straw One being asked by another where he had been answered Diogenes to Alexander the Great Job 3.19 I have been comparing the Skulls of Princes with the Skulls of Peasants the Skulls of the mightiest with the Skulls of the meanest the Skulls of the richest with the Skulls of the poorest the Skulls of the highest with the Skulls of the lowest and I find no difference The small and the great are there and the Servant is free from his Master The small cannot escape the Hands or slip through the Fingers of Death because they are little the great cannot rescue themselves from the power or break out of the hands of Death because they are big Death is impartial from the Threshold to the Throne SECT IX Directions concerning Death the Tribute of Nature and Law of Mortals This Section hath a double Aspect and looks to a Soul out of Christ and to a Soul in Christ Chap. 1. To the Soul out of Christ ARt out of Christ Take heed then of puting far away the day of Death Directions There is a wicked Proverb I thought no more of it than I did of my dying day As if a man should not concern himself with the Thoughts of Death What became of that French King when he died Lewis the 11th that would not think of Death while he lived He prohibited upon pain of Death to speak of Death in the Court There is Deaths day Non putaram and this is not to be put far away This is the Fools motto I never thought of it The Master say to the Servant Is this done Is that done The Servant say to the Master I never thought of it Mark 16.16 Luk. 13.3 Oh say Christ to the Soul why didst thou not believe and repent for He or She that believeth not shall be damned and except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Oh say the Soul to Christ I never thought of it Oh say Christ why didst not thou love me 1 Cor. 16.22 for If any man love me not let him be Anathema Maran-atha a curse to the coming of the Lord to pass the definitive Sentence Oh say the Soul I never thought of it Oh say Christ why didst thou not Ark in me and Anchor upon me Joh. 14.6 when I am the Way the Truth and the Life Oh say the Soul I never thought of it Oh say Christ why didst thou not get Oil in thy Vessel against a dying hour and a wedding-garment against a judging hour Oh say the Soul I never thought of it Oh Soul if thou hastary love to thy self love to thy Soul take heed that â—â—ou dost not lay under that black Brand as to Death that they did as to Judgment Yâ— Amos 6.3 that put far away the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near Oh Soul take heed thou speakest not of Death as one did of Hell Demonax who being asked what Hell was profanely said stay until I come there and I will send thee word from thence Hell is not a place to be sported with There are many that have not only a name to live but also the nature of life that sometimes tremble at the Thoughts of shooting this Gulf. That saying Isa 56.12 had too great a Tincture of Atheism To morrow shall be as this day and much more abundantly Art out of Christ Direct 2. Take heed also of taking Gods work out of Gods hand God who giveth life may call for it when he pleaseth but man must not Gen. 22.2 God imposed upon Abraham an Oblation of Isaac it had been Murder for the Father to have killed the Son had not God imposed it God is the Being of Beings and doth all things well Some Romish Parasites have flattered the Pope into this divine priviledge which is peculiar to God and the prerogative of God God is so high that he cannot look above himself but looks below himself and hath none to whom he is to give an Account of his Actions Behold he taketh away Job 9.12 who shall turn him away who may say unto him what dost thou yet the blind and the bloody Papists have slattered the Pope into this divine priviledge no man must question him do what he will if he carry thousands to Hell with him no man must say unto him what dost thou I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand is a Dialect becoming a God but unbecoming a man Gods work is not to be taken out of Gods hand Might not the consent of Paul to the Death of Stephen lay near Pauls heart so long as he lived Act. 22.20 When the blood of thy Martyr Stephen was shed I also was standing by consenting to his death and kept the rayment of them that slew him Oh Soul take heed of breathing their Veins and letting out their Vitals unto whom Death is stingless Take heed of having a hand in their Death who through grace see the Death of Death in the Death of Christ If those who are actually Christs die a natural Death God takes notice of it Moses my servant is dead Josh 1.2 Psal 116.15 But if they die a violent Death God takes especial notice of it Precious in the eyes of Jehovah is the
Tecelius the first part of Clark's Eccl. Hist p. 227. and a plural mercy It was Christ that said to the Palsical man Thy sins are forginen thee The Popes pardon is not worth a penny whatsoever that John thought who bringing Indulgences into Germany to be sold said that he had so large a Commission from the Pope that though a man had deflowred the blessed Virgin yet for money he could pardon his sin The pardon of sin is a great thing what would not a condemned Malefactor give for a pardon No voice but the voice of Christ will still the voice of Desperation It was Christ that said to the City-Sinner Thy sins are forgiven Luk. 7.48 The barbarous and murderous Papists say that a doubting of the pardon of sin is not an Infirmity but a Vertue But hath not doubting cost the soul dear Now Christ in a fourfold respect pardons sin Christ pardons sin in respect of his Deity Christ is God Mark 2.7 and therefore pardoneth Who can forgive sins but God only Christ pardons sin in respect of his Dignity Christ is exalted and therefore pardoneth Him hath God exalted with his right hand Act. 5.31 to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance unto Israel and forgiveness of sins There have been many Princes besides Christ but never was there a Saviour besides Christ that could give repentance and remission of sin Christ pardons sin in respect of his Mercy Men are doubting and drooping Prov. 18.14 desponding and despairing therefore Christ pardoneth A wounded spirit is an intollerable burden A wounded spirit who can bear Suffer Spira to speak The hand of God is out against me not for Correction but for Condemnation Let Bilney and Glover also speak if Desertion be not a Hell within Christ pardons sin in respect of his Merit He did yea died therefore pardoneth Make no mixtures of the blood of Hales and Becket with the blood of Christ though they by Italy were canonized for Saints Every forgiven soul may say my Merit is the Mercy of my God The Apostle speaking of Christ saith Rom. 6.10 11. D. Mocr upon the 7 Epist to the 7 Churches p. 129. In that he died he died unto sin once but in that he liveth he liveth unto God Likewise reckon ye your selves to be dead indeed unto sin but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. The payment of popish Merits is not current but copper Coin which will not go in Heaven but will certainly be turned back to Hell again The Sacerdotal Absolution saith one among the Papists is the most hideous the most dangerous and the most perfidious Cheat of Rome that ever she could light on in order to the damning of poor credulous souls that thus superstitiously depend upon the vain Breath of their Priests for the security of their salvation There is in Christ for those that are Christs a fulness of Light A dark state is a dismal state Mal. 4.2 a dungeon state is a dreadfull state If Christ the Sun of Righteousness do not shine in our Horizon we are in the dark yea we are darkness 〈◊〉 self in the very Abstract For ye sometimes were darkness Eph. 5.8 but now are ye light in the Lord walk as children of light There was darkness upon the face of the whole earth until God said Let there be light Gen. 1.3 Now that the Habit should come out of the Privation Light out of Darkness Life out of Death Joy out of Sorrow Peace out of Trouble these are the wonderful works of God Christ calls himself the Light of Life Joh. 8.12 He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life As the firmamental Sun is the worlds light so Christ is the Churches light As the Eye is the light of the Body so Christ is the light of the Soul Oh Soul under all thy doubts and darkness Isa 50.10 when there is the greatest Film upon thine eye when thou art in darkness and hast no light then thou hast a Christ to go unto in whom there is a fulness of light for His. Did a Job say I was eyes to the blind feet was I also to the lame What may a Jesus then say There is in Christ for those that are Christs a fulness of Love The Love of Christ that is a sweet Monosyllable indeed that is a sweet morsel indeed 2 Cor. 5.21 Love that is a sweet Dish indeed Did I say a Dish indeed I may say a Feast indeed Did ever one live as Christ lived for he lived and sinned not Did ever any one love as Christ loved for he loved Rev. 1.5 and washed from sin in the blood of himself Christ loved His as he loved Himself yea he seemed to love His above Himself for he loved them and out of love gave himself to death for them Gal. 2.20 Who loved me and gave himself for me Christs feet were washed with Marys tears such was her love to Him but Marys heart was washed with Christs blood such was his love to Her Who loved us and washed us from our sins in the blood of himself Gen 44.30 2 Sam. 18.33 2 Sam. 1.26 There have been great Lovers in the world what a love had Jacob for Benjamin Kill the Son and the same grave may serve for the Father What a love had David for Absalom The Father would have a pillow of Lust that the Son might have a pillow of Down What a love had Jonathan for David Thy love to me was wonderful passing the love of women But what 〈◊〉 a Feather to a Mountain what is a Spark to the Furnace what is a Drop to the Ocean such is the love of Man to the love of God-man Christ infinitely out-bids all Psal 30.5 Chajim Psal 63.3 out-vies all In his favour is life yea lifes so the Hebrew Because thy loving-kindness is better than life than lifes so the Hebrew Christs Looks were Loves his Life was a life of Love Was he not born into the world rather to love than to live There is in Christ for those that are Christs a fulness of Wisdom Satan is subtle The children of this world are wiser in their generation Luk. 16.8 2 Sam. 15.31 than the children of light but Christ is â—iser than all wisest of all He can turn their wisdom into folly and out-shoot them in their own Bow The Wisdom that man hath is a poor pittance a poor moity but in Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge Col. 2.3 1 King 4.31 2 Sam. 14.20 1 Cor. 1.24 Châ—chmot Prov. 9.1 Soloman was a Sage in his day He was wisâ—r than all men David according to the womans judgment was wise as an Angel of God But Chrâ—st is wise as God yea he is the Wisdom of God yea he is the God of Wisdom Wisdom Wisdoms so the Hebrew hath builded her house Christ the supream
Wisdom the Wisdom of God yea the God of Wisdom hath builded her house prepared him a Church he hath hewn out his seven pillars Patriarchs Prophets Seers Apostles Evangelists Pastors and Teaâ—hers or by seven may be understood the manifold gifts of the Spirit for it is ordinary in Scripture to take seven for a perfect number Pro. 8.14 for a number of perfection Is not that a lofty as well as a lovely strain when Christ thus speaks of himself Counsel is mine and sound Wisdom I am Vnderstanding I have strength Oh Soul though the best and wisest of men have too little of that wisdom from above which is first pure Jam. 3.17 and then peaceable yet there is in Christ for those that are Christs a fulness of Wisdom There is in Christ for those that are Christs a fulness of Righteousness He is stiled Jesus Christ the righteous Little children 1 Joh. 2.1 I write unto you that ye sin not Whatsoever ye do or suffer do not sin ye had better be sick than sinning better be suffering than sinning better be dying than sinning better be dying for a Christ or dying in a Christ than sinning against a Christ Little children I write unto you that ye sin not but if any one sin so the Greek whether Jew or Gentile whether man or woman Tis. We have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous Christ is not only righteous but also Righteousness Jer. 23.6 In his days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and this is the name whereby he shall be called Jehovah our righteousness There is in Christ a twofold Righteousness imputed and imparted an imputed righteousness in order to Justification an imparted righteousness in order to Sanctification Both these are together legible Who is made of God unto us wisdom 1 Cor. 1.30 righteousness sanctification and redemption That there is a fulness of righteousness in Christ is evident because he fully answèred what the Law could challenge of those that are His now the Law required of these a threefold righteousness habitual practical passive Habitual that is a Conformity of our Natures to the Holiness of the Law Now this was found in Christ in whom there is a fulness for his 1 Pet. 1.19 He was a Lamb without blemish and without spot Christ was free from all sin without blemish and spot without original and actual sin he was sound within and without Practical a Conformity of our Wills to the Edicts of the Law This also was found in Christ. There was not the least Aberration in his works words Joh. 14.30 or thoughts The Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me Christ had no Corruption that might be sewel to his Temptation though tempted unto sin yet was he not tempted into sin Passive a Conformity of our sufferings to the Threats and Curses of the Law This also was found in Christ in whom there is a fulness for His. But what did the Law threaten Quest. Sol. The Law threatned a privation of Comfort and an instiction of Torment A privation of Comfort This answers to our omission of good Time was when Christ was deprived of that Comfort and Influence Mark 15.34 which at other times he had from the Deity so far as to cry out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me An infliction of Torment This answers to our commission of evil Luke 22.44 This also was found in Christ in whom there is a sulness for His. Time was when Christ lay under torment and sense of wrath which caused him to sweat water and blood Thus is the Law exactly answered by the fulness of Christs righteousness CHAP. II. To the Soul in Christ. ART in Christ prepare then through Christ for the first Death Directions It is a solemn work to die we had need therefore prepare to do that work well which is but once to be done In this world we pray often and preach often and hear often in this world we meditate and mourn often discourse and dispute often yea which is worse than all in this world we sin often but we shall die but once Caesar Borgia I have read of one who being sick unto death said when I lived I prepared for every thing but Death now I must die and am unprepared for Death It is our prudence to die well because we can die but once A man had need to do that wisely which he can do but once An error in Death is like an error in War ye cannot commit it twice All the time we live is but a passage unto Death and therefore should be a preparation for Death It is said of David 1 Chron. 22.5 that before his death he prepared abundantly for the house of the Lord. It is the Duty and Dignity the Prudence and Property of those who are actually Christs before their death to prepare abundantly for their death What is true of Judgment is true of Death Amos 4.12 Not Vi Armis but this is true of Judgment Prepare to meet thy God oh Israel The Israel of God is to meet the God of Israel in the way of his righteous Judgments by Prayers and Tears not by Sword and Spears Heart-work is hard work and yet this is imposed 1 Sam. 7.3 Prepare your hearts unto the Lord and he will deliver you out of the hands of the Philistines Ezek. 18.31 Ezek. 36.26 God impose upon man the making of a new heart and he might as well have imposed upon him the making of a new Heaven but what God impose upon man in one place he promise to do for man in another place Make ye a new heart Pro. 16.1 A new heart will I give them God impose upon man the preparation of the heart when the preparations of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. But what course shall I now steer Quest. and by what compass shall I now sail that I may prepare for Death Make through Christ Mortality thy Meditation Sol. 1. Meditate death Bern. be much in the Meditation of Mortality Nothing saith one so revokes from sin as a daily Meditation of Death The Heathen could say that the whole life of man should be nothing else but a Meditation of Death One presented Antipater King of Macedon with a Book treating of Happiness but his answer was I have no leisure to read it Days of Grace have their Dates take heed therefore of saying to morrouâ— to morrow As a man must not say to Christ so a man must not say to Death as a penurious and parcimonious man say to an indigent person come to morrow Sine mora Heb. 4.7 Diem perdidi Vespatian Mané I am not at leisure now Without delay was the Motto of Alexander the Great To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts The present time
children of God 'T is a sanctifying Spirit Abel differed not from Cain Abraham from Absalom Isaac from Ishmael Jacob from Esau Simon Peter from Simon Magus James the Lords Brother from Judas the Lords betrayer in respect of their Substance but in respect of the Spirit which the one had but the other had not It is the Spirit that sanctifies 2 Thes 2.13 God hath chosen us to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth 'T is a sealing Spirit After ye believed ye were sealed with that holy spirit of Promise Eph. 1.13 The use of a Seal is two-fold and consists in two things In the Nature of it In this sense Christ was sealed Labour not for the meat that perisheth Joh. 6.27 but for that which endureth unto everlasting life which the Son of Man shall give for him hath the Father sealed To Seal a thing is to stamp the Character of the Seal upon it In the Vse of it This is two-fold To ratifie A Seal is to ratifie any Grant or Conveyance made in writing A writing sealed is authentick this confirms the Testimony that is given by any one of the Truth of any thing Such was the manner among the Jews Joh. 3.33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true Thus by way of Ratification To Appropriate A Seal is to appropriate distinguish or keep safe Rev. 7.4 In this sense are the Servants of God sealed I heard the number of them that were sealed and there were sealed an hundred forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the Children of Israel Thus by way of Appropriation Thus the Spirit of God is a sealing Spirit it confirms and assures the Soul of the love of God of life from God of life with God And grieve not the holy Spirit of God Eph. 4.30 whereby ye are sealed to the day of redemption The Spirit here according to the Greek Text is set forth with very great Energy and the Text may be thus read Grieve not the holy the Spirit of that God Not a Spirit but the Spirit not holy but the holy and not of God but of that God Would ye prepare for Death Look then unto Christ and lay the Stress of Obedience upon Him Obedience is or ought to be the White in a Christians eye at which he should level every arrow Obedience is better than Sacrifice and hearkning than the fat of lambs A man truly gracious had rather with one have Grace to be obedient Luther than Power to work Miracles Obediene is two-fold active and passive and the stress of both to be laid upon Christ but to these distinctly Active Lay the stress of Doing for a Christ upon a Christ. Acti agimus Active Obedience is a Doing what God imposeth now being acted we act Not that we we Apostles we Disciples we accounted Cedars in Lebanon not Shrubs of the Valley are sufficient of our selves 2 Cor. 3.5 to think any thing as of our selves but our sufficiency is of God Were they so what are we then If insufficient as to thinking what are we then as to acting To do what we ought when we ought and as we ought is from Christ. Passive Lay the stress of Dying for a Christ upon a Christ. Passive Obedience is a suffering what God inflicteth Passive Obedience brings as much Glory to God as active Obedience doth Luther was troubled that he did not lay down his bloud on this side the grave and pass through a violent death as all the Apostles but John did Art actually in Christ then possibly thou shalt not long live his Servant but die his Sicrifice now Passion as well as Action dying as well as doing bleeding or burning as well as believing is from Christ Phil. 1.29 and the Grace of Christ To you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to believe but also to suffer for his sake Suffering-work is Noble work the Noblest work Mat. 6.10 for though Saints be inferiour to Angels as to Action yet they are superiour to Angels as to Passion for they are Spirits and incapable of suffering 1 Tim. 5.21 6. Verse of Judes Epist Psa 37.24 2 Pet. 2.4 The Apostle speaketh of elect Angels These fell not from their estate As the elect Saints cannot finally fall Though he fall yet shall he not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand so the elect Angels did not foully fall Now Suffering was the Consequent of Sinning And spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them down to Hell True Obedience may be known three waies By the Sincerity of it My rejoycing is this the testimony of a good Conscience how that in sincerety 2 Cor. 1.12 and godly simplicity c. By the Vniversality of it Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy Commandments Psa 119.6 We must not only respect all Gods Commandments but also respect them all alike and give them all the like respect Obedience must be Vniversal By the Constancy of it As Obedience must be sincere and Vniversal so constant 1 Cor. 15.58 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Col. 3.11 Be ye stedfast unmoveable alwaies abounding in the work of the Lord. If we would prepare for Death we must lay the Stress of Obedience whether active or passive upon Christ for he is All and in All or according to the Greek All things and in all things It may be understood of Persons as well as Things Christ is All from the Father All to the Father All with the Father but to these distinctly Christ is All from the Father I am come that ye might have life life here Joh. 10.10 and life hereafter and that ye might have it more abundantly The life of Grace and of Glory they are by Christ Christ is All to the Father I am the Way the Truth and the Life Joh. 14.6 no man commeth unto the Father but by me Every word here hath its Article in the Greek Christ is the Way wherein the Truth whereby and the Life whereunto we walk Christ is the Way without Error the Truth without Falshood and the Life without Death Truth lies between Way and Life as if the Way to Life were through Truth Christ is All with the Father I know thou hearest me alwaies Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 3.17 hath Gods Ear at all times Christ is at Gods right hand yea Christ is as Gods right hand Christ is the Object of the Fathers delight This is my Beloved Son in whom I acquiess so the Greek It is an emphatical word and signifieth an infinite Affection DIRECTION II. ART actually in Christ Direct 2 Sen. Artem bene vivendi moriendi study then through Christ the Art of Dying well May a Heathen speak When I was young my care was to live well I then
and Omega Beginning and End First and Last Fear not Death for Christ is thine and he is a Foundation A Foundation is the Basis and Bottom of the Fabrick The whole Stress of the Fabrick layeth upon theâ— Foundation Behold Isa 28.16 Quest Sol. 1. I lay in Sion for a Foundation a stone a tryed Stone c. But what manner of Foundation is Christ Christ is an ancient Foundation Christ may plead Antiquity He was before the World Pro. 8.23 for he made the World The World was made by him I was set up from everlasting Christ is a perfect Foundation Christ must needs be perfect for he is the Persecteâ— Heb. 10.14 He is the Finisher as well as the Author of Faith of all Grace By once offering of himself he hath for ever perfected those that are sanctified Christ is a sutable Foundation Is not Bread sutable for the hungry is not Water sutable for the thirsty Christ is the Bread of Life and Water of Life Is not that a mighty word Col. 2.10 Ye are compleat in him who is the head of all principality and power Christ is a Safe Foundation He that hath Christ for Foundation shall dwell on high Isa 33.16 his place of defence shall be the munition of rocks bread shall be given him and his Waters shall be sure Christ is a lovely Foundation Chrict Can. 5.10 is a Beauty without a Spot Absalom was a Black to this Beauty He is White and Red. Christ is a precious Foundation Though Christ was sold for thirty pieces of Silver Prov. 3.15 yet he was invaluable He is more precious than Rubies Christ is a living Foundation He that hath the Son 1 Joh. 5.12 hath life but he that hath not the Son of God hath not life Christ is a lasting Foundation The material Foundations of material Fabricks may rot and decay Rev. 1.18 but this Foundation will not cannot Christ is a lasting yea an everlasting Foundation I am he that was dead and am alive and live for evermore Christ is a tried Foundation He hath been tried to purpose tried to the Life tried to the Death He was obedient unto death Phil. 2.8 even the death of the Cross Christ is the Sole Foundation There is not any other Foundation laid nor to be laid Other foundation can no man lay 1 Cor. 3.11 than that already laid which is Jesus Christ Fear not Death for Christ is thine and he is a Fountain With thee is the Fountain of Life These words are metaphorical and may not the Psalmist here allude unto One or All these three things Waters Metals Veins Waters Waters flow from a Fountain There is the Fountain 1 Joh. 5.11 and the Stream the Stream is fed by the Fountain flow from the Fountain Thus Life flows from Christ. This life is in his Son Metals With thee is the Fountain or Veins of Lifes All Mineral Veins the Veins of Gold and Silver the Veins of Lead and of Iron they lay as it were in Bank in the Bosom and Bowels of the Earth Col. 3.3 Thus Life lies hid in Christ For ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God Veins The Veins of the Body as so many Rivers derive their Blood from the red Sea in Man which is the Liver of Man Thus Christ is the Ocean of Life and All that live are filled with Life from Him Col. 3.4 When he who is our life shall appear then shall we also appear with him in glory Thus Christ is Life But what manner of Fountain is this Christ Quest Sol. 1. Christ is a living Fountain Many complain of their deadness and all have cause enough so to do Oh saith One I am dead in the Country dead in the City Oh saith another I am dead in the Church dead in the Closet Soul Christ is the Fountain of Life and this Christ is thy Christ. They have forsaken the Lord Jer. 17.13 the fountain of living waters Christ is a loving Fountain As Christ is the Fountain of Life so of Love Christs Love is a Loadstone 1 Joh. 4.19 it hath in it a magnetick and attractive Vertue His Love is the Cause of Ours Our Love the Effect of His. We love him because he first loved us We cannot love until loved Christ is a lighting Fountain As Christ is the Fountain of Life and of Love so of Light In thy light shall we see light As the Firmamental Sun so the Sun of Righteousness is purely seen in his own Light Oh say the Soul I am in the dark concerning promises in the dark concerning providences But Soul Christ is the Fountain of Light and this Christ is thy Christ Joh. 8.12 I am the light of the world Christ is a pure Fountain Water in the Fountain is pure purely pure Christ must needs be a Fountain pure for he is a Fountain set open for the impure In that day what day The day of the Messiahs comming into the world In that day Zach. 13.1 there shall be a fountain opened to the House of Jacob and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness Or for sin and for separation from uncleanness Christ is a peaceable Fountain As Christ is the Fountain of Life and Love of Light and Purity so of Peace Joh. 16.33 If a man would have peace of Conscience which is an Anticipation of Glory he must go to Christ for it In me ye shall have peace How prodigious soever the winds be and impetuous soever the waves be yet in Christ for those who are Christs there is peace Oh say the Soul my life is Chequer-work I have my Tones of sorrow with my Tvnes of joy but Soul sorrow not as one without hope for thou art Christs and in him there is peace for his Christ is a free Fountain Wine and Milk may be had without Money and without Price Is this thy Cry Oh that one would give me a crum of the Bread of Lift Rev. 21.6 a drop of the Water of Life I will give to him that is â—thirst of the fountain of the water of life freely What freer than Gift Christ is a full Fountain In Christ water for Quality and Quantity Col. 2.9 is ever the same In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead personally Christ is an invisible Fountain This Fountain is not for every eye Heb. 11.27 it is only for the eye of Faith Thus Moses saw him who is invisible Christ is an immutable Fountain Men are not the same but Christ is Herod hears John and yet beheads him Heb. 13.8 Saul courts David one day and seeks to kill him the next but Christ is the same yesterday to day and for ever Christ is an incomparable Fountain Christ had the perfection of Grace as God and the perfection of Nature as Man Isa 46.5 To whom will ye liken me and make me
a continued motion but death is a continued rest Art actually in Christ Death then will grave all thy Snares There is a Snare cast in all our wayes Hos 5.1 there is a Snare on Mizpah and a Net spread upon Tabor These were two Mountains the first signifying a Beacon or Watch-tower the last signifying Housing or Purity Soul there is a Suare cast in the Countrey and in the City a Snare cast in the Church and in the Closet Gideon made an Ephod after which Israel went a whoring Judg. 8.27 which also proved a Snare to Gideon and to his house There is a Snare in the Ship and a Snare in the Shop here but there shall be no Snare hereafter Saul gave unto David Michal his daughter that she might be a Snare unto him 1 Sam. 18.20 21. and that the hands of the Philistines might be against him But though she might be a Snare while he lived she was no Snare when he was dead Art actually in Christ Death then will grave all thy Fears Is not that Christian a miracle amongst men that is without Fear here but no Christian shall have Fear hereafter David feared a falling into the hands of Saul here and while Saul was but he fears not to fall into the hands of Saul where Saul is or Himself is One man may fear another while his Enemy and Himself lives but he fears not his Enemy when his Enemy and Himself 1 Cor. 15.26 are dead The last Enemy that shall be destroyed is Death Art actually in Christ Death then will grave all thy Tears Now Tears stand in the eyes of those that are Christs and their eyes are like a Limbeck continually dropping The precious Sons of Zion comparable to fine Gold are mourning between the Porch and the Altar mourning until they can mourn no more mourning like Doves in the Vallies for their own iniquity and the iniquity of their own for their own iniquity and the iniquity of others but there shall be no mourning hereafter The Grave Rev. 21.4 and Heaven are not Bochims places of weeping not a Tear shall be shed in either of those places There is to be a State upon Earth under the Personality of Christs Reign when all Tears shall be wiped from the eyes of those who are actually Christs Art actually in Christ Death then will grave all thy Temptations Now Satan follows thee from the Closet to the Church and from the Church to the Closet but this shall not be hereafter Oh how many and mighty how great and grievous how horrid and hideous are Satanical Suggestions and Solicitations here but there shall be none hereafter Satan being once cast out of Heaven is ever cast into Hell Rev. 20.10 The Devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the Beast and the false Prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever Art actually in Christ Death then will grave all thy Tribulations Here thy sorrows and sufferings come like waves here Deep cryeth unto Deep here thou art often in the mouth of Lyons but there shall be nothing of this hereafter Here thou art fighting with the Beasts of Ephesus here thou art hunted like a Partridge upon the Mountains but there shall be nothing of this hereafter Death will grave all these things There the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest Job 3.17 18 19. there the Prisoners rest together they hear not the voice of the Oppressor the small and the great are there and the Servant is free from his Master Art actually in Christ Cordial VI. Triumph also for thou art an Heir But here are three Questions But who are Those who are Christs Qu. 1. But are those who are Christs Heirs But of what are those who are Christs Heirs But who are Those who are Christs Qu. 1. How shall those who are Christs be known from others Those who are Christs are so by eternal Donation and by effectual Vocation Sol. they are so decretively and so declaratively but to these distinctly Those who are Christs are so decretively or by eternal Donation They are given unto Christ before Time Joh. 17.2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him All those who are Christs are given unto Christ that is they are chosen in Christ There is a particular Election which is the sublimest Act of Divine Sovereignty and this was before Time Eph. 1.4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world Not that we are chosen in Christ saith one as the foundation of our Election Leigh in loc but we are chosen in Christ as the foundation of our Salvation Those who are Christs are so declaratively or by effectual Vocation As there are Those given unto Christ before Time so there are Those unto whom Christ is given under Time I knew a man in Christ 2 Cor. 12.2 By those who are Christs I mean those who are actually Christs declaratively Christs those effectually called by Christ Among whom Rom. 1.6 are ye also the called of Jesus Christ Christ speaks of those given unto him and unto whom he is given John 17.9.20 Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which thou hast given me and shall believe on me As there are some given unto Christ so there are some unto whom Christ is given and these are the persons unto whom Christ is given that I intend But Qu. 2. Sol. 1 Cor. 3.21 22 23 are those who are Christs Heirs Those actually Christs are Heirs All things are yours whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas whether the world or life or death whether things present or things to come all are yours and ye are Christs and Christ is Gods Christ hath his Heirs and those actually Christs are Heirs If ye be Christs Gal. 3.29 then are ye Abrahams seed and Heirs according to promise An Heir is one that succeeds another into a Possession and Inheritance after his death Thus Solomon was Heir to David and thus Isaac was Heir to Abraham Gen. 21.10 Cast out the Bond-woman and her Son for the Son of the Bond-woman shall not be Heir with my Son even with Isaac Those actually Christs whether Jews or Gentiles whether Men or Women are Heirs That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs Eph. 3.6 and of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ by the Gospel What indoed is more legible in the Sacred Scriptures than that those who are actually Christs are Heirs He Rev. 21.7 that overcometh shall inherit all things and I will be to him a God and he shall be to me a Son But of what Qu. 3. are those who are actually Christs Heirs These things may be redaced to two Heads Sol. things present and things to
2 Chron. 18.3 31. Chap. 19.2 3. Be joyous also for thou art on the best side As there is the worst so there is the best side The worlds side is the worst side Gods side is the best side It was not the Virtue but the Vice of Jehoshaphat to be of Ahab's side and it had like to have cost his life That side is the best side on which holy Saints and Angels are on which a holy God and a holy Christ are but these are on thy side if thou beest actually Christs That side is the best side on which holy Saints are but they are on their side who are actually Christs Though God hath a Bag for the Sins of his yet he hath a Book for the Prayers of his and a Bottle for the Tears of his Now all the Prayers and Tears of all the Saints throughout all the Vniverse are engaged for those who are actually Christs I have seen Acts 7.34 I have seen the affliction of my People which is in Egypt and have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver them That side is the best side on which holy Angels are but they are on their side who are actually Christs Sodom and Gomorrah were not a match for two Angels Sennacheribs Army was not a match for one Angel and yet holy Angels are on their side who are Christs Are they not all ministring Spirits Heb. 1.14 sent forth to minister unto them who shall be heirs of salvation That side is the best side on which a holy God is but God is on their side Psal 118.6 who are actually Christs Jehovah is on my side or for me I will not fear what can man do unto me That side is the best side on which a holy Christ is but he is on their side who are actually his For how many did Alexander stand For how many did they reckon Gideon The Sword of the Lord Rev. 6.2 and of Gideon But a greater than Gideon is here Christ Jesus the Lord who went out conquering and to conquer and for how many stands He Now is not that side the best side on which holy Saints are and they are numerous I looked Rev. 14.1 and lo a Lamb stood on mount Zion and with him an hundred forty and four thousand Is not that side the best side on which holy Angels are an◠they are innumerable Heb. 12.22 Isa 40.15 To an innumerable company◠Angels Is not that side the best side o◠which a holy God is For All Nations unto him are but as the drop of a Bucket Is not that side the best side on which a holy Christ is For He is the Captain of the Saints salvation Heb. 2.10 made perfect thorough suffering Soul thy side is Christ side and Christs side is thy side take now 〈◊〉 taste what manner of side Christs is Christs side is the strongest side Are not me◠for the strongest side but most men mistake tha◠side that is the strongest side on which Christ is Be strong and courageous be not afraid nor dismayed for the King of Assyria 2 Chron. 32. 7 8. nor for the multitude tha◠is with him for there are more with us than with him with him is an Arm of flesh but with us is the living God to help us and to fight our Battels God is incomprehensible therefore innumerable Here all natural and spiritual Arithmetick and Rhetorick are puzled and posed Christs side is the soundest side The worlds side is an unsound side an ulcerous side a rotten side Their Root is Rottenness The world hath a stinking Breath and the Air of the world is infectious Joseph had not been long in the Court of Pharaoh before he learned to swear by the Life of Pharaoh But now Christs side is a sound side there is soundness within there is truth in the inward parts yea 't is sound within and without The Kings daughter is all Glory within Psal 45.13 and her cloathing is of wrought Gold Christs side is a prudent side The greatest Sinners are the greatest Fools the greatest Saints are the greatest Sages Those who are actually Christs are wise unto salvation which is the greatest wisdom they have that wisdom from above which is first pure and then peaceable Thou thorough thy Commandments hast made me wiser than mine Enemies Psal 119.98 Christs side is a prevailing side He must reign until he hath put all his enemies under his feet A fourfold Conquest hath Christ Jesus made for His. Over Sin To conquer a Lust is more than to conquer a Land 2 Cor. 5.21 He was made Sin a Sacrifice for us who knew no Sin by Himself that we might be made the righteousness of God in him He slays the Sons of Zerviah within Over Satan Satan is a great Enemy though Sin be a greater but Christ hath made a Conquest upon both 1 John 3.8 Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the Devil Over the Earth The world is a potent Enemy unto all but a prevailing Enemy unto many unto most Few are a match for the world John 16.33 but Christ is I have overcome the world Over Heaven Heaven is worth the hearing worth the hecding worth the having worth the holding And to look for his Son from Heaven 1 Thess 1.10 whom he raised from the dead even Jesus who delivered us from the wrath to come Art actually in Christ Cordial VIII Be joyous also for thou art graciously interested in the blessed Blood of a bleeding Jesus But what manner of Blood is Christs Blood Quest Sol. 1. Christs Blood is precious Blood The Redemption of a Soul is precious for the Soul is redeemed with Blood that is precious If the blood of a Christian be so precious in Gods eyes how precious should the Blood of a Christ be in our eyes The blood of Saints is precious in the eyes of God Psal 116.15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints This Blood is also precious in the eyes of Christ Psal 72 14. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence and precious shall their blood be in his sight Is the blood of a Christian thus What should the Blood of a Christ then be in our eyes for it is precious Blood Ye are not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold There is the negative part Silver and Gold are corruptible things though unto some as Micah's gods were to him take away these things though corruptible things and they have nothing left Ye have taken away my gods from me and the Priest and what have I left Here is a Redemption but not with corruptible things as Silver 1 Pet. 1.18 19. and Gold Silver and Gold may redeem a person in captivity to the Turk or Tartar but Silver and Gold cannot redeem a Person in captivity to Sin and Satan If this cannot what can the Blood of
Christ can But with the precious Blood of Christ. There is the positive part What Silver and Gold cannot do the Blood of Christ can do for that is precious Christs Blood is pure Blood Though to be sinless cannot be asserted of man yet it may be asserted of God-man Heb. 4.15 In all points tempted like as we are yet without sin Though Christ was tempted to sin yet not into sin 1 Pet. 1.19 Christ is called a Lamb and so he is for harmlesness for meekness for silence for sacrifice He is a Lamb without blemish and without spot Aquinas Free saith one from all sin original and actual He is without blemish sound within and without spot right without The Apostle here alludes to the Paschal Lamb and to the Lamb for the daily sacrifice both which were to be without blemish and without spot The Paschal Lamb. Your Lamb shall be without blemish Ex. 12.5 Joh. 1.29 a male of the first year Now this Lamb was a Type of Christ Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world The Lamb for the daily Sacrifice This is the offering made by fire Num. 28.3 which ye shall offer unto the Lord two Lambs of the first year without spot day by day for a continual burnt-offering This Lamb also was a Type of Christ Purge out therefore the old leaven 1 Cor. 5.7 that ye may be a new lump as ye are unleavened For even Christ our Passeover is sacrificed for us Was it thus with the Type then it was thus with the Antitype Christs Blood is purifying Blood It is the Blood of Jesus Heb. 9.14 that purgeth the conscience from dead works It is Christs Blood that purgeth from dead works in a state of death and from liveless works in a state of life Joh. 13.8 Rev. 1.5 It is Christ must wash If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me Yea it is Christ must wash from sin in his own blood As the merit of Christs Blood Balnaeum coeleste doth pacifie God so the virtue of Christs Blood doth purifie man Christs Blood is the Bath of the King of Heaven Christs Blood is a Laver to wash in it washeth a crimson-sinner milk-white The blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin The word of Christ is a Looking-Glass to shew us our sins the blood of Christ is a Fountain to wash them away Christ's blood is purchasing blood Christ hath bought his out of the hands of Justice of Sin of Satan Ye are bought with a price 1 Cor. 6.19 20. be ye not the servants of men Ye are not your own for ye are bought with a price There was little paid for the Saviour there was much paid for the Sinner Christ was sold did not Covetousness set him to sale But for what was he sold for 30 pieces of silver the price that a Slave was valued at The Prophet stands as it were amazed and amused at this price A goodly price Zech. 11.13 that I was prized at of them And I took the 30 pieces of silver and cast them to the Potter in the house of the Lord. There was little paid for the Saviour but there was much paid for the Sinner The Saviour was bought with silver but the Sinner is bought with blood yea with the blood of Christ. Feed the Church of God Acts 20.28 which he hath purchased with his own blood Christ's blood is pardoning blood It is by the blood of Christ that we have a lasting yea an everlasting pardon of all our sins If Christ had never dyed Sin had never been pardoned Heb. 9.22 for without shedding of blood there is no remission Art a believing Soul then thou art a pardoned Soul Christ doth not onely give Pardon to him that believeth but also giveth Faith to believe that Pardon Art a repenting Soul then thou art a pardoned Soul Christ doth not onely give remission of sin to those that repent but also repentance for remission of sin and gives them repentance of the sins remitted Art in the Church and in Christ too thou art then a pardoned Soul though the tears of Repentance stand in thine eyes that thou canst not read thy Pardon Luther Lord saith One now do what thou wilt with me for thou hast pardoned me The pardon of sin is such a mercy that a man cannot be happy hereafter nor yet happy here without it Though a Soul may have Grace yet he cannot have Peace that is without a sight and sense of Pardon Now Pardon of sin is an effect of Christs blood Eph. 1.7 In whom we have redemption thorough his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his Grace Pardon of sin is a complicated mercy Christ's blood is pleading blood Satan the Law and Conscience plead against us cry to God against us and as it were say this man and woman have commiteed multiplied forbidden Iniquities and omitted multiplied imposed Duties these Persons have so many vain Thoughts so many dead Prayers have neglected so many precious Ordinances sinned after so many signal deliverances c. But no sooner can these Indictments be put in against those who are Christs but they are cast out of the Court of Heaven by Christ for his blood is pleading blood The Cry of Sin is a loud Cry grievous Sins make great Cryes Jehovah said because the cry of Sodom Gen. 18.20 21. and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is grievous I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it which is come unto me and if not I will know There is a loud voice in the Cry of Sin but there is a louder voice in the Cry of Blood And to the blood of sprinkling Heb. 12.24 which speaketh better things than the blood of Abel It is called the blood of sprinkling in allusion to the Passeover where the bloods saith One of the Paschal Lamb was sprinkled on the posts of the door M. Hildersam to save the house from the stroke of the revenging Angel The blood of Abel did plead against the Offender but the blood of Christ doth plead for the Believer Abel's blood cryed for vengeance Christ's blood cryeth for mercy Christ's blood is procuring blood The holy place the holy of holiest and the holiest of all are one and the same Into the holy place was the High-Priest only to go and that not without blood Aaron Lev. 16.3 was to come into the holy place with a young Bullock for a sin-offering and with a Ram for a burnt-offering Into the second Tabernacle went the High Priest alone once a year not without blood which he offered for himself and for the errors of the People Now the holy place and the holy of holiest were a Type of Heaven and the blood the High-Priest went with was a Type of Christs blood Christs blood was Christs way to
Rom. 9.5 Over all God blessed for ever Amen If God sit down first Christ as Mediator of the Covenant may sit down next They say where Natural Philosophy ends there the Physician begins Christ is a Person so great that he begins and ends where he begins to cure a person Christ is an Asa a Physician or Healer of diseases as the word signifies A mortal King may engage to cure the Body a Tumor in the Flesh but Christ the King of Kings engages to cure the Treachery and Tympany of the Soul Mamulus Fuller 's Holy War p. 477. One told the Adorers of Andronicus that monstrous Miscreant That it was just they should dye of the Physick who made a God of the Physician But now it is no wonder that those actually Christs should live by the Physick for a God is their Physician Christ is a costly Physician They were the men of Judah 2 Sam. 19.42 that said unto the men of Israel Have we eaten at all of the King's cost or hath he given us any Gift But none actually Christs can say that they have not eaten of his cost that they have not had his Gift David told Araunah That he would not offer burnt-offerings unto the Lord his God Chap. 24.24 that should cost him nothing At some cost was Christ with the man that fell among Thieves between Jericho and Jerusalem but at far greater cost than this hath Christ been He is not onely the Physician of the Soul but his blood also goes for the Physick of the Soul Joh. 10.15 Fuller 's holy War p. 471. I lay down my life for the sheep Tyranous Andronicus sported himself in shedding innocent blood which he wickedly called his medicine for all maladies But Christ as he is a Soul-Physician so his Blood is Soul-physick this is a Remedy for every Disease a Salve for every Sore a Medicine for every Malady It is written of One Admiral of France That when the War was finished and he returned to Rochel not a day passed over his head wherein he did not morning and evening read over one of Calvin's Sermons upon Job which History he called his Panchrestum or Physick for all Diseases a Salve for every Sore What then may be said of Christ's Blood Certainly he was at great cost who did not onely spend his breath Heb. 13.12 but also spill his Blood He suffered without the Gate Christ is a cheap Physician Physicians here below are dear very dear the Rich onely are qualified to be their Patients no Purse no Physick they will have much though they do little but Christ is a cheap Physician Wine and Milk without money and without price I will give to him that is at hirst of the fountain of the water of life freely Rev. 21.6 Now this saith one is The Grace of the holy Spirit which is now given by drops but in Heaven unto fulness Guttatim Joh. 4.14 according to that The water that I will give him shall be in him a Well of water springing up into everlasting life Or A Fruition of God who is the life of his according to that With thee is the fountain of life Here Psal 36.9 is water and that is necessary yea water of life and that is of necessity yea Pool in loc the fountain of the water of life now water at the fountain is purest and plentifullest there water for quality and quantity is ever the same yea this water is in a way of Gift I will give to him that is athirst 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the fountain of the water of life and that freely without compensation without merit Physicians here below indent with their Patients so much down and so much when the Cure is made but Christ the Physician of greatest value does not indent with his Patients Rev. 22.17 Whosoever will let him take the water of life freely Whosoever hath a will from Christ for Christ let him take Christ and the Grace of Christ and the Spirit of Christ and that freely without price or any merit of his own Christ is an appointed Physician Some go yea run Joh. 12.45 without sending but Christ did not He that seeth me seeth him that sent me As God appointed the Passeover so he appointed this Physician I will give thee for a light to the Gentiles Isa 49.6 that thou mayst be my salvation to the ends of the earth Christ is under a designation and that from the Father in order to the sanctification and salvation of a sinner The God of our Fathers Acts 5.30 31. raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a Tree Him hath God exalted with his right hand But to what end To be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance unto Israel and forgiveness of sins Christ is an approved Physician There are some men approved of men but the Man Christ Jesus is approved of God Acts 2.22 Ye men of Israel hear these words Mat. 14.30 31. Jesus of Nazareth a man approved of God among you c. Christ hath been tryed tryed to purpose Thus Christ hath been tryed Relatively He was tryed in the water and kept Peter's head above water He was tryed in the Fire and kept the three children there Dan. 3.24 25. Did we not cast three into the Fire True Oh King Behold I see four and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God Christ and the Christian in the Ship together in the Shop together Christ and the Christian in the Field together in the Fire together Is not this sweet Oh this is sweetly sweet But as Christ was tryed Relatively so he was tryed Personally Some men have been greatly tryed Thus Job was thus Paul was but who so tryed as a Christ in his life Being in an agony the word signifies a striving or wrestling against something as two Combatants or Wrestlers Luk. 22.44 do each strive against other he prayed more earnestly and his swea◠was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground And who so tryed as a Christ in his death My God my God Mat. 27.46 Athanasius Non solvit Vnionem sed subtraxit Visionem Isa 28.16 why hast thou forsaken me He spake this saith One in our person They are not words of complaining but expressing his Grief The Vnion was not dissolved but the Vision was restrained God left him in great distress withdrawing from the humane nature pouring his wrath upon Him as the Surety of His. Thus Christ hath been tryed in life and to the life thus Christ hath been tryed in death and to the death No wonder now He is called a tryed stone Christ is a loving yea ever-loving Physician Physicians here below do not love their Patients as they love themselves they had rather a thousand Patients should dye than themselves should dye But Christ is such a Physician that he loves his Patients
Remedies for all Diseases found But Death He dyes and dying did assure No Drug or Dose of Death could make a Cure Let Nature now most fortifie that can Health's highest sphere a Crisis proves to Man One way to come into the World had all But to go out a thousand and to fall A Nail kills Sisera but by a Stone Goliah falls for he would stand alone This Giant now meets with a mortal Blow Right goes an Arrow out of Heavens Bow One wound Goliah kills but twenty three Great Caesar had and then departed he Strong Samson enters now of whom 't is said He Rubbish made and under Rubbish laid Thus Men and Means disputing Con and Pro Do act their Parts and off the Stage do go III. Of Honour and Policy CAN Honour No the tallest Pines are shaken By smallest winds and may not this awaken Sure footing Soul hath not Magnificence This may be in the Preterperfect Tense This Bucket-like now up now down is She But down the mot'on swiftest seems to me Could I prefer such have Preferment should Not that would Places but that Places would All worldly Grandeur in the Dust is laid As Caesar took so Caesar Tribute paid Thus ROMAN Honour passeth as a Blast Though Pompey slew slain Pompey was at last High Haman staged is making uproar Next to the King does now this Abject soar As to Design in Jewish blood he wallows As to Desert ascendeth He the Gallows CAN Policy No MAZIRINI may Strike Sail to Death and go this common way Ah where 's Pythagoras with prudent Cato Where 's Seneca with Socrates and Plato Where 's Cicero with Athen's Legislators And where 's Apollo with the Commentators But where is that admired Aristotle Yet Euripus would not into his Bottle So often ebb and flow this Deep that He Unsatisfied would the Bottom see But where 's Achitophel accursed may Such Policy be to the latter Day An ORACLE was He within his Age But hangs himself and falleth off the Stage Where 's Solomon more wise than any other That côuld detect the true from feigned Mother Ah turbid Death He was a mortal Sage And being mortal goeth off the STAGE IV. Of Wealth CAN Riches No or Truth is made a Lye But Wealth 's a gilded lying VANITY The World saith One to Man is God's Epistle But often proves to Man a vexing Thistle The World 's a Labyrinth my Soul beware And Michal-like is given as a Snare Ah bitter-sweet and that but for an hour Sweet is the Promise but the Payment sowre The World 's a Cheat the things thereof decay And Laban-like for Rachel Leah pay A Syrens Song and unto Whoredom pander Which causeth many Dinah-like to wander Ah England mourn and grow into a Passion The Spanish Mode is now an English Fashion Most vainly Mortals worldly things aspire These are not Food but Fewel to Desire Shall Hearts be set on that where onely Feet Should standing be hence bearing but a Sheet Job staged is and not for Wealth the least But greater than the greatest of the East His Substance winged is the Blow was such But Jah Jehovah gives him twice as much No Object for the Eye is Wealth and can This Object be unto the Heart of Man But worldly Men make for themselves a Rod Below a Soul is all below a GOD. Where 's Crassus Croesus Crates Aristippus Or Cyrus Xerzes Dives and Philippus Left by the World are they where living find them And dying they do leave the World behind them Where 's He that had so vast a Territory Who Ruler was according to the Story Of Provinces an Hundred twenty seven The Man is dead and gone to Hell or Heaven V. Of Fortitude CAn Fortitude This Mortals rarely deck A rare but rich Gem 't is about the neck Of Potentates refute it if ye can Son unto Caesar Valor makes a Man Great Alexander would immortal be Unwounded wounded mortal proved he Where 's little David yet hath little Fear Who killed both the Lyon and the Bear Philistine-foreskins hanged up may be As signal Trophies for a Saul to see Yea Gath-Goliah dreadful in his motion Had native Blood prescribed for a Potion Ah but he dyes as Scripture hath averred And in the Royal City was interred Stout Hannibal Rome's Terror where is He Or those stout Scipio's that would not flee Where 's Saladine that Oriental Victor Or where should I dig for puissant Hector Huniades doth next ascend the STAGE Who all his Race did war with Turcists wage In Battels many stoutly he engage And thorough Valor Turky did enrage To this vast Empire dreadful was his name Their crying Babes were stilled with the same Jobs iron Pen take to engrave his Fame My Narrative defective is and lame That to Posterity transmitted may His Valor and his Conquest be I say Where 's Scanderbeg who was so valorous And with his Valor so victoricus In more than twenty Battels he engage Proud Saracens whose right Arm did presage His Valor and his Conquest in his Age This matchless Valor goeth off the Stage VI. Of Learning CAn Learning This to Tully doth allye Knots-Gordian this thorough Art untye Which one no way but by his Sword espie But did not Tully and his Nephew dye Keep Learning in her native Orb and thus Shall due Respect be for Philologus Wher 's Homer Horace Zeno and Prochorus Or Xenophon Tertullus Theodorus Wher 's Plato Plautus Plutarch Theophrastus Or Memucan Alvarez and Erastus Wher 's Austin with his Tract of Recantation Or Ambrose modest in his Meditation Though Ignorance to Learning giveth check Yet surely this the Sons of Adam deck Thus Learning in a Lord as was of old Assimilates a DIAMOND in Gold Wher 's Origen so full of Allegories Or Moderators in the Consistories Wher 's Jewel who the Truth defended well Or Bolton on Death Judgment Heaven Hell Wher 's Chrysippus his Study might have bled him For ought I see had not Melissa fed him Wher 's Hilary for Stile so greatly eyed Or Gregory that was so mortified Wher 's Basil Beda too so preaching then If one speaks Truth the stones did cry Amen Where are those prying Ones of Issachar And wher 's Erasmus learnings morning Star Wher 's CYPRIAN so worthy Martyrdom With very many more but here 's no room Wher 's Moses mighty both in Words and Deeds Death unto Death the man in Moab bleeds Wher 's Cranmer Ridley Lambert and the rest Ah dead are these and dying are the best II. Of Terror ART out of Christ On Ebal stand I must And Lectures now not onely read of Dust But also Wrath that 's blown into a flame Almighty Breath is kindler of the same To Souls in Christ Death is most amiable Most terrible of all things formidable To Christless Ones yea this appears to me Of HELL the very Suburbs for to be Ah mortal Man If I may speak my Sense Infernal Dregs are in the future Tense 'T is pity