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The marriners card and compass. Or The best way to attain heaven amidst a sinfull and crooked generation. By William Harvey, minister of the Word
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Harvey, William, fl. 1657-1705.
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last Hear and glut thine ear with this musick Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations and I appoint unto you a kingdome as my Father hath appointed unto me that ye my eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel Luke 22.28 c. When this Sun once Sets and the great World on fire they every man shall receive according to his works and a full satisfaction made of all injuries and wrongs which the poor Saints have groaned under in this Life by wicked and ungodly men In the next place this may serve for horrour and amazement to all such who with Davids fool have said in their hearts there is no God The Sadduces and Epicures of our days who by their lives deny the resurrection of the body Some have likened a Courtier without preferment to a Blackamoor qui in ortu solis positus habet colorem noctis who though living upon the Sun rising hath notwithstanding the Colour of the night So an Atheist amongst us may fitly be compared to this Ethiopian He liveth where the Sun riseth even where the Gospell casts forth its glorious beams and yet he acts the works of darkness and of the night It is observ'd by Josephus that the Sadduces were most approved and favoured by great men And it is very probable because they that wallow in wealth for the most part are so glued to this world that they could wished there were no other and truly in their account there is not Nemo tam carxaliter vivit quam qui negat resurrectionem That of Tertull. is undenyable No man liveth so loosely and Carnally as he that denyeth the resurrection of the body And one may give a shrewd guess that they who live in all kinds of pleasures and voluptuousness luxuriant in vermium operibus and Pride it in silks without all fear of God reverence to his house love to his ordinances and Charity to the poor are Epecuri de grege porci the hogs of Epicurus and acknowledge no life but the present You shall allways have them Sing this Song Ede bibe Lude c. Eat drink and be merry after death there 's no pleasure I believe it and will one day find by wofull experience if they repent not before they go hence and be no more seen It were happy for worldly men if there were no resurrection they should come then to no accompts And on the contrary the Saints were most unhappy For if in this Life onely we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserble saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 15.19 But Christ is the Life Resuscitando c. by raising thee again as I said before God is just and he will one day reward every man according to his works and this must be in another world Thou must not think to live heer a Devill and a Saint hereafter have the full fruition of happiness in this world be clad in purple and fine linnen and fare deliciously quotidie every day at length be carried by Angels into Abrahams bosome Somnias vigilans Thou dreamest waking once to think it You know what was said to the rich glutton being in hell torments Mememto fili Son remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things and likewise Lazarus his Evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented Luke 16.25 Mark how Empatheticall the pronoune Thy is there This life is called his life not in regard he lived in it for so it is every mans but because he so lived in it as if there had been no other Life besides Seculum non agnoscit nisi presens A Carnall man acknowledgeth no World but the present or at least will acknowledge no other till he drops into it unawares Hence it is that he hath neither thought of death or of the resurrection Not unlike unto the Emperour Vespatian who seing at one time two ominous presages of his end to wit a blazing Comet and a gaping Sepulchre puts them both from himself and said the Sepulchre gaped for the Empress Julia and the Star did portend only the death of the Persian King who then wore long hair Cuspind Lust The Psalmist saith Thou wilt not leave my Soul in grave nor suffer thy holy one to see corruption speaking of of Christ Ps 16.10 My Soul in grave there 's the immortality of the Soul nor suffer thy holy one to see Corpuption there 's the Resurection of the body That of Jonas who lay three dayes buried in the belly of a Whale is Sacramentum magnum not only a true History but a pregnant mystery of the Resurrection Cor terrae fit venter ceti The heart of the earth to us will be as the belly of the Whale was to Jonas It shall not ever retain us Death is the convoy or passing boat either to a better or sadder port In the time of nature God took away away Enoch in the time of the law Elias in the time of Grace our Saviour himself by all these examples it is cleer that we shall rise again The Scripture makes mention of four keyes which God hath reserved to himself The first is Clavis pluviae the key of rain as Deut. 28.12 The Lord will open to thee his good treasure The second is Clavis Cibationis the key of Victualls Ps 145.16 Thou openest thy hand and fillest every thing with thy plenteousness The third is Clavis Sterilitatis the key of Sterility or barrenness Gen. 30.22 Where it is said God remembred Rachel and opened her womb The last is Clavis Sepulchrorum the key of the grave Ezek. 37.12 When I shall open your Sepulchres But to omit Gods omnipotency which is the basis and fundametall arch on which is founded our Christian Religion I will reduce all to two heads his mercy and his justice Which two are the Master attributes which set all the rest on work It is thus said by God I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob Now God is not God of the Dead but of the Living Matth. 22.32 He is not a God of those that are not who are without existance but of those that have a being so that he will raise their bodies at the last day Otherwise he shall dimidium tantunimodo hominum restituere he were God to one part of Abraham c. But his mercy is over all his works Ps 145.9 and extends both to Soul and Body and in the mercy of the most high they shall not miscarry Ps 21.7 Secondly as his Mercy so his Justice requires a generall Resurection when both the godly and the wicked shall come forth their graves the one rapi in occursum to meet the Lord in the Clouds and the other verti retrorsum to be turned down to Hell with all those that forget God There must be a Judgment of Retribution in another World which cannot be without the Resurrection of the body The ungodly are sometimes plagued in this life to assure us there if a God yet but sometimes to assure us there is a day of judgment wherein the accounts of all men and women must be audited and cast up In that day will God make up his jewells Mal. 3.17 And put a difference between an Israelite and an Egyptian Then will the Wheat be put into the granary of Heaven and the tares burnt in the fire Surgite mortui Arise ye dead was St. Hieroms Earwig and oftimes beat an alarum on his very heart strings Methinks that of the Apostle should make us tremble We shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ O sinner Let the day of death and the day of doom be the two Pole-stars to fix alwayes thine eyes upon I could wish saith one that men every where would discourse of hell nam ghehennam meminesse in ghehennam non permitter incidere For the Remembrance of hell would by Divine assistance keep us from falling into it I hope by this time if thou beest not an Atheist thou art convinced of this truth that as Christ is the way and the truth so also he is the life by whose omnipotent power we shall all one day rise from our graves to answer for what we have done in this life whether good or bad I will now conclude The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in the which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noyse and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat the Earth also and the workes that are therein shall be burnt up Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolv'd what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy Conversation and Godliness 2 Pet. 3.10 11. Gloria Deo in excelsis Amen FINIS
our being Acts 17.28 Secondly he is life and that especially by Regenerating and by Conserving us because by the Sacraments and words he workes and as I may so speak begets in us a Spirituall life According to that of S. John Jesus answered verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God and so forward John 35. And in the 6. chap. and 33. v. c. For the Bread of God is he which cometh down from Heaven c. And John 10.10 I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly St. Paul hath this expression to the Galathians I am Crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Gal. 2.20 And in his Epistle to the Romans he saith How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death Rom. 6.2 and v. 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptisme into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the Glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life Read Rom. 8.12 13. Thirdly and Lastly Christ is the life Resuscitando Glorificando by raising us again and by glorifying us This is the will of him that sent me that every one which seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day John 6.40 And again I am the Resurrection and the Life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never dye John 11.25.26 St. Paul saith whom he justifyed them he also glorifyed Rom. 8.30 And which is more Who shall change our vile bodie that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body c. Philipians 3.21 The fruit which we may gather from hence is this If Christ be the life we should seek it in and through him only without whom we shall never obtain it And we should not so much mind this present life which we have in common with beasts reprobates and as Eurip. saith Non vita sed calamitas est It is not a life in comparison but a calamity and differs nothing from death if we believe the Phylosopher a life that is as brittle as Glass frail and Momentany Vt hora sic vita It is a life which passeth away as an hour upon the Diall insensibly But mind we that spirituall life of regeneration and sanctification which is the life properly and by which we live to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. A life wherein sin doth not reign in our mortall body that we should obey it in the lusts thereof neither yield we our members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin Rom. 6.12 13. When the Emperour Nero had finished his house which he called Domum Aureum the golden house he said now I begin to live like a man But this is most true we never begin to live like Christian men till we live the life of Regeneration and Sanctification And now if Christ be our life death will be to us advantage As St. Paul hath it When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Coloss 3.4 And that true and eternall life which we here possess by faith and hope We shall at length have the full fruition of it in Heaven That of the Apostle is worthy of all acceptation For whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we dy we dy unto the Lord whether we live therefore of dy we are the Lords Rom. 14.8 Who is he then that will not from his heart breath forth and say O my Lord Jesus Christ thou art truly the way because no man cometh unto the Father nisi per te but by thee thou art the truth because no man knoweth the Father nisi per te but by the Thou art the life because no man liveth nisi per te but by thee Be thou to me the way by which I may come to thee and the Father Be thou to me the truth by which I may know thee and the Father be thou to me the life by which I may here live in thee by faith in believing and there in heaven by fruition Let this ever sound fresh in our ears Ambularevis ego sum via fallinonvis ego sum veritas Morinoâ— vis Ego sum vita Hoc dicit salvator tuus non est quo eas nisi ad me non est quo cas nisi per me Aug. Tract 22 Johannum Wilt thou walk I am the way Wilt thou not be deceived I am the truth Wouldst thou not dye I am the life This thy Saviour saith thou hast not where to go unless unto me nor how to go but by me Secondly if Christ be the life then it follows there is a resurection of the body at the last day From this flower may the Bee suck honey the Spider poyson Now in the first place may the people of God with the Eunuch depart home rejoycing with much harmony in their Souls Cura thymo pleno their thighs are now laden with sweetness O the rare contentment of a child of God in the privation and want of all external comforts With Jacob he may well truly say few and evill have the dayes of my life been As for this world he doth but breath in it that is all Yet prithy erect thy self banish thy sad thoughts no violence is perpetuall a storm lasts not alwayes The poor Ship that 's long tossed too and fro with a tempest gaines the wished Port at last The Ark that was hurried on the flood hath a Dove with an Olive branch in her mouth to imitate the falling of the waters Haec non durabunt aetatem as that learned Bishop Jewell said of the Marian persecution These things will not last an age Chear up sweat heart Gods rod is but a love kiss and our afflictions are but tokens of his indulgency Look back to former Ages and the Church is often in a cloud her throws like a woman in Travell have been thick and painfull Sicut unda sequitur undam and have followed as one wave upon the neck of another Yet mark the result of all her end is peace at the last Wait then with patience and thou shalt see the salvation of God who ever trusted in him and was confounded Behold a most ample compensation For thy light afflictions thou shalt have an exceeding an eternall weight of glory in another World Forget not the Text I am the life c. A day therefore will come when thy sorrows will have an end and breath out their