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A28350	The yellow book, or, A serious letter sent by a private Christian to the Lady Consideration, the first day of May, 1659 which she is desired to communicate in Hide-Park to the gallants of the times a little after sun-set : also a brief account of the names of some vain persons that intend to be there, whose company the new ladies are desired to forbear.	W. B. (William Blake), fl. 1650-1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3153F; ESTC R24202	17,764	24

The Yellow Book OR A SERIOUS LETTER SENT BY A Private Christian TO THE Lady CONSIDERATION The first day of May 1659. Which she is desired to communicate in Hide-Park to the Gallants of the Times a little after Sun-set ALSO A brief Account of the Names of some vain persons that intend to be there whose company the new Ladies are desired to forbear LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Tho. Butler in Lincolns-Inn-fields neer the Three Tun-Tavern by the Market place and by The Brewster at the three Bibles at the West-end of Pauls 1659. A serious Letter sent by a private Christian to the Lady Consideration the first day of MAY 1658. LADY I Am informed fine Mrs. Dust Madam Spot and my Lady Paint are to meet at Hide-Park this afternoon much of pride will be there If you please to take an Hackney I shall wait upon your Honour in a private way But pray let us not be seen among the foolish ones that ride round round wheeling of their Coaches about and about laying of the naked breast n●ck and shoulders over the boot with Lemon and a Fan shaking it at young Mrs. Poppet crying Madam Your most humble Servant your very humble servant sweet Madam while some are doing worse Young Sir William Spruce Monsieur Flash the Lord Gallant will be all on horseback Mr. Belt and Mr. Feather Mr. New Exchange Mr. Old will be there Sir Thomas Cavy is poor and ashamed to come some of the name will be there and some Commanders of the Army but the Ladies hate then generally Mrs. Come-up Mrs. Totherday and Ioan hold my Staff they cannot abide neither nor indeed any of the new Gently which I hope God wil keep from their vanities Pride Covetousness and Hypocrisie Mrs. Contempt and Mrs. Envy will be there Mrs Luxury Mrs. Wanton Mrs. Faith and troth Mrs. Hop about Mrs. Never pray and Mrs Never go Mr. Church and Mr. Careless wil be all in a Coath together Sin Guilt and a little Content wil be with them Time and Vanity swiftly driving them away as upon the wings of the mighty wind but Death Hell and Eternity follow after Rev. 6. 8. After the black Horse and the pale Horse death and hell follows a cursing of the Ministers who are apt to dine with them speak to them and yet wink at them Martins Pauls Covent Garden this is a judgement of God and the greater because so little minded Madam I had rather beg my bread from door to door then be in the case of some of these Ladies which are as beautifull as Angels but more miserable and poysonous than Toads Let me live with one of them under a stone and die with a dog in a ditch ●ather then in a golden bed in one of their conditions And your vain Roysters are as bid young Gallants that are sporting and courting these dancing shadows at the brinks of hell and are ever studying how to please their lusts and their lmps one way or another which they are ever waiting on they think there is no heaven but if there be and a hell too What will become of them I had rather fear the worst the best will help it self But if they go to that farewell Hide-Park May day and pleasures too The Fishes never get up that once fall down into the dead Sea called Mare mortuum the River Nilus carrieth them thither but fetcheth not them back Pleasures carry thousands but sorrow fetcheth none from the dead Sea and the deadly Lake where streames of brimstone ever run over and over their heads hearts and souls that fall into that Tophet is prepared of old yea for the King that is the greatest and the breath of the Lord like a Stream of brimstone kindles it Isa. 30. 33. I know many will not mind this and Mrs. Busie is putting on her gown but I would she would put on Christ and his righteousnesse Rev. 6. 18. Buy of me glod sayes he that than may the rich and white rayment that thou may the cloathed that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear This rayment I had rather have than a skin to cover my bones naked soules are more common and miserable than naked bodies a thousand times but not half so much pitied by the world some had rather be dead than not in the fashion and cloathes to put on on such a day as this others rather buried alive than want Christ and the righteouness of Christ Run to my Taylor bring them done or undone cryes Mrs. Would be gone fetch my green petticote and my white sattin mantle my Lady Impatience stayes for me yea and some body else too and will have you when you take your short journey if you have not Christ to go a long with you to your long home and you may chance quickly to be there as well as at the Park what is your life but a vapour or a shadow sayes Iames ch. 4. v. 24. Some Ladyes get the Pox and die with a fear others get a Cold and die with a Feaver few live long that do not die soon eternall life is the fruit of a short living unto Christ and eternall death is the wages of an old sinner the wages of sin is death Rom. 6. 23. Yea of all sinners that have not Christ and the righteouness of Christ for cursed is every one that continueth nor to doe all that is written in the Law Gal. 3. 12. Madam some are of the opinion that no unsanctified Ladies shall go to heaven nor no ungodly Lords go to hell providing they beleeve and repent but if they do not so and be throughly washed in Iudah's Fountain Zic 13. 1. the fountain which God hath set open for sin and uncleanness both Lords and Ladies too shall be eternally damned and thrown into the midst of flames hell and divels Lords and Ladies have more reason to be damned than poore people a thousand times for where much is given much will be required Matt. 25. 30. they sin more and draw more to sin and yet may best serve God besides they are many of them the very factors and purveyors of hell a great road leads to a great Town and a great man to a great devill some goes to the bridge foot to drinke wine and others to the devills mouth in following them they ride on poor mens backs and devils ride on theirs the Prince of the Air that now rules in them Ephes. 2. 2. yea both are carried somtime in close Sedan but to day they are more open doe not you see the Lord of Kill Chicken and the Lady Be graceless one eats both full of sin and good creatures it is pity mountain Larks should feed such Swine Kites are too good for them that doe nothing but eat drink and put it out some study Musick Doctors kill many but a good book never hurts O Timothy give thy self to reading saith Paul but many go to hell a pick-pack more

sinner to hear the skreeking of another no man nor Angel could express it O ye that now sing one unto another and cause the woods to eccho to your melodious sweet and pleasant voyces take heed and again take heed ye be not one day lest to weep over one anothers backs in the flames of hell certainly whole Coachfuls of you will go there one foot and one wheel is in already and none c●ies out the other will be there also if the Lord Jesus be not infinitely mercifull unto you in the forgiving of your sins and changing of your hearts deceive not your selves with v●in thoughts and sanciers what you sow you certainly shall reap if you sow to the flesh you shall of the flesh reap corruption yea if this be all thousands of you so as I doubt it is know when the harvest is ripe I mean you and your sins then shall God thrust the sickle of death into your sides his wrath into your soule and bundle you up for hell for ever Ioel 3. 13. Cut it down why cumbereth it the ground saith Christ and who can dwell with everlasting burnings saith the Prophet Isaiah 33. 14. And who shall dwell in thine holy hill saith David the man that is so and so Psalm 15. 1. But you that are so and so prophane to sport and court and pin and paint your time away not at all minding that God that hath made you little Gods in respect of others for your birth beauty riches honour and esteem amongst men know that God shall make you die like men and perish like one of the Princes of Horeb Psal 82 ● To perish in prison is nothing to perish on a dunghil is nothing to perish at a rich mans door is nothing Lazarus so did for want of crumbs whilst Dives perished in his stately bed for want of Christ with golden hangings round about him Luke 16. 22. O you Gallants of the times and Princes of this world that have hangings upon hangings yea golden hangings and Coaches too which we grudge you not you pay enough to slutter up and down the world withall but know if you have not Christ you will perish in your beds of down and all your Doctors and pearled Cordials will nor cannot save you and if you perish for want of Christ you perish with a vengeance O Christ let me beg my bread here with Lazazus and not my water hereafter the air is sweet the Woods and Parks are so too but Christ is more sweet than all thing or th●ngs and if he be not so to you you shall one day want this air yea you shall have no other air to breath in but hell shall be your air and hell shall be your fire and itell shall be your bed devils your companions yea they shall lie upon you with you by you ever dragging and tormenting of you from one place to another It is storied that Dido's ghost tormented Aeneas Prince of Troy ghost devils damned Spirits and all the cursed furious Fiends of hell shall drag you up down in the flames of hell yea you shall drag one the other curse and spit one at the other who are now playing one with the others bosome locks and lips companions in sin companions in hell yea I think that is very near the meaning where it is said the Satyr the screech Owl the Cormorant and Dragon shall call for their mates Isaiah 34. 14. 15. sinners shall call for their mates read that chapter and one sinner for another some will curse and call for their Whore when they are dying others for their gold every one minds that which heretofore he most delighted in yet some will send for an honest man let him come and pray and oh that I might die the death of the rihteous and that my last end might be like unto his Numb. 23. 10. but sinners in hell shall call for their mates not to ●e●l them stories from a play book nor to sing some new delightfull Tunes and Songs called such a Rant and such a Rant but to tell of their misfortunes and such misfortunes which can never be recovered Oh sayes one I have lost the heaven of heavens and the heavens of my God for a few vain delights which were more transient then thoughts never in any measure soul-satisfying And I also saith another have lost the joyes of these heavens and the favour of my God for the savour of my Mistress such an one this or that Lady whose vain love and pleasure I more delighted in than in the love and pleasure of God whose pleasures are pleasures for evermore but mine are gone in a moment yet I never got the savour I so unhappily sought yet it may be sought a duell for but I have lost the favour of God as Wolsey once dying said to please my Prince Oh unhappy man oh unhappy soul that looseth all for a moments lust well may it be said ill tide the time and cursed be the day that ever thou wast born And Oh that you now would timely fancy those unhappy soul-peircing relations poor unhappy sinners make one unto the other whilest others curse tear and spit one at the other whose damnations were furthered by each other for as certainly as one man may be instrumentally to farther the salvation one of another so sinners may be under the devill the next and chief meanes of damning one the other and these excessive pleasures wherein you now so abundantly abound to the spending and consuming away almost all your pretions time will cause the damnation of many and then they that made first to them most prest and cryed Away away to the Park to the Tavern to the Ball to the Masque to the musick-house to the Groves to the Gardens and delights of the world will certainly be found the greatest enemies to your soules next to the devill and your own hearts lusts yea lust and long for day and when it comes you long for night and the courtings of the chamber and then you long again for day the sports and pleasures of the day so that night and day ye are unsatisfied and think you have never enough of soul-deceiving pleasures yet a little of the world will content a gracions heart give me food and rayment and thou shalt be my God sayes Iacob though a young and lovely man give me pleasures give me sports give me the glories of the world and let me swim and tumble night and day in these streames and oceans of delights say you let me have my fill and full of love of lust of wine and women musick chambering and wantonness and it sufficeth O Christians are these your wishings I would you were but almost christians or rather altogether so as Paul once said to King Agrippa Act. 26. 28. yea I would to God you were so but truly for the present call your selves what you will I judge you little better then heathen that know not God nay worse

setting if he shall let him his wings are the wings of true affection his wings are the wings of safe protection who shall harm if God be and he will be with you he will and shall keep you in life death and eternity in the hour of temptation yea in that hour when all those whose souls are built upon the sands of common Christanity much more of vain delight shall come tumbling down with a vengeance when the winds and the rain and the storms of conscience come with Hell death and a thousand despairs at their heels But that they may never come shroud your selves under those wings that wil now imbrace you and let the everlasting armes of mercy fold you up in the bosome of divine love joyes and sweetness and that it may so do stand open yea stand open O ye everlasting doors and let the King of glory enter in Psalm 24 7. who is the King of glory ver. 10. the Lord of Host is he and the Lord over hosts of Angels Men and Devils is he and therefore lift up your heads and gates O ye everlasting doors of the soul and let the King of glory into your hearts where nothing but sin and Sattan for the present is yea let this King of glory enter in though ye be as the Devils den a desert land a barren Wilderness where is nothing but the howling of cursed lust and nature ye shall be as the Eden and Garden of God yea ye shall certainly be as a fruitfull field till'd and blessed of the Lord instead of the briar sha●l come up the mirtle tree read the 35. of Isaiah and that sweet promise in the 65. of Isaiah 13. Mind these promises O ye 〈◊〉 Lords and Ladies for God is able to make you as a fruitfull tree and the Eunuch shall say I am no more a batren tree Isa. 50. 4 5 6. not shall it be said ye are still as Reprobates we trust you are not so though for the most part ye are dead to all good works yet we trust as Paul saith we shall not find you Reprobates 2 Cor. 13. 5 6. for the future we know there is in you a noble spark a free and gallant spirit an humble and ingenious disposition affable and courteous to all some of you are so and the sweetest natures in the World truly noble in all things onely the blood of Christ the blood of Christ is wanting in your veines the spirit or the appearances of Christ in your lifes and 〈◊〉 Owles dwel where mountains larks should sing this blood and this spirit and the merit of the former is as freely tendered unto you as to any in the world Oh ye that have a freedom and equality of right unto the winds that blow and showers that fall and lights that shine know ye have the like to all the tenders of grace in the Gospel of grace and though your present greatness do and may exceedingly cumber you yet it can never absolutely hinder you from Christ the loves joyes and tenders of Christ who once stood up and loudly cryed and still doth oh every one that thirsteth come to the waters of life high low rich poor yeaif any man thirst let him come unto me drink saith Christ Isa. 55. 1. Io. 7. 37. Rev. 22. why should ye refuse these sweet waters of Shiloh that run softly and that voice which speaks from heaven and shakes both heaven and earth and all these sublunary glories here below O see and again see see refuse not him that speaks from heaven that which ages and few of the Princes of this world which come to nought have done or known for many hunpred of years 1 Cor. 1. 18. but to you it is spoken not in a way of thundring and lightening like God to Moses in Mount Sinai when he gave the Law but like the Angels to the Shepherds when they sung glory to God in the highest peace and good will to men on earth Luke 2. 14. for to you is born a Saviour and his name shall be called Iesus for he shall save his people from their sins yea and ye as well as they if ye will accept of him and now is the acceptable time and to you is born a Jesus and with this song I shall conclude but do not you for another refuse this Christ and this Jesus who will save you with an eternall salvation if indeed you do beleeve in him O ye that are singing like the fool in the Gospel you have this you have that you have goods enough soul soul take thine case thou hast beauty riches honour and esteem amonst men 't is no matter now for Christ know before your song is half done your soul shall be taken from you Luke 12. 1● and whose shall all this be it is said the Swan never sings but once and then dies ye have sung once and again to your selves take heed and again take heed death catch not you or some of you up as a Kite catcheth a Chick before you have half that content and pleasure which you now promise unto your selves we will buy sell and get gain say they and yet their life was but a vapour Iames 4. 13. I will take my case saith the fool and I will take thy soul saith the devil and this night it shall be saith God but will you sell what you have and get you bags that wax not old Luke 12. 33. and lay up for your selves treasures in Heaven It is the counsel of Christ now tendered to you will you sell your glory will you sell your beauty wil you sell your pleasure and all these things that wax old and get you bags that will last you ever that is the righteousness of Christ which blessed and for ever blessed are all they and only they that hunger and thirst after it Mat. 5. 6. O Madam it is nothing but Christ yea nothing else but Christ and the righteousness of Christ that wil last you ever al things else are fading the sweetest rose and the fairest beauty fades in time the richest robe and the lasting garment doe the like time and the moth wil consume them all but time death grave nor eternitie shall ever fade this righteousness however if they should not death will strip you to your skins naked came I cut of my mothers womb naked must I returne toe and toe must be tyed together the silken stocken and the silver shooe the holland shalt and all most off and naked must you return O Madam as you came you must goe onely your mothers blood shall be washed off Princes Kings and Queens must do so too yea to death must all lay down their Crowns and Parliament men pull off their robes death will strip them to there skin but it cannot strip a Saint of this righteousness no no worms may eat and eat his skin thorough thorough the grave consume his bones and fl●sh to dust but it