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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

a thousand times in many things your condemnation will be greater Mat 11. 21. And woe unto you as Christ sayes for if cursed be al the familes of the earth which call not upon him Jer. 10. 25. what will then become of you who never call nor think upon him unless it be to blaspheme and dishonour him Truly if Christ be the Son of God as certainly he is he can never own you who are so unlike to him for the present Be ye holy for I am holy saith the Lord and without holinesse no man shall ever see the face of God Heb. 12. 14. Oh minde that and this Text I and my farther are one saith Christ and must not all his members be in some measure like him this likeness is not wrought in an hour but by the continuall working of the holy Spirit which is called the Sunctifier of them that beleive and if you beleive in Christ or hope to be saved by Christ do you think it shall be without any work of sanctification or change in your hearts truly if you think so you think amiss and are the most deceived of any in world 't is true works shall save none nor in any measure contribute to the saving of any the Lord Jesus Christ is and will be all 〈◊〉 that particular yea he is all in all in point of Justification Sanctification and Glorification and if he do not thoroughly justifie you and in some measure sanctifie you he will 〈…〉 you and yet if he save you it shall not he for work 〈…〉 works for not unto him that worketh is the promise 〈…〉 him that believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly Psal. 32 2. Rom 4 5. two golden texts for mark the expression I am sure you are ungodly an I am sure you may be easily saved yea you 〈◊〉 great ones that never minded salvation all your dayes may be saved if you will look unto him who is God alone Isaiah 35. 21. but will you will you look to him 't is but looking and be saved from the wrath to come 1 Thess. 1. 10. for all other salvations though never so great are nothing but will you be saved from being shut out of the new Ierusalem with dogs sorcerers whoremongers and liars Revel. 22. 15. And from being cast out with the children of this kingdome Luke 13 27. whose pleasures joyes and glories are in the things of this life never minding that kingdome where Abraham Isaac and Iacob are I say will you be saved from being so cast out into utter darkness where shall be wailing weeping and gnashing of teeth for evermore Verse 29 Oh would you escape all this and stand in the evil day when they shall sting their gold and their silver to the moles and to the bats Isaiah 2. 20. the day wherein sinners shall move out of their holes like Worms Mich. 7. 17. and lick the dust like Serpents the day wherein many shall run with Kings and Captains and mighty men to the rocks and to the hills and mountains crying Fall onus and hide us from the presence of the Lamb Revelation 6. 15 16. for the day of his fierce wrath is come I say if you would escape all these things which the Lord Jesus grant you may consider a little how vain those pleasures are that you pursue how great that salvation is that you neglect Heb. 2 3. How free how full how easie to be had it stands at your dores it waits upon you it cries after you Hear hear and your souls shall live Isa. 55. 99. I will make an everlasting Covenant with you saith the Lord even the sure merices of David your sins and your iniqui●es I will remember no more and though they have been as red as scarlet I will make them as white as wool your pride your glory and your boasting is a thing of nought yea your stout words against me wherein you say It is in vain to serve me Mal. 3. 13. And what profit will it be so to do calling proud ones and they that contemn me happy when as the day cometh that shall burn as an even and all they that do wickedly and all the ungodly of the earth shall be burnt up saith the Lord of Hosts and it shall leave them neither root nor branch for the wicked shall be as stubble and the day that comes shall burn them up Malac. 4. 1. and all the wicked shall go down to hell for ever Psal. 9. 17. and all that forget God Oh you that do so hear and hearken unto the voyce of God yea hear his voyce to day to morrow is another day and you know not whose it may be to day if you will harden not your hearts as in the day of provocation this day is salvation tendered to you if you will accept it do not say to morrow do not say we will have none of this salvation which Christ and all the Prophets of Christ yet tender unto you and abuse not that rich and free-grace which brings and tenders salvation to all men but to you especially nor intreat him to be gone out of your course and companies as once those unkind and churlish Gadarens did Mark 5. 16. preferring their swine before Christ the Lord of life and glory who only hath immortallity dwelling in himself and dwelleth in that light which is unaccessible the onely Prince and Potentate who shall be revealed in due time 2 Tim 6. 14 15. In the mean time charge them that be rich to be rich in good works and prefer not every lust rattle toy and baby before the Lord of life and glory who hath the keys of death and hell in his hand Revel. 1. 18. an absolute power over you Saints Angels Men and Devils to dispose of you and them all as he pleaseth either for light life and glory or wrath hell and darkness Phil. 2. 10. Why should this Lord of Lords and Ladies too Revel. 16. 19. be set at nought who hath a name written on his thigh the King of Kings Lord of Lords though his Kingdome be not of this world yet his Kingdom shall break in pieces all the Kingdomes of this world Dan. 2. 44. 7 9. And they that will not kiss this enlightening Son shall be broken with an iron rod Psalm 2 9. Be wise O ye Lords and Ladies of England and kiss with a kiss of obedience subjection and affection this Son and Son of Sons Angells are the Son of this Son which now we do behold and Christ who is fairer than the Children of men is the Son of Saints and Angels too shall he be yours O ye Stars of England glory of our Nation in a common sense shall he be your Sun and shall he rise this night with healing in his wings on some of your soules who are as black as the nether Hell notwithstanding all your outward lustre Oh let him arise there now the Sun and glory of the world is

through the dirt and cares of the world for that brings death yea double death often I had rather fast then least where there is nothing but chit-chat sin and my Lady Complement but the masking is a wicked thing where the woman comes in mans habit like the Devill to a Witch the Imps hire is the soul The Lady gives her Hector mony he hath his pleasure the other hath the soul all loose that for a moments lust which is more worth than a thousand worlds Matt. 16. 26. If a man be worth five hundred pound a year and spend it in racing he shall go on foot and young Mr. Fool that doth the like in Coaching this and that and t'other Mr. Sucker who hath nothing but a bold face and a trusted suit with a lime-twig in his lips let hangers on be sh●ken off and the old customes of the world it is no hurt to keep Christmas so you do not eat too much sin forget Christ play and do no good though it be the devils term and this May-day may be kept also if it be for the air and pleasures of the fields which are fruitful green and lovely but most a Hide-Park die upwards in the face is beauty fine clothes an green leaves are on the back knots and bl●ssomes on the h●ad j●wels in the ear thousands in the p●cket and yet they die upw●rds the soul is dead the heart is dead a●d the body is little better Eph. 2. 1. dead in sins and trespasses I saw a Beggar put into an open Coffin with an abundance of Bay leaves Rosemary sweet Bryar and Flowers who was a drunken rogue and his wife worse yet she cried at the putting of him in O Christ my dear heart The Surgeon wraps up some in a Sear-cloth for which many mourn but not one of a thousand mindes where the soul is when the body is in a green bag the Lord of Rack-tenant had sixteen great lights silver Candlesticks a velvet foot-cloath three mourning women and a many taffity scutchins about his Lady but their sins were these they were devillish hard miserable to their servants and worse to their tenants proud and discontented at the tax but their great sin was unbelief and yet they heard much I had rather be guilty of many sins than some one sin espeically of that of unbelief which damnes thousands John 3. 35. some will not believe a wise man others a friend nor the wife the husband if she be a little jealous but one of five hundred I think do not believe there is a Christ or at leastwise live to Christ amongst your Gallants which come to nought 1 Cor. 2. 6. And if a man doth not really beleive in Christ and in some measure live to Christ he can never be saved by Christ John 3. 3. But that man that is damned takes little pleasure when the devils tells him there was such a Coach and such a Coach so many six Horses and so many mourners and but two or three rejoycers among them all little legacies were straight forgot to morrow is a new day and the pleasures of this is gone already The Lady Be weary is going Mrs. Moredelight is gone to spring Garden Mrs. Vnsatisfied is coming back again but the Lady Rack-tenant comes no more nor any from the dead If one could come out of hell that heretofore used Hide Park but that cannot be Luke 16. 26. would they hear what he would say I believe no If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets and they that speak by the same spirit they will not hear him verse 29. besides such an one will scarce come there nor to Mrs. Wantons Chamber neither where there is nothing but four or five naked Picttures a Song book a Play book a Lute a History two or three great Looking-glasses a jackalattostick and a Mystery in a little pot namely a face to put on or off a fair for a foul a smooth for a wrinckled Madam your name is Consideration and what do you think of these things are these books for Christians that hope to be saved by poor crucified Christ and the bulk of them you see in day scarce have o● read any other truly they are the glory of the Nation in one or or two respect to wit in beauty b●avery and riches bu● the shame of Christianity in pride ignorance and wantonness one inviable Angel would put them down all in beauty and glory Christ hath millions to attend him Heb. 1. 6. this Christ they despise yea loath in his wayes and members and yet pretend to own and at somtimes will say and swear they hope to be saved by him that they may be if they take a new course but if they miss of it they shall certainly burn as many thousand years in hell as there be speres of grass in Hide-Park so saith Christ Mat. 25. 41. 'T is pity Beauty and such fine Virgins as some there be should ever come to be imbraced by ugly devils and that they should be both tormented together in one and the same place as they must Vers. 42. here one room is for the Lady and another for the Lord scarce is there one for such and such a poor Christian servant at least in their families yea if he be a strict one he is hated and loathed exceedingly but God shall make a separation an eternal separation for one shall eternally be saved and the other eternally damned Mal. 4. 1. 2 Pray Madam read this little Chapter and the former and then see there what will become of most of you not for being rich not for being beautifull not for being brave not for being honorable but for being fools graceless and Christless living in pleasure all your dayes minding nothing but that and all that do so are dead while they live 1 Tim. 1. 5 0. The woman that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives in the mean time every dead mans eyes is not closed nor every dead body stretched out they that live and delight in sin have their eyes to close and their dead bodies to stretch out friends will do that one day and God another day will call call them to an account what they did what they saw and what they said in Hide-Park and why they went so often there what every afternoon and never to the Closer crying Lord What am I What do I Why came I Whither goe I Lord I am but a poor little gnat worm or a vain shadow Psal. 39. 6. and we all do fly about like so many butter flies there is more glory and variety of beauty in the weeds of one Corn field yea in a little Dasie than in one of us Luk. 12. 27. But why came I Lord why came I into this world was it to play sport court and complement my soul away or was it to mind love fear serve own and honour thee Dost thou give me being beauty riches outward honour glory esteem among