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A13560	Two treatises: the pearle of the Gospell, and the pilgrims profession to which is added a glasse for gentlewomen to dresse themselues by. By Thomas Taylor preacher of Gods Word to the towne of Reding.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Pilgrims profession. aut; Gunter, H.	1625 (1625)	STC 23855; ESTC S105335	69,884	472

the small favour they find in the world for what can they looke for other being strangers but strange vsages and entertainements from the world If they were of the world the world would loue them as her owne Euery Corporation preferreth into offices her owne free men and inhabitants and it were folly for a stranger passing but through to expect those places and preferments hee must rather cast to endure wronges where his worth is vnknowne and expect no remedy or release at any of their hands but herein comfort himselfe that hee hath credit and can haue right in his owne countrie and if he were once at home hee should put vp no such wrongs and indignities 2. Against the troubles and oppressions of the Saints of God in these heavie times of warres and bloudie persecutions in which the Captaines of Antichrist chase the godly from their seates houses estates and countries not suffering the Doue of Christ a rest for the sole of her foot Here is a ground of comfort 1. That all the furie of the enemies exiling and banishing the godly can but make them strangers and so were they before whersoever they dwelt in any place of the earth It is no great addition of miserie to banish him that was in banishment before or to driue a man out of one strange place into another Hee that is alreadie a stranger vpon earth in affection can easily become come actually a stranger if God call him vnto it 2. When the enemies haue exercised all their rage they cannot banish them out of GODS Countrey but they are strangers before God who is equally present with them in one corner of the earth as well as in another to protect them to provide for them to pittie them and guide them home to their owne Countrey 3. Although the enemies would bee endlesse in their rage against the Saints and were they to liue ever they would ever nourish and exercise an immortall wrath against the people of God yet can they not inflict so much mischiefe on them as they desire For besides that themselues are mortall and besides the justice of God breaking quickly to peeces the rods of his wrath and casting them into the fire the godly themselues are but strangers here and of short continuance so as suppose their sufferings bee sharpe yet they bee but short The rods of the wicked shall not alwayes lye vpon the lot of the righteous as they desire they should seeing the godly are strangers as well in time as in place and themselues not continuing their miserie cannot bee continuall 3. In the many losses of these worldly and corruptible things which take them to their wings and flie from one maister to another by meanes of warre mortalitie and many casualties a Christian hath comfort that hee beeing a stranger here he hath no great estate to lose some Mooveables such as hee carryeth along with him in his iourney hee may lose by the way but his estate and inheritance is safe enough at home Nay in that great and finall destruction of the whole world by the dreadfull fire of the last day 2 Pet. 3.10 When the heavens shall passe away with a noyse and the elements shall melt with heat and the earth with the workes that are therein shall bee burnt vp When all other men shall bee loosers of all their whole estates onely the godly because they are Strangers here they shall escape all these things and be no losers at all If some whole Citie should bee consumed by fire when the whole multitude of Inhabitants sustaine losse and beggery by that Accident a stranger that is but passing through the Cittie and hath his estate and dwelling elsewhere hee loseth nothing at all So the godly shall be glad in that day that they haue no stocke nor portion with them who had no other portion but in this life 4. As his estate is safe so likewise is the person of the godly Pilgrim For hee not being of the world hee shall not perish with the world It was happie for Lot that hee was a stranger Gen. 19.9 and scorned as a stranger by the Sodomites for when all they were scalded with a shower of fire and Brimstone the Lord being mercifull vnto him his person was in safetie Sever thy selfe from the condition of sinnefull men estrange thy selfe from the condition of sinnefull men estrange thy selfe from their courses walke as one deliuered from this evill world if not yet in respect of place yet in respect of new qualities thou shalt haue Gods protection and see the salvation of the LORD when all the wicked Inhabitants of the earth shall call for the hills to cover them and the mountaines to fall vpon them to hide them from the wrath of the Lambe for the great day of his wrath is come Rev. 6.16 17. and who can stand ⁂ FINIS A PROFITABLE MEMORIALL of the Conversion Life and Death of M ris MARY GVNTER set vp as a Monument to be looked vpon both by Protestants and Papists I Could not better spēd some part of the dayes of my mourning for the losse of my deare wife than in setting downe briefly some Passages of her course and Pilgrimage that the happy memory of her graces and vertuous life might euer liue with me both for incitation and imitation And if my desires were strong to make them more publike for the direction of some others I hope it will rather be charitably ascribed to the working and stirring of my affection towardes her Ashes than to any vanitie of minde or ostentation in her Besides I am sure that if a Protestant had beene seduced from vs as shee was called out of Popery and had liued and died so zealous in that Religion as shee did in this the aduersaries would haue made their aduantage of it and published the same as one of the miracles of their Church And I see not but it may bee as lawfull for mee as it may prooue profitable for others to set down the knowne Truth concerning her that as shee was in her life so also shee may happily continue now after her death an happy instrument of Gods glory in earth as I am assured shee is a vessell before him filled with his glory of heauen THis gracious Woman was for birth a Gentlewoman Her birth but descended of Popish Parents who dying in her infancy shee was committed vnto the tuition of an old Lady Popish education honourable for her place but a strong Papist who nousled and misled this Orphane in Popery till shee came about foureteene yeeres of age at which time this Lady died Vpon which occasion God hauing a mercifull purpose towards her conuersion by his good Prouidence brought her to the seruice of that Religious and truly honourable Lady the Countesse of Leicester who entertained her with more than ordinary respect both because of her young yeeres as also because shee was allied to Sir Christopher Blunt then

with them In which Parable consider foure things Foure parts of the Text. 1. What is this kingdome of heauen 2. What is this pearle and the goodnesse of it 3. Who is this Merchant man 4. What are his actions namely three 1. He seeketh good pearles 2. Hee findeth a pearle of great price 3. Hee sold all to buy it For the first By the kingdome of heauen What the kingdome of heauen is not is not meant the blessed estate of the Church triumphant in heauen as in Matth. 5.10 Yours is the kingdome of heauen Nor the Church militant and visible as in Matth. 13.47 which is like a net cast into the Sea Nor the time of grace vnder Christ exhibited to preach in his owne person Mat. 3.3 For the kingdome of God is at hand Nor the estate of grace wherin the elect be iustified by faith and are lead forward by grace toward the kingdome of heauen as Matth. 13.51 The kingdome of heauen is like a graine of mustard seed Nor the kingdome of power by which God in heauen as a King gouerneth all the world and euery particular creature in it What it is But by it is meant the preaching publishing of the Gospell called here 1. A Kingdome 2. A Kingdome of Heauen A Kingdome 1. Why a kingdome 3. Reasons for three reasons 1. Because the doctrine of the Gospell bringeth vs to Christ that he as a King may reigne in vs hence it is called the Gospell of the kingdome Matt. 4.23 2. Because it is a powerfull meanes ordained by God to pull vs out of the kingdome of darknesse and translate vs to the kingdome of his deare Sonne Coloss 1.13 and the Apostle calleth it the power of God to saluation Rom. 1.16 3. Because God hath set it apart not only to erect vp the kingdome of God within vs which standeth in inward righteousnesse peace of conscience the ioy of the Holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 but also to leade vs thorow to the participation of that kingdome of glory reserued in heauen for vs. Secondly of heauen Why of heauen 1. Because of distinction from earthly kingdomes it preacheth Christ a King but withall that his kingdome is not of this world hee ruleth not after a temporall manner but sitteth as King in the spirits of his subiects and ruleth the conscience and holdeth vp this scepter of his kingdome in the hearts of men so as this kingdome is heauenly and spirituall 2. For exaltation and aduancement lifting it vp aboue al that earthly kingdomes can afford for worth and excellencie and so to stirre vp our affections and pull our eyes toward it the very name of it should rauish vs and commend the priuileges of the Gospell vnto vs. 3. For admonition and caution that the subiects of this kingdome should receiue their lawes from heauen and contemning earth earthly things should aspire meditate and frame themselues to heauenly conuersation this very title of the Gospell should be of power to lift vs aboue the earth Now what is meant by this pearle What is meant by the Pearle By the pearle is meant 1. The happy estate of grace here 2. The happy estate of glory hereafter Of which latter see Reuel 21.21 the foundations of the new Ierusalem were garnished with all manner of pretious stones Iasper Saphir Chalcedon and the twelue gates were twelue pearles c. But here it signifieth the happy estate of grace in which wee are still seeking and purchasing the pearle and the good things of the Gospell as namely the glad tidings of it the offer of Christ with his merits the gift of faith iustification sanctification Good things of the Gospell resemble a Pearle in fiue things sanctification and these are called a pearle for sundry reasons 1. For the value and worth of them 1. In value and worth which passe all other treasures in excellencie and estimation As siluer is beyond brasse and gold beyond siluer so pearls are beyond gold and the good things of the Gospell beyond the most precious pearles so saith Salomon Pro. 3.14 15. The merchandise of wisdome is better than the merchandise of siluer the reuenue of it is better than that of gold it is more pretiou than pearles and all thou canst desire are not comparable to it What a world of wealth both spirituall and heauenly is manifested by the Gospell which exhibiteth Christ in whom are al treasures of grace and glory What a rich store-house is Christ himselfe the least drop of whose bloud was more precious than al the world How precious are all his merits and plentifull for redemption What a good thing and precious grace is faith which storeth a man with all the good things of heauen How precious is the doctrine of saluation which must not be cast to swine as Matt. 7.6 Well doth our Sauiour therefore call this a pearl of great price for the most precious pearles in regard o● these good things o● the Gospell are but dust and clay 2. 2. In rarenesse For the rarenesse Pearles are not so common as pibles nor in the hands of common and ordinary men but fit for Princes great personages common men know them not nor the price nor the vse of them Euen so the good things of the Gospell are not known or obuious to euery one but hidden mysteries vnknowne to the most part of the world and a wisdome reuealed to Babes And as Pearles are easily contemned of vnskilfull persons who are ignorant of their price and vse so the mysteries of the Gospell offer them to the Gentiles they esteeme them foolishnesse 1 Cor. 1.23 to the Iewes they are as a scandall Christ crucified is the very scorne of the world onely a few beleeuers aduanced to be Kings and Priests to God Reu. 1.5 know the price of this commoditie and lay out for it 3. 3. For hidden vertue In regard of the hidden vertue and secret excellencie of them The body and quantitie of a Pearle is small but the vertue and power of it great so the Gospell seemeth small and contemptible Rom. 1.16 but it is the power of God to saluation and faith in the Gospell draweth vertue from Christ to open blinde eyes to cure all spirituall diseases to raise from death in sinne to driue away deuils and breake the force of temptation all the Pearles betwixt heauen earth haue not such power onely faith as small as a graine of mustard seed draweth vertue from Christ and grace though it bee neuer so little if sound it is of power to open blinde eyes and to carry the Saints along vnto their saluation 4. In regard of their excellent qualities Foure qualities of a rich Pearle as puritie and cleerenesse 1. Brightnesse 2. Famnesse 3. Greatnesse 4. Roundnesse and orient brightnesse so the law of the Lord is pure Psal 19. The doctrine of grace for the brightnesse and perspicuitie of it is as

errour God turned to her good for in all the two and twenty yeeres of her seruice vnto that honourable Lady shee neuer durst make vse of any thing that was vnder her charge were it small or great but set it downe in writing and once euery yeere did make it good either in the kinde or in some other thing which shee bought for her Ladiships vse Fourthly Her charitable disposition the sense of her owne weaknesses and wants made her of a pittifull and charitable disposition towards the wants and miseries of others Shee had euer a large heart to the poore especially the godly poore she neuer did see or heare of any that were in want but her heart did mourne if shee had not to releeue them neither was her hand shut for shee did yeerely lay aside a portion of money to the vttermost of her ability if not beyond for their releefe Thus shee liued holily happily and desiredly Neither could so gracious a life be shut vp but by an answerable that is an happy death and dissolution wherof I will adde but a few wordes and so leaue her to her happinesse till wee meet happily againe True it is Her Imgring sicknesse that the life of a Christian should bee a continuall meditation of death as it is a continuall motion to death and such was the latter part especially of the life of this Christian woman who was of weake and sickly constitution many yeeres before her death which made her so much the more prepared for her last combate and sicknesse which lasted ten weekes in all which time shee certainly apprehended and expected her dissolution it being the principall and almost onely subiect of her discourse six moneths before it came But thirty dayes before her departure she finding her paines increasing and growing very sharpe and tedious she spent an houres talke with mee concerning her desire for the things of this life and hauing said what shee purposed shee thus concluded her speech Now sweet Heart no more wordes betweene you and mee of any worldly thing onely let me earnestly request and charge you that as you see my weaknes increase you will not faile to assist me and call on mee to follow the Lord with prayer and patience For now I know that Satan will shew all his malice because his time is but short against me and he will easily espie my weaknesse and make his aduantage of it and therefore now especially helpe mee with your counsell comfort and praiers In all the time of her sicknesse our gracious God who as a fast friend standeth closest to his seruants when they haue most need of him shewed his gracious presence with her as in all other comfortable supplies answerable to that depth of distresse so especially in hearing and answering her prayers and desires of her heart There were foure requests which wee ●bs●rued shee especi●●●● preferred vnto God in her sicknesse Foure requests 〈…〉 them all and in none of them was denyed The first that shee might be armed with strength against Satans assaults which shee expected would be fierce frequent from whom she was mercifully freed for onely three dayes before her death shee began to bee deiected in the sense of her owne dulnesse and thereby began to call in question Gods loue towards her and the truth of Gods grace in her for said shee were I the Lords why should not I lift vp my head now seeing the time of my dissolution draweth on so neere But these complaints continued not aboue sixe houres but shee had much cheerefulnesse and comfort againe which shee expressed both in earnest and excellent Prayers wherein her gift was more than ordinary for her sex as also in many cheerful thanks and praises to God for his great mercy for that hee had now so chained Satan at this time of her great weaknesse that hauing beene formerly molested and daily vexed with his assaults for the space of aboue six yeeres together now hee would not suffer him to rest on her with his malice aboue six houres Her second request was that the Lord would strengthen her with patience to endure all her paines to the end and herein she was as graciously heard as in the former for although she was full of paines and assaulted with many strong fits in which no part was exempt from deadly paines and euery of these sits of many houres continuance yet was shee neuer heard to vtter any word of impatiēce in her selfe or discontent to any that were about her and much lesse to charge God foolishly in whose hands she was as the clay in the hād of the Potter Her third request to God was that shee might in all her sorrowes be still supported with some sense of his loue and with the assurance of the pardon of all her sins And that God was comfortably found of her in this request was very apparent in her ioyfull expectation of death the time whereof shee truly foretold fiue dayes before it came and as this time approached her ioy increased so as shee was able to comfort her mournfull husband and friends saying Mourne not for mee but for your selues for I shall very shortly be more happy than the wishes of your hearts can make me and therefore cease your mourning and helpe mee thither by your praiers as fast as you can Her fourth request was that shee might haue her memory continued vnto the last that so by no idle or light speech she might dishonour God or bring scandall on her profession for she said If I through paine or want of sleepe which shee much wanted should haue any foolish or idle talke I know what the speech of the world vseth to bee This is the end of all your precise folke they die madde or not themselues c. And as she praied God gaue her her memory to the last gasp Her happy departure that she died praying for a little before her departure she called vs that were about her and hasted to Praier for now said she I shall bee gone presently which words wee then beleeued not but Praier being ended she said with more strength than shee had spoken any thing foure houres before Amen amen Into thy hands O Lord I commend my spirit Lord Iesus haue mercy on mee and receiue my soule And thus with her last breath and words her soule was carried into Abrahams bosome in the Heauens to which her eyes and hands were lifted This was the life and death of this sweet Saint as it was obserued and now faithfully witnessed by her mournfull husband who wisheth both his life and latter end like vnto hers FINIS A GLASSE for Gentle women to dresse themselves by By THOMAS TAYLOR Preacher of Gods word to the Towne of REDING LONDON Printed by I.H. for Iohn Bartlet at the gilt Cup in Cheape-side 1624. A GLASSE for Gentlewomen to dresse themselues by BEcause I know that sundrie women fearing God faile in the matter of