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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76236	A relation of a mans return and his travaills out of a long and sore captivitie to partake of that rest, which remaineth to the people of God. Written for the sake of those who wants the consolation of Israel, and would walke in the heavenly way thereof, if they knew it. Written by one of Zyons travellors, Th. Bayles.	Bayle, Thomas.; Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1677 (1677)	Wing B1470; ESTC R230852	33,900	24

in the Light of the Lord with his ransomed ones and be taught of his wayes and to know his secrets as those did who feard his holy Name For Job was miserable when he scraped his soares with a potsheard and the Lord restored him and David cryed long and sought the Lord and at last he sayd that the Lord had heard him and granted unto him his request so that he in trust in the Lord sayd surely mercie and goodness shall follow me all the dayes of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever so dearly did the Lord for ever so dearly did the Lord engage his heart unto him And Paul cryed out O wretched man that I am and yet afterwards he sayd that the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus had set him free from the Law of Sin and death which was the great occasion the Law of Sin and death haveing dominion over him of his wretched wofull state and many others which he had read of and sayd why not I why should not I pertake of the goodness and mercie of the Lord as well as they for he concluded that neither they nor yet any that did pertake thereof which is the benefit that comes by Jesus Christ had more need of it feelingly then he had Thus he entertaind a belief into his heart and sayd that he hoped the Lord was the same to day as yesterday even a God gratiouss and mercifull pardoning iniquity and sin for his owne name sake and that is arme was not shortned that he could not bring forth deliverance as of old time and therefore sayd that he would hope although it were but a litle least he also should be cut of through unbeleife as those who fell short thereby and though he found in him self litle or no cause for it but his necessity I 'l hope and I 'l waite sayd he although it be against hope there may be some what in it more then I know at present This was when he in the deep sence of his state stood as one broken and poured forth before the Lord in teares and sorrow days and nights and he must have it freely and of good will or not at all and in mercie and loveing kindness for he had nought but miserie and necessitie to part with being naked and bear before him for his coverings weare rent and he remained as empty and void of any thing which should have been life or refreshment unto him Now he had read thus I counsel thee to buy of me white rayment that thy nakedness may not appeare and that thy shame may be coverd and in such a state of need he was and necessity unto which that counsell was given and he had tryed many sellers and many merchants whose merchandise he found answerd not to releive him in his necessity and their garments were too short to cover his nakedness with all and haveing essayed for releife where by he might have had hopes and not walked too and fro under the subjection of disconsolation and amazement he thought at the last by the conduct of a secret still and inward vertue that he must buy enjoy and possess that covering which can hide and be sufficient thereunto from the storm in Gods sight of him which searched his heart and tryed his reines which brought to light the thingh of profane Esaw and that stretched forth the rod of Justice and Jugment upon the back of the fool which had sayd in his heart there is no God and that as it is written he stood at the door and had long there stood knocking that he might be opend unto and come in and this he could not deny but must confess although he had an eare and did often heare him knocking yet strove he against him and was loath to yeild or submit thereunto through the unbeleife and hardness of his heart begotten in him by his false and deceitfull adversarie then disguised like a freind But now his necessitous state and deplorable condition enforced him such constraint had the love of God upon his soule to receive him in that he might and his father come in also and sup with him and he with them so the man expected the supper the food the refreshment the covering and salvation and thought it no more then so so alienate and estranged was he from the right way of the Lord in darkness and ignorance but otherwise he found it to be as at a certaine time the Lord said unto him when in a sad bewilderd state he was I will lead thee by a way which thou knowest not and so it came to pass an unknowne way it was wherein he never could make a right or streight step but as his minde inwardly was directed by the guidance hand of his holy power no longer could he see his way or the path in which he was with safety to tread that so he might have hopes at last to pass through into the desire of his soule but as his heart was fixed in relyance upon the Lord out of all his owne strivings motions and contrivances And so the opening of the door was to be which his owne hardness of heart and unbeleife stood against before that he that stood at the door and knockt could get in and the crookednes and perverssnes that the way of the Lord migh be prepared and his entrance in be through faith in him and thus the voice of a burning and shining Light cryed prepare the way of the Lord make his path streight Thus the doing of all those forementioned lets and hinderances away and leagues and covenants with hell and death must be parted with broken and made void and that by him his assistance who comes with his fan in his hand thorowly to purge his floore till when no supper could be enjoyed although here a litle and there a litle of the crums thereof might fall downe unto him by way of encouragement and to teach him that worthy was the Lord to be waited upon and sought after in the way of his Judgments For so began they to be manifested with in him as a refiners fire as fullers soape the burning heat whereof and sharp pierceings made him to feare exceedingly that the wheat would have been consumed with the chaffe that his small hopes which did arise in him from the experience he had as in the twinckling of an eye beheld of the mercie of the Lord and weak resolution and himself must for ever have been consumed in its gloriouss and righteouss workings thus was he fild with dread and feare before the Lord and the ariseings of his gloriouss power And Moses saw a bush burning with fire and the bush not consumed thereby and Moses turned aside to see that great sight and the Lord spoke from out there and sayd unto him put of thy shoes from of thy feet for the ground where on thou stands is holy and Moses hid his face and was

A RELATION OF A MANS RETURN and His Travaills out of a long and sore CAPTIVITIE To partake of that REST which Remaineth to the PEOPLE of GOD. Written For the sake of those who wants the Consolation of Israel and would walke in the HEAVENLY WAY thereof if they knew it Jer. 4 1. If thou wilt return saith the Lord return unto me Ibid. 17 10. I the Lord search the heart Written by one of Zyons Travellors Th. Bayles Freindly Reader IT is the manner of Mariners sayling in unknowne places and discovering dangerous Rocks sands or shoules and being delivered from the danger thereof To procure buys or beacons to be placed upon them as warnings and markes to them who afterwards shall have occasion to sayle that way that they may also escape the dangers thereof And this is but to preserve the outward life with ship and goods which are all at best but temporall how much more is it needfull for those who have travayled the way of Regeneration and have discovered the many dangers that are in that way to give notice thereof to those that are willing to travayle in that way that soe they may escape the shipwrack of their immortal Soules And indeed many are the perills hazards and dangers that such meet withall somtimes in danger of being deceived and beguiled somtimes of being affrighted and dismayed and soe disheartned and turned back againe when they have made some progresse and at other times of being made over confident and presumptious of their skill and understanding and of being made to think they are at their jorneys end when they have made very small progresse therin All which his Author as an experienced Travellor in Zyons Narrow way hath set forth as he and many more hath found it that soe all that have a mind and earnest desire to travell that way may be assisted with warning and good information at every turning and at last may be content to cease from all falce guides and from ther owne reason and imaginations and from their owne strength and wisdome and may lay hold of that sure giude that God in his infinite love hath appointed to lead all simple and upright soules to rest by And therefore whoever thou art that shall read this Treatise doe it seriously and consideratly and then shalt thou see as in a glasse where thy present state is and if thou find thy selfe on the righthand or on the left to be erred from the certaine way of life wayte thou for the compassionate visitations of thy soules inward freind the faithfull and true witnes of god in thy conscience and he will call thee back into the right way and lead thee in the midst of the paths of Judgments untill at length thou arrives at that haven of rest to thy immortall soule which will answer all thy labour tryalls travells and exercises that thou may meet withall and if this description of the way and the difficultys thereof doe prove any help and benefit to thee then the Author and I have our desire and let god have the glory to whom alone it doth belong he being the Fountaine of good to all that diligently seeke him S. C. THere was a man seated in a goodly place fitted with all things needfull for a happy life he being inconsiderate of his waies and doeings and of the event thereof in the time of his youth frequented the vanities of the world and the idle pleasures of it whilst this man was in the participation of them and runing on therein from one thing to another there was one which beheld his doeings who was greived in him self to see the man soe deceived in great compassion and tendernes ayming at his deliverance waited when he might vissit him and afford his help And so it came to pass that the man being in the coole of the day in some kind of recollection from his labour and the cumber of it in the heart searching word of his owne eternall power and goodness this compassionate one said unto him Where art thou and left him as far as he perceived then to ruminate there on the man knew not who it was that in this inquireing word spake unto him or from whence the voice came being a great stranger and unaquainted therewith although he dwelt neere unto him but such was the secret authority and force thereof that some entrance was made thereby in to his mind so that he was sitting downe to consider of that which had happend unto him and whilst he was getting into the consideration thereof One haveing too much interrest in him and easy access sayd Let not distrustfull thoughts and vexing feare have place within thee for all is well enough if thou look about thee thou shall see that there is no cause for them hereupon the man rowsed him self as if he would have thereby discharged his heart of that sorrow and greife which so lately had assailed him and so said he would not bow under he knew not what or be dismayed thereby and so returned to his beloved enjoyments againe and did rejoyce as if all had been well with him Now this man as one whose heart was whole proceeded on according to the counsell and secret insinuations of his deceiving freinde who by reason of his neere habitation unto him counted him his neighbor and did not perceive the snares which was layd for him and afterwards did appear or that there was any at all so neere and close did his heart comply thereto But his tender and compassionate neighbour saw that his feet went downward to death and steps to take hold on hell he as at the first waited to shew his love unto him and the lifting up the light of his countenance and in his owne time said If thou dost evill sin lieth at the door which visitation came more neere to the man as he thought entring as a shaft into his liver which although he strove much to pull it out yet in no wise could he do it nor get a remedy or releive him felf of the smart thereof but after all his paines and carefull labour to quit him self still the stroak remained as a burthen and incureable and he could see no way for that by all the undertakeings and attempts which he could do and now began the burthen of his thoughts and the perplexitie thereby so that he often feared the displeasure of the Lord would breakforth upon him by reason of them even whilst he was young and tender in yeares and hath at diverse times said in the sence of the evill thereof in the words of the Prophet How long should vaine thoughts lodge with in him as finding them too burthersom and heavy for him to beare and bring into subjection and as that which alone was the work of his sufficient grace although then he knew not that or what it was or where Thus he groaned in him self and said what is the matter with me and why am I so

occasion as he in his distress desired and amongst many good things recorded there concerning the Lords deare and tender love to mankinde in Jesus Christ calling unto him to forsake the evill and to cleave to the good and much more and that then he would soon confound his foes and give him an inheritance in the promised land of blessings And he also took notice how that David cryed out and mourned long as well as he and of Jobs affliction and Pauls bewaileing him self and saying o wretched man that I am and others which he took notice of in that his inquisition here upon he concluded that he must not bee to curiouss or nice in that his search he might in so doing for ought he knew tempt God and be distrustfull of his Saviours merits and some he saw cautioned thus in their preachings and some told him whom he acquainted him self with for advice which he sought after that although it be said that those who are born of God or are Gods elect they sin not that is said they they sin not willingly or constantly as reprobates and wicked men do but with reluctancie and it was to keep them humble in their own eyes God saw it good to be so or elce man would be puffed up in spirituall pride and grow forgetfull of Gods mercies and wax wanton and careless in an easefull Spirit so then thought he its as well with me it may be as with others as is my state such is there then onely they lived over a distrustfull and perplexing spirit which he gave way unto and must be content it must be so he thought he could not help it so endeavourd according to the practise of the world to disesteem or slight him that smot him as judging him not his freind at all but his enemy and as some thing starting in his minde like an idle dream to fright him and to stir up doubts and questionings in him concerning his salvation and obtaining the Love of God in Jesus Christ then that he through and by that should at last come to attaine thereunto For by this time he had heard so much by the report that was thereof in the world and by his searching of the Scriptures concerning death and judgment salvation and damnation that he thought that if he was not one of the elect and so besaved know and inherit the joyes of the blessed and ransomed of the Lord that then he must be in a wofull and wretched state in deed for he had heard and read that hel was a place and did beleeve it to be so of endless torment endless paine and miserie burning with fire and brimstone and that the fire should never go out or be extinguished nor the worm dy or the damned come to an end of their torment as at a time hearing of one in a despayring condition he with others visited her who amongst other things she sayd O that the Lord had preserved me as he hath preserved you but I am seald down under damnation for ever were it to be but for a hundred thowsand yeares there would then be hopes of an end but it is sayd she for ever for ever The man he thought them happy which knew the right way or way of salvation and did beleeve that there was one although he did not understand it or know where or which it was for there was many wayes which he heard took notice of Men crying up one while one and crying downe at another crying downe one another for them which verifyed that saying that there is away that seemeth right to a man but David sayd I have chosen the way of truth and here by he could not attaine at any certainty or come to an assurance or infalibilitie of judgment amongst them now he had read of a perfect and everlasting way but saw not him self in it neither could he find it for he saw men beleeving at a large rate and applying promises in a strange way which he could not understand by what knowledge he had attained to by reading the scriptures or his owne condition to have been the foot steps of the antient travellers in the way of Syons salvation which is redeemed with Judgment here upon he sought more strictly to inquier in to religion and to take a more seriouss observation thereof by considernig those who so much seemed the promotion of it and he found them in astrange contradiction and contrariety One crying lo here another lo there that he knew not how to resolve or come at any certainty or where to center himself in so great a concern as the salvation of his soule was for he was for that namely the reall and infalible salvation of it or elce if he could not come thiter he should not esteem of religion and salvation so much talked of up and downe in the world more then afiction or a dream which is deceiveable the talk thereof according to the custom of the world he had proved and must know it saved or nought would be of advantage and satisfaction unto him Here upon he sayd that he saw no reason why he should order himself by other mens Methods and Prescriptions and the rather because he had read as well as proved them void of answering to his necessitouss state that he must give an account for him self and that to a vaine thought and idle word as well as for transgressions of greatest evils and that none could answer for his brother and he had a desire it was so with him that he might give his account with joy and receive the heavenly blessed reception Well don good and faithfull servant ... enter into thy Masters joy Afther this he thought with him self to make tryall and to serch into the matter very strictly as he could or should be able for the voice of the awackening Word of the Lord and the entrance of it in his heart he felt and the disquietings it wrought there peace he would gladly have had but it fled from him and in stead thereof astonishments and perplexities and he was as a wounded heart which fearfully fled to escape its wounding even whilst she carried them along with her for the more he strove for releife the farther off it seemed to be removed from him Some did reflect upon his actions and him accounted as a fool and lightly esteemed they him because they saw his visage Marring and that he had not that felowship or frendly society with them as formerly seeming to be a man disrespecting that rather then eagerly persuing of it or rejoiceing in it as some times before he had don some againe thought he was mad or would be distracted or some thing of evill would happen unto him and be his ruin so that theire acceptation or esteem of him was as if he became a burthen or load unto them and not a joy or delight thus his wonted freinds seemed to frown upon his frequenting their societies accounting his