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A52818	A spiritual legacy being a pattern of piety for all young persons practice in a faithful relation of the holy life and happy death of Mr. John Draper / represented out of his own and other manuscripts containing his experiences, exercises, self examinations and evidences for heaven ; together with his funeral sermons ; published by Chr. Ness.	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.; Draper, John, d. 1682.	1684 (1684)	Wing N464; ESTC R29558	57,400	206

evil but as he was Israel so his Days were many and good He had two Names Jacob and Israel Genesis 49.1 2. both given him from his Wrestling the farmer Name was given him for wrestling with his Brother for the Birth-right in the Womb wherein he Miscarried but the latter for his Wrestling with his God for the Blessing at Penuel wherein his Valour through Divine Condescension obtain'd the Victory When the Messiah saw Jacob's undaunted Courage in resolutely detaining him Asks him his Name Gen. 32.24 26 27. As if he should say Thou art such a Fellow as I never met with who though thou be lamed and laid Hard at yet wilt not let me go without my Blessing Thou hast let thy Flocks go and thy Herds go Thou hast let thy Wives go and thy Children go yet thou wilt not let me go nor my Blessing go I will not let thee go except thou Bless me saith Jacob v. 26. Hereupon He Honours Him as it were with the Honour of Knighthood saying to him Kneel down Jacob Rise up Israel for as a Prince thou hast had Power with God and with Men and hast prevailed Gen. 32.28 Hos 12.3 4. Now Jacob is a Name of Weakness the poor Worm Jacob Isa 41.14 Trampled upon and trodden under foot This Afflicted State made Jacob sigh out those Sad Words All these things are against me Gen. 42.36 and those of my Text also Few and Evil have the Days of the Years of my Life been But so far as he had Princely Power as Israel signifies both with God and with Men In this Sence his Days were many and good One Day with God is a Thousand elsewhere VSE Hence learn we the Reason why the Church is called Jacob through out the Scriptures when Speech is of her Weakness and Calamity But she is frequently call'd Israel to signifie her Splendour and Glory and as it is thus with the Church of God in General so it is with the Children of God in Particular Some times they are run down with strange Temptations and with strong Tribulations then are they the poor Worm Jocob Isa 41.14 The Shulamite found two Armies Warring in her The Army of the Flesh and the Army of the Spirit Cant. 6.13 When the Army of the Flesh or Amalek prevaileth as Exod. 17.11 then the Seed of Jocob droops but when they are made strong in their Weakness 2 Cor. 12.9 Strengthned with all Might Col. 1.11 and made able through the Supplies of Christ's Spirit Phil. 1.19 to Tread down Strength as Judg. 5.21 even the strongest Temptation without then are they called the Israel of God Gal. 6.16 for their Prince-like prevailing over Flesh World and Devil III. Observation From the Circumstances of the Text. The Third Observation ariseth from the Conjunction of these two Parts This Question and the Answer to it which is 'T is a Duty Incumbent upon all Mankind to be Asking and Answering How the Days of the Years of their Lives do pass away It was Moses's Prayer Lord teach us to number our Days that we may apply our Hearts unto Wisdom Psal● 90.12 In which Psalm it being ● Meditation of Man's Mortality corresponding with my Text therefore Mark 1. Moses mentions the Brevity and Uncertainty of Man's Life comparing it to a Watch v. 4. which is but the fourth part of a Night Mark 13.35 Then he goes on and compares it to a Sleep to a Dream all vanishing things and to a Tale that is soon told and is as soon forgotten lastly to Grass which we well know if it be not cut down in Summer or Autumn doth wither in Winter So such Mortals as are not cut down with the Sithe of Death in their Youth do yet wither away in the Winter of Old Age. Quid est Vita nisi quidam Cursus ad Mortem said the Ancient Father Life is nothing but a Posting to Death The 2d Occurrence in this Meditation of Moses upon Man's Morality is his assigning the proper procuring Cause of this Humane Mise●y to wit Divine Displeasure ●gainst Sin which causeth God to ●urn Man to Destruction ver 7 8. Man at the first was made Immortal he had then an Immortal Body a Suitable Companion for his Immortal Soul These two Sweet Associates had never been severed each from other if Man had not sinned against his Maker Had Adam stood on his State of Innocency He should then have rendred to the Lord a time of perfect Obedience and Service here upon Earth and when that Homage to his Great Landlord had been accomplish'd he should then have been Translated from Earth without the least taste of Death to Heaven the Soul should never have been separated from the Body as now it is for the Wages of Sin is Death Rom. 6.23 It was that one Man's Offence that pulled up the Sluce and let in Death as a Deluge with a Regal Authority over all the World Rom. 5.14 to 17. and Sin did not only let in Death but also all sorts of Sicknesses Sorrows and Sufferings that are Forerunners of it Then 3ly Moses Condemns Mans Dulness in taking no more notice of this Divine Displeasure ver 11. All other Creatures know their Times and their Seasons Jerem. 8.7 but Man knoweth not the Day of his Visitation till He come to be Snared in an Evil Net c. Eccles 9.12 Though Man's Life be a Life full of all Inconveniencies of Indignities of Injuries of Infirmities and of Iniquities also yet such is the Stupidity of the Fall'n Nature that Man puts the Thoughts of these things far from him Amos 6.3 Fourthly Hereupon Moses begs God for Illuminating Grace wherewith to make a more Distinct Discovery of all Humane Frailty Lord teach w to number our Days c. ver 12. And the Sweet-Singer of Israel David will be of the same Chorus with Moses sighing as well as singing out these Synonimical Sentences Lord make me ●o know my end and the Measure of my Days what it is That I may know how frail I am c. Psal 39.4 5. Thus likewise Jacob in my Text carries on the like Concord and Consort to compleat the Harmony complaining here Few and evil have the Days of the Years of my Life been c. Adding only this one Note of Discord for making better Musick that God had taught him this great Truth concerning his own Frailty He had seen it for time past and He would be sensible of it for time to come his Days had been few and Evil Now they might be fewer and worse seeing He and all his were famished out of Canaan the Land of Promise into Egypt the place where his Posterity would be evilly intreated Gen. 15.13 VSE Moses teacheth us what use to make of the knowledge of our own Frailty It should strongly stir us up to an earnest imploring of Divine Mercy He maketh a loud Out cry after Mercy Crying Return O Lord How long c. Oh satisfie us early with thy Mercy

shall eat drink or put on They hunger and thirst no more they are then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Angels that need no such things Mat. 22.30 The Lamb there Leads and feeds them Rev. 7.16 17 they are then clothed with Glory 2 Cor. 5.2 c 2. From Labours of Infirmity they have their Writs of Ease No more pain as well as no more pains Rev. 21.4 No Grief nor Gripes then Job in no fear of the Caldeans there Job 3.17 18. Their Bacah is then turned into Berachah their sighing into singing misery into majesty All Tears are wip'd from their Eyes 3. From the Labours of Iniquity All men are under a Sinful Necessity here Eccles. 7.20 Sin will keep house with us whether we will or no 'T is an heart-greiving Inmate till Death turn it out of doors as Sarah did Hagar Gen. 21.10 c. This the Anti-Type Typified by the fretting Leprosie that could not be scraped out of the walls of the house infected with it until all the Stones and Timber thereof were taken down to the ground Levit. 14.45 44 45. As Vltimus morborum medicus est mors Death heals all the Diseases of the Body So Peccatum erat obstetrix mortis mors erit Sepulchrum peccati Sin was the. Mid-wife to Death and Death shall be the Sepulchre of Sin in the Soul A believing Soul is not taken away in his sins as John 8.21 but from his sins Till then we are all bound to this Body of Sin which makes us cry out O Wretched men that wc are c. This brings down with Sorrow to the Grave But then Christ Delivers us from that Bond Rom. 7.24 25. Causing the Death of the Body quite to destroy that Body of Death till then mans life is a sore Travel Eccles. 1.13 2.23 While the Plummets of Sin hang at the heels of our Souls we are Restless altogether Restless but when Death comes to Strike off those Plummets Then there is a Rest in deed The Third and last Resemblance in Job 9.26 is from the Eagles Flying the Climax here is very observable An Eagle is swifter than a Ship as a Ship swifter than a Post The Eagle of all flying Fowls is reputed the swiftest flight and hath the strongest Wing Habb 1.8 Prov. 30.19 The way of an Eagle in the Air is High Swift Strong Thus Life hasteth from us and Death hastens to us as doth the Eagle to the Carcass it desireth to devour Matth. 24.28 Then is the Eagle most swift when hunger as it were doth add Wings to his Wings then comes he upon his Prey like a Thunder-Bolt upon the Earth swiftly and suddenly before it can shift for it self Thus Death is not said to walk on foot but is mounted on Horseback Rev. 6.8 Death rideth upon the Pale Horse Death Rideth Post as above upon a winged Horse to us as Life doth the like in Posting from us Oh how suddenly some persons are surprized with sudden Death The Sixth and last Observation is from the Quality of it mans life is also a most miserable Life 'T is not only a poor Pilgrimage but 't is also a short and miserable one 'T is called here a Pilgrimage and that made up of a few daies and those evil ones also When Man came first out of Gods Mint in his state of Innocency he was a curious Silver-Peice which shone most gloriously Psal 8.5 Eccles. 7.29 c. But now since the Fall he is become a poor thin worn lost Groat Luke 15.8 9. Which hath lost its lustre weight the sound of silver and its image and superscription He is now the Prodigal lost and a Pilgrim wandering in the Wilderness of sin when cast out of the Garden of God Man is now become miserable every way miserable in his Name Enosh which signifies mere misery And in his Nature but a bagg of Dung a lump not only of Vanity but of Misery also Man is miserable 1. At his Birth Antequam natus est Damnatus saith Ambrose He is Condemned as he is Conceived His Birth is polluted Psal 51.5 and Ezek. 16.4 5. Job 14.12 He comes crying into the World prophecying as it were that he is now launching out of the Haven of the Womb into the wide Ocean of Care and Calamity So 2. He is miserable in his Life A Life Full of Trouble Job 14.1 He is Born to misery Job 5.7 His Childhood and Youth is not only Vanity Eccles. 11.10 But if not villany 't is yet misery Yea his Middie-Age is made miserable by grasping too greedily of that bundle of Thorns the World c. Much more his Old-Age which is expresly called an Evil Age Eccles. 12.1 Thus in these four respects man is more than thrice miserable as to his life 3. At his Death most of all if not Bornagain before he Dye then he doth but Begin his Endless Misery VSE I. Oh that I could be a Boanerges or Son of Thunder to awaken souls out of the fleep of Sin what meanest thou O thou Sleeper arise c. Jon. 1.6 Awake awake why sleepest thou c. Eph. 5.14 Call upon thy God and be not still fast lull'd asleeep by a Soul-undoing Devil in the bewitching Cradle of Carnal Security Knowest thou not that upon this moment and God only knows how short it may be depends no less than thy Eternity of Woe or Weal As the Tree falls so it lyes and so it rises again what way the Tree leans that way it falls either to South or North and it leans that way it hath most boughs on O then enquire on what side most boughs grow that to Heaven or that to Hell Ye had better dye in a Ditch Dunghil or Dungeon as Dye in sin Joh. 8.21 VSE II. Then Study this Patriarchs Opticks who had a Right Prospect of mans life that it is but a Lingring Death a Poor Short and Miserable Pilgrimage wherein thou must expect foul way and weather as well as fair A Returna Brevi Term may ere ever thou be aware determine thy Pilgrimage The Angels Question to Hagar Whence comest thou and whither goest thou Gen. 16.8 Whether to Heaven or Hell is of Infinite Importance He that gathers in Summer is a wise son Prov. 10.5 As this Young-Man whose Funeral we are Solemnizing did He had learnt to look upon all worldly things with a Pilgrim's Eye and to make use of them in his way Home with a Pilgrims Heart Much more might I say from my own personal Knowledge were it not that it is not my manner to Paint Sepulchres or to Beautifie the Tombs of the dead which is a work fitter for a Pharisee Mat. 23.29 than for a Gospel-Minister c. VSE III. Oh that all Young Men were such Mortified Timothies as He was who lived much in a little Time And though he be deprived of the residue of his dayes Isa 38.10 And hath not the long life promised to Piety yet God keeps his

A Spiritual Legacy Being a PATTERN OF PIETY FOR ALL Young Persons Practice in a faithful Relation of the Holy LIFE and Happy DEATH OF Mr John Draper REPRESENTED Out of his own and other Manuscripts containing his Experiences Exercises Self-Examinations and Evidences for Heaven Together with his Funeral SERMON Published by CHR. NESS Minister of the Gospel LONDON Printed by H. Clark for the Author and are to be sold by L. Curtis at Sr. Edmundbury Godfrey's Head near Fleet Bridge 1684. THE Epistle Dedicatory TO YOUNG MEN THE Bosom and best Beloved Disciple saith I write to you Young Men because ye have overcome the wicked One because ye are strong and the Word of God abideth in you c. 1 Joh. 2.13 14. And poor I the least of Saints and greatest of Sinners write accordingly unto you that it may be so with you in this present Time as it was with those Young Men in the Primitive and Apostolical Times What they through Grace did and Had the honour of the same ye ought to do and have the like Ambition both for Valour and for Victory Solomon saith also That the Glory of Young Men is their Strength Prov. 20.29 The Hebrew word there for Young Men signifeth Choice men to wit for Military Employments which may be understood in a Mystical as well as in a Literal Sense seeing there is a Spiritual as well as a Temporal Warfare Isa 40.2 1 Cor 9.7 2 Cor. 10.4 1 Tim. 1.18 There is the Figurative Fighting the good Fight of Internal Faith 1 Tim. 6.12 2 Tim. 4.7 Heb. 10.32 As well as that which is Corporal by External Force Nor can Young men be reputed more truly Valorous in any Heroick Exploits than in Vanquishing the Prince of Darkness O ye Young men your Strength is indeed your Glory and you are prone to Glory in your Strength as your peculiar Priviledge above all other Ages but forget not that word of Wisdom which tells you Let not the mighty man Glory in his might c. but let him that glorieth Glory in the Lord Jerem. 9.23 1 Cor. 1.31 And remember to use your strength well not in Quarrelling and Duelling as those Youngsters at Helketh-Hazzurim did who sheathed their Swords in each others Bowels for a Play and Pastime 2 Sam. 2.14.16 Not in Vanity or Villany c. but in following your particular Callings as well as in fighting for your native Countries as those Young men of the Princes of the Provinces did 1 Kings 20.20 from ver 13 14 c. As you are Strong Young men more especially in pursuing your General Calling as you are Strong Young Christians Thus Young Timothy became a good Souldier of Jesus Christ 2 Tim. 2.3 not dreaming of any Carnal Delicacy but Enduring Hardship and living so abstemiously among the luxrious Ephesians that the Apostle was constrained to prescribe him Physick 1 Tim. 5.23 As Godly Timothy 's daily Task was to war a good marfare so it ought to be yours DIRECTIONS First Make Religion your business not a By-business let it be jour Alpha and your Omega that must be in the Beginning and in the Ending yea and in the Middle also of all your Actings Inure your selves so to it as to make it your familiar Exercise or Recreation Acts 24.16 Yea bestirr your selves lustily in it as your business of greatest Importance 1 Tim. 4.7 Secondly Arm your selves with the whole Armour of God both that part which is Defensive as the Girdle of Truth the Helmet of Hope the Shield of Faith the Breast-Plate of Righteousness and the Shoes of Peace and Patience And that also which is Offensive as the Sword of the Spirit and Darts of Prayer Eph. 6.12 13 to 19. Thirdly In this Armour fight ye the good Fight of Faith 1 Tim. 6.12 Be men of God ver 11. and Quit your selves like men 1 Cor. 16.13 Be more than men be strong 2 Tim. 2.1 in the Grace which is by Je sus Christ Be Strong Young Men Resist the Devil and he will flee from you James 4.7 1 Pet. 5.9 Satan is therefore but a Coward who like the Crocodile when you follow him he fleeth you but if you flee from him he followeth you Fourthly In this Armour also do ye war a good warfare 1 Tim. 16.18 against those Fleshly Lusts which war against your Souls 1 Pet. 2.11 That like the Syrians are commanded by their Master to war with neither Small nor Great but with the King of Israel 1 Kings 22.31 All their Spite is against the Soul to destroy it and its Grace and Peace If such a Chast and Chastened peice as Mortified young Timothy was bid to Flee youthful Lusts 2 Tim. 2.22 How much more you in these debauching daies and in your slippery Age as slippery as Glass Fifthly Tremble to turn This Celestial Armour into Carnal and Effeminate Amours If you embrace Vice in your Youth 't is a thousand to one but you will refuse Vertue in your Old Age Trees that blossom not in the Spring will hardly bear fruit in Autumn Besides is this fair dealing to give God the Devils leavings How can God like to be Gleaning at last where the Devil hath been reapimg all your Time to say nothing of the Strains and Cramps of Conscience which you will carry with you to your dying Day as possibly you may do some strains and cramps while young and presumptuous in your body Sixthly But to be short consider what Solomon in his sapiential Sermon concerning the most soveraign good saith by his most emphatical Irony for deterring all youngsters from persuing sensual pleasures rejoyce O Young-Man in thy youth Eccles. 11.9 That is Do if thou darest As God said to Balaam Go since thou wilt go Numb 22.20 But know that thou goest upon thy death Thus this Ironical Concession intimates that Young-Men have strongest Inclinations to and the stoutest Abilities for all kind of sensuallity and they are most impatient both of reproof and restraint therefore do they indulge their own jolly and frolick humours in takeing their full of delights In eating drinking being madly merry c. Let them do so saith Solomon but at their peril But know c. O this stinging But c. marrs all their mirth and is a Cooler to the Youngsters courage one thought of an after reckoning spoils all his sport For all these things which are accounted but Triffles and Tricks of Youth God will bring you to judgment either in this life as he did Young Absolom and Adonijah Hophni and Phineas Nadab and Abihu and other Young Men or however in the next life Your Death Day shall unavoidably become your Dooms Day then God will force you to appear before his dreadful tribunal though never so much against the hair and against the heart thereto receive the direful sentence of go ye cursed c. Young-Men of all men are aptest to put the evil day of death and judgment far from them But this avails