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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14879	The plaine mans pilgrimage. Or iovrney tovvards heaven Wherein if hee walke carefully he may attaine to euerlasting life. By W.W.	Webster, William, treatise writer.	1613 (1613)	STC 25181; ESTC S101835	77,422	180

see him seeke and not find to run and not to obtaine therefore he setteth him in the way like a guide sent from God which often hath straied himselfe before and being now recouered to the right way againe standeth like a Marke of knowledge in the turnings that lead vnto blind by-wayes to direct all those that seek for comfort that they may follow the ready path that leadeth to eternal happinesse Therefore from the first setting forth euen from the time of youth when man begineth his pilgrimage course Salomon telleth how he shall therein prepare himselfe to walke and setteth him in a faire high way wherein is no turning either to the right hand or to the left which he calleth the Remembrance of God as if he should say Walke with God as Henock did remēber wel he that shal be thy Iudge doth see all that thou dost heareth thee euery word thy thought shal keep thee in the way at all times Now Salomon setteth forth the dangers of delay and draweth them forward as it were with two cordes that is short time of their youth the infinite infirmities of age to shew how soone our youth is gone which we thinke neuer will haue end Salomon doth not reckon it by yeares but by dayes In the dayes of thy youth so the Scripture numbers our life by dayes and houres and minutes to teach vs to make carefull vse of all our time and euery day thinke vpon our end yet least they should poste ouer the remembrance vntill age come which is the generall day that all for the most part set to repent in therefore after this verse Salomon bringeth in the old man deafe blind and lame and stammering for the yong man to behold as if hee should say Looke my sonne is this man fit to learne which cannot heare nor see nor speake nor goe Therefore remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth before this doting age come vpon thee this then is the leuell of your message to hasten forward them which trauell towards heauen because there is great space betweene God and vs and much a doo to aspire the top of the Mount of Sion but more a doo to aspire the top of the mount of heauen This is the preferment of our sinnes if they haue beene our companions in youth in age they will be our counsellers and Maisters too therefore the best season to seeke God in is to seeke him early before the floods of wrath arise and the heape of sinnes stand vp like a rampired wall betweene God and vs. Therefore saith our Sauiour Christ If you seeke the kingdome of God first al other things shal be cast vpon you he saith not seeke the world first that heauen shall be cast vppon you he that doth belieue this would first seeke heauen And wee say first let mee bury my father first let mee bid my friends farwell and so many things come first so long in burying our fathers so long in bidding our friends farwell that is to say the riches honors and pleasures of this world that there is left no time to seeke the kingdome but follow mee is turned to follow vs. Christ must followe our sinnes and come after our pleasures or else he shall not be serued at all therefore I can not say to you as Christ seeke first the kingdome of heauen for then you should haue sought it long ago but now it must be said which the Apostle saith Redeeme the time and at last seeke the kingdome of heauen for it is to bee feared that as little flyes when many came together plagued and destroyed the Egiptians so shorte howers but many in sinne and securitie will steale away our whole life and deceaue our repentance There bee not many Lots but many linger like Lot loth to depart vntill wee fee the fire come there bee not many Simions but many as old as Simion which neuer yet imbraced Christ in their hearts they thought to repent before they were so old yet now they dote for age they are not old enough to repent Woe to the security woe to the stubburnesse woe to the drowsinesse of this age Consider this yee which might haue knowne a thousand things more then yee doe if you had begone when Salomon taught you for God will not alwayes knock at the doore of your hearts Christ will not alwayes clock like a Henne to gather her Chickins Iohn will not alway crye Repent for the day of the Lord is at hand but mercy is in the foreward and Iudgement in the reereward yet Wisdome cryeth in the streetes Let euery Ioseph store vp before the famine come for hee which promiseth thee pardon when thou returnest doth not promise that to morrow thou shalt returne Repentance is a gift and a gift must bee taken when it is offered for the time past is gone and thou canst not call that to repent in the time to come is vncertaine and thou canst not assure that to repent in the present time is onely thine and thou mayest repent in that but a non that will bee gone too Therefore as Samuel began to serue God in his minority as Timothy read the Scriptures in his child-hood so whether thou bee old or yong thy repentance cannot come too soone because thy sinne is gone before And if thou lackest a Spurre to make thee runne see how euery day runneth away with thy life youth commeth vpon child-hood age commeth vpon youth death commeth vpon age with such a swift saile that if all our minutes were spent in mortifying our selues yet our glasse would not bee runne out before we had purged halfe our corruptions All these examples and sentences and prouerbes reasons do cry with Salomon Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Now it followeth in this second note or part to be obserued for the better performance of this our Christian duty wee must yeeld vnto GOD that sacrifice which hee requireth and penned by Salomon 22.26 vnder the name of Wisdome and directed vnto her sonnes for the children of God are called the children of Wisdome therefore Wisdome entreateth her sonnes that they would giue her their hearts This Wisdome is GOD wee by adoption are his sonnes and our heart is that which Christ calleth spirit and truth without hypocrisie Giue me thy heart saith God Dauid as though hee were at a stand and sorrowed that hee could not doe enough for God broke forth to himselfe What shall I giue vnto the Lord for all that he hath giuen me Psal 116. the Lord as it were hearing these sighes of his seruants which care and study what they may doe to please him comes in their suspence and like a friend which desireth nothing but good will answers from heauen My sonne giue me thy hart vnder which sute he taxeth them besides which are suters alwayes to him and looke still to receiue more benefits and yet neuer cast in their mindes what they shall

doe we learne when we thinke of this but that which Moses saith to apply our harts vnto wisdome The second note is that the time of man is set his bounds apointed which he cannot passe to this Iob beareth witnesse saying Are not his daies determined thou hast appointed his bounds which he cannot passe Againe Ieremy saith they could not stand because the day of their destruction was come As there is a day of distruction and a day of death so there is a day of birth a day of mariage a day of honour a day of deliuerance according to that the determination is made that is GOD hath determined all things As God appointed a time when his Son should come into the world and he came at the same time as the Prophets and Euangelists accord So he hath appointed a time when all blessings shall come vnto vs and they come at the same time It may bee some will say if any time bee set thus long I shall liue and I cannot passe then will I take no Phisicke you may aswell say I will take no meate God hath not ordained the end without the meanes but the meanes aswell as the end If he hath appointed one to die in his youth he hath appointed meanes to shorten his life or if he haue appointed one to liue long he hath appointed also some meanes to preserue him The third note is that our life is but short the Rauen the Phenix the Hart. Lion and the Elephant fulfill their hundreds but Man dyeth when he thinketh yet his sun riseth before his eyes bee satisfied with seeing or his eare with hearing or his heart with lusting then death knocks at his dore and wil not giue him leaue to meditate an excuse before he come to iudgmēt This was the Arithmetick of holy men in former times to reckon their dayes so that their time might seeme short to make them apply their hearts vnto wisdome As thus first they did deductt the time which is past for the time which is past is nothing then they did deduct the time to come The time to come is vncertaine for no man can say that he shall liue any time Now when the time past and the time to come is set aside there is then nothing left but the present time and is but a moment which is not so much in respect of eternity as a little moat to the whole world Thus wee may see what an Epitome mans life is come to Dauid numbred his dayes by measure My dayes saith he are like a span long Iob sayth Man which is borne of a woman hath but a short time to liue Our fathers marueling to see how suddenly men are and are not comparing life to a dreame in the night to a bubble in the water to an arrow which neuer resteth til his fall This is our life for while we enioy it we loose it as Iacob sayd that his dayes had bene few so we may say that our dayes shall be few For as some came into the vineyard in the morning and some at noone and some at night for there must be some goe out of this worldly wildernesse in the morning some at noone and some at night some mans life hath nothing but a morning some hath a morning and a night he which liueth longest liueth al toe day so that a glorious life may be compared to a glorious day and a sorrowfull life to a bloody day and a long life to a Summers day and a short life to a Winters day Now why hath God appoynted such a short time to mankind in this world surely least hee should deferre to doe good as his manner is for though his life be so short yet he thinketh it to long to repent for we deferre til that week which we thinke wil be our last Consider this all which trauell toward heauen had wee not need to make hast which must goe such a long iourney in such a short space how can he chuse which remembreth that euery day runneth away with his life The fourth poynt is our aptnesse to forget death rather then any thing els and therefore Moyses prayeth the Lord to teach him to remember his dayes as though they were stil slipping out of his mind For when Moses prayeth the Lord to teach him to remember his dayes he signifieth that hee very faine would remember them but still his minde did turne from them and that hee could not thinke vpon them longer then hee thought on the Lord which taught him to remember them Such is the rebelious nature of ours we cannot remember that which wee should because we are apt to remember so many things which we should forget How often doth the Scripture call death to our remembrance and yet wee read how many put the day of death from them and would not remember it Salomon bids vs remember that we shall come to iudgement yea wee say in our hearts there is no death or at least death will not come before we be old There is a kinde of men which cannot abide to heare of death they are sicke with the name of it the reason is death prophsied no good to the wicked but euil for which they cannot abide it for death commeth to the wicked like a Iailor which commeth alwaies to haile them to prison therfore their care is not to remember death that thereby they might apply their hearts vnto wisdom and so loose their pleasures before their time for he which doth not purpose yet to leaue his sin would not be troubled with any thought that might make him take his pleasure fearefully for the deuil doth neuer teach a man to remēber his death because he gaineth by the forgetfulnes of death but the Lord our God which would haue vs to apply our hearts vnto wisdom it is he which teacheth vs to remember our daies The last point that to remember how short a time wee haue to liue will make vs apply our hearts to that which is good two things are to be noted in these words first that if we wil find wisdome we must apply our hearts to seeke her the second that remembrance of death makes vs to apply our hearts vnto it touching the first Moyses found some fault with himselfe for for al that he heard and did see and obserued and was compted wise yet he was new to begin to apply his heart to learne wisdome so vnsaciable and couetous as I may say are the seruants of God for the more wisdome faith and zeale they haue the more they defer Therefore the way to get wisdome is to apply our hearts vnto it for from that day which a man beginnes to apply his heart vnto wisdome hee learneth more in a month after then hee did in a yeere before euen as wee may see the wicked because they apply their hearts to wickednesse how fast they proceed how easily how quickly they become perfect swearers expert 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