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A15762	The pilgrimage to paradise Compiled for the direction, comfort, and resolution of Gods poore distressed children, in passing through this irkesome wildernesse of temptation and tryall. By Leonard Wright. Seene and allowed.	Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6.	1591 (1591)	STC 26032; ESTC S102797	28,957	79

him to blaspheme God Ioseph felt his part of miserie when he was solde of his brother and impr●soned without cause Noah felt his part of miserie being grieuouslye mocked and persecuted of the wicked Poore Lazarus was both sicke ●o●e hungry and thirsty Father Iacob complayned that his daies were fewe and euill Dauid said hee was a worme and no man Solomon was weary of his life because all that euer he saw vnder the Sunne was nothing but vanitie miserie and vexation of minde Father Ierom complayned that Satan sought to ouerthrowe him and that his weake fleshe was readie to consent The Prophet Ieremy cursed the daye of his birth Ionas said it was better for h●m to die then liue Chrisostome called the daies of his life the daies of his sorrowe Naziensen wept that his mother had brought him forth to see such miserable daies Such trauell hath God giuen vnto men vnder the sunne to be exercised therin Chapter IIII. Of the breuitye of mans life and certaintye of Death ANd as the dayes of this our painefull pilgrimage are vayne and miserable so are they short and tedious The one foote no sooner on the ground but the other readie to slip into the graue Man that is borne of woman saith Iob hath but a short time to liue and is full of miserie He springeth as a flower fadeth like a shadowe and neuer continueth in one state My daies saith he are more swifte then a runner We bring our yeares to an ende saith Dauid as it were a tale that is tolde We are dying continually all our life long euery yeare day and houre Our infancie lasteth a small while and dyeth Our youth florisheth a time and vanisheth Our manhood a time and departeth Our age a time and by and by it is gone The dayes of our life saith the Psalmist are three-score yeares and tenne and though men bee so strong that they rubbe out till foure score yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow so soone passeth it away and we are gone The life of man is aptly compared to a vapour to the trace of a cloude to a shippe passing ouer the waues of the sea tossed and beaten with tempest to a birde that flyeth in the aire or a shaft that is shot at a marke and neuer staieth till it light vpon the ground Euen so man assoone as he is borne beginneth immediately to draw to his ende The godly Patriarkes who liued in the firste age of the world saw many yeares yet at last the dyed Death was alwaies the ende of their song Adam lyued 930-yeares Seath 912 Enoch 905 Kenan 910 Mahelaell 895 Iared 962 Mathusala 969 Lamech 777 Noah 950 and they died saith the text ABraham the father of the faithfull Dauid a man according to Gods owne hart Iohn Baptist of whom our Sauiour Christ said there hath not risen a greater amongst the children of women y●t they dyed All the Prophets Apostles and godly martires were greatly in Gods fauour yet they died Rich and poore wisemen and fooles learned and ignorant godly and vngodly all must follow the daūce of death Many are gone before the rest must followe after when God doth call nature must obey Wise Salomon rich Iob strong Sampson and faire Absolon haue trode the path of all flesh Great Alexander Conquered the whole world yet could hee finde no weapon to conquer death The stiffest steele yeeldeth to the hammer the strongest oake to the axe and the stoutest heart vnto nature And therefore king Phillip of Macedonia wallowing in worldly wealth and prosperity commaunded his chamberlaine euery daye at his vp rysing sadly to repeate vnto him these wordes Remember king Phillip and forget not that thou art a man subiect to mortality All flesh is grasse and euerye man the flower of the grasse the grasse shall be withered and the flower shall fall away And as death is a thing of all other most certaine and sure so is the time of d●ath most vncertaine and doubtfull The Lord in his word hath reuea●ed vnto man many notable lessons touch●ng the knowledge of his w●ll yet not the day of death b●cause he would haue vs liue so as euery day mig●t be the day of death Knowing that as the course of this life is the r●ce vnto death so is death the gate to eternal life And therefore as at night we do willingly put of our garments in hope the next morning to put them on againe so ought wee willingly to put of these our mortall bodies assuring our selues that after we haue slept a while in t●e dust to receiue them againe immortall O homo Nosce Teipsum The wheat and other seede though it dye and rot in the ground yet springeth vp more beautiful then before It is written how certain summer birds lye dead all winter and reuiue in the spring The Phenix being burnt vnto ashes yet of the same ashes is bred to liue againe So though our bodies layd shall be to rot in lothsome graue Yet afterwards in glorious state more bewty they shall haue When death hath held them downe awhile Anon they shall arise Eternally in ioy to liue With Christ aboue the skyes Chapter V. The passage to Paradise is aptly compared to a warfare PLato calleth a Philosophers life a meditation of death But it may truly be said that the whole race of a Christian mans life is nothing else but a continuall warfare For as the Israelites by bodily resistance did assaile fyght against and ouercome seuen Nations before they could obtaine a temporall inheritance in the land of Canaan so must Gods children by spirituall resistance assaile fight against and ouercome their lewd lustes wicked appetits and fleshly affections with the hole host of vic●s enemies most odious to God and dangerous to man before they can come to inioy their eternall inheritance in the kingdome of heauen The chiefe Captaine generall in this continuall conflict is the mighty Lion of the tribe of Iuda the prince of peace the conqueror of death hell and sinne the great Iudge of the world and bishop of our soules which is Christ himselfe The grande Captaine of our ennemyes part is the great red Dragon the old crafty serpent the deceauer of the world accuser of his bretheren and gouernor of darknes which is Satan himselfe Mighty in power subtil in pollicy skilfull in war Apt and ready what in him lyeth to hinder the glory of God and saluation of man Who like a ramping and roring lyon seeking continually whom he may deuoure knoweth how to vse both riches and pouerty prosperity and aduersity health and sicknesse strength and weakenes bewty and deformity as instruments and weapons to serue his purpose Hee tempted Adam to eate the forb●ddē fruit Aaron to make the goldē Calfe Dauid to commit adultry and murther Iudas to betray Christ Peter to forsweare him

creatures vnder heauen being obedient to the body of man as the subiects to the Prince The naturall body obedient to the reasonable soule as the seruant to the maister And the reasonable soule with his affections obedient to God the Creator as the child to the father till that cursed serpent our mortall enemie found means to set them at variance and discord Synce which time the nature of man became so fraill and weake the occasions vnto euill so many and the illusion of Satan so prompt and ready that except Gods special grace preu●nt him he is apt and prone vpon euery light occasion to yeeld vnto sinne and wickednes Being more easily brought to con●eaue an error by one little word then the truth by a long tale And sooner seduced to consent vnto vice by one small example then conuerted vnto vertue by many vehement perswasions And as the Iewish Church was likened vnto a garden Oliue tree whose branches in time growing baren were cutt off as vnprofitable And the gentles though by nature wild oliues yet being grafted in the same were by grace made fruitfull So is euery naturall man very aptly compared vnto a wild bitter crab-tree And as Abraham was remoued from the forest of Babilonia and replanted in the fruitfull garden of Canaan Moses from the wood of Pharaos court to the fieldes of Madian hils And the Israelites from their hellish bondage in Egipt through the red sea to the florishing land of promise So must euery child of Adam bee remoued from the wild Wood of nature And by baptim replanted in the fruitfull orchard of grace regrafted with the sweete Garden imps of true christian doctrine and with the pruning knife of ecclesiasticall discipline haue thei superfluous branches of sinne and wickednes daily clensed and cut away or they cannot bring forth true spirituall fruits acceptable vnto Gods diuine tast Chapter 3. Of the miserie of Adams brats and vanitie of the world FOrasmuch as of all other vices that olde rooted infection of pride vaineglorie and presumption is most vniuersallie grafted in man there is no thing more necessarie or profitable to suppresse and subdue his hautie affections then continuall remembrance what he is from whence he came and whether hee shall That in calling to minde his base mettall his wretched condition and mortall generation he may the rather be moued more humblie and lowlie to conceiue and esteeme of himselfe What is man telluris inutile pondus an vnprofitable lump of earth like as one might saie to a peece of yse thou wast water thou art water and to water thou shalt turne againe So man was earth he is earth and to earth hee shall turne againe Thou hast fashioned mee of mould and earth saith Iob and I am become like dust and ashes Oh homo saith Chrisostome si consideras quid per o● quid per nares quid per ceteros meatus egrediatur nunquam vilius sterquilium inuenisti What is man ●is matter is base slime and clay his nature weake and feeble his birth paine and sorow his life vaine and miserable his state sliperie vncertaine his time short and tedious his sinnes horrible and filthie and his ende greeuous and lothsome What is man A mirror of miserie a play of fortune and a pr●y of death He is borne weping and wailing to shew his wretchednes he liueth laughing and toying to bewraie his folly and dieth sighing and sob●ing to declare his weake infirmitie What is man Appulius a Philosopher and scholler to Plato describeth him in this wise Mē saith he are liuing creatures dwelling vpon the earth hauing soules immortall brutish seruile bodies subiect to death light careful minds apt to errour vaine in labours diuers in conditions long or they bee wise their time but short and during life neuer content What is the state of man Saint Bernard describeth it in this maner There commeth before thine eies saith he a man poore naked and miserable mourning that he is a man blushing that he is naked weeping for that he is a wretch replenished with miserie and feare●ull for that his t●me is but sho●t A great part of his life passeth away in doing that is euill a greater part in doing nothing and the greatest part in doing thinges to small purpose And as the life of man is vaine transitorie and miserable euen so is the world with all thinges else wherein humaine nature taketh pleasure and delight as health wealth honor wisedome strength beautie or whatsoeuer What is the world A vaile of miserie A sinck of sinne a mould of mischiefe a den of theeues a court of Satan a purgatorie of paine a mother to the wicked and a stepdame to the good Where the proud and vitious are daily advanced without desert and the humble and vertuous oppressed without cause the weiwarde and seditious befrended and the quiet and obedient molested the ignorant and foolish permitted to speake and the wise and discreete put to silence crafty dissemblers extolled and simple insiocents dispised What is the world A second hell full of ambitious desires couetuous conceates carefull studies wicked willes and diuelish intents A cruell serpent that biteth vs with her teeth scratcheth vs with her nailes and swelleth vs with her poison Much like the deceitful Laban Who made poore Iacob serue seauen yeares for faire Rachell and in the ende deceiued him with foule Lea. Euen so the world promiseth health wealth and long life and in the ende deceiueth vs with pouertie sicknes and death What is the world Her mi●th is but sorow her pleasure but paine her wisedome but foolishnesse and her wealth but misery Where nothing is to be looked for but euen a rancke of troubles one folowing in a●others necke A great trauell is created for all men saith Iesus Sirach and a heauie yoake vpon all mens c●ildren Some so p●nched with pouerty oppressed with miserie Some tossed and turntoiled with strife and contention some tormented with sickenes sores and contagious diseases that if an olde man shoulde set forth the tragidie of his life from the daie of his birth till his departure to the graue a man would wonder that the bodie could suffer and the h●art could beare so painefull and dolorus a pilgrimage All the godly from the beginning haue tasted the troubles of their time Adam felt his part of miserie when his children did one kill an other and saw the fall of his posterity 900. yeares Abraham felt his part of miserie when at Gods commaundement he wandred into a straunge countrie and suffered great troubles Iob felt his part of miserie when hee sawe the spoyle and hauocke of all his goods the distruction of his children and his owne bodie from toppe to toe tormented with botches and sores hauing nothing remaining but his wicked wise who seemed to be left of the deuill not to comfort but vexe and tempt