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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

the Apostles did cast out Deuils and heale diseases Which kind is common as wel● to the reprobate as to the elect But the true liuely and iustifying faith whereby Gods wrath is pacifyed our sinnes pardoned our minds lightned our harts strengthened our praye●s heard our requestes granted and we adopted the children of God members of Christ and Temples of the holy ghost without which it is not possible to please him is a syngular gift of God whereby his holy spirit by the preaching of his word and sacraments doth seale and conforme in the harts and conscience of his elect a certaine assured trust that onely by and through the conception byrth merits death passion resurrection assention intercession of that pure innocent Lambe Christ Iesus to haue free pardon remission of synnes both originall and actuall and raigne with him in glory for euer Pope is an assured constant and vnmoouable expectation which as an inseperable companion doth stedfastly looke and long for the perfourmance of those things which faith belieueth to be true and is therefore called the bloud of faith and anker of saluation Loue in generall is a common effect of fauor and affection and charity is loue reduced in due order the handmaid of faith and mistres of all other vertues And as faith beleeueth the word and hope waiteth for the promised reward so charity seeketh to helpe comfort and releeue her neigh hour To profit and do good vnto all and to hurt or hinder none To loue all men in Christ and for Christes sake and to hate none but sin and for sinnes sake And as the spirite of life descending from the head disperseth into euery part of the bodie so that if any member shall not be partaker thereof it cannot liue but perish terrestrially euen so the spirite of Christ being the head of his Church so disperseath into euerye member thereof quickning knitting and ioyning them together by the vertue of concord loue and charity that if any part or member shall bee separate or cut from the same it cannot liue but perish eternally Chapter XI Of prayer and meditation AS amongst the Iewes in olde time those beastes onely which chew the endde were counted cleane and meete for the sustenance of man so those men onely which by faithfull prayer and meditation chew the cudd of their minds are counted righteous and meete for the kingdome of heauen Meditation is the keye of conscience which openeth the closet of the heart and the eye of the soule whereby she seeth her whole estate defect and danger Prayer is an humble lifting vp of the minde vnto God the fruits of repentance and foode of faith consisting of two partes inuocation and thanksgiuing Which Christ himselfe hath not onely in mercy ordained as the chiefest part of Diuinity profitably appointed it as the surest staffe for a christiā pilgrim to s●ay vpon straightly commaunded it as the strongest defence for his poore distressed children to flye vnto and by his owne example confirmed it as the onely meane to obtaine all thinges meete for the vse and profite of man but hath also prescribed an ordinary rule and firme as it were his common store house of wealth and vertue to direct our praiers according to his owne diuine wisedome Wherein is contained all thinges necessary both concerning his owne glory the health of our soules and preseruation of our bodies Adding thereunto a certaine assured promise confirmed with an othe and sealed with his owne bloud that whosoeuer do faithfully beleeue in him put their trust in his mercy and depend wholy vpon his prouidence shall haue cleane remission of sinn●s and eternall life And whatsoeuer they shall profitably aske in his name he will assuredly here them and graunt their requestes Call vpon me in the daye of trouble saith the Lord and I will heare thee and thou shal praise me This is the trust that we haue towardes him saith the Euangelist that if we aske any thing according to his will he heareth vs. If you abide in me and my wordes abide in you saith our Sauiour aske what you will and it shall be done vnto you Whatsoeuer you shall aske in prayer if you do beleeue saith he you shall receiue it The Lord is nigh vnto all that ca●l vpon him saith Dauid Yea vnto all such as call vpon him faithfully I will heare before you call yea while you are but euen thinking to speake saith the Lord. As truely as hee heard Iobes prayer in the dunghill Ieremy in the clay p●tte Daniell in the Lyons denne the three children in the flaming fire Iona● in the whales bellye and Steuen vnder the stones so truely will he heare the rest of his obedient children that call faithfully vpon him in distresse and mistrust him not But hee that doubteth saith the Apostle is like a waue of the sea tost w●th the wind and carried with violence Neither let that man thinke that he shall receiue any thing of the Lord. Some are not heard because they pray with lippes onely without the affections of the hart Some for vngratefully abusing Gods benefites as though got by their owne policie Some in praying for superfluity are iustlye denyed things necessarie You receiue not saith the Apostle because you aske not And you aske and receiue not because you aske amisse The matter in prayer lyeth not in much saying but well saying It is not in the number of words or lowdnesse of voice but the zealous affection of an humble penitent heart and the feruent groning desire of a troubl●d spiri●e that as most delicate musicke pearceth the heauens and soundeth in Gods sacred eares as daintie meate pleaseth his diuine tast and as sweete incence delighteth his heauenly smell When Anna a figure of the Church did pray in the Temple her hea●t and lippes did moue but her voyce was not heard and yet God hard her So was Moises saide to be vehement in prayer when he spake not one word It is moreouer to be obserued that our prayers for spirituall giftes pertaining to the soule ought alwaies to be absolute without condition as well assured of rem●ss●on of sinnes and eternall saluation in Christ according to his promise But for temporall thinges pertaining to the bodie to b●e alwaies ioyned with this condition that if it sha●l please his fatherly goodnes to graunt our petitions Because wee are ignorant what is most meete and profitable for vs. When it pleaseth the Lord to bestowe a benefit of his children his custome is first to sti●re vp their mindes moue their heartes and open their lippes humbly to pray vnto him And then as a louing father so farre as shall further his owne glorie and their saluation to graunt their requestes For whatsoeuer is contrarie is vnme●t for him to giue and hurtfu●l for vs to