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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58223	The pilgrims pass to the new Jerusalem, or, The serious Christian his enquiries after heaven with his contemplations on himself, reflecting on his happiness by creation, misery by sin, slavery by Satan, and redemption by Christ ... relating to those four last and great things of death, judgement, hell, and heaven ... / by M.R., Gent.	M. R., Gent.	1659 (1659)	Wing R47; ESTC R5428	94,586	254

whilst they were all fast bound up with a band they were secure either from cracking or bending but when once divided by one and one easily snapt asunder Whilst we are all under the bond of peace we are secured by Gods protection but when once divided at the Devils mercy Whilst we hold together we need not fear treating an enemy in the Gate but when once broke asunder with distractions a prey to them that hate us Remember that Joah and Abishai's united strengh put the Syrians and Ammonites to flight consider that ye have enemies enow abroad ye need not seek any so near home Make not those the objects of your malice that should be the bulwarks of your defence against the impetuous storms and batteries of an insnaring world a bewitching flesh and an envious Devil c. Know that there 's unity amongst wicked men for they hold together against the Righteous Simeon and Levi are Brethren in evil and shall we be at odds Nothing can be done well that 's not done in unity that 's not well done that 's done through discension The Apostle tells us That love is the fulfilling of the Law how then can the Law be fulfilled without love Those blessed Angells who wellcomed the new Born Saviour into the world with a Song did in a short sentence express both Tables They sang Glory to God on High Good will to men Peace on earth makes joy in Heaven and those that will not embrace peace on earth shall have nothing to do with the God of peace or the peace of God in Heaven You know what our Saviour said to his Disciples By this shall men know ye have an interest in me if ye love one another If ever therefore ye expect to end in peace or have peace in the end be peaceable in your Pilgrimage so shall ye in good time arive at your journeyes end and be no longer strangers abroad but Kings at home The Young mans Monitor AND Old Mans Admonisher A Meditation on Eccles 12.1 THis golden Book of Ecclesiastes was pen'd by the wisest King upon his repentance and may be fitly stil'd King Solomons Recantation which he wrote after he rose from that fall occasioned through his inordinate love of strange women and after he had with all his Wisdom found out the true Natures of all things here below then this wisest of Kings wrote this Book in the Front whereof he gives a briefe but full description of all the Glory and Pleasures of this world Vanity of vanities saith the Preacher all is vanity Saith the Preacher something must be said to that Solomon the son of David the richest wisest and mightiest Monarch that then reign'd vouchsafes to take upon him the title of Preacher though the Preacher in these dayes must not think much of the worst of titles but no more of that Solomon having thus truly weighed all the pomps and greatness of this world in the balance of his understanding and finding them too light to give satisfaction to the enjoyers thereof in the end of this Book he gives a heavenly Exhortation tending to the attainment of that true felicity as will make those eternally happy that reach it Fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole duty of man And for our better direction to keep Gods Commandments this last Chapter is usher'd in with a most excellent wholesome and seasonable Exhortation Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Before I proceed further here must one Objection be remov'd Some may perhaps question the Preacher why he did not as well say Remember thy Creator in thy old age as in the dayes of thy youth I answer This memento is chiefly given to young men because they take the greatest liberty to wallow in all kinde of sensual pleasures and with the greatest eagerness to pursue the deceiving vanities of this world for now are their veins full of blood and their bones full of marrow and Repentance seems as unseasonable to them as Snow in Summer or Rain in Harvest Is not our youth say they given us to glut our selves with all kindes of pleasures and to walk in the wayes of our own hearts Shall I then sayes one grieve in my prime and repent for my crimes to hasten old age and make my smooth face full of wrinkles and bring gray hairs on my head ere I am an old man old age will fasten on me soon enough without all this let me therefore make hay while the sun shines and make the best use of my time I can to the utmost improvement of Pleasures and when I am growne so old as to be past using them I le cast them off and think of repentance and another world when 't is not possible to stay long in this These are the Common Pleas of Youth and therefore the Preacher looking upon them as the furthest from instruction and to stand in the greatest need of advice directeth his speech in a most especiall manner to them Remember now c. Young men have no more a lease of their lives then aged persons and there doth as many of them go to the grave as of older persons Death arrests some in their Cradles and many in their Infancy Childehood and Youth The dayes of man upon earth are but a shadow no certainty of any thing as of Death and nothing more uncertain then the time when and the maner how Come hither then thou darling of the world thou great favorite of flesh and blood thou whose Honors here are as blooming as the Lillies and Roses in thy youthful cheeks know Image that though thy Head be of Gold thy Body of Silver thy Feet are but of Clay If thou walk'st into the fields in the forward time of the Year thou canst not be unfurnisht of lively Emblemes of thy own Mortality how do the Lilly the Rose the Cowslip and the Gillyflower bemantle the earth as so many stars to represent Heaven glorious tapestry upon sight whereof you may easily be convinc't to believe That Solomon in all his glory was not arayed like one of these And yet how subject are they to fading pluck them and they are stubborn soon crapt assunder smell them and they wither and if the winde but blows over them they are gone and be no more And is it not so with thee doth not St. James compare our life to a vapor and that 's but short David to a span a thought a tale and those not long Isaiah to grass and the flower of the field and those you see not lasting But of all the sacred Limners in holy Scripture I finde Jobs pencil to be the freest in pourtraying man to stubble and that not standing neither to a leaf and that not fast but shaken and to a weavers shuttle and many other such transient resemblances He came something near the drawing man to the life who compared this life to a spot between two Eternities the time