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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76236	A relation of a mans return and his travaills out of a long and sore captivitie to partake of that rest, which remaineth to the people of God. Written for the sake of those who wants the consolation of Israel, and would walke in the heavenly way thereof, if they knew it. Written by one of Zyons travellors, Th. Bayles.	Bayle, Thomas.; Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1677 (1677)	Wing B1470; ESTC R230852	33,900	24

and keep his goods in peace as afterwards the man understood when he was thereunto in lightned by the light shineing out of darkness which before he was with out knodlege of Now the compassionate one ceased not to shew him self and great kindnes unto the man who had harkned to the counsell and direction of a deceiver an enemy but masked and pretending freindship and met with disapointments and frustrations in what ever he put forth his hand unto in answer unto the motions of the deceiver for releife and that which the man seemed to have of wisdom knowledg and understanding of faith hope and experience and of such good things waxed old vanished away and were come to an end as hath been said so that he thought him self as comfortless and as poor as Job was for by the light of him that searched his heart he saw he was empty and voyed but of a nature and spirit froward and perverse rather to tempt him as Jobs wife to curse God then to live as he did that was the truth of his then state and condition as for dying he would have been glad of that and did rather seek it then otherwise and thought that thereby he should be at quiet and at rest and that then an end would have been of all his woefull afflictions but as for cursing of God he was afraid of that of the thing which would be very wicked and provocking and he knew him self to be wretched and miserable and it was Gods goodnes and mercie which perserved him from it But through all and much more then hath been said he could not flee or make escape from the hand of him that smott him no citie of refuge although he sought for such a one could he finde but smitings still came upon him and afflicted and tossed he was not comforted rather to dispayre of releife then knowing where to address him self for it for all wayes and meanes men and Judgments that his wit could thinck of or any wayes conceive might prove advantagiouss to him had he been inquisitive into and proving if at last he might attaine unto the beloved of his soule but men failed men of note and learning failed men of account and esteem for experience for sanctity for great abilities and endowments failed Ordinances which men cryed up and made so much a doe about crying downe one another and wearying them selves in a labyrinth of perplexities thereby failed self righteousnes failed disapointments came over all expectations faith vanished away hope-failed and that which remained to the Man more then ever was his infirmity his wound his burthen so that he renewed his murning his Lamentation and sayd Is there any sorrow like unto my sorrow and wished that he knew a phisition a phisition indeed which could releive him and unburthen his soule and give him an inheritance with the sanctifyed ones with the called and faithfull and chosen in Jesus Christ For so he had read that there had been such and that they inherited substance walking in the Light as he is in the Light but that which he inherited was sorrow was mourning was lamentation and knew not a place where on to lay his head in peace being in darkness a place of desolation Thus he as one over whellmed in sorrow and one whom the Lord had hedged up his way with thornes in his deep mourning groaned forth his great miserie which the compassionate one made a time of love and seeing every releife succour hope and help of his owne failed extended of his owne deare succour and releife even he who kils and makes alive I have wounded thee that I may heale thee and there is none other God and Saviour which can do this which broke the man and in which breaking still knew not what to do being ready to say in the sight of his owne wofull state how can I escape destruction And here may be remembred the case once of a people of old time called my people who being in Egypt and greatly oppressed by the taskmasters who were set over them to afflict them there God moved with compassion to releife them sent his servant Moses to Pharaoh King of their great oppressions saying Let my people goe who got passage through great Judgments wrought by a mighty hand and an out-stretched arme but their enemies soon persued after them so that great destress and fear came upon them because of the persuings of their enemies behinde and because of the sea which was before and unpassable hils on either side and in this their Jeopardy of destruction the servant of the Lord said unto them Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Which passages let all consider who breaths after the salvation of the Lord without which nothing can prosper their soules or give unto them satisfaction unto life and that with seriousnes humillitie and due regard as unto that which affore time hath been written for the sake of those who afterwards should come to beleve in him whom God hath sent a light into the world to be fullfilled in the fullfilling of which as they shall stand still in Gods due time and way his salvation shall be knowne and that beyond what formerly they could have beleeved or hoped for And the man giveing him self up to be a little quiet from all his former attempts and strivings after his owne deliverance by which none hath ever come to know Gods salvation here in he seemed as if he would have throwen him self upon the goodness and mercie of the Lord and fee lt him self in a little inward satisfaction and tranquilitie of minde beyond what before he had enjoyed whilst in those teadiouss-wearisom labours and travells he had been seeking by to have come to a resting place for his soule And so somewhat enterd him concerning a still voice which utterd it self ofttimes in his hearing in the earth which the world was ignorant of and which the wisdom of this world stood allwayes in contradiction unto and was alienated from in which was more as to those that obeyed or dilligently hearkned thereunto as to inward tranquillitie and peace of mind then was in all the strength knowledge and understanding that was enjoyed or could so be in the world by the men thereof in all there acquirings or industriouss labours therein and there by all men were filled with vanity and vexation of spirit in due time to be revealed in them who cumbred them selves there with or there in were persuing after the knowledg of the Lord for the mean time they as well as him self had don forsook the phisitian of true vallue and forsook their owne mercies which he sayd he hoped now to a bide and continue with for ever But nevertheless so it came to pass that in a short time and suddainly the old subtile adversarie for by this time the man had cause enough so to look upon him to be he with his cunning craftines as of old drawes his minde

of ten troubled and in my trouble feare exceedingly and in my feare to have torment O! said his beloved neighbour for he whose voice made this inquiring in him he looked upon him as his enemy and had not a thought that he that wounded did it that he might heal Come come see thy neighbours and acquaintance they are merry men and they refresh them selves thou see and be jocund together come drinck of there cup and eate of their dish that a melancholy spirit may not come over thee and thou go drooping up downe untill thou makes thy self ridiculous unto them and rob thy self of the comfort of thy life what wouldst thou have behold thy possessions may thou not compare with them what wantest thou or what wouldest thou have The man was afraid and knew not well what was the matter with him but as it afterwards appeared the conscience of him stirred in him and there by his peace was broken which he had in the freindship of this world which is enmitie against God he could not swallow his sweet bits as formerly but was therein persued to his astonishment and his pleasures become burthensome unto him then he said he knew not how to live there and therefore would go to his neighbours habitations take of theire mirth and pleasure and refresh himself in their company and castforth thereby the trouble that was in his mind for there the mans greiffe and trouble was so he went and took of of their cup that thereby he might wash down his sorrow as he hoped and other essayes he made which are abounding in the world to divert him from his trouble and endeavourd to talk at any rate that he might be deliverd and be quiet By this time the man might have perceived that when God visit man for his iniquity he makes his beauty to consume as a moth for his face begon to gather paleness and his endeavours proved vaine for he could not get rid of this searching inquiring voice which had visited him it would be sounding in his eares and persuing him and often in the midst of his laughter sorrow would arise and fill his heart so that sometimes he was ready to throw of all his companions and to bid adieu to his idle pleasures and passtimes and then would hang down his head And heaviness of spirit like a tallent of lead ready to sinck him would come over him as if he should have ben swallowed up thereby but still he knew not the hand that persued him neither did he care for acquainting himself with it he looked upon it as his enemy he could not hope for deliverance from that which wounded him for he saw no freindlyness in it and he would have bin at ease and enjoye his frolicks as his neighbours did and not have bin so afflicted as he was but he that smot him still did smit him and his peace which was broaken seemed as if it had bin quite removed from him Now on the other hand he that had enticed him to the drawing his minde out into worldly vanities and the unprofitablenes thereof and thereby drawn him from Remembring his Creator in the dayes of his youth before the evill dayes come where in he could say he had no pleasure he I say continued his insinuations and flatteries seeking by all wayes and meanes of his owne to dawb the man up and that answerable to the desires of his owne heart for when he was wounded and afflicted so that what ever he put his hand unto visitations of sorrow and disquietnes arose in him he said unto him well if sin do ly at thydoor at whose door doth it not have not all sined and all faln short why canst thou not be content quiet thy self The Prophets they prophesied of a saviour to come and thou have read that he came beleeve thou that they are the elect that beleeve in him beleeve thy self to be one of them and apply the promises and it wil be well with thee all must carry about them so long as they are in this world a body of sin thou knows thou will be rid of that when thou comes to dy and rid of all these legall feares and frights of minde which now thou give way unto and readily receive into thy minde and from whence things proceeds and lyes in thy way for which there is no cause or reason to greive and offend thee do thou beleeve the promises they are many and large and that Christ dyed for thee then all will be well do thou see thy neighbours thy acquaintance thy freinds they do not acquaint them selves with such petyfull feares as thou entertaines nor with such needless distracting doubts and questionings and it concerns them as well as thou to see that they lay hold of their saviour and his merits although they perplex not themselves to their owne wounding and make their lives uncomfortable as thou do Thus strove the adversarie to hold the man in the deceivablenes of his owne unrighteousnes that so he might have withstood the visitations of the Lord untill there had ben noe remedy who had visited him by his gentile reproofs that his heart might bow before him and in the sence of his evill have humbled his soule before his holy throne in great contrition of Spirit but notwithstanding the favour of the Lord thus appearing for him he submitted not unto him but sought out to him self many inventions thereby to have been delivered And so the man he would go read the scriptures as he saw others did for he began to think of Religion and see to get some good promises into his minde to comfort and satisfy him felf with all and thought that if he could make out him self to be one of Gods elect one in whom his soule delighted and one whom the Lord took care of and did sustaine by watching over him and leading him by his eye in the wey of the blessing and sure mercies of the Lord that then he might sometimes enjoy him self with his freinds and neighbours after which there was a secret working in his minde which he could not then part with all not having learnd the dayly cross and might pertake of their cups and neighbourly freindships for the man did take notice that some of them would sometimes be talking of Religion of Christs ordinances and Christian duties and such good things and the other which they absented not them selves from he thought would be good fellowship good neighbourhood and the maintaining good society with them and many he saw esteemed them so to be and then he should not be judged by them as a man singuler or of a morose temper and frowardly inclined so tumbled over the scriptures forward and backward like those who searched the Scriptures as since he understood but would not come to Jesus that they might have life to see for some comfortable places to stay himself upon or thereby to releive him self upon so great an

sones of men that God might manifest them that they might see that they them selves are beasts Whilst thus he stood what to do he knew not was ready to loath and abhor him self and to wish that he had never been born for the booke which was opened was as a thousand witnesses he saw he could no wayes evade its record and testimony no escaping no fleeing from it and what he read therein he read it all to be against and not for him nor no wayes tending to his releife that he could see but the contrary For as for those things whereby he might have had hope as the receiveing of him whom God had sent in the ministration of a wakening conviction and drawing neere in true holy subjection thereunto and those good things of his before spoken of which could not stand or remaine with him to his support in this the day of the appearance of the son of God in clouds because his worke was and for ever is to make a decision for the Lord in the righteouss judgeing and scattering of these things which had not been effected or wrought by his holy Spirit who hath sayd without me you can do nothing but were produced and taken up as before hath been sayd to seek and obtaine life by and not acting or working from it so was climbing up a wrong way and not striveing to enter into the true sheepfold at the right door so that when he came to have need indeed his Lamp proved without oyle for so he saw himself to be as the heart searcher found him out to lay wast the inheritance of the wicked for ever So that an anchor to have held his soule by in this the day of his sore troubles and afflictions he had not nor nought to defend himself withall therein but was founde out to be by him who is the Amen the faithfull and true witness whose eyes are as a flame of fire naked and blinde and miserable darkness and ignorance filling his heart and the wofull effects thereof and what to do more he knew not for the revelation of this his destitute and forsaken state and the opening his heart in the manifestation thereof and bringing things forth into his remembrance and setting them before his face all this and what ever might besayd of that kinde was not deliverance it was but manifestation not a setting him at liberty from the night and the chain of it neither a setting him at the table of the Lord to eate of the flesh of Christ and to drink of the consolateing wine of the Kingdom but the ripping open of his corrupted heart that he might learn to know him self and what it was to go from the Fathers house to feed him self with husks amongst swine And herein in measure was the great love of God manifested unto him in not suffering him to go on in his former wayes and courses untill those things which belonged to his peace had been hid from his eyes Thus the Lord proceeded with him and then the vialls of wrath was not poured forth nor the recompence and reward in flames of fire from heaven to execute vengance on that ungodly nature and Spirit which he had cleaved to and lived in and thereby had been adulterated from his maker Of these things he knew not as yet as afterwards when the day burned as an Oven to consume the stuble and the dross in which day he might have sayd who shall abide or who shall dwell with devoureing fire The man dyed in greiff unutterable and such sorrow as never was before nor can demonstration and greatest utterance tell of as he shall know who thereunto shal be brought by the righteouss correcting hand of the Lord when he wil be eased of his adadversaries and avenged of his enemies in which day the Lord will judge with fire Some times whilst sorrow hath fild his heart and perplexity his Spirit by reason of the disquietnes and trouble which was there he hath walked into the feilds and seen allthings in a sweet serene calm scarsly a leafe of a tree to stir he hath been affected therewith and sayd with in him self the creation is more happy then I which is at rest in its place from such storms and tempests as he was fild with and wished and desired that he might know so great a calm inwardly as those creatures outwardly did enjoy for he concluded surely a blessed state it would be unto him who now was fild with restless thoughts and greiffs as the sea is troubled when the mighty winds rowleth the waters thereof on heapes for then he should know tranquilitie of minde and rest in the holy one which nothing but his power could say be still and effectually worke it for him for all his attempts had proved short and whilst he was striveing was disapointed and so in sorrow lay Thus was it with the poor and comfortless man who in misery was and distress good things was removed away from him and his pretented freind manifested to be his enemy a bad one indeed for so he thought him now to be who through all his pretences deceivings and flatteries sought his ruin and destruction but how to get rid of him out of his heart for there he had seated himself and to redemption and salvation the thing which all along was in his eye he knew not And thus lay the man in his greife and the terrors of the Lord revealing in him because of his transgressions And so gloriouss and dreadfull was the Majesty thereof that he exceedingly feard and trembled and how help should come unto him or when or never he knew not he was a fraid to look to the Lord as hath been sayd or to hope for his help for with what thought he shall I look I who am in a state rather to greive and vex the Lord rather then to hope or trust in him and to rebell against him and transgress rather to curss then to bless his holy Name well if it be thus with me said he as it is and surely so it was with him as the Prophet sayd that as every battle of the warrior is with confused noyse and garments rowld in blood so this is with burning and devoureing fire then in a bed of sorrow I am out of which I can not arise but oh that I might be helped and releived I even I who am without comfort or releife like unto the poor destitute people of old time who for many dayes were with out a King and without a Prince and without an offering and without an image and without an Ephod and without Jerraphim but afterwards it s sayd of them that they should seek the Lord and David there King Now although it was a lamentable state and condition yet it might be it was possible with the Lord that at the last he might know the repayrer of breaches and the restorer of pathes to dwell in and that at last he might come to walk