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A77267	The penitent pilgrim bemoning his sinfull condition. Faith appeares vnto him affording him comfort hope seconds that comfort charity promiseth him in this vaile of missery to cover all his scarlett sins wth: [sic] ye white robe of mercy, & conduct him safly to ye kingdome of glory. By Io: Hall	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673, attributed name.; Hall, John, 1627-1656, attributed name.; Herdson, Henry, attributed name.; Le Blon, Christof, d. 1665, engraver.	1651 (1651)	Wing B4275aA; ESTC R224400	106,709	434

not returne againe Their substance they have left unto others and strangers are become their Heires They are rooted out from the face of the earth and now they consider the vanity of their desires how they who lay land to land while they were here find now what a small scantling has suffic'd them in this their returne to their last home Poore shell of corruption what dost thou thinke of these things I know well that great revenues swelling honours smiling pleasures are dangerous and fearefull eye-sores to a dying man He lookes back upon his Honours and askes of them if they cannot relieve him but like false hearted Reteiners they fly from him and present their service to another so quickly have they forgot their dying Master Hee looks backe then upon his Revenues those household Gods of his his inchisted treasures and askes of them if they cannot redeeme them But alas they have no such power these reserve themselves for his prodigall Successour or succeeding Rioter they were so poorly used and employed by him as they have quickly forgot their dying Master At last he looks back upon his pleasures unhappy pleasures which now torment him more then ever they did delight him and he askes them if they can allay his paine or any way succour him but alas they soone leave him for they find nothing in him nor about him that may entertaine them An easie farewell then have these taken of their dying Master But thou poore Pilgrim hast no honours to transport thee no fortunes to detaine thee no pleasures to ensnare thee For the first the count'nance of greatnesse never shone upon thee for the second worldly wealth could never yet so burden thee and for the last though thy youth might affect them the infirmities of age have now estrang'd them from thee And yet the voyce of death is more terrible to thee then the noise of a Canon No note more dolefull no summons more fearefull And in this thou art not much to bee blamed for Death is fearefull to all flesh But so to plaint thine hopes on Earth as if thou mightst never goe from earth nor returne to earth albeit thou canst find nothing on earth worthy to entertaine thee is the unhappiest condition that may befall thee O thinke then of that time even now while thou hast time when thy soule poor languishin soule finding thy eyes shut thy mouth closed and all those senses of thy body perished by which shee used to goe forth and be delighted in these outward things whereto shee was affected shall returne unto her selfe and seeing her selfe all alone and naked as one afflicted and affrighted with exceeding horror shall through despaire faile in her selfe and fall under her selfe O whither wilt thou fly in hope of succour to comfort thy poore soule in a time of such danger Even to thee will I fly O God of my salvation for thou wilt not suffer my soule to descend to corruption Nay such is thy loving kindnesse as thou wilt make my bed in my sicknesse And because nothing is more certaine then death nothing more uncertaine then the houre of Death prepare mee continually against the houre of Death And that Death may appeare lesse fearefull unto mee send thy Holy Spirit to comfort me that being inwardly armed by thee against the assaults of Death and fury of my Ghostly Enemy I may fight a good fight and cry O Death where is thy sting O Hell where is thy victory CHAP. 67. Iudgement VVOe is mee I tremble to thinke of it and yet I cannot thinke how to avoid it Iudged I must bee and who will speake for me A fearfull witnesse I have within me to accuse me sinnes of omission sinnes of Commission to impeach me sinnes of ignorance sinnes of knowledge sinnes of malice to convict mee though one were sufficient to condemne mee But thou wilt aske mee of what art thou to bee brought to account for what art thou to be brought to Iudgement Even for all thy thoughts words and workes For God will bring every worke into Iudgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evill And that it may appeare that thou shalt be accountable for all these first touching thy thoughts Of these thou shalt be judged for froward thoughts separate from God And hee shall judge the secrets of men With their conscience also bearing witnesse and their thoughts the meane while accusing or else excusing one another Secondly thou shalt give account of all thy words Of every idle word that men shall speake they shall give account in the day of Iudgement Thirdly thou shalt be accountable for all thy workes For we must all appeare before the Iudgement seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad O my poore afflicted Soule canst thou heare these things and not melt thy selfe into teares seeing that not onely in the bed of thy sicknesse by a secret divine power all those workes which thou hast done be they good or evill shall appeare before thee and be presented to thee but in that fearefull day of Account when all flesh shall come to Iudgement all these in Capitall Letters shall appeare written before thee Not one privie bosome sinne were it never so closely committed or subtilly covered or cunningly carried but must bee there discovered Adam shall bee brought from his bushes and Sarah from behind the doore and man miserably perplexed man shall say to his conscience as Ahab said to Elias Hast thou found me O mine Enemy O what numberlesse numbers of Bils of Inditement shall bee then and there preferred against thee And of all these to be found guilty O how art thou falne into the gall of bitternesse and all misery For what can the thoughts and Imaginations of thine heart say for themselves but that they have beene evill continually what can the words of thy mouth say for themselves but that they have beene full of all filthinesse and scurrility Lastly what can the workes of thine hands say for themselves but that they have beene loaden with transgressions and iniquity But perchance thou hast some hope of a pardon and so like some of our deluded Delinquents here on earth by flattering thy selfe with a vaine hope of life estrangest thy thoughts from thinking of a better life But doe not so deceive thy selfe for if it be not by faithfull repentance sought for here there is no hope for any pardon there to bee procured nor for any Appeale to be there admitted nor for one minutes Repreve to bee there granted nor for that heavy sentence of Death to be one moment adjourned That sentence of eternall Death Depart from me this shall bee the sentence To lose whose countenance and to Depart from his presence is to bring thy soule into endlesse torments eternall anguish O my God thou who hast appointed

bloud redeemed with his Angells numbred made capable of happinesse inheritour of goodnesse partaker of reason commaunder of passion what hast thou to doe with this Flesh from whom thou sufferest so many evills By meanes of the Flesh are strange sinnes imputed to thee sins of her own hatching sinnes which thy purer condition should have so highly hated as nothing could relish thee lesse then to be so accoutred By her that loose Libertine thy fleshly Idumaean are thy works of righteousnesse accompted as a menstruous Cloath by her art thou brought to nothing esteemed as a vaine thing and in manner nothing For tell me O tell me poore deluded Soule what other thing is this Flesh whose society thou seemest so highly to tender but meere foame made Flesh and cloathed with fraile honour But shouldest thou consider O my Soule what will become of her how after Death her honour shall lye in the dust how shee shall be stinking Carrion full of misery and corruption meate for wormes Againe how neatly so ever shee seeme now tricked trimmed and tyred shee is no more but Flesh and that Flesh and the beauty thereof as the flower of the field Againe wouldest thou but consider her present condition as thou hast already heard of her Originall corruption and read an Atomy Lecture on her beauty to allay the heat of thy fancy Wouldst thou I say but consider with a cleare and dis-interessed eye what goeth out by the mouth nosthrills and other passages of the body thou wouldest soone confesse that thou never lookst upon a more stinking Dunghill Againe shouldest thou but reckon up all her miseries how shee is loaden with sinnes surprized with passions polluted with illusions prone alwayes to all manner of evill and addicted to al vice thou wouldest find thereby meanes of this staine of sinne full of all confusion and shame For by company of this flesh became man like unto vanity because from it and none but it drew man that staine of concupiscence by which he became attached attainted so wholly crooked and corrupted as he set his love on nothing but vanity practised nothing but workes of iniquity O leave to love her then whose love is thy losse estrange thee from her wayes for her pathes lead unto death And now give mee leave to talke a little with thee O my Flesh And first resolve mee if ever I came into any place wherein I could promise to my selfe peace In this populous Citie I cannot take my walke in any street wherein I am not subject to bee taken by thy deceit Thou sendest forth those two light Spies to purvey and bring in Objects of lust by these am I wounded by these doe I suffer a continual Combat Neither are these wounds cured now when my youth has left mee when these daily Messengers of death summon me For though I bee neerer my Grave I am nothing richer in Grace Though those follies of my youth have now left me and woe is mee that I did not leave them before they left me yet other aged maladies grow strong in me against which I must prepare my selfe for the encounter or I am undone for ever Would you heare what my distempers are They are these Though few bee my houres hoary my haires yet am I as numerous in my worldly cares as if I were but even now entring into the world I cannot without an envious eye see my Neighbours field flourish others prosperity gives me occasion of repining others adversity grounds of rejoycing Honour I would have yet can I hardly support my selfe much lesse that Honor which is conferred on me Alas poore mouldred earth Now when I carry about me such constant Companions of my mortality when Aches Cramps and Coughes are my ages livery Now when Death waits at the Wicket and bids me come away and leave the world seeing it is weary of me and fit me for my shrowding sheet being all that is left me yet have I a moneths mind to be greater or richer or more eminent in the eye of the World as if I could dispense with age or make a truce with death Thus am I encountred with new temptations Night and day am I beleagred nor can I find any rest so fierce and furious is this Combatant my Flesh O how justly then may I complaine of this my houshold enemy And how may I escape her subtilty It is her Delicacy that has undone me for by pamphering her have I famished my selfe I tooke pitty of her weaknesse and I cherish'd her and behold now I am abused by her Shee has wounded mee with her eye no with both her eyes has shee surpriz'd mee For with her right eye she shew'd me prosperity and by inclining to her caused me to commit idolatry And with her left eye shee darted adversity at mee and so made me murmure against him that made me O how I feele my selfe now failing and falling to earth yet how are my thoughts so glued to earth as if they had no other place to thinke on O my God from the depth of thy mercy looke upon the depth of my misery thou knowest my necessity let me not become a prey to mine enemy Sweet Iesu thou hast taught my fingers to fight give mee the mastery in this combat with my flesh CHAP. 6. What assaults he suffer'd by the Divell both in company and privacy O Thou envious one was it not sufficient for thee to lose thy selfe by thy Pride but like a cruell cunning Nimrod haunt day and night after innocent blood Thou art for ever lost and thou wouldst have my poore soule in the same state And to bring thy purpose about thou hast practised with people of my owne family to betray my Fort unto the Enemy Thou hast winnowed me and as thou found mee affected thou wrought upon me Thou had baites in store for every soule to take him napping in his Darling sinne If thou foundst him labor of that birth wherein thou perished thou couldst suggest to him thoughts of his owne abilities bring him to a disdaine of others Tell him the State did not take sufficient notice of his worth Advise him to hold an higher opinion of himselfe and by contemning others to raise his owne estimate But whereto ayme all these trains to undoe him for being fed with these conceits he begins to aspire to places of honour wherein being crossed of his hopes he fals into discontent which clozeth the unhappy Scene of his life in misery and contempt Or deprived of what hee once enjoyed and to an unexpected thraldome confined with the heavy memory of his former felicity and present misery hee either lives desperately encountred with those affrighting thoughts of danger or takes his leave at once both of life and honour Againe if thou foundst him Covetous thou hadst Achans wedge and Gehaza's treasure in readinesse for him Hee shall have his desires and a Leprosie to boot If riotous the Rich-mans table could not bee better furnished

though hee have but laboured one houre in thy Vineyard Thou who canst not abide that any one should looke backe from the Plough or doe thy worke negligently Convert my sleepy and sluggish humour into a spirituall fervour My too long security into a carefull practise of piety That though my outward man be but slime my inward man may be a profest enemy to sloath O grant mee so to bestow the remainder of my time in faithfull labouring that though I have not felt the heat of the day nay though I have scarcely laboured one houre in thy Vineyard I may now receive my penny in the Evening CHAP. 56. How by their treacherous assault his Cinque ports became endangered THus thus became I poore Pilgrim assaulted thus became I foiled But why doe I inveigh against their treachery I became to my selfe the most treacherous Enemy For by yeelding my Fort to the spirit of Pride my Luciferian glory grew darkned By entertaining Covetousnesse my former content vanished By cherishing Luxury both mine inward and outward faculties were disabled By feeding Envy it became a feeder of mee and so my spirits became wasted By cockering Gluttony my spirituall infirmities were strengthned By harbouring Wrath charity the choicest comfort of Christian society was banished By fostering Sloath out of my great Masters check-roule became my name to be razed Neither were these unthankfull Guests so contented for by their treacherous attempts became my Cinque ports endangered So as those darlings of mine which had they been loyally affected should have beene my assistants proved to be my private Assacinates Not one of them but they failed in performing those due offices to which they were deputed My eye indeed knew how to look but by wandring it corrupted my understanding with the thought of lust My eare knew how to heare but by hearing amisse it distracted the intention of mine heart My nostrils knew how to smell but by rejecting those flowers of divine sweetnesse I begunne to snuffe up the wind with the wild Asse in the wildernesse My touch knew how to performe her office but by touching uncleane things or by using cleane things uncleanely that sense became slaved to all sensuality My mouth became an open Sepulcher mine Heart sinnes Harbour Thus fares it with the State spirituall as it doth with the Politicall if the Cinque Ports bee opened the State becomes endangered lesse secured because to Invasion more exposed What then could this poore razed Fort of my surprized soule expect but utter ruine misery and desolation Foes wrought on mee without and feares seazed on mee within I had none left to comfort mee for my best comfort I had deservingly estranged from mee For had I not with Demas left God for the world I might have had God for my Friend and consequently all the creatures of the world For to leave God is to make every creature his foe which ever God made O was it not enough for thee to have others to betray thee but thou must adde new strength to their force by betraying thy selfe unto thine Enemy Hadst thou tasted so freely of that ever streaming fountaine of Gods mercy and was it thy duty to recompence his bounty with thy disloyaltie This had beene great inhumaniry even to have shewne to the most low and despicable creature and couldst thou find in thine heart to offer this abuse unto thy Maker O woe is mee that I should receive all good things from the Lord and requite him with nothing but evill O that I had ponder'd these things well in mine heart so might I in the day of my trouble have found helpe and received comfort in the day of wrarh O my deare Lord justly may I complaine and in the bitternesse of my soule cry out Sinners have built upon me nay they have made deepe furrowes upon my backe And there is no health in mee because of thine heavy displeasure O though I bee a Sinner bee not unmindfull of thy poore creature Receive mee O receive mee into the armes of thy mercy while I confesse unto thee who knowest the secrets of all thoughts my iniquity There is not one sense that thou hast given mee but I will declare unto thee how it has dishonour'd thee O thou Balme of Gilead heale my wounds for they are many CHAP. 57. Sight LOoke on mee and pitty mee when you shall heare how this sense has deluded me And take warning by my Example that yee suffer not your Dinahs to wander lest they lose their honour This sense which should direct mee did first intrap mee for I no sooner beheld then I was held captive by that which I beheld Neither was I altogether senselesse of these things for I understood how Death enter'd in by the windowes And yet I would not shut them but suffer'd my mortall enemies to enter in by them Nor a concupiscence but by those unguarded portels received admittance Our Grandham Eve to our shame and losse saw that the fruit was pleasant and shee tooke of the fruit and tasted of it This apple remaines still in the eye and must continue an eye-sore to all her posterity Thus have our Fathers eaten sowre grapes and their Childrens teeth are set on edge O how often have I resolved with my selfe but as in all things else how weak are mens resolves to shut these gates against all temptations and on that Object never to fixe my sight that might give any Inlet to sinne or to looke on that intentively which I might not desire safely And to strengthen this resolve I thought upon some wholesome meditation the memory whereof I had good hope would keepe those lights within mee and not suffer them to bee taken up by any worldly vanity But no sooner gave time and place opportunity then those weake resolves were quite razed the thoughts of goodnesse discarded piety became a Stranger to me for corruption had seazed on mine heart and render'd up her Hold unto the Enemy O how happy had I beene had I in my youth repelled those distemper'd heates which my wanton eye first infused But so farre was I from repenting of what my youth had committed as now my riper yeares are not ashamed to reteine a delight in the remembrance of what my youth affected And what more hard to cure then an old Vlcer an aged sore O yee treacherous Spies why have yee thus wandred about to seeke my undoing what gaine may yee reape by my perdition Is there no end of your fury nay of your madding folly O remember how for these beautifull sights which you have presented to mee and wherewith you have deceived mee ougly and gastly Spectacles shall torment both you and mee For you and none but you moved mee so unjustly to covet my Neighbours field because it was fruitfull And to hunt after the strange woman because shee was beautifull Your Presentments made mee in all things sensuall Thus by bitter experience have I found how by the

presented themselves in a Prison what incomparable pleasures might be expected in a Pallace If such joyes in the dayes of our captivity what may be looked for in that day of Iubilee In the consideration whereof never did chased Hart long more thirstily after the Water-brookes then my poore wearied spirit did after her heavenly Bethesda O how shrilly mee thought did the cryes of the Saints under the Altar sound in mine eare O how long Lord How long O how long shall I sojourne in this Pilgrimage of cares this valley of teares and become estranged from that Inheritance of lasting joyes the only sight whereof shall make me happy and from this Wildernesse of sinne bring me to the Sinah of glory Woe is me my Light my Love my Dove my onely one for that I have dwelled with the inhabitants of Cedar Woe is mee my King and my God that my habitation is prolonged For if holy David David a man according to Gods owne heart sometimes said how much more may I unhappy one say My soule hath beene too long an inhabitant Long and all too long have I sung because I was unsensible of my sinne my own countrey songs by those waters of Babylon Well therefore may I say It was good for mee that I have beene afflicted that I might learne thy statutes O my Lord hadst thou never afflicted mee I had never sought to know thee Hence is it that I know thee because thou hast afflicted mee And now my soule melteth for heavinesse not for that thou hast afflicted mee but for that shee has beene so long divided from thee I know Lord I know how hee who never mourned while hee was a Pilgrim shall never rejoyce when hee comes to bee a Citizen And as to abide for ever if wee would we might not so rejoyce here and hereafter though we would wee may not It is a great argument that hee loves not his Countrey who without occasion foreslowes his returne into his Countrey or takes any delight in any place before he returne unto his Countrey Alas I must confesse I have longed too much after the Onions and Garlicke and Flesh-pots of Egypt but now with gushing eyes doe I returne unto thee O receive mee I have protested and O strengthen so religious a protest with thy Spirit never to take any more delight in Idumaea I have suffered too much in it and by it to be now any more taken or delighted with it And now after my loathing of these puddles of vanity I have longed after those ever-running streames of eternity O how hath my soule thirsted after thee how greatly hath my flesh longed for thee my soule hath thirsted after thee the living fountaine O when shall I come and appeare before the face of the Lord when wilt thou come O my Comforter For whom else shall I expect O that I might see thee O my Ioy which I desire O then shall my soule be satisfied when my glory shall appeare for which I so long hungred O then shall I bee made drunke with the fulnesse of thine house after which I have sighed O then wilt thou refresh me with the Brooke of thy pleasure after which I have thirsted In the meane time let my teares become my bread day and night untill such time as it be said unto me behold thy God! untill my soule heare behold thy Spouse Meane while thou heavenly Shepherd feed me with my sighes refresh me with my sorrowes My Redeemer will doubtlesly come for hee is good neither will hee fore-slow his comming for hee is gracious To him be glory for evermore O hasten thy comming for thine Elect sake Come Lord Iesu come quickly CHAP. 75. The poore penitent Pilgrims last Will and Testament IN the name of the Father the Sonne and Holy Ghost I S. M. A poore penitent Pilgrim sound in body and of perfect memory yet being daily read in the Lecture of mans mortality how all Flesh is Grasse and the beauty thereof as the Flower of the field which this day flourisheth to morrow withereth and that it is every Christians duty to prepare himselfe before Death come lest it find him unprovided at such time as it shall come Moved I say with these considerations I have here made this my last Will and Testament as followeth First I bequeath my soule into the hands of my gracious Redeemer by whose most precious blood I was redeemed and by whose merits and mercies for my merits are his mercies I hope to bee glorified And forasmuch as there was no safety out of the Arke nor no salvation now without the pale of the Church figured by the Arke and that the tares from the wheat must be severed the Sheepe and the Goats must not into one Fold be gathered HERE in the presence of God and his blessed Angels for the discharge of mine owne conscience and the satisfaction of others who perchance have in their opinions been divided doubting much how I in points of Religion stood affected Doe I make a free and publike confession of my Faith being that Cement by which we are knit unto her and made Members of her I beleeve the holy Catholike Church to be the Communion of the Faithfull whereof I desire to live and dye a Member for which to suffer I should account it an honour holding this for a Principle ever That none can have God for his father that will not take his Holy Spouse the Church for his Mother There is no Article in the Apostles Creed which I do not beleeve for Catholike and Orthodoxall with the exposition thereof and every Clause or Particle thereof in such manner as it hath beene universally received by the holy Catholike Church from the first four hundred years after Christ and as it holds in consent or harmony with the Holy Scripture the Christians Armour by which and the constant practise of piety every faithfull Souldier of Christ Iesus may be enabled to pull downe those strong Holds of his spirituall enemy and by possessing his soule in patience obtaine a glorious victory And as there have been at all times tares in Gods field so is it more to be pittied then doubted that there are many surreptitious errours crept into the bosome of the Church through the corruption of time and our enemies malice which though they ayme not at the Corner-stone nor at the maine foundation yet being but stubble no wayes conducing to so glorious a building they are to bee accounted of that quality as they blemish much her primitive beauty These then being the fancies of humane braines and introduced into the Church for private ends and so continued rather by an imperious then just command I hold them so farre from being effectuall to salvation as they become scandalous to many tender consciences and consequently deserve rather to be rejected then imbraced But for the Ornamenss of the Church as shee is the Kings Daughter so she should be comely and for

her musicke or melody being his Spouse it admits harmony for so drowsie is mans zeale and affection as hee stands in great need of something to stirre up his devotion Likewise of those ancient and decent Ceremonies of the Church being discreetly and not superstitiously used I have ever reverently esteemed Neither am I ignorant how disputation in arguments of controversall learning hath beene of late yeares in more request then care of blamelesse conversation and living how indiscreet and impertinent reasoning has in many places brought that wofull effect as it hath begot many irreparable rents in Christs seamelesse Coat thus wounds left to the handling of unexpert hands became so farre from curing as they grew more dangerously spreading and desperately increasing then they were in the beginning and before they came to handling These Deficience are with pious teares and devout prayers to be repaired that men of learning may bee likewise men of living being endowed with that zeale as in all their arguments by way of private discourse or more publike opposition their sole ayme and desire may bee to propagate the Gospel and in it the glory of God with all singlenesse of mind and that without singularity of judgement being so free from all manner of ostentation or the spirit of contradiction as they may shun nothing more then popular applause nor hold any thing more deare then the Churches peace So as to compose this breach I never held those in points of Religion to be fitting Disputants who made it their onely ayme in a scholasticall manner to weave up their Arguments but such moderate spirits whose desires were rather to cleare mens consciences from inbred scruples then broach new differences With all due reverence I esteeme of those two Sacraments Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord as those two nursing brests of the Church the one to clense and purifie us at our entring the other to strengthen and sanctifie us living and to glorifie our soules at their departing As with mine heart I beleeve unto righteousnesse so with my Mouth doe I confesse unto salvation Neither doe I professe my selfe such a Soli-fidian as to hold Faith sufficient to salvation without Workes Neither such a Champion for good workes as to hold works effectuall without Faith As Faith is the root so are works the fruit Nay I hold these to have such necessary dependence one of th' other as they are ever to go hand in hand together Otherwise that fearefull curse which our blessed Saviour sometimes pronounced upon the barraine Fig-tree must be their censure And now in this day of my Change as in this confidence I have ever lived so my trust is that in the same I shall dye That in the Resurrection of my Saviour Christ Iesus is my hope and in his Ascension is my glory For I beleeve that my Redeemer liveth and that with these eyes I shall see him Thus have I rendred an account of my faith the substance whereof as I have ever professed in my life so I hope with all Christian constancy to continue the profession thereof even unto death So as though the assaults or temptations of the Devill my spirituall enemy whose practise hath beene ever by cruelty or subtilty to deprive man of his hope of glory should with all fury assaile me yet shall they never have power to prevaile against mee for the Lord who is my defence will in mercy draw neare mee and in that dying conflict give mee the victory This then shall be my clozing Resolve I meane to continue in the profession of that Faith now when I am old wherin being a child I was borne And having thus returned a due account of my Beliefe I hold it very fitting not to neglect that laudable use of disposing that estate whereof God in his goodnesse and providence towards me made mee here his Steward It were good then for mee that I remembred that message returned by Isaiah the sonne of Amos to Hezekiah Set thine house in order for thou shalt die and not live True it is when the outward house is orderly disposed the inward house cannot chuse but bee better prepared To remove then from mee the cares of this present world that I may take a more willing adeiu of the world before I leave it and so addresse my cares for a better world by waining my desires from it for live hee cannot in the Land of the living who prepares not himselfe for it before his arriving my mind and will is that my worldly substance bee disposed of in manner and forme following First then after this vessell of Earth this poore shell of corruption shall bee to earth committed and as neare to the bones of mine Ancestors as the conveniencie of the place may permit interred and that my Funerall expences shall be discharged in the performance of which Christian duty I approve of decency but in no case too much solemnity which has too often drowned the remembrance of mortality in the lees of sensuality after this I say my Will is that this small estate wherewith God hath blessed mee shall be divided in equall parts or portions amongst my Children that as they are all equally mine so they may bee equall sharers in mine Of whom I will not prophesie that they will dissipate or scatter all I leave them I have better hopes treasured in them For the portions I leave them though small yet competent if they be contented and more then I could wish them if otherwise affected A very little will suffice nature enough I leave them if well employed too much if abused May Gods blessing and mine be ever with them in their improvement of it And that I may crowne their hopes and my houres with one blessing more Blessed Spirit by which every Passenger is safely conducted from this vale of misery to the Kingdome of glory as these little ones are mine by generation so may they be thine by regeneration to whose gracious protection both now and ever I commit them Now I nominate and appoint for Surpervisors of this my last Will and Testament my deare friends Agapetus Eilicrines if they shall bee then living at my death whom I heartily desire for the loue they beare to goodnesse nay for the love they bear to him who is the fountaine of all goodnesse and as I repose much trust in them to performe this my Will And now mee thinkes all my worldly cares are drawne neare unto their period Seeing then I am sailing towards mine Harbour Let mee strike Anchor that taking the wings of the Morning I may fly to the bosome of my dear Redeemer Go forth then my Soule what fearest thou goe forth why tremblest thou Thou hast had enough of Idumaea for what foundst thou there but anguish Now then turne thy face to the Wall and thinke of the Land of Promise Thou hast but now a little time left thee the remainder whereof is justly exacted