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A35684	Pelecanicidium, or, The Christian adviser against self-murder together with a guide and the pilgrims passe to the land of the living : in three books.	Denny, William, Sir, 1603 or 4-1676.; Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702.	1653 (1653)	Wing D1051; ESTC R22350	177,897	342

good In 's Person Brooks so fill by Floud Of Grace the Covenant call'd Derivative From whence Beleevers Title do derive His Mediatorship did erst atchieve Parties Conditions and their Seals She does Behold Prerogatives by Faith She seeth manifold Such as Saint Iohn Saint Paul have so divinely told 21. Most humbly She Looks up to see Trines Mysterie Father the Creator is New Creatour Son O Blisse Holy Spirit 's Seal to This. In Earnest of Redemption so Regeneration does new flow In such a manner few do know The Church Regenerate the first-born may Those Spirits of Just men so made perfect say Nature divine partake those with allay O' th' Righteousnesse o' th' Kingdom For 't is seal'd To those and those to It with Reverence anneal'd So One with Jesus Christ Mediatour thus reveal'd 26. As Wondrous was Gods free giv'n grace To bring to passe Redemption in Designe The TRINITIE did joyn In Counsell most Divine Interpellation Covenant past For all to be perform'd and last For all were Providences cast Administrations Author FATHER is SON Grand Administrator unto These The Principle of speciall Ordinances The HOLY GHOST Subministrators from Sublime Take Government so ordination claim from Prime Words Sacraments Administration passe through Time 27. Means to save All The Church then call HIERARCHICALL And MINISTERIAL whence Church congregate in Sense Kingdome of God from thence By calling Saints and with Christ One As Hee Apostle was alone Without Whom Government is none As Rivers may divide from out a Lake That 's ever full of which their Streams partake Whose various Courses that vast Floud does make So Government from One to Twelve came whence again Those subdivided into lesser Brooks did vein So from Apostles Bishops influence obtain 28. Her down-cast Eye Sees Man must die Sin 's Wages trie The Bubble of his Breath Must needs be broke by Death His Bodie grav'd beneath Yet 's Soul does flie to place of Rest To Paradise that keepes the Best But wicked Ones with Sin are prest Until the Resurrections Trump does blow When all the teeming Graves their Dead shall show And every One Reward to Deeds shall know The glorious Judge Just Jesus comes to Sentence All. The Righteous then to th'Right shall hear his Blessed Call When Go ye cursed shall be Then the wicked's Fall 29. And now behold Her Locks like gold For us Shee 's told By Angell from Above Whom Seraph wings do move Encircling round with Love Chuse Mortals either here aloft to dwell By Faith by Love by doing well Or desperate leap with Horrour into Hell Chuse Chuse Eternitie of Blisse or Pain E'relasting Losse Or everlasting Gaine Bath i' th' Lambs Blood O wash away your Stain Could ye conceive the Joyes that here are Infinite And glory such as Tongues nor Pens could ere indite To gain this Place All earthly Torments Smiles wu'd slight 30. Hear'st this Away Let 's make no Stay But use our Day Down through the Wildernesse Amidst the Worlds Distresse Let Joyfull Courage Presse When w' are return'd unto our Place Let 's Minde these Things in any Case Life's short Good Life a narrow Space Let 's listen still to hear the silent Feet Of Death who 'l bring home Bliss wrapt in a sheet The blessed Angels then with Joy will greet Then tune we Tongues to Steps with never-failing Praise Let pious Works our Hearts our Souls to Heav'nward raise Let Hands Let Thoughts Let All God magnifie alwayes PERSPECTIVE XII DOwns are an open Place of intermixed Hills and Dals commonly upon the Coast and many times in the Inland Where somtimes they are a rising Ridg of Hills and Valleys whose free and pleasant scope overtop and overlook the neighbouring inferiour Countrey And from the declining and ascending position of the Earth as the high and more swelling Waves in the deeper Seas are not unlikely to have derived their name from their seeming to carry their Passengers over them up and down These for their healthful Ayr by their Loftinesse pleasant prospect by their opennesse and smooth Turf for their Evenesse do often invite in the delightfull seasons of the Year Persons of quality and leisure to take the Ayr upon them and to spend some time in recreation Horsmen choose such places thereupon to make and run races with their swiftest Coursers to try their courage wind and swiftnesse of their Heels Such are Newmarket Heath or Bainstead Downs They are called the Downs of Cogitation Because Thoughts are full of motion and uncertainty that have their erection and dejection upon the Mind as the first Stanza mentions 1. From hill to hill we goe c. Here is a Comparison between the Downs and the Waves of the Sea Both much agreeing in their resemblances with one another And both expressing the manner of Cogitation 2 All ore this flowry place c. The pleasure of Thoughts is compared in this Stanza to Flowers their subtility and quicknesse to the nimble flight of Swallowes And here Swallowes seeme to be matched as Coursers to expresse in a poeticall manner both the pleasure and swiftnesse of Cogitation together 3. Out from Thelema's Cave c. Here is first described the origination and purification of Cogitation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Voluntas the Will and Affection from whence Thoughts as Waters out of the head of a Spring do take their rise and have their flux As the Heart is such are the Thoughts And that is Thelema's Cave in the side of the Downs the Man This being taken from that vulgar though not true opinion according to Anatomists that the Heart is placed in the left side of the Body A Generous Heart dresseth or setteth forth the Thoughts in Gallantry and Noblenesse So appears Dianoia Cogitation fair and beautifull when Devotion is in the Heart and Charity in the Hand which is an unbound Book the obedience unto Holy Writ ready to be dispensed according to active piety Thoughts seem awaked when drawn out of the sleep of Sin and darknesse of pollution Sitting is a Posture of steadinesse and Recollection Thoughts dwell in a Waggon as the old Scythians that never used Houses but such Receptacles as might more properly be call'd their Moveables than their Habitations Silent wheels is the imperceptibility of Thought Drawn with Dromedaries is their velocity as also the tenacity by Cogitation of things first apprehended For though a Dromedary be a kind of Cammell it differs in dorso The Cammel has a Bunch on his Back the Dromedary two Fins as I may call them the one near his Wallis the other more backward to the Chine both upon the Ridg of his back which fall down loose upon his sides without weight and rise and claspe in an imposed Burden With an unperceived Pace Dromedaries move with great strength and swiftnesse Whereupon Livie reciteth them as very usefull in Warlike expeditions His utebantur praecipuè in bellicis expeditionibus And Curtius in his 7. booke mentions that Polydamus was sent

to Gods Will a Christian Patience whereby Grace is obtained to have our wounded Souls healed Heat Signifies Presumption the effect of Prosperity Sharp Lemons Adversity or the Apprehension of God's Justice Sands Intimates dangerous Melancholy or Possession of Satan by Sin which is charmed by the Power of the Word the Harp of the Scripture Sweating Browes and digging up the Grounds Some labour against Temptations by Alteration of Former Life and take pains by Reformation of Bad Manners and Sinfull Courses to mortifie the Flesh. 7. Instead of Thorns The former wounding of Sin and the obscuring of Truth by wickednes appears A Bush of Rosemary which is a Strengthener of the Head and Memory Christ appears that is the Fountain of Knowledge and Pillar of Understanding By Him flowes the wisdome of the Father and in him is the Stedfastnesse of the Truth The Woodbine is Faith which is strengthned by the application of it self unto Christ. The Cuppes of Flowers Are pious workes which manifest such Faith in Christ unto the world 8. Briars Sinfulnesse did overrun our wild Lapsed Natures The Vine Is Our Saviour Our Redeemer With ripening Grapes With Joy and Comfort Escapes As overcomming Sufferings Persecutions c. For Soul's Comfort lifting up his rising Head For Salvation of those that were lost after his Passion here He is ascended up to become Mediatour and to come Judge 9. Ragged Souls Are Sinners who are liable to the Sentence of Condemnation by The Law that finding their desperate Condition Seem to plough the Earth with their shoulder make no account of Themselves are humbled and lay prostrate with the Confession of their Faults before The Throne of Grace that with Contrition of Heart Seem to tear up their Ungodly Courses Sowing the Droppes of Repentance with the Vow of Reformation entring into a new Covenant with God to walke and persevere in his wayes Such Grace causeth A Hopeful Crop appear by Faith in Gods promises the Assurance of Pardon Forgivenesse of Sins and Hope of Everlasting Hapinesse 10. Sad blest Place Are Sanctified Afflictions and Crosses Roughest way Difficulties that are unpleasant to Nature Rocks and Hills Are great Temptations and Smaller Trials Grinding Mils Are Persecution in this world While Shining Sun While Life lasts 11. Bottom flatt Is Adversity These Streams overflow Are Sorrowes and Tears Exceeding low Comfortlesse Neer Despair with dejection and no Opinion of Our Selves dwels profound Humility In a Cell In Solitude like A Hermit alone whom All love but Few Visit. 12. A Crown in A Clowd Is the Reward of Hereafter Seen onely by the Eye of Faith Eastern Place A hint of the Resurrection when Christ will come in Glory to Judge and reward Grace Comes towards us if we will turn to meet with it O happy then Then the Slight Affections of This World shall be recompenced with Eternal Joy and Blisse Everlasting MORAL IV. THough many Temptations do and must assault us for the better threshing out the Corn and winnowing out the Chaffe to sift away and Seperate the Drosle and Cockle from the Wheate if rightly understood they are the Friends though of a harsh Tongue yet Speake the best language For many Benefits arise from Tribulation to the better fitting and preparing us for the Journey to Heaven-ward which the godly man expecteth and a wise man ought to undertake And if Tribulation be well searcht into we shall find therein more reason of Reioycing than of Sorrow we shall rather love our Tears for Cleansing the Foulnesse of our Sinful Eyes and be cheared at Heart when our Repentance works upward that by Such watering the Mercy of God may be obtained whereby becoming fruitful we may grow from Grace to Grace having This Comfort That Sorrow may continue for a Night but Ioy cometh in the Morning Most sweetly speaks S. Bernard Lachrymae poenitentium sunt vinum Angelorum quia in illis odor vitae saepor Gratiae gustus indulgentiae sanitas redeuntis innocentiae reconciliationis jucunditas serenatae Conscientiae suavitas The Tears of the Penitent are the Wine of Angels For therein is the fragrant Perfume of Life the sweet smelling savour of Grace the quick and pleasant Taste of Forgivenesse the strong and Beautie-bringing health of returning Innocence the only Mirth the rejoycing of Reconciliation and no such sweetnesse to that Delight that Pleasure as after a dark and stormie day to enjoy a cleared Conscience So S. Chrysostom Sicut post vehementes imbres mundus Aer ac purus efficitur Ita post Lachrymarum pluvias serenitas mentis sequitur atque tranquillitas As the Air becomes fair and clear after the fiercenesse of stormie Showres the brightnesse and tranquillity of the minde appears after the sweet fall of Rainie Tears And S. Gregory upon the Twentieth Psalm Saepè quod torpentes latuit fletibus innotescit afflictae mens certius invenit malum quod fecerat reatum suum cujus secura non meminit hunc in se commota deprehendit Tears draw the Curtain and discover unto those whom Drowsinesse had lodg'd upon the Bed asleep what oftentimes hath laid so silent in the dark then is made manifest that evil to the afflicted Minde which it hath committed then in the strugling with and rowzing of its self the soul brings to light even that her own Guilt whereof while she slept secure before she was not mindful PROSPECT IV. OF Time-to come there dawns A Day That questions Now what Then to Say To That This seems A Gloomie Night How else forget so many Light A stormy Night of Rain and showers In which Tears bath our living Howers Wax Tapers burne and leave sweet Fume While Candles with ill Sent consume All ore A Storm the Clouds vnfold The Waters rage The Winds are bold The searchlesse Deep does open lay The roaring Seas make wide Death's way The woful Mariners do cry With whom The Pilot's Voice doth Vye Some throw out Goods And well For These Seem ' sswage the Fury of the Seas The winds forsake the late-torne Sails And change into the milder Gales How Happie 's He that gains his Port And is not Billowes Prey but Sport CONSOLATORY ESSAY IV. ADam had no sooner transgress'd in the Garden but Shame ran him into a Corner The Light was too bright for him He hid himself He thought he was Out of God's Eye but he found he was not out of His Call Adam where art thou It is his pleasure still to put The Question to His People And for whom He hath Love He most strictly examines Does He whip thee yea scourge thee till the bloud comes Thou answear'st Him by thy Patience or Repining Does He command thee crosse to thy will Thou answer'st him by thy Obedience or Perversenes Does He open the Door of thy Knowledge by Revealing Some things and Shutting it up Close in Others Thou answear'st Him by thy Humility or Curiosity All that He does is for Thy Good But He will Not

her Urne 10. A burning Lamp with shining Light Whose constant Eye winks not for Day or Night I' th' Mid'st o' th' Church example is that 's ever bright 11. Then on She does conduct thy Pace Unto the Chancel of That Holy Place Grace Where Prayer with lifted Hands kneels 'fore the Throne of 12. Affections all about Her Kneel Upon The pavement that is made of Steel From which reflexed Heat on Hearts from Stoves they feel 13. I'th'Mid'st a Spire to Heaven doth strain So Wights mount Angels do descend amain Lo Here thou hast thy wish Of Prayer thou Pass dost gain PERSPECTIVE VI. 1. THe House of Prayer is the Place for Holy Worship humble Reverence and Invocation of Almighty God When the Israelites came out of Egypt it was not a House but a Tabernacle which Moses was commanded to build for the Place of such publick Adoration But in Succession of Times when they were setled in the promised Land Solomon was commanded to build a Temple And these two shadowed the Difference between the Jewes Synagogue and the Christian Church The Tabernacle was moveable and but for a Time The Temple fixed and permanent The State of the Jewes vanishing to continue in their Generations The State of the Christians durable to last unto the End of the World But more principally it shadoweth forth the State of the Church Militant here upon Earth and Triumphant in Heaven Unto both the Prophet David alludeth Lord Who shall sojourn in thy Holy Tabernacle Who shall rest in Thine Holy Mountain Psal. 15. 1. The Temple at Jerusalem was thrice built First by Solomon after a glorious manner when the Riches of the Vessels were of Gold The Second Structure was by Zorobabel But came far short of That even causing Tears from those that considered the Statelinesse of the First And very Inferiour it was to that In respect of the Building It was lower and meaner Of the Vessels Those were of Gold These of Brasse Five things were lost and wanting in The Second Temple All which were in the First 1. The Ark of God 2. Urim and Thummim God gave no Answer by These as in Former Times 3. Fire which in The Second Temple never descended from Heaven to consume their burnt Sacrifices as it did in the First 4. The Glory of God appearing between the Cherubims which they termed Schechina The Habitation or Dwelling of God 5. The Holy Ghost to inable Them for The Gift of Prophefie Henod built the Third the Last And that same was of a Statelier Kind of Building than that of Solomon And of greater Glory For Christ Preached therein Though the Jewes had many Oratories or Places for Prayer caled Proseuchae which how they differed from their Schools or Synagogues is not here materiall yet Our Blessed Saviour fixeth only on and appropriates to the Temple above any other Place the Use of Prayer So did he manifest when he threw out The Merchants and Money changers from the same with this Expression My House is called The House of Prayer But ye have made it a Den of Theeves A very Sad and uncomelie Change But though the Guide pointeth at all these before mentioned yet here he aymeth more especially at a Description of the Worship it Self the Operation and Efficacy of Prayer As a House is a place for constant Residence and usuall Habitation Prayer likewise is the Christians Best Receptacle In which he may converse with God continually Not that he should do nothing else But that he should do nothing of moment without it Not that much babling is of account with the Wisdom of God but that we should often renew our Selves by frequent Seeking His Favour in such Manner Form and Language as He hath directed and in such Brevity as is Suitable to the Weakenesse of Our frail Natures Non quam multum Sed quam bene It is not the How Much but the How Well that is pleasing unto Him Firme Resolution's Camp to gain c. If we think to obtain a Christian Resolution we must put away Hypocrisie out of our Hearts and Falshood out of our Understandings We must entertain Truth and keep Close to Devotion And then the Lord graciously will be pleased both to inable us with A will to resolve and with a Power to do Prayers blest Chappel visit Accustom thy self to thy hours of Devotion as well as be mindeful to pray at all Times convenient Pray in Season and out of Season Deus in adjutorium meum intende Domine ad adjuvandum c. as it is Psal. 70. O God haste Thee to deliver me Make haste to Help me O Lord Whereupon Cassiodore expoundeth the usefull and very comfortable meaning Hujus versiculi oratio in adversis ut eruamur in prosperis ut servemur ne extollamur incessabili iugitate fundenda est The Prayer that is narrowly contained in this short Verse is continually to be powred forth without ceasing or wearinesse as well in adversity least we be Swallowed up with Sorrowes or overthrown with difficulty as in prosperity that we may be preserved from being puffed up therewith and too much exalted Huius ergo versiculi meditatio in tuo pectore indirupta volvatur Hunc in opere quolibet ministerio sive in intinere constitutus decantare non desinas Hunc et dormiens et reficiens et in ultimis naturae necessitatibus meditare Let therefore the meditation of this Versicle lay undisturbed in thy Brest and be ready at every Call of thy Heart Cease not the cheerfull Musick hereof in thy Lips when thou goest about any businesse undertakest any thing Use it to refresh thee when thou doest travell or takest a Journey Even when thou Sleepest when thou eatest at bed at board wheresoever thou art whatsoever thou doest in the lowest necessity of nature in the greatest extremities and difficulties of this Life meditate Hereon continually So Thy Passe obtain Is our proceeding in holy exercises by Gods Grace and Assistance without which we have no strength to resolve any thing that is good 2. But at Faiths Mount it must be sign'd Gods Grace worketh effectually in us when by Faith in Christ we are sealed to the Day of Redemption It is called Faiths Mount Because it is placed on High upon the Rock Christ who is the sure and blessed Foundation of our Salvation Fides Electorum aut nunquam deficit aut statim reparatur The Passe to Resolution for Performance of Christian Duties is ascertain'd to Gods Children by Faith in Christ For that Faith it self either never fails them or is ever repaired in them What Beauty what Vertue does not alwayes appear in the Blossom of the Tree doth lye hidden in the Root Quid est Fides nisi credere quod non vides What is Faith but the Belief of that which thou doest not see Where Hope where Charity c. These do alwayes accompany a true and sincere Faith There can be no steadinesse of Faith without an