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fire_n	die_v	hell_n	worm_n	3,808	5	10.0013	5	false

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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

sad because they are all blown over The godly shall rejoyce and the reprobate howl then shall base apparel be glorious and proud attire infamous then shall all black and diabolical designs perpetrated in darknesse be made visible and the most retiredst actions and transactions that ever were huddled up in the world with the greatest privacy be exposed to the open view both of men and Angels Then if ever as one ingeniously hath it naked breasts and black spots shall be in fashion when all things shall be naked and bare and the sinner appear like the Leopard full of spots Then shall it appear who have been the Idolaters whose God was their belly and gold their hope and flesh their arm that with the French fool would not have left their part in Paris for their part in Paradise Then shall it appear who have been the swearer and common perjut'd person who have set a brazen face on a bad matter and gilded a falshoood with an oath of sanctity though it proceeded from the father of lies whither they are going Then shall it appear who have been the Ahabs that have killed Naboth for his vineyard and who the Ishmaels the make-bates that hated their brethren with a perfect hatred whose hand was against every man and every mans hand against them Then shall it appear who have been the Machiavels that have neglected those pretious opportunities Providence put into their hands to advance the glory of God and the good of Nations for their own base interests raising themselves out of the ruine of thousands Then shall it appear who have lorded it over their brethren more righteous then they and maliciously persecuted for no other cause then filthy lucre sake to the temporal undoing both of them and their posterity If any that read this Book as 't is possible some may with prejudice against the Author are guilty of this let them respect me for giving them this timely advice aforehand Then shall it appear who have been the nice Non-conformist that not out of tenderness of conscience or zeal to Gods Glory but for sedition sake and vain glory would be of the singular number Then shall it appear who have under pretences of zeal jugled their brethren out of their estates and term'd those malignant whom the righteous Judge shall proclaim the contrary Then shall it appear who have been at the charge of clothing with silk and gold the images of men and let the poor go naked who is the image of God Then it shall appear who have worn a cross on the belly while the belly was an enemy to the Cross of Christ Then shall it appear who have slily slided into Brothel-houses in the dark to commit their obscenities and return'd unseen of men and presently busied with their Pater nosters and who have maintain'd those Shambles of forbidden flesh with their Pimps Panders c. and other devilish and unquoth titles which then shall be known Then shall it appear who have blinded the eye of Justice with bribes and shut their ears against the clamorous cryes of the innocent that made the Law a nose of wax to turn and fashion to their own private ends to the disparagement of Justice and lamentable subversion of many an honest and upright Cause their quirks dilatory demurs conveyances and connivances cannot quit them for now whether they will or no they must be removed with a Writ into the lowest and darkest dungeon of damnation For no bribes shall be taken in this Court here shall Justice be obtain'd without money no relations shall take place here for there shall be no respect of persons with this Judge the great Jehovah shall now judge the world in righteousness Acts 17.31 Set now before thine eyes therefore that which thou must then set before them when thy self shall be set before so terrible a Tribunal above thee an angry Judge before thee the Books of Indictments at thy right hand the Devils accusing and calling for sentence which Justice cannot deny at thy left hand the world of wicked ones howling behinde thee the Angels guarding and presenting thee in Court within thee thy conscience gnawing without the world flaming beneath Hell yauning and gaping wide for thee as an eternal and irrecoverable morsel when to appear will be intollerable to be hid shall be impossible O the horror of that day of that sentence Go ye cursed what doom so great great as this depart from peace from life from hope from possibility of being any other then eternally exquisitely miserable 't is pain to mention these woes 't is more then death to fell them into hell take him Devils binde him hand and foot cast him into utter darkness where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth for ever shut on him seal to him the eternal impregnable doors of vengeance Rouze up your selves hellish furies horrors fears agonies madness vexations despisers never dying worm and the ever burning fires According to the several degrees of vanity let several degrees of tortures and torturers devils and devilish plagues masacre and torment them let no eye pitty them and let their vain eyes be put out in obscure darkness see nothing but infernal visions the vain ear hear nothing but shrieks and derided cryes of the tormented let loathsom brimstone fill the sent and let the flesh that before embracing and embraced vain wanton touches be food stubble fuel to a never quenched fire within without every way in body soul conscience Let vanity kindle those flames which are easeless endless remediless Sit mors ipsa immortalis Had we now but a glimpse of those miseries and did but hear the uncessant groans of those dying ones and had but the least sense of those torments for a moment we should soon guess what it were to live with everlasting bur●… the thoughts of which would 〈◊〉 a divorce 'twixt us and our most beloved sins which are hells fuel as one calls them that like Samsons foxes carry fire in the tail of it O forlorn and miserable wretch to receive this fearful and irrecoverable sentence when not onely Devils but Saints and Angels shall plead against thee and thy self maugre thy self be thy sharpest appeacher What wilt thou do in these dreadful exigents when thou shalt see the gastly dungeon and huge gulf of Hell Aetna-like breaking out with most fearful flames yet perpetual darkness when thou shalt see the weeping and gnashing of teeth the rage of these hellish monsters the horror of the place the rigor of the pain the terror of the company and the eternity of all these punishments where the fire is unquenchable and the pains unsupportable our fires here may be endured that is intollerable ours are for comfort that for torment ours must be fed or will go out that burns continually without feeding ours gives light that none ours consumes the matter and ●●ds the pain that torments but never con●●mes to make the pain perpetual There idle persons

in Unity and Unity in Trinity There you shall see the Lamb with his train of Attendants Cherubims Seraphims Principalities Powers Thrones Dominions Archangels and Angels Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Martyrs and Confessours crying Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbath And there shall those good Angels which were your Guardians upon earth be your everlasting Companions in Heaven In a word 't is such a home where you shall be made perfectly happy Time shall not rust or diminish your glory nor adversity with her frowns ever approach near those Mansions for you shall be ever in the Sun-shine of Gods favour and your happiness as everlasting as his that made it Oh! did we but all consider the shortness of the sweetest pleasure here in comparison of those endless and eternal joyes that the Saints shall there partake of and the shortness and smallness of the longest and greatest misery or torture that can be endured here to the Worm that never dyes to the fire that is never quencht to those everlasting torments that shall in full viols be poured upon the wicked in Hell for ever we should think less of this world and more to be happy in a better And this brings me from the first particular observable to the second From being mindful of our home to our choice of Guides to conduct us thither Choose the best guides These guides are in the Old Testament called Seers in the New Overseers and these are they whom God hath appointed to lead us the way to that home to which many Saints are already gone in Soul and many more shall in Gods due time arive and be fully glorified both in soul and body These Seers or Overseers are those that open the Scriptures and make plain the way of the Lord and cause his paths to be known to the sons of men they are also for their dignity term'd Ambassadors of Christ Christs Stewards Publishers of glad Tidings proclaimers of Salvation Fellow-workers together with Christ and Ministers of the Gospel These God hath set up as lights that by their soundness of Doctrine and Integrity of life many Souls may be recalled from darkness unto his marvellous light they are Cities set upon a Hill for men to see and Candles lighted upon candlesticks to light the Traveller the way and these by their eminency are or at least ought to be Men of excellent qualifications and rare endowments Angelicall persons men made up of Heaven and if we take such for our guides we need not fear crooked paths but may be confident of our way But because all is not Gold that glisters nor all such as they seem it behoves us to be very cautious in the choise of our guides for if the blinde lead the blinde whither will they go The way to Hell is broad and easily found 't is a pleasant way beset with Roses able to intice the foolish Traveller who is ignorant that it leads to death And on the contrary the way to heaven seems to flesh and blood very uncomfortable a narrow sharp steep and unpleasant way very intricate long tedious troublesome and hard to finde in which many a passenger hath stumbled and many a blinde guide lost his way But that we may be warned by others harms and reach that which they fell short of let 's bear with the sharpness of the way and be incouraged by the happiness of the end The advice of a late ingenuous Author to this purpose is worthy your observation Regard not saith he how difficult the passage is but whither it tends nor how delicate the journey is but where it ends If it be easie suspect it if hard endure it He that cannot excuse a bad way accuseh this own sloth and he that sticks in a bad passage can never attain a good journeyes end It cannot be denyed but that many a passenger hath suffered by bad guides such as have let them go out of their way and made them believe the pleasantest way was the best and the poor Traveller not sensible of the mistake till it hath been too late to talk of returning But of such we are cautioned to beware and though they speak never so smoothly This is the way walk in it we are to turn our deaf ear to erring Charms of such blinde guides and witless Councellours And this brings me from the second particular observable to the third from the choice of our guides to our haste in setting out and perseverance in our course Set out betimes and hold out to the end As this Exhortation is two-fold so shall be my discourse upon it I shall in the first place apply my self to young men who like my self are but newly risen or scarce set out And in the next humbly address my self to aged persons who are or at least ought to be near their journeys end And first to young men let me request you to make God and Heaven the constant objects of your thoughts the one of your fear the other of your love so walk that ye displease not the one and ye need not fear the attaining of the other Are you setting out lose no time remember that many have squandred away the morning and have not reacht their journeyes end ere night and with those foolish Virgins for their tardiness have been excommunicated that place of repose where the early Traveller safely and in good time ariv'd An hour in the morning you know is worth two at night and God is better pleased with young Zeal then decreped Holiness Josiahs forwardness makes him renown'd to posterity and young Timothy's Piety eternizes his name to future generations Are you on your way persevere in your Christian course and think upon the end whilst ye are at the beginnings and even now upon the race have an eye to the recompence so shall the splendid glory of the one faciliate the irksome tediousness of the other Every true Christian saith a learned writer is a Traveller His life his walk Christ his way and Heaven his home his walk painful his way perfect his home pleasing Let 's not therefore loiter lest we come short of home nor wander lest we come wide of home but be content to travel hard and to be sure to walk aright so shall our safe way find its end at home and our painful walk make our home welcome We are all concerned to make our best use of time lest too late we lament the abuse of it yesterday cannot be recalled to morrow cannot be assured to day therefore is onely ours which if we slight we lose which lost is lost for ever Young men remember this I mean you whose bodies are strong and healthful not beset with any sickness or besieg'd with any diseases nor loaded with those common infirmities incident to old age consider that you know not how short your time is your Sun for any thing you know may go down in the morning and your night may fall ere noon Therefore be early