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A07996	The pearle of prayer most pretious and powerfull, or, A Christian treatise most necessarie for all these that desire to shew that wrath to come ... By Mr. William Narne ...	Narne, William, 1583?-1653.	1620 (1620)	STC 18360; ESTC S101894	161,410	486

is godly is good and sure from the tentation of the devill Excellently writteth Bernard Bernardus in sermone de dono Spiritus Omne virtutis adificium ilico vergit in praecipitium si hujus gratiae amiserit praesidium all vertuous building will fall flat downe to the ground incontinently if it losse the helpe of this grace Sine hac gratiâ primâ gratiarum que totius religionis exordium est nullum bonum pull●lare aut manare potest Without this grace the first of graces which is the beginning of Religion no good thing can spring vp vnto thee If thou bee GODS l 1 Cor. 3. 9 building let not this keeper depart from thee lest thou fall to ruine and destruction Wise Abraham judged that there was no good in Gerar neither pittie equitie or civilitie when m Genes 29.11 the feare of GOD was not in that place and surely according to Peters preaching in every Nation Hee that n Act. 10. 35 feareth GOD and worketh righteously is accepted with him Lastly Thou being quickened awakened and somewhat afraid Sorrow before lamentation thou will haue that godly o 2 Cor 2. 16 sorrow that causeth repentance vnto salvation not to be repented of then thou will set thy selfe to deplore thy miserable estate and woefull condition thou will giue thy selfe to earnest prayer and supplication that the LORD may refresh thee with his inward consolation that hee may p Psal 106.4.5 remember thee with the favour of his people and visite thee with his salvation that thou may see the felicitie of his chosen and rejoyce in the joy of his Sancts and glory with his inheritance Now perswade thy selfe assuredly as it is q Heb. 9. 27 appointed that man should once die naturally so it is appointed that everie man should lament once pitifully The wicked indeede are most vnwise and vnhappie for they shall bee constrained to you le and lament eternally for their vnspeakeable paine and punishment with r Genes 4. 13 Cain 2. In an evill time with ſ Heb. 12. 17 Esau the season of repentance being past 3. In an evill place in Hell in the t Revel 21. 8 lake which burneth with f●e and brimstone 4. In evill companie with the u Math. 25.41 reprobat with the Devill and his angels yea sometimes in this life the strongest and best hearted of them will you le with bitter lamentation So Eras in Adag did the Emperour Bassianus when hee saw the image of his brother Geta whom hee slew So did couragious Pericles at Plutarchus in Pericl the death of his sonne But the godly they are wise and blessed they lament 1. For a good cause even for their sinnes with x Rom. 7. 24 St. Paul 2. In a good tyme where their is hope of comfort with y Psal 6. 6 David 3. In a good place in the LORDS Sanctuarie with z 1 Sam. 1. 9 Hannah 4. With good companie with the Church militant Which a Revel 7. 14 shall come out of their great tribulation and remaine in the LORDS presence to be partakers of his joyes forever If thus thou complaine and lament arightly for thy grievous sinnes and miserie thou shall not find the LORD as Pharao b Exod. 5. 17 to the Israelits misregarding thee refusing thee and more vexing thee But certainly at length thou shall find the LORD c Exod. 34 6 mercifull to thee slow to anger and abundant in kindnesse saying to thee comfortably and doing commodiouslie as David d Sam. 22. 23 said to Abiathar declaring Sauls crueltie abide with mee feare not for with mee thou shall bee in safegarde Let vs goe on now to this lamentation as it shall please our GOD to assist vs by his Spirit and helpe vs by his Alsufficient grace A LAMENTATION FOR OVR WOE AND MISERIE The fourth Chapter ALmighty and most dreadfull GOD thou who art the a Genes 18. 28 righteous judge of the whole world who maketh not the b Exod. 24.7 wicked innocent who is most fearefull and terrible a c Heb. 12. 29 consuming fire against vngodlinesse I thine owne poore servant a wretched worme who d Isaiah 1. 4 am a sinfull creature ladened with iniquitie overburthened with miserie altogether polluted with impietie most guiltie for my transgression subject to thy wrath and indignation worthie of death and eternall damnation It is impossible to mee to hide my selfe from thy Al-seing eye Whether f Psalm 139. 7. 8. 9. shall I goe from thy Spirit or whether shall I flee from thy presence If I ascend vnto the Heaven thou art there If I flee downe to hell thou art there Let mee take the wings of the morning and dwell in the vttermost partes of the earth yet there shall thine hand find me and hold mee Though I hide my selfe in the toppe of Carmell thou may search me and take me out thence and though I hide mee in the bottome of the sea yet there thou may command a serpent to bite me Therefore O LORD my GOD I desire earnestly to g Iam. 4. 8 draw neere vnto thine Heavenly Majestie to prostrate and h Psal 95. 6 fall downe before thee my Maker in humilitie to lament also my woefull estate and great misery Now trueth it is O LORD that I am insufficient to expresse i Psal 106. 2 thy noble actes and worthinesse so am I as vnable to deplore my calamitie and wretchednesse At this tyme I am perswaded GOD complaineth certainly that thou my Creator my preserver and gratious benefactor doth complaine of mee for my manifold sinnes and hainous iniquities Ah! k Isaiah 1. 4 I am a seede of the wicked a corrupt child that I haue forsaken the LORD that I haue provoked the Holy One of Israell to anger that I haue gone backward And that my Saviour CHRIST lamenteth my Redeemer hath egrated hath l Mark 6.6 mervailed hath mourned at mine vnbeliefe When m Luke 19.41 hee beheld Ierusalem hee wept becavse in her day shee did not know these things which belonged to her peace that I in the day of mercifull visitation am ignorant of these things which concerne my peace and aeternall salvation All the holy Saints the chosen Saincts doe mourne of the LORD who n Math. 5 4 are blessed they mourne now that they may be comforted They sow o Psal 126. 5 in teares that they may reape in joy everlastingly Yea the p dead earth The dead earth lamenteth lamenteth and falleth away the world is feebled and decayed the earth is vtterly broken downe the earth p Isay 24. vers 4. and 19 is cleane dissolved the earth is moved exceedingly the earth doth reele to and fro like a drunken man the inhabitants thereof are heavy upon it it shall be removed like a tent Yea I know All creatures grone that every q Rom. 8. 22

Exod. 3. 8 a place of bondage and slauerie It was an hard matter for Israell to departe from it Pharaoh a mightie King to hinder them the task-masters cruell to detaine them and vexe them GOD c 1 Pet 2.7 himselfe did come downe and delyver them Secondly this world is like Sodom a place of filthy pleasure and impietie Iust Lot albeit advertised of the punishment of the citie yet prolonged his departure and delayed his obedience whi●e the d Gen. 19. 16 Angell caught him by the hand and pulled him from out the fire Thirdly This world which is not our natiue countrie but a place Mundus non patria sed captivitas nobis est of banishment and confusion it is like a Babylon a citie of disorder and confusion goe e Revel 18. 4 out of her thou who art the LORDS servant that August thou bee not partakers of her ●innes Babi●●nia idest confusio significat mun dum desertum malum horribile mundus and receiue not of her plagues depart depart thou that art cleane that thou may pray and prosper separat f Isaiah 51.11 thy selfe from her and touch no vncleane thing that the LORD may receiue g Cor. 6. 17 thee and be thy father Fourthy This world is like an evill and horrible wildernesse and waste wildernesse of Arabia there was scarcely of good things necessarie No h bread little water and plentie of hurtfull things as q Deut. 31.10 firie Ser●ents Scorpions and drought thou shall wander in this de●art both i Deut. 8. 15 hungrie thirstie and diseased thy verie soule k Psal 107. 4 fainting within thee Fifthly This world is like a Labyrinth a place intricat by many ●lin lib. 30 cap. 13. wyndings and turnings farre easi●r to ridde thy selfe out of the foure chiefe labyrinths of Crete of Egypt of L●mnos and of Italie than to bee deliuered from l Galat. 1. 4 this present evill world Sixthly This world is like a strong prison a p●ofound pit where are sharpe st●●●s to hurt one where is filthinesse a more to de●●●e one wor●e than the prison m Gen. ●9 20 of Egypt where Ioseph was bound 〈◊〉 also than the du●ge●n n Ier. 38. 6 of 〈◊〉 where the holy Prophet ●●remi●h sta●ke fast in the myrie ●ung with hunger Seventhly Yea it was difficile and impossible for o Dan. 6. 2● Daniel to come ou● of the d●nne from among the Lyons vnlesse his GOD had sent an Angell to stoppe their mouthes that they might not hurt him so it is as diffici●l yea more impossible for vs to g●t foorth of the denne of this world where remaineth our adversarie the p 1 Pet. 5. 8 devill like a roaring Lyon seeking to devoure vs. Lastly the world is like a tempestuous and dangerous sea troublesome and raging as when Io●as was in the ship sleeping as when Paul and his companie were carried to and froe in the Adriaticke sea fasting farre from the haven where they would bee Mare significat hoc seculum saith Augustine quia habet amaritudinem habet fluctus tribulationum tempestates tentationum pisces se devorant●s This world signifieth a sea because it hath great bitternesse it hath floodes of tribulations tempests of tentations and fish devouring one another Now advise thy selfe considerat Chrstian diligently and after due deliberation tell plainly is it an hard matter or no a laborious worke of wonderfull great d●fficu●tie to goe forth from this Sodome from this Egypt and from Babilon to bee delivered from this wildern●sse from this labyrinth from this ●ungeon and from such a sea to haue thy soule separated from the profite pleasures and preferments from the crosses and distra●tions of this world to haue thy conversation in Heaven and q Colos 3. 2 to set thy affections on things which are aboue O how painfull and toylesome is it to ridde our selues from r Luke 8. 7 these thornes which spring vp with the seed of the word and as they choke the word so they hinder the exercise of prayer The second worke no lesse difficile than the former is the ascension of our mindes to Heaven W●e ascend and goe vpward saith a Father two wayes by meditation Bernard in Ser● de ascensione and by prayer Meditation teacheth vs that which is lacking and prayer obtaineth that it be not inlaking If it was painfull and tedious to ascend and goe vp to earthly Hierusalem for they ſ Psal 85. 6 going vp through the valley of Baca did make welles they were weak and wearie feeble and thirstie is it not more laborious to goe vp to the heavenlie and holie Hierusalem the great and glorious citie of GOD the way wherevnto is narrow t Math. 7. 14 and straite and few there bee that find it If it was an hard matter to Ionathan and his armour-bearer to climbe u 1 Sam. 14. 13 vp betwixt the sharpe rockes that they might fight against the Philistimes they w●nt vp vpon their hands and seete with difficultie and jeopardie Is it not as difficile to ascend on high going through many d●fficulties and distractions This was esteemed a great and Livius al●i weightie worke of Hanniball to pierce through the high Alpes in his journey to Italie but it is much more weightie to y Eccles 35.15 peirce the clouds to mount aboue the Sunne Moone and Planets z Hebr. 12. 21 to passe through the visible Heavens and to enter into the pallace of glorie It was ter●ible to Moses himself hee did z Galat. 4. 25 quake and feare to goe vp to mount S●nai a mountaine in Arabia it is diffici●● also a Psal 15. 1 to ascend vnto S●on the mountain● of GOD. That b Act. 3. 2 ●reple from his mothers wonsb● could not come vp to the T●mple but was carried it was impossible for E●as himself by his owne power to bee taken vp to heaven the b 2 King 2.11 charet and horses of ●●re the wh●rle-wind did mount him vp it is a● impo●●ible for thee to come to the LORD to c Cant. 1. 3 ascend to his 〈◊〉 vnlesse d D●ut 1. 31 the Lord 〈◊〉 thee and b●are thee as a man b●ar●●h 〈…〉 vnlesse the holy 〈…〉 thee and conduct thee 〈◊〉 For as none durst att●mpt Dissi●illa quae pul●hra Si●●ilit to as●●nd to that admirable hill Amara where none may come but an Aethiopian and that Sam. Purchas pilgrimage lib. 7. cap. 5 by expresse licence vnder the paine of leauing his hands and feete and eyes behind him the price of his curiositie seing it is a place of greatest pleasure on the earth some taking it for Paradise So none dare presume to passe to the Celestiall Paradise e Luke 23. 43 which CHRIST promised to the penitent thiefe but f Iohn 1. 43 a true Israelite in whom there is no guile a sincere Christian and