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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04569	The pilgrimage of man, vvandering in a vvildernesse of vvoe wherein is shewed the calamities belonging to man being borne in this world, and how all the principall estates thereof are crossed with misery.	Johnson, Richard.	1635 (1635)	STC 14691.7; ESTC S2158	18,352	32

which we decke our bodies curiously and haue no regard of the sins that ouerload the soules But let vs beware that the same happen not to vs which the Prophets writ against the Women of Ierusalem who reprooued their pride their vnshamefull Lookes their rowlyng eyes their attires their chaines Iewels and bracelets and other their vaineglorious fashions It will happen to you saith the Lord of Hosts that in stead of perfumes you shall haue stinke in stead of curled haire baldnesse and the fairest yong men amongst you shall passe through the edge of the sword and the strongest shall be slaine and perish in the warres Many other vices could I largely discourse of as the sinne of Gluttony and drunkennes where with the whole earth is infected and I greatly marueile that many vnsatiable belly-gods doe not rot and burst in the middest of their riotous excesse that will sit bowsing in Tauerns spoiling that which might comfort many succourlesse people and in the meane time the poore Lazarus standeth at the gate cannot haue so much as the Crummes that fall from their table and to conclude these wicked vices of Gluttony Drunkennesse hath cōtinued vpon the earth euer since the beginning of the world as for example The liquorous lusting of Adam and Eue was the cause that the gate of Paradice was shut vp against vs Esau sold his birth-right Saint Iohn Baptist was slaine after Herod had banquetted N●ah being ouercome with wine slept with his priuy parts vncouered and was mocked of his Children Lot being drunke with wine deflowred his owne Daughters with many other examples that I could name touching these wicked vices which for this time I passe ouer And now I will discourse of other miseries and calamities belonging to mans woefull Pilgrimage CHAP. IX Of the misery of Age and of mans death with his resurrection and the terrible Iudgement of God at the latter day THus after man hath waded in a Sea of misery as it were therein ouerwhelmed euen from his birth at last Age comes créeping on and then when he ought to rest griefes and dolours are renued the heart afflicted the braine troubled the face withered the body crooked the sight dimmed the haires falling the téeth rotten and to be short the body is then as it were a similitude of death For in age man is wonderfully changed he is prompt to wrath hard to appease sad couetous and suspitious the which being well considered by the Emperour Augustus said That man till fifty yéeres liued in pleasure and felicity and he that liueth longer for the most part passeth his time in sorrow and grieuous sicknesse death of children losse of goods to bury his friends with an infinite number of other worldly troubles So that it were better to haue their eyes closed in youth than to liue to behold these things in their crooked age Thus after man hath sorrowed all his dayes vnder the heauy burthen of his sinnes he is forced at last to yeeld vnto Death yet by no meanes may he know after what manner he shall end his life Some there be that are forced to dye by hunger others by thirst others by fire others by water others by poyson others are smoothered others are torne in péeces by wilde Beasts others deuoured of the Fowles of the ayre others are made meate for Fishes and others for Wormes Yet for all this Man knoweth not his end and when he thinketh himselfe most at rest he sodainely perisheth What a dreadfull sight is it to sée him lying in bed that is oppressed with the paines of Death What shaking and changing of all the bands of nature will he make the Féete will become cold the Face pale the Eyes hollow the Lips and Mouth to retyre the Hands diminish the Tongue waxeth blacke the Téeth doth close the Breath faileth the cold Sweate appeareth by violence of Sicknes all which is a certaine token that Nature is ouercome But now when it commeth to the last gaspe or at the sorrowfull departure that the soule makes from his habitation all the bands of nature are broken beside when the diuell or wicked spirit is assured of our end what furious assaults wil he make against our soules to bring vs in despaire of Gods mercy it is the houre when as Sathan doth his power to striue against God for to hinder the saluation of mankind and he is more boysterous in these latter dayes for that hée knoweth that his time is but short and that the end of his Kingdome is at hand and therefore he is the more inflamed for he neuer more tormenteth those whom he doth possesse than when he knoweth that he must depart But now when man hath passed the bitter anguish of death where is then become his glories Where are his pompes and triumphes Where is his voluptuousnesse and wantonnesse Where is his maiestie excellence and holinesse they are vanished as the shaddow and it is chanced to them as to the Garment that the Wormes haue eaten or as the Wooll that the Moath hath deuoured Let vs behold man when he is in his graue who euer saw a monster more hidious than the dead Carkasse of man behold his excellence maiesty and dignity couered with a lumpe of earth here you may sée him that was chearished reuerenced and honoured euen to kisse his hands and féete by a sodaine mutation become a creature most abominable And to them it happneth as Salomon writeth in his booke of Wisedome What hath it profited saith he the pride and great abundance of riches All these things are passed as is the Arrow shot to the white or as the Smoake that is dispersed with the wind Let vs therefore now leaue the body of man resting in his graue as in a bed for a season and speake of his resurrection and the iudgement of God which was so much feared of the Prophet Dauid that he prayed God not to enter into iudgement with his seruant Being dead in this world hee must then appeare before the iudgement seate of God with such a terrour to those that consider it well that there is no member but trembleth It is the day that the Lord wil come like a tempest when euery ones heart shall faile them and all the world shall be astonied For euen as the Lightning that riseth in the East and extendeth to the West so shall the comming of the Son of man be Tribulation then shall be so extreme and great as the like hath not béen since the beginning of the world till now nor neuer shall be the like the Sun shall be darkned and the Moone shall giue no more light the Starres shall fall from heauen and the waues of the Sea shall rage and men shall be amazed with feare and the powers of heauen shall mooue Woe shall be in those dayes to them that are with Child and to them that giue sucke For as it was in the dayes before the Flood they did eate and drinke marry and were married euen vnto the day that Noah entred into the Arke and knew nothing till the Flood came and tooke them all away So shall the comming of the Lord bée and then shall all kindreds of the earth mourne and shall hide themselues in Dennes and Caues and in the Mountaines and shall say vnto them fall vpon vs and hide vs from the face of him that sitteth vpon the Throne Blow out the Trumpet saith the Prophet Ioel that all such as dwell in the world may tremble at it for the day of the Lord commeth and is hard at hand a darke day a gloomy day yea and a stormy day Before him shall be a consuming fire and behind him a burning flame Then the dead that are in their graues shall rise and come forth the bones and the other parts shall finde out their ioynts for to ioyne againe together with the body that the earth hath putrified and corrupted All those that the Beasts and Birds of the Ayre hath deuowred all those that the Sea hath swallowed vp all those that are inuapored in the Earth and all those that the Fire hath consumed shall be reduced and brought to their former state All the blood that Theeues Pyrates Murderers Tyrants and false Iudges haue vniustly shed shall then appeare before the Maiesty of God so that there shall not one drop of blood be lost from the time of Abel that was the first slaine of men vnto the last so that there shall not one haire perish If the Uaile of the Temple did breake the Earth quake the Sunne darken and change his brightnes for the wrong that was done to Iesus Christ being on the Crosse although in nothing he did offend What countenance may then poore sinners shew that haue offended him an innumerable times Who then shall abide the shining brightnesse of Gods Maiesty sitting vpon his Throne of Glory It is the dreadfull houre when wicked Monarchs Kings and Princes shall giue account of their vnlawfull exactions that they haue made vpon their subiects and of the blood that they haue wrongfully spilled It is the houre wherein Merchants and such as haue traded in the circle of the world that haue beguiled and sold by false waights and measures shall render iust account of the least fault that they haue committed It is the houre that couetous men and Usurers that haue beguiled some and vndone others shall pay themselues the cruell interests of that which they haue ill gotten It is the houre when Magistrates and wicked Iudges that haue corrupted violated and suspended iustice shall be countable for their corruption and iniquities It is the very houre wherin Widowes Orphants and other afflicted persons shal make their complaints before God of the wrong and oppression that hath béene shewed them It is the houre wherein the wicked shall say repenting in themselues troubled with hor●ible feare behold these which in times past we had in derision infamy and reproach are now accounted amongst the children of God whose portion is amongst the Saints It is the houre wherein many foolish and dumbe persons shall bée more happier than the wise and eloquent Many shepheards and carters shall be preferred before Philosphers many Beggars before rich Princes and Monarches and many simple and ignorant before the witty and subtile FINIS