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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33747	The situation of paradise found out being an history of a late pilgrimage unto the Holy Land, with a necessary apparatus prefixt, giving light into the whole design ...	Coleraine, Henry Hare, Baron, 1636-1708.	1683 (1683)	Wing C5064; ESTC R18407	113,799	258

was very glad News you may be sure to his Eubulus who would have been content to hear him a longer while recount those pretty sad Occurrences and joyful Changes When Theosophus the Sun being about setting called them to sit down to a frugal Supper Now because it was a day so solemn in which besides the divine Goodness brought all these things to pass a Feast to them of such great Rejoycing both for what it remember'd and for what had happen'd in it one part of Theosophus his Vision hereby being happily fulfill'd and they so surprizingly met Before they sate down they judged it fit therefore to send up their Praises with the Choir of all Creatures to the supreme Majesty of Heaven and Earth For they good Souls who thought themselves bound at all times and for all things to pay Him tributary Thanks could not at this time and for so many things forbear from turning their Congratulations of each other into Adorations of Him Doth not said one of them every Creature which is in Heaven and on the Earth and under the Earth and such as are in the Sea and all that are in them bow down and worship our Creator And can we alone of all his Creatures be silent Then they bowed all three and said Glory be to God on high Blessing honour glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb for ever Blessed be the Lord our God from everlasting to everlasting With Seraphins Cherubins Thrones Virtues Powers Dominations Principalities Archangels Angels the holy Animals surrounding the Throne of the Great King the four and twenty Elders all the mighty Princes and glorious Lovers in that happy Court all the heavenly Hosts with these and all the Pilgrims arrived there Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Evangelists Martyrs Confessors Virgins Widows holy Doctors and all holy and humble Men and Women we praise thee we bless thee we worship thee we give thanks unto thee and shall ever love O God to celebrate thy Glories For this let no profane Person blame their Piety After they were seated at the Table and the Supper was blessed Theosophus said to Eubulus You satisfied me but now how much Calodulus stirr'd himself to get off the imprisonment from you and both my other Friends and dear Assistants but I long to hear how you have succeeded in your Labours The Youth told him also He was impatient to know what had befallen him since he was taken from him by those ill men and where he came to light on those Pilgrims whom he spake of Eubulus promised to tell them in order what they desired and thus began Most Reverend Father Theosophus after that you had sent me out together with my worthy Fellow-labourers in Christ Orthodoxus and Vranius to visit the Roads and Highways with charge that we should bring to you all the Sick and the Lame we could find to be healed and made whole and that we should give Directions to and set aright as many as straggle out of their way and proffer them safe conduct to the Holy Land and had therefore disposed us for several parts that we might bring the more in unto you and gather a company of Pilgrims not inconsiderable for their number We all after about a years Travels met together according to our promise in the delightful Vally of Edena to give each other an account of our success but without any intent of returning back to you as yet We had sad Stories enough to tell one to another and here we passed some weeks employing them as well as we could I should be of a very hard nature if I could without Tears relate unto you how ill we succeeded For though we said never so much we could not perswade the Sick that they were so and those who halted thought themselves to run in the Paths of Righteousness they that were poor esteemed themselves most rich and they that were miserable most happy If any one was so misled as to lose himself he yet verily believed that all the World beside was lost and he alone in the Way which would bring him to Paradise Nay some thought they should possess the Canaan of the Blessed without so much as going through the Red Sea or passing over Jordan without being baptized into the Death of Christ or purified in the River of Life that parts our eternal Happiness As many as were able ran from us and those that were not able made a shift to crawl away and kick at us My Advice was disgustful and harsh Orthodoxus's Reason not at all agreeable to their Errours and even the Pleasantness and divine Eloquence of our Vranius liked not We all suffered very much onely I think if there were any difference of our Sufferings Orthodoxus had the hardest measure Having now past these Storms and Brunts of the World here I told you we thought to rest But the HOLY WAR growing still more fierce we could not expect to lie long hid in our beloved Retirement The Souldiers who were sent to ravage that part of the Country quickly found us out and made us their Prisoners As we were tumultuously carried thence Good God! how many dismal sights had we before us and round about us I am sure it was not over-pleasant to our eyes to see such Harras and Havock made every-where to see the Earth laden with dead Bodies and the Waters mixed and defiled with Bloud The Devils themselves might glut their Envy with seeing what we saw In truth nothing ever frighted us more My Friends I have often said Theosophus lamented by my self the Folly of these Pilgrims now-a-days who maintain this Holy War a War which is not alas to win as of old it was the Holy Land or gain the Jerusalem of the Lord but even about the Way thither Than which my Eubulus can any thing be more ridiculous more unhappily ridiculous It would be a very strange madness methinks in any one to denounce open Hostility against all such as do not go with him in the same Road. Yet so it was said Eubulus by these Pilgrim-Souldiers who professed to fight under his Banner who is Lord of all the mighty Hosts we were seized in that place onely for not going the way as they did In that we thought it safest to be conducted by Moses and Aaron the Secular and Ecclesiastick Powers quietly following them thorough this World this Wilderness of Sorrow and mishaps into the Land of gread Plenty and Gods faithful Promises which is on the other side and refused to joyn with any gainsaying Corah or rebellious Dathan against the Priestly or the Kingly Office so to be swallowed up into Hell with the Transgressors I thank my God heartily for whatever I sustained at their hands and shall quite pass it over Only the loss of a small Casket which just before we were taken I threw unwillingly into the River doth now somewhat trouble me for looking back I think I saw a

less but greater far and nobler if any Comparison can be made betwixt a Coelestial Substance and an Earthly one Thus his stony and obdurate heart which the Thunders of the Law could not shiver is now softned with the Bloud of the Passover He who but a little while afore matter'd not the Threats and Terrors of Mount Sinai is now touched and moved with the sweet Gospel-Messages of Love and Peace Whence ever after he related great things of this Evangelical Feast how it was the Seal of his Pardon the Christian Pasport of his Heavenly Pilgrimage and the beginning of his Vnion with God And how it gave him all things even by removing him from them and making him desire nothing but JESUS and to be with him in PARADISE CHAP. X. An Eucharistical Meditation AS soon therefore as he was returned back again with the Eremit into his Cell and shut himself up in a close apartment thereof his Soul by rapturous flights of Joy strove to ascend upward and exert her self in these following Acts of devout Acknowledgment I. I am well pleased that the Lord hath thus heard the § 1. An Act of Thanksgiving and Adoration voice of my Prayer Blessed is he that now cometh in the Name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord Hosanna here below Thrice hail most triumphant Prince of Heaven Hail holy wonderful eternal King great Deliverer successful Combatant the Redemption of the Captives and the Oppressed and upon this day the First-Fruits and Hopes to those that sleep of a glorious Resurrection Hallelujah Salvation and Glory and Honour and Power be to the Lord our God Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord Hallelujah I adore thee I worship thee I love thee I magnifie thee O thou Conqueror of Hell and Death victorious Champion over the Infernal Forces I will magnifie thee as much as I am able and will still strive to magnifie thee more All hail welcome sweetest Saviour Jesus welcome Lamb of God the Life-giving Sacrifice the spiritual Refection the holy and accepted Peace-Offering the Deliverance and Comfort of all faithful Souls Welcome victorious Lamb all the mighty Hosts of Heaven fall down before thee and with everlasting Praises delight to celebrate the glories and triumphs of so strange a Love And here below under their feet I would do the same Thou art the powerful and wise the Lord of Hosts the King of Loves thou art called and thy Conquests are spread abroad as far as the ends of the World When the terrours of Death encompassed me round when the nethermost Hell threatned to devour me quick and Satan was ready to grasp my polluted Soul then found I deliverance then saw I my returning Victor laden with their spoils and having trampled on and crushed their power bidding me live Behold even he whom I fought against has obtained for me the victory and has overcome me with his love and with his love has made me overcome The great God the mighty Saviour of Nations hath pitied a poor perishing wretch he hath snatched my life from out the paws of the devouring Lion and the sulphurous stench and horrors of yonder black Abyss II. But who can tell me how all this came to pass what § 2. An Act of Contrition or Humility was there in me that I should be thus highly honoured or my life worth that it should be ransomed at so dear a rate as the death of my God Why should God the Father whom I had offended send his Son to die for me Why should God the Son whom I had so sinned against bear the load and punishment of that sin Tell me what could the Creator see worthy of so great savour in such an abominable and filthy Creature or the Lord of all things in his proud presumptuous Vassal the Holiest in a sinner wallowing in his Lusts How came Vnworthiness and Pride Rebellion and Sin perverse Dust and Ashes to find thus instead of the heaviest curse and dreadfullest execution of a just and fiery Indignation so extraordinary a Blessing so far not onely above my merit but my comprehension This is all Prodigie of Mercy Shall the careless and disobedient the refractory and murmuring Servant be rewarded be feasted with his Master Shall the wilful and obstinate offender be pardoned the despicable and haughty Villain be pitied Who can believe there is so great Charity for an Enemy or such Honours as these for the vilest of the children of men This was indeed too great for me to expect or wish for will take up all the wonder of Men and Angels Ah! have have not my Crimes crucified him my Passions made him bleed and could he yet do and suffer so much for me Has not my Pride alas stript him naked my Intemperance and Luxury forced him to fast And did not my Covetousness make him poor my Ambition a slave But he hath covered my Nakedness and Folly he hath feasted me with his holy ones he hath filled me with the Riches of his Grace and hath freed me from the slavery of sin The bitterness of my Spirit hath been worse to him than the very Gall he tasted my Peevishness and Malice than the Vinacre he drank my Honours have wreath'd him a Crown of Thorns The rude Souldier pierced but his side when I pierced his very heart with sorrows My Jollity was that anguish which made his Virginal Body to be drained all over bloudy droops of Sweat My Scoffs at Religion have been far more intolerable have entred deeper into his Soul than the Contempt and Mockeries of the Pretorian Band. Nay my very Devotion and Piety has murthered him my Addresses have been criminal and traiterous and with Judas have I studied to betray him with a kiss O Prodigie of Villany But neither is this all Ah me I can scarce utter that which is still more black Oft would my Wickednesses have offered Violence even to his glorified Body and ripped up his Wounds afresh Thus have I open'd his side by violating those mysterious Sacraments which proceeded thence my best works put him to shame Nor indeed could I any otherwise have claimed his infinite Mercy but that I am infinitely vile and infinitely sinful III. Dearest Jesu how admirable are the effects of thy § 3. An Act of Wonder Goodness How glorious and condescending is thy Love that could do all this for me and how disproportionate are the Returns of thy soveraign Bounty to the deserts of a perfidious disloyal wretch I came not unto thee of my self but thou hast drawn me with Cords though I refused yet found I protection My Guilt was thy Condemnation yet through thee am I saved Thou hast reached forth to me the Scepter with the same hand which my Vanity had mocked with a Reed Could I ever expect to receive life from him whom mine Iniquities bruised and even robbed of his a Cure through his