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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29649	The way to the Sabbath of rest, or, The souls progress in the work of regeneration being a brief experimental discourse of the new-birth in which many of the serpents wiles are detected, the mysteries of the Cross unvailed, the death of the old man, the life of the new man, the angelical dispensation, with the entrance to the divine / clearly laid open and discovered by Mr. Thomas Bromley.	Bromley, Thomas, 1629-1691.	1692 (1692)	Wing B4888B; ESTC R35790	39,085	70

The WAY to the Sabbath of Rest Or the Souls Progress in the Work of REGENERATION Being a Brief Experimental Discourse of the New-Birth IN WHICH Many of the Serpents Wiles are detected The Mysteries of the Cross unvailed The Death of the Old Man the Life of the New Man the Angelical Dispensation with the Entrance into the Divine clearly laid open and discovered By Mr. Thomas Bromley Except a Man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God John 3.3 Whosoever doth not bear his Cross and come after me cannot be my Disciple Luke 14.27 Be thou faithful unto Death and I will give thee a Crown of Life Rev. 2.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 London Printed and are to be sold by Randal Taylor near Stationer's Hall 1692. THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER Christian Reader THE following Practical and Experimental Treatise of the New-Birth was Writ and Publish'd by the Author in his Youth about Fourty Years since and having been long out of Print and desired by many has put those who are entrusted with his Writings to communicate it to the Publick a second time with some Alterations and Amendments by the Authors own hand to prevent any occasion of Offence or Mistake And forasmuch as it hath pleased the Lord not long since to take his Servant up into that Rest whereof so many Years ago he had given him so ravishing a Pisgah sight as will in part appear from the following Sheets it has been the desire of many of his Friends to whom his Memory is and ever shall be most sweet and pretious that this DisDiscourse might be usher'd-in with a short Account concerning Him and some of his last Moments till a fuller Relation of his Holy Life be prepared for publick View which is a thing much desired by many to the end that so Saint-like and Exemplary a Life might serve for a Copy and Encouragement of the Godly and for the Reclaiming and Converting of the Wicked and Profane in these Dregs of Time wherein we have so great a Scarcity of such Examples and in which true Religion and the Fear of God seem to have left the Earth But in the mean time till some or other undertake this Task be pleased Reader to accept of these short Hints concerning the Instrument by whom our good God has been pleas'd to reach forth the following Truths and Directions in the Way and Progress to the New-Birth that Land of Rest and Peace unto thee and all those who have Ears to hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches Mr. Thomas Bromley was born at Vpton upon Severne in Worcester-shire of an Ancient and Honourable Family according to the Worlds Account but methinks in mentioning this I sink below the Subject I am speaking of for what 's this to one who by his better Birth was a Son and Heir of God and Coheir with the King of Kings Lord of Lords the Holy and ever Blessed Jesus He was in his younger Years religiously Educated and after he had gone through the Learning of the Schools became a Member of All-Souls Colledge in Oxford where God was pleased to reveal his Son in him and to make great and glorious Discoveries of himself unto him such as it may be should they be here related some would scarce be able to understand or bear And from that time forwards the Supreme Love having ravish'd his Heart with his All-surpassing Beauty became a Vail to his Eyes keeping him from beholding Vanity or lusting after it and he again in return of this special Divine Grace and Favour wholly Dedicated himself to his Service from his Youth and parting with all and denying himself became a faithful Follower and Disciple of his great Lord and Master the Holy Jesus and a true Minister of the Gospel not of the Letter but of the Spirit one that needed not to be ashamed rightly dividing the Word of Truth But having spoke a few words of the Rising of this Bright Star I must next lead you to it 's Setting passing by it's whole Course he therefore having thus for many Years walked with God the Lord was pleased before he took him to himself to exercise him with a long continued Weakness which yet did not hinder him from exercising the Functions of an Evangelical Preacher About three Weeks before his Departure he preach'd his last Sermon from these Words Acts 14.22 the latter part of the Verse That we must through much Tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God from whence he took occasion to discourse not only concerning the Outward but more especially concerning the great Inward Spiritual Sufferings and Combats of Gods People After this Sermon he grew so weak that he could not Preach and but seldom Pray in the Family Yet at sometimes when he felt the Power of God upon him he would have them call'd into his Chamber and would pray with great Fervency and Strength of Voice as if he had been in perfect Health During this time for his Setting was of one piece with his Rising and whole Course he gave many holy Exhortations to those that came to visit him and would often say He could take delight in nothing but God as having been dead to the World these many Years He declar'd to a familiar Friend of his more than once That except the Lord would be pleas'd to restore him to such a degree of Health that he might Preach the Gospel and so help to Edify the Church of God he had rather if he might choose for himself die than live for he knew whither he should go viz. to God and Christ and all the Blessed Angels c. But that he must resign And would often say That he lived in the Will of God He was observed to be much introverted and exercised in Mental Prayer or Prayer of Silence and when he heard too much talk in his Chamber he would say Be silent be silent for Silence and Stilness is best He had one Evening being about Ten Days before he died such a mighty Power of God upon him as many Years ago he had experienced in the Company and Communion of his special Spiritual Friends so that having call'd some dear Friends up to his Chamber he broke forth into singing and praising of God to the great joy comfort and refreshment of all that heard him and so likewise did about four or five days before his decease Sometime before this he discours'd to some Friends of the Difficulty of Salvation which was not to be secur'd but by giving our Hearts wholly up to God without any reserve whatsoever And then mentioned the great Love he had to Souls and desire that they might not miss of Salvation and testified his Vniversal Charity to all that fear'd God of what Persuasion or Division soever The day before he dyed some Friends being come some Miles to Visit him he with great earnestness and demonstration of Truth discours'd to them of God of the Immortality of the Soul