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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05558	An heavenly chariot layde open for transporting the new-borne babes of God, from time infected vvith sin, towards that æternitie in the which dwelleth righteousnesse. Made up of some rare pieces of that purest golde which is not to bee found but in that ritchest thesaurie of sacred scripture. By M. David Lindsey, ministerr of Christs Evangel at Leith.	Lindsay, David, 1565?-1627.	1622 (1622)	STC 15683.5; ESTC S105377	59,418	81

Heavenlie Priviledges unto the full fruition and everlasting possession whereof Hee must necessarilie haue us advanced BLessed blessed O my soule beyonde measure be all those whose Father Almightie GOD in His dearest Sonne IESVS hath become And therefore I cannot wonder that that Disciple whome IESVS loved speaking heereof was mooved with a shrill voyce thus to crye foorth resembling some Messenger sounding from a Market Crosse some speciall Proclamation Beholde what loue the Father hath shewed on us that wee should bee called 1. Iohn 3.2 The Sonnes of GOD. Manie Sonnes indeede hath His Majestie yea our GOD blessed for evermore bee that His only beloved Sonne IESVS who at a great rate hath conquished these Sonnes unto Him hath a verie worlde of Sonnes Alwayes Revel 7.9 the Scripture telleth mee O my Soule That GOD our Father will make all these His Sonnes Kinges Revel 1.6 and everie one of them a King not to reigne for a while honoured with a fading Crowne But to reigne for evermore in that Kingdome 1. Pet. 1 3.4.5 which is immortall and undefiled and which fadeth not away What King earthlie ô my Soule having manie Sonnes is able to make all his Sonnes Kinges And yet foolish man dreameth those to bee happie who bee the Sonnes of Kinges yea of great men howbeit none can bee possibly truelie happie but such who being borne over againe Iohn 3.3 by the Spirit and by the Worde of GOD bee made the Sonnes of The Most High and so Kings at length to reigne in despight of all Tyrantes and tyrannie for ever I shall not offende heerefore ô my Soule albeit my Coate now bee course my Bread bee browne my Drinke small my Crowne sharpe and pricking having terroures within and troubles without Knowest thou not ô my soule howe thy LORD and SAVIOVR comming to this Earth by His death to draw thee to Heaven was cloathed was entertayned was crowned here and yet blessed bee His Name in despight of all hellish and earthlie Powers is Hee not crowned nowe in that highest Heavens with that Crowne of incomparable Majestie and everlasting Glorie Mat. 28.18 having all power in Heaven and on Earth given unto Him Yea possessing a Name aboue all names which are named in this Worlde Philip. 2.9.10 and unto the which everie Knee must bowe O believing Trades man Craftes man Coatter Beggar Canst thou lift up thine Eyes afore-hande to see Canst thou bow thine heart afore-hande to taste the unspeakeable Ioyes which thy Soule shall possesse that incorruptible Glorie which shall compasse thy verie clay Vessell when thou beeing glorified throughlie the Lambe with the Lambe shall goe in and out before the Lambe in that newe Hierusalem which is aboue having on thine head that Crowne of endlesse Glorie cloathed with a long white Robe having Palmes in thine hand and crying joyfullie with a loude voyce Salvation commeth of our GOD that sitteth on the Throne Revelat. 7.9.10 and of the Lambe Let it bee thy Meate then thy Drinke then while thou sojournest heere O my soule absent in bodie from that Lambe of GOD thy Saviour to thinke upon this IESVS to speake of this IESVS to seeke this IESVS to serue this IESVS who hath called thee unto this honour to bee the Childe of GOD and so to be a King for ever to possesse fulnesse of Ioye in GODS praesence and at His Right Hand Pleasures for evermore Psal 16.11 KNewest thou O my Soule how farre that blessed wise GOD thy Father hath advanced the flesh of man belieue me thou couldest not offend if I should curse thee if thou attempted but so much as to lust after those evils wherewith alace a verie world of people are nowe grosselie defiled And I could not but bee ashamed to be offended if thou shouldest curse mee if I should prease to giue these members of my bodie unto the committing of those sinnes which thousandes alace doe commit in this our time even with delectation and greedinesse O my soule hath not GOD honoured the flesh of man verie farre in making it to be a Cabinet to lodge that immortal Soule made by His Majestie even of an Heavenlie substance hath not our GOD more highlie advanced the flesh of man in making it to bee the Temple and dwelling place of His Holie Spirit Yea to be that Spirituall Immortall Incorruptible and Glorious plenishing which must fill and keepe the Heavens for ever Yea hath not His Majestie advanced it more than highlie in His blessed and onlie begotten Sonne IESVS that holie One being contented to assume and unite in one personall union with His Godheade the verie flesh of man not onlie for a while walking on earth in that our nature but transporting that our flesh to the highest Heavens so that Hee who is GOD alwayes aequall with the Father and with the holy Ghost is cloathed with the flesh of man And He who is cloathed with the flesh of man is GOD aequall with the Father and with the Spirit ô Coelestiall Spirites and heavenlie Angles who serve your blessed GOD alwayes readilie faythfullie busilie fullie and joyeful●ie can ye compare with that man who by a liuelie faith is ingraffed into that God-Man and Man-God IESVS Would that holy One cloathe Himselfe with your nature so that you may say He who is GOD is also an Angell and he who is Angell is GOD Or rather Heb. 2.16 tooke Hee not the Seede of Abraham so that the believing man may say He who is GOD is man also Hee who is man is GOD also ô Coelestiall Spirites said that blessed GOD your and our Glorious Maker ever of anie Angell or to anie Angell The angell Zach. 13.7 My fellow And yet our blessed GOD can speaking to and of His Sonne in whom we are thus beyond measure honoured speake thus of Him The man My fellow Darest thou then ô my Soule attempt to dishonour this GOD who hath so farre honoured thee Yea darest thou attempt to advise me being kitled with anie deceiueable lust to abuse this my flesh or anie member of it since His Majestie hath so wonderfullie advanced it We all thinke that David oversawe himselfe verie grosselie to Mephibosheth the creeple son of dead Ionathan who proved constantlie rarelie kinde to David when having tried the grosse falsehood and seditious treacherie of that villane Ziba hee saide to the poore creeple abused honest man 2. Sam. 19.29 Haue I not sayde Thou and Ziba divide the landes But when shall men who holde themselues for good Christians thinke and confesse that they oversee themselues abusing most grosselie the LORD their GOD when they crye aloude albeit not with their shrill voyces yet with their vilde workes even to the hearing of that GOD to whom they be more than oblieged in all respects but chiefely for advancing their flesh so highly which is the onlie ground of mans whole foelicitie O LORD GOD haue I not said Thou and the Devill divide betwixt

you Offend not O my Soule that I speake thus for if manie professing CHRIST amongst us may bee believed when they speake they haue appointed their hearts for GOD and yet if their lyves shall be narrowlie tryed it shall be clearelie found that they haue dedicated their flesh and so their eyes eares mouth handes feete and that foule member of their bodie for the Devill for alace be those their members imployed in the service of anie beside the devils service Is this to bee thankfull to that GOD who hath beene kinde unto them Is this to honour GOD by their flesh who hath so honoured mans flesh Knowest thou not ô loose Christian that the Devill is the Accuser of the Children of GOD CHRISTS Brethren Rev. 12.10 Who first craftilie entyseth them to sinne against GOD and then maliciouslie accuseth them before GOD for sinning against Him Now O! how fearefull an Accusation shall this bee hearken hearken ô my Soule when Satan thine accuser ô loose Christian presenting himselfe before that great GOD upon the sight of thy loose and lewde life shall peartlie say ô LORD it pleased thy Majestie out of thine unspeakeable loue towardes man to cloathe thine owne blessed Sonne with the flesh of man even to the ende that in that flesh He might suffer for man and thereby to advance man to the highest Heavens who having willinglie made himselfe my Companion through sinne should haue beene adjudged to the lowest helles with mee for ever and yet LORD here is a man yea a verie world of men who haue defiled themselues with abominable Idolatries bowing their knees to the worke of mans handes lifting up their handes and sending up their cryes to base creatures forgetting the great and blessed Creator yea defiled in their flesh with fearefull Blasphemies cruell Murthers filthie Incests Adulteries and Fornications with brutish Drunkennesse Covetousnesse and Oppression O LORD will not Thy Majestie being that just judge of the world be avenged upon such grosse unthankefulnesse and adjudge with the soules the bodies of such men to that Lake which burneth with Fire and Brimstone forevermore seeing they haue so grosselie shamed that their flesh which thou hast so greatlie honoured Thinke upon this ô my Soule Roman 6.12 1. Thess 3.3.4.5 keeping thy selfe from all inward filthinesse Forget not this O my Soule but charge me alwayes In GODS Name to keep this my bodie all the members of it from all outward uncleanenesse EVen the filthiest deboashed liver O my soule offendeth when hee is compared to the Devill and yet everie filthie liver will treade the devils path Cannot the devill O my Soule peartlie praesent himselfe amonst the Children of GOD before GOD And yet no sooner goeth hee from His Majesties praesence but hee can run with speede not onlie to overthrow all that belonged to that just man Iob but also to bereaue him of his health thinking thereby to make him blaspheme GOD. Even the filthiest liver offendeth if hee bee called a Iudas yet as Iudas went from his Masters Table to deliver Him into the hands of His Enemies so manie called Christians can take their Iourney as it were from CHRISTES Chamber to overthrow CHRIST Alace alace O my soule howe manie bee there who praesent themselues with GODS Sainctes in GODS House before GOD to heare His Word and yet comming from it deboash themselues in all uncleannesse O! how manie bee there who going to Prayer and rysing from Prayer thinke never upon that which they haue confessed or bound themselues unto while they were praying till they goe backe againe to their Prayer deboashing themselues betwixt their one prayer and their other prayer even in those same sinnes for the which in prayer they accused themselues they condemned themselues craving GOD pardon and solemnlie avowing to abstaine from them The judgement of Charitie which suspecteth the best of all adviseth mee to thinke that these knowne Murderers Adulterers Fornicators Drunkardes and so foorth when they goe to their prayer doe nowe and then confesse these their sinnes craving pardon for them and promising to amende their liues and yet with the Swine even nowe washen after they haue risen from their knees they can turne to the puddle of their wonted wickednesse Let all such then who doe heare GOD speaking unto them by His Worde and who doe speake to GOD by prayer joyne repentance with their hearing and with their prayer remembering that he onelie is blessed who heareth the Worde of GOD and doeth it And that the prayer of that man Luke 11 28. Prov. 28.9 who draweth away his care from hearing the Law is abomination before GOD. LET mee not bee carefull ô my Soule for my life what I shall eate or what I shall drinke or for my bodie what I shall put on For thy blessed GOD that Great Master-House-holde of His Kirke can wiselie provide for His owne even in their greatest extremitie albeit not alwayes that which they would bee at yet ever that which shall serue them untill His good worke bee accomplished in them The King of Aegypt taketh Straw frō the Israelites which before was furnished unto them the Taske-masters of Aegypt resolue them notwithstanding heereof that the number of their Britkes must bee fulfilled daylie And when they with wearie heartes are carefull to provide themselues of Strawe they can finde none Exodus 5. for the people of the Land will neyther giue them anie for request nor sell them anie for Silver How then shall they come by it and where shall they finde it Blessed bee GOD ô my Soule vvhen the King vvho was a man carrying the same shape which the Israelites carried vvith his Taske-masters and people can refuse all helpe unto distressed Israel can adde affliction to afflicted Israel that senselesse dead hard Earth vvhich they trode upon vvill offer her helpe unto them praying them as it were to pull up her haire before they should perish and so shee propyned them with that Stubble wherewith shee was covered before they should want altogether that wherewith they might make Bricke unto cruell blooddie Pharaoh O David no favour canst thou finde notwithstanding of thine humble carriage and manie good services in the eyes of Saul thy master and father in Law and yet art thou not lovinglie embraced and kyndlie entertayned by that stranger Achis 1. Sam. 27. that uncircumcised King of Gath Ahab and Iezebel doe busilie seeke thy lyfe O Eliah but doe not the verie devouring Ravens entertayne it as carefullie O Nebuchadnezar thou art so fearcelie set against those three Children of GOD 1. King 17.3.4.5.6 who refused to worship that Image vvhich thou madest that thou vvilt not onelie haue them casten into an hote fierie Fornace but thou wilt haue this Fornace to bee hote at that one time Daniel 3. seaven tymes more than it was wont to bee hote Alwayes vvere not these furious fearce fierie flames mercifull unto them Yea so mercifull unto them that not