be here Math. 17.4 But then wee shal be in light vnchangeable and sée Christ euer in felicity whom his enemies had in obloquie Those Ioyes infinite passe all Ioyes finite The voyce of Ioy and gladnes shal be euer with the righteous Oh happy heires of heauēly inheritance without our deserts Aug. Deus coronat dona sua non merita nostra God crowneth his owne gifts not our merites O blesse the Lord who redeemeth thy life frō destruction Psal 103.4 who crowneth thee with louing kindnes tender mercies Feare not little flock Lu 12.32 Reu 4.8 for it is your Fathers good pleasure to giue you the kingdome O let vs say holy holy holy Lord God Almightie which was is is to come We shal be Citizens with the saints and of the houshold of God dignified and glorified In Ioy we shal reioyce that our names are written in heauen franchessed fréemen irreuocably inrolled as sure rather surer then the estate of Angells We shall haue the fruition of Christs Resurrection and be manumissed from the bondage of death and destruction Frée denizens freed from miseries and proude peoples malice Those Ioyes passe all Iubilees Good Iesus bring vs to that blisse As there is no equalitie betwixt the Creator and vs here sinfull creatures So is there none betwéene the ioyes of Heauen and worldly pleasures These are ioyes transitory the other Ioyes eternall Rom. 8.17 Wee shall be ioynt heires with Christ and partakers of true happinesse There is no sighing singing No heauinesse Ioyfulnes No ignominie glory Holy holy holy shall be euer ascribed to Iehouah The Virgins could learne the new song which follow the Lambe Reuel 14. Oh the Ioyfull harmony that wee shall heare and be glorified euer in glorie Wee shall haue a palace vnspeakable being deliuered into the glorious libertie of the Children of God Luke 20.36 Neither can they doe any more for they are equall to the Angels and are the Children of GOD being the children of the Resurrection If a man here sicke heard those ioyes he would not féele his paine Oh ioyfull shall we be when we be there hearing seeing and hauing vnspeakable ioyes Aug Erit in Coelo domus tua aeterna si modò bene in hoc tabernaculo vixeris Thine house shall bee eternall in heauen if now thou liuest well in this tabernacle Lose not that permanent Paradise for this pleasure which in respect thereof is paine for the Barley corne lose not the pretious Pearle for carnall copulation eternall benediction for a minute of selfe-will Reu 3.20 millions of yéeres ioyfull Ah God forbid he bids vs returne and reteyne him Behold I stand at the doore and knocke Receiue him and hee will receiue thée to sit in glory with his Maiestie which is a dignitie of all dignities Iob. 19.25 This did mitigate Iobs misery For I know my Redeemer liueth that he shall stand at the latter day vpon the earth and though after my skin wormes destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God S. Paul saith Phil. 3. For our conuersation is in heauen from whence also wee looke for the Sauiour the Lord Iesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious body c. A Comfort Our bodies shall be conformable to the body of Christ our Head We shall be like him ill thoughts bad motions and perturbations shall be excluded Wee heare this but hée that beléeues it and hopes to haue it his affection is fixed in heauen Therfore pray and repent so shalt thou haue what A worldly commodity for which thou dost venture soule and body Ah thou shalt haue a Throne of tryumph excéeding all earthly treasures to reigne in ioyes for euer If thou hadst all earthly riches plentiousnes pleasures and pleasantest place on earth with all elegant obiects Princely prospects dainty delicates musicall Instruments swéete singers persumes and fine sauours with all thy vnfained friends and choyce of chiefe louers yet all this were paine in respect of heauen where we shall ouer be with our good God to whom be all prayse honour power and glory now and euer Amen with heart and tongue againe Amen Gloria in excelsis Deo PSAL. 66.18 If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not heare me PROV 23.26 My sonne giue me thine heart ¶ Pray heartily OH heauenly Trinitie one God in vnitie to thee bee all honour Glorious God at thy brightnes the Sunne Moone and Starres are abashed and impure in thy sight much more I a sinfull creature which by mine iniquities haue stained those bright creatures Omniscient God thou knowost my thoughts before I thinke them and knowest me before I was I was conceiued in sin borne in sinne in sinne I liue I am by nature the childe of wrath O giue me grace to be borne from aboue that I may enter into thy kingdome I am not worthy to looke vp to thee I deserue to bee cast downe to hell but I appeale to the Throne of thy mercy in the Name of Iesus my Sauiour which calleth all penitent sinners to him to giue them rest Oh Sauiour refresh my silly soule which cryes to thee out of my sinfull carkasse that I may apply thy sufferings merits and promises to my soule and conscience and be accepted through thy righteousnes My Lord and my God out of 〈◊〉 side issued the bloud of my redemption and water of absolution to purge me from pollution thou standest at the dore and knockest giue me grace to open the dore of my heart touch it with the finger of thy Spirit that it maybe a fit receptacle to entertaine thee Create in me a cleane heart ô God and renue a right spirit within me that I may resist all exill and walke in righteousnes and holinesse all the dayes of my life Let the assurance of thy loue wipe all teares from mine eyes so come Lord Iesus Good God forgiue me all my sinnes for Iesus sake in whom thou art well pleased cloath me with his righteousnes and behold me in him I doe deserue damnation but hee hath payde my ransome Lord let me finde and feele thy mercy Giue mee grace to redeeme the time and spend it to thy prayse Blesse this Realme our King Queene and Royall Progeny blesse and comfort all thy children Make vs loue those things that thou dost loue and hate that thou hatest that we may keepe faith and a good conscience And if it be thy will forgiue and conuert our enemies Good God prepare me and thy children fit for thy kingdome O Christ giue vs grace to examine our selues whether thou be in vs that we may expresse the power of godlinesse in our liues Lord receiue our soules when we depart this life that we may prayse thee in heauen eternally The which peace God bring vs for Iesus sake that bought vs to whome with thee ô Father and the holy Ghost three persons and one God be all might maiestie prayse honour glory power and dominion now and euer Amen Watch and pray prayse God FINIS
yée that haue play vsed in your houses lose not Paradise for pelfe It was decréed in the time of Iustinian that such houses should be confiscat In stead of Cardes and Tables haue a Bible on thy Table Put off and abhorre euill Eph. 4.24 And that yee put on that new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Christ nor his Apostles were no gamesters yet the Libertine that should learne to read makes gaming his summam voluptatem and saith it refresheth his wit but that which is swéetest refresheth the wit soonest The Prophet saith Psa 119. vers 103. How sweet are thy words vnto my taste yea sweeter then honey to my mouth vers 62. At midnight I will rise to giue thanks vnto thee because of thy righteous iudgements That time is pleasant to play but not for them to giue thanks and pray Then they throw pots at each other with such swearing and blaspheming of God as is grieuous Vers 148. Mine eyes preuent the night watches that I might meditate in thy word but others refuse their rest to ryot He desired Gods word farre aboue fine gold Psa 19. and thought it swéeter then the hony combe Others refuse it for dice cards wanton company The sanctified grieuing for their sinnes séeke in Gods word for swéete comfort but such as loue leawdnesse get false comfort by lasciuiousnes They refuse Gods word playing wantonnesse and foolish iesting is a salue for their sore Blessed is he that can say in his heart Psa 119.97 O I loue thy Lawe it is my meditation all the day Pray for that minde yee that prophane euery day Deut. 6. Gods precepts must bée as frontlets betwéene mens eyes they are Gods childrens pastime The impious vse an Antithesis and passe their time with contraries they say they are the apter but it is to euill So the Diuell seduced Eue to thinke that by eating the forbidden fruit their eyes should be opened and be as Gods Gen. 3. but it was to the ruine of them and theirs Re. 4. In heauen God is praysed continually and canst not thou endure it at voyd times O rich earth poore earth proud earth loue God and vse it on earth Be not gracelesse and shamelesse to omit vertuous singing reading conference prayer and meditating to vse dice and carding Doe not procrastinate amend spéedily and spend thy short time profitably Be expedit for the day of the Lord Luk. 21.35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth Vers 36. Watch ye therfore and pray alwaies that ye may bee accounted worthy to escape all these thinges that shall come to passe and to stand before the Sonne of man 2. Pet. 1. And giue diligence to make your calling election sure O consider we can spare no time for idle playing nor idle speaking Heb. 6. The earth which bringeth thornes and bryers is reiected 1. Pet. 1.13 Wherefore gird vp the loynes of your minde be sober and hope to the ende Let vs doe well lest God come with deuouring fire and finde vs euill occupied Let the remembrance of his sudden comming preuent euill in thée againe againe I beséech thee Soli Deo laus gloria ¶ A meanes of amendment FOrasmuch as many liue liker Atheists then true Christians here are certaine motiues to excite to amend Many seruing Sathan can boast they shall bee saued not come to the steppe of pietie to hate iniquitie that they may apply Christs righteousnes to their conscience That most of this world shall be saued many places of holy writ refelleth Mat. 22.14 Multi sunt vocati pauci vero clecti Many are called but few are chosen It followes few shall be saued O fearefull sequell O consider thine estate hee without whom is no saluation spake it Heb. 9.28 Christ was once offered to beare the sinnes of many yet few saued relatiuely in respect of the damned His death is sufficient but few haue that seruent faith whose effect is a godly life Christ giueth a cauent Mat. 7.13 Enter ye in at the straight gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there bee which goe in thereat 14. Because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth vnto life and few there be that finde it Consider the oppositions The broad way to destruction many walke the narrow way to life few finde The entrance is straight the passage troublous sharpe and full of difficulties vnpleasant and repugnant to the pleasurable broad way Gods word is the right rule from which men make an aberration And Christ is the true way but he that is in Christ is a new creature And to such as begin so to be so many temptations rebukes and tryals wait on that vertuous life as few endure Troubles with pietie is a Christians liuery here is little or no Alcion time We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdome of God Act. 14.22 Christ saith Luke 13.14 Striue to enter in at the straite gate for many I say vnto you will seeke to enter and shall not be able This command and the reason might excite vs to cut off all obstacles and haue godly strife rife to excell in vertue Alas our striuing and seeking is in the broad way hauing a forme of pietie denying the power thereof few leaues fewer fruit The fiue foolish sought and craued Mat. 25. but were excluded the faith that brings foorth good fruits is required Belialls may Iaunce themselues Iusticiaries whippe themselues without true touch of conscience as appeares by their present committing of incontinencie and bloudy massacry The prophane may follow iniquitie presume on Gods mercy and sinne in such séeking the best is neglected the worst is delighted Many are perfidious else they would beleeue Christs words and be zealous to amend Consider seuere sayings Mathew 20.16 2. Esd 8. The most High hath made this world for many but the world to come for few Saint Aug. affirmes it Si omnes liberarentur foret vt absconditum esset quod peccato debetur propter iustitiam Sin autem nemo liberaretur foret vt non appareret quod per gratiam donatur If all should bee deliuered that were hid which by Iustice is due for sinne but if no man should bée deliuered that should not appeare which is giuen through grace Wée are all by nature the children of wrath it is Gods mercy to saue any The Elect shall be saued they with a liuely faith are louers and liuers of righteousnes to that end such are deliuered being fewer then the faithles Luke 1.17 Christs death is sufficient for all but not effectuall to all the fault is in vs sinfull people Oh let vs pray and repent with auersion from sinne and conuersion to godlinesse for right beleeuing hath good liueing without which liuely faith we pertaine not to Christ for that
wicked Rich and wicked Poore shall into the gulfe of garboyles In the two last Chapters of the Reuel is mentioned a Catalogue of manie that shall into Hell they shall finde and féele it so Circumscriptiua that they shall neuer bee in Heauen which GOD hath prepared for his Elected and ordained Hell for the Reiected they are Opposites For in this there is partition of Affection and the contrarietie of effects euer shal be In Heauen Ioy and praising of GOD amongst Angels In Hell horror cursing theyr Parents Byrth and béeing amongst Diuels Hideous sights will affright them and eternall Fire afflict them Thou Loyteror that canst not abide to labour how wilt thou then abide then to languish Sathan enticeth thée to tush but tush wil be turned to terror for déedes of darknes thou shalt haue fire and darknes Deuils will daunt thée they roare irefully Soules skréeke mournfully the intollerable torments are abidelesse and endlesse Minos examen Radamanthus dat cruciamen tertius heu Frater tertia iura tenet One Diuell rippeth vp thy examination an other Diuell tormenteth thée and the third is not behinde to adde one torment to an other Thou shalt bee prickt for thy Impietie pierced for thy Periurie thy hatred to such as abhorred thy leaude life shal hurt thée Thou shalt féele how the Diuell deceyued thée here to torment thée there The partiall that doe euill one for another shal be in Hell together Here is Time men must redéeme it after this Life no time but Eternitie Once in Hell and euer without mitigation or intermission Oh how shall the soule and body abide such torments as are sharper then all the diseases of this world are being vpon one lying aliue here in a fiery Furnace A minute of time would kill vs. When millions of millions of yeares are expired th' ende there is not the néerer It is no Lease but endlesse Consider this yée that séeke out the helplesse and borrowe their goods by great protestations yet detaining not fearing Conuiction as if for a dish of Apples yee could preuent the right of the Friendlesse Iudas restored you store it A little Thiefe goes mourning to the gallowes when a greater reioyceth in guilefull getting Shifters that assist him are not much vnlike him In Hell such wrongers shall bee wrung There will be Roaring Skriking Garboyles Griefe Gingling Glaring Staring Crying Mourning Howling Sighing Sobbing Stretching Panting Gasping Gnashing wringing Mouthes Handes and Bodyes thinke on Death thinke on this it 's fearfull to heare worse to féele Many are willing to escape it but loue of Lust lets it Tooth-ake is painefull and Heart-ake giues the Vltimum Vale but in Hell all parts are euer perplexed Sathan hath cousened some to shorten their dayes that could not endure griefe which they would neuer haue done had they knowne the pangs of Hell they that regarde not GOD here shall feare and féele his Iudgements there Oh hard heart that no call can penetrate thou shalt relent too late shall be thy contrition For in Hell is woe and wayling horror and terror Reuela 20. It is a bottomelesse pitte for the pittilesse a Lake of fier and Brimstone Where the Beast and the false Prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for euer and euer Quarrellers shall quell in hell Murtherers shall mourne the bloud-thirstie shall be thirsty Thieues booties shall be bitter Pangs endlesse will make them comfortlesse The worme of Conscience remaineth fierce Fier endureth O Idolator pray to God to no creature Saints search not thy heart but onely thy Creator the Cursed shall be crushed in the burning Lake which is the Second-death When so many yeares are expired as in Earth and Sea are sands and droppes of water the ende is not the néerer Leaue leaudnes belieue this It 's better to be a toade then to féele this Seruers of sinne shal be subiect to Sathan Hautinesse causeth heauinesse Psal 50.22 Now consider this yee that forget GOD. Art thou couetous and voluptuous flattering Superiours defrauding Inferiours let not pleasure mucke and mony hale thée to hel giue that which hurts thée to them that haue not Art thou wealthy wilfull it is wofull with a naughtie matter do not perseuere and vndoe men for euer Adulaters be no assisters repugne euill doers Burne not for bona omissa mala cōmissa the pangs are so intollerable as to thinke on is terrible Thou that flatterest thy friend with league of lenitie and with thy mates séekest his infamy Iudas the Traytor was such a deceiuer And yée that are mercylesse to the aged and to the poore in their sicknesse the same qualitie hath the Diuell if he haue thée in hell he will fray thée fry thée and with brimstome baste thée and in stead of coole liquor giue hot Lead if thou wilt not come there resist all things that draw thée thither Mat. 10.28 Feare him that can destroy both body and soule in hell Good God we pray thée kéepe vs from Gehenna it is thy mercy to spare vs wée all deserue those torments Blessed Trinitie guide vs to felicitie to thée be all honour and glory for euer Amen Sit Deo laus in seculo Sic fiat ¶ Comfort for the contrite WE finde in sacred Scriptures that few shall be saued in respect of the damned and that the pangs are vnspeakable infinite and in explicable Mic. 6.8 He hath shewed thee ô man what is good and what doeth the Lord require of thee but to doe iustly and to loue mercy and to walke humbly with thy God We must turne from sinne and walke in newnesse of life To be a new creature is required we sinne oft abhorre it and preuent it Repent with detestation haue dayly renouation and amendment haue Oyle with thy Lampe Sauing grace and regeneration must be with a Christian profession Bee faithfull as Peter well doing as Dorcas haue a good desire despayre not no disdence confidence hate thy sinne Mat. 11.28 Christ calleth such to giue them rest Mat. 12.20 A bruised reede shall he not breake and smoking flaxe shall hee not quench Ezech. 18. Come to him with a sparke of grace hee will not despise thée Repent truely God will forgiue thée Perseuere in pietie to the end Sorrow for sinne ioy in Christ with two contrarieties at once in one subiect Fight a good fight finish thy course kéepe the faith Shrinke not like Balaams Asse vnder his burden Psa 27.14 Waite on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart Put on the whole Armour of spirituall weapons Iam. 1.12 fight and faint not Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tryed he shall receiue the Crowne of life which the Lord hath promised to them that loue him Resist sin strongly flye to Christ humbly hée shed his teares and pretious bloud for thée Wéepe thou with Peter craue with blinde Bartemeus sée Christ by faith and shew foorth fruits with Zacheus