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A35684	Pelecanicidium, or, The Christian adviser against self-murder together with a guide and the pilgrims passe to the land of the living : in three books.	Denny, William, Sir, 1603 or 4-1676.; Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702.	1653 (1653)	Wing D1051; ESTC R22350	177,897	342

her Urne 10. A burning Lamp with shining Light Whose constant Eye winks not for Day or Night I' th' Mid'st o' th' Church example is that 's ever bright 11. Then on She does conduct thy Pace Unto the Chancel of That Holy Place Grace Where Prayer with lifted Hands kneels 'fore the Throne of 12. Affections all about Her Kneel Upon The pavement that is made of Steel From which reflexed Heat on Hearts from Stoves they feel 13. I'th'Mid'st a Spire to Heaven doth strain So Wights mount Angels do descend amain Lo Here thou hast thy wish Of Prayer thou Pass dost gain PERSPECTIVE VI. 1. THe House of Prayer is the Place for Holy Worship humble Reverence and Invocation of Almighty God When the Israelites came out of Egypt it was not a House but a Tabernacle which Moses was commanded to build for the Place of such publick Adoration But in Succession of Times when they were setled in the promised Land Solomon was commanded to build a Temple And these two shadowed the Difference between the Jewes Synagogue and the Christian Church The Tabernacle was moveable and but for a Time The Temple fixed and permanent The State of the Jewes vanishing to continue in their Generations The State of the Christians durable to last unto the End of the World But more principally it shadoweth forth the State of the Church Militant here upon Earth and Triumphant in Heaven Unto both the Prophet David alludeth Lord Who shall sojourn in thy Holy Tabernacle Who shall rest in Thine Holy Mountain Psal. 15. 1. The Temple at Jerusalem was thrice built First by Solomon after a glorious manner when the Riches of the Vessels were of Gold The Second Structure was by Zorobabel But came far short of That even causing Tears from those that considered the Statelinesse of the First And very Inferiour it was to that In respect of the Building It was lower and meaner Of the Vessels Those were of Gold These of Brasse Five things were lost and wanting in The Second Temple All which were in the First 1. The Ark of God 2. Urim and Thummim God gave no Answer by These as in Former Times 3. Fire which in The Second Temple never descended from Heaven to consume their burnt Sacrifices as it did in the First 4. The Glory of God appearing between the Cherubims which they termed Schechina The Habitation or Dwelling of God 5. The Holy Ghost to inable Them for The Gift of Prophefie Henod built the Third the Last And that same was of a Statelier Kind of Building than that of Solomon And of greater Glory For Christ Preached therein Though the Jewes had many Oratories or Places for Prayer caled Proseuchae which how they differed from their Schools or Synagogues is not here materiall yet Our Blessed Saviour fixeth only on and appropriates to the Temple above any other Place the Use of Prayer So did he manifest when he threw out The Merchants and Money changers from the same with this Expression My House is called The House of Prayer But ye have made it a Den of Theeves A very Sad and uncomelie Change But though the Guide pointeth at all these before mentioned yet here he aymeth more especially at a Description of the Worship it Self the Operation and Efficacy of Prayer As a House is a place for constant Residence and usuall Habitation Prayer likewise is the Christians Best Receptacle In which he may converse with God continually Not that he should do nothing else But that he should do nothing of moment without it Not that much babling is of account with the Wisdom of God but that we should often renew our Selves by frequent Seeking His Favour in such Manner Form and Language as He hath directed and in such Brevity as is Suitable to the Weakenesse of Our frail Natures Non quam multum Sed quam bene It is not the How Much but the How Well that is pleasing unto Him Firme Resolution's Camp to gain c. If we think to obtain a Christian Resolution we must put away Hypocrisie out of our Hearts and Falshood out of our Understandings We must entertain Truth and keep Close to Devotion And then the Lord graciously will be pleased both to inable us with A will to resolve and with a Power to do Prayers blest Chappel visit Accustom thy self to thy hours of Devotion as well as be mindeful to pray at all Times convenient Pray in Season and out of Season Deus in adjutorium meum intende Domine ad adjuvandum c. as it is Psal. 70. O God haste Thee to deliver me Make haste to Help me O Lord Whereupon Cassiodore expoundeth the usefull and very comfortable meaning Hujus versiculi oratio in adversis ut eruamur in prosperis ut servemur ne extollamur incessabili iugitate fundenda est The Prayer that is narrowly contained in this short Verse is continually to be powred forth without ceasing or wearinesse as well in adversity least we be Swallowed up with Sorrowes or overthrown with difficulty as in prosperity that we may be preserved from being puffed up therewith and too much exalted Huius ergo versiculi meditatio in tuo pectore indirupta volvatur Hunc in opere quolibet ministerio sive in intinere constitutus decantare non desinas Hunc et dormiens et reficiens et in ultimis naturae necessitatibus meditare Let therefore the meditation of this Versicle lay undisturbed in thy Brest and be ready at every Call of thy Heart Cease not the cheerfull Musick hereof in thy Lips when thou goest about any businesse undertakest any thing Use it to refresh thee when thou doest travell or takest a Journey Even when thou Sleepest when thou eatest at bed at board wheresoever thou art whatsoever thou doest in the lowest necessity of nature in the greatest extremities and difficulties of this Life meditate Hereon continually So Thy Passe obtain Is our proceeding in holy exercises by Gods Grace and Assistance without which we have no strength to resolve any thing that is good 2. But at Faiths Mount it must be sign'd Gods Grace worketh effectually in us when by Faith in Christ we are sealed to the Day of Redemption It is called Faiths Mount Because it is placed on High upon the Rock Christ who is the sure and blessed Foundation of our Salvation Fides Electorum aut nunquam deficit aut statim reparatur The Passe to Resolution for Performance of Christian Duties is ascertain'd to Gods Children by Faith in Christ For that Faith it self either never fails them or is ever repaired in them What Beauty what Vertue does not alwayes appear in the Blossom of the Tree doth lye hidden in the Root Quid est Fides nisi credere quod non vides What is Faith but the Belief of that which thou doest not see Where Hope where Charity c. These do alwayes accompany a true and sincere Faith There can be no steadinesse of Faith without an

Therefore pray alwaies with all manner of Prayer Supplication in the Spirit and watch thereunto with all perseverance and Supplication for all Saints Ephes. 6. 18. Continue in Prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving Collos 4. 2. Pray continually 1 Thessal 5. 17. And then in respect of our prayers there is a progression that God would make us holy more and more until the comming of Christ at which time and not before we shall be perfectly holy As S. Paul desireth 1 Thessal 5. 23. I pray God that your whole spirit and Soul and Body may be kept blamelesss unto the comming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Devotion is said to conduct thy pace because prayer must be considered and not hasty 11. Unto the Chancel of that holy place Still the Ascent of our prayer is resembled as the going up from the Body of the Church to a Chancel or as in Cathedral Churches from the Nave to the Quire Pious Christians by direction of the Apostolical power The Bishops and Pastors in the Church after the Gospel had in the Primitive times passed through the storms of persecutions and begun to shine forth in more peaceable Ages did build Churches which they Dedicated to God as most fit places for publick Worship which in memory of their former troubles and their great and wonderful Deliverances out of them they fashioned in the form of a Ship which is subject to be tossed to and fro with impetuous Waves and uncertainly forced up and down in the Sea of this World by the Tempestuous Windes of Persecution Being very well acquainted with that Text in Saint Luke speaking of Christ standing by the Lake of Gennesaret Chap. 5. v. 2. He saw two ships stand by the Lakes side and the Fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their Nets And he entred into one of the ships which was Simons and required him that he would thrust off a little from the Land And He sate down and taught the People out of the Ship The Ship is the Church Christ the Priest and Bishop of our Souls the Prease of people upon the shore are Christians the Followers of his Doctrine Nor were such Churches unlike a Ship in many kinds if supposed to be transverst or turn'd with the Bottome or Foundation upward The Roofe is the keele the Walls the sides the Foundation the upper Deck or Shroud the East End the Prow or Forcastle The Pinacle in the midst the Mast and the West End the Poop or Steerage These Churches in their scituation stand transposed to the Temple of the Jews at Jerusalem These face the East as That the West The Christians worship toward the rising of the Sun so acknowledging the Resurrection of that Messias who is come and ascended to the Father The Jew looked Westward and in the shadow worshipped him that was to come But here the Guides aime is by a Reflection upon both and by the Comparison of each with other to make a Discovery of the way gradation and operation of Prayer In the outward part of the Temple of the Jews were the Atria divided by a low Wall of three Cubits high which surrounded the Temple The one was Atrium Populi The other Atrium Sacerdotis Such places are those Churchyards and Common places heretofore dedicated to holy Use and consecrated for publike praise prayer and Preaching about Christian Cathedrals The people belonging to Prayer are Christian circumcised Hearts which have communion in Atrio Populi in the Congregation of the Saints Devotion is the Levite which prepareth the Sacrifice the Priest is the Minister of the Ordinances be it prayer for the People or Preaching of the Sacred Word who joyning with them in Thanksgiving sacrificeth the Calves of their Lips with a Quid retribuam Domine Thus is obedience the best oblation in Atrio Sacerdotis the places of the Ordinances The Sanctum the Sanctuary as the Body or Nave of the Cathedrals is a Holy Life and Conversation thus the Soul becomes A Temple of the Holy Ghost This as the Cathedral hath two Isles or Alae wings to the Body in position North and South As they belong to Prayer Saint Augustine describes them Hae sunt duae alae Orationis quibus volatur ad Deum Si ignoscis delinquenti that 's the North Isle or left Wing Coldness to Wrath that is to pardon and forgive our offending brother Et donas egenti that 's the South Isle or Right wing to sustain the Needy to give to the Poor who are Members of our Elder Brother Christ. Through this Sanctuary of a Holy Life prayer is carried by Ejaculation of the Spirit into that Quire of the Church the Holy of Holies into Heaven where Jesus the ever-blessed High Priest our Mediator and Intercessor is sitteth at the right Hand of the Father and receiveth and delivereth our Petitions before the Mercy Seat the Throne of God This resemblance looketh up to that of Exhortation of Saint Paul 1 Tim. 2. 1. Concerning Prayer in general I exhort therefore that first of all Supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for All men That is the Atrium Populi For Kings and all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all Godliness and Honesty That is the Sanctum the Sanctuary For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God Our Saviour That is Sanctum Sanctorum the Holy of Holies From which place of Bliss comes the Bounty of Blessedness 12. Affections all about her kneel Denoting that Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God with all thy strength with all thy heart with all thy mind with all thy Soul c. The whole man must endeavour the utmost at so great a work at the performance of so pious a Duty Kneel Intimateth Reverence Upon the pavement Humility Made of Steel Of a steedy and firme Faith Reflected Heat Zeal On hearts Our Consciences From stones they feel From refreshing of the Holy Spirit breathing joy and Comfort into us after an unperceiveable manner Or may well be taken for our Charity to others which reflecteth a Heat upon our prayers The sum of this Stanza pointeth at Saint Pauls Direction to Timothy 1 Tim. 2. 8. I will therefore that men pray lifting up pure hands that is humble without wrath that is charitable or not doubting that is faithfully 13. I' th' midst a spire to Heaven doth straine Doth reach As in the midd'st of a Church the Steeple or spire is placed so the Ejaculations and groanings of Spirit rise as out of the midst of our souls where by our Prayers mount up to God and his Mercies like the Angels upon Iacobs Ladder descend down to us Wights Prayers Angels Mercies Hast thy wish obtainest thy desire and hast the Effect of thy prayer Pass doest gaine Hast obtained Assisting Grace to further thee to a Holy Resolution We must pray to be enabled to resolve as well as to do Refresh thou here

praise For high thy Way 's It leads Thee up to Skie To Stars thou shalt be nigh Where soaring Eagles flie Thou shalt pass Clouds that swim in Air Unto a Place that 's clear and fair No Fogs thy sight shall there impair Now Contemplations HOLY HILL ascend But Reverence bids at every Step to bend For humble climbing gains this Journeyes End And when th' ast gain'd the towring Top and look'st below All Things will then to Sight so pettie little show As Thou scarce Them or Mortals Thee will hardly know 12. Behold the Place A Narrow Space Like up-cast Face Or as some Perspective Through which Eyes Beams do drive At th' Object far t' arrive As in an Astrolabe the Dame Does pierce with sight the heavenly Frame To th' Onely One I AM by Name She with weak Eyes does God in Essence see And by Reflex of 's Word eyes in One Three Though Eyes too weak alas for●s Mysterie First in His ESSENCE Him she INFINITE does finde IMMORTAL Him INCOMPREHENSIBLE by Minde Subsistences so Three to GOD by'Inbeeing joyn'd 13. SUBSISTENCES Amaze such Eyes Wu'd be too Wise. In their Inb'eeing may see How every One o' th' Three Exceedes Capacitie IMCOMPREHENSIBLE th' are so INEFFABLE by all that know From such their In-beeing doth flow The Persons COESSENTIALITIE So does She apprehend the TRINITIE And so does finde it in the UNITIE Their Emanation or Procession there is none Can comprehend or utter All Conceits out-gone So Coeternall so Coequall Three in One. Let Gospel show Church read such Depth She lets alone 14. Her loftie Bower Or living Tower Whose top doth flower Although it raise her high And helps her piercing Eye To dart up through the skie And into Heaven to ayme aright Where Glorie is Eternall Light Her Eye 's too weak yet for the Sight But there sits mounted and her Garments are Embroid'red o're with many a Gemmie Starre An Eagle pierched from her standes not farre With constant Looke upon the Radiating Sunne As if he watcht his Steeds that 'bout the World do run Whose wings oft trye a Course before the Day be done 15. There thus alone With Love oregone Views Th' Only One Her Soul 's a spirie Fire Of Extasi'd Desire And flames the more the nigher So his Perfection does behold As in his Attributes are told None but Himself can God unfold Amazement seizes on her Dazzled Sence At Sight of the Mysterious Excellence O' th' TRINITIE All Energies from thence What Pen can write Or skill can read His Holy Name All tongues are Dumb and each attempting hand is lame Had he not told Himself how could she know I am 16. Her too weak Bow Shoots not to know What 's lockt from show As in Himself God None Does know but God alone Who 's Infinite and One. She studies not their Braine to cure Wu'd finde a Circles Quadrature Her Thoughts are hallow'd sober pure Enough 's for her His Back-Parts She behold She dares not further then 's reveal'd be bold Nor knows she how to go If not first told And what is so reveal'd enough to Good Life is She sees without bold prying into Mysteries No vein she has to search for what vain searching ' t is 17. With humble bent With meek Ascent With Minde intent From Gods Sufficience shee Doth his Efficience see Her knowledge such must be Such are her Faith 's attempting Wings By which she climbes to holy Things And to Capacitie Them bringes These unto Consolation are the Prop And Pietie's Provokers to the Top And in pursuit of these she makes no stop In Gods Sufficience all Fulnesse sees more shall In His Efficiencie as in His Publick Hall She views how wondrous in his Works Gods All in All. 18. HIM absolute None ought Dispute None can confute For in his Essence Shee Beholds ETERNITIE 'Fore world or ought was He. Thus does She raise a vig'rous Look 'Fore Time or storm but by one Book That any Their Creation took As Relative tow'rds Him She Eye does place Upon the first o' th Intellectual Race Reads Angels made Some stood some lost their place To those adher'd and stood the great Creator gave Their Confirmation Everlasting Blisse to have But those that fell were thrust to Hell in chains of Slave 19. Then Tophet told Ordain'd of old Prepar'd to hold Those Fiends in quenchlesse fire T' endure Th' Almighties Ire In Pains that ne'er expire Then Tophet was ordain'd to be And then prepared by Decree Prepared onely Shee does see And for those onely was that horrid Den For Reprobation absolute Decreed then As their Predestination it had been As Relative She GOD Creator doth perceive O' th' World call'd Visible Man second Race doth give Man second Race of Intellectuals then made did live 20. By Satans Spell Alas Man fell Deserving Hell Inward Adhaesion lost Outward Obedience crost Soul's Bodie 's curse it cost Forfeit was Nature with drawn Grace Glorie come short of from blest Place So fell both Man and all his Race Th' Interpellation of th' Eternall Word Did Mercie 's Miracle for him afford And was first means for Man to be restor'd His standing in the Gappe Did Execution stay His Superceeding It was stop in Sentence Way His Sponsion gain'd Decree that He the Debt should pay 21. 'T was co-decreed For such a Deed As Man did need The Word should Flesh become And satisfie God's Doome By Suff'ring in Mans Roome So sanctified was Nature then Grace Glorie was restor'd agen In that Decree to help fallen Men. As co-decreed coactuated were Th' Apostles place Mediators he should bear Though both distinct yet both on him t' appear Th' Apostleship by Unction of the Holy Ghost The Principle of Government for Church so tost And speciall Ordinances Fount choice Men t' accost 22. And those were given From bounteous Heaven In Portions even Yet were they severall As to those Patriarchs all As Moses speciall Call In Shadow Revelation was Redemption so in Type did passe So read first Times The future Case Administrations interlegal came By th' Baptists Ministrie before that Lambe To whom the Angel gave the Holy Name But th' Evangelical deliver'd were to th' Jews And to the twelve Apostles whom Christs Self did choose And to All Nations that would not the same refuse 23. Time did at full The Curtain pull And types annul In Substance Revelation In Truth appear'd Salvation To Jew to every Nation Then did break forth the shining Light O' th' Gospel to appear more bright Is represented to her Sight Of Jew was borne unto the Jew Christ came And to them first He published his Name Then to the Gentiles did He do the same To several Ages were all These Administrations In their respective times emergent Revelations Summ'd and upon Record were Scripture Affirmations 24. MEDIATORS Place By UNION was Of Natures as Redemptions Principle Regenerations Well Of Life to those that fell So Nature sanctifi'd new stood Restor'd is Grace Glory made