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A06685
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The soules pilgrimage to a celestial glorie: or, the perfect vvay to heaven and to God. Written by J.M. Master of Arts
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Monlas, John.; Maxwell, James, b. 1581, attributed name.
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1634
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venomous a crime assuring our selves that the least thought of disobedience and rebellion which possesseth the minde besides that it is an evident token of an ungodly minde is worthy of the most severe punishments that can be imagined But let us shew that we are begotten among the children of GOD and regenerated by the Spirit of his grace let our ambition never flye higher then to the execution of his sacred commandements wherein lyeth the fulnesse and centre of all delights and of all felicity both spirituall and temporall and since particularly he desireth that we should feare him and honour the King which he hath established over us seeing that in the accomplished and fulfilling of these two commandements we have as it were the summe of all his law let us be carefull to honour serve him and to yeeld unto him all sorts of duties for he is the Lords anointed assuring our selves that whilest we shall studie to yeeld unto him due obedience whilest we pray fervently for his long life and prosperity as we are in duty bound God for his part will make good unto us his promises to wit to make us enjoy a delightfull rest and an admirable contentment to blesse the land wherein we dwell to multiply our dayes upon it in joy and felicity and after we shall have served obeyed and and honoured the King hee will call us unto eternall felicity to crowne us with the incorruptible Crowne of glory that seated with the 24 Elders in the Revelation we may with them cast downe our crownes before him who is set on the Throne to sing before him altogether O Lord thou art worthy to receive honour blessing and glory to thee therefore O eternall immortall admirable to thee onely wise God Creator of all things be ascribed all honour glory and magnificence now and forevermore Amen Amen O Almighty God and soveraigne Monarch of the whole world who hast by thy incomprehensible vertue created all things both in heaven and earth that by thy fore-sight and wonderfull providence doest conduct and governe with so great wisedome and with so beautifull good and just order all thy creatures that the contemplation thereof ravisheth us in admiration and forceth the wicked and Atheists to confesse that the disposition so admirable of the starres the swift motions of the heavens the constant diversity of the seasons happen not by chance nor hazard but that there must be some first and Soveraigne mover to turne those great Spheres some great Captaine to set in order the whole hoast of heaven and to make the seasons march in their order this order I say so exactly observed openeth thy childrens mouthes and maketh them say with the Royall Prophet David The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy worke O God of peace that hatest confusion and disorder graunt us if such be thy good pleasure the grace to obey thy lawes and to follow in all things thy holy and divine ordinances and since thou shewest here unto us one of the wayes leading to the mountaine of thy holinesse to the spirituall Ierusalem to wit this commandement which thou makest here unto us to Honour our King give us the grace O loving and gracious Father that we may perfectly performe it that our eyes may be alwayes turned towards the Lords anointed that our eares may be alwayes open to receive and obey his commandements that our mouthes may be alwayes filled with his praises that our hearts may be alwayes enflamed with zeale to his service to testifie unto him on all occasions our most humble obedience that after we have here belowe beene faithfull subjects wee may bee crowned above in heaven with the incorruptible crowne of glorie Amen FINIS
THE SOVLES PILGRIMAGE TO CELESTIAL GLORIE OR THE PERFECT VVAY TO HEAVEN AND TO God Written by J. M. Master of Arts. LONDON Printed by Aug. Mathewes and are to be sold by William Sheares at the Signe of the Harrow in Britaines Burse 1634. discoursed and published the excellencie of your goodnesse and merits Shee seemes to be sparing of your prayses which are so justly due to you For Experience hath now made me know a thousand times more therof then heretofore I heard or understood because I find so much benignity and goodnesse among you and especially your Honours house that I should esteem my selfe to be guilty of a base ingratitude if I consecrated not the remaynder of my dayes to the honour of your service and commands For I confesse that this small Present which I now present and proffer you cannot countervaile or equalize those sublime favors whereby you have eternally made me your debter Those Philosophers which entreat and discourse of naturall causes doe affirme That the Sunne which makes the Raynebowe in the firmament by the darting and defusion of his rayes in a watry clowd disposed to receive it doth there forme and ingender this diversity of colours so pleasing to our sight Your Honour my good Lord is the Sunne of my happinesse and I am this clowd covered with the rayes of your favors which makes all the world admire in me the greatnesse of your Generosity and the excellencie of your goodnes But herein notwithstanding consists not my satisfaction but rather your honor and glory and as I desire to publish that so I likewise desire to finde this For I cannot live contented if I made not a publique acknowledgement of those many favours whereby you have perfectly purchased and made me yours and this Confession consisteth in the oath of fidelity and obedience which I have sworne to the honour of your service and to testifie the immortality of my vowes wherein with all possible humility I present you my selfe and this small Booke to your Honours feete A worke proportionable to my weakenesse but meerely disproportionable to your Greatnesse If I am any way guilty herein your goodnesse is the true cause thereof in regard it makes me beleeve that you will rather excuse my Zeale then accuse or condemne my presumption and I doe promise my selfe this hope and flatter my selfe with this confidence that your Honour will partly excuse this worke of mine if it be not accuratly or delicately polished and that the will remayning where the power wants is free and current payment with great and generous spirits Some perchance may affirme and say that I have discoursed and treated those Matters with too much simplicity which indeed is my only intent and designe Because my text and matter doe necessarily oblige and tye me thereunto as also in regard I ever find the easiest way to be the best for that the thornes of Studie and Schollership doe but ingage and ingulph our Wits in the labyrinth of insupportable length and lauguishment and the which most commonly when we have all done and ranne thorow wee in the end finde but a Minotaur of doubts and a pensive melancholy anxietie which devours them My Lord I have no other designe or ambition in this my Dedication but to pay this tribute to your Honour hoping that your charitie will cover my defects and your goodnesse over-vayle and pardon my weakenesse and imperfections And my Lord it is with all manner of right and reason that I consecrate and inscribe this small Worke of mine to your Honour and place your Honourable name in the Frontispice thereof as a bright Phare and relucent torch which shall communicate and lend its lustre and light to make it see and salute the world And so my good Lord I will seeke my delights in the honour of your service my inclinations shall have no other centre but the execution of your commands My vowes and prayers shall be incessantly powred forth for your prosperities and my Ambition shall never flye or soare higher then to conserue the honour of your favours and to be both to your Honor and to the young Noblemen your Sonnes Your most humble and truely devoted Servant I. 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THE SOVLES PILGRIMAGE TO Celestiall Glory OR THE PERFECT WAY TO HEAVEN and to God MATH 5.7 Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine Mercy THat which in men changeth Reason courtesie and humanitie into a wilde fierce and brutish nature and which makes them lesse pittifull then Lyons and more to be feared then Tygers is crueltie that terrible vice the mother of cowardize the spring of disasters and the death of innocencie For after a Coward hath once tasted of blood he delights in no other spectacle It is the cause of mischiefes and of so manie fatall and mournefull accidents for there being a naturall Antipathy betweene that vice and reason shee expells reason and therfore will not hearken unto her in her furious violent and suddaine counsels In a word it is the death of innocencie for to satisfie her bloody appetite shee spareth neither age nor sexe but upon the altar of her furious and brutish passion sacrificeth as well the just as the guilty and would not spare her selfe if shee feared not the selfe same paines and torments which she inflicts on others Now this vice is detested by noble spirits and generous soules is abhorred by Angels and in great abomination to God himselfe so by the law of contraries mercie must be the subject and royall field where we must abundantly reape the honour of men the love of Angels the graces and blessings of our heavenly Father then must mercy be practised by men admired by Angels and bee delightfull to God and therefore we see in our Text that the beloved Sonne of eternity it selfe Iesus Chist our Saviour to perfect his Apostles in the way of salvation saith to them in generall Blessed are the mercifull c. As if hee had said I doe much hate and abhorre cruelty that I desire also that you that are my Disciples should expell and banish it quite from your hearts and thoughts and in her roome to admit and entertaine mercy that heavenly vertue which I both esteeme deerely and love and respect perfectly You must therefore practise this eternally praise-worthy vertue if you will be blessed for it is impossible to get into my Fathers favour if you be not furnished and armed with mercie You cannot ascend to the top of felicity before you have left sinne this heavie and intolerable burthen I say before you have received pardon and absolution for your faults which you can never obtaine before you have forgiven your brethren their offences before you have shewed your selves favourable and willing to assist them In a word before you have extended and practised on them all sorts of mildnesse clemencie and meekenesse which they shall stand in neede of for I say vnto you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Blessed are the