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The young man's guide in his journey to heaven, or, Travelling spiritualized
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1 Tim. 6. 34. than lovers of God That will tell thee that the Prodigal was out of his way and out of his Wits too when he took his Journey in a far Country and there wasted his Substance in riotous Living Luke 15. 11. and with Harlots And when he came to himself then he left these Courses and returned to his Father There thou shalt find that Moses chose Heb. 11. rather to suffer Affliction with the People of God then to enjoy the Pleasures of Sin for a Season But there is one Place which if there were no more were enough to fright thee from hearkening to these Epicures and from following their Courses Rejoyce O Young Man in thy Youth and let thine Heart chear thee in the Days of thy Youth and walk in the ways of thy Heart and in the sight of thine Eyes but know that for all these things God will bring thee into Judgment So that thou feest these Sons of Pleasure are not in the way of Life but in the way of Death and are like those Fishes which the Historian reports of that they sport themselves so long in the Shallows of the River Jordan till the swiftness of the Stream carries them into the Dead Sea where they all perish They who are for a short Life and a Merry will meet with a long Death and a Sad one Earthly Pleasures will be followed with Hells Torments The Rich Man who had lived so high was brought to a short Dyet Those that cannot live without Pleasures here must live without Pleasure for ever And here by way of Digression I heartily wish some Eloquent Appollos some powerful Orator would speak this Caution so loud that all the young Gallants in England might hear it who for the Generality of them live as if they had been brought up in the School of Epicurus and not in the School of Christ as if they had drank of Circes Cup and were turned into Swine they so drown and soak themselves in Pleasure that they unfit and incapacitate themselves not only for the Service of God but also for their King and Countrey It is a sad Consideration to think what Privy Councellours what Parliaments what Magistrates we are like to have in another Age. A Third Seducer thou wilt meet with in the World is the Ambitious Person who like the Camelion lives upon Air upon the breath of the Prince and the applause of the People who knows no other Heaven but the Princes Smile no other Hell but his Frowns If thou apply thy self to him for Direction in thy Way what Course will he advise thee to but that crooked Path that himself walketh in He will advise thee to take the way that leads to Honour and Preferment in the World He will tell thee the only Happiness is to be the Princes Favourite and the Peoples Darling to have the uppermost Rooms at Feasts and the chief Seats in all Conventions and greetings in the Market and to be called of Men Rabbi to have the Cap and Mat. 23. 〈◊〉 the Knee where ever thou comest to have all Men bow to thee Digito monstrari dicier hic est But Christian look to thy Rule and thou wilt never be deluded with this Pageantry Thou wilt never be led into this Fools Paradice that will shew thee the way to true Honour Them that Honour me I will Honour Abraham 1 Sam. 2. 30. Moses Paul these were honourable indeed Abraham the Friend of God Moses the Servant of the Lord Paul a Servant of Jesus Christ These are other manner of Titles of Honour than the greatest Grandees on Earth ever attained Artaxerxes who stiled himself King of Kings Ahasuerus that Reigned Ezra 7. 12. Esth 1. 1. from India to Aethiopia over an hundred twenty seven Provinces The Great Turk The Great Mogul The Emperour of the West The Emperour of the World are poor empty airy Titles in Comparison of this The Servant of the Lord. All his Servants are Favourites and every one of them is a King and when all Earthly Crowns shall fade and wither they shall have a never fading Crown of Glory This Honour have all his Saints Psal 149. 9 Then Christian thy Rule will tell thee what end the way of Ambition usually leads to in this Life What became of Herod who was the Peoples Darling What became of Haman who was the Princes highest Favourite the one when the People had cryed him up for a God Acts 1◠22 23. Esth 5. 11. died like a Beast and was devoured of Worms The other when he had boasted one Day how highly the King had advanced him above all his Princes and Servants was the next Day advanced to a Gallows fifty Cubits high where he ended his Life and Honour in a shameful and most Ignominious Death Certainly he hath read but little History nay he hath lived but a little while in the World who cannot by his own Experience add many Presidents of this Kind which should be as so many Pillars of Salt to scare thee from this way Whosoever exalts himself shall be abased Luke 14. 11. Job 24. 24. They are exalted for a little while but are gone and brought low they are taken out of the Way as all others It was a saying worthy of that Christian Emperour Theodosius He rejoyced more that he was a Member of the Church of God then Gaudere se magis quod esse membrum Ecclesiae Dei quam quod esset Caput Imperii that he was an Emperour of the whole World CHAP. VII A Careful Traveller is much grieved when he finds himself to be out of his Way and hastens to get into it again and is never quiet till he hath recovered it SO is it with every Christian that is Travelling towards Heaven 1. He is exceedingly grieved when he finds himself out of his Way 2. He hasts and is restless till he get into it again First When by the Violence of Satans Temptation or by the Prevalency of Corruption or by the Allurements of the World he hath been drawn aside out of the Way of Holiness into the By-Paths of Sin How is this Soul filled with Godly Sorrow and Humiliation What Sighs and Groans What Cryes and Tears What Complaints and Lamentations What Self-abhorrency and Self-condemnation might you hear were you at his Closet Door when he is pouring out his melting Soul before God Nay sometimes he is like to be swallowed up with overmuch Sorrow He cries out he is lost and undone that he shall never recover his Journeys end that he shall never get to Heaven Was it not thus with David when he had so foully lost his way My Sin is ever before me I am weary of my Groaning all Psal 6. 6. the Night make I my Bed to swim I Water my Couch with my Tears My Heart Psal 102. 4. is smitten and withered like Grass so that I forget to eat my Bread His