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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07666	A mappe of mans mortalitie Clearely manifesting the originall of death, with the nature, fruits, and effects thereof, both to the vnregenerate, and elect children of God. Diuided into three bookes; and published for the furtherance of the wise in practise, the humbling of the strong in conceit, and for the comfort and confirmation of weake Christians, against the combat of death, that they may wisely and seasonably be prepared against the same. Whereunto are annexed two consolatory sermons, for afflicted Christians, in their greatest conflicts. By Iohn Moore, minister of the word of God, at Shearsbie in Leicester-shire.	Moore, John, d. 1619.	1617 (1617)	STC 18057; ESTC S112851	257,806	358

holy life heauenly conuersation chearefull death and blessed daparture of the faithfull redeemed by Christ section 1 GOds children now being redeemed from Sinne and Death and truely vnited to Christ by his spirit whom they apprehend by an vnfained faith cannot chuse but shew forth the fruits of this their high calling to the glory of him that hath chosen them And being partakers of the diuine nature they flye from the corruptions of the world and giue all diligence to ioyne vertue with their faith and with vertue knowledge and with knowledge temperance and with temperance patience and with patience godlinesse and with godlinesse brotherly kindenesse and with brotherly kindenesse loue and these things being among them and abounding will keepe them from being idle and vnfruitfull The grace of God to them appeareth not in vaine but teacheth them to denie all vngodlinesse and worldly lusts to liue soberly righteously godly in this present world c. and being risen with Christ from the graue of corruption they euery day more and more seeke those things which are aboue setting their affections where Christ sitteth and not on the things that are on the earth for they are dead to the world and their true life is hid with God in Christ therefore they labour to be holy as he that hath called them to his kingdome and glory is holy They daily imploy themselues in reading and meditating of the word of God in prayer and religious exercises of holy deuotion loathing still this world and sinfull life daily growing to be spirituall and heauenly hauing their affections and zeale inflamed with the loue of God They say with Augustine O Lord I delight to heare of thee to talke of thee to write of thee to deuise of thee and in my heart to print whatsoeuer I learne of thee So must wee walke in these holy paths with all Gods Saints Godly deuotion and holy meditations saith one are section 2 as brine and pickle to keepe and preserue this corruptible flesh of ours from the euill scent that breedeth in our nature by originall sinne They are as faggots and firebrands that enkindle and inflame the loue of God in our hearts And as the fish out of the water die forthwith and the drops of raine distilling from the clouds vpon the ground doe quickly dry and drench vp and the fire without fuell is soone extinguished So our faith and loue c. without these sanctified meanes doe suddenly decrease They are as precious perfumes burnt in a polluted house and sick-mans chamber The sweet incense of prayer and the sauory smell of that odorifferous balme of a liuely faith and effectuall knowledge of God purge and clense the corruption of our liues and vncleane desires God hath chosen vs to be his glorious temple in whom hee dwelleth by his spirit therefore wee must haue our hearts purified by faith and clense our selues from all filthinesse and vncleanenesse both of bodies and soules and so adorne the place of his presence and habitation with all vertue and holinesse Hee that destroyeth the Temple of God him will God destroy for the Temple of God is holy which you are Saint Peter willeth vs to gird vp the loynes of our mindes teaching vs that as they which weare long garments when they come in the foule wayes doe take and gird them vp lest they should tag in the way So we whose mindes and affections doe traile as it were vpon the earth trudging through this foule and filthy world must heaue them vp towards heauen lest they should touch the damnable filth of sinne and wickednesse It is in vaine to boast of iustification without the vnfained sanctification of Gods spirit For as there can be no fire section 3 without warmth and light so neither can God by his spirit be in vs of with any of vs but he will also purifie vs from vice and corruption therefore wee must follow peace and holinesse without the which no man can see the Lord. Christ hath crucified our old man and put to death our vice and corruption and shall wee reuiue the same Shall we maintaine our Sauiours enemies and giue life againe to these deadly poysons of our soules If wee will be Burgesses of heauen we must be strangers to the earth Where is the house of our Father but in heauen and there dwelleth our eldest brother Iesus Christ and all our christian friends and kindred Heauen then is our true Country and on earth we are but trauellers section 4 When Moses had conuersed with God but fortie daies vpon the Mount-Oliue at his comming downe his face shined and glistered with heauenly glory So must we beholding in a mirror the glory of our Lord Iesus Christ in his word and Gospell as it were with open face and not with a vaile as did Moses be changed into the same image from glory to glory as by the spirit of the Lord. If I say but this short time while we liue we be conuersant in heauen by our most holy faith and fruits thereof in all holy affections thoughts words and meditations we shall in the end become heauenly and spirituall both in word and deede As wee see by experience when a country-man hath beene trayned vp sometime in the Court he forgetteth his clownish kinde of life and becommeth a Courtier Let vs therefore leaue the speaches habit fashions and manners of this wicked world wherein we liue and inure our selues with the customes and course of the court of Heauen Let all our thoughts words and communication testifie that in spirit wee are already there section 5 Christ Iesus whom all true Christians haue put on by baptisme as a garment is a most royall robe of grace holinesse and sanctification and shall we be so sloathfull to traile and trample him in the dyrt of filthinesse and sinne or putting him off to put on the vile and spotted garment of the flesh by following the lusts thereof When winter is once ouer the nearer that the Sunne draweth vnto vs the more doth the earth being warmed with the heate thereof fructifie and increase and the longer the daies are the more worke we may doe euen so the nearer the kingdome of heauen doth approach vnto vs by the comming of Iesus Christ the sonne of righteousnesse or the nearer we draw to death the more we should be inflamed in the loue of God and all good workes As the Sunne beames doe come to the earth and yet are in the region from whence they are sent so the mindes and soules of Gods children though conuersant in the earth are truely seated and setled with God in heauen from whence they came Let vaine-glorious worldlings who with the Camaelion section 6 liue by the ayre and therefore are alwaies found gaping and who haue with the Moone but a borrowed light in the world and no true light of

section 5 Yet as waxe is more apt to receiue an impression then clay so the soule being a Spirit commeth nearest to Gods nature For first the very substance of Adams soule did most liuely shadow out the diuine Essence not onely in the simplicitie inuisiblenesse and immortalitie thereof but also in that power which it enioyed to know and will And as God is but one in the world quickning sustaining and gouerning the same so there is but one soule in the body which being whole in euery part thereof without augmentation or diminution giueth vnto it both life sense and motion Further the soule is like vnto God in the faculties of the same For as there is but one onely diuine Essence in the Godhead and yet three distinct persons in respect of their externall actions so the soule is but one howsoeuer it consisteth of sundry essentiall qualities This Image of God in man consisted especially in the section 6 rule and dominion of the Creatures Let vs make man saith God in our owne image that hee may rule the fowles of the ayre fish of the sea beasts of the earth Now to rule well is required Knowledge Memorie Will Vnderstanding and Iudgement which are essentiall in God and proper to our soules Man had not onely giuen vnto him of God power and abilitie to vnderstand diuine and humane things but was endued with other heauenly qualities as Iustice Wisedome Temperance Mercy Loue c. Gods Image in man is righteousnesse holinesse and knowledge Be renued saith the Apostle in the spirit of your minde and put on the new man which after the Image of God is created vnto righteousnesse and true holinesse Whose qualities are necessarily inferred by the contrary attributed to the olde man where truth is opposed against lying Christian anger against sinfull rage iust dealing against falshood and wrong holy and gracious speech against corrupt and filthy communication And hee saith that this Image or new man is renued in knowledge after the image of him that created it because the true knowledge of God transformeth man to the image of God his Maker that is to say to the true sinceritie and purenesse of the soule Therefore presently following hee expresseth the qualities of this Image to wit tender affection or bowels of compassion kindnesse humblenesse of minde meeknesse long-suffering forbearing and forgiuing one another Loue Peace and these be the fruits of Gods Spirit which renueth our hearts as they are mustred by S. Paul against which vertues hee saith there is no Law which Image also is called a conformitie to Gods Sonne section 7 By the infusion of Gods holy Spirit saith Iraeneus man is made spirituall as at the first hee was created And Tertullian saith that the Image of God in man is to haue the same sense and motion with God the same Will Knowledge Affection Iudgement and Reason in all humane and heauenly things according to the measure of a creature The reason thus to perswade vs is that man was made first according to Gods Image that hee might rule all his creatures below as his President and Substitute ouer all And it is no question but God would haue all his creatures which hee had made well and orderly to be ouer-heeded and ruled who alwayes and euery where in his Word forbiddeth the abuse of any or the least and wee are straightly bound to referre all of them to the glory and praise of their author and owner Now this good vse and excellent administration of all the creatures which God requireth cannot stand without all those former conditions and qualities of the soule of man whereof this Image of God consisteth So that when the minde is endued with the sound knowledge of God and adorned with Iustice then it most truely representeth Gods Image and likenesse because that Iustice and knowledge of diuine and heauenly things are nothing else but a certaine influence from the diuine nature into our mindes and soules section 8 But that these things may appeare more plainly wee are to know that the Image of a thing is the forme by which it is resembled and a similitude is a qualitie of a thing by which it is shadowed Now man in his Image not onely resembled his Maker in knowledge and vnderstanding but was also created in other celestiall conditions as Iustice Wisedome Mercy Loue c. as before was declared yet so as that Christ alone is the very ingrauen forme of his person according to his Deitie and in his Humanitie so farre as it is capable of the same And to this end hath God predestinated and elected vs that we should be conformable to the Image of his Sonne Therefore God made vs of an vnderstanding nature and capable of diuine perfection when with these heauenly properties our soules were first endued which now cannot be againe recouered but thorow the helpe of Christ the true patterne and type of our first created Image To conclude how like we were made to God appeareth by our proposed end of that selfe-same happinesse and blisse which wee feare to loose and waite through hope to enioy with God himselfe both in louing and knowing of him as hee is Mans soule by creation had Reason and Will as it section 9 were for two wings Reason to vnderstand and know and Will to approue and elect things vnderstood and knowne And these two wings did with equall force and sweet consent carry vp and support the soule to guide it aright to God that so it might sore aloft with her affections as the Eagle flying carryeth her young ones to inure them with the Sunne so it might lift vp it selfe aloft from all infection whatsoeuer A rectitude and vprightnesse was also added that it might beare the force and power as it were of a cleare and pleasant gale of winde to these two wings which blast receiued into the braine did carry and freshly set forward the powers of the minde as when the flight of the Larke or Nightingale ascending on high is hastened with a quicke and pleasant winde wherewith these birds are so delighted that the higher they flye aloft towards the skye the more sweetly doe they sing Such a heauenly harmonie and consent was in all the faculties of the soule that alwayes and altogether they aspired with ioy to holy and heauenly things All excellent learning and skill was engrauen in mans soule his Reason was more sharpe and cleare then the Eagles eye which can behold the Sunne his Knowledge surpassed all Arts and Sciences so that by nature he could approach vnto the eternall light and vnderstanding of God himselfe and heauenly things as the Angels and holy Spirits themselues CHAP. II. Man in his first and best estate was mutable by nature and subiect to fall and so righteously made of God without any cause of iust complaint NOW for the better humbling of man in this his high estate that hee