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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13560	Two treatises: the pearle of the Gospell, and the pilgrims profession to which is added a glasse for gentlewomen to dresse themselues by. By Thomas Taylor preacher of Gods Word to the towne of Reding.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Pilgrims profession. aut; Gunter, H.	1625 (1625)	STC 23855; ESTC S105335	69,884	472

husband to the honourable Countesse at whose request his Lady had taken her into her care To this Honourable Countesse shee came a most zealous Papist and resolute as soone as possibly shee could apprehend a fit opportunitie to conuey her selfe beyond the Seas and become a Nun for she then thought that that was the surest and likeliest way to get Heauen which as shee had an earnest desire to attaine so would shee take the neerest way which shee thought would bring her thither This religious care of the honourable Countesse as shee did all her life thankfully acknowledge it so is it very obseruable both for the high commendation of her honor and for the imitation of others of her honourable ranke But shee could not so closely carry her secret deuotions and intentions but that by the carefull eye of her Honourable Lady they were soone discouered and not sooner discouered than wisely preuented for presently her Lady tooke from her all her Popish books Beades and Images and all such trumpery and set a narrow watch ouer her that shee might bee kept from her Popish Prayers and not absent her selfe from the daily Prayers of the Family which were religiously obserued further requiring her to reade those Praiers that her honour daily vsed to haue in her priuate chamber with her women Her Ladiship also carefully preuented her from her Popish company and counsell by word or writing for neither might shee write nor receiue any letter without the view and consent of her Honour Shee also constrained her to bee countable for the Sermons which shee heard in the house which were constantly two euery Sabboth day for the increase of the sound knowledge of God which is the onely Hammer of Popery And heereby shee in short time obtained great ability to communicate to others the substance of those Sermons which shee heard the rather because it was constantly obserued by all the women in that honorable Family to come together after the last Sermon and make repetition of both And this shee did as yet for feare but still with this reseruation that shee would keepe her heart for Popery and trusted that God would bee mercifull vnto her as Naaman in this which shee did onely through feare and constraint But God who in his owne time worketh in his owne meanes began to worke in her first a staggering in her old way For when shee saw the holy conuersation of that Reuerend Preacher Master I. W. who was then Chaplin to the Countesse she began to perswade her selfe that surely this mans godlinesse must needs bring him to Heauen And then the reuerend respect of the man made her begin to giue some better care to his Doctrine to examine his proofes and to reuerence his Ministry whereby in short time Her new birth it pleased God that shee was wonne to beleeue the Truth and renounce her former superstition and ignorance And as it is the property of a true Conuert Iohn 1.45 being conuerted her selfe shee endeauoured the conuersion of others and was a great helpe and furtherance to the publique Ministery that way For this was a thing which that honourable Familie tooke speciall knowledge of and there were many that had great cause to blesse God for her in that respect Reuel 12. Now presently Satan that Dragon that watcheth to deuoure euery man-childe which shall bee borne vnto God begins to rage Her long and strong temptations and reach at her with strong and violent temptations and first hee terrified her in that shee had sinned the sinne against the holy Ghost for shee had played the deepe dissembler and being in heart a Papist yet ioyned with the Protestants whom shee held for Heretickes and all this against her knowledge and conscience and so fiercely and incessantly hee followed this temptation as that shee was perswaded it was impossible that euer this sinne should or could bee pardoned And this temptation was pointed and sharpened with that dreadfull and fowle suggestion of selfe murder as if the remedy of the sinne against the holy Ghost were to destroy ones selfe While shee was thus long tossed and tumbled in these waues and billowes of Satanicall suggestions wherein shee was so low cast and deiected still concealing her griefe as shee almost despaired of recouery It pleased God to direct that Reuerend Preacher who was her Father in Christ and whom shee euer after embraced with the most entyre loue of the most naturall Childe to entreat of this sinne and to shew what it was and by whom and in what manner it was committed To which Doctrine shee diligently hearkening and by examination of it and her selfe finding that shee had not so sinned after illumination nor with obstinate malice against God or his Truth which when shee was most superstitiously deuoted shee desired to finde out it pleased God to quiet her minde for that and so led her ouer that temptation But Satan that departed from our head Iesus Christ onely for a season was not long away from the molestation of this his member but returned and brought leuen worse spirits were it possible than before and now his name may be Legion for now hee would confound and oppresse her with multitudes of blasphemous thoughts and doubts Now must shee beleeue there is no God That the Scriptures are not his word but a Pollicie or if it were his word who must interpret it or how could shee a silly woman get the vnderstanding of such deepe mysteries as are contained in the same Besides as she was of minde that shee was gotten out of one errour so shee knew nothing but that shee was misled into another for how could shee bee sure that this was the truth which shee now professed seeing there are as many or more learned men of the one opinion as of the other and all of them maintaine their opinions by the Scriptures Thus was shee vexed and exercised with Armies of rouing and vnsetled conceits for fiue or sixe yeeres together till God whom she often sollicited for direction and assistance in the combat brought her to this resolution that shee would hold these conclusions whatsoeuer disputes Satan might weary her withall That there was not onely a God in himselfe but a God that was her God and whatsoeuer opinions there were in the world that there was but one Truth and that was to bee learned out of the Scriptures and though there were much in the Bible which shee did not vnderstand yet shee was perswaded that if shee would diligently reade and search the Scriptures with earnest Prayer to God for a good vnderstanding in them shee should attaine thence a measure of knowledge sufficient to bring her to heauen and holding strongly these groundes shee found the temptations waste away by degrees and her selfe daily more strongly setled vpon the foundation Neither was shee onely by the grace of God a Conquerour in these temptations but I may say with the Apostle in a

one that thirsteth come yee to the waters and ye that haue no siluer come buy and eat come I say and buy wine and milke without siluer and without money Not the least of these commodities are to be valued by money gold pearles and the desirable things of this life Prou. 3.14.15 for the merchandise thereof is better than siluer or whatsoeuer men can deuise or desire besides it Sixtly 6. Circumstances 1. Of time in regard of circumstances of time and place For the time Ciuill merchandising is to be exercised on the six dayes not on the Sabbath day 13. Neh. 19 20. And when the gates of Ierusalem began to be darke before the Sabbath I commanded to shut the gates and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath and some of my seruants set I at the gates that there should be no burden brought in on the Sabbath day So the chapmen and Merchants of all merchandise remained once or twise without Ierusalem But for supernatural and spirituall trading as all the six dayes are fit so the seuenth especially is the Lords mart or market to furnish all his people with prouision for the whole weeke following And for the place All places are not fit for ciuill marts Merchants but the principall prohibited place is the Church the house of God Matth. 21.12 Iesus went into the Temple of God and cast out all them that bought and sold in the Temple and ouerthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of them that sold Doues Christ would not endure his Fathers house of praier to be made a house of merchandise But in spirituall trading for heauen all places are fit for Christian Merchants who should goe no where but still be trading for grace and continually either be doing of good or taking of good But especially the house of God is the most proper place appointed for the inriching of the heart and increasing of the stocke of faith and knowledge and of all graces So much for the dissimilitude betweene them The similitude and resemblance between earthly and heauenly trading standeth in fiue things Now the similitude and reason of this resemblance standeth in fiue things 1. A Merchant man is a man that dealeth in great and precious commodities The Greeke word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Merchant is no pedler nor chapman of small wares nor taken vp in selling pins or points and toyes for babes but tradeth for great things for great bulks quantities 1. In greatnes of the commodities for great summes and dealeth in most rich commodities So the Christian Merchant carefull for heauen aimeth not at the base profits of this life as siluer gold and such corruptible things for these things are but small in his eye and contemptible in respect of the businesse of iustification of holinesse grace and glory These are that one thing needfull Luke 10.42 and that better part that taketh vp his thoughts and desires such a rich Merchant was Dauid Psal 4.7 Thou hast giuen me more ioy of heart than they haue had when their wheat and their oile did abound Let other men peddle and barter for corne wine and oile the Christian Merchant hath a commoditie beyond all this in his eye Psal 4.6 Lord lift vpon me the light of thy countenance Such a Merchant was Zacheus Luke 18.8 when saluation was come to his house he cast away these pedling profits faster than he gat them halfe hee gaue to the poore and the rest he reserued to restore fourefold Such a one was Paul Phil. 3.8 who counted all things losse and dung in comparison of Christ and to know the vertue of his death and resurrection Such rich Merchants were the Martyrs who hauing heauen in their eye esteemed their goods libertie yea life it selfe not worth hauing in comparison thereof For as a man if hee were as high as the Moone would see the earth but as a pricke so hee whose thoughts are in heauen and his eye on things that are aboue within the veile esteemeth the earth but small and despicable For euen as the great light drowneth the lesser so the bright shining of the Sunne of righteousnesse drowneth all the lesser candles and comforts of this present world Secondly 2. In the skill of the commoditie there is likenesse in the skill of the commoditie hee dealeth in For as a Merchant greatly aduanceth his estate if he haue skill and insight what commodities are like to be of the quickest returne if he know and lay out for the best conditioned commodities of euery kinde So the Christian Merchant labouring for Skill knowledge and sound iudgement in the matter of Religion whereby he may be able to iudge aright of Doctrines deliuered shall grow rich in knowledge and to a great measure of faith and full of Christian wisdome whence the Apostle Phil. 1.10 praieth that they may abound in all knowledge and iudgement to discern things that differ and thus they shall be rich and filled with fruits of righteousnesse vers 11. And contrariwise for want of this skill a Merchant dealing for great bulkes soone falleth into great losses but especially the Ieweller or Lapidarie by ignorance may soone ouerthrow his whole estate in respect of many cheaters and couseners who can notably counterfeit Pearles and make them seeme very orient by false arts and so put away at a great price a peece of a fish bone or shell or some peece of painted glasse for rich Pearles and precious stones Euen so many spirituall Merchants decay and breake for want of this skill by meanes of many imposters and deceiuers heretickes false teachers Apostates Libertine Preachers and the Popish guides furnished with all arts to deceiue as with wit and speech and other insinuatiue faculties that make offer of pibles for Pearls and thrust vpon men for the true Pearle of Gods word the glassie and brickle conceits of mans braines which because they haue made to glister and haue set a good colour on them they hold at as high a rate as any Pearle can be valued and now many inconsiderate persons are taken with the beautie profit or some seeming pleasure and so robbed and gulled of their soundnesse for the present and of their expectations and hopes hereafter Now that we may not be thus abused let vs listen to those Apostolicall precepts Ephes 4.14 Not to be children wauering and carried about with euery wind of Doctrine by the deceit of men and craftinesse whereby they lie in wait to deceiue and in 1 Ioh. 4.1 Beleeue not euery spirit but trie the spirits whether they are of God and 1 Thess 5.21 Trie all things and keepe that which is good Thirdly 3. In conferring of their commodities the similitude is in their conuersing and conferring one with another Euery Merchant will be speaking of his commodities he will make offer of his pearles and wares of