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A58223	The pilgrims pass to the new Jerusalem, or, The serious Christian his enquiries after heaven with his contemplations on himself, reflecting on his happiness by creation, misery by sin, slavery by Satan, and redemption by Christ ... relating to those four last and great things of death, judgement, hell, and heaven ... / by M.R., Gent.	M. R., Gent.	1659 (1659)	Wing R47; ESTC R5428	94,586	254

in its sable Robes to the Old Man The Young Mans Sun is but newly risen the Old Mans is ready to set the Young Mans glass is but newly turned up the Old Mans sand is almost run out the Young Man is but newly come from the Grave of the Womb the Old Man is ready to go to the Womb of the Grave But it will be objected that the Young Man often leaves the World as soon as come in it onely begins to breathe and so breathes his last that many go away as well at the dawning of the day as at the approaches of the night and at Cocks crowing as in the afternoon and that the Young Mans Sun doth often set when but newly risen and his sand run out when his glass is but new turn'd up and that the Womb oftentimes become his Tomb. I grant all this that Young Men may dye by casualty or otherwise as manifold examples before our eyes do hourly manifest Young Men may dye but Old men must dye for nature is almost extinguisht in them and in all probability they cannot hold out long What are those gray Hairs but so many Monitors of their approaching Mortallity What are the shrinking of the Veins the coldness of the Blood the wasting of the Flesh the wrinkles in the Skin the numness of the Joynts the stiffness of the Limbs the weakness of the Sinews and the aches in the Bones but so many harbengers of death or friendly Memento's to minde them of their Graves and that those dayes are now come in which they may truly say They have no pleasure in them And what a time is this for repentance when the tongue begins to faulter deafness hath possest the ears dimness vail'd the eyes and the memory departed I confess 't is good to call upon God at any time even on our death-beds but 't is better that we make our peace with God ere sickness attache us Physicians observe that grief in time of sickness is the greatest enemy of health the greatest hinderer of Physick and the greatest hastner of death Indeed we should be ever prepar'd for that ere it comes that when we come to lie upon our sick beds there may be no discontent at it or disturbance in it and nothing to be done but to lie down and dye Late repentance is seldome good I will not say never true The example of the Thief upon the Cross forbids me that whom we know repented at the last hour he was saved at the last minute that none might despair and but he he had no fellow though another dyed with him tha● none might presume I will say of late repentance what a Father long since said in another case As their damnation is not certain so their salvation is doubtful My conclusion shall be this though you cannot remember this discourse be sure not to forget the Foundation on which 't is built Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy Youth Sin the Cause of Sorrow AND Death the Effect of Sin A Meditation on 2 Sam. 24.14 MY Contemplations are now fallen amongst Davids troubles and this I am now to treat of not the least he was a man that went through many afflictions and underwent many and great sufferings but neither time or the narrow limits I am confin'd to will give me leave to descant upon all his Troubles I shall therefore onely glance at some and speak home to this which may be term'd the greatest But before I treat of the Troubles of this man I shall speak something of this Man of Troubles give a short description of the Man then of his Sufferings The first mention we have of Davids name is in the 1 Sam. 16.11 and there we finde him under a four-fold description who he is what he was whence he was and when he liv'd First for his Parentage or Pedegree he was the son of Jesse the son of Obed c. of the Tribe of Judah and the youngest son of his Father Secondly for his Profession a Shepherd as most of his Fathers were before him but he soon relinquisht that kinde of life exchang'd his Crook for a Scepter and his Sheep-fold for a Throne became a publique Person and grew so famous that all places sounded with his Praises That 't were now but time lost to stand playing with his name or to use much discourse upon it for all that hear him mentioned know that he was a Prophet and a King and all other descriptions or definitions were altogether needless Thirdly for his Countrey he was of Bethlehem a City scituate in that Countrey which was the most renowned of the World and in the various dispensations of Gods Providence underwent several denominations For as an eminent Author judiciously observes it was first called the Land of Canaan from Canaan the son of Cham. Secondly the Land of Promise because the Lord had promised it to Abraham and his seed Thirdly Israel of the Israelites so called from Jacob who was surnamed Israel Fourthly Judea from the Jews or people of the Tribe of Judah Fifthly Palestine quasi Philistim the Land of the Philistims a potent Nation that once inhabited it And now sixthly The Holy Land because that herein was wrought the Work of our Redemption Now whether the Regality of the tribe of Judah was so predominant as to give a Name to the whole Countrey I determine not but this is certain that the little City of Bethlehem the place of Davids Nativity and thence called the City of David belonged unto and was a part of that Portion or Inheritance denomited to that Tribe when first this Countrey was conquer'd by the son of Nun. Fourthly the time when he lived it was in the dayes of King Saul upon whose disobedience David is by Gods appointment and approbation anointed King but not Sauls Competitor but Successor David did long shroud himself among the sheep-cotes ere he came to the Kingdom and for no short time in an ambitious eye did he content himself with the garb of a shepherd after he was anointed ere he was known to be a King or the son-in-law to one but the rayes of his fame did shine from under the mean veil of a shepherd that he could not be long concealed but the world must be witness of his glory Sauls Reign was very troublesome perpetual Wars betwixt him and the Philistines all his dayes and this shall make way for Davids greatness God many times keeps the best men for the worst times he loves to help at a dead lift and therefore David shall act for him at such a time when Saul and all Israel are at their wits ends then forth comes David arm'd with the power of Jehovah does wonders even to admiration turns the Israelites Fears into Triumphs and their Enemies Brags into Lachryma's The manner thus The Philistines had invaded the Land and put their Armies in a posture of Battle and King Saul having also assembled the Israelites to give

May in thy Face Even Momus must confess 't is seldom seen The Fruit so sweet so ripe the Tree so green Many commit a Rape upon the Press And on their Readers patience do no less This Tract of thine since Pamphlets so abound Is like a Jewel in a Dunghill found Who goes about thy Work for to commend Knows not where to begin or where to end As for my part dear Friend I cannot tell Whether Language Modesty or Wit excel Go on and prosper still when time shall shed Her silver Hairs upon thy aged Head Furrowing thy Face with wrinkles we may say In Years but not in Wit thou art grown gray A. L. Esq To his Ingenious Friend the Author IF when our Corps in silent Tombs do rest Our Souls of other Bodies are possest As old Pythagoras did once suppose Thy Breast my Friend containeth one of those That heretofore was truly thought to be An Atlas to support Divinity Like Aarons budding Rod thy youth appears Bringing forth Almonds in a Spring of years This Paradox may strike a Momus mute Thy Work 's accutely grave gravely accute Thy Phrase not circumflex each golden Line Speaks thee both Rhetorician and Divine Let not the Reader think the Work less rare Because he sees the Authors Chin is bare He wants a Beard 't is true what though he do The God of Wit Apollo doth so to Be not discourag'd Friend who ever heard A Goat was honour'd for his reverend Beard Thy blooming Youth doth much advance thy praise Though thy Chin's bare we 'l cover it with Bayes R. W. To his Friend the Author WHat shall I write or shall I silent be This makes me blush and that ingrate to thee 'T is true as yet I ne're made any use Of Helicon Parnassus or a Muse Yet I le adventure though my Verses prove Their Master ignorant they 'l shew his love I care not though the snarling Critick know it I am a faithful Friend although no Poet I cannot flatter yet can truly say I have seen a Work far worse from one more gray Great are our expectations Friend of thee If this thy Spring what will thy Harvest be Go on my Friend and let thy fluent Quill Render thee more admir'd more famous still Whilst we poor wandring Pilgrims to thee come To be directed to our lasting Home A. H. The Author to his Book TO seek the wandring Pilgrim thou must go Poor little Book thy fate will have it so I pitty thee for this censorious Age Will cause thee have a tedious Pilgrimage There 's some will think thee rash others will spy In thee a smack of singularity This laughs and that derides another scorns A wilderness is not without its thorns Such is the World those that will please the times Write foolish Pamphlets or lascivious Rhimes Thy Subejct is Divine thy Errand is To guide th' enquiring Sojourner to Bliss Thy habit 's poor and mean what then we see That painted Windows less transparent be Thy state of gorgeous Robe will not allow The Pilgrim's cloath'd in gray and so must thou The Staff thou hast to lean upon must be The ingenious Readers Candid courtesie Then go if thy success be not too bad I le send thee forth e're long far better clad THe Courteous Reader may be pleas'd to take notice that by reason of the Authours absence from the Press and the huddling up in such haste the Composure in that he was forc't to write as fast as the Press went there are several Faults committed as the wrong placing of Parenthesis Colons Full-stops c. here a word too much and there a word too little which the sense will bring in and I hope thy Candour pass by But one notorius fault there is which I thought good to advise thee of and 't is in the very face of the Book In the very beginning of the first Discourse viz. of Abrahams Profession and the Pilgrims Condition page 1. there is so much left out that without its supply I might seem to infringe upon the borders of Non-sense altogether it must run thus This Book of Genesis the first that stands on Sacred Record contains in it the various and remarkable passages of Gods Providence towards the sons of men The first twelve Chapters presents us c. Thus craving thy pardon for this and all other Faults in this Book I commend it to thy perusal and thee to Gods protection Vale. Abrahams Profession AND THE Pilgrims Condition OR The inquiring Sojourner directed A Meditation on Gen. 23.4 I am a Stranger and a Sojourner among you THis Book of Genesis the first twelve Chapters presents us with the History of the Worlds Creation the fall of Adam the desolation of the Sons of Adam by a deluge the replanting a new World and the confusion of Languages From the twelfth Chapter to the five and twentieth you have the History of the Patriarch Abraham whose many trials and troubles so chearfully underwent and so patiently indured for God doth sufficiently demonstrate his zeal and proclaims his praises to succeeding generations as a worthy president for after ages We first finde that he was the Son of Terah and what Terah was and where he lived is soon found and as easily determined Terah was a stranger to the true God and a server of strange Gods Idols and no Gods Gods made with hands even the Gods of the Nations and he lived on the other side of Jordan where Abrahams God was neither worshipt nor known Abraham the son of such a Father of such an Idolatrous Family and Nation is summoned by be most high God as yet unknown to Abraham to leave his Country kindred and Fathers house to go into a Land that he would shew him This was a strange kinde of injunction what to leave his Fathers house his near relations and his dear countrey to wait upon the commands of a God whom neither himself or his Father ever knew to go into a voluntary exile he knew not whither and for he knew not what Vlisses thought it his greatest misery to be banisht his native soil and thought all airs odious but that in which he first breathed The Persians were better pleased with beholding the smoak of their own chimneys then with the greatest honours of forreign Countreys yet Abraham readily forsakes all for God and chearfully attends his commands though he knew neither the aim or end of his Journey he stood not to dispute the case with God but conform'd himself to the will of God and steered his course by the Card of his directions so to the Land of Canaan in the course of his obedience at last he comes that Land flowing with Milk and Honey after for his faithfulness was the inheritance of his seed From thence he passes into Egypt and no sooner is he arived there but his Wives beauty occasions his discontent the King of Egypt takes her from him she is no sooner restored him but forth of

Egypt he goes and now another mischance befalls him The increase of his Flocks occasion a difference 'twixt himfelf and his kinsman Lot or rather 'twixt their Herdsmen but having wisely and happily made up this breach and Lot no sooner settled in the fertile plains of Sodom but is taken prisoner by the Kings of Elam Shinar Ellasar and Tidal King of Nations And now Abraham is as much perplext about his Cosins Rescue as he was before in composing the difference 'twixt their Herdsmen well having waded through this difficulty also and though a rich man and now at peace something is yet wanting to crown his wealth his Wife Sarah though fair is barren and he thinks God deals very hardly with him in denying him a Son to possess that after him which by Gods providence and his own dilligence he had brought together At last in part to gratifie his desires God gives him a Son but such a one as the Jews define him a Son and no Son an Ishmael not an Isaac not the promised Son not he in whom all the Nations of the World should be blessed At last he hath an Isaac but that he might not want a continual supply of crosses to try his faith and exercise his patience his Son Isaac so long promised and with such longing expectation desired must die and a violent and cruel death must put a period to his new life to the further aggravation of the circumstances Abrahams hands must execute him and shew himself not a Father but a Murderer and no sooner had God prepared a Ram for Isaacs rescue but Abraham must banish Hagar and his Son Ishmael and no sooner is this over and the tears wipt from his eyes but behold a greater mischance like Jobs messengers comes in the neck of it his beloved Sarah dyes in Hebron in the land of Canaan in the hundred and twenty seventh year of her age whereupon Abraham with his heart full of grief and his eyes full of tears makes his Apology to the Sons of Heth for a burying-place for Sarah and that he might the better speed in this his so reasonable and seasonable request he suits his expressions in the garb of the Text I am a stranger and a sojourner among you Give me a possession of a burying-place that I may bury my dead out of my sight I could take this Scripture by the four corners like that sheet that was let down to Saint Peter and present you with a four-fold discourse of Death of Tears of Pilgrimage and the Grave first of death and Sarah dyed Secondly of tears and Abraham wept for Sarah Thirdly of Pilgrimage here 's Abraham unfolding his condition Fourthly of the Grave here is Abraham purchasing a Grave for Sarah which is the Pilgrims Mansion or the house of Death but I shall single out one of these and onely keep to that viz. Abrahams Profession as being most sutable to my condition and all of yours the Readers I am a stranger and a Sojourner among you But was this language for Abraham when treating with Hittites for Sarahs Grave to discourse of his own mortality or what is this his profession of his own condition to the obtaining his request of them had it not been more proper for him to have set forth himself in the equipage of a Prince then in so low a form as that of a Pilgrim as being most sutable for so great a person Mean men seldome crave when they have money in their hands to buy and great men are apt to command how comes it then to pass that so eminent a person as Abraham shrouds himself under so low a stile as that of a Sojourner Is not this that Abraham that was the son of Terah the brother of Nahor the Father of the faithful and the friend of God that was famous for many excellent graces that shined in him he was famons for his Faith famous for his Hope and famous for his Charity First he was famous for his Faith in obeying the Commands of a God then strange to him and leaving his Fathers house to wander in a strange Land and expose himself to all the hazards and hardships as usually attend such Journeys and to go so far out of his own knowledge to a Country unknown both to himself and his Fathers Again he was famous for his Faith in not mistrusting Gods omnipotency in that he did stedfastly believe that God was able to quicken Sarahs dead Womb to bring him a Son in his old age and when God sent him that Son so long desired expected and prayed for to be the hope of Nations out of whose Loins according to the flesh the Saviour of the World was to proceed and when God commanded him to take this Son Abrahams Joy and Sarahs Jewel conceived beyond Nature and born to do great things and with his own hands to butcher him Here was the tryal of Abrahams Faith and an injunction above the grant of nature had it been but an ordinary private person whose birth had not been attended withso many remarkable Promises and Prophecies yet even in this to one that had both Promises and Prophecies of future happiness Abrahams obedience eccho's to Gods Commands though 't were to frustrate and make void those former predictions Abraham was confident that if God should take this from him he was able to raise him another out of his ashes Posterity may adinire his faithfulness but not parallel it Secondly he was famous for his Hope in that he was assuredly confident that not one Word from God should fall to the ground unaccomplisht but that he would make good all those gracions promises he had made that he should be Lord of that famous and flourishing Countrey the Land of Canaan and that his seed should possess it and that in them should all the Nations of the world be blessed Thirdly famous for his Charity first to his servants in general I know saith God that Abraham will instruct his servants c. Famous for his love to one in that he intented to make him Heir of his house famous for his love to Hagar in that he parted not with her without tears though he had Gods approbation for her banishment famous for his love to his Nephew Lot in that he would not admit of any discord 'twixt their herdsmen and hazarded his life to rescue him out of the hands of those Triumphant Kings that took him captive famous for his love to his Son Ishmael in praying so cordially for him Oh that Ishmael might live in thy sight famous for his love to his Sons by Keturah in giving them their portions when he sent them away famous for his love to his Son Isaac in making him Heir of all his wealth Lastly famous for his love to his Wife Sarah for his respect to her living and that living affection to her memory which out-lived her as appears by the Religious care he had to purchase her a Grave in that