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A05558	An heavenly chariot layde open for transporting the new-borne babes of God, from time infected vvith sin, towards that æternitie in the which dwelleth righteousnesse. Made up of some rare pieces of that purest golde which is not to bee found but in that ritchest thesaurie of sacred scripture. By M. David Lindsey, ministerr of Christs Evangel at Leith.	Lindsay, David, 1565?-1627.	1622 (1622)	STC 15683.5; ESTC S105377	59,418	81

contented that the dead corpse of her dearest childe even within some few houres bee put foorth of her doores But heere ô my foule Wonderest thou not that a more vilde stinke that a more loathsome flewar over-taketh and floweth from the verie dead corpse of GODS Children than from the dead Carions of other creatures as of Fowles of Fishes and of Beastes O my Soule cease to wonder at this and learne to thinke upon that loathsome spring wherefrom this proceedeth I must tell thee O my Soule that the bodie of the holiest man that ever lived on earth heere that Glorious Sacred Bodie of blessed IESVS beeing excepted lodgeth a more vilde guest a more stinking guest onelie loathsome to GOD and His Angels than ever the bodie of anie Fowle Fish or Beast did lodge I must confesse indeede that the bodies of those creatures doe lodge corruption yea much corruption as may easilie bee perceived while they doe liue and especiallie when they bee dead Alwayes that stinking loathsome guest of Sinne they doe not lodge which the verie bodies of Abraham Isaac Iaakob Peter Iames Iohn Paul could not but lodge And therefore no wonder that a more noysome stinke flow from the verie dead bodies of GODS Saincts than from the Carions of those reasonlesse creatures But will Sinne stay heere O my soule albeit this be a deepe stroake No no for Sinne will haue that dead stinking body in the which it lodged sometimes couched under the earth under the seas and there returne into dust out of the which is was taken Genes 3.19 Eccles 12.7 But vvill Sinne stay heere albeit this would seeme to bee that dead stroake beyond the vvhich none can goe in the chide of GOD No no for telleth not Historie us that out of the dead stinking corpse of men and women there ariseth most monsterous and noysome beastes Yea uglie Toades and cruell Serpents Augustine in his fourtie eight Sermon to his Brethren the Heremites affirmeth That Toades are bredde in the braines of the dead corpse and That Serpents are bredde in their Neares Yea writeth not Augustine That hee being at Rome saw a Toade in the Brainpanne of one of their Emperours Dare I here forget the like uncouth spectacle by GODS speciall providence I doubt not for my better resolution anent the veritie of the thinges alleadged presented to mine owne eyes beeing in the Kirke yarde of LEITH in the Month of Iune a thousand sixe hundreth and fifteene yeares for beeing there delightning to attend for a while those honest men building for the time our Steeple I behelde within a grassie bush the heade of some dead corpse having in the outmost part of it a little voyde while I haue a purpose to cause the Kirke Officer put this skull under the earth looking on it more narrowlie I behelde through the voyde part of it to my great astonishment a Toade of an hudge bignesse whereupon I called the worke-men to consider the spectacle vvith mee and having made a little discourse unto them upon the Miseries Vanitie Vildnesse and Pride of man we all beganne to consider how vvee might haue the Toade separated from the head but that wee found altogether impossible till the bone was violentlie broken so little was the voyde part of it and so big was the Toade Let the reader judge where this Toade was bred and fostered For He who knoweth all thinges blessed bee His Name knoweth that I saw it lodged as said is O my soule what if those thinges could be considered by men and especiallie by women in this our licentious foolish Age would they take such paines and delight to fat their claye bodies with all sort of pleasures and pleasant thinges as they doe Would they even with the wracke of their estates feede their bellies dresse their heades cover their backes so daintilie so gloriouslie which must be brought so low and bee made a mother to conceiue a nurse to foster yea a lodging to keepe such uglie monsters Yea if this could be considered O my Soule O! with what an hatred would the Childe of GOD hate Sinne O! with what a care would the Child of GOD arme himselfe against Sinne seeing nothing besides Sinne hath brought all these evils upon poore miserable Man IN this last and worst Age of the Worlde alace O my Soule all men almost seeke after Sinne defile themselues with Sinne yea alace delight themselues in Sinne and all because few men alace studie to acquaint themselues truelie with the nature of Sinne. Men now-a-dayes O my Soule miscarried by their owne deceiving Lustes while they fall into Sinne looke unto men yea unto men onelie as if Sinne were committed against man yea against man onelie And out of this false ground blindlinges alace layde by them as they thinke of the man with whome they haue to doe so they thinke of the sinne which they haue committed If that man bee such a one who may grieue and annoy them then they are grieved for their sinne Alwayes not because that Great GOD is abused by them but because a man who may grieue them is grieved by them If that man bee such a man who cannot grieue them who dare not attempt to annoy them by reason of their grandour and credit worldlie and his basenesse and lacke of moyen with men O then O my Soule they can both digest their sinne sweetlie and goe on in their sinne peartlie and pleasantlie For can those men possiblie dreame that anie beside man hath anie intrest to quarrell them for their sinne Alwayes hearken hearken O my Soule would man suffer that good Worde of GOD which is that Worde of Trueth which never deceived any man which never shall deceiue any man to leade him hee should finde that everie sinne committed on earth beneath heere bee the committer of it King or coatter looketh not lower than the Heaven of Heavens and so he should finde that sinne committed beneath heere is committed against none who liveth heere beneath but onelie against that Supreame Majestie who ruling over all thinges hath His Throne set aboue all Thrones even in the highest Heavens I will confesse ô my soule that a Subject may offende and grieue his King that a King may injure and grieue his Subject that a Father may hurt and grieue his sonne that a sonne may hurt and grieue his Father but Scripture beeing well considered will not suffer mee to confesse that a Subject can sinne against his King or that a King can sinne against his Subject that a father can sinne against his sonne or a sonne sinne against the Father Tell mee tell me O my soule vvhat callest thou sinne Sinne I know being taught of GOD is The Transgression of the Law But of whose Law 1. Iohn 3.4 I pray thee Not of the Law of anie pettie King but of the Law of that KING of Kinges who is that onelie Supreame Law-giver who is able to saue and destroy Knowest thou not Iames

loupe for Ioy within me For by this vvould not thy blessed powerfull GOD whose wayes passe finding out not onlie overthrow but also mocke the malice and craft of the devill to His Majesties great Glorie to Satan his sensible shame and to thy everlasting comfort ô malicious subtill Serpent thou canst cunninglie convey by Evahs eares that fearefull poyson towardes her foule which was able to slay her her husband and their posteritie but is not my good GOD both mercifull and powerfull able to convey to my Soule even by mine eare that wholesome Salue whereby that thy poyson is not onlie made ineffectuall but whereby I am made to liue for ever Thou seest thou smellest thou touchest thou tastest yea thou readest ô man manie thinges alwayes understand it is not by thy sight by thy smelling by thy touching by thy tasting yea it is not by thy reading if thou attempt to despise hearing and so to contemne the Worde preached that thou canst be saved ô when shall that shining Golden Chaine of Salvation presented to us by Paul first be reverenced and then be embraced and keeped by us Whosoever shall call upon the Name of the LORD shall bee saved but how shall they call on Him in whome they haue not believed and how shall they belieue in Him Rom. 10.13.14.15.17 of whom they haue not beard and how shall they heare without a Preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent then faith is by hearing and hearing by the Worde of GOD. EVerie man naturallie loveth life and loving life desireth to liue but alace scarce one of a thousand doth know and consider wherefore life should bee loved and so wherefore man should desire for to liue The Ambitious man with Haman desireth for to liue to the ende his Honour may bee increased The leacherous man with Ammon desireth to liue to the ende hee may satisfie his beastlie Lust The seditious man with Ahitophell desireth to liue to the ende that accomplishing his crooked plottes hee may throw downe such as hee hateth and advaunce those which followe him The avaritious man with the Foole in the Gospel would liue to the ende hee may inlarge his Boundes and augment his Summes The Bellie-god would liue that with the rich Glutton hee may please his taste and fatte his vylde Bellie with the daintiest Fare But bee not those men O my Soule with their desires more than abominable in the Eyes of that holie GOD who made all men for Himselfe and no man for anie thing beside Himselfe Wherefore O my Soule if thou loving thy lyfe wouldest loue it as it becommeth the Childe of GOD to loue life and so if desiring to liue thou wouldest liue for the right ende I would advertise thee to learne of that wise graue Heavenlie-learning Father David That this lyfe is not to bee loved but for GODS cause onelie and so man should not desire to liue Psal 119.17 Genes 3. Luke 1.74.75 Rom. 8.11.12.13 but to the ende hee may keepe GODS Lawe This was the Ende wherefore man having lost himselfe in Adam was redeemed by IESVS CHRIST Yea this is the ende wherefore dead uncleane man is quickened renewed and sanctified by the Spirit of the Father and of His dearest Sonne A Lace ô my Soule as men desire to liue and in desiring to liue doe sinne grosselie because they desire not to liue for the right ende so men desire also to die but alace they sinne in desiring to die because the groundes of their desire are vylde before GOD and nowayes profitable but hurtfull to themselues Could wee desire to liue submitting humblie and holilie our crooked willes to the straight will of GOD to the ende that with David wee might keepe His Law and with Hezekiah that wee might benefit His Children on Earth heere Could wee desire to die submitting also heerein our will to the good will of GOD to the ende wee might cease to breake the Lawe of our GOD and so to sinne against His Majestie yea to the ende that wee might bee with IESVS who is our onelie advantage both in lyfe and in death holie should this our desire bee and happie should wee prooue having such a desire wrought in our Soules Vnderstand understand O my soule that this naturall life is no benefit unto man can bee no benefit for man at all but onelie in so farre as it goeth before Spirituall and aeternall life and so in so farre as it hath Spirituall and aeternall life following it for as that olde Saying ever remaineth true Nemo renatus qui non prius natus None hath GOD bearing them over againe by His Spirit to bee a Christian but such who were borne first of flesh and bloode to be men and women So that shall ever holde true which our Master spake of Iudas It had beene good for that man who is not borne over againe by the holie Spirit that hee had never bene borne of a Woman For Death seazing on that man cannot possibly but sende him to Hell unlesse before death man cease for to sinne And if through GODS Grace man die to sinne before hee die before the worlde hee shall cease from his laboures and rest with GOD for ever Bernhard meditating long agoe upon this and subscrybing to the trueth of it from a renewed humble honest heart drewe up this Prayer unto his GOD I beseech Thee O LORD my Father to bestowe upon mee Thine hungrie Childe three Bread Even that I may knowe that I may loue and that I may doe Thy will So shall I liue for in these three standeth the whole lyfe of my Soule And againe It is commonlie sayde amongst men Hee who feedeth well liveth well But heere Wickednesse doeth most grosselie ô my GOD bewray it selfe for none can possiblie liue well but such who liue ordinatelie sociallie and humblie ordinatelie studying to procure honest thinges both before GOD and man that neyther hee sinne against his GOD nor by his sinfull lyfe offend his Brethren Sociallie living so that hee studie to bee beloved of others and to loue others Humblie that while hee is made thus through the Grace of his GOD to carrie himselfe he be not puffed up with pryde as alace too manie bee But contrarie-wise that with the holie Sainctes of GOD yea with His most blessed Angels Rev. 4.9.10 hee cast himselfe alwayes downe before that Majestie who hath beene so mercifull and beneficiall unto him O My Soule When shalt thou beginne to loue that GOD truelie who hath loved thee dearelie with that sincere loue which His Majestie will accept of as of that loue which commeth from Him and sendeth thee backe unto Him againe Belieue mee ô my Soule albeit there bee some yet there bee not manie who be beautified and gifted with this sorte of loue for thou must know ô my soule that the heart of man hath beene and is clogged and cloathed with a foure-folde loue which would be considered by our