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A35684	Pelecanicidium, or, The Christian adviser against self-murder together with a guide and the pilgrims passe to the land of the living : in three books.	Denny, William, Sir, 1603 or 4-1676.; Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702.	1653 (1653)	Wing D1051; ESTC R22350	177,897	342

gives a nearer Terme and Speaks it a manendo from tarrying and not moving from it's place Another inclines to Mons a moveo quod a terra in altum moveatur because it is cast up high overtopping the rest Some other a minis as if it's height did threaten the Skye But as every mans Fancy works more especially in Criticisme under favour it may be conceived Mons quasi monens a Mountain a Mark an Advertisement and it carries a plausible construction with it to advertise us of the Greatnesse of the Creator in the narrower object more suitable to the Eye which cannot receive at once the vastnesse of the whole Earth only thus it is represented in Abstract as a Map of the whole Fabrick Every Creature having an Impresse of the Excellence of the Most Mighty and Most Wise Maker thereof this hath it's place and order by his Dispose in an extraordinary manner as intimating the vastnesse immovablenesse immutability and eminency of the Creator above the perception of the inferiour Creatures of the Vallies So Hills and Mountains seem the stairs to Heaven If we did conceive that the Heathen had not altogether lost the memory of Noah's Floud but preserved it by the Continuance of Tradition and Antiquity of History as Ovid a Roman to whom the Latine Tongue was genuine mentioneth in that of Deucalion it is not likely to prove a mistake that Mons should be derived from manens because the Ark rested upon Mount Ararat a Mountain in Armenia yet the former Contract of Monens hath solid reason to underprop it if we look either into Holy writ or cast an eye upon the Superstition of the Heathen Most of all the Great works that it pleased God to manifest unto men were upon the Turrets of the Earth That great Triall of Abraham's Faith in offering up of Isaac who was a Figure of Christ was by especiall command to be done upon a mountaine As it is in the 22. of Genesis And He said Take now thine only Son Isaac whom thou lovest and get thee into the Land of Moria and offer Him there for A burnt Offering upon one of the mountaines which I will shew thee Canaan that Land of Promise was a high Countrey For Jacob sent his Sons down into Egypt for Corn And concerning their return it is Said Gen 45. 25. Then they went up from Egypt and came into the Land of Canaan When the Israelites murmured in Rephidim for water Gods answer to Moses was Exod. 17 5. 6. Go before the People and take with thee of the Elders of Israel and thy Rod wherewith thou Smotest the River take in thine hand and go Behold I will stand there before thee upon the Rock in Horeb and thou shalt smite on the Rock and water shall come out of it that the people may drink And when Amaleck fought with Israel in Rephidim Moses said to Iosua Chuse us out Men and go fight with Amaleck To morrow I will stand on the Top of the Hill with the Rod of God in mine hand When Moses held up his Hand Israel prevailed But when he let his Hand down Amaleck prevailed They propped up his Hands and Iosua discomfitted Amalek From Mount Sinai the Lord declared Israel to be his peculiar People Moses went up unto God for the Lord had called him out of the Mount unto Him Saying Thus shalt thou say unto the House of Iacob and tell the Children of Israel c. If you will heare my Voice indeed and Keepe my Covenant then ye shall be my chiefe treasure above All people though All the Earth be mine Ye shall be also A Kingdome of Priests and an Holy Nation When Moses brought the People out of the Tents to meet with God and they stood in the nether part of the Mount Mount Sinai was all on Smoak because the Lord came down upon it in fire and the Smoak thereof ascended as the Smoak of a Furnace and all the Mount trembled exceedingly And when the Sound of the Trumpet blew long and waxed louder and louder Moses spake and God answered him by Voice For the Lord came downe upon Mount Sinai on the Top of the Mount and when The Lord called Moses up into the Top of the Mount Moses went up c. Exod. 19. And in the 20. chapt God spake all these words c. Viz. the Ten Commandements After the delivery whereof All the People saw the Thunder and Lightnings and the sound of the Trumpet and the Mountain Smoaking and when the People saw it they fled and stood afar off There were Temporall and Civill Ordinances and the making of the Tabernacle appointed by God There the Lord said unto Moses Thus shalt thou say unto the Children of Israel Ye have seene that I have talked with you from Heaven And Moses by command went afterwards up with Aaron Nadab and Ab●●u and Seventy of the Elders of Israel And they saw the God of Israel And under His Feet was as it were a worke of a Saphire stone and as the very Heaven when it is Cleare And upon the Nobles of Israel He laid not his Hand Also they saw God and did eat and drink c. And the Glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai and the Cloud covered it Six dayes And the Seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the Cloud And the Sight of the Glory of the Lord was like consuming Fire on the Top of the Mountain to the Eyes of the Children of Israel And Moses entred into the Middes of the Cloud and went up to the Mountain And Moses was in the Mount Fourty dayes and Fourty nights Moses also came down from God in Mount Horeb. With the Second Tables went Moses up to God in Mount Sinai and the Lord descended in a Cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the Name of the Lord. So the Lord passed before his face and cried The Lord The Lord Strong Mercifull and Gracious Slow to Anger and Abundant in Goodnesse and Truth Reserving Mercy for thousands Forgiving Iniquity and Transgression and Sin and not making the wicked inocent visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children and upon Childrens Children unto the third and fourth generation And when the Children of Israel with all the Congregation departed from Kadesh they came unto the Mount Hor And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the Mount Hor neere the coast of the Children of Edom. Numb 20. when Balack the King of the Moabites had sent for Balaam to curse the Children of Israel who were advanced to the Plain of Moab he carries him first up into the High Places of Baal that thence he might see the utmost part of the People and God met Balaam there as Numb 23. But blessed Israel as the Lord had spoken Then Balak brought him inro Sadesophim the field of the Spies or of those that watched for them the motion of Israel to the Top of Pisgah And the Lord

Not in the Acknowledgement Seneca Controverting the matter brings in such a Criminall Modestie Gravius punior nunc cum peccasse pudet quam cum peccavi Ti 's more Irksome to unload than to bear my Burthen He had a kind of proud Lazinesse that he was loath to confesse But it is better adjudged Minus est quod vitiat it quam quod negavit Lesse is the Evill in the Deed than in the Denyall Periculosius est negare quam commisisse what hope of that Patient that will not acknowledge himself sick How canst thou come near Pardon when thou block'st up Confession When that is the way to It. As Christ and the Sanctified Intellectuall nature of Man His Church are Relative as Bridegroom and Spouse Sin likewise makes a Contract with the Wicked man's Soul But ti 's A Dower with a Mischief The wages of Sin is Death Thou Distressed Christian since it hath been so with thee that such an unlawfull Marriage hath lept into the Saddle Let Repentance ride upon the Crouper Better is a Cramp in thy Jawes than a Convulsion in thy Bowels than a Stich at the heart Repent Thou Know'st the nature of thy Sin best It is thy Dear Acquaintance thy Familiar thy bosome-Friend But trust it not It has betray'd thee And will undo thee Look about thee then in time For the Philistins are upon thee Break the Fetters Rend asunder the Cords that bind thee In time Repent Small Matters have their Great Effects in All humane Actions One Word misunderstood One Opportunity or Instant of time slipt hath many times occasioned so much Danger as even the Overthrow of an Army Of the Action and the Actors Thou hast undertaken A Mighty war against Three Confederates those Three Conspirators in one Combination The World The Flesh and the Devill One word makes good thy Battel Repentance If the word be not given Or not Rightly And in time too Thou maist nay thou wilt lose the day by 't Custome hath taught Nations Reason Men and Nature Beasts that self-defence is more than Lawfull It is Necessary Stand to thine Armes then Betake thee to thy Tears For the Roaring Lyon goeth about seeking whom he may devour In time Repent When Homer that blind Seer among the Auncients For Poets were their Prophets then discourses of a Certain woman whom he names Ate he sets forth her Character as a Dittie to this tune That shee was Hurtfull and Pernicious to All the Race of men He might mean Eve by it as well as cover another truth under a like Fable in that of Jupiter whom he feigns to have been the wisest of all men living Yet was Once deceiv'd by Iuno by his wife Thereby He might in the dark point at Adam And in A Heathen Language speak good Hebrew sense Thou maist not rightly understand his story And maist mistake the text also Adam left thee much in debt in such a condition as to part with All that thou hadst and to prison too was the sentence thou wert subiect to everlasting condemnation had not one stood in the Gap thou wert within the Penall statute of eternall Losse and never-dying torment It was in vain for the man to put it upon the woman It was no proper excuse It was his own sin It was his own Fault And he and his must pay the Forfeiture This Debt thy Saviour undertook as Sponsor when He should be Incarnate performed it Actually in the wildernesse what Adam should have performed in Paradise adhered and vanquisht as his Active obedience and satisfied on the Crosse for the Guilt that Adam contracted by Non-performance satisfying the Justice of the Father by his passive and was by the Father consummated in him by his Resurrection and Ascension This Score was by Him washed out in thy Baptisme But thine Actuall transgressions though they be cast from that Serpent are Egges of thine own hatching Thou woud'st lay these Bastards to thy First Parents now too Thou woud'st have thy Excuse the Son of theirs No. As Nathan said to David with reverence may I say to thee to my self to any grievous Sinner thou art the man Thou art the Reus laesae Majestatis Thou the Traitor against God thine own Soul Perditio tua ex te O Israel Out of thine own Bed the weeds come Thou art the unprofitable Servant the idle Gardiner the Garden also of wickednesse Thou art thine owne Ate. None more malitious than thou to thy self Thou that reall Pandora that open'st the Forbidden Box That scatt'rest within thy self and poudrest thine own head with all Evills Christ upon thy Resentment and desires is ready to make Intercession for these also for these thine Enormous Sins but as Elisha did the Cure to Naaman in such another Leprosie He must wash at his appointed waters at Jordan where thy Saviour bath'd for thy sin which likewise shall be Cleansed but his way and upon such Condition Repent and Believe Saint Iohn was sent upon that Embassage mainly to publish the Doctrine of Repentance No Saint Iohn no Christ. No Repentance no Salvation If thou beest not baptized in water with the Baptisme of Repentance of the Remission of Sins thou hast no part in the Baptisme of Fire the purification and purgation of Sins with the Holy Ghost No Regeneration no Resurrection no Glorification Take then S. Iohn's Advice He preaches to thee Now the Ax is laid to the root of the Trees Every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good Fruit shall be hewed down and cast into the Fire To Day sings the Psalmist if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the Provocation as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse It is an Invitatory Song Repent What else can'st thou ought'st thou do Fellow Christian whither else woud'st thou turn thee Turn thee Look upon thy self as Ieremie on the Jewes How doth the City sit solitary that was full of People full of Graces which thy Sins have sent into Exile How is shee become like a widdow How is shee become Tributary shee weepeth sore in the Night and her teares are on her Cheeks Among All Her Lovers shee hath none to comfort Her All Her Friends have dealt treacherously with her they have become her Enemies c. Her Adversaries are the chief her Enemies prosper For the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions her children are gone into Captivity before the Enemy And from the Daughter of Zion all her Beauty is departed Her Princes are become like Harts that find no pasture and they are gone without strength before the pursuer c. Her filthiness is in her Skirts Shee remembreth not her last end Therefore shee came down wonderfully She had no comforter c. The Adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things For she hath seen that the Heathen entred into her Sanctuary whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy Congregation Where are All thy

met Balaam there and putt an answer in his Mouth There did he blesse them also Then Balak removes him to the Top of Peor where the Spirit of the Lord Came upon him But there he blessed them also The Lord commands Moses to goe up into the Mount Abarim that thence he might behold the Land before his death which he had given unto the Children of Israel as it is in the 27. of Numbers And in the 34. of Deuteronomie Moses went from the Plain of Moab up into Mount Nebo unto the Top of Pisgah that is over against Jericho and the Lord shewed him all the Land of Gilead unto Dan. c. Hieru alem was placed upon the Hills too When they went to keep their Feasts there It is said that they went up to Hierusalem to worship where was Mount Sion Many other Examples might be shewed out of the Holy writ to demonstrate Gods appearance upon the Mountains In Holy Gospell there is frequent mention of the Selection of Mountains for Prayer and Preaching by our Blessed Saviour who likewise Suffered death upon Mount Calvarie The Heathen thought to find their false Gods in Groves on High Places as Moloch Adram-melech Baal c. These Idols had distinctive names from the Mountains where in they were worshiped as Baul-Peor Baal-Zebub Baal-Thephon Baal-Berith c. So was Iupiter call'd Olympius Capitolinus c. But all this discourse does aim at the setting forth of the fittnesse of the Terme of Mount for the place of Residence for Faith Since it is not onely the Representation of Heaven where the Throne of God is mentioned to be but the certainty of finding him by Faith that appeared frequently upon the Mountains and Suffered upon a Mount It may therefore be called the Mount of Faith in regard of it's Elevation above the things of this World and in respect of the Eminency of the Obiect of our Faith Thou can'st not stay shewes the Constancie of a Christian Pilgrim's Course He must on Non progredi est regredi If He standes still though but a little he loseth much ground Without Perseverance neither he that fights shall gain the victory nor he that conquereth shall wear the Palm or have the Triumph T is continuall Endevour and the Vigour of a dayly additional Force that gains the Goal of what we aim at No Merit can be fostered without it No Reward can be obtained but by it Patience bids Farewell if not with it Constancie has her life in it Peace is gained through it All bonds and tyes are knit for it The golden Chain of Unanimity is made of it It is not he that begins a good work but he that continueth to the End with so doing that shall be Saved Perseverandum est assiduo studio robur addendum donec bona mens sit et bona voluntas est can Seneca say We must persevere and ever send in supply with diligence wherewith still to reinforce while the mind is well sett and the will is rightly bent But he speaks higher something above a Philosopher as we may take his Sence In excelso est beata vita sed perseverantia penetrabilis Let Happinesse be immur'd in Heaven Perseverance will scale it 'T is high The way to Faith is out of Sight to Reason Credimus quod non videmus Faith is of Things not seene And it is high because it is conversant onely with Heavenly Things T is high because the Object of our Faith that was exalted Super crucem exaltatus that was exalted upon the Crosse is ascended to the right hand of His Father Fides aliquando recipit quod Ratio non praesumit Such Gifts are by Divine Grace bestow'd on Faith as Reason cannot hope for Ti 's craggie way It is very difficult to Flesh and Bloud a hard matter for Sense or Reason to believe Natures Feet are very tender and cannot endure rugged stones of Affliction and Tryal that lay in the Narrow way of Faith Lapis quidem durus est Sed cùm factum fuerit de eo opus desistere nescit This kind of stone is very hard it will last the better when it is well laid in a building The Divel puts a thousand Questions to a Novice in the School of Faith Questions are one sort of those stones Hear'st not one call as if he Preach't to day This points at the saying of the Prophet David in his Invitatory Psalm to the Worship and praise of the Lord and Exhorting to repentance with a lowd call To day if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the Wilderness When your Fathers tempted me proved me and saw my works This also hath reference to that of Saint Iohn the Baptist Now also is the Ax laid to the Root of the Trees therefore every Tree which beareth not good fruit is hewen down and cast into the Fire c. This alludeth likewise to that of the Prophet Ionas as shewing that there must be a continual renewing of Repentance for the obtaining of a firm Faith Yet forty dayes and Niniveh shall be overthrown So the people of Niniveh believed God c. Ionah 3. 4 5. This mindeth that of Saint Paul to the Hebrews 12. Wherefore let us also seeing we are compassed with so great a cloud of Witnesses cast away every thing that presseth down and the sin that hangeth so fast on Let us run with patience the race that is set before us looking unto Iesus the Author and finisher of our Faith Who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross and despised the shame and is set at the right hand of the Throne of God Faith comes by Hearing Hearing by the Preaching of the Word If therefore none can hear without a Preacher How can any believe without Hearing and how can he understand without Faith Or how can he do any thing that is good without Understanding The word of God must be preached that the hearer may believe the believer may understand and who so understands may persevere in the exercise of welldoing For neither works without Faith nor Faith without Woeks justifie those that have a kind of ability given them to use the freedom of their Will The holy Spirit comes to the Door and knocketh It is not broken ope it is a fair Render of Possession not a Burglary Be wary of thy steps Consider before thou dost any thing For Actions leave their prints behind them Go not every way that Temptation inviteth the Not be carryed away with every Wind of Doctrine according to that carefull direction of Saint Paul 2 Tim. 3. This know also that in the last daies shall come perillous Times For men shall be Lovers of their own selves Covetous Boasters Proud Cursed speakers Disobedient to Parents Unthankful Unholy without natural affection truce-breakers false accuses intemperate fierce despisers of them which are good Traytors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures