Acts 20.7 On the preparation to the Sabbath the bodie of IESVS was begged by Ioseph to be buried Mark 15. Luk. 23. for obseruing the sabbath God hath commanded the kéeping thereof with a Memento Sunday was the first day of the Worldes Creation and the day of Christs Resurrection S. Iohn calles it Dies Dominicus I was in the spirit on the Lords day for it was by the Apostles established Reu. 1.10 and Saturday the Iews Sabbath abolished Therfore it behooues vs carefully to kéepe Sunday the Lords day The Law is perpetuall so is the Sabbath and is to be sanctified to Gods seruice For though being vnder the Gospell we are deliuered frō the shadows of the ceremoniall law yet it foloweth of congruity that we indeuor to kéepe the morall precepts and be obedient to Gods commandements else we are not grafied in Christ which saith Math 5. Thinke not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets I am not come to destroy but to fulfill If wee belong to him we will doe our industrie God is iealous of his glory which men diminish dishonouring him more on that day then in all the wéeke His Memento is not minded Man and beast must rest Yet rude ones ride on the Sabbath vpon small occasions All within thy gate must rest that is within thy power Childrē seruants and stranger Sée it performed preuent eternall punishment By Christ we haue Christian liberty to doo things of necessity for preseruation of life and of things in vtter decay on the sabbath Christ then healed a man and the Iews did lift shéepe from the pit and we must be carefull that the thing wee doe be such as cannot well be deferred to further time Néedlesse worldly workes wordes and worldly thoughts must be abandoned Nūb 15. God cōmanded all the people to stone a man that gathered sticks on the sabbath Math 1.80 Oh yee that follow lusts be obedient least yee be perpetually punished God lookes for our Obedience to obey is better then sacrifice Nehemiah 13. reprooued them that brake the sabbath in bearing sheaues and loading their Asses and that solde ware he told them that euill came on the Cittie because their Fathers did so The Lord by Ieremie 17.21 dehorteth from breaking the Sabbath and exhorteth people to hallow the same God promiseth a blessing if they obey if not a destruction Ioyfull promise is for performance For thus saith the Lord vnto the Eunuches that keep my Sabbaths choose the things that please me and take holde of my Couenant vers 5. Euen vnto them will I giue in mine house within my walles a place and a name better then of sonnes of daughters I wil giue them an euerlasting name that shall not be cut off In this Maior is a Benisson to him that knoweth not a woman if hee applie the Minor To euery man that kéepeth the sabbath not doing his owne wayes nor speaking his owne wordes God hath promised a blessing But God is forgotten and present pleasures thought on Some substantiall whome the world estéem of talke on their trash subtilty and sensualitie on that day and for a messe of potage with Esau lose their birthright Young-men some of them are like a generation of Vipers starting aside like a broken Bowe Neuters that delight not Gods Lawe say they belieue as the Church belieueth and how that is they knowe not as though they had a taste of the Whore of Babylon Lurking Masse-mongers doe seduce and make them luke-warme The body of Iezabel was deuoured but her Feete skull and handes remained And though the light doth disprooue Idolatrie some with deceiued tast thereof would burne incense to the Queene of heauen which God reprooued and seuerely punished Consider it yée that are thereto addicted They that loue darknes ha e the light least it should reprooue them Ierem. 44. Such are wilfull Absenters and some that heare are Sabbath-prophaners The true vse of the Sabbath is with the Assembly to heare Gods word read and preached to receiue the Sacrament with thanks and repentance to pray for our gratious King Iames Quéene and Royall progenie and for all Gods children being the Church vniuersall O Lord we thanke thee for our dread Soueraigne his great preseruation from Iannes Iambres and traitorly Iudas and we beséech thée to deliuer vs from such mercilesse papists Amen As at all times so chiefly on the Sabbath we must feede on the word and thanke our good God meditate comfort and counsell each other from euill to good and prouide for the poore at such time of the day as shall not hinder the seede sowne in vs. S. August makes mention of 3. kind of works that must be done on the Sabbath viz The works of godlines instructing the ignorant the works of Charitie giuing to the poore The works of necessitie to saue things in vtter decay As at all times so on this day let vs comfort the distressed praise him which rose then for our consolation and and Iustification The Iewes sabbath did put them in minde of their deliuerāce from the cruelty of Pharao vnto the desert where they were fed with Manna and so to the promised Canaan Our Sabbath puts vs in remembrance of our deliuerance from the fiery Pharao the diuell and that we shall possesse eternall rest if we obey God and keepe the true Rest An absenter sayes God heard Iob on the dunghil Daniel in the denne so may he me in my house Saint Dauid saith Psal 122. I was glad when they sayd vnto mee Let vs goe into the house of the Lord. Psa 84. My soule longeth yea euen faynteth for the Courts of the Lord. Hée accompanied the holy conuocation Psal 42. I went with them to the house of God with the voyce of ioy and prayse It must be the finall cause The swéete Singer saith Psal 81 Sing aloud vnto God our strength make a ioyfull noyse vnto the God of Iacob The ruder sort make not a ioyfull noyse they can sing few tunes for Psalmes nor in tune but disturbe the Congregation Dauids heart and swéete loud voyce makes harmony illustrating the glory of God which ordeyned heart and voyce He a type of Christ saith Psal 35.18 I will giue thee thanks in the great congregation I will prayse thee among much people Louers of God are ioyfull to prayse him among many and to sée God praysed by many Let vs not let it but loue it imbrace the truth and prayse God for it To the which blessed Trinitie be eternall honour prayse and glory Amen Tota ipsa anima laudet Iah ¶ Against the euill effects of Dicing and Carding DIcing and Carding are accustomed with company that vseth excesse they goe to an Alehouse and call for an Out-house and sit wrangling dishonouring God seruing of Sathan and cause vexation The winner spends it prodigally procuring Gods displeasure The sadde lozer gripes for money gréedily to be reuenged rashly hee ventureth more
Persist with the woman of Canaan Mat. 15. Imitate Dauid voyd of pusillanimity full of magnanimitie yet mourned Psa 6.6 I am weary with my groning all the night make I my bed to swimme I water my couch with my teares The sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit Psal 51.17 Luke 15.7 Psa 103.11 a broken and contrite heart ô God thou wilt not despise Ioy shall be in heauen ouer such Therefore with submission vse contrition For as the heauen is high aboue the earth so great is his mercy toward them that feare him God giue vs repentante that we may be faithfull applyers of Christs righteousnes Amen Dum spiro spero ¶ Of the ioyes of heauen prepared for Gods Children FOr the faithfull penitent which warre against wickednesse is prepared a place so ioyfull as is vnspeakable such haue not onely immunitie and freedome from bondage but also interest to the priuiledges of Gods children who are heyres with God Rom. 8.17 Reuel 7.14 and coheyres with Christ in his Kingdome which is by the bloud of Iesus which washeth vs white without the which is no puritie God imposed the punishment for our sinnes vpon him Rom. 8. and he hath fully satisfied the Iustice of his Father for them The holy Spirit speaketh to faithfull perseuerers Reu. 2.10 Bee thou faithfull vnto death and I will giue thee the Crowne of life Reuel 3.21 To him that ouercometh will I graunt to sit with me in my Throne euen as I also ouercame and am set downe with my Father in his Throne Reuel 21.4 And God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes and there shall be no more death neyther sorrow nor crying neyther shall there be any more payne for the former things are passed away Verse 7. He that ouercommeth shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my sonne 1. Cor. 2.9 Eye hath not seene nor care heard neyther haue entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that loue him When the Quéene of Sheba was come to Solomon shee sayd 1. King 10.7 Behold the halfe was not tolde mee So Gods Saints shall then sée that the thousand part of those ioyes were not tolde them Aug. O gaudium super gaudium vincens omne gaudium extra quod non est gaudium quando intrabo inte vt Deū meū videam qui habitat in te O ioy aboue all ioyes surpassing all ioyes without which there is no ioy when shall I enter into thee that I may see my God that dwelleth in thee Profectò in me totum non intrabit sed ego in illud totus intrabo Truely it will not enter wholly into me by my knowledge that I may comprehend it but I shall enter wholly into it by fruition that I may enioy it for euer It is such frée-hold as is good for vs to build there an inheritance incorruptible 1. Pet. 1.4 and vndefiled and that fadeth not away reserued in heauen for vs. There is beauty brightnesse iubilation exultation mirth without mourning heauenly harmony delectable vnspeakable Saints shall sing with Angels and heauenly habitants All glory to the Trinitie There is health rest riches abundance with continuance A Paradise excéeding all pleasure The Trinity in vnity shal ioy all hearts his beauty is glorious the longer viewed the more desired O excellent Soueraigne Exo. 34.29 2. Cor. 3.7 brighter then the day Sunne the skinne of Moses face shone bright by being with God glistering and glorious then shall men bee being glorified and euer with God Sinne shall no more disquiet vs the flesh and the spirit shall then be at quiet hauing perfect knowledge perfect holinesse For now wee see through a Glasse darkly but then face to face 1. Cor. 13.12 Exo. 33.20 2. Tim. 4.8 now I know in part but then shall I know euen as also I am knowne The Lord God said There shall no man see me and liue but there we shall sée him and liue All that reigne with Christ shall haue crownes of righteousnesse 2. Pet. 1.11 It is an euerlasting Kingdome Luke 14. Blessed is he that eateth bread in the kingdom of God Ioyfull is the societie of those heauenly Citizens the Region is Royall and a Kingdome excéeding all kingdomes Reu. 21. It is likned to a City of pure gold which had no neede of the Sunne neither of the Moone to shine in it for the glorie of GOD did lighten it the Lambe is the light thereof vers 25. And the gates of it shall not bee shut at all by day for there shall be no night there We heere are in danger of the Diuell and his darlings but there shall be no enemie to hurt nor annoy The glorious Heauen of heauens is not contaminate but immaculate there shal enter into it no vncleane thing Mat. 13.43 Esay 25.6 Then shall the righteous shine foorth as the Sunne in the kingdome of their Father God will feast his faithfull at his right hand is fulnesse of ioy euerlasting ioy shall bee vpon them Aug. There is myrth without mone place without payne life without labour light without darknes there youth alwaies flourisheth and neuer decayeth there is no torment felt nor howling heard no sorrow séene but possession of ioyes euerlasting How glorious things are spoken of thée thou Citie of God true reioycing is in thy habitation We shall bee rid from warfare and bee in welfare from sinne Satan and his adherents from hunger thirst heate cold wearinesse infirmities dread doubtfulnesse sicknes vexation death damnation be euer with God our preseruer Good children are glad to sée their father here much more to behold our Heauenly Father his sonne our Sauiour the Holy Ghost our Sanctifier there S. Iohn sprang in his Mothers wombe at the tidings of our Sauiour Luk 1.41 Angells praised and said Lu. 2.24 Glory to God The shepheards went and saw him published the newes and gaue praise vnto God Old Simeon took him in his arms reioycing Old Anna gaue thanks likewise vnto the Lord and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Hierusalem Oh when men and all the hoasts of Heauen sing to his Maiestie most glorious is that harmonie Wée shall sing in the presence of God Halleluiah Saluation glory honour power be to the Lord our God Oh heauenly harmony myrth melody Blessed are they that are called to the Lambs supper M. Bradford the Martyr belieued this beatitude and thus did animate the young-man at the fire Be of good comfort Brother for we shall haue a merry supper with the Lorde this night All faithful harts crossed with calamity and grieued for iniquity be comforted yée shall inherit a kingdom We shal come to the mount Sion not Sinay where the Law was giuen but to the innumerable company of Angels S. Peter saide for the sight he saw on the mount Lord it is good for vs to
THE GLASSE OF MANS FOLLY AND MEANES TO AMENDMENT for the health and wealth of soule and body The second Edition This Glasse of Mans folly is that we may know The cause of the cruelty which dayly doth flow Such powling such pilfring such gryping for gaine And great greedy gathering as purchase our paine Such Whores and such Theeues Bankrouts and Beggers Quarrellers Fighters and mercilesse Murtherers Such wrangling for wealth and care for to get Such losse of soule health as canker shall fret Such euill and such enuy heart-hatred and strife Such seruing of Sathan betweene Man and Wife In this Booke is shewed diabolus deuises And also reproued his subtill enterprises Therefore gentle Reader deale thou not so rashly To reproue with reproching the thing that mislikes thee The Learned allowes this which vertue imbrace For none but ill actions it seekes to deface And if it doe touch thee turne prating to praying Least Zelotipus Deus correct thy gaine-saying LONDON Printed by T. C. for I. H. 1615. TO LOVERS OF VERtue and Haters of vice bee Grace and Peace BLessed deerely bought by Iesus this booke doth disprooue that most doe loue and is liable to the leaude It is like that such as loue theyr sinnes heerein reprooued will mislike it mee for reproouing for strikers at vices are strooke with calumnies Therefore to Gods children is my dedication to patronize it when the impious despise it I made it that God may be glorified you comforted the wicked rebuked I beseech you accept it as a Mite cast among greater Teasures for Gods word is the warrant If any obiect there be many good books extant It is requisite for people be many sinnes do multiplie Grudge at no good bookes grieue for sinne Wee may admire and lament for those of ridiculous Ribauldrie which derogates Gods glorie The Inuenter Printer Seller and Buyer must remember they are meanes to winne the diuell darlings It is odious how by many they are perused and iterated but the good refused It doth divulgate that sathan win and winew vs that the tares his Adherents spring thicker then the good Corne. It is grieuous to thinke how wee grieue our good God Impietie is so spred that there was neuer more neede of reproofe The best Bookes please not the proude Momus maligneth Herein is expressed comfort for the contrite seuerity for the obstinate whose stonie hearts deserues hammers for them sharpe speech is requisite Valete Combibo counselleth not to be counselled and would the Author alter WHy trouble you my merry minde I cannot loue nor like yee Vnto my corps you are vnkinde So much to moue and minde mee It is your losse it gets no gaine Your Pen your profite hinder For to refraine from pot is paine My ioy is carnall pleasure My Mates and I will looke awry With frowning face wee view yee Boore Bibax back-bites bitterly Superbia doe iniure thee Capillatus hee will worke thee hate If you make bookes to braide vs Wee are at ease com be our mate In pleasures great not grieuous Astutia will thee despise Aleator casteth in his lot Salax against thee doth deuise Refuse thy Pen let 's fill the pot Constancie consented to Feare not the face of Fancie fine No leaud life nor loue lust Seeke thou the safetie of their soules In God put thou thy trust Thy Booke good people well doth like Send forth therefore this Doue To bring with ioy in Arke aright By meanes of God his loue Pray thou to God this worke to blesse That it may hale to Heauen GOD glorious is all praise to him Good people say Amen Optime Deus esto nobiscum nunc in auum THE GLASSE OF MANS FOLLIE ALthough little considered of some yet are they not ignorant of this that we shuld liue according to Gods will reuealed in his word be carefull to win each other dooing our industry to shew the things he hath commaunded detesting and reproouing that hee hath forbidden And amitie doth animate vs to illustrate Gods glorie in all our actions which is the finall cause of mans Creation therefore mentioned in this praeludium Such follow not their phātasies as our aduersaries of the truth doe Psalm 97.7 for ietting Iesuits and bloody Papists call stocks and stones Laye-mens bookes yet God Omniscient doth convince it Confounded be all they that serue grauen Images that boast themselues of Idolles Esay 42.8 I am the Lord that is my Name and my glorie will I not giue to any other neither my praise to grauen Images Saint Dauid teacheth vs the true way that directed him right Ps 119.105 Thy Word is a lampe vnto my feete and a light vnto my path In which as in a myrrour if wée search with true prayer we shall sée light more fulgent then the bright Sun beames to shewe vs the way to walke to Gods glorie From which Canonicall rule Sathan makes an aberacion Therefore in hate to him and loue to man here is reprooued Not vsing the Victuling-house for necessitie but the common and accustomed sinne of Drunkennesse that daily increaseth From which except with spéede wée refraine wée procure Gods high displeasure to be powred euer vpon vs. The Apost S. Paul indued with a heauenly spirit foreknowing future things with praemunition giueth a caueat 2. Timoth 3. This know also that in the last dayes perillous times will come for men shall be louers of theyr owne selues which is to be vnderstood of the inordinate loue of theyr bodies for while we liue so wée are enemyes to our soules which are our selues Corpora nostra non sunt nos Our bodyes are not vs Rom 8.12 To the which wée are debters but not to liue after the flesh Yet till wée the bellie and fainte the soule delighting so in liquor that thereto we lust Belly-gods abuse theyr bellyes they can carouse at all times thyrstie or not asmuch in one day as might serue some men ten So impudent and shamelesse that they rather boast thereof then bée ashamed Bibax addicted to Bibaculus in Cliant to Bacchus frequenting Bachanal till he be Bacchatus The deceyuer inticeth to excesse to torment vs. Some seldome cease but are exorbitant frō goodnes flexible to follie pliant to impietie with delectation in such dooings Theyr odious actions shewes affections are not fixed on God to loue him and with feare to offend him except a seruile feare as Sathan hath it is to be feared some want it For though some doo boast they are saued by Christ they denie him in theyr déedes The fruits bewrayes the heart to be false Psalm 14. The foole hath said in his heart there is no God their déedes say so doo they The sucking sinne is as common as the Cartway which is to be deplored and daylie reprooued Much festinacion not to be fasting to fatting turning pot after potfull into wide weasands and bias bellies making them gutters of gulpers and swiltubs for swyne Vnsatiable in receiuing
knéele not standing is fitting so did the poore Publican Luke 18.13 GOD ordained body and soule and will be acknowledged by both 1. Cor 6. For yee are bought with a price Therefore glorifie God in your bodie and in your Spirite which are Gods And if we will not willingly hée will be glorified in our destruction Therefore stand in awe with inward and outward obedience Esay 66.5 Heare the word of the Lorde yee that tremble at his word Psalme 134. Lift vp your hands in the Sanctuarie and blesse the Lorde Blessed Preachers performe it so ought the people Deuout Dauid saith Psal 63. I will lift vp my hands in thy Name Nehemiah 8.3 The people did with willing mindes heare the Word of God from the morning vntill Midday and the eares of the people were attentiue Vers 5. All the people stood vp Vers 6. And Ezra blessed the Lord the great GOD And all the people answered Amen Amen with lifting vp their hands and they bowed their heads and worshipped the Lorde with theyr faces to the ground Such Agilitie moueth vigilancie as a meanes of amendment but be frée from hypocrisie God abhorres it Be euer more zealous then thou séemest Lift vp thy hands with hart annexed for hands without heart is abhominable vers 8. So they read in the booke of the law of God distinctly gaue the sence caused them to vnderstand the reading Theyr Teachers did comfort them Vers 9. For all the people wept Alas little is our wéeping much sléeping Pride omits submission Re. 1.7 But all the kinreds of the earth shall waile because of him And some so soone as Sermon is done wrangle of worldlinesse and are more stout then studious Loue of Riches chokes the Word A good Cow chewes her cud increasing good bloud and we must meditate in the word whē we haue heard If we were pricked in our harts we would say to the Preacher and each to other as the people to Peter and the rest of the Apostles Acts 2.37 Men Brethren what shall we do Then Peter said vnto them Repent We know it God graunt we may doe it Mark 11. Iesus went into the Temple and cast out them that did abuse the same Ver 16. And would not suffer that any should carry any vessell thorow the Temple Ver 17. And he taught saying vnto them It is written My house shal be called of all Nations the house of Prayer Slacke we are to pray or repaire that House but where bodyes are fed and lasts fulfilled building is not spared For the neglect of building the Lordes House Haggai by them that dwell in their steled houses the Lord staied Heauen from deaw and the Earth from her fruite Nabuchadnezzer gloried in his building Dan. 4.30 but heard a woefull voyce Many braue buildings are burned God make vs more mindefull of his House and to vse our selues well therein Amen Of euill behauiour out of the Church THe more a man neglects the means of true knowledge the liker he is a Beast the more endued with that light of life the liker hée is his Creatour Yet Church-sléepers and slack-goers can on the Sabboth hast to an Alehouse and say the Preacher was too tedious which shewes they felt not the swéete taste for such sits longer in leaude demeanour and loues it Men can watch a day to compasse a match for backe and belly or to kéepe ill companie but to heare glad tidings is thought tedious Hee that is wearie of Gods word is weary of God Looke into it It is his Image by whome the Sonne hath reuealed him As some are carelesse so their Children growe gracelesse Boyes are in back-lanes swearing and swaggering in open Stréetes wrangling in houses playing in yardes worrying Dogges and Cattes committing mercilesse actions Had not Man sinned Beasts had not striued Some reioyce in the sight and in sinne Good Parents doe kéepe children and Seruants to their bookes repeating to them that the Preacher taught when lewd ones are in stréetes desturbing them They that instruct not their Familie are like to féele of theyr follie Iacob reformed his Houshold Cornelius feared God Genes 35. Acts 10. with all his house When children disfigure their faces Parents are grieued but they sée them disfigure their Soules and suffer it Let not your Boyes be rude in streetes to people that passe gracelesse youth grieue them daily casting scornefull words or worse There is difference of Youth the well trained vp are vertuous the idle are vicious and haue cause to crie Nocet indulgentia nobis Sufferance doth hurt vs. Some such at ten yeares are past recouery hanged by twenty Securitants consider it Then they crye out of their parents Had they feared God their children had not miscaried For this is his Edict Leuitic 19.30 Yee shall keepe my Sabbaths and reuerence my Sanctuarie I am the Lord. But such regarde not they scorne the Aged that giue them good counsell yet Age is a Type of Eternitie And God saith Vers 32. Thou shalt rise vp before the hoary head and honour the face of the Olde man and seare thy God I am the Lord. They that feare God dare not prophane his Sabbath But some trauell all that day Others heare a Sermon in the Forenoone and an other in the after but spend the other part of the Day in bargaining and other vnprofitable pastimes GODS WORD is compared to a Hammer to breake a stone Oh Sabbath-prophaner art thou harder Clay doth the Sunne make thée harde Pharaos heart art obdurate Be submisse and mollified Amend pray and praise God Laudate nomen Iehouae ¶ A proofe that the Sabbath must be obserued SAbbat signifies holy rest not ryot God hath commanded and reserued that one whole day of seauen to be celebrated to his Maiestie He gaue the example And he rested on the seuenth day Genes 2.2 from all his worke which he had made The kéeping of the Sabbath is a Morall precept God spake it Exod 20. God wrote it Exod 31.18 and the Tables of stone being broken God wrote the second time on tables of stone Exod. 34. as hee did on the first The Sabboth was commanded for a perpetuall couenant Ex 31.16 God allowed vs sixe dayes to worke reserued to himselfe one which men would rob him of The wicked would haue all dayes and the diuell would haue all soules To worke therein was death Ex 35. On which day Exod 16. the Iewes might kindle no fire Sixe dayes they might gather Manna on the seuenth there was none to be found they were forbidden to séeke it that day and euery man commanded to abide in his place the seueth day God tooke away the occasion from their labour signifying how holy he would haue the Sabbath kept It is a Sabbath of rest Leuit. 23. an holy conuocation and was commaunded to be celebrated from Euen to Euen S. Paule kept the whole day and continued his preaching till midnight
be here Math. 17.4 But then wee shal be in light vnchangeable and sée Christ euer in felicity whom his enemies had in obloquie Those Ioyes infinite passe all Ioyes finite The voyce of Ioy and gladnes shal be euer with the righteous Oh happy heires of heauēly inheritance without our deserts Aug. Deus coronat dona sua non merita nostra God crowneth his owne gifts not our merites O blesse the Lord who redeemeth thy life frō destruction Psal 103.4 who crowneth thee with louing kindnes tender mercies Feare not little flock Lu 12.32 Reu 4.8 for it is your Fathers good pleasure to giue you the kingdome O let vs say holy holy holy Lord God Almightie which was is is to come We shal be Citizens with the saints and of the houshold of God dignified and glorified In Ioy we shal reioyce that our names are written in heauen franchessed fréemen irreuocably inrolled as sure rather surer then the estate of Angells We shall haue the fruition of Christs Resurrection and be manumissed from the bondage of death and destruction Frée denizens freed from miseries and proude peoples malice Those Ioyes passe all Iubilees Good Iesus bring vs to that blisse As there is no equalitie betwixt the Creator and vs here sinfull creatures So is there none betwéene the ioyes of Heauen and worldly pleasures These are ioyes transitory the other Ioyes eternall Rom. 8.17 Wee shall be ioynt heires with Christ and partakers of true happinesse There is no sighing singing No heauinesse Ioyfulnes No ignominie glory Holy holy holy shall be euer ascribed to Iehouah The Virgins could learne the new song which follow the Lambe Reuel 14. Oh the Ioyfull harmony that wee shall heare and be glorified euer in glorie Wee shall haue a palace vnspeakable being deliuered into the glorious libertie of the Children of God Luke 20.36 Neither can they doe any more for they are equall to the Angels and are the Children of GOD being the children of the Resurrection If a man here sicke heard those ioyes he would not féele his paine Oh ioyfull shall we be when we be there hearing seeing and hauing vnspeakable ioyes Aug Erit in Coelo domus tua aeterna si modò bene in hoc tabernaculo vixeris Thine house shall bee eternall in heauen if now thou liuest well in this tabernacle Lose not that permanent Paradise for this pleasure which in respect thereof is paine for the Barley corne lose not the pretious Pearle for carnall copulation eternall benediction for a minute of selfe-will Reu 3.20 millions of yéeres ioyfull Ah God forbid he bids vs returne and reteyne him Behold I stand at the doore and knocke Receiue him and hee will receiue thée to sit in glory with his Maiestie which is a dignitie of all dignities Iob. 19.25 This did mitigate Iobs misery For I know my Redeemer liueth that he shall stand at the latter day vpon the earth and though after my skin wormes destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God S. Paul saith Phil. 3. For our conuersation is in heauen from whence also wee looke for the Sauiour the Lord Iesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious body c. A Comfort Our bodies shall be conformable to the body of Christ our Head We shall be like him ill thoughts bad motions and perturbations shall be excluded Wee heare this but hée that beléeues it and hopes to haue it his affection is fixed in heauen Therfore pray and repent so shalt thou haue what A worldly commodity for which thou dost venture soule and body Ah thou shalt haue a Throne of tryumph excéeding all earthly treasures to reigne in ioyes for euer If thou hadst all earthly riches plentiousnes pleasures and pleasantest place on earth with all elegant obiects Princely prospects dainty delicates musicall Instruments swéete singers persumes and fine sauours with all thy vnfained friends and choyce of chiefe louers yet all this were paine in respect of heauen where we shall ouer be with our good God to whom be all prayse honour power and glory now and euer Amen with heart and tongue againe Amen Gloria in excelsis Deo PSAL. 66.18 If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not heare me PROV 23.26 My sonne giue me thine heart ¶ Pray heartily OH heauenly Trinitie one God in vnitie to thee bee all honour Glorious God at thy brightnes the Sunne Moone and Starres are abashed and impure in thy sight much more I a sinfull creature which by mine iniquities haue stained those bright creatures Omniscient God thou knowost my thoughts before I thinke them and knowest me before I was I was conceiued in sin borne in sinne in sinne I liue I am by nature the childe of wrath O giue me grace to be borne from aboue that I may enter into thy kingdome I am not worthy to looke vp to thee I deserue to bee cast downe to hell but I appeale to the Throne of thy mercy in the Name of Iesus my Sauiour which calleth all penitent sinners to him to giue them rest Oh Sauiour refresh my silly soule which cryes to thee out of my sinfull carkasse that I may apply thy sufferings merits and promises to my soule and conscience and be accepted through thy righteousnes My Lord and my God out of 〈◊〉 side issued the bloud of my redemption and water of absolution to purge me from pollution thou standest at the dore and knockest giue me grace to open the dore of my heart touch it with the finger of thy Spirit that it maybe a fit receptacle to entertaine thee Create in me a cleane heart ô God and renue a right spirit within me that I may resist all exill and walke in righteousnes and holinesse all the dayes of my life Let the assurance of thy loue wipe all teares from mine eyes so come Lord Iesus Good God forgiue me all my sinnes for Iesus sake in whom thou art well pleased cloath me with his righteousnes and behold me in him I doe deserue damnation but hee hath payde my ransome Lord let me finde and feele thy mercy Giue mee grace to redeeme the time and spend it to thy prayse Blesse this Realme our King Queene and Royall Progeny blesse and comfort all thy children Make vs loue those things that thou dost loue and hate that thou hatest that we may keepe faith and a good conscience And if it be thy will forgiue and conuert our enemies Good God prepare me and thy children fit for thy kingdome O Christ giue vs grace to examine our selues whether thou be in vs that we may expresse the power of godlinesse in our liues Lord receiue our soules when we depart this life that we may prayse thee in heauen eternally The which peace God bring vs for Iesus sake that bought vs to whome with thee ô Father and the holy Ghost three persons and one God be all might maiestie prayse honour glory power and dominion now and euer Amen Watch and pray prayse God FINIS