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The marriners card and compass. Or The best way to attain heaven amidst a sinfull and crooked generation. By William Harvey, minister of the Word
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Harvey, William, fl. 1657-1705.
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our being Acts 17.28 Secondly he is life and that especially by Regenerating and by Conserving us because by the Sacraments and words he workes and as I may so speak begets in us a Spirituall life According to that of S. John Jesus answered verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God and so forward John 35. And in the 6. chap. and 33. v. c. For the Bread of God is he which cometh down from Heaven c. And John 10.10 I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly St. Paul hath this expression to the Galathians I am Crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Gal. 2.20 And in his Epistle to the Romans he saith How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death Rom. 6.2 and v. 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptisme into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the Glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life Read Rom. 8.12 13. Thirdly and Lastly Christ is the life Resuscitando Glorificando by raising us again and by glorifying us This is the will of him that sent me that every one which seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day John 6.40 And again I am the Resurrection and the Life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never dye John 11.25.26 St. Paul saith whom he justifyed them he also glorifyed Rom. 8.30 And which is more Who shall change our vile bodie that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body c. Philipians 3.21 The fruit which we may gather from hence is this If Christ be the life we should seek it in and through him only without whom we shall never obtain it And we should not so much mind this present life which we have in common with beasts reprobates and as Eurip. saith Non vita sed calamitas est It is not a life in comparison but a calamity and differs nothing from death if we believe the Phylosopher a life that is as brittle as Glass frail and Momentany Vt hora sic vita It is a life which passeth away as an hour upon the Diall insensibly But mind we that spirituall life of regeneration and sanctification which is the life properly and by which we live to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. A life wherein sin doth not reign in our mortall body that we should obey it in the lusts thereof neither yield we our members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin Rom. 6.12 13. When the Emperour Nero had finished his house which he called Domum Aureum the golden house he said now I begin to live like a man But this is most true we never begin to live like Christian men till we live the life of Regeneration and Sanctification And now if Christ be our life death will be to us advantage As St. Paul hath it When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Coloss 3.4 And that true and eternall life which we here possess by faith and hope We shall at length have the full fruition of it in Heaven That of the Apostle is worthy of all acceptation For whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we dy we dy unto the Lord whether we live therefore of dy we are the Lords Rom. 14.8 Who is he then that will not from his heart breath forth and say O my Lord Jesus Christ thou art truly the way because no man cometh unto the Father nisi per te but by thee thou art the truth because no man knoweth the Father nisi per te but by the Thou art the life because no man liveth nisi per te but by thee Be thou to me the way by which I may come to thee and the Father Be thou to me the truth by which I may know thee and the Father be thou to me the life by which I may here live in thee by faith in believing and there in heaven by fruition Let this ever sound fresh in our ears Ambularevis ego sum via fallinonvis ego sum veritas Morinoâ— vis Ego sum vita Hoc dicit salvator tuus non est quo eas nisi ad me non est quo cas nisi per me Aug. Tract 22 Johannum Wilt thou walk I am the way Wilt thou not be deceived I am the truth Wouldst thou not dye I am the life This thy Saviour saith thou hast not where to go unless unto me nor how to go but by me Secondly if Christ be the life then it follows there is a resurection of the body at the last day From this flower may the Bee suck honey the Spider poyson Now in the first place may the people of God with the Eunuch depart home rejoycing with much harmony in their Souls Cura thymo pleno their thighs are now laden with sweetness O the rare contentment of a child of God in the privation and want of all external comforts With Jacob he may well truly say few and evill have the dayes of my life been As for this world he doth but breath in it that is all Yet prithy erect thy self banish thy sad thoughts no violence is perpetuall a storm lasts not alwayes The poor Ship that 's long tossed too and fro with a tempest gaines the wished Port at last The Ark that was hurried on the flood hath a Dove with an Olive branch in her mouth to imitate the falling of the waters Haec non durabunt aetatem as that learned Bishop Jewell said of the Marian persecution These things will not last an age Chear up sweat heart Gods rod is but a love kiss and our afflictions are but tokens of his indulgency Look back to former Ages and the Church is often in a cloud her throws like a woman in Travell have been thick and painfull Sicut unda sequitur undam and have followed as one wave upon the neck of another Yet mark the result of all her end is peace at the last Wait then with patience and thou shalt see the salvation of God who ever trusted in him and was confounded Behold a most ample compensation For thy light afflictions thou shalt have an exceeding an eternall weight of glory in another World Forget not the Text I am the life c. A day therefore will come when thy sorrows will have an end and breath out their
Explicat Catechet that as Mart. Luther expounds it We might believe him to be our true Father and we his very Sons and that we should come unto him more confidently in a full assurance and might call upon him even as we see Children with Confidence beg any thing of their Parents For which cause he is said to be our advocate 1. Ep. John 2.1 And if any man sin we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous c. And by St. Paul our Mediator 1. Tim. 25. For there is one God and one Mediatour between God and men the man Christ Jesus Fourthly and lastly per exemplum by example in shewing us the way how to live in mutual love and amity one with another For this we have a fair copy to write by John 13.15 For I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to you and what is that even a low descention a rare bird on the earth nigro simillima Cigno like unto a black Swan hear it If I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet what said I washed your feet O rare humility ye also ought and all the reason in the world to wash one anothers feet v. 14. Secondly In shewing us how we should undergoe and suffer afflictions and persecutions in this life Herein likewise he hath beaten our way before us 1. Pet. 2.21 For even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that we should follow his steps And now I come to application If Christ be the only way to happiness as is clear by the premises then by consequence all who affect and follow any other way beside without and against Christ cannot be saved Let the Turke dream of an Elizium and fancy what carnall pleasures he please in another world he will find one day he built but Castles in the Air and instead of sports and pastimes feel the torments of a damned Conscience then will he curse his Mahumet the day wherein he was born and the womb that bare him Quantum mutatus ab illo How is the man now changed when he seeth all his hopes frustrate and for a World of happiness falls into a deep confus'd Tophet where the breath of the Lord like a river of Brimstone doth kindle it Isaiah 30.33 No man cometh unto the Father but by me saith the Way in my text and if he gains heaven without Faith on Christ farewell thou Queen of Sciences sacred Divinity the Holy Scriptures then are but meer Riddles But O God! thy word is truth and all men besides are liars We know and believe He that believeth on â—he Son hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Son shal not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him John 3.36 And Verissimum est this is most true Whosoever denyeth the Son the same hath not the Father but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also 1 John 2.23 And again He that honoreth not the Son honoureth not the Father that hath sent him John 5.23 Where are our Jews now and Antitrinitarians those brethren in evill as Jacob said of Simeon and Levi If the great Turk cannot be saved what will be come of them 3. Mutato nomine change but only the name and there is not a pair of sheares between them Poor Jew wert thou as rich as he of Malta thou canst never obtain true happiness 'till thou believest in that God whom thy Fathers crucified All thy priviledges and prerogatives which thou so much gloriest in without faith in him will prove so many plummets of lead to sink thy floating soul to Hell Thou saist thou hast Abraham to thy Father and thinkst that shall carry it a meer flourish What armes canst thou shew of his to prove thy pedegree Hear what our Lord said to thy Country-men of old Your Father Abraham rejoyced to see my day and he saw it and was glad John 8.56 The touring Eagle ownes no bird for hers that cannot out-look the Sun Where is thy faith to make thy words good The Philosopher stared upon a Star when he fell into a pit In the next place I must say something to our Roman Catholicks who like water-men look one way and row another these set too great a price on their works and where natural beauty fails there they seek to repair by Art What with their Saints and what with their works Christ the only and true way is forgotten We confess the Mother of our Lord was a holy Virgin a rich and pure Cabinet wherein was inclosed that most precious Jewel God-Man the true Catholicon by whose blood all the diseases and maladies of our Souls occasioned by sin were perfectly cured and she now a glorious Saint in Heaven yet to make her a Saviour is high Sacriledge O my soul come not thou into their secret unto their Assembly mine honour be not thou united Hear and blush to hear it Marie is the Mediatrix of our Salvation Maria est Mediatrix nostrae salvationis c. Bernardinus in Mariali of our Conjunction Justification Reconciliation Intercession Communication Mark what result that Den of Thieves the Council of Trent give of the Saints in general Sanctos suppliciter invocare ad eorum oratione opem auxiliúmque confugere bonum utile est Humbly to invocate the Saints and to fly to their prayers for help and safeguard is good and profitable But again see how they make their works sit cheek by jowl with the merits of Christ This is all one to compare a stinking candle burnt to a snuff with the most transcendent light and glorious rayes of the Sun Behold what a train they have in this particular and with what rabble this Idol is ushered up Certainly these fellows must have a good purse to maintain so great a retinue Some by observing the prescription and rule of as they call them S. Dominick Frances Benedick and others the Saints S. Bridget and S. Clare c. others by their tedious peregrinations to this or that Saint others by their Vigils Masses Rosariorum preculis by their Rosary of short prayers others by their abstinency and fasting ciborum delectibus their choyce dishes others by a spontaneous whipping themselves others by their Alms-deeds pity so good a pail of milk should be spilt aliisque commentitiis pietatis operibus and by other counterfeit works of godliness they truly though vainly think to obtain Salvation and more then ordinary reward in Heaven But haec non est via neque est haec civitas this is not the way neither is this the city as Elisha said to the Syrians 2 Kings 6.19 This is not the way to Heaven neither will it ever bring any to that great city the holy Jerusalem descending out of Heaven from God Revel 21.10 I speak not this to discourage a holy walking with God in a mans general or particular Calling or that