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A12696	The Christians map of the world drawne at the solmne funerals of M. Henry Chitting Esquire, Chester-Herauld at Armes, interred Ianuary 11, Anno Domini 1637. By Edward Sparke Master in Arts, and preacher at St. Mary Islington.	Sparke, Edward, d. 1692.	1637 (1637)	STC 23015; ESTC S101711	31,652	60

Light of Nature here were their Herculean Pillars But with any Indeauour of good works to seeke or With the Eye of Faith to looke for one to Come This is a regenerate Mans Plus Vltra Haec Fides haec Spes est Christiana This only is a Christians Hope the Child of propagatiue Faith what a strange Close was that of dying Adrian Animula Vagula blandula Auson Epigram Hospes Comesque Corporis Quae nunc abibis in Loca Little wandring merry Spirit Body's Guest and Wont to cheere it what Place shalt Thou now inherit c. alas * Virtutes Ethnicorum sufficiunt ad ornandum vitam humanam non obtinere vit aeter Aug. Heathens find but diminitiue Comfort at their death treading those vnknowne Paths with vnprepared Feet going from one Darknes to another oh How may wee ever blesse God for our vocation our double Light of Grace and Knowledge when the Most Learned of them goe Hence with a Nescio quo Vado * As it is reported of Aristotle Ens entium miserere mei c Iob 19.25 I know not whither I go whereas the meanest Christian with a Iobs Faith Exulteth Scio quod Redemptor Vivit I know that my Redeemer liveth and therefore Egredere Anima Goe forth my cheerfull Soule * Hilarions dying speech and feare not now to goe to Christ whom Thou so long hast Seru'd Yet is' t not mine here rigorously to determine all those Lost whose Exact Virtues so out-Morald Christians Wee cannot Limit Mercy God Loves it aboue Sacrifice Math 9. Matth. 9.23 and our iust Lord requires but according vnto what he gives Luke the 12. Luke 12.48 The fearefull state of Heathens though indeed the Heathen-people that know not God in respect at least of outward Calling are not within the Pale of the Messiahs Deare and the Law so written in their hearts I Feare that Suppressing those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inhaerent Evidences of Nature which Saint Paul Cals withhoulding of the Trueth in Vnrighteousnes Rom. 1.18 and from thence to the end Rom 1. does 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 render them inexcusable as the Apostle Saint Paul argues strongly in that fore-cited Chapter Nullum aliud Nomen Acts. 4.12 there being no other Name c. but not to make our selves inexcusable by iudging an other Sub Iudice lis sit This wee leave to the great Iudge of All Revealed Things to vs albeit we say not what becomes of Them Yet to our gratefull Comfort 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wee know saith hee that when this Earthly Tabernacle of ours shall bee dissolved wee have a Building not made with Hands c. 2 Cor. 5. 2 Cor. 5.1 Futuram Expectamus we looke for One to Come And yet our Confidence is too weake to goe alone It must be accompanied with Diligence wee may not Think to enioy that City to Come Only with Looking For. They would not be so Few then that are Chosen Matth. 20. Matth. 20.16 All are Baalamites and desire the Death of the Righteous but vainely vnles They live the Life of Him T is stolid to Expect an End without the Meanes To looke for this same City and not seeke it indeed this Expectamus is too slacke a Word Inquirimus saies Beza and the Vulgar better and the Originall is neither 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that any Lazie Confidence should thinke to gaine it as God Knowes that's all the Evidence Many have to shew for it I hope Well but for all this Hope if no endeavour els the Heart may breake No nor is it Faith Can looke for 't vnles operative wee Patronize not Solifidianisme Our Adversaries scandall vs our Faith Cries out like Rachel give me Children Iam. 2.20 or I die Iames 2. But such a Faith as workes by Love maketh our Hope infallible of Finding what wee seeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wee seeke one to Come Seeke then is a word of Labour bidding vs with the Apostle Phil 2 12. Worke out our Salvation Phil 2.12 worke T' is not a Feast or a Feather-Bedd will bring a Man to Heaven non sic itur ad astra Our IehoVah will not as the Poets Iove did into Danaes Lap 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verbum operandi rajne downe this goulden Purchase into our Bosomes no no Drones shall Ever taste the Hony of that Hive but those industrous Bees alone that seeke it a Sharpe reproofe for Idlenes that Gate of all Impieties a Whipp of Scorpions for the Sluggards Back Pro. 6. who like the Spouse Pro. 6.10 in Lectulo quaesivit Quem amavit Seekes no farther then his Pillow but shee found not her Beloved there Cant. 3.1 as little They stretching on their bedds of Ivory e're find his Benefits whose Bedd was but a Manger but Ruine suddenly Pro. 6.15 for their not seeking finds out Them Pro. 6.15 Idlenes you know it was denominated those Virgins foolish and excluded them both the Chamber and the knowledge of the Bridegroome Matth. 25.10 Matth. 25. Thus slothfull persons like Arrowes from a feeble bow fall short of what they ayme at and with Esau come too late to ●●une the blessing Gen. 27. Gen. 27 30. Diligence invites ablessing you see Moses keeping watch over his flock by night is grac'd with visions Exod. 3. Exod. 3.4 a sight of Him whose vision is beatificall and Saul seeking his Fathers Asses finds a kingdome 1 Sam. 9. 1 Sam 9 20. and David is taken from following the Ewes great with young and made the great Shepheard of Israel Psal 78.71 Diligence invites a Blessing Psalme 78.71 Diligence invites a blessing Idlenes temptation whereas on the contrary Idlenesse allures temptation tempts the Tempter while David exercised himselfe in Gods Law day and night all went well with him hee feard not what either man or Satan could doe to him but when once hee ascends his wanton prospects and loosens the reines unto his idler senses the Devill soone changes his title and makes him a man after his owne Heart wraps him in a double snare of Murder and Adultery and after these how justly hee complaines Psalme 6.7 mine eyes are dimme when ther 's such a pearle in one and the tother blood-shod So aske but the Poet 's Egistus and many of his Disciples in these times Quaeritur Aegillus quarè sit factus adulter i● promptu causa est c. Ovid. what fills their name and bones with early rottennesse and shame if any left will soone write the cause upon each forehead Desidiosus cram indeed it is the sitting bird that is the Fowlers ayme the envious man sowes his tares while the Husbandman sleepes and hell it selfe is beholding to Idlenesse not onely for company but for a description being called Stagnum .i. a Lake Rou 21 8. a standing water ther 's an old Apologue how once the Elements contended for

Boetius T is better to have beene afflicted Iob. 5.17 adverse fortune more profits man than smiling starres and Iob as well as David had experienc'd it Blessed is the man saith hee the man what man thinke you the man that 's clad in purple and fares deliciously every day no that 's not hee is' t the man whom the King will honour with the Ring and Steed and royall Roabe t is not he neither what then is' t the man that hath caught this world in a purs-net and by th'omnipotence of his gold commands al the felicities that grow in Salomons walk sub Sole under the Sun no none of these but beatus a Domino castigatus blessed is the man whom God correcteth To this purpose St. S. Austins dialogue in Soliloq Austin feignes a conference twixt God and himselfe God personating a Merchant and himselfe a chapman Vaenale habeo saies God I have merchandise to sell Quid est what is it saies the holy Father wy Regnum Coelorum saies God the Kingdome of Heaven quo emitur saies Saint Austin what 's the price on t Paupertate Regnum afflictione Requies Ignominiâ Gloria For poverty saies God the richest Kingdome for momentany affliction eternall rest and for reproach a Crowne of Glory since then our light affliction which is but for a moment bringeth us a more excellent eternal weight of glory Rom. 8.18 Rom. 8. Let us not refuse the chastning of the Lord but when he sends it patiently suffer evill and thus you have the duty Seeke Seeke by doing good doe good by Charity and Prayer and Seeke by suffering evill and suffer by abstaining all intemperance and sustaining all afflictions so run and you shall obtaine thus seeke and you shall finde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the continuing City that wee looke for And t is an obiect worthy all this paines our best deservings undeserving it take but a glimpse on 't 1 Cor. 13.12 The obiect of our search for we can no more heer we see as in a glasse but darkely 1 Cor. 13. Consider the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 abstractly as a City then as a concrete One to come First you see t is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a City not a Wildernesse as is this world where we are all in Pilgrimage to the Sepulcher and behold heer a most exact 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 'twixt this same and the former City The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of this City and the former the worldly one's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 built but of clay and stubble the worke of mens hands and those that make them are like unto them of a facile dissolution but this coelestiall City is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made by Him who made the hands whose Archtectour is the Almighty these buildings therefore are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iohn 14.2 2 Cor. 5.1 Ioh. 14. the abiding mansions whereas those earthly ones are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 5. but Gourds but fleeting Tabernacles you remember tother was a City of Negatives 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neither of Strength nor Unity Rest nor Safety this of all good affirmatives wherein are all Those fixt as in their proper Sphere 1. T is a City of Strength aske St. Iohn else Reu. A City of Strength Reu. 121. 21. the foundation all of Gold the walls of Adamant and its twelve Gates of Pearle materialls of the strongest Psal 103 20. yet guarded with innumerable Angels that excell in strength Psal 103. garrisond with an Army of Martyrs and govern'd by the Lord of hoasts indeed there can want no Strength where dwells omnipotence heer then were that an opportune desire quis deducet me in Civitatem munitam Psal 60.9 who will lead me into this strong city that the Text wil if thou follow it This too is a City of Unity A City of Vnity Charitas virtus viae patriae the King of Salem's dwelling house those Starres are the embroyderies of Peaces Coate and the gay-beames of Sun and Moone but the bright smiles of Loue Tryumphant Coelum charitatis patria Heaven is the place where shee was bred Faith and Hope are low borne virtues to her 1 Cor. 13. 1 Cor. 13.8 heere they begin and heere they end But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this greater grace of love unity a stray indeed on earth take up their eternall rest in Heaven nay there were no Heaven without it Concord heer ever flowes and knowes no ebbe springing from the undivided Trinity unto the goodly fellowship of the Prophets and communion of all Saints quibus lux eadem Cantio unica who shining all with the same light of glory breath all the same incessant Halilujahs None envying others happinesse vessells all full though of their severall cises None know either want or emulation This Ierusalem is the City at unity with it selfe Psalm 122.3 A City of Safety Psal 122. Thirdly t is a City of Safety you see strengthned beyond all opposition seated above short-armed danger Altissima venti non perflant no angry storme can shake the Cedars of this Libanus or blast the Ascenders of this holy Mountaine heer only may wee cry Peace peace all safety dwelling heer no enemies being left to interrupt it Sinne and Sorrow hell and the grave all conquerd conculcata pedibus 1 Cor. 15.27 by him who hath subdued al things yet were the world let loose against them Christs little flocke need feare no ill they are in such an hand Iohn 10.28 as who shall take them from him Joh. 10. Etiamsi fractus illabatur orbis Impavidos ferient ruinae Let the world totter into its first Chaos ruine should threaten them in vaine whom God makes dwell in safety Psalm 4.8 Psalm 4. This Canaan's full of secure Vines and Fig-trees the Prophet Zachary means this City sure when he saies Men shal dwell in it and there shall be no more destruction but Ierusalem shall be safely inhabited Zech. 14.11 A City of Rest Zech. 14.11 Lastly all these speake Heaven a City of rest where there is such Strength and Love and Safety needs must there be true security I heaven is the Center of soules as is the Earth of bodies and onely there they rest there indeed being contentation adequate to the Soules capacity no further search no more desire wheras heer one * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sacri cordis humani figura quae sibi mutuo solùm sufficiant Psal 107 9. corner of the heart or other still is empty ●ulcimentum innitenti plenitudinem continenti sufficientiam Possidenti coelum praebet Heaven satisfieth the hungriest soule with goodnesse Psal 107. And yet this heavenly rest is not to bee taken as some impious Spirits only privatively as a totall cessation from all sacred businesse for in that