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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13154	Meditations of man's mortalitie. Or, A way to true blessednesse. Written, by Mrs. Alice Sutcliffe wife of Iohn Sutcliffe Esquire, groome of his Maiesties most honourable privie chamber	Sutcliffe, Alice.	1634 (1634)	STC 23447; ESTC S117939	40,619	246

Enemie that hee will set his members in the way agaiust thee that if it bee possible they may hinder thy proceedings and turne thee backe againe into the broad way of Errors that leadeth to destruction No sooner did SAVL Prophesie but the wicked and the men of BELIAL had him in derision who better affected then PAVL the Apostle whilst he remayned a Persecutor of CHRIST in his members and carried with him the authority of the High Priests to strengthen his proceedings but no sooner was he converted but how many enimies had he which streight sought his destruction hayling him to Prisons to Scourging and to Stonings to death Yet so farre were they from being disheartned by this as that they reioyced that they were counted worthy to suffer for the name of CHRIST When we enter into Baptisme we professe to become CHRISTS souldiers and to fight vnder his banner and is it the part of a Souldier to flye at the first onset he that indureth to the end gaineth not onely the honour but the reward nay the fiercer the assault is the more we ought to oppose our selues against it and though through the roughnes of the incounter we may thinke we haue the worst yet if with patience wee striue to perseuer our Captaine CHRIST IESVS will be at hand to helpe vs for carefull is he of his owne as his owne mouth testifieth when he saith to his Father All thou hast giuen me I haue kept and none of them is lost Let all these proofes arme thy minde to be resolute in going on in goodnes till thou attaine the end where thou shalt gaine the reward of thy abours and take with theel the Counsell of the Philosopher HERMES who sayth It is better to suffer shame for vertuous dealing then to win honour by vicious living When SALOMON had builded the Teinple and sanctified it none might enter into Sanctum Sanctorum the holiest of all but the Priest onely So none can enter into this Kingdome which is the true Sanctum Sanctorum but those who haue by a Religious course of life put off the vanities of this world and cloathed themselves with the Robe of CHRISTS Righteousnesse whereby they are Consecrated made fit to enter When the Children of Jsraell were in the Wildernes they were commanded every day to gather Manna but on the Sabboth they that went to gather found none for that they were on the Even to provide for that day so fayle not thou euery day of thy life to gather this Manna the food of thy soule and to lay vp in store against this day of thy rest least when thou hopest to find thou become frustrate and so thy soule starue with want thereof feede not thy selfe with hopes of entertainement vnlesse thou haue furnished thy selfe with the wedding garment neither thinke to passe with one that is counterfeit though neuer so neare the colour for if it be not found the right one thou shalt be taken and bound hand and foot and cast into utter darkenesse therefore it is that the Apostle sayth Examine your selves whither yee be in the Faith 2. Cor. 13. prove your selves There are many nay most that vnderstanding the infinitnesee of the happines of this place that with BALAAM will desire to dye the death of the Righteous Numb 33 but they will not liue the life of the Righteous because they exempt themselves from many things in the which the wicked place theyr whole felicity they accounting this world theyr Heauen shall therefore finde none other hereafter as in the parable Abraham sayd to the rich man in Hell Son remember that thou in thy life-time received thy good things they were his becausein them consisted all his happines therefore possessing of them here he could not expect a future For as the Apostle saith Be not deceiued God is not mocked for what a man soweth that shall he reape for he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reape corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reape life euerlasting For true blessednes consisteth not in meat or drink or in richnesse of apparell but in Righteousnes and Peace and Ioy in the Holy Ghost A man who hath beene long kept from his father and mother wife or children by imprisonment being once at liberty and entred on his lourney toward thē regardeth not neither the length of the way the wearisomnes of his owne steps nor the dangerousnes of the places he is to passe but goeth on with chearefulnesse and longings till he attaine the end and as a spurre to whet on his speed placeth before the eye of his remembrance the sweete content hee shall finde at meeting can these earthly delights cause a man to vndergoe so many difficulties and shall not the delights which God hath prepared for his and whereof I haue giuen thee a glimpse cause thee with much more feruencie to long to attaine to this place of happinesse and setting a part all hinderances whatsoever six thy eye of Faith vpon those vnspeakeable pleasures which thy soule shall then gayne in Ioy when thou shalt meete with God thy Father Christ Iesus thy Brother and Sauiour who hath by the infinitenes of his love espoused thee vnto himselfe and made the possessor of Heauen where thou shalt as sayth Saint AVGVST imbrace a certaine imbracing aboue all imbracings Thou shalt find a sweetnes aboue all sweetnesse thou shalt see alight aboue all lights thou shalt smell a sauour aboue all savours most delectable thou shalt heare a voyce aboue all voyces for rarenes for that voyce doth sound where no ayre doth moue it this light doth shine where no place doth receiue it this savour doth smell where no blast doth carry it and this imbrace is there touched where it is not sundred to conclude if thou desirest to inioy all blessednesse and to escape all kinde of punishments tribulations and miseries there thou shalt find libertie freedome from them all The God of our Lord IESVS CHRIST the Father of Glory give vnto vs the spirit of wisdome knowledge of him that the eyes of our vnderstanding being inlightned we may know what is the hope of his calling and what the Riches of the Glory of the inheritance of his Saints Amen Of our losse by ADAM and our gayne by CHRIST The first Adam was made a living Soule the second Adam a quickning Spirit For as in ADAM wee all dye so in CHRIST shall all be made alive 1. Corinth 15. GOD by his Wisedame and all-seeing Pow'r Ordained Man vnto Eternitie Sathan through malice turnes that sweet to sowre Man eating the forbidden Fruit must Die No remedy was left to scape this Curse The sore still looked on became the worse He out of that delightsome place is throwne To travell in the Warld with woe distrest Through all his life a Pilgrim he is knowne With Cares and Sorrowes and with griefes opprest The more he lookes into his