dissembling false hearted flatterer to his pride and ambition a slanderous sycophant detractor and whisperer to his envy a brawling railing reviler to his wrath or anger a bloody assassinate to his revenge a griping extortioner or theevish cheater to his covetousness a seducer and tempter that is an assistant to Satan in ruining his own and other Mens Souls And when all this is done see what wearisom restless toyle remains for the sinner He would live for ever in this World but sees he must die and be call'd to account and seeing that he would die for ever and turn to nothing but that he sees he cannot neither He would have Gods favour but dares not come near him He would live in peace and approbation with himself but a civil War and contrary desires lusts and passions contrary each to one another and all to reason tear and divide him from himself He would live at Rest and Peace with other Men but his covetousness and pride makes him injurious his wrath and revenge his malice and envy makes him impatient and quite bereave him of this Peace He would be rich but either his sloth will not gather or his lusts and vain glory scatters as fast as his industry gets He would live in safety and ease but his haughty ambition makes him endure labour and danger day and night He would be in honour and high repute but his sordid lusts and cowardly fears griping covetousness or wrathfull revenge makes him hateful and contemptible His pride and ambition would command all Men but it makes him first fawn and flatter bow and cringe to those whom he secretly hates and scorns He would be true to his own principles and religion not give himself the lie by professing what he doth not believe but his love of the World and fear of poverty or of death doth so disturb the Rest of his Soul that he coucheth under every load complies and conforms to any profession of faith or worship which those who prevail would have him subscribe to till he lay down his faith hope and conscience at the feet of a Man whose breath is in his nostrils who threatens and strikes and is no more Thus he that serves is restless indeed opprest and tired with contrary Tyrants crossing and thwarting one another till they wrack and tear the Man in pieces and drag him to everlasting trouble anguish and sorrow How sweet then and highly pretious is that Rest which faith in God through Jesus Christ enters into when under the light and worth of that truth which it hath received it guides and subdues all its appetites affections and passions from a right principle by a right rule to a right end which is nothing but God and his word God as its author governour and happiness or perfect Rest For though the Rest be yet imperfect because the World the Flesh and the Devil do yet oppose it yet Christ hath promised that no opposition shall overthrow it unless we willfully and obstinately grieve that Spirit of truth holiness and comfort which was given us as the Seal of our faith and peace with God the preserver and finisher of this Rest the assurance of our present adoption and future inheritance if we will but wisely and thankfully value that Rest into which we are enter'd humbly and watchfully pray unto Christ to confirm and increase it all oppositions shall prove advantages all dangers travails and labours so many evidences of Gods faithfulness to us and ours to him of his being our all sufficient shield and supporter here our exceeding reward and satisfactory Rest for evermore Now see what a blessed Rest there is in faith and holiness and all those graces which wait on them Faith in God gives the mind a Sabboth of Rest from all those anxious perplexing enquiries and self contradicting resolutions which humane reason left to it self is vexed with and settles the heart on that divine Wisdom and truth which can neither deceive nor be deceived humbling at once the understanding and advancing it because it is its greatest advancement to be humbled under God who never fails to honour those who honour him and makes the conscience arise and rejoyce to see that it hath submitted it self to such a guide Take faith in its meanest Offices of trusting God in our temporal affairs resigning our selves to his wisdom power and goodness as one that can and will chuse better for us than we our selves what peace and rest is this to our Souls from all those servile fears and cares those base submissions and baser oppressions which the covetous worldling or cowardly trembling unbeliever undergoes Though the Waters rage and the Earth shake yet he whose heart trusts in the Lord that all things shall work together for good he is the only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a squar'd Man whom no change can make a changeling because his heart stands fast and believes in the faithful God he is gotten above this region of meteors clouds and winds because the Lord is his sun and shield which no cloud can intercept no wind shake But then in the higher Offices of faith whereby it considers and embraces the glorious truth of God our Redeemer and Saviour and sees that they are as certainly true as gloriously great That former sins confessed and forsaken are blotted out for the merits of Christ the Law satisfied by such a surety Satans accusations silenced by such an Advocat That afflictions and death have lost their sting and are turned into benefits That he who hath begun a good work will also finish it and never leave us in life and death untill he hath brought us to perfect Rest and full happiness both of soul and body what fruit can this produce but peace and joy in the holy Ghost cheerful constancy and perseverance in doing and suffering the will of God It rescues us from all those trembling fears and sorrowful agonies which else must seize upon our hearts from the weakness of the flesh and the strength of our enemies from the curse of the Law and the horrors of conscience from the malice and subtilty of the World and the Devil How well then might St. Paul say we that believe enter Gods Rest do already in good degree shall compleatly and unchangeably if we persevere Hope the second Christian grace is so near of kin to Faith that 't is lineally derived from it and born of it nor can that heart but find a comfortable blessed Rest which hopes in the fountain of all blessedness hopes to see and enjoy him for ever and in that hope purifies himself All other hopes are dead or dying sure to leave him void of Rest full of anxiety that builds on them This is the only lively hope as Saint Peter calls it because placed in the fountain of life and joy it self This is that grace which applies to our selves the general promises the Souls Anchor which makes it ride safe and triumphant in
as promises for all the Goods of this world knowing how useful the flesh of the Viper was to cure its poison the torments attending upon sin to check its temptations the apprehension of a Fever or other distemper annexed by consequence to restrain from those pleasant forbidden fruits which courted his Senses and sollicit his Phansie the deadly hook to keep from venturing on the bait the Sea from the Syren Thus when the Apostle exhorts the Hebrews to fear Lest any of them should seem to fall short of this Rest The word seem signifies not only an outward appearance of the things without a reality of the danger or misery forewarn'd of but in Let us take heed is also meant a real incurring the same without taking heed to the counsel given or it may be the Apostle chose to speak so to mitigate the sharpness of that which he spake of to the Hebrews that he might not be thought to conclude them Apostates but only to fear they may be so unless they look'd in good time warily to it Such charitable Rhetoric we read him using Heb. 6.9 But beloved we are persuaded better things of you and things that are near or accompany Salvation though we thus speak It may be also he saith Seem to stir up their fear and caution the more against such coldness sloth and inconstancy of mind as began to appear among the Hebrews which if not in time bewailed and rectified might hazard the prize set before them and fall to peremptory infidelity Thus he is charitably suspicious of them and jealous over them with a godly jealousie as he speaks 2 Cor. 11.2 and gives withall to understand that 't is not enough for a wise and thankful Christian to abhor and avoid utter Apostacies and final missing of Gods Rest but 't is their safety duty and honour to keep from the very approaches to it and appearances of it and not to give any occasions to others to hear or see or think that we are fallen or falling away Abstain from all appearance of evil 1 Thes 5.22 lest while you indulge your selves to sloth and give your selves over as far as you may with any hopes of attaining Heaven to the pleasures and cares or other concerns of this Life you do not only seem to fall short but do so indeed and plainly appear to do so And this is the last sence of the word lest ye seem that is appear and give too great undeniable evidence that you are of those that apostatize and fall short of Gods Rest So when it is said v. 2. The Gospel was preach'd as well to us as unto them It does not imply that the Gospel was preach'd as clearly and fully to them as unto us but that it was preach'd sufficiently to them in such a manner and measure revealed as was most suitable to those times by types and Prophesies spiritual and eternal things under the vail of external and visible temporal things yet so that the light shone through the vail on all their hearts who were attentive to the drift and true aim the grounds and reasons of them and to the Prophesies that went before and along with them to make them the clearlier understood The Apostle by saying As well to us speaks by a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or intimation of so well at least and much better for to us the Gospel is preach'd without intervention of Types and Prophesies in its clear full actual exhibition unveiling those Types fulfilling those Prophesies revealing the whole Mystery of Godliness and Counsel of God much plainer dispensing the Light and Grace of Gods Spirit more generally and plentifully So that the Argument runs thus If they that had Gods Rest promised to them more obscurely and in a lower degree and measure yet fell short of it for want of being sound and constant in Faith and Obedience how much more shall they do so who having the Gospel preach'd unto them in its clearest fullest degree of light and power yet do not receive believe and obey it with faithful sincerity and perseverance Now by faith for want of which the Word preach'd did not profit them is meant such a firm well-grounded persuasion of Gods unchangeable all sufficient Wisdom and Truth as to adhere and cleave thereto against whatever appearing difficulties or temptations For the ancient Israelites they had most of them once believed God and Moses when they slew the Passover and sprinkled their Doors with the bloud thereof went out of Egypt though Pharaoh was ready to pursue them and went through the Red Sea into the Wilderness towards Canaan following the conduct of the Cloud and Pillar of Fire but when there arose any new difficulty or temptation Moses his absence for 40 days want of Water Bread for a while nay want of Flesh the Allurements of Women though Heathenish Idolaters the news of Gyants and high Walls they strangely forget the former evidences of Gods Faithfulness Power Goodness and Truth question and tempt him repine and murmur and turn back in their hearts to Egypt Wherefore 't was want of consideration and serious attentive frequent minding what they had formerly known and believed which continually exposed them to fall away to unbelief and disobedience Such are the grounds and motives of Faith propounded in Scripture that they who attend impartially and seriously cannot with any true reason deny their assent and approbation of that Doctrine which they prove and and blind the heart that final impenitency and infidelity is the issue in too too many Let no man then deceive himself with presumptious Hopes of entring Gods Rest on bare profession of his Gospel for that may be counterfeit and void of any well grounded faith sure to fail in time of Trial. Thus we see the word and means of grace though never so wisely and powerfully dispenced may prove very generally ineffectual for want of being mixt with faith in the partakers And that they who enjoy the means of grace and yet are not wrought upon by them to faith and obedience sincere and durable their call and profession of being the People of God does them not onely no good but hastens and aggravates their condemnation is it not time then for those who live in the light of the Gospel as never I think any Nation did for Hundreds of Years if this hath not to look to their hearts and lives impartially and thence discover what grounds and stability of faith there is in the one what fruits and good effects in the other and if they find themselves at a loss to take the blame intirely and wholly to themselves not to the want of means and motives Pastors or Teachers skillful and faithful but to the want of their own attention and consideration their taking up their profession of Christianity on no better or surer grounds than that which a Pagan or Mahometan relies on for their wicked errors Or if they have taken it up on better and know
what and why they believe then they are clearlier convinced and condemned by their own conscience for not persevering and increasing that faith by living sincerely according to it but contradicting their very faith as well as profession untill the custom of sin hath darkned if not extinguisht their former evidences is it not high time then for any that finde it thus with them to cast away all longer delays of self abhorrence and repentance to return to God and their own hearts with shame and grief for their former backslidings and for ever from henceforth to be the more humble for what is past watchful and zealous for the future in reviewing their faith and living by it in Holiness and Righteousness Purity and Peaceableness Obedience and Patience lest that faith which hath been deadned and contradicted so long and often turn to a total and final apostacy in the end There 's nothing more clear in Holy Scripture than that they whom God vouchsafes to call by his loudest voice and powerfullest means to Repentance and Faith and Obedience are rendred thereby so much the more hainously guilty of willful ingratitude unbelief and disobedience and therefore liable to so much the sorer Condemnation unless they repent believe and obey according to that light and grace which was afforded them You have I known of all Nations therefore you will I punish the sooner and more severely This is the condemnation that light is come into the World and ye have loved darkness rather than light Woe unto thee Corazin woe unto thee Bethsaida for if the mighty works c. they had repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes How shall we of all others escape if we neglect so great salvation It is indeed a great favour and mercy of God to send us his Gospel to prevent us with all the means of grace but favours and mercies abused and perverted increase the guilt of those that receive them but would not use them to God's glory and their own Salvation And yet what more common and general for Men and Women of all sorts to suppose themselves safe enough and entituled sufficiently to God's Rest because they are of the visible Church professing that Truth which should purify and sanctify them but doth not because it is not aright considered and laid to heart in its grounds and reasons terms and conditions as well as its promises The greatest part of the Jews you see though brought out of Egypt with many Miracles made the peculiar People of God the lively Oracles committed to them and what not that could be desired to make them holy or happy yet for want of considering and believing the word of God forfeited and lost their Title to Canaan And the greatest part I fear of Christians yea of the purest professors of Christianity will forfeit and lose their Title to Heaven unless they consider believe and obey the Gospel of Christ more sincerely impartially constantly than hitherto they seem to have done And if they miss of Gods Rest for want of considering and performing its conditions their anguish and pain will be so much the heavier to all eternity They that have the Oracles of God the word and Sacraments Pastors and Teachers granted to them and yet are never the better and holier are so much worse because they disgrace and bring a reproach on the greatest and weightiest Truth in the World as if it had no evidence or power in it The Israelites once were like Gideons Fleece full of heavenly Dew in a drought endued with those high and happy priviledges of which we read Rom. 2.3 and Rom. 9.4 But yet because they lived not answerably to their vocation but made their privileges occasions of Pride and vain presumption of Gods favour till at last they rejected their very Messias of whom they boasted as their peculiar they are at this day like the Mountains of Gilboa barren and dry while the Dew of Heaven hath fallen abundantly upon the Nations The favours shewn to the Christian Church are greater than theirs because the Truth is clearlier revealed the means of grace more powerfull and less burthensom But yet these favours if trusted to and yet neglected will prove aggravations of God's displeasure To be surrounded with such helps of God from above of Men below ready to further us towards Heaven of precepts to guide promises to encourage us and yet to fall short of Gods Rest is a double and treble shame and sorrow Wherefore if not in gratitude to God for all his mercies yet for fear lest these mercies prove by our own willful neglect and contempt of them the aggravations of our misery let us while it is called to day excite our selves and exhort one another to repentance and faith holiness and righteousness obedience and patience against whatever temptations arise We have a promise infallibly sure incomparably pretious of entring Gods Rest his word to quicken us his Sacraments to confirm us his Grace to prevent assist and follow us If we hearken to his word and resist not his grace neither Prophane nor Idolize his Sacraments but receive them with faith and reverence as they were instituted in love If we hear the Church and watch over our selves and one another Sin shall have no dominion over us we shall be built up from one degree of faith and holiness to another until we enter Gods Rest without any fear or possibility of falling from it But if we neglect the conditions of it and trust to the promise as if it were absolute to the means of grace as if they were even grace it self our sloth and confidence will end in despair and find for ever so much the greater trouble and anguish for having missed of God's Rest offered unto us on such conditions Let us awake then and excite our selves and one another by all the arguments of hope and fear love and gratitude that so God may have the honour of all his favours bestowed upon us and we the everlasting comfort of being thankful and hearing that beatifical voice Well done good and faithful Servant enter thy Masters Joy and Rest Now this Rest of Gods is not the Rest of the Sabboth or Canaan in this life but that eternal Rest with God in Heaven implied indeed and preparation made for it by the Sabboth Typified by Canaan begun here by believers to be injoy'd in its first fruits through faith and hope but not to be had in its full harvest its perfect peace and joy in God 'till we come to Heaven We which have believed saith Saint Paul do enter into Rest that is shall if we persevere in faith and holiness enter into it perfectly without possibility of forfeiting or losing it do enter into it now by faith and hope in God's promises by love and obedience of his precepts which gives us a real Title to it yea a true though initial imperfect defeasible admission into it by that Rest from the guilt of Sin which
ornament of a quiet Spirit very pretious in Gods sight and therefore ought to be so in ours I appeal to the reason and experience of any Man whether it be not rest and ease to forgive an injury rather than be provoked to revenge and to lay aside the consideration of other Mens malice envy and peevishness rather than imitate it and suffer the vexing remembrance of it to boil and ferment in our watchful minds until it hath conquered and transform'd us into the same troublesom evil Is it not Peace and a blessed Rest to sit still and lift up no hands but those of Charity and Charitable prayer rather than labour in fighting and wounding one another To hold ones peace than to rail and revile Which hath more Rest in it to study to be quiet and do ones own business or to be prying and intermedling with other Mens office faults or secrets To speak evil of no Man or to be always finding fault and speaking the worst we can of any who differ from us in any respect Which is the greatest trouble and burthen meekly to obey our Lawfull Governours in Church and State where God hath not commanded the contrary or be allways disputing against a few harmless indifferent ceremonies untill we have quarre'ld our selves and others into a causeless scandalous pernitious separation Then for humble contented patience that precept of the Old Testament but wisdom and mystery of the New Thou shalt not covet but be content patiently with thy own portion what is it but a Rest rather than burthen a purchase or priviledge rather than duty when once learnt Let the Carnal or Worldly Man with his bored tub of insatiable desires cry as the Horseleach give give and seek after wealth as he should after God without bounds Yet the Heathen Philosopher could resolve it the only way to true Rest not to seek to raise our fortunes to our desires but to bring down our desires to our fortunes and present condition The one is not onely uncertain because not in any Mans power but impossible because his desires increase with his purchases as fire with fewel whereas the other is possible and certain Contentment and patience glorifies God by placing its wealth in his favours who having promised him necessaries here and a Kingdom hereafter hath taught and obliged him to be contented with any fare upon the way because he sees his being so confirms and increaseth his future happiness Nullo egere Dei est quà m paucissimis Deo proximum As for sobriety temperance chastity reason secondded by experience assures any Man that to drink to the quenching of ones thirst or at most to the moderate cheering one Spirits to eat to the satisfying ones hunger or at most to the gratifying of festival joy hospitality friendship and thankful delight in what God hath bountifully given is all the good that is to be had from Meat and Drink that 't is a trouble as well as a sin to swill as if one were in a Feaver or till one brings himself to a Feaver or Dropsy to Eat and Drink till reason is drowned smothered and buried under the load and till the Phantastick forced pleasure of two or three mispent hours end in the pain of head and stomach for whole days after if not in some villainous lust or passion and bloudy quarrel in sickness and death both of Soul and Body The conscience finds all trouble in it and the Body it self for gratifying of which God and Conscience was despised find no Rest within some hours And what comparison between the rest safety health and honour of either virginal or conjugal chastity which keeps the desires of the flesh under the power of reason and faith lives in the hope of seeing God preserves the bond of love in Families inviolated and the unclean shameful excesses of wandring lust which are conceived with fear and anxiety brought forth and finisht with shame and sorrow begin in disorder of Soul and Body end in loathing begin in trouble end in worse burn at first and consume at last the peace of the mind if not the health of the Body also besides the confusions tumults quarrels it breeds in Families and all for the sneaking brutish delight of a few minutes There is indeed one grace which seems to have little Rest in it The suffering persecutions to death rather than disown the Truth or violate duty But God hath made so many promises to mitigate and temper all temptations to the strength which we either now have or shall receive upon our prayers of his turning to good whatsoever seems most evil And of his rewarding our courage and patience with so much the greater weight of glory that these promises being believed we are enabled as well as obliged not only to be contented but joyful also in tribulations for truth and righteousness sake and therefore no wonder if suffering miseries for the honour of God and our Lord Jesus for the furtherance of our own salvation and other Mens hath more rest than trouble in it without this Rest a flow of all other good things which this world can give will leave a Man but a miserable wearied Traveller under a heavy load and burthen of discontents and sorrows and with this Rest all labour and sorrow is inconsistent and though we may not expect to have this promised eternal Rest endless felicity as our deserved wages yet we may and ought to hope for it as our promised reward Angels and Saints departed this life they have it allready the Devils and damned are past all Hope Great pains and labour do the Men of this World take but not in order to this Rest and therefore a Multitude of mistaken sinners lay out the chief of their days and time in pursuance of pleasures and honours and profits of this World as if Heaven and Salvation were easy atchievments as if they might with a wish only at the last come to die the death of the righteous who had so notoriously lived the life of the wicked 'T is not only the doing of evil but the not doing of good which shall be punished at the last day the judge shall then condemn for not feedings for not clothing Go ye cursed into everlasting fire for I was hungry and ye fed me not for I was naked and ye clothed me not Not doing of good is none of the least evils He that sits still and moves not one step towards this Rest by wearing Christs Yoak and bearing his burthen shall lose Heaven as infallibly as he that runs from it who so hides his Talent shall receive no other wages save that of the slothful Servant The way to Heaven is narrow the Gate straight it must be striving that gives us entrance not only the hopes of Heaven but the escaping of Hell makes it our duty to be doing of good and by so doing we express our fear lest a promise of Rest being left any of us should seem
it shew this eternal Rest to be very desirable but the contrariety shews that this Rest hath so much of difficulty in it that all that lay claim to it cannot justifie their claim And though they cry with the Mathematician 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have found and I have found it yet they are so much to seek that their confidence without evidence hath brought many to put it to the question Whether there be any such Rest to be found We must not be so foolish or so slothful as those Scepticks who question or deride the possibility of searching and finding out this eternal Rest but with humility and diligence humbly apply our selves to those Rules which are given us for its discovery Some there are that lay claim to no other nor higher felicity than that which either natural Philosophy or civil Policy can help them to And these though they have gone far discovered and publisht many truths pleasant and profitable for the World yet their aims are too low to give the soul of Man satisfaction or acquiescense here The light and rules they walk by too weak and too uncertain to reach those very aims which themselves own much more must they needs fall short of Mans great eternal end this endless Rest The pursuit whereof is our wisdom here the attaining whereof is our happiness hereafter There are in the World Men and those not a few who seek after wealth and honour and great power and weary themselves day and night to attain their ambitious desires and think themselves still in the way towards this eternal Rest But our Saviour's appearing in the World as he did in much humility demonstrates unto us the contrary The innocency righteousness charity and holiness of his life were so conspicuous that the Scribes and Pharisees nay the Devil himself could not find any true accusation against him and he that betrayed him went and hanged himself because he had betrayed so innocent so good and holy a Person Because he came not to gratifie the wordly and carnal expectations of the Jews with any outward pomp or splendor suitable to their desires they vilify his Person revile his doctrine persecute his followers contrive his ruine Yet what was a temporal advancement or deliverance to an eternal redemption from sin death and hell to an eternal advancement above all enemies to those honours and joys at Gods right hand And how contrary had it been to the design of his incarnation which was to satisfie for Mankind's former Pride and Ambition intemperate voluptuousness insatiable covetousness To exemplify as well as teach them the grace of piety and contentedness with the meanest condition here below by setting their hearts on things above How contrary had it been to such a purpose for our Lord to have appeared in the plenty of wealth or the splendor or pomp of worldly honour in the power of Armies to conquer Nations by Sword or Force all which would have but enraged the sinful distempers of Mans Soul which he came to cure He had given the Jews abundant evidence both at his birth and throughout his life yea at his very death that 't was not weakness or any necessity that made him appear in such mean condition but his voluntary choice and love to Mankind to draw them off from the love of this World to that of God and a better life For surely he that could command a Star to attend him at his birth and an Heavenly Host to sing an Anthem of Glory to God at his Nativity might more easily had it pleased him been born in another place than a Stable with other manner of attendants than a poor Virgin and a Carpenter He that could feed five Thousand with a few Loaves and Fishes might have maintained as numerous an Army as he pleased He that could cure the Blind and Lame and Deaf at a word heal all manner of Diseases command the Waters and the Wind raise the Dead cast out Devils might quickly have had an invincible force of Men and Angels to quell the Romans and other Nations He that could strike his apprehender to the ground at the beck of his will make the Sun withdraw his light at Noon day and full Moon the Earth tremble the Rocks rend the Graves open at his death could easily have saved himself from death but then he should have by his Example renowned that love of worldly riches pleasures and honours which by his Doctrine of humility self denial and contempt of the World he sought to mortify and disgrace High and lofty thoughts do much hinder our progress towards our eternal Rest and hide from us the true knowledge of our selves whose first Element is but dust Dust thou art and to dust shalt thou return Dust is our native soyl and last home to which we must by a firm decree repair ere long By soring aloft after worldly honours we do but make our wearisom way the longer and more crooked our fall more grievous especially if suddain and our final account after death more heavy Aspiring ambition overthrew the Tempter Lucifer himself What Spirit is it then think we which moves such young and tender Plants as scarce thrive under the walls of Gods house such Vines as hardly bear fruits in the warm and well fenced vale I mean the retirements and vacations of a low and private condition to affect the cold and open Mountains exposed to blasts of noysom winds Is it their glory to be above others of their own rank and education This might be purchased with less danger to themselves and more good to Church and State if they sought to overtop them more by their own proper height or true growth in all graces and good works than by meer advantage of ground For when every Valley shall be exalted and every Mountain made low that is when all worldly differences of States shall be laid aside as at the last day they will be the fruit which hath grown in the vale of humility and contentedness will appear both higher and better far than the ordinary off-spring of the Mountains or highest places of preferment Were Men so wise in heart as to consider that the lower their place or condition is so it be not exposed to flouds of violence the apter it is to suck in the dew of Heaven and bring forth fruit in its season There are in the way to this eternal Rest great variety of Travellers furnisht with various and different abilities whose faces differ not more than their minds and manners and these though they run contrary ways yet all pretend they are in pursuit of the same end and are upon their march to this eternal Rest even then when their backs are turned upon it The bloudy restless Traytor would be thought to be in search after this eternal Rest and Life though he seek for it in the paths of death and works like the Mole under ground and thinks that no Man shall see him