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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07666	A mappe of mans mortalitie Clearely manifesting the originall of death, with the nature, fruits, and effects thereof, both to the vnregenerate, and elect children of God. Diuided into three bookes; and published for the furtherance of the wise in practise, the humbling of the strong in conceit, and for the comfort and confirmation of weake Christians, against the combat of death, that they may wisely and seasonably be prepared against the same. Whereunto are annexed two consolatory sermons, for afflicted Christians, in their greatest conflicts. By Iohn Moore, minister of the word of God, at Shearsbie in Leicester-shire.	Moore, John, d. 1619.	1617 (1617)	STC 18057; ESTC S112851	257,806	358

holy life heauenly conuersation chearefull death and blessed daparture of the faithfull redeemed by Christ section 1 GOds children now being redeemed from Sinne and Death and truely vnited to Christ by his spirit whom they apprehend by an vnfained faith cannot chuse but shew forth the fruits of this their high calling to the glory of him that hath chosen them And being partakers of the diuine nature they flye from the corruptions of the world and giue all diligence to ioyne vertue with their faith and with vertue knowledge and with knowledge temperance and with temperance patience and with patience godlinesse and with godlinesse brotherly kindenesse and with brotherly kindenesse loue and these things being among them and abounding will keepe them from being idle and vnfruitfull The grace of God to them appeareth not in vaine but teacheth them to denie all vngodlinesse and worldly lusts to liue soberly righteously godly in this present world c. and being risen with Christ from the graue of corruption they euery day more and more seeke those things which are aboue setting their affections where Christ sitteth and not on the things that are on the earth for they are dead to the world and their true life is hid with God in Christ therefore they labour to be holy as he that hath called them to his kingdome and glory is holy They daily imploy themselues in reading and meditating of the word of God in prayer and religious exercises of holy deuotion loathing still this world and sinfull life daily growing to be spirituall and heauenly hauing their affections and zeale inflamed with the loue of God They say with Augustine O Lord I delight to heare of thee to talke of thee to write of thee to deuise of thee and in my heart to print whatsoeuer I learne of thee So must wee walke in these holy paths with all Gods Saints Godly deuotion and holy meditations saith one are section 2 as brine and pickle to keepe and preserue this corruptible flesh of ours from the euill scent that breedeth in our nature by originall sinne They are as faggots and firebrands that enkindle and inflame the loue of God in our hearts And as the fish out of the water die forthwith and the drops of raine distilling from the clouds vpon the ground doe quickly dry and drench vp and the fire without fuell is soone extinguished So our faith and loue c. without these sanctified meanes doe suddenly decrease They are as precious perfumes burnt in a polluted house and sick-mans chamber The sweet incense of prayer and the sauory smell of that odorifferous balme of a liuely faith and effectuall knowledge of God purge and clense the corruption of our liues and vncleane desires God hath chosen vs to be his glorious temple in whom hee dwelleth by his spirit therefore wee must haue our hearts purified by faith and clense our selues from all filthinesse and vncleanenesse both of bodies and soules and so adorne the place of his presence and habitation with all vertue and holinesse Hee that destroyeth the Temple of God him will God destroy for the Temple of God is holy which you are Saint Peter willeth vs to gird vp the loynes of our mindes teaching vs that as they which weare long garments when they come in the foule wayes doe take and gird them vp lest they should tag in the way So we whose mindes and affections doe traile as it were vpon the earth trudging through this foule and filthy world must heaue them vp towards heauen lest they should touch the damnable filth of sinne and wickednesse It is in vaine to boast of iustification without the vnfained sanctification of Gods spirit For as there can be no fire section 3 without warmth and light so neither can God by his spirit be in vs of with any of vs but he will also purifie vs from vice and corruption therefore wee must follow peace and holinesse without the which no man can see the Lord. Christ hath crucified our old man and put to death our vice and corruption and shall wee reuiue the same Shall we maintaine our Sauiours enemies and giue life againe to these deadly poysons of our soules If wee will be Burgesses of heauen we must be strangers to the earth Where is the house of our Father but in heauen and there dwelleth our eldest brother Iesus Christ and all our christian friends and kindred Heauen then is our true Country and on earth we are but trauellers section 4 When Moses had conuersed with God but fortie daies vpon the Mount-Oliue at his comming downe his face shined and glistered with heauenly glory So must we beholding in a mirror the glory of our Lord Iesus Christ in his word and Gospell as it were with open face and not with a vaile as did Moses be changed into the same image from glory to glory as by the spirit of the Lord. If I say but this short time while we liue we be conuersant in heauen by our most holy faith and fruits thereof in all holy affections thoughts words and meditations we shall in the end become heauenly and spirituall both in word and deede As wee see by experience when a country-man hath beene trayned vp sometime in the Court he forgetteth his clownish kinde of life and becommeth a Courtier Let vs therefore leaue the speaches habit fashions and manners of this wicked world wherein we liue and inure our selues with the customes and course of the court of Heauen Let all our thoughts words and communication testifie that in spirit wee are already there section 5 Christ Iesus whom all true Christians haue put on by baptisme as a garment is a most royall robe of grace holinesse and sanctification and shall we be so sloathfull to traile and trample him in the dyrt of filthinesse and sinne or putting him off to put on the vile and spotted garment of the flesh by following the lusts thereof When winter is once ouer the nearer that the Sunne draweth vnto vs the more doth the earth being warmed with the heate thereof fructifie and increase and the longer the daies are the more worke we may doe euen so the nearer the kingdome of heauen doth approach vnto vs by the comming of Iesus Christ the sonne of righteousnesse or the nearer we draw to death the more we should be inflamed in the loue of God and all good workes As the Sunne beames doe come to the earth and yet are in the region from whence they are sent so the mindes and soules of Gods children though conuersant in the earth are truely seated and setled with God in heauen from whence they came Let vaine-glorious worldlings who with the Camaelion section 6 liue by the ayre and therefore are alwaies found gaping and who haue with the Moone but a borrowed light in the world and no true light of

anatomy of his and the best mans frailty in their afflictions reason 1 Thus God doth manifest his own strength by our weaknesse and his vnchangeable condition by our variable disposition who the best of vs are notable of our selues to stand vpright in the day of our trials without his helping hand power and speciall prouidence vnder-prop vs. reason 2 This is Gods priuiledge and soueraignty who onely hath this name and nature I am to shew his being of himselfe and vnchangeable essence and to let vs know that all his Creatures haue not onely their being but their standing and vpholding by him that onely is and so constantly abideth without fainting or failing euermore Againe by this meanes God doth beat downe our pride reason 3 that so blindeth vs in our owne conceipts to thinke so highly of our strength and estate God therefore will proue vs by afflictions that we may know our selues our faith our strength and chiefest of our man-hoode that so finding out our weaknesse wee may onely and wholly relye vpon his strength and might reason 4 Which lesson may teach vs the excellent vse and profit of afflictions sent vnto vs as instructions to learne vs to know our selues in our best strength and state to beat down our pride and to teach vs true humility to trust onely in the Lord and to distrust our selues and all other meanes whatsoeuer they be without him Also it maketh much for our consolation in our greatest vse 2 distresse when all outward meanes and helpes shall faile and forsake vs that yet we raise and rouze vp our selues through the affiance wee haue in GOD and the strength of his might knowing the supply of his grace to be sufficient for vs at all assayes who still manifesteth himselfe to be the strongest in our greatest weaknesse and that when there is no other hand or helpe to relieue vs yet he himselfe with his own right arme is able to saue vs and to prouide such meanes as shall bee sufficient to comfort vs in our greatest assaults Thus much of Dauids confession Now followeth his resolution I will neuer forget thy precepts since they kept me from perishing in my afflictions and ministred such ioy and comfort vnto mee not onely refreshed but reuiued and quickened me being as good at dead in my owne apprehension For this cause I resolue neuer to forget so comfortable and powerfull meanes of my recouery From whence we may learne That it is the dutie of euery Christian still to remember doctrine 5 the meanes of their comfort and deliuerance from their former troubles and afflictions so to manifest their loue and care for the vse and respect of Gods ordinances not onely for the time past but also for the dayes to come As he that hath beene cured of an olde disease and healed of a wound will hardly forget the receipt and plastour Dauid hauing formerly found that the comfort of Gods word had kept him from perishing had quickened and reuiued him being as good as dead in his owne iudgement and sense resolueth neuer againe to forget Gods precepts So he telleth vs how he was disquieted and found no rest how his very bones consumed how he roared all the day vntill he confessed his sinne which was the cause thereof Then I acknowledged my sinne neither hid I my iniquity for I thought I will confesse against my selfe my wickednesse vnto the Lord and thou forgauest the punishment of my sinne Therefore shall euery one that is godly in like case make his prayer vnto thee in a time when thou mayest bee found for then is God neerest vnto his children when their troubles are the greatest surely in the flouds of great waters they shall not come neere him So going into the field against Goliah he remembreth how God deliuered him from the Lyon and the Beare and so still resolueth to hope for helpe and deliuerance at gods hand and he prayeth to God to haue mercy vpon him and to harken vnto his prayer who heretofore had heard him in his distresse and set him at liberty reason 1 Now the reason why we must remember the meanes of our deliuerance together with our forme distressed estate is because we are subiect againe to fall therein and may still haue need of the old receipt as those that fall againe into the same disease as they haue their relapses so they must haue the same remedies He that is well may and will be sick againe he that is healed may be wounded againe or at least haue his sore to ranckle and breake out againe therfore the prouident patients record their receipts and resolue to vse them as occasion serueth reason 2 Secondly no new prescription can proue so safe and sure as those that are experienced such for the most part are voyde of danger and infallible And as he is worthily accounted the best Physition that recouereth most patients and he the skilfullest Surgeon that healeth most dangerous wounds So that phisicke that potion that plaister by which sicke and sore men haue been cured healed and restored is most worthy to be registred and recorded Such receipts I say are most pretious that haue been proued and will not likely faile reason 3 Thirdly that we should remember these comfortable meanes and remedies to ease vs in our trials and to keepe vs from despaire they are written registred to our hands in Gods booke as also to confirme our knowledge practise and obedience in and for the holy vse thereof they are commended vnto vs by Gods word they are vrged and applyed for that purpose in the holy ministery thereof So is the patience of holy Iob by Saint Iames You haue heard saith he of his patience and what end the Lord made And whatsoeuer things are written aforetime are written for our learning that wee through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might haue hope And as the same infirmities sicknes and maladies both of body and soule doe still remaine to mortall men So the same wholesome receipts meanes and medicines with the same Physitians hand and manner of recouery are still commended in Gods word to all the faithfull for their vse Which serueth for the instruction of euery Christian to vse 1 be a studious obseruer of Gods word and diligently to search out the most comfortable and commodious vse of the Scriptures both for their knowledge and obedience to cast the eyes of their minde and vnderstanding vpon the best examples of Gods Saints and Children that there are propounded for their vertues and infirmities both to helpe and heale them in the like condition So when we fret and chase as Dauid did at the prosperity of the wicked wee must learne with him to see our folly and goe to Gods Sanctuary and obserue the end of such like sinners and so bee comforted and confirmed from falling away from God or following their wicked