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A06685	The soules pilgrimage to a celestial glorie: or, the perfect vvay to heaven and to God. Written by J.M. Master of Arts	Monlas, John.; Maxwell, James, b. 1581, attributed name.	1634 (1634)	STC 17141; ESTC S102722	91,677	186

the mercifull yea in this life with blessings favours and graces spirituall and temporall giving unto them a hundred times more then they have given to the poore and giving them consolation in their distresse as they also have suffered with their neighbour in his affliction But let us consider the third fruit of charitable workes which is the highest degree of honour unto which the mercifull shall ascend to wit eternall blessednesse and withall we will also examine the cause wherefore the faithfull receive graces spirituall temporall and eternall which doeth clearely enough appeare in our Text Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercie The onely and perfect felicity of man both in this life and in that to come consisteth simply and soly in the possession of the favour of God which the wicked cruell and impious shall never be partakers of but only the Saints the bountifull and mercifull shall pitch their tents there the reason why the one are put backe from this infinite good and that the others shall bee received and cherished therein for ever is because the first have lived in crueltie rigour and tyrannie and shall therefore be thus punished but the second having beene gracious bountifu●l and meeke they shall obtaine mercy according to that saying of Christ With what measure you mete it shall be measured unto you againe In these words to obtaine mercie wee have many very remarkable circumstances for God will shew himselfe such unto us as wee shall shew our selues to our neighbours if wee give a crumme of bread to the poore languishing at our doores hee will call us into his royall Pallace hee will make us sit downe at his Table he will fill us with the dainties of his house and will make us drinke abundantly in the river of his delights if wee beare with griefe our neighbours affliction if wee dresse his wounds and powre oyle on them hee will comfort us in our sorrowes hee will wipe off the teares from our eyes and will fill our hearts with joy and gladnesse if wee forgive our brethren their offences when either maliciously or through infirmity they have offended us hee promiseth and assureth us to be so bountifull and mercifull to us that hee will drive our sinnes away from before his face hee will scatter our misdeedes like a cloud dispersed by the parching beames of the Sunne and in this part shall wee finde the center where the fulnesse of our felicitie resteth and resideth This forgivenesse of our sinnes is that which covereth us from the divine justice that giveth into our hands the shield of assurance which is impenetrable by the revenging shot of his just judgements that maketh us walke voyd of feare towards the throne of grace and that without the least doubting for since God is with us who shall be against us shall the world why it is vanquished shall hell why it is fettered and shackled Shall death why it is dead shall sinne why it is prevented and pardoned Finally shall the flesh why it is crucified Wee may therefore say and conclude with the Apostle Saint Paul O death where is thy sting O hell where is thy victory now thanks be to God that hath given us victory through his Sonne Iesus Christ From this word obtaine wee will also derive and draw this remarkable doctrine for he presupposeth asking seeing wee cannot obtaine a thing before wee have demaunded it which teacheth us our duties towards God acknowledging our selues poore weake and miserable both in body and soule subject in body to thousands of sicknesses weaknesses and necessities troubled in minde with a world of businesse crosses and afflictions and so laden in soule with sinnes misdeedes and iniquities that they are more in number then the sand that is on the Sea shore But the onely remedy to these sicknesses is to have our recourse to Gods mercie which is the sacred anchor of our hopes the haven of our salvation and the eternall residence of our incomparable and incomprehensible felicities Arid let us hold for certaine and infallible that wee shall never bee refused by his sacred goodnesse which calleth out aloud unto us Math. 11.28 Come unto me all ye that are troubled and heavie laden and I will ease you take my yoake upon you for it is light and ye shall finde rest to your soules his yoake is nothing else but the affliction weakenesse and necessity of the poore that is the yoake he commandeth us to beare that is to say we must take off the loade of misery and calamity from the poore to lade it upon our owne shoulders and wee shall finde that his yoake is easie and his burthen light because he will then augment our strength and will make us so able to beare it that we should be sorrowfull ever to cast it off againe As a King findeth the waight of a crowne but small when it is upon his head by reason of the wealth honour and power that follow the heavinesse of this burthen as hee would never leave his Kingdome his power and his Empire for the waight of a Scepter seeing they make him honourable to his Subjects and feared of Strangers so that faithfull man which hath compassed and environed his forehead with the crowne of love to his neighbour that hath adorned his hand with the Scepter of charity to the needy and miserable hee without doubt shall finde rest in his soule which is the fulnesse of all felicity Now since such great and admirable effects since so excellent profits and advantages proceede from our mercie charity and bounty to our neighbour since in the practise of it wee finde our felicity which consisteth in the love which God beareth unto us in the confirmation of the pardon for our offences since againe God assureth us that the charity which we give and exercise to our neighbours hee will accept as done to himselfe alas who would be so savage and hardened with rigour who would be so defiled with ingratitude that having received favours from a King would yet refuse to obey him and to serue him with all his power should not hee be worthy of the greatest torments of the most cruell punishments that have ever beene imagined would not the heaven the elements and all the creatures together rise up to judgement to aske punishment for so grievous a crime since it is most true that ingratitude is the basest and damnablest vice that can infect the soule of man Let us remember that we have nothing but what we haue received of our heavenly Father and if wee have received it from his favourable and fatherly hand why should wee be so ungratefull as to refuse him a small portion of it when hee asketh for it Now and at all times when we heare and see the poore praying and crying unto us in the streetes or at our doores it is the voyce of God himselfe that calleth us to acknowledge his benefits as often as wee see one afflicted

and peace shall be with you It was needfull I say that these good Disciples should bee like their Master whose duty and charge it was to reconcile men unto God as we read Rom. 5.10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled wee shall be saved by his life And 2. Cor. 5.18.20 God hath reconciled us to himselfe by Iesus Christ and hath given us the ministery of reconciliation For God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himselfe and not imputing their trespasses unto them And Coloss 1.20 It pleased the Father to reconcile all things to himselfe through the blood of his crosse O what praise deserue those soules that seeing so many dissentions and quarrells kindled runne presently and make haft to bring the wholesome water of peace and quietnesse least the continuation should cause a total ruine or some irreparable hurt those I say are doubtlesse and without comparison to be preferred to the valiantest Champions that come into the field for those overcome the bodies these vanquish and tame the mindes those fight for a crowne that will wither these eternally carrie away a greene crowne of benedictions and blessings those teare and breake their bodies these beautifie and strengthen their soules In a word the issue of the combat of those is recompensed but by a little weake renowne in the unconstant different minds of men but the end of these is an exceeding excellent glory an eternall triumph and trophees that never die in the blessed remembrance of God and the Angels God commanded Noah to build an Arke of polished wood covered with pitch so must all faithfull Christians bee inseparably united the one to the other by chaines of love and bonds of concord and amity that so they may escape from the deluge of unreconcileable hatred and quarrells A ship split and that takes in water every where giveth feare of an infallible shipwrack for every Kingdome divided shall fall into desolation saith Iesus Christ right so rough and unsociable spirits that will never consent to an agreement are thereby nearer their grave In the Arke of Noah the Lyon was with the Hart the Woolfe with the Lamb the Eagle with the Pigeon the Hawk with the Partridge so the peacemaker must procure peace not onely among his neighbours when they are fallen out but he must also receive into the Arke of his heart friends and foes without distinction or difference of persons Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe saith the law of Moses but the law of grace goes farther and sayeth Love your enemies pray for them that persecute you Mathew 5. It hath beene noted that Bees never stay their swarmes nor build their Hives where Ecchoes resound by the repercussion of the ayre so the Spirit of grace dwelleth not in soules full of dissentions and wrath Whilest the Temple of Salomon was building there was heard neither Hammer nor Sawe which teacheth us that for the building of a good conscience there must bee heard neither the hammers of debate nor the saw of quarrels to the end that God who dwelleth in the temple of our hearts may receive graciously the incense of our prayers and accept freely of our peace offerings It is also noted that the gates were made of Olive tree which is the true symbole of peace to shew us that the gates of our soule to wit our senses must bee nothing but peace and gentlenesse When Abraham came from the overthrow of the five Kings that had pillaged Sodome Melchisedeck King of Salem that is King of peace went to meet him gave his souldiers bread and wine and after blessed them A rare picture for our designe is Abraham the Father of the faithfull who with all his souldiers represent unto us the faithfull who under the standard of Faith goe fight against the enemies of their saluation which are laden with the spoyles of spirituall Sodome and returning from their happy victory shall meete the true Melchisedeck that King of peace Iesus Christ our Saviour of which the other was but lively a type and figure who shall fill them with the bread of peace and with wine of joy and who will blesse them in the rest of their way which they have to make in this life untill with Abraham they are come to their desired rest to that heavenly Cannan for the which they sigh and respire We read in the 1. of Kings chap. 19. ver 11. that God said to Elijah Goe forth and stand upon the mount before the Lord and behold the Lord passed by and a great and strong winde rent the mountaines and brake in pieces the rockes before the Lord but the Lord was not in the winde and after the winde an earthquake but the Lord was not in the earthquake And after the earthquake a fire but the Lord was not in the fire and after the fire a still small noise and God was there Which teacheth vs that God dwelleth not in the windes of wrath in the earthquakes of passions in the fire of malice and envie but in the tranquillity of rest and peace When the great Messias the Redeemer of our soules the true Salomon the King of peace came to guild and decorate the world with the brightnesse of his graces and blessings the earth was quiet the nations lived in a profound peace the Angels denouncing to the Sheepheards his arrivall tuned those melodious Ditties in their sacred Hymnes Glory bee to God on high and on earth peace good will towards men Luk. 2.14 When hee entred into any house the salutation and blessing which he gave was Peace be to this house shewing unto us by that that the greatest good and blessing that can happen to man consist in peace When hee was ready to depart out of this world hee said to his Apostles I give you my peace I leave you my peace as being the rarest gift after saluation which he could give unto them Gen. 14.27 Saint Augustine is very witty in these points Sicut spiritus humanus nunquam vivisicat membra nisi fuerint unita sic spiritus sanctus nunquam nos vivificat nisi pace unitos As saith hee the soule of man doth not quicken or vivifie our members unlesse they be joyned together so the holy Ghost doth never vivifie or quicken us but when we are united by the bond of peace Ignatius saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There is nothing better then peace And Saint Basil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There is nothing more proper and naturall to a Christian then to reconcile and pacifie Let us say with an ancient Author that peace is the salt of this life without which it is unsavorie and without relish When salt is put into the water it melteth and insensibly becomes liquid but when it is throwne into the fire it cracketh untill it bee quite consumed Even so is the peacemaker for he conformeth and fashioneth himselfe so quietly to