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A20202	The plaine mans path-way to heauen Wherein euery man may cleerely see, whether he shall be saued or damned. Set forth dialogue-wise, for the better vnderstanding of the simple: By Arthur Dent, preacher of the vvord of God at South-Shoobery in Essex. Corrected and amended: vvith a table of all the principall matters; and three prayers necessarie to be vsed in priuate families thereunto added.; Plaine mans path-way to heaven	Dent, Arthur, d. 1607.	1607 (1607)	STC 6629; ESTC S113573	201,787	436

quake and tremble when these gréedy wolues come abroad And as Iob speaketh the poore of the earth hide themselues together For alas in their hearts they cannot abide the sight of them they had as léeue méet the diuell as méet them for feare of one displeasure or another For either they feare that they wil warne them out of their houses or parley about more rent and straighter couenants or beg away their best kine or borow their horses or command their carts or require a wéeks worke of them neuer pay them for it or a twelue moneths pasture for a couple of Geldings or that they wil make one quarel or another vnto thē or one mischiefe or another Se that these poore soules cannot tel what to do nor which way to turn them for feare of these cruel termagants They are euen weary of their liues For they haue no remedie for these things but euen to beare it off with head and shoulders Therefore they often with they were out of the world and that they were buried quicke They say if any will knocke them on the head they will forgiue him O most pittious case O lamentable hearing These poore silly creatures are faine to drudge and moile all the yere long in winter summer in frost snow in heat cold to prouide their rents that they may be able to pay their cruell Land-lord at his day For else how shall they be able to looke him in the face Yet their rent is so rackt that all that they can do is little enough to pay it And when that is paid alas the poore man his wife children haue little left to take to or to maintaine themselues withal they are faine to gnaw of a crust to fare hardly go thinly clad Sometimes they haue victuals and sometimes none The poore children cry for bread Poore widowes also poore fatherlesse children are found wéeping mourning in their houses and in their stréets So that now we may with Salomon turne and consider all the oppressions that are wrought vnder the Sun Wée may behold the téeres of the oppressed and none comforteth them For the mighty ones do wrong the weaker euen as the strongen beasts do push and harme the féebler These griping oppressors do pinch the poore euen to the quicke They plucke away from the fatherlesse and widowes that little which they haue If there be but a cowe or a few sheepe left they will haue them If there be a little commodity of house or land oh what deuises they haue to wind it in to wring it away These tyrants will go as nigh as the bed they lie vpon They know well inough the poore men are not able to wage law with them and therfore they may do what wrong they will shew what cruelty they list Hence commeth the téeres of the oppressed hence commeth the wéeping wailing of the poore But alas poore soules they may wel wéep to ease their hearts a little but there is none to comfort them remedy they can haue none But yet assuredly the euerlasting God doth looke vpon them will be reuenged For the cries of the poore the fatherles and the widowes haue entred into the cares of the Lord of Hosts who is an auenger of all such things yea a strong reuenger as Salomon saith Enter not into the field of the fatherlesse for their reuenger is strong He himselfe will plead their cause against thee And againe he saith Rob not the poore because hee is poore neither tread downe the afflicted in the gate for the Lord pleadeth their cause and will spoile their soule that spoile them We sée then that the most iust God wil be reuenged on these vnmercifull tyrants He will not alwaies put vp these wrongs and iniuries done to the poore In the eight chapter of the Prophet Amos hee sweareth by the excellency of Iacob that hee will neuer forget any of their workes And againe he saith by his Prophet Ieremie Shall I not be auenged on such a Nation as this Surely he will set his face against them to root them out of the earth For indéed they are not worthy to crawle vpon the face of the earth or to draw breath amongst the sonnes of men It is written in the booke of Psalmes that God will set their fellowes opposite against him as a Butte to shoot at that he will put them apart and the strings of his bow shall he make ready against their faces Be astonished at this O ye heauens and tremble O thou earth Heare this O ye cruell land-lords vnmercifull oppressors and blood-suckers of the earth You may well be called blood-suckers for you suck the bloud of many poore men women children you eat it you drinke it you haue it serued in at your sumptuous tables euery day you swallow it vp and liue by it And as Iob saith The wildernes giueth you and your children food That is you liue by robbing and murthering But wo wo vnto you that euer you were born For the blood of the oppressed which you haue eaten drunken shall one day cry for spéedy vengeance against you as the blood of Abel cried against Cain Their blood shall witnesse against you in the day of iudgment and the téeres of many poore starued children orphans widowes shall cry out against you Was the Lord reuenged of Achab for his cruell and vninst dealing with poore Naboth and shall he not be reuenged of you Did the dogs lap the blood of Achab and shall you escape No no you shall not escape The Lord will be a swift witnesse against you as he saith in Malachie Was the Lord angry with the rich of his people for oppressing the poore so as the cry of the people and of their wiues against their oppressors was heard of the Almighty do you think you shal escape scot-frée Doth not the like cause bring foorth the like effect the like sinne the like punishment know therefore for a certainty that the Lord hath coffers full of vengeance against you and one day he will vnlocke them and bring them forth in the sight of all men Know also that the timber of your houses and the stones of your walles which you haue built by oppression and blood shall crie against you in the day of the Lords wrath as the Prophet Abacuck telleth you The stone saith he shall crie out of the wall and the beame out of the timber shall answere it Where the Prophet telleth you that the walles of your houses built in blood shall cry out loud and shall and play the Quiristers in that behalfe so as they shall answer one another on either side The one side singeth behold blood the other behold murder The one side behold deceit the other behold cruelty The one behold pilling poling the other behold couetousnesse The one behold robbery the other behold penury And thus

he may will and commaund But the abundant mercy of God towards mankind doth most of all consist in this that he hath giuen his onely sonne for vs when we were his enemies As it is written God so loued the world that he hath giuen his onely begotten sonne that whosoeuer beleeueth in him should not perish but haue euerlasting life Againe God setteth out his loue towards vs seeing that while we were yet sinners Christ died for vs much more then being now iustified by his bloud we shal be saued frō wrath through him For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his son much more being reconciled we shall be saued by his life In all this then wée may cléerely behold the infinite mercy of God towards vs poore sinners For is it not a great matter that the sonne of God should take our nature vpon him should be so abased as he was should humble himself to death euen to the death of the Crosse For as the shadow of the Diall went backe ten degrées that Ezechias might receiue length of daies much happinesse so Christ the sonne of righteousnesse hath gone backe many degrées that we might haue eternall life His humiliation therefore is our exaltation his sufferings our ioy his death our life For we haue no other remedy or refuge but onely his merits righteousnes He is our city of refuge whither we must fly where we must take sanctuary He is the Balme of Gilead whereby our soules are cured He is that poole of Bethesda where euery man may bée cured of what disease so euer hée hath He is the riuer of Iordan where Naaman may wash away all his Leprosie He is that Pellican who by pecking a hole in his owne brest doth restore his yong to life againe by his blood Yet one thing we must note by the way which hath béene partly touched before that al the mercy of God and merits of Christ are to be restrained onely to the elect only to the true members of the Church As plainely appeareth in the 103. Psalm Where the mercies of God which there are largely described are restrained onely to them that feare him kéepe his couenant thinke vpon his Commandements to do them And touching Christ it is said that he is a prince a Sauiour vnto Israel that he shall redéeme Israel from all his iniquities Againe it is written That Christ being consecrate was made the author of eternall saluation to them that obey him None do or can obey him but onely the Elect therefore he is the authour of saluation onely to the Elect. And consequently the prophane world whatsoeuer they say whatsoeuer they brag boast haue no true title or interest in him This thing was figured in the law in this that the mercy seate which was a type of Gods mercy in Christ the Arke which was a figure of the Church were by the expresse commandement of God fitted each to other both in length and breadth For as the Arke was two cubits and a halfe long a cubit and a halfe broad iust so was the mercy seate Noting thereby that the mercy of God in Christ should onely bée fitted to his church belong only to the Church so as not one without the Church should be saued For he that hath not the church for his mother cannot haue God for his father Lastly we are to obserue that as God is infinit in mercy of great compassion towards penitent sinners so also is he most constant in the course of his mercies towards his children And therefore one of the Psalmes carrieth this foote His mercy endureth for euer his mercy endureth for euer his mercy endureth for euer Noting thereby both the constancy and eternity of Gods mercy To the same purpose it is thus written It is the Lords mercies that we are not consumed it is because his compassions faile not Let vs know therefore that God as touching his mercy to his children is of a most constant and vnchangable nature As he saith I am the Lord I change not For if God were of a changeable nature as we are and subiect to passions then were we in a most miserable case Then must he néeds smite vs downe and take vengeance of vs euery day and euery houre in the day because we prouoke him euery day euery houre in the day But the God of heauen is not as a man that he should be subiect to passions and affections he is of a most constant and immutable nature For though wée prouoke him euery day with new sinnes yet is he so farre off from taking reuenge that the next day he rewardeth vs with new mercies and breaketh through all our vnkindenesse to shew kindnesse vnto vs and through all our naughtinesse to doe vs good All our infirmities cannot make him breake off with vs or cease to loue vs. He is content to take vs with all faults and to loue vs dearely though we haue great faults He regardeth not our infirmities though we be oftentimes waiward and eluish yet for all that he loueth vs neuerthelesse Euen as a louing mother though her young suckling crie all night and be excéeding treafe and weiward so as she cannot rest an houre in the night yea though she endure much loathsomnesse trouble with it yet in the morning when she ariseth she loueth it neuerthelesse but dandles it plaieth with it smileth and laugheth vpon it so the God of all mercies whose loue towards vs far passeth the loue of mothers though we gréeue him with our infirmities continually yet loueth vs neuerthelesse and is content to put vp all to forget and forgiue all for he is a most constant louer Where he once sets and settles his loue he loueth most constantly nothing can alter him nothing can remoue him Euen as a Father when his little childe catcheth a fall breaketh his shinnes and hurteth his face is so far from being offended or displeased with him therefore that he doth pity him and bemone him séeking remedies for his hurt so our mercifull Father is so farre off from being angry displeased with vs for some slips and falles that he doth the more pity vs and lament our case Euen as a louing and wise husband though his wife haue many infirmities yet knowing that she loueth him dearely and that her heart is with him he is well content to winke at all her faults to hide them to beare with them yea and to make nothing of them louing her neuerthelesse for them So our deare husband and Spouse Jesus Christ because he knoweth we loue him and that he hath our hearts is content to beare with all our infirmities and to make light of them For this cause it is that he saith to his Spouse in the Canticles Though she was blacke and full of infirmities behold thou art faire my loue behold thou