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death_n	body_n	sleep_n	soul_n	4,464	5	5.7670	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11378	Holy discoveries and flames. By John Saltmarshe, Mr. of Arts of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge, and rector of West-Ileslerton in York-shire	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.; W. F., fl. 1640, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 21637; ESTC S116513	54,761	236

holy discoveries of himselfe to the soule When hee was come out immediately there met him there should bee a meeting on our parts then as well as Christs a holy preparation and endeavour is a rising up a stepping forward a making towards Christ a meeting him There met him and where did hee meet him but when hee was come out of the Ship it is good taking Christ at his first landing with you at his first comming upon your borders or coasts when you heare him preached or when your heart and affections are touched with him and a little affected with his Gospel then hee is landed on your shore your senses and affections are the coasts and borders of your soule and there take him and meet him Immediately there met him The Daughter dead Mark 5. 35. Thy Daughter is dead Why troublest thou the Master any further Discovery I Discover how soon a carnall hope would give over how soon it despaires Thy Daughter is dead and why troublest thou any further as though all were at an end with the Daughter all life and spirit and expectation and importunity such faint spirits must ever have some principle some pulse or motion in a businesse to encourage them on if shee bee dead once they die too such looke not at Christ at his power at his life and word but at the Daughter that is dead they consider not how Christ is alive and how soon he may blow a spirit into her arteries and a soule into her body and a sparke into her ashes but the coldnesse in the body and emptinesse in the artery and incineration in the ashes every sleep is to them a death every obstruction a destruction every decay a ruine irreparable every dissolution an annihilation prayers and holy importunities are vaine troubles and hopelesse endeavours and redresse of impossibilities Why troublest thou the Master any further how soone a weake suggestion stops all the wheels and retards the businesse and amazes the proceeding how soon they are taken off with any period or clause Why troublest thou any further not any further probability or likelyhood not any further trouble or endeavour with them how easily is a carnall reason convinced how strong an Argument can nature make how soon is her word taken thy Daughter is dead Thy sword into his place Matth. 26. 52. Then said Jesus Put up againe thy sword into his place The Flame O my God even a Disciple to thy Jesus may draw his weapon in as much hast as another his passions may bee as soone unsheathed in defence of his Master hee is but cold that hath not so much heat as to be angry in Jesus cause nor so much courage as to weare a sword in his behalf that is hath something of power and authority about him yet Jesus bids Put up againe thy sword none of his shall have a sword drawn against the sword of authority if that be out his Disciple shall have command to put up againe a private weapon must not clash against a publick neither be drawne or at least appeare Put up thy sword that is let there be even no shew of resistance and Put it up into his place not into theirs not into the place of the Magistrate or Authority sheath it not there that is not his place but theirs the Kings the Princes and Governors it is to bee feared if the Disciples have their swords out they doe not heare when Christ calls to Peter in the name of the rest Put up thy sword againe into his place Pray yonder Matth. 26. 36 37. And saith unto the Disciples Sit yee here while I goe and pray yonder And he taketh with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee Discovery I Discover that Jesus teaches a decorum to his Disciples at Prayer Sit yee here hee places them and orderly Sit yee here doe not leane here or use any irreverent gesture but Sit yee here and not while I pray here neither but while I pray yonder thus he wisely distinguishes his duty and theirs if they sit here he will pray yonder they must keep a decent distance while he officiates they must bee here and he yonder not both here or both yonder but as though here he had appointed seats for them and yonder a pew for himselfe and sit yee while I goe that is quiet settle compose your thoughts passions stay them from wandering and straying Sit yee that is put your selves in a firme posture use your preparation while I use mine Sit yee while I goe that is my spirit my soule hath a journey to take yet beyond yours as far as a prayer Sit ye while I go and pray and sit yee while I goe as though here should bee the Congregation and yonder the Minister Sit ye while I goe while I move in the services while I I your Master and Minister and Bishop of your soules while I goe And hee goes not alone neither hee will have his holy assistants and co-adjutors as a grace and honour to the prayer and service though they do little and they shall not goe after him to this holy businesse neither but with him as it were beside him at the holy imployment And hee taketh with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee The Place Matth. 28. 6. Come see the place where the Lord lay The Flame O My God the very place where Jesus hath beene is good and gracefull to look at Come see the place the very place hath so much worth in it as will deserve a Come and see Come it is a good motion and setting forward to Religion to come where Christ hath been to see the place of him where he was either preach'd or taught or died or buried Christ hath more places then one every soule that hath had Christ a day or a night or a moneth or a yeere that hath had a forme of godlinesse and Christianity hath for that time been the place or tombe where the Lord lay where hee so journed and come and see how empty the place is without him how unfurnish'd now hee is gone and in Apostacies or fallings away you may see the place where the Lord lay for such soules are but his tombes for the time places where hee dies where his graces and vertue and power perish and these were places where the Lord lay for he never stood here never sate here in these soules their godlinesse was never in so firm and stout a posture but he lay the posture hee was in was a faint a feeble a declining a disable posture Jesus met them Matth. 28. 9. And as they went to tell his Disciples Jesus met them Discovery I Discover they that go upon Jesus businesse shall bee sure of his company sooner or later if not at their setting forward yet ere they come to their journies end as they went Jesus met them them that were seekers and followers of him them that had a longing and desire after him he met

soule is musicall when thou art with me every nerve sinew and string about mee is a Harpstring a string of harmony and rejoycing now I see in thy presence is fulnesse of ioy and thou hast made me glad with the joy of thy countenance Psal. 21. and now I am entered into the joy of my Lord Math. 25. and shall not I be merry and cheerefull when they earth O Lord and thy hills and lands dull and stupid and inanimate clay break forth in rejoycings Therefore thy servant warbles to thee Be joyfull in God all yee lands Psal. 66. and talke of joy yee hills Who can hold his fingers from his Timbrell or Cymball when his Saviour is beside him he that hath delivered our soules from death our eyes from teares and our feete from falling Psal. 116. 8. who can be sad that hath his salvation his reconciliation his redemption in the same roome with him who can mourne that hath him in presence who will supply all his necessities My God shall supply all your necessities Phil. 4. 19. who can mourne that hath him who takes care for him Cast your care upon him for he careth for you 1. Pet. 3. who can mourne that hath one to make peace for all his mutinies his indispositions his rebellions he hath made peace through the bloud of his Crosse Col. 1. 20. one to intercede for all his offences wee have an Advocate Christ Jeses and he is the propitiation for our sinnes 1. John 1. 1 2. to give us every good gift for to which of you if hee aske a fish will hee give a Scorpion or if hee aske bread will he give a stone who can mourne that hath him to provide a place for him in his glory for in my Fathers house are many Mansions and I go to prepare a place for you Awake then Psaltery and Harpe I my selfe will awake right early and let us bee glad and rejoice for this is the day which the Lord hath made even this Lord this Bridegroome who hath his Wine-seller and Flaggons and Grapes and Gardens and Perfumes and Spices all things for the advancement of mirth I came into my Garden I have gathered my Myrrhe I have drunke my Wine drinke yee drinke abundantly O beloved Here is no weeping no teares for God is here and he shall wipe away all teares here is nothing but revellings and divine espousals here is the Bride-chamber here is the sweet celebration of the spirituall marriage here are the holy embraces of Christ and the soule the blessed recumbencies and reposings the interchange of sacred courtship Arise my faire one and let mee kisse thee with the kisses of my mouth And my love is white and ruddy the fairest among ten thousand here is no mourning no lamenting nothing but love-songs and sweet epithalamiums mutuall enjoyments admirations of each other Rejoce therefore in the Lord oh yee righteous again I say Rejoyce Phil. 4. The Synagogue Mat. 4. 23. And JESUS went about all Galilee teaching and preaching in their Synagogues Discovery I Discover that JESUS begins now to be more free of himselfe He went about before he was in the Desart hee then went out now he went about he went out and about and thus inlarges himselfe to his time and businesse he begins in private at Bethlehem he goes on in publike to Galilee he went and went about he was active and stirring in what he had to do employment should ever quicken us motion suits businesse better than a chaire and cushion hee went and about all Galilee Galilee a place neglected and disdained of the Jewes how the estimations of God and man differ how unequally their respects are directed about all Galilee that no part may complaine of neglect and in Galilee hee teaches and preaches hee keepes close to his businesse teaching and preaching Hee wastes not his houres in other diversions in impertinencies or vaine disports but teaches and preaches and in their Synagogues places appropriated and dedicated to that service Galilee Math. 4. 25. And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee Discovery HEre I discover the vertue and power of Christs preaching and miracles there followed him even there where he had preached there where he had healed and cured and that from Galilee great multitudes from Galilee When JESUS or his Word prevailes with us wee shall soone leave our Galilees our worldly places and circumstances wee shall leave Galilee and go after JESUS that is neither Citie nor Countrey nor kindred nor acquaintance shall be able to keep us from following we shall go as this multitude for a multitude followed him and now we shall not go wrong if wee follow the multitude so long as they follow thus and follow him here in the Text even JESUS yet it is something strange to see a multitude following him for the way after JESUS is strait and few there be that finde it and his flock is little feare not little flock and yet a multitude are following but as many followed him so certainly they followed him many wayes the track where JESUS had gone could not suffer many upon it but some took other tracts though all in pretence of following and what though a multitude many are called and few chosen The Physician Math. 9. 12. The whole neede not a Physician but they that are sick The Flame LOrd I have a sick soule a distempered soule a languishing soule the spirits and faculties of it faint and droope for want of thy Influence of thy grace of thy sacred visits thou did'st hide thy face and I was troubled Psal. 30. troubled till I laid downe with trouble and watered my couch the trouble weighed upon my spirit till I was weary and heavie laden the spirit of a man may beare his infirmities but a wounded Spirit who can beare who can beare it and not lie downe under the burden Lord I have a sick soul sick unto death for while I live after the flesh I die Rom. 8. 13. and now that I am in so deepe and desperate distemper of spirit restore and renew me againe thou turnest man to destruction and thou saiest Come againe yee children of men say thou unto my soule Returne and that voice will quicken me againe and raise me to life that I may say with the Apostle as dying and yet behold I live 2. Cor. 6. 9. Lord how many are my spirituall diseases Lay thy hand upon the pulse of my soule the affections and passions which beat so violently for want of thee as the Hart panteth after the water brookes so panteth my heart after thee O God Psal. 42. looke O Lord upon the water of my Soule thou hast a Bottle even a holy Urinall put my teares into thy Viall Psal. 56. looke upon the complexion of my Soule how pale and wan having a forme or colour of godlinesse but denying the power 2. Tim. 3. Lord I acknowledge I have a sick soul and many are