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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

instruction that we labour vse 2 to be of Gods familie and houshold for then wee cannot want his protection ayde and assistance If wee be within his Couenant he hath sworne not to forsake vs if we be his people he will be our God We must keepe our selues in his folde as good sheepe walking in his wayes and then he will heede vs. If we wander like the prodigall we shall waste our goods and want vntill we hasten home If wee will haue the priuiledge of his Sonnes wee must honour him as our Father and if we will be his Spouse we must be loyall onely vnto him and not fall in loue with others So will hee be our vaile against the heate of afflictions our shield and defence against all our enemies and still preserue and deliuer vs from all extremities and distresses vse 3 Againe it must stirre vs vp to thankefulnesse and praise for our deliuerance How often therefore is the Church of the Iewes incited in the Psalmes to take vp this note of Praise as the burden of their Song Let them therefore saith the Prophet confesse before the Lord his louing kindnes and his wonderfull workes before the Sonnes of men And let them offer sacrifices of praise and declare his workes with reioycing Let them exalt him in the congregation of the people and praise him in the assembly of Elders And see the practise of the Church concerning this dutie and the manner of their confession as well in amplifying their deliuerance as inlarging Gods praises Praised be the Lord which hath not giuen vs as a prey vnto their teeth Our soule is escaped as a Bird out of the snare of the fowler the snare is broken and wee are deliuered Our helpe is in the Lord which hath made Heauen and Earth This is a dutie commanded of God himselfe I will deliuer thee and thou shalt praise me So the Apostle blesseth God euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ which comforted him and the rest in all their tribulations vse 4 Lastly it maketh for the consolation of Gods children that whatsoeuer stormes arise God yet will send a calme who can rebuke both windes and seas and make them still for though they rage horribly yet he that dwelleth on high is mightier Feare not Abraham I will be thy shield buckler and thy exceeding great reward Feare not O Israell when thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the flouds that they doe not ouerflow thee When thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt neither shall the flame kindle vpon thee Though I should walke through the valley of the shadow of death I will feare no euill for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe they comfort me God is our hope and strength and helpe in troubles ready to be found Therefore will not we feare though the earth be moued and though the Mountaines fall into the middest of the Sea The delight hee had in GODS word kept him from perishing which yeeldeth vnto vs this second instruction That euery Christian should learne to know by Dauids doctrine 2 example and experience the excellent vse and profit of Gods word which is able through Gods blessing being truly vnderstood and fitly applyed to keepe vs vpright in our greatest afflictions and trials that we fall not away from God nor miscarry in our selues He professeth plainely that he had perished had he not beene comforted and so supported by Gods word See how fearefully his faith was assailed his feet were almost gone his steps had well neere slipt to behold the prosperity of the wicked and to see them so lusty How they escaped all manner of troubles when Gods dearest children were fearefully plagued They exceeded in pride which they put on as a chaine about their necke and as for cruelty it couered them as a garment they were licentious in their words presumptuous in their talke setting their mouth against Heauen it selfe blaspheming God whom they laboured to depriue both of knowledge and prouidence Yet these wicked men did prosper alway and increase in riches when hee and other godly men were punished daily that had care and conscience to cleanse their hearts and wash their hands from all such defilements of sinne So that hee knew not what to thinke or how to finde out the cause thereof Though hee tooke paines in this poynt yet certainely his heart was still vexed and his reines pricked so foolish hee was and ignorant like a beast vntill he went into the sanctuarie of GOD to consult with his word in the holy ministerie thereof then presently hee vnderstood the reason hereof and was resolued Then he as well considered the end as the beginning and proceedings of such miscreant and blasphemous wretches in what slippery places God had set them in how sodainely he cast them downe into desolation being horribly consumed Their prosperity changed as a dreame and their very image was despised Thus God did guide him by his counsell to recouer himselfe in this staggering temptation The law of God was in his heart and his steps did not slide though he was ready to fall away yet the Lord put vnder his hand and preserued him from destruction by the benefite of his word Blessed therefore is the man whom thou chastisest O Lord and teachest him in thy law that thou mayest giue him rest from the dayes of euill whiles the pit is digged for the wicked First God chastiseth then he teacheth and lastly resolueth and giueth rest and contentment to the afflicted Christian Is it not reason that we endure with patience the dead corpes though otherwise it would annoy vs while the graue is making to put it in and which neuer againe being once buried can trouble our sight or my sense So the wicked that trouble Gods children are dead in Gods decree and their graue is a making Surely the Lord wil not faile his people neither wil he forsake his inheritance but minister comfort vnto them in the midst of all their troubles by the meanes of his word But an vnwise man knoweth it not and a foole doth not vnderstand this When the wicked grow as the grasse and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish that then they shall be destroyed for euer For loe thy enemies O Lord for loe thine enemies shall perish all the workers of iniquity against thee thy Church and children shall be destroyed but thou O Lord art most high for euermore How often in this long Psalme doth the Prophet stirre vp himselfe when his soule cleaued to the dust and melted for heauinesse when hee was almost brought to the graue and dropping away like water in his trials and temptations he prayeth God to quicken and to raise him by his word Trouble and anguish are come vpon me yet thy commandements are my delight Thus Gods word was his

things consist A Stone cast out of a sling neuer resteth vntill it come to his centre so God whose centre is euery where and circumference nowhere is our onely rest and without him who is onely infinite our desires are neuer replenished which are infinite and endlesse We must therefore passe through this world as the Israelites passed through Edome who onely desired to goe through and to make no stay at all what should we set our delights in this Edome of the world our passage through it is all we should require we spend our goulden daies of prosperitie as ill husbands waste their substance we know not how and are in a manner so carelesse as if God were bound to bring vs to section 8 heauen whether we will or no. God hath set the earth vnder our feete that it should not be too much esteemed The world it selfe is of a round figure saith one but the heart of man is triangular and so comprehends more then the world Our bodies walke on earth but our soules should be in heauen by heauenly desires and we should frame our affections in forme of a Ship that is closed downeward and open vpward in a hearty desire of happy state Let my minde saith Augustine muse of it let my tongue talke of it let my heart loue it and my whole soule neuer cease to hunger and thirst after it Gods children in this world with their tryals and troubles are tilled and manured as the ground to be made section 9 fruitfull and fertill and are here proued with Symon of Syrene euery one with his crosse and must thus be contented to accompanie Christ to his Kingdome Manifold troubles are incident to all who are departing from the myre durt of Egypt to doe sacrifice to God who yet will bring them into a good land that floweth with milke and hony Here we are a flying before many Iesabels here we sit in darkenesse and see not the true light which shineth in glory Here wee are poore captaines as in Babilon how should we sing and reioyce in this vale of teares in so low and marshie a soyle naturally so subiect vnto moysture This farre Country is full of penurie and sorrow no plenty no musicke vntill wee returne vnto our fathers house while wee are on this side Iordane wee are amidst many troubles and tryals we must looke for no other vntill we come into the heauenly land of rest and what is it to liue long but to be troubled long Noahs Doue at her first flight from the Arke fetched many retyres but could finde no resting place till Noah opened the window to take her in againe So may our poore soules soare a time by lifting vp many a sigh and supplication to God who at last will open the window of his heauenly Arke and then and not before they shall finde safe footing after these worldly flouds for sure repose and rest Here we doe but sowe with teares there we shall reape in ioy Here our earthly houses are like the Tabernacles that were moueable there they shall be like the glorious Temple sure fixed Blessed are they indeed that dwell in thy house O Lord of Hosts Those that at mid-day desire to see the superiour planets section 10 and lights must goe downe into a wonderous deepe pit from the light of the horizon wherein they liue This is an Astronomicall experiment so to behold the light inaccessible and ioyes of heauen wee must be farre remoued from the loue and delights of this inferiour world whilst we set our affections on earthly things wee seeke for no better for wee looke for no higher So long as Zacheus abode in the preasse among the other people hee was vpon to low a ground to looke on Christ till hee climbed higher Seafaring men that haue long beene weather beaten in the surging Seas are wont to showt for ioy when they discerne the shoare So should Christians reioyce after so manifold stormes of this raging world to draw so neere by death and by faith to see a farre off their heauenly harbour and place of endlesse rest Worldlings are like the Reubenites content to stay on this side Iorden because it was a place fit for their Droues and cattell and nothing regarded the promised land so many desire to stay here and goe no further esteeming the profits and pleasures of this temporall life more then of the incomprehensible ioyes of life eternall They are so satisfied with earthly things that they sauour not heauenly c. men led captiue into a forraine Country from their infancie doe not onely forget their naturall language but euen the desire of returning home but to the truer Israelites all is wearinesse vntill they come into the land of rest section 11 Augustine writeth of certaine beasts that are so patient of thirst that seeing many puddles and other waters will yet neuer drinke till they come to a fountaine that is very cleare and cleane so should the faithfull stay their desire till they come indeed to the true waters of comfort so fresh and cleare Here we must but recreate our selues retaining still our thirst vntill wee come to drinke our fill at the true fountaine of blisse and happinesse The worlds manner saith one is the Iewes manner who were wont to bring the best wine first but Christ obserues his old manner and keepes the best wine last The Israelites many and often times murmured in the wildernesse thinking that after their deliuerance out of Egypt they should presently haue all sweetnesse and abundance But they were deceiued God kept that vntill they came into the land of promise wee must not looke for our happinesse here God reserueth that till hereafter Here euery day we must be gathering Mannah but when the high Sabaoth commeth then wee shall cease Ioseph gaue his brethren prouision for the way but the full sackes were kept in store vntill they came home to their fathers house God giues vs here a taste and assay of his goodnesse but the maine sea of his bountie and store is horded vp in the kingdome of heauen In this life Adam shall eate his bread in the sweate of his browes in labour and sorrow shall he eate thereof vntill he returne vnto the earth out of which he came as if the daies of man by reason of sinne were nothing else but the daies of sorrow because euery day hath her griefe and euery night his terrour The Christian soule shall neuer sing her sweetest song vntill she come to beare her part with the Saints in the ioyfull quire of heauen Wherefore if our inheritance be that wee shall raigne as kings why put we our selues in such slauerie of creatures If our birth allow vs to feede of bread in our fathers house why delight we to eate huskes prouided for the swine If a golden prize be propounded to such as winne

the race and winne the goale why step wee aside to follow flies and feathers in the ayre CHAP. VII The faithfull in this life are subiect to manifold infirmities their bodies and soules are vnder the thraldome of Sinne and corruption but Death breakes their bonds and setteth them at libertie section 1 MOst lamentable and fearefull is Saint Pauls complaint in the person of the faithfull that he is carnall and sould vnder sinne doing those things which he hateth and omitting the good things he willeth that in his flesh dwelleth no good thing and therefore crieth out as a miserable caitiue to be deliuered from the body of this death For as man at the first by sin rebelled against his maker so all things while he liueth shall rebell against him euen man against himselfe the flesh against the spirit yea both of them doe what wee can are lyable to the tyrannie of sin which as a soule and an vncleane spirit hauing entred will not againe without much renting and torment be driuen out a doores And were it not that our strong man armed far greater then sinne had dispossessed him with violence desperate and forlorne had beene our estate yet here in this life the battell is but begun and must continue all our tearme as we haue heard onely death must end the wars and make our conquest pleasant God here will haue vs humbled all our daies before he will fully exalt vs when all times and daies shall cease section 2 The corruptions of this life and manifold infirmities of our nature shall be as gyues about our legs and fetters about our feete to shew our guilty condition and what we are He therefore that desireth so greatly to liue is like a foolish prisoner delighting in his bolts that may be free from his fetters and careth not that may goe out of the Iayle and will not Shall the bruite beasts and senceles creatures being subiect to vanitie grone in their kinde for the redemption of Gods Sonnes when they shall be freed from the bondage of sinne and shall wee that are Christians endued with reason yea and aboue reason inlightened with Gods holy Spirit especially when it standeth vpon our ioyfull being and euerlasting dwelling with God in heauen shall wee not I say lift vp our mindes beyond this rottennesse of earth Surely the very creatures shall condemne our backwardnesse herein that we are worse then beasts bereaued of sense and reason Wee may say of our vnruly flesh as one said once of a troublesome neighbour Neyther can I liue with thee section 3 neyther yet can I be without thee Here our nature like Hagar the bond-woman is very disdainfull toward Sarah the free-woman where the rebellious appetites striue against the regiment of Reason where our wit like another Heuah still prouoketh vs to reach of the forbidden fruit where Sinne like Tarquinius the proud would tyrannize challenge so a perpetuall Dictatorship We must not therefore commit the guard of our selues to this body of sinne nor mingle our soules with the corruption therof Ioyne with thy friends not with thine enemies the flesh is thine enemy because it contradicteth the vnderstanding and contends after nothing but to sow enimities and troubles Mingle not thy soule therewith for feare thou confound and defile it together for making this commixtion thy flesh which should be a subiect comes to contemne the soule which ought to command as a Soueraigne seeing shee giues life to the body and the flesh on the contrary effects the death of the soule Though the soule be infused into the body yet wee may not thinke that shee is confounded with the body Consider the light for an example though it peirce into euery place yet is it not mixed therewith wee must not therefore confound the office and effects of so different substances but let it reside in the body to quicken lighten and gouerne the same section 4 Wee see by experience when wee muse and meditate on a matter wee would not willingly see any body wee like not to heare any noyse about our eares hauing sometime our minde so fixed on our thoughts that wee see not that which is before our eyes And in the night our cogitations are more firme and wee conceiue the better of that in our hearts which serues for our learning and instruction Oftentimes many men close their eyes when they would profoundly consider of any affayres auoyding at such times the impediments of sight otherwhiles seeking out some solitary places to the end no company may hinder their contemplations For this body of ours procureth diuers imployments which dulleth the soules poynt and slackens our intentions Well therefore said Iob Thou hast made me of the clay and slime Our soules are as it were plastered with the flesh but they dissolue not into it Thou hast apparelled mee with skinne saith hee and flesh thou hast enterlaced mee with bones and sinewes so that our soule is confined and extended through the sinewes that many times shee is made stiffe as it were thereby and sometimes crooked by the heauy affections thereof section 5 Wee must therefore rouze vp our soules aboue the bed of our flesh and rise out of this rotten sepulchre of the body of sinne that wee may the more nimbly mount aloft towards heauen and so retyre from this dangerous coniunction of the body Let vs chearefully martch forwards towards our happy home for what other thing is Death to the faithfull but the funerall of their vices and the resurrection of their vertues Let vs therefore swiftly ascend with the flight of loue to that high and happy hill where wee hope to rest Let our soules soare aloft like the Eagle who flyes aboue the clouds shee glisters and shines afresh by the renewing of her plumes shee raises her flight to the skyes where she cannot be intrapped by the snare like other foolish Fowles which descending downeward are intrapped by the Fowler So take wee heede lest our soules groueling on the earth be insnared with Sathans gyns and worldly baites Now the better to discerne the state of our soules let section 6 vs learne of the Musitian who according to the songs that he singeth or playeth vpon the Lute Harpe or Recorder hath his countenance and passions accordingly framed and affected So the soule which vseth the body and playeth vpon it as an Instrument of Musicke if she be sage wise and godly will expresse as it were with her fingers ends the most inward parts and passions so that a pleasant harmony of good manners will redound thereof and we shal see her obserue such melody in her thoughts and affayres as that her deliberations and executions will most sweetly accord It is the soule therefore that needeth the body but as an instrument and therefore soueraignetie is one thing and seruice another and there is great difference betweene that which wee are and that which wee ought to be As