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A77267	The penitent pilgrim bemoning his sinfull condition. Faith appeares vnto him affording him comfort hope seconds that comfort charity promiseth him in this vaile of missery to cover all his scarlett sins wth: [sic] ye white robe of mercy, & conduct him safly to ye kingdome of glory. By Io: Hall	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673, attributed name.; Hall, John, 1627-1656, attributed name.; Herdson, Henry, attributed name.; Le Blon, Christof, d. 1665, engraver.	1651 (1651)	Wing B4275aA; ESTC R224400	106,709	434

presented themselves in a Prison what incomparable pleasures might be expected in a Pallace If such joyes in the dayes of our captivity what may be looked for in that day of Iubilee In the consideration whereof never did chased Hart long more thirstily after the Water-brookes then my poore wearied spirit did after her heavenly Bethesda O how shrilly mee thought did the cryes of the Saints under the Altar sound in mine eare O how long Lord How long O how long shall I sojourne in this Pilgrimage of cares this valley of teares and become estranged from that Inheritance of lasting joyes the only sight whereof shall make me happy and from this Wildernesse of sinne bring me to the Sinah of glory Woe is me my Light my Love my Dove my onely one for that I have dwelled with the inhabitants of Cedar Woe is mee my King and my God that my habitation is prolonged For if holy David David a man according to Gods owne heart sometimes said how much more may I unhappy one say My soule hath beene too long an inhabitant Long and all too long have I sung because I was unsensible of my sinne my own countrey songs by those waters of Babylon Well therefore may I say It was good for mee that I have beene afflicted that I might learne thy statutes O my Lord hadst thou never afflicted mee I had never sought to know thee Hence is it that I know thee because thou hast afflicted mee And now my soule melteth for heavinesse not for that thou hast afflicted mee but for that shee has beene so long divided from thee I know Lord I know how hee who never mourned while hee was a Pilgrim shall never rejoyce when hee comes to bee a Citizen And as to abide for ever if wee would we might not so rejoyce here and hereafter though we would wee may not It is a great argument that hee loves not his Countrey who without occasion foreslowes his returne into his Countrey or takes any delight in any place before he returne unto his Countrey Alas I must confesse I have longed too much after the Onions and Garlicke and Flesh-pots of Egypt but now with gushing eyes doe I returne unto thee O receive mee I have protested and O strengthen so religious a protest with thy Spirit never to take any more delight in Idumaea I have suffered too much in it and by it to be now any more taken or delighted with it And now after my loathing of these puddles of vanity I have longed after those ever-running streames of eternity O how hath my soule thirsted after thee how greatly hath my flesh longed for thee my soule hath thirsted after thee the living fountaine O when shall I come and appeare before the face of the Lord when wilt thou come O my Comforter For whom else shall I expect O that I might see thee O my Ioy which I desire O then shall my soule be satisfied when my glory shall appeare for which I so long hungred O then shall I bee made drunke with the fulnesse of thine house after which I have sighed O then wilt thou refresh me with the Brooke of thy pleasure after which I have thirsted In the meane time let my teares become my bread day and night untill such time as it be said unto me behold thy God! untill my soule heare behold thy Spouse Meane while thou heavenly Shepherd feed me with my sighes refresh me with my sorrowes My Redeemer will doubtlesly come for hee is good neither will hee fore-slow his comming for hee is gracious To him be glory for evermore O hasten thy comming for thine Elect sake Come Lord Iesu come quickly CHAP. 75. The poore penitent Pilgrims last Will and Testament IN the name of the Father the Sonne and Holy Ghost I S. M. A poore penitent Pilgrim sound in body and of perfect memory yet being daily read in the Lecture of mans mortality how all Flesh is Grasse and the beauty thereof as the Flower of the field which this day flourisheth to morrow withereth and that it is every Christians duty to prepare himselfe before Death come lest it find him unprovided at such time as it shall come Moved I say with these considerations I have here made this my last Will and Testament as followeth First I bequeath my soule into the hands of my gracious Redeemer by whose most precious blood I was redeemed and by whose merits and mercies for my merits are his mercies I hope to bee glorified And forasmuch as there was no safety out of the Arke nor no salvation now without the pale of the Church figured by the Arke and that the tares from the wheat must be severed the Sheepe and the Goats must not into one Fold be gathered HERE in the presence of God and his blessed Angels for the discharge of mine owne conscience and the satisfaction of others who perchance have in their opinions been divided doubting much how I in points of Religion stood affected Doe I make a free and publike confession of my Faith being that Cement by which we are knit unto her and made Members of her I beleeve the holy Catholike Church to be the Communion of the Faithfull whereof I desire to live and dye a Member for which to suffer I should account it an honour holding this for a Principle ever That none can have God for his father that will not take his Holy Spouse the Church for his Mother There is no Article in the Apostles Creed which I do not beleeve for Catholike and Orthodoxall with the exposition thereof and every Clause or Particle thereof in such manner as it hath beene universally received by the holy Catholike Church from the first four hundred years after Christ and as it holds in consent or harmony with the Holy Scripture the Christians Armour by which and the constant practise of piety every faithfull Souldier of Christ Iesus may be enabled to pull downe those strong Holds of his spirituall enemy and by possessing his soule in patience obtaine a glorious victory And as there have been at all times tares in Gods field so is it more to be pittied then doubted that there are many surreptitious errours crept into the bosome of the Church through the corruption of time and our enemies malice which though they ayme not at the Corner-stone nor at the maine foundation yet being but stubble no wayes conducing to so glorious a building they are to bee accounted of that quality as they blemish much her primitive beauty These then being the fancies of humane braines and introduced into the Church for private ends and so continued rather by an imperious then just command I hold them so farre from being effectuall to salvation as they become scandalous to many tender consciences and consequently deserve rather to be rejected then imbraced But for the Ornamenss of the Church as shee is the Kings Daughter so she should be comely and for

thee Nay how often hast thou gone downe even unto the gates of Hell and least thou shouldst enter in he with-held thee How often hast thou drawne neare even to the gates of death and lest they should take thee in hee preserv'd thee Thus hath hee delivered thee from all evill and yet for all this good which hee has done thee thou hast requited him with evill And now thou concludest For thine is the Kingdome power and glory for ever and ever Amen Oh how ready thou art here to acknowledge his power and yet to deny it in thy life But confesse thou must his power not onely with mouth but heart and practise of a good life if ever thou meanest to partake with him in the Kingdome of glory O my sweet Saviour as thou hast taught mee by this absolute forme of Prayer how I am to make my prayer and hast promised to grant me my request if I pray effectually as I ought so kindle in my heart true devotion tbat no place may be left for distraction Here thou hast taught how and in what manner I am to pray O let me not lose the benefit of it by losing my selfe when I pray CHAP. 64. He renders a private account of his Faith and in every article of the Creede hee finds a fainting failing weaknesse and want I Beleeve in God the father Almighty maker of heaven and earth This first Article of our Beliefe was made by Christs first Apostle Saint Peter And herein thou professest that thou believest But that is not enough The Devils doe beleeve and tremble Thou must not onely believe God but believe in God and that he is thy God Againe thou art not only to believe God and believe in God but solely love God and wholly live to God For as wee are to believe with heart unto righteousnesse and confesse with mouth unto salvation so are we to bring forth fruits hereof in an holy and blamelesse conversation O how much hast thou failed in the first what then may wee looke for at the last And in Iesus Christ his onely Sonne our Lord. Of this second Article was Saint Iohn the Evangelist Author one who was right deare in the eyes of his Master our blessed Saviour and one who leaned on his bosome at his last Supper And here thou confessest Iesus Christ the second person in the blessed Trinity to be the Sonne of God to be our Lord. But hast thou by a contrite heart regenerate life made him thy Lord Thou saist thou dost beleeve in him but dost thou love him in whom thou believest And how shouldst thou be lesse then his Lover so long as thou beleev'st him to be thy saviour But wher be any Signes of this love O if thou didst truly love him in whō thou believ'st thou wouldst rather leave to live then leave to love him in whom thou believest Which was conceived by the Holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary This third Article S. Iames the Greater composed whereby thou art taught to beleeve all sanctification to be included in his Conception all humility in his Nativity But dost thou as every Christian should do seriously consider for whose sake this Virgin was conceived for whose sake thy sweet Saviour became so humbled that the Son of God should become the son of Man that the Son of Man might become the son of God that the immortall should become mortall that the mortall might become immortall that the living Lord should dye that the dying man might live that the free should become bound that the bound might become free that God should descend from heaven to earth that he might draw us from earth to heaven that God should become humbled that Man might be exalted that He should become poore that we might be enriched and reckoned amongst the transgressors that we amōgst his Saints might be numbred Hast thou I say meditated of this how he was borne for thee that thou mightst be re-borne in him O I feare thou hast beene more ready to partake of this benefit then by acknowledgeing it to bee thankefull for it Suffered under Pontius Pilat was crucified dead and buried This fourth Article Saint Andrew framed wherein thou seest and perhaps admirest the unjust proceedings of a wicked Iudge for thou hearest one and that an odious and malicious one pronouncing the sentence of death upon the Lord of life and inclining to the voice and vote of the people delivering a murdring delinquent to murder the innocent Nay pronouncing a sentence against his owne Conscience for hee washed his hands but not in innocence Againe thou hearest and beleevest that hee was crucified and yet it grieves thee not to crucifie him afresh with new sinnes Thou beleevest that hee died and was buried and yet thou daily diest not to sin but in sin and hast now not three dayes but many yeares laine buried in them He descended into hell This fifth Article Saint Philip added and thou beleevest in it He descended that thou mightst ascend to the place whereto hee is ascended Yet where be there any tokens of thy desire to ascend unto him Ascend unto him thou canst not unlesse thou descend into thy selfe for whom he so humbly descended The third day he rose againe from the dead This sixt Article Saint Thomas annexed An Article proper for Thomas who touching Christs Resurrection was so incredulous And here thou seest that late crucified man now acquit himselfe of death like a victorious Lord. And hence thou rejoycest but unlesse thou rise from sinne and live to righteousnesse Christs Resurrection shall afford thee small comfort in the bed of thy sicknesse Hee ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the father Almighty This seventh Article Saint Bartholomew penned And by this thou beleevest that hee is now ascended who for thy sake descended And as from his rising came the hope of thy Resurrection so from his ascending the hope of thy glorification But thou must rise with him before thou canst reigne with him rise with him who was free from all sin from the Grave of sin that thou maist reigne with him who dyed for thy sin in his heavenly Sion And as hee sitteth on the right hand of God the father Almighty where he offers up his prayers for thee sheweth those glorious scars of his precious wounds to his Father for thee performs the faithfull office of a loving Mediator for thee So art thou in thy prayers to remember the necessity of his Saints upon earth But cold is thy charity in performing such a duty From whence he shall come to judge both the quick and the dead This eight Article was by S. Matthew published and by this thou believest how he who was judged unjustly shall judge the whole world in Equity For the Father judgeth none but hath given up this judgement unto his Son in whose brest are laid up all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge And this