Saint c Vide Parei praefa in Coment super Hebraeos Paul now taking his farewel of the Hebrewes as I may make him the Author with more Seconds than opponents The Apostle I say in this last chapter of his Epistle legacieth many pious duties to their practice enforcing all his documents with reasons As in the first place d Hospitality vers 2. Hospitality 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verse 2. bee not forgetfull to lodge strangers saies hee For thereby some have entertained Angels Next loyalty in e Chastity v. 4 wedlocke inviolation of the nuptiall bed vers 4. Marriage is honourable c. but whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge Thirdly f Content v 5 contentednesse with any estate vers 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be content with those things that you have For God hath said it I wil never leave thee nor forsake thee Fourthly g Constancy verse 9. perseverance in religion v. 9 be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines saies hee For t is a good thing the heart be stablished with grace Lastly h Patience v. 13 patience and humility in the 13. verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let us goe forth out of the campe bearing his reproach for wee have here c. As much as if he had said Christ like that sin-offering burnt without the campe Levit. 6 36. Lev. 6 suffred without the gate .i. most ignominiously for place and manner let not us Christians therefore wanton out our lives in Tents of pleasure but follow such a Master out of the City .i. conversationem mundi exeamus i Ecolampadius in locum relinquish we our carnal conversation not fashioning our selves according to this world a world that ascertaines us of nothing but of our uncertainty a non habemus here no continuing City t is fit then wee thinke of an abode elsewhere it becomes discarded k Luk. 16 8. Stewards to provide them each imitate that wise one in the Gospell purchase you a perpetuity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 either by such doing good or patient suffering ill no matter which way God bring us to Heaven and come the worst wee know Christs Thornes were platted into a Crowne that l 2 Tim 2 12. if wee suffer we shall also raigne with him Let the world build on sand while hee is our Rocke wee cannot want an house shall stand eternall in the Heavens a City whose Builder and Maker is God and this is it we looke for That we long for futuram expectamus Text. Text. But because sorrow I know is a passion loves no prefacing I will forthwith spread my mantle and divide these waters and then heere 's at one side Mundi indigentia Earths inhospitality Non habemus here no continuing City at the other Coeli sufficientia Heavens all-sufficiency futuram expectamus wee looke for one Which two parts I may expresse as m Zeno. the Philosopher of old his two Sciences Rhetorick and Logick the world appeares here pugna contractâ as with a clinched fist readier to give a blow than a benefit a very withered Icroboam whose hand is shortned that it cannot helpe not helpe us to a continuing Citty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here wee have none But the tother is Manus Expansa Division the open hand of Heaven fuller of assistances and blessings than all Rhetorick can delineat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Indeed this Text is the Christians Map of the World consisting likewise of that n The paire of Globes Coelestiall and Terrestriall paire of Globes Coelestiall and Terrestriall Globes I say not Cosmographicall but Theologicall one of them not so much discovering the rarities of Earth and flourishing Cities of the world as demonstrating the vanity and emptinesse thereof and that there is no continuing City in it The tother not so much teaching us the motion of the Starres and walking unto Heaven with a staffe as how wee may one day shine among those Lights and really inhabit that same glorious City which is some Happinesse heere but to hope for Futuram Expectamus c. The first of these mee thinkes the o The Terrestriall Globe of the Christistian Map Matth. 4. lower Globe deales with us heere somewhat like Satan with our Saviour Matthew 4. Setting us as on a Pinnacle of the Temple shewes us all a faire Prospect of the Earth yet with a true not his false glasse not as a lure but as a caution not in the language of the Tempter telling us of Kingdomes and the glory thereof but in the Apostles Transit Mundus 1 Iohn 2. The world passeth and the glory thereof 1 Iohn 2.17 passeth I and must one day in the p Partes imitantur Naturam totius totall passe to nothing as now in the parts to no continuing City which defect and indigence of the world results apparantly from these three circumstances of the Text Quis Quid Vbi Subdivision in 3. circumstances the Plaintifes heere condoling wee wee the generall race of Adam wee mortalls because wee sinners Secondly their wants what they are scanted of and that 's a place of residence a continuing City Non habemus we have none Lastly the Scene of all these miseries where we are thus streightned and that 's Hic here in this same dirty q 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prison Earth Text Briefly of them and with a discourse as fitting as the subject no continuing City and first of the Plaintifes Wee But what have wee no continuing City First circumstance Quis. by your favour holy Apostle did not the Creatour so soone as hee had built this great house the world and furnisht it bring in Man his Tenant there and sole possessour can we complaine of wants did not all creatures then weare mans livery a name of servitude and the very wheeles of Time it selfe r A reflection on mans Creation and his fall appointed to attend him unto immortality Can they then whose is the whole Earth want Cities whose Chariot Immortality whose Lackquie Time was can they want continuance is heere a non habemus we no continuance heer Indeed the World was thus mans Royall-Mannour once all Creatures holding of him Paradice to have beene his Continuing City and all this too leased out to him paying but the Rent Obedience for as many lives as hee should have Posterity But the edge of his ambition cut off this entayled Happinesse hee would bee Paramount Chiefe Land-lord He so breaking the conditions forfeited his everlasting Tenure that now hee is but a Tenant at will to an offended Land-lord and scarce an equall sharer in the vivacity of his brother-animals but this misery and mortality of Man is a condition not imprinted in him by God who as Hee is Himselfe Immortall had put a Coale a Beame of Immortality into ûs which wee might have blowne into a Flame but blew it out by our first sinne wee beggered our selves
of so weake an object as no continuing City But least a too long discourse heere contradict my Thesis and prove it a continuing City I passe the Plainteifs and their wants to take a glance by way of application on their place of streights the Vbi Text. where wee are so indigent and that 's Hic Heere Indeed there is a place where the woman is cloathed with the Sunne Reu. 12. and the Moone under her feet .i. where the Church and every member of it is roab'd with glory and farre above the reach of any mutability Bernard but as Saint Bernard saies surrexit non est hîc this is in the City that 's above it is not heere This place is the Moones chiefe Regiment The Vbi where we are streightned her very exchange as it were to vent all her varieties constat genitum nihil save alteration nothing continues heer Earth you see is the least of Elements and to the Heavens no more than is a single Atome to the Sunne an infinite substance then such as the soule of man is needs must bee streightned heere this little circle can never fill the hearts vast Triangle thât nothing but the Trinity vaine therfore the continuing heere This againe is the lowest and most dreggish Element the sinke of all and so Cladium Officina the shop of dangers and diseases and they both so destructive that no continuing heer statio malefida carinis T is the valley of the world Earth the valley of teares teares indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where we enter life with cryes continuing with sighes and going out with groanes This is our musicke heere heere where mirth is but apparent griefe is reall where wee eate the bread of carefulnesse Panis noster lapidosus mingling our drinke with weeping all our actions with sinning this is our diet heere heere where wee onely taste of joy but glut in sorrow we walke in happinesse but journey in calamity this is our travell heer heer where riches are but thornes honours but pinnacles and pleasures * Habet omnis hoc voluptas stimulis agit feuentes apiumque par valantum c. Boet. de Con. Dan 232. Bees that leave more sting than hony these are our treasures heer so that the world you see with all its pompe makes but up a Nebuchadnezars Image Dan. 2. though the head bee gold the breast of silver belly brasse and legges of yron yet are the feet of clay let one be honourable another rich a third beauteous a fourth nere so vigorous yet are the foundations of them all but clay and a small stone from out the sling of death does breake and liken them to dust and this the end of all things heere Now mee thinkes by this time we should be all of holy Monicas minde St. Austins pious Mother who as he tells us having thus discoursed over the frailty of the world together melted into this expression * Quantum ad me attinet nullâ re jam delector in hac vitâ Quid hîc facio lib. confess c. 10. Iob. 14 14. For mine owne part saies she I am now delighted with nothing in this world and what doe I longer heer but practise Iobs attendance So after all this colloquie of ours anatomizing the vaine world what can you finde heere worthy your affections not worthy your disdaine Quid hic facimus then what do we do heer heer in our unsatisfi'd desires our eager prosequutions treasuring for the Moath and Theefe like Spiders spending our bowels to catch Flyes Menott and as Menott saies of wily Hunters losing an Horse of price in pursuit of an Hare worth nothing heer being neither City of Strength you see nor City of Unity nor City of Rest nor City of Safety no continuing City what doe wee then heere Ixion Alexanders question grasping of a Cloud for Iuno T was a question once debated in the Court of Alexander what was the greatest thing in the world and having many about him of all Sciences a Geographer answers him the Mount Olympus that hill indeed being so vast and high as frequently is took for Heaven it selfe an Astronomer hee answered t was the Sun that world of light so * The Sun bigger than the earth 166. times according to Eustach and others Luk. 14 33. many times bigger than the earth a Parasite tells him his own victory but an honest Moralist that stood by affirmed the greatest thing in the world to be an heart that could contemne the greatest well said Philosopher answered as though he had heard Christ himselfe preach on that fourteenth of Luke Quicunque non reliquerit omnia who so forsakes not all in competition 〈◊〉 mee is not worthy of mee nor of Heaven a paire of imitable examples one of them a Heathen and shall Christians come behind such in contemning of the world and greatest things of it then let us even change names with them but let our soules aspire with Monica's that glory of 〈◊〉 sex and coppy of the other Quid hic facio what doe wee doe heer like Davia thirst for better waters Psal 42. Psal 42.1 and yet as t was with Monica unum erat c. one thing there was that made that female Saint desire a little longer continuance heer sc her sonnes conversion and to see him baptized a Christian So one thing must our soule desire of God that wee may live to see that christened baptized in the teares of penitence and then quid hic facio away to our continuing City what doe such Eagles heer when as their Carkeise is in Heaven indeed what doe wee so long looking on this Terrene-globe whose Zones are all intemperate freezing charity or scorching envy avaritious drought or riotous profusenesse whose paralels are equall cares and feares whose Circumference is vanity and Center is corruption Respicite jam Coeli Spatium definite aliquando vilia mirari Boet. l. 2. Con. Hearke how the Philosopher calls us off behold now the beauteous frame of Heaven and desist at length to admire base earthly things Transitus in 2. gen let the bodies figure be the soules tutour and a sursum oculi teach sursum corda an elevated eye an upright heart the heart to seeke that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Continuing City the eye to looke for one to come and that 's the second Generall the Coelestiall Sphoere of this same Christian-Map Wee looke for one to come And here the Christian and the Heathen Part Who haue all this while gone along together in the Non habemus They likewise vndauntedly apprehending their mortality and such as dare to hasten it Mors malorum remedium miseriarum finis Cicero Vitae prodigiosè prodigi desperate vnthrifts of their Blood onely to period their Miseries yet some of Them in generall Notions dreamt of the Soules Immortality huc Ethnici saies Lorinus In locum thus farre shined the dim
THE CHRISTIANS MAP OF THE WORLD Drawne at the solmne Funerals of Mr. Henry Chitting Esquire Chester-Herauld at Armes interred Ianuary 11. Anno Domini 1637. By EDWARD SPARKE Master in Arts and Preacher at St. Mary Islington Sic pulcherim us olìm nunc pulcherim a quòndam Fracta licèt laetabuntur The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning but the hearâ— of fooles is in the house of mirth Eccles 7 6. LONDON Printed by I. N. for RICHARD THRALE 1637. TO THE UPRIGHT PATRON both of Laws and Learning the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Coventry Baron of Aylsborough Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England and one of his Majesties most honorable Privie Councell The Felicity of both Worlds GREAT LORD THese are a Widdowes teares vouchsafe your wonted eye Elegies extorted forth by the sad Relict of Master Henry Chitting I had else no purpose thus to feed the surfeter as little desire as desert for Printing And therefore here my penne as for the most part man comes into the dangerous World first crying lamenting common frailty in a private losse indeed such blackes best suit this season of * Printed in Lent the Plague not altogether ceased in this Kingdome humiliation For though our bloody waters thanks bee to God are well abated yet still our Rachel mournes the Prophets rod still cryes unto the Citty Micah 6 9. and to the Country also both sicknesses of body and security of minds call loud enough for cautions of mortality one through the wealth and pleasures of the world perswading us of Tabernacles heer The other by the downefall of many round about us bidding us build on a more firme foundation None knowing how soone the lot of Jonah may fall upon their heads it becomes us all like Abraham to be oft sitting in the dore of our tents .i. Cogitantes de Egressu Gen. 18.1 thinking of our dissolution and more permanent provision and in this Christian-Map you have the means of both both world 's delineated compared motives and directions for the better choyce I confesse an ordinary but a needfull subject drest like a childe of sorrow and my busie charge plaine and serious without either descant or embellishment Such as it is with the Authour is your Honors prostrate Importunity brings it * Yet not to travell far but 50. printed visits but some few friends whose love J hope wil cover the Errata abroad Gratitude to your Lordship and there 's magnanimity in accepting small things as well as in conferring great your Lordship both waies known innobled I am not ignorant how that the gravest Pauls and learned Gamaliels of the times ambiat your Noble Patronage enough to argue it presumption in the younger Timothys to erect such great gates to their little Citties as your prefixed Name but that t is knowne as well 1 Tim. 4.12 your equall goodnesse tutor'd by Saint Paul countenanceth virtue in all ages and for mine owne part I confesse of all ill manners I most decline ingratitude * Qui ingratum omaia dixerit Pardon then well-affected Zaches though they clime a little to have a sight of virtue suffer us engag'd spectators to behold your brightnes as wel as to enjoy your influence stars lose not of their height or luster for the gazers meanenesse nay oft have I seene an humble Valley grace a stately Mountaine nor will a Deaths-head spoyle a Christian feast any more than those old Macedonian Banquets Yet this I serve up here Right Honorable not as a Philips Monitor I know your zeale needs no remembrancer but as the Poets congratulator Qui monet ut facias quod jamfacis c. * ipse monendo laudat hâ—â—tatu comprobat acta suo Ovid. Matth. 27.57 Your exemplary piety like that noble Arimathaean building the Sepulcher in the Garden ruminates these Novissima even in the midst of earthly happinesse and in the throng of all your stately cares finds opportunities of retird devotions mongst which at any time if a favourable eie but second the encouragement of your gracious eare these Funeralls may haply prove my studies Natalitialls and future time give the world better Testimony of his thankfulnes who in the mean while is at his prayers for your Honours Stocke and Branches Vine and Olive-plants that you may all bee happy with the dew of Heaven and fatnesse of the Earth T is the dayly appreciation of Your Lordships humble votary and unfeigned Honourer EDWARD SPARKE From your Islington Feb. 19. 1637. THE CHRISTIANS MAP OF THE WORLD Drawne at the solemne Funeralls of Mr. Henry Chitting Esquire Chester-Herauld at Armes interred Ian. 11. Anno Dom. 1637. OMNIS dies omnis hora quam nihil sumus osteudit c. Every day you see nay every houre saies Seneca shewes us what a Nothing wee are Libro dâ— brev vitae and by some fresh argument or other puts us in minde of our forgot mortality had not each Day enough of its owne griefe this could supply the rest The occasionall Preface we could now lend our neighbours teares but that I feare common calamities have already stord them stord them with such sad spectacles as lieth before us such indeed for frailenesse but seldome I thinke such for goodnesse one that 's Text enough for a discourse Acts 20 7. were it as long as Saint Pauls Sermon Act. 20. but that here double modesty prohibits Panegyricks and you know funerall Sermons are not so much to glorifie the dead as edifie the living and therefore wee will take another Text wherof yet Hee shall be the Comment while wee the Applicatours and that is written in the thirteenth Chapter of Saint Paul to the Hebrewes and the fourteenth verse Wee have heer no continuing Citty Text. Heb. 13. verse 14. but wee seeke or looke for one to come THat Wise observer of a Time for all things Eccles 3. Eccles 3. tells us of a tempus nascendi a time to be borne and tempus moriendi of a time to die but not so much as mentioneth tempus vivendi any time at all to live Man having indeed to certainty of that but passing from his proper to the common Mother from the grave of the wombe to the wombe of the grave as swift as either ship or shuttle winde or arrow like a Iob 9.25 Iobs Poast having ever one Citty to leave an other to make toward none to abide in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. For wee have heere no continuing Citty But ere we enter this same City let us look a little on the gate of it this word b The context in the particle For. For 't will bring us better acquainted with the context and as a Porter open to us the dores of this building It is particula rationalis say the Schooles For is commonly a relative particle wheresoere prefixt speaking those words a reason of precedent matter and so indeed t is heere
by hearkning after false Riches and therefore now are driven to our wants to these complaints Non habemus Wee infatuated our selves by listning after false Knowledge I that Tree of Knowledge bereft us of the Tree of Life taught us to know evill onely and left us doubly like the beasts that perish Psal 49.12 Psalme 49. both for infatuation and corruption like the beasts indeed for praecipitation unto death but not for the protraction of their life most of them running man out of breath if wee may beleeve the ſ Virgilii Epigr. de aetat animal Naturalists as specially I thinke in this particular the Crow nine times numbring out his age the Stagg foure times exceeding hers the Raven againe trebling his the Phoenix as long liv'd as all of them These and others sport and chant away whole centuries of yeares while man sits sighing over his poore handfull Psalme 39 5. Dies fecisti palmares meos Psal 39. Thou hast made my daies but a spanne long nay rather a short spanne Mine age is nothing unto thee saies David there to God that might say heere unto the beasts mine age is nothing unto these And yet it would favour but of learned Heathenisme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to chide at Nature as some have done and call her Step-mother to man and naturall to others the u Aristot in Histor Anim. Philosopher himselfe takes of that cavill affirming one day of a life of reason above an age of non-intelligence beyond all their longaevity of senfe but Divinity turnes this seeming discontent into a comfort informing us that this life properly belongs to things of sense all its chiefe blandishments treasure or pleasure being but sensuall and no otherwise than imaginarily good x The good man envies not the bruites vivacity much good may it doe them then with the length of this life that are to have none other Non equidem invideo while nobler soules of reason and religion trampling on this hasten to a better a life among their Brother-Angels in their owne Country Heaven There to measure reall felicities no more by Time but by eternity No longer then let this bee a complaint but consolation non habemus that wee have heere no continuing City Thus having brought you acquainted with the Plainteifs as wêll as with your selves consider now their wants Transition to the second particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we have not a continuing City A continuing City Wee are not heere restrained unto the Letter as spoken of materiall buildings though even in that sense also it bee true enough Mors etiam saxis obeunt Marmora Citties have their period and dissolution The litterall truth of the Text. both occasionall and naturall Some of them like goodly Troy and better Ierusalem those Phoenix-Cities of the world in successive Ages buried in fiery Tombes rak'd in their owne Ashes Others too many of them witnesse all Germany like old Roome and Carthage sackt and demolisht by the bloody hand of Warre so that you see the Emperiall Cities of the foure great Monarchies nay those Monarchies themselves all as well as * Isai 47.1 Babylon now sit in the dust and 't was but flattery in that * Livius Historian who called Rome Eterna Civitas after so many downefalls and scarce a feather now of that proud Eagle left it was not altogether a fiction the Poets describing of old Saturne their god of Time how hee devoured his children though of stone for such they feigned hee had I am sure the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is reall and calls him Tempus edax for whatsoere Time brings forth Time destroyes This I need say no more of every languishing body every nodding structure is a demonstration and had not pious care and suddaine too prevented that publick-glory of the Mother City Saint Pauls Church had preacht a non permanentem the litterall truth of the Text but happy are they who build such Tabernacles heer that are not chid by that same Prophet Haggai Haggai 1 4. 1 Is this a time for you to dwell in seiled houses and let mine House lye waste c. Yet alas how wanton now a daies is the worlds invention for superfluous building Temples are to old fashion'd the zealous y Bernard Father may still sigh Men build as though they should continue for ever and glut as though to dye to morrow which indeed they may rather feare Isai 5.8 such a woe being denounced against them Isa 5. but to avert it imitate that ecclesiasticall Centurion Luk. 7.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost hom 2. Luk. 7. and if thou needs wilt build let Saint Chrysostome be a little thy surveighour Wouldst thou erect beauteous and splendid Edifices I forbid thee not saith hee yet found them not on earth t is but an heape of sand but situate in those calme Regions that are above the breath of danger build in Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heere literally no continuing City Besides too many now a daies God knowes finde another sense to verifie the Text by reason of their tradelesse shops and fickle offices experience it a failing a discontinuing City but wee sticke not on the barke any longer Adouble synecdoche led further than the letter by a double synecdoche First Continentis pro Contento Cities heere put for the inhabitants and our want of peacefull residence shadowed under their discontinuance the Text strongly reflecting on that pilgrimage of Abraham Gen. 12. Gen. 12. City for the inhabitants Gen. 23 18. where hee is called from his owne Country and his Fathers house to divide a life between variety of strange lands and dangers so that indeed wee reade of none other setled possession that he had but Mackpelah his onely purchase a place of buriall thus it was with the Father of the Faithfull he had no continuing City Nor any thing better with the children few and evill have beene the dayes of my Pilgrimage saies old Israel Gen. Chap 49. 49. long and evill the daies of our Pilgrimage murmure the children of Israel in the wildernesse Exo. 14. That Iourney Exod 14. a true Type of the Saints way to Heaven per varios casus c. who wandred up and downe saith hee destitute and afflicted Heb. Heb. 11.37 11. Militant is the Churches name shee is an hoast upon continuall marches and removes Our habitations heere so often varied by occasions either of some losse dis-favour sicknesse or of death I need give no examples that like the traveling Common-wealth of Israel wee have rather so many-severall stations than appropriate mansions Non habemus hîc permanentem Againe Synec doche partis heere 's a Synechdoche Partis whereby this word City as the prime part and Master-peice of Earths perfection is put for the whole glory and happinesse thereof and so a City is an emblem of Strength of Unity of Rest of Safety in neither
Boetius T is better to have beene afflicted Iob. 5.17 adverse fortune more profits man than smiling starres and Iob as well as David had experienc'd it Blessed is the man saith hee the man what man thinke you the man that 's clad in purple and fares deliciously every day no that 's not hee is' t the man whom the King will honour with the Ring and Steed and royall Roabe t is not he neither what then is' t the man that hath caught this world in a purs-net and by th'omnipotence of his gold commands al the felicities that grow in Salomons walk sub Sole under the Sun no none of these but beatus a Domino castigatus blessed is the man whom God correcteth To this purpose St. S. Austins dialogue in Soliloq Austin feignes a conference twixt God and himselfe God personating a Merchant and himselfe a chapman Vaenale habeo saies God I have merchandise to sell Quid est what is it saies the holy Father wy Regnum Coelorum saies God the Kingdome of Heaven quo emitur saies Saint Austin what 's the price on t Paupertate Regnum afflictione Requies Ignominiâ Gloria For poverty saies God the richest Kingdome for momentany affliction eternall rest and for reproach a Crowne of Glory since then our light affliction which is but for a moment bringeth us a more excellent eternal weight of glory Rom. 8.18 Rom. 8. Let us not refuse the chastning of the Lord but when he sends it patiently suffer evill and thus you have the duty Seeke Seeke by doing good doe good by Charity and Prayer and Seeke by suffering evill and suffer by abstaining all intemperance and sustaining all afflictions so run and you shall obtaine thus seeke and you shall finde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the continuing City that wee looke for And t is an obiect worthy all this paines our best deservings undeserving it take but a glimpse on 't 1 Cor. 13.12 The obiect of our search for we can no more heer we see as in a glasse but darkely 1 Cor. 13. Consider the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 abstractly as a City then as a concrete One to come First you see t is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a City not a Wildernesse as is this world where we are all in Pilgrimage to the Sepulcher and behold heer a most exact 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 'twixt this same and the former City The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of this City and the former the worldly one's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 built but of clay and stubble the worke of mens hands and those that make them are like unto them of a facile dissolution but this coelestiall City is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made by Him who made the hands whose Archtectour is the Almighty these buildings therefore are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iohn 14.2 2 Cor. 5.1 Ioh. 14. the abiding mansions whereas those earthly ones are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 5. but Gourds but fleeting Tabernacles you remember tother was a City of Negatives 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neither of Strength nor Unity Rest nor Safety this of all good affirmatives wherein are all Those fixt as in their proper Sphere 1. T is a City of Strength aske St. Iohn else Reu. A City of Strength Reu. 121. 21. the foundation all of Gold the walls of Adamant and its twelve Gates of Pearle materialls of the strongest Psal 103 20. yet guarded with innumerable Angels that excell in strength Psal 103. garrisond with an Army of Martyrs and govern'd by the Lord of hoasts indeed there can want no Strength where dwells omnipotence heer then were that an opportune desire quis deducet me in Civitatem munitam Psal 60.9 who will lead me into this strong city that the Text wil if thou follow it This too is a City of Unity A City of Vnity Charitas virtus viae patriae the King of Salem's dwelling house those Starres are the embroyderies of Peaces Coate and the gay-beames of Sun and Moone but the bright smiles of Loue Tryumphant Coelum charitatis patria Heaven is the place where shee was bred Faith and Hope are low borne virtues to her 1 Cor. 13. 1 Cor. 13.8 heere they begin and heere they end But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this greater grace of love unity a stray indeed on earth take up their eternall rest in Heaven nay there were no Heaven without it Concord heer ever flowes and knowes no ebbe springing from the undivided Trinity unto the goodly fellowship of the Prophets and communion of all Saints quibus lux eadem Cantio unica who shining all with the same light of glory breath all the same incessant Halilujahs None envying others happinesse vessells all full though of their severall cises None know either want or emulation This Ierusalem is the City at unity with it selfe Psalm 122.3 A City of Safety Psal 122. Thirdly t is a City of Safety you see strengthned beyond all opposition seated above short-armed danger Altissima venti non perflant no angry storme can shake the Cedars of this Libanus or blast the Ascenders of this holy Mountaine heer only may wee cry Peace peace all safety dwelling heer no enemies being left to interrupt it Sinne and Sorrow hell and the grave all conquerd conculcata pedibus 1 Cor. 15.27 by him who hath subdued al things yet were the world let loose against them Christs little flocke need feare no ill they are in such an hand Iohn 10.28 as who shall take them from him Joh. 10. Etiamsi fractus illabatur orbis Impavidos ferient ruinae Let the world totter into its first Chaos ruine should threaten them in vaine whom God makes dwell in safety Psalm 4.8 Psalm 4. This Canaan's full of secure Vines and Fig-trees the Prophet Zachary means this City sure when he saies Men shal dwell in it and there shall be no more destruction but Ierusalem shall be safely inhabited Zech. 14.11 A City of Rest Zech. 14.11 Lastly all these speake Heaven a City of rest where there is such Strength and Love and Safety needs must there be true security I heaven is the Center of soules as is the Earth of bodies and onely there they rest there indeed being contentation adequate to the Soules capacity no further search no more desire wheras heer one * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sacri cordis humani figura quae sibi mutuo solùm sufficiant Psal 107 9. corner of the heart or other still is empty â—ulcimentum innitenti plenitudinem continenti sufficientiam Possidenti coelum praebet Heaven satisfieth the hungriest soule with goodnesse Psal 107. And yet this heavenly rest is not to bee taken as some impious Spirits only privatively as a totall cessation from all sacred businesse for in that
sense Saints have no rest in Heaven never ceasing to fall down before the Throne saith S. Ren. 4.8 Iohn never silencing their sacred anthems to the King of glory but as Philosophy saies of the Spheres sc motus iste eorvm quies This holy motion is their endlesse rest respect of al molest and wonted troubles which this world showres on them heer are they said to rest Reu. 13.14 and so saies the Spirit Reu. 13. they rest from their labours And now could but divine contemplation transport you with Saint Paul 2 Cor. 12 2. but snatch your soules awhile from out their earthly Tenements elevate them to the heaven wee speake of what glorious objects not to be revealed should you there behold there should you see felicity walke hand in hand with eternity and what this world can never shew you glory attended on by safety Serenitas sine nube Saintas sine infirmitate August de Civitat Dei iucunditas sine moerore pulchritudo sine deformitate Sapientia sine errore vita sine morte Ther 's light never clouded health never weakened pleasure unmixed with griefe or beauty with deformity a Moone with out her spots wisdome acquainted with no errour and life beyond the reach of death Deum sine fine videbimus sine fastidio amabimus sine defatigatione laudabimus as that Father sweetly warbles there shal you see th' Eternal eternally One whom all shall love without saciety and unwearied praise him continually there likewise should your eares w th equal happines baÌ„quet themselves on the true coelestial melody sweeter than that feigned of the Sphaeres sc of Halilujah-singing Saints Angels there should you find coÌ„cursuÌ„ omniuÌ„ bonoruÌ„ as t were an happy Marriage a conflux of all the Goods united so that ther 's nothing absent that you could wish present nor any thing present that you could wish absent Psal 87.3 heer then with David wee may lye down in wonder quam gloriosa de te dicta sunt what glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God! and yet like as to Sheba's Queene not the one halfe can be told you c. But yet this happines is too much for the present brevior voluptas in this life pleasure is the shorter Twinne Christiani Messis in Herba 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore as an exercise of our hope and patience t is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wee looke for one to come you see the industrious Husbandman reaps not presently but with a costly confidence many dayes weekes and moneths waites at expectation's gate Iam 5. so must wee saies Saint Iames looke for this precious seed and have long patience for it delay whets our desires and multiplieth our estimation yet may not violate the rule of patience Cicero de conso or anticipate the call of Nature like him that reading Plato's Booke of the soules immortality made himself away to hasten to it but such make more haste than good speed Christians must wrap up Davids sitio and Saint Pauls cupio in Iobs expectabo Iob. 14.14 all the dayes of mine appointed time will I wait till my change commeth and take the Apostles word for 't in due time wee shall reap if wee faint not Gal. 6 9. Gal. 6. The Mariner too that man of hopes the watery-ploughman you see endures his voyage ere he gaines his fraight yet Patience for the most part somewhat he receives before hand but his compleated payment not till hee makes his utter Porte So likewise in our passage to the true Elizium wee patiently must cut through winds and waves not looking for our entire wages till our course be finished yet in meane time 2 Cor. 1.22 wee are not without that Arra Spiritus 2 Cor. 1. the carnest of our hopes the co-assurance of Gods Spirit with ours I we have heere Heaven in the blossome the fruit not till hereafter heer the harmonious feast of a good conscience which is heaven inchoate but for the consummation futuram inquirimus wee looke for that to come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 innuit certitudinem durationem This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one to come intimates heere certitudinem durationem both the certainty and duration of this supernaturall City the certainty quia habet rationem promissi because it beares the force of a promise and so it is Heb. 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for God hath prepared them a City Heb. 11.16 the Saints then sure enough shall have it since Hee hath prepared it all whose promises are yea and Amen 2 Cor. 1. 2 Cor. 1 20. Psalme 89.3 The certainty of this City And if his word were not enough wee have his oath Juratus sum per sanctitatem I have sworne by my holinesse saith hee that I will not faile David for ever Psal 89. Et vae si Deo juranti non credamus woe bee to our infidelity if wee beleeve not the oath which hee sware in the house of his servant David that hee would give us c. indeed with faithlesse man what is to come may still be so but promise-keeping is Gods attribute David describes him by it Psa 77. that keepeth his promise for ever Psalme 77.8 His performance and his promise differ not in essence 1 Cor. 15.58 if in time and therefore as St. Paul exhorts 1 Cor. 15. Brethren bee yee steadfast and unmoveable your Hope being not in vaine in the Lord we look for one to come and that shall come wee looke for I and not onely come but ever shall continue Futuram speakes the permanence that while t is present The duration of it perpetual it shall bee still to come This Future knowes not any preter-perfect-tense yeares eating up dayes ages swallowing yeares time losing his prius and posterius nere so much past yet nere the lesse to come not like our poore joyes heere fluunt praeterfluunt no sooner flowâ—d to us almost but ebbing from us but a continuing City stord with fulnesse of joy and pleasures for evermore Psalm 16.11 Psalm 16. evermore more perennious than the glyding streame or constant Sunne I the Sunne may bee one day darkened and the Moone pay home her borrowed light 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the fixed Starres may become Planets and wander headlong from their Spheres whole Nature may so forget her office that heaven and earth may passe away at hae manebunt in aeternum but these pleasures like the right hand they wait on remaine for evermore and this is our expected City whose inhabitants you le say by better title than they of Tarsus may bee called Cittizens of no meane City Act. 21 39. Act. 21. This is the Coelestiall Sphere whose Zodiack is felicity whose Constellations are degrees of glory whose Poles Joy and Eternity And now you have the paire of Christian Globes the Map of both worlds spread before you that
soule which travels them well over this contempt of earth and search for Heaven shall make a happier voyage * Drake or Cavendish c. than those who Ring the Earth shall bee companions of a brighter Sunne without either cost or danger may discover fortunate Isles whence more then gainefull blest returnes As this experienc'd Heroê hath already in whom wee finde our Text againe with a fresh comment on 't his soule a faire example of the inquirimus A Transition to the funerall occasion being fled unto the City that wee seeke for and his body a demonstration of the Non habemus witnesse this Tenantlesse house of clay the sad remainder of our worthy friend and comparishioner Mr. Henry Chitting who is now come hither to take his ultimum vale of the world and tell his good friends that he will meet them in heaven yet hath he left us somewhat else behind him than these shella of a fledg'd soule sc memoria justi the blest memorial of the righteous which shal be had in everlasting remembrance Psa 112. I Psal 112.6 now this box of ointment's broken a sweet perfume's defused through this assembly nay through the whole place of his abode and knowledge a good name is like confections of the Apothecary faith Solomon or as musicke at a banquet of wine Eccles 7. His then most full of pleasant Odours in the Nostrills of God and man Vir verè insignis nec silendus nec dicendus subitò One so full of worth and goodnes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Silence may not bury him Suddennesse cannot expresse him I wish his bright vertues heer but such an able Herauld as himselfe was to emblazon them in their owne colours Nemo Ciceronem nisi Cicero for my own part inopem me copia I must confesse his store of merit tumultuates my expression and sorrow is so il a Methodist I scarce know where to initiate his Encomium his just commendations Iâ— Epist ad Eustoch unlesse as St. Ierom of his vertuous Paula I begin with his beginning Clarus genere Clarior virtute he was genteild by bloud and office yet more enobled by his virtue as will appeare sufficiently if you consider with mee according unto Nature and to Grace and doubtlesse all of us may by the way finde something worth our imitation his mourning friends matter of consolation First Nature you know had been no stepdame to him whether you look upon the house or the inhabitant his body or his soule one of them a goodly structure a proper mansion for so divine a guest as he was not like Galba Plutarch in his life 2 Sam. 14.25 who is said to have had a good soule in a deformed body so was he not like Absâ—lon who had an il soule within a comely body But tanto hospiti aptum domicilium He was a Diamond set in gold Nature his body and his mind like Apples of gold in pictures of silver each fitly made for other and both to praise their Maker but for that part of him which chiefly was himselfe his soule so eminently ingenious what with addition of industry and education to native dispositions as long agoe preferd him unto Royal attendance and a stile of honour He was Chester Herauld above 20. yeares Chester now lamenting her deceased Herauld as we our loving neighbour we whose every tongue is still his ready Orator acknowledging his deportment faire and full of sweetnesse composed of affection and discretion respective of superiours most affable to equalls soft unto inferiours and lowly towards all But what speake I of Naturalls Grace Grace was the Altar sanctified this gold I that made his soule shine like to the Heaven it came from with many greater and leffer lights virtues of all magnitudes lights that shined before men both in his former conversation and his latter visitation His conversation to God-ward full of reverence a practiser of publike as well as private piety a man after Davids heart that Iov'd the place where Gods honour dwelleth His Piety witnesse his diligent frecuenting of this House of prayer and I were somewhat ingratefull who had the happines to be his friend should I not acknowledge him a lover of the Church her government and Ministers and give me leave to wish the world fuller of such obedient Spirits For himselfe hee no way had defac'd that Tenement where God had housd his soule nor yet opprest the Tenant .i. was neither intemperate in body nor passionate in minde a minde gentle full of soft answeres and as the Apostle would have it slow to anger Iam. 1.19 his body a Vessell of sobriety not excesse His Temperance not washing out his Makers Image with immoderate drinking that Deluge of the Times no Sacrifiser He to any of those bruitish gods Bacchus Venus Epicurus Rom 13.13 but like a child of light walking honestly as in the day Rom. 13. And hee that was so pious and so temperate could not bee uncompassionate hee that so lov'd God whom he had not seene could not but love his brother whom he had I His Charity many poore inhabitants of this Parish for his charity call him blessed and not many weekes are past since they had a gracious tast on 't Pauper est Altare Dei Are Heb. 13.16 Hee knew the poore to bee Gods Altar and therefore to distribute forgot not but offered the well-pleasing sacrifice Heb. 13.16 Thus did a good life approve him in all the three relations to God his Neighbour and himselfe an upright Christian Act 24.16 one well versd in Saint Pauls endeavour Act. 24. To keepe in all things a good Conscience voyd of offence to God and man And these being the premises with a little Logick you may ghesse at the conclusion Qualis vita Finis ita ex veris possit nil nisi verasequi None other then a happy end could follow such a well-led life for commonly one is tothers Eccho His latter visitation was indeed short and sowre His disease supposed an Apoplexie an acute angry malady feeding on his braine yet for the Senders sake bid welcome and entertained with such unmoved patience as well deserved Iobs owne commendations in all this languishment he sinned not nor once charged God foolishly with his lips Iob. 2. Iob. 2.10 no as he was my charge so my comfort to finde him still as full of devotion as affliction a ready companion of our praiers making his tongue Gods glory and his owne as David calls it till such time as the tyranny of his disease chaind up the faculties of expression Psalm 57.8 and then reared hands and eyes spake louder the elevation of his pious heart all which petitioned the Churches comfortable absolution which being administred his soule feeling her selfe disburdened of a double weight flesh and sinne soone after took her blessed flight to Heaven where is no more Death or sicknesse but all teares wipt away to give your imitation then a Charecter of him The Character of him in a word Hee was a zealous Christian a faithfull Friend a comfortable Neighbour a loving Husband a tender Father an affectionate Brother a gentle Master a sweet Companion indeed living hee was a Common good and therfore now a common losse Yet this may comfort his lamenting friends that though his body is gone the way of all flesh yet his soule the way of all the Saints his Time 's extended to eternity his company for sinnefull men the goodly fellowship of the Prophets His exchange Saints and Angels and in stead heere of beholding vanity any longer hee lookes upon the face of God himselfe which none can see and not bee blessed thus to him to dye is gaine Claudite jam rivos because to live was Christ Then shut your sluces all that lov'd him and seeme not to bowayle his happinesse doe not Reguantem flere as Saint Ierome forbids Eustochium doe not you bedew your eyes because God hath wip'd all teares from his Mortui non amissised praemissi sancti Planctus ululatus sint inter saeculi homines Let such immoderate griefe bee among hopelesse men that thinke their friends lost and gone to a place of weeping 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And though in such cases wee must permit you to bee men yet forget not to bee Christians Doleamus nostram vicem as our Saviour to the Women weepe not for him blest soule but for your selves for envie that your selves are not so happy In Epist ad Eustoch Non maereamus qaod talem amissimus sed potiùs gratias agamus quod habuimus imo quod habemus sweetly Saint Ierom Let us not mourne as for one lost rather bee thankefull that wee have had so good a patterne nay that wee still have him saies the Father Deo enim vivunt omnia For all still live in God yea though they dye and whomsoever hee thus takes unto himselfe are still within the Family of the Church Heare his last Farewell now Valete omnes omnes Me suo quisquis Ordine His Vltimum Vale. secuturi Valete Farewell my friends Brothermortalls fare you well that shortly each in his owne order all must follow mee Follow him then first in goodnesse fight the good fight keepe the Faith Finish so your course as hee did and henceforth is laid up for you what hee hath now received a Crowne of Righteousnesse Though you goe along with him in the Non habemus having heere no continuing City you shall also accompany him in the Futuram acquirimus the finding one to come Which God the Builder and Maker of it grant us all in his good time thorough Iesus Christ To whom with the Father and the Blessed Spirit bee all honour and Thankesgivings evermore Amen Tibi desinet FINIS Perlegi concionem hanc Funebrem cui titulus est The Christians Map eamque typis mandari permitto SA BAKER ex aedib Londinens Martii 3. 1637.