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B05977	The map of the little world, illuminated with religion being a practical treatise, directing man to a religious scope, and right measure, in all the periods of his life; with devotion suitable. To which is added an appendix, containing a gospel ministers legacie, in some sermons, upon 2 Pet. 1. 12, &c. / By Patrick Strachan minister of the gospel at St. Vigeans.	Strachan, Patrick, fl. 1693.	1693 (1693)	Wing S5775A; ESTC R184656	117,746	314

is the Faith of the Church the hope of the Just the comfort of the aflicted and the great Crise and Result of of mortal Life Which will determine all the Intriges of Providence and destribute Rewards and Punishments according to their Works The●e is a princip●e and facultie in every Man which makes him accountable to GOD. This as it is an Article of our Creed so the Scripture fully determines it Ecc. 12 14. Matt 25. Acts 17. 30. 2 Cor 5. 10. GOD will be publickly manifested in His H●liness and Justice the Equity and Reasonableness of His Laws and severity against sin Who will not acquite thy guilty And the monuments of Grace will s●e their Demerit had not the Merit of Christ prevented the pun●shment Fixe then this Truth in thine heart and constantly apprehend ●●th an Ancient Father that thou hearest 〈◊〉 S●u●d●ngs of the last Trump with ●he Voice of GOD Arise Dead and come te Judgement § 3. 2ly That this Judgement in a part commenceth immediatly after Death is ass●rted by the Apostle Heb 9. 27. The Saints of old have ●nherited the Promises The Convert Thief immediately after was judged and entered Paradise and the rich Glutton got his Doom and after his death was set to the place of Torment But the open visible and general Assize of the whole World is delayed to the time of the Restitution of all things When and where Soul and Body Good bad Young and Old without Law and under Law will be judged According to their Works and tho in the Apostles times some were ●hanatick said that the Resurrection was past some Atheitical scoffers as St. Peter sayeth Impio●sly Rag●ing and ●corning where is the promiss of his coming not knowing that God worketh hitherto hath great patience in whose Eternal View a Thousand years are but as one day yet when his works is done all the World will be judged which day and Hour GOD hath keept secret in his Eternal Council 〈◊〉 good and holy ends And there somethings yet unaccomplished before 〈◊〉 end to wit the full conversion of the Je● Rom. 11. 26 and the discoverie of 〈◊〉 declension of the Christian Church 〈◊〉 exposing of that man of sin and son Perdition The pure Gospel becom 〈◊〉 divive and the Christian Church be mu● liberated from the great Corruption 〈◊〉 manners and worship according to 〈◊〉 Primitive Patern When these shall come● pass and not till then shall the end 〈◊〉 In the mean time let us p●ssess our sel● with the Belief of This truth that all 〈◊〉 nerations shall be judged before the T●●bunal of the Soveraign Judge ss 4. 3ly The Judge GOD hath co●mitted all Judgement to the Son A●● hath appointed a day in which he will Judge 〈◊〉 world in Righteousness by him Acts. 17. 3● We must all appear before the judgement sea● 〈◊〉 CHRIST 2 ●or 5. 10. When the Son 〈◊〉 Man shal appear in his Glory Matt. 25. 3●● And in this he Exerciseth his medi●torial Kingdom which will continue t●● the last Enemie be distroyed which 〈◊〉 Death He declined to be a Judge on ●arth but came to be Judged and it is ●ighly reasonable that he who was un●ustly judged should judge the World in Righteousness Then shall they who have ●earced him by their sins mourn and ●owl But His afflicted people shall lift up ●heir head and say This is the Day that ●he LORD hath made Blessed is He who com●th to save us For our LORD and King●o whom the Godly have submited in ●heir time whose Scepter Cross they wil●ingly have born is now come to deliver ●hem He that bore our sins on His own Body on the Tree He that is a Compa●sionate High Priest He that is the King of Peace is now come to Judge them according to the Gospel of Peace and His easie Yoak which they did take upon them and walkt under What then shall such expect but Love and Peace and Pity from their LORD King and Brother Who is much Meeker than Moses more Loving than David and more Merciful than Man can be Whereas it shall be a great dreadour to the wicked to behold this Meek LAMB roa● like a Lyon against them § 5. 4ly The Process We cannot coneeive how soon and yet how exactly this-shall be done since every ones Conscience is in the place of a Thousand Witnesses and the Judge needeth no Information nor farther probation Every one then will be Judged according to that Law which was Given them to walk by And such as are under the Gospel shall be Judged by the Law of libertie Jam 1. 25. And the Issue will be whether they have obeyed or disobeyed the Gospel and walked suitably thereunto and answered the opurtunities they have enjoyed above o● thers to make them Christians indeed And fit for the Kingdom of GOD. ss 6. 5ly The Sentence will be accord to thy works tho thou be justified by Faith and saved by Grace yet the LORD will reward according to thy works For to the true Christian there is a wonderful mitigation of the Rigor of the Law by the easie terms of the Gospel and such shal receive sentence according to that Infinite Love revealed therein then shal the great sheepherd appear in Glorie yet probably with the Honourable marks of the Cross that all who have gloried in Hi● Cross may rejoice such as have stumbled at ●t hang their heads The Sentence shall decide in favours of Believers and all who have Closed with the conditions of the Gospel and Obe●ed the Faith 1. 5. Which is the great specifick of Christanity Such may appear before him with his marks upon them of Faith Mortification and Self-denyal c. And that in their time they have born Testimony against a sinful Generation they shall receive that favourable sentence Come ye Blessed c. The Prayer O Soveraign Judge prepare me for Death and Judgement It is much my comfort that thou art Judge Competent and Compassionate Thou wilt not acquite the Guilty yet Thou delights in mercy and there is forgiveness with Thee that Thou may be feared LORD give me my discharge in time for Who can condemn CHRIST has dyed I make my humble application to the Mercies of Thy Infinite Bowels the Merit of Thy Death the worth of thy Blood and the Power of Thy Intercession I have many Accusers am convict But LORD say to me that thou will not condemn me Thou knows all the Intrigs of my Soul What I cannot clear LORD do Thou cancell I make Mercy my claim Thy Merit my Trust and Thy Righteousnes● my Justification Give me the White stone to refresh my Soul till Thou grant me the Crown o● Righteousness at Thy Appearing Amen The Third Last Thing HELL 1. TO treat of Hell is a sad Subject Tophet should have a Beaco● set over it that Passangers may be aware Let us then consider 1 The Certainty of a future punishment of the Wicked in another World and

Art of Mortification For If ye live after the flesh ye shall die But if through the Spirit ye mortifie the deeds of the Body ye shall live Rom 8. 13. And if thou seek a proof of this Growth thy strength the show of thy Countenance thy Diligence a constant use of the Means will discover it It will also serve much to thy good carriage to suit the dispensation of the Wise Providence of GOD For every Dispensation hath a Voice and the Rod is teaching and no affliction springeth out of the Dust Carry even in prosperity and stedfast in Adversity let Humility guide the first and Patience the second Know with St. Paul how to 〈◊〉 exalted and how to be abased bewa●● of tumor and leanness behold the em●●tiness of the Creature and the Satisfaction of Grace follow thy Saviour as we●● to Calvary a● to Mount Tabor and keep closs with Him in searching Winter 〈◊〉 well as in pleasant Summer 4ly L●● well that thou have not a name only of Religio●● but that thou be fixed well in a Course of Pie●● For Inconstancy is not only Un-christian● but Unmanly Yet it is feign'd by some● that it being banished from Heaven sought a place of Residence in some lower Regions and could not find any No● not in the very mutable Planet of th● Moon because it orderly keeps its Cour●● of Chang and Height Then it seeks 〈◊〉 place in the Earth but can find none for the Seasons have their Periods and the very Beasts have their appointed times But at length it invades the Heart of Man So some change their GOD change their Religion change their Calling and become in short time so unlike themselves that thou may think they had come from another Soil and transfused into themselves the nature of a Camelion to change with every Colour But it is very unsuitable to Religion and below Humane Nature to be a Weathercock It is for want of Ballast and good Government that Shipwrack is made either of Faith or good Conscience But learn O Man to be solid in thy Generation and say with the Psalmist My Heart is fixed my Heart is fixed Psal 108. 1. Be constant in the Exercise of thy general and particular Calling manure thy Talent least thou spleet upon the snares of Poverty which the Prophet Agur deprecateth Prov 30. 8. § 2. This being a very pregnant Stage of thy Life thou shall therefore make use of all approved Means and Motives to manage it well And as to the Means they may be Reduced to these heads following First Wisdom 2ly Prudence 3ly Providence 4ly Government 5ly Improvement First WISDOM § 3. This will prove an Excellent Mean to guide our Heart and Life It is the Mistriss of our Mind and the Eye of our Life Wisdom is the principal thing therefore with all Getting get Wisdom Dig for it as for a Treasure it will Illuminate and Enrich thy Life i● hath right Tast of Things Sapientia a sapore● is the great gust of our Reason and ●●ligion it makes a Man take right m●●sures and cast right Account and nu●●ber well Whereof Solomon gives a h●● in taking his measures of Men and W●●men Ecc 7. to the end If thou we●● so wise as to reckon every day it wou●● give great Light to thy Life It is 〈◊〉 Gift of GOD to be sought of Him 〈◊〉 the chief Blessing as Solomon did And 〈◊〉 thou listen to His Counsel it is the ●●ginning of Wisdom to fear GOD and 〈◊〉 depart from iniquity Job 28. to the 〈◊〉 It makes thee walk accurately and 〈◊〉 lowsly as a fool it makes thee wise 〈◊〉 Salvation it gives thee a s●ore of Oyl●● thy Lamps with the wise Virgins 〈◊〉 makes thee simple to do evll and 〈◊〉 to do Good it is the streight Line of 〈◊〉 Life and the excellent guide of thy 〈◊〉 Who then is a wise Man let him sh●● it forth in a good Conversation wi●● Meekness and Wisdom Secondly PRUDENCE § 4. And Prudence is the Product a●● Practice of Wisdom it lets not thy W●●dom lurk and sweem in Speculation But 〈◊〉 puts it to action it makes the Man pro●ident and frugal it gives him a holy ●ubtility to foresee and forecast dangers ●nd choice the proper means to accomplish his ends it makes him know when to scatter and when to gather and in fine to order his affairs with Discretion Thirdly PROVIDENCE § 5 Providence is near of kin● to Prudence and the very exercise of it the only Wise GOD showeth his Wisdom in His Providence and ordereth the World with excellent Judgement so should every wise Man learn to order the little World which is himself and this Providence consists well with thy Trust in the Care of thy Heavenly Father it makes the Man a good Stewart of his time and Talents it makes thee better than an Infidel to provide for thy family and elevates thee above the Brute to care for thy Soul and provide for Eternity It gives thee some setlement in an uncertain World It makes thee to be carefull for nothing but by Prayer to make thy Request known to GOD Phil 4 6. Fourthly GOVERNMENT § 6. This yet helps thee to a more active life without which thou art like City without Senators and Walls Wa●● of Government puts people in a tumu●● but the Government of t●y prince mak●● thee peaceful and steddy it makes thee rule thy heart thy passions and thy lips by the purest policy and thy family by the best Oeconomy it so ordereth the house that such as go by or come in may not call it the house of a sluggard For here GOD gets his Rent every member therein gets its due and the head 〈◊〉 not to the hand or foot I have no need of thee and every Organ keeps its place So every one in his Calling abides with GOD. Fiftly IMPROVEMENT § 7. This is the right use of the talent 〈◊〉 is it laid up in a napkin nor God thought to be a hard Master but a GOD that love and prospers the diligent it makes thee improve thy time and occasions that thou mayest have something to render to GOD and something to render to others and to keep for thy self § 8. And if thou carry on all these with Humility and Gratitude thou does well and it will help to put thee amongst the LORDS Jewels For To him that ordereth his Conversation aright I will show the Salvation of GOD Psal 50. 23. Secondly The MOTIVES § 9. And to press this more home in this pregnant Stage of thy Life 1. Frugality and Vertue and a Course of Religion in thy setled State and Calling doth so much approve it self and thee that sober Men cannot but commend thee For let us phansie two sort of Men upon the Stage there behold their Mean and Air and hear the legend of their Life One looks very demurr but very bare like and perhaps you shall hear him talk of his pedegree and his Relation

Christ in thy arm● but in thy heart The Prayer LORD Help thy servant and all such 〈◊〉 thou art pleased to bless with a long life 〈◊〉 attain unto that pitch of puritie and preparati●● as may make us ripe Fruit to GOD that 〈◊〉 may come to the Grave in Good old age a●● Shock of Corn in full maturity give us by t●● Grace under the Burden of old age that 〈◊〉 may be unburdened of the body of sin and dea●● that after all the travels of our life We may r●● our Ark under the Pavilion of Thy Etern●● Majesty Amen STAGE Second OF The Quatuor Norissima or feur Last things and how Man is to improve himself in the Consideration of th●se § 1. IT is a great Mercy while we last and endu●e that the last things be minded For the longest Day will come to an Even and these last things are so new that they never change except that the last Enemy Death will be destro●ed 1 Cor 15. 26. It suits well then with a Christian to be well setled as to these Tria sunt omnia said some of the Philosophers but four things are necessary sayeth the Scripture and it is the Vnum N●●ssarium The one thing needfull to know the●e practically for what more certain than D●ath What mo●e searching than Judgement W●a● more dreadfull than Hell And what m●re comfortable than Heaven Take then a View of them for thy Christian pr●fi● Of Death § 2. All the World sp●ak of Death but I know not by what a pleasant yet a●e unhappy Charm few seriously lay it to heart Betwixt our Birth our Dea●● there is but a thought or an instant it 〈◊〉 happy then to awake and go to the House● mourning and see the end of all things Ecc. 7. 〈◊〉 All things dye Empires and Kingdo● decay the four Monarchies are out of D●● The whole Creation groaneth Rom 8. 22. T●● Universe is but an Universal hospital 〈◊〉 Grave a common Mother where the gre●●est Potentats lay down their power a●● crowns and all Mankind put of their gl●ry for Dust we are and to Dust must we ret●●● All have sinned all must dye ss 3. I shall only mention this comm●● Theme that it may be practically i●proved by a short discourse of Dea●● an● a right preparation for it ss 4. First in discoursing of Dea●● thou art to consider what it is 2ly 〈◊〉 it is 3ly How it is 4ly When it is 〈◊〉 Its sting and strength 6ly The victory ●ver ss 5. What it is Altho there be nothi●● more obvious than Death yet would 〈◊〉 require one from the dead to inform t●● World of it but Abel y●t speaketh a●● CHRIST cryes by his Word and Spiri● that Death is the Term of thy Tempora● ●ife the dissolution of thy earthly Ta●ernacle and a separation of the Soul ●om the Body It is a long sleep it makes strange Change upon Man it turns the 〈◊〉 House to Rubbish it sets thee off ●e Stage of time to the darker Regions ●f the dead it layeth strength Beauty ●ortune and all the commodities of life ●n the dust it destroyes Nature and thô its Conquest be but over Dust yet this King ●f Terrors Reigneth till the Resurrection § 6. 2ly Why it is All have sinned all ●ust die In the day thou eatest thereof thou shall ●urely die By one Man sin entered into the World and Death by sin The Vltimus Conatus and ●last effort of Death is to dissolve nature Soul and Bodie must sunder The Body sleep and be Refined in the Dust till the last Trump § 7. 3ly How it is The way and manner of Death is dark it comes either by nature or by accident It hovers over our heads like an Eagle in the Air It is like a ship in the Sea whose footsteps are not known It lurks as a Serpent under the Herb And the more hidden the more dangerous it kills us as a Basalisk when we see it not It kills many with pleasure as it hath been observed Plures pereunt G●● qvam Gladio It besets us before and behi●● so that it is good to have our Wits● bout us § 8. 4ly When it is In the beginning● progress and end of our Race When 〈◊〉 ver thou begins to Live thou Dies an● thy Breath is within thy Nostirles And Death hath smitten the Cedar an● the Grass the Good and Bad the Rid● and Poor in divers manners and very un● expectedly to many it comes as a Thi●● by Night and taketh our earthly house by surprize and although in gene●al th● Term of our Life be d●t●rmin'd by GOD Job 7. 1 Yet are there so many incident Tryals and exercises that Man being ●eft to the freedom of his own will by unlu●kie adventures makes his own Diet of Dying tho so sore against his will when it comes so the wicked is said to die before their time and in the midst of their dayes § 9 5ly The strength and sting of Death Death hath a great strength for no man can see it and live and that which imbi●ters it is sin If thou therefore inortifie sin thou plays upon the hole of the A●p and needs not fea● the Sting of the S●●pent It is only sin that makes Death dreadfull for it poisons its dart and makes it bitter to the U●sanctified But CHRISTs Death sweetens all its Acerbities to the Godly and makes them say with Our Saviour The Cup that is given us of GOD shall we not Drink § 10. 6ly The victory over it There is no Cure of Death But in the Prince of Life if we ●ie with Him we shall Live with him We live in our Head and it is he that can say O Death I●e be thy Death There is no Herb on Earth that can cure Death but there is a Tree of Life in Heaven and to such as apply this arig●t Death is but a passage to Life and because Christ Lives such shall Live also Secondly THE CONSIDERATION OF DEATH REDVCED TO PRACTICE § 11. It is Excelently well observed by Dr. Taylor that the Scripture acquaints us with one only Way to Die well which is to Live well Which generally holds of all them that have the Use of Reason and of the Means of Grace so that Instance of the Convert Theif doth rather extol the wonderful Love and Merit of our Dying Lord than give any exception against the general Rule For al●●hough such as have lived bad lives may dye with a sort of Peace Yet t●● is no peace sayeth my GOD to the wicked a●● it is only the Upright and the Perfect Ma● Whose latter end is Peace But This new Life● not to be measured by dayly Excursio● of Temptation but from an habitu●● Course of sincere Obedience Since righ● preparation for death consists in a Hol● Life and a dayly dying to sin and 〈◊〉 Life being but a Vapour as St. James sayeth It is sad to let it Evaporate in sin and folly● It is good then