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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

not returne againe Their substance they have left unto others and strangers are become their Heires They are rooted out from the face of the earth and now they consider the vanity of their desires how they who lay land to land while they were here find now what a small scantling has suffic'd them in this their returne to their last home Poore shell of corruption what dost thou thinke of these things I know well that great revenues swelling honours smiling pleasures are dangerous and fearefull eye-sores to a dying man He lookes back upon his Honours and askes of them if they cannot relieve him but like false hearted Reteiners they fly from him and present their service to another so quickly have they forgot their dying Master Hee looks backe then upon his Revenues those household Gods of his his inchisted treasures and askes of them if they cannot redeeme them But alas they have no such power these reserve themselves for his prodigall Successour or succeeding Rioter they were so poorly used and employed by him as they have quickly forgot their dying Master At last he looks back upon his pleasures unhappy pleasures which now torment him more then ever they did delight him and he askes them if they can allay his paine or any way succour him but alas they soone leave him for they find nothing in him nor about him that may entertaine them An easie farewell then have these taken of their dying Master But thou poore Pilgrim hast no honours to transport thee no fortunes to detaine thee no pleasures to ensnare thee For the first the count'nance of greatnesse never shone upon thee for the second worldly wealth could never yet so burden thee and for the last though thy youth might affect them the infirmities of age have now estrang'd them from thee And yet the voyce of death is more terrible to thee then the noise of a Canon No note more dolefull no summons more fearefull And in this thou art not much to bee blamed for Death is fearefull to all flesh But so to plaint thine hopes on Earth as if thou mightst never goe from earth nor returne to earth albeit thou canst find nothing on earth worthy to entertaine thee is the unhappiest condition that may befall thee O thinke then of that time even now while thou hast time when thy soule poor languishin soule finding thy eyes shut thy mouth closed and all those senses of thy body perished by which shee used to goe forth and be delighted in these outward things whereto shee was affected shall returne unto her selfe and seeing her selfe all alone and naked as one afflicted and affrighted with exceeding horror shall through despaire faile in her selfe and fall under her selfe O whither wilt thou fly in hope of succour to comfort thy poore soule in a time of such danger Even to thee will I fly O God of my salvation for thou wilt not suffer my soule to descend to corruption Nay such is thy loving kindnesse as thou wilt make my bed in my sicknesse And because nothing is more certaine then death nothing more uncertaine then the houre of Death prepare mee continually against the houre of Death And that Death may appeare lesse fearefull unto mee send thy Holy Spirit to comfort me that being inwardly armed by thee against the assaults of Death and fury of my Ghostly Enemy I may fight a good fight and cry O Death where is thy sting O Hell where is thy victory CHAP. 67. Iudgement VVOe is mee I tremble to thinke of it and yet I cannot thinke how to avoid it Iudged I must bee and who will speake for me A fearfull witnesse I have within me to accuse me sinnes of omission sinnes of Commission to impeach me sinnes of ignorance sinnes of knowledge sinnes of malice to convict mee though one were sufficient to condemne mee But thou wilt aske mee of what art thou to bee brought to account for what art thou to be brought to Iudgement Even for all thy thoughts words and workes For God will bring every worke into Iudgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evill And that it may appeare that thou shalt be accountable for all these first touching thy thoughts Of these thou shalt be judged for froward thoughts separate from God And hee shall judge the secrets of men With their conscience also bearing witnesse and their thoughts the meane while accusing or else excusing one another Secondly thou shalt give account of all thy words Of every idle word that men shall speake they shall give account in the day of Iudgement Thirdly thou shalt be accountable for all thy workes For we must all appeare before the Iudgement seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad O my poore afflicted Soule canst thou heare these things and not melt thy selfe into teares seeing that not onely in the bed of thy sicknesse by a secret divine power all those workes which thou hast done be they good or evill shall appeare before thee and be presented to thee but in that fearefull day of Account when all flesh shall come to Iudgement all these in Capitall Letters shall appeare written before thee Not one privie bosome sinne were it never so closely committed or subtilly covered or cunningly carried but must bee there discovered Adam shall bee brought from his bushes and Sarah from behind the doore and man miserably perplexed man shall say to his conscience as Ahab said to Elias Hast thou found me O mine Enemy O what numberlesse numbers of Bils of Inditement shall bee then and there preferred against thee And of all these to be found guilty O how art thou falne into the gall of bitternesse and all misery For what can the thoughts and Imaginations of thine heart say for themselves but that they have beene evill continually what can the words of thy mouth say for themselves but that they have beene full of all filthinesse and scurrility Lastly what can the workes of thine hands say for themselves but that they have beene loaden with transgressions and iniquity But perchance thou hast some hope of a pardon and so like some of our deluded Delinquents here on earth by flattering thy selfe with a vaine hope of life estrangest thy thoughts from thinking of a better life But doe not so deceive thy selfe for if it be not by faithfull repentance sought for here there is no hope for any pardon there to bee procured nor for any Appeale to be there admitted nor for one minutes Repreve to bee there granted nor for that heavy sentence of Death to be one moment adjourned That sentence of eternall Death Depart from me this shall bee the sentence To lose whose countenance and to Depart from his presence is to bring thy soule into endlesse torments eternall anguish O my God thou who hast appointed

reteiner but a back-sliding follower Nay I deserve martiall Law for I have fled from thy Colours and become a Confederate with thy Enemies yet deare Lord behold my teares for thou accountest them pretious when they are offer'd by a Contrite heart O doe not leave mee for my Soule longeth after thee even as in a dry ground where no water is so has shee thirsted after thee And now Lord that I may present my selfe before thee with more humility I will ever set my imperfections before mee remembring what good I have omitted when I had opportunity to doe it againe what evill I have committed when the remembrance of thy mercy might have declin'd me frō it Amongst which let me now call to mind those Blessings thy gratious goodnesse ha's pronounced to every faithfull follower and then examin my selfe whether I deserve or no to be listed in that number CHAP. 40. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdome of Heaven HVmility is the Path that leadeth to glory There is no vertue that can subsist without it This may be one reason why the very first Beatitude is grounded on it But what are we to learne from hence Not to be high-minded but of an humble and meeke Spirit In suffering dishonour for the honour of our Saviour In possessing our Soules with patience In mitigating wrath with mildnesse In relinquishing himselfe in preferring others before himselfe In judging well of others but worst of himselfe In wishing unto others as to himselfe In rejoycing in nothing but in the Crosse of Christ yet unfainedly suffering with those who suffer for Christ Now return and accompt proud Pilgrim whether there appeare any tokens of this poor spirit in thee Hast thou not ever reteined a good opinion of thine owne worthlesse worth Hast thou not beene of a Contentious spirit Hast thou not answered reproach with reproach Hast thou not beene more ready in defending thine owne honour then advancing the honour of thy Saviour Hast thou not beene so farre from possessing thy Soule in patience as thou couldst not endure the least affront without much violence Hast thou with saft words mitigated wrath Nay hast thou never suffered the Sunne to set upon thy wrath Hast thou in an humble contempt of thy selfe preferred others before thy selfe Nay rather hast thou not with the Spirit of contradiction opposed thy judgment against others and out of a foolish presumption made an Idol of thy selfe Hast thou in the Scale of Charity preferred others before thy selfe or rather hast thou not rashly judged others in thine heart and in thy soo strict examination of him concluded with that proud Pharisee I am not as this man is In a word hast thou judged well of others but worst of thy selfe or wished unto others as to thy selfe or rejoyced like a faithfull Champion in the Crosse of Christ or like a compassionate Member suffered with those who suffer for Christ O no nothing lesse can I finde in my selfe unhappy Pilgrim I have ever held a poor spirit in contempt and an unfit Companion to take acquaintance of in this World How then deare Saviour may I expect an inheritance in the Kingdome of Heaven who am so farre estranged from a mild Spirit on Earth O my Lord incline thine Ear to my petition 〈◊〉 a right spirit within mee so shall I be endowed with what delighteth thee by accounting a meek spirit a spirituall beauty and after this life through thy mercy become inheritour of that Kingdome which thou hast prepared for those that love thee CHAP. 41. Blessed are the meeke for they shall possesse the Earth HEre is a promise that the meeke shall possesse the earth and yet is it hard to find a spirit truly meeke upon the Earth By which thou maist gather poor Pilgrim that there is another Earth besides this Earth wee here tread on which shall bee given for a possession to the meeke That desired Earth prepared onely for such who have wained their desires from earth This is a Land which floweth with better things then Milke and Honey An heavenly Havilah where the purest Gold is to be found nay where the very Streetes are Paved with Gold the Walls are of pretious Stones the Gates are made of the best Margarites those many Mansions founded of square stones built of Saphires arched over with golden Bricks which none must enter but he that is cleane none must inhabit that is defiled Where then must thy possession be in this Land of promise what Mansion maist thou expect in this Holy City Woe is mee I am uncleane I am uncleane from head to foot there is nothing in me but boyles sores and runnings How may I then looke there to receive any Mansion seeing to a Cleane Lord is required a cleane Habitation How may I thinke that my Master will looke on mee who all my life time have observed least what hee commanded most practised nothing more then what he prohibited neglected nothing more then what hee commanded How may I expect from his hands a blessing or this promised possession of that earth who never shewed so much as the least meeknesse upon earth Yet did that meeke Lambe who became an offering for me leave such a patterne unto mee that if I were not wholly unmindfull of my soules honour nor wholly forgetfull of the love of such a Master I could not chuse but after his example become his meeke and obedient Follower For his whole life was a Mirror of meeknesse seeing from the Cratch to the Crosse he suffered all things patiently beare all reproaches meekely to reach unto thee from the tree of his Crosse a Crowne of glory O my Redeemer imprint this meeknesse of thine in my memory let it never depart from me put a meeke and mild answer into my mouth when any one shall revile me Let me referre my cause unto thee and that with such Christian Charity as I may sincerely pray for mine Enemy and in meekenesse of spirit to imitate the example of that meeke Lambe who with so resigned a will became a Sacrifice for mee CHAP. 42. Blessed are they that mourne for they shall be comforted THat wise Preacher could say It was better going to the House of mourning then to the house of rejoycing And yet how little did this admonition worke upon thy thoughts How pleasant have those Consorts of death those Brethren in evill seem'd unto thee How merrily the houre went away Nothing was wanting to make your delights more complete but that you wanted time to make your follies more complete Full cups merry Songs prophane Oathes were the onely Actors that presented themselves in this expence of time A long night soone past over but not so easily accounted for But tell me thou misguided Pilgrim were 't thou as quick in thy visits to the house of mourning didst thou labour to comfort the comfortlesse Didst thou mourne with those that mourn'd or with a tender Christian heart

thou beleevest and tremblest and reason thou hast to tremble for how shalt thou be able to stand in his presence before whom even the heavens are uncleane O when the righteous shall scarcely be saved what wil become of the wicked when the axe of his judgement shall not spare the greene tree what will become of the dry O nothing but woe woe may befall thee miserable delinquent if hee deale not with thee in mercy but in judgement I believe in the Holy Ghost This ninth Article Saint Iames the lesse delivered And thou art taught to believe thus much by it that the Holy Ghost the third person in the blessed Trinity is the Spirit of comfort truth and unity without which it is impossible to please God For as hee promised unto his Apostles a Comforter so in the shape of a Dove and in the forme of cloven tongues there appeared unto them this promised Comforter But how is it that thou beleevest in the Holy Ghost and yet with thine hardnesse of heart and loosenesse of life grievest the Holy Spirit of God Thus to beleeve if thou be not penitent will rather bee a meanes to draw on thee then remove from thee Gods heavy judgement The holy Catholike Church This tenth Article of faith Saint Simon founded But how dost thou beleeve the holy Catholike Church or how is thy faith grounded if thou observe not what the Church has commanded How canst thou bee a Member of her so long as thou livest divided from her Or how canst thou truly call her Mother so long as thou hearknest not to her commands but becommest disobedient to her O then by a right faith knit thy selfe unto her or else disclaime thy being a Member of her But looke unto it for God thou canst not have for thy Father unlesse thou have his Church for thy Mother Neither canst thou ever hope to bee a Citizen in his Church triumphant unlesse thou bee first a Member of his Church Militant The Communion of Saints the forgivenesse of sinnes To this eleventh Article is Saint Iudas Thadaeus intitled And this Communion of Saints thou beleevest and for the forgivenesse of sinnes thou lookest And yet thou livest not as if thou desired to bee of this Communion Neither rendrest thou any such fruits of repentance as may cherish in thee the least hope of Remission The Resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen With this last Article Saint Mathias closeth our Creed And by it thou beleevest that thy body shall rise againe from the dust and that thy soule shall live with the just But hast thou not fed thy Body too delicately to rise againe to glory Hast thou not taken too much pleasure in sinning ever to enjoy life everlasting O thou blessed Trinity in unity and Vnity in Trinity thus have I made a confession of my Faith unto thee but my many faintings failings wants weaknesses and imperfections greatly discourage mee unlesse thou in thy mercy strengthen me I beleeve Lord O helpe my unbeleefe Give mee the shield of faith that here on earth I may acquit my selfe like a valiant Champion and in Heaven be made by thee a triumphant Citizen CHAP. 65. Having thus examined himselfe and found in the whole course of his life a fainting in faith and failing in Works He recalleth to mind those Quatuor Novissima or foure last Remembrances Memorials hourely necessary for all Christians THus hast thou laid thy selfe open to all discovery and there is no good thing to bee found in thee For in thy faith thou hast found a fainting and weaknesse and in all thy workes a failing and barrennesse Most freely went that blessed Father to worke and no lesse dangerous has beene thy walke when hee confessed himselfe in this sort Iinherit sin from my father an excuse from my mother lying from the Devill folly from the world selfe-conceit from the pride and arrogant opinion of my selfe Deceitfull have beene the imaginations of thine heart crooked have beene thy wayes malicious thy workes And yet hast thou taken the judgements of God in thy mouth Desiring nothing more then to blind the eye of the world with a counterfeit zeale But all such Hypocrites God will judge Hee will not be mocked with For as the Divell has his sive with which hee lets goe the good but keepeth the bad So the Lord has his Fanne by which he lets goe the bad and keepeth the good O when hee shall separate his goats from his sheepe his wheat from his tares when the Iust and the Wicked shall appeare before him and every man shall be put into the ballance O I feare mee then thou wilt bee found many graines too light It were well for thee then to prepare thy selfe against that great and fearefull day And to furnish thee all the better by making thee a true Convert of an impenitent Sinner recall to mind those Quatuor Novissima or Foure last Remembrances Memorials hourely to bee thought and so necessary to be reteined in thy memory as the Christian use of them may prepare thee before Death summon thee and in this vale of misery fit thee for thine heavenly voyage to eternity And yet while I speake thus unto thee I find thy condition to be wofull for if thou consider them the very thought of them cannot chuse but startle thee and if thou neglect them thou wilt stand in amaze when they encounter thee O my deare Lord remember me in thy mercy and so prepare my memory that these Foure necessary Remembrances may never depart from me Let mee be prepared for Death before it come that it may never take mee unprepared whensoever it shall come Let mee thinke of that fearefull day of Iudgement and judge my selfe before I be judged that J may not be found light in thy scale when I shall be weighed Let me O let me thinke how there is an Hell for the damned for better is it by timely fearing it to avoid it then by never dreaming of it head-long to fall into it Lastly let mee thinke of Heaven how it is the place of the Blessed and that none but those that are of a cleane heart shall dwell in it O cleanse thou mine heart that I may bee prepared for it and with much spirituall joy be received in it CHAP. 66. Death IT is strange that Death should bee such a stranger to thee when hee so daily visits those that neighbour neere thee Thou hast beene familiarly acquainted with many whose habitation is not now to bee found who have enjoyed the pleasures of sinne freely Others who have inlarged their Barnes and store-houses carefully others who have ruffled in their honours highly and could deliver a Word of Command bravely and now behold how all these being arrested at Deaths suit were enforced to veile to his surly command They have made their Beds in the darke They have left their Houses unto others they are gone unto their Graves and must