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A13561	Three treatises The pearle of the gospell, The pilgrims profession: and A glasse for gentlewomen to dress themselues by. To which is added A short introduction to the worthy receiuing of the Lords supper. By Thomas Taylor, Doctor of Diuinity, and late preacher of Aldermanbury Church in London.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Pearle of the gospell. aut; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Pilgrims profession. aut; Gunter, H.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Glasse for gentlewomen to dresse themselves by. aut; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Short introduction to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. aut	1633 (1633)	STC 23856; ESTC S113869	74,858	266

Three Treatises THE PEARLE OF the GOSPELL THE PILGRIMS PROFESSION AND A Glasse for Gentlewomen to dresse themselues by To which is added A short Introduction to the worthy receiuing of the Lords Supper By Thomas Taylor Doctor in Diuinity and late Preacher of Aldermanbury Church in London LONDON Printed by I. B. for Iohn Bartlet at the gilt Cup in Cheap-side 1633. THE PEARLE of the Gospell OR Jewell Euangelicall 1 Diligently sought 2 Ioyfully found 3 Dearely bought by the wise Merchant Infolded in Christs Parable AND Unfolded by the Application of Thomas Taylor Doctor in Diuinity and late Preacher of Aldermanbury Church in London LONDON Printed by I. B. for Iohn Bartlet at the signe of the gilt Cup in Cheap-side 1633. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Mistris Elizabeth Backus Wife to Master Samuel Backus Esquire and Justice of Peace And to her three vertuous and religious daughters Mris Mary Standen wife to Mr. Standen Esquire and Iustice of the Peace Mris Flower Backus wife of Mr. Iohn Backus Esquire and Mris Elizabeth Bellingham wife to Mr. Richard Bellingham Esquire Grace and Peace from the Fountaine Right Worshipfull PEarles are small in quantitie but great in their quality and smaller often in the weight than in their worth such an one is this which I haue presented vnto you as a token of my due respect and vnfained loue to your selfe and the Church in your familie Pearles from earth fit not common persons but this from heauen belongeth to al who meane to partake in the common saluation As this Pearle is yours in the common right of Saints so this offer of it is yours by a second and more peculiar right as who first helped it out of the darke into this light Your earnest and often desires of some of the written notes of this Treatise drew from me a promise the thought of the paiment whereof was my first thought of this publication And now this Pearle being yours weare it as your chiefe ornament the price of which ra●seth your owne price and recko●ing in the eyes of God and good men aboue the Carbuncles and Rubies Other ornaments seuered from this are but beautifull vanities The largest reuenues the richest estates the most ample treasures the costliest cabinets filled with pearles and precious stones sets the person wanting this pearle in no higher reckoning than common flints or other contemptible stones with him to whom the Nations are but as the drop of a bucket or as the dust of a ballance So of all naturall endowments we may compare them as Salomon doth beantie to a ring of Gold which outwardly commendeth the wearer But the iewell of this ring is this pearle of the Gospell or the life of the Gospell in the life of the Gospoller Let this Iewell be lost once or missing the ring may be gilded and glistering without but the touchstone and triall will finde that it was neuer gold And because I know that you haue no greater ioy than to see your children walke in the truth I am assured you will gladly afford them an equall share with you in this so precious a commodity and therefore haue I taken them into this dedication Blessed are you that haue your quiuer full of such louely arrowes Of the vertuous woman is said Her children praise her Were this a verbal praise of the mouth children might seeme testes e sinu and the spreaders of the partiall praises of their mother but this is an astuall and solid commendation and vnsuspected when the shining vertues of the feare of God sobrietie and modest conuersation of children proclaime the grace pietie and care of the mothers education Among that rich store of earthly comforts with which God hath beset you you haue none co●parablie gracefull to this if you except your sweet societie with your graue and religious husband And now to you three daughters worthy of such a Mother When I call to remembrance the vnfained faith which dwelt yet dwelleth in your Grand-mother whose reuerend old age is crowned with an ancient and honorable profession and practice of holy Religion aboue any I know in these parts and in your deare mother and am assured it dwelleth in you also I could not but put you in remembrance to stirre vp the gift of God that is in you And exhort you as you haue happily begun to hold on in the way of grace and see that your workes be more at last than at first God hath aduanced you into the fellowship of religious and compleat Gentlemen your husbands to faire estates and portions in this world but especially to a sure expectation hereafter by meanes of your inseparable coniunction to your Head and Husband Iesus Christ. You must now aduance him who hath thus aduanced you and love him for himselfe who hath loued you in his Sonne and hold euery new sense of mercy a new spurre and prouocation vnto dutie In the way and pace in which you goe I must acknowledge I passe and slip an opportunitie by passing oner in silence so many commendable parts in you all which make you worthy to be praised among women fearing God But my praises can lift you no higher than your owne vertues doe whose diligent paines in gaining knowledge of holy things conscionable practice of sound religion charitable refreshing of the poore members of Christ and whose humble sober wise modest and louely carriage especially in these loose dayes are as so many tongues and mouthes and pens without mine to publish your due praises and knowing that you will be better pleased that I turne my praises into praiers for your progresse and prosperitie in the good way I shall endeuour to supplie that want this way heartily commending you to the power of his grace who onely can further inrich you with the Pearle of the Gospell who also giue you with the new yeare new supplies of all holy graces till the new man bee compleat in Iesus Christ in whom I rest Your Worships to be vsed for your furtherance in the faith THO. TAYLOR THE PEARLE OF the GOSPEL MATTH 13. 45. The Kingdome of heauen is like vnto a Merchant man that seeketh good pearles Who hauing found a pearle of great price went and sold all that he had and bought it OVr Lord Iesus comming from the bosome of the Father to reueale the mystery hid from the beginning of the world spent the whole time of his ministerie in discouering to the Church the excellency the vtility and the necessity of that blessed and sauing truth the daughter of eternity without which the whole world had lien in perpetual death and darknesse This parable among many and aboue many manifests that how base soeuer and vile the things of God seeme to naturall men yet there is such worth vertue price and beauty in them as the godly man who onely can discerne them will exchange all hee hath with them yea and part with all the world before hee

firme is sauing grace which can neuer be shaken out of the hart Thirdly their Magnitude and greatnesse so great is the mystery of godlinesse amongst all Gods secrets there is none so great as this of mans redemption in the beholding of which the Angels cannot yet satisfie themselues 1 PET. 1. 12. Fourthly Equality and roundnesse much commend pearles The Gospell is offered to all alike to beleeuers and vnbeleeuers to masters and servants rich and poore it is no fault of the Gospell if thou beest not saued by it 5. In regard of their effects Pearles supply our needs at all seasons and therefore NONIVS a Senator of Rome persecuted by M. ANTONIVS prouided onely for himselfe an Vnion of inestimable price to carry with him in his flight by which alone he was rich enough So the Gospell supplyeth all our wants Christ in the Gospell supplyeth vs all things prouideth for vs bread of life and water of life and garments of his owne righteousnesse hee payeth all our debts inricheth vs with inestimable treasures and naked Christ is wealth enough Secondly Pearles serue for ornament and honour and shew a man to bee in dignity some hang them in their eares some hang them in golden chaines vpon their brests some set them in gold and weare them on their fingers So the Gospell is the honour and ornament of a Christian and maketh vp all his indignities and wrongs while he hangeth it on his eare by diligent and carefull hearing while he fastneth this Vnion and Pearle and maketh it shine by faith in his heart● and while hee weareth it as a ring on his finger by conscionable practise of the commandements of the Gospell which is to beleeue in the Sonne of God and loue one another this man is honoured of God and all his Saints Thirdly many Pearles are of great vse and effect to preuent poyson to preserue naturall strength and recouer it decayed many of them great Cordials and others great comforters of the principall vitall parts of man So the Gospell and good of it preserue the soule from the poyson of sinne preserueth supernaturall strength restoreth and reneweth strength of grace decayed is the onely heauenly Cordiall to comfort the heart in gripes of temptation and accusation it is the comforter in all afflictions that a Christian may say of of it as Dauid of the Law Had not my comfort beene in thy law I had perished long agoe in my trouble Labour then to see the worth and price of the Gospell that with Christ thou mayest preferre this Pearle of the Kingdome aboue all Pearles and Kingdomes and value this Pearle of grace aboue all naturall Pearles Our Sauiour would haue vs see how carnall wee are while such supernaturall treasures are so slightly accounted and at so little and low a rate with vs. How carnall is it to preferre other Pearles which are from earth or sea before this Pearle which only is from heauen How vnwise are wee so highly to value the Pearles whose matter is dust and slime and whose beauty is by the Sunne-beames included and contemne the Pearle the matter of which is the eternall loue of God by Iesus Christ and the beauty the light and grace of Christ the Sunne of righteousnesse which for the orient brightnesse excelleth the Sunne shining in his strength Beside neuer shall this Pearle be purchased before it be prized nor euer be of vse to vs vntill we haue purchased it as a Pearle keepeth its shine beauty and vertue wrapped vp in the darkenesse and bowels of the earth but no whit inricheth him that findeth it not Also let vs place our riches in the Gospell which is so farre aboue Pearles as the substance is aboue the shadow Pearles here doe but shadow forth the worth of grace but there is no proportion betweene them in shining vse or beauty First because opinion setteth the price of the one but worth on the other the true worth of the grace of the Gospell heightneth it to him that can truly esteeme it Secondly no Pearle can buy a graine of grace but grace may bring riches and Pearles hauing the promise of this life as well as of that which is to come Thirdly no Pearle can auaile in the day of wrath onely grace opposed to Gods displeasure stinteth it PRO. 11. 4. Fourthly Pearles and treasures can no way further a mans saluation many wayes doe and may hinder it many for gaping after the world lose their owne soules but the wealth of the Gospell onely saueth soules and there is no other meanes besides it Fiftly Peales may make a man rich in this world and adorne the outward man but not the inward neither will they goe with vs hence to doe vs any good here we finde them and here we leaue them But the rich Pearle of the Gospell is indeed ours and maketh vs richest in heauen content thy selfe therefore with it as the blessed Disciple Peter saying Master thou hast the words of eternall life and whither shall we goe How haue the Saints esteemed and made grace their onely jewell and treasure Ps● 119. 111. DAVID made the testimonie of God his Heritage yea the ioy of his heart EPH. 1. 7. The Apostle calleth it a Rich grace and CHAP. 2. 7. The exceeding riches of his grace and COL 1. 17. which riches is Christ in you But men that seeke after grace are the poorest men meane and vnprosperous in the world No they are the richest men though neuer so meane in the world they haue many wayes to bee rich which the worldling wanteth They haue a rich knowledge 1 Cor. 1. 27. they haue faith a rich cōmodity more precious than gold that perisheth 1 Pet. 1 7. they haue Christ liuing in them and dwelling in them they haue prayer a Rich store-house they haue title and are indeed heires of the Kingdome of Heauen And suppose they bee afflicted reiected and scorned amongst men yet can they with MOSES account the rebukes of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt HEB. 11. 46. Oh what a world of sweet content lodgeth in the heart with Christ in want of all things he hath all things If one aske a Christian What is thy Country he may answer Christ and his Countrey What is thy kindred ANS Christ is my kindred MAT. 12. 50. Behold my mother and my brethren and my sisters What is thy wealth and honour ANS Gods Kingdome is mine yea God himselfe he is al things to me here and hereafter Men cast vp their heads and looke aloft if they bee Lords of some small Manour or possession but to be a King or Prince of a peece of earth lifteth them in their conceits aboue the tops of the clouds But a poore Christian is better contented with poore and naked Christ than with all such high and stately vanity We must also doe for the Gospell as men will doe for pearles and treasures take

but it is a death to him to goe backward and to see his estate of grace rather to decrease than increase hee hath no comfort in his present vnfruitfulnesse much lesse in Apostacy and backe-sliding but his comfort and account to the Lord is onely when he can say LVK. 19. 13. Lord thy talent hath increased ten talents Let this consideration also comfort godly poore men despised in the world thou that art a poore Christian in a low estate in the world labor busily for grace and thou maist be as rich a Merchant haue as rich a stocke and deale in as great and rich commodities if poore in spirit as the richest Thou that hast no mony and but little credit in the world maist here make as good a bargaine and as gainfull returne for thy selfe as he that hath thou sands of mony beyond thee The poore receiue the Gospell saith our Sauiour that is few but the poore in estate none but the poor in spirit for this trading is without money like the poore womans curing who speut all her money on the Physitians and yet was not cured but Christ commeth and cureth her freely Againe art thou a poore man hast thou a great charge of children and no meanes to put them forth to trades here is a rich trade make Merchants of them teach them and binde them to this trade of godlinesse this is the way to make them prosperous in earth and bring them happily towards heauen Prou. 14. 26. The feare of the Lord is an assured strength and his children shall haue hope Haue likewise a care that hauing bought and purchased the Pearle thou dost not sel it againe Pro. 23. 23. Buy the truth but sell it not likewise wisdome instruction vnderstanding for what we sel we esteeme it lesse worth thā that we sel it for but we must value this Pearle aboue riches glory liberty Pearls and life it selfe by no means part from wisdome neither by our forgetfulnesse security or ouer-sight any way Besides wee can sell it for nothing which is not vncertaine gaine but this is most certaine and most lasting and therefore not to be exchanged with any other This of the third generall The Merchant mans actions are three 1 He seeketh a good Pearle 2 Findeth an excellent one 3 Selleth all he hath to buy it Euery man naturally will be seeking some thing to make him happy the naturall man hath some naturall Pearle or other on which hee setteth his affection and in which he taketh greatest delight Some Merchants esteem pleasure their best Pearle some honour some riches and the most of the world seeking some perle light vpon some counterfeit or other wherein they content themselues and blind both themselues and others which made an ancient Father cry out Happy is that Merchant that knoweth to seeke not hurtful things as the ambitious doe nor vnprofitable things as the curious doe but the most wholesome things as doe the Saints but this a supernaturall both seeker and seeking and things sought ● The thing sought is the grace of the Gospell a good Pearle indeed as before the seeker was the wise Merchant But how can any man seeke grace seeing Psal. 14. and Rom. 3. no man seeketh after God Answ. No man by nature can seeke after grace nor of himselfe once aske after it because hee is destitute of the spirit of God no more than the lost groat can aske after her that lost it or a wandring sheepe after the Shepherd or a dead man after life So as those places are meant of men before conuersion and calling for the elect seeke not God till God first seeke them and findeth them But this is to be vnderstood of men called conuerted already found of God and mooued by the Spirit of God who mooued by God can now moue themselues and sought by him now can eeke him Which both setteth out our infinite misery who of our selues neuer minde the meanes of happinesse and also magnifieth Gods mercy which is infinite who offering vnto vs a free grace doth truly say I was found of them that sought me not and giueth him also the honour of goodnesse and of our seeking of him Onely the godly and all they are seekers of the good Pearle they seeke after God in Christ and the grace of the Gospel euery where the godly are called seekers of God and seekers of wisedome Prou. 2. and seekers of the kingdome Mat. 6. 33. and wicked men are described to bee such as seeke not after God Psalm 14. 4. And why 1. These onely doe see their owne want and beggery which is implyed in seeking No man seeketh that hee wanteth not or that first findeth not in himselfe a want of grace Dauid desired grace as the thirstie ground and grace is not promised nor giuen to any but the thirstie Psa. 55. 1. Euery one that thirsteth come yee to the waters Psalm 14. 2. First they must vnderstand namely their estate and then seeke after God 2. All these and they alone doe see the excellency as well as the need of this Pearle and God hath let them see in some measure the worth of it Why are men so earnestly carried to seeke Pearles farre and neere swallowing insensibly all toiles dangers and charges but because they know their worth and price and that if they can light on them they shall be wel paid for all their labour Euen so such as to whom God hath made knowne in some mea sure the worth of this inestimable Iewell are quickned daily to the vnweariable inquisition after it Paul knew that one graine of grace would weigh downe all world and therefore would procure it through all perils and dangers through good reports or euill through wants and losses euen of the dearest things most desirous in all the world whereas Ignoti nulla cupido none will seeke that hee knoweth not or not any goodnesse in it 3 They onely know that without painfull seeking they shall neuer attaine the Pearle for as Pearles doe not lye on the face of the ground but are hid in the bowels of the earth or in the sands so the mysteries of the Kingdome lye not abroad for euery one to stumble vpon vnawares but they are a hidden treasure not discerned by the naturall man nay hated by the wisedome of the flesh and scorned by the wisest of the world Besides that this is the condition vpon which the Lord bestoweth his best blessings if wee dig for wisdome as for treasures which words imply that it is not easie to come by hee knoweth our nature that we lightly set by what we lightly come by and if Pearles were as common as pibbles we should as lightly set by them as we doe by the other 4 The godly alone see that without the Pearle they cannot by any thing else be satisfied for so seeking implieth a discontent in the

manners fashions and customes of his own countrey a Christian stranger although he be in the world yet he is not of the world hee is of another corporation and therefore though he walke in the flesh yet hee must not warre according to the flesh He carrieth this body of flesh about him as others doe but he must fight against flesh and the lusts of it contrary to the Patrons and defenders of the corruptions that are in the world through lust The world may and must enioy our presence for a time but must at no time gaine our conformity to it Rom. 12. 2. Fashion not your selues according to this world that is the customes and guizes of it because it lyeth in wickednesse and the Christian is cast into another forme of doctrine and conuersation Art thou now sollicited to follow the lusts and fashions of this world thinke with thy selfe that thou art a stranger here and of another countrey thou liuest vnder other lawes thou maist not cast in thy lot with the wicked of the world nor giue voyce or suffrage in their meetings but be as Lot who though he were in Sodom was not of Sodom but was perpetually vexed with the vncleane conuersation of those wicked men Art thou prouoked to sweare to drinke excessiuely to lye for aduantage to breake the Sabbath for gaine to vncleannesse or any other soule lust Now say to thy selfe I am of the kingdome of light but this is a worke of darknesse this is an vnlawfull act in my Countrey and why should I practise it here seeing my Lord and King must needs know it if I commit treason here against my King and Countrey my King hath informers enow and I shall lose my whole estate there and bee banished out of my Countrey for euer Shall I saith Joseph commit this sinne against my God against my Master Seeing my Master hath kept nothing from me but sinne I will not doe this thing I will not sinne and commit this high wickednesse Fourthly A fourth duty is that seeing we are strangers here to learne to affect our own countrey and highly to esteeme it Euery man by nature loueth his natiue country best neither thinketh himselfe so well in any forraine land and strangers especially hauing parents kindred and great reuenues in their natiue soyle and being hardly intreated where they so●ourne would be glad to returne home and enioy the sight of those whomu they haue long longed to see Euen so the Christian Pilgrim Neuer did Israel more affect and extol their owne countrey in their banishment from it and captiuity in Babylon than the Christian stranger doth affectedly desire and prefer his heauenly Countrey aboue this strange land the Countrey of his captiuity For he discerneth that this is not his Country first That is a mans Country where he was borne brought vp but whence taketh a Christian his spirituall birth or where is he brought vp but in the Church and kingdome of Christ Earth giueth him a birth and being as he is man but as a Christian he is borne of God Secondly againe that is a man● countrey where his parents his ancestors deare kindred dwell and inhabit Now where dwelleth a Christian mans Father but in heauen Where is his elder brother but there Where are all his brethren and sisters sons and daughters of the same parents but there and therefore heauen is his Country Thirdly further that is a mans Countrey where his principall estate and goods are where his patrimony and inheritance lyeth and where is the chiefe portion the treasure the immortall inheri●āce of the Christian but in heauen And where else is his Countrey Now then a Christian considering on the one hand that he is in a strange Countrey and how hardly he hath bin intreated in it and so likely to be still and on the other hand that he hath a home and a father there that loueth him dearely and that his elder brother Iesus Christ and all his spiritual kindred the Saints of God are there And besides that he hath a rich portion and a large patrimony euen an immortall inheritance in heauen how can he choose but to be reared in his affections yea rauished to be there desiring nothing in the world more than to be dissolued hence to be with Christ which is best of all A Traueller hath his minde and thoughts still vpon home and saith with himselfe Home is homely And the Marriner or Sea-faring man in a storme or rough Sea hath his desires on the Shore and his minde is not where his ●ody is So is it with the Christian Passenger his minde is not where his body is and if he cannot get home in the body as soone as he desireth yet in his spirit he will mind heauen and heauenly things he will get as neere home as he can if hee cannot get into the heart of the city hee will be sure to get into the sub●bs the Church of God If hee cannot get suddenly into that Jerusalem which is aboue he will get into the Ierusalem which is from aboue and where his person cannot bee for the time his conuersation and meditation shal be in heauen for where his treasure is there will his heart be also Vse 2. In that wee are strangers with God we learne diuers things 1. The soueraignty and power of God who is the great owner and ruler of the whole earth Kings themselues who are the highest earthly Lords and commanders are but strangers with God for the earth is the Lords and all that therein is And no man sitteth in his owne but are Tenants at will vndre this great Land-Lord The greatest of men yea of Kings are but as Dauid was soiourners in his sight Leuit 15. 23. The Land is his and we are but strangers and soiourners with him 2. We must hence gather out our owne duty towards God in whose Countrey we soiourne and our duty is manifold 1. To aske leaue of God to passe through his Countrey so did Israel of Edom a wicked Prince and people Numb 20. I pray thee that we may passe thorow thy country c. It is fit to ask leaue where no right is Besides that by daily prayer for Gods leaue and fauourable loue in our way we both ascribe vnto God the honour of soueraignty and bounty as also sweeten his mercies which he giueth vs leaue to enioy all which are sanctified to vs by the word and by prayer 2 Binde thy selfe from trespassing in the way and Countrey through which thou passest So did Israel vnto Edom We will not goe through the fields nor the vinyards neitheir will we drinke of the water of the wels we will goe by the Kings way and neither turn to the right hand nor left til we be past thy borders So must the Christian be carefull he transgresse not the lawes of the Countrey in which he soiournes to sturre vp against himselfe the wrath