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A35684	Pelecanicidium, or, The Christian adviser against self-murder together with a guide and the pilgrims passe to the land of the living : in three books.	Denny, William, Sir, 1603 or 4-1676.; Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702.	1653 (1653)	Wing D1051; ESTC R22350	177,897	342

into Iesus Christ Baptized be Into His Death have been Baptiz'd We then With Him by Baptism in t ' His Death for Men Are buri'd that as Christ was rais'd from Dead By th' Glory of the Father We so led Should Walk in Newnesse of our Life and be As He that is so dead from Sin is free SECT XXIX Invitation to the Direction BUt O distressed Souls leave These Come near And I will point where Heaven do's bright appear As Those that sink down Fathoms in a Well At dining time to one another tell Seest not though Noon it is yet dark here far From this our Depth we may behold a Star SECT XXX The Direction FIrst prostrate fall Then humbly upward rise On bended Knees And mount thy dewed Eyes Strike Srike thy Breast Till th' hast new fi'rd thy Heart With Holy Zeal And earnest strain each Part With Penitence Get Faith to sharpen sight Now stedfast look through Heaven Behold the Light Behold the Lamb of God in Glory sit At 's Fathers Right Hand See Him from thy Pit Behold Him There thy Mediator See! What is' t can now so much discomfort thee But if thy too weak Eye can't long thus look Behold His Picture in the Holy Book There read him clos'd within the Virgins Womb That He to Fold might fetch the stray'd Sheep home Observe Him combating the Devil Twice By Active Passive doubled Victories In Desart foil'd him spoil'd him On the Crosse For Human gain and wu't Thou make it Losse Observe his Miracles And thou shalt finde He cur'd the Deaf the Dumb the Lame the Blinde Read on And 'twixt times pray as thou do'st read And praise too That He Life gave to the Dead But lest these Things thou may'st not understand Receive a Pescue from a Holy Hand Choose such as did in Persecution stand For who in Tryal left the Truth can He Be well conceiv'd to be a Guide for Thee SECT XXXI An Orthodox Divine the Best Instructer HE will unlock the Treasures of Salvation From Genesis unto the Revelation He 'l shew Thee the Original of All What is Pure Truth and what 's Apocryphal H 'as no new Lights to Lead Thee up and down Nor fancies Revelations in his Crown He 'l preach to Thee for Gods sake Not for Ends Nor takes he Pains that marres His labour mends He point blank damns none But instructeth All To shun the Way wherein the Desp'rate fall He lops presumptuous Growths Lest bearing Top Too much from High they down do Headlong drop O how lies Man if out o' th' Line of Grace Too ope to th' Enemie in every place He dares not take Religion for A Cloak Nor cry up Dunghil-Steam for Altar-Smoak He dares not meddle with the Holy Things Without Commission whence he Warrant brings Nor will he turn Apostate for Mens Hands No Might he have a Dean and Chapters Lands He knowes well How th' Apostleship was given And how 't was left as 't was receiv'd from Heaven T'Apostles and to th' Angel of each Church Whose Office was to feed Not Kill Not Lurch He knowes It was deriv'd by single Streams And is not drown'd in Consistorian Dreams He I teach thee Mercie as his Master meek He tells thee Christians no Revenge must seek Revenge on others then 's A dangerous Shelf ' Void Shipwrack Lay not Hands upon thy Self Ah haplesse Time Wolves Sheep-Skins o're them draw But thou may'st know Them by the Tearing Paw SECT XXXII Preservation by Assumption and Religious Reason ME thinks I hear him say what now I write God First did out of Darknesse bring the Light And wu't do Contrarie to what he then Reduce that Light to Darknesse back agen God in 's own Image did Man first create Wu't that destroy Turn Self-Assassinate How in Gods Image at Gods Image strike Thus Self-divided 'gainst Thy Self turn Pike God blest Both Bade Both Increase and Multiply And with a Curse wu't Thou turn Natures Key He gave Them Freedom on All Fruits to carve And must thy Spight amidst that Plenty starve He Thee Dominion o're the Creatures gave And wu't Thou to the Serpent turn a Slave The Tree of Life and That which made too wise He placed in the midst of Paradise What Nought but Root and Branch Wu't stab the First And taste thine own Death in the other curst Eve had Excuse The Serpent did deceive But Thou deceiv'st Thy Self Who shall Relieve Must Man for Flesh and Bone of Bone Dear Parents leave And joyn to her as One And She was but a Rib ta'ne from his Side Which Way then canst Thou Self from Self divide What Law pretend'st to justifie That Force That both commits A Rape and makes Divorce For Sin God drove Them out They loath dismisse Thou Fly'st Thy Self Yea Barricad'st from Blisse Eves Eldest Son that first did Murther Act Gave Blood a Voice that cry'd against his Fact And though but banisht seem'd to die with Fear So sweet was Life They'd kill Him every where And wu't Thou midst the Safety that Thou hast Thy Self undo And into Horrour cast And was his Sentence more than he cu'd bear What must Self-Murder thinkst Thou needs then fear Sin links to Sin A Lye made Murder worse Was Mercie short that his Despair must curse Eve might forget her Grief for Abels Death And have some Joy restor'd her in a Seth. But Thou damm'st up the Hopes of Life to flow Thou cutt'st thine own Root What can ever grow Nor can this Crime admit of Reparation Repentance thus prevented is Damnation Noah's Ark thou sink'st Thou blott'st out Abrahams Creed All Families shall be blessed in his Seed And Thou deny'st That Promise by Thy Deed. For truly did'st beleive That Christ were come To cure The Leprous Palsi'd from the Tombe To raise the Dead Thou couldst not Wretch then have A desp'rate Thought Since His will All wou'd Save Or did'st conceive The Love of God to Man How Infinite It was above Our Span To send His Onely Son Of Such Esteeme From Heaven to Earth that He might Man redeeme To suffer Scorns sharp Scourges Crosse and Death And even His Father's wrath to give us Breath To bid Us lay Our Burthens on his Back And In His Name to beg whats'ere we lack To tell He came to Save and Not Condemne How melted He o're Deaf Hierusalem Dust-blind Hierusalem with Prophets Bones Shee must dismantled be for murd'rous Stones How often did He call the People clock As Hen her Chickens But they stirr'd like Rock T' was not bad Memory that Him forgot But perverse Wilfullness For they would not They would not Turn nor Know what did belong To their Day 's Peace nor heare the Charmer's Song How he embalm'd Prediction of their Fall Chief Only Mourner for Their Funrall He He bequeathed All Salvation's Good And Sign'd The Testament with 's Pretious Bloud And left Two Blessed Sacraments as Seales By which to Us A Proper Right He deales O wonderfull the

need of cure himself Have a care of an Ignis fatuus a false Light That seems a spirit too That Vapour may lead thee to thy great hazard into Ditches and Waters Into dangerous Opinions into a multitude of Errors into a boundless Flood of sorrows into the bottomless pit of Despaire Hast thou as thou thinkest an intollerable burthen upon thy Soul Hast thou a grievous load upon thy Conscience Some sin that makes it all darkness within thee That thou canst neither hold up head to heavily offended Heaven nor open thy Mouth to say so much as one Lord have mercy upon me 'T is very sad with thee indeed The dumbe spirit hath taken too much possession in thee of thee Or is thy Melancholy senseless Thou know'st not why nor what directly t is that troubles thee Thou art neither sick nor well Thy Soul has a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an evil habit a strange indisposition Go to a learned Doctor no Mountebanke Go to a true and lawful Minister of Christ an Orthodoxe Divine He will pray for thee He will teach thee to pray He will pray with thee And if through his own imperfections as who lives without them he cannot cure thee he will shew thee the way he will bring thee to the Master to blessed Iesus who both can relieve thee and will help thee Go to thy Saviour Distrust not Go to him by prayer He will ask thee for that which he gives thee Faith And he will give it in full measure for thy Asking Call then to Him in thy Heart And he will open thy Mouth Cry to him He delighteth to hear thee loud But have thine eyes a Drought Hath Lust dri'd up thy Springs Look towards him that is the Rock and He will cause those Rocks to flow with waters Who looks upon the Sun does melt his Eyes He will hear thee that sees thy miserie and will shew it thee that he may recover thee Till thou know'st thou beest sick thou art not fit for cure If thou canst not come of thy self take good counsel to bring thee to Christ Read the Scriptures Hear his Ministers And he will dispossess thee Thy Body should be the Temple of the Holy Ghost The House of God The House of Prayer How comes it Then that it is made A Den of Theeves yet be of good comfort They shall be cast out What though the Evil spirit tear thee at parting with pain with loss with sorrow with fear And leaves thee as dead in Despaire What though the World forsake thee And leave thee And leave thee Dead in it's Opinion What though thou beest scorned What though reviled What though a very Abject A Thing not reckoned among the Living neither worth Notice nor Use Be comforted Thou art nearest thy Remedy when thou thinkest not of it Pray and the evil Spirit is commanded from thee He must Out though he cry though he Roar at parting he shal be banish'd from thee that endanger'd thee to the fire to Hell fire to damnation that tempted thee to self-Murther by poysons to flame in thy bloud by a Halter to give thee a Desperate Convulsion by offering thee Death in the Waters in Rivers in Ponds in Wells upon the edge of Knives upon the Points of Poniards he thought and sought to surprize thee when thou wert alone When thou thoughtst that God had forsaken thee and all thy friends had left thee Be of good comfort Christ that begins the Cure wil perfect it Christ taketh thee by the Hand he lifteth thee up and then thou risest indeed to Life to the Life of Practice to the life of a good Conversation He takes thee by the Hand by thy promise of amendment of Life by thy new undertaking He that is the Life raiseth thee from thy former kind of dying He becomes thy Resurrection from sin from death to newness of life to Life in him whereby thou shalt partake Glory him Hast thou been posse'st with a Spirit of fulnesse of Prosperity A Spirit dumb to Thanks-giving Hast thou been posse'st with a Spirit of Covetuousness A Spirit dumb to Alms-giving Hast thou been posse'st with a Spirit of Oppression A Spirit dumb to Relieving and Deaf to the cries of the Poor A tearing Spirit that rendeth the Possessions of others as well as the possessed Hast thou been posse'st with a Spitit of Lust and Idleness that Lulleth all sins in her Bosom A Spirit dumb and deaf to the Invitation in the Gospel that either hinders thee by excuses or delayes thee from coming to the Feast Hast thou been posse'st with a Spirit of Drunkennesse Excesse and Uncleannesse A dumb Spirit that cannot speak Thou maust have Fasting joyned to Prayer or there is no way to cast him out Against his Uncleanness Fasting against his Fury Prayer Thou seest then thy certain benefit thy Remedy at hand the easie way to 't 't is but Ask and have Pray and it shall be given unto you In all thy distresses therefore in any anxiety of mind in any grief of heart in any trouble of thought in any calamity Pray Wud'st thou have Peace of Conscience Pray Wud'st thou have accesse to God Pray Wud'st thou have comfort in Afflictions Wud'st thou have joy in Tribulations Pray Wud'st thou possess thy soul in patience Pray Wud'st thou have thy patience teach thee Experience Pray Wud'st thou have Experience bring forth Hope Pray Then shalt thou finde that hope which is grounded upon Gods love which he shewed in sending his Son to dye for thee who wer 't unable to raise thy self that wer 't dead in sin and unworthy of his Love in being his Enemy Then he openeth the Charter to thee whereby thou holdest all these Graces which is a Reconciliation with God procured and purchased for thee by the Merits of Jesus Christ. Then art not thou amazed when thou beholdest thy Misery by the Fall of Adam who transgressed the Law of Nature before the Promulgation of the Law of Moses Nor is thy Faith cast down without hope at the sight of thy former committed offences c. never so Enormous Transgressions Thy Prayer begges Remission through Christ thy Faith layes hold upon Gods Mercie who sent his Son to be a Propitiation for thy sins He that took away the guilt of sin took away the strength of it Abuse not then Gods Mercy in sinning the more Nay sin no more lest a worse thing come unto the. Since God is so merciful to forgive misuse not thou the forgiveness of His Mercy Have a care that thou leapest not from Despair to Presumption Pray therefore Lest thou enter into or be overcome by Temptation Pray oft Not long Premeditate Consider before what Throne thou goest Babble not Lest thou addest to thy sins by thy Prayers and so thy Aqua vita that should refresh thee become thy Aqua fortis toeat out thy bowels such Coloquintid in the Pot will make thy pottage thy poyson lest that which should be thy