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A58223	The pilgrims pass to the new Jerusalem, or, The serious Christian his enquiries after heaven with his contemplations on himself, reflecting on his happiness by creation, misery by sin, slavery by Satan, and redemption by Christ ... relating to those four last and great things of death, judgement, hell, and heaven ... / by M.R., Gent.	M. R., Gent.	1659 (1659)	Wing R47; ESTC R5428	94,586	254

but for a time they did not last alwayes every Day hath his Night every Summer its Winter every Spring his Fall and every Life his Death and as some nights are darker then other some Autumns more unseasonable some Winters more sharp and some Death 's more yea much more cruel then others be some men fall like fruit others are cut down like trees some cut up as the flower others by the root some men dye onely others with torment which is two or more deaths in one but among all deaths that ever were suffer'd never any so strange never any so sad as our Saviours was for in it both pain and patience met in their extremities pain did her worst to overcome patience and patience her best to overcome pain and yet neither had pain the upper hand though it kil'd nor patience lost though Christ dyed such was his passion that the whole world cannot sample it with its parallel for Christs pain was such as never creature felt and his patience so great as for all the forrow he felt on the Cross he is not said to have utter'd a groan there so that it may easily be discerned that patience had the victory because pain could neither make her leave the field till she list nor bring her to any conditions but her own which were most honourable Though God be crucified Life be dead and Righteousness suster all effected yet nothing done to advance the contrary party For through his body Death slue it self and Sin and Satan took their deadly wounds for now the flesh hath lost her life and sin in that his throne and death with it his sting and the grave with this his power and hell with them her keys and the devil with all his victory whilst he hangs despicably on the tree of shame the powers of hell are dragg'd captive after the triumphant Chariot of his Cross Well might he therefore say 'T is finished for the Satisfaction is full Salvation sure Sin is nail'd Hell foil'd Satan chain'd the World baffled the Flesh wounded Death slain the Grave buried and every Adversary-power conquer'd by Christ Triumphant over all all is finished mans redemption compleated and that perfected he came about This is a true saying and worthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners But what is all this to us what is it to know that Christ is a Saviour if he be not ours what to know that he came to save the world if we are not one of the world he came to save what to know that his death is satisfactory to expiate the Justice of his Father if we have no interest in it I answer that as Christ hath done his part so must we do ours if ever we hope to have part in his sufferings he never came to save any that had no minde of salvation or to use those means which he hath appointed for all those that shall inherit eternal life as he did both do and suffer for us 't is requisite we should either do or suffer something for him His love to us and sufferings for us were unspeakable and they justly challenge our deepest affection and admiration that he should purchase our happiness at so dear a rate as his own Blood that God should be in Gore that man might be in Bliss the Prince of Life should dye that the Childe of Death might live that he should suffer on a Cross that we might not in Hell Did he sweat for our guilt and shall not we weep for our own and dissolve into love and tears for our dying Lord. O my soul shew thy affection to him that exprest so much to thee love him above thy life to serve him think milstones light to suffer for him make tortures pleasures hate sin more then death the Crown of pride as his Throns thy hearts lust as his spear thy iron neck and evil works and wayes as his nails their habit as his hammer which drives them home into his heart and his hands and feet Think not any thing enough thou sufferest for his sake that suffer'd so much for thine Though violent Tongues were laid on our Credit Hands of Rapine on our Estates of Bondage on our Persons of Blood on our Lives be so far from shrinking at it that hadst thou for one a thousand souls give all to his service a thousand bodies all to his suffering a thousand heads all to his study a thousand hearts bate not one to thy Saviour a thousand lives lay out all to his honour Hadst thou for two two thousand hands let them all do his business two thousand feet let them all go his errands if thou shouldst not thou wert unworthy of such a Saviour Now that we may know the cause or causes of Christs coming and understand our own duty in order to the making it a happy coming to us be pleased to take notice of these following particulars There are saith one four causes of mans salvation The Efficient cause The Meritorious cause The Instrumental cause And the Final cause First the Efficient cause which is the love of God 'T was Gods love to the world that caused him to send his Son into the world Had he not loved the world he would not have permitted his Son to dye for the world And he that denied us not his Son who is Heir of all things will not deny us any thing whereof he is heir Secondly the Meritorious cause That is Christ 'T was his Merits that purchast our happiness his Blood that gives us a right and title to that glorious undefiled and unfading Inheritance which he aforehand hath taken possession of Thirdly the Instrumental cause that is Faith Christ is the onely cure of our leprous souls Faith the hand to convey his merits to us Suppose a plaister of a soveraign nature were laid by a man dangerously wounded be the plaister never so excellent he may dye of his wounds if it be not applied to him for without an active hand to apply the plaister to the sore the worth of it is not at all available Christ saith one may be compared to sope Faith to the hand of the Landress though sope in it self be of a purifying nature yet without the hand of the Landress it does nothing The Apostle tells us that we are saved by Faith but that we may understand what that saving Faith is which the Apostle speaks of we are to present it first in the Negative what 't is not then in the Affirmative what it is Not an Historical Faith onely for that the Devils and damned in hell have that shall never receive any benefit at all by the death of Christ they know that Christ came into the world and that he suffered and that a day will come in which he shall be revealed from heaven in flaming fire when he shal● take vengeance on all the ungodly of the earth and compleat their torments Not a Temporary

whilst they were all fast bound up with a band they were secure either from cracking or bending but when once divided by one and one easily snapt asunder Whilst we are all under the bond of peace we are secured by Gods protection but when once divided at the Devils mercy Whilst we hold together we need not fear treating an enemy in the Gate but when once broke asunder with distractions a prey to them that hate us Remember that Joah and Abishai's united strengh put the Syrians and Ammonites to flight consider that ye have enemies enow abroad ye need not seek any so near home Make not those the objects of your malice that should be the bulwarks of your defence against the impetuous storms and batteries of an insnaring world a bewitching flesh and an envious Devil c. Know that there 's unity amongst wicked men for they hold together against the Righteous Simeon and Levi are Brethren in evil and shall we be at odds Nothing can be done well that 's not done in unity that 's not well done that 's done through discension The Apostle tells us That love is the fulfilling of the Law how then can the Law be fulfilled without love Those blessed Angells who wellcomed the new Born Saviour into the world with a Song did in a short sentence express both Tables They sang Glory to God on High Good will to men Peace on earth makes joy in Heaven and those that will not embrace peace on earth shall have nothing to do with the God of peace or the peace of God in Heaven You know what our Saviour said to his Disciples By this shall men know ye have an interest in me if ye love one another If ever therefore ye expect to end in peace or have peace in the end be peaceable in your Pilgrimage so shall ye in good time arive at your journeyes end and be no longer strangers abroad but Kings at home The Young mans Monitor AND Old Mans Admonisher A Meditation on Eccles 12.1 THis golden Book of Ecclesiastes was pen'd by the wisest King upon his repentance and may be fitly stil'd King Solomons Recantation which he wrote after he rose from that fall occasioned through his inordinate love of strange women and after he had with all his Wisdom found out the true Natures of all things here below then this wisest of Kings wrote this Book in the Front whereof he gives a briefe but full description of all the Glory and Pleasures of this world Vanity of vanities saith the Preacher all is vanity Saith the Preacher something must be said to that Solomon the son of David the richest wisest and mightiest Monarch that then reign'd vouchsafes to take upon him the title of Preacher though the Preacher in these dayes must not think much of the worst of titles but no more of that Solomon having thus truly weighed all the pomps and greatness of this world in the balance of his understanding and finding them too light to give satisfaction to the enjoyers thereof in the end of this Book he gives a heavenly Exhortation tending to the attainment of that true felicity as will make those eternally happy that reach it Fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole duty of man And for our better direction to keep Gods Commandments this last Chapter is usher'd in with a most excellent wholesome and seasonable Exhortation Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Before I proceed further here must one Objection be remov'd Some may perhaps question the Preacher why he did not as well say Remember thy Creator in thy old age as in the dayes of thy youth I answer This memento is chiefly given to young men because they take the greatest liberty to wallow in all kinde of sensual pleasures and with the greatest eagerness to pursue the deceiving vanities of this world for now are their veins full of blood and their bones full of marrow and Repentance seems as unseasonable to them as Snow in Summer or Rain in Harvest Is not our youth say they given us to glut our selves with all kindes of pleasures and to walk in the wayes of our own hearts Shall I then sayes one grieve in my prime and repent for my crimes to hasten old age and make my smooth face full of wrinkles and bring gray hairs on my head ere I am an old man old age will fasten on me soon enough without all this let me therefore make hay while the sun shines and make the best use of my time I can to the utmost improvement of Pleasures and when I am growne so old as to be past using them I le cast them off and think of repentance and another world when 't is not possible to stay long in this These are the Common Pleas of Youth and therefore the Preacher looking upon them as the furthest from instruction and to stand in the greatest need of advice directeth his speech in a most especiall manner to them Remember now c. Young men have no more a lease of their lives then aged persons and there doth as many of them go to the grave as of older persons Death arrests some in their Cradles and many in their Infancy Childehood and Youth The dayes of man upon earth are but a shadow no certainty of any thing as of Death and nothing more uncertain then the time when and the maner how Come hither then thou darling of the world thou great favorite of flesh and blood thou whose Honors here are as blooming as the Lillies and Roses in thy youthful cheeks know Image that though thy Head be of Gold thy Body of Silver thy Feet are but of Clay If thou walk'st into the fields in the forward time of the Year thou canst not be unfurnisht of lively Emblemes of thy own Mortality how do the Lilly the Rose the Cowslip and the Gillyflower bemantle the earth as so many stars to represent Heaven glorious tapestry upon sight whereof you may easily be convinc't to believe That Solomon in all his glory was not arayed like one of these And yet how subject are they to fading pluck them and they are stubborn soon crapt assunder smell them and they wither and if the winde but blows over them they are gone and be no more And is it not so with thee doth not St. James compare our life to a vapor and that 's but short David to a span a thought a tale and those not long Isaiah to grass and the flower of the field and those you see not lasting But of all the sacred Limners in holy Scripture I finde Jobs pencil to be the freest in pourtraying man to stubble and that not standing neither to a leaf and that not fast but shaken and to a weavers shuttle and many other such transient resemblances He came something near the drawing man to the life who compared this life to a spot between two Eternities the time

him or take his part Philopoemen forc't to expire by a cup of poison from the hands of a Hangman So Lucullus Dions throat cut with a dagger by an Executioner So Sertorius Phocian reduc't to so much misery in prison that he feed the Hangman to dispatch him Cicero that famous man murthered and decapited his head and hands set up ore the Pulpit in Rostra where they made Orations Darius condemn'd to die as a Malefactour his throat cut in prison by the common Hang-man 'T is lamentable to recite what the Prophet Jeremy so mournfully delivers in those his Lamentations Chap. 4.5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets and they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills We need seek no further proof of this sad truth then the age we live in have we not seen many princely and noble Families that not long ago were in so happy a condition as to afford much hospitality to others now reduc't to that misery as to live onely upon the courtesie of others and forc't to poste from place to place for relief and safety To shew that the best of men are but Pilgrims upon earth and no permanency in the things of this life Worldly Glories I conceive may be reduc't to these three heads viz. Honours Riches Pleasures I shall crave leave of my Readers to dilate upon each of these and in the close present you with the insufficiency and inconstancy of Worldly Glory First Honours Suppose a man were at the height of honours his Throne as high as Babels Tower and all the Potentates of the earth prostrate themselves at his footstool and all persons of all ranks qualities degrees and conditions admire and adore him had he ten thousand times as many titles as that cracking Spaniard attributed to his Master and his territories as vast as the universe yet all these would be so far from giving true felicity that it would but load him with cares and miseries Crowns are but splendid vanities and vexation and mutation the ordinary attendants of Diadems Crowns are full of cares and high places not without their fears which made one King cry out concerning his Diadem Were it but known how many miseries and molestations do attend thee none would dare to take thee up lying at his feet Antonius the Philosopher said often that the Empire was an ocean of mischiefs and one caus'd it to be written upon his Tomb Happy had I been if I had never reigned They are much mistaken who thinks to meet with happiness in greatness Ambition is ever attended with three Furies Envy in the eye Jealousie in the ear and Covetousness in the heart Envy in the eye It grieves him more to see one above him then ten thousand below him Haman was more distracted with Mordecai the Jew's sitting in the Kings gate with a careless neglect then he was delighted with all the reverence and adoration which others gave him Secondly Jealousie in the ear alwayes fearful of Competetours he thinks himself never secure every thing he hears makes him suspicious of some approaching danger and if any but whisper in his presence he is unsatisfied till he understands it Thirdly Covetousness in the heart If against his will he empty some of his bags in the progress of his ambition he will not be himsef till he hath refill'd them by extorted oppression and when he possesses most is least satisfied when he has considered with how much toyl trouble he purchast it with how much care fear he preserves it knows not how suddenly must part from it either it may be taken from him by violence or he from it by treachery and so his enemies become Lords and Masters of his greatness and eat the fruit of his labours Who would be in love with that which hath such Furies for its Attendants 'T is seldom seen that the greatest darlings of the world enjoy perfect contentment be they never so well deserving something they shall have to complain of that shall give an unsavory verdure to their sweetest morsells and make their very felicity miserable Multitude of business banish sleep from the eye-lids of Kings and make the night troublesome and fear many times keeps them waking though in a Palace lest some Achitophel should be projecting to turn his silent slumbers into a sleep of death whilest the rustick Swain snores securely in his loomy Cottage Bajazet Emperour of the Turks thought a shepheard whom he heard whistling on a hill to be a happier man then himself and if I mistake not the event gives me sufficient cause to be of his opinion for he was shortly after taken Prisoner by Tamerlain the Scythian who loads him with golden fetters and encloses him in an iron cage and carried up and down in triumph with the Conquerour and in that strait prison expires by being his own Executioner High places are not onely uneasie but slippery inconstancy as well as vexation attends the Thrones of Princes a great man stands very unsure he had need to wear ice spurs for he doth rather glide then go If he begins to fall he will fall to purpose as Zeresh unlucky told Haman If his feet begin to slip on the steep hill of honour his own weight will down with him to the bottom once past noon with him it is presently night there is but a step said that mirrour of men 'twixt the prisons and graves of Princes The Airy Chair though it be conspicuous is you see full of dangers He stands surest that hath no ascent to fall from the highest riser hath ever the lowest fall few of the magnifices of this world ever left it with rejoycing or parted in peace but hurried with violence to untimely graves What did Abimelech Absolom Zimri Jezabel and Athalia get by their greatnesse but miserable and infamous deaths Those who have thought to have justled the stars out of their places and made their nests as high or higher have had their glory laid in the dust and their honour in disgrace and those who all men in their lives have judg'd the happiest have ere they parted with the world lamentably declar'd the contrary Earthly glories are at best but transient The greatest Favorite that ever the world had could never assure himself of one minute of happinesse but ever obnoxious to those lamentable hazards and mutations incident to greatnesse How many are there that laught yesterday that have cause enough to weep to day He on whom prosperity yesterday did smile doth to day adversity frown He that yesterday was reputed the happiest man in this world is to day sent miserable to another That which hath a Diadem for its aim oftentimes meets with an ignominious death for its end He who in the morning hath been an object of envy hath ere night been of misery and contempt He whom the morning sun hath beheld in the height of honour Cappape shining in all his glory hath the evening sun beheld