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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

nourishment prove thy greater destruction Desir'st to have the Father to hear thee to accept thee Say the Prayer that his Son taught thee Say it intentively zealously heartily understandingly and 't is enough The Son directs thee to the Father and puts words into thy mouth to that purpose If thou wilt be reckoned amongst the wise neglect them not If thou wilt not be numbred amongst the Froward and the Despisers refuse them not Seem not wiser then Wisdom it self lest the Wisdom that thou admirest so much in thine own eyes prove altogether foolishness A short prayer is too long for a wandring mind a short prayer is best for a weak Devotion Thy Devotion at the best is apt to tyre for a little way The Publicans Lord have mercy upon me A sinner may save thee sooner then a long Tautologie of Words then many a Lord Lord made use on to fill up disorderly vacuities immethodical matter and non-sence haesitations If thou wouldst have Prayers for thy particular wants for several occasions Go to holy David's box of precious Balsam Use this or the like Turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me for I am desolate and afflicted The troubles of my heart are enlarged O bring me out of my distresses Look upon mine afflictions and my pain and forgive all my sins Consider mine enemies for they are many and they hate me with cruel hatred O keep my soul and deliver me Let me not be ashamed For I put my trust in thee Then let thy mouth sing forth his praise and God even thy God shal give thee his blessing Rejoyce in his holy Name Yea let them that seek the the Lord rejoyce Psal. 105. 3. Desinat apte Liber non Laus pietate Secundus Wise Traveller through Wildernesse does lead The Christian Pilgrim teaching where to tread From Feind in Worlds Way Foes he warnes his Freind Through Deepe vp Steepe shewes Heavn's his Iourneys end F. Barlow fecit The Third Book THE Pilgrim's Passe TO THE LAND OF THE LIVING Sil. Ital. Explorant adversa viros perque aspera duro Nititur adlaudem Virtus interrita clivo Crosses the boldest Courages assail Let what can come stout Virtue must prevail OR Affliction tries the Man But 's Vertue strains Through all Opposals till the Top he gains The Encouragement NAture is so apt to tire especially in so great a journey as it was but reason to give her some repose And there could not be a fitter place wherein to rest her afflicted Head and wearied Feet then in the House of Prayer A place of no less safety then Refreshment where there are Viands of all sorts as well to entertain the strongest Appetites as to settle please and nourish the more crasie stomacks Through a Wilderness is an uncomfortable Passage no better is this World stuff't with Thorns and Bryars stor'd with Thicks and Woods fill'd with Rocks and stones inhabited by wilde Beasts and savage Creatures replenished with dangers and difficulties of all sorts But chear up The worst is behinde the and having so well Refreshed thou canst not faint Thou art a Pilgrim and art used to Travel Thou canst not now but with delight move on Get but up upon Faiths Mount and thou shalt discover the holy Land Such a sight will ravish thee such a Hope will sharpen thy Desires and keep thee from ever growing weary Thou wilt then on lively and rejoyce that thou art in the way to so excellent a Countrey that thou art so near thy journeys end A better End then thou couldest expect or hope for To this end mayst thou safely hasten It is thy happiness Thus mayst thou with a holy kind of Impatience long to be loosed but it must be that thou mayst be with Christ. I need not call away I find thee me thinks so reudy to go Then on in Gods name BOOK III. CANTO VII The Mount of Faith 1. THou canst not stay 'T is High 't is Craggie way That to the Mount of Faith does lead Hear'st not one call as if he preach't to Day Be wary of thy steps As he does call so tread 2. Now look about Th' ast past ore stumbling doubt See some asleep upon that side That blinde Guides cast the further way about With Images inarm'd in Dreams lay round about their Guid. 3. On th' other Hand A Rout there there a Band Imaginations way advance Each Zeal makes Noise as at it does understand Each does 'gainst t'other cry so to Pantheon dance 4. The Praeco calls Still still beware of Falls For now your way grows sharp and steep You must climb over rugged stones like Walls Set footing wisely Hold by hands And sometimes creep 5. That way deceives And them of wit bereaves For thinking still they upward go Hypocrisie them draws and never leaves Till she doth cast them down to Pride that 's fall'n Below 6. The Top appears The blew Skyes brightness clears Even into holy Heaven you see The fresh green grass is gemm'd with pearly Tears And Faith's Pavillion stands near Figs fruit bearing Tree 7. The Tents wide Door A Dam'sel sits before Within A Chair made like a Heart Her eyes to Heaven do plead for Mercies store Her Lefts erect Right hand on breast is plac't athwart 8. So Faith dispos'd Her Shield is there disclos'd Salvations Helmet also Shows Truth 's Girdle wrought all Lilli'd ore and Ros'd Th ' Righteous Brest-Plate Words Sword Gospel-Shooe deck Rows 9. Upon her Shield Of Gules the bloody Field To make her Foes amaz'd in Fight Resplendently a Cross of Or doth guild With which fierce World false Flesh Hels Craft she puts to flight 10. Nor far from hence On place of Eminence Atenariff that 's mounted high A Lady deck't with Beauties Excellence Stands firm by Cable holding Anchor'd in the skye 11. A Fount near these In dimpled Vale doth please A flying Statue bears Loves Name Whose Breasts run Cream into Pacifick Seas By Cestern fil'd from Milkie way in th' heavenly Frame 12. Where th'Hungry feed The Sick that Cordials need Cure from blest Hand of Charis finde Who still delights to do a Pious Deed And th'helpless helps the Naked clothes and leads the Blind PERSPECTIVE VII 1. THe Mount of Faith It is so called for the Loftinesse of the Position of the Place above the neighb'ring inferiour Earth To go to the Etymologie of the word A Mount which is the diminutive expression of a Mountain is derived a Monte which is the Latine word for it Whence it doth come there is no little Contest among the Grammarians Quidam a movendo per antiphrasin Some would have it as from Not moving because Mountains are steady in their places Such Vast Bodies stand fixed as irremoveable by Art as they are by Nature A little nearer the matter though much differing from the Sound of the word is their opinion for Mo●s ab ●minendo quasi eminens as hath been first mentioned Scaliger backs the Sence of a non movendo but

Rest to be found upon Earth but in God Nor any Safety but under the shadow of His Wings What conceive we of His wonderful Wisdom that prefer our own imaginations before It Why raise we our Vain Desire against His most Holy Pleasure and make the Rebellion of our Hearts to be as the Sin of Witchcraft Why fondly hast we to every Bush for shelter Or think we to avoid the storme by the nimblenesse of our failing Feet Come then my sad Companion in distresse My other Self in Misery Sit thee down by me Sit thee down and rest thee Many say who will shew us any good But Lord lift up thy countenance upon us Thou hast given me more joy of Heart than they have had when their wheat and their Wine did abound I will lay me down and also sleep in peace For Thou Lord onely makest me to dwell in Safety Hath the Lord humbled thee and set thee down in the shadow Hath he besieged thee with many Troubles Hath he beset thee with a multitude of Afflictions Is there no way to escape Doe His Arrowes fly about thee O consider what thou hast deserved Remember that His Patience is wonderfull and His loving Kindnesse above measure His Corrections are gentle and His Mercies never fail those that trust in him His Straightnings are Life and His Goodnesse surpasseth understanding Why holdest out And giv'st not up the Place Resigne Hath Abraham but one Son His Joy His onely comfort And must Isaac be a Sacrifice Were there not Cattel enough among all the Herds for one Offering Nor a nearer place than a strange Countrey for an Altar Must he travaile to his Losse the Losse of his onely Son his beloved And must that come by his own hand too And was his obedience without grutching with cheerfulnesse Without question O how great was his Faith But what followed The stroak was restrained Isaac saved a Ram presented and in his stead offered Abraham proved and approved For so calls the Angel of the Lord from heaven Abraham Abraham Lay not thine hand upon the Child Neither do any thing unto him For now I know that thou fearest God Seing for My sake thou hast not spared thine onely Son O the infinite mercy of the Lord He is tender and full of compassion Is He the onely stay and Refuge Withstand him not Submit Resigne Whither is Ionas run from his Message from the Lord that sent him to Ninive Can a ship hide him Or the Sea promise him Safety He runs from a Calm to a Storm From the God of peace and power to the inconstancie of the Creature Is a Lot better than a Portion Or a Whal's Belly a more pleasing Entertainment than a City Is the Deep more comfortable than the brightnesse of the Heavens Or a dying habitation in the Living more to be esteemed than a lively Publication of God's warning to those that were otherwise appointed to dy Let every Ionas that is out of the way turn againe For the Lord is gracious and His Mercy endureth for ever Alas for thee Murmur not Keep not thy Will Let it not be thine own Resigne CANTO XII The Holy Hill of Contemplation The Downs of Cogitation 1. FRom Hill to Hill we go Now leav'st thou things below Sublimer Things to Know Here mighty Waves of terrene Seas As green as Neptune's Sight may please His rowl in Storme In Quiet these These Downs are stil'd all spred with silken Grasse Thick Short and smooth as slipp'ry Ice or Glasse A Carpet made of Plush it seems to those that Passe 2. All ore this Flowrie Place Bright Stars grow space by space And shew their Sweets and Grace Here Swallowes plumed Oares do plie With agile Pineons Swiftnesse trye Who shall dart quickest as they flie From Poast to Poast here Coursers run amain And freely of Themselves away doe straine So course fleet Thoughts upon the beating Braine 3. Out from Thelema's Cave Comes driving like a Wave In Noble Habit Brave For DIANOIA in her Looke Clasping in Hand an unbound Book And sits as if she fresh awoke Within a Wagon that doth nimblie glide Whose noiselesse Wheels do whirle on either side By Dromedaries drawn wherein Shee doth abide 4. Behinde her stands a Wight All clad in Snowie White That guides her Wagon right SANCTIFICATION some Her Name Heaven-born She is For such her Fame She shines as now from thence she came Oft Oil she pours upon the Damsels Head With Rod she Flies and Hornets striketh Dead That buz about the Ears o' th' Dame where once they bred 5. Thus ore the Downs she drives At PHRONTIS Height arrives Oft Holy Hill atchieves Where Contemplation sits so high To whom We passe on by and by Let DIANOIA go and spie There let the Dame go take a sweet Repose So modest She 's She never doffs her Clothes And none but One what 's on her Breast yet ever knowes The Promontory of Meditation 6. On Promontory there doth dwell Wise Phrontis that old Deeds does tell And Future Happinesse does spell A Holy One did build her dwelling place And did bestow upon it pious Grace As if an Hermit she there spends her dayes Except she take unseen a Journey through the Ayre ' Lights Takes a walk i' th' Portico o' th' House of Prayer And thence as oft unseen doth Home again repaire 7. From out her Studie She doth eye Both Land Sea and all doth try That 's worthy notice far or nigh She takes much pleasing pains to get by Heart The rarest Skill in Meletetick Art So findes She Puritie of Minde is part So She perceives what he must be that Meditates Devout and wisely skill'd in any case he states And with prepar'd Affections as the same relates 8. Her Object she doth keep in sight The manner of 't perpends aright Dividing draws so hits the white She has a Mint of Businesse and Lore She takes from Memorie what was before And layes it up in Recordation's Store Three friendly Helps she has whens'ever she growes weak When speechlesse Logicks Knowledge makes her speak When Deaf Attention cures Her Stupour Praying breaks 9. Her Librarie is large and fair In 3 Ranks plac't about her chair On those she reads in arbour'd air The first holds Natures Books the Creatures all The next Redemptions works that sav'd from fall Sanctification's gave a growing tall A Sedentarie Quiet She does Love and Chuse And Temperance to visit her doth often use For Solitude all Company She doth refuse 10. She 's beckned oft abroad by Love To take a Walk in shadie Grove As oft admireth Things above For Admiration gives to her a Law As doth the Load stone that doth Iron draw Her laughing ere seld any Creature saw No dwelling's here Our Souls do burn with high Desire To Contemplations holy Hill their Flames aspire Away Let 's mount O let 's not quench such kindling Fire The Holy Hill of Contemplation 11. Aloft now raise Thy Self with

adjunctum opus tacitè reprimunt dùm cogitationes protinus se causis propriis ad utilitatem subdunt Suppose that Reason went abroad a visiting and left the house of the minde to the Dispose of her servants the Thoughts When the Mistresse is thus out of the way what a noise what gossiping there is among the Maids But let Reason return unto the minde again when the Mistresse comes home no sooner her Foot at the Door but all is hush all Disorder vanishes and as every Maid betakes her self silently to her Work the Thoughts in like manner become well ordered and for much benefit to the Minde adjoyn themselves and set themselves on Work in their proper Businesse Let us look upon a Neoterick Ut figuli celerrimâ rotae manus concitatione in dissimiles propè infinitas elegantes tamen imagines mollieres argillae massam transmutant Simili ratione meditatio afficit ut infinita rerum abstrusarum genera acriter ratiocinando assequamur paria paribus contraria contrariis praeterita prasentibus comparemus As the Potter transforms the Masse of purer Clay with the swift Motion of his turning Hand into many unlike and in a manner numberlesse Figures yet curious shapes After the same manner worketh Meditation She brings it so to passe that we may reach untold sorts of secret things by a quick and inward reasoning comparing like to like contrarie with contrary and weighing with the present things what went before Let 's hear what another sayes Cùm bonum sit objectum voluntatis nostrae adeo quòd nihil possit esse amatum nisi bonum aut sub specie boni Cumque intellectus concipiat infinitam bonitatis abyssum in Deo valdè frigida esset voluntas quae non instar alterius Phoenicis exardesceret in amoris divini ignem contemplando lucidissimos solis justitiae radios Discute igitur alas tuas instar Phoenicis et erige cortuum inter meditandum et invenies te convertendum in cinerem vermes dum agnoscis tuam utilitatem coram infinita et immensa illa bonitate Dei When what is Good is the object of our Wills so nothing can be affected but That or something like it Seeing then that the Vnderstanding may conceive the infinite Abysse of Goodnesse that is in God the Will were Ice if it should not as another Phoenix flie all on fire with Divine Love by Contemplation beholding those most glorious Rayes of the Sun of Righteousnesse Display thy Wings then like the Phoenix raise thy Heart and mount thy Spirit between thy Meditations and with Iob thou shalt finde thy Self converted into Dust and Worms while thou doest acknowledge thine own Vileness in the Presence of that most Infinite and most Immense Goodnesse of the Lord. PROSPECT XII WHen wicked Policies doe raign They rowle their Trenches in the Brain And subtly winde false Works with Art To Undermine the Noblest Heart While Cunning spendeth utmost Skill To act what 's New invented Ill Makes Stratagems walks untrod Wayes Their hid Designes to height to raise Do make 't their Businesse to surprize What Truth can't gain they wu'd by Lies And all is but to make a Prey O' th' Soul which still they wu'd betray What Vizards do they wear For Ends O most unjust each other rends None sooner ruine brings them to Than Craft does Cunnings self undo While Sin doth seek all wayes to thrive Religious Sails to Heavenward drive Sin falls with Plots and th' Soul does gain By Contemplation Hope to raign CONSOLATORY ESSAY XII AS Men hear they tell the News But as they see they know so 't is in Plautus that old Comoedian Qui audiunt audita dicunt qui vident planè sciunt The Tongue and the Hand are very unruly Members especially when Honesty and Reason are not their Masters The Tongue seemeth the more desperate but the Hand appeareth the more dangerous What is spoken may be helped by Supposition of Mistaking or Disagreement in the Reporters or Death For then Breath and Life vanish together whereas that of the Hand appeareth to Posterity surviveth the Writer and Reader and remaineth as a Thousand Witnesses Illis est Thesaurus stultis in Linguâ situs Et questui habeant malè loqui melioribus Sayes the same Plautus Those Fools think Treasures placed in the Tongue That count belying Betters Gain for Wrong Incautus fuerit si propriâ manu tale aliquid comprehenderit â quâ utique re unicè cavere debes quòd nihil sit quo tam facile convincaris It is Macrobius He may be accounted indiscreet that leaveth a loose Action under his own Hand which a man ought with special care to avoid lest it become a snare to take his want of foresight Wherefore as no Vice layes a more foul aspersion upon Man then that of Ingratitude So no evidence is so strong to taint him therewith or convict him thereof as his own Hand-writing in Detestation of that Vice and his Actual Approbation of the Contrary How comes it then that Christians that have so often set their Hands to so many Obligations to God as have been so often iterated in and since Baptisme should fall away in such a manner as by the Wickednesse of their Hands and the ungodlinesse of their impudent Actions to testifie against themselves their own Impiety and to divulge abroad the Characters of their not lesse great than Abominable ingratitude To unman themselves by ingratitude to their Maker to unchristian themselves by unthankfulnesse to their Redeemer when the least that can be done in such a Case is to render Obedience for Creation Dutie for Protection and to return Praise for Blessings Do the Dumb Beasts give Thanks in their Looks and cast their Eyes unto the Hands that feed them Shall condemn'd Androgeo finde Gratitude in a Den of Lions And can any Christian be at a Losse when he Looks for it in his Bosom My Friend and Brother Christian Ubi animus ibi oculus The Watch of thine Eye goeth as the Spring of thine Affection directeth Let 's mark our Blessed Saviours advice He preacht it in the Mount Lay not up Treasures for your selves upon the Earth where the Moth and Canker corrupt and where the Theeves dig through and steal But lay up Treasures for your Selves in Heaven where neither the Moth nor Canker corrupteth and where the Theeves neither dig through nor steal For where your Treasure is there will your Heart be also Hast thou had a dejected Look from a heavie Heart as if th' adst lost thy Comfort and couldst not finde thy Happinesse Didst seek it in the Earth that Treasure is not in Mines nor in the Darknesse of so dull an Element Look upward Soul Look upward and be thankful Look upward and be mindful Be mindful of all that the Lord so wonderfully hath done for Thee so mercifully hath done unto Thee so bountifully hath bestowed upon Thee Strive to turn thine Eyes towards him from Vanitie And intreat His help to quicken thee in his Way Canst thou tell the number of his Mercies Canst thou tell how many be the Rays of the Sun And canst thou consider all his Blessings Look up and rejoyce at the excellent Goodnesse of the Lord Look up with the Eyes of Faith through the Heavens and behold the Brightnesse of His Glory that he hath prepared for the Saints Meditate and Look all about Thee Contemplate and cast up thine Eyes above Thee Here is Comfort There is Joy Here Christ easeth thy Burden There he gives Thee a reward Observe then his Testimonies and obey his Statutes Let thy Soul then magnifie his Name Let thy Lips sing Praises to his Holinesse Let thy Breast become a smoaking Altar And let thy Soul be all a flame of holy Love Let all thy Breath be as sweet smelling Incense up to Heaven Fix there thy Faith thy Hope thy Heart thy Soul That 's thy Place thy dwelling Hasten as directed thither Only remember thou art Mortal Deal thine Alms Give thy Dole before thou goest Praise ye the Lord For it is good to sing unto our God For it is a pleasant Thing and Praise is comely The Lord doth build up Jerusalem and gather together the disper●● of Israel He healeth those that are broken in Heart 〈◊〉 bindeth up their Sores He counteth the number of the Stars and calleth them all by their Names Great is our Lord and great is his Power his Wisdom is infinite The Lord relieiveth the meek and abaseth the wicked to the Ground Sing unto the Lord with Praise Sing upon the Harp unto our God! Praise the Lord. For his Mercie endureth for ever FINIS