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A07666	A mappe of mans mortalitie Clearely manifesting the originall of death, with the nature, fruits, and effects thereof, both to the vnregenerate, and elect children of God. Diuided into three bookes; and published for the furtherance of the wise in practise, the humbling of the strong in conceit, and for the comfort and confirmation of weake Christians, against the combat of death, that they may wisely and seasonably be prepared against the same. Whereunto are annexed two consolatory sermons, for afflicted Christians, in their greatest conflicts. By Iohn Moore, minister of the word of God, at Shearsbie in Leicester-shire.	Moore, John, d. 1619.	1617 (1617)	STC 18057; ESTC S112851	257,806	358

be like him that would not die after him Thinke of this and iudge whither all the world can hire vs not to die But alas great is our vnbeliefe full faint and weake is our faith or else night and day teares and cryes should section 22 be our meate and drinke whilst the wicked say vnto vs where is now your God we should wish rather to be doore-keepers in the house of God then to dwell in these vngodly tents For one day in his courts is better then a thousand It is a token of little loue to God to be so loath to goe vnto him when he calleth Herein we ought to lament the weakenesse of our faith and seeing our wants to prepare for remedie against the time of neede and to beg of God his aide strength and comfort against the pinch which things vndoubtedly if we aske in faith we shall obtaine and finde his promise true God reacheth out his hand to conduct vs but wee draw backe our owne and runne away when hee calleth vs. If hee bring vs into the way of saluation wee mourne for the world we looke behinde vs with Lots wife and procrastinate our desire of well doing We must therefore rouze vp our selues and not remaine st●ll in the mire wee must be fortified in his vertue who supporteth and comforteth vs in all distresse Let vs attempt to despise corruptible things and to desire heauenly and eternall When God calleth at euery section 23 occasion let vs harken vnto him if he be our guide we must follow him for to arriue in his house Let vs receiue his benefit and himselfe too for hee giues himselfe vnto vs in the person of his Sonne Hee causeth vs to see the meanes how to come vnto him Wee must therefore request him to bestow vpon vs will and desire to come thither by Faith Repentance Hope c. and that hee would maintaine his gifts and graces in vs to the end that here wee may mourne in this mortall life and attend in the assurance of his mercy for the end of this world and our last day which shall be the beginning of our true life Beseeching God our heauenly Father for his Son Christ his sake to keepe vs soules and bodies to his kingdome and glory and to lead vs order vs and dispose of vs as hee will in all things in all places and for euer that at the length we may come whither we would that is into his owne blessed presence and fruition of immortality with Christ and his Saints world without end Amen Trin vni Deo soli sit sola solida laus maiestas in aeternum FINIS A TWO-FOLD CORD OF CONSOLATION for afflicted Christians in their greatest CONFLICTS Seruing to strengthen their Faith and to support their Patience in the day of TRIALL Deliuered in two SERMONS The first whereof contayneth The effect of the true knowledge of Gods WORD The second contayneth The power of faithfull and feruent PRAYER BY IOHN MOORE Minister of Gods word at Shearsby in LEICESTER-SHIRE LONDON Printed by T. S. for GEORGE EDVVARDS and are to be sould at the signe of the Greyhound in Paules Church-yard 1617. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL AND VERTVOVS LADY THE LADY ELIZABETH TVRPIN Wife to the Right Worshipfull and worthy Knight Sr. WILLIAM TVRPIN his approued kinde Patrone c. the increase of all outward blessings and spirituall comforts be multiplyed and increased through IESVS CHRIST Worthy MADAME HAuing experience of your christian loue I am imboldened vpon so vrgent occasion and strictnesse of time sooner to present to your view these my poore Meditations purposed more maturely to be published if the vnexpected speedinesse of the Presse had not preuented me Howsoeuer my hearts desire is and I trust shall so continue to glorifie God in my calling and to profit his Church by any lawfull and hopefull meanes to the vttermost period of my dayes These infallible comforts of Gods word and faithfull prayer so approued and experienced to euery true Christian heart I commend vnto your good Ladiship whose vse by Gods blessing may sted you with others hauing your portion no doubt and lot of Tryals in this prouoking world a very furnace of afflictions to all Gods children I can promise little being the meanest of Gods Ministers Yet will I pray as my purpose was that it may proue profitable to your selfe and such as shall reade it for the increase of true patience comfort Christian courage that we all may fight the good fight of faith and finish our course with ioy and so be crowned I write vnto you as no stranger to my Ministery who often haue heard vpon occasion the handling of these poynts in the publike place Now onely I intreat your fauourable acceptance and patronage hereof as the meanest requitall of your manifolde kindnesses And so commending your Ladiship to Gods blessing and protection I humbly take my leaue From my poore studie in Shearsby Feb. 8. 1616. Your Ladiships wholly deuoted and obliged in Christ Iesus IOHN MOORE The principall poynts of doctrine contayned in both the SERMONS The Doctrines of the first SERMON PSAL. 199.92.93 GOd alwaies prouideth meanes to keepe his children from distresse in their greatest tryalls and afflictions Doct. 1 The excellent vse and profit of Gods word being able through his blessing to keepe vs vpright in our wayes and from falling away from God in our greatest tryals and temptations 2 Gods word cannot simply profit vs and keepe vs from perishing in our afflictions except we take ioy and comfort in the same 3 The best men and excellentest creatures are not able of themselues to stand and continue vpright in their tryals and temptations without Gods speciall prouidence and prouision in the meanes 4 It is the dutie of euery Christian to remember the meanes of their comfort and deliuerance from their former troubles and afflictions and to be carefull to vse the same againe as occasion serueth 5 It is peculiar and proper to Gods word alone to cheare the heart in afflictions and to quicken and reuiue the soule in the greatest extremities 6 The Doctrines of the second Sermon LAMENT 3.55.56.57.58 TRue and faithfull prayer is a most soueraigne meanes and remedie for comfort and deliuerance in and from our greatest distresses Doct. 1 True and faithfull prayer must bee made and directed to God alone 2 True and effectuall prayer is and must be grounded vpon the assured knowledge of Gods name and power 3 There is no outward condition of life so miserable or affliction so grieuous which the dearest children of God are not subiect vnto in this world 4 This is one fruit and effect of sinne that it stoppeth the passage of our prayers and hindreth Gods blessings from vs. 5 Afflictions not onely stirre vp men to prayer but also make their prayers more feruent and effectuall 6 Gods children neuer pray in vaine but are heard and helped of God in their greatest afflictions 7

Christ Except yee shall eate the flesh of the Sonne of man you shall haue no life in you Againe Hee that eateth my flesh dwelleth in mee and I in him Now it is all one to say that Christ is in vs and that hee abideth in vs and to say with the Apostle that Christ dwelleth in our harts by faith Hee is therefore in vs and abideth in vs and is vnited to vs by a liuely Faith And as wee eate the true and naturall flesh of Christ so wee are vnited to the true flesh of Christ but the former is by Faith therefore the latter also section 14 Againe wee are not vnited but to a liuely and quickening flesh and this is the end why wee are vnited thereto that being quickened thereby wee may liue eternally But the flesh of Christ is not a quickening flesh of it selfe but so far forth as it was taken of the Son of God into the vnitie of the person Our soule is ioyned to the soule of Christ and our naturall flesh with the flesh of Christ and therefore like vnto ours in all things sinne only excepted which teacheth vs to fasten the eyes of our mindes immediately and first of all vpon the humane flesh of Christ as it were vpon the vayle by which the entrance was into the most holy place where the glory of God most clearly shined and then after that to enter into the Sanctuary it selfe to behold his Deity section 15 Furthermore as Christ by the communication of his Spirit vniteth himselfe vnto vs so we by Faith are ioyned to him For the first By this wee know saith S. Iohn that Christ is in vs euen by the Spirit which hee hath giuen vs. Hee that hath not the Spirit of Christ saith S. Paul hee is none of his For the second saith the same Apostle that Christ dwelleth in our hearts by Faith Hee that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood saith Christ abideth in me and I in him but hee is eaten and drunke by faith as in the same place Christ expoundeth He that beleeueth in me shall neuer thirst We therefore are vnited to Christ by a liuely faith The knowledge and apprehension of which vnion with Christ by a true and liuely faith not onely ministreth a section 16 true euidence of our right and interest in Iesus Christ but putteth vs in possession of all his benefits purchased to mankinde Hence commeth assured remission and forgiuenesse of sinnes and by a necessary consequence perfect deliuerance from eternall Death by Christs obedience in Death and likewise full and perfect possession of eternall life following his obedience in fulfilling the Law For both the parts of that obedience which was really performed by Christ is communicated to vs by imputation and is truely made ours by the right of this spirituall vnion seeing while Christ how great soeuer hee be is made one flesh with vs and we with him and in regard thereof by imputation also we as the members together with Christ the head are now crucified are dead are buried are raised from death haue ascended into heauen doe sit with him in the highest heauens are blessed with Christ with all spirituall blessings and that not onely in hope but already in Christ our head wee are reputed for such in heauen with God the Father Againe two things necessarily concurre to the iustification section 17 of life First remission of our sinnes that we be not found guilty of eternall death Secondly the imputation of the righteousnesse of Christ that we may be thought worthy of eternall life and neither of these can be without the other and both of them we haue of Christ For the Lord Iesus of his grace and fauour towards vs maketh that what things soeuer wee doe by this his inherent righteousnesse communicated vnto vs to make vs continually fruitfull both to our selues and others although they be most imperfect workes and stained with the corruption of the flesh yet hee I say maketh that they be pleasing and acceptable to God all our spots and blemishes being couered in the robes of Christs righteousnesse And as Adams eating of the forbidden tree was imputed to all his posteritie though they neuer tasted of the fruit with their lippes So the righteousnesse and obedience of Christ shall make all faithfull men righteous before God though they themselues as yet haue tasted no righteousnesse For God hath made him sinne for vs that knew no sinne that wee should be made the righteousnesse of God in him As therefore Christ was made sinne for vs not by infusion of sinne into his person but by imputation of our sinnes vnto him so must wee be made righteous before God not by infusion of righteousnesse into our owne persons but by imputation of Christs righteousnesse vnto vs. As the Moone and Starres borrow all their light from the Sunne so the Church and euery member of the same borrow all their righteousnesse from Christ the Sonne of righteousnesse And as for the sinnes of the faithfull howsoeuer they section 18 cleaue vnto their bones yet if they hate them as hell from whence they are the Diuell working them they neede not care for them being heauy in waight and many in number for they haue their hope not in their own person but in the body of Christ into which they are grafted and in which there is no spot but perfection of righteousnesse euen before God himselfe Their sinnes by his meanes are put vnder their feete and they are rulers ouer them They are not imputed vnto them but vnto Christ The punishment of them is forgiuen vnto the faithfull but not forgiuen to Christ Righteousnesse is freely giuen vnto vs but it was not freely giuen vnto him he obeyed the law of his Father euery iot and tittle that he might fulfill all righteousnesse He bore the condemnation of hell and death that he might abolish it So that in him is life in him is righteousnesse in him is immortalitie and in him is the reconciled good will of God to man And that excellent wisedome which hath made vs by faith one with him the same hath made vs partakers of all his honour and blessed immortalitie If we be ingrafted into the body of Christ wee be his section 19 and he liueth in vs his victory ouer all is ours we see it by faith and all things are in subiection vnder our feete The Diuels doe challenge no good by Christ but disclaime his mercies person and all his meanes Oh what haue wee to doe with thee but euery good Christian may claime him as his due with blessed Paul and say that Christ is his righteousnesse wisedome sanctification and redemption and be bolde to affirme that though his body be in heauen yet shall I there finde it mine his diuinity on earth yet there shall I feele it mine c. All is for mee since Christ is mine

consolation And seeing that God my louing Father tempered this Potion for mee and Iesus Christ his Sonne hath begunne vnto mee shall I not drinke it with thankfulnesse and comfort But why will hee haue thy death so bitter and sharpe It is my Lord who can and will wish me nothing but good and why should I his poore and vnprofitable seruant refuse to suffer that which the Lord of glory and my blessed Sauiour sustained himselfe But it is a miserable thing to die No the death of Gods Saints is precious in the sight of of God and the ready way to eternall life Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord for so saith the Spirit they shall rest from their labours But the death of sinners is damnable Yea but he is no more a sinner that truely repenteth and is pardoned Let not Sathan tell Gods children what they haue beene but what they would be for such we are by imputation section 16 as we are in affection and he is now no sinner which for the loue he beareth to righteousnesse would be no sinner Such as we be in desire and purpose such wee be in reckoning and accompt with God who giueth that true desire and holy purpose to none but to his children whom he iustifieth Neither vndoubtedly can the guiltinesse of sinne breake the true peace of conscience seeing it is the worke of another who hath commended vs as righteous before God and saued vs. It must needes be graunted that in our selues we are weaker then that we can resist the least sinne so farre off is it that we can encounter with the Law Sinne Death Hell and Diuell and yet in Iesus Christ we are more then conquerours ouer them all If Sathan summon thee therefore to answere for thy section 17 debt send him straight to Christ thy pledge and say that the wife is not sueable but the husband therefore enter thy action Sathan against Christ my husband and he will answere thee Who then shall condemne vs or what Iudge shall daunt vs sith God hath acquitted vs and Christ that was condemned hath iustified vs He is our Iudge that willeth not the death of a sinner hee is our man of law that to excuse vs suffered himselfe to be accused for vs. O gluttenous hell where is thy defence O cruell sinne where is thy tyrannous power O rauening death where is thy bloody sting O roaring Lyon why doest thou fret and fume Christ my law fighteth against thee O law and is my libertie Christ my sinne against thee O sinne and is my righteousnesse Christ warreth against thee O Diuell and is my Sauiour Christs Death is against thee O Death and is my life Thou diddest desire to paue my way to the burning lake of damned soules but contrary to thy will thou art constrained to lift vp the Ladder whereby I must ascend to euerlasting happinesse and ioy In our tryals and temptations we must first search out section 18 the cause and ascend to God pleading guilty and crauing mercy at his hand and not so much stand quarrelling with the corruption of our nature and Sathans malice against vs. For as it were no good wisedome for a man condemned to die to make any long suite to the Iaylour or hangman for they be but vnder-officers and can doe nothing of themselues but must rather labour to the Iudge himselfe who can either repriue or release him so it is no good pollicie to stand reasoning so long with Sathan in our temptations who doth all by constraint and restraint vnder God our Lord in whose onely hands are both the entrance and issues of all afflictions and Death it selfe section 19 Whatsoeuer scruple therefore ariseth from our selues or is inferred of Sathan from any imperfection that is in vs it neede not at all dismay vs because wee saue not our selues but are saued by him who is made vnto vs from God wisedome righteousnes Sanctification and redemption that who so glorieth should glorie in him Thus we must send Sathan to Christ who is our aduocate to pleade and defend our cause which yet is not so much ours as his owne because the question is not of our merits or satisfactions which we freely renounce but of the merits of his obedience and of the value of his Death vnto the saluation of the soules of all the faithfull Thus shall we at once for euer stop the mouth of this our cruell enemie when refusing to pleade our owne cause we referre our selues vnto Christ whom we know to be the wisedome of God and sufficient to answere what possibly can or shall be obiected against vs. When Dauid comes to fight with Goliah he casteth away Sauls armour all confidence in the world or man is laid aside and he onely trusteth in God section 20 Doth the Law indite vs of transgression we must make our appeale to the court of Conscience in heauen and there get a Supersede as to stay the course of Law and so appeale to the throne of grace from the Law of feare to the Law of loue as Augustine speaketh Doth the aduersarie vrge our debt our answer is the obligation is cancelled and the booke is crossed and the whole sum discharged Christ hath passed his word nay he hath paid all that is due for vs to the vtmost farthing Let vs shew him our generall acquittance vnder hand and seale giuen vs by God himselfe with whom it is as proper to shew pittie as mercie to helpe misery This is my wel beloued Son in whom I am wel pleased Here is the creditours owne word his owne handwriting vnder seale this is a very good quietus est in Law it is proclaimed from heauen and therefore sufficient to comfort poore distressed sinners vpon earth The house built vpon a rocke was not moued when the stormes beate and the windes blew Christ is our sure rocke let vs builde our faith vpon him and we shall be safe Men cannot be more sinfull then God is mercifull if section 21 with penitent hearts they faithfully call vpon him If wee come to Christ the fountaine of all mercies there shall we finde God in his mediation great without quantitie and good without quality as an auncient speaketh When the wandring Sonne had consumed his fathers substance yet returning sorrowfull his father receiued him and though we sometime loose the nature of children yet God doth neuer loose the name and nature of a father To conclude the Diuell once ouercome giues a fresh assault againe he will neuer giue vs ouer till death end the battell and then he shall be foyled As it comes to passe amongst warriours if the one die in the field and fight the other getteth the vpper hand Here is the difference the faithfull at the last euer get a finall conquest then ascend to heauen as triumphers there the Diuell can assaile them no further he may compasse the earth but he cannot enter

out of heauen saith one as goe thither thy selfe in this wicked kinde of life What then wilt thou forgoe heauen and yet escape hell This is lesse possible whatsoeuer the Atheists of this world perswade thee Wilt thou deferre the matter and thinke of it hereafter Thou shalt neuer haue more abilitie to doe it then now and it may be neuer halfe so much againe If thou refuse it now thou maist greatly feare to be refused thy selfe hereafter There is nothing then so good as to take this good occasion while it is offered Breake from those tyrants which detaine thee in seruitude section 14 the Diuell Sinne World and Flesh shake off their shackles cut all their bands and chaynes asunder free thee from their gyues and irons and runne violently to Iesus Christ who standeth with open armes ready to imbrace thee make ioyfull all the Angels and Saints with thy conuersion strike once the stroke with God againe and returne to thy Father Who would be so base minded with the Prodigall Sonne in this world rather to eate huskes with the Swine then to turne home with him againe to be so honourably receiued haue such good cheare and banketting and heare so great melody ioy and triumph for his returne Hee that will liue without repentance must looke to dye without repentance The sparing of the Theefe on the Crosse at the last gaspe was set out as a medicine against desperation and not as a matter of imitation God saith one spared one that no man might despaire and hee spared but one that no man might presume The Lord hath promised pardon to him that repenteth but to liue till to morrow hee hath not promised section 15 The heauenly dewe of Repentance neuer fals but the Sunne of righteousnesse draweth it vp Repentant eyes bedewed with teares for sinne are the cellers of Angels and penitent sighes and sobs the sweetest wines which the sauour of life perfumeth the taste of grace sweetneth and the purest colours of returning innocencie highly beautifieth O that our hearts were euermore such a Lymbecke distilling so pure a quintessence of godlinesse drawne from the weedes of our offences by the fire of true Faith and vnfayned contrition of spirit Heauen would mourne at the absence of such precious waters and earth lament the losse of such fruitfull showers Surely till death close vp those fountaines they should neuer fayle running which if they had alwayes issue we neede not doubt of our saluation but that God would wash away all our filthinesse and sinne The world saith Bernard had not perished with the Floud if the flouds of teares for sinne had euer flowed from mens eyes section 16 To conclude if thou shalt see thy selfe to floate in the sea of temptations in the agonies of death leaue not the Anchor-hold of hope before thou enter the hauen of rest This is the sure Anchor indeede of the soule which lyeth deepe and is not seene and yet is the stay of all euen the soule of our life And because wee cannot plead the plea of Innocencie Faith bids vs boldly plead the plea of Mercy and telleth vs the Iudge is reconciled But this is no Palsie-faith as wee haue heard but firme and constant vnto the end which still concludes through Christ to the Conscience that liuing and dying we are the Lords Hope is the piller sustayning this building of our Faith which fayling our Faith falleth into the gulfe of Despayre And there is nothing maketh more cleare the mighty power of the Word and of Gods promise then that it makes men so mighty that hope and trust in God for all things are possible to him that beleeueth When wee seeme as it were in the whirle-pit of Despayre and are carryed by a violent streame of trouble wee know not whither and are constrayned to diue and plunge downe the water of affliction running ouer our soules yet the Lord will recouer vs and set our feet in a steady place If wee be cast downe so that wee can but scrawle vp againe if wee be so tyred of Sathan by temptations that yet wee can but kicke against him in affection if we can but open our lips and accuse him of malice before the Lord there is yet some hope of comfort to be found And in all our tryals and temptations wee must haue recourse to faithfull prayer that so the burthen thereof may eyther be remoued or at the least eased or wee better strengthened and inabled to sustaine the same Hope to a Christian in this life is as a staffe to a traueller section 17 in his iourney who leaneth to it and resteth vpon it shall hardly fall but shall flye aloft as the Eagles It is giuen to Hope to enter the garden of pleasures and thence to fetch all fragrant smels to season the bitternesse of our sorrowes whose nature is to glory in tryals It ouer-floweth with dainties in the pining Desart of this world Who is this that ascendeth from the Desart flowing with delights It esteemes not the losse of temporall goods for it is said of the Saints that they had sustayned with ioy the spoyling of their goods And whom haue I in heauen but thee and there is none in earth with thee It bringeth rest in labour a shadow against the heate of tribulation ioy in mourning it sheweth vs life in death and heauen as it were in hell Hee may boldly giue saith one that hath so good a pawne and hee may be sure of heauen that hath the pledge of an assured Hope But Despayre is as a tree pulled vp by the rootes it is a bottomlesse gulfe out of which few or none returne that fall into it CHAP. IX The true knowledge and assured perswasion of the Resurrection of our bodyes much furthereth our chearefull resolution to Death section 1 NOW for as much as the fairest frame and building with all the prouision and preparation thereunto is nothing worth if the ground-worke and foundation be not sure and vnmoueable besides the abuse of the time costs and persons imployed about the same frustrating the purpose and end of the builder with the ruines of despayre So all that hath hitherto beene spoken of Life and Death of Heauen and Hell of Christians and Infidels of Faith and Hope and other furniture and prouision for the assured fruition of a blessed life is but spoken in the ayre and a fighting with our shadow if there be no sure demonstration of the vndoubted resurrection of our bodies For then saith the Apostle Paul our Preaching is in vaine our Faith in vaine Christ dyed in vaine all Religion in vaine the persecutions and sufferings of Gods children in vaine nay then let vs scoffingly conclude with Epicures and Atheists Let vs eate and drinke for to morrow wee shall dye But such euill words corrupt good manners I will therefore endeauour as much as in me lyeth to make it plaine