The Christians map of the world drawne at the solmne funerals of M. Henry Chitting Esquire, Chester-Herauld at Armes, interred Ianuary 11, Anno Domini 1637. By Edward Sparke Master in Arts, and preacher at St. Mary Islington.

THE CHRISTIANS MAP OF THE WORLD : Drawne at the solemne Funeralls of Mr. Henry Chitting Esquire , Chester-Herauld at Armes , interred Ian. 11. Anno Dom. 1637.

OMNIS dies , omnis , hora quam nihil sumus osteudit , &c. Every day , you see , nay , every houre ( saies Seneca ) shewes us what a Nothing wee are , Libro d● brev . vitae . and by some fresh argument or other puts us in minde of our forgot mortality : had not each Day enough of its owne griefe , this could supply the rest , The occasionall Preface . we could now lend our neighbours teares , but that ( I feare ) common calamities have already stord them ; stord them with such sad spectacles as lieth before us : such indeed for frailenesse , but seldome ( I thinke ) such for goodnesse : one that s Text enough for a discourse , Acts 20 7. were it as long as Saint Pauls Sermon , Act. 20. but that , here , double modesty prohibits Panegyricks ; and you know funerall Sermons are not so much to glorifie the dead , as edifie the living : and therefore wee will take another Text , wherof yet Hee shall be the Comment , while wee the Applicatours : and that is written in the thirteenth Chapter of Saint Paul to the Hebrewes and the fourteenth verse .

Wee have heer no continuing Citty , Text. Heb. 13. verse 14. but wee seeke ( or looke for ) one to come .

THat Wise observer of a Time for all things Eccles. 3. Eccles. 3. tells us of a tempus nascendi , a time to be borne , and tempus moriendi , of a time to die , but not so much as mentioneth tempus vivendi , any time at all to live ; Man having indeed to certainty of that , but passing from his proper to the common Mother ( from the grave of the wombe , to the wombe of the grave ) as swift as either ship or shuttle , winde or arrow ; like a a Iob 9.25 . Iobs Poast , having ever one Citty to leave , an other to make toward , none to abide in , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , &c. For wee have heere no continuing Citty .

But ere we enter this same City , let us look a little on the gate of it , this word b b The context in the particle For. For : 't will bring us better acquainted with the context , and , as a Porter open to us the dores of this building . It is particula rationalis , say the Schooles : For , is commonly a relative particle , wheresoere prefixt , speaking those words a reason of precedent matter : and so indeed t is heere ; Saint c c Vide Parei praefa in Coment super Hebraeos . Paul now taking his farewel of the Hebrewes ( as I may make him the Author with more Seconds than opponents . ) The Apostle , I say , in this last chapter of his Epistle , legacieth many pious duties to their practice ( enforcing all his documents with reasons . )

As in the first place d d Hospitality . vers. 2. Hospitality , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . verse . 2. bee not forgetfull to lodge strangers ( saies hee ) For thereby some have entertained Angels .

Next loyalty in e e Chastity . v. 4 wedlocke , inviolation of the nuptiall bed , vers. 4. Marriage is honourable , &c. but whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge .

Thirdly , f f Content v 5 contentednesse with any estate , vers. 5. 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , be content with those things that you have , For God hath said it , I wil never leave thee nor forsake thee .

Fourthly , g g Constancy . verse 9. perseverance in religion , v. 9 be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines ( saies hee ) For t is a good thing the heart be stablished with grace .

Lastly , h h Patience . v. 13 patience and humility in the 13. verse , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . Let us goe forth out of the campe bearing his reproach , for wee have here , &c. As much as if he had said , Christ ( like that sin-offering burnt without the campe , Levit. 6 36. Lev. 6 ) suffred without the gate ( .i. ) most ignominiously for place and manner ; let not us Christians therefore wanton out our lives in Tents of pleasure , but follow such a Master out of the City ( .i. ) conversationem mundi exeamus : i i Ecolampadius in locum . relinquish we our carnal conversation , not fashioning our selves according to this world ; a world that ascertaines us of nothing but of our uncertainty , a non habemus , here no continuing City : t is fit then wee thinke of an abode elsewhere , it becomes discarded k k Luk. 16 8. Stewards to provide them , each imitate that wise one in the Gospell , purchase you a perpetuity , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 either by such doing good , or patient suffering ill ( no matter which way God bring us to Heaven ) and come the worst , wee know Christs Thornes were platted into a Crowne , that l l 2 Tim 2 12. if wee suffer we shall also raigne with him . Let the world build on sand , while hee is our Rocke wee cannot want an house shall stand eternall in the Heavens , a City , whose Builder and Maker is God : and this is it we looke for , That we long for futuram expectamus : Text. Text.

But because sorrow , I know , is a passion loves no prefacing , I will forthwith spread my mantle and divide these waters ; and then heere s at one side , Mundi indigentia , Earths inhospitality , Non habemus , here no continuing City : at the other , Coeli sufficientia , Heavens all-sufficiency , futuram expectamus , wee looke for one . Which two parts , I may expresse , as m m Zeno. the Philosopher of old his two Sciences Rhetorick and Logick : the world appeares here pugna contractâ , as with a clinched fist , readier to give a blow than a benefit , a very withered Icroboam , whose hand is shortned that it cannot helpe , not helpe us to a continuing Citty , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 ; here wee have none . But the tother is Manus Expansa , Division . the open hand of Heaven , fuller of assistances and blessings , than all Rhetorick can delineat , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . Indeed this Text is the Christians Map of the World ; consisting likewise of that n n The paire of Globes , Coelestiall and Terrestriall . paire of Globes Coelestiall and Terrestriall : Globes ( I say ) not Cosmographicall , but Theologicall ; one of them not so much discovering the rarities of Earth , and flourishing Cities of the world , as demonstrating the vanity and emptinesse thereof , and that there is no continuing City in it : The tother not so much teaching us the motion of the Starres , and walking unto Heaven with a staffe , as how wee may one day shine among those Lights , and really inhabit that same glorious City , which is some Happinesse heere , but to hope for Futuram Expectamus , &c.

The first of these ( mee thinkes ) the o o The Terrestriall Globe of the Christistian Map . Matth. 4. lower Globe , deales with us heere , somewhat like Satan with our Saviour , Matthew 4. Setting us , as on a Pinnacle of the Temple , shewes us all a faire Prospect of the Earth ; yet with a true , not his false glasse ; not as a lure , but as a caution , not in the language of the Tempter , telling us of Kingdomes and the glory thereof , but in the Apostles , Transit Mundus . 1 Iohn 2. The world passeth , and the glory thereof ; 1 Iohn 2.17 . passeth ! I , and must one day in the p p Partes imitantur Naturam totius . totall passe to nothing , as now in the parts , to no continuing City : which defect and indigence of the world , results apparantly from these three circumstances of the Text : Quis , Quid , Vbi : Subdivision . in 3. circumstances . the Plaintifes heere condoling , wee : wee , the generall race of Adam , wee , mortalls , because wee sinners . Secondly , their wants , what they are scanted of , and that s a place of residence , a continuing City , Non habemus , we have none . Lastly , the Scene of all these miseries , where we are thus streightned , and that s Hic here , in this same dirty q q 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . prison Earth . ( Text ) Briefly of them , and with a discourse as fitting as the subject , no continuing City : and first of the Plaintifes Wee .

But what ? have wee no continuing City ? First circumstance , Quis. by your favour ( holy Apostle ) did not the Creatour , so soone as hee had built this great house the world , and furnisht it , bring in Man his Tenant there , and sole possessour ? can we complaine of wants ? did not all creatures then weare mans livery , a name of servitude , and the very wheeles of Time it selfe , r r A reflection on mans Creation and his fall . appointed to attend him unto immortality ? Can they then , whose is the whole Earth , want Cities ? whose Chariot , Immortality ; whose Lackquie , Time was ; can they want continuance ? is heere a non habemus ? we no continuance heer ! Indeed the World was thus mans Royall-Mannour once ( all Creatures holding of him ) Paradice to have beene his Continuing City ; and all this too , leased out to him ( paying but the Rent , Obedience ) for as many lives as hee should have Posterity : But the edge of his ambition cut off this entayled Happinesse , hee would bee Paramount , Chiefe Land-lord , He : so breaking the conditions , forfeited his everlasting Tenure : that now hee is but a Tenant at will to an offended Land-lord , and scarce an equall sharer in the vivacity of his brother-animals ; but this misery and mortality of Man , is a condition not imprinted in him by God , who ( as Hee is Himselfe Immortall ) had put a Coale , a Beame of Immortality into ûs , which wee might have blowne into a Flame , but blew it out by our first sinne ; wee beggered our selves by hearkning after false Riches , and therefore now are driven to our wants , to these complaints Non habemus . Wee infatuated our selves by listning after false Knowledge : I , that Tree of Knowledge bereft us of the Tree of Life , taught us to know evill onely : and left us doubly like the beasts that perish . Psal. 49.12 . Psalme 49. both for infatuation and corruption : like the beasts indeed for praecipitation unto death , but not for the protraction of their life ; most of them running man out of breath if wee may beleeve the s s Virgilii Epigr. de aetat . animal . Naturalists ( as specially , I thinke in this particular ) the Crow nine times numbring out his age , the Stagg foure times exceeding hers , the Raven againe trebling his , the Phoenix as long liv'd as all of them . These and others sport and chant away whole centuries of yeares , while man sits sighing over his poore handfull , Psalme 39 5. Dies fecisti palmares meos . Psal. 39. Thou hast made my daies but a spanne long , nay rather a short spanne ; Mine age is nothing unto thee , saies David , there to God , that might say heere unto the beasts , mine age is nothing unto these . And yet it would favour but of learned Heathenisme , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . to chide at Nature ( as some have done ) and call her Step-mother to man , and naturall to others ; the u u Aristot . in Histor. Anim. Philosopher himselfe takes of that cavill , affirming one day of a life of reason , above an age of non-intelligence , beyond all their longaevity of senfe : but Divinity turnes this seeming discontent into a comfort , informing us that this life properly belongs to things of sense , all its chiefe blandishments ( treasure or pleasure ) being but sensuall , and no otherwise than imaginarily good , x x The good man envies not the bruites vivacity . much good may it doe them , then with the length of this life , that are to have none other , Non equidem invideo : while nobler soules of reason and religion , trampling on this , hasten to a better ; a life among their Brother-Angels , in their owne Country , Heaven ; There to measure reall felicities no more by Time but by eternity .

No longer then let this bee a complaint but consolation , non habemus , that wee have heere no continuing City .

Thus having brought you acquainted with the Plainteifs ( as wêll as with your selves ) consider now their wants , Transition to the second particle . 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 : we have not a continuing City .

A continuing City ] Wee are not heere restrained unto the Letter , as spoken of materiall buildings ( though even in that sense also it bee true enough ) Mors etiam saxis , obeunt & Marmora . Citties have their period and dissolution , The litterall truth of the Text. both occasionall and naturall . Some of them , like goodly Troy , and better Ierusalem , those Phoenix-Cities of the world ( in successive Ages ) buried in fiery Tombes , rak'd in their owne Ashes : Others , too many of them ( witnesse all Germany ) like old Roome and Carthage , sackt and demolisht by the bloody hand of Warre ; so that ( you see ) the Emperiall Cities of the foure great Monarchies , nay , those Monarchies themselves , all as well as * * Isai. 47.1 . Babylon , now sit in the dust : and 't was but flattery in that * * Livius . Historian , who called Rome , Eterna Civitas , after so many downefalls , and scarce a feather now of that proud Eagle left : it was not altogether a fiction the Poets describing of old Saturne , their god of Time , how hee devoured his children , though of stone , ( for such they feigned hee had ) I am sure the 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 is reall , and calls him Tempus edax ; for whatsoere Time brings forth , Time destroyes : This I need say no more of , every languishing body , every nodding structure is a demonstration ; and had not pious care , and suddaine too , prevented , that publick-glory of the Mother City , Saint Pauls Church had preacht a non permanentem , the litterall truth of the Text , but happy are they who build such Tabernacles heer , that are not chid by that same Prophet Haggai . Haggai . 1 4. 1 Is this a time for you to dwell in seiled houses and let mine House lye waste , &c. Yet alas how wanton now a daies is the worlds invention for superfluous building , Temples are to old fashion'd , the zealous y y Bernard . Father may still sigh . Men build as though they should continue for ever , and glut as though to dye to morrow , which indeed they may rather feare , Isai. 5.8 . such a woe being denounced against them . Isa. 5. but to avert it , imitate that ecclesiasticall Centurion , Luk. 7.5 . 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . Chrysost. hom. 2. Luk. 7. and , if thou needs wilt build , let Saint Chrysostome be a little thy surveighour ; Wouldst thou erect beauteous and splendid Edifices ? I forbid thee not ( saith hee ) yet found them not on earth , t is but an heape of sand , but situate in those calme Regions that are above the breath of danger , build in Heaven 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . Heere literally , no continuing City : Besides , too many now a daies ( God knowes ) finde another sense to verifie the Text , by reason of their tradelesse shops and fickle offices , experience it a failing a discontinuing City : but wee sticke not on the barke any longer , Adouble synecdoche . led further than the letter by a double synecdoche . First , Continentis pro Contento , Cities heere put for the inhabitants , and our want of peacefull residence , shadowed under their discontinuance ( the Text ) strongly reflecting on that pilgrimage of Abraham . Gen. 12. Gen. 12. City for the inhabitants . Gen. 23 18. where hee is called from his owne Country and his Fathers house , to divide a life between variety of strange lands and dangers ; so that indeed wee reade of none other setled possession that he had but Mackpelah , his onely purchase a place of buriall , thus it was with the Father of the Faithfull , he had no continuing City : Nor any thing better with the children : few and evill have beene the dayes of my Pilgrimage ( saies old Israel Gen. Chap 49. 49. ) long and evill the daies of our Pilgrimage , murmure the children of Israel in the wildernesse : Exo. 14. That Iourney , Exod 14. a true Type of the Saints way to Heaven , per varios casus , &c. who wandred up and downe ( saith hee ) destitute and afflicted , Heb. Heb. 11.37 . 11. Militant is the Churches name , shee is an hoast upon continuall marches and removes ; Our habitations heere , so often varied by occasions , either of some losse , dis-favour , sicknesse , or of death ( I need give no examples ) that , like the traveling Common-wealth of Israel , wee have rather so many-severall stations , than appropriate mansions : Non habemus hîc permanentem .

Againe , Synec doche partis . heere s a Synechdoche Partis , whereby this word City , as the prime part and Master-peice of Earths perfection , is put for the whole glory and happinesse thereof : and so a City is an emblem of Strength , of Unity , of Rest , of Safety : in neither of which respects ( as I le succinctly shew you ) have wee 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 heere any Continuing City .

First , Prov. 10. ●● Psalm . 60.9 . t is an emblem of strength , Prov. 10. The Rich mans wealth is his strong City : and Psal. 60. Who will lead me into the strong City ? This is the frequent Epithite , through the holy booke , strong and well fenced Cities : indeed there s the Vis Vnita , the combination of most Men and Armes , the Store-house of Munition , Civitas cor reipub : T is the heart of the body-publick , A City an embleme of strength . Man no continuing City . the seat of most spirit and vigour , deservedly may these be called strong houlds : Now what a City man hath in this sense , soone bee your owne Iudges : walke but about it , view well the Towers thereof ( if you can finde any ) how weakely is hee fenc'd about with these thinne walls of clay ! walls , that every Ague shakes , every Dropsie drownes , every Feaver fires , every Danger batters ; one Fort indeed there s in it , the heart , but that so feeble , as t is in a continuall trembling , a palpitation not more for breath than trouble , Psal. 38. Psalm 38.10 . watchmen too it hath , eyes placed in a Tower , the Head , but neither foreseeing or preventing mischiefe ; at best exercises , either dimme or drowsie . The Souldiers of it , the Hands , oft treacherous , advantaging the Enemy , and by sinnes wounding his owne Bosome , while in all this extremity his Carriages the Feet are unable to convey him from surprisall , or keepe him from being captive to the grave : so weake a City man is , that even wormes doe conquer it * * Plinius Nat. Hist. Pliny tells us , for a wonder , of a City undermined by Conies ; but wormes triumph ore this , and scarce ere glory of the victory . What is it trow , Philosophers call Man a little world for ? is it because hee hath such Earthquakes in him , so many Cholicks and Palsies ? is it because he hath such Thundrings , suddaine Noyses in his Head ? because such Lightnings , Inflammations in his veines ? Hee is a little world indeed , himselfe the earth , and his misery the sea : nay , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . a great world of weaknesses ( God knowes ) borne the most helpelesse of all creatures , and lives the sport of every least distemper : how seasonable here for man is Saint Pauls 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 2 Cor. 2 Cor. 11.29 . 11. 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 ; who is weak , and I am not weake : yet put the case ( with David ) hee bee so strong , hee come to eighty yeares , yet is it no continuing City , but a doubled misery , labour and sorrow : Psal 90.10 . Psal. 90. non habemus , we have heer no continuing City , no City of strength .

Secondly , A City a figure of unity . Man no continuing City . Psal 122 3. a City is a figure of unity . Psa. 122 Ierusalem is as a City that is at unity with it selfe : at unity , I , a City like each building of it is an aggregation of many into one , the proper place of lawes and government , which are the causes and maintainers of peace , unity and concord . But alas ! wee have no such City , no continuing unity , but rather heer , continuall discord , witnesse too many unquiet Families , our clamorous streets , and the revenging Hall : indeed , so deepe root hath that envious mans seed taken in the ground of humane hearts , that the whole world almost ( would I could exempt either Church or State ) is become little better than a field of Tares ; for the first , what flouds , what Seas can lend us teares enough to bewayle this want of unity in matters of Religion ? how is the seamelesse Coat of our blessed Lord now a dayes , Want of unity in the Church . rent and torne by factious novelists , which the bloody Souldiers themselves spared , that it might prefigure his united Church ? how is the Spouse like her Head and Saviour , crucified betweene two malefactors ! at one side the insulting Papist , at tother the murmuring Praecisian ! while I speake of love , I will not strait wish both cut off that trouble us , but as our charitable mother-Church hath taught us , pray , Lord forgive our Enemies , persecutors and slanderers , and turne their hearts ; for Religion hath no such scandall as this want of union : And for the Common-wealth , how full of jarres and contentions ? ●rigida pugnahan Calid● . Ovid. Met 1. The Elements , fire and water not at such strife as men , sure that Prophet spake of our times , Ephraim against Manasseh , Manasseh against Ephraim , and both against Iuda . Isai . 9.21 . Isai 9.21 . all so captious of indignities , so apprehensive of all trespasses , such going to law for trivialls ; Histor. that what was anciently said of the fryars of this Realm ( with a little variation ) may be said of the Lawyers , Those liv'd of the Ignorance , but these wax fat on the strife of the people : ah , what is become of that sinne-covering Amity ? the 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 and badge of primitive Christianity ! Lib. 50. Ecc. Hist . as Eusebius told a Bishop of his age , that askt him , how he should know the Christians from the Infidels , in those miscellaneous times , Vide quam invicèm diligunt Christiani , * * O foelix hominum genus , s●●vestros animos am●r , quo Coelum regitur , regat : B●et lib. 2. con . Iohn 13.35 . observe but how they love each other , how fast those brethren hold the bands of Amity : and the same distinction gives the Bishop of our soules : Heereby I know that you are my Disciples , if you love one another . John 13. But how are wee degenerated into Nabalisme ? love fled , and not so much as friendship left : very Heathens and Jewes had both their Amicorum paria , their golden paire of friends ; as David and Ionathan whose soules were knit together : Theseus and Perithous , who durst exchange their bosomes , and bee the mutuall sewers of their flowing Hearts . But hard it is among Christians now to finde such Unity ( as the Apostle sayes ) I speake this to our shame ; Now love sits on the lips , and can soone take her flight , frothy Courtship , Humane friendship fraile . Iudas kisses , Ehuds embracements are the friendships of this age ; or if any be more real , yet are they oft leavened with inconstancy , and like the leagues of warre , hold but for their owne hopes and ends ; very Mary-golds that follow but the Sunne , and cloze against the clouded Evening : Now for the Cor nescium tomerare fidem ! that Heaven-borne spirit that dares bee faithfull , in spight of all the shuffles the rude world puts on him , dic musa virum , that knowes not upon any urgencies to violate devoted friendship ( yet to keepe words , is a qualification of a Saint , Psal 15.4 . Prov. 31.10 . Psal. 15. ) but such an one , were as great a rarity as Salomons . Prov. 31. nay the Text concludes it an impossibility , non habemus , we have here no continuing City , no City of unity .

Thirdly , A City an emblem of safety . Man no continuing City . a City is an Emblem of safety , of safety by consequence , as before of strength , indeed our safety is by Defence , That by strength , & both by such well-fenced Cities ( as instrumentall meanes : ) in the 35 of Numbers you read of Cities of Refuge , Numb. 35.6 . Cities where very Delinquents might find safety : But wee haue none such heer , to secure vs , euen from undeserved Dangers ( undeserved I mean particularly by any such notorious crime ) no , of all the Fortifications in the world , I would faine see that Place , that could wall out a Famine , or a Pestilence , I 'me sure Samaria was a well-fenced City , and yet both these enterd it and wellnigh vnpeopled it . 1 King . 18. 1 Kings 18. nor need wee goe so farr for sad Examples . They haue lately enterd our own Cities , one keeping still Possession , no Fences heer are Iudgm●●t-proofe , not Argob's Cities , let them bee wald as high as heaven , Deut. 3. Dent 3.5 . a showre of vengeance , Saloimus . Hell out of heauen shall raine down on Sodome , be it nere so well immured . I●sh 6.20 . and indeed who dares put Confidence in a City-walls that hath but euer read or heard of Ierico . An Arme of flesh is but a bruised Reed , no Safety either in Horses or Chariotts ; Pharaoh found one of them ( as Dauid saies ) a vaine thing to saue him , Exodus 14. Exod 14.25 . where his Charriotts hurried the faster to destruction for their wheels being off , and what safety in the multitude of an Hoast Zenacherib will tell you , whose Confidence was as great as his Army . 2 King 19 one hundred fourescore and fiue thousand slaine in one night without an enemy : 2 King . 19 35. Cautior Exemplo Tu. Each one take heede that wee doe not repeat this Errour , this impious Presumption ; as I feare , too many of this Kingdome doe , Relying too much vpon Earthly Force ; misattributing our long peace and safety to the populousnes of this Nation , and admired Shipping of our Moated-Island : God is not in all their thoughts , like the proud Emperour that cut off the heads of all the Gods in Roome , Nero. and caused the Image of his owne be set vpon them , Wee sacrifice to our own sword and speare , when T is the Right-hand of the Lord that bringeth mighty things to passe : These ( I confesse , shipping and munition ) are meanes and instruments , but unlesse from God , whence are they all ? and , without his assistance , may soone againe ( as often heeretofore ) become Ventorum Ludibrium , a prey to Tyrants , the sport and rattles of the winde and waves ; I , may share in that doome of Tyre against the ships of Tarshish Isa . Isai. 23 14. 23. Bee still yee that dwell in the Isles , who are called the strength of the Sea , whose Merchants are as Princes : howle yee ships of Tarshish , for your strength is laid waste . You can remember , we have been driven to that of David , Psal. 60.10 . Thou , O God , wentest not forth with our Armies , till we came to his acknowledgment there , vers. 11. vaine is the help of man . v. 11. God will have the glory of our wellfare , and fit he should , since hee is the authour of it , who else live heer in a shop of angry Meteors , violent Elements , each of which ( as well as forraigne enemies ) would soone destroy us , were not Hee our Lord Protectour : how often therefore and how justly does David call Him Rocke and Refuge , Strength and Tower , Castle and Fortresse : Conclude wee then with him . Psal. 4.8 . Psal. 4. Thou Lord only makest us to dwell in safety , who have else no continuing City heer , no City of safety .

Last of all , A City an emblem of rest . Man no continuing City . Iosh. 21. a City is an Hieroglyphick of rest , and therefore in the 21. chapter of Ioshua t is said , God gave his people Citles which they builded not , and rest round about them : nay , eternall rest it selfe borrowes an expression from the name of City . T is called The new Ierusalem , Heb. 12.21 . the City of the living God . But man is no Citizen of this , as t is a representative of rest , his life a giddy-wheele ; the Orbs , the Clouds , the Windes , the Rivers not so full of motion ( his Bodies restlesnesse you saw before ) I speake now of the travells of his minde , that busie Spirit hurried through thousands of the worlds distractions , which yet , if best imployed , is subject to bee tyred : even Reading is a wearinesse ( saies the wise Man ) and ther 's no end of many bookes ( unlesse an Eccles 12.12 . end of their Authour . ) But if this Mill grinde empty , have not the minde good things to worke on , and how does it set it selfe on fire ! on fire of hell , by sinnefull and cupidinous Revolutions ! what mischiefe leaves it unimagined on the Bed , unpractis'd up ! how full of all contemplative uncleanesse ! even to the making up that sinnefull Climax . Genesis 6. Gen. 6.5 . The Heart of Man , the Thoughts of the Heart , and Imaginations of the Thoughts , are all evill , evill onely and continually no rest from sinning : and thence how restlesse , Conscientia sraenum aut slagellum . ( thinke you ) is the guilty Conscience , ( onely in this particular like to God , that it never slumbers nor sleepes ) the clamour of this shrew , deading the noyse of Ravens or of Thunder ; not only audible to us waking , but interrupting of our best repose : Job 7. Iob 7.13 . when I say my Bed shall comfort mee , and my Couch shall give mee rest , then thou frightest mee with Dreames , and terrifiest me with visions : Enough to make one wish with David , one 's owne Metamorphosis , Psa. 55. Quis dabit Pennas Columbinas ! Psal. 55.6 . Oh that I had wings like a Dove ! for then would I fly away and be at rest : at rest from the distracting cares that follow this vaine worlds affaires ! at rest from the impetuous solicits of the flesh ! at rest from the importunate temptations of the Devill ! at rest from the refractory impieties of wicked company ! all which make every honest David sigh out heer , Vae mihi misero , Psa. 120. Woe is mee , Psal. 120.5 . that I am constrained to dwell in Meseck , &c. Thus is our life a tossed Arke , tumultuous without , sicke within ; and the poore soule ( like Noahs restlesse Dove can finde no ground to fixe on , * * Inquietum est cor meum donec requiescat in te . Reu. 14.13 . Iob. 14 2. till shee returne from whence shee flew at first ; and then indeed shee rests , rests from her labours , so saies the Spirit , Revel. 14. but heere , hath no continuing City , no City of rest . Iob summes up all my particulars , chap. 14. v. 2. and the totall is , Man borne of a Woman , is but of few daies and many troubles , hee commeth up like a Flower and is cut downe , he never continueth in one stay ( ther 's the Text in Paraphrase ) hath no continuing City . And having thus demolished this earthly City , how can wee now choose but ( with * * Livius . Metellus sacking Siracuse ) lament the transient vanity thereof , and bewaile our strong desires of so weake an object , as no continuing City .

But least a too long discourse heere contradict my Thesis , and prove it a continuing City , I passe the Plainteifs and their wants , to take a glance , by way of application , on their place of streights , the Vbi , Text. where wee are so indigent , and that s Hic , Heere .

Indeed there is a place , where the woman is cloathed with the Sunne , Reu. 12. and the Moone under her feet ( .i. ) where the Church and every member of it , is roab'd with glory , and farre above the reach of any mutability ; Bernard . but as Saint Bernard saies , surrexit , non est hîc , this is in the City that s above , it is not heere : This place is the Moones chiefe Regiment , The Vbi where we are streightned . her very exchange ( as it were ) to vent all her varieties ( constat genitum nihil , ) save alteration nothing continues heer .

Earth ( you see ) is the least of Elements , and to the Heavens , no more than is a single Atome to the Sunne ; an infinite substance then ( such as the soule of man is ) needs must bee streightned heere : this little circle can never fill the hearts vast Triangle , thât nothing but the Trinity : vaine therfore the continuing heere : This againe is the lowest , and most dreggish Element , the sinke of all , and so Cladium Officina , the shop of dangers and diseases and they both so destructive , that no continuing heer , statio malefida carinis . T is the valley of the world , Earth , the valley of teares , teares indeed , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . where we enter life with cryes , continuing with sighes , and going out with groanes : This is our musicke heere ! heere , where mirth is but apparent , griefe is reall : where wee eate the bread of carefulnesse , Panis noster lapidosus . mingling our drinke with weeping , all our actions with sinning , this is our diet heere ! heere where wee onely taste of joy , but glut in sorrow ; we walke in happinesse , but journey in calamity , this is our travell heer ! heer , where riches are but thornes , honours but pinnacles , and pleasures * * Habet omnis hoc voluptas , stimulis agit feuentes , apiumque par valantum , &c. Boet. de Con. Dan 232. Bees that leave more sting than hony : these are our treasures heer ! so that the world ( you see ) with all its pompe , makes but up a Nebuchadnezars Image , Dan. 2. though the head bee gold , the breast of silver , belly brasse , and legges of yron , yet are the feet of clay : let one be honourable , another rich , a third beauteous , a fourth nere so vigorous , yet are the foundations of them all but clay , and a small stone from out the sling of death does breake and liken them to dust : and this the end of all things heere .

Now , mee thinkes , by this time , we should be all of holy Monicas minde , St. Austins pious Mother , who ( as he tells us ) having thus discoursed over the frailty of the world together , melted into this expression : * * Quantum ad me attinet , nullâ re jam delector in hac vitâ . Quid hîc facio ? lib. confess . c. 10. Iob. 14 14. For mine owne part ( saies she ) I am now delighted with nothing in this world , and what doe I longer heer but practise Iobs attendance ? So after all this colloquie of ours ( anatomizing the vaine world ) what can you finde heere worthy your affections ? not worthy your disdaine ? Quid hic facimus ? then what do we do heer , heer in our unsatisfi'd desires ? our eager prosequutions ? treasuring for the Moath and Theefe , like Spiders , spending our bowels to catch Flyes , Menott . and ( as Menott saies of wily Hunters ) losing an Horse of price in pursuit of an Hare worth nothing ; heer being neither City of Strength ( you see ) nor City of Unity , nor City of Rest , nor City of Safety : no continuing City ; what doe wee then heere , Ixion . Alexanders question . grasping of a Cloud for Iuno ! T was a question once debated in the Court of Alexander , what was the greatest thing in the world ? and having many about him of all Sciences , a Geographer answers him , the Mount Olympus , that hill indeed being so vast and high , as frequently is took for Heaven it selfe : an Astronomer , hee answered t was the Sun , that world of light so * * The Sun bigger than the earth 166. times according to Eustach . and others . Luk. 14 33. many times bigger than the earth ; a Parasite tells him his own victory : but an honest Moralist that stood by , affirmed the greatest thing in the world , to be an heart that could contemne the greatest : well said Philosopher , answered as though he had heard Christ himselfe preach on that fourteenth of Luke : Quicunque non reliquerit omnia , who so forsakes not all ( in competition 〈◊〉 mee ) is not worthy of mee , nor of Heaven , a paire of imitable examples , one of them , a Heathen , and shall Christians come behind such , in contemning of the world and greatest things of it , ( then let us even change names with them ) but let our soules aspire with Monica's ( that glory of 〈◊〉 sex and coppy of the other ) Quid hic facio ? what doe wee doe heer ? like Davia , thirst for better waters Psal. 42. Psal. 42.1 . and yet as t was with Monica , unum erat , &c. one thing there was that made that female Saint desire a little longer continuance heer ; sc. her sonnes conversion , and to see him baptized a Christian . So one thing must our soule desire of God , that wee may live to see that christened , baptized in the teares of penitence ; and then quid hic facio , away to our continuing City ; what doe such Eagles heer , when as their Carkeise is in Heaven ? indeed what doe wee so long , looking on this Terrene-globe ? whose Zones are all intemperate ( freezing charity , or scorching envy , avaritious drought , or riotous profusenesse ) whose paralels are equall , cares and feares : whose Circumference is vanity , and Center is corruption .

Respicite jam Coeli Spatium & definite aliquando vilia mirari . Boet. l. 2. Con. Hearke how the Philosopher calls us off , behold now the beauteous frame of Heaven , and desist at length to admire base earthly things : Transitus in 2. gen. let the bodies figure be the soules tutour , and a sursum oculi teach sursum corda , an elevated eye an upright heart : the heart to seeke that 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , the Continuing City , the eye to looke for one to come : and that s the second Generall , the Coelestiall Sphoere of this same Christian-Map . Wee looke for one to come .

And here the Christian and the Heathen Part , Who haue all this while gone along together in the Non habemus . They likewise vndauntedly apprehending their mortality , and such as dare to hasten it . Mors malorum remedium , miseriarum finis . Cicero . Vitae prodigiosè prodigi , desperate vnthrifts of their Blood , onely to period their Miseries ; yet some of Them in generall Notions dreamt of the Soules Immortality : huc Ethnici , saies Lorinus , In locum . thus farre shined the dim Light of Nature , here were their Herculean Pillars ; But with any Indeauour of good works to seeke , or With the Eye of Faith to looke for one to Come ; This is a regenerate Mans Plus Vltra : Haec Fides , haec Spes est Christiana , This only is a Christians Hope , the Child of propagatiue Faith : what a strange Close was that of dying Adrian . Animula Vagula blandula , Auson Epigram . Hospes Comesque Corporis , Quae nunc abibis in Loca . Little wandring merry Spirit , Body's Guest , and Wont to cheere it , what Place shalt Thou now inherit ! &c. alas ! * * Virtutes Ethnicorum sufficiunt ad ornandum vitam humanam , non obtinere vit aeter . Aug. Heathens find but diminitiue Comfort at their death , treading those vnknowne Paths with vnprepared Feet , going from one Darknes to another , oh ! How may wee ever blesse God for our vocation , our double Light of Grace and Knowledge , when the Most Learned of them goe Hence with a Nescio quo Vado : * * As it is reported of Aristotle , Ens entium miserere mei , &c Iob 19.25 . I know not whither I go : whereas the meanest Christian with a Iobs Faith Exulteth . Scio quod Redemptor Vivit . I know that my Redeemer liveth , and therefore Egredere Anima . Goe forth my cheerfull Soule , * * Hilarions dying speech . and feare not now to goe to Christ , whom Thou so long hast Seru'd : Yet is 't not mine here , rigorously to determine all those Lost , whose Exact Virtues , so out-Morald Christians ; Wee cannot Limit Mercy , God Loves it aboue Sacrifice , Math 9. Matth. 9.23 . and our iust Lord requires but according vnto what he gives . Luke the 12. Luke 12.48 . The fearefull state of Heathens . though indeed the Heathen-people that know not God , in respect at least of outward Calling , are not within the Pale of the Messiahs Deare ; and the Law so written in their hearts ; I Feare , that Suppressing those 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , inhaerent Evidences of Nature ( which Saint Paul Cals withhoulding of the Trueth in Vnrighteousnes , Rom. 1.18 . and from thence to the end . Rom 1. ) does 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 render them inexcusable ( as the Apostle Saint Paul argues strongly in that fore-cited Chapter ) Nullum aliud Nomen : Acts. 4.12 . there being no other Name &c. but not to make our selves inexcusable by iudging an other , Sub Iudice lis sit , This wee leave to the great Iudge of All , Revealed Things to vs ; albeit we say not what becomes of Them , Yet to our gratefull Comfort 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 wee know ( saith hee ) that when this Earthly Tabernacle of ours shall bee dissolved , wee have a Building not made with Hands &c. 2 Cor. 5. 2 Cor. 5.1 . Futuram Expectamus , we looke for One to Come : And yet our Confidence is too weake to goe alone , It must be accompanied with Diligence , wee may not Think to enioy that City to Come Only with Looking For. They would not be so Few then that are Chosen . Matth. 20. Matth. 20.16 . All are Baalamites and desire the Death of the Righteous , but vainely , vnles They live the Life of Him ; T is stolid to Expect an End without the Meanes . To looke for this same City and not seeke it : indeed this Expectamus is too slacke a Word , Inquirimus saies Beza and the Vulgar , better : and the Originall is neither 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 nor 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 that any Lazie Confidence should thinke to gaine it , as God Knowes that's all the Evidence Many have to shew for it , I hope Well ; but for all this Hope ( if no endeavour els ) the Heart may breake : No , nor is it Faith Can looke for 't vnles operative ( wee Patronize not Solifidianisme , Our Adversaries scandall vs ) our Faith Cries out like Rachel , give me Children , Iam. 2.20 . or I die : Iames 2. But such a Faith as workes by Love , maketh our Hope infallible , of Finding what wee seeke 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 wee seeke one to Come .

Seeke then , is a word of Labour : bidding vs with the Apostle , Phil 2 12. Worke out our Salvation , Phil 2.12 . worke , T' is not a Feast or a Feather-Bedd will bring a Man to Heaven , non sic itur ad astra . Our IehoVah will not as the Poets Iove did into Danaes Lap , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 Verbum operandi . rajne downe this goulden Purchase into our Bosomes : no , no Drones shall Ever taste the Hony of that Hive but those industrous Bees alone that seeke it ; a Sharpe reproofe for Idlenes , that Gate of all Impieties , a Whipp of Scorpions for the Sluggards Back . Pro. 6. who like the Spouse , Pro. 6.10 . in Lectulo quaesivit Quem amavit , Seekes no farther then his Pillow : but shee found not her Beloved there ; Cant. 3.1 . as little They stretching on their bedds of Ivory , e're find his Benefits whose Bedd was but a Manger ; but Ruine suddenly , Pro. 6.15 . for their not seeking , finds out Them . Pro. 6.15 . Idlenes you know , it was denominated those Virgins foolish , and excluded them both the Chamber , and the knowledge of the Bridegroome , Matth. 25.10 . Matth. 25. Thus slothfull persons ( like Arrowes from a feeble bow ) fall short of what they ayme at , and with Esau come too late to ●●une the blessing Gen. 27. Gen. 27 30. Diligence invites ablessing ; you see , Moses keeping watch over his flock by night , is grac'd with visions , Exod. 3. Exod. 3.4 . a sight of Him whose vision is beatificall , and Saul seeking his Fathers Asses finds a kingdome 1 Sam. 9. 1 Sam 9 20. and David is taken from following the Ewes great with young , and made the great Shepheard of Israel , Psal. 78.71 . Diligence invites a Blessing . Psalme 78.71 . Diligence invites a blessing ; Idlenes temptation . whereas on the contrary , Idlenesse allures temptation , tempts the Tempter ; while David exercised himselfe in Gods Law day and night , all went well with him , hee feard not what either man or Satan could doe to him ; but when once hee ascends his wanton prospects , and loosens the reines unto his idler senses ; the Devill soone changes his title , and makes him a man after his owne Heart , wraps him in a double snare of Murder and Adultery ; and after these , how justly hee complaines , Psalme 6.7 . mine eyes are dimme , when ther 's such a pearle in one and the tother blood-shod ! So aske but the Poet 's Egistus and many of his Disciples in these times , Quaeritur Aegillus quarè sit factus adulter ? i● promptu causa est , &c. Ovid. what fills their name and bones with early rottennesse ? and shame ( if any left ) will soone write the cause upon each forehead , Desidiosus cram : indeed , it is the sitting bird that is the Fowlers ayme , the envious man sowes his tares while the Husbandman sleepes ; and hell it selfe is beholding to Idlenesse , not onely for company , but for a description , being called Stagnum ( .i. ) a Lake , Rou 21 8. a standing water : ther 's an old Apologue how once the Elements contended for priority ; the Fire most active got supremacy , the Agil-Aire wonne the next Regions , the ambitious waters flow to overtake them , An Apologue of the Elements . while drowsie Earth sat still the while , and therefore is ere since disgraced with the lowest roome ; no sinne so unnaturall , as Idlenes : in a word , the idle man 's the Devils cushion , whereon he sits and takes his ease , while the well-busied heart is Officina Dei , the Shop or Worke-house of the Almighty : Then Da vacuae menti quo tencatur opus , Ovid. let ever some good act or other bee as an Anchor to the floating minde ; Sedulity becommeth even our civill callings , but for spirituall 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 ( saith th' Ap. ) Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure : r r Pet. 10. 2 Pet. 1. T is 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 Wee seeke one to come .

But , because t is necessary a seeker should have eyes as well as feet , knowledge as well as industry ( least , Iam 4.3 . as the perverse Iewes , you aske and receive not because you aske amisse ) consider modum quaerendi , Quaerendi modus . the manner how to seeke : and that is Renefaciendo & Patiendo , by dooing good , and suffering evill : Doing good , Facere est Naturae sed benefaccre est opus gratiae . To bee active is the worke of Nature , but to doe well is an effect of Grace , and cause of prosperous reward , as holy Moses intimates to Israel . Deut. 6.18 . Deut. 6. Doe yee that which is good in the sight of the Lord that you may prosper : Do you that which is good , and that you may do chiefly with these two instrument , The two chief instruments of doing good . Linguâ precante & Manu succurrente : by a praying tongue and a relieving hand : Charity and Prayer are the swiftest wings , on which the soule can mount to Heaven .

First , Prayer . Prayer is the Iewell of Gods eare , the Dialogue twixt Heaven and Earth , the Tongue of Angells , the Soules Embassadour with God , which never , with a faithfull hand , knockt at Heaven-gates and was sent empty away ; what though not presently heard , t is but to double our importunity ? what though not straight way granted , t is but to glorifie our patience ? yet sometimes ( I confesse ) our Prayers like exhalations drawne up heer , may fall elsewhere in fruitfull showers , may light on our posterity : But fervent prayer never goes un-crownd , ad sanita●em si non ad voluntatem , still heard in a proportion to our well-fare , though not alwaies answered according to our wills : Prayer is the sole Phoenix of the Graces , from out the Ashes of whose spicie Nest , revives a Bird of Paradice ; This can make an Arabia petrosa as happy as her other Sister , for stony hearts can give us hearts of flesh . Ezech. 11. Ezech. 11 19. There is a kinde of an omnipotence in prayer , it locks and opens Heaven * * O●atio Clavis Caeli . August . 1 King . 18. c. 5 7. 2 King . 4 33. 1 King . 18. renewes society twixt parted soules and bodies , blowes downe the walls of Ierico , staies the Sunne makes fire descend ; what cannot it not ? vincit invincibilem , it holdeth that hand which holdeth all the world , from striking a very Sodome , God himselfe can doe nothing till praying Lot is gone . Gen. Gen 19 22. 19. And t is remarkable in that Dialogue 'twixt God and Abraham , Gen. 18. Gen 18. how God there desisted not from granting , till Abraham first left off petitioning : and therfore ( as the Apostle wishes ) Pray continually , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , ( .i. ) 1 Thes. 5 17. either ( statis temporibus ) at constant times of publick and retird devotions : or else continually , sc. per verba aut opera , by good words or workes ; for indeed no circumstances can exclude prayer , and besides Quaevis bona actio quaedam oratio , every good action is a kind of supplication : Seeke therefore by doing good , and that first by Prayer .

But because Prayer alone makes a man but like a bird with one wing , or as a boat with one Oare , somewhat lame & imperfect to performe this duty ; 1 Cor. 13.1 . according to that 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 : Let any zeale make what noise it will , speak it the tongue of Men and Angels , yet without charity , t is but 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , a tinckling , not a wel-tuned Cymball : Let therfore the praying tongue say to the relieving Hand , Ruth 1.16 . as Ruth to Naomi , whether thou goest I will goe , and where thou dwellest I will dwell . Let Charity , I say , and Prayer like linckes of a golden chaine , depend on one another , ut quae non prosunt singula , though like two gloves , one lost the tother but of little use ; yet both together make themselves compleate : For God ( like Isaak Gen. Gen. 27. 27. ) will feele the hands as well as heare the voyce of whom hee blesseth ; Pliny tells us of the Eagle , Plin. nat. Hist. that shee knowes her young ones by their eyes , their perspicacy , and unlesse they can out-face the Sunne shee rejects them as a bastard-brood : but God knowes his children by their hands , their liberality : and whom he finds ( like Ieroboam ) withered-handed close-fisted , he counts them but degenerate sons , and will disinherit them of his heavenly kingdom , yet will give them a portion , Eccles. 11.1 . I tremble to say where : cast then thy bread upon the waters ( .i. ) relieve the needy , whose multitude and weaknesse tearmes them so , and after many dayes ( for Heaven will never forget it ) thou shalt finde it : I , flowing to thee like rich merchandize with blest increase : Miscris suppressa levate Pectora : each one that that craves an almes , is an arme stretcht out from God , who hath another hand as ready to reward , as that was to receive ( t is Salomons ) who so hath mercy on the poore lendeth to the Lord , & indeed , but lendeth , to the best advantage , for the Lord will recompence him , Pro. 19. God puts us not to the expence of any costly sacrifices ( should he , Pro. 19 17. how coldly would his altars lye ! ) the calves of our lips and offerings of our hands are now all he challengeth , and therfore to do good , and to distribute forget not , these are the pleasing sacrifices . Part with some of that which long you cannot keep , Quas dederis solas semper habebis opes . Luk. 16.9 . to gaine that which you can never loose : make you friends of that unrighteous mammon , Lu. 16. Euthimius tels us God hath given men riches non tanquam Dominis sed dispensatoribus , not as unto treasurers , but stewards , imitate then that wise one in the Gospel , for to every one it shal be one day said , redde rationem , and beleeve it , none shal make a better reckoning at the last great Audit , than the charitable man 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , love covereth a multitude of sins , 1 Pet. 4 8. 1 Pet. 4. and this indeed the Iudg himself attestates Mat. 25 Christ there describing his last genral sessions , seems to take notice only of workes of mercy , Workes of mercy onely inquired of at the day of Iudgement . Matth. 25.30 . ther s no talke of your frugallity your temperance , you diligence , or other virtues ; but feeding , clothing , visiting , ministring : these Christ names , & takes upon his own account , mihi fecistis , you have done it unto me , and therefore repaies them with eternal happines , venite benedicti , Come you blessed , &c. Charity is via ad regnum si non causa regnandi , the way unto the city that we seek , tho not the worth of it . seek therfore by doing good , & that linguâ precante et manu succurrente by Charity and Prayer : 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 Text.

It followes next Patiendo , how by suffering evill we ought to seeke : by suffering , For thereunto are we called ( saith th' Ap. ) 1 Pet. 2 21. Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example , that wee should follow his steps . And two waies likewise must we suffer , sc. Sustinendo & Abstinendo : by bearing and forbearing in which two things ( saies Epictetus ) the summe of all Philosophy , E●ictcti Enchirid. and I may adde ( almost ) of all Christianity consists . First Abstinendo , in forbearing Intemperance , all luxurious riot and excesse : Hippocrates . Mater virtutum . Abstinentia , t is both the Mother and the Nurse of virtues , Hippocrates his Aphorism's true on both sides , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . Diseases both of Body and Mind , for the most part , owe their originall to fullnesse and redundant numors , Patiendi modus . and indeed where Satan tempts one fasting , he tempts a thousand full , & therfore abstinence is the best cure of both : and oh how well had it been for their posterity , had but our first parents beene acquainted with this virtue in Paradice ! then for ought I know they had still beene there , then I 'me sure , had not that same one mans meat prov'd so all others poyson : but ever since wee matrizare ( from that first Mother of ours all our vitious longings ) we likewise hunger after superfluities and forbidden fruits , not contented with enough are too indulgent to our wanton Genius , Abstinentia fraenum vi●iorum . witnesse the Plures Crapula quam Gladio , truer now than ever . Intemperance bringing not onely gray-haires but green yeares with sorrow to the grave ! For how soone doe immoderate potions ( like much water on a little fire ) extinguish naturall heat , and as soone doe intemperately devoured-Meats ( like much fire , a little water ) drink up the radicall moysture ? and heer that Iudalisme's seasonable ad quid perditio haec ? what need this wast , wast of food , wast of feeders ? Avidis , avidis Natura parum est . Sen. trag . Naturae parum appetitui nihil satis : a little contents nature , but nothing satisfies opinion : quantos illa morbos , sighes Boeti●s . Lib. 3. de con . How fast doth luxury consume the vitall lampe ? ofttimes so captivating the body to discases , that nought can free it but that 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 that generall remedy of all maladies , an early death : So that the intemperate are of the number of Davids wicked ones , qui vix dimidiabunt dies suos , Psal. 55.33 . that scarce live out halfe their daies , and how ever not by the lawes politick , yet by the Divine statutes , each of these is felo de se , by double guilt his owne selfe-murderer , be not therefore like that Image of intemperance * * 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . Lucian's scoffe , behold shee - Sardanapalus . Sardanapalus , whose effeminate luxury bereft him of his Kingdome , least it bereave you of a better , of the City that you looke for : but rather imitate that pattern of abstinence , the good Emperor Valentinus , who of all the conquests he had ever won ( though many ) yet on his death-bed , said hee gloried but of one ; and being ask'd of which , Inimicorum inquit , nequissimum devici , carnem meam : the greatest victory ( saith hee ) that ere I got , was in subduing that greatest enemy mine owne flesh . I close this with Saint Peters dehortation , and in his wooing language . I beseech you Brethren abstaine from fleshly lusts which fight against the soule . 1 Pet. 2. 1 Pet. 2 12. Seeke Patiendo by suffering , and that not onely Abstinendo , by forbearing , but likewise Sustinendo by bearing evill .

Bearing evill , I , Affliction is the Coat of a Christian , and the Crosse his cognizance 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , said to every one as well as Constantine , under this Banner thou shalt overcome : are wee not all members of that Head which was crown'd with Thornes ! the parts then must looke to sympathize together with it , Bern. non per unum foramen caput per aliud membra : the Head enters not by one passage , the members by an other ; but all goe into Heaven at the same strait gate : Porta tribulationis porta Paradisi , the Red Sea is the way to Canaan ( hâc itur ad superes ) Mount Calvary to Tabor : per varios casus , per tot discrimina . through many tribulations must wee enter into that Kingdome , Act. 14.22 . Act. 14. Affliction ( like the Toade ) hath a precious pearle in the head , how ever it appeare ugly ; no affliction is for the present joyous , but &c. Adversity is Gods knife , wherewith hee spareth not to lance whom it pleaseth him to heale , and those ( like precious lems ) are most beautifull after cutting : And albeit our earthly mother , this world , may perhaps for our affliction ( with Raohel ) call us Ben-onies sonnes of her sorrow ; yet God our heavenly Father , will one day for our patient suffering ( with Iacob ) call us Beniamins , sons of his right hand ; You know that of St. Austin . Deus unicum habuit Filium sine peccato sine flagello nullum . God had never but one Sonne , and that his onely Sonne , without sinne , but none without affliction ; no not his beloved Sonne in whom he was so well pleased , Matth. 3.17 . Matth. 3. indeed the rather was hee afflicted for that hee was beloved , seeing He chastneth whom he loveth , and scourgeth every sonne whom hee receiveth , Hebr. 12. the Rod is the badge of Filiation : H●b 12.6 . and therefore Saint Austin notes in God , crudelis miserecordia , Crudelis miserecordia . & misericors crudelitas , a cruell mercy and a mercifull cruelty : the first when he permits the wicked to prosper in this life , as t is Iob 21. the wicked live , Iob. 21. waxe fat , and grow in wealth ( saith he ) but what ensueth : momento descendunt ( a sad catastrophe ) in a moment they goe downe to hell , v 13. v. 13. a while they flourish ( sayes the Psalmist ) like a greene Bay Tree , but anon ( .i. ) when their sinnes are ripe , they are cut downe like the grasse , and wither like the green Herbe . Psa. 37. Psalme 37.2 , and this indeed is a cruell mercy , no marvell if the Prophet desired rather Gods mercifull cruelty , Ier. 10. Correct mee , Ier. 10.14 . O Lord , yet with thy judgement , not in thine anger : The very Heathen could say , Plus hominibus reor adversam , quam prosperam prodesse fortunam : Boetius . T is better to have beene afflicted , Iob. 5.17 . adverse fortune more profits man than smiling starres : and Iob as well as David had experienc'd it : Blessed is the man ( saith hee ) the man , what man ( thinke you ) the man that s clad in purple and fares deliciously every day ? no , that s not hee : is 't the man whom the King will honour , with the Ring , and Steed , and royall Roabe ? t is not he neither : what then , is 't the man that hath caught this world in a purs-net , and by th' omnipotence of his gold , commands al the felicities that grow in Salomons walk sub Sole under the Sun ? no , none of these , but beatus a Domino castigatus , blessed is the man whom God correcteth . To this purpose St. S. Austins dialogue in Soliloq . Austin feignes a conference twixt God and himselfe , God personating a Merchant , and himselfe a chapman . Vaenale habeo ( saies God ) I have merchandise to sell . Quid est ? what is it ? ( saies the holy Father ) wy Regnum Coelorum ( saies God ) the Kingdome of Heaven : quo emitur ( saies Saint Austin ) what s the price on t ? Paupertate Regnum , afflictione Requies , Ignominiâ Gloria : For poverty ( saies God ) the richest Kingdome ; for momentany affliction , eternall rest , and for reproach , a Crowne of Glory : since then our light affliction which is but for a moment bringeth us a more excellent eternal weight of glory , Rom. 8.18 . Rom. 8. Let us not refuse the chastning of the Lord , but ( when he sends it ) patiently suffer evill : and thus you have the duty Seeke , Seeke by doing good , doe good by Charity and Prayer ; and Seeke by suffering evill , and suffer by abstaining all intemperance , and sustaining all afflictions : so run and you shall obtaine , thus seeke and you shall finde 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 the continuing City that wee looke for .

And t is an obiect worthy all this paines : our best deservings undeserving it : take but a glimpse on 't , 1 Cor. 13.12 . The obiect of our search . for we can no more , heer we see , as in a glasse but darkely 1 Cor. 13. Consider the 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 abstractly as a City , then as a concrete , One to come : First , you see , t is 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 and not 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , a City , not a Wildernesse , as is this world , where we are all in Pilgrimage to the Sepulcher : and behold heer a most exact 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 'twixt this same and the former City : The 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 of this City and the former . the worldly one's 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , built but of clay and stubble , the worke of mens hands , and those that make them are like unto them , of a facile dissolution : but this coelestiall City is 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 made by Him who made the hands , whose Archtectour is the Almighty , these buildings therefore are the 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , Iohn 14.2 . 2 Cor. 5.1 . Ioh. 14. the abiding mansions , whereas those earthly ones are 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . 2 Cor. 5. but Gourds , but fleeting Tabernacles : you remember tother was a City of Negatives , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . ( neither of Strength nor Unity , Rest nor Safety ) this of all good affirmatives , wherein are all Those fixt as in their proper Sphere .

1. T is a City of Strength , aske St. Iohn else Reu. A City of Strength . Reu. 121. 21. the foundation all of Gold , the walls of Adamant , and its twelve Gates of Pearle , materialls of the strongest ; Psal. 103 20. yet guarded with innumerable Angels that excell in strength , Psal. 103. garrisond with an Army of Martyrs , and govern'd by the Lord of hoasts , indeed there can want no Strength where dwells omnipotence ; heer then were that an opportune desire , quis deducet me in Civitatem munitam ? Psal. 60.9 . who will lead me into this strong city ? & that the Text wil if thou follow it .

This too is a City of Unity , A City of Vnity Charitas virtus viae & patriae . the King of Salem's dwelling house ; those Starres are the embroyderies of Peaces Coate , and the gay-beames of Sun and Moone , but the bright smiles of Loue Tryumphant ; Coelum charitatis patria : Heaven is the place where shee was bred ( Faith and Hope are low borne virtues to her 1 Cor. 13. 1 Cor. 13.8 . heere they begin and heere they end . But 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 this greater grace of love & unity ( a stray indeed on earth ) take up their eternall rest in Heaven , nay there were no Heaven without it : Concord heer , ever flowes and knowes no ebbe : springing from the undivided Trinity , unto the goodly fellowship of the Prophets , and communion of all Saints , quibus lux eadem , Cantio unica . who shining all with the same light of glory , breath all the same incessant Halilujahs : None envying others happinesse ( vessells all full though of their severall cises ) None know either want or emulation . This Ierusalem is the City at unity with it selfe , Psalm . 122.3 . A City of Safety . Psal. 122.

Thirdly , t is a City of Safety ( you see ) strengthned beyond all opposition , & seated above short-armed danger : Altissima venti non perflant , no angry storme can shake the Cedars of this Libanus , or blast the Ascenders of this holy Mountaine , heer only may wee cry , Peace , peace , all safety dwelling heer ; no enemies being left to interrupt it , Sinne and Sorrow , hell and the grave , all conquerd ; conculcata pedibus , 1 Cor. 15.27 . by him who hath subdued al things : yet were the world let loose against them , Christs little flocke need feare no ill ; they are in such an hand , Iohn . 10.28 . as who shall take them from him ? Joh. 10. Etiamsi fractus illabatur orbis , Impavidos ferient ruinae . Let the world totter into its first Chaos , ruine should threaten them in vaine , whom God makes dwell in safety . Psalm . 4.8 . Psalm . 4. This Canaan's full of secure Vines and Fig-trees ; the Prophet Zachary means this City , sure ; when he saies Men shal dwell in it , and there shall be no more destruction , but Ierusalem shall be safely inhabited . Zech. 14.11 . A City of Rest Zech. 14.11 .

Lastly , all these speake Heaven a City of rest , where there is such Strength , and Love , and Safety , needs , must there be true security : I , heaven is the Center of soules , as is the Earth of bodies , and onely there they rest : there indeed being contentation adequate to the Soules capacity ( no further search no more desire ) wheras heer , one * * 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 sacri , & cordis humani figura : quae sibi mutuo solùm sufficiant . Psal. 107 9. corner of the heart or other still is empty : ●ulcimentum innitenti , plenitudinem continenti sufficientiam Possidenti coelum praebet : Heaven satisfieth the hungriest soule with goodnesse , Psal. 107. And yet this heavenly rest is not to bee taken ( as some impious Spirits ) only privatively , as a totall cessation from all sacred businesse ( for in that sense , Saints have no rest in Heaven ) never ceasing to fall down before the Throne ( saith S. Ren. 4.8 : Iohn ) never silencing their sacred anthems to the King of glory : but as Philosophy saies of the Spheres , sc. motus iste eorvm quies This holy motion is their endlesse rest , respect of al molest and wonted troubles ( which this world showres on them ) heer are they said to rest , Reu. 13.14 . and so saies the Spirit , Reu. 13. they rest from their labours .

And now could but divine contemplation transport you with Saint Paul , 2 Cor. 12 2. but snatch your soules awhile from out their earthly Tenements , & elevate them to the heaven wee speake of ! what glorious objects , not to be revealed , should you there behold ? there should you see felicity walke hand in hand with eternity ; and what this world can never shew you , glory attended on by safety : Serenitas sine nube , Saintas sine infirmitate , August . de Civitat . Dei . iucunditas sine moerore , pulchritudo sine deformitate , Sapientia sine errore , vita sine morte . Ther 's light never clouded , health never weakened , pleasure unmixed with griefe , or beauty with deformity , a Moone with out her spots , wisdome acquainted with no errour , and life beyond the reach of death . Deum sine fine videbimus , sine fastidio amabimus , sine defatigatione laudabimus ( as that Father sweetly warbles . ) there shal you see th' Eternal eternally , One whom all shall love without saciety , and unwearied praise him continually : there likewise should your eares with equal happines banquet themselves on the true coelestial melody ( sweeter than that feigned of the Sphaeres ) sc. of Halilujah-singing Saints & Angels : there should you find , concursun omnium bonorum , as t were an happy Marriage , a conflux of all the Goods united ; so that ther 's nothing absent that you could wish present , nor any thing present that you could wish absent , Psal. 87.3 . heer then with David wee may lye down in wonder quam gloriosa de te dicta sunt , what glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God! and yet ( like as to Sheba's Queene ) not the one halfe can be told you , &c.

But yet this happines is too much for the present brevior voluptas , in this life pleasure is the shorter Twinne , Christiani Messis in Herba . 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . and therefore ( as an exercise of our hope and patience ) t is 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 wee looke for one to come : you see the industrious Husbandman reaps not presently , but ( with a costly confidence ) many dayes , weekes and moneths , waites at expectation's gate ; Iam 5. so must wee ( saies Saint Iames ) looke for this precious seed , and have long patience for it ; delay whets our desires and multiplieth our estimation : yet may not violate the rule of patience , Cicero de conso . or anticipate the call of Nature ; like him , that reading Plato's Booke of the soules immortality , made himself away to hasten to it ; but such make more haste than good speed ; Christians must wrap up Davids sitio , and Saint Pauls cupio , in Iobs expectabo . Iob. 14.14 . all the dayes of mine appointed time will I wait till my change commeth , and take the Apostles word for 't , in due time wee shall reap if wee faint not . Gal. 6 9. Gal. 6. The Mariner too that man of hopes , the watery-ploughman ( you see ) endures his voyage ere he gaines his fraight ( yet , Patience . for the most part , somewhat he receives before hand ) but his compleated payment , not till hee makes his utter Porte . So likewise in our passage to the true Elizium , wee patiently must cut through winds and waves , not looking for our entire wages till our course be finished : yet in meane time , 2 Cor. 1.22 . wee are not without that Arra Spiritus , 2 Cor. 1. the carnest of our hopes , the co-assurance of Gods Spirit with ours ; I , we have heere Heaven in the blossome , the fruit not till hereafter ; heer the harmonious feast of a good conscience , which is heaven inchoate , but for the consummation , futuram inquirimus wee looke for that to come : 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . innuit certitudinem & durationem . This 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 one to come , intimates heere certitudinem & durationem , both the certainty and duration of this supernaturall City : the certainty , quia habet rationem promissi because it beares the force of a promise , and so it is Heb. 11. 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 for God hath prepared them a City , Heb. 11.16 . the Saints then sure enough shall have it , since Hee hath prepared it , all whose promises are yea and Amen . 2 Cor. 1. 2 Cor. 1 20. Psalme 89.3 . The certainty of this City . And if his word were not enough , wee have his oath , Juratus sum per sanctitatem , I have sworne by my holinesse ( saith hee ) that I will not faile David for ever , Psal. 89. Et vae si Deo juranti non credamus , woe bee to our infidelity , if wee beleeve not the oath which hee sware in the house of his servant David , that hee would give us , &c. indeed with faithlesse man , what is to come may still be so , but promise-keeping is Gods attribute , David describes him by it Psa. 77. that keepeth his promise for ever . Psalme 77.8 . His performance and his promise differ not in essence , 1 Cor. 15.58 . if in time , and therefore as St. Paul exhorts 1 Cor. 15. Brethren , bee yee steadfast , and unmoveable , your Hope being not in vaine in the Lord : we look for one to come , and that shall come wee looke for : I , and not onely come , but ever shall continue ; Futuram speakes the permanence , that while t is present , The duration of it perpetual it shall bee still to come : This Future knowes not any preter-perfect-tense , yeares eating up dayes , ages swallowing yeares , time losing his prius and posterius , nere so much past , yet nere the lesse to come : not like our poore joyes heere , fluunt & praeterfluunt , no sooner flow●d to us ( almost ) but ebbing from us : but a continuing City , stord with fulnesse of joy and pleasures for evermore , Psalm . 16.11 . Psalm . 16. evermore ! more perennious than the glyding streame or constant Sunne : I , the Sunne may bee one day darkened , and the Moone pay home her borrowed light , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . the fixed Starres may become Planets and wander headlong from their Spheres , whole Nature may so forget her office , that heaven and earth may passe away at hae manebunt in aeternum . but these pleasures ( like the right hand they wait on ) remaine for evermore : and this is our expected City , whose inhabitants , you le say ( by better title than they of Tarsus ) may bee called Cittizens of no meane City . Act. 21 39. Act. 21. This is the Coelestiall Sphere , whose Zodiack is felicity , whose Constellations are degrees of glory , whose Poles , Joy and Eternity . And now you have the paire of Christian Globes , the Map of both worlds spread before you , that soule which travels them well over ( this contempt of earth , and search for Heaven ) shall make a happier voyage * * Drake , or Cavendish , &c. than those who Ring the Earth , shall bee companions of a brighter Sunne : without either cost or danger may discover fortunate Isles , whence ( more then gainefull ) blest returnes .

As this experienc'd Heroê hath already : in whom wee finde our Text againe , with a fresh comment on 't : his soule a faire example of the inquirimus , A Transition to the funerall occasion . being fled unto the City that wee seeke for , and his body a demonstration of the Non habemus , witnesse this Tenantlesse house of clay , the sad remainder of our worthy friend and comparishioner Mr. Henry Chitting , who is now come hither to take his ultimum vale of the world , and tell his good friends that he will meet them in heaven : yet hath he left us somewhat else behind him , than these shella of a fledg'd soule ; sc. memoria justi , the blest memorial of the righteous , which shal be had in everlasting remembrance . Psa. 112. I , Psal. 112.6 . now this box of ointment's broken , a sweet perfume's defused through this assembly , nay through the whole place of his abode and knowledge : a good name is like confections of the Apothecary ( faith Solomon ) or as musicke at a banquet of wine . Eccles. 7. His then most full of pleasant Odours in the Nostrills of God and man , Vir verè insignis nec silendus nec dicendus subitò . One so full of worth and goodnes , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 that Silence may not bury him , Suddennesse cannot expresse him ; I wish his bright vertues heer , but such an able Herauld as himselfe was to emblazon them in their owne colours ; Nemo Ciceronem nisi Cicero : for my own part inopem me copia , I must confesse , his store of merit tumultuates my expression , and sorrow is so il a Methodist , I scarce know where to initiate his Encomium , his just commendations , I● Epist. ad Eustoch . unlesse ( as St. Ierom of his vertuous Paula ) I begin with his beginning . Clarus genere Clarior virtute , he was genteild by bloud and office , yet more enobled by his virtue : as will appeare sufficiently , if you consider ( with mee ) according unto Nature and to Grace , and doubtlesse all of us may ( by the way ) finde something worth our imitation , his mourning friends matter of consolation .

First , Nature ( you know ) had been no stepdame to him , whether you look upon the house or the inhabitant , his body or his soule ; one of them a goodly structure , a proper mansion for so divine a guest : as he was not like Galba , Plutarch in his life . 2 Sam. 14.25 . who is said to have had a good soule in a deformed body ; so was he not like Abs●lon , who had an il soule within a comely body . But , tanto hospiti aptum domicilium . He was a Diamond set in gold , Nature . his body and his mind ( like Apples of gold in pictures of silver ) each fitly made for other , and both to praise their Maker : but for that part of him which chiefly was himselfe , his soule , so eminently ingenious ( what with addition of industry and education to native dispositions ) as long agoe preferd him unto Royal attendance , and a stile of honour ; He was Chester Herauld above 20. yeares . Chester now lamenting her deceased Herauld , as we our loving neighbour : we , whose every tongue is still his ready Orator , acknowledging his deportment faire and full of sweetnesse composed of affection and discretion ; respective of superiours , most affable to equalls , soft unto inferiours , and lowly towards all :

But what speake I of Naturalls ? Grace . Grace was the Altar sanctified this gold : I , that made his soule shine like to the Heaven it came from , with many greater and leffer lights : ( virtues of all magnitudes ) lights that shined before men both in his former conversation , and his latter visitation . His conversation , to God-ward full of reverence , a practiser of publike as well as private piety : a man after Davids heart , that Iov'd the place where Gods honour dwelleth , His Piety . witnesse his diligent frecuenting of this House of prayer ; and I were somewhat ingratefull ( who had the happines to be his friend ) should I not acknowledge him a lover of the Church , her government and Ministers : and give me leave to wish the world fuller of such obedient Spirits .

For himselfe , hee no way had defac'd that Tenement where God had housd his soule , nor yet opprest the Tenant ( .i. ) was neither intemperate in body , nor passionate in minde ; a minde gentle , full of soft answeres , and ( as the Apostle would have it ) slow to anger , Iam. 1.19 . his body a Vessell of sobriety not excesse ; His Temperance . not washing out his Makers Image with immoderate drinking ( that Deluge of the Times ) no Sacrifiser He , to any of those bruitish gods , Bacchus , Venus , Epicurus . Rom 13.13 . but like a child of light , walking honestly as in the day . Rom. 13. And hee that was so pious and so temperate could not bee uncompassionate , hee that so lov'd God whom he had not seene , could not but love his brother whom he had : I , His Charity . many poore inhabitants of this Parish , for his charity , call him blessed ; and not many weekes are past since they had a gracious tast on 't : Pauper est Altare Dei . Are Heb. 13.16 . Hee knew the poore to bee Gods Altar , and therefore to distribute forgot not , but offered the well-pleasing sacrifice . Heb. 13.16 .

Thus did a good life approve him ( in all the three relations , to God , his Neighbour and himselfe ) an upright Christian ; Act 24.16 . one well versd in Saint Pauls endeavour , Act. 24. To keepe in all things a good Conscience , voyd of offence to God and man .

And these being the premises , with a little Logick you may ghesse at the conclusion , Qualis vita Finis ita . ex veris possit nil nisi verasequi . None other then a happy end could follow such a well-led life ( for commonly one is tothers Eccho . ) His latter visitation , was indeed short and sowre ; His disease supposed an Apoplexie . an acute angry malady feeding on his braine , yet for the Senders sake bid welcome , and entertained with such unmoved patience , as well deserved Iobs owne commendations : in all this languishment he sinned not , nor once charged God foolishly with his lips . Iob. 2. Iob. 2.10 . no , as he was my charge , so my comfort to finde him still as full of devotion as affliction , a ready companion of our praiers , making his tongue Gods glory ( and his owne as David calls it ) till such time as the tyranny of his disease chaind up the faculties of expression , Psalm . 57.8 . and then reared hands and eyes spake louder the elevation of his pious heart , all which petitioned the Churches comfortable absolution , which being administred , his soule ( feeling her selfe disburdened of a double weight , flesh and sinne ) soone after took her blessed flight to Heaven , where is no more Death or sicknesse , but all teares wipt away : to give your imitation then a Charecter of him , The Character of him . in a word . Hee was a zealous Christian , a faithfull Friend , a comfortable Neighbour , a loving Husband , a tender Father , an affectionate Brother , a gentle Master , a sweet Companion : indeed living hee was a Common good , and therfore now a common losse . Yet this may comfort his lamenting friends , that though his body is gone the way of all flesh , yet his soule the way of all the Saints , his Time 's extended to eternity , his company ( for sinnefull men ) the goodly fellowship of the Prophets , His exchange . Saints and Angels ; and in stead heere , of beholding vanity any longer , hee lookes upon the face of God himselfe , which none can see and not bee blessed : thus to him , to dye is gaine , Claudite jam rivos . because to live was Christ . Then shut your sluces all that lov'd him , and seeme not to bowayle his happinesse , doe not Reguantem flere ( as Saint Ierome forbids Eustochium ) doe not you bedew your eyes because God hath wip'd all teares from his , Mortui non amissised praemissi sancti . Planctus & ululatus sint inter saeculi homines . Let such immoderate griefe bee among hopelesse men , that thinke their friends lost , and gone to a place of weeping . 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . And though ( in such cases ) wee must permit you to bee men , yet forget not to bee Christians ; Doleamus nostram vicem ( as our Saviour to the Women ) weepe not for him , blest soule , but for your selves , for envie that your selves are not so happy . In Epist. ad Eustoch Non maereamus qaod talem amissimus , sed potiùs gratias agamus quod habuimus imo quod habemus , ( sweetly Saint Ierom ) Let us not mourne as for one lost , rather bee thankefull that wee have had so good a patterne , nay , that wee still have him ( saies the Father ) Deo enim vivunt omnia . For all still live in God , yea , though they dye , and whomsoever hee thus takes unto himselfe are still within the Family of the Church . Heare his last Farewell now , Valete omnes , omnes Me , suo quisquis Ordine , His Vltimum Vale. secuturi . Valete . Farewell my friends , Brothermortalls fare you well , that shortly ( each in his owne order ) all must follow mee : Follow him then first in goodnesse , fight the good fight , keepe the Faith , Finish so your course , as hee did , and henceforth is laid up for you ( what hee hath now received ) a Crowne of Righteousnesse : Though you goe along with him in the Non habemus , having heere no continuing City : you shall also accompany him in the Futuram acquirimus , the finding one to come : Which God , the Builder and Maker of it , grant us all ( in his good time ) thorough Iesus Christ . To whom with the Father and the Blessed Spirit , bee all honour and Thankesgivings evermore . Amen .

— Tibi desinet .

FINIS .