Seauen helpes to Heauen Shewing 1. How to auoid the curse. 2. How to beare the crosse. 3. How to build the conscience. 4. How with Moses to see Canaan. 5. Simeons dying song, directing to liue holily and dye happily. 6. Comforts for Christians against distresses in life, and feare of death. 7. Feruent prayers, to beare sicknesse patiently, and dye preparedly. The second edition: much enlarged by Steuen Ierome, late preacher at S. Brides. Seene and allowed.

Sect. 3. God prepares his children to dye, as hee did Moses, by shewing them Canaan.

BVt before hee dye, and passe this way of all flesh, God will haue him goe into the Mountaine, and see the Land of Promise, this was done in sweet goodnesse, that with more ready will hee might make an end. And assu∣redly thus dealeth God with his louing chil∣dren at their latter ends, euen giue them a glympse, a sight and taste of the true Land of Promise, that heauenly Canaan: which hee hath prepared for them after death. But as Moses to see this pleasant sight, must ascend vp into the Mountaine; so must wee raise vp, and lift vp our hearts, our soules, our thoughts,

and the eyes of our mindes, as it were aloft to an high Mountaine, that so wee may see what will make vs most willing to depart, that our ioy may be full and endlesse, as in Peter.

That Moses entered not into Canaan, but onely saw it, it had two ends: first, the punish∣ment of his Incredulitie, when hee strucke the Rocke spoken of here in the 14. Verse of this Chapter: and secondly, for mysterie, Vt significet nos per Legem, cuius Minister, &c. that it might signifie that by the Law, whereof Moses was Minister, wee may see as it were afarre off eternall life and saluation, but neuer enter into it that way, because through cor∣ruption of our natures, wee are not able to performe it, which being not performed, shut∣teth vs out, and subiecteth vs to a curse.

Notes

• Obser.
• Mat. 17.14
• Numb. 20.12.
• Gal. 3.10. Iames 2.10. Mat. 5.19.