The godly mans iourney to heauen containing ten seuerall treatises. Viz. 1. An heauenly chariot the first part. 2. An heauenly chariot the second part. 3. The blessed chariots man. 4. The lanthorne for the chariot. 5. The skilfull chariot driuer. 6. The gard of the chariot. 7. The sixe robbers of the chariot. 8. The three rocks layd in the way. 9. The only inne Gods babes aime at. 10. The guests of the inne. By maister David Lindsey Minister of Gods word at Leith.
About this Item
Title
The godly mans iourney to heauen containing ten seuerall treatises. Viz. 1. An heauenly chariot the first part. 2. An heauenly chariot the second part. 3. The blessed chariots man. 4. The lanthorne for the chariot. 5. The skilfull chariot driuer. 6. The gard of the chariot. 7. The sixe robbers of the chariot. 8. The three rocks layd in the way. 9. The only inne Gods babes aime at. 10. The guests of the inne. By maister David Lindsey Minister of Gods word at Leith.
Author
Lindsay, David, 1566?-1627.
Publication
London :: Printed by R. F[ield] for Robert Bird, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible in Cheapside,
1625.
Rights/Permissions
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05560.0001.001
Cite this Item
"The godly mans iourney to heauen containing ten seuerall treatises. Viz. 1. An heauenly chariot the first part. 2. An heauenly chariot the second part. 3. The blessed chariots man. 4. The lanthorne for the chariot. 5. The skilfull chariot driuer. 6. The gard of the chariot. 7. The sixe robbers of the chariot. 8. The three rocks layd in the way. 9. The only inne Gods babes aime at. 10. The guests of the inne. By maister David Lindsey Minister of Gods word at Leith." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05560.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
Pages
THE THIRD ROBBER IS
the Popish Seminarie, malitiously
stealing from the child of God that
perfect satisfaction made by blessed
Iesus, his sole and full Sauiour, vnto
God his Father for all his sinnes, and
for all punishment due to him for his
sinnes; and cunningly obtruding vn∣to
him his owne satisfaction for the
temporarie punishment of his sinnes,
either here before death, or after
death in Purgatorie.
O What a terrifying monster hath
that cunning foxe the Pope made of
his more then subtilly inuented,* 1.1 and yet
more thē shamefully vented, of the effect∣lesse
fire of Purgatorie? Beleeue me, ô my
foule, those huge giants the sons of Anak,
bred neuer such dashing astonishment vn∣to
the faithlesse and murmuring spies, and
descriptionPage 449
people of Israel, as these flames of the
fire of Purgatorie (kindled by the Pope
in the cold chimney of his fond imagina∣tion,
and without it to this day neuer
seene, neuer felt burning by any liuing, by
any dead) hath and doth procure to those
blind people, who turning their backes
vpon the word of God, (carried by Moses
and Aaron) haue lent their eares to his in∣uentions.
And yet the subtile Pope, to
make this his conceit the more plausible,
to that blind people led by him their blind
guide, can hold & maintaine most peart∣ly,
(albeit more then lyingly) that how∣beit
blessed Iesus hath by his death satis∣fied
God his Fathers wrath,* 1.2 for the guilt
of the sinnes of his chosen, and for the e∣ternall
punishment due to them for those
their sinnes; yet he hath no wayes satisfied
for that temporarie punishment their sins
drawes after them, and so opening with∣out
shame his shamelesse mouth, he dare
auow that all these who here do not suf∣ficiently
satisfie by Penance (as he spea∣keth)
for their veniall and daily sinnes,
must remaine after death in Purgatorie,
and be there broyled, and sodden in the
flames thereof till they be haled out a∣gaine.
descriptionPage 450
This fire the Pope hath taken vpon
him to make vp of coales and other mat∣ter,
neuer created by that great Creator
who made all things, but of a matter
knowne (I should haue said vnknowne
to himselfe.) And this strong fire he hath
kindled neither in the heauens, nor in the
aire, nor in the seas, nor in the earth, nor
in the hells; so that I must thinke, as the
Pope doth not know of what matter he
hath made vp that his fire of Purgatorie,* 1.3
so he cannot know in what place it bur∣neth.
And yet (if the Papist may be be∣leeued) ô what extreame intollerable
paines do poore soules sustaine there? Is
not this written by their Doctors for a
truth, ô my soule! There was a soule which
had bene thirtie yeares in Purgatorie, at
length there came an Angell asking his
soule whether it would tarrie yet one
short Winter day in Purgatorie,* 1.4 or if it
would returne to the world againe, and
do there a maruellous hard Penance; to
wit, for a long hundred yeares space go
barefooted, still treading vpon sharpe
iron nailes, eating nothing but browne
bread, drinking bitter gall mingled with
vineger, wearing a cloath made of camels
descriptionPage 451
haire nearest his skin, and hauing a stone
vnder his head in place of a pillow. This
soule hearing this, chused rather to re∣turne
to the earth to indure all this, then
to stay so much as one short Winter day
long in Purgatorie. But no wonder can it
be that the soule made her choyse thus, if
that fire be such a fire as the Papists make
it to be: for is it not written in their de∣crees,
that there is no earthly paine or
martyrdome to be compared to the
paines of Purgatorie? yea, is that great
schooleman Thomas ashamed to affirme?* 1.5
that the fire of hell and the fire of Purga∣torie
is all one, and that they differ no∣thing
at all, but that the one is temporall,
and the other is eternall. And yet is it not
a wonder, ô my soule, that the Papists can
write so resolutely touching this their
forged fire, and the extremitie of the
paines sustained in it, considering that our
blessed God (to whom all things are
knowne) to this day told vs neuer by
Scripture that there was such a fire, or
such paines sustained in it; yea, considering
that these very Papists by whom these
things be written, (as I thinke) will con∣fesse
were neuer at Purgatorie, either to
descriptionPage 452
see the flames of fire burning,* 1.6 or to heare
the cries of the soules tormented there,
or to be pained themselues therewith. But
ô my soule, it may be that I smell a farre
off (if I be not farre deceiued) that which
hath moued the Papists so freely thus to
speake, and to write about their Purga∣torie.
The fire of Purgatorie they neuer
saw, the ho••e paining flames thereof
they neuer felt in their owne persons.
But yet they do daily see their owne
outward and naturall fire, and feele
the heate of it, to their great profit and
pleasure: And they know that this
their alledged forged fire of Purgatorie,
with the alledged fearefull, and forged
burning flames thereof, hath onely set vp
this their fire, and kept in this their fire;
that kings are onely in their hands who
are onely able to pull poore soules out
of these flames; yea that strongest flesh∣crooke
is onely in their custodie, which
is able to hale them out of this boyling
caldron (for be they not the maisters of
all Masses, Pardons, and Indulgences, by
the which alone these poore soules (if the
Papists may be beleeued) are deliuered
from these flames? haue they not, non
descriptionPage 453
sine commodo curiae, albeit cum damno consci∣entiae:
first forged that fire cunningly, and
to this day fostered it carefully, drawing
sharpe slaying swords, and kindling seene
deuouring flames of seene, felt fire, against
all such who hearing do not beleeue and
follow them. And, ô my soule, will
Scripture subscribe with the Papist? will
true Antiquitie founded on Scripture, and
not blinded by that filthie idoll Couetous∣nesse
foster him in this point?* 1.7 No, no, ô my
soule, I assure thee; for if that blessed Spi∣rit
of truth speaking by Scripture cleare
any point of sauing doctrine sensibly, for
the resolution and consolation of poore
sinners, against those euils which sinne
draweth vpon man, he cleares most sen∣sibly
that which that cursed spirit of lyes
speaking by the Pope, and his suffraganes
obscures most grosly, yea controles and
denies most impudently: and yet most
heartily vnto the confusion and condem∣nation
of poore sinners. What hath the
Spirit of God cleared, ô my soule, if this
be not cleared by him? Blessed Iesus, that
Sonne of God and Sonne of man, is that sole
and onely Sauiour of man, is the full and per∣fect
Sauiour of man; who alone in his owne
descriptionPage 454
person once hath satisfiedfully, and perfited
his fathers iustice, for all the sinnes of his elect
freeing them from all the guilt of their sinnes,
and from all their punishment due to them.
Cannot sweet Iesus (who neuer made any
foolish bragge, or vttered any apparent
vntruth, fastened to the Crosse, and there
suffering for thee,* 1.8 ô my soule) crie out
with a loud voice. It is finished, it is finished?
by this one word, directing his speech to
God his Father who sent him to saue lost
men, and telling his Maiestie that he by
his death had payed the least farthing of
mans debt of sinne, and so satisfie his
iustice fully; directing his speech to man,
for whose sake he was sent, and telling
him that he was loosed from that band,
and hand writing, God the Father had
ouer his head because of sinne, he hauing
cancelled it, and rent it in peeces vpon the
tree, and so that he was freed from that
prison within the which he lay bound be∣fore
and set at libertie, henceforth to
serue God on earth, and to reigne with
him in heauen: & yet the couetous papists
alwayes crying (with Iudas) What will
you giue me and I will betray him to you? can
giue Christ the lie in his face, saying in
descriptionPage 455
the hearing of his father to men, It is not
finished. That is, Christ hath not ransomed
man fully, and freed him from prison
wholely in respect he must go yet to
that prison of Purgatorie and by an∣other
ransome (most vile indeed, yet
not so vile as the vile receiuer of it is) be
deliuered therefrom. Cannot Paul (sub∣scribing
to the sweetest and most comfor∣table
words of his Maister) tell me that
Iefus is giuen me of my God to be my
Redeemer,* 1.9 albeit the Pope would send me
to Purgatorie, to the end he may be my
redeemer? Yea, that he gaue himselfe a
ransome for all men, albeit the Pope
would send me to Purgatorie,* 1.10 there to be
tormented by my selfe, by suffering of tor∣ments,
and by the liuing belonging to
me, by laying downe a ransome of gold,
for some masses to be sung for me. Isaiah
would make me beleeue (and I dare not
but beleeue him better then all the Popes
of the world) that I am healed by Christs
stripes,* 1.11 and yet the Papist will haue me
yet to be whipped, for the healing of me,
with the burning scourges of the flames
of this Purgatorie. Yea, Isaiah in that
same place tels me that the chastisement
descriptionPage 456
of my peace was vpon Christ alone, and
Paul would assure me that I being iustified
by faith haue peace with God through
Iesus Christ our Lord, albeit the fierce
Papist would send me backe to that
bloudie barres of his cruell Purgatorie,
there to vndergo a fearefull battell and
vndergo a bloudy warrefare: draw neare
me,* 1.12 here, ô my soule, and consider I pray
thee, but that contradiction which is to
be found to be betwixt that spirit of truth
speaking to thee by Scripture about this
point, and that spirit of lies speaking to
thee by the Pope: Scripture tels me that
Christ hath fully satisfied his Father for
me: The Pope tels me that he hath satis∣fied
him onely in a part. Scripture tels me
that Christ satisfied once for me. The
Pope tels me that he must be satisfied
daily for me; Scripture tels me that he sa∣tisfied
his Father for me by himselfe in his
owne person, bearing our sinnes in his
flesh vpon the Crosse: the Pope tels me
that I must satisfie my God by suffering
in my owne person. Scripture tels me, that
he hath satisfied and doth satisfie his Fa∣ther
in vs. No wonder that the Pope doth
this, for by this craft he liueth, and there∣fore
descriptionPage 457
I must giue him leaue, ô my soule,
till God (being mercifull vnto him) open
his eyes to see that truth which shineth
in holy Scripture, to lie about this his
forged Purgatorie;* 1.13 as Demetrius the siluer
Smith at Ephesus lied about his dead
goddesse Diana.* 1.14 But will true Antiquitie,
ô my soule, subscribe with the Papist a∣bout
this his Purgatorie? No, no, if it
could be hearkned vnto: for cannot old
Cyprian say.* 1.15Quando istinc excessum fu∣erit,
nullus iam locus poenitentiae, nullus sa∣tisfactionis
effectus; hic vita, aut tenetur,
aut amittitur. So soone as we go hence
there remaineth no place of repentance any
more, no effect of satisfaction; life is either
lost or found here. Bernard could say, Tria
sunt loca: Coelum, Terra, Infernus; & ha∣bent
singula habitatores suos; coelum solos bo∣nos,
terra mixtos, Infernus solos malos. There
be three places, the Heauens, the Earth, and
the Hels; and euerie one of them hath their
owne indwellers. The heauens keeping these
who be good onely: the earth possessing both
good and bad:* 1.16the hels hauing the wicked
onely inclosed within them. And againe,
Tres sunt animae status, in corpore, posito cor∣pore,
& recepto corpore; primus datus est ei
descriptionPage 458
ad agendam poenitentiam, reliqui duo ad ha∣bendam
requiem vel poenam scilicet, prout
gessit in corpore, siue bonum, siue malum.
There be three conditions of the soule, one
while it is in the bodie; another when it layes
aside the bodie; the third when it takes vp the
bodie againe. The first estate is granted to her,
to the end she may repent, the other two, to
the end she may receiue rest or punishment, as
she hath behaued her selfe in her bodie, by do∣ing
good or euill.* 1.17Augustine long before
Bernard could write thus. Primum locum
fides catholica diuina authoritate regnum
credit esse coelorum, secundum gehennam, ter∣tiam
ignoramus penitus, imo nec in scripturis
sanctis inueniemus: the faith of true Catho∣like
Christians leaning to the authoritie of
God, beleeues the first place after this life to
be the kingdome of heauen, the second to be
the hels, but the third we no wayes know,
neither shall find to be in holy Scripture. And
no wonder that Augustine writ so, for
he could not find that Purgatorie hath
that vse which the subtile greedie Papist
since his dayes hath fained it to haue; for
writes not Augustine thus againe:* 1.18Christus
suscipiendo paenam, & non suscipiendo culpam,
& culpam & paenam deleuit. Christ by taking
descriptionPage 459
on him the punishment due to vs for sinne, and
not the guilt of sinne, hath done away both
the guilt and the punishment. Yea, this mo∣ued
Bernard to bring in that saying, O∣portuit
liberari in hoc saeculo vt liberos habe∣ret
in futuro. It behoued the children of our
God to be freed and deliuered from all euill in
this life, to the end that God their Father
might haue free sonnes and daughters to
raigne with him in the world to come. Were
that ancient Doctor at Paris liuing now,* 1.19
he would ioyne hands with vs against the
Papist in this point, for could he not write
thus: Peccator est mercator positus in hoc
mundo pro emendo regnum Paradisi, & tan∣tum
durant nundinae quantum vita praesens. A
sinner is a merchant placed in this world to
buy the kingdome of Paradise, and the market
or faire in the which he must buy it, indures &
lasts as long as this present life shall indure.
Notes
* 1.1
The Papist hath made a fearefull monster of his effect∣lesse fire of Purgatorie.