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.

9 Thinke not shame to shame thy selfe (as men speake) for thy sinnes, ô man, in time, by confessing and forsa∣king them, if thou wouldest eschue that endlesse shame that shall lye on thee for sinne in eternitie.

VVOuldst thou be freed, ô my soule, from that death which is the wages of sinne, and deliuered from that shame which is the reward of iniquitie? I beseech thee shake off that shame, which alas, too manie (misled by Satan) in this our age are clogged with, albeit it pro∣cure daily matter of new death, and grea∣ter shame vnto them; and with a good heart and smyling countenance put thou on that shame wherewith too few, alas,

in this our age are couered: albeit it be a∣ble (God being mercifull vnto vs) not onely to slay death, and shake off con∣founding shame; but also to procure quickening grace and sauing glorie. Alas, ô my soule, how many with Vincentius the hereticke, beside Augustine in his 48 Epi∣stle, while they thinke shame to amend their faults, thinke no shame to continue in their faults. Corah with his companions lift vp themselues against Moses and Aa∣ron, and a certaine space was granted to them to aduise themselues about this their sinne; but dare they not face the matter boldly, being as readie vpon the morrow to present themselues before the Lord as Moses and Aaron was? what wonder then, that our God, iust in all his wayes, couer them with death and with destruction, who would not confesse their sinne, and willingly acknowledge that death and shame did belong vnto them, because of it, to their conuersion? Few sinners, alas, ô my soule, in these our dayes, with Moses, with Dauid, with Daniel, with that great Apostle Paul, can acknowledge and con∣fesse their sinnes, crying, yea crying aloud, that shame, yea open shame, belongeth

vnto them, and that glorie and righteous∣nesse belongeth to their God. And there∣fore what wonder that amongst our sin∣ners, there be few that haue our blessed God to locke their eyes with Moses, to put away their sinnes with Dauid, to heare them with Daniel, and to receiue them to mercie with Paul. Pronounce thy selfe therefore, ô my soule, worthie of death, because of thy sinnes, that God through his Christ, may receiue thee to life. Take the coate of shame to thee for thy sinne, ô my soule, to the end that thy God for thy Sauiours sake, who for a while was coue∣red with shame for thee, may clothe thee with grace here, and glorie hereafter for euer.

Notes

• Numb. 16.
• Deut. 34. 6.
• Psal. 2. 12.
• Dan. 9.
• 1. Tim. 1.