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HOw many weary and te∣dious steps doe many Mahometans tread in their
The spiritual bee, or, A miscellany of scriptural, historical, natural observations and occasional occurencyes applyed in divine meditations by an university pen
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- The spiritual bee, or, A miscellany of scriptural, historical, natural observations and occasional occurencyes applyed in divine meditations by an university pen
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long Pilgrimages which mul∣titudes of them yearly take to Meccha, the place where their grand Seducer Maho∣met was buried? and that meerly for the increase of a carnal imposturous Devotion. (that they may be reputed Hoggees i. e. Holy men, as such are ever after styled) And how many a deluded Po∣pish Pilgrim measureth thou∣sands of tiresome paces, ad∣ventureth through many dan∣gers, endureth many hardships and severe and grievous En∣tertainments, in a journey to the Holy Land; and is con∣tent at last when come in view of Jerusalem to pay a great Entrance-Tribute to the Turkes for admission, and all
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meerly to see the Sepulchre which enclosed our Saviour's body, and the place which once had the markes of his footsteps. I am a pilgrim not by choyce but by an unhappy Necessity; my Journey is to∣wards a Holy Land the hea∣venly Canaan; I Seeke a Ci∣ty which is from above, the New Jerusalem: which my Saviour not only hath but al∣ways doth blesse with his pre∣sence; not in his low, abject, humbled estate; but in his ex∣alted wonderfully glorious presence. Shall I complain of the tediousnesse of the way, the Terrour of incident dan∣gers, the sweat the toile and laboriousness of the travel to be undergone, where the con∣tentment
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and delight at jour∣ney's end is so infinitely tran∣scendent? What Red Sea can have so much horrour? What wilderness so much dismal & sad amazemēt, what occurren∣ces can be so fearful, hardships so grievous, dāgers so terrible, what condition so necessituous or State so bewildred, as will not be rendred Amiable and desirable when leading to the sight and enjoyment of our Saviour? No Tribute either of sorrow or death its self, but is an easie Purchase for admit∣tance, not to his Sepulchre but his Throne▪ not to see the place where the Lord lay, but where he raigneth; and not to look on, as an Alien, but to Enter and possesse as a Deni∣zon.