Mount Tabor. Or Private exercises of a penitent sinner Serving for a daily practice of the life of faith, reduced to speciall heads comprehending the chiefe comforts and refreshings of true Christians: also certain occasionall observations and meditations profitably applyed. Written in the time of a voluntary retrait from secular affaires. By R.W. Esquire. Published in the yeare of his age 75. Anno Dom. 1639. The contents of the booke are prefixed.
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Mount Tabor. Or Private exercises of a penitent sinner Serving for a daily practice of the life of faith, reduced to speciall heads comprehending the chiefe comforts and refreshings of true Christians: also certain occasionall observations and meditations profitably applyed. Written in the time of a voluntary retrait from secular affaires. By R.W. Esquire. Published in the yeare of his age 75. Anno Dom. 1639. The contents of the booke are prefixed.
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Willis, R., b. 1563 or 4.
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London :: Printed by R[ichard] B[adger] for P. Stephens and C. Meredith, at the gilded Lion in S. Paul's Church-yard,
1639.
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Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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"Mount Tabor. Or Private exercises of a penitent sinner Serving for a daily practice of the life of faith, reduced to speciall heads comprehending the chiefe comforts and refreshings of true Christians: also certain occasionall observations and meditations profitably applyed. Written in the time of a voluntary retrait from secular affaires. By R.W. Esquire. Published in the yeare of his age 75. Anno Dom. 1639. The contents of the booke are prefixed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15484.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.
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The Introduction to my MEDITATIONS OF MOUNT TABOR.
My work is done, I can no longer toyle,under the restles cares of worldly things,Come then (my soul) let's prove another while,what sounder comfort thought of heaven brings.For here we see by selfe-experience,the fruits of this world, wheresoe're they grow,In Citie, Court, high place of eminence,in Cottages, or Countrey shades below,Yeeld but the spirits vexation—If not confusion;Or vanity at best,—The spirits illusion
Then leaving all below: let us ascendthe sacred Mount of Tabor; where we mayWith humble quiet thoughts attend,our Saviours call from day to day;For we should now make every day our last,not needing or desiring any more;If God another to our life shall castspend it likewise, with thanks to him therefore.And so being freed from earthly perturbation,Make heavens care our daily meditations,Waiting the period of our fraile lifes story;Ʋntill his calling of us to himselfe in glory.
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