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.

Author

Willis, R., b. 1563 or 4.

Publication

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 20, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO MY DEERE WIFE AND CHILDREN.
• The Table of this private Booke.
• imprimatur
• The occasion and motive of these weake exercises of mine following which I call my Meditations of Mount Tabor.
  • The Introduction to my MEDITATIONS OF MOUNT TABOR.
  • The first Meditation How excellent a thing it is to have all our debts cancelled. Places of Scripture, shewing how this benefit belongs to us.
  • My first MEDITATION of Mount TABOR.
  • The Second MEDITATION of Mount TABOR. How sweet a thing it is, to have God appeased towards thee. Places of Scripture shewing how this benefit belongs to us.
  • The second Meditation.
  • The Third MEDITATION OF MOUNT TABOR. How glorious a thing to be the child of God. Places of Scripture shewing how this benefit belongs to us,
  • The third Meditation
  • The Fourth MEDITATION of Mount TABOR. How happie a condition it is for thee, upon thy perseverance in grace to be assured of thy salvation. Places of Scripture shewing how this benefit and priviledge belongs to us.
  • The fourth MEDITATION of Mount TABOR.
  • The Fifth MEDITATION OF MOUNT TABOR. How pleasant a state it is, to live without feare of death and hell. Places of Scripture shewing this comfort to belong to the fa thfull.
  • The Fifth MEDITATION.
  • The Sixth MEDITATION OF MOUNT TABOR. How rich and stately a thing it is to be heire of glory. Places of Scripture shewing how this transcendent priviledge belongs unto the faithfull.
  • The sixth Meditation
  • FOR A Seventh MEDITATION OF MOUNT TABOR.
  • A MEDITATION On the Incarnation and Passion of our most glorious Saviour the Lord Iesus, and our blessed union with him, alluding to the song of Simeon, called Nunc Dimittis.
  • A Contemplative Meditation of the new Ierusalem and the triumphant Church, celebrating an everlasting Sabbath in the kingdome of Heaven; entitled by mee, Halelujah to Heavens King.
  • A Meditation of Mans mortality
• Occasionall Meditations.
  • Vpon a sad and unseasonable Raine translated out of Latine.
  • 2 Vpon a LOOKING GLASSE, Translated out of Latine.
  • 3 Concerning an extraordinary veile which covered my body, at my comming into the world.
  • 4. Vpon an extraordinary accident which befell me, in my swad∣ling cloaths.
  • 5 Vpon my breeding up at Schoole.
  • 6 Vpon an accident to me, when I was a Schoole-boy.
  • 7 Vpon six verses of the 12 Chapter of S. Luke,
  • Ʋpon a Stage-play which I saw when I was a child.
  • 9. Ʋpon the Diall of the Clock in the Colledge Church of Gloucester.
  • 10 Of good counsell given by a rude Countrey Painter in a homely verse.
  • 11 Vpon a pedegree found in a private mans house.
  • 12. Ʋpon a pedegree seene in a Noble-mans house.
  • 13. Of a Felon making of a comfortable end at his Execution.
  • 14. Vpon the words (Hodie mihi, cras tibi▪) commonly used for an Embleme of our Mortality.
  • 15. Vpon the observing of a Grave-stone in Pauls London.
  • 16. Ʋpon a short Inscription upon a great mans Tombe.
  • 17. Ʋpon three words written with a Cole in a great Iudges house.
  • 18. Vpon consideration of one Mus∣cle of the eyes of man, more then of any other creature.
  • 19. Vpon the name of God proclaimed.
  • 20. Vpon the Greeke word , which signifieth, to breath.
  • 21. Vpon the words of S. Paul, 1 COR. 9.24. So run that ye may obtain.
  • 22. Vpon a worthy Divines Letter resolving me in a case of conscience.
  • 23. Ʋpon the words revealed to S. Augustine. In te stas, & non stas.
  • 24. Ʋpon the building of Pauls Church in London.
  • 25. Vpon the reading of a paper casu∣ally taken out of an old bundle at my first comming to Stanwick.
  • meditation
  • 26. Vpon the Turkies comming duly to their roost at night.
  • 27. Vpon the remove of houshold from one dwelling to another.
  • 28. Vpon the casuall hearing of a verse in the new Testament read by a child.
  • 29. Vpon the wrds of a childe, inti∣mating the necessitie of my timely preparation for death and heaven.
  • 30. Vpon a fight between two Cocks.
  • 31. Vpon a childes asking blessing in the morning.
  • 32. Vpon one word attributed to God thrice, in three verses together in one Chapter.
  • 33. Ʋpon the great Clock in Westminster Palace.
  • 34. Home.
  • 35. A Dialogue betweene an old sick man, and his neighbour visiting him.
  • 36. A Hymne for Christmas-day. Gloria in excelsis Deo.
  • A Prayer and Meditation for my wife and my selfe to joyne together, she being in the 67. year of her age, and I n the 74. of mine, and both full of bodily infirmi∣ties; for our daily waiting for the bles∣sed houre of our dissolution.