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.

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.

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HEre at thy foot-stool (blessed Lord) do we ••cal•• Thy weak unworthy servants wait thy gracious Our work draws to an end and now we come to thee Whose blessed will is so declared, we shall. Blesse this our waiting time; and by thy grace, Support us joyfully to end our race.

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For thou already hast of thy good will In truth and mercy us espous'd to thee, Although the mariage day must rest, untill This mortall puts on immortality: Meane while, thou hast thy holy spirit us given, To guide us all along our way to heaven.

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Whose sacred hand, within the first degree Of life eternall, hath already brought us •• Vniting us (renewed by grace) to thee (Most glorious Saviour) who hast deerly bought us;

And by this first degree assures the rest; To make us finally for ever blest.

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The second step to lifes eternitie, Is by deaths passage which we now attend; Where laying down, all our mortalitie, Our soules by Angels conduct shall ascend: Members of thy Church thine own espoused wife, Into thy palace of eternall life.

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Where we, instead of flesh, that's transitory, And must be laid to sleep here in the grave; Shall have new robes of everlasting glory, As all our fellow members there shall have, O what a blessed glorious change is this, To leave this world for heavens endlesse blisse?

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And yet there rests behind a third degree, When these fraile bodies rais'd from death agen Vnto eternall life, rejoynd shall be Vnto our soules; and glorified with them: When all things shall receive their consummation; Our soules and bodies both, compleat salvation.

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Now whiles we wait in this our pilgrimage, When our appointed time of chang shall come; (Lord Iesu) help in this our lifes last stage; And our redeemed soules bring safely home; To that safe home of thine: where al things bee In perfect peace and true securitie.

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For in this life such our corruptions are, As hinder when we any good intend;

But headlong running into every snare, To make us our most gracious God offend: Vnder this bondage of corruption thus, Lye we till thou good Lord) deliver us.

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Here then with panting longings after thee, Most (glorious Saviour) for our finall rest: With sighs of hope, and teares of joy, do we Attend thy blessed call to make us blest. Call then (sweet Iesu) when it shall thee please: Into thy hands receive our soules in peace, Amen.