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.

26. Vpon the Turkies comming duly to their roost at night.

SEe how these silly fowles, which at their owne libertie wander and feed abroad, in Gardens, Fields, and Orchards, all the day long, and many times farre off, from their u∣suall roosting places; yet (notwith∣standing the company of other fowles of their owne kinde met a∣broad, discovery of new places of better feeding, and other entice∣ments or impediments) do ever to∣wards Sunne-set, draw themselves homewards before it be darke, so to have time and daylight enough, to flie up to their perches of roost, where only they looke for safety and quiet in the night approaching. This providence taught these sillie crea∣tures by instinct of nature; as it di∣rectly

shames, and condemnes some of us, who when we are got abroad, are easily drawne by ill company, good-fellowship, or other idle vani∣tie, to deferre our comming home till we are not able to come home, but must be led home like beasts, or lie in a ditch by the way, (to the ha∣zard of soule and body) so it may bee a necessary remembrance use∣full to us all; that in all our worldly occasions of this life, wee bethinke our selves of the Sun-set∣ting with us, I meane, the houre of death: which must as certainly come upon every one of us at one time or other, as the Sun-setting closeth up every day that goes over our heads; that like the sons and daugh∣ters of wisdome, we may everyday remember that our last night is at hand, and so provide to make our peace with God by Iesus Christ (our only peace-maker) whiles it is cal∣led to day, that that night doe not surprise us, or take us unprovided for it.

O mercifull Lord God, strengthen my feeble soule, by thy holy Spirit of grace, that with the humble wings of true repentance and a lively faith, J may before hand flie up into the Arke of my Saviours perfect righteousnes, that whensoever that night shall come upon me, I may bee found there in safetie, and so received into thine e∣verlasting peace, Amen.