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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60609	The great salvation in another world, ascertain'd as to faith, and consider'd as to practice by William Smith, D.D.	Smith, William, D.D.	1696 (1696)	Wing S4279; ESTC R13254	14,500	31

heightning degrees of Wealth or Honour shall be offended and think themselves too wise to be so reproached by these my severe Representations and shall scornfully Deride us as the greatest Fools for doing so let them tell themselves that for certain at one time or other especially when they are in a near prospect of their Dying Periods they will justifie us to their Cost that all that I have said is true And then may wish that I had exposed their Follies with greater degrees of Severity that they might caution their Friends and Relatives no longer to play the Fools in such comparatively ridiculous ways of Living as must necessarily hazard the loss of God's Love and Favour the sweet Peace of their own Minds and their being Eternally at last Undone in a future World And then let them consider whether their Unbelieving Principles or their hopes of any worldly Advantages can shelter them from those dreadful Events But now on the other hand let them be assured that whensoever any of those sinful and foolish Delayers shall begin to enter upon thoughts and sincere purposes to act for their Eternal Salvation they shall certainly then make the first Step and begin to be themselves come into their Wits come out out of Bedlam and act their own Rational Natures so as to deserve the honourable Title of being Men. Of this the wise Ecclesiastes gives us a clear assurance Fear God saith he and keep his Commandments Eccl. 12. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is Man Not as some mistakingly would have it the Duty or the whole Duty of Man but positively this is Man which he was not justly to be so accounted till a Religious Mind and Life had made him one And then further when he goes about to turn himself to be a Man St. Paul calls it the new Man he will every day be more and more improving himself for a Happy Life even in this VVorld so far as a mortal State will admit of it with the common allays of the Worlds unavoidable Inconveniencies His Pious Mind will never let him want a directive Guide how to manage his best Prosperity discreetly and satisfactorily to himself and create a Love and a Respect from all that depend upon him and most probably a Friendship from all those with whom he converseth and holds Neighbourly communions And if it happens that any adverse Fortune or cross Accidents sometimes occur his wise and religious Mind will be ready to suggest Reasons enough why he should bear them patiently sometimes even Eligibly and always Thankfully And if he hears the noise of VVars and National Commotions when VVorldly Men are harrassing their Minds with Fears and passionate Concerns for Parties and Interests he bears the Character of the Psalmist's Blessed Man that fears the Lord Psal 112 that is Verse the seventh He will not be afraid of any Evil Tidings for his Heart standeth fast and believeth in the Lord. He quietly awaits God's Pleasure in the Issue and Event of things and is content that he should be Glorified either in his Mercy or Justice as he pleases And if our Pious regarder of his Salvation shall perceive that the days are coming on in which he is like to have no pleasure in them he will be so far from troubling himself with murmuring complaints that God gave him a Mortal Life on those as Worldlings imagine hard terms that he shall intellectually rejoyce that God and Nature allows him such a respit in which he may have time perfectly to Extirpate the very relicts of every evil Habit contracted perhaps in the inadvertent part of his Life And then that all the beguiling temptations of the vain VVorld are now growing every day more and more pleasantly insipid to him And then it being presum'd that in his declining Age he may have less to do with the Affairs of the VVorld and but little attendance to be given to the Satisfactions of Sense he finds that he hath a happy leisure to be endeavouring to dress up his Soul with such Divine Qualifications as may make himself as like as possible to the Nature of that Good God especially in his impartially Universal Love and Goodness unto whose Beatifical Presence he hopes ere long to have a merciful admission And when he is endeavouring to finish that principal design he finds that he hath time also to form his Mind with those obliging Qualities and Graces which may adapt him to be a fit Companion in that Blessed Society where the Holy Angels and the Spirits of Just Men made Perfect being all of a Piece in their Tempers do keep up a sweet and happy Communion of Joy and Love without any such interruptions as they met withall in the former froward VVorld FINIS Books Printed for and Sold by R. Clavel at the Peacock in S. Paul's Church-Yard THE Church History cleared from the Roman Forgeries and Corruptions found in the Councils and Baronius In Four Parts From the Beginning of Christianity to the End of the fifth General Council 553. By Thomas Comber D. D. Dean of Durham The Reasons of Praying for the Peace of Jerusalem In a Sermon Preached before the Queen at White-Hall on the Fast-Day being Wednesday August 29. 1694. By Thomas Comber D. D. Dean of Durham and Chaplain in Ordinary to their Majesties Printed by their Majesties special Command A Daily Office for the Sick Compil'd out of the Holy Scriptures and the Liturgy of our Church with occasional Prayers Meditations and Directions The Catechism of the Church with Proofs from the New-Testament and some additional Questions and Answers divided into twelve Sections by Z. I. D. D. Author of the Book lately published Entituled a Daily Office for the Sick with Directions c. A Church Catechism with a brief and easie Explanation thereof for the Help of the meanest Capacities and weakest Memories in order to the establishing them in the Religion of the Church of England By T. C. Dean of Durham The Pantheon representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods and most Illustrious Heroes in a short plain and familiar Method by the way of Dialogue for the Use of Schools Written by Fra. Pomey of the Society of Jesus Author of the French and Latin Dictionary for the Use of the Dauphin A Second Admonition to the Dissenting Inhabitants of the Diocess of Londonderry concerning Mr. Boyse's Vindication of his Remarks on a Discourse concerning the Inventions of Men in the VVorship of God with an Appendix containing an Answer to Mr. Boyse's Objections against the Sign of the Cross By William Lord Bishop of Derry