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A36555	The forerunner of eternity, or, Messenger of death sent to healthy, sick and dying men / by H. Drexelius.	Drexel, Jeremias, 1581-1638.; Croyden, William.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650.	1642 (1642)	Wing D2183; ESTC R35549	116,212	389

THE Fore-runner of ETERNITIE OR Messenger of DEATH sent to Healthy Sick and Dying Men by H. DREXELIUS 1643 ●NA 〈◊〉 HIS ●SA ●NIS MORE ●UND●● AEGRIS W. Marshall Sculpsit THE FORERUNNER OF ETERNITY OR MESSENGER OF DEATH Sent to Healthy Sick and Dying Men By H. DREXELIUS LONDON Printed by J. N. and are to be sold by John Sweeting at the Angel in Popes-Head-alley Ann. Dom. 1642. ¶ To the worthy and most virtuous Gentlewoman Mistresse MARGARET DRAPER Widow of Mr. ROBERT DRAPER Esquire MADAME WOnder not that I presume to thrust this Tractate into your hands as not having that Relation to your self usuall in all such Dedications yet finding so great an affinity betwixt your Goodnesse and the Tractate it self so great unitie betwixt your Meditations daily express'd in your Practice and these here imprinted I thought it not onely fit but necessary to prefix your name unto it For it is most just That in whom these Meditations have been continually imprinted she at last should be imprinted in these Meditations Take therefore this Book reade it your self and explain it to others least that Gulf in the Title ETERNITY catch and involve those at unawares that might fore-run it Let the Reader know that it is alwayes to be thought on though never to be understood Let him believe that every moment we travell unto it and shall quickly come to our journeys end that vast place of entertainment the Inne of Eternitie Let him look he bespeaks good Lodging and good Company for the next morning as soon as the Sunne of Righteousnesse appears he shall begin a journey that shall never have end in which he shall still move on yet never proceed for going forward is but as standing still in that motion to which no period is allotted But this you know in a word therefore Take this book now your owne for though your lesse skill in the Latine tongue may deny you to have made the Originall yet the zeal and piety of your Life is the best Translation Shew it therefore to the world that its Meditations whilest you live may be a Pattern for others and when you are dead the Historie of yours So I have brought this Book and you together I know you will quickly be acquainted and talk out the rest therefore now ceasing to trouble you I steal away in silence remaining Yours in all humble service W. CROYDEN ¶ The severall Sections of the three ensuing Books The first Book 1 AN Introduction to the work pag. 1 2 That the remembrance of Death should be daily pag. 3 3 The remembrance of death a medicine against all sinnes pag. 5 4 Of the conclusion of a good life pag. 8 5 That every man is nothing pag. 9 6 Of the short continuance of men pag. 11 7 The same larglier insisted on pag. 13 8 The vanity of the desire of long lise pag. 15 9 That man is dust pag. 1● 10 That every man is truly miserable pag. 21 11 What man is pag. 24 12 Instruction to the haters of funeralls pag. 27 13 That our life is nothing but weeping pag. 29 14 That God comforteth those that weep pag. 30 15 That our death may be as advantagious as our birth pag. 33 16 That death is every where pag. 36 17 Every mans house is deaths home pag. 38 18 The inexorablenesse of death pag. 40 19 The certainty uncertainty of death pag. 42 20 The suddennesse of death pag. 44 21 An antidote against sudden death pag. 54 22 Our dayes are few and e●ill pag. 57 23 How dying young we may be said to be old pag. 59 24 That any one that will may live long pag. 62 25 That we must all die pag. 63 26 The remembrance of death ought to be renewed pag. 66 27 A discourse of Assan Bashaw pag. 73 28 That each day is to be regarded pag. 78 29 The throne of all our pride is our bier pag. 80 30 What our life is pag. 86 31 Our life is a Play pag. 89 32 A type of mans life pag. 91 33 The Prologue Narration Epilogue of mans life pag. 93 34 That the longest life is but short pag. 96 35 Of procrastination pag. 98 36 Deaths haunt pag. 103 37 Of our negligence in meditating of death pag. 105 38 That the present is onely ours pag. 108 39 That we should not rely on to morrow pag. 110 40 The suddennesse comelinesse of death pag. 113 41 That we must watch and pray pag. 116 42 Eight verses out of the Psalms used by S. Bernard for the time of death pag. 119 The second Book 1 THe remembrance of Death recommended to the sick pag. 127 2 The sick mans d●scourse w●th his friends pag. 131 3 Pleasant things not alwayes best pag. 138 4 Christian valour seen in the cont●mpt of death pag. 139 5 Examples of death contemned pag. 141 6 Of a mind ready for death pag. 144 8 Three things grievous in sicknesse pag. 147 9 Sicknesse is the school of vertue pag. 150 10 Sicknesse the monitor to eternity pag. 151 11 Of prayer in sicknesse pag. 152 12 What ought to be our thoughts and actions in sicknesse pag. 155 13 The difference of our thoughts in sicknesse and health pag. 158 14 In all our sicknesse we must send holy sighs to God pag. 160 15 Faults of sick men pag. 161 16 Rules to be observed by the sick pag. 166 17 How the sick man should quench his thirst pag. 168 18 The sick mans napk n pag. 170 19 The sick mans bed pag. 172 20 The hope of a better life asswageth our misery pag. 175 21 True hope of a most blessed life pag. 176 22 Tranquillity flows from true hope pag. 180 23 Patience the whole armour of a Christian pag. 182 24 That we are but guests on earth pag. 186 25 The term of our life is uncertain pag. 187 26 A first objection of the sick man pag. 191 27 A second objection pag. 193 28 The sick mans complaints pag. 195 29 The sick mans discourse with himself pag. 199 30 His discourse with God pag. 201 31 His sure confidence in God pag. 207 32 Of constancy in sicknesse pag. 211 33 Severall prayers to be used by the sick pag. 215 The third Book 1 THe Art of dying pag. 233 2 How to redeem the time pag. 237 3 How to make a short life long pag. 238 4 An end of all things but eternity pag. 239 5 Considerations of a dying man pag. 245 6 We ought to prepare for death pag. 246 7 Examples of such as buried themselves pag. 248 8 A consideration of our grave pag. 252 9 Nine forms of Wills pag. 255 10 Nine Epitaphs pag. 261 11 Nine reasons to perswade us to die with a resolved mind pag. 273 12 Death not to be feared pag. 282 13 How the Saints of God may desire ye● fear death pag. 285 14 An ill death follows an ill life pag. 289 15 A good death follows a good life

of the second Act thinking in it to stirre up more delight and liking in the people On a sudden there fell such a violent storme that the people could not stand to heare him at that time but he promised the people that on the next day they should heare it all finished So on the next day there was a mighty company of people assembled every one strove to place himselfe in the fitted seat either for sight or hearing they that came something late beckned to their friends to make roome for them they that came last were mainly streightned for room The whole Theatre was cram'd with Auditors and there was a wonderfull throng their discourse was divers some talked of what had bin acted the day before others that knew not the former action came to behold the sequell Nothing now was expected but Philemon well the time past on ye● no Philemon appeared some blamed his stay others excused it but when as most did thinke they had stayed longer then was fit and yet so no appearance of the actor they sent some speedy Messengers to call him but they that went found all their expectations frustrated for Philemon was dead in his bed and stiffe and lay in his bed as if hee had bin meditating his part with his hand on his Book but his soule was fled out and so his Auditory failed The Messengers that entred were struck at first with astonishment of this sudden alteration yet wondred much to see how comely hee was laid In his bed Well they returned to the people and told them that Philemon who should have acted a fained part had acted at home a true Play for hee had to all worldly things given his farewell and Plaudite Whereupon divers did grieve amd lament the showre the day before was now seconded with a showre of teares and the Comoedian was now turned Tragoedian If wee looke onely on our present life a then Death will be wished for and that man dyes well who dyes without the feare of Death but yet happier by far is he that is found of Death so doing and who dyes in his worke So that Death it self shal find him busie St. Cyprian the Martyr wisht Hippo. 4. Septemb. p. 920. that hee might be offered to God by Death as he was in preaching he is worthy of prayse whom never the Devill or Death cuts off in their idlenesse § 41. We must watch and pray BEcuse yee know not the time in which the Sonne of man will come The Romans watched in their Armes though sometimes without their shieid because they would have nothing to leane upon because they would prevent sleep Thou must watch oh man and it is profitable to watch with the armour of God upon thy soule the ardent prayers of Christians are their Armour of proof Hope of long life is the leaning stocke that too many sleep upon The usual words of the Romans when they watched were these Vigila vigila Mars vigila Marc. 13.33 35 37. i. e. Watch oh souldier watch By the usuall termes they stirr'd up one another to watch By the same words oh my soule doth God incite thee to wat●hfulnesse The very heaven it self by his incessant motion and constant course night and day adviseth thee to rouze up thy selfe Wilt thou grow deafe to such a Lecturer and give thy selfe to sleep heare Christ himselfe saying Watch and pray as Saint Marke testifies Christ at the end of one Sermon did thrice repeat this clause in these words 1 Goe to watch and pray 2 Therefore watch and pray for you know not when the Lord will come in the Evening or at Midnight or at Cock-crowing or in the Morning Lest if when he should come suddenly be should find you sleeping 3 What therefore I say to you I say unto all watch S. Matthew often speaks the same Mat. 24.42 25.13 c. 26.41 Watch therefore for ye know not what houre the Lord will come And repeats it againe Watch therefore for yee neither know the day nor the houre And our Saviour inculcates the same at the Mount of Olives Watch and pray that yee enter not into tentation Hee publisheth the same by Saint Luke Watch therefore and continue in prayers Luke 21.36 that same very word Watch how often is it doubled by Saint Paul all these is thunder-claps may serve to rowze up our drowzie souls Wee are deafe nay dead if we startle not at all these quickning voyces Who ever thou art if thou hast bin lulled asleep in thy sins awaken Awake thou that sleepest arise and stand up and Christ shall give thee light Knowest thou that fatall blow of Egypt in the middle of the night the destroying Angell smote all Egypt Remember the Lot of the ten Virgins There was at midnight a great cry made and those Virgins which were ready were admitted into the Bride-chamber but those that slept were excluded Canst thou but remember that gluttonous abusive servāt Did not his Lord come in a time that he looked not for and in an houre that he dream't not off Canst thou but consider that good Master of the Family He watched at all houres lest at any houre the Thief should enter and spoyle his goods Canst thou oh canst thou but think on thy Saviour Was not he borne in the middle of the night The same as many think will about the same time come at the time of the general judgment Watch therefore oh watch and thinke every day to be thy Exit from hence § 42. Eight Verses out of the Psalmes of David selected by Saint Bernard which he himself used for the time of Death COnsider and heare me ô Lord my God lighten mine eyes lest I sleep the sleepe of death Lest mine Enemies say I have prevailed against him Psal 13.3 4. Into thine hand I commit my spirit thou hast redeemed mee ô Lord God of truth Psal 31.5 Then spake I with my tongue Lord make mee to know mine End and the measure of my days What it is that I may know what time I have here Psal 39 3 4. Shew me a token for good that they which hate me my see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted mee Psal 86.17 Thou hast loosed my bonds I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the Name of the Lord. Psal 116.17 Refuge failed me no man cared for my soul I cryed unto thee ô Lord I said Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living Psal 142.4 5. A Prayer for an happy departure out of this life O Almigh●y and Everlasting God who didst give unto thy servant King Ezechiah length of days when as hee in teares besought thy goodnesse Grant I beseech thee to mee thy unworthy servant before my death such a space and time in which I may heartily deplore and lament all my sins and that for them all I may by thy infinite mercies