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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02593	Mortalities meditation: or, A description of sinne VVith a definition and plaine setting forth of mans three chiefest and greatest enemies; to wit, the world, the flesh, and the Diuell. Written by William Hall.	Hall, William, fl. 1624.	1624 (1624)	STC 12720; ESTC S106137	19,777	44

My dayes thou hast made like vnto a span Mine age is nothing in respect of thee We must returne to dust doe what we can Euery one liuing is but vanity Like to a shadow time doth passe away Without controulement no man can him stay 142 Each day our life doth hasten to an end For wee are neerer vnto death this day Then yesterday who can with time contend Nor bostingly no man ought thus to say I certaine am to liue till to morrow The smallest moment of time who can borrow 143 Man is by Iob compared vnto grasse Which now doe flourish yet cut downe ere night Or to a shadow which apace doth passe Swifter then Eagles hastning in their flight Death still pursues men wheresoere they goe Friend to the Godly but the wickeds foe 144 Life is compar'd to things of short continuance To smoke to flowers which doe vanish soone Vnto things which are of no persistance And changeth oftner then the changing Moone Vnto a dreame or likewise vnto stubble Which fire doth burne or to a water-bubble 145 Seing mans life is so vncertaine then We need not wish long liuers for to be Being certaine death will come wee know not when And longest liuers greatest sinners be Although we liue long yet death comes at last And then amongst dead men we must be plast 146 What man is he that listeth long to liue Vnto the vtmost as Long as may be His minde to viciousnesse he must not giue If that he doe intend good dayes to see His heart vprightly he must keepe the while His tongue and lips that they do speak no guile 147 Our life 's compos'd of nought but misery In Youth in Manhood and Decrepit age Nothing attends on these but vanity Which doth the shortnesse of mans life presage Which is Compar'd to glasse that is so brittle And flyeth faster then a weauers Shittle 148 For in this life is nought but vexation Our minds and bodies are alwayes troubled Repleat with sorrow and contemplation Christs death these sorrowes all hath comforted And buried them in his deare precious blood Which is the salue that should do our soules good 149 God grant it may that we may raigne in heauen And with Jehoua sing continuall praise Of care and sorrowes wee shall be bere●aen If we take care to serue the Lord alwayes Which for to doe we must our selues indeauour From doing good we neuer must perseuer 150 For of wel-doing we should not be weary As wee haue sowne so wee shall reape likewise Yea in due time we shall reape and be merry If that we faint not nor Gods lawes despise We need not feare the fatall dint of death Come when it will it can but take our breath 151 Our bodies for a while may be dissolu'd And turn'd to dust and earth from whence t was tane Our soules shall liue w' are certainly resolu'd To raigne with Christ with whom they did remaine When we were in our Mothers wombe conceiued Before we were into the world receiued 152 As our soule is the vnion of life So is ●he Spirit of God the soule of ours Which cannot be diuided with deaths knife If God his Spirit into our soules once power In the Celestiall heauen we shall raigne And neuer feele the force of death againe 153 The thought of death in some will terror breed And like Belshazzar make them trembling stand At the rememberance of each thought and deed When all our enemies themselues doe band Against vs and the diuell will imploy His best indeauors our soules to destroy 154 Death to the Godly is a welcome guest And such a one as they doe long to see It being come their troubles shall haue rest And they Gods glory face to face shall see Blessed are those that in the Lord doe die From their labours they rest eternally 155 Certaine vncertaine death we must expect And at all times we must stand on our Guard No time nor moment we must once neglect Vnto our selues we must haue more regard That death at no time vnprouided catch vs And vnexpected to the graue do snatch vs. 156 In dying well God doth two things require Of euery Christian man that he should saue At these two things I greatly doe admire To see that men no greater wisedome haue But to neglect a thing of greatest good In time to come if they it vnderstood 157 The first is on death to premeditate Come wh●n it will we may be ready for it And not deferre it till it be too late So that wee need not feare it nor abhorre it To bid death welcome we should ready be And think 't the ioyful'st day we ere shall see 158 The second thing God doth of vs require At time of death well our selues to behaue Whereby we may escape Hels burning fire And flye to Christ that he our soules may saue This wee should doe deaths vigor to preuent ' Gainst God doth come and call vs to iudgement 159 VVhilst we are liuing yet we may relent And turne from vs Gods wrath and indignation But being dead its too late to repent There is no sacrifice nor satisfaction For after death there is no change at all The tree doth lie as is at first his fall 160 And as men die they must to indgement rise To answer for those sinnes they haue committed Euen as they dyed and no otherwise They can adde nought nor ought can be omitted To think on death each man somtime should spend If that hee 'l make a sanctified end 161 As death doth leaue them so God will them finde And as hee finds them so they iudg'd shall be If to doe well they haue themselues inclin'd From all eternall woe they shall be free Certaine all must die by Gods appointment And after death all must come to iudgement 162 Nam scriptum est that we account must giue Of euery idle word we peake that 's bad In what state of condition we did liue A Redde rationem must be had Of all our sinnes we must cast vp the summe When we before Gods Iudgement seat doe come 163 The Booke laid open our offences read Before Gods face all must trembling stand Both small and great yea all that haue been dead Being summoned by Trumpets Command Blessed are they thrice blessed in their heart That in the first Re●urrection had part 164 Whether one talent be hid or destroy'd Vnder ground account shall be demanded To what good vse or bad it be imployed Doing Gods Seruice as we are commanded That we may goe into our Mosters ioy And vtterly be freed from all annoy 165 The Sun in that day shall be darkened quite The Firmaments of light shall be bereau●n The changing Moone shall not renew her light The Starres likewise shall fall downe from Heauen All mortalls hearts with feare must needs be taken When as the powers of Heauen shall be shaken