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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19332	A warning for worldlings, or, A comfort to the godly, and a terror to the wicked set forth dialogue wise, betweene a scholler and a trauailer / by Ieremie Corderoy, student in Oxford.	Corderoy, Jeremy, b. 1562 or 3.	1608 (1608)	STC 5757; ESTC S123358	95,926	364

A WARNING FOR Worldlings Or a comfort to the godly and a terror to the wicked Set forth Dialogue wise betweene a Scholler and a Trauailer By Ieremie Corderoy Student in Oxford He that commeth to God must beleeue that God is and that he is a rewarder of those that diligentlie seeke him Heb. 11.16 AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Purfoot for Lawrence Lyle and are to be sold at the Tygars head in Paules Church-yard 1608. To the Right Honorable Thomas Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancellor of England and one of his Maiesties most honourable priuie Councell Grace and Peace WHen as right Honourable I had finished this my short Dialogue against Atheisme Considering the malice of certaine godles men who with scorne traduce such books which confute their errour As also the blinde zeale of others which thinke bookes of this kind not fit for these daies I thought it verie necessarye to shrowd my selfe vnder the protection of some Honourable person Who for his authoritie might bridle the malice of the one and for his daily experience in the estate of this Realme might satisfie the other In these respects none seemed to mee so fit as your Honour who for your authoritie can and do daily punish the outragious dealing of Atheists And by reason of your dailye experience in your Courts of Starre-chamber and Chauncerie You cannot but see how necessarie such bookes are for these times For albeit it be a great meanes to deterre Atheists from haynous offences to pun●sh seuerely malefactors in which respect your Honour doe daily God and your Prince great seruice and your Countrey great good Yet it cannot be vnknown vnto you that by manifest and euident proofe to make knowne vnto all men that there is a God who will iudge all men according to their workes is the cheefest meanes to restraine men from offending For it cannot bee that he which is fully perswaded that there is a God who will punish those that do euill and reward those that do well should be careles how they liue Much lesse without feare daily commit hainous sins and continue therin all their daies As in this present age so great a number doe as neuer the like in former ages which is an euident proofe that there are now more then euer there were thogh they professe not in words who think in their hearts there is no God Most necessarie therefore it is to plant this Doctrine in the hearts of men that there is a God who as hee made all things so continually hee gouerneth all thinges vnto whome all men must giue account of their doings Presuming therefore on your Honours wonted fauor to all Schollers and the great neede of bookes of this kind for these times I am bould to craue your Honour to patrone this my small treatise wherein I hope you shall doe that which is gratefull to God and encourage me and others with comfort to set forth the glory of god and bind me alwaies to praye for your Honours good suecesse in all things you take in hand At your Honors seruice Ieremie Corderoy To the Reader I DOVBT not gentle Reader but that there are many more scrupulous then rightly zealous who thinke it not conuenient that any question should be made whether there be any God or no because as they say there are very fewe who doubt of it and the very calling of it in question breedeth scruples in the mindes of those who made no question of it before True it is that if there were no more Atheists in these dayes then doe in words deny God Fit it were we should be silent in this point For fewe or none there are who now in words deny God and the very persons of such men who in plaine termes deny that there is any God haue beene in all ages euen amongst the heathen so odious that their hatefull opinion hath done but little harme either to the Church or Common-wealth But the Scripture forewarneth vs of a more dangerous kind of Atheist who wil not in words deny God but by their deeds Tit. 1.16 as the Apostle saith They professe that they know God but by their deedes they deny him And in another place speaking of them saith 2. Tim. 3.5 that they haue shew of godlinesse but they deny the power of it They haue a shew of godlinesse because in words they make profession of Religiō but they deny the power of it For they wil not in their deeds yeeld reuerence obedience vnto it These are they of whom the Apostle saith that they will priuily bring in dānable heresies 2. Pet. 2.12.18 and that many shall follow their damnable waies that in speaking swelling words of vanity they shall beguile with wantonnesse through the lust of the flesh thē that were clean escaped from thē which were wrapped in errour That is deceaue euē those which were not entangled in those errours of doctrine which in the time immediatly going before the Apos forshewed would take hold on most mē termed the latter daies 1. Tim. 4.1 These Atheists who now in these daies abound termed the last daies 2. Tim. 3.1 2. Pet. 3.3 as the last and dregges of Sathans vomit so the worst of all euils that euer came vnto the Church of God doe with greater pride contemne godlines though after a couert manner then euer any of Satans crue since the world began 2. Tim. 3.4 Who because they loue their pleasures more then God as the Apostle saith of them Therefore of set purpose they seeke by all meanes possible to abandon al thought of God and his knowledge albeit they cannot chuse but see that there is a God which gouerneth all by the creation of all things in heauen and earth their continuall preseruation the motions of the heauens the orderly course of all things in the earth yet they seeing it endeuor not to see it and perceauing it will not take notice of it least they acknowledging a God shold by consequēce be constrayned to forgoe their intirely beloued plesures This loue of pleasures and setled resolution to enioy all the pleasures and commodities of this present life without cōtrolement causeth the knowledge of God to be so hatefull vnto them as the light of the Sunne was vnto the eyes of that hell-hound Cerberus delighting vsed to darknes so that when Hercules endeuoured to draw him to the light he shut his eyes and by all his might shunned the light so these hel-hounds vsed to the works of darkenesse and delighting therein do shunne all the meanes that might bring thē to the true light of their soules and if any Hercules do endeuour to draw them to the light they will by all might and maine draw backe and shut their eyes against the truth non persuadebis etiamsi persuaseris ye shall not make them yeeld to the truth though you conuince thē Nay they wil hate euen the persons of them who striue to bring them to the truth