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A93743 Jeremiah VI.4. Wo unto us for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703. 1700 (1700) Wing S5121A; ESTC R184558 19,699 26

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keep those things ●hich are written therein for the time is at hand Even nearer ●hen ever it vvas yet And further Blessed is he that doth according to all those thoughts of Goodness and Truth vvhich the Lord doth from time to time vvhen he wakeneth Morning by Morning put into our Soul Again on the other hand a Wo or Curse belongs unto them vvho do not For the time is at hand even just before us or as it is in the vvords of our Text The day goeth away and the shadows of the Evening are stretched out It is but a very little vvhile and the day vvill be quite gone avvay and the shadovv of Death vvill be upon our eye lids and each of us shall say or vve shall find it so Mine age is departed and is removed from me as a shepherds tent I have cut off like a weaver my life He will cut me off with ●pining sickness from Day even to Night wilt thou make an end of me Which as the everliving God doth by us poor dying Creatures We should strive and work together with his grace vvhich vvould work in us mightily if vve are obedient to it that as our outvvard Man perish the invvard Man is renevved day by day Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing FINIS Practical Books Written and Published by Richard Stafford OF Happiness Wherein it is fully and particularly manifested That the greatest happiness of this Life consists in the fear of God and keeping his Commandments in opposition to the Pleasures of Sin or the pretended conveniency of Disobedience Rules and Directions for the preventing of and Recovery out of Sickness A Discourse against Partial Obedience Or that dangerous deceit so universal amongst them who call themselves Christians of keeping some of the Commandments of God and neglecting others Some Thoughts of the Life to come With a brief account of the State of Religion as it is now in the World The great Benefits of Christ to all that believe on and obey him Being a Treatise on Hebrews 2. 15. Wherein it is shewed and made known how People may be freed and delivered from that slavish fear of Death whereby they are subiect to Bondage throughout their Life-time and also how they may be saved and preserved from the Evil and danger of Death when it shall approach nigh an● come actually upon them An earnest call to all the inhabitants of the Earth to Turn immediately to the Lord their God An Exhortation unto all Dissenters however they are distinguished or named to return into the Communion of the Church o● England So far as all things are done therein according to the Pattern shewed to us in the Gospel Six several Sermons Preached on Isaiah 38. 1 Wherein that great Duty of setting our Body and Soul in order for we shall die is a● large opened and explained The doctrine of the Cross or the Duty of Christian suffering in a Sermon on Mat 13. 20 21. A Sermon on 1 Chron 29. 18. And another on Mark 8. 36. The Nature of God's Kingdom and Dominion over Men in a Discourse on Deut 8. 2. Divine Arithmetick Illustrated in the Right and Exact Numbrin● of our Days or a Discourse of the near and continued approache● of Death unto every one whatsoever The Extensiveness and Comprehensiveness of the future Judgment of God A Discourse of the Misery of Hell and Happiness of Heaven Grounded from Mat. 25. 46. A Discourse of God's hearing Prayer Grounded from John 9. 31. The observation of the three Great Festivals asserted in the Christian Church and also the Right manner of the observance of them made known in a Sermon on Col. 3. 1 Preached on Easter-Day A Sermon Preached unto the Inhabitants of the Town of Thornbury in Glocester-shire March 20. 1697. on Psal 143. 8. Two several Sermons on Phil. 4. 11 12. The necessity of keeping unto the Ordinances of Religion Prayer Hearing the word Baptism and the Lord's Supper in a Sermon on Acts. 6. 4. A Sermon of the devices of Satan on 2 Cor. 2. 11. The exceeding Great Comfort and Benefit of having walked before God in Truth and with a Perfect Heart and of having done that which is Good in his sight Set forth in several Discourses on Isaiah 38. 2 3. Another Sermon on Isaiah 38. 4 5. And another on Jer. 6. 4. Three several Discourses on Rom. 9. 6. Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect For they are not all Israel which are of Israel Two Discourses on Coloss 3. 1. and another on Acts 2. 11. The cause and cure of Divisions Or the way and means for all Christians to come to Unity The Great Useful and Blessed Duty of a Contentment Willingness and Desire to Die Set forth upon true and assured grounds Any of which aformentioned Books may be had at the Author 's Hired House in Ewers Street Southwark Advertisement THese are to give notice That I have several other Practical Sermons or Discourses of mine own Composing lying by me in Manuscript Which if they who have the Plenty or Competency of this World's Goods would According to their several Ability Acts 11. 29. Thus Consecrate some part of their gain and substance unto ●he Lord Micah 4. 13. So as to be ready to distribute and willing to Communicate towards the outward Labour and Charge of the Printing and Publishing of them it would be for the Glory of God in making known his Truth Isa 38. 19. And for the Edification and Benefit of his Church and People and consequently it would be a Good work in such Persons who shall be helpful and any ways assistant herein for which they would be rewarded by God in the Life that is to come And I say unto you Make to your selves Friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness that when ye fail they may receive you into Everlasting Habitations Luke 16. 9. Charge them that are rich in this World that they do Good that they be Rich in Good Works ready to Distribute willing to Communicate laying up in Store for themselves a good Foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on Eternal Life 1 Tim. 6. 17. 18. 19. This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain Good Works these things are Good and Profitablsi unto Men Titus 3. 8.