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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18707	The true trauaile of all faithfull Christians, hovve to escape the daungers of the vvicked vvorld VVhereunto is added a christian exercise for priuate housholders.	Chub, William.	1585 (1585)	STC 5211; ESTC S117145	53,782	143

is like to run vpon all thē which are in the world by reason of sinne But now some will obiect Obiect that whether wée sinne much or little it is all one for we are assured of death thereby not regarding the multitude of sinnes but as it were féeding the inclination of sinne knowing that there is but to the one and to the other a death for a rewarde But I answer Resp if any man shall therevpon boldly presume on sinne and feede the humor thereof Short de terrible Deu. 30.18 he shall not only hasten death vnto him but also plucke vpon him a most terrible death as appeareth in Moses If thy hart turne away so that thou wylt not obey but shalt bée seduced and worshippe other Gods and serue them I pronounce vnto you thys day that ye shall surely perish you shal not prolong your daies in the lande S. Paule charging the Corinthians for abusing the sacrament sayd 1 Co. 11.3 For thys cause many are sicke among you and many fall on sléepe And yet it is not a generall rule that they which are cutte off that theyr dayes are shortned thorough sinne for Iohn Baptist and the Innocents that were murthered by Herode are no such examples for such the Lord dooth not onely take away because they are vnworthy of the worlde but sometimes they are arguments of condemnation vnto their oppressers again in them was not séene such manifest sin wherby they did drawe vnto thē Gods wrath to cut of their dayes but in those in whom plentifulnes of obstinate sin doth raigne vndoubtedly they shorten their dayes as on the otherside they which serue the Lord and followe hys precepts and lawes their daies shal be prolonged 〈◊〉 ●0 20 As appeareth in the commandements Honour thy father and thy mother that thy daies may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thée K n 20 6 Was there not xv yeeres added to Ezechias in seruing the Lord. The prophet Dauid saith ●sal 34 12 What man is he that listeth to liue wold faine sée good daies kéepe thy tongue frō euil and thy lips that they speake no guile The very same like wordes hath the Apostle Peter also when the Lord appeared vnto Salomon in Gibeon Pet 3 10 and had giuen him the excellency of wisedom he aduised him saying ● Kin. 3 14 If thou wilt walk in my waies to keepe my ordinances and my commandements as thy father Dauid did walk I wil prolong thy daies And yet not only this blessing of prolonging of daies shal be giuen to the seruaunts of God but euen in the ende they shall die a peaceable death as happened to the good king Iosias to whom the Lord said 2 Ki 22 2● for his good embrasing of the booke of the Law and fearing him Beholde I wyll gather thée to thy fathers thou shalt be put in thy graue in peace and thine eies shall not sée all the euil which I wyl bring vpō this place O good God what sweeter wordes to a christian hart and what greater ioy to a good conscience then to depart in peace the neither God in vengeaunce nor the worlde in exclamatiō lay any thing to our charge neyther this length of life nor this peaceable death shal be assured to the vngodly and wicked but as I said their daies shal be cut of and their end shal be in terror feare as it appeareth in Ezechiel Ezech 14 either by famine pestilence sworde or wyld beasts Howe terrible was the death of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomor O howe lamentable and most dreadfull was the ende of Hierusalem when it was sackt by Tytus and Vespasian Howe fearefull was the end of Iezabell being rent a sunder with dogges and deuoured by peece-meale How was the ende of rebellious Absalon which was caught from hys horse and hanged by the haire Howe odious was the ende of Antiochus which putrified and rotted where he lay that hys Chamberlaine coulde not abide his smell Most horrible was the ende of Holophernus who was beheaded in hys drunken sléepe and all these wyth a great many more abridged their daies and ended them in most terrible and fearefull manner and that for their wicked and abhominable lyuing in most detestable sinne and wickednes some in horedome some in pryde some in disobedience some in extortion some in tyranny and cruell murther c. I remember I was by the bedside of an olde preacher Hunting 〈◊〉 who di●n froo● Zel●●d who lay in his death bed and sayd vnto me Euen as the water which is poysoned killeth all the multitude of fish in it so I tell thée in thys world the whole ayre is so corrupted with the sinne of man that I doubt mée it wyll bring all the world to a confusion in a short time I pray God deliuer me and giue England repentant harts The most horrible and most fearefull enemy that yet was spoken of agaynste the sinne of man is hell The last enemy to sinne a place of damnation for euer without release appointed for sathan all such as haue stoutly serued him without veyling theyr banner of repentaunce to almighty God an enemy so dreadfull as me thinkes the verye remembraunce of so terrible a place should séeme to reuoke and drawe backe a sinner although he had neuer so great a delight in his iourney A place not onely full of all paynes torments but also continuing and enduring for euer and euer a place voyde of release or mitigation of paynes thether commeth neyther mercy nor bayle compassion nor pittye The lamentable out cryes and scriches of them that are tormented doo neuer come from thence vnto the eares of helpe or vnto the compassion of pitty Esa 30 33 It is described in the Prophet Esay Topheth is prepared of olde it is euen prepared for the King hée hath made it déepe and large the burning thereof is fire much woode the breath of the Lorde like a fire of Brimstone doth kindle it He speaketh figuratiuely that as the state of heauen in many places of the new Testament is set forth by similituds because other wise we cannot conceiue of it euen so hell in this place is called Topheth Topheth which was a vallye of the children of Hinnom néere Ierusalem 2 Ki 23 10 where the childrē were sacrificed to Moloch which was a great Image of brasse Lyra. proportioned like vnto a man and being holow within it should first be made fire redde hote and when the child shoulde be put into it and closed vp then the priestes would make such a noise with Targets and timbrels that the parents should not heare the voice of the infant whereby they myght be moued to cōpassiō but beléeue that the infant died peaceably with out paine and that the Gods did presently receiue the soule of the infant this was their abhominable Idolatrye in thys vally néere