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The great venture shewing that man's life in this world is a venture, wherein he runs the hazard of an everlasting estate of happiness or misery in another world, according as he behaves himself here : also advice to youth, with several other things profitable for all who will seriously read and mind them / by E.A., a well-wisher to the souls of men.
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thee and to try what course thou 'lt chuse to steer And which way venture Therefore sit down at last consider let thy heart Advisedly forecast and chuse the better part Before thou venture Make good use of this season look how thou chusest now For so shall be thy portion in endless bliss or wo This is thy venture Then take the safest course for thy Eternity Thou canst not be the worse for living virtuously If so thou 'lt venture 'T will be no cause of grief at last when thou must dy In holiness of life that thou didst patiently Trust God and venture Though it be somewhat hard as a poor Pilgrim here His law still to regard and mix thy joy with fear While thou dost venture To bring thy will to his and thy dear lust forsake To bear thy daily cross and suffer for his sake And thus to venture Yet know the trouble 's short here is no lasting pain 'T is but a moments smart it cannot long remain Take heart and venture Joy and eternal Rest will afterward succeed When thou in heav'n art blest thou wilt confess indeed 'T was a safe Venture 'T was a brave Venture Advice to Youth GIve him the morning of thy youthful days Who did create and form thee for his praise God made thee for himself that he might be Thine and thou his there 's thy Felicity 'T will be lost time and labour to attend What er'e diverts thee from this blessed end Hearken to day he calls thee and doth make Tenders of Grace mind it the blessing take This is thy golden season in thy prime To make him thine and give thy self to him Oh! miss not this fair opportunity Least thou lament it to Eternity 'T is but accepting what he proffers bow Thy will to his Oh seek him seek him now Come while he calls to day for why to morrow Who knows but thou maist end thy days in sorrow This present moment which we now possess Is all we have t'ensure our Happiness When death hath cut this lif 's small thred in twain 'T will be too late to call time back again Youth stain'd with vice and lost in vanity Unfits for God ripens for misery Hardens the Heart to slight its chiefest good Therefore despis'd because not understood Ten thousand worlds can make no recompence For Gods lost favour and times ill expence Before the world and lust prevail Oh give Thy heart to him by whom thy heart doth live The longer sin takes rooting in thy heart The hardlier 't will come out and with more smart Delay of seeking thy eternal bliss Leaves still less hope thou 'lt find more fear thou 'lt miss Now heav'n and Christ who purchas'd that sweet place Are the fair prize of this thy lifes short race Oh set out then betimes hold on thy way That thou maist win this prize make no delay Thy days are few thy tryal cann't be long Quit thy self bravely play the man be strong Watch pâ—ay strive hard ' gainst devil world and lust For daily help in God through Christ still trust Then let the grim-fac'd Messenger appear Pale Death to thee will bring no cause of fear But as thy friend and fathers servant come Both to invite thee and attend thee home Where thy thrice happy soul Heav'ns Majesty Shall see love praise admire eternally Ravish'd with pure delights rivers of pleasure From Gods sweet presence which shal flow for ever An Humble Acknowledgment of Gods free goodness and our own vileness and wretchedness LOrd what I am I am alone by thee The most free author of all good to me What I find better than the worst of ill Is from thy favour and thy meer good will The worst of punishments I have deserv'd Whose heart from thy just Law hath ever swerv'd No villany so base but I do find A proneness to it in my wretched mind Shouldst thou not punish my offences yet On mischief is my nature so far set That I my self-destroyer soon should be And find a way to my own miserie Shouldst thou but leave me to my own hearts evil My mind a Hell my will would prove a Devil So that I do not now the utmost know Of wretchedness to thy meer grace I ow Which still forbears my sins due punishment And doth my utter ruine yet prevent The Paradox LOrd must the best fare worst the good just By great afflictions humbled are toth ' dust Mean while the wicked prosper they who God Contemn yet seel not his afflicting Rod Can all this be and thou yet God above Who hat'st the wicked and the just dost love Thy Providence is strange yet thou hereby The just mans Faith and Patience dost try Of the World THe world 's a large and publick stage whereon All act their sev'ral parts and then are gone Nought else are acted here but Tragedies For in the close of all each Actor dies Of the same THe World 's a Sea mens passions are the winds Which belching from their fierce and boistrous minds Such tempests cause that many being tost In storms which they themselves have rais'd are lost Of Sin SIn is the Creatures will opposing Gods The Subject with the Sovereign at odds Whereby proud man exalts his own base lust Above Gods Law most holy good and just Of the Law SInners toth ' Law of God do offer force Gods Law to sinners doth denounce a curse The sinner breaks the Law and God doth thwart God and the Law will break the sinners heart Of Death DEath is the King of Terrors with his dart Taking his aim at each mans trembling heart A Dragon whose envenom'd fatal sting Strikes all and spareth not the greatest King Death is sins brat mans bane Gods curse hells gate To all while in their unconverted state But to the just by faith in Christ who live And seek their chiefest good in things above Death 's a safe passage into heav'nly bliss The Gate of Life the door of Paradise Of Christ GOds Son became Man and the Law obey'd Its curse he bore and for our trespass dy'd By his death Sinners live and have access To God though Infinite in Holiness Of Faith FAith is the Eye whereby we Christ perceive Faith is the Hand whereby we Christ receive God freely offers Christ Faith takes the gift As seeing it mean't to all who it accept Of pardon upon going to Christ WHen once the Sinners guilty troubled Soul His lost estate comes to see and bewail And by conviction sensible is made That he a Saviours Righteousness doth need And is made willing from his very Heart With his own Works and Righteousnes to part And he beholding to free Grace alone For his forgiveness and Salvation And as a weaned Child is well content For to receive Christs Kingly Government And become subject to his Royal will Ceasing henceforth his own Lust to fulfil And so in his own Breast a Law doth finde In some sort ruling his