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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34789	Life & death offered to the choice of the sons and daughters of Adam, or, A doctrinal essay towards the discovery of the broad way that leadeth to destruction, and also the narrow path that leadeth unto life being the substance of several sermons preach'd on Matth. 7, 13, 14 : in the entrance of which discourse you have something spoken occasionally touching judging of others, and also touching the giving of holy things to dogs, and casting pearls before swine.	Carter, R., 17th cent.	1662 (1662)	Wing C663; ESTC R5924	50,195	64

LIFE DEATH Offered to the choice of the Sons and Daughters OF ADAM OR A Doctrinal Essay towards the discovery of the broad way that leadeth to Destruction and also the narrow path that leadeth unto LIFE Being the Substance of several SERMONS Preach'd on MATTH 7. 13 14. In the entrance of which Discourse you have something spoken occasionally touching judging of others and also touching the giving of holy things to dogs and casting Pearls before Swine I call Heaven and Earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and deach blessing and cursing therefore choose life that both thou and thy seed may live Deut. 30. 19. LONDON Printed in the Year 1662. To my Friends and Neighbours in the Parish of Upton cum Chalveii in the County of Bucks together with all those of adjacent parts that did use to attend upon my Ministry in that place The Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ with Grace and Peace be multiplied Friends and Neighbours IT was the good will and pleasure of God to grant me this mercy to be born in a time of great Light and in a Land of Visions when and where the Gospel was preach'd in great Power and Glory and to encline my heart in the morning of mine age to an attendance upon the preaching of the Gospel by those whom he had eminently gifted and spirited for that Work yea to take hold of my heart by his Word and so to engage me in the study of his will revealed in his word that I could not settle my self upon any secular employment save onely that while I did live at home my dear Mother being a Widow I was as became me serviceable unto her in that Calling God had set her in In which time I had the happiness of enjoying Communion with many of the Lords people by which Communion I was furthered in the knowledge and understanding of Scripture After this the Lord brought me into acquaintance and favour with several godly and able Ministers who after some knowledge of me did tell me that they did verily believe God had some work for me to do in the Ministry and that God would find me out and give me a clear call thereunto which perswasion of theirs answering the inclination that God had wrought in my heart almost from my Cradle did the more unsettle me as to any worldly employment And so it was that about the 21. year of mine age I had several proffers as to publike Work but still there was something or other did impede and hinder In fine being in the Countrey near Windsor for my health's sake about May 1654. I was desired to preach amongst you at Upton which accordingly I did on the 27. of that instant And after I had preach'd with you you being destitute of a Minister I was desired to take hold of that opportunity for the doing of God service which desire I did freely close withall and in order thereunto after that I had obtained power from the then Supream Magistrate I took possession of the Pulpit to preach in and the House to dwell in In this my undertaking I had but little external encouragement there being not much either of Maintenance or Countenance to be expected from you As for Maintenance it s known to be very short and as for Love and Countenance I could look for little being at the first desired but by a very few in the Parish and besides for that you did seem generally to expect those things from him who should be your Minister which unless I should have sinn'd against my Light and Conscience I could not do I hope I am able to say in some good measure of sincerity and truth That my great ends were the glory of God and the salvation of your precious souls For I considering how you had been supplyed for sixty years or more according to your own confession to wit with a prophane Ministry and also that the means was so short that few good men they being bound by the Law of God and Nature to provide for their Families could accept of it I did judge I might be of more service among you then elsewhere My Lord Christ had told me by his blessed Word that in this Work I must not looke to meet with the great things of this world as Riches Honours Friends c. but on the contrary to meet with Disgrace Contempt Scorn and Persecution And indeed there was no reason for me to have expected other among you but the setting of you in a flame about me so that I might have walked by your doors in fear have lai'n down and rose up in fear have preacht in fear My great Work in the Ministry being to pull down your strong holds to plunder you of that which is more dear to you than your Gold and Silver namely your sins to take your Beloveds out of your bosome to pull out your right eyes and cut off your right hands to take away your Gods from you your Carnality Hypocrisie Superstition c. But it was otherwise ordered by the holy and wise God for in the room of this I had your attendance upon my Ministry and approbation of it many of you confessing that the Word came in power upon you convincing you of many things I also received great respects and love from many Nay more after that I had been near two years among you and you fully knew what I refused to do I being alwayes open-hearted among you as to the matters of my God you did notwithstanding hearing of some Overtures made to me about a remove desire my continuance with you and did manifest this desire by subscribing your Names to what you were freely willing to give me Quarterly for the supplies of my Family Which Subscription of yours though it did not much augment my Maintenance yet it was to me so high an expression of your love and so clear a discovery of some Work that my Ministry had wrought among you that I resolved thereupon to continue a longer time with you and manifested this my resolution to be real by laying out a considerable sum of money upon the Vicaridge-House for my own ●● ommo lation And so through the good hand of God did cont●nue with you until December 1660. for which opportunity of Service I do think my self obliged for ever to bless the Lord that he should call out such a poor worm and give him six years time to bear a publike Testimony for Christ in his generation Now as for my departure from you though the cause thereof be known to many of you yet for the honour of the Gospel and clearing of mine own innocency I shall give you a brief account thereof in this place The greatest Contest I had all along with many of you was about the administration of the Lords Supper and Baptism and Burial of the Dead you requiring of me that I would bury the Dead according to