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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85528	A diall, wherein is contained a remembrance of death, and the uncertainty of the time of death. With many good rules how for to lead a good life.	Granger, William.	1648 (1648)	Wing G1514; Thomason E429_8; ESTC R202242	9,090	17

A DIALL WHEREIN Is contained a remembrance of DEATH and the uncertainty of the time of DEATH With many good Rules how for to lead a good life FOR WE MVST YOVTH MIDLE AGE OVLD AGE 1 THES 5. 1. Try all things and keep that which is good LONDON Printed Anno 1648. To the Reader KInd Reader I desire and wish to thee All health and happinesse may ever be This little book which heare I do present Is for no ill but for a good intent It is a dyall so I have it named According to some motions in it framed Likewise unto a garden we may it compare Wherein both flowers and weeds there are To both of these you may it use at leasure As time will serve for you to take your pleasure T is both to put us all in mind of death While on the earth God lends us life breath As in a dyall is motions of the houres So in this garden is motions of sweet flowers As in some dyalls be some false deeds So in this garden is some bad weeds All dyalls goes not true that I do know Some go too fast and some do go too slow But this may prove to thee a true dyall If thou thereof do make a true tryall This garden to though but a little ground Yet there are here sweet flowers to be found This dyall do thou buy it is not deare Learn by it how to live while thou liv'st here Though in his centre thou no tongue discern Yet thou by it may some good lessons learn Prepare for death while thou hast time and space Aad pray to God to gvide thee with his grace Death he will come though we know not the houre At one or two at three or else at foure Suppose he stay unto a farther line Till five or six to seven eight or nine But if he stay till ten eleven or twelve T is high time then for thee a grave to delve Chuse this thy ground do thou not it refuse And delve therein t is made for thee to use Do thou peruse it well and spend some houres To cast the weeds out but preserve the flowers Gather some flowers to deck you to your grave Observe this dyall well and so it may Serve for thy use both for the night and day In day time for to read while it is light And for to meditate on in the night God grant us grace that we may learne hereby In goodnesse still to grow and multiply So I desire thee for to read it o're And give to God the praise for evermore So I rest thy loving freind and well willer William Granger A DIALL GOod Christians all of whatsoe're degree Give eare a while and harken unto me Both old and young it doth us all concern The oldest he is not too old to learne We must dye all by ordinance divine How ere so high we must at last decline Our God he hath ordain'd it to be so Our Grandsire Adam brought us to this wo In Genesis the third we may it read Gen. 2. Gen. 3. The sequell why and how it was decreed God pardon me in plainnesse to bestow A little time his wonderous works to shew In Eden God did chuse a plot of ground And planted fruitfull trees about it round Fruits of all sorts herbs of all sorts likewise And made it be a pleasant Paradice And in that place there water was enough For pleasant strames did run this garden through In midst of this faire garden God even he Did place the tree of knowledge for to be This pleasant place abundantly expelling God gave to Adam for to be his dwelling God of the earth a little time before Did make him there to rule all creatures o're Then made he Adam a heavy sleep to bide While he a rib did take out of his side And made a woman his helper for to be The case was altered soon from that we see Then God did say to him of all the trees that be Within this garden set and plac'd by me Take thou the fruit thereof and freely eat I give them thee they shal be for thy meat But of the tree in midst this garden great I do comand thee that thou shalt not eat For this I say to thee assuredly If thou do'st eat thereof thou sure shalt dye Then Satan he envying Adams state Began unto himselfe thus to relate Shall man possesse that place of high renown That glorious place from whence I am cast down O! no I say I will away devise He shall not to that blessed place arise Though he be blessed now he shall accursed be And so I 'le overthrow his Majesty But he no way could finde to make the man be curst But by enticing of the woman first Then did he take on him the Serpents shape And thought by this device man should not scape He presently got up without delay Into the Tree and thus to Eve did say Woman quoth he what is your charge so great Of all the fruits that 's here you may not eat We eat said shee of all that here doe grow He that hath made us doth the same allow But of the Tree amidst this Garden great He hath commanded that we shall not eat And if we eat thereof we sure shall dye The subtill Serpent then made this reply No no said he you shall not dye at all You are unwise to keepe your selves in thrall Your Maker knows that when thereof you eat You shall be like to God in knowledge great You then shall understand both good and ill For this same cause hee 'l keepe you from it still But how can you forbeare this fruit so fair Why is it kept from such a loving paire He pluckt an apple then and gave it unto Eve She saw it faire did gladly it receive When she did taste and found it savoury meat She gave to Adam one and he did eat Then opened were their eyes Immediately And they ashamed were their nakednesse to spy God knowing this in cool of day came down And in the garden thus his voice did sound Adam where art then they durst not abide But ran among the trees themselves to hide At last poore Adam spake and thus he said We hard thy voyce and therefore were affraid Because that both of us now naked be And art thou naked now who told it thee Hast thou now eaten of the forbidden tree Said he The woman that thou didst me give She gave it me and I did it receive Then unto Eve God did these words expresse Why hast thou caused thy husband to transgresse Said she the Serpent he enticed me And made me doe this great offence to thee So every one of us our sinnes do smother And put it from our selves unto some other Then God unto the Serpent presently Did say these words which I doe now descry Thou Serpent vile which by thy subtilty Seduced have this woman against me And caused her so her