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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69140	VVilie beguile ye, or The worldlings gaine shevving how they hazard their pretious soules for the attaining of these vaine and transitory things, and withall teaching how to obtaine and enioy the benefits of this life: that so we may lay vp a good foundation thereby against the life to come: expressed in some sauoury and effectuall meditations and obseruations hereupon. By Thomas Cooper.; Worldlings adventure	Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.	1621 (1621)	STC 5710.3; ESTC S119004	40,870	88

VVILIE BEGVILE YE OR THE WORLDLINGS GAINE shewing how they hazard their pretious soules for the attaining of these vaine and transitory things and withall Teaching how to obtaine and enioy the benefits of this life That so we may lay vp a good foundation thereby against the life to come Expressed in some sauoury and effectuall Meditations and obseruations hereupon By THOMAS COOPER Imprinted at LONDON 1621. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR FRANCIS IONES Lord Maior of this famous Citie together with the graue Senators and Sherifes his brethren and the Sage Councel thereof all things pertaining to life and godlinesse Right Honourable Right Worshipfull TT is not in vaine that our blessed Sauiour giues such a feareful Item to such as enioy most of earthly things that it is easier for a Camell to enter through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter into the kingdome of heauen not inferring thereby an impossibility that any rich man should be saued because wee heare of poore Lazarus in rich Abrahams bosome and riches are such blessings as God bestowes on his children and by his grace proue furtherances to lay vp a good foundatiō against the life come But rather implying some difficulty and aduenture hereof that arising rather from our abuse thereof then the things themselues For so hee expounds himselfe else where concerning trust and confidence in riches and not of the simple enioying of them And so the blessed Apostle comments vpon this text charging rich men that they be not high minded though they enioy much aboue others that they trust not in riches because they are vncertaine and so will deceiue our trust reposed on them teaching vs that it is not the vse but the loue of money which is the roote of all euill and therfore because som not al do lust after thē they haue erred frō the faith so do pierce thēselues through with many sorrowes And therein also wisely discouering vnto vs two mayne principall causes of our endangering by these blessings and so by the contrary instructing vs in such a sober estimate vse of them that so they may prooue furtherances to eternall life The causes of our abuse of worldly blessings is our ouer-rating them in our vaine conceits as if they were speciall fauours of God vndoubted pledges of true happinesse so that whosoeuer enioyes them aboue others is more highly in Gods esteeme and so more truly and perfitly happy And this produceth those dangerous effects of vnsatiable desires and strong confidence in them as if we could neuer haue enough of happinesse as if such strong holds could neuer deceiue vs. Which though it bee a most erroneous and peruerse conceit and the effects more desperate as arising from a deceiued heart blinded by the god of this world that it cannot looke vp higher to things to come but only doats one these present shadows because the very nature transitory conditiō of these things wil not beare it besides dayly experience to the contrary which might lesson euen fools yet it is most fearefull to obserue how the minds of many are bewitched therewith and sing a Requiem to their soules as that foole did in this slippery estate which on the sodaine may be taken away from them or they from it And yet such is the power of this delusion that notwithstanding they dayly see rich men dye as well as the foolish and ignorant and leaue their riches to others yet many thinke that their houses and habitations shall continue for euer and therefore thee blesse their soules in this vaine happinesse and that the rather because they are applauded of others as the onely happy men euen because they make much of themselues and take their fill in these broken Cysternes And this is another maine cause of their ensnaring by these things euen because they ouer-valew themselues in regard of them and so being puffed vp with their fleshly minds are desperately carryed to the abuse of them either by encroaching and scraping still to themselues as if none were worthy of them but they that so they may liue peerelesse and vncontrowlable of any or else by lauishing and excesse of riot they wallow like swine in the filth puddle thereof and so drowne themselues in euerlasting perdition Behold the way of worldlings and greedy earth-wormes And doth not this way vtter their folly howsoeuer their posterity delight in their talke and counts thēselues happy in the misery of their ancestors And doth not this their happinesse prooue their greater vnhappines that ill gotten goods molter like snow against the Sun what is so lightly come by is as vainly parted with the third heire seldome knowes the place of his breeding or enioyes a foot thereof A meditation as too too experimentall in this citie so the rather to be layd to heart by the wise prudēt that he may see the plague and hide himself reape some durable fruit of these momētany trees And this is the sum of that which followes which I do in all humility tender vnto your honor worships as knowing your slippery states and fearing what may follow that you would learne yet more more to be faithfull in your steward ships that so you may be ready to giue vp a cōfortable account for the same I doubt not but you are wise to discerne the face of the sky see that the element is full of stormes abrode may not the winde turne blow thē hither The Lord also make you wiser to discerne the time of your visitation and so I heartily cōmend your honor worships to the grace of God that in mercy hee would cleare the ayre againe scatter the black tēpest that our sins haue gathered and dayly threatēs on our heads as terrible lightnining to break the sword though it spare the scabbard to endanger the soule by depriuing vs of what glorious liberty wee haue abused though our outward man may lesse feele the blow as being senslesse therof or giuing way thereto And that euen for his sonne Christ Iesus sake in whom I rest At your Honors and Worships seruice Thomas Cooper The Contents THe Coherence and sence of the wordes with the diuision thereof P. 1. Obser 1 2. The ground of the Bargaine Mans vnsatiable desire with the reasons and vse thereof how to preuent and remedy the same pag. 2.3.4 Vnsatiable desire make Way for subiectiō to Satan Reasons thereof Obser 2 With the vse 1. To iustifie God seeing our condemnation is of our selues p. 5. 2 Directions hoW to vse aboundance p. 11.12 3 How to preuent Satan herein p. 13. 4 How to behaue our selues in a meane estate ibid. 10. Obser 3 It is ordinary with Worldlings to trade with Satan for the world with the losse of their soules pag. 18. Reasons hereof pag. 19.20 Ground and manner of the Bargaine pag. 22. with the ends propounded thereof wherein worldlings are painted out in the