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conscience_n	die_v	fire_n	worm_n	1,088	5	9.7140	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09473	Tvvo treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat of the flesh and spirit.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1593 (1593)	STC 19758; ESTC S102079	38,243	106

hanging drawing and quartering A man walking in his way falles into a deepe dungeon that is full of vggely serpents and noisome beastes in his fall he catches hold of a twigge of a tree that growes at the mouth of the dungeon and hangs by it afterward there comes a beast both leane and hungerbitten which having cropt the whole tree is ever and anon knapping at the twigge on which he hanges Nowe what is the daunger of this man surely he is like to fall into the pit over which he hangeth well this man is every impenitent sinner the pit is hell prepared for the devill and his angels the twig is the brickle and fraile life of man the hungerbitten beast is death that is ready every houre to knap our life asunder the dāger is fearful for mā hanging as it were over the mouth of hel whē life is ended unlesse he use good meanes before he die he then falleth to the very bottome of it If this be the miserie wherewith the careles man is sieged cōpassed about every way that for his sinnes why do men lie in the dead sleepe of security ô it stands them in hand to take up the voice of bitter lamentation for their offences to howle after the manner of dragons If men could weepe nothing but teares of blood for their sins if they could dye a 1000 times in one day for very griefe they could never be grieved ynough for their sins The second motive to draw men to repentance is the consideration of the wretched estate of an impenitent sinner in his death which is nothing but the wages allowance that he receives for his sinne and it is the very suburbs or rather the gates of hel S. Paul compares death to a scorpion who carieth a sting in his taile which is sinne Now then whē impenitent prophane persons die then comes this scorpion gripes them with her legs stabs them at the hart with her sting Wherfore the best thing is before death come to use meanes to pull out the sting of death And nothing wil do it but the blood of Christ let mē therfore breake off their sinnes by repētāce let thē come to the throne of grace crie yea let them fil heaven earth with cries for mercy oh pray pray pray for the pardō of thy sinnes If thou obtaine but one drop of Gods speciall mercie in Christ all danger is past For death hath lost his sting and then a man without danger may put an ougly serpēt in his bosom The third motive is the consideration of his estate after death When the day of the last judgement shalbe he must be brought and set before the tribunal seat of christ he shal not be able to escape or hide himself then the bookes shalbe brought out all his sins shalbe discovered before Gods saints angels the devil his own conscience shal accuse him none shall be aduocate to plead his cause hee himselfe shall be speechlesse hee shall at length heare the dreadfull sentence of damnation Goe ye cursed into hell prepared for the divell his augels This thing might moove the vilest Athiest in the world to leaue his wicked wayes and come to amendement of life Wee see the strongest theefe that is when he is ledde in the way from the prison to the barre leaves his theeving and behaues himselfe orderly And indeed if hee woulde then cut a purse it were high time that he were hanged All men by nature are traitours and malefactours against God whiles we live in this worlde wee are in the way going to the barre of Gods iudgement The wheele of the heavens turnes one bout every day and winds up somwhat of the threed of our life whether wee sleepe or wake we are alwayes comming neerer our end wherfore let all men daily humble themselues for their sinnes and pray vnto God that he would be reconciled unto them in Christ and let them indeavour themselves in obedience to all Gods commandements both in their lives and callings Againe after the last iudgement there remains death eternal appointed for him which standes in these three things I. A separation from all ioy and comfort of the presence of God II. Eternall fellowship with the divell and all his angels III. The feeling of the horrible wrath of God which shall seaze upon bodie soule and conscience shall feed on them as fire doth on pitch and brimstone and torment them as a worme crawling in the bodie and gnawing on the heart they shall alwaies be dying and never deade alwayes in woe and neuer in ease And this death is the more grievous because it is euerlasting Suppose the whole worlde to be a mountaine of sande and that a birde must carrie from it a mouthfull of sand euerie thousande yeeres many innumerable thousands of yeres will be expired before she will haue caried away the whole mountaine well if a man should stay ●n torment so long and then haue an ende of his woe it were some comfort but when the bird shall haue caried away the mountaine a thousand times alas alas a man shall be as far from the ende of his anguish and torment as ever he was This consideration may serve as an yron scourge to drive men from their wicked lives Chrysostome would have men in their meetings in tavernes and feastes to talke of hel that by often thinking on it they might avoyde it A grave and chaste matrone being mooved to commit folly with a lewd ruffian after long discourse she called for a panne of burning coales requesting him for her sake to holde his finger in them but one houre he answered that it was an unkinde request to whome she replyed that seeing he would not holde so much as one finger in a fewe coales for one small houre she could not yeeld to do the thing for which she should be tormented body soule in hell fire for ever And so shold all men reason against themselves None will be brought to doe a thing that may make so much as their finger or tooth to ake therefore we ought to have great care to leave our sinnes whereby we bring endlesse torment to bodie and soule in hell CAP. VIII Of motives Evangelicall EVangelicall Motives are two especially The first is taken from the consideration of mans redemption He that redeemed mankind is God him selfe As Paul saith that God was in Christ reconciling the world to him selfe Mans sinne is so vile and hainous in the eyes of God that no Angell nor creature was able to appease the wrath of God for the least offence But the Sonne of God himselfe must come downe from heaven and take mans nature on him and not onely that but he must also suffer the most accursed death of the crosse and shed his most pretious heart blood to satisfie the justice of his Father in our behalfe If a Father should be sicke of such a