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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45716	The dying mans last sermon. Or, The fathers last blessing Left, and bequeathed as a legacy unto his children, immediately before his death. Being comfortable meditations and preparations for the day of death; which for the worth of them are more worthy to be written in letters of gold, then with ink and paper. The twelfth edition with additions, by Andrew Jones, a servant of Jesus Christ.	Jones, Andrew, M.A.; Hart, John, D.D., attributed name.	1665 (1665)	Wing H945F; ESTC R216557	8,183	24

THE DYING MANS Last Sermon OR The Fathers last Blessing Left and bequeathed as a Legacy unto his Children immediately before his Death Being comfortable Meditations and Preparations for the day of death which for the worth of them are more worthy to be written in letters of Gold then with Ink and Paper The twelfth Edition with Additions By ANDREW JONES a servant of Jesus Christ Job 14.1 2. Man that is born of a woman is of few dayes and full of trouble He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not London Printed for Elizabeth Andrews at the White Lion near Pye-Corner 1665. THE FATHERS last Blessing Left and bequeathed as a Legacy unto his Children a little before his Death THe life of Christian is or rather should be a continued daily meditation on or a preparation for the day of his death The first man living was called Adam Gen. 2. which in the original signifies a clod of red earth and he was arrayed and cloathed by God with the skins of dead beasts and adjudged to the Earth to dig and delve in it God would have his very Name his Apparel his Employments to be continual remembrancers of his original and premonitours of his mortality O that men were wise that they understood this that they would remember their latter end For whatsoever a mans Wisdom Birth Beauty Strength or State be his foundation is in the Dust Dust thou art and unto Dust thou shalt return Gen. 3.19 There seems to be a vaste difference between a Cedar and a Shrub a Vine and a Bramble so long as they both grow together but cut them down and burn them and their ashes will be one and the same In this mortal life some men sit upon the Throne others are grinding at the Mill some go clothed in purple and fare deliciously every day as Dives did and others like Lazarus lie at rich mens gates and have not so much as the crumbs of their table but in the Grave there is no difference there the poor and the rich are all one the Worms feed as well on rich Dives as on poor Lazarus Kings and Emperours must submit to Death and lay down their Crowns and Scepters at the Grave The Daughters of Jerusalem as the Prophet Isaiah saith in the third Chapter and sixteenth Verse which walk with stretched forth necks and wanton inticing eyes mincing as they go and making a tinkling with their feet must at last drop into the grave And they that glory in the nobleness of their Birth and Blood must make their Beds in the Dust and aknowledge Corruption for their Father and the Worms for their Mother Why then should sinful Dust and Ashes be proud For we brought nothing with us into this world and it is most certain we shall carry nothing with us out of this world as the Apostle saith 1 Tim. 6.7 And holy Job saith Job 1.21 Naked came we out of our mothers womb and naked shall we return c. And the Apostle saith Hebrews 9.27 It is appointed for all men once to dye There is nothing more certain then Death and yet nothing more uncertain most certain it is we must all dye but when where or how we must dye that is altogether uncertain We read in the Scripture that all the Fathers dyed Gen. 5. Adam the first man dyed and Mechuselah the eldest man he dyed also Abraham the friend of God and father of all the faithful he dyed as you may read Gen 25.8 And Abraham gave up the ghost and dyed in a good old age an old man and full of years David a man after Gods own heart who triumphed over all the host of the Philistims and slew Goliah 1 Sam. 17.49 yet was overcome by death as you may read 1 Kings 2.10 And Solomon the wisest of men was constrained to submit unto death as you may see 1 Kings 11.43 And Moses the servant of the Lord he dyed Deut. 34.5 And what man is he that liveth and shall not see death For as wise men dye saith the Psalmist Psalm 49.10 so likewise the fool and the brutish person We all like the Disciples run fast who shall come first to the Sepulchre We are no sooner born but we begin to dye Man that is born of a Woman is of few days He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down Job 14. 1 2. In the morning they grow up and flourish in the evening they are cut down and withered saith Moses Psalm 90. ver 9. And holy Job saith There is an appointed time for man upon earth and God hath set bounds beyond which he cannot pass Job 7.1 At the end of his appointed time he must dye yet the time when is very uncertain as also the manner how For one dyeth in his full strength and another in the bitterness of his soul God will have us ignorant of the day of our death that we might be ready every day We are but Tenants at will and know not how soon our great Lord and Landlord may eject us Death surprized Abel in the field Gen. 4.8 Ely siting at the door 1 Sam. 4.18 and Jobs Children a feasting Job 1.18 Herod sitting on his throne Acts 12.33 And as death it self is uncertain so is the manner also uncertain there is a naturall death and there is a violent death a natural death is when a man as a lamp goeth out because there is no more oyl left to feed it and a violent death is when the soul is as it were thrust out of the body by some untimely accident There is a timely death when a man comes to his growth in a full age as a shock of corn cometh in his season which every godly man doth though he dye never so soon or never so young And there is also an untimely death that is when a man is cropt or cut off as an ear of Corn before it be harvest And there is a lingering death when the soul is besieged with sickness and so starved out of his habitation And there is a sudden death which strikes without giving warning from which the Lord deliver us And there is also a quiet death a departing in peace when the soul doth as it were steal out of the body Josiah he ours by the wound of an arrow 2 Chron. 35.23 Abimelech by the tall of a stone Judg. 9 53. Wicked proud Jezabel is eaten up of dogs 2 Kings 9 36. There are thousands of casualties and discases and no man living knoweth what shall be his end For unto God the Lord belong the issues of death Psal 68.20 There is but one way into the world but there are a thousand ways out of the world And we may all say of death as David of Ahimaaz he is a good man and bringeth good tydings For first the death of the body frées us from the body of death the Remainders of corruption Secondly the death of

the body frees us from the misery and incumbrances of this life So many are the miseries and afflictions of this life that were it not for the hope of heaven it would be worse then hell it self cross afflictions come as fact upon its as Jobs Messengers The life of man is tike a Winters day short and very cloudy Few and evil are the dayes of this life Gen. 45 9 Man that is born of a Woman is but of few dayes but full of troubles Job 14.1 2. Lastly death translates us from a prison to a palace from a Scaffold to a Paradise from a vale of miseries to a away all tears from our eyes Rev. 21.4 Where there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain where we shall be perfectly free from all sin therefore may we say with Solomon Better is the dead then the living And with St. Paul To me to live is Christ and to dye is gain Phil. 1.27 Every man with Balaam desires to dye the drath of the righteous Numb 23.10 and in this they desire well For to dye well is a point of the highest concernment in the world because either eternal life or eternal death depends upon it for as the tree falls so shall if lie But to dye well is not attainable unless we have first learnt the art of living well A fair ●ay Bay have a foul evening but a good life cannot have a bad death for as David saith Psal 37.37 Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace therefore it is good always to be in readiness for death and whensoever the will of the Lord is willingly and chearfully to submit unto it for it is written Rev. 14.13 Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their works do follow them And. if we be dead in Christ we shall also rise with Christ Rom. 6.8 For when Christ who is our life shall appear then shall we also appear with him in glory Col. 3.4 And now my Son as I have leasure and opportunity enough so have I cause more then enough to meditate and prepare for death I bless God neither my prosperity nor my adversity hath made me a stranger to the thoughts of Mortality for meditating on and preparing for death is never unseasonable although the time and manner of death be alwayes very uncertain I bless God I am not so old as to be weary of life nor so bad as to be either afraid to dye or ashamed to live my afflictions make me even sometimes desire to dye but when I consider that it is the glory of a Christian to dye daily I desire to conquer death by faith and hopes of a better life Blessed be God I can look upon the sting of death as unpoisonous although it may be sharp because I know my Redemer Jesus Christ hath taken it away by his death I can say and that truly I never found so much life of Religion the feast of a good conscience as I have done since I came to converse so nearly with the thoughts of death I do wholly desire to depend upon God and submit to his will both in life and death I shall not think my life too long or too tedious if God by prolonging it shall be pleased to give me fresh opportunities to do good thereby neither shall I think my death too soon whensoever the will of the Lord is to call for me it is my honour and my erceeding great comfort that I can go as willingly to my grave as to a bed of doun or roses the will of God hath confined and concluded my will I shall have pleasure in dying for death cannot deprive me of more then I am willing to lose when God sees it fit whose mercy I am confident will abundantly reward my loss with the joyes of heaven My Son the God of heaven and earth be thy portion these are my last words for now the time is come that I must leave this world and go to a better hitherto as a Father have I protected and directed you but now my time being come my dayes being but a span long I must go hence and shall be no more seen Psalm 39.13 See therefore that you serve the Lord with all singleness and uprightness of heart in godly sincerity and he will be a Father unto you in my stead Keep a good Conscience all the dayes of your life no to others as you would have others to do to you For that is the Law and the Prophets saith our blessed Saviour Mat 7. 12. And then when the time shall come which although you be young now you know not how near it may lodge at this present for many are living now that must dye to morrow who would weep if they knew they had so short a time to live that when you shall lie upon your death-bed death may not a frighten you but may appear unto you as blessed be God it doth now unto me not in his ugly shapes and deformities but stingless as a friend thus shall you have comfort within you that shall rejoyce you when all out wards comforts sail you 〈◊〉 then every pain you feel shall be but as a pleasure unto your because it shall prevent the pains of hell then the grave shall not appear loathsome unto you but sweet because it was the Lords bed I bless God I finde the truth of this upon my own soul and O that the mercies of God to me might move you and all others to love him and to serve him to your lives end And I charge thee before God before whom I am presently to appear that you honour God above all things daily and principally let him be thy fear and let him be thy dread let him be thy counsellour the joy and delight of thy soul and be sure thou set God alwayes before thy face so will he be a lanthorn to thy feet and a guide to thy paths Labour strongly to suppress vice and cralt vertue strive to be in love with goodness remember that thou must give an account of each idle hour and very idle word as our Saviour saith Matth 12.36 Let all thy actions then proceed from a good conscience for thou shalt never thrive by such wayes and means as God hath accursed for that is a miserable gain that is gotten by the less of thy soul For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul Matthew 16.26 Be alwayes the same in the sight of God for he seeth all mens actions be they never so secret as thou appearest to be in the sight of men take heed thou give no aid nor assistance to any wicked words or works neither countenance wicked men in the least with thy company for the faults of those whom thou favourest will be imputed to thee Be not a follower of