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death_n	body_n	cause_n	soul_n	4,372	5	5.0556	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20795	An alarum to the last iudgement. Or An exact discourse of the second comming of Christ and of the generall and remarkeable signes and fore-runners of it past, present, and to come; soundly and soberly handled, and wholesomely applyed. Wherein diuers deep mysteries are plainly expounded, and sundry curiosities are duely examined, answered and confuted. By T.D. Bachelor of Diuinitie.	Draxe, Thomas, d. 1618.	1615 (1615)	STC 7173; ESTC S118448	31,210	144

a sick state They serue rather for shew then substance and are more glorious then lasting Many Chymnies and little Smoake faire houses and small hospitality gallant houses and great enclosures often eate vp men and dispeople the Land Apparell is vsed more for neatnesse then necessity for garishnesse then seemelinesse faire fethers make farie fooles and now a dayes apparell maketh a man For matter men and especially the woman-kind that often carry all their riches on their backes and that haue decked bodies but deformed soules exceed their calling and ability they cut not their coate according to their cloath and this the poore Tenants finde and feele Alas poore soules And as for fashion and forme now the Fashions kill an horse the French Spanish Italian and euery new fangled forme is in request If they were as monstrous in their bodily shapes as they are prodigious in their attire all men might iustly wonder at them and abhorre them The Peacock is a goodly Bird but hath foule feete and they that affect finenesse in apparell neglect the sanctification of the soule and in a word the leuity of Apparell doth argue the lightnesse and changeablenesse of the mind Marriages are more desired for riches then Religion for goods then goodnesse and the face is more respected then grace but like beginnings haue like endings and like cause like effect like parents like posterity In Diet many great and rich men obserue no time order measure they looke that the meat be rather toothsome then wholesome they pamper the body but pine the soule they stuffe themselues but sterue the poore hence ensue surfets sicknesses and vntimely deaths And touching drinking men were neuer so much giuen to immoderate drinking and to be drowned in drunkennesse as in this dropsie age not the fiery Tragon yet there are too many ominous fires but the watry Trigon raigneth Men make their bodies Tuns to receiue the Wine and the Ale and when the Wine and Ale is in the Wit yea Grace is out They drinke away all grace out of their hearts money out of their purses honesty out of their liues and oftentimes die and are damned in their drunkennesse And that Indian and costly weed now onely and commonly in request whereof so many thousands liue and yet they sell nothing but smoake that though it came not out of the bottomelesse pit it leades many into it I meane that smoaking and deuill-choaking Tobacco For if the smoke or vapour that came out of the liuer of a Fish could driue the deuill out of Tobias daughter Of how greater force is the Nicotium or Tobacco This Simple and Drugge serueth to dry vp the drunken dropsie that men may gull in the more drinke It is a nourisher of lust and drunkennesse yea of all idlenesse and prodigality and a shortner of the life rather then a lengthner of it Docet experientia rerum O would some straite and strict Statute were made against this waste-time and waste-mony Tobacco for now it is a raging and vnruly euill better beseeming Pagans then Protestants CHAP. IX Of the daily weakening and wounding of Anti-christ THE second generall Signe in continuall and present motion is the daily weakning and wounding of Anti-christ and Popery in Christendome by Writing by Disputes and by the Word and the Sword The breath of the Lords mouth i. the mightie and powerfull Preaching of the word of God must consume him viz. by degrees and times And hence it is that the Pope and Papists are such deadly enemies to the sincere and plentifull Preaching of the Word The three orders of Angels i. of Pastors and Preachers must reueale prophecy the ruin of Anti-christ and vnder paine of damnation labour to reuoke the fauourites of Anti-christ from their pernicious errours and heresies The Christian Magistrates Princes Dukes Iudges Captaines c. must and shall leade the Babylonians into captiuity slay diuers of them with the sword render double vnto these seducing idolaters hate the whore make her naked eate her flesh and consume her with fire And this is in continuall execution and both Magistrate and Ministers Captaines and Colonels are in the Scriptures commanded and enioyned to prosecute this businesse God stirre vp their zeale and resolution For Cursed is he that helpeth not the Lord against the mighty or that goeth negligently about the work of the Lord. CHAP. X. Of the falling of particular persons from the reuealed truth and their returne to the errors of Anti-christ THE third generall Signe in continuall motion is that in the latter daies certaine shall depart from the faith some Princes some Prelates some Ministers some Professours They affect not nor loue the sweet and sugred Gospell of Christ but rather delight and doate vpon sense-pleasing superstition and hence being iustly forsaken of God these ignorant and vnstable soules returne with the dogs to their former vomite and with the swine to their wallowing in the mire of Popish defilements These that thus fall away in this great light of the world whether to Anti-christ or to Epicurisme and Atheisme are Comets soone consumed and not fixed Starres that alwaies abide in the Firmament These are like Chaffe blowne away with euery blast of trouble but not good Graine that abideth Finally they are they that build their house vpon the sandy foundation of mans inuentions or at least of Historicall and Temporary Faith and therefore as soone as the winds blow and the waters flow it falleth For if they had builded it vpon the Rock Christ and kept Faith and a good Conscience they had stood firme and fast like the Mount Syon which standeth fast for euer and can neuer be remoued But thankes be to God this wind shaketh no corne though the Church of Rome gaine in one place it looseth in another that which is gained in the shire is lost in the hundred CHAP. XI Of a generall corruption in life and manners which is more to bee feared in these latter daies then corruption in doctrine THE fourth generall Signe in daily motion and encrease is the invndation of all manner of sinne and wickednesse and a generall corruption of mens manners This plague raigneth and rageth vices and abuses creepe vpon men by stealth by their contagion infect them and passe from one to another Our age is as it were the Sinke of all former ages into which all filthinesse runneth The more Light wee haue the more Lewd wee are the more wee are warned the more wicked wee shew our selues Men indeed haue a Forme and profession of godlinesse but deny the power thereof in their hearts Men generally so now liue as though there were no Iudge to call thē to an account no heauen for reward and no hell for punishment and as though the Preachers threates and thundrings were but scare-bugs yea as though God had granted out a generall indulgence vnto all