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A15496	The anchor of faith Vpon which, a Christian may repose in all manner of temptations. Especially in that great and dangerous gulfe of desperation. Wherein so many ouer-whelmed with the weight and burthen of their sinne, and not resisting themselues by the hand of faith, vpon the promises and inuitations of Christ, haue with Caine and Judas most fearefully fallen and shipwrackt themselues, to the vtter confusion both of body and soule for euer.; Physicke, to cure the most dangerous disease of desperation	Willymat, William, d. 1615.	1628 (1628)	STC 25763.5; ESTC S102508	45,869	112

a Bridge in his way fell into the Riuer and so being drowned was taken away suddainely in the very purpose of his wickednesse hauing neitheir houre halfe houre nor minute to cry God mercy to repent and to pray in Ioannes Riuius a learned writer Lib. 1. de stultitia mortas●um in procrastinanda of good credit affirmed that in his time in a village of his country two old men lying with their Whores whom they had aforetime haunted Correctione vitae in one and the selfe same night dyed sodainly taken as it were with the manner hauing likewise neither houre nor halfe houre to prepare themselues in for the one was sodainely stabbed to death the other was taken with a sodaine Apoplexie wherof he presently gaue vp the Ghost And what knoweth any of vs all or what greater priuilege hath any of vs all but that we may be sodainely yreuented caried away in the middest of our sins as these were And whether we haue not the like examples of such hastye deaths heere in England whereby many of vs haue bin disappointed of these two or three houres at their last end to make vs ready in I report mee to the deaths of Earle Godwin Grimwood of Hitcham Earle Godwin his sodaine and fearefull death wherof the Earle after he had trayterously slaine the brother of King Ed. the third being charged afterwards by the King therwith at Windsor where he happened to sit at table with the King he falsly denied the fact and for his better excuse he falsly forswore it and besides all this hee moreouer tooke a piece of bread and put it into his mouth wished that hee might be choaked thereof if hée were guilty of his blood and it followed indeed according to his desire for hee being choaked therewith yéelded vp his Ghost and fell down dead in the presence and sight of all at the Table from thence was had to Winchester to be buried Grimwood his sodain and fearfull death And likewise the said Grimwood of Hitcham in the County of Suffolke knowne to be a wilfull fursworne man in the haruest time next after his periury feeling of no pain complayning of no disease being strong and able to labour as he was stacking vp corn sodainly his bowels fel out of his body wherof immediatly he died most miserably But what need I to stand bestowing time paper and inke troubling both my selfe future Readers in setting downe the manner of the sodain deaths of many men seeing that both holy and prophane writers dayly experience it selfe may fully fraught store and furnish vs with infinite examples of this sort And what charter priuiledge or certain hold of life hath any of vs all more then these heere before recited or thousands of others in the like case haue had O let vs not presume therefore to run on headlong in the long and hardened custome of our sinnes not to delay and put off the reforming of our wicked liues vntil the last houre And although we be not stricken with suddain death but haue both certaine dayes and houres before our death yet as I before said full many are the stops lets and impediments which both may and also dayly doe fall out to hinder and put by this late repentance A catalogue of lets imp●diments which oftentimes fall out when wee come to the last houre that hinder and put by ●h●t l te rep●ntance wh ch so ma●y trust vnto that so many will needs trust vnto and make all their reckoning of putting of from day to day and from yeare to yeare till this last time approach and fall on them indeed For so long as the extreamities of sicknes do nip and pinch our mortall bodies the dolours pangs pains racking tormenting our flesh will keepe our mindes so occupied somtime calling on the Phisition for helpe sometime turning tossing and seeking for ease in euery corner of the bed yea from bed to bed while strength doth serue sometimes taking this receipt and sometimes that as the Phisitions shall minister somet●mes turmoyled and occupied both in minde and body by the working and purging of the Apothecaries drugs receiued sometimes disquiet and brawling with those that are attending about vs crying out on them as though their vsing and handling of vs weare the occasion of our greater pangs and paines with these and such like cercumstances are both bodies and minds exercised and vexed so long as the vigour and strength of flesh and blood are able to indure and hold out and so busied here-with continually that wee seldome haue any rest or leasure to frame our selues to any quiet calling on God to any repentance or vnfaigned and zelous crying for mercy for if we sometimes endeauour our selues to begin to go about it yet behold one thing or other soone striketh all out of minde disturbs vs so that neuer a whit the better but if after the powers sences of our bodies be once worn and weakned and the feeling of the extreame dolours and panges of the sicknes be mittigated whereby the body after a time of wrestling and wearying of it selfe is now some-what quieted and so the mind more setled w● then begin againe to take better hold yet still on either the care of children wife for want of sufficient prouision for them or griefe to depart from them or the remembrance of lands goods houses possessions other worldly treasures the loue liking delights whereof haue possessed our hearts all our life time before will now so afresh enter trouble our heads minds that yet time serues not for to continue any such godly and christian exercises as wee in health-time when wee should haue done it made no accompt of and deferred vntill the last houre The effect of choller in time of extreame sicknes Sometimes are we troubled and diseased with melancholly and frenzies choller shooting vp into our braines with such crampes convulsions caused by much euacuation such abundance of choller in our veines that hereof followes the naturall effects rauings blasphemings vnsensible talking wrything of the lips strange and vn-accustomed wresting and turning of the neck buckling of the ioynts and whole body yea often-times such extraordinary strength that three or foure men cannot hold vs nor rule vs without bonds With these and such like strange effects are many men depriued not onely of the right vse of the parts of their bodies but also of their reason and right wits last of all of life it selfe Are not heere then lets enow from the performance of that amendment of life and crying God mercy which we put off in our life time Put case that we be neither cut off with sodaine death nor annoyed at our last end with any of these aforesaid lets and impediments of strange diseases and extraordinary effects thereof nor with any other such like noysome troublesome circumstances or

sicknesses but that we haue time leasure and quietnesse to doe all such things as any of vs all trusted vnto at our last farewel with the world The diuell will bee most busie to hinder repentance at our last houre yet will that deadly enemy that mortall aduersary of ours Sathan the Diuell at the time aboue all other apply himselfe let vs looke for no other but what vile sinne we haue committed and delighted ●n all our life time that wil he lay to our ●harge and clogge our consciences with to bring vs into desperation with and ●y them he will put vs in minde ter●ifie vs with Gods seuere threatnings against sinne He will obiect against vs that saying of our Lord Christ Math. 19. that if we would haue entred into life we should haue kept his Commandements Math. 7. He wil tel vs that not he that saith Lord Lord but he that doth the wil of the father of heauen shall enter into the Kingdome of God He will put vs in mind that Not the hearers of the Law but the doers shal be iustified Rom. 2. Rom. 8. He wil threaten vs that because we haue liued according to the flesh we shall die He wil crack vs that the vnrighteous shall not inherite the kingdom of God that neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor Wātons 1. Cor. 6.9.10 nor Buggerers nor theeues nor the Couetous nor Drūkards not Railers nor Extortioners shal inherit the kingdome of God And that such as haue liued according to the works of the flesh which are repeated vp Gal. 5. shall not attaine to the kingdome of God 1. Cor. 5. Ier. 2. And that we must be presented before the iudgement seat of Christ and euery man receiue particularly according as he hath done in this life good or euill Apoca. 20 2. Pet. 2. euery man shal receiue according to his works and that God spared not the Angels when they sinned 1 P●● 4. if the iust shall scarce be saued where shal the wicked man and sinner appeare When all these a great deale more describing setting forth vnto vs the rigor of Gods seuere iustice the reckoning wherevnto we shal be called shal be put into our minds on our death-beds that damned Sathan which all the daies of our liues before laboured to make vs careles negligent of the knowledge or consideration of any of these things that so he might make vs the more boldly blindly to run headlong into sinne shall charge vs with this and much more like stuffe appealing to our owne consciences for witnes heereof and so heervppon plant in our hearts déepe Desperation Alas in what case shall our poore soules then stand Would a man then for a thousand worlds and all the profits and pleasures thereof be brought to such a quandary O thou therefore that readest or hearest this damnable and miserable state that silly soules may be implunged into for the better auoyding of these perills read and read againe meditate ponder and put in practise the direction aduice and counsell in the beginning of this present sixt Chapter And take this lesson of Ioseph of Arimathia The example of Ioseph of Arimathia most worthy to be imitated that like as hee in his life time had made a ready Sepulcre in the midst of his Garden which was the place of his pleasure as all Gardens of great men most commonly are euen so thou in the midst of these thinges wherein thou takest thy greatest felicity and delight remember yet thy graue and what one day thou knowest not how soone shall become of thy poore soule afterward of thy soule and body for euer The vse custome of he Egyptians Remember and learne likewise at the Egiptians who perceiuing the mindfulnes of death to be a good helpe to bridle their euill actions vsed to bring a Picture or Image resembling death into their great and sollemne Feasts which fearefull and vgly sight trembling and shaking they tooke to bee a speciall occasion to keepe the beholders in sobriety by the remembrance of their end The notable imm●●a●●e example of ●ing Ezechi●s which they must all come vnto sooner or later And finally learne at the good king Ezechias when thou shalt be by any occasion put in remembrance of death be affraid of Gods threatning sorrow a little before hand least thou bee constrained to sorrow howle and cry remedilesse alwayes afterwards for according to the old saying Ecclesiast 7.40 Qui ante non cauebit post dolebit he that wil not beware before shall afterward bee sorrye he that in all his doings remembreth the end shal neuer lightly do amisse The which wise remembrance of our endes he vouchsafe to plant in our hearts who hath full dearely bought vs Iesus Christ the righteous to whom with his and our heauenly father and the holy spirit three persons and one eternall maiesty of God-head all worthy glory honour and praise be worthily attributed for euer and euer Amen CHAP. 7 The seauenth Chapter containing the Generall Preseruatiue against the despaire or doubting of Gods mercy arising vppon any cause whatsoeuer FOr as much as it is a thing manifestly to be proued by holy Scriptures that a man indued with true faith it selfe may not withstanding now and then be troubled and assaulted with motions of doubtings wauering yea and of despairing therefore for the bridling suppressing and ouercomming of these assaults it shall be good to put in practise these fiue things especially First we are to thinke and consider thus much The first preseruatiue against Despaire that as not to murther not to steale not to commit adultery and all the rest of the Decalogue or ten Commandements are the Commandements of God and we are carefull and striue with our selues that we should not breake any of thē least that in breaking any of them wee should so highly offend God that he would therefore power downe vpon vs his heauy wrath and in his indignation seuerely punish vs as by many examples we see he hath done to others in the like offences So also it is Gods commandement as well as any of the others are 1 Iohn 3.23 That wee beleeue in the name of his son Iesus Christ and therefore we must thinke we offend against God as grieuously or rather far more grieuously in violating and breaking this Commandement by incredulity doubting wauering and despairing as if we should shed mans blood commit whordome theft periury or any other such like notorious sinne O what a hainous sinne must it needs be to cast no doubtes nor dispaire in the helpe of a mortall man in the time of neede and yet to mistrust and despaire of the like in God As for example wee can settle our hearts to beleeue in our mortall fathers if wee stand in neede of meat drinke or clothes An example that many men put more