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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05468	The dutifull advice of a loving sonne to his aged father	Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595.	1632 (1632)	STC 156.3; ESTC S106406	5,533	55

of your forme● trespasses and gore● with the sting and pricke of a festered Conscience if yo● felt the crampe of death wresting your heart-strings and ready to make the rufull divorce betweene bodie and soule If you lay panting for breath and swimming in a cold and pale sweat wearied with strugling against your deadly pangs O what would you give for an houres repentance at w●●● rate would you 〈…〉 lue a dayes contri●●●on Then wor 〈…〉 would bee wo 〈…〉 lesse in respect of little respite a sh 〈…〉 truce would see 〈…〉 more precious t●●● the trersures of 〈◊〉 Empire nothi●● would bee so muc● esteemed as a sh 〈…〉 trice of time whi●● now by dayes and moneths and years is most lavishly mis-spent Oh how deepely would it wound your woefull heart when looking back into your former life you considered many hainous and horrible offences cōmitted many pious workes and godly deeds omitted 〈◊〉 neither of both ●●●pented your ser 〈…〉 to God promis 〈…〉 and not perform 〈…〉 Oh how un 〈…〉 solably were 〈◊〉 case your frie●● being fled your ●●●●ses affrighted y●●● thoughts ama●● yor memory d●●cayed and y●●● whole mind ag 〈…〉 and no part able to performe what it should but onely your guilty Conscience pestered with sinne that would continually upbraid you with many bitter accusations Oh what would you thinke then being stripped out of this mortall weede and turned out both of service and h 〈…〉 room of this wic 〈…〉 world you are 〈…〉 ced to enter into ●●●couth and stra●●● pathes and 〈◊〉 unknowne and 〈…〉 ly company to 〈◊〉 convented befo●● most severe Iudg● carrying in y●●● conscience your ●●●ditement writ●●● in a perfect Regist●● of all your misdeeds when you shall see him prepared to give sentence upon you against whom you have so often transgressed and the same to bee your Vmpire whom by so many offences you have made your enemies when not onely the Divel but even the Angels would plead agai●●● you and your ow●● selfe in despight 〈◊〉 your selfe bee y●●● owne most shar●● appeacher Oh what wou●● you doe in th●● dreadfull exige●● when you saw 〈◊〉 gastly Dragon a●● huge gulph of he●● breaking out wi●● most fearfull flam●● when you heard the weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth the rage of those hellish monsters the horror of the place the terror of the company and the eternity of all those torments Would you then thinke them wise that should delay in so weighty matters and idlely play a●●● the time alotted 〈◊〉 preuent these into●lerable calamitie●● Would you thē c 〈…〉 it secure to nurse your bosomes many Serpents sinnes and to fo●●●● in your souls so ●●●ny malitious ace●●sors as mortall 〈◊〉 horrible offence Would you 〈◊〉 ●●●● ●hant whose traf●ique is toyle whose wealth is trash and whose gaine is mi●erie what interest haue you reaped that might equall your detriment in grace and vertue or what could you find in the vale of teares that was answerable to the favour of God with losse whereof you 〈◊〉 contented to 〈◊〉 it You cannot 〈◊〉 be inveigled 〈◊〉 the passiōs of yo●● which making a 〈…〉 tialitie of things 〈◊〉 no distance betw●●● counterfeit and ●●rant for these 〈◊〉 now worne out 〈…〉 force by tract 〈◊〉 time are fallen i 〈…〉 reproofe by triall of their folly Oh let not the crazy cowardnesse of flesh and bloud daunt the prowesse of an intelligent person who by his wisedome cannot but discerne how much more cause there is and how much more needefull it is to serve God then this wic●●● world But if it bee 〈◊〉 ungrounded ●●●●sumption of 〈◊〉 mercie of God 〈◊〉 the hope of his ●●●stance at the 〈◊〉 plunge which ●●●deede is the ordi●●●ry lure of the div●●● to reclaime sin●●●● from the pursuit 〈◊〉 Repentance Al●● ●hat is too palpable a collusion to mislead a sound and serviceable man howsoever it may prevaile with sicke and 〈◊〉 affected iudgements who would relye upon eternall affaires upon the gliding slippernesse and rūning streames of our uncertaine life who but one of of distempered 〈◊〉 would offer 〈◊〉 to the discipher 〈…〉 all thoughts 〈◊〉 whom dissembl 〈…〉 may to our cost 〈…〉 to deceive him unpossible Shall we estee● it cunning to r 〈…〉 the time from 〈◊〉 and bestow it o 〈…〉 enemies who 〈…〉 peth tale of the 〈◊〉 minutes and will examine in the end how every moment hath beene imployed It is a preposterous kinde of pollicy in any wise conceit to fight against God till our weapons be blunted our forces consumed our limbs impotent and our best time spent then when we fal for faintness● and have fou●● our selves alm●●● dead to presume 〈◊〉 his mercy Oh! no no 〈◊〉 wounds of his m 〈…〉 sacred body so 〈◊〉 rubbed and ren●ed by your sinnes 〈◊〉 every part and ●●●●cell of our bodies divers and sim●●●● waies abused 〈◊〉 be then as so many wherstones incentives to edge exasperate his most just revenge against vs. It is a strange peece of Art and a very exorbitant course when the ship is sound the Pylot well the Marriners strong the gale fauourable the Sea calme to lye idlely at the road burni●● so seasonable w●●●ther And when 〈◊〉 Ship leaketh the ●●●lott sicke the ma●●●●ners faint the sto 〈…〉 boysterous and 〈◊〉 Seas a turmoyle 〈…〉 outragious surg 〈…〉 then to launch 〈◊〉 hoise up saile 〈◊〉 set out for a l●●● voyage into a 〈◊〉 Countrey Yet such is the skil of these evening Repenters who though in the soūdnesse of their health and perfect use of their reason they cannot resolve to cut the Cables weigh the Anchor that with-holds thē from God Nevertheles they feed themselves with a strong perswas●●● that when they 〈◊〉 astonied their 〈◊〉 distracted the ●●●derstanding dus●● and the bodies 〈◊〉 soules wracked 〈◊〉 tormented with 〈◊〉 throbs and grip●● a mortall sickn 〈…〉 then forsooth 〈◊〉 will begin to thi 〈…〉 of their weigh 〈…〉 matters and bec●●● sudden Saints when they are scarce able to behave themselves like reasonable creatures No no if neither the Cannon Civill nor the Common Law will allow that man perished in judgement should make any testament of his temporal substance 〈…〉 ow 〈◊〉 hee that is anima●●● with inward 〈◊〉 boyles of an u●●●led Conscience ●●●●strained with 〈◊〉 ringing fits of 〈◊〉 dying flesh mai 〈…〉 in all his abilitie 〈◊〉 circled in on ev●●● side with many 〈◊〉 strange incombar●●●ces be thought 〈…〉 due discretion to ●●●●spose of his chiefest Iewell which is his Soule and to dispatch the whole mannage of all eternity and of the treasures of heaven in so short a spurt No no they that will loyter in seede-time and begin to sow when others reape they that will ryot out their health and beginne to 〈◊〉 their accounts 〈◊〉 they are scarce 〈◊〉 to speake They 〈◊〉 will slumber 〈◊〉 the day and 〈◊〉 their journey w●●●● the light doth 〈◊〉 them let th●● blame their o●●● folly if they dye 〈…〉 debt and ete●●●● beggers and 〈◊〉 headlong into 〈◊〉 lap of endlesse perdition Let such listen to Saint Cyprians lesson Let saith he the grievousnesse of our sore be the measure of our sorrow let a deepe wound have a deepe and diligent cure Let no mans contrition be lesse then his crime FINIS

The dutifull ADVICE of a loving SONNE To his aged FATHER LONDON Printed for Beniamin Fisher dwelling in Aldersgate-street at the Talbot 1632. THE DVTIFVLL ADVICE OF A LOVING SONNE TO HIS AGED FATER SIR I Humbly beseech you both in respect of the honour of God your duty to his Church and the comfort of you● own soule that you seriously consider in what tearmes you stand and weigh your selfe in a Christian Ballance taking for your counterpoise the Iudgements of God Take heede in time tha● the word Tekall written of olde against Balthazar and interpreted by Daniell be not verified in you whose exposition was You have beene poysed in the scale and found of too lightweight Remember that you are now in the weining and the date of your pilgrimage well nigh expired and now th●● it behoveth you ●● looke towards yo●● Countrey your fo●●ces languisheth yo●● senses impaire yo●● body droops and 〈◊〉 every side the ●●●nous Cottage 〈◊〉 your faint feebl● flesh threatneth fall And having many harbingers death to premoni●●● you of your end how can you but prepare for so dreadfull a stranger The young man may die quickly but the old cannot live long the young mans life by casualty may bee abridged but the old mans by no Phisick can be long adiourned and therefore if greene yeares should sometimes think● of the grave th● thoughts of old ag● should continually dwell in the same The prerogativ● of Infancie is innocencie of Childehoode reverence of Man-hood maturitie and of old age wisedome And seeing then that the chiefest properties of wisedome are to be mindefull of things past carefull for things present and provident for things to come Vse you now the privilege of natures tallent to the benefit of your owne soule and procure hereafter to be wise in wel-doing and watchfull in the foresight of future harm● To serve the wo●● you are now unabl● and though y●● were able yet y●● have little cause 〈◊〉 bee willing seei●● that it never ga●● you but an unhapp● welcome a hurtf●● entertainment an● now doth abando● you with an unfo●●tunate farewell You have long sowed in a field of flint which could bring you nothing forth but a crop of cares and afflictions of spirit rewarding your labours with remorse and affording for your gaine eternall danger It is now more than a seasonable time to alter the course of so unth●●●ving a husbandr● and to enter into t●● field of Gods chur●● in which sowi●● the seed of repenta●●● sorrow and wa●●●●ring them with 〈◊〉 teares of humb●● contrition you ma● hereafter reape a more beneficial ha●●●vest and gather th● fruits of everlasti●● comfort Remember I pray you that your spring is spent your summer overpast you are now arrived at the fall of the leafe yea and winter colors have long since stained your hoarie head Bee not carelesse saith Saint Augustin though our loving Lord bear long with offenders for 〈◊〉 longer he stayes 〈◊〉 finding amēdmen● the soarer hee 〈◊〉 scourge when 〈◊〉 comes to Iudg●●ment And his p●●●tience in so long fo●●bearing is onely 〈◊〉 lend us respit to ●●●pent and not a●● wise to inlarge ●● leisure to sinne Hee that is to 〈…〉 with varietie of stormes and cannot come to his desired port maketh not much way but is much tormoyled So hee that hath passed many yeares and purchased little profit hath had a long being but a short life For life is more to bee measured by wel doing than by number of ye●●● Seeing that 〈◊〉 men by many 〈◊〉 do but procure ●●●ny deaths o 〈…〉 in short space 〈◊〉 to the life of inf 〈…〉 ages what is 〈◊〉 body without 〈◊〉 soule but a co 〈…〉 carkasse And 〈◊〉 is the soule with●●● God but a sepul●●●● of sinne If God bee the way the life and the truth he that goeth without him strayeth and he that liveth without him dyeth and he that is not taught by him erreth Well saith Saint Augustine God is our true chiefest life from whom to revolt is to fall to whom to returne to rise and in wh●●● to stay is to sta●● sure God is hee fro● whom to depart 〈◊〉 to dye to whom 〈◊〉 repaire is to reviv● and in whom 〈◊〉 dwel is life for ever Bee not then of 〈◊〉 number of the●● that beginne not 〈◊〉 live till they bee r●●●dy to dye and then after a foes desert come to crave of God a friends entertainment Some there be that thinke to snatch heaven in a moment which the best can scarce attaine unto in the maintenāce of many years and when they have glutted themselves with worldly ●●●lights would j 〈…〉 from Dives dyet 〈◊〉 Lazarus Crown●● from the service 〈◊〉 Satan to the sol 〈…〉 of a Saint But bee you w●●● assured that God not 〈◊〉 so penurions 〈◊〉 friends as to h●● himselfe and 〈◊〉 kingdome scaleab●● for the refuse a●● ●eversions of their ●ives who have sa●rificed the princi●all thereof to his e●emies and their ●wne brutish lust ●hen onely ceasing 〈◊〉 offend when the ●bilitie of offending 〈◊〉 taken from them True it is that a ●hiefe may be saved ●pon the crosse and mercie found at the last gaspe But 〈◊〉 saith Saint Aug 〈…〉 though it bee p 〈…〉 ble yet it is sc 〈…〉 credible that 〈◊〉 death should 〈◊〉 favour whose w 〈…〉 life deserved de●●● and that the rep●●●tance should bee ●●●cepted that 〈◊〉 for feare of hell 〈◊〉 love of himself 〈◊〉 for the love of 〈◊〉 and loathsomnesse of sinne cryeth for mercie Wherefore good Sir make no longer delayes but being so neer the breaking up of your mortall house take time before extremitie to pacifie Gods anger Though you suffered the bud to bee blasted though you permitted the 〈◊〉 to bee perished 〈◊〉 the leaves to dry 〈◊〉 yea though you 〈◊〉 the boughs to ●●ther and the bo 〈…〉 of your tree to gr●● to decay yet ala 〈…〉 keep life in the ro 〈…〉 for feare lest 〈◊〉 whole tree becom● fewell for hell fire For surely where t●● tree falleth there shall lye whether towards the South or to the North to heaven or to hell and such sap as it bringeth forth such fruite shall it ever beare Death hath already filed from you the better part of your naturall forces and left you now to the Lees and remissals of your we 〈…〉 ish and dying day The remain 〈…〉 wherof as it can 〈…〉 bee long so doth warne you speed 〈…〉 to ransom your fo●●mer losses for wh●● is age but the 〈…〉 lends of death a●● what import●●● your present weak●●nesse but a nearne 〈…〉 of your approchi●● dissolution you are now imbarked in your finall voyage and not farre from the stint and period of your course Bee not therefore unprovided of such appurtenances as are behoovefull in so perplexed and perilous a journy death it selfe is very fearefull but much more terrible in respect 〈◊〉 the judgment i● summoneth us un●to If you were no● laid upon your departing bed burthened with the heavi● load