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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47007	Death triumphant, or, The most renowned, mighty, puissant and irresistible champion and conqueror general of the whole world, Death, described with a descripton [sic] of his notable fights and triumphant victories obtained against all creatures, especially against the sons and daughters of men : also his particular stratagems and numberous regiment of scknesses [sic] and diseases whereby he conquers and subdues mankind : lively set forth to the view of all men for their better preparation for the day of their death and dissolution out of this sinful life / by Andrew Jones.	Jones, Andrew.	1674 (1674)	Wing J910; ESTC R29880	7,597	28

Saints Where there shall be joy without sorrow liberty without imprisonment health without sickness joy without sorrow pleasure without pain and that to all Eternity where one day is better than a thousand Come then O Death at thy pleasure for it is a pleasure to me to die To me to live is Christ and to die is gain Come thou O my joy for it is a joy to me to enjoy thee Welcome Death the beginning of joy that first-fruit of pleasure when thou comest farewel sorrows and farewel miseries my Winter is past thou art to me a messenger of joy O life thou art my death O death thou art life this life is a continual death but after that death hath seized upon this my body then shall my soul go unto her life adiew therefore O my life and welcome yea thrice welcome Death farewel also O Death and for ever welcom life and immortality and glory for ever Since death is thus described for this he is be still prepared lest unprepared he come and take you hence for spending time amiss for death is sins reward transgressions doom So when thou diest thou shalt be sure of this to have access unto the marriage room and for thy tomb instead of Ivory or Marble or Brass shall glory cover thee Certain Rules and directions how to live a godly life that so we may die a happy death and not fear him when he comes IN the morning when thou first awakest bless God and give him thanks for his carefull protection and watching over thee for the quiet rest and sleep he hath bestowed upon thee to the refreshment of thy body and the renewing of thy mind Call to mind all the business of the day following and then to all thy honest endevours crave the direction of God and his assistance otherwise thou toilest in vain and thy labours will not prosper 2. At the evening when thou hast retired thy self call to mind what thou hast effected what thou hast neglected what evil thou hast avoided what thou hast done 3. When thou preparest thy self to bed likewise prepare thy self as for thy grave remembering that many go to bed and never rise again till they be raised with the sound of the last trumpet thou art nearer thy end by one day then thou wast in the morning Therefore every night be so wise as to know that which the fool neglected That this night thy Soul may be taken away 4. For Food Raiment the fruit of the body the Fruits of the Field for health wealth friends for the mercies and benefits thou receivest form God whether outwardly or inwardly in Body or in Mind receive them not use them not touch them not without prayer and praise and thanksgiving to him the Creator and giver of all good things 5. Be fully perswaded in mind that thy present estate is best for thee whether prosperity or adversity whether poor or rich because it is the good providence of God and without his will nothing befalleth his children 6. Put away jesting with foolish talking remembring this thou keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips that they speak no guile Ephes 5.4 For in many words there cannot want sin 7. Endeavour to have servent Love for the gift thereof is sweet it covereth a multitude of sins 8. To do good and to distrib●te forget not for with such sacrisice God is well pleased Heb. 13.6 Wherefore stop not thine ear at the cry of the poor lest thou likewise cry and God will not hear 9. See that in word and conversations of life thou become a president for others to imitate let this be done without hypocrisie and forget not in all things to keep a good conscience for this will bring a man peace at the last 10. Practise in thy life true humility for God resisteth the pro●d and giveth grace to the humble For what have we that we have not received 11. Whensoever thou fallest into sin speedily recover thy self again by repentance and lye not therein with the dead but rise again by faith in Christ as being alive unto God 12. Whatsoever thou takest in hand remember thy death so shalt thou never do amiss if at all times thou esteem the day of thy life as the day of thy death for there is nothing to so certain as it be therefore sober and watching that Christ at his coming may find thee waking And for thy better watch let this sound be always in thine ears Arise ye Dead and come forth to judgment 13. So spend the Sabbath day in thy life that thy soul at death may rest in bliss 14. Think with thy self thou hast deferred many years thy repentance and think how gracious the Lord hath been unto thee that he hath not cut thee off in the middest of thine iniquity and resolve with thy self no longer to delay in that kind but make this thy present day upon pain of thy peril 15. Daily and hourly think upon the Love of Christ never enough to be thought upon the gracious and admired work of thy Redemption By the blood of that immaculate and unspotted Lamb Christ Jesus at the very Name whereof shall be bowed all the knees of heaven and earth but at the thought thereof shall be rent all the hearts of both 16. Do not that injury to any other that thou wouldest another should do unto thee though thou canst Oppress not the poor by thy might be not Quarelsome a Gamster nor Surety but for a tried friend and a good occasion 17. Keep not company with any notorious and detected person by whom though not otherways thy Reputation and Credit may be called in question in the opinion of the World For the company be it good or evil that thou keepest such shalt thou be censured to be 18. Be fearful to commit sin especially any exemplary sin to shew the way as it were to others lest they perish therein unrepented and it be one day laid to thy charge And in this doing thou wilt be so prepared that thou wilt not fear death when he comes Amen FINIS Books printed for William Thackery at the Angel in Duck-lane THe School of Grace or a Book of good Nurture Christs First Sermon Christs Last Sermon Christians best Garment Christians Blessed Choic● Heavens Glory and Hells Horror A Warning-piece to the Sloathful Idle Careless Drunken and secure ones of these Times Mr. Fenners Sermons of Repentance A Sermon on Dives and Lazarus The Christian Comfort These are a●l very good books and are but 3 pence a piece The Plain-mans Path-way to Heaven The sin of Pride Arraigned and Condemned The Black-Book of Conscience The Dreadful Character of a Drunkard Englands Faithful Physician The Fathers last Blessing to his Children Dooms day at hand Peters Sermon of Repentance The Charitable Christian Death Triumphant The Godly Mans Gain and the Wicked Mans Woe The Singers Sobs The Swearer and the Drunkard Two Brethren in Iniquity arraigned at the Bar. A Book of Prayers and Graces The ready way to get Riches or the poor mans Cou●sell●r The short and sure way to get Grace and Salvat●on The Touchstone of a Christian The Path-way to Saving Knowledge Every Mans Duty and the God●y Mans Practice The Christians Guide The way to Heaven made plain Read them over carefully and practise them constantly and rest assuredly thou wilt find much comfort in th●● 〈◊〉 thy own Soul And are but two pince a piece

heads adjourn To give them summons of Mortality Converting that some Beauties did adorn Her composition to corrupted earth Whence she deriv●d both period and birth Snake like he comes on us with creeping pace And takes us napping when we least think on him In 's hand an hour-glass which infers our race Is near an end and though we strive to shun him He moves when we do move and that same place Where to we fly and think we have out run him There he appears and tells us 't is not good To strive ' gainst that which cannot be withstood If we shed tears they 're bootless for his eyes Instead of sight are molded up in clay If we essay to pierce his ears with cries Vain is our labour fruitless our essay For is remorsless ears all motions flies Nor will he give the Prince a longer stay His payment must be present and his doom Return to earth thy cradle and thy tomb Nor is his summons onely when we are old For age and youth be equally attends Nor can we say that we have surer hold In youth than age nor further from our ends Save that we are by Natures verdict told With length of years our hope of life extends Thus young or old if Death approach and say Earth unto earth we must perforce obey A breath bereaving breath a fading shade Ever in motion so as it appears He comes to tell us whereto we were made And like a friend to rid us of our fears So as if his approach were rightly understood He should be welcom'd more with joyes than tears Joy to dissolve to earth from whence we came That after death joy might receive the same Naked his scalp thrill open is his nose His mouth 's from ear to ear his earthy breath Is corrupt and noisom which makes me suppose Some moldy Cell's the Mannor bouse of death His shapeless legs bends backwards when he goes His rake lean body shrinking underneath Feeble he seems bereft of heart and power Yet dares he fight the mightiest Emperour Now he consorts with flesh onely worms and men Prepar'd for worms meat though he makes resort To Countrey City Village now and then Yea where he 's seldom welcom to the Court There will he enter and will summon them And go they must though they be sorry for 't Thus Countrey Cit● Village Court and all Must their appearance make when death doth call Chop fallen crest sunk dry-boned anatomy Earth carv'd mole-eyed flesh-hook that puls us hence Night crow souls doom that tells us we must die Pilgrim remover that deprives our sense Lives date souls hate that sends from misery Mans sharpest assault admitting no defence Times exit or our entrance to that clime Where there is no time nor period of time Nor stands he much upon our dangerous year All are alike to him yea oft we see When we are most secure then he is most near There is none at all from him can flee For as he can transpose him every where East West North South with all felicity So he can come so coming in his stealth And take us hence when we are best in health This is his Descripion Death is his name King he is over all Kings and Princes yea terror to Princes and a most bitter enemy to all ungodly wretches unwelcome he is to most and unlooked for and unthought of almost by all As for strength who is there that can equal him for power he is most potent for strength he is invincible and by all inresistible His fears are most horrible and his dominion is from Sea to Sea and from Generation to Generation over all the World I remember a story of an old man that had gathered a bundle of sticks and carrying them upon his back at last grew very weary of his burden and was so far tired and spent that he could go no farther which caused him to throw down his sticks and cry out for death to come and take away his life no sooner had he spoke but death appeared to him and demanded why he wisht for him The man amazed at his sudden appearance could scarcely speak for fear yet recovering his spirits said I pray thee help me up with my bundle of sticks This is the Condition of many in troubles and afflictions they will wish for death and O that I might die but when death appears they change their notes and are of another mind but I say unto you all be prepared for his coming and fear him not for death to those that are prepared is a welcome friend yea when he comes he puts an end to all controversies Death dissolves many a hard knot which the world cannot he makes a separation betwixt a Man and Wife Parents and Children Masters and Servants He observes neither Years nor Moneths neither Weeks nor Dayes neither Hours nor Minutes He comes at the first as well as at the last yea the first minute of our lives Death hath one way or other to overcome all both old and young it is no more but a word and a blow with him to touch and go yea many times without words without fickness yea suddenly in a moment Death is the ablest Doctor in the world he cures all diseases instantly if so be men be given to ambition he hath a cure to humble them and lay their hoour in the Dust if men are given to pride Death will teach them humility and lay them even with the dust if men are given to prodigality Death will cure them if men are given to covetousness Death will make them liberal to the Worms if men are given to Drunkennss Death will make them sober if an Adulterer Death will teach him Chastity All these cures will he do with one and the same Medicine and sall we say of him Our God never made him but the Devil and Sin brought him into the World For the Devil bore a grudge to mankind from the beginning and hath ever since set each in division against him For as by one may sin entred into the World and Death by Sin and so Death passed over all men for that all have sinned Rom. 5.8 Now the principal motive which may encourage Christians to embrace and welcome death is the assured hopes of the enjoyment of these everlasting joyes which every true Christian shall enjoy to all eternity in heaven therefore welcome death welcome friend saith the godly man I desire saith St. Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is best of all therefore farewell life and welcome death welcome messenger of my Father thou wilt put an and to all my sorows and convey my soul into Abrahams bosome I shall sore from Earth to Heaven from a Prison to a Palace from this sinful World to the Heavenly Countrey where I shall alwayes be in the presence of God and Christ and all the glorious Angels of Heaven and all the Patriarchs and Prophets Apostles immortal and blessed