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death_n	body_n	saint_n	soul_n	7,299	5	5.3259	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22452	The Christians race teaching vs all so worthily, and so wisely both to beginne, continue, and to end, this our most short and momentanie [sic] course in this mortall life: that in the day of our death wee may for euer enjoy that inestimable crowne of eternall blisse in the life to come. Being a sermon preached in the Parish Church of North Parrott in Somerset, by Iohn Atkins Master of Arts, and preacher of the sacred Word of God, and pastor there.	Atkins, John, Rector of North Parrott.	1624 (1624)	STC 887; ESTC S115377	29,584	48

THE CHRISTIANS RACE TEACHING VS ALL SO WORTHILY AND SO WISELY Both to beginne continue and to end this our most short and momentanie course in this mortall Life that in the day of our death wee may for euer enjoy that inestimable Crowne of eternall Blisse in the life to come Being a Sermon preached in the Parish Church of North Parrott in Somerset by IOHN ATKINS Master of Arts and Preacher of the sacred Word of God and Pastor there 1. COR. 9.24 Know yee not that they which runne in a Race runne all but one receiued the price So runne that yee may obtayne LONDON Printed for George Hodges and are to bee sold at his Shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Gray-hound 1624. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE WILLIAM SAINTMAVRE LORD BEAVCHAMPE EARLE OF HERTFORD AND TO THE MOST Vertuous and truly Religious Countesse my very good Lord and Ladie IOHN ATKINS wisheth all grace and peace from our LORD IESVS Christ CVstome which with vs is another nature hath euermore claymed by Prescription Right Honourable that such Bookes as are publikely committed to the Presse whither they bee small or great should be sent abroad to the open view of the World with some Epistle Dedicatorie going before them Which if they haue not they may then bee questioned by the Readers whither that the Authors and Writers of these Works haue any worthy good Friends abroad or else whither that the Workes themselues may be thought well worthy of their Patronage In due regard whereof I haue here in bent my selfe to tread the common path and now at this present to vsher forth into the Vineyard of Gods Church these first Fruits of mine imprinted labours in my publike Ministerie vnder both your Honours most worthy Patronage which are now but one in the Lord. Most humbly crauing your Honours fauourable acceptance of the fame as our Sauiour once did of that poore Widdowes Farthing And although I may most truly confesse and say in the words themselues of that Centurion in the Gospell Mat. 8.8 I am not worthy to bee graced here in by your Honours greatnesse knowing right well mine owne vnworthinesse yet the very little matter and argument it selfe of this little Booke of mine is it which I haue heere made bold to commend vnto you to wit The Christians Race A Race indeed which the Wisemen of this World doe vtterly refuse to runne because they are yet but Worldly wise and what our ignorant ones dreame not of because that their eyes as yet are blinded and what our Naturalists know not of Because that this Race is spiritually discerned and what our Earth-wormes thinke not of because that all such are but earthly minded and which all our prophane ones vtterly despise because that as yet they are altogether irreligious and which all our vngodly ones as yet regard not because that their hearts are hard and stony and which our Hypocrites know right wel but yet will not runne vnlesse it be only in the sight of men for a season to haue the applause and prayse of men and lastly which all our truly Religious ones striue to runne albeit with many faintings failings and desertions And therefore now Right Honourable to this only end that all our Worldly wise benedictione diuina may be yet more truly wise vnto their owne saluation and all our ignorant ones may be the more enlightned and all our Naturalists may bee the more renewed and all our Worldly ones may the more haue their minds set on heauenly things and all our prophane ones may yet proue the more pious and all our vngodly ones may come at last to Repentance and all our Hypocrites may be much more zealous so many as are found within the ranke of Election And finally all our Religious ones may be much more strengthened and animated in that good course which they haue hither vnto begunne that so constantly and comfortably continuing to the Goales end they may reape that rich price of eternall blisse I haue heere made bold for the publike good of Gods Church to commit this short Sermon of mine to the Presse teaching both your Honours in particular and all true Christians else in generall so to beginne hold on and continue this our true Christian Race vnto the very end and vpshot of our liues that in death we may enioy eternall life Vouchsafe therefore Right Honourable I beseech you to permit this little Worke of mine to passe into the World vnder your Honours Name which in truth will not only be euen as a shield to protect it against the bitter and biting Tongues of all our carping and captious Ones but also bee as an Ointment powred out yeelding a most sweete and redolent sauour for to make it so much the more odoriferous indeed in the hearts and minds of all true Christian Readers and Hearers of the same And thus most humbly crauing pardon for this my boldnesse and not being willing to detayne your Honours any longer least I should be too tedious I commend you and yours to that most gracious God whom you daily serue and to the Word of his grace which is able to build further in you both and to giue you an inheritance among all them that are satisfied Your Honours Chaplaine in all dutie to be commanded IOHN ATKINS TO THE CHRISTIAN READER COurteous Reader forasmuch as wee are all as Experience proueth the surest Schoole-mistresse in the world from the King to the Begger from the best to the basest from the mightiest to the meanest from him that sits vpon the Throne to the poorest grinder in the Mill without exception or exemption of any Actors heere vpon the Stage of no long continuance and as euidently the Holy Ghost doth witnesse vnto vs all in the 1. Cor. 9.24 runners of a most short and transitorie race heere in this mortall life the which race being finished first or last either at our first third sixth or eleuenth houre That is to say either in Childhood Youth Middle age or Old age our Bodies must then returne vnto Dust from whence they came and our Soules must returne vnto GOD who gaue them That therefore in the very day and houre of our Deaths that immortall part I meane our soules which as Saint Austen saith Generando infunduntur infundendo generantur are infused into our bodyes by a Diuine and vnvtterable generation and are begotten of GOD himselfe in vs by a Coelestiall infusion may not bee repulsed by CHRIST himselfe the Iudge of quicke and dead with Non noui vos discedite maledicti c. I know you not depart you Cursed c. But may then bee immediately and that most ioyfully admitted into the Coelum Emperaeum the Heauen of Heauens with that sweet Venite benidicti c. Come yee blessed Children of my Father c. to GODS most comfortable presence there to haue full fellowship with the Blessed Trinitie and with all the Communion of the tryumphant Saints and so