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death_n	conscience_n	life_n	sin_n	4,202	5	4.3704	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45716	The dying mans last sermon. Or, The fathers last blessing Left, and bequeathed as a legacy unto his children, immediately before his death. Being comfortable meditations and preparations for the day of death; which for the worth of them are more worthy to be written in letters of gold, then with ink and paper. The twelfth edition with additions, by Andrew Jones, a servant of Jesus Christ.	Jones, Andrew, M.A.; Hart, John, D.D., attributed name.	1665 (1665)	Wing H945F; ESTC R216557	8,183	24

the body frees us from the misery and incumbrances of this life So many are the miseries and afflictions of this life that were it not for the hope of heaven it would be worse then hell it self cross afflictions come as fact upon its as Jobs Messengers The life of man is tike a Winters day short and very cloudy Few and evil are the dayes of this life Gen. 45 9 Man that is born of a Woman is but of few dayes but full of troubles Job 14.1 2. Lastly death translates us from a prison to a palace from a Scaffold to a Paradise from a vale of miseries to a away all tears from our eyes Rev. 21.4 Where there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain where we shall be perfectly free from all sin therefore may we say with Solomon Better is the dead then the living And with St. Paul To me to live is Christ and to dye is gain Phil. 1.27 Every man with Balaam desires to dye the drath of the righteous Numb 23.10 and in this they desire well For to dye well is a point of the highest concernment in the world because either eternal life or eternal death depends upon it for as the tree falls so shall if lie But to dye well is not attainable unless we have first learnt the art of living well A fair ●ay Bay have a foul evening but a good life cannot have a bad death for as David saith Psal 37.37 Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace therefore it is good always to be in readiness for death and whensoever the will of the Lord is willingly and chearfully to submit unto it for it is written Rev. 14.13 Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their works do follow them And. if we be dead in Christ we shall also rise with Christ Rom. 6.8 For when Christ who is our life shall appear then shall we also appear with him in glory Col. 3.4 And now my Son as I have leasure and opportunity enough so have I cause more then enough to meditate and prepare for death I bless God neither my prosperity nor my adversity hath made me a stranger to the thoughts of Mortality for meditating on and preparing for death is never unseasonable although the time and manner of death be alwayes very uncertain I bless God I am not so old as to be weary of life nor so bad as to be either afraid to dye or ashamed to live my afflictions make me even sometimes desire to dye but when I consider that it is the glory of a Christian to dye daily I desire to conquer death by faith and hopes of a better life Blessed be God I can look upon the sting of death as unpoisonous although it may be sharp because I know my Redemer Jesus Christ hath taken it away by his death I can say and that truly I never found so much life of Religion the feast of a good conscience as I have done since I came to converse so nearly with the thoughts of death I do wholly desire to depend upon God and submit to his will both in life and death I shall not think my life too long or too tedious if God by prolonging it shall be pleased to give me fresh opportunities to do good thereby neither shall I think my death too soon whensoever the will of the Lord is to call for me it is my honour and my erceeding great comfort that I can go as willingly to my grave as to a bed of doun or roses the will of God hath confined and concluded my will I shall have pleasure in dying for death cannot deprive me of more then I am willing to lose when God sees it fit whose mercy I am confident will abundantly reward my loss with the joyes of heaven My Son the God of heaven and earth be thy portion these are my last words for now the time is come that I must leave this world and go to a better hitherto as a Father have I protected and directed you but now my time being come my dayes being but a span long I must go hence and shall be no more seen Psalm 39.13 See therefore that you serve the Lord with all singleness and uprightness of heart in godly sincerity and he will be a Father unto you in my stead Keep a good Conscience all the dayes of your life no to others as you would have others to do to you For that is the Law and the Prophets saith our blessed Saviour Mat 7. 12. And then when the time shall come which although you be young now you know not how near it may lodge at this present for many are living now that must dye to morrow who would weep if they knew they had so short a time to live that when you shall lie upon your death-bed death may not a frighten you but may appear unto you as blessed be God it doth now unto me not in his ugly shapes and deformities but stingless as a friend thus shall you have comfort within you that shall rejoyce you when all out wards comforts sail you 〈◊〉 then every pain you feel shall be but as a pleasure unto your because it shall prevent the pains of hell then the grave shall not appear loathsome unto you but sweet because it was the Lords bed I bless God I finde the truth of this upon my own soul and O that the mercies of God to me might move you and all others to love him and to serve him to your lives end And I charge thee before God before whom I am presently to appear that you honour God above all things daily and principally let him be thy fear and let him be thy dread let him be thy counsellour the joy and delight of thy soul and be sure thou set God alwayes before thy face so will he be a lanthorn to thy feet and a guide to thy paths Labour strongly to suppress vice and cralt vertue strive to be in love with goodness remember that thou must give an account of each idle hour and very idle word as our Saviour saith Matth 12.36 Let all thy actions then proceed from a good conscience for thou shalt never thrive by such wayes and means as God hath accursed for that is a miserable gain that is gotten by the less of thy soul For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul Matthew 16.26 Be alwayes the same in the sight of God for he seeth all mens actions be they never so secret as thou appearest to be in the sight of men take heed thou give no aid nor assistance to any wicked words or works neither countenance wicked men in the least with thy company for the faults of those whom thou favourest will be imputed to thee Be not a follower of

those that inrich themselves by unjust gain for it is better to be poor with honesty then rich by wickedness Account that day lost in which thou hast not done or learnt some good Be more careful to kéep thy word then thy money acquaint thy self with such as are good and vertuous look upon every thing here below as very uncertain so shalt thou not rejoyce overmuch in thy prosperity nor be oversad or dismayed in adversity And what counsel I give thee here for the present be sure thou treasure it up in store for the time to come My Son saith Solomon Prov. 1. c. Hear the instruction of thy Father Hear ye children the instructions of a Father and attend to know understanding then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord and finde the knowledge of God Then shalt thou understand righteousness judgement and equity yea every good path Walk in the wayes of good men and keep the paths of the rightenous for the upright shall dwell in the Land and the perfect shall remain in it But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and transgressors shall be rooted out Let not mercy and truth forsake thee binde them about thy neck write them upon the tables of thy heart so shalt thou finde favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding In all thy wayes acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths Happy is the man that findes wisdom that getteth understanding for the merchandise of it is better then silver and the gain thereof then fine gold She is more precious then rubies her wayes are wayes of pleasantness and all her paths are peace She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her and happy is every one that retains her My Son keep sound wisdom and discretion and let it not depart from thine eyes so shall it be life to thy soul and grace to thy neck Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely and thy foot shall not stumble When thou liest down thou shalt not be afraid for the Lord shall be thy confidence Withhold not good from them to whom it is due when it is in the power of thy hand to do it Enter not into the path of the wicked go not in the way of wicked men avoid it pass not by it turn from it and pass away Turn not to the right hand nor to the left remove thy foot from evil Be not over hasty to get riches but consider it is the blessing of the Lord that maketh rich and he addeth no sorrow to it Let not thine heart envy sinners but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day Be not among wine-bibbers nor among riotous eaters of flesh for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall cloathe a man with rags Look not upon the wine when it is red when it giveth its colour in the cup for at the last it stingeth like a serpent Devise not evil against thy neighbour for he that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person Rejoyce not when thine enemy falls and let not thine heart be glad when be stumbleth lest the Lord see it and it displease him Give not thy strength unto women nor thy words to that which destroyeth Kings It is not for Kings to drink wine nor Princes strong drink lest they drink and forget the Law Open thy mouth for the dumb open thy mouth judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy Say not thou what is the cause that the former dayes were better then these for thou doest not wisely imagine concerning that but consider the work of the Lord for who can make that streight which he hath made crooked Eccles 7.10 13. And further my Son I would have thée to consider seriously of what I have said and remember this as the last words of thy dying Father Fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole duty of man For God will bring every work into judgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil Eccles 12.13 14. Thus having briefly admonished thée in the words of the Wise-man I shall spend out my last breath in a word or two more and I have done it is some refreshment to my fainting spirits to consider how you have begun and spent some years in the experience of troubles and exercise of patience and indeed I had rather you should be good and afflicted then great and socond in the world I hope God hath designed you to both having so early put you on the exercise of his Grances Faith Love and Patience which onely will dipose you so these princley endowments and improvements that may gain you the love and favour of all those that fear the Lord. With God I would have you begin and with God I would have you end you have begun well the Lord bless you go on end prosper piety will make you prosperous at least it will keep you from being miserable Godliness is profitable unto all things having the promise of the life that now is and of the life to come 1 tim 4.8 Nor is he much a loser that loseth all yet saveth his own soul I trust you have already tasted of that bitter cup whereof I have so deeply drunk Above all I would have you as I hope you are already well grounded and setled in Religion and the wayes of God in which I charge you to persevere for unless you be well grounded and settled in Religion you shall never want temptations to destroy you Therefore take heer of averting any Faction whatsoever for I have observed that the Devil of Rebellion doth turn himself commonly into an Angel of Light and Reformation when some mens consciences accuse them with Sedition and Heresie they like the old Serpent pretend new light and stop its mouth with the name and noise of Religion and when Piety pleads for Peace and Patience then they cry out Zeal Zeal Be sure alwayes to keep up well-grounded Piety and such Fundamental Truths as mend both hearts and lives of most men and with an equal eye and impartial hand distribute competent rewards to such as by well-doing shall deserve them which will undoubtedly gain you both the hearts and savours of the best yea and the most too who thought they be not good themselves will be glad to see the works of vertue sweetned by temporal rewards And once more I do require you and intreat you as a Father as a dying Father that you never suffer your heart to receive the least dissatisfaction to the truth of Religion now established which I have by experience found to be the best in the world and nearest agreeing to the word of God Happy times I have will attend you The Lord bless you and establish your soul in right ousness that as you grow in years so you may grow also in wisdom and goodness in grace and favour both with God and man The Lord bless you and make his face to shine upon you And now behold I am ready to be offered up and the time of my departure is at hand I bless God I can say as St. Paul did 2 Tim. 3.7 8. I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the Faith henceforth therefore there is said up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteorus Judge shall give me at that day and not to me onely but to all them also that love his appearing And now I leave you and go before you to a better Kingdom and inheritance that is incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away 1 Pet. 1.4 which the Lord hath prepared for me and me for it through the onely and alone merits of my onely and all sufficient Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to whose blessed protection and mercy I commend and leave you and so farewell till we meet if not on Earth yet in Heaven FINIS Courteous Reader THere is lately published an excellent and profitable Sermon called The Christians Blessed Choice Likewise Christs first Sermon also Christs last Sermon And the Christians best Garment Also Heavens Glory and Hells Horror And the School of Grace Also A warning piece to the Sloathful Idle Careless Drunken and Secure Ones of these last and worst of times Very godly Books and are but three pence price Likewise 1. Englands Faithful Physician 2. The dreadful character of drunkard 3. Dooms-day at hand 4. The Fathers last Blessing to his children 5. The sin of Pride arraigned and condemned 6. The Black Book of Conscience 7. Peters Sermon of Repentance 8. The Plain Mans Plain Path-way to Heaven 9. Death Triumphant 10. The Charitable Christian All very necessary for these licentious times and each of them being but of two pence price They are to be sold by Elizabeth Andrews at the White Lion near Pye-Corner