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death_n	continue_v	young_a	youth_n	25	3	7.2315	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41400	Good counsel to be had at a cheap rate Wherein is contained many excellent matters which are very needful to be had in consideration amongst all sorts of people that are now living in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Note it well, and refuse not good counsell. Thou that to read this title doth begin, turn over leaf and see what is within.		1663 (1663)	Wing G1041B; ESTC R221247	5,354	19

unto your lives end Thus having in small time laid open part of my great purposes I will with spéed break off from my former discourse and hasten the finishing of the rest of my exercises which is called Good Counsell which are severall yet all very useful and necessary I doubt not but that they will give good content to them that will either read or hear them and first of all I shall begin with Conscience A clear Conscience said to be a continuall ●e●st and so indéed it may very well be called and ten times happy is that man or woman that hath got a convenient Room to entertain so good a Guest He that injoys a good Conscience although he be péer in the eye of the world he is rich in the sight of God A good conscience may be compared with the chiefest Iewels that can be spoken of in the world It is like the Trée in Arabia which is called Melt which Trée affords Food for the belly Rayment for the back and weapons of Defence for the body It is li e the Noble pine Trée which was never known to be rotten-hearted although it be never so old neither can any poysonous Wasp nor venemous Spider come néer it nor can any Canker eating worm once come néer it The very leaves whereof continueth fresh and gréen both Summer and winter so that the scorching heat of summer burns them not nor can the piercing cold and nipping Frosts of winter do them any kind of harme Again a good conscience is like that excellent Adamant stone which is so hard that it wil cut glasse whom neither stroke of hammer nor heat of fire can pierce or dissolve To be brief this good Conscience is like unto the bright sh●ning splendor of the Sunne when he is to full glory whom no mortall eye is able to b●hold so farre it excéeds all other Lights On the other side an avid and corrupt conscience is over at war within it selfe and can never be at rest sléeping or waking it is alwayes plodding to doe mischief alwayes doubting what will follow but never intending to amend Dissimulation and gréedy Desire are the Ring-leader of his Enterprize Wrath and Revenge are his Waiting-men Pride and Malice are babes of his bréeding Sedition and Double dealing are the staves he walks by which when they once begin to fall he is like to have such a dangerous fall that he will be never able to recover This evil and guilty conscience may be fitly compared to a Rotten hedge placed on a péece of false hallow ground which although it séems fair in the outside the inside affords nothing but ugly Snakes Toads Adders and such diperous Creatures which are ready every hour to eat throw the very bowels of that Dam that gave them suck Such a conscience had Pharaoh when he opposed himself against the Commandements of God and would not let the children of Israel passe Exod. 5.2 Such a Conscience had Absalon when he sought to destroy his own Father Samuel 2 ●8 Such a conscience had Jezabell the Quéen who for lucre sake and thirst of gain bore false witnesse against her righteous Neighbour Naboth as you may read in the first book of Kings 19.2 Such a Conscience hsd Judas which after he had betrayed the Innocent went and hanged himself And such a Conscience had the Rich glutton which denyed poor Lazarus the Crumbs that fell from his Table and after being in hell torments cryed out for one drop of water to cool his Tongue Luke 16. By these Examples dear Friends my counsell is that you take notice and in the Name of God the Father and the Sonne and the holy Ghost let every man strive to kéep a good conscience for Conscience is that Pylot that will divert you either to eternall blisse or everlasting destruction The next matter that I am to put you in mind of is to beware of Cursing Swearing and Blaspheming Gods holy Name Our blessed Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ in his New Testament Gave us a new Commandem nt which was to love one another and withall he gives us a strict charge to pray for our Enemies and them that hate us And furthermore he sayes Blesse them that curse you But how many in these our times do we sée that are willing to doe good for evill why surely the greater sort of people now a dayes will rather repay evill for good then doe good for evill and will rather curs● their Friends then pray for their Enemies but the fruits of Cursing and Swearing are as followeth A Curse procéeding out of the mouth of an ugly Creature is like an Arrow shot against a plate of Stéele which having no power to enter reboundeth back and woundeth him that shot it unto the very heart and as for swearing be that rays out a néedlesse Gath displeaseth God to please the Divell Therefore dear Christians my Counsell is to every one That you forbear Cursing and Swearing and all other Vngodly qualities whatsoever And with the New Year begin a New Life And as the dayes do wax every day longer than other so let us Endeavour to be every day better and better and let Pride be Exchanged into Humility Envy into Love and Covetousnesse into Bounty and Wrath into Patience and as you begin the year well so I desire you to continue For blessed are they that continue to the end There are many and too many that are now living that never think of death as may appear by their lives and conversations Do we not sée many Young men and others given so much to Ryot that they spend that in their youth which should kéep them when they are old Who having wasted all and spent their whole patrimony are afterwards glad to Feed with the Swine like the prodigall child Luke 15. My counsell therefore is this to all men That they take Example by wise Joseph who in the time of seven years plenty laid up in store for seven yeares of scarcity By which means through the blessings of God he preserved the life of his good old Father Jacob and the rest of his brethren and many thousands more besides which else had perisht through want as you may read in the book of Genesis Patience is the gift of God and Armour of Proof He that can obtaine this gift is sufficiently armed against all the fiery darts and Tryalls which the world the Flesh and the Divel can throw at him But if the Armour of patience be wanting he is a lost man For no sooner comes the smallest blast of persecution that can be spoken of but presently it pierceth through the very Brain-pan of the Skull and Rankles to the Heart and Reins and at last it will destroy the whole body and indanger the Soul Therefore my Counsell is That you do make patience one of your chief companions whether your company be many or few and to follow the Apostles rule who saith Be ye patient brethren untill the comming of the Lord. James 5.4 There are many that are become Market-makers for the Divel and withall perswades the simple sort of people that there is no hell Others there are that desire to know where hell is but I think there 's done desire to go thither But this I am perswaded That they that are most diligent to inquire for it may the soonest know where it is The Lord in his mercy keep all good Christians from it Is it not Impudent madnesse in People to séek after such a place which was prepared for none but the Divell and his Angels Matth. 13. And where there is nothing but weeping and howling and gnashing of teeth Good Christians my Counsell is that you imploy all the faculties of your Souls and Senses to séek after Heaven and Heavenly things and remember the words of our Saviour who saith Seek and ye shall find To which place of endlesse joyes the Lord that made our Souls receive and bring us to his everlasting Kingdom Amen FINIS