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death_n	die_v	life_n	time_n	18,635	5	3.9362	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46895	The booke of conscience opened and read in a sermon preached at the Spittle on Easter-Tuesday, being April 12, 1642 / by John Jackson.	Jackson, John.	1642 (1642)	Wing J76; ESTC R36019	31,589	156

is over Satan out-wrestled a spirituall conflict ended a desertion over-blowne then God also useth to refocillate the minde and supple the nerves and weary joynts of the Christian Combatant upon consideration that his Grace was sufficient for him that he had taught his hands to war his fingers to fight and that the soule had marched valiantly 5. Lastly at the houre of death after a good and well-spent life then the Conscience begins to lift up his Crests and to boast in the putting off of his armour Then will Adolphus Clarebachius say I beleeve there is not a merrier heart in the world then mine this day Then will Fannius answer to one objecting CHRISTS sadnesse against his mirth I Christ was sad that I might be merry Then will St Cyprian say Amen when the sentence of death is pronounced against him Then will St Paul say I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of glory c. Application of the Point Labour not therefore for the meat that perisheth but for that which endureth for ever for a continuall feast If a poore mendicant Lazarus who had been accustomed all his life to cleannesse of teeth were taken from the rich mans gate and carried to as great a feast as ever plenty and curiositie devised served up in Dishes of Achate studded with gold and pretious stones what better were he to morrow save that the remembrance of it would aggravate his present hunger and be as sauce to his appetite which now standeth in need of meat I had rather have everlasting brasse then fading gold If I were to goe a journey of a thousand miles I had rather have onely necessaries till my journeys end then be carried in coaches and have all abundance and superfluities nine hundred miles and be put to beg my viaticum the last hundred If I were as sure to live an hundred yeeres as Hez●kiah was of his fifteene I would choose rather for the whole terme to have no more then a lowly cottage to sleep in be clad with course and home-spun cloth feed upon Lentils and green herbs then to have for fourescore of those yeeres Manna from heaven for my food apparell as rich as Aarons Ephod a house as stately as Nebuchadnezzars Palace and then like him for the last twenty be driven out of all naked poore and hungry and harbourlesse I had rather live for ever here on earth in this vale of teares where even those we call happy live under an equinoctiall of sorrow and joy then now presently be rapt up into heaven as Elias was and after a thousand yeeres fall from thence with the lapsed Angels Oh! t is these words Eternall Everlasting Perpetuall Continuall For ever c. which in evils make light things heavie and heavie things insupportable and in good things make small things great and great things incomprehensible Hell were not h●ll if the torments of it were not as endlesse as they are easlesse And Heaven were not Heaven if the joyes thereof were not lasting as they are incomprehensible I whet my stile on purpose both to bring you out of taste with carnall and mundane pleasures which are but transitory and to raise up the appetite to this feast of a good Conscience which is Continuall It were then likely to be well with us indeed if we did not prize things temporall as if they were eternall nor undervalue things eternall as if they were temporall I am just now in Demosthenes his strait * who was troubled with a short breath and yet used long Periods So in the last gasp of time allotted for this Sermon I am fallen to discourse of Duration and Eternity I will close up this short speech of Eternity with a very patheticall expressiō of this thing which I will translate hither both out of a another booke and another language And this it is Thinke with thy selfe a thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousands of millions of yeeres Think so many yeeres were to be transacted in fire but withall thinke that though this whole space of time were doubled tribled c. yea centuplicated that it is not so much as the very beginning of Eternity neither after the revolution of so many yeeres can Eternity be said to have a beginning Except these thoughts make us more holy we are no better then beasts and stones yea even then steele it self Nothing will move him which is not moved by Eternitie Eternitie I say that immensurate interminate everlasting perpetuall infinite enduring from age to age as long as God shall live so long the damned shall dye But oh immortall death oh mortiferous life I know not whether I shall call thee by the name of death or of life If thou beest life why art thou more cruell then death if thou beest death why dost thou not end thy cruelty I will not honour thee with either the Name of life or death for even they both have some goodnesse in them There 's rest in life ‖ and in death an end these two affords comfort in all evils But thou eternity neither hast rest nor end What art thou therefore thou art both the evill of life and the evill of death from death thou hast torments without end and from life thou hast immortality without rest The particular Application to the City of LONDON I have done serving up the severall courses of this feast of Conscience and would now take away if it were not the solemne custome of these {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} EASTER-Spittle-Sermons That the Preacher should in speciall manner address himself to this great City-Audience 'T is said John chap. 7. ver. 37. that Jesus stood up in the great and last day of the feast and cryed saying If any man thirst let him come unto me and drinke This is the last day of this {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Lo I stand up in the roome of my Lord and Master and cry Ho if any here be an hungry let them come to this feast of a good conscience and feed freely My Lord Major and all you the rest of the Citizens of this famous City from the Scarlet to the Blue give me leave I pray you to use that liberty and freedome of speech which becomes a faithfull Preacher of the Gospel 'T is true we are called Ministers that is Servants and so we are but it is because we are Servants of God not of men or if of men it is to serve your Salvation not your humours Here is no danger in these Sermons of the Silver-Squinancie or bos in lingua The Preacher may here speake rashly and unadvisedly but not corruptly for it is well known these Spittle-Sermons differ from those at the Crosse and others about this City that these are