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A73706	Three profitable sermons. 1. A pastorall charge. 2. Christs Larum-bell. 3. The soules sentinell Preached at seuerall times vpon sundry occasions, by Richard Carpenter pastor of Sherwill in Devon.	Carpenter, Richard, 1575-1627.	1617 (1617)	STC 4683.5; ESTC S125294	87,026	278

soeuer thou bee bee prudent and prouident as it beseemeth thy yeeres thy place thy office thy state embrace Eliphaz his exhortation Iob 12. 21. Acquaint thy selfe with God make thy peace with him there by shalt thou haue prosperity Iob 22. Wisdome saith Salomon is the gray Sap. 4. haire and an vndefiled life is the old age Let these ô let these wisdome and an vndefiled life meete together in thee and kisse each other looke narrowly to thy waies least either in the greatnes of thy power thou forget God or in the abundance of thy pleasures remember not thy selfe Be not like Nabuchadnezar who in the ruffe of his pride remembred not who had made him till God had mard him neither acknowleged who set his ioints together till God had rent his Kingdome asunder But let my counsell be acceptable to thee ô man whether Knight Iustice Gentleman or all in one and let mee boldly say to thee as Daniel did to him Breake Dan. 4. 24. off thy sinnes by righteousnesse and thine iniquities by mercy towards the poore Loe let there bee an healing of thine errors Loe thou hast erred and gone astray by thy pride and luxury returne returne by the holy way of temperance and humility Thou hast through couetousnes and malice sowen in hardnes of heart O returne by the way of mercifulnes and charity least thou reape in horror of cōscience Returne returne ô Shulamite as Cant. 6. 12. Christ speaketh to his Spouse returne returne that we may behold thee that we may see aswell a sight of thy good workes as heare a sound of thy good words that we may behold the fruits of amendment in thee place not the anchor of thine eternall wealth and woe on so ticklesome a point as thy repentance at last cast Repent amend defer not from time to time least God in whose hands are the moments of time cut thee off from all time and send thee to paines eternall without time for abusing the singular benefit of time in this world make not thy death-bed to smart by thy wilfull adiournings of thy repentance In the midst of thy ruling remember thy reckoning suffer now whilst it is to day the seeds of godlines to be sowne more and more in the field of thy repentant heart that whensoeuer the night of death commeth thou maiest reape receiue the plentifull crop of a ioyfull haruest furnish thy soule with grace and inure it to a sweete conuersation with God in thy life so shall the offering of thy death-bed be acceptable and thou maiest boldly make God the guardian thereof in thy death And now at length to come to Tertia Part. Viaticum in via my last part and to shut it vp in a word beeing desirous to recompence the largenes of my former discourse with the briefe touch of that which followeth let mee Right Worshipfull and beloued in Iesus Christ intreat you all both old and young which haue heard and seene this day the blacke colours of death and the glorious ensignes of the resurrection displayed to make the due and daily meditation of both vsefull profitable vnto you that your practises in this life may hence forward be more commendable and your passage out of this life when God shall call you be blessed and comfortable Let me I say intreat you all in a serious consideration of the speedy approach of death sure in the end vnsure in the time and bitter when it commeth and of the certain appearance of vs al before the iudgement seat of Christ to render an account of our doings in that day of resurrection to watch all the daies of your life and with holy Iob in my text to waite till your changing shall come Your change may come at a suddaine therefore be alwaies prouided and prouide not so much by corporall phisicke as the maner of most is to put off death that it may not so soone happen vnto you as by soule sauing phisicke repentance faith obedience cleernes of conscience and comforts of Gods word and confidence in his sweete promises to cut off the sting and malignity of death that whensoeuer it comes it may not hurt you This this is viaticū in via prouision in the way to bring vs in safety to the iourneies end of euerlasting felicity O runne with alacrity this race of piety set before you Gratia praeparandus animus mens D. Ambros li. 1. off c. 38. stabilienda ad constantiam saith St. Ambrose for expedition in this iourney pray for grace practise constancie Seeke earnestly for the things that are aboue liue after the lawes of the new Ierusalem which is aboue your Burgeship is in heauen bee not then earthly minded but heauenly affected labour to get more more assurance of the forgiuenesse of your sinnes and to feele in your soules the power of Christs death in dying vnto sinne and the vertue of his resurrection in rising to newnes of life And that you may out of the court of Requests the more easily obtaine for all your transgressions an assured pardon indulgence put somewhat euery day into the court of Gods Exchequer in hope of recompence or remembrance that with good Nehemiah you may Neh. 13. 22. say Lord remember me according to this and pardon me after thy great mercies Let the counsell of our Sauiour be precious Lay vp treasure Matt. 6. 14. for your selues in heauen send your vertuous actions the best monuments of a Christian thither before you Bee zealous of good workes studious of piety abundant in the deeds of charity for the witnes and inward testimony of a well-deeded life when all other comforts leaue you will relieue and comfort you in death accompany you to heauen and present it selfe with you before God By these fruites of a liuely faith Ezek. 9. as his own marks God will know and acknowledge vs to be his and for these his owne gifts which are our best merits he will reward vs and this reward is a life and such a life as is eternall is a crowne and Rom. 6. 23. 1. Pet. 5. 4. Heb. 12. 28. 1. Pet. 1. 4. 2. Pet. 3. such a crowne as is the crowne of glory is a kingdome and such a kingdome as cannot be shaken is an inheritance and such an inheritance as is immortall vndefiled For the obtaining of which life crowne kingdome inheritance what manner persons ought we to be in holy conuersation and godlines how ought wee in respect of these great and gracious promises to giue all diligence to ioine to 2. Pet. 1. 5. our faith vertue to our vertue patience temperāce brotherly kindnes and all other ornaments of a sanctified life These these are Viaticum in Bern. mundo the saurus in coelo Prouision for spirituall comfort in this world for a celestiall crown in that to come O let vs in this behalfe be prouident and thriuing Christians and whilst we are in

with the teares of weeping eies but with the drops of a bleeding heart to be lamented And that thy repentance ●incere Repen●ance may not onely bee generall in the lumpe but personall and particular according to euery transgression of the law article against thy selfe recapitulate thy sinnes make vp a catalogue of thy offences Item for lying swearing whoring backbiting sclandring Item for plotting of mischeefe for vexing men with lawles suites in malice for abusing Gods creatures in drunkennesse and gluttony for abasing his Magistrates and resisting authority for prophaning the Sabbath neglecting the word preached and despising the ministry Item for spending so many thousands to maintaine thy pride so many hundreds to satisfie thy lust so many score of pounds to please thy fancy and not a pound no scarce a penny bestowed in Gods seruice or on Gods seruants to right their wrongs or relieue their wants The totall summe being the manifest and manifold breach of all Gods commandements Bring all these particulars in an holy a Pro. 28. 13. confession before thy maker b Iam. 4. 10. and cast thy selfe downe in humble submission and harty contrition before his seate of mercy earnestly begging pardon with c Psalm 51. Dauid d Ezr. 9. Esrah e Neh. 13. 22. Nehemiah f Dan. 9. 19. Daniel for them resoluing neuer againe in the like wilfully to offend him but beeing iealous ouer thy selfe with a godly iealousie and studious in all things henceforth to please him not onely carefully performing those duties of piety appertaining to his immediate worship which he hath commanded but also in matters of lesse moment and consequence in eating drinking recreating thy selfe and conuersing with others conscionably conforming thy selfe to those rules of modesty equity and sobriety which in his word hee hath prescribed that so vpon thy sincere repentance and sound reformation hee may be reconciled vnto thee and thou desiring in heart and indeauouring in life to become a new man maiest obtaine this inestimable fauour of him to haue all the former accounts and sinfull billes of debt crossed here for otherwise thou shalt neuer haue thy quietus est hereafter To conclude this point with D. Austin Age poenitentian dum Aug li. de mir ●ac scrip ser 36. sanus es sic si ages dico tibi quod securus es quia poenitentiam egisti eo tempore quo peccare potuisti i. Repent whilst thou art in health for in so doing thou art without danger of hurt because thou hast repented at what time thou mightest haue sinned And because in the yongest and strongest there is no assured signe of safety and security but in all of vs both yongue and old many home-bred tokens of death and dissolution therefore the counsell and watch-word of our Master and Sauiour is to be remembred g Mat. 24. 42. Mar. 13. 35. Wake and watch for you knowe not what houre your Master will come either by the first death or the last iudgement ye know not that houre therefore watch euery houre yee know not that yeere moneth or day wherein Simil. death the Lords hand-maid with the broome of sicknesse or sorrow will sweepe you away being as too many are spider-like busied in making nothing but nets and cobwebs to catch the flies of honour and riches which taketh her to her wings as an Eagle soone Prou. 23. 5. flieth away therefore keep watch and ward ouer your soules euery day moneth and yeere And as he which sitteth at a table Simil. furnished with many dainty seruices amongst which one is poisoned as he hath beene secretly aduertised will if he be wise not hastily aduenture on any because of the danger that lyeth hidden in that one so let vs be heedfull that we rush not into sinne bee it neuer so pleasāt a seruice on any day because for any thing wee know that may be the very day wherein death may ouertake vs h Matt. 26. 41. Watch and pray least you enter into temption Repent and amend least yee i Psalm 2. 12. perish in the way and die in your transgressions Vse Lastly forasmuch as in this fraile life the meanest of vs is no lesse and the mightiest amongst vs is no more then Gods steward steward of Gods house i. the Church Luk. 16. 1. as the Minister of the common house the weale publike as the Magistrate of his owne priuate samily as euery houshold gouernor of the closet of his owne conscience as euery particular christian man and to euery one of vs God hath commited the charge of his goods and gifts either corporall temporall or spirituall to be imploied as his talents for his aduantage and glory and our fellow-seruants benefit and good Therefore I beseech you let vs all in our seuerall places be good and gracious in our offices For we know not when the k Mar. 13. 35 Master of the house will come whether at euen or midnight at the Cocke crowing or the dawning of the day We know not how soone we shall be summoned to giue an account of our stewardship And because being stewards we are not masters but seruants therefore let vs not beate or abuse our fellow-seruants l Isa 3. 15. vex and molest our poore neighbours but as fellow helpers let vs labour not loyter in the Lords vineyard We are not hired for a day as the m Matt. 20. Laborers in the Gospell or for an yere as the n Iud. 17. Leuite was by Michah or for seuen or thrice seuen as o Gen. 29. Iacob was by Laban but for all the daies and yeeres of our life to doe his worke therefore let vs discharge our duties diligently And because we haue his gifts to dispose not as we list but according to his good will and pleasure Let vs take heed carefully that we play not the bad stewards either in getting goods wrongfully as too many rent-racking Land-lords do or in keeping them basely as too many churlish Note Nabals doe or in spending them wantonly and wastefully as too many prodigall prophane gallants doe least in so doing we be iustly accused for our vniust conuersation to our Master and be fearefully conuicted of vnrighteous dealing by three sufficient witnesses or plaintiffes the poore oppressed Gods creatures abused and our owne consciences wounded as not long since a great man of this Land was by whom a poore ● Barons wars widow was exceedingly wronged and put from house and home and constrained to make an old Oake her best harbour the conscience of which fact so affrighted him that when he should be most couragious he was most daunted and in horror of mind often exclaimed O the widow vnder the Oake And as of late a lewd Canon of Paris was who with the remembrance of his adulterous and Idolatrous Gall. Hist life beeing extreamly terrified in his death bed at seuerall times spake but these three words Accusatus