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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72913	Three godly and fruitfull sermons declaring first how we may be saved in the day of iudgement, and so come to life everlasting: secondly, how we ought to liue according to Gods will during our life: which are the two things that every one ought to be most carefull of as long as they liue. Preached and written by the reverend & godly learned M. Iohn More, late preacher in the citie of Norwitch. And now first published by M. Nicholas Bovvnd: whereunto he hath adioyned of his owne, A sermon of comfort for the afflicted: and, A short treatise of a contented mind.	More, John, d. 1592.; Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613. aut	1594 (1594)	STC 18074.5; ESTC S125128	118,386	153

burning fire then what hast thou gained by such presuming vpon Gods mercie and hardning of thy selfe in thy sinne against God when thy pleasure is turned into paine and thy securitie and ease into continuall torment Alas good brethrē that we should be so blinded with the subtilties of Satā for the gaine of a small earthly trifle to cast away soule and bodie eternally VVhat can it profit vs to winne the whole world and loose our owne soule and this we doe so long as giuing care to the vaine allurement of Satan we continue in our sinne deferring the time of our repentance till afterwards thinking that the Lord will not come so soone you see then the lacke of practising this doctrine that is here taught vnto vs is the cause that at this day men are so hardned in their sinne and boldly goe on forward to eternall destruction Men doe imagine with them selues that although they must one day appeare before the throne of God yet it will not be so soone and thereupon they neuer thinke of that matter but deuise all wickednes in their braines to fill their purses feede the paunches deceiue their neighbours and generally all other spite and villanie against God and man and all because they thinke themselues in sure case that the day of repentance is not so neere but that they may amend all this geare in time but it is not so they are deceiued The Scripture telleth vs it will come sooner then we thinke therefore amend betimes least we perish all And it is a maruelous matter to see howe wonderfully the aduersarie hath preuailed in this for whereas God would haue vs alwaies in readines because the time 〈◊〉 vncertaine the cleane contrarie is settled in our hearts namely to take our libertie in sinning because the time is a farre off as we dreame and this perswasion is so deepely settled in our breast that if men be admonished to take heede of their dealings for a day will come when all things shalbe righted then they thinke straightway they haue a great long scope giuen them to range in for they take it as a principle most surely rooted in their hearts that that day is a far off If they be threatned with the comming of Christ to iudgement you shall see them make of the matter no more but a scoffe and a mocke oh syr if ye giue me so long a day nay then I shall doe well ynough and here they can fall to gybing and make themselues merrie with the talke of the welchman who hauing robbed a man of his budget and beeing threatned that he should answer for it at the day of iudgement made answer that if he might haue so long a day he would haue the cloake too and thus miserable caytiffs they thinke they haue notably preuailed when thus they haue scoffed out the matter but alas pore soules it is no more then a laughter from the teeth forward for when they haue put from them the day of the Lord as farre as can be and that God for a time let thē play vpon the hooke yet alas there is a thing within their brest that sometimes will sting them to the heart in spite of their teeth but yet here-withall you see how common this is amongst men that the day of the Lord is a farre off for when we can so readily giue such answers as this If ye giue me so long a day c. surely we bewray our owne heartes vnawares that wee are perswaded in our breasts that it is long to that day And the same opinion haue we in like maner of the day of our death there is scarcely found amongst vs any so old but he wil thinke he might liue one yere longer or at least one moneth or one day so farre he is off from thinking on his death if we be young oh then we thinke our selues as sure from dying as God had sealed vs his letters patents for our life till old age and hereupon it commeth that in our lustie youth as they tearme it we neuer thinke to make our selues readie to God-ward nay so farre are we from all 〈◊〉 of God that vnlesse we play the wilde coltes in all licentiousnesse and sinne we thinke we haue not well spent our youth according to the course of nature and into such beastlines we are gone that we haue framed an heathenish nay worse then heathenish rather a deuilish prouerbe A young saint an old deuill as if so be we should beginne to be holy in our yong age it were the next way to make vs diuels when we are old and as though it were the best way to be a diuell in thy yong age that thou mightest be made a good holy man in thy old age But I pray thee what if thy God call thee while thou art a young deuill what shall become of thee in thine old age if the Lord cut thy yeares short and make an ende of thy life while thou art playing the yong lustie deuil I warrant thee thou shalt neuer come to be neither old saint nor young saint This I speake good brethren with griefe of heart to see into what miserable blindnes we are tumbled that the thing which God hath hid from vs so secret to himselfe the day of his comming and the day of our death as though we were of Gods counsell we will be so cunning in it as if he had not onely reuealed it vnto vs but also had sealed vnto vs the assurance of it And all this we doe that we may more boldly sinne without controlment thinking when we are old we will then beginne to frame our selues to godlines but alas good brethren we deceiue our selues it is not so we haue no assurance of our life we can not tell when it shall please our God to call vs at midnight noonetide or cockerovve wee are not certen one minute of an houre to liue and therefore let vs not driue off from day to day and thinke he will amende least he come vpon vs vnwares and finde vs vnprepared Take heede good brethren that we doe not flatter our selues to thinke I am but yong I trust I shall not die so soone I will take the pleasures of my youth a while and when I beginne to be old I will then wholly applie my selfe to Gods will or thus although I be some what aged yet I trust I shall not goe so soone I thanke God I feele my selfe strong and lustie I can eate my meate well and I will not yet settle my selfe to be readie when God calleth me I may continue yet a little while in my craft and subtiltie til I haue got but such a piece of ground or so much money to lie by me and then I will amend when I shall begin to be sicke then I will settle my selfe wholly to God-warde Let vs take heede good brethren of these blasts and temptations of Satan that we be not deceiued doe we