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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51986	Fair warnings to a careless world in the pious letter written by the Right Honourable James Earl of Marleburgh, a little before his death, to the Right Honourable Sir Hugh Pollard, comptroller of his Maties houshold. With the last words of CXL and upwards, of the most learned and honourable persons of England, and other parts of the world.	Pollard, Hugh, Sir, 1610-1666.; Lloyd, David, 16315-1692.; Smith, Henry, f. 1665.; Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of, 1618-1665.	1665 (1665)	Wing M686; ESTC R1009	20,131	51

Fair Warnings TO A Careless World In the Pious LETTER WRITTEN By the Right Honourable JAMES Earl of MARLEBURGH a little before his Death TO The Right Honourable Sir HVGH POLLARD Comptroller of his Ma ties Houshold WITH The LAST WORDS of CXL and upwards of the most Learned and Honourable person● of England and other parts o● the world London Printed for Samuel Speed at the Rainbow in Fleet-street 1665. To the Right Honourable Sir HVGH POLLARD Comptroller of his Ma ties Houshold Right Honourable WHat influence our Saviours injunction to Penitents When thou art converted confirm thy brethren had on our honourable Convert's generous Soul appears from these words subjoyned to the Noblest Retractation that ever was made since that of S t Augustines And as many of my friends besides as you will or any else that desire it I pray grant this request What power the great obligation of friendship and the greater of doing good had on your Honours Goodness appears by the numerous Copies you were pleased to communicate with no less designe I am sure and I hope with no less success then the Reformation of a sinful Nation to gratifie the Curiosity of some persons therein the Piety of others and the general Wish of all becoming impossible by transcription a way by reason of the Carelesness of some transcribers and the Knavery of others not so exact as the Paper it self or its Author deserveth is endeavoured by Printing in either of which capacities what good soever it may do and it promiseth with Gods blessing not a little together with these other Papers of the same tendencie which demonstrate that men of all qualities whatsoever when they reflect seriously on themselves and the state of things without them in their last and best thoughts conclude that it is mans great interest to be seriously and strictly religious shall redound to your Honours account in that day wherein they that convert sinners from the errour of their ways shall shine as the Stars for ever I am Your most humble servant HENRY SMITH FAIR WARNINGS TO A Careless World A Letter from the Right Hon ble James Earl of Marleburgh a little before his death in the Battel at Sea on the coast of Holland To the Right Honourable Sir Hugh Pollard Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold SIR I Believe the goodness of your nature and the friendship you have always born me will receive with kindness this last office of your friend I am in health enough of body and through the mercy of God in Jesus Christ well disposed in minde This I premise that you may be satisfied that what I write proceeds not from any phantasing terrour of minde but from a sober resolution of what concerns my self and earnest desire to do you more good after my death then mine Example God of his mercy pardon the badness of it in my life-time may do you harm I will not speak ought of the vanity of this world your own age and experience will save that labour But there is a certain thing that goeth up and down the world called Religion dressed and pretended phantastically and to purposes bad enough which yet by such evil dealing loseth not its being The great good God hath not left it without a witness more or less sooner or later in every mans bosom to direct us in the pursuit of it and for the avoiding of those inextricable disquisitions and entanglements our own frail Reasons would perplex us withal God in his infinite mercy hath given us his holy Word in which as there are many things hard to be understood so there is enough plain and easie to quiet our mindes and direct us concerning our future being I confess to God and you I have been a great neglecter and I fear despiser of it God of his infinite mercy pardon me the dreadful fault But when I retired my self from the noise and deceitful vanity of the world I found no true comfort in any other resolution then what I had from thence I commend from the bottom of my heart the same to your I hope happie use Dear Sir Hugh let us be more generous then to believe we die as the beasts that perish but with a Christian manly brave resolution look to what is eternal I will not trouble you farther The onely great God and holy God Father Son and holy Ghost direct you to an happie end of your life and send us a joyful resurrection So prays old James neer the coast of Holland Your true friend MARLEBURGH April 24. 1665. I beseech you commend my love to all mine acquaintance particularly I pray you that my Cousin Glascock may have a sight of this Letter and as many of my friends besides as you will or any else that desire it I pray grant this my request King CHARLES the First HAd that sense of Religion upon his spirit as that the one act of passing the Bill for the Earl of Strafford's death and the other to the prejudice of the Churches of England and Scotland troubled him as long as he lived and brought him not onely to vow as he did before the most Reverend Father in God G. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury to do Penance for them but also to a resolution never to allow the least thing though it was but the little Assemblies Catechism against his conscience And when it was told him his death was resolved on he said I have done what I could to save my life without losing my soul and sinning against my conscience Gods will be done Sir WALTER RAWLEIGH AT the meeting usually held with the Virtuosi in the Tower discoursing of Happiness urged that it was not onely a freedom from Diseases and pains of the body but from anxiety and vexation of spirit not onely to enjoy the pleasures of Sense but peace of Conscience and inward tranquillity to be so not for a little while but as long as may be and if it be possible for ever And this happiness so suitable to the immortality of our souls and the eternal state we must live in is onely to be met with in Religion M r HOWARD AFterwards the Learned Earl of Northampton being troubled with Atheistical suggestions put them all off this way viz. If I could give any account how I my self or any thing else had a being without God how there came so uniform and so constant a consent of mankinde of all ages tempers and educations otherwise differing so much in their apprehensions about the being of God the immortality of the soul and Religion in which they could not likely either deceive so many or being so many could not be deceived And when it was urged that Religion was a State-policie to keep men in awe he replied That he would believe it but that the greatest Politicians have sooner or later felt the power of Religion in the grievous lashes of their consciences and dreadfulness of their apprehension about that state wherein they must