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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02255	The godly mans request : or, Choice flowers gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, For the strengthning [sic] and support of weak and fainting souls in these times of trouble. / by I.C.	I.C.	1676 (1676)	Wing C49A; ESTC R173302	7,745	26

the Virgin My Heart doth magnify the Lord and the heart will apply it to the Ear and to the tongue as Christ saith out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh The last point is that the remembrance of death makes us to apply our hearts to wisdome Moses commanded not a many books to a wise man Learned but as David commends one book instead of many Meditations in the Law of God day and night for the reading of many books saith Solomon is but weariness to the flesh therefore as though Moses had marked what did move him most to seek after God he prayeth that that thought may run in his mind still the remembrance of death as many benefits come unto us by death so many benefits come unto us by the remembrance of death and this is one viz. It maketh a man to apply his Heart to wisdome for when he considereth that he hath but a short time to live he is careful to spend it well like Moses of whom it is said that when he considered how he had but a season to live he chose rather to suffer afflictions with the Servants of God then to injoy the pleasure of sin for a season this is that which makes the old Men Fast and watch prepare themselves more then young Men because they think themselves nearer the Grave like old Isaac which when he was blind for Age said unto Esau Behold I am now old and know not the day of my death that is because I am old I look to dye shortly and therefore as Isaiah taught Ezechias to set all things in order before he died so he called his eldest Son to whom he thought his Inheritance belonged that he might bless him before he dyed this Wisdom the Fathers called the wisdom of the Cross which we call the best because it was the dearest bought it is hard for a man to think of a short life and think evil or to think of a long life and think well therefore when Jeremy had numbred all the Calamities and ●ins of the Jews at last he imputed all to his Lamentations the 1. and the 9. She remembred not her end So if I may judg why Natural Men care for nothing but their Pomp why great men care for nothing but their Honor and Dignity why covetous Worldlings care for nothing but their gain why voluptious Epicures care for nothing but their pleasure I may say with Jeremy they remember not their end we never covet the same things living and dying therefore when Solomon had spoken of all the Vanities of men at last he tells them all Eccles 11. v. 9. Remember that for all these things thou shalt come to judgment as if he should say Men would never speak as they speak nor do as they do if they did but think their speeches and deeds should come to Iudgment as the Bird guideth her flight with her Trian so the Life of Man is best directed with a continual recourse unto his end Which is in the numbring of our days let us consider what a Harvest we have lost which happyly before this time we never prayed with Moses that the Lord would teach us to number our days so that we may apply our hearts to wisdom but as the old year went and a new year came so we thought that a new year would follow that and so we think that another will follow this and so they thought that are dead long ago This is not to number our days but to provoke God to shorten our days there are but few here but have seen twenty years novv if we had but every year learned one Vertue since vve were born vve might by this time have béen like Saints among Men but the time is yet to come when vve shall apply our hearts to Wisdom to Riches and Pleasure we have applyed our hearts and our eyes and our ears and our hands too but to Wisdom vve have not applyed our hearts There be many causes but there should be no cause if vve had numbred our days for surely if a man could persuade himself that this is the last day as it may be he vvould not defer his Repentance until to morrovv if he could think that this is his last Meal that ever he should eat he vvould not surfeit of it if he could believe that the vvords vvhich he doth speak to day should be the last vvords that ever he should speak he vvould not offend vvith his tongue if he could be persuaded that this Sermon should be the last Sermon that ever he should hear he vvould hear it better then ever he heard any yet whilst breach is in the body the heart may apply it self and the eye may apply it self and the ear may apply itself and the hand may apply it self Work while it is light I can but admonish you with words as John baptized with Water as Moses prayed the Lord to number his days so you must pray the Lord to teach you to number your Days it may be that thou hall but twenty years to serve God wilt thou not live twenty years like a Christian that thou maill live a thousand years like an Angel it may be that thou hast but ten years to serve him wilt not thou serve ten years for Heaven vvhich vvould serve twenty years for a Farm it may be that thou hast but five years vvell to redeem all thy former mispent years vvhereby to gain an Eternal being in Heaven yet God doth knovv vvhether many here present or any here present have so long to live to repent for all the years vve have spent in ●…n if thou wer 't born to day thy journey is not an hundred years if thou be a Man half thy time is spent already if thou be an old Man then thou art drawing to thy Inn and thy Race is but a Breach therefore as Christ said to his Disciples when he found them sléeping Could ye not Watch one hour so I say to my self and to you all here present can vve not pray can vve not suffer a little vvhile he vvhich is tired can travel a little vvay a little further one step more for a Kingdom for this God vvould not have Men knovv vvhen they shall dye because they should make Ready at all times having no more certainty of one hour then another therefore our Savior saith Watch because ye know not when the Lord will come to take you and judg you Happy are they vvhich hear the Word and keep it thus you sée that Death is the last upon Earth that the time of Man is set that his Race is short that he thinks not of it that if he did remember it it mould make him apply his mind to Good as he doth to Evil. and novv I end as I began The Lord teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to Wisdom Amen FINIS A Catalogue of Books sold by John Clarke at the Harp and Bible in VVest-Smith-Field A Short view of Gods Judgments executed upon open and notorious offendors 2. Christs voice to England calling for Repentance 3. God's Justice against Murther or the bloody Apprentice Executed 4. Gods Alarum to all drowsie and secure Sinners 5. The Hartford-shire Wonder 6. The Godly Mans Request 7. The Young Mans Monitor or a word of Advice to Youth These seven Books are of singular use to be read and practiced in these sad and dismal times