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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56307	A serious exhortation to an holy life, or conversation With a clear discovery of the nature of it, what it is. The means of attaining it. The trials of it, how it may be known. The motives, or inducements to it. Or, a profitable companion for conversion. Confirmation. Illumination. Consolation. By Robert Purnell.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4240; ESTC R222001	22,777	109

it For drawing others to sin by your bad examples and courses For not reproving others for their sin as if thou wast afraid to speak for God against those that dishonoured him For a world of precious time which thou hast mis-spent in the world For a multitude of secret unknown sins committed in thy childe-hood youth and man-hood all thy omissions and commissions will then come into thy minde There comes in a long Bill which thou never dreamedst of much less couldest repent of ignorance will be no plea in this Court all our sinfull thoughts resolutions words and actions together with all our commissions and omissions stand up and bear testimony against thee Oh! consider if ever any Bill were like unto this I could almost say to the Reader as Nathan to David Thou art the man It is true that in Courts of Justice exceptions against Witnesses are sometimes allowed but thou canst except against none here unless it be the devil but if thou cashire his testimony what canst thou say against thy partners in sin do not they know all thy wayes what canst thou say against good men that with grief of heart beheld thy sinful courses what canst thou say against good Angels that will not belye thee what canst thou say against thine own conscience what canst thou say against the true and all-knowing God that cannot lye Then hear the sentence Mat. 25. 41. Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels 3. Let us a little consider the torments which he is like to suffer in Hell there shall be punishment without pitty misery without mercy sorrow without succour crying without comfort mischief without measure torment without ease where the worme dieth not and the fire is never quenched in which flame thou shalt ever be burning and never consumed ever dying and never dye but here thou shalt be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power and so here for want of an holy Conversation thou hast changed Heavens felicity for Hells fury it is better to creep towards Heaven though through the valley of tears than to gallop towards Hell upon the mountains of pleasure Consider the duration of that miserable estate Mat. 25. 41. Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire this eternal condition admits of no alteration decay or consumption future hopes or expectation waste or diminution mans eternal condition admits of no mixture or moderation events or issues of Providence mans eternal condition admits of no comparison or revocation there is no sounding a retreat after we are lanched into this Ocean millions of ages past away yet not a minute wasted this is utter darkness and blackness of darkness weeping and gnashing of teeth the worm that never dyeth the fire that never goeth forth c. and all this is but the effect and product of an unholy Conversation I hope by this time the Reader of these lines findeth a necessity of a serious exhortation to an holy life and conversation Now to avoid all these miseries consider what is before written and these few things following after and so I close up this little piece not doubting but by Gods blessing thou mayest gain much by it Now then if thou wouldst avoid Hells misery and obtain Heavens felicity learn these few things and put them in practice Keep thy heart with Solomons diligence Pro. 4. 24. Keep thine eyes with Jobs Covenant Job 31. 1. Keep thy tongue with Davids Bridle Psal 39. 7. Keep thy foot with Solomons guard Eccles 5. 1. That thou and I may do so let us put on the whole Armour of God and not trust any member without its keeper Have a care of spending precious time about things unprofitable or impossible for mans idle time is the Devils busie time Therefore seek the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near Let thy thoughts which are the first blossom of thy soul be awful and godly 2 Cor. 10. 5. Let thy speech and talk be seasoned with grace let it be little and true profitable seasonable and savoury Prov. 10. 21. Let thy works be profitable holy charitable and measurable Let thy carriage or manners be grave courteous and chearful Let thy diet be moderate and temperate bring thine appetite under a rule of reason that it exceed not the bounds of moderation when thou makest a feast be not like Dives who fared deliciously nor like Martha troubled about many dishes or varieties Be content with thine allowance if thou canst not raise thy estate to thy minde let us stoop our mindes to our estates Let thy apparel be sober neat and comely be rather too sparing then over lavishing rather abridge thy self of somewhat thou mightest have then abound rather come short of thine allowance then any whit at all to exceed it Let thy recreation be lawful brief seldom and seasonable Let thy companions be chiefly those that are godly beware of too deep familiarity with wicked ones for they will talk much to little purpose see Prov. 4. 14. Let thy sleep be moderate quiet and seasonable lie not down to sleep in thy sins neither sinne in thy sleep Let thy prayers be short fervent frequent and devout remember Christ prayed often and briefly and commands us to learn of him Have a care of spending so much time and pains about the form of godliness as to neglect the power Charge thy memory to retain the best things not forgetting Death Judgement Punishment or Glory If thou wilt live and dye in a continual peace maintain a continual warre against the world the flesh and the Devil if ever we come to Heaven we must fight our every step of our way step by step as a Ship cuts out its way in the Sea Endeavour alwayes to keep thine heart in such a frame that thou mayest be ready to receive or do good Endeavour to warn them that are unruly comfort the feeble minded support the weak be patient towards all men 1 Thes 5. 14. Let the Word of God be thy rule his glory thy aim his Spirit thy guide his Angels thy guard his Promises thy support his People thy companions his Ordinances thy delight As we do approve of the end which the Almighty aims at which is the glory of his Name and the good of his people so we should like and assent to the way which he doth act in to accomplish the same which is sometimes by means sometimes without means sometimes contrary to means sometimes by small means and inconsiderable Seriously consider that general which takes in all the former particular rules Phil. 4. 8. Finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue if there be any praise think on these things so as to walk in them or observe and do them so shalt thou have prudence to guide thy thoughts to order and grace thy speech to help thee to understand things present to guess at things to come to recall matters past to possess that you do want to live long in a little time and to carry thy self in all states in all conditions under all administrations both to God and his people and thy relations as a righteous obedient Christian It is reported of Alexanders body that it was of such an exact and excellent constitution that it gave a sweet scent like a perfume so should a Christians conversation be a sweet smelling savour both to God and man so then thou shalt not be afraid to dye nor ashamed to live Therefore let us spend more time and pains about that which will make us live happily and dye comfortably and reign with Christ eternally We may assure our selves it is not the knowing man nor the talking man but the doing man that at last will be found the happiest man for if our knowledge be not turned into practice the more knowledge we have the more miserable shall we be Although no man merits assurance by obedience yet God usually crowns obedience with assurance An unholy Professour shall alwayes want these things viz. Comfort and Content Confidence and Assurance Read and consider these Scriptures and I have done leaving thee to him that never forsakes his The Scriptures follow viz. Hebrews 6. 8. But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected and is nigh unto cursing whose end is to be burned Matthew 3. 10. Now the axe is laid to the root of the tree therefore every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire 1 Thessalonians 4. 1. Furthermore then we beseech you brethren and exhort you by the Lord Jesus that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God so ye would abound more and more for this is the will of God even your sanctification verse 3. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour Hebrews 13. 20. 21. Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ the great Shepherd of the Sheep through the blood of the everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen