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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23803	The whole duty of mourning and the great concern of preparing our selves for death, practically considered / written some years since by the author of The whole duty of man, and now published upon the sad occasion of the death of our Most Gracious Sovereign Lady Mary the II, Queen of England, &c. of blessed memory.	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.	1695 (1695)	Wing A1194; ESTC R33068	65,567	192

Heat and as soon do intemperately devoured Meats like much Fire a little Water drink up the radical moisture and here that Judaism is seasonable What need this wast Wast of Food Wast of Feeders a little contents Nature but nothing satisfies Opinion how fast doth Luxury consume the vital Lamp oft-times so captivating the Body to Diseases that nothing can free it but that general Remedy of all Maladies an early Death So that the Intemperate are of the Number of David's Wicked Ones that scarce live out half their days Psal. 55.33 and however not by the Laws Politick yet by the Divine Statutes each of these is by double Guilt his own Self-murtherer VIII Be not therefore like that Image of Intemperance Sardanapa●●● whose effeminate Luxury bereft him of his Kingdom least it bereave you of a better of the Kingdom of Glory but rather imitate that Pattern of Abstinence the good Emperor Valentinus who of all the Conquests he had ever Won though many yet on his Death-bed said he Gloried but of one and being ask'd of which the greatest Victory saith he that e'er I got was in Subduing that greatest Enemy my own Flesh I close this with St. Peter's dehortation and in his wooing Language I beeech you brethren abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the Soul 1 Pet. 2.12 seek Patience by suffering and that not only by forbearing but likewise by bearing Evil. IX Bearing Evil first Affliction is the Coat of a Christian and the Cross his Badge and it is said to every one as well as Constantine under this Banner thou shalt overcome are we not all Members of that Head which was Crown'd with Thorns the parts then must look to Simpathize together with it for the Head enters not by one passage and the Members by another but all go into Heaven at the same Strait Gate the Red Sea is the way to Canaan and through many tribulations must we enter into that Kingdom Acts. 14.22 Affliction like the Toad hath a precious Pearl in the Head how ever it appears ugly no Affliction is for the present joyous but our light afflictions which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory 2 Cor. 4.17 X. Adversity is God's Knife wherewith he spareth not to Launce whom it pleaseth him to Heal and those like precious Jems are most beautiful after Cutting and though our Earthly Mother this World may perhaps for our Affliction with Rachel call us Ben-onies Sons of her Sorrow yet God our Heavenly Father will one day for our patient Suffering with Jacob call us Benjamins Sons of his Right-hand you may perhaps have heard of that Saying of St. Austin God had never but one Son and that his only Son without Sin but not without Affliction no ●ot his beloved Son in whom he was so well pleased Mat. 3.17 indeed the rather was he Afflicted for that he was beloved seeing he Chastneth whom he loveth and Scourgeth every Son whom he receiveth Heb. 12.6 XI The Rod is the Badge of Filiation and therefore St. Augustine notes in God a cruel Mercy and a merciful Cruelty the first when he permits the Wicked to prosper in this life as t is Job 21.13 the wicked live wax fat and grow in Wealth saith he but what ensueth a sad Catastrophe in a Moment they go down to Hell a while they flourish says the Psalmist like a green bay Tree but anon when their Sins are Ripe they are cut down like the Grass and wither like the green Herb Psal. 37 2. and this indeed is a cruel Mercy no marvel if the Prophet desired rather God's merciful Cruelty Jer. 10.14 Correct me O Lord yet with thy Iudgment not in thine Anger XII The very Heathen could say 'T is better to have been afflicted for adverse fortune more profits man than smiling stars and Job as well as David had Experienc'd it Blessed is the Man saith he the Man what Man think you the Man that 's Clad in Purple and fares deliciously every day no that 's not he is 't the Man whom the King will Honour with the Ring and Steed and Royal Robe 't is not he neither what then is 't the Man that hath caught this World in a Purse-net and by the Omnipotence of his Gold Commands all the Felicities that grow in Solomon's Walk under the Sun no none of all these but Blessed is the man whom God correcteth Job 5.17 XIII To this purpose St. Augustine feigns a Conference 'twixt God and himself God personating a Merchant and himself a Chapman says God I have merchandize to sell what is it says the Holy Father why says God the kingdom of heaven says St. Augustine what 's the price on 't for poverty says God the richest Kingdom for momentany affliction Eternal Rest and for Reproach a Crown of Glory since then our light afflictions which is but for a moment bringeth us a more excellent and eternal weight of Glory Rom. 8.18 let us not refuse the Chastning of the Lord but when he sends it Patiently suffer Evil therefore seek by doing Good do good by Charity and Prayer and seek by suffering Evil and suffer by abstaining all Intemperance and sustaining all Afflictions so run and you shall obtain thus seek and you shall find the Continuing City that we look for a Prospect of which I shall give you in the following Chapter CHAP. XIII A Prospect of the Heavenly Jerusalem which we are to seek Practically Considered This is an Object worthy all our Pains and our best deservings undeserving it take but a glimpse of it for we can do no more at present here we see as in a glass but darkly 1 Cor. 13.12 Consider it abstractly as a City then as a Concrete one to come first you see 't is a City not a Wilderness as is this World where we are all in Pilgrimage to the Sepulchre and behold here a most exact Distinction 'twixt this same and the former City the Worldly one 's built but of Clay and Stuble the Work of Mens Hands and those that make 'em are like unto 'em of a Frail dissolution but this Coelestial City is made by him who made the Hands whose Architecture is the Almighty these Buildings therefore are John 14.2 the abiding Mansions whereas those Earthly ones 2 Cor. 5.1 are but Gourds but Fleeting Tabernacles you remember the other was a City of Negatives neither of Strength Unity Rest nor Safety this of all affirmatives where in are all those fix'd as in their proper Sphere II. And first 't is a City of Strength ask St. John else Rev. 21.1 the Foundation all of Gold the Walls of Adamant and its Twelve Gates of Pearl materials of the Strongest yet Guarded with Innumerable Angels that excell in Strength Psal. 103.20 Garrison'd with an Army of Martyrs and Govern'd by the Lord of Hosts indeed there can want no Strength where dwells Omnipotence here then were that an oppertune Desire