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grace_n	deny_v	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,449	5	11.2335	5	false

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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

in David's Psalms and Paul's Epistles Oh Sirs said he to those about him mind the World less and God more all the Learning in the World without Piety and the true fear of God is nothing worth The Fear of the Lord that is Wisdom and to depart from evil that is Understanding GROTIUS THe greatest Scholar that this Age boasted of after so many Embassies well performed abroad and as many Transactions well managed at home after an exact survey of all the Hebrew Greek and Latin Learning after so many elaborate Discourses in Divinity and other parts of Learning concluded his Life with this Protestation That he would give all his Learning and Honour for the plain Integrity and harmless Innocence of Jean Urick who was a devout poor man that spent eight hours of his time in Prayer eight in Labour and but eight in sleep and other Necessaries and this complaint to another that admired his astonishing industry Ah! Vitam perdidi operosè nihil agendo and this Direction to a third that desired him in his great Wisdom and Learning in brief to shew him what to do viz. Be serious Cardinal WOLSEY HAd I served GOD as carefully as I did my Master the KING he had not thus forsaken me in my old Age. Bishop BANCROFT MAster of University-Colledge and Lord Bishop of Oxford dyed suddenly and a little before his Death would say Oh how infinitely greater is the comfort of being good than of being great What I gave away I have and what I have I shall lose Mark the perfect man and behold the Upright for the end of that man is Peace That man onely hath peace at his death that hath answered the end of his Creation by glorifying God and doing good in the World in his life WILLIAM Earl of PEMBROKE THere is but one Sun in the World nor but one Righteousness one Communion of Saints If I were the most excellent creature in the world if I were in righteousness equal to Abraham and to Isaac and Jacob yet had I reason to confess my self to be a sinner and that I could expect no Salvat●on but in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ for we all stand in need of Gods Grace And as for my Death I bless God I feel such inward Joy in my Soul that if I were put to my Choice whether to dye or live I would a thousand times rather chuse death than life if it may stand with the holy VVill of God Prince HENRY's last Words O Christ thou art my Redeemer and I know that thou hast redeemed me I wholly depend upon thy Providence and Mercy From the very bottom of my Heart I commend my Soul into thy Hand A Person of Quality waiting on the Prince in his sickness who had been his constant Companion at Tennis and asking him how he did was answered Ah Tom I in vain wish for that time I lost with thee and others in vain Recreation Now my Soul be glad for at all the parts of this Prison the Lord hath set his aid to loose thee Head Feet Milt and Liver are failing Arise therefore and shake off thy Fetters mount from thy Body and go thy way Socrates Critoni vehementer suadenti ut si viam ipse suam negligerat certe liberis etiamnum parvulis Amicis ab ipso pendentibus se servaret incolumem liberi inquit Deo qui mihi eos dedit cujus erunt Amicos hinc discedens inveniam vobis aut similes aut etiam meliores ne vestra quidem consuetudine diu cariturus quandoquidem vos brevi eodem est is commigraturi Erasm. Apoth 1.3 ex Platone Xenoph. The Earl of ARUNDEL HE lying on his Death-Bed said My flesh and my heart faileth and his Ghostly Father added t●e next words That God was the strength of his heart and his portion for ever he would never fail him He answering All the world hath failed he will never fail me M r SELDEN WHo had comprehended all the Learning and Knowledge that is either among the Jews Heathens or Christians and suspected by many of too little a regard to Religion one afternoon before he died sent for Bishop Usher and Doctor Langbaine and discoursed to them to this purpose That he had surveyed most part of the Learning that was among the Sons of Men that he had in his Study Books and Papers of most subjects in the VVorld yet that at that time he could not recollect any passage out of those infinite Books and Manus●ripts he was Master of wherein he could rest his Soul save of the holy Scriptures wherein the most remarkable passage that lay most upon his Spirit was Tit. 2.11 12 13 14 15. For the Grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and gl●rious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all inquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar People zealous of good works These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority A serious GENTLEMANS Discourse of being Religious MEn generally stand upon the credit and reputation of their Understandings and of all things hate to be accounted Fools because Folly is so great a reproach to the Understanding of a man and so high a reflection upon his Discretion But I know no way for men to avoid this imputation and to bring off the credit of their Understandings but by being truly Religious by fearing God and departing from evil for certainly there is no such imprudent Person as he that neglects God and his Soul and is careless and slothful about his everlasting concernments because this man acts contrary to his truest Reason and best Interest he neglects his own safety and is active to procure his own ruine he flies from Happiness and runs away from it as fast as he can but pursues Misery and makes haste to be undone Hence it is that Solomon does all along in the Proverbs give the title of Fool to a wicked man as if it were his proper name and the fittest character for him because he is eminently such There is no such fool as the sinning fool who every time he sins ventures his Soul and lays his everlasting interest at the stake every time a man provokes God he doth the greatest mischief to himself that can be imagined A mad-man that cuts himself and tears his own flesh and dashes his head against the stones does not act so unreasonably as a sinner because he is not so sensible of what he does Wickedness is a kind of voluntary Frenzie and is a chosen Distraction and every sinner does wilder and more extravagant things than any man can do that is crazed and beside himself and out of his wits onely with this sad difference That he knows better what he does Is that man wise as to his Body and his Health who onely clothes his hands and leaves his whole Body naked who provides onely against the Tooth-ach and neglects whole troops of mortal Diseases that are ready to rush in upon him Just thus is he who takes care onely for this vile Body but neglects his pretious and immortal Soul who is very sollicitous to prevent small and temporal inconveniencies but takes no care to escape the Damnation of Hell Is he a wise man as to his temporal Estate that lays designs onely for a day without any respect to or provision for the remaining part of his Life Just thus does he that provides for the short time of this Life but takes no care at all for Eternity which is to be wise for a moment but a fool ever and to act as untowardly and as crosly to the reason of things as can be imagined to regard Time as if it were Eternity and to neglect Eternity as if it were but a short Time Do you think him a wise man who is serious about Trifles but trifles about the most serious Matters Just so is he who pursues the World and the petty Interests of it with all his might but minds Religion and the weighty concernments of Eternity as if he minded them not Do you count him prudent who throws himself over-board to save his Goods Just so doth he who to secure any thing in this World makes shipwrack of his Conscience and casts away his Soul Is he wise who is wise in any thing but his proper Profession and Employment wise for every body but himself who is ingenious to contrive his own Misery and to do himself a mischief but is dull and stupid as to the designing of any real advantage or benefit to himself Just such is he who troubleth himself with other things and neglecteth himself who is wise to do evil but to do good hath no understanding Is he wise who neglects and disobligeth him who is his best Friend and can be his shrewdest Enemy Just so doth every wicked man who neglecteth and contemneth God who can save and destroy him Is he wise who in matters of greatest moment and concernment neglecteth opportunities never to be retrived who standing upon the shore and seeing the tide making hast towards him a pace and that he hath but a few minutes to save himself yet will lay himself to sleep there till the cruel Sea rush in upon him and overwhelms him Just so doth he who trifles away this day of Gods Grace and Patience and foolishly adjourneth the work of Repentance and the Business of Religion to a dying hour FINIS