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grace_n	deny_v	teach_v	ungodliness_n	4,302	5	11.7286	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60457	Two funeral sermons preached in St. Saviour's Church in Dartmouth Together with a preface, giving some account of the reasons, why they are now made publick. By Humfry Smith, M.A. and vicar there. Licens'd, Feb. 23. 1689/90. Z. Isham.	Smith, Humphry, b. 1654 or 5.	1690 (1690)	Wing S4087A; ESTC R220069	33,836	78

Soul is pierced by the Arrows of the Almighty What comfort has he then in thinking he is the Master of so many Acres or so many Bags that his Table is loaden with Delicacies and his House bedeck't with no common Art that he is a Person of Name and hath been the talk of the World 2. Consider this Life as it appears on the Day of Death Imagine that a Summons being sent you for a speedy Removal an Hour or two were all the time you could further expect in this World and then consider what thoughts you must needs have of this present Life as you thus lookt back upon it from the brink of Eternity Certainly Brethren tho' we are now apt to put so great a value upon it it will then appear a wretched impertinence when all the Treasures of the East and West will not bribe us to a Smile When Ceremony and Attendance become nauseous When there shall be no Taste in Meat o● Drink neither will the Ear hear the Voice of Singing Men or Singing Women When the Soul is preparing for its everlasting Flight and the Body to go down to that Earth out of which it was taken But that you may know how the World looks to a Person on the Day of his Death I will give you the Thoughts of two dying Men D●ing and Dead Mens Words by Dr. Lloyd ●ond 1673. both of our own Nation as we have them amongst other very good things in a late Collection One as great a States Man almost as ever was Sir John Mason Privy Councellor to four Princes whose Declaration on his Death bed was this I have seen the most Remarkable things in Foreign Parts been present for thirty Years together at most Transactions of State and have learnt this after so many Years Experience That Seriousness is the greatest Wisdom Temperance the best Physick and a good Conscience the best Estate And were I to live again I would change the Court for a Cloyster the bustles of State for an obscure Retirement and the whole Life I liv'd in the Palace for one Hours enjoyment of God in the Chappel All things else forsake me besides my God my Duty and my Prayer The other a Man of as much Reading as Mr. Selden any our latter Ages have afforded who when he came to die amongst all the Learning of the Sons of Men which he had survey'd amongst all the numerous Books and Manuscripts he had perus'd and was Master of could not meet with any thing that gave the satisfaction to his Soul which he found in these words of St. Paul The Tit. 2. 11 12. grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared ●o all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and ●odly in this present world 3. Consider too what this Life will appear ●t the Day of Judgment That is the time when ●ll Disguises shall utterly vanish and every thing ●e seen in its proper Colours Think therefore ●hat you now stood before the Tribunal of the ●ord Christ and there it were required of you to judge of that for your esteem and use and abuse of which you your selves shall then be judged In such Circumstances as these doubtless your Opinions of things would be very different from what they too commonly have been What will Greatness and Honour and Fame signifie when there shall be no respect of Persons when the obscure Slave will be upon the same Level with the Crowned Head when there shall be no distinction known but that of the sheep on the right hand and the goats on the left Mat. 25. 33. What will the having been the Possessor of a great deal of Gold and Silver many Houses and much Land be then accounted of when the whole Frame of the World is cracking and dissolving the earth burning up and the elements melting 2 Pet. 3. 10. with fervent heat Finally What will the Memory of past Pleasures amount to the Deliciousness of this Fare o● the Sumptuousness of that Cloathing or the Sweetness of the other Enjoyment Yea how glad would many be if no such things had eve● been then when a strict account is to be given of every thing that hath been done in the flesh But 2 Cor. 5. 10. 2. If our Condition is so vain a thing then hence also let us be stir'd up to vigorous and hearty endeavours after a better Tho' our present Habitation or rather Place of our Pilgrimage be nothing else but Vanity yet there is a Country which we have heard of abounding with substantial things Those that have seen it and known it and came from it have made relations of what it is They have spoken much of the Joys and the Glories of it have told us that nothing there is Dark or Frail or Transitory but all things Pure Clear and Admirable of a Goodness more extensive than our very Desires Brighter than ten thousand Suns and as Lasting as Eternity yea they have assur'd us that the things of it are unspeakable beyond the power of Words or Description We have too sufficient ground to believe that this blessed Condition is not such as cannot belong to us but that we are capable of it and were even Originally design'd for it that as the Author of the Book of Wisdom speaks God created man to be immortal Wisd 2. 23. and made him to be an Image of his own eternity Yea more than all this Solemn Overtures have been made Messages have been sent to us We have been directed enabled invited perswaded with the greatest earnestness to come and to secure to our selves this blessed Habitation And Oh my Brethren shall we not now think it worthy of our thoughts and our care Shall we any of us neglect any longer to comply with those methods which Heaven hath found out for transplanting of us from Vanity and Trouble into Bliss and Immortality It is not indeed any light performance which will fit us for that better state not a little Outside Service or a little Lip-devotion no nor now and then a pious Warmth or a melting Temper not a listing our selves in this or that Party or being reckoned under such a Denomination The passage through the strait Gate is not so easie as these things But it is a faith that worketh by love a due conformity to all the Evangelical Proposals a working continually with fear and trembling a having our Minds above the World using it so as if we us'd it not In short a being Religious Sober Just and Charitable in our Conversation These are the Terms which the Angel of the Covenant requires and shall we stand at the difficulty of them since they lead to real and lasting Good Shall we be discourag'd in an undertaking that will advance us above the Vanity of this present Life add some solidity even to these fleeting things converting our perishing Riches into an Heavenly Treasure and at