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A09387 Deaths knell: or, The sicke mans passing-bell summoning all sicke consciences to pr[e]pare themselues for the comming of the grea[t] day of doome, lest mercies gate be shut against them: fit for all those that desire to arriue at the heauenly Ierusalem. Whereunto are added prayers fit for housholders. The ninth edition. Written by W. Perkins. Perkins, William, 1558-1602. 1628 (1628) STC 19684; ESTC S119984 9,405 26

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Senses are benummed their Reason distracted their Understanding dulled and both soule and Body tormented with pangs of paines and sorrowfull sicknesse then will cast backe their memory on these waighty affaires then will they needs become sudden Saints that are scarce reasonable creatures How can a man disanimated with inward Garboyles of vnsettled conscience maimed in all his faculties and surrounded with such strange incombrances be fit to dispose of his choysest Iewell his soule in so short a spurt They that will loyter in Séed-time and beginne to sow when others reape They that will haue their Weapons to prouide when their fellow-Souldiers goe foorth to fight They that will lauish in health and cast their accounts when they cannot speake They that will sleepe out the day and stumblingly trauell in the night O let them thanke their owne folly if they dye in debt and finally fall headlong into the pit of perdition Let the griefe of the sore be then the measure of thy sorrow let a wide wound haue a carefull cure let thy contrition be agreeable to thy crime and thy repentance equall to thy transgressions Thou must spend the day in mourning the night in watching and wéeping and thy whole time in praying and practice of repentance Not euery short sigh will be a sufficient satisfaction nor euery little knocke a warrant to get in for many cry Lord Lord yet are not admitted The foolish virgins knocked yet stood without Iudas conceiued a sorrow for sinne yet dyed desperately Linger not thy conuersion nor put off thy repentance from day to day lest the Almighty come vpon thee in a minute and in his wrath suddenly destroy thee neither soiourne thou long in sinfull securitie nor shift off thy repentance till feare inforce thee to it for then it will be bootlesse for thee to striue to stand when thou art already falne Frame out thy beginning as thou meanest to end and endeuour to liue as thou desirest to dye Wilt thou sacrifice the Fattlings to the Fiend of darknesse and offer the carion Karkeises to the Father of Light Wilt thou present the maine Crop to the Deuill and leaue God the Gleanings Wilt thou cramme the Deuill with thy fairest fruits and turne God to feede vpon thy wind-fals and after-gatherings If Hell was prepared for the Deuill and Heauen purchased for man why should not hee then prouide for himselfe but wilfully lose his inheritance by persisting in sinne While we draw healthfull breath hope strongly perswades vs that by teares euer-flowing from the Sea of a sorrowfull soule wee may wash away our sinnes pollution how foule soeuer but being once at deaths doore notwithstanding our téeth gnash our eyes cry out our throats become hoarse with howling our eyes gush Riuers of teares and our hearts send out sighes as loud as Thunder yet will it not auaile vs for then none shall heare vs none assist vs no nor so much as comfort vs Then O then shalt thou finde though alas too late that thou hast lost thy labour hast trifled away thy time and let slip the opportunity of thine own gaine Thou shalt then perceiue thine errour irrecouerable thy punishment insupportable thy penitence vnprofitable thy griefe sorrow and calamitie irrecouerable Let thy soule then enioy her lawfull Soueraignty and thy body follow the footings of her directions let not thy seruile senses and lawlesse appetites ouercome her and make her a Uassall in her owne Dominions Doest thou desire to haue all good necessaries as good house good furniture good fare good apparell and yet wilt thou suffer thy poore soule thy principall charge and aboue all these worthy the best respect to lye cankering and custing in all kind of euils O vnspeakable blindnesse that thou wilt bee nice in wearing a bad shoo yet carest not to carry an vgly betattered soule Alas doe not thou set so light by that Iewell which thy Maker sets at so high a price nor rate thou thy soule at so base a penniworth being of so péerelesse worth If the soule be so inestimable that neither gold nor treasure nor any thing of lesse price then the precious blood of that immaculate Lambe Christ Iesus was able to buy it if not all the Delicacies that Heauen and earth could afford but onely the glorious Body of our Sauiour were deemed a fit repast to feed it If not all the Creatures of this or millions of new worlds if they were but onely the vnlimitable goodnesse and Maiesty of God can satisfie the desire or fill the compass● and capacity of it for who is so vnsensible that finds not the insaciety of his soule Who then but one of peruerse will incredulous minde or pittilesse spirit would set more by the world then his soules worthinesse or suffer so peerelesse a Paragon so many houres dayes moneths and yéeres to lye enchannelled in the filthy mire of sinne Thou wilt trudge to a Physician for thy sicke Seruant and looke out for a Leach to cure thy diseased Horse and be very busie to patch vp thy worne garments and yet wilt suffer thy soule to languish for want of looking to and dye for want of cure and seeing it mangled with millions of vices neuer seekest to bind it vp and restore it to its primatiue integrity Is thy Seruant more néere thy Horse more deare and thy Coate to be more cared for then thine own soule How long O how long wilt thou hunt after vanities and rush violently and wilfully into thine owne ruine Darest not thou suffer a Spider or a Toad to come neere thee wilt thou nestle in thy bosome so many Uipers as Uices so many Serpents as Sins and permit thy silly soule to be gnawed vpon with the poisonous tuskes of Satan Is thy soule so slight a substance as to be held in so small estéeme Did Christ come downe from Heauen and become a wandring Pilgrime vpon Earth exiling himselfe from the comfort of his Godhead and wearing out thirty yeeres in paine and penurie for our soules Did he suffer the Tragedy of his Passion to bee bloodily acted and patiently accepted Did he make his Body as a Cloud to dissolue into shewres of vnblemished blood and yeelded the dearest Ueines of his heart to bee cut asunder that from thence might issue the precious price of our soules redemption Why doe wee then sell our soules to the Deuill for euery delight and poore pittance of worldly pelfe O that a Creature of so incomparable a worth should be in the custody of so vnnaturall Iaylors and that which in it selfe is so gracious and amiable that the Angels and Saints delight to behold it should by sinne be made a horror to heauen and a fit play-féere for the fowlest Fiends Let vs remember that our soule is not onely a part of vs but also the Temple the Paradise of Almighty God by him in Baptisme garnished furnished and endowed with most glorious Ornaments How will he take it to see his Temple
Deaths Knell or The sicke mans Passing-Bell Summoning all sicke Consciences to pr●●pare themselues for the comming of the grea● Day of Doome lest mercies Gate be shut against them Fit for all those that desire to arriue at the heauenly Ierusalem Whereunto are added Prayers fit for Housholders The ninth Edition Written by W. Perkins Printed at London for M. Trundle and are to be at her Shop in Smith-field 1628. Deaths Knell LEt the memory of Death good Christian be euer the Looking-glasse of thy life thy continuall Companion and inseparable Spouse let thy solace be y e sighes of a sorrowfull soule and those the more bitter the better whilest Worme-like thou crawlest heere below fasten all thy faculties vpon the Commandements of thy Creator for those in thy finall passage must be the Pylot to steere thee into the Hauen of Heauen Thinke euery moment thou art in the waning that the date of thy Pilgrimage is wel-nigh expired and that the lampe of thy life lyeth twinckling vpon the snuffe and that now it stands thée vpon to looke toward thy Celestiall home thy forces are enfeebled thy sences impaired and on euery side the tottering and ruinous Cottage of thy faint flesh threatneth fall And méeting so many Harbengers of death how cāst thou but prepare for so gastly a guest The young man may dye quickely but the old cannot liue long the young mans life by casualty may be cut off but the aged by Physicke cannot be preserued Gréene yéeres must resolue to grow to the graue and the meditations of old age must dwell in the same be mindfull of things past carefull of things present and prouident for things to come Use the blessings of nature to the benefit of thy soule be wise in well-doing and watchfull for thy end Serue not the world for that can possesse thee of nothing but pride enuy lust anger malice and infinite follies for it defileth a man with sin disquieteth with troubles oppresseth with labours vexeth with temptations vanquisheth with vaine delights and miserably wrappeth him vp in wofull calamities The world it is an Ambassadour of the euill a scourge of the good a tyrant of the truth a breaker of peace a worker of warre a sweet of vices a gall of vertues a friend of lyes an inuenter of nouelties a trauell to the ignorant a table of Gluttons a furnace of concupiscence a sepulcher of the dead a prison of the liuing a pitfall to the rich a burthen to the poore a Palace of Pilgrims a Den of Deceiuers a slanderer of the good a commender of the wicked and a deluder of all Thou hast no reason to dote vpon the world for at first it affords thee but a wrangling welcome and at last turnes thee off with a fearefull farewell moreouer it doth torment thée abuse thée consume thee and at length expell thee whereas on the contrary Heauen doth comfort thee conserue thée and exalt thée On Earth thou sowest but in a field of Flint which bringeth foorth nothing but a Crop of care and languishing for thy labour it is time therefore to leaue so vnthriuing a husbandry and to sowe in Gods ground the seed of repentant sorrow and water it with the teares of humble contrition so shalt thou reape a plentifull haruest and gather the fruits of euerlasting consolation Imagine thou thy Spring to be spent thy Summer ouer-past and that thou art arriued at the Fall of the Leafe and though thy louing Lord doe long forbeare offenders yet at last he will scourge them and that his patience lends vs but respit to repent not leysure to sinne Hee that is tossed with sturdie stormes and cannot come to his desired Port rids little way but is much turmeiled so hee that passeth many yeeres and purchaseth but small profit to his soule hath had a long being but a short life for life is to be measured by vertuous actions not by number of dayes Some men by many dayes purchase many deaths and others in a short space attaine to life euerlasting What is the body without the soule but a corrupted Carkeise and what is the soule without God but a Sepulcher of sinne Man was made and sent hither to no other purpose but onely to serue God in this life and to enioy Heauen in that life heereafter If our end be the Kingdome of Heauen why are we so much enamoured on the Earth If the end of our Creation be eternall saluation why hunt we after the vanities of this vaine life If our inheritance be to raigne as Kings why liue we like seruile slaues in danger to be diuided from God from Christ our Sauiour from the Angels from the Communion of Saints and from the hope of our celestiall portion If God be the way the truth and the life then he that walketh without him wandreth that is not instructed by him erreth and that liueth without him dyeth to reuolt from him is falling to returne to him is rising to stay vpon him is sure standing Hee it is from whom to depart is to dye to whom to repaire is to reuiue in whom to trust is truly to liue O be not thou like those that beginne not to liue vntill they be ready to dye and then when they deserue an enemies reward come to craue of God a friends entertainement Some thinke to snatch Heauen in a moment which the best can scarce attaine in many yeeres and when they haue glutted themselues with worldly delights would iumpe from the Dyet of Diues to the ioyes of Lazarus from the seruice of Satan to the solace of a Saint But be sure that God is not so penurious to make his Kingdome saleable for the refuse and reuersion of their liues who haue sacrificed the principall and prime thereof to his enemies and their owne brutish appetites then onely ceasing to sinne when the ability of offending is taken from them What thanke is it to pardon our enemies when wee can not hurt them to giue away our goods when we can kéepe them no longer to shake hands with our pleasures when wee can vse them no more to forsake sinne when sinne leaueth vs God may be mercifull at the last gaspe but most miserable is that man who casteth the Anchor of his eternall weale or woe on so vncertaine and sandy a point The thiefe may be saued on the Crosse and mercy found at the last yet it is not likely that hee should finde fauour at his death whose life earned the wages of wrath or that his penitence should be accepted who more for feare of hell and his owne selfe-loue then for the loue of God or lothsomelesse of sinne cryeth out for mercy Put not off repentance therefore to the last point take Dauids early in the morning stay not till to morrow though thou sufferedst the Bud to be blasted the Flowres to fade the Fruit to perish the Leaues to wither the Boughes to dry vp and the body of the Tree to decay yet