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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36093	A Discourse of eternitie, collected and composed for the common good being necessary for all seasons, but especially for this time of calamitie and destruction.		1646 (1646)	Wing D1597; ESTC R14406	48,185	170

* Coelum venale est nec multum exaestues propter pretij magnitudine 〈◊〉 te ipsum da habebis illud Aug. let sorrows oppresse my minde Bone Jesu qui par cendo sae prus nos à te abijcis feriendo effice ut ad te redeamus Ger. med let pains consume my flesh let watchings dry me or heat scorch me or cold freeze and contract me let all these and what can come more happen unto me to I may enjoy my Saviour For how excellent shall the glory of the just be how great their joy when every face shall shine as the sun when our Saviour shall martiall the Saints in their distinct orders and shall render to every one according to his works O were thy affections rightly setled on these heavenly mansions how abject and underneath thee wouldest thou esteem those things which before thou setst an high price upon As he which ascends an high mountain when he cometh to the top thereof findes the middle steps low and beneath him which seemed to be high to him while he stood in the bottom so he which sends his thoughts to heaven however he esteemed of the vanishing pleasures of the world when his heart lay groveling on the earth below now in this his transcendency he sees them under him and vilisies them all in regard of heavenly treasures Let us therefore chearfully follow that advice of a reverend Father * Quod aliquando per necessitatem amittendū est pro aeterna remuneratione sponte est distribuendum Let us here willingly part with that for heaven which we must first or last necessarily leave upon earth and let all the strength of our studies and the very height of our endeavours be dispended for the attainment of Eternitie For certaine it is howsoever we live here like secure people of a secure age and however we waste out the strength and flower of our dayes as if we should never account for it yet our judgement is most sure and shall not be avoided The sentence of the Judge will be one day most assuredly published and shall not be revoked We must all appear saith Saint Paul before the judgement seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad Then shall our wickednesse be brought to light which now lies hid in darknes I saw the dead saith Saint Iohn Revel 20.12 both great and small stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged of those things which were written in the books according to their works and whosoever was not found witten in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire Thus it is evident every man shall give up his account every soul shall first or last come to his reckoning Multorum vocatio paucorum electio omnium retributio Many are called few chosen but all rewarded according to their deeds Oh then let us prepare our selves to meet our God let us come before him with fear and tremble at his judgements Fear not him saith our Saviour who when he hath killed the body can do no more but fear him who can cast both soul and body to hell I say him fear Oh hovv many of the Saints of God trembled and quaked when they have meditated upon the last judgement Hierom saith as oft as I think of that day how doth my whole body quake and my heart vvithin me tremble Cyril saith I am afraid of hell because the worme there dies not and the fire never goeth out I horribly tremble saith Bernard at the teeth * A dentibus bestiae infernalis contremis● quis dabit oculis meis fontem lachrymarum ut prç eniam fletibus fletū stridorem dentium of that infernall beast Who will give to mine eyes saith he a fountain of tears that by my weeping here I may prevent vveping and gnashing of teeth hereafter And have the Saints of God thus shrunk at the thoughts of hell hovv should then the loyns of the vvicked quake and tremble Come novv thou prophane vvretch of a prophane age vvho at every vvord almost that drops from thy irreligious mouth speakest damnation to thy soul bealching out ever and anon these or the like execrable speeches Would I were damned if I knew this or that God damne me body and soul if I doe it not Alas alas seemeth it a light thing in thine eyes to play with flames to sport thy self with everlasting burnings Tell mee dost thou know or diddest thou ever cast it in thy thoughts what a condition it is to be damned Hear a little and tremble Thou shalt there to thy greater horrour and amazement see much joy but never feel it for thou shalt see Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdome of God thou thy self thrust out Luke 6.13.28 As touching thy company Though here on earth thou wouldest not perchance be hired to lodge one night in a house haunted with spirits yet there thou must inhabite with unclean divels for evermore Matth. 25.41 And to conclude in this thy cursed estate thy heart and tongue shall be full of cursings and blasphemies Thou shalt blaspheme the God of heaven for thy pains and sores thou shalt curse those that were the means to bring thee thither curse the time that ever thou lost so many goldē opportunities of getting grace that thou hast heard so many sermons and no whit bettered by them Curse thy self that slightest so many wholsom reproofs which might have happily been improved to the saving of thy soul Say now desperate fearles sinner canst thou be content in the apprehension of these miseries to curse thy self again to the nethermost of hell or on the contrary dost thou now begin to be ashamed and confounded in thy self and is thy conscience affrighted with the ugly face of thy sins and of those bitter torments that abide them Know then thou hast to deal with a God who when thou art truly moved for thy sins an mourn for thy sufferings Jer. 31.20 Thou hast to deal with a God who will meet thee when thou approachest to him if thou worke righteousnes and remember him in his way Isa 64.5 Thou hast to deal with a God who doth account it his strange work to punish Isa 28.21 And he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men Lam. 3.33 Yea thou hast to deal with a God who hath graciously proclaimed to the whole world that he delights to shew mercy yea with his whole heart and with his whole soul Jer. 32.41 Oh then be wise now for thy soul in time and think it a mercy that thou art yet on this side hell And whatever thou judgest thy self worthy to be condemned for at that terrible barre condemn thy self for it before hand that the Lord may say I will not judge this man because he hath judged himself already And be assured where mans conversion begins there Gods displeasure makes its period Excellent is that advice of Saint Gregory weigh saith he and consider the errours of thy life while thy time serves Tremble at that strict judgement to come while thou hast health lest thou hear that bitter sentence Goe ye cursed goe forth against thee when it is too late Did man know what time he should leave the world carnall wisdom would prompt him to proportion his time some to pleasure and some to repentance But he that hath promised pardon to the penitent hath not assured the sinner of an houres life Culpam tu●m dū vacat pēsa districtionē su u● judicij dū v●les exhorresce ne tunc amaram sententian●●●udias cum nul lis fletib● evadas Since therefore we can neither prevent nor foresee death let us alwaies expect it and provide for it Let us dye to our sinnes here that we may live to Christ hereafter and let us suffer with Christ in this world that we may rejoyce and raign with him in the world to come When we depart this life we goe to an eternity to an eternity I say which shall never end never never me thinks this word never hath a mountanious weight in it to an eternity which maketh every good action infinitely better and every evill action infinitely worse Oh the unhappines everlasting woe of those men who preferre the small and trifling things of this life before the eternall weight of glory hereafter who to enjoy the short comfort of a miserable life here are content to lose the presence of God and society of Angels for ever hereafter FINIS

attain the end of our faith the salvation of our souls and the conscience of our well spent life shal at that dismall day replenish our souls with abundance of consolations Then all our tears shall be wiped from our eys what we have sowed in sorrow we shall reap in joy when we have finished our course and ended our combate with sinne and death then shall our crown be sure our victory glorious and our triumph Eternall our grave shall be but as a sweet refreshing place to our wearied bodies and death shall be our day-starre to everlasting brightnesse But on the other side if we have in the whole course of our warfare here expended our precious time in the service of sinne and Satan and crumbled away the best and choicest of our years in the desires of the flesh and sports of vanity if our lusts have been our law and we have traded in pleasure all our dayes then heare our dreadfull doom Our mirth will be turned into wormwood and our joy into heavines all our delights in this earth shall vanish as the flower our sun shall set in a cloud and our daies of jollity and contentation shall irrecoverably be involved and turned into perpetuall darknesse CHAP. V. Containing a short digression touching the eternity of the damned ANd here it will not be unseasonable nor any digression from the point in hand to consider with our selves for our better encouragement to the wayes of holinesse the condition of that eternity which the damned have in Hell O the unhappy and ever deplorable state of those poor souls who feel nothing for the present but wrath and vengeance and can expect nothing to come but the vialls of Gods indignation to be poured on them in a fuller measure for ever hereafter And that which addes abundant weight to their miseries Nec qui torquet aliquando fatigatur nec qui torquetur aliquando moritur Bernard meditat cap. 3 is they shall burn but not diminish they shall lye buried in their flames but not consume they shall seek death but shall not finde it they shall desire it but it shall flee from them their punishment consists not in the indurance of any proper or peculiar pain but in the accumulation and heap of innumerable torments together All the faculties of the soul all the senses of the body shall have their severall punishments and that which is more unseparable and more then that eternall There shall be degrees in their torments but the least shall be infinite For as the wrath and displeasure of God toward them is everlasting so shall their pressures be They enjoy an eternity like the Saints but not the Saints eternity for their eternity shall beginne in horror and proceed in confusion their eternity shall purchase and yeeld to them no other fruit but yellings and lamentations and woe Their eternity is such as turns all things into its own nature for all things where the damned do inhabit are eternall The fire is eternall for the breath of God like a river of brimstone hath kindled it and it shall never goe out night nor day but the smoak thereof shall ascend for ever The worm is eternall for the conscience of the damned shall be everlastingly tormented with the sense of their sinne Their worme dyeth not saith the Prophet and their fire never goeth out The prison wherein they are inclosed is eternall The prayers of the Church could open the prison doors to Peter but no prayers can pierce these walls no power can overthrow them no time can ruine them out of Hell is no redemption no ransome no delivery Cruciantur damnati cruciantur in aeternum This is the last sentence of the Judge his irrevocable decree his immutable and eternall Judgement on the damned which shall nevever be reversed Adesse intolerabile abesse impossibile there is no appeal will lye from this Judge there is no reversing this judgement when the sentence is once past it stands for eternity Hence it was that the ancient Church repeated this sentence often in their divine service Peccantem me quotidie non penitentem timor mortis conturbat quia ex inferno nulla est redemptio Whil'st I daily sinne but repent not daily as I ought the fear of death amazeth me because after this life ended out of Hell is no redemption The blood of Christ shed on Golgotha is fully sufficient to save all man-kinde but it belongs not to the damned If therefore the yoak of repentance seem not sweet to thee saith St Bernard think on that yoak which thou shalt be sure to suffer which is Goe ye cursed into eternal fire But the most deplorable thing which is eternall in hell is the irrevocable losse of the beatificall presence of God the eternall privation of Gods sight the uncomfortable want whereof doth more grieve their hearts and wound their afflicted souls then all their bodily torments Thus we see the unhappy estate and condition of the damned in the other world and how the highest link in all this chain of sorrows wherewith they are environed is the miserable perpetuity of their torments when their restlesse thoughts have carefully runne thorow many thousands of years yet will they not then enjoy one day one little houre one minute of rest and respiration Everlasting darknesse is their portion they beginne and end alike with weeping and gnashing of teeth Now since this is certainly true is it possible for man so to degenerate into a beast as to beleeve these things and not to tremble Can the knowledge of these things swim in our brain without a serious and found digestion of them into our hearts when we know and stand convinced that inexplicable eternall endlesse easelesse horrors without true and unfeigned repentance abide us hereafter and on the other side we know not nor can possibly discerne with how speedy and swift a foot our end approacheth nor how suddenly we shall be summoned to give the world our everlasting farewell How can so sad and important consideration as this possesse our thoughts not torment them Or how can this chuse but imbitter our dearest pleasures and crosse our indulgence to our sensuall affections Did we but reason a while with our souls and every one of us in a particular application say within himself I am here floating like a ship in the sea of this world ballasted on every side with the cares and disquietings and miseries of this life and I saile on with full course towards the haven of Eternity one little blast is able to plunge me irrecoverably into this bottomlesse gulf where one houres torment will infinitely exceed for the pain of it an hundred years bitter repentance And shall I now thus standing upon the very battlements of hell melt in my delights cheer up my self in the dayes of my youth shall I tire out my spirits trifle out my precious time rob mine eyes of their beloved sleep for such things