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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56309	The weavers shuttle displayed and the swiftness thereof unfolded, or, The words of a dying man to a dying people, in the midst of a dying nation wherein is held forth I. That the time is short, the way is narrow, the prize is great, the runners are many, the obtainers few, II. That repentance and turning to God is not in one call or command, wherefore wait upon the means appointed by God to work it, and that diligently and constantly this work deferred will be still greater, the time to do it wil[l] be shorter, the strength to do it by wil[l] be less, III. If we endeavour to the uttermost to improve the present opportunity and ability that the Almighty gives us, we shall, for ought I know, live with more comfort here and die in full assurance hereafter, for the greatest evil threatned or feared, may through wisdom be timely prevented / by Robert Purnel.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1652 (1652)	Wing P4244; ESTC R32258	54,417	168

us to the grave and our deeds to judgment and as death doth leave us so shall judgment find us All creatures observe their time but man the Stork the Crane the Swallow the Pismire these observe their time and yet Man the most noble of all creatures none above or higher then himself but onely the Lord God Almighty who hath given to man time and all things else to attend him to bring him to glory but most men turn Prodigals and spend their little inch of precious time with Harlots and hope to return to their Father hereafter not considering that death stands in the way to put a period to his dayes which flie away swifter then the Weavers shuttle Oh what a dreadfull day will that be when thee and I shall stand before the Judgement seat of Christ if not prepared for it If we look about us beneath us on the right hand or on the left all will increase our misery above us shall be our Judge offended with us beneath us Hell open and the Furnace ready burning to receive us on our right hand shall be our sins accusing us on our left hand the Devils ready to execute Gods eternal Sentence upon us within us our conscience gnawing without us millions of damned souls bewailing on every side the World burning what way shall we take to go back is impossible to go forward is intollerable what then shall we do If we seek death death shall flie from us if we cry to the Hills to fall on us they will refuse to do us so much pleasure and then immediatly the Judge will say to all the Goats Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels Then there will be the greatest separation that ever was upon the earth the husband and wife the fathers and sons the mothers and daughters masters and servants Priest and people friends and companions the one to glory and the other to confusion without ever seeing one the other again Oh what an eternal separation will this be Whose heart can read these lines and not melt whose eyes can behold these words and not weep Nay it may be these be the last lines that ever thou shalt read for thy dayes be swifter then the Weavers shuttle 1 Cor. 7. 29 30 31. But this I say brethren the time is short it remaineth that both they that have wives be as though they had none and they that weep as though they wept not and they that rejoice as though they rejoiced not and they that buy as though they possessed not and they that use this world as not abusing it for the fashion of this world passes away Wherefore be without earthly carefulness But as Peter Jude speak there are a generation of Scoffers which lately went under the name of Levellers and now have taken to themselves the name of Ranters These men for the most part of them say that there is no Hell neither day of Judgment nor Devil but all is God and God is all things And to these men I have but these two words to say First that although they will not see or believe there is a Hell and a Devil here they are most like to know it by woful experience hereafter The second word is this When thou turnest over the leaves of the Bible and findest mention made of Hell and of the day of Judgment and of evil Angels called Devils and yet wilt not be perswaded that there is any such thing thou mayst as well rase out those Scriptures for untruths for thou art wise above what is written And to the rest of that heady high-minded unbelieving and vainglorious Crew I say as in Eccles 11. 9. Rejoice O young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the wayes of thine heart and follow the sight of thine eyes but know thou for all these things God will bring thee to judgment Oh miserable is that man whose life is almost wasted and daily wasting and he thinks not of it often saying I thought no more of this that is now fallen out then of my dying day Never minding what Job saith My dayes are swifter then the Weavers shuttle Neither doth he mind that Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed unto all men once to die and after death to judgment And let me tell thee thou art in a thousand thousand casualties here every moment ready to take away all the comforts of the earth from thee When Nebuchadnezzar was blessing himself in the Palace that he had built for his honour then there comes a Messenger from the Lord and he was presently outed of all his comforts The wheel is turning the grass is withering the flower fading the smoak consuming and the shuttle swiftly flying and yet thy dayes are swifter then the Weavers shuttle We have but a little time and a great deal of work to do let us work then while 't is day for the night cometh in which no man worketh If we did but know what Eternity means and if the fear of Eternity did but once fall on us we should cleerly see it had been better for us that we had never been born or that we had been made Toads or Serpents or the vilest beast that creeps upon the earth then Reasonable creatures Seeing we were born in sin as if that was not enough we live in sin and at last die in sin and so as Death leaves us the Judgment finds us There depends upon our little short uncertain inch of time matters of more consequence then all the world is worth I do not say upon the spending or mis-spending this inch of time depends our eternal being either in blessedness or misery but this I say that our well-being whiles we remain here depends much upon it See Joh. 14. 21. 2 Pet. 1. 11. Oh then consider such is the swiftness of mans dayes shortness of his life and frailty of his nature that the swiftest shortest and frailest things for the most part that we read of in Scripture are not swift short and frail enough to compare mans life unto Vse 2. And if so in the second place by way of use this doth teach us to carry our selves towards all in a way of love as if this were the last opportunity that ever thou shouldst have to be helpful to them either in spirituals or temporals Hast thou a Father or Mother yet alive If ever thou wilt obey the command of God in honouring them do it presently for before one day is past they may be taken from thee or thou from them and then how will thy heart smite thee and thy conscience accuse thee and thy carelesness often trouble thee Let me tell thee I know some that can speak this by woful experience whose hearts do even bleed for their omissions herein And as for you Parents that have Children if ever you will express your love to God

shall beg in harvest The diligent hand maketh rich But these are not diligent and therefore are poor See 1 Tim. 5. 8. He that provideth not for those of his own house by his lawfull Calling mark that man he hath denyed the faith and is worse then an infidel 3. Be diligent in your particular Calling as first and chiefly in obedience to the Command of God and secondly that so you might provide for your own selves and families thirdly so be diligent in it that you may be helpfull to others in their needs and wants Eph 4. 28 Let him that stole steal no more but labour working with his hands that he may have to give to him that needeth or to distribute as in the margent next to our selves and families we are to look to others for although charity begins at home it should spread abroad only in giving observe the Rule Gal. 6. 10. Do good unto all but especially to them that are of the houshold of faith and for thy incouragement herein read these and the like Scriptures Luk. 6. 38. Mat. 25. 34 35 36. Fourthly and lastly be sure that you follow this earthly Calling with an heavenly minde when thou lookest upon the world or any thing therein consider it is a natural Book wherein thou mayst read God thou mayst see him learn of him something in al thou puttest thy hand unto A man meerly natural is earthly in Spiritual things but a godly man is Spiritual in earthly things An earthly man when he is hearing praying or reading his thoughts and affections are upon the things of the earth but a godly man when he is about his Calling though the meanest as Weaving Spinning Hedging Ditching or using his Ax or Hammer he is more Spiritual then I say then a wicked man is when he is praying or hearing or preaching or administring or receiving Sacraments that it is so I know by wofull experience and thou whosoever thou art that readest these lines shalt shortly know it if thou dost not already to be true or else by wofull and most wofull experience in the highest degree it will appear to thee to be so at the day of Judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed Truly I conceive that there is no one thing under Heaven that a man puts his hand unto or beholdeth with his eyes but we might behold our Creator in it and learn something from it I will instance in a few Callings leaving the industrious Reader to instance in the rest as occasion offers it self I will begin with the Husbandman as he in ploughing up the grounds to prepare it for feed the ground doth even tell him that the fallow ground of his heart must be ploughed up and fitted to receive Spirital seed Jer. 4. 3. Hos ●0 12. And as he is sowing the Corn even the grain doth preach to him saying I must die before I can bring forth fruit and so must you that sowe me die to the flesh before you can bring forth fruit unto God Rom. 7. 4. Then when a man comes to pluck up the weeds every weed tells him the ground was cursed for his sake and that there be many spiritual weeds in his soul that must be plucked out or it will undo him in the end Mat. 5. 29 30. Then when he hath reaped and is making a separation between the Tares and the Wheat this doth preach to him so will the Lord of Heaven and earth shortly put a difference between the godly and the wicked Mal. 3. 17. 18. and Mat. 3. 12. Come to those that spin and enquire of them and they will or might tell thee that they may see and learn by the thred they spin as in Mat. 6. 18. Luk. 12. 27. Consider the Lillies of the field for they toyl not neither spin and yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these Then the Weaver as he is Weaving may think as if his Shuttle running should say unto him as in Job 7. 6. Thy days are swifter then the Weavers Shuttle and when he hath woven out his Piece is cutting it off he may thereby learn that as he is come to the end of his piece so he shail shortly come to the end of his life and so cut off like a Weaver as in Isa 38. 12. I have cut off like a Weaver my life I might instance in every state in every condition in every particular Calling in every particular Creature but for brevity sake I shall leave it to the prudent Reader NOw that we may make Religion our business indeed and so have our conversation in Heaven whiles we live on the earth and that we might be freed from all distracting cares and so use the world as if we used it not that we might I've above the world even whiles we are in the world and that our chief trading might be for heaven that so our portion and treasure might be there that our hearts might be there also Consider seriously these ensuing particulars viz. 1. That we are all in the presence of God always who takes a view of all our thoughts words and deeds 2. That we have but few days to live in the body and they flie away swifter then the weavers Shuttle wherefore if there be any thing for us to do do it whiles it is called to day Heb. 3. 13. 15. 3. If we make not Religion our business we shall lose much of our comfort here in point of our well being for if we were not wanting to our selves we might live in Heaven whiles our bodies were upon the earth Consider that the Lord that made us hath undertaken the care of us He bids us wait on him and he will feed us and clothe us 5. Consider that this God that hath taken the care of us by way of promise is a faithful God he cannot deny himself 6. If we do belive this we shall with Job and Paul behold a hand of Providence in and read love under every dispensation First of the first of these 1. That we are always in the presence of Almighty God who takes a view of all our thoughts words and deeds and if this were believed by us we should do all things as in his presence endeavouring to behave our selves so as is not onely good and commendable in the sight of men but of God also who looks not only on the outward action but at the inward intention Also this will cause us not only to put a watch over the door of our mouth but also to put another watch over the thoughts of our hearts that so we may with Enoch walk with God that is set him before us See Psal 16. 8. I have set the Lord always before me that I might not fall There are two things to be considered for the clearing of this first point 1. That the Almighty God doth fill heaven and earth with his presence 2. That it is