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kingdom_n	king_n	lord_n	sceptre_n	2,040	5	10.9794	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15815	Soueraigne comforts for a troubled conscience Wherein the subtilties of Satan are discouered, his reasons and obiections fully answered. And further, the truth laid open and manifested, to the great consolation and strengthening of such as are distressed and afflicted in minde. Written by the late faithfull seruant of the Lord Mr. Robert Yarrow. And now published for the benefit of such as groning vnder the burthen of an afflicted conscience desire comfort.	Yarrow, Robert.; Maunsell, John.	1619 (1619)	STC 26077; ESTC S111781	167,803	456

to bee gazed on but that it should bee a memoriall to put him daily in minde of death and therefore we read not of any ouer-costly and curious trimming that Ioseph vsed hereabout If thus man could and would prouide for himselfe a Tombe or Sepulchre it were a blessed thing that it might serue to bee vnto him a continuall remembrance to put him in minde of death and of his departing hence But farre more blessed no doubt and thrice more happy should hee bee if with this good Disciple of Arimathea though not in the same manner hee could let Christ haue the first seasoning of his graue that is if through faith hope and comfort in Christ his Death and Passion he could prepare himselfe vnto his end But I haue digressed somewhat from my matter and yet I hope it be not much amisse the security and carelessenesse of our corrupted flesh being such as it is To returne therefore againe to that from the which I am digressed I would haue promised some reasons to perswade vs of the necessity of this preparation before I did come to set downe the manner and order how wee ought to prepare our selues to die but that in discourse and treaty of the one I shall haue occasion in some part to touch and include the other also This preparation in it selfe considered is in very deed a matter requiring a large and long discourse which manner of handling thereof I do leaue to others my purpose herein is onely to touch the principall points and those also so farre onely as they shall concerne my present purpose CHAP. XXV Of the first part of the preparation vnto death THE Preparation vnto death Preparation vnto death of two sorts is found to bee of two sorts either such as concerneth our goods and posterity or else such as respecteth our soules and the saluation thereof As touching that which concerneth our goods houshold and posteritie although it hath in it many branches and many things worthy the discoursing if it should bee fully handled yet for our present purpose I meane no further to entreate thereof then it is proued that the neglect thereof may bee a let and hinderance vnto vs in this spirituall combat at our latter end This kinde of Preparation wee finde to bee of great Antiquity and vsed of diuers renowmed Persons in the Scriptures Abraham Gen. 25.5 as it is recorded of him was mindefull of this and therefore although hee had diuers sonnes by Keturah whom hee tooke to wife after the death of Sara yet hee gaue all his goods before his death vnto Isaac his son Iacob also was not vnmindfull hereof Gen. 48.22 who as it appeareth did giue vnto his sonne Ioseph a speciall portion from his brethren Dauid also is noted 1. Kings 1.28 29 c. before his death although hee had many sons yet to leaue the Kingdome and Scepter to none but onely to Salomon borne of Bathsheba to his posterity This was giuen in charge euen from God himselfe 2. Kings 20.1 vnto King Hezekiah by the Lords Prophet commanding him to set his house in order for hee must die Experience in all ages yea and common sense also teacheth sufficiently how necessarie this kinde of preparation is what great commodities haue growne where the same hath beene daily vsed and contrariwife what great vexations and troubles in Law with a great number of other inconueniences haue followed vpon the neglect thereof So that hereby it easily appeareth that this dutie cannot bee neglected without great iniurie vnto thy seed and family that shall succeed after thee yea this also take by the way as a thing vndoubtedly true That as the vtter neglect hereof is thus hurtfull to thy seed and posterity so the deferring and putting off the same which is a very vsuall thing is very hurtfull and dangerous vnto thy selfe Therefore as it is requisite that we should haue a care in our life time to set all things straight and in good order both for the discharging of our selues of that heauy burden of these worldly cares and also for the stablishing of peace and quietnesse amongst those which are deare vnto vs whom we are to leaue to suruine vs So wee must consider that the principall thing that wee are to remember in it is that it is indeed a preparation that belongeth not so much vnto the time of infirmitie and sickenesse as it doth vnto the time of health And that it ought then doubtlesse to be performed when the Lord doth affoord vnto man strength of body and good memory and should not bee posted ouer vnto the latter end when sicknesse the messenger of death shall bee sent to call or cite vs vnto Deaths Court. For vpon this passing and posting ouer the matter from the time of health vnto sickenesse and in sicknesse time euen vnto the time almost when Death commeth to seyze vpon vs it commeth to passe that either the due order for the quiet estate of thy house is nor cannot be so well looked vnto and prouided for as it ought or that thy soule which is most to bee lamented in the time of thine agonies and sicknesses is little or nothing regarded But to eouer this vsuall fault in deferring this godly action from the time conuenient vnto the time indeed altogether inconuenient and vnmeet Satan hath ministred a cloake of excuse where with many are wonderfully blinded as though indeed God were bound of duty to order things after their prescription and to deale with them after their own hearts lusts Tush say they I hope well that God will giue mee time and space to prouide for both these things that is both for the setting of mine house in order and also for the good estate of my soule and that hee will not take mee out of this world in such a sudden manner but that I shall haue opportunity and good time allowed mee to set all things straight both for the orderly disposition of my goods and also for the carefull attending vpon the comforts requisite and needfull for the benefit and good of my soule Beware good Christian brother and sister who euer thou art that thus deceiuest thy selfe or rather yeeldest thy selfe to bee deceiued by Satan this is the crafty perswasion of thine vtter and most malicious enemy and therefore is none otherwise to be esteemed and iudged of but as a most extreme folly and point of dotage that I may so call it in this manner to dally with and to abuse the person of God for GOD hath giuen vnto thee a great time for doing hereof and thou neglectest it it argueth therefore a great folly and madnesse in thee It is in the vsuall and common Prouerbe While the Pig is proffered hold open the Poake God doth of goodnesse offer thee time to effect both these godly actions take it when it is offered and rest not thy selfe vpon vncertaine hope and expectation of the like againe heereafter If