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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59194	Daniel Sennertus his meditations setting forth a plain method of living holily and dying happily / written originally in Latin, and now translated into English.	Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637.	1694 (1694)	Wing S2536; ESTC R19038	74,434	198

It is appointed for all men once to die Are not my days few Cease then and let me alone that I may take comfort a little Before I go whence I shall not return even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death Job 10 20 21. For I know that thou wilt bring me to death to the house appointed for all living Job 30.23 Daniel Sennertus HIS MEDITATIONS Setting forth a plain Method OF LIVING HOLILY AND DYING HAPPILY Written Originally in Latin and no● Translated into English ●● qui se me●niner●nt inquilinos esse in conducto habitare 〈…〉 je gerunt 〈◊〉 mi●●s gravatim excunt ita q●i int●lligunt d●micilium c●●poris ad h●eve tempus à natura commadatum e●se vivunt temper●●aius libentius moriuntur Sen ●●ala mors putanda non est quam bond vita praecessit neque enim facit malam mortem nisi quod sequitur ipsam mortem St. Aug. de Civ Dei LONDON Printed for Sam. Keble at the Great Turks Head in Fleet-street over against Fetter-Lane MDCXCIV THE PREFACE WHEN Death shall put a period to our Lives we must appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ and according as we have behav'd our selves here we shall be consigned to an Eternity either of Bliss or Woe Which four last things being of such vast concern and moment to us have always been esteemed most worthy of our serious thoughts and contemplations for what is there that can more powerfully move a Man to forsake the ways of sin and walk in the paths of virtue and conform himself to the Divine Will than a constant Meditation on these things To what purpose should any one endeavour to encrease his substance by fraud injustice and oppression or set his heart on Honours and Riches still coveting to add field to field if he doth but think with himself that when Death approaches he must leave all these worldly things behind him and that for ought he knows even this Night his Soul may be required of him and then whose shall all these things be Who is there that would not be afraid of committing shameful and abominable crimes even in secret where no eye can see him when he considers that in the last day of Judgment the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed and all his most private actions be laid open before Men and Angels and that he must give a strict account of all his thoughts words and deeds before the great Judge of all the Earth Who would dare to drown himself in voluptuousness and the sinful lusts of the flesh if he did but remember that for the enjoyment of such vain and momentary pleasures he must endure the most exquisite torments of Hell to all eternity Who is there that would not chearfully walk in the narrow path that leadeth unto life though he were sure in the way to meet with tribulation distress and persecution bonds and imprisonment famin and nakedness peril and Sword if he did but lift up the eyes of his mind and behold that exceeding and Eternal Weight of Glory which is laid up in Heaven for those that suffer for Christ Jesus Since therefore the frequent consideration of these things hath so much force and efficacy to invite Men to vertue and deter them from sin I was easily induced to translate the following Meditatious into our Native Language notwithstanding the multitude of other books that have been written on the same Subject for Men being generally so forgetful of their morta●ity especially in time of health and prosperity there can never be too many admonitions given to put them always in remembrance of these things although they know them already This Book was first publish'd in Latin at Wittembergh in the year of our Lord 1636. By that famous Physition Daniel Sennertus a Man well known to the learned World especially to the Gentlemen of his own faculty for his excellent works in that Art but besides what he so deservedly profess'd he was a spiritual Physitian also and took care to deliver such wholsom Medicines that all the Diseases of our Souls might be healed and that both Soul and Body might live for ever thereby imitating our Blessed Saviour who as he healed all manner of sickness and all manner of Diseases amongst the People so he also called all sinners to repentance and exhorted them to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven It may not be amiss here to add a short account of this Book M. Hen. Witten Memor Medicorum p. 105. Francof 1676. and its Author from one who hath given us some memorials of his life in an Oration spoken the year after his Decease in the Vniversity of Wittembergh The innocency saith he and probity of his Life and that Humanity which he shew'd to all Men did greatly advance his renown such was his love and care for Religion that he suffer'd nothing to be prefer'd before it He had perfectly digested in his mind the rules and precepts of it which he as carefully endeavoured to manifest in his life least he should appear to be in Word only and not in Deed a Christian the duty whereof he was perswaded did not more consist in the knowledge than in the practice of Christian virtues wherein that he might be the better exercised he had judiciously and accurately described THE NO-CHRISTIAN CHRISTIAN for he thought if vice were throughly known the contrary virtue would thereby be represented more fair and strong As the People of Laced●mon recommended sobriety to their Children by bidding them look on the filthiness of Drunkards On the same design there is now lately publish'd by himself a most judicious Treatise of THE WAY TO LIVE HOLILY AND DY HAPPILY For he cannot without great hazard dye well who hath led an ill life and scarcely can any one live as he should that is ignorant of the right method or doth not diligently exercise himself in it He dyed on the 21st Day of July in the Year of our Lord 1637. When he had not yet been ill four Days Some may perhaps object against the composure of this Book that whereas the design of it is to prepare us to dye happily so many Chapters should be spent in the general and more remote preparation for Death whilst we are in our health and vigour and but one to be allotted for that more immediate and particular preparation which is to be performed when Death approaches This may indeed seem a great objection to Worldly Men who scarcely ever think of dying till they see they can live no longer But the devout Christian knows that a Death Bed is very unfit both for time and place for so great a work that all his life is little enough to work out his own Salvation and to prepare himself for an happy Eternity and that if he demeans himself soberly righteously and godlily whilst he lives in this present World he shall have the less to do when ever it shall please