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An eye to heauen in earth A necessarie watch for the time of death, consisting in meditations and prayers fit for that purpose. With the husbands christian counsell to his wife and children, left poore after his death.
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Norden, John, 1548-1625?
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murthered thinking thereby to haue slaine Christ Mat. 2. 16. c. 29 f  30 g  31 A Day before the Calends of Ianuar.    Festiual daies in this moneth are the 21. Thomas Apost 25. The Natiuity of Christ. 26. S. Steuen 27. Iohn the Eâ—ang 2â— Innocents called commonly Childermas day ¶ A rule to know how many daies be contained in euery moneth in the yeere Thirtie daies hath Nouember April Iune and September The rest haue thirtie and one Except it be Februarie alone Which alwaies hath twenty eight meere VVhen it is no Bisextile or Leape yeere ¶ A note of the Moneths weekes daies and houres throughout the whole yeere The yeere containeth Moneths 12. Hours 69478 VVeeks 52. Daies 365. Day Naturall hath 24 houres Artificiall 12 ¶ Almanacke for ten yeeres The yere of our Lord. The prime Sundaies letter Leape yeere Ash wednesday the first day of Lent Easter day Whitsunday 1615 1 A  Feb 22. Apr 9. May 28. 1616 2 G F Feb. 14 Mar. 31 May 19. 1617 3 E  Mar. 7. Apr. 20. Iune 30 1618 4 D  Feb 18. Apr. 5. May 24. 1619 5 C  Feb. 10 Mar. 28. May 16. 1620 6 E A Mar. 1 Apr. 16. Iune 4. 1621 7 G  Feb. 14. Apr. 1. May 20. 1622 8 〈◊〉  Mar. 6 Apr. 21. Iune 9. 1623 9 〈◊〉  Feb. 16 Apr. 13. Iune 1. 1624 10 D C Feb. 11. Mar. 28. May 16. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR Henrie Hobart Knight and Baronet Lord chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas CHANCELOR to Prince CHARLES and to the rest of that honorable Societie of his Highnesse Commissioners of Reuenues Prosperitie in this life temporall and blessednesse in that which is Eternall IF it should be demaunded Right Honorable why I would aduenture to vndertake a matter of this subiect so farre in opinion differing from my ordinarie imployments It may please you to conceiue that it is not altogether contrarie to my publike profession as being a Christian though no professed Diuine and therefore may stand with my ordinarie worldly trauailes For I am not ignorant that euery man is bound to indeuour in his function of this present life to seeke the meanes to know and to attayne vnto the life to come And what I haue done in this I may truly say I haue done it only with earthly and corporall to entermixe and increase my spirituall consolation and comfort by these priuate though weake Meditations Not purposing to haue exposed them to the variable censures of exquisite wits whereunto I know they are now subiect But that some of impartiall iudgement as I hold them hauing an accidentall view of them thought it not vnfit weake as they are that they should be made publike for the mouing of others to a consideration of their fraile estates being all subiect to one and the same mortalitie as also in the course of their liues to the like censure of their doings and execution of their vocations in this present life which reasons I trust may excuse both mine vndertaking and the publishing of these my weake Meditations I may also be demanded how I could presume to make choice of your Honorable Patronages of a worke so weake and vnworthy It may please you also to conceiue that they more properly belong vnto your Honors as being my labours then to any other especially for that I am subiect in accompt vnto that Honorable Table of mine imployments principally vndertaken by your directions and commands And for that your imployments require not the totall allowance of time which to my little profit I find my selfe to haue I can no better expend the idle interims of the rest of my libertie my dutie and care to answere your expectations in my seruice duly respected and performed then to seeke mine owne satisfaction in that which immediately concerneth not your ordinarie imployments But my future accompt of another seruice enioyned me by another Master And although it be true that a man cannot serue two Masters God and Mammon he may yet serue GOD and Man But in seuerall respects God in Spirit and Truth And Man in Loue and faithfull execution of his vocation And hee that so serues the one as hee neglect not the other He is that faithfull seruant of that one that shall reward him here with an inuisible gratuitie peace of conscience and of that other who shal recompence him with a competent temporall salarie This is that golden meane which whoso keepes be he of highest or lowest function in the world wades safely betweene the two extremes for he that so serues Man as he neglects God Or so serues God as he is no way seruiceable to the Church or Common-weale serues rightly neither God nor Man For as GOD created Man for himselfe as touching his spirituall so hath hee enioyned labour for man as touching his corporall part And both these may bee performed and ought by euery man without exception according to his calling Nay one stands not with-out the other But the one is performed the better for the other for without seruing of God no blessing is obtayned with-out Gods blessing corporal labours neither prosper nor profit man and with-out an honest calling duly and truly executed God nor Man is rightly serued Therefore I though I come far short of perfection in either do endeuour with vnfayned desire so to walke and work as I may perform my dutie to both Humbly requiring your Honours to shewe the like mind towards mee as doth my heauenly Master namely to accept the Will for the Deede So shall I thinke my selfe happy in my reputed vnhappinesse and indeuour to bestowe the residue of mine vnpleasant pilgrimage as neere as I can to the discharge of my duties and seruices to GOD and Man Recommending your Honours to GOD my selfe to your seruice and this silly Pamphlet vnto though vnworthy of your pervsalls At my house at Hendon the 10. of Aprill 1619. Your Honors in all seruice readie to be commanded IO. NORDEN A most necessarie and patheticall MEDITATION CONFESSION of mans miserable estate by nature And of his restauration by the death of Christ with many necessarie Petitions concerning this life and a happie death fit for men of whatsoeuer estate or qualitie often to ruminate IDoe acknowledge confesse vnto thee most mercifull God and louing Father that I am in thy sight a most miserable and wretched sinner aswell by the originall corruption of my nature as by the continuall course of my sinfull life wherein I cannot but coÌ„fesse I daily transgresse and breake thy most holy Commandements The thoughts of my heart are onely euill euermore The words of my mouth are often prophane and all mine actions euill whereby I acknowledge my selfe to haue worthily deserued thy fierce and iust indignation and consequently mine owne fearefull condemnation And were it not that thou art a God most mercifull and truly gracious full of compassion forbearing long to punish