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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64074	The remarkable life & death of the Lady Apollina Hall widdow, deceased in the 21th year of her age By William Typpin, Esquire. Imprimatur, Edm Calamy	Tipping, William, 1598-1649.	1647 (1647)	Wing T3567; ESTC R219517	8,443	33

seek for nothing more as many of their lives doe speak then to take out a heaven here on earth crumbling out their daies on glorious vanities and feeding their hearts and eyes with fading frivolous ●ruitlesse contentments Oh that ●hey would but sadly consider ●et a little a very little while and then comes death and then comes judgement and then comes eternity that long day that will never see an evening ●hat deep gulph that hath in ●ruth neither bounds nor bot●om and what a melancholly ●ntrance will they finde into this ●verlasting condition when their ●●te improvidence shall inforce ●hem to cry out in their death●ed lamentation Once were ●ur joyes as full as our desires our heads were crown'd with rose buds our faces shin'd with I tremble to speak it in these reforming daies but now oh now whither away all our glory our delights are perished yea vanished sunk and gone and see their deceitfullnesse they have left us nothing behinde them but our sins as so many serpents to sting us for all eternity oh this is a long and deadly word for all eternity These or the like will one day be their dolefull complaints and if a deep repentance intervene not this will be the issue of all their joy Truly it makes my heart bleed in me to see and consider that in this juncture of time when the land hath been so long in 〈◊〉 mourning garment and after so much bloud and fire and famine and pestilence dreadfull desolation in the severall quar●ers of this Kingdom the daughters of our Sion are no more sensible of these judgements which ●ave broken in upon us then ●he stones in the streets they ●●gge on in their old way they 〈◊〉 the fat and drink the sweet ●elt in pleasures and cloath themselves as gloriously as if ●hey meant to vie with the Sunne ●t noon day when it exalts it ●elf in its greatest brightnesse ●hey walk with their stretcht out ●ecks and wanton eyes and made complexions should the Lord in the naturall composure of their faces have ingraven ●●ch black spots in them as now their fancies adde surely they would have looked on themselves as monsters and have ●hought nature had been a stepmother and dealt unkindly with them but now silly souls because these vain toyes are the imps of their own sick brains and their own hands have fashioned them therefore they hugge the work of their own inventions and the beauty which God vouchsafes them seems despicable in their eyes Surely our age is worse then heathenish in this sinfull liberty for it s reported by a faithfull hand that the very Indians amongst whom the Lord hath lately vouchsafed some dawning of the Gospel do so abhor the naked brests of women and hair hanging loose or cut as mens hair is that they have made some Laws against them Oh that our English Ladies should grow so bold as to practise that which Indians abhor which miserable heathens count ●heir shame Alas alas however their deluded hearts may flatter them for a time into a self com●lacency in this their pleasurable way yet as sure as their souls do live it will be bitternesse in the latter end For tell me tell me ●e shining gallantry how will ●e indure it when ye shall hear that terrible voice scunding in your ears Arise ye dead and come 〈◊〉 judgement when ye shall behold upon your first peeping out of your graves the world … n a light fire round about your ●●ars the elements melting with heat the frame of the heavens dissolved hideous cryings of the creatures on every side when ye shall finde nothing but flames and confusion ready to welcome you into the world again how will your hearts melt your hands quiver your mindes faint your knees fall away like water when this gloomy day appears how will ye then when all your golden opportunities of grace are lost and gone in the sense of your future sufferings even vex your selves for your former abominations These are the eyes which shot forth so many envious amarous lascivious glaunces now they are a terrour to my self these are the ears which have hearkned to so many base scurrilous profane lust provoking songs and now they present nothing but everlasting woe and sorrow to my soul and now when all these things come to passe which way will you turn in the midst of these perplexities whence will ye look for succour will you now addresse your self to the fountain of mercy supplicate grace from Christ why with what confidence and comfort canst thou expect grace from him to whom thou hast been a stranger all thy dayes here is horrour enough to confound thee that he hath a fullnesse of mercy in him but none for thee that he hath healing in his wings but none for thy refreshment he is a gracious intercessor for others but in relation to thy self a judge to designe thee to everlasting torments And what a sad thing is ●t that love it self mercy it self sweetnesse it self the Lambe must condemn thee He that ●ath washed away the sins of thousands in his bloud who have beleeved in him and hath also made many and many tenders of grace to thy soul must now for thy stubborn refusals separate thee for ever by an irreversible sentence from the glory of the Lord and face of the Lamb. Oh think on this think on this whosoever you are whom this counsell may concern lay it seriously to heart betimes whilest your breasts are full of milk and bones are full of marrow before the evil daies come wherein ye shall say I have no pleasure in them Seemeth it a light thing in your eyes that the wrath and indignation of the Lord hath broken forth so furiously against this Land your sex speaks tendernesse and compassion why where is the sounding of your bowels where is your pitty to this distracted Kingdom will ye not cease to provoke the Lord against his Church till ye have improved your pride to her utter desolation This is the time of Jacobs trouble and shall it be your day of triumph Oh let the threatnings of the Lord prevail upon you himself hath spoken it Isa 22. that he will have even the life of those that let out their affections to unseasonable jollity when his judgements call for tears Beleeve his word and tremble I bessech you be content to lose a lust to save a Land if you will not for your own sakes yet for the kingdomes sake forbear Away with your base and lustfull baits those black and infamous patches in your faces which render you odious and scandalous in the world and in every wise mans eye disfigure you and lay it close to your hearts what the Lord hath done for you Hath he not in this common spoil and calamity when he hath swept away thousands I believe far more innocent then your selves graciously provided you places of refuge and given you your lives for a prey and will ye now so unkindly requite him as to turn his grace into wantonnesse abuse his long-suffering and trample on his love What hath the Lord think ye preserved you all along through these bloody times that you should live to dishonour him Or can ye possibly imagin that he hath placed you in the earth as the Leviathan in the sea to take your pastime in it or created you to enjoy a Paradise of pleasures here and when you have fill'd up your generation a heaven full of glory hereafter No no beleeve it the Lord hath no pleasure in your vanities your inside beauty is his delight the Kings daughter was all glorious within a life of lust and pleasure is but the life of a beast it s a life of folly not of faith in a word it s the ●hame of Religion and every good mans scorn God expects ye should up and be doing in your severall vocations and not ●ive like unprofitable members of the earth to waste and consume the good creatures of God certainly it will be your truest glory here and your crown of rejoycing hereafter under this light of the Gospel to lead a gospel life Now if any of this sex to whom I direct this discourse ●hall reply hereto and say I will ●alk in the wayes of my heart and ●ight of my eyes I will rejoyce in my youth and my heart shall chear me in my youth I say no more but this Thou that art filthy be thou filthy still thou that art profane be profane still thou that slightest Gods Ordinances the means of thy salvation neglect them still but take the close hear thy doom know thou assuredly that for all these things God will bring thee to judgement But on the contrary art thou in the number of those that fear the Lord and walkest in his way is the joy of the Lord thy strength and the word of the Lord thy joy is thy affection set on thy treasure and thy treasure set on high Oh then well is thee and happy shalt thou be however it shall fare with this sinfull Nation thou art sure for one yea though the earth should move and the hills be carried into the midst of the sea yet because thy life is hid in Jesus Christ thou art as safe as Noah in his Ark when storms and waves surrounded him thou art above the malice of men the fury of devils the power of corruptions the rock of ages is thy fortresse thy sunne thy shield thy sure repose here thy sweet repose hereafter for in his presence is fullnesse of joy and at his right hand are pleasures for evermore FINIS