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choice fetherbed hauing before him all sightly prospects for the eye and all toothsome meates for the taste and the swéetest accorde in musick for the eare and were bound to remaine so without stirring a ioynt but for twenty yeares Oh how often would he looke vp to heauen pittifully and long for death as for a treasure rather than indure so soft a pnnishment What then will become of that vnhappy soule who hauing sported out his life must be hurried by Deuils into hell where his bed shall be a red-hot gridyron legions of damned ghosts his best sightes his dyet Dispayre his Musicke Gnashing of Téeth assisted with dreadfull shriekes and Clamorous lamentations not for twenty or forty yéeres but for as many thousands of yeares as there be drops in the Sea and Sands on the shore and then to begin fresh againe euerlastingly These motiues well respected and not ouerly suruaide what flintie hart will not riue and what sinfull soule will not houle after the maner of Dragons My most louing most déere Christian brother let me become not a suter but a beggar vnto thée For Iesus Christs sake I aske it humble thy selfe with fasting wéeping and mourning humble thy selfe with fasting wéeping and mourning For Iesus Christes sake I aske it If the nature of thine eye cannot mooue thée then let the excellencie of Gods lawe which thou hast broken perswade thée If the excellencie of Gods law which thou hast broken cannot perswade thée let the mighty Maiesty of the Lord rouze thée If the mighty Maiesty of the Lorde cannot rouze thée let the mercifulnesse of the same God allure thée If the mercifulnesse of God cannot allure thée let the pestilent effects of sinne curbe thée If the pestilent effects of sinne cānot curbe thée then let the insupportable torments of hell kill thée dead and rent thée in péeces As for thée O young man reioyce in thy Eccle. 10. 9 youth let thine hart chéere thée in the daies of thy youth walke in the wayes of thine hart in the sight of thine eies but know that for al this God wil bring thée to iudgement Brutish Epicure that postest to the Play-house at the sound of the Trumpet and giuest money to behold their vanities who set vp the Flag of defiance to vertue but wilt in no wise bee brought to the Church to mourne though the Preacher lift vp his voyce like a trumpet cry alowd Ho come and buy Wine and Milke without siluer persist Isaia 55. 1. in thy merriment doe but know that for all this God will bring thée to iudgement Théeuish adulterer that feloniously takest away thy poore neighbours little shéepe that eates of his owne morsels drinkes of his owne cup sléepes in his bosome laugh on sweare on whore on but know that for all this God will bring thée to iudgement To returne to thée brother mine whose saluation I desire in my hart those Instigations Inducemēts which the Lord hath put into my minde haue I imparted to thee And yet I finde not my selfe satisfied till I acquaint thée with certaine rubbes which Sathan will cast in thy way to stop thée from running smoothly to this godly sorrow The first Impediment is the want of the word preached For how canst thou mourne if Iohn Baptist mourne not to thée or cal thy place Bochim that is by interpretatiō Weeping Iud. 2. 4. 5. vnlesse Phineas or some zelous Prophet forbeare Incarnatiue salues and giue thée corasiues rebuke thée sharpely and sounding thy sinnes to the bottome Peter must not bawke thy wickednesse but taxe Acts. 2. 36. thée roundly and point out Iesus whome thou hast crucified else wilt thou not be prickt in thy heart nor demaund what thou shalt do to be saued O then my brother beloued and longed for my ioy my crowne I hope as euer thou meanest to haue a grudging in thy conscience for thy manyfolde corruptions be a diligent frequenter of powerfull Sermons The second Hindrance is the hope of long life Soule saith the ritch man take thine Luk. 12. 19 ease Why so Thou hast much goods laide vppe for many yeares Take héede take héede of this faulte for it is inbred The Adulterer will graunt that Adulterye ingenerall is naught but when he descends to this or that speciall Adultrye then hée varnisheth it ouer with some vayne shewe of reason and approueth it Right so thou wilt confesse by wordes of course especially when thou art crauing a bond for security that man is mortal man is mortal but when it comes to this that thou thou in particular must shortly bée borne on foure mens shoulders to the place of deade mens sculs then thou soothest thy selfe art fondly incredulous as if thy life were thine owne fée-simple Harke in thine eare Thou art a Dyue-dapper péering vp and downe agayne in a moment thou camest by the wombe and must goe by the graue Harke in thine eare Thou dwellest in an house Iob. 4. 19 of clay in a tent pitcht to day remooued to morrow and Corruption is thy father the worme thy mother and thy sister Where is 2. Cor. 5. 1 louely Absolon Where is strong Og wonted to streake himselfe on his bed of yron Dead All all goe naked out of the world thou boughtest life and must pay for it with death Assure thy selfe whosoeuer readest this booke that ere many yeares or decades of months be past Death mounted on his Reuel 6. 8. pale horse will rap at thy doore and alight carry thée away bound head and foote to a land darke as darknesse it selfe What then remaineth but that thou presently make Ioh. 19. 41 thy graue with Ioseph of Arimathea in thy Garden the place of thy delight mourning each daye amidst thy most tickling pleasures as if the Sunne of thy life were sure to set at night When shall I pray for thée saith Moses to Pharaoh To morrowe answers Exod. 8. 9. Pharaoh He should haue said To day Be not a kinne to Pharaoh For if thou play the ignamous and sloathfull seruant beginning to eate and drinke with the drunken Math. 24. 49. 50. thy Maister Christ will come in a day when thou lookest not for him and in an houre that thou art not aware of and will cut thée off and giue thée thy portion with hypocrites there shall be wéeping and gnashing of téeth The third let is Companie especially merie Company Therefore the Prophet Dauid Psal 4. 4. would haue vs examine our selues quietly on our Beds It is storyed by the Euangelists that Peter went out from the Luk. 22. 62 concourse of people in the high Priests hall and then he wept bitterly It is better to goe to the house of mourning than of feasting Eccles 7. 4. saith Salomon The king of glorye sometime so dignifieth the Gentleman that he knockes at his hart by his holy spirit and bids him open the doore that he