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A diall, wherein is contained a remembrance of death, and the uncertainty of the time of death. With many good rules how for to lead a good life.
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Granger, William.
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1648
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that would dye well there were and there is But yet they have lead their lives for a mis Numb 23. Balam desir'd the righteous death to dye Mark 14. John 18. 10. Although he lived not righteously Judas that traytor did not so in either He did not live well nor dyed well neither Lets pray to God to grant to us his grace To keepe us all from such a desperate case Live thou a righteous life holy and pure And thou shall dye a righteous death be sure There is a rule by Gods commandement To teach thee how to live and not be shent Exod. 20. Gods ten comands that he to us hath given To be our guide to lead us into heaven God be my guide me to direct a right For to explaine them as I doe recite commandment 1 Thou shalt have no other gods but me There is but one and I am only he That brought thee out from Pharoes cruell hand Where thou in bondage wast in Egypt land I am that God that can condemne and save And therefore thou no other shalt have commandment 2 Thou shalt to thee no graven image make Thereby Gods honour from him for to take Likenesse of anything in heaven above Or in the earth below to like or love Fowls of the aire or fishes in the sea An Image shalt thou make of none of these I say thou shalt no image make at all To bow to it or down before it fall Of any kind of met all wood or stone All worship doth belong to God alone The Lord thy God he is a jealous God And he will visit daily with his rod The fathers sinnes upon their children here That do him hate whom they should love and feare Unto the third and fourth generation All those that live in any land or nation But unto thousands mercy shew he will Of those that his commands keepe and fulfill commandment 3 Thou shalt not take Gods holy name in vaine Thy mind to please or cause for to maintaine In any case do not blaspheme his name That gave thee breath and did thy body frame He that to take his name in vaine is bold The Lord hath said he will not guiltless hold commandment 4 Remember that the Lords Day thou keepe holy Abuse it not by any kind of folly Six dayes thou labour shalt and do what longs thee to And keep the Sabbath as thou oughtst to do For in six dayes the Lord did all things make And on the seventh he his rest did take In it I say thou shalt not work at all Thou nor thy servant nor Ox within thy stall God blest the Sabbath day and hallowed it Therefore look that no work thou do in it commandment 5 Honour thy father and thy mother to And do them reverence as thou oughtst to do That thou long days and good on earth may live In any place that God shall to thee give Mat. 15. 4. He that his father or his mother curse His days on earth shall fewer be and worse commandment 6 Thou shalt not any kind of murther use In any case thy brother to abuse By this word murther we must understand Some other mischeifes used in our land As envy hatred malice and the like And wicked slander that mans life doth seeke He that his neighbour doth slander and defame As good were take his life as his good name A good name is a good mans chiefe delight And highly is esteem'd in good mens sight Prov. 22. 1. commandment 7 Thou shalt not commit Adultery Nor any other kind of lechery Of Sodoms odious sinnes do thou beware To keep thy body chaste and pure have care After a woman see thou do not lust For if thou do thy heart it is unjust If thou dost so I tell thee for thy part Adultery thou dost commit in heart Matth. 5. 8 28. commandment 8 Thou shalt steale looke that thou do not so Lest it doth chance to turne unto thy wo In dealing falsly do thou not delight Remember still that thou art in Gods sight Jer. 23. 23 24. Levit. 19. 36. Weights too light or measures which be small Do thou not use lest thou in danger fall Deceit is stealing in a kind of way Which thou shalt answer for another day commandment 9 Thou shalt false witnesse against no man beare But for the truth stand up and do not fear Do thou have God at all times in thy minde And take no bribes lest they do make thee blinde commandment 10 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house or land His wife or servants that be at his command His Oxe his Asse nor anything that 's his If so thou doe be sure thou dost amiss Thinke how King Ahab and Queen Jezabel 1 Kings 21. 13. Against this last commandment did rebel Ahab did covet and Naboth's Vineyard crave Naboth deny'd what Ahab fain would have Then Jezabel false witnesses did bring To swear that Naboth had blasphem'd God and the King For that good Naboth he was ston'd to death And with his Vineyard he did lose his breath What punishment they had the proofe is plain The dogs did eat her flesh and he was slain And now the ten Comandments I have rehearst Some other things I have to be rehearst Pride doe thou shun in any kinde of case Decent apparell is a comely grace But above all be thou not proud in heart Prov. 16. 5 12 18. I give thee counsell whosoere thou art Remember this before it be too late The proud in heaâ—t the Lord thy God doth hate 1 Pet. 5. 5. Be humble minded then and meeke in heart And God will love thee then if so thou art God will exalt the humble and the meeke Matth. 23. 12. But the proud heart he will in peeces breake Nabuchadnezar that mighty King Dan. 4. 30. His pride of heart did him great damage bring For God out of his Throne did down him cast Among the beasts to feed till seven years past Of Gluttony likewise do thou take heed Eat not too much give some to them that need Rich Dives he did feed on dainty fair Luke 16. 19. But to poore Lazarus no crums would spare What came to him after his dainty faire He is in durance now where all vile torments are Vile drunkennesse do thou in no wise use Drinke not too much thy selfe for to abuse For drinking much may make thee for to want And so may death come to thee just upon 't When Holifernes had drunke of wine his fill Judith 13. 8. His head was quite cut off by Judith's skill It was Gods will for his own peoples sake In their revenge that she this way did take Noah crusht his grapes and too much of the same Gen 9. 21. Did make him drunk and so he shew'd his shame This is no pattern left for thee to follow If thou thinke so thy wit is very shallow Some of Gods