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lord_n	ghost_n	holy_a	jesus_n	24,048	5	5.8385	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41400	Good counsel to be had at a cheap rate Wherein is contained many excellent matters which are very needful to be had in consideration amongst all sorts of people that are now living in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Note it well, and refuse not good counsell. Thou that to read this title doth begin, turn over leaf and see what is within.		1663 (1663)	Wing G1041B; ESTC R221247	5,354	19

Good Counsel To be had at a Cheap RATE Wherein is contained many excellent matters which are very needful to be had in consideration amongst all sorts of people that are now living in England Scotland Wales and IRELAND Note it well and refuse not Good Counsell Rom. 11.33 34. O the depth of the Riches both of the wisedome and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgements and his wayes past finding out For who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his Counseller Thou that to read this Title doth begin Turn over leaf and see what is within Printed for W. Gilbertson at the sign of the Bible in Gilt spur-street 1663. To the READER IF thou desirest good counsel for to learn bestow some time this little Book to read Here good from bad with ease you may discern if in thy reading thou dost take good heed This Book such excellent vertues doth contain Hardly the like 's in all the world again It shews how first of all the world began which wondrous matter is by Scripture provd It shews why and wherefore the Lord made man and being made how dearly God him lov'd It shews of what mans soul was made at first And how God breath'd into the corps of dust Also good counsel here is laid up in store of which most men are now in extream need Let every one make trial now therefore the more you take the better you may speed If friends and kinsfolks do forsake ●eave thee Good counsel is a friend will ne'r deceive thee THE AVTHOR To the READER SPare not my Book to tell what 's to be done Flatter no man but sound instruction give Teach all men how Gods anger they may shun And in a conscionable way to live Speak truth to all there 's no man wil thee blame But highly will commend thee for the same Dear friends the beginning of my Bo●k is of Matters concerning the beginning of the WORLD which if you will be pleased to peruse and take good notice of it may through Gods blessing yield and procur● consolation to the soul satisfaction to the mind and comfort to the body and thus it begins IN the beginning GOD created the Heaven the Earth Gen. 1.1 And the Earth was without Forme and void and Darkness was upon the face of the deep and th● 〈◊〉 GOD moved on the sac●●● the waters and said Let there be Light and there was Light And God saw the Light that it was good And God divided the Light from the darknesse And God called the Light Day and the Darkness he called Night and the evening and the morning was the first day no it follows in the fifth verse The second day God made the firmament and divided the waters from the dry Land and he called the Firmament Heaven as it is in the 8 verse of the same Chapter The third day God having divided the water God made the Earth that it should bring forth Grasse and the Trées that they should b●ing forth fruit whose seed was in it self and God saw that all that was done was good The fourth Day God made the two great Luminaries or Lights which are called the Sun and the Moon The great Light he appointed to rule by day and the lesser by night He made the stars also and placed them in the Firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth and to rule over the day and over the night that it was good The fifth day God made the fishes of the sea the Fowls of the air the Beasts of the earth and every créeping worm and Creature that was then upon the ground and God saw that it was good ver 25. but all this while man was not yet made Then God the Father said as we may conceive to God the Son and the Holy Ghost Let us make man in our own Image after our own likeness Gen 1.26 and so uhen the sixth day God created man in his own Image and likeness created he them M●le a●d Female Moreover when the Lord had made man in that goodly form and fashion of his own Likeness he loved him and took such affection to him that he made him Lord and ruler over all that he had made before both of the Fishes of the Sea the Fowls of the Air the Beasts of the field and the like And thus dear friends have I expressed the manner of the beginning of the world according as it was set down by Moses the Pen-man of the holy Ghost And now let us draw into consideration to know wherfore God made man why thus certainly it is to be believed that as God made all other Creatures to serve and obey man so he made man to obey his Lord and Master Therefore my counsel is this that every man and every Woman that is living and breathing upon the face of the Earth may with unfeigned hearts and with all reverence and humility lift up their hands and eyes toward heaven where Gods throne is and render him thanks for the manifold and numberless gifts that he hath already bestowed upon us and to praise his Name for the Blessings which we enjoy at this present time and withal to make our continu ● prayers and supplications unto the Lord God of heaven earth that he will never be unmindfull of no and let his blessings be part from us while the Sun Moon and Stars give ligh● and ●ill the whole world shall be dissolved Furthermore we are to consider that when God created man be formed him of the dust of the earth and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul Gen. 2.7 Here is a plain and caste rule whereby to know what the Soule of man is for before that the LORD had breathed into him the breath of life man was not said to be a living soul but after God had breathed in him the breath of life man became a living soul by which we may assure our selves that the soul of man is the breath of God in part another thing to be considered felloweth and th●s it is When God created Man he made him two ears to hear two eyes to sée two hands to work two féet to walk or go upon but one Soul and that Soul of man is of more value than ten thousand Worlds Therefore my counsell is to every one that they have a great care of that precious Iewell which is held at so high a rate I mean the Soule of man it is the breath of God therefore kéep it safe It is that which preserves thy bodies life whilst thou liv'st on Earth therefore use it well it is that which our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ shed his most precious blood to save us therefore take héed thou lose it not In a word the Soul is that part of man and woman that first goes to Heaven if ever they come there therefore remember what is said and bear it in mind

unto your lives end Thus having in small time laid open part of my great purposes I will with spéed break off from my former discourse and hasten the finishing of the rest of my exercises which is called Good Counsell which are severall yet all very useful and necessary I doubt not but that they will give good content to them that will either read or hear them and first of all I shall begin with Conscience A clear Conscience said to be a continuall ●e●st and so indéed it may very well be called and ten times happy is that man or woman that hath got a convenient Room to entertain so good a Guest He that injoys a good Conscience although he be péer in the eye of the world he is rich in the sight of God A good conscience may be compared with the chiefest Iewels that can be spoken of in the world It is like the Trée in Arabia which is called Melt which Trée affords Food for the belly Rayment for the back and weapons of Defence for the body It is li e the Noble pine Trée which was never known to be rotten-hearted although it be never so old neither can any poysonous Wasp nor venemous Spider come néer it nor can any Canker eating worm once come néer it The very leaves whereof continueth fresh and gréen both Summer and winter so that the scorching heat of summer burns them not nor can the piercing cold and nipping Frosts of winter do them any kind of harme Again a good conscience is like that excellent Adamant stone which is so hard that it wil cut glasse whom neither stroke of hammer nor heat of fire can pierce or dissolve To be brief this good Conscience is like unto the bright sh●ning splendor of the Sunne when he is to full glory whom no mortall eye is able to b●hold so farre it excéeds all other Lights On the other side an avid and corrupt conscience is over at war within it selfe and can never be at rest sléeping or waking it is alwayes plodding to doe mischief alwayes doubting what will follow but never intending to amend Dissimulation and gréedy Desire are the Ring-leader of his Enterprize Wrath and Revenge are his Waiting-men Pride and Malice are babes of his bréeding Sedition and Double dealing are the staves he walks by which when they once begin to fall he is like to have such a dangerous fall that he will be never able to recover This evil and guilty conscience may be fitly compared to a Rotten hedge placed on a péece of false hallow ground which although it séems fair in the outside the inside affords nothing but ugly Snakes Toads Adders and such diperous Creatures which are ready every hour to eat throw the very bowels of that Dam that gave them suck Such a conscience had Pharaoh when he opposed himself against the Commandements of God and would not let the children of Israel passe Exod. 5.2 Such a Conscience had Absalon when he sought to destroy his own Father Samuel 2 ●8 Such a conscience had Jezabell the Quéen who for lucre sake and thirst of gain bore false witnesse against her righteous Neighbour Naboth as you may read in the first book of Kings 19.2 Such a Conscience hsd Judas which after he had betrayed the Innocent went and hanged himself And such a Conscience had the Rich glutton which denyed poor Lazarus the Crumbs that fell from his Table and after being in hell torments cryed out for one drop of water to cool his Tongue Luke 16. By these Examples dear Friends my counsell is that you take notice and in the Name of God the Father and the Sonne and the holy Ghost let every man strive to kéep a good conscience for Conscience is that Pylot that will divert you either to eternall blisse or everlasting destruction The next matter that I am to put you in mind of is to beware of Cursing Swearing and Blaspheming Gods holy Name Our blessed Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ in his New Testament Gave us a new Commandem nt which was to love one another and withall he gives us a strict charge to pray for our Enemies and them that hate us And furthermore he sayes Blesse them that curse you But how many in these our times do we sée that are willing to doe good for evill why surely the greater sort of people now a dayes will rather repay evill for good then doe good for evill and will rather curs● their Friends then pray for their Enemies but the fruits of Cursing and Swearing are as followeth A Curse procéeding out of the mouth of an ugly Creature is like an Arrow shot against a plate of Stéele which having no power to enter reboundeth back and woundeth him that shot it unto the very heart and as for swearing be that rays out a néedlesse Gath displeaseth God to please the Divell Therefore dear Christians my Counsell is to every one That you forbear Cursing and Swearing and all other Vngodly qualities whatsoever And with the New Year begin a New Life And as the dayes do wax every day longer than other so let us Endeavour to be every day better and better and let Pride be Exchanged into Humility Envy into Love and Covetousnesse into Bounty and Wrath into Patience and as you begin the year well so I desire you to continue For blessed are they that continue to the end There are many and too many that are now living that never think of death as may appear by their lives and conversations Do we not sée many Young men and others given so much to Ryot that they spend that in their youth which should kéep them when they are old Who having wasted all and spent their whole patrimony are afterwards glad to Feed with the Swine like the prodigall child Luke 15. My counsell therefore is this to all men That they take Example by wise Joseph who in the time of seven years plenty laid up in store for seven yeares of scarcity By which means through the blessings of God he preserved the life of his good old Father Jacob and the rest of his brethren and many thousands more besides which else had perisht through want as you may read in the book of Genesis Patience is the gift of God and Armour of Proof He that can obtaine this gift is sufficiently armed against all the fiery darts and Tryalls which the world the Flesh and the Divel can throw at him But if the Armour of patience be wanting he is a lost man For no sooner comes the smallest blast of persecution that can be spoken of but presently it pierceth through the very Brain-pan of the Skull and Rankles to the Heart and Reins and at last it will destroy the whole body and indanger the Soul Therefore my Counsell is That you do make patience one of your chief companions whether your company be many or few and to follow the Apostles rule who saith Be ye patient brethren untill the comming of the Lord. James 5.4 There are many that are become Market-makers for the Divel and withall perswades the simple sort of people that there is no hell Others there are that desire to know where hell is but I think there 's done desire to go thither But this I am perswaded That they that are most diligent to inquire for it may the soonest know where it is The Lord in his mercy keep all good Christians from it Is it not Impudent madnesse in People to séek after such a place which was prepared for none but the Divell and his Angels Matth. 13. And where there is nothing but weeping and howling and gnashing of teeth Good Christians my Counsell is that you imploy all the faculties of your Souls and Senses to séek after Heaven and Heavenly things and remember the words of our Saviour who saith Seek and ye shall find To which place of endlesse joyes the Lord that made our Souls receive and bring us to his everlasting Kingdom Amen FINIS