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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42198	One come from the dead, to awaken drunkards and whoremongers being a sober and severe testimony against the sins and the sinners, in an exact description of the nature and danger of these two soul-destroying evils : together with proper and sovereign remedies / by Richard Garbut ... ; with epistles to the reader, by Mr. R. Baxter, and Mr. William Jenkins.	Garbutt, Richard.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1675 (1675)	Wing G208; ESTC R9286	86,694	204

One come from the Dead TO AWAKEN DRUNKARDS AND WHOREMONGERS BEING A Sober and Severe Testimony against the Sins and the Sinners In an Exact Description of the Nature and Danger of these two Soul-destroying Evils Together with Proper and Sovereign Remedies By Richard Garbut B. D. who being Dead yet speaketh With Epistles to the Reader by Mr. R. Baxter and Mr. William Jenkins Eph. 5. 6. Because of these things cometh the Wrath of God LONDON Printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle near the Royal Exchange in Cornhill Price bound 1 s. Imprimatur C. Smith TO THE Truly Honourable and good Lady the Lady Barwick of Toulston in York-shire Good Madam THough your many former favours Merit an Acknowledgment from me beyond what I am Capable any way to express and though nothing more Usual than to take the Opportunity of Dedications to L●…nch out into Obsequious Encomiums and sometimes deserved Praises of Obliging great Persons yet without the Consideration of your gre●…t averseness to any thing that looks like ●…ttery if but the Modest and Just mention os real worth I had this onely Design and ●…ope in ●…utting this Treatise into your Wardship and ●…atronage the Author being long since dead That your Eminency in Degree together with your great Eminency in Piety and known Enmity to Vice together with your true Countenancing os Vertues and Exemplary strictness in Family Order and Discipline might Encourage many to the Reading of this most Useful and Seasonable Treatise and so through the Grace of God may prove of great Advantage to them who otherwise would scarce give a look through the Title-Page If I am blame-worthy in thus doing it can be no reslection upon your Honour since I have done it without consulting you or asking your Consent I shall add no more but the Recognition of my inward assectiona●…e esteem of your Ladyship and fervent Prayers for a Blessing from the great God and our Saviour upon your Person and Right Honourable Off-spring That you may grow in all Graces together with that approved Faithsulness to God and Man which runs in your Veins and is the Genius of the truly good Family The Ancient Family of the S●…ricklands of Boynton-House where the Sob●…r and Learned Sir Thomas Strickland now Resi●…eth Nephew to your Ladyship and Eldest Son to that Worthy Patriot Sir William Strickland whose well known Piety and Prudence will Eternize his Memory I subscribe my self Good Madam Your Honours truly Devoted Servant in the Lord Jesus Thomas Hardcastle A Prefatory Epistle to the Reader especially to the Inhabitants of the Town of Leeds in Yorkshire with some few Remarques of the Authors Life Beloved Friends and Countrymen THese Sermons were Preached to your Fathers and the Printing of them may prove good preventing Physick to your Children the Wisdom of God by Solomon hath thought it meet to spend some Scriptures in precautions and particular Descriptions of Pit-falls that they may be the better avoid●…d Prov. 22. ●…4 23. 27. Prov. 20. ●… 23. 21. Of this Nature are th●… fol●…owing Treatises which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ublished many ●…ars ago ●…d ●…or that end the Manuscrip●… being left in the ●…ands of ●…r Mans●…ield H●…sle aster Mr. 〈◊〉 Death were delivered to Mr. Na. Jackson and my self After Mr. J●…ckson's death the thing lay Buried and almost qui●…e forgotten till lately the Lord brought it fresh upon my Spirit that something was to be done by me in Order to the fulfilling the Will of the Dead that the Desires and Intentions of the Persons above-mentioned might be Answered besides I was the more willingly drawn to it upon this ground that I have been told by some that lived in those days that such a Warning and Testimony as this is as necessary and may be as Prositable now as it was then perhaps also one rising from the Dead may strike some Terror into a sensual Generation and the Fingers of a Mans hand Writing Dan. 5 3 4 5 6. when it comes to be seen and read may cause more change of Countenances and procure more troubled thoughts than any the loudest Reproofs of the Tongue Preaching This for the Publication As for the Author I never knew him I was not come into the world when he went out of it onely this true and brief Account of some passages of his Life noted by his intimate Friends and Observers which because the Genius of the present Age renders Emphatically seasonable I shall Communicate That during his abode in Sidney-Colledge he approved himself an Exemplary Student a great Proficient a ●…areful Tutor and for Conversation unblameable so●… hi●… Eminent Worth he was so valued by Dr. Ward the Master of that Colledge that he singled him out to go with him when he went to the Synod of Dort after his return thence when the Colledge-Statutes so required he commenced Batchelor in Divinity and in the Year 1624. he made Solemn Vows in Writing found since his Death in his Study to this effect Never to take upon him any higher Degree than what he already had to yield up his Fellowship and never to have any Commodity of it after December the same Year to leave the Colledge and University by such a time never to give Money directly or indirectly for any Benefice never to have two Benefices at once never to be properly a Non-resident that is as his words were to absent himself from his proper Cure and Live Ordi●…arily else where upon Pleasure sor Inter●…st Ambition or 〈◊〉 like According to his Vow he 〈◊〉 up his Fellowship and left 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being not then pro●… 〈◊〉 ●…y place of Employment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yield him a Livelihood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he was first bound to go 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Country York-shire and hav●…ng been Tutor to a Grand-child of Tobit Matthews then Arch-Bishop of York he found Entertainment with him till he was recommended by him as an Assistant to Mr. Alex. Cook Vicar of Leeds who was grown Aged and not able 〈◊〉 P●…each ●…wice a day Mr. Cook having made tryal of Mr. Garbutt's Abilities found him every way to his liking and told him if he would be content with Fifty pounds per Annu●… he might come to his Assistance to whom Mr. Garbutt Replyed it is ●…nough He came to Leeds about the beginning of 1625. where till near the time of his Marriage he was Entertained by Mr. John Harrison a Person very Rich in good Works The Matter of his Preaching as also of his Conversation was very Pious and strict The Manner of his Preaching at his first coming was too Academical for the Community of his Auditors whereupon divers of them Requested him to Preach in the Method they had been used to and conceived might be most Useful namely by Doctrine Reason and Use to which he readily condescended as aiming at their Profiting more than his own Praise He was Observed to be very Temperate in his Diet and sparing in his Recreation he was a hard Student early and