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A27358 Directions about preparing for death Burroughes, Thomas, b. 1611 or 12. 1669 (1669) Wing B181; ESTC R37044 25,256 98

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satisfied my self oft-times in holy duties with the work done not sufficiently caring whether my communion with thee were improved by my approaching to thee And when I have been about those secular employments which thou allowedst me to be busied in under the Sun how little have I served thee in them Or hearkned to the directions thou hast given in thy word for men to follow in their worldly labours So that if my estate and wealth and honour and outward Accommodations should prove snares unto my soul as they do to thousands Psal 69.22 and occasions of my miscarrying unto all eternity I must acknowledg thy justice and blame none but my self who have refused to hearken to thy counsail and would not be perswaded there was any danger to be feared in such things And yet how often have I heard and read in thy Word that the cares of this World and the deceitfulness of Riches do choak the World so that it becomes unfruitful Mat. 13.22 And thereupon that those that are rich shall very hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 19 2●.24 How apt have I been to trust in uncertain riches rather than in the living God 1 Tim. 6.17 to make Silver and Gold my confidence and to have my heart stollen away from thee And for those talents thou hast trusted me with how ready have I been to forget that I am but a steward that nothing I have 1 Cor. 6.19 Hos 2.8 9. Hag. 2.10 is mine own but that all is thine and to be disposed of as thou prescribest For Lord What have I that I have not received and must not be accountable for Much thou hast done for me more than for thousands and ten thousands but where hath been my thankfulness mine obedience my care to please thee so much the more for all the good thou hast shewed me and done for me Thou hast reached out to me with a liberal hand My beginning was but small Job 8.7 and inconsiderable but thou hast greatly increased my latter end What outward Blessing whether of estate or of repute or of health or of long life or of a numerous and hopeful posterity do I want What a number of dangers and hazards Psal 107.23 24 25 26. and troubles by Sea and Land by Night and Day hast thou mercifully carryed me through But ah my unthankfulness my forgetfulness of that God who hath thus watched over me and preserved me and provided for me and mine hitherto And upon whose bounty and goodness I have lived all my days Ah what poor returns have I made for all that I have received Are there not many of thy Saints who in want and scarcity of what I enjoy have done thee more faithful service loved thee better been more zealous for thy Glory yea more thankful than I in the abundance of all that I have enjoyed Ah Lord no words are sufficient to set out my sins and the hainousness of them which have been committed some of them against Conscience and knowledg of my duty some of them oft fallen into and persevered in long some of them against many renewed purposes and vows of better obedience all of them against many calls and invitations from thee to return and against many signal favours of thine vouchsaf'd to me unworthy Blessed Father Thou knowest my sins better than I do and they are all of them so many debts which are recorded in thy book Lord I have nothing at all to pay of those infinite summes which I owe unto thy dreadful justice I have no way to make thee any amends or satisfaction Lord I do here judg my self 1 Cor. 11.31 worthy of what ever punishment either in this life or that which is to come thy Word hath denounced against sinners I deserve to lye everlastingly under thy curse If thou shouldest send me unto Hell I must I will justifie thee Psal 51.4 in thy proceedings and say It is I only that have undone my self 2. The next thing to be done in order to the suing out our pardon is to plead the Satisfaction and payment which Christ hath made to Divine justice for the sins of so many as lay hold on him and penitently seek pardon and favour from God through his blood For He Joh. 1.29 is that Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world and his blood speaketh better things than the blood of Abel doth Heb. 12.24 This is to take sanctuary at the horns of that Altar from which a believing and repenting sinner shall not be pulled away This is like the escaping to the City of refuge from the Avenger of blood In a word it is to fly from God by flying to him to fly from his justice by flying to his mercy Lord I have deserved thy wrath and it might be just with thee to write bitter things against me Job 13.26 for the sins of my youth and of my riper years My sins are so many my guilt so black and horrid that the Devil tempts me to despair and my own heart is ready to misgive me and to tell me there is no mercy for me that I come now too late and shall not be accepted And if the mercy and grace that hath been so oft offered to me and slighted by me should now be denyed me if now that I come to knock thou shouldest bid me depart and refuse to take any notice of me I must confess thou shouldest be righteous Thou hast called on me and I have refused thou hast many a time stretched out thy hand to me and I regarded thee not how justly therefore might I call and not be heard and seek thee with importunity and not find thee Prov. 1.24 25 28. Lord my Conscience accuseth me my own heart condemns me and is ready to pass sentence against me But blessed Father Is not thy grace free and doest thou not use to bestow it upon such as are both undeserving and ill deserving too Doth not the mercy and compassion of God as far exceed the mercy and compassion of the most tender-hearted among the Sons and Daughters of men as the Heaven is higher than the Earth Isa 55.9 Hast thou not declared that this is thy Name Exod. 34.6 7. The Lord The Lord God merciful and gracious long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity transgression and sin that is sins of all sorts sins that one hath been habituated in and accustomed unto Yea and that I might have strong consolation through hope Heb. 6.17 18. thou hast sworn that thou Ezek. 33.11 delightest not in the death of a sinner but rather that he should repent And hast told me that thou blottest out the transgressions Isa 43.25 of sinners freely for thy own sake If none should be received to mercy but those that deserved it and were worthy of it there would be cause indeed for me to wring my hands and lye down in horrour and despair But as long as thy