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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27358	Directions about preparing for death	Burroughes, Thomas, b. 1611 or 12.	1669 (1669)	Wing B181; ESTC R37044	25,256	98

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

their hands Lord give me that wisdom and faithfulness that I may not be found willingly and wittingly failing in my trust So convince me of the reality and truth of those things within the vail and so possess my heart with the apprehensions of the glory and pleasures and full satisfaction Psal 16.11 that is to be had in thy presence and at thy right hand that it may not be at all grievous to me to part with these things below which are transitory and give me that evidence of my interest and part in these Eternal things that I may willingly and cheerfully let go my hold of things Temporal when thou shalt call me hence 2. The second thing that is to be done in order to our preparation for death is with all speed and importunity to sue out our Pardon at the throne of Grace That which is 1 Cor. 15.56 the sting of Death indeed and makes it to be so terrible is sin If sin be pardoned death is disarmed and cannot hurt us But where the Conscience is loaded with guilt and the poor sinner knows not but that all his Transgressions will be charged upon him that all those Mat. 18.24 many thousand talents wherein he stands indebted to Gods justice will be exacted Mat. 5.26 to the utmost farthing He can look upon Death as no other than a Serjeant sent to arrest him body and soul and to hale him to that prison from whence he must never be released till he hath payd all that he owes and that will not be unto eternity But what is to be done in this case This is first to be premised that we have no way left us by any thing we can give to God any thing that we can do or suffer to make satisfaction in the least to Divine justice If a man should 1 Cor. 13.3 give all his goods to the poor if he should give a thousand Rams or ten thousand rivers of Oyl if he should give the first-born of his Body Mic. 6.6 7. or his own body to be burnt for the expiation of the sin of his soul it would not be accepted There is no way to be freed from the guilt of sin but by Gods pardoning and forgiving it and that pardon is not as Job saith of wisdom Job 28.16 17 18 19. to be gotten for Gold neither shall Silver be weighed for the price of it it cannot be valued with the Gold of Ophir with the precious Onyx or the Saphire the Gold and the Crystal cannot equal it and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of Gold c. The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ the Lamb of God Joh. 1.29.36 1 Pet. 1.18 19. far more precious than Silver and Gold is the only price of it by that it was procured by the shedding of that blood full satisfaction hath been made to the justice of God And therefore pardon of sin if we would obtain it is to be sued out at the Throne of Grace through the blood of that blessed Redeemer of ours The Scripture teacheth us how that is to be done And the way which we are there directed to take is this viz. 1. With sorrow and shame humbly to confess wherein we have done amiss 2. Earnestly and as for life to plead Christs satisfaction and to beg pardon for his sake and upon his account First Confession is to be made to God and that fully without hiding any of our sins chiefly bewailing those whereby we have most offended and which lye heaviest upon the conscience with all the Aggravations of them Ah Lord what a grievous sinner have I been and how wofully have I gone astray from thee what command of thine is it which I have not broken How innumerable are my Omissions my Commissions Mine iniquities are gone over my head and as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me to bear Ps 38.4 Whether I look upon my nature or my life I have cause exceedingly to be confounded What sin or wickedness is there which I have not the seeds of in me and brought with me into the world I was hewed out of the same rock and digged out of the same pit that Cain and Judas and all the rest of the damned even the worst of them were That brutishness and pride and sensuality that prophaness and atheism that contempt of thy Majesty and thine Ordinances which do break forth and appear in the lives and ways of so many wretches every where all those wickednesses which I have known or heard committed by any of the Children of Belial Of all these evils and abominations I have the Principles in my cursed nature Lord Whose understanding is more blind and vain and foolish than mine whose Memory is more weak and feeble more apt to forget Thee my duty to Thee my Lord and Saviour the Things of my Peace more apt to remember what I should forget injuries received things evil or else impertinent How benummed is my Conscience How unspeakably perverse and rebellious is my Will and for my Affections how unruly and disordered are they continually either set upon things sinful or sinning when they are carryed out after lawful Objects From this Original Corruption which hath poysoned my whole nature thou Lord only knowest how many millions of vain foolish carnal unclean uncharitable impious prophane atheistical thoughts and imaginations have daily and hourly issued as sparks from a burning furnace So that every imagination of the thoughts of my heart hath been evil continually Gen. 6.5 and that from my youth hitherto And blessed Lord I know not but thou hast kept an account how many idle unsavoury rash besides wicked and ungodly words have upon any occasions proceeded out of my mouth from that evil treasure of my heart within me Those words are not wind as many vainly perswade themselves but such as our blessed Saviour tells us must be reckoned for at the day of judgment Matth. 12.36 if they be not in earnest repented of And Lord though here be more than enough and enough again to condemn me everlastingly yet blessed Father I have not only thought and spoken so much amiss but I have also done that which is evil in thy sight thou knowest in how many places how often and with what Circumstances for thou tellest all my steps and observest all my wandrings When I sin thou markest me for thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising thou compassest my path Job 10.14 and art acquainted with all my ways Psal 139.2 3. Thou knowest how little I have minded what thou hast given me in charge how industrious and diligent I have been in my worldly affairs how remiss and cold about my spiritual concernments how wise to lay up a treasure for my self on earth and how careless in providing for my precious and immortal Soul Thou knowest how little delight I have had in thy Word and worship how little zeal there hath been in me for thine Honour and Glory how I have