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A56309	The weavers shuttle displayed and the swiftness thereof unfolded, or, The words of a dying man to a dying people, in the midst of a dying nation wherein is held forth I. That the time is short, the way is narrow, the prize is great, the runners are many, the obtainers few, II. That repentance and turning to God is not in one call or command, wherefore wait upon the means appointed by God to work it, and that diligently and constantly this work deferred will be still greater, the time to do it wil[l] be shorter, the strength to do it by wil[l] be less, III. If we endeavour to the uttermost to improve the present opportunity and ability that the Almighty gives us, we shall, for ought I know, live with more comfort here and die in full assurance hereafter, for the greatest evil threatned or feared, may through wisdom be timely prevented / by Robert Purnel.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1652 (1652)	Wing P4244; ESTC R32258	54,417	168

in bringing them up in his fear teach your Children their duty both towards God and man If there be ever a word of God within you endeavour to fasten it upon them Prov. 22. 6. Train up a Child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it And what thou intendest to teach them do it speedily make no delay for they are but as a flower of the grass alive and green in the morning and many times cut down and withered before night your Childrens days are short and swifter then the Weavers shuttle And so likewise for Husbands and Wives Masters and Servants superiors and inferiors old and young if there be any Grace in your Heart and power in your hands improve both to the best advantage Be pittifull as your heavenly Father is pittifull make it your business as Christ made it his business to take all opportunities to do good both to Saints and Sinners Matth 5. 45 48. Oh let all your good intentions end in actions and all your Resolutions in speedy performances for the glass is almost run the day of our life is even done and thou must cut off like a Weaver as in Isa 38. 12. Verily every man at his best estate is altogether vanity Oh all ye Parents then look upon your selves and children as upon a Flower that quickly withereth endeavour to acquaint your selves of one Lord Jesus Christ who is the portion of his people Psal 16. 5. compared with Psal 17. 14. Walk with God your selves and so apply those promises that he hath made to his Seed they will live more comfortably with one grain of Grace in the want of the abundance of these outward things then they could with the Kings Ransom if the other be wanting cleave closer unto Christ hang looser to your children that so nothing may be able to separate the one though death will separate the other And let not your lives O ye Parents be bound up in the lives of your children but let your wills be resigned up unto Gods Will that if your children cut off like a Weaver ye may say as once Job in the same case said Ioh 1. 21. The Lord giveth and the Lord takes away bleßed be the name of the Lord and endeavour by your further care and diligence in training them up in the way of Christ instructing them in the way which they ought to walk Shall I appeal to your consciences now O ye Parents hath your care been to provide in a sutable way for the souls of your children for their Spiritual estate as you have for the earthly you are loth to die before you can bring your estate so clear that you may leave it to your children but rather you should be loth to die before such time as you see some work of Grace wrought in their hearts verily these would your thoughts be if you were spiritual It is reported of Augustines Mother that the great thing she desired to live for was to see her son converted and the Lord granted her desire and then she found her self willing to die One Mr. Staughton a Minister in his Epistle to the Reader prefixed to the Treatise called Davids love to Gods word affirms upon his own knowledge that there was a young Gentlewoman in Kent but ten years old could say all the New-Testament by heart yea at that Age she was so perfect therein that being asked where any word were she would presently name Book Chapter and Verse Master Staughton writeth this upon his own knowledge and examination of her in above fourty places at one time wherein she never missed Book Chapter and Verse Truly if we would have the word of Christ dwell richly in us we must ever and anon call home our wandring thoughts and unprofitable desires and disordered affections and gather them up and establish them upon something that Moth and Rust cannot corrupt nor Thieves break through and steal for most of us are like unto Peter we toil all night and catch nothing because we do not cast down our nets at Christs Command which that we may do let us stand upon our guard and guard our Thoughts our Hearts our Wills our Affections our Judgements our Memory our Lips that we speak considerately advisedly and not so vainly Vse 3. By way of Use If our days be so swift and short let us indeavour to be in a continual readiness that we may have nothing to do but to resign up our souls into the hands of our Creator in the name of our dear Saviour by the help of the blessed Spirit and although death doth look gastly upon us when he comes to Summon us to appear before the Tribunal Seat of Justice there to give an account of all our Actions yet let us smile upon Death for he will but destroy our last Enemy Christ hath tasted death for us It is true Death is a dark entry that we must pass through but all trouble on the other side death is taken away the worst thing it can do for one prepared to die is but this namely to shut up the door of earthly comforts and open the door of Heavenly to deprive us of Temporalls that we may be invested with Spirituals to deprive us of the society of a few imperfect Friends that we might enjoy the society of all the Saints and Angels in a state of perfection and that which is ten thousands time more then all the rest we shall enjoy the presence of the Almighty God whose glory and excellency is such that the tongues of men and Angels are not able to express It is life to know him it is melody to hear him it is heaven to behold him it is endless happiness to enjoy him Oh then improve the present opportunity and ability that the Lord hath lent to the uttermost that when thou comest to die and to cut off like a Weaver thy dayes being swifter then a shuttle thou mayst be in some good measure so prepared That 1. If thou canst not say with thy Lord Christ Joh. 17. 4. I have glorified thee on earth I have finished the work that thou gavest me to do 2. If thou canst not say with thy brother Paul 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. I have fought the good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith there is laid up a Crown of glory not for me only but for all those that wait for his appearing 3. Yet thou canst say with Simeon Luk. 2. 29. Lord now lettest thou thy servants depart in peace for mine eyes have seen thy salvation 4. Or else if thou canst not say in the sincerity of thy soul with Hezekiah Isa 38. 3. Remember O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart 5. Yet thou canst say with David Psal 39. 13. Oh spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I go hence and be no more seen 6. There are

thy after-services are but like Cain's Sacrifices procuring a curse rather then a blessing In a word we were not made to serve the world the world was made to serve us and we were made to serve God Let every creature especially Man continue in his place for man is the most excellent creature of all on earth Let him then transcend all in his holy obedience to his Maker We are not our own we ought not to live to our selves we have forfeited our lives many a time the wages of the least sin is death and cursedness and yet our lives have been restored to us again For what end why saith the Scripture that we might not live to our selves but unto God Oh how often times doth he call how earnestly doth he knock at the door of our hearts how powerfully doth he strive how long doth he wait upon us to get us to yield unto him namely to have our hearts dis-ingaged from all things beneath himself and yet such wretches as we are we will not yield What is become of that frame of Spirit that was upon the Saints in former days Nathan used but one parable to David and he was converted Jonah preached but few days to Nineveh and they repented Christ looked back once upon Peter and he wept bitterly but there is such a spirit of slumber fallen upon most of the people in these days that nothing will prevail unless it be that place Rev. 21. 11. He that is unjust let him be so still and he which is filthy let him be filthy still And so they make good this place as it is spoken by way of precept and not by way of caution never considering what will become of them in the end thereof O ye sons and daughters of men did not our tender loving Lord God make us Lords of the Creation and are not we become Servants unto it Did not he make man the wisest of all Creatures and is there any Creature under the whole Heaven so unwise as man Did he not put a fear and a dread upon every creature Gen. 9. 2. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every fowl of the ayr and upon all that moveth on the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea into your hands are they delivered But how is poor silly man afraid of and become a Servant to the meanest of all these Creatures in a Spiritual sense These were made our servants and have been faithfull in their service to us we were Created in the Image of God and appointed by him to be serviceable unto him and yet the whole Creation are more serviceable unto him and do not dishonour him as man doth Jer. 8. 6 7. I hearkened saith the Lord and heard but the most excellent piece of my workmanship man spake not aright no man repented him of his wickedness saying what have I done So I was fain to repent my self that ever I made man for every one runneth into sin as the horse rusheth into the battel Yea the Stork in the heavens knows her appointed times and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow observe the time of their coming but my People know not the judgments of the Lord. Man that was made the wisest of all is become the variest fool of all And oh that we saw it 1 Cor. 3. 18. Let no man deceive himself If any man among you seemeth to be wise let him become a fool that he may be wise We like fools take a great deal of pains to make our selves miserable We forsake the Fountain of living endurable waters and ride and run through thick and thin labour and toyl dig and hew unto our selves Cisterns yea broken Cisterns that will hold no water Jer. 2. 12 13. If John were to write an Epistle to the Professors of our dayes as once he did to Gaius 3 Ep. Joh. v. 1 2. Beloved I wish above all things that thou mayst prosper be in health even as thy soul prospereth I say if he were to write to us he would undoubtedly change his voice and say O ye Professors now extant in the English Nation I wish above all things that ye may prosper in your souls even as your bodies prosper O thou hast a flourishing body but a starved soul thy eyes stare out with fatness thou hast more then heart can wish thou art like the green Bay tree or the Willows by the water side thou hast given thee thy hearts desire but thou hast a lean famished starved soul and I could wish above all things that thy soul prospered as thy body prospereth Oh is it not better to go to Heaven with poor Lazarus then to Hell with rich Dives Is it not better O sons and daughters of men to be often saying with our head Christ The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head then to be saying in effect as most do at this day with that rich man Luk. 12 17. 18 19 20. Soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years take thine ease eat drink and be merry but God said unto him Thou fool this night shall thy soul be required of thee c. We have forgotten those words 1 Joh. 2. 15. Love not the world neither the things of the world if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him O how few such can we find in a whole Parish in a whole City in a whole Shire nay how many think you are there in a whole Nation that love the world and so have not the love of the Father abiding in them In this Epistle of John the Spirit of the Lord in the mouth of his servant cals to all the sons of men and craves their diligent attention I have written to you Fathers I have written to you Children I have written to you Young men Why what is the Spirit of the Lord about to make out unto us Only here is the sum ver 15. Love not the world nor the things of the world for if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him Object But some will be apt to say We do love God we do not love the World Answ How shall that appear If I should try thy practice by the Scriptures I shall find that thou dost love the world and not God 1 Ioh. 3. 17. Whoso hath this worlds good and seeth his brother in need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion how dwelleth the love of God in him That thou hast faith shew it to me by thy works and if thou hast love shew it by its fruits Indeed there is abundance of Faith and Love in the Nation but I can find but little in my self and others in the powerful operation The Power of Godliness is but here and there in a corner and when it doth