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A51986	Fair warnings to a careless world in the pious letter written by the Right Honourable James Earl of Marleburgh, a little before his death, to the Right Honourable Sir Hugh Pollard, comptroller of his Maties houshold. With the last words of CXL and upwards, of the most learned and honourable persons of England, and other parts of the world.	Pollard, Hugh, Sir, 1610-1666.; Lloyd, David, 16315-1692.; Smith, Henry, f. 1665.; Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of, 1618-1665.	1665 (1665)	Wing M686; ESTC R1009	20,131	51

Sin yea That what liberty soever he had taken he had rather be torn in pieces by will Horses than wittingly and willingly commit any Sin CALEACIUS CARACCIOLUS MArquess of Vico a noble Person of a great Estate and as great Relations lived a great while in Popery and at last left his Country his Estate and Friends to profess the Gospel of Jesus Christ with Moses judging it better to suffer affliction with the People of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season for he had respect unto the recompence of the Reward and endured as seeing him who was invisible SOCRATES BEing near his Death said thus Magna me spestenet Judices bene mihi evenire quòd mittar ad mortem necesse est enim ut sit alterum de duobus ut aut sensus omnino mors omnes auferat aut in alium quendam locum ex his locis morte migretur quamobrem sive sensus extinguitur morsque ei somno similis est qui nonnunquam etiam sine visis somnorum pacatissimum quietem affert Dii Boni quid lucri est emori c. Sin vero sunt quae dicuntur migrationem esse mortem in eas oras quas qui ante è vita excesserunt incolunt id multo jam beatius est te cum ab iis qui se judicum numero haberi volunt evaseris ad eos venire qui vere judices appellantur c. convenerique eos qui justè cum fide vixerint Haec peregrinatio mediocris vobis videre potest Ut vero colloqui cum Orphaeo Musaeo Homero Hesiodo liceat quanti tandem aestimatis Equidem saepe mori si fieri possit vellem ut ea quae dico mihi liceret invenire Quanta delectatione autem afficeret c. Ne vos quidem Judices ii qui me absolvistis mortem timueritis nec enim cuiquam bono mali quidquam evenire potest nec vivo nec mortuo nec unquam ejus res à Diis immortalibus negligenter c. ROBERT Earl of SOMERSET UNhappy in his good Nature would say often after he had lost the King and Courts Favour O the vanity of great Men who think it to be the chief fruit of their greatness to abuse their power insolently to the ruine of their Inferiours not remembring being blinded by their Passion that they have a Superiour over them to make them yeild an account of their unjust proceedings forcing them to make restitution with interest Farewel Riches welcome Poverty farewel Life welcome Death All that I have were it a thousand times more would I lose rather than speak one wicked word against God my Creator I yeild thee most hearty thanks O my God for this Gift of thy Grace that I can contemn and despise this frail and transitory World esteeming the Confession of Christ above all Treasures I shall not leave the Fellowship of these holy men with whom I lived in the fear of God and with whom I desire to dye and with whom I trust I shall obtain the Glory to come My Life is in thy hands O my dear God let it never be prolonged to the prejudice of thy Glory If my paces be few to walk my Journy to Heaven Lord give me Grace never to look back A little before he died he cried out horribly and that often Oh who will kill me and deliver me from these pains I know I suffer for the oppressions I did to poor men Let fire cross breaking of bones quartering of my members crushing my bones and all the torments that man and the devil can invent against me fall upon me so that I may enjoy the Lord Jesus Christ. Even at his departure he said O God the Father of thy beloved Son Jesus Christ through whom we have received the knowledge of thee O God the Creator of all things upon thee do I call thee I confess to be the true God thee onely do I glorifie O Lord receive me and make me a companion of the resurrection of thy Saints through the merits of our great High-priest thy beloved Son Jesus Christ. The Lord Chancellor EGERTON USed to say That to be profane was the simplest thing in the world for the Atheist and profane persons as it were lay a Wager against the serious and pious man that there is no God but upon woful oddes for he ventures his everlasting state the other hazards onely the loss of his lusts which it is his interest to be without or at the most but some short advantage and all the while is inwardly more contented and happie and usually more healthful and perhaps meets with more respect and faithfullest friends and lives in a more secure and flourishing condition and freer from the evils and punishments of this world then the Atheist doth however it is not much that he ventures and after this life if there be no God is as well as he but if there be is infinitely better even as much as unspeakable and eternal happiness is better then extreme and endless misery So that as an excellent person saith if the Arguments for and against a God were equal and it were an even Question whether there were one or not yet the hazard and danger is so infinitely unequal that in point of prudence every man is bound to stick to the safest side of the Question and make make that his Hypothesis to live by For he that acts wisely and is a thorowly-prudent man will be provided in omnem eventum and will take care to secure the main chance whatever happeneth but the Atheist in case things should fall out contrary to his belief and expectation he hath made no provision in this case If contrary to his confidence it should prove in the issue that there is a God the man is lost and undone for ever If the Atheist when he dieth findes that his soul hath onely quitted its lodging and remains after the body what a sad surprise will it be to finde himself among a world of spirits entred on an everlasting and an unchangeable state IGNATIUS NIhil praestantius est pace bonae conscientiae There is nothing better then the peace of a good conscience Grace flowing from the blessed Spirit of God makes the soul like a fountain whose water is pure wholesome and clear for grace beautifieth and clenseth and so saveth the whole man IRENAEUS IF thou art backward in Repentance be forwards in thoughts of Hell the burning flames whereof onely the tears of a penitent eye can extinguish 'T is in vain to pray for the remission of sins without forgiving others we must not come to make an atonement with God before we make an atonement with our brother Nihil prodest verbis proferre virtutem factis destruere To set out vertue in words and by deeds to destroy the same is nothing worth CHRYSOSTOM TO know thy self is very difficult yet the ready way to Godliness As the eye can see all things but

Fair Warnings TO A Careless World In the Pious LETTER WRITTEN By the Right Honourable JAMES Earl of MARLEBURGH a little before his Death TO The Right Honourable Sir HVGH POLLARD Comptroller of his Ma ties Houshold WITH The LAST WORDS of CXL and upwards of the most Learned and Honourable person● of England and other parts o● the world London Printed for Samuel Speed at the Rainbow in Fleet-street 1665. To the Right Honourable Sir HVGH POLLARD Comptroller of his Ma ties Houshold Right Honourable WHat influence our Saviours injunction to Penitents When thou art converted confirm thy brethren had on our honourable Convert's generous Soul appears from these words subjoyned to the Noblest Retractation that ever was made since that of S t Augustines And as many of my friends besides as you will or any else that desire it I pray grant this request What power the great obligation of friendship and the greater of doing good had on your Honours Goodness appears by the numerous Copies you were pleased to communicate with no less designe I am sure and I hope with no less success then the Reformation of a sinful Nation to gratifie the Curiosity of some persons therein the Piety of others and the general Wish of all becoming impossible by transcription a way by reason of the Carelesness of some transcribers and the Knavery of others not so exact as the Paper it self or its Author deserveth is endeavoured by Printing in either of which capacities what good soever it may do and it promiseth with Gods blessing not a little together with these other Papers of the same tendencie which demonstrate that men of all qualities whatsoever when they reflect seriously on themselves and the state of things without them in their last and best thoughts conclude that it is mans great interest to be seriously and strictly religious shall redound to your Honours account in that day wherein they that convert sinners from the errour of their ways shall shine as the Stars for ever I am Your most humble servant HENRY SMITH FAIR WARNINGS TO A Careless World A Letter from the Right Hon ble James Earl of Marleburgh a little before his death in the Battel at Sea on the coast of Holland To the Right Honourable Sir Hugh Pollard Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold SIR I Believe the goodness of your nature and the friendship you have always born me will receive with kindness this last office of your friend I am in health enough of body and through the mercy of God in Jesus Christ well disposed in minde This I premise that you may be satisfied that what I write proceeds not from any phantasing terrour of minde but from a sober resolution of what concerns my self and earnest desire to do you more good after my death then mine Example God of his mercy pardon the badness of it in my life-time may do you harm I will not speak ought of the vanity of this world your own age and experience will save that labour But there is a certain thing that goeth up and down the world called Religion dressed and pretended phantastically and to purposes bad enough which yet by such evil dealing loseth not its being The great good God hath not left it without a witness more or less sooner or later in every mans bosom to direct us in the pursuit of it and for the avoiding of those inextricable disquisitions and entanglements our own frail Reasons would perplex us withal God in his infinite mercy hath given us his holy Word in which as there are many things hard to be understood so there is enough plain and easie to quiet our mindes and direct us concerning our future being I confess to God and you I have been a great neglecter and I fear despiser of it God of his infinite mercy pardon me the dreadful fault But when I retired my self from the noise and deceitful vanity of the world I found no true comfort in any other resolution then what I had from thence I commend from the bottom of my heart the same to your I hope happie use Dear Sir Hugh let us be more generous then to believe we die as the beasts that perish but with a Christian manly brave resolution look to what is eternal I will not trouble you farther The onely great God and holy God Father Son and holy Ghost direct you to an happie end of your life and send us a joyful resurrection So prays old James neer the coast of Holland Your true friend MARLEBURGH April 24. 1665. I beseech you commend my love to all mine acquaintance particularly I pray you that my Cousin Glascock may have a sight of this Letter and as many of my friends besides as you will or any else that desire it I pray grant this my request King CHARLES the First HAd that sense of Religion upon his spirit as that the one act of passing the Bill for the Earl of Strafford's death and the other to the prejudice of the Churches of England and Scotland troubled him as long as he lived and brought him not onely to vow as he did before the most Reverend Father in God G. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury to do Penance for them but also to a resolution never to allow the least thing though it was but the little Assemblies Catechism against his conscience And when it was told him his death was resolved on he said I have done what I could to save my life without losing my soul and sinning against my conscience Gods will be done Sir WALTER RAWLEIGH AT the meeting usually held with the Virtuosi in the Tower discoursing of Happiness urged that it was not onely a freedom from Diseases and pains of the body but from anxiety and vexation of spirit not onely to enjoy the pleasures of Sense but peace of Conscience and inward tranquillity to be so not for a little while but as long as may be and if it be possible for ever And this happiness so suitable to the immortality of our souls and the eternal state we must live in is onely to be met with in Religion M r HOWARD AFterwards the Learned Earl of Northampton being troubled with Atheistical suggestions put them all off this way viz. If I could give any account how I my self or any thing else had a being without God how there came so uniform and so constant a consent of mankinde of all ages tempers and educations otherwise differing so much in their apprehensions about the being of God the immortality of the soul and Religion in which they could not likely either deceive so many or being so many could not be deceived And when it was urged that Religion was a State-policie to keep men in awe he replied That he would believe it but that the greatest Politicians have sooner or later felt the power of Religion in the grievous lashes of their consciences and dreadfulness of their apprehension about that state wherein they must

which quarrels the principles or that which despiseth the practice of it And nothing will certainly more incline to believe that we live in an age of Prodigies then that there should be any such in the Christian world who should count it a piece of Gentility to despise Religion and a piece of Reason to be Atheists For if there be any such thing in the world as a true hight and magnanimity of spirit if there be any reason and depth of judgment they are not onely consistent with but onely attainable by a true and generous spirit of Religion But if we look unto that which the loose and profane world is apt to account the greatest Gallantry we shall finde it made up of such pitiful ingredients which any skilful and rational minde will be ashamed to plead for much less to mention them in competition with true goodness and unfeigned piety For how easie is it to observe such who are accounted high and gallant spirits to quarry upon such mean preys which onely tend to satisfie their brutish appetites or flesh Revenge with the bloud of such who have stood in the way of that airy title Honour or else they are so little apprehensive of the inward worth and excellencie of Humane nature that they seem to envie the gallantry of Peacocks and strive to outvie them in the gayety of their Plumes such who are as Seneca saith Ad similitudinem parietum suorum extrinsecus culti who imitate the walls of their houses in the fairness of the outsides but matter not the rubbish which is within the utmost of their ambition is to attain enervatam foelicitatem quà permadescunt animi such a felicity as evigorates the soul by too long steeping it being the nature of all terrestrial pleasures that they do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by degrees consuming Reason by effeminating and softning the intellectuals Must we then appeal to the judgement of Sardanapalus concerning the nature of Felicity or enquire of Apicius what Temperance is or desire that Sybarite to define Magnanimity who fainted to see a man at hard labour Or doth now the conquest of Passions forgiving of Injuries doing Good Self-denial Humility Patience under crosses which are the real expressions of Piety speak nothing more noble and generous then a luxurious malicious proud and impatient spirit Is there nothing more becoming and agreeable to the soul of man in exemplary Pietie and a holy well-ordered conversation then in the lightness and vanity not to say rudeness and debauchery of those whom the world accounts the greater Gallants Is there nothing more graceful and pleasing in the sweetness candour and ingenuity of a truly Christian temper and disposition then in the revengeful implacable spirit of such whose Honour lives and is fed by the bloud of their enemies Is it not more truly honourable and glorious to serve that God who commandeth the world then to be a slave to those Passions and Lusts which put men upon continual hard service and torment them for it when they have done it Were there nothing else to commend Religion to the mindes of men besides that tranquillity and calmness of spirit that serene and peaceable temper which follows a good Conscience wheresoever it dwells it were enough to make men welcome that guest which brings such good entertainment with it Whereas the amazements horrours and anxieties of minde which at one time or other haunt such who prostitute their Consciences to a violation of the Laws of God and the Rules of rectified Reason may be enough to perswade any rational person that Impiety is the greatest folly and Irreligion madness It cannot be then but matter of great pitie to consider that any persons whose Birth and Education hath raised them above the common people of the world should be so far their own enemies as to observe the Fashion more then the rules of Religion and to studie Complements more then the sacred Scriptures which alone are able to make them wise to salvation CHARLES the V. EMperour of Germany King of Spain and Lord of the Netherlands after three and twenty pitcht Fields six Triumphs four Kingdoms won and eight Principalities added to his Dominions resigned all these retired to his Devotion had his own Funeral celebrated before his face and left this testimony of Christian Religion That the sincere profession of it had in it sweets and joys that Courts were strangers to Sir FRANCIS WALSINGHAM TOward the later end of his life grew very melancholy and writ to the Lord Chancellor Burleigh to this purpose We have lived enough to our Country to our Fortunes and to our Soveraign it is high time we began to live to our Selves and to our God In the multitude of affairs that passed thorow our hands there must be some miscarriages for which a whole Kingdom cannot make our peace Whereupon some Court-humorists being sent to divert Sir Francis Ah said he while we laugh all things are serious round about us God is serious when he preserveth us and hath patience towards us Christ is serious when he dieth for us the holy Ghost is serious when he striveth with us the holy Scripture is serious when it is read before us Sacraments are serious when they are administred to us the whole Creation is serious in serving God and us they are serious in hell and heaven and shall a man who hath one foot in his grave jest and laugh Don LEWIS de HARO AFter he had lived a great while the grand Favourite and States-man of Spain but with too little regard of Religion growing melancholy was taken up by a Wit of Spain for being Priest-ridden and troubling his head with those notions of the immortality of the soul and the state of the other world he answered him with Tertullian 's words Quaedam Natura nota sunt ut mortalitas animae pene plures ut Deus noster penes omnes Utar ergo sententia Platonis alicujus pronunciantis Omnis anima est immortalis Utar Conscientia populi contestantis Deum deorum Utar reliquis communibus sensibus qui Deum judicem praedicant Deus videt Deo commendo at cum aiunt mortuum quod mortuum Vive dum vivis post mortem omnia finiuntur etiam ipsa tunc meminero cor vulgi cinerem à Deo deputatuns ipsam sapientiam seculi stultitiam pronunciatam Tunc si haereticus ad vulgi vitia vel seculi ingenia confugerit discede dicam ab Ethnico Haeretice Count GONDAMAR WAs as great a Wit and States-man as ever Europe knew and took as much liberty in point of Religion till declining in years he would say as they say of Anselm I fear nothing in the World more than Sin often professing that if he saw corporally the horrour of sin on the one hand and the Pains of Hell on the other and must necessarily be plunged into the one he would chuse Hell rather than