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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05969	A golden chain of four links to draw poor souls to their desired habitation or, The four last things briefly discoursed of, viz. Death, which is most certain, judgment, which is most strict, hell, which is most dismal; heaven, which is most delightfull. To which is added wholsome instructions both to young and old, in order to prepare themselves for their latter end, and avoid all sinful allurements, which usually obstructs that great and necessary work of salvation. With some necessary directions to die well, in order to avoid hell, and obtain heaven. / By Mr. J. Stevens.	Stevens, Joseph, fl. 1700.	1700 (1700)	Wing S5497B; ESTC R184642	10,619	16

to the Will of God's commanding A gracious Heart should be never out of heart if God be not willing to give thee Riches O then be willing to want Riches If God be not willing to give thee Health O then be thou willing to want it O Christian submit thy will to Gods Will that Soul shall have his will of God who desires nothing but God's Will Do you but take care of that which belongs to God and God will take care of all that belongs to you Now let us consider a little what signifies these silly foolish Pleasures here to those that are in Heaven these pleasures which are but momentary to those that are Eternal What if we suffer a little sorrow here for thirty or fourty Years which is but a small while to enjoy an Eternity in Happiness hereafter is it not better than to partake of the pleasures of this World and to have our fill of our beastly delights and to be damned in Hell for it forever after Oh consider also how much of your precious time is wasted and spent and how little of your great Work is done hath nor your rest stolen away half your time and your lust the other your Work is great and your time is short you have a GOD to honour a Christ to Believe in a Soul to save a Race to run a Crown to win a Hell to escape and a Heaven to make sure of you have many Temptations to withstand and many Afflictious to bear many Mercies to improve and many Duties to perform therefore O Christans redeem the time because the days are evil Ephes● 5.15 O that every step your Souls take might be towards Heaven and that you would make sure of God to day because to 〈◊〉 you are not sure of your selves Therefore for the Lords sake improve your time and for your Souls sake redeem your time The Lawyer will not lose his Term the Waterman will not lose his Tide the Trades-man will not lose his Exchange time the Husband-man will not lose his Season and will you lose your Season If you lose your Season you lose your precious soul. There is but one Heaven and if you miss of that you will certainly take up your Lodging in Hell I must sum up all with these Exhortations Let me beseech you who are young Men young Women to remember your Creator in the days of your youth that is to serve God to love God to Honour God and to obey God in your youthfull Days for the Flower of Life is of Christ's setting therefore let it not be of the Devil 's plucking Oh young People if you be now sick of the will not in Old Age you will die perhaps of the cannot if God's to day will be too soon for thy Repentance thy tomorrow will be too late for his Exceptance Let nothing be done in this World which cannot be answered in another nor nothing undone which may be necessary in another He that departs this World in Faith shall be saved but he that departs from the Faith shall be damned Therefore I say unto you all both old and young with St. Paul 1 Cor. 15 58. Be stedfast unmoveable always abounding in the Works of the Lord for as much as you know that your Labour is not in vain in the Lord. some Holy Directions to die well MY Brethren what doth the Lord require of you but to do Justice to love Mercy and walk humbly with God and to break off with your Sins and to take no more pleasure or delight in them but hate and abhore them for the future and uterly cast them behind your backs to press forewards to the Mark of the prize of the high Calling in Christ Jesus our Lord for time is hastening and coming on wherein it shall be said He that is unjust let him be unjust still and he that is filthy let him be filthy still and he that is righteous let him be righteous still c. The infinite Holy and heart searching God watcheth seeth and takes a strict Account of all your Actions and they will find you out and if not truly repented of and pardoned they willly down with you in the Grave and follow you in another World and meet you at God's dreadfull Bar and be open to the view of the whole World Sin is a bad Bedfellow and a worse Grave-fellow Therefore whatsoever it is now your duty to do both to God and Man now set about and do it with all your might Ecclesiasticus 9 10. Now before the Decree comes forth and the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you 1 Be very carefull and diligent in those means that are appointed for your Salvation 2 Pet 1.10 Make your Calling and Election sure c. It is our present work and business to make sure of Eternal Happiness and Blessedness for there is no landing at the Shore of Felicity without sailing in the Back of Fidelity till you make sure of Salvation you will never be free from Temptations Strive to enter in at the streight Gate Luke 13. 2. Therefore pray without ceasing 1 Thes 4 14. Pray continually though you be not always at Prayer our daily wants call for dayly Prayers every Morning put up your Prayers to the most high God Maker of Heaven and Earth let it be your first Work and your last Work You that would be Christians indeed and not in outward shew and Profession only lock up your hearts with prayer and give God the Key and he will preserve you and then you may sleep without any fear of danger O you will never want a praying time if you do not want a praying frame O the strength and vertue of divine Prayer it will fetch Fire from Heaven yea an Angel from Heaven to fetch a Peter out of Prison They that pray heartily and in Faith may be fully assured they shall ●peed happily Thirdly take all opportunities and embrace them for the hearing of the good Word of God for faith comes by hearing of the Word preached 4ly Live in Love and Charity towards all Men your greatest Enemies as well as your best Friends 1 Joh. 1.18 My Children let us not live in Word neither in Tongue but in Love and in Truth Let your Love be real and true and not selfish Gal. 5 14 Love thy Neighbour as thy self And he that is wanting in this great work doth no● rightly and truly love himself ●his Love is called an old commandment and a new Commandment it is as old as the Law of Moses and as new as the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ The Natural and Moral Man may love his Friend but the true Christian indeed loves his Enemies A Christian should wish the best to them that wish the worst to him 5ly eye humble Christians Matth. 11.29 A Believer is like a Vessel at Sea the more it fills the more it sinks none so humble on Earth as those that live highest in Heaven Where humility is in the Corner stone there Piety is the Top Stone th● Cloth of Humility should always be worn upon the Back o● Christianity If you were but to go to the graves of thos● that are gone before you you there would see their bone● scattered their Eye wasted their Flesh consumed their mouth corrupted that it is like were lofty ones Where be now their ruddy Lips their lovely Cheeks their fluent Tongues their sparkling Eyes Are they not all gone and come to nothing and so will you be e're long Therefore what cau●● have ye to be proud of these things 6thl If we have go●● into Gods favour let us be sure to labour to keep his favo●● whilst we live and then certainly we shall die in his favour Oh whoever you be that happen to read these few Line let me beg of you to make Religion your main Business hearing reading praying and believing Do nothing in this World but what you can answer in another For we shall all appear before the Judgement Seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5 10. To Die well is a long Art which thou hast bu● a short time to learn they that have long furnished themselves with all spiritual Means find work enough to vanquis● and overcome all their spiritual Enemies How then sha●● thou careless Soul if thou wilt not take hold of this Oppo●tunity be in hopes to effect it when the onset of the Enem● shall be most strong and prevalent and thou thro' pains in th● Body and perplexities and distractedness of mind very wea● and no ways able to resist when Impediments shall be mult●plied and helps diminished thy distraction great thy inclinatio● little and Leisure none for at the hour of Death there 〈◊〉 so many and great things will cause thee to die that tho●● shalt have neither mind nor time nor strength to die we●● Therefore as thou desirest the everlasting Welfare of th● precious and immortal Soul let what has been desired of th● in this small Piece be strictly observed and done without d●lay that so you may be everlastingly happy with God a●● his Holy Angels in the highest Heavens FINIS