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A94266	A vvarning-piece for the slumbring virgins. Or, An alarm to the friends of the bridegroom, in some awakening meditations upon Christ's own watch-word, Matth. 26.41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation, &c. / By Geo: Scortreth, preacher of the Gospel in Lincoln.	Scortreth, George, b. 1612 or 13.	1657 (1657)	Wing S937; Thomason E1638_3; ESTC R209055	57,932	207

life power and peace from you and then how dark and dead heartlesse and helplesse will you lie in this hour of Temptations These are the broken thoughts of one of your poor heart-friends when afflicted and absent in body yet affected as present in spirit with the sense of the room he hath had in your hearts while the hand of the Lord hath touched him What in mercy he hath brought to my hand and heart while I had onely his own Book with mee I leave to the blessing of his own hand upon your hearts and mind Now the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and the patient waiting for of Christ And I beseech you Brethren for his sake and the love of the Spirit that you strive together and asunder in your prayers to God for me that he would consider my troubles and know my Soul in adversity that I may rejoyce in his mercy and that I may come unto you with joy by the Will of God and may with you be refreshed through the gracious presence of Christ to the praise of his grace to whose benediction direction and dominion I humbly commit you and rest Your much obliged Friend and Servant in the Gospel of Christ G. S. Christian Reader AS 't is the special Office of some men to be Watchmen so 't is the common duty of all men to Watch. That some men are appointed to watch over others cannot excuse any mans neglect of watching over Himself All the Ports of the Body the Eyes the Ears the Lips at which the Soul is continually issuing out by several acts or taking in from several Objects need a continual watch upon them how much more doth that most important Piece of all the Heart We should alwayes watch what God is doing we should watch what God is speaking what he speaks to us in his Word what he speaks to us in his Works We should watch what he speaks to move us unto prayer and what he speaks in answer to the motions which we have made in prayer How watchfull should they be who have all these and many more occasions of watching We read in Daniel Chap. 4. 13. Of a Watcher and a Holy one that came down from heaven And surely none on earth can be Holy Ones unlesse they be Watchers The carelesse Soul is alwayes a corrupt one and Security layeth us open to all impurity Satan watcheth to make us Halt and evil men watch for our Haltings we shall never take either eaven or clean steps unlesse we watch our own goings and ponder the path of our feet Watchfulnesse being so indispensible a Duty how glad should we be of any thing either to awaken us or keep us awake The Learned and Godly Authour of this ensuing Discourse hath beaten such an Alarm and shot off such a Warning-Piece in our Quarters that if the Virgins slumber still as their security will be inexcusable so their calamity will be unavoidable What can they look for who will not watch to pray But that God as he once did Jer. 31.28 should watch over them to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to afflict What can they look for who will not watch to do good but that God as another Prophet saith he once did Dan. 4.13 should watch upon the evill and bring it upon them They who will not take warning deserve to be made one Having perused this Manuall of Watchfulnesse I commend it into the hands and to the hearts of all those who would find peace and be found in peace when their Lord commeth It was sad that the Disciples eyes were so heavy that they could not watch with Christ one hour when he was going out of the world And it will be more sad with those whose hearts are so heavy that they cannot watch for the return of Christ at all houres who therefore hath not told us the particular hour of his coming that we at all hours might be kept watching for it And Blessed will those Servants be whom when their Lord cometh he shall find watching and praying or watching unto prayer that they enter not into temptation and that they may be kept in the hour of temptation Reader That his Book may be blessed from above to make thee Watchfull is his Prayer who readily Approves it for the Presse and publick Use of this Slumbring Age Joseph Caryl To the Reader Reader THey who keep close to the Lord Christ in holinesse of Life and purity of Doctrine are Virgins whether particular Persons or Churches Such being expos'd to many Temptations and subject to much Slumbring here is a Warning-Piece for them The great Watchman of Israel warn'd his Apostles yea all to Watch Mark 13.37 so doth this good Watchman in Israel Watching is a Duty of grand importance Noah Lot David Peter and other Worthies were tempted slumbred and suffered much for want of Watchfulnesse When Kings slumber they may lose a skirt of their garments 1 Sam. 24.14 and when Virgins slumber they may lose their whole Garments all their Ornaments Rev. 16 15. and the shame of their nakednesse appear The vigilant Author hath prepar'd and fitted this Treatise to prevent such evils It s little but of much worth being Judicious Succinct and Spirituall Bulky Volume must give place It 's full of Apples of gold in pictures os silver choyce Truths in choice expressions Reader wouldst thou be a wise watchful and experimental Christian look seriously into this Treatise lay the Contents of it close to thy heart and be sure to have thy desire William Greenhill Geo Griffiths Errata PAge 9. line 3. read Spirit for spirits p. 13. l. 1. r. heart-duty for hearty-duty p. 21. l. 8. r. her for his l. 12. about for abou p. 23. ult work for worth p. 50. l. 3. r. work for prophecy p. 55. l. ult they for this p. 65. l. 16. as for at p. 71. Gen. 28. for 18. p. 72. l. 4. fear for hear p. 79. l 7. you for these line 9. your for their p. 86 l. 12 fully for full p. 87 l. 13 It 's for Jobs p. 93 l. 1. as for us line 9. God for Gods p. 115 Prov. 19. for 14. least for last p. 138 line 1. tow for bow p. 142 l. 11. with whose lips had for with those lips that p. 143 line ult and you for and put p. 145 line 4. rest for coast p. 152. the better could for the better could p. 153. Prov. 23.34 for Prov. 7.23 p. 155. l. 8. Can you for Yea can p. 164 l. 15. multiformity for multifariety p. 165. l. 23. and by swallowing for swallowing p. 172. l. 16. as this as they waited for as thus waited A Warning-Piece FOR THE Slumbring Virgins Matth. 26.41 Watch and Pray that ye enter not into temptation IN the 37th verse of this Chapter we find Jesus took Peter and the two Sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowfull Math. 17.1.2 c