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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73706	Three profitable sermons. 1. A pastorall charge. 2. Christs Larum-bell. 3. The soules sentinell Preached at seuerall times vpon sundry occasions, by Richard Carpenter pastor of Sherwill in Devon.	Carpenter, Richard, 1575-1627.	1617 (1617)	STC 4683.5; ESTC S125294	87,026	278

soeuer thou bee bee prudent and prouident as it beseemeth thy yeeres thy place thy office thy state embrace Eliphaz his exhortation Iob 12. 21. Acquaint thy selfe with God make thy peace with him there by shalt thou haue prosperity Iob 22. Wisdome saith Salomon is the gray Sap. 4. haire and an vndefiled life is the old age Let these ô let these wisdome and an vndefiled life meete together in thee and kisse each other looke narrowly to thy waies least either in the greatnes of thy power thou forget God or in the abundance of thy pleasures remember not thy selfe Be not like Nabuchadnezar who in the ruffe of his pride remembred not who had made him till God had mard him neither acknowleged who set his ioints together till God had rent his Kingdome asunder But let my counsell be acceptable to thee ô man whether Knight Iustice Gentleman or all in one and let mee boldly say to thee as Daniel did to him Breake Dan. 4. 24. off thy sinnes by righteousnesse and thine iniquities by mercy towards the poore Loe let there bee an healing of thine errors Loe thou hast erred and gone astray by thy pride and luxury returne returne by the holy way of temperance and humility Thou hast through couetousnes and malice sowen in hardnes of heart O returne by the way of mercifulnes and charity least thou reape in horror of cōscience Returne returne ô Shulamite as Cant. 6. 12. Christ speaketh to his Spouse returne returne that we may behold thee that we may see aswell a sight of thy good workes as heare a sound of thy good words that we may behold the fruits of amendment in thee place not the anchor of thine eternall wealth and woe on so ticklesome a point as thy repentance at last cast Repent amend defer not from time to time least God in whose hands are the moments of time cut thee off from all time and send thee to paines eternall without time for abusing the singular benefit of time in this world make not thy death-bed to smart by thy wilfull adiournings of thy repentance In the midst of thy ruling remember thy reckoning suffer now whilst it is to day the seeds of godlines to be sowne more and more in the field of thy repentant heart that whensoeuer the night of death commeth thou maiest reape receiue the plentifull crop of a ioyfull haruest furnish thy soule with grace and inure it to a sweete conuersation with God in thy life so shall the offering of thy death-bed be acceptable and thou maiest boldly make God the guardian thereof in thy death And now at length to come to Tertia Part. Viaticum in via my last part and to shut it vp in a word beeing desirous to recompence the largenes of my former discourse with the briefe touch of that which followeth let mee Right Worshipfull and beloued in Iesus Christ intreat you all both old and young which haue heard and seene this day the blacke colours of death and the glorious ensignes of the resurrection displayed to make the due and daily meditation of both vsefull profitable vnto you that your practises in this life may hence forward be more commendable and your passage out of this life when God shall call you be blessed and comfortable Let me I say intreat you all in a serious consideration of the speedy approach of death sure in the end vnsure in the time and bitter when it commeth and of the certain appearance of vs al before the iudgement seat of Christ to render an account of our doings in that day of resurrection to watch all the daies of your life and with holy Iob in my text to waite till your changing shall come Your change may come at a suddaine therefore be alwaies prouided and prouide not so much by corporall phisicke as the maner of most is to put off death that it may not so soone happen vnto you as by soule sauing phisicke repentance faith obedience cleernes of conscience and comforts of Gods word and confidence in his sweete promises to cut off the sting and malignity of death that whensoeuer it comes it may not hurt you This this is viaticū in via prouision in the way to bring vs in safety to the iourneies end of euerlasting felicity O runne with alacrity this race of piety set before you Gratia praeparandus animus mens D. Ambros li. 1. off c. 38. stabilienda ad constantiam saith St. Ambrose for expedition in this iourney pray for grace practise constancie Seeke earnestly for the things that are aboue liue after the lawes of the new Ierusalem which is aboue your Burgeship is in heauen bee not then earthly minded but heauenly affected labour to get more more assurance of the forgiuenesse of your sinnes and to feele in your soules the power of Christs death in dying vnto sinne and the vertue of his resurrection in rising to newnes of life And that you may out of the court of Requests the more easily obtaine for all your transgressions an assured pardon indulgence put somewhat euery day into the court of Gods Exchequer in hope of recompence or remembrance that with good Nehemiah you may Neh. 13. 22. say Lord remember me according to this and pardon me after thy great mercies Let the counsell of our Sauiour be precious Lay vp treasure Matt. 6. 14. for your selues in heauen send your vertuous actions the best monuments of a Christian thither before you Bee zealous of good workes studious of piety abundant in the deeds of charity for the witnes and inward testimony of a well-deeded life when all other comforts leaue you will relieue and comfort you in death accompany you to heauen and present it selfe with you before God By these fruites of a liuely faith Ezek. 9. as his own marks God will know and acknowledge vs to be his and for these his owne gifts which are our best merits he will reward vs and this reward is a life and such a life as is eternall is a crowne and Rom. 6. 23. 1. Pet. 5. 4. Heb. 12. 28. 1. Pet. 1. 4. 2. Pet. 3. such a crowne as is the crowne of glory is a kingdome and such a kingdome as cannot be shaken is an inheritance and such an inheritance as is immortall vndefiled For the obtaining of which life crowne kingdome inheritance what manner persons ought we to be in holy conuersation and godlines how ought wee in respect of these great and gracious promises to giue all diligence to ioine to 2. Pet. 1. 5. our faith vertue to our vertue patience temperāce brotherly kindnes and all other ornaments of a sanctified life These these are Viaticum in Bern. mundo the saurus in coelo Prouision for spirituall comfort in this world for a celestiall crown in that to come O let vs in this behalfe be prouident and thriuing Christians and whilst we are in