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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

will beget in us this unspeakable benefit namely To behold a hand of Providence in and read love under every dispensation You and I should say with Iob when we loose all blessed be the name of the Lord and with Paul Phil. 4. 11. I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be contented and so we shall serve him without fear and not be afraid of Armies of men and Legions of Devils Psal 3. 6. He will not fear death and hell Why because he will see both overcome by Jesus Christ Death that was the King of terrours hath now lost his sting 1 Cor. 15. 56. and the Devil hath lost his power as to one that is in Christ for he is overcome by Christ Heb. 2. 14. Sin also the cause of death which did shut the door of Gods mercy and grace upon us is overcome for us by Christ upon whom it was laid Isa 53. 6. And so he made an end of transgression and sin The world also that did so often deceive us and perplex us is overcome for us by Jesus Christ Joh. 16. 33. The Law also which brought in many Bills of Indictment against us is fulfilled by Christ for us Rom. 10. 4. The Justice of the Almighty that did lie in the way of our peace and quiet untill it was satisfied is now taken away quite and appeased towards all true Believers by the Lord Iesus Christ Psal 85. 10 So that now come what will come all shall work together for the good of those that love God If prosperity come let us behold God smiling upon us and trying of us If imprisonment come let us with Paul and Silas sing Psalms if tribulation come let us rejoyce knowing that tribulation shall work patience and patience experience and experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed In a word if our wills were resigned up into his will we should be saying such words Good is the word of the Lord let him do what seemeth him good for nothing can separate me from the love of God in Christ Rom. 8. 38 39. Neither can any thing do me harm Rom. 8. 28. 7. This is the way to have our conversation in Heaven whilest we live on the earth Now what makes Heaven but Union and Communion with God in Iesus Christ now this being attainable in this life what hinders but a Christian may live in Heaven whilest he lives upon earth 1 Ioh. 1. 3. Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Iesus Christ Phil. 3. 20. Our conversation is in heaven again I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the Faith of the Son of God Gal. 2. 20. All these were men on earth subject to infirmities as we are and yet they lived in Heaven and these things are left written in the Scriptures for our learning to wind up our hearts to the like frame Let Religion be our business then and more time spent on that and less time on the world For as hath been said before the time is short the remainder of our season is now folding up as a Sail or Curtain into a narrow room time is short and life shorter and the end of all things is at hand Thus have I endeavoured as briefly as I could to lay before thee whosoever thou art that readest these lines viz. the shortness of mans life or fewness of his days and the many miseries that do befall him and how a Christian might if not escape them yet have them lessened and sweetned unto him so that he might walk through these Seas of troubles and winds and floods of afflictions and fiery trials by open secret buffettings from thy many enemies and sometimes from pretended friends and neer relations with comfort c. Was not Abel murthered by his brother Noah mocked by his sons Job and David scoffed by their wives was not Iacob threatened by his brother banished from his Father abused by his uncle in the day he was consumed with heat Gen. 31. 40. in the night with frost then there arose a division betweeen his two wives two sisters brawling for one husband after this they both run from their father now see a fresh pursuit behinde him Laban following him with an hue and cry before him Esau coming with four hundred men to go forward intolerable to go backward unavailable then a little after his wife Rachel dies his daughter Dinah is ravished his son Reuben lies with his Concubines then his son his Ioseph they report is lost and now see a man of sorrows indeed I will go down saith he to the grave unto my sons mourning after this a Famine begins and another of his sons in prison and nothing can redeem him but his only Benjamin here was loss of son after son Ioseph is not Simeon is not saith he and now ye take away Benjamin all these things are against me Thus every Christian more or less though he be a few days yet they are full of trouble and both flie away faster then the Weavers shuttle which if well considered will rouze up those many sleepy professors living in these crazy times and slippery days wherein both lives and liberties health friends wealth pleasures honours and priviledges are in such extremity of extraordinary uncertainties I say the serious consideration hereof might serve to rouze up all sorts of men to improve the present time to the best advantage that so they might have an unshaken foundation of true spiritual peace and consolation For we must al die and that speedily our days flie away swifter then the weavers Shuttle It is said that when the Egyptians found their first born dead in their Families there was a great cry throughout Egypt a great cry in every Family Now were we as sensible of our souls as we are of our bodies oh what a great cry would there be in most of our Families one crying out and saying O Lord I have a dead childe another O Lord I have a dead servant another O Lord I have a dead wife in my Family whose soul is dead another I have a dead husband a dead friend and if the Lord doth not raise them speedily I fear they will die the second death from whence there is no redemption for they shall be cast into everlasting fire which is an intolerable eternity our life is like a candle in a paper Lanthorn there 's but a breath between us heaven or hel Wherefore O earth earth earth hear the voice of the Lord even while it is called to day which is swifter then the weavers shuttle FINIS

us to the grave and our deeds to judgment and as death doth leave us so shall judgment find us All creatures observe their time but man the Stork the Crane the Swallow the Pismire these observe their time and yet Man the most noble of all creatures none above or higher then himself but onely the Lord God Almighty who hath given to man time and all things else to attend him to bring him to glory but most men turn Prodigals and spend their little inch of precious time with Harlots and hope to return to their Father hereafter not considering that death stands in the way to put a period to his dayes which flie away swifter then the Weavers shuttle Oh what a dreadfull day will that be when thee and I shall stand before the Judgement seat of Christ if not prepared for it If we look about us beneath us on the right hand or on the left all will increase our misery above us shall be our Judge offended with us beneath us Hell open and the Furnace ready burning to receive us on our right hand shall be our sins accusing us on our left hand the Devils ready to execute Gods eternal Sentence upon us within us our conscience gnawing without us millions of damned souls bewailing on every side the World burning what way shall we take to go back is impossible to go forward is intollerable what then shall we do If we seek death death shall flie from us if we cry to the Hills to fall on us they will refuse to do us so much pleasure and then immediatly the Judge will say to all the Goats Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels Then there will be the greatest separation that ever was upon the earth the husband and wife the fathers and sons the mothers and daughters masters and servants Priest and people friends and companions the one to glory and the other to confusion without ever seeing one the other again Oh what an eternal separation will this be Whose heart can read these lines and not melt whose eyes can behold these words and not weep Nay it may be these be the last lines that ever thou shalt read for thy dayes be swifter then the Weavers shuttle 1 Cor. 7. 29 30 31. But this I say brethren the time is short it remaineth that both they that have wives be as though they had none and they that weep as though they wept not and they that rejoice as though they rejoiced not and they that buy as though they possessed not and they that use this world as not abusing it for the fashion of this world passes away Wherefore be without earthly carefulness But as Peter Jude speak there are a generation of Scoffers which lately went under the name of Levellers and now have taken to themselves the name of Ranters These men for the most part of them say that there is no Hell neither day of Judgment nor Devil but all is God and God is all things And to these men I have but these two words to say First that although they will not see or believe there is a Hell and a Devil here they are most like to know it by woful experience hereafter The second word is this When thou turnest over the leaves of the Bible and findest mention made of Hell and of the day of Judgment and of evil Angels called Devils and yet wilt not be perswaded that there is any such thing thou mayst as well rase out those Scriptures for untruths for thou art wise above what is written And to the rest of that heady high-minded unbelieving and vainglorious Crew I say as in Eccles 11. 9. Rejoice O young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the wayes of thine heart and follow the sight of thine eyes but know thou for all these things God will bring thee to judgment Oh miserable is that man whose life is almost wasted and daily wasting and he thinks not of it often saying I thought no more of this that is now fallen out then of my dying day Never minding what Job saith My dayes are swifter then the Weavers shuttle Neither doth he mind that Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed unto all men once to die and after death to judgment And let me tell thee thou art in a thousand thousand casualties here every moment ready to take away all the comforts of the earth from thee When Nebuchadnezzar was blessing himself in the Palace that he had built for his honour then there comes a Messenger from the Lord and he was presently outed of all his comforts The wheel is turning the grass is withering the flower fading the smoak consuming and the shuttle swiftly flying and yet thy dayes are swifter then the Weavers shuttle We have but a little time and a great deal of work to do let us work then while 't is day for the night cometh in which no man worketh If we did but know what Eternity means and if the fear of Eternity did but once fall on us we should cleerly see it had been better for us that we had never been born or that we had been made Toads or Serpents or the vilest beast that creeps upon the earth then Reasonable creatures Seeing we were born in sin as if that was not enough we live in sin and at last die in sin and so as Death leaves us the Judgment finds us There depends upon our little short uncertain inch of time matters of more consequence then all the world is worth I do not say upon the spending or mis-spending this inch of time depends our eternal being either in blessedness or misery but this I say that our well-being whiles we remain here depends much upon it See Joh. 14. 21. 2 Pet. 1. 11. Oh then consider such is the swiftness of mans dayes shortness of his life and frailty of his nature that the swiftest shortest and frailest things for the most part that we read of in Scripture are not swift short and frail enough to compare mans life unto Vse 2. And if so in the second place by way of use this doth teach us to carry our selves towards all in a way of love as if this were the last opportunity that ever thou shouldst have to be helpful to them either in spirituals or temporals Hast thou a Father or Mother yet alive If ever thou wilt obey the command of God in honouring them do it presently for before one day is past they may be taken from thee or thou from them and then how will thy heart smite thee and thy conscience accuse thee and thy carelesness often trouble thee Let me tell thee I know some that can speak this by woful experience whose hearts do even bleed for their omissions herein And as for you Parents that have Children if ever you will express your love to God

we commit we make a forfeit of our life Here is the sad condition of the sons of Adam O Adam what hast thou done For though it was thou that hast sinned yet thou art not faln alone but all we that come of thee as being then in thee and so infected by thee And we become guilty not only of original but also of actual transgression and so many of us have forfeited our lives ten thousand times over from which there is no redemption but by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and it is to be feared that not one of twenty do truly believe in him and make it their work to follow him hence it is that death finds us so unprepared we never considering that there is but a breath between us and Heaven or Hell Vse 4 If our dayes be so short and swift let us so accompt of it that when death comes and sweeps away some of our nearest Relations it may not be so tedious unto us as to cause us to mourn excessively because we saw their dayes to be short and swift before So that in stead of grieving that they be gone so soon we should give thanks to God that he did spare them to us so long and say with David I shall shortly go to them The consideration of these ensuing things will much abate our mourning and take off the edge of our excessive grief for Friends of any Relation that are deceased 1. Let us consider that whatsoever doth come to pass is by the soveraign will and pleasure of God 1 Sam. 3. 18. And Eli said it is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good In the foregoing verses the Lord had told Samuel that the iniquity of Eli's house should not be purged because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not Well saith Eli good is the word of the Lord let him do as seemeth him good as if he had said The Lord is infinitely wise and therefore knoweth better then I how to dispose of me and my family for his own glory and our everlasting good And although those Judgments be very heavy which he hath denounced against me and my family yet we have no just cause to complain for doubtless he will bring glory to his name and good to us by it according to his promises So said David 2 Sam. 15. 26. Behold here I am let him do to me as seemeth him good So again Psal 39. 9. I was silent and opened not my mouth because thou didst it So said Hezekiah Isa 39. 8. the Lord had told him by the Prophet Isaiah that all his goods should be carried to Babylon and his sons that did issue from him they though near dear to him should also be carried to Babylon Well saith he good is the word of the Lord. So our dear Saviour himself Mat. 26. 39. O my Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me Nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt Psal 68. 20. He that is our God is the God of salvation and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death Job 30. 23. I know that thou wilt bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living and that speedily too for my dayes are swifter then the Weavers shuttle 2. Let us consider that we our selves and our friend or friends that now we grieve for I say we and they received our lives from God and must be accomptable to him for them again Eccl. 12. 7. Job 1 21. 1 Tim 6 7. 3. Consider All men have one entrance into the world and the like going out Death is certain and appointed to all the greatest Kings and Emperors under the Sun must taste of this cup nay the Lord Christ himself if he will be vailed in flesh must die And that it is certain and appointed to all will appear by these Scriptures Heb. 9. 27. Job 30. 23. Job 7. 1. Gen. 3. 19. Psal 90. 3. 4. Let us consider the fulness of the Lord Jesus Christ answering every relation and the many excellent promises that are suitable to our particular condition He is bread to the hungry water to the thirsty cloths to the naked eyes to the blind legs to the lame strength to the weak life to the dead he is peace in trouble joy in sorrow health in sickness riches in poverty he is a friend to the friendless a husband to the widow a father to the fatherless I had thought to have brought chapter and verse to have proved each of these to thee but I would have thee to search for them thy self that so thou mayst finde many more sweet Promises sutable to thy present state and condition for he is all thy tongue can ask thy heart can wish or thy minde conceive he is light in darkness and Heaven in Hell if thou canst but see thy Interest in him and Relation to him thou wilt be ready to say within thee in the midst of all thy troubles Let friends forsake me let enemies deride me let all worldly comforts leave me nay the plagues of Egypt the botches of Iob the enemies of David the imprisonment of Ioseph the poverty of Lazarus the bands of Paul cannot hurt me for the Lord is my portion his grace is sufficient for me wherefore I will even say with David Psal 18. 2. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer my God my strength in whom I will trust my buckler and the horn of my salvation and my high tower c. 5. Consider though I have lost a neer and deer Husband or Wife Father or Mother Son or Daughter Brother or Sister Kinsman or Neighbour yet I cannot say as once Jeremy did Was ever sorrow like unto my sorrow but I can say There is nothing hath befallen me but what is common to man nay God hath dealt more favourably with me then he did with Job Job 1. 19. 20 21. for he lost all and he hath dealt more kindly with me then he did with his servant Eli 1 Sam. 4 17. For he lost at once his two Sons and the Ark of God which went nearest to his heart and at last his own life too 6. Let us consider that many of the Saints have desired death and if we love our friends departed shall we grieve that their desire is answered Read and well consider Phil. 1. 23. and Job 14. 14. 2 Cor. 5 1 2 3 4. Again in another Scripture we find these and the like words Now let thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seen thy salvation 1 Kin. 19. 4. Take away my life for I am no better then my fathers For such as die in the faith we should not mourn for as men without hope 1 Thes 4. 13. But I would not have you to be ignorant concerning them which are asleep that you sorrow not as others that have no hope ver 14. For if we believe that Iesus