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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96652	A good and seasonable caveat for Christians. Delivered in a sermon at the funerall of the right worshipfull Sir Charles Shirley, Knight and baronet, in the parish church of Breedon, in Leicester-Shire. / By John Wilson, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in the sayd parish. 7. Octob. 1646. Imprimatur, Jo. Downame.	Wilson, John, of Breedon, Leicestershire.	1646 (1646)	Wing W2899; Thomason E1182_5; ESTC R204901	27,614	71

regulated by the rule of piety Lastly take heede to your consciences there may be so much said for this that I shall say but little Salomon saies that a good conscience is a continuall feast Prov. 15. 15. and indeed so it is if we be weake it is a staffe to support us if in want a comforter to relieve us if in suites of Law it is the best agent to pleade for us if falsely accused it is the best witnesse to cleere us if wrongfully condemned it is a most upright Judge to vindicate us There can no estate or condition befall man either so prosperous or averse but that the comfort of a good conscience will appeare in it It comforts in prosperity and adversity in sicknesse and in health in life and in death and which is best of all it yeeldes transcendent comfort at the day of judgement For when among the wicked at the dreadfull day of Jesus Christ there shall appeare nothing but horrors frights and amazements be heard nothing but feareful shriâ—kes ululations cries and howlings for feare of the sentence of malediction that shall there be pronounced against them even then there shall be nothing but joy exultation and heavenly consolations to them that have taken heede to preserve their consciences spotlesse being assured of the sentence of benediction which shall then be pronounced to them at which time their bodies being reunited to their soules they shall be both received into everlasting salvation which every one ought diligently to seeke after which is set forth in the next part of my Text the duty in these words keepe thy soule diligently whence we conclude this observation 2 Obser. That every Christian should have a speciall care of his foule and keepe that diligently To this purpose we have both the Precept and President of Gods Children in sacred writ First for Precept see St. Paul exhorting us to give all diligence to make our calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 10. and Phil. 2 12. he bid us worke out our salvation with feare and trembling so Moses in our Text bid us take heede to our selves and keepe our soules diligently As for president looke on St. Paul and you shall finde that he was so carefull of his soules salvation that as the Nicene Fathers would not gratifie Arrius in the least compliance with him so neither would he conforme in any thing to the Doctrine of Seducers And if you read the life and death of the Martyrs you shall finde that they were so carefull of the salvation of their soules that they would not in the least semblance condiscend to the Pagan Persecutors though they might thereby have come off with corporall safety But not to trouble you with multiplicity of examples looke but on one president more and that shall be David a man after Gods owne heart The Lord had wonderfully magnified his mercy towards him in many eminent favours first in respect of his estate when he tooke him from following his Fathers Ewes great with young to feede Iacob his people and Israel his inheritance Psal. 78. 70. 71. when he translated him from a shepheards crooke to a scepter of gold Psa. 70. 71. Againe the Lord did well for him otherwise too in respect of his strength for he had as magnanimous a heart as a Lion 1. Sam. 17. 49. And when that proud Philistine Goliah came rayling and defying the God of Israel notwithstanding his menacing tearmes he encountred with him and slew him and so tooke the reproach from Israel Againe the Lord did wonderfull well for David in respect of his beauty for he was a man of a more then ordinary pulchritude as you may see prooved 1. Sam. 16 12. the Text there sayes that he was â—uddy and withal of a beautifull countenance and goodly to looke on Againe the Lord did wonderfull well for him in respect of his issue for he had a marvellous great issue And I doubt not but David was truly thankfull to the Lord for all these â—nercies bestowed on him in respect of his body and his estate But yet I am resolved that hee minded more the salvation of his soule then he did all these things and I gather this from his owne words in the 14. Psalme he declares that he longs for the salvation of God and if you looke on him in the Psalme 25. v. 20. you shall finde that being surrounded with miseries he hath a speciall care of his Soule and desires the Lord to keepe that safe so Psal. 86. 2. hee prayes the Lord to preserve his Soule and having received some speciall favour for his Soule you may finde him making a solemne invitation unto the righteous to come and heare what the Lord had done unto his Soule Psal. 66. 16. Come and heare all yee that feare God and I will declare unto you what he hath done for my Soule thus you see God's children have at all times been so carefull of their Soules that they would rather suffer death then doe any thing that might hinder the salvation of their Soules such care ought we also to have of our Soules Wee should keepe them diligently and that for these Reasons 1 Reason First because of the excellency of the Soule which consists first in the puritie of it Secondly in the unitie and singularitie and Thirdly in the inequality that is between it and any thing else First in the puritie of it which though it be shapelesse and immateriall yet would it make a man heavenly proud to contemplate of how divine a nature excellency and qualitie the Soule is In puritate est Deo simillima in its puritie it is as a God and hereupon saith a writer let me worship the great God of the little God my Soule and good to this purpose is that of Seneca Quid aliud est anima quam Deus hospitans in corpore humano what other thing is the Soule but God lodging in the body and Bernard standing in admiration of the excellency of his Soule breakes out into these words How beautifull art thou O my Soule thou art ennobled by the Image of God stampt on thee adorned with his likenesse espoused to him by promise redeemed with the precious blood of Jesus Christ Quid de te dicam what shall I say of thee tu maximum es quod esse potest in parvo loco Thou art the excellentest thing that may be contained in so small a place as the body Nobilitas tua omnibus mundanis praeferenda thy excellency exceedes all earthly treasures According to this is that of Augustine as saies he the Creator excells all the Creatures even so the Soule is farre more excellent then any of them Secondly consider the excellency of the Soule consisting in the unity and singularity of it God hath given unto one body two eyes two hands and two feete but he hath given it but one Soule he hath given two eyes to the end that if one

me thinkes I heare this earth-worme say I doubt not but I shall go to heaven for I am not such a notorious offender as such and such are I am no adulterer no drunkard no swearer and the like I onely affect this sin of coveteousnesse and I hope that for all this I may be saved To this I answer yet not I but the Apostle Be not deceived for neither idolater nor adulterer nor drunkard no nor the covetous person shall enter into the Kingdome of heaven Ephe. 5. 5. Againe the ambitious man cares not for his soule so he may have honours here how many such be there that spend all their time in seeking after honour and neglect many blessed opportunities offered to them for the salvation of their soules The voluptuous person devotes himselfe wholly to pleasures and with the Epicure thus sings to himselfe ede bibe lude charum praesentibus exple corpus deliciis post mortem nulla voluptas eate drinke and be merry let us fill our selves with new wine and crowne our selves with rose buds let us take our pleasure while we live here for there is no pleasure hereafter And indeed to them there shall be nothing but weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth I might much enlarge my selfe in marking out others that come under this reproofe such as is the amorous wanton that spends that time which he should spend in seeking after the salvation of his soule in courting some faire face some beauty of the times and thinkes of no other heaven then the fruition of his mistris favour and counts her smile the onely vision beatisicall never considering that death is courting that face as well as he and oftentimes proves the most successefull at least the most revengefull corrivall taking her from him or him from her and turning them into another world to embrace but what eternall flames Such also is the profuse gallant that spends his time in gaming and not in seeking after salvation that sits downe to eate and drinke and rises up to play Such also are your fantasticall women that spend their whole time in tricking and â—rimming tyring and dressing their bodies and seeke not after the salvation of their Soules Dum moliuntur dum comuntur annus est the morning is gone before many of them know it is come at least by any serious holy duty which they have performed therin these will not have so much as a pin out of order in atyring their bodies but care not for beautifying their Soules with Grace these spend their time in looking glasses to see their bodies gorgiously attyred but looke not into the looking glasse of God's word to be taught the way of saving their Soules In a word these are very carefull to enquire after the newest French Italian or Spanish fashion but take no paines to enquire after the way that leades to salvation they are better and constanter customers to new fashioning taylers then they are auditors to the best preaching Ministers and will give more to him that shall make them a new fashioned suite then they will to him that shall preach salvation to their soules I could enumerate many more but it is high time to close this use 2 Vse Exhort Secondly have we such reasons to seeke after the salvation of our soules Let us then be weaned from the world and consider what danger they are in that only hunt after the pleasures profits and honors of this world and neglect seeking after the salvation of their soules It is storied of Lysimachus that he being much necessitated for want of drinke parted with a whole kingdome for a drop of cold water and afterwards repented in these words O pro quant illo regnum perdidi O for how little have I lost a kingdome even so will the covetous the ambitious and the voluptuous man the profuse gallant the amorous wanton and the fantastick woman Repent with O pro quantillo O for how little pleasure how little profit how little honours how little pride and the like have we lost the kingdom of heaven the eternall salvation of our precious Soules I beseech you therefore settle not your affections on the things of this life but on things that are aboue Remember the excellency of your creation Os homini sublime dedit CoeluÌ„que tueri Jussit erectos ad fidera tollerevultus God hath given you a lofty countenance that you might not as beasts looke downewards nor as wormes crawle on the earth nor as hogs bee allwayes feedeing on the acornes of this world but that you might looke upwards and seeke after that Kingdom which he prepared for his servants O then bee not slaves to the world when you may bee Kings in Heaven think on the excellency of your soules Remember the aduice of Moses in my text take heede to your selves and keepe your soules diligently And that you may the better performe this consider these two motives 1 Mot. First consider the vanity of the things of this life I might prove that there is nothing but vanity vicissitude and uncertainty in all those earthly things which we delight in but I will confine my selfe to the examination of that trinity which worldlings most adore to wit honors riches and pleasures First how uncertaine is honour It is but the breath of the vulgar which being but winde changes with the winde did not the people even now salute our Savâ—our with Hosanna blessed be he that commeth in the name of the Lord and presently they cry out against him to have him crucified John 12. 13. was not Paul and Barnabas honoured by the Barbarians as though they were their Paganish gods Jupiter and Mercury Acts 14. 12. and in the same chapter ver. 19. we reade that they were stoned as malefactors was not Christ counted a Prophet Mark 6. 15. and presently a Devill Jo. 7. 12. 20. how soone was Pharoah and his pompe drowned in the red Sea Exo. 13. 28. Adonibezeck disgracefully mangled Jud 1. 6. Agag a king hewen in pieces 1 Sam. 15. 33. Nebuchadnezar turn'd out as a beast Bâ—jazet carried up down by conquering Tamberlain in an iron Cage by all which you see that it is not wisdome to place our delights in honours which are exceeding lubrick and subject to change Secondly you shall find the like uncertainty in pleasures Alas how short lived are they even the best of them perish as vapours or as the untimely fruite of a woman they are dasht in a moment Looke on Adoniah feasting in great jollitie 1 Ki. 1. and you shall finde that the news of Salomon proclamed king and the noyse of trumpets turned his joy into sorrow his myrth into mourning the like you may see in Baltazar who when he was feasting with his Lords and Concubines there appeared an inscription on the wall which soone turned his jollity into sadnesse made his joynts loose and his knees smite one against another Dan. 5. 3. 4. 5.

sweete that as Saint Paul said Covet earnestly the best gifts 1 Cor 12. 31. So may I say covet or seeke the best counsell you can and you cannot find better then this in my text For what counsell is like it it is true you may have good counsell from your physician for your bodily-health and no one is so simple to refuse it you may have good counsell also from your lawyer concerning your estate I am sure you much desire it but this counsell from the Minister concerning the good of your soâ—le much exceeds both the precedent counsels in regard of the excellency of the soule which farre surpasses both body and estate It was good advice of Austin keepe the fayth res pretiosa est It is a precious thing keepe innocency res pretiosaest that is a precious thing also I adde farther yet not I but Moses custodi animam keepe thy soule res pretiosa nay res preciosissima est it is the most precious jewell thou hast if it be lost thou art lost if it be lost all is lost therefore Moses in the text advises us to take heede to our selves and keepe our souls diligently Division In which words bee pleased to observe with me two parts First a preface Secondly a precept or if you will a direction and a duty First the preface or direction in these wordes onely take heede to thy selfe Secondly the precept or duty in the words following Keepe thy soule diligently He duae partes quasi duo luminaria these two as the two great Lights in Heaven Gen 1. 16. may serve to direct us in all our wayes Thus having as Dido did with her Oxe hide cut the words in peeces I have enclosed a pleasant and fruitfull ground out of which I shall collect these two observations on which by the Almighties assistance I intend to build my ensuing discourse 1. Obser. The first is this It is the duty of Christians to bee circumspect and cautious in all their enterprizes or if you will have it more plainly in the words of my text To take heede to themselves in all their attempts 2. Obser. The second this Every one ought to have a care of his Soule to keepe that diligently Of these in their order briefly and plainly and first of the first It is the duty of Christians to be circumspect and cautious in all their enterprizes This is that which the Apostle exhorts unto Eph. 5. 15. See then that ye walke circumspectly not as fooles but as wise and according to this is that advice of the Poet Quicquid agis prudenter agas respice finem what ever thou doest take heed that thou doe it wisely and praecogitate or anticipate to thy selfe what the end the issue or the event thereof may be which duty of circumspection will appeare to be most necessary if we consider the reasons following 1. Reason First wee should be circumspect and wary in all our undertakings because rash and precipitated actions seldome or never produce good effects this you may see verified in all manner of actions whether naturall morall civill or spirituall First in naturall actions as in the motions of nature which the Philosophers hold are flowe in the beginning swifter in the middle and swiftest of all in the latter end so that no violent action being contrary to nature can continue long nullum violentum perpetuum no violent is permanent Secondly morall actions wherein consists the exercise of virtues seldome or never come to good perfection unlesse advice and deliberation goe before hence grew that Maxime Deliberandum est diu quod statuendum est semel we must deliberate or forethinke of that often which we are to doe but once Thirdly Civill actions whether concerning Church or Common-wealth seldome succeede well unlesse advice and deliberation praecede them and indeed there is no Orator in the Senate-house nor Lawyer in the Common-pleas nor Preacher in the Pulpit if he have any modesty which dare shew himselfe in publique except he be well furnished and provided before-hand Fourthly and lastly Spirituall actions which concerne the worshippe of God never please God unlesse they bee undertaken with deliberation due advice and circumspection unlesse wee consider the matter which we doe the manner how we doe it the meanes whereby we doe it and the end wherefore we doe it which is or at least ought to be for the glory of God according to that of St. Paul whether yee eate or drinke or whatsoever else you doe let all be done to the praise and glory of God 1. Cor. 10. 31. Thus you see that no manner of action can come to good perfection except advice and deliberation goe before which if there were no other reason is enough to perswade every prudent man to take heede to himselfe as Moses in my text exhorts Rea. 2. But Secondly we had neede take heede to our selves and bee circumspect in our waies in regard of the many subtile and puissant enemies wherewith we are daily surrounded The greater our danger is the greater should our care be and the more subtile our enemies are the more circumspect ought we to bee lest wee bee circumvented by their policie Now I beseech you consider what great danger we are in and what resolute and cunning assailants we are besieged with Our danger is great for in this our spirituall war-fare wee are not in a fenced and fortified Garrison but in the open Field nor is it a naked field but a field of warre I might say Acheldama a field of blood where you neede not waite for an enemy for you shall finde many and those not weake but strong able to conquer Adam in Paradise Noah the most righteous man in the world David the best king Peter the best Apostle You must not expect that I should capitulate unto you all your enemies which are against you for as Nestor said of the miseâ—ies that they suffered at the Seige of Troy or as David speakes of Gods works Psalm 40. 5. they are more then can be numbred Non mihi si centum linguae sint oraque centum If I had a hundred mouthes and tongues g I were not able to relate them all unto you I shall therfore as men doe in the suppression of Rebellion shew you the heads of the chiefe rebells of mankinde as it were on stakes and leave the rest to your mature consideration The first enemy whose cunning I would have you take notice of is the Devill the grand Generall of all mischiefe who with his Host of malevolent Spirits encamps himselfe against us and endevors by all meanes to plunge us both soule and body into everlasting torments in the bottomlesse pit where is weeping and wayling and gnâ—shing of teeth for evermore Much might be said concerning the terriblenesse of this enemy but because I would hasten to other things I shall refer you to St. Peter for information in his first Epistle fift Chapter and

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