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Dying and dead mens living words published by Da. Lloyd.
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Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.
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DYING AND DEAD MENS Living Words Published by Da. Lloyd M. A. and Minister of the Gospel at the Charter-house near London Luke 16. 27. 28 29 30. Then he said I pray thee therefore father thâ—â—â—ou wouldest send him to my Fathers house For I have five brethren that he may testifie unto â—â—em lest they also come into this place of torment Abraham said unto him They have Moses and thâ—â—rophets let them hear them And he said Nay father Abraham but if one â—ent unto them from the dead they will repent LONDON Printed for Ameryâ— at the Black-boy over against Saint Cleâ—â—â—â— Church in the Strand 1668. OR FAIR WARNINGS TO A Careless World Shewing THat all sorts of men that have gone before us into an eternal state of all conditions as Emperours Kings Philosophers States-men c. of all Religions as Heathens Iews Mahometans Christians of all Opinions among Christians and of all Tempers under those Opinions whether strict and serious or loose and debauched in all ages of the world from the Creation have left this great observation behind them that upon experience they have foundâ— that what vain thoughts soever men may in the heat of their youth and lust entertain of Religion they will sooner or later feel a testimony God hath given it in every mans breast which will one day make them serious either by the inexpressible fears terrors and Agonies of a troubled mind or the unconceivable peace comfort and joy of a good Conscience A small part whereof was Printed 1665. both at London and at Yorke ad obturandum os Atheorum to use the words of the Reverend Doctor Digle Chaplain to the Lord Archbishop of York in his earnest and particular Recommendation of it to the Press there to awaken us out of our Prodigious Atheisme and Infidelity a little before the late Dreadful judgements that made us feel the power of that God whom we wouldnot believe and the whole is now published upon a pious Persons importunate request that we may take example by others to be serious in the matter of our eternal concernments before we be made examples our selves Eccles. 12. 11. The words of the wise are as goads and as nails fastened by the Masters of Assemblies which are given from one Shepheardâ— Fair Warnings TO A CARELESS WORLD Letter from the Right Hon Iames Earl of Marleburgh a little before his death in the Battle at Sea on the Coast of Holland 1665. the Right Honourable Sir Hugh Pollard Comptroler of his Majesties Houshold Sir I Believe the goodness of your nature and the freindship you have alwayes born me will reâ—â—ive with kindness the last ofâ—â—e of your friend I am in health enough of body and through the mercy of God in Jesus Christ well disposed in mind This I premise that you may be satisfied that what I write proceeds not from any phantastick terrour of mind but from a sober resolution of what concerns my self and earnest desire to do you more good after my death then mine example God of his mercy pardon the badness of it in my life-time may do you harm I will not speak ought of the vanity of this world your own age and experience will save that labour But there is a certain thing that goeth up and down the world called Religion dressed and pretended phantastically and to purposes bad enough which yet by such evil dealing loseth not its being The great gooâ— God hath not left it without â— witness more or less sooner oâ— later in every mans bosome tâ— direct us in the pursuit of it and for the avoiding of those inextricable disquisitions and entanglements our own frail reasons would perplex us withal God in his infinite mercy hath given us his Holy Word in which as there are many things hard to be understood so there is enough plain and easie to quiet our minds and direct us concerning our future being I confess to God and you I have been a great neglecter and I fear despiser of it God of his infinite mercy pardon me the dreadful fault But when I retired my self from the noise and deceitful vanity of the world I found no true comfort in any other resolution then what I had from thence I commend from the bottom of my heart the same to your I hope happy use Dear Sir Hugh let us be more generous then to beleive we die as the beast that perish but with a Christian manly brave resolution look to what is eternal I will not trouble you farther The only great God and holy God Father Son and holy Ghost direct you to an happie end of your life and send us a joyful resurrection So prays Your true friend Marleburgh Old Iames neer the coast of Holland April 24. 1665. I beseech you commend my love to all mine acquaintance particularly I pray you that my cousin Glascock may have a sight of this Letter and as many friends besides as you will or any else that desire it I pray grant this my request THis Letter though very weighty in the matter of it very serious in the phrase and expression yet is most observable foâ— the time it was written in a few dayes before this honourable persons Soul went we hope to be happy into another world did he in this solemn manner of a Will and Testament rather than a Letter leave his mind about the necessity of being religious in this It was after he had made tryal of most of the great variety of opinions which were in this licentious age broached and had experience of most of the vanities which have been in these loose times practised that recollecting himself and as it becomes every rational man who onely of all the creatures in the world hath therefore power to reflect communing with his own heart about his passed life which he knew was but a state of tryal in order to a future upon serious consideration or putting together of and dwelling upon rational thoughts for want whereof the thousands that perish are cast away of the account he saw by the frame of things made for men men must give to the first being that made them for them 2. Of the invisible things of God that were seen by the things that are made 3. Of an immortal Soul he felt within him and an eternal estate expected by him 4. Of the consent of Nations and the dictates of every mans own conscience attesting religion 5. Of the providence of God sealing it by miracles in the former ages owning it by extraordinary dispensations both of mercies and judgements in the latter ages of the world 6. Of the experience all men have of religion on their hearts in the comfort it affords in doing well and the terrors it sends upon doing ill together with the strange success it hath had by bare perswasion against the learning the lusts the Laws the Customes and Interests of the world and that in the hands of men that could doe no more
delight of â—ankind that dismissed from him â—â—ne sad was so sensible that if â—â— remembred at night that he â—â—d done no good that day he â—â—ould cry out perdidiâ—â—â—ends â—â—ends I have lost a day And that Prince was so sensible of a deity in the government of the World that when Crowns were sent him upon his conquest of Ierusalem he refused them saying that he did it not himself but God to shew his wrath upon the childâ—en of disobedience if I maâ— so translate Pezel p. 35. made uâ— of him as an instrument and thâ— rod of his anger And so serioâ—â— was he and Nerva upon the thoughts that Apollonius Thyanâ—us in Phylostratus saith neither â— them was ever seen to smile â— play And Trajan entring upoâ— his government said I enter intâ— this palace in the same tempâ— that I wish I were of when I gâ— out of it These persons no douâ— finding the vanity of the Worâ— asâ— feelingly as septimus Severâ— did who left this testimony of â—â— lifeâ— I have been all things and profiteth me nothing And Alexander severus allowed Christianity out of love to that one precept do not that to another which thou wouldst not have done to thy self a precept upon consideration of the excellency of it he had engraven on his Plate and Roomes and proclaimed at the punishment of all malefactors And indeed Religion was so amiable in the eyes of most of the greatest men â—n the World that Charles the â—reat said of it as another Emâ—erour had done before him that â—e gloried more in being a Son of â—he Church then in being an Emâ—erour of Rome and when an Affrican King ready to be Bapâ—â—zed in his house saw twelve Christian beggars and asked â—hose servants they were was â—ld they were Christs thereupon â—â—fused Baptism because the serâ—ants of Christ were so poor the Emperour replied that if he went to prayer three times a day as he did he would â—ind such inward excellencies in Religion as would recompence all the outward inconveniences that might attend it Dan. Heinsius a Master as Seldâ—n expresseth it tam severiorum quam amoeniorum Literarum History-professor at Leyden Secretary and Bibliothecary of the same University and appointed Notary of the Synod of Dort said at last Alas as to humane Learning I may use Solomon's expressions That which is crooked cannot be made strait Methinks saith Hensius and Master Baxter out of him I could bid the world farewel and immure my self among my Books and look forth no more were it a lawful course but shut the doors upon me and as in the lap of Eternity among those Divine Souls employ my self with sweet content and pitty the rich and great ones that know not this happiness Sure then it is a high delight indeed which in the true lap of Eternity is enjoyed Cardinal Mazarine having made Religion wholly subservient to the Secular interest amassed to his own interest and person all â—he Treasure and Intereâ—t of Euâ—ope and managed the Crown of â—rance for several years together â—iscoursed one day with a Sorbon Doctor concerning the immortaliâ—y of the soul and a mans eternal â—state and then wept repeating â—hat Emperours saying Animula â—agula blandula quae abibis in loâ—â— O my poor Soul whither milâ—â—hou goe Immediately calling for â—â—s Confessor and requiring him 〈◊〉 deal freely with him and vowâ—â—g ten hours of the day for Devotion seven for Rest four for Repasts and but three for business saying one day to the Queen-mother Madam your favours undid me were I to live again I would be a Capuchin rather then a Courtier Cardinal Richlieâ— after he had given law to all Europe many years together confessed to P. du Moulin that being forced upon many irregularities in his lifeâ—time by that which they cal Reason of State he could not tell how to satisfie his Conscience for several thingâ— and therefore had many temptaâ—tions to doubt and disbeleive 〈◊〉 God another World and thâ— immortality of the soul and bâ— that distrust to releive his akinâ— heart But in vain so strong hâ— said was the notion of God oâ— his soul so clear the impressioâ— of him upon the frame of thâ— World so unanimous the conseâ—â— of mankind so powerful the convictions of his conscience that he could not but taste the power of the world to come and so live as one that must die and so die as one that must live for ever And being asked one day why he was so sad he answered Monsieur Monsieur the soul is a serious thing it must be either sad here for moment or be sad for ever Sir Christopher Hatton A little before his Death advised his Relations to be serious in the search after the will of God in the holy Word For said he it is deservedly accounted a piece of excellent Knowledge to understand the Law of the Land and the Customs of a mans Country how much more to know the Statutes of Heaven and the Laws of Eternity those immutable and eternal Laws of Justice and Righteousness to know the will and pleasure of the Great Monarch and Universal King of the World I have seen an end of all Perfection buâ— thy Commandments O God are exceeding broad Whatever other Knowledge a man may be endued withal could he by a vast and imperious Mindâ— and a Heart as large as the Sanâ— upon the Sea-shoar command â—lâ— the Knowledge of Art and Natureâ— of Words and Things could hâ— attain a Mastery in all Languages and sound the depth of all Art and Sciences could he discoursâ— the Interest of all States the Intrigues of all Courts the Reaâ—son of all Civil Laws and Constituâ—tions and give an Account of aâ— Histories and yet not know tâ—â— Author of his Being and the Prâ—â—server of his Life his Soveraigâ— and his Judge his surest Refugâ— in trouble his best Friend 〈◊〉 worst Enemy the Support of hâ—â— Life and the Hope of his Death his future Happiness and his Portion for ever he doth but sapienter descendere in infernum with a great deal of wisdom go down to Hell Francis Iunius a Gentile and an Ingenious Person who hath written his own Life as he was reading Tully de Legibus fell into a perswasion nihil curare Deum nec sui nec alieni till in a Tumult in Lyons the the Lord wonderfully delivered him from imminent death so that he was compelled to acknowledg a Divine Providence therein And his Father hearing the dangerous ways that his Son was mis-led into sent for him home where he carefully and holily instructed him and caused him to read over the New Testament of which himself writ thus Novum Testamentumaperio ex hibet se mihi adspicienti primo augustissimum illud caput In principio erat Verbum c. When I opened the New Testament I first lighted upon Iohn's first Chapter In thâ— beginning was the word c. 〈◊〉 read part of the Chapter and waâ— suddenly convinced that the