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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

his presence what zeale Ro. 12. 11. cheerefulnesse Psal. 100. 1. sinceritie Josh. 24. 14. and reverence Heb. 12. 28. you should use in the service which you performe to God Art thou to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper take heed that thou doe it not rashly or unadvisedly it is the advice of the Apostle Let a man examine himselfe and so let him eate of that bread and drinke of that cup 1 Cor. 1. 28. 19. and he gives a good reason for it in the next verse for saith he hee that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himselfe not discerning the Lords body What shall I say more In a word art thou a beleever and hast embraced the Faith of Christ take heede thou undertake not any thing without due advice and deliberation lest that old proverbe be verified by thee qui ante non cavet post dolebit he that doth not beware before will be sory after Now lest what I have said be not enough to make us take heede to our selves in all our undertakings I beseech you look back into the former ages and consider what and how many miserable inconveniences and sad disasters have happened to severall people only for want of good take heede it was the want of good take heede that cast the Angels out of Heaven it was the want of good take heede that exiled Adam from Paradise that brought the flood on the old World it was the want of good take heede that brought sire and brimstone on Sodome and Gomorrah that rent ten tribes from Rehoboams kingdome 1 King 12. it was the want of good take heede that shut the five foolish virgins out of Heaven Mat. 25. and it is the want of this good take heede that shall bring a generall destruction on the wicked and ungodly 1 Thes. 5. 3. No more but this consider I pray you what is it that brings so many some to poverty some to disgrace some to sodaine desperate and dangerous deaths but only the want of good take heede that you may therefore escape all these inconveniences and thousands more which are most incident to the carelesse I beseech you remember the exhortation of Moses in my Text Take heede to your selves Quest But then as the Souldiers said to John the Baptist Master what shall wee doe So may you say to me you have we confesse proved that we should bee circumspect and take heede to our selves but we would know the manner how wee should doe it or what it is that we should take heede to in our selves Ans. I answere You must first take heede to your eyes they are apt to range after iniquity and if they be not diligently watch't they prove arch-traytors to mankinde untill Adam and Eve lusted with their eyes sin and Sathan entred not into their hearts Gen. 3. had not Herod look't or Herodias dancing hee had not so rashly granted her John Baptists head Mar. 6. had not Potiphars wife given her eyes liberty to behold Joseph she had not lusted to defile her marriage bed with him King 2. had not Sichem seene Dina Jacobs daughter he had never ravish't her Gen. 34. These evils proceede from licentious gazing on such objects and therefore saith the Prophet turne away mine eyes lest they behold vanitie it was the want of taking heede to the eyes that made Tarquinius Sextus to ravish Collatinus wife that made Queene Cleopatra to use her brother Ptolomeus as her husband that made Macareus to lye with his sister Canaces and Menephron to defile his own Mother And indeede it is God's great mercy that he hath placed in the eyes as well the remedy as the malady fletum visum the faculty of seeing and the sluce of teares Vt qui delinquant videndo poeniteant plorando that they who have offended by seeing may repent by weeping if therefore thou wilt escape the punishment of weeping I meane of eternall weeping in hell fire take heed to thine eyes look not after a woman to lust after her for then thou hast committed adultrie with her in thy heart Mat. 5. In a word make a Covenant with thine eyes that they behold nor vanitie Secondly Take heede to your eares which most commonly are more open to Syrens songs then to heavenly ditties to obscene communication then to the precepts of God and therefore Christ sets a double guard at this Port of hearing and both delivered in the termes of my Text The first is in Mark 4. 24. where we are bid to take heede what we heare and the other in Luke 8. 18. where we are bid to take heede how we heare Psal. 141. 3. hee keepes both these sayings well that heares the word of God diligently and practises it in his life and conversation constantly Thirdly Take heede to your tongue for this is often times an unruly member so unruly that as one well observes the port-c●●llis of the teeth and the counterscarfe of the lips are not sufficient to keepe it in unlesse with David wee daily pray Psal. 14. 3. Set a watch O Lord before my mouth keepe thou the doore of my lips Take heede to your understanding that it be not corrupted this is the first doore the Devill knocks at the first forge where sin is framed the first commander the Devill seekes to corrupt for though he intend to sack the whole citty of our Soules yet hee makes his first assaults against this Port. And therefore as the besieged fortifie most where they feare most batteries or assaults so take we heede to looke carefully to our understandings that they bee not blinded with ignorance nor insnared with the subtiltie of Atheisme Heresie Popery Schisme or any thing else repugnant to God and his truth Take wee heede to our understandings that they dive not too farre into the hidden mysteries of the word There is enough revealed both for our faith and our salvation Mitte arcana Dei meddle not with the secrets of God Quod Deus texit quis revelabit what God hath hidden let not the understanding pry into Consider wee that our understanding or intellectuall part is that which the Devill Hereticks Atheists Papists Schismaticks and many other pernicious enemies much labour to corrupt and therefore let us take great heede to preserve it Take heede to your will which will be either the seate of sin or sanctuary of grace if it be depraved it hath a very malignant influence upon all our actions and therefore as besiegers of a Garrison labour most to possesse themselves of the chiefe Sconce or capitoll knowing that thence they may command the whole City so the Devill besieging the City of our soule labours chiefely to captivate our will because he knows that if that become subject to his Lawes and embrace his Scepter all the faculties of the whole man will be tributaries to the same service Take heed therfore that your wills be not enslaved by Sathans policy but renued by grace and

A man may lose his estate and may recover it with more then he had before he may lose his health and may recover it with more then he had he may lose his credit and may recover it with more estimation then he had before but if once he have lost his soule he must never looke to recover that againe Poets and Historians writ of some that have gon to Hell and returned againe as of Ulysses that went thither to consult with Tiresias Aeneas that went thither to talke with his Father Anchises Orpheus that fetcht his Wife Euridice thence Pythagoras also that going thither reported at his returne that he saw Hesiod tied to a brazen pillar and Homer hanging on a Tree full of Snakes for feigning such things on the Dieties Admiranda canunt sed non credenda Poetae these be strange things but they are not true for the Scripture assures us that there shall be no returne from Heaven or Hell If any man be cast into Hell though his eyes gush out with rivers of water yet there shall be no one to comfort him no one to helpe him no one to doe so much as coole his tongue with a drop of cold water O that we had hearts to consider this that so we might take heede to our selves and keepe our soules diligently 5 Rea. Lastly we should looke carefully to our soules for if they be lost body and all is lost and if they be safe body and all will be safe for where the soule at death goes before the body at the resurrection will follow after Good to this purpose is that of Chrysostome if saies he we neglect the soule the body cannot be saved for the soule was not made for the body but the body for the soule he therefore which neglects the soule being the first and chiefest part and mindes the body only loses both but he that seekes after the salvation of the soule though he neglect the body yet by the soules salvation the body also shall be saved which is most elegantly set downe by Aristotle Lib. 7. metaphysic ex sanitate animae fit sanitas in corpore by the safety of the soule safety is wrought to the body If you have but so much faith as a graine of mustardseede to lay hold on Jesus Christ as the Saviour of your soule your body shall be sure to be saved also Rom. 8. 32. he that spared not his owne Son but gave him to death for us shall he not with him give us all things else that are necessary I might give you more reasons why we should seeke so diligently after the salvation of our soules But I must not be totus in singulis I therefore proceede to Application and the use which we shall make hereof is twofold First it serves for confutation Secondly for exhortation 1 Vse of consutation Have we such great cause to seeke diligently after the salvation of our soules Sure then they are much to blame that care more for temporall things then they doe for the salvation of their soules Some prodigalls what cost doe they bestow upon Houses Horses Hawkes Dogs and what cheap account do they make of their souls the House must be magnificently built and furnis●t the Horse must be pampered and kept fat and faire {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and all things must be brave and gorgeous but there is no care taken that there be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a beautifull soule I have read of a spruce Roman that riding through the streets of Rome on a leane horse was demanded by the Censor why hee being so spruce a man rode on so poor a horse Unto whom he answered ego curo incipsum servus vero equum I take care for my selfe but my servant for my horse In like manner I doubt there are many that onely take care for their bodyes but neglect seeking after the salvation of their soules Some there bee that esteem more of agility of body then fervency of spirit others esteem more of strength of the body then grace of the soule others there be that esteem more of beauty of the body then purity of the soul and if such as these have beauty how doe they mince and trip it up and downe contemning and despising others and yet God knows beauty is but a deceiving vanity favour is deceitfull and beauty is vaine Forma est mera deceptio visus beauty is a meere deceiving of our selves a meere flout a meere scoffe For what face is there bee it never so beautifull in youth but if it live long it will be plowed with the furrows of old age and if it live not to old age yet it is subject to deformity many other wayes and yet some are more enamoured with this vanity then they are with their soules The covetous man cares not what becomes of his soule so he may have but plenty of riches these count wealth the summum bonum the chiefe good and therefore seek onely after it and not after the salvation of their soules these are the seed of the Serpent and indeed have the curse of the Serpent sticking on them to licke the dust these covetous wretches deface the image of God that was stamp't on them by continuall rubbing against the earth these like wormes and no men crawle upon the ground or like hogs they go rooting downe-wards in the earth and indeed they may well be compared to hogs for as hogs are alwayes rooting downwards in the earth and seldome or never look upwards till being ready to be killed they are layd flat on their backes and forced to it so these covetous miscreants goe groveling downe-wards and lye scraping in the dung-hill of this world and never looke upwards or thinke of heaven or salvation till wrestling with the pangs of death they are thrown flat on their backes and then perhaps the Minister is sent for the sacrament and heavenly things desired but if the Minister perswade them before this time to be weaned from the world and to seeke diligently after the salvation of their soules they are ready to say as the devils to our saviour art thou come to torment us before our time they are loath to be saints too soone and if they must needs be weaned from the world they would put it off till the last day and houre of their death when they can enjoy it no longer It is fabulized that the crab gave the Serpent his deaths wound for his crooked conditions and seeing him stretch himselfe out straite said At oportuit sic vixisse you should have lived so Let the covetous worldling that seekes not after the salvation of his soule take heed that when he lyes gasping as it were in the suburbs of death and begs for salvation that God answer him non at oportuit sic vixisse but thou shouldest so have lived as that thou mightest now have beene sit for heaven But