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A51986	Fair warnings to a careless world in the pious letter written by the Right Honourable James Earl of Marleburgh, a little before his death, to the Right Honourable Sir Hugh Pollard, comptroller of his Maties houshold. With the last words of CXL and upwards, of the most learned and honourable persons of England, and other parts of the world.	Pollard, Hugh, Sir, 1610-1666.; Lloyd, David, 16315-1692.; Smith, Henry, f. 1665.; Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of, 1618-1665.	1665 (1665)	Wing M686; ESTC R1009	20,131	51

renounce his Saviour said Fourscore and six years have I served Christ neither hath he ever offended me in any thing I have lived by him I will live to him Bishop USHER THat most learned and knowing Prelate after his indefatigable pains as a Christian a Scholar a Prelate and a Preacher went out of the World with this Prayer Lord forgive me my sins of Omission and desired to die as Mr. Perkins did imploring the Mercy and Favour of God My Lord BACON THat understood the World and himself as well as any man in Europe would say That a little smattering in Philosophy might tempt a man to be an Atheist but a through study of it would bring him back to be Religious And after variety of Fortunes in the World breathed ou● his Soul thus Sir JOHN MASON PRivy Councellor to King Henry the eighth and King Edward the sixth whom some make Secretary of State setting him a little too high others Master of the Requests placing him as much too low upon his death-bed called for his Clerk and Steward and delivered himself to them to this purpose I have seen five Princes and been Privy-Councellor to four I have seen the most remarqueable observables in forreign parts and been present at most State-transactions for thirty years together and I have learned this after so many years experience that Seriousness is the greatest Wisdome Temperance the best Physick a good Conscience is the best Estate and were I to live again I would change the Court for a Cloyster my Privie Counsellers bustles for an Hermits retirement and the whole life I lived in the Palace for one hours enjoyment of God in the Chappel all things else forsake me besides my God my duty and my prayer Sir HENRY WOTTON AFter his many years study with great proficiency and applause at the University his neer relation to the great favorite Robert Earl of Essex his Intimacy with the Duke of Tuscany and James the sixth King of Scotland his Embassies to Holland Germany and Venice desired to retire with this Motto Tandem didicit animas sapientiores fieri quiescendo being very ambitious of the Provostship of Eaton that he might there enjoy his beloved Study and devotion saying often that the day he put his Surp●ice on was the happiest day of his life That being the utmost happiness a man could attain to he said to be at leasure to be and to do good Never reflecting on his former years but with tears would say How much time have I to repent of and how little to do it in Sir THOMAS SMITH AFter he had many years served Q. Elizabeth as Secretary of State and done many good services to the kingdome particularly to the setling of the Corne-rate for the Universities discharged all affairs and attendants a quarter of a year before he died sent to his singular good friends the Bishops of Winchester and Worcester intreating them to draw him out of the word of God the plainest and exactest way of making his peace with God and living godly in this present world adding that it was great pitty men knew not to what end they were born into this world until they were ready to go out of it My LORD BACON WOuld say towards the later end of his life that a little smattering in Philosophy would lead a man to Atheisme but a through insight into it will lead a man back again to a first cause and that the first principle of right reason is Religion in reference to which it was the wisest way to live strictly and severely for if the opinion of another world be not true yet the sweetest life in this world is Piety Virtue and Honesty If it be there are none so miserable as the loose the carnal and profane Persons who lived a dishonourable and a base life in this world and were like to fall to a most woful state in the next TERTULLIAN COme life come death I will worship none but God Almighty O Lord God Almighty receive the soul of thy Servant in peace who suffereth death for thy Cause and the Gospel ORIGEN IF my Father stood weeping upon his knees before me and my Mother hanging on my neck behind and all my Brethren Sisters Children and Kinsfolks howling on every side to retain me in a sinful life I would fling my Mother to the ground run over my Father despise all my Kindred and tread them under my feet that I might run to Christ. I am sayling with the Marriner through the boysterous Sea but shortly I shall be in the haven c. Help me with your prayers To my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ my Hope and my Salvation I wholly offer up my soul and body I cast my self wholly upon his Mercy and Grace Sir THOMAS COVENTRY ONce hearing some Gallants jesting with Religion said that there was no greater argument of a foolish and inconsiderate person than profanely to droll at Religion It 's a Sign he hath no regard of himself and that he is not touched with a sense of his own interest who playeth with life and death and makes nothing of his soul. To examine severely and debate seriously the principles of Religion is a thing worthy of a wise man whosoever turns religion into Raillery and abuseth it with two or three bold jests rendreth not religion but himself ridiculous in the opinion of all considerate men because he sports with his own life for a good man saith If the principles of religion were doubtful yet they concern us so neerly that we ought to be serious in the examination of them JUSTIN MARTYR HEre I stand before God and this honourable Audience and take him to witness that I never willingly and wittingly taught any false doctrine and therefore have I a good conscience before God and all good men I am sure that you and I shall come before a righteous Judge before whom I shall be as good a man as you pointing at the Accuser and I nothing doubt but that I shall be found then a true member of Jesus Christ be everlastingly saved Merciful Father Father of Heaven for the Lord Jesus Christ my Saviours sake receive my Soul into thy hands An Excellent PERSONAGES Sentiments for Religion IT may justly seem strange that true Religion which containeth nothing in it but what is truly Noble and Generous most rational and pleasing to the spirits of all good men should yet suffer so much in its esteem in the world through those strange and uncouth Vizards it is represented under some accounting the life and practice as it speaks subduing our wills to the will of God which is the substance of all Religion a thing too low and mean for their rank and condition in the world while others pretend a quarrel against the principles of it as unsatisfactory to Humane Reason Thus Religion suffers with the Author of it between two Thieves and hard it is to define which is most injurious to it that

Sin yea That what liberty soever he had taken he had rather be torn in pieces by will Horses than wittingly and willingly commit any Sin CALEACIUS CARACCIOLUS MArquess of Vico a noble Person of a great Estate and as great Relations lived a great while in Popery and at last left his Country his Estate and Friends to profess the Gospel of Jesus Christ with Moses judging it better to suffer affliction with the People of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season for he had respect unto the recompence of the Reward and endured as seeing him who was invisible SOCRATES BEing near his Death said thus Magna me spestenet Judices bene mihi evenire quòd mittar ad mortem necesse est enim ut sit alterum de duobus ut aut sensus omnino mors omnes auferat aut in alium quendam locum ex his locis morte migretur quamobrem sive sensus extinguitur morsque ei somno similis est qui nonnunquam etiam sine visis somnorum pacatissimum quietem affert Dii Boni quid lucri est emori c. Sin vero sunt quae dicuntur migrationem esse mortem in eas oras quas qui ante è vita excesserunt incolunt id multo jam beatius est te cum ab iis qui se judicum numero haberi volunt evaseris ad eos venire qui vere judices appellantur c. convenerique eos qui justè cum fide vixerint Haec peregrinatio mediocris vobis videre potest Ut vero colloqui cum Orphaeo Musaeo Homero Hesiodo liceat quanti tandem aestimatis Equidem saepe mori si fieri possit vellem ut ea quae dico mihi liceret invenire Quanta delectatione autem afficeret c. Ne vos quidem Judices ii qui me absolvistis mortem timueritis nec enim cuiquam bono mali quidquam evenire potest nec vivo nec mortuo nec unquam ejus res à Diis immortalibus negligenter c. ROBERT Earl of SOMERSET UNhappy in his good Nature would say often after he had lost the King and Courts Favour O the vanity of great Men who think it to be the chief fruit of their greatness to abuse their power insolently to the ruine of their Inferiours not remembring being blinded by their Passion that they have a Superiour over them to make them yeild an account of their unjust proceedings forcing them to make restitution with interest Farewel Riches welcome Poverty farewel Life welcome Death All that I have were it a thousand times more would I lose rather than speak one wicked word against God my Creator I yeild thee most hearty thanks O my God for this Gift of thy Grace that I can contemn and despise this frail and transitory World esteeming the Confession of Christ above all Treasures I shall not leave the Fellowship of these holy men with whom I lived in the fear of God and with whom I desire to dye and with whom I trust I shall obtain the Glory to come My Life is in thy hands O my dear God let it never be prolonged to the prejudice of thy Glory If my paces be few to walk my Journy to Heaven Lord give me Grace never to look back A little before he died he cried out horribly and that often Oh who will kill me and deliver me from these pains I know I suffer for the oppressions I did to poor men Let fire cross breaking of bones quartering of my members crushing my bones and all the torments that man and the devil can invent against me fall upon me so that I may enjoy the Lord Jesus Christ. Even at his departure he said O God the Father of thy beloved Son Jesus Christ through whom we have received the knowledge of thee O God the Creator of all things upon thee do I call thee I confess to be the true God thee onely do I glorifie O Lord receive me and make me a companion of the resurrection of thy Saints through the merits of our great High-priest thy beloved Son Jesus Christ. The Lord Chancellor EGERTON USed to say That to be profane was the simplest thing in the world for the Atheist and profane persons as it were lay a Wager against the serious and pious man that there is no God but upon woful oddes for he ventures his everlasting state the other hazards onely the loss of his lusts which it is his interest to be without or at the most but some short advantage and all the while is inwardly more contented and happie and usually more healthful and perhaps meets with more respect and faithfullest friends and lives in a more secure and flourishing condition and freer from the evils and punishments of this world then the Atheist doth however it is not much that he ventures and after this life if there be no God is as well as he but if there be is infinitely better even as much as unspeakable and eternal happiness is better then extreme and endless misery So that as an excellent person saith if the Arguments for and against a God were equal and it were an even Question whether there were one or not yet the hazard and danger is so infinitely unequal that in point of prudence every man is bound to stick to the safest side of the Question and make make that his Hypothesis to live by For he that acts wisely and is a thorowly-prudent man will be provided in omnem eventum and will take care to secure the main chance whatever happeneth but the Atheist in case things should fall out contrary to his belief and expectation he hath made no provision in this case If contrary to his confidence it should prove in the issue that there is a God the man is lost and undone for ever If the Atheist when he dieth findes that his soul hath onely quitted its lodging and remains after the body what a sad surprise will it be to finde himself among a world of spirits entred on an everlasting and an unchangeable state IGNATIUS NIhil praestantius est pace bonae conscientiae There is nothing better then the peace of a good conscience Grace flowing from the blessed Spirit of God makes the soul like a fountain whose water is pure wholesome and clear for grace beautifieth and clenseth and so saveth the whole man IRENAEUS IF thou art backward in Repentance be forwards in thoughts of Hell the burning flames whereof onely the tears of a penitent eye can extinguish 'T is in vain to pray for the remission of sins without forgiving others we must not come to make an atonement with God before we make an atonement with our brother Nihil prodest verbis proferre virtutem factis destruere To set out vertue in words and by deeds to destroy the same is nothing worth CHRYSOSTOM TO know thy self is very difficult yet the ready way to Godliness As the eye can see all things but