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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

thy after-services are but like Cain's Sacrifices procuring a curse rather then a blessing In a word we were not made to serve the world the world was made to serve us and we were made to serve God Let every creature especially Man continue in his place for man is the most excellent creature of all on earth Let him then transcend all in his holy obedience to his Maker We are not our own we ought not to live to our selves we have forfeited our lives many a time the wages of the least sin is death and cursedness and yet our lives have been restored to us again For what end why saith the Scripture that we might not live to our selves but unto God Oh how often times doth he call how earnestly doth he knock at the door of our hearts how powerfully doth he strive how long doth he wait upon us to get us to yield unto him namely to have our hearts dis-ingaged from all things beneath himself and yet such wretches as we are we will not yield What is become of that frame of Spirit that was upon the Saints in former days Nathan used but one parable to David and he was converted Jonah preached but few days to Nineveh and they repented Christ looked back once upon Peter and he wept bitterly but there is such a spirit of slumber fallen upon most of the people in these days that nothing will prevail unless it be that place Rev. 21. 11. He that is unjust let him be so still and he which is filthy let him be filthy still And so they make good this place as it is spoken by way of precept and not by way of caution never considering what will become of them in the end thereof O ye sons and daughters of men did not our tender loving Lord God make us Lords of the Creation and are not we become Servants unto it Did not he make man the wisest of all Creatures and is there any Creature under the whole Heaven so unwise as man Did he not put a fear and a dread upon every creature Gen. 9. 2. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every fowl of the ayr and upon all that moveth on the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea into your hands are they delivered But how is poor silly man afraid of and become a Servant to the meanest of all these Creatures in a Spiritual sense These were made our servants and have been faithfull in their service to us we were Created in the Image of God and appointed by him to be serviceable unto him and yet the whole Creation are more serviceable unto him and do not dishonour him as man doth Jer. 8. 6 7. I hearkened saith the Lord and heard but the most excellent piece of my workmanship man spake not aright no man repented him of his wickedness saying what have I done So I was fain to repent my self that ever I made man for every one runneth into sin as the horse rusheth into the battel Yea the Stork in the heavens knows her appointed times and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow observe the time of their coming but my People know not the judgments of the Lord. Man that was made the wisest of all is become the variest fool of all And oh that we saw it 1 Cor. 3. 18. Let no man deceive himself If any man among you seemeth to be wise let him become a fool that he may be wise We like fools take a great deal of pains to make our selves miserable We forsake the Fountain of living endurable waters and ride and run through thick and thin labour and toyl dig and hew unto our selves Cisterns yea broken Cisterns that will hold no water Jer. 2. 12 13. If John were to write an Epistle to the Professors of our dayes as once he did to Gaius 3 Ep. Joh. v. 1 2. Beloved I wish above all things that thou mayst prosper be in health even as thy soul prospereth I say if he were to write to us he would undoubtedly change his voice and say O ye Professors now extant in the English Nation I wish above all things that ye may prosper in your souls even as your bodies prosper O thou hast a flourishing body but a starved soul thy eyes stare out with fatness thou hast more then heart can wish thou art like the green Bay tree or the Willows by the water side thou hast given thee thy hearts desire but thou hast a lean famished starved soul and I could wish above all things that thy soul prospered as thy body prospereth Oh is it not better to go to Heaven with poor Lazarus then to Hell with rich Dives Is it not better O sons and daughters of men to be often saying with our head Christ The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head then to be saying in effect as most do at this day with that rich man Luk. 12 17. 18 19 20. Soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years take thine ease eat drink and be merry but God said unto him Thou fool this night shall thy soul be required of thee c. We have forgotten those words 1 Joh. 2. 15. Love not the world neither the things of the world if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him O how few such can we find in a whole Parish in a whole City in a whole Shire nay how many think you are there in a whole Nation that love the world and so have not the love of the Father abiding in them In this Epistle of John the Spirit of the Lord in the mouth of his servant cals to all the sons of men and craves their diligent attention I have written to you Fathers I have written to you Children I have written to you Young men Why what is the Spirit of the Lord about to make out unto us Only here is the sum ver 15. Love not the world nor the things of the world for if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him Object But some will be apt to say We do love God we do not love the World Answ How shall that appear If I should try thy practice by the Scriptures I shall find that thou dost love the world and not God 1 Ioh. 3. 17. Whoso hath this worlds good and seeth his brother in need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion how dwelleth the love of God in him That thou hast faith shew it to me by thy works and if thou hast love shew it by its fruits Indeed there is abundance of Faith and Love in the Nation but I can find but little in my self and others in the powerful operation The Power of Godliness is but here and there in a corner and when it doth

earth 2. Because at the best we are but earth 3. Because we shall speedily return to the earth which is our proper Center Man is born to trouble as the sparks flie upward and all these troubles come in thick one after another like Iobs Intelligencers Iob 1. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19. And each of these summons the soul to come forth of that rotten house the body when thy tooth doth ake one of the best beams in thy house doth begin to crack and soon after some incurable disease or other fastens upon thy body and then the Spirit ascends upward and thy body downward even to the earth thy mother Job 17. 14. I have said to corruption thou art my father to the worm thou art my mother sister and brother So the earth returns to its earth the fire to its center the water to its water the air to its own place and so that which was dust at first becomes dust again Gen. 3. 19. For dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return And that speedily for thy dayes be not only as swift but swifter then the Weavers shuttle Consider how many thousand soules had their being in this life many weeks yea many moneths yea many yeares since thou hadst thy being and they be already turned to the dust from whence they came and thou doest yet remain going up and down thy Mother the Earth Let this teach thee two things First Admire the pleasure of God and say What should be the cause that I remain upon the earth surely the Lord expecteth something to be done by me Oh let me do it speedily before I die and be no more seen Secondly consider That although thou art yet alive thy time is even at an end for thou must cut off like a Weaver and be no more seen Isa 38. 12. Now if if it be so that our dayes are swifter then the Weavers shuttle and our life so short that the swiftest and shortest things we read of in Scripture are not swift short and frail enough to compare mans life unto I say if this be true then by way of Use there be many considerable things for us to know and doe Vse 1. First then the serious consideration of these foregoing things doth bespeak our care and diligence immediatly to setabout the doing of that which most men do wish they had done when they lie a dying saying Oh that I were to live again how circumspectly would I walk how careful vigilant and diligent would I be saith the dying soul Wherefore whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it quickly with all thy might If ever you will give attendance to Reading Exhortation and Doctrine do it faithfully throughly and presently If ever you will be pittiful and charitable to the poor sow plentifully and presently If ever you will declare your self to be a true Disciple of Christ by manifesting your love to Saints and Siners do it presently If ever thou intendest to examine whether thou art in Christ and to give all diligence to make thy calling and election sure or to run the race that is set before thee or to strive to enter in at the strait gate set about it presently do not so much as eat or drink or sleep until thou hast begun the work for thou doest not know whether ever thou shalt live one year one month one day one hour one minute Time past cannot be recalled Time to come is uncertain Time present is only thine To day then if thou wilt heare his voice harden not thy heart before the silver-cord be loosed or the golden-bowl be broken or the pitcher be broken at the fountain or the wheel broken at the cistern Eccl. 12. 6. Work while it is day the night cometh in which thou canst not work Turn turn presently to the Lord with thy whole heart while it is called to day hearken to his voice lest thou art hardned through the deceitfulness of sin as in Heb. 3. 13. Lest it be said to thee and I as in Rev. 22. 11. He that is unjust let him be unjust still Oh Ierusalem Ierusalem saith Christ Luk. 13. 34. how often would I have gathered thy children together as a Hen doth gather her chickens under her wings and you would not Behold your house is left unto you desolate So again Prov. 1. 24 25 26. Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded but ye have set at naught all my counsel and would none of my reproof I also will laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear cometh when they shall call upon me I will not answer they shall seek me early but shall not finde me ver 30. They would none of my Counsell they would none of my reproof ver 31. Therefore shall they eat of their own doings and be filled with their own devices For the further confirmation of this see Heb. 12. 16 17. Nay further if thou lookest upon thy self as one elected by the Father Redeemed by the Son sanctified by the Spirit and so canst not fall finally from God yet if thou improve not the present inch of time thou wilt loose abundance of thy sweet consolation and bring thy self into great straits and it may be die in despair of mercy and so loose the manifestion apprehension and enjoyment of thy interest in God for many days at least Cant. 5. 1. 2. Christ he comes and calls saying Open to me my sister my love my dove my undefiled one well the Spouse answereth I have put off my coat how shall I put it on I have washed my feet how shall I defile them well Christ immediatly withdraws himself then the Spouse sought him but could not finde him she called him but he gave no Answer Well what follows she seeks him sorrowing but could not finde him ver 7. The watchmen that were about the City smote her and wounded her as in Cant. 5. 7 8 9 10 11 So also one of the Apostles Thomas by name would not embrace the present opportunity neither believe the report that he heard of the Resurrection of Christ Joh. 20. 25. well Thomas he lost the sight of Christ for many days Joh. 20. 26 27 28. If ever thou intendest then to believe in Christ and to relieve Christ in his Members do it presently for if thou stay till to morrow either thy house and all that thou hast may be burned or it may be thou mayst not have an opportunity to give or else thou wilt have but little mind to do it thou mayst not live till to morrow seeing thy days are swifter then a weavers Shuttle surely this relieving of poor Saints is acceptable with God although it be so neglected by men this duty would not be so slighted if these four things were well considered 1. First make their case thy case their necessity thy necessity Matth. 7. 12. Whatsoever that ye would that men should do to you do ye

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