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<HEAD>OLD Mr. EDMUND CALAMY'S Former and Latter Sayings upon &s;everal Occa&s;ions.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. TAke heed of a mi&s;take in the two great Go&s;pel Graces: 1. Of Faith. 2. Of Repentance; and know where one goes to Hell by De&s;pair, hundreds go thither by Pre|&s;umption.</P>
<P N="2">2. Since &s;o many mi&s;take through vain hope of Heaven, be much in Examination to prove your own &s;elves: To be deceived in this, nece&s;&s;i|tates Damnation.</P>
<P N="3">3. Remember that Self-flattery is Soul-Mockery.</P>
<P N="4">4. Seek Heaven fir&s;t before other things, and more than other things.</P>
<P N="5">5. In a matter of this weight, delay is de&s;pe|rately dangerous.</P>
<P N="6">6. He that defers Repentance until Old Age, may expect to have this retort: Where you have &s;pent your Flower, there go &s;pend your Bran.</P>
<P N="7">7. De&s;pi&s;e not Chri&s;t's Mini&s;ters; he that is above their Teachings, is above Chri&s;ts, for Chri&s;t Teacheth by them.</P>
<P N="8">8. Yet Ble&s;&s;ed are tho&s;e, that whil&s;t the Mini|&s;ter &s;peaks to their Ear, that God al&s;o &s;peaks to their Hearts.</P>
<P N="9">9. Take heed of Formal and Cu&s;tomary &s;er|ving of God; &s;uch Service is Mockery.</P>
<P N="10">10. Re&s;t not contented in the Name of Chri|&s;tianity, &s;uch Chri&s;tians have a lively name, and but a dead practice; 'twill be a &s;ad thing to &s;eem to go to Heaven.</P>
<P N="11">11. It will be a double Hell to go within an Inch of Heaven, and at la&s;t mi&s;carry.</P>
<P N="12">12. To prai&s;e Sermons heard, or to admire them, and not to live Sermons; <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Go|morrah</HI>'s ca&s;e at the day of Judgment will be bet|ter than yours.</P>
<P N="13">13. Take heed that worldly Love doth not eat out a Chri&s;tian-Life.</P>
<P>There is no &s;in &s;o contrary to true Godline&s;s, as worldly-mindedne&s;s.</P>
<P N="14">14. Let your fir&s;t Morning thought, and your la&s;t Evening thought be, <HI>What &s;hall become of you to all Eternity.</HI></P>
<P N="15">15. Reckon &s;in the greate&s;t of Evils, and rather cho&s;e the greate&s;t affliction than the lea&s;t &s;in.</P>
<P N="16">16. Communicate tho&s;e Graces God hath given you, to tho&s;e with whom you Conver&s;e; true Grace is of a &s;preading Nature; effectual Grace will labour to convert others.</P>
<P N="17">17. Labour to be good in every Relation, good Subjects, good Husbands, good Ma&s;ters, good Neighbours.</P>
<P N="18">18. Joyn to your Piety, works of Mercy and Charity; God hates a Niggardly Chri&s;tian. Let the Pious Rich-man be Rich in good Works.</P>
<P N="19">19. Take heed of &s;eparating from the Publick A&s;&s;emblies; he that doth &s;o, is like a man tum|bling down a Hill, and never leaving till he comes to the bottom of it.</P>
<P N="20">20. Though Truth in the&s;e Erronious days be un&s;etled, yet labour to get your Con&s;ciences &s;etled.</P>
<P N="21">21. Avoid tho&s;e Doctrines that are again&s;t ei|ther Magi&s;tracy, or Mini&s;try, or which tend to prophane Liberty, or that cry up free Grace to ca&s;t down good Works.</P>
<P N="22">22. Take heed of Apo&s;tacy in your Judgments to err from the Truths of Chri&s;t, in your affecti|ons from your Love to Chri&s;t, or in your Con|ver&s;ations in exact walking with Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="23">23. Study often and often the four la&s;t things:
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<ITEM>1. The Meditation of death will pre|pare you for death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The Meditation of Heaven will make you Heavenly-minded.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The Meditation of Hell will keep you from Hell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. The Meditation of Judgment will be a Bridle to keep you from &s;in.</ITEM>
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<P N="24">24. No man hath a Lock and Key of God's Pa|tience. The Old World was warned one hun|dred and twenty years; <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI>'s De&s;truction was but forty years; <HI>Nineveh</HI>'s De&s;truction was but forty days; and of <HI>Sodoms</HI> De&s;truction, <HI>Lot</HI> had but one Nights warning.</P>
<P N="25">25. God hath three degrees of Wrath; Fir&s;t, His Threatning-Wrath: Second, His Puni&s;hing-Wrath: Third, His Condemning-Wrath.</P>
<P N="26">26. As &s;oon as <HI>Adam</HI> &s;inn'd, he was ca&s;t out of <HI>Paradi&s;e;</HI> and as &s;oon as Angels &s;inn'd, they were ca&s;t into Hell.</P>
<P N="27">27. Sin is a Wall of &s;eparation between God and us: To turn from Sin, will break down this Wall.</P>
<P N="28">28. Sin puts difference betwixt Nation and Nation.</P>
<P N="29">29. But O the Divine Rhetorick of Repen|tance, this is that Star will bring us unto Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="30">30. As we have fill'd God's Bag with our Sins, &s;o let us fill his Bottle with our Tears.</P>
<P N="31">31. There was no little price paid for &s;ins; there is no little di&s;obedience in a little &s;in.</P>
<P N="32">32. To di&s;obey God in a little, is no little di&s;|obedience.</P>
<P N="33">33. A little Bodkin may wound a <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> to death.</P>
<P N="34">34. For our many Church-&s;ins, Sermon-&s;ins, Sacrament-&s;ins, let us have an&s;werable Repen|tance.</P>
<P N="35">35. Drunkenne&s;s is grown to that Gyant-like bigne&s;s, that there is no hopes of redre&s;s.</P>
<P N="36">36. Whore-mongers and Adulterers God will Judge, if man will not.</P>
<P N="37">37. The Covetuous Earth-worm, his heart is &s;tufft with Earth, and his Ears are &s;topt with Earth; God will give him Earth enough when he dyes, and he is like to have little enough of Heaven.</P>
<P N="38">&rindx; 38. The Pride of Apparel in following the Fa&s;hion of other Nations; how ju&s;tly may we expect that God &s;hould make us Slaves to that Nation.</P>
<P N="39">39. A Penitent Tear is an undeniable Em|ba&s;&s;adour.</P>
<P N="40">40. No man can go to Heaven by Humiliati|on, without Reformation.</P>
<P N="41">41. The Crown we Fight for; the Garland we Run for; the Mark we aime at, is Mercy.</P>
<P N="42">42. Though we could Fa&s;t till we were Anata|mi&s;ts; though we could Pray till our Knees were as hard as Camels: This is the great and everla&s;ting Fa&s;t, to Fa&s;t from &s;ins.</P>
<P N="43">43. Where &s;in rules, there God and Mercy will not &s;tay.</P>
<P N="44">44. Sin is a Serpent in the Bo&s;om, a Thief in the Hou&s;e, Poy&s;on at the Stomack, and a Sword at the very Heart of a Nation.</P>
<P N="45">45. There are many in the world, are the wor&s;e for Mercies; that are like unto Dunghills; the more the Son of Mercy &s;hines upon them, the more they &s;tink.</P>
<P N="46">46. There are many; the more Health, the more Wealth; the more Honour they receive from God, the more they harden their hearts a|gain&s;t God.</P>
<P N="47">47. He that &s;ins again&s;t Mercy, &s;ins again&s;t the be&s;t Friend that ever he &s;hall have.</P>
<P N="48">48. God forbid that ever any &s;hould be &s;o bru|ti&s;h as to &s;in, and not to be a&s;hamed of &s;in.</P>
<P N="49">49. Many content them&s;elves with a drop of Prai&s;es for a Sea of Mercies.</P>
<P N="50">50. The Devil was the fir&s;t that ever named God's name in Scripture, and one of the fir&s;t that ever confe&s;t Chri&s;t to be the Son of God, and yet he was a Devil for all that.</P>
<P N="51">51. It is a Devilli&s;h thing to prai&s;e God with our Lips, and &s;erve the Devil with our Lives.</P>
<P N="52">52. He that will not follow the Example of Chri&s;t's Life, &s;hall never be &s;aved by the Merit of his Death.</P>
<P N="53">53. It is a maxim in Nature, every Ma&s;ter is to be &s;erved according as him&s;elf commands.</P>
<P N="54">54. He that will truly &s;erve God, mu&s;t &s;erve none but him.</P>
<P N="55">55. The Living God expects not only living, but lively Service.</P>
<P N="56">56. You are not &s;it to &s;erve the Lord, unle&s;s ye be fervent in Spirit.</P>
<P N="57">57. The God whom ye &s;erve, is the &s;ame in all times, he alters not, no more mu&s;t his Servants.</P>
<P N="58">58. If thou can&s;t find out a place where God doth not &s;ee thee, there it &s;hall be Lawful for thee to &s;erve the Devil.</P>
<P N="59">59. God is a Ma&s;ter that cannot err in his Commands; this is Rea&s;on &s;ufficient, the un|erring God will have it &s;o.</P>
<P N="60">60. Sir <HI>Thomas Moore,</HI> his good &s;aying, <HI>I will not pin my Salvation upon any mans Sleeve, becau&s;e I know not whither he will carry it.</HI></P>
<P N="61">61 He that &s;erves God only for Heaven, &s;ells his Service to God.</P>
<P N="62">62. A true Servant of God may have an Eye to the recompence of Reward, as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> had; but he mu&s;t have but one Eye upon the Reward, not both, and the left Eye too; for our chief and la&s;t aime mu&s;t be at Gods Glory.</P>
<P N="63">63. And this is the right Serving of God, to &s;erve him with a &s;ervant-like &s;ubjection, and with a Son-like affection.</P>
<P N="64">64. We do not expect as much light from a Candle as from the Sun: God expects the great Lights of the World to out-&s;hine others in Holi|ne&s;s.</P>
<P N="65">65. Men expect the mo&s;t Service from tho&s;e they give mo&s;t Wages.</P>
<P N="66">66. When Divine Wi&s;dom and Honour meet together, they are like Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver.</P>
<P N="67">67. Great men are like unto Looking-gla&s;&s;es, according to which all the Country dre&s;s them|&s;elves.</P>
<P N="68">68. Tho&s;e that are Time-&s;ervers, and not God-&s;ervers, their Religion is like a piece of wax, to be moulded into any frame.</P>
<P N="69">69. It is Wi&s;dom to ob&s;erve times, &s;o as to know our Duty: But it is damnable Wicked|ne&s;s to &s;erve the Times, and not the Lord.</P>
<P N="70">70. There are many that give their Cap and Knee to God, but them&s;elves to Sin and Iniquity.</P>
<P N="71">71. God hath his Hand-writing on the wall, to make the great <HI>Bel&s;hazzers</HI> of the Earth to trem|ble.</P>
<P N="72">72. There are but few that are Great and Rich here, and Great and Rich hereafter.</P>
<P N="73">73. In Chri&s;t's time poor <HI>Lazarus</HI> went to Heaven, and rich <HI>Dives</HI> was carryed to Hell.</P>
<P N="74">74. It is the certaine&s;t &s;ign of a Reprobate to have much wages here, and to want a heart to do &s;ervice with it.</P>
<P N="75">75. The Service of God is perfect freedom, and it will free us from all other Services.</P>
<P N="76">76. The &s;ervice of &s;in, as it is &s;hameful, &s;o it is unfruitful.</P>
<P N="77">77. Wonder not why God's Servants are &s;o poor; this Life is the time of working, hereafter we &s;hall have wages enough.</P>
<P N="78">78. There are many dear Servants of God, to whom God giveth very little wages in this Life, becau&s;e he fore-&s;ees, that if they had a great part of their wages afore-hand, they would do but little work.</P>
<P N="79">79. Tho&s;e that conver&s;e with the God of all joy, mu&s;t needs be filled with all joy.</P>
<P N="80">80. A Swine finds no delight in a green Mea|dow, becau&s;e it is a Swine.</P>
<P N="81">81. A wicked man at God's Service, is like a Fi&s;h out of his Element.</P>
<P N="82">82. One Sparrow is not worth half a Farthing; you &s;hall not have half a farthing-worth of harm, more than God hath from all Eternity decreed.</P>
<P N="83">83. When <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> went up to the Mount to Pray, he took the Rod of God in his Hand: the Rea&s;on is given, becau&s;e, by that Rod God had formerly done wonderful things for his people.</P>
<P N="84">84. There are but two ways to Heaven, either by Innocency, or by Penitency.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>W. B.</HI> 1674. 71.</P>
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