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Title:  The penitent death of a woefull sinner, or, The penitent death of John Atherton, late Bishop of Waterford in Ireland who was executed at Dublin the 5. of December, 1640 : with some annotations upon severall passages in it : as also the sermon, with some further enlargements, preached at his burial / by Nicolas Barnard ...
Author: Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.
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the worst of men by the Prophet (Hosea 4, 4.) How able and active this our Brother was in the recoveries of such dues, ye all know, But what a griefe now, his spending so much time in them was, whereby he lost himselfe, I know. The regaining of the Churches Rights he thought might be done, but the gaining of soules, the Rights of Christ purchased by his blood, by no meanes should be left undone. Often did he ap∣ply to himselfe that Speech of a Card. Woolser. great man at his last. Had hee been as diligent to have done God service, as he had done the King, he had kept the Kings favour still. So had he been as conversant in the study of the Gospell, for the instruction of Men, as he had been in the Law, for the setling of Lands, he had not by the Law so deservedly lost Lands, Body and Estate, and all at once. we are called Fishers, not Hunters, Fishers of men, not of money, we are prest for a Spirituall warfare, and such 0