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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35042	A defense against the dread of death, or, Zach. Crofton's meditations and soliloquies concerning the stroak of death sounded in his ears in the time of his close imprisonment in the Tower of London, anno 1661 and 1662 : digested for his own private staisfaction and support in the vale of the shadow of death, and now made publique for the advantage of such as abide under Gods present visitation in London by the pestilence.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1665 (1665)	Wing C6992; ESTC R24795	57,690	178

entertain such an exchange of objects to mine understanding is not my loss great and greatly to be lamented by which I onely loose the knowledge of vanity which would not make me happy and iniquity which would make me miserable but gain the knowledge the perfect knowledg of good much good true and substantial good only good without the least mixture of evil and that in an estate in the enjoyment of perfect glory SECT XII AFter death there shall be no remembrance of me No remembrance of me after death nor of my sin but it s no matter a great name foolishly purchased by the great precipitacie of some in the world is nothing but a great bubble of vanity which will wear out at last time will eat it out of the strongest Cities or marble Monuments and I hope when I am forgotten my sin shame will also be forgotten serious thoughts suggest unto me content the little good I have done should be forgotten so that my folly and wickedness may not be remembred and yet My soul be not dismaid the Scripture doth declare the memory of the just is blessed Psal 10.7 112.6 and the righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance God hath provided that his peoples names shall live when their dead bodies shall consume in the grave the Lord hath used me whilst I lived as an instrument of his truth and honour can I dye and be forgotten in his Church or among his people shall not my works follow me shall not my works praise me in the gate can the sinners by me reproved or the Saints by me converted to or confirmed in the truth remember themselves their sin or duty and forget me God hath blessed me with many lasting memorials of nature a fruitful progeny I need not build tombs or Cities and call them after my name for when I am dead my sons will preserve the memory of my name the rotting of the name is a curse entailed on men of rotten lives and is ordinarily effected by Gods cutting off the budding race and hopeful progeny whatever hath befallen me in this life God hath not suffered this cause procuring or producing this effect to be my lot I will not therefore torment my self with a fear that it should follow me when dead Notwithstanding my sinfulness my care shall be that my life and death may make it legible that my name is written in the book of life and therein I have cause to rejoyce more then if the devils we●● subject to me Luk. 10.20 I have laid ho●d on Gods Covenant he hath given me a place in his sanctuary better then a name of sons and daughters my name can never be blotted out of that book mine interest and relation by that covenant shall ever be acknowledged and remembred I therefore cannot possibly be buried in oblivion SECT XIII DEath will remove me from my place Death wil remove me from my place but it is movable that it shall know me no more it will so but shall this dismay me am not I a pilgrim in this earth as all my fathers were the Patriarchs passed their time on earth in moveable tents Looking for a City whose founder and maker is God Heb. 10.10 the houses in which I have lived have seemed to be more lasting structures yet they never were to me any durable stations I have not indeed removed my tents but I have been often removed from my tents I have ever been in a shifting state moving from one house unto another from one place to another and this hath been to me very tedious and irksom my Father did indeed raise many stately structures In Dublin in Ireland not one of all his sons possessed them or any of them the brick walls may bear his name none of his children do or can inhabit them God hath made constant motion my condition he hath wisely moved me from place to place that I might be in love with no place under the sun if I have liked mine house place never so well I have by one means or other been forced to leave it and that either because it was none of mine or else mens persecuting rage would not suffer me in peace to possess it or because my Masters work hath been done in that place and called me to another How often have I been forcibly removed from people whom I have dearly loved and from places where I thought I had pitched my tent and resolved to rest I digged a grave for my children wherein I intended to have been intombed my self and yet my dead babes are dispersed their graves are at a distance each from other and t is very unlikely my grave should be with any of them If Death remove me from my place it doth nothing but what hath been common to me all my life I will not therefore think it strange once more to remove my place but will readily contentedly pack up and be gone for this remove shall be my last remove for this remove shall be my best remove for this remove shall move me from Earth to Heaven and there I have an house of mine own a better house then any this world affordeth an house not made with hands an eternal house whose builder and maker is God a Mansion house prepared by Christ my precursor for to entertain me and wherein I must and shall abide for ever an house which time cannot waste or ruine nor humane force pull down or raze an house most pleasantly scituated accommodated with all conveniencies exempt from all annoyances and amply furnished with what may make it to me an happy habitation an house it is for which I shall pay no rent or taxes in which I shall not live a tenant at will but I shall possess this house fully freely and for ever being once settled in it I shall not desire to leave it I shall not be sequestred out of it and that which is worth all this house is mine own house mine inheritance purchased for me by my Saviour and passed unto by the gift of my gracious Father none can dispute my title or by an Ejectione firma force me out of my house My soul Shall I not be willing to go to and live in mine own house and that being so well scituate so conveniently formed so well furnished rather then in a strangers inconvenient house Shall I not prefer an house of Gods building before the best of mans shall I not chuse an eternal rather then a decayed falling ruinous habitation My soul be not troubled at this remove thou beleivest in God beleive also in Christ he hath said in his Fathers House are many mansions John 14.1 2. if it were not so he would have told us he is gone before to prepare a place for his removing people shall I not up and after such an harbinger to possess the glorious mansions of his most gracious provision Why is my remove by

him shall at death be utterly and for ever discharged My soul shall then indeed be holy as God is holy and perfect as God is perfect it shall not only have perfect qualities the principles of union but also those degrees of perfection which shall capacitate it for full communion with my God Christ and his Holy Angels and glorified Saints even the utmost degree of perfection such a creature is capable of and an estate of so glorious communion doth call for and require The faculties of my soul shall be enlarged unto the perfection of knowledge and affection I shall after death be able to pry into the deepest mysteries of mans fall and salvation of the glorious unconceivable subsistency of the Trinity in unity three persons in one undivided essence of the miraculous hypostatical union of the two natures God and Man in one person of the blessed incarnation and whole work of redemption which is nothing but a Cabal of mysteries I shall then comprehend incomprehensible glory without the least defect doubting or difficulty I now know but in part I shall then know perfectly knowledge righteousness and true holiness those parts of the new man shall then attain to a perfect virile strength and stature the divine nature whereof I here partake shall then be in me compleat I shall then know all things fully and with full content mine affections will then most freely close with and take full complacency in those glorious objects mine understanding shall then know comprehend my mind shall not know more of God and Christ then my soul shall admire mine affections imbrace unto the fulness of my comfort forcing out the loud halelujahs and acclamations of joy and thanksgiving to God for ever the imbicility of the natural man which could not the enmity of the natural man which would not discern and savour the things of God shall now be discharged destroyed for ever for now the natural man it self shall expire and cease to be Such shall be the changed estate qualitie and endowments of my soul that the things which were to it tiring dulling difficult because supernatural irksom greivous and hateful because contranatural shall become easie and encouraging lovely acceptable and delightful because connatural the very proper and only element in which my soul can live and enjoy it self in this respect nothing could be so dismaying afflicting and tormenting to my soul as interruption intermission or expiration of enjoyment by the return of time Oh folly to dread Eternity which must exist in the exercise and enjoyment of these glorious qualities of my soul the disparity and disproportion which keepeth my God and me at a distance shall now be discharged and quite removed can I desire the time in which they shall again return upon me hath not the loss of Gods image in me and thereby the loss of his presence with me cost me dear enough already I cannot enjoy God for ever unless I be like God for ever my perfect proportion to God must fit me for perfect possession of God welcome then Eternity in conformity to God my only capacity of eternal communion with God 4. My future life is eternal Though I dye I shall dye but once my death shall be mine entrance into life and my life shall be eternal the second death shall have no power on me seeing I must once dye oh how happy am I that I do not live to dye the second death the first death divideth my soul from my body but the second death would have dividid my soul and body from God and that for ever but this death shall not befall me for there is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.1 the Lord hath justified me who shall condemn me he hath delivered me from the dread of the first by redeeming me from the power of the second death I may be of good comfort I shall not dye but live I shall live in death I shall pass through death to life and whilst life is the subject who would not desire to have eternity the adjunct My soul canst thou chuse but joy to know that thy life is eternal life do I dread to die and tremble to think of Eternity in life O strange contradiction the result of a weak faith and of a clouded reason nature hath taught me to desire and endeavour the preservation and if it were possible the perpetuation of my natural sinful sorrowful life shall not grace much more make me to rejoyce that my holy happy life endureth for ever that I shall eternally live in the salvation of God to enjoy mine inheritance among the Saints and Angels in light to attend on contemplate and have communion with God and Christ were not eternal life affixed to these enjoyments what would they avail me what should I delight to tantalize in the waters of life Eternity abstracted I do but catch at the happiness I cannot hold I do fall under Moses his chance Moses his curse he led Israel to the banks of Jordan to the borders of Canaan he went up to mount Nebo and saw the goodly land but he entred not into it he enjoyed it not he died in the mountain I have preached Eternal life I have perswaded men to pursue it to press after it I have led them to the brink of the grave and am ready to lye down and dye now I dread the eternal life that attendeth me O my folly but blessed be God he hath not been provoked he will not be by me perswaded to blot my name out of the book of life but having purposed purchased for me and promised to me salvation an inheritance an estate of glory he hath secured me my life in and unto the possession thereof and made eternity the blessed inseparable property of them all My soul where art thou what art thou lanched into lost in eternity before out of my body return recover thy self before thou go hence and be no more seen look back on thine own thoughts survey the land which the prospect of thy faith hath descried in the ocean of eternity O the immensity O the depth of eternity this is an astonishing ocean an amazing sea whilst I stand on the banks of a temporal life how do I tremble to look upon eternity in its abstracted nature but stay my soul let us be wise let my faith follow this flood and deliberately observe how it streams it self in the Paradise of God into eternal salvation oh wonderful Eternal inheritance O this is desirable how do I long for it Eternal glory that is delightful the rayes thereof ravish my heart And Eternal life O the emphasis the excellency of all the rest shall I dread to shoot this gulph of death shall I fear to lanch out into the depth of this eternity can these blessed desired never enough desired things be abstracted from be enjoyed without eternity if they could would they be so good would