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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44069	A cordiall against the feare of death delivered in a sermon before the Vniversity of Oxford May 28, 1654 / by Thomas Hodges.	Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing H2318; ESTC R27407	21,172	40

dreadfull thing to fall into the hands of this cruel tyrant and tormentor Death comes to our chamber-doors and to our bedside accompanyed and guarded with Legions of Devils who all greedily gape for their prey And so we come to The 4th and last consideration in respect whereof death is very formidable or terrible namely if we consider the Consequents of death the second Death followes at the heels of the first i. e. Hell treads on the heels of death Death comes riding on a red or pale horse with a drawn sword in his hand and hell followes on a black horse with a flaming sword turning every way to cut off all the branches of our tree of life yea so to cut down the tree of life as that he leave us neither root nor branch Ubi coram Deo reatus ibi protinus Inferi se ostendunt sayth Calvin where the soul is yet under guilt before God there hell stares us in the face so terrible must death be to those who are yet in their sins who are indeed out of Christ And this is our second observation Observa 2 That unbelievers either actually are or of right have just cause to be through feare of death all their life-time subject to bondage Every unbeliever may be named magor-missabib feare round about within him are feares when all is calme and there are no fightings without Foure sorts of men there are in the world whose condition is a condition of feare 1 Minors or children and servants or vassals who are under hard Masters 2. Such as are weake and of no strength and yet have many powerfull and revengefull enemies 3. Poore debtors who owe millions who have nothing to pay and yet have creditors who will not abate them a ●arthing or mite And fourthly malefactors or transgressors of the Law who are obnoxious to justice and so lyable continually to punishment for the breach of the Law Now the condition of unbelievers may be likened to all these and therefore must needs be a condition of feare 1 And at best he is under the Law as a schoolmaster yea as a taskmaster too who requires of him difficultyes and impossibilities demands brick and gives no straw and he is or ought to be afraid of being beaten daily Then he is a servant yea a slave to sin the worst master the greatest tyrant in the world he is as Paul said of himself Rom. 7.14 Carnall sold under sin as to his unregenerate part or as t is said of Ahab 1 Kings 21.25 he is one that sells himselfe to worke wickednes being a servant of Sin he is made a servant of death and serves him daily with feare and trembling as oft as he thinks of him yea he is carryed captive by the Devil at his pleasure so right is that quàm multos habet Dominos qui unum non habet How many Lords and Masters hath he that hath not one that is God for his Lord and master 2 An unbeliver is weak and of no strength and yet hath many potent enemys to grapple withall 1 he hath one omnipotent enemy and that is God one who is said to be angry with him every day Psalm 5.5 11.5 and to hate him who whets his sword and bends his bow and prepares for him the Instruments of Death And surely t is a fearfull thing to be a child of wrath and to be lyable daily to fall into the hands of this living God as ones deadly enemy and yet this is the state of unbelievers Again all the Angels in heaven and all the creatures in heaven and earth and all the Devils in hell are his enemys they all stand ready some nearer some farther off the Iudges bench as it were saying Away with such a fellow from the Earth he is not worthy to live He that kills thee may think he doth God good Service An unbeliever like Cain may feare every one that meeteth him lest he should slay him 3. He is extreamly indebted unto the Justice of God and is never able to pay a farthing and God will one day say if he live and die in this state take him and bind him hand and foot and cast him into the dungeon into utter darknesse verily he shall not come out thence untill he hath paid the uttermost farthing And 4ly he is a transgressor a malefactor God looks on him so in the womb and from the womb as soon as he comes into life he is lyable to the law sentence and punishment of death he is as we say a dead man in law as soon as he begins to live Yea and that which aggravates his bondage and misery is this that he knows of no reprieve no not for a day or hour or moment death and hell may seize on him every minute behold as it were a flaming sword with a twine-thread hangs over his head continually so that all his honors sweet pleasures wealth is nothing to him if his eyes be but open to see his misery his head is as it were alway upon the block and death is ready with his axe for ought he knows to sever soul and body every moment and if he die presently he knowes not what will become of his soul to eternity or he knows that the Devills will come and fetch away his soule he looks on death quasi aeternae mortis exordium C. Alap on death temporall as but the beginning or inlet into eternall death he enters into the prison of hell as never hoping to come out againe If the eyes of his understanding be enlightned he sees Legions of Devills ready to fly upon his soule before his soule goes out of his body reaching after and catching at his soule before his friends begin to scramble for his goods or the wormes to feast themselves with his flesh To conclude this an unbeliever hath just cause to feare death as one that will deprive him of life and all that he accounted happinesse and as a Serjeant sent to arrest attach and hale him to prison and judgment and so deliver him up to the Devill and the torments of hell for ever And now if any be troubled at these sayings and say in their hearts this is a hard saying who can bear it who then can be saved I answer our Lord Jesus Christ dyed to deliver all those that will come to him for Salvation from the feare of death under which they were before time held in bondage and so we come to treat of our 3d and last observation All true Christians or those who are justified by faith Observ 3 in Christ are by him and especially by his death for them or his dying for them freed from being all their life time through fear of death subject unto bondage 1 They are delivered they do not slavishly feare death temporall and eternall or they ought not so to doe 2 They are delivered by Christ and 3 by Christ dying for them 1 True Christians do not or