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A06799	An amulet or preservative against sicknes and death in two parts : the first containing spirituall direction for the sicke at all times needfull, but especially in the conflict of sicknes and agonie of death : the second, a method or order of comforting the sicke ... / collected and set forth ... by A.M. minister of the Word of God in Henley vpon Thames ; whereunto is annexed a most pithie and comfortable sermon of mortalitie, written by the blessed martyr S. Cyprian Bishop of Carthage, translated into English by A.M. ; together with sundry prayers needfull in time of sicknesse.	Man, Abraham.; Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage.	1617 (1617)	STC 17238.5; ESTC S2803	74,681	345

righteousnesse Bow downe thine eare vnto me make haste to deliuer me Be thou my strong rocke and house of defence that thou maist saue me For thou art my rocke and m● fortresse and strength Into thy hand I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed me ô Lord God of truth Cry also with Dauid Psal 18.1 Psal 18. Thou euen thou ô Lord art my strength and my fortresse my refuge and my deliuerer my God and my helper In thee will I trust for thou art my shield the ●orn also of my saluation and my refuge vnto thee ô Lord lift I vp my soule ô God in thee doe I trust Psal 25.1 Let me not be ashamed nor confounded Leade me and direct me in thy truth for thou art the God of my saluation Remember ô Lord thy tender mercies and thy louing kindnesse for they haue beene for euer Remember not the sinnes of my youth nor my manifold rebellions ô Lord But according to the multitude of thy mercies Look vpon me for thy goodnesse ô Lord. For thy name sake bee mercifull vnto mine iniquitie ô Lord for it is great Turne thy face vnto me and haue mercy vpon me Deliuer me and draw me out of my troubles Pardon and forgiue mee all mine offences Keepe my soule and deliuer me Let me not be confounded for I put my trust in thee If in this maner thou shalt with thy whole heart call vpon God for help God will assuredly relieue thee in due time and will say vnto thee as he did concerning Dauid his seruant Psal 91.14 Because he hath trusted in mee therefore will I deliuer him I will therfore saue and defend him because he hath knowne my name He hath called vpon me and I will heare him I will be with him in trouble I will deliuer him and after glorifie him Wherefore deare brother fight now a good fight fight valiantly and couragiously and also constantly and stedfastly as becometh a true Christian and a valiant souldier of Iesus Christ Take heede in any wise that thou lose not nor giue ouer thy standing Turne not backe for behold here is no danger at all Thou dost not fight here alone but Iesus Christ thy Lord and King he is thy guide and Captaine in this fight Him follow who in this sharpe combate hath gone before thee He as he is thy guide and captaine so he will be thy defender and deliuerer to defend and deliuer thee in this fight and conflict from all the enemies of thy soule and from all troubles and dangers whatsoeuer For he is not as a mortall earthly king who sometimes for want of power is frustrate of his wil and purpose But he is of endlesse and infinite power able to performe whatsoeuer he hath purposed or promised Yea and he it is that hath alreadie for thy sake vanquished and foiled Satan death 1 Cor. 15. and hell Death is swallowed vp into victory through Christ who hath died for thee And therefore euerlasting death hath no interest nor power ouer thee Christ for thy sake hath descended into hell that he might free and deliuer thee from that horrible and endlesse darknesse Be strong therefore and of good courage and with an vndaunted heart mind now fight that good fight of faith 1 Tim. 6.12 laying hold of eternall life whereunto thou art called and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses shake off all feare for here is no danger There is no cause for thee to feare the strictnesse and seueritie of Gods iudgement For behold Christ Iesus is thy mediator in the sight and presence of God he also is thy aduocate intercessor to pleade thy cause and thine high priest to make attonement vnto God for thee He it is that hath reconciled thee vnto God and that hath recouered vnto thee and for thee the loue and the good will and fauour of his heauenly Father which by meanes of thy sins was vtterly lost alienated from thee God almightie in and through Christ and for his sake is now become thy Father and he entirely loueth thee and hath care of thee as of his child that is most tender and deare vnto him Now then forasmuch as he who is so great and mightie a king is with thee who can go about to do thee hurt who shall impugne or oppose and set himselfe against thee Heare what S. Paul saith Rom. 8.31 If God be with vs who can be against vs who spared not his owne Sonne but gaue him vnto death for vs all how shall he not with him giue vs all things also Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen It is God that iustifieth who shall condemne It is Christ who ●ath died yea rather who is risen againe who is also at the right hand of God and maketh request also for vs. Who shall separate vs from the loue of God I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. Seeing then that Christ with all his goodnes and benefits is giuen vnto thee righteousnesse also holinesse iustification and redemption yea euerlasting life and saluation these are all freely giuen and bestowed vpon thee as S. Paul witnesseth 1. Cor. 1. That Christ is made vnto vs of God his Father 1 Cor. 1.30 both wisedome and righteousnesse sanctification and redemption See then that thou haue thy hope and confidence wholly setled and firmely and stedfastly fixed vpon this corner stone Christ Iesus He is a most sound and a most strong and sure foundation whereunto thou mayest safely commit thy selfe and whereupon thou mayest boldly relie No tempest though neuer so blacke and cloudy or neuer so hideous and terrible no showers or stormes whatsoeuer are or shall be able to cast cast downe or ouerthrow this foundation vppon this thy sweete Sauiour Christ I say let all thy hope and happinesse be founded and built Cast thy selfe vppon him and giue thy selfe ouer wholly vnto him put thy confidence in him and cleaue fast vnto him And let no affliction nor temptation plucke thee away frō him howsoeuer things seeme to come to passe neuer so aukwardly or contrary to reason and sence howsoeuer thine owne reason shall deeme and iudge otherwise or flesh and bloud shall neuer so much perswade and counsell otherwise yea howsoeuer the diuel now and then may suggest vnto thee whisper into thine eares or put into thy mind that thou art quite vndone and art past all hope that God cannot but still be highly displeased with thee and that thou shalt be condemned to be punished in hell fire as thou hast deserued Yet notwithstanding all these and the like suggestions do thou by a stedfast and true faith relie vpon thy sweete Sauiour Christ Iesus and sticke fast vnto him Heb. 11.1 For

righteousnesse thereof and then all other things shall be added vnto vs. We are tormented and wearied night and day with care how to liue here and how to settle and make sure our worldly estate our riches worldly possessions and other vaine and transitorie things which little auaile vs yea rather which are sometimes causes of great miserie vnto vs and of foule and horrible sinnes which drowne men in perdition and destruction But in seeking and prouiding our selues of the heauenly riches how secure and negligent how sluggish and slothfull how foolish and how lumpish and blockish are we and what more strange or more horrible blindnesse and madnesse then this can there reigne amongst men So long as we are in health wee haue scarce the least thought in our hearts at any time of the life to come or of our death and departure hence But as soone as we are cast downe with any sicknesse death now knocking as it were at our dores when as wee should stand in the battaile to fight then at length wee bethinke our selues of taking vp armes and of prouiding vs weapons to fight withal against the diuell and his suggestions then we begin to think of repentance and amendment of our liues and not before which is a plaine proofe that our faith is very weake and slender and that we are litle exercised in the Christian warfare The Lord herein be mercifull vnto vs Amen Howbeit there is no age vnfit nor any season vnseasonable or ouerlate to repent Repentance is neuer too late so that it be true and vnfeigned and that it be done and performed truly and vnfeinedly But I aduise and counsell yea and earnestly exhort and admonish all men to take heede that they put not off their repentance to that last and most sharpe and dangerous conflict of sicknesse and death For if euē they who being strong in health haue all their life time fortified and armed themselues against this howre of their departure yet haue much adoe then to defend themselues from the assaults temptations which will offer themselues at that time what then will become of such as being voide of all feare of God and hauing hearts that cannot repent haue led and still leade a dissolute and wicked life how shall they be able to encounter and to resist Now then forasmuch as the haruest being great the laborers be but few that infinite multitudes of simple and ignorant people abounding in all places there are not Ministers of Gods word euery where at hand to instruct and comfort such as stand in need and those that are cannot apply themselues to all nor minister their helpe and comfort at all times I haue thought good Christian Reader for the comfort and instruction of such as want the present helpe and assistance of godly Pastors and Ministers especially in time of sicknesse to offer vnto thy gentle acceptance this order and manner of comforting the sicke gathered out of the sacred word of God most especially for their sakes which are ignorant which are not armed nor prouided against such occasions neither furnished with sentences of holy Scripture that in reading or hearing these things read vnto thē they may receiue true and stedfast hope and comfort that in the sharpe and bitter conflict of sicknesse and agony of death they neither faint nor perish The Contents of the first part A Preface to the Christian Reader CHAP. I. VVHy sicknesses are sent of God pag. 1 CHAP. II. The necessitie of faith in time of sicknesse the meanes whereby to strengthen the same 12 CHAP. III. Of three things which in time of sicknesse and in the agonie of death do much hinder and trouble men to wit the remembrance of their sinnes the feare of death and the horror of hell and eternall damnation 24 CHAP. IIII. A remedie against the feare and remembrance of our sinnes 28 CHAP. V. Testimonies of Scripture concerning the forgiuenesse of all our sinnes 39 CHAP. VI. Reconciliation restitution in time of sicknesse if not performed before 65 CHAP. VII The lawfull vse of Physicke in time of sicknesse 70 CHAP. VIII A remedie against the feare of death 74 CHAP. IX Testimonies of Scripture concerning the Resurrection of the dead 82 CHAP. X. A Remedie against the feare horror of hell and damnation 105 CHAP. XI How Christ his temptations sufferings were al for our sakes 114 CHAP. XII Of Christ his threefold temptations 117 CHAP. XIII A short Admonition concerning the ordaining of Wils and Testaments 144 CHAP. XIIII How to mitigate griefe cōceited for the losse of friends 149 CHAP. XV An Exhortation vnto all professors of the name of Christ 157 The cōtents of the second part CHAP. I HOw to comfort all such as lie vpon the bed of sicknesse 167 CHAP. II. How to comfort such as are in apparent danger at death 199 A Sermon or Mortalitie 224 CHAP. III. How to comfort and call vpon the sicke party being ready to giue vp the Ghost 311 The first part Spirituall Direction for the Sicke very needful at all times but especially in the conflict of sicknesse and agonie of death CHAP. I. Why Sicknesses are sent of God AS death is the wages and punishment of sin 1 For sinne so are sicknesses also sent oftentimes vnto vs of God for our sinnes as it is cleare and manifest in holy Scripture Ioh. 5. Christ saith vnto the man that had bene sicke eight thirty yeares Behold thou art made whole Ioh. 5.14 sinne no more lest a worse thing come vnto thee Implying plainly that sinne was the cause of his sicknesse Likewise Psalme 38. Dauid professeth of himselfe Psal 38. There is nothing sound in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sin for mine iniquities are gone ouer my head and are like a sore burthen too heauie for me to beare The same he confesseth and acknowledgeth 2 Sam. 24.17 2. Sam. 24. when he saw the Angel that smote the people with the pestilence Behold I haue sinned and done wickedly let thy hand be against me c. And Deuteronomie 28. God threatneth by Moses that if his people will not obey his voice among other plagues he will consume them destroy them by strange sicknesse and diseases Deut. 28.21.22.27 he will make the pestilence cleaue vnto them he will smite them with a consumption verse 22 and with the feauer and with a burning ague and with a feruent heate and at the 27 verse verse 27 he will smite them with the botch of Egypt and with the emeroids and with the scabs and with such an itch as cannot bee healed And as sicknesses and other crosses and afflictions are sent vnto vs of God for the most part for our sinnes So many times the same are sent vnto vs for the proofe and triall of our faith 2 For triall of our faith as we behold in Iob for

able to rest and relie vpon the word of God and therein to apprehend and lay hold vpon that infinite inestimable treasure and riches belonging to Gods deare children to wit the forgiuenesse of all their sinnes through Christ the resurrection of their bodies at the last day that most wished for and most sweet and ioyfull communion with the Saints in glorie comfortable societie and fellowship of the elect of God Meanes of strengthning our faith and life euerlasting and all these freely giuen and bestowed vpon them in Christ and through Christ Wherefore in these and other articles of our Christian faith Continuall meditation on the articles of our faith in time of sicknesse very needfull it behooueth vs daily and continually to exercise our selues and diligently to meditate thereupon But especially in time of sicknesse and agonie of death we are seriously and earnestly to meditate in our minds and to inculcate repeate often those foure last articles of our Creed Namely concerning the communion of Saints in which number we beleeue and trust stedfastly that we our selues are and shall be reckoned concerning the Remission of all our sinnes through the bloud of Christ Iesus concerning the resurrection of our bodies at the last day and life euerlasting Now vnto the serious meditation of these articles of our faith there must be adioyned 3 other things First of all feruent and continuall prayer for the increase Prayer and strengthning of our faith praying with the Apostles of our Sauiour Luk. 17.5 Luk. 17.5 O Lord increase our faith and with the father of the child that had the dumbe spirit Mar. 9.24 Marke 9.24 Lord I beleeue helpe my vnbeleefe Vnto prayer ioyne carefull studie and diligence in reading and hearing of the word of God Reading hearing the word of God Rom 10.17 Esa 57.19 For faith is both wrought and also increased by hearing of the word Rom. 10. whereupon it is called the fruite of the lips that is of the words of God Esa 57.19 And Acts the 10.44 it is said that while Peter spake those words Act. 10.44 the holy Ghost fell vpon all them that heard the word Yea hereupon it is called the arme of the Lord Esa 53.1 Esa 53.1 and the power of God vnto saluation Rom. 1.16 Rom. 1.16 See therfore that the word of God dwell plenteously in thee Col. 3.16 which alone is able to make thee wise vnto saluatiō through faith in Christ Iesus 2 Tim. 3.15 2. Tim. 3.15 And let thy heart and mind be euermore possessed with the meditation and consideration of those three maine pillars and grounds of thy faith whereof thou hast assurance in the same word namely First the infinitenesse of Christ his merites which thou shalt oppose vnto the infinitenesse and greatnesse of thy sinnes Next the omnipotencie of Gods power and his natural inclinatiō vnto mercy and to pardon and forgiue sins and sinners Eze. 18.32 And lastly the vniuersalitie and generality of his gracious promises made vnto all in which number thou art to reckon thy selfe Vnto the carefull and diligent studie and meditation in the word of God and prayer Oft receiuing the Sacrament adde this also to frequent and to haue often accesse vnto the holy Sacramen● of the bodie and bloud o● Christ while yet thou ar● in sound perfect health But beware that thou come vnto it rightly instructed prepared and that thou presume not to handle the same with defiled hands nor to receiue it with an vnpure and vnsanctified heart And indeed it is an horrible and feareful thing and much to be lamented that for so many yeares this holy Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ hath bene so vnworthily receiued The vnreuerēt handling of the Sacrament dangerous and so vnreuerently handled and of many contemned and lightly regarded Wherein how greeuously dangerously men offend euen the iudgements and punishments which the Lord sendeth euery day among vs do more then sufficiently witnesse testifie as S. Paul hath foretold should come to passe 1 Cor. 11.30 1 Cor. 11.30 For euen for this cause many are weake and sicke and many sleepe and are dead It is verily an exceeding great and a sure signe and token of singular and incomprehensible loue toward vs The benefit offered in the Sacrament that in this Sacrament of his Supper Christ will haue it plainly confirmed vnto vs that he hath giuen and bestowed himselfe wholly vpon vs knitting and ioyning vs vnto himselfe as members to the head to the end we may know and bee assured that we are regarded and loued defended and saued by him Thus ought all godly minds to esteeme and make account that Christ is effectuall and powerfull in them And it were to bee wished that we would at length consider deepely of the greatnesse and worthinesse of so excellent a gift that so we might be thankfull and might stirre vp our wauering and languishing faith remembring how heynous and horrible a sin vnthankfulnesse is in this kinde and how fearefull punishments must needs follow the prophanation of so holy a mystery Neither indeed are we to imagine that the grieuous threatnings vsed by S. Paul are in vaine for God is true yea truth it selfe and certainly we are to thinke that the greatest part of those plagues iudgments both publike and priuate which befall in these last times is to be imputed vnto the prophanatiō of this most holy mysterie It behooueth vs then with godly care and zeale to haue often accesse vnto that holy Sacrament wherin our soules being refreshed and comforted with that heauenly food our faith and our repentance our hope and our confidence may be more more strengthned and increased CHAP. III. Of three things which in the agonie of death do most greeuously torment terrifie and trouble our minds The remembrance of our sinnes the feare of death and the horror of hell together with the seuerall remedies thereof FIrst the sinnes which in our whole life time we haue wickedly and wretchedly committed Sinne. and wherby we haue most greeuously offended both against God and against our neighbours these when on the bed of sicknesse they come vnto our remembrance must needs greatly terrifie vs and much vexe torment vs remembring that saying of S. Paul Rom. 2.9 Rom. 2.9 That indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish shall be vpon the soule of euery man that doth euill Againe inasmuch as this old Adam and flesh of ours is most vnwiliing to die Death therof it is that when death approcheth mens hearts begin to quake and tremble and are readie to faile them through exceeding great sorrow and griefe For this our fearefull nature or naturall man is miserably afraid lest being once dead buried in the earth it shall neuer returne no● come againe to the forme state but thinketh now tha● it is past all helpe and hop● of recouerie