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A31454	A preparation for martyrdom a discourse about the cause, the temper, the assistances and rewards of a martyr of Jesus Christ : in a dialogue betwixt a minister, and a gentlemanhis [sic] parishioner.	Cawdrey, Zachary, 1616-1684.	1681 (1681)	Wing C1648; ESTC R8822	35,036	47

for by reformation of our hearts and lives Luke 3. 5. Let every valley be silled and every mountain be brought low and the crooked be made straight the rough ways be made smooth let the low groveling worldling and filthy sensual fill up the Valley setting his affections on things above and every Proud and Ambitious person bring his thoughts low minding Gods glory not his own and every crooked cunning deceiver get a strait Spirit in simplicity and godly sincerity and every angry and revengful person make the rough ways smooth by endeavoring to obtain a Spirit of meeltness and kindness and then both feet are shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace and God will both receive and assist such in the conflict for his truth and glory And as Rom. 12. 1. They can confidently present their bodles a living holy Sacrifice acceptable to God which is their reasonable rational service whereas an unmortified person in whom brutish lusts do yet raign if he dyed in a good cause yet offered up a brutish unreasonable Sacrifice no way acceptable unto God Thirdly The Christian must take the sheild of Faith that is confidence in Gods promises of assistance and supports in the day of his Tryal Ephes 6. 16. He must be assured that Gods goodness and faithfulness will never suffer him to fail who flyes for refuge to his grace and mercy Thus saith David By this I know that thou favorest my righteous cause seeing mine enemy doth not Triumph over me and as for me thou preservest me in mine integrity Thus saith St. Paul 1 Cor. 1 8 9. Christ will confirm you unto the end and keep you blameless to the day of our Lord Jesus Christ or in the day of Christ that is emphatically the day of suffering for Christ and will confirm you unto the end The Christian Matron falling in Travel of Child-birth in the Prison cryed out in her strong pains and was thus assaulted by the Jaylor If saith he you cannot bear those pains without such outcrys how will you be able to bear the torments provided for you She answered These pains I suffer as the burden lay'd upon our Sex for the sin of our first Mother but in that conflict I shall have the assistance of his grace which is able to preserve me through faith against every evil work and his grace shall be sufficient for me Thus the Victory by which we overcome the world is our faith Fourthly Who ever will be a couragious Martyr must have full assurance of the goodness of his Cause that it is the truth and way of God and Christ for which he suffers and worthy of all his suffering for it This is that girdle of Truth Ephes 6. 14. As a girdle or belt not only strengthens the loins but by compacting and compressing the Muscles of the back gives an advantage and tightness to the cords or sinews of even the hands and feet also so the assurance that it is the cause of God for which we stand will make us confident that we shall not be confounded whereas but to doubt of our cause looseneth all our powers of spirit and courage Thus the Apostle prays for his Colossians Col. 2. 2 3 4. That their hearts might be comforted being knit together in love and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge The great cause maintained by the Apostolical Christians against the Jews was the Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ that is that the infinite goodness and wisdom of God of old had carried on the Salvation of the Ancient Fathers of the world in the same way of Repentance and Faith in his mercy through the mediation of the promised Seed that ours is now carried on since Christs coming in the Flesh Now had any doubted whether this way of Salvation Preached by the Apostles and received by the Churches was the truth of God or questioned whether it was all of a piece with the old method of bringing Sinners to glory how could they have suffered confidently in the cause For staggering betwixt two opinions whether the Mosaical Law or Repentance towards God and Faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ was the way to justification they would have been unstable in all their ways But being assured that there was but one name and way of life Jesus Christ the same to day yesterday and for ever they had a full assurance of understanding which is the Girdle of Truth necessary to gird up the loins of the Martyrs mind I do not say a Christian must be able to answer all the subtle Fallacies and Sophisms of the Adversaries of the Truth but he must be assured that notwithstanding all their Cavils it is the truth of God for which he appears And that he is assured of because he finds it works effectually in him believing it purifying his heart by the faith of it incouraging his hope and increasing his love to God and Christ and all good Men yea to all Men for Christs sake and what works so cannot he is assured be other than the Truth of God A mean-bred man who should hear a Sceptick dispute whether the snow was white arguing that the water from whence it comes is black and therefore the effect must be as is the cause yet would not however be brought to disbelieve his eyes but would continue confident the snow was white as his sight represented it for he found the effect of that whiteness in dispersing his visual Rayes and Spirits Such an assurance must every suffering Christian have of the Truth for which he suffers and that it is the true grace of God wherein he stands and for which he stands and therefore an ignorant unstudied Christian can hardly make a Martyr Fifthly Whoever will be a Martyr must have his heart ingaged in a sincere design to promote Gods glory both by doing and suffering This is that Breast-plate of Righteousness and Sincerity Ephes 6. 14. which gives courage to a suffering Saint For if there be any Hypocritical design of seeking Reputation to our selves or bringing credit to an espoused Faction or Party it flats our courage but the single eye makes the body full of light and heat also On this account it was that the Primitive Christians in times of Persecution received the Eucharist so frequently in St. Cyprians time in the Decian Perfecution they took it daily thereby renewing their Baptismal vow to live and die to Gods glory if called to it As when some great Battel was expected the Roman Generals used to renew the Sacramentum Militare the Souldiers Oath That they would not disobey nor forsake their General their Imperator So that who ever hath not frequently and seriously Consecrated himself to God to live and die to him will hardly make a Martyr that being an

A PREPARATION For Martyrdom A DISCOURSE about the Cause the Temper the Assistances and Rewards OF A MARTYR of JESUS CHRIST IN A DIALOGUE Betwixt a Minister and a Gentleman his Parishioner Matt. 5. 11 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Pet. 4. 14. If ye be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are ye for the Spirit of God and of Glory resteth upon you LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers-Chapel 1681 A Preparation FOR Martyrdom IN A DIALOGUE Betwixt a Minister and a Gentleman his Parishioner Parish SIR though I justly esteem my self who am so great a sinner unworthy of the honour to suffer for the Name of Christ yet I know it is my Duty to be prepared in Spirit for it if God vouchsafe to call me to it I request therefore your Pastoral assistance herein that whether I live I may live unto the Lord or whether I die I may die unto the Lord. Min. I bless God Dear Sir who inclines your heart to seek after such holy dispositions as are required in those whom Christ will honour in calling them to suffer for his Name But I pray tell me Why you are at this time so sollicitous to gather up your Spirit into that frame Parish There need no account be given of that betwixt you and I who have been fellow-sufferers in the late times for adhering to the cause of our Soveraign and of the Protestant Church of England and whose Persons and Fortunes do yet wear the Scars of their Loyalty and we are not secure that we may not be called to suffer on the same account again And though neither of us have at any time blessed be God made any unkind returns to those who then Persecuted us nor have since gained any thing by our Loyalty but our losses yet if the like times should return again we are like to be in the first rank of Sufferers But I confess that though the Cause we then undertook and suffered for was as just a Cause as any could fall out in a Christian Nation yet I then both acted and suffered in another manner of Spirit than I now see reason to desire to be acted by I did indeed think then and do so still that I was bound in conscience to do my utmost to secure the Person and Honour of my Soveraign and to maintain the Laws both Civil and Ecclesiastical then in being till they should be orderly changed by the Consent and Authority of my Soveraign in Parliament yet I did as I fear too many of our side did espouse an humour of Prophaneness in opposition to that Profession of Godliness which I ununcharitably thought that all on the other side did make only to drive on Rebellious Designs which probably the great Artificers of our troubles did do And certainly we Royalists by the overspreading of prophaneness amongst us ruined the best Cause that ever Loyal Subjects undertook to bear up upon the points of their Swords But it is another manner of Spirit I desire now to be baptised into namely that whereinto our suffering Lord and Saviour and his Holy Apostles and Martyrs were baptised And to deal plainly I do not think the next Tempest that will Assault us will come from that Quarter My chief fears therefore are from the success of Popish Arms abroad especially under the Conduct of that Great Monarch who seems to have sworn the utter extirpation of the Protestant Name and the prevailing of Popish Arts at home to the breaking of us with Division upon Division These I say with the loud crying sins done and countenanced amongst us makes me expect a Storm and I desire to be prepared for it Min. I hope God will bless the unwearied endeavours of our Gracious Soveraign and his most Honourable Privy Council at present and of the English Parliament when one shall by his Sacred Majesty be called to frustrate the Attempts of the Popish Adversaries both at home and abroad Parish I thankfully acknowledg that by the blessing of God on the Prudent Conduct of publick Affairs by his Sacred Majesty we yet enjoy Peace when many of the neighbouring Nations round about us feel the sad miseries of War so that if our sins stood neuter and did not strike in with our Enemies I would not fear either their Forces or Consults but alas there can be no Fencing or Walling betwixt us and Heaven to which our sins cry aloud for vengeance Min. It is very true we are great sinners but not greater than other Nations whom God is pleased yet to respit what sins therefore of this Nation seem to you so ripe for vengeance Parish Truly there are many of them and some of them seem especially to call for Popery as the only scammony strong enough to purge them out Such are the frequent and avowed Sinonaical Contracts betwixt some Patrons and their unworthy Clerks Such also are the most unchristian practices of many of our Planters abroad not only in the inhumane cruelties they exercise upon the poor Negroes and other Heathen their Slaves but especially in their discouraging and opposing all endeavours for the Conversion of those poor Infidels to Christianity For have not the Mahumetan Priests travelled to the vast Plain of Tartary and Mountains of Africa to propagate their Superstition Yea have not the Jesuits and other Romish Missionaries gone to the furthest Indies to spread that sort of Christianity which they profess and probably they taught for the substance of it the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ though they built Hay Straw and Stubble on that Foundation And their Converts in Japan and other where suffering for the owning one God and one Mediator 'twixt God and Man Christ Jesus are justly numbred in the Catalogue of Christian Martyrs Shall not these Romanists therefore rise up in Judgment against us and other Protestants who oppose the Conversion of our own Slaves Nay may not God justly say to them concerning us as he did once to Nebuchadnezzar Ezek. 29. 20. That he gave him the Land of Aegypt as his hire for his labour wherewith he served against Tyre So may God say He will give unto the Popish Emissaries those Protestant Churches who are negligent in propagating the Faith as their hire for that service they have served against Heathenisme in the new found world And did not those excellent Persons who preached before the Lords and Commons on the Fast-day Dec. 22. 1681. proclaime it in the Name of the Lord That the vine bringing forth sowre grapes would cause God to pluck up the hedge and fence and let in both the Wild-Beasts and the Wild-Boars into his Vineyard This the Learned and pious Dr. Burnett with much integrity and freedom told the Honorable House of Commons as of other sins of the Nation so of the Drunkenness and Debauchery Which saith he hath not only