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A17419	The light of faith: and, way of holinesse Shewing what to belieue, and for what to striue together, earnestly contend, and suffer for in this contending age. And how to liue in all estates, conditions, and degrees of relation, according to this faith. In both, deliuering (as neere as might be, in the life of Scripture phrase:) only things necessary, as we meane to be saued, and auoiding vtterly things arbitrary, that distract, rather then direct a Christian. Collected out of holy Scripture by an vnworthy labourer in Gods vineyard, Richard Bifield pastor in Long-Ditton, in Surrey.	Byfield, Richard, 1598?-1664.	1630 (1630)	STC 4239; ESTC S107158	133,233	536

he doth it oft times but say thou liue to the gray haire yet know that is the euill day ageit selfe is a disease disabling to duties of religion youth is euery way fittest let Solomon tell thee Remember thy creator in the dayes of thy youth before the euill day come of which thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in it Eccles 12. 1. For the Impatient desire of The cure of the impatient desire of death death it is cooled and tempered 1 ●● by strength of iudgment we know and knowing resolue that affliction is to be chosen rather then transgression Iob 36. 20. 21. the contrary hereunto made Iob impatiently to wish the day of his death Iob. 3. 2 If we consider that God teacheth by his works and herein none like him Iob. 36. 22. 3 If we weigh well what Iobs speeches cost him humiliation to dust and ashes though they came out of great extremities which wrested them from his heart otherwise full of patience but now distracted almost through bitternesse Iob. 42. 6. For the feare of death it is a The cure of the fear of death disease hereditary deriued to all Adams children yet is must and may be cured it may be cured Heb. 2. 14. 15. 2 Cor. 5. 5. it must Luke 14. 26. Rev. 22. 17. 1 Pet. 1. 3. 4. the desire of heauen is a part of the seed which is cast into the furrowes of our hearts in our regeneration I know there is a feare of death which is meerely naturall a shrinking from it and shunning of it as of a thing hurtfull because it dissolues the vnion of soule and body for a time but we speake of that distempered feare which leadeth into bondage abeslauing feare which suffers not a man to thinke of death or happinesse after it and leaueth the heart impotent and void of all spirituall courage comfort and counsell Againe there are men of two sorts some that liue and dye in their sinnes haue cause to feare death in these a cure can neuer be wrought not that the medicines are vnauaileable but because they cannot bee brought to take the receipts Some that dye to their sinnes before they dye in these that beslauing feare may be cured and hath in such vsually heretofore beone cured Death is the King of terrors consider it in its reall nature and hue Its vizar assumed It s natiue hu● is terrible 1 In the cause Sinne Gods wrath Sathan the executioner who hath the power of death Heb. 2. 14. 2 In the nature thereof in it selfe opposite to life a punishment of God a destroyer of natures fabricke a dissoluer of this earthly tabernacle 3 In the effects which are A depriuation of Friends pleasures honours riches of this world The good wee might doe in Church Common-wealth Family A deprauation of the state of the body leauing it a cadauer a car case in the graue 4 In the affrighting concomitants terriculamenta mortis which are miseries Corporall Painies Agonies sometimes which doe befall Gods children The kind of death Spirituall Terrors from Satan and from God himselfe Temptations Vnquietnesse and angor of conscience In its vizar it is fearefull as it cometh into our minds As the depriuer of happinesse as if it seperated from God As if it had no other face then that of wrath and curse from God and were in its nature no way corrected How shall these darts be quenched Briefely 1 The cause of death is to be euacuated 1 By the death of Christ and our assurance of our part therin whereby the fauour of God is established vpon vs and the Serpents head crushed Heb. 2. 15. Death is a Serpent the sting is sinne the strength of that sting is the law victory ouer it is by Iesus Christ who satisfieth the law 1 Cor. 15. 55 56. 57. 2 By mortification of our beloued sinnes by our study to keepe a conscience voide of offence towards God and man 3 By receiuing the Sacrament of the Lords Supper oft wherein we shew forth the Lords death vntill his comming againe 1 Cor. 11. 26. 2 The nature of death in it selfe is terrible indeed but to the godly it is changed Rev. 14 13. insomuch that their condition is blessed for they rest from their labours their workes follow no losse of any good worke that euer they did no condemnation to them Rom. 8. 1. it is no other then a sleepe 1 Thes 4. 14. a day of liberty Rom. 8. 21. our returne to our home to euerlasting habitations the mansions in our fathers house our birth day the funerall of our vices the putting off our old clothes that we might be clothed vpon 2 Cor. 5. 3. 4. the remoouing out of a mudde house where we ●ere but tenants at will into the pallace of the great king Lord of heauen and earth there to dwell as in our inheritance for euer the end of our race the day of our coronation no punishment now there are three degrees of life eternall of which death is our entrance into the second in this life in regeneration Ioh. 17. 3. in the day of our departure in translation to Paradise 2 Cor. 5. 8. at the last day in the redemption of our bodyes Rom. 8. 23. 3 As for friends whose society thou loosest oppose thereto the meditation of that glorious place to which thou goest an inheritance incorruptible vndefiled that fades not the fellowship of Angels and the congregation of the first borne and the spirits of iust men and women made perfect the communion with God and with the Lord Iesus for while thou art present in the body in the best condition thou art absent from the Lord that Lord whom though thou neuer sawest yet thou louest and beli●uing reioycest with ioy vnspeakeable and full of glory How then shall thy soule burne with the flames of loue to him when thou shall see him 1 Pet. 1. 8. And when the thought of thy treasures and pleasures meet thee bethinke thy selfe of thy calling and profession to bee a Christian that is o●e conformed to Christ whose kingdome is n●t of this world whose life was glorious in a holy contempt of the world Say then with Paul God forbid that I should reioyce saue in the Crosse of Christ whereby the world is crucified to me and I vnto the world Gal. 6. 14. What comfort canst thou haue that thou art not a cast away if thou beat not down thy body and bring it not into subiection although thou wert a Preacher of the Word and diligent in that worke 1 Cor. 9. 24. There are two sorts of men men of this world men of God they differ herein the men of this world are such as place their happinesse in a belly full of this hid treasure and wealth and lands enough to leaue behinde them to their babes but the other are men after Gods owne heart carried with the spirit of Dauid that in the loue of righteousnesse can say Deliuer mee from these

our troubles is troubled with vs Act. 9 4. Col. ● 24. Esa 63. 9. We are sure of the supply of the spirit of Iesus Phil ● 19. 20. who wi●l also rest vpon vs as the spirit of glory and of God 1 Pet. 4. 14. He that created formed and redeemed thee will be with thee Esa 43. 1. 2. 2 Cor. 4. 8. 9. 10. 11. and as the dying of the Lord Iesus is borne in thy body so the life also of the Lord Iesus shall be manifest in thee Right deare in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal 116. 15. The first man that came to heauen was Abel the iust Crowned with the crowne of Martyrdome Digest these and euery of these rules that thou maiest walk with God in all changes of thy condition in life §. XXX Preparations for death or how to dye THere remaineth yet one H●● dy thing of no small moment that concerneth his abode with God in or about his last worke he hath to doe in this world which is the laying downe o● this his earthly Tabernacle the change of changes here belo●e truth it is that an holy life such as hitherto hath beene pourtrayed euer ends in an happy death and againe How to dy whoso hath learned hath learned also how to liue yet there are specialties of direction which the Christian aboue all before sayd cannot well want and there is a speciall preparation for the vndergoing so terrible a change Take them thus they concerne 1 The curing of the diseases 1 By the curing of diseases of our Soules of which wee are all sicke to the death and all about this point of death 2 The estamping on vs the care of necessary duties 1 The diseases which our hearts are oppressed withall and subiect vnto are these fiue 1 Forgetfulnesse of our latter end Deut. 32 29. 2 Desperate resolutenesse vpon the memory of it 1 Cor. 15. Esa 22. 14. 3 A Couenant with death and hell making lyes and vanity our refuge Esa 23. 15. 4 The choosing of death to be rid of the miseries of life the impatient desire of death Ier. 8. 3. Iob. 3. 5 The feare of death which bringeth into bondage Heb. 2. 1● 15. The cure of forgetfulnesse For our forgetfulnesse it is cured 1 By information of our selues in these things the br●u●●y and vanity of life and of all things in the world the certainty vncertainty of death of the breu●●y of life we haue three ●estes Nature Experience and Scripture but Scripture witnesseth it most liuely where the basest things and of least continuance are taken to as bearing the fittest resemblance thereof it is a vapor● a weauers shuttle a post a ship in the Sea a bubble a flower of the field grasse a shadow a dreame a thought Of the vanity of all things vnder the Sunne Salomon hath sufficiently spoken in his Ecclesiastes or booke of the Preacher the certainty of death depends vpon decree and statute Law it is appointed that all shall dye Heb. 9. 27. and we know death hath reigned from Adam to this day we haue three nuntioes sent by death casuality infirmity and old age nay death hath already seized on vs in changes of our age in aches in sorrowes in sicknesses so certaine is it ●et not so certaine to be as vncertaine in what kinde at what time in what place it shall be 2 By watching against the causes of incog●ancy which are cheifely two the naturall security of our hearts and surfetting on earthly things Luke 12. 19. and 21 34. these both must be shaken off 3 By Prayer God onely can teach this lesson we must come to his schoole and our prayers must be to him for this thing Thus did Dauid Psal 39. 6. and 90. 12. For desperate resolutenesse The cure of resolutenesse vpon the memory of our end it is a disease which wee are subiect vnto when the euill corrupt heart forced to the apprehensions of its mortality by the pursute of his owne thoughts and the daily cry of a faithfull Ministery or the constant and frequent view of death griefes face is awakened but not truely but in a phrensie as it were and concludes dy we must we are all mortall Come then let vs eat and drinke let vs take time while time serue tomorrow comes and we are not This sore and euill disease shall be healed 1 By considering the greatnesse of the sinne which is fully declared by the Prophet Esay when he saith And it was reuealed in mine eares by the Lord of hosts Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye dy saith the Lord God of hostes Esa 22. 13. 14. 2 By discouering the originall whence it springs that that may be lamented ouer namely Atheisme and an heart voide of the knowledge of God and set vpon euill with a spirituall madnesse 1 Cor. 15. 34. 3● 3 By the contrary good a waking which is to righteousnesse not to sinne 1 Cor. 15. 33 34 For our Couenant with death m●king lyes our refuge it is the The cure of security reasoning of the heart that saith We haue done what wise men should doe because wee like politicians and worldlings haue fortified our selues with the best earthly helpes for body and state for our selues for ours yet no thought of serious prouision How wee might be built on the sure foundation stone Christ Iesus the Lord directs vs in this point in Esa 28. 16. That wee come as liuing stones to Christ that corner stone elect and precious and be sure wee be laied and built on him by beleeuing for hee that beleeueth in him shall not make hast nor be ashamed of his hope Or it is the reasoning of the heart that saith death is a debt we owe to nature but this must not passe for good with Christians for death in its nature is the wages of sinne death in its change is a sweet sleepe in Iesus sure of a blessed awaking at the resurrection of the iust it is then the beginning of eternall woe to him that dyeth in his sinnes but the doore to eternall blisse to all that dye in the Lord. Or this Couenant is that refuge of lyes we are not likely to dye yet strength is in our body milke in our brests marrow in our bones and age is for the sad and graue duties of deuotion and piety but let Iob speake what pleasure hast thou in thy house after thee Iob. 21. 21. 22 23. 24. 25. when the number of thy moneths is cut off in the middest Shall any teach God knowledge Seeing he iudgeth those that are high One dyeth in his full strength being wholly at ease and quiet his brests are full of milke and his bones moistened with marrow and another dyeth in the bitternesse of his soule take not vpon thee to instrect God hee can smite thee with death in the highest of thy pride and midst of thy welfare and

In the education of children both for nursing them and for instructing them vnder her husband Pro. 6. 20. and 31. 1. indeed her husbands authority excludes her from sole instruction in the family but vnder him it rests chiefely on her in their infancy and childhood then shall her children rise vp and call her blessed her husband also and hee praiseth her Pro. 31. 28. 2 In his temporall estate and the commodities of this present life and so there is required of her 1 That she be diligent in labour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for him and the good of the family shewed three waies In Getting laboring with her hands Pro 31. 16. not eating the bread of Idlenesse vers 27 Sarah kneaded dow Gen. 18 6 Rebecca skilfull in Cookery Gen. 27. 14. and Thamar Dauid● daughter 2 Sam. 13. Much more then ought our Nobles and Gentlemen be some way Employed when as the weaker sexe is thus charged And truely she is deepely charged what euer our dainty dames doe weene as 1 To seeke imployment and Prou. 31. not tary til imployment find her and som●thing fall out shee cold find to doe vers 13. 2 To take to any labour fit for her sexe as spinning verse 13 19. 3 To doe it willingly vers 13. 4 To rise ea●ly to it verse 15. 18. 5 To be constant not changing from worke to worke but strengthening her armes 6 To spend her time in profitable worke not in fine worke good for nothing but to shew skill as Carpets vers 22. Sheets vers 24. The cloathing of her family husband and children vers 21. 23. I know n●t which is better the bread of Idlenesse or the bread of Curiosity In guiding both what she hath got and her family what shee hath got not locking it vp in a chest not laying it out on trifles but in necessaries she considers a field and buyes it Pro. 31. verse 16. and guiding the family giuing their portion of meat to the whole houshold of worke to the Maides verse 15. Ouerseeing the waies of her houshold verse 27. In preseruing what her husband prouides so that his heart rests in her hee shall haue no spoile by her verse 11. She must not bee wastfull this is to pull downe the house with her owne hands and euer the more closely done the more sinfully Pro. 14. 1. She must not spend without consent much lesse entertainement of such as be suspected or disliked by the Husband 2 That she be carefull to aduance her Husbands reputation In adorning him in seemely and fit apparell verse 23. In seeing to his children and seruants eu●n to the meanest of the house for their conuenient cloathing and handsomnesse verse 21. In keeping her feet within her owne house Pro. 7 11. In couering his infirmities 3 In his spirituall estate shee must bee an helpe as being an heire with him of the grace of life 1 Pet. 3. 7. By furthering all good duties as Prayer Thankesgiuing Repetition of Sermons Conference by being a comfort to him in afflictions in diseases By admonishing him wisely and submissiuely Gen. 21. 12. For shee is not bound to conceale his drunkennesse whoredoomes and the like Thus haue you a draught of a Wife and of an helpe meet for her Husband here may all married women see their duties and their failes These are the particular duties of man and wife 4 The fourth sort are such as 4 Such a● a●ise of these arise of these and they are the honour loue of one anothers friends mutually which much vniteth affections and preuenteth causes of dissentions Thus of the first couple in a family The second relation is that of Parents and Children §. IIII. Of Parents and Children THe duties of Parents and Parents and childrens duties Children are of two sorts Mutuaell and Seuerall and these either the duties of Parents both together and each apart Or of Children The mutuall duties of Parents Which are ● Mutuall and Children which both owe one towards the other are two 1 Naturall affection called by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is a loue which none can feele but they It hath in it the yerning of the bowels ouer the party lo●ed it is heathenish and more then bruitish to be without naturall affections Rom. 1. 2 Prayer for each other The duty of both Parents is 2 Seuerall Parents duty 1 Education both in religion and the true feare of God Ephes 6. 4. And in some honest trade of life and for this cause must they obserue the inclination of their children and accordingly dispose of them Prou. 20. 11. 22. 6. 2 Prouision for their estates and marriage for their estates it is their parts to lay vp for them as God shall blesse them 2 Cor. 12. 14. yet here remember that thou with-hold not thy hand from workes of charity because thou hast many children nay for this very cause let thy hand be more liberall thou hast the m●re to intreate the Lord for the more sinnes to be broken ●ff the more consciences to bee purged the more soules to hee d●liuered thus Iob offered sacrifices for his children and reckoned that as layed vp Dauid saith the righteous is euer mercifull and le●d●th and his seed is blessed Psal 37. 26. I● thou study more for an earth●● then an heauenly patrimony for them saith Cyprian which is to commend thy Cyprian de op●re E●eēmosynis children to the Deuill rather then to Christ thou art in a double fault both that thou prouidest not the succour of God the Father for thy children and that thou teachest thy children to loue their patrimony more then Christ Secondly they must leaue them what they haue receiued of their Ancestors Pro. 19 14. Thirdly they must set their houses in order by Will respecting therein the first borne vnlesse by some grieuous crim● he hath otherwise deserued as did Reuben Gen. 49. 3. 4. Deut. 21 17. 2 King 20. 1. 1 Tim. 5 8. If hee haue and doe deserue disinheritance the Father or Mother as I take it may not doe it in that state which descended from his Ancients for God hath there made him heire and to meddle with it for time after their life is to put forth the hand to that which is not theirs but his and be it that he is like to be the ruine of the house and family yet this none knoweth and if God will ruine it thus who shall let it the way to vphold it if any is prayer good instruction reformation of our selues and the maintenance of Gods house and worship that he may say as he did of Dauid I will build thee an house 2 Sam. 7. 11. In lands of our owne purchase and all other goods th●● a●e our owne to dispose as well as to inioy we ought to respect the deseruing children This for their estat●s their marriage is also to bee looked vnto by the Parents as they see their i●clination and necessity

could perswade euen when it hath perswaded them the Apostle therefore presseth this vpon them telling that godlinesse must be seene in the behauiour the gate and countenance the apparell and fashion of apparell the speech the silence of ancient Matrones should carry in the face of them a certaine dignitie of sacred comelinesse the Grace in the heart and the godlinesse taught according to Christ in the Gospell should be imprinted in the very speech eye face gesture and garments 2 They must not bee false accusers Loquacity and babling is common with the aged of that sexe and some of them neuer thinke they haue beene eloquent but when they haue told some tale to detract from others hence it is that their meetings vsually spiced with these discourses are the fountaine of all discords and dissentions among neighbours howmuch then should all Matrons suspect themselues in this point 3 They may not be giuen to much wine which indeede sets the tongue a flote makes them forget the former godly behauiour and giue examples that lead from modesty and honesty this very vice hath made many aged women turne bawdes See to it I pray you Wine is a mocker strong drinke is ●●ging 4 They must bee teachers 〈◊〉 m●dwiues in most places are greiuously dsieased in this case of good things not full of old wiues tales dotages of superstitious obseruations storyes of miracles loue songs wanton tales which is a disease that most old women are sicke of euen to death whereby they inf●ct the yonger sort and are the cause of most euisls found vpon them Were it not fit for them to teach the yonger women to loue their Husbands to loue their children to be discree● and chast and keeper at home with the like 5 They must be examples to the young woman in all the following virtues which are required in them as loue chastity discretion c. These concerne the Aged what concernes young men and women followeth §. XI Of the Youth THe remarkeable praise of Rules for youth young women and young men are deliuered in the same place Tit. 2. 4. 5. 6. Vpon young women should The women 〈…〉 e found I Sobriety and prudence and moderation which chiefely in women should be shewed in their apparell therein what is and is not ●modest is taught in 1 Tim. 2. 9. 10. Art in haire gold and pearles vnlawfull as against sobriety modesty piety and good workes Sobrietie with faith sanctifies the paines of child bearing vers 15. 2 Loue to their Husband and children which preuent and deliuer from all vnlawfull loue and lust as the preseruatiue of the you●g man from ●he bosome of a stranger is to be ra●●sht with the loue of his wife and to bee satisfied with her brestes alwaies Pro. 5. 3 Discretion the beauty of their beauty and chastity or coniugall purity their chiefest glory next to Christ and faith in him 4 Keepers at hom● not gadders from house to house their owne houses their cloisters and there the true Nunnes or rather g●dly Matrones seruing God in their callings and conscionable discharge of them 5 Good i. meeke of spirit gentle amiable apt and tendable not brawling bitter talkatiue and imperious 6 Obedient to their Husbands these things adorne their profession and are of a winning and alluring nature Yong men are especially to The men looke to Temperance that they be sober minded This one vertue workes a cure together with piety and godlinesse vpon the hearts of young men for it deliuers from all excesse in recreations in meate and drinke in apparell in passions of the minde and in those things that respect continency and chas●ity and in these yong men are most faulty Temperance in recreations sees that wee sport not our selues with things vnlawfull as chambering and wantonnesse nor of ill fame as Cards and Dice It moderates the affections that the heart be not stollen away by them and gouernes the passions of anger ioy and the like and requires a stint be put to them for the time that recreation bee not made a vocation Temperance in meate and drinke lookes to the quantity that it oppresse not nature and the quality that it bee not with excessiue variety and delicious fare euery day as it was with Diues and the time that wee sit not at it as those that spend their time in Alchouses and at their meales can sit three houres oft times and the company that it be not with wine bibbers and riotous eaters of flesh Prouerbs 23. 20. Temperance in apparell looketh to comelinesse shamefastnesse thriftinesse and godlinesse Temperance in passions of the minde is when feare ioy anger sorrow keepe measure guided by reason and religion and directed to some good end Temperance in things appertaining to chastity respects the purity of thoughts affection words deeds in the state of single li●e or marriage for there is a threefold chastity Of the Virgine Costitas Coniuga● virginitotis viduitatis Ambros Of the married person Of the Widdow These respect yonger men and women There followeth virginity and widdowhood §. XII Of the Virgin and Widdow COncerning Virgins of both Rules for the Virgin sexes wee haue receiued from the Lord onely these two directions 1 That if any haue the gift of continency either from the wombe borne so or by speciall grace and power ouer their owne will for the kingdome of Gods sake hee abstaine from marriage and vse that estate as freer from distractions and trouble in the flesh 2 That they vse the holy remedy of marriage if they haue a calling thereto that is if they cannot containe for it is better to marry then to burne 1 Cor. 7. 9. That ye may know what it is to burne vnderstand there are three degrees of rentations to lust The first is when the assaults of concupiscence preuaile so as to cast downe the will and carry it captiue so that the heart is on fire with concupiscence and vncleane thoughts this is the worst kinde of burning The second is when the assaults of lust cannot winne full consent of will yet doe strike so forcibly vpon the soule that they amaze it and hurry it with a blinde violence and disquiet the heart and set it so out of frame that they are vnfit for any holy dut●y Both these are burnings which must be quenched by marriage if they bee found with vs after the vse of watchings fastings and prayer The third is when we seele the motions of lust but can so valiantly resist that the true loue of chastity and shamefastnesse is not thrust out of our hearts but wee abhorre all filthy and vncleane motions These haue no calling yet to marry Concerning Widdowes the Rules for the Widdow Scripture speaketh expresly in one place 1 Tim. 5. Where they are cast by the Apostle into two rankes 1 Into such as were Widdowes indeede truely destitute of house husband kindred able to helpe them or to be helped by them or children or meanes who had not to trust to but God and continued in supplications and prayers day and night Who were aged 60. yeeres the wife of one man well reported for good workes euen workes of seruice as lodging strangers washing the Saints feet visiting the sicke c. These were to bee aided and relieued out of the Churches treasury and the ministers and Deacons were to haue speciall care of them for their maintenance 2 Into younger Widdowes and such as had friends to maintaine them these might not bee put to the Church to maintaine lest shee should be burdened and not haue where with to maintaine and relieue Widdowes indeed And for the young Widdowes the rule is giuen in verse 14. and the reason of it in verse 15. The rule is that they marry bring vp children guide the house and giue no occasion to the aduersary to speake reprochfully The reason is for some are already turned aside after Sathan Here let the Church see on whom to bestow her reuenues and reliefe and let Papists for euer be confounded while they looke on their Monasteries and Nunneries which feed vpon that which belongs not to them Thus haue I endeauoured to lay before all sorts the path which is called Holy Let no sluggish Christian say A Lyon is in the way a fell Lyon is in the path for no Lyon shall bee there nor any rauenous beast shall goe vp thereon it shall not bee found there but the redeemed shall walke there and the ransomed of the Lord shall returne and come in this way to Zyon with songs and euer lasting ioy vpon their heads they shall obtaine ioy and gladnesse and sorrow and sighing shalt flee away Euen so Amen Lord Iesus So be it Thou meetest him that reioyceth and worketh righteousnesse To thee be glory for euer FINIS Errata PAge 15. line 7. for that God did reade that God that did p. 50. l. 26. put out or p. 141. l. 22. for as r. and p. 143. l. 16. for charge r. change p. 144. l. 7. for it r. are p. 165. l. 4. r. which is the gift p. 147. l 14. r. 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the place where thou liuest reckoning vpon their dislike onely as worth the auoiding and not caring to runne vpon that which ministreth apparent and iust cause of distrust of thy good and louing affections to others for hee that loueth not all the Saints loueth no Saint a right neither is it here said se● thou loue this or that brotherhood which thou hast made by associating thy selfe with them but loue the brotherhood which God hath made by giuing these testimonies to the world that they are borne of him else in auoiding a rent from some thou maiest make a rent from many To these the duty charged vpon vs is loue Ephes 5. 2. Walke in loue the speciall commandement giuen by our Sauiour and the cognisance whereby his Disciples should be knowne Ioh. 13. 34. 35. Loue noteth the affections of the heart and the office of loue in the life 1 The affection of loue which we owe to the godly is a speciall degree of affectionate kindenesse tendernesse of hart framed in vs by the holy Ghost through the Gospell whereby wee receiue them as Christ receiued vs and respect them as our brethren in him partakers of the same grace of God and heires of the same inheritance of heauen the grace of life eternall prouided for vs knowing that there is but one body one spirit one faith one hope of our calling one Baptisme one Lord t●at redeemed them all one God who is the Father of them all who also is aboue all and through all and in them all Ephes 4. 4. 5. 6. Rom. 12 10. Ioh. 13. 34. And thus this loue of the brethren differeth from the loue of men we spake of before Neither is it enough that I loue them because they are men and as men but because they are Christians begotten of the Father and as Christians that are new borne The loue of men the law commandeth wils it be squared by this patterne as I loue my selfe the loue of the brethren the Gospell onely and wils it bee squared by a more excellent patterne as Christ hath loued vs As the law reuealeth not Christ the Mediator so neither doth it command the loue of the brotherhood who are gathered out of the word by Christ In this regard therefore our Sauiour saith A new commandement giue I vnto you Ioh. 13. 34. And to this loue of the brethren in our conuersion were our soules purified and still doth the Christian purifie his soule in obeying the truth through the spirit 1 Pet. 1. 22. 2 The offices of brotherly loue are these 1 To make choice of them as the onely companions of our liues associa●ing our selues to their communion and fellowship Psal 16. 2. 3. All our delight should bee in them that kingly Prophet saith I am a companion of all them that feare thee and of them that keepe thy precepts Psal 119. 63. 2 To vse hospitality one to another without grudging 1 Pe● 4. 9. H●b 13. 1. 2. and to be harbourers forget not this office of loue for hereby some haue receiued Angels into their houses vnawares Abraham and Lot as we reade pursued hospitality 3 To employ our gifts for their good as being members of the same body and therefore ought to haue the same care one of another All gifts are spirituall or corporall spirituall as knowledge vtterance and the like all giuen to profit withall 1 Cor. 12. 7. They must helpe others by what they haue learned when they meet together Pro 15 7. 1 Cor. 14 26 Col. 3. 16. By prayer bee they present or absent 2 Cor. 1. 11. and by admonitions prouoking to loue and to good workes Heb. 10. 24. corporall are riches friends authority all to be vsed chiefly for the good of the Saints Gal. 6. 10. Phil. 2. 4. 2 Cor. 8. 19. Rom. 12. 13. 4 To striue together for the faith of the Gospell defending with one heart the cause and quarrell of religion Phil. 1. 27. Like vowed souldiers vnder that one Generall the Lord Iesus 5 To beare one anothers burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ Gal. 6. 2. Their burdens are either infirmities temptations griefes for wrongs done vs or afflictions of infirmities our loue should couer them 1 Pet. 4. 8. and wee should shew our readinesse to lay their sorrowes to heart and to comfort them not by saying sinne is no sinne or calling euill good or soothing them in security but by directing them rightly to apply the consolations of God in Scripture If temptations wee should with all ten ●ernesse of heart aduise counsell and comfort If griefe for wrongs done to vs that we let them see how easily we can forgiue them and forbeare the least shew of reuenge as also Christ hath forgiuen vs Col. 3. 12 If outward afflictions that wee mourne with them that mourne and bee ready to helpe them to the vttermost of our power for we owe our liues to the brethren 1 Ioh. 3. 16. 17. 6 To confesse our faults one to another in case of dammage done to our brother yea be it wee haue not trespassed yet to open the sores of our dispositions and discreetly to tell our frailties failings and corruption of nature which as it easeth our owne hearts so it increaseth affections preuenteth loathing of vs for our infirmities and gaineth leaue with freedome to reproue them when they see wee are ready to condemne our selues Iam. 5. 16. These duties are of much intimatenesse and therefore the soule had need to be purified to this loue that it may be vnfeigned out of a pure heart and feruent 1 Pet. 1. 22. And that it may in the affections and the expression of these offices of loue continue without interruption wee must watch against these things chiefely 1 The forsaking of their fellowship Heb. 10. 25. 2 Iudging and censuring about hid things as the secrets of their hearts 2 Cor. 4 5. and things indifferent Rom. 14. 10. 3 Grudging murmuring and complaining Iam. 5. 9. Phil. 2. 14. 4 Enuy at their gifts and respects Gal. 5. 26. 5 Respect of persons Iam. 2. 1. 2. 6 Vaine-glory and conceitednesse Phil 2. 4. 5. Gal. 5 vlt. 7 Schismes rents and diuisions and running into opinions 1 Cor. 1. 10. Phil. 2. 1. 2. 1 Cor. 12. 25. 8 Inconstancy Heb. 13 1. 9 Worldlinesse looking only at our owne things 1 Cor. 13. 5. 10 Dissimulation 1 Ioh. 3. 18. 11 Vntrustinesse and vnfaithfulnesse 3 Ioh. 5. 12 Suits in law 1 Cor. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 13 Mixing our selues with a brother or brethren that proue lewd wee should restraine our familiarity and reproue them that they might be ashamed and amend yet count them as brethren not as enemies 1 Cor. 5. 11. 2 Thes 3. Rom. 14. 13. 14. 14 Scandale to lay a stumbling blocke in our brothers way Mat. 18 6. 7. All scandale is thy sinne when it is g●u●n by thee that is when thou art the cause of the hurt that comes by thy action as well as the

auth●r of the action and this is when thou teachest or approouest euill doctrine whether hereticall or superstitious when thou committest grosse sinne as did Dauid and when thou abusest thy Christian liberty 1 Cor. 8. 12. and it is abused when in things indifferent left free by the Magistra●e thou vsest thy liberty and the weake are wounded and offended But if the command of the Magistrate be vpon it thou must obey though a brother be o●fended Sin may not be done to please any 1 Pet. 2. 13. §. XXV Our carriage to the Godly in som● particuler case of falling weaknesse or strength THe former rules that concerne Our duty to the brethren in cases of falling weakenesse o● strength the affection and offices of brotherly loue belong to the brethren in euery estate there remaine such directions to bee deliuered as respect our carriage towards them as set in some certaine condition as if they bee weake or strong or fallen into some offences We take the last first and for our help in so hard a taske we find our text in the Epistle of Iude verse 22. 23. of rare vse wherein the Christian is admonished that hee is set in the Church for an helpe a Phisician and an Instrumentall Sauiour of his brother if hee see him ouertaken with any fault and that hee is indowed with gifts and graces for the edification of those with whom he conuerseth and because there is required in euery one that vndertaketh so great a worke some competent skill and good affection for if ignorance to distingnish of patience and medicines and wre●chlesnesse be vnfit for a Physician to the body much more to the soule the words doe fully direct vnto the rules of cure And of so●s haue compassion and others saue with feare plucking them out of the fire The maner of vsing them Putting a difference Hating euen the garments spotted with the flesh The maner of vsing these rules of cure concerne the Christian that would recouer his brother fallen or support him in falling where he is directed How to begin the cure he must put a difference How to be disposed in the whole he must hate the garments spotted with the flesh 1 First then thou must learne to put a difference it is Christian wisedome to distinguish between sinne and sinne offender and offender For as all patients are not alike diseased so all transgressors doe not alike offend is thy brother fallen into any sinne thou art bound to put forth thy hand to saue him but first consider aright the nature of his fall obserue then that Christians offend either in opinion or in parctice In opinion and these 1. In the foundation 2. In matters of lesse moment In the foundation and that first of ignorance and blind zeale both the seducer and seduced Secondly of malice and obstinately In matters of lesse moment and there making a rent or schisme or holding the vnitie of the spirit in the bond of peace In practice so some sinne 1 Of ignorant and infirmity in lesse in greater points 2 Of habit and presumption grossely and so fall into foule vices or extrem omissions Some sinne publikely or priuately 2 Thou hast then rightly put a difference in thy iudgment when thou hast d●scerned hereby how thy brother is falle● Now proceed to apply the rules of cure if thy brother haue offended in matters of opinion that are of lesse moment and haue made no rent or be it he hath offended in practise of ignorance or infirmity then see the rule of meckenesse and Christian softnesse haue Compassion on him If in matters fundamentall whether of blind zeale or ●bstinate heate or in other lesser points yet making diuisions if in practise grossely whether into fowle vices or extreame omissions be his faults publike or priuate see the rule of Christian s●uerity they are in the fire in danger of burning Oh saue them with feare pulling them out Aduice right Christian and diuine behold the rules of cure and apply them againe to each part that thou maist see how to expresse thy meekenesse and seuerity putting also therein a difference aswell as to whom and when for so the words are put indifferently into the midst as being the life of the whole worke and euery part of it 3 For thy meekenesse consider 1 In what things to be expressed towards each or the rules 2 How or with what affection with compassion The rules are these If hee offend in matters of opinion which rase not the foundation and disquieteth not the peace of the Church walke with ●im in the vnity of the common faith and pathes of holy life which both haue already attained vnto and doubt not but God will reueale vnto him that thing wherein he is otherwise minded Phil. 3. 15. If ●e haue fallen in matters of holy life through ignorance or infirmity restore him by the sp●rit of meekenesse Gal. 6. 1. considering thy selfe lest thou also be tempted beare his burden and so fulfill the Law of Christ The affection with which thou must bee touched in the practice of these rules is Compassion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to vse Saint Austines words when there is compassio miseriae non simulatio misericordiae a feeling of their misery not a feigning of mercy this will giue the due ●incture to thy carriage herein 4 For thy seuerity consider 1 The rules 2 The right carriage in the practice of them for The end to saue them The affection of the heart feare The holy violence where the cause also is intimated they are in the fire plucke them out The rules are these If hee offend in the fundamentalls of blind zeale and ignorance or being seduced 1 In meekenesse instruct him if God peraduenture will giue him repentance to the acknowledging of the truth 2 Tim. 2. 25. 2 Be carefull to maintaine good work●s for necessary vses Tit. 3. 8 14. 3 Pray earnestly and heartily for him Rom 10. 1. 2. If as a seduce● 〈◊〉 or of malice and obstina●ely ●●e is then an heriticke and thy rule is that in 2 Ioh. 9. receiue him not to house neither bid him God speed in his euill work Tit. 3. 10. If the error be in matters of lesser moment and the party make a rent and scisme thy rule is that in Rom. 16. 17. marke those which cause diuisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye haue learned and auoid them If it be in practice that they are guilty of soule vices or extreame omissions such as that of Idlenesse among the Thessalonians 1 Warne them in the beginning reprooue them sharply 1 Thess 5. 14. 2 If they amend not restraine thy familiarity be no companion for them that all may see thou approouest not their vice and if the offendors may be ashamed 1 Cor. 5. 11. 2 Thes 3. 6 14. yet not counting them as enemies but esteeming them as brethren If the fault be secret obserue our Sauiours rule tell it him betweene him