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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

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

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