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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

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

called the polluting of the Sabbath Ezek. 22. 26. Esa 58. but what neede wee goe further then the commandement it selfe It is one of the lawes giuen immediatly from God not mediately by Moses as the Ceremonies were Deut. 4. 13. 14. it was written with Gods owne finger in Tables of stone Exod. 31. 18. Put into the Arke Couered with the mercy seate as containing part of the sinnes nayled to Christs Crosse and therefore not any that serued to the expiation of sinne in the shadow one of the ten words or precepts which if you teare out you can make of the rest but nine and so giue God the lye Deut 4. 13. Let the words of the precept speake for its authority The word Zacor is indefinite is in English to remember because we are bound for euer to remember this matter as saith R. Elias Remember shewes also that this as the other commandements was ingrauen in the hearts of the fathers and that it was inioyned before and obserued though easily neglected by corruption Exod. 16. Remember to keepe it holy the end of the commandements is moral Sixe dayes shalt thou labor if the permission of the sixe dayes labor appertaine to vs do not the sanctifying of a seuenth We are no lesse charged on the Sabbath to worship then permitted on the sixe dayes to follow our ordinary calling if the Commandement be Ceremoniall Idlenesse is the best Christianity in the sixe dayes It is the day blessed sanctified now so long as wee need the meanes with the blessing of God on them for our recouery out of sinne and our continuance in grace so long we neede some speciall day to which God hath promised a blessing in speciall But you will say the Iewes Sabbath was blessed but where find ye our Sabbath blessed I Answer in the Commandement which saith not the Lord blessed the seuenth day but the Lord blessed the Sabbath day be it the seuenth or the first day of the weeke which hee shall giue in charge and hallowed it in a word this commandement was giuen and charged vpon the strangers and I doe remember that a stranger was bound to obserue the Ceremoniall law If any say can you shew where this is Commanded or confirmed in the New Testament I Answer I can Mat. 5. 18. One iot or one title of the law shall not perish and verse 19. Whosoeuer shall breake one of the least Commandements and shall teach men so shall be called the least in the kingdome of heauen I will close this with the saying or Irenaeus in his 4 booke agai●st heresies the 31 Chapter God needed not the loue of man but man was destitute of the glory of God of which by no meanes he could partake but by that obseruance which is owing towards God for this cause M●ses saith choose life c vnto which life prepa●ing man the Lord himself by himselfe spak the words of the De●alogue to all like therfore they remain with vs in like maner receiuing extent and increase but not dissolution by his comming in the flesh But the precept of bondage he commanded the people by Moses apart fit for their disciplining These precepts which were giuen to them for bondage and a signe he hath girt about with the New Testament of liberty but whatso are naturall and common to all he hath increased our knowledge of God as father our adoption our loue our obedience to his word without turning away the face abstaining euen from the lusts of euill workes our feare child-like So our liberty is not giuen as a cloke of maliciousnesse but to the propitiation and manifestation of faith To plead Christs comming to this and to blot out one of the ten commandements is to vse Christian liberty for a cloke of wickednesse according to this man of God 2 For the change of the day The first day of euery weeke is the Christans Sabbath it is easily prooued to be diuine it is called in Scripture The Lords day Rev. 1. 10. as the Holy Supper of the Eucharist is called the Lords Supper 1 Cor. 11. 20. First institu●ed by the Lord and in its vse r●ferred to the Lord for who could change the day of the Sabbath but hee that is Lord of the Sabbath that is Christ Mark 2. 28. the practise of our Sauiour and the Apostles who app●ared on this day h●ld their assemblies on this day conuinceth it sufficiently to bee commanded by our Lord and Sauiour Ioh. 20. 19. 26. Act. 2. 1. and 20. 7. 1 Cor. 16. 1. 2. and reasons strong and many may bee giuen the Commandement that a seuenth part of our time be consecrated to God is morall as we haue before prooued therefore the Institution of the Lords day could not be deferr●d one whol weeke for the Iewes Sabbath in respect of the determination thereof to the seuenth day was abrogated de iure in Christs death if it were deferred to the Apostles ordination though then also it were diuine for they had the spirit of Christ yet the Church must haue beene ●eft destitute of a Sabbath for a time and on●ly nine precepts haue stood in force for that space Againe it is not ●asie to cast off what some Ancients haue vrged from that place Psal 118 24. This is the day which the Lord hath made for Christ himselfe tells vs that his resurrection is handled in that place Matth. 21. 42. and who should appoint the day of worship in the New Testament but he that instituted the ordinances of the N●w Testament and from whom all bles●ing vpon all worship is to be expect●d We will therefore in obedience to our Sauiours institution with the Ancient Church call this day the Lords day the day of bread the Dies dominicus dies panis dies Lucis day of light and wish that neuer any should reckon of the fourth Commandement as otherwise then morall Thus of the Authority I pray you hide not your eyes from seeing it that so you may receiue the Duties of this day The duties of the Lords day are the duties of the Sabbath both for the matter and manner of performing Take then your duty thus it is referred to these two Considerations 1 What is charged on vs. 2 On whom it is charged For the first wee are charged to Prepare for the Lords day or the Sabbath Keepe it For preparation we are bound 1 To R●member it before it come and to ob●erue it as the word is vsed in the repetition of the Law Deut 5. that is both to informe our iudg●ments of the Authority of the day and to be mindfull in euery respect to keepe the precept aswell as any of the other watching against our naturall corruption which nor cares to vnderstand nor minds to obs●rue this Holy rest 2 To fi●ish our workes on the sixe dayes as God did his doing all we haue to doe Gen. 2 2. For if through our negligence a necessity be contracted of