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death_n	bear_v	die_v	live_v	5,060	5	5.3319	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05259	The mothers blessing. Or The godly counsaile of a gentle-woman not long since deceased, left behind her for her children containing many good exhortations, and godly admonitions, profitable for all parents to leaue as a legacy to their children, but especially for those, who by reason of their young yeeres stand most in need of instruction. By Mris. Dorothy Leigh.	Leigh, Dorothy.	1616 (1616)	STC 15402; ESTC S113606	65,870	296

mother to her children is hardly contained within the bounds of reason Neither must you my sonnes when you come to bee of iudgement blame me for writing to you since Nature telleth me that I cannot long bee here to speake vnto you and this my mind will continue long after mee in writing and yet not my mind but I seeke to put you in minde of the words of our Sauiour Christ which saith Labour not for the meate that perisheth c. where you see that the food of the soule is to bee gotten by labour Why stand you here sayth Christ here is not time to be idle they that will rest with Christ in heauen must labour to follow him here on earth Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord for they rest from their labour Thus you see if you will goe to the place which Christ hath bought for you you must labour to follow Christ he labour'd to get it for you or els all your labour would haue been as nothing and now you must labour to lay hold on him or els all your labour will bee worth nothing Many there bee that labour the cleane contrary way for they leaue Christ and take hold of traditions and a number loyter and by that meanes neuer get holde on Christ. And this is the cause why I write vnto you that you might neuer fly from him with the one nor yet loyter with the other but that you might learne to follow him and to take hold of him in the written Word of God where you shall find him as Christ himselfe witnesseth and no where else Search the Scriptures sayth he for they testifie of mee Labour therefore that you may come vnto Christ. CHAP. 4. The second cause is to stirre them vp to write THe second cause my sonnes why I write vnto you for you may thinke that had I had but one cause I would not haue changed the vsuall order of women is needfull to be knowne and may doe much good For where I saw the great mercy of God toward you in making you men and placing you amongst the wife where you may learne the true written Word of God which is the path-way to all happinesse and which will bring you to the chiefe Citty new Ierusalem and the seuen liberall sciences whereby you shall haue at least a superficiall sight in all things I thought it fit to giue you good example and by writing to intreate you that when it shall please God to giue both vertue and grace with your learning he hauing made you men that you may write and speake the Word of God without offending any that then you would remember to write a booke vnto your children of the right and true way to happinesse which may remaine with them and theirs for euer CHAP. 5. The third cause is to moue women to bee carefull of their children THe third is to encourage women who I feare will blush at my boldnesse not to bee ashamed to shew their infirmities but to giue men the first and chiefe place yet let vs labour to come in the second and because wee must needs confesse that sin entred by vs into our posterity let vs shew how carefull we are to seeke to Christ to cast it out of vs and our posterity and how fearefull we are that our sinne should sinke any of them to the lowest part of the earth wherefore let vs call vpon them to follow Christ who will carry them to the height of heauen CHAP. 6. The fourth cause is to arme them against pouerty THe fourth cause is to desire you that you will neuer feare pouerty but alwaies know it is the state of the children of GOD to bee poore in the world Christ sayth Ye shall haue the poore with you alwaies It may be he hath appointed you or yours to bee of this poore number doe not striue against Christ. It is as hard sayth he for a rich man to enter into heaven as for a Camell to goe thorow the eye of a needle Saint Iames sayth Woe bee to you that are rich S. Paul sayth The desire of mony is the roote of all euill Which if it be true as it is not to be doubted of and you feare pouerty then doth it necessarily follow that you will desire the roote of all euil which is money and so become good for nothing The feare of pouerty maketh men run into a thousand sins which nothing els could draw them to for many fearing the cold stormes of pouerty which neuer last long run on to the hot fire of hell which neuer hath an end This matter requireth many words for it is hard to perswade the nature of man from the feare of pouerty wherefore I wil speake more of that afterwards onely I now say Feare not to bee poore with Lazariu but feare a thousand times to be rich with Diues CHAP. 7. The fift cause is not to feare death THe fift cause is to desire you neuer to feare death for the feare of death hath made many to deny the knowne truth and so haue brought a heauy iudgement of God vpon themselues A great reason why you should not feare death is because you can by no meanes shun it you must needes indure it and therefore it is meet that you should be alwaies prepared for it and neuer feare it Hee that will saue his life sayth Christ shall lose it and he that will lose his life for my sake and the Gospels shall finde it Doe not feare the paines of death in what shape soeuer hee come for perhaps thou shalt haue more paines vpon thy bed and be worse prouided to beare them by reason of some grieuous sicknesse then thou art like to feele when God shal call thee forth to witnesse his truth The only way not to feare death is alwaies to be prouided to dye And that thou mayest alwaies be prouided to dye thou must be continually strengthening thy faith with the promises of the Gospell as Hee that liueth and beleeueth shall not dye and though he were dead yet shall he liue Meditate in the laws of the Lord day and night as the Psalmist saith and then thou shalt be fit to bring forth fruit in due season then thou shalt bee fit to serue God thy King and country both in thy life and in thy death and alwayes shalt shew thy selfe a good member of IESVS Christ a faithfull subiect to thy Prince and alwaies fit to gouerne in the Christian common-wealth and then thou mayest faithfully and truely say Whether I liue or dye I am the Lords But without continuall meditation of the Word this cannot bee done And this was one of the chiefe causes why I writ vnto you to tell you that you must meditate in the Word of God for many reade it and are neuer the better for want of meditation If yee heare the Word and read it without meditating

nature of man is wholly corrupted with sin and is good for nothing as the earth is fit to bring forth nothing but weeds except it bee digged and dressed and continually laboured and weeded yet one weed or other will grow in some part of the earth by nature which will not grow in another part though it besowne there but some other weed will grow there that is as ill and one weed ouergrowing the ground is able to make it vnprofitable for any thing so one sinne will rule where another will not and that one ouerrunning thee is able to make thee an vnprofitable member of the Church therfore thou must labour by priuate prayer to ouercome it CHAP. 21. Men become worse for want of vsing good meanes MOreouer as a garden if it be twentie yeeres kept with digging watering and weeding and then bee let but two yeeres alone it will become vnprofitable sauage and of no respect euen so if thou dost in thy youth or many yeeres vse priuate prayer and hearing of the Word preached and publike prayer and fasting all good means to keepe thy earthly body in subiection yet if thou becommest negligent and carelesse but a while it will soone become sauage and wilde and consequently an vnprofitable member of Christ his Church or rather manifest thy selfe to bee no member as the earth will bee no garden and therfore you must haue a cōtinual care of your selues It is not for a smal matter that you must haue this care but for a great a most glorious kingdome which lasteth for euer where thou shalt enioy the sweete and louing presence of almightie God and bee a a member of Iesus Christ in the Kingdome of heauen for euer world without end Then neither Satan nor the world nor thy owne flesh shall bee able one minute to trouble thee if through faith in Christ by continuall prayer thou once gettest thither Neither is it to shunne a little danger that you must bee thus watchfull and wary of your selues as was drowning in the red sea which was a figure of hell but it is to auoid burning in hells torments for euer and euer and being ioyned to the diuell and all his wicked spirits for euer there to bee tormented and neuer haue rest And this will be more then a thousand millions of paines to those that shall enter into these torments to thinke that God hath offered so mercifull a meanes as to send his owne Sonne to indure those paines for them that they might neuer haue felt them and sent them his Word and willed them to follow that and that should teach them to follow Christ and Christ should bring them to heauen and if that the diuell the world and the flesh did lay blockes in their wayes more then they could remoue that then they should call vpon him he should helpe them ouer and make the way in time more plaine and easie for them and yet they would not take a little paines heere to keepe them from endlesse paines of hel-fire Oh how will they bee tormented whē they know that there neuer will bee an end of their perpetuall misery What would they not giue nay they haue nothing to giue for the world hath deceiued them and hath taken all things from them but what paines would they not take to follow our Sauior now if they might paines nay they would thinke it a great pleasure and wonder greatly at themselues that they euer could thinke it paines when indeede it is the most pleasant and most comfortable the most profitable and most delightfull yea and the most contenting thing in the world CHAP. 22. To lay holde on Christ is the best thing in the world IT is the most pleasing thing because it brings so sweete contentment to the soule minde and conscience of man that nothing can offend it It is the most comfortable thing in regard it so comforteth and strengtheneth the hart that nothing can grieue it It is most profitable for it getteth an euerlasting kingdome to those that vse it It is most delightfull for it bringeth ioy to the whole man It is most contenting for no crosse in the world can discontent it when as the world on the contrary side are neuer content neuer quiet neuer feele ioy in their hearts Though they laugh their hearts are not quiet for there is no peace to the vngodly And this is the cause that they seek so much for pastime and sit vp in the night swilling and drinking vntill they feele sleepe call them to bed and then they lie downe like bruite beasts neuer regarding the mispending of their time nor calling for grace to spend the rest of their daies better And yet for all this in the darke they often feele discontent in their mindes because they doe follow the diuell that wicked serpent which will torment them and hee begins to torment here and yet they will serue him On the contrary those that serue God and follow Christ and euery night reconcile themselues vnto him and confesse their own weaknesse and pray Christ their Sauior to defend them that night and euermore they feele much comfort in their hearts for Christ begins the comfort heere I laid mee downe in peace and rose againe saith Dauid and the Lord sustained mee So they which serue God and follow Christ are in peace for the Lord sustaineth them CHAP. 23. What need there is to speake much of Christ. IT may bee you maruell my Sonnes why I write so much of Christ. Maruell not why I write for I wonder that euery one which hath heard of him doeth not write what Christ hath done for vs. For was it not a great wonder that the onely begotten Sonne of God should come downe from heauen and take our flesh vpon him and keepe it without sin and suffer himselfe to be buffetted and also to haue his face spit in and to bee most spitefully crowned with a crowne of thornes And being with out sinne hee bare all our sins vpon him and hauing neuer offended God hee bare all the wrath of God and indured the paines of hell for vs which was due vnto vs for our sinnes and hee hath ouercome sinne death and hell for vs and ascended into heauen to prepare vs a place there yet hee left vs not thus but hee left his Wil and Testament to direct vs the right way how to come vnto him and yet hee did more for vs then this for he taught vs in his Word how wee should know when we were out of the way and how we should returne into the right way againe And yet he did more for vs then this hee promised that hee would bee with vs vnto the worlds end and whensoeuer wee wanted his helpe do but call vpon him and he would helpe vs. And yet hee did more for vs hee sent preachers to call vpon vs and put vs in remembrance of these benefits and to direct vs the right