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A92885	The whole duty of a Christian containing all things necessary, both as to what he is to know, and do, for the obtaining a happy eternity ; to which is added, More particular directions, how to prepare for a comfortable death ...	Seller, Abednego, 1646?-1705.; Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698.	1699 (1699)	Wing S2461A; ESTC R42613	99,994	253

in thee and thy gracious Promises fervent Affections unto thee and all that bears thy Image and Likeness Let us be filled with the joyfull Exercises of Faith and Love Praise and Thanksgiving to which we are invited Let us sensibly feel the Death of Christ to be sweet and pleasant refreshing and strengthening unto our Souls as we shall the Creatures of Bread and Wine unto our Bodies Let us Take and Eat the Elements in a thankfull Remembrance that his Body was broken and given and his Blood shed for us Let our Taking Eating and Drinking be significations of our receiving and applying Christ with all his Benefits unto our own Soul's Comfort and Advantage upon thine own Terms as made Man for us and a Sacrifice for our Sins Let every Grace of thy Holy Spirit be sutably acted and increased by thee That we may go from strength to strength from one degree of grace to another be more inabled chearfully to do and suffer thy Will untill Grace be perfected in Glory through Jesus Christ our great High-priest Sacrifice and Alter to whom with thy Blessed Majesty and Holy Spirit be all Glory Honour and Praise now and evermore Amen At the Sacrament THis Sacrament is a visible Representation of the Sacrifice our Redeemer made upon the Cross to the Father for our Sins to keep up the Remembrance of it and affect us with it and to profess our Confidence in a crucified Christ for the Pardon of our Sins Acceptance of our Persons and all our Performances In him I see Divine Anger appeased his Justice satisfied our Debt paid O what hath our Lord done for our sake How hath he ascertained his good Will to our Nature by assuming it into his own Person when we might have expected rather that it should have been an Abomination to him Those amazing difficulties and discouragements that stood in the way of his Kindness could not hinder or diminish it He hath endured the Cross and despised the shame for the love wherewith he loved us Giving sensible demonstrations that it was easier to him to suffer such Torments than to see us perish and to abide all the Despites Indignities Contradictions of Sinners than to forbear to save them O astonishing undeserved Kindness We could plead nothing of our own except provocation and perversness could pass for desert then indeed we had been great Meriters How great therefore is the depth of that Wisdom and how is that Goodness to be adored that when Heaven and Earth was at so great a distance found out a way for Reconciliation 'T was righteous with the provoked Majesty of Heaven and Earth to execute speedily upon me the Sentence against Evil-doers But behold him offering by his Ambassador Terms of Peace and Amity to proclaim and seal a perpetual Agreement and Reconciliation This Sacrament seals Remission of Sins to all that perform the Conditions of the Covenant O unmerited unthought of Mercy Favour and Kindness towards a Stranger a Rebel an Enemy That can do nothing to oblige him that hath done so much to incense him that 's so unworthy of him so unmeet unprepared to receive him to entertain him to be so nigh unto him But O Infinite Condescention the high and lofty one that inhabiteth Eternity dwells in the humble and contrite Heart that trembles at his Word O take possession of thine own which thou hast so dearly purchased by thy own Blood let that cleanse me from all Sin When you receive the Bread THis is the Bread that came down from Heaven and giveth life unto the World which I receive as a sacred Memorial of his exceeding Love his painfull Sufferings as a Seal of those gracious Terms of Mercy he hath thereby purchased who suffered the Punishment due unto me died for my Sins rose again for my Justification and ever lives to make intercession for me Who can sufficiently admire and praise thee O mercifull Lord for this thy condescending goodness in taking upon thee our Nature standing in our stead making thy Soul an offering for our Sins Glory be to God on high for Peace between Heaven and Earth for his Good-will towards Men. I do this in remembrance of thee most mercifull Saviour who remembredst us in our low our lost Estate becamest our Surety paidst our Debt pacifiedst reconciledst an offended God enduredst the Cross underwentst the Shame who after thou hadst by thy self purged our Sins sat down at the Right-hand of the Majesty on high where thou pleadest our Cause and preservest in thy Favour all those that sincerely wait upon thee and serve thee Let not O let not this unspeakable Mercy and Kindness be ever forgotten by me O keep such a lively Sence thereof upon my Soul as may inflame me with Love unto thee delight in thee a continual Care to please thee to do all I can for thee let nothing blot out the Remembrance of this thy Love unto me let every thing mind me of it untill I come to be for ever with thee When you receive the Cup. BEhold the Blood of the Covenant between God and Sinners shed for the Remission of my Sins as well as for any others by my Lord and my God who loved me and gave himself for me Unto him that loved us and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood and hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father be Glory and Dominion for ever and ever Amen Adored be thy Infinite Wisdom Love and Mercy in our Redemption that left us not as the faln Angels to perish without a Remedy but took upon him our Nature that he might die for our Sins That thou invitest and bringest us into a Covenant of Amity and Kindness who canst not be injured by our Enmity who hast no need of our Friendship who art no more benefited by us than the Sun is by darting its Beams on a grain of Dust on a polluted Creature on a corrupted Carcass with whom it 's as easie to breath us into Hell as to breath out one kind invitation to us Worthless vile Wretch am I that deserves to be utterly abhorred forsaken rejected by him who is become my reconciled most mercifull Father my God in Covenant who will subdue and pardon mine Iniquities who knows what I have need of here and will give it who will assist accept of and bless my sincere Endeavours for which he hath given me his Word his Oath his Seal who cannot lye which shall never be broken O my God I praise and magnifie thee for this thy Infinite Eternal Goodness this inexpressible Love Let such a deep and lasting Sence thereof rest upon my Soul that it may be my great Satisfaction and Pleasure to meditate upon and commemorate it my dissatisfaction to be long diverted from it O hasten the day when I shall have nothing else to do but to sing thy Praise to celebrate it world without End In the mean time I offer up my Soul and Body all that I

only the Person h● assumed had been the better for it But the Divine Person assumed to himself the Humane Nature So that the Manhood subsists in the Godhead and they are so inseparably united that the same Person which is God is also Man Thus as God he is Eternal born in Time as Man Creator as God a Creature as Man Invisible as God visible as Man Immortal as God Died as Man Had he not been God and Man in One Person the Sufferings of his Humane Nature could not have derived that Infinite Value and Merit from the Divine nor his Bloud been called the Bloud of God (l) Acts 20.28 i. e. It was the Bloud of that Man that was God He was 1. God That he might bear the Wrath of God without sinking under it Give Worth and Efficacy to his Sufferings Obedience and Intercession Satisfie Divine Justice Purchase his Favour and Eternal Happiness for his People Overcome Death and the Devil Be the Head of his Church Recommend Infinite Love in the Abasement of himself for us 2. Man that he might obey suffer and intercede for us in our Nature have a fellow-feeling of our Temptations Passions Infirmities that we might have Access to the Throne of Grace and receive the Adoption of Sons As Creatures we were bound to the Precepts of the Law which we had broken and were without strength unable to perform And as Transgressors under liable to the Curse of the Law the Wrath of God which we were unable to bear Christ by his Active and Passive Obedience of Infinite Merit fulfilled all Righteousness purchased for us Pardon Grace and Eternal Life satisfied Divine Justice paid our Debt wrought out our Redemption procur'd our Liberty by giving a satisfactory Ransome to the Justice of God for our Life and Deliverance from the Captivity of Sin Satan and Death according to the Covenant made between the Father and Him from Eternity Of the Sacraments THE Two standing Sacraments of the Church of God of Old were Circumcision and the Passover Under the Gospel we have Baptism and the Lord's Supper wherein by visible signs the Benefits of the New Covenant in Christ's Bloud is represented sealed and applied to those that are within the Covenant who partake of them as Pledges of his Love and profess themselves thereby bound to all thankfull Obedience Baptism confirms and signifies 1. Our publick Initiation Entrance or Admission into the visible Church and Covenant of Grace distinguishing us from those out of it 2. Our being sprinkled washed and cleansed by the Bloud and Spirit of Christ from the guilt and filth of Sin our Dying to it and rising again unto Righteousness 3. Our having taken upon us the Badge and Livery of our Christian Profession That we have listed our selves as Soldiers to fight under Christ's Banner against the World the Flesh and the Devil which we have hereby renounced and resigned up our selves to Him and his Government to become his faithfull Subjects and Servants unto our lives End By the Minister's baptizing us In or into or unto the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost is meant his doing it by the Authority and Command of the Three Persons in the Divine Essence to be in and by this Rite publickly consigned devoted or consecrated unto the Faith Profession and Obedience of Them or separated unto their Service We ought to improve our Baptism in the whole Course of our Lives especially in the Time of Temptation and when we see others baptized by frequent Consideration of the Nature Use and Ends of it Institution Priviledges and Benefits sealed by it and our solemn Vow and Engagement made therein Endeavouring to live in newness of Life and brotherly Love as those that have given up their Names unto Christ and been baptized by the same Spirit into one Body The Lord's Supper Of that afterwards The Apostle's Creed SO called either because 1. Made by the Twelve Apostles every one an Article and the whole approved of by all of them before they separated themselves to Preach the Gospel Or 2. Agreeable to and a Summary of their Writings and collected out of them Article I. I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth I Believe in one Eternal most glorious Being infinite in all Perfections The Fountain Soveraign and Disposer Creator Sustainer and Governor of Heaven and Earth and all things therein II. And in Jesus Christ The Second Person of the Trinity Called 1. Jesus which signifies a Saviour or Salvation because he saves his People from the guilt defilement dominion and punishment of their Sins 2. Christ which signifies Anointed as of old were Priests Prophets and Kings when consecrated for those Offices which he took upon him was Anointed set apart unto fully furnished with all Authority and Ability As a Prophet he made known all things necessary for our Salvation by his Word and Spirit As a Priest he offered up himself a Sacrifice for our Sins and makes continual Intercession for us As a King he governs provides for rewards his People reduces them to his obedience rules in them by his Spirit restrains subdues or destroys their Enemies Jesus is a Hebrew Christ a Greek or Gentile Name or Appellation which Names he obtained by becoming the Saviou● of both i. e. the whole World Jesus point out and imports his Mediatorship Christ his Offices Jesus that he became our Saviour Christ which way i. e. by being our Priest Prophet and King His only Son By Eternal inconceivable Generation Begotten of the Father before all Time Our Lord By Right of Creation Prese●vation Dominion Purchase Redemption and particular Covenant III. Which was conceived by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary I believe that H● came down from Heaven and was by th● Power of the Holy Ghost after a wonderfull manner conceived and made Man in the Sanctified Womb of a Virgin and born of her so being not begotten of the corrupted finfull Seed of Adam free from Original Sin and as foretold ●he Seed of the Woman (m) Gen. 3.15 of the Tribe of Judah (n) Heb. 9.14 of the House and Family of David (o) Luc. 1. 27. IV. Suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified Dead and Buried He endured many Bitter Things in the whole Course of his Life but the Weight and Extremity of his Sufferings were immediately before and by his Crucifixion a painfull shamefull accursed Death to which he was adjudged by Pontius Pilate Governour of Judea under ●he Roman Emperour Tiberius to whom ●he Jews were then subject He died to ●edeem and ransome satisfie and make a●onement for us to take away Sin the sting ●nd fear of Death to take from us upon himself the Curse of the Law to confirm ●he Testament or Covenant of Grace for where a Testament is there must also of necessity be the Death of the Testator (p) Heb. 9.16 He was Bury'd ●s prefigured and foretold (q) Ps 16.9 10.

more Comfort than all the Mirth and Jollity of the Earth A Holy Life give more satisfaction than all the licentious Humours of this Jovial Age. When God shall give Relaxation and Rest to his troubled Saints When all their Burthens of Persecution Temptation and Sin shall be removed All their bodily Diseases and Infirmities end in perfect Vigour Agility Spirituality Incorruption and Glory All their Ignorances in a perfect Intuition and Vision of God All their Troubles of Conscience in perfect Peace All their Distempers of Sin in perfect Subjection to the Will of God All their exorbitant Affections in a regular and harmonious Motion towards the Supream good All their Distractions and deadness in Duty in a vigorous Activity and uninterrupted Exercise of Grace All Church-Divisions in perfect Union and Communion of Saints When they shall have no misgiving Thoughts no remaining Depravity in their Nature or new contracted Guilt to eclipse the Face of God or deject theirs and make their Countenance fall before him Nothing taken from them but their Prison their Chain their Clog their Shame their Sting their Poyson their Burden their Misery The Consideration of Judgment to come is enough sure to perswade us to a strict and diligent Care of our Lives and Actions to cast a damp upon all youthfull Dalliances and Solaces to check them in their eager pursuit of their most delicious Pleasures (y) Ec. 11.9 To make the Judge upon the Bench tremble at a few words of a Prisoner at the Bar (z) Act. 24.25 The Drunkard to let fall his Cups and the Busie Worldling to stand at gaze the Prophane Atheist to hide his Head and the sleepy Sot to start up into Anxious Wonder to hush the loud Companions into Silence and the merry Droll into a carefull Look No Sinner knows how soon he may be reduc'd to the very last opportunity of making his peace with God and brought into those straits that no wise considerate man would be in for all the World Into such a Condition as to have nothing to save him from perishing but a sudden Repentance to have but this Plank left which is a Thousand to one whether ever it will bring him safe to shore Now he apprehends himself in danger he is infinitely troubled for his neglecting Preparation for that which he could not for his life but believe would come He thinks and it 's to be fear'd very right it 's somewhat too late to set about it to little purpose to gird up his Loins when he can do no Service to light his Lamp when all his Oil is spent He 's afraid he shall have no time to do any thing considerable in this work that God will not accept of any thing he doth at such a time he vainly wishes for some of those Hours he was sick of hung upon his Hand he foolishly wasted and mis spent and nothing hinders him now from setting about the Work with all his Might but that ●●e hath neglected it so long and that it 's ●ow too late But is it not better to pre●ent the occasion of it To take away the ground of such vain Wishes such sad Complaints Why should we not resolvedly do that now which so many when they come to die heartily wish they had done The Foundation of our Peace and Comfort at Death must be laid in our youth and health living in a continual Expectation and Preparation for it doing all things in order to it getting a stock of habitual Grace and keeping our Souls in a vigorous vigilant Posture Let your loins be girded about and your lights Burning and ye your selves like unto men that wait for their Lord when he will return from the Wedding that when he cometh and knocketh they may open to him immediately Blessed are those Servants Luke 12.35 36 37. whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching A Prayer for a Comfortable Death To be added to our daily Devotions ALmighty Creator and most mercifull Redeemer who hast made me as the Clay and wilt bring me to Dust again Have Mercy upon me now and at the Hour of my Death By a Holy Conversation and habitual Performance of my Duty let me be always ready for it Let it not be unprovided or untimely having in it nothing extraordinary but an extraordinary Piety and the Manifestation of a great and miraculous Mercy Hide thy Face from my Sins and blot out all mine Iniquities Let me pass through the Valley of the shadow of Death with safety and a well-grounded Peace a meek and quiet Spirit and a Sence of thy Love and Mercy let me then fear no Evil because thou art with me thy Rod and thy Staff comforts me when my Flesh and my Heart faileth me be thou the strength of my Heart and my Portion for ever Give me a right use of ●●y Sences and Understanding an un●●gned Repentance a strong Faith and ●●tience a firm Hope a sincere Love 〈◊〉 thee and all the World Be thou ●●e Portion of all my Relations and ●●iends and our exceeding great Re●●rd When our Earthly House of this ●●bernacle is dissolved let 's have a Buil●●g of God an House not made with ●●nds Eternal in the Heavens while ●●ive let me live unto thee when I 〈◊〉 let me die unto thee living or dy●●● let me be thine through Jesus Christ 〈◊〉 Lord. Amen Another O Judge of all the World and Father of Mercies In all Humility I ●strate my self before thee O Re●●mber not against me the Sins of my ●●th nor of my riper Years but ac●●●ding to the Multitude of thy tender ●●●cies blot out all my Transgressions 〈◊〉 me not in a short life create to my 〈◊〉 Horror Amazement and Eternal Torment but be every day doing that which will be matter of Triumph and Rejoycing when I come to die All the days of my appointed Time let m● wait till my Change come Preserv● me in thy Faith Fear and Love to my Life's End Cast me not away from thy Presence take not thy Holy Spir●● from me Deliver me whom thou ha● redeemed with thy most precious Blood from the Power and guilt of Sin from offending thee or others by an impat●●ent uneasie Spirit from the Assaults 〈◊〉 Satan from an immoderate Fear 〈◊〉 Death from Eternal Damnation Th●● when I have served thee in my Gener●tion I may have an abundant Entran●● into the Kingdom of our Lord and Sav● our Jesus Christ to whom with th● Blessed Majesty and Holy Spirit be a Glory Honour and Praise now and eve● more Amen Another O Thou that art the Father of Mercies and God of all Consolation receive and keep me in thy Favour in the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Faith and Peace and in Righteousness of Life Make me always sensible of the shortness and uncertainty of my Life and of the suddainness and certainty of that Day when thou wilt bring every work into Judgment with every secret thing whether