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A16577	A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto are annexed certeine sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life euerlasting, and of the blessed state & felicitie of the same. Gathered by that holy marter of God, Iohn Bradford.	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.	1564 (1564)	STC 3481; ESTC S106823	29,063	104

is doubt not of eternall blisse for that is to putte Christ out of heauen But mark what the lord saith vnto thee the worde is nighe thee euen in thy mouth and in thy hart and thys is the worde of faith which wee preach If thou confesse with thy mouth that Iesus Christ is the lord beleue with thy hart that God raysed him vp from y e dead thou shalt be safe If thou beleue that Iesus Christe died and rose againe euen so shalt thou be assured saith the lord god that dieng with christ I wil bringe thee agayne with him Thus deare brother I thought good to wryte to thee in y e name of the Lorde that thou fearinge death for nothing els but because of thy sinnes mightest be assured of pardon of them so embrace death as a deare friend insulte against his terrour stinge power sayinge death where is thy stinge hel where is thy victory Nothinge in all the worlde so displeaseth the lorde as to doubte of his mercie In the mouth of two or thre witnesses we shoulde be content Therefore in that thou haste hearde so many witnesses howe that in dede desiring mercye with the Lorde thou art not sente empty a waye geue credite thereto and saye wyth the good Virgin Marye beholde thy seruaunt Oh Lorde be it vnto me according to thy word Vpon the which word see thou set thine eie only and wholy For otherwise here thou seest not god thy father but ī his worde which is y e glasse wherin now we behold his grace and fatherly loue towards vs in Christe therfore herewith we should be content and geue more credit to it then to all our lenses to al the world besides The worde saith our Sauiour shall iudge According to it therfore not according to any exteriour or interiour shew iudge both of thy selfe of al other things els Concerning thy selfe if thou desire in dede Gods mercy and lamentest that thou hast offended loe it pronounceth y t there is mercye with the lord for thee plenteous redemption It telleth thee which wouldest haue mercy at y e lordes hand that the Lorde willeth the same and therfore thou art happy for he woulde not thy death It telleth thee that if thou acknowledge thy faultes vnto the lorde he will couer them in his mercye Againe concerning death it telleth thee that it is but a sleepe that it is but a passinge vnto thy father that it is but a deliuer āce out of misery that it is but a putting of of mortality corruption that it is s putting on of immortalitie incorruption that it is a putting a way of an earthy tabertabernacle that thou mayest receiue an heauēly house or māsiō that this is but a callinge of the home from the watching standing in the warfare of this miserable life According to this 〈◊〉 worde I meane do thou iudge of death thou shalt not be afraide of it but desire it as a moste holsome medecine and a frendly messenger of the lordes iustice mercy Embrace him therfore make hym good chere for of al enemies he is the leaste In ennemy quod I nay rather of all frendes he is the beste for he bringeth thee out of all daunger of ennemies into y e most sure safe place of thy vnfained frende for euer Let these things be oftē thought vpon Let death be premeditated not only because he commeth vncerteinly I meane for the time for els he is most certeyne but al so because he helpeth much to the contempt of this worlde out of y e which as nothinge wil go with thee so nothinge canste thou take with thee because it helpeth to y e mortifying of the fleshe whyche when thou fedeste thou doest nothinge els but feede wormes because it helpeth to the well disposing due ordering of the things thou haste in this lyfe because it helpeth to repentaunce to bringe thee vnto the knoweledge of thy selfe that thou arte but earth and ashes and to bring thee the more better to knowe God But who is able to tel the cōmodities that come by the often and true consideration of death whose time is therefore lefte vnto vs vncertein and vnknowen although to god it be certein and the bounds ther of not only knowne but appointed of the Lorde ouer the whych none can passe because we should not prolonge and put of from day to day y e amendement of our life as dyd the riche man vnder hope of longe life And seinge it is the ordinance of god commeth not but by the will of god euen vnto a sparrow much more then vnto vs which are incōparably much more deare thē many sparowes and in that this wil of god is not only iuste but also good for he is our Father let vs if there were nothing els but this submit our selues our senses iudgements vnto the pleasure of him beynge content to come out of the roume of our souldership whensoeuer he shal send for vs by his purseuant death Let vs render vnto him that whiche he hathe lente vs so longe I meane life leaste we be ●ounted vnthankful And in that death commeth not but by sinne in that wee haue sinned so often and yet the Lorde hathe ceassed from exacting this tribute punishment of vs vntil this presēt let vs with thankefulnes prayse hys pacience and pay our det not doubting but that he being our father our almighty father can will if deathe were euil vnto vs as god knowech it is a chiefe benefite vnto vs by Chryst cōuert turne it into good But deathe being as before I haue shewed not to be dred but to bee desired let vs lift vp our heades in thinking on it and know that our redemption draweth nigh Let our mindes be occupied in the consyderation or often coutemplation of the four last articles of our beliefe y t is the cōmuniō of saincts or the holy catholike Church remission of sinnes resurrection of the fleash the life euerlasting By faith in Christ be it neuer so saint little or cold we are mēbers in very dede of the catholike holy church of Christe that is we haue cōmunion or feloweship with al the saints of God that euer were bee or shalbe Wherby we may receaue great comforte For though our faith be feble yet the Churches faith wherof our Sauiour Christ is the heade is mighty enough though our repētance be littel yet the repentance of y e churche wherwith we haue communion is sufficient though our loue be languishinge yet the loue of the church of the spouse of the church is ardent and so of al other thinges we wante Not that I meane this as though any man shold think that our faith shoulde be in any or vpon any other then only vpon god the Father the sonne the holy ghostener ther that any

¶ A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto are annexed certeine sweet meditateons of the kingdom of Christ of life euerlasting and of the blessed state felicitie of the same Gathered by that holy marter of God Iohn Bradford ¶ Perused corrected augmented according to the originall Imprinted in Fletestrete neere to saint Dunstons Churche by William Powell Ecclesiasti 5. MAke no taryinge to turne vnto the lord and put not of from day to day For suddenly shal his wrathe come and in the day of vengeance he shall destroy thee Stande fast in the way of the lord bee stedfast in thine vnderstandinge and followe the word of peace and righteousnes ¶ A treatise agaynst the feare of death BEING mynded through the helpe of God for myne own comfort and encouraging of others to speake something of Deathe at whose doores thoughe I haue stande a great while yet neuer so nere to mans iudgement as I do now I think it most requisite to cal cry for thy helpe Oh blessed saut our Iesus Chryste whiche hast destroyed death by thy deathe brought in place thereof life and immortalitie as by the gospell it appereth graunt to mee true liuely fayth wherethrough men passe from deathe to eternal lyfe that of practyse and not of naked speculation I may somethynge wryte cōcernyng death whiche is dredful out of thee in it selfe to the glory of thy holy name to myne owne comfort in thee and to the edifying of al them to whō this writing shall come to be red or hearde Amen ¶ There be .iiii. kindes of death one whiche is naturall an other which is spiritual a third which is temporall and a fourth which is eternal Concerning the first and the last what they be I nede not to declare but the second and the third perchaunce of the simple for whose sake especially I wryte are not so soone espied By a spirituall deathe therfore I mean such a death as the body lyuing the soule is dead Wherof the Apostle maketh menciō in speaking of widdowes which linyng daintely being a liue in body are dead in soule Thus you see what I meane by the spirituall death Nowe by a temporall death I mean such a death wher throught the body and affections therof are mortified that the spirite may lyue Of which kynde of deathe the Apostle speaketh in exhorting vs to kyl our mēbers And thus muche of the kindes of death wherin the iudgement of the worlde is not to it approued for it careth lesse for spiritual dea the then for naturall deathe it estemeth lesse eternall death then temporal death orels wold men leaue syn which procureth both thone and the other I mean spiritual eternal death and chose temporally to dye that by naturall death they myght enter into the full fruition of eternall lyfe whiche none can enioy nor enter into that here wil not temporally dye that is mortifie their affections and crucifie their lustes and concupicences For by obeying them at the first came death as we may reade Genesis the. 3. If Eue had not obeyed her desire in eatinge the forbydden fruite wherby she died spiritually none of these kyndes of death had euer come vnto man nor ben knowen of vs. Therfore as I said we must nedes here temporally dye that is mortifie our affectiōs to escape the spiritual death and by naturall death not onely escape eternal death of soule body but also by it as by a dore enter into eternall life which Christ Iesus our Sauiour hath procured and purchased to and for al that be in him translatinge eternall deathe into a sleepe or rather into a delyueraunce of soule body from all kinde of mysery synne By reason wherof we may se that to those that be in Christe that is to such as do beleue which beleuers I meane are discerned frō others by not walking after the flesh but after the sprite to those I say death is no dāmage but a vantage no dreadfull thing but rather desierable of all messengers most mery whiles he is loked vpon with the eyes of faith in the gospell But more of this hereafter Thus haue I briefely shewed thee the kyndes of deathe what they be whence they come and what remedy for thē But now̄ for as muche as I am purposed hereafter to entreate onely of the first kynd of death that is of natural death somthing to comfort my self others against y e dreade and paynes of the same I wyll speake of it as God shal instructe mee and as I accustome with my self to muse on it now̄ then the better to be prepared against the houre of temptation I haue shewed howe that this naturall death came by spiritual death y t is by obeying our affectiōs in y e trāsgressiō of gods preceptes but through the benefite of Christ to such as be in him die temporally that is to suche beleeuers as labour to mortyfie their affections it is no destruction but a plaine dissolution both of soule and body from all kynde of perils daungers miseries and therefore to such is not to be dread but to be desired as wee se in the Apostle whiche desired to be dissolued And in Simeon which desired to be losed saying dismisse or lose mee O lorde By whiche wordes he semeth plainly to teache that this life is a bōdage and nothinge to be desired as now I wyll somthing shewe First consyder the pleasures of this life what they be how long they last how painefull we come by them what they leaue behind them and thou shalt euen in thēse nothing but vauitie As for example how long lasteth the pleasure that man hath in the acte of generatiō How painfully do mē behaue theym selues before they attayne it how doth it leaue behind it a certaine lothsomnes and fulnes I wyl speake nothing of the sting of cōscience if it be come by vnlawefully Who wel seinge this and forecasting it aforehād woulde not forgoe the pleasures willingly as farre as neede wyl permyt suffer If then in this one wherunto nature is moste prone and hath most pleasure in it be thus alas how can we but thincke so of other pleasures Put the case that the pleasures of this life were permanente during this life yet in that this life it selfe is nothing in comparyson and therfore is ful wel compared to a candell light whiche is sone blowne out to a flower whiche fadeth away to a smoke to a shdowe to a sleepe to a runnynge water to a day to an houre to a momente and to vanitie it selfe who wold esteme these plesures and commodities which laste so lyttle a while Before they be begonne they are gone and past awaye Howe muche of our tyme spende wee in slepyng in eating in drinking and in talking Intancie is not perceiued youth is shortly ouerblowen