in it than hitherto through remissness or sloth I have been Are not threatned Judgments calling for Intercessors I might be one in the gap to prevent Are not hungry bellies and naked backs calling for Relief It will be at the last day my greatest Honour and Happiness Mat. 25.34 to the 40. to have fed and cloathed them Are not dark secure and comfortless Souls needing Counsels Awakenings and Supports I 'de spare no pains to Awaken Direct and Chear And shall I be of farther use and service to neither Have I finished my whole work Might no Talent be better improved nor in any thing the Honour of my dear Redeemer more advanced Is his Church in her fullest Glory I would rejoice to see her in Am I dying ere Religion is living And soon again as conquered by quite different motives they are breathing out quite contrary desires pleading When Lord shall I be released from this present bondage and misery When from this heavy load of Corruption When from the cruel buffetings of Satan When from the grief I am in for the Afflictions of thy Zion for which I weep Lam. 1.16 mine eye mine eye runneth down with water When from the tempting Flatteries and unkind Persecutions of this vain and foolish world that would allure or affright me from my Reward and Crown When shall I exchange these dead cold and heartless duties for Triumphant Praises and Hallelujahs When for transient visits on earth shall I have a permanent enjoyment of Thee in Heaven Ah! I see a beauty a desirableness in nothing that can be matched with thy All-Glorious Perfections Husband Wife and Children are dear but thou art dearer to me than all how it repents me that I should place so much of affection on them as I have done Come Lord Jesus come quickly Rev. 22.20 Judg. 5.28 Cant. 8.14 Why so slack in thy approaches Why is thy chariot so long in coming Why tarry the wheels thereof Make haste my beloved and be thou like to a Roe or young Hart upon the mountains of spices But a little while and I shall be triumphing in thy blessed Arms and Bosom where I shall sin no more and sorrow no more A Pain a Sigh a Groan more as the happiest I ever felt finisheth my days and compleats my joys And who longs not with me for the approach of this hour Shall I carry none with me to Heaven as unwilling to be happy alone Holy David was in a strait as to the choice of three the greatest evils Famine Pestilence and Sword 2 Sam. 24.14 The Saint is oftentimes so as to two the greatest goods the Work and Service of Life and the Reward and Gain of Death Censure not any for it Vse I 'T is sad when an over-weening affection to any creature-comfort is the reason of it Earthly delights are put into the same balance with heavenly but not where hopes of farther service in the world is so O Grace indeed to be found weighing the Soul-advantages of others in the same scale with our own O Noble Soul that can be willing to be one moment out of Heaven in hopes of being others happy Convoy thither 2. Think Heaven desirable Needs must it be so as what frees us from every pinching strait particularly that of Living or Dying For the Soul there how unwilling soever it was to quit this life is wholly freed from any the least inclination of returning back to it under no more sharp conflicts of leaving creature-comforts but triumphs in God as better than all Truly holy souls are immediately with Christ at their departure Doct. II With him as in a state of Separation from their earthly bodies so without the assuming of any Aereal there is not any more need of this for a heavenly converse with their fellow-Spirits than of Angels one with another With him as not sleeping in the Grave till the Resurrection nor tormented with Purgatory-Flames As the former is an inlet to the greatest Infidelity and Atheism so the latter is greatly derogatory from the Riches of Free-Grace in their forgiveness and pardon as implying a Punishment of a fault remitted a Forgiving the Treason but Executing the Traytor For which may they continue to plead who experience the secular gain thereof as of any the most profitable fire in their Kitchen others as great Masters of Reason as themselves dare not but as fully redeemed by the Blood of Christ from all future pains and misery can heartily laugh at those of an imaginary Purgatory For we are told we have Redemption through his blood Eph. 1.7 the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace And how far a less noble Redemption and Forgiveness would it be than he hath obtained for us were we after this life to be refined for Heaven in Flames according to the Popish notion not differing from those of Hell Luke 23.43 except in duration The Converted Thief enters the very day he suffered into Paradise It is not to be thought that no greater happiness was designed him in the promise of it than the assurance of it after some longer continuance of time Acts 7.59 than the very present day in which it was made Stephen cemmends his Spirit to Christ at his Death Our good works Rev. 14.13 Eccl. 12.7 as meant of their reward are said to follow us The dust to return to the earth as it was and the spirit unto God that gave it And which seems to be the most convincing Argument of it Are or can they be rightly desirous of a Dissolution upon no other account It is not to be supposed Thinking Rational Creatures should be willing to part with Life the greatest of Temporal Blessings for the Redemption of which a man will give skin for skin Job 2.8 and all that he hath for a silent state in the grave or the most insupportable of pains No rather strip them of their hopes of a present happiness at death and very unaccountable are their desires of it They as knowing when the earthly house of this tabernacle is dissolved 2 Cor. 5.1 2. they shall have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens are groaning enrnestly desiring to be clothed upon with their house which is from heaven Don't be prejudiced against Religion or a holy life Vse for any the greatest earthly afflictions or sufferings of gracious souls You have little reason to be so their Deaths are so happy if their Lives are so miserable their Exit is Peace their Reward Life Everlasting Psal 37.37 Gal. 6.8 and their present sorrow and affliction the blessed school in which they have been disciplined and trained up for it And will you continue to be so prejudiced Psal 119.67 Live rather their lives as you would dye their deaths It is most foolish without this to wish Numb 23.10 Let me dye the death of the righteous and let my last
A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL OF THAT Truly Pious and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ Mr. Nich. Thorowgood At Godelman in Surrey By JOHN BVCK Minister of the Gospel LONDON Printed for Tho. Cockerill at the Three Legs in the Poultrey over-against the Stocks-Market 1692. To the REVEREND Mr. Edward Veal Minister of the Gospel in Wapping SIR COULD I be ungrateful your Name had never been prefixed to this Sermon For as you were pleased to command me this last Office of respect to the Deceased of which you gave me an Example but a few Months before on the like sad and sorrowful Occasion that call'd us together as Mourners So 't is but Justice you should allow me the liberty when my dearest Friends go off the Stage so fast to express my Thankfulness for one living whose Friendship is so greatly valuable Any who know me know I truly rejoice in the happy Relation that favours me with the honour of calling you Tutor or Brother Reading and Books have been but part of my small Improvement Your Friendly and Affable Converse in your Family and since has been such as I must blame my own Dulness for if I have not been advantaged thereby We were ever mutually dear one to the other distance and absence have but heightened our Reciprocal Affections that on your part must be owned the result only of a kind generous Disposition but on mine as a just Tribute paid to your real Worth And may it be yet our Emulation which of us shall continue the most Affectionately Cordial May the God of Heaven long lengthen out your days of Service to his Church and Crown therein your Ministerial Labours with the most blessed Success There are none more desirous of it than is SIR Your most Affectionate Brother and Hearty Servant JOHN BUCK PHILIPP I. 23. For I am in a strait between two having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better 'T IS pity any private Christian of Exemplary Zeal for God and Religion should at any time go unlamented to his Grave much more any serious painful and laborious Preacher that like the kind Silk-worm hath spinned out his own Bowels for the Publick good and been others loud Call from Sin and Vanity to the sincere Profession of the Gospel as their highest Advantage and Gain We are greatly stupid if we eye not their death the most gainful to themselves as our own misery and loss the loudest Alarm to a serious preparation for our own Dissolution and Change that must as certainly overtake us as it hath them and the saddest indication of Heaven's severest Displeasure against us in the inundation of the heaviest Calamities that by their powerful Intercessions they might have kept off and prevented if there be any thing of weight in the most sacred complaint The righteous perisheth Isa 57.1 and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come And who can forbear dropping a sigh or weeping a tear if not a floud for the death of him we have lately followed to the Earth and seen covered up therewith as a much-to-be-lamented loss as a Christian and a Minister and of justice challenging a greater tribute of Respect to his Memory and Ashes than what yet we have paid But leaving at present so Melancholy a Theme the sad Occasion of our Assembling Let us come nearer the Text that plainly tells us Life or Death as they most effectually advance the Honour of Christ should be the chief matter of our Rejoycing and Triumph But as it is hard to determine whether one or the other the one in a painful service in his Church the other in a holy dying Profession of his Truth hath the greatest tendency thereunto so a difficulty oftentimes almost invincible attends the Choice As for the division of the Text it naturally brancheth it self out into these parts 1st 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 St. Paul's sharp Conflict with each For I am in a strait betwixt two q. d. Hemm'd in with Difficulties not knowing which to take nor which to leave under a perplexity of mind not capable of answering Arguments for one or the other A pressure of Spirit not to be expressed as is elsewhere the import of the Phrase Luke 12.50 Acts 18.5 2. One chief Reason thereof His desire of being with Christ in a departure Having a desire to depart and to be with Christ This was what stirred up in him as earnest longings for Death as hopes of further service to his dear Philippians did of Life or caused him to breathe out the most passionate desires of quitting his abode on Earth for that of Heaven the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Having a desire as it denotes the greatest permanency and constancy thereof not a sick or faint velleity or sudden Passion that soon vanisheth and is gone so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to depart it imports a dissolution of parts of which we were before composed or the quitting of our Clayie Cottages as persons do their Houses in a Journey or a Ship the Shore in a Voyage 3. His true judgment of that estate Far far 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or much much the better i. e. To himself as his own greatest personal Gain tho not to others the other Reason of his strait in what he next utters V. 24. Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you From whence ariseth this Threefold Doctrine Truly holy souls Doct. I when Life and Death are set before them may be in a very great strait as to their choice of either Truly holy souls are immediately with Christ at their departure from the body Doct. II To be with Christ at our death is far better than any bodily continuance on earth Doct. III Truly holy souls when life and death are set before them may be in a very great strait Doct. I as to their choice of either St. Paul was so not willing of a cessation from works nor the delay of his Reward desirous of converting more fouls to Christ and yet longing to be himself with him in a strait whether he should be yet longer surrounded with the most afflictive troubles as are those of this present life of one kind or another or received to a Heavenly Enlargement and Rest And what was his Conflict may be that of others under different Apprehensions or Temptations At one time they are reasoning there is a Serpent every where with his alluring Apple except in the Heavenly Paradise How can I leave this plentiful Estate to the spoils of luxurious Spend-thrifts riepend enough without them for destruction How this dear companion of all my earthly comforts and sorrows How these Children of my delights standing as Olive-plants about my table Psal 128.3 e're I can leave them Holy and Gracious Might I not if longer spared in the world be of farther use and service
Mysterious Actings of Providence in the World Job 10.3 Psal 73.16 we could before give no account of nor durst demand any How we were afflicted and yet beloved What Souls are as to their Royal Original and what as to their most vivacious Actings without the assistance of any corporeal Organ with innumerable difficulties no Hypothesis in Philosophy can give an exact solution of Oh the knowledge that a Soul one minute in glory hath of delightful Mysteries beyond what on Earth we are capable of by the most painful Converse with Men or Books He knows more than us all and is perfectly happy in the knowledge of what he knows whilst in the knowledge of many things we are miserable and as to our knowledge of what we ought chiefly to know have reason to sigh out the complaint of our ignorance 2. Exactness of conformity in every thing to the divine Image For what Grace in our blessed Conformity thereunto is not then in its liveliest and highest Exercise Our Love our Delight our Joy and Rejoycing is so if not Desire Faith and Fear wholly ceasing As we actually enjoy the good or happiness we wished for believed or dreaded the loss of And as for our obedience in every thing to the Divine Will it is the most chearful constant and perfect or to what end do we pray Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven 3. Constancy of abode They are no longer complaining Heb. 13.14 We have here no continuing City No more restless in their motions from place to place like Noah's Dove that found no rest for the sole of her Foot the Waters had so covered the Earth but plucked in rather by a tender hand into the heavenly Ark where they have rest perpetual are fixed the Citizens of the New Jerusalem that City above where they are for ever at home And oh the happiness of this beyond what possibly at present we entertain the thoughts of It is so undoubtedly as to that Venerable Gray-headed Disciple and Soldier of our dear Redeemer deceased of any man I have known since he first left his Publick Living for the sake of conscientious innocent Nonconformity His Life appeared but one continued Journey and Travel from place to place and no removal thereof was apparently more his death's stroke than his last from his Native County and dear People of his Affections as he often stiled them to sing out his dying sweet and Swan-like Notes with you 4. Sweetest Harmony and Concord one with another It seems the least of doubts that Souls departed know each other in Glory Why not as well as Adam in the state of Innocency Of whom it is said that as soon as he awaked out of his deep Sleep He knew Eve to be bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh And no small part truly of their Happiness is it that they have the highest satisfaction and contentment one in another as partakers of the same Rest and alike imployed in the same most noble and delightful work of Praise Heaven admits of no Mistakes nor misunderstandings one of another and 't is pity this lower World should do it There are no Treacherous Judas's to betray us with a Kiss nor faithless Friends whose friendship is as vanishing as the smoak and vapour but rather a Hooper and a Ridley more fairly-shaking hands than ever they agreed in their Prisons A Luther and a Calvin sworn Friends or rather a perpetual and everlasting Friendship that shall never once be violated begun not only with known Friends deceased but all the Holy Patriarchs Prophets Apostles and Martyrs we never before saw or knew And may there as the liveliest Emblem of Heaven be more of Brotherly Peace Love and Amity on Earth May no trifling difference in Judgment separate Affections but each one for the future make it their only contention who shall most advance the Interest of the Lord Jesus in the World and resolve to leave those of lesser moment to such as think they have greater Concerns to mind than an endless blessed Eternity we are professedly waiting hoping longing for and hastning to And which follows on this 5. Fulness unspeakableness and Eternity of Delight and joy 1. Fulness and unspeakableness It is a Joy redundant and overflowing yet what admits of degrees or it had never been said They that be wise Dan. 12.3 shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever But every holy glorified Soul more or less capacious is as truly full of it as the lesser Vessel thrown into the Sea less capacious yet is as full as the greater Matt. 25.21 Psal 16.11 A Joy too great to enter into us for which we are bid to enter into it A Fulness inexhaustible and that lasts for ever A Joy that at present supports under the most painful Tribulations and Afflictive Losses Rom. 5.3 Heb. 10.34 Primitive Worthies gloried therein And took joyfully the spoiling of their goods as knowing they had in heaven a more enduring substance A Joy of which God himself is the Author which was of everlasting preparation Matt. 25.34 and the most affecting Subject of his dearest Son's Intercession He had never Grace more apparently poured into his Lips Psal 45.2 than when he uttered These things I speak in the world that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves John 17.13 v. 24. Or as the everlasting subject thereof he pleaded Father I will that those whom thou hast given me be with we where I am that they may behold the glory which thou hast given me for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world A Joy compleatly satisfactory and that as to the place of it Heaven excelling in glory all that is earthly Luke 23.43 Rev. 21.10 Rev. 21.2 Luke 22.29 Luke 12.32 Matt. 25.32 Rev. 4.8 Rev. 2.10 It is stiled upon this Account Paradise the great City the new Jerusalem the Kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world the work of it Praises and Thanksgiving of any the most noble and delightful Its advancement Thrones Scepters and Crowns our Company God Christ and glorified Beings And our heavenly Converse as with the former so the latter communicating their thoughts to us and we ours to them in a way much more noble and excellent than that at present of our quaintest and exactest Oratory Oh the various Delights and Joys resulting from each part of such our fulness and variety of Happiness yet no way diverting us from God the Chief but leading of us rather to the greater admiration of his rich Sovereign Love and Goodness in preparing each part of it for Creatures the most vile and unworthy and the highest thankfulness to him for the Death and Satisfaction of his Son by which only it hath been obtain'd and purchased And 2. Eternity It is what shall never have an end We are never more dreading
the clouding or Eclipses of it but is a Life of joy that lasts for ever A Joy that is essentially compleat at death but will be every way so at the Resurrection in the re-union of our Souls to our Bodies Phil. 3.21 Fashioned like unto Christ's most glorious body It being then this despicable Clay shall arise incorruptible and immortal 1 Cor. 15.53 and be alike Partners in glory with our Souls as they have both been so in work and service Eternally in glory for ever with the Lord And oh madness unspeakable to prefer the greatest Comforts and Enjoyments of Life before such the greatest Happiness and Joy at Death Oh what are Riches Honours and worldly Greatness that you should put them into the same Scale Alas but vain and empty dead Comforts dead Enjoyments that speak you as foolish in the hugging of them as was the Egyptian in that of the Carved Image or Statue of his dead Son he hoped with Crown'd Garlands and a profound respect paid to it would have been the total cure of his Sorrow but as the Historian tells us proved rather the life and resurrection thereof They are but sweet Dishes Death with his Voider will soon sweep away leaving you only a cutting Reckoning to pay for the full feast and meal of them you have made They are but Comforts and Enjoyments that are every day on their wing from you were not you so from them Prov. 23.5 And will you then continue to do this haste rather from their tempting Destruction make sure of more satisfactory Delights I mean those of a heavenly State which righteous Souls as the former Doctrine tells you presently partake of at their Death And this last they are most unspeakably happy in beyond any the longest bodily continuance on Earth But to hasten to a more practical improvement of what hath been said As The VSE let it be inferred 1st Oh the dreadful Misery of the Damned For if to be with Christ at our death is so desirable to be banished from him then must needs be dreadful Oh the sad exchange they have made of this Life for what is future Tongue cannot express the least part of their Torment and Sorrow and that from the dismal place they are in set forth to us in all the doleful Expressions of Horrour Isa 30 ult 1 Pet. 3.19 Rev. 20.3 Matt. 13.42 Rev. 19.20 Luke 16.28 Matt. 22.13 2 Pet. 2.4 Jud. 13. as of Tophet a Prison Bottomless Pit Furnace of Fire Lake of Fire Place of Torment Outer-Darkness Chains and Blackness of Darkness Their Eternity Ever Ever being as a thousand Daggers wounding or Scorpions stinging and the Accusations of Conscience still gnawing them like Prometheus his Vulture for their inexcusable folly as in running themselves upon the Misery they might so fairly have avoided so in losing the God the Saviour the Kingdom and Glory they might have gained And shall then the Offers of each be slighted any longer by you Why so foolishly contented to be miserable when wooed to be happy Trifle not away one offer of Grace more lest it be your last 2. Be less dismayed if holy and righteous at the approach of death as to your selves and learn more to moderate your sorrow for that of others you had reason to believe such 1. Be less dismayed if holy and righteous at the approach of death as to your selves It is alas as to you but an enemy unstung and disarmed if in its self the King of Terrors Job 18.14 what but lodgeth your Bodies in a Grave the most sweetly perfumed by the Burial of the Son of God and your Souls with him in endless Happiness and so as Conquerors already over each bids you to Triumph Oh death where is thy sting Oh grave 1 Cor. 15.55 56 57. where is thy victory The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law but thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 2. Learn more to moderate your sorrow for that of others you have reason to believe such For how should the sence of their Gain swallow up all repinings at your Loss and excite you to as great a willingness of parting with them as any have to the parting with their Children to the remotest ends of the earth for the sake of Temporal Advancements Methinks upon this account sorrow too often usurps the Throne of Joy We should even be weeping at the Birth of an Infant and rejoycing at the Death of a Saint Or if which Nature allows us the eye must drop a tear and the poor pained heart ease it self in sighs and groans it should be for this chiefly That they have gotten so much the start of us as to be at their Kingdom and Rest before us Which as we are called to in the deaths of others so particularly in that of this Worthy Person deceased Concerning whom I may modestly speak That if his Soul be not now with his Redeemer in Heaven there are but few of us who have not reason to despair of getting thither So heavenly truly and spiritual at all times were his words and discourse that we might have thought him unfit for earth long before he left it His Observation of the Lords Day was most exemplary as never tho most mornings the earliest riser sooner from his bed nor later in it even impatient through the whole of it of having his Mind and Ears filled with worldly Concerns or to see any part of it unredeemed And as for his Industry and Painfulness in his Ministerial Work where he last was both in Lectures and Fasts it must be confessed He laboured more abundantly than us all 1 Cor. 15.10 His Affections to you in his coming to you drowned greater Offers as thinking himself more happy in the Affections than the Fleece of his Flock And how painful and acceptable his short-liv'd Labours were among you needs no fuller a proof than his Last Sermon he Preached with Death's cold Dart stricken to his heart and the general Lamentations you express for him Upon the Death of his dearest Relation in very affecting expressions he uttered the deepest sense of his own he was heard thus to express himself The Lord fit those whose turn is next Ah! What would I not do what would I not forgo for Christ and Heaven And where is he now but with him reaping the full Reward of all his Painful Labours Not complaining any longer with his dearest Lord John 1.11 He came to his own but his own received him not Nor bleeding under the unkindnesses of Friends or Enemies But as to his own fulness of Joy and the miseries that seem to threaten you speaking tho dead the same Language the other did Luke 23.28 Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves and for your children And surely as his gain you should acquiesce in your loss for can you bring him back
again It is impossible The Grave his Prison till a Glorious Resurrection hath shut its mouth upon him You must go to him 2 Sam. 12 22 23. he shall not return to you Or if you could would you The greatest good you could thereby wish or hope for your selves is not what would compensate for his harm He is arrived at too happy a Port ever once more willingly to encounter the Rocks and Quicksands the rough Waves and Billows of a Tempestuous Sea the dangers of which are passed the consideration of which should teach you to be quiet be dumb not opening of your mouths Psal 39.9 it is God who hath done it Receive chearfully a present evil from those hands Job 2.10 Job 1.20 21. from whence you have received so much good Bless him taking as well as giving But that it may not be thought I plead for a Stoical insensibleness under so severe a stroke let not tears or sorrow take up with a present vent It is a Death-stroke Heaven hath given a Loss that will not easily be repaired But let him continue to live in your Thoughts and to Preach in your Affections It should be as hard for you now he is deceased to refrain from telling the world in plenty of tears over his Grave how well you loved him as it was with many of you John 11.36 when you stood by him in his Ascent to Glory to refrain from uttering My father 2 Kin. 12.12 my father the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof And 3. Long more to be with him therein Gain is alluring and should not that of your being with Christ in your death be so If far better evidence is such by your desires of it as well as in the vanquishing the slavish fears of so grim a Messenger that must bring you to it make haste prepare for it yet not such haste as he made to know the truth of the Souls Immortality who leap'd into the Sea and drown'd himself for a farther confirmation thereof he was so affected with the Platonick Lecture of it he had read but by Holy Preparations and Desires our only way through the Merits of a Redeemer the Scritpure hath chalked out thither O for a greater weanedness of affection from the perishing delights and joys of the world and greater out-goings of them to the unseen and Immortal Let the one be more in your eye the other more under your feet Look well to every account improve faithfully every Talent live every day perform every duty as your last that when you cease to live you may not be afraid to dye but be filled rather with St. Paul's Triumph with which I close 2 Tim. 4.7 8. I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto all them also that love his appearing FINIS Books Printed for Tho. Cockerill RVSHWORTH's Historical Collections 2d Part never before Printed containing the Principal Matters which happened from the meeting of the Parliament 1640. to the end of the year 1644. in 2 Vol. Fol. A Funeral Sermon on the Death of the Reverend Mr. West A Discourse concerning Regeneration Faith and Repentance A Discourse of the Christian Religion in sundry Points The Incomprehensibleness of Imputed Righteousness for Justification by Human Reason till enlightned by the Spirit of God These Four by the Reverend Mr. Cole A Succinct and Seasonable Discourse of the Occasions Causes Natures Rise Growth and Remedies of Mental Errors with a Discourse of Infant Baptism and against the Antinomians A Discourse of the Reasonableness of Personal Reformation and Necessity of Conversion Mr. John Flavell's Remains being two Sermons The one Preached at Dartmouth the other intended to be preached at a Meeting of Ministers These Three by John Flavell late Minister of Devon A Companion for Prayer By R. Alleine Author of Vinditiae Pietatis