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A17397	The marrovv of the oracles of God. Or, diuers treatises containing directions about sixe of the waightiest things can concerne a Christian in this life. by N. Bifield, late preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.	Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622.; Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622. Beginning of the doctrine of Christ. aut; Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622. Spirituall touchstone. aut; Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622. Signes of the wicked man. aut; Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622. Promises. aut; Rules of a holy life. aut; Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622. Cure of the feare of death. aut	1630 (1630)	STC 4222; ESTC S120511	234,877	800

looke how wee dye as whither wee shall goe when we are dead 2. Christ dyed a cursed desth that so euery death might bee blessed to vs For hee that liues holily cannot dye miserably Hee is blessed that dyeth in the Lord what kind of death soeuer it be CHAP. XXI Shewing the cure of this feare of death by practice HItherto of the way of curing this feeare of death by meditation It remaines now that I proceed to shew how the cure is to be finished perfected by practice for there are diuers things to be heeded by vs in our daily conuersation which serue exceedingly for the extinguishing of this feare without which the cure will hardly euer bee soundly wrought for continuance The first thing we must frame our liues to for this purpose is the contempt of the VVorld wee must striue earnestly with our owne hearts to forgoe the loue of worldly things It is an 〈◊〉 thing ●…o be willing to dye when our hearts are cleansed of the loue of this world Wee must leaue the world before the world leaue vs and learne that lesson heartily To vse the world as if wee vsed it not Neither ought this to seeme too hard a precept for they that striue for masterie abstaine from all things when it is but to obtaine a corruptible crowne how much more should we be willing to deny the delights of this world and striue with our natures herein seeing it is to obtaine an incorruptible crowne 1. Cor. 9 24 25. VVe must learne of Moses who brought himselfe to it willingly to ●…orsake the pleasures of Egypt and to choose rather to suffer affliction with Gods people then to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter Heb. 11. 26. And to this end we should first restraine all needlesse cares and businesse of this world and study so to be quie●… as to meddle with our owne busines and to a●…idge th●…m into as narrow a scantling as our callings will permit Secondly we should auoid as much as may be the societie with the fauorites and minions of the World I meane such persons as admire nothing but worldly things and know no other happinesse then in this life that speake onely of this World and commend nothing but what tends to the praise of worldly things and so to the enticing of our hearts after the World And withall wee should sort our selues with such Christians as practise this contempt of the World as well as praise it and can by their discourse make vs more in loue with heauen Thirdly we should daily obserue to what things in the world our hearts must run and striue with God by prayer to get downe the too much liking and desire after those things Fourthly we should daily be pondering on these meditations that shew vs the vanitie of the world and the vilenesse of the things thereof Thus of the first medicine Secondly we must in our practice soundly mortifie our beloued sins our sins must dye before we dye or else it will not be well with vs. The sting of death is sin and when we haue pull'd out the sting we need not feare to entertaine the Serpent into our bosome It is the loue of some sin and delight in it that makes a man afraid to dye or it is the remembrance of some foule euill past which accuseth the hearts of men and therefore men must make sure their repentance and iudge themselues for their sins and then they neede not feare Gods condemning of them If any aske me how they may know when they haue attained to this rule I answer VVhen they haue so long confessed their sinnes in secret to God that now they can truely say there is no sinne they know by themselues but they are as desirous to haue God giue them strength to leaue it as they would haue God to shew them grace to forgiue it Hee hath soundly repented of all sin that desires from his heart to liue in no sin And vnto this rule I must adde the care of an vpright and vnrebukeable conuersation It is a maruellous encouragement to dye with peace when a man can liue without offence and can iustly plead his integrity of conuersation as Samuel did 1 Sam. 12. 3. and Paul Acts 20. 26 27. and 2 Cor. 1. 12. Thirdly Assurance is an admirable medicine to kill this feare And to speake distinctly wee should get the assurance first of Gods fauour and our owne calling and election for hereby an entrance will bee ministred into the Heauenly Kingdome And therefore haue I handled this doctrine of the Christians assurance before I meddled with this point of the Feare of Death Simeon can dye willingly when his eyes haue seene the saluation Feare of death is alwayes ioyned with a weake faith and the full assurance of faith doth maruellously establish the heart against these feares and breeds a certaine desire of the comming of Christ. Paul can be confident when he is able to say I know whom I haue beleeued and that hee is able to keepe that which I haue committed to him 2. Tim. 12. Besides wee should labour to get a particular knowledge and assurance of our happinesse in death and of our saluation Wee would study to this end the Arguments that shew our felicitie in death And to this purpose it is of excellent vse to receiue the Sacrament often For Christ by his Will beq●…eathed heauen to vs Ioh. 17. and by the death of the Testator this Will is of force and is further daily sealed vnto vs as internally by the Spirit so externally by the Sacraments Now if wee get our Charter sealed and confirmed to vs how can we be afraid of the time of possession He is fearelesse of death that can say with the Apostle Whether I liue or dye I am the Lords Rom. 14. 8. 4. That charge giuen to Hezekiah concerning the setting of his house in order Esay 38. is of singular vse for this cure Men should with sound aduice settle their outward estates and dispose of their worldly affaires and according to their meanes prouide for their wife and children A great part of the feare and trouble of mens hearts is ouer when their Wills are discreetly made but men are loth to dye so long as their outward estates are vnsettled and vndisposed It is a most preposterous course for men to leaue the making of their Wils to their sicknesse for besides their disabilities of memory or vnderstanding which may befall them the trouble of it breedes vnrest to their mindes and besides they liue all the time in neglect of their duty of preparation for death 5. Wee may much helpe our selues by making vs friends with the riches of iniquity we should learne that of the vniust Steward as our Sauiour Christ sheweth Since wee shall be put out of the Stewardship we should so dispose of them while wee haue them that when wee dye they may

there is terrour in parting Eightly consider yet more the humours of the most men Men will suffer infinite paines for a small liuing or preferment here in this world yea we see souldiers for a small price will put themselues into vnspeakeable dangers and that many times at the pleasure of others that command them without certaine hope of aduantage to themselues Will men kill themselues for things of no value and yet be afraid of a little paine to be endured when such a glorious estate is immediately to be enioyed in heauen Ninthly let not man pretend the paines of death that is but a ●…igge-leafe to couer their little faith For they will languish of the Gout or Stone a long time rather then die one sweet death with easiest conditions possible Tenthly if none of these will perswade yet attend I wil shew 〈◊〉 a mystery Feare not the paines of death for first death is terrible when it is inflicted by the Law but it is easie when it is inflicted by the Gospel the Curse is taken off from thee thou art not vnder the Law but vnder Grace And besides for this cause did Christ die a terrible an●… 〈◊〉 cursed death that euery death might be blessed to vs. And further God that hath greatly loued thee in life will not neglect thee in death Precious in the fight of the Lord is the death of his Saints What shall I say against the terror of death but this Text of the Apostle Thanks be to God that hath giuen vs victory through Iesus Christ. Hee hath pulled the sting out of Death O Death where is thy sting 1 Cor. 15. 55. Lastly thou hast the Spirit of Christ in thee which wil succour and strengthen ease thee and abide with thee all the time of the combate Why should wee doubt of it but that the godly dye more easily then the wicked Neither may we guesse at their paine but the pangs vpon the body for the body may bee in grieuous pangs when the man feeles nothing and the soule is at sweete ease in preparing it selfe to come immediately to the sight of God CHAP. XIII Comfort against the losse of the body in death OH but in death a man is destroyed hee loseth his body and it must bee rotted in the earth Sol. 1. It hath bin shewed before that the separation of the soule from God is properly Death but the separation of the soule from the body is but the shadow of Death and we haue no reason to be afraid of a shadow 2. The body is not the man the man remaines still though hee be without the body Abraham Isaac and Iacob are proued to be liuing still by our Sauiour Christ though their bodies were consumed in the earth and God was their God still It is true Death seizeth on thy body but a Christian at the most suffers but aliquid mortis a little of death Death is like a Serpent the Serpent must ea●…e dust now death therefore can feed vpon no more but our dust which is the body it cannot touch the soule whereas wicked men suffer the whole power of death because it seizeth both vpon body and soule too and in their case onely it is true that death destroyes a man 3. Grant that we lose the body in death yet that ought not to be terrible for what the body is it hath beene before shewed It is but a Prison to the Soule an old rotten House or a ragged Garment it is but as the Barke of a Tree or the Shell or such like now what great losse can there be in any of these 4. This separation is but for a time neither we doe not for eu●…r lose the body we sh●… haue our bodies againe they are kept safe for vs till the day of Christ. Our graues are Gods Chest 's and he makes a precious account of the bodies of ●…is Saints they shall be raised vp againe at the last day God will giue a charge to the earth to bring forth her dead and make a true account to him Reuel 〈◊〉 And God hath giuen the assurance of this not onely in his Word by promising it but in his Sonne whom hee hath raised from the dead If any say What is that to vs that Christs body is raised I answer it is a full assurance of the safety and of the resurrection of our bodies for Christ is our Head Now cast a man into a Riuer though all the body be vnder water yet the man is safe if the head be aboue water for the head will bring out all the body after it So it is in the body of Christ though all we s●…nke in the riuer of death yet our Head is ●…isen and is aboue water and therefore the whole body is safe 5. It should yet more satisfie vs if we throughly consider that we shall haue our bodies againe much better then now they are Those vile bodies we lay downe in death shall be restored againe vnto vs glorious bodies like the body of Christ now glorified Philippians 3. 21. And therefore death loseth by taking away our bodies we haue a great victory ouer death The graue is but a furnace to refine them they shall come out againe immortall and incorruptible CHAP. XIIII The desire of long life confuted OH but if I might liue long I would desire no more If I might not dye till I were fiftie or threescore yeeres old I should bee contented to dye then Sol. There are many things may shew the vanity and folly of men in this desire of long life For 1. If thou art willing to die at any time why not now Death will be the same to thee then it is now 2. Is any man angry and grieued when hee is at the Sea in a Tempest because hee shall be so quickly carried into the Hauen Is he displeased with the Wind that will soone set him safe in the Harbour If thou beleeue that death will end all thy miseries why art thou carefull to deferre the time 3. Till thy debt be paid time will not ease thee thy care will continue and therfore thou wert as good pay at the first if thou be sure it must be paid at all 4. In this world there is neither young nor old When thou hast liued to that age thou desirest thy time past will be as nothing Thou wilt still expect that which is to come thou wilt bee as ready to demand longer respit then as now 5. What wouldst thou tarry here so long for There will be nothing new but what thou hast tasted and often drinking will not quench thy thirst thou hast an incurable dropsie in thy hart and these earthly things haue no ability to fill thy heart with good or satisfie thee 6. Wouldst thou not ●…dge him a sot that mournes because he was not aliue an hundred yeeres agoe And thou art no better thou

shewes in those words of being absent from the body and present with the Lord verse 8. Thirdly the prophesies haue runne on this point For it was long since fore-told that Christians knowing the victory of Christ ouer death should bee so farre from fearing death that they should tread vpon him and insult ouer him O death where is thy sting c. Esay 25. 8. Hosea 13. 14. 2 Corinthians 15. 54 55. Fourthly it is a condition that Christ puts in when he first admits Disciples that they must deny their owne liues and not only be content to take vp their crosse in other things but their liues must not bee deare vnto them when he calls for it Luke 14. 26. Fifthly We are taught in the Lords Prayer to pray That Gods kingdome may come And by this kingdome he meanes the kingdome of Glory as well as the kingdome of Grace Now in that wee are taught to pray for the kingdome it shewes wee should desire it and that by praier we should be more and more heated in our desires Sixtly wee are borne againe to a liuely hope of our inheritance Now if we be afraid of the time of our translation thither how doe we hope for it after a liuely manner A desire of going to heauen is a part of that Seed cast into our hearts in our regeneration 1 Pet. 1. 3 4. Seuenthly we haue the example of diuers men in particular who haue desired to die were out of feare in that respect Gen. 49. 18. Iacob waited for Gods saluation and Paul resolues that to dy and to be with Christ is best of all for him Phil. 1. 21 23. yea in Romans 7. 24. hee is vehement O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer mee from this body of Death Sim●…on prayes God to let him dye Luke 2 29. And the Prophet in the name of the godly said long before Christ O that the saluation of Israel were come out of Sion Psalme 14. 7. And we haue the example of the Martyrs in all ages that accounted it a singular glory to die And in 2. Corinth 5. 2 7. the godly are said to fight for it that they might be absent from his body and present with the Lord and so doe the first fruits of the holy Ghost those eminent Christians mentioned Rom. 8. 23. Lastly not onely some particular godly men haue attained to this but the whole Church is brought in in the 12. Chapter of Reuelation praying for the comming of Christ and desiring too that hee would come quickely And 2. Timothy 4. 8. The loue of the appearing of Christ is the Periphrasis of the childe of God Thus of the first point CHAP. III. Shewing how vncomely it is to feare Death FOr the second how vncomely a thing it is in Christians to feare death may appeare many waies 1. By the feare of death we shame our Religion while we professe it in our words we deny it in our workes Let Papists tremble at death who are taught that no man ordinarily can be sure he shall go to heauen when he dies But for vs that professe the knowledge of saluation to bee astonished at the passage to it shewes at least a great weakenesse of faith and doth outwardly giue occasion of disgrace to our Religion 2. By that which went before we may see how vncomely it is to be afraid of death For thereby we disable the death of Christ wee frustrate the end of Gods workemanship we stop the execution of the Prophesies we renounce our first agreement with Christ we mocke God in praying that his kingdome may come we obscure the euidence of our owne regeneration and wee transgresse against the example of the godly in all ages 3. Many of the Pagans greatly settled their hearts against the feare of death by this very reason because there was no being after death and therefore they could no more feele misery then then before they were borne And shall wee Christians that heare euery day of the glorious saluation we haue by Christ be more fearefull then they were Let them feare death that know not a better life Shall we be like wicked men Their death is compelled shall ours be so too They by their good wils would not lose their bodies in this life nor haue their bodies in the next life but since God hath made vs vnlike them in the issues of death shall wee make our selues like them in the lothnesse to dye Let Felix tremble at the doctrine of death and iudgement Acts 24. 25. but let all the godly hold vp their heads because the day of their redemption draweth nigh Mathew 24. c. 5. Shall we be afraid of a shadow The separation of the soule frō God that is death if we speake exactly but the separation of the soule from the body is but the shaddow of death When see we men trembling for feare of spirituall death which is called the First Death and yet this is farre more woefull then that we call the bodily death But as if the death of the body were nothing the Scripture cals damnation The second death neuer putting the other into the number 6. This feare is called a bondage here in this text And shall wee voluntarily make our selues vassals Or shall we be like slaues that dare not come in our Masters sight 7. If we loue long life why are wee not much more in loue with eternall life where the duration is longer and the estate happier Are wee not extremely insatuated that when God will doe better for vs then wee desire yet wee will be afraid of him 8. Shall wee bee worse then children or mad men Neither of them feare death and shall simplicity or Ideotisme doe more with them then reason or Religion can doe with vs 9. Do not all that reade the storie of the Israelites in their passion desiring to bee againe in Egypt and violently murmuring at the promise of going into the Land of Canaan condemne them of vile ingratitude to God and folly in respect of themselues For what was it for them to liue in Egypt but to serue cruell Taske-masters about bricke and clay And was not Canaan the place of their rest and a Land that floweth with milke and hony Euen such is the condition of all that wish life and are afraid to dye What is this world but Aegypt and what is to liue in this world but to serue about bricke and clay Yea the Church that is separate from the world can find it no better then a barren wildernesse And what is Heauen but a spirituall Canaan And what can death bee more then to passe ouer Iordan and victoriously ouercomming all enemies to bee possessed of a place of matchlesse rest of more pleasures then Milke or Hony can shadow out 10. Adam might haue had more reason to feare Death that neuer saw a man die an

ordinary death but for vs to bee affrighted with death that see thousands die at our right hand and ten thousand at our left and that daily is an inexcusable distemper The gate of Death is continually open and wee see a prease of people that daily throng into it 11. When Moses had cast downe his Rod it turned into a Serpent and the Text noting Moses weakenesse saith He fled from it But the Lord commanded him to take it by the Taile and behold it became a Rod againe Euen so death at the first sight is terrible like a new-made Serpent and the godly themselues through inconsideration flye from it but if at Gods commandement without feare they would lay hold vpon this seeming Serpent it will be turned into a Rod againe yea into a golden Scepter in our hands made much better by the change Neither doe we reade that euer at any time after Moses had any feare of this Serpent when he had once known the experience of it And haue we offen by the eyes of faith seene the experience of this great work of God and shall we still be running away 12. It is said Rom. 8. 12. that all creatures groane wayting for the libertie of the sonnes of God and shall wee bee worse then bruit beasts Doth the whole frame of nature as it were call for this time of change and shall man be so stupid or carried with such senslesse feares as to shun his owne felicity 13. Consider whether it bee more commodious for vs that Death come to vs or that we go to Death For one thing is certaine it is vaine to shunne that which cannot bee auoided For it is appointed vnto all men once to die Heb. 9. 27. What man is hee that liueth and shall not see death Psal. 89. 48. Death is the way of all flesh Iosh. 24. Now this being granted let vs consider of it Death is like an armed man with whom we must once fight Now if we be aduised and will goe to Death we must get on our armour beforehand and so the encounter will be without danger to vs because the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God we are assured of victory through Iesus Christ. On the other side to tarry till Death come vnto vs is as if a man that knowes he must fight with a sore aduersary would through slothfulnesse goe vp and downe vnarmed till he fall into the hands of his enemy and must then fight with him at such disaduantage 14. It is most vncomely to feare that which is both common and certaine Death of all afflictions is most common For from other afflictions it is possible some might bee free but from death can no man be deliuered and God of purpose hath made that most common which is most grieuous that thereby he might abate the terrour of it It is monstrous foolishnes to striue in vaine to auoid that which neuer man could escape And to teach men their vnauoydable mortality the Lord clothed our first Parents with the skinnes of dead beasts and feeds vs with dead flesh that as often as wee eate of slaine beasts we might remember our owne end and shall we be euer learning and neuer come to the knowledge of this truth Is this such a lesson as cannot be learned Shall we be so stupid as daily to passe by the graues of the dead and heare their knels and yet be vntaught and vnarmed 15. Lastly shall we be afraid of such an enemie as hath beene ouercome hand to hand and beaten by Christ and thousands of the Saints especially if wee consider the assurance wee haue of victory In this combate euery Christian may triumph before the victory 〈◊〉 Corinth 15. 55. And thus much of the two first points CHAP. IIII. Shewing that a Christian is many wayes happy in death NOw I come to the third point which is the maine thing here intended and that is the meanes how we may be cured of the feare of Death and in this we had need all to attend with great carefulnesse The disease is stubburne and men are sluggish and extremely loth to be at the trouble of the cure and Satan by all meanes would keepe vs from remembring our latter end the world affoords daily distractions to plucke vs away from the schoole of Christ herein and our owne hearts are deceitfull and our natures apt to be weary of the doctrine before wee put in practice any of the directions and we are apt to a thousand conceits that it is either vnpossible or vnnecessary to attend this doctrine or the like Yea it may be it will fare with many of vs as it doth with those that are troubled with the raging paine of the teeth their paine will cease when the Barber comes to pull out the tooth so it may be you may finde this deceit in your hearts that you will not feel the feare of death till the discourse of the medicine be ouer and so let it be as water spilt on the ground But let vs all awake and in the power and strength of Christ that died to deliuer vs from the feare of death let vs lay all the plaisters close to the sore and keepe them at it till it bee throughly whole There be two wayes then of curing this feare of Death The one is by contemplation The other is by practi●… There be some things if we did chuse them out soundly to thinke of them would heale vs wonderfully There be some things also to bee done by vs to make the c●…re perfect If contemplation be not auaileable then practice will without faile finish the cure The contemplations are of two sorts For either they are such meditations as breed desire of Death by way of motiue or they are such as remoue the obiections which cause in mans mind the feare of Death For the first there bee two things which if they be soundly thought on will worke a strange alteration in our hearts The one is the happinesse wee haue by death The other is the miseries we are in by life Can any man be afraid to bee happy If our heads and hearts were filled with arguments that shew vs our happines by death we would not be so senslesse as to tremble at the thought of dying Our happinesse in death may bee set out in many particulars and illustrated by many similitudes full of life and vertue to heale this disease of feare 1. Death makes an end of all the tempests and continuall stormes with which our life is tossed it is the Hauen and Port of rest and are we so mad as to desire the continuance of such dangerous tempests rather then to be in the Hauen whither our iourney tends 2. Death is a sleepe For so the dead are said to to be asleepe 1 Thess. 4. 14. Looke what a bed of rest and sleepe is to the weary labourer such is Death to

receiue vs into euerlasting habitations Luk. 16. An vnprofitable life is attended with a seruile feare of death 6. It would master this feare but to force our selues to a frequent meditation of death To learne to dye daily will lessen yea remooue the feare of dying Oh this remembring of our latter end and learning to number our daies is an admirable rule of practice It is the forgetfulnesse of death that makes life sinfull and death terrible Deu. 32. 29. Psa. 90. 12. And wee should begin this exercise of meditation betimes Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Eccles. 12. 1. This is that is called for when our Sauiour Christ requires vs and all men so to watch and here in lay the praise of the fiue wise Virgins Matth. 25. 3. Thus I●…b will waite till the time of his change come Iob 14. 14. And of purpose hath the Lord left the last day vncertaine that we might euery day prepare It were an admirable method if we could make euery day a life to begin and end as the day begins and ends 7. Lastly because yet we may find this feare cumbersome and our natures extremely deceitful there is one thing left which can neuer faile to preuaile as farre as it is fit for vs and that is hearty prayer to God for this very thing Thus Dauid prayes Psal. 39. 4. and Moses Psal. 90. 13. and Simeon Luke 2. 19. And in as much as Christ dyed for this end to deliuer vs from this feare wee may sue out the priuiledge and by prayer striue with God to get it framed in vs. It is a suite God will not deny them that aske in the name of Christ because it is a thing that Christ especially aimed at in his owne death To conclude then wee haue prooued that it is possible to be had and most vncomely to want it and likewise the way hath beene shewed how both by meditation and practice this Cure may be effected If then it be not wrought in any of vs we may here finde out the cause in our selues For if wee would hereby be soundly aduised and ruled we might attaine to it all the dayes of our life to sing with the Saints that triumphant Song mentioned both in the Old and New Testament Oh death where is thy sting O hell where is thy victory so as we are now the conquerors through him that loued vs and gaue himselfe to death for vs euen Iesus Christ the righteous to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost bee all praise in the Churches throughout all ages for euer AMEN FINIS The Contents of this Treatise 2. The contents of the second booke 3. The Contents of the third booke 4. The Contents of the fourth booke 5 The contents of the fift booke * Touching t●… Treatise of the Principles reade the Aduertisement printed at the end of the Rules of Life pag 640. 6 The contents of the last booke Whom these Treatises concerne 〈◊〉 to the s●…y of t●…se 〈◊〉 Generall directions by way of preparation 2 3 4. Note The course to be rid of sinne Motiues 3 Things he must be resolued of in his iudgement 1 2 3 If we do 4 things wee are r●…d of the danger of all sins past 1 Make a Catalogue of thy sins How our sins are innumerable Look to a things The proof 2 Secondly thou must confesse thy sinnes particularly in the best words thou canst Note The proofes 3. Thirdly thou must seek godly sorrow not giue outr till thou feele thy heart melt within thee How it may bee attained 4. Fourthl●… thou must th●… lay h●…ld vpon the promises distinctly 〈◊〉 Sorts of promises How this may bee done Note 1. A taste of the 〈◊〉 hap●…e of s●…ch as haue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…arte 2. 3. 4. 5. How th●…se promises are to bee vs●…d How wee may know whether our confession bee tigh●… 1. 2. 3. 4. Note this well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5. This direction concern●…s three sort●… of men Other vs●…s of the Catalogue T●…e misery of such as will not b●… 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 th●…ir 〈◊〉 1. 2. 3. 4. The first s●…rt of sin Originall sinne Ignorance Procrastination Vainglory Security Incorrigiblenesse Carnall feares Hypocris●…e Selfe-loue Luke warmnesse Vnchearefulnesse Inconsideration Inconstancy 1. Naturall Atheisme 2. Epicurisme 3. Defects 4. 〈◊〉 of our affections 5. 4 Sorts of pride 6. How many waies men sin against Gods mercy 7. 8. 9. 10. Offences against the f●…re of God 11. Offences against the trust in God 12 1. Not worshipping The aggrauations 2 Will worship The aggrauations 3. Idoll worshipping Sins in any part of Gods worship 1. Sinnes in hearing 2. Sinnes in Pray●…r 3. Sins abou●… the Sacraments of ●…he Lord●… Supper 4. About swearing More secret off●…nces against the Sabbath The open breaches Note The sins 1. Of wiues 2. Of husbands 3. Of children The aggrauations 4. Of Parents 5. Of seruants The aggrauations 6. Of Masters 1. Of subiects 2. Of Magistrates 1. Of hearers 2. Of Ministers 1 By omissi on The aggrauations 2. By commission 1. Enuie 2. Anger 3. Hatred 4. Worldly sorrow Sinnes externall 1. In gesture 2. In words The aggrauations 3. In w●…rks Sinnes against the body Sinnes against the soule The means of vncleannesse 1. In witnesse bearing 2. Lying The aggrauations 3. Slandering The aggrauations 4 Censuring 5. Vainglory 6. Flaterie 〈◊〉 Sins against Christ. 2. Sinnes against repentance The aggrauations 3. Sinnes against Faith The aggra●…ations 4. Against the graces of the Spiri●… Two Catalogues of signes The shorter Catalogue handled in this Chapter 1 He au●…ides the company of the wicked 〈◊〉 Hee is s●…rrowfull for his sin 〈◊〉 Hee is ●…hroughly reformed ●…n his con ●…ersation 4 He maketh conscience of lesser ●…ns as well as greater 5 Hee loues preaching 6 He esteemes the go●… aboue all men 7 He is carefull of the sancti fication of the Sabbath 8 He is not in loue with the world 9. He loues his enemies 10. He is constant in good courses though opposed 11. He serues God in his family The occasion of this Treatise The signes ref●…rred to six heads The infallibility of the signes 3. W●…ies to find out the signes of a god●…y man in Scripture ●…6 Signes of true humiliation 1. Hee sees his sinnes 2. He feares Gods displeasure 3. He trusts not vpon the merits of his own workes 4. Hemours For all sorts of sins For sin as it is sinne As much as for crosses 5. And for the sinnes of others 6. And for spirituall iudgemēts 7. And is moued 8 And ●…ee is eased onely by spirituall meanes 9 And is carefull to learne how to be saued 10 And is fearefull of being deceiued 11 And earnestly desires to lead an holy life 12 And trusts vpon Gods mercy in his griefe 13 And is in loue with God if he heare his praiers 14 And daily iudgeth himselfe for his sinne 15 And prayers in the holy Ghost 16 Desiring to be rid of