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A23696	The art of patience and balm of Gilead under all afflictions an appendix to The art of contentment / by the author of The whole duty of man.	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Pakington, Dorothy Coventry, Lady, d. 1679.; Sterne, Richard, 1596?-1683.	1694 (1694)	Wing A1096; ESTC R20086	106,621	176

an Annalogical Death a speedy Consumption of all our corrupt and drossy Parts so as the pain must be the more intense by its shortness than in the ordinary course of death Briefly that change is death and our death is a change as Job stiles it Job 14.14 The difference is not in the pain but in the speed of the T●ansaction Fear not then the sentence of Death remember them that have been before thee and that come after for this is the sentence of the Lord over all flesh Ecclus. 41.3 11 THOU fearest Death So do not Infants Children or Distracted Persons as the Philosopher observes Why should reason render us more Cowardly than defect of reason doth them Thou fearest that which others wish for O Death how acceptable is thy sentence to the needy and to him whose shrength faileth that is now in the last age and is vexed with all things and to him that despaireth and hath lost patience Ecclus. 41.2 VVherefore is light given saith Job to him that is in misery and life unto the bitter in Soul VVhich long for hid Treasures which rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave Job 3.20 21 22. 12. HOW many invite the violence of Death and if refus'd do as Ignatius threatned he would do to the Lyons force his Assault Death is the same to all The Difference is in the Disposition of the Entertainers could'st thou loost upon Death with their eyes he would be as welcome to thee as to them At least why shouldst thou not labour to have thy heart so wrought upon that this Face of Death which seems lovely and desirable to some may not appear over-terrible to thee 13. THOU art afraid to die Could'st thou have been capable in the Womb of the use of reason thou wouldst have been more afraid of coming into the World than thou art of going out For why should we be more afraid of the better than of the worse Better is the day of death than the day of ones birth saith the Preacher Eccles. 7.2 better every way our birth begins our miseries our death ends them The one enters the best into a wretched World but the other enters the good into a World of Glory Certainly were it not for our infidelity as we came crying into the World so we should go rejoycing out And as some have solemnized their Birth-day with feasting and triumph the Primitive Church hath enjoyned rejoycing upon the Dying day of her Martyrs and Saints 14. THOU abhorrest Death and fleest from it as from a Serpent but dost thou know his sting is gone what harm is there in a sting-less Snake Hast thou not heard of some delicate Dames that have carried 'em in their Bosom for coolness and pleasure of their smoothness The sting of Death is Sin 1 Cor. 15.56 He may hiss and wind about us but cannot prejudice us when that Sting is out Look up O thou believing Soul to thy blessed Saviour who hath pluckt out this sting of Death and happily triumphs over it O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy Victory 1 Cor. 15.55 15. THY Soul and Body old Companions are loth to part It is but forbearing their Society a while they but take leave of other till they meet at the Resurr●●●●on in the mean time they are safe and the better 〈…〉 It is commendable in the Jews otherwis● 〈…〉 Men that they call their Grave 〈…〉 th● House of the Living and when th●y 〈…〉 ●urial of their Neigbours they 〈…〉 ●nd cast it into the Air with those words of the Psalmist 72.16 They shall flourish and put forth as Grass upon the Earth 16. DID we not believe a Resurrection of the one part and a re-uniting of the other we had reason to be daunted with thoughts of a Dissolution But now we have no cause to be dismayed with a little Intermission It was the saying of a Wise Heathen That Death which we so fear and flee from doth but respite Life for a while not take it away The day will come which shall restore us to Light again Settle thy Soul in this assurance and thou canst not be discomfited with a necessary Parting 17. THOU art afraid of Death when thou art weary of thy days labour art thou afraid of rest Hear what thy Saviour who is the Lord of Life esteems of Death Joh. 11.11 Our Friend Lazarus sleepeth and of Jarius his Daughter Matt. 9.24 The Maid is not Dead but Sleepeth Neither useth the Spirit of God any other Language concerning his Servants under the Old Testament Now shall I sleep in the Dust saith holy Job Job 7.21 and of David 2. Sam. 7.12 When thy days be fulfilled thou shalt sleep with thy Fathers nor yet under the New For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 11.30 18. THE Philosophers were wont to call Sleep the Brother of Death but God says Death is no other than Sleep it self a Sleep sure and sweet When thou liest down at Night to thy Repose thou canst not be certain to awake in the Morning as when thou layest thy self down in Death thou art sure to wake in the Morning of the Resurection Out of this Bodily Sleep thou may'st be startled with some noise of Horror fearful Dreams Tumults or allarms of War but here thou shalt rest quietly in the place of Silence free from all internal and external Disturbances and in the mean time thy Soul shall see none but Visions of Joy and Blessedness 19. BUT oh the sweet and hearty expression of our last rest and the Issue of our happy resuscitation which our holy Apostle hath laid forth for the consolation of his mournful Thessalonians 1 Thess. 4.14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again Even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him So that our belief is Antidote enough against the worst of Death And why are we troubled when we believe Jesus dyed and what a Triumph is this over Death that the same Jesus who dyed rose again And what a comfort is it that the same Jesus who arose shall come again and bring all his with him in Glory And lastly what a strong Cordial is this to all good Hearts that all which die well sleep in Jesus Thou thoughtest perhaps of sleeping in the Bed of the Grave and there indeed is Rest But he tells thee of sleeping in the Bosom of Jesus and there is Immortality and Blessedness O blessed Jesu in thy presence is the fulness of Joy and at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore Psal. 16.12 Who would desire to walk in the World when he may sleep in Christ. 20. THOU fearest Death But on what terms doth Death present himself to thee If as an Enemy as the Apostle stiles him 1 Cor. 15.26 The last Enemy that shall be destroyed is Death thy unpreparedness will make him dreadful but thy readiness and

Infancy and Youth have their limits age admits of no certain Determination 2. AT Seventy King David was old and stricken in Years and they cover'd him with Cloaths but he got no heat 1 King 1.1 Whereas Caleb can profess Now loe I am fourscore and five Years old and yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me to spy out the Land As my Strength was then even so is my Strength now for war both to go out and come in Josh. 14.10 11. And beyond him Moses was an hundred and twenty Years old when he died his Eye was not dim nor his Natural Force abated Deut. 34.7 Methuselah was but Old when he was Nine hundred sixty and nine Gen 5.27 3. BUT for the generality of Mankind the same Moses who liv'd to see an hundred and twenty hath set Man's ordinary Period at half his own Psal. 90.10 The days of our Age are threescore Years and ten And tho Men be so strong that they come to fourscore Years yet is their Strength but Labour and Sorrow So passeth it away and we are gone Fourscore Years are load enough for the Strength much more for the weakness of Age. But when Labour and Sorrow are added to the Weight how can we but sink under the Burden 4. HE was old and wise that said by Experience That our last Days are the Dregs of our Life The clearer part is gone and all drawn out the Lees sink down to the buttom Who can express the miserable Inconveniencies that attenst the Aged For Cares must needs be multiplied according to the manifold occasions of Affairs For the World is a Net wherein the more we stir we are Entangled 5. AND for Bodily Grievances What Varieties do we meet withal What Aches in the Bones Pains in the Joynts Convulsions of Sinews and Torments in the Bowels the Stone Collick Stranguary and Distillation of Rheums What Hollow Coughs weaknesses of Retention Expulsion Digestion and Decay of Senses So that Age is the common Sewer into which all Diseases of our Life are Evacuated Well therefore might Sarah say After I am waxed Old shall I have Pleasure Gen. 18.12 And good Barzillai justly excuses himself for not accepting the gracious Invitation of David 2 Sam. 19.35 I am this day fourscore Years old and can I discern between Good and Evil Can thy Servant taste what I eat or what I drink Can I hear any more the voice of Singing-Men and Singing-Women Wherefore then should thy Servant be yet a Burden unto my Lord the King 6. THESE are they the Preacher calls the Evil Days and the Years wherein a Man shall say I have no Pleasure in them Wherein the Sun or the Light or the Moon or the Stars are darkned and the Clouds return after the Rain When the Keepers of the House shall tremble and the Strong Men shall bow themselves and the Grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the Windows be darkned Eccles. 12.1 2 3. In short what is Old-Age but the Winter of Life And how can we expect any other but gloomy Weather chilling Frosts Storms and Tempests 7. BUT whilst we thus querulously aggravate the incommodiousness of Age we must beware lest we derogate from the Bounty of our Maker and disparage those Blessings which he accounts Precious amongst which Old-Age is none of the meanest Had he not put that value upon it he would not have honour'd it with his own Stile calling himself The Ancient of Days Dan. 7.9.13.22 Or would he else have set out this Mercy as a Reward and Obedience to himself I will fulfil the number of thy days Exod. 23.26 and of Obedience to our Parents To live long in the Land Exod. 20.12 8. WOULD he have promised it as a marvellous Favour to restor'd Jerusalem now become a City of Truth That there shall yet Old Men and Old Women dwell in the Streets of Jerusalem and every Man with his Staff in his Hand for every Age Zach. 8.4 Would he else have denounc'd it as a Judgment to over-indulgent Eli 1 Sam. 2.32 There shall not be an Old Man in thy House for ever Far be it from us to despise that which God Honors and turn his Blessings into a Curse For the same God who best knows the Price of his own Favours as he makes no small estimation of Age himself so he hath thought fit to call for a high Respect to be given it by Men out of an Holy Awe to himself Lev. 19.32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary Head and Honor the Face of the Old Man and fear thy God I am the Lord. 9. HENCE it is that he hath pleas'd to put together the Ancient and the Honourable Isa. 9.15 and hath told us that an Hoary Head is a Crown of Glory if it be found in the way of Righteousness Prov. 16.31 Chap. 20.29 And lastly makes it an Argument of the deplorable State of Jerusalem Lam. 4.16 That They favoured not the Elders Therefore as we too sensibly feel what to complain of so we know what Priviledges we may challenge due to Age even such as Nature hath taught those Heathens which are in the next degree to Savage If Pride and Skill have made the Athenians Uncivil yet a Young Lacedemonian will rise and yield his Place in the Theatre to neglected Age. 10. IT is not a little Injurious to fasten our Eyes upon the disadvantages of any Condition as not to take in the Advantages that belong to it which carefully laid together may perhaps sway the Ballance to an equal Poise Suppose Old-Age is oppress'd with Bodily Griefs yet it may yield other Immunities to keep the Scales even And it is not the least that it gives us firm Resolutions and bold Securities against Dangers and Death it self For the Old Man knows how little of his Thred is left in the Winding and therefore when just Occasion is offer'd insists not much upon so inconsiderable a Remainder OLD-AGE and Orbity as Ceselius profess'd were those things that emboldened him And when Castritius refus'd to deliver the Hostages of Placentia to Carbo the Consul and was threatned with many Swords he answer'd those Menaces with his many Years What young Man would have been so easily induc'd to part with his Life and having been so ready to give entertainment to an unexpected Death Surely the hope and love of Life commonly softens the Spirits of vigorous Youth and disswades them from those Enterprizes which are attended with manifest Perils Whereas extream Age teacheth us to contemn Dangers 12. YET a greater priviledge of Age is a Freedom from those impetuous Passions wherewith Youth is commonly over-sway'd for with our Natural Heat the Fire of our inordinate Lusts is abated so as our weaker Appetite may be subdu'd to Reason The Temperate old Man in the Story when one shew'd him a Beautiful Face could answer I have long since left to be Eye-sick And could say