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A17419	The light of faith: and, way of holinesse Shewing what to belieue, and for what to striue together, earnestly contend, and suffer for in this contending age. And how to liue in all estates, conditions, and degrees of relation, according to this faith. In both, deliuering (as neere as might be, in the life of Scripture phrase:) only things necessary, as we meane to be saued, and auoiding vtterly things arbitrary, that distract, rather then direct a Christian. Collected out of holy Scripture by an vnworthy labourer in Gods vineyard, Richard Bifield pastor in Long-Ditton, in Surrey.	Byfield, Richard, 1598?-1664.	1630 (1630)	STC 4239; ESTC S107158	133,233	536

he doth it oft times but say thou liue to the gray haire yet know that is the euill day ageit selfe is a disease disabling to duties of religion youth is euery way fittest let Solomon tell thee Remember thy creator in the dayes of thy youth before the euill day come of which thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in it Eccles 12. 1. For the Impatient desire of The cure of the impatient desire of death death it is cooled and tempered 1 ●● by strength of iudgment we know and knowing resolue that affliction is to be chosen rather then transgression Iob 36. 20. 21. the contrary hereunto made Iob impatiently to wish the day of his death Iob. 3. 2 If we consider that God teacheth by his works and herein none like him Iob. 36. 22. 3 If we weigh well what Iobs speeches cost him humiliation to dust and ashes though they came out of great extremities which wrested them from his heart otherwise full of patience but now distracted almost through bitternesse Iob. 42. 6. For the feare of death it is a The cure of the fear of death disease hereditary deriued to all Adams children yet is must and may be cured it may be cured Heb. 2. 14. 15. 2 Cor. 5. 5. it must Luke 14. 26. Rev. 22. 17. 1 Pet. 1. 3. 4. the desire of heauen is a part of the seed which is cast into the furrowes of our hearts in our regeneration I know there is a feare of death which is meerely naturall a shrinking from it and shunning of it as of a thing hurtfull because it dissolues the vnion of soule and body for a time but we speake of that distempered feare which leadeth into bondage abeslauing feare which suffers not a man to thinke of death or happinesse after it and leaueth the heart impotent and void of all spirituall courage comfort and counsell Againe there are men of two sorts some that liue and dye in their sinnes haue cause to feare death in these a cure can neuer be wrought not that the medicines are vnauaileable but because they cannot bee brought to take the receipts Some that dye to their sinnes before they dye in these that beslauing feare may be cured and hath in such vsually heretofore beone cured Death is the King of terrors consider it in its reall nature and hue Its vizar assumed It s natiue hu● is terrible 1 In the cause Sinne Gods wrath Sathan the executioner who hath the power of death Heb. 2. 14. 2 In the nature thereof in it selfe opposite to life a punishment of God a destroyer of natures fabricke a dissoluer of this earthly tabernacle 3 In the effects which are A depriuation of Friends pleasures honours riches of this world The good wee might doe in Church Common-wealth Family A deprauation of the state of the body leauing it a cadauer a car case in the graue 4 In the affrighting concomitants terriculamenta mortis which are miseries Corporall Painies Agonies sometimes which doe befall Gods children The kind of death Spirituall Terrors from Satan and from God himselfe Temptations Vnquietnesse and angor of conscience In its vizar it is fearefull as it cometh into our minds As the depriuer of happinesse as if it seperated from God As if it had no other face then that of wrath and curse from God and were in its nature no way corrected How shall these darts be quenched Briefely 1 The cause of death is to be euacuated 1 By the death of Christ and our assurance of our part therin whereby the fauour of God is established vpon vs and the Serpents head crushed Heb. 2. 15. Death is a Serpent the sting is sinne the strength of that sting is the law victory ouer it is by Iesus Christ who satisfieth the law 1 Cor. 15. 55 56. 57. 2 By mortification of our beloued sinnes by our study to keepe a conscience voide of offence towards God and man 3 By receiuing the Sacrament of the Lords Supper oft wherein we shew forth the Lords death vntill his comming againe 1 Cor. 11. 26. 2 The nature of death in it selfe is terrible indeed but to the godly it is changed Rev. 14 13. insomuch that their condition is blessed for they rest from their labours their workes follow no losse of any good worke that euer they did no condemnation to them Rom. 8. 1. it is no other then a sleepe 1 Thes 4. 14. a day of liberty Rom. 8. 21. our returne to our home to euerlasting habitations the mansions in our fathers house our birth day the funerall of our vices the putting off our old clothes that we might be clothed vpon 2 Cor. 5. 3. 4. the remoouing out of a mudde house where we ●ere but tenants at will into the pallace of the great king Lord of heauen and earth there to dwell as in our inheritance for euer the end of our race the day of our coronation no punishment now there are three degrees of life eternall of which death is our entrance into the second in this life in regeneration Ioh. 17. 3. in the day of our departure in translation to Paradise 2 Cor. 5. 8. at the last day in the redemption of our bodyes Rom. 8. 23. 3 As for friends whose society thou loosest oppose thereto the meditation of that glorious place to which thou goest an inheritance incorruptible vndefiled that fades not the fellowship of Angels and the congregation of the first borne and the spirits of iust men and women made perfect the communion with God and with the Lord Iesus for while thou art present in the body in the best condition thou art absent from the Lord that Lord whom though thou neuer sawest yet thou louest and beli●uing reioycest with ioy vnspeakeable and full of glory How then shall thy soule burne with the flames of loue to him when thou shall see him 1 Pet. 1. 8. And when the thought of thy treasures and pleasures meet thee bethinke thy selfe of thy calling and profession to bee a Christian that is o●e conformed to Christ whose kingdome is n●t of this world whose life was glorious in a holy contempt of the world Say then with Paul God forbid that I should reioyce saue in the Crosse of Christ whereby the world is crucified to me and I vnto the world Gal. 6. 14. What comfort canst thou haue that thou art not a cast away if thou beat not down thy body and bring it not into subiection although thou wert a Preacher of the Word and diligent in that worke 1 Cor. 9. 24. There are two sorts of men men of this world men of God they differ herein the men of this world are such as place their happinesse in a belly full of this hid treasure and wealth and lands enough to leaue behinde them to their babes but the other are men after Gods owne heart carried with the spirit of Dauid that in the loue of righteousnesse can say Deliuer mee from these

our troubles is troubled with vs Act. 9 4. Col. ● 24. Esa 63. 9. We are sure of the supply of the spirit of Iesus Phil ● 19. 20. who wi●l also rest vpon vs as the spirit of glory and of God 1 Pet. 4. 14. He that created formed and redeemed thee will be with thee Esa 43. 1. 2. 2 Cor. 4. 8. 9. 10. 11. and as the dying of the Lord Iesus is borne in thy body so the life also of the Lord Iesus shall be manifest in thee Right deare in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal 116. 15. The first man that came to heauen was Abel the iust Crowned with the crowne of Martyrdome Digest these and euery of these rules that thou maiest walk with God in all changes of thy condition in life §. XXX Preparations for death or how to dye THere remaineth yet one H●● dy thing of no small moment that concerneth his abode with God in or about his last worke he hath to doe in this world which is the laying downe o● this his earthly Tabernacle the change of changes here belo●e truth it is that an holy life such as hitherto hath beene pourtrayed euer ends in an happy death and againe How to dy whoso hath learned hath learned also how to liue yet there are specialties of direction which the Christian aboue all before sayd cannot well want and there is a speciall preparation for the vndergoing so terrible a change Take them thus they concerne 1 The curing of the diseases 1 By the curing of diseases of our Soules of which wee are all sicke to the death and all about this point of death 2 The estamping on vs the care of necessary duties 1 The diseases which our hearts are oppressed withall and subiect vnto are these fiue 1 Forgetfulnesse of our latter end Deut. 32 29. 2 Desperate resolutenesse vpon the memory of it 1 Cor. 15. Esa 22. 14. 3 A Couenant with death and hell making lyes and vanity our refuge Esa 23. 15. 4 The choosing of death to be rid of the miseries of life the impatient desire of death Ier. 8. 3. Iob. 3. 5 The feare of death which bringeth into bondage Heb. 2. 1● 15. The cure of forgetfulnesse For our forgetfulnesse it is cured 1 By information of our selues in these things the br●u●●y and vanity of life and of all things in the world the certainty vncertainty of death of the breu●●y of life we haue three ●estes Nature Experience and Scripture but Scripture witnesseth it most liuely where the basest things and of least continuance are taken to as bearing the fittest resemblance thereof it is a vapor● a weauers shuttle a post a ship in the Sea a bubble a flower of the field grasse a shadow a dreame a thought Of the vanity of all things vnder the Sunne Salomon hath sufficiently spoken in his Ecclesiastes or booke of the Preacher the certainty of death depends vpon decree and statute Law it is appointed that all shall dye Heb. 9. 27. and we know death hath reigned from Adam to this day we haue three nuntioes sent by death casuality infirmity and old age nay death hath already seized on vs in changes of our age in aches in sorrowes in sicknesses so certaine is it ●et not so certaine to be as vncertaine in what kinde at what time in what place it shall be 2 By watching against the causes of incog●ancy which are cheifely two the naturall security of our hearts and surfetting on earthly things Luke 12. 19. and 21 34. these both must be shaken off 3 By Prayer God onely can teach this lesson we must come to his schoole and our prayers must be to him for this thing Thus did Dauid Psal 39. 6. and 90. 12. For desperate resolutenesse The cure of resolutenesse vpon the memory of our end it is a disease which wee are subiect vnto when the euill corrupt heart forced to the apprehensions of its mortality by the pursute of his owne thoughts and the daily cry of a faithfull Ministery or the constant and frequent view of death griefes face is awakened but not truely but in a phrensie as it were and concludes dy we must we are all mortall Come then let vs eat and drinke let vs take time while time serue tomorrow comes and we are not This sore and euill disease shall be healed 1 By considering the greatnesse of the sinne which is fully declared by the Prophet Esay when he saith And it was reuealed in mine eares by the Lord of hosts Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye dy saith the Lord God of hostes Esa 22. 13. 14. 2 By discouering the originall whence it springs that that may be lamented ouer namely Atheisme and an heart voide of the knowledge of God and set vpon euill with a spirituall madnesse 1 Cor. 15. 34. 3● 3 By the contrary good a waking which is to righteousnesse not to sinne 1 Cor. 15. 33 34 For our Couenant with death m●king lyes our refuge it is the The cure of security reasoning of the heart that saith We haue done what wise men should doe because wee like politicians and worldlings haue fortified our selues with the best earthly helpes for body and state for our selues for ours yet no thought of serious prouision How wee might be built on the sure foundation stone Christ Iesus the Lord directs vs in this point in Esa 28. 16. That wee come as liuing stones to Christ that corner stone elect and precious and be sure wee be laied and built on him by beleeuing for hee that beleeueth in him shall not make hast nor be ashamed of his hope Or it is the reasoning of the heart that saith death is a debt we owe to nature but this must not passe for good with Christians for death in its nature is the wages of sinne death in its change is a sweet sleepe in Iesus sure of a blessed awaking at the resurrection of the iust it is then the beginning of eternall woe to him that dyeth in his sinnes but the doore to eternall blisse to all that dye in the Lord. Or this Couenant is that refuge of lyes we are not likely to dye yet strength is in our body milke in our brests marrow in our bones and age is for the sad and graue duties of deuotion and piety but let Iob speake what pleasure hast thou in thy house after thee Iob. 21. 21. 22 23. 24. 25. when the number of thy moneths is cut off in the middest Shall any teach God knowledge Seeing he iudgeth those that are high One dyeth in his full strength being wholly at ease and quiet his brests are full of milke and his bones moistened with marrow and another dyeth in the bitternesse of his soule take not vpon thee to instrect God hee can smite thee with death in the highest of thy pride and midst of thy welfare and