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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93737	Divine arithmetick illustrated in the right and exact numbering of our days, or, A discourse of the near and continued approaches of death unto every one whatsoever with the same inference and application which the apostle in I Cor. 15 makes from and alike subject, that the knowledge and consideration of these things should exhort people to be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord / by Richard Stafford.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5117; ESTC R42707	17,947	18

as God did from his Heb. 4. 18. Now Death is the entrance and passage into this Rest and therefore if we would by this Death be translated into this Rest we must before this Death cease from our own works that is to say From all such works which ●avour of Sin Vanity or of this evil World For saith another Scripture Blessed are the Dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their Labours and their Works do follow them Rev. 14. 13. This is to be understood of good Works For the doing of good Works is the Laying up in store for themselves a good Foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal Life 1 Tim. 6. 18. Such who die in the Lord did in their Life time before live unto the Lord. And such the Gospel enjoyns peremptorily to maintain good Works This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good Works These things be good and profitable unto Men Titus 3. 8. For the Spirit of God in the fore-quoted place of the Revelations doth pronounce them Blessed because their works do follow them This Foundation will then stand them in stead and they will be Partakers of the Loving Kindness and Reward of the Lord for the same I have heard of a certain Atheist who being asked upon his Death-bed what he then thought concerning Religion said on this wise A Good Life and Good Deeds but all the rest was Talk and Prate In this last part of his sentence he spake like an Unbeliever but as to his foregoing words this may be conceived that the best Life and the best Deeds without the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ will never save any one The best VVorks and the best Deeds if they are mingled with any thing of self-Righteousness or with any Thoughts of Merit or deserving for the same they are marred and spoiled as to God's present Acceptation and future Recompence They are become like the Girdle that was marred and profitable for nothing Jer. 13. 11. But good and observable Truth may be gathered from the former part of his saying A Good Life and Good Deeds For let the Knowledge and Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ be mixed with the same Good Life and Good Deeds Let this same Good Life and Good Deeds be all lifted up and terminated towards God Let all good Works be done in great Humility self-abasement and nothingness of the Creature He desiring that they may be accepted clothed over with the Righteousness of Christ and only in and through him Then all this will yea it doth yield sensible Comfort and real Support against and in a dying day For then when the Soul is just going out of the Body and most wants help whereon to stay and fix It may be truly said to her there is none like unto the God of Jeshurun who rideth upon the Heaven in thy help and in his Excellency on the Sky The Eternal God is thy Refuge and underneath are the overlasting Arms may this Scripture belong to me when the shadow of Death sits upon my Eye-lids and I am just breathing out my last I had rather have it than all the Kingdoms Lands and Riches of the whole Earth for ten thousand Years if it was possible to enjoy them so long These good words and comfortable words go on to add And he shall thrust out the Enemy from before thee which Enemy is the Devil and shall say Destroy them Israel shall dwell in safety alone Deut. 33. 26 27 28. Safety and Salvation is all one in signification and this is safety to be saved and preserved from all the Evils of the Invisible World to get above and all alone from all the Annoyances of Evil Spirits as also to be freed from all Sin and Temptation henceforward Let me die the Death of the Righteous and let my last End be like his But there is no dying the Death of the Righteous without living the Life of the Righteous But how much Good Works or Works of Alms Mercy and Compassion especially to the Ministers and Servants of the Lord will give and procure unto the doers thereof Comfort and Support in a dying day we may gather and understand from the words of Paul The Lord give Mercy unto the House of Onesiphorus for he oft refreshed me and was not ashamed of my Chain The Lord grant unto him that he may find Mercy of the Lord in that day 2 Tim. 1. 16 18. which is the day of Death and the day of Judgment for then it is that any reasonable Creature most wants the Mercy of God and the Apostle here wrote these things by the Spirit as one that knew the Mind and Will of the Lord for in what Prayer the Spirit of Truth doth dictate is included a Promise that so it shall be And it is the same thing as if it did run on this wise That Onesiphorus shall find Mercy of the Lord in the day of Death and of Judgment for that his good Deed which he shewed forth unto Paul a Prisoner Minister and Servant of the Lord. The Holy Ghost doth record of Dorcas This Woman was full of good Works and Alms-deeds which she did And after that she died the VVidows shewed the Coats and Garments which probably were for the Poor which Dorcas made while she was with them Acts 9. 36 39. These things are written for our Admonition upon whom the ends of the VVorld are come so that this should be yet more drawn forth into Example and Imitation by the Rich People of both Sexes of our present Age and Generation for they must severally sicken and die likewise and then they will find To what Purpose was this waste for that same Mony which they expended in fine Cloaths Gaiety and Retinue or making a Figure in the VVorld in Gluttony and Drunkenness in Pride Pleasure Prodigality and vain things or such like might have been given to the Poor and then it would have done themselves more good and have stood them in more stead than that Mammon of Unrighteousness or the Riches used to the hurt of the Owners Or they might have thus consecrated their Gain unto the Lord and their Substance unto the Lord of the whole Earth Micah 4. 13. In being more willing to contribute the same yet more plentifully towards the Publishing and Propagation of his Eternal Truth which seems to be the Best of Works For this is a doing Good unto the Immortal Souls of Men whereas common and outward Alms is only a Temporal Kindness unto the dying Body And also that longer remains as to which the Scripture saith If any Mans work abide he shall receive a Reward 1 Cor. 3. 14. To conclude our whole Discourse This is certain That we must all both Good and Bad appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5. 10. Vnto thee shall all Flesh come Psal 65. 2. Seeing the case is so and there is no avoiding of it VVhat can be a more forcible Consideration in the VVorld since that we must appear before and come unto a Great God who is the Great Law-giver able to Save and to Destroy who doth Good so likewise he can and will Punish VVhat manner of Persons ought we to be in this little mean while between in all Holy Conversation and Godliness VVhat can we do too much to please and approve our selves unto him To agree with him that was our Adversary whilst we are in the way To do any thing to get his Reconciliation and Favour his Peace and loving Kindness The only way whereto he hath shewed us is In beginning and then continuing and persevering on to the end to the day of our several respective deaths In the true Spiritual VVorship and Service In the Universal Obedience of all the words of his Law and Gospel and fulfilling all Righteousness In doing his VVill and every good VVord and VVork and to do all this more and more more diligently and more constantly as we come nearer in time and see the day approaching Furthermore then we beseech you Brethren and exhort you by the Lord Jesus that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God so ye would abound more and more 1 Thess 4. 1. 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