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A17386	The cure of the feare of death Shewing the course Christians may take to bee deliuered from these feares about death, which are found in the hearts of the most. A treatise of singular use for all sorts. By Nicholas Bifeild, Preacher of Gods word at Isleworth in Middelsex.	Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622.	1618 (1618)	STC 4213; ESTC S116195	37,363	214

die because thou wouldst not be taken from thy estate and outward possessions then attend vnto these considerations Sol. 1. Thou camest naked into the world and why should it grieue thee to goe naked out of the world 2. Thou art but a steward of what thou possessest and therefore why should it grieue thee to leaue what thou hast imployed to the disposing of thy master 3. Thou hast tried by experience and found hitherto that contentment of heart is not found or had by aboundance of outward things If thou hadst all the Pearles of the East and wert Master of all the Mines of the West yet will not thy heart bee filled with good by heaping vp of riches thou dost but heap vp vnquietnesse 4. Riches haue wings thou maist liue to lose all by fire or water or thieues or suretiship or iniustice or vnthrifty children or the like 5. They are riches of iniquity There is a snare in riches and nets in possessions thy gold and siluer is limed or poisoned It is wonderfull hard and in respect of men impossible for thee to bee a rich man but thou wilt bee a sinful man especially if thy heart bee growne to loue money and to haste to be rich 6. Thou must leaue theÌ„ once and therefore why not now Thou canst not enioy them euer therefore why shouldest thou trouble thy heart about them 7. By death thou makest exchange of them for better riches shalt be possessed of a more enduring substance Thou shalt enioy the vnsearchable riches of Christ thou canst neuer be fully rich til thou get to heauen 11. Ob. Might some one say I should not feare death were it not that I knowe not what kind of death I shall dye I may dye suddenly or by the hands of the violent or without the presence or assistance of my friends or the like Sol. Sith we must dye it is the lesse matter vvhat kind of death we dye we should not so much looke how wee dye as whither wee shall goe when wee are dead 2. Christ died a cursed death that so euery death might be blessed to vs. For hee that liues holily cannot dye miserably Hee is blessed that dieth in the Lord what kind of death soeuer it be CHAP. XXI Shewing the cure of this feare of death by practise HItherto of the way of curing this feare of death by meditation It remaines now that I proceed to shew how the cure is to bee finished and perfected by practise For there are diuerse things to bee heeded by vs in our daily conuersation which serue exceedingly for the extinguishing of this fear without which the cure wil hardly euer be soundly wrought for continuance 1. The first thing wee must frame our liues to for this purpose is the contempt of the world wee must striue earnestlie with our owne hearts to forgoe the loue of worldly things It is an easie thing to be willing to dye when our hearts are clensed of the loue of this world We must leaue the world before the vvorld leaue vs and learne that lesson heartily To vse the world as if we vsed it not Neither ought this to seeme too hard a precept For they that striue for mastery abstaine from all things when it is but to obtaine a corruptible crowne how much more should wee 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. We must learne of Moses who brought himselfe to it willingly to forsake the pleasures of Egypt and to chuse rather to suffer affliction with Gods people then to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter Heb. 11. 26. And to this end wee should first restraine all needlesse cares busines of this world and study so to be quiet as to meddle with our own businesse to abbridge them into as narrow a scantling as our callings will permit Secondly wee should auoid as much as may bee the societie with the fauourites and minions of the world I meane such persons as admire nothing but worldly things and know no other happinesse theÌ„ in this life That speak onely of this world and commend nothing but what tends to the praise of worldly things and so to the intising 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 3. Thirdly we should daily obserue to what things in the world our hearts most run and striue with GOD by prayer to get downe the too much liking and desire after these things 4. Fourthly vvee should daily be pondring on these meditations that shew vs the vanitie of the world and the vilenesse of the things thereof Thus of the first medicine 2. Secondly we must in our practise soundly mortifie our beloued sins our sinnes must dye before we dye or else it will not be well with vs. The sting of death is sinne and wheÌ„ we haue puld out the sting we need not feare to entertaine the Serpent into our bosome It is the loue of some sin 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 sinnes and then they need not feare Gods condemning of them If any aske me how they may knowe when they haue attained to this rule I answer WheÌ„ they haue so long confessed their sinnes in secret to God that now they can truly 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 He 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 vnrebukeable coÌ„uersation It is a maruelous 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 Act. 26. 26 27. and 2. Cor. 1. 12. 3. Thirdly assurance is an admirable medicine to kill this feare to speake distinctly wee should get the assurance first of Gods fauour and our owne calling and election For hereby an entrance will be ministred into the heaueÌ„ly kingdome and therefore haue I handled this doctrine of the Christians assurance before I medled with this point of the feare of death Simeon can dye willingly wheÌ„ his eyes haue seene his saluation Feare of death is alwaies ioyned with a weake faith and the full assurance of faith doth maruelously establish the heart against these feares and breeds a certain desire of the comming of Christ. Paul can be confident when he is able to say I knowe whom I

THE CVRE OF THE FEARE OF DEATH Shewing the course Christians may take to bee deliuered from these feares about death which are found in the hearts of the most A Treatise of singular vse for all sorts By NICHOLAS BIFEILD Preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middelsex HEB. 2. 15. He died that hee might deliuer them who through the feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage LONDON Printed by G. P. for Ralph Rounthwaite at the Flower de-Luce and Crowne in Pauls Church-yard 1618. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND NOBLE LADY THE LADY ANNE HARRINGTON Grace and comfort from God the Father and the LORD IESVS CHRIST bee multiplyed MADAME WHen I had seriously bethought my selfe in what doctrine especially to imply my Ministery in the place in which the Lord had by so strong and strange a prouidence settled me Amongst other things I was vehemently inclined to study the Cure of the Feare of Death both because it may be vsually obserued that the most men are in bondage by reason of these feares as also because I am assured that ourliues wil become more sweet yea and more holy too when the feare of death is remoued And the rather was I incited hereunto because I haue obserued some defect about this point in the most that haue written about Death I am not ignorant of the censure which many may giue of this proiect as accounting it an impossible thing to be effected but my trust is that godly and discreet Christians will restraine censure when they haue throughly viewed my reasons My vnsaigned desire to do seruice vnto GODS Church in releeuing such Christians herein as are not furnished with better helps hath emboldned me to offer this Treatise also to the publike view I haue presumed in your Honours absence to thrust forth this Treatise vnder the protection of your Honours name and withall I desire heartily to testifie my thankefulnesse for the many fauours shewed vnto me and mine while your Honour was pleased to be my Hearer I should also much reioyce if my testimony concerning the singular graces God hath bestowed vpon you and the many good works in which you haue abounded in the places of your aboad might adde any thing either vnto your Honours praises in the Churches of Christ or vnto the establishment of the comfort of your owne heart in God and his Son Iesus Christ. I haue not made choise of your Honour in this Dedication for any speciall fitnesse in this Treatise for your Honours condition in respect of your age or absence in a place so farre remote For my earnest trust is that God will adde yet many yeares to your happy life on earth and besides I haue had heeretofore occasion to know how little you were afraid to die when the Lord did seeme to summon you by sicknes That God which hath ennobled your heart with heauenly gifts so made you an instrument of so much good and contentment vnto that most excellent Princesse with whom you now liue and towards whom you haue shewed so much faithfull obseruance and dearenes of affection and carefulnesse of attendance Euen the Father of mercy and God of all consolations increase in you all spirituall blessings and multiply the ioy of your heart and make you still to grow in acceptation and all well-doing Humbly crauing pardon for my boldnesse heerein I commit your Honour to God and to the word of his Grace which will build you vp to eternall life resting Your Honours in all humble obseruance N. BIFEILD Isleworth Iuly 14. 1618. The chiefe Contents of this Booke THE drift is to shew how wee may bee freed from the feare of death Pag. 1. 2. First it is proued by eight apparant ArgumeÌ„ts that it may bee attained to Page 4. to the 12. Secondly it is shewed by fifteene considerations how shamefull and vncomely a thing it is for a Christian to bee afraid to die Page 12. to 28. Thirdly the way how this feare may bee remoued is shewed where may bee noted An exhortation to regard the directions p. 29. 30. Two waies of Cure 1. The one by Meditation 2. The other by practice p. 31. The contemplations either serue to make vs to like death or else to be lesse in loue with life p. 32. Seuenteene Priuiledges of a Christian in death pag. 33. to the 52. The Contemplations that shew vs the miserie of life are of two sorts for either they shew vs the miseries of the life of nature or else the miseries that do vnauoidably accompany the very life of grace p. 53 c. The miseries of the life of nature from pag. 54. to pag. 67. The miseries of a godly mans life are two-fold 1. which appeares both in the things hee wants 2. and in the things hee hath while hee liues p. 67. c. Sixe things which euery godly man wants while he liues p. 68. to 75. What should make a godly man weary of life in respect of God p. 75. to 85. And what in respect of euill Angels p. 85 c. And what in respect of the world p. 88 c. And what in respect of himselfe p. 113 c. Eight aggrauations of Gods corrections in this life p. 78. Eight apparant miseries from the world p. 89 c. Fifteen manifest defects and blemishes in the greatest seeming felicities of the world p. 98. to 113. Many aggrauations of our misery in respect of corruption of nature in this life p. 113 c. The remainders of the first punishment yet vpon vs. Pag. 121. The remouall of the obiections men make about death from whence their feare riseth and these obiections are answered 1. About the paine of dying where are ten answers pag. 125. c. 2. About the condition of the body in death p. 133. 3. About the desire to liue longer yet p. 139. 4. About the pretence of desire to liue long to do good p. 145. 5. About casting away of ones selfe p. 149. 6. About parting with friends p. 153. c. 7. About leauing the pleasures of life p. 159 c. 8. About leauing the honors of life p. 162. 9. About leauing their riches p. 168. c. 10. About the kind of death p. 171. The second way of curing the feare of death is by practice where seuen directions are giuen From page 173. to the end THE CVRE OF THE FEARE OF DEATH CHAP. I. Shewing the Scope and Parts of this Treatise THAT which I intend in this Treatise is to shew how a godly man might order himselfe against the feare of death or what course hee should take to liue so as not to be afraid to die This is a maine point and exceeding necessary Life is throughly sweet when death is not feared a mans heart is then like Mount Zion that cannot be moued Hee can feare no enemy that doth not feare death As death is the last enemy so it works the longest and last feares and to die

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