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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74852	The Christians desire, shewing, how and for what causes a man may desire death. / By William Houghton, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	Houghton, William, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	1650 (1650)	Thomason E602_4; ESTC R206406	20,817	23

Pauls example who saith here he desired to be dissolved but it was not meerly to be rid of pain so himself tels us bonds and afflictions waited for him in every place yet he made no reckoning of them as you may see Act. 20.21 and 23. compared together Many a man would be ready to break prison but to be loosed from such bonds that is iron bonds or chains but Paul gloried in these yet cryes out of the chains of his sinnes and wisheth himself loosed from them Oh miserable man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death he doth not say oh miserable man how am I afflicted Rom. 7.24 I am in deaths oft who shall deliver me from this death of the body but who shall deliver me from this body of death This this is it which makes many a godly Christian even to sigh and groan within himself longing for a dissolution that so the body of sin might be wholly destroyed who yet is willing patiently to bear any crosse his heavenly Father shall lay upon him to render him conformable to his head Christ and therefore they do very ill and shew that they have not learnt that self-denyall that becomes Christians who assoon as they begin to be afflicted in their bodies or estates presently call for death to come and take them away It was Jonas fault Oh saith he that thou wouldest take away my life from me he comes in a pelting chafe Jonah 4.3.8 in a pettish humour So many when they are crost of their wills wish with him they were out of the world that they were dead and laid in their graves who God knowes are but badly prepared and would be found in an ill case should death come indeed Therefore let this be a second Caution Thirdly this desire must never cause us to use any means to hasten our death I have read of one Hegesias a Philosopher of that eloquence and power in perswading that when he was pleased to represent before his auditours the miseries of this life his words struck such an impression in them that many of them went and made away themselves And in Hollingsheads Chronicles there 's a story of a great man in this Kingdome who in the times of the Barons wars being much perplext in his mind calld the Keeper of his Park to him told him he feared his Deer were stolen charged him every night to go into the woods to walk his rounds and if he spied any man that would not stand at the first word to shoot him some two or three nights after out of the depth of melancholly the Devil that Prince of darknesse working upon that black humour he himself rose out of his bed went into his Park the keeper spying him calld to him and bid him stand he answered not but walking on amongst the trees the Keeper took his Crosse-bow and shot his own Lord dead in the place thus he fell by his own counsell and procured his own death by the hand of his Keeper And if reports Lucernam non extinguebant sed ultro consumi Plut. Q. Rom. 468. Et tibi Publi piis omnibus retinendus est animus in custodia corporis nec injuslu ejus à quo ille est nobis datus ex hominum vita migrandum est ne munus humanum assignatum à Dco defugisse videamini Somn. Scip. or papers may be credited some have been brought to the same passe by reason of the sore pressure of our late troubles Now when I say that a man may desire death it is far from my meaning that a man should bring it upon himself in any such way grace teacheth us not to offer violence to nature and therefore as amongst the Romans the lights of the Temple were not to be put out but suffered to burn as long as they lasted so this candle of our lives must not be extinguisht till it consume and go out of it self or till God shall require it in the defence of some lawfull cause we must retain the soul in the custody of the body it must not be forced out of it till he that gave it call for it lest we should seek to forsake that office and imployment which God hath assigned us This is a third Caution Fourthly we ought also to consider that this is a kind of mixt desire as you may see here in S. Paul he desires death because it was so advantageous to him yet is content to stay for the benefit of Gods people To stay saith he is more expedient for you but for my self I desire rather to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is far better here 's you see a mixture of desires this is better one way that another for their private advantage Gods children desire to be in heaven for the benefit of others they are content to stay still in this world It is with them in this case as it is with a chast and loving wife her husband being gone from home she desires his coming home yet thinks sometimes oh that my husband would not come yet till such a businesse be dispatched such a room drest and made ready for his coming therefore keeps her self doing that nothing may offend the eye of her Lord when he comes and brings his guests with him So the godly Christian desires the coming of Christ above all Oh that thou wouldest rent the heavens and come down Come Lord Jesus Isa 64.1 come quickly Rev. 22.20 but because he knowes not what hour his Lord will come in deed therefore he busies himself in preparing and making all ready against his coming It is written of Ortelius that great Cosmographer that in his declining age he set up the Globe of the world in his Study Bucolch chron 803. with this inscription Contemno orno mente manu with his heart he contemnd the world though with his hand he adornd it This Embleme may teach us our duty Let us seek to adorn the world by the works of our hands let us endeavour what we can that the world might be bettered by us while we live in it yet let the world be in no esteem with us let our minds sit loose from the world ready to leave it whensoever the Lord shall call us and this is that we may learn out of that heavenly prayer of Christ They are not of the world even as I am not of the world I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world Joh. 17.14.15 but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil In which words he meets with an Objection Object Might some say If the Saints be not of this world as Christ is not of this world why do they not then follow Christ he is going out of the world why do not they go along with him Answ Oh no They must stay their time they must not go yet saith Christ I will not have them presently taken out of