but hope he would trust in him for he knew his Redeemer lived David though he walked in the valley of the shadow of death would fear no ill for God was with him even Christ his great shepherd The three Children feared Death neither before they were cast into the fiery furnace nor after because a fourth was with them in form like the Son of God The Apostle Paul was perswaded that neither Death nor life no not death could separate him from the love of God in Christ Jesus and thereupon manifested such freedom from fear that he saies of himself and many others In all these things amongst which were manifold deaths we are more than Conquerours through him that loved us yea and for this purpose gave Christ for us Rom. 8.37 even we though killed all the day long and accounted as sheep for the slaughter v. 36. yet we in this condition that multiplies other mens fears are more than Conquerours Therefore O Saints see the valour of your fellow souldiers who have no other Captain or weapons than you have Christ is no respecter of persons but able and willing to save you as well as them from the fears of Death But to come to the second part of my Method Secondly I am now to proceed to another most pleasing and satisfactory account and to discover how Christ doth so dwell raign and rule in the Saints hearts as to eject thence these potent enslaving fears the fears of Death how he works them out of his childrens hearts and rids them of such troublesome Guests that when they are found in unregenerate men do as it were lay violent hands on them For the fears of Death in many are one sort of Deaths executioners or at least as Serjeants to arrest them for the Grave and that with such a clap and damp that makes uncontrolable way for death and quite overthrows them Now how doth Christ cast and bar out these killing fears of death Many waies First By Faith a gift flowing as all other grace from Christs fulness of which we receive grace for grace Christians see your strength 1 Joh. 5.4 This is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith The world comprehending the miseries arising from a dying life and from death it self yea Devil too for these are the enemies and forces the world breeds maintains and fights us with whilst we are in it But faith is our victory and surely if it makes us Conquerours it makes us not to fear This excellent grace of Faith hath so great a stroke in the Saints conquering that it is called the conquest and victory it self Nay farther Saints in this life are said to be kept by the power of God through FAITH unto Salvation because what ever is done by Gods and Christs power for our Salvation or Redemption from any or all our miseries first and last is accomplished not without our faith Thus Christ applies and conveys to us the merit vertue and power of his conquering death Christ hath shed his bloud but by faith he warms our hearts with it against the cold fears of death This was that which made the Apostle Paul so crow over Death He was perswaded that as not life so neither death could separate him from the love of God in Christ Jesus This perswasion was his faith that made him triumph over death without fears of it come when it would Thus is Christ the Author and finisher of our faith unto this particular conquest and victory over Death and over all its horrid fears For Christ is not contented himself thus to conquer unless he makes all his Servants not only that eminent Apostle Paul but also all Believers his Seconds in the encounter that they should conquer as well as he Nay in respect of any expected Death be more than Conquerours Oh! Faith in Christs bloud gives Saints a noble courage against Death I shall urge this with the citation of a truly Heroick and spiritual expression dictated by a most learned and pious Divine of our Protestant Religion which is this Siquis animum pacare non possit mortis contemptu is sciat parum se adhuc profecisse in Christi fide that is saies he If a man cannot quiet his soul or still that turbulent passion of fear with the contempt of Death Let that man know he hath made but little proficiency in the faith of Christ Thus he concerning a Professour too fearful of Death To such an one I think also it may be truly and justly said with a smart rebuke O thou of little faith To this purpose I shall propose a Scripture-passage most worthy of special notice It is that of Christ himself concerning the Apostle Peter Luk. 22.31 32. Simon Satan hath desired saies Christ to have you that he may fift you as wheat but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not How did Satan sift and shake him Truly with fears of suffering death of faring like his Master so that for fear he denied him and swore to boot Thus Satan shook him with strong blasts of Temptations to fear death he blew him like a shaking leafe with his fears Well how did he recover I have prayed saies the Lord that thy faith fail not That was his Case this his cure fear of death cured by faith in him whom he forsook when Death was near Saies Luther Quantò major fides est tantò mors est imbecillior Quanto autem fides minor tantò mors est acerbior That is The greater Faith is the weaker is Death The less Faith is the bitterer is Death Have then a strong faith in Christ and your hearts shall not be troubled with any disquieting fears of Death for these will certainly be too weak to hold your spirits in bondage if your hearts be kept by the power of God through Faith unto Salvation Secondly Christ by putting into and maintaining in our hearts that divine and mighty principle of love a love in our souls for himself doth thereby banish the fears of Death and garrison them out Perfect love saies the Apostle John casteth out fear Joh. 4.18 There is a very eminent Divine of our English Nation that gives us a very rational and remarkable account of the occasion upon which this Apostle writ this whole Epistle or at least that Expression yet truly I conceive the former not hard to imagine inasmuch as the Gnosticks whom that Person saies this Apostle here confuted did hold that Christians in danger to save their lives might under fears of Death deny Christ outwardly so they owned him in their hearts a devillish Notion like that Ye shall not surely dye Therefore the Apostle most pertinently deals with these Gnosticks in many close touches and therefore he speaks so highly of believing in Christ that is professing or confessing openly that Jesus is the Son of God and particularly that whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God Joh. 5.1 Now we are apt
Faith Heb. 10.22 And truly to comfort Saints Consciences with their attaining less then this except in singular cases and conditions of great relapses and sore desertions is to comfort them with their reproach O ye of little faith Is this to lead sad Saints into paths of pleasantness and peace Or rather to hoodwinck them and so leave them in the dark unto the Devil to fright them Is this to comfort and cure Saints weak hearts Or rather to keep them weak and valetudinary Or is it not to play the Mountebanks with them And by indulging their fears and doubts to take a course to have them alwaies visiting us for our weak Physick when as Christ hath left us and all his mighty strong Consolations and Cordials and that with a Probatum est thereupon the probation and experience of every New-Testament Saint But I will shew you Scripture Divinity and not sparingly neither for what I plead 1 Joh. 1.3 And truly our fellowship is with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ Vers 4. And these things write we to you that your joy might be full Chap. 2.5 Hereby know we that we are in him Chap. 3.2 Beloved now we are the Sons of God Vers 14. We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the Brethren Vers 19. And hereby we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before him Vers 24. And hereby we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us Chap. 4.13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us because he hath given us of his Spirit Vers 16. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us Chap. 5.13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God that ye may know that ye have Eternal life Vers 14. And this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us Vers 15. And if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask we know that we have the Petitions that we desired of him Vers 19. And we know that we are of God and the whole world lyeth in wickedness Vers 20. And we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true And we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ This is the true God and Eternal life Here is the right description of a New Testament Gospel-Saint and the nature of his confidence which he holds to the end maugre all the terrours of Death or Devil Upon all which let me say thus much for I am labouring to have the Axe laid at the root of all horrid fears of Death do but consider it seriously and then judg whether to comfort souls with puny lazy and easie reflections on that which is sadly short of what those Scriptures speak to be the attainment of Gods Children whether I say it be not to keep souls fully as unholy as truly comfortless for so it is if Eph. 3.17 18.19 do hold out these Doctrines which you will find they do as first That great faith is necessary to the working of a great and an awakened affection in our hearts for God and Christ Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith roots us and grounds us in a sincere and powerful love of God Secondly That such a mighty affection in us for God is necessary to the begetting in us a larger assurance of his love to us For love thinks no ill but expects much good especially from God That ye saies the Apostle being rooted and grounded in love might even thereby be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and know the love of Christ even as all eminent Saints have known it that is his love to us in particular as the Apostle Paul phrases it Gal. 2.20 I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Thirdly That great assurance of Gods love to us is needful unto our perfecting of holiness if so be we would be filled with all the fulness of God Now who that have any fear of God or pity to souls dare use any other method of comforting then God uses Oh let none comfort others or themselves with poor weak tokens of being in a good state and by never urging home an absolute necessity of the full assurance of faith even leave them under perpetual guilt and so unto those fears which make them walk unworthy of the state hope or name of Christians Surely he that delivers from the fears of Death leaves not poor souls to be torn and tost with extream doubtings of his love to them Well I leave this particular Information Behold the possibility of attaining this freedom from the fears of Death with all that appertains to it being clear from the necessity of our duty it being required of us and from the many examples of Saints so freed to encourage us For with Christ the great Deliverer this is possible and it is every childs portion ready purchased and it may be had for going for to him He is both able willing and ready to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by him Use 2 Now I come to the second Use and that is of Exhortation in two words First Let every poor soul look to it to get grace to be in the number of real Saints for whom Christ intercedes as before my Text saying Behold I and the children which thou hast given me This Text speaks no comfort to any carnal wicked persons In the time of Pestilence and an hour of sudden Death they have no fence against the Devils fiery darts and the flashes of hell no Antidote against the killing fears of Death But let them flee penitently and believingly to Christ for refuge yea to Christ first for grace for repentance unto life and for faith in his bloud and then for safety and if the Son make you Sons and so free ye shall be free indeed Secondly I beseech you that are Saints Gods children though but a little flock little children yet do not you dread Death I do not say Do not think of Death Alas who can but think of it I do not say neither Be not seriously sensible of it But I beseech you for the sake of Jesus Christ for his honour sake who is your King and your own who are his Souldiers I say quit your selves like men stand to it stoutly sink not under the fears of Death Alas you are not to fear your last encounter if God hath given you any victory over your greatest and truly mortal enemies the World Flesh and Devil Saints at last should be like experienced Souldiers used to encounters and warrisht with spiritual Combates so that they should rather scorn then fear the last and harmlessest enemy Death But
to think that many who do so much and cry Lord Lord Lord have mercy on us yet are not thereupon to be judged in so good a condition and in an unquestionable state of Salvation Therefore I conceive a right understanding of such expressions may be got by taking notice of holy John's palpable intent and the drift of his speech upon the forementioned occasion the Apostle therefore for the better understanding of such mistaken spirits asserts in summe thus much that indeed those only that confess Jesus to be the Son of God and will not deny him in fear of Death or Torment are to be taken for true Christians and happy souls indeed Upon the same account he asserts also That Perfect love casteth out fear that is the tormenting fear of death or danger as Tertullian evinces in his Scorpiacum or Antidote against the Gnosticks speaking thus Johannes negat timorem esse in dilectione quem timorem intelligi praestat nisi negationiâ— authorem i.e. John denies fear to be in love what fear can be better understood then such as is the Author and cause of denying Christ even as the Apostle Peter did for fear of death or suffering He that loves Christ but tolerably aright will not be loath to dye for Christ or to dye and go to Christ That Spouse who is truly sick of love for Christ thinks no Cure of that sickness like Death even to depart and to be with Christ to be ever with the Lord her blessed Bridegroom Thirdly Christ by giving his people that excellent grace of hope kills the fear of death 2 Thes 2.16 There it is plain that good hope through his grace is not only his gift but therewith also or thereby everlasting Consolation which therefore is neither to be interrupted by the fears of Death or discontinued by Death it self yea the same Consolation springing from this grace of hope Heb. 6.18 19. is there called strong Consolation Indeed stronger then Death or the terriblest fears of Death For Christ giving this hope is there said to comfort and establish Saints so that no fear of death as in that place of judgment day can either sadden whom he so comforts or shake and disturb the minds he so establishes for their hearts thus become fixed trusting in the Lord. The Saints grace of hope gets beyond Death before hand and enters into heaven As this Apostle to the Hebrews represents it as entring into that within the vail and by it Saints on earth fit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus Now you know hope 's nature is contrary to fear He who hopes for eternal life and for the Adoption to wit the Redemption of the body as it is spoken of Saints hope Rom. 8 23 24 25. He that hath such a saving hope whereby as an Anchor sure and stedfast he hopes for life can never be tost like a wave with any slavish fears of Death Oh then still thy soul by hope in God The Apostle Peter calls the Saints the childrens hope a lively hope Who hath saies he begotten us unto a lively hope Lively hope destroys the exanimating killing fears of Death Puts us beyond death as to fear before it come at us as to feeling for he that hath this lively hope as an Anchor sure and stedfast cannot much fear that he shall at death become a Castaway though he be careful with the Apostle Paul It is Hells pit that is bottomless or fathomless so that the despairing Damned are alwaies tormented with Eternal pains and frights But alas Come the worst of it to the Saints of God this they know that the Graves pit is not bottomless there is enough for their hope to bottom and anchor upon surely and stedfastly The Grave to the wicked is indeed bottomless and though it detains a while the body yet it lets the soul slip into Hell and the body too not long after But Christs Death burial hath so sanctified every of the Saints Graves that at worst their graves will be by so much happier to them then that Grave was to the dead man whom Elisha's buried bones revived even by how much Lazarus his second was or will be better than his first Resurrection Christs Death and Burial hath left somewhat in every Saints grave sufficient at the lowest for his hope to bottom on so that his body when there may be truly said to rest in hope and therefore having this grace of hope he need not unless he will be disquieted with fears before Death Fourthly Christ by giving his people on earth some real foretasts of heaven and of eternal life doth thereby effectually destroy their fears of Death And therefore the Apostle Paul who was next to his Lord and Master the greatest conquerour and triumpher over Death we read of after that he had been Rapt up into the third heaven as he stories it himself in the second Epistle to the Corinthians was ever after most undaunted under the seriousest thoughts of death as is most evident in his other Epistles which were written after those to the Corinthians particularly in that to the Romans where he tells us how little he fears death or a thousand deaths though killed as it were all the day long yet more then Conquerour He had before so sweet a sight of heaven that Death could not fright him so sweet a taste of heavens pleasures that he could never after taste any bitterness in death And thereupon justly longing to be there again he feared not death the only passage into so much bliss Let every true Saint consider this I say every soul that conscionably walks with God and labours to have Communion with God in his holy waies and Ordinances that walks in some measure as that blessed Apostle Paul who lived in all good conscience before God that with holy David tastes and sees that the Lord is gracious that tastes in deed and truth savingly of the heavenly gift the good Word of God and the powers of the World to come O precious Saint dost thou so live How is it possible but thou must long to be filled with these heavenly joyes How canst thou fear that Death that will put thee into actual possession of thy Masters Joy According to that in Rom. 8.28 And not only they viz. the Creatures but we our selves also which have the first fruits of the Spirit do groan within our selves waiting for the Adoption to wit the Redemption of our body See here that a taste of the first fruits of the heavenly Canaan which Gods Spirit from above fetches for and feeds a Saint with makes him not to groan under the fears of dying but rather under fears of not dying O you that taste and rellish heavenly things in Divine Ordinances and have much of the presence of Christ with you in them are you affraid to dye and to be with Christ for ever Is not this better then to live There are three things deservedly to be called first
so by Gods grace and the power of Christ they might conquer the fears of Death And it is evident though God is no respecter of persons yet all Gods Children have not equal attainments herein Well I know it and for the most part nay I might safely say alwaies long of themselves either they resist God more or seek him less than other Saints or are foolishly and idly ignorant of his good will and their own duty and happiness Alas alas Is it not sad to see how Protestants by a simple distinction or at least simple use of it are in this even turned Papists There is say they Certitudo objecti not subjecti A certainty of Saints salvation but not of its evidence to them as if indeed in this valley of tears the Saints eyes be always so bleared that they cannot see one of a thousand such a mystery and secret The white stone it is true hath a new name written in it which none can read indeed but him that hath it What nor he neither scarce at all is it written in such very small Letters as cannot be seen by the ordinary illumination of Gods people Such say Saints salvation no doubt is certain in it self but seldom or never clearly evident to them to this purpose or effect too many wrong God and themselves too Well listen to this too much and run this dark black notion down into its blind consequences and palpable inconveniences which will scarce be avoided errour in this world multiplying much faster than truth This I I tell you will be one said Consequence the Devil comes on you and if God permits him as such a strange misunderstanding of the Gospel provokes him to it then I assure you he will shake you sorely with the fears of death But pray you now consider at length Is making of Calling and Election sure making it sure in it self or to our selves secure and evident is it our duty sufficient to draw near unto God with faith or rather also with the full assurance of it Is indeed God bound in his Covenant to give the Saints more and more grace but no comfort at all Surely as well not one as not the other and the same hinders one as well as the other even our ignorance and unwillingness who as we oft refuse to return to the Lord so also much oftener do we refuse to be comforted How come we to be commanded to rejoyce in the Lord alwaies Yea to count it all joy when we fall into divers Temptations If no promise of ability from God to enable us to rejoyce Hath not God confirmed his Covenant by an Oath that we should have strong consolation as well as strong graces Heb. 6.17 18. Is not joy one of the fruits of Christs Spirit Doth not the Kingdom of Christ and government of our hearts consist in righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Doth not an Apostle use his Authority thus Rejoyce in the Lord alwaies Rom. 14.17 and again I say rejoyce Who dares then preach Gods Word otherwise And clip the Scripture language and tell people it is enough or that it is pretty well if a Saint can say thus I desire to be Gods child though I cannot call God Father Alas there can be but poor joy in thy desires of being Gods child if thou knowest not but God is thy enemy Will this be a comfort to thee that thou desirest to be Gods child whilst thou knowest that thou neglectest a strict command of rejoycing in the Lord alwaies flatly rebelling against a Conscience binding Gospel-Law and putting God off with a Complement that such Commands are too good for thee I am sure they are too good to be disobeyed But to return Dost thou desire to be Gods Child Let thy desires be like a childs desires obedient desires Dost thou desire to be a dutiful Child Then rejoyce in thy Father alwaies and again I say rejoyce Whether is ground of comfort thinkest thou thy disobedient desires or Gods free pardoning love Truly I question whether there be not a dream in such kind of fancies fancies I call them if taken for comforts and rested in For how canst thou say if thou knowest what thou sayest that thou lovest God as a Child if thou hast no evidence that God loves thee as a Father This is to give the Apostle John the lye who saies plainly that we love him because he first loved us Some may think it modesty for a Saint to say I desire to be Gods child but dare not call God Father Modesty for a child not to own his true Father and his real evident love the sensiblest thing that is felt of God in the world for God is love This I know that something like it is but ignorance pride and sloathful resting in miserable attainments all sadly put together not that I am any the least friend to a rash peremptory constant and sudden assertion My God and my Father But such an one I contend for as springs from a serious meditation of Gods unspeakable love revealed in the Covenant of grace and from the due exercise of Grace especially in the actual worshipping of God wherein most Scripture Saints have exprest their highest confidence in God as a Father even at their Devotions And also such an assertion I plead for of a Saints interest in God as a Father which together with all the rest arises from a peculiar operating presence of the witnessing Spirit whereby a Saint is enabled to cry Abba Father Which Spirit dwelling in the Saints and enabling them in all Acts of Worship yea of their life more or less cannot but give them a sweet sence all along alwaies in their hearts of Gods being their Father unless they have so sinned as David driven away the Comforter and so need to pray with him Restore O Lord the Joys of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free Spirit Therefore let Ministers especially and all those who ought to comfort one another let Gods Heralds I say and Preachers of Gospel glad Tydings abhor to be like the Devils Goalers to feed the Saints with weak cold comforts like bread and water of affliction that will certainly betray them to the power of the Devil and the fears of Death What Comfort and bolster up a Communicant one that having many years professed true Christianity may now be called within an hour to heaven What I say to comfort such an one with his ABC his rudiments that it is a matter of content and rest to him that he desires to be Gods Child though he cannot call God Father We may shut up our Bibles and cease preaching comfort if this be enough Every the least Saint may quickly attain to this for it is the least that true grace can do it may be as quickly done as said by a true Saint But surely there is something more in drawing near to God in following on to seek the Lord even full assurance of
come to us the Cowards trick indeed who never fighteth but when he thinks his enemy fears to resist him So I may to be sure say on the contrary that as to fear the Devil draws him upon us so not to fear him keeps him off on 's Courage in resistance will put him to flight for he is an absolute Coward to Christ and stout Christians If this be not done I mean if the Devil be not fully resisted all is in vain that man will scarce ever keep his Conscience quiet that tamely suffers the Devil to play the merciless Souldier Sophister Goaler or Executioner with it Master the Devil and then having made thy peace with God thou hast only thy Conscience still to pacifie from time to time with that bloud that hath pacified God Well then take this course do as Christ did in his fighting and you will without doubt fight a good fight of faith and finish your course with joy Thirdly Love not the world or any thing in it that is of it Love not your life too much exercise self denial Did we love God and our selves aright we should not fear Death Perfect love casteth out the fear of Death But imperfect love love divided the love of God and of the world too I mean the comforts pleasures of this life sweet Relations or the like oh this imperfect love instead of casting out doth but hatch and harbour the fears of Death Fear then to love much any thing of this world though never so lawful an enjoyment would you not fear Death There is more in this than Christians will be aware of But doubtless the inordinate love of worldly comforts and the imperfect love of God makes men affraid to dye To this I may add Prize spiritual things above worldly place your sensible dayly yea hourly happiness in spiritual things count them not only your food but feast yea recreation too alwaies reckoning thus to be merry My Meditation of God shall be sweet saies David and I will be glad in the Lord. Let the comfort of your lives your choice constant delight and treasure be heavenly things then you will never fear death For as it is a comfort when an house is on fire to save all the goods especially all the treasure So though the Plague or any death fire the body this our tabernacle of clay yet will it not be a quering comfort that our Treasure is safe And that we have a better house to go to not made with hands in the highest heavens Fourthly Watch. It is Christs direction The uncertainty of the time of death and judgment hath this Use of Exhortation annexed to it by a greater Ecclesiastes then Solomon Christ himself who preached as never man did and spake as never man spake saies he What I say unto you I say unto all watch Mar. 13.37 Job knowing his Redeemer lived knew both his protection and his duty waited all the daies of his appointed time till his change came He was every day at watch looking for his last enemy Death and therefore little feared what he could do therefore he had not so much fear of Death as hope in God though he should slay him Oh! watch watch For you know those that watch in an Army are less affrighted at the approach of an enemy then those that are alarum'd out of their sleep So it is as to the fears of Death we therefore fear it so much because we so little think of it or expect it putting the evil day far from us and so suspecting it not to be near fall to sleep keep no watch and then if on a sudden this last enemy Death approach and seem to be very near us we being alarum'd out of our foolish sleep are affrighted Therefore Solomon deals wisely with the young man Eccles 12. who thinks death farthest off I say he presents the young man with a most lively and unparallel'd description of his latter end puts him in mind betimes of his latter daies that so meditating and expecting such an end of his daies he might not be affrighted at death nor unprepared for judgment Oh! watch watch for certainly Christians familiar thoughts of death if according to Gods Word would breed in us the contempt of Death Fifthly Be faithful in celebrating all Gospel Ordinances of Gods Worship Communion with Christ in them raises a mans ambition above his Cowardice and makes him covet to be with Christ though it be by Death Remember that of David Psal 24.4 Though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no ill for thou art with me In the next verse but one he shews where God and he met ver 6. I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever Communion with his shepherd especially in holy Worship made him fear no evil that death could affront him with Two Ordinances of the Worship of God and for Communion with him I only hint as expedient to this present purpose because one of them I must speak more to in the Conclusion they are Prayer and the Lords Supper First Prayer The end of all things is at hand be sober and watch unto Prayer 1 Pet. 4.7 Thy end to be sure is at hand watch and pray Watching is of little avail without Prayer If you be wise pray much in faith O Saints have you never found in prayer heavens gate opened to your knocking Do but prevail once in prayer with God himself as Princes and Israelites indeed and you will easily overcome his Serjeant death it self much more its fears They that use in Prayer to enter into the holiest by the bloud of Jesus cannot much fear that Death should at last make them miss their good old way to heaven Secondly Receive the Lords Supper as oft and as worthily as you can Many quiet their Consciences by receiving that Sacrament upon the point of Death But truly solid joyes and the best preparations for death are the result of a godly remembrance of Christs death all along in our life time What quiet can any have from such a practice That is to neglect the Ordinance and duty of remembring Christs death all their life and to remember it only at their death Oh! seeing fears of death are sad associates and Companions of our life even all your daies remember Christs death by vertue whereof you are to be delivered from such troublesome Company as it is clear in the preceding verse to my Text That through DEATH saies the Apostle he might destroy him that had the power of Death and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage This is a deliverance you see wrought through Christs death O Saint study it eye it in faith till thou feelest the vertue of it in thy heart easing thee of thy fears of Death Thus Christ undertook thy Deliverance even by his own Death Thus then do thou manage this thy deliverance by due remembrance of