Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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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

8. If thou die and leaue issue thou maist be frighted and amazed with one of these things For either thou maist bee despised while thou liuest of those for whom thou endurest sore trauaile so as they that shall come after thee doe not reioyce in thee Eccles. 4. 15 16. Or else thou maist leaue the fruite of thy labours to a foole or a wicked wretch For who knoweth whether he that shall rule ouer thy labours shal be a wise man or a foole This very consideration made Salomon hate all his labour which he had taken vnder the Sunne and he went about to make his heart despaire of all his labours that hee should vse all his wisedome and knowledge for attaining of great things and yet might be in danger to leaue all for a portion to him that hath not laboured in wisedom and all this is vexation of spirit Eccles. a. 18. to 24. Or else thou maist beget children thy riches perish before thy death then there is nothing in thine hand to leaue them Eccles. 5. 14. CHAP. XI The miseries of life in respect of our selues THus haue we cause to be weary of life in respect of GOD the euill Angels and the World Now if there were none of these to molest vs yet man hath enough in himselfe to marre the liking of this present life For 1 The remainders of corruption of nature still lye like a poyson a leprosie a pestilence in thee thou art vnder cure indeed but thou art not sound from thy sore thou art Lazarus still This very consideration made Paul weary of his life when he cried out O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from this body of death Rom. 7. And if in this respect wee bee not of Pauls minde it is because wee want of Pauls goodnes grace And this corruption of nature is the more greeuous if wee consider either the generality of the spreading the infection or the incurablenes of it or the ill effects of it 1. For the first this is a Leprosy that spreads all ouer There is no souÌ„d part in vs our mindes our memories our wills and affections yea our very coÌ„sciences are still impure within vs there is no good nature in vs in any one faculty of our soules but there is a miserable mixture of vile infection 2. Secondly this is the worse because this is incurable There lyeth vpon vs a very necessity of sinning wee cannot but offend Of the flesh it vvas wel said I can neither liue with thee nor without thee The flesh is an inseparable ill companion of our liues we can goe no whether to auoide it c. Thirdly if we consider but some of the effects of this corruption in vs as 1. The ciuill warre it causeth in our soules there is no businesse can be dispatched that concernes our happinesse without a mutiny in our own hearts The flesh is a domesticall Rebel that daily lusts against the Spirit as the Spirit hath reason to lust against the flesh Gal. 5. 17. 2. Secondly the insufficiency it breeds in vs for our callings The greatest Apostle must in this respect cryout Who is sufficient for these things Though Gods worke bee all faire worke yet we see that euery maÌ„ is extreamly burthened with the defects and mistakings and insufficiencies which befall him in his course of life 3. It workes a perpetuall madnesse in the heart of a man in some respects worse then that of some lunatickes For they are mad at some times of the yeare onely or chiefly but man is seldome or neuer free from this inward madnesse of heart Salomon saith The heart of the sonnes of men is full of euil and madnesse is in their hearts while they liue and after that they goe to the dead Now this madnesse appeares in this that men can neuer bring their harts to a settled contentment in the things they inioy but Death comes vpon them before they know how to improue the ioy of their hearts in the blessings they enioy whether Temporall or Spirituall This vile corruption of nature diffuseth gall into althat a man possesseth so as it marreth the taste of euery thing 4. It fils our hearts and liues with innumerable euils it ingenders breeds infinitely swarmes of euill thoughts and desires and aboundance of sinnes in mens liues and conuersations so as godly Dauid cries out Innumerable euils hauc compassed mee about and I am not able to looke vp They were more then the haires of his head therefore his heart failed him Ps. 40. 12. 5. It is continually mad to betray vs to Sathan and the world in all the occasions of our life 6. It will play the Tyrant if it get any head and leade vs ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ and giue wretched Lawes to the members yea euery sinne which is the brat bred of this corruption is like a fury to fright and amaze vs there is a very race of deuâ—s brâ—â— in vs when Sathan and the Flesh ingender together in vs. 2. And as we are thus miserable in respect of the remainders of corruption so are we in respect of the remainders of the punishment of sinne vpon our spirits Our hearts were neuer fully free since the first transgression our minds are yet full of darknesse that euen godly men do seriously cry out They are but as beasts they haue not the vnderstanding of men in them And in many passages of life they carry theÌ„selues like beasts Prou. 3. 3. Ps. 139. Eccl. 3. 18. The ioyes of Gods presence are for the greatest part kept from vs our consciences are still but in a kinde of prison when they go to the seat of iudgement to giue sentence in any cause they come forth with fetters vpon their legs as prisoners themselues besides the many personall scourges light vpon our soules in this life 3. Lastly the very condition of our bodies should not be ouer-pleasing to vs our deformities and infirmities and the danger of further diseases should tire vs out and make vs account it no louely thing to be present in the body while we are absent from the LORD And thus of the miseries of our liues also Now it remaines that I should proceed to the second sort of contemplations that is those that are remouals namely such meditations as take off the obiections which are in the hearts of men CHAP. XII Comforts against the Paine of death THere are in the minds of all men certaine Obiections which if they could be remoued this feare of Death would be stocked vp by the very rootes I will instance in some of the chiefe of theÌ„ and set downe the answers to them 1. Ob. Some men say they should not be afraid of death considering the gaine of it the happines after death but that they are afraid of the paine of dying It is the difficulty of the passage troubles them Sol. For answere heereunto diuers things would be considered of to shew men the folly of

troubled to part with our friends 6. Ob. MIght some other say I could more willingly dye but me thinks it is greeuous vnto me to part with friends acquaintance I cannot willingly goe froÌ„ my kindred and my familiars life is sweet in respect of their presence and loue and societie Sol. It is true that vnto some minds this is the greatest contentment of life of any thing but yet many things must be considered For First amongst a hundred men scarce one can by good reason plead that I meane cannot say that hee hath so much as one sound friend in the whole world worthy to be reckned as the stay of his life 2. Those that can plead felicitie in their friends yet what is it one pleasing dreame hath more in it then a months contentmeÌ„t which can be reaped from thy friends Alas it is not the thousand part of thy life which is satisfied with delight from them 3. Thou seest thy friends drop away from thee froÌ„ day to day for either they die or they are so farre remooued from thee that they are as it were dead to thee sith they are gone who would not long to go after them 4. The friends that are left are not sure to thee men are mutable as well as mortall they may turne to bee thy foes that now are dearest vnto thee or if they fall not into tearms of flat enmity they may grow full and wearie of thee and so carelesse of thee 5. If none of these would satisfie thee yet what are thy friends on earth to thy friends thou shalt find in heauen This is an answere beyond all exception 6. Lastly by death thou doost not lose thy friends neither for thou shalt find them and enioy them in another world to all eternitie and therefore thou hast no reason for thy friends sake to bee loth to dye 7. Ob. But might some one say All my griefe is to part with my wife children and to leaue them especially in an vnsettled estate Sol. 1. Hast thou forgotten the consolation that saith God will be a father to the fatherlesse and a Iudge and a Protector of the widowes cause Hee will relieue both the fatherless and the widow as many Scriptures doe assure vs Psal. 146. 9. 68. 6. Prou. 15. 25. 2. Thou leauest them but for a time God will restore theÌ„ to thee againe in a better world 3. Thou gainst the presence of God and his eternall coniunction who will be more to thee then many thousand wiues or children could be He can be hurt by the losse of no company that findeth God in heauen CHAP. XVIII Why we should not be sorry to leaue the pleasures of life 8. Ob. BVT might some other say My heart is sorely vexed because in death I must part with the pleasures of life Sol. There are many things might quiet mens mindes in respect of this obiection For thy pleasures are either sinfull pleasures or lawfull pleasures If they bee sinfull thou shewest thy hatred of God by louing them and heapest vp wrath vpon thine own soule by liuing in them But say thy pleasures be lawfull in themselues yet consider 1. That the paines of thy life are and will bee greater both for number and continuance then thy pleasures can be No pleasure at once euer lasted so long as the fit of an Ague 2. Thou forgettest what end they may haue For thy pleasures may go out with gall For either shame or losse or euill sicknesse may fall vpon thee or if not yet thine owne heart will loath theÌ„ as they are vanity so they will proue vexation of spirit Thou wilt be extremely tired with them 3. Thou art farre from giuing thy life for Christ that wilt not forgoe the superfluity of life for him 4. That in thy delights thou shewest the greatest weakenes so as thou maist say of Laughter Thou art mad Eccl. 2. 2. 5. That death doth not spoile thee of pleasures For it bringeth thee to the pleasures that are at Gods right hand for euermore Psal. 16. vlt. CHAP. XIX Why we should not be loth to leaue the honours of the world 9. Ob. IF any other obiect the lothnes to leaue his honours or high place in the world I may answer diuers things Sol. 1. Why shouldest thou be so in loue with the honours of this world if thou but consider how small thy preferment is or can be The whole earth is but as the full point or center in comparison with the circumference of the whole world besides Now in true iudgement it is almost impossible to discerne how a maÌ„ should rise higher in a Center If thou hadst all the earth thou wert no more exalted then to the possession of a full point a little spot in comparison and therefore how extremely vaine is thy nature to be affected with the possession of lesse then the thousand thousand part of a little spot or point 2. Consider seriously the thraldome which thy preferment brings thee vnto Thou canst not liue free but still thou art fettered with the cares and feares and griefes that attend thy greatnesse There is little difference between thee and a prisoner saue that the prisoner hath his fetters of iron and thine are of gold and that his fetters binde his body and thine thy mind He weares his fetters on his legs and thou thine on thine head and in this thou art one way lesse contented then some prisoners for they can sing for ioy of heart when thou art deiected with the cares and griefes of thy minde If thou hast a Crowne it were but a Crowne of thornes in respect of the cares it would put thee to c. 3. Say thou shouldest get neuer so high thou canst not protect thy selfe from the miseries of thy condition nor preserue thy selfe in any certainety from the losse of all thou enioyest If thou wert as high as the toppe of the Alpes thou canst not get such a place but the clouds winds stormes terrible lightnings may finde thee out so as thou wouldst account the lower ground to bee the safer place Thou standest as a man on the top of a pinacle thou canst not know how soone thou maist tumble downe and that fearefully 4. If thou shouldst be sure to enioy thy greatnes of place in the world yet thou art not sure to preserue thine honour For either it may be blemished with vniust aspersions or else some fault of thy own may marre all thy praises For as a dead flye may mat a whole box of ointment so may one sinne thy glory Eccl. 10. 1. 5. Thou losest not honour by dying for there are Crownes of glory in heauen such as shall neuer wither nor be corrupted such as can neuer be held with care or enuy nor lost with infamy CHAP. XX. Why it should not trouble vs to part with riches 10. Ob. IF thou be infected with the loue of riches and that thou art loth to

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