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sin_n	justification_n	life_n	remission_n	3,372	5	9.5028	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10874	Life after death Containing many religious instructions and godly exhortations, for all those that meane to liue holy, and dye blessedly. With the manner of disposing ones selfe to God, before, and at the time of his departure out of this world. With many prayers for the same purpose By Francis Rodes.	Rodes, Francis, Sir, ca. 1595-1646.	1622 (1622)	STC 21140; ESTC S112044	39,083	228

And so laying aside all earthly respects as hauing now no more to doe with the things vnder the Sunne to commend his body to Christian buriall and his soule to his mercifull Redeemer CHAP. 19. It is necessary for the sicke after an orderly disposing of his worldly goods and leauing all worldly thoughts to apply his mind to Prayer and godly Meditations Prayer THe sweetest incense wee can offer is our deuotion by Prayer The lifting vp of our hands will be as an euening sacrifice he healeth our sicknesses and forgiueth all our sinnes Psal 103. God lookes that wee should send vp our prayers to him that he might send downe his mercy to vs. Prayer in time of trouble is commanded with a promise Call vpon mee saith the Lord in the time of trouble and I will heare thee and thou shalt glorifie me Psal 50.15 Psalmes in time of affliction haue a speciall peculiar grace to moue deuotion Proper and peculiar Psalmes for the sicke Put mee not to rebuke O Lord Psal 38. Haue mercy vpon me O Lord Psal 51. Hast thee to deliuer mee O God Psal 70. In thee O Lord haue I put my trust Psal 71. I will cry vnto the Lord with my voice Psal 77. Out of the deepe haue I called vnto thee O Lord Lord heare my voice Psal 130. In his meditations let him meditate vpon the ioyes of Heauen Meditations touching which no tongue created either of Man or Angel can expresse them no imagination conceiue nor vnderstanding comprehend them for Christ himselfe saith Nemo scit nisi qui accipiet No man knowes them but he that enioyes them such is the infinite value glory and Maiestie of the felicitie prepared for vs in heauen Secondly to call to minde the vnspeakeable loue of GOD towards man in generall as that God so loued the world that hee gaue his onely begotten Sonne to the death to redeeme vs euen then when wee were his enemies and if when we were his enemies wee were reconciled vnto God by the Death of his Son much more being reconciled shal we be saued by his life Thirdly to call to mind the vnspeakeable loue of God towards our selues in particular both in our Creation Redemption Sanctification and Iustification Fourthly to meditate vpō the Passion of Christ namely how hee suffered the death of the Crosse with extreme reproch and contumely besides most grieuous torments both in soule and body that he might to the vtmost indure the punishment due to our sinnes Feare not therefore saith Christ feare not thy sinnes for I am the remission of sinnes feare not darknes I am the light feare not death I am the life whosoeuer commeth to me shall neuer see death Fifthly to meditate vpon his descending into Hell how that in his soule hee suffered such extreme and fearefull torments and euerlasting punishments as that by a locall descending into hell he could not possibly haue indured more Sixtly to meditate vpon Christs Resurrection how by his rising againe hee ouercame Death Hell Sinne and the Diuel himselfe and so by his Resurrection hee triumphed ouer Death cloathed vs with his Righteousnesse reconciled vs to his Father and made vs heires of his euerlasting Kingdome Lastly to meditate vpon the Ascension of Christ how that he is gone vp to Heauen with great glory thereby to open a way for vs against our selues come to possesse it after death and body and soule together after the Resurrection It is nothing that wee doe suffer in respect of that which Christ suffered for vs for whatsoeuer we suffer Christ suffered more for vs therefore there is nothing that can bee too much or too deare for vs to bestow vpon Christ CHAP. 20. To visit the sicke is a high worke of mercy THat care is thought of greatest importance which is imployed in helping those who are least able to helpe themselues and yet haue most need of ghostly direction this duty specially concernes them to whom God hath committed the charge of soules therefore it is greatly to bee wished that like as the Serpent that old enemy of mankinde who the shorter his time is the fiercer his wrath is and himselfe the more busie so those who should feed Christs Lambes would now be the more carefull to keepe them from this deuouring Lyon and to present them sound in Faith and ioyfull in hope vnto the great Shepheard of their soules which is done partly by exhortation partly by Prayer Tediousnesse of discourse may soone weary the weake party In exhortatiō these things are to be obserued few words well ordered auaile most impertinent speeches are very vnfit a premeditated exhortation after information taken of the disposition of the sicke is very behoouefull CHAP. 21. A Prayer at the first visiting of the Sicke Prayer MOst gracious God we humbly beseech thee to looke vpon this thy Seruant with the eyes of thy mercy to grant him patience in his troubles comfort in his afflictions and strength in thy mercies Defend him O Lord from the danger of the enemy keep him in thy protection sauegard and send him deliuerance at thy good will and pleasure through Iesus Christ our onely Sauiour and Redeemer Amen CHAP. 22. A confession to bee vsed of the sicke by himselfe ALmighty and most mercifull Father I acknowledge my great and grieuous offences committed against thy Diuine Maiestie I haue not as I ought loued thee aboue all things I haue not sincerely vvorshipped thee I haue not honoured thy Sacred name I haue not sanctified thy Sabbath I haue not done due reuerence to my Parents and Gouernours I haue borne deadly hatred I haue liued vnchastely I haue taken my neighbors goods I haue depraued his good name I haue coueted contrarie to thy commandement for all which I humbly craue mercy of thee for these and all other my sinnes known and vnknowne which I haue committed since the day of my birth I doe with an humble penitent heart aske pardon and forgiuenesse of them euen for the merits of thy deare Sonne Iesus Christ our onely Sauiour and Redeemer in whose name I pray as hee himselfe hath taught vs saying Our Father which art in Heauen c. O Lord Iesus who art the Resurrection and the life in whom whosoeuer beleeueth shal not perish but haue life euerlasting I neither desire the continuance of this life nor a more speedy deliuerance out of this world then shall stand with thy good will and pleasure to which I humbly referre my selfe doe with mee most mercifull Sauiour according to the riches of thy goodnesse through thee haue I beene holpen euer since I was borne thou art hee that tookest me out of my mothers wombe and hast preserued mee to this houre it grieueth me that I haue so often offended thee and I am the more grieued that I can grieue no more then I doe considering the grieuousnesse of my offences towards thee CHAP. 23. A Prayer by the sick party against the