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truth_n	divine_a	faith_n	reveal_v	2,785	5	8.8750	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37135	The Dying man's assistant, or, Short instructions for those who are concern'd in the preparing of sick persons for death being also no less worthy the consideration of all good Christians in time of health, as shewing the importance of an early preparation for their latter end, with regard as well to their temporal, as eternal state ...		1697 (1697)	Wing D2954; ESTC R17100	52,686	145

pleases to lay upon us Which Arguments the Minister may greatly inforce by inculcating to him the Examples of Job the Holy Apostles Martyrs and Confessors and CHRIST Himself Crucified especially by displaying to him the excessive Torments of the Cross and at the same time proposing to his Meditation by way of Prayer and Self Resignation these Words of St. Austin's Lord burn me cut me into pieces scourge me and correct me in this World so Thou pardon me in the next Or these O God who chastisest those whom Thou do'st love admit me I beseech Thee after my Death into the Number of Thy Blessed Children since Thou makest me to endure thy Corrections in this Life My God! and my Father Who art my only Refuge and Defence succour me in all my Afflictions and Miseries either by asswaging and moderating them or giving me strength to sustain the same without repining I thank Thee O Merciful Father for the troubles Thou hast laid upon me Thou that knowest my weakness vouchsafe to fortifie and support me so as I may not fall into impatience and murmur but that I may truly humble my self under Thy Afflicting Hand and wholly submit to Thy Chastisements To which the Minister may still add what other Words of the like kind he shall judge convenient with regard to the Condition of the Sick Person CHAP. XII How those Persons ought to be managed that lie under Temptations against the Faith OF Persons tempted against the Faith there are two Sorts Either they are such as have not a clear apprehension of all that is necessary to be believed in the Law of Grace whom how to instruct we have shewn in the First Chapter Or they are such as are tormented by Satan who is continually endeavouring to cast Doubts into their Minds about their Faith in general or some particular Article of it The former of which Cases being as we have said provided for in the First Chapter we shall here need only to speak to the latter Which the Minister perceiving to be the Sick Person 's shall advise him not to dispute with the Devil whose sole aim is to destroy his Faith Without which as the Apostle tells us it is impossible to please God but humbly to implore the Holy Ghost so to inlighten him as that he may never fall into Infidelity nor the Enemy have any advantage over him Let him cry out with the Prophet Lord thou seest how I am tempted be thou pleased to answer for me Adding thereto if occasion be what is before mentioned in the Fifth Chapter and making an humble Confession of that Faith which is founded not upon human Reasons but the Eternal Truth Which will secure him against all the ill suggestions wherewith the Devil may labour to assault and disturb him and set him entirely at liberty to think of those things that will administer pleasure and comfort to him such as the unspeakable Joys of Heaven which he is hoping for the infinite Love of God towards him and Spiritual Graces He has confer'd upon him And for a yet further diversion of those Temptations he finds himself obnoxious to it may be convenient for him to speak sometimes to those that are present But if notwithstanding all these Precautions he shall still perceive his Faith to be wavering let him first pray to God to help his Unbelief and then protest before Him and all the Standers by that he resolves to die in that Faith which Jesus Christ is the Author of and the Martyrs have sealed and attested by their Blood And here if the Patient's illness will permit it the Minister may offer him some general Reasons to confirm him in the Christian Faith and Religion as that it flows directly from the Divine Wisdom and is not like others grounded only upon Human Arguments but the Authority and Truth of God himself who has been pleas'd to reveal it to his Church But at the same time he must be very cautious of descending to any particular Point least it should provoke the Sick Person to Disputation a thing most dangerous on such an occasion unless he desires to be inform'd about some of the Mysteries of our Religion Which is to be done too in as few words as may be Let him be shewn that the Christian Faith is establish'd upon no less than the Testimony of the Eternal Father who said of Christ He is my beloved Son hear ye him Than the Word of Jesus Christ himself who assures us that his Father and He are but One God and commanded his Apostles to Preach these Truths throughout the World saying that they who believe shall be saved and that there is no Salvation but in Him For the reasonableness thereof he may be refer'd to the Jews themselves who though the very Enemies of Christ gave sufficient Testimony to his Divinity when being astonish'd at the Miracles wrought by Him they openly profess'd that unless a stop was put thereto by securing his Person and forbidding his Doctrine all Nations would believe in Him Nor have their Historians alone but other Unbelievers also own'd the Christian Religion to be of all others in the World the best theirs only excepted which they 〈◊〉 before it either through ignorance or prejudice For indeed what Religion could ever shew such Marks and Tokens of the Hand of God as this of the Christian through the whole Course of its Propagation In its first Institution by how many Miracles was it confirm'd As we find them recorded in the Holy Scriptures by those who were Eye-witnesses thereof and whose plainness and simplicity apparent in all their Relations of the same is proof sufficient of their Sincerity Nor is it less to be admired how succesfully it was Preached and Established by Persons of neither Learning Eloquence nor Authority but on the contrary destitute of all outward Accomplishments exposed to Poverty and the Contempt of all Mankind Who yet by the meer force of Truth reduced both Learned and Unlearned whole Empires and Nations to the same Christian Faith and under which by the special Providence of Almighty God they have for so many Ages been preserved notwithstanding its containing not only Mysteries above the Reach but Precepts again the Inclinations and Passions of Men's Minds In a Word That he need not doubt of believing that which those Blessed Spirits so divinely proclaim'd who foretold the Birth of Jesus Christ and published it with Songs of Rejoycing giving Glory to God and promising Peace to all Men Who also were Witnesses of his Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven That which so many Saints and Holy Men and Women enlighten'd by God have profess'd which such vast Numbers of the Faithful in all Ages have by their Mortification and Self-denial sacrificed the Pleasures of this World to and through the midst of so many cruel Persecutions maintained at no less a Price than that of their Blood as knowing what sure Grounds they were on even the Authority as we have