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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30678	A soveraign antidote against the fear of death: or, A cordial for a dying Christian Being ten select meditations, wherein a Christians objections are answered, and his doubts and fears removed, and many convincing motives and arguments are laid down to perswade him to a willing submission to Gods will, whether he be sent for by a natural or a violent death. By Edward Bury formerly minister of Great Bolas in Shropshire.	Bury, Edward, 1616-1700.	1681 (1681)	Wing B6211; ESTC R218706	177,227	388

shine as Stars of the first Magnitude in this our dark Hemisphere that your Lives may be exemplary and your last Works better than your first and when you shall be gathered unto your Fathers it may be in a good Old Age as a shock of Corn in its season that while you live you may shine as the Sun in his strength until you set in the Infinite Ocean of endless Bliss and lye for ever in the Bosom of your dear Redeemer there to receive a Reward for all your pains and labour of love and that those tender Plants which God hath given you may be watered with the dew of Heaven and may become Trees of righteousness even Pillars in the House of God and that in your Family there may never want those that may own Christ in sincerity And that the remaining part of your time Phil. 3.13 14. 1 Tim. 6.12 forgetting what is past you may reach forth unto those things that are before pressing towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus and fight the good fight of Faith and lay hold on eternal Life These are my Desires and shall be my Prayers and if these following Meditations conduce any thing to the furtherance hereof I have my desire and who knows but some poor drooping Soul may receive benefit by it the Seed may spring when the Seedsman is dead And thus much in Answer to the Question Why I Dedicate it to you If you demand why I prefix both your Names I will answer with Jerom in the like case Jungat Epistola quos junxit conjugium charta non dividat quos Christi nescit amor God hath made you not only one Flesh but also one Heart and it is the concern of the one as well as of the other And thus having spoken to you jointly give me leave to speak a few words to you severally and apart Sir I shall first Address my self to you whom your Countrey hath made choice of to serve in Parliament and have intrusted you with their Estates Liberties Priviledges Lives and Religion Oh! what an Ingagement lyes upon you to be faithful in your Trust and what a blurr have some in that relation brought upon themselves of late dayes that for private Interest have betrayed their Trust But Sir those that know you are free from these fears you may easily see what confidence they have in your Fathers Family when all his three Sons besides Sons in Law are chosen and Intrusted as also other Relations not only in this but in the last Parliament also Go on Sir therefore couragiously and the Lord will prosper you seek to set a stop to the deluge of Sin that is breaking in upon us or otherwise God will pour out a deluge of Judgments also God will stand by those that stand for him and though you may lose something for him you shall never lose by him 'T is your Duty to deny your self and private Interest when it comes in competition with Gods Cause and your Countreys good Put your shoulders to the work and if England be not reform'd you shall not lose your Reward Who knows but God will honour you now chosen with the Work at least you shall be honoured for the work The time was Jerusalem had been spared had there been one man to stand in the gap to execute Judgment and Justice in it Jer. 5.1 c. There is now an opportunity put into your hand a Talent to improve and God stands by to see how it is improved Numb 21.18 It is left upon recor● to the honour of the Rulers in Israel that the Princes digged the Well and the Noble● digged it with their staves These stave are imagined to be Ensigns of honour which here they employed to a publick good an● 't is a brand laid upon the Nobles of th● Tekoits Nehe. 3.5 That they laid not their Neck● to the work of the Lord and I wish none of our Nobles bear that reproach My desire is that you be not only blessed but a blessing in your Generation and though your pains be great and your cost not small yet remember whose the work is and who will be your Pay-master one who can make up all your losses and whose is all that you expend in this service and imitate herein your dear Father who was a publick spirited man and for works of Piety and Charity hath left such an Example that I despair ever to see the like done by any one in those parts of England he is now reciving his reward and I doubt not but he hath left a Blessing behind upon his Posterity which his Children and Childrens Children shall inherit to many Generations And to you Madam one word more and I have done Though you are a Branch of a Noble Family yet are you much more Ennobled by your second Birth yea more nobly Born than of Flesh and Blood for God is your Father Jerusalem which is above your Mother Christ your elder Brother yea the Glorified Saints your Brethren and Sisters so that you are more happy in your New Birth than eminent in the first A vertuous woman saith Solomon her price is above Rubyes The Children of Princes and Nobles are the Foundation-stones whereupon Kingdoms are founded Pro. 31.31 but had you not been polished by God himself you had never been one of those choice Stones that must beautifie the New Jerusalem My desire is that God will give you more Sons for those two which you have so freely lent to the Lord at least give you a Name better than that of Sons and Daughters When Death comes it must be Grace and not Titles of Honour that then will dignifie you and Humility and Self-denial which many think now unbeseeming 〈◊〉 Gentleman will be greater Ornaments that Jemms and Jewels lofty Titles and Coat● of Arms though these are not to be contemned yet the other are to be prefered Now if these poor Meditations conduce an● thing to the increasing of your Grace th● strengthning of your resolution to live in th● Lord and to the Lord and if he require it 〈◊〉 dye for the Lord I shall think my pains we bestowed and my time well spent And the it may be so is the desire and shall be th● Prayer of him who is and resolves to be SIR MADAM Yours to his Power to serve you Edward Bury Eaton Octob. 21. 1680. To the READER Reader WHoever thou art I here present thee with a bundle of my Thoughts when I apprehended my self standing upon the brink of Eternity What entertainment they will find with thee I know not or what thy present thoughts of Death are I cannot tell but had thy Soul stood in my Souls stead when I apprehended Death at the door if thy Eyes had been opened and thy Conscience awakened haply thy thoughts might have been like mine especially if thou believe there is a God a Devil a Heaven and a