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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05311	The sanctuarie of saluation, helmet of health, and mirrour of modestie and good maners wherein is contained an exhortation vnto the institution of Christian, vertuous, honest, and laudable life, very behoouefull, holsome and fruitfull both to highest and lowest degrees of men ... / written in Latin verie learnedly and elegantlie by Leuinus Lemnius of Zirizaa, physitian, and Englished by H.K. for the common commoditie and comfort of them which understand not the Latine tongue ...	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.; Kinder, Hugh.	1592 (1592)	STC 15454.5; ESTC S3877	132,793	266

onely giuen vs the vse and commodity of all thinges but also which farre exceedeth these benefites hath bestowed euen his onely beloued Sonne for the redemption of man that by the death resurrection of Christ man might obtain reconciliation and grace it is meet and decent and both equity and thankefulnesse for such a benefite bestowed on vs doth require that euery one of vs do put al our whole hope trust and confidence in him Our life must be approued vnto God and magnifie him with most high and excellent prayses and endeuour to approue our conuersation lead our liues acceptable before him please him with Faith not an idle and vaine Faith Faith is adorned with fruits but that which is susteyned declared enuironed and accompanied with the workes of charity and denying and forsaking vngodlinesse and reiecting carnal lusts and worldly desires consecrat our selues wholly vnto him and liue soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2. Looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Sauiour Iesus Christ who gaue himselfe for vs to redeeme vs from all iniquity and to purge vs a peculiar people vnto himselfe zealous and feruent follower of good workes For by framing our liues and ordering our conuersation after this manner and by the operation and consolation of the holy Spirite the Comforter giuen vnto vs and dwelling in vs Rom. 5. peace tranquility and sure safety shal be nourished and stablished in our hartes and consciences and dread feare of death being shaken off and driuen away Christ being our leader and guide our captain and forerunner we shall enter into immortality and the blessed and euerlasting mansions And indeede death is not the destruction of the body Death is the renewing of life but the renewing of it It is not the extinguishment or perishing of nature but it is the porche and doore of the other farre better life to come and the very gate and first entry vnto the heauenly Cittie and the entrance and way vnto euerlasting life Of the certainty whereof no man hath cause to doubt or mistrust the promises of God when as the trueth it selfe which is infallible and neuer falleth or deceiueth doth faithfully perfourme that which it hath promised God is true in his promises For God is true and euery man is a lyer that is God saileth no man deceiueth no man nor disappointeth any man of his hope and expectation Psal 62.116 He is no vaine promiser nor vnfaithful promis-keeper as men vse to be which dissolue leagues and alliance breake couenants and with a kind of old crafty subtilty winde themselues out of the bonds of their promises and slip from their word but he is constant stedfast sure and very faithfully performeth and accomplisheth that which he hath promised and which he hath vndertaken to bring to passe But euery man is a lyer that is to say deceitfull slippery light inconstant mutable doubtfull wauering variable The expositiō of these words man is a lyer fraudulent vaine crafty slie vnfaithfull and which speaketh one thing standing and another sitting so that no mā may safely trust him Which vices are very farre from the Maiesty of God yea so far as cannot be expressed because that no humane affections can bee inci●ent vnto him Therefore we must with most assured confidence trust leane and cleane vnto him specially and principally and direct refer all our praiers requests hope In daunger and distres we must flee to God and desires ●nto him onely whensoeuer either dangers or calamities are imminent or when death and our extreame conflict is euen at hand For by his fauour presence present helpe al things are mittigated and made mild easie and tollerable and al things are of sowre grieuous bitter made sweete delectable and pleasant By sure trust in him the feare of death is driue● away and al terror and trembling is abolished out of our harts For the loue of him wee contemne despise the fawning delights flattering pleasures of this life By the power and helpe of him wee endure and patiently suffer miseries dammages and inconueniences which compasse besiege and assaile vs euery moment With firmely stablished hope in him and constant expectation of immortality we● being supported and comforted doe willingly gladly and chearefully flit and depart from the prison of this life and short time of our abiding here and by Christ our guide and leader we are conducted and brought vnto those eternall and blessed dwelling places And with lesse griefe and greater ioy are wee separa●… from the society of the body and from the course and standing place of this life And our last conflict and wrastling with death in which for the most part mistrust and despaire assaileth the consciēce maketh vs to haue the lesse carefulnesse heauinesse and perplexity because we are sure 1. Tim. 2. that redēption grace i● obtained for vs by the merit of Christ The death of Christ washeth away our sinnes For the Mediator between God and man Iesus Christ hath reconciled vs vnto his father and with his bloud hath washed away our sinnes and by the power of his resurrection hath giuen 〈◊〉 righteousnesse 1. Ioh 2. For Christ was deliuered for our sinnes as Saint Paul sayeth Rom. 4. And was raised for the iustification of vs. The resurrection of Christ iustifieth vs. So that wee being confirmed and assured by the resurrection of Christ as by a sure pledge doe trust that wee shal be saued and raysed vp by his power For he as the Apostle testifieth Philip. 3. Wil transforme our vile body and make it of like fashion vnto his glorious body according to the mighty working whereby hee is able to subdue all thinges to himselfe For although according to the doctrine of Saint Paul 2. Cor 4. 5. This our earthly mansion of this tabernacle must be destroyed euen as a ruinous house which is dissolued when the ioints and ●enons are loosed and the framing together of the ●afters is plucked asunder yet that building which we haue of God is not made with handes but eternall in heauen For God which hath raised up the Lord Iesus shall raise vs vppe also by him and shall make vs partakers of the common resurrection Which most certaine hope bringeth this to passe that we being lesse depriued naked or destitute doe suffer our selues to be withdrawen and remoued from hence FINIS A Table of all the Chapters conteined in this exhortation 1 WE must chiefely fasten our eyes vpon God through Christ and lift vp our minde vnto him pag. 1 2 How great benefites God the Creatour of ●ll things hath bestowed vpon man p. 2 3 Nothing more deare in the sight of God then man and that all thinges are created for the vse of man p. 4 4 How great the thankefulnes of man towards God ought to be p. ●