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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45276	A Christian legacy consisting of two parts: I. A preparation for death. II. A consolation against death. By Edward Hyde, Dr. of Divinity, and late rector resident of Brightwell in Berks.	Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3863; ESTC R216954	160,798	388

him to break off without making the Inference but our own consciences will thus make it up for him for if God spared not the Angels that sinned much less will he spare men the more ignoble creatures that would not repent them of their sins and if he cast the Angels down from heaven into hell then surely he will not admit wicked men from hell into heaven and if he delivered the Angels into chains of darkness to be reserved unto Judgement then much more will he deliver those wicked men whom he hath brought to Judgement to be cast into that daarkness where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth For there was before an inner darkness in their sin and it is but just there should be an outer darkness in their punishment They that before would not see the light then shall not see it for though they shall dwell in everlasting burnings yet shall they have such fire as shall only afford Heat to scorch them not Light to comfort them For then shall the fire that is prepared for the Execution of Gods Judgements upon sinners be divided by the Word of the Lord saith Saint Basil All the light that is in it shall be for the comfort of the Saints that is shall return back to heaven again from whence it came down as was said before but all the Heat that is in it shall be for the torment of the sinners So that in heaven shall be all the Light and none of the Heat in hell shall be all the Heat and none of the Light Saint Basil in his Sermon upon the Judgement to come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There will Pashur that injuriously smote Jeremiah the Prophet not be Pashur noble and excellent but Magor-missabib fear round about Jer. 20. 3 4. Est enim Pashur idem quod excrescens Princeps vel scindens seu aperiens locum Magor vero Pavor saith Zegedine Then shall those who now only make way for their own Greatness only give way to their own Fears They that now think they have not room enough to live shall then think they have too much room to Die This is so certain a truth that it is set down by way of History as if it were already done not of Prophesie as if it were to do Rev. 6. 15 16. And the Kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men the chief Captains the mighty men and every bond-man every free-man hid themselves in the Dens and in the Rocks of the Mountains and said to the Mountains and Rocks Fall on us and hide us from the Face of him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb For the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand We may answer They who now are most likely to fall for it is evident that they who now are a terrour unto others shall then be a terrour to themselves the great men the mighty men that now engross all will then think they have too much for they will wish the Rocks and the Mountains to fall on them and think that weight nothing to the burden of their sins They will desire to be hid from the face of him in whose presence is the fulness of joy and from the wrath of that Lamb which alone delivereth from the wrath of God They will be afraid to see their Redeemer how much more to see their Judge They will not know how to look upon him as a Lamb such as he is in himself much less will they know how to look upon him as a Lyon such as their sins have made him They will be terrified at the thought of their neglected Deliverance and much more at the voice of their denounced Damnation But I dare not proceed further in these terrours for fear they should prove greater then the greatest of our comforts as we are able to receive them though not so great as the least of our sins as we have despitefully committed them For it is not proper to bring a soul laden with sin to a servile but to a godly sorrow not to a sorrow that worketh fear to confusion but that worketh repentance to salvation A sorrow that is not without hope as well as not without fear and hath hopes as far greater then its fears as it hath fears lesser then its sins For a sorrow that is without hope is but the beginning of Hell-torments And it is not safe bringing our souls too near hell-gate for fear the Devil should lay fast hold of us when we are there and pluck us quite in Nay indeed it is not necessary for we are bound to believe that our blessed Saviour Descended into he●… that he might keep us from Descending thither All our labour then must be to enquire which is the best way to prevent these terrours that they may not seize upon our souls and if they have seized us which is the readiest way to expell them SECT II. The best way to prevent the terrours of the Day of Judgement THE best way to prevent these terrours is to practise what we have been taught to pray even to lead a godly a righteous and a sober life A godly life according to Gods Eternal Order the Order of Religion a Righteous life according to mans external Order the Order of Government and a sober life according to our own internal Order the Order of Reason But because some will the less regard this or any other sound Divinity if it be taught them by the Church thereby shewing themselves in one and the same act no less unthankful to Gods mercy which gave them a Church to teach them the true way of godliness then undutiful to Gods Authority that they will not be taught it is necessary to shew how God taught it the Church before the Church taught it us for so saith Saint Paul Tit. 2. 11 12. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly and righteously and godly or religiously in this present world denying ungodliness and worldly lusts Not Gods Ordinances Gods Sacraments Gods Authority not the undoubted exercise of godliness making all these by our denyals to be thought ungodliness Such a denyal as this must needs be Antichristian and will justifie Hyppolitus his gloss who in the Greek word of denying ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath according to its numeral letters found out the number of the Beast 666. We cannot deny the exercise of godliness as if it were ungodliness Heavenly practises as if they were earthly and worldly lusts but our denyal will help make up the number of the Beast If we will needs be denying let us deny our selves for that denyal will make us live soberly and righteously and religiously in this present world soberly in regard of our selves by subduing our Affections to Reason righteously in regard of our Brethren by subduing our

I would make supplication to my Judge And what is the supplication that I would make unto him Even that which his own holy Spirit hath taught me to make and will cause him to hear That he will not be extream to mark what is done amiss Psal. 130. 2. Lord hear the voice of my supplications for what even for this that thou shouldst not mark iniquities as it follows If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand But there is forgiveness with thee that thou maist be feared This is the favourable proceeding by which I hope to be acquitted for why hast thou taught me to believe the forgiveness of sins unless I may attain what I do believe And if I may attain forgiveness of my sins here how shall I be condemned or punished for them hereafter since that is no forgiveness which either holds guilty to condemn or holds as guilty to punish and torment I do then believè that God will proceed in Judging me not according to the Law which requires an absolute obedience without sin but according to the Gospel which admits of Repentance for the forgiveness of sins Thus hath the Doctor of the Gentiles long since determined Rom. 2. 16. In the day when God shall Judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel Not according to the Law which will condemn all that have been guilty of any sin but according to the Gospel which will condemn none but the unbelieving and impenitent sinners For the Gospel pronounceth sentence of Absolution to all that Believe So Mark 16. 16. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned Where damnation is denounced not for breaking the Law but for rejecting the Gospel And again John 3. 16. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life The words speak four such truths as the Angels desire to look into and men can never enough look upon yet four Miracles rather then Truths 1. That God who was provoked to inflict Death should offer Life and that Everlasting Life 2. That he should offer it to the world which had so provoked him 3. That he should offer it by sending his only begotten Son away from himself into the world 4. That he should so send this Son as to give him giving his only Son the Son of his love to give life to those that hated him and more deserved his hatred That whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Since then I know that I believe why should I fear that I shall perish Why should I think that I shall not have this everlasting life which the Father hath promised the Son hath purchased and the Holy-Spirit hath sealed for I can say with a thankful heart and a chearful voice In Te Domine speravi ne confundar in aeternum Psal. 71. 1. In thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousness I pray not to be delivered in mine own righteousness but in thine Deliver me in thy Righteousness O God the Father of heaven for thou hast promised deliverance Deliver me in thy Righteousness O God the Son Redeemer of the world for thou hast purchased deliverance Deliver me in thy Righteousness O God the Holy-Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son for thou hast sealed both the Promise and the purchase of deliverance Deliver me in thy Righteousness O Holy Blessed and Glorious Trinity three Persons and one God for I trust on thy Promise on thy Purchase on thy Seal for deliverance For with thee is the Fountain of life in thy light shall we see light Psal. 36. 9. My soul desires nothing but Life and Light for as a Spirit she was made for Life as an Intellectual or Rational spirit she was made for Light And she must go to God for both She must go to him for Life for with thee is the Fountain of Life and she must go to him for Light for in thy Light shall we see Light And the Life is before the Light even as Living is before Seeing The soul cannot work before she sees and she cannot see before she lives so that Life is in truth given before the work and cannot possibly be given for it And will you know who gives both Life and Light Saint John will tell you John 1. 4. In him was Life and the Life was the Light of men Life and Light both proceed from the Eternal Son of God and Life before Light I had Life in him before I had Light from him He purchased the Life before he gave the Light and therefore sure he hath not given the Light to take away the Life I know it is said That we must all appear before the Judgement-seat of Christ that every one may bear the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad 2 Cor. 5. 10. And I confess I have done very bad things in my body but since my Saviour hath already born them for me must I still fear to bear them for my self Christ is called The Mediator of the New-Testament Heb. 9. 15. It is not said The Mediator of the New-Covenant as in other places but of the New-Testament for a Covenant doth wholly depend upon mutual conditions which if either partie fail the Covenant is broken and made of none effect But a Testament is a thing meerly of Grace and Liberality without any condition and so may be fulfilled meerly out of the goodness of the Testator And this goodness is the support and comfort of my soul I am afraid of the Covenant and I flie to the Testament even to that Testament by which I am made a child an heir even an heir of God and joint heir with Christ Rom. 8. 17. Wherefore I cannot but hope that he will Judge to me the Inheritance which he hath already given me by his own Will and Testament For I look for him to appear the second time without sin unto salvation Heb. 9. 28. not only without sin in himself for he never had any but also without sin in me and all his members from whom he hath taken away all For the death of Christ is doubly beneficial to all true Believers First in respect of his Priest-hood that he hath expiated their sin Secondly in respect of his Testament That he hath given them an Inheritance I dare not deny the first the benefit of his Priest-hood for he is the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world And why should I doubt the second the benefit of his Testament since he did therefore take away the sin that he might give the Inheritance I confess that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6. 9. whether Fornicators or Idolaters or Adulterers or Thieves or