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A13996 A discourse of death, bodily, ghostly, and eternall nor vnfit for souldiers warring, seamen sayling, strangers trauelling, women bearing, nor any other liuing that thinkes of dying. By Thomas Tuke. Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657. 1613 (1613) STC 24307; ESTC S100586 74,466 126

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damnation only Take heede therefore and deale plainly with thy selfe I know many men thinke well of themselues and would count themselues much iniured if they should bee censured as euill members which yet how they will auoide I cannot see This is my reason they are notorious and ordinarie prophaners of the Lords day euen those houres that are destinated to the publique worship of GOD euen those very houres are mispent vsually in eating and drinking in buying and sclling and gaming This is a mortall sinne stat against the Law of God and his Church and is commonly practised of manie how is it possible for these Sinners to haue any true comfort How can they be saued Vndoubtedly so continuing they are in the state of death and not in the state of grace For hee that oheyes sinne is the Seruant of sinne is not borne of God doth not serue God And there is no way to scape but by true repentance which consists in Auersion from sinne and in Conuersion vnto God these are the two celestiall Poles or Hinges whereon repentance turneth I name this one sinne but there are others as drunkennesse whoredome and such like which beare sway with many and if they looke not to it will sway and weigh them downe into the pit of Hell It behoues vs all therefore to looke vnto our selues Death and the Iudgement are the things most certaine but when or how or where our death shall happen that we know not If wee should bee taken away in our sinnes all the world could not saue vs but if we repent vnfeignedly then happie are wee death cannot come amisse wee may embrace it kisse it welcome it wee loose the earth but wee find Heauen wee goe forth of the wildernesse into Canaan out of the Region of death into the Land of the liuing the euer-liuing wee goe from Sinners to Saints from Men to Angels to God with him to liue in immortall glorie and in glorious immortalitie in that Kingdome wherein all shall be Kings and of which there shall neuer be an end vnto the which God for his mercie bring vs through Iesus Christ vnto whom with their Holy Spirit be all honour praise and glory this day and euermore Amen Hauing finisht our discourse of Corporall or temporarie death it remaineth that we say something of Spirituall and Eternall deatb Spirituall death is either of the wicked or of the godly The spirituall death of the wicked is a certaine spirituall separation of them from spirituall and Christian grace and goodnesse when as they lie dead without all godly feeling in sinnes and trespasses their hearts being alienated from God and true godlinesse This is a most miserable kind of death for they that are thus dead are the Seruants of sinne the Vassals of Satan the Children of wrath out of the state of grace and in the Region and shadow of death liable to damnation which to escape they can haue no hope while they continue in that estate The spirituall death of the godly is threefold The first is whereby they are dead to sinne This death stands in the disallowing and condemning sinne in the iudgement in the nilling and refusing it in the will in the hatred of it and grieuing for it in the affections and finally in the declining and forsaking it in the life and conuersation This death is the separation of the soule from the approbation loue and embracing of wickednesse It is of God through Christ and with much comfort and contentment For hee that dies to sinne shall neuer die fot sinne he that dies to sinne doth liue to God and whosoeuer liues vnto God in this world shall liue for euer with GOD in the world to come To die to sinne is to liue a Saint and precious in the sight of the Lord is both the life and the death of his Saints They be like the Moūtaine that was not to bee toucht They that touch you sayth the Lord touch the apple of mine eye and wee know that the apple of the eye is very tender The second Spirituall death of the Godly is whereby they are dead to the Law and this is because the Law doth not condemne them that are in Christ Iesus who by iustifying vs through his righteousnesse doth deliuer vs from the curse of the Law and rids the conscience of those terrours which the Law might cause by sinne vnpardoned The third death Spirituall of the Godly is whereby the world is crucifyed or dead to them and they dead vnto the world The World is dead to them when as they dote not on the world but contemne all worldly things and account them as nothing in comparison of Christ Iesus and his benefits This death is very needfull for he that liues to the World liues not vnto GOD and hee liues to the World to whom the World is not dead but who doteth on the World shall perish with the World hee that liues not to God in this life shall not liue with God in the life to come Godly men are said to bee dead to the World when the World coutemnes them hates them persecutes them and wisheth as it were to be rid of them This kind of death is the ordinarie portion of the Godly For they being not of the World but of God whom the World knowes not and being but as Forrainers and Strangers it is no maruell if the World frowne on them and shew her selfe an vnkinde Step-mother towardes them it is no wonder though wicked Worldlings beat them bite them barke at them and flie at their throats for thus Dogges vse to deale with Strangers which they know not And thus much wee haue seene what death is in respect of the World to wit the Separation and abalienation of our hearts from the World or of the World from vs and so much also for Spirituall death The third kind of death is called Eternall death or the second death which is the Separation of the soule from God or the euerlasting punishment of the whole man consisting of soule and bodie from the comfortable presence of GOD in hell fire The Prouider and Inflicter of this death is God who is a most iust Iudge Whose very soule doth hate the wicked and him that loues iniquitie Tophet which indeed is Hell is prepared of old Hee hath made it deepe and large the burning thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lord like a Riuer of brimstone doth kindle it By which we see that Hel-fire is prepared and kindled by the Lord. Now God doth not ordaine and inflict death for it selfe as if he did delight in death and destroying but it is for the clearing of his iustice for if wicked men should neuer be punished they would imagine either GOD is not or that he is not iust But all the world shall