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A08812	Meditations of death wherein a Christian is taught how to remember and prepare for his latter end: by the late able & faithfull minister of the Gospel, Iohn Paget.	Paget, John, d. 1640.; Paget, Robert.	1639 (1639)	STC 19099; ESTC S113906	110,470	273

of Christian life we are taught every day continually to remēber this our latter end All dueties both of doing good through faith hope and love or of suffering evill for doing good through patience are so many memorials thereof The end of faith is the salvation of our soules which it beleeveth 1. Pet. 1.9 the object of hope is life eternall which it embraceth Tit. 1.2 3.7 2.13 the comfort of love is translation from death unto life whereof it assureth us 1. Ioh. 3.14.18.19 the reward of patience is rest in the kingdome of heaven and an eternall weight of glory which it looketh for Matth. 5 10-12 2. Cor. 4.17 And thus the comfort of this blessed end is ever carried in the eye of faith in the armes of hope in the bosome of love borne as it were upon the shoulders of patience And as all that is done by mē being well considered should bring this latter end to their remembrāce so all the works of speciall grace that are wrought by God for his children before this world in this world or after this world if we looke upō them with a right eye they doe every one carry in them a remembrance of this glorious end provoke us to thinke thereof We cannot be assured of our election but we see it as a booke of life wherein we reade our happy end Phil. 4.3 and behold the kingdome prepared for us before the foundation of the world Mat. 25.34 We cannot rightly thinke of our calling unles we behold that marvellous light glory where unto we are called 1. Pet. 2.9 5.10 2. Pet. 1.3 We doe not conceive sufficiently the cōfort of our justificatiō by faith ūles eye on this end and for the joy that was set before him endured the crosse and finished his course the work committed unto him Heb. 12.2 Oh let us not breake the band that drew on Christ himselfe Oh forgive us Lord that we have bene so profane carnall to forget this end so often from henceforth keep it in our mindes fix it in our memories that it never slip away CHAP. VI. The latter end of the faithfull compared vvith the primitive estate of the old vvorld Of the communion which man had with God being created after his likenesse a The image of God in the soule though perfectly beautifull excellent b yet inferiour to the image of Christ in the faithfull the perfection perpetuity thereof in the world to come c The body at first though naked yet without shame pain erect upright in all the senses fitted for communion with God d but hereafter endued with more noble heavenly qualities spirituall transparent light agile ever vigilant in feeing communicating with God e The dominion over the creatures given at first illustrated by the remnants thereof yet apparent f not to be compared with that which shall be in regard of heaven earth all that is therein Of their mutuall fellowship with one another g Marriage the first band of society ground of all other to that end instituted honoured of God for their mutual comfort h yet nothing like the glorious bands of communion with Saints Angels in heaven i What blessed communion Adam Evah might have had with their posterity living to this day if neither had sinned k In a right line descendent viewing the long race of their progeny with great joy to themselves l and no lesse happines to their childrē who though living at greatest distance might then with ease abundance of comfort have visited them and communicated with them m In the collaterall line extended on each side to brethren sisters all rejoycing in one another in their loving easy pleasant visitations n Yet all this comes short of the heavenly communion in the world to come the love of Christ the manifold rivolets of sweet fellowship the free glorious motions in the kingdome of heaven THat we may the better comprehend that happy communion wherewith the latter end of the faythfull shall be glorifyed let us somewhile leave our speech of the world to come as also of this present world and let us looke back into the world that is gone past let us behold the glory that is lost that by the greatnes thereof first considered in it selfe then compared with this to come the glory hereof may more evidently appeare That we may the better observe the difference we are to set ourselves as it were in a middle gate betwixt two worlds the old and the new where we may have an open and free prospect into them both and from thence we are to cast a look first into the old world then into the new with one eye to behold the first paradise in Eden and with another the second paradise in the third heavens with one look to view the first Adam his gifts his children and with an other look to behold the second Adam Christ Iesus his gifts his children and so to compare the glory of their estates together In such a middle gate or tower of prospect into these two worlds the Prophets Apostles did often set themselves when they compared them together as appeareth in those texts Old things are past away behold all things are become new 2. Cor. 5.17 Behold I create new heavens a new earth and the former shall not be remembred nor come into my minde Esa 65.17 The first man Adam vvas made a living soule the last Adam vvas made a quickening spirit 1. Cor. 15.45 so v. 49. c. a The glory of the old world in the primitive estate thereof consisted also in a blessed fellowship with God and fellowship with men This blessed fellowship of God with man appeared first in that he communicated his image and similitude with man the beauty of which image shined especially in that wisedome holines righteousnes which God imprinted in the soule Gen. 1.26.27 with Eph. 4.24 Coll. 3.10 Eccl. 7.29 By that wisedome he knew God saw his glory by that holines he did cleave unto him embrace him with love reverence confidence and so in both communicated with God At the bestowing of this image each Person in the holy Trinity did work together each gave precious excellent gifts unto man for the beautifying of his soule with variety of graces such as might make him a lovely creature in whom the Lord himselfe might take delight Rev. 4.10.11 with Ioh. 1.3 Coll. 1.16 Iob 33.4 and therefore is the Trinity described consulting about this work Let us make man in our image after our likenes all are noted with the title of creatours or makers Eccl. 12.1 boreêcha Iob. 35.10 ghnosai As upon the losse of this image when Adam begate a sonne in his owne likenes Gen. 5.3 all hatefull ugly deformity of sin succeeded every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was onely evill continually Gen. 6.5 so

MEDITATIONS OF DEATH Wherein A Christian is taught How to Remember And Prepare for his latter end By the late able faithfull Minister of the Gospel IOHN PAGET To the most Illustrious most Excellent Lady ELIZABETH Queene of Bohemia Countesse Palatine of the Rhine c. MOst Gracious Princesse Albeit to many there is not a more unpleasing sight and unwelcome message then that vvhich puts upon the thoughts of Death yet your Majesty hath not so learned Christ in those large lessons which by Divine Providence have been dispensed to teach affect with vvhat may be helpfull to Mortification These Meditations of my deare husband of blessed memory I have much longed to see clad in such wise as might be most serviceable that I my selfe might heare him being dead yet speake unto me comfortable words to solace my soule in his absence and to prepare me for the joyes into which he is entred before me My desires herein being accomplished I make bold to present the same in the first place to your Majesties view use and Patronage The gentle propitious respects your Majesty hath at sundry times manifested unto the Author sometimes also to my selfe give encouragement to presume that this testimony of thankfull acknowledgment devoted affection though but a widowes mite shall obtaine your Highnesses gracious acceptance The Most High who ruleth in the kingdomes of men giveth them to whomsoever he will He rayse establish your throne confirme it unto your Princely Progeny that with His blessing the house of your Majesty may be blessed for ever These are the unfained and earnest suites of The meanest of your Majesties humble attendants at the throne of grace BRIGET PAGET The Publisher to the Reader I Shall doe no more Christian Reader then is usually exspected if in the entrance unto the ensuing Meditations I give some briefe advertisement touching the Author the setting forth of this his Treatise which is here offered unto thee Concerning the Author it may be expedient for thee to know somewhat of his life who teacheth thee to consider thine owne end Doubtles he had learned to live well and his good course of life may be also exemplary for studious imitation that could so well teach the art of dying To say nothing of his younger but towardly dayes giving great content and comfort to his pious parents friends to say nothing neither of his extraordinary piety progresse in good learning not onely in the Grammar-schooles but also in the Vniversity of Cambridge where he was esteemed for the most part to surpasse his contemporanies that which I will onely touch upon shal be how he approoved himselfe while he was imployed in the Lords Vineyard into which he was timely sent After some few yeares spent in places of lesse note yet so as the learnedest godliest Preachers thereabout tooke notice of him embraced him with much love true affection he was called to the ministery of the Church of Christ at Namptwich a famous towne in Cheshire about the yeare 1598. The extraordinary diligence paines he tooke there both in publick private with persons of all sorts and the blessed successe hath bene already witnessed by the lively Epistles of Christ ministred by him and shall more evidently appeare as a crowne of rejoycing unto him in the presence of our Lord Iesus Christ at his comming But when the times would not beare his continuance in that place where his labours were so profitable where he was then so beloved since that time so earnestly desired againe and longed after he followed the hand of Gods providence guiding him into the Netherlands in the yeare 1605 The two first yeares he attended the Armie ministring the word of grace unto the Regiments of our nation and tooke such paines in catechising the souldiers as well as preaching unto them that their benefit and his comfort therein became greater then is ordinarily found in such places Then the English living at Amsterdam conformably unto the Dutch Reformed Church in the same city whereof divers of them stood members requesting him according to order to performe the office of a Pastour unto them he hearkened unto that call of God and was his chief instrument for the constituting setling of that Church wherein he did the worke of a faithfull shepheard above thirty yeares untill age the infirmities thereof growing upon him the Magistrates of that city vouchsafed him the honour of an Emeritus the favour that is wont to be given unto souldiers from their Prince in whose service they have spent the strength of their dayes But shortly after the Lord of the harvest that had made him his labourer in that Vineyard crowned him with speciall blessings upon his endeavours in the course of his pastorall performances having prepared him by the message of a lingring and languishing distemper sometimes intermixed with grievous fits of the colick gravell and ever accompanied with rheumes and catarrhes unto which he had bene long subject did by the fiery chariot of a double tertiā transport him unto the place of rest where he enjoyes the crowne of righteousnes layd up for them that have fought a good fight finished their course kept the faith Among other graces and vertuous courses adorning the hearts lives of Christians these two did most eminently shine in this faithfull servant of Christ the one respecting his converse with God the other his communion with the Saints The first was his exceeding delight in the Law of the Lord apparent not onely in his ordinary practise of those dueties whereby the same is usually manifested but more especially first by his committing unto memory divers select portions of H. Scripture as most of the Psalmes sundry of the Epistles in the original languages wherein he tooke such pleasing paines that sometimes in the night season also when he had any spare time from his naturall rest he would imploy it this way secondly by his practise of that course which he doth more thē once commend in the ensuing Treatise in singling out sundry of the choycest passages in the word of God reducing them to their severall heads having them ever about him most constantly feeding upō the comforts thereof The second sort of Christian dueties wherein he excelled was that which is noted to be the summe of the second Table his love charity unto the fellow-members of Christ The largenes of his dispensing to others in this kinde proportionably to his estate will not easily be matched I spare to mention the particulars whereof the places of his abode and the bowels of the poore Saints by him refreshed he withall drawing out his heart unto them as lovingly as men are wont to doe unto their familiars are lively witnesses His ordinary discourse seasoned with grace alwayes profitable pleasing in special manner did affect the hearers insisting much upon these two themes first the wonderfull