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A09620	Phisicke for the soule verye necessarie to be vsed in the agonie of death, and in those extreme and moste perillous seasons, aswell for those, which are in good health, as those, which are endewed with bodily sicknesse. Translated out of Latine into Englishe, by H. Thorne.	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407. De patientia et de consumatione huius sæculi, de secundo advento. aut; Thorne, Henry, fl. 1567-1584.	1567 (1567)	STC 19893A.7; ESTC S106667	56,136	144

assension into heauen with his lyfe with his merites and with his glorie Wherfore sathan hath no power ouer thee at all he can not hurte thée Rom. 8. séeing that thou art iustified through Christ séeing that thou art deliuered from all thy sinnes séeing that thou art become the child of GOD. God is thy father earnestly louing thée for Chiist his sake which hath reconciled and made a tonement for thée Wherefore be thou of good courage and reioyce thou in the lorde For séeing that thou art in the hands of almightie God thy good and most faithfull father thou art in safetie and out of al daunger For thou art enclosed and compassed about with the custodie of God and garde of angelles Christ is altogither become thine he couereth and taketh awaye all thy sinnes Ioan. 10. by his innocencie and righteousnesse No man can by violence pluck thée out of the handes of thy heauenly father Thou hast now the victorie when thou hast suffered and passed ouer this corporall crosse affliction the which being truely compared with eternall lyfe shal appere very easie 2. Cor. 4. Heb. 6. Ephe. 1. momentanie but of a short time Christ was in the like agony yea in a farre more bitter more horrible He is gon before thée he is thine head to whom thou must néedes become lyke and die vnto sinne and must lay aside this lyfe spotted and embrued with wickednesse that thou mayest after lyue the true life for euer with thy mayster Christ Let not thy sinnes trouble thée There is no cause why thy cōscience should be tormēted séeing that thy sinnes are now done away and abolished Thou hast ouercome and hast cast vnder foote that malignant spirite which goeth about to worke the destruction of our soules God now hath compassion on thée he careth for thée he doth defende and kéepe thée all the felowship of saintes and aungels doe regarde thée And euen as Christ can not be damned so lykewise thou canst not be damned if so be that thou beleue on him with the full confidence of thine whole hart If sinne death and hell can nothing hurt thy lorde and mayster Christ neyther can they hurt thée for thou art mistically graffed into Christ by fayth and Christ is effectuall in thée therefore thou canst neuer be damned If so be that thou thy selfe shouldst beare thy sinnes and make a tonement for them thou wouldst by no meanes be able to susteine and beare so great and heauie a burthen they woulde bee farre to weightie for thée they woulde deuour thée as one drowned into the bottome of hell But Christ being perfite God and perfite man did offer himself vp of his owne accord for thée he did put himself in thy roume discharging paying all things for thee as it is written in the Psalme Psal 69. I payde them the things I neuer tooke Truely thou diddest commit sinne against thy selfe but Christ purged them and made satisfaction for thée and planted thée in libertie if so be that thou beléeue this Gospell Although al the sinnes of the whole world were layde vpon thée onely yet God hath grace and mercie sufficient for them more then sufficient God hath promised thée his grace and blessing in Christ and the same is ratified certeine full absolute and perfite in Christ thy lorde and mayster Thou must néedes be saued if so be that thou fastē thine eyes vpon Christ Hypostasis For Christ is the naturall sonne of God in diuine substance veritie it selfe and touching his humanitie he is our fleshe and blood Who will be more sure and certeine then this Christ to giue and perfourme the promise of grace which is himselfe the veritie of his promise and loueth vs vnfaynedly in somuch that he had léefer dye then to disappoint vs in any parte of his promise Wherefore if thou beleue in Christ thou art now made partaker of his heauenly blessing thou art now eased of the burthen of thy sinnes nowe thou art the eire of God and the fellowe eire with Christ for euer Math. 24. For heauen and earth shall passe but the worde of the lorde endureth for euer Therefore beléeue and strengthen thy minde with good hope and doubt not but GOD is chéefest and almightie yea euen for thée hee became man for thy saluation he was also borne for thy sake hée dyed on the crosse he rose from the deade for thy sake and ascended into heauen he offered vp and performed all things which were promised vnto vs. For all the promises of God 2. Cor. 1. by Christ are yea and are by him Amen Wherfore desire of God to haue his mercy and then looke for none other thing at his hand but méere grace and mercy and the same for Christ and through Christ For without him truely there is no consolatiō no health no hope no helpe or succour In this only Christ is all comfort all ayde and staye and to be bréefe all the meanes of our saluation In him is all grace and mercie much more infinite and greater more highe plentifull and abundant then anye man can either comprehend or wyshe for God vouchsafe to graunt vs a sure and constant fayth After this maner thou shalt comfort the sick body either with longer or shorter communication as the matter shall require And I admonish thée déere brother in the lorde that thou withdrawe thy minde with as great endeuor and studie as thou mayest from the horrible contemplation of sinne and death and bend all thy thoughts vpon Christ onely fasten the eyes of thy minde vpon him cleane vnto him with all thine hart and as it were drinke him into thée call vpon him with full trust of minde and commit thy selfe wholy vnto him For thou shalt finde none other thing in this Christ than excellent innocencie righteousnesse lyfe and saluation all the which being deryued from Christ into thée are now become thine if so be that thou wilt acknowledge him to be thy redéemer and authour of thy saluation Wherefore I warne thée doe oftentimes beate it into thée by repetition and that for good cause that thou renue not or call to minde the remembraunce of thy sinnes nor torment thy self by waying the multitude and greatnesse of them Whē thy sinnes are banished farre off from thée set Christ crucified onely before thine eies fasten him in thine hart let thy whole minde senses be surely set on him cleane fast vnto him with all thine heart neuer to be pulled away By this meanes thou shalt withstande and preuaile against the gates of hell be they neuer so cruell be they neuer so horrible and terrible Call to minde with how great humanitie and clemencie with what gentlenesse benignitie Christ in the Euangelicall historie Math. 9. hath receyued and vsed all sinners which truely repenting haue asked forgiuenesse and besought his ayde and mercy And thou shalt finde Marie of Magdalene Luc. 8. Luc.

bodye rise againe not corruptible bryckle fraile feeble as now it is but faire cleane beautifull strong of perfite force and immortall vnto euerlasting lyfe This is the way by thys corporall death vnto true and eternall lyfe into oure true countrey 1. Cor. 15. Flesh and blood cannot inherite the kingdome of God wherein is nothing but lyfe and therefore this mortalitie must put on immortalitie Esac 25. Oseae 13. Then shall the saying come to passe which is written Death is swalowed vp into the victorie they nowe whiche beléeue in Christ haue ouercome sinne death and hell They therefore contemning death being strong and bolde in Christ will say Hell where is thy victorie Sinne is the sting of death the lawe is the strength of sinne But prayse be vnto God which hath giuen vs the victorie through our lorde Iesus Christ We wyll adde also other sentences of scripture conteyning plentifull comfort 1. Cor. 4. HE that raysed vp the lorde Iesus Christ from death shall rayse vs vp also Phill. 3. Our conuersation is in heauen from whence we looke for a sauiour euen the lorde Iesus Christ which shall chaunge our vile bodies that they maye be fashioned like vnto his glorious bodye according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things vnto him Colos 3. Yée are dead and your lyfe is hidde with Christ in God When Christ which is our lyfe shall shewe himselfe then shall ye also appéere with him in glorie I woulde not brethren 1. Thes 4. haue you ignorant concerning them which are fallen a sléepe that ye sorrow not as other do which haue no hope For if we beléeue that Iesus Christ dyed and rose againe euen so they also which sléepe by Iesus will God bring againe with him And saint Paule doth comfort Tymothe his scholar in the articles of the resurrection by these wordes Remember sayeth he that Iesus Christ being of the séede of Dauid rose againe from death 2. Timo 3.2 according to my gospell If we are dead with Christ we shall also liue with him If we suffer with him we shall raigne with him Saint Paule sayeth that Christ Hebr. 2. by the grace of GOD should taste of death for all men And in the same place he sayeth also that Christ was made partaker of our flesh and blood that is to saye hée became perfite man that hée might put downe through death him that had lordship ouer death that is to wit the diuell and that he might delyuer them whosoeuer through feare of death were all there lyfe time in daunger of bondage God saued vs 2. Timo. 1. and called vs with an holy calling not according to our déedes but according to his owne purpose grace which grace was giuen vs through Christ before the world was but is now declared openly by the appéering of our sauior Iesu Christ which hath put away death hath brought lyfe and immortalitie to light 1. Ioan. 3. We know that we are translated from death vnto lyfe bicause we loue the brethren 1. Ioan. 4. In this appéered the loue of God to vs warde bicause that God sent his onely begotten sonne into the world that we might liue thorow him Iob. 19. I am sure that my redéemer lyueth and that I shall ryse out of the earth at the last day and that I shall be clothed againe with this skin and sée God in my fleshe yea I my selfe shall beholde him not with other but with the same eyes He that diligently doth meditate thinke vpon these testimonies of scripture cannot choose but take much comfort and great ioy therof Saint Paule may be a most euident example thereof vnto vs which hartily reioyseth in his owne behalfe that he knoweth Christ Phill. 3. and the power of his resurrectiō whereby our death is slaine Now therfore death is dead vnto all them which beléeue in Christ there is nothing now in death terrible which is to be dreaded and feared besides the onely ymage and shape thereof Euen as a serpent being kylled kéepeth notwithstanding that his olde and fearefull figure but hath no power in him to doe harme Num. 21. and euen as the lyue serpentes died when the brasen serpent was looked on which Moyses set vp in the wildernesse by the might of the power of God and the Iewes could not be infected with venome of the lyue serpentes Likewise also our death his dead and made harmlesse and nothing to be feared if we looke vpon and beholde the liuely death of Christ wyth the eyes of our fayth And to be short death is like the verie ymage and shadowe of death yea more rather she is the beginning and enteraunce into the true lyfe Christ which is the veritie it selfe sayeth Ioan. 24. Ioan. 8. If a man kéepe my wordes he shall neuer sée death How I pray you may this be I will showe you howe A man that trusteth in the mercie of Christ by the fayth which he hath taken out of the gospell is so incorporated as I may so terme it and so vnited and coupled vnto his lorde and mayster Christ which is the true lyfe Ioan. 14. that he may not be pulled or separated from him This body therefore is sundred and deuided from the soule in moste sure hope of the glorious resurrection vnto euerlasting lyfe For within short space the body shal be restored againe vnto the soule that they maye both enioy felicitie And he that thus beléeueth in Christ shall not sée eternall death of body and soule that is to witte perpetuall damnation which is the true death The death of godly men is a going forth into the company of the elect For the death of godlye men is a going forth and departing out of this mortall life into immortalitie vnto Christ vnto the angelles and vnto all the saints What is to bee done when hell or eternall damnation comming in our minds doth feare vs. THe malignant spirite maketh man verie solicitous pensiue about his predestination putting those cruell and horrible thoughts of predestination in hys mynde What if thou shouldest not please God What if he hath vtterly cast thée off How knowest thou that thou art one of the number of them whome God hath elected and chosen vnto euerlasting lyfe These and the lyke temptations are most bitter and doe most gréeuously torment and vexe the minde Wherefore thou must here stande fast on both féete as the prouerbe is and it is needefull that thou constantly defend thy selfe in this conflict But it thou wouldest obtaine the victory in this battell thou must set vpon him by this policie craft Forthwith as soone as these temptations come vnto thée from the Diuell beware thou enter not into disputation with him beware thou deale not with him neyther answere him againe But put him off from thée chased awaye with these wordes and cogitations Sathan get thée hence depart

righteousnes couer and hide mine vnrighteousnesse Let thy merites make me acceptable before the most high Iudge Increase thy grace in me as peril encreaseth least faith should wauer in mée least my hope shoulde stacker least my charitie should ware cold least humaine weakenesse should be ouercome by the terrour of death But after that death possesseth my bodilye eyes yet let not the eyes of my mind be turned away from thée And when death hath takē away the vse of my tongue yet let my hart instantly cry and say vnto thée Psal 3● Into thy hands I commend my spirite O lorde to whom be all honor and glorye worlde wtout end Amen ❧ A Sermon of pacience of the consummation of this world of the second comming of the lorde the euerlasting ioyes of the righteous the paines of the wicked and of other things written by saint Iohn Chrisostome patriarch at Constantinople Iohn Theophylus being the expositour thereof out of Gréeke into Latine and translated out of Latin● into Englishe by H. Thorne THe lyfe of godly men is verie notable and bright And by what meanes should it shine but through pacience Therefore imbrace pacience Pacience is the mother of Fortitude Psal 27. as the mother of Fortitude For the Psalmist giueth vs admonishment saying Tarry thou the lords leasure and kéepe his wayes And saint Paule to the ende thou shouldst possesse this vertue sayeth Rom. 5. Affliction worketh pacience which if thou exercise thou shalt finde hope the fountaine of all goodnesse For hope maketh not ashamed Be thou therefore subiect and obedient vnto the lord Psal 37. 1. Petr. 2. Iaco. 4. and pray vnto him thou shalt thereby find that thing which is not to be contemned that is to wit he will giue thée all thine harts desire Who is more happy than he which hath in possession the beneuolent eares of so mighty a king Who wisheth not to haue the iudges eares opē vnto him at his commaūdement 1. Cor. 3. Thou déerly beloued art the workman laborer of vertue Christ hath hyred thée into his vineyarde Math. 20. Gala. 6. Whiles thou hast yet time do good works Harken what sainct Paule sayeth Looke what a man soweth euen the same shall he reape Sow in the spirit and thou shalt reap eternal life Gala. 6. For he that soweth in his body reapeth corruption of his bodye And heare what another counsell giuer sayth Sowe righteousnesse for your selues and you shal gather the fruite of righteousnes Let it not lothe thée to take paines There is an hope of haruest and fruite time For where conflictes are there are rewardes Where there are contentions there are honours 1. Timo. 4 Where battell is there is a crowne also Haue thou a regard herevnto and arme thy selfe vnto pacience Let him alwayes sounde in thine eares which crieth with the sainctes Be of good courage that thine hart maye be comforted abide the lords leisure Psal 27. vse and exercise thy field This life is thy field take vnto thée a good toole I meane the old and the new instrument Hedge thy ferme with the brembles of doctrine prayer and fasting If thou haue such a hedge the beast I saye the diuell can not enter in Toile thy soule as a good vineyard And euen as the keepers of vineyards doe clap with their handes crie with their voice and with such like noises do kéepe off the wayt layers So cry thou out also with praiers sing with the melodye of psalmes and thou shalt put to flight that foxe and wicked beast as who sayth the diuell Of the which foxe the scripture maketh mention saying Take ye the foxes c. Cant. 5. Alwayes watch thyne enimy if he shoot at thine hart with vnlawfull concupiscence If he sling into thy soule filthye cogitations Ephe. 6. 1. Tessa 5. put foorth the shielde of faith turne about the helmet of hope take vp the sword of the spirit that is the worde of God And thou being thus armed shalt be able to defende thine enimy and sée that thou he not faint harted in the conflict 1. Petr. 5. 2. Cor. 2. but in al things be sober and wel aduised say thus with thy selfe We be not ignorant of his subtilties Phil. 4. Reioyce always as it is written Let your softnesse be knowen vnto all men Let the feare of God shine in thine hart that thou become not a fugitiue souldier that thou be not a fearful and sluggish labourer least thou happily léese thy crown This life is short But the sentence of gods iudgement is permanent endlesse Thou considering this mayest boldlye tell thine hart and saye with the holye prophet Be strong Psal 27. and tary thou the lords leysure and he shall comfort thine hart Follow Dauid his example 1. Reg. 17. and slea thine enimy by the casting of one stone The angels stād by thée beholding thy life 1. Cor. 4. For s Paule sayth We are become a gasing stocke vnto the worlde both vnto angels vnto men If they perceiue that thou hast the vpper hand they wil reioyce in thy well doing But if thou bée subdued they will sorowfully depart not being able to looke on thée in the contrary part the deuils wil scorne thée Therfore take vp the feare of God in the stead of a sword For the feare of God is like a two edged sworde cutting off all euill concupiscence desiers And also haue thou alwayes in minde the last day The last day when the heauens set on fire shal be dissolued For the burning elements shall melt The earth all that is thereon made Math. 24. Luc. 21. Ioel. 2. EZech. 32. Esay 13. Ioel. 3. Psal 97. 1. Tes 5. 2. Petr. 3. shal be brent when the starres shal fal down as leaues and the sunne and moone shall be darkned and shall not giue their light whē the sonne of God shall be séene and shall come downe from heauen vnto the earth and the powers of heauen shall be moued when the aungels shall runne hither and thither the sound of trumpets shall be hard fire shall burne before him and he wandring about shall purge all the world with fire and in his circuite there shal be a mighty tempest There shal be such earthquakes Psal 50. and lightnings as neuer shall be the lyke nor haue bene euen vnto this daye in so much that the very powers of heauen shall be taken with great trembling 2. Petr. 3. What maner of men deerely beloued in Christ then ought we to be at that time What feare and what horror will there then come on vs Thinke with thy selfe how the Israelites in the wildernesse were not able to abide the dimnesse and darknesse of the ayer and the voyce of God speaking out of the middle of the fire Exod. 20. but willed that he should no more speak vnto them for they were not able

to abyde him when he did hyde the greatest part of his maiestie althoughe he came downe not offended with them nor spake he vnto them wrathfully Therefore consider this if they were not able to abide his comming which comforted them when that neyther the burning heauens were dissolued neyther the earth and that is in it was burnte when that neyther they which sounde the Trumpet did blow as that trumpet shal be sounded which shall rayse vp al them that haue slept from the beginning of the world neyther any other of the terrible things to come did then happen how shall we do when he shal come downe with intollerable wrath The second cōming of the lord Psal 50. furye and shall sit vppon the throne of hys glory and shall call the earth Euen from the East vnto the Weast and from all the costes of the earth that he may discerne and knowe his people and giue to euery man according vnto his deserts what men alas behooueth vs to be when that we shal stand stripped and naked readie to bée brought foorth vnto the iudgemēt seat Where then shall that painted colour and the force and strength of the fleshe become then where shall that deceitfull and vnprofitable beautie the pleasantnesse of mans voyce impudent shamelesse babling become Where then is the trimming and decking vp with clothes and the delight pleasure of most foule and filthie sinne Where then are they which drinke wyne with pyping and singing and haue no regarde or respect vnto the workes of GOD where then is the contempt despising of them which nowe lyue without feare Then where is delicasie and nysitie For all those things shall passe away and shall be dissolued as the corrupt ayre Loke for this matter Sapi. 5. Where then is the gréedie desire of money and riches and vnmercifulnesse hir continuall companion Where then is pride which disdaineth all men thinketh hir selfe to be somewhat Where then is the vaine and vnprofitable glorie of man the great might tirannie Where then is the king the prince the capitaine Where then are the puffed vp magistrates contemning God in comparison of their owne riches When they shall perceyue that this saying must bée spoken of them They maruailed they are moued they are troubled feare is come vpon them Oscae 13. Iere. 50. Psal 48. 1. Cor. 1. there shall be sorowes as of a woman trauailing with child they shal be consumed with a vehemēt spirit Where then shal be come the wisedome of the wise with all there newe inuentions Wo bee vnto them They are moued they are troubled as a dronken man and all there wisedome is swalowed vp 1. Corin. 1. 2. Petr. 3. Where then is the worldly wise the scribe and the treasurer of this vaine world Way and consider déerely beloued what maner of men we ought to be when that we must yeelde an accompt of all that we haue ●●ne as well small as great things For vntill that we according to iust iudgement fully make satisfaction what shall our estate and condicion bée in that houre and how carefull shall we bée that we maye obtaine fauour in the sight of God Math. 25. And what ioy shall we haue which shall be placed on the right hande of God How then shall we féele our selues when that all the saintes of God shall gréete vs Abraham shall salute thée Isaac and Iacob Moyses Noe Iob Dauid and all the holy prophetes apostles and martirs and all good men which haue pleased God in the lyfe of there fleshe And how many shalt thou there heare whose lyfe thou shalt haue in admiration whome thou wouldest euen now wyllingly sée They will there come vnto thée reioysing at thy saluation After what sort shal we then be affected How inestimable shall that ioy bée when the gladsome king shall say vnto them which stand on his right hande Math. 25. Come ye blessed of my father take to your inheritance the kingdome which was prepared for you from the beginning of the worlde Then shalt thou receyue a most decent kingdome Sapi. 5. and crown of beautie at the lordes hand and after that shalt raigne with Christ Then shalt thou inherite al these eternall things 2. Timo. 4. which God hath ordained for them that loue him Then shalt thou euer afterward be without dread and heauinesse Ponder and consider what it is to raigne with Christ in heauen For as I haue tolde thée thou shalt receyue a diademe at the hande of the lorde and shalt euer after raigne with Christ Thinke with thy selfe what a thing it is to beholde the face of God for euer what a brightnesse hath it For then there shall be no sunne to giue the day light Esay 60. as Esay sayeth and the rising of the Moone shall not lighten the night Apoc. 21. Esay 64. 1. Cor. 2. But the lord God shall be thine eternall light and thy glorie Beholde what ioyes are layed vp in store for them the feare the lord and kéepe his commaundements The perdition of the wicked Consider againe also the perdition of sinners when they shall be brought foorth vnto the terrible iudgement seat of God with how great confusion then shall they be taken before the iust iudge hauing not one worde to aunswere how shall they be ashamed Psal 2. when the lorde shall speake vnto them in his wrath and vexe them in his sore displeasure Math. 25. saying depart from me ye wicked into eternall fyre which is prepared for the deuill and his Angels Alas what miserie and affliction shall there spirit suffer when that all men shall crie out aloude saying Let the sinners be turned into hell Psal 9. and all nations which forget God What time wil they howle out wayling and lamenting when they shall bée caried awaye that they maye be cruelly tormented world without ende what place alas is that where is wayling and gnashing of téeth called hell the which sathan himselfe abhorreth what is that Gehenna fyre vnquenchable Esay 66. Marc. 9. Math. 22. what is that worme venimous neuer ceasing howe greeuous are those vtwarde darkenesse alwayes continuing what are the ministers appointed for tormentes which lacking mercie and without compassion reprooue and punish Then they that are tormented will gréeuously crie vnto the lord Pro. 1. and he wil not héere them Then shall they vnderstand that all things which they had in this lyfe are vaine and transitorie Read for this Ecclesiastes and such things as they supposed here to be pleasant to be founde more bitter than gall and poyson Then where is the pleasure of the fleshe so termed falsely To feare God is true pleasure Psal 63. For there is none other pleasure but to feare the lorde This is the pleasure this replenisheth the soule as it were with marrow fatnesse Then shall they be in desperation of themselues and of the

† Sirach 6. If thou sée a wise man go thou vnto him early in the morning and let thy foote tread the path vnto his gate For this counsell is not only good for them that cannot reade but also for them that can For many there be which read and know not what they read Take héede therefore that thou doe not little regarde the * 2. Cor. 6. grace bestowed on thée by the frée gift of Christ but be thou carefull to séeke how thou mayest please the lorde that thou mayest procure and get vnto thée the blisfulnesse of his saintes For it is written Blessed are they Psal 119. which keepe his testimonies and seeke him with their whole hart See that the enimie let thée not that when thou wouldst read he make thée slouthfull and put other businesse in thy heade which shall pull thée awaye saying First finishe thou these small affaires and so shalt thou reade without trouble of minde For howe often sendeth he in those things that maye encourage thée vnto handie labour And he obiecteth such matters that he may the sooner withhold thée from reading being the greater profite For as much as the deuill perceyuing man to be disposed to reade setteth against him by these and other lyke occasions seeking if he may by any meanes possible let him yet co●●ent thou not vnto him but be euen as the Hart Psal 42. which thirsteth and desireth to come vnto the water springs that is to say vnto the holy scriptures that thou mayest drinke out of them such things as are méete and profitable for thée as for example When it is giuen thée to know any sentence let it not escape thée but pouder vpon it in thy minde write in thine hart and thou shalt kéepe it neuer able to bée rased out of thy memorie For it is written I will thinke vpon thy righteousnesse Psal 119. And againe I haue hidde thy words within my hart that I shoulde not sinne against thée And in an other place Wherewith shall a yong man clense his waye Euen by ruling himselfe after thy worde For who is he that is mindefull of the worde of the lorde and amendeth not his wayes Is not hée alwaies a reprobate a cast awaye caytife which remembereth nothing but rather forgetteth that which he once knew Truely God sayth vnto such an one Psal 50. Wherefore talkest thou of my righteousnesse and takest my testimony in thy mouth Whervpō he commaundeth that thing to be takē from him which he séemeth to haue Math. 25. And what was there commaunded to bée taken from him which he séemed to haue Faith For he calleth himselfe a christian Tit. 1. but denyeth it in his déedes and he is worse than an infidell And therefore he commaundeth the holy ghost to be taken from him which he receyued in the daye of his redemption and that he séemed to haue also And such a man shal become like vnto a wine vessell thorow the which the wine is spilte and lost they that sée him know it not supposing him to he full but when wine shoulde be drawen out of him then he appéereth vnto all men to be emptie Therefore euen so such a man shall appéere emptie in the daye of iudgement and his déedes shall be manifest vnto all the world And such are they which wil saye vnto the king in that day Math. 7. Lorde haue not we prophesied in thy name and haue done many great things in thy name And the king will answere and saye vnto them Verily I saye vnto you I knowe you not Thou seest déerely beloued that such a man hath nothing at all Be thou therfore mindfull of the worde of God and amende thy lyfe Beware thou suffer not the birdes to descende and deuoure the seede of the sonne of God For he himselfe saide that the séede is the worde which ye haue heard Math. 13. Therefore hide thou the séede in the sorowes of thy lande that is to wit hide the worde in the middell of thine hart that thou mayest bring forth some fruit vnto the lord in feare And when thou readest read diligently and boldly and handle eche lyne moderatly considering thereof Endeuor not to reade ouer many leaues but if any obscure sense happen vnto thée let it not gréeue thée to pervse the verse twice or thrice vntill thou vnderstande the meaning and force thereof Furthermore when thou preparest thy selfe to sit downe and read or to heare an other first praye vnto God saying thus Scripture is attenttyfely to be reade with prayer Psal 119. O lorde Iesu Christ open myne eyes and the eares of my hart that they may heare thy words and vnderstande them and may O lorde fulfill thy wyll hide not thy commaundements from me bicause I am a straunger on the earth but open and discouer mine eyes and I will consider the maruellous things of thy lawe For in thée Oh my God haue I trusted that thou shouldst lighten mine hart Also I beséeche thée so praye vnto God alwaies that he will illuminate thy minde and open vnto thée the effect and force of his worde For many haue erred Rom. 1. counted themselues wise they became fooles not vnderstanding what was written and falling into blasphemies haue therein perished Therfore if thou in reading finde any thing hard to be vnderstoode take héede the enimy teach thée not to say within thy selfe it is not so as this word expresseth for how should it be so and suche lyke But if thou beléeue God beléeue his word also and say vnto the enimie Come behinde me sathan For I know thée not The worde of God is a pure worde as tryed siluer clensed Psal 11. and purged from the earth seauen folde and in it is no peruerse matter other else haulting as the prouerbe is but all things therein séeme good in the wise mans sight and are righteous before them that finde knowledge and I truely am a foole and knowe not the scriptures but well vnderstande they are spiritually written For the apostle sayeth Rom. 7. that the lawe is spirituall Then looke vp towardes heauen saying these wordes Lorde I beleue thy worde and doe not gaine say it but I trust in the worde of thy holy spirite Preserue me therefore O lorde that I may finde fauour in thy sight For I séeke none other thing but only to be saued Oh mercifull father that I maye obtaine thy grace and fauour For thine is the kingdome and mercie for euer and euer Amen Peroratio I Beséeche you therefore brethren déerely beloued in the lorde that ye endeuour your selues to haue these things daylie in memorie I meane faith hope charitie and humilitie that they may be sealed vp by prayers vnto God and meditations of holy scriptures For if you haue those things and doe abound in them they will not leaue you emptie and barren touching the knowledge of Iesus Christ For the 〈◊〉 man which hath not those things but neglecteth his owne saluation is blind groping the waye with his hande 2. Petr. 1. forgetting that he is cleansed from his olde sinnes and it shall happen vnto him as it is sayde in the true prouerbe 2. Petr. 2. The dogge is returned againe vnto his domite and the washed swine vnto his dur●ie puddle They therefore 2. Petr. 2. that haue escaped the pollutions of the worlde as it is written and haue renounced them in there baptisme and are come vnto the knowledge of our lord Iesus Christ and are afterwards againe entangled with them there ende shall bée worse than there beginning For it had bene better for them not to haue knowne the waye of truth then when they haue knowne it to returne backe againe vnto the things which were forsaken Let vs therfore being the déere and faythfull seruauntes of God and his christian chosen souldiours diligentlye and earnestly take vp the foresaide armour in oure hartes and not haue them in minde by an outwarde showe that we battayling well and treading downe al the power of the enimie Ephe. 5. Collos 3. may be deliuered from the curse to come vpon the children of vnbeléefe and that we maye finde grace Hebr. 4. and mercie in that horrible daye before the iust iudge Rom. 1. which will rewarde euerie man according to his déedes to whome with the almightie father and the holy spirite belongeth honor and glory now and for euer world without ende Amen FINIS The Table PHisick for the soule verie necessarie to be vsed in the agony of death and in these extreme and most perillous seasons c. folio 1. Faith is chiefely necessarie for the sick to abide the paines of the bodye and the temptations wherwith he is pestered folio 3. The articles of our faith are diligently to be considered of the sick folio 5 Wherefore sicknesses are sent vnto vs from God folio 5 There be three things which torment vs most greeuously and cruelly and doe trouble oure mindes in the agonie of death that is to wit sinne death hell or damnation folio 8 ¶ A prayer for the same folio 8 What is to bee done when sinne doth vexe and stirre our consciences folio 9 The testimonies of scripture for the remission of sinnes through Christ must be diligently repeated vnto the sick c. folio 11 Whether the sick may lawfully seke the phisitions helpe and vse phisicke or no. folio 18 What is to be done when death bringeth terror and feare vpon vs. folio 18 The testimonies of scripture for the resurrection of the dead folio 20 We will adde also other sentences of scripture conteyning plentifull comfort folio 23 What is to be done when hell or eternall damnation cōming in our minds doth feare vs. folio 25 Of the making of a testament and confession of sinnes vnto God folio 34 Of the sacrament of the lords supper folio 35 The sorow which many take more then is requisite for the death of their parents and frendes ought to be tempered by the right rule of reason folio 37 A precept contayning an exhortation vnto al them which professe the name of Christ folio 39 Peroratio folio 40 A fourme and methode or right order to comfort the sick folio 41