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The life and death of Monsieur Claude, the famous minister of Charenton in France done out of French by G.P.; Abrégé de la vie de Mr. Claude. English
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Ladevèze, Abel-Rodolphe de.; G. P.
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his discourse to the meanest understandings In France he liv'd belov'd by his Friends esteem'd by his Adversaries and his name which has past with so much lustre into foreign Countries has there gain'd the admiration of those very people who did not love his Religion and ever will be had in veneration in the Church These Characters are to be seen in the works he has given us and if his Son will farther enrich the publick as is hop'd with other Writings that have not yet seen the light they will furnish us with new strokes to render the portraict of this great man the more accomplisht For to have an Heroick Idea of him we must study him and his works Remember them which have the oversight of you which have declared unto you the word of God whose faith follow considering what hath been the end of their Conversation Hebrews Chapter the 13th Verse the 7th FINIS Books Printed for Thomas Dring at the corner of Chancery-lane in Fleetstreet AN impartial Collection of the great affairs of State from the beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the year 1639. to the Murther of King Charles I. wherein the first occasion and the whole Series of the late Troubles in England Scotland and Ireland are faithfully represented Taken from authentick Records and Methodically digested by John Nalson L. L. D. in 2 Vol. Fol. Systema Agriculturae or the Mystery of Husbandry discovered treating of the several new and most advantageous ways of Tilling Planting Sowing Manuring Ordering Improving of all sorts of Gardens Orchards Meadows Pastures Corn-lands Woods and Copices as also of Fruits Corn Grain Pulse New-heys Cattle Fowl Beasts Bees Silkworms Fish c. with an account of the several Instruments and Engines used in this Profession to which is added Kalendarium rusticum or the Husbandman's monthly Directions also the Prognosticks of Dearth Scarcity Plenty Sickness Heat Cold Frost Snow Winds Rain Hail Thunder c. and Dictionarium Rusticum or the Interpretation of Rustick Terms the whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble Practise The Fourth Edition carefully corrected and amended by J. W. Gent. Folio Almahide or the Captive Queen an excellent new Romance never before in English The whole work written in French by the accurate Pen of Monsieur de Scudeus Governour of Nostre Dame. Done into English by J. Philips Gent. The History of the Holy War being an exact account of the Expeditions of the Kings of England and France and several other of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land wherein are largely represented the great Actions Battles Seiges difficult Marches honourable Retreats admirable Strategems regular Conducts and brave Performances of the Christian Armies in all the said Expeditions Done into English by Dr. Nalson Folio The Doctrine of the Jesuites delivered in a plain sincere discourse to the French King concerning the re-establishment of the Jesuites in his Dominions Written in French by a Learned Roman-Catholick and now translated into English quarto A Collection of the Church Histories of Palestine from the Birth of Christ to the beginning of the Empire of Diocletian By J. M. B. D. quarto Mr. Claude's Answer to Monsieur de Meaux's Book intitled A Conference with Mr. Claude with his Letter to a Friend wherein he answers a Discourse of M. de Condom now Bishop of Meaux concerning the Church in quarto The second Part of M. Claude's Answer to Monsieur de Meaux's Book intitled a Conference with Mr. Claude being an Answer to Monsieur Meaux's References in quarto The whole duty of a Christian containing all things necessary both as to what he is to know and doe for obtaining a happy Eternity to which is added more particularly directions how to prepare for a comfortable Death in Twelves An infallible way to Contentment in the midst of publick or personal Calamities together with the Christian's courage and incouragement against evil tidings and the fear of Death The devout Communicant exemplified in his behaviour before at and after the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Practically suited to all the Parts of that solemn Ordinance * p. 432. * p. 1668. * p. 1671. * p. 109. * p. 163.
this fear is more or less according to mens tempers Some are much more timorous than others To some the circumstances that attend death are much more terrible than death it self Some fear diseases and pain more than death Some are loth to die for fear of their Posterity Friends Relations to whom they are usefull and for whom they are mightily concerned Some are unwilling to go out of the world because they are in a capacity of doing more good in it which was the case of St. Paul. On the other hand some are willing to die onely through weariness of life out of peevishness discontent and impatience because they are dissatisfied with their present condition or cannot bear those afflictions which God's Providence hath exercised them withall which cannot be reckoned any vertue unless in them who in their sober minds and thoughts can willingly submit to death whenever it pleases God to call them to it And yet such upon a sudden fright or surprise when their lives are unawares brought into danger may not be able to conquer their fear but may shew a great disquiet They may earnestly desire to tarry a little longer that they may be yet fitter for death that they may search and try themselves yet more exactly and curiously that they may be farther satisfied with the sincerity and honesty of their hearts and intentions Many more instances I might give But now that which our Saviour frees us from is a troublesome tormenting fear of death which thing alone disturbs us and fills us with confusion and perplexity of spirit when ever we chance to think of it As when we are unreasonably jealous and suspicious of what Trials God's ordinary Providence may put us upon when we are unmeasurably solicitous about the preserving our health or securing our selves from danger when we are concern'd as if we had no hope and are as unwilling to submit to the stroke of death as a sullen Malefactour is to go to execution Now such a fear of death is worse than death it self I now proceed to shew how Religion does free men from this troublesome and anxious fear of death And the 1. Means our Religion affords us to deliver us from this fear is the consideration of God's wise and gratious Providence over us Not an hair of our heads shall fall to the ground without his leave Our lives are in his hands who hitherto hath taken care of us and whatever he calls us to is with the highest reason and the most excellent ends and can we wish any thing better to our selves than this would be to be under the protection of the Almighty Would we live longer than infinite Wisedom sees fit for us Can we doubt of his care who is goodness it self Would we have the disposal of our own selves Alas how soon should we repent us of our choice and run into all the several casualties and dismal dangers that can fall upon us If we had nothing to depend on or trust unto but our own counsels prudence or carefulness we might then have just reason to distrust every man and to expect death in every place we could not be too scrupulous or solicitous Could I in the least doubt of God's Providence over us then indeed I should neither eat nor sleep safely nor live one day in quiet I should not be able to doe any thing without anxiety and disturbance if I once could persuade my self that all the effects that happen were wholly casual and not governed by an infinite understanding that superintends all affairs and disposes of them as he sees good Nor is there any thing that can well settle mens minds in the midst of so many secret and open dangers as we are every minute liable unto in any tolerable patience rest quiet and assurance but this one consideration that nothing can befall us without the leave and ordering of the best and wisest of Beings Indeed the Turkish opinion of Fate which hath strangely prevail'd among Christians ought in reason to satisfie them against the greatest dangers that the number of the days of every man living is so determin'd by an unalterable decree that it is impossible he should die before or out live the time appointed him by God before all the world This made the Followers of Mahomet who so studiously taught this Doctrine to despise death and danger not to fear it when they were in the extremest hazard of it freely to visit their Neighbours when sick of the Plague which we dare not do to one another in any ordinary disease or to run upon their Enemies swords or Cannons For what can be strange with those that are neither concern'd to prolong their lives nor to avoid death But this is no part of the Christian Faith. We are told indeed the days of our years are Threescore years and Ten and if by reason of strength they be Fourscore years yet is their strength labour and sorrow for it is soon cut off and we fly away Behold saith David Thou hast made my days as an hands breadth And Job tells us a man's days are determined the number of his months are with God he hath appointed his bounds that he cannot pass and in another place that all men have their appointed time All which signifies no more than this that God in the general hath set bounds to a man's life beyond which he will not ordinarily extend it he hath set the term of our lives beyond which we shall not ordinarily extend them which is about Threescore and Ten years notwithstanding which some die much sooner and some few live longer But the Scripture no where teacheth us that the length of a man's life is so fixed by God that he shall not die before such a time nor live at all beyond it Nay the contrary is plainly intimated to us In all those places of Scripture where long life is promised for the reward of obedience in any particular duty which must imply if it signifie any thing that we shall live longer than otherwise we should have done Thus Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy days may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Now this promise can never reasonably oblige any man to the performance of duty to his Parents if it be absolutely determined how long he shall live Thus in the 23. Exod. And ye shall serve the Lord your God and he shall bless thy bread and thy water and take away sickness from thee the number of thy days will he fulfill Not that he promiseth that if they were obedient to his Laws they should live out the full age of men and that he would preserve them from sickness and distempers No for this were to no purpose and they could expect no otherwise if they harkened not unto or disobeyed God's words So farther in the 4. Deut. God promises not any should live out their days but that they should live longer than otherwise