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A17419	The light of faith: and, way of holinesse Shewing what to belieue, and for what to striue together, earnestly contend, and suffer for in this contending age. And how to liue in all estates, conditions, and degrees of relation, according to this faith. In both, deliuering (as neere as might be, in the life of Scripture phrase:) only things necessary, as we meane to be saued, and auoiding vtterly things arbitrary, that distract, rather then direct a Christian. Collected out of holy Scripture by an vnworthy labourer in Gods vineyard, Richard Bifield pastor in Long-Ditton, in Surrey.	Byfield, Richard, 1598?-1664.	1630 (1630)	STC 4239; ESTC S107158	133,233	536

him doe not indure to spend thy time without God in the world this is done 1 By remembring him in thy waies and setting him euer before thine eyes walking before him as Abraham with him as Henoch and Noah did Gen. 17. 1. 2 By vsing thy selfe to soliloquies and meditations and to this end beseeching the Lord to open thine eyes that thou mightst see his glory in his word and works that thence thou mightst extract matter of frequent meditation 3 By seeking after him in the meanes wherein hee vseth to reueale himselfe familiarly vnto men for we know but in part and wee haue the promise that then we shall know if we follow on to know the Lord now these meanes are two 1. Gods Ordinances Hos 6. 3. 2. Houshold 1 Ioh. 1. 3. Hitherto of the knowledge of God the worship of God followes §. VI. Of the worship of God THe worship of God is either 2 To worship him inward or outward the inward is the life and soule of the outward the acts whereof no tyrannicall force can hinder no du●geon can intercept it is that whereby we come nearest vnto God and which is most acceptable to him who is a spirit That thou maist know how to set vp this worship of the true God in thy heart and spirit these rules direct 1 Thou must with full purpose of heart cleaue vnto the Lord placing all the affections of thy soule vpon him Act. 11. 23. Iosh 23. 8. and f●llow hard after God Psal 63. 8. by the helpe of these feet of thy soule 1 By beleeuing in him receiuing euery part of his word so as to feele the power of it in thine heart of the Commandements to incite thee of the threats to t●rrifie and humble thee of the promises to comfort thee the promises both of heauenly and of earthly things no comming to God but by this beleeuing Heb. 11. 6. 2 Chro. 20. 20. 2 By affiance and trust in God resting on him and making him our portion shewed 1 In committing our selues and our waies to him at all times Psal 37. 5. 10. 14. And in distresse 2 In rowling our cares and burdens on him Psal 55. 22. 3 In relying vpon his aide not Trusting to our owne hearts Pro. 3. 5. Hasting to ill meanes Esa 28. 16. Fretting at the prosperity of the wicked Psal 37. 1. But marke if thou wouldest haue God take the care of thee commit the keeping of thy soule to him in wel-doing and then is not hee the faithfull Creator 1 Pet. 4. 1● 3 By hope in God which is a patient looking for the performance of good things to come which God hath promised and faith beleeued expr●ssed in a quiet and constant waiting vpon God encouraging the heart in him Lam. 3. 26. Psal 27. 14. Hos 12. 6. and then doe our soules waite when denying our selues wee resigne vp our selues keepe silence to him abide his leisure expect his saluation and the waies of escape which he shall offer without limiting tempting presuming or staying in second causes 4 By the loue of God aboue all testified in honouring him Mal. 1. 6. Longing after his presence both in his ordinances Ps 42. 1. glory to come 2 Cor. 5. 8 5 By delight in God Psal 37. 4. which hath in it 1 A sweetnesse in the meditation of his mercies and prouidence Psal 104. 34. 2 A ioyfull entertainement of all passages of his loue especially in the vse of his ordinances Cant. 1. 2. As being the very kisses of his mouth whose loue is better then wine 3 A spirituall replenishing and satiating arising from the sense of his loue and allowance in which the heart of the Christian resteth when all others disallow As a childe thinkes it enough if the father commends him cares not then for others dislike or cheeke Psal 63 5. 4 The extolling and commending of his praises and mighty acts by discourse and by singing of Psalmes Psal 105. 1. 2 5 A glorying in him 1 Cor. 1. 31. The height of this grace when the soule can climbe so high aboue all inferiour things and delights as to make her boast in the Lord all the day Psal 34. 1. 2. 6 By the feare of God which Timor Cu●t●s Culpae is two-fold 1 the feare reuerentiall whereby wee beare awfull regard to his name Deut. 28. 58. his iudgements and iustice Psal 90. 11. his goodnesse Hos 3. 5. his word Esa 66. 2. his mighty and meruailous acts Reu. 15. 3. 4. Ier. 5. 22. his maiesty in all his worship Psal 5 7. 2 the feare to offend Pro. 8. 13. 7 By humbling our soules Gen. 32. 1● continually in his sight Mic. 6 8. as lesse then the least of all his mercie● and all the truth he sheweth to vs. 8 By powring out our hearts before him on all occasions Psal 62. 8. In prayers praises Confessions and complaints Psal 142 2. 9 By obeying him the soule euer yeelded vp to submissiue obedience to what he shall command 2 Thou must abhorre all Idols as being the images of iealousie Ezek. 8 5. and the abomination of Desolation oh neuer set them vp in head or heart 3 The affections of thy soule must bee placed on him onely and on no creature any otherwise then as thou se●st God in it and by it mayst be brought to cleaue to him the more be it father or mother brother or sister wife or childe 4 The affections of thy soule Deut. 6. 4. 5. must bee set on him in the full and vtmost vigor and force of them Thou must loue him with all thine heart with all thy soule with all thy might §. VII Of the seruice of God in generall HIth●rto of the inward worship 3 To serue him of God or how thou maist aright worship him for the inward affections of thy heart The outward worship may bee called the seruice of God and it is charged vpon thee in Deut. 10. 20. and in Mat. 4. 10. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serue Now God is serued with thy person and goods first with thy person and for direction herein the Lord in his word hath laid downe certaine rules some generall which guide thee in all his seruice some speciall these pertaine to the seuerall parts of his seruice or to a special time of With our persons his seruice The generall are rules of Preparation Execution 1 For preparation the approach Where rules of preparation in all seruice to Gods holinesse needs particular addresses our hearts are naturally auerse from holy duties and require a speciall fitting and preparing when wee come to the ordinances of God Which is done when before all seruice of God whatsoeuer 1 Wee commune with our owne hearts and cast out the loue of all sinne washing our hands in innocency and preseruing our vprightnesse Psal 26. 6. 24. 4. 66. 18. Otherwise our solemne meetings our prayers all we doe

the place where thou liuest reckoning vpon their dislike onely as worth the auoiding and not caring to runne vpon that which ministreth apparent and iust cause of distrust of thy good and louing affections to others for hee that loueth not all the Saints loueth no Saint a right neither is it here said se● thou loue this or that brotherhood which thou hast made by associating thy selfe with them but loue the brotherhood which God hath made by giuing these testimonies to the world that they are borne of him else in auoiding a rent from some thou maiest make a rent from many To these the duty charged vpon vs is loue Ephes 5. 2. Walke in loue the speciall commandement giuen by our Sauiour and the cognisance whereby his Disciples should be knowne Ioh. 13. 34. 35. Loue noteth the affections of the heart and the office of loue in the life 1 The affection of loue which we owe to the godly is a speciall degree of affectionate kindenesse tendernesse of hart framed in vs by the holy Ghost through the Gospell whereby wee receiue them as Christ receiued vs and respect them as our brethren in him partakers of the same grace of God and heires of the same inheritance of heauen the grace of life eternall prouided for vs knowing that there is but one body one spirit one faith one hope of our calling one Baptisme one Lord t●at redeemed them all one God who is the Father of them all who also is aboue all and through all and in them all Ephes 4. 4. 5. 6. Rom. 12 10. Ioh. 13. 34. And thus this loue of the brethren differeth from the loue of men we spake of before Neither is it enough that I loue them because they are men and as men but because they are Christians begotten of the Father and as Christians that are new borne The loue of men the law commandeth wils it be squared by this patterne as I loue my selfe the loue of the brethren the Gospell onely and wils it bee squared by a more excellent patterne as Christ hath loued vs As the law reuealeth not Christ the Mediator so neither doth it command the loue of the brotherhood who are gathered out of the word by Christ In this regard therefore our Sauiour saith A new commandement giue I vnto you Ioh. 13. 34. And to this loue of the brethren in our conuersion were our soules purified and still doth the Christian purifie his soule in obeying the truth through the spirit 1 Pet. 1. 22. 2 The offices of brotherly loue are these 1 To make choice of them as the onely companions of our liues associa●ing our selues to their communion and fellowship Psal 16. 2. 3. All our delight should bee in them that kingly Prophet saith I am a companion of all them that feare thee and of them that keepe thy precepts Psal 119. 63. 2 To vse hospitality one to another without grudging 1 Pe● 4. 9. H●b 13. 1. 2. and to be harbourers forget not this office of loue for hereby some haue receiued Angels into their houses vnawares Abraham and Lot as we reade pursued hospitality 3 To employ our gifts for their good as being members of the same body and therefore ought to haue the same care one of another All gifts are spirituall or corporall spirituall as knowledge vtterance and the like all giuen to profit withall 1 Cor. 12. 7. They must helpe others by what they haue learned when they meet together Pro 15 7. 1 Cor. 14 26 Col. 3. 16. By prayer bee they present or absent 2 Cor. 1. 11. and by admonitions prouoking to loue and to good workes Heb. 10. 24. corporall are riches friends authority all to be vsed chiefly for the good of the Saints Gal. 6. 10. Phil. 2. 4. 2 Cor. 8. 19. Rom. 12. 13. 4 To striue together for the faith of the Gospell defending with one heart the cause and quarrell of religion Phil. 1. 27. Like vowed souldiers vnder that one Generall the Lord Iesus 5 To beare one anothers burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ Gal. 6. 2. Their burdens are either infirmities temptations griefes for wrongs done vs or afflictions of infirmities our loue should couer them 1 Pet. 4. 8. and wee should shew our readinesse to lay their sorrowes to heart and to comfort them not by saying sinne is no sinne or calling euill good or soothing them in security but by directing them rightly to apply the consolations of God in Scripture If temptations wee should with all ten ●ernesse of heart aduise counsell and comfort If griefe for wrongs done to vs that we let them see how easily we can forgiue them and forbeare the least shew of reuenge as also Christ hath forgiuen vs Col. 3. 12 If outward afflictions that wee mourne with them that mourne and bee ready to helpe them to the vttermost of our power for we owe our liues to the brethren 1 Ioh. 3. 16. 17. 6 To confesse our faults one to another in case of dammage done to our brother yea be it wee haue not trespassed yet to open the sores of our dispositions and discreetly to tell our frailties failings and corruption of nature which as it easeth our owne hearts so it increaseth affections preuenteth loathing of vs for our infirmities and gaineth leaue with freedome to reproue them when they see wee are ready to condemne our selues Iam. 5. 16. These duties are of much intimatenesse and therefore the soule had need to be purified to this loue that it may be vnfeigned out of a pure heart and feruent 1 Pet. 1. 22. And that it may in the affections and the expression of these offices of loue continue without interruption wee must watch against these things chiefely 1 The forsaking of their fellowship Heb. 10. 25. 2 Iudging and censuring about hid things as the secrets of their hearts 2 Cor. 4 5. and things indifferent Rom. 14. 10. 3 Grudging murmuring and complaining Iam. 5. 9. Phil. 2. 14. 4 Enuy at their gifts and respects Gal. 5. 26. 5 Respect of persons Iam. 2. 1. 2. 6 Vaine-glory and conceitednesse Phil 2. 4. 5. Gal. 5 vlt. 7 Schismes rents and diuisions and running into opinions 1 Cor. 1. 10. Phil. 2. 1. 2. 1 Cor. 12. 25. 8 Inconstancy Heb. 13 1. 9 Worldlinesse looking only at our owne things 1 Cor. 13. 5. 10 Dissimulation 1 Ioh. 3. 18. 11 Vntrustinesse and vnfaithfulnesse 3 Ioh. 5. 12 Suits in law 1 Cor. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 13 Mixing our selues with a brother or brethren that proue lewd wee should restraine our familiarity and reproue them that they might be ashamed and amend yet count them as brethren not as enemies 1 Cor. 5. 11. 2 Thes 3. Rom. 14. 13. 14. 14 Scandale to lay a stumbling blocke in our brothers way Mat. 18 6. 7. All scandale is thy sinne when it is g●u●n by thee that is when thou art the cause of the hurt that comes by thy action as well as the

in this holy manner to doe the Lords worke come on and tread the pathes of the highest those euen and pleasant waies which lead to the assurance of eternall happinesse For the worke of righteousnesse is peace and the effect therof Esa 32. 17. quietnesse and assurance for euer The particular and expresse precepts of holy conuersation respect thy behauiour towards God other men thy selfe Thy duty to God is to know Thy duty to God him to worship him aright both for the inward affections of thy heart and for thy outward service 1 The knowledge of God 1 To know him desired more then burnt offerings is that which must be in some good measure found in all the true worshippers of him and that such a knowledge as natures light since the fall reacheth not vnto it being rather a sparkle whereby wee discerne that there is a God then any flaming light Rom. 1. 20. 21. that is able either to direct vs how aright to conceiue of him or to warme our hearts by liuely impressions that by the same we might be brought to glorifie him as God and not proue vnthankefull worshipping the creature in stead of the Creator Ier. 24. 7. 1 Ioh. 5. 20. who is blessed for euer Scripture then doth teach this knowledge and God by them doth giue an heart as Ieremie speaketh an vnderstanding as S. Iohn saith To know him that is true and to know him that we might worship him And concerning this grace it is required in the Scripture as euer we meane to know God that not alone wee know but also follow on to know the Lord Hos 6. 3. The precepts thereof must direct in both 1 The Rules for the guiding of our vnderstandings to know and conceiue of God aright are these 1 That we know him by no likenesse nor resemble him to any thing in the world hee is a spirit the inuisible God to whom then wilt thou compare him or to whom shall he be like God forbids images in Churches houses and thy head too Commandement 2. Deut. 4. 12. 15. 2 How shall we doe then to conceiue of him whom no man euer saw nor can see of whom none may thinke by resembling him to any thing hee doth see the Lord himselfe hath shewen the way ca●ie glorious and able to prepare our hearts vnto him in any seruice wherein we would approach neere vnto him a way by which hee made himselfe knowne to Moses Exod 34. 6. 7. by his glorious titles and attributes the excellenci●s and praises of him that is I am the Almighty which is which was which is to come Therefore in prayer and all other his worship in all thy meditations fasten thy thoughts vpon him as the Lord God Gracious Mercifull long-suffering that pardoneth iniquitie transgression and sinne that will by no meanes cleare the wicked the most Holy Alsufficient eternall onely wise God with the like which shall lift vp thy heart vnto him through the glory that shines in them By this meanes maist thou haue him in thy minde through the whole day In the creatures thou beholdest inasmuch as these praises may be read plainely in that great booke If thou wilt take the benefit of this direction an helpe non contemnendum not to be despised there are three waies to gather these glories of the highest out of the booke of the creature 1 By way of denia●l remouing from God in our conceiuing of him what euer argueth weakenesse or wickednesse in the creature as to know him to bee the God that cannot lye that cannot dye but is immortall that cannot repent or deny himselfe 2 By way of eminency ascribing what is good in the creature to the Creator by an excellency as see wee knowledge in men and he that teacheth men knowledge shall not he know is wisedome in men and is not hee most wise are there any drops of mercy truth or holinesse in the creature the Ocean is in him or rather he is the Ocean Doth the creature liue with him is the well of life 3 By way of causing all things so by the fabricke of this world we know him to be the Creator by wonders therein we vnderstand his eternall power and God-head by gifts bestowed on the creatures his bounty and goodnesse by their order his wisedome the God of order by their continuance in the same estate to this day his vnwearied prouidence 3 Yet all this is not suffici●nt wee must know him to bee that one God who is three the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost and know God the Father as the Father of Iesus Christ his Sonne and as our Father in him by the holy Ghost The first of these namely to hold the doctrine of the Trinity distinguisheth Christians from Iewes Paynims Turkes Arrians Antitrinitarians The second which the Apostles cals the knowledge 2 Cor. 4. 6. of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ his Sonne distinguisheth true Christians from all Hereticall Papisticall and formall Christians which is called sauing knowledge by Diuines and is eternall life in the beginnings of it Ioh. 17. 3. Which hath a power to transforme the 2 Cor. 3. 18 Col 3. 10. whole man into Gods image and change him from glory to glory It is a chiefe part of Gods image in vs at which time the vaile of ignorance is said to be rent And this is when by the Gospell wee hauing first seene our misery by the law and how vile we are by sinne we vnderstand the loue of the Father set vpon vs before euer there was a world choosing vs to life and predestinating vs to the Adoption of children by Iesus Christ whom hee gaue to vs and made him to bee to vs wisedome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption and also the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ the Sonne in taking on him our nature and dying for vs to reconcile vs to God and rising againe to make vs righteous and the fellowship of the holy Ghost who vniteth vs to the Father and the Sonne and sanctifieth and preserueth in the estate of grace When I say wee know with perswasion of heart the loue of God in Christ pardoning our sinnes and receiuing vs for his sonnes and daughters so that by the spirit of the Son sent into our hearts we call him Abba Father then know we him effectually And thus must thou conceiue of him and thus conceiuing approach to him when thou worshipest him Eph. 2. 18. In Christ wee haue saith Paul accesse vnto the Father by one spir●t For this wee should pray on ●he bended kne●s of our soules euery day that God would enlarge our hearts to comprehend with all Saints what is the height depth length and breadth and to know the loue of God which passeth knowledge that we may be filled with all the fulnesse of God Ephes 3. 17. 18. 19. 2 After thou canst thus conceiue of him then follow on to know the Lord acquaint thy selfe with

baptisme as it is a vow and promise on our parts and a dedication of our soules and bodies there to the worship and seruice of that one God who is the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost renouncing all others now let this vow and profession of thine teach thee 1 To abandon all impenitency and vnbeliefe lest thou become a Couenant-breaker with God one that makest void the death of Christ one that crucifiest him afresh one that sinnest against the spirit of grace that grieuest that holy spirit disgracest the family Gospel and name of God and depriuest thy selfe of that saluation set forth by the Father wrought by the Sonne applyed by the holy Ghost assured by all three to thee in thy baptisme haddest thou looked to the condition and not put a barre to such surpassing mercy 2 To fight against the flesh the diuel and the world thereby remembring whose thou art and vnder whom thou warrest 3 To acknowledge the communion of Saints and know that thou art by baptisme bound to preserue brotherly loue with them as with the members of the body as with sonnes of the same father and seruants of the same lord 1 Cor. 12. 13. Ephes 4. 3 4. 5. No diuisions should ar●se 1 Cor. 1. 13. All names of sectes should be abolished wee should deuote our selues to no mans rule were we baptized into the name of Paul Whose seruants soeuer wee are wee are Christes freemen and whose freemen soeuer we are Christs seruants 4 To worship him in vnity and vnity in Trinity drawing neere to the Father in the Son by the holy Ghost giuing the distinct glory to each person the Father that elected and loued the Sonne that redeemed the holy Ghost that sanctified vs. The forme of baptisme requireth this §. XI The fourth Prayer THis rightly performed is Of prayer the soule of the soule because it causeth it to liue in God the exercise of all the graces of the spirit at once as faith hope loue feare to offend vprightnes of heart delight in God and the like the Christians armou● the incense acceptable to God the very key of heauen In this seruice of the liuing God these speciall rules must be heeded 1 Thou must pray with thy vnderstanding that it may not be sayd to thee thou knowest not what thou askest It is the prime thing to be looked vnto that thy vnderstanding bee not vnfruitfull for it is not the tumbling ouer a few wordes without regard of the sense in them and knowledge of the thing prayed for that is of any moment but the powring out of the soule in those wordes which alone giues being to our prayers 1 Sam. 1. 15. Psa 142. 2. Lift vp thy heart with thy handes Lam. 3. 41. 2 Pray with pure heart and hands 1 Tim. 2. 8. The purity of the heart giueth purity to the hands both are pure in prayer when they are lifted vp 1 Without double mindednesse hypocrisie or guile of spirit the soule not lifted vp to vanity Psal 24. 4. nor the heart set vpon the loue of any sinne purifie your hearts ye double minded and then draw nigh to God and hee will draw nigh to you Iam. 4. 8. But if thou wert Dauid himself to whom God gaue his sure mercies if thou regard iniquity in thine heart the Lord will not heare thy prayer Psal 66. 18. 2 Without wrath for if wee forgiue not neither will our Father in heauen forgiue vs Mat. 6. 14. 15. 3 Without doubting Iam. 1. 5. Aske and wauer not 3 Pray with feeling and feruency 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how preuailing is the prayer of a righteous man it is as an arrow shot home to the marke Iam. 5. 16. A speeding prayer a labouring and working prayer 4 Pray in the Holy Ghost Iude 20. Set thy delight on the Almighty so cannot any hypocrite Iob 27. 10. and cry Abba Father by the spirit of adoption Gal. 4. 5. with childelike affections and confidence 5 Pray at all times pray in prosperity in aduersity pray euery day pray and restraine not prayer before God why shouldest thou cast off his feare continuing instant Col. 4. 2. Iob 27. 10. The rather since our Lord saith that this faith he shall scarce finde when he comes to iudgement Phil. 4. 7. Luk ●8 8. in no thing be careful but in all things tell to the Lord thy requests 6 Pray onely in the name of Christ Ioh. 14. 13. and in Ioh. 16. 23. 24. We are not onely commanded to aske in his name but chidden for our slownesse to aske seeing we haue the Sonne of God our spokesman 7 Pray all manner of prayer complaints confessions supplication petition thanksgiuings and remember alwayes giuing of thankes in all thy requests Phil. 4. 7. 1 Tim. 2. 1. 8 Pray for all sorts of men especially for all in Authority 1 Tim. 2. 1. 9 Auoide vaine repetitions God is in heauen thou art in earth therefore let thy words bee few Mat 6. 7. Eccles 5. 2. Onely see they be the true voyce of the heart and they are not long if thy desire and feeling giue them life and they are long though neuer so short if this be wanting beware of length in prayer to be seene of men approue thy selfe to thy father that seeth in secret I close vp these directions with the saying of Ambrose in his booke D● Cain et Abel lib. 2. c. 6. Si tanquam pubescens adol●scat fides qua defectum se●escentis devotionis ableget spiritu f●r●eat congrua distinction● teneatur ●ensura legitimae diuisionis assiduitas commendet gratiam tunc fit illud pingue tanquam adipale precationis genus de qu● dicit scriptura impinguasti in oleo caput meum Sicut n●agni multo lacte pinguescunt sicut oues benè pastae adipe ●●ent ita Apostolico succo past● fidelium pingu●scit oratio horum si desit aliquid qua suprà diximus sacrificium non probatur If faith grow vigorous as comming to ripe age so that it banish the defect of withering deuotion waxe hot in spirit and the measure of a lawfull division be held by a congruous distinction and assidiuity commend the grace of it then that wel-liking and as it were fatty kind of praying is made of which the Scripture saith thou hast annointed mine head with oyle For like as the Lambes grow fat with much milke and as sheepe well-fed shine with fatnesse euen so batteneth the prayer of beleeuers fedd with Apostolike iuice If ought of these forespoken bewanting the sacrifice is not allowed §. XII The fifth feasting or solemne Offeasting Thankesgiuing THis duety is performed aright if wee follow these three essentiall directions 1 Our feasting must be with praise to God vpon the recording of some fauor and benefit or deliuerance reioycing in the worke that he hath done considering the workes of his hands Psa 119. 24. 2 It must be with liberality to to the poore that their

auth●r of the action and this is when thou teachest or approouest euill doctrine whether hereticall or superstitious when thou committest grosse sinne as did Dauid and when thou abusest thy Christian liberty 1 Cor. 8. 12. and it is abused when in things indifferent left free by the Magistra●e thou vsest thy liberty and the weake are wounded and offended But if the command of the Magistrate be vpon it thou must obey though a brother be o●fended Sin may not be done to please any 1 Pet. 2. 13. §. XXV Our carriage to the Godly in som● particuler case of falling weaknesse or strength THe former rules that concerne Our duty to the brethren in cases of falling weakenesse o● strength the affection and offices of brotherly loue belong to the brethren in euery estate there remaine such directions to bee deliuered as respect our carriage towards them as set in some certaine condition as if they bee weake or strong or fallen into some offences We take the last first and for our help in so hard a taske we find our text in the Epistle of Iude verse 22. 23. of rare vse wherein the Christian is admonished that hee is set in the Church for an helpe a Phisician and an Instrumentall Sauiour of his brother if hee see him ouertaken with any fault and that hee is indowed with gifts and graces for the edification of those with whom he conuerseth and because there is required in euery one that vndertaketh so great a worke some competent skill and good affection for if ignorance to distingnish of patience and medicines and wre●chlesnesse be vnfit for a Physician to the body much more to the soule the words doe fully direct vnto the rules of cure And of so●s haue compassion and others saue with feare plucking them out of the fire The maner of vsing them Putting a difference Hating euen the garments spotted with the flesh The maner of vsing these rules of cure concerne the Christian that would recouer his brother fallen or support him in falling where he is directed How to begin the cure he must put a difference How to be disposed in the whole he must hate the garments spotted with the flesh 1 First then thou must learne to put a difference it is Christian wisedome to distinguish between sinne and sinne offender and offender For as all patients are not alike diseased so all transgressors doe not alike offend is thy brother fallen into any sinne thou art bound to put forth thy hand to saue him but first consider aright the nature of his fall obserue then that Christians offend either in opinion or in parctice In opinion and these 1. In the foundation 2. In matters of lesse moment In the foundation and that first of ignorance and blind zeale both the seducer and seduced Secondly of malice and obstinately In matters of lesse moment and there making a rent or schisme or holding the vnitie of the spirit in the bond of peace In practice so some sinne 1 Of ignorant and infirmity in lesse in greater points 2 Of habit and presumption grossely and so fall into foule vices or extrem omissions Some sinne publikely or priuately 2 Thou hast then rightly put a difference in thy iudgment when thou hast d●scerned hereby how thy brother is falle● Now proceed to apply the rules of cure if thy brother haue offended in matters of opinion that are of lesse moment and haue made no rent or be it he hath offended in practise of ignorance or infirmity then see the rule of meckenesse and Christian softnesse haue Compassion on him If in matters fundamentall whether of blind zeale or ●bstinate heate or in other lesser points yet making diuisions if in practise grossely whether into fowle vices or extreame omissions be his faults publike or priuate see the rule of Christian s●uerity they are in the fire in danger of burning Oh saue them with feare pulling them out Aduice right Christian and diuine behold the rules of cure and apply them againe to each part that thou maist see how to expresse thy meekenesse and seuerity putting also therein a difference aswell as to whom and when for so the words are put indifferently into the midst as being the life of the whole worke and euery part of it 3 For thy meekenesse consider 1 In what things to be expressed towards each or the rules 2 How or with what affection with compassion The rules are these If hee offend in matters of opinion which rase not the foundation and disquieteth not the peace of the Church walke with ●im in the vnity of the common faith and pathes of holy life which both haue already attained vnto and doubt not but God will reueale vnto him that thing wherein he is otherwise minded Phil. 3. 15. If ●e haue fallen in matters of holy life through ignorance or infirmity restore him by the sp●rit of meekenesse Gal. 6. 1. considering thy selfe lest thou also be tempted beare his burden and so fulfill the Law of Christ The affection with which thou must bee touched in the practice of these rules is Compassion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to vse Saint Austines words when there is compassio miseriae non simulatio misericordiae a feeling of their misery not a feigning of mercy this will giue the due ●incture to thy carriage herein 4 For thy seuerity consider 1 The rules 2 The right carriage in the practice of them for The end to saue them The affection of the heart feare The holy violence where the cause also is intimated they are in the fire plucke them out The rules are these If hee offend in the fundamentalls of blind zeale and ignorance or being seduced 1 In meekenesse instruct him if God peraduenture will giue him repentance to the acknowledging of the truth 2 Tim. 2. 25. 2 Be carefull to maintaine good work●s for necessary vses Tit. 3. 8 14. 3 Pray earnestly and heartily for him Rom 10. 1. 2. If as a seduce● 〈◊〉 or of malice and obstina●ely ●●e is then an heriticke and thy rule is that in 2 Ioh. 9. receiue him not to house neither bid him God speed in his euill work Tit. 3. 10. If the error be in matters of lesser moment and the party make a rent and scisme thy rule is that in Rom. 16. 17. marke those which cause diuisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye haue learned and auoid them If it be in practice that they are guilty of soule vices or extreame omissions such as that of Idlenesse among the Thessalonians 1 Warne them in the beginning reprooue them sharply 1 Thess 5. 14. 2 If they amend not restraine thy familiarity be no companion for them that all may see thou approouest not their vice and if the offendors may be ashamed 1 Cor. 5. 11. 2 Thes 3. 6 14. yet not counting them as enemies but esteeming them as brethren If the fault be secret obserue our Sauiours rule tell it him betweene him

thy soule to ill meanes Esa 28 16. The resting on second causes as Asa did on the Physitian dismayednesse and deiected thoughts to say thou shalt not see God and his saluation promised he will not be so good to thee or to say my way is hid from the Lord my iudgement is passed ouer of my God Esa 40 27 31. Iob 35. 14 15. questioning whether he can doe for vs as hee hath done for his people formerly Psal 78 19. 20. and desperate resolutions to say with the stubbor●e Iewes in Ezok 33 10. If our transgressions and our sinnes be vpon vs and wee pine away in them how should we then liue Hearken what God saith as I liue saith the Lord God I haue no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turne from his way and liue turne yee turne yee from your euill wayes for why will yee dye O house of Israel verse 11. 3 Learne righteousnesse this is all the fruit God looketh aft●r to take away thy sinne Esa 26. 11. 27. His corrections are a winde to fanne and to cl●an●e Ier. 4 11. which is done 1 If thou search and try thy waies and auoide carelesnesse Pro. 14. 16. Iob 36. 8. 9. If hee smite feare and depart from euill cry when he bindeth thee l●st like an hypocrite thou heape vp wrath verse 13. Lam. 3. 40. 2 Walke in thy integrity Pro. 19. 1. 3 Watch against discouragements Pro. 24. 10. nor questioning Gods loue for the outward distresse nor fainting in thy good way the way is not to be iudged by the afflictions but the afflictions by the way Trust in carnall Friends and arme of flesh Pro. 27. 10 Sudden Feares Prou. 3. 25. Psal 1 12. The righteous is not afraid of any euill tydings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord. 3 In Po●erty 1 D●ss●mble not make not ● In po 〈…〉 thy selfe poorer then thou art Salomon had obserued such a disease as this amongst men there is saith hee that maketh himselfe rich and yet hath nothing and there is that maketh himselfe poore yet hath great riches 2 But be it so thou art poore indeed seeke to be● rich in faith that Christ may liue in thee who is our riches and reioyce herein that thou art exalted to bee hei●e of the kingdome Iam. 1. 9. 2. 5. 3 Walke in thy integrity Pro. 19. 1. 4 Liue by faith Psal 34. 5. 6. 10. Mat. 4 4. Feede on the promise and depend on Gods allowance 5 Dwell in the land and bee doing good Psal 37. 3. Abide in thy place and remoue not without thou canst in a lawfull way see the Lord himselfe thy guide and leader 6 By contentation liue without couetings and desire to see therein the gaine of godlinesse that thou maiest learne to haue want and to be hungry as well as to abound and to be full Phil. 4. 12. Heb. 13. 5. 1 Tim. 6. 6. 7. 8. 4 In Sicknesse 1 Seeke first to God and 4 In sicknesse then to the Physitian as the ordinance of God and in thy seeking to God confesse against thy selfe thy sinne● to the Lord imitate Hezekiah Esa 38. 1. and doe not as did Asa 2 Chro. 16. lest a disease in the feet sooner cut off thy dayes then a griefe at the heart Psal 32. 5 2 Send for the Elders of the Church that they may pray for thee Iam. 5. 14. 3 Set thy soule in order for faith in the Lord Iesus repentance towards God loue to men hope of heauen and set thy house in order that thy last will may testifie all this 4. Let thy soule s●lace her selfe in that Psalme of Dauid the 41. to the increase of the care of duty and of the power of comfort and support of heart 5 In Persecutions 1 Let all thy sufferings from 5 In pe●secutions hand or tongue of the wicked be for the name of Christ and for wel-doing that thou maiest suffer as a Christian not as a malefactor that if any euill bee spoken of thee or obiected against thee it may be falsely spoken and obiected Mat. 5. 11. 1 Pet. 4. 15. And here see thou conscionably for the Lords sake reuerence dignities and obey authority in whatsoeuer is not repugnant to the word of God 1 Pet. 2. 13. 14. 15. 16. that it may bee said of thee as once of Daniel wee shall not finde any occasion against this Daniel except we finde it against him concerning the law of his God Dan. 6. 5. 2 Remember what it will cost thee to be a Christian thou must deny thy selfe and thine own life Lu● 14. 26. 2 Tim. 3. 12 and therefore thinke it not strange if a fiery try all should happen as if some strange thing had happened 1 Pet. 4. 12. 3 Commit the keeping of thy soule to God in wel-doing as vnto a faithfull Creator 1 Pet. 4. 19. 4 Be not afraid of the terror of the wicked neither be troubled but sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts and be ready al waies to giue an answere to euery man that asketh a reason of the hope that is in you with meekenesse and feare 1 Pet. 3. 14 15. So shall you witnesse a good confession and shall bee acknowledged by our Sauiour at the last and dreadfull day Mat. 10. 32. 33. Thou shalt Heb. 11. 27 not feare the face of a Pharaoh if thou haue seene him that is inuisible 5 Receiue the sentence of death in thy selfe that thou maiest not trust in thy selfe but God that raiseth the dead 2 Cor. 1. 8. 9. 6 Let thine eyes bee set on things that are not seene which are eternall Looke out to the better refurrection that thou maiest not passe for deliuerance thy dyings for the Lord Iesus will bee but such light afflictions as the heart may runne away with 2 Cor. 4. 17. 18. This will also keepe thee from the snares of the world● enticements as it did Moses Heb. 11. 24. 25. 35. 7 Leaue not till thou canst be in sufferings as a sheepe dumbe before the shearers yea let thy heart be filled with such loue to God and man that thou canst pray for thy persecutors and blesse them that curse thee Mat. 5. 44. Esa 5. 53. 7. and in all committhy cause to him that iudgeth righteously 1 Pet. 2. 21. 23. 8 To helpe thee herein behold the examples of all the heires of promise the whole clowde of witnesses which compasse thee in this way the worthies of the Old Testament Heb. 11. the Confessors and Martyrs of the New Testament Reu. ●2 11. and chiefely the matchlesse patterne of our Sauiour Heb. 12. 2. who for the glory set before him despised the shame and indured the gaine-sayings of sinners 9 Adde withall the consolations which are not small for consider We are made conformable to Christ in sufferings and death and therefore we shall in glory 2 Tim. 2. 11. 12. Christ accounts them the residue of his sufferings and i● all

he doth it oft times but say thou liue to the gray haire yet know that is the euill day ageit selfe is a disease disabling to duties of religion youth is euery way fittest let Solomon tell thee Remember thy creator in the dayes of thy youth before the euill day come of which thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in it Eccles 12. 1. For the Impatient desire of The cure of the impatient desire of death death it is cooled and tempered 1 ●● by strength of iudgment we know and knowing resolue that affliction is to be chosen rather then transgression Iob 36. 20. 21. the contrary hereunto made Iob impatiently to wish the day of his death Iob. 3. 2 If we consider that God teacheth by his works and herein none like him Iob. 36. 22. 3 If we weigh well what Iobs speeches cost him humiliation to dust and ashes though they came out of great extremities which wrested them from his heart otherwise full of patience but now distracted almost through bitternesse Iob. 42. 6. For the feare of death it is a The cure of the fear of death disease hereditary deriued to all Adams children yet is must and may be cured it may be cured Heb. 2. 14. 15. 2 Cor. 5. 5. it must Luke 14. 26. Rev. 22. 17. 1 Pet. 1. 3. 4. the desire of heauen is a part of the seed which is cast into the furrowes of our hearts in our regeneration I know there is a feare of death which is meerely naturall a shrinking from it and shunning of it as of a thing hurtfull because it dissolues the vnion of soule and body for a time but we speake of that distempered feare which leadeth into bondage abeslauing feare which suffers not a man to thinke of death or happinesse after it and leaueth the heart impotent and void of all spirituall courage comfort and counsell Againe there are men of two sorts some that liue and dye in their sinnes haue cause to feare death in these a cure can neuer be wrought not that the medicines are vnauaileable but because they cannot bee brought to take the receipts Some that dye to their sinnes before they dye in these that beslauing feare may be cured and hath in such vsually heretofore beone cured Death is the King of terrors consider it in its reall nature and hue Its vizar assumed It s natiue hu● is terrible 1 In the cause Sinne Gods wrath Sathan the executioner who hath the power of death Heb. 2. 14. 2 In the nature thereof in it selfe opposite to life a punishment of God a destroyer of natures fabricke a dissoluer of this earthly tabernacle 3 In the effects which are A depriuation of Friends pleasures honours riches of this world The good wee might doe in Church Common-wealth Family A deprauation of the state of the body leauing it a cadauer a car case in the graue 4 In the affrighting concomitants terriculamenta mortis which are miseries Corporall Painies Agonies sometimes which doe befall Gods children The kind of death Spirituall Terrors from Satan and from God himselfe Temptations Vnquietnesse and angor of conscience In its vizar it is fearefull as it cometh into our minds As the depriuer of happinesse as if it seperated from God As if it had no other face then that of wrath and curse from God and were in its nature no way corrected How shall these darts be quenched Briefely 1 The cause of death is to be euacuated 1 By the death of Christ and our assurance of our part therin whereby the fauour of God is established vpon vs and the Serpents head crushed Heb. 2. 15. Death is a Serpent the sting is sinne the strength of that sting is the law victory ouer it is by Iesus Christ who satisfieth the law 1 Cor. 15. 55 56. 57. 2 By mortification of our beloued sinnes by our study to keepe a conscience voide of offence towards God and man 3 By receiuing the Sacrament of the Lords Supper oft wherein we shew forth the Lords death vntill his comming againe 1 Cor. 11. 26. 2 The nature of death in it selfe is terrible indeed but to the godly it is changed Rev. 14 13. insomuch that their condition is blessed for they rest from their labours their workes follow no losse of any good worke that euer they did no condemnation to them Rom. 8. 1. it is no other then a sleepe 1 Thes 4. 14. a day of liberty Rom. 8. 21. our returne to our home to euerlasting habitations the mansions in our fathers house our birth day the funerall of our vices the putting off our old clothes that we might be clothed vpon 2 Cor. 5. 3. 4. the remoouing out of a mudde house where we ●ere but tenants at will into the pallace of the great king Lord of heauen and earth there to dwell as in our inheritance for euer the end of our race the day of our coronation no punishment now there are three degrees of life eternall of which death is our entrance into the second in this life in regeneration Ioh. 17. 3. in the day of our departure in translation to Paradise 2 Cor. 5. 8. at the last day in the redemption of our bodyes Rom. 8. 23. 3 As for friends whose society thou loosest oppose thereto the meditation of that glorious place to which thou goest an inheritance incorruptible vndefiled that fades not the fellowship of Angels and the congregation of the first borne and the spirits of iust men and women made perfect the communion with God and with the Lord Iesus for while thou art present in the body in the best condition thou art absent from the Lord that Lord whom though thou neuer sawest yet thou louest and beli●uing reioycest with ioy vnspeakeable and full of glory How then shall thy soule burne with the flames of loue to him when thou shall see him 1 Pet. 1. 8. And when the thought of thy treasures and pleasures meet thee bethinke thy selfe of thy calling and profession to bee a Christian that is o●e conformed to Christ whose kingdome is n●t of this world whose life was glorious in a holy contempt of the world Say then with Paul God forbid that I should reioyce saue in the Crosse of Christ whereby the world is crucified to me and I vnto the world Gal. 6. 14. What comfort canst thou haue that thou art not a cast away if thou beat not down thy body and bring it not into subiection although thou wert a Preacher of the Word and diligent in that worke 1 Cor. 9. 24. There are two sorts of men men of this world men of God they differ herein the men of this world are such as place their happinesse in a belly full of this hid treasure and wealth and lands enough to leaue behinde them to their babes but the other are men after Gods owne heart carried with the spirit of Dauid that in the loue of righteousnesse can say Deliuer mee from these