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The saints encouragement in evil times: or Observations concerning the martyrs in generall with some memorable collections out of Foxes three volumes. Martin Luther. The covenant and promises. Living and dying by faith. By Edward Leigh Esquire.
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Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
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by the naturall inclination of his will this gives us just ground and warrant to pray against sudden and violent death 4. Question Whether may we mourn for the dead Answer Yes Because 1. Death is a fruit of sin In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt dâ—e the death and a sign of Gods displeasure against it 2. It is a separation of friends and they should not part without some grief onely we must look that our mourning in such cases be 1. Serious not counterfeit 2. Moderate not excessive either for quantity or continuance which may shew want of hope and excesse of love both naught 3. Holy turning our sorrow from the death of our friends to the bewailing of our sins the only procurers of that and all other crosses In the last place I shall lay down directions how to die well and shew the benefits that come to the godly by death 1. What a Christian should do that would die comfortably 1. Discharge the place and office which God hath called him to with much diligence and sincerity 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. Act. 20. 31. Why dost fear O my soul said Hilarion thou hast served God this seventy years and art thou afraid to die Live much in a little time doe all for eternity be abundant in serving thy generation Acts 13. 36. You live no longer in Gods account then you serve him 2. Doe nothing against conscience for the greatest advantage this troubled Iudas he betraied innocent bloud this made the wofull tragedy of Spira 3. Take heed of unjust dealing and violent oppressing of others Samuel before his death Tell me saith he whose ox or asse have I stolen or taken away * 4. Improve thy riches and honours for Gods glory Luk. 16. 9. 5. Spend the time of thy health well and lay up praiers for death before hand Teach us to number our daies that is to consider how few they are that we apply our hearts to wisdom 6. Get acquaintance with death take notice of all the approaches of it behold the mortality of others and consider thine own do not think to die all at once the Apostle saith I thank God I die daily So seriously meditate on death as to draw from thence some wholesome and profitable conclusions and resolutions for the well ordering of thy life and that in respect of four things chiefly sin the things of the world our own persons and the persons of others For sin this conclusion must follow therefore sin is a most hatefull thing to God and a most harmfull thing to man for it alone hath provoked God to inflict this heavy punishment of death yea of eternall death after this upon the sons of men unlesse repentance come betwixt Sinne is the parent and sting of death sin brought it into the world and makes it terrible therefore I must hate sinne lament sin resist and mortifie sin and must make it my chiefest and in a manner my only care to get my sins forgiven my iniquity subdued and then resolve especially to mortifie that sin which thy heart is most unwilling to reform 2. In respect of the world we must conclude and resolve that wealth honour pleasure friends are but very vanities trifles and toies poor petty short and vanishing goods therfore I must and by Gods grace will resolve to pull mine heart from off these things not rejoice in them trust in them boast of them seeing I brought nothing into the world and must carry nothing out use the present world as if we used it not 2. Diligently prepare for the life to come every man must be for ever in heaven or hell there is no middle place as * pargatory so soon as his soul and body are separated Labour therefore to get good assurance of bettering your estate and injoying eternall life by bewailing the sinfulnesse of your nature and lives and seeking unto and resting upon the Lord Jesus Christ alone and his mediation and obedience and the sprinklâ—ng of his bloud for pardon of sin and help against damnation and lastly labour and study to reform your hearts and lives more and more 3. Concerning our own persons we must thus conclude that we are but mean and contemptible creatures that must die and turn to dust and be made food for worms why should I then be proud or think my self better then others because of my strength beauty wit learning parentage titles offices attendances of all which death will strip me and teach me to know they were but borrowed things 4. For other men we ought to to conclude thus they also must die as well as my self my husband wife my dear and faithfull friend who knows how soon therefore it is a great weaknesse to trust on such to place my happinesse in them Cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils therefore use al persons as well as all things as if thou didst not use them Lastly Let the Saints of God take great comfort in the contemplation of the good that death will bring them it concludes all their sorrows and evils and is a beginning of all joies pleasures comfort glory and happinesse Death is to such a resting from their labours Rev. 14. 14. A happy change Phil. 3. 21. Job 14. 14. cals death a change it is not an annihilation or extinction but a mutation and that by way of eminency My change It is the last change we shall meet with till the resurrection 2. A lasting nay an everlasting change it puts us into an eternall condition of happinesse or misery 3. An universall change 1. in respect of persons all must meet with it 2. In regard of the whole man body and soul makes the body a stinking carkasse and puts the soul into heaven or hell 4. A different change according to the quality of the person changed terrible to a sinner comfortable to the godly Death is their bodies seed-time 1 Cor. 15. the crowning day to the soul 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. the funerall of all their sins and sorrows Rom. 6. 7. I shall in the last place mention some of the chief benefits that come to the godly by death By it he is freed 1. From sin not only the destroying power but the being of it is then taken away 2. From those miseries which follow sin Isa. 57. 1 2 3. 3. From the temptations of the devil Rev. 12. 8. 4. From the troubles of the world and vexations of the flesh Rev. 14. 13. Eccles. 4. 1 2. 2. There is nothing in his death but what conduceth to make him happy 1. A godly man dies in Gods love and mercy 2. He never dies til he be prepared till his graces be perfected and work finished Job 5. 26. 3. He shall in some measure be assured of a better life 2 Cor. 5. 1. 4. When he dies he shall leave a sweet favour behinde him Prov. 10. 7. The memory of the just is
Sir George Blague He being one of the Kings privy Chamber was condemned and appointed to be burned but being pardoned by the King and coming after into his presence Ah my Pig saith the King to him for so he was wont to call him Yea said he if youâ— Majestie had not been better to mâ— then your Bishops were your Pig had been rosted ere this time Mr John Rogers That morning he should be burned he was found asleep and could scarce with much jogging be awaked At length being raised and waked and bid to make haste theâ—â— said he if it be so I need not to tiâ— my points The sunday before he suffered he drank to Mr Hooper being then underneath him and bad them commend him unto him and tell him there was never little fellow would better stick to a man then he would stick to him presupposing they should both be burned together although it happened otherwise for Mr Rogers was burnt alone He was the Protomartyr of all the blessed company that suffered in Queen Maries time that gave the first adventure upon the fire His wife and children being eleven in number ten able to go and one sucking on her breast met him by the way as he went toward Smithfield this sorrowfull sight of his own flesh and bloud could nothing move him but that he constantly and chearfully took his death with wonderfull patience in the defence of Christs Gospel Laurence Sanders He seeming to be somewhat troubled at his lodging one which was there about him asked him how he did In very deed saith he I am in prison till I be in prison Meaning that his minde was unquiet untill he had preached and that then he should have quietnesse of minde though he were put in prison He that did lie with him in prison in the same bed reported that he heard him say that even in the time of his examination he was wonderfully comforted in so much as not only in spirit but also in body he received a certain taste of that holy communion of Saints whilst a most pleasant refreshing did issue from every part and member of the body unto the seat and place of the heart and from thence did ebb to and fro unto all the parts again At Coventry where he was burned a poor Shoemaker which was wont to serve him of shoes came to him and said O my good master God strengthen and comfort you Gran mercy good Shoemaker quoth Master Sanders and I pray thee to pray for me for I am the unmeetest man for this high office that ever was appointed to it but my gracious God and dear Father is able to make me strong enough When he came to the fire he fell to the ground and praied then he rose up again and took the stake to which he should be chained in his arms and kissed it saying Welcome the crosse of Christ welcome everlasting life and being fastened to the stake and fire put to him full sweetly he slept in the Lord In the beginning of Q. Maries time there being a communication between Laurence Sanders and D. Pendleton the Doctor took upon him to comfort Mr Sanders all that he might admonishing him not to start aside having put his hand to Gods plough I will see said he being a fat man the utmost drop of this grease of mine molten away and the last gobbet of this flesh consumed to ashes before I will forsake God and his truth Sanders on the other side seemed so fearfull and feeblespirited that he seemed rather to fall quite from Gods word which he had taught then to stick to his profession and abide by his tacle but after Sanders suffered most willingly and Pendleton played the Apostata Mr John Hooper Being at Zarick with Bullinger at his parting with him he promised to write unto him how it went with him But the last news of all I shall not be able to write for there said he taking M. Bullinger by the hand where I shall take most pains there shall you hear of me to be burned to ashes and that shall be the last news which I shall not be able to write unto you but you shall hear of me When Mr Hooper being made Bishop of Worcester and Glocester should have his Arms given him by the Herald as the manner is for every Bishop to have his Arms assigned unto him whether by the Bishops or Heralds appointment is uncertain the Arms to him allotted was a Lamb in a fiery bush and the sun-beams from heaven descended down upon the Lamb rightly denoting as it seemed the order of his suffering which afterward followed His life was so pure and good that no kinde of slander although divers went about to reprove it could fasten any fault upon it I know not one of all those vertues and qualities required of St Paul in a good Bishop lacking in this good Bishop Bishop Ridley and he differed about the ceremonies yet both being in prison for the truths sake they were reconciled Every day his manner was to have to dinner a certain number of poor folk of Worcester by course who were served by four at a messe with whole and wholesome meats and when they were served being afore examined by him or his Deputies of the Lords prayer the Articles of their faith and ten Commandments then he himself sate down to dinner and not before Sir Anthony Kingston his friend coming to him a little before his death used these words Life is sweet and death bitter to whom he replied that the death to come was more bitter and the life to come more sweet A blinde boy being brought unto him who had not long afore suffered imprisonment at Glocester for confessing of the truth Master Hooper after he had examined him of his faith and the cause of his imprisonment beheld him stedfastly and the water appearing in his eies said unto him Ah poor boy God hath taken from thee thy outward sight for what consideration he best knoweth but he hath given thee another sight much more precious for he hath indued thy soul with the eye of knowledge and faith God give thee grace continually to pray unto him that thou lose not that sight for then shouldst thou be blinde both in body and soul Being at the stake and having entred into his prayer a box waâ— brought and laid before him upon stool with his pardon or at least fained so to be from the Queen if he would turn At the sight where of he cried If you love my soul away with it if you love my soul away witâ— it The box being taken the Lorâ— Shandoys said Seeing there is no remedy dispatch him quickly Master Hooper said good my Lord I trust you will give me leave to make an end of my praiers Doctor Taylor He told the Sheriffe and others who laboured to turn him to the Popish