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The marrow of the oracles of God. Or, divers treatisesThe marrovv of the oracles of God. Or, diuers treatises
The marrow of the oracles of God. Or, divers treatises containing directions about six of the weightiest things can concern a Christian in this life. by N. Bifield, late preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.The marrovv of the oracles of God. Or, diuers treatises containing directions about sixe of the waightiest things can concerne a Christian in this life. by N. Bifield, late preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.
London: printed by John Legatt, 1630
THE CURE OF THE FEAR OF DEATH. › Chapter 4THE CVRE OF THE FEARE OF DEATH. › Chapter 4
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. IIII.
Showing that a Christian is many ways happy in death.
Shewing that a Christian is many wayes happy in death.
Now I come to the third point, which is the main thing here intended; and that is the means how we may be cured of the fear of Death: and in this we had need all to attend with great carefulness. The disease is stubborn, and men are sluggish, and extremely loth to 1be at the trouble of the cure; and Satan by all means would keep us from remembering our latter end: & the world affords daily distractions to pluck us away from the school of Christ herein, and our own hearts are deceitful, and our natures apt to be weary of the doctrine, before we put in practice any of the directions; and we are apt ⟨p. 671⟩to a thousand conceits, that it is either unpossible, or unnecessary to attend this doctrine, or the like. Yea, it may be, it will fare with many of us, as it doth with those that are troubled with the raging pain of the teeth; their pain will cease when the Barber comes to pull out the tooth: so it may be you may find this deceit in your hearts, that you will not feel. the fear of death, till the discourse of the medicine be over; and so let it be as water spilt on the ground. But let us all awake, and in the power and strength of Christ, that died to deliver us from the fear of death, let us lay all the plasters close to the sore, and keep them at it, till it be throughly whole.