Seauen helpes to Heauen Shewing 1. How to auoid the curse. 2. How to beare the crosse. 3. How to build the conscience. 4. How with Moses to see Canaan. 5. Simeons dying song, directing to liue holily and dye happily. 6. Comforts for Christians against distresses in life, and feare of death. 7. Feruent prayers, to beare sicknesse patiently, and dye preparedly. The second edition: much enlarged by Steuen Ierome, late preacher at S. Brides. Seene and allowed.

The chiefe Contents of the two subsequent TREATISES.

In Moses his sight of Sion, these things are obseruable.

• 1 THE Case of the Inheritance of Daugh∣ters propounded. page 1
• 2 How Cases are wisely to be carryed before the Magistrate. pag. 3
• 3 The true Rule of iudging Cases, Consultation with God. pag. 4
• 4 The Case adiudged, and spiritually applyed. pag. 6
• 5 Moses is forewarned to dye, and how God forewarnes vs. pag. 9
• 6 All must dye. 13
• 7 God prepares his Children to dye, as hee did Moses, by shewing them Canaan. 14
• 8 Moses his obedience to Gods summons a pat∣terne to vs. 15
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• 9 Fifteene Resemblances of Death to Sleepe. 16
• 10 Fiue Considerations to imbrace Death as wil∣lingly, as we sleepe naturally. 23
• 11 Sixteene Comforts against the feare of Death, in these ensuing particulars. 35
  • 1 GOD who infused the Soule, cals for it againe. 36
  • 2 Sinne the sting of Death is taken away by Christs death. 37
  • 3 God as a Father, is present at the death of his Children. 39
  • 4 Death is no death but a dissolution to the godly. 41
  • 5 The Saints shall know, and enioy their friends in glory. 43
  • 6 Death frees the soule from her spirituall enemies. 44
  • 7 It deliuers from euils present and to come. 47
  • 8 It ends Sinnes Conflicts with Heauens Try∣umphs. 48
  • 9 It frees vs from conuersing with the wic∣ked. 51
  • 10 It secures vs from corrupting by the wic∣ked. 55
  • 11 It secures from the malice of the mighty. 56
  • 12 Our good name is cleared in Death, which calumny ecclypsed in life. 57
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  • 13 Death tryes and declares the sinceritie and measure of grace. 63
  • 14 It is the inheritance of the Saints as it is the terrour of the wicked. 64
  • 15 The Christian should in death desire Christ who by death desired him. 71
  • 16 Death is the common Inne of all flesh, where the Saints are refreshed. 75

In Simeons dying Song these are the chiefe Notes, both from the Doctrines and the Vses.

• THE force of Examples eyther for imitation of Ʋertue, or detestation of Ʋice. 77
• The vaine Songs and Sonnets of our age iustly re∣proued. 79
• Our singing as corrected, so directed. 80
• The ground of all our reioycing must be in and for Christ. 81
• The sensuall and sinnefull ioyes of worldlings iustly taxed. 83.84. &c.
• Wee must be truely thankefull for Christ. 8••
• Tenne Reasons to incite vs to the duty of gratula∣tion, with the vses. 88.89
• The great mistery and greater mercy of Christ in∣carnate. 92.93. &c.
• Wee must be borne againe to CHRIST, and

• and hee borne in vs, as hee was borne for vs, 95
• The glorious Name of the Lord must not be vsed vpon euery triuiall occasion. 97
• How bootlesse it is for the wicked in death to cry Lord, Lord. 99
• The godly haue diuers raptures and secret ioyes in life and death. 101
• These Ioyes demonstrated in sixe particulars. 103
• Three Reasons of these extraordinarie Rauish∣ments. 105
• Worldlings farre wide that thinke Christians Me∣lancholicques and comfortlesse. 106
• Foure Comforts of the Christian which the world neyther knowes nor feeles. 107
• All the Patriarkes and Prophets, since the pro∣mise, haue expected the Messias. 110
• Wee see Christ more clearely then the primitiue Saints. 111
• How Christ came to them, how to vs. 112
• How wee should entertaine Christ, with Redargu∣tion and Commination of the Iewes and our ingratitude. 113
• Our desire of long life must be simply to glorifie God. 116
• Reproofe of the worlds practise in Ministers Ma∣gistrates, Masters, and all sorts, ayming at themselues, not God. 120
• The better Christian the more willing to dye. 126
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• Twelue Reasons which cause this willingnesse. 127
• The point applyed by examination. 133
• Christ most willing to dye of all the Sonnes of men. 135
• Seauen Reasons why Death is vnwelcome to the wicked. 136
• Wicked men may die willingly for sinister respects as Heretiques haue done. 143
• Fiue meanes to be vsed to make vs willing to our dissolution. 144
• God manifests his presence at the death of his, three wayes. 148
• How God workes in sinne permissiuely, disposing∣ly, &c. but neuer workes sinne. 151
• Euery death, for Time, Place, Matter, Manner, is determined by God, 153
• Iust inuectiues against Heathenish Fortune. 157
• The rash censures of men concerning diuers deaths condemned. 160
• Comforts in that God sees the cause and effect of euery mans maladie. 161
• Patience perswaded, in that it is Gods rod which strikes. 162
• No meanes can protract or detract from our dayes, besides their limits. 164
• Foure maine Obiections answered. 165
• Meanes must be vsed both for life temporall and spirituall, notwithstanding Gods decree. 168
• Vnlawfull for any priuate man to take away life from himselfe or others. 170
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• Twelue disswasiue arguments against Selfe-mur∣ther. 171
• The sinne reproued, and the frequencie of it deplo∣red. 174
• Twelue things from experience and Heathenish ex∣amples occasioning selfe-killing. 179
• How to preuent this sinne. 188
• Euery obstinate sinner from causes naturall and su∣pernaturall accused of selfe-murther. 189
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  • The chiefe delight and desire of euery man must be to be Gods Seruant, with foure reasons why. 196
  • Multitudes that liue vnder the meanes, are ignorant how God should be serued. 201
  • Multitudes reproued that haue as little will as skill to serue God. 202
  • How few ayme at Gods seruice in all their wayes, expostulated in particulars. 210
  • Ciuill honest men most enemies to Gods true Seruants and sincere seruice. 216
  • Many in the rancke of Christians serue the Diuell and their owne lusts. 218
  • All the members that haue serued sinne dire∣cted to serue God. 221
• Sixe Motiues perswading to serue God.
  • 1 From the end of our Creation, 227
  • 2 From our Preseruation. 231
  • 3 From our Vocation. 233
  • 4 From our Redemption. 235
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  • 5 From our Profession. 237
  • 6 From the Reward. ibid.
• First Reward of Gods seruice Wealth and Riches. 238
• Second, Honour and Dignitie. 239
• Sinne brings shame and all other iudgements. 240
• Gods hand vpon his enemies in many iudgements. 243
• Holinesse is the way to Honour. 245
• God is most liberall of all Masters. 246
• Gods seruants best rewarded and regarded in eight particulars. 248
• God grants the suites of his seruants. 252
• The godly haue a taste of Heauen here, enioyed hereafter. 253
• God blesseth the wicked oft for his seruants sakes. 255
• God deliuers his seruants from generall iudge∣ments, sixe wayes. 257
• God and Sathan cannot be serued together. 258
• The case of Sathans captiues opened. 259
• Seauen Reasons why the godly must dye as well as the wicked. 263
• Tenne sins that haue prouoked the Lord to sweepe away the wicked. 268
• That all must dye, exemplified, and amplified, by many instances. 269
• The deaths of the worlds Worthies of all sorts, epi∣tomized. 274
• Fiue naturall causes of death. 282
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• Death is as inexorable as vnresistible, with his Trophies ouer all. 283
• We must not too much loue this life, which we must shortly leaue. 287
• Those that loue life, must hate Sinne, the cause of death. 289
• Death onely makes the Prince and the poore man equall. 291
• Deaths effect in equalizing all, illustrated by fit si∣milies. 296
• Sixe Reasons, further shewing the necessitie of dy∣ing. 299
• How euen in liuing wee dye, and are dead in part. 301
• By how many meanes we dye. 304
• Diuers examples of seuerall sorts of deaths, violent and naturall. 305
• Some cut off in the midst of their lawlesse lusts. 309
• Our dayes abbreuiated, in respect of the long liues of the Patriarkes. 316
• Foure causes of the long continuation of things. 318
• Because our life is short we must spend it well. 319
• Our many sinnes to be mourned for, and why. 320
• The practise of Epicures and profane men reproued and threatned. 321
• How wee must sow in teares in this short seed-time. 323
• Further vse to be made of our short time. 325
• Our life is laborious and miserable: euery calling hauing his crosse. 328
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• No place priuiledged from foure things: 1. Sathan tempting: 2. The hearts wandring: 3. Ill tongues biting: 4. The world crossing. 330
• Examples of humane calamities. 331
• Twelue meanes to get that peace with God which the world wants. 334
• The vanitie of life, with all the things in life, truely discouered. 336
• The world truly described by eleauen similies. 340
• How Christ in his practise crossed all the worlds proceedings. 342
• The benefits of death to a Christian vnder the Crosse. 343
• God oft cats away the best soonest. 345
• How death is fearefull and not fearefull. 347
• Death is onely a departure out of life, not a finall de∣stroyer. 348
• Eight Arguments, prouing the Resurrection of our bodies. 351
• Illustrations from Nature that our bodies shall rise. 352
• Foure Reasons besides from the Word. 354
• The Christians comfort in the consideration of our Resurrection. 355.356
• That wee may rise ioyfully we must liue holily, in tenne particulars. 359
• Tenne Arguments to proue the soules immortality. 362
• Seauen moe, from the Word. 364
• Death vnmasked, what it is to the godly. 365
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• Reproofe of those that respect the body more then the soule. 367
• The seruants of God alwayes dye in peace. 369
• The godly oft haue their desires at, before, and in their deaths. 372
• The very last words recorded, which the Saints vt∣tered in their death beds. 374
• How great men haue liued and dyed good men. 377
• Reasons why the godly depart in peace. 379
• Nine Obiections answered, that seeme to contra∣dict the peaceable departure of the Saints. 380
• Nine Reasons that his death may be good that dyes of the Plague. 384
• How selfe-murther doth not alwayes imply a wret∣ched death. 387
• Hee that would dye well must liue well. 389
• The fearefull ends of wicked persecutors in euery age. 391
• An ill life the vsuall Prologue to a Tragicall death. 395
• None can repent when he will. 397
• The Word layes downe a way to a blessed death. 402
• Death is certaine, yet vncertaine. 403
• The paines of Hell without remission or redemp∣tion. 405
• Repentance is not to be deferred till death. 406
• The danger of deferring discouered. 408
• The Theefes Repentance vpon the Crosse exa∣mined. 412
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• Sixe effects of Deaths meditation. 417
• The life of Faith brings dying Peace. 429
• Repentance the meanes of peace with God. 430
• How to dye daily three wayes. 433
• How to leaue the damnable custome of Swearing. 434
• Eighteene things to be prayed for that death may be prosperous. 437
• A good conscience in life brings peace in death. 442
• Sixe causes of sickenesse, besides sinne. 445
• With fiue duties to be done in sickenesse. 446
• The sicke man must send for a Minister before the Physitian and carnall friends. 451
• The necessitie and lawfull vse of Physicke proued and vrged. 455
• Rules obseruable in the vse of Physicke. 457
• Against seeking to Witches and Charmers in sicke∣nesse. 459
• Reconciliation and Restitution vrged. 461
• Fiue Reasons why a sicke man must make his Will. 465
• Foure Rules in making all Wills. 466
• A Christian carriage prescribed in the houre of death. 468
• Twenty seuerall Comforts in the death of friends.
  • 1 Because God takes them away. 470
  • 2 The Saints haue beene patient spectators of the deaths of their deare friends. 471
  • 3 If he dyed in the faith of Christ he is transla∣ted

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  • from this life to a better. 472
  • 4 He is blessed being dead in the Lord. ibid.
  • 5 Hee is returned home to his Fathers house. ibid.
  • 6 He is inseperably vnited vnto God the chie∣fest good. 473
  • 7 He is marryed vnto his Bridegroome Christ. ibid.
  • 8 His warfare is now at an end. ibid.
  • 9 Being here a pilgrime, hee is returned into his owne Country. 474
  • 10 Thou hast not lost, but left him. ibid.
  • 11 He shall be restored vnto thee againe at the Resurrection. ibid.
  • 12 Ere long thou shalt goe vnto him. 475
  • 13 His better part is yet liuing. ibid.
  • 14 His estate is bettered by death. ibid.
  • 15 Thou sorrowest for that could not be pre∣uented. 476
  • 16 Thou hast many companions in thy sorrow. ibid.
  • 17 Thy impatient sorrow hurts thy selfe. 477
  • 18 Thy extreame sorrow is as fruitles as faith∣lesse. ibid.
  • 19 The Lord, thy best friend, is still liuing. ibid.
  • 20 They are insensible of thy sorrow. 479
• Twenty Cordials against the crosse of sicknes. 482
• And Meditations how to beare the intollerable burthen thereof. 499
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• Eight seuerall Consolations against the vnkindnes of mercilesse Friends. 500
  • 1 Thy case is not singular but ordinary. ibid.
  • 2 The Saints haue had the same measure. 501
  • 3 Christ himselfe was maliced of his owne bre∣thren. ibid.
  • 4 There hath beene hatred amongst the nea∣rest friends by nature. ibid.
  • 5 Though thy friends forsake thee, yet God ca∣reth for thee. 502
  • 6 As thy friends are vnkinde to thee, so thou hast beene vnthankefull to God. ibid.
  • 7 God hath elected thee, though man reiect thee. 503
  • 8 Though thou canst not see thy friends here with comfort, yet ere long thou shalt see God as hee is. ibid.
• Thirteene Preparatiues against Pouertie. 504
  • 1 It is the prouidence of God that thou shoul∣dest be poore. 504
  • 2 Thy crosse is not singular. 505
  • 3 Pouertie is no token of Gods displeasure. ibid.
  • 4 A little with the feare of God is better then great riches of the vngodly. 507
  • 5 As well Pouertie as Riches fals out to the best to them that feare God. ibid.
  • 6 The Lord knoweth what is best for thee. ibid.
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  • 7 Pouertie hinders not the acceptance of thy Prayers. 508
  • 8 If thou be poore in spirit, thou art rich in Christ. 509
  • 9 Pouerty is no hinderance to thy saluation. 510
  • 10 The lesse thou receiuest, the lesse shall thine accounts be. 511
  • 11 The Lord hath a care of thee euen for the things of this life. 512
  • 12 And can blesse a small portion vnto thee. 514
  • 13 Christ himselfe, and the most excellent Saints haue beene poore on earth. 516