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.

Sect. 2. That all must die.

BVt though Moses be not sodainely taken away, yet away hee goeth: it is very true, and so must all flesh, therefore let vs reckon of it, The reward of sinne is death, Rom. 6.21. And since all flesh is sinfull, to all is appointed once to die, Heb 9.27 hodie an cras, &c. whether it be to day or to morrow, it must be, it will be, a debt it is, and must be paid, saith S. Augustine; Hodie mihi, cras tibi; I to day, you to mor∣row, till wee be all gone: nothing more vncertaine then the time, nothing more cer∣taine then the thing. They that liued so many hundred yeeres, as Adam, Methusalem, Noah, Sem, and the other Patriarkes, of euery one it is said Et mortuus est, and hee dyed, the longest time had an end: and at the last death knocked for him, hee must away. And as no time so no vertue can auoid death, but euen Moses himselfe, as worthy a man as the earth hath carried, as the Word testifies of him, Iosh. 1.2.13. Heb. 3.2.5. yet this Moses must die.

But if a man maruell at this, why such men should dye, since sinne which is the cause of death, is pardoned & forgiuen them, through faith in Christ: let him know that this is done for two causes.

[ 1] First, for those reliques of sinne and cor∣ruption which hang vpon, and by death must be purged and taken cleane away, God then perfecting that sanctification which was begun before. [ 2] Secondly, that wee might be made conformable to our Head Christ Iesus, who as hee by death ouer-came death▪ and rose from death to life, so must wee by him; both which ends yeeld vs great comfort, because they shew that death is not laid vpon the elect as a pu∣nishment, but as a mercy vouchsafed by a sweet father for the ends named.

Notes

• Rom. 5.12.