3 9 6 Peace in eat or, Efà. s4.. g Joh. r j. e. Objeét. z: R'fpa The forming quietdeparrure of the wicked, with the grounds thereof. Etal. 73.4. rSam.15.17. Luk. u.i r. Ecclel. s. it. Eta, 57.11. 4lfe. Confutation of Purgatory. Secondly, becaufe the love ofGod iseternal and unchangeable. Whom he loves he loves to the end, It is imponible that the Lord, albeit he try, and that lharply,yet fhould finally forfake thofe that are his in their greatef extremity. But again fccondly, ifyou make a peaceable death to be the reward of the Righ.. trous, what fay you to this ? There be many that inall their life gave little evidence ofanyReligion, or grace, but of the contrary rather, yet intheir death were very quiet and fill, and teethed to all that were by, to have in them no mannerofvexa. tion, no troublefomc thoughts,no perplexedmotions; fhall we fay thatdicta were goodmen, becaufe they teem to go away in peace. It is true indeed, it is the common opinion, Doth a man lie quietly ? hash he his memory to the end ? died hé like a Lamb ? furcly then he is gone to heaven : but this is an abfurd collcdion ; for, Firf,fometimc thisoutward calmnersisanordinary confegssent offomedifeafes, as Confumptions, and filch like,by which Nature being formerly wcakned,hathnot power left to make refifance. Secondly, this outward calmnefs is no argument of a peaceable and quiet foul. The Pfalmif tells usof the wicked in wliof death there are no band:. Thirdly, we Mull diftinguifh between fecurity and peace,betw,ixt carnal fenfiel- iaefs, and true fpiritual quietnefs. 7(abals death was quiet enough, yet he were but a fool that would adventurehis foul with N abaft. I feemany ignorant perfons, ma- ny ofheathenilh, and bruitilh converfation, very quiet in ficknefs, without any fear ofhell, and judgement to come, making no doubts, calling no perils, asking no qucfions, complainingof no fins, and fo away they go without any more ado. What, thall I fay that thefe died in true peace ? God forbid. No, when I compare together their ignorant, fecùre, benummed, hardned kindof life, with their fenflefs and drowfie kindof death, I may fay ; that there arc fearful figns,thefe things argue that the Devil had quiet poffeffion, where hemade fo fmall ado, Thus then not- withfanding thefe Obje&tons I will cgriclùde; that a peaceful death, isthe peculiar andindivided priviledgof Gods fervariti. However it be yet I know (faithSnlò- rtton) that it !hallgo wellwith thofethat fear the Lord, bit there ie nopeace to the wickedfaithmy God. e may make Life Of this firft to be a trial' betwixt our Religionand the Ro- mifh : for from thisDottrine I avouchthat Religion to be no true Religion : becaùfe a Papif bythe Rulesofhis own Religion can never die in peace: This is a hard faying, thon.maifobje&, or how can I make it good? 1 anfwer by tworea- fons. Fir!, every Papif! is taught to believe under pain ofAnathema, and the great turfs, that whofoever deeth, if he have not in this life attained to perfection, and throughly purged hitnfelf from:the remainders of fin by works of fatisfadfion, his foul mull after death go into Purgatory, an4 there continue until he bath made a fltilfatisfad ion: now thepainof Purgatory is held for the time to beas great as the pans ofhell, differing'only ití this,, that it is not perpetual : Now I would fain know, how canaman diecomfortablyand in peace, and with a joyful heart, when he,thinkswith himfelf, that albeit (perhaps)after force years he 111a11 go toheaven; yet in the mean.fpaee his foul mull ,go into fuch a place ofunfpeakable torment, where if the matter be not Well plied' by the prayers of them that arealive, andby well Peeing the Prieffs,they may hap to lie for many years ? I fay, how can the Do- arine ofPopery beget a peaceful death,wh'en it teacheth an expeetatiòn offilch an hellilh Purgatory. , . Secondly,every Papifashe is boundof a certain to believe a Potrgatory,fo further nayf}, he believe, that he cannot in this life be allured of falvation, otherwife then by,a kind of confuted hope, whichmaydeceive him. Now he which by the witnefs ofhis own conference is lure that -he hath deferved hell, and cannot attain to any certainty ofdifcharge, what comfort can filch an one have to die ? he knows that when he. is dead, he mull come to hisaccount before God,but yet can have no affu- rante,that the Lordwill acquit him inChrifJefus. hwilli that this may feriouflybe confidered by us, for theefablilhingofus in the truth
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