49! 'Th . h errg fd t'niayo rying rvel,. mented: itmay feeme therefore that the day A lies, whichoften happen atthe end ofburning ofdeath ts tiledayofgreateO: woe and mifery, feauers, the choler !hootingvp to the braine. To thts I anfwerfirO:ofal gencrally,that we The writhing ofthe Iippes, the turningofthe mutt not iudgc ofthe e!tate of any man beneck,thebucklingofthe ioyntsandthe whole fore God by outward things,whetherthey be body, procecd<S ofcrampes and convulfions, ' bl~fsingsor iudgements; whether they fall in whtch followes after much euacuatiou. And Ecder. hieor death:For(as Salomon faith)AO things whereas fome in fickene!fc areofthat!trenoth 9·•· comealik! toi!.ll: and thefitme condition is toth( that t.hrce or foure men cannot hold th~m iuftandwick§d, to thegood andto the pure, andto dowae withoutbonds;it comes not ofwitch· thep•lluted,awdto him tl?atfocrificeth,andto him cr~frs and pollefsions, as people commonly th'!focrificcrh not: tU Mthegoodft Mthejinner; t~mke,butofcholerintheveines.Andwherehetthatfwearuh,M hee thatfe.rethan OAth. Se· as fome when they aredead,becomeas black condly, I anfwer the particulars which be alas j>itch (as Bonner was ) it may arife bya leadged, on thismanaer; And firO:ofall toubrutfe,or an tmpoliume, or by the black iaunchingdefpaire,itis truethatnot onely wicked dife, or by the putrifa~ionofthe liuer : and and loofe perfons defpaire in death , but alfo B it doth notalwaies argue fome cxtraordinarie repentat finners,who ofrentimes in theirfickiudgement ofG<>~.Now rhefe and the likedi· netfe, teO:ifie ofthemfelues, that being aliue, feafes with their Symptomes and itrange and lying in their beds, they feele thcmfelues etfeds, though they !hall dcpriue aman ofhis asitweretobeinhell, and toapprehead the health, and ofthe rightvfe ofthe parts ofhis very tJangsand torments therof. And I doubt body,& ofthe vfe ofreafon too:yer theycanor not for all this , bur that the childe of God depriue his fouleofeternalllife.And all finnes Rlo!tdearevntohim, may through the gulfc procured ofviolent difeafcs, and proceeding ofdefperation attain to euerlaO:ing happines. fromr~pe~tant finnc:rs,arc: fin11esofinfirmity; This appeares by the manner ofGods dca'iog for whJCh,tfrhey know them,and come again in thematter ofour faluation. All the workcs tothevfe ofreafon,they wil furtherrepent: if ofGod are dondn and by theircontraries. In not,tbey are pardoned and buried in thedeath the creation,allthings were ma.Je,notoffome of C:hriO::Aqd we ought not fo much to ttand thing,but ofnothing, cleane contrary to the vpon the O:rangene!fe ofany mans end, when courfe ofnature.Inthe worke ofredemption, we know the goodnes ofhislifc:forwe mult God giues life,not by life,but by death~and if iudgc a man not by his death, but ~y his life. wee conlideraright ofChriO: vpon the croffe, C And ifthis betrue,rhat itrange difeafes, ancl w<e !hall fee our paradifc out of paradife in thereupon O:range behauiours in death, may themiddellofhell. Foroutofhis ownecurbefall the beO: man that is; wee muO: !came to fod death doth hee bringvs life and et<rnall reforme our iudgcmentsof fuch as lye at the happineffe. Likewife in etfeCluall vocation, point ofdeath. The common opinion is, that when it pleafetb God to conuert and turne ifamandie quietly and goe oway like aJambe men vmohim, heedoth it by the mea~~es of -~which in fome difeafes,as conlumptions,and the Gofpell preached, which in reafon lhould uch like,any man maydo)rh< hegoes itraighr driue all men from God. For it is ascontrato heaucn : bot if rbe vioknct of the difeafe ry tO the nature of mal'!. as fire to water, and ftirrevp impaticnct:, and caufe frantick behalight todarkene!fe:and yet for all this,though uiours, then men vfe t~ fay, there isaiudgeit bee thusagainll: the difpofition and heartof ment ofGod feruing either todi!Couer anhyman, itpr<uailes withhim andturnes him to pocrite, or toplague a wicked man. But the God. Furthermore, when Gad will fend his truth is otherwife.For indeede aman may die owne fertiants tohcauen,he fends them aconiikc a Jambe; and yet goe to hell :and one dytrary way,euen by thegates ofhell: and when ing in exceeding torments and llrange behait ishis pleafure to make men depend on his D uioursof thebody,maygoetoheauen. And faucur and prouideoce, hee makes then feele by theoutward condition ofanyman, either his anger, and to bee nothing in thcmfc:lues, in life or death, wee are nottoiudgeofhis ethattheymaywhollydepend vponhim, and ll:atc before God. bee whatfoeuer they are in him. This point Thefifth obieCiion is this : When aman is beeing"wellconlidered, it is manifell:thatthe rnolheeredearh, rhenthediuell ismoftbufie childe of God may pane to heauen &y d1e vein temptation,& the moremenare a!faulred by rygulfes ofhell. The loue ofGod is likeafea, Satan rho more dangerous and troublefome ts into which when a man is caO:, hee neither their ;.k:.And therefore it may fceme rhatthe feeles bottome nor fees banke. I conclude dayofdeath is the werO: dayofall•.A~Y. The therefore, that dcfpaire, whether it arife of condition of Gods children 1n death lS twoweakcneffe of nature, or of confcience of folde. Some are notrempred, as Simeon, who fin,though it fall out about the time ofdeath, when he had feene Chrill:,brake forth & fa1d, cannot preiudice the faluation of them that .Lord.now /mefttho• thyfer•.mt depart inpea<e, are e!Te~ually called. As for other itrange ee>c;fore-fignif9ingnodoubt, rha< heel\10nld uents which fall out in death, they are the epd his daycs ia all manner of peace.. As for eflcctsofdifeafes: Rauingsand blafphemings thorn which are tempted, though thetr cafebe arife afthe di(eafe ofmclancholie, and frenvery troublefome and perplexed, yet their fal• uarion
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