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A31268	The duty and support of believers in life and death a funeral sermon on the death of Mrs. Mary Smith, who deceased Feb. 29, 1687/8 preached, on the Lords Day following, March 4, to the auditory whereof she was a constant member.	T. C.	1688 (1688)	Wing C131; ESTC R5669	18,382	34

deliver'd up to the Father This is what remains to be done by Christ Secondly The Benefits which flow from Christ may be included in this term of the Lords Salvation and there are some such which believers while alive are not possest of but waiting for I grant that they receive several of Christs benefits when they are made believers yea even those which are the earnest and pledg of all the rest They have eternal life abiding in them assoon as their spiritual life is begun if they become the children of God by faith at their new birth then they are at that time the rightful Heirs Rom. 8. 17. of Heaven and of all that Heaven contains but still the Inheritance is reserved for them They have not 1 Pet. 1. 4. the perfect enjoyment of all that God hath promis'd and that Christ hath purchas'd though they have the title and the first fruits The following particulars will shew what they wait for as the effects of their Saviour's sufferings First to begin with the least and lowest of their Expectations A full deliverance from temporal and external evils such as pain and sickness Providential disappointments and losses unjust and violent Persecutions c. which they are more or less at one time or another subject to in this life Though these burdens are comparatively light yet many times they make a Believer to groan under them while he is in this Tabernacle They lye so heavy sometimes 2 Cor. 5. 4. especially when several kinds of them meet together like various Rivers which run into one Sea of trouble that they make a man bitter in soul and put him upon longing for death which otherwise Job 3. 20 21. he would be most desirous to shun Though these are lesser evils yet they are real and so long as we labour under them we cannot but look upon our selves as miserable in part Who can doubt that our blessedness is imperfect while our bones are vexed while Gods arrows stick in our flesh when so many Diseases are ready to assault us and unseen Casualties to fall upon us where our riches and all other worldly glory like birds upon the wing are prepar'd to fly away from us where our finest Hos 9. 11. garments are so quickly moth-eaten and our most valuable Goods corrupted where our whole inheritance is liable to the spoiler's hands and the Sons of blood if God at any time let them loose may arise and take possession How uncertainly is our health or ease or plenty or tranquility prolong'd while we are here in how small a moment may all the contrary mischiefs overtake us But we wait the time when God will finally save us out of all Secondly Deliverance from the remainders of Indwelling Corruption and the Temptations of Satan Here a Believer is often crying out with Paul Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from Rom. 7. 24. the body of this death He hath not yet actually obtain'd such a deliverance but he waits for it I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. We many Ver. 25. times feel the tyranny and force of sin though it hath lost its constant and allowed Dominion we are led into an unwilling Captivity though we have renounc'd the voluntary service Satan though he cannot command us does frequently overcome us though we do not yield our selves to him we are prevail'd upon by him He entangles us though we do not run into the snare he pursues and overtakes us when we shun him and fly from him How troublesome and tedious is this to a child of God! that he cannot go from the evil spirit nor stifle the lusts of his own heart What a sad exercise is this to a Saint that he should not only have Principalities and Powers to wrestle with but be divided against himself Indeed the sincerity of all those is to be suspected who can bear this with any quietness or satisfaction But the Heavenly state admits of no such disturbances we wait for an absolute freedom both from sin and temptation in the next world Thirdly A Declared Justification from the Guilt of every sin This was the motive to Repentance and Conversion which Peter laid before the Jews whose hands were stained with the blood of Christ That your sins may be blotted out wben the times of Act. 3. 19. refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. It is true that every sin is now blotted out to every true Believer but in the day of Christ he will shew that it is so The Books when they are open'd shall be visibly crost and we pronounc'd before Angels and men as Righteous by the sinless Obedience of the second Adam as if we never had offended There is a private act of Oblivion as it were already past but then it shall be publickly read in the hearing of the World. Our pardon is now certain upon the supposition of repentance and faith then it shall be as evident as certain and universally known both to others and our selves We are indeed Justified by Faith at present and abundantly Rom. 5. 1. John 5. 24. secur'd from future Condemnation but there will be a Judicial Declaration of our Righteousness at the appearing of our Lord Jesus which will tend more to the Honour of God's Grace and to the Increase of our Everlasting Joy All that we have done amiss shall be so absolutely forgiven that Christ will then audibly say in the General Assembly of Mankind Well done and will Matt. 25. 21 23. not that be a joyful sound We cannot conceive what Glory will redound hence to God and what Triumph of Spirit it will cause in us 4. A nearer view of God and Converse with him While we are sojourning here we are at a Distance and so see but darkly and enjoy but little We are nigh to God in comparison of the Unregenerate part of this World but we are afar off from God in comparison of the glorified Inhabitants of the next What signifies our sight of God in the Sanctuary compared with that sight which they have in Heaven How far short does our beholding in a Glass come of seeing God face to face What Communion have we in Ordinances worthy to be named with the immediate Fruition of the Divine Presence We wait for more open vision and more intimate fellowship for such a state wherein God himself Rev. 21. 3. shall be with us not the Word of God and other Instituted Means of Grace but God himself We cannot yet know by speculation how great such an happiness is but we expect to know by experience we are like persons standing at the door who cannot see what is within the house Death is the pulling of this door aside and then all things will be nakedly exposed to our perfected Understandings To what good purpose shall we lift up our Eyes above after our Friends have closed them for us here below What a