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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31451	The certainty of salvation to them who dye in the Lord a sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable, George Lord Delamer, at Boden, in the county-palatine of Chester, September the 9th, 1684 / by Zachary Cawdrey ...	Cawdrey, Zachary, 1616-1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing C1645; ESTC R36290	20,346	38

with true Faith in both the Litigants were highly angry with one another upon Earth they will each rejoyce in the Salvation of the other and each love other as himself and will bless God that he was to each of them a more just and merciful Judge than they were to one another upon Earth Next No fear can enter there where God's Truth Power Wisdom and Goodness are all engaged for the Security of our being eternally blessed It is no less impossible that Envy should follow a Saint to Heaven to torture him there who was in a great measure a stranger to it here seeing even here God is the Portion of Believers and they who have God for their Inheritance find no reason to envy the Lot of others being assured their own is the best Portion But besides consider that every one of the Saints in Heaven hath the full Inheritance the Church there is a Church of the First-born of God Every one is an Heir to the whole Kingdom and filled with all the Fulness of God Ephes 3.19 according to the Capacity of every one For such is the nature of the Enjoyments of spiritual Objects that every Man may have all So that one Saint's knowing and loving God perfectly hinders not but that another yea ten thousand times ten thousand may know and love him perfectly without any Defalcation from the Portion of one another And further consider that all the Saints having entirely resigned their Wills to the Will of God and being perfectly well pleased with all his Appointments and Assignments and withal loving other Saints even as themselves it is impossible that Envy should enter amongst them for the only Roots on which Envy can grow are a quarrelling with the Will of God and not loving our Neighbour Lastly No sorrow either for themselves or others can disturb the Inhabitants of the Jerusalem which is above For How can they sorrow who have all they can desire and delight eternally in the state they do enjoy Nor can the Saints grieve on the account of others seeing all pleaseth them which it pleaseth God to order for his own Glory So that for what the state of their Friends on Earth is they are not sollicitous knowing that that infinite Wisdom and Goodness which it is their delight to contemplate above ruleth all things both in Heaven and Earth Nay the very Reprobation of wicked Friends and Relations will not affect the Saints who do delight that God's Justice and Holiness are glorified as well as his Mercy And withall the Love of God so entirely possesses the Saints that it extinguisheth the Love of wicked Friends as the powerful shining of the Sun puts out a Lamp or Candle Hence then it appears they must needs be blessed who dye in the Lord seeing they rest from all their Labours both from outward Sufferings and inward Temptations and from all tormenting Passions and Compassions There remaineth therefore a Rest for the People of God But there is another Argument also in the Text to prove the blessed state of departed Saints Their works do follow them But that the Argument may shew its force we must enquire what sort of Works do follow them I answer First Their sinful Works do not follow them who dye in the Lord they being absolved from the Guilt of them by the Propitiation of the death of our Saviour Christ So that there is no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.1 How far the remembrance of our own sins and sinfulness may abide with us in Heaven I cannot say only I do confidently believe that no more of that Remembrance shall remain with us there than shall cause us to admire and adore the infinite Patience and Long-suffering of God to us on Earth and to delight our selves in that sweet reflection upon the Divine Goodness The Works therefore of the Saints that follow them are their good Deeds done according to God's Law as the Rule and by his Grace as the Power and in Obedience and Love to him as the Motive and for his Glory as the End And of this sort are all Acts of Piety Faith Repentance Mortification Loyalty Charity Justice Temperance and other Christian Graces These follow the Christians to be judged and rewarded But by what Law are they to be judged Not by the Law of Works given at our Creation not according to the Estimate which God's Rectoral Justice passeth of the Actions of Men and Angels as he is the Maker and Ruler of them for the best Works of the best Men being thus judged would be reprobated and condemned The Works therefore of the Saints follow them to be judged by the Law of Faith by the New Covenant by the Book of Life mentioned Rev. 20.12 Out of which together with the Books of their Consciences the Dead are judged according to their Works that is according as their Consciences do bear Testimony of their Evangelical Obedience or of their Neglect of it they stand or fall at the Bar of Divine Justice The Law of which Book of Life is this That if the heart be sincere as to the aim and end with a single eye designing God's Service and Glory in our Undertaking and if the matter of the Act be according to God's Command then though there be a failure in that full intenseness of the Affections that should have accompanied the work or in the exactness and regularity of some circumstances of it which failure is caused through an unaffected or unallowed inconsiderateness or through some other weakness yet being done I say with a sincere heart it is being weighed in the Ballance of the Gospel a good work it is accepted by God in Christ Jesus and accounted to the Saints for Righteousness and shall be rewarded This is plainly proved from that Promise Mat. 10.42 He that gives a cup of cold water to a disciple in the name of a disciple shall not lose his reward shall have a disciple's reward And so Matth. 25.21 The Servant that was faithful in the use of his Talents was called to enter into the Joy of his Lord. And so again Mat. 25.41 Those who cloathed fed and visited Christ in his poor Members are by Christ invited as the Blessed of his Father as those approved by his Father to inherit the Kingdom prepared for them from the beginning of the World We may observe the different manner of dating the setting out the Reward of the Righteous and the Reward of of the Wicked The Wicked those on the left hand are bid Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels into the Hell which was appointed by God immediately upon the sin of the Angels which was committed before the sin of Man probably before Man's Creation or the Creation of any part of the visible World But the Saints those on the right hand are called to enter into the Kingdom prepared for them from the beginning of the World that is