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A75710	Living loves betwixt Christ and dying Christians A sermon preached at M. Magdalene Bermondsey in Southwark, near London, June 6. 1654. At the funeral of that faithful servant of Christ Mr. Jeremiah Whitaker, Minister of the Gospel, and pastor of the church there. With a narative of his exemplarily holy life and death. By Simeon Ashe, his much endeared friend and brother. Together with poems and elegies on his death, by divers ministers in the city of London.	Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing A3961A; ESTC R223578	67,742	92

have pretended much respect to Christ Ma● 7. 22 23. 2. To all those who are ashamed to own Christ in his cause and his friends in their holy conversation for all these our Lord observeth and of them he will be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of Mark 3. 32. his Father with the holy Angels And I leave it to your consideration how miserable their case will be at the last day when Christ who knoweth all his friends and foes shall separate the sheep and the Matth. 25. 32. goats And shall come to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly amongst them Jude 15. of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him And of the individual unfriendly neglects of his necessitous servants these must depart with a curse from Christ and go away into everlasting Mat. 25. 41. 46. punishment Vse 2 This truth administreth sweet comfort unto all them who are faithful friends unto the Lord Jesus Christ and his real Relations The testimony of their own consciences 2 Co● 1. 12. will in this case reflect refreshing and this will be a great addition unto their comfort that expressions of friendly respect both to God and his servants are thus observed and will be acknowledged The Lord himself to en●ourage Israel in captivity giveth them to Jer. 24 5. understand that he will own them in that estate No doubt it was good news to Cornelius when he heard Acts 10. 4. from heaven Thy Prayers and thine Alms are come for a memorial before God So the Psalmist cheareth himself by this consideration I have preached Righteousnesse in the Psal 40 9 10. great Congregation Lo I have not refrained my lips O Lord thou knowest it This consolation will be admirably sweet at two seasons First When we may be injuriously suspected and censured for falsnesse and unfaithfulnesse either to God or to his people How well was it for Mordecai Esther 2. 21. when himself with his Countrey-men were decryed and condemned as enemies to the State that his fidelity in a particular instance was recorded And to bring this home to the knowledge that God taketh of his servants sincerity J●b being reproached Job 23. 10. as an hypocrite hath recourse to this He knoweth the way that I take And Jeremiah being suspected to be one ill-affected towards the place where he lived maketh this appeale to the Lord Jer. 17. 16. I have not desired the wofull day thou knowest Secondly At the day of Judgement when God will measure out unto people according to their wayes The Prophet Malachy having mentioned both Gods hearing the good conferences of such who feare his Name in evil times and the book of Remembrance recording all he addeth And these shall be mine Mal. 3. 16 17. saith the Lord of Hosts in the day when I make up my jewels c. And this cordial is contained in Pauls Prayer for Onesiphorus The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus for he refreshed me and was 2 Tim. 1. 16 17 18. not ashamed of my chaine But when he was at Rome he sought me diligently and found me The Lord grant unto him that he may finde mercy of the Lord in that day But most comfortable is that full promise of Christ himselfe unto all such who are friendly unto him in his Matth. 25. 34. 40. 46. relations recorded in Matthew 25. from ver 34. to ver 40. from whence these particulars are worthy consideration 1. That he will at the last day remember all the individual offices of friendship to his members and will mention much that themselves never minded And they shall say when saw we thee an hungred Ver. 37. c. 2. That all acts of love and pitty towards his relations even the least and lowest shall be interpreted as a special kindnesse shewed unto himself In as Ver. 40. much as you have done it to one of the least of these my brethren you have done it unto me 3. And the recompence shall be exceeding great Then shall the King say Come ye blessed of my Father inherit Verse 34. 46. the Kingdom prepared for you And the Righteous shall go into eternal life Vse 3 I will conclude this Doctrine and this first part of my Text with a double short Exhortation First to real friendlinesse both unto Christ and to all those who peculiarly belong unto him Suppose ye saw Christ sitting in a chaire of Majesty and heard him speaking thus in the audience of all the inhabitants on earth Who is on my side Let all my faithful friends gather themselves before me In this case would not multitudes come in with professions and protestations of love Now it is thus in truth for our Lord looketh from heaven and considereth exactly who are his friends and who are not Therefore bethink your selves what you will do And if you be content to come in to Christ as faithful friends then befriend for his sake those especially Gal. 6. 10. who are of his houshold for this will be observed and rewarded Therefore my beloved be ye stedfast and 1 Cor. 15. 58. unmovable alwayes abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as you know that your labour is not in vaine in the Lord. Secondly to beware of all kinds of doubling and hypocrisie both in the profession and practice of love whether towards Christ or faithful Christians It is the admonition of the Apostle Let love be Rom. 12. 9. without dissimulation And the Doctrine is a strong Argument to back it because of the notice which our Saviour taketh thereof Christ himself by this consideration moveth sincerity in all services whether of piety towards God or charity towards men because an eye Mat●h 6. 4 6. from heaven doth espie whatsoever is done on earth with greatest secrecy This motive will be the more prevalent if we minde Christ who as the Judge of all men will manifest and recompence Luke 12 1 2. 2 Cor. 5. 9 10. their services according to their nature and manner of performance The second part of my Text followeth in the handling whereof I shall be the shorter because I have been so large in the former Lazarus sleepeth In the division of the Text there were three things noted thence which I shall speak unto very briefly in three points of Doctrine Doct. 1 1. That such who are Christs and his peoples friends are subject to death This word Sleepeth is by our Evangelist himself thus Verse 13. Verse 14. expounded Jesus spake of his death and it is added Jesus saith to them plainly Lazarus is dead There is no need of Scripture quotations here because experiences from age to age every where give in sufficient proof of this Truth When the Apostle Heb. 11. 13. had particularized many Worthies