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A02259	Deaths deliverance, and Eliahes fiery charet, or The holy mans triumph after death Delivered in two sermons preached at Plymouth, the one the 16. the other the 19. of August: the former at the funerall of Thomas Sherwill, an eminent and pious magistrate of that place. 1631. By Alexander Grosse now pastor of Bridford.	Grosse, Alexander, 1596?-1654.	1640 (1640)	STC 12394; ESTC S117896	44,988	121

not delight not in the presence of Gods holy and righteous people whose delight is not in then that l Psal 16.3 excell in vertue as Christs is whose eyes are not upon the m Psa 101.6 faithfull in the Land as Davids was but rather wish and labour their removall Many there bee to whom the presence of the righteous is like the n 1 Sam. 6 1 5. Arke to the Philistines as that was a burden to their Land and their God therefore they sent it away so are the people of God a burden a trouble to many profane persons a crosse a contradiction to their doings and therefore desire and labour their absence and what doe they hereby but in the strength of their impiety and multitude of their folly involve themselves in remediles and irrecoverable miseries The Sodomites tooke offence at Lots presence but what became of them when Lot was gone Did not the o Gen. 19.24 fire and brimstone instantly consume them The presence of Moses was irkesome to Pharaoh he was charged no more to looke him in the p Exod. 10.2 8. face but what ensued what was the issue of it were not all the q Exod. 11 5. first borne in Aegypt thereupon destroyed Pharaohs servants conceived Israel to be a r Ezod 10 7. snare to be instruments of much evill endevoured their removall but when Israel was gone what became of them Did not the Å¿ Exod. 14 Red Sea swallow them the very day of Israels out-going Thus you see how usually it fares with profane persons upon the removall of the righteous and is it not strange that notwithstanding all this they should still distaste their presence still wish and worke their absence Doe they not hereby plainely declare and publikely proclaime 1. That there is no t 1 Ioh. 5.1 love of God in their soules for how can a man love the father and hate the presence of the child 2. That they have no union with Christ doe the living members in a body naturall hate and wish each others removall was it ever heard saith the Apostle that a man did u Ephes 5 29 hate his owne flesh 3. That there is no saving grace no presence no powers of the spirit in such doth not every thing agree with and rejoyce in its like Doe not waters agree and flow together in one Chanell And had these men the spirit of holinesse in them could they grieve at the presence of Gods people Surely it is impossible for the Spirit of God is a Spirit of w Phil. 2.1 2 fellowship love peace joy making men of one accord and of one minde and when the righteous are gone when the mercifull men are taken away who shall stand in the gap then Shall the profane shall the worker of iniquity What can he doe In what account are his prayers The blind man could see and say this God heareth not x Ioh. 9 31. sinners their prayers are an y Prov. 28.9 abomination in his presence as Salomon doth assure us This must therefore teach us deepely to bewaile and much to lament the losse of godly men when they are taken from us and to feare the evils like to ensue upon their departure O Beloved let us not I beseech you be like them of whom the Propht here speaketh that did not consider that did not lay to heart the taking away of the righteous from ensuing evils Let us not be like Ephraim whose strength was devoured by z Hos 7.9 strangers and he knew it not that had gray haires here and there and much weakenesse comming upon him and yet he knew it not O let us not be unsensible of the declining and decay of our strength and stay and of the miseries which are comming on us let us not be like a man in a Lethargy that hath no feeling of the cutting off and taking away of a member from him but rather as David upon the fall of Abner refused to eate till the Sunne was gone downe saying to his servants a 2 Sam. 3.35 38 39. know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel and I am this day weake and these men the sonnes of Zerviah be too hard for me may not wee say the like in this behalfe is not the Church of God weake are not the enemies thereof too strong Was not the man now fallen amongst us a Ruler an eminent man in this place And is there not in this regard great cause of mourning Doubtlesse there is For whensoever a good man doth fall 1. The Church of God on earth doth lose one member 2. The place where they lived doth lose one Pillar and so like a house whose pillars faile is much weakned 3. Hereby we loose his presence which was a whetstone to set b Pro. 27.17 edge upon us whose face was as Iacob said of Esaus as the c Gen. 33.10 face of God unto us 4. Hereby we lose his prayers which were as buckets to bring much water out of the wells of Salvation to us 5. Wee lose his instructions and counsels which were as a shining Lampe as a comfortable Guide to us in the way 6 Wee lose his comforts which were wont to be as the Apothecaries oyntments as the sweete flowers of the Garden to our nostrils as the Dove with her Olive d Gen. 8.11 branch to Noah as the Wagons which Ioseph sent to old Iacob the reviving of ours as they were the e Gen. 45.27 28. reviving of his heart 7. We lose his helpe and assistance which was wont like a strong arme to make our heavy burthen light as a fountaine of living water to refresh us as a firme sure anker to stay us therfore as Israel f Deu. 34.8 wept 30. dayes for Moses so have you great cause of sorrow and lamentation now for the taking away of this Moses this servant of the Lord here before us and also at other times whensoever the righteous doe thus perish are thus taken away from the evils ensuing And now to say no more here you see a shining starre in your Horizon set a maine Pillar of your house fallen a choice flower of your Garden taken away a man eminent for his endowments well known sufficiently tryed for his abilities a man of whom 1. For his Religion for his uprightnesse towards God I thinke I may say of him as the Lord himself of Iob g Iob 1.1 He was a perfect and upright man one that feared God and eschewed evill a man that held fast his h Iob. 2.3 integrity though there wanted not occasions and meanes to move and shake him as Satan moved God against Iob without cause to destroy him a man he was like the tree growing within the Courts of the Lords house i Psal 92.12 bearing much fruit in his old age 2. For his publike Government hee was like

also glorifie God with their bodies which by death are Å¿ Psal 6.4 5. disabled to doe God any service 3. Sometimes that they may among men t Psal 30.10 Psal 84.10 11 12. celebrate and praise God for his blessings and favours bestowed upon them that they may be an encouragement to Gods people anornament to Gods truth a terror to the adversaries of it here upon earth 4. Sometimes that they may perfect some good Worke which they have begun do good to others in their places and callings thus u Phil. 1.23 Paul though he knew it was better for him to be dissolved and to be with Christ yet he was willing to live longer because it was good for them that hee should continue with them so that though the people of God sometimes for such causes doe desire continuance here yet it no way denieth this truth that their future estate in the Heavens is very glorious And if so be their future estate be so glorious so pleasant so comfortable as we have clearely seene it is Then first Vse 1 This must teach the people of God patience under their present burthens troubles tryals miseries the joy is behind the glory the Crowne is 2 Tim. 4.7 8. layd up for hereafter here like Israel we have but a little taste a few x Num. 13.13 Grapes in the way the full Vintage is reserved till at last here we are like Sampson the Honey we have is in the y Judg. 14.14 belly of a Lyon but hereafter we shall have sweet without sowre light without darkenesse rivers of joy without a tempest therefore as the servant patiently endureth the heate of the day in expectation of his wages in the evening the Souldier the dangerous and deadly wounds of the battell in expectation of a Crowne the husband-man the heate of the Summer the cold of the Winter comforting himselfe with the comming of a full and liberall harvest let us doe the like in this case here is a wages a crowne a harvest which will abundantly answer all losses labours hardnesse reproaches and whatsoever doth for the present annoy us As our Saviour said in another case a z John 16.21 Woman when shee is in travell hath sorrow because her houre is come but as soone as she is delivered of the child shee remembreth no more the anguish for joy that a man is borne into the World so in this case the people of God are now often in great anguish like a woman in travell but when this life is ended when our regeneration and new birth shall be fully accomplished we shall meete with that which will swallow up all our former griefe and trouble and make it as if it had never beene and as Salomons mother said in that case a Pro. 31.6 7. Prov. 31. give strong drinke to him that is ready to perish and wine to those that bee of a heavy heart let him drinke and forget his poverty remember his misery no more so here is a cup of consolations here is sweet wine here is a more pure river whereof when wee once come to drinke our full draught we shall forget our poverty we shall remember our misery no more therefore let us according to the charge of the Psalmist b Ps 37.5 6. commit our way to God trust in him and the Lord shall bring it to passe hee shall bring forth our righteousnesse as the light and our judgement as the noone day and in all our troubles tryals and against all adversary powers let us say as the Prophet Micah c Mica 7.8 9. doth rejoyce not against mee O mine enemy when I fall I shall rise when I sit in darkenesse the Lord shall bee a light unto mee I will beare the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him untill he plead my cause and execute judgment for me he will bring me forth to the light and I shall behold his righteousnesse And reckon also with the d Rom. 8.18 Apostle that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us evermore to remember that of S. Paul to the Corinthians that e 2 Cor. 4.17 18. our light afflictions which are but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding eternall waight of glory while we look not at the things which are but at the things which are not seene for the things which are seen are temporall but the things which are not seene are eternall thinke I beseech you of these things and let patience have her f Jam. 1.4 perfect work in all tryals troubles changes where with the Lord shall be pleased to exercise you This must teach the children of Vse 2 God constancy in the way and worke of God there is a blessed Price at the end of this race there is joy peace glory fulnes unutterable g Isa 64.4 inconceiveable O therefore bee not like Gideons many thousands which h Judg. 7.5 6 7. fainted which bowed downe upon their knees and drunke of the waters and so were discarded as unfit for the battell be not afraid of any losse of any trouble of any inconvenience having given your names to God O bow not downe againe to the World be no more as servants to your lusts or drudges to the earth I beseech you say not with the sluggard i Prov. 26.13 there is a Lyon in the way a Lyon in the streete feare not the Lyon of opposition of reproach of earthly losse or transitory trouble but goe on in the way of God be faithfull in the Covenant of the Lord be couragious in the service of our God and then as the spirit of the Lord came k Judg. 14.5 6 8. mightily upon Sampson so mightily that he rent the Lyon in pieces which roared against him and found at length a Honey combe in the belly of him so shall the Lord inable you to vanquish all oppositions and draw very sweete comforts from your present disquietments Let not the proverbe take hold of you l 2 Pet. 2.22 the Dog is returned againe to his vomit and the Sow to her wallowing in the mire be not like m 1 Tim. 1.19.20 Hymeneus and Philetus like unskilfull and cowardly marriners that flie back or make shipwracke with every tempest doe not with n 2 Tim. 4.10 Demas forsake Paul leave the Ministery become a stranger to the word and forsake God and goe back againe to this present World be not like the disciples which followed Christ for the o John 6.66 loaves but afterwards went backe and came no more to him but like Gideons 300. Souldiers goe yee on without fainting without bowing down to the World resolve in this as Hester did in that case p Hester 4.16 Hester 4. If I perish I perish whatsoever you loose whatsoever you endure here is an ample recompence be you faithfull