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A86563	The righteous mans hope in his death: in a sermon at the funerall of Mr William Conye of Walpoole, justice of peace, and captain over the trained band in Marshland. / Preached by John Horne Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ at Southlyn in Norfolke 2d⁰ May 1648.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1649 (1649)	Wing H2808; Thomason E562_3; ESTC R206072	29,394	38

and is in him not every one that talks of him and professeth him and cals him Lord Lord but he that 's found in him is imputed of God and accounted righteous by him and in him A righteousnesse this is that will as well rule him righteously that receives it as present him unto God righteous Now the way of receiving it is beleeving and for that cause partly it is called The righteousnesse of faith as also because it worketh righteousnesse or causeth us so to work through faith Rom. 10.6 which beleeving in its actings towards Christ and God in him and in its acting from God and Christ towards man by Gods love acting it Gal 5.6 is called as I understand our working righteousnesse or doing righteousnesse in 1 Joh. 2.29 Every one that doth righteousnesse is born of him which answers to chap. 5.1 Every one that beleeveth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and so in 1 Joh. 5.7 He that doth righteousnesse is righteous as he is righteous Which agrees with that in Col. 1.22 23. To present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight if ye continue in the faith grounded and setled c. That I say is our righteous doing especially as it works towards God or receiving Christ resteth in God through him in which respect it is said also to be imputed to us for righteousnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or unto righteousnesse Rom 4.5 Not for any inward merit in our acting it for indeed it 's rather acted in us but such is the love of God to his Son that he accepts our beleeving on him and takes it in as good part as if we had never sinned against him imputing it unto righteousnesse that is out of his meer grace and gracious determination so approving it that he looks on us now through Christ whom we therein beleeve on and reckons us after Christ who is his righteousnesse It is true that it is a righteous thing in it self that we should beleeve the word of God Istis duobus Christiana file que gloriam tribu●● Deo imputatione De● sides enim firma est 〈◊〉 oportet imputationtia Dei accedere Luth in Gal 3 6. and there-through beleeve in Christ set forth therein and so in God through him but yet this righteous thing of it self as acted by us or in us is too weak and low to denominate us righteous with God or intitle us to Christ his righteousnesse and make him ours did not God graciously so reckon of it as to accept it unto righteousnesse or to the intailing Christ upon us to be our righteousnesse But however that is our righteous-doing to give credit to God and beleeve on Christ and the not doing so is great unrighteousnesse that great sin which the holy Ghost will convince the world of Joh. 16.8 9 11. That that makes it a righteous thing to beleeve God is because he is true and all his words are pure and upright there is no fraud or perversnesse in him or his sayings none ever trasted to them and were deceived by them and thence it is too that unbelief is so great a sin and so unrighteous a thing because it gives God who is truth it self the lie and makes a liar of him 1 Joh. 5.10 And so again it is but a righteous just thing for men to beleeve on God in Christ and the contrary is unrighteousnesse and sin and why because he is good and loving yea love it self and doth good to men so as that they have good ground of committing themselves to him and staying on him and this in Christ because he hath in him testified his love to poor fallen mankinde and Christ hath so wonderfully deserved well of them for he came from his Father into the world on purpose to take our nature and therein bear our sin and die the death that was due to us which he also out of pity and good will towards us hath done and being risen again and ascended up to his father he is with him the propitiation for our sins and having received of him all authority and power yea being filled with all the fulnesse of God he holds forth himself as a Saviour to men as a Captain and leader ready and able to save them to the uttermost who ever submit to him and follow him Now God having done so much for us and upon these grounds requiring us to hope in him through Christ and cast our selves upon Christ it s but a most just and equall thing to beleeve on him and not to trust to one that hath prevented us with so much love and done so much for us is horrible ingratitude and injustice But by the way some may cast in this doubt concerning themselves Whether it can be made out that it is just and righteous that they in particular should beleeve in him Doubt For there are some so much bewilded in pooring upon themselves that they think it rather presumption and sin for them to hope in God and beleeve in Christ then any waies right and just for them and therefore if their hearts any time begin in consideration of this mercy and goodnesse a little to look towards him and conceive hope in him they are ready to start back again and say alas I am such a sinner I am not so well qualified I fear it's presumption in me to harbour any such thoughts of mercy in him for such a one as I Such a one I say might here object and ask me how I can make it good that it 's a just thing for him to beleeve in God and that God hath done so much for him as doth challenge his hoping and trusting in him To which I say S●lu Not that thou maiest know this by thy so doing or beleeving for that would be fallacious and as to thee dangerous it being the want of such frames that make thee in this temper besides that thou nor any man can througly beleeve in God or be rightly framed toward him till he beleeves that God hath done so much for him and is so graciously affected towards him that there is good warrant for beleeving in him and this too from divine testimony not humane conjectures for faith that 's right comes by hearing Rom 10.14 and that hearing by which it comes is of the word of God To answer positively then out of the word of God It 's evident by Gods own testimony there that there is good ground for thee to beleeve on him It 's but that that his grace and good will testified towards thee doth require of thee for all that good will that I spake of before as a good ground for faith is testified in the Scripture to appertain to thee for minde what the Scripture saith in this particular and thou shalt see it clearly Joh. 3.16 for it is said that he so loved the world as to give his son yea for the unjust 1

their visitation and be turned unto God and every one that so beleeveth the testimony of God concerning Christ in his heart that he therein receiveth Christ for his wisdom righteousnesse holinesse and redemption and is brought to rely upon him and God in him for pardon peace life spirit and whatsoever may concern his happinesse and therewithall is framed to the minde of Christ to live to him and to God in him as hath been shewn he is the truly righteous man here to be understood in the text one whom God approves and holds for righteous Every through cordiall and sincere beleever he is the righteous man here spoken of and that is the first thing propounded for explication who is this righteous man in opening which I have been the larger because that 's of most weight and men are aptest therein to be deceived resting either in morall or Pharisaicall conceited righteousness in stead of the true righteousnesse which is according to God or else to rest in a form and carcasle of faith that receives nothing but propositions of truth into the head but receiveth not Christ into the heart to be it's righteousness from all which the righteousnesse of God doth greatly differ beyond all which kinde of righteous men the man that 's truly righteous doth very much go as is declared having cleared that let us now come to the second thing propounded to be explained and opened Quest 2. viz. What the hope is that such a righteous man hath in his death In opening that I shall consider this his hope both in it's object and ground This hope may be considered according to it's object and that first Objectum in quo The object unto which the heart is led and carried and in which it hath it's expectation and that is not any vain empty creature either it self or any other thing in the whole world for the righteous man is crucified to them with Christ and knows there is nothing to be met with from them that can help or satisfie and that God hath pronounced a curse upon him that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm Jer. 17.5 His hope therefore is set upon God in Christ from him is all his expectation according to that of David Psa 62.1 2. Truly my soul waiteth upon God from him cometh my salvation and that in Lam. 3.24 The Lord is my portion saith my soul therefore in him will I hope God as he hath discovered himself to the soul in Christ so he himself is the object in which it hopeth and from whom it expecteth what it hopeth for 2. The Objectum propter quod the object for which it hopeth it hopes for something as well as in something as to instance he hopes for support and preservation through death Though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death yet will I fear none ill for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff doth comfort me or support me Psa 23.4 Psa 37.25 2. The enjoyment of Christ and God in Christ more fully in his Spirit after the dissolution of the body thence Paul Phil. 1. I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ 2 Cor. 5.6 8. knowing that when we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord walking by faith and not by fight we desire to be rather absent from the body and to be present with the Lord the righteous man hopes for a more full enjoyment of Christ then here he was capable of 3. He hopes that God will yet take care of his people and preserve his Church and carry on his work in the world for the glory of his name and will not be wanting to his posterity if he leave any behinde him Deut. 33.26 29. 4. His resurrection out of death and the full possession of eternall glory which Jesus Christ in the re-union of the soul and body as is at large declared in 1 Cor. 15. and in 1 Thes 4.16 17. c. He that raised up the body of the Lord Jesus Christ shall also raise up the beleever and give him acrown of life and glory that shall never fade where there shall be no mixture of grief or misery with his joy or happinesse but he shall be fully and for ever satisfied with the glorious enjoyment of God in Christ Jesus This is the hope that a righteous man hath in his death the object hoped for 2. This hope may be considered too in the ground or motive of it whence it springeth or what that is that gives a man encouragement and boldnesse to hope in God and Christ for such happinesse yea even in death when God seems to be about co cut him off for ever and that is properly the Lord Jesus Christ as he is the gift of God the manifestation of the Fathers love and grace the Mediatour and Saviour of the soul declared to the soul in the Gospel and received by faith whence the Apostle stiles him our hope Paul an Apostle by the commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope 1 Tim. 1.1 and again Christ in you the hope of glory Col. 1.28 for it 's in the gift of him for and to the soul that it apprehends the love of God to be such towards it as that it hath good cause for ever to hope in him and thus to reason concerning him If when we were enemies we were reconciled unto God by the death of his Son how much more being reconciled shall we be saved by his life Rom. 5.10 Now because it is this love of God shed abroad into the heart by the holy Ghost that springs up this hope in God as Rom. 5.5 6. therefore the Apostle cals it good hope through grace that is sprung up through the apprehension and appearance of the grace or favour of God towards us as in another respect viz. because this grace is declared in the Gospel and therethrough discerned by us it 's called also the hope of the Gospel Col. 1.23 2 Thes 2.16 a lively hope that puts lively chearfull thoughts into the soul and makes it live in the midst of death in expectation of a crown and inheritance incorruptible and immortall c 1 Pet. 2.3 and that grounded upon the resurrection of Christ from the dead thence it 's also a good hope not only because it doth good to the soul in saving preserving and supporting it in trials and afflictions so as that it saints not nor turns away from God 1 Joh. 3.3 but is kept in dependance on him or in that it also purifies the soul or leads the man to purge himself through the grace of God beleeved that he may be meet for such a hope or glory hoped for in the view of which it also gives the soul strong consolation making it in death to trample upon death and rejoice over death because of the glory to be revealed and enjoyed after it but also it 's good because of the foundation whence it