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A28821	A mirrour of Christianity and a miracle of charity, or, A true and exact narrative of the life and death of the most virtuous Lady Alice, Dutchess Duddeley published after the sermon in the Church of St. Giles in the Fields / by R.B., D.D., rector of the said church, on Sunday the 14th of March, MDCLXIX.	R. B. (Robert Boreman), d. 1675.	1669 (1669)	Wing B3758; ESTC R11208	27,802	56

for or expected It is the Saviour which is Christ the Lord. First for the expectantes We i. e. nos fideles We Christ's faithful ones we as the Mother of Sisera Judg. 5.18 Look'd out at a window and cried when she expected his return with victory over the Israelites Why is his Chariot so long in coming So we look through the Casement of Hope for Christ's second coming to Judgment Now Hope is the expectation of some great good which we believe we shall receive because he is faithful that promised it For this cause Clem. Alexandrinus calls Hope 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the blood or Life of Faith for that it keeps our Faith warm without the which it would languish and faint Faith without Hope may be in Hell as well as on Earth The Devils believe Jam. 2.19 That Christ will come to be our Judge but they are afraid and tremble as the wicked do when they think of it because their torments shall be encreased then as the joy of the good Angels and Saints augmented with a clearer or fuller Vision of Almighty God They only look for Christ with Hope expecting his second coming they only who believe in him as their Redeemer We look says the Apostle excluding all unbelievers we look for the Saviour So it is Expectatio fidem testificans such an expectation as testifies our faith in Christ and by this as an infallible Rule we may assure our Souls of the soundness and Truth of our Faith in Christ that our sins by him and through him are pardoned and our Persons justified if with Hope joyn'd with inward Joy and Comfort we wait for his second Advent For in the second place This expectation is Expectatio animam exhilarans it is such a looking or expectation which in the midst of all their sorrows refreshes and revives the Spirits of the Saints for they reason thus with themselves Here in this life our bodies are oft upon the rack of sickness pinch'd with pains and tortur'd with Aches but then at the Resurrection or last day of Judgment they shall rise as so many bright shining Suns out of the dark celles of their graves and in a moment be invested with those glorious qualities that adorn the body of our Lord Christ as is attested by the Apostle in the next verse to the Text. Again They believe that they shall find Christ then at his Appearance not their Judge to condemn but their Advocate to plead for them Why then say they should we be dismaid for fear of that Judgment wherein he is to be the Judge who at first suffer'd for us in his body on the Cross as a Surety or Redeemer that he might satisfie his Father's Justice for our sins and having paid our debts by his death hath ever since pray'd for us as an Intercessour and will at last be our gracious Rewarder Thus the Saints look for Christ with an expectation which rejoyces the heart They delight in the coming of their Saviour Thirdly This their Expectation or looking for Christ is Expectatio vitam purificans such an Expectation as is attended with purity of life and holiness in a strict conversation They ever have as S. Hierome professes that he had the voice of the Archangel Arise ye dead and the noise of the last trumpet sounding as it were in their ears When those that are Christ's that lived and died his faithful servants shall rise first out of their graves and meet their Lord in the air to receive an everlasting Crown the reward of their service Then the sinners and ungodly shall be raised their bodies being as black as the Infernal darkness and having received their sentence from the mouth of their Judge their bodies and souls shall be sent back to their dark Prisons in Hell where they shall be ever burning and never consumed in flames of fire and brimstone The consideration of these everlasting burnings as it makes the Saints to set an high price or value upon the Lord Jesus so it engages them to a strict performance of all holy Duties as continual prayer sobriety and watchfulness being assur'd that none at that great day shall escape the sentence of Condemnation with the wicked who are surpris'd by Death and snatch'd away in their sins of which they have not repented For most true is that saying of S. Aug. Epist 80. to Hesychius In quo quemque invenerit suus novissimus dies in hoc eum comprehendet mundi novissimus qualis in die illo quisque moritur talis in die altero judicabitur In what condition a man is found at the hour of Death in the same shall he be looked upon at the great day of Judgment If he be surprised by Death in the state of Impenitency he shall then be condemn'd as an Impenitent without mercy If death finds thee without sin it being severed from thy soul by an hearty Repentance thy Soul shall not be separated from God but shall with thy glorified body partake of everlasting blessedness To conclude He that shall come i. e. Christ who is designed by God to be our Judge will come and will not tarry Heb. 10.37 i. e. not fail to come on that very day which is appointed for him to summon all men to Judgment Of that day and hour knoweth no man Matth. 24-36 It is hid from the eyes of our understanding and knowledge but let not the thought of it be banished from our hearts let us expect our Lord's coming every day he comes first by Death before he comes to judgment Therefore let our expectation of him be in the last place Expectatio attentè vigilans an Expectation or looking for him attended with an attentive watchfulnes All our watching all our praying with other holy duties should drive at this end that when Death comes it may find us well doing or in an holy frame of living and we it our friend which is an enemy to the Impenitent and ungodly sinners Suppose thou seest Death marching towards thee with a cup of deadly poison in one hand and a Crown in the other and that if it take thee in the midst of thy sins that Poison will be thy potion but if it find thee watching and praying that Crown shall be thy lot or portion Oh! then put on Job's resolution Chap. 14.14 All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 expectabo wait is but a Syllable but of a large and spreading signification and comprises the main if not the whole duty of man He that waits does watch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with an awful care and circumspection with an holy Fear and Jealousie over himself ever suspecting his own weakness so that he is ever upon duty always busied either in the immediate Acts of Piety or in the ordinary works of his Calling that the Devil or his own imbred corruptions may not supplant or hurt him nor Death surprise his Person