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The waters of Marah sweetned A sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Clare Wittewronge, eldest daughter to Joseph Alston Esq; and late wife to John Wittewronge Esq;: who was interred at Stantonbury in the county of Bucks. Octob. 22. 1669. By Mr. John Mason, minister.
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Mason, John, 1646?-1694.
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the day of Judgment When the Lord Jesus shall appear from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to take vengeance on all those that know not God and obey not the Gospel of Christ where then will guilty sinners appear Or where will you hide your selves from the presence of the Lamb Alas there will be no possibility of escaping his terrible presence you shall see him coming in the Clouds you shall hear him pronouncing your dreadful Doom you shall feel him pressing down your souls with the power of his wrath But fear not little flock for your Enemies shall not sit in Judgment when you shall come upon tryal for your lives to have your everlasting estate determined It is your Friend your Brother your Advocate that shall be your Judge 'T is he that led you by the hand through the valley of death that shall meet you in the day of Judgment Then you shall say Lo this is our God our Jesus we have waited for him and he will save us Then the object of our Faith shall be the object of our Sight Him whom our souls have loved and longed for we shall see with these eyes of ours in that day We shall see him coming in the clouds with power and great glory we shall see him not with scorn but with admiration not with trembling but with rejoycing Christs first Appearance was very mean He appeared as the Son of man or rather as a worm a reproach of men all that saw him laughed him to scorn But hereafter he shall appear as the God of all glory and the Judge of quick and dead In the days of his flesh he appeared as a Prisoner at Pilates Bar and as a Malefactor on the Cross then indeed he stood charged with the sins of all his people but in the day of Judgment he shall appear without sin unto their salvation The glorious presence of the Lord that shall be as a devouring Fire to consume his Enemies shall be a warm Sun to refresh his Saints And that day that shall be a day of terrour to guilty sinners shall be to us a day of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. It 's wonderful to think what infinite honours and priviledges shall be conferred upon us poor dust and ashes in that day How we shall be caught up in a Chariot of clouds and shall meet the Lord in the air where we shall receive kind salutations from him and smiles and blessings and acknowledgments of service and Crowns of glory and shall be made his Assessors whiles he is judging the world and after all this shall attend him into his glorious Palace where we shall ever be with the Lord Let us comfort one another with these words The very thought of Christs last Appearance how sweet is it to a believing soul This day of Life is a day of Trouble but the day of Judgment is a day of Redemption This is a day of Confession but that is a day of Absolution Here we are slain all the day long but that is our Coronation-day Here in Mans day we are judged by the world but in the Lords day we shall judge the world Angels and men O most blessed day that ever shone being thus enlightned by the bright and glorious Appearance of the Sun of Righteousness Now if Death and Judgment are thus sweetned and blessedly altered through Christ as you have heard then O how happy are the Saints departed Rev. 1413. Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth They are Blessed from henceforth Here their Blessedness commences even in this same point which puts a period to their sins and sorrows And the Spirit of God bid his Amanuensis write it down as a remarkable note that a Christians Blessedness takes date from the time of his death Till then he was a wretched sufferer under a body of death and a mass of corruption but now he is a blessed Triumpher His sins have left him his good works follow him and Heaven affords him Rest. I confess 't is a common Errour among the worst of men that when they die they shall be at rest and in their pains they will wish to die that they may go to rest But alas 't is only those that die in the Lord that shall rest from their labours Cursed are they that die out of the Lord that die in the old Adam only and upon the old score I have spoke nothing all this while in favour of the unregenerate Let them not boast with Agag surely the bitterness of death is past for death will hew them in pieces as the unmerciful Executioner of Divine Justice They that die out of Christ die in all the sins that ever they have committed Those dreadful words which our Saviour spoke to the Pharisees will reach them Ye shall die in your sins and whither I go ye cannot come Their dying alas what is it but a going to Hell As the rich Glutton when he died the next news that we hear of him is that he is in Hell The Devil did not make him roar till he had him there Death stings a wicked man and leaves its sting in him and casts all its venom upon him A wicked man is a great loser by his death he loses all he is worth he loses his Heaven here his Paradise and his hearts delight Death sends him into another world begging And he that had his Cups of Wine here would there be glad of Drops of Water He is a great sufferer by his death for it is the Devils Trap wherein he takes his soul it is the Door of Hell which lets him into that abhorred place of everlasting Torments But O how safe and quiet are those that are fallen asleep in Jesus They are resting securely they are unconcerned in the troublesom affairs and changes of this life nothing disturbs their rest Abraham is ignorant of us saith the Church but he is Acquainted with God and Christ and that is sufficient He is ignorant of us and our Calamities but he is sensible of his own Mercies Alas here can be no perfect happiness on this side death for whiles we are present with the body we are absent from the Lord. It was excellently spoke of Queen Elizabeth Whiles I call things past to mind behold things present and expect things to come I hold them happiest that go hence soonest Surely all the Faithful have cause to bless the Lord for a state of mortality Job loathed to think of a state of immortality upon earth Chap. 7. 16. I loath it I would not live always The soul of this righteous man was like a bird caged or pinioned and if she had her freedom she would soon flie away and be at rest What delight could she take in such an unclean cage in such a rotten ulcerous body in such a base treacherous world she would fain be gone and is waiting and requesting