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A51834	The blessed estate of them that die in the Lord opened in a sermon at the funerals of Mistres Jane Blackwel, wife of Master Elidad Blackwel, pastor of Andrew Undershaft, London / by Tho. Manton.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1656 (1656)	Wing M518; ESTC R30511	23,515	42

them see you make it your care to practise your own Doctrine We are set forth for signes Gods eys and mens are upon us do worthily and becoming your station It s true God comes neer when he separates those that are so neer and dear one to another and we ought to lay it to heart but that wherin you are like to err is in too much sorrow and dejection of spirit which may be your wisdom to labour to prevent as being seemly for a Christian and a Preacher to shew his moderation We finde that Abraham mourned for Sarah and he had great cause so to do for she was a very good companion to him in all his travels and troubles she was very pleasing in his eye in regard of her beauty she brought him a child in his old age the son of the promise she is honored in Scripture above all other women of her age the time how long she lived is set down which is not done for any other woman At her death Abraham mourns but very moderately he wept for her but we finde no excess in the measure or in the time of his grief and he is a good pattern David weeps for the death of his child while it was alive for he feared it would dye and the thing he feared came upon him but when they thought that upon the death of his child his tears would have risen to a flood it was suddenly a low ebb and he gives herein instruction to all mourners and to you teaching you to say wherefore should I now fast and weep any longer I cannot bring her back again I shall go to her but she shall return to me and plainly asserts that none should mourn more then they can give a good reason for why should I now mourn you know it s no other then we ought dayly to expect and look for here below vicissitudes namely and changes And you will soon meet her again in heaven where as I conceive with Austin she shall be Notissima tibi And in the mean time in your injoying Christ you injoy her still in him And all the helps advantages sweetnesses counsels consolations satisfactions defences carings cordials contentments whatever was lovely in her whatever you loved her for you still injoy in him either by the administration of other mediums or immediately from himself and what comes from God immediately is much sweeter You have cause rather to be thankful you enjoyed her so long then sorrowful you can on earth enjoy her no longer I know not whether her Religion worth and holiness will serve more to aggravate your loss or to allay your sorrow 'T is sad to think you have lost such a loving humble godly and meet companion But remember that Because she was such an one you have the more confidence that she is blessed and is gone from you to better company even to the company of Saints free from all sin and all sorrow full of holiness and happiness of Angels too of Jesus Christ too the King of Saints the Lord of Angels he that so loved us he that did so much suffered so much for us he whom the fathers before his incarnation so longed to see he whom every believing soul so pants and breaths after Which that it may the more sensibly appear I shall here take occasion to subjoyn her just and true Character The Character of Mistress Jane Blackwel SHe was a Gentlewoman born of the house of the Wintringhams a family of eminency and note in Yorkshire Educated and trained up from her childhood till married under Dr. Chaderton Master of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge that famous godly man and her neer Kinsman by reason whereof she was even in her yonger yeers so grounded in knowledge season'd with Grace and accomplish'd with abiliments and endowments every way that she was a most rare and incomparable companion for a Minister Some things there were wherein she was exceeding exemplary As she was a woman of a marvellous humble spirit That all who knew her and conversed with her admired in her and it was abundantly evident and apparent in her countenance speeches gestures apparel and every way A simple single plain-hearted woman An Israelite indeed in whom there was no guile A merciful pitiful charitable woman Open hearted open-handed too to her power yea and beyond her power spared it from her own back and belly to cloath and feed others gladly embraced occasions when offered yea greedily sought out occasions Her love was not verbal onely such as that James speaks of Go and be cloathed go and be warmed c. But real she refreshed the bowels of many The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon her and she made the widows heart to sing for joy When the Scots were shut up and starved by thousands at Westminster she very frequently visited them and ministred to them Yea bought divers of them with her own mony gracious good men whom she fed and cloathed and disposed of into families and ways wherein they live to this day very comfortably When the Scotch Ministers and others were under restraint in the Tower she was not ashamed of their chain but diligently sought them out as soon as she heard of them and was all the time of their long confinement a great support and comfort to them she had not onely learned the Heathens lesson to lay up but the Christians lesson too to lay out according as the necessities of the poor members of Jesus Christ called for it A true Mourner One that laid to heart and was affected deeply affected with the sins and abominations of the times with the miseries likewise and distresses of the Church and people of God made the Churches sorrows her own sorrows had bowels of compassion in her to lament and mourn over the afflicted condition of the Church as if it were her own condition Remembred them in bonds as bound with them and them that suffered adversity as being her self also in the body The heart breaking miseries of poor Scotland broke her heart She could not speak of them without many tears A fixed established grounded Christian Not like those the Apostle speaks of Ephes. 4.14 That were {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} like Clouds in the Air or like Ships on the Sea toss'd and hurried up and down with every wind and wave driven to and fro this way and that way but like a house built upon a Rock like a tree firmly rooted a fixed Star no wandring Star wandring from one opinion to another and from one way to another but a fixed Star kept to her old Principles and to her old practises the good old way the way that the Patriarchs and the Prophets and the Apostles and the holy men and women in the old time 1 Pet. 3.5 went to Heaven in the way of sanctifying Gods Sabbaths the way of frequenting publique Ordinances the way of performing Family and Closet-duties the way of reading

THE Blessed Estate Of them that die in the Lord Opened in a SERMON At the FUNERALS Of Mistress Jane Blackwel Wife of Master Elidad Blackwel Pastor of Andrew Vndershaft LONDON By Tho. Manton B. D. Minister of the Gospel at Covent-Garden LONDON Printed for Robert Gibbs in Chancery-Lane near Serjeants-Inne 1656. To my Reverend and much Beloved Friend and Brother Mr. Elidad Backwel Preacher of Gods Word at Andrews Undershaft LONDON SIR I Have at length sent you the Copy of the Sermon Preached at your Wives Funerals dispose of it as you shall think good either to your Closet or the Press My Judgment is for the former but my Affection will not suffer me to oppose if you resolve upon the latter If it may be any allay of your sorrow for your great loss or of any use to the Publick I shall not repent of the Transcription of it This I may say with modesty enough That the Subject is useful and proper to the occasion At the Interment of my godly friend who had so long waited on my Ministry with savor and profit what could I insist upon more seasonably for your comfort and mine own then the Blessedness of those that live and die in the Lord Now the Blessing of the Lord go along with this Discourse whatever becometh of it and make up this great breach to you with the more abundance of Spiritual Refreshings Which is the unfeigned desire of Sir Your true Friend and Fellow Servant in the Lords Work THO. MANTON Rev. 14.13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me write Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them THe chief wisdom of a man is to live well and dye well to live godly and dye blessed the same corruption of nature that makes us unwilling to live well makes us unwilling to dye To forsake our corruptions and go out of the world are both displeasing to flesh and blood therefore we need to be prest often both to the one and the other for the one maketh way for the other Upon this occasion I know not a more seasonable Argument in Autumn when we see one lease or a few leaves fall we conclude the rest will follow afterwards every Funeral should put us in minde that our death is not far off Some of us have cause to expect the next turn Old men in Scripture account are as good as dead already Heb. 11.12 Those that lived longest dyed at last Enos lived 905 Kenan 910 Seth 912 Adam 930 Jared 962 Methuselah 969 yeers but they all dyed All must dye the great care should be to dye well none can dye well but those that dye in the Lord for they are blessed so it is proclaimed from heaven Every divine truth comes from heaven but some are more solemnly proclaimed from thence as the mortality of man and the blessedness of the dead the mortality of man Isa. 40.6 our affections are against the thought of that The blessedness of the dead in this place against which carnal reason opposeth Nature will so hardly bel●eve that the dead can be blessed that we need a voice from heaven to confirm it The context speaks of many troubles to try the patience of the Saints now the comfort propounded is the blessed estate of the departed the worst that wicked men can do to the Saints is but to help them the sooner to heaven In the words observe a Preface and a Doctrine The preface shews it is a matter of weight here is a voice from heaven and a command to write for the more assurance an open publication 2 In the Doctrine you have an assertion and an amplification in the assertion the qualification the dead which dye in the Lord the priviledge are blessed In the amp●ification you may observe 1 The season {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} from henceforth 2 The confirmation saith the spirit the Holy Ghost maketh Affidavit 3 The parts of this blessedness which are two a release and a reward a release they rest from their labours a reward implyed their works follow them Death to the godly is not onely an end of misery but a beginning of glory and happiness Philosophers could look upon it as the end of misery but Christians look upon it as a beginning of Glory and happiness Because I shall not be able to discuss the amplification let me open some of the Circumstances {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} from henceforth Those that dyed in the Lord in former ages were blessed but these times did require this singular comfort because of the dreadful persecution and that from those who carryed the name of Christians Now saith the Holy Ghost not onely those that suffered by heathens are blessed and counted the Lords Martyrs but those that suffer also under Pseudo-Christians Some indeed carry it in another sense as if it were said before Antichrist can down it will cost the Church such a world of trouble that from henceforth you will count the dead happy as being taken from the evil to come Isa. 57.1 Others thus from henceforth that is after salvation offered to the Gentiles in the Gospel the dead shall be known to be happy as the Apostle saith that 2 Tim. 2.10 Life and immortality is brought to light in the Gospel Others apply this from henceforth to the time of their death as if the Saints were here asserted to be immediately happy upon their dissolution But I think the fi●st Exposition most simple and genuine Rest from their labours troubles services the labours of their callings the troubles of their condition The godly are taken away from evil and the wicked are taken away to evil From glorifying and serving God they never rest but from wear●ness in serving God from weakness sin and distraction Their works follow them As it is said of wicked men their iniquity shall finde them out We carry nothing out of the world with us but the Conscience and comfort of what we have done for God their wealth doth not follow them into the other world but their works do Doct. The point which I shall prosecute is the assertion of the Text That they that dye in the Lord are in a blessed condition I shall inquire 1 What it is to dye in the Lord 2 Shew you how they are blessed 3 Whence it is that they who dye in the Lord are sure to be in a blessed condition 1 What it is to dye in the Lord {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} may be rendred for the Lord or in the Lord as Ephes. 4.1 Paul a prisoner in the Lord we render it of the Lord or for the Lords sake 1 Thess. 4.16 We render the dead in Christ shall rise first and ver. 14. those that sleep in Jesus Which is to be preferred I answer neither is to be excluded whether a godly man