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A93739	The exceeding great comfort and benefit of having walked before God in truth, and with a perfect heart, and of having done that which is good in his sight set forth in several discourses on Isaiah 38. 2, 3 / by Richard Stafford ...	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1699 (1699)	Wing S5118A; ESTC R43773	94,501	125

yet those Souls who shall fall under his Severity and Vengeance and shall be cast into Hell He will be hardened against their Wailing and Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth altho' it should be for ever And the same Lord Jesus Christ who is now ou● Advocate with the Father and in this Life holds forth even ●nto them the Scepter of Mercy will be to the hard ●nd impenitent in heart who despise his Goodness long●uffering and forbearance an Inexorable Judge But according to the meaning and intent of the Holy Ghost here in our Text when God sees our Tears and Hears the Voice of our Weeping it is when God takes away and removes that Evil and Afflicting thing from us for which we weep and shed Tears according t● what is elsewhere written He will swallow up Death 〈◊〉 Victory and the Lord God will wipe away Tears from 〈◊〉 all Faces Tears do most commonly arise from th● Apprehension of this thing of Death So it did wit● Hezekiah as hath been abundantly shewed in the foregoing Discourses And so it doth with most of th● Children of Men who know and understand somewhat more concerning it either what may bring Death o● or sooner hasten it this doth usually raise and occasio● Tears or at least that inward Sorrow and Anguish 〈◊〉 Heart which Tears are the outward sign and effect 〈◊〉 And as the Word of Consolation here goes to the ve●● Ground and Original cause of those Tears He sh 〈…〉 swallow up Death in Victory That is God will overcom● Death and cause it to cease to be So that those ve●● same Creatures shall come forth into Life again upo● whom Death had seized and done its utmost Aft●● Death hath devoured and destroyed them God 〈◊〉 raise them up and restore them intire and whole agai 〈…〉 and he will save them from the Destruction of necessary Consequence then those Tears must be wiped aw 〈…〉 which did arise only by Reason of Death All one 〈◊〉 the Cutting of his Days and his Sence and Apprehe 〈…〉 on of his going to the Gates of the Grave and of 〈◊〉 being Deprived of the residue of his Years made Hezekiah to weep sore But after that God had seen th 〈…〉 his Tears and sent another different message of add 〈…〉 Fifteen Years more this instantly made him to 〈◊〉 and refrain from Tears as appears and may be ma 〈…〉 festly gathered from the following Part of the sa●● Chapter Behold for Peace I had Great Bitterne●● which kind of Expression seems as the Sun Shining 〈◊〉 yet greater Brightness after it hath come out from 〈◊〉 Dark Cloud But thou hast in Love to my Soul delive●● it from the Pit of Corruption for thou hast cast all 〈◊〉 sins behind thy back The Living he shall Praise thee 〈◊〉 I do this Day The Lord was ready to save me therefo●● we will Sing my Songs to the stringed Instruments all 〈◊〉 Days of our Life in the House of the Lord. Here his 〈◊〉 ●●er weeping sore and his Tears are turned into Praise and Songs And so it will be with the Souls of all those that shall be saved in the Great Day of the Resurrection and Restitution of all things and from thence forth throughout all Eternity Nothing but Praise and Songs will be heard amongst them Notwithstanding all th● Sorrow and Fear Trouble and Weeping as they passed through this Vale of Life And this will be in the House of the Lord in the highest Heavens for evermore which may be called the Presence Chamber of the Great King as all the World is his Pallace House or Temple The Redeemed shall walk there and the Ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with Songs and Everlasting Joy upon their Heads They shall obtain Joy and Gladness and Sorrow and Sighing shall flee away What I say unto you I say unto you all VVatch. And as God is no Respecter of Persons but in every Nation he that Feareth him and Worketh Righteousness is accepted with him And as the God of Abraham is the same and alike unto all who do the Works of Abraham so the same God who saw Hezekiahs Tears will see our Tears also provided we be in Covenant with him as Hezekiah was and they be upon the same Account and only for the like Reason as his were Truly my Beloved Brethren It is a Great Matter and a very Desirable Thing to be under the care and concern of God to be one of them of whom he saith I have written thee upon the Palms of my hands thy walls are continually before me For here again God hath common care and providence over all his Creatures both Men and the Fowls of the Air as they are the Work of his ●ands But then besides that he hath an especial and Peculiar care over his own Peculiar People and Redeemed Ones Like as he gives Common Knowledge unto almost all Men and Women but the saving and Distinguishing Grace unto his Elect. And as it is written All thy Works shall Praise thee O Lord and thy Saints shall Bless thee Psal 145. 10. Even the Inanimate Works do Praise God although they cannot speak forth but they Praise God as they are standing and remaining Monuments of his Praise in that he made 〈◊〉 Created them But the Saints Blessing God impor 〈…〉 speaking forth with a living Voice And this Bless 〈…〉 God doth again seem to import somewhat more 〈◊〉 further than that Praise which the Heavens or th●● Part of the Creation of God which is without Life 〈◊〉 shew So certainly there is somewhat more and furth●● in the Saints Blessing God than that Praise of 〈◊〉 Name which is outwardly rendred by the Mixt Multitude or common sort of Mankind Remember me 〈◊〉 Lord with the Favour that thou bearest unto thy People 〈◊〉 visit me with thy Salvation Psal 106. 4. Here 〈◊〉 Psalmist knows by the Spirit and accordingly he Praise and Addresseth unto God as such for the Distinguish●●● Favour and Salvation which he hath for his own People over what he hath for the common stock of Mankind And this will more Eminently Illustriously 〈◊〉 Remarkably appear at the End of all Things wh●● some shall be saved and the Saints which now bless Go● shall be made Blessed by him and the other sort sh 〈…〉 be Condemned Perish and be made Miserable Reprobate Silver shall Men call them because the Lor● hath rejected them The Lord seeing our Tears will Administer Conso●●tion because here it will be found true an Examp●● whereof was Hezekiah They that sow in Tears sh●● reap in Joy So again from the Lords seeing the V 〈…〉 nities and Sportings of some of the Children of 〈◊〉 should I do not say it doth because most have no● Sence and Apprehension thereof yield and aff 〈…〉 grief unto them because that the more Carnal 〈◊〉 People have in this Life the more Eternal Sorrow th●● will have after this Life is Ended Wo unto you t●● Laugh now for

Life By which may be seen what a Relation and tenden●● the doing of Good hath unto Life Now Jesus Chr 〈…〉 not only suffered but also lived an Example that 〈◊〉 should follow his steps And this Place in Acts. 10. 38 so written to the Intent that every one of us who wou●● Love and Inherit Eternal Life What Man is He t●● desireth Life Answer is made Depart from Evil and Good Psal 34. 12 14. Should in our several Respecti●● Stations and according to our several Ability and Capacity go about and do good also for so far as we do this God is with us Whereby again may be seen and perceived the Goodness of that Supreme and Almighty Being Who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the Devil Hence again We may understand what a doing of good is for as the being oppressed of the Devil is an Evil so to have that same Evil either removed or taken away or ●ured and healed this is a doing good By the way the worst oppression of the Devil is when Sin and Guilt is brought into the Conscience through his Temptations or Instruments And so it is as to all other evils or harms whatever the either taking them away or curing and heal●ng them is a doing good It is written of him that did the greatest and all the good that was ever done to Mankind When the Even was come they brought unto him ●any that were possessed with Devils and He cast out the Devils with his word and healed all that were Sick That 〈◊〉 might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the Prophet ●aying Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses Mat. 8. 16 17. The very Words in Isaiah are these Sure●● He hath born our Griefs and Carried our Sorrows Isa 53. 〈◊〉 And it being after added The Lord hath laid on him ●e Iniquity of us all for He shall bear their Iniquities and He ●●re the sin of Many Verse 6. 11 12. This goes further ●ven to the Fountain Head the Original cause and ●ource of Infirmities Sickness Griefs and Sorrows for ●●n and Iniquity is the cause of them all This is effectu 〈…〉 and sound work And as sin is the greatest and only ●vil so to cure heal take away Remedy or someway or ●ther to provide against sin is doing the greatest Good So ●●at to Instruct the Ignorant is a doing good yea and 〈◊〉 resemblance to him who was the Author and Finisher of ●●r faith who went about doing good for we Read that ●●e sate down and taught his Disciples and the Multitude ●his is a kind of doing the greatest good for it is a doing ●●od unto the Immortal Soul the more excellent part of us ●●d not only to the dying Body Brethren if any of you do err from the Truth and one convert him let him know that 〈◊〉 which converteth the sinner from the Errour of his Way sh● save a Soul from Death and shall hide a Multitude of 〈◊〉 Iames. 5. 19 20. And so by the Words of Gods Gra●● and Truth to Perswade Testify and Exhort People fro● their Sinful and Ungodly courses From living in 〈◊〉 religion and contempt of God as that if continued 〈◊〉 would involve them into the Greatest of Evils So con 〈…〉 quentially it must be the Greater Good to disswade th●● from it And then Giving Alms to the Poor and M 〈…〉 string comfort to the Sorrowful in as much as Pove 〈…〉 and Sorrow are sore Evils and such like are instances 〈◊〉 doing Good The more and Greater Good People 〈◊〉 here the Greater and more full Reward they will rece 〈…〉 hereafter As again it is on the other worse hand 〈◊〉 more sin any one do commit It is a treasuring up Wr 〈…〉 to themselves against the day of Wrath which consider 〈…〉 on should be a prevailing motive to cease from the 〈◊〉 and do the other as much as ever we can Remember how I have done that which is Good in 〈◊〉 sight Now all Things are in the sight of God But 〈◊〉 do that which is Good in his sight may have a twof 〈…〉 Sence and Meaning either to do Things in order and 〈◊〉 tention unto God and upon that Respect it is that we 〈…〉 Good because God commands requires and is well pl 〈…〉 ed therewith when we do it as unto the Lord and 〈◊〉 as unto Men. As also what will appear Good in 〈◊〉 sight of the Lord now and by his Judgment hereaf 〈…〉 For it is one Thing to do Good as in the sight of 〈◊〉 Lord and another as in the sight of Men. For the 〈◊〉 seeth not as Man seeth That which is highly este 〈…〉 amongst Men is an Abomination in the sight of the 〈◊〉 And so it runs and may be conceived contrariwise 〈◊〉 which is highly esteemed by the Lord God is le 〈…〉 ed and despised amongst Men For these call that 〈◊〉 which is good in the sight of the Lord. And again They 〈◊〉 that Godo which is Evil Isa 5. 20. But a Godly Heze 〈…〉 or that Soul like unto Godly Hezekiah doth 〈◊〉 as in the sight of the Lord and not as 〈◊〉 Men. As the Lord said unto Sarah At the time appointed will I return to thee according to the time of Life Gen. 18. 14. So at the time appointed when the great Day of his Judgment is come will God Judge every one of us according to the Time of Life and as it was with us at such a Time of Life and such a Time of Life of some we shall give a better Account then of others so as to take in the whole Term of Life from the time that we had the first Knowledge of Good and Evil unto the Day of our Death SERMON IV. ON Isaiah XXXVIII 2 3. Then Hezekiah turned his Face toward the Wall and Prayed unto the Lord And said Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in Truth and with a Perfect Heart and have done that which is good in thy sight and Hezekiah wept sore THAT we do walk all our Days in the sight of the Lord and whatever we do it is in the sight of the Lord and how that God will Judge us for all the Thoughts Words and Actions of our whole Life even from the very time that we had the Knowledge of Good and Evil are most forcible considerations what manner of Persons we ought to be in all Holy Conversation and Godliness in all Obedience and Righteousness In Purity and Innocency and Uprightness of Life In all thy work and in whatever thine hand findeth thee to do in thy Feastings Sportings or Recreations Do thou awfully and constantly Remember that God seeth thee and God will Judge thee And after any thing is over and past whither it be an Act of Good and Duty or else an Act of Sin or Evil This know that the same is passed over into a thing to be Judged off and for the