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A sermon on occasion of the death of the reverend and learned Mr. Stephen Lobb, who dyed June 3, 1699 by Thomas Goodwin.
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Goodwin, Thomas, 1650?-1716?
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raiseth the Dead Bodies of Believers from the Grave by his Spirit which develleth in them Rom. 8. 11. This last Day is the Day of Christ's compleat Victory when as himself was Victorious over it at his own Resurrection so all his Members in theirs shall Triumph over it too Then he will appear with all whom he Redeem'd and whom he now makes entire Conquerors by vertue of his Victory and he will appear as having made a Conquest over the Grave it self 1 Cor. 15. 25 26. For he must Reign 'till be put all his Enemies under his Feet and the last Enemy which shall be destroy'd is Death Then the Bodies of all the Elect which have lain for so many Ages in the Grave shall at last have the dark Prisons open'd and ascend Triumphant over Death it self How Great and Glorious will that Day be in which at one Word of Command from Christ the Earth and Seas shall give up the Dead which are in them Rev. 20. 13. and all the Bodies of the Saints shall come forth new form'd like unto Christ's Glorious Body according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself Phil. 3. 21. when we shall meet the Patriarchs and Prophets the Apostles and Martyrs and all our Relations and Friends who have slept in Jesus in the Morning of the Resurrection and see them shining in Glory and our Lord Jesus with refulgent Majesty at the head of them What an Illustrious appearance of things will this be Never was there brighter day then this when Christ shall make an utter End of Death as he hath conquer'd and destroy'd Satan who had the power of it As there is no Truth in the Gospel but may and ought to be practically applyed let us see what use we may make of this Important Doctrine which I have endeavour'd to Explain and prove to you USE 1. Is it so that Satan hath the Power of Death over the Soul and Conscience of every unbeleeving Sinner Then every one of you who have not believ'd in Christ tremble at the thoughts of your dismal condition Seriously reflect upon your present misery and future danger What can be more deplorable then your present misery You are not only under the Tyranny of Satan and a base vassal of his dark Empire You are not onely servilely addicted to his obedience but you are also expos'd unto all mischeifs which he may and will do you by exercising that power which he hath of Death He will strengthen and increase that spiritual Death which is in your Souls for he will prevailingly tempt you to Evil and sad experience may convince you that a Man by continuing in Sin and frequent commission of it grows more and more Insensible and Dead and all the powers of his mind are more weaken'd to any Holy or good Action and the more he Sins the more he becomes Slave to it What a dismal consideration is this And yet this is the woful state of every unbeleever And now do but look beyond the spaces of Time and this World and take a due prospect of your future danger If you Dye in this condition it is not more certain you are now alive then that you will be condemn'd nay are 〈◊〉 condemn'd already to Eternal Death The indignation and wrath of a provok'd God will be pour'd out upon you Rom. 2. 8. 9. And who knows the power of his Anger Psal 90. 11. Who then can bear it USE II. Hath Death entred into the World by Sin let then our sorrow for our Dead Relations and Friends sharpen our hatred and indignation against it In every Sickness we see or feel the effects of it and tho' our Freinds Dye in the Lord yet their Death shows us what Sin brought into the World and when we hear them breathing out their last Groans this may bring to our minds what mischief Sin does Let us consider that tho' our Lord Jesus Christ has obtain'd the pardon of Sin and taken away the infliction of Vindictive justice yet it is true that by every Sin which we commit we displease God and so displease him that he will make us to feel his Fatherly correction He will put us in mind by some severe chastisement how we have been wanting in our duty and that we have done that which has not been right in his sight This sad occasion then which causes us to Mourn for the loss of our Freind may at the same time make us Mourn for our Sins Were it not for them this had never been for both he and we should have been Immortal and so never have parted Therefore the greater our loss is let us detest our Sins the more Now to Press this thought upon you and to excite in you and my self a just hatred and indignation against Sin by which we have displeas'd God and which is the cause of that loss under which we Mourn Let us consider the worth and excellency of the Person who God has been pleas'd to move from us I know very well that Sermon 's Preacht upon such occsions are too much abus'd to flattery but there is no fear of it in this case for there is no need of it I shall onely speak that of our Friend and Brother Deceas'd which all that were acquainted with him must acknowledge to be true And to speak the truth can't be imputed to Favour Affection or any prejudicate opinion If we consider him as a Man or as a Christian there was every thing in him to endear him to us He was of an excellent benign temper rarely provok'd to anger and if he were it must be from some weighty cause and yet even then his passion was soon over He was a Man prone to do good ready to receive the distressed active to promote any publick interest any cause of Christ and the prosperity of his Church He was a Man of a discerning penetrating Spirit of great strength of mind of a firm and sound judgment and yet which was an excellency most to be admir'd He was not proud of these admirable endowments And as God had bestow'd upon him these natural abilities and therefore to praise them is to praise God the author of them and to give him the Glory So he took care to improve them and to cultivate the rich Soyl. He was industrious to encrease his knowledge by a severe application to God and useful studies But you 'll say these are but humane accomplishments knowledge Learning and Generosity of Spirit were found in many of the Philosophers who knew not Christ 'T is true but our dear Friend and Brother knew and loved Jesus Christ and his Gospel and in the whole course of his Study those were most delightful to him that led him into the Mysteries of our Redemption The knowledge of Divine things most ravisht his Soul and was the Element in which his Spirit breath'd and as he lov'd the Gospel so he understood the truths of ît
appear but 't is an angry God an avenger of Sin and now no longer manifesting himself Glorious in his Grace but terrible in his Justice What hope can the Poor Guilty Sinners have when he hath not one Minute more to promise to his affrighted Spirit but he must immediately appear before God whom he hath provok'd all his days Where will he have a shelter to secure him What place can he run to for safety Where shall he find a Sanctuary to protect him from God's Anger The Blood of Christ he despis'd and he who came to save Sinners was never thought of by him The Grace of God was either slighted or turn'd into wantonness and how can such a Soul think to find mercy in this hour of its greatest need But if we are Believers on Christ in our last moments we shall more or less Act Faith on him for our support and comfort and we shall then have a Gladsome prospect of a different face of things We leave this miserable World with joy for a better Country above of whose Possession we are assur'd We have not the least regret in loosing the pleasures of Life because we know that we are going to our God who with smiles and kindness in his looks invites us to his presence where there is fulness of Joys and at his right Hand Pleasures for evermore We shall fear no Hell nor Devils for Christ hath delivered us from the one and Conquer'd the other In whatever manner therefore Death shall attack us our Souls ready to take their flight and knowing what a change they must undergo yet will not be Amaz'd If Death comes on a sudden we shall Dye without pain and one easy step out of the Body sets us in the other World of Happiness If Death makes gradual approaches and we feel pains of Diseases and expiring Pangs yet still the thoughts of God our Kind Father who makes our Bed in Sickness the assurance of Christ's Favour and that our Peace is made will make every thing lie easy under us and cause us to rejoyce through all the Traverses of a Tedious Sickness We shall account them but as so many steps tho a little Wearisome to our Father's House and when Nature is quite spent and our Souls must fall from their Bodies they will yet fall gently into the Bosome of our Redeemer If we would thus Dye let us now by Faith commit our Souls to Christ for Life and Salvation If we do so we may make this wish in full assurance of hope may we Dye the Death of the Righteous and may our latter End be like his FINIS Books Printed and Sold by John Marshal at the Bible in Grace-Church-street 1699. GOD's Exaltation in the Glorious Work of Man's Salvation through Christ the Highest End and the Greatest Desire of all Gracious Souls In a Sermon upon the Funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Tub from the Text chosen by Her Psal 18. 46. The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and let the God of my Salvation be exalted Preach'd by Samuel Blower Pastor of the Church at Abington A Call to Weeping Or a Warning touching approching Miseries In a Sermon Preach'd on the 23th of March 1699. At the Funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Westen who departed this Life on the 17th of the said Month in the 38th Years of Her Age. By Benjamin Keach BOOKS Printed for and Sold by John Marshall at the Bible in Gracechurch-street THE Works of Thomas Goodwin D. D. Sometime President of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford the 4th Vol. containing Discourses 1 Of the Object and Acts of Justifying Faith in 3 Parts 2. Of the Constitution Order and Discipline of the Churches of Christ 3. The Government and Discipline of the Churches of Christ proposed Familiarly by way of Question and Answer In Folio The Regular Architect or the general Rule of the five Orders of Architecture of M. Glaconia Barozzia Da Vignola with a new Addition of Michael Angelo Buonaroti rendered into English from the Original Italian and explain'd by John Leake Student in the Mathematicks for the use and benefit of free Masons Carpenters Joyners Carvers Painters Bricklayers and Plaisterers in general for all Ingenious Persons that are concerned in the famous Art of Building The Works of that Eminent Servant of Christ Mr. John Bunyan late Minister of the Gospel and Pastor of the Congregation at Bedford The 1st Vol. containing Ten of his Excellent Manuscripts prepared for the Press before his Death never before Printed and Ten of his choice Books formerly Printed viz. Manuscripts An Exposition on the Ten first Chapters of Genesis Justification by Imputed Righteousness Paul's Departure and Crown Israel's Hope encouraged The Desires of the Righteous granted The Saints Priviledge and Profit Christ a Compleat Saviour in his Intercession The Unsearchable Riches of Christ The House of the Forrest of Lebanon A Description of Antichrist and his Ruine Books formerly Printed Saved by Grace A Map of Salvation and Damnation Christian Behaviour Pray with the Spirit and Understanding The Strait Gate Some Gospel Truths opened Light for them in Darkness Instruction for the Ignorant The Holy City New Jerusalem Resurrection of the Dead Collected and Printed by the Procurement of his Church and Friends and by his own Approbation before his Death that there his Christian Ministerial Labours may be preserved in the World Together with a large Alphabetical Table containing the Contents of the Whole A Treatise of the Holy Trinity in 2 Parts The 1st asserting the Deity of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in the Unity of Essence with God the Father The 2d in defence of the former containeth Answers to the chiefest Objections made against this Doctrine by Isaac Marlow Price Bound 1. s. Christ Exalted and Dr. Crisp Vindicated in several points Called antinomian cleared from Neonamian Suggestions alledged by some Remarks on Mr. A. his Rebuke to Mr. Lobb shewing from Scripture and most Orthodox Authors the Invalidity of his Rebuke with some Observations on the Bishop of Worcester's Letter concerning the great Point of the Change of Persons between Christ and the Believer All Jcomb Behmen's Works compleat abridged in 4to Bound Price 6s An Inquiry into the true Nature Power and Communion of Evangelical Churches with the true Nature of a Gospel Church and its Government wherein these Particulars are distinctly handled 1. The Subject Matter of the Church 2. The Form and Cause of a particular Church 3. The Policy Rule and Discipline 4. The Officers 5. The Duty of Pastors 6. The Office of Teachers 7. The Rule or of Ruling Elders 8. The Nature of Church Policy 9. Of Deacons 10. Of Excommunication 11. Of Communion of Churches compleat 1st and 2d Part Bound Those that have the 1st Part may have the 2d Part singly Entituled The True Nature of a Gospel Church treating of the 11 Particulars above mentioned A View of an Ecclesiastick in his Socks and Buskins or a Just Reprimand given to Mr. Alsop for his