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A89125	Deaths advantage: or A sermon preached at the funerall of that noble and valiant gentleman, Colonell William Gould, high sheriff of Devon: by order of Parliament, and late commander of the fort and island in Plymouth. By Stephen Midhope, Mr. of Arts.	Midhope, Stephen.	1644 (1644)	Wing M1996; Thomason E13_21; ESTC R7641	19,383	33

true good is in it 3 A dead and deadly life Sensuall pleasure deads the heart to God the fountaine of life and leads to the chambers of eternall death Hos 4.11 Prov. 9.18 But now to have Christ for the Alpha and Omega of our lives while others are sunke in the dregs of the world to worke up to God to moove to Christ as our only center acting all we doe for the glory of his name How sweet a life must this needs be carrying with it a spirituall heavenly glorious joy as farre above all carnall delights as glory is above shame heaven above hell Archimedes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If Heathens found such sweetenesse some in philosophicall speculations others in famous atcheivements for the good of their country which were but the exercises of a rationall morall life What sweetnesse then must that soule needs finde that lives in Christ acts for the honour of Christ every such action being an exercise of the life of God and a seede of glory 3. The only gainefull life Godlinesse is profitable for all things 1 Tim. 4.8 makes a gaine of all trades with Gods talents and gets ten for one a gaine of all estates sicknesse losses the greatest gaine of the greatest losse TO DYE IS GAINE These are my brethren adventuring times and men hazzard farre persons states lives and all and what to get Some their Helena of lust Others their Dagon of superstition they plead fight for Baall Others to get a name by doing exployts Others drive a trade of these warres building their houses with blood All would gladly attaine to the end but the most of men weary themselves in vaine not knowing the way Eccles 10.15 Would you have highest honour lasting pleasure truest gaine know all these interests of yours are wrapt up in Christ if you make him a gainer you cannot loose you need goe no farther then the magnifying of Christ in your flesh for the ground of all your honour comfort happinesse here and hereafter Quest. Answ But how may I be enabled thus to live 1 Learne that lesson of selfe-denial well Selfe and Christ cannot agree together a man 's owne things and the things of Christ are ever in competition and St. Paul makes them incompatible in this respect none can seeke both their owne things Philip. 2.21 and Christs together not their owne case not their owne praise nor their owne profits with the things that are Jesus Christs A man will never looke to Christ in any thing vntill he have learned to looke beyond himselfe in all Now because this is a hard saying Consider 1 The end of our being is nor Selfe but Christ marke what a high end the Apostle sets up 1 Cor 10.31 Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do do all to the glory of God which he inforceth by his owne practice in the last verse Even as I seeke not my owne profit but the profit of many that they may be saved where note againe the antithesies selfe honour selfe profit and the profit of the Church and glory of Christ although they are compatible and may be conjoyned in the event yet in the endevour they cannot he that makes his owne advantage his maine end can neither seek the profit of the Church nor the glory of Christ 2 This is very profitable 1. For security 2. For improvement you have Christs owne words in plaine assertions for both 1. That this is the best way to secure whatsoever you are willing to deny your selves in for Christ be it credite estate life any thing truth it self assures you Joh. 12.25 Mark 8.35 if in comparison or competition with Christ we can be willing not only to lay downe and lose but even hate the dearest things of this world when they stand in the way of the publique cause of Christ and Religion as now God calls us to lay downe our estates lives and all for his truth it may be he will not take them from us but save them for us and continue them to us but if he do veleat vita pereat pecunia as once said that virgin Martyr let them take all the goods in our houses children of our flesh blood in our veynes all we are sure to save all to life eternall we shall have more life in Christ then in our selves as hath been sayd more riches in him then in the world even vnsearchable riches that can never be stollen away never be exhausted 2. for improvement we have a promise for this also Matth. 19.29 if we can beleeve it Every one that hath forsaken houses or brethren c. never any that tryed but he found God a good paymaster sweet experience have many of Gods plundered suffering Saints in these evill dayes of his giving in good measures of this precious truth into their bosomes heaped up and pressed downe and running over 3 This is most comfortable in life and death when we can looke backe on our lives wholly layd out for Christ 2 Cor. 1.12 and say with St. Paul This is our rejoycing that in Simplicity and godly sincerity not in fleshly wisedome we have had our conversation in the world not in policy to bring about our owne ends but as the sincere servants of Christ for the good of his Church and as this is the comfort of his life so when a man shall come to lye on his death bed he may comfortably pleade it with God and man With man as Frederick the godly said to his friends standing about his sicke bed Hitherto I have lived for you now let me live for my selfe With God as Nehemiah that was full of self-deniall you see how he was inboldned to put his God in minde to thinke on him for good according to all that he had done for his people Heb. 5.14 19. So St. Paul when the time came that he should dye you see he that had lived only to Christ preached not himselfe but the Lord Jesus driven no ends of his owne sought not his owne advantage but the profit of the Churches as he was full of self-deniall in life so he ended his dayes full of comfort 2 Tim. 4.7 when he had done his worke saith he I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith henceforth is layd up for me the Crowne of righteousnesse Contrarily self-livers as they decline the true end of their being making themselves their owne end Selfish in all So they crosse their owne profit and comfort in life and death Many thinke now in these perillous times to save their owne stake by sparing from the cause of Christ they will have something to live on which way soever the world goe No this is the way to lose all truth it selfe hath told us whatsoever it be we are loath to lose for Christ be it state persons lives at length we shall lose that Matth 16. ●4 Luke 9.23 and