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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23644	A gainful death the end of a truly Christian life a sermon at the funeral of Mr. John Griffith, late minister of the Gospel, who departed this life May 16, in the 79th year of his age / preached May the 20th, 1700 by Richard Allen.	Allen, Richard.	1700 (1700)	Wing A1041; ESTC R28091	13,910	48

〈◊〉 become a Reprobate or Castaway Yea Death will advance the living Christian into a transcendently better Life than that paradisical one of our first Parents in Innocency as was hinted before For tho they were free from Sin and furnish'd with Strength and Ability to have continued in that State yet they were not freed from the possibility and danger of sinning as the event wofully manifested But Believers thro Death will be secur'd not only from Sin but from all danger of sinning and establish'd in an impeccable and immutable state of Holiness 3. Death will free the living Christian from all Sorrows and Miseries They are already exempted by their Justification from liableness to future-Wrath and Condemnation 1 Thess 5.9 God hath not appointed them to Wrath but to obtain Salvation thro our Lord Jesus Christ But while they have any remains of Sin they must look for Sorrows and Afflictions which are the inseparable Concomitants of it Job's Experience is as true of the best Christians as of other Men that as they are of few days in this World so those few days are full of trouble How many Sorrows afflict some thro want and penury and no less Sorrows attend others in obtaining and using of Riches and a while after it may be far greater accost them by the sudden loss of an Estate or great part of it by some surprizing Calamity Prov. 23.5 while Riches make themselves Wings and fly away as an Eagle towards Heaven Many times they have great Sorrows from the Malignity of open Enemies at other times no less from the Treachery of pretended Friends and the Mutability and Fickleness of once real ones The dear Children of God here labour often under Sorrows by reason of Pains and dolorous Distempers in their Bodies and many times by reason of Doubts and Fears in their Minds They have many times Heart-breaking Sorrows from the woful Miscarriages of Children or other dear Relations and often very cutting Sorrows by a sudden removal of them thro a surprizing stroke of Death It would be endless to enumerate the variety of Sorrows and Calamities that more or less afflict God's Children while here but at their Dissolution God will wipe away all Tears from their Eyes Rev. 21.4 and there shall be no more Death neither Sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more Pain for the former things are passed away 4. At Death the living Christian is freed not only from the burden of a sinful but also from the clog of an animal Body A sinful Body is one thing and an animal Body another It would be equally false and irreligious for any to say that our Saviour had a sinful Body but it is certainly true that he had an animal Body like ours liable to the like natural tho not moral Infirmities which Sin hath brought into our Bodies Whence I conceive 't is said he was sent in the likeness not only of Flesh Rom. 8.3 but of sinful Flesh The Bodies of Saints in the present state as they are to them an occasion of much Sin so when they are not so they are a great clog and hindrance and as it were a dead weight to keep their aspiring Souls from mounting upwards in Divine Contemplations and Communion with God Tho the Flesh in them be not so strong as to prove a victorious Enemy yet 't is so weak as to prove a very untoward and sluggish Servant even when they are bless'd with a willing Spirit in religious Duties Whence the best Saints have continual need not only to watch Mat. 26.41 but pray earnestly for help from above to secure them from being vanquished by Temptation But Death will bring them into that blessed State wherein this contemptible 1 Cor. 15.43 44 49. and it may be deform'd Body shall be made glorious and beautiful This weak and frail Body shall be made vigorous and powerful this Earthly and Terrene Body shall be made Heavenly and Celestial this gross and sluggish Body shall be made pure and spiritual Then I conceive they will be enabled even literally to mount up as with Eagles Wings Isa 40.31 to run and not be weary and walk and not faint In a word our gracious Redeemer will change this our vile Body Phil. 3.21 that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious Body according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things to himself 5. Their Souls at and after Death shall be freed not only from all sinful but also from all afflictive Ignorance and made perfect in the Knowledg of God and his most excellent Works This Knowledg our Saviour calls Life Eternal Joh. 17.3 because as a present sanctified Knowledg of God is the only way to so the Perfection of this Knowledg is of the Essence of Eternal Life and Blessedness The most illuminated Saints here have cause with Elihu to complain we can't order either our Thoughts and Conceptions Job 37.19 or our Words and Expressions aright concerning him by reason of Darkness Indeed the most raised Notions and Conceptions Words and Discourses even of an Apostle while here concerning the Mysteries of God and Religion are but like the imperfect and confus'd Thoughts or lisping and broken Expressions of Children compar'd with what they shall be in Heaven whence spring so many different Apprehensions amongst the most sincere Christians and hence they are too often vehemently contending and quarrelling like Children about those abstruse Difficulties which are clearly apprehended by neither of the contending Parties But Death will cause all Scales to fall from their Eyes and remove every Veil from their Heart then their present obscure Knowledg shall vanish as the twinkling Light of a Candle before the resplendent Brightness of the Sun All which is fully and clearly expressed by the Apostle to the Corinthian Christians 1 Cor. 13 8-12 Then will Saints be let into the full view of the Mysteries of Redemption 1 Pet. 1.12 which things the Angels desire to look into Then will the infinitely wise and beautiful Series of Divine Providence be display'd which here appears many times to the best dark and unaccountable for want of their seeing it from the beginning to the end Eccles 3.11 Then shall the Depths of the Divine Wisdom and Goodness in all God's Works appear to his Saints who shall be the wondring and delightful Beholders thereof 6. Death will let them into the immediate beatifying Vision and full enjoyment of God and their blessed Redeemer Then all that are pure in Heart shall Mat. 5.8 according to our Saviour's Promise be made compleatly blessed by seeing God They shall see his Face and his Name shall be written in their Forehead Rev. 22.4 How and after what manner Saints shall see him who is invisible Heb. 11.27 what human Mind can now conceive and how much less can my Tongue or Pen express it But in this the Holy Ghost is