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A92747	Two discourses, the first, a Christian's exhortation, against the fears of death: the second, a brief and clear declaration of the resurrection of the dead With suitable meditations and prayers touching life and death. Recommended as proper to be given at funerals. By W. S.	W. S.	1690 (1690)	Wing S207A; ESTC R229960	54,870	186

this true Life even in this World thou dost quicken by thy Truth us that are poor wretched and dead in Sin thou dost augment that life by the Ministry and Efficacy of thy holy Gospel and dost confirm it by the use of the Sacraments which thou hast established to confirm the Faith of those that are thine until that our Corruption and what we have in mortality in us being abolished by the Resurrection we shall be and live everlastingly with thee both in Body and Soul when thou shalt be all in all Life Everlasting is to know the true God and thee his Son which wert sent unto us Now we see thee by Faith in a Glass and in Obscurity but one day we shall behold thee face to face and shall be transformed into thy Glory nd wholly reformed unto thy Image I do beseech thee merciful Saviour to increase my Faith that I may be so well grounded in the Doctrine of my Salvation that nothing may turn me from it Increase in my Heart the Reverence which I owe thee that I may never turn from thy Obedience Strengthen me in such sort that the allurements nor threatnings do neither intrap nor astonish me but that constantly I may cleave unto thee who art my Life till Death Cause that in vertue of thy holy Promises and of thy Spirit I may increase more and more in thy Love and leaving behind me the things of this World I may tend to that which is firm and perfect Increase thy Grace in me that every day I may dye in my self for to be quickned and guided by thy Favour fearing no other but thou God Almighty loving nothing but thee as there is nothing but thee to be beloved boasting my self in nothing but in thy only Grace and Mercy which is the Glory of all thy Servants seeking no other good but thee nor desiring any thing but thee who art the full and entire felicity of all the Faithful Amen Another LOrd Jesus who art always merciful who dost not stick to be my Saviour as well in Adversity as in Prosperity Give me the Grace in all humble obedience to yield unto thy will when it shall please thee to mingle bitterness amongst so many sweet things which thou causest me to taste in living under thy Protection Thou art admirable and most good in the time of Afflictions In that by such means thou dost heal spiritual Diseases and in visiting of us in this World thou disposest us to meditate of a better Life having thy self shewed us the Example thereof True it is that I find it very hard to digest but thou hast been brought to a more strange condition when for to draw me out of Hell thou wentest down into it thy self and for to reconcile me to thy heavenly Father thou hast undergone his Curse by reason of my Sins I have so often deserved Hell and the fiery Torment and thou deliveredst me assuring me that I have part in the merits of thy Death and thy Obedience and that I am one of thy Co-heirs for to reign one day with thee in thy Kingdom and at this present in the midst of so many Afflictions to be nevertheless set in the heavenly Places Having part in so many good things why shall I vex my self for a little endurance by the means whereof thou wilt awaken me and make me better and draw me so much the more to thee But seeing thou knowest me better then I know my self if it be thy pleasure to put me to any tryal give me necessary force and patience to glorifie thee converting all the evil that may happen unto me to good and Salvation And if in supporting my weakness thy goodness is pleased to advertise me by some light affliction cause that this thy well-willing may draw me more and more to love and honour thee to give thee thanks for the care which thou hast of thy poor Servant and by that means to dispose me to weight for thee at my Death that after it I may find the Life which thou hast purchased for me by thy Death and therein with thee to have part in Joy and Rest for Ever Amen Another Lord God Heavenly Father when I consider in how many sorts I have sinned before thy Face and against thy high Majesty I have horrour in my self in thinking that I have so often turned from thee Propitious and favourable Father I detest my ingratitude seeing in what servitude of sin I have been too often precipitate selling as much as in my lay of the precious Liberty which thy Son had purchased for me I condemn my folly I altogether dislike of my self I see nothing but Death and mishap hanging over my head and my Conscience rising for a Judge and Witness of my Iniquities But when on the other side I enter into a Contemplation of thy infinite mercy the which surmounteth all thy works and in the which if so I dare to speak thou surmountest thy self my soul is comforted And indeed why should I make my self believe that I cannot find grace before him that summons and so often and gently calls the sinner to repentance protesting expresly that he desires not the death of a sinner but rather that he turn from his wickedness and live Moreover thy only Son hath so well assured us that we shall find favour in thy sight by the sweet words which himself had uttered as that of the lost sheep and of the prodigal Son the image of whom I acknowledg'd my self to be that I should be most unthankful incredulous and wicked to go back and to be ashamed of thy presence although I am wretched seeing thou dost so stretch forth thy hand unto me and draw me to thee with such wonderful affection I have very vildly forsaken thee O merciful Father I have unhappily let slip thy Graces and adhering to desires of my flesh and straying from thy Obedience I have wrapped my self in the base servitude of sin I am fallen into extream misery I know not whether to retire unless it be towards thee whom I have abandoned Let thy mercy receive this poor supplication whom thou hast supported during his errors I am unworthy to lift up mine Eyes unto thee or to call thee Father But I pray thee bow down thine Eyes to me seeing thou wilt have it so being without that in the power of thine Enemies The sight of thy Face will revive me and bring me again to thee Seeing I have some displeasure in my self I know thou lookest upon me that thou hast given me Eyes to see the danger wherein I was thou hast sought and found me in death and in the world and hast through thy mercy given me a desire to enter into thy house I dare not desire that thou shouldst kiss and embrace me nor that hou shouldst weep for joy that thou hast found thy poor Servant and Slave I do not demand the precious Ornaments wherewith thou doest honour thy great servants

in the 26. Chap. speaking of the Elect saith unto the Lord with Faith Thy dead shall live and rise again with my Body Awake and rejoice ye Inhabitants of the dust for thy dew is as the dew of the Fields and the Earth shall cast forth the dead The Lord willing to assure his People Israel that delivering them from the Captivity of Babylon he would bring them back into the Land which he had given them he said unto them in a Vision by the Prophet Ezek. 37. that as certain as the dead shall rise so certainly will he deliver them from the Captivity of the Babylonians for to set them in Peace in their own Land Danie saith that those that sleep in the dust shall wake some to Eternal Life and others to perpetual shame and Infamy and those which have been wise shall shine as the Brightness of the Firmament and those which do perswade Man to Righteousness shall be as Stars for ever and ever Dan. 12. Jesus Christ shews the Saduces that the dead shall rise again because that God is their God Mat. 28. In St. John Chap. 6. he saith that the will of his Father who sent him is that he shall lose nothing of all that he hath given him but that he shall raise it up at the larter day The Apostle declares that Christ is risen again for our Justification Then he saith that even as we die in Adam so we shall rise again and shall be quickened in Christ Rom. 4.5.6 1 Cor. 15. For seeing that he who is the Life when he was put into the Tomb thereby made many to rise again by much more reason now being risen again and glorified will he raise us again John 19. Psal 36. Mat. 27. In like manner he declares That he that believes Jesus is dead and risen again of which we have the surest Testimonies ought by the same parity of Reason to believe that God will bring from the Grave those that sleep in Jesus who shall from thence forth ever live with the Lord wherefore says St. Paul comfort one another with these Words that is let this be your Consolation in the midst of all your Trials Afflictions and Troubles upon Earth that they cannor last long but must end with your Life when you shall descend into the Grave where you shall not long remain but the same Power that raised your Blessed Redeemer from thence shall have the same effect on you and likewise raise you from the Dead and you shall be joined with Christ your Head and live with him in everlasting Glory this is the very sum of our Christian Profession and the highest point of our Faith All humane wisdom which is folly before God Mat. 24.25 cannot perswade themselves that the bodies which are returned into dust can rise again 1 Cor. 15. Phil. 7. nor those which have been burned whereof the ashes have been dispersed with the winds 2 Cor. 5. Acts 2.4 nor those which have been devoured by birds and by beasts and digested and reduced to dung 1 Thess 1. nor those which have perished in the waters which have been food for fishes 1 Pet. 1. 1 Cor. 1. But the Lord by that which he had done before plainly sheweth that hereafter it shall be very easie for him to do what he will with our bodies for seeing he hath made all things of nothing can he not make that to return to life which hath already been Gen. 1. Psal 33. Gen. 1. And as he made man first of the Earth can he not as well make him to rise again from it Gen. 1. in the beginning the Earth was so obedient unto him that when he commanded it to bring forth the bud of the herbs that beareth seed and the fructifying tree and the living creature beasts worms c. It of it self immediately brings forth that which before had never been how much more easily by the commandment of God may it restore many which have already been and shall be returned into it John 11. We see that although that Lazarus of Bethania had already been three days in the Earth and nevertheless when the Lord commanded him to come out of the Earth presently it was done He himself also rose again from the Earth the third day for to assure us that he will raise us again Mat. 28. Apoc. 1. for as death could not overcome Jesus Christ but that he is risen so shall it not be able to hinder his members from rising again because that he hath as much power over the dead as over the living Rom. 14. Gal. 1. 1 Thess 1.4 If God hath raised the head it followeth that he will also raise the body which we are if we believe When we consider that he did hinder the so hot burning furnace from doing any hurt to Sidrake Misake and Abednego Eph. 4. Dan. 3. we shall not find it an impossible thing to God to make them rise again which have been buried that they may be reunited unto their Souls And he that shut the Lyons Jaws because they should do no harm to Daniel Dan. 6. shall be able to raise those again which have been devoured And he commanded the fish to cast up Jonas Jon. 2. also can be easily cause that the Sea shall obey him when he shall command it to cast up his dead In brief the faithful cannot doubt of his Resurrection knowing that neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor powers nor things present Rom. 8. nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature can separate him from the love which God beareth in him in Jesus Christ our Lord Revel 20. For also the Sea must cast up those dead bodies which are in it and death and the Grave those which are in them for as much as the Lord hath the keys of the Grave and of death having power over them Rev. 1. Moreover God cannot be true nor truly wise nor Almighty nor Just if he doth not raise the dead and by consequence cannot be God And so who denyeth the Resurrection denyeth also that there is a God for seeing by his Word he promiseth to raise up the dead if he do it not he is not true And seeing that he declares that he will have it if he doth it not it follows that it is for want of knowledge and of power and so shall neither be truly wise nor Almighty Also he shall not be just if he doth not render to every one that which he promiseth him for the Author to the Hebrews saying that God is saith also that he is a rewarder of those that seek him Heb. 11. Mat. 10. Marc. 8. Luc. 9 Now in this world the children of God have nothing but afflictions every day being set out for a shew as men condemned to death and being made a spectacle to the world to the Angels and to men Cor. 4. John 16. As our Saviour also saith to his disciples You shall weep and lament