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cause_n	faith_n	justify_v	salvation_n	3,033	5	8.0315	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20169	The monument or tombe-stone: or, A sermon preached at Laurence Pountnies Church in London, Nouemb. 21. 1619 at the funerall of Mrs. Elizabeth Iuxon, the late wife of Mr. Iohn Iuxon. By Stephen Denison minister of Gods word, at Kree-Church in the honourable citie of London.	Denison, Stephen, d. 1649 or 50.	1620 (1620)	STC 6604; ESTC S116460	41,077	140

well to be angrie Yea he may come to curse the day of his birth with Iob and Ieremiah Yea he may come to haue his words swallowed vp that he cannot pray Iob 6. 3. Thirdly the very elect may possibly be comfortlesse in their affliction according to that in Esay 54. 11. O thou afflicted tossed with tempest and not comforted Yea they may die mourning their gray haires may go with mourning to the graue as Iac●b speakes of himselfe Gen. 42. 38. And there be great reasons why afflictions are thus irksome to Gods children as first because our nature is traile and weake our strength is not the strength of stones nor our flesh of brasse as Iob speaketh Iob 6. 12. but we are fl●shie bodies and therefore very sensible of the least paines Secondly the diuell doth especially tempt vnto impatiencie in the time of our affliction we haue then of all other times the strongest temptations When did Satan most tempt Iob to curse God but in the depth of his miserie and calamitie And therefore it is not much to be maruelled at if we descrie naturall frailtie and weaknesse in our brethren and sisters at such a time God deliuers his children to much frailtie that in their weaknesse his power might be seene For how admirable is the power of God in the preseruing of such a man or woman to eternall life which oftentimes neither know what they do nor what they say It is a great worke of God to bring any to heauen though they pray though they call for mercie though they giue euidences of faith and repentance but to bring such to heauen which for the present cannot pray it is a wo●ke rather to be admired then conceiued God also suffers his deare children to die vncomfortably for their cause which stand by as either for the warning of his Saints standing by to teach them to take heede of nourishing corruption lest it trouble them at the last and to forewarne them also to prepare great strength against the needfull time Or else the Lord doth it in his iustice to be a stumbling blocke to the wicked that stand by that they may depart and say Lo these are the Professours these are the holy people these are the runners to Sermons and yet you see what ends they make God blesse me from their profession c. A iust iudgment of God that forasmuch as the wicked will not receiue any good by Gods people in their life time either by their good counsell or good example that therefore they should receiue hurt and bane by their death But here some may possibly obiect Doth not Christ himselfe say that The Comforter shall remaine for euer with his Elect Iohn 14. 16. Yea doth he not say further that No man shall take away their ioy Iohn 16. 22. Which being true how can it possibly be that the child of God hauing had at any time sound ioy should die vncomfortably To this I answer that indeed it is true soundioy shall neuer vtterly be taken away from any elect vessell but it is not to be denied but the sense feeling of that ioy may be taken away Though Christ was alwaies the Sonne of Gods loue and remained for euer in his fauour yet he was not alwayes sensible of that loue which caused him to crie My God my God why hast thou forsaken me If any shall obiect further and say Do we not reade that the Apostles reioyced In that they were thought wothie to suffer rebuke for Christ Acts 5. 41. And do we not heare of those holy Martyrs in Hebr. 10. 34. who suffered with ioy the spoyling of their goods Yea do we not behold with our eyes many Christians which depart out of this life with much heauenly ioy Therefore it may seeme that the end of Gods children is a ioyfull end I answer it is true that many Christians yea I hope the most of Gods children depart with ioy But this is not the condition of all There be some that go weeping to heauen as well as there be others which go triumphing There be some that are carried in fiery chariots with Elias and as it were in a whirle-wind when others are carried in a more mild manner or as it were in a horselitter If any shall obiect yet and say Do we not reade in Psal 37. Marke the vpright man behold the iust the end of that man is peace Therefore how is it possible that the end of the child of God should be vncomfortable It is most true that the end of Gods children is peace but this peace is especially obtained in the world to come for so saith the Prophet Peace shall come and they shall rest in their beds Esay 57. 2. Yea what saith our blessed Sauiour In the world ye shall haue assliction but be of good comfort I haue ouercome the world Iohn 16. 33. But to come to the vse and application of this point Is it so that afflictions may be thus troublesome and tedious to the very children of God Then this must teach vs not rashly to censure all such as in whom we discouer much weakenesse and signes of impatiency For in so doing we might quickly come to condemne the generation of the righteous Shall we iudge Iob to be an hypocrite if we heare him cursing the day of his birth God forbid Theresore iudge not that ye be not iudged For with what iudgement ye iudge ye shall be iudged and with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you againe Matth. 7. 2. In stead of iudging and censuring other in this case rather learne to iudge thy selfe thinke thus with thy selfe when thou seest signes of impatiencie in good people first that surely their pangs paines are exceeding great for otherwise they would not thus complaine and secondly suspect thy selfe that if thou were in their case and didst endure that which they endure thou thy selfe wouldst be farre more impatient Secondly is it so that afflictions may be thus tedious vnto the children of God Therefore this must teach vs to be thankfull to God when our brethren and sisters make a comfortable end How great cause had the sriends and kindred of holy Martyrs to praise God when they beheld with their eyes the stedfast faith the vndaunted courage the maruellous patience which appeared in those worthy se●uants of God And so when we behold our friends vpon their death-bed iustifying God condemning themselues laying hold of saluation by Christ giuing good instruction vnto others and commending their spirits into the hand of their Lord which hath bought them surely I lay in this case we haue great and iust cause to glorifie God And so much the rather are we bound to be thankfull for this because it is not giuen to all the Saints to haue this comfort at the last but some vpon their death-beds are cōstrained with Christ Iesus to cry in