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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44680	A funeral sermon on the death of that pious gentlewoman Mrs. Judith Hamond Late wife of the Reverend Mr. George Hamond, minister of the Gospel in London. By John Howe, minister of the same Gospel.	Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1696 (1696)	Wing H3029; ESTC R215976	18,994	36

and sedate all along Only so much does deserve a remark That she was prepossest with an Apprehension that she should dye suddenly so much of Gods secret he was pleased to impart to her as he sometimes does to more inward Friends That discovery he vouchsaf't to her as to a Favourite to let her have some kind of pre-signification that her passage out of this World should be very quick whensoever it came and so it was that sitting in her Chair amidst familiar Discourse in a dimidiated Sentence she made a full stop and life was ended before that could have an end Now certainly the Decease of such a one ought not to be lamented with that bitter Sorrow as if there were no such thing as this that Death were certainly to be swallowed up in Victory in an intire and compleat Victory with reference to such a one It seems indeed in such Cases as was said to you before unto the judgment of our sense that Death only overcomes we see not beyond that It turns a living Creature into a dead Clod and so it is laid among such it is buried in the Grave our Sight goes no further But when we are perswaded by the Word of the Lord that this mortal shall put on immortality and this corruptible incorruption and death be swallowed up in such a Victory as you have heard certainly this takes away the cause of all bitter and reliefless sorrow I am not unapprehensive that Reverend Brother whom this stroke touches more nearly is much fitter to administer this consolation than receive it from such a one as I. But as we may any of us put in for our share as our case may require and can admit in what is so generally spoken with reference to Christians dying in the Lord and their surviving fellow-Christians that as yet live in him 1 Thes. 4. from verse 13 onward to the end So we are directed to comfort one another therewith Be patient I pray you while I present to you this Most sutable Portion of Scripture I would not have you to be ignorant Brethren concerning them which are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope For if we believe that Jesus dyed and rose again even them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Arch-Angel and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we be ever with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words We shall be in a great promptitude and disposition of Spirit to do so if these words be lookt upon as Divine sayings as the words of the Living and Immortal God My Friends do you not find there is Spirit in these words Is there not strong Consolation in them How can we but think so unless our whole Religion be with us but a Fable This concerns us all upon the common Christian account who are but a residue a remnant escaped and exempted a-while from being part of the Spoils and Triumphs of Death which hath slaughtered and thrown into the dust probably a much greater number of our Friends and Relatives than we our selves do make who are left behind And 't is likely we have been most of us divers times Mourners upon such occasions This shews upon what account and in what case we may intermingle very reviving Consolations with our Sorrows and that we ought freely as the occasion recurres to apply it to our selves and one another But I withal think there may be somewhat of more special import tending to repress intemperate Sorrow on such an occasion in that of Ezekiel 24. 16. I think there may be somewhat I say collected besides what was more peculiar and appropriate by way of signal to the Prophet himself that may reach the last mention'd Case It was a thing injoined upon him that he should not mourn nor weep nor should his tears run down when God should take away from him the desire of his eyes with a stroke I reckon that as we have seen Christians should not mourn like other men so the Lords Prophets are not to mourn altogether like others of his People but somewhat more of restraint they are to put upon themselves that they may discover an higher excellency or somewhat a greater measure of that spirit of faith ruling in them that gives a great allay to present things whether good or evil as it begets clearer and more vivid apprehensions of things yet-future and out of sight And that as all believers should endeavour in things of common concernment to all to be exemplary to one another and to other men so they who are so much nearer to God in Office and Relation should be examples to Believers in Conversation Spirit Faith 1 Tim. 4. 12. 2. This should be very comfortable too unto them that are in union with Christ in reference to their own future death which they are continually to expect Death is often saying to us repeatedly and very sensibly to our very Bone and our Flesh You shall be my Prey shortly at least sooner or later It is ready to make its seisure upon us when we do not know but we are sure some time it will But my Friends it does not become Christians to look upon this thing called Death as so formidable a thing as it is commonly reckoned it is ignominious to our profession not to be indured amongst them that have Life and Immortality brought to light and set in view before their Eyes in the Gospel such as profess to be united with Christ who hath Life in himself and imparts it to all that are so united such a Life hid with Christ in God And hope that when he who is their Life shall appear shall appear with him in Glory It becomes not such to dye continually by the fear of dying or that the very thoughts of Death should be deadly to them This is remote from what was much observed to be the Temper and Character of Primitive Christians An Heathen Prince who throughly understood them not Censures them too hardly as being in the other extream though he at length became kinder to them as if they rashly threw themselves upon Death Whereas he says the Soul should rationally and becomingly be in readiness to be loosed from the body But how come we to lose our Character and our Glory How degenerated a thing is the Christianity of our age To dye without regret is counted an attainment it should be with gladness As Psal. 16. 9 10 11. and upon the Considerations there mention'd as being