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A95722	The saints expectation and reward a sermon at the funerall of that learned and faithfull minister of Christ Mr. Tho: Wiborow June 10th 1652. / Preached at Enfeild in Staffordshire, by Michael Thomas minister of Gods word at Stockden in Shropshire.	Thomas, Michael, rector of Stockton.	1655 (1655)	Wing T969; Thomason E835_11; ESTC R207408	15,800	16

I am well pleased and yet find that Son forsaken of his Father and given over to Scribes and Pharisees and Publicans and Herodians and Priests and Souldiers and People and Judges and Witnesses and Executioners and he that was called the beloved Son of God and made partaker of the glory of Heaven in this world in his transfiguration was made the sink of all corruption the receptacle of the pollution of all the sins of the world as if he were no Son of God but meer man as if he were no man but a contemptible worm such is the miserable condition of mankind As though the greatest weaknesse in the world were man and the greatest fault in man were to be good Man is more miserable then any other Creature and good men more miserable then any other men Solomon speaks of a sore evill that was under the Sun and this was it that all things come alike to all that there is but one event to the righteous and to the wicked in times of common and publique calamitity when God plats an overflowing scourge for a Nation t is oftentimes seen that some stripes doe light upon the backs of the righteous Good King Josiah slain in the warrs aswell as wicked Ahab and this is an evill of vexation because sometimes weak Christians are offended that it is so and the glory of God seems to be obscured when it is so but yet God who best knowes how to repair his own honour suffers and appoints it so that the just and the unjust are wrapped up in the same judgment together The Corn you know is as much beaten in the thrashing as the chaffe or the straw is and the just are as much chastned in this world as the unjust of which proceedings of God Aquinas gives this account All things saith he happen alike to all quantum ad substantiam bonorum malorum sed non quantum ad finem In regard of the substance of good and evill so all things happen alike but not in respect of their end because righteous men by these visitations are humbled and brought into the way of blessednesse whereas by them wicked men are hardned and go on more stubbornly in the waies of their iniquitie Gods purpose in sending out these messengers of wrath is but to declare his indignation against sinne and when his children perceive that sin is so odious and contrary to his nature they grow by degrees into the same hatred and detestation of it and then it is that the Lord takes them into his especiall protection and will be their help and comfort when the whole world failes them And this was that priviledge which the Prophet David sang so triumphantly Psalm 91. Who so dwelleth under the defence of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almightie The Argument of that Psalm saies Musculus is the confidence and affiance of a righteous soul upon God the particulars of every confidence holy David describes from the first to the fourteenth verse under these metaphoricall tearms of a secret place and a shadow are set forth the care and providence of God as if David had said 't is true that troubles will befall the people of God but God hath a secret place to secure them the fire of tribulation may be kindled round about them but God hath a shadow to refresh them be the judgment of what nature soever God hath suitable deliverances for his people are they in poverty or nakednesse the Lord will cover them with his feathers are they sick and sore at heart he hath healing under his wings are they pursued with the sword the Lord will be their buckler are they affraid of the pestilence that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the LXX read it that evill Angell that destroyes evening and morning and at noon day yet it shall not come nigh his dwelling thousands shall fall upon his right hand and ten thousand upon his left but the Lord shall give his Angels charge over him to keep him in all his waies And all these deliverances David found in himself and declares that God fashion'd him in his Mothers womb and took him thence and was both his hope and his help afterward he did often break the snare of the hunter defeating the malice of Saul and the rebellion of Absalom and carried him through divers tribulations and at length laid him in his grave full of daies riches and honour The holy Scripture abounds with examples of this kind that God hath been a shield and buckler to his people and hath satisfied them with long life and salvation that have put their trust in him And for the great comfort and encouragement of his people the Lord hath told them that he will be a father unto them see Psalm 103. Like as a father pittieth his children so will the Lord pittie them that fear him See Malach. 3. 16. They shall be mine saith the Lord in that day when I make up my jewells In that day That is in the day of trouble and desolation when the Lord shall put a difference between the righteous and the wicked in that day they shall be mine and that love and favour which a tender Father sheweth to an obedient son so will spare them Why they are my Jewels saith God my pretious Treasure though like Jewells they may have flawes faults in them and yield not that brightnesse and lustre they should do yet I will cut them and polish them and lay them up in the Cabinet of the grave and bring them out on the glorious day of resnrrection but because of the two parents for the most part the love of the Mother is most tender therefore it hath pleased God to ascertain his people of his tender care over them even in that notion Isa 49. 15 16. Can a Mother forget her sucking child and not have compassion on the son of her womb If she could yet I will not forget thee But what is there provided to keep them in Gods remembrance I have graven thee upon the Palmes of my Hands saies the Lord there That phrase saies Alvarez imports perpetuam recordationem a constant remembrance never to be blotted out as we use to say of a thing that is nigh and neer to us pro manibus est it is at hard But there is more in that phrase then so there are some Divines conceive that our Saviour now in the state of glory retaines the scares and wounds which he received in his bodie here on earth for the redemption of mankind 'T was the saying of Saint Cyprian The Lord Christ saith he doth st●ll retain the print of the nails in his hands and feet that the offering up of his bodie for a sacr fice might every day be as powerfull in the sight of God to appease his wrath towards mankind as it was on the day of his passion Ostendit filius patri vulnera saies Aquinas Christ shews his wounds to his

father and they are as so many wounds pleading and making intercession for penitent sinners So that these words that God will remember his people more tenderly then a mother can her child that the names of his Elect are written in the palmes of his hands in such bloody characters that no time can deface how strong an argument may this be to every Christian that Christ will be a friend and stick to him when the whole world shall fail him Saint Ambrose observing those many names and relations by which the Lord is pleased to own his people breaks forth into this meditation Omnia Christus est nobis Christ is all in all to us Is thy conscience wounded Christ is a Physician are thy sins many and grievous Christ is righteousnesse dost thou walk in darknesser Christ is light wouldst thou go to heaven he is the way dost thou fear death Christ is the life Vide quot titulorum generibus tui gratia Christus insignitur saies that father See how many names and titles Christ takes upon him for thy sake who in his own Essence is but one God that in all the changes and chances that may befall us in this life we may have some name and notion of God to lay hold upon and to sustain us in the day of adversity But some carnal heart perchance may say if the Lord be the help the hope of his people how is it that they are oftentimes brought into such straits that they know not which way to turn themselvs we might satisfie this and the like objections if we would but consider of these things First it is very meet that every child should honour his Father that every servant should glorifie his Master In the afflictions of his holy ones the Lord lets the wicked see how much they will suffer for his sake and not forsake him that they will not leave their integritie though they lose all the world beside Dost thou still retain thine integritie saies Jobs wife to him Dost thou fear such a God as hath stripped thee of all thy earthly comforts Oh saies Job shall we receive good from the hand of the Lord and shall we not receive evil The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. Again it is not meet that children and servants should receive correction from their Parents and Masters to remember them of and to obtain them in their duty Secundi successus abducunt a Deo sanctimonia saies Hyperius prosperitie and happinesse do estrange or hearts from Godlinesse and slacken us in all duties of devotion this corruption David acknowledged in his own nature Man being honour hath no understanding And further Before I was afflicted I went wrong but now I will keep thy testimonies The Vine will grow empty and wild except it be pruned and so will the best man except the Lord somtime shake his rod over him Irascitur Divina Benitas in hoc soeculo ne irascatur in altero Almighty God will be angry with us in this world that he may favour us in the next and in mercy corrects us here that he may not consume us in vengeance hereafter And thirdly It is not meet that every one should wear the badge and cognizance of his profession Luther was wont to say Qui non est crucianus non est Christianus He that is not crucified to the world the world to him is no Christian and some stories tell us that the primitive Christians had an Hieroglyphick Crucem coronatam a Cross with a Crown upon it it had this inscription Tolle crucem 〈◊〉 ●●bere coronam you must bear the Cross if ye would wear the Crown● if we be the members of Christ we must conform to our head partake with our fellow members wee must not expect that God should strew carpets for our nice feet to walk into Heaven and make that way smooth for us which all the Patriarchs and Prophets and Apostles and Martyrs yea and Christ himselfe found so rugged and bloody the gate of Heaven is streight and we must strive to enter into it we must be disposed and prepared in mind cherfully to part with any thing we enjoy when it shall please the Lord to call for it This is the race we must run this is the course we must finish and yet we may not say within our selves this is an hard saying are these the helpes and hopes that a righteous man hath to depend upon whent he world failes him surely wee mistake our selves if we look for any other for the estate of a Christian is an inheritance his happinesse is not in possession but in reversion which is the first of those particulars I propounnded to consider when I had handled the generall observation Expectamus saies the Apostle there are some better things we look for then we possesse here I am perswaded a great part of that trouble that befalls the children of God in this life ariseth from a mistake because our Saviour saies that the meek shall inherit the Earth therefore when meek and holy persons are driven from their house and home when their earthly possessions are taken from them by violence hereupon they are cast down and troubled as if they were at once oppressed by men and forsaken of God but this I say is a mistake Righteous men look upon the world as if it were their own when they have a good title to it yet they have the least share in it the wealth of a Christian is not in possession 't is true what Solomon saies Wisdom is good with an inheritance that man that is Dives and Lazarus too He to whom God hath given both riches and religion wealth and grace to manage it goodly and fair is that mans lot God hath done so to some but hee doth not promise to do so to all when the Sons of Zebedee were presented by their mother to our Saviours favour to sit one on his right hand the other on his left in his Kingdom they received no other answer but this can ye drink of my Cup that is can ye suffer with me can ye powre out your blood for the profession of my Gospel The Crown of of Martyrdom was all the honour which our Saviour offered to those ambitious Disciples Our Saviour told Pilate that his Kingdom was not of this world our estates then lie not on this old earth but in those new Heavens that we look for Neither do we find in Scripture that the Saints held by any other tenure Saint Paul saies of Abraham that he did but so●ourn in Canaan as in a strange Country he and his Children dwelling in Tents for he looked for a City that had foundations whose builder and maker was God So Jacob describes his own life and calls it but a Pilgrimage So David confesses that he was but a stranger and sojourner as all his Fathers were from whence proceeded these humble acknowledgements