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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29663	A sermon at the funeral of the Worshipful John Symonds, late of Great Yeldham in the county of Essex, Esq. preached in the parish-church of Great Yeldham aforesaid on the 24th of February, 1692, by John Brooke ... ; with a short account of his life.	Brooke, John, 1633 or 4-1716?	1693 (1693)	Wing B4906; ESTC R12467	25,737	32

Thief Luke 23.43 This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise And that of the Apostle to mention now no more in the fifth Chapter of the second Epistle to the Corinthians from the first to the tenth ver Yea they shall be blessed then with a clearer more immediate and never-more to be interrupted enjoyment of them 1. They shall then be blessed with a clearer and more immediate enjoyment of them here they see God at best 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle phrazeth it 1 Cor. 13.12 Through a Glass as it were in a riddle as the Original primarily imports darkly as our Translators have rendred it but then we shall see him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 face to face Now they know him but in part but then they shall know him even as they are known They shall see him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as he is as St. John phrazeth it 1 Joh. 3 2. Here the Saints enjoy God indeed but 't is darkly and mediately through the conduits and cisterns of his Ordinances They are in a state of imperfection and so do need the assistance of his Ordinances to help them to a sight of God But when that which is perfect is come as it will be in good measure as you have heard to them that die in the Lord then that which is thus in part shall be done away as the Apostle tells us 1 Cor. 13.10 The Sun shall no more be our light then by day nor the Moon our light by night but the Lord God hims●lf shall be our Everlasting light and our glory as the Prophet prazeth it Isa 60.19 And as they shall then be blessed with a clearer and more immediate enjoyment of God and Christ So 2. With an uninterrupted Enjoyment of them Whilst we are present in the body saith the Apostle we are a●sent from the L●rd We are so be sure many times we enjoy him but by sits and starts we meet with many Interruptions in our Enjoyments of him Now we have him and anon we lose him sometimes we meet with him at an Ordinance and at another time we are forced to go away without him suavis hora brevis mora as one of the Fathers saith a sweet Hour indeed it is but 't is usually but a short one but then we shall enjoy him without any Interruption or Cessation at all We shall ever be with the Lord as the Apostle tells us 1 Thes 4.17 His tabernacle shall then be indeed placed amongst his people and he will remove it no more According to his Promise Rev. 21.7 They shall be before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell amongst them they shall hunger no more neither thirst any more neither shall the Sun light on them nor any heat for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters as St. John assureth us Rev. 7.15 16 17. Now Si mediata momentanea Dei visio tantum potuit apportare laetitiae cumulum quantum potuit immediata aeterna saith one If those Beams of Comfort which are reflected upon good Men here by getting now and then a glimpse of God's Countenance in this vale of Tears do so refresh and revive their Hearts as they do What will their Joy be when the Lord himself shall be their constant Sun and everlasting Light If it be so good to draw nigh unto God upon Earth as the Psalmist tells us it is Psal 73. c. if they are so blessed that watch at Wisdom's Gates and wait at the Posts of her Doors as Solomon tells us they are How good will it be then to draw near unto God in Heaven And how blessed are they that wait not at the Door but dwell in that House and that for ever And yet so shall all such as die in the Lord do and therefore they must needs be very blessed But so much shall serve for the Explication and Confirmation of of what is asserted in my Text. I come now to apply it or to inserr from it And so 1. Are the dead that die in the Lord thenceforth blessed then certainly there is another Life besides this and the Souls of Men do not die with their Bodies whatever the Atheist phansieth to the contrary for N●n entis nulla sunt praedicata nullae sunt affectiones nothing can be predicated or said of that which is not But the Souls of the dead that die in the Lord are said to be thenceforth blessed and therefore they must have a Being still and there must be another Life besides this where they are so blessed 2. Then this too lets us see the great Difference betwixt the Righteous and the Wicked betwixt good Men and bad in this other Life for the one are not so happy but the other then will be as miserable 'T is true indeed in this Life many times which is too by the way a good Argument of a future Estate All things come alike to all men there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked to the clean and to the unclean to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not as Solomon tells us Eccles 9.2 Yea so are the Affairs of this Life ordered many times though they all lie under the dispose of a Divine Providence as that it often happens better to the Wicked than to the Righteous here at least in outward Respects there is saith Solomon A just man that perish th in his righteousness and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his days in his wickedn●ss Eccles 7.15 Just Abel is slain whilst unrighteous Cain lives and builds Cities profane Esau stays at home and takes his Pleasure whilst pious Jacob is forced to seek his Fortune and to endure much hardship in a Foreign Land N●bal a Man of B●lial Feasts it like a King whilst David a Man after God's own Heart is in great wants and straits D●ves the rich Fool riots it and fairs deliciously every Day whilst poor L●z●rus the beloved of our Lord would have been glad of the Crumbs that fell from his Table Yea our Saviour himself that Holy and Just one who did no sin neither was there any guile sound at any time in his mouth is accused condemned and crucified whilst Burrabbas a notorious Murderer is spared released and set at Liberty In short so are the Affairs of this Life ordered many times as that the Unrighteous and Wicked seem here oftentimes so happy as one observes as if they were rewarded for their Impiety and the Righteous and Religious often so miserable as if they were punished for their Innocency but it will be much otherwise in the Life to come then indeed shall men return and discern betwixt the righteous and the wicked betwixt them that have served God and them that have served him not as the Prophet tells us Mal. 3.18