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death_n	aaron_n	die_v	mount_n	99	3	9.4758	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75270	The virgin saint, or, A brief narrative of the holy life and Christian death of Mary Wilson with some memorable passages, and occasional speeches a little before her death added thereunto ; to which is also adjoyned a sermon, preached at her funeral by Mr. Geo. Nicholson, together with several consolatory letters, written by divers ministers, to her mournful father, Mr. Richard Wilson of Crosfield in Cumberland.	S. A.; Nicholson, George, ca. 1637-1697. Sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Mary Wilson.	1673 (1673)	Wing A28A; ESTC R42607	83,061	185

and they wou●● whatever they pretend to the contrary petit●● for a Respite like the poor man in the Fa●● that wished for Death when he was overbuy thened with his sticks but when Death a● peared the man gets up with his Burden and away goeth he Poor men whatever they think or pretend they would find their Affections lime-twig'd with something or other that they cannot yet be ready to meet the Lord Jesus ● Sixthly There is this also in Actual Readiness to meet the Lord Jesus and that is To have the Affections elevated and upon the wing ●o meet the Lord Jesus The Affections are truly ●aid to be Alae Animae The wings of the Soul for they are the wings that carry the Soul after as desired Object Now when the Soul is ●eady to take its Flight to meet the Lord Jesus and mounteth upwards to meet him in the ●ay as if it would prevent Christ of the pains to ●●me and fetch it this is Actual Readiness with ●● Accent or Preparedness in summo gradu in ●e highest degree that man is capable of to ●eet the Lord Jesus We read of Elijah's ●cending to Heaven in a fiery Chariot so when ●e Soul hath its Affections like so many fiery ●hariots to carry it swistly on to meet the Lord ●sus here is Readiness indeed So we find ● Paul thus setting forth his desire to be with thrist Phil. 1.23 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having a ●hement hot and flagrant Affection to be with ●hrist which is best of all Seventhly To be Actually ready for the Coming of the Lord Jesus Is to have a suitable ●ame and temper of Spirit for a Dying Hour Thou art not prepared to meet Christ till thou art prepared to die Now I will shew you when a man is of a suitable frame of Spirit for a dying hour and take it in these Four Particulars First When a man is freely willing to b● disposed of by God this is a suitable frame 〈◊〉 Spirit for a Dying Hour When God sender his Messenger Death to summon a man to appear before the Lord and the man then is able to say Good is the Will of the Lord concerning me and let him do with me as seemeth good in h● sight Here is a man of a suitable frame of Spirit for a Dying Hour and consequently ready in a good degree to meet the Lord Jesus Thus the Man Christ Jesus shewed his readine● for dying in this suitable frame when he said Not my Will but thine be done Mat. 26.39 43. And good old Eli 1 Sam. 3.18 It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good And Davi● 2 Sam. 15.26 Behold here am I let him d●● me as seemeth good unto him Secondly When a man can take complacence in God's so disposing of him this is to be of suitable frame of spirit for a Dying hour Th●● is as I may say the highest pitch in this spiritual frame When a man cometh to this length as to take pleasure in God's taking him off b●● Death this is to rise high in this Heaven● frame This I grant is rarely attained unto by those that are come up to some considerable legrees of Assurance that they are already passed from death to life Thus we find it was with Paul and those Saints of whom he speaketh 2 Cor. 5.1 We know saith he that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved ●e have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the Heavens here is his and their Assurance Now mark what followeth For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be ●●athed upon with our house which is from Heaven Paul and the rest of these Saints with him ●ere so straitned in the Body as that they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 summo amore complectentes em●acing with the greatest delight as an hungry ●an his food or a naked man his cloaths their ●use which they were waiting for from Heaven ●ut how were they to come to be cloathed upon ●ith their house from above No other way ordinarily but by being uncloathed of the ●uses of their Bodies But could they be ●eased to have their cloathing of Flesh stript off ●em Not simply as such for this was against ●e Law of Nature which is for the preservation ●● it self but yet as the Bodies uncloathing was ●e way and means to bring them to be cloathed ●●th Immortality so they could take pleasure ●●d delight in it This is no more than what ●●ul hath elsewhere expressed Phil. 1.23 Having desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is here translated to depart signifieth properly to be dissolved or to have the cords of Nature loosened the bands between the Soul and Body untied Now St. Paul saith It is his desire or as th● word is his fervent desire to be dissolved No that he simply took pleasure in the dissolution 〈◊〉 his compositum or union between his Soul and Body but as his dissolution would be the wa● to bring him to Christ which he so much longe● for so he took pleasure or as Beza expound it contended in his desire to be dissolved So those Martyrs we read of in Heb. 11.39 would not accept of deliverance though the● were tortured or as the word is stretched form upon the Rack that they might obtain a be●●● Resurrection They would not thank their Adversaries for saving their lives or be beholden to them for their sparing mercy but rath●● took pleasure in so cruel a Death as ordered 〈◊〉 them by the Almighty that they might obtain better Resurrection It is said of Aaron th●● he received a commandment from the Lord 〈◊〉 die in Mount Hor Numb 33.38 But h●● did he die Did he take complacency in th●● disposal of the Almighty Yes as appeared from Numb 20.23 24 25 26 27 28. where 〈◊〉 is said That Moses stripped Aaron of his Garments not against the will of Aaron but with the free consent of Aaron as appeareth by 〈◊〉 freeness and readiness without the least reluctancy intimated to go with Moses unto Mount Hor to die there Aaron as far as we can gather any thing from the letter of the Text made no more of dying than a man doth of putting off his cloaths to go to Bed or of having them taken off that he may go to his rest which ordinarily is an act of complacency and delight to a man after his weariness and toilsome labour The same may be gathered from Moses himself Deut. 32.48 49 50. with Deut. 34.5 compared which is in excellent frame of Spirit for a Dying-hour Thirdly When a man can hang loose from and freely part with all his worldly comforts and enjoyments this is an excellent frame of Spirit for a Dying hour For a man to set his earthly comforts at his back and have only Heaven before his face this is a blessed temper of Spirit It is said of