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A23644 A gainful death the end of a truly Christian life a sermon at the funeral of Mr. John Griffith, late minister of the Gospel, who departed this life May 16, in the 79th year of his age / preached May the 20th, 1700 by Richard Allen. Allen, Richard. 1700 (1700) Wing A1041; ESTC R28091 13,910 48

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express 1 Joh. 3.2 We shall see him as he is and as the blessed Effect of this Vision we shall be like him And well may this according to the Apostle's design raise admiring Thoughts and Meditations in our Minds concerning that State and the Divine Love which gives us an Interest therein 'T is very unchristian to murmur and repine at the Death of our Godly Friends and Relations which is only the accomplishment of the gracious Will and mediatory Request of our Saviour Joh. 17.24 Father saith he I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my Glory c. O! what a desirable thing must it be to be for ever with the Lord 1 Thess 4.17 and in the perpetual and uninterrupted fruition of him To all such who count it no less their Privilege than their Duty to behold his Glory now tho it be only in the Glass of Ordinances to all those who often in some good measure experience the Psalmist's Devotion breathing forth with him Psal 42.20 My Soul thirsteth for God for the living God when shall I come to appear before God And again 63.1 2. My Soul thirsieth for thee to see thy Power and thy Glory so as I have seen thee in the Sanctuary 7. Death will bring them into the most blessed and delightful Society They now enjoy not only a visible Fellowship with Saints but a sweet and invisible Communion with holy Angels who delightfully perform that kind Office in which they are imploy'd by our common Head being by him made all ministring Spirits Heb. 1.14 sent forth to minister for them who shall be Heirs of Salvation But they shall ascend from the valley of Death to the top of Mount Sion Heb. 12.22 23. and to the City of the living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels and to the Spirits of just Men made perfect Made perfect that is freed from all those defects in Knowledg and Holiness which here render the Society even of Saints sometimes very unpleasant and troublesom But O what a Felicity will it be to meet in that perfect State with many of our dear Friends and Relations and it may be some of our Enemies too persectly reconciled to us to enjoy intimate Society with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the holy Patriarchs Prophets Apostles and Martyrs and in a word with all those Noble and Excellent Saints that ever we read or heard of You can't but from the Consideration of these things conclude with me in the 8. Place That Death will bring them into the most ravishing Joys and into the most pure and unmix'd Pleasures The most refin'd Joys of this Life have a great alloy and mixture of Sorrow The most delightful Pleasures are attended with Pain and Uneasiness The most happy Estate here is often obtain'd with care kept with fear and lost with trouble Honour and Greatness are commonly uneasy to those that have them and hated and envied by those that have them not Liberal Education and Knowledg is one of the sweetest Pleasures and Delights of an ingenuous Mind yet even this if we may believe him who had the largest Experience of it is not without its Vanity and Vexation of Spirit For in much Wisdom Eccles 1.18 saith he is much Grief and he that increaseth Knowledg increaseth Sorrow Yea the very Sweets and Delights of Religion are here exceedingly dampt partly by the Consciousness of our great Imperfection therein partly by Melancholy and partly by the Malice of that malignant Spirit who if he can't hale us with himself into Hell will be sure to make us go as droopingly as possible in our way to Heaven But Death transmits holy Souls into the immediate Presence of God where there is fulness of Joy Psal 16.11 and at whose right-hand there are Pleasures for evermore Then all the Doubts of sad and dejected tho sincere Souls shall be chang'd into full assurance all their Darkness into the most clear Light their Mournings into Melodies their Sorrows and Sighs into Songs of Praise and joyful Hallelujahs to him that sits upon the Throne Rev. 19.1 chap. 5.13 and to the Lamb for ever and ever Lastly All these Advantages will be eternal and everlasting This is indeed but a Circumstance but 't is such a Circumstance without which all the Happiness of Heaven it self would be imperfect Yea the greater the Felicity is the greater and more amazing would be the damp it would strike upon the Spirits of those who are in the fruition of it to think Alas one day I must be depriv'd of all this and either relapse into my former Miseries or else sink into the abyss of Nothingness I believe there are few living Christians but are ready to cry out with Job under a sense of the Sinsulness and Miserableness of the present Life Job 7.16 I would not live always But it is impossible any such thought should enter into the Mind of a glorified Saint Where there is fulness of Joy it can't but be an inconceivable Pleasure to know it shall be for evermore As the Felicities of Saints after Death are call'd weights of Glory because of the Greatness of them so they are call'd eternal weights because of the Durableness and Permanency of them O consider then what a blessed thing it is to be regenerated and born again for such are begotten to an Inheritance not like the Inheritances of this World fading and uncertain 1 Pet. 1.3 5. but to an Inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in Heaven for you who are kept by the Power of God thro Faith unto Salvation Thus I have set before you a little and I may without any Rhetorical Flourish say but a little of the Advantages which every sincere Christian shall gain by Death I am confident whoever of you pass thro the dark valley and shadow of Death into those Regions of Light and Blessedness and O that it may be the Portion of every one of you who are my Hearers or Readers you will then wonderingly say of this your Gain by Death as the Queen of Sheba of Solomon's Wisdom Behold 1 Kings 10 7. the half was not told me and the Glory and Felicity far exceeds the Fame I heard I now proceed to make some brief Application of the whole And among many very useful Reflections which might be made upon this excellent Subject I shall shut up my present Discourse with these brief ones following 1. Well may we hence infer the Wisdom of sincere Religion If such be the end of a truly Christian Life then as the Scriptures frequently so they most fitly represent sincere Religion and Piety as the truest Wisdom Let even Reason impartially speak whether it be not the truest Wisdom to prefer the Fountain of Living Waters before broken Cisterns that can hold no Water to prefer