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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	ask_v	lord_n	zion_n	30	3	9.5069	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48444	A funeral sernom [sic] delivered upon the sad occasion of the much lamented death of John Gould, late of Clapham, Esq; who put on immortality, Aug. 22, 1679 / by P. Lamb ...	Lamb, Philip, d. 1689.	1679 (1679)	Wing L207; ESTC R41395	22,449	89

going thither for many times we step from the Womb into the Tomb or in the midst of our days drop into the Grave but 't is called our Long home because of our long stay there 3. Death is called the end of man because it puts an end to all the troubles temptations fears and pains of life it is the Out-let of all Misery and the In-let to all Happiness When Death cometh to put an end to the days of the Upright he then begins his Triumphs and may go away with Colours flying and Trumpets sounding O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory From the whole Observ I shall give you this Doctrinal point That He that is Perfect and Upright in his Life shall certainly have Peace in his Death When the Question is asked Who shall be admitted into the Mount Zion below or enter into the new Jerusalem above the Answer from Heaven is Psal 15.1 2. as you may see Lord who shall abide in thy Tabernacle Who shall dwell in thy holy Hill He that walketh Uprightly and worketh Righteousness and speaketh the Truth in his heart That great Gospel-promise Isa 26.2 3. Open ye the Gates that the Righteous Nation which keepeth the Truth may enter in Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee It is also promised in Isa 57.1 2. The Righteous perisheth and no man laies it to heart and Merciful men are taken away none considering that the Righteous is taken away from the evil to come He shall enter into peace they shall rest in their Beds each one walking in his Uprightness In opening and confirming this Doctrine I shall shew you three things First What is meant by these terms Perfect and Upright as they are understood sometimes in the same and sometimes in a different sense sometimes they are taken Conjunctim and as Synonymous signifying one and the same thing and sometimes divisim severally First As they are taken divisim so the word Perfect here seems to relate to the Upright mans Inside and to the pure frame of his heart especially and the regular motions of all the faculties of the soul In this sense it is taken chiefly in that command of God to Abraham Gen. 17.1 I am the Almighty God walk before me and be thou perfect And in that holy Profession of David Psal 101.2 I will walk in the mid'st of my House with a perfect heart There are two other respects also in which men are said to be perfect First In respect of their Justification by the compleat Righteousness of Christ every true Believer in this respect may be said to be Perfect having all his imperfections covered and done away by him whose Name is the Lord our Righteousness As in Heb. 10.14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Secondly Men may be said to be Perfect with respect unto their Sanctification though the work it self be yet Imperfect First In respect of the Spirit of God the Author of that Glorious work who will certainly perfect what he hath begun according to that Prayer of the Apostle 1 Thes 5.23 And the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ Secondly In respect of the work it self which is a tendency unto perfection a direct tendency to the future perfect state of Saints in Glory Where ever it is begun the gracious heart is always breathing longing and working in continual motion towards that perfection and content with no state measures or degrees short of it As we may see in that Blessed Apostle Paul Phil. 3.13 14 15. Brethren I count not my self to have apprehended but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus Let us therefore as many as be Perfect be thus minded Secondly When these terms are severally understood this word Upright seems more specially to relate to the regularity of a mans outward deportment in a just exact and holy Conversation according to the rules of Righteousness prescribed in that Royal Law the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ when he is holy in all manner of Conversation without Deceit and Guile in all his commerce and dealing with men both in Commutative and Distributive Justice in his private and publick capacity They that Defraud and Cheat and deal Unjustly with their Brother are strangers to Uprightness the Shame and Reproach of their Holy profession Thirdly Here in this place I conceive both Perfect and Upright signifie the same thing and are exegetical as if one Epithete had been too little to express the worth of such an excellent and incomparable Person That you may see the excellency of that perfect Man First we will hear what the Scripture saith of him not to say any thing of Noah Lot Job and others who were perfect and upright in their Generation who were the glory of the places and days in which they lived Gen. 25.27 there is a description of the Righteous and the Wicked the Perfect and the Profane as Learned Authors observe Esau was a cunning Hunter a Man of the Field and Jacob was a plain Man dwelling in Tents Esau was like Nimrod a mighty Hunter before the Lord like the Hectors of our times a man of a rugged ranting spirit But Jacob was Ish Tam a plain Man sine fuco fallaciâ without Welt or Guard as we are wont to say non acutus ad fallendum not cunning to deceive though once he did supplant his Brother which was more his Mothers contrivance than his own and another time which was more his Brothers folly than his own fraud There is so much excellency in a Perfect and Upright man that the Lord commands Moses Exod. 28.30 Thou shalt put on the Breast-plate of Judgment the Urim and the Thummim and they shall be upon Aarons heart when he goeth in before the Lord And Aaron shall bear the Judgment of the Children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually That the words Urim and Thummim were ingraven on the pretious Stones of the Breast-plate is agreed upon by the most and some are of opinion that they were done by the Finger of God himself Urim signifieth Lights Thummim which comes from the same root with that word by which Jacob was expressed is rendered Perfections both in the Plural number to imply that abundance of Knowledge and Holiness that should be in the Priests of the Lord. Uprightness i. e. upright towards God and upright towards Man and to teach the Spiritual Priests of God if they will enter into the Holy of Holies and ask Counsel of God they must have this Urim and Thummim this light of Knowledge and Perfection Uprightness is called Perfection because