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A58814 A sermon preached at the funeral of Dr. William Croun on the 23d of October, 1684, at St. Mildred Church in the Poultrey by John Scott ... Scott, John, 1639-1695. 1685 (1685) Wing S2068; ESTC R10207 19,399 34

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TO THE Truly Pious and Virtuous Mrs CROUN MADAM WHen you requested me to Publish this Discourse I found you in that Mournfull condition that 't would have been a degree of Inhumanity not to have gratified your desire And therefore though I was sufficiently sensible how much short I had fain of both my Subjects viz. that comfortable one of the Text and that sorrowfull one of the Occasion yet my Compassion overswayed my Reason so that I can plead no other excuse to the World for this very defective Publication but that I had not ill nature enough to resist the Importunate Tears of an afflicted Friend and a sorrowful Widow As for the Sermon all I can say for it is this That it Treats of a very Noble Argument and such as carries comfort enough with it to ease and relieve the most dejected mind and therefore is of all others the most fit and proper for your Meditations for there is no present affliction no not yours can cause you to suppose your self miserable so long as you are within hope and expectance of the blessed state of eternal life O Good Madam while you are making your Mournfull descants on your dear Loss consider now and then that you are Iourneying towards that blessed place where you will find infinite Myriads of better Friends and dearer Lovers than that best of Husbands whose Loss you bewail and who love each other far more and better even than you and he did and have this peculiar advantage beyond the happiest Lovers here That they shall live an eternal life together and to everlasting Ages enjoy one another without being ever interrupted in their enjoyment with the Melancholy prospect of being at last divided from each others society and embraces This with all those other innumerable comforts wherewith this fruitfull Theme abounds you will find the best Cordial in the World for a drooping mind That therefore what I here present you may often put you in mind of Heaven and quicken your endeavours after it and refresh your sorrowfull heart with the joyfull prospect of it is the earnest prayer of MADAM Your most affectionate Friend and faithfull Servant John Scott A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL c. Matth. 25.46 But the Righteous into life eternal IN the foregoing verses of this Chapter our Saviour describes the process of the day of Judgment and the different Fates to which good and bad men whom he describes under the Characters of Sheep and Goats shall then be sentenced and consigned and then he summs up the whole discourse in the words of the Text These that is the Goats or the Wicked of whom he had been discoursing in the verses immediately preceding These shall go away into everlasting punishment but the Righteous into life eternal where by the Righteous we are to understand the truly Pious and Vertuous that is they who render to God to Men and to themselves all that duty they owe in their respective Relations and Circumstances for all our Duties being Dues our performance of them is nothing but the discharging of our Debts or being strictly Righteous in rendring to God and Men and our selves what we owe to each by an immutable obligation and hence the whole Duty of Man is in Scripture very often called by the name of Righteousness and those who comply with their whole Duty are frequently styled Righteous because to be Righteous is to render to every one his due and to render every one his due is the whole Duty of Man so that the meaning of the words is this they who have been good Men in all their respective Relations and Circumstances who have made it the business of their lives to render to God all that Piety and Devotion to their Neighbours all that Justice and Charity to themselves all that Sobriety and Temperance which is due from them both by the command of God and the judgment of right reason they as a reward of this their universal Righteousness shall by this final judgment be transmitted unto life eternal In the prosecution of which Argument I shall endeavour these two things First To shew what is here meant by life eternal Secondly Wherein this eternal life consists As for the first By life here is plainly meant happiness for so it 's very usual with Scripture to express the blessings it promises to Men whether they be temporal or eternal By life thus the temporal Blessings promised in the Old Testament are frequently exprest by this Phrase as you may see at your leisure Deut. 30.15.19 Lev. 18.5 Ezek. 20.21 and hence the Statutes of the Mosaick Law are called the Statutes of life Ezek. 33.15 and as the Temporal Blessings in the Old Testament are commonly expressed by life so are also those Eternal Blessings of the future life promised in the New so Matth. 18.8 Matth. 19.17 John 3.36 and because these Blessings are not Temporal but Eternal therefore that life by which they are expressed is styled eternal and everlasting so 1 Tim. 1.10 Rom. 6.22 23. and that it is not called eternal life merely as it is a state of endless Being and Existence is evident because Being and Existence are indifferent things abstracted from the sense of Happiness and Misery but eternal life is proposed to us as a thing that is infinitely desirable in it self as being the Crown and Reward of all our Obedience for which reason it is called the Crown of Life Iames 1.12 and therefore the reason why they are expressed by life is because life is the root of all our sense of pleasure without which we are nothing else but lumps of stupid and insensible flesh incapable of perceiving either pleasure or pain so that all sensation being founded in life and all pleasure being a sweet and gratefull sensation by a very easie figure the natural effect and operation of life is expressed by life it self and indeed all the advantage of living consists in living in a sense of pleasure and therefore it hath been very much disputed among Philosophers whether this Temporary state of ours in which there is so great an intermixture of pain with pleasure doth not better deserve the name of Death than Life and those of them who thought it more liable to Misery than Happiness affirmed it to be a state of death and stifly maintained this Paradox that at our birth we die into a worse state than non-existence and at our death are born into a true and proper state of life but they who counted our present life to be intermixed with more pleasure than misery esteemed it a privilege deserving the name of life which is an argument that both placed all the privilege of living in those pleasant perceptions that are founded in it and thus according to the Scripture Philospohy to live as it imports advantage to us is to live in the sense of joy and pleasure so Psal. 22.26 The Meek shall eat and be satisfied they shall praise the Lord