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death_n	become_v	life_n	sin_n	4,944	5	4.5763	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42023	Two sermons the first preacht at Steeple-Aston in Oxfordshire at the funerall of Mr. Francis Croke of that place Aug. 2, 1672, the other at the funerall of Alexander Croke of Studley, Esq., buryed at Chilton in Buckinghamshire Octob. 24, 1672 / by Daniel Greenwood ...	Greenwood, Daniel, 1627 or 8-1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing G1865; ESTC R7515	25,935	40

from Carpenters squaring and plaining their Timber or Masons hewing and polishing their Stones or Goldsmiths scouring and burnishing their Metall for look as in the building in the Temple at Hierusalem the Wood and Stones were framed and fitted in the Mountaines that no Axe or Hammer might be heard in the Temple so Christians are fitted in this Life for glory no scouring purging or polishing hereafter the title to inheritance is sett forth here the possession is delivered hereafter Exercis'd Educated and train'd up we are in these inferiour Schooles of grace the degrees and dignities are confer'd in the generall Convocation and Consistory of glory Now as no piece of Timber can promise it self an honourable place in the building save that which is fitted and carved before it be layd nor any hope for a Crowne that hath neither breeding nor title to it So nor can any promise to themselves glory whom God hath not polished and fitted by sanctification and Grace The Apostle Col 1. 12. thankes the Father that hath made us fitt or meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light not that hath put us into a condition to merit Heaven but hath adopted us undeserving and fitted us that were unfit This God doth by making us partakers of the Divine nature turning our hearts from Sin to Holiness so making us new Creatures Which happy thing and alteration who so ever finds truly though but weakly wrought in him he longs to be in possession of that which God of his mercy in Christ hath in some degree fitted and prepared him for 4. The last ground is Gods having given to them the earnest of the spirit v. 5. By which we may understand the fruits of the Spirit namely joy and peace in believing which are the fruits of the Spirit and the gifts of God not in a way of duty only as to believe repent Love the Father and the Brethren and the like are fruits of the Spirit but in a way of reward or recompense of Grace These prediscoveries of Gods good will and manifestation of his Love to Men are the hansells and fore-tasts of Glory This the Apostle calls Joy unspeakable full of Glory obtain'd here in a way of believing the sure earnests of better enjoyments in the time to come 1 Pet 1. 8. Now as the sight of the glory of Christ in his transfiguration made the Disciples loath to foregoe that pleasant rapture Master 't is good for us to be here Matt 17. 4. so such fore-tasts of the Divine Love and praesentiments of the happiness of a future state as no doubt the Apostles and holy Men sometimes had makes them long for the full enjoyment and desire to be with Christ which is best of all But least while I speak of the high attainements of strong Christians I should discourage the Hearts of Babes in Christ who are as dear to him and he as tender of them as they that are of greater strongth and fuller growth though from these he expects more service and greater obedience take these Cautions 1. What hath been said is not to be taken as if none were to be accounted or might account themselves good Christians who find not in themselves such a perfect and a constant willingness to Dye This character is for strong grown and experienc'● Christians and that not alwaies but at some seasons such as have strong apprehensions of the glory of the other World and the happiness of that eternall rest which remaines for the People of God that have good assurance through grace of their interest therein and can rejoyce in the hope of the glory of God others may be weaker and yet true Christians too they are pronounced blessed that hunger after Righteousness as well as they that long and thirst for glory 2. Nor must it be so taken as if even strong Christians were without a naturall abhorrence of Death and a declining from it the Disciples in a Tempest and Peter when he began to sink city out upon the apprehension of approaching Death and yet were Christs Disciples for all that The Apostle intimates that he and other Christians could have been glad to have escaped Death if Gods will were so and if they could have arrived at what they aimed at and looked for without passing through the jawes thereof v. 4. not that we would be uncloathed but cloathed upon c. Our blessed Saviour did by this Testifie the truth of his humane nature in that he was affraid of Death Father if it be possible let this Cuppe pass from me yet withall sets a Copy and leaves us a patterne of most free resignation and patient submission to the Fathers will yet not my will but thy will be done 3. As a Child of God is not without a natural abhornence of Death so nor without a due Care to preserve his Life so long as God sees it fitt and a willingness to beare those troubles and inconvenienoies of life which God sees good to exercise him under God hath sett his Children in this World as souldiers on their guard not to runne away at their pleasure but to wait till they are releast and called off We may go out of Life when God opens a doore but we may not break prison We may depart asking Gods leave Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart Lu 2. 29. but must be willing to stay his leizure and expect his dismission Thus notwithstanding the Apostle Paul was desirous to depart yet he sits down contented when he saw God would have him worke and suffer longer Phil. 1. 24. Neverthelesse to abide in the flesh is more needfull for you and having this confidence I know I shall abide c. However Christ shall be magnified in my Body whether it be by Life or by Death for to me to Live is Christ to Dye is gaine v. 20 21. From what hath been said gather we courage to encounter Death and to look the King of terrour in the face which is so farre from being now a terrour to the Children of God that it 's become the object of their desires and wishes The frightfull Serpent before which all Mankind fled is in the Hand of Moses become a Rod and a Staffe of support and comfort I meane Death which is an enemy to nature and the wages of Sin is by the power of Christ turn'd to a friend and a Servant of all the heires of salvation an end of a Sinful troublesome and uncertaine Life and a passage to a Blessed and Glorious immortality Make then a vertue of necessity and being its appointed for us all to Dye Heb 9. 27. learne we to dye daylie 1 Cor 15. 31. so setting our hearts and Houses in order that we may rather meet Death then flye from it rather wish and welcome it then be affraid of it And seeing all these things shall be dissolved what manner of Persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and