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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49759	Two funeral sermons of the use and happiness of humane bodies Preached on I Corinth. vi. 13. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. With a brief account of the life and death of Mr. G. Lorimer, merchant; upon the occasion of whose death the second sermon was preacht. By Edward Lawrence, M.A. minister of the Gospel.	Lawrence, Edward, 1623-1695.	1690 (1690)	Wing L655; ESTC R216653	22,474	88

will improve all for the good and Glory of his whole Self 2. It informs us of the dreadful condition of wicked men what a sad state are they in both as to their Bodies and Souls I am now speaking of the Body thou hast got good Meat and Clothes for the Body good Houses and Lands for thy Body but is the Lord for the Body No this great Lord is against thy Body Infinite Power and Wisdom and Justice will be all set on work to torment thy Body Thou canst not endure an aching Tooth a broken bone a fit of the Stone or Gout The pains of a Travelling Woman Oh little dost thou think what thy Body is to endure for ever Go and dress thy self make thy self fine set out thy self to the best look in the glass see if every hair or pin stand right but remember what that head and face and arms and Limbs must suffer when they burn in Hell Oh Sinners pity your Souls and Bodies and never rest till thou hast got the Lord for thy Body I tell thee thy body hath more need of Christ than of Meat and Drink 3. It informs us what are the greatest and best things for the body you may know this by considering what the Lord doth for the body For certainly Christ his Spouse live best and fare best and are always most happy And if it were best to be Lords and Ladies Nobles and Princes do you think Christ would not make his Members and Spouse such Can any be so foolish as to think that Christ doth more for Turks and Pagans than he doth for himself and for his own Body and therefore we must conclude that the best things are amongst Gods Children to be Holy and Happy to live a life of Godliness and Obedience to God in order to Glory this must needs be the best for this is that which the Lord who is for the Body doth in Infinite Wisdom and Love chuse for and give to his people we must believe that the best and worst things are reserv'd The Wicked for the most part have the Gold and Silver Honours and Pleasures of the World Oh but consider what is reserved for them is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever Jude 13. Gods people are often poor afflicted and persecuted in this World But there is an Inheritance Incorruptable that fadeth not away reserved in the Heavens for them 2 Pet. 1.4 It s a sweet comfort to think that those things which are best at present are most durable If spiritual things were to last no longer than the Vanities of the World yet for the present they are better than the Riches Honours and Pleasures of the World if we had but a day in Gods Courts its better than a Thousand elsewhere Ps 84. but they are not only incomparably best at present but they are Everlasting VSE 2. Of Comfort to the Godly In three Particulars 1. This secures to us the Providence and Care of God in outword things for the Body The Lord is so for the Body that we may be assured the body shall not want any thing that is good for us in order to our Eternal Happiness Indeed its fit we should leave it to God who hath more Wisdom to know what is good for us and more love to give what is good for us than we have to chuse to do us good in his own way He knows best how to use his own care to exercise his own Providence and to shew his own Love it s enough for us to know that the Lord with the Infinite Wisdom Power and Love of the Godhead is for us so as to be the Cause of our Eternal Happiness but seeing we may believe that this will be the effect and that the cause is sufficient to work it we may well leave it to God to take his own way to make us blessed Observe our Saviour Luk. 13.32 Fear not little Flock c. Christ is there pleading against our inordinate care about the Body and saith he Fear not for it 's your Fathers good Pleasure to give you the Kingdom of Heaven and therefore shall not want what is good for you in your way thither 2. Comfort against all the Enemies of your Bodies we have more for the Body than can be against it For the Lord is for the Body and if God be for us who can be against us Rom. 8.21 And on this account fear not them that can kill the Body For if the Lord be for the Body fear not all that Wicked Men can do to the Body let them spoil us impoverish us imprison kill us yet they do but fulfil the Counsels of the Lord for the Body For as long as the Lord is for the Body things that are seemingly against the Body are indeed for the body for the Lord rules all and turns it to the Welfare of the Body 3. Comfort against Death If the Lord is for the Body then Death is for the Body too It comes from the Lord as a blessing on the Body to fulfil his good Will and Counsel concerning it and therefore welcome Death the Body cannot be happy in this World This World of Meat and Drink and Money c. Cannot so much as make the body of Man happy the Body must die or at least be changed before it can be happy And therefore take a full view of Death of the Grave of Worms of Rottenness See Job 19.25 26 27. I know that my Redeemer lives c. Believe this that the Lord is for the Body and then say Death take my Body Grave cover my Body Worms eat my Body yet the Lord will be still for the Body and he will raise it up I shall see him and stand before him at the last day and be like him and appear with him in Glory Last use of Exhortation to three Duties 1. Bless the Lord for what he doth for the body It s the Lord that gives you Life Health Liberty and Estates and therefore observe and take notice of the Lord in all your Mercies to the body You which are Tradesmen if a Customer come into the Shop it s the Lord which sends him for thy good and deal with him as coming from the Lord. See your Tables fill'd with the Lord especially if you were ever enabled to do him any bodily service 2. Pray to the Lord for the body there is care and love in the Lord for the body but it must be drawn out by Prayer As there is Milk in the Mothers breast for the child but the child must suck and draw it out of the breasts into his own body so we must by Faith and Prayer suck and draw out Mercies from the Lord both for Soul and Body 3. Live as those who look for the Lord Jesus to shew himself for the body to make the body compleatly blessed and happy Rom. 8.28 We groan within our selves c. Observe We groan within our selves viz. in the

most inward parts of Hearts and Souls waiting for the Adoption viz. the full possession of the Inheritance which by Adoption belongs to us viz. the Redemption of our Bodies We look and wait that our bodies be freed from Sin and Death and made perfectly glorious with Christ let us live as those who look for such things 1. As ever you expect to be like Christ at the Day of Judgment Labour to be like him now 1 John 3.2 3. 2. Labour to be such as Christ may own you and accept you at the day of Judgment 2 Pet. 3.13 14. 2 Cor. 5.9 Do nothing but what you are willing Christ should come in the Clouds and find you doing do nothing but what Christ will accept of and reward you for when you must see him with those Eyes and in your Flesh stand before him The LIFE of Mr. Gilbert Lorimer Late MERCHANT of LONDON MR. Gilbert Lorimer late Merchant of London was accomplished with Learning and Parts He was Master of the Latin Tongue and understood several other Languages He was most inclin'd to study Divinity but by reason of his Bodily weakness and because he could not comply with the terms of Conformity though he much valued all sober good Conformists He applyed himself to Merchandise wherein he was skilful diligent and just and faithful When he was about Thirteen or Fourteen years old it pleased God to turn his Heart to himself he told a Holy and Judicious Person nearly Related to him the Time when and Place where Infinite Grace began that blessed Work wherein something was so signal that made such an abiding Impression upon him as to say with David Psal 119.93 I will never forget thy Precepts for with them thou hast quickned me It pleased God to exercise him with divers Afflictions especially Bodily Distempers which for four or five years before he died were often accompanied with stinging Pains but in all God had his Heart and Love and he possessed his Soul in Patience This is evident by several Letters which he writ to his Holy Learned and Judicious Brother Mr. William Lorimer Minister of the Gospel part of which I thought sit to Communicate In Feb 23 168● After his Recovery from a dangerous Sickness he writ to him thus What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits who healeth my Diseases and crowneth me with loving kindness and tender Mercies O that I may no more live to my self but to God my most Gracious and Almighty Deliverer for this I desire your Prayers and to return thanks to God through Jesus Christ on my behalf On June 7. 1687. He wrote to him of the Death of their Dear Mother Some of his Words therein are these O that through the hope of our being also with the Lord we may purifie our selves as he is pure that we may despise whatsoever in this World would take us off from the Love of Christ Blessed Jesus draw our Hearts to thy self in Heaven where thou sittest at the Right Hand of the Father that Death may be the Messenger to open the Prison Doors that we may flee away and be at rest with Christ the beloved of our Souls Amen In September following his former Distemper returned with greater force But when by means of two able Physitians he had some ease he wrote to his Brother aforesaid on Septemb 12. 1687 wherein among many other of the like Nature are these words Lord support and comfort me under my Bodily Pains and grant that I may wholy resign my self to the will of my Heavenly Father I desire your Prayers although I am chastised sorely Yet the Lord will not give me over unto Death not to a Temporal Death so long as the continuance of Life may be for his Glory and my good however I stedfastly trust in the Infinite Mercy of God through the perfect Obedience Sacrifice and Intercession of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ that the second Death shall never have power over me On Sept. 24. 1687. He writ to his Brother in Answer to one of his to him wherein he saith I have received your very comfortable and Christian Letter the only fault in it is that it runs in expressions more suitable to those who are in some high degree of Christian perfection than to me a vile sinner I am nothing but Christ is all in all in me and for me adding his pain was much abated for which said he Magnifie the Lord with me and let us exalt his Name together Salvation and Glory be ascribed to the God of Salvation pray rather for a sanctified use of my Afflictions than for deliverance from them and O that the consideration of the shortness of them may keep me from being weary of the chastening of the Lord or fainting when I am rebuked of him In a Letter of Octob. 15. 1687. He gave notice to his Brother of another Relapse into Sickness wherein he saith I desire to bless God for the good of my Soul through the Afflictions of my Body pray that I may improve my Afflictions unto Victory over Sin and increase in all Grace On November 22. 1687. He wrote how ill he was saying with David Day and night thy hand is heavy upon me It is the Lord let him do with me what seemeth him good I am his by right of Creation and therefore at the disposal of his Sovereign Will and I am also his by right of Redemption and Purchase in the Blood of Christ and therefore he will save me if not with a Temporal yet with an Everlasting Salvation in hopes whereof I desire to possess my Soul in Patience His last Letter to his Brother was on July 14. 1688. wherein after he had given him account of his present Distemper he saith Lord help me that I may be more and more fitted for Communion with God here and for the full enjoyment of him for ever of which I am an Expectant through the alone Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ my ever blessed Lord and Saviour About a Moneth before he dyed his Worthy Brother heard him often say as he lay awake in the Night on his Bed Come Lord Jesus Amen Even so come Lord Jesus I was with him about half an hour before he dyed he continued to the last both thesame Man in the use of his Reason and the same Christian in the Exercise of Grace I desire his surviving Relations will never forget his Counsel and Example which they heard and saw This Israelite indeed passed into the World without Sin on Octob. 26. 1688. I was ever tender of what I said on such occasions as this making Conscience of these 2 things I. To give no Person that Character in my Words which they have not in my Heart II. To speak nothing of any one when they are dead which I did not think or speak of them whilst they were alive but I had personal knowledge of him for many years and therefore have given this true Relation Edward Lawrence FINIS