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The upright man's peace at his end open'd in a funeral discourse, Decemb. 18. 1681. upon the death of Mr Martyn, citizen of London. By T. Jacombe, D.D.
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Jacombe, Thomas, 1622-1687.
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End 1. Peace with God the highest most blessed and most glorious Peace Being justified by Faith we have peace with God Rom. 5.1 The holy Soul lives in this peace with God and dies in this Peace with God too The Wicked live and die in a State of enmity with God all along they are Enemies to God and God an Enemy to them there 's is no Peace no reconciliation betwixt God and them But sincere Christians both living and dying have peace with God they have in Life a God reconciled to them through Christ and at Death they go to a reconciled God and Father not to an angry an hating an hostile God but to a pacified and loving God to a God that is their Friend Oh this is the great Happiness of God's People the End of such is this Peace 2. Their end is peace as to Peace from God Peace in themselves and with themselves the Peace of Conscience Gaudium in fine sed Gaudium sine fine Bern that Peace which is called the Peace of God which passeth all understanding Phil. 4.7 Oh when Death comes to lay his Arrest his cold hands upon an upright Christian when he is going the way of all Flesh when the Grave is opened and ready to receive him when he is just dropping into the House of rottenness even then through the Grace of God he has inward Peace Serenity and Comfort The * Plato in Phel p. 84. Swan sings and dies dies singing the godly Man dies rejoycing Sampson found Hony in the Lyon so 't is here Prov. 14.32 But the Righteous hath hope in his Death that Hope that riseth up to Peace The Wicked is driven away in his Wickedness in the former Branch of the Verse God deals with him in a terrible manner drives his Soul out of his Body whether he will or no ay but 't is not so with the godly the Righteous hath hope in his Death There is hope in thine End Jer. 31.17 I do but allude to this Text for the End in it is not that which I am at present speaking of Good old Simeon he died with this Peace Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in Peace there might be something special and peculiar in his case Luke 2.29 but as to the substance so it reaches to all Gods People It is said of Moses Deut. 34.5 He died according to the Word of the Lord the Jewish Interpreters carry it he died at the Mouth of the Lord and they say that when he came to die God kissed out his Soul See Bishop Hall 1 V. 959.960 he gave in such manifestations of his Love and Mercy to him as that he even kist his Soul out of his Body and surely here was Peace at the End So it was with Hezekiah 2 Kings 20.3 with holy Paul I am ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand now see his peace I have fought the good Fight c. Henceforth is laid up for me a Crown c. 2 Tim. 4.7.8 So with various Martyrs as might be shewn in several Instances Here three Questions should be resolved 1. Q. Hath the Upright Man Peace only at his End The End of that Man is Peace Hath he no Peace while he lives but only when he comes to die 2. Hath every Vpright Man this Peace 3. Is it only the Vpright that have this peace Do we not see many die with a great deal of Peace who yet are far from being in the Number of these Upright and perfect Ones But I will rather reserve the Answering of these Questions to the Application when I shall have first finish'd the Doctrinal part 3. Lastly Take this End here for the blessed State and Condition that follows after Death in the World above And certainly here 's Peace in the highest Notion of it The End of the Perfect Man is this Peace Gracious Persons such who have feared God and lived a Holy life they die leave this World enter upon an everlasting State What a kind of State is that Oh it is a State of Peace He shall enter into Peace Isa 57.2 It is not only he shall go out or die in Peace that follows in the next Branch They shall rest in their Beds each one walking in his Vprightness but he shall enter into Peace into a State of Peace Heaven is such a State 't is a place of Peace and much of the Happiness of Heaven lies in the Peace that is there enjoy'd In the glorified Condition there is nothing but Peace there all is Peace Therefore Peace is often brought in as one great Ingredient into and Part of the Heavenly Felicity 2 Rom. 9.10 Tribulation and Anguish upon every Soul that doth evil of the Jew first and also of the Gentile but Glory Honour and Peace to every Man that worketh good Rom. 8.6 To be carnally-minded is Death but to be spiritually-minded is Life and Peace it is Peace at present and it ends in Peace in Heavenly Peace hereafter Gal. 6.16 As many as walk according to this Rule Mercy and Peace be upon them and upon the Israel of God Peace in the large acceptation of it takes in all Good whatever It is the abridgment of all Good the Sum and Center of all Felicity So the Jews us'd it in their Common Salutations Peace be unto you that is all Good all Mercy Thus Heaven is a State of Peace there being in Heaven the concurrence and possession of all good There 's nothing that the Soul of Man in its utmost cravings can desire but it shall have it in Heaven There 's not the presence of the least Evil nor the absence of the least Good Then take this Peace in the stricter Acceptation of it so the glorified Condition is a Condition of Peace There is Peace with God Peace with Men and Peace with a Man 's own self Peace with God Oh there are no breaches with God in Heaven we have too much of These here but above there 's nothing of them All is Amity and Peace with God there Peace with Men how are all the Saints united and agreed there there 's no discord or contention nothing but Oneness Harmony and Love There Luther and Calvin the greatest Dissenters are fully reconciled The World is in flames here but there all these shall be fully quenched We that cannot agree now while upon Earth shall perfectly agree in Heaven whatever our Differences may be in this lower Region they shall all vanish in Heaven there we all shall be of one mind And 't is no small part of the happiness of the godly to be taken into this Peace Further the Saints there have peace in and with themselves All those Passions and perturbations of mind that here pursue and vex them shall all there cease there 's no inward Commotions or Storms all is sedate and calm within in the Thoughts and in the Conscience Storms are only in the lower Region