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death_n	body_n	life_n	part_n	5,356	5	4.4664	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70044	Peace, the end of the perfect and upright demonstrated and usefully improved in a sermon preached upon the occasion of the death and decease of that piously affected and truely religious matron, Mrs. Anne Mason ... / by Mr. James Fitch ...	Fitch, James, 1622-1702.	1672 (1672)	Wing F1066; ESTC R35676	13,029	16

PEACE The End of the Perfect and Vpright Demonstrated and usefully Improved in a SERMON Preached upon the Occasion of the Death and Decease of that Piously Affected and truely Religious MATRON Mrs. ANNE MASON Sometime Wife to Major Mason who not long after finished his Course and is now at rest By Mr. James Fitch Pastor of the Church of Christ at Norwich Prov. 10.7 The Memory of the just is blessed Psal 112.6 The Righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance Heb. 6.11 We desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end 12. That ye be not sloathful but followers of them who through Faith and Patience inherit the promises CAMBRIDGE Printed by Samuel Green 1672. Christian Reader THe Abusive and justly to be Condemned practise of too too many who in Preaching Funeral Sermons by mis-representing the Dead have dangerously misled the living and by flatteri●s corrupted many hath occasioned not a few to question if not conclude against the lawfulness of Preaching at such seasons and made others less forward and almost afrai● to make a due improvement of such awful ●olemn oportunities by comporting with the providence of God in making use of those heart awakening strokes of his angry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Almighty Arm whereby we have been bereav●d of much of our strength and glory But surely it i● the holy will of God which determineth what is good and lawful and that by an eternal Law not alterable by the sinful lusts of men 〈…〉 The Vessels of the Temple lost not their Holiness of Consecration to the service of the true and living God by their ill usage in Babilon Holy Paul 1 Cor. 3 22. setting down and summing up the riche of true Believers put into t●e Inventory Life and Death Life is yours and Death is yours but not your own only but of others who are Fellow members of the same Mystical Body and part of the fulness of him who filleth all in all Th●se Worthies whose Live Deaths are Recorded in Heb. Chap. 11. are presented Chap. 12.1 as a Cloud of Witnesses to be minded by us and followed in running with patience the race that is set before us Had not importunity of such as k●ew and honoured the eminent piety of that deceased Saint now at rest whose departure out of this World occasionea this ensuing Sermon out of a desire to Embalm her Name and preserve the memory of a life and death so exemplary and instructi●● prevailea with the pious Author too much a lover of privacie and retirement these useful Notes had not so publickly presented themselves unto t●y view Now the God of al● Grace vouchsafe so to sanctifie this with other like help● that when summ●●ed hence into another World thou mayest be able to say and pray wit● good Hezechiah Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in thy sight Vnto His mercy I comm●●● thee and rest thine in him J. S. PSAL. 37.37 Mark the Perfect and behold the Vpright for the end of that man is peace EVery Word of God as it s his Word is very precious but some Honey Combes contain more Honey and better Honey then some other The Word of God is more precious then Gold then fine Gold and sweeter then the Honey and the Honey Combe as in Psal 19.10 Judicious and pious Calvin that famous Expositor saith of this Psalm that it contain● Doctrine Principally usefull and he gives weighty Reason to pr●●● it because David by this Psalm shewes that though the Godly suffer Adv●●si●y in a Godly way and the wicked prosper in their wicked way and 〈◊〉 seemingly goes ill with the best and well with the worst person● for a time yet the vast difference the Lord makes between the Godly and the wicked makeing the Godly to be happy through his Grace in their greatest misery and leaving the wicked through his just ●udg●ment in a cursed and miserable state in their greatest outward 〈…〉 and the difference between these two is very Remarkable in th●●… 〈◊〉 and in their Death First The difference in their Lives and the ●●●…rious disp●●sations of God to them are in many particulars speci●●●● from the ●●●rse to the 25. And the difference in respect of the●● Death from the 35 verse to the end of this Psalm The General which contains the specialties is expr●●sed in my Text this 37 verse Mark the Perfect and behold the Vpright for the end of that man is Peace The Text implies 1. That some Persons are remarkable Subjects of Gods mercy and Divine favour Who are these but the Perfect the upright 2. In what are they remarkable First As they are perfect and upright ones so they are to be marked in their Lives Secondly In respect of their latter end and thus they are to be marked in their D●●● 〈◊〉 Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Thirdly Our Duty the Psalmist calls for special observation mark and behold the upright how he lives and how he dyes what his life is and what is his end and as Calvin renders it observe and consider This Psalm of which these words are a principal part they may be taken as an Epitome briefly containing the whole being to open that which is a Paradox as he calls it The Doctrine from these words is Doct. The Life and Latter end of the Godly containt observable things which God requires us to consider What the Life and what the Death of the Godly is our God calls us to mark and behold For the Explication of this Doctrine let us consider 1. What are the Observable things in the Life and in the Death of the Godly 2. what ought to be our Observation of them We are not to expect that all the Observable things respecting the Life and the Death of the Godly can be particularly contained and exprest in one Sermon although an Angel from Heaven should be sent at this time to Preach to you for much of the time through all Eternity shall be spent upon this Subject amongst the Spirits of the Just made perfect But I shall give you some Observations concerning some specialties to set your Observations to work so far as God shall assist in this very afflicting time First Concerning the Observations respecting the life of the Godly the Text presents us with two Generals First The perfection of the Godly Secondly The uprightness of such Mark the Perfect and behold the Vpright concerning the first of these the Question ariseth What perfection can be observed in a Godly mans Life while he lives with a body of sin in him I Answer Yet it 's to be marked 1 That the Godly in this life have some beginnings of perfection and those which shall grow up till they come to perfection and so abide for ever There is a