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A31451	The certainty of salvation to them who dye in the Lord a sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable, George Lord Delamer, at Boden, in the county-palatine of Chester, September the 9th, 1684 / by Zachary Cawdrey ...	Cawdrey, Zachary, 1616-1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing C1645; ESTC R36290	20,346	38

suffer any thing which may promote the Knowledge Fear and Faith and Love of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ And who exercise universal Charity towards all Men even Enemies with special delight in all holy and good Men 1 Cor. 13.1 And lastly Those who make God's Favour in Christ Jesus here and Communion with him in a Vision of Peace hereafter the Inheritance and Happiness which they chuse and desire before all things both in this World and in the World to come Psal 73.25 and Gal. 6.8 These I say these penitent believing mortified devoted charitable and heavenly-minded persons are according to the Conditions of the New Covenant in Christ so as to receive from him the Benefits of Justification Peace Increase of Grace Acceptance in their Duties and Adoption and Resurrection unto Glory So then they who persevere in the Exercise of those Graces of Repentance Faith Devotedness to God's Service c. to the end of their days these dye in the Lord they dye with a Right and Title according to the terms of the New Covenant to that Crown of Glory which Christ hath purchased and as a Righteous Judge will give unto them at that day the day of death A second Term to be explain'd is this From henceforth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is an Epocha or Date and to me seems best sixed at the death of the Saints So that the sense is They who dye in the Lord are blessed from the very Instant of their death without any suspension of their Happiness through the sleep of their Souls or on account of their passage through or stay in Purgatory or any other middle state intervening betwixt the bodily Life and the Happiness of departed holy Souls This plain sense is both agreeable to the Scriptures and seems to be the sense of the Church of England about this Text in that she appoints it to be read at the Interment of the Dead So that I shall cleave to this plain sense waving all critical Enquiries after any other though I am not ignorant that some Expositors begin this Date from the ceasing of Persecution for some time under the Emperors Trajan Antoninus or some other mild Heathen Emperors Other Expositors fix it from the renewing of Persecutions under Decius or Dioclesian or other bitter Persecutors Others again fix it from the time of ceasing Persecution under the Emperors or Rome-Heathen till the Renewal of Persecution again under Rome-Papal But though Expositors thus differ about some critical Notes of time yet they all agree that at their death the Saints are happy I shall therefore stick to that sense Thirdly I must explain what are the Labours from which they who dye in the Lord are said to rest I answer All Conditions which are burthensome to the inward or outward Man to Body or Soul are Labours Such therefore are Sickness Pain Loss Reproach Disappointment Banishments Imprisonments Tormenting Deaths Such also are those passions of Fear Anger Sorrow Envy Inordinate Desire Suspiciousness and Anxiety of Mind Such also are all Compassions and Sufferings in Soul for the Miseries of others whether our private Friends and Relations or our Country or the Church of God Add to these Christians being subject to Temptations either to sin or to doubt of God's Mercy to their Souls are Labours also I say all these both Sufferings Passions Compassions and Temptations are Labours Here therefore I shall before I come to handle the main Proposition speak a little to two other Truths here supposed and they are these First That even good Men who live in the Lord do not till they dye in the Lord rest from all their Labours Secondly That bad Men who do not live in the Lord and consequently cannot dye in the Lord such do not rest from their Labours when they dye but the bitterest of their Labours follow them even beyond the Grave First That good Men have not a Rest from their Labours on this side the Grave It is true that Faith and Patience do much correct the malignity and bitterness of their Sufferings but even the best of God's Children have their Labours here For Who can doubt but it is a labour and burthen even to a good Man to be under pining sickness and pain to be subjected to the persecutions of slanderous Tongues and Pens to be deprived of their Estates Liberty or Country Who doubts but that Anger Sorrow Fear and Anxiety of Mind are yet a greater burthen and labour if a good Man in his weakness falls under the impression of any of them So also it is no small burthen when Friends are miserable or disobliging What a great part of a good Man's heart and bowels are carried away by the loss of a dear Joseph the Imprisonment of a Simeon the Ravishment of a Dinah or Tamar the Incest of an Amnon or the Rebellion of an Absalom What a burthen of heart to good Men are their sorrows and fears for the Church of God through the divisions of Brethren and the Contentions of a Paul and Barnabas or through the Apostacies of some eminent for Profession of Godliness to either damnable Errors or rending Schisms or downright Prophaness and Debaucheries Such labours and sufferings also to a good Man are their fears and sorrows for the Land of their Nativity suffering or like to suffer through Wars Famine or Pestilence And lastly What a labour and burthen is it to a good Man to be assaulted with inward Corruptions or outward Temptations and to wrestle and combat with his spiritual Adversaries and his own Doubts Now there are few or none of these but may be put into the Inventory of most or all good Men. So that they may well say to their own Souls in the Language of the Prophet Micah 2.10 Arise ye and depart this is not your Rest for it is defiled So that no pious persons ought to reckon it a mark of God's displeasure or rejection if they suffer here and have not an Heaven upon Earth seeing all holy Men who have gone before them to Heaven were made perfect by Sufferings and so also their Sufferings may be instrumental in the hand of God's Spirit to prepare them and make them meet for the Inheritance of the Saints in Light The second Proposition here supposed is That bad Men even when they dye do not rest from their Labours They are no more free from Sufferings on this side the Grave than good Men are their Sicknesses and Pains be as sharp and vehement their Bones being full of the Iniquities of their Youth Job 12.11 their Children may be rebellious as Sennacherib had Adramelech and Sharezer or they may dye soon if they be hopeful like Jeroboam's Abijah Their Names and Reputations may be torn in pieces by their black-mouth'd Fellow-sinners and they usually are highly tormented with fears and anxiety of Mind and with rage and envy at other Men. But one of the chiefest torments of wicked Men on this side Hell