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A67488 Peace and rest for the upright being a sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Dr. John Bryan, sometime minister of Trinity in Coventry / by that worthy preacher of Gods Word, Mr. Nath. Wanley ... Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680. 1681 (1681) Wing W707; ESTC R38419 9,395 24

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Delightful that 's the first place The other is in Revelat. 14. 13. And I heard a voyce from Heaven saying unto me Write Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them They have at death both Peace and Rest. And now this Point will require these things to be spoken to 1. Who or what the Righteous is 2. What Peace they shall have and be priviledged with at the time of their death First Who is the Righteous man The Text saith he that walks in uprightness Alas where is he to be found A man must have very good Eyes to find him out Especially if we consider what is said Psal. 53. 1 2. There is none that doth good God looked down from Heaven upon the Children of men and saw none righteous no not one Then farewell Priviledge for where is the Person To answer this There is indeed none that are strictly legally Righteous but there is in a larger Evangelical sence None that are righteous in themselves but in another We have the Righteousness of Justification from Christ and of Sanctification from Christ And they are the men that shall enter into peace and rest Those men I say that are men of Sincerity though not in Perfection Those men that are righteous in the aim and desire of their hearts And in comparison of others Righteous by Gods acceptation and by imputation of the Righteousness of Christ These are the Persons that shall partake of this priviledg He shall enter into Peace they shall rest in their beds c. But then 2. What Peace and Rest shall these men be priviledged with at the time of their death There are Singular Properties of this Peace For 1. It 's a Peace that is unconceiveable Man's Eye hath bored the Sphears and hath penetrated into the very depth of the Ocean it hath searched into the very Bowels of the Earth and into the wild Bellies of the Clouds above it hath travelled through all the expanded Firmament in all places of the World and hath rifled the Cabinet of Nature below but it could never grasp the nature of this true Peace and Rest here spoken of for as to this Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard nor hath it entred into the Heart of Man to conceive the Peace of God The Apostle tells us it passeth knowledg The Beatitudes of Heaven are only known to us as Solomon's Wisdome was to the Queen of Sheba of which she said Behold I have not heard the tenth part The glorious Inhabitants of Heaven the Angels and Souls of Just Men made perfect these indeed understand more the nature of it than we because they live in it Yet so as the Apostle discoursing of Gods Counsel was forced to cry out Rom. 11. 33. Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his Iudgments and his wayes past finding out So do these bright Spirits ravish and loose themselves in the depth of Contemplation The Provision he hath made for them in Heaven doth excell even their own admiration 2. It is a most Perfect and a most Compleat Peace Great peace have they that love thy Law and nothing shall offend them saith David And saith the Prophet Esay Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose Mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee Both these are in this Life that which the Psalmist and Prophet spake of Oh that great Peace and perfect Peace And if the gleanings of Abiezer be such what will be the Vintage of Ephraim If this is the Righteous man's Priviledge here upon Earth much more in Heaven For it must needs be a perfect Peace there seeing no enemy shall appear in the face of them all shall be conquered and subdued overcome escaped from for there there will be a Peace from Sin Whilst we are alive the best of men are pulled and pained by Sin they are under the continual Solicitations of the corruption of their own Nature There is a body of death that by the noysome stench of it we are miserably molested and disquieted and to that height that each of them is ready to cry out Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death While they are here there is a Law in the members rebells against the Law of the mind What willingness soever there is in the spirit they find the flesh is weak A treacherous Party dwells in their very bowels and is continually undermining those Fortifications they vour to raise and set open and to widen the Portals and to let in our worst enemies These Sons of Zerviah are too hard for us but when once a holy man cometh to dye no more shall Corruption sollicit no more have they depraved Natures to struggle with No weights of Sin to weigh us down no more shall they complain of the hardness of their hearts their indisposition to holy duties of the weakness of the flesh the power of Corruption No more complaining of the usurping power of sin upon the Soul Then 3. It is a peace and rest from the Temptations of Sathan Here it is that we are in Arena We wrestle not only with flesh and blood but with Principalities and Powers and spiritual wickednesses in high places Here it is that Satan doth desire to have us that he may sift us as Wheat as it was said of the Apostle Peter It is not David alone that Satan stands up to provoke to that that is evil but his fiery darts fly fast and thick his messengers are not only sent to buffet Paul but all the rest of Gods People but being once in this rest they are out of the reach of the roaring Lion And they may say of Heaven as Lamech of his Son Noah Gen. 5. 29. This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toyl of our hands because of the ground which the Lord hath Cursed So this Peace shall save us and keep us in freedom from the Temptations of Satan 4. Death giveth them peace and rest from the violence of men Read that of Heb. 11. 36 37. And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonment they were stoned they were sawn asunder and what not Here you find the footsteps of the world's usage of the Saints But as when Ionah was asleep and at rest in the bottom of the Ship the blustring storms and death-threatning Tempests were as nothing to him So it is with these Iob 3. 17. That holy man speaking of the Grave There the wicked saith he cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest In this Life it is as Solomon observeth Eccles. 4. 1 2. So I returned and considered all the oppressions under the Sun and behold the tears of such as were oppressed and they had no Comforter and on the side of their oppressors