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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86062	A funeral sermon preached at Deptford June 3. 1688 Upon the occasion of the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Kilbury, late wife of Mr. John Kilbury. By Henry Godman, minister of the gospel. With allowance.	Godman, Henry, 1629 or 30-1702.	1688 (1688)	Wing G940A; ESTC R229589	20,575	42

greater cause to weep and howl even in the fulness of their sufficiency than they have to rejoyce and be glad It 's said of Jehoshaphat that he had Silver and Gold in abundance Riches and Honour in abundance 2 Chron. 17. 5 6. but his heart was lift up to God in the ways of God He valued not himself by his Riches and Honour but by his relation to God and interest in him without whom all other things had been but low-priz'd Commodities and of very little account with him The wicked man's Riches Honours and good things are his All for what hath he more God pays them their Portion in the World's Coin and in a little while will say unto them You have received your Consolation And then they will wish that they had begg'd their Bread with Lazarus on Earth rather than their Water with Dives in Hell. Oh! pity these miserable Souls they have nothing within them or without them that can do them any good They have nothing but Sin within them and that will damn them they have nothing but the World without them and that cannot save them no it will prove a heavy Mill-stone about their necks which will sink them down deeper into the Gulf of Eternal Woe and Misery I now pass on to the next which is the 26th verse My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever Where you have the Psalmists Complaint And secondly the Psalmists Comfort In the former part of the verse you find him going forth weeping My flesh and my heart faileth but because he had within him precious seed For light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart This seed is already sown in their Hearts and Souls Therefore in the latter part of the verse we find him returning again rejoycing with his Sheaves in his bosom But God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever We will first consider his Complaint My flesh and my heart faileth 〈◊〉 will fail my flesh will fail my heart will fail in a little time He speaks in the present tense to notifie the certainty of the failure Such forms of speech are frequently used in Scripture Babylon is fallen is fallen i. e. Babylon shallas surely fall as if it were fallen already The Scripture speaks often of things that will be done as if they were at present done Rom. 8. Whom he justified them he glorified that is they shall as certainly be glorified as if they were already in the Kingdom of Glory Thus here My flesh and my heart faileth that is it 's sure and certain that it will be so My flesh my heart we are not to understand it exclusivè as if it were only appropriate to himself and were not the case of others as we●l as his no but you are to understand it inclusivè as meant of all that dwell in these fleshly Tabernacles and Houses of Clay This is a common case there is no exemption from this general Calamity and Affliction The Doctrine from hence which I shall but briefly insist on is this Doct. That the flesh and the heart of every man will certainly fail Though at present this flesh of ours may flourish as the Grass and may be in its beauty as the Flower in the field yet as the Grass soon withereth and the Flower soon fadeth so will it be with our flesh Though at present these hearts of ours may be sound and strong though they are every moment moving and beating in our bosoms always opening or shutting Still busie either in a way of contraction or dilatation but e're long all this work will fail this motion will cease the heart will faint and succumb and the strings of it will be broken in pieces Mans slesh and heart will surely fail I shall in a few words animadvert 1. Vpon the failing of mans Flesh 2. On the failing of mans Heart And then 3. Shew whence this failing proceeds and doth arise And 4. Make some brief Application 1. Mans Flesh that will fail Flesh sometimes is taken in Scripture Sensu morali or rather immorali corrupto in a moral or immoral and corrupt sense for the depraved Nature for the unregenerate Part in man As in Gal. 5. 17. The flesh lusteth against the spirit Rom. 7. 18. In my flesh there dwelleth no good thing So in Gal. 5. 19. The works of the flesh are manifest c. But this is not the meaning of it here Though this flesh shall fail and doth fail for in every regenerate Soul it is dying daily Sin in the Godly hath lost its Sword. So that it can't kill it hath lost its Scepter so that it can't rule and in a few days it shall lose its Being its Habitation and Residence The death of the Body shall be the destruction of the body of death Now sin is dying in them it hath received a deadly wound but then it shall breathe out its last and live no longer to be a Thorn in their Eyes or a Goad in their Sides to vex and disquiet their righteous Souls as now it doth from day to day Then this cursed Inmate shall be turned out of doors and Grace shall dwell alone in the Soul for ever This body of death is now under a Curse and then the Curse of the barren Fig-tree shall fall upon it and no fruit shall ever grow on it more But secondly Flesh is taken and to be understood sensu naturali physico in a natural and physical sense and thus we are to take it here For the fleshly part of man that fleshly substance that our bones are covered withal that fleshly Tabernacle in which the Soul of man doth dwell This flesh will fail Isa 40. 6 7. All flesh is grass and the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field the grass withereth and the flower fadeth so will the flesh All the goodliness of it its comeliness strength and beauty all will fail A blast will come upon all which will cause it to wither and decay which will turn it into rottenness and make it become like a Moth-eaten garment Job 13. 28. How beautiful soever you may now be in a few days your beauty shall be turned into deformity And how strong soever you at present be it will not be long but this flesh of yours will become so weak that it will not be able any longer to hold the spirit The Lord hath determined a Consumption to come upon all flesh Isa 28. 22. and he hath many ways and methods to bring it about As in Deut. 28. 21 22. Either by the pestilence or a fever or an inflammation or an extream burning or the sword c. How many hundred diseases and distempers are there up and down in the world effecting this determined consumption If God give any one of them a Commission to come to us and to effect the same as surely at one time or