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A31268	The duty and support of believers in life and death a funeral sermon on the death of Mrs. Mary Smith, who deceased Feb. 29, 1687/8 preached, on the Lords Day following, March 4, to the auditory whereof she was a constant member.	T. C.	1688 (1688)	Wing C131; ESTC R5669	18,382	34

Glory will be revealed in us then which is hid Rom. 8. 18. from us now How much more of God will be communicated hereafter without means than is or can be by them in this present state We sit under Shadows now then we shall sit down by the Fountain of Light. 5. Believers wait for the transforming of their Bodies into the likeness of Christ's at the Resurrection The raising and quickening and new beautifying of our Dust which when we dye is scattered in the Grave is a work which requires an exceeding greatness of Power but yet it is a work which we expect to be done We groan within our selves waiting for the adoption to Rom. 8. 23. wit the redemption of our body The Redemption of our Bodies from the power of Death into a condition of endless Life is called the Adoption because it is the manifestation of the sons of God ver 19. as the Apostle speaks a little before as Christ himself was declared to be the Son of God by his chap. 1. 4. rising from the dead The same Apostle speaking upon this Subject elsewhere says We groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed upon with our house 2 Cor. 5. 2. which is from heaven A Glorified Body may be stiled our house which is from heaven in opposition to the earthly house mentioned in the foregoing ver 1. verse because it will be of a more spiritual and lasting frame Distempers shall make no Breaches in it and Death shall not pull it down Infinite Goodness observes a method herein which is suitable to Infinite Wisdom first God advances the Inhabitant and then after a time he repairs the habitation first he unites the Soul more closely to himself and afterwards the Body to the Soul This is that admirable Change which Job says that he would wait all the days of his appointed Job 14. 14. time for that is of his continuance in the state of the dead as an Excellent Author How 's Bless of the Right p. 210 211 212. hath largely cleared Thus when we lay down our Mortal flesh in the bosom of the Earth we leave it to rest in hope of a certain Immortality I proceed now to the Second Thing which was proposed and that is to shew How this Work of waiting for God's Salvation is to be done by Believers while they live Three Things seem to be included in it 1. It includes Fervent Desires Waiting for Christ from Heaven and loving his appearing in 1 Thes 1. 10. 2 Tim. 4. 8. Scripture are the same thing some things are unwillingly expected by wicked men they foresee that death will come and they are afraid of it so there is a fearful looking for of Judgment Heb. 10. 27. which follows after death This is an Expectation accompanied with fear which hath a great deal of uneasiness and torment in it they that have it could wish to be disappointed and mistaken Hope is somewhat more than bare Expectation because it implies Desire and that we have an Affection to the same thing which we have a Prospect of Sisera's Mother was eagerly desirous to see her Son marching home in Triumph and therefore she lookt out at a window and cried out through the lattice Why is his chariot so long Judg. 5. 28. in coming The Creature which groans under the Curse for our sin is very desirous of ease and restitution and therefore we read of its earnest Rom. 8. 19. expectation waiting for such a time When the Church was waiting for God they tell him The desire of our soul is to thy name c. Do we then Isa 26. 8. wait for the Salvation of the Lord from a Principle of Love to him and to the Spiritual good things which we expect from him Can we say as David did That we wait for God more than Psal 130. 6. they that watch for the morning Some think that the Psalmist alludes in that place to Centinels in an Army or City who many times being wearied with their tedious Service in the night long till the day breaks that they may be reliev'd and discharg'd by others It is a necessary Question Are our hearts directed into such a passionate waiting for Christ 2. It includes stedfast Hopes It is a Fruit that springs from Faith for if that be shipwrack'd nothing will fix the soul in a waiting posture To hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lam. 3. 26. Lord are things which always go together so the great Apostle speaks If we hope for that which Rom. 8. 25. we see not then do we with patience wait for it The Inference is grounded upon the preceding Supposition we wait if we hope but else we do not Infidelity overthrows every thing of this kind as is manifest from that woful Instance of the King of Israel when the Famine was so great in the Land This evil is of the Lord wherefore 2 Kings 6. 33. should I wait for him any longer q. d. I have no such confidence either in God's Power or Goodness as to think that he can or will remove this Calamity though he hath inflicted it I never look for a return of plenty any more than the opening of windows in Heaven as one of his Courtiers exprest chap. 7. 2. himself afterwards Do we therefore heartily believe the record which God hath given us of his Son Are we firmly perswaded of Christ's Ability and Willingness to save Are we deeply convinc'd how securely we may trust in him how freely we may rowl our burdens on him how boldly we may make our applications to him when we are most terrified with the sense of sin and wrath As he that comes to God must believe that he is so he that waits for God's Salvation must believe that there is such a thing and rest satisfied in its reality A steady assurance of that which we expect will bear up our expectation but otherwise it will sink 3. It includes diligent endeavours of preparation for the thing that we desire and hope The Salvation of God is not to be hoped for out of the road of duty In the way of thy Judgments so the Commands Isa 26. 8. of God are sometimes called have we waited for thee Such as walk irregularly in their usual and ordinary course are not persons in a salvable state To him that ordereth his conversation Psal 50. arigbt will I shew the salvation of God that is to him and him only They cannot rejoice in the hope of glory who do not live in the exercise of grace A man that is dead in sin while he lives may flatter himself with an imagination of dying the death of the righteous at the last but the miserable event will undeceive him when the time of Reformation shall be no more I charge thee therefore oh sinner before God and the Lord Jesus Christ that thou expect nothing but vengeance

deliver'd up to the Father This is what remains to be done by Christ Secondly The Benefits which flow from Christ may be included in this term of the Lords Salvation and there are some such which believers while alive are not possest of but waiting for I grant that they receive several of Christs benefits when they are made believers yea even those which are the earnest and pledg of all the rest They have eternal life abiding in them assoon as their spiritual life is begun if they become the children of God by faith at their new birth then they are at that time the rightful Heirs Rom. 8. 17. of Heaven and of all that Heaven contains but still the Inheritance is reserved for them They have not 1 Pet. 1. 4. the perfect enjoyment of all that God hath promis'd and that Christ hath purchas'd though they have the title and the first fruits The following particulars will shew what they wait for as the effects of their Saviour's sufferings First to begin with the least and lowest of their Expectations A full deliverance from temporal and external evils such as pain and sickness Providential disappointments and losses unjust and violent Persecutions c. which they are more or less at one time or another subject to in this life Though these burdens are comparatively light yet many times they make a Believer to groan under them while he is in this Tabernacle They lye so heavy sometimes 2 Cor. 5. 4. especially when several kinds of them meet together like various Rivers which run into one Sea of trouble that they make a man bitter in soul and put him upon longing for death which otherwise Job 3. 20 21. he would be most desirous to shun Though these are lesser evils yet they are real and so long as we labour under them we cannot but look upon our selves as miserable in part Who can doubt that our blessedness is imperfect while our bones are vexed while Gods arrows stick in our flesh when so many Diseases are ready to assault us and unseen Casualties to fall upon us where our riches and all other worldly glory like birds upon the wing are prepar'd to fly away from us where our finest Hos 9. 11. garments are so quickly moth-eaten and our most valuable Goods corrupted where our whole inheritance is liable to the spoiler's hands and the Sons of blood if God at any time let them loose may arise and take possession How uncertainly is our health or ease or plenty or tranquility prolong'd while we are here in how small a moment may all the contrary mischiefs overtake us But we wait the time when God will finally save us out of all Secondly Deliverance from the remainders of Indwelling Corruption and the Temptations of Satan Here a Believer is often crying out with Paul Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from Rom. 7. 24. the body of this death He hath not yet actually obtain'd such a deliverance but he waits for it I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. We many Ver. 25. times feel the tyranny and force of sin though it hath lost its constant and allowed Dominion we are led into an unwilling Captivity though we have renounc'd the voluntary service Satan though he cannot command us does frequently overcome us though we do not yield our selves to him we are prevail'd upon by him He entangles us though we do not run into the snare he pursues and overtakes us when we shun him and fly from him How troublesome and tedious is this to a child of God! that he cannot go from the evil spirit nor stifle the lusts of his own heart What a sad exercise is this to a Saint that he should not only have Principalities and Powers to wrestle with but be divided against himself Indeed the sincerity of all those is to be suspected who can bear this with any quietness or satisfaction But the Heavenly state admits of no such disturbances we wait for an absolute freedom both from sin and temptation in the next world Thirdly A Declared Justification from the Guilt of every sin This was the motive to Repentance and Conversion which Peter laid before the Jews whose hands were stained with the blood of Christ That your sins may be blotted out wben the times of Act. 3. 19. refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. It is true that every sin is now blotted out to every true Believer but in the day of Christ he will shew that it is so The Books when they are open'd shall be visibly crost and we pronounc'd before Angels and men as Righteous by the sinless Obedience of the second Adam as if we never had offended There is a private act of Oblivion as it were already past but then it shall be publickly read in the hearing of the World. Our pardon is now certain upon the supposition of repentance and faith then it shall be as evident as certain and universally known both to others and our selves We are indeed Justified by Faith at present and abundantly Rom. 5. 1. John 5. 24. secur'd from future Condemnation but there will be a Judicial Declaration of our Righteousness at the appearing of our Lord Jesus which will tend more to the Honour of God's Grace and to the Increase of our Everlasting Joy All that we have done amiss shall be so absolutely forgiven that Christ will then audibly say in the General Assembly of Mankind Well done and will Matt. 25. 21 23. not that be a joyful sound We cannot conceive what Glory will redound hence to God and what Triumph of Spirit it will cause in us 4. A nearer view of God and Converse with him While we are sojourning here we are at a Distance and so see but darkly and enjoy but little We are nigh to God in comparison of the Unregenerate part of this World but we are afar off from God in comparison of the glorified Inhabitants of the next What signifies our sight of God in the Sanctuary compared with that sight which they have in Heaven How far short does our beholding in a Glass come of seeing God face to face What Communion have we in Ordinances worthy to be named with the immediate Fruition of the Divine Presence We wait for more open vision and more intimate fellowship for such a state wherein God himself Rev. 21. 3. shall be with us not the Word of God and other Instituted Means of Grace but God himself We cannot yet know by speculation how great such an happiness is but we expect to know by experience we are like persons standing at the door who cannot see what is within the house Death is the pulling of this door aside and then all things will be nakedly exposed to our perfected Understandings To what good purpose shall we lift up our Eyes above after our Friends have closed them for us here below What a