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death_n	call_v	die_v	sin_n	5,061	5	4.7558	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64422	The merchants and mariners preservation and thanksgiving. Or, Thankfulnesse returned, for mercies received Set forth in a sermon of thanksgiving, preached at S. Andrewes Undershaft, Sept. 6. 1649. To the r. worshipfull, the Comittee of Merchants, trading for the eastern India, upon a late returne of seven of their ships together. By Edvvard Terry, minister of the Word, (who was sometime in their service, there) now rector of the Church of Great-Greenford, in the county of Middlesex. Octob. 4. 1649. Imprimatur. John Downame.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1649 (1649)	Wing T780; ESTC R219187	28,101	40

{non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the faire Havens Acts 27 8. which leade into that City of refuge which saves from the destroyer wherein the Righteous shall for ever sit and sing out of a most comfortable experience that great is the mercy the goodnesse of the L●rd A City whose builder and maker is God Heb. 11.10 to which wee may apply that spoken by the Psalmist Psal. 87.3 of the earthly to that heavenly Jerusalem Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God Glorious great things are spoken of it but greater things conceived where our thoughts far exceede our words and both of them come exceedingly short of the thing wee would apprehend and speake of And shall doe so till the time come where the Saints in Heaven shall say enjoying the end of their hope as they did in another case Psal. 48.8 As wee have heard so have wee seene I and abundantly much more in the City of the Lord of Hosts in the City of our God A City a place a rest an happynesse which cannot be found anywhere but there above and wee throw away our lives if wee doe not continually ayme at it Now while wee are in this life wee are but in our way towards that better and in this passage wee may conceive our selves to be like Passengers in a Shippe under sayle enjoying a faire Gale of Winde so that whether they eate or drinke or sleepe or whatsoever they doe beside are still going on to their Port. Beloved there are many of us heere assembled that have been farre wee have one journey more before wee can be at home for Pater Patria our God that made us and the Kingdome for which wee were created if wee were not borne out of due times are both above And further many of us heere in this Congregation may consider that time hath Snowed upon our haires and the end of our journey cannot be farre off and therefore it is very seasonable now after many travells and troubles to thinke of and prepare for our rest to thinke of our anointing to the buriall to thinke of finishing our course in bringing our lives as well to an happy conclusion as to an ende to stand carefully upon our watch that when wee be summoned wee may not be surprised that when God shall please for to call any one of us by his messenger Death wee may have nothing to doe but to dye and thus having a Plaister ready before wee receive the blow wee shall lose nothing by dying but what wee may well spare our sin and corruption And that wee may be the better prepared for that great businesse wee must labour to be like Shippes abroad farre from their home that are well furnished and fitted and richly laden In readinesse to returne unto their Countrey and want nothing but a winde to carry them thither Hence the Holy men of God in all Ages who were able to looke further then earth could never finde so much comfort in any thing beside as in the meditation of Heaven who having seen the promises concerning Christ a far off and being perswaded of them they embraced them Heb. 11.13 the word is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} they kissed them they hug'd them as resting most abundantly satisfied with them And the Ancient Fathers in naming the day of the death of the Faithfull the day of their Birth and the day of their Martyrdome the day of their Nativity did shew how much esteeme they had of the life to come so excellent and glorious above this life that is present be a mans condition heere never so great so seemingly happy that there is no comparison betwixt them In this life there is much delight taken in changing of Places Apparrel Foode Company Recreations and the like in seeing and being seene But in Heaven our Felicity will consist in rest Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord they rest from their labours Rev. 14.13 I say the happinesse of the blessed Saints above shall consist in rest in not longing after any other condition because there can be no change of that what the Saints there enjoy without much losse Heere the thoughts of men are distracted and disquieted with thousands and thousands of actions and cares and feares like a Shippe at Sea tossed up and downe by Windes and Waves Domine cor meum inquietum est c sayd that Ancient Father Oh Lord I am not I cannot be quiet till I come to rest with thee Heere in this life one misery overtakes another as one Wave of the Sea doth another there is no weeding up of these tares no remooving of these annoyances from the life of man for it is our portion as wee be men more as wee be Gods people to suffer in one kinde or other while wee be heere the Gospel propounds nothing so much as the Crosse the Crosse and the Crowne are fastened heere together not to be seperated till death part them man and misery being tearmes convertible Man that is borne of a Woman is of few dayes and full of trouble Job 14.1 but this is the comfort of every godly man that as his miseries are great so his life is short and no good man shall carry his owne Crosse further then Simon the Cyrenian did the Crosse of Christ Mar 15.21 to Golgotha to his Grave For as death beginnes the miseries of the wicked so it puts an end unto all the miseries of the godly I count or I reckon saith the Apostle that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory which shall be revealed Rom. 8.18 as if he had sayd when I have considered the Crosse with all its incombrances when I have considered profit and losse what I may suffer and what I shall be sure to gaine it amounts all to this that the eternall weight of the Crowne doth exceedingly out-weigh the momentary weight of the Crosse so that when the godly have done that heere which God hath appoynted them either to doe or suffer when they shall have accomplished as an hireling their day then shall they lye downe in peace and receive their penny and take their rest after all their labours troubles sorrows sufferings times of refreshing will come from the presence of God and then all teares shall be wiped from their eyes all sadnesse from their spirits And therefore how will the soules of the blessed admire themselves when they shall come to that much desired and longed for Haven we here commend unto you and see themselves disburdened of all their Toyle and Trouble and Feare and Care in a moment when they shall enjoy Peace without trouble Joy without any mixture of griefe Happinesse without measure Felicity without end Contentment without any interuption when they shall enjoy that Good which satisfies all desires and excludes all feares Then Faith shall be no more for wee shall have Sight Fruition And Hope no more for we shall enjoy the things hoped for And Patience shall be no more for there shall be no more paine nor Mercy because there shall be no more Misery the onely Knowledge of God shall fill our understandings the Love of God shal wholly possesse our affections Oh how will the soules of the blessed be then and there transported with joy who after they have gotten safe through the storme shall see themselves in a place where they shall heare the holy Name of God no more blasphemed nor his deare people scorned nor his precious Ordinances any more trampled under foot nor his sacred Truthes any more perverted nor yet slighted by the groundlesse conceivings and perverse mistakes of men who are like froward or teachy children that deserve the rod rather then the spoone or breast because they kick at or kick downe that good nourishment which if they knew how to tast or relish it might make them thrive Oh how will the soules of the blessed be then ravished with comforts with contentment when they shall injoy the society of the blessed Saints and Angels where they shall have new company joyn in new thanksgivings and sing new songs which none can understand but those which sing them when they shall enjoy fulnesse of delight in enjoying God in whose presence is fulnesse of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore Psal. 16.11 When I shall behold thy Face in Righteousnesse I shall be satisfied with thy likenesse saith David Psal. 17.15 and no marvell for this a Face that is all eye a Face that doth transforme into its likenesse all that do behold it as a looking-glasse exposed to the Sunne seemes to have the Sunne in it We shall be like him saith Saint John 1 Joh. 3.2 for we shall see him as he is and they that look upon him are lightned Psal. 34.5 they shall not onely see light but be light not see light as we see that brightnesse of the Sunne by our eyes but as if wee were all eye throughout our bodies shall receive light on all sides And this blessednesse which God hath prepared for his people non Minuitur multitudine possessorum sed tanta universis quanta singulis shall not be diminished with the multitude of possessors but is shal be as much to every one as it is to any one every one above enjoying it as every one here below having eyes enjoyes the light of the Sunne And as Jonathan before faint received some strength and had his eyes enlightned so soone as he had tasted of the hony 1 Sam. 14.29 So the faithfull who have been long wearied and toyled with evils here and been ready to faint under the burden of them shall then recover strength and have the sight of what they formerly believed after that they have tasted of the sovereign good the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living the meditation of that unexpressible happinesse prepared for all that live in the Feare and dye in the Favour of God is like that Tree cut by Moses and cast into the bitter waters which presently made them sweet Exod. 15.25 Oh these are thoughts to live and dye in I might enlarge my selfe much more on this most comfortable and copious subject but much speech is wearinesse to the flesh These are good thoughts to leave you in and therefore in this good meditation I will leave you FINIS