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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	cause_n	law_n	sin_n	5,768	5	5.5206	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51834	The blessed estate of them that die in the Lord opened in a sermon at the funerals of Mistres Jane Blackwel, wife of Master Elidad Blackwel, pastor of Andrew Undershaft, London / by Tho. Manton.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1656 (1656)	Wing M518; ESTC R30511	23,515	42

are presently blessed upon the departure of the soul out of the body but more blessed at the general Resurrection of the just 1 Presently the soul is where Christ is carryed by Angels to Christ and by Christ presented to God as the fruit of his purchase That the soul is where Christ is appears by that of Phil. 1.2 3. I desire to be dissolved and be with Christ to be with him in glory otherwise it were a loss not a happiness for St. Paul to be dissolved it is a sorry blessedness to lye rotting in the Grave and onely to be eased of present labours for Gods people are wont to reckon much of their present service and enjoyment of God though it be accompanyed with troubles and afflictions Paul was in a straight and he saith it was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} much more better to be with Christ A stupid sleep without the injoyment of God is not much more better then our present condition but far worse what happiness were that to be in such a condition wherein we do nothing for God injoy nothing from God Surely Paul would never be in such a straight if this drousie Doctrine were true that the soul lyes in such an unactive state of sleep and rest till the Resurrection This is to be no more blessed then stones and inanimate creatures that feel nothing Again Luke 23 43. This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise saith Christ to the good thief Some to evade that place refer {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as if it were I say to them this day but the pointing in the Greek Copies contradicts it as also the sense of the place {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} this day answers to the Thieves when thou shalt come into thy kingdom Christ promiseth more then he asks as God doth usually abundantly for us above what we can ask or think He hath reference to Christs words to the High-Priest the Son of man shall come in his glory now saith Christ I will not defer thy desire so long for presently shall heavenly joys attend thy soul Others seek to evade it by the word Paradise it is a Persicke word but used by the Hebrews for Gardens and Orchards and by allusion for heavenly joys and possibly the allusion might be taken not from the delights of an ordinary Garden but from Eden or that Garden in which Adam was placed in innocency That by Paradise is meant heaven and not those secreta animarum receptacula beatae sedes some secret places for the repose of souls departed which some of the Fathers fancyed appeared by Pauls expression in the 2 Cor. 12.4 speaking of his rapture I was saith he caught up into the third heaven which he presently calls Paradise Well then out of the whole we may conclude that the souls immediately upon their departure out of their bodies are with Christ Again it is said Luke 16.22 The beggar dyed and was carryed into Abrahams bosom presently in the twinckling of an eye or turning of a thought Thus it is with the Saints which is a great comfort when we come to dye in a moment Angels will bring you to Christ Agonies of death are terrible but there are joys just ready and as soon as you are loosed from the prison of your body you enter into your eternal rest the soul flyeth hence to Christ Once more as the wicked are in their final estate as soon as they dye and therefore they are called the Spirits now in prison 1 Pet 3.19 so do the godly injoy their glorifyed estate as soon as they dye the spirits of just men are made perfect Heb. 12.24 How can their spirits be said to be perfect if they lye onely in a dull sleep without any light life joy delight or act of love to God 2 They are compleatly blest at the Resurrection what their blessedness shall be then we cannot now know to the full we shall understand it best when the great voice calls us to come up and see Onely because our ear hath received a little thereof let me endevor to lay it before you In blessedness there must be 1 A removal of all evils 2 A coacervation and compleat presence of all goods 1 A removal of evil as long as the least evil continues a man is not blessed onely less miserable Haman had all things that a carnal heart could wish for he guided the affairs of 127 Provinces onely he wanted Mordecals knee therefore he saith all this avails me nothing Ahab had the kingdom of Israel and yet falls sick for want of Naboth's Vineyard In engines of war if one peg be missing or out of order all stops In the body of man if one humour be out of order or joynt broken it is enough to make us ill at ease though all the rest be sound and whole so if if there be the least evil a man cannot be a compleat happy man Well then from this blessed estate of the dead in the Lord All evil is removed Now evil is twofold either of Sin or Punishment In heaven there is neither 1 To begin with Sin that is the worst evil affliction is evil but it is not evil in it self but onely in our sense and feeling but sin is evil whether we feel it or no it is worst when we feel it not 2 That is evil which separates from the chiefest good Affliction doth not separate from God it is a means and occasion to make us draw neer to him many had never been acquainted with God but for their afflictions but sin separates from God Isa. 59.2 Your iniquities have separated c. Let a man be never so loathsom yet if he be in a state of grace he is dear to God the Lord takes pleasure in him though he should be roughcast with Ulcers and sores in a prison yet God will kiss him with the kisses of his mouth there is nothing loathsome and odious to God but sin This grieves the Saints most Rom. 7.23 Oh wretched man that I am c. if any man had cause to complain of afflictions Paul had in perils often in perils by Land in perils by Sea in perils by enemies in perils by false brethren whipped imprisoned stoned but he doth not cry out when shall I be delivered from these afflictions but this body of death Lust troubled him more then scourges and his captivity to the Law of sin more then chains and prisons This is the disposition of the Saints they are weary of the world because they are sinning here whilst others are glorifying God not onely that they are suffering here whilst others are injoying God A beast will forsake the place where he hath neither meat nor rest Carnal men when they are beaten out of the word have a fancy to heaven as a place of retreat but that which troubles godly men is their sin well