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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

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make the present Agonies of Death more sharp and bitter to him but he fetches comfort and relief from this great Consideration That there was a Spiritual and Eternal Saviour provided for him and his whom by dying he should come to enjoy Some have been very industrious to exclude the Knowledg of Christ from the Old-Testament times as if there had been no waiting for the Kingdom of God and for the Consolation of Israel before he was Mark 15. 43. Luke 2. 25. manifested in the Flesh but we have been taught otherwise by Christ himself who gave that Testimony to Faithful Abraham He rejoiced to see my Day And John 8. 56. Jacob's sight who lived somewhat nearer to that Day seems to be clearer than Abraham's for in this last extremity of his life he makes mention Three times of the Redeemer under three different Titles he calls him the Angel chap. 48. 16. because he is the Angel of the Covenant who did both publish and confirm it and the Angel of Gods Prefence who was ●●●…e the Beginning with God and through whom we have access to God he gives him the name of Shiloh ver 10. of this chap. that is the Person eminently sent of God and in the Text he describes him by that high and Glorious Character the Salvation of God which is the Stile not only used by several of the Prophets afterwards in speaking to the Jewish Church but also by Dying Simeon when the Luke 2. 30. Infant-Jesus was presented in the Temple The Doctrinal Proposition to be raised from these Words may be this Doct. That it is the work of Living and comfort of Dying Believers to wait for Gods Salvation I shall handle this Proposition in the following Method I. Shew what is this Salvation which Believers are to wait for II. How is this Work to be done while they Live. III. How will it yield them Comfort when they Dye IV. Apply the whole to our selves and the Occasion I begin with the first Thing to shew What this Salvation is which Believers are to wait for In general Christ himself and the Benefits which come by him are comprehended under it First Jesus Christ in his Person may very well be and indeed is to be most principally understood by this expression His Coming in the Flesh was the great Promise of the Father embrac'd and depended on by all the Believers who lived before his time He was the Desire of all Nations and in a special Mal. 3. 1. manner the Hope of Israel O that the s●●●●●ion of Acts 28. 20. Psalm 14 7. Israel were come out of Sion was the unanimous voice of that Church in their Publick Worship Now the second Appearance of this Christ to Judgment and the Translation of our Souls to him by Death with the happy Consequences of both as will be shewn in the progress of this Discourse are things still expected by such as remain in the Body Here particular satisfaction should be given to Three Enquiries 1. Why is Jesus Christ stiled Salvation 2. Why is he called the Salvation of the Lord 3. What is he who hath this Title yet to do which living Believers wait for 1. Why is Christ Jesus called Salvation I conceive chiefly for these Two Reasons because he is the Purchaser and Dispenser of it First Because he is the Purchaser and Author of Heb. 5. 9. Salvation so he is stiled by the great Apostle inasmuch as he deserv'd procur'd and wrought it out for us Our Salvation is founded in his Blood bestowed upon the account of his Merit with a respect to his Satisfaction and through the virtue of his Intercession It is true we are saved by Grace but the Question is What Grace and how it comes to be Ephes 2. 8. exercised and conveyed In relation to this though it be originally the Grace of God 't is said to be the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ therefore Salvation by Acts 15. 11. and in Christ are such very common and frequent expressions in the New Testament nay we meet with the same sometimes in the Old Testament referring to him So the Evangelical Prophet Israel ●●all be saved in the Lord with an everlasting Isa 45. 17. ver 21 22 23 24 25. salvation What Lord is this but he besides whom there is no Saviour He to whom the ends of the earth must look He to whom every knee shall bow He in whom we have righteousness and strength and in whom all the seed of Israel shall be justified c. Who is this but Christ himself and what Salvation is everlasting except his The same Prophet tells us it was his own arm which brought salvation for there was none chap. 63. 5. to help him in that work Angels who excel in strength were too weak for such an Undertaking a man's redeeming of his brother by any means was much more impossible for a combination of all the men in the World could not have been serviceable so much as to one Salvation is the Price of Christs Death and the Effect of his Power Secondly Because he is the Giver and Dispenser of Salvation and he hath Authority so to be entrusted with him by the Father because it was accomplish'd by himself In this sense he is called the God of our Salvation by the Psalmist this being the Psal 68. 19 20. great Gift which he received for men for it is most apparent that Christ is the person spoken of from the foregoing verse where we have an account of his v. 18. Ascension into Heaven in the very words which the Apostle Paul uses on that Subject The Prophet Ephes 4. 8. Zech. 9. 9. speaks to the same purpose Behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just and having salvation The latter part of that verse lowly and riding upon an ass c. does plainly refer to the means and manner of Christ's famous Journey to Jerusalem and is therefore applied to him by the Evangelist upon that occasion When Matt. 21. 5. it is said that Christ hath Salvation the meaning is that he hath it to communicate for though he is just yet all the Mercy of God comes through his hands For this reason he is called by Zacharias the Luke 1. 69. father of his fore-runner an horn of salvation from whence Salvation is more immediately pour'd out upon lost and miserable souls He carried it along with him whithersoever he went therefore when Zacheus had opened his doors to him he tells him This day chap. 19. 9. is salvation come to this house With respect to this the times of the Gospel which are more especially the days of the Son of man are honoured with that Isa 49. 8. Character of the day of Salvation It is the Word of Christ wherein this Salvation is declared and offered it is by the Spirit whom Christ now sends into our hearts that we come to be interested in it and