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A50862	A sermon preached at the fvnerall of that reverend divine Mr. Robert Collard, batchlour in divinity and pastor of Chilton-Folliat in the county of Wilts fifty yeares, on the 9 of November 1648 by Iohn Millet ...	Millet, John.	1652 (1652)	Wing M2069; ESTC R32091	18,319	24

with me in Paradice what thing of mony-price could Steven desire to have Luc. 23.43 then to behold Christ sitting at the right hand of his Father what better promise of mercy could Christ at his departure give unto his perplexed servants then I goe to prepare a place for you Joh. 14.2 3. and if I goe to prepare a place for you I will receive you unto my selfe thatwhere I am you may be also Reas 1 Because Christ prayed it might be so and Christs prayer must needs have a gracious hearing and acceptance in his Fathers presence for what thing did Christ with more earnestnesse of Spirit beg of his Father when he was about to leave the world then this saying Father I will that they also which thou hast given me Joh 17.24 25. be with me where I am that they may behold the glory that thou hast given mee and that the love wherewith thou hast loved them may be in them and I in them Reas 2 Because the faith of the Elect still beates upon this their being with Christ for unlesse we ascend up to him as he descended downe to us his descending was in vain because he came down to us that we might ascend up to him he discended to take our flesh that we might ascend to take possession of his kingdome he descended to be crucified we ascend to be glorified he descended to this world which is an hell in respect of his heavenly habitation we ascend to heaven to joy to our Father our Saviour to Angels to Saints we see Paul had good cause to desire to be disolved and to be with Christ This is the happy end after all our sorrows to be with Christ I was saith Paul thrice beaten with rods I suffred thrice shipwracke c. 2 Cor. 11.24 no marvell then though Paul desire to be with Christ since this is the happinesse Christians after they have sailed over the troublesome waves of this life then Christ will receive them into his comfortable harbour and refresh them with the joy of his countenance I dare say if Christ and his Children were in hell hell would would be no hell nay which is more heaven would be no heaven were it not for the amiable reflections of love which proceed from Christ to his beloved ones O if Peter at the transfiguration of Christ having but a glimpse of his glory cried out Master it is good to be here Luc 9.33 how much more would he be ravisht when he saw his heavenly glory Because the dissolution of the soule from the body Reas 4 causeth a conjunction of the soule with Christ which made the Apostle confident in this that the godly had rather be absent from the body 2 Cor. 5.7 8. and so present with the Lord then to be present in the body and absent from the Lord. Because Christ hath by his death perfumed the grave to his Rea. 5 and taken away the force of death Christ hath overcome the devill that his Children might do so even overcome him Heb 2.14 that had the power of death even the devill Christ subdued that strong man that his might conquer him this being so the godly whose life is hid with Christ in God need not be appaled at the message of deathe Col. 3.3 Hos 13.14 but may in a triumphant manner say O death I will be thy death O grave where is thy distruction for Christ hath deliver'd us from the hurt sting of death Reproofe of the Papist-purgatory which it seemes was not found Use 1 out in Pauls but you must know your purgatory is like your pianted sepulchers framed more for the living then the dead seing the Locusts of Rome live by trentals and dirges and masses for the dead as the Silver-smith of Ephesus lived by Images the Papists are loth the purgatory-fire should be quenched for it is the gainfulst lye in all popery which hath brought most of the goods of Europe to the Popes Coffers to be rid as they dreamed out of purgatory after so many yeares by masses and supererogate workes of others as if the Scripture had never said the just shall live by his owne faith and that he that beleiveth shall not goe into judgment Joh. 5.24 but shall passe from death to life and that they that dye in the Lord shall rest from their labours How doe they rest if they stay at purgatory Job 5.24 which fantasticall fiction the Papists themselves cannot agree about the situation of it for some say it is in the aire some say it 's placed in the earth some say it 's a little above hell some say it 's in the middle region whereas it 's a meere Chymara an Individuum vagum that which hath no essence or existence at all Use 2 Comfort to the Elect that they shall be with Christ in two respects First against the troubles of this life we may say with Paul Rom. 8.33.34 to the end of the Cap. Secondly against the terrible day of judgment they may expostulate with their owne soules as soone as I dye I shall be with Christ for all my hope and affiance is in his love his passion is my payment his bloud my purgation his sacrifice my satisfaction his death my life he is my wisdome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption 1 Cor. 1 30. Use 3 To imitate Christ here then we shall be like him hence not to follow him in the acts of his Divinity as the Papist fondly imagine but in suffering with him if we be like him in his humiliation we shall be like him in his exaltations our imitation of him must be analogically not properly in patience humility love willing resignation of our selves into his Fathers hands thus doing he will not refuse us when we dye when we shall not only see him as he is but shall reigne with him in glory which is best of all which is my last part Which is best of all this is Pauls verdict or sentence upon his deliberation concerning life and death this is the upshot of all his private disputation betweene his flesh and his spirit betweene nature and grace between his doeing good in his ministery and his receiving his wages Doct. 5 it's best of all to be with Christ Note hence that a Christians best content is to be in heaven Thus David O God my heart longeth after thee as a barren and dry land where no water is Psal 63.1 againe how excellant is thy mercy O God! therefore the children of men doe trust under the shadow of thy wings they shall be satisfied with the fatnesse of thy house and thou shalt give them drinke out of the rivers of thy pleasures the reason is for with thee is the well of life and in thy light shall wee see light Psal 36.7.8.9 Because there is Gods presence There is fullnesse of joy and in his presence Reas 1 pleasures for evermore Christ saith Blessed are the

life and feare death Use 2 they prophecy to themselves a future bad estate the Sadduce is loath to die because he feares he shall not be the Epecure feares to die because he shall loose his pleasures the wicked feares to die because he knowes he shall worse be if it were a sleep who would feare to take his rest if it were an annihilation of the totum cumpositum as some thought or that it made men insēsible who would feare that which one cannot feele therefore this feare of death in the wicked doth presage some strange torment to those men whereof they have a taste already before they die like Saules spirit which vext him before his death To desire death but with these limitations 1 To resigne our will to Use 3 the Lords will 2 For the manner not to be out owne carvers but to embrace what Messenger the Lord will send for us 3 To be disburdened of the weight of sin 4 That we may enjoy the new Jerusalem Ob Is it not lawfull to desire death to avoide miseries here else why did Jonah desire to die and Moses to be razed out of Gods booke and Job and Eliah what availeth it me to live Sol. In Jonah it was a note of impatience yet I thinke these desires are not simply unlawfull if they submit themselves to the will of God thus I am troubled with a lingering disease or I am in prison I would be freed by death if the Lord saw it fit I suffer many troubles here I would faine go to heaven if the Lord would send his Embassador for me thus Job Elias others did Use 4 For comfort to them which have good consciences they may be willing to die he which knowes himselfe to have a grant of his life in the land of the living at his great Landlords hands I see no reason but he should desire death but he that hath no assurance by the Spirit of a better life hereafter he may leave the world grudgingly and feare this king of feares more then all the terrours of this life he had rather to be sicke and cold poore and hungry and beg then dy because he knowes what he suffers here but knowes not what he shall suffer hence he hath not learned Christ yet as Paul did for no man estemes this life when he relisheth the other to any purpose For then the love of this world fals from him as Elias mantle when he went up to heaven Paul indeed had seen many good things in his daies and was never satisfied being willing to dy he thirsted still but no water could quench his thirst but the water of life riches honors pleasures doe not make the elect willing to dy but their desires breed in them an unrest untill they be loosed which is my third part Part. 3 To be loosed Death hath among the ancients many descriptions it is called the privation of naturall life The Philosophers stiled it an eternall sleepe as they foolishly dreamed some o● them called it the feare of rich men the desire of poore men an inevitable event an uncertaine pilgrimage the robber of mankind a common fate the passage of life the departure of the living but Pa● here calls it a dissolution for as life is nothing but an union or combination of the soule to the body so death is a parting betweene them observe that death to the elect is nothing but a loosing Doct 3 So Solomon Eccles 12.7 the body returnes to the dust and the spirit to God th●● gave it thus Paul saith we know that if our earthly tabernacle be disolved we have a building made without hands eternall in the heaven 1 Because our bodies here are earthly houses whose foundation● 〈◊〉 Reas 1 not of marble whose walls are not of brasse whose gates are not 〈◊〉 iron but of clay which as they were quickly framed so are quickly disolved into their first principles Reas 2 2 Because then the godly is loosed from this life and hath no more society with them that are upon the earth he shall no more come to his house neither shall his place know him any more for the soule it 's loosed from the body till the day of resurrection then like old acquaintance they rejoyce together for ever yea death to the godly may be called a loosing or disolution in foure regards 1 Because the elect then are loosed from all their strong tempests and crosses and labours here they meet with blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord for then they rest from their labours Rev. 14.13 2 Because the day of their loosing is the day of receiving their wages Job 7.2 not of merit but of mercy then God will pay to every godly man his peny doth not the hirling long to receive his wages for his daies work 3 Because the day of their disolution is their birth day their day of freedome and coronation a birth day because it is the begining of their everlasting joy therefore it is miscalled when we say it is our last day besides it 's our day of coronation when we shall have Pauls incorruptible crowne and Peters crowne that never fades away put upon us it 's our day of freedome for then the soule is loosed out of a dungeon for the body in this life is but a lothsome prison of restraint wherein the soule cannot be free to the exercise of it selfe either in naturall or supernaturall things for the body so domineers by sences and so fiercely caries by appeties the same that the soule is compelled too often to satisfy bodily lusts yea the body is a darke prison shutting up the light of the soule as a darke cloud doth the light of the sun or as the interposition of the earth maketh it night which made Paul cry out Rom. 27. O wrethed man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of sin now death doth but as a strong wind dissolve this cloud that the Sun of Christs image in the Soule may shine clearly nay it pulls downe the walles of this stinking bodily prison that the soule may receive some fresh ayre in the open light of glory or else the liberty of the soule may appeare thus this world is a sea our lives are like so many galleys tost with continnuall stormes our bodies like Gally-slaves put to hard service by the great Turke the devill who tyrannically doth command hard things now the soule like the hart of some gally-slave may be free so as to loath that bondage inwardly to detest that tyrant but so long as it is fettered to the body it cannot get away now death comes like an unresistable Gyant and carries the gallies to the shore and disolves them and lets the soules the prisoners loose from their bodies Thirdly death as it is the dissolution of the body so it 's the absolution of the soule and in this respect it 's their solemne funerall day for death is the