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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12178	The Christians portion Wherein is unfolded the unsearchable riches he hath by his interest in Christ. Whom injoying hee possesseth all things else. By R. Sibbs D.D. and preacher to the honorable society of Grayes-Inne, and master of Catherine Hall in Cambridge. Published by T.G. and P.N.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.	1637 (1637)	STC 22486; ESTC S117304	16,083	102

shall not be laide to his charge all his deeds to a cup of cold water shall be set on the score And he shall be rewarded there is not a sigh not a teare but it is regestred the longer a man liveth if hee should live Methushelah his days the richer he should be in good workes and the more rich he is in good workes the more he shall have his part and share in glory after and therefore Life is yours The longer he lives the happier the time in which he lives is for his good and he makes the time happy and it is happier for himselfe the more rich he is in good workes the more rich hee shall be in glory after These things being so we should be very thankefull that God yeelds to us this life for besides an advantage of doing good It is a preparative to a better This life is as it were the seminary of Heaven Heaven indeede is the true Paradice of all the Plants of God but they must have a seminary to be planted-in first and therefore the Church is called the Kingdome of Heaven because wee are first planted here Now this life is an advantage we are planted here in the Church to grow a while untill we be taken from your semina ry the Paradice of the Church to the Paradice in Heaven So Life is ours for that end I will not further inlarge the point it is cleare Or Death As life is ours So death is ours It is astrange thing that death should be ours that is a destroying hostile thing to nature The King of feares as the Scripture calls it and that terrible of all terribles as the Philosopher the last enemy as Paul saith that death should be ours Death is ours many wayes you see here it is a peice of our joynture for these words containe the joynture of the Church The Church is Christs Spouse all things are Christs and therefore all things are the Spouses and among other particular gifts given to the Church death is ours It is a strange thing that death should be given to the Church and yet so it is and we shall see this if we consider how death in the Gospell is turned into another thing it is a harmelesse thing in the Gospell the sting is pulled out it hath lost all its venome in Christ. now death is a passage to another World it is the gate of glory death nothing but divests us of these rayments that we have here on our bodies and puts us into garments of glory it puts off these ragges and puts us into a better condition that is all the hurt it doth it ends all that is ill and all is determined in death it is the last evill and it is the beginning of all that is good that is everlastingly good that is spiritually good eternally good for by death we are freed both from the labour of sin which is a labour irkesome to Gods people by reason of a principle of corruption which they have in them that accompanyes them till they be in their grave death is the accomplishment of mortification in death there is an end of the labour of sinne and of all other labours whatsoever for death is a sleepe and all labours end in sleepe as after sleepe the spiritts are refreshed so after death we shall be more refresht then we can conceive now so death is ours It ends all labours of sinne and all labours of the body and it frees us from all contagion of wicked men and from all greife from wicked men and it sets us cleare out of Satans reach Satan hath nothing todoe with us when we are dead once because here the World is the Kingdome of Satan but when we are gone hence Satan hath nothing to doe with us and that is a great priveledge so death is ours it frees us from all that is evill our death is our birth-daie indeede we never live till wedie for what is your life alas it is a dying life Every day we live a part of our life is taken away we die every day The more we have lived the lesse of our life we have to live this is but a dying life There are three degrees of life The life in 1. The Mothers Wombe 2. The World 3. Heaven The life in Heaven begins at death death is the birth-day of that life Deaths day is the birth-day of imimmortality VVhen Christ came to die to purchase life he came not to die to purchase a sorry life on earth but he came to die to purchase immortall glory that is the life that Christ came to die for and to purchase The day of death is the first birth-day of that life and for our bodies they are but refined by death and fitted as Vessells cast into the fire to be moulded and fashioned to be most glorious Vessells after so our bodies are fitted by the grave till body and soule be for ever happy at the day of Resurrection so that death is ours and here upon it is that the Wiseman saith that The day of death is better then the day of birth When we are borne we come into miserie When we die we goe out of misery It is better to goe out of miserie then to come into misery If the day of death be better then the day of birth to a Christian certainly then death is theirs and blessed are those that die in the Lord saith the Spirit A voyce from Heaven saith so and therefore write saith hee it may be written if the Spirit saith it it is testimony and argument enough Blessed are those that die in the Lord they rest from their labours and their reward followes them They rest from all that is evill and their reward followes them all that is good their workes follow them so that if all evill cease and all good follows I hope death may well be said to be ours Death is ours it is our preferment why should we be afraid of that that is a part of our portion as the Apostle saith here Death is yours I beseech you therefore let us lay up this against those darke times wherein death will be represented to us as an uglie and grimme thing it is so to nature indeede but to faith death is my friend it is become amyable indeede there is nothing in the world that doth us so much good as death for its the best Physitian it cures all deseases whatsoever of soule body it frees us from all And indeede to shut up all this point death is the Death of death it is the destruction of it selfe forafter death there is noe more death so it consumes it selfe by death we overcome death Wee can never die more wee are freed from all death to be afraid of death is to be afraid of life to be afraid of victory For we never overcome death till we die Lay up these

thee and thou givest them Meate in due season Psalme 145. 15 16. The Earth is the Lords and the fullnes thereof make noe scruple therefore but marke in Verse 28. He restraynes the Vse of that liberty upon the same Text of Scripture Psalme 24. But if any man say this is offered to an Idoll and take offence eate not for his sake that shewed it and for conscience sake till he be better satisfyed for the Earth is the Lords and the fullnes thereof Can the same reasons be for contraries Yes that is for thy selfe when thou art alone take all things boldly God envies not thy liberty take any refreshment yet needst thou not to eate to offend thy brother GOD having given thee variety of creatures even in abundance and hath not limited thee or that creature so that the same reason answereth both The Earth is the LORDS and the fullnes thereof Vse it then alone and not to the scandall of thy Brother for the Earth is the Lords and the fullnes thereof why shouldst thou use this creature as if there were noe more but this and therefore in case of scandall and offence we should suspend our liberty though all be ours Againe though all bee ours yet notwithstanding wee have not a sanctifyed Vse but by the Word and Prayer as it is 1 Tim. 4. 4. Every Creature of GOD is good c. his meaning is this though wee have a right to all things to our comfort to helpe us to Heaven to cheere us in our way to bee as it were Chariotts to carry us yet in the use of that right wee must sanctify all by Prayer wee must doe it in fayth that wee may apprehend our right that wee doe not use them with a scrupulous conscience and then wee must sanctify it with Prayer wee must take it with GODS leave for though wee have a right in the use of it we must take it at his hand And for instance A father gives all to his sonne that hee needs and promiseth his sonne that hee shall want nothing but hee will have his Sonne write a Latter before hee have a particular right to any thing hee will have his Sonne acknowledge his homage you shall have all but I will heare from you first you shall have all but I will reach it to you from my hand soe GOD deales with his children they have a right to all but hee reacheth it to them in the use of the meanes wee must have a civill right by labour or by conctract c. And then wee must have a religious right sanctifyed by Prayer we must not pull GODS blessings out of his Hands for though he gives us a right in the thing yet in the use of that right he will have us holy men If you aske what is the reason that good men oft fall to decay and have a great many crosses in the World VVhy surely not to enter into Gods Mysteries what the secret cause of this may be one among many is when they have Gods blessings they sanctifie them not with Prayer they pray not for a blessing they use them not religiously and holily and they venture upon their right with scandall and offence to others Well thus we see how all things are ours with Answers to such Objections as might bee moved all things are ours that is howsoever we have a right to the thing yet we must have also a right in the thing To make some use of all and so an end of this Point All things are ours in regard of right to all things if it bee for our good whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas here wee see then the Rich joynture of a Christian that all things are his that is they are so farre his as shall further his journey to GOD for though hee have a Jus as I sayd before to allthings hee shall have in particular nothing conueyed to him but that that may helpe him to Heaven if a man say why have I not the use of such things GOD in Wisedome sees that it is not fit to bring him to Heaven If poverty be good I shall have it If disgrace be good I shall have it If the order of evill things will helpe me to Heaven I shall have them If crosse winds will blow me to Heaven I shall have them For I sayd before the World and the miseries of the World the persecutions and afflictions all are ours that is the worst things are commanded to serve for our maine good And is not this a wonderfull prerogative that a Christian hath that turne him to what condition you will kill him or spare his life you hurt him nothing eyther wayes If you spare his life life is his GOD sees his life is good for the Church if you kill him Death is his kill him save him inrich him beggar him his happines is not at your command there is a commanding Power to rule all things for the good of Gods people that is not at the devotion of any creature in the World eyther divells or men And therefore let us comfort our selves in this in regard of the large joynture that wee have wee have all things to be ours And therefore when a Christian comes to bee religious to be a true Christian indeede a Member of CHRIST what doth he loose he looseth nothing all things are his because Christ is his But to goe on in the second Branch sayth he You are Christs There is the Tenure we hold all things by because wee are Christs whatsoever the tenure in capite bee amongst men which you are better acquainted with then my selfe I know not I am sure it is the best tenure in Religion All is ours because wee are Christs we hold all in that tenure if wee be not Christs nothing is ours comfortably we are Christs and therefore all is ours Those that are not Christs are not the things theirs that they have because they are not Christs have not wicked men title to what they have I answer they have and it is rigour in some that say wicked men are usurpers of that they have they have a Title both a civill Title and a Title before God God gave Nebuchadonessar Tirus as a reward and God gives wicked men a Title of that they have and they shall never bee called to account at the day of judgement for possessing of what they had but for abusing that possession and therefore properly they are not usurpers in regard of possession but they shall render an account of the abuse of that bounty It is in this as it is in the Kings carriage to a Traitor when a King gives a Traitor his life he gives him meate and drinke that may maintayne his life by the same right that hee gives him his life GOD will have wicked men to live so long to doe so much service to the Church for all are not extremely wicked that