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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28314	A sermon preach'd before the Queen at White-hall, August 23, 1691 by Jonathan Blagrave ...	Blagrave, Jonathan, 1652-1698.	1691 (1691)	Wing B3111; ESTC R6778	10,432	34

from them For to such many times may be apply'd the Words we read in the Third of Job Wherefore is Light given to him that is in Misery and Life to the bitter in Soul which long for Death but it comes not and dig for it more than for hid Treasures To such Persons then Death is rather a Relief than a Prejudice And is it not so indeed to all Men For there is no Man living but has more pain and Travel than he has Pleasure in this World For all Mankind fell under that Curse That in the Sweat of their Brows they should eat their Bread And that this Earth should bring forth Briers and Thorns to them instead of pleasant Fruit. No Man is exempt from this Not the Rich and Noble any more than the Poor and despised Nay Great Men have more Solicitude and must take more Care and Pains to Maintain themselves with Honour and Safety in the Station wherein God hath plac'd them and to answer those Ends which both God and Man expect from them than the Labouring Man doth to get his Bread In a word No Man whatsoever can do what is necessary for him and what is his Duty to do and without the doing of which he can have neither Credit or Comfort in his Life but it will cost him the Sweat of his Brows much Care and Pains and every Man's Business will yield him the Thorns and Briers of Perplexity So that nothing can be truer than the words we read in the Fifth of Job That Man is born to Labour and Trouble as naturally as the Sparks fly upward Considering therefore the true State and Condition of Man in this World Death in it self is so far from being an Evil that it is an Ease a Relief a Refreshment It is like a Soft Bed after a Hard Day 's Labour like a safe and quiet Harbour after a Stormy and turbulent Voyage It lays us gently down in our Mother's Soft Lap to Peace and Rest out of the Reach of all the Malice of our Enemies who have no more that they can do to us out of the Power of any more Misfortunes O Happy Death How desirable wert thou How far from being Terrible if there were nothing to be fear'd afterwards But after Death there is an account to be given of our Lives God will have an account from his Creatures of the keeping or the breaking of his Laws And it is most fit he should His Wisdom Justice and Goodness might all be call'd in question if he did not reward every Man according to his Works in another Life Since this cannot be conveniently done here without destroying the present Frame of things where the Goats cannot be separated from the Sheep nor the Tares from the Wheat This day of Reckoning every Man's Conscience bids him expect And this I am perswaded tho' it be not sometimes perceiv'd is Death's most bitter Sting the true Cause of its being so very Terrible to Men. If we go out of this World without repenting of our Sins the Wrath of God remains to be our Portion and the Effects of that are truly Fearful which is the Second Point Therefore saith our Saviour But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear Fear him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into Hell Yea I say unto you Fear him He that was infinitely Wise that knew all things and knew what would come to pass he forewarns us and he that was mightily concern'd for our Salvation he beseecheth us as his Friends and likewise enjoyns us with all his Authority as our Master to fear God There must then be some high Reason for this Fear and so there is For the Danger is great and unexpressible that he would have us be afraid of and by our Fear fly from and escape If you fear a Temporal Death God's Wrath can and will kill and take away the Natural Life but this is little as I have shewn you it is nothing in comparison of the other Effect of God's Wrath After he hath killed he will cast into Hell This is that which should fill us with Terror as Job says Job 31.23 Destruction from God that is this Mighty Destruction was a Terror to me And that kept him from Sin A Temporal Death cuts us off from the few empty uncertain and at the best but short Enjoyments of this World but Eternal Death that is Damnation cuts us off from those unexpressible Joys which would fill our Souls and would last to all Eternity and more than that condemns us to Regions of Darkness and Torments for ever This is a most Dreadful Condition The Scripture sets it forth by things that are most Terrible to us such as are Raging Fire Extream Darkness Perpetual Gnawing and the like But what words can express Nay what Heart can conceive what Dreadful Misery an Infinite God is able to bring upon his Enemies such as have contemn'd both his Justice and his Mercy that have frustrated scorn'd and derided all that he could do for their Salvation Hear how the Wise Man sets this forth in the first of the Proverbs beginning at the 24. Verse where he brings in the Wisdom of God thus speaking Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no Man regarded But ye have set at naught all my Counsel and would none of my Reproof I also will laugh at your Calamity I will mock when your fear cometh When your fear cometh as Desolation and your Destruction cometh as a Whirlwind when Distress and Anguish cometh upon you Here is a Danger worthy our Thoughts our highest Concern our greatest Fear for this is the last Degree of Misery into which Man can fall and hath not that Relief which all Temporal Miseries have when they come to Extremity that then they are soon over No this will last and increase to all Eternity The sad Remembrance of what we have endur'd and the Dreadful Prospect of what we are still to endure and that without Remedy shall unspeakably increase the Torment What wou'd not a Man do to escape this What can tempt us to run the Dreadful Hazard of it What is there in Sin thus to prevail with us Alas We are presently weary of sinful Enjoyments our selves Why should we provoke the fearful Wrath of God for them Why should we sell our Souls part with all the Joys of Heaven endure an Eternity of such Dreadful Torments as are in Hell for such empty vain momentary Pleasures such meer Dreams and Shadows of Delight such mixture of Pain with Pleasure Do not they deserve Hell whom Hell it self cannot wean from such Folly and Madness Let us be asham'd that we are so Stupid so insensible both of our Interest and Danger Would you not think him Mad that should follow a Butter-fly upon the Brink of a Precipice Let us open our Eyes and see our Danger Let the Terrors of God be upon us Let them make us quick