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A91899	Safe conduct, or The saints guidance to glory. Opened in a sermon preached at Dunstans in the East London. November the second, MDCLIV. At the funerall of the vertuous and religious gentlewoman, Mris. Thomasin Barnardiston, late wife of Mr. Samuel Barnardiston, merchant. / By Ralph Robinson, pastor of Mary Wolnoth, Lumbardstreet, London.	Robinson, Ralph, 1614-1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing R1711; Thomason E823_7; ESTC R203376	61,656	101

Heaven do him service with all the gladnesse of their hearts and cheerfull service is the best service Lift up therefore the hands which hang down and revive the Spirits that are overwhelmed Powre out no more tears for your deceased friends who are removed from a sea of trouble to a haven of rest where they are gloryfied with God and where they do actually glorify God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost in the highest perfection Comfort your selves and comfort one another with these words Having finished the Scripture Text I shall say something to the providentiall Text. The sad providence which hath occasioned this mournfull meeting preacheth many spirituall lessons to us all First God hath by death carried a young gentlewoman out of the world Strength and Beauty Youth and flourishing daies cannot priviledge any from the Grave This providence repeats in our ears that serious Counsell of the wiseman Remember thy Creator i● the daies of thy Youth Eccle. 12. 1. If wee look into the Tombs wee shall find many cloysted up there whose bones were moystned with marrow and whose breasts were full of Milk The beauty of Rachel will not keep her from the dust The strength of Sampson will not preserve him from death The budding Flower falls to the earth as well as that which is withered The green Ear of Corn is nipt off as well as that which is ripe for the Sickle You that have your veins full of bloud must come to Golgotha as well as those whose Natural moysture decrepid Old Age hath dried up Secondly God hath removed a Gentlewoman of good rank and quality as to outward things It is not natural Parentage or Wealth that can put Death out of Commission Riches avail not in the day of death VVealthy Abraham is gone to the place of rottenness as well as Lazarus the Begger If a man would give a Coffin full of Gold to ransome himself from the Grave it would not be accepted There is neither Redemption nor Exchange of Prisoners in this VVar The rich mans Wealth is his strong City Prov. 10. 15. Death will storm this City and carry a way the Owner notwithstanding all his riches Neither the Guards of Princes nor the Revenues of their Crowns can keep off Death for one moment Death can enter the Kings Court as easily as the Beggars Cottage When God sends Death to attatch a Mortal Creature it esteems not Riches no not Gold nor all the forces of strength Thirdly God hath taken away a religious Gentlewoman Holiness and Piety do not deliver any from the Grave The first of Mortals that dyed was a righteous man The bloud of the righteous Abel Righteousness preserves from eternal Death not from the Temporal Grace in the Saints never dyes but the Saints dye notwithstanding all their graces Beleevers must be wrapt in the Winding-sheet as well as unbeleevers The godly must lye under the Hears-cloth as well as the wicked Abraham is dead and the Prophets are dead There is cause of mourning over dead Saints no cause of wondring Saints never live till they dye then they live for ever These are general Meditations More particularly In reference to this Gentlewoman I shall speak somewhat concerning her Life and something concerning her Death and that not so much for her sake as the benefit of others Concerning her Life these things are remarkable God vouchsafed her the blessing of godly and The Worshipful Joseph Brand Esq and Mrs. Thomasin Brand his religious Consort religious education Her worthy Parents were studious not only to provide wealth for her but their greatest care was that Christ might be formed in her And this did much redound to their comfort for she was as both of them have often expressed a dutiful and obedient Childe The care of Parents for the religious Education of their Children doth ordinarily return to a good account in this life When Parents teach Children to obey him that is the Father of Spirits God usually bows their hearts to be dutiful to their earthly Parents Shee was a respective and loving Wife to her Husband which made her deservedly accounted by him The desire of his eyes Shee was a helpe meet for him a suitable Yoke-fellow who walked with him hand in hand in the ways of God The contentment he had in the enjoyment of such a Companion doth much increase the sorrow of his heart for the loss of her Shee was of an humble and meek spirit The enjoyment of the things of this Life did not swell her heart Those that were acquainted with her can truly give this testimony of her That shee did not inordinately minde high things but could condescend to them of low estate A full Purse and an humble Heart do not always meet together Shee was no follower of the vain fashions of the VVorld Her Apparrel was decent and modest not gairish The Apostle gives this advice to VVomen To adorn themselves in modest apparrel with shamefastness and sobriety as becometh women professing godliness 1 Tim. 2. 9 10. This Gentlewoman did dress her self in this Scripture-glass Spotted faces and naked breasts are Arguments of light spirits and unmortified hearts God was pleased by his Grace to preserve this Gentlewoman in a wanton Age from these vanities Shee did labour to keep fast the faith that was once delivered to the Saints Though shee was but young having not fully compleated the twentieth year of her age yet was shee not one of those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle speaks silly Women that are drawn away by the cunning craftiness of those that creep into Houses and lead many captive Shee was a lover of all the Ordinances of God and a frequenter of that instituted Ministry which God hath given testimony unto by the conversion of many souls God kept her by his Grace that shee did not tread upon the threshold of those infectious places where Errours and Blasphemies are usually broached Concerning her death I have not much to speak A good Life cannot but end in a blessed Death Her Sickness was not very long but it was very sharp Many tormenting pains were in her head which could not be removed till the last medicine of Death took them away In her Sickness shee was very frequent in Prayer for her self and did importunately desire help from the prayers of others I was daily praying with her by her own desire for divers days together and sometimes twice a day which gave me more opportunity to be acquainted with her estate Shee was for some time fearful of Death as not having that full Assurance shee longed for but at last God gave her the victory over those fears About two or three days before the Soul took its leave of the Body God was graciously pleased to give her in plenty of comfort Her sorrowful Husband and Parents coming into the Chamber shee brake forth into these expressions or to this effect Now hath God abundantly manifested his love to my Soul in Jesus Christ you are not able to conceive the joy I feel nor am I able to express it I am now sure that Jesus Christ is mine I know that my sins are forgiven me for his sake I am now both willing and desirous to dye that I may be with Christ This consolation cannot but be judged to be from the blessed Spirit of God because it was the fruit of Prayer and because it was given in after deep humblings and Spiritual Conflicts as also because it was followed with many self-abhorrings which are the genuine effects of Gospel-comfort VVhen shee mentioned these comforts shee did usually adde some such expression as this I am a very unworthy Creature but I hope I am not deceived One very considerable passage I cannot but acquaint you with Some days before her death her gracious Mother seeing the means used for her recovery to be in-effectual retired her self into her closet to pray for her Amongst other Petitions she was very importunate that God would give her pardon and peace Soon after returning into the room where shee lay shee found those very words in her mouth Pardon and Peace God hath sealed up to my Soul pardon and peace through Jesus Christ This was a very signal testimony that God had answered her request Thus she continued sometimes bewayling her sins with much sorrow sometimes sending up holy ejaculations to God as she was able That God would never fail her nor forsake her sometimes expressing her confidence of the love of God in such words as these I have the whole Armour of God upon me God hath given me the shield of faith the breast-plate of Righteousness the helmet of Salvation I have now overcome the fiery darts of Satan I do not in the least fear him or death Amongst other Petitions shee had frequently this in her mouth Guide mee Lord by thy counsel until thou bring me to glory That which now remains is To intreat all of us that are here present to resolve and endeavour to be guided both in matters of faith and obedience by the powerful counsel of Gods blessed VVord and Spirit that when our eyes are closed up by death we may be received in eternal glory FINIS

If the Cloud did not move for many daies together they abode in their Tents and if the Cloud moved at mid-night they moved after it whether it was by day or by night that the Cloud was taken up they journeyed This story sets a holy pattern before all true Israelites As Israel did follow that Pillar so should wee follow our Pillar Israel followed the guidance of the Pillar universally which way soever it moved 1 Universally they marched after it Beleevers must eye the Counsell of God in one thing as well as another It is said of Caleb that hee wholly followed the Lord. Hee that Deut. 1. 36. doth not obey universally doth not obey wholly He that doth not regard the divine Counsell in every thing doth not truely regard it in any thing David expresseth the integrity of his heart by this that hee hated every false way One by-path will hinder the Travellor Psa 1●9 104. from attaining to the end of his journey as well as an hundred by-paths Walking in one sinfull way will shut the Soul out of heaven as well as if it imbraced every sinfull way Again Israel followed the Pillar constantly not only for a day or a month but all the time they were 2 Constantly in the Wilderness Beleevers must submit to the guidance of Gods Counsel constantly David resolves upon this I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes Psa 119. 112. alway even unto the end If a Travellour do not follow his Guide to the end of his Journey hee may lose himself at the last A Beleever shall finde as much need of Gods Counsel the last day of his travel as he did the first day of his setting out The greatest Conflicts are many times at the hour of death Many Ships have miscarried in the Harbour for want of care The nearer any person thinks himself to Heaven the sadder will it be to him to be shut out of Heaven Let me but propound two or three Arguments Motives to follow Gods counsel to perswade you to follow this Counsel of God and I shall shut up this point Consider First The infallibility of Gods Counsel God never did God never will misguide any poor Soul that 1 God cannot misleade follows his counsel Men are either Deceivers or apt to be deceived but God cannot be deceived nor will he deceive any Infallibility is tyed to Gods Throne but to no other in the world It is impossible the Ship should be cast away when God sits at the Helm Could we speak with all those Passengers that are now landed in Heaven they would bid us shut our eyes and follow God without the least doubting How confident is the Prophet of his safety upon this account I have set the Lord always before me because he Psal 16. 8. is at my right hand I shall not be moved He that follows Gods counsel may be assaulted but he shall not bee moved We read of the Devils standing at the right hand of Joshua Zech. 3. 1. He is a shaking the people of God by his temptations but he cannot move them A Beleever needs not fear how many Devils stand before him so long as God stands at his right hand Jacob might perhaps think himself missed when hee heard of Esau's coming to meet him but God gave Gen. 32. 90. him cause to acknowledge that that was the best way for his safety Secondly If wee do not follow the guidance of 2 He that will not have God for his guide shall be given up to his own guidance Gods Counsel he will give us up to follow our own counsels There is not a greater judgement in this World than for a man to be left to his own guidance He that is a Self-counsellor will be a Self-murtherer When a man is delivered up to walk in the wayes of his own heart and in the sight of his own eyes hee will never stop till he come to ruine When the Pilot and Mariners forsake the Ship and let her drive she doth soon dash her self against Rocks or fall into the quick-sand A mans own counsel will deal by him as Absoloms Mule did by him it will carry him to the place of danger and there leave him Now one punishment which God inflicts on those that will not wait for his counsel is to surrender them to the conduct of their own counsel The Prophet observes this in Gods dealing with Israel My people would not Psal 81. 11 12 hearken to my voyce and Israel would none of me so I gave them up to their own hearts lust and they walked in their own counsels He that will not have God to bee his guide shall have Lust to be his guide and it is Nihil magis timendum quàm ita emaucipari homines à Deo ut laescivic●tes in suis cousiliis à Satanatrahantur Calv. easie to conclude where he will take up his Inne that is guided by his Lust It is the most dreadful thing in the World saith Calvin for God to punish men with this liberty as that they should be left to their own devices God threatens the Jews that a Leopard shall watch over their Cities Jer. 5. 6. It is ill living in those Cities where Leopards keep the Keys When God gives a man up to his own counsels he doth make a Leopard his watch-man When God delivered up those Gentiles to their own imaginations into what excess of wickedness did they run They were filled with Rom. 1. 29 30 31. all unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envie murther debate c. These are the best fruits that can be expected when God leaves a man to himself Thirdly If we will not follow Gods guidance wee 3 Else God will not provide for us shall not enjoy Gods provision God is compared to a good Shepherd who doth both lead and feed his sheep if he may not be permitted to bee a guiding Psal 23. 1 2. Shepherd he will not bee a feeding Shepherd Hee that will not be led by Gods Hand cannot expect to be fed out of Gods Basket The Spirit of God is called both a Comforter and a Guide He that will not follow the guidance of the Spirit shall never reap the comforts of the Spirit The Word of God is profitable both for Consolation and direction He that will not submit to the directing VVord shall never enjoy the comforting Word God will not suckle you at his breasts if you will not bee guided by his hand A Servant can have no confidence to come to his Masters house for meat and lodging that will not be advised by him in doing his work He that will not walk according to the conduct of Gods eye shall have no share in the bounty of his hand Let what hath been said perswade you to a ready constant universal submission to the guidance of God Thirdly Labour to be so qualified that you

Apostle expresseth 2 Cor. 5. 4. the Saints investiture with glory by the Metaphor of putting on a garment not that wee would bee unclothed but clothed upon when God shall fully glorify his saints there shall be no part of the body no power of the Soul unglorified If I should fall upon a discourse of the particular happinesses which the glorified Souls and bodies of Saints shall enjoy in heaven I should tire out your patience Let it ●uffice to say this that whatsoever makes for the perfection of both shall be fully possessed by both The Schoolmen speak much of the Stole of the Soul and the Stole of the body the Saints shall have those robes put upon them and shall not want any one Pearl or Spangle that belongs to the perfection of either The state of glory is described by our comming unto a perfect man Eph. 4. 13. The Saints here are in their Nonage the highest Beleever is but a stripling at best but when we come to heaven then wee are perfect men The first moment the Soul peeps into glory it shall have all graces in perfection Could wee speak with those blessed souls that are now in heaven they would tell us they desire nothing but the company of those earthly Tabernacles in which they dwelled while they were in this World and to these they shall be re-united at the Resurrection Secondly The glory which the Saints shall possess 2 It is a pure glory is a pure glory There is not the least mixture of any thing that is unglorious or dishonourable if it were not pure it would not be perfect There are but two things that can stain the glory of the Saints Sin and Sorrow and both these shall be for ever abolished The Saints in glory shall bee as free from Sin as the Sun is from darkness No defilement shall enter into Heaven The Soul when it leaves the Body is perfectly healed of all kinde of sinful distempers and the Body when it comes out of the Fining-pot of the grave shall not have so much as the smell of sin upon it Sin brought Death into the VVorld and Death carries out Sin The Dominion of sin is removed from the Saints in this Life but then shall the very Being of sin be removed Unbelief pride of heart the Body of Death which Beleevers complain against with so much sadness in this world shall never trouble them more for ever Here the Spirit lusteth against the flesh Gal. 5. 17. and the flesh lusteth against the Spirit but in Heaven there shall be no such sinful Lusts to warre against the Soul There shall be no concupiscence in the Members Non erit concupiscentia in membris non exurget rebellio carnis c. Cyprian no rebellion of the Flesh no crookedness in the VVill no disorder in the Affections Nature shall then be every way intire and perfect The Church shall at the Day of Judgement be presented without spot or wrinckle or any such thing Here the Saints are black and comly here they are ring-straked spotted and speckled as Jacobs Cattel were here they are partly Spiritual and partly Carnal but in Heaven they shall be wholly Spiritual Nothing like sin shall appear on the glorified Bodies and Souls of Saints to all eternity All Natural weaknesses shall be done away much more all sinful weaknesses As Sin shall be abolished so shall Sorrow All sorrow is the fruit of sin and when the Mother is dead no more Off-spring can be expected It was told St. John That those Saints which he saw arrayed in white Robes were come out of great tribulation When Rev. 7. 14 man is born he comes into tribulation but a Saint when he dyes goes out of tribulation The Dead which dye in the Lord are said to rest from their labours Rev. 14. 13 In Heaven the Children of God shall enjoy perfect freedom from whatsoever is troublesom Grief Fear Temptation pain of Body anguish of Minde shall be heard of no more for ever There is no groaning no crying no death no vexation no sickness to be heard of in the streets of that City where the Saints inhabit The body shall be raised a powerful body an immortal an incorruptible body The very roots of all distempers shall be pluckt up out of the body and therefore the distempers themselves shall cease And for outward violence that hath no place neither there are no oppressors in Heaven no injurious persons no bloudy Task-masters to impose burdens or inflict stripes When a Saint is past Death he is past the fear of all misery When the body is wrapt up in the Winding-sheet it is past all tribulation Thirdly It is a satisfactory glory It is such a glory 3 It is a satisfying glory as doth give full contentment to the heart that possesseth it If it did not satisfie it would not be perfect The Prophet David speaking of the happy state of Heaven saith I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy Psal 17. 15 likeness Though there are several degrees of Glory in Omnibus una salus Sanctis sed gloria dispar Heaven as is more than probably gathered by Divines from Scripture yet all grant That he that enjoys the lowest degree is fully satisfied with what hee enjoys he is not capable of desiring any one degree of glory above what he possesseth God himself is the Objective happiness of the Saints and he that enjoys God must of necessity be satisfied with the enjoyment of him The glory of this World doth not content the heart Ambitious Haman thought all he had nothing Hest 5. 13 because he wanted something hee would have had The want of Mordecays knee at the Kings gate made him forget the sweetness of the Queens Banquet The Royal feast did not satisfie because Mordecai the Jew was not Servitor at the Table The Queens Wine was not sweet to his taste because Mordecai was not Cup-bearer The heart of man is too bigge to be filled either with worldly riches or worldly honour But the blessed Saints in glory are every way satisfied The Soul is so filled with the glory of God that there is no room to contain another ray Fourthly It is an everlasting glory it is a glory without abatement and without end The Apostle 4 It is an eternal glory calls it an eternal weight of glory All the glory of this World is of a fading nature it is a withering flower 2 Cor. 4. 17 and no better Hamans fall was as sudden as his rise The same person is cried up and decried in one day by the breath of the people The Thrones of glory which are on earth are often leveld with the ground Kings lose their Crowns and Scepters many times by violence if they keep them till death yet then do they and their pomp descend together into the Grave The Sun of earthly glory hath its setting as well as rising But the glory

have all his Sons with him in his own Kingdom The glorious bosome of Abraham is ordained for the Sons of God and the Sons of God are ordained for it Heaven is entayled upon the Sons and Daughters of God and this Entayl can never be cut off This is sufficient to prove that which was asserted namely That those that are guided by the Counsel of God shall be received into glory Thirdly When shall the Saints enter into the actuall 3 When this glory is to be possessed possession of this glory For the resolving of this question I shall briefly lay down two Propositions which contain the whole state of the matter First The Souls of Gods Elect do immediatly upon 1 The Soul enters upon it at death their departure out of the body posses this happiness There were some of old in the Church who thought that the Souls of men did sleep with their Bodies and that they did not either enjoy happiness or suffer torment till the Resurrection Reverend Calv. Tractat. Theol. par 2. Calvin hath a learned Treatise which he calls Psychopannychia wherein he doth confute this absurd Opinion which it seems had infected many in those times the very mentioning of it is a sufficient Confutation Those that know any thing of Scripture or of the Spiritual Nature of the reasonable Soul of Man cannot but understand the vanity of this opinion If I could swallow down such a gross Opinion as that of Soul-sleeping is I should imagine those mens Souls were in a dead sleep who did first broach this Doctrin The Soul of Man is a Spirit and Spirits do neither eate nor sleep as Bodies do The reasonable Soul is a substance distinct from the Body and therefore doth not dye or sleep with the Body Our Saviour speaks of men that can kill the Body but hee tells his Disciples they could not kill the Soul If Mat. 10. 28 the Soul did sleep with the Body those that did kill the one would kill the other also The Apostle Paul Phil. 1. 23 desires to be dissolved and to be with Christ His Body was not presently to be with Christ He did beleeve that that should lodge in the dust for a time but his Soul he knew should ascend to Heaven when the Body did descend to the Grave Jesus Christ tells that Luk. 23. 43 penitent Thief that he should be with him that very day in Paradice The Body of our blessed Saviour went to the Grave and so also did the body of the Thief but both their Souls ascended immediatly to Heaven The Preacher speaking of the dissolution of Man by death tells us That the dust shall return to the Eccles 12. 7 earth as it was and the Spirit shall return to God that gave it The Soul of Lazarus was taken into Heaven as soon as it was breathed out of the sheath of the body When the bodies of the Saints retire to the House of Sleepers as the Grave is called their Souls are immediately transported to Heaven the Land of the Living Secondly Both Soul and Body shall enjoy all this 2 The whole man shall enjoy it at the Day of Judgement glory at the Day of Judgement The Scripture speaks of a general Resurrection both of the just and unjust As there is an Autumn or Leaf-fall of Death so there will be a Spring-time of Resurrection Those two old Friends the Soul and Body which have been separated by death shall then meet again and then they shall partake together of the same condition The Saints compleat glory is adjourned to that day but then it shall be fully enjoyed When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall yee also appear with Col. 3. 4 him in glory In that day shall all Saints bee glorified together and every Saint wholly glorified The Apostle Paul tels us that Christs appearing to Judge the World is the day of the Elects general Coronation 2 Tim. 4. 8. The Crown is laid up amongst the other Regalia but at that day the Diadem shall be actually set upon the head of the Beleever and after that shall he wear it without weariness or fear of losing it to all eternity Having thus opened the Doctrin I come to the The Application Application which I shall dispatch in a few particulars First It strengthens our faith in that Article of 1 That there is an eternal life eternal life Though Atheists and Epicures scoff and deride the Doctrin of everlasting Life yet let the Saints of God beleeve it If in this life only we had 1 Cor. 15. 19. hope in Christ we were of all men most miserable but blessed be God there is another and a better being than can be expected in this World Every stripe inflicted upon the backs of Gods Saints every mournful tear that distilleth from their eyes every pensive thought arising in their hearts every temptation assaulting them every hours defection every moments hiding of Gods face in this life are to them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle speaks manifest tokens of a 2 Thes 1. 5. righteous Judgement to come and of a state of happiness to be possessed The present condition of the Saints should not be so afflicting if there were not an Afterward of everlasting blessedness to be enjoyed God would not suffer his holy ones to eate so many sowre Breakfasts on Earth if he had not prepared for them such a sweet Supper in Heaven Secondly It shews us that a holy life is of absolute 2 That holiness is necessary for the attaining of happiness necessity unto salvation There is no admittance unto glory but to those who are guided by the Counsel of Gods VVord and Spirit Mans holiness is not the Meritorious cause of salvation but it is the way which leads to salvation The way of holiness is that which brings the Soul to communion with the God of holiness No person shall have one foots breadth in Gods Tabernacle but he that is of cleanhands and a pure heart Psal 15. 1 2. There is no coming to the Non est via ad regnam sine primitiis regni c. Bern. Kingdom without the first fruits of the Kingdom No man shall reign with Christ in Heaven but hee that first reigns as a King over his own corruptions Sinners would be as weary of Heaven should they bee taken thither unrenewed as Saints would be of Hell Men do but deceive themselves who think to pass immediately from a state of Corruption into a state of Glory There is neither work nor company in Heaven fit for wicked men Without holiness no man Heb. 12. 14. shall see the Lord. He shall never sit down with Christ at Gods right hand of glory who hath not been guided by the right hand of his grace Thirdly Let the Saints meditate much on this 3 Medt●te on this glory Coelestial glory God hath revealed to the Elect this