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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66978	A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Jane Papillon late wife of the very worthy Thomas Papillon, Esq; first preached July 24. 1698. and now published at his request. By John Woodhouse.	Woodhouse, John, d. 1700.	1698 (1698)	Wing W3462; ESTC R220039	22,486	67

in this Text of great Importance to your Souls and mine O that I knew how to ●ffect your Hearts and mine with it ●hat we might know how to give it ●ts Influence upon your Hearts and Lives I say so because of the Great Solemnity with which these Words are introduced here is such an Apparatus as is verily very awful I do not know three Passages in all Scripture so Solemnly introduced I heard a Voice from Heaven whether the Voice of the Angel of God the Angel of the Covenant Or whether a Voice from God more immediately the Text hath not told us And we may safely be ignorant about it But it is A Voice from Heaven a Voice than cannot lye a Voice that cannot deceive us a Voice that should be heard and received with all suitble Reverence and Acceptation and who could have believed it unless well attested and this Voice bids him Write Write why is it worthy to be Written if it is a Voice from Heaven on such an Important Occasion as appears in the Context John might well write it down fro the Comfort of the Followers of Jesus that poor despised reproached persecuted Generation whom the World reckons not worthy to live And their God that knows them better than the World knows them and is not ashamed to be called their God he knows that the World is not worthy of them q. d. Souls bear up under all Discouragements tho' yours is a Distressed Heart-stooping Day here is a Word from Heaven a Cordial for Fainting Seasons and I 'll write it down for you that you may have it ready and may have Recourse to it in your needful Hours and that is Blessed are the Dead that dye in the Lord from henceforth c. The Words Logically considered contain First A Proposition Blessed are the Dead which dye in the Lord. Secondly A Limitation or Determination of the Time and Season of verifying it From henceforth Thirdly A Twofold Reason of the Truth of the Proposition First That they may rest from their Labours Secondly And their Works do follow them Which will be the Reasons of the ctrine and waving to speak to them now I may hope for room for some Application which is the thing I would aim at The Proposition in the Text then that I may for Brevity sake make it serve for the Doctrine is this Doct. Blessed are the Dead which dye in the Lord. I call it a Proposition and yet the accurate Logicians may quarrel at it because the Predicate is in the Place of the Subject But it is a Logical Proposition at least with very little Variation They that are dead and dye in the Lord are Blessed And so I must endeavor to explain the Subject and then the Predicate and though the Subject be last in the Text it is to be reckoned first in the Proposition and must therefore fall first under our Consideration First What are we to understand by The Dead that dye in the Lord There are two Senses that put in very fairly and both of them agreeable enough to the Original Some and Men of Value by Dying in the Lord do understand as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 much as Dying For the Cause and Sake of the Lord as Martyrs do that seal their Testimony with their Blood The Preposition which we render In after the manner of the Hebrews signifying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as much as For and I must not deny but this Preposition in other Places of Scripture is so render'd as in the Margin and elsewhere and the Proposition Mat. 6. 7. Eph. 3. 13. is true take it in this Sense That those that Dye For the Lord are Blessed and it may be in a Degree above other Men that Dye only in the Lord. But I may not exclude the other Sense of it by this tho' there are great Authorities to countenance me in it because I think it is beyond Dispute that when the Apostle uses an Equivalent Phrase Them that sleep in 1 Thes 4. 14. Jesus Sleeping is allow'd to be dying in Jesus For after this he assures us The dead in Christ shall rise first Verse 16. There is nothing in the Context that I can discover should limit us to this Sense therefore it must not I think be understood only of those that Dye for him that suffered a Violent Death for him as many of our Brethren have done and now do in the Christian World The Translation hath a plain and sound Sense different from that for though it may be admitted to signifie Dying for him yet it doth not exclude but take in their Dying in him that dyed not thus for him 1 John 4. 13. Eph. 3. 17. Dying interested in him United to him by the Spirit on his part and by Faith on ours And the Proposition is true of these and all these so that in the same Rom. 8. 1. Rom. 16. 7. Joh. 15. 4. Sense they are said to be in Christ to abide in him and walk in him they may be said to dye in him Let me add that Dying in the Lord thus explain'd doth suppose Two Things First Their Being in him by their Coming to him and Receiving of him which are but two different Scripture Joh. 1. 12. Mat. 11. 28. Expressions for their Believing in him Secondly It is Supposed to Dying in him they did Abide and Walk in him from the time of their Coming to him and Receiving of him be it a longer or shorter time And pray Sinners you that make light of Christ that prefer your other things before him or turn your Backs upon him to serve divers Lusts and Pleasures instead of him that abandon your selves to a Carnal Interest Know that you cannot in this Case dye in him or be blessed in so doing and therefore bethink your selves how it will be with you if Death lay its cold Hands upon you O Get into Christ Get a saving Interest in him give up your selves to him that Death may not find you out of him for Woe to you if you dye and not in Jesus Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord. Let us now briefly see what we are to understand by the Predicate Blessed And of this give me leave to speak something First of the Name and then of the Thing for Names are to lead us to Things and I would I could tell you more of it I am ashamed to think how little I can tell you of the Blessedness of those Souls that Live and Dye in Jesus That I may borrow some Light from the Old Testament let me tell you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the Hebrews have a Word Expressive of this beyond what our Language can fully reach it 's often Translated Blessed and this Word seems to be in that form which the Masters in Sacred Language call Forma Regiminis and may be turned from its concrete to an abstract Signification and therefore if I

Participation and Fruition of that which is called the Felicitating Good the best Good I did not say an adequate Good for that strictly taken does sometimes denote that which does but just correspond to the thing But O! the Happiness the Blessedness of the Soul that is interested in this God and this Christ There shall be more than he can receive more than enough for him a fulness for all the rest of the Heavenly Society Fourthly The last thing I shall mention as Consequent upon and perhaps Constitutive of this Blessedness is a full Contentation a Complacential Repose of Soul in the Delights which arise from all this to a Holy Soul My Friends when the Soul hath a View of God of his Holiness Purity and Goodness that doth enamour it that doth draw out and enlarge the Affections towards him when this Soul is grown up hereby unto a resemblance of God and perfected Participation of him can it choose but have Rest and Repose in him The School-men are puzzled for a Notion of this Rest this satisfying Repose as I understand it here they can get no higher than an Acquiescence or Resting of the Appetite in the appitible thing and such a pleasedness in its Portion that it will look no where else for another a better O my Friends the Blessedness of this state which our Lord is gone to prepare for us and which they are received into that dye in him hath all this and a great deal more than this that might be expressed and yet at last our highest Expressions nay our most refined Conceptions are at a loss in this Paul that was there was not able to utter what this Blessedness was which some translate not fit not lawful to be spoken and 2 Cor. 12. 4. others not possible to be spoken to us in our imperfect state it doth not appear yet what we shall be No not to inspired Men but we shall be like him resembling God and Christ in their imitable Perfections Wicked Men are so Foolish that though they walk after the Inclinations of their own Hearts they think they may go well enough to Heaven but it is far otherwise If these Men were not Fools to themselves they would think it so but it is otherwise Philosophically speaking since there is no proper suitableness between the Faculty and Object which can only yield Pleasure between God and Men and so there is no Capacity in them for this Blessedness Though I have spoken to the Name and Thing which we call Blessedness as it does cannote an Abolition of all Evil Natural and Moral and of that satisfying Repose or Felicity in its several Ingredients which either constitute or at least result from the Fruition of this Blessedness 2. Let us a little consider the Determination or Limitation of it the Word we translate From henceforth from the different Position of it in various Copies hath caused a considerable Variation in the Sence Those that make it the last Word of the first Clause with our own Translation Blessed are the Dead that dye in the Lord from henceforth would have them Blessed from the Time and Season of their Death Others that make it the first Word of the next Clause From henceforth that they may rest from their Labours and their Works follow them would have them blessed from the Sufferings they endured The Traceing this in all its Niceties is not to be entred upon before this Assembly and it would signifie little if I may bring it which way soever taken to much the same Sence The Word Henceforth may refer to the Calamities and Persecutions under which they were or it may relate to the Death of those that dye in the Lord and why not to both and if it were reckoned to the latter it will still I conceive come to the same thing That they may cease from their Labours and their Works do follow them from henceforth from the time of their Departure that are in Jesus not to exclude the other they are blessed in him Next that they are so blessed the Spirit of God hath given two Evidences which I left for Reasons of the Proposition they are blessed and cannot but be blessed when they dye in Jesus For First They Cease from their Labours The Translation seems perplext That they may rest from their Labours and their Works do follow them It looks not at first view very like a Reason But if we may take the Greek Particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Text which we Translate That they may for a Conjunction Causal as Grammarians and Lexographers allow us to do in other Cases and Translate it Because both Clauses run smooth as Reasons of the Doctrine They are blessed because they do or may rest and because their Works do follow them Man that is born of a Woman is of Job 14. 1. very short Continuance of few days and full of trouble They often have sighing sobbing Hearts grieved Souls this is a sighing sobbing troublesome World and they have it from within from rebelling Passions they feel it is Labour and Sorrow to grapple with these What from Afflictions and what from Sin it 's all Labour and Sorrow Now for a Man that is deeply afflicted by these Calamities whether of Sin or Afflictions it 's a comfortable thing for the weary to be at Rest Come Souls take Courage remember that though you walk with many a sorrowful Heart after your Lord groaning under an Evil Nature of your own and the Evil Influence it hath upon you your Devotions to God and Conversation with Men yet you shall be blessed when you dye in the Lord all this shall be done away at once Secondly Their Works do follow Acts 10. 4. them Indeed they go also Before them but I say their Works do follow them not barely to be their Continued Imployment there though that may be true the Change of their Place will make but a Gradual Change of the most Noble Part of their Imployment here they shall Love and Praise God there as they did here but at a more Easie Elevated Rate They must needs be blessed upon that account the Nature of this Blessedness as far as we can pry into it tells you that they cannot but be happy Men that see that love and enjoy God and rise to such a satisfaction of Mind therein that they want no more than what they have they drink of such Rivers of Pleasure that they are satisfied with them There is somewhat Emphatical in the Text Their Works do follow them their Works shall follow with them as the Original is more strictly rendred A Metaphor taken from People that are crouding in at some Narrow Passage they that are coming after press and croud in with them there is a kind of Struggle among them O the Works of Humanity Charity and Piety which they have exercised themselves in shall follow them they shall croud in with them Neither bring I it so