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A59653 A sermon at the funeral of Mr. Christopher Glascock, the late eminent school-master of Felsted in Essex preached there Jan. 22, 1689/90, by William Shelton ... Shelton, William, d. 1699. 1690 (1690) Wing S3100; ESTC R38233 17,524 37

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A SERMON AT THE FUNERAL OF Mr. CHRISTOPHER GLASCOCK The late Eminent School-master Of Felsted in Essex Preached there Jan. 22. 1689 90. By WILLIAM SHELTON Rector of St. James in Colchester LONDON Printed for N. Renew at the King's Arms and I. Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Pauls Church-yard MDCXC To the Right honble DANIEL Earl of NOTTINGHAM Lord Finch of Daventry Principal Secretary of State and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council MY LORD THAT good Man whose Memory these Papers endeavour to preserve was so well known and so much in your Lordship's Favour that were not the Character they give him so disproportionate to his Merit I should not doubt of a candid acceptance of them Perhaps it was one Instance of his Modesty in his valnation of himself that he would design me to this Service who he knew would rather under-rate than flatter him I humbly present what I have done to you Lordship's Patronage who finding leisure amidst those Public Cares whereby you serve their Majesties and oblige our Church and Nation to consult the future flourishing Condition of that long famous School by taking care for a fit Successor that may deliver Posterity from suffering loss by the death of Mr. Glascock will also vouchsafe to be a Patron as of the Concerns of the succeeding so of the Concerns of the succeeding so also of the Name and Memory of the dead Schoolmaster And for his sake will pardon this presumptious Address of his Friend May it please your Lordship Colchester April 4. 1690. Your Lordship 's most Humble and most Obedient Servant WILLIAM SHELTON A SERMON At the FUNERAL of Mr. CHRISTOPHER GLASCOCK 1 THESS iv 17. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. WHEN Friends take leave of each other their parting is more or less solemn as they apprehend the length of Time before they shall meet and embrace again Therefore is the separation which Death makes between Friends of greater consideration because there will be no return of those that are departed and gone before us We shall to them but they 2 Sam. 12. 23. shall not return to us Yet even this parting is not altogether hopeless and they who think so do not well understand the Doctrine of the Christian Religion Such there were amongst the Thessalonians Men not sufficiently instructed in the Doctrine of the Resurrection To whom therefore St. Paul applies himself in the 13th verse of this Chapter But I would not have you to be ignorant Brethren concerning them which are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope It seems there were some in that Chruch not well informed about the State of the Dead and what was to follow after Death Therefore in the next Verses he establishes the Doctrine of the Resurrection Ver. 14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him Ver. 15. For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep Ver. 16. For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a Shout with the Voice of the Archangel and with the Trump of God and the Dead in Christ shall rise first The World will last to a certain period of Time and then the End of all things will be at Hand when all the Negotiations and Correspondencies of this Life shall cease The Son of Man will come from Heaven in Power and great Glory when they who shall be then alive shall be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an 1. Cor. 15. 52. Eye They shall not go so leisurely through a long stage of Death as they whose Bodies are committed to the Grave and resolved into their first Dust but they shall be as effectually changed from a mortal and corruptible State as they who after a long corruption are raised out of the Grave Yet shall they not prevent or get the start of them who have been long dead For then shall the Trump of God sound then shall the Voice of the Archangel alarm and put Life and Motion into dry bones and summon together all that have been dead from the beginning of the World and all that shall be then found alive to attend the Lord Jesus who shall come to judg the Quick and the Dead And when all are together caught up in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Air as the beginning of this Verse speaks then shall every Man be judged according to his Works They who have done Evil shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the Presence of the 2 Thess 1. 9. Lord and from the Glory of his Power And when workers of iniquity are so commanded to Luke 13. 27. depart from him then they who have done good shall have the Reward of their Labours in his presence where there is fullness of Joy And this is the account given of their Happiness and Glory in these words And so shall we ever be with the Lord. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I do not love nor use to be nice or curious in making particular Observations from particular Words But because according to the number of the Greek words four things are here plainly either supposed or expressed I determine my self to that number We shall be We shall ever be We shall ever be with the Lord. And with relation to the former words of the Verse We shall so ever be with the Lord. So that these Four Heads of Discourse shall comprehend what I have to say to these words 1. It is here manifestly supposed There is a future State We shall be after death 2. The duration of this State is Eternal We shall ever be 3. The state in which we shall thus for ever continue is described so far as concerns holy Men by being with the Lord and elsewhere by being present with the Lord. 4. This shall be after the Quick and Dead are united in one Body to meet our Lord Jesus at his second coming so as we then meet so shall we ever be with the Lord. First We do not perish when we die We remain in being when the Union of Soul and Body is dissolved the Soul remains and the Body shall in due time be reunited We die that we may live again There is a Future State a Being and a Life after Death Though it be no sufficient excuse for Ignorance yet it may suggest this pious Meditation to us to bewail the wanton abuse of Knowledg or the means of Knowledg if we consider that in this Age of Light and Improvement there are Men who to outward appearance seem to profess Atheism with greater and more avowed confidence than other Men dared to do in former Ages of Ignorance and Superstition There was one or two suspected of old among the Athenians but they were scorned and reproached as unworthy