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A41543	A fair prospect shewing clearly the difference between things that are seen & things that are not seen, in a sermon preached at the funeral of the Honourable Lady Judith Barrington at Knebworth in Hertfordshire / by Tho. Goodwin ...	Goodwin, Thomas, d. 1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing G1270B; ESTC R40911	26,888	78

A FAIR PROSPECT Shewing clearly The difference between things that are Seen things that are not Seen IN A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL Of the HONOURABLE LADY JUDITH BARRINGTON At KNEBWORTH in HERTFORDSHIRE By THO. GOODWIN late Fellow of S. Johns College in Cambridge Now Minister of the Gospel at Southweal in Essex Unum mihi satis magnum citò moriendi pretium videtur Poni extra omne delinquendi periculum Grot. Epist. ad Gall LONDON Printed by A. Maxey for John Rothwell at the Fountain in Cheap-side 1658. To the Right Worshipful and Vertuous LADY The Lady JANE CROFTS And To the Worshipful GOBERT BARRINGTON Esq And Ms LVCY BARRINGTON His Pious Consort Much Honoured I Was by your intreaties invited to Preach this Sermon and by your Importunities have been drawn to this Publication of it whether this Apology will be sufficient for its coming abroad I know not t is all I have if not I must be content with what measure is meted to me The Providential occasion to which it relates was sad and grievous to many more then your selves That Honourable and Deare Relation of yours at whose Funeral it was Delivered and for whose sake I doubt not of some Acceptance it will find with many for all its own unworthinesse being one who for her singular vertues was Generally beloved and Honoured Her death cannot be lamented as Immature for she lived to a good old Age T is the Peculiar Priviledg of the Godly they cannot live too long nor dye too soone It was my observation of her that her declining age of Nature seemed to be Her improving age of Grace when her natural strength and Abilities began to run low and on Tilt as it were Her Spiritual affections seemed as if but fresh broached This is rare and so much the more excellent To see in natures Autumn a second spring of Grace O t is sad to observe the many declining Professours of these dayes many who had once a very good complexion in Religion how are they now tand by walking much abroad without the Covering of close Communion with God in his Ordinances The Lord make you wise herein and faithful to the eternal interests of your Soules by taking heed to your selves in these Perilous times that you steere a right course between the left hand of Profaness and Carnality and the Right hand of Schisme and Novelty Looke first with all Possible care to your foundation that it be well laid in Regeneration and heart-renovation then build upwards as high as you can in a holy life and heavenly Conversation Make Religion your Businesse and let the Exercises of it in Publick Private and Secret have the Preheminence of all your Employments Bestow the zeale of your Affections on the Great and weightier matters of Religion Faith and Godlinesse and let it not evaporate or waste it selfe on the mint and Cummin of Formes and opinions Looke on the world and things of it as this Sermon gives you a Prospect of them as being but for a while the Fashion of them Passing away Estates and Honours Nobility Gentry Lords and Ladies are things which shortly will be quite out of Fashion and Christ will be All in All Keep Eternity in your thoughts Christ in your hearts Heaven in your eyes the world under your Feet and in this posture march on dayly to life Eternal For your Helpe and furtherance i● these and all other christia● duties you may comman● the Assistance of His poo● Prayers and Endeavours wh● is Yours in all Christian observance THO. GOODWIN Brentwood October 24 1657. A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL Of the Honourable Lady JUDITH BARRINGTON 2 Cor. 4. ver. 18. While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are Temporal but the things which are not seen are Eternal SOlomon tells us Ecclesiastes 1. 2. To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the Sun A time to be born and a time to dye 'T is worth our observing that he sayes not a time to be born and a time to Live or a time to live and a time to dye But a time to be born and a time to dye Intimating thereby the duration of mans life to be so inconsiderable that it deserves not the Nam● or Title of time Orimur Morimur we are born and we forthwith dye we step as it were out of one Grave into another out of the Grave o● our Mothers wombe into the Grav● of the Earth our Common Mother again But however mans first motion from the wombe to the Grave be so short and swift yet his next from the Grave to Eternity is unmeasurabl● and incomprehensible Man goet● to his long home saith Solomon 12 Eccles. 5. the state of man after thi● life is called his Long home {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} So the Septuagint renders it to his house of Eternity house so long that the line of timeselfe is too short to measure it 〈◊〉 thought can imagine it no expression can declare it Semper minus dicitur quòd de aeterno dicitur aut cogitatur To this long home Death conveye● every man death being that door which lets man into his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} his house of Eternity A Christian should not look on this world as his dwelling place or home 't is but his Tabernacle or Inne we have here no certain dwelling place thy dwelling house must be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} an house Eternall no such is to be had in this visible world for the things which are seen are temporall but the things which are not seen are Eternall A great part of this Epistle is Apologeticall written for the vindication of Paul's Person Ministry and the Gospel it self which he preached The Gospel and profession of it lay under a very great prejudice in those dayes by reason of the Cross and persecution that did every where attend them Tanquam Evangelij Genius Christianus and Crucianus being almost all one especially this lot fell heaviest on the Apostles and Preachers of it scarce one of them for many years together died a Natural Death but were buried out of the world in some fierce storme of persecution ver. 11 we which live i. e. we Apostles an alway delivered unto death for Jesu● sake q. d. There is but a few of u● now left alive through the rage o● our persecutors and we which do live we bear about in our bodies the dying 〈◊〉 the Lord Jesus ver. 10. we are troubled on every side perplexed persecuted we doe Mortaliter vivere vitaliter mori 'T is scarce worthy to be called living Non est vivere sevalere vita yet all this notwithstanding we faint not v. 16. w● repent not of our engaging in the work of the Gospel why wha● was it supported and encourage● them see v. 17.

that are seen are but temporal be improved to the Comfort of Believers I 'l onely adde one use more which shall be of exhortation from the latter part of the Doctrine That the things which are not seen are Eternal There are Christians you hear things eternal and you to whom I am speaking of these things are all of you such as must live eternally amongst things Eternal The Continuances of your beings here among things seen may be different from each other some may be longer others shorter but in the world to come however in kind your beings may differ infinitely as farre as heaven and hell yet in duration they will all agree to be Eternal Many of us live as if they had never heard of things Eternal most as if they did not believe any such things and truly even the best of us do not improve as we ought the knowledg of things Eternal Now my exhortation to you all is that you would seriously Consider and meditare on those things Eternal I will direct my exhortation of you to three particulars for your Meditation 1. Meditate seriously on Eternity it selfe which is the Interminable Infinite endlesse duration of a being Eternity makes good things infinitely good and evil things infinitely evil The happiness of the Saints in heaven and the misery of the damned in hell have both of them a vast Circumference but the very Center of both is this one thing Eternity The Crowns of Glorified Saints and the Chains of tormented Sinners are both made so weighty by this inclining of Eternity The mind of man is a vessel too narrow indeed to form or contain a meditation which may bear any proportion to Eternity yet some Devout men have well improved their meditation to helpe to affect us with the thoughts of Eternity One discoursing of the Eternal sufferings of the damned in hell thus represents them if sayes he the whole world from the lowest bottome of the earth to the highest top of heaven were filled with small grains of sand as close as they could possibly lye together and every thousandth year an Angel should come and fetch away one of them untill the whole heap were spent if then the prison door of hell might be set open and the damned set at Liberty it would be jowful News to them yet those years although innumerable are nothing to Eternity Another thus if God should make this Motion to the damned that every thousandth year they should shed one single tear all which should be kept together untill they amounted to the quantity of a great Ocean and then with this sea of their tears he would quench the fire of hell and their torments should be at an end there would sayes he be great joy in hell at this merciful motion but the weight of Eternity in their sufferings presseth them down every day lower and lower with inconceivable unsupportable misery O Eternity My Brethren if you could make your thoughts but stick to it if you would every day task them to some solemn meditations of it if you would breath them every day by walking up this high hill Eternity and there be taking a prospect of things that are not seen you would find it exceeding healthful to your soules I would commend it to you as a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Physick to cure all soul-diseases and distempers If I were asked what were good to make a proud man humble Let him meditate seriously on Eternity what will make a vain man serious a covetous worldling heavenly minded a loose liver strict and precise a wicked man good and a good man better and better let them all daily seriously thinke on Eternity Your hearts it is likely will be very averse from the practise of this duty as a foul stom●ck nausea●es all Physick but you that tender the health of your soules en●orce it down let it be part of thy daily Spiritual dyet some warme draughts some serious thoughts of Eternity Many excellent advantages and benefits might be shewn you would follow from this duty This would make Jesus Christ sweet and precious indeed to you that have obtained him whether you look on Eternal good things or eternal evil things he being a Sun by which are communicated to you all eternal good things and a shield by which you are defended from all Eternal evil things And you that are yet out of Christ how anxious and industrious would this make you to obtain him In this life thou canst make a shift without Christ thou art well provided against the evils of this life and well furnisht with the good things of it Many friends thou hast who profess themselves thine till death but Christ can only make good to a Soul Thine eternally This would keep your hearts in awe of sinne for fear of after claps and after-reckonings in Eternity This would put you upon exact and circumspect walking This would make you like and chuse the wayes of holiness I have read of a Profane loose witty Gentleman being seriously asked what he thought of the severe strict life of Religious men and what of the voluptuous ungodly debauch'd courses of such as himself he answer'd Cum istis mallem vivere cum illis mallem mori I had rather live with these but I would be glad to dye with those said he as Balaam let me die the death of the righteous Serious frequent meditations of Eternal things would make you willing to live with them as well as to die with them to fast and pray and sowe in teares with them on earth as well as to feast and triumph and reap in joy with them in heaven This would make you less earthly and more heavenly minded this would make you chuse suffering before sinning the reproaches of Egypt before the pleasures and honours of Pharaohs court This would make Christs yoke easie because of Eternal pleasures and sins yoke heavy because of Eternal wrath this would make you fight the good fight of faith valiantly and hold out to the end without fainting in hopes to obtaine that incorruptible Crown of Eternal Glory Having meditated on Eternity in General let thy next step be to consider thy Eternal things in particular Having set before thy thoughts Eternal joyes and eternal torments eternal happiness and eternal misery a Heaven Eternal and an hel eternal O my soul which of these Eternals will be thine for temporals thou art well enough thy lot is fallen into a good ground thou art well situated well accommodated with Wealth Honours Houses Lands Friends Relations but these are thy temporals thy Moment anea What are thy Eternals this world is but thy Inne where must thy home be in Heaven or in hell I do but sojourn here where must I dwell and abide where will my Eternal mansion be who must be my Eternal Companions God and his Saints or the Devil and his Angels must I dwell with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob with the