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A59748 A sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. William Ladson, Junior, at Tichmarsh in the county of Northampton by William Sheppard ... Sheppard, William, d. 1675? 1694 (1694) Wing S3220; ESTC R9656 20,694 29

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be every moment liable to Damnation and no trouble about it this is sad And Thirdly This is worse still thou art liable to Eternal Death Rom. 6. 23. The wages of Sin is Death But what Death The second Death But what is this second Death you may see it Rev. 20. 14. The second Death is the Lake of Fire Is it not a dreadful thing to lie in a Lake of Fire Mat. 25. 41. It is Everlasting Fire with the Devil and damned ones Is not this a miserable Condition indeed And as sure as God is true this is thy Case who readest these Lines out of Christ And dost thou not see it to be thy great Concernment to get a Christ while he is to be had Reas 2. Because Jesus is the only Remedy out of this miserable and wretched State 1. Jesus Christ is the Remedy 1. God the Father did purpose from Eternity to save Sinners by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 19 20. Therefore Jesus Christ is a Remedy for he was ordained from Eternity to redeem with his precious Blood Rev. 13. 8. 2 There was a voluntary Compact and Agreement between God the Father and Christ God the Father was willing to give Christ to be the ransom of the Elect and Christ the Son of God presented himself most willing to procure that Salvation for them the Father promised him a spiritual Kingdom and Seed upon his dying for them and the Son came up to this and said Lo I come I delight to do thy Will Psalm 40. 7 8. 3. Christ was promised unto Adam Gen. 3. 15. 4. The Legal Sacrifices and Offerings did typifie Jesus Christ offering himself shedding his Blood to take away Sin and make Peace as is shewed in the Hebrews 5. Jesus Christ did actually come and present himself unto the World to be a Redeemer Gal. 4. 4 5. 6. Jesus did really execute the Office of a Mediatour did fulfil all Righteousness give himself a Ransom and by his Blood reconcile and make Peace Col. 1. 19 20 21 22. 2. As Jesus Christ is the Remedy so Jesus Christ is the only Remedy 1 Tim. 2. 5. There is one God and one Mediatour between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus Acts 4. 12. Neither is there Salvation in any other Christ only was appointed of God the Father Isa 61. 1. Christ only was sent and sealed John 6. 27. On Christ was laid our Iniquities Isa 53. 6. Christ only was qualified for the Office of a Mediatour and Redeemer Three things must be in him who doth this Office which are only to be found in Christ 1. First He must not be of the number of those who are to be redeemed Therefore no simple Man can be a Redeemer 2. Secondly He must be of the Nature of those who are to be redeemed He must be of the same Seed with them and therefore no Angel can redeem Heb. 2. 16. 3. Thirdly He must be more than a meer Creature for a meer Creature cannot satisfie nor can his Righteousness be imputed to another and he must be able to overcome Sin and Death and raise himself which no Creature can do therefore neither Men nor Angels can be Redeemers none but Jesus Christ Thus Reader thou seest the second Reason why thou art greatly concerned to get a Christ because he is the only Remedy out of thy miserable State Reas 3. It is our great Concernment to get a Christ while he is to be had because there will be a time when he will not be had Therefore the Text saith Seek him while he may be found implying that there will be a time when he will not be found 1. It will be that time will be at an end Then there can be no seeking therefore there can be no finding The Apostle Paul saith 1 Cor. 7. 29 30 31. The Time is short which implies it will have an end therefore saith he use the World as if you used it not seek the things of another World get a Christ before this short time is ended There was a miserable Instance I knew one that on the Death-bed cried out most hideously Call Time again Call Time again But there is no calling Time again when once it is gone O therefore lay about you to get a Christ while he is to be had 2 Cor. 6. 2. The Apostle saith Now he doth not say To Morrow hereafter But now is the accepted Time now is the Day of Salvation Therefore look out for a Christ now This is the Voice of dying ones look for a Christ now get a Christ before time is gone This was the Voice of this Young Man Deceased therefore desired that this Text might be preached on at his Funeral that Young Ones especially might be called upon and warned to seek a Christ while he is to be found He lamented the breach of Promises with God this is the common Case of Young Ones to be making good Resolutions to seek God turn to God get into Christ and afterwards to fall off from them The Lord was pleased to make this Young Man sensible of it and we hope effectually brought him to Christ and gave him Repentance and Pardon and some comfortable Evidences of it as appeared by his chearful yielding and resigning himself up to the Lord in the last Agony of Death with these Words That He would now throw himself into a full Fountain and immediately he gave up the Ghost 2. Life will be at an end Jam. 4. 14. Your Life is but as a vapour which is but for a little time and then vanisheth away Therefore get a Christ now speedily before this vapour of Life vanish away Great Tamberlain was carried away with a Fit of an Ague while he was in expectation of the Conquest of the Othoman Family and Greek Empire Therefore take heed lest while you are pursuing great things here Life doth end before you have got a Christ This is the call of dying ones Life is going O get a Christ before Life is ended John 9. 4. O get a Christ while Life lasteth the night of Death cometh when no Man can Work There is no working in the Grave Eccles 9. 10. Therefore what you find to do do with your might And Christ tells you Joh. 6. 29. This is the Work of God that ye believe in him whom he hath sent Art thou a young One that readest these Lines God calls upon thee to work with thy might to get a Christ because the night of Death is coming when thou canst not Work 3. Opportunity will be at an end Opportunity may be shorter than Life We read of some that in the time of their Life the things of their Peace were hid from their Eyes Luke 19. 42. Christ weeps over them This is a doleful Case Reader take heed it be not thy Case Now Christ offers himself to thee take heed thou dost not by thy refusals cause Christ to hide himself from thee before thy Life be ended It is said
A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL OF Mr. William Ladson Junior AT TICHMARSH In the County of NORTHAMPTON By William Sheppard M. A. Minister of the Gospel LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns the lower end of Cheapside 1694. A Funeral Sermon on Isaiah 55. 6. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found call ye upon him while he is near THIS Prophet Isaiah is called the Evangelical Prophet indeed he Prophesies clearly of Jesus Christ In the 53d Chapter he speaks of the Sufferings of Christ as if they had been already past ver 4 5 6 7. The whole Chapter speaks of Christ and his Sufferings In this Chapter where is the Text he makes a free invitation to all Jews and Gentiles to come in to Christ Ho it is a note of Compellation and of Invitation Every one whether Jew or Gentile v. 4 5. That thirsteth that is in distress and being sensible of his distressed Condition is desirous of relief for these things concur in thirst Isa 41. 17 18. Rev. 22. 17. Come the word signifies either go or come here it is rendred come because they are called to return to God whom before they had forsaken Jer. 2. 13. To the waters that is to the waters of Saving Grace and Spiritual Comfort which Christ brings John 4. 10. 14. it is like our Saviour's invitation to come to him with assurance of finding relief from him Mat. 11. 28. Joh. 7. 37 38. And he that hath no Money no Silver no Merits but Merits none can have The meaning is He that is never so poor that hath nothing of any worth or valuable consideration implying that Christ and Grace are given freely Rom. 3. 24. Ephes 2. 8. And here in the Text the Prophet makes an exhortation and call to all unconverted ones to come in and make their peace while they may while God makes gracious offers and tenders of Grace 2 Cor. 6. 1. Seek ye the Lord as implying that they had left him and were fallen out of favour by their sins While he may be found in a time of acceptance Isa 49. 8. while he offereth himself unto you in the means of grace in the Ministry of the word Psal 27. 8. 2 Cor. 5. 20. Heb. 3. 7. before the time of repenting be expired Gen. 6. 3. before God grow weary of forbearing Jer. 44. 22. and he take a Solemn Oath that he will not be found Psal 95. 11. Isa 1. 15. Prov. 1. 24 to 28. Call ye upon him while he is near that is while he cometh near unto you in his Ordinances by his Ministers and Messengers Isa 51. 5. My Righteousness is near that is in the Ministry of his word Eph. 2. 17. Now Christ comes and preacheth peace to you offers peace to you in the Ministry of his Gospel Therefore now seek him while he may be found call upon him while he is near Doct. That it is the Great Concern of Souls to get a Christ while they may It is our Great Concerning Work to get a Christ while he is to be had There are some Doctrines that may concern some but not others that may concern the Rich but not the Poor or the Poor but not the Rich the Old but not the Young But this is a Doctrine that concerns all Rich and Poor Old and Young It is the great Concernment of all Rich and Poor Old and Young to seek a Christ while he is to be found Rea. I. Because we are all utterly lost and undone without him We may be without Friends without Houses or Lands without Money without Riches without Health yea Life it self and yet be happy but we cannot be without a Christ but we must be miserable undone for ever Eph. 2. 3. We are all by Nature Children of wrath This is thy Condition that readest these Lines if thou art still in thy natural state thou art under the wrath of God and how dost thou think to bear it His Wrath rends the Rocks and makes the Mountains tremble Nahum 1. 5 6. Thou art a Sinner by nature and by practice 1. A Sinner by Nature Psalm 51. 5. We are no sooner warm in the Womb but we are Sinners This makes Sin natural to thee It is rooted in thy Nature as Poyson in a Toad that thou canst do nothing but Sin so long as thou art in thy unconverted State Rom. 7. 23. 2. A Sinner by Practice 1. Thy Heart is full of Sin Jer. 17. 9. Thy Heart is not only wicked but desperately wicked and if thou seest it not it is because thou art born Blind Mat. 15. 19. See what wickedness is in thy Heart 2. Thy Life is full of Sin 1. Sinful Thoughts Gen. 6. 5. God saw that the wickedness of Man was great And why Because every Imagination of the Thoughts of his Heart was only evil continually This is wickedness indeed when all the Imaginations and Thoughts and Purposes and Desires are Evil not partly good and partly evil but only evil and not evil sometime and good sometime but evil alway Evil continually Dost thou not see what a Sinner thou art Is not this a miserable Condition thou art in 2. Sinful Words Idle Words Mat. 12. 36 37. These are such thou canst not stand before God at Judgment for Besides wicked prophane Words Psalm 12. 4. Jam. 3. 6. here is a World of Iniquity set on fire of Hell 3. Sinful Actions How many are the Commissions of Evil Omissions of Good Rom. 3. 23. As to the Sabbath thou mayst see how thou hast sinned Isa 58. 13. Speaking thy own Words doing thy own Pleasure For Week days how innumerable have been thy evil Thoughts and Words and Actions though thou hast not seen them Every day you have gone without Prayer you have sinned 1 Thess 5. 17. Pray without ceasing Not that we should do nothing else but pray Yes we are to follow our Callings too But it is to be our daily practice We are to Pray daily as well as Plow daily Jer. 10. last You may profess that you are Christians and are Baptized but God reckons you among the Heathen if you do not pray and will pour out his Fury upon you O the innumerable Evils which compass you about Psalm 40. 12. Then Death follows upon Sin The Soul that Sins it shall dye Ezek. 18. 4. God saith thou art a Dead Man a Damned Man Rom. 5. 12. Death comes upon all that have sinned therefore this is thy Case First Natural death Heb. 9. 27. But this is not all Secondly Worse still Spiritual death Eph. 2. 1 12. You are dead in Sin without God without Christ without the saving Knowledge of God without the Life of God without Sence of God without the Enjoyment of God You are under the Power of Sin and no Sence of it Under the Wrath of God and no fear nor feeling of it Doth the reading of these Lines make thee fear and feel This would be thy Mercy To