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death_n	grave_n	sin_n	sting_n	4,163	5	11.3993	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02259	Deaths deliverance, and Eliahes fiery charet, or The holy mans triumph after death Delivered in two sermons preached at Plymouth, the one the 16. the other the 19. of August: the former at the funerall of Thomas Sherwill, an eminent and pious magistrate of that place. 1631. By Alexander Grosse now pastor of Bridford.	Grosse, Alexander, 1596?-1654.	1640 (1640)	STC 12394; ESTC S117896	44,988	121

shall wickednesse deliver those that are given to it The proofe of this is as needlesse as to prove the going downe of the Sunne from our Horizon which every eye may daily behold and see neither is it strange for There is some sinne some corruption in the best there is that seed Reasons 1 which bringeth forth death as the moth eates the garment the worme in the tree makes him moulder the leak in the ship letteth in the water untill at length it sinke so sinne where it once entreth once taketh up his abode death doth ensue and follow after as the threed followeth the needle as r Ruth 1.16 Ruth followed Naomi as Ionathans Armour-bearer said to him Å¿ 1 Sam. 14.7 turn thee behold I am with thee according to thy heart so may death say to sinne for which way soever that turnes or goeth before it death doth without faile ensue and follow t Rom. 5.12 after it This is the u Rom. 6.23 wages belonging to it the payment never faileth as Salomon saith of other buildings w Eccl. 10.18 by much slothfulnesse the building decayeth and through idlenesse of the hands the house droppeth through So may I say of these our earthly Tabernacles through our corruptions these weake buildings of our bodies doe decay and through the sinne which is within us this house droppeth through till at length it falleth to the ground commeth to the grave sinne is the mother and death the daughter x Lam. 3.42 43. Lam. 3.42 43. Reasons 2 This sutes with the present condition of Gods people they are y 1 Pet. 2.11 Pilgrims this is not their z Heb. 11.9 14. Country now they are a 1 Cor. 9.24 Travellers and tend every day to their journies end and as Israel could not come to Canaan but through the b 1 Cor. 10.1 Red Sea no more can Gods people attaine their journies end but by death when the prison walls are beaten downe then they who are kept in fetters there may goe forth c 2 Cor. 5.1 2. We know saith the Apostle that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved wee have a building of God a house not made with hands eternall in the Heavens This maketh them also in some sort Reasons 3 conformable to Christ their head Our Lord and Master hath drunke of this cup trodden this path before us and the d Mat. 10.24 Disciple must not looke to bee above his Master but as in other things so in this we must be made like him to this we are e Ro. 8.29 ordained wee must first be like him in his sufferings and then we shall be like him in his raigning f 2 Tim. 2.11 It is a faithfull saying if we be dead with him we shall also live with him if we suffer we shall also raigne with him Therefore as Gideon said unto his Souldiers g Judg. 7.17 Looke on me as yee see mee doe so doe yee so must we looke on our Gideon our Christ our Captaine and doe as wee have seene him doe before us This workes the utter destruction Reasons 4 of sinne in them as Sampson by his h Judg. 16.30 death destroyed the Philistines his enemies so the righteous by their death destroy their corruptions sinne is like a subtile Fox that cannot bee taken till his holds be destroyed like ivie in the wall which cannot be totally taken away till the stones be pulled asunder Israel could not be freed from the i Exo. 14. Morte peccati praecisionem homo lucratur ne malum immortale esset ita poena ipsi in misericordiam cessit Nazian Orat. 38. Egyptians till they came to the red sea no more can Gods people of their sinnes till they come to the grave by death doe the righteous gaine the cutting off of sinne and death which was a punishment is turned to a mercy to all that walke uprightly But Christ hath dyed for them and their sinne is forgiven Gods Justice is fully satisfied how then can God bee just in bringing death on them Quest Shall the principall be arrested and cast into prison when the surety hath formerly paid the debt for him Resp Christ who hath paid the debt for us was freely k Joh. 3.16 given of God to us given not instantly to conferre upon us an actuall freedome from all evills but in due time after we have beene exercised with variety of tryalls God doth not onely give Christ but also apply him unto us and when there is a full application of Christ to beleevers then there shall be a compleat l Ephes 1.14 redemption from all evils and thus though Christ have paid the ransome yet God doth us no wrong in suffering us to be exercised with many troubles because there is not yet a full application of this ransome and because God gave him in such a way and manner to bring his chosen to salvation as seemed best to his own wisdome God promised Canaan to Israel but yet he led them through the red sea before he brought them thither and in so doing did them no wrong Death to the people of God is not evill the curse is taken away Death is like Moses m Exod. 4.3 4. serpent it may at first sight make the people of God afraid as that did him but as Moses afterwards tooke the Serpent in his hand and it did him no harme so is death to the righteous like a Serpent without a sting like a Souldier overcome and his weapons taken from him n 1 Cor. 15.55 56 57. O death saith Saint Paul where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory the sting of death is sinne the strength of sinne is the Law but thankes be unto God which giveth us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Death is ordained of God to be the destruction of sinne in his children as David cut off o 1 Sam. 17 50 51. Goliahs head with his owne sword so will God destroy sin by death which is held as a sword in sinnes hand Death is to Gods people as the red sea to Israel the destruction of the enemies of their salvation an end of all miseries a passage to everlasting life so that Gods people have freedome from the evill but not from the necessity of dying and herein is the wonderfull power wisdome and goodnesse of God very clearely seene even in changing the nature of death and making it to his people so usefull which in it selfe is so hurtfull Vse Doe the godly the dye are not the righteous exempted must they taste of this cup It is then in vaine for the wicked unrighteous unmercifull to dreame of escapall As the Apostle said in another case p 1 Pet. 4.17 if judgment begin at the house of God what shall bee the end of them which obey not the Gospel of God and as our Saviour also said in another case q Luk. 23.31

be you upright be yee constant as Eliah was and you shall at last have a fiery Charet as Eliah had Walke with God without wavering as q Gen. 6.9 Noah did as he ceased not frō building the Arke whatsoever discouragement was ministred no more doe you cease to ad grace to grace as the builders doe stone to stone till you attaine perfection and then as Noah had his Arke was preserved in it when others perished so shall you have safety peace joy comfort and everlasting tryumph when others shall perish in the deluge of Gods judgements Be constant as r 1 Sam. 17 33.34 David was and then as he overcame the Beare the Lyon the great Goliah and enjoyed the Crowne at length so shall we the Crowne of glory at the last if we ſ Rev. 2.10 be faithfull unto the death therefore with Moses seeing him that is t Heb. 11.26 27. invisible and having an eye to the recompence let us chuse rather to endure affliction with the children of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sinne for a season and knowing that we have an u Heb. 10.34 abiding substance in Heaven let us with the primitive Christians take the spoyling of our goods joyfully This is the property of true grace this is peculiar to the man that is truely pious w Prov. 4.18 to shine more and more like the light unto the perfect day the Trees of Gods planting be known from all other trees by bearing x Ps 92.13 much fruit in their old age this is that which hath the promise who shall reape but hee that y Gal. 6.9 fainteth not And who shall bee saved but he that z 1 Mat. 13.13 continueth to the end That corne alone which holdeth out unto the harvest is gathered into the garner Vse 3 Is the future estate of Gods servants so pleasant so eminent so transcendently glorious Then this must cause the children of God to entertaine death with all cheerefulnesse how terrible so ever in it selfe though it be as the Philosopher saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of all fearefuls the most fearefull or as Iob stiles it the ſ Job 18.14 King of terror though looked upon in it selfe it be to the people of God as once the face of Esau a terror to Iacob yet looking upon the glory dignity and fulnesse of all blisse which doth attend it it should be to the people of God as the face of Esau was at last to Iacob even as the t Gen. 33.10 11. face of God in the thought of this we should rejoyce as the hireling in his thoughts of the Evening as the traveller in the thoughts of his bed as the warriour in the thought of the day of his triumph For I may say to you of death as Hugh Laverock said to his fellow Martyr Iohn a Price of the Lord of Londō Be of good comfort my brother for my Lord of London is our good Physitian he will cure thee of all thy blindnesse and me of my lamen●sse this day so beloved all yee that truly feare God all that put away all filthinesse of the flesh and perfect holinesse before him in feare be of good comfort Death will be your very good Physitian it will cure all your diseases end all your miseries set you free from all troubles And therefore as the people came readily to u John 5.4 5. Bethesda to be healed of their infirmities as we come cheerefully to the Physitian so should wee to the grave for what is death to the people of God what is it to them to die but as the Inhabitants leaving of an old and ruinous house the Musitians laying downe of a Lute whose strings are broken the Carpenters putting aside of a worne Instrument unfit for any longer service or imployment what is Death to Gods children but as a guest making hast out of his Inne to his long his lovely and desired home as the putting off of a worne rotten and ragged suite of apparell to put on rich and comly rayment for while we live we are like w Zach. 3.3 4 5. Josua the high Priest clothed with filthy garments but when we die then we are like Iosua with a fair Mitre upon his head and comely rayment about his back And therefore we should earnestly desire to be x 2 Cor. 5.8 absent from the body that wee might bee present with the Lord. For the day of Death to the body is as one saith the birthday of eternity to the soule Seneca who saw the immortality of the soule the future felicity of it but as through a Cloud by ifs and ands yet professeth that when hee thought but a little of it and had some pleasant dreames thereof hee loathed himselfe and all his trifling greatnesse Socrates also sweetned his cup of poyson with his discourse of the soules Immortality to the amazement of the beholders how much more should christian and sanctified soules be ravished affected enflamed with the meditation of it O how should this cause us to thirst after death as y 2 Sam. 23 15 16. David after the waters in the wells of Bethlem and to breake thorough all difficulties to attaine that immortall and ever-blessed estate which to the people of God attendeth this life as Davids Worthies brake thorough the hoast of the Philistins to fetch them waters and as Laurence Saunders kissed the stake and said wilcome be the crosse of Christ well-come be everlasting life my Saviour began to me in a bitter cup and shall I not pledge him so should wee entertaine death as a very well-come guest as a very deare friend our soules should say within us welcome bee death welcome bee everlasting life my Saviour is gone before me and shall I not goe after him As the Lyon desires to goe out of the grate the Eagle out of the cage and the prisoner out of the prison-house so should we with Paul desire to be z Phil. 3.23 dissolved and to bee with Christ Vse 4 This should moderate our griefe and sorrow conceived at the departure of our godly friends For 1 Freedome 1. This is the day of their Freedome who is not comforted to see his friend come forth of prison to see him set free from all persecution and trouble After Eliah went up in his fiery Charet Iezabel could no more make him flie she had no more power to molest and persecute him 2 Honour 2. This is the day of their Honour now with Eliah they ride in their fiery Charet into heaven now as Salomon said of the a Eccles 4.12 poore wise child may I say of all that are b 2 Ti●● 12 wise unto salvation though poore though afflicted during their abode on earth yet now they shall come out of prison out of a troublesome and low estate to c 2 Tim. 2.11 12. reigne with Christ in his kingdom And I may wel say to all that