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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67488	Peace and rest for the upright being a sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Dr. John Bryan, sometime minister of Trinity in Coventry / by that worthy preacher of Gods Word, Mr. Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1681 (1681)	Wing W707; ESTC R38419	9,395	24

there was power and they had no Comforter Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive As much as to say These have escaped these are sensible of no such matter but are Quiet they are at Peace and Rest. 5. At peace and rest from inward Troubles which a man is liable unto upon sundry occasions in this Life such as the death and departure of ones best Friends chiefest Relations Here you see a great King in the bitterness of his grief crying out O Absolon my Son my Son would God I had dyed for thee O Absolon my Son my Son In Ramah you hear a lamentation and voyce of weeping Rachel weeping for her Children and would not be comforted because they are not Here you have Mary bewailing Lazarus her Brother And the Sons of Iacob mourning over their Father But in Heaven there is Peace and Rest once there we shall lose them no more For then saith the Apostle we shall ever be with the Lord. Earth only and Hell is the Territory of death but Heaven is the Land of the Living and there we shall find them again And this is something of the nature of that Peace which Righteous men shall by death be instated in and made Possessors of I hasten to the improvement of this Point wherein I shall be short Use. If Peace and Rest is to be our Priviledg hereafter Then 1. It should be our desire here So the Apostle commandeth Follow peace with all men Such Salamanders as delight to live in the fire of Contention these of all other men are most unfit for Heaven for that is a Place of Peace 2. Let the Priviiedges of good men allure us to a resemblance of their Persons and their Graces All men like Balaam are ready to cry out Let me dye the death of the Righteous and let my latter end be like his Would fain dye like them with the same Hope Peace Serenity and Quiet of Conscience Let my latter end be like his as Balaam said But such as will dye as they must also live as they 3. If death is the time of Peace and Rest with Righteous men then it is to be understood that the time of Life is to be a time of Labour and Warfare If so be Death is our Night to repose in then sure Life should be our Day to work in The best of men have business enough to do before them head-strong Passions to quell Corruptions to mortifie grace to grow a race to run a battle to fight therefore let us up and be doing and set about that that is our work and that the rather because 1. They rest best that have laboured most When a man hath ordered his business and disposed of his affairs as he intended then he hath charmed and subdued his Care and hath no disquieting thoughts to disturb his repose The sleep of a labouring man is sweet saith Solomon So he that busied himself in the Work and Service of God while he was alive goes to his rest with the greatest calmness and serenity of Soul that may be 2. We know not how soon we may be called off the Stage For Man knowes not his time Eccles. 9. 12. I am old saith Isaac and know not the day of my death And as he said when he was old so may every one say that is youngest Though I am younger or middle-aged yet I know not the day of my death The reason is because it is Gods peculiar reservation My times saith David are in thy hand Then 3. Our Natures are brittle exceeding brittle the Word of God tells us we are shadows vapours and flowers that wither of a sudden Then considering the variety of accidents we are subject to Ioseph had his Tomb in his Garden to mind him that Death might possibly meet him in that place of Pleasure A Tile from the house a Worm a Hair a little Spittle hath been as fatal to some persons as if so be a Mountain had fallen on their heads Therefore considering these things it is but reason we set our selves to work to labour in the time of health in the time of life 4. If Rest and Peace be the Priviledg of a Righteous man at his death It shews us That the death of Righteous men they are not to be lamented by us upon their own account They may seem to call to us from Heaven as Christ Jesus once did to the Women of Iudea upon the Cross Ye Daughters of Ierusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves They are not to be lamented upon their own accounts They are gone to Salem the City of Peace and why should we mourn for them as they without hope Death is no Enemy of theirs but as Noah's Dove returned with an Olive branch the Emblem of Peace so Death brings a good man not an Olive branch but the reality it self which is far more desireable As the Ark carried the whole Church of God to the Mountain Ararat the name of which signifieth Take away fear so Death shall waft us to Heaven there where no fear is It is true in respect of our selves we ought to follow them with tears and to have our hearts deeply affected with their removal from us and God himself doth blame the stupidity of our hearts and insensibleness of this People and such men that can part with such Jewels as these with indifferency without Concern in the Verse before the Text The righteous man perisheth and no man layeth it to heart This is the great fault As if he had said For as to us they are dear losses For 1. We loose the benefit of their Example for our Guide When a good man is gone one of the Lights of Israel is Quenched As David's Soldiers reckoned of him Thou shalt go no more with us to Battel lest thou quench the Light of Israel Of these the Apostle saith Amongst whom you shine as lights in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation 2. We loose the benefit of their good Works for our Comfort A good man is a useful man where he liveth The Poor have the benefit of his Alms and all that converse with him have the benefit of his Counsel For he of all others will not suffer Sin to rest upon the Soul of his Brother if he know it so that we loose the benefit of their good works for our Comfort 3. And we loose the benefit of their presence too for our Safety which is not a thing inconsiderable neither When Elijab was ascended into Heaven in a Chariot of fire the Prophet below cryed My Father the Chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof As much as to say His Presence was as great a Security as an Army of Chariots and Horsemen These are they that stand in the breach when the Judgments of God like a mighty Torrent are ready to rush upon us These are they that like so many Aarons hasten with their