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death_n	hell_n	sin_n	sting_n	5,056	5	11.5139	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63137	A sermon preached at the funeral of the honourable Colonel Robert Rolle of Heanton Sachville in the county of Devon esq; by William Trevethick M.A. and pastor of Petrockslow in the same county	Trevethick, William, 1612 or 13-1693.	1661 (1661)	Wing T2133A; ESTC R219720	49,922	131

yea too many are apt to deceive themselves saying that they do believe and repent and obey too and that they do many things and that they are better then many other men are Thus the Pharises Luk. 18. He can say God I thank thee I am not as other men are extortioners unjust adulterers or even as this Publicane And he did many good things too and yet he did but deceive himself In like manner Saul can meet Samuel with a great deal of confidence and say blessed be thou of the Lord I have performed the commandment of the Lord 2 Sam. 15.13 yea Samuel hath much a do to convince him He stands to it v. 20. Yea. saith he I have obeyed the voice of the Lord and have gone the way which the Lord sent me When as all the while he was in the very way of rebellion and stubbornesse ver 23. And are there not many who have far lesse to say for their works and yet can boast much more of their faith and though their words be never so evil and their communication never so corrupt and their actions never so vile ye● they can blesse themselves and thank God they have a very good heart and a strong faith and are as good christians and as sound believers as the best And what is this but as Mr. Shepard rightly calls it a bramble faith Sound believers p. 72. which indeed layes hold upon Christ but as the bramble doth upon our skin it only pricks and Scratcheth him causing nothing but reproach to his name and grief to his spirit Rom. 2.24 Phil. 3.18 19. And what will be the end of such deceit but as the Aposile saith destruction to them that trust to it Use 2 Lastly unto such as are true believers indeed this is a word of unspeakable and endlesse comfort Christ is the resurrection and the life to them All that ever he hath done or suffered hath been for them That he took on him the form of a servant and humbled himself to the death of the crosse was laid in the grave and for a time continued under the power of death That he rose again from the dead and ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Majesty on high Whatever he was in his humiliaton whatever he hath been or is in his exaltation he hath been and he is wholy for believers For their sakes saith Jesus Christ I sanctify my self that they also might be sanctified through the truth Joh. 17.19 For their sakes I sanctify my self i.e. Offero me tibi in sanctam victimam Chrisost homil 81. Piscator in loc I offer my selfe an holy sacrifice And by once offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified Heb. 10.14 For their sakes it is hat he ever liveth making intercession for them Heb. 7.25 So that whatsoever times or changes may come they are sure it shall go well with them Even when there shall be signes in the sun and in the moon and in the stars and upon the earth distresses of Nations with perplexity as the sea and the waves roaring Luk. 21.25 When the sun shall become as sackcloath of hair and the moon shall become as blood And the stars of heaven shall fall unto the earth even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken with a mighty wind When the heavens shall passe away like a Scroule and the element shall melt with fervent heat the earth also and the works that are therein will be burnt up And every mountain and Island shall be moved out of their places And mens hearts shall fail them for fear And the Kings of the earth and he great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bond man and every freeman shall ●ide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains And shall say to the mountains and rocks fall on us and hide 〈◊〉 from the face of him that sitteth on the ●hrone and from the wrath of the lamb ●et saith Jesus Christ unto believers when ●e shall see the son of man coming in a ●loud with power and great glory Even ●hen these things begin to come to passe ●●en look up and lift up your heads for your ●edemption draweth nigh Luk. 21.28 ●ehold the day cometh that shall burn as ●oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch But unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousnesse arise with healing in his wings Mal. 4.1 2 This is the portion of believers and of them alone a stranger doth not intermeddle with their joy To them only is Jesus Christ the resurrection and the life and to them he is so be their condition what it will He that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live Which brings me to the third point of doctrine raised from the Amplification of Christs power from the extent of it He can and will raise them be their condition never so desperate Though he were dead yet shall he live Obser 3 The power of raising of believers unto life spirituall and eternall in all the degrees of it is so fully and absolutly in the hands of Christ that nothing can hinder him from raising of them when he will All power saith Jesus Christ is given unto me in heaven and in earth Matth. 28.18 That is An absolute and supreme authority over all things both in heaven and earth is committed to the hands of Jesus Christ as he is mediatour for the good of his Church And if all power in heaven and earth be in the hands of Christ then he may do what he will in heaven and earth nothing can let him 1 He can remove all hinderances If any thing could hinder Jesus Christ from raising of believers unto life erernall death and hell would do it but these cannot I have the Keyes of hell and of death saith Jesus Christ Rev. 1.18 By his having of the keyes understand the power and authority of his office he hath the chief authority and command over these And these are the greatest and most powerfull enemies of believers Death is the king of terrours And Hell is the second death even death Job 18.14 eternal the utmost issue and effect of sin which is the sting of death Moreover death and hell are comprehensive viles they contain under them al the miseries of this life and of that which is to come if at least it may be lawfull to call in life weakness and sickness in the body shame and reproach to the name losses in the estate crosses in relations grief and vexation in the mind and lastly the separation of the soul from the body and of both from God and to be given up to the worm that never dieth and to the fire that never