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A90497	A sermon of Mr. Benjamin Perkins, at the funeral of Mrs. Martha Robient, who deceased September the 15th, at Colchester, 1700 enlarged into a discourse on the excellent life and glorious death of a Christian, from 2 Tim. 4. 7,8 : with an enquiry into the reasons of the grand prohibition on the servants of God to continue here in his service, signify'd to them by death, from Heb. 7. 23 / by T. Beverley.	Perkins, Benjamin.; Beverley, Thomas.	1700 (1700)	Wing P1542aA; ESTC R43716	24,091	54

as they please or to be Slothful Negligent Careless Unactive in these great Transactions For though they live all in Christ depend wholly on Him for acceptance yet all His are under the Holy Constraints of Love and the Obligations of Filial Obedience and Christ in them is a Principle of Spiritual Life and Highest Activity So that they can neither be loose or plead Liberty as a Cloak of Wickedness nor be dull and stupid in the ways of Christ And herein our Deceased Friend had learned Christ In all things sensible of Duty but Living as to Justification and Acceptance with God above With those who ●re the Circumcision Worshipping God in the Spirit rejoicing in Christ Jesus and having ●o confidence in the Flesh and so she was able ●hough so young a Person to sing the Song of Victory O Death Where is thy Sting h Grave Where is thy Victory I thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord who hath ●iven me the Victory This made Her ear●estly desire a remove out of the Body and ●o be with Christ Thus I have given the True Evangelical sense of the Apostle placing so much upon himself I have Fought and Finished and Kept 'T is but as if he had said I have 〈◊〉 can do all things through Christ strength●eing me and I can look look upon all with Joy and Triumph because all my Impurities and Imperfections are answered for and my Person is washed with the pure Water of his Sacrificing Blood Let us then consider the great sence of the Apostle I have faught a good Fight Wherein he comes forth in the strength of Jehovah Jesus Christ the Lord of Hosts As David the Warrior of the Lord under the Captain of Salvation Resolved and arm'd ●t all Points and that had with Courage ●nd Fidelity almost now to the very last carried on so far as his Station reach'd ●he full Conquest and Victory of Jesus Christ he is now triumphing over all Enemies For the Explaining of this warfare in the warrs of the Lord as they are stil'd Numb 21.14 We are to consider the Grea● Lord mighty in Battle who arms all his even the Lord Jesus who appoints them who are therefore stiled Good Soldiers of Jesus Christ who hath Redeemed them from being slaves of Justice of Wrath of Satan and they therefore are said to over come by the Blood of the Lamb. So their very setting out is by his Blood They are Arm'd by him with Courage Spirit and Might within He teaches their hands to War and their Fingers to Fight by him they run through a Troop by him they leape over a Wall it is he that Girdeth them with strength to the Battel that they may help the Lord against the mighty and that all Enemies may be subdued to him and trherefore the Fight is called a good Fight with great Reason 1. The Apostle had to Fight with himself his carnal Reason to Throw down the strong holds of that to bring every thought into Captivity to Christ all those high Thoughts of self-Righteousness to slight all conferences with Flesh and Blood and to repel them when tempted to such disloyal Treaties to bring under the Law o● his Members that warred against the Law of his Mind and would bring him int● Captivity to the Law of Sin and Death to bring under subjection that carnal Mind that is enmity to God not subject to the Law of God nither indeed can be that in dwelling Sin All those Willings and Lustings against the Spirit In regard of which the Apostle Expresses himself in the Language of a Combatant in those Games that deals the most subduing and mortifying Strokes and Blows so he upon all Bodily Inclinations and Lusts And this is one great Point of the good Fight the Apostle reviews with so much comfort But it is in Christ and through Christ by whom in whom as Crucified with him the Flesh with its Lusts and Affections are Crucified and not in or by himself 2. The Apostle had to Fight with the World in all both its inticements and blandishments and in regard of its Threats Rages and Persecutions In both regards saith He I am Crucified to the World and the World to me Gal. 6.14 But it is in Christ and his Cross alone enabled Him 3. He had to Fight with all the Enemies of the Gospel of Christ in resistance to the Grace of Christ in the Hearts of all to whom He Preached For speaking of the Preaching of the Gospel He saith The Weapons of our Warfare are mighty So with the open professed Oppositions to the Truth of Christ in his Redemption To the Jews a Scandal as it it was contrary to all the Revelation of God in the Old Testament and to the Gentiles Foolishness as if it had no Agreement with the Reason Learning and Wit of Men of Understanding and Accomplishment 1 Cor. 1.23 4. He had to Fight with the Powers of Darkness Spiritual Wickednesses in high Places as every Christian hath For as He says we War not That is not principally against Flesh and Blood but against Principalities and Powers the Rulers of the Darkness of this World And for the maintaining this Fight He had the same necessity with all Saints To take to himself the whole Armor of God that he might stand in the evil day and having drne all to stand Eph. 6.10 5. All the Persecutors and their cruelty like the Beasts of Ephesus in what Sense soever taken He had to Fight with wherein He suffered as an evil doer and was Killed all the Day long But in all He was more than a conqueror through him who Loved him 6. He had to Fight with Guilt Death and the Grave the Wrath to come and with all the unbelief of his own Heart But he over came by the continual Application He made to the Death and Resurrection of Christ Jesus who Loved him and gave himself for him in whom he desired to be Found So that he Ran up to that assurance to make that challenge who shall lay any thing to my charge as one of Gods Elect to be assured That neither Life nor Death Things present nor Things to come should be able to separate him from the Love of Christ and so he could Sing that Triumphant Song Oh Death where is thy Sting Oh Grave where is thy Victory The Sting of Death is Sin the Strength of Sin is the Law but thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord as in the case of the Body of Sin and Death All he places still in Christ and thus we see on all accounts The Apostle Fought a good Fight and through Christ had the Prospect of a High and Noble End of the VVar that is of Victory Head 2. I come then to the Second Point of the Apostles Triumphing Declaration of his own State in Christ I have finished my course That we may rightly apprehend Here are two things to be understood by it I. The General course

Universal Exemption at the Kingdom of Christ the Kingdom of Redemption when the Apostle says We shall not all dye but we shall all be changed and he prefaces before it Behold I shew you a mystery And I am much perswaded and even assured These two were Types of the Living Remaining caught up to meet the Lord in the Air 1 Cor. 15. When he delivers up the Kingdom to God even the Father and hath put down all Rule Authority and the last Enemy Death is subdued and cast into the Lake then shall the Living Remaining Saints be Transposed or caught up as Enoch and even conveyed to Heaven as Elijah in the Charriot of that Fire that devours the Adversaries 1 Thes 4.17 with Rev. 20.9 14. 3. The Judiciary part of Death is absolutely removed For the Sting of Death is Sin and the strength of Sin is the Law but thanks be to God who hath given us the Victory through Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 15.12 So that Death is to Saints a sleeping in Jesus a Resting from Labours an entring into Rest a becoming present with the Lord A being with Christ a being in Paradise a being clothed upon with our House from Heaven And to shew It was not a Deadly stroke Before the Pronunciation of that Universal Prohibition of continuing here Dust thou Art and to Dust thou shalt Return Death was more gently express'd and with assurance of Victory The Womans Seed shall break the Serpents Head but the Serpent shall only Bruise the Heel of the Womans Seed This Body of Earth Applic. I will now by way of Applicatory Review close the whole How fit this Context of the Apostle is to a Discourse with Relation to the Death of one or more of the Servants of God appears by the Apostles Preface to it I am even now as it were ready to be as in Conformity to my Great Lord Offered and Sacrificed as a Martyr and the Time of my Dissolution is at Hand and so He goes on I have Fought c. As if He Preached his own Funeral Sermon while Living and a Great one it is but it hath its Principal sense in Christ and in God as appears in the following Part of the Chapter v. 17. wherein we have this Great acknowledgment that in his Fighting the Good Fight and Finishing his Course the Lord stood with Him strengthened Him that by Him the Preaching might be Fully known and the Gentiles hear and the Lord Delivered Him out of the Mouth of the Lyon the Lord would deliver Him from every Evil Work and preserve Him unto His Heavenly Kingdom and to Him he ascribes the Glory of All for Ever And He Includes all Saints Even all who Love the appearing of Jesus Christ in this High Elogium or Speech of Praise else I must acknowledge I have no Opinion of the Large Encomiums or Praisings used in Funeral Sermons observing the Grand Exemplar of them Gods Gracious Remembrance of Moses Joshua 1. Moses my Servant is Dead and no more and yet that Fixed so Lasting a Character of Honour upon Him that He is remembred by it to the Last Rev. 15. They Sang the Song of Moses the Servant of God and of the Lamb But this of the Apostle Joyned with that of Heb. 7.23 Gives me such a History of the Life and Death of Saints That I cannot but Recommend it to all the Servants of Christ as the most excellent Rule of Life and as the Ground of the most Consolatory Hope in Death and that the very Discourse of it may be upon the Deceased Christian Friend a Memorial of Honour And so I most Humbly Recommend it to the Relations of all the Friends of the so many lately Removed Servants of God and of this Particular one on the occasion of whose Death it is Published through Him who though the Eternal Liver as the Son of God without Beginning or End of Days yet in our Nature Became Dead for our sakes but behold He is Alive for Evermore Even so have all his Servants Reason to say Even so Amen And He hath the Keys of Hell and Death Let Him Lay His Hand on the Servants of God in this Discourse and Bless it to Them and on his Servants of all States and Conditions saying unto them Fear not And to Him be Glory for Ever THE END POSTCRIPT SInce the Finishng and Printing this foregogoing Discourse it hath pleased the supreme Lord of his Servants State in this Work to lay his Prohibition on the Honourable Sir Edward Harley to continue on longer in his Service here to whose Memory although I am every way obliged yet in Honour to Him I shall only say Sir Edward Harley the Servant of God is Dead Oh That many such may be sound unto his Kingdom in his Service ERRATA The lesser Faults of the Press let the Reader please to Correct and Note these Preface Page 2. line 18. r. Mr. T. Gouge pag. 9. l. 3. at the bottom f. it r. if p. 11. l. 5. Bot. blot un p. 21. l. 16. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 23. l. 7. blot are p. 33. Bot. 2d f. abridgeth abideth p. 37. Bot. l. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 41. l. 9. before He r. when l. 12. f. when r. then l. 18. after them r. viz. Saints

of his Servants are proportion'd to each He sees and knows and so Limits accordingly There was one Noah and no more in the Old World One Elijah only in view in that so Fowl Apostacy of the Ten Tribes And when the Light is clearest and most High It must not be clear Light till his Kingdom The General Assembly cannot be before so each Time hath such and such Numbers of Stars which He telleth the Number of and calleth them All by their Names and knoweth what Lustre of Rays and Beams each and together shall cast There is a Counterpoizing consideration of Wicked Men in the World and the Darkness and Fire of Hell they spread But that is not within the present purpose 4. There is a Gracious Pleasure of God There should such Numbers of his Servants be all along from Age to AGe with Jesus Christ their Lord Philip. 1. Dissolved from Body and with Him in Spirit Absent from the Body and present with the Lord 2 Cor. 5.1 c. And in their House not made with Hands Eternal in the Heavens And that our God may come and All His Saints with Him Zech. 14. He cometh with Ten Thousand of his Saints as the Armies of Heaven on white Horses Bodys of the Resurrection washed in the Blood of Jesus in fine Linnen clean and white Rev. 19.14 To shew This hath been all along from the former Times of the World There is a Reception in Heaven Styled Abrahams Bosome A Jerusalem above the Mother of us All that shall come down from Heaven Gal. 4. With all its Children Rev. 21. There is the State of the Spirits of Just Men Heb. 12. Who shall be made perfect in Bodys made like to his Glorious Body Phil. 3. ult There must be therefore a Limitation of their Time of Service here below That they may be taken within the Veil and made acquainted with the Glory that is to be Revealed And the Apostle Intimates These Dead in Christ shall have some precedency For the Dead in Christ shall not be prevented by the Living Remaining as we Translate but shall not be so much as overtaken according to the true force of the Original we shall not attain or come equal with those asleep 1 Thes c. 4. v. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nullo Modo Assequemur Now in all such Particularities God is pleas'd to be at Liberty in dealing with His own Servants The essential Glory the Crown of Righteousness the Crown of Life the Crown of Glory being alike sure to all And so I have open'd the second Point propos'd The Limitation of the Time of the Servants of God continuing in His Service here on Earth I come to the Point 3d. 3. That the Limitation of their Time is made known to them in the manner of a severe and angry Process in the way of what we Call a Prohibition the proper sense of what we Translate not saffered Heb. 7.23 And this is a Point worthy to be enquired into for the removing the fears of Death and for the Consolation of Saints in Death 1. It must then be Acknowledg'd that the outward Face and appearance of Death hears the Resemblance of a Judgment and of that Denunciation In the Day thou Eatest thou shalt Dye Dust thou Art and to Dust thou shalt return It comes as a King of Terrors Flesh and Blood is ready to be affrighted at it Life is naturally Dear even to the Servants of God who desire not to be uncloathed They desire to continue in the Service of God here but when they are raised by Higher Considerations of being present with the Lord Clothed upon with their House from Heaven they even desire to be Dissolved And it cannot be denyed That God doth in the Dying of his Servants bear a Regard to that Justice and Truth of His Word That when Sin came in Death came in and passed upon All because All have sinned Rom. 5.12 When the Servants of God therefore are warm and zealous and lively in His Service Often there comes a Prohibition Thou mayest no longer continue in my Service here like the command to Moses to anoint Eleazar and to strip Aaron of his Priestly Garments who was presently to Dye A Prohibition to Moses to carry Israel over Jordan but to come up to Mount Nebo and to Dye Deut. 33. God plainly sent to Hezekiah to set His House in Order and to Dye against which Prohibition that it might be under as it were an Arrest of Judgment He so earnestly Prayed It is therefore to be duly considered That for the Display of the Judgment and Indignation of God against sin and because of the present State of the Saints under a Remaining Body of Sin and so of Death and in the present State of this World full of Sin and Evil and of so many of the Children of Adam Children of Death even of the Second Death In the Wisdom and Holiness of God It was by the Counsel of the Father and the Son that Death should continue and have the Face of a Judgment and of a Legal Prohibition to continue in the Service of God any longer on Earth Till the Kingdom of Christ the Kingdom of Redemption should bring in a State of the Living Saints then Remaining being chang'd and not to Dye 2. Jesus Christ our Lord Because the Children were Partakers of Flesh and Blood He took part of the same that through Death He might subdue Him that had the Power of Death that is the Devil and Deliver them who all their Life were subject to Bondage by reason of the Fear of Death and now therefore Death came upon Him with the Violence and Terror of a Judgment from which He was taken and from Prison Esa 53.8 By the Mighty Power of his Resurrection It becomes all His to submit then to the Face of a Judgment in Dying that they may be conform'd to their Captain and from the First Born Heb. 2.14 Obj. It may be Objected against this necessity of Dying How were those two Enoch and Elias exempted from that sentence of the Righteous and Holy Law that is stretched out so upon all seeing sin had extended it self on them as well as on others Answ The Death of Jesus Christ stood as a Full Ransom and Price of Redemption from the very first promise so that it is not indeed a Point of Justice or of the Truth of God That Believers in Jesus Christ are served as I may so speak with a Prohibition by Death but a Wise and Holy Dispensation of Government with Relation to the Servants of God in the present World where therefore in that wise Government God thinks sit there might be such an exemption from the General Statute of Dying or Prohibition by Death as of Enoch and Flijah and many more Examples of such Exemptions there might have been if He had seen Good having received such full satisfaction to his Law and to his Justice and He hath it in reserve an

A SERMON OF Mr. Benjamin Perkins At the Funeral of Mrs. Martha Robient Who deceased September the 15th at Colchester 1700. Enlarged into a Discourse on the excellent Life and Glorious Death of a Christian From 2 Tim. 4.7 8. With an Enquiry into the Reasons of the Grand Prohibition on the Servants of God to continue here in his Service signify'd to them by Death From Heb. 7.23 By T. BEVERLEY LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Iohn Marshall at the Bible in Grace-Church-Street TO Mr. Thomas AND Mrs. Sarah Prior. Inhabiting the Town of Colchester My very Esteemed Christian Friends AS I have taken the Full Freedom of changing and making Additions to the Sermon committed to my Revisal at your Desire and with the Consent of Mr. Perkins So I do in his Name and I doubt not with his Desire as well as my own give it into your Hand as Persons so nearly concern'd in and related to Her who was the mournful and also the to be rejoiced in occasion of it as the Testimony of my Remembrance of Her and of all the Kindness received from You when with You in the occasional Ministration of the Gospel at Colchester As God hath made you I am much perswaded Instruments of Good where He hath placed You so that He would bless You and Your growing up Family and sanctifie to You both and make Consolatory this Discourse and increase You in all Grace and Service to Him is the Earnest Prayer of My Esteemed Friends in the Lord Your Faithful Friend And Servant in Him T. Beverley THE PREFACE TO THE Serious Candid Christian READER IT hath been always looked upon as one of the greatest Points of the Wisdom of a Man to understand and to consider Death to research into all the Rules of prudent Conduct in the preparing for and regularing our Reception of it All the great Men of Morals have Treated of it as one of the principal Points of Morality but it is the Excellency and Glory of the Word of God to have understood the Way and Path of this Wisdom before whom Death and the Grave are Naked and Open and Destruction hath no Covering That alone Teacheth to number our Days so as to apply our Hearts to Wisdom To make wise to understand this to consider our latter end This gives the sure Grounds of Hope in Death yea of Triumph of appearing more than Conquerors over Death I have considered the many Removes God hath of late made of many eminent Persons of all Conditions From that ever to be with Honour remembred Princess the late Queen that so very lately Illustrious young Duke of Glocester that very Venerable Person Dr. Tillotson A. B. C. those truly Honourable Persons Judge Rokeby Paul Foley Esq in his time Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons the very Eminent Christian the Lady King late Wife to the so known Physician Sir Edmund King Many Eminent Ministers of the Gospel Mr. Thomas Cole Mr. Nathaniel Mather Mr. Matthew Mead Dr. Bates with many others of very worthy Name and I cannot omit because so early taken that young Hopeful Servant of Christ in the Gospel Mr. Philip King The Consideration of so many great Examples of Dying gave me deep Searchings of Heart what the Reason and Meaning of such Transposes should be and nothing hath given me greater Satisfaction than the Reflections I have been enabled to make on the Great High Priest and Apostle of our Profession in whom the Charter of all the Servants of God from the first Promise of him Gen. 3. is founded and whose Intercession Bears them up and by whom they are removed moved into Higher Galleries Zach. 3. into the Walks of Angels who always stand by or next the Presence-Chamber of the Great King waiting His Appearing and Coming forth in Glory who hath the Unchangeable Priesthood Himself alone made after the Power of an endless Life In the mean time their Remove as it appears hath the more severe Style of a Prohibition Heb. 7.23 to express it or not being suffered to continue by Reason of Death This manner of speaking upon the Occasion of the Death of that so Honourable beloved by all Judge Rokeby made great Impression upon me and Thoughts of Heart as in a Publick Congregation I declared soon after and it hath lain by me with an Intention of further Publication For I know God is pleased with His surviving Servants in rendring Precious the Death of his Servants gone out of this State even as in his Sight so in the Sight of others it ought to be precious and not soon forgotten and He is displeased when the Righteous and Merciful are taken away and none considers nor lays it to Heart when They are taken from the Evil to come Oh that now it may not be for that end and each one rests on his Bed walking in their Uprightness Esay 57.1 Such general Honourable Memorials are pleasing to our never-dying High-Priest though the profuse Praises of Funeral Sermons no way encouraged hereby the Occasion of the present Publication is It having pleased God to remove a young Woman from a Family in Colchester where I have had very kind Christian Acquaintance and Reception and had Opportunity of knowing and observing that Person as one who gave all Reasons of Hope of her Love to Jesus Christ his Truths Holy Ways and to his Servants and of Faith and Hope in Him A Sermon hereupon was Preached in Remembrance of Her by a Person I must acknowledge a Stranger to me my self a Stranger to him any other way than by Discourse of Friends this Sermon Presented to Them by Him was by Him and Them my very estemeed Friends the near Relations of the Deceased put wholly under my Power And that Grand Scripture so every way Great in it self was so fitted to the great Purposes of a Discourse on that Prohibition of the Servants of God continuing here That I hope without any just Reason of Offence on either side I took the Advantage of it and not slighting or waving what I found to my Purpose in the Sermon have yet taken the Freedom to adapt all thereunto and have with the most Christian Friendly Respects to that Person and to that Family and to the Memory of their deceased Relation and as a Memorial of the before-recited with all other the Servants of God so lately remov'd I have as I Earnestly Desired to make it Publick so now done And so as that it may be both in Honour to them and also may be recommended to all the living Servants of Christ as a Mirror of their own State in Life and Death and that it might be blessed in general to all Readers but above all that it might be supremely to the Honour of the great Founder of that Happy Society of his Servants who appoints each their Measure in his Service and the Time of it and lays his Prohibition upon them of exceeding either by Death To Him be the