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A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Jane Papillon late wife of the very worthy Thomas Papillon, Esq; first preached July 24. 1698. and now published at his request. By John Woodhouse.
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Woodhouse, John, d. 1700.
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1698
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use them This was not the way of this Holy Woman our Deceased Friend She has I know during my Acquaintance with her exercised her self in finding out and laying up Marks and Evidences of her Holy and Happy State I have heard her mention with a peculiar Thankfulness the Labours of those Ministers that have been helpful to her in it and let me tell you that you and I have to speak modestly as much need to do it as she had If thou think'st so it were easie to put thee in a way to do it whilst thou hast Health and Strength of Body and Composure of Mind to attend to it with Application of Soul for now is the Time if indeed thou wouldest have it done effectually done and because the Time will not give me leave to set down such Marks as as thou mayest depend upon in particular Let me pray thee to reflect back upon what I have said by way of Exhortation and ask thy Conscience if thou have thus received Christ Jesus the Lord art thou united to him art thou thus in him dost thou thus walk in him and live to him And hear what a wakeful and well enlightned Conscience will give thee in Answer and judge of thy Case accordingly Or because it is so much better done by better Hands read over the Marks of Grace and Sincerity as thou findest them set down to thy Hand in Practical Books for the Examination of the Truth of Grace and mark what falls from the Pulpit on that Design put them in Writing under Two Heads 1. Put down such as Conscience is clearest in and look oft upon them that thou mayest keep them clear and avoid all that clouds them 2. In another Place Put down such Marks as are plain Scripture-Marks but not so legible to thee by reason of some prevailing Disease of Soul that gets Entertainment there and so renders thy sincerity in Grace suspected by thee now and will do it more in a sick and dying Hour for Conscience will then speak out and will be heard at another rate than now thou hearest it View these frequently lay them on thy Table for that purpose or carry them about thee that at leisure times thou may'st be working thy Heart up to them and plying the Throne of Grace for ability to do it and for the Witness of the Spirit that thou hast done it Find out what Sin it is thou art most indulgent to that gives cause of Fear it is in Dominion and what Duty and Service thou stickest most at and daily urge thy Heart to keep the greatest distance from the one and to set presently about the other But I may not enlarge on Particulars I must leave that to you Well Friend go Home then and say to thine own Soul this is a Matter of great Concernment of Self-concernment I have bestowed many an Hour on that which is of lesser Moment of more remote Concernment I have left this at great Uncertainties a great while but I will now bring it to Issue that I may know where Death will land me in this Happiness or that Misery And do not satisfie your selves with any Evidence of your Grace or Title to Glory but what will abide the Test at Death and Judgment go by true Measures rightly applyed that thou deceive not thy self in this important Affair Thirdly Lastly This Doctrine would afford abundant Matter of Support and Consolation to such as are United to and Interested in Jesus Is it so That they are Blessed that dye in the Lord do they rest from their Labours and do their Works follow them First Had I time to Open this Fountain of Consolation I might easily make it appear that this might support and comfort all those Souls that are in Jesus under all the Miseries and Calamities of this Life Secondly Against the Hurt and Horrour of Death First As to First The Calamities of Life it may be they are many and great too Sickness Pain Sorrow Disgrace Poverty Loss of Dear Râ—lations and what not Well were they worse than they are they shall all be fully and finally done away at Death these are not entailed on the Children of God for ever God loves them better than to permit them to abide in such a boysterous state of things for ever I must not Enlarge Briefly Secondly As to the Second The Hurt and Fear of Death which is so terrible to innocent much more so to sinful Nature you had need be well secured against them Sin hath put such a Venemous Sting into Death as fills it with just Horror But to a Soul in Christ this hurtful 1 Cor. 15. 55 56 Sting is taken out Death is become a Sleeping in Jesus the Evil of it which is destructive is done away it is now become the Passage into the Joy of your Lord as I have largely opened to you upon a late Occasion and may not add more now This well thought of may support and comfort thy Dejected Soul under the Nearest Views of thy Approaching Change Well Sirs tho' I must have done what once more say you There is a Blessedness is it like to be yours Will you take Care it may be yours Will you get Evidence it is yours in Title now and shall be yours in Possession when you dye that you may have Peace whilst you live and Comfort when you dye and this Blessedness after Death which all shall have that dye in the Lord For it came by a Voice from Heaven to John he had it in Command to write for our Support it is an Indubitable Truth Blessed are the Dead that dye in the Lord c. FINIS ERRATA PAge 3. Line 20. between and and to add should be pag. 11. lin 1. read Secondly It doth suppose their Abiding and Walking in him from c. pag. 47. lin 22. put one in the place of such and such in the place of one pag. 51. l. 26. dele not