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A36854	A sermon preached in the metropolitical Church of Canterbury, October 17, MDCLXXII, at the funeral of the Very Reverend Thomas Turner, D.D., dean of the same church by Peter du Moulin ...	Du Moulin, Peter, 1601-1684.	1672 (1672)	Wing D2567; ESTC R10909	12,567	32

thou in the midst of thine enemies Is not liberty a great gain to a slave and a prisoner To a man that served his lust his belly his money his revengeful mind and the Devil by them what a gain is it by serving God to become Master at home to feel in his breast instead of a storm of unruly passions the peace of God which passeth all understanding and to find to his great comfort that where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty What a great gain is it to be made rich in good works rich in God What a great gain is it for us to give those goods which we cannot keep and thereby to purchase goods which we cannot loose To sow upon earth that which we shall be sure to reap in heaven To put out our money to Gods bank who will repay it an hundred fold And how great a gain is the practice of godliness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Godliness is a great gain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with sufficiency A great gain which brings along sufficiency and contentment for so the text must be understood Of that many a good soul could say much by feeling experience For although the great gain of godliness be not for this world as the kingdom of Christ is not of it Yet Christ who is the Sovereign Lord of nature as well as King of the Church engageth his Royal word that all that serve him and sincerely seek his glory shall not need to say What shall we eat or what shall we drink or wherewithal shall we be clothed because their heavenly Father knoweth that they have need of all these things Mat. 6.33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you This is the Charter of Christs Disciples that they may confidently cast their cares upon him for he careth for them and so forsake all interesses to follow him But this is the least gain that we get by Christ in this life The great gain is the beginning of eternal life For the spiritual life in a godly mans breast is of one piece with life everlasting after the temporal is ended To have at hand the directions of his word the counsels of his Spirit the comforts of his love the joyes of his salvation To have a free access unto the throne of grace at all times To make one already in the quire of Angels and Saints singing with them Holy Holy Holy Lord God of hosts heaven and earth is full of the Majesty of his glory To be joyful in hope looking up unto Jesus the Author and finisher of our faith who went up through the rough way of the Cross to glory to make us a plain way to the same This is the gain that comes to us even in this life by having Christ Join to these the comforts that we relish in all conditions Is it prosperity the true Christian takes it as an effect of Gods promise which was made good to this reverend godly Divine that by humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honour and life Pro. 22.4 and that godliness is profitable for all things having the promises of this life and of that which is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 In every morsel he will relish how the Lord is gracious In his health in his wealth in his hopeful family he will ever look more to the giver than to the gift and adore him in whom he liveth and moveth and hath his being and his well being Is he in adversity He will say I know whom I have believed God hath a hand in all this Psal 39. I will be dumb and not open my mouth to murmur for thou O Lord hast done it My cross is my Saviours livery My humble conformity to his sufferings will end in a conformity to his glory if I may have the same mind which was also in Christ Jesus who humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the Cross Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name Now that gain which we have by Christ in this life is but a preparative to that grand and unmatchable gain in Christ which his true Disciples attain unto by death Christ is a gain unto them to die two ways by avoyding the sting and the terrours of death and by a passage unto an eternal life of holiness and glory The sting and terrour of approaching death is most tormenting to those that have taken no pains to make Christ the gain of their life What a cutting of their heart is it when they have fixt it upon the beloved world and they must be violently torn off from the world Linquenda tellus domus placens uxor And of all the wealth which they have heapt up with anxious care and wicked labour they see they carry nothing away but a winding sheet But the worst sting of death is that which they feel in their conscience when it sets before them the years spent in deboish the unrighteousness of their purchases their contempt of Gods word their slighting of his service their blasphemous and unclean conversation and upon that pronounceth unto them as Gods Officer the doom of divine justice which must be shortly executed upon them It is true many of those sinners in grain die senseless Yet before their death the sting of eternal death meets with their consciences even in the midst of their jollities And many sinners of a lower form feel it all their lives time To heal consciences of that sting was the great end of the Son of God's coming and dying in our flesh As you have it illustriously set forth Heb. 2.14 That Christ took part of flesh and blood that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the Devil And deliver them who through fear of death are all their lives time subject unto bondage This is the great remedy against that mortal sting of death sent by the Father of mercies to poor sinners A never sading remedy when sinners have the grace to receive it with a sincere faith effectual in an humble repentance and a serious amendment For then the soul reconciled with God looks upon death with quite another eye then before and saith O death where is thy sting Rom. 7. O grave where is thy victory Death do not look grim upon me I know who hath overcome thee Conscience do not think to fright me I know whom I have believed I have committed my spirit assoiled with Christs blood into his victorious hands And I know he is both willing and powerful to defend it against all the principalities and powers of hell that are roaring about me to devour me After that deliverance from the sting and the terrour of death followeth the attainment of eternal life and death it self is the passage unto it There is that difference between