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A59397	A sermon design'd for the funeral of Ed. Wiseman Esq late of East-Lockinge in the county of Berks. Who was buried at Stevinton near Abingdon November the ninth, 1694. By Will. Sevill, Master of Arts, and Fellow of C.C.C. Oxford. Published at the request of many gentlemen of Berks.	Sevill, William, b. 1667 or 8.	1694 (1694)	Wing S2818A; ESTC R221098	13,819	37

that a frequent Premeditation of it is a part of the greatest Wisdom and the best means to conquer the Suggestions of Nature and to stir us up to the performance of Good Works whilst it is call'd to day So for the same ends and more especially to comfort the Souls of the Righteous A like Voice to that was heard in these latter times from Heaven to bid St. John in the words now handled not to cry but to write Cry not to the Inhabitants of the Earth at present but write Record it to all Ages of the World and what is thus to be written or recorded by virtue of this Charge from on high Blessed are the Dead that dye in the Lord from henceforth Yea saith the Spirit for they rest from their Labours and their Works follow them Blessed are the Dead that dye in the Lord. By which Persons so pronounced Blessed I know that * Qui Christi causâ mortis pericula adeunt Saith Grotius upon the Place and Translates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Qui propter Dominum vel Domini causâ moriuntur As also Beza Junius and Others some Interpreters have understood here in a proper Sence only Those that have Sacrificed their Lives to seal the Truth of their Religion with their Blood or Those that have laid them down for Christ's Name-sake or their Faith in him and that by reason of some preceding part of this Chapter which speaks of a Vision wherein a Third Angel was seen and heard to say with a loud Voice Ver. 9 10. If any Man Worship the Beast and his Image the same shall drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God and afterwards Here is the Patience of the Saints Ver. 12. Intimating as they would have it that the sole intent of the Spirit in these words was to chear up the Hearts of the Primitive Professors of Christianity so as to make them to bid Defiance to those Persecutions which the Rage of the prejudiced World and the Madness of the Idolatrous Heathen were then bringing in upon them and in order to that to tell them that the Persons so Dying in the Lord were those that are now pronounced Blessed Yea Blessed for ever Blessed if GOD be true are such but that these are not the only Persons here meant is evident from the Character given of them in the words immediately before my Text Here are they that keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus which no sooner was proclaim'd by the Angel but the Voice is directed to St. John Saying write Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord that is according to the Connexion those that dye in the LORD as having kept the Commandments of GOD and the Faith of JESUS so that as long as the sence of these words may properly be extended farther than Martyrs * Sicut in Christo esse dicuntur que ei verâ fide constanter adhaerent in Christo vivere qui vivunt ad voluntatem Christi ita in Domino mori dicuntur qui in vera fide invocatione Domini per fidem Christo insiti ut vera membra corporis ejus moriuntur Par. Cluv. Gat. to all true Disciples of our Blessed Saviour who by whatever Death they fall have sincerely endeavour'd to keep the Commandments of GOD upon their Failure been truly penitent and by a lively Faith in the Merits and Satisfaction of our Saviour's Sufferings commended themselves to His Mercy They may pertinently and profitably be discoursed upon at this Solemnity whilst we are paying our last Office to this our late Dearly-beloved and much-esteemed BROTHER Whose sincere and hearty Repentance Whose constant Piety and fervent Devotion and Whose chearful Resignation of Himself to GOD's Disposal of all which I was a daily Witness gives me confidence to say In every part He fulfilled the Character Be pleas'd then in them to consider these Particulars First A Declaration of the Blessedness or State of Happiness of All those that dye in the Lord. Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord. Secondly A full Assurance or Confirmation of it Yea saith the Spirit And lastly A Twofold Reason containing in it the Nature of that their Blessedness or State of Happiness That they may or rather † So we find 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 translated in our Liturgy for they rest from their labours and their works follow them But that my Discourse upon these Heads may be the more Clear and Regular I shall invert their Order and begin with the last viz. The Twofold Reason containing in it the Nature of their Blessedness And when we have seen in some measure what their State of Happiness is I shall speak something very briefly to the two first viz. The Declaration and Confirmation of it both together that thereby we may be satisfy'd of the full Assurance we have that such shall be their Portion that dye in the Lord. And that what shall be deliver'd may have such an Impression upon us as to move us earnestly to endeavour to be found at the last of their number I shall add something as an Application suitable to the present Occasion and so conclude I begin then with the Nature of that Blessedness that is said to be the Portion of those that dye in the Lord contain'd in this that They rest from their labours and their works follow them Which evidently manifests this unto us that the Nature of their Happiness consists First Negatively in a Cessation or Freedom from all or their not being tormented with any worldly labours and troubles and Secondly Positively in the Enjoyment of inconceivably great Rewards consequent upon their good Works And first Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord inasmuch as they happily enjoy a Cessation or freedom from all their worldly labors and troubles They rest from their labours And indeed so many are the laborious miseries of this vain world that by reason of them the Thracians of old wept at the Birth of those Children who were ready to be brought under their Burden and celebrated the Funerals of those who by Death were freed from them with Musical Entertainments and we Christians according to the Rules of our Church do now-a-days with hearty Thanksgivings to our GOD for that it hath pleased Him to deliver them from the miseries of this sinful world which is not a less Rational than a Religious Custom For how sadly has Sin defaced our Souls and made our Understandings become so short-sighted that we cannot penetrate into the true Nature of many things nay nor scarce get a thorow Apprehension of some few necessary ones without much study Eccles 12.12 which as the Wiseman speaks is a weariness of the Flesh The corruptible Body presseth down the Soul Wisd 9.15 16. and with labour do we find out the things that are before us How wretchedly by the same Original sin are our Wills corrupted that when we seem to our selves most