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A67173	The mourners memorial in two sermons on the death of the truly pious Mris. Susanna Soame, late wife of Bartholomew Soame of Thurlow, Esq., who deceased Febru. 14, 1691/2 : with some account of her death / by Timothy Wright, Robert Fleming.	Wright, Timothy.; Fleming, Robert, 1660?-1716.	1695 (1695)	Wing W3712; ESTC R25216	54,544	137

Heb. 10. v. 38. have no pleasure in him He that would so run as to obtain must not think it enough to set out right to begin well but he must hold on till he comes to the end of the prescribed course or else he looseth all As he must be careful to run the very race that is set before him keeping his feet in the direct path that is delineared for him by the divine Precepts without turning aside to any crooked way either on the right hand or on the left So he must be sure to run to the end of it not desisting till he arrive there or else he will run in vain 3. The last and highest gradation in this account that the Text gives of the way and manner of seeking regularly for glory and honour and immortality is made by the addition of patience unto this perseverance in well-doing And this Patience hath respect both to present evils endured and to future good expected in the way of our duty For patience is exercised by the Children of God in this state of their minority imperfection both these ways viz. in enduring and in waiting indeed in both respects they have need of patience that after they have done the Heb. 10. v. 36. Will of God they may receive the promise First All the Heirs of Glory during the time of their minority do stand in need of patience as it is to be exercised in enduring the many afflictive evils that they meet with in the course of their obedience and continuance in well-doing For as Gods ancient People Israel passed through a troublesome and howling Wilderness into the promised Land So all True Christians must expect through much Acts 14. v. 22. tribulation to enter into the Kingdom of God And therefore our Lord Jesus Christ told his disciples that in the John 16. v. 33. World they should have tribulation And indeed there is such a great variety of troubles to which the best of men are exposed here in this life as may sufficiently convince them that here is not Mich. 2. v. 10. their rest But all these are quietly and patiently undergone with a silent humble and meek submission to the divine Soveraign disposing hand that orders all by such as have eternal glory in their eye and aim in somuch that they do not only persevere in doing good with unwearied diligence but also hold out in suffering evils with invincible patience Col. 1. v. 11. being strengthened thereunto according to the glorious power of the divine grace Secondly They do exercise patience in waiting as well as in enduring For as the Apostle speaks they hope for Rom. 8. v. 25. that which yet they see not and therefore do with patience wait for it And this is that kind of patience which the Apostle James exhorts unto Jam. 5. 7 8. Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it until he receive the early and the latter rain Be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draws nigh And the right Seekers after Glory and happiness are no strangers to the exercise of this kind of patience And therefore they are not weary in well-doing because they know that in due season they shall Gal. 6. v. 9. reap if they faint not and that every thing is most pleasant as well as most beautiful Eccl. 3. v. 11. in its season And thus have I shewn you at large the extensive import of the Character by which the Heirs of future blessedness are here described And so I come more briefly II. To consider in the next place the nature and excellency of that final happiness which doth by the divine ordination and appointment belong to them as their everlasting inheritance as it is here summ'd up in those two comprehensive words Eternal Life Which contain more in them than all the united eloquence of men and Angels is able to express and set forth It is a phrase more frequently than any other made use of in Scripture summarily to express the great felicity to which the glorified Saints are advanced in the heavenly Mansions And it doth very aptly serve to lead our Minds into some more general Conceptions of the greatness and glory of it tho' indeed all that can be said or thought falls infinitely short of being commensurate unto it Life is the sweetest of all enjoyments and therefore that is the last thing that any man will part with so long as he is able to retain it and Eternal life is the highest Job 2. ver 4. and most noble kind of life of which the nature of Man when in the utmost elevation is susceptive of And the excellency of it will more clearly appear to us if we consider it more distinctly first with respect to what is more directly imported in it and then with respect to what it doth necessarily connote when understood in that latitude in which the phrase is most frequently if not always used in Scripture 1. If we consider it in the more direct import of it so it appears to have a very radiant excellency in it that doth far out-shine the brightest part of this Worlds glory For it must be understood to singifie somewhat more than a bare immortality or a meer living for ever for that belongs also to the wicked that are turned into Hell and hath no happiness in it if abstractly considered even a glorious ineffable and everlasting union with God the fountain of life whereby the Spirits of just men made perfect dwelling in God the all-comprehending Spirit do so far as the finite capacity of a creature will admit everlastingly possess a perfect plenitude of life And this is elsewhere in Scripture express'd by being ever with the Lord. And this 1 Thes 4. v. 17. we are to conceive the Souls of the Saints to enter upon immediately after death altho' their bodies are not to be advanced to a participation in it until the resurrection when they also shall be made immortal and fashioned like unto Christs glorious Body according to the Phil. 3. v. 21. working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself 2. If we consider this Eternal life with respect to what it doth necessarily connote so it will appear to be still more excellent and glorious For as that God in whom the glorified Saints have most intimately their everlasting residence is in himself the fountain of life or the living God So he is also the fountain of blessedness And therefore as by being for ever with the Lord they do everlastingly possess a perfect plenitude of life in 2 Cor. 5. v. 4. which every thing of mortality shall at last be swallowed up So they must needs also enjoy together therewith a perfect fulness of whatsoever can be conceived of under the notion