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A64962	The great change discoursed of in a funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Martha Thompson, late wife of Captain William Thompson in Wapping. Preached by Nathanael Vincent, M A. minister of the gospel.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1682 (1682)	Wing V408; ESTC R219229	19,844	35

is come indeed Believers are engaged in a Warfare and they must stand to their Arms and be upon Duty till the Captain of their Salvation call them off in order to their crowning They have need of Patience that they may act and fight and suffer unweariedly Hark to the Apostle Heb. 10. 36 37. For ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye may receive the promise for yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry All our life long by patient continuance in well doing we must seek for glory and honour and immortality and then upon our dissolution we shall lay hold of that life which is eternal In the second place I am to lay down the Reasons why 't is the Saints practise to wait for their change 1. Because the coming of it is so certain in it self and so uncertain as to the time when 't will be All our cares cannot prevent our Change Death will surely come The Decree concerning it is much more unalterable than those of the Medes and Persians Dan. 6. 12. But the time of its approach is concealed To some it comes in the evening of their Age to some at mid-day to some in the very morning of their time All graves are not of a length Some old and that 's no wonder some Infants and some in their greatest vigor have been struck down by Death and shall rise no more till the last day All therefore at all times should be watchful 2. The spiritual advantage is vastly great which follows upon serious waiting for their change Waiting for Death will make men flee from sin When Satan speaks of sin's pleasure and gain if answer be made O but at death will sin be thought pleasant and gainful This will be enough to silence him Waiting for Death will make this World contemptible When Esau was at the point of Death he cries out What profit will this birth right do me Gen. 25. 32. So if we have Death in our eye we shall cry out What profit will the World then do us when we are just about to leave it Again Waiting for death will keep our Affections moderate neither grief nor joy will be excessive about earthly things Christ will be the more prized and Heaven more longed for 3. The misery is inconceivable which falls upon them who never thought of Death so as to be prepared for it It is terrible in it self but hell following after it has ten thousand times a more terrible second Death is sent unto the ungodly in wrath as an Excecutioner they dye as malefactors The righteous indeed are cut down as Corn that is fully ripe that it may be gathered into the barn Mat 13. 30 But Death hews down the wicked as a man fells fuel for the fire they are evil trees that cumber the earth Luk. 13. 7. Cut it down why cumbereth it the ground And immediately they become eternal feul for those flames that never can be quenched Vse 1. Of Reproof to those who can't endure to think of Death or if they do make an ill use of it Many quite banish the thoughts of dying they are resolved to live wickedly and don't care to consider that such a life will end nor to consider how 't will end The Rich Man had Death quite out of his thoughts and reckon'd upon living many years in which he should take his ease eat drink and be merry When Death was entring in at his door and his Soul just ready to be required God calls this man a fool and after he was out of the World he saw reason to call himself by that Name for ever Others also are sharply to be reproved who because they must dye are resolved to indulge the Flesh while they may What profane frantick Epicures were they who said Let us eat and drink to day for we shall die to morrow Vse 2. Of Exhortation to the imitation of Holy Job in tbe Text. Let me perswade you all All the days of your appointed time to be waiting for your Change Have many a solicitous thought whither it is that Death will send you Ask your Souls whither they are likely to go when they dislodge and leave this Earthly Tabernacle Dye you must 't is dreadful to dye in sin and few dye otherwise Prepare I beseech you for that which you cannot avoid 'T is in vain when death is within view to plead thus O Death I never thought of thy approach none of my main work alas is done I am utterly unfit to go to the Judgment-Seat If I dye now I dye miserable and shall be miserable for ever Death comes at Gods command and whether you are prepared or unprepared when God says Strike it cannot hold its hand Think of this and let Death find you ready come when it will Two things you are here to be advised to 1. Let there be a looking to Jesus to take out the Sting of Death Believe in him that he may give you Victory over this last Enemy Christ can deliver you from the Curse of the Law now the Law the Apostle tells you is the strength of Sin as Sin is the Sting of Death Apply and relie upon the Blood of Jesus to be Justified and to be Saved from Wrath. The Apostle desired to be sound in Christ and if Death find you in him it may kill you but it can't hurt you nay if you are in Christ and live to him Death will be gain and greater gain than while you live you can conceive 2. Look unto Jesus to be freed from that bondage which is caused by the fear of dying Heb. 2. 14 15. You cannot be compleatly happy while you live because you will remain incompleatly Holy Study the vanity of every thing that makes you fond of Living Clear up your interest in Jesus Christ and preserve Conscience clear and peaceable And let your Eye be after your Risen and Ascended Lord who was dead and is alive and lives for evermore that so you may long to go to him to be with him in those mansions he is gone to prepare O beg for Conquest over your Fears and that you may see heaven plainly by the Eye of Faith and heaven open and Christ ready to receive your Spirits assoon as you have put off your sleshly Tabernacle Life is then lead in peace when Death ceases to be dreaded and becomes desirable An Epitaph upon Mrs. Martha Thompson Her Name was Martha but she had the Heart Of Mary for She chose the Better part In patience meekness humbleness of Mind She did Excel the most of Womankind She waited for her Change which being Come She 's at her Blisful and Eternal Home Her Friends lament they 've lost her whereas She Has bid Farewel World Sin and Misery FINIS Books Published by Mr. Nathanael Vincent Sold by T. Parkhurst 1. The Spirit of Prayer with directions to attain the Gift 2. Worthy walking the Call of the Gospel 3. Heaven or Hell upon Earth in a Discourse concerning Conscience 4. The little Childs Catechism with several short Histories 5. Mr. Janeway's Funeral Sermon 6. Mrs. Bakers Funeral Sermon 7. The True Touch-stone which shews both Grace and Nature

great price Matt. 13. 46. which will both enrich and beautifie and save the Soul which is possessed of it He is to seek the Lord while he may be found and to call upon him while he is near Isa 55. 6. Now the face and strength of God shall not be sought in vain 2. Time is appointed for making Peace When the Enemy is dreadful his Wrath intollerable his Power irresistible certainly Peace is desirable Now though God be such an Enemy and that most justly an Enemy yet he is forward to be at peace he beseecheth us to be reconciled 2 Cor. 5. 20. He tells us that he is ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon him Now is the Time to obtain Mercy to believe in Jesus the Peace-maker and if we will believe in this Mediator God will be no longer a Foe but a Friend nay a Father and being justified by the blood of Christ we shall be saved from wrath through him 3. Time is appointed for conversion and healing They are now called to return who have fallen by their iniquity Hos 14. 1. How loud how frequent are these Calls what earnestness is used to make Sinners willing and obedient The Lord protests solemnly by his own life that he has no pleasure in their Death Ezek. 33. 11. As I live saith the Lord I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live turn ye turn ye from your evil ways for why will you die O house ●f Israel And if such Calls to turn are hearkned to ●…ncere Converts though before never so ungodly shall be loved freely their Souls healed and saved 4. Time is appointed for working That was a just rebuke which was given Mat. 20. 6. Why stand ye here all the day idle There is a Work which we are with all care and fear to avoid and that is the serving of sinful Lusts and Pleasures Have no fellowship says the Apostle with the unfruitful works of darkness Eph. 5. 11. But the Work of God we should be employed in with heart and hand with our whole might and strength we should count it our Meat and Drink to do it Now is the Time to depart from evil and to do good that we may dwell for evermore And though we are never so stedfast though we abound never so much in Gods Work our labour shall not be in vain 5. Time is appointed for Warring The enemies of our Salvation are many and mighty but they are conquerable nay they have been already Conquered and Triumphed over by the Captain of our Salvation He has condemned Sin in the flesh Rom. 8. 3. He has spoiled Principalities and Powers and made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in the Cross Col. 2. 15. He has overcome the World Joh. 16. ult What though these enemies are above our Match if we vigorously engage in the Combat being strong in the Lord and in the power of his might putting on the whole armour of God we shall be more than Conquerors in the end Sin is the worst Enemy of all if Sin be subdued we need not fear any other 6. Time is appointed to make provision for eternity A future State is certain and 't is very near Man must of necessity be to Eternity and therefore not to think of or be concerned about or provide for Eternity is the very height of madness We should justly blame a man that should spend his Estate in fareing sumptuously for a day and beg all his days after But how much more blame-worthy is he who minds only a short and present Consolation and ventures upon Eternal Misery Now is the time to lay up in store for our selves a good foundation that we may lay hold of eternal life 1 Tim. 6. 19 7 Time is appointed to render Man inexcusable in case of final obstinacy and impenitency When God calls if man refuses and will not know the day of his gracious visitation but neglects the things which concern his peace then if he dye an Enemy and is dealt with as an Enemy and is thrown into everlasting Punishment the fault is his own God will be justified and clear'd when man receives the Sentence of Eternal Condemnation How may the Reprobate Angels accuse and plead against sinful Man at the great Day and say O thou Righteous Judge They have done worse than We they have contemned Mercy which we never had the offer of We never had any but they have had space to Repent and yet they Repented not Vse 1. If time is appointed to man acknowledge the merciful kindness of God towards him His suffering sinful Man to live so long and to enjoy the seasons and means of Grace is a plain demonstration of his Compassions towards him and how unwilling he is that Man should perish To this purpose speaks the Apostle 2 Pet. 3. The Lord is long-suffering to us-ward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to Repentance Man is dead in Law condemned to die how great is that Mercy that steps in between Sentence and Execution and allows so much time to sue for Pardon Vse 2. Admire the lasting of time where 't is sinfully wasted and lavisht away When onely Sin and Satan are served with that Time which God gives 't is a wonder that it i● not suddenly taken away The Patience of an All-seeing All-powerful and Holy God is a marvellous thing towards sinful Man though he lives to the provocation and dishonour of his Maker and Preserver yet behold he lives still Yet let not Man presume for the more patience has been abused the greater will be the following fury and the Viols of Wrath will be the fuller against the day of Righteous Judgment Vse 3. Comply with Gods design in vouchsafing time to you Much is lost and oh what a Preasure was that which is lost therefore redeem the remainder If you Time be done and your Work undone you are undone without remedy The slothful servant who was sleeping when he should have been Working was bound hand and foot and cast into utter Darkness Work hard in the Lords Vineyard that when he comes to reckon he may find you employed diligently Luk. 12. 43. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing Vse 4. Remember that the bounds of time are unknown and therefore do not reckon as if there were a great deal to come The Prodigal that thinks his Estate will never b● spent how does he send it flying if you reckon you shall live very long 't is a thousand to one but you will live very ill How was the Old World drowned in wickedness before it was drown'd in Water and one reason might be because 't was usual for men to live Seven or eight or nine hundred years hence grew security in Sin God was neglected Death unthought of and Repentance delay'd Death may be very near