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A93110	Of the foure last and greatest things: death, iudgement, heaven and hell. The description of the happinesse of heaven, and misery of hell, by way of antithesis. With the way or means to passe through death, and judgement, into heaven, and to avoid hell. / By VVilliam Shepheard, Esquire.	Sheppard, William, d. 1675?	1649 (1649)	Wing S3196; Thomason E551_7; ESTC R205687	96,747	120

14. 7 8. 5. And we are then like the Swan to endeavour to sing sweetest by our devout prayers and praises to God and gratious speeches to men So Iacob Gen. 49. David 2 Sam. 23 Christ Luke 23. 34. Stephen Acts 〈◊〉 56. Isaac Heb. 11. 22. Iob. Iob. 1. 21. we shall say somewhat more to this p●●nt in the next branch which we are now to descend unto 4. The fourth thing we are to be exhorted unto from this doctrine of the necessity of dying is to make a virtue of this necessity and not to fear death but when we see our time is come to die let us resolutely patiently and willingly undergo ●t A naturall and moderate fear of it as it is an Enemy to nature 〈◊〉 be cha●ged as an evill upon us being no other but what was in the 〈◊〉 h●●rt of Christ Jesus but an immoderate afflicting distracting fear of it is to be avoyded of all Christians And for the Cure hereof and our further fitting for death let us be well instructed in the nature thereof to a beleever as it is set forth in the Gospell wherein we have these considerations 1. That there is a necessity of it and it cannot be avoyded Psal 49. 7. 2. It is sancti●ed and sweetned by Christs death so as it is not now a curse but a blessing a passage a departure a change of roomes a going out of a worse place into a better 3. Assoon as the body goeth out of this world it goeth to a place of rest where it shall be troubled no more and then Gods Covenant of peace shall be made good to it And to speak properly the beleeving Christian doth not die he lyeth down to sleep in his bed for his death is but the bodies going to bed and to sleep after the many labours of the day of this life are ended out of which he shall awake after the night of death is past at the morning of the r●surrection to everlasting life and no s●oner is the soule out of the body then it is in possession thereof Esay 57. 2 3. The righteous are taken away c. he shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds c. 2 King 32. 20. Thou shal s be gathered to thy fathers in●eace Matt. 9. 24. Acts 7. 60. He fell asleepe 4. The body by death is not reduced to nothing as the body of a bea●t is but it is only resolved to earth again where the ●otting of it is only to refine it that as the Corne which first di●●h it may arise more glorious 1 Cor. 15. 36. Gen. 3. 19. So that death to the Saints is neither totall but of the body only nor perpetuall but for a time only Rom. 8. 10. 5. God is as much the God of the dead as of the living beleever Mat. 22. 34. God is not the God of the dead but of the living i. his Covenant is with them to make them happy in communicating to them grace life and glory and this Covenant is with the body as well as with the soul Rom. 14. 8. Whether we live or die we are the Lords 6. The body and soul of a beleever notwithstanding the death of the body is still a member of Christ Ephe. 5. 30. Rom. 14. 8. Death devides us not from God but brings us home to him 7. God hath the power of death and the grave and his providence doth dispose thereof and of everything therein and he will be with the beleever in this estate to support him under and deliver him out of it and to turn it to his good and he w●● not leave him till he hath settled his soul and body in heaven Rev. 18. I have the Keyes of Hell and Death i. power to keep from or deliver to death Iude verse 9. Acts 4. 28. Psalm 16. 10. 11. Thou wi●● not leave my Soule in grave nor suffer thi●● holy one to see corruption Heb. 2. 14 15. Acts 2. 24. Psalm 116. 15. The death of his Saints is pretious to him 1. either God will preserve them from wicked hands or will sharply revenge their death on them that kill them Acts 20. 24. 2 Kings 1. 13. Psal 72. 14. 8. The death of the beleever cannot seperate his soul from Christs love to it or its love to Christ Iohn 11. 5. 20. 3. 1. Rom. 8. 38. 39. What shall sep●rate us from the love of Christ Shall death c. 9. Death reacheth to the body only and not to the soul Mat. 10. 28. Feare not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the Soule c. 10. By death God requireth again of us that soul he ●●usted us with and every honest man will willingly deliver up his trust when it is required Eocles 12. 12. 11. The sting of death is now taken away to the beleever that it cannot hurt him 1 Cor. 15. 55. Buzze it may snake whose sting ●● pulled out 1● The Angels will be ready to receive and carry the beleevers sould into the presence of the God of peace in Heaven Luke 16. 22. 23. Death shall be destroyed and it is the last Enemy that shall be destroyed ●evel 20 v. 14. ● C●rin●h 15. v. 26. Rev. 20. 14. 14. The body of the beleever shall be gloriously raised after death to die no more for then death shall be swallowed up into victory and body and soul united and placed in eternall felicity for the soul being loosed out of prison the body may not be kept in prison 2 Cor. ● 1. Rev. 21. 4. 20. 13. 1 Thes 4. 13. Psalm 49. 14 15 16. 8 9. 1 Cor. 15. 43. Iohn 6. 39. Rom. 8. 11. To say all in one word death to the beleever makes a happy change and doth infinitly better his condition for it ●reeth him from all evill and puts him in possession of all good It ●reeth him from the evill of sin and pun●●●ment felt and feared present and to come and puts an end to all his cares fears teares labours griefs combats with sin the world and the Devill for in death he gets beyond and above them all It is a passage and going from Aegyt to Canaan out of an old rotten house wherein a man hath no estate at all into a glorious Mansion and Kingly pallace of his own inheritance the going out of a base prison to a glorious liberty the return from a banishment to his own Country and home the comming to the haven after a long and dangerous voyage by sea It is a going to bed after a man hath laboured hard all day and is ●yred and weary It is a going from corruption to incorruption from mortallity to immortallity from death to life from earth to heaven from a miserable to a happy life It is the putting off a mans old ragged Cloathes to put on princely robes It is a loosing from the shore and a lanching out into the main to take possession of a Kingdome It is the

of the field Prov. 23. 9. Iob 38. 22. they are rather the shaddow and appearances of things then the things themselves 1 Cor. 7. 3● The fashion of this world passeth away It is as one saith like the water of a river that runs by a City or as a fair picture drawn upon the Yee that melts away with it The pompe of this world is but a fantasie and the glory of it an opinion there is nothing of any firmnes or solid consistency in the creature it is but a surface outside or empty promise all the beauty of it is but a skin deep Psal 39. 6. Surely every man walketh in a vain shaddow i. he leadeth an imaginary life rather then a life it self It is but an ig●is fatuus a walking fire that leads men into brakes and ditches so the hue of this world deceiveth and car●yeth them another way out of the right way for both the words and shews of the wo●ld are full of fraud 5. That which is good and reall in it is as transitory as a hastie head-long river The posting ●un of all wordly pleasure after a short gleam of vain glistering sets in the Ocean of endlesse sorrow sic transit glori● mundi 6 All these things are but a piece of vanitie Eccles 1. 3. vainitie of vaniti●s and all is vanitie i. most vain and exceeding full of vanitie it hath no continuance soliditie or profit in it but is full of unprofitable travaile and false deceit men come to the worlds felicitie as to a lotterie with heads full of hopes but return with hearts full of blanks 7 They are not onely vain but ve●ing they do not only not satisfie but torture and torment the mind as the body is tormented being set on a ra●k or bed of thorns the care of getting the fear of keeping and the grief of spending and loosing like three vultures do continually feed upon and ●at up the heart 1 Tim. 6. 10. Ephes 6. ●● 5. 1● Psal 127. 2. 8 They are most uncertain things 1 Tim. 6. 17. Trust not in uncertain riches Job 38. 22. For happily they may be taken from us and leave us before we die Prov. 23. 5. Wilt thou set thine eye upon that which is 〈◊〉 For riches certainly make themselves wings and fly away as an Eagle towards heaven Prov. 27 4. Riches are not for ever and doth the Crown endure to every generation But were we sure they could continu● with us we may not continue with them for our life itself is most uncertain this onely is certain that we must shortly die and leave all these things behinde us and go as naked out of the world as we came into the world Job 1. 21. Psal 49. 16 17. He shall take nothing away when he dieth neither shall his pom●●●●scend after him Eccles 6. 11. and being once dead we shall live no more this life Iob 14. 14. If a man die shall belive again Yea let us be hence perswaded not much to desire or care for life it self but use it as if we used it not Let us desire it onely for Gods glory and his peoples good and so long as it may serve in order thereunto otherwise let us desire and choose rather to die Phil. 1. 23. Psal 10 2. 26. Esay 5. 17. 2 Pet. 3. 12. 6 The next thing to which we are to be exhorted is That since it is certain we must die and that we cannot tell how soon this may be and that after death there is no more time or place of doing good to our selves or others That from hence we be stirred up to be active and industrious in Gods service while we live as men that have much work to do work so much the faster by how much the neerer they see the night approach Gal. 6. 10 As we have then opportunitie let us do good Eccles 9. 10. All that thine hand shall fin●e to doe do● it with all thy power for there is neither worke nor invention nor knowledge ●●r wisdome in the grave whither thou goest Eccles 12. 1. Remember i know love fear and serve thy 〈◊〉 in the dayes of thy youth c. before dust return to dust verse 7. Death is the night where●o no man can work old age the evening and latter part of the day when it is ill working To provoke us hereunto let us set before us 1. the example of good men 2. The examples of Devils and bad men Of good men P●●d 2 Tim. 4. 5. I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departing is at hand watch therefore c. Peter 2 Pet. 1. 10. 14 15. I shall not be negligent to put you alwayes in remembrance c. And I think it meet to stirre you up c. Seeing I know the time is at hand that I must lay down this my ta●ernacle c. 2 Pet. 1. 5. Christ Luke 12. 31 32. Paul Acts 20. 28 25. The Devil also and wicked mee by how much the more short they doe perceive their time is by so much the more they doe bestir themselves to improve that time to ou● work the children of light in a quick dispatch of the works of darknes Rev. 12. 12. Luke 16. 4 5. Mat. 8. 29. And thus we have done with the exhortations deduced from this point as it hath reference to our own death Now there follows an exhortation draw from this point as it hath reference to the death of others And so it is usefull to exhort and perswade us to these things 1. As to our friends 2. as to our enemies As to our friends 1. living let us look upon and make use of them as mortall and dying friends and such as were born to die 1 Cor. 7. 29. Let them that have wives be as though they had none 2. Dead let us not mourn for them above measure and as without hope 1 Thes 4. 13. Against this disease let us applp a remedie by these considerations 1. be they good or bad friends that are dead it is Gods pleasure to have it so and this we must patiently abide Psal 90. 3. Ezech. 24. 5. 2. They must have died one time or other for man is born to die and cannot avoid it Iob 14. 1 2. 3. It may be we had them long and therefore we should be content now to let them go 4. They were ●ent us of God and there is great reason we should be content to let him have them again when he requires them 5. Our dead friends are not at all sensible of our grief 6. Our case herein is not singular but common to the Saints and to men 1 Pet. 5. 9. 7. This affliction cannot hinder Christs love 10. 11. 5. 8. Christ is sensible of our sorrow and mourneth with us 10. 11. 33 34. But if they be Saints that are departed there are some other things to be said for our quiet and comfort 9 They have made a blessed and happy change as we

things yet farther in some particulars As the misery of Hell so the happinesse of Heaven doth 〈◊〉 of two parts 1. in ●●exemption and 〈◊〉 of all ●●●ll 2. In a fruition of all good The righteous in heaven shall be freed from all manner of evill from evill spirituall for they shall not they cannot sin that which makes the holy man here to cry out O wretched man that I am c. Rom. 7. 24. they shall be freed off the Conscience shall not be unquieted any more corporall for there shall be no more offence to the body by hunger thirst cold wearines heat ●●ame sicknes death nothing shall annoy either soule or body it shall neither feel nor fear disturbance Otherice blessed condition that is so exceeding happy and whose happines is so infallibly secured Revel 21. 4. Esay 5. 8. It is said of this estate And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain c. And again Revel 7. 14 c. These are they which came out of great tribulation and they shall hunger no more nor thirst any more neither shall the Sun light on them nor any heat For the Lambe which is in the middest of the Throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes And again Esay 57. 1 2. it is said The righteous are taken away from the evill to come He shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds And in Matth. 11. 29. Come unto me all yee that are 〈◊〉 laden c. you shall finde rest to your Soules of this time and state it is that Christ speaks Mat. 22. 30. They neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the Angels of God in Heaven Hebr. 4. 9. There remaineth a rest for the People of God the which was signified by the rest the Jews had in the ●●nd 〈◊〉 Canaan Psal 95. 11. This is that also the whol creation wa●teth for Rom. 8. 22 23. For we know that the whole Creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together till now And not onely they but our selves also which have the first fruits of the spirit 〈◊〉 we ourselves gr●●n within our selves waiting for the Adoption to wit for the Redemption of our body Nay then shall do 〈◊〉 self be swallowed up in victory 1 Cor. 15. 54. So that the triumphant ●oulin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 our Lord Iesus 〈◊〉 So that here we see 〈◊〉 immunity and freedom from 〈◊〉 for Death and the 〈◊〉 shall be abolished and that last enemy shall be destroyed Coll. 3. 3. The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the Law Christ hath taken away the sin satisfied the Law and obtained eternall freedom for his own They are never to return into bondage o● to feel evill any more They are no more to come into this place for they are to dwell on high where no evill can reach them The Devil shall be shut up in chains of darknes in the prison of Hell Rom. 16. 20. no wicked perso● or thing shall be in Heaven for there dwelled righteousne●● there shall be therefore perfect freedom without any possibility of returning to bondage The second part of the happines of heaven is in the fruition of all good corporall and spirituall and albeit this doth consist of many particulars yet all these seem to be intended and contained in those three words in Rom. 2. 10. Glory Honour and Peace in opposition to the ●●ame Contempt and Trouble by which the misery of Hell is described The glory o● the Saints in Heaven 〈◊〉 wherein a part of then happines shall consist shall be in these things 1. in their bodies which being glorified shall be most beautifull and excellent either as it springs out of the blessed beauty and excellency of the soule or as it is ind●wed with an heavenly excellency originally implanted by God in it self For the Spirit of God and glory shall thou rest aboundantly upon them 1 Pet 4. 14. The body be●●●s the freedom that it shall have from all the evils thereof as lamenes mis-shapenesse sicknes hunger nakednes wearines cold and the like it shall be gloriously end●wed with many positive and wonderfull excellencies as 1. Immortality for it can never possibly die 1 Corinth 15. verse 54. but it shall live as long as God doth live so that herein their condition is a thousand times more happy th●n it was in the state of innocency in Paradise 2. Incorruptiblenes for every glorified body shall be for ev●r utterly impossible with any corruptive quality action or alteration and cannot be subject to any inward decay or dissolution 1 Cor. 15. 42. 54. 3. Power when to the Souls native strength there shall be an addition of glorifying vigour and Gods mighty spirits more plentifull habitation and it shall also put on a body which brings with it besides his own inherent power an exact ablenes and readines fitted to the Souls highest abilities how incredible mighty may we conceive a Saint in Heaven to be 1 Cor. 15 43. 4. Spiritualnes 1 Cor. 15. 44. The glorified body shall be more of the nature of the Spirit i. more active not needing food c. and more subject to the Spirit and be more fully possessed with the Spirit 5. Beauty and a shining amiablenes 1 Cor. 15. 43. The glorified body shall have an exquisite feature and stature a welfavoured and comly proportion and mutuall correspondency of all the parts thereof a sweet and amiable colour and a bright shining splendor of celestiall glory and a chearfull lively lightsome aspect and all this preserved in perpetuall freshnes with new supply of heavenly activenesse by a more glorious Soul yea the very nakednesse now the shame thereof shall be then the glory of it Phil. 3. 21. Who shall change our vile bodies that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious bodie A glimpse of which we have in Christs Transfiguration Matth. 17. 2 13 43 2 4 2. A second part of this glory shall be in the soul wherein 1. The understanding shall be abundantly and comfortably enlightened and enlarged to the uttermost that the creature can reach unto in all naturall things that may delight and especially in heavenly things as in Gods word the glorious misteries of the holy Trinity The union of Christs natures the union of his elect unto him Gods eternall councell in election and reprobation and the like 2. The will shall be conformable to Gods will 3. The memory shall still keep what it knowes 4. The affections shall be according to the perfect pattern And all this shall be in perfection 1 Cor. 13. 10 12. For when that which is perfect is come that which is in part shall be done away And it must n●eds be where there is so much grace there should 〈◊〉 to much Glorie