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A41543 A fair prospect shewing clearly the difference between things that are seen & things that are not seen, in a sermon preached at the funeral of the Honourable Lady Judith Barrington at Knebworth in Hertfordshire / by Tho. Goodwin ... Goodwin, Thomas, d. 1658. 1658 (1658) Wing G1270B; ESTC R40911 26,888 78

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be not in you if he dwell not in your hearts by Faith theremay be glittering but no Gold Except Christ be in in you you are Reprobates Reprobate Silver shall men call you because the Lord will reject you A Christians treasure lies not in natural and moral gifts but supernatural Grace Here I might shew you how God had enriched her with the knowledg of himself and Jesus Christ whom to know is life Eternal with soundnesse in the Faith having preserved her from making shipwrack of Faith in these stormy tempestuous times with love to Jesus Christ having heard her with tears bewailing the deadnesse of her affections to Christ and Spiritual things I cannot but mention an excellent speech of hers a few dayes before her sicknesse to a worthy person and dear Relation Let us saith she love one another more and more and let us not love our selves in one another but Christ in one another that love will be sure to last and abide Her love to the Ordinances and Saints might be remembred she had like God her Father a General {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a sweet loving Nature to all and a Special {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to the houshord of Faith Her Compassionatenesse to those in misery was eminent and her Charity even to her enemies for such she wanted not altogether though altogether undeserved making good thereby that old saying Misera est fortuna quae caret inimico which I 'l English in our Savior Christs words Wo be to you when all men speak well of you yet to her enemies she would not render evil for evil but sought to overcome their evil with good Though I be but a very dull Orator yet having such plenty of pretious matter before me I doubt not but with very little enlargement I might draw tears from the eys of the greatest strangers to join with us in Lamenting the Losse of this excellent person But give me leave to recal that word again that word Losse let us not say that she is lost Nemo perditus est quem Deus in custodiam rapuit As our Saviour Christ said of the Maiden She is not dead but sleepeth so we of her She is not lost but laid up As in a house where pretious things Plate Vessels of Silver or Gold are suffered for a while to go about the house for common uses which afterwards the Master of the house taking and Locking them up out of sight Servants missing them speak as if they were lost Thus did God suffer this Vessel of honour to go about this his house even for common uses we had leave to Converse with her to eat with her to Drink with her to Pray and Confer with her but the Master of the house hath now removed her out of sight she is laid up amongst those things which are not seen that are Eternall She is n●t lost we know where she is I trust through the mercies of God in Christ to her we may say She is ascended to her Father and our Father to her God and our God From henceforth weep we no more for her but let us weep for our selves our sins challenge all our tears for them weep and spare not Grudge at every tear spent and laid out upon other occasions as waste and of which no profit is to be made only on this account What you sow in Teares you shall reap in Joy we have Eternal things to look after and our time is but short Concerning Temporal things when we have them we must rejoice as though we rejoiced not and when we misse them we must weep as though we wept not As Grotius in a Consolatory Letter to a great man in France after the death of his wife told him He had so many importaent businesses of State Negotia tantae molis ac tanti laboris incumbent on him which called to him Hoc age lugere tibi non vacat that he had no leisure to be sad no time for weeping Eternal things are alwayes knocking at our doors and crying in our ears Hoc agite mind your Businesse Your businesse lies all in that Scripture which you have heard opened with an Item from which I will dismisse you That you So live henceforth as those who looke not at the things which are seen which are Temporal But so live as becomes those who looke at things which are not seen which are Eternal FINIS Errata Pag. 15. for communion r. communication p. 17 for possessio r. possessione p. 20. l. 12. r. nature and grace by regenerate and unregenerate dele the spirits p. 28. for wiser r. wise p. 45. for in-clining r. in lining p. 66. l. 10. add I might l. 16. add she Drexelius de Aeternit 1 Cor. 4. 11 For above 300 years together the Roman Bishops suffered Martyrdome one after another Jacobus Revius Hist. pontif Rom. Notandae sunt elegantissimae Antitheses quovis etiam Demosthene non indignae Beza in loc. En quid nobis facil●s tole●atu faciat omnes mundi hujus miserias n●mpe si cogitationes nostras ad regni caelestis ●ternitatem transf●ramus Calvin in loc. Heb. 11. 35 Matth. 13. 21. 1 Doct. Heb. 1. 11 2 Doct. 1 Cor. 7. 39. 30. 3. Doct. 2 Cor. 5. 7. 1 Gen. ● Drexelius Psal. 90. 4 Heri nostrum cras pridem Semper tibi nunc idem Tuum Deus ●odiernum Indivisum sempiternum Hildeberti Hymnus Vsser D● Symb. Eccles. 1. 4. Boetius Cardanus Eccles. 3. 1. Rev. 10. 6 Facilius toto ann● solem aestivu● meridianum perf●ras oculis quam homo temporis exi gui parte aeternitatis Lucem intellectu possie contemplari Card. Eph. 1. 12 John 3. 5. 1 John 3. 1. Isa. 49. 15. Mat. 25. 34. John 14 2 1 John 3. 2 Heb. 11. 37. 2 Cor. 6. 10 Psal. 91. 11. 1 Pet. 4. 14 2 Cor. 6. 1● 1 Pet. 1. 4. 2 Cor. 4. 27 Heb. ii 26 Use 1. Exo. 14 20. Psa. 17 14 1 Isal. 2. See a memorable story in B●ards Theater of Gods Judgment 2 part pag. 1●0 1 Sam. 26. 10. Isa. 55. 2. Psal. 36. ●2 Full Holy State Inter peritura vivimus Sen●ca 2. 2 Cor. 5. 6. 7. 1 Thes. 4. 17. 18. 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. Psal. 7. 9. Rsal 102. 13. Isa. 66. 13 Vse 2. Psal. 84. 11. Ephes. 1. 3. 2 Pet. 1 10. Isa. 28. 18. Hos. 13. 9. Luke 12. 19. 〈…〉 2 Cor. 9. 6 Luk. 17. 27 2 Cor. 13. 5 Jer. 6. 30 Luk. 6. 26 Erasmus Grot. Epist ad Maurerium 25