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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77157	A voyce from heaven, speaking good words and comfortable words, concerning saints departed. Which words are opened in a sermon preached at South-weal in Essex, 6. September, 1658. At the funeral of that worthy and eminent minister of the Gospel, Mr. Thomas Goodwin. Late pastor there. Hereunto is annexed a relation of many things observable in his life and death. By G.B. preacher of the word at Shenfield in Essex.	Bownd, George, d. 1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3888; Thomason E972_8; ESTC R207757	44,455	50

heavenly doctrines are Thirdly the Method is Doctrine and Use The doctrinal part of this Angels Sermon lies in verses 9 10 11. Where the position is this that most dreadful plagues do attend Antichrist and his adherents This position is illustrated by shewing 1. The Extremity 2. The Eternity of their misery 1. The extremity vers 16. Drink of the wine of the wrath of God There is the wine of Gods love the consolations of the Spirit when the soul is led into the wine-sellar and there staied with Flagons Cant. 2.5 The sweet preparative for that collation which Saints shall have in heaven where shall eat and drink at Christs Table in Christs Kingdom Luc. 22.30 But this in the Chapter is the wine of Gods wrath like that in Psal 60.3 Wine of astonishment or wine given to make them mad 'T is added here without mixture not allayed with one drop of mercy Jam. 2.13 There is indeed fire and brimstone put into it and mixed with it but there is little comfort in this addition it makes the Cup more dreadful there shall be drinking in Hell but it is in draughts of brimstone 2. The Eternity and lastingness of these evils the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever and they have no rest day nor night the evils which betide the wicked in this life are but the beginnings of sorrows the end will be to have no end This is the doctrinal part the Application follows in a two-fold Use 1. By way of Information shewing that Gods end in these judgements next to the taking vengeance on the wicked is to try the patience of Saints vers 12. To try I say the constancy of their obedience whether they will hold the Faith of Jesus in troublesome times 't is easie to sail in a calm Sea but to encounter raging waves and tempestuous storms and not to make Shipwrack of Faith and a good conscience is the trial of a Christian indeed one that is not with Agrippa almost but altogether here is the patience of Saints here are they that keep the Commandements of God and the Faith of Iesus Object The wicked are threatned with the Vials of wrath to be poured upon them but why should this trouble the Saints they follow the Lamb how is their patience tried by the judgements inflicted on such as worship the Beast Answ Yes it doth because when ever the wicked are made to drink the Cup of wrath they will be furious outragious and exceeding mad as the expression was before which rage will vent it self in bloody persecuting the Saints as the Church hath found in all ages by sad experience Object Then there is no difference between good and bad but it may be as ill with them who follow the Lamb as who worship the beast then we may say with the profane ones in Malachy Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur what profit is it to serve God will God suffer the righteous to be slain with the wicked and the righteous to be as the wicked Gen. 18.25 Answ That be far from the Lord and therefore if we mark what follows we shall be able to discern between the righteous and the wicked him that serveth God and him that serveth him not the worst that can befall them is the loss of this present life Persecutors can but kill the body and therefore Secondly by way of consolation he sheweth there is no cause why believers should be dismayed at the troubles which may betide them in this present life for while Tyrants make havock of the body God cares for the soul and eternal salvation if they dye by the hand of the wicked this is the hardest measure that can be meted to them this is the heaviest shock which can befall them and having once undergone this perfect blessedness presently followes Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. Having thus cleared the coherence the Text as you see is the very Use of consolation and it affords very great comfort to the people of God especially if we consider what goes before and what follows after for from both it receives both light and strength and comes to the Church as the Queen of Sheba to Solomon attended with a very great train First that which goes before is a voyce from heaven saying Write Though every passage in this Angels Sermon need be attended to yet this especially therefore a voyce from heaven alarms us to attention and though every sentence be worth noting writing setting down yet this above all therefore write This word write Nihil hie sine pondere mensurâ is as a finger pointing to some excellent matter 't is a Star set by it and a light held over it that none may pass by without diligent weighing it and though there be nothing in Scripture but hath its weight and worth yet some truths are most diligently to be heeded even above others Divines observe that the word behold in the beginning of a sentence and Selah in the end of a sentence do shew that those are remarkable sentences so we may say of this word write All Scriptures are alike true but some are to be noted by us in a principal manner Secondly That which follows after is the Spirits sanction yea saith the Spirit and as if the bare testimony of the Spirit were not enough to carry the matter there are two reasons annexed First is when death comes they rest from their labours The wicked have all their comfort here Luc. 16. Son remember thou hast had thy good things so the Godly have all their sorrows here 'T is the opinion of some that Christs weeping over Lazarus Joh. 11. was not because he was dead but because he was to be raised to this troublesome life again for such is this life at the best to the Godly had it been Samuel indeed he might well say why hast thou disquieted me 1 Sam. 28.15 The Godly in this life have labours in common with others sufficient to every ones day is the evill thereof but besides they have troubles which the wicked feel not Satans winnowings buffetings a law in their members warring against the law of their mind But death stills and quiets all 't is to them the silent house and place of rest 2. Impii judicabuntur secundùm propter opera sua pii verò secundùm fidei opera sed non propter opera The second reason is their works follow in happy rewards he means their good works The best of Gods Children have their evill works but they are washed away in the blood of Jesus and therefore cannot follow them their good works do follow through free grace in glorious rewards they shall be rewarded according to their works though not for their works and thus they follow The works of wicked men follow but 't is in everlasting punishments they shall be rewarded both according to and also for their works and thus they