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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32087	A funeral sermon preached upon occasion of the decease of the eminently pious Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, late wife of Mr. Daniel Williams, who departed this life, June the 10th, 1698, Ætat 62 with some account of her exemplary character taken for the most part out of her own papers / by Edmund Calamy.	Calamy, Edmund, 1671-1732.	1698 (1698)	Wing C272; ESTC R29171	36,308	112

adherence to GOD are travelling up and down in the World for a Time in great uncertainty often changing their Place and State and Posture and Circumstances as they of Old did in Canaan Of which also they have not been insensible Thus David confesseth to GOD We are Strangers before Thee and Sojourrers as were all our Fathers And he gives this Reason Our Days on Earth are as a Shadow and there is none abiding And elsewhere I am a Stranger with thee and a Sojourner as all my Fathers were And it hath been the like with others also But that which bore them up in this their unsettled State and under all the Evils and Troubles which attended it was the Hope and Prospect of a quiet Habitation and perpetual Rest in a Future State Thus we are told concerning Abraham in this very Chapter That he sought a City which had Foundations whose Builder and Maker was GOD. And 't is intimated that it was the believing Foresight of that which made him easie in the midst of all his Difficulties And Iacob in an Holy Rapture cries out I have waited for thy Salvation O Lord. And Iob declares that though after his Skin Worms should destroy his Body yet in his Flesh should be see GOD Whom he should see for himself and not another Though his Reins were consum'd within him The thought whereof enabled him to hold out under the forest Tryals David also herein Triumphs that whatever he was forc't first to undergo GOD would at length shew him the Path of Life and bring him to his own Presence where there is fulness of Ioy and to his Right Hand where are Pleasures for evermore And at another Time when he was much discompos'd at the Reflection on his own Afflicted State compar'd with the Prosperity of the Wicked he soon recovers at the Thought of the Happy Issue that awaited all his present Exercises and Conflicts As for me says he I will behold thy Face in Righteousness I shall be satisfi'd when I awake with thy likeness St. Paul also not only in his own Name but as personating the Body of Believers declares We know that if our Earthly House of this Tabernacle were dissolv'd we have a Building of GOD an House not made with Hands Eternal in the Heavens And that our Light Affliction which is but for a Moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory WHICH Things taken together give us sufficiently to understand that this Doctrine is true in Fact as to many of the most remarkable Servants of GOD whom we find mention'd in our Sacred Records To whose Experiences in a Point of this Nature we may well conclude those of others who are acted by the same Spirit how different soever their particular Circumstances may be should be Consonant and Correspondent But I advance further and dare be bold to say that whosoever truly belong to GOD they cannot but look upon themselves as Pilgrims in this Life and therefore can do no other than earnestly seek an Home above where they may be at Rest and that for ever And if you 'l but a little consider the Divine Principle that is in them the Worlds unsuitableness to them and the Prospect Faith gives them of Futurities you 'l easily conclude that thus it must necessarily be with them FIRST then Let us a little consider the Divine Principle which is in all Holy Souls and which not only is in them but acts and governs them They are made partakers of a Divine Nature which therefore necessarily prompts to and issues in a Divine Life which lies in two things among others a Love of GOD and Vniversal Purity Both which have a direct tendency to alienate them from this World and make them Foreigners in it and to raise their Hearts towards a better World and make them earnest Seekers of it 1. THE Divine Principle which is implanted in all Holy Souls naturally tends to draw forth their utmost ardour in the Love of GOD to whom it brings them wholly to resign and sacrifice themselves desiring above all things to please Him and delighting in nothing so much as in Fellowship and Communion with Him It causes them to disdain and undervalue all things below Him as mean and unworthy So that that Strain of the Psalmist Whom have we in Heaven but Thee and there 's none upon Earth we desire besides Thee becomes their natural breathing For He is really their Souls last End and Rest. Now how can Persons of this Make be fond of this present World which is a meer Stage of Vanity and Sin where under the utmost Advantages they are comparatively distant from Him whom their Souls love Comparatively I say with what they desire and hope to be hereafter THEY well know that While they are at Home in the Body they are absent from the Lord How then can they do any other than as the Apostle intimates be rather willing to be absent from the Body and present with the Lord. 'T is the nature of Love to excite vehement desire after the nearest Union that is possible with its Prime Object and to make uneasie under Absence and Separation from it Now what is in this Life to be found and felt and enjoy'd of GOD is as nothing to what our Natures are capable of and what Grace leads Holy Souls most earnestly to desire and what they hereafter hope for on the Account whereof it is that they are at present said to be as it were absent from him The intenseness therefore of their Love to Him necessarily leads them to look upon themselves as being in this Life abroad and in a strange Countrey and with vehemence to long for that near Vision and close and un-interrupted Enjoyment of Him which they expect when they shall come to be at Home And when they act like themselves nothing but a sense of Duty and desire of serving the Purposes of His Glory according to their capacity here on Earth can enable them to brook their Absence from Heaven where their Hearts and Hopes are fixt 2. THAT Divine Principle which resides rules and governs in all Holy Souls most naturally and directly influences them to an Vniversal Purity They are fram'd for Divine and Intellectual Pleasures which are unspeakably Superiour to what Sense can possibly afford The Body whereto they are at present linkt in its State of Mortality and Corruption hath such a propenseness to be inveigled by those light and Airy Gratifications which Sensual Objects offer for their Entertainment that they are forc't to keep up a constant Contest with it and to be perpetually striving for the Mastery of it And when they have done all they can they find their success so small that they have good reason with the Apostle Paul to cry out of their wretchedness This makes them necessarily very uneasie and the more so because they can see no reason