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Consolation in life and death wherein is shewed that interest in Christ is a ground of comfort ... begun in a funeral sermon occasioned by the death of Mrs. Ellen Asty, and since much enlarged : together with the life of the said Mrs. Ellen Asty / by Owen Stockton ...
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Stockton, Owen, 1630-1680.
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sorrows which was by Praver Ask and ye shall recieve that your joy may be full 3. Call to mind apply and meditate upon the gracious promises of God The Spirit comforts us by and through the word and more especially by the promises It was through the word that David had the Spirits comforts in his affliction Psal 119.49 50. Remember thy word unto thy Servant wherein thou hast caused me to hope this is my comfort in mine affliction So also the Prophet Jeremiah had the comforts of the Spirit through the word Jer. 15.16 Thy words were found and I did eat them and thy word was unto me the joy and the rejoycing of my heart 4. Keep up and act your Faith in God through Christ in all your troubles for trustings in God brings the joys and comforts of the Holy Ghost into our hearts Psal 13.5 I have trusted in thy Mercy my heart shall rejoyce in thy Salvation In the 3d. verse he complained of his sorrows that he had sorrows in his heart dayly but having strengthned his Faith by the consideration of the mercy of God he concluded that God would put joy and gladness into his heart My heart shall rejoyce Rom. 15.13 The God of Peace fill you with all joy and peace in believing There is joy all joy a fulness of all joy comes in by believing 4. The intercession of Christ is a ground of comfort against the troubles of the world because it is our security that they shall not cause our Faith to fail Luk. 22.31 32. And the Lord said Simon Simon behold Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as Wheat but I have prayed for thee that thy Faith fail not Peter was greatly affrighted at the sufferings of Christ The fear of the Cross made him fall in a dreadful manner three times he denyed his Master and cursed and swore that he did not know the man But though he was grievously foiled yet by the Prayer of Christ his Faith was supported that it did not fail Not only our Flesh and our Hearts would fail but our Faith also if it were not preserved by the intercession of Jesus Christ § All troubles are sanctified to those that are Christs This is a ground of great Consolation III. All troubles and afflictions whatsoever befall those that are Christs are sanctified to them and shall work together for their good and this is a ground of comfort under all the troubles of this World that they shall be sanctified to us and work for our good Jesus Christ is made of God Sanctification to all such as are in him 1 Cor. 1.30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us VVisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption When Christ is said to be made of God sanctification to such as are in him the meaning is that he is appointed by God to sanctifie our persons and our conditions Our Lord Jesus hath taken the curse from our Crosses and turned them into Blessings So that we are not now to look upon our corrections as our misery but rather as conducing to our happiness Job 5.17 Behold happy is the man whom God correcteth That all our afflictions are sanctified by Jesus Christ appeareth thus because none of them shall do us hurt but they shall all work together for our good Rom. 8.28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose There is a threesold good which is wrought for us by our afflictions 1. They purge out our sins Isa 27.9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away their sin And this is greatly for our good to be purged from our sins which are the chiefest of evils 2. They promote and increase the graces of the Spirit of God in our hearts and make us partakers of his Holiness and that is much for our profit to be made more Holy Heb. 12.10 They verily for a few days chastned us after their own pleasure but he for our profit that we might be partakers of his Holiness 3. They encrease our glory in the world to come for ever 2 Cor. 4.17 For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding etâ—â—nal weight of glory Now the knowledge of this that all our afflictions are sent to do us good and that they shall all work together for our good is a ground of great comfort under all our troubles Rom. 5.3 4. VVe glory in Tribulations also knowing that Tribulation worketh Patience and Patience Experience and Experience Hope Upon this account the Apostle James exhorteth us to count it joy yea all joy when we fall into divers temptations because we know that our Tryals shall work patience in us Jam. 1.2 3. My Brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers Temptations knowing this that the trying of your Faith worketh Patience Now if this single benefit the encreasing of our Patience be such a ground of joy how may it encrease our joy when we consider that not only Patience but our other graces also and not our graces but our glory in Heaven shall be augmented for ever by our momentary afflictions which we go through in this World The Apostle writing to the Hebrews encourageth to chearfulness in their sufferings because they were for their profit Heb. 12.10 11. He chastneth us for our profit Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees Though a man was in a dejected condition with hands hanging down and in a fainting condition his knees waxing feeble under his burdens yet the consideration that he is chastned for his profit may revive him and make him lift up his hands that hang down and strengthen his feeble knees § The Lord Jesus will not leave us comfortless in our troubles How Christ comforts his people IV. Though we meet with many troubles in the World this may chear our hearts under all of them that our Lord Jesus Christ hath promised he will not leave us comfortless in our troubles but he will give us peace and comfort in himself and from himself when we meet with troubles in the World Joh. 14.18 I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you Joh. 16.33 These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace in the world ye shall have Tribulation Isa 66.13 As one whom his Mother comforteth so will I comfort you and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem The Affections of a Mother are very great and tender towards her Child especially towards her sick and afflicted Child she will spare no pains no cost for that which may comfort her sick Child The affections of a Nurse are great 1 Thes 2.7 8. But of a Mother far greater Now as readily as affectionately as a Mother comforts her afflicted Child so hath the Lord
CONSOLATION IN LIFE and DEATH Wherein is shewed That Interest in Christ is a ground of Comfort under all the Troubles of Life and Terrors of death How they that have an Interest in Christ may retain the same Begun in A Funeral Sermon occasioned by the death of Mrs. Ellen Asty and since much enlarged By Owen Stockton late Minister of the Gospel at Colchester in Essex TOGETHER With the Life of the said Mrs. Ellen Asty Rom. 8. v. 38. For I am perswaded that neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor things present nor things to come Rom. 8. v. 39. Nor height nor depth nor any other Creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. London Printed by J. R. for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside 1681. To the Worthily Honoured John Clark of Bury in Suffolk Esquire SIR IT is your seriousness in Religion together with your intimate Acquaintance with and respect for Reverend Mr. Owen Stockton that occasioneth the prefixing your name to the ensuing Treatise of which he was the Author He was one mighty in the Scriptures whose Life was much desired and his Death much lamented As you delighted to hear him Preach when he was alive So I doubt not but he being dead you are willing to hear him yet speaking especially in a word of Consolation against the troubles of Life and the fears and terrours of Death I hope the Lord hath delivered your self from the Sting of Death but yet you may need some help against the fear of it Take a survey of your Mercy that you are not under the unhappiness of Christless Souls who through the fear of Death are all their life time subject to Bondage It is said that the Indians being alarum'd with the Approaches of Death by its Arrestment so as all hope of recovery is past then to behold and hear their throbbing sobs and deep-fetched sighs their grief-wrung hands and tear-bedewed cheeks their doleful cries would draw tears from Adamantine Eyes that be but Spectators of their mournful Obsequies Indeed it is unexpressibly sad to be under a Conviction as many are of the immortality of a never dying Soul and yet to be Strangers to the promise of Eternal Life Such must needs be Mourners without hope All the Cordials in the World in this case will not afford the least drop of refreshment to such disconsolate Souls nor will a Righteousness of our own be a sure bottom for Comfort against that last Enemy Death But behold here is a way deciphered whereby we may not only be helped to leave Riches Friends Wife Children Houses Lands and depart in peace but also with exceeding joy Interest in Christ will be a means to turn Death the King of Terrors into the King of Comforts it will make it of a bitter Enemy a familiar Friend an Out-let to Affliction and a Portal to Glory How that Interest conduceth to the fitting a Soul with Consolation is discovered here by this eminent Servant and Minister of Jesus Christ Mr. Owen Stockton in a Funeral Sermon upon the Death of Mrs. Ellen Asty the Relict of that Reverend Mr. Asty late of Stratford in Suffolk which afterwards he much enlarged and so left it under his own hand It was intended that the said Mr. Stockton should have printed it together with her Life but Death arresting him before he had Accomplished that work Providence hath cast it upon my hands to draw her Portraiture out of the papers which were in his hands to that end which I have done accordingly and here present it to your self and to publick view I must say further that this is a Branch or part of a Treatise of his on the same Text entituled the best Interest which probably will follow speedily This and that together compleat the Subject yet either of them might have appeared to the Reader as a perfect and distinct Treatise had I not hinted thus much I shall only add that my ardent desire is that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ may bless you with all Spiritual Blessings in Heavenly places in Christ so prayeth September 1. 1681. Honoured Sir Your Servant in the Gospel Sam. Petto Errata PAge 3. l. 25. dele for p. 23. l. 26. r. there are p. 29. l. 12. r. grace p. 37. l. 29. dele should p. 42. l. 16. for ready r. really p. 44. l. 3. for upon r. yea p. 59. l. 10. for sight r. fight p. 60. l. 28. r. carried on p. 70. l. 13. r. trusting p. 88. l. 13 for here r. how p. 96. l. 17. for preserving r. preferring In Mrs. Astys Life Page 8. l. 26. dele never p. 9. l. 15. r. uprightness p. 10. l. 16. r. never seemed CONSOLATION IN LIFE and DEATH Cant. 2.16 My Beloved is mine and I am his he feedeth among the Lilies THis Book containeth a Discourse concerning Jesus Christ and his Church Sometimes Christ is brought in speaking of his Church and sometimes to his Church And at other times the Church is brought in speaking of Christ and sometimes to Christ In this Text the Spouse of Christ is brought in speaking concerning Christ and expressing her grounds of Consolation that she had both under the troubles of Life and the danger of Death The troubles of the Church are set out Chap. 1.6 She was black because the Sun had looked upon her which signifieth the scorching persecutions that the Lord suffereth to come upon the Church to try the Faith and Patience of his Servants And she met with much anger and hard usage from her Mothers Children that is those that professed the same Faith with her self my Mothers Children were angry with me and made me the Keepers of their Vineyards and would not suffer her to keep her own Vineyard Her troubles are further set out Chap. 2. v. 2. As a Lilie among Thorns so is my Love among the Daughters that is compassed about on every side with sharp and sore troubles that did prick and grieve like Thorns or that her lot and habitation was in the midst of evil Men who were like Thornes in her side Her inward troubles are touched on which did proceed from her abundant love to Christ v. 5. I am sick of love Sickness makes a man restless such was her condition a restless condition Her troubles are also set out v. 15. There were Foxes abroad that made spoil of the Vines And these Foxes were of two sorts 1. False Teachers that did by false Doctrine corrupt and spoil the Vines Ezek. 13.4 Israel thy Prophets are like the Foxes that is the false Prophets for the true Prophets support and cherish the Vines they are the false Prophets that spoil the Vines 2 Subtle and cruel Persecutors that seek after the lives of the Saints are these Foxes Luk. 13.31 32. Sect. 1. The Division of the Words with the Doctrines In the words