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A53333	The blessedness of good men after death a sermon preach'd at the funeral of the Revd. Mr. Henry Cornish, B.D., who died on Sunday, Decemb. 18th, in the eighty ninth year of his age and was interred on Thursday, Decemb. 22d, 1698, in the Church of Bisiter, in the County of Oxford : with a preface to rectifie some misrepresentations &c. in a late pamphlet, entitled Some remarks on the life, death, and burial of the said Mr. Cornish / by John Ollyffe ...	Ollyffe, John, 1647-1717.	1699 (1699)	Wing O286; ESTC R7832	31,135	36

follow them IN these Words we have Three Things considerable which we have an account of from the Voice and Spirit of God First That they who Die in the Lord are Blessed Secondly The Reason or Parts of this Blessedness They rest from their Labours and their Works do follow them Thirdly The time of the Beginning or Commencement of this Blessedness From henceforth First They that Die in the Lord are Blessed But here the Question is who they are that may be said to Die in the Lord Or what it is that is intended in that Expression or Description of those to whom the Blessing here doth belong I make no doubt as it is also generally understood that these Words were especially and principally intended for the comfort of such Christians who were then like to suffer in those Days of Persecution of the Church of God whereby the Patience of the Saints of which he speaks ver 12. was so much Exercised The outward State of the Church was then very dismal and sad in those dark and afflictive Times And therefore it was but need to give a Word of Comfort and Support to such as were like to bear the Burden of those direful Calamities that were about to fall upon them This seems to be mainly intended here in this Blessing that they might be encouraged thereby to hold out in their Faith and Profession notwithstanding all that should fall upon them In this Sense then by those that Die in the Lord the Holy Martyrs must first be intended who laid down their Lives for the Lord that is for his sake or for their Adherence to his Faith and Gospel This being a very grievous Case God was pleased often in the Scriptures to provide for their Encouragement 2 Tim. 2.11 It is a faithful saying saith the Apostle if we be Dead with him we shall also Live with him If we Suffer we shall also Reign with him Rom. 8.16 17. And that we shall be also glorified together and that the Sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory 2 Cor. 4.17 that shall be revealed in us For saith he our light Affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory 2 Thes 1.6 Seeing it is a Righteous Thing with God to recompence Tribulation to them that trouble you and to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and admired in all them that believe And a great many more such Promises and Encouragements there are to Suffering Christians who Die in the Lord. But then it must be likewise supposed That those who Die thus in or for the Lord and for their Adherence to the Faith of Christ do Die in or under the sanctifying Power of that Faith also the great Design of which was to Purifie the Heart and Work by Love Without which Effect obtained Martyrdom it self if it could be supposed would not at all profit them as we have the Apostle's own Resolution in the Case 1 Cor. 13.3 For saith He Tho' I give my Body to be burnt and have not Charity which is the great Christian Vertue and comprehensive of all the rest it profiteth me nothing For the great End of the Faith of Christ and of the belief of the Gospel is to make Men Holy to recover the Image of God in Men that they may Live to his Glory So that there is no Salvation without this let Men's Sufferings for the Faith seem to have been never so great But then on the other side they who Live and Die in the Power of that Faith having felt the transforming and sanctifying Vertue thereof and so have attain'd to the great End of it tho' they have not undergone the Sufferings of Martyrdom surely may be said to Die in the Lord also They Die United to him adhering to his Interest and Cause Yea they Die for him fighting under his Banner and in his Quarrel against all his Enemies the World the Flesh and the Devil And these are also Martyres Animo in the Disposition of their Minds and they would by his Grace maintain the Field for his Sake to the very Death And the sufferings of Mortification which they have endured already are a kind of Martyrdom in cutting off their Right Hands and plucking out their Right Eyes in bringing down the Old Man and crucifying the whole Body of Sin Therefore there is no doubt but that to these also the Blessing here mentioned doth belong For these the Apostle tells us being made free from Sin and become Servants to God have their Fruit unto Holiness and the end everlasting Life Rom. 6.22 And all these shall partake of the Inheritance which are sanctified by Faith that is in Christ Acts 26.18 In which Sense 't is a very comfortable Consideration to all truly Penitent and Sound Believers and Good Christians For the evidencing of which these few Things may be farther considered to perswade us that it shall be so First Because the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ is in them so that they are led by the Spirit and live in the Spirit by the Dictates and according to the Rules of the Holy Spirit of God Now there is no Condemnation saith the Apostle to them that are in Christ Jesus that walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made them free from the Law of Sin and Death Rom. 8.1 Rom. 8.11 And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the Dead dwell in you he that raised up Christ from the Dead shall also quicken your Mortal Bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you Ver. 14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God and if Children then Heirs Heirs of God and Joint Heirs with Christ These Men are the Temples of the Holy Ghost and God will no more destroy those Temples than he will allow others to do so But the Spirit of God with the Blessed Fruits of it which is in them when they Die is a sure Pledge and Earnest of more Blessings to be received afterwards Secondly From hence it will follow That the Image of God is upon them and that in a more eminent manner than it is upon any others They being renewed after the Image of him that Created them in Righteousness and true Holiness So that they have not only the Natural Image of God as it may be called for distinction sake in the Spirituality Powers and Immortality of their Spirits but they have the Moral Image of God also which is the Glory of the Divine Nature which is wrought in them by the transforming Power of the Holy Ghost to whose Holy Dictates and Motions they have been brought to submit themselves And by this Means they are

will be as easie as that of the Eye is now And thus it shall be for Grace and Vertue and all the Moral Perfections of the Soul We shall be troubled with none of those Difficulties that here we meet with in the acquirement thereof Here we must Work and Work hard to Work out our own Salvation and must do it still with Fear and Trembling We must give all Diligence to make our Calling and Election sure and to add to what we have received We must strive to enter in at the strait Gate because strait is the Gate and narrow is the Way that leadeth to Live Everlasting And there can be no striving without Pain We must deny our Selves and mortifie our Members which are upon the Earth And because we have not yet attained we must forget those Things that are behind and reach forward to those Things that are before We must gird up the Loins of our Minds and sweat and bestir our selves with all our Might It must be so here and it cannot be otherwise Because our Knowledge is little and imperfect our Affections and Appetites strong to many Things which commonly obstruct the Divine Life The Sollicitations of the Flesh are sometimes tumultuous and vehement And we have contracted many Ill Habits which are like a second Nature and are not easily deposed or laid aside again And the Ill Examples and Customs of the World with the Insinuations and Flatteries of some and the Menaces and Discouragements which we meet with from others the Kindness of Carnal Friends and the Threatnings and Fury of Enemies are all apt to have a great Power upon us And here be sure the Devil will never leave his Trade of Tempting and Seducing to Sin as long as he can come at us So that what from one Cause and what from another we are engaged here in a continual Fight So that if we look no farther than Men it is a wonder that ever we should hold out Nor indeed could we 1 Pet. 1.5 if we were not kept by the Power of God through Faith unto Salvation But in that State there will be none of all this and therefore no occasion for all this Trouble and Pains Because then we shall be freed from our Errors and Mistakes and Misprisions about Things We shall be freed from Evil Habits and Evil Customs from Inordinate Appetites and Corrupt Affections For then we shall be like God For beholding God Face to Face we shall be changed into the same Image in a very Glorious manner Beloved saith the Apostle now we are the Sons of God but it doth not appear what we shall be but this we know when He shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as He is 1 Jo. 3.2 And saith St. Paul Our Life is now hid with Christ in God and when Christ who is our Life shall appear then shall we appear also with him in Glory Col. 3.3 Then we shall have no Flesh to sollicit us to Evil any more because it shall be changed and be no more as it is And Evil Men and Seducers shall be gone so that there shall be no more Discouragements or Evil Examples from them And the Devil shall be cast out so that He shall Tempt no more And we shall continually live in the presence of God and Christ and under their immediate Influences for the Tabernacle of God shall be with Men and they are to be where He is and in the Blessed Company of Angels and Saints who are all Pure and Holy so that then the Servants of God shall have no more trouble either to Purifie their Souls or to keep them Pure Thirdly And it will be a very great Addition to all That then there shall be no more Labour or Care or Sollicitude for others neither as here there often times must be Because all shall be then in the same most perfect and happy State Parents shall be at Care for their Children no more The Poor shall undergo no more hard Labour as here they do to provide for their Families they shall no more go Cold or fare Hard for want of better Provisions For there shall be no Poor in Heaven but all Kings and Princes sitting upon their Thrones of Glory For it is their Fathers good Pleasure to give them a Kingdom There will be no more need of those Things which now we are forc'd to take such Care about in this Imperfect and Animal State And there will be no Enemies to Invade or Extort from us what we have Nor shall we need to be at any Concern to Guard our selves against the Violence or Malice of those that would despoil or ravish away our Comforts from us For none of them all shall come there Then Private and Publick Labours shall be all over There shall be no more Labour to preserve or purge the Church from any of those Things that now do so much annoy it For then there will be no Errors or Heresies to Corrupt it no Schisms or Factions to divide it no Animosities or Quarrels Heart-Burnings or Contentions to disturb its Peace For then Christ shall present it to himself a Glorious Church not having Spot or Wrinkle or any such Thing Eph. 5.27 And then there shall be as little Labour to preserve the Peace or Quiet of Government from Tyranny or Invasion from Men of Fraud and Violence of furious Passions and unbridled Lusts Because there shall be no such there And all shall be under the most perfect and immediate Rule and Government of God himself who shall be with them and dwell among them And all shall perfectly Love their Governour and his Government and shall Love one another with a Pure Heart fervently Oh Blessed State and Blessed Condition when all this Trouble of every Kind shall be at an end Yet so it shall be then Secondly Their Works do follow them That is the Reward of their Works for so it must needs be understood Some indeed understand it of the good Effects of all the Sufferings of Confessors and Martyrs in this Life in the Fall of the Man of Sin and bringing down the present Kingdom of Darkness But this being here Assigned as part of their Blessedness it seems to me that it must signifie a Reward to themselves and can mean no less than God's Approbation of what they have done in his Service and for his Name and the Reward that He gives them thereupon It is indeed a Reward of Grace and it is so Transcendant and surpassing all that they have done and suffered that as the Apostle saith Rom. 8.18 The Sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory that shall be revealed in them And these light Afflictions which are but for a moment 2 Cor. 4.17 work for them a far more exceeding and eternal Weight of Glory as was also observed before However a Reward it is and that which belongs not only to those that