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glory_n	body_n	dishonour_n	sow_v	2,464	5	10.8601	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57376	The Christians advantage both by life and death discovered in a sermon preached at the funeral of that faithful and eminent servant of the Lord, Joseph Jackson, late Esq. and alderman of the city of Bristol, on the 17th day of January, an. Dom. 1661, by Fran. Roberts ...	Roberts, Francis, 1609-1675.	1662 (1662)	Wing R1582; ESTC R32381	25,893	44

Grace Possession of Glory the Inheritance of Heaven the Society of Saints and Angels the immediate fruition of Christ and beatisick vision of God for ever face to face Heb. 12.23 Job 17.24 1 Thess. 4.17 Matth. 5.8 1 Joh. 3.2 All their Losses are nothing to these Gains 5. Death is their Red Sea affording them an eternal es●ape from all evils and dangers but swallowing up all their enemies for evermore Then they cease from sin which shall no more defile them Rom. 6.7 Then they rest from their labours which shall no more weary them Rev. 14.13 Then God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be to them no more Death Pain Sorrow nor Crying Rev. 21.4 Then no fiery darts of Diabolical Temptations shall ever more reach them Then the wicked shall cease from troubling and the weary shall be at rest Job 3.17 6. Death is their Bodies Seed-time for an hopeful crop at the Harvest of the Resurrection Tertullian said excellently The Confidence of Christians is the Resurrection of the Dead But the Apostle Paul most sweetly That which thou sowest is not quickned except it die And that which thou sowest thou sowest not that body which shall be but bare grain it may chance of wheat or of some other grain But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him and to every seed his own body So also is the Resurrection of the dead It is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness it is raised in power It is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body 1 Cor. 15.36 37 38 42 43 44. A wet and sad Seed-time but a joyful and happy Harvest 7. Finally Death is their Souls Birth day of eternal Bliss As it is the Omega to all their Miseries in this world present so is it the Alpha to all their felicities in that world to come Then the voice from Heaven saith unto them Rome up hither Oh the day of their Dissolution will to them be a great an happy a glorious day indeed Their Redemption from all their sin and sorrow Rom. 6.7 Rev. 4.13 Their translation into the better Country that is the Heavenly Their entrace into their Masters joy Mat. 25.21 23. The Day-break of their endless Sabbath Heb. 4.9 Rev. 14.13 The inchoation of their eternal Jubilee Their heavenly Coronation-day with that far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory 2 Tim. 4.7 2 Cor. 4.17 Yea their blessed Marriage-day with the Lamb in whose immediate vision and fruition their ravishments shall be unutterable and their intrancements unspeakable Joh. 17.24 The enjoyment of Christ in Heaven is the very Heaven of Heaven Thus to them that are Christs out of Death that great eater comes meat and out of strength comes sweetness Whence is it That thus Life and Death become theirs that are Christ's Resol All this comes to pass 1. From the All-ordering Purpose and Providence of God towards them that are Christ's who love him and are the called according to his purpose He makes all things good and evil prosperity and adversity life and death c. cooperate for good unto them All things not only some things All things not divisim but conjunctim not severally but jointly one with another and all with the influence of Divine benediction As all the wheels in a W●●ch work together to tell the hour And as all the Ingredients in a Medicine work together to effect the cure We know that all things work together for good to them that love God that are the called according to his purpose Rom. 8.28 The Lord makes every wind to blow them profit every thing do them good 2. From Christ's meritorious Purchase Among many other the glorious atchievements of Christ there are three very observable in reference to our present purpose viz. 1 Christ hath obtained regained restored all Good to his which the first Adam had forfeited and lost Col. 1.20 Mat. 6.33 Rom. 8.32 Tit. 1.15 2 Christ hath removed all the evil from his which the first Adam had procured Tit. 2.14 Gal. 3.13 14. Heb. 2.14 15. 3 Christ turns that evil unto Good to his which is not totally removed Their Sin makes them so much the more see the need and worth of a Saviour Rom. 7.23 24 25. Their Afflictions become great spiritual advantages Rom. 5.3 4 5. Heb. 12.6 7 8 9 10 2 Cor. 4.17 Yea their Death it self is rendred to them a glorious gain Phil. 1.21 23. 2 Cor. 5.1 2 3 4. One well observed The Covenant of Grace made no Death but found it in the world Christ made of an old enemy Death a new servant It 's now the Kings Ferry-boat to carry the children over the water And I may adde Through Christ's merit to them that are Christ's Death is but a dark entry into their Heavenly Mansions A churlish Porter ushering into the glorious Paradise A fiery Chariot and Whirlwind conveying them speedily unto Heaven 3. From the predominant and inviolable concatena●ion of the Causes of their salvation They that are Christ's are Predestinated Called Justifi●d and in some measure Glorified Rom. 8.29 30. Therefore if God be thus for them what shall prevailingly be against them He that spared not his own Son but gave him up freely for them how shall ●e not with him also freely give them all things ver 31 32. Shall not life be theirs and Death theirs and all things theirs for good This indissoluble Chain of salvation cannot be broken by Life Death or any thing Therefore Life Death and all things must comply to it contribute to it be wholly and universally subordinate and every way subservient to the accomplishing of it Thus we see How Life and Death are theirs that are Christ's And whence this comes to p●ss Now come we to certain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to certain Consectaries or Inferences hence by way of Application Hence What Priviledged-persons are true Christians above all Christless wretches both in Life and Death Parallel them a little according to former discoveries and see what the Lord Christ hath done for his more than for all others They that are Christ's 1. Have Life theirs Their Holy Seed-time Their Spiritual Trading-time Their Striving-time after best enjoyments Their Trying-time in their Spirituals Their Growing time in Grace and Knowledge Their Fruit-bearing time in all good works And their Hoarding time for Life eternal 2. Have Death theirs also Their sweet sleep in Christ Jesus Their perfective Alteration not their Abolition Their happy Departure not their Destruction Their great Gain not at all their Loss Their Red-Sea delivering them but drowning all their Enemies Their Bodies Seed-time for the glorious Harvest at the Resurrection And their Souls Birth-day of Eternal bliss They that are Christless on the contrary are naked and destitute of all these Advantages both by Life and Death Nor Life nor Death are