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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74852	The Christians desire, shewing, how and for what causes a man may desire death. / By William Houghton, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	Houghton, William, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	1650 (1650)	Thomason E602_4; ESTC R206406	20,817	23

sinfull corruptible frail and rotten tabernacle of our body shall be taken down for no other end but that by a blessed and glorious resurrection it may be restored advanced to perfect firm incorruptible and celestiall glory Lastly for our souls how shall those two faculties thereof understanding and will Soul be then enobled How perfect the operation of them Our understandings shall be wonderfully irradiated for the present they are blind and ignorant let a man be never so studious and labour for knowledge with all his strength yet all he knows is but the least part of what he is ignorant For now we see through a glasse darkly 1. Cor. 13.12 but then face to face now we know in part but then we shall know even as we are known The soul having been never so little a while in heaven shall get more knowledge then here it hath done in twenty or thirty years For we shall then see him as he is 1 Joh. 3.2 So for our wills what a sweet conformity shall there be between them and the will of God! We shall then follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth Rev. 24.4 Now we follow him too but 't is but lamely and 't is not wheresoever he goeth because as we follow Christ so the Devil follows us with his temptations whereby we are drawn aside and go astray Oh but then it shall not be so but our wills shall be wholly conformable and obedient to his blessed will we shall follow him wheresoever he goeth I have set before you the crown of life I have truly though imperfectly and very briefly described the nature of our future happinesse All is true that hath been said yet all that hath been said is nothing to the greatnesse of it You must remember that of the Apostle The glory that shall be revealed in us Rom. 8.18 it cannot be comprehended by us no not by the most enlarged understanding but hereafter it shall be revealed in us And this was it made Paul so desirous of his dissolution as Chrysostome brings him in speaking thus I have tasted of the joyes of heaven Chrys to 5. ad pop Antioch hom 5. therefore delay is tedious to me I have had the first-fruits of the spirit therefore I desire the whole harvest I have been caught up into the third heavens and have seen the glory which is unutterable I have beheld the splendor and glory of the court of heaven Oh I have learnt I have learnt what good things I want the fruition of staying here for this cause I sigh and groan within my self desiring to be dissolved To summe up all we see what reason there is to make us desire our dissolution whether we respect outward and bodily evils or spirituall evils the Devil and our own corruptions joyning with him and because our sanctification is imperfect here The world is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a dusty squalid filthy place no marvell if the feet of our affections be still gathering soyle while we are walking in it And lastly because our condition hereafter shall be far better then now it is free from sin and misery death will bring us to a far better estate both for place company body and soul even to such happinesse as eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor heart conceived We can say no more 1 Cor. 2.9 but we shall know more when Christ shall say to us Enter into thy Masters joy it cannot enter into us Mat. 25.21 therefore we shall enter into it and be filled with it Now for application of this Doctrine Death is a thing that may be desired I desire saith Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ Vse 1 First I may from hence shew you the dotage of the Papists concerning Purgatory they say mens souls must have a purgation there before they come to heaven and the pains of that place some of them say are as sharp as the pains of hell save onely that they are not so lasting With what comfort then can a man desire death to go to such a place Nay I have heard of some whom this doctrine hath distracted and they have fallen mad at the very thought of it Secondly Christ tells the good thief Luc 23.43 to day shalt thou be with me in Paradise And I will saith he that those whom thou hast given me be with me Joh. 17.24 where I am I hope they dare not say that Christ is in Purgatory he is not in limbo Heb. 8.1 but in olympo not in purgatorio but in empyreo at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens there is he in glory and he will have us to be where he is the text is plain Thirdly the Scripture tells but of two places mens souls go to when they depart hence heaven and hell the beggar dyed and his soul went whither to purgatory no but 't was presently received into Abrahams bosome Luc. 16 22. that is into heaven and saith the Text the rich man also dyed and was buried and whether went his soul to hell the Text speaks plainly The rich man dyed and was buried and in hell stayed no where by the way but down to hell he went immediately So in Matthew he shall set the sheep on his right hand the goats on his left at his right hand is the kingdome of heaven at his left hand everlasting fire he that is not on his right hand shall surely be on the left therefore he that goes not into the kingdome of heaven shall doubtlesse go to hell and fire everlasting the Scriptures tell not of any third place Lastly the close union of death and Christs presence overthrows this dream of theirs I desire saith Paul here to be dissolved and to be with Christ there is no Medium between them But enough of this Vse 2 In the second place it may teach us how to take the death of our friends 1 Thes 4. Weep not saith the Apostle as men without hope these tears are unprofitable they do our friends no good but they may do us hurt Consider the necessitie of death it cannot be avoided all must dye 't is a debt our parents brought upon us and must be paid whensoever it shall be required and think likewise of the commonnesse of death 't is as common a thing for men and women to dye as to be born and to go out of the world as it is to come into the world why then should we wonder more at the one then at the other Anaxagoras when one came and told him his son was dead Spatio annorum 2256. comprehenditur aetas quatuor partium qui à mundi exordio hucusque vixerant Nam c. Bucolch chron 224. made him this Answer I knew my son was mortall as soon as I had begot him I knew he should die Death now in our dayes is a very common thing indeed in the time between

cannot thy name fly over this Caucasus nor swim over this Ganges Thou seest how small a thing the earth is and that sea pointing to the Atlantick which ye call the great sea and the main ocean which though it have so great a name thou seest how small a thing it is This was but a Philosophers dream yet 'c is pleasant to consider how far those men went Let us that are Christians seriously consider the excellency of heaven and vanity of earthly things let us mount aloft upon the wings of divine contemplation and our mindes being there all things here below will be as nothing to us Seek those things saith the Apostle that are above or on high What where the Orbs and Planets are No higher then so Col. 3.2 where Angels and Arch-angels are No higher yet where Christ sits on the right hand of God Oh if the soul of any here present were with Paul rapt up into the third heavens to be there but one hour to see what he saw how would he be ready to trample these things under his feet as vile and despicable he would count them trash in comparison of Jesus Christ as dung to that pearl It may be said all this is but matter of speculation therefore in the second place Give thy self to the practise of mortification desire to have all things mortified unto thee then thou wilt not care so much for them Offer what yee will to a dead man he regards it not So let us labour to get our affections whether covetous or pleasurable mortified and we shall not care for these things Mortifie therefore your members which are upon earth fornication uncleannesse inordinate affection evil concupiscence and covetousnesse Col. 3.5 Indeed this mortification of all evil affections is a hard work for as it is with men that have strong bodies and suffer violent deaths you see what a lamentable conflict there is what strugling between life and death and when you think the man quite dead a good while after he gives a great sigh or groan nature then gathering all her strength to withstand death flying as it were in the very face of death either to vanquish or to be overcome Even thus it is if we go about to take away the life of our dearest lusts they will gather all the forces they can either make of themselves or the devil and the world can supply them withall to stand before them and defend them that we may not come at them but if for all that we break through and smite them so that we give them their deaths-wound yet they will gather strength again and rise up to hurt us and do us a mischief afterwards Oh 't is hard 't is hard and many a Christian is forced even with tears in his eyes to cry out to heaven for help when he is at this work yet this yee see is that we are * Gal. 5.24 Rom. 6.6.8.13 calld to that which every regenerate man and woman sets himself to and he who hath in good earnest set himself to it and endeavoured the mortifying of his sins will not be afraid of death but rather see great cause why he should desire it whatsoever pains it brings he is provided for it and may say thus Oh death I regard not any sting thou canst sting my body withall for sin thy worst sting wherewith thou wouldest sting my soul to death is in some measure mortified and subdued by the power of Gods Spirit that conflict thou art now about to bring upon my body will be but short to that I have endured in my soul these so many years Oh welcome death come do thine office I have been endeavouring a long time the death of my sins and something through the power and mercy of God I have done though not so much as I would come lend me thy hand to finish this work I have oft smote my sins thinking to lay them in the dust yet they have risen again one stroke now of thy hand will cause them to dye that they shall never rise up any more Thirdly let us think oft and consider what our condition is while we are here subject to sin and misery do what we can we cannot so mortifie sin that it shall not be in us Non hîc sumus sine peccato fed exibimus sine peccato Aug. its true the old man hath received his deaths wound in every regenerate man and is bleeding out his life by degrees and at death shall quite expire and bleed his last but not till then Paul saith of himself I find a law in my members warring against the law of my mind who shall deliver me from this body of death Rom. 7.23 24. or oh that I were delivered from it There will be a body of sin and death in us so long as we carry this body of earth and flesh about us this is plain then as long as we live here we shall sin and what Christian desires to live to sin and to offend God! Oh ye that love the Lord hate sin saith the Psalmist hate that which is evil We should therefore desire it for this cause Psal 97.10 Fourthly let us oft look at death Plato said that the life of a Philosopher should be nothing else but a meditation of death much more the life of a Christian It was a custome amongst the Greek Emperours a Stone-cutter came to the Emperour on the day of his Coronation presented divers stones before him and desired to know of him which of those stones he would have for his Sepulchre And I have read of a people who at their feasts were wont to drink to one another out of dead-mens skuls to mind them of death Joseph of Arimathea who brought the Gospel hither into England he had his sepulchre hewn out of a rock Joh. 19.41 standing ready for him in his garden So let us when the world seems to crown us with its chiefest delights then remember death when we eat and drink think we see death on our tables when we are in our private Gardens then also let us take a turn with death and let us act death before it comes As a man that would fain fall asleep shuts his eyes draws the curtains layes his head to the pillow and so composeth himself to sleep so do thou oft think with thy self in what manner death will surprise thee look at it before it comes and it will be the easier when it comes And lastly as we must look at it so we must also look beyond it indeed it is a terrible thing to look at death but cast thine eye now beyond it and there will be no terrour in it Think of Paul's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how it will be far better with us then then now in regard of Place Company our Bodies and our Soules But indeed as I noted to you before that glory is unspeakable As the Queen of Sheba said of Solomons glory She heard a great deal yet not half of it was told her the same may we say of eternall happinesse that we cannot declare half of it unto you meditate we may and ought of that glory yet this we must know that we come exceeding far short This therefore should make us go with as great desire to the grave as they use to go to a marriage because then we shall be married to Christ Jesus And as Travellers when the day is well spent and the Sun grows low come chearfully into their Inns at night so should we to this common Inne of Death FINIS