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A62392	The faithful souldier's reward, or, A glimpse of the saints happiness discovered in two sermons, occasioned by the death of that truly vertuous and religious gentle woman, Mrs. Katherine Disney : the former preached at Kirkstead, the place of her last abode here upon the earth, on the 18th day of May, 1690, being the Lord's Day, and the latter at Swinderly, near Lincoln, where she was interr'd the Tuesday following / by William Scoffin.	Scoffin, William, 1655?-1732.	1692 (1692)	Wing S933; ESTC R11432	41,514	126

is opposed to it and 't is explain'd ver 25. He is comforted but thou art tormented Heaven is a Place of Comfort and Hell is a Place of Torment No sooner did Lazarus die but he was carried by the Angels into Heaven No sooner did the rich Man die but he was dragged by the Devils into Hell Ver. 23 24. And in Hell he lift up his Eyes being in Torment and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his Bosom Therefore I argue not only from Lazarus his being in Abraham's Bosom but also from the rich Man's being in Hell for God is not more prone to punish than he is to reward If the Wicked be in Torment as soon as they die then the Saints are in their Happiness presently upon their Dissolution Another Place is Luke 16.9 And I say unto you make to your selves Friends of the Mammon of Vnrighteousness that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting Habitations i. e. Do good with your worldly Riches and thereby evidence your Faith to be true and so consequently make God your Friend that when you come to die he may receive you into Heaven 1 Tim. 6.17 19. Luk. 19.8 Act. 10.4 Mat. 25.34 36. When ye fail What is that time failing It cannot be meant of Condemnation in the Judgment for there is no escaping or reversing that Sentence therefore 't is meant of the Hour of Death then are Believers received into everlasting Habitations and their everlasting Habitation is in Heaven Another Argument which proveth this Truth is that with which Christ silenc'd the Sadduces Mat. 22.31 32. Have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God saying I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob God is not the God of the Dead but of the Living The Sadduces denied the Immortality of the Soul as well as the Resurrection of the Body and Christ disproveth both by this Argument I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Exod. 3.6 These words were spoken by God unto Moses long after the Decease of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and it is not said I was but I am the God of Abraham c. Now saith Christ God is not the God of the Dead but of the Living therefore Abraham Isaac and Jacob though long ago deceased are yet alive So the Souls of all the Faithful departed out of this World do live to God in Heaven Luke 20.38 Another Scripture which clearly proves this Truth is Luke 23.43 The penitent Thief had desired Christ to remember him when he came into his Kingdom And Christ answered him again and said Verily I say unto thee To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Christ sheweth that he would not defer his Hope but his Desire should be accomplished that Day 't is not adjourned to many Days Months or Years but to Day saith Christ q. d. Thou shalt immediately enjoy thy Desire Now what Christ promised to him he promised it to him as a penitent Believer and what belongeth to one Believer belongeth to all in a like Case Therefore if his Soul in the very Day of his Death was translated to Paradise the Souls of other Believers will be so in like manner Rev. 2.7 To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God No doubt but by Paradise is meant Heaven and so the Apostle explaineth it 2 Cor. 12.2 4. Thither the penitent Thief went immediately after his Death and so doth every believing Soul Another Scripture that proves this Truth and the last that I shall name is 2 Cor. 5.8 We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the Body and to be present with the Lord. This is so plain a Text for the proof of this Truth that if we had no other Scripture to prove it by even this alone were sufficient For we know saith the Apostle that whilst we are at home in the Body we are absent from the Lord ver 6. But are will rather to be absent from the Body and to be present with the Lord ver 8. So that as soon as the Souls of the Faithful are separated from the Body they are taken immediately into the Presence of the Lord in whose Presence there is Fulness of Joy Psa 16.11 and at whose Right-hand there are Pleasures for evermore And thus I have sufficiently prov'd that the Souls of the Faithful at Death do immediately pass into Heaven and their Bodies lie asleep in their Graves as in Beds of Rest Now 2. At the general Resurrection when Christ shall come to Judgment the Bodies of the Saints shall be raised in Glory and re-united unto their Souls even these very self same Bodies which now we have 1 Thess 4.16 For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a Shout with the Voice of the Archangel and with the Trump of God and the Dead in Christ shall rise first So Joh. 5.28 29. Marvel not at this saith Christ for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the Graves shall hear his Voice and shall come forth they that have done good unto the Resurrection of Life and they that have done evil unto the Resurrection of Damnation This will be a joyful Day to every believing Soul but a Day of Terror and Amazement to the Wicked When the Lord Jesus Christ shall be thus revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming Fire taking Vongeance on then that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting Destruction from the Presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his Power When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be admired in all them that believe 2 Thess 1.7 10. The Thoughts of this most Blessed Day which Job foresaw by Faith did much refresh his Soul under his heavy Afflictions Job 19.25 26 27. I know saith he that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter Day upon the Earth And though after my Skin Worms destroy this Body yet in my Flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine Eyes shall behold and not another though my Reins be consumed within me Job was well assured that the self-same Body which had suffered so much in the World and which should not in the Earth and be eaten with Worms should be raised again at the last Day Yet this we must know that tho the same Body shall be raised again yet a very great Change shall pass upon it 1 Cor. 15.42 44. 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 So Phil. 3.20 21. Our Conversation is in Heaven saith

the Apostle there from whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile Body that it may be fashioned like unto his Glorious Body according to the Working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself O blessed Change indeed They shall be fashioned like unto his glorious Body Now the Bodies of the Saints are vile but then they shall be glorious For Christ's Body now glorified in Heaven is surely a glorious Body indeed * Rev. 1 13 16. Mat. 17.1 2. And the Bodies of the Saints shall be like his O how joyfully will the Soul reunite with the Body when this glorious Change is passed upon it And what a blessed Union will this be nevermore to be broken O then will the Saints be in a Capacity of enjoying the highest Felicity 3. Their Bodies and Souls thus re-united shall be received into Mansions of Bliss and Glory where they shall for ever be with the Lord and be perfectly happy to all Eternity And O how should the Thoughts of this chear our Hearts and fortify us under all our Trials Let not your Hearts be troubled Joh. 14.1 2 3. saith Christ ye believe in God believe also in me In my Father's House are many Mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a Place for you And if I go and prepare a Place for you I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there ye may be also O comfortable Words indeed Yea and Christ has left them for our Comfort Wherefore comfort one another with these Words 1 Thess 4.18 saith the Apostle With what words Why that Jesus Christ will come in the Clouds Ver. 16 17. and meet Believers in the Air and they shall for ever be with the Lord. O blessed and glorious Day when Christ shall pronounce that blessed Sentence to such as have been his faithful Followers Mat. 25.34 Come ye Blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the World The Members of Christ are now look'd upon by the World as a Company of Hypocrites and vile Miscreants even such as are unfit to live in a Common-wealth but Christ pronounceth them Blessed The World saith Act. 22.22 Away with such Fellows from the Earth for it is not fit that they should live but Christ saith Mat. 25.34 Come ye Blessed And Christ calls them the Blessed of his Father shewing thereby the Orignal Cause and Fountain of all our Happiness The beginning of our Salvation was from an higher Cause than our own Holiness yea than Christ's Merit even from the free Grace and Favour of God the Father He is the principal efficient Cause of the Saints Blessedness Christ as Mediator is but the way to the Father Joh. 14.6 It is the Father that appointed Christ and gave him to Sinners Joh. 3.16 And in time brings them to close with him Joh. 6.44 It is the Father that prepared this Kingdom for them before the Foundation of the World They are not less beloved and blessed by the Father than by the Son who redeemed them but whosoever is dear unto the Son is dear also unto the Father O what Soul-enravishing Joys will the Saints be filled with when Christ shall pronounce this blessed Sentence Come ye Blessed of my Father To the Wicked he will say Depart but to the Saints Come as the Quintessence of all Misery lieth in the one so the Consummation of all Blessedness lieth in the other We see here what the Sentence will be at the Grat Day the reason of this Sentence followeth For I was an hungred and ye gave me Meat I was thirsty and ye gave me Drink I was a Stranger and ye took me in Naked and ye clothed me I was sick and ye visited me I was in Prison and ye came unto me Mat. 25.35 36. These good Works are mentioned by Christ and given as a Reason of the Sentence not as if Heaven was merited by them but as the undoubted Evidences and Fruits of a true and saving Faith And that a true Faith is implied in the Works here mentioned is very clear and evident 1. From the Expression it self For I was an hungred and ye gave me Meat saith Christ 't was Christ they respected in his Members Now it requireth Faith to see Christ in a poor needy Person or Prisoner to love Christ in them above our worldly Goods and to part with our Wealth for their Relief because they belong to Christ This is a great Piece of Self-denial and doubbless the Fruit of a saving Faith for 't is not meerly the relieving the Poor but the doing of it as in and to Christ 2. Faith and good Works are very nearly linked together for Faith is not sound and saving unless it produce these good Works and these Works are not acceptable unless they proceed from Faith and are done in Faith Heb. 11.6 1 Tim. 1.5 Where there is true Faith there will also be good Works as the genuine Effects and Fruits of it yet certain it is that the best of those Works do no ways deserve Heaven Luk. 17.10 Ephes 2.8 9. And the Saints will be so far from pleading their Works in a way of Desert or Merit that they will rather altogether disown them being sensible of their many and great Imperfections and how far short they came of their Duty Then shall the Righteous answer him saying Mat. 25.37 Lord when saw we thee an hungred and fed thee or thirsty and gave thee Drink Ver. 38. When saw we thee a Stranger and took thee in or naked and clothed thee Or when saw we thee sick Ver. 39. or in Prison and came unto thee And the King shall answer and say unto them Ver. 40. Verily I say unto you in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my Brethren ye have done it unto me By the way we may observe these three or four Particulars 1. The wonderful Love and Humility of the Lord Jesus Christ the King of Glory in owning the poorest Joh. 20.17 Heb. 2.11 12. and least of his Members for his Brethren In as much as ye have done it saith he unto one of the least of these my Brethren ye have done it unto me O wonderful condescending Love that the great God should take such poor Worms as we into so near a Relation unto himself 2. Observe that Christ takes that which is done to his Members as done to himself I was an hugred saith he and ye gave me Meat I was thirsty and ye gave me Drink I was a Stranger and ye took me in Naked and ye clothed me I was sick and ye visited me I was in Prison and ye came unto me For in as much as ye have done it to one of the least of these my Brethren ye have done it unto me So that we

Enemies can do us here Mat. 10.28 is only to kill the Body and this they cannot do neither without the permission of God and when God permits them to injure our Bodies Rom. 8.28 he thereby designs us good to our Souls So that our Enemies are very unskilful whatsoever Evil they design unto us for when they impair the outward Man they thereby better the inward Man 2 Cor. 4.16 And if they root us out of the Earth they do but send us the sooner to Heaven Yea Mat. 5.10 11 12. and the greater our Sufferings are here in the World the greater will be our Happiness hereafter 'T was a Saying of one of the Antient Fathers when vilified by his Enemies He that willingly takes from my good Name unwillingly adds to my Reward Surely then the Hopes of Heaven should chear our Hearts under all our Trials 3. It administers Comfort to Believers even against Death it self These Earthly Tabernacles must be dissolved 2 Cor. 5.1 but what then We have a Building of God an House not made with Hands Eternal in the Heavens We shall but leave a poor tottering Cottage to live in a Princely Palace and forsake an unquiet and troublesome World for a place of everlasting Repose Isa 57.2 Rev. 14.13.1 Thess 4.13 14 15. Death to Believers is but a sweet Sleep and the Grave but a Chamber of Rest where the Body doth quietly repose it self till the general Resurrection And then it shall certainly awake from its Sleep and be raised again a most Glorious Body Phil. 3.21 And while the Body doth thus quietly rest in the Grave the Soul is in actual Joy and Felicity It doth not sleep in the Grave with the Body 2 Cor. 5.8 Phil. 1.23 as some do foolishly imagine but is present with the Lord and in a State of Activity Death is to the Soul of every Believer an immediate Passage into Glory Believers may therefore look Death in the Face with a great deal of Joy and Comfort 1 Cor. 15.55 56 57. for its Sting is taken away by Christ and it is unto them a Translation Their Life is not taken away but changed 't is changed from a miserable and corruptible Life to that which is Blessed and Eternal There 's a Glorious State provided for Believers in the World to come and Death is the ready Passage into it Wherefore comfort one another with these Words 1 Thess 4.18 saith the Apostle With what Words Why that Jesus Christ shall come in the Clouds Ver. 16 17. and take Believers unto himself and so shall we for ever be with the Lord. Lastly The Doctrine affords matter of Comfort to the Dear Relations of our Deceased Friend who hath fought a good Fight and hath finished her Course and is now gone to receive the Crown which the Lord hath prepared for her She was one that was assaulted with many Temptations but through the Captain of her Salvation she did conquer and overcome Jam. 1.12 Rev. 2.10 and is now enjoying as we have ground to hope the Reward of a Faithful Souldier of Christ even an immortal Crown of Life and Glory yea the highest Felicity she is capable of receiving till her Body and Soul be again reunited and then will her Happiness be full and compleat Ever since I knew her I look'd upon her to be one that desired to make Religion her Business or the chief concern of her Life She had very low and mean Thoughts of her self and was greatly afraid of being mistaken and of thinking her Condition to be better than it was She has oft in my hearing lamented and bewail'd her Distractions of Mind in Duty and would tell me she found it a very difficult thing to keep her Heart close unto God And where is there a Christian indeed that doth not experience this It was her practice every Day to read a considerable Portion of the Holy Scriptures and to meditate and pray in secret besides her constant joyning in Family-Duties She would say that she found those two Soul-enriching Duties of Meditation and Self-examination very hard and difficult to perform them aright She had a very hearty Love I believe to all God's Faithful People 1 Joh. 3.14 not only those that were of the same Judgment with her but also to those that differed from her in some Circumstantials of Religion She was far from that factious and narrow Spirit which too many have discovered in these our Days that has no hearty Love for any but those that are of their own Perswasion No wheresoever she saw any thing of the Image of God Psal 15.4 Psal 16.2 3. in Rich or Poor or any Person that differed from her in Judgment such Persons were always welcome to her and she ever expressed an high esteem of them Psal 119.63 She delighted most in the Society of those who truly feared the Lord. She would speak her Mind freely and with very great Zeal in vindicating God's Faithful Servants when she heard any of them spoken against or reflected on by others Her Humility was very conspicuous and apparent to all that conversed much with her And you of her Neighbours who knew her well can give your Attestation to what I say How free was she always in her Converse with you And how familiar would she be with the poorest of you The Poor was as welcome to her as the Rich and more especially such as feared the Lord. She would visit the poorest of her Neighbours with delight when she could have any hopes of doing them good or of administring any Relief to them She went very modestly in her Apparel ever since I knew her chusing rather to go below her Quality than in the least to exceed She could not endure those ridiculous Fashions which are now so much followed by many those foolish and fantastical Dresses which abundance do please themselves with And for my part I verily believe that a great many Persons amongst us do please but a very few with their Dress besides the Devil and themselves And I wish the Lord may not bring upon these what he brought upon the haughty Daughters of Zion Isa 3.16 26. Jer. 15.9 chap. 14.1 18. and 52.1 27. Many there are which seem not to approve of these foolish fantastical Fashions and yet forsooth they must follow the same lest they make themselves ridiculous But our honoured Friend the deceased Gentlewoman was not of their Mind for she rather chose to be accounted ridiculous by proud and foolish Sinners than to make her self so indeed in the Sight of the All-seeing God She spent little time in dressing her self and as little she spent in Idleness She would constantly be employed in one honest Business or other as knowing it sinful either in Poor or in Rich to trifle and idle away precious Time She had indeed her Infirmities and Weaknesses which none are free from while here in the World but