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A42023	Two sermons the first preacht at Steeple-Aston in Oxfordshire at the funerall of Mr. Francis Croke of that place Aug. 2, 1672, the other at the funerall of Alexander Croke of Studley, Esq., buryed at Chilton in Buckinghamshire Octob. 24, 1672 / by Daniel Greenwood ...	Greenwood, Daniel, 1627 or 8-1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing G1865; ESTC R7515	25,935	40

from Carpenters squaring and plaining their Timber or Masons hewing and polishing their Stones or Goldsmiths scouring and burnishing their Metall for look as in the building in the Temple at Hierusalem the Wood and Stones were framed and fitted in the Mountaines that no Axe or Hammer might be heard in the Temple so Christians are fitted in this Life for glory no scouring purging or polishing hereafter the title to inheritance is sett forth here the possession is delivered hereafter Exercis'd Educated and train'd up we are in these inferiour Schooles of grace the degrees and dignities are confer'd in the generall Convocation and Consistory of glory Now as no piece of Timber can promise it self an honourable place in the building save that which is fitted and carved before it be layd nor any hope for a Crowne that hath neither breeding nor title to it So nor can any promise to themselves glory whom God hath not polished and fitted by sanctification and Grace The Apostle Col 1. 12. thankes the Father that hath made us fitt or meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light not that hath put us into a condition to merit Heaven but hath adopted us undeserving and fitted us that were unfit This God doth by making us partakers of the Divine nature turning our hearts from Sin to Holiness so making us new Creatures Which happy thing and alteration who so ever finds truly though but weakly wrought in him he longs to be in possession of that which God of his mercy in Christ hath in some degree fitted and prepared him for 4. The last ground is Gods having given to them the earnest of the spirit v. 5. By which we may understand the fruits of the Spirit namely joy and peace in believing which are the fruits of the Spirit and the gifts of God not in a way of duty only as to believe repent Love the Father and the Brethren and the like are fruits of the Spirit but in a way of reward or recompense of Grace These prediscoveries of Gods good will and manifestation of his Love to Men are the hansells and fore-tasts of Glory This the Apostle calls Joy unspeakable full of Glory obtain'd here in a way of believing the sure earnests of better enjoyments in the time to come 1 Pet 1. 8. Now as the sight of the glory of Christ in his transfiguration made the Disciples loath to foregoe that pleasant rapture Master 't is good for us to be here Matt 17. 4. so such fore-tasts of the Divine Love and praesentiments of the happiness of a future state as no doubt the Apostles and holy Men sometimes had makes them long for the full enjoyment and desire to be with Christ which is best of all But least while I speak of the high attainements of strong Christians I should discourage the Hearts of Babes in Christ who are as dear to him and he as tender of them as they that are of greater strongth and fuller growth though from these he expects more service and greater obedience take these Cautions 1. What hath been said is not to be taken as if none were to be accounted or might account themselves good Christians who find not in themselves such a perfect and a constant willingness to Dye This character is for strong grown and experienc'● Christians and that not alwaies but at some seasons such as have strong apprehensions of the glory of the other World and the happiness of that eternall rest which remaines for the People of God that have good assurance through grace of their interest therein and can rejoyce in the hope of the glory of God others may be weaker and yet true Christians too they are pronounced blessed that hunger after Righteousness as well as they that long and thirst for glory 2. Nor must it be so taken as if even strong Christians were without a naturall abhorrence of Death and a declining from it the Disciples in a Tempest and Peter when he began to sink city out upon the apprehension of approaching Death and yet were Christs Disciples for all that The Apostle intimates that he and other Christians could have been glad to have escaped Death if Gods will were so and if they could have arrived at what they aimed at and looked for without passing through the jawes thereof v. 4. not that we would be uncloathed but cloathed upon c. Our blessed Saviour did by this Testifie the truth of his humane nature in that he was affraid of Death Father if it be possible let this Cuppe pass from me yet withall sets a Copy and leaves us a patterne of most free resignation and patient submission to the Fathers will yet not my will but thy will be done 3. As a Child of God is not without a natural abhornence of Death so nor without a due Care to preserve his Life so long as God sees it fitt and a willingness to beare those troubles and inconvenienoies of life which God sees good to exercise him under God hath sett his Children in this World as souldiers on their guard not to runne away at their pleasure but to wait till they are releast and called off We may go out of Life when God opens a doore but we may not break prison We may depart asking Gods leave Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart Lu 2. 29. but must be willing to stay his leizure and expect his dismission Thus notwithstanding the Apostle Paul was desirous to depart yet he sits down contented when he saw God would have him worke and suffer longer Phil. 1. 24. Neverthelesse to abide in the flesh is more needfull for you and having this confidence I know I shall abide c. However Christ shall be magnified in my Body whether it be by Life or by Death for to me to Live is Christ to Dye is gaine v. 20 21. From what hath been said gather we courage to encounter Death and to look the King of terrour in the face which is so farre from being now a terrour to the Children of God that it 's become the object of their desires and wishes The frightfull Serpent before which all Mankind fled is in the Hand of Moses become a Rod and a Staffe of support and comfort I meane Death which is an enemy to nature and the wages of Sin is by the power of Christ turn'd to a friend and a Servant of all the heires of salvation an end of a Sinful troublesome and uncertaine Life and a passage to a Blessed and Glorious immortality Make then a vertue of necessity and being its appointed for us all to Dye Heb 9. 27. learne we to dye daylie 1 Cor 15. 31. so setting our hearts and Houses in order that we may rather meet Death then flye from it rather wish and welcome it then be affraid of it And seeing all these things shall be dissolved what manner of Persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and

16. 18. For which cause we faint not c. while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen c. Upon this he professeth the full assurance of his hope concerning the future happy estate of himself and all good men Ch. 5. 1. We know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle be dissolved we have a building of God c. And upon the certainty of this Faith and Hope professeth his earnest desire to enjoy what he so assuredly looked for v. 2. In this we groan earnestly desiring to he clothed upon And finally upon a full and a deliberate debate he chuseth Death rather than Life the condition of good men after this Life which he calls being absent from the Body and present with the Lord before their condition here on Earth which he calls being present with the Body and absent from the Lord. There is an elegant Paronomasia in the Originall which our translation can scarce reach and more matter in the words then the time will give us leave to discursse These 4. propositions will swallow up the substance of them 1. That the best of Men here on Earth Live by Faith not by sight 2. To be here at home in the Body is to be absent from the Lord. 3. To be absent from the Body is to be present with the Lord. 4 Holy men have attain'd and may attaine to this high and Heavenly pitch to desire rather to be absent from the Body and present with the Lord. A little of each 1. The best of Men Live here by faith not by sight This liveing by Faith is mentioned elsewhere partly as a duty partly as a privilege and promise Heb 2 4. Heb 10. 38. It seemes brought in in this place as an allay to a Christians present condition Understanding by sight enioyment it is as if he had sayd we enioy not but we believe and that supports us We have but the least part of our inheritance and happiness in our possession more in expectation reversion and hope but that also as sure as if we had it For true Faith is an evidence Heb 11 1. And Christian Hope maketh not ashamed Rom 5. 5. But look as all men had rather be in a condition of haveing then hoping of enjoying then desiring so had we Now this life of Faith and Sense differ especially in two respects 1. Sight reaches only to visible things Faith to invisible the Eye of sense sees only grosse and materiall things placed in a due distance through a fit medium c. but faith is the evidence of things not seen Heb. 11. 1. If you run through the whole Life of a Christian you shall find it a kind of invisible and mysterious Life The actions of it are managed and caryed on by Motives unknown to other Men. The food that maintains it is such as the world knowes not off The joyes that cheare and quicken it are such as a stranger intermeddles not with The promises which maintaine and support it are of things beyond the kenne of carnal reason and sense Eternal Life is promised but it is hid with Christ in God We are justifyed but not by a righteousnes that is in us but in Christ who suffered at Jerusalem out of our view long before our time and is removed into Heaven far from our sight and yet we look for eternal Life in him as assuredly as if we enjoyed it Whom having not seen yet we love in whom though we see him not yet believing we rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of Glory 1 Pet 1. 8. 2. Sight extends only to present things faith to future therefore faith is said to be the substance of things hoped for Now hope that is seen is not hope for that which a Man sees why doth he yet hope for Rom 8. 24. Christians live not by present things or things that perish with the using but such as will come hereafter and will last for ever While we look not at those things which are seen but at those which are not seene For those things which are seen are temporal but those which are not seen are eternal 2 Cor 4. 18. If then a Christians life be a life of hope not of enjoyment of faith not of sense it confutes on the one hand the fond imagination of conceited Perfectionists on the other the brutish sensuality of worldlings and Epicures The first pretends to live above the life of faith would make us believe they are already in possession and enjoyment of what ever a Christian can wish or hope for and despise those that presse hard after God in the use of his Ordinances that go groaning under the burden of their corruptions and sighing after the enjoyment of a future happines as persons of a lower forme and meaner attainements for their parts they are perfect they are sinlesse they need no staires nor ladder they are already at the top no ordinances no meanes of grace they are full they have attain'd they are in Heaven allready c. what shall we say to these Men but what the Apostle sayes to the Galatians CH 3. 1. Oh foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you and certainely if there were not a certaine witchcraft and sorcery in heresy and fond opinions and if there were not a Spiritual as well as bodily phrensie we might justly wonder at the wild conceits of such Opinionists Have ye seene Men in Bedlam strangely enjoying themselves in their imaginary felicityes just such are these Confuted by the whole tenour of Scripture and by the constant experience of the best of Gods Children who have alway confest they knew but in part and were but Sanctifyed in part Now we see through a glasse darkely 1 Cor 17. 12. for v. 9 10. we know but in part and we Prophecy in part c. The Apostle Paul himselfe thought not himselfe perfect nor to have already attaind Phil. 3 13. 2. Others live a life as much below as these pretend to live above the Life of faith It were to be wisht that all were arrived so far as to follow the dictate of natural and common Reason But alas Men are degenerated into brutes live not the lives of rational beings homines in ventrem proni libidinum mancipia as the Historian speakes or as the Apostle better Their belly is their God they glory in their shame they minde earthly things Phil 3. 19. These must learne to be Men before they can hope to be Christians And must bid adieu to the dreggy desires of the world and the flesh and become pure in heart before they can see God For without Holines none shall see the Lord. Heb 12. 14. 3. Proposition They that are at home in the body are absent from the Lord. For understanding thereof we must distinguish of a 4. fold presence of God 1. His essential presence Or the presence of his being In which respect God is boundlesse and

infinite excluded out of no place included in none This is called Gods immensity ubiquity and omni presence which the scripture often asserts Jer 22 23 24. Am I a God at hand saith the Lord and not a God afarre off Can any hide himselfe in secret places that I cannot see him saith the Lord. Do not I fill Heaven and Earth so Ps 139. 6. c. Whether shall I flye from thy presence If I ascend into Heaven thou art there If I make my Bed in Hell be hold thou art there c. Act. 17. 27. He is not far from any of us c. 2 His providential presence whereby he is in every busines and nothing comes to passe without him This followes from the former For the essence of God being every where and that essence being a pure Act is no where idle but alwayes operative in all Creatures and in all their actions Now thus nothing no person is ever absent from the Lord. All are subject to his eye and government He sees all his Creatures he manageth and over-rules all their wayes and actions 3. There is a Spiritual or gracious presence of God Whereby he is said to be in and with his Church and every faithful Member thereof Hee s sayd to be the God of his People and to dwel in the midst of them Psa 46. 7. The Lord of Hoasts is with us c. So every Child of God hath God graciously present with him in this life and every one of them have him so much the nearer to them as they have more special need of his assisting helping and encouraging presence Job 5. 29. He is with you in six troubles and in seven Matth 28. last I am with you to the end of the World Of all these several sorts of divine presence the Apostle speaks Eph 4. 6. There is one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all Above all by his power and Soveraignty through all by his common providence and in all his Children by the presence of his grace and Spirit The life of faith then excludes none of these Divine presences but supposeth them all and every Christian even in this life is in all these respects present with the Lord. But 4ly there is a Celestial or a glorious presence which the Scripture calls a beholding God face to face and seeing him as he is God vouchsafeth to Moses to see his back parts but saith he Exod. 33. 20. no Man can see my face and Live as if be should say this sinfull and fraile State of Mortality is not capable of nor can be admitted to the full and ●mmediate vision of the Divine glory and Excellency While we are in the Body we are absent from the beatificall vision and fruition of him That State of compleat blisse and happiness is reserved for hereafter Toward this the Apostle having not yet attain'd did breath and strive Phil. 3. 12. I follow after if I may apprehend that for which I am apprehended of Christ. I reach forward to the things that are before I presse toward the mark for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus Now as to these Glorious attainments of perfect blessedness which the Apostle elsewhere calls seeing God as we are seen and seeing him clearly as he is the best of Men in this State of Mortality are absent from the Lord nay we are not only as yet unpossest of but in a great measure strangers to and unacquainted with that fulness of joy that is in this Glorious presence of God Eye hath not seen nor Eare heard neither have entred into the Heart of Man the things which God hath prepared for them that Love him 1 Cor 2. 9. Now are we the Sons of God and it doth not appear what we shall be but we know that when be shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 Joh 3. 2. 1. Then if this be the state of the Godly in this Life to be absent from the Lord what 's the condition of wick●d Men and where shall the ungodly and Sinners appear they are at a much greater distance from God said to be without God in the World Strangers and Enemies to him by evill workes of whom the Scripture hath pronounc't Ps 73. 27. Lo all they that are far from thee shall perish thou wilt destroy all those that go a Whoring from thee They say to the Almighty Depart from us Job 21. 14. and he to them depart from me Out of the presence of his grace here and hereafter shall be punisht with everlasting perdition from his presence and glory of his power 2 Thes 1. 9. 2. See what little reason good Men have to be fond of this State of mortality wherein they are absent from the Lord. It 's true Life and Death are in the power of the Lord and both of them are to be thankfully accepted at his Hands and meekly submitted to his pleasure Man may not quitt his centinell till he be orderly discharged he may not break out of Life though he account it a prison but must expect a legall delivery Yet hath no reason to be fond of his imprisonment or be unwilling to be delivered While hee 's in this Life hee 's present with the Body hee 's absent from the Lord utraque justa mora est neither consideration gives ground of 100 passionate a Love of this Life or an immoderate desire of a long abode therein Hee 's at home in the Body and what is the Body but a lump of refined Clay a case not valuable were it not for the jewell that is therein It is of the Earth Earthly a Body of the same Mold and Metall with those of the Beasts that perish a fraile and weak carcase subject to a thousand casualties and infirmities and which is worst of all inseperably link't to a Body of Sin and Death which made the Apostle cry our wretched man that I am who shall deliver me c. Rom 7. 24. Againe as hee 's present with the Body so hee 's absent from the Lord. He sees not the face of his Redeemer he see 's not God save as in a Glass darkly In the state of Mortality we are absent from our Head from our Husband from our Masters nay from our Fathers House from our Life our Happiness and that fulness of joy that remains for us in his Celestial presence This makes holy and Heavenly Soules cry with David Ps 42. 1 2. As the Hart panteth c. my Soul thirsteth for God for the Living God when shall I come and appear before God and conclude with St. Paul I desire to depart and to be with Christ which is farre better Phil. 1. 23. 3. Proposition To be absent from the Body is to be present with the Lord. I do not meane that all men so soone as they are Dead are in a State of Happiness and Bliss no