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A80841	The good man's epitaph briefly explained & applyed in a sermon at the funeral of Mr. John Drury. By Thomas Cartwright, M. of A. of Queens College Oxon, and now vicar of Waltham-stow in Essex.	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1659 (1659)	Wing C699; Thomason E1001_16; ESTC R207856	12,722	24

left behind of the sufferings of Christ which must be filled up by his body the Church and happy are those who contribute most unto it And this is a duty which our times make highly seasonable to be prest though the present occasion of our meeting do withdraw me from pursuing it Now there is a particle of time mentioned in this blessing which breeds some small difference among Interpreters from henceforth from now from this time which some with Beza would joyn with Blessed and then the words run thus Blessed from henceforth are they who dye in the Lord. Others are unwilling to stir it out of the place which our Translation has given it and therefore joyn it with Dying and then they read them thus Blessed are those that dye from henceforth in the Lord not but that those who dyed in former ages were also blessed but because the times which the Angel here spoke of were times of great persecution and therefore required more signal comfort then ordinary A third sort restrain it not to the time of uttering this Prophecy but to the instant of death and thereby make this voice from heaven of strength enough to blow out Romes pick-purse flames and beat down their Doctrine of Purgatory Now because every Epitaph is supposed to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Commendatory and therefore is likewise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Consolatory carrying something in it that may calm the minds of those friends who shall bewayl the parties ●●●psed therefore the holy Spirit here writing upon the Saints departed closes their Epitaph with matter of comfort to their surviving relations wherein he takes care by a fresh gale of consolation to blow over those showers of tears which would otherwise fall for them in the last words for they rest from their labours and their works they follow them So that III. Their Friends are Comforted from an assurance of a double Priviledg that they 〈◊〉 their death enjoy viz. Rest and Reward 1. The First Cordial that the H. Spirit administers to keep up their fainting friends is a serious consideration That they rest from their labors By which it seems That Christianity is no lazie Imployment God admits none but Labourers into his Vineyard Loyterers have nothing to do there We must bestir our selves in it all the day till the evening comes and with that the Messenger of Death from God to serve a Quietus est upon us and command us to rest from our labour Labors are a Law which we all are bound to submit to who have Adam for our Grandfather and Crosses are a Curse which will reach us all who acknowledge Eve for our Grandmother and though the wickeds death is not properly a Rest but a Remove to a greater place of torment as well as Labor yet there remaineth a rest to the people of God which at the hour of death they enter into possession of for then they Rest from their labors that is from Evils of all sorts from the Injuries of the World from Temporal Chastisements from all Infirmities and Bodily Diseases from all painfull and Laborious Imployments and therefore they are never better delivered then when delivered by death For they are now in their Haven and no longer tugging at the Oares Their Work is done their Journey ended no more Fasting Weeping Watching Sinning Suffering no Peccant Humors to disturb their crazie bodies no griping Fears nor consuming Cares to afflict their minds as formerly but they are freed from all these and enjoy an absolutely perfect and complete Rest from all their Labors from the sence of Gods displeasure from the Disturbing Temptations of Satan from the Allurements of the flesh from the bewitching Snares of the World from all Abuses and Dissentions from the many Duties which their Weakness made burdensome from the disturbance of Desires and Hopes of their Longing and Waitings which made them weary of their lives and desirous to be dissolved But before we dismiss this Clause let us not forget to reconcile it with another in the same Book which may seem to stand at a distance from it where 't is said of the Saints in Heaven That they have no Rest day or Rev. 4. 8. night whereas one of the principal Fruits of Life Eternal is shadowed out under the Metaphor of Rest and here 't is recorded as a Priviledg of theirs That they rest from their Labors To bring both which expressions together to salute one another with a Kiss of Peace let us consider that a Rest indeed they have viz. Such a one as implies A cessation from all toilesome and troublesome Labours But yet they are not Idle in Heaven they have their work to do there as wel as on Earth but yet such an one as will not in continuance of time tire them but eternally Delight them such as wil not at any time destroy but for everperfect them And therefore weep not for them but your selves in that God has not thought fit to give you a Writ of Ease to sit down with them 2. The second Comfort which the Holy Spirit administers to the Living at the death of their righteous Friends is That their Works follow them which if they were Good must needs Comfort the pensive spirit of the Mourner and administer a Cruse of Oyle to his Joy but if Bad a Conduit of Tears to his sorrow for Qualis vita finis ita As men live so they dye As Evil Works have two Punishments following of them close at their heeles viz. Remorse and guilt of Conscience in this life and Eternal Damnation in that which is to come So Good Works have two Rewards attending them the one in this life and that 's Peace of Conscience the other following them into that to come viz. Joy for evermore Then shall they reap the Fruit of their Labors when God renders to every one according to their deeds that they have done in the flesh whether good or evil Good Works are the Seeds of Glory A man may as well ride to Rome upon a dead horse as go to heaven with a dead faith and such is that which is without Jam. 2. 17. Works and therefore Blessed are they whose works follow them into Heaven whither Christ is gone before them and do there claim of God that exceeding weight of Glory which is not out of our Merits but His Mercy treasured up for them who dye in the Lord so that if thy Actions have been good on Earth great will be thy Reward in Heaven where thy Grace will be consummated thy Glory perfected and thou have the inseparable Company of Christ and immediate communion with thy God where thou shalt feast thy self with the vision of that Being which is Invisible and according to the Riches of Gods promise Inherit that Kingdome which flesh and blood cannot inherit No sooner does the Messenger of death arrest us but Riches they take wing and fly away our Pleasures they steal from us and

any meanes of escaping having so highly provok'd that Great Judge before whom he is then to appear Whereas on the other hand he who has made it the business of his life to make the Judg his friend triumphs at the news of his appearance before him and looking merrily towards heaven the Reward of his Innocence his soul is ravisht with an earnest desire of being dissolved that he may be with God The Glory of the End makes him contemn the Hardness of the Way He knowes that as he lives in Gods Fear so he shall dye in his Favour and therefore he smiles upon the Messenger of his Departure and embraces it as his entrance into Happiness Is it any wonder that the wicked should fear death when their Conscience which is their faithful Informer tells them that it is a Trap-door which will let them down into the Dungeon of eternal misery Is it any wonder that he is dismayed when these Spiritual Philistines the terrors of death make War upon him when his own heart informs him that the Lord is departed from him No wonder if he who lived without Grace expects to dye without Comfort Needs must it be a ghastly sight to him to see death like a Pursevant sent from hell waiting to guard him into endless miseries But now they who dye in the Lord have another-guess Cordial to keep up their spirits so that in what habit soever death comes attired they can make him welcome because they perceive him to be a Messenger come from their Heavenly Father to call them to take possession of a Kingdom They may pass with comfort and courage through this dark entry which leads to the Palace of their eternal Glory They may play upon the hole of this Asp without danger for it cannot sting them Christ has subdued the Second and reconciled the First Death to them so that the one they never taste of and the other is so sweetned that they cannot justly complain of its relish When these Jacobs have got the blessing of their heavenly Father they can meet this ruffe Esau with a kiss and not with a frown and if they do receive a blow from his ruffe hand yet that very stroke is healing When our Saviour has made the bed of the grave soft and sweet by his own lying in it a Christian can with much chearfulness and quietness repose himself in it When an Angel comes to him as it did to S. Peter knocks off his chains and profers him a Gaol-delivery he is no longer in love with the Prison of his flesh but lets his Soul follow him freely into the best of Liberties When his Redeemer sends for him he has no reason to shew any unwillingness to go to him And what do you think it was but a sight of this future blessedness which made the Martyrs so in love with their stakes and so strangely amorous of their torment What was it but this that made them chalenge death and court their persecutors as their best friends giving them thanks for their service in letting them loose from the slavery of this world Was it not the earnest desire of their future glory which so passionately inflamed them with a love of their present misery Needs must they be blessed who dye in the Lord who then reap the great and plentiful gain of their Godliness here they have Beatitudinem viae but then and there do they enter upon Beatitudinem Patriae they have a blessing accompanying them in their wayes but it is not to be compared with that which meets them at their journies end He who is the Lord of life and has tryed what it is to dye has pronounc'd a peculiar blessing upon them that dye in the Lord they are both Beati qui moriuntur quia moriuntur in Domino who do and because they do dye in the Lord the interest which they have in God whilst they live is that which gives them assurance of their happiness with him when they dye They who do not live in London cannot expect to dye there nor can they who do not live in Gods Grace expect by death to have admission into his Glory They who would be happy in the end must first be holy in the beginning they who would obtain the price of eternal happiness which is to be distributed at the Goal must first run the race which is set before them and observe the rules likewise that are given out by the eternal God who is to dispose of it and in so doing they shall have priviledges of a double nature conveyed over to them some in possession others in reversion some in spe others in re they shall have some blessing in hold whilst they live in hope of others Here they shall have desiderium Beatitudinis there Beatitudinem desiderii here the desire of happiness and persuit after it there shall they be swallowed up in the happiness which they desire Those are blessed who live in the Lord but they rest not from their labours toil and sorrow intrudes between them and a perfect enjoyment of that blessedness which they now possess only in hope and inchoation when Death adds rest to it then and not before is their happiness compleated whilst they are in the body their souls lye manacled in their jayl of flesh but then they receive a release and are joyned with their Saviour in eternal liberty where they possess joyes for matter spiritual for substance real for use universal and for continuance eternal And therefore Foelices nimium quibus est fortuna peracta Jam sua They are happy beyond comparison or expression whose Glass is so well run as that we may say of them they are dead in the Lord. Blessed are the dead who dye in the Lord so some translations by which it seems that good men are dead before the stroke of death reaches them death is no stranger to them they are grown familiar with it being dead to Sin dead to the Law and dead to the World The wicked go down quick to Hell but the Godly are dead before hand and therefore 't is no trouble or difficulty for them to dye especially considering that they dye in the Lord. They live in the Lord in one sense but they dye in him in another for being engrafted into Christ that precious Vine by Faith and Love they live and flourish for ever and continue to be the Mystical Members of his body the living Branches of that Vine even when they have naturally breath'd out their Souls and are fallen asleep in his bosome But Beza's Latine Translation reads it Beati qui Domini causâ moriuntur Blessed are they who dye for the Lord's sake who are persecuted for righteousness sake unto death because through a red Sea of blood they pass into a Canaan of eternal happiness Though Christ have finished his own sufferings for the expiation of the World yet there are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 portions which are