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A62904 Christ's ministers must shortly put off their tabernacles set forth in a funeral sermon preach'd at Hungerford at the interring of Mr. Ric. Moor, late minister of the Gospel there / by Samuel Tomlyns ... Tomlyns, Samuel, 1632 or 3-1700. 1694 (1694) Wing T1857A; ESTC R32812 18,504 42

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Spirit reaps up the Fruit of its Faith in a state of Glory 5. Ministers put off their Tabernacle because the Lord intends to Glorify himself by raising them and the Bodies of all his Saints again tho they sleep and have a long dark Night in the Grave yet a bright and comfortable morning will come Psal 49.14 tho they put off the Garment of the Body yet Jesus will dress them and put on these Cloaths again tho they go out of their Bodies as a Tabernacle yet they shall return to them again and dwell in them as a house for ever these their vile bodies shall be changed and made like the glorious Body of Christ Phil. 3.21 The bodies of Saints are but sowed in the Earth 1 Cor. 15.42 43 44 they must appear and Spring up again to everlasting life Jesus Christ is a Second Adam and an Everlasting Father Isa 8.6 He must therefore beget the Bodies of his People from the Dead They must bare the Image of the Heavenly Adam 1 Cor. 15.48 49. old Adams Holding and Tenute must cease and be utterly extinguished and we must be Regenerated in our Bodies as well as in our Souls and then we shall hold them from Jesus Christ our Bodies are now as knocked bruised or broken Vessels that are cast into the Furnace that they may be melted and new moulded and framed as the Tabernacle was taken down in the Wilderness but was set up again in Canaan so tho the Tabernacle of the body be dissolved and taken to pieces in the Wilderness of this World yet it shall be joyn'd together and set up for ever in the Heavenly Canaan those that dwell in this Tabernacle do groan being burdened but those that dwell in the Body as a House built by the hand of the Lord stretched out from Heaven shall Sing Rejoyce and Triumph for ever 4. Ministers have ground to conclude that shortly they must put off their Tabernacles tho we cannot say as Peter That we have a particular Revelation from Christ of the Kind or Time of our Death yet we may say that our God hath shewed us that it must be shortly 1. Gods Threatning doth evidence it Gen. 3.19 Dust we are and to dust we must return what God said to the first Adam that he repeats and saith over to his Children return ye Sons of Men Psal 90.3 when he requires us to return we cannot stay here but must be gone God will change our Countenances and send us away Job 14.20 we know not how soon how suddenly God may speak this word return ye Sons of Men we cannot foresee when that Wind of Sickness or other accident will arise that will blast our Flower and blow out our Lamp of Life Death sometimes lays in Ambushment and break forth unexpectedly on persons 2. The Death of other Servants and Messengers of God that daily are called away and drop into the Grave before our Eyes doth shew us that shortly we must follow them into the dust Zeck 1.5 Your Fathers where are they and the Prophets do they live for ever Those holy Men that were inspired by the Spirit were yet mowed down by the Syth of death Many Thousands of Famous Ministers have taken the Grave for their House and have made their Bed in Darkness And must not we travel in the same Road and take the way of all the Earth Will not our Glass be quickly run our Sun set and the Thread of our Lives be 〈…〉 cut 3. The Distempers that we feel the Infirmities that exercise us the Diseases we groan under do sensibly teach us That shortly we must put off our Tabernacles All Pains and Distempers are Deaths working in us and warring against us These are the Harbingers of the King of Terrors that come to take up Quarters and Lodgings for Death in our Earthly Tabernacles All the painful Maladies thou dost complain of are Deaths Batteries against the Fort of the body are stroaks towards the Felling of the Tree are Warnings to remove out of this Earthly Tabernacle as one Post one Messenger should go after another to inform the King of Babylon that his City was taken at one end Jer. 51.31 So the decays of our strength of our sight of our hearing of our taste doth plainly tell us that Death hath taken us at one end This King of Terrors is lodged already at the Cinque-Ports of our Senses with a design to conquer the whole Country of our bodies The only use that I shall make of this Doctrine is an Use of Exhortation And here 1. I would humbly direct and earnestly press a word of Exhortation on you my Reverend Brethren in the Ministry that are here present Must we that are the Messengers and Ambassadors of Christ shortly put off our Tabernacles O then le●●●●ll improve our short time bestir and put forth our selves to the utmost while our day lasts and our strength continues it is better for a Knife to wear away by continual use than to rust away by disuse why doth God shine into our Hearts but that we should set forth and impart the light of the knowledg of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ to others 2 Cor. 4.6 what will it avail us if we be large ponds our selves to hold much water if we are not spiritual pipes to convey the water of Life to thirsty and perishing Souls as the Bread that Christ did break to distribute to others was multiplied and did increase in his hands Matt. 14.19 20. so while we divide the word of Truth and break the Bread of Life to others our own knowledg in the Mystery of Christ will increase and our own Spiritual Life and Strength will be improved O strive to break hard Hearts with the hammer of the word and to cut off the Members of the old Man with the sword of the Spirit labour to awaken sleepy drowsy Sinners to reduce those that are gone astray to sput sluggish and loytering Souls pluck brands out of the Fire snatch the prey from the paw and mouth of the roaring Lion Christ bids his Disciples to go to their lost sheep of the House of Israel Matt. 10.6 Christ awakens their pity stirs their bowels draweth forth their him passions by the name he gives to poor sinners they are lost sheep perishing sheep such a are sinking into Hell dropping into the Bottomless Pit and will you not bestir your selves to step rescue and save them O let us consider the danger the distress the necessities of Souls and be instant urgent pressing upon them in season and out of season let us sound the Trumpet and brandish the flaming Sword of Gods threatnings to alarm and rouse up sullen and presumptuous sinners Let us shoot the keen and sharp Arrows of the word to wound the Hearts of the workers of iniquity that they may fall down as a Conquered and submitting People under Jesus Christ Psal 45. ● yet let me beseech you to Sollicit Heaven that