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A23644 A gainful death the end of a truly Christian life a sermon at the funeral of Mr. John Griffith, late minister of the Gospel, who departed this life May 16, in the 79th year of his age / preached May the 20th, 1700 by Richard Allen. Allen, Richard. 1700 (1700) Wing A1041; ESTC R28091 13,910 48

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his appearing And to be sure none can love Christ's appearing but such as can truly say 1 Joh. 4.19 We love him because he first loved us 5. Christ is the Pattern and Exemplar of a true Christian's Life God hath predestinated all his Children to be conformed to the Image of his Son Rom. 8.29 both in Grace and Holiness here and in Glory and Happiness hereafter And the former is the only and necessary way and means to the latter 'T is vain for us to pretend to be savingly interested in Christ unless in some good measure we are like him in Holiness Humility Meekness Self-denial Zeal for the Divine Glory 1 Joh. 2.6 c. He that saith he abideth in him * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 5.10 must needs himself also so walk even as he walked Lastly The Glory Honour and Interest of Christ is the great End of a true Christian's Life He does not only sometimes speak or act for Christ 2 Cor. 5.15 but habitually lives to him Our Apostle tells us here V. 15 18. he rejoic'd while Christ was preached and glorified and his Interest carried on tho himself was by the same Persons envied and despised We must in this be like him and hereby evidence that Christ is our Life if we would say upon like grounds with him Death will be our Gain These are brief hints of the severals I take to be included in this Phrase To me to live is Christ or Christ is my Life which taken together I conceive give us an excellent Description of a true living Christian He is one that through the meritorious Sufferings and Obedience of the Lord Jesus is vitally united to him by Faith and thereby justified and sanctified rul'd by his Laws and influenc'd by his Love his Life is conform'd to Christ's Life and devoted to the advancement of his Glory and Interest To all such and such only Death will be Gain And so I come to the II. General to treat something of the Advantage that every true living Christian gains by Death This we shall consider more generally and more particularly I would in a more general way premise two things 1. Every true living Christian is a present and immediate Gainer by Death When their Body returns to the Earth Eccles 12.7 their Spirit happily returns to God who gave it Hence heavenly-minded Christians earnestly long to be absent from the Body 2 Cor. 5.8 that they may be present with the Lord. Without presupposing this I can't see what rational Account can be given of the Apostles Option ver 23. Having a desire to depart or * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be dissolv'd and be with Christ Which Truth I think also plainly taught by our Saviour in his gracious Promise to the petitioning Malefactor Luke 23.43 Verily I say to thee To day or † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hodie q.d. hoc die Pasor this very day thou shalt be with me in Paradise that is in heavenly Delights and Pleasures Who also teaches all his faithful Servants by his own Example Ib. ver 46. to commend their expiring Spirits into the hands of their Heavenly Father But 2. The fulness and completion of their Gain by Death is reserv'd for the glorious Appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ When the Bodies of Saints shall be rais'd and reunited to their Souls then they shall fully enter into the Joy of their Lord. Hence this is constantly spoken of as the great day of Redemption and Recompence 'T is when Christ who is our Life shall appear Col. 3.4 that we shall fully appear with him in Glory 2 Thess 1.10 When he shall come to be most eminently glorified in his Saints and admir'd in all them that believe Whence all that have valiantly and victoriously fought the good fight c. 2 Tim. 4.7 8. die in a comfortable hope of receiving a Crown of Righteousness at that day viz. of his appearing Thus much in general I shall now more particularly endeavour to set before you something of the Advantages which living Christians gain by Death And 1. They gain thereby a perfect freedom from all Sin I need not prove to any serious Christian that this is a very great Gain Believers are indeed now characteriz'd to be such as are made free from Sin Rom. 6.22 but this means no otherwise than as the Apostle afterwards explains himself 8.2 made free from the Law or Dominion of Sin An absolutely perfect freedom from Sin is peculiar to the future Life The remains of this Plague in Believers like that inveterate Leprosy in the Houses of Israelites Lev. 14. can't be perfectly cur'd without dissolving this earthly House of their Tabernacle 2 Cor. 5.1 Christ will at and after Death compleat his Work and present his Church and each living Member thereof Eph. 5.27 glorious not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but holy and without blemish Then they shall be without fault before the Throne of God Rev. 14.5 2. They are freed by it not only from all Sin but from all Temptations and Inclinations to Sin This is much more than the former Our first Parents in Innocency were wholly free from Sin but 't is certain they were not free from Temptations to Sin Yea the second Adam our Lord Jesus tho perfectly holy and undefil'd yet in the state of his Humiliation he was not only assaulted with Temptations but violently assaulted with most black and hellish ones and tho he could not in the least be prevailed upon to sin by these Temptations yet he suffered Heb. 2.18 which seems to import some difficulty in bearing and resisting of them no wonder then that the best Christians very often find themselves grievously tempted and too much inclin'd to a sinful compliance when yet through Grace they are kept from those Sins to which they are tempted But Death will free the sincere Christian not only from the destructive malignity of the fiery Darts of the wicked one Eph. 6.16 but also from their afflictive Injections not only from being overcome by those fleshly Lusts 1 Pet. 2.11 which war against their Souls but also from being any more molested by the motion of them Death will not only secure them from being destroyed by this present evil World Gal. 1.4 but it will totally deliver them from it In this respect Death will usher the living Christian into a Life transcendently more excellent than the present Life of Grace wherein whatever ground Christians have to think themselves to stand 1 Cor. 10.12 or * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 13.1 to be established they must still take heed lest they fall And sure the most confirm'd Christian while here as well as the great Apostle has need to maintain a cautionary Fear and Endeavour 1 Cor. 9.27 lest he should be or † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉