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A31268	The duty and support of believers in life and death a funeral sermon on the death of Mrs. Mary Smith, who deceased Feb. 29, 1687/8 preached, on the Lords Day following, March 4, to the auditory whereof she was a constant member.	T. C.	1688 (1688)	Wing C131; ESTC R5669	18,382	34

it is the same Christ who will put us into actual and compleat possession of it at the last 2. I am to open Why Jesus Christ is stiled the Salvation of the Lord Upon what grounds might holy Jacob give him this peculiar discriminating mark when he was making his last Address to God Thy Salvation The same note of Distinction and Propriety is frequently set upon Christ by God himself in the Prophetical Books which any one that diligently examines may easily discover Among other Reasons of this these two may be insisted on First Because Christ came with God's Commission John 6. 38 39. 40. how many times does he make mention of the Father's will that sent him Thrice together in one Discourse The whole transaction of the Recovery of sinful man was by Divine appointment the Father and the Son had from Eternity agreed together with the Blessed Spirit about what the Son was to undertake and perform in time I will give thee says God pointing at Isa 49. 6. Christ for a light to the Gentiles that thou mayest be my salvation to the ends of the earth which Paul repeating to his Hearers at Antioch renders thus I have Acts 13. 47. set thee c. The comparing of both places together shews that Christ was constituted and ordain'd by God to be what he is and to do what he did The work which he was engaged in is therefore sometimes called the Work of God and he God's Servant in the carrying of it on Indeed if Christ had not been authorized by the Father all his Mediatorial Acts had been invalid we should have been still in our sins and under the curse we should have been yet detain'd in the hands of Justice and obnoxious to implacable Wrath. Secondly Because he succeded with God's acceptance Our Lord hath finished his Reconciling-work by finishing the Transgression which caus'd the Enmity He blotted out the hand-writing which was against us Coloss 2. 14. and took it out of the way which implies the consent and approbation of God the Soveraign Judg. He had a trust reposed in him which he faithfully discharged a burden laid upon him which he patiently bore whereupon he was justified in the spirit and 1 Tim. 3. 16. Heb. 2. 9. Isa 42. 4. crowned with glory and honour He fulfilled what the Prophet had foretold concerning him That he should not fail or be discouraged till he had establisht judgment in the earth this implies that there would be a great deal of difficulty and opposition for him to meet with but he should conquer it all by his Omnipotence and answer the ends of Gods Grace in sending him All our Enemies were his Earth and Hell and in some sense Heaven too were against him but he came off victorious and God declared him so by giving him a Throne to sit on after his Death and Resurrection God gave him his name Jesus at the first Rev. 3. 21. Matt. 1. 21. and God's advancing of him to his own Right-hand a place of the highest honour when all was done is an evidence that he deserves to wear that Name for he hath saved his people from their sins God would not have so dignified his Person if he had rejected his Performance Jesus Christ therefore is God's Jesus or God's Salvation as he is both Commismissioned and Accepted by God on our behalf 3. I am to shew What Christ is yet to do which living Believers wait for This may be summ'd up in Two Things First He is to receive our Spirits at the end of our lives the Prayer of Stephen is a pattern for us all When they stoned him as his last breath was going forth he called upon God and said Lord Jesus receive Acts 7. 59. my Spirit It is true he was mightily encouraged to this by the extraordinary Vision which he had a little before He saw the heavens opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God in a v. 55 56. ready posture as it were to grant his request and to receive his Soul as soon as parted from his body Here was indeed a Glorious Discovery made even to the Senses of that dying Martyr but the discoveries which are made to our Faith are as real as this tho perhaps not altogether so ravishing though now we see not Christ yet believing we may commend our departing Spirits to him without the fear or hazard of being refused by him David in the midst of great straits and dangers does confidently put up this sort of Petition Into thy hand I commit my Spirit Psal 31. 5. and he urg●… this Argument to back it Thou hast redeemed me c. Who so fit or so forward to do this for us when we dye as he that hath already died to obtain our Redemption from the Second Death He who pour'd out his soul for us when he was upon the Cross does thereby encourage us now he is in Heaven to pour out our souls into his hand as the poor starved children are said to pour out theirs into the Lament 2. 12. bosoms of their mothers Secondly He is to come again at the End of the World this is as much the expectation of Believers now as his first coming was heretofore To them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin Heb. 9. 28. unto salvation This is the appearing which the Church says Amen to both at the beginning and the close of the Revelation We expect to see that Jesus who was Revel 1. 7. 22. 20. once veil'd in flesh coming in the Clouds of heaven we expect to see him who had only the poor retinue of twelve Disciples coming with ten thousands of his Saints He that lived upon Alms for the maintenance of his temporal life shall actually distribute eternal life he that once stood before Pilate's Bar shall sit down upon a Tribunal himself And he that was Crucified through weakness shall be armed with Irresistible power All this Believers can expect with joy because the Day of Judgment is their Day of Redemption Luk. 21. 28. Ephes 4. 30. Who among the Children of God would not be glad to see his Saviour again when he shall bring his final rewards with him Who would not rejoyce to look upon him as a Judg that 's interested in him as an Advocate We look for a very glorious revolution before that day with respect to the prosperity and flourishing of the Church but at that day there shall be such a change and renovation of the whole world as will exceed in glory It is not our belief that Christ will suffer things always to continue as they are but we believe that this decaying frame of Nature shall be dissolved a new Heaven and Earth spring out of the ashes of the old every creature be subdued to God the publick sentence of life or death pronounc'd upon all mankind and then the Kingdom