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A60348	A funeral-sermon upon occasion of the death of Mrs. Lobb late wife of Mr. Stephen Lobb. Preached by Samuel Slater, minister of the Gospel	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1691 (1691)	Wing S3966; ESTC R221626	33,124	39

gradually impart to them now and when he ●ath them with him in the Mansions above he will fill their Trea●ures and put them into the actual and compleat Possession of all that Good which he purchased for them He himself is at the Right Hand of the Majesty on High and they shall be at his he overcame 〈◊〉 is set down upon his Father's Throne and when they have ov●●●come he will grant to them to sit down upon his Throne Revela●●●● He will come at the last and great Day in his Glory and when he 〈◊〉 appear they shall appear with him in glory Colos. 3. It doth not yet ●●●pear what we shall be but when he doth appear we shall be like him 〈◊〉 we shall see him as he is 1 John 3.2 He shall shine forth with 〈◊〉 bright and beautiful Rays as the Eternal Sun and they as the Fir●●ment and the Stars yea their vile Bodies or Bodies of vilen● shall be made like unto Christ's most Glorious Body Philip. 3. N●● O Saints It is the matter of your grief and complaint that 〈◊〉 have so much corruption in you and so little of Christ and that 〈◊〉 are so unlike him a Conformity to whose Image you ought to stu●● and were predestinated to Rom. 8. But there you shall be as like 〈◊〉 as ever you can look you shall be satisfied with his likeness Psalm● so satisfied with it as not to desire more of it than you shall ha●● there your Conformity to him shall be perfect both in Grace and G●●ry Thus much concerning Paul's Judgment of the Future State● Believers as to the Nature of it It will be a being with Christ. Come we now in the second place to consider his Judgment● that State as to the Goodness and Excellency of it and that you ha●● in these words it is far better It is better then whensoever a G●●cious and Holy Person makes his last and great change he make● good one he changeth so much for the better that he will never 〈◊〉 any reason to repent of it I pray therefore do you moderate yo● Sorrow whom God hath deprived of such Relations whose God●●ness you have no cause to call in question be you satisfied as to the● do not mourn over them Weep if you please for your selves a●● for your Children but not for them because they do not lose 〈◊〉 Dying they are not at all the worse for Dying All things work togeth●● for good to them that love God so Paul tells us Romans 8. Yea 〈◊〉 speaks of it as a thing well known and Death doth so work as well as an●thing else it works notably for them it doth them a great deal of se●vice and kindness it is good for them that they Dye It is expedie●● for them that they go away You would fain have had your near an● dear Relations staid here yet longer and Lov'd and Liv'd with yo● yet longer And why so That you might have been pleased an● delighted that they might have been more helpful and comfortabl● to you But is that fit God hath the numbers of our Months with him and he hath appointed us our bounds which we cannot pass and mus● God alter his Decrees and add to those Months and remove those ●ounds for you Must the Will of God be crost for you Must not Heaven be filled for you Must the Happiness and Perfection of the ●aints be deferr'd and put off for you Must they stand here after ●hey are fully ripe for Glory merely that you might be gratified ●nd humour'd or if not done you break out into discontent Know ●y Friend whatever thy dark and melancholick apprehensions are ●or the present it is better as it is and if thou didst better under●tand the mind and will of God in what he hath done thou wouldest be ●ore reconciled to it whatever thou dost think might have been ●he comfortable fruits of thy Relation's longer continuance here it 〈◊〉 better as it is for certain it is better for her So our Apostle ●●ought as to himself and so he tells us in the Text to be with ●hrist is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not only better but far better ●muliò magis melius muc● more better He speaks as if he wanted ●ords and thought he could not speak enough it is much very ●uch better it is a great deal better or as one Learned Man renders 〈◊〉 it is infinitis partibus melius infinitely better But here the Question will be Qu. Than what is it better An. To that I Answer thus It is better than any State that a ●hristian can be in on this side the Grave and of Heaven Take it in ●●ese two things 1. Being with Christ in Heaven is better than any state here when it is as good as the World can make it 2. It is better than the best State here when it is as good as his Spiritual and Gospel Enjoyments can make it when he hath both the Fatness of the Earth and the Dew of Heaven too when he hath both the Comforts of the Creature and also the Smiles of God First It is better to be with Christ in Heaven than any State here 〈◊〉 this World when it is as good as Earth can make it and ●here is the ●●llest confluence of Creature-delights Suppose a Saint seated upon ●●e upper ground having his Belly fill'd with hid Treasures and re●●esh'd with waters of a full Cup swimming in all manner of De●●ghts the Envy of some and the Admiration of others Suppose ●●m possest of a plentiful Estate and blest with sweet and dear Re●●tions let him have the Honour of a Crown with Mines of Gold and Silver and every thing here contributing to his delight Suppose him a Person of a most even Temper of mind and a most athletick sound heal●hful Constitution of Body so that no unruly Passions do transport him no Sicknesses discompose him no Racking and vexing pains disease him no unexpected disappointment of his hopes nor unkind denial of his desires do Fret and Torment him no clouds at all do Obscure his Day nor threaten him with a Storm but all is well within and all Serene and Calm round about him In a word He can with Esau say I have enough my Brother because he hath Health and Ease Peace and Prosperity and indeed more than heart can wish yet I say to be with Christ in Heaven is better than all this for if Moses did esteem the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt what is the Glory of Christ What price and estimate will you set on that If David reckoned that a Day in these his lower and outer Courts were better than a Thousand elsewhere what then is it to enjoy an Eternity A constant and uninterrupted abode for ever in the Mansions above the Habitation of his Holiness and Glory Without all peradventure that is an ignorant and dross Soul which once imagines Earth to be better than Heaven Creature● in

in ●pitome Canst thou O Gracious Soul give another fully to under●●and how incomparably sweet it is to have Christ here with thee When he gives to thee but a look through the Lattess when he meets ●●ee at an Ordinance when he affords thee a short Visit and away ●●re I am thou wilt want words significant and large enough And if 〈◊〉 short an enjoyment be so delicious as all the world is nothing to 〈◊〉 what then will it be for thee to be with him If David could say ●sal 23. Though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death I will fear ●o evil for thou art with me Thou mayest well promise thy self thou ●●alt want no good when thou comest to be with him Know O ●aint the world will be well mended with thee For as you have it ●n the 16 th Psalm In his presence there is fulness of joy and at his right ●and pleasures for evermore Three things may here well engage our Meditations First The Saints when once gone from this dirty and trouble●ome World shall be with Christ in the same place Now they are in ●ome sense parted and at a distance notwithstanding that Spiritual Mystical and Intimate Union which is between them 2 Cor. 5 6. While we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. Now we ●●e him not We are upon earth he is in Heaven and the Heavens ●ust contain him for a time how long we know not but at last ●hey shall be together in the same place One Earth could not long hold them therefore h● said to his Disciples Iohn 16.7 It is exp●dient for you that I go away And so it was that he might prepare place for them and that he might send the Comforter to them and that he might make Intercession for them As for his peoples sake he came from Heaven to Earth to teach them to fight for th●m to dy● for them to conquer their Enemies to pay their Debts to mak● their Peace to work for them an Everlasting Righteousness and 〈◊〉 purchase for them an Everlasting Happiness so for their sakes he r●turned from Earth to Heaven that he might keep the peace he ha● made and give out to them of his fulness and purchased blessing● as in his Infinite Wisdom he see● their Necessities and Interest require And when their work is finished and they prepared they shall follo● him they shall away to Heaven also and that shall hold both hi● and them to all Eternity This he gave them the assurance of Ioh. 14. ● I will come again and receive you to my self that where I am there ye m●● be also This he also declared to his Father to be his Will concernin● them Iohn 17. 24. Father I will that they also whom thou hast given m● be with me where I am for thou lovedst me before the foundati●● of the world Which words of his plainly evidence his not loving distance between him and them longer than needs and how mu●● his heart is set for the closest and fullest Communion It was his joy that he went to the Father and should be with the Father and 〈◊〉 would have his people with him q. d. I would be with thee and would have them with me let us be all together then my joy wi●● be full and so will theirs too Here the Lord stands at their righ● hand therefore they shall never be moved Psalm 16.8 And afte● Death they shall sit at his right hand and therefore they shall be satisfied Then they shall be by him and be daily his delight rejoicin● always before him 2 dly They shall so be with him as to be the joyful spectators of his Glo●ry Men are very much taken with sights for the Eye affects the heart and fixing upon great and amiable Objects conveys to the Soul a grea● deal of pleasure How doth the Eye of Faith by looking within the Veil and beholding him that is invisible revive the spirits and raise the Saint out of his dumps 1 Peter 1.8 Whom having not see● ye love in whom tho now ye see him not yet beliving ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory And if believing do so raise and ravish them now in the midst of so many things to afflict and depress them what will the heavenly vision do when they shall see him as he is Alas the sights of Faith here are weak and imperfect they are but 〈◊〉 in a glass darkly we s●e but the back parts the most sanctified ●e can at present bear no more Thou canst not see my face said ●●d to Moses Exod. 33.20 that is not a thing to be done Moses ●●uld not do that tho he was a most holy Person and had been ●aken up into a familiar Converse with God When our Lord Jesus 〈◊〉 his state of Humiliation and Abasement did let forth but one ●●am of his Glory it struck the Soldiers down to the ground ●●hn 18.6 As soon as he had said unto them I am he they went back●●rd and fell to the ground they could not stand before such an ●●manation but in Heaven the Saints shall see and be enabled to ●ar the sight yea to rejoyce in it the glorified Eye shall be so ●●rengthened as to fix upon that most glorious Object Psalm 17. ● shall behold thy face in righteousness not thy back Parts but thy ●●ce there they shall see him as he is That Prayer of Moses ●●ew me thy glory shall then be fulfilled they shall not only ●●e his Goodness that passeth before them now the whole Earth is ●●l of it but also they shall see his Glory that shall be manifested ●t to the dazzling but delighting of their Eye This was part of ●●rist's Will which shall not fail of its accomplishment Iohn 17. ●●ther I will that those whom thou hast given me be with me where I am ●●at they may behold my glory which thou hast given me They love 〈◊〉 look and I love they should do so therefore let them look ●●eir fill Thirdly The Saints shall be with Christ not only as Spectators of ●●s Glory but as Blessed sharers and comportioners with him in Glory ●hough much of their Happiness consist in sight the Heavenly Visi●● being beatifical yet that is not the whole of it for there shall be ●uition as well as Vision the same God who doth here implant his ●race in them will hereafter put a Glory upon them Psalm 84. ●he Lord God is a sun and shield he will give grace and glory each in the ●ost proper place and season for it Grace on Earth and Glory in ●eaven Grace in their Minority Glory when they come to their ●●ll Age and Stature Our Dear Lord Jesus was pleased to come ●rom Heaven to Earth and from the Bosom of his Father to a ●abernacling among men and while here he was at vast cost and ●harges as to purchase a People for himself so all good for that Peo●le which he doth