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The holy longing: or, The saints desire to be with Christ: delivered in a sermon at Al-hallows Lumbard-street, Aug. 24. 1658. At the funeral of Mr. Jacob Stock. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.
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Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.
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Wing W1130; Thomason E1864_2; ESTC R204059
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his Ordinances oh labour to be in Christ Quest How is that Answ. By faith faith is the uniting grace it is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as Chrysostome speaks it is the vital radical cardinal grace this gives the interest Faith is the queen of the graces by faith we take Christ as a husband and give up our selves to him as a Lord faith is a Christ approptiating grace it hath both a relying and an applying faculty Christ is the Ring faith is the finger that puts on this Ring faith opens the Orifice in Christs sides and drinks in his blood * faith is both justifying and sanctifying it fetcheth blood out of Christs sides to pardon and water out of his sides to purge 1 John 5. 6. Oh with all gettings get faith Quest But there is much deceit about this grace The Cyprian Diamond saith Pliny looks like the true Indian Diamond but it is not of the right kinde it will break with the Hammer The Devil hath his bad wares and counterfeit graces to put off how therefore shall we know a true faith from a false and spurious Answ. I shall give you two differencing notes 1. True faith is ever found in an heart deeply humbled for sinne Acts 2. 37. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} they were pricked at their hearts here was the first budding of faith you never saw a flower grow out of a stone nor faith out of an heart of stone Faith is an hearb that grows alwayes in a moist soile in a weeping eye and a broken heart Mark 9. 24. The father of the childe cried out with teares Lord I believe This flag of faith grows in the water 2. True faith is operative the Lapidaries say there is no precious stone but hath virtutem insitam some vertue latent in it so we may say of precious faith it hath hidden vertue in it 't is very operative it works out sin Acts 15. 9. It works by love Gal. 5. 6. it is full of good works James 2. 17. it makes the tongue speak for Christ the head study the hands work the feet runne in the wayes of his commandments faith comes with power upon the heart 2 Thes. 1. 11. The work of faith with power * it hath a restraining and constraining power by this we may know whether ours be a true faith or no I have read of a father who had three sonnes and being to dye he left in his Will all his estate to that son who could finde his Ring with the Jewel which had a healing vertue the case was brought before the Judges the two Elder sonnes counterfeited a Ring but the younger son brought the true Ring which was proved by the vertue of it whereupon his fathers estate went to him to this Ring I may compare faith there is a counterfeit faith in the world but if we can finde this Ring of faith which hath the vertue in it both purgative and operative this is the true faith which doth interest us in and intitle us to Jesus Christ and if we are in Christ while we live we shall be with Christ when we dye where faith gives a propriety death gives a possession Use 3. Here is then comfort in the death of our Religious friends * though they depart from us yet {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} they go to Christ which is farre better we should mourne for them who are living yet dead in sinne and rejoyce for them who are dead yet live with Christ This our dear brother interred had holy pangs of desire which seemed no lesse strong than the pangs of he panted after God as his ultimate and supreme perfection he did often with joy repeat the words of the Text and seemed to roule them as honey under his tongue we may therefore entertain good hopes of him that he is placed in that Paradise of God which he thirsted after I wished him to look up to the merits of Christ I must saith he rest there or no where O what a comfort is this to think that our friends are not onely taken away from the evil to come * but that they are with Christ why should we be sad at their preferment they have their Crowne 2 Tim. 4. 8. their Throne Revel. 3. 21. their white Robes Revel. 7. 9. Why should we weep immoderately for them who have all teares wiped from their eyes they enter into the joy of their Lord and why should we be swallowed up of grief for them who are swallowed up of joy * they that dye in the Lord are not amissi but praemissi * they are not lost but sent a little before we shall shortly overtake them 'T is but awhile when godly friends shall meet in heaven and feast together at the supper of the Lambe Revel. 19. 9. 'T is but a while when the Saints shall lie together in Christs bosome that hive of sweetnesse that bed of perfume Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord Revel. 14. 13. Why should we mourn excessively for them who are blessed Oh let us not weep at the felicity of our friends but rather long to depart and be with Christ when we shall drink of those Rivers of pleasure which run at his right hand for evermore FINIS AN ELEGY Upon the much lamented death of his dear Friend Mr. Stock MUses avaunt I need you not t' inspire My duller veins with your Poetick fire Such an occasion as a doleful Urn Cannot but make even Parrots Poets turn And dumb-born children speak like Croâ—sus son To see their Parents struck at every stone Can then turn Vocal Mourner such an Herse Will make Tully himself to poure forth Verse Oh happy they who knew thee not if there Be any such within our Hemispheare 'T was blessed ignorance thee not to know That kept them from the knowledg of their wo From direful fears from griefs soul-piercing dart From restlesse palpitations of the heart Methinks I dare not represent thy worth How vast it was nor set thy praises forth Friends tell not Cambridge that her crown is gone Nor London what great cause she hath to mourn Wake not that Lion grief and give no vent To those fierce streams of raging discontent Lest Jordan like they quickly overflow Their banks and drown us in this common wo His parts so high that if death had not shown Thy mortal state I had not fear'd to own Thee for some nobler creature and his fire Of zeal was such as glows in that best Quire Of Seraphims there was both light and heat And all that here below is wondred at Was Plato's doctrine true this was the man The Idea of a solid Christian When all the earth turn'd round and wheel'd about Reeling now here now there ever in doubt Drunk with opinions he still like the Sun Stood firme and fixed in his station His knowledge deep and large yet never made