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heaven_n	creature_n	lord_n	praise_v	2,323	5	9.4645	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50862	A sermon preached at the fvnerall of that reverend divine Mr. Robert Collard, batchlour in divinity and pastor of Chilton-Folliat in the county of Wilts fifty yeares, on the 9 of November 1648 by Iohn Millet ...	Millet, John.	1652 (1652)	Wing M2069; ESTC R32091	18,319	24

children of whom I travaile in birth againe till Christ be formed in you Gal 4.19 It 's recorded by Mr Lattimer the Martyr in his Sermons on the Lords prayer that coming to a Gentlemans house demaunded of him what straits he had bin put unto all his life long what afflictions he had indured answered none whereupon the goodman turnes to his servant saying Abeamus Deus non est hic let us be gone for God is not here It being a positive truth that wee must through many tribulatons enter into the kingdome of God Act. 12.22 2 To teach us to pray with David saying Turne thy face unto me Use 2 and have mercy upon me for I am desolate and in misery Psal 25.16 the sorrowes of my heart are inlarged O bring me out of my troubles looke upon my affliction my travaile and forgive me all my sins and to imbrace the same Prophets method when my spirit was in perplexity within mee and mine heart within me was amazed then doe I remember the time past I meditate in all the workes of thy hands Psal 143.4.5 To be sensible of our naturall corruption which casts us into miserable Use 3 plundges and straights strive to mortify it O if we had sight of our naturall corruption thereby of our subjection to sins we would cry out against the intollerable burden of them and say with the Psalmist they have so compassed me and taken such hold of mee Psal 38.4 that I am not able to looke up mine iniquities are gone over my head as a weighty burden they are too heavy for me To teach us if we see our Brethren in straights any manner of way Use 4 not to deale with them in their sorrowes as Jobs freinds did with him Job 16.2 which proved miserable comforters and Physicians of noe value it was a command in the Leviticall law that a Kid ought not to be sod in its mothers milke which Philo Judaeus expounds thus Amos 6.6 Thou shalt not adde affliction to him that hath enough already few remember the affliction of Gods Josephs to whom that of the Church may justly be retorted Have you no regard all you that passe by behold Lam 1.12 and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow which is done unto me O then passe no evill censure on Gods afflicted ones but pray for them that in all their troubles they may be more then Conquerours I desire Part. 2 This is not a bare wish but a fervent and earnest longing after his disolution 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his heart was ravished above earth and earthly obects Doct. it was carried above the spheare of changable mortality to the jontemplation of his Creators inestimable glory Hence note that the godly earnestly desire to be freed frō fleshly bonds to be with the Lord. Thus David like as the Hart desireth the water brooks so longeth my soule after thee O God Psal 42.1 so Simeon Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word Luc. 2.29 Reas 1 Because here they want the glorious presence of their God they cannot here enjoy the fellowship of their best freinds while wee are present in the body we are absent from the Lord this should move us to desire death shall wee more esteeme this wretched carkasse then our gracious God whose only presence in glory shall fill us with eternall delight who would be with-held from the society of innumerable Angels alas the most of us have not so much here as one entire and faithfull freind if we had many what were it to the incomparable fellowship of the Saints who will be glad of us and entertaine us with unwearied delight if we were throughly apprehensive hereof we would thinke every ●hower a yeare till wee were with them singing and praysing the Lord to all eternity Reas 2 Because wee are here but maimed and deformed creatures and can have noe solid contentment we shall never have a sound understanding till wee be at heaven our holinesse will never be compleat till we are dead let a man live a thousand yeares here yet his heart will be unsatiable his appetite will be alwaies craving one thing or other Reas 3 This desire of death distinguisheth betweene the righteous and the wicked who are in love with this life it 's true both jump in the affection of desiring death but they differ in the manner and end thereof The wicked desire it with importunity or else prefix God a time or else they will destroy themselves and they doe it either because they are ashamed to live any longer or else to prevent danger like to befall them or else to avoyd the perpetuall stingings of their corroding consciences forgetting that of the Poet Cura non ipsa in morte relinquunt But none of these can induce the godly to desire death for they being wrapt up in an extasy at the contemplation of the joyes of a better life desire after them but yet they stay the Lords leisure subordinating their will to the Lords will I honour Paul for his resolution but more for staying the Lords pleasure Reas 4 Because as long as they live they displease God who would desire to live here to offend God to greive his Spirit though this reason be little persuasive to wicked men yet it 's prevalent with the godly who account Gods loving kindnesse better then life it selfe find nothing so bitter as to displease him how much th●n should wee desire to be rid of that condition wherein we still provoke the Lord and to be where wee shall anger him noe more Because this life is a pilgrimage in which is uncertainty Gen. 47.9 Reas 5 It is a flowre in which is mutability Isay 40.7 It is a smoake in which is vanity Psal 102.3 it is a Weavers shuttle in which is volubility Job 7.6 it is a Shepheards tent in which is variety Isay 38.12 It is as a ship on the sea still passing away a vapour Jam. 4.14 Lastly because then they are freed from evills to come Isay 57.1 Reas 6 for we know not what further troubles may be on us or on the Church therefore the Lord tels Josiah he will take him away that he should not see the calamities that should come upon Israel 2 Kings 22.20 For reproofe of those which tremble and quake with Faelix if they Use 1 think or heare of death but it will be sayd Hezekiah mourned when he should die and David sayth let my soule live and it shall praise thee and Christ saith let this cup passe from me I answere Hezekiah did so because at this time he had not received the promised issue to succeed him David because he was in a great temptation and if he had then died his enimies had triumphed And Christ because he should die the shamefull death of the crosse as Divines suppose these did so For information since the wicked love this