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heaven_n	enter_v	righteousness_n	scribe_n	2,630	5	11.0710	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79887	An antidote against immoderate mourning for the dead. Being a funeral sermon preached at the burial of Mr. Thomas Bewley junior, December 17th. 1658. By Sa. Clarke, pastor in Bennet Fink, London.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1660 (1660)	Wing C4501; Thomason E1015_5; ESTC R208174	34,512	62

their death but their strength is firm they are not in trouble as other men From these and such like weak grounds they presume that their friends after death must needs go to heaven and therefore they comfort themselves and one another with these words whereas the truth is they may go to Hell after all these things Our Saviour Christ tells us Matt. 5. 20. that except our righteousnesse shall exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees we shall in no case enter into the Kingdome of Heaven And these men are so far from exceeding that they come short of the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees who were frequent in Alms-deeds in prayer in fasting Mat. 6. 2. 5. 16. and yet Christ calls them hypocrites Yea they made long prayers Matth. 23. 14. they compassed Sea and land to make one Proselyte v. 15. they payed even their smallest tithes v. 23. They outwardly appeared righteous unto men v. 28. they blamed their fathers for murthering the Prophets and by way of compensation to free themselves from the guilt they built Tombs for those Prophets and garnished the Sepulchres of the righteous v. 29. 30. notwithstanding all which Christ pronounceth many woes against them Thus we see what are ill-grounded hopes which prove but like a spiders web to those that trust in them I shall therefore in the next place shew you what is a well-grounded hope of the happinesse of our friends departed which consists in this When our deceased friends have in their life-time given us some good evidence of the work of grace and sanctification wrought in their hearts whereby we could discern that by Gods blessing upon the means their eyes were opened that they were turned from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan unto God For then we may conclude that they have received forgivenesse of their sins and an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified by faith that is in Christ Act. 26. 18. But this work of grace being inward and secret how shall we be able to judge of it Our Saviour Christ gives us a rule for our direction in judging of others Mat. 7 16 17 18 19 20. Ye shall know them saith he by their fruits Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles even so every good tree brings forth good fruit but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them From whence we may gather that as wicked men for the most part may be known by their wicked lives so gracious persons may be known by their gracious lives For it s as easie to carry fire in our bosome or oil in our hands without discovery as grace in our hearts without the manifestation of it Now many signes might be given whereby we may judge of the work of grace in others but I shall content my self for the present with these three First if living with them we observe that they make conscience of and practise private and secret duties as well as publick Hypocrites when they do duties do all to be seen of men that they may have glory of men Matth. 6. 2. 5. 16. and therefore in their very private prayers they love to make them in the Synagogues and in the corners of the streets v. 5. they have Jacobs voice but Esaus hands the Lord indeed is much in their mouths but far from their reines Jer. 12. 2. they lay claim to Christ but yet have no share in him they deeply affirm of him but have no manner of right to him their faith is but phansie their confidence but presumption they are like the mad man at Athens that laid claim to every ship that came into the Harbour when he had no part in any Like Haman that hearing the King would honour a man concluded but falsly that himself was the man or like Sisera that dreamed of a Kingdome whereas Jaels nail was neerer his temples then a crown and thus they deceive themselves with their shews and think to deceive others but Gods children can usually discern them and discover them to be like Harpyes that are said to have Virgins faces but Vulturs talons but on the contrary a sound-hearted Christian though he dare not neglect yea though he prefer the publick yet he also makes conscience of private duties and prayes to his Father in secret so that if we observe this in them its one good ground that they have the work of regeneration wrought in their hearts Secondly if we observe them that they labour to keep a conscience void of offence both towards God and towards men as Saint Paul professeth that he did Act. 24. 16. If they have had respect to all Gods commandments as David Psal. 119. 6. If they have made conscience of the duties of both Tables serving God in holinesse and righteousnesse all the days of their lives Luke 1. 75. hiring themselves unto him for term of life not desiring to change their Master knowing that they cannot mend themselves neither for fairnesse of work nor fulnesse of wages whereas an Hypocrite is versutulus versatilis he casts about how to deceive God and man with meer shews of devotion being not afraid to be damned so he may seem to be saved and seeking so long to deceive others that in fine he deceives his own soul Imposturam faciunt patiuntur as that Emperour said of them that sold glasse beads for pearl They deceive and are deceived Thirdly when we have heard them groaning and mourning under the remainders of corruption and the relicts of sin crying out with the holy Apostle Rom 7. 24. O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death When they have manifested their hatred against all sin and shunned every evil way saying with the wisest of men Prov. 8. 13. the fear of the Lord is to hate evil pride and arrogancy and every evil way do I hate whereas a dispensatory conscience is a naughty conscience Neither doth he Gods will but his own that doth no more nor no other then himself pleaseth as hypocrites use such holiday servants God cares not for Every one can swim in a warm Bath and every bird will sing in a Summers-day Judas will bear the Crosse so he may bear the bag and the carnal Capernaits will follow Christ for the loaves though not for love Joh. 6. 26. But Abraham will forsake all to follow God though he know not whither yea though God seems to go a cross way as when he promised him a land flowing with milk and honey and yet so soon as he came there he met with a famine Gen. 12. 10. If then you have observed these three things in your Christian friends whilst they lived you may have a well-grounded hope of their blessednesse after death which sure cannot but moderate your mourning for