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A67488	Peace and rest for the upright being a sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Dr. John Bryan, sometime minister of Trinity in Coventry / by that worthy preacher of Gods Word, Mr. Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1681 (1681)	Wing W707; ESTC R38419	9,395	24

there was power and they had no Comforter Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive As much as to say These have escaped these are sensible of no such matter but are Quiet they are at Peace and Rest. 5. At peace and rest from inward Troubles which a man is liable unto upon sundry occasions in this Life such as the death and departure of ones best Friends chiefest Relations Here you see a great King in the bitterness of his grief crying out O Absolon my Son my Son would God I had dyed for thee O Absolon my Son my Son In Ramah you hear a lamentation and voyce of weeping Rachel weeping for her Children and would not be comforted because they are not Here you have Mary bewailing Lazarus her Brother And the Sons of Iacob mourning over their Father But in Heaven there is Peace and Rest once there we shall lose them no more For then saith the Apostle we shall ever be with the Lord. Earth only and Hell is the Territory of death but Heaven is the Land of the Living and there we shall find them again And this is something of the nature of that Peace which Righteous men shall by death be instated in and made Possessors of I hasten to the improvement of this Point wherein I shall be short Use. If Peace and Rest is to be our Priviledg hereafter Then 1. It should be our desire here So the Apostle commandeth Follow peace with all men Such Salamanders as delight to live in the fire of Contention these of all other men are most unfit for Heaven for that is a Place of Peace 2. Let the Priviiedges of good men allure us to a resemblance of their Persons and their Graces All men like Balaam are ready to cry out Let me dye the death of the Righteous and let my latter end be like his Would fain dye like them with the same Hope Peace Serenity and Quiet of Conscience Let my latter end be like his as Balaam said But such as will dye as they must also live as they 3. If death is the time of Peace and Rest with Righteous men then it is to be understood that the time of Life is to be a time of Labour and Warfare If so be Death is our Night to repose in then sure Life should be our Day to work in The best of men have business enough to do before them head-strong Passions to quell Corruptions to mortifie grace to grow a race to run a battle to fight therefore let us up and be doing and set about that that is our work and that the rather because 1. They rest best that have laboured most When a man hath ordered his business and disposed of his affairs as he intended then he hath charmed and subdued his Care and hath no disquieting thoughts to disturb his repose The sleep of a labouring man is sweet saith Solomon So he that busied himself in the Work and Service of God while he was alive goes to his rest with the greatest calmness and serenity of Soul that may be 2. We know not how soon we may be called off the Stage For Man knowes not his time Eccles. 9. 12. I am old saith Isaac and know not the day of my death And as he said when he was old so may every one say that is youngest Though I am younger or middle-aged yet I know not the day of my death The reason is because it is Gods peculiar reservation My times saith David are in thy hand Then 3. Our Natures are brittle exceeding brittle the Word of God tells us we are shadows vapours and flowers that wither of a sudden Then considering the variety of accidents we are subject to Ioseph had his Tomb in his Garden to mind him that Death might possibly meet him in that place of Pleasure A Tile from the house a Worm a Hair a little Spittle hath been as fatal to some persons as if so be a Mountain had fallen on their heads Therefore considering these things it is but reason we set our selves to work to labour in the time of health in the time of life 4. If Rest and Peace be the Priviledg of a Righteous man at his death It shews us That the death of Righteous men they are not to be lamented by us upon their own account They may seem to call to us from Heaven as Christ Jesus once did to the Women of Iudea upon the Cross Ye Daughters of Ierusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves They are not to be lamented upon their own accounts They are gone to Salem the City of Peace and why should we mourn for them as they without hope Death is no Enemy of theirs but as Noah's Dove returned with an Olive branch the Emblem of Peace so Death brings a good man not an Olive branch but the reality it self which is far more desireable As the Ark carried the whole Church of God to the Mountain Ararat the name of which signifieth Take away fear so Death shall waft us to Heaven there where no fear is It is true in respect of our selves we ought to follow them with tears and to have our hearts deeply affected with their removal from us and God himself doth blame the stupidity of our hearts and insensibleness of this People and such men that can part with such Jewels as these with indifferency without Concern in the Verse before the Text The righteous man perisheth and no man layeth it to heart This is the great fault As if he had said For as to us they are dear losses For 1. We loose the benefit of their Example for our Guide When a good man is gone one of the Lights of Israel is Quenched As David's Soldiers reckoned of him Thou shalt go no more with us to Battel lest thou quench the Light of Israel Of these the Apostle saith Amongst whom you shine as lights in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation 2. We loose the benefit of their good Works for our Comfort A good man is a useful man where he liveth The Poor have the benefit of his Alms and all that converse with him have the benefit of his Counsel For he of all others will not suffer Sin to rest upon the Soul of his Brother if he know it so that we loose the benefit of their good works for our Comfort 3. And we loose the benefit of their presence too for our Safety which is not a thing inconsiderable neither When Elijab was ascended into Heaven in a Chariot of fire the Prophet below cryed My Father the Chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof As much as to say His Presence was as great a Security as an Army of Chariots and Horsemen These are they that stand in the breach when the Judgments of God like a mighty Torrent are ready to rush upon us These are they that like so many Aarons hasten with their

Delightful that 's the first place The other is in Revelat. 14. 13. And I heard a voyce from Heaven saying unto me Write Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them They have at death both Peace and Rest. And now this Point will require these things to be spoken to 1. Who or what the Righteous is 2. What Peace they shall have and be priviledged with at the time of their death First Who is the Righteous man The Text saith he that walks in uprightness Alas where is he to be found A man must have very good Eyes to find him out Especially if we consider what is said Psal. 53. 1 2. There is none that doth good God looked down from Heaven upon the Children of men and saw none righteous no not one Then farewell Priviledge for where is the Person To answer this There is indeed none that are strictly legally Righteous but there is in a larger Evangelical sence None that are righteous in themselves but in another We have the Righteousness of Justification from Christ and of Sanctification from Christ And they are the men that shall enter into peace and rest Those men I say that are men of Sincerity though not in Perfection Those men that are righteous in the aim and desire of their hearts And in comparison of others Righteous by Gods acceptation and by imputation of the Righteousness of Christ These are the Persons that shall partake of this priviledg He shall enter into Peace they shall rest in their beds c. But then 2. What Peace and Rest shall these men be priviledged with at the time of their death There are Singular Properties of this Peace For 1. It 's a Peace that is unconceiveable Man's Eye hath bored the Sphears and hath penetrated into the very depth of the Ocean it hath searched into the very Bowels of the Earth and into the wild Bellies of the Clouds above it hath travelled through all the expanded Firmament in all places of the World and hath rifled the Cabinet of Nature below but it could never grasp the nature of this true Peace and Rest here spoken of for as to this Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard nor hath it entred into the Heart of Man to conceive the Peace of God The Apostle tells us it passeth knowledg The Beatitudes of Heaven are only known to us as Solomon's Wisdome was to the Queen of Sheba of which she said Behold I have not heard the tenth part The glorious Inhabitants of Heaven the Angels and Souls of Just Men made perfect these indeed understand more the nature of it than we because they live in it Yet so as the Apostle discoursing of Gods Counsel was forced to cry out Rom. 11. 33. Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his Iudgments and his wayes past finding out So do these bright Spirits ravish and loose themselves in the depth of Contemplation The Provision he hath made for them in Heaven doth excell even their own admiration 2. It is a most Perfect and a most Compleat Peace Great peace have they that love thy Law and nothing shall offend them saith David And saith the Prophet Esay Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose Mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee Both these are in this Life that which the Psalmist and Prophet spake of Oh that great Peace and perfect Peace And if the gleanings of Abiezer be such what will be the Vintage of Ephraim If this is the Righteous man's Priviledge here upon Earth much more in Heaven For it must needs be a perfect Peace there seeing no enemy shall appear in the face of them all shall be conquered and subdued overcome escaped from for there there will be a Peace from Sin Whilst we are alive the best of men are pulled and pained by Sin they are under the continual Solicitations of the corruption of their own Nature There is a body of death that by the noysome stench of it we are miserably molested and disquieted and to that height that each of them is ready to cry out Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death While they are here there is a Law in the members rebells against the Law of the mind What willingness soever there is in the spirit they find the flesh is weak A treacherous Party dwells in their very bowels and is continually undermining those Fortifications they vour to raise and set open and to widen the Portals and to let in our worst enemies These Sons of Zerviah are too hard for us but when once a holy man cometh to dye no more shall Corruption sollicit no more have they depraved Natures to struggle with No weights of Sin to weigh us down no more shall they complain of the hardness of their hearts their indisposition to holy duties of the weakness of the flesh the power of Corruption No more complaining of the usurping power of sin upon the Soul Then 3. It is a peace and rest from the Temptations of Sathan Here it is that we are in Arena We wrestle not only with flesh and blood but with Principalities and Powers and spiritual wickednesses in high places Here it is that Satan doth desire to have us that he may sift us as Wheat as it was said of the Apostle Peter It is not David alone that Satan stands up to provoke to that that is evil but his fiery darts fly fast and thick his messengers are not only sent to buffet Paul but all the rest of Gods People but being once in this rest they are out of the reach of the roaring Lion And they may say of Heaven as Lamech of his Son Noah Gen. 5. 29. This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toyl of our hands because of the ground which the Lord hath Cursed So this Peace shall save us and keep us in freedom from the Temptations of Satan 4. Death giveth them peace and rest from the violence of men Read that of Heb. 11. 36 37. And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonment they were stoned they were sawn asunder and what not Here you find the footsteps of the world's usage of the Saints But as when Ionah was asleep and at rest in the bottom of the Ship the blustring storms and death-threatning Tempests were as nothing to him So it is with these Iob 3. 17. That holy man speaking of the Grave There the wicked saith he cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest In this Life it is as Solomon observeth Eccles. 4. 1 2. So I returned and considered all the oppressions under the Sun and behold the tears of such as were oppressed and they had no Comforter and on the side of their oppressors