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A34427 Christian supports under the terrours of death Cooke, Shadrach, 1655?-1724? 1691 (1691) Wing C6035; ESTC R27915 14,420 34

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by my right hand Thou shalt guide me with thy Council and afterward receive me to glory Whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none upon Earth that I desire besides thee My Flesh and my Heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my Portion for ever Which brings us to another thing that will relieve and comfort us in a dying State and Condition and that is Thirdly THE THOVGHTS OR CONSIDERATION OF OVR NEAR APPROACH TO HAPPINESS AND GLORY Having hitherto run the race that is set before us We may expect greater sweets and troubles and to be more tired the nearer we come to the end of it But this is the last Stage if we can bear up under this only remaining difficulty the day and the prize is ours we may go on with patience Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith How must it incourage our endeavours and support our spirits under the sorest pressure of Death it self to behold with an eye of faith the glory ready to be revealed and to see our Lord with open arms ready to receive us Come bear up under this and as it is your worst it is your very last tryal There are blessed Mansions prepar'd for you where there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away Tho it may not seem consistent with what I have already deliver'd to lessen the sad and sorrowful circumstances of our dying hours yet I may say that if our Souls be duly fix'd on Heaven and Eternity it must in a great measure abate and will I 'm sure outweigh the worst that can be said or conceiv'd of that State This is able to outballance the utmost tyranny of pains and agonies and to dispel all clouds and melancholly from our minds The Night is come but it brings us to the dawn of Eternity and that shadow of Death is the confine of the days of Heaven Yet a little while and we are gone into YONDER World and must it not be a mighty satisfaction to us now to say with the Apostle We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolv'd we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens To think that the pain will be over in a short time is some ease to my mind in the greatest affliction but to add and consider withal that it will be presently succeeded with joy unspeakable and full of glory must administer to our Souls the highest consolation I will fear no evil for thou art with me to say farther and I shall be with thee be transferred to that blissful State to the presence of God where there is fulness of joys and pleasures for evermore is my most unspeakable support and the very height of comfort and satisfaction The years draw nigh in which thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them while the Sun or the Light or the Moon or the Stars are darkned In the day when the Keepers of the House shall remble Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high and fears shall be in the way The silver Cord is looseth Observe upon that melancholly and tho elegant description of our dying condition Solomon subjoyns us a comfort against the dismal thoughts of those sad circumstances and against Death it self the consideration of our acceptance with God in the Immortal State Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return to God who gave it In a word this single consideration that we shall ever be with the Lord duly weighed and rely'd on will abundantly relieve and support us against all the Powers of Death in its most horrid and ghastly appearances and sufficiently subdue the great difficulties of the dying State Fourthly This is again render'd further easie and supportable FROM THE CONSIDERATION OF CHRISTS DEATH AND SVFFERINGS not only as they do expiate our sins and so bring comfort to our Souls as we may have occasion to shew presently but withal upon the account of his great and glorious conquest over Death and the Grave which he vanquish'd and subdu'd in the very worst and most horrid circumstances that they might have less power and exercise less tyranny over us Whereupon the Apostle triumphantly speaks Death is swallowed up in Victory O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory Thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ To consider that Christ our Lord under went the same before us and in a more dismal manner than we are able to bear or imagine is some mitigation in this most sorrowful condition considering withal that in doing so he hath made the way more smooth and passable for us Death spent his most fiery Darts on him and he hath so subdu'd his greatest strength and utmost power that he either cannot or dare not be over severe and rigorous with us at least he can go no further than he will permit him I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Amen And have the keys of Hell and of Death Death is now purely under Christs command and can do nothing but by leave from him and therefore we may justly hope that our gracious Lord will not suffer him to exert his utmost fury upon us How suitable then is that pious Prayer of our Church at this season O Saviour of the World who by thy Cross and precious Blood hast redeemed us save us and help us we humbly beseech thee O Lord. Fifthly The troubles and sorrows of a dying State are again very much abated and subdu'd FROM THE THOUGHTS OF A FUTURE RESURRECTION which will satisfie our minds and make abundant amends for all the doubts or troubles that do now attend us What though we suffer under pains and may be griev'd to think that part of us shall be the prey of Worms and Corruption yet the belief of this truth will soon dispel the sorrows that arise from thence The time is coming and Lord what joy is it in these straights when my Soul now returning to God shall meet this body again glorious and refin'd never more to be vext with or separated from it This shadow of Death and that sorrowful Night that is now beset with clouds and horrour will conduct us to the morn of our Resurrection and how can we be sorrowful as Men without hope This our Church looks upon as the most comfortable support for the consideration of our own or others dissolution when in its great Prudence and Piety it appoints that Lesson concerning the great Article of the Resurrection in the Burial Service a Doctrine if rightly fix'd and believ'd that will render us stedfast and immoveable in the deepest sorrows Thy Brother shall rise again was the comfort our Saviour gave to