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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47613	A summons to the grave, or, The necessity of a timely preparation for death demonstrated in a sermon preached at the funeral of that most eminent and faithful servant of Jesus Christ Mr. John Norcot who departed this life March 24, 1675/6 / by Benjamin Keach.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1676 (1676)	Wing K95; ESTC R29890	33,691	104

that sweet word of Paul to the Corinthians 1. Cor. 3. 22. Whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas or life or death or things present or things to come all are yours it will be every way for thy good Consider what freedom thou wilt gain thereby 1. It will free thee from a body of sin and death that often makes thee go with a sorrowful heart Oh! hath it not oft made thee to cry out with St. Paul Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of sin and death Oh what is a greater trouble to a Child of God than indwelling sin He cannot do the things he would do But now comes death and frees thee of all these soul perplexities and disquietments Sin makes a Saint to groan being burthened but now thou shalt grieve Christ and his spirit nor thy own soul no more Is not this that a poor Saint longs for 2. 'T will free thee from a poor crazy diseased or distempered Body There will then be no crying out of back or bone nor head not heart any more 't will be with thee as with the Church in the glorious day to come Rev. 21. 4. There shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away 3. It will free thee from an evil and wicked world Oh what a defiling ensnaring and bewitching world is this What hinders us of our joy and peace in Christ more than it What greater vexation to us Oh how many precious Saints are clogged and imprisoned by the cares of the world which many times is ready to choak the seed of holy desires after Christ But by Death thou shalt be delivered 4. It will free thee out of the hands of presecutors Thou wilt with our dear Brother be out of their reach then they shall not disquiet thee imprison thee nor torment thee any more There saith Job speaking of the grave the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest there the prisoners rest together they hear not the voice of the oppressor Job 3. 17 18. 5. Death will free thee from an envious raging and tempting Devil He will have not more power to disturb thee accuse thee nor by his cursed suggestions to vex and perplex thy soul no nor any other ways to hurt or annoy thee O will not this be to thy great advantage Who would be unwilling to die that hath an interest in Jesus Christ 6. Thou wilt hereby also be freed from all the discords and troubles that rise amongst Brethren The unworthy and disorderly lives of Professors shall sadden thy heart then no more This was that which worried and grieved the blessed Apostle Phil. 3. 18. Our dear Brother is set at liberty from all these things disorders in the Church no loose walking of Members thereof will burden nor trouble him again 7. Nay and Death will free thee of all that trouble that riseth from those inward becloudings and hideings of God's face It will never be night with the soul any more thou wilt then be with Christ and behold his face with joy for ever 8. And lastly Thou wilt also be freed of all thy toilsome pains and labour of what nature soever it be O how good is rest to a weary soul Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them Rev. 14. 13. But then once again Consider what a blessed state thy soul will be in at death If thou art a true Beliver thou shalt not onely have hereby a negative good it will not simply a freedom from all those sorrows and troubles thou hast heard but thy soul shall immediately receive transcendent joy with Jesus Christ For me to live saith Paul is Christ and to die is gain The advantage the soul receives upon this account made Paul so much desire to depart and be with Christ which he says is far better Phil. 1. 21. Pray observe his words he doth not say it will be gain to him when he rises again no but to die is gain I shall receive more joy more consolation more of the fulness of God and Christ as if he should say when I die then I can whilest I am in this body Mind that passage in 2 Cor. 5. 1. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens Compare this with ver 6. Therefore we are always confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. The Apostle doth not say we know when this earthly house is broken down and raised up again we have a building with God eternal in the heavens Pray consider it but plainly when it is dissolved when it is turned to its dusty crums We have that is our souls he can intend nothing else By we he means their better part which he compares to an inhabiter and the body to the house or tabernacle in which it dwels Oh what an excellent thing is the soul of man over the body And now beloved That the soul or better part is capable of being separated from the body and in its seperate state from the body capable of glorious enjoyments of God and high raptures of joy with Jesus Christ doth appear most evident from that passsage of the Apostle in 2 Cor. 12. 1 2 3. It is not expendient for me doubtless to glory I will come to vissions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago whether in the body I cannot tell God knoweth such a one caught up to the third heaven ver 4. says he was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words which is not lawful for a man to utter The soul or spirit then it appears may be seperate from the body I from this place thus argue 1. If the soul or spirit of man be not capable of being seperated from the house of clay or earthly tabernacle then Paul might have boldly and safely have said the whole man was taken up a soul and body together and not one without the other because it is impossible to seperate them but since Paul says he knows not whether in the body or out of the body he plainly shews what opinion he was of And then secondly I may from what he says reason after this manner viz. If the soul in its seperated state from the body be not able or capable to enjoy or take in heavenly comforts or consolations of Jesus Christ Paul might boldly and Positively have said he was taken up in the body because however he was caught up whether within or without the body he heard and saw unexpressible things he had high and soul-filling raptures of joy The Lord Jesus promised the penitent Thief that he should that is

his chief or better part be that day with him in Paradice Lord Jesus saith Stephen receive my spirit O what a blessed thing it is to die in Christ O what a happy estate is our friend in the gain is exceeding great Some may say what doth a godly man gain by death I answer First They gain a glorious place heaven the glorious Paradice of God the Mansions of glory that are in our Fathers House Who is able to conceive what a glorious place heaven is But then Secondly They shall enjoy glorious company too They shall be with Jesus Christ have his company in whose presence there is fulness of joy and at whose right hand there be pleasures for evermore be with Christ holy Angels and glorious spirits of just men made perfect O what a blessed state and condition of soul have they gained that are gone thither Thirdly we shall gain sweet peace 'T is not onely peace in Christ that Gods people have as their portion here but it shall be peace with Christ A Woman that has a dear Husband who is gone to Sea he is it may be in another Countrey yet she hears from him receives tokens of love she has much satisfaction of the stedfasteness of his love cordialness of his affection in this she has peace and comfort but alas what is this peace to that when he comes home when she has him enjoys his company O we shall see Christ enjoy him yea lie in his arms to all eternity Enter thou saith Christ into the joy of thy Lord. That joy is too much to enter into us therefore we must enter into that Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace He has peace In death peace beyond death yea and peace to all etrernity And now one word more particularly to you that have lost your Pastor Your loss I must confess is great though he hath gained hereby and it may be some of you are crying out What shall we do Beloved you must labour for a quiet frame strive for contentedness of heart 't is the Lords hand upon you 't is what he has done remember David I was dumb I opened not my mouth because thou didst it Psal 39. 9. 2. Consider also your loss is not so great but God is able to repair it and make it up to you though you may not see which way it can be done let it be your care to wait upon God cry to him look up to the Lord of the Harvest and patiently wait to see what he will do for you 3. To support you under this sore affliction Consider the great Shepherd of the Sheep never dyes he lives for ever and sure he that dyed for the Sheep whose own Sheep they are will take care of them he will feed them and preserve them from danger Isa 23. 1 2 3. The Lord is my Shepherd saith David I shall not want He maketh me to lie down in green Pastures he leadeth me besides the still waters he restoreth my Soul he leadeth me in the paths of Righteousness for his Names sake And from hence he takes courage Yea though I walk thorow the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil Oh what a blessed thing it is to have confidence in God and to have such a Shepherd the keeper of Israel never slumbers nor sleepeth And now to conclude one word to dear Relations and to comfort us all under the present dispensation 1. Consider death shall not seperate us long we shall see one another again over a short time he is gone but a little before let us think upon that glorious Meeting we shall have ere long in the Air read 1 Thes 4. 13 c. I would not have you to be ignorant Brethren concerning them which are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Arch-angel and with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord wherefore comfort one another with these words What can I speak that may be more seasonable for comfort then that which the holy Spirit hath left upon record upon that very account it will be but a little while and we shall see him again we shall have a joyful meeting and never part more O therefore be quieted consider what you have heard what death is to a Believer Shall not our Friend go to rest Alas he hath laboured hard and O how sweet is this rest to him When a man hath worked hard all day and wearied himself how willing is he to go to bed at night Alas he is but gone to sleep to take sweet and quiet rest until the Morning 2. Shall not we be willing he should have inlargement to be freed out of Prison Alas our Souls are as it were but in Prison whilst we dwell here below in these Houses of Clay Death as a Porter opens a door into that Glorious Palace above He is but gone home to his Fathers House and how earnest was he to depart that he might be present with the Lord. 3. Shall not he eat the fruit of his labour he that soweth in tears shall reap in joy those that go forth weeping bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again rejoycing and bring their Sheaves with them 4. He having overcome shall not he receive the Crown Paul having fought the good fight of faith knew there was laid up for him a Crown of Righteousness To him that overcometh saith our Saviour will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father an his throne Rev. 3. 21. 5. And now in the last place and to shut up all consider uncertain is thy life and mind you know not but that in a very few dayes you may go after it will not be long be sure and thither we all must go For What man is he that liveth and shall not see death Shall be deliver his Soul from the hand of the grave Selah FINIS ERATA PAg. 4. l. 9. blot forth cut p. 4. l 10. also blot forth out p 9. l. 25 for is read it p. 11. l. 14. blot out word p. 15. for Augustus Caesar r. Julius Caesar p 17. l. 2. for if r. of p. 18. for question r. query p. 32. l. 8. blot out And p. 32. l. 9. for And r. For p. 58. l. 8. blot out and Consolation which escaped in s●me Copies * Mr. Clark gives us several instances how the death of the righteous hath been the Fore-runner of sad and lamentable Judgements Begins with Methuselah before the Flood whose very name was very significant upon this account Also I lately met with a Sermon of a godly Minister in New England that was preached sometimes before their late calamities and miseries broke forth there and amongst their other signs of approaching judgement that he seemed to be very apprehensive of he minds that of the dropping away of many holy and godly persons Oh how many able and godly preachers and others have we lost in a short space We may look upon it as one sad sign or symptome of approaching evil * Some probably may object the dead are not sensible of time 't is but as a sleep to them they die and their resurrection to them immediately follows no distance of time between Death and Judgement the dead and so Paul's gain he speaks of 〈◊〉 might not be till the resurrection Aasw Though it be granted death to the body is but as a sleep yet 't is not so to the soul But that this is not the intent or meaning of the Apostle is plain which I make out thus Paul Plainly shews that if he did presently depart or die it would be gain to him now if that which you say were true he would have lost by death 't is easie to see how Suppose he might live twenty or thirty years longer on earth would not thirty years sweet enjoyment of Jesus Christ be worth nothing Is not one day with God beholding his lovely face better than a thousand All know that if he died presently he should never the sooner obtain the resurrection of this body than if he had lived a hundred years longer this being well weighed to die presently would have been his great loss were not the soul in a present enjoyment of Christ at death