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A44502	The reward of the wise: and the fruitful Christians future blessedness Opened at the late funeral of that piously wise and faithful, fruitful servant of God and our Lord Jesus, Mr. Thomas Moore of Whittlesey, interred at the church in Coleman-Street July 8. 1672. By John Horne of Lin-Regis in the County of Norfolk.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1672 (1672)	Wing H2807B; ESTC R217009	105,848	247

and encouragment to those that are wise themselves in the wisdom of Christ or diligently seeking after it and those that are faithfully and diligently endeavouring to improve what wisdom and other furniture they have received from God for the good of others that they might be made wise and righteous in Christ Jesus to go on and hold fast their wisdom and their exercise of it to so good an end Seeing here they have an assurance given them by Jesus Christ and his holy spirit that they that so do shall be glorious with him at the last which may bear them up against all the discouragements they may meet with here in the way as from their being here hid and obscure thrust into corners taken no notice of or made no account of among their Neighbours Yea or from their being here reproached vilified and rendred odious as Christ himself and many of his followers both holy Prophets holy Apostles and other holy men have been in their several Ages No cause from these things to be discouraged but to hold on their way as it is said The righteous also shall hold on his way and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger Job 17.9 And as it is said by our Saviour Let him that is righteous be righteous still and he that is holy devoted seperated and given up to serve God and Christ in seeking the glory of his name and the good of others let him be holy still And behold I come quickly and will render to every man according as his works shall be Rev. 2.11 12. That is to them that by patient continuance in well doing seek after glory honor immortality eternal life Rom. 2.7 This consideration is oft-times propounded by Christ himself as when he saith He that shall confess me before men him will I confess before my Father in Heaven and before the Angels of God Mat. 10.32 Luke 12.8 And No man that hath left Father or Mother House or Land c. for my sake and the Gospels to serve me and it as well as also to know me and it but he shall receive an hundred fold here in this life and in the world to come eternal life Mark 10.29 30. And so in each of the seven Epistles to the seven Churches in Asia Rev. 2 3. This the Apostles too propounded both to themselves and to others To themselves We believe therefore we speak knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus and present us with you For which cause we faint not But though our outward man perish our inward man is renewed day by day For our light afflictions which are but for a moment attending us namely in our seeking after and serving the Lord getting and walking in wisdom Worketh for us a far more exceeding and an eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things that are seen but at the things that are not seen c. 2 Cor. 4.14 16 17 18. And to others when he saith So run that ye may obtain and every man that striveth for masteries is temperate in all things Now they do it to obtain a corruptible Crown but we an incorruptible c. 1 Cor. 9.24 25. And this is a faithful saying For if we be dead with him we shall also live with him If we suffer with him we shall also reign with him 2 Tim. 2.11 12. Oh what have men often done and indured and with how great patience and unweariedness for a little glory that they might get a name and praise with men and be glorifyed of them and shine as it were in their atchieved glories and renowns Witness that great Alexander that in twelve years space ran over almost all the world with undaunted courage encountring with and vanquishing wondrous difficulties for glory sake And Julius Caesar Pompey and many others But alas What is all the glory of this world in comparison of the glory to be revealed on the Saints of God at the appearance of Jesus Christ of which the Apostle tells us that it 's a weighty and an eternal glory and that he reckoned that all the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with it Rom. 8.18 Surely if the hope of a little uncertain gain carryeth the Merchant Husbandman and other Tradesmen oftentimes through great dangers and unwearied labors and difficulties and the hope of a little honor and glory among men hath often and yet doth carry out soldiers to exceeding great and tedious hazzards what should not the hope of so great glory as this To shine as the brightness of the Firmament and as the Stars for ever and ever carry us out to in travelling for wisdom and for doing good to all we can and all the good we can that we may be instruments of their salvation Seeing we have the promise of God both of his presence and helpfulness with us in all our labors and dangers to assist and strengthen us and of his rewarding our labors also and crowning them in the issue with so great glory and happiness Neither of which promises are ingaged to those others in their adventures but they run at uncertainties and upon only fallible probabilities Vse 8. And Lastly How may what hath been said and considered from this Scripture occasion gladness with sadness to us in respect of this our Deceased Brother Mr. Thomas Moor the occasion of our meeting here and treating on this Text of Scripture than which I could not think there was any in the whole Bible more applicable to him and pertinent to our present business 1. In respect of himself we have undoubted cause and ground from this Text of great comfort and gladness as being thence perswaded that it is and shall be well with him though dead in the body and brought hither to be Interred no doubt but he shall arise among the just and such as shall have this Scripture fulfilled upon them for that he was a wise man and indued with a great portion of Divine wisdom and Heavenly understanding all that knew him and his parts and gifts and way of life may testifie and his many pious and religious Treatises both in Print and Manuscript left behind him will witness for him Indeed He had not University Learning to furnish him or to know himself by but what He had was the more immediately or remarkably from God in and by a diligent Study and practise of the holy Scriptures and their good instructions and converse with Godly persons to which from his youth God by his Grace excited and stirred him up and in which he mightily assisted and blessed him And indeed God hath not tyed himself nor us up to the Universities for their Learning for his giving or our receiving Heavenly wisdom But wherever men apply their hearts unto it and mind its instructions in those means of attaining it that he affords them and walking in what He gives wait

bending to them and all they that despised them and looked upon them as poor piteous sorry people shall bow down themselves at the soles of their feet and call them the City of the Lord the Zion of the holy one of Israel and whereas they were forsaken and hated God will make them an eternal excellency a joy of many generations Isai 60.14 15. and that leads to the next thing They shall be as the brightness of the Firmament and as the Stars 4. Perpetually and everlastingly glorious The Firmament and Stars are not subject to those decays and expirings and extinguishments as to their lustre and glory as our inferiour lights Candles Torches and the like which may either be blown out and so loose their shine or will of themselves in short time expire and go out as suffering a consumption and defect of the matter that feeds their light and shine but though by reason of the Clouds intervening or the earth in their daily revolutions in their turning about it or by reason of the brighter glory of the Sun their brightness or shining lustre is not alwaies seen by us yet they are alwaies alike bright and glorious in themselves And yet because of that intermission of their shining unto us by reason of those things above mentioned the Holy Ghost might to supply that defect adde here that expression which may be understood to appertain to both clauses viz. That they shall shine for ever and ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a hidden unknown time and still beyond that even for ever and ever their glory shall be like the glory of God that shall shine upon them everlasting Everlasting joy shall be upon their heads and sorrow and sighing shall flee away Isai 35.10 and 51.11 They shall be an eternal excellency for the Lord shall be their everlasting light and the days of their mourning shall be ended Isaiah 60.15 19 20. The glory of this world passeth away and mens shining lustre like the lamp of the wicked goeth out their honour shall not descend to the grave after them Psal 59.17 1 John 2.17 but God will give these an everlasting name honour and renown so as they shall be had in everlasting remembrance Isa 56.5 Psal 112.6 For the mercy and kindness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him and his righteousness unto childrens children to such as keep his Covenant and think upon his Commandments to do them Psal 103.17 18. 5. Indeed both the brightness of the Firmament and the shining of the Stars are inferiour to that of the Sun and so the Holy Ghost may signifie in his use of those Similitudes that their glory spoken of shall be inferiour to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ the Sun of righteousness and indeed its meet that He in all things and for ever should have the preheminence be glorified in ●…ll their glory as they also are made glorious by partaking of his as the Philosophers tell us that the Firmament and Stars derive their shining lustre and splendour from the Sun and from its light and lustre So to be sure all the Saints and holy ones shall do so from Christ not shining in any splendor in such sense their own as not to have or derive it from him And yet inasmuch as our Saviour useth the Metaphor of the Sun to set forth the greatness of the then shining glory of the righteous Matth. 13.43 it may signifie to us also that the Mystery of God and the great and glorious thoughts and purposes of his heart towards his servants and people was not made out so sully and clearly in former times to and by the holy Prophets as they are now in these last days by the coming and appearing and in the Doctrine and Discoveries of the Lord Jesus by himself and his Apostles Ephs 3.5 We have the things of God more fully made known in these last days than in those former times God reserving this honour to the appearance and ministry of his bleffed Son As the way into the Holiest was not y●… made manifest while the first Tabernacle wa●… standing So neither was the glory of it or that was to be thence revealed so fully signified and declared Heb 9.8 2. As to what is peculiar of difference in these two Metaphors or Similitudes the brightness of the firmament and the Stars I shall only observe that the Stars are the more glorious ornaments of the Firmament and exceed the brightness of the Firmament barely or where there is no Star And so to that in saying that they are wise or instruct shall shine as the brightness of the Firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the Stars We may note that he doth signifie both 1. That there shall be different degrees of glory given as rewards to the fearers and servant of God as is also signified by the Apostle in saying He that soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly and he that soweth liberally shall reap liberally 2 Cor. 9.6 And our Saviour implies the like in his answer to the two Sons of Zebedee and their Mother desiring that they might sit one at his right hand and the other at his left hand in his Kingdome for He tells them among other things that ●…o sit at his right hand and at his left in his Kingdome that is to be near to Him is not his to give but to them for whom it is prepared ●…f his Father as implying that it is so prepared for some but not for all his Disciples Matth. 20 21-23 Mark 10.40 as also it is implyed in that of Zechary 12.8 ●…s the words may be construed and understood where he saith He that is feeble among them shall in that day be as David and the house of David shall be as God as the Angel of God before him and in that of the Apostle that as one Star differeth from another Star in glory So also shall be the Resurrection of the dead 1 Cor. 15.41 42. 2. That the greatest Glory shall be given to them that are most abundant in doing good for they that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the Firmament but that is less than the Stars like to which they shall shine that turn many to righteousness which is more than simply the being wise yea or instructing or making others wise for so they may do that turn not many to righteousness this also is confirmed by the former proofs particularly that of 2 Cor. 9.6 and is evidenced in the Parables of the talents and pounds where he that by trading with his pound got ten pounds is rewarded got with rule over ten Cities when he that had got but five is rewarded with ruling but over five Luke 19 17-19 for God shall render in the judgment to every man according as his works shall be to them that do work good shall he reward glory honour and peace but yet so as to the