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A58147	Work & reward, or, The testimonial of a believer for his entrance into glory, examined and approved in a sermon at the interment of the vertuous lady, Margaret St. John, wife to ... Sir Alexander St. John, Septem. the 3. 1656 / by Francis Raworth ...	Raworth, Francis, d. 1665.	1656 (1656)	Wing R374; ESTC R21375	26,633	69

Evagrius in Cedremus bequeathed 300 l. in his will to the poor but took a Bond of Synesius the Bishop for the payment of it in the other life the next night after his departure appeared to him in his shape delivered in the Bond cancell'd and fully discharged saying Take your Bond again I am satisfied Thirdly His perseverance will follow him It were better for a man never to set his hand to the plow then to look and to go backward better never to have begun in profession then to end in Apostacy Perseverance is the Crown of Grace because it is the Crowning Grace Perseverance is the Crown of Grace and Heaven is the Crown of Perseverance Praise the Marriner when he is arrived at his Harbor commend the Souldiers valour when he hath got the day and won the field Hold on and hold out Faith and Prayer said the Martyr Hold fast that which thou hast that no man take thy Crown saith the Lord Revel 3.11 How sweet will it be for a Believer to carry the testimony of his perseverance in his conscience to the last Assizes to have ground to say It 's true Lord I have had many infirmities many failings yet my heart was upright my heart did not lay hypocrisie at my door I confess I often stumbled I had almost faln many a time have I offended against thy glory before the World but oftner have I grieved thy gracious spirit in private yet through thy grace I have risen I have fought the good fight I have run my race and though I have many ways forsaken thee yet thou didst not forsake and take thy farewel of me thou didst pardon my sins and heal my soars We cannot but be shot at by Satan while we are besieged we get many a fall and bruise by the world lust scarce a Jacob that wrestleth with God but goeth limping yet where sin is a Tyrant not a King an enemy at our backs not a friend in our bosoms it wil not be charged on us so as to condemn so as to damn us What a comfortable sight is it to see a Christian to contend against flesh blood in this world to ruine with Christ rather then to reign with Caesar to march out of the Battle though wounded and maimed yet with his colours flying to the Grave If they be blessed that die in how blessed are they that moreover die for the Lord Mori pro Domino Martyrum est in Domino confessorum Bern. Beatus est Petrus qui cruciatur nec minus beatus est Johannes qui in Lecto moritur Aret. in Loc. Fourthly His works follow him in respect of Testimonies ad extra and so his works shall finde a probation 1. From the good Angels As they are Gods Messengers to us so they are our witnesses to God the tears of repenting sinners are the wine of Angels they rejoyce in therefore they must needs observe the conversion of sinners Many Actions done out of the view of men are yet within the cognizance of Angels The good Angels shall give in their testimony against the wicked and for the righteous such an one Lord was a Blasphemer a Drunkard we can witness to it we have heard him swear we have seen him drunk but such and such were attenders upon Gospel Ordinances were given to Prayer and Meditation to Repentance and good works and as far as we can judge were not onely Professors of sincerity but sincere Professors were not onely called Saints Saints by calling but Saints indeed by Dedication and Infusion not onely called Christians but Christians as they were called Zech. 1.10 2. His works shall finde a probation from the very Divels As at the great day in some things the godly shall acquit the Divels for the Divels are not always guilty when we are filthy we often paint the Divels blacker then they are to make our selves whiter then we are and give them their due so in some things the Divels as very Divels as now they are shall acquit the godly God q. d. will then say to Satan as one of old Satan hast thou considered my servants Job David and Peter and Satan that accused them while living shall then as it were justifie them Wisdom is too often condemned by her children here but Wisdom shall be justified by her enemies hereafter Providence will extort this confession from Divels true Lord they were great sinners but we cannot deny the truth of their repentance and we did often tempt them when yet they were not overcome Thus Religion shall be cleared not onely by Divelish men but by Divels The Divels will then testifie that wherein Gods servants failed it was much because of their snares that such and such of Gods children had lived more comfortably but that they tempted them to dispair had lived more righteously but that they tempted them to scandal had done more work for God in his vineyard but that they disquieted and hindred them Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are you said the evil Spirit in the Acts. Thirdly He hath a testimony of his good works from good men Religion is now made a party by too too many and men became of an opinion not to serve God but to get Votes for their reputation O what a refuge is it for the Hypocrite to flie to the applause and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Gods people to cry up others for their Heavenly-mindedness that the Heavenly-minded indeed might not cry out against them for worldly-mindedness not but that the good opinion of good men is considerable but in se and separated from goodness of practise in our selves it s but the varnish of Hypocrisie As the evil Opinion of an evil man maketh not a good man evil so the good Opinion of a good man maketh not an evil man good yet as God is the witness of our heart so good men are the witnesses of our lives The Rabbies have a fine Proverb That he that doth a good work bonum opus gets to himself against the last day Advocatum an Advocate and so many good works so many Advocates but Christ is our Advocate but he that continues so many evil works as he doth so many Divels or so many Accusers he procures against himself in Judgement Good men will then testifie one for another when Justice shall enquire what such and such were not that God needs mans testimony but to speak to conscience and according to the substance of the process at that day the righteous shall answer Lord since we are called to be witnesses we must needs say That while such were a blaspheming thy name a scoffing at thy people we knew them to be Blasphemers and Scoffers these and these of thy people were a praying a hearing of thy Oracles a mourning for sin they and we did comfortably and often serve the Lord together Fourthly They shall have a probation from evil men Their accusation is not so considerable as their

acquittance Men said he speak evil of me but they are evil men that do so and an argument for us from an adversary is not to be neglected though wicked men curse the Saints while they live yet they shall bless and justifie them in the day of Visitation as the Apostle speaks 1. Either when pangs of conscience seize on them Or Secondly When they come to die as one said O that I might be Craesus living and Socrates dying Or as the Proverb is Let me live in Italy but let me die in Spain So Balaam though he lived the life of the wicked yet he loved the death of the righteous though men live Hypocrites yet they would die sincere though many live by a form of godliness yet they would fain die by the power Or Thirdly They shal respect and honor them at the Judgement-day Oh will Pharaoh say then that I were Moses Wil Cain say that I had been but suffering Abel Who would be a Rake-hell or a Ranter then when many of those that have been Judges shall be judged and the judged many of them I mean shall be Judges when Paul that once stood at the Bar shall sit on the Bench for the Apostle telleth us That the Saints shall judge the world That time is a coming though now the world judgeth the Saints and one Saint judgeth another that is shall be q. d. Coassessors with Christ at the last day consenting to and applauding of his Judgement of the world when the Judge shall say to the Cursers Go ye cursed the Saints shall say Amen Lord when Rabshekah shall be thrown down to Hell and Hezekiah taken up to Heaven Who would rise in that estate of wrath he was born lived and dyed in Those that now accuse the godly for dissemblers and Hypocrites will then publikely confess their sincerity Christians Be not discouraged in your more strict profession of Christianity it is no matter what now they say of you behinde your backs but what they shall be forced to speak of you to your faces at that day Fifthly Even the Spirit of God will bear a testimony to his works What though all men and Angels should condemn us now God himself will not condemn but acquit us as he hath a bottle for our tears so he hath a file for our Prayers and a Book for our Works Wicked men look on the infirmities of Gods people their mole-hills as mountains their motes as beams as sins of the greatest magnitude and on their own mountains and beams as mole-hills and motes Men are merciless in their censures but God hath more equitable scales and can give Grains of allowance to his Gold Even as God seemed to stand Neuter for a time while there was a dispute held between Job and his Friends concerning his integrity at length God steps from behinde the curtain and pleads his cause Who saith my servant Job is an Hypocrite you charge desperately on my servant but you have not spoke of me the thing that is right as my servant Job hath done Job 42.7 Gods people oft in their temptations speak that against themselves that God never spake we are but Hypocrites we are cast out of Gods presence these miscarriages of ours have dissolved the Covenant between God and us are inconsistent with integrity or true Grace but God Revel 2.2 knows their works their patience their labors of love their gold notwithstanding some dross their sincerity amidst many failings and will make them known to themselves all the World at the last day the Lord will say concerning this and that man I know them to be cleansed by the blood of my Son however men have cast dust on them Others have surveyed their lives and seen some spots which they themselves have lamented and I know them to be Holy and to have feared my Name Now if God shall justifie who shall condemn at that day Fifthly and lastly Their works shall follow them in respect of a guerdon and reward In Scripture the word Work signifieth three things 1. The very act of Labor so Solomon tells us that in the Grave there is no wisdom no work that is no working for Heaven Eccles 9.10 2. For the effect of labor that which is wrought we call his work as well as the act of his labor thus the fire will try every mans work 1 Cor. 3.13 3. For the reward of a Christians Labor Work is taken for wages it is usual to put Prayer for the thing prayed for or for the thing obtained by Prayer so Hannah 1 Sa. 1.27 The Lord hath given me my petition that is The childe for which I did Petition It is usual to put sin for the reward or punishment of sin Gen. 4.13 My sin that is my punishment for sin is greater then I can bear so also its usual to put the work as for the reward of the work and that 1. In malo as Jer. 4.18 Thy way hath procured this unto thee this is thy wickedness that is this is the reward of thy wickedness 2. In bono as in my Text their works followed them that is the reward of their works they had done their work and now God rewards them through Grace Their works die not with them as Hortensius his labors did A cup of cold water shall be produced Matth. 25. They forget their good works When saw we thee an hungry or naked But Christ remembers them inasmuch as you did it to one of these little ones you did it unto me those that have done well shall have a well done those that have sown to the Spirit shall of the spirit reap everlasting life Glory and Honor and Peace shall be to every man that worketh good to the Jew first and also to the Gentile if in this life onely we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable as in Adam all dyed so in Christ shall all be made alive as sure as we are gracious so sure shall we be glorious as sure as Heaven enters into a man in this world so sure shall that man enter into Heaven in the world to come To be brief in this as certainly as now the Crown of immortality and Glory shines in the eyes of Gods people so certainly shall it one day sit gloriously on their heads It s easier to tell what Heaven is not then what it is We may talk of the greatness of our future reward but we shall never know the weight of that Crown till we have it on our heads the worth of that Livery till we have it on our backs the greatness of that Glory till it rest in and shine into our hearts The reward of good works shall be great Q. But why doth the Gospel chiefly mention or more apparantly note the reward of works of mercy pity and charity at the last day A. Upon four accompts 1. Because good works are the fruits of Faith There may be charity without Faith but there can