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A60348	A funeral-sermon upon occasion of the death of Mrs. Lobb late wife of Mr. Stephen Lobb. Preached by Samuel Slater, minister of the Gospel	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1691 (1691)	Wing S3966; ESTC R221626	33,124	39

by the dear love he bare to Christ and the Ch●●●● But how many are brought into it by a fond and foolish love to 〈◊〉 world They could be willing to go to Christ were they not lo●● 〈◊〉 leave their Earthly Comforts Relations and Possessions They ●●uld live to see their Children grown up well disposed of and pro●●ded for in the world but they may live to see them their Sorrow ●●d Shame their Vexation and Torment Others are in a strait and ●aid to dye because they do not know whither they shall go when ●●ey dye they want assurance of the Love of God and their own ●●ernal Salvation for which want they may possibly thank their ●●n supine carelessness and neglect not having given as they ought ●●●igence yea all diligence to make their Calling and Election sure ●●hers are in a strait by reason of those severe Rebukes and Wounds ●hich they receive from their own Consciences They have been off ●om their watch and Temptations from Satan or the world have ●oke in upon them and mastered them and their own Corruptions ●●ve prevailed against them and their Consciences instead of being ●●eet Comforters prove their dreadful Tormentors by means where●● they poor Creatures know not how to look God in the face ●●d so they know not how to look Death in the face And indeed it ●●nnot but be very sad and dismal with any one who is in this condi●●on and at the same time thinks in good earnest that his death is 〈◊〉 hand Therefore let it be your work by utmost diligence and con●●nt care of holy walking with God to prevent such straits as these ●●t weaned hearts sit loose from the world do your duty keep ●ur selves unspotted commit your all to God clear up your Evi●ences make up your Accounts and get all things set in order ●●at when you come to dye you may have nothing else to do Sixthly The Interest of Christ and his Church should be preserr'd be●●re our own particular Interest Thus Iohn the Baptist did when some 〈◊〉 his Disciples told him He to whom thou barest witness baptizeth and 〈◊〉 men come to him They thought their Master's Glory would be ●●ereby eclipsed Observe now his Answer thereunto Iohn 3. ●● 30. The friend of the Bridegroom which standeth and heareth him ●●joiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice this my joy therefore is ●●lfilled he must increase but I decrease They could not bring him ●etter and more welcom news Our Apostle here judged his abiding 〈◊〉 the flesh was more needful for the Saints in order to their furthe●●ance in the way to Heaven and the increasing of their Joy of ●aith and thence concluded he should abide and continue with ●hem and was upon mature deliberation free to do so It ought to ●e so with us We should be willing to be kept out of our Rest so ●ong as we have any more work to do for God We should be content to stay for our future Reward so long as we may be further service● in the world And indeed it is richly worth a B●lievers while to 〈◊〉 here until he hath dispatch'd all that for which he was sent hith● and not to have Death put in its sickle to reap him before he be t●● rough ripe You have a great deal of Reason to long for Hear● because of the Company Happiness and Glory which are there be enjoyed and because of that noysom body of Death which 〈◊〉 you carry about with you and because of the Temptations A●ctions and various Troubles you meet with here Yet be not imp●●●ent but all the days of your appointed time do you as Iob 〈◊〉 wait till your change shall come You will lose nothing by stay 〈◊〉 God's time which is in all things the best The greater Service y●● do for him either in an active or passive way the more weig●● shall your Crown be Lastly Whensoever and about whatsoever it is that we are brought 〈◊〉 a strait it is our wisest way to commit the business to God and leave the 〈◊〉 termination unto him When the Scales do hang even in our Judgme●● let God before whom all things are naked and open have the tur●● of them It is said of Moses Deut. 34.5 That he died according to 〈◊〉 word of the Lord at the Mouth of the Lo●d so it is in the Hebr●● Some read it The Lord commanding him 〈…〉 Annotations ●●●der it by the Ordinance of the Lord or at the Appointment of G●● It is not fit that we should have the prolonging or contracting of 〈◊〉 Lives in our own hands that Power is best and sa●est in the ha●d that God whose right it is The Church said He should chuse their heritance for them let us also say He shall chuse for us the time 〈◊〉 our continuance here and of our departure from hence If we w●● to chuse for our selves very few if any would chuse well but so●● of us would dye too soon and others of us would live too long Let therefore refer it to God While he is pleased to add to our day us conscientiously mind our duty living to the best purpose that can and serving our Generation according to the Will of God 〈◊〉 then we may satisfie our selves with this That we shall be sure to 〈◊〉 in the best time In a word Let every one of us be willing to 〈◊〉 here until God send for us And then the good Lord put us i● such a frame as that when we are sent for we may be willing to FINIS

reach of the tallest and best grown and improved Saints while here It is the mark that they have in their eye and aim and at which they level but when they have done their best the best of them do while here shoot short they cannot hit it and while they are thankful for attainments they must own and acknowledge defects and wants There is a dimness in their eyes and so their ●nowledge is imperfect there is a weakness in their hearts and so their Graces are imperfect as a child so they are perfect as to parts but not as to degrees there is something lacking in their Faith and in their Love and in every Grace They are progressive in their motions going on and on every day and from strength to strength and yet at the end of every day they find that they have further to go and therefore had need to gird up the loins of their mind growth is the con●tant duty and business of a Christi●n That precept 2 Pet. 3. Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ doth oblige the Saints as long as they live there is none here can say ●hey are got from under the authority and binding power of that Command and therefore none here have arrived at the measure of their stature You know Paul had got much he came not behind the chiefest Apostles yet he had not enough nor was he satisfied and what was his cas● is also the case of all the Saints while on this side of Heaven Yea and observe this you will find it always true those of them that be the most Holy are the most humble and hungry those that have most Knowledg and most of the Spirit are of all others least in their own eyes and furthest from dreaming of a present Perfection they are most free to own it that they have not already attained and that they are not already perfect Philip. 3 12. But what was their desire here shall be their delight there and all that which they hoped for here they shall enjoy there they shall see Christ as he is clearly immediately face to face as fully as humane Na●ure is capable of seeing him and there they shall be like him as like him as they would be for a perfect Vision of him will produce a perfect assimilation to him There it is that God doth fill his Peoples Treasures and because he deals so bountifully with them there their Souls will enjoy a completeness of Rest there it is that they will for ever take up because there is â n● plus nultra no further they have to go no higher that they can aspire Thirdly The Future State in which the Saints shall be with Christ shall be for ever unalterable Here alas There is very little of a consistency the best of men are subject to vicissitudes and changes David indeed said My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed but notwithstanding his fixedness he had his fluctuatings Neither he nor his house was as a Morning without Clouds or the clear Sun-shine God lifted him up and again cast him down sometimes he was in the heights and sometimes in the deep Psal. 130.1 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee O Lord. Here they are Travellers and but in the Wilderness and therefore none have cause to wonder that they are frequently at a loss now for this anon for that How often do they find changes within them their hearts are not always in the same frame now lively anon dead and dull now enlarged anon straitned now full of Faith anon full of fears now they mount up with wing● as Eagles anon they lye like Logs or creep like Snails and at othe● times they find a change upon them their Bottle is empty and their ways bedged up with Thorns Many very many of these Changes are for the worse so that sometimes they are brought to a great loss not knowing themselves nor state but ready to conclude themselves a company of Hypocrites Their day is clouded and the●● Evidences blurr'd and their Peace broken God withdraws the Beams that sometimes he darted in upon them and instead of chearing Smiles they see nothing but angry and terrible Frowns H● withholds those gracious Assistances that sometimes he was please● to afford them and now they are so troubled that they cannot spea● as they should nor hear nor pray nor meditate as they should the● cannot do any thing that they can savour nor taste any sweetness i● the Ordinances they attend are as the white of an Egg and the Duties they perform are to them Abomnination From the forme● they go away disappointed from the latter ashamed and from both disconsolated and possibly under a Temptation of throwing of all But in the future state there shall be none of this no such afflictive Changes there shall be no Soul-sickness no spiritual Infirmity or Weakness no indisposition of Mind no angry hidings o● God's part no vexatious disturbances no Weight to depress no Sin to beset no Devil to assault his Arm is neither long enough nor strong enough to through one fiery Dart among that blessed and peaceful Company the old Serpent cannot wriggle himself into that Paradise of God He that would not stay there to be happy shall not return thither to be troublesome there shall be nothing to defile them nothing to offend them They shall be always with the Lord and always fit to be with him always singing Allelujahs having their Souls ever in tune some do conceive that there shall be ●●ntinual Additions to their knowledg tho never any want yet an ●●arging of their Capacities and at the same instant a filling of ●●em too I do not contradict that Notion nor will I dispute it it 〈◊〉 pleasant the day will declare it but whatever further Additions ●ere may be it is certain there shall be no Diminution they shall ●●ld fast what they have Their Sun shall not go one degree back●ard but being come to its Zenith it shall continue and of that ●nowledge and Happiness and Glory of which they are there ●ade partakers they shall lose none but be so far immoveable as ●●lars in the House of God in a fixed and permanent Condition So ●●ve I given you up my thoughts concerning Paul's Judgment about ●●e Saints future State in the other World which is a being with ●●rist and far better that the best Estate they are or can be in on ●●s side of it We now proceed to consider the second thing observable in the ●●xt that is the stirring or working of his Will and Affections in a ●●et Correspondency with his Judgment and this working of them ●s in a way of desire Having a desire to depart As when good old ●●eon had seen God's Salvation and got Christ in his Arms he said ●●w Lord lettest thou thy servant depart in peace So did Paul here ●●ing looked within the Vail and seen something of that