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A60155 A sermon preacht upon the death of Mrs. Anne Barnardiston (daughter of Nathanael Barnardiston, Esq., late of Hackney) who departed this life the 30th day of Decemb. 1681, at the age of seventeen with a brief account of some remarkable passages of her life and death. Shower, John, 1657-1715. 1682 (1682) Wing S3690; ESTC R5070 28,398 52

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we profess a desire to be with Christ whereas we may not do this or any other evil though the greatest good may come of it he that hasteth to be rich Prov. 28. ●6 even in this sence shall not be innocent We must be intirely devoted to serve and glorifie the Redeemer as long as we live and rather dye upon the Spot than quit our Station without the order of our General and yet we must not shipwrack our health or expose our Lives to hazard without a Warrant from Heaven 4. A Sincere desire to be with Christ is consistent with some fear of Death and a reproveable unwillingness to depart and be dissolv'd The example of Christ himself is usually urg'd in vindication of a natural sensitive fear of Death viz. the discovery thereof which he made by his Agony and prayer in the Garden But a Socinian only will assert that therefore he was more affected with the fear of Death than many of the Martyrs have been because of the exquisite Temper and tender constitution of his body and that there was nothing but what was natural and ordinary in his case whereas he was to conflict with the wrath of God and bear the curse and be wounded for our Transgressions c otherwise his own innocency and perfect resignation to the will of his Father and the prospect and assurance of victory and reward would certainly have prevented his Terrible agony and bloody sweat and importunate cries that if possible the Cup might pass from him However I doubt not but a Timerous Temper may render some persons extreamly apprehensive of the pains of death and on that account unwilling to depart though they are truly desirous to be with Christ Others through the weakness of Faith or overmuch concern in the affairs of this Life c. though they grant it unspeakably better to be present with the Lord and have chosen it as their portion and final Happiness may yet be loth to passe through the dark valley they cannot joyn with the Apostle in desiring to be dissolv'd though they can speak it from their very hearts that they desire to be with Christ and that desire is so far prevailing as to keep them upright and yet not efficacious so as to conquer the fears or interposing death How unwelcome was the message of Death to an upright Hezekiah even then when he could plead his Integrity before the Lord he turn'd his face to the wall and wept and besought the Lord that he might not dye as is evident by Isa 38.3 5 v. compar'd but I dare not say his unwillingness to dye at that Time was a sinful weakness because he might well be concern'd for the Kingdom after his decease least the faithful should be staggered and the people revolt to Idolatry there being no visible Successor to advance the Reformation so hopefully begun for Manasses was not then born being but twelve years old when he began to reign and we know that Hezekiah had fifteen years added to his Life 2 King 20.6 5. Though we desire to be with Christ we must not be peremptory as to any determinate Time but refer our selves to God's good pleasure for the season of our departure though with Job we should be ready to answer Job 14.15 when God doth call yet with humility and resignation we must expect his summons and wait till our change come though the daies of our appointed Time should be longer than ordinary Though in a dutifull observance to our Heavenly Father we should be willing to return home as soon as he shall please to call us and the felicity of his presence should render it desirable yet his Soveraign will and unerring wisdom must be practically acknowledg'd in reference to the Season he alone of whom and to whom are all things is fit to determine how long we shall tarry or how soon we shall depart even the Light of nature may teach us this Seneca Epist 24. ●1 And therefore when ever we pray Thy Kingdom come we must not limit the holy one of Israel by prescribing the Time but immediately subjoyn with respect to that Thy will be done 6. Not the Time only but the Kind and Manner of our dissolution must be referr'd to God Some have wisht for a sudden death and others have pray'd against it Some have desired to dye by one disease and others by another Some holy persons of a timerous Temper and a tender Body would choose to depart by a Consumption not only as allowing them a longer Time to prepare for death but as an easier kind of Death than several others Whereas besides the uncertainty and deceitfulness of that disease 't is more than possible that the Languishment of a pining sickness may be as irksome and insupportable as the shorter pains of more violent distempers But God is the only Judge to whom we must Submit as the wise disposer of all events not only of the Time but the Manner of our departure not only how long we shall sojourn in this earthly Tabernacle but what shall dissolve and pull it down 7. Our desire to depart and to be with Christ must not be rash and hasty but the result of many Serious and deliberate thoughts comparing both States together and understanding the difference The Apostle knew his duty in compliance with the Will of God and therefore for the service of his Master and the advantage of the Philippians was willing to Live but he knew withall it was far better in it self to depart that he might be with Christ and as such he desired it And a due comparison between our present and our future Life our inconveniencies and sufferings in this world and our Felicity in the next is proper to regulate and quicken our desire to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. Therefore 2. In what respects is it far better to be with Christ than to abide in the flesh what is the vast difference between What we are and What we shall be that the expectation of the Latter should even make Death and dissolution desirable in order to it And here it will be necessary to consider 1. The Expression of our Felicity after death here used by the Apostle Being with Christ 2. In what respects 't is far better to depart and be absent from the body that we may be present with him 1. The Expression of our future blessedness by being with Christ Till we are present with the Lord and see him face to face and know as we are known we must content our selves with such sensible representations of it as God is pleas'd to reveal in his Word such as our ignorant earthly minds can bear and may be most affected with But when once the vail of darkness is remov'd by death we shall see him as he is and all our Faculties be purified and inlarg'd and suited to the blessed company and work above We shall see him whom our