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kingdom_n	bless_v	father_n	inherit_v	1,819	5	9.6520	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56449	A sermon preached at the funeral of that faithful servant of Christ, Robert Breton, D.D. Pastor of Deptford in the county of Kent, Febr. 20. 1671/2. By Richard Parr, D.D. of Camerwel in the county of Surrey.	Parr, Richard, 1617-1691.	1672 (1672)	Wing P549; ESTC R216956	13,679	43

and make ready and be every day prepared for we know not the day wherein we shall be taken One dyeth in his non-age another at full growth one in his bed another in the field the wise and the fool the King and the Subject the Pastor and his Flock c. all must taste of Death and be layn up in the grave Now the improvement wise men and good make of these notices of the end of the World altogether at once and of the end of every particular Mans being in this World is this That every man while he hath the space and the warning should especially look after his great concernment how he may be fit and prepared for such a change such an encounter that so Death may not spoil him for ever So to order our conversation and discharge our duty and dispatch our work which our Lord hath given us to do that so we may give up our accounts with joy alwayes doing what faithful servants of our Lord and Master Christ should be doing that may expect the blessing here promised to such who are faithful and diligent and constant in the work of the Lord and finish your course so doing And for this the Text is a mighty motive when it saith Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing Sirs the Affair I would at this time invite you to and engage you in is the business and exercise of those Religious duties as our Lord and Master Christ hath appointed for us in this present life in order to our eternal happiness in the other World to which this Text gives a direction and an encouragement 1. How are the parties assigned to this excellent employment under the title of Servant and in a peculiar manner the servant of the Lord in what place or condition the man be in for externals provided he be the Lords servant 2. And then how is the Blessedness designed for this servant or these servants 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which term is comprehensive including all felicity This stock spreads it self into many branches every one bearing fruit of its kind to make the man compleatly happy the favour of God the riches of the Promises the vision of God the fulness of Joy The servant that is blessed of the Lord thus shall be admitted into the joy of the Lord and the inheritance of the Saints in glory Matth. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you and Rev. 22.14 Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the City 3. The persons for whom this Blessedness is designed such servants as are doing servants but well doing actively obedient to the Commandments of our Lord faithful and diligent constant to the end the servant doing so shall be blessed in so doing when the servant shall have finished his course and called home to the blessed pay and to receive from his Lord whom he hath served that bountiful reward and full blessing of Eternal felicities Well done thou good and faithful servant enter thou into the joy of thy Lord Matth. 25.21 There is such a connexion between the duties of Christianity performed aright and in obedience to our Lord and the blessings promised to such that nothing can cut asunder or disjoyn them yea there is such a blessing that waits upon the faithful constant diligent service of Christ that 't is reward enough in its performance to encourage any man to the service and employment And when these things are seriously considered this Position will be easily granted That 't is a blessed thing Doct. to spend and to end our dayes in doing the will of our Lord in his service Blessed he when found so doing This needs no more proof than the probation our Lord hath said it in the Text and those who have done so have found it by experience and have given in their Testimony to it S. Paul 2 Tim. 4.6 7 8. I have finished my course I have kept the Faith I am now ready the time of my departure is at hand Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day c. And the Exhortation he gives to such of the believing Galatians Gal. 6.9 for encouragement is to this purpose also Let us not be weary of well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not And Rom. 2.7 To them who by patient continuing in well doing seek for glory and honour eternal life and lastly observe what you find 1 Cor. 15.58 Wherefore my beloved brethren be stedfast and unmoveable alwayes abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as your labour is not in vain in the Lord. The man who renounceth ungodliness and worldly lusts and lives soberly righteously and piously in this present World may look for that blessed Hope i. e. may hope for that Blessing promised at the appearing of our Lord Tit. 2.12 13. and shall never be disappointed of his hope Thus you see what assurance the Gospel gives and how fully it confirms by frequent repetitions That 't is a blessed thing to do the will of God to spend and end our days in so doing 2. There is another account to be given why it will prove so to the faithful servants of our Lord. 1. For besides the dignity worth and content which waits on a constant course of Godliness that were there nothing else did follow after yet 't were enough to encourage any man of reason that understood the nature of true honour and pleasure to become Religious and to continue in that service How can it but be esteemed a blessed thing to be employed in the appointed affairs of the Lord of glory in his Court the Church about such things which conduce to the attainment of the highest advancement any man is capable of which the faithful servant may be sure of without disappointment The attendance on the greatest King that ever was or ever shall be on the earth is not once to be named with this The happiness of Solomon's servants was extoll'd by the Queen of Sheba with reference to them and their employments Happy are thy men 1 King 10.8 happy those thy servants which stand continually before thee and that hear thy wisdom Yet this was but a trivial complement in comparison of the servants of the King of glory who stand before him as every faithful obedient servant of his doth and employed by our Lord in service infinitely more gainful more honourable and more grateful And David though a King himself accounted it his greatest honour to be the servant of God and admires the blessed state and happy condition of such who are so Psal 84.4 Blessed are they which dwell in thy house and a little after vers 10. he professeth That he had rather be a door-keeper in