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A60128 Death a deliverance, or, A funeral discourse, preach'd (in part) on the decease of Mrs. Mary Doolittle, (late wife of Mr. Thomas Doolittle, minister of the Gospel in London) who departed this life the 16th of Decemb. 1692 by John Shower. Shower, John, 1657-1715. 1693 (1693) Wing S3661; ESTC R184223 53,028 143

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World when it is most pleasant commodious and inviting Our Spirits are Distempered and out of Order if it be not thus with us And let all the Calamities and Afflictions of this present Life be supported by this Expectation and improved likewise to strengthen and increase such Desires of a better State This is one design of God in our Temporal Crosses to assist our Victory over this World and make us more intensely and earnestly to aspire after Heaven to teach us to long for everlasting Rest and Peace and Glory to bring us practically to reckon and conclude that the expected Glory that is to be revealed in us will infinitely out ballance all the sufferings of our present State In short if you believe and expect such a blessed Change let the Apostles Exhortation take place to be stedfast unmovable allways abounding in the work of the Lord for you know it cannot be in vain in the Lord. Do not regret the Thoughts of labouring and suffering for a little while more and longer in this Body you need not apprehend you shall be loosers or fear to have a hard Batgain For your present Sorrows and sufferings and difficult Services can last but a little while and shall have an eternal Recompence If we are never so abundant in the Work of the Lord if we begin never so soon and last never so long it shall not be in vain in the Lord If therefore you thus believe and expect be perswaded to give all Diligence adding to your Faith Vertue to Vertue Knowledg to Knowledg Temperance to Temperance Patience to Patience Godliness to Godliness brotherly-Brotherly-kindness to Brotherly-kindness Charity being filled with all the Fruits of Righteousness that are by Christ Jesus to the Glory and Praise of God that an Entrance may be administred to you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Let us follow after that we may apprehend that for which also we are apprehended of Christ Jesus Let us reach forth unto those things that are before forgetting those which are behind and press towards the Mark of the Prize of the high Calling of God in Christ Jesus that if by any means we might attain unto the Resurrection of the dead Philip. 3.11 12 13. Let us remember we are to be but a little while in this Body and this earthly House is appointed for Labour it is a work-house Let us therefore give all Diligence to work out our Salvation as knowing we shall not be long in the Body This is the Apostles Argument as to himself and equally concerns us 2 Pet. 1.12 13. CHAP. VIII Of the Characters of such who may and ought to long for this Glorious Change who have a Title to the Desired Blessedness SECT I. FIfthly How sollicitous should we be to find in our selves the Characters of such to whom these Desires are suitable and to clear up our Title to that blessed State which the Followers of Christ do thus earnestly long for The Promise of the Heavenly Inheritance is annexed to our being born of God or being born from above You must therefore look after the Renovation of the Divine Image and Life by the Spirit of Life and Power in Jesus Christ that the Holy Spirit may Witness with your Spirits to his own Work that you may discover and discern those holy Affections as the Fruits of the Spirit which are proper to the Children of God such as an humble Fear of him and diligent Care to please him a fervent Love to God and Christ an intire Resignation to his Will Holy Zeal for his Interest and Glory and trust in his Word c. For till your Natures are changed by the Spirit of Christ and you are so made meet for the Heavenly Inheritance you cannot have a share in this Blessedness no more than if the legal Bar be not removed by the forgiveness of Sin or your Persons not reconciled by the Blood of Christ The Qualification of the Heirs of this great Salvation is variously described in Scripture Sometimes by Faith sometimes by Regeneration sometimes by Heavenly Affections sometimes by Holy Obedience and Fruitfulness in Good Works All must concur to suit us and to Intitle us to the Heavenly State You are therefore to inquire after the Characters of the Children of God and the Heirs of Heaven which is a state of Sinless Perfection And therefore to examine whether you are brought to loath your selves for your Sins and that there is no sin but you would desire to know and are as desirous to be rid of and would rather be freed from Sin than from Affliction Whether you do not aspire after the highest Degrees of Holiness Whether you would not rather be perfect in the Love of God and the Obedience of his Will than have all the Riches and Pleasures of the World Whether you do not like and love that Degree of Holiness in others that you have not yet attained your selves Whether you do not love the Image of God and Christ wheresoever you can discern it Whether you do not endeavour to Mortifie the Flesh not to live or walk after it but to be Crucified to the World and with your chiefest care and endeavour to serve and please God and enjoy him for ever depending on Christ his Sacrifice and Intercession and Spirit for all your Grace and Glory all your Hopes of Acceptance with God and Capacity or Title for Communion with him giving up your selves intirely to be governed by him being willing to obey his Law whatsoever it shall cost you watching over your Heart Affections and Thoughts as well as outward Actions taking Pleasure in the Worship and Service of God as a delightful Work resigning to God and being devoted to his Will Praying frequently for his Grace and casting your selves on his Mercy through Jesus Christ for Eternal Life These are some of the Characters of such as are Heirs of Salvation These you must look after and then endeavour to advance in a Joyful Hope and Assurance that the Heavenly Inheritance is yours labouring for a setled Conscience growing in Grace and especially in Mortified Affections to the World and living in the Exercise of Grace by careful obedience to God as those that are absolutely devoted to him and hope to live in his Blessed Presence for ever CHAP. IX How Few Christians live in the Exercise of such Desires after the Blessed Change What may be the Reason That some fear of Death and particularly of a painful Death may consist with Vprightness That elder Christians and the Sickly and Infirm should endeavour to quicken such a Desire of Deliverance by Death Reproof and Exhortation in reference hereto SECT I. SIxthly Let us be Ashamed that we find in our selves no more of this holy frame That we so over-love this Earthly House and are afraid of Death That our Desires are so faint toward this blessed Change How shameful is our backwardness and unwillingness to