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knowledge_n	faith_n	patience_n	temperance_n	4,962	5	11.6128	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64961	A funeral sermon occasioned by the death of Mr. George Baker first preached and then published, at the earnest desire of his relations, by Nathanael Vincent ...	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1679 (1679)	Wing V407; ESTC R34724	16,769	28

Christian are steps towards Heaven all the holy Duties which he performs seriously do mightily advance him in his way thither his holy and heavenly Meditations Desires and Affections do strangely speed him towards home The Christian growes in Grace and so becomes riper for Glory he adds to his faith virtue and to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness c. and these things being in him and abounding an abundant entrance is administred to him into the everlasting Kingdom 2 Pet. 1. 4. It will not be long ere the Christian be arrived safe in his Country Hark to the Apostle Heb. 10. 37. Yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry This Earthly house of Believers Tabernacle cannot stand long and assoon as ever it is dissolved they have a building of God an house not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens 2 Cor. 5. 1. The Believers time of Warfare is short and then he is discharged but his Triumph will be Eternal He has a short cut to a long nay an Eternal but a Blessed home Application Vse I. Of Reproof to the Ungodly whose time is as short as the time of Believers and yet they live as if they were to live here alwaies How many Covetous and Voluptuous Ones are there who are so eager after Wealth and Pleasures that they could hardly be more earnest suppose their Wealth and Pleasures could be enjoyed to Eternity It was a just complaint of Seneca lib. de Brevitate vitae cap. 4. Tanquam semper victuri vivitis nunquam vobis fragilitas vestra succurrit non observatis quantum temporis transierit velut ex pleno abundanti perditis Omnia tanquam mortales timetis omnia tanquam immortalis concupiscitis You live as if you were to live alwaies you make no good use of your own frailty you observe not how much time is past already but still lose more as out of a full Stock and as if all would never be done and your desires are eager after Earthly things as if your selves were Immortal and were never to be parted from them Let those who professe Christianity blush and mend when they hear an Heathen talk at such a rate Let sinners learn the art of Holy Arithmetick and so number their dayes as to apply their hearts unto Wisdom Satan is the great Cheat who endeavours to make you lose your time he has cheated you of much already if he gets all he will get you and all for after Death their is no getting out of his snare Vse II. Since wicked men are to live but a short time as well as Believers surely their good things cannot be enjoyed long The Rich man in the Gospel was clothed in Purple and fine linnen and fared sumptuously every day while he lived But death stript him of his gay clothing took him away from his well-spread Table and 't was said to him Son remember thou in thy life-time no longer than Life-time receivedst thy good things and Lazarus evil things but now he is Comforted and thou art tormented Luk. 16. 25. 'T was true in general that Zophar spake though he made a wrong Application of it to Job who was more righteous then himself Job 20. 4 5. Knowest thou not this of old since man was placed upon Earth that the Triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of the Hypocrite but for a moment How should it terrifie wicked men to consider that their pleasures can be but for a season but their pains and torment will be endless Their Honour is fading but their Contempt and Shame will be everlasting Dan. 12. 2. their gains are inconsiderable and will quickly be gone but their loss will be of no less then of their Souls and Heaven and can never be repaired Vse III. Since a Christians time is a time of sojourning it may comfort him that as himself is not so neither can his troubles be very long lived Afflictions are therefore the lighter because they are but for a moment 2 Cor. 4. 17. Now Believers are in their minority and consequently under the Discipline of the Rod but after Death they will be perfect and then correction will be needless Now they are assaulted with Satans Temptations he is liberall of his fiery darts and they have much ado with the Shield of Faith and the Armour of God to defend themselves but within a little while they shall be quite out of his reach and a man may as easily with an Arrow shoot and hit the Sun in the Firmament as the Devil with any Dart hit a Saint in the third Heaven Now Believers groan because of a body of sin and death that they carry about with them but when they put of their earthly Tabernacle this body of sin shall be put off for ever and through the natural body shall be raised a spiritual one yet the body of sin shall never have resurrection Within a little while God shall wipe away all tears from his Peoples Eyes which implies that both sin and suffering which are the causes of sorrow will be at an end The Believer when he dies he dies in the Lord and Christ who has the Key of Hell keeps that shut against him as for Purgatory he did before believe and he now finds to be a meer fiction for the spirit sayth that from thenceforth they rest from their labours and their works follow them Rev. 14. 13. Vse IV. Of Counsel unto all Since your time is but as a time of sojourning let my advice in these Scripture-particulars be acceptable 1. You that have Wives be as though you had none 1 Cor. 7. 29. and by a parity of reason you that have Husbands be as though ye had none and you that have Children be as if you had them not Sit loose from your very Relations Love them indeed you ought and especially to their souls express your love but remember your happiness does not lye in the enjoyment of them but in the enjoyment of God who loves infinitely better then the tenderest relations can and who lives infinitely longer 2. You that weep be as though you wept not 1 Cor. 7. 30. let not your tears run waste If you spend them upon sin God has a bottle to put them in but if you mourn immoderately for losses crosses and afflictions as common water they are spilt upon the Ground That which you so lament the loss of be it Friend Estate or any other outward comfort it could not have been enjoyed long because Life it self is but a time of sojourning How vain are those things we are so fond of while we have them and when by their being taken away they further discover their vanity why should our eyes be so full of tears and our hearts ready to break with sorrow at parting 3. You that rejoyce be as though ye rejoyced not The absence of the creature should not cast you