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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43575	A sermon preached at the funeral of the right honourable William Lord Pagett, Baron of Beaudefert, &c. By John Heynes, A.M. and preacher of the New Church, Westminster	Heynes, John.	1679 (1679)	Wing H17646A; ESTC R216791	19,530	47

if we have any sense of gratitude let us labour after the counsel of the Apostle to abound in the work of the Lord Phil. i. 11. let us endeavour that we may be filled with all the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ to the praise and glory of God Let us give all diligence to add to our faith vertue and to vertue knowledge 2 Pet. i. 5 6 7. and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity for so an entrance shall be ministred unto us abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Never object the greatness never urge the difficulty and hardness of the work required of you but consider he that hath commanded you to do it will enable you to go through with and your labor shall not be in vain in the Lord. O didst thou think of this it would inspire a new courage into thee it would invigorate thy fainty resolutions and carry thee through the greatest impediments and obstacles that are in thy way truly the reason why we do so little for God why we are so careless and cold and unconcerned in what we do is because our thoughts of the recompence of the reward are so seldome and slightly II. The serious meditation of this would support and uphold us under the greatest tryals and afflictions that God should at any time exercise us with this made Job stand upright under that great pressure of calamities that was laid upon him He knew that his redeemer lived and that he should stand at the latter day upon the Earth Job xix though saith he Vers 25. after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God Vers 26. whom I shall see for my self Vers 27. and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reins be consumed within me This upheld David Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is fulness of joy Psal xvi 11. and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore I had fainted saith he unless I had believed to have seen the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living that is not only here in this life as the most understand it but in that other world which is truly and properly Terra viventium Psal xxvii 13. the land of the living Whatever your troubles are this is sufficient to comfort you under them that there is a state of happiness to be enjoyed hereafter by all such who are followers of those who through faith and patience have inherited the promise yet a little while and all your sufferings shall be at an end for no sooner shall you lay down your Earthly Tabernacle but God shall receive you into his Kingdom where there is neither sin nor sorrow but perfect peace and joy such peace that passeth all understanding such joy that is unspeakable and full of glory Eye hath not seen ear hath not heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. ii 9. Can we believe these things and yet repine and murmur under any of the divine dispensations as though God had dealt hardly with us Oh how unreasonable is this since our afflictions are the way to glory for through many tribulations must we enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Acts xiv 22. since they fit and prepare us for our glory and make us meet to be partakers of it 2 Cor. iv 17. Let us rather rejoyce in our trials forasmuch as the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us forasmuch as they work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory This would be more becoming the faith of a Christian and much more conduce to the credit and reputation of that excellent Religion that we do profess IV. The serious meditation of this glorious change to be wrought upon our bodies would make death much less dreadful and terrible unto us death as it is an extinction of life as it is a dissolution of the frame and structure of our bodies is a frightful thing and full of horror nature starts back and cannot endure to look at it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost Hom. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. but did we seriously consider that when we die to this present life it is that we may live a much better life and that when God pulls down our earthly house it is for the erecting a more stately and magnificent fabrick for us we should soon be satisfied and composed in our minds and be so far from fearing it that we should with submission to the will of God desire it for in this saith the Apostle we groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed upon with our house which is from Heaven if so be that being cloathed we should not be found naked 2 Cor. v. 2 3. THE END

due time receive us unto himself according to those gracious words of his J●● xii 26. If any man serve me let him follow me And where I am there shall my servant be also If any man serve me him will my Father honour III. Our assurance lies in that full persuasion of it which is in the hearts of all holy men the friends and lovers of God who live in the expectation of this great and wonderful change and rejoyce in the hope and glory of God 2 Cor. v. 1. We know saith St. Paul in the name of all the faithful that when our earthly house of this tabernacle shall be dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens We know that is we are assured of it it is not a bare conjecture a mere probability a groundless conceit or opinion no what were this but to build upon the sand but it is knowledge that is a thing truly demonstrable we may see the firmness of this persuasion in the mighty influence it hath upon them both as to piety and as to courage and patience as to piety 2 Cor. vii 1. for having these promises they endeavoar to purifie themselves from all uncleanness both of flesh and spirit 1 Col. 12. and to perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord that so they may be meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light as well knowing that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. xv 50. and that corruption shall not inherit incorruption Again as to Courage and Patience it is the full persuasion of this that makes them to ingage upon the most difficult duties and to despise the greatest dangers that are in their way to hazard their persons Mat. x. 39. knowing that if they lose their lives for Christs sake they shall find it Heb. x. 34. to take joyfully the spoiling of their goods knowing in themselves that they have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance Now is there such a confident expectation in the hearts of holy men is this persuasion begotten in them by the Word and shall we dare to doubt of it But to conclude Our assurance lies in the first fruits and beginnings of it within our selves But what are these first fruits they are the graces and workings of the Spirit within us whereby we are changed from what naturally we were and created again after the Image of God in righteousness and true holiness This renovation of our minds this restauration of our Souls to their original qualities is a certain pledge of the resurrection of our bodies and their glorious advancement by Christ R●● viii 11. If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you In this respect it is that the Spirit is called the earnest of our inheritance 1 Eph. xiii 14. and we are said to be sealed by the holy spirit of promise until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory To carry this a little farther there are some who tell us that this change is begun in our bodies even in this life they being by vertue of that true and real regeneration that is wrought upon the Soul rectified into a divine temperament and this they think the Apostle doth not obscurely intimate in the five first verses of the fifth Chapter of the second Epistle to the Corinthians But to wave this by what I have already said you may see that we have very good reason to believe and expect this glorious change I come now to the third thing proposed and that is to excite and stir you up to a serious meditation of this great truth think much of your future happiness and of the glory that is to be revealed at the coming of Christ The covetous man is alwaies thinking of the world his heart goeth out after his covetousness as the Spirit of God describes him the voluptuous man is alwaies thinking of his pleasure either he entertains himself with the images of his past delights or he lays the design of some new one The Ambitious man hath alwaies the pleasing Ideas of greatness and honour before him O do you who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 free Denizons of Heaven Citizens of the New Jerusalem that City that is above employ your thoughts upon more worthy objects while others mind Earthly things do you mind those that are Heavenly set your affections on things above Col. iii. 2 3. not on things on the Earth for ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God It will be of great benefit and advantage to you for I. It will raise and innoble your Souls and make you look down with an holy disdain upon all things that are circumscribed and confined within this sphere of vanity as things that are below you that are utterly unsutable to you he that remembers that life above will never be very fond of this present life he that remembers the fulness of joy that is in Gods presence and the rivers of pleasure that are at his right hand for evermore will be ashamed that those imaginary joys and momentary pleasures of sin which the sensual Epicure is so much transported with should ever controll or have any power over him he that often remembers the unspeakable glory with which Christ shall honour those who have been his faithful friends and followers will never have his eyes dazled with any worldly pomp or greatness Nay should we suppose the Devil should deal with him as he did with our blessed Saviour take him up to an high mountain scatter an airy horizon about him and therein according to the best of his skill represent to the utmost advantage all the glory of the world he would presently see through the imposture and discover the cheat for what can be great or glorious to him who by faith hath seen things invisible which do infinitely excell and go beyond whatever is seen 2 Cor. iv 18. For the things that are seen are temporal but the things that are not seen are Eternal II. The frequent meditation of this glory would quicken our diligence and make us more serious and earnest in our respective duties The Apostle makes this use of it in the close of his excellent discourse concerning the resurrection Therefore my dearly beloved brethren be ye stedfast and unmovable 1 Cor. xv 5● alwaies abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know that your labor shall not be in vain in the Lord. What can we do sufficient to express our love to him who hath done such great things for us who hath prepared a state of endless glory for us shall we be careless and slighting and drowsie in the service of such a Master No surely