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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91738	Deaths advantage; opened in a sermon preached at Northampton, at the funeral of Peter Whalley Esq; then mayor of the said town. And now upon the earnest desires of his friends published by Edward Reynolds. D.D.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1244; Thomason E501_2; Thomason E912_6; ESTC R206048	18,423	35

him how I may bring glory to his name how I may promote his interests and Kingdom how I may live the rest of my time in the flesh not unto mine own lusts but unto his will unto whom my soul and salvation was dearer then his own life Since his blood was my price his glory must be my business For he therefore died for All that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him which died for them and rose again 1 Pet. 4.1 2. 1 Cor. 6.19 20. 2 Cor. 5.14 15. We see how Christ is life Let us next enquire to whom he is so To me saith the Apostle to live is Christ There is much of the life of Religion in Pronowns and Adverbs in persons and the manner of doing things To those whom the Father hath given him he is life to those that beleeve he is precious 1 Pet. 2.7 To others he is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence and his Gospel a savor of death unto death He is not at all in their thoughts or cares to please or glorifie him They are not at a point so he may have honour whether it be by their life or death But so they may have pleasure or profit so their carnal desires may be gratified and their interests secured let what will become of his name or honor Therefore let us make sure the Pronown here To me that I am one who am willing Christ should be magnified by me any way whether by life or by death otherwise we cannot say To me to live is Christ Thus far all runs very smoothly unto Christian ears To live is Christ he our Lord therefore unto his service and honour must our whole life be consecrated and devoted No difficulty in all this The next Proposition seemeth more strange and paradoxal that to Dye should be Gain Arrian Epictet l. 4. c. 10. Senec. ●onsol ad Mart. Polyb. Ep. 24 30 66. M. Antonin l. 3. sect 3. Plutarch consol ad Apollon Many Philosophers have spoken many kinde and flartering words concerning Death That it is the end solution period remedy of all our cares sorrows labors fears a Debt a Tribute a Sleep an Harbor or Haven a rest a quiet Repose after all our griefs and miseries But none I think did ever go so far as to make it Gain and it may seem to be no other nor better gain then that which the Apostle speaks of Act. 27.21 A gaining of loss for what kind of gain would one think can there be found in that the very formal being and nature whereof doth consist in nothing but loss 1. There is in it the loss of all a mans Substance His house knows him no more Job 7.10 His Lands his Place his Tenants Rents Revenues own him no longer If there were a judgement at Law given against a man overthrowing his whole estate stripping him of his house over his head the mony in his purse the corn in his Barns the Cattel in his fields the cloaths on his back leaving him as naked as the world at first found him would any man call this gain Death is just such a judgment leaveth a man no more land then his grave no more cloathes then his Shrowd no more house then his Coffin No difference but this in the one Judgment possibly a stranger in the other a Son or a Kinsman succeeds but as to a mans self it is all one 2. But when all these things are gone haply friends may recruit a man again as they did Job Chap. 42.11 Polyb. hist l. 5. Fruitur diis iratis Juv. We read of the incredible bounty of Princes and States to the people of Rhodes after they had been sorely ruined by an earthquake insomuch that their calamity proved an advantage unto them But in death there is a loss of friends as well as of Estate Wife Children all part at the grave and never meet till the Resurrection 3. Though means and friends be all lost yet if a man could keep possession of himself it may be his head or his hand his wit or his labour would repair his losses again But Death is the losing of a mans self no hand left to work no head left to contrive it tears a man assunder ●ro●n himself and sends his parts as far distant as either Heaven or Hell are from the Grave Now after all these losses of Estate of Friends of Wisdom of strength of a mans very self what possible room is there left for Gain when he that should enjoy it is himself lost All this notwithstanding God must be true and every man a lyar Death is Gain and Gain we must finde in it before we leave it First Let us take it at the worst view which a Beleever can have of it as it is an Enemy for so the Apostle calls it 1 Cor. 15.26 And so it was esteemed by Christ himself who though in love to us and in obedience to his father he submitted unto it yet testified his natural desire to have declined it when with strong crys he prayed once and again O my Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me You may not without shew of reason say What Gain is to be expected from an Enemy Many times Friends themselves when it comes to the point of gain to this question Who will shew us any good are shie and draw in their friendship Laban though Jacobs Father in law grudged him the benefit of that bargain which himself had before most willingly consented unto Joab was Absoloms friend yet Absolom burnt up his corn Yet we may not deny Vid. Plutarch ●…h de capienda ab hostibus utiutate but that a man may have gain by an enemy as poison unto some creatures affordeth nourishment ●●…elephus had his Impostume opened by the dart of an enemy which was intended for his hurt Those Roses they say are sweetest which grow near unto Garlick the neatness of an Enemy make a good man the better And therefore the wise Roman when Carthage the Emulous City of Rome was destroyed said truly Now our affairs are in more danger and hazzard then ever before When Saul Davids Enemy Eyed and persecuted him this made him walk more circumspectly pray more trust in God more He kept his mouth with a bridle while the wicked were before him Psal 39.1 An hard knot in the wood drives a man to the use of his wedges A malicious Enemy that watcheth for our halting will make us look the better to our ways And so death by the nearness thereof and by the frequent meditation thereupon makes us more careful of our great accompt more sollicitous to make sure our peace with God to wean our hearts from worldly and perishing comforts to lay up a good foundation for the time to come that we may obtain eternal life to get a City which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God But it may be said