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A64962	The great change discoursed of in a funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Martha Thompson, late wife of Captain William Thompson in Wapping. Preached by Nathanael Vincent, M A. minister of the gospel.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1682 (1682)	Wing V408; ESTC R219229	19,844	35

is come indeed Believers are engaged in a Warfare and they must stand to their Arms and be upon Duty till the Captain of their Salvation call them off in order to their crowning They have need of Patience that they may act and fight and suffer unweariedly Hark to the Apostle Heb. 10. 36 37. For ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye may receive the promise for yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry All our life long by patient continuance in well doing we must seek for glory and honour and immortality and then upon our dissolution we shall lay hold of that life which is eternal In the second place I am to lay down the Reasons why 't is the Saints practise to wait for their change 1. Because the coming of it is so certain in it self and so uncertain as to the time when 't will be All our cares cannot prevent our Change Death will surely come The Decree concerning it is much more unalterable than those of the Medes and Persians Dan. 6. 12. But the time of its approach is concealed To some it comes in the evening of their Age to some at mid-day to some in the very morning of their time All graves are not of a length Some old and that 's no wonder some Infants and some in their greatest vigor have been struck down by Death and shall rise no more till the last day All therefore at all times should be watchful 2. The spiritual advantage is vastly great which follows upon serious waiting for their change Waiting for Death will make men flee from sin When Satan speaks of sin's pleasure and gain if answer be made O but at death will sin be thought pleasant and gainful This will be enough to silence him Waiting for Death will make this World contemptible When Esau was at the point of Death he cries out What profit will this birth right do me Gen. 25. 32. So if we have Death in our eye we shall cry out What profit will the World then do us when we are just about to leave it Again Waiting for death will keep our Affections moderate neither grief nor joy will be excessive about earthly things Christ will be the more prized and Heaven more longed for 3. The misery is inconceivable which falls upon them who never thought of Death so as to be prepared for it It is terrible in it self but hell following after it has ten thousand times a more terrible second Death is sent unto the ungodly in wrath as an Excecutioner they dye as malefactors The righteous indeed are cut down as Corn that is fully ripe that it may be gathered into the barn Mat 13. 30 But Death hews down the wicked as a man fells fuel for the fire they are evil trees that cumber the earth Luk. 13. 7. Cut it down why cumbereth it the ground And immediately they become eternal feul for those flames that never can be quenched Vse 1. Of Reproof to those who can't endure to think of Death or if they do make an ill use of it Many quite banish the thoughts of dying they are resolved to live wickedly and don't care to consider that such a life will end nor to consider how 't will end The Rich Man had Death quite out of his thoughts and reckon'd upon living many years in which he should take his ease eat drink and be merry When Death was entring in at his door and his Soul just ready to be required God calls this man a fool and after he was out of the World he saw reason to call himself by that Name for ever Others also are sharply to be reproved who because they must dye are resolved to indulge the Flesh while they may What profane frantick Epicures were they who said Let us eat and drink to day for we shall die to morrow Vse 2. Of Exhortation to the imitation of Holy Job in tbe Text. Let me perswade you all All the days of your appointed time to be waiting for your Change Have many a solicitous thought whither it is that Death will send you Ask your Souls whither they are likely to go when they dislodge and leave this Earthly Tabernacle Dye you must 't is dreadful to dye in sin and few dye otherwise Prepare I beseech you for that which you cannot avoid 'T is in vain when death is within view to plead thus O Death I never thought of thy approach none of my main work alas is done I am utterly unfit to go to the Judgment-Seat If I dye now I dye miserable and shall be miserable for ever Death comes at Gods command and whether you are prepared or unprepared when God says Strike it cannot hold its hand Think of this and let Death find you ready come when it will Two things you are here to be advised to 1. Let there be a looking to Jesus to take out the Sting of Death Believe in him that he may give you Victory over this last Enemy Christ can deliver you from the Curse of the Law now the Law the Apostle tells you is the strength of Sin as Sin is the Sting of Death Apply and relie upon the Blood of Jesus to be Justified and to be Saved from Wrath. The Apostle desired to be sound in Christ and if Death find you in him it may kill you but it can't hurt you nay if you are in Christ and live to him Death will be gain and greater gain than while you live you can conceive 2. Look unto Jesus to be freed from that bondage which is caused by the fear of dying Heb. 2. 14 15. You cannot be compleatly happy while you live because you will remain incompleatly Holy Study the vanity of every thing that makes you fond of Living Clear up your interest in Jesus Christ and preserve Conscience clear and peaceable And let your Eye be after your Risen and Ascended Lord who was dead and is alive and lives for evermore that so you may long to go to him to be with him in those mansions he is gone to prepare O beg for Conquest over your Fears and that you may see heaven plainly by the Eye of Faith and heaven open and Christ ready to receive your Spirits assoon as you have put off your sleshly Tabernacle Life is then lead in peace when Death ceases to be dreaded and becomes desirable An Epitaph upon Mrs. Martha Thompson Her Name was Martha but she had the Heart Of Mary for She chose the Better part In patience meekness humbleness of Mind She did Excel the most of Womankind She waited for her Change which being Come She 's at her Blisful and Eternal Home Her Friends lament they 've lost her whereas She Has bid Farewel World Sin and Misery FINIS Books Published by Mr. Nathanael Vincent Sold by T. Parkhurst 1. The Spirit of Prayer with directions to attain the Gift 2. Worthy walking the Call of the Gospel 3. Heaven or Hell upon Earth in a Discourse concerning Conscience 4. The little Childs Catechism with several short Histories 5. Mr. Janeway's Funeral Sermon 6. Mrs. Bakers Funeral Sermon 7. The True Touch-stone which shews both Grace and Nature