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law_n	death_n	sting_n	victory_n	6,058	5	10.0485	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77743	A sermon preached at the funeral of that truly pious and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Nich. Thorowgood at Godelman in Surrey. / By John Buck, Minister of the Gospel.	Buck, John.	1692 (1692)	Wing B5308A; ESTC R173204	13,879	25

the clouding or Eclipses of it but is a Life of joy that lasts for ever A Joy that is essentially compleat at death but will be every way so at the Resurrection in the re-union of our Souls to our Bodies Phil. 3.21 Fashioned like unto Christ's most glorious body It being then this despicable Clay shall arise incorruptible and immortal 1 Cor. 15.53 and be alike Partners in glory with our Souls as they have both been so in work and service Eternally in glory for ever with the Lord And oh madness unspeakable to prefer the greatest Comforts and Enjoyments of Life before such the greatest Happiness and Joy at Death Oh what are Riches Honours and worldly Greatness that you should put them into the same Scale Alas but vain and empty dead Comforts dead Enjoyments that speak you as foolish in the hugging of them as was the Egyptian in that of the Carved Image or Statue of his dead Son he hoped with Crown'd Garlands and a profound respect paid to it would have been the total cure of his Sorrow but as the Historian tells us proved rather the life and resurrection thereof They are but sweet Dishes Death with his Voider will soon sweep away leaving you only a cutting Reckoning to pay for the full feast and meal of them you have made They are but Comforts and Enjoyments that are every day on their wing from you were not you so from them Prov. 23.5 And will you then continue to do this haste rather from their tempting Destruction make sure of more satisfactory Delights I mean those of a heavenly State which righteous Souls as the former Doctrine tells you presently partake of at their Death And this last they are most unspeakably happy in beyond any the longest bodily continuance on Earth But to hasten to a more practical improvement of what hath been said As The VSE let it be inferred 1st Oh the dreadful Misery of the Damned For if to be with Christ at our death is so desirable to be banished from him then must needs be dreadful Oh the sad exchange they have made of this Life for what is future Tongue cannot express the least part of their Torment and Sorrow and that from the dismal place they are in set forth to us in all the doleful Expressions of Horrour Isa 30 ult 1 Pet. 3.19 Rev. 20.3 Matt. 13.42 Rev. 19.20 Luke 16.28 Matt. 22.13 2 Pet. 2.4 Jud. 13. as of Tophet a Prison Bottomless Pit Furnace of Fire Lake of Fire Place of Torment Outer-Darkness Chains and Blackness of Darkness Their Eternity Ever Ever being as a thousand Daggers wounding or Scorpions stinging and the Accusations of Conscience still gnawing them like Prometheus his Vulture for their inexcusable folly as in running themselves upon the Misery they might so fairly have avoided so in losing the God the Saviour the Kingdom and Glory they might have gained And shall then the Offers of each be slighted any longer by you Why so foolishly contented to be miserable when wooed to be happy Trifle not away one offer of Grace more lest it be your last 2. Be less dismayed if holy and righteous at the approach of death as to your selves and learn more to moderate your sorrow for that of others you had reason to believe such 1. Be less dismayed if holy and righteous at the approach of death as to your selves It is alas as to you but an enemy unstung and disarmed if in its self the King of Terrors Job 18.14 what but lodgeth your Bodies in a Grave the most sweetly perfumed by the Burial of the Son of God and your Souls with him in endless Happiness and so as Conquerors already over each bids you to Triumph Oh death where is thy sting Oh grave 1 Cor. 15.55 56 57. where is thy victory The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law but thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 2. Learn more to moderate your sorrow for that of others you have reason to believe such For how should the sence of their Gain swallow up all repinings at your Loss and excite you to as great a willingness of parting with them as any have to the parting with their Children to the remotest ends of the earth for the sake of Temporal Advancements Methinks upon this account sorrow too often usurps the Throne of Joy We should even be weeping at the Birth of an Infant and rejoycing at the Death of a Saint Or if which Nature allows us the eye must drop a tear and the poor pained heart ease it self in sighs and groans it should be for this chiefly That they have gotten so much the start of us as to be at their Kingdom and Rest before us Which as we are called to in the deaths of others so particularly in that of this Worthy Person deceased Concerning whom I may modestly speak That if his Soul be not now with his Redeemer in Heaven there are but few of us who have not reason to despair of getting thither So heavenly truly and spiritual at all times were his words and discourse that we might have thought him unfit for earth long before he left it His Observation of the Lords Day was most exemplary as never tho most mornings the earliest riser sooner from his bed nor later in it even impatient through the whole of it of having his Mind and Ears filled with worldly Concerns or to see any part of it unredeemed And as for his Industry and Painfulness in his Ministerial Work where he last was both in Lectures and Fasts it must be confessed He laboured more abundantly than us all 1 Cor. 15.10 His Affections to you in his coming to you drowned greater Offers as thinking himself more happy in the Affections than the Fleece of his Flock And how painful and acceptable his short-liv'd Labours were among you needs no fuller a proof than his Last Sermon he Preached with Death's cold Dart stricken to his heart and the general Lamentations you express for him Upon the Death of his dearest Relation in very affecting expressions he uttered the deepest sense of his own he was heard thus to express himself The Lord fit those whose turn is next Ah! What would I not do what would I not forgo for Christ and Heaven And where is he now but with him reaping the full Reward of all his Painful Labours Not complaining any longer with his dearest Lord John 1.11 He came to his own but his own received him not Nor bleeding under the unkindnesses of Friends or Enemies But as to his own fulness of Joy and the miseries that seem to threaten you speaking tho dead the same Language the other did Luke 23.28 Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves and for your children And surely as his gain you should acquiesce in your loss for can you bring him back