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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60670	Life in death, or The living hope of a dying saint, handled in a sermon preached at the funeral of that eminently vertuous, and religious gentle-woman, Mris. Mary Morley, late wife to Colonel Harbert Morley, Esq; and daughter to Sr. John Trevor Knight. By Zachary Smith, minister of the Gospel, and pastor of the church at Glynde in Sussex, Sept. 18. 1656.	Smith, Zachary, b. 1604 or 5.	1656 (1656)	Wing S4351; ESTC R214782	29,879	40

this place was a Bochim Judg. 2.5 yea as Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon where the Inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for the death of Iosiah Zach. 12.11 2 Chron. 35.25 I dare say there hath not been a Gentle-woman living in this County so few years whose death hath been more generally bewailed and lamented over all Sussex But I know you make use of better considerations and grounds of comfort than this And that you are throughly apprehensive of the Lords hand in this sad stroke whose will hath been done by him in this event and quiet submission of our wills to his ought to be yielded by us the examples of Aaron Levit. 10.3 4. of Eli 1 Sam. 3.18 of David 2 Sam. 15.26 and of Iob 1.21 are worthy of your observation and imitation herein The Lord knows how to cause all things to work together for good unto his people and he is the God of all comforts who can comfort you in all your tribulations and fill your hearts with joy and peace in believing so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Ghost that Christ may be in you the hope of glorie and that his love being shed abroad in your hearts by his spirit given unto you you also may have hope in your death Thus prayeth Glynde October 4. 1656. Your Honours Humbly devoted to serve you in all Gospel-duties Zachary Smith LIFE in DEATH OR The living hope of a dying Saint Proverbs 14.34 The righteous hath hope in his death IN this verse Solomon shews the different state and contrary condition of the righteous and the wicked 1 of the good and bad of such as fear God and such as fear him not when they come to die and that in two distinct Propositions 1. The wicked is driven away in his wickednesse as Chaffe driven away by the winde Ps 1.4 2. The Righteous hath Hope in his Death I shall insist onely upon this latter Proposition as the Doctrine to be handled at present and speak something of the former when we come to make Application The Righteous hath hope in his death IN handling this Point these Particulars are to be considered 1. Who is to be understood by the subject of this Hope here spoken of The Righteous 2. What is here affirmed of the Righteous hath Hope where consider 1. the Nature of this Hope 2. the Object of it 3. When the time of actuating this Grace in his Death 4. Proofs that it is so 5. Grounds and Reasons why it is so and then Apply it The Righteous who is he 1. Who The righteous is sometimes understood Civilly Morally for one that is just in his dealings with men sometimes 2. Theologically for one that orders the whole course of his life according to the will of God which is the rule of righteousnesse So again in a Scripture-sence one may be said to be righteous 1. Legally so Adam was righteous before the fall Eccles 7.29 and Christ since a righteout branch Jer. 23.5 who sulfilled all righteousnesse and is called the Sun of righteousnesse Mal. 4.2 Rom 3.10 but none else among the Children of men can be said of themselves to be perfectly righteous according to the righteousnesse of the Law 2. Evangelically righteous so believers are said to be righteous in regard of a twosold righteousnesse 1. of Justification 2. of Sanctification the former by imputation the latter by infesion and inchoation Rom. 10.4 Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that believeth Rom. 4.5 6. To him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousnesse Even as David also describeth the blessednesse of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without works This is that righteousnesse which Paul so highly esteemed and desired to partake of Phil. 3.9 the righteousnesse which is of God by faith Believers are also made partakers of inherent righteousnesse by the infusion of sanctifying Graces into their hearts and the renuing of the holy Ghost Act. 15.9 purifying their hearts by faith and thus they that were unrighteous may become righteous 1 Cor. 6.9 11. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God so they are said to be righteous who walk in their unrightnes Isa 57.1 2. Job 27.5 6. till I die I will not remove my integrity from me my righteousnesse I hold fast will not let it go Tit. 2.12 so that by the righteous in the Text we are to upderstand such as believing in Christ walk uprightly doing just and righteous things though impersectly 1 Joh. 3.7 he that doth righteousnesse is righteous thus Noah is said to have been a just man and perfect or upright in his generation walking with God Gen. 6.9 and God gave him this testimony Gen. 7.1 Thee have I found righteous before me What what is here affirmed of the Righteous 2. He hath Hope here consider 1. the nature of Hope 2ly the object of his Hope Hope in commonspeech signifies a bare likelyhood a probable conjecture a groundlesse fancy but in scripture phrase an undoubted certainty Hope is a patient expectation of the accomplishment of that good whereof we receive assurance by faith Rom. 8.24 25. We are saved by hope but hope that is seen is not hope for what a man seeth why doth be yet hope for But if we hope for that we see hot then doe we with patience waite for it Gal. 5.5 we through the spirit waite for the hope of righteousnes by faith There is the Hope of the Hypocrite 1. and the hope of the Righteous Job 8.13.14 Bildad tells Job the hypocrites hope shall perish whose hope shall be cut off and whose trust shall be a spiders web First the object of his hope shall fail him i.e. those benefits blessings accommodations and comforts which he looked for in the Profession of Religion these shall fail him and prove false hopes He shall not enioy the things hoped for Secondly the Act of his Hope shall fail his hope shall die being so long deferred Hypocrites may be full of hope for a time but their Hope will deceive them at last and to lose our Hope is the Utmost of Evills Mr. Caryl on Job 8.13 14. as Mr. Caryll well observes on Job 8.13 14. All that an hypocrite hopeth for or expects shall be utterly taken away and cut off from him his worldly comforts will be gon and heavenly comforts will never come he shall finde that he hath been in a golden dream as one that is hungry who dreames that he is eating but when he awaketh his Soul is empty Job 27.8 What is the Hope of the hypocrite though he hath gained when God taketh away his soule Their hope is a groundlesse