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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78440	Balaam's wish: a sermon Wherein the vanity of desires without endeavours, in order to the obtaining the death of the upright, and their last end, is opened and applyed. First occasionally preached, and now at the request of some published. By an unworthy messenger of Christ.	Cawton, Thomas, 1637-1677.	1670 (1670)	Wing C1652; ESTC R225053	24,897	113

vitae inopes sed prodigi and yet live as if their lives were too long O methinks there is enough in the death and last end of the righteous to perswade you to the way of the upright Be therefore adding working to your wishing remember that of Paul Gal. 6.7 8. Be not deceived God is not mocked according as a man soweth so shall he also reap He that sowes to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting The meaning of the Apostle is plainly this that there is a consonancy betwixt a mans life and death such as his sowing is such shall his reaping be Lastly to conclude the whole this may be the comfort of such as do live the life as well as desire to dye the death of the upright that choose the former part as well as the latter end of the righteous for as the wicked go from a temporal life to an eternal death Vita ad mortem sic impius vivit mors ad vitam sic pius moritur so the righteous go from a temporal death to an eternal life their death is both precious to God and advantageous to temselves The righteous may welcome death for death to a righteous man though it parts two near friends Soul and Body yet it unites two better friends the Soul and its Saviour to all Eternity The Scripture records concerning Moses in the last Chapter of Deuteronomy Deut. 34.5 that Moses the servant of the Lord dyed according to the word of the Lord the words in the Hebrew are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Moses dyed upon the mouth of the Lord The meaning is say the Jews l'Empereur paraph Jach in Dan. p. 258. Moses dyed kissing of God surely so it is with the Saints of God their Father gives them a kiss and so layes them down in the bed of the Grave therefore they that have lived righteously may at death smile themselves into a corpse for the body of a Godly man goes to his Lords bed and his soul to his Lords bosom the Grave is perfumed for his body and Heaven prepared for his soul I may say of righteousness as Solomon in a case not much differing Prov. 6.22 when thou goest it shall lead thee when thou sleepest it shall keep thee and when thou awakest it shall talk with thee that is according to the Gloss of the Rabbinical Interpreters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when thou goest it shall lead thee viz. in thy passage through this World when thou sleepest it shall keep thee viz. when thou lyest down in the Grave and when thou awakest it shall talk with thee viz. when thou art awakened at the glorious Resurrection Well then all ye that are upright in heart and life I bring you glad tydings of great joy Psal 58.11 Eccles 8.12 Verily there is a reward for the righteous and it shall be well with them that fear God that fear before him it shall be so well that none of you shall desire to have it better while the languid wishes of the wicked betray them to the pit of Perdition your holy and earnest endeavours shall deliver you into the Mansion of Glory 1 Cor. 15 ult your labour shall not be in vain in the Lord God is too good to suffer himself to be overcome in love Dieu est trop bon pour se laisser surmonter en amour it shall never be said there is more love in man to righteousness than there is love in God to the righteous Therefore comfort your selves with these words for you shall in this World certainly obtain a comfortable dissolution and in the other World a joyfull Resurrection You shall dye the death of the righteous and like unto his shall be your last END

bosom there is a sweet calm from the storms of the world a blessed silence from the clamous of the world an absence of all evil Sorrow shall depart and sighing flee away Esay 35.10 saith the Prophet and tears shall be wiped away God my friends cannot so much as afflict a godly man in the other world I will speak a great word that God that can do all things cannot do this thing as he cannot destroy his People in this life so he cannot so much as aflict them in the other It is much with Gods people as with the stones that built the Temple they were hewed and squared at the Quarry-side before they were brought to it and there was no noise of Axes and Hammers in the Temple So there is no disturbance in the Kingdom of God but a perfect rest after our painful walking Now this being upon the hearts of all men to know there is such a rest the wickedest of men cannot but desire it Secondly at the death of a righteous man he obtaynes a perfect degree of sanctity a consummation of holiness you know the greatest perfection we can here attaine unto is this an humble acknowledgment of the imperfections we have and endeavouring after the perfection we want but now though there be never so much imperfection in our state of grace here yet the death of the body is the death of the body of death the funeral of all our corruptions This exprerience teacheth that whilst the soul dwels in the body sinne will dwell in the soul the Saints may cast it down but they cannot cast it out Dejicere possunt non ejicere they may hinder it from having a throne in their hearts but they cannot hinder it from having a room there doe what they can there is no full seperation between sinne and the soul before a Seperation between the body and the soul there it is that that which is imperfect shall be done away as it is with a man that hath been under a long fit of sicknesse though he be truly recovered from his disease yet he is a long while before he can come to his full strength before he pick up his crummes so it s with the Saints here though they are delivered from sicknesse of sin that it shall not be to death yet not from sins of weaknesse until death Or as it is with one that hath layn a long time in prison though he be now really set at large yet he may go limping all his dayes by the hurt he received from thelrons when he was in prison so Gods people have so many corruptions as to make them go halting to their very graves in the new man there is enough of the old man to make them continually greive and mourne whilst they are here and God suffers this that his people may depend more upon justifying grace and be quickned to look more after sanctifying grace and be longing after consummating grace Thirdly there is this in the death of a righteous man that it is to him an immediate passage to heaven 1 It is a passage it is that which brings us to a happy journeys end death is the ship that waft's us over to the shoar of a blessed eternity 't is that boat that is sent to bring us to the landing stairs of our fathers house Gen. 24.57 Much like Abrahams servant that went to fetch Rebecca to be married to the son of the promise when they enquired at the mouth of the damsel shee willingly and presently gives her consent to go with him So when death comes with his pale horse for a Saint of God Gen. 45.27.28 he willingly gets up behind him or as one death is like the waggons Joseph sent to his father Jacob out of Egypt when he saw the waggons t' is said the good Old-mans heart revived within him and he cryed out Is Joseph my son yet alive I will go down and see him before I dye so when the Saints see the waggons of death their hearts revive Jesus is alive I will go to Jesus 2 And as it is a passage so an immediate passage that is there is no such thing as a Purgatory any place between Earth and Heaven where they are lodged Luk. 16.22 as soon as Lazarus was dead he was directly carried from dives his gate to Abrahams bosom as soon as the penitent thief was dead he was carried from the crosse on which he was crucifyed to the Kingdom where he is glorified This day thou shalt be with me in Paradice Luk. 23.23 As soon as the soul is breathed out of the body it is with God there is no temporal punishment held forth in the Scripture after this life and therefore there is no Purgatory Purgatory derogates from the blood of Christ which purgeth us from all iniquity 1 John 1.7 If there be any such thing as Purgatory as the Papists dream you must say one of these two things Either Christs blood doth not cleanse from all sins or not perfectly from some sins but both these are false therefore it follows there is no such thing Yea what would become of those that shall be alive at the day of Judgement surely they will have as much need of Purgatory as others before they get to Heaven Purgatorii dolores cum nec subiisse nec tolerasse legatur Christus qui tamen omne genus dolorum pro nobis pertulit cos fictitios esse consequitur nulli credentium pertimescendos sequeretur enim aliquos dolores Christum non tulisse nostra causa quod absurdum Bucan loc com Besides our Lord Christ bare all that misery and punishment which the Elect were else to have suffered but he never bore the dolours of Purgatory therefore its evident they are but feigned sorrows and not to be dreaded by Believers 3. It s an immediate passage to HEAVEN it lets the Godly into the Kingdom of glorious bliss it is janitor coelorum the Porter that opens Heavens gate to the Saints that they may enter into the joy of their Lord a joy so great that it cannot all enter into them therefore they are said to enter into it a joy so great that nothing shall be found in it but what is desirable and nothing can be desired in it but is shall be found I may say of Heaven the portion of the Godly what was said by the Queen of the South when she arrived at Solomons Court when she saw the magnificence of his Palace the Liveries of his Servants the state of his Attendance there was no more Spirit left in her but she breaks forth the one half was not told me in my own Country thus when the righteous come to Heaven when they behold the Palace of Eternity bespangled with Sun-beams of light and glory when they view the Robes of Immortality when they see ten thousands that stand at Gods Throne and ten thousand times ten thousands that Minister

light and darkness dry and moist if a man had seen this he would have wondered what will the wise God make of this piece of confusion but if this man had staid till the end of the sixth day he would have said with God Behold all is very good Thus he that looks upon the troubled estate of the righteous may wonder what God intends with them but stay to the end and you will see their condition blessed wicked men look no further then just before them to receive their good things in this life but you know there are many persons that may be coached to Hell when others may be whipped to Heaven nay many if they were not kept short of the things of the Earth would come short of the joyes of Heaven Doth any person think the Malefactor happy because he may ride in a gilded Coach to the Gallows Or the Child to be unhappy because the Father takes the rod and corrects him I remember one of the Popish Writers compareth the righteous and the wicked to the Hens and Hawks that are kept in Great mens houses you know whilst the Hen is alive she is not suffered to come into the house but to scrape upon the Dunghill and get her living there but when the Hen is killed she is served in to the Masters table whereas the Hawk whilst alive is kept in the house with great attendance but when 't is dead 't is good for nothing but thrown out upon the Dunghill So here the wicked have it may be a great deal of provision but when they dye there is no more use of them when as the Godly are preferred Now I appeal to you which of these is the happiest estate surely that is the best that is the best at last none would be so mad as to desire first his happiness and then his misery which would you choose of these two either to go through a pleasant Gallery where are all sorts of Pictures variety of sweet smells and all manner of delights to run through this into a flaming fire or to run through a flaming fire to come into a place of liberty peace and comfort See then the wisdom and happiness of those that make choice of a righteous life Secondly we learn hence the necessity of looking about us whether our endeavours are suitable to our wishes or else as you see for all your wishes to dye the death of the righteous you may dye the death of the reprobate Pray think of it the time will certainly come and may suddenly come when nothing but the life of the righteous will yield you comfort the Physicians they have left thee the Minister he is to come but alas it is too late to send for him for thou art not capable of receiving any instruction thy reasonable soul thy precious soul thy immortal soul sits trembling upon the threshold of thy lips to take its flight into another World go backward into this life you cannot stay here you may not go forward into another World you dare not Now this is the time and if have not lived the life of the righteous what a dreadfull estate are you in then The soul of a man at death is like a Prince beaten from one strong Hold into another the soul is first made to fly out of the lower parts of the body the legs and thighs and then comes into the upper parts of the body but the disease besiegeth it there and then it flyes to the heart its last refuge and cannot hold out long there Upon this account it concerns us greatly to ask every one himself How have I lead my life Where are my Graces What have I been doing nothing but wishing for Heaven and not labouring for it O consider how much you should be awakened and allarum'd by this you ought to deal honestly with your selves it is high time to bestir your selves you are upon the borders of Eternity none of you but desire to dye the death of the righteous O labour that your endeavours may be answerable If there was but one of you that had been wishing and not endeavouring and so like to be excluded out of bliss it might greatly startle you all who this might be When Christ told his Disciples one of them should betray him they come and say every one Lord is it I and when we tell you there are a great many in the World that do not endeavour but only wish to be saved and for this are in danger to be damned methinks you should every one say Lord is it not I If there was but one man in the whole World that was to be damned it might awaken us all lest any of us should be that one man As if an Army was drawn into a Field and a voice should come from Heaven that a Dart should strike one man of that Company dead and not tell the man would not every one have cause to be afraid So have we cause to entertain an holy fear and jealousie lest we should be of the number of such as shall fall short of the Glory of God Thirdly we learn hence the duty of adding working to our wishing in order to our arrival at the death of the righteous and this we are to endeavour both seriously and seasonably 2 Pet. 1.10 1. seriously Give diligence to make your calling and election sure 1 Cor. 15. ult Eccles 9.10 Abound in the work of the Lord Whatever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might Be in good earnest for thy precious and immortal soul And then 2ly do it seasonably because thou art so uncertain of the continuance of a natural life therefore be speedy in respect of a spiritual life Psa 119. ● We should make hast and not delay to keep Gods Commandments there may be cases wherein it s not only lawfull but laudable for him that believeth to make hast such a case is this of our souls in which expedition is highly commendable 'T is observed of Solomon that he was but seven years in building the House of God 1 Kings 6. ult 7.1 and thirteen in building his own 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Miclal Yophi in loc R. Shelomoh Yarchi writes of it that the Scripture speaks it to his praise that he was so quick in Gods and so slow in his own work It is much with us in respect of our lives as with men that are sailing in a Ship before the wind whether they sit or lye work or be idle walk or stand still whatsoever they do yet the Ship is going forward towards the Port it is bound for So it is here whether we repent or do not repent pray or neglect to pray believe or do not believe be holy or remain unholy our lives wear away apace Therefore we had need look about us and to quicken our pace in the path of Godliness Men complain of the shortness of their lives Non sumus