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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

Or lastly whether we speak of Life eternal the life of Glory this our life is hid with Christ in God and when Christ who is our life shall appear we shall also appear with him in glory Col. 3.3 4 Of these two especially the Life of Grace and the Life of Glory Christ is the efficient cause per modum pretii as a Meritorious Procurer of it laying down no less a price then his own life to purchase ours For we are bought with a price 1 Cor 6.20 and by vertue of that price we are quickened together with him Gomar to 3. disp 15 Parker de descens lib. 3. sect 49. Ephes 2.5 2. Per modum Principii by his Holy Spirit fashioning us to his Life and likeness for being a Second Adam he is unto us a quickening Spirit 1 Cor. 15.45 and having life in himself doth derive it upon whom he will Joh. 5.21 26. As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father so he that eateth me shall live by me Joh. 6.57 Secondly Christ is the matter of our Life As meat is the matter on which life feedeth Aug. Tract 26 in Joan. Euseb cont Marcel cap. 12. and by which it is preserved so Christ is the spiritual Manna the bread which came down from Heaven of which they who eat shall live Joh. 6.51 The Sacrifices after they were offered for expiations were many times eaten for the comfort and reviving of those that offer●d them Christ therefore who was our Passover having offered himself as a propitiation to take away our sin by the Sacrifice of himself was thereupon pleased to institute his Last Supper and therein to set forth himself as that spiritual food whereby the life of Grace in his people is nourished and preserved Thirdly Christ is the very form of spiritual life in a Beleever in which respect he is said to live in us and to be formed and fashioned in us as the childe is shaped in the womb of the Mother Gal. 4.19 and this both as forma essentialis the very soul that actuateth a beleever he is a quickening Spirit If Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness Rom. 8.10 and as forma exemplaris the Idea model and pattern of our life for he hath given us an example that we should follow his steps 1 Pet. 2.21 Fourthly Qui esse vult sibi non tibi nihil esse incipit inter omnia Bern. in contr Serm. 20. Christ is the end and scope at which our whole life is to aim and to be directed it must be wholly consecrated unto him nothing in all our concernments must be so dear unto us as Christ whether we live we must live to him or whether we dye we must dye to him because for this end he both died and rose again that he might be the Lord both of the dead and of the livings Rom. 14.7 8 9. therefore as by bringing forth much fruit we do glorifie the Father Job 15.8 so also do we thereby honour the Son out of whose fulness we receive grace for grace for he that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father Joh. 5.23 This seems here principally intended To me to live is Christ My life time studies imployments are wholly taken up in the things of Christ that he may have honour and service by me Wicked men live to themselves to them to live is lust and vanity they follow their own wils they walk in the imagination of their own hearts they rule themselves by no counsel but their own carnal and corrupt wisdom as it is said of Jeroboham that he set up a worship which he had devised of his own heart 1 Reg. 12.33 and the the people professed to Jeremy that they would do whatsoever should go forth out of their own mouth Jer. 44.17 They direct all they do to themselves looking after onely their own gain ease pleasure credit advantage fasting eating drinking to themselves and assembling themselves for corn and wine Zach. 7.6 Hos 7.14 They withdraw themselves from that subjection and subordination wherein God hath placed them and do in effect say as Pharaoh Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice Ex. 5.2 Now ●is is a very strange folly because our salvation and the glory of Christ are twisted together as the coherence of the 19. and 20. verses of this Chapter doth demonstrate When we neglect his glory we forfeit our own salvation and when we seek our own salvation he esteemeth himself glorified thereby As when a great stone doth fall from an Arch the little ones that were bound and knit in by it do fall for company so when men do neglect the great end of living to the honor of Christ they do greatly endanger all their own subordinate ends thereby What is it then for Christ to be our life or for a man truly to say To me to live is Christ It is First In our hearts to acknowledge him for our Lord unto whom we owe our time and strength our fear and honour Isa 8.11 Mal. 1.6 Secondly in our lives to do every service with good will and in singleness of heart as unto him Eph. 6.5 6 7. to do it by a warrant from his word I will hear what God the Lord will say Ps 85.8 Proving what is the good and perfect and acceptable will of God Rom. 12.2 and what it is which Christ would have us to do Act. 9.6 To set him always before us and to do every thing as in his presence and with a desire to approve our hearts in well doing unto him Ps 16.8 for as he behaved himself towards his Father doing always those things that pleased him Joh. 8.25 6.38 so are we to behave our selves towards him who as he hath made us the Sons of his Father by Adoption Joh. 20.17 so is he himself our Father by Regeneration and calleth us in one respect his Brethren and in another his Children Heb. 2.11 12 13. To do every thing unto his glory as vessels fitted for our Masters use and prepared unto every good work 2 Tim. 2.21 To value our life not cheifly for it self but for the service which therein we are to do unto our Lord I count not my life saith the Apostle dear unto my self so that I may finish my course with joy and the Ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus Act. 20.24 And herein likewise we imitate his example who in conformity to the command of his Father did himself lay down his own life for his sheep and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross a servile an ignominious Vid. Lips de Cruce cap. 12. Casaub in Baron exercit 16 c. 77. a cursed death Joh. 10.11 15 18. Phil. 2.8 This it is for a man to say To me to live is Christ my thoughts studies aims purposes imployments do all fix and terminate upon

there the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest there the prisoners rest together they hear not the voice of the oppressor Job 3.17 18. 4. They rest from the difficulties of duty it self those hard conflicts which the heart hath against corruption to keep it self close unto God for though the spirit be willing yet the flesh is weak Matth. 26.41 and though to will be present with us yet how to perform the thing that is good we finde not Rom. 7.18 19 21. Lastly As they are delivered from these past evils as brands snatched out of the burning so are they likewise taken away from evils to come as Lot was from the destruction of Sodom when the Angel by a merciful violence laid hold on him and brooght him forth Gen. 19.16 Isa 57.1 Secondly Positively this gain by death appears in the many real good things which we receive with it and by it 1. It brings us home to our Country and inheritance here in this life Gods servants are Pilgrims Strangers Sojourners amongst enemies such as neither know nor value them we are called out of the world and separated from it not numbred among the Nations living by different and contrary Laws and hence it is that the world hates us 1 Pet. 2.11 Ioh. 15.19 Numb 23.9 1 Ioh. 3.1 Hence the Body is called a Tabernacle 2 Cor. 5.1 Digest de verborum significat l. 239. sect 2. M. Anton. l. 2. sect 17. Tertul. de resur c. 41. Diodor Sic. 1. M. Anton. l. 3. sect 11. 2 Pet. 1.13 14. in allusion to the Tabernacles wherein the Patriarchs sojourned as strangers Heb. 11.9 unto which pilgrimage and unfixed condition the Apostle there opposeth a City which hath foundations vers 10. a sure house an abiding Kingdom which cannot be shaken Heb. 12.28 Here indeed we are said to be in Christ and Christ in us Gal. 2.20 Ephes 3.17 but there we shall be with Christ and in his presence which the Apostle tells us is best of all much better then our best condition here Phil. 1.23 1 Thess 4.17 2 Cor. 5.8 Here we are in the same family indeed for the Church in heaven and the Church on earth is but one family Ephes 3.15 but we are yet but in the lower rooms of the family in the work house death leads us to the upper chamber to the Banquetting-house to better company where we shall see and know and love and possess Christ perfectly and herein is the answer of Christs prayer Joh. 17.24 Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory 2. It estates us in life takes away one life to carry us to another and a better That life which we leave is mortal and perishing that which we go unto is durable and abounding Joh. 10.10 The ordinary Manna which Israel gathered for their daily use did presently corrupt and breed worms Exod 16.20 But that which was laid up before the Lord the hidden manna in the Tabernacle did keep without putrefaction vers 33. So our life which we have here in the wilderness of this world doth presently vanish and corrupt but our life which is kept in the Tabernacle our life which is hid with Christ in God Col. 3.4 that never runs into death Natural life is like the river Jordan empties it self into the Dead Sea but spiritual life is like the waters of the Sanctuary which being shallow at the first grow deeper and deeper into a River which cannot be passed thorow water continually springing and running forward into everlasting life Ezek. 47.4 5. Joh. 4.14 7.38 Haec brevis est illa perennis aqua 3. It makes us perfect in our spiritual part Vid. Stuck Antiq conviv l. 2. c. 26. The spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12.23 it gives us our white and triumphal robes Rev. 6.11 7.14 It fits us to be presented unto God without spot or wrinkle Ephes 5.27 the bodies of the Saints when they were dead were washed Act. 9.37 both as a pledge of the resurrection and also as an Emblem and testimony of that cleanness and purity wherein death did deliver their souls up unto God 4. It keeps our relicks and remainders safe for a glorious resurrection will give a faithful and a just accompt of all that it hath received and will restore in honour what is received in dishonour 1 Cor. 15.42 43. It will say to us as the keeper of the Prison to Paul Act. 16.36 The Lord hath sent to let you go now therefore depart and go in peace We see the Paradox cleared the difficulty removed the gain demonstrated onely we must remember it is not gain to all it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Beleevers as such and therefore onely to them To wicked and impenitent sinners that die in their sins death is a King of terrors Job 18 14. A Jaylor a tormentor with his keys his shakels his hot iron his halter his ax his gibbet He is still a stinging and a fiery serpent a trap-door unto hell Death is never our gain but where Christ is our life he to whom to live is is lust and not Christ to dye is loss and not gain And now since Gain is one of the Diana's of the world Vid. August in Psal 48. every one will say who will shew us any good Psal 4.6 Our wisdom must be to distinguish true gain from counterfeit to make godliness our gain 1 Tim 6.6 for then death will be our Gain too There is some Gain like Manna in the house perishing Gain exposed to moth and rust Matth. 6.19 Gain proper to one place or Country like some farthing-tokens which are current in one Town or Shop and signifie nothing in another Such is worldly wealth current here but is not returnable or transportable into another world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. De Nino Phaenix Colophon apud Athenaeum l. 12 when a man dieth he carrieth nothing away his glory shall not descend after him Ps 49.17 But there are durable riches Prov. 8.18 A treasure of good works which will follow a man into another world Rev. 14.13 this is the gain we should look after to lay up a foundation in store against the time to come that we may lay hold on eternal life 1 Tim. 6.19 Now sith Death is gain let us consider whether and in what manner this Gain may be desired In answer whereunto we say 1. That death is considerable two ways One way as it affecteth nature the other as it relateth to a supernatural end In the former respect as an evil Nature abhors it and shrinks from it and had much rather be clothed upon that mortality might be swallowed up of life But as an unavoidable medium to a better condition so it may be desired as sick and bitter phisick is desirable not per se but in order unto health and dangerous chargeable voyages by Sea