Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	able_a	see_v	zion_n	58	3	8.7105	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09542	The believers happy change by dying as it was recommended in a sermon preached, on the occasion of the death of Capt. Thomas Daniel Esq. who was interred the day before, November 17th. 1683 / by the reverend Mr. Joshua Moodey, late pastor of the Church of Christ at Portsmouth in New-England, now gone to rest.	Moodey, Joshua, 1633?-1697.	1697 (1697)	Wing M2521; ESTC W38384	17,311	36

before the heat or at the beginning of that great Persecution Acts 7. ult Quest What Rest do they go to Answ 1. A Rest from Labour This Life is a laborious Life especially to the Godly many others sin and play and sleep away their time but they labour and strive run fight wrestle all which are very laborious Imployments Rev. 14. 13. 2. A Rest from Sin there is no man lives sins not but when the Saints dye they cease from Sin 3. A Rest from the Temptations of Satan There is no Serpent in that Paradise whither the Spirits of Just men go at Death 4. A Rest from Oppression by or any vexation from evil men Job 3. 17 18 19. 5. A Rest from all Suffering and Sorrow from within without themselves or others they shall have no more Pain Grief c. All Tears shall be wiped away 6. To make up all that can be thought on that good is it is a Rest in Christ and with Christ and that is best of all yea all that is best or good Quest Why do the Saints then Rest Answ Because they Laboured and Toyled while here were faithful at their labour while they lived and therefore go to rest when they dye And it is a righteous thing with God to give the labouring and troubled ones Rest at that Day 2 Thes 1. 6 7. Our life-time is the Day wherein we are to work there is no work device or labour in the Grave Eccl. 9. 10. which tho' it be a Judgment to the wicked who slept away their labouring Time that they shall then have no more Opportunity to work yet it is a comfort to the Godly Labourers that they shall have no more need or occasion to work but shall go to their Rest cease from all work Prop. 3. After their going away to Rest they shall stand up again at the Last Day There needs no more to be said toward the Confirmation of this Assertion save the Doctrine of the Resurrection which is one of the main Articles of our Faith and that without which all our Faith and Hope would be vain as not reaching any further than this life and so leaving us most miserable 1 Cor. 15. 17 18 19. Christ told Martha her Brother should rise a-again and she owned it This was Pauls hope Act. 24. 15. and Jobs Comfort Job 19. 25. The Scripture is full of this Truth The ground of it is partly from their Union to Christ their Head who dyed and rose again and so shall they by vertue of his Resurrection Partly that they may receive their Reward according to their works Prop. 4. When they stand up each shall stand in his Lott 1. There shall be a Lott Laid out to each of them a peculiar place and station provided for every one All the Saints both great and small not only a general State of Glory for all but each shall have his own Lott Mansion Crown 2. He shall stand abide or continue therein The Lot is that State of Glory peculiar to every Believer Indeed there shall be degrees some greater some lesser tho' every Vessel shall be filled Some shall have Five Cities others two every one answerable to the Measure of free Grace bestowed on him and the Degrees of its acting in him each shall be rewarded both for kind and measure according to his works And the Reason is from the Righteousness of God who will therefore as Justice obliges render to every one what is his own or due Indeed not unto Believers on Christ for the sake of their works upon the account of their own merit properly but for the sake of the Works and Merits of Christ only yet still according to their works Not for your sakes but for mine own Name sake Uses of the First Proposition If God doth use to take away some of his Eminent Ones or bid them go away before Evil Days Use 1. Then it is an ill Omen and should be accounted matter of great awakening and solemn Consideration to see good men removed If prudent and useful especially if pious men be taken away when meek and merciful ones are removed it looks as if there were Evil at hand which God is willing to Save them from Noahs housing in the Ark and Lot's entering into Zoar carried an ill face to the Old World and Sodom Especially if the removal of such be not Laid to heart their removal is signal and not laying to heart Causal also of approaching Evil. Use 2. Learn hence also that however the Death of any may prove to the Survivers it 's always in mercy to the Godly As all other Troubles so Death is theirs let it come when and how it will It is an effect of his Kindness to them and in pursuance of his Care for them Gods way often is to take away the best first and lay them up safe out of harms way and leave the rest either to mend or grow worse and if they grow worse so to ripen them unto ruin for not growing better under such awakening Providences as the removal of the good Use 3. Then we should not be inordinately careful or solicitous for fear of Trouble before hand do not distract thy self about what may be hereafter yea tho' it seems to be near even at the very door For besides that fixedness without fear of evil Tidings is attainable and ought to be laboured after as a fruit of Faith Psa 112. 7 8. and besides that many times evils feared do not come at all I say besides both these this may comfort us against approaching Trouble that it may be we may be gone into the Grave before it comes Who can tell how soon God may say to him Go thy way Daniel go to thy Rest out of the reach of that Trouble thou fearest before it comes to such an height as to work thee any considerable Damage A prudent foresight of evil and guarding or preparing against it is good and a Duty but distracting thoughtfulness is always sinful and oft needless because possibly thou mayst not live to see it If thou art a good faithful and diligent Servant the Lord may accept of thy good will and call thee off before the pinch comes A good Master will do so by a good Servant that is diligent and willing to do what he is able he will call him by name and take him off when he sees the heat of the day a coming or some pinch at hand that will be too hard for him he will favour him and lay the burden upon others So did the Lord here say to Daniel Go thy way give over thou hast done well go lye down and take thy Rest Uses of the Second Proposition Do the Saints go to Rest when they Dye Use 1. Then see what cause we have to bless God for Jesus Christ who hath made one of the worst things in the Curse viz. Death to be matter of comfort unto all his as it

Rest and this should be thought on together with that Everlasting Rest that Death leads to and with this should we comfort our selves and one another And as this Consideration should comfort us while we live so it is suitable to make us willing to dye yea to long for Death as much as ever a tired Traveller or weary Labourer did for his bed Alas for all that lothness to dye which is to be found in us either we are not weary of the world but have too much content and rest in it Or we do not look upon the Grave as a place of Rest Or we do not consider the sweetness of that Rest or we are not well assured that it is a Rest for us or else Go thy way and go to Rest would be a sweet word to us This should make us Love Death be fond of it embrace it as a very welcome Messenger sent to poor weary Creatures to put them to Bed We read of some who out of their extream misery have been seeking Death courting the Grave hunting for a passage into the Grave but how much more earnest and intense should we be if beside the Troubles here to drive us we had the hope of Rest to allure us Uses of the Third Proposition After they have rested shall they stand up Use 1. Then Death is not an Annihilation it is a Dissolution but does not annihilate it returns men to Dust but not to nothing Use 2. This serves to magnify the power of God that can make a dead person stand up again not only one that hath been four days but more than so many thousand years dead to appear again And the Consideration of the power of God in the work of Resurrection should strengthen our Faith with reference to all other difficult cases whether bodily or spiritual personal or relative that our selves in particular or the Church in general may meet with however discouraging and afflictive if the Lord can make the Body after its Dissolution and resolution into its principles to arise stand up again then he can do so by the Soul also which is sunk and low and discouraged is ready to say that he is shut up and shall come out no more is become like the dry bones in the valley the Lord can make him stand up In like manner can he do by his own work Religion the Cause and Interest of Christ and his people it may sem to run low and Israel may be brought very low but the Lord can revive his work and people He can raise up the Tabernacle of David that is fallen He can build up the walls of Jerusalem Jesus Christ is the Resurrection and the Life both to Zion in general and to all the true Sons and Daughters thereof and will certainly give a Resurrection to his fallen Cause and Work and cause it to stand up Use 3. Hence also Pious Friends though gone away are not lost as they are not annihilated so as not to be so neither are they lost so as not to be found As to this world so they are lost never to be seen here any more in that Capacity as formerly the place that has known them shall know them no more they shall no more have a Portion in ought that is done under the Sun but really they are not lost they shall all be found and stand up Not one Grain shall be lost all the Dead both small and great shall make their personal appearance and especially none of Christs Beloved Ones shall be lost We think it no great matter to take leave of our Friends at Bed-Time yea to look on them and see them unclothe themselves and go to bed lye down to rest we can chearfully bid them good night expecting to see them upon their legs again standing up next morning It 's want of Faith that we do not treat our dying friends accordingly take leave of them chearfully wishing them a good nights rest expecting to see them in the Morning of the Resurrection as Psal 49. 14. when the Righteous shall stand up and be uppermost too have dominion over all their Enemies that despised and trampled upon them in this World Use 4. See a vast difference between a pious Saint a precious Daniel in his Condition then and that of a wicked man an ungodly one The Godly shall stand the wicked are not so they shall not stand in Judgment Psal 1. they shall rise only to fall to fall utterly and eternally The Believer only shall be accounted worthy to stand when the Son of Man shall come but others shall be thought worthy to fall yea shall be cast down into utter Destruction Uses of the Fourth Proposition Shall each stand in his Lot Use 1. Hence there is a peculiar Lott appointed to each after the Resurrection Every one shall have his own lot reward and portion every one that is written up among the Living shall stand up unto a Lot and to that which is his own lot not another mans Many now that profess Religion do but trim themselves with borrowed Feathers adorn themselves with a Form of Godliness without the power of it so get the name repute which belongs to Godly men indeed being by charity so accounted but then it shall be otherwise every man shall have his own lot shall be rewarded according to his works Not only great Daniel but every one of Christ's little ones shall each have his Lot and share of Glory Use 2. See hence what ought to be our great care while here viz. after a good Lot then our standing therein E're long we must go into the Grave where there is no work or device nothing more to be done save only to receive take possession of our lot answerable to the life we have led while here To work out our Salvation with fear trembling is therefore our business now and then our Lot will be answerable Be sound in the way that may lead us to the getting a good lot then we would not then be gathered with Sinners bloody or worldly men Psal 26 then do not cast in our Lot with them now which we may be tempted to as Prov. 1. 14. it is no great matter what we get or lose here so we may have a good lot there Here is a great deal of ado among us at this day about our Lots Lands what a scuffle is there about a little Earth here is arresting pleading impleading fending and proving one pleading his right another his one claiming another endeavouring to invalidate his claim and about this how buisy are men But be not over solicitous here know that there is a far greater Question in hand viz. What shall be my Lot and where shall it lye in the other World how shall I get a good Title to a good Lot there and how shall I maintain it and secure my right against all that would dispossess me Oh! let this be