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A57376	The Christians advantage both by life and death discovered in a sermon preached at the funeral of that faithful and eminent servant of the Lord, Joseph Jackson, late Esq. and alderman of the city of Bristol, on the 17th day of January, an. Dom. 1661, by Fran. Roberts ...	Roberts, Francis, 1609-1675.	1662 (1662)	Wing R1582; ESTC R32381	25,893	44

that Life and Death were his as hath been now explained I should draw a veil of silence over him and hold my peace Promiscuous Funeral-Eulogies touching both Good and Bad deceased is both against my judgment and practice For 1. Hereby such Praises are oft misplaced upon the unworthy And as one said Many are commended on Earth where they are not whilst they are tormonted in Hell where they are 2. Hereby The wicked are encouraged and hardned in their wickedness that they should not depart from it The godly grieved whom the Lord would not have made sad The Ministry reproached And God dishonored But when Persons eminent for Piety and Goodness are commended 1. Not so much they as the Gifts and Graces of God in them are commended And such Praises Christ himself approves of Matth. 26.13 Mark 14.9 2. They are propounded as Patterns for the imitation of the living And we ought to walk in the way of good men Pro. 2.20 and to follow them as they follow Christ 1 Cor. 11.1 And in what I have to say as to this Happy Soul I shall especially aim at these two Ends viz. 1 To exalt the Gifts and Graces of the LORD in him 2 And to incite you to a Christian imitation of him His Life was such that it rather calls for our Imitation than our Commendation As Augustine once spake in a like case To this end always excepting his known frailties and infirmities which yet were a burden unto him and for which he was wont quickly to check himself discovering his error And which of all even the best of Gods people are wholly exempted from failings in this sinful life Happy he that hath the fewest I may justly borrow some of the exemplary Characters of Gods people of old in whose steps he walked to set forth his Vertues wherein you shall do well to follow him With Cornelius He was a devout man that feared God and gave much Alms and prayed to God alway With Nathanael He was an Israelite indeed in whom was no guile With David He desired to behave himself wisely in a perfect way To walk within his house with a perfect heart With Joshuah He resolved whatever others did That he and his house should serve the LORD With Job He was upright one that feared God and eschewed evil With Abraham He commanded his children and household after him to keep the way of the LORD With Noah He was upright in his Generation and he walked with God With Enoch He walked with God and he is not for God hath taken him And because God hath taken him The Children and Family left behind him are weeping his Friends and neer Relations are mourning The Ministry sighing nor can I among the rest as Hierom said in a like case dissemble my sorrow The poor refreshed often with his bounty bewailing and the Generality of the City lamenting him I verily believe that here are present this day many moe Mourners in Heart than Mourners in Habit for the loss of this eminent Christian. Yet let us recollect our selves and allay our grief a little Considering That our great Loss in his greatest Gain Phil. 1.21 That He is not amissus but praemissus He is not lost but sent before us We must we know not how soon follow after That the LORD in great mercy hath lent us him so long Therefore let us not so much mourn that we have now lost such a one as rejoyce and bless God that thus long we have had such an one As Hierom once comforted Heliodorus And to speak of him a little with reference had to our present Text Life was his And Death is his 1. Life was his And how Christianly did he improve it As a Magistrate and Citizen He desired To govern Religiously and Righteously To suppress wickedness and Prophaneness and particularly Sabbath-prophanation To encourage the good and deter the evil doers He knew well the state of this City's Affairs and aimed much at the publique weal thereof without self-seeking He was a man of a very publique spirit desiring the publique Good And what evil he was not able publiquely to redress he was wont privately to lament As a Merchant He walked righteously and self-denyingly The ballances of deceit were not in his hands nor a double tongue in his mouth He was as a Father of Merchants He fetched his Merchandise from far but traded most for Heaven He was sometimes jealous and afraid so abundantly God had blessed him That these Temporals did flow in too fast upon him And like Luther much desired the Lord That he would not put him off only with these earthly things As an Housholder He kept the way of the LORD in and with his Houshold By due sanctifying of the Lords-day-Sabbath Daily Reading of the Holy Scriptures Daily presenting of his Morning and Evening-Incense of Praise and Prayer with his Family unto his God And by frequent Instructing of his Houshold in the things of Christ. As a Christian. He was sound in the Faith in erroneous times Blameless and exemplary in his life in corrupt times and an Ornament to the Gospel and Doctrine of God our Saviour His Search and Enquiries into the deep mysteries of Religion were many and considerable His Devotion in secret was much His Humility in midst of all his ample enjoyments was great and very observable And his Charity yea his bounteous liberality to the distressed poor and needy was well known to be overflowing even unto admiration Thus He lived much in a short time as Hiâ—rom said of Lucinius And so lived long by living well For to live well is to live twice 2. Death now at last is his also His sweet sleep in Jesus His happy Change His blessed Departure His rich Gain His Red-Sea to all his Enemies His Body's Seed-time for a better Resurrection His Soul's Coronation-day Marriage-day and entrance into his everlasting Jubilee After a short but sharp Conflict with a violent putrid Fever for about eleven dayes space He put off this Tubernacle to be clothed upon with his house from Heaven During the time of his Sickness as his Thoughts so his Discourses were much upon Spirituals and his jaculatory Requests to the Lord for Himself his Family and for the Publique were very fervent This was one of his wishes in his Extremities Oh that all the Rich men in the City here beheld my Condition and how little gold and wealth can help in such a day of distress This was one of his Ejaculations O Lord do what thou wilt with this my mortal Body so thou wilt shew mercy and salvation to my poor immortal Soul His last words were these or to this effect but with much more amplification Into thine hands O LORD I commend my soul and body both now and for evermore through Jesus Christ mine onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen I have done And having said this he

THE CHRISTIANS ADVANTAGE BOTH BY Life and Death Discovered in a SERMON PREACHED At the Funeral of that Faithful and Eminent Servant of the LORD JOSEPH JACKSON late Esq and Alderman of the City of Bristol On the 17. day of January An. Dom. 1661. By Fran. Roberts D. D. Rector of the Church at Wrington in the County of Somerset Phil. 1.21 To me to Live is CHRIST and to Die is GAIN Hieronym ad Eustoch in Epitaph Paulae tom 1. Non moeremus quÃ²d talem amisimus Sed gratias agimus quÃ²d habuimus imÃ² habemus Deo enim vivunt omnia quicquid revertitur ad Dominum in familiae numero computatur Hieronym ad Theodor. in Epitaph Lucinii tom 1. Nos dolendi magis qui quotidie stamus in praelio peccatorum vitiis sordidamur accipimus vulnera de otioso verbo reddituri sumus rationem LONDON Printed by Edw. Mottershed 1662. TO My much Honored and entirely beloved Friends in the LORD The Children Brethren Sisters and others in near and dear Relation to JOSEPH JACKSON late Esq and Alderman of the City of Bristol now sleeping in Jesus yea living and triumphing in bliss with IJSUS Grace mercy and peace in this life and eternal glory in the life to come My dear Christian Friends HOw brittle frail and fading is the most flourishing Life of Man here on Earth The Holy Scriptures compute it By 70 or 80 years Psal. 90.10 by a few years Job 16.22 by moneths Job 14.5 by dayes Job 14.5 by a few dayes Job 14.1 by one day Job 14.6 by all denoting the extreme brevity of it And they compare his life and time of abode here below To a vanishing vapour Jam. 4.14 to a transient wind Job 7.7 to a perishing puff of breath Psal. 146.4 Isa. 2.22 to a fading flower Psal. 103.15 16. Job 14.2 to a momentary meditation thought or tale told Psal. 90.9 to withering grass Psal. 90.5 6.1 Pet. 1.24 to a speedy irrevocable flood Psal. 90.5 to yesterday when past and gone Psal. 90.4 to an hastening Post Job 9.25 to a swift Weavers shuttle Job 7.6 to short handbreadths Psal. 39.5 to a Weavers web soon brought to the thrum to be cut off Isa. 38.12 to a Watch in the night but three hours long Psal. 90.4 to a vanishing shadow Job 4.2 8.9 Psal. 102.11 to crumbling dust Psal. 103.14 to a sleep insensibly passing Psal. 90.5 to an Apparition or image Psal. 39.6 And as if all these reached not home to meer Nothing Psal. 39.5 By all these emphatically describing the extreme lubricity uncertainty and vanity of Man's life VVhereupon we may with the Psalmist justly conclude Surely every man at his best state is altogether vanity Selah Psal. 39.5 Not only man but every man not in some state only as of childhood sickness old age c. but at his best state Heb. when setled Is not only vain but vanity it self Not only vanity in part or in some regard but in whole altogether vanity And all this with a Surely prefixed for the more undoubted certainty And with a Selah suffixed for the greater observableness It is not long since his late dear Yokefellow was by Natures dissolution divorced from him And now Himself â— by Death separated and removed from you Oh what is man Little did I think to have preached at the Funeral of either And lo so hath the LORD disposed things that I have not without much reluctancie and grief performed this last office for them both not many years interposing They have prevented both you and me Our work is to prepare to follow after The good Lord teach us so to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom Psal. 90.12 To true spiritual wisdom To wisdom for our selves for our souls for our eternal estate with our dearest Saviour IESUS CHRIST in Heaven We have here no continuing City Let us diligently seek one to come A City that hath foundations whose builder and maker is God Heb. 13.14 11.10 Let us so manage our Earthly Pilgrimage that we may make sure of the Heavenly Heritage Let us so improve this Mortality as not to miss of that Immortality And so live on Earth a while that we may undoubtedly live in Heaven for ever As for you that are surviving My Conscience and Affection I cannot but affectionately love those that belong'd to him whom I so intensively affected for Christ in him prompt me to present a few requests unto you by way of Advice And I hope you will resent them with Christian acceptation 1. Be pleased to peruse and practise those Ten Instructions or Practical Directions published in my Instructive and Hortatory Epistle prefixed to my Sermon preached at the Funeral of Mary Jackson his late religious Yokefellow You have the printed Books and Directions I need not mention any Particulars but compendiously refer you to them I heartily recommend them to your faithful practice beseeching the God of all wisdom to give you salvifical understanding in all things 2. Endeavour to comfort your selves in this your great loss of him and deep affliction for him by Christian considerations And what Consolatory Arguments may you not readily suggest unto your selves His Life was so Christian that his Death must needs be comfortable Of a good life there cannot come a bad death As of a bad life seldom comes a good death Life and Death were his for all manner of spiritual advantages He liv'd to the Lord and died to the Lord both living and dying he was and is the Lords Rom. 14.8 His body as Hierom said of Nepotianus is returned to the earth but his soul is restored to Christ. His Sins and Sorrows are all ended his Graces are perfected and his eternal Joyes are begun VVhile you are lamenting in black He is triumphing in white Are we born that I may use Hierom's words to Paula upon the death of her daughter Blesilla that we should here abide eternally Abraham Moses Isaiah Peter James John Paul the chosen Vessel and above all the Son of God died And are we grieved that one depart the body whose soul was so accepted of God as to be snatched out of the midst of iniquity and error Let that dead person be lamented whom Hell receives whom the Infernal pit devours for whose punishment everlasting fire doth burn As for us whose End the Angels accompany whom Christ meets let us rather grieve that we are kept so long in this tabernacle of Death and may not meet Christ soÌ„oner seeing while we are present in this body we are absent from the Lord. Let Faith Hope and Love be your comforters as Augustine sometimes advised an Italian widow upon the death of her Husband Faith For you are not desolate so long as Christ dwells in your hearts by Faith Hope For you cannot but confidently hope That he is not lost but only sent before you That he is in HeÃ¡ven with Christ which

theiâ—s for Good but for harm Not their Advantages but their disadvantages Not their sanctified Mercies but their mischiefs c. To them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience is defiled Tit. 1.15 To them that are Christless and ungodly 1. Their Life in this world what is it else but Their sinful Seed-time to the flesh Gal. 6.8 Their wretched working and trading time in iniquity Matth 7.23 Luk. 13.27 Psal. 6.8 Their striving time onely after earthly enjoyments Matth. 6.31 32. 1 Tim. 6.9 10. Their trying time to detect and draw forth their vileness Exod. 3.19 20. 14.17 Job 12.4 5 6. Their declining time wherein they waxe worse and worse 2 Tim. 3.13 Their Barren time wherein they bring forth nothing but briars and thorns fruits of Sodom and Gomorrha and all pernicious works of the flesh Hab. 6.8 Deut. 32.32 33. Gal. 5.19 20 21. And their unhappy Seâ—son wherein after their hardness and impenitent heart they treasure up unto themselves wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God Rom. 2.5 2. And their Death from this world what is it else than The rotting of their flesh and bones full of the sins of their youth which shall lie down with them in the dust Job 20.11 Their woful change of painted Felicities for real Miseries Luk. 16.19.22 23. Their wretched departure from their wicked Bodies till both Souls and Bodies shall depart from Christ Luk. 16.22 23. Matth. 25.41 Their utter loss of all enjoyments on Earth and of all hopes of Heaven Luk. 12.20 21. Heb. 9.27 Eccles. 9.10 Their fatal Red-Sea overwhelming them for ever Luk. 16.22 23 26. Their Body's bondage in the cursed Grave and their Soul's enthralment in the Prison of Hell till the day of the Lords vengeance shall overtake them both at his second appearing 1 Pet. 3.19 Heb. 9.27 Oh then let every one consider these things and say How happy are all that are Christ's both in Life and Death How wretched are all that are Christless both alive and dead Hence Who would not now study and strive to become Christ's indeed This this is the onely way to be truly rich to be eternally happy If the World Life Death Things present Things to come All things and all this theirs in Christ be able to do it He that hath Christ his and himself is Christ's may sweetly say Christus meus omnia Christ is mine and all 's mine Therefore when others say Who will shew us good Do thou saâ— Lord lift up the light of thy countenance upon me Psal. 4.6 7. Lord give me Christ and then I have all Hence What a shame is it for Christians to have the least irksom or undervaluing thought of Christianity When Corruption within rebels against the Spirit in us Temptation from without perplexeth us Afflictions toss and tire us Persecutions puzzle us and the Prosperity of the wicked amaze and dazle our apprehensions How are we then distempered and discomposed Then we have cleansed our hearts in vain and wished our hands in innocency Then we bless the wicked whom God abhorrs and speak against the Generation of Gods children as once the Psalmist Then we loath our Spiritual Mannah and like Israel run back in our hearts again unto Egypt c. O let us enter into the Sanctuary of God and then all our misdeeming thoughts shall be reformed O all ye that are Christ's consider this Text and check your selves for these your imprudent and ingrateful misappâ—ehensions Christ is yours and ye are Christ's therefore in Christ Life and Death are yours and all things yours for your manifold advantage O bless the LORD that ever you were savingly acquainted with and interessed in Christ and Christianity Christ turns all your darkness into light makes all your gall and wormwood Honey turns all your poysons into Medicines makes both your Life and Death both profitable and pleasant like the Land of Promise flowing with milk and honey Christianity is the right Philosophers-stone indeed turns all it touches into spiritual Gold Say oh say it with much rejoycing We are Christians therefore we are happy both living and dying Whether we live we live unto the Lord whether we dâ—e we die unto the Lord. Whether therefore we live or die we are the Lord 's Hence Why should they that are Christ's be either weary of Life or afraid of Death Are not both theirs and theirs for the Best What wise man is weary of his welfare or afraid of his Advantages Especially when both of them are of a spiritual and eternal concernment It 's happy for Christians that they may live a while on Earth to be prepared for life eternal And it 's happy again for them that they may die and depart from Earth that they may go to possess their Life eternal for which they are prepared Hence How silently self-denyingly and contentedly should all that are Christ's submit to Gods disposal of them in all Conditions yea both in Life and Death Why Because Life's theirs Death 's theirs All 's theirs Every wind blows them profit All things cooperate unto their good Murmure not then at any Divine dispensations but be silent yea contented yea thankful in all Consider how the Saints of old behaved themselves in all even the worst Conditions As Job ch 1.20 21. Eli 1 Sam. 3.18 David Psal. 39.9 Hezekiah Isa. 39.8 Paul Phil. 4.11 12 13. yea Jesus Christ himself Joh. 18.10 11. Matth. 26.39 42 44. Walk thou as Christ walked 1 Joh. 2.6 and follow the Saints as they follow Christ 1 Cor. 11.1 Hence finally How thankfully should we rejoyce in the Life and how patiently yea comfortably should we beâ— the Death of dearest Friends and Relations that were truly Christian whether of Father Mother Husband Wife c. Are they alive Life is Their spiritual Seed-time to sow in Their Mart-time to trade in Their Rare-time to run in Their Spring-time to grow in Their Summer to bear fruit in Their Autumn to treasure up in for Eternity And their Winter to be tryed in that they may be found more precious than gold Are they dead Mourn moderately Comfort your selves with this That even Death is theirs also Their sweet sleep in Jesus Their blessed Change Their happy Departure Their great Gain Their Red-Sea to all their Evils and Enemies Their Bodies Seed-time for the eternal Harvest and Their Souls Birth-day of everlasting Bliss Thus I have done with my Text. And now I know you expect I should superadde something in reference to this Worthy Person deceased Of whom we were unworthy Should I say Nothing of him I doubt I should offend you Should I say Much I should offend my self He was one of the most eminent Members of this famous City well known to you all but more intimately to some and particularly unto me And did I not verily believe That he was one of Christ's and

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