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A31268	The duty and support of believers in life and death a funeral sermon on the death of Mrs. Mary Smith, who deceased Feb. 29, 1687/8 preached, on the Lords Day following, March 4, to the auditory whereof she was a constant member.	T. C.	1688 (1688)	Wing C131; ESTC R5669	18,382	34

from him till thou yieldest up thy self in a way of dutiful subjection to him If you pretend to wait for God's Salvation you must shew that it is more than a pretence by taking care to work it out your selves Consider those words of our Saviour Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning and you your selves like Luke 12. 35 36. to men that wait for their Lord c. Are they that give Indulgence to Spiritual sloth that live in the customary neglect of unquestionable Duties that let themselves loose in their Conversations to the same vanities with the children of this world and perhaps to some of the same vices that suffer their lamps to go out having not Grace in their hearts to supply and feed them and behave themselves as if Eternity like the morrow would take thought Matt. 6. 34. for the things of it self are they indeed like to such men Do these sluggards and licentious persons deserve the name of Waiters No surely Salvation will never c●me home to any but such as diligently seek it and labour after it Heaven will not drop into our Mouths though we open them never so wide as long as our hands lye folded together Our Duties must prove our hopes legitimate and our Obedience must justifie our Expectation He that would sleep in Jesus at Death must watch with him in his life and whosoever thinks of dying to the Lord must resolve against living to himself I come now to the Third Thing which is to open briefly How this waiting for the Salvation of the Lord will yield comfort to Believers when they come to dye This may appear in two Respects 1. A Reflection on our own Act of waiting will be comfortable to us at that time Hezekiah when he was sick unto death refreshes himself with the view of his past Conversation and appeals to God Remember now oh Lord how I have walked before Isa 38. 3. thee c. When Death finds a man in his proper place and work in that station and employment which belongs to him the Terror and Force of it is very much broken but when it surprizes him in his sin and comes upon him while he is fighting against God no wonder if his Flesh tremble and his Heart fail he cannot look back without sad confusion nor look forward without dreadful amazement A Believer that hath liv'd long in the expectations of a Summons to remove and made suitable provision may calmly shoot the gulph the exercising of himself to Godliness beforehand is a means to prevent all trouble or affrightment in his passage to Blessedness Not that any of our Services are our Saviours or that we can build a Tower of our own works whereby to reach to Heaven for multitudes in attempting this have tumbled into Hell but the Fruits of Sanctification Rom. 8. 23. are a kind of First-fruits with respect to Glorification and our living unto God here is a certain token of our being ordain'd to live with him hereafter If we have kept the Precepts we may know that we are Heirs of Promise it yields comfort as a sign though not as a cause The Lord is good says the Lam. 3. 25. Prophet to them that wait for him we do not by our waiting merit to partake of the Goodness of God any more than a beggar would deserve an Alms by standing at our doors but God hath ordered that we shall be thus qualified and disposed for it 2. The consideration of the Object God's Salvation is very comfortable to a Believer when he is at the point to dye How sweet is it to think of being with Christ when the Soul is standing like Abraham in the door of its tent ready to depart out of Gen. 18. 1. the body What a vigorous Impression must the Powers of the World to come make upon the Soul when it is stepping out of this How strong a Cordial must the prospect of Heaven be to a Saint that 's just leaving of the Earth What Comfort so great as to know that our Redeemer lives when these vile Carkasses are dying and the Worms ready to destroy Job 19. 25. them How little satisfaction is the having of goods laid up for many years to one that must leave them all behind him in a few moments What miserable Comforters in a mans last distress are bags which wax old and treasures which fail Therefore when holy David had been meditating on our common frailty and folly Psal 39. 6. how we walk in a vain shew and yet disquiet our selves in vain c. he adds And now oh Lord what ver 7. wait I for my hope is in thee q. d. I cannot hope to be delivered from death nor supported in death nor made happy after death by such perishing and corruptible things as silver and gold but my eye is towards thee as my Everlasting Portion and upon the durable riches which thou hast to bestow the sense whereof is sufficiently reviving though I were now drawing my last breath and falling into the hand of the Grave Dying Believers are mightily supported when they consider how much nearer their Salvation now is than when they were first united Rom. 13. 11. unto Christ The Fourth and last thing propounded was the Application of this Doctrine Several Inferences might be gather'd from it agreeable enough to the Text and the occasion I shall only hint a few First We may learn hence that it is a mercy to be taken notice of both by living and dying Believers that Christ did not consult the saving of himself for if he had he could not have been the Salvation of God to us If our Lord had followed his Disciples counsel and spared his own life we must have liv'd and died in remediless despair A little of that self-love in him which reigns so much in us would have ruin'd all our confidences subverted our hopes and left us to lye down in sorrow without recovery To what mountains or hills should we have lookt for salvation if he had declin'd the drinking of the bitter cup Secondly This teaches us that the present world was not design'd for the place of our abode or ultimate felicity It is our travelling way but not our Country and our Home Expectation ceases in a state of perfect fruition why should we wait if our hope were in this life and not beyond it We must put a stop to all our desires and thoughts of a future happiness if the state which we now are in were the state of full enjoyment Take your measures of this world from the nature and quality of that work which God hath given you to do in it We walk by faith 2 Cor. 5. 7. and not by sight therefore here is not our continuing City or the Center of our rest Thirdly What a wretched case are the neglecters of this Salvation in What will they do in their own last moments and how