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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

vigorously let us move toward our rest It s observed of natural Motions the nearer the Centre the Swifter so let it be with Christians Are there any of us Aged and Gray-headed do we see the Time of our Dissolution drawing nigh are the Shadows of the Evening stretcht out upon us then let us lift up our feet put on mend our pace the Grave is in view we walk work in the sight of our Resting place and that should quicken us It is the last day of the Week with many of us and toward the evening of that also and then comes the Sabbath the Rest the constant eternal rest of labouring Believers those who have been working their Works follow them and yield them Rest And if the Lord help us now to believe and that with such a Faith as works by Love we not only shall but already doe enter into Rest Heb. 4. 3. Troubles in the World we shall have but peace and rest in Christ Sin disturbs flesh makes us groan bodily diseases afflict us toyl travel in the World tire us evil Tidings make us afraid and fears of worse disquiet us but still this Rest remains sure And know that there is a voice of Christ in every trouble loss bereavement is that we come to him for Rest he is Father Mother Wife and he is the only Husband in whose House we shall find Rest Oh! let all the Sorrowful bereaved ones that are ready to say with him Jer. 45. ● Wo is me I faint and find no Rest I say let all such hear Christ saying Come to me and take my Yoke on you and walk with and work for me and you shall find Rest Hearken to this Invitation unto Rest which Faith leads to the beginning of Obedience helps to a progress in and Death will bring to the full Accomplishment of And let us follow them who through Faith and Patience doe inherit the Promises and for our Imitation let me Commend to you some of the Excellencies found in this Daniel of whom the Text speaks and there were not none of them wanting in our Daniel whose Death we are lamenting He is noted for a man of Great Wisdom and Prudence Chap. 1. The Fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom and the Lord has directed all that want Wisdom to ask it He was a man of a Tender Conscience afraid of desileing himself with the Portion of the Kings meat Oh! get and keep a Tender Conscience especially in dangerous tempting and defiling times a Tender Conscience especially where there is an inlightened understanding and sound Judgment is a choice Mercy Again He was a man not given to Appetite but one whose Moderation was eminently obvious he could content himself with Pulse Water when he might have had Wine and flesh A man much in Prayer especially in Secret Prayer from which Duty three Times a day the Kings Edict and Danger of being devoured by Lyons could not deterr him yea was conversant also in Fasting and Prayer A man of Prayer hence mentioned as such an one Ezek. 14. 14. Never more need of Prayer than in our dayes Pray alwayes Pray fervently and in evil Times we should pray more frequently and fervently than at other Times He is no Christian that does not Pray he cannot be miserable what ever befalls him that can and does Pray He was a Thankful man as well as a Praying man See Chap 2. 7. A very Humble self-denying man still gave God the Glory of ought that was done by him Not unto us not unto us but unto thy Name be the Praise say they Psal 115. 1. So he Chap. 2. 28 30. God revealeth Secrets and it is not for my Wisdom c. above others He was not lifted up by his great Advancement so as to forget his God himself or his business one of the first or best of those few that was not the worse for Worldly greatness or advancement lost nothing of his Religion by his preferment An Exact and Circumspect walker much afraid and shy of Sin and so punctual and prudent in his Carriage as that they could find nothing against him save in the matter of his God though he was maliciously and curiously watch't he was a man that had obtained an Answer to that Prayer Lord lead me in a plain path because of mine observers And indeed his being so much in Communion with God help't him to be so harmless blameless like one of the Sons of God among men though in the midst of a Crooked Perverse Generation He was much concerned for the Church of God so was good Nehemiah also And note the best men have alwayes been most Solicitous for Sion it s a good Character of a good man that is full of thoughts for Inquiries after the State of and much in Prayer in the behalf of Gods Church and People one that has imbark't his All with the Church of God joyes their joy feels their Trouble weeps their Tears can heartily mourn when Sion mourns cannot drink Wine in Bowls and not be grieved for the Affliction of Joseph can take up his Lott with the Church tho' in a low and sorrowful Condition and desires no other joy than to be made glad with the gladness of Gods Heritage this is like Daniel tho' Daniel himself was in Prosperity in great plenty Credit Reputation so that he wanted nothing yet Sion lay at his heart his Prayers and tears and fastings were for Jerusalem And this is alwayes indispensibly but at some Times more eminently the Duty of every Christian we should prefer Jerusalems Joy before all our Joy and mourn when Sion mourns what ever matter of rejoycing we may have in our selves As it fairs with Sion should it fair with us If we thus live lives of Faith Obedience we shall keep our selves in the Love of God and have the Peace of God to keep us Troubles are come and will come but we shall be under the special Care of God even in worst Times and it will not be long ere the Lord will say to every Sincere Soul that has followed him in the Regeneration that has known him and loved him and made it his business to Serve him and to abound in the work of the Lord Go thy way goe to Rest thou hast laboured long enough done and suffered so much as I had appointed for thee now goe take thy Rest enter into the bed of thy Grave which I have Sweetened and Sanctified for thee there take thy quiet Repose till the end of Dayes and then thou shalt arise again and stand up in thy Lott to receive that Crown of Life which Christ the Righteous Judge shall give at that Day to all that Love his Appearing In the mean Time let all Sincere Souls Comfort themselves and one another with these Words FINIS

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