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A51257	A lamentation over the dead in Christ, not as those without hope; with instruction, admonition, and encouragement to the survivers As it should have been delivered to the people (had not Satan hindered) at the funeral of Mr. Henry Rix of Cambridge, Jan. 19. 1656--7. in pursuance of his earnest request on his deathbed. Now published for the benefit of those that will hear. By Thomas Moore junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.	1657 (1657)	Wing M2604; ESTC R216352	46,108	56

and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him Then the Lord shall cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things c. for to him belongeth vengeance their foot shall slide in due time c. Deut. 32. 34 35 c. Jude 14 15. In the mean time therefore let us look to him for counsel and see what use hee instructs us to make of this consideration when we shall see the daies so evil and iniquity thus abounding and evil men and deceivers waxing worse and worse by every warning and judgement Truly then 1 Let them alone withdraw from them reprove not a scorner lest hee hate thee for hee that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot though still as grace instructs wee may yet mourn in secret for their pride as Jer. 13. 17. And not bee hasty in desiring the woful day but let our prayer bee for them if yet there may bee hope even when God appears to bee rising up as one that will no more be intreated See Jer. 14 15. 2 If there be any that will hear be diligent and earnest in season and out of season in instructing and admonishing them while it is to day not to harden their hearts rebuke a wife man and hee will love thee and be yet wiser and with meeknesse instruct them that ignorantly oppose themselves c. 3 And let us together be admonished 1 In the way of his judgements to wait for the Lord quietly to bear his indignation because we have sinned and reverently listening to him and standing in awe before him under such testimonies of displeasure knowing that he is righteous and faithful as well as infinite in wisdome and power as hee hath manifested himself in that faithful witnesse setled for ever in Heaven and in due time hee will bring us forth and wee shall behold his righteousnesse Then she that is mine enemy shall bee ashamed Micah 7. 6. 10. And fret not our selves because of evil doers wait patiently on the Lord commit our way to him and hee shall bring it to passe despise not his chastisement neither faint when rebuked of him seeing it is the Lord The helpers taken from us were no otherwise helpers but in the Lord and hee hath not taken himself from us in whom is our help 2 When wee see how the reproaches and blasphemies of men are increased against him and do set themselves against the heavena let the consideration of it make us more willing to bear them seeing they are the reproaches of them that reproach him that fall on us and commit vengeance to him 3 Bee wee stirred up to cry mightily to God for help Help Lord for the godly man ceaseth the faithful fail from among the children of men they speak vanity every one with his neighbour with a flattering lip and double heart do they speak cry therefore with more earnestnesse to God in Christ 1 For pardon of our iniquities and healing of our distempers Psal 41. 4 5 and 38. 12 16 17 19. 2 For wisdome in the knowledge of him and those great things of his Law that may guide us in a plain path because of our enemies that watch for our halting Psal 27. 8 11 c. And to this purpose also 4 Let us redeem the present time yet left us and bee admonished by his judgements to awake to righteousnesse and not sin against him for it is a shame for us that wee are yet found so much without the knowledge of him what the summer past the harvest ended and yet wee not saved Jer. 8. 20. Oh that at least in this day before it bee wholly past wee did wisely consider our latter end yea the rather because the dayes are evil redeem the time and be not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is and to that purpose take heed to our selves lest ●● any time our hearts be overcharged with surfetting and drunkennesse or cares of this life and so the day of death and of judgement come on us unawares Be not drunk with Wine of earthly pleasures and cares wherein is excesse but be we filled with the Spirit speaking to our selves and one another in Psalms Hymns and spiritual songs c. not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some it but exhorting one another and so much the more as wee see the day approaching and for our encouragement herein that we be not slothful but followers of them who through faith and patience do already in Spirit inherit the promises Mark the perfect man and behold the upright look upon him in the light of Gods testimonie there you shall see That the end of that man is peace And this brings us to the last instruction 3 That even in these sad judgements to the survivers there is special mercy and choice blessednesse to those so taken away and that to be considered also They are taken away from the evil or as we read it from the evil to come 1 They are then taken away from and do depart out of the flesh in its weak and corruptible state out of a vile or wretched body that had sin in it to be striven against as well as death upon it A law in the members warring against the law of the minde And shall not again return to it until it shall be renewed or given them in a new glorious and incorruptible state in the first resurrection 2 They are then taken from an evil generation that was continually vexing their righteous souls with their unlawful and ungodly doctrines and practises and so from all Satans temptations and batteries the accuser of our brethren is cast down from Heaven hee cannot reach the spirits of just men made perfect which are with Jesus and have finished their warfare their end is peace 3 They are taken from the evil and judgements to come as Lot was pluckt out of Sodome that they may bee out of danger of being defiled with the sins procuring such judgements that so they may not partake with them of their plagues yea that they may no longer plead for sparing and diverting such judgements Oh heavy judgement to the survivers yet therein the dead are blessed Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours combates and dangers and their works follow them Vse 1 This consideration instructs us that while they are in these mortal bodies they are not taken away from the evil though through grace delivered kept and daily getting escape from the pollutions and intanglements of it and victory in the continual combate yet they have sin in them as a Law in the members to strive against even unto blood to death and that continual leading them captive though they minding the things of the Spirit in the light and power of the grace vouchsafed are

releeve Yet for our selves we have cause to lament Yea sure the Judgement is of large extent And larger than to them that lay 't to heart Nor is' t the less because few feele the smart Yet still our cause of lamentation's more To ses the Children of the Spiritual Whore Against the Heavens themselves with sport rejoyce Not doubting to prevail with their strange voyce Reproaching now the poor that trusts in God Because afflicted with their Fathers Rod But in due time God will arise and then No place will be for these proud wicked men In the great Judgement then they shall not stand But shall be broken with a mighty hand A little while and then he will not stay But come with all his Saints O come away Is it not yet the time to judge thy Flock When as to outward means their powers do slack Is there yet any left shut up or hid Cause them t' appear thy flock to help and rid Make them more wise and strong to doe exploits Through thy good name to shew the deep deceits So manifold of him whose name is Legion That with us may remaine the pure Religion And haste the coming of that blessed day In which thou wilt wipe all our tears away In mean time teach us to account and mind Thy patience is Salvation to th' unkind A pleasure in their death thou now hast none While yet thy grace brings them Salvation Of thy mind make us more as reading well i th' greatness of thy love thy terror sell Thence instantly with meekness praying them Now to be reconciled unto him That was made Sin and Curse for 's all that we The righteousness of God in him might be T. M. Junior A Lamentation over the dead in Christ with Instruction Admonition and encouragement to the Survivers in some explication of the words of the Prophet Isaiah Chap. 57. 1. as compared with other Scriptures Isaiah 57. 1. The Righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come THe words present us with a Two-fold matter of Lamentation or cause of grief doubled in the expression of each part to note the greatness of the Judgement and to awake us to the more diligence to learn righteousness by it 1 That the Righteous perisheth merciful men or men of kindness and godliness are taken away 2 That no man laies it to heart none considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil We read to come but those two words being added by the Translators as appears by their different Character may be left out in our reading and the text without them not only as fully takes in the truth expressed by but is more signified viz. That he is taken away from the evil as well that present as that to come The Instructions fully signified and set before us in the words of this Lamentation are 1 That the perishing of the righteous the taking away of men of kindness and godliness is a sad correction to the survivers which God would have so laid to heart and considered by them 2 That when God so strikes and yet none lay to heart or consider it it is an evidence of wilful blindness and great hardness in such a people and a sign and fore-runner of greater Judgements 3 That even in these sad Judgements there is special mercy and choyse blessedness to those so taken away and that to be considered also they are taken away from the evil Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yèa saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works follow them I That the perishing of the Righteous is a sad correction to the survivers which God would have so laid to heart and considered by them for our understanding and usefulness of this wee shall propound to consideration 1. Who are the Righteous 2. In what sence they may be said to perish and when they so doe and then shall further demonstrate and explicate the Position I Who are the Righteous and merciful men or men of kindness or godliness truly if men be considered as they are by Nature and first birth as descended from Adam or as they are in and of themselves or in what they may attain to by the will of flesh or will-wisdome and strength of man in whatever exercised There is none righteous or doth good no not one of all the naturall Children of Adam they have all sinned and are come short of the glory of God they are become wholly sinful weak and corrupt they are dead in sins and trespasses and children of wrath as so considered one as well as another Psal 14. Rom. 3. 19-23 Ephes 2. 1 2. By the Law is the knowledge of sin in the best as well as in the worst works of men yea it discovers his whole nature over-spread with it and therefore by the deeds of it shall no man be justified in the sight of God Rom. 3. 20. Gal. 3. 11. Psal 143. 2. There is only one man of all the Nature even the man Christ Jesus that is in a proper and strict sence Good or Righteous in and of himself and for us and he is none of the natural Children nor naturally of man but of God Mark 12. 18. who also prepared for him a Body in our Nature and of a Woman by the secret and wonderful efficacy of his holy Spirit and did in that Body deliver him to Death for our Offences and raise him again for our Justification and gave him glory that our faith and hope might be in God And he is expresly called the Righteous 1 Joh. 2. 1. the Just Jam. 5. 6. even the righteous or just one and justly too for 1 He is perfectly so in and of himself being the Natural and only begotten Son of God so that he is of the Father the same that the Father is Righteousness Justice Truth Holiness and Goodness it self yea in that Body prepared for him in mans Nature though he was made in the likeness of sinful flesh subject to all our infirmities that came by sin yet without sin He knew no sin And this rendred him a meet and worthy Person to undertake for Sinners to prepare and give a Ransome to God and bee a Mediator for them for Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean not one therefore no meer man can redeeme his Brother or give to God a ransome for him for such a High Priest became us who is holy harmless undefiled c. 2 He is perfectly so in what he hath undertaken and done for men in that Body prepared for him in mans Nature he hath perfectly and voluntarily fulfilled that will of the Father he came to doe as to the works to be finished in his own Body on the earth Psal 40. 6 9. Hebr. 10 5 12. Joh. 17. 4. He humbled himself and became obedient to death