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A29933 Harvest-home being the summe of certain sermons upon Job 5. 26 : one whereof was preached at the funeral of Mr. Ob. Musson, an aged Godly minister of the Gospel in the Royally licensed rooms in Coventry : the other since continued upon the subject / by J.B. D.D, ... ; the first part being a preparation of the corn for the sickle, the latter will be the reaping, shocking and inning of that corn which is so fitted. Bryan, John, d. 1676. 1674 (1674) Wing B5244; ESTC R19928 23,363 60

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That these objections thus remov'd What follow 's next may be improv'd Three things I shall commend for cure Of this unwillingness in Saints to dye First the great●●● evils that Are in it nothing that is pure Is to be found but what doth putrifie And much contaminate We do disable Christ his death Heb. 2.14.15 Obscure the evidence of our new birth Trangress against example Of such as wisht to part with breath To be translated from this wretched earth On which they long to trample We shame much our Religion Which doth not fright with purgatory-fire Are worse than Heathens were Who did embrace death coming on With cheerfulness and very great desire Without all shew of fear We do resemble wicked wights Who use to tremble when they hear of dying So Felix did yea worse Than children mad men whom no frights Of death possess nor make them think of flying From it as from a Curse All creatures groan and call for change We are below them all if that we fear it This is a shamefull thing And a disease that us doth range Below the beasts let none be loth to hear The first Peale thus to ring The second sounds the little reason Which godly men can see why they should wish To live one half hour longer And not to think this instant season The best wherein to feed upon deaths dish To make their courage stronger To do this let them ponder well The utter insufficiency of all Things here to contribute To make man unto happy swell To be thus kindly beneficial They move no foot So far I say from comforting In time of need that sore vexations They prove themselves to be The Preacher doth strong reasons bring To work in all mens hearts convictions That this is verity The third means for the cure of this Unwillingness to dye in godly ones Is seriously to muse That very great reason there is Why they should send for death with sighs and groans And not its stroke refuse The miseries of this present life The life of nature and the life of grace And then the happiness They have by death evils are rife That load the life of nature all the space They live here comfortless Reduc'd to sins and punishments Sins are of two sorts one without them roares Adams transgression Justly imputed conscience rents Others inherent like a Piercer boars With sharp compunction These are of two sorts some defile Our nature which are call'd Original Others our actions these Are called actual all the while We live on earth the best into such fall Thereby their God displease These are committed several ways By thoughts and words and deeds of ignorance Errour infirmity Presumption also all our dayes We guilty make our selves by choice by chance In some a long time lye By every one of these we are Subject to debt and danger both divine bound over to Gods ire The punishments which sinners bear Arithmetick's not able to define Lastly Eternal fire The second sort of miseries Molest the life of grace How many wants Gods presence fellowship Of best friends liberty and ease For want of these each Christian-spirit pants Till these rich wines they sip Add to these wants how many evils The danger of offending God is one Dayly corrections Dangers from creatures men and Devils Danger of stumbling at full-many a stone State alterations All these and thousands more death frees Us from great reason therefore there is why we should not long to live Longer one day with cold to freez With scorching fires to burn uncessantly See next what death doth give Admission into happiness Ineffable and unconceivable Angells mens tongues and hearts Cannot conceive much less express Neither are of this matter capable In any of its parts Yet so much of the heavenly glory Into which every Saint doth pass at th' point Of death revealed is Unto them in the sacred story To make them if they will their eyes anoint See death their choicest bliss SECT VII Whether good men may not only be willing but desirous to dye five cases wherein death may be lawfully desired Objection touching the painfullness of Death answered proposals to remove such apprehensions from us A second objection about sudden or violent Death a way of cure for such fears MAy godly men desire As well as willing be to Dye Many we read of did conspire And to the question put did answer Aye Moses Elias and Sampson Paul David Jonah Job Simeon and others who do stand Shining in the Coelestial glorious Globe Some of these pray'd to God To take away their lives but why They would no longer make abode To bear so many a martyring misery This was not a good ground Self love and discontentments swaying To recantation they were bound Such passionate infirmity bewraying But in five cases we May lawfully desire and pray For death If we may glorifie God most thereby Next to be tak'n away From lewd mens company Who dayly grossely break Gods Laws From sinfullness especially That we no more make in our conscience flaws Grieving the holy Spirit And that we may be rid of grief And crosses which our Sins do merit Yet with submission to our Soveraign-chief Finally for the full Accomplishment of Union With Christ from whom sin would us pull By death we gain perfect communion Nor to be rid of Sin And be with Christ may we desire To dye unless we compass in Gods will who doth on pain of death require Us in our Station Like Souldiers obedient To tarry till dismission Be giv'n to march from this low regiment Unto the higher but yet It is a grace we should strive for As for departure to be fit So to be willing ever more and more To quit our Station here And to rejoyce at warning given By sickness that our end is near Death being the porch through which we pass to heaven The chiefest reason why With full cry of affection we Should gallop after Death thereby We are from sinning any more made free While this life lasts we never Give over sinning no man knows Whether he shall one hour persever In doing well a spight the devil owes Us and the greatest spight He can us do is to allure Good to omit Sin to commit That we shall not be foyl'd we are not sure Having in us a Source Sending streams forth continually Setting us running in a Course Of all impiety inquity A root of bitter gall And wormwood never stockt up wholly Ready at every pin to fall And to be more and more each hour unholy Never cur'd perfectly Of our disease Hereditary That loathsom cursed leprosie Which whil'st we live on earth will with us tarry And little do we know How far we may fall ere we dye It 's therefore best for us to go Thither where there 's no possibility Of sinning falling more And willingness to dye is one Effectual means to wound and gore And kill original corruption But some may yet object