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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.
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Moore, Thomas, Junior.
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once offered is of everlasting value and vertue with the Father for us even for the taking away the sins of the world and for the holding open the door of Life and procuring the continuance of Mercies even to the rebellious that the Lord might dwell among them as well as likewise for the continual covering and presenting compleat and spotless before the Father all that are found in it and for the perfecting what concerns them God hath set him forth in the infinite vertue of that his perfect Righteousness and Sacrifice a standing Propitiation not for our sins only that through grace beleeve but also for the sins of the whole world that through him hee might declare his righteousness in exercising patience and forbearance to Rebells during the day of his grace and patience and that is while it is due time and in justifying whosoever through his Name beleeveth in him that being justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ they might be washed sanctified and made Heirs in the vertues and influences of the same everlasting righteousness Joh. 1. 29. Rom. 3. 25 26. Heb. 7. 25 27. 1 Joh. 2. 1 2. so that though those iniquities or unrighteousnesses in which when the light and power of the grace of God is bringing Salvation and comes nigh to men leading to repentance lifting up the yoke then men close their eyes and harden their hearts and chuse darkness rather because their deeds are evil Though I say sins of this nature be not finished or made an end of in the Court as was said of the fore-mentioned but are detained in Heaven against men while they abide in them they being of a new nature and such as were not nor could have had being in the world if there had not been peace made for them and that also preached to them even by his Spirit to their spirits as 1 Pet. 3. 19 20. Joh. 15. 22 24. they provoke new wrath which abides over men while they continue in them Joh. 3. 18 19 36. and will end in a second death if persisted in till finished by them yet there is Reconciliation and Propitiation made in the vertues of his Blood or being cut off by death even for sins of this nature so that by means of that Death which was for the redemption of the Transgressions under the first Testament in the infinite and abiding vertue of that Bloud he is the Mediator between God and men and maketh intercession for the Transgressors yea hee hath received power and authority in the Name of the Father to procure and give forbearance to Rebells during his pleasure hee hath the Keys of David he opens and no man shuts hee shuts and no man opens he hath received gifts for men yea for the rebellious also observe that additional clause and the instruction in it That he hath received not only gifts for men as men and sinners from Adam considered but for the rebellious also that the Lord God might dwell among them And so also to give through his Name forgiveness even of all sins past to whosoever through this grace seeth and beleeveth on him as well as always to present them acceptable in the presence of God in himself in the vertue of that his perfect and everlasting righteousness yea they have righteousness and strength in the Lord answering to all their needs weakness and nakedness for their covering in the presence of God and that they may be filled with the fruites of it in the Lord shall all the seed of Israel all the generation of seekers of Gods Name and face in Christ be justified and shall glory therefore saith he Look unto me and be yee saved all the ends of the earth for I am a just God and a Saviour and his righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and shall never be abolished however men fight against it 3 Therein he hath sealed or confirmed the Vision and Prophesie of bringing forth blessing in Abrahams Seed to all Nations giving his Son Jesus as raised from the Dead for a Witness to the people a Leader and Commander to the people a Light to the Gentiles and his Salvation to the ends of the earth Gen. 22. 18. Gal. 3. 8 13. Isa 42. 49. 55. 3 5. Acts 2. 13. for bee hath now made the man Christ Jesus in the Name and Majesty of God a testimony to men the Light of the world to bee testified to them in their several Ages and in due time having anoynted the most Holy even that most holy Body the Personal Body of Christ through sufferings glorified with the Fathers owne selfe the glory he had with him as the eternal Son of God before the World was with the vertue of whose Bloud the Heavens themselves were sprinkled that Grace and Truth might thence come forth to us It hath therefore pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell even the fulnesse of the God-head bodily that of his fulnesse we might all receive for the opening our eyes and turning us from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan to God that we might receive forgivenesse of sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in him Now Jesus Christ in his Personal ministration on earth was a Minister of the Circumcision yea after his Ascension the first pouring out of the Holy Ghost bringing and opening the testimony of Jesus as the Works are finished in his Body was upon his Apostles and Disciples that were all of the Circumcision and by them it was first to be preached to the Circumcision and after to all Nations for the obedience of faith Now this his being a Minister of the Circumcision was to confirme the Promises to the Fathers and that in the confirmation of them and in the grace so coming forth in Abrahams Seed and confirmed among his Family and from thence coming forth to the Nations the Gentiles might glorifie God for his mercy as it is written For this cause I will confesse to thee among the Gentiles c. Rom. 15. 8 9. And this may answer to his confirming the Covenant with many for one week the last of the Seventy in the midst of which himself was cut off and did therein prepare and through those sufferings himself was perfected that everlasting Sacrifice in the comming in of which the Typical Sacrifice and Oblation did cease about or soon after the third day or year of his being manifested to Israel and shewing himself in his Personal Ministration as the Son of God the Saviour of the World and so in the midst of the week he was cut off and through sufferings made perfect Luke 13. 32 33. and in a like time after the revelation of the mystery out of the Scriptures of the Prophets was come forth fully and confirmed in them and by them according to the Commandement of the everlasting God given forth for obedience to the saith among all Nations so that the Lord
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