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The faith of the saints as to a future house and happiness in the other world set forth in a sermon preached at the funeral of that worthy servant of Christ, Mr. Walter Marshal / by S. Tomlyns.
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Tomlyns, Samuel, 1632 or 3-1700.
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is now possessed and enjoyed by Christ and he that receives Christ and hath propriety in him hath also Title to it Will you suffer Satan to wrangle you out of such Clear and wrest from you such Comfortable and Reviving Texts of Scripture will you not Echo your Assent of Faith to this good Word of God and take hold of the Hope that is set before you We have more food and abundant supports for Faith in this new Testament dispensation and therefore Faith is now said to be come Gal. 3.23 25. and Hope in a more excellent way is said to be set before us Heb. 6.18 And is it not a dishonour to this glorious new Testament dispensation for Christians to walk in darkness and to live in continual Doubts and Fears about their Everlasting Condition The Testament of the Son of God is Ratified and Established by his Death God hath promised and sworn to bless the Heirs of Promise and why should you not apply the Comfort of both to your selves and say as the Psalmist the Lord hath been mindful of us and he will bless us Psal 115.12 God hath spoken in his Holiness take him at his Word and you shall find that he will not deny his Promise or go back from it Let not Satan darken your minds or unbelief perplex your souls with needless Objections it is by Grace that you must be saved Matth. 6.33 The Kingdom of Glory is Gods free gift to men and the Righteousness that qualifies for it is wrought in them by his Spirit A new Heart is freely Promised as well as Eternal Life both are the gifts of God through Jesus Christ Ezekiel 36.26 27. Rom. 6. last Receive therefore and trust on Jesus Christ for them both As the Christian Sabbath is the first day of the week and so our resting-Resting-day is before our working-working-dayes so truly we must enter into a spiritual Rest by Faith in Christ our Consciences must be sprinkled purged and pacified by his bloody before we can serve the living God Heb. 4.3 Heb. 9.14 Christ died for sinners came into the World to save sinners and those that see themselves to be such must look to and trust on Christ for Healing and Sanctification for Grace and Glory or else all Mankind must be excluded Here is no fear of presumption or deceiving our selves provided that we desire and rely on Christ for his whole Salvation for deliverance from the Power as well as the Guilt of Sin Apply your selves therefore to Jesus Christ receive him and you shall in and with him receive an abundance of Grace and of the gift of Righteousness Rom. 5.17 and so Reign in Life for evermore If you believe in Christ Job 1.12 Rom. 5.16 17. God is your God and Father and if you are Sons you are Heirs the Kingdom of glory the heavenly Inheritance is yours Match with Christ get into him who is the true God and Eternal Life 1 John 5.20 and he will provide you a place and make you welcome in his Fathers house for ever If you have the Son you have life None that belong to him can be shut out of the Banqueting-house and glorious Bed-chamber 2. You that are true Christians be exhorted to rejoyce in your Habitation say to your Souls that your Lines are fallen to you in pleasant places and you have a goodly heritage have you not a Rest and House above the reach and rage of Satan and his instruments When they have done their utmost they can but consume you on earth Psal 119.87 they cannot quench your spiritual life or rase your heavenly house If you are thrust out of this World you have a better Country to enjoy if you are dispossessed of your houses you have a more lasting habitation to enter into When cruel Enemies stoned Stephen they could not hinder him from placing his Jewel in a safe hand from committing of his Soul to Jesus Christ Acts 7.59 Why are your Souls Clouded why do your Spirits droop why do your hands wax Feeble Let this Truth Chear and Incourage you that so great an inheritance is bequeathed to you so glorious a house is prepared for you in heaven 3. Do you know that you have an Eternal House built for you in heaven Oh then let this Truth raise your Minds and elevate your Hearts to Heaven Oh let your Conversation be in Heaven Phil. 3.20 Christ hath said where the Treasure is there the heart will be also Matth. 6.21 If this eternal house be prized as your Treasure will it not be a Loadstone to draw up your hearts to heaven Why do you weary and wound your selves among the Briars and Thorns of this wretched Wilderness when your Minds might Converse in the delightful heavenly Paradise Why do you grovel on the ground embrace the Dunghil and feed on Dust when you might soar up to the Throne and Feast with Christ at his Table satisfying your selves with the fatness of his house and drinking of the Rivers of his Pleasures Oh set your Affections on and seek the things that are above Col. 3.1 2. Let your Loins stand girt suffer not your Minds to get loose fall down and draggle on this low and dirty World Christ by his Ascension into Heaven hath fixed a new Centre towards which the Minds and Hearts of all Believers should move and in which they should stay and Rest Joh. 17.24 Joh. 14.2 3. Christ hath prayed that all his People may be with him and he hath prepared a glorious place to entertain them in and yet shall our Minds stay and our hearts dwell here below shall we despise that now that we must Feast on to Eternity shall we be strangers to our everlasting home and forget our heavenly Country Oh Christians why do your Minds so often and so much leave the Guest-Chamber and the upper Rooms of Immanuels house why do you so often come down and delight so much to dwell in the low Rooms and ground Chambers of this World can you not meet with sufficient delights and full satisfaction above Is the Air on the Mountain of Myrrh and the Hill of Frankincense too pure and fine for your gross and carnal hearts O seek to Christ to cure your spiritual disease and to recover your Appetite to spiritual enjoyments Oh beg him to take off your weights of Unbelief and Carnal Affections and give you wings to mount upwards that as Children you may live on the Fatness and Dainties of your Fathers house and as Citizens of Zion you may delight your Souls on the delicious Fruits of the Tree of Life and in the pure River of Living water that Flows from the Throne of God and the Lamb. 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