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A52175 The waters of Marah sweetned A sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Clare Wittewronge, eldest daughter to Joseph Alston Esq; and late wife to John Wittewronge Esq;: who was interred at Stantonbury in the county of Bucks. Octob. 22. 1669. By Mr. John Mason, minister. Mason, John, 1646?-1694. 1671 (1671) Wing M923; ESTC R213830 13,714 37

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the venom of death Christs death hath swallowed up the bitterness of ours Christ hath taken away 1. The Sting 2. The Curse 3. The Shame 4. The Terrour 5. The Enmity of Death 1. Jesus Christ hath pulled out the fiery sting of death 1 Cor. 15. 56. The sting of death is sin Guilt is the vigour of death Guilt and sin makes death to be venomous and deadly But a Child of God dies not upon the account of sin neither in his sin nor for his sin Christ was offered up to bear our sins That was the business of Christs death to be a sacrifice for sin But our death is a service not a sacrifice This is enough to make our death tolerable 't is no punishment for our sins 2. Christ by his death hath taken away the Curse of our death Death at the first was threatned as a Curse and as an Instrument of Gods revenging Justice But Jesus Christ by suffering the cursed death of the Cross hath taken away the curse of our death Here is more comfort for us Christians death is not envenomed with the wrath of God It is no blow in anger no token of his displeasure no Curse but only a rougher sort of love 3. Jesus Christ hath taken off the shame of a dying condition Death was a shameful penalty inflicted upon ambitious man that would needs have been a God Death was sent to reproach him to stain the pride of his glory But our Lord cloathed himself with our shame you know how he was buffeted derided spit upon crowned with thorns arayed with mock-apparel Why was this but to take off the reproach of our sufferings and the shame of our death 4. Jesus Christ by his agonies and tremblings and terrible sufferings hath freed us from the terrour of death There is a fear of death arising from the natural constitution of man this is a guiltless infirmity which all are subject to But then there is a slavish fear of death as it is penal as it is an issue of the primitive Curse and as it is a dreadful entrance into a state of damnation Now true Believers are delivered from the spirit of bondage through the blood of Christ. This also enables them to check their natural fear as Hilarian did when he cryed Get thee out my soul get thee out thou hast served Christ these seventy years and art thou now afraid to die Lastly The Enmity of death is slain by the death of Christ. It intends us no mischief Though i● may seem to threaten us at a distance yet like Esau it is friendly in its address It is an enemy to our nature but it is no enemy to our happiness It divides us but it doth not destroy us Nay this last enemy is become one of our chiefest friends For when the world disquiets us pains torment us Friends and Physicians are of no value Death proves our Cure When sin besets us temptations assault us the Devils buffet us death proves our deliverance You see my Beloved what an innocent thing death is you may touch it handle it converse with it it will do you no hurt It is but a necessary Ceremony and Formality through which we must pass into everlasting glory As it is Innocent so it is Vseful For it is a blessing of God a blessing of the new Covenant Death is yours Dear Christians All are yours And as the Ministers of the Gospel are yours and the world is yours and life is yours so death is yours yours in Covenant yours to serve you If ye are Christs death is yours but if you are not Christs you are Deaths you are deaths prisoners but in Christ we are deaths Masters For all true Believers though they have not made a Covenant with death yet they have death in the Covenant We call death a Debt of Nature but to us it is the gift of God A Legacy rather than an Exaction A Priviledge rather than a Burden It is a conquered Enemy and is become Tributary to us 1. It gives us rest from all our labours Rev. 14. 13. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord for they rest from their labours These are our working days our dies profesti the days of our toil and pilgrimage But there remains a rest for the people of God Heb. 4. 9. There remains a Sabbatism as it is in the Original And death is the evening of our everlasting Sabbath Here Gods people are labouring under sin and against sin under temptations and against temptations in their heavenly Callings and in their earthly Callings But then these weary Pilgrims shall be at rest when their souls shall be lodged in the bosom of Christ and their bodies shall rest in a bed of earth Our souls shall rest in Heaven and our flesh shall rest in Hope 2. Death enters us into our Masters joy into the presence of God where there is the fulness of joy Here the Children of the Bride-chamber are fasting and mourning for the absence of the Bridegroom Here they hang their Harps upon the Willows and how can they sing songs in a strange land But when once they come into their Lords presence they shall break forth into singing Everlasting joy shall be upon their heads sorrow and sighing shall flye away 3. To die is gain For it perfects our knowledge Grace and Communion with God Alas here we know but in part The The Apostle tells us We are but children we think as children we discourse as children but when we are grown up to a full stature in Christ when we are once got to Heaven we shall put away these childish things Then we shall see God as he is and know him as we are known and shall behold his face in righteousness and shall be satisfied with his likeness Then our Faith shall end in vision and our Hope in fruition and our Graces shall be perfected in glory Our love shall burn our zeal shall flame our holiness shall shine Then our peace shall be as a river and our righteousness as the waves of the Sea Then we shall have perfect immediate uninterrupted Communion with God This it is to die in the Lord. But after death comes Judgment There is a vain Argument that Lactantius confutes Epicurus slighted death upon this account because said he Whilst we are death is not and when death is we are not And therefore death is nothing to us But this man erred not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God For after death comes Judgment wherein the souls and bodies of men being re-united all Nations Tribes and Languages shall appear before the living God to give an account of their lives and to receive their final sentence Now it is the dreadfulness of the day of Judgment that makes the day of Death so terrible And the poor guilty soul was not more loth to part with her body in the day of Death than she shall be to re-enter it in