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A58147	Work & reward, or, The testimonial of a believer for his entrance into glory, examined and approved in a sermon at the interment of the vertuous lady, Margaret St. John, wife to ... Sir Alexander St. John, Septem. the 3. 1656 / by Francis Raworth ...	Raworth, Francis, d. 1665.	1656 (1656)	Wing R374; ESTC R21375	26,633	69

white coat of Sanctification along with him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they follow or accompany him 2. Their inseperability Death may rob them of their estates but death cannot plunder them of their Graces Death may separate their heads from their bodies but shall never seperate or take their Crowns from their heads The ambitious man cannot carry his honor with him the Mammonist cannot carry his Gold with him but the godly man shall carry his godliness his holiness his works with him as the shadow follows the Sun or as the sequacious Ivy hedera sequax clings to the Oak 3. Their Honor and Dignity of State Grace we say is Glory begun and Glory is Grace perfected I as God is glorious in holiness so a godly man is glorious in holiness he is glorious in Grace his Grace is his glory As when a Nobleman or Ambassador is to attend on or visit a Prince or Emperor his Gentlemen in their Braveries and his servants in their Liveries wait on him to the Palace or Presence Chamber So a Believer honors God in this world and God will honor him out of this world he glisters and shines here in his silks and embroyderies of humility love and righteousness and when he is called up from this world he goes not without his Retinue his Graces his works accompany or follow him to Glory one Paradice as he said then enters into anther From the words thus opened I shall present you with this Proposition or Doctrine Proposit That when a Christian dies his works die not with him There is a sixfold attendance on a true Christian by his good works or graces when he leaves this world 1. His works follow him in respect of that good report they leave behinde him It is a Judgement to have our names writ on earth but it s an honor when our persons are in Heaven to have a name of honor on Earth A wicked man expires and goes out but it is like a Tallow candle leaving a stench behinde him a righteous man expires and goes out of this world but like a Wax candle leaving a sweet perfume behinde him His works in their report follow him 1. In a blessed memory Do well and hear ill is wrote on Heaven Gates said the Martyr yet oftentimes do well and hear well after we have done well is wrote on Heaven Gates Of you it shall be said this and that man was born in her While the poor curse the memory of the wicked they bless God in the remembrance of the righteous Some mens names are rotten before their bodies but other mens names are alive and fresh when their Bodies are rotten being laid in their Graves tantorum nominibus semper assurgo said the Moralist of the mention of Cato and Lelius The name of Lazarus is recorded that is supposed to be his proper name but the common name of Dives is onely related a certain rich man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is all to signifie who he was God thought him not worthy of further mention G d shews himself herein contrary to the world who have no name for the godly poor but silly wretch or a by-name as lame Giles 2. God makes a memorial of the righteous Prov. 10.7 A good name as the Father observes is the godly mans heir The names of wicked men are either altogether omitted as in that place or Recorded with Infamy as Jeroboam is mentioned in the Cronicles of Israel Pilate in the Creed Gardener in the Martyrology but the names of the righteous are famous David is dead but his zeal for God lives David saith the Scripture was a man after Gods own heart Job is dead but yet his patience for God lives have ye not heard or ye have heard of the patience of Job Abel was murthered above 4000 years ago yet his Faith is alive to this very day he yet speaketh his tongue is out of his head and yet his faith is not tongue-tyed Oh saith God what a Believer was Abel some render it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 passively is yet spoken of that is he is of blessed memory his name is honorable in the Church 2. His works follow him in their report by an happy example A good mans person is gone but his footsteps are left behinde him when he is dead and gone to heaven and beholdeth the face of God in glory his example left behinde him is a Looking-glass for others to dress themselves by a Copy for others to write after This womans charity saith Christ shall be made mention of where ever the Gospel shall be preached The Father its true dies but yet he lives in his child that wears his image especially in a moral sense when the child imitates the vertues of the father When a friend bewailed to Epaminandas's want of issue that noble Captain replyed That he should leave two fair daughters behinde him the Battles of Leuctra and Mautinea in which his memory should survive A good man never dies childless his examples of Patience and integrity are his never dying off-spring In this sense Luther and Calvin and the rest of those Champions that wrote for Christ and dyed in the Lord are yet alive in their words and works And though their souls be in Heaven yet are they instrumental for the salvation of souls on Earth As long as their Works or Writings are extant in the World they shall not have done preaching to as long as their holiness towards and courage for God are upon Record and published they shall not have done converting of sinners to or at least of confirming of Saints in Christ efficacior est vox operis quam opus voeis Secondly Their works follow the Saints many of them formally and really Indeed they take leave of Faith and hope they are militant Graces and onely suitable to the state of the Church on Earth but Love is a Triumphant Grace and goes along with them to Glory and now abideth Faith Hope Charity these three but the greatest of these is Charity the greatest Extensively Faith and Hope being more personal Graces Love being communicative rather here protensively in respect of duration to save a man Faith is great in a man saved Love is the greatest Faith and Hope and Repentance go with Christians vertually as he that hath the Spirits and Extracts of Herbs is said to carry the Herbs with him and a Merchant that turns his Lands into Pearls and Gold is said to carry his Estate with him so the fruit and substance of Faith lives though justifying Faith or Faith justifying dyes The Motto of Chawcer Farewel Physick may well be the Motto of a dying Christian Farewel Repentance farewel Hope Repentance is a plank after Shipwrack and where there is no sea no water there is no need of a plank As the Sword-bearer to the Emperor Charls being a Protestant carryed the Mace before his Master to the Church door when he went to Mass but his conscience would

WORK REWARD OR THE TESTIMONIAL OF A BELIEVER FOR HIS Entrance into GLORY Examined and approved In a SERMON at the Interment of the Vertuous LADY Margaret St. John Wife to the Right Worshipful Sir Alexander St. John Septem the 3. 1656. By Francis Raworth Teacher to the Church at Shore-ditch London Printed by T. Maxey for John Rothwell at the Fountain in Goldsmiths-Row in Cheap-side 1656. To his Honored Friend The Right Worshipful Sir Alexander Saint John Honored Sir THe great Design of God in this World is to exercise man and the greatest interest of man is to glorifie God who hath provided the Touch-stone of his Word to try our hearts by and the Balance of his works to weigh our Lives in So much strength as we have in a day of temptation so strong we are and since Temptation is for our Probation we have as much cause to bless God for our support under Tryals as for our deliverance from tryals It is true Satan hath his Sieve and his aim is to seperate the Wheat from the Chaff to give life to our sins by the death of our Graces but God hath his Fan in his hand and his design is to seperate the Chaff from the Wheat to give life to our Graces by the death of our sins I must acknowledge That God hath lately put into your hands a bitter Cup to drink off in the decease of your Vertuous and Beloved Consort onely this I presume doth support you That your eyes are opened to see that it was of your Fathers mingling This affliction is a sharp Arrow but it is shot out of a sweet hand amara sagitta ex dulci manu Dei as the Father speaks How excellent a thing is it when Gods Rod is upon our backs to have our hands upon our mouthes and not to murmur While unbelief commenceth an Action against and complains of the heavy hand of God to the World for us to complain rather of our own evil hearts to God Your experience Sir I trust in Gods School hath acquainted you with the Equity of his Discipline and Pedagogy Oh! What an advantage have we over Satan when we understand the intent and and possess the fruit of every Cross when we can see our Lashes to be our Lessons our Corrections to be our Instructions our Crosses to be the Executioners of our Corruptions It was an Heavenly Prayer of him that said Lord I do not desire that the Burthen should be taken off but that I might have stronger shoulders to bear it And an Heroick Experience of him that said If any man would ride post to Heaven let him get up upon the Cross The truth is every affliction is Gods Messenger and every one of his Messengers have their Errand to deliver The Rod must be heard or the Word will never be felt Though all that are corrected are not Gods children yet all that are Gods children are corrected Afflictions are favors and therefore when God threatens that he will shew mercy no more he threatens that he will afflict no more Ephraim is joyned to Idols let him alone Lord rather let every gracious heart say let thine hand be laid on me then that I should be cast out of thy hand rather frown on me then that thou shouldst turn thy Face from and not look on me But the great Advantage of our tryal is to come here the Language of the rod is easie and plain but the Dialect of that Language is hard and difficult to be known conformity and self-denyal are indisputably the meaning of every blow but we are disposed to misconter Providence in Particular what God intends onely for our exercise we pretend is done out of his anger And therefore where the Text is obscure we must be wary in writing Cōmentaries we must take heed of turning his Reubarb into Ratsbane by reading wrath where God never wrote it There will come a time when God will interpret his own minde and satisfie us not onely in the Regularity and justice of his Rods but in the Reason and suitableness of them why we are almost burned and consumed while others were but singed why he drew so much blood from us more then from others that seemed more exorbitant God loves not to be stinging like the Bee he exhibits honey freely but he stings upon provocation his wisdom and our necessity weigh and prescribe every drop of gall that is put into our Cups and every lash of the Rod that is laid on our backs A Cordial is fitter for this man a Corrasive fitter for another Such a Christian will be wakned by the light of a Candle another stands in need of a Clap of Thunder How sweet is it to justifie God when he condemns us At last day we shall say The Lord knew our distemper and he let us blood in the principal Vein if we had not perished we had perished His Sun-shine melted us his Hammer brake us Blessed affliction that made us see more uglinesse and emptinesse in the Creature and more excellency in God that weaned our affections from the world and occasioned our more serious thoughts of Eternity It may satisfie us That God dealeth with his as the Persians I take it do with the offending children of their Princes they correct their Royal Garments in publick but let their Persons go free our Bodies are beaten and our Souls are bettered Here we must be polished by Tryals and hewn by Hammers and hereafter we shall be laid into Gods Building Nunc foris per flagella tundimur ut intus in Templum Domini disponamur Afflictions are the fruit of his Wisdom Repentance our fruit of his Afflictions The Lord grant that all our storms may drive us nigher to our Harbor I should humbly crave excuse for this freedom but that I know your Ingenuity and that your condition requireth support and as remembring that words spoken in season are like Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver I am sorry of so sad an occasion of presenting this yet so seasonable a subject to you I request your acceptance of it the advantage whereof is the desire of Your worships much obliged to serve in the Lord F. R. From my Sudy in Shoreditch Decem. 20. 1656. Revel 14.13 And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them IN these Words we have two things The Work and the Reward of a Christian In the work of a Christian we have 1. Something Implyed It is supposed That those that die in the Lord do first live to the Lord For as it is impossible for one that lives well to die ill so it is impossible for one that lives ill to die well for on that to the last lives to the Divel to die to the Lord. 2. Something Expressed They are such as die in the Lord Some