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A62464 A funeral sermon upon the much lamented death of Col. Edward Cook who died in London upon January the 29th. and was buried in the chapple at Highnam near Gloucester, on February the 2d. 1683/4. By Edmond Thorne Master of Arts, and Fellow of Oriel College in Oxford. Thorne, Edmund. 1684 (1684) Wing T1057AA; ESTC R222218 33,919 39

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part especially the vulgar live by sense more then by Faith and have better thoughts and apprehensions of their present lives then of any that is to come Whence it proceeds for currant practice that many persons appear honest and upright in their dealings to the eye of the World but are in truth very Knaves Theives and Murderers in their Hearts From a deep sense and apprehension of the Judgment to come Felix we read was very much dismayed and fearfully trembled So that an assurance of ensuing punishment makes the stoutest and most resolved Malefactor to be Conscious of their Crimes and though stolen Goods may be as sweet as Honey to their Mouths yet the sight of a Tribunal pricks them to their hearts and strangely turns all their sweets into gall and wormwood I 'le give you but one instance of the present Case our first parents had observed the forbidden Fruit in the 3d. of Genesis and the 6 Verse to be good for food pleasant also to their eyes and very much to be desired whereupon they never bogled at Gods positive Command for the satisfaction of their sensitive lusts and appetites But then perceiving themselves to be wretched and miserable because of the transgression they were presently surprized with horror and confusion of face they were extreamly scared upon the sight and presence of God as a most righteous incensed Judg whom they had wickedly disobeyed as a tender and loving Father And seeing that we their sinful off spring are all involved in the guilt and liable also to the punishment of that first and great offence blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that he left us not in such a desperate condition but hath raised us up to the lively hope of a glorious Resurrection from the Dead blessed also be the Fountain of all our deliverance the Lord Jesus Christ that Son of Righteousness which came down with healing under his Wings to visit us who sate in darkness and in the shadow of death and guide our feet into the way of peace to redeem us from the hands of all our Enemies and bless us with all Spiritual and Heavenly Blessings together with himself in glory Thus we come now to consider the Grounds and Reasons which the Spirit hath fitted and laid ready to our hand for the defence and confirmation of the Truth here asserted and consequently for the building up and establishing of us and all Christians in our most holy Faith which Faith and the good Fruits thereof manifested in a blameless and holy conversation would appear somewhat unreasonable and vain of little or none effest but only for the good assurance which God hath given us of a blessed enduring substance in that he raised up Jesus from the dead and hath exalted him in our Nature to the Throne of Heaven The truth of our assertion that the Dead in the Lord are blessed stands unmoveable and firmly fixt upon a double Basis visible in the very Letter of the Text the first is divine Revelation ordained purposely by God for the confutation of Socinians and all other vainly conceited Sophisters who take upon them to measure and weigh the profound Articles of our Christian Faith by the scant Line the false Ballance of their own corrupted Reasons Blessed are the Dead that die in the Lord even so saith the Spirit And because the Command here laid upon Saint John was to Write that saying as from Heaven or imprint the same in legible Characters on the fleshly Tables of mens hearts that should afterwards be recorded with Ink and Paper in all succeeding Ages it may serve to spoil the Papists of their needless Oral Traditions invented as it seems in opposition to the dictates of the Spirit and in derogation to the most indubitable perspicuous and sufficient Oracles of God which are able to make us wise to Salvation through Faith 2 Tim. 3.15 Rom. 15.4 Jo. 4. last Verse which is in Christ Jesus for if we believe St. Paul whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our Learning that we through patience and Comfort of the Scripture might have Hope and St. John says he wrote his Gospell in the later days concerning Christs Person Doctrines and Miracles for this end that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that so believing we might have life through his Name the second Ground or Basis whereon is built this impregnable fortress of our hope is the reason here alledged by the Spirit of such convincing evidence as to confirm his own saying and also to stop the mouths of all proud Opposers For it mightily confounds our Quakers and all fantastical Enthusiasts for divulging openly to the disturbance of the Church and their own Destruction their own private unreasonable Imaginations in despight of Scripture and all other Learning for immediate inspirations of the holy Ghost From the method here used by that infallible Spirit of God we may learn to beware of those false Prophets who put on such pretences for a cloak of maliciousness and then decry with insufferable noise and impudence all use of Reason as to matters of Religion that so they may safely bring in those damnable Heresies whereby the blind guides themselves and all their bewitched followers cannot choose but fall into the ditch For if any Man or an Angel from Heaven preach any other Gospel than that ye have received let him be accurs●d Gal. 1.9 Notwithstanding all that Opposition which hath been made upon this account either by the Popes or the Devils Emissaries maugre all the wiles and stratagems the Winds and Waves of these implacable Enemies the first endeavouring with subtle Sophistry to defer the second wholely to make void the Saints recompence of Reward in everlasting Rest yet this Anchor of our Hope this Pillar of our Faith remains very sure and stedfast on the Rock of our Salvation the Lord Jesus Christ against which the Gates of Hell are ne're able to prevail for it is likewise ratified and sealed by the Spirit of Promise that is Faithful and cannot Lie For even so saith the Spirit from henceforth blessed are the Dead which die in the Lord. Against this interpretation of the Text there lies I conceive no probable exception but what must rise from the signification of the word singly consider'd or as it stands in relation to the Rest The word from henceforth singly consider'd and of it self is much varied amongst the Latines by those particles A modo Deinceps confestim Inde Jam jam and the like all which denote this instant or indivisible point of time wherein the Soul departs from the Body from henceforth if the person dies in the Lord with unfeigned Repentance for all his former sins and with a lively Faith in Christ he is presently blessed It 's true The Reverend Learned and Pious Doctor Hammond hath well enough applied this place and many more to those temporal Afflictions