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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74852	The Christians desire, shewing, how and for what causes a man may desire death. / By William Houghton, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	Houghton, William, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	1650 (1650)	Thomason E602_4; ESTC R206406	20,817	23

THE CHRISTIANS DESIRE SHEWING How and for what Causes a man may desire Death By WILLIAM HOUGHTON Preacher at Bicknor in Kent Vt prima desideria sanctorum antiquae legis in primo Christi terminabantur adventu sic quoque modo desideria sanctorum novae legis in secundo Christi adventu qui perfectam nobis beatitudinem conferet desinent August HINC LVCEM ET POCVLA SACRA ALMA MATER CANTA BRIGIA LONDON Printed by Roger Daniel for Samuel Cartwright at the Signe of the Bible in Duck-lane 1650. TO The Right VVorshipfull Sir EDWARD WORTLEY and his Religious Lady my honoured Friends Right Worshipfull DEsires are the truest effigies of the mind If a man be Heavenly he hath heavenly desires if outward things terminate his desires he hath but an earthly mind and no more then what Paul calls the spirit of the world 1 Cor. 2 12● Such mens desires the Psalmist speaks of when he saith Who will shew us any good that is matter of gain and profit Isa 26.8 But the godly mans desire is thus set forth Psal 73.23 The desire of our soul is towards thy name and to the remembrance of thee There is none that I desire upon earth besides thee The worldlings desire is to live many dayes and years upon earth the godly mans desire that Christ may be in him while he is here Luk. 12.29 and that he may be with Christ when he departs hence and these as Paul himself determines are the best desires Worldly desires at last give no satisfying content to a mans soul but these are satisfying desires those are oft frustrated and come to nothing but of these it is said God will fulfill the desire of them that fear him When a whole Kingdome is in a shaking condition the desires of many must needs fail 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 12.28 but the Christians desire is upon a Kingdome that cannot be shaken My end and aim in sending abroad this Sermon is to 01 increase these holy desires in as many as shall read it It is but a plain and unpolisht piece such as it is I present it to your hands as a small return of thankfullnesse for those many favours I have received from you hoping it will find the better acceptance because I have known you many years and that your desires are set on the best things Praying for your prosperity and for all that have relation to you I rest Yours in the Lord Jesus William Houghton Philip. 1.23 Desiring to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is best of all PAul as you may see in this Chapter stands at a certain doubt with himself whether he should live or die live he would that he might glorifie God die to be with Christ The words contain in them two things 1. Paul's desire to be with Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Having a desire c. 2. The reason of it because it is best of all The Greek is most emphaticall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which is farre better or as if one should English it Much more better Luke 2.29 Simeon desired to die because he had seen the Lords Christ Paul here that he might see Christ and be for ever with him Simeon's word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Paul's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is no materiall difference between them Vid. Sculter Exercit. 156. The former according to the mind of the learned signifies a dimission to be fairly dismist and suffered to depart the latter to be let loose as mariners when they let loose and lanch forth Or it may signifie to return as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 12.36 When he will return from the wedding The first sense may imply thus much that the body is the souls prison wherein it is kept till it be sent forth and suffered to depart The second addes chains or coards wherein it is held till it be let loose The third that this life is a place of exile and the soul herein a pilgrim till it return to God that gave it But not to stand straining of metaphors when he saith He desired to depart or be dissolved it is as much as if he had said That he desired to die Now consider who it was that thus desired death Paul a most zealous man the Spirit of God calls him an elect vessel Chrysostome an heavenly man or if ye will saith he an earthly Angel yet he seeks death he desires to be dissolved We see then Act. 9.15 Doct. That all must die the best that are the greatest and holiest must taste of death young men die as well as old we see short graves as well as long rich men die as well as poore It is said in the Gospel that the beggar died and presently it is added the rich man also dyed Luk. 16.22 And wise men die as well as the foolish nay Psal 49 10. holy men too Adam is called the son of God Abraham the friend of God Luc. 3.38 Moses the man of God the Virgin Mary the mother of God Jam. 2.23 David was a man after Gods own heart John Baptist Psal 93. tit a burning and shining light yet they are all dead and gone Luc. 1.43 and descended into the slimy pit as the Prophet calls it so that howsoever there may be a difference here amongst men yet then Abierunt obierunt all shall be alike Reason 1 For first thus hath God decreed Statutum est saith the Apostle It is a Statute-law a thing decreed in the high Court of Heaven Heb. 9.27 and must needs stand fast what is there determined Reason 2 Secondly God doth fufter this even the best and holyest to taste of death because he will have them conformable to their head even Jesus Christ who died for us Reason 3 Thirdly because of the mortality of men and the nature of their condition here on earth all men are of one matter the godly are not made of one matter and the wicked of another but all of one common matter the dust of the earth according to that Dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return though while we live here one be higher then another yet then there is an equality as it is in casting account one counter stands for a thousand another for an hundred but put them together into the bag and one is no better then another or as it is in a play one bears the person of a King another of a Knight another of a Beggar and very busie they are but when the play is done every man goes to his own place Thus it is with men one may stand here in a higher room then another but death makes him equall with the meanest and if yee look into the same grave after twenty or thirty years you shall find no difference between the dust of a King and a beggar Reason 4 Lastly this comes to passe because of