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sense_n	faith_n	life_n	live_v	5,824	5	7.1409	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42023	Two sermons the first preacht at Steeple-Aston in Oxfordshire at the funerall of Mr. Francis Croke of that place Aug. 2, 1672, the other at the funerall of Alexander Croke of Studley, Esq., buryed at Chilton in Buckinghamshire Octob. 24, 1672 / by Daniel Greenwood ...	Greenwood, Daniel, 1627 or 8-1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing G1865; ESTC R7515	25,935	40

16. 18. For which cause we faint not c. while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen c. Upon this he professeth the full assurance of his hope concerning the future happy estate of himself and all good men Ch. 5. 1. We know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle be dissolved we have a building of God c. And upon the certainty of this Faith and Hope professeth his earnest desire to enjoy what he so assuredly looked for v. 2. In this we groan earnestly desiring to he clothed upon And finally upon a full and a deliberate debate he chuseth Death rather than Life the condition of good men after this Life which he calls being absent from the Body and present with the Lord before their condition here on Earth which he calls being present with the Body and absent from the Lord. There is an elegant Paronomasia in the Originall which our translation can scarce reach and more matter in the words then the time will give us leave to discursse These 4. propositions will swallow up the substance of them 1. That the best of Men here on Earth Live by Faith not by sight 2. To be here at home in the Body is to be absent from the Lord. 3. To be absent from the Body is to be present with the Lord. 4 Holy men have attain'd and may attaine to this high and Heavenly pitch to desire rather to be absent from the Body and present with the Lord. A little of each 1. The best of Men Live here by faith not by sight This liveing by Faith is mentioned elsewhere partly as a duty partly as a privilege and promise Heb 2 4. Heb 10. 38. It seemes brought in in this place as an allay to a Christians present condition Understanding by sight enioyment it is as if he had sayd we enioy not but we believe and that supports us We have but the least part of our inheritance and happiness in our possession more in expectation reversion and hope but that also as sure as if we had it For true Faith is an evidence Heb 11 1. And Christian Hope maketh not ashamed Rom 5. 5. But look as all men had rather be in a condition of haveing then hoping of enjoying then desiring so had we Now this life of Faith and Sense differ especially in two respects 1. Sight reaches only to visible things Faith to invisible the Eye of sense sees only grosse and materiall things placed in a due distance through a fit medium c. but faith is the evidence of things not seen Heb. 11. 1. If you run through the whole Life of a Christian you shall find it a kind of invisible and mysterious Life The actions of it are managed and caryed on by Motives unknown to other Men. The food that maintains it is such as the world knowes not off The joyes that cheare and quicken it are such as a stranger intermeddles not with The promises which maintaine and support it are of things beyond the kenne of carnal reason and sense Eternal Life is promised but it is hid with Christ in God We are justifyed but not by a righteousnes that is in us but in Christ who suffered at Jerusalem out of our view long before our time and is removed into Heaven far from our sight and yet we look for eternal Life in him as assuredly as if we enjoyed it Whom having not seen yet we love in whom though we see him not yet believing we rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of Glory 1 Pet 1. 8. 2. Sight extends only to present things faith to future therefore faith is said to be the substance of things hoped for Now hope that is seen is not hope for that which a Man sees why doth he yet hope for Rom 8. 24. Christians live not by present things or things that perish with the using but such as will come hereafter and will last for ever While we look not at those things which are seen but at those which are not seene For those things which are seen are temporal but those which are not seen are eternal 2 Cor 4. 18. If then a Christians life be a life of hope not of enjoyment of faith not of sense it confutes on the one hand the fond imagination of conceited Perfectionists on the other the brutish sensuality of worldlings and Epicures The first pretends to live above the life of faith would make us believe they are already in possession and enjoyment of what ever a Christian can wish or hope for and despise those that presse hard after God in the use of his Ordinances that go groaning under the burden of their corruptions and sighing after the enjoyment of a future happines as persons of a lower forme and meaner attainements for their parts they are perfect they are sinlesse they need no staires nor ladder they are already at the top no ordinances no meanes of grace they are full they have attain'd they are in Heaven allready c. what shall we say to these Men but what the Apostle sayes to the Galatians CH 3. 1. Oh foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you and certainely if there were not a certaine witchcraft and sorcery in heresy and fond opinions and if there were not a Spiritual as well as bodily phrensie we might justly wonder at the wild conceits of such Opinionists Have ye seene Men in Bedlam strangely enjoying themselves in their imaginary felicityes just such are these Confuted by the whole tenour of Scripture and by the constant experience of the best of Gods Children who have alway confest they knew but in part and were but Sanctifyed in part Now we see through a glasse darkely 1 Cor 17. 12. for v. 9 10. we know but in part and we Prophecy in part c. The Apostle Paul himselfe thought not himselfe perfect nor to have already attaind Phil. 3 13. 2. Others live a life as much below as these pretend to live above the Life of faith It were to be wisht that all were arrived so far as to follow the dictate of natural and common Reason But alas Men are degenerated into brutes live not the lives of rational beings homines in ventrem proni libidinum mancipia as the Historian speakes or as the Apostle better Their belly is their God they glory in their shame they minde earthly things Phil 3. 19. These must learne to be Men before they can hope to be Christians And must bid adieu to the dreggy desires of the world and the flesh and become pure in heart before they can see God For without Holines none shall see the Lord. Heb 12. 14. 3. Proposition They that are at home in the body are absent from the Lord. For understanding thereof we must distinguish of a 4. fold presence of God 1. His essential presence Or the presence of his being In which respect God is boundlesse and