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A60234 Freedom from fear of death, through the death of Christ a sermon preached at Guild-Hall-Chappel, on Good-Friday, A.D. 1681 / by William Sill ... Sill, William, d. 1687. 1681 (1681) Wing S3787; ESTC R12824 20,138 46

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2.12 and of a better temper are fit Means under the Conduct and assistance of Gods Grace wholly to Suppress or Mitigate these Fears Yet our Deliverance from This fear of Death is not the thing I am in Particular to consider but only in General as there is a sufficient Foundation laid for this Deliverance if it be fully Assented to and duly Applied The Main thing therefore to be considered in our Deliverance from the Fear of Death through the Death of our ever blessed and most compassionate Redeemer and through the unexpressible Love of God to Man-kind is this That Christ hath Redeemed us from the Curse of the Law being made a Curse for us Gal. 3.13 Our being obnoxious to the eternal Wrath and Anger of God was the Only thing that was formidable in Death and This being taken away by the Death of Christ there is nothing remains in Death as it is a bare Separation of Soul and Body why we should be afraid of it All those that are truly Penitent and Regenerate by the grace of Gods Spirit have now abundant reason for a perpetual Security and calmness of mind either in Life or Death To all such To live is Christ and to die is gain Phil. 1.21 They can look chearfully upon Death and will not commit the least Sin to decline it It is only their Way to Happiness and all the Harshness that it seems to have is from some Natural Difficulties which the God of Nature seems to have implanted in Men that they might not be out of love with Life and unwilling to serve God here in their Generations till their Change come Gen. 6.9 Job 14.14 To which when a Good man doth understand that he is now made to approach by Providence and the good Hand of God all those natural Impressions being useless do then give place to the Exercise of Faith And he doth not only calmly resign his Spirit into the hands of God and trust the Salvation of his Soul with his gracious Redeemer but to Depart this Life and to enter upon a better becomes now his Wish and his Choice For he is so far now from fearing Everlasting Death that he hath a clear prospect of an happy Eternity Seeing that Christ hath not only abolished death 2 Tim. 1.10 but hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel Rom. 8.15 He hath no longer the Spirit of Bondage to fear but the Spirit of Adoption whereby he can cry Abba Father Being justified by Faith Rom. 5.1 2 3. he hath not only Peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ but by him also he hath access by Faith into this Grace wherein he stands And doth rejoice in Hope of the Glory of God And can therefore glory in whatever Tribulations can befall him Nothing Before could ease him of his Bondage but he was subject to it all his Life-time And nothing Now can disturb the Serenity of his mind Our Spiritual Freedom is extended as far as the Bondage was from which we are freed even to the finishing of our whole course 2 Tim. 4.7 For being delivered out of the hands of all our Enemies we are enabled to serve God without fear of any of them Luke 1.47 75. in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our Life I must further add that the Doctrine of my Text thus explain'd is so far from giving encouragement to Sin that this Deliverance which we have from the fear of Eternal Death by the Death of Christ is in truth one of the most powerful Motives to Holiness of life Seeing that we are hereby assured that our pious Endeavours will be Accepted of in Christ and meet with their wish'd for Success which without the knowledge of our Peace being made with God no man could have any Assurance of If it were not for This All that we could do would be indeed worse than at a Peradventure and could have no better Grounds to warrant its Acceptance with God in order to the Saving of our Souls than only such seemingly fair Hopes and probable Conjectures as a Well-bred Heathen might have had to enforce the application of himself to the study and practice of such Political Virtues as might be beneficial to Man-kind and to keep up that Decorum which the very Manliness of the apprehensions and powers which he had might require from him in order to his supposing of his Condition to be less hazardous when he should leave this World Of whom it may yet be presumed That his Knowledge of that fatal Curse which lay upon all Man-kind was as slender as his Ability could be to direct all he did to the Glory of God which yet is in truth the very Soul and Life of Religion It is therefore to be well observed what St. Paul saith to the Colossians Col. 1.22 That Christ did reconcile them unto God in the Body of his flesh through Death that he might present them holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight Before they were Reconciled to God they could not be thus Unblameable and Unreprovable in any sense And After they were reconciled to God we must suppose that there were many Defects in them which if God had been extream to observe in the greatest Rigour they could not have been able to have defended themselves against his severe Scrutiny Yet they being Reconciled to God through the Blood of Christ those instances of New Obedience which by the Grace of God did truly proceed from the Honesty and Integrity of their Hearts were so favourably Accepted of that He that had before reconciled their Persons to God through his Death could consequently represent what they thus faithfully did as Holy Unblameable and Unreproveable in the sight of God that is Acceptable in his sight free from all Charge of Sin from the Accuser of the Brethren Rev. 12.10 Thus I have given you some account of the Notion of the Bondage mentioned in my Text and of the Nature of that Deliverance which we have through the Death of Christ from the Fear of Death Which in short is this That Christ did suffer Death upon the Cross in our stead that we might be freed from Eternal Death That our Guilt being taken away we might be Discharged from that Curse to which we were obnoxious by the breach of Gods Law And consequently That being dead with Christ we may believe that we shall also live with him having this undoubted Assurance to encourage us to lead such Lives as become Christians Rom. 6.5 8. That if we have been planted together in the likeness of his Death we shall be also in the likeness of his Resurrection Having therefore by Gods Assistance dispatched the First thing I proposed to my self to treat of in this Discourse I now come 2dly To offer to your most serious Thoughts some of the most pertinent Considerations I can think of to quicken our Apprehensions of the